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55KRC Monday Show - Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Fifty five k RC Eat Talk Stage five oh five
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  Speaker 1: on this Monday morning. Come on now, Joe Strecker rolling
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  Speaker 1: out Little van Halen. Wouldn't be a Monday morning. Wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be a morning at all if I was sitting in
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  Speaker 1: for Brian Thomas and we didn't have a little Little
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  Speaker 1: Van Halen to get get the ball rolling on a
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning, Dan Carroll, and for Brian Thomas. Glad to
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  Speaker 1: be here. Brian takes a couple of days off in
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  Speaker 1: the in the wake of his latest chemo treatment, and
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  Speaker 1: I am told that is going as well as it
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  Speaker 1: can be expected, so he'll be taking off today and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So I get to be here tomorrow for Brian Thomas
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  Speaker 1: as well. So I'm always looking forward to that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: as I was coming up the elevator this morning and
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  Speaker 1: I had this cup of coffee in my hand, I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking to myself, you know, you know, Joe Strucker,
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  Speaker 1: we can put a man on the moon, but somehow
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  Speaker 1: we have forgotten how to make a coffee mug a
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  Speaker 1: to go, you know, a travel coffee mug you can
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  Speaker 1: put in the car. We've forgotten how to make one
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  Speaker 1: that number one keeps the coffee hot and number two
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  Speaker 1: doesn't alter the taste of the coffee. We just can't
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  Speaker 1: do it anymore. And I say this because years ago
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  Speaker 1: I had a coffee mug, actually had two of them,
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  Speaker 1: because the first one I literally wore it out because
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  Speaker 1: I used it all the time and it was by
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  Speaker 1: a name brand manufacturer and you could find it. I
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  Speaker 1: found mina Walmart and I had that coffee mug for years,
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  Speaker 1: and then I think my son barred at one time
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  Speaker 1: and that was the last I ever saw of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then I got another one and something happened to
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  Speaker 1: that one I used for I don't know another three
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  Speaker 1: or four years, but that was a great coffee mug
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  Speaker 1: because it didn't have it didn't have the steel lining
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  Speaker 1: and they rust. And maybe it's just me, Joe, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know about you. I don't want to drink out
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  Speaker 1: of a out of a thing that I know has
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  Speaker 1: rust in it. Maybe I'm weird that way. And it's
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  Speaker 1: it's like all the coffee mugs that come out now
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  Speaker 1: have that steel liner in it, and they rust. And
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many of those things I
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  Speaker 1: have at home. And we well, actually we threw a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of them out because we were. My wife and
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  Speaker 1: I know rust boom, throw it out. Throw it out though.
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  Speaker 1: And now they have the new ones that have that
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  Speaker 1: white lining on the inside of them, So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how how well those work. But I had Why
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  Speaker 1: couldn't they just keep making the same coffee mug that
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  Speaker 1: I liked? Why is that I came in today, I've
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  Speaker 1: got I've got a coffee mug in my hand, and
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  Speaker 1: it's on the one hand, it's good because it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: alter the taste of the coffee, which I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 1: a little stip. It doesn't change the taste of the coffee,
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  Speaker 1: and it's got a lid on it that makes it
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  Speaker 1: as actually easy to drink out of. But it just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't keep the coffee hot. And I and the last
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  Speaker 1: time I was here, I had a different mug that
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  Speaker 1: was not keeping the coffee hot, so I got rid
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  Speaker 1: of that one. It is absolutely you know, we can
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  Speaker 1: put we can put a man on the moon, but
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  Speaker 1: we can't come up with a great way to make
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  Speaker 1: a It's it is beyond ridiculous to me because we
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  Speaker 1: used to have him. You can't get him anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe I can, maybe there's somewhere and and
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  Speaker 1: this is I'm not good at Joe. Do you buy
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff online? I don't see Joe. I
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  Speaker 1: don't buy I don't think I'm trying to think last year.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I bought any My wife buys stuff online.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I bought anything online last year. I
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  Speaker 1: just I just avoid that. And maybe, and I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm in the minority. Every one I know buy
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  Speaker 1: stuff online. Boom boom boom. We get to my my
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  Speaker 1: We get deliveries at my house every day now that
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  Speaker 1: we have a new granddaughter. My wife is is bind
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  Speaker 1: Oh look what I got for the baby. I'll get
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  Speaker 1: a text message, hey, something just got dropped off of
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  Speaker 1: the baby. So we got the We got all that
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  Speaker 1: going on. Maybe I have to look online and see
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  Speaker 1: if I can find the coffee mug that I used
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  Speaker 1: to have. Maybe it's got if they used to make it.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be out there somewhere, right because it
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  Speaker 1: was the best coffee mug ever. And if I find it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy. I don't know a dozen of them,
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  Speaker 1: so if one wears out or one gets lost, I
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  Speaker 1: got it back up. And maybe a dozen will lasts
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  Speaker 1: me the rest of my life. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: it's just frustrating as can be. This is a special
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  Speaker 1: day at fifty five KRC, at least for me and Joe.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that this has happened before, but in
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  Speaker 1: the seven o'clock hour today. Of course it's a Monday,
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  Speaker 1: so in the seven o'clock hour we always have Chris
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  Speaker 1: Smithman and the Smith Event, which I know if for
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  Speaker 1: me it's appointment listening when I'm not here and I'm
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  Speaker 1: at home on a Monday, I know seven that first break,
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  Speaker 1: right around seven fifteen, my radio is being turned on
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  Speaker 1: and it's on fifty five KRC because I know Chris
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  Speaker 1: Smitherman is going to be there and I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to hear what he has to say. At seven point
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  Speaker 1: fifteen until just a little bit before eight o'clock the
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  Speaker 1: Smith Vent Appointment Radio, Well today we have that times
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  Speaker 1: two times two plus because Chris Smithman is going to
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  Speaker 1: be here in studio. Is that still happening, Joe in studio.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be here seven o'clock till nine o'clock, two hours
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  Speaker 1: of Chris Smitherman unfiltered here in the studio fifty five KRC,
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  Speaker 1: and that is going to be tremendous. I've prepared two topics.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I've got more than two topics. But
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm not criticizing. But Chris Smithman can expound
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  Speaker 1: on a topic like no one else and he's fantastic
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  Speaker 1: and added benefit if you can look. I know it's
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  Speaker 1: five to twelve. I know the audience changes hour an hour,
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  Speaker 1: but if you can be around in a seven o'clock
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  Speaker 1: hour and the eight o'clock hour, this might be your
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  Speaker 1: chance to call in and maybe ask a few questions
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  Speaker 1: of mister smith And how great would that be? So
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  Speaker 1: that'd be fantastic. So no, we've got all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: stuff prepared, including a piece that was in the in
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  Speaker 1: the Inquiry yesterday and I was looking at this and
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  Speaker 1: the let me see if I can dial this up
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  Speaker 1: here real quick, because I had it right in front
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  Speaker 1: of me and it was about downtown Cincinnati and how
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  Speaker 1: a lot fewer people are going downtown. A study has
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  Speaker 1: been done or analysis has been done by the Inquirer,
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  Speaker 1: and it turns out that a lot fewer people are
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  Speaker 1: going down. Imagine that a lot fewer people are going downtown.
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  Speaker 1: How can that be? So we we'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about actually we'll talk well, we'll talk with
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  Speaker 1: Christmining about this too. But there was a you heard
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  Speaker 1: it on the news at the top of the hour,
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  Speaker 1: there was a street takeover, fifty arrests made, more than
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  Speaker 1: SNY vehicles towed, according to our friends, signal ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: with another street takeover. So I look at all this,
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  Speaker 1: and I look at all this in the wake of
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  Speaker 1: the review of our of our city manager, and I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 1: how does all this stuff jive? How does how does
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  Speaker 1: it happen that we have a city manager who is
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  Speaker 1: doing such a great job and we still have all
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  Speaker 1: these issues to deal with. Maybe I don't know, Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's just me, but it seems to me that these
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  Speaker 1: are the kind of things that a city manager should
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  Speaker 1: be addressing. You know, when you have fewer people going
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  Speaker 1: downtown over the Rhine last year, when you have another
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  Speaker 1: street takeover, when you have a mass shooting at Riverfront Live,
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  Speaker 1: when you have the number of people in Cincinnati this
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  Speaker 1: year so far up sixty two and a half percent
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  Speaker 1: over last year, and even if you take out the
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  Speaker 1: mass shooting in the East End, we're still up twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight percent over the year prior. I just wonder how
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  Speaker 1: all these things drive. So we'll touch on those issues
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  Speaker 1: with Ken Kobra and with Chris Smitherman in the two
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  Speaker 1: hours that we have them here in studio, and some
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  Speaker 1: other things as well. We'll get an update on the war,
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  Speaker 1: find out what's going on there it. I guess it
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  Speaker 1: depends on who you listen to and if you if
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  Speaker 1: you get your news from the mainstream media, if you
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  Speaker 1: get your news from MSNBS and then they'll call it
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  Speaker 1: it's called ms now is what they call it. If
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  Speaker 1: you get your news from CNN, then things are terrible.
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  Speaker 1: According to them, everything is terrible. Everything just going as
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  Speaker 1: bad as it can possibly go. And not that war
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  Speaker 1: is good, not that we should be glad that we
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  Speaker 1: are in this conflict with Iran right now, but it's
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  Speaker 1: they just make themselves incapable of telling the truth about
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  Speaker 1: any of this stuff. So we'll get into all that
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  Speaker 1: as the as the show rolls out this morning, so
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  Speaker 1: I hope you can stick around for it. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to it. It's Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas
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  Speaker 1: on fifty five KRC the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: This was your week Terror and near it.
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  Speaker 1: Man, what a big change from the weekend. Right now
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  Speaker 1: it is forty three at fifty five krc the talk
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  Speaker 1: station now fifty five KRCV talk station. Dan Carroll for
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. I was sitting there with my wife yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and she was looking at the forecast. She couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: We got to turn the heat back. Had the heat
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  Speaker 1: had the windows open yesterday, had the heat turned off now?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe save a little money on the old ill Duke
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  Speaker 1: energy bill. Not happening and we are back in the thirties.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Tuesday night twenty two and the high on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: More snow is possible on Wednesday, light snow high on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday of forty five. So hopefully this is the last
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  Speaker 1: time we get hit with this. But we shall see,
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  Speaker 1: we shall see. I was reading about the terrorist attacks
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  Speaker 1: that took place last week. Common denominator among the men
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  Speaker 1: accused of committing various terrorist acts, they were all naturalized
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  Speaker 1: US citizens or children of naturalized US citizens. Indaga Diagne,
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  Speaker 1: fifty three, naturalized US citizen from Senegal. The FBI claims
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  Speaker 1: Diagna perpetrated the March first terror attack in Austin, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: in which a gunman killed three people, wounded fifteen others.
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  Speaker 1: The gunman was wearing clothing that had the words property
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  Speaker 1: of Allah written on it, and was possibly wearing an
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  Speaker 1: undershirt that had an Ranian flag or Iranian representations on it.
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  Speaker 1: According to Bill Mlusion to Fox News, the gunman committed
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  Speaker 1: the attack one day after the US military strikes on Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Caller that Diagna
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  Speaker 1: entered the US on March thirteenth, two thousand, on a
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  Speaker 1: B two tourist visa. In June of two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 1: he adjusted to lawful permanent resident based on marriage to
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  Speaker 1: a US citizen naturalized as a citizen on April fifth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, under the Obama administration. In twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: he was arrested in Texas for a collision with vehicle damage. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it's still way too early in the process to determine
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  Speaker 1: an exact motive, FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Alex
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  Speaker 1: duran I told ABC News, but there were indicators on
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  Speaker 1: that subject and in his vehicle to indicate potential nexus
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  Speaker 1: to terrorism. Two men are accused of tossing bombs into
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  Speaker 1: a crowd of protesters outside New York City or outside
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  Speaker 1: the Mayor's home in New York City. On March seventh,
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  Speaker 1: Amir Ballot eighteen Ibraham Coyumi nineteen, both US citizens from Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 1: ba Loot and Kyumi, suspected of targeting Jake Lang, a
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  Speaker 1: right winger protester demonstrating outside Gracie Mansion. According to the Times,
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  Speaker 1: Department of Justice alleges that the men were acting in
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  Speaker 1: support of ISIS. This isn't a religion that just stands
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  Speaker 1: when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet.
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  Speaker 1: We take action. We take action. If I didn't do something,
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  Speaker 1: someone else will come and do it. A lot told
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  Speaker 1: the New York Police Department. Allot asked for a piece
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  Speaker 1: of paper at the NYPD precinct. After being provided with
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  Speaker 1: the paper and the pen, he wrote, all praises due
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  Speaker 1: to Allah, Lord of all worlds. I pledge my allegiance
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  Speaker 1: to the Alamic state. Die in your rage something something
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  Speaker 1: I can't read. I don't know what the rest of
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  Speaker 1: this mean. The DOJ. The Department of Justice notes what
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  Speaker 1: he wrote is an Arabic term that refers to non
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  Speaker 1: believers or infidels. Die in your rage is a slogan devices.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see, Kiyami's parents own a two point five point
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  Speaker 1: two point twenty five million dollar home in Newton, Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 1: or Newtown. Yeah, that's Newtown, Pennsylvania. Other naturalized citizens hailing
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  Speaker 1: from Afghanistan. According to the Post, the parents reportedly owned
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  Speaker 1: a six hundred and thirty five thousand dollars home in
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  Speaker 1: neighboring Langhorn, Pennsylvania. Naturalized US citizens from Turkey Mohammed bay
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jello thirty six accused of gunning down a man
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  Speaker 1: and injuring two others at Old Dominion University in Norfolk.
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  Speaker 1: And this man that he gunned down was more than
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  Speaker 1: just a man. It was Lieutenant Colonel Brandon A. Shah,
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  Speaker 1: highly decorated Army officer, Professor of Military Science at Old Dominion.
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  Speaker 1: More than twenty years of a distinguished career with the
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  Speaker 1: United States Military. He was recognized with the Bronze Star
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  Speaker 1: awarded twice for his service in combat zones, an Air
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  Speaker 1: Medal with Valor awarded for herosm during an aerial flight,
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  Speaker 1: Defense Meritorious Service Medal for Outstanding non combat achievement, Meritorious
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  Speaker 1: Service Medal awarded twice. Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation
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  Speaker 1: Medal three times, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal
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  Speaker 1: awarded twice, Senior Army Aviator Badge, Combat Action Badge, Parachutist Badge,
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  Speaker 1: Air Assault Badge. His career included deployment to Iraq, Operation
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  Speaker 1: Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Afghanistan in Europe Atlantic Resolved.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond his combat service, he was recognized as an advocate
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  Speaker 1: for diversity and inclusion, received awards for his student leadership.
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  Speaker 1: Mendership killed an a terrorist attract attack at Old domin
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  Speaker 1: U University March twelfth while protecting his cadets, and of
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  Speaker 1: course his cadets rose up and dispatched this dirt bag
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  Speaker 1: to meet to meet a law. You talk about American heroes,
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  Speaker 1: and this guy survived all that in Afghanistan and Iraq,
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  Speaker 1: service in Europe, and he comes here to the United
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  Speaker 1: States professor of Military Science at ODU, and that turns
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  Speaker 1: out to be the end of the road. Five twenty
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  Speaker 1: Joe Strecker knows. I like a little heart too, the
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  Speaker 1: doing back in there in the seventies. That's great stuff
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  Speaker 1: right there. Uh, Tom is on the line. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: what Tom's got for us this morning. Tom, you're on
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  Speaker 1: fifty four KRC. How you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Dan? How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm great, man. What's going on?
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  Speaker 5: Uh? Well, you know, we're all hoping Brian feels better soon.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 5: It's it sucks what he's going through, absolutely right right I.
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  Speaker 5: I I definitely miss Brian, but I appreciate you filling
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  Speaker 5: in you as do a great job and thank you.
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  Speaker 5: And I have to point out that I do prefer
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  Speaker 5: your bumper music over the usual.
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  Speaker 1: So hey, that's all. It's all Joe Strecker, man, it's
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  Speaker 1: Joe Strecker is the one. He is doing it all.
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  Speaker 5: Joe, Joe knows what the what the host likes that
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  Speaker 5: I heard. I heard something over the weekend that that
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  Speaker 5: got me. I usually take things and start thinking about
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  Speaker 5: it politically, but uh, this comedian was talking about how
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  Speaker 5: how how easy it is to do some things now
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  Speaker 5: that shouldn't be easy.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: And his specific uh example was like back in the day,
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  Speaker 5: those of us who were old enough to remember, if
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  Speaker 5: you wanted to want to date a girl, you had
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  Speaker 5: to call her house. You had to go through that,
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  Speaker 5: You had to go through the dad, you know. And
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  Speaker 5: he and if he was a good dad, he didn't
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  Speaker 5: make it easy on you, you know, to even talk
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  Speaker 5: to her on the phone. You know, you always knew
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  Speaker 5: there was that presence in her life that you had
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  Speaker 5: to you had to deal with an obstacle as you will.
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  Speaker 5: And Uh, it got me thinking about politics and and
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  Speaker 5: the people that run this country and and how things
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  Speaker 5: that should be difficult, uh are not as difficult as
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  Speaker 5: they used to be. And it's intentional. Uh and and
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  Speaker 5: specifically the Democrats are making things way too easy to do.
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  Speaker 5: And uh, you know, I was thinking about things like abortion, Uh, voting,
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  Speaker 5: They're making voting too easy. It's too easy to cheat
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  Speaker 5: in voting. They're making they're making it too easy for
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  Speaker 5: people to break the law and get away with it.
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  Speaker 5: You know that if you just look at at all
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  Speaker 5: the things that they champion, and and all all the
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  Speaker 5: all the screaming and hollering that they do about different things,
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  Speaker 5: they're trying to make it easy for people to do
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  Speaker 5: things that really it shouldn't be that easy to do,
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  Speaker 5: you know, especially like we go back to voting, it
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  Speaker 5: shouldn't be like real simple and easy to do. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I like convenient. Don't get me wrong. You know, you're
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  Speaker 5: you were complaining about the coffee bug thing, and that's
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  Speaker 5: a that's a first world problem, right, So but you
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  Speaker 5: know it's a legitimate complaint. I'm not I'm not saying
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  Speaker 5: it isn't. But I definitely like things to be easy
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  Speaker 5: and convenient. But but some things you should have to
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  Speaker 5: go through a little trouble for it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if I agree, if you've got a little skin
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  Speaker 1: in the game and you had to put a little
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  Speaker 1: effort into it when it comes to casting your vote,
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  Speaker 1: I think I don't have I don't have a problem
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  Speaker 1: with that, because you know what, we're all going to
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  Speaker 1: have to go through the same thing. So it just
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  Speaker 1: makes sense to me that it would require not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: going the extra mile, but just having a little more
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  Speaker 1: care and taking it seriously and as opposed to you know,
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  Speaker 1: when the whole twenty twenty thing was going on, I
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  Speaker 1: just kept having this vision in my mind of liberal
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Democrats thinking it was all fun and games. Hey, we're
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: going to screw around with the vote. We're going to
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: see what we can get away with. We did some
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: dry runs during the Obama administration. Now we can kick
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: this thing in the high gear and we can insert
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: through manipulating the computers, we can insert you know, one
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty thousand ballots here. We can drop off
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: a bunch of fake and phony ballots in the middle
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: of the night in Michigan and insert three hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: ballots here. And I was I came across some video
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  Speaker 1: as I was preparing for the show this weekend, and
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  Speaker 1: it was video of CNN that night of the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty election. And that wasn't CN it was it was
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  Speaker 1: might have been Newsmax, but it doesn't matter. But there
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: was a guy who was doing analysis of this, and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: they were showing that huge spike that went straight up
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: for all the bid because they were showing the curve
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: of the vote count, and you know that you had
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the Trump line and he was X number of votes
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: ahead of Biden. It was sort of following that same mark.
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  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, the votes were for the
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: votes for Biden goes straight up because he had just
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: this huge number of votes that came in for Biden
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, and he's like, yeah, look,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: this was about four o'clock in the morning, and you
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: see this huge spike in all these votes, one hundred
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: percent for Biden in all these different things. So that
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: they The argument that's being used now is that, well,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: we don't need to say act because this is this
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: is a solution in search of a problem, and we're
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: so we're supposed to pretend that we don't have tens
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: or hundreds of thousands of the illegals that are going
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: to the polls and voting every year, because that simply
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: is not true. It is happening, and it's happening with
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: far too much regularity.
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  Speaker 5: And not only that, not just people going to the
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: polls that maybe shouldn't. Yeah, but there's people there's not
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: there's votes being cast and they're not even people casting them.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: It is too easy.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: It is too easy to cheat, it's too easy to
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: get away with crimes that it's too easy to do
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: things that it shouldn't be easy to do. And it's
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: all thanks to the Democrats. But don't vote Democrat. Have
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  Speaker 5: a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Don't vote Democrat. And those are words to live by,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: right there, Tom, thank you very much for that. We
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: got to get jed. We gotta am I behind on
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  Speaker 1: a break here, we gotta we got to get to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: a quick break. So if you again, if you want
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: to be like Joe or Tom, I'm sorry. Tom was
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: our last caller. Five one, three seven nine, fifty five hundred,
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  Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC the Talk Station, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: talking before the phone call about Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: highly decorated Army officer at Old Dominion University. I mean,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: this guy was just an amazing guy. The guy who
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: took him out not so much.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: The gunman behind the deadly attack at ODU was released
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: from early. It released early from federal prison after completing
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: a drug treatment program, even though his terrorist some conviction.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And that's a sentence. When I read this piece and
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• 25:07
  Speaker 1: federal prison after completing a drug treatment program, even though
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  Speaker 1: his terrorism conviction would have made him ineligible for a
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: sentence reduction. Mohammed Baylord Jelo, thirty six, naturalized citizen originally
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  Speaker 1: from Sierra Leone, pleaded guilty in October of twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 1: to attempting to provide material support to ISIS and was
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: sentenced to eleven years in federal prison, but was transferred
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  Speaker 1: to a halfway house in August to twenty twenty four
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and released from federal custody that December. According to the
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  Speaker 1: Associated Press, So in twenty sixteen, he was sentenced to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: what eleven years behind bars? What year is it now?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty six that's less than eleven years. This
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: is a guy who was convicted of terrorism. Number one,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: he should have done his complete sentence, and number two,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: when his sentence was done, he should have been shipped
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of here. This is a guy who
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: should have never been on the streets of the United States.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: It's not clear how Jelo qualified for the drug program,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: which typically allows inmates to shave off up to a
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  Speaker 1: year of their sentence. Prisoners serving time for terrorism related
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: defenses are typically ineligible for such programs or other sentencing
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: reducing credits. According to the Bureau of Prisons, had Jelo
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: been forced to complete his sentence, he would have been
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: in prison at the time he carried out the deadly attack.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Jelo was a former member of the National Guard. On Thursday,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: he shot and killed Lieutenant Curtle Brandon Shaw, an old
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Dominion professor who headed the Virginia University's Reserve Officer Training
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Corps program, injured two others before ROTC students subdued and
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: killed him as he was shouting I'll do Akbar prior
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: to opening fire. He was arrested in twenty sixteen after
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: telling an individual who turned out to be an FBI
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: informant that he thought about conducting an attack all the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: time and that he was close to doing so at
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: one point. According to the Partment of Justice, he'd been
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: connected to the informant through a now deceased ISIS terrorist
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: he met during a six month trimp to Africa. Jolo
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: told the FBI source he quit the National Guard after
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: listening to online lectures by the deceased leader of al
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The FBI referred the Washington
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Free Beacon to the Bureau of Prisons, which confirmed his
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: early release. The Justice Department did not respond to a
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: request for comment. FBI's Norfolk office said they're working around
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the clock to gather more information. Seems to me they
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: had plenty of information about this dude before he was released,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: before he was able to get a gun, before he
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: was able to execute this extraordinary human being who by
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: all accounts was just an amazing guy serving our country
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: doing things that others refused to do, wearing the uniform
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and wearing it not only with pride, but with distinction.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I mean again, you can go down the list. It
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: just sickens me that a guy like Lieutenant Colonel Brandon
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Shaw fell to some criminal scumbag who we know already
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: bore no good will towards this country, had already been
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: convicted of terrorism. But yet the people who know better
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: in Virginia saw fit to let him out early so
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: he could end this guy's life. And I can't pray
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  Speaker 1: highly enough those cadets who were his charges, how they
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  Speaker 1: rose up and took this guy out five fifty five KRC.
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  Speaker 1: this all day Operation Epic Fury. In Day sixteen that
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  Speaker 1: was Sunday, so I guess today makes it day seventeen.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: The Straight of Horn News is the big focus right now.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we saw the major bombing of the island
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  Speaker 1: out there in the in the Strait where all the
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  Speaker 1: not all, but a lot of the Iraqi military assets
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: were located. Hopefully that will render them useless when it
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: comes to trying to block the straight of Horror moves.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I read where a couple of tankers got through over
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the weekend, but apparently still not a lot of traffic
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  Speaker 1: going through there, so we'll see what happens with that.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Trump warns of a bad future for NATO if allies
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  Speaker 1: don't help in the straight of Horror moves. Trump said
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  Speaker 1: he's continuing the pressure campaign on the international community to
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  Speaker 1: pull its weight and help police the Straight of Horn News.
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  Speaker 1: It's only appropriate to people who are beneficiaryas of the
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  Speaker 1: Strait will help make sure that nothing bad happens there.
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  Speaker 1: If there's no response, or if it's a negative response,
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  Speaker 1: I think it would be very bad for the future
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  Speaker 1: of NATO. Trump argued that Europe in Asia are far
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: more dependent on oil from the Golf region then the
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: United States, which has become mostly energy independent due to
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: fracking and pro energy policies by the Trump administration. I
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: also read over the weekend where there is a in
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: order that that Trump is putting out to get offshore
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: oil operations in California up and running again. So we
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: will see what happens with that. Speaking in California, I'll
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: be talking about this in the next hour. But the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: grift that is going on there, especially with the wife
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: of Governor Newsom, it is pretty sick me. Oh, what
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: else is going on? Let me see? Hundreds of arrested
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: in Iran for allegedly sharing information with the enemy. According
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: to Reuters, the Islamist regime in Tehran has arrested five
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: hundred people amid the conflict with the United States and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Israel for supposedly supplying information to the enemy. The Iranian
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: police chief claimed that around half of those cases were
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: against people who provided information for hitting targets and individuals
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: who took footage of strike locations and sent them. The
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: French president, Emmanuel Macron, has deployed naval assets and a
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: forward facing position in the Mediterranean, has urged the Iranian
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: president to end the indiscriminate strikes throughout the Gulf region.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: So we'll see what kind of influence Emmanuel Macron has.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: He says, I called on him this. I guess Emmanuel
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  Speaker 1: Macron has a Twitter account. I called on him to
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  Speaker 1: put an immediate end to the unacceptable attacks ran As
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: carrying out against countries in the region with whether directly
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: or through proxies. So it's good we at least have
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  Speaker 1: the French president on our side, and I think we
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  Speaker 1: needed that. Five point fifty five and Carol for Brian
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• 35:07
  Speaker 1: and I am told that all things are is going
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: as well as going to be expected in that area,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: so we're happy about that. And I get to be
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  Speaker 1: here tomorrow for Brian Thomas as well, So Brian Thomas
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: back a little bit later in the week. But as
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: always glad to be sitting here, sitting in for Brian Thomas,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: and always be always glad to be around Joe Strecker
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: just makes my morning complete seeing him. Ah, we've got
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: one hour from now, Chris Smithaman is going to be here.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Chris Smitheman is of course every Monday on fifty five KRC,
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• 35:44
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• 35:50
  Speaker 1: if you have ever wanted to ask Chris smith Aman
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: a question of you, if you've had something on your mind,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: something that has bothered you, or something that has made
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: you think about Cincinnati or city council, today is your
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: day to ask Chris Smithman directly. So we'll be taking
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: some phone calls with Chris Smithman between seven and nine
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: this morning, so I hope you can be here for
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: that before that. In one half hour from now, Ken Kober,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: the main man at the Cincinnati Fop, will be here
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: to talk about well, we'll talk about several things, and
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: especially this attempted street takeover that happened over the weekend
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: in a couple different locations around Cincinnati. I want to
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: take a moment here to give a shout out to
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a good buddy of mine, my buddy Bill mccadams, who
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: is a thirty plus years as a Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: and prior to that, in the nineteen eighties, served in
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the United States Marine Corps. Was saw active duty during
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Operation Desert Shield and had a chance to be over
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: at Bill's house over the weekend and we had a
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: pretty in depth conversation about any opened my mind too,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and I think I'm like a lot of other guys
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: who men and women who served in the military. I
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: did four years in the Air Force back in the
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties and never came close to, I mean, really
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: any danger or any combat situations or anything that I
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: really felt that where I was really putting things on
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the line. I was proud to wear the uniform, glad
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I did it great experience, but I've always felt like
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: there were others who deserved the benefits that come with
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: military service a lot more than me. And Bill. During
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: the conversation we had this weekend sort of opened my
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: eyes to that. And when he looked at me and
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: he said you deserve this, he said, you earned it.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: And coming from a guy like that, knowing what he
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: did when he was in uniform and knowing that he
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: was a guy who put it all on the line,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: really made a big difference to me. So I promised
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: him that I would, And as soon as I'm off
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: the air this morning, I'm going to make that phone
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: call to get the ball rolling on that. And it's
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: something that I have neglected to do for years. I've
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: talked to different individuals about this over the years, but
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I told Bill I would give him a little shout
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: out this morning because he's on his way to work
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: right now as a Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy again thirty
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: plus years. So we thank him for his service not
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: only in the Marine Corps, but his service as a
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  Speaker 1: local law enforcement. And we think all who wear the
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  Speaker 1: uniform every day, whether they be Cincinnati Police, Cincinnati firefighters,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Hamilton County Sheriff's deputies, first responders of all kinds around
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: the tri State and everywhere in Ohio. So I thank
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: all of you for your service. But my buddy Bill
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: opened my eyes to a couple of things this weekend
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  Speaker 1: and I promised him. He said, you better do it,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: and I told him, I said, Bill, I don't want
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: to get on your bad side, So I'm gonna sen
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: as I'm off the air today, I'm going to make
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: that call and get the ball rolling on that. So
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I appreciate Bill for everything he has done. Let's see,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: we lost some Ohio National Guard members over the I guess,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I guess it was Friday when there was a mid
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: air collision in Rock with a Ohio National Guard refueling aircraft.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: There were a total of six US airman parish in
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: that mishap. Case won thirty five refueling to anchor a
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: mid air collision over Western Iraq. I still haven't seen
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of details about what happened with in this
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: particular mishap, but this happened over Western Iraq and the
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: aircraft went down and we lost six of our best
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: and bravest, three Ohioans who belonged to the one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty first airy fielding wing in Columbus Captain Curtis Anks,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: thirty of COLUMBUSKC one thirty five pilot ten years of service.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: He attended the University of Cincinnati, got a bachelor's degree
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  Speaker 1: in aerospace engineering. Enlisted in the Air National Guard in
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  Speaker 1: May of twenty fifteen. Captain Seth Covel thirty eight years
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: old Stoutsville aircraft commander nineteen years of service. Graduated from
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  Speaker 1: Purdue University in twenty eleven with a green Aviation Operations tech.
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Tyler Simmons twenty eight years old of Columbus boom
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  Speaker 1: operator with eight years of service. He entered the Air
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  Speaker 1: Force in twenty seventeen and completed Security Forces Technical Training
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  Speaker 1: School in May of twenty eighteen. Cobel was a KRC
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  Speaker 1: or a kc WON thirty five Strato tanker instructor pilot
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred and sixty six or Air Refueling Squadron.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: According to the National Guard, Angston Simmons were responsible for
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  Speaker 1: worldwide air refueling, aeromedical, cargo, passenger operations. Today, we more
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: than the loss of three remarkable airmen whose service and
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: commitment embodied the very best of the Ohio National Guard.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Major General Matthew Woodruff, the Adjutant General, said in a
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  Speaker 1: statement their impact on their teammates and our mission will
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  Speaker 1: not be forgotten. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: friends and fellow service members, and our entire Guard family.
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  Speaker 1: We stand with them as we grieve together. So the
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: cost of war is beyond anything that that we can
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: imagine when we lose great individuals like this. It's a
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: price of freedom and we know that going in, but
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: still very difficult. JD. Vance, the Vice President, put this
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: out on his ex account over the weekend. Please join
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  Speaker 1: me in praying for the six service members who lost
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  Speaker 1: their lives and a plane crash over the skies of Iraq.
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  Speaker 1: Three war Ohioan serving with the one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: first Air Refueling Wing, a unit that I was honored
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  Speaker 1: to visit as a senator. A grateful nation mourns their
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: law and JD put a picture of himself standing in
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  Speaker 1: It's an old airframe, that's a seven oh Boeing seven
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  Speaker 1: oh seven airframe. Ship's been around for a long time.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: But the ongoing maintenance programs that that the Air Force has,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, they get a lot of mileage, unbelievable mileage
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  Speaker 1: out of out of those aircraft and the way they
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: they maintain those aircraft and keep them running. I mean,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: it really is. It's it's a small miracle that they
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: do what they do. So we honor their service and
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  Speaker 1: Mike checking in this morning. Mike, what's what you got
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: for us this morning?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, good morning Dan.
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  Speaker 8: First and foremost, of course, we want to I sent
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: my sincerious condolences, and I'm sure I echo everyone in
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: this country to the six airmen that we lost.
• 44:33
  Speaker 10: Over the weekend, absolutely and everyone in support of that
• 44:38
  Speaker 10: epic fury worldwide or in my thoughts and prayers for
• 44:41
  Speaker 10: a safe return and a successful conclusion to this mission.
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  Speaker 8: I want to salute you for your service in the
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  Speaker 8: Air Force.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 44:50
  Speaker 8: I came from a military family. My father was part
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  Speaker 8: of the Greatest Generation. He was in the Pacific Theater
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  Speaker 8: in the United States Marine Corps. He Regima survivor.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: My brother was a career naval submarine officer and I
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: put in twenty nine years in our submarine force.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for your service as well.
• 45:08
  Speaker 8: Thank you sir. Every time I signed those re enlistment
• 45:13
  Speaker 8: paperwork to extend my career, as Brian and other people say,
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: that's pretty much signing a blank check to the government
• 45:19
  Speaker 8: that I'm ready, willing and able to support any mission
• 45:23
  Speaker 8: that the Commander in Chief and the Pentagon would ask
• 45:26
  Speaker 8: me to engage in. And that's what everybody's serving now
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: is for. So I take every opportunity. I'm involved in
• 45:34
  Speaker 8: three veteran organizations, one at Honor Flight tri State, because
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: I think it is incumbent not for me to be
• 45:44
  Speaker 8: there for my fellow veterans, but then also to say
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: thank you as much as I can to the veterans
• 45:50
  Speaker 8: who went before me, who allowed yours and my service
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: to be possible. It just you know, we know what
• 45:58
  Speaker 8: we went through to do what we did, and defending
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: this country and projecting what is needed for world peace
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: is why we have our defense.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Honor Flight tri State unbelievably great organization. I had the
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: privilege to be on the very first honor flight that
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: left out of this area for World War Two veterans,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: and that is awesome. Yeah, that was many, many years ago.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: And our buddy Andrew Pappas is on the board of
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Honor Flight now and so get I get regular updates
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: from PAPIs on what's happening with I believe Cheryl Pop
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: and the crew are still still running that absolutely. Yeah,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: fantastic people.
• 46:42
  Speaker 8: Great to work side by side with them. We actually
• 46:44
  Speaker 8: were getting ready to kick off our twenty twenty sixth season.
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: Our flight here is in three weeks April seventh. We'll
• 46:52
  Speaker 8: have four flights this year, and everything is about getting
• 46:55
  Speaker 8: these veterans back to DC to the memorials.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Is it mostly as veterans now on the most.
• 47:03
  Speaker 8: Party, Yes, sir, sprinkling of well scoot the Korean War veterans,
• 47:08
  Speaker 8: but yes, eighty to ninety percent on each flight out
• 47:11
  Speaker 8: of the eighty eight veterans are Vietnam veterans. And we
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: actually had and I'm sure probably Andrew told you about
• 47:17
  Speaker 8: it because he was tamilily evolved in it as well.
• 47:20
  Speaker 8: Our flightless Honor Flight last Sunday in which because you
• 47:24
  Speaker 8: know what's required me to be on that out of flight,
• 47:26
  Speaker 8: it's a sixteen hour day, and there's a lot of
• 47:29
  Speaker 8: our veterans that are unable. We actually had three World
• 47:32
  Speaker 8: War Two veterans that we were able to honor at
• 47:35
  Speaker 8: the Anderson Township Center this past a Sunday a week ago.
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: They got the full you know, with just without the
• 47:43
  Speaker 8: exception of being on that plane, but they got they
• 47:45
  Speaker 8: get a forty five minute well produced video of what's
• 47:48
  Speaker 8: there in DC. But the most important thing and you
• 47:51
  Speaker 8: what you've been through it, and you've seen it on
• 47:53
  Speaker 8: the news, what that welcome home ceremony is like. It's
• 47:56
  Speaker 8: absolutely we were able to replicate that at Anderson Township Center.
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: It was a beautiful sunny day, high school kids, boy scouts,
• 48:05
  Speaker 8: families of the veterans, and the gentleman that I was escorting,
• 48:09
  Speaker 8: he said, I've never I've seen a New York ticker
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: tape parade on TV, but this is even better than that.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 48:15
  Speaker 8: Now?
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I saw I actually saw some video that was posted
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: to that, and I believe it was a video that
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Josh Garth posted to that, and it just looked I
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: wasn't able to attend that day, but it just looked
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: like a tremendous event.
• 48:30
  Speaker 8: It's a phenomenal day. We've been around for twenty one years,
• 48:32
  Speaker 8: and in my humble opinion, we are the gold standard
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: of the over one hundred and twenty five hubs around
• 48:37
  Speaker 8: the nation that provide this trip to the veterans. But
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: for twenty one years we've been doing this. I know
• 48:43
  Speaker 8: exactly what to expect, but I think, just obviously being
• 48:46
  Speaker 8: a veter myself an American, the hair stands up on
• 48:50
  Speaker 8: the back of my neck and I am so filled
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: with emotion just to see how emotional that these guys are,
• 48:55
  Speaker 8: because you well know that especially our Vietnam vets did
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: not get that well home. They got just the opposite.
• 49:02
  Speaker 8: So this is our way here in the local community
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: and around the country to finally say thank you to
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: those Vietnam veterans who did not get that welcome home.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it can't be and it can't be done enough.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: It sometimes it seems like it may be a little repetitive,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: but you know what, I don't care. I don't think
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: anyone and no one else should care. We it's something
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: that I think that we just can't do enough. And
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: the more we do it, and I certainly hope we're
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: not getting to the point where we're going to have
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: a generation that doesn't have any connection with this whatsoever
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: and these things sort of fade away. I just I
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: just certainly hope that that does not happen. But when
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: I see this story out of old dominion, and these
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: cadets who rose up as this this would be terrorists
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: shot him down and without any weapons on their own.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: I think one guy might have had a knife, but
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: they subdued this attacker and arrange the meeting with Allah.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: So I have when I see stuff like that, I
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: have hope for the younger general.
• 50:08
  Speaker 8: Absolutely. I mean, it's just so it was frightening to
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: think what kind of carnage that that criminal that Myscreant
• 50:14
  Speaker 8: could have caused that day. And I went in right
• 50:17
  Speaker 8: after Vietnam and I saw a huge swing after Desert
• 50:20
  Speaker 8: Storm and then definitely after nine to eleven. So I
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: am optimistic as you are too that I think you know,
• 50:26
  Speaker 8: we've we've gone past that and situations like that, as
• 50:30
  Speaker 8: exhibited at Odu. I think we are and we are
• 50:33
  Speaker 8: well hanced. The people that are fighting to fight over
• 50:36
  Speaker 8: there right now, and all our veterans around the country.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Well, we thank God for the lives of Curtis Angst
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Seth Kovel and Tech Sergeant Tyler Simmons and the other
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: airmen who were lost during that crash, and everyone who's
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: participating in epic fury right now and even beyond that. So,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Cribbage and Mike, we got to run. But I appreciate
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: the sentiments, and I appreciate you picking up the phone
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: this morning. Thank you. Damn all right, there you go, Cribbage, Mike,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: thank you very much for that six twenty six. We
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: got to get to a break and we be talking
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: with Ken Kober the uh hey, you know who Ken
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Kober is. He's the main man at the Cincinnati Fop.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: After this on fifty five KRC the talk station.
• 51:14
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• 51:17
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• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. Little intro music for our buddy Ken Kober
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: right there, the main man at the Cincinnati Fop and
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: I was. I was doing something yesterday and I got
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: a text message from Joe Strecker and he says, hey,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: you got Ken Kober at six point thirty. So I said,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: that's fine with me. I haven't talked to Kennon a
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: little bit and Ken Kober, great to have you on
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: this morning. How you doing.
• 51:59
  Speaker 11: I'm doing right, Dan, Thanks for having me.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: How are you never a dull moment? Never a dull
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: moment in your world?
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: Is it?
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: No?
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: No, there never is unbelievable. According to our friend Signal
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: ninety nine, over fifty arrests, more than seventy vehicles towed.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: That has got account for a pretty busy night for
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: our friends in the Cincinnati Police Force.
• 52:22
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean were There were a lot of resources
• 52:24
  Speaker 11: expended to make sure that these people couldn't do some
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: of the things that they wanted to do and endanger
• 52:30
  Speaker 11: the community, which I certainly applaud the cops for doing.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought this business of the attempted street takeovers
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: had sort of run its course. It seems like it's
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: been a little while since we had an event like this.
• 52:42
  Speaker 11: Well, we have had some success stopping this nonsense, you know,
• 52:47
  Speaker 11: or at least identifying some of the people evolved and
• 52:49
  Speaker 11: going back and charging them. But this group, primarily, I
• 52:52
  Speaker 11: think it was like eighty five percent of this group
• 52:55
  Speaker 11: weren't from Cincinnati, so they may not have understood that
• 52:58
  Speaker 11: we've been taking this serious and we are going to
• 53:00
  Speaker 11: find a way to stop this nonsense.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: So what when they do these street takeovers? What do
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: they do? A bunch of people with souped up cars,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: they get together and just block off an area and
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: then just do crazy stuff. What how do how do
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: these things work?
• 53:17
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean they basically just go out and try
• 53:19
  Speaker 11: to try to be a menace. They'll stop. I mean
• 53:21
  Speaker 11: I've seen it back when I was one of the
• 53:23
  Speaker 11: beat They shut down Second Street at midnight on a
• 53:27
  Speaker 11: Saturday night, where cars couldn't go anywhere, and they would
• 53:30
  Speaker 11: block the intersection and then just do doughnuts, you know,
• 53:33
  Speaker 11: revel engines, you know, do the burnouts, all this nonsense, just.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: To create chaos.
• 53:40
  Speaker 11: And I imagine, you know, it's midnight on a Saturday night,
• 53:43
  Speaker 11: You're asleep and one of these nice apartments downtown, and
• 53:46
  Speaker 11: all of a sudden you hear a bunch of motors
• 53:48
  Speaker 11: reven and tire squealing, and it just becomes a quality
• 53:51
  Speaker 11: of life issue, not to mention how dangerous it could
• 53:54
  Speaker 11: be for some of these onlookers. One of these cars
• 53:57
  Speaker 11: loses control, But what ultimately ends up happening is the
• 54:00
  Speaker 11: police get there. They go to break it up, and
• 54:02
  Speaker 11: what do these fools do. They take off in every
• 54:05
  Speaker 11: direction as fast as they can, with absolutely zero regard
• 54:08
  Speaker 11: for safety, running red lights. I watched a cargo about
• 54:11
  Speaker 11: eighty five miles an hour down Second Street on a
• 54:14
  Speaker 11: busy Saturday night. These people have no regard for any
• 54:17
  Speaker 11: safety whatsoever.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember, I want to say it was a
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago there was an incident similar to
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: this one when we had over the weekend. It was
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: down on Fort Washington Way, and it was the guy
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: who would and I forget his name. His name escase
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: me at the time, but he was a meteorologist for
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Channel nine and he was on his way was on
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: a weekend, and so he was working a weekend shift.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: He's on his way out of the station. He's coming
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: through the Litle Tunnel and he gets to the other
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: end of the tunnel and they've got Fort Washington Way
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: blocked off and they're doing the street takeover down there.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: On Fort Washington Way and he just drove up right
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: on this right after this had gotten started, and he
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: said he was approached by people in this group and
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: he felt threatened for his safety because and all he
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: was the one was sitting in their mind in his
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: own business. So is this another component of these street
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: takeovers where if anyone threatens to get in their way
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: or tries to get through that they that they threaten
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: these people with violence.
• 55:14
  Speaker 11: Well, yeah, not to mention, I believe there were three
• 55:17
  Speaker 11: guns that were recovered as a result of this chaos
• 55:21
  Speaker 11: that went on Saturday. And understand this, this didn't just
• 55:23
  Speaker 11: start like hey, we're gonna meet here and we're gonna
• 55:25
  Speaker 11: do this. While these folks are all gathering together, you know,
• 55:29
  Speaker 11: they're driving recklessly through the city east side of the
• 55:31
  Speaker 11: city to the west side downtown. There were multiple officers
• 55:34
  Speaker 11: stop people at different locations. There were cars that fled
• 55:37
  Speaker 11: from the police before they even get started with this nonsense.
• 55:41
  Speaker 11: So these aren't like these are law abiding citizens that said, hey,
• 55:43
  Speaker 11: why don't you come take a look at my really
• 55:45
  Speaker 11: fancy sports car. These are people that are there that
• 55:47
  Speaker 11: have ill intent, that don't have any regard for safety
• 55:51
  Speaker 11: of anybody, and it's only an otter of time before
• 55:54
  Speaker 11: somebody gets killed in one of these incidents.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: So seventy cars towed in all that to me sounds
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: like that had to take a little while. And I
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: would imagine while this is going on, these people can't
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: be very happy that their expensive cars are getting total way.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: What was that like?
• 56:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, and then there's almost almost forty people went
• 56:13
  Speaker 11: to jail, and understand there are more people that are
• 56:15
  Speaker 11: going to be arrested because of this. You know, the
• 56:18
  Speaker 11: law is very very clear in Ohio for the street
• 56:22
  Speaker 11: racing that you don't have to be the driver of
• 56:26
  Speaker 11: the vehicle if you are a participant in one of
• 56:29
  Speaker 11: these things, and that could be taking video of it,
• 56:33
  Speaker 11: that could be you know, handing out popcorn to spectators,
• 56:36
  Speaker 11: you know, cheering them on. You know, they're going to
• 56:38
  Speaker 11: go through all this video evidence and if they can
• 56:40
  Speaker 11: identify more people, they're going to charge more people. But
• 56:43
  Speaker 11: to your point, yeah, there are a lot of people
• 56:44
  Speaker 11: that weren't really happy about having their cars towed. But
• 56:47
  Speaker 11: you know, the fortunate part of this is, you know,
• 56:50
  Speaker 11: they have been monitoring this group of people for a
• 56:52
  Speaker 11: while and they finally got them to a point where
• 56:54
  Speaker 11: they're in a parking lot where we can keep them contained.
• 56:57
  Speaker 11: This is all it is. Put out stopsticks and if
• 56:59
  Speaker 11: you run over the stop, you're gonna have four flat tires.
• 57:02
  Speaker 11: So it ended about as safely as it possibly could have.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Well, it just it just goes to show that more
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: excellent work by our men and women in uniform in
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Police Department. Ken, can you can you hang
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: on for a quick break. I got a couple more
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: questions on the other side. Yeah, sure, all right, stay
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: right there with Ken Cobra and we'll get back to
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: him in a jiffy. Fifty five KRCV talk station.
• 57:26
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• 57:29
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• 57:36
  Speaker 1: and Carol and for Brian Thomas, continuing our conversation with
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Ken Cober. Now and Ken Cober we talked about the
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: the event, the street takeover, and that happened in District
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: four then went down towards downtown. So that was a
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: crazy event overnight. So we we see this, and we
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: see this in the wake of the review of the
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: city manager. And I'm looking at this review and the
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: first point on the city manager's review, in which the
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: city council gave her a great review, which I believe,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, she wrote the review herself, was
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: public safety. That point number one, public safety and health,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: and apparently we're doing just fine in that category. How
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: would you size up the area, especially when it comes
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: to public safety in Cincinnati these days?
• 58:32
  Speaker 11: Think it's certainly a rough first ten or eleven weeks
• 58:35
  Speaker 11: of the year. I think shootings are up drastically. I
• 58:39
  Speaker 11: know homicides are up drastically, So I think i'd argue
• 58:43
  Speaker 11: right now, especially in some of the coldest months of
• 58:45
  Speaker 11: this year, probably not succeeding with the safety plan.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Well, the number that was reported was in Cincinnati so
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: far this year, sixty shootings are up. The number of
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: people shot in Cincinnati sixty two point five percent this
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: period of time over last year's period of time. That
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: to me sounds like a pretty big number.
• 59:07
  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, it certainly is a very big number, especially
• 59:10
  Speaker 11: when you're talking about really the months of January and February,
• 59:14
  Speaker 11: which historically have been you know, lower crime months just
• 59:18
  Speaker 11: because it's cold, people don't want to go out, things
• 59:20
  Speaker 11: like that. But yeah, I mean, it's it is certainly alarming.
• 59:24
  Speaker 11: But you know, we're starting to see the ripple effect
• 59:26
  Speaker 11: of you know, zero accountability in the court system, zero accountability,
• 59:31
  Speaker 11: and just in the social networks. I mean, you see
• 59:35
  Speaker 11: what's accepted when people you see what people put on
• 59:38
  Speaker 11: social media about different shootings, and they just it's it's
• 59:41
  Speaker 11: become so commonplace, people become so numb to it. They
• 59:45
  Speaker 11: just expected it to happen. And you know, of course,
• 59:48
  Speaker 11: you know there's no accountability. You've got that many more gunmen,
• 59:51
  Speaker 11: You've got that many known shooters that are running around Cincinnati.
• 59:55
  Speaker 11: It's no surprise that shootings are up.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Uh, do you have any sense u of anything that
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: is happening in the situation with the chief Teresa Thigi
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: obviously suspended, The investigation has been going on, It's been
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: extended a couple of times. Now, do you have any sense,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Ken Kober, that we're going to see any movement in
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: that area, any significant movement as it relates to Chief dig.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 11: Now I find it hard to believe. I mean, they
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 11: just keep on punning every month, and I don't know
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 11: if I hope so this just goes away that people
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 11: forget about it.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 11: I mean it's I don't see a scenario where the
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 11: chief comes back. But I also don't see a scenario
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 11: where the city gets man, we messed up. This isn't
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 11: how we should be treating somebody that's done three and
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 11: a half decades of service to the city and we're
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 11: going to make this right to you. I just don't
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 11: see the city doing the right thing.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: But in a real sense, though, how does this filter down?
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: How does it when you deal with the men and
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: women that you deal with every day, who are on
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: the streets, who are going to roll call every day,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: When they look at this situation and they see this
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: is happening to the chief, does that translate to them
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: at all? Looking at look at I mean, here, here's
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: my own personal situation. And if they can do something
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: like this to the chief, what about me?
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 11: Absolutely, it is absolutely a reality. That's the first thing
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 11: that cops have said is if they'll do this to
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 11: the police chief, what will they do to me. I'm
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 11: just a police officer. Now I go out and I
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 11: do you know, I do the right thing, and somehow
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 11: politicians don't like it?
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 7: Is this?
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 11: How is this how I'm going to be treated? And
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 11: then you have this this has been going on now
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 11: for months, and it's like, Okay, well, who's ultimately going
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 11: to be in charge of this police department? The men
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 11: and women in this police department deserves to know who
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 11: the leadership is going to be moving forward. And I
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 11: guess we assume right now just because uh, interim Chief
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 11: Henny's been here. And believe me, I mean he's done
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 11: a good job. I think a lot of people like him.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 11: But you know, still it's like, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 11: We need to have some finality here, and I think
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  Speaker 11: it's something that either City Hall doesn't recognize or they
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  Speaker 11: just don't care well well.
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  Speaker 1: And I get the sense that Chief Henny is really
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  Speaker 1: not in the loop either when it comes to information,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's got to affect the way he does
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  Speaker 1: his job.
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  Speaker 10: Well.
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  Speaker 11: Sure, anytime you have an interim chief, and I've seen
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  Speaker 11: this throughout my career several times, you know where it
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  Speaker 11: makes it difficult for an interim chief to come in
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  Speaker 11: and make some of the changes that they believe that
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  Speaker 11: should be fit. Chief Henny's made some changes. I do
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  Speaker 11: believe that there's more things that he would like to do,
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  Speaker 11: but it's hard. When it's hard when you're just the
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  Speaker 11: interim to make some really really drastic or changes just
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  Speaker 11: because you don't know if you're going to be there
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  Speaker 11: or no.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just it. I mean, you've got to be
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be gun shy when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: pulling that trigger or getting irons in the fire. And
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  Speaker 1: then you know, a couple of weeks or a couple
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  Speaker 1: of months later, well, the the you know, the old
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  Speaker 1: chief is coming back. So all this stuff that I
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  Speaker 1: had going, we've got to put that on hold or
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  Speaker 1: wipe all that out because you know, look, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the chief is the chief. The Chief's got to have
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  Speaker 1: their own policies.
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  Speaker 11: Certainly makes you wonder if this is done by design?
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  Speaker 11: What was this done by design?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I mean, look I look at it from
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: from the position I'm in, I'm frustrated by it. But you,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you you live it every day, and the
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  Speaker 1: men and women who where they were uniform, they live
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  Speaker 1: it every day, and I can only imagine the level
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  Speaker 1: of frustration on top of everything else that goes on
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  Speaker 1: with the revolving door that we have at the Justice
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  Speaker 1: Center and everything else.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, sure, it's just ripped the band aid off, make
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  Speaker 11: a decision. We'll live with it, just like we've done
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  Speaker 11: every other time that some some this has happened. So
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  Speaker 11: just I wish they would just be transparent making decision
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  Speaker 11: so we can all move on. Yeah, regardless of what
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  Speaker 11: that looks like, we should be able to move on.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, we we appreciate transparency from the police
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  Speaker 1: department as far as the neighborhood crime reports, the numbers
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  Speaker 1: of shootings, the breakdown of the crimes, the the you know,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: the the burglaries, the thefts, the all the rest of it.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: The shootings, the numbers are not good and so that
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: needs to be addressed in a serious way. Are there
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: going to be a bunch of these cars up for
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: auction sometime soon? Are these people going to get their
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: cars back?
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  Speaker 11: Well, it certainly depends, you know, it depends on that
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 11: they're going to come down and pay the fees that
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 11: are going to be associated with this.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 11: I suspect the cars are going to be at least
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 11: heeled up for evidence for a while, So I don't know,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 11: we'll see. Hopefully, hopefully that's how it all turns out.
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  Speaker 11: They'll they'll stop this nonsense in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Ken Kober. We appreciate the time. Always great
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  Speaker 1: to have you on. Great talking to you. Keep up
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: the great work and all the best to you and
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: everyone in the Cincinnati Police Force. We appreciate what you
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: do and stay safe out there. Brother. Were talking to
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  Speaker 1: you again soon.
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  Speaker 11: Great Dan, thanks for having me take that.
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  Speaker 1: Good there you go. Ken Cover, the head of the
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: FOP here in Cincinnati. He always appreciate his time. So
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  Speaker 1: fifty five care see the talk station six fifty three
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  Speaker 1: Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas coming up after the news
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the hour. Chris smitheman gonna be
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: in studio. In fact, he got here a little bit earlier.
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  Speaker 1: And uh Chris Smithaman rolling in early. Chrismithman, how you
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: doing today? Man, turned that mic on over there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to see you. Good to see you. I
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  Speaker 1: don't get to see you in person. All that off.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, it's exciting. The hug was great, but I
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: got my beer hug.
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  Speaker 11: I know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How was the weather coming in?
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  Speaker 12: I was listening to you, buddy. It's every bit of
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  Speaker 12: thirty eight degrees man, and the and the wind is
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  Speaker 12: rocking the truck.
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  Speaker 1: So people have to do it very well. Have to
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: be very yes, people have to be very careful this morning, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean after. I mean yesterday it was windy, but
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  Speaker 1: it was nice out. I got the windows in the
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  Speaker 1: house open. Yeah, breeze has come and through, like this
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: is nice exactly. And then my wife, my wife's going
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: to think, she says, going to snow tomorrow. I was like,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, that's Cincinnati weather.
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  Speaker 12: That's why, that's why people's allergies are going so crazy
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  Speaker 12: right now.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one day it's seven degrees, next day is twenty.
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  Speaker 1: You know, are you do you have Do you have allergies?
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  Speaker 2: I do?
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  Speaker 10: Do you?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, they're killing you right now, not killing me, but
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 12: the weather change is definitely impact. It's nice to just
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 12: get a cruise, pick up, pick a season and stay
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  Speaker 12: with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm lucky. I've never really had had allergies
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  Speaker 1: or anything. Like my wife is. She's got some allergies.
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  Speaker 1: So when it gets to be around this time of year,
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  Speaker 1: that's why we can't.
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  Speaker 5: We can't.
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  Speaker 1: We can't have a u We have an artificial Christmas tree, yes,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: but she's allergic to Christmas trees. Oh, Wow, so we
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: can't have a real Christmas tree in that we had.
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  Speaker 1: We had them for years and it was like every Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, oh, I feel terrible. My head still tell you,
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  Speaker 1: but so we we gotta have a fake Christmas. You
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: found out it was the Christmas tree that was creating
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  Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, well, the the you know, the the
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: specialist says, well, you're allergic to grasses. So she she
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: gets out of cutting grass. She never gets she never
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  Speaker 1: has to cut grass in our house.
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  Speaker 2: She wouldn't be cutting grass. Yeah, she wouldn't be cutting
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  Speaker 2: grass anyway. Can't care.
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  Speaker 1: That's I do.
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  Speaker 10: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I do enjoy cutting the grass. I was looking at
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  Speaker 1: it yesterday. It's like I got to get out there
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  Speaker 1: and cut the grass. But it an't happening today. I
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: can tell you that much.
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  Speaker 12: You know, my heart really goes out. I know we
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 12: only have a minute, but my heart goes out to
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 12: those airmen that lost their lives. I was listening to
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 12: the show coming.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about that a little bit earlier, and
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  Speaker 1: six of them from here in Ohio. One went to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: UC and that hits I know that hits close to
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  Speaker 1: home for you. So we we'll touch on all those things,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: but we got two hours with you. You agree to
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: be here till nine this morning. I did you know
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: you told Joe Strucker you'd be here till There's no
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: way you can't back out on it. And I'll be
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: all right, and then maybe we'll take a few phone
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  Speaker 1: calls people there. I got questions for Chris Smithment. Today
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  Speaker 1: is your day.
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  Speaker 2: This is your day.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: This is your day. So we'll continue on. But right
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: now we've got to get to a little news here
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: at the top of the hour, and then two hours
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  Speaker 1: with Chris Smithment as we roll on till nine this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Carol for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: What's happening over there? An American submarine sunk in Iranian warship.
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  Speaker 1: Is happening here at the top of the hour. Epic
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  Speaker 1: seven o six on this Monday morning, Dan Caroll in
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  Speaker 1: for Brian Thomas, and I got to be here tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: as well. And a special day today because you know,
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  Speaker 1: Monday is always the Smither vent, which I thought was
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: a great thing when that started, And today is special
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  Speaker 1: because the Smither event comes to us live instant. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's always live, it's always live over the phone.
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  Speaker 1: But this is in studio and I am looking at
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  Speaker 1: the guy right now and Chris Smithman, it's great to
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  Speaker 1: see you. Thanks for having me on two hours. Are
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  Speaker 1: you ready?
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: You are always ready. I'm ready, I said earlier. I've
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  Speaker 1: got I've got a couple of topics because he could
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  Speaker 1: do the whole two hours on a couple of topics
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  Speaker 1: because you're just that passionate, You're just that good. But
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: it's it's great to see. It's great to have you in.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that the loss of the Ohio National
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  Speaker 1: guardsman in the sky's over a rock is something that
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  Speaker 1: hits close to home for you.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, my son Caleb is serving in the in the
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  Speaker 12: Air National Guard. He did four years active duty, came
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  Speaker 12: back home, re enlisted in the in the Air National Guard.
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  Speaker 12: And you know, when you wake up and you see
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  Speaker 12: any of our our military personnel dying, it impacts you.
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  Speaker 12: Thank you for your service, you know, I heard the
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  Speaker 12: the the interview uh previously with the with the gentleman
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  Speaker 12: that called in his father served, he served. You know,
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  Speaker 12: you know, it's a big sacrifice for families who are
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 12: supporting the servicemen and women, whether it's the spouse or
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  Speaker 12: whether it is the parents. But you know what, and
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  Speaker 12: before I just leave this, my heart goes out to
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  Speaker 12: all of them. But you know, listening to the Columbus
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  Speaker 12: young man, I've been listening to his story where he
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 12: was an only child, and listening to the listening to
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  Speaker 12: that mom and that grandma talk about their their only
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 12: child who passed away, who had not wasn't married, did
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  Speaker 12: not have kids. My heart goes out to his to that,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 12: to that that entire family. But here's here's the part
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 12: of the event that really ticks me, and that is
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  Speaker 12: the anti a marriage can sentiment behind this. I'm waiting
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  Speaker 12: to listen to my elected officials in Washington be pro American,
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  Speaker 12: you know, you know, get in their seat every day
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  Speaker 12: who we elect them, and say that they're supporting our country.
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  Speaker 12: We've got thirteen servicemen and women that have lost their lives.
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  Speaker 12: Instead of like making that a punchline, you know, why
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  Speaker 12: not extend their love.
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  Speaker 2: And the support.
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  Speaker 12: Why not go to the to the airport when they're
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  Speaker 12: bringing those bodies off those planes and stand there and
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  Speaker 12: be reverent and salute. That is what is missing right
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  Speaker 12: now in our country. And it just bothers me when
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  Speaker 12: I listen to this language.
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  Speaker 1: Well, for far too many in the media and far
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  Speaker 1: too many in politics, it is a bridge too far
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  Speaker 1: to support the United States military. Some will all on
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  Speaker 1: one hand say they support them, they give lip service
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  Speaker 1: to it, and then they'll go ahead and and they'll
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  Speaker 1: criticize the commander in chief, and they'll criticize the military
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  Speaker 1: and criticize the whole notion that we needed to end
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  Speaker 1: this scourge of Iran and their state sponsored terrorism that
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  Speaker 1: has been going on since nineteen seventy nine. So to
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  Speaker 1: expect this is as long as they're advancing theft the
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  Speaker 1: radical left agenda, that is all that matters. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad you brought that up because I had a clip
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  Speaker 1: that came from ms NOW, which used to be MSNBC,
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  Speaker 1: which is ms now, and this was an anchor who
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  Speaker 1: was on over the weekend, and listen to the way
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  Speaker 1: she describes the way Trump deals with the enemy. Joe
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  Speaker 1: let's hear cut number one.
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  Speaker 13: Really disturbing in the messaging around the war recently, and
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  Speaker 13: aim and I really want your thoughts on this. In particular,
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  Speaker 13: is some of the language and the description of their opponent.
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  Speaker 13: So the way they seem to create this image of
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  Speaker 13: the Iranians and all of their prox or anallies, the
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  Speaker 13: sort of imagery that they conjure up, and I think
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  Speaker 13: that it takes a certain amount of arrogance. And I'm
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  Speaker 13: also going to say it a bit of racism to
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  Speaker 13: constantly talk about people like they are savages. That is
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  Speaker 13: a word that we've heard heg seth us so this.
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  Speaker 1: And again you cannot find me. I defy you to
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  Speaker 1: find me one clip where Donald Trump or anyone in
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  Speaker 1: the administration has referred to the Iranian people as savages
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the leadership, when it comes to
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: the terrorism, when it comes to that sort of thing. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they describe them in the worst terms possible. But this
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  Speaker 1: is an ms NOW anchor who is suggesting that speaking
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  Speaker 1: ill of the enemy is somehow racist.
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  Speaker 12: Well, you know, before we went in, that's a new
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  Speaker 12: one on me, it is, But before we went in,
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  Speaker 12: just remember that ten thousand to thirty six thousand Iranian people,
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  Speaker 12: mostly young between the age of seventeen, nineteen and twenty six,
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  Speaker 12: being shot down in the street. There were body bags
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  Speaker 12: everywhere over in the streets of Iran. So the people
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  Speaker 12: of Iran are saying they love this, they want to change.
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  Speaker 12: They're in the street with their flags. Now you find
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  Speaker 12: these pockets like you saw in New York over the weekends,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 12: very small pockets. But for the most part, Dan Carroll,
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  Speaker 12: the Iranian people are saying, we want our freedom, very
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 12: similar to the Venezuelan people who were saying, hey, we're
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 12: very excited about this person who's not the president who
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 12: was removed. But you heard lots of Democrats saying, hey,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 12: this was a bad decision. I don't understand the tone death,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 12: the tone deafness of the Democratic Party right now, Dan Carroll,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 12: and how they are depicting what the people are saying
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  Speaker 12: on the ground and what they're saying. It is very,
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  Speaker 12: very very different right now. The United States is being
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  Speaker 12: viewed as a liberator in Iran as they were in Venezuela,
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  Speaker 12: and the people are saying, please come, please help me.
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  Speaker 12: We're being murdered, we're being in we're in jail. We're
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 12: political prisoners. I don't know what they're talking about, but
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  Speaker 12: I want to go back and finish this quick point.
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  Speaker 12: The servicemen and women are following orders.
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  Speaker 2: Dan Carroll, like you did. They don't have a choice.
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  Speaker 12: And so what we need to have is this united
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  Speaker 12: voice that we're supporting them as they're putting their lives
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  Speaker 12: on the line for our freedom. And so when you
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 12: wake up in six air National Guard members have lost
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 12: their lives, three of them right here in Ohio. Our
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 12: Governor Mike Dwine says, bring our flags a half mass.
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  Speaker 12: What we're looking for and what I'm looking for from
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  Speaker 12: our leaders as at least a united voice behind those
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 12: military personnel who are putting their life on the line.
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  Speaker 12: And like my family, my son is not in harm's
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 12: way this morning, but he is serving. He actually finishes
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 12: his training on Friday, so that makes him now eligible
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 12: to be the ploy. It's a scary time and I
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 12: would I wouldn't want anybody. I would never want to
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 12: wake up and hear anybody on the on the on
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  Speaker 12: the TV saying anything like how you played it? Because
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 12: we have everything on the line with our family well,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 12: and when.
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  Speaker 1: It comes to the politicians. I can't. Yeah, I heard
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  Speaker 1: I heard the despicable Chris Murphy from Connecticut. I heard
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  Speaker 1: Adam Schiff, I've heard some other Dick Durbin was one,
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  Speaker 1: who are talking as if that this has already been
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: a failure, this has already failed, that it's a this
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be happening, that somehow Congress ought to be in
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: control of all this. So there is no united front,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: there's nothing at all to support and and you don't
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: have to be again, you don't have to be a
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: supporter of Donald Trump, but you but you cannot even
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: tow that line to where it comes to like you're saying,
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: have a united front on this, yeah, because it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Because our kids are over there following orders.
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  Speaker 12: And then there was a there were a group of senators,
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  Speaker 12: I think six of them who who I think you
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 12: would completely disagree, who were saying that those military person
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 12: don't have the ability to disregard orders. They don't have
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 12: any ability to disregard in order. They are following the
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  Speaker 12: direction of the of the commands.
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  Speaker 2: Period.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they do. Well, that's what you sign up for,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 2: And so I just i'm, i'm, I'm.
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  Speaker 12: I'm reaching out, you know this morning, saying, hey, one,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 12: I lift up all of the military families who are
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 12: out there right now, like mine, like yours, like many
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 12: in the list you're listening, audience, And I'm saying, why
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 12: not have the United Front right now.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: For those who are serving.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 12: Move away from the politics of what's happening in Congress
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 12: and what's happening in the Senate, whether it's going to
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 12: be a filibuster or not, whether they're funding DHS or not.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to discuss any of that.
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  Speaker 12: I want to say, why can't we say the men
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 12: and women that are serving, who have their lives on
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 12: the line for our freedom right now, we support them.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: I support them.
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  Speaker 12: This is not the time to be burning flags, because yeah,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 12: this is not the time to be taking a knee
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  Speaker 12: right now. You've got too many young people that are
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 12: out there who have everything on the line, their life,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 12: ready to give it for our freedom. This is when
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 12: everybody on social media should have a course in America
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 12: saying we support our servicemen and women.
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  Speaker 1: And we can't even stand united against those who have
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: carried out what are essentially terrorist attacks in the country,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: gunning down innocent people, and especially at Old Dominion University,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: the Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw, who was I mean a
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: decorated Army veteran twenty years, one military honor after another.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: And he's a ODU gunned down by a guy who
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: was a naturalized citizen, who had already been convicted of terrorists,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: who was supposed to be locked up, but yet and
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: then then we were talking earlier about Virginia. Was in Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: They let him out early. He goes to ODU. This
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: guy's dead, I mean after surviving you know, uh, a
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: service in Afghanistan and in other hell holes around the world,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: that comes here and he's gonned down a professor, Yeah,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: professor and luckily fortunately was his cadets.
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  Speaker 2: Who took him out, who took that guy out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and fantastic.
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  Speaker 12: And by the way, you don't hear enough about the
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 12: story that Dan Carroll just highlighted like it's hard to
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 12: find it, like you've got to go and find what
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  Speaker 12: you're saying. They're not highlighting the stories of this r
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 12: o t c officer, The New York Teachers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the New York Times making it sty like hey,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: he was just a guy just you know, maybe lost
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  Speaker 1: his way.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: No, not a convicted terrorist. No, who should have, who
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: should have, didn't, didn't do, didn't do his full stretch
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: of eleven years when he was convicted in twenty sixteen,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: and then should have been kicked the hell out of
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: this country when that time was over. We got to
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: get to a break. We'll continue on with Chris simand
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: them until nine this morning, So if you have any
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: questions five one, three, seven four, nine, fifty five hundred
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  Speaker 1: on fifty five krs the talk station talkstation seven one
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: on this Monday morning. We are in the midst of
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: a smither Ventz and Chris Smithman. I was getting ready
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: for the show yesterday and I saw this headline in
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: the Inquirer. I was like this, this is like ted up,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: just perfect for Chris Smithman. Here's the headline. Fewer people
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: ventured downtown and OTR last year. The data shows, so
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: David Ferrar at the Inquiry, they did an analysis of
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: what's happening downtown and they found economic activity in downtown
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati and over the Rhine appears to have decreased. According
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: to an analysis of eight metrics traffic data sales, tax numbers,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: public transit usage all suggests fewer people visiting the urban
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  Speaker 1: core in twenty twenty five compared to twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Many residents and business owners believe a negative perception of crime,
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  Speaker 1: particularly amongst people like myself.
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  Speaker 12: Foot traffic, Yeah, foot foot traffic is dropping because of safety,
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  Speaker 12: and President King Kobra earlier was specifically saying that. And
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  Speaker 12: so remember, you know, people can choose where they want
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 12: to go to dinner, they can choose where they want
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  Speaker 12: to watch a movie. They don't have to choose downtown
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 12: for their entertainment. And that's what's missing in our leadership,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 12: you know, in the mayor's office and in the council's office.
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  Speaker 12: And so the foot traffic traffic is down for a reason,
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  Speaker 12: and that's because people don't feel safe. And so when
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  Speaker 12: you go to dinner, you park your vehicle, it's practical,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 12: you have to go back to your car. It's seven, nine,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 12: ten o'clock at night. People are concerned about are they
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  Speaker 12: going to break into my car? Are they going to
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 12: jump me? Are they going to attack my my wife
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  Speaker 12: as we go back to the car, or my significant other.
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  Speaker 12: All of that is happening right now.
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna get caught in a crossfire? Are you
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: between rival gangs shooting it out? I mean that that
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: that has happened. All that's the exact scenario has played out.
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  Speaker 1: How many times? Or are you gonna get jump?
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  Speaker 12: Are you gonna get jumped and have the president pro
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 12: tim say you deserve to get what you got? I mean,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 12: look at what happened to Holly right there. I mean people,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 12: are you know or you've got to go out there
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  Speaker 12: and say, yeah, you know, I'm.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: Gonna what was the quote?
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: They were begging for that, they were begging for the beatdown.
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  Speaker 12: That is why the foot traffic in downtown continues to drop.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 12: And if the mayor and if council they don't intervene
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  Speaker 12: with with with basic common sense, I'll focus on public safety,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 12: you're gonna continue to see that trend. And what will
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 12: ultimately happen is those small businesses first will have to close.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: They can't.
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  Speaker 12: They're not gonna be able to generate enough money to
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 12: pay the big overhead that they have down there. But
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 12: then what's gonna happen is you're gonna see one of
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  Speaker 12: our major corporations say, my employees are voting with their feet.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 12: We're having a difficult time recruiting and retaining talent. They
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 12: don't want to come downtown, they don't feel safe. We're
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 12: gonna move over to across the bridge. I'm telling you,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 12: Cincinnati's going to keep playing the leadership. They're gonna keep
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 12: pushing the button, and we're gonna lose one of our
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  Speaker 12: big corporate partners down there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's not just it's not just the crime
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  Speaker 1: or perception of crime. And what I was saying earlier
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  Speaker 1: was that in people like me who live in the suburbs,
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  Speaker 1: and I can find there's a lot of reasons I
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: want to come downtown and go to different events and
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: see different things, do different things. But it's it's far
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  Speaker 1: too easy to find an excuse to not come downtown.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, because I don't want to deal with the parking.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to deal with
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: everything else that comes along with coming into the city
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: and what in the possibilities of what could.
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  Speaker 2: Happen, That's right. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, and I see the like the video
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  Speaker 1: that we have from the Brady Center last week, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and then this weekend we have the street takeover. Yes,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: And things like that. Yeah, it's it just it's it's unsavory.
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  Speaker 1: It's not good.
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  Speaker 12: And you know, here, I want to say this so
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 12: that everybody understands that Dan Carroll, Christopher Smitherman, Brian Thomas,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 12: Joe Strecker, I could keep naming. We all love downtown.
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  Speaker 12: We all believe that our core is incredibly important. But
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  Speaker 12: what we're not gonna do is dress this up and
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 12: say everything is okay. That's not fair. It's not fair
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 12: to the citizens that are out in our suburbs who
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 12: are talking about coming in. My point to you, Dan Carroll,
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 12: is when we talk about this, those people who are downtown,
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 12: they say, oh, you and I don't support the city.
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  Speaker 2: We do support the city.
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  Speaker 12: What we're saying is put the pressure on the mayor
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 12: and put the pressure on the council to make sure
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 12: that we're safe. You can't have one or two officers
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 12: cruising around downtown to cover the entire downtown of District
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 12: one and think that the citizens and your visitors are
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 12: going to be safe. Bottom line, that article is correct.
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  Speaker 12: People you are choosing with their feet. They are not
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 12: coming downtown to spend their money. They're going to other places.
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  Speaker 1: All right, We got to get to another break and
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: we'll continue on. We got plenty of time with Chris
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: Smithaman this morning and we're just scratching the surface. But
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: a long way to go on fifty five KRCD talk station.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: We can go fifty five KRCD Talk Station seven point thirty.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas hanging out with Chris Smithman.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: An extended Smither vent today as we roll on till
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock this morning, it's going to be here for
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: the whole two hours. Let me get your your thoughts
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: on and when you were in city council when it
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: came time to review the city manager. I think the
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: structure at city Hall was a little bit different when
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: you were on city council, but there there's always been
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: a city manager form of government here in Cincinnati, And
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: even when you were in council, the city manager served
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: at the pleasure of the mayor and city Council. And
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: so when it came time to review the city manager,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: did the city manager at that time write their own
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: review and then submit it now to a council for
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: their for their for their rubbers tamp now, much like
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: what happened here in if for for share all long.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, we've had a rich history, good or bad
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 12: firing city managers in Cincinnati, because you know, we are
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 12: a city manager form of government.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: So we've had some great city managers over the years.
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  Speaker 12: We've had some great ones and not so and not
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 12: so great, and and and what I will say is
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 12: that when you look at what our crime rates are,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 12: city manager, that falls right under their preview. When you
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 12: look at the termination of Thiji, because I heard you
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 12: talking about that this morning, Chief Thigi, and how it
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 12: was done, and the millions of dollars most likely will
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 12: cost us when you hear about the termination of the
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 12: fire chief, Chief Washington, that litigation is Penon's going to
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 12: cost us millions of dollars. The eight point one million
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 12: in settlements that we just gave out right, just I mean,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 12: I could just go through a list.
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  Speaker 2: None of that made it to the evaluation. None of
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: it made it. Infrastructure, potholes, I've got, snow removal, none
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: of that is.
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  Speaker 12: And you didn't have one member of council out of
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 12: nine say I have a question about snow removal. I
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 12: have a question about potholes, or infrastructure, or the sale
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 12: of the railroad dollars and why those dollars.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: Aren't reaching the people and the infrastructure.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 12: What's happening with this six hundred and fifty thousand dollars
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 12: contract that you have with Irish Rowley. Are we getting
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 12: an ROI on that. There were no questions. That's when
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 12: you know it was a rubber stamp. It was all
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 12: baked up. And what I really believe, Dan Carroll, is
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  Speaker 12: this is a pivot for the city manager to leave
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 12: the City of Cincinnati. She's most likely preparing to interview.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: For John Opening Act.
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  Speaker 12: I think this is I think that's right because the mayor,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 12: the mayor is the mayor is turned out. You're going
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 12: to see a lot of the people in the administration
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 12: that he's hired now looking for jobs, trying to find
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 12: places the land. I think that this was her evaluation
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 12: that she's going to use to go and apply for
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 12: a city manager job somewhere else in the United States
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 12: of America. It's not about us, it was about her,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 12: and so no one.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: In council raised any objection to this to help pave
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: the way for her to have a smooth exit.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: Isn't that nice?
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: And then what we'll do is, isn't that nice?
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  Speaker 12: We'll have some intim city manager for two years while
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 12: the mayor finishes up his term and then rides off
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 12: into the sun.
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  Speaker 1: So does that serve the people of Cincinnati?
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 7: It does it?
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: So all that's going to do. So you're telling me
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: right now, your sense is is that all these things
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: that we have sitting on the table, when it comes
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: to the police chief, when it comes to cameras in
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: the West End neighborhood where the eleven year old girl
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: was shot and killed and we still don't know who
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: killed her, when it comes to the eight hundred and
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: fifty million dollars debt in the pension fund, when it
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: comes to crime, when it comes to the money. I
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: saw a very cute video on the city website of
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: how they feel potholes in Cincinnati. Very clever, very cute,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: and a lot of quick gut. It's all that kind
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: of stuff. So we're busy producing little video, little vignettes
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: like that. But when it comes to actual drive around there,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: you drive around the city, I do, I do. Our
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: road should be in awesome shape right now. We should
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: have millions upon millions of dollars to spend on roads
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: and infrastructure. But yet the the bureaucracy of city Hall
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: and who's ever in that decision making process. It's not
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: that money is not getting out. I mean I have
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: I have that money. Is just is it sitting there?
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: What's happening with that?
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 12: Well, I'll come to I have about six meetings all
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 12: over in different parts of our of our of our
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 12: of our city, in our region today. And as I
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 12: drive around, what is so interesting is if I go
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 12: out into the county, you can you can just feel
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 12: it when you.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: Cross the line. Fact the.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 12: Roads just get better, you know, It says leaving the
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 12: city of Cincinnati, and then all of a sudden, my
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 12: truck just kind of goes smooth as soon as I
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 12: come in.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: It says, it's nice. I go entering the city of Cincinnati,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: it is boo boo.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 12: Boo boo boom boo boom boom boom boom boom boom
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 12: boom boom. I even saw a cone sitting in a
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 12: in a pothole over the weekend, like that is a
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 12: cone that I'm now dodging, meaning the reality of it
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 12: is effect none.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: None of this made it into the evaluation.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 12: Is your point, meaning our reality, Dan Carroll, about the
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 12: job that's happening in the city, whether it's infrastructure, whether
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 12: it's the Western Hills Viaduct, whether it's our police officers,
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 12: firefighters safety, whether we're talking about the CSR system, which
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 12: I hope we will spend some time on this morning
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 12: talking about. None of that was was discussed with the
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 12: city manager. That's what tells me this was about an
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 12: evaluation to pivot her to her next job. She's leaving,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 12: she's starting to apply for other jobs, and she wanted
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 12: to leave with a great evaluation, no matter what the
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 12: reality was, no matter what the reality is, because they'll
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 12: never call us and say, what kind of job do
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 12: you think the.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: City manager did?
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 12: They're gonna call her nine bosses and the mayor and
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 12: say what kind of job she's here's the evaluation, She
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 12: did a great job. They're not going to necessarily dig
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 12: into the articles where they say crime is up, you know,
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 12: sixty two percent. They're not going to say that. They're
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 12: going to say, this was a great evaluation. She's in
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 12: the pool, let's hire her.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: Well, they'll just send a link to the story in
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: the Inquirer. Council gives a city manager share along a
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: glowing job review. There's the headline, right, that's the headline.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: That's how valuable was that? That is fantastic? Seven thirty five.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: We got to get to a break. We'll continue on
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: Chris Smitheman on fifty five kr.
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  Speaker 1: Seven one on this Monday My special Monday Morning, Dan
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: Carroll and for Brian Thomas, and we are spending time
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: in studio with Chris Smitheman this morning talking about just
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: about it anything under the sun and yeah, and you
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: heard it here first. Chris Smitheman is of the opinion
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: that chair along is uh cutting down the weeds. She
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: got a machete out there hacking down the weeds and
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: looking for an exit and her exits executing her exit
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: strategy from the city manager's office. So we will see.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna we'll see if that comes. I think you're
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: you know, you are very perceptive on these issues. Yes,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: so I'm thinking you're probably right.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: Well, I've been I've been down there.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 12: I mean it's not it's not you know, you're when
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 12: you've been down there enough in the bows you see
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 12: that this professional is starting to look for her new gig.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 12: And you know, as we talk about issues, you're talking
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 12: about infrastructure issues.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you we touched off the air you mentioned
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: the Cincinnati retirement set.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and the thing is, and I was gonna I
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: was going to talk Yeah, that is the next thing
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about. This is something we talked about,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: Michael Washington, Teresa Thigi uh, the West End cameras, the
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: a spike in violence, people don't want to go downtown.
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  Speaker 1: This predates all of that. And this is how long
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: that we've had not just a city manager, but a
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: city council that is not interested in dealing with serious
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: issues in a meaningful way. And that, to me, Chris Smitheman,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: is one of the most long term frustrations when it
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: comes to what's going on at city Hall.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Look, let me give John Cranley mayor former mayor John
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 12: Cranley and that administration a big shout out here because
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 12: one of the big steps they took, Dan Carroll, was
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 12: to make it mandatory that sixteen point two five percent
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 12: of our payroll had to be paid into the Cincinnati
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 12: retirement system.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: And that was a very big step in the right direction.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 12: Now, what I want to be clear is prior to that,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 12: mayors would balance the budget by underfunding the pension. I'm
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 12: just trying to make it simple. So you know, if
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 12: the stock market is up like it is now, the
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 12: city council would say, we're not going to make that contribution,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 12: or we're going to make a lot less of a contribution.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: And these are our AFSME workers, These are our code workers.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: They are mostly.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 12: Democrats who live in the city and in the region.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 12: This has nothing to do with police and it has
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 12: nothing to do with fire because they have their own
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 12: retirement systems. We are the only city in the state
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 12: of Ohio that has a retirement system local like this.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: So these are the people who drove around on trucks
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: filling the potholes. That's These are the people who Metropolitan
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: Seward districts.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: Yes that they're in here.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, buddy, who retired as d MSD in here.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: All those city services, city.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: Water, absolutely sanitation workers, which is absolutely.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: Thousands upon thousands of people who did honest day's work
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: for honest day's pay, working diligently for twenty thirty forty
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: years for the citizens.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 12: And the way you describe that is so critical because
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 12: when your friend retired, he made or she made a
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 12: decision that was irrevocable. I am signing off, I'm leaving.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 12: I've given you my thirty or my thirty five years.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 12: Now I'm going to receive a payment for the rest
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 12: of my life, which includes a promise around healthcare. What
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 12: is happening is because there's been so much mismanagement with
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 12: this money that now they continue to go back to
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 12: those employees where they made those promises and they're reducing
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 12: benefits for those retirees.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: And who speaks for them? Are they all on their own?
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: I mean they do. They have a representation that speaks
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: for them.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 12: It's outside of code, which is a great great union
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 12: there outside of asks me who they're obviously fighting for
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 12: this every single day.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: The answer is no, I've bet are they? Are they
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: speaking for the current employees or both the past employees
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: and current player.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: That's correct, that's correct.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 12: And so think about the widow or widower out there,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 12: meaning that person is now passed, you're receiving half of
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 12: the benefit that the employee was receiving. And city council
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 12: says we're going to reduce your benefit even more. Here's
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 12: the bottom line to everybody listening. The Cincinnati Retirement System
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 12: is an obligation that is required. When the CRS system goes,
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 12: so does the City of Cincinnati.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: It is not an exaggeration.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 12: The unfunded liability is probably eight hundred and fifty million,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 12: meaning we need about three point one or three point
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 12: two billion dollars in assets. We probably have about two
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 12: point one billion. We're sending out ten million the last
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 12: time I was down there per month in benefits or
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 12: one hundred and twenty million dollars per year. The reality
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 12: of it is is this is what is holding up
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 12: the CRS system right now is the stock market.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: Meaning we're getting a great performance.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 12: When the stock market goes through a natural cyclical retract removal,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 12: I mean a pullback where we drop ten fifteen thirty percent,
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 12: you're gonna you're gonna hear a lot of screaming about
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 12: the Cincinnati retirement system.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: Is what is keeping it together is the.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 12: It's like their four oh one k is the performance
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 12: of the overall Dow SMP Russell.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: All of that is keeping things together. Look, here's here's
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: the reality.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 12: Cincinnati Retirement System and the mayor are trying to pivot
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 12: this to the state. They want the state to take
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 12: over the CRS system. The state is saying, why would
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 12: I assume an eight hundred and fifty million dollar unfunded liability?
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: Number one?
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: And if I would, you know that we're gonna We're.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 12: Gonna cut the benefits of those who are retired immediately.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 12: So understand, those of you who are voting for these
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 12: councils and these mayors, you've got to start voting your pockabook.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 12: You've got to put a mayor in a council together
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 12: that prioritize the CRS system. The taxpayers have to understand
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 12: that if the CRS system goes under, they are going
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 12: to dramatically raise taxes in order for us to bail
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 12: out the Cincinnati Retirement System.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: Every CEO OH in the City of.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 12: Cincinnati, every CFO in the City of Cincinnati knows that
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 12: what I'm saying is absolutely true.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: Do you think our current members of council have a
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: good understanding of this, working knowledge of this right They
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: do not. There does none of this ever makes it
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: into the campaign.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: No, it never makes it into the news. It never
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: makes it into the evaluation of the city manager.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: It's not sexy. It's not sexy, but it's serious.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 12: It is the most serious thing that the city is
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 12: facing because we are the only city in the city
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 12: of in the in the in the state that has
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 12: our own self directed retirement plan. And you don't hear
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 12: police and fire talking about it. Ken Kolber is looking
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 12: at this and saying, for the most part, this is
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 12: none of my business, because sure, because my retirement is.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: Separate, separate issue here.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: And let me tell you what. Let me tell you
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: what the FOP did, and the and the and the
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: fire department did.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 12: They sued the heck out of the city, and the
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 12: city had to put about forty four million dollars into
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 12: their pension present value. They sued successfully. They say, you
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 12: can't keep under funding our pension. Guess what ask me?
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 12: And Code and all of those other unions are gonna
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 12: have to do the same. We can't just continue to
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 12: carry an eight hundred million dollar unfunded liability and not
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 12: think it's not gonna impact. And the second thing you're
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 12: gonna see is our rating agencies are gonna wake up
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 12: one day and they're gonna say we're taking us. We're
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 12: gonna start bringing down our our our ratings for the
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 12: bond ratings, the bond ratings. That's right, they're gonna start
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 12: bringing that thing down because they're gonna say, guys, you've
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 12: got to deal with the CRS system.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: All right, quick break, will be right back with Chris
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: Smithman on fifty five KRCV Talk station.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 3: Got a hot take read the room, don't let it
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 3: die in.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: All right, we are back with Chris Smitheman. Just a
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: few minutes in this segment, and then we'll continue on
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: one a whole other hour of Chris Smithment ahead, and
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: if you have ever wanted to speak with Chris Smithman,
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: ask him a question. The next hour. We'll have the
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: phone lines open five one, three hundred if you want
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: to get on board with Chris Smitheman, because I'm asking
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: all the questions here. But it's great to have you here.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: What is it going to take to And we were
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: talking off the air about, uh, you know, all these
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: employees all the and look, you've got to give credit
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: to the Democrat Party here in Cincinnati because they are dedicated.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: They get people who are dedicated to their agenda, and
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: you get so many people who go down and go
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: and they go to vote and they vote straight, the
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: straight Democrat ticket. That's all they look for is a
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: D next to that person's name. And you tried this
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: last election cycle to get through to those people. How
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: do you do it? I mean, it's it's it's got
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: to be. You got to be standing there thinking, man,
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: I am looking at a huge mountain in front of me.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: I think you're going to see Cincinnati.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 12: Unfortunately, we're taking steps towards Detroit and it starts with
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 12: the crime piece, and people are going to get fed
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 12: up with their cars being broken in to petty crimes,
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 12: which we don't even talk about. Usually we're talking about
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 12: the violent stuff, the guns and stuff, but there's a
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 12: lot of petty crime that's happening down here that's not
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 12: being addressed.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: Well, we've got the folks in the West End who
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: have been trying to have their voices heard, but it
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: seems that they're getting their backs turned to them at
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: city Hall.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 12: They are on that, but in this last election, eighty
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 12: five percent of them voted for those who are elected.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 12: Elections have consequences. That's the tough part. And your question
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 12: to me is when are they going to wake up?
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 12: When are they going to say I want something different,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 12: And I think that it's going to be a crime issue.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 12: And I also think it's going to be a financial issue,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 12: meaning we cannot continue to spend the money we are
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 12: spending and keep our cities taxes low are reasonable, which
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 12: people are getting priced out of their homes right now
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 12: with taxes and all that.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: But we just can't continue down this track.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 12: And eventually, I think the citizens of Cincinnati are going
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 12: to say I can't take it. I can't afford to
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 12: vote for these people. It's going to take probably another
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 12: election cycle or two. I think the person who will
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 12: come back and be the mayor who will save us
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 12: is going to be a blue dog Democrat.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 2: It will be that person.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: That's a throwback.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: That's right, That's right, It's.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: Back to the Tom Luken and Charlie Lucan days.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 12: Those are the people that is it is going to
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 12: be a candidate like that that is ultimately going to
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 12: turn our city around. Somebody that says, I support our cops,
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 12: I support our our retirement system. We're gonna we're gonna
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 12: invest in our infrastructure, fix our potholes, make sure our
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 12: sanitation workers, keep a clean city.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati is very dirty, clean the clean the city up.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 12: You're gonna know when that turn happens because the mayor
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 12: will be a blue dog Democrat.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: All right, We got to get to a break news
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: coming up top of the hour, and then one more
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: hour as you roll on till nine this morning with
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: Chris smithment in studio, So pick up the phone five
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: p one three hundred, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas on
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: fifty five KRC the talk station.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: What's happening over there every day?
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 9: What's the purpose?
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: Are their military causing pain at the pump.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 6: Shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security?
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 9: Fleet per seals hit them so hard?
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: Where things happen?
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: Fifty five krs the talk station fifty five krs the
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: the talk says Chris Smith have been getting into the
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: little van Halen thanks to Joe Strekker this morning, Dan
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: Carolyn for Brian Thomas and a special morning in fifty
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: five krs because we are graced by the presence of
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: Chris Smith Aman in studio. And this is I mean,
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: this is I was a little bit surprised when Joe
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: told me you were to be able to do two
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: hours today because this is a busy time of year
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: for you? Is it not as a financial planner? I
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: mean this is people are looking about, you know, what
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: to do with their money and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: So as you are in demand right now.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: In demand as we go into the tax season.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 12: Yeah, it is a crazy time r m ds that
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 12: our people are requesting to I need all my tax information.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: So this is a very busy time. But glad to
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: be here with you, you know, in person.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 12: And you know, one of the things we talked about,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 12: and I'm gonna let you let you drive the conversation
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 12: off air, is we have a big.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: Gubernatorial race coming up. I mean state of Ohio.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 12: Vivek Ramaswami is up running for governor on the Republican side,
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 12: and you know, I'd love to hear your insights on
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 12: what you see happening with that state race.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I talked to our good friend Alex Strantefilu a
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and I said, are people going
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: to be reminded of what Amy Acton did during the
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: Wuhan situation? And I summed it up by saying that
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: she was drunk on power when that whole thing was
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: rolling out. I think Mike de Wine was in a
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: situation where he didn't really know what to do. Amy
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: Acton was the chief medical Officer. I forget the exact
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: title of her position, but she was the main medical
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: officer for the state of Ohio. So he was essentially
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: just following her lead. And I remember her one time
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: and they did. They were at that time, they were
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: doing the daily news conferences and so every day, and
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: we took them live over on seven hundred when I
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: was over there, and every day Mike would come on
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: and he'd speak for a couple of minutes, and he
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: turned it over to Amy acting And she was asked
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: a question one time at one of these events, and
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: she was almost giddy or giggling because she says, you know,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: We've never had this kind of power before. I'd never
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: been in a position where I'm able to say I've
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: always told people that they should do X, Y and Z,
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: but they never listened to me. But now I have
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: this power where I'm able to not only tell people
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: what to do, but tell the governor we need to
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: do X, Y and Z and it gets done. So
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: she had that little taste of power right there, and
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: she took it to extremes and so I think if
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: she becomes governor, I think we're going to see the
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: same kind of extremes. She wants to present herself as
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: a moderate, much like Abigail Spamberger did in Virginia Woo.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: But as you and I both know, she is no moderate.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: Amberg and I think Amy Acton, I think she is
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: cut from the same cloth as in a political sense
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: as spam me. Their their backgrounds are they're because Spamberger
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: was in the military and the FBON all that. But
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: from a political sense, I think they're cut from the
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: same cloth where they will present themselves as moderates. But
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: should they get into power, We've seen what Spamburger has
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: done with a list of fifty new taxes and fees.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: Have you seen that list? Oh yeah, I mean dry cleaning,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: new tax? Want to walk your dog? New tax? Want
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: to you want to buy a birthday cake? A new
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: tax for that? I mean, it's it's ridiculous. So the
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: same thing will happen here in Ohio should she find
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: her way to the governor's office.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 12: You know, impacted me personally because my daughter was at
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 12: Saint Clement for her for grade school during this period
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 12: of time, and I just want to continue to note
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 12: that the school never closed down.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: They took precautions, but the school never closed down.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: And so well, Mohler and Elder and I don't think
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: Saint X ever shut down, did not shut down the
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: parochial schools, the private schools, they.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: Knew better, they knew better.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 12: And what was interesting is, and this is the truth
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 12: that there was tremendous pressure for them to close down,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 12: meaning the public school system was closed, saying shame on you,
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 12: shame on you. You're putting the lives of these kids
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 12: on the line. Blah blah, blah blah blah. Here here's
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 12: the payback. Right now, as my daughter graduates from seton,
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 12: she's prepared for college.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 2: Think about those kids that were out of school for
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 2: two years.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 12: We right now don't know what happened where they are,
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 12: how their education was impacted. So I could not afford
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 12: for my daughter to be off school for two years,
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 12: not getting her education, not not not being prepared. And
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 12: that is a story that is very rarely discussed, and
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 12: I hope it makes it into the gubernatorial discussion.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and and never there was a portion of that
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: that blew up in the faces of some of these
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: education advocates who were and Randy Weingarten, the National Federation
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: a Teachers president, tried to she's trying to rewrite history now,
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: saying that she was never in favor of closing down
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: the school, but it was all about the teachers union.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: The teachers union, one of hey time off for getting paid. Yeah,
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: we're all about that, correct, But when when parents were
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: looking over the shoulder of their kids who were doing
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: work at home and they're looking at the computers, they're saying,
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: my kid is being taught this, And that's that's what
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: gave rise to like Moms for Liberty and organizations like
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: that that went into the schools and said, hey, this
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: woke nonsense. It has got to stop. But by that
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: time it's still I mean, they're still trying to root
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: it out, but a lot of that is so deeply
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: ingrained that it has been a very tough slog. But
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: thank god that some of these organizations are onto it,
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: because we might still be in a position where all
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: this is happening in the schools and we really don't
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: have very much awareness of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, think about those kids, and I say this
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 12: with very deep respect and reverence, who don't have the
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 12: same structures as other families have, and their kids weren't
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 12: sitting on the computer at home doing their work.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for two years, right, they were tardy from that.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 12: And since any public in my opinion, they don't do
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 12: the self reporting to tell us the ramifications of all
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 12: of that, Well, I'm just sharing with you that my.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: People in the in the administration and teachers at public
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: schools who were telling me privately back then that even
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: though these kids were not showing up in a virtual
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: sense still in the work on their computers, that they
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: were not doing the assign they just they were vanished.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: They were not there. But the schools could not fail
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: them because of the lawsuits that were going to come
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: if they if they dared to fail them. So even
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: though those kids might have passed with d's or whatever
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: the case may be, Cincinnati Public couldn't fail it. They
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: had they had no choice, even though these kids and
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: didn't put in the time, didn't put in the work,
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: didn't do any of what was required. So that there's
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: that that whole cross section of students who were affected
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: at that time. That I mean, I don't know if
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: we have any idea but just like you said, of
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: how how bad it but all the studies that have
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: been done, everyone who's looked at this has said, these
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: consequences are.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 2: Very, very bad, and they're playing out right now, Dan Carroll.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 12: We have a choice right now to elect a business minded, pragmatist,
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 12: home got homeboy from Cincinnati versus someone who is who
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 12: has who villainized this success or has zero policy vision
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 12: for the state. That's our choice as we go into
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 12: the gubernatorial race. I look forward to the debates that
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 12: will happen. I just hope that they get down in
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 12: the weeds like you and I are talking about how
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 12: were our children impacted in this period of time, And
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 12: I can tell you that I was so blessed. I'm Catholic,
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 12: my family is Catholic. My daughter, you know, had access
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 12: to Saint Clement. Anybody listening as Saint Clement. I love you, guys,
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 12: I appreciate you. And then she pivoted over to Setan.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 12: Setan never closed. Setan was always There's same thing as
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 12: you said with Elder and Saint X.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 2: Why were they able to do it?
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 12: Get it done, keep our kids safe, keep their education
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 12: on track, and the public school system couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we know that you have been an advocate for
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: vivik Ramaswami in the strongest you've done. You've done events
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: with him. I imagine you'll probably do some between now
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: and the election. Absolutely, yeah, which and I think Viveca
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: is the right guy. But I heard some and we
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: got to get to a break here. But before we
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: get to that, I wanted to just set up this
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: next question for you. I was listening to some political
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: analysis yesterday and they were talking about how the vake
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: is is facing some difficulty. Now that is somehow Amy
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: Acton is picking up steam and her campaign is getting
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: things together and Leveke is in trouble right now. That
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: that was the analysis I heard. So I'm going to
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: ask you when we come back from this break, do
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: you think that is true or not? You got it,
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: So we'll get the Chris Smithman analysis. You got it,
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: and we will counter what I heard last night. So
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens there. Five one, three, seven, fifty
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: five hundred. If you yourself have a question of the
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: one and only Chris Smithman, as we roll on till
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: nine this morning on fifty five KRC, the talk station
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: This was your week, Darren Detak Station eight nineteen, Dan
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: Carolyn for Brian Thomas and Chris Mithman. As we went
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: to break last time, we were talking about argubernatorial candidate
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: with vike Ramaswami and guess who's on the phone, Vacant.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to have you on fifty five KRC this morning.
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  Speaker 1: How are you, Good.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, Good morning.
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  Speaker 7: I had a few minutes. I'll call him and say hello,
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 7: And you know, I was in my hometown of Cincinnati
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 7: over the weekend. We had a great time and good
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 7: to talk to you guys.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate you listening to fifty five KRC. I
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: was talking about some political analysis that I heard over
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: the weekend, and I'm looking at Newsweek right now and
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: they're saying that you're trailing Amy Acton by ten points
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: right now. How can that possibly how can that possibly
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: be true?
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 7: Well, I think what you saw is that we came
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 7: out with a massive, massive push on our message, including
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 7: from all of the great fundraising we had last year,
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 7: and within hour of that coming out, I think the
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 7: Democrats who were in a tizzy and they put out
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 7: what we view as a.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 8: Real fake piece of old dated literature.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 7: That they manufactured a while ago, but they were caught
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 7: flat footed. It's a good sign for us in the end.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 7: I'm not a horse race guy. I'm not in this
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 7: to run against any particular one candidate. Amy act that
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 7: I think will be a disaster for our state on
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 7: many levels. But more importantly, I'm in this toled Ohio
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  Speaker 7: to greater heights than we've ever seen because we have
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 7: a historic opportunity to step on the gas for our economy.
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 5: Right we have.
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 7: We're doing great as a state in many ways. But
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 7: the way I'm looking at this is I'm a businessman.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 8: I know how to do this.
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 7: Let's bring high paying jobs back to our state. Let's
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 7: take our income tax rate eventually down to zero. Let's
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 7: bring that property tax burden down. And in a lot
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 7: of our sectors, the regulatory burden is too high. We
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 7: have too many layers of government. Even as a red state,
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 7: we can fix that. That's ultimately how you address this
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 7: rising challenge of affordability is put more money back in
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 7: your pockets and increase wealth. Many people in the Democrat camp,
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 7: including my opponent, who liked to villainize success, who like
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 7: to villainize financial success, I want financial success for every
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 7: Ohio and I've achieved that. I was born and raised
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 7: in Cincinnati, went to public schools through eighth grade, went
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 7: to Stax for high school. I was so grateful to
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 7: this state, into this country for giving me the opportunities
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 7: that I've had in my life. We're raising our kids
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 7: now in Ohio and circumstances that frankly, my parents would
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 7: have never imagined when I grew up in Westchester and
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 7: when we.
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  Speaker 1: Grew up in Evendale.
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  Speaker 7: But the reality is we have a chance to give
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  Speaker 7: every kid in this state that opportunity and much more
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 7: someone who really knows what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you about education, because I
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: know this is something that is very very important to you.
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  Speaker 1: And Chris and I were talking a few minutes ago
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: about the manifestations of these kids who were affected during
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: the Wuhan, who missed out on serious amounts of schooling,
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: and we're seeing those effects taking place right now. How
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: do you address that in a meaningful way if you
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: were to become governor.
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  Speaker 7: So, look, we had to bring standards back to our
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 7: public schools. That's something that's been missing for a long time.
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  Speaker 7: We've got to be willing to say. We used to
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  Speaker 7: have the third grade reading guarantee in Ohio.
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  Speaker 11: We got rid of it.
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  Speaker 7: I think we got to bring that back to say
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  Speaker 7: that if you can't read by the end of third grade,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 7: then you shouldn't go to fourth grade in general until
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 7: you can.
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  Speaker 1: Is that asking too level for crying out loud? Is
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: it if we asking too much there? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 7: Just to be clear on this one, it's not even
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  Speaker 7: I'm not even talking about reading out a third grade level,
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  Speaker 7: which is what we actually need. I'm saying that at minimum,
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  Speaker 7: you have to be able to read it at the
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 7: end of third grade.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Many students are able to read by kindergarten or first grade,
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 7: but it should at least be by the end of
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 7: third grade. That's what sets up a student for success
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 7: in their life. And you brought up the virus, right,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 7: this is important to understand. The person that I'm running
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 7: against is the person who led the crusade as health
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 7: director to shut down our public schools. Ohio was the
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 7: first state in the country to shut down our public schools.
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 7: As I told you, I grew up in Cincinnati. I
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 7: went to public schools myself through eighth grade. Before going
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 7: to Saint X. Saint X was closed for five days
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 7: during the pandemic, Cincinnati public schools were closed for nearly
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 7: two years. Those kids in those public schools will never
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 7: get those two years of their education back. And this
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 7: is the crucial point because the very people, including my
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 7: opponent who I'm running against, who will preach about inequality,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 7: advance the policies that create that inequality. So chances are
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 7: next time it won't be a pandemic or a virus.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 7: It'll be some other question that we don't know about today.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 7: But the question is how does the leader make decisions?
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  Speaker 7: And to me, I make decisions that advance the learning
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  Speaker 7: of our kids, not the bureaucracy that really runs our
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 7: public schools today. Certain leaders bend the knee and cater
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 7: to that bureaucracy. I'm a leader when it comes to
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 7: education who stands for our students. And the same thing
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 7: goes with respect our economy. You have many leaders, including
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 7: on the other side, including my opponent, who bend the
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 7: knee to the bureaucracy that regulates our economy. I actually
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 7: focus on empowering the small business owners and the entrepreneurs
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 7: who create economic growth. That's the choice we face right,
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 7: It comes down to very simple choices. You want your
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 7: property taxes to go down, I'm your man. If you
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 7: want them to go up, vote for Amy Afton and
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 7: the Democratic camp. Same thing with respect to ever income
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 7: in the state. That's what I know how to bring.
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  Speaker 7: But if you put somebody who's a far left in
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 7: some cases even socialist leaning leader like they have in
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 7: New York City, your business is fleeing our state in droves,
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 7: and it would be a shame to set back all
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 7: the progress that we've.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: Had in Ohio. One more to bring to the table.
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  Speaker 1: One more question before I let you go. We're getting
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: up against the clock here. Early on in your campaign
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: you talked about how as governor you could help cities
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: like Cincinnati deal with crime issues, and that's something that
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: Chris and I were talking about earlier today. As governor,
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: how can you reach down into cities like Cincinnati and
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: other cities in Ohio and help them deal with the
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: crime issues that they're plagued with daily basis.
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 7: It's a great question. It's the same way we're dealing
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 7: with our public schools. Bring standards back to law enforcement,
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 7: expectations for local governments and they're not getting state funding
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 7: automatically unless they're really meeting those standards. And as somebody
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 7: who grew up in Cincinnati, right, you look at the
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 7: journey of a place like over the Rhine, where it
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 7: was when I was growing up, right, it was a
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 7: place where we were warned not to go to having
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 7: a renaissance, but then now parts of the city receding
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 7: back into being places where older citizens aren't even comfortable
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 7: walking around. I was talking to two people over the
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 7: weekend in Hamilton County who are an older couple say
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 7: they're now scared to walk around now that they live
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 7: in an apartment in the city. That's unacceptable. But we
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 7: can say, empower our great police officers. I do back
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 7: the blue. I do back our men and women in uniform.
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 7: Empower them to be able to do their jobs without
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 7: fear of looking over their shoulder for being sued. Fix
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 7: some of the judicial system issues with judicial reforms that
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 7: say that you are not going to just send a
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 7: violent repeat offender back on the street with forty dollars
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 7: of bail or no bail, as it's happening regularly. And
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 7: then let's also bring back some of the mental health care,
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 7: including mental health institutions where necessary, because our jails are
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 7: not the right form of mental health care for the
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 7: psychiatrically ill. In some corners, those are controversial things to say,
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 7: but for most Ohiglands, for most Cincinnatians, this is just
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 7: common sense. It's not black versus white, it's not red
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 7: versus blue. This is about common sense and standing for
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 7: the people of Cincinnati. My hometown have really unnecessarily suffered.
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 7: One of the great cities in the United States of
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 7: America is not reaching its full potential because of that
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 7: fear of crime. And when I'm governed to the buck
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 7: stops with me. All Right, We're not going to pass
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 7: the hot potato to say well, the local government didn't
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 7: do this, or that there's a lot of funding that
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 7: comes from the state. It's not going to be automatic.
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 7: We're going to apply standards. We're going to do it
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 7: in a sensible way. And I think a lot of people,
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 7: many including many of them have historically voted Democrat in
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 7: the urban core in the inner city, are going to
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 7: be better off and understand they're going to be better off,
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 7: and I really invite them to join our coalition. You
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 7: don't have to agree with me on one hundred percent
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 7: of issues. To know that I'm going to crush crime,
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 7: including in cities like Cincinnati. I'm going to improve the
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 7: performance of our public schools, including Cincinnati public schools. And
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 7: we're going to bring high paying jobs to Cincinnatians, to
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 7: southwest Ohio and to every part of Ohio. And that
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 7: isn't about right versus left. That is about up versus down,
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  Speaker 7: and I stand for up for Ohio.
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  Speaker 5: So a lot of.
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 7: Democrats who feel like they've been left behind by their party,
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 7: you know what, there is a better way with a
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 7: pragmatic business leader. A lot of independents who may feel
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 7: politically homeless, You've got a place in our coalition. You
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 7: have a home right here in this movement for Ohio.
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 7: And for me, standing up for my hometown of Cincinnati
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 7: is top of the list. And we will make sure
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 7: that we're successful and seeing this through.
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  Speaker 1: And appreciate it.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 7: Appreciate you having me.
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 2: Man, Thank you, Vivig, thanks for coming on.
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  Speaker 12: This is Christopher and I just want to say that
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 12: the two commercials that your team released this weekend, they're awesome.
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 12: I really like the introduction of the soon to be
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 12: first lady, your wife, your children, really just introducing you
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 12: and your family to the state of Ohio. But I
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 12: also like the other commercial that outlines Hey affordability talking
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 12: about supporting law and order our police. We need a
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 12: leader like that at the state level to deal with
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 12: the serious issues that are facing the state of Ohio.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 12: So I just want to thank you for those very
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 12: excellent commercials that I saw released this weekend.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 7: I appreciate that, Christopher. And look, I'm a family man
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 7: at the end of it, and that's why I'm motivated
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 7: to do this is we just welcomed our third kid,
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 7: our first daughter, into the world a little over a
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 7: month ago. And you know, sometimes you look yourself in
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 7: the mirror and ask yourself, why am I doing all
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 7: of this? And I'm doing it because I want our
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 7: kids and their generation to have the same opportunities that
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 7: I have. You know, I'm not in this for the money.
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 7: Thankfully we've been blessed. I'm not in this for fame.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 7: There's other ways to get that than running in a
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 7: state specific election, and I've come from that. I'm in
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 7: this because I know I can make a difference. I
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 7: know we can lead Ohio to be the top state
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  Speaker 7: in the country. For our kids, for our families, for
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 7: their generation. Mean, Christopher, you're a living example of that
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 7: American dream yourself, right. I love your story. I love
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 7: your success both as a businessman but also as an advocate,
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 7: somebody who believed in public service. And you know, unlike me,
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 7: you're not a Republican right here, You're an independent. But
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 7: it doesn't matter, because the issues we're talking about are
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  Speaker 7: common sense issues that are going to lift up the
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  Speaker 7: lives of Ohioans. Protect them in our cities, bring back
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  Speaker 7: law and order, bring back accelerating economic growth, increase those wages,
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  Speaker 7: bring down those electric bills and other costs that we
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 7: know we can bring down, and most importantly, over the
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  Speaker 7: long run, improve the quality of education for our kids.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know anybody who disagrees with that, all right,
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  Speaker 7: So I think that's why I'm running for governor. And
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  Speaker 7: we'll be able to win this decisively with the support
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 7: of your listeners, which I immensely appreciate.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, But thek We'll have to leave it there.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for picking up the phone, Thanks for listening
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  Speaker 1: to fifty five KRC. Glad to know you're there, and
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: we'll hopefully we'll get a chance to talk to you
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: again before too long.
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  Speaker 8: Love it, Thank you?
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. Vike Ramaswami running for governor outstanding.
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: We got to get to a break on fifty five
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: K Talk station fifty five KRC, Dan Carroll from Brian
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: and Thomas hanging out with Chris Smytheman and the vike
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: Ramaswami took up a little bit of time there. So
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: this will be a short segment. You okay with that?
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: Can you do a short segment?
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  Speaker 11: I can do it.
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  Speaker 2: I can do it short man.
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  Speaker 12: Hey, look if possible for you. Yeah, if he had
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 12: even more time and we would just sit back and continue.
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  Speaker 1: Him fantastic stretch out. He's fantastic. I think we would
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: be extremely fortunate to have a guy like that in
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: UH in the Governor's mansion and UH and running things
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: here in Ohio. I just think, I mean, he he's
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: he's bold, he's unafraid.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: He supports Trump and and and the one part of
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  Speaker 1: his campaign that I like is talking about how the
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  Speaker 1: vision that he has for Ohio ties in with what
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: Trump has done. And he's got intimate knowledge of Trump
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: and his agenda and what he wants to do because
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: he was working, and I would I really wish he
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: would have been on the Doge team. Yes, I really
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: think that would have been an important thing. But he,
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: you know, he's he had his own way to go,
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: which I appreciate that, and I'm perfectly fine with that.
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: But tying that in and making that work seamlessly with
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: what with Trump is trying to do, I think can
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  Speaker 1: only be good for Ohio in a lot of different there.
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: You know, I know a lot of people that don't
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: want to have anything to do with Trump, but I
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: think in the long run, I think it'd be great
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: for this state.
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  Speaker 12: Look, I love hearing him talk about common sense issues.
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  Speaker 12: I love hearing him. I love hearing him talk about
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 12: you know, accountability. These are things that are lost in
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 12: our government. I mean, we're watching states involved with like
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 12: in Minnesota, with all of this corruption that's happening, and
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 12: so having somebody acutely in the state House, in the
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 12: mansion who understands business is going to be critical for
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 12: the next eight years in my opinion, for the state
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 12: of Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: So what a great interview.
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 12: I hope all of your listening audiences heard that we
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 12: should be registering our eighteen year olds to vote like
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 12: I did.
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  Speaker 2: My daughter turned eighteen.
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 12: I registered her to vote so that she can vote
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  Speaker 12: in the primary, she can vote in the general election.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of people.
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  Speaker 12: Around this state who have families whose children, Dan Carroll,
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 12: are turning eighteen and going to make the mistake to
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 12: allow their college is to register them to vote. Do
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 12: not allow your child to go away to college without
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 12: registering the vote.
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  Speaker 1: I said, this has got to be a short segment.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know who else was listening, brad Winstrop
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: Congress Now he's on the hotway. Here we go. So
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: we'll do this break and we'll get to the congressman
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: Winstrip right after this. On fifty five kr CV talk stations.
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: It's like nothing to it, right. Chris Smitheman is with
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: us in studio this morning, and when Chris Smitheman is here,
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: the celebrity hotline just blows up. So we just got
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: done talking with a Vike Ramaswami. Now we turn to
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  Speaker 1: the former congressman. Well, I guess they'm never really a
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  Speaker 1: former congressman, but you know it's all. It's my pleasure
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: to welcome in brad Winstrip to the show today. And Congressman,
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  Speaker 1: how are you today.
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing fine.
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: It's been a pleasure to listen to two of my friends,
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 6: top common Sense, actually three with the Theke coming on the.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: He's terrific. And we were talking about a little bit
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: about Amy acting and what was going on during the Wuhan.
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  Speaker 1: And I was telling Chris, it was several months ago
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: when your committee came out with the report on what
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: happened during the COVID nineteen and just how eye opening
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: and how revealing that report was. And I still remember
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: that day. You sat right across from me and we
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: had an hour in the studio to talk about that
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: and really only scratch the surface of what was revealed
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: during that time. But the educational aspect of this is
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: something that I think gets overlooked a lot. And the
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: damage that was in Avik talked about that, the damage
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: that was done to these kids by the way they
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: were handled during the Wuhan and really how they were
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: poorly served. The Teachers' Union was probably served just fine,
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: but when it came to actually dealing with the kids,
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: they got the short end of the stick.
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  Speaker 7: You know. It was interesting.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 6: We had Randy Weingarten and for an open hearing, and
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 6: the day before her people came in counted how many
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 6: seats are in the hearing room. They made sure that
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 6: they brought in all their people and took up every
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 6: seat in the hearing room to be there to support her.
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 6: But you know, we conducted the entire two year pandemic
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 6: review in a way that you don't see very often
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 6: in two years. On the Republican side, we didn't mention
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 6: Republican or Democrat. One time. We didn't talk about political party.
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 6: But you know, when she was in there, she was
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 6: getting kudos from the Democrats. But as we went through
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 6: things and we were able to go through their emails
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 6: during this time and what they were talking about. One
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 6: of the things that stood out with the conversations amongst
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  Speaker 6: the teachers' union leadership was that they said we need
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 6: a trigger to close. Not once did I find anything
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 6: that said we need to get the kids back in
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  Speaker 6: the classroom. It's important that we get them caught up.
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  Speaker 6: They're never going to be able to succeed if we
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 6: don't get them in the classroom and teaching them one
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  Speaker 6: way or another.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't I don't want to interrupt you, but
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: was that the hearing where she was trying to rewrite history,
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: where she was saying I never advocated for schools to
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: be closed. We were the ones who were trying to
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: get them reopen.
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  Speaker 10: Was that?
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: Was that the hearing where she was trying to do that.
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  Speaker 6: She she did have statements like that, and then I
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 6: think there was some group they worked with, maybe in
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 6: Massachusetts later to talk about school reopenings, but that was
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 6: way late in the whole situation. And what you guys
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 6: were talking about is fair. You know, there was a
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  Speaker 6: There were the schools, and I would tell you my
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 6: rural schools were open too, and the district that I
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 6: represented went all the way to West Virginia and the
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 6: rural schools they went to class, They went to class.
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 6: It was more city based than anywhere else. But it
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 6: was it was a problem, for sure, and they'd done nothing,
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 6: and they still that I know, have not addressed how
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 6: we're going to get at our kids up up to speed.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 6: And we're falling terribly behind other countries as we know.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 6: I saw recently one has said a seventh grader in
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 6: America on average, is at the level of a third
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 6: grader in China.
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: How about that? Let me ask you another question about
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: something that has come up recently, and Scott Assent, the
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: Secretary of the Treasury, said it was probably three or
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: four weeks ago that he was looking at putting a
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: number on the amount of fraud that goes on with
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: various government programs, and he put that number at six
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars every year, brad winstrip that gets wasted
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: and is just flushed down the drain. As it relates
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: to fraud in this country. The number is probably actually
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: bigger than that. But when you hear a number like
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 1: that every single year that we are losing six hundred
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: billion dollars, it's a fraud in this country. Does that
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: do you or surprise you at all? The number is
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: that big?
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  Speaker 6: Not at this point it might. It might have surprised
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 6: me when I first started in Congress, but it didn't
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 6: when I got towards the end, because I could see
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 6: exactly why this was happening in so many fronts. Part
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 6: of it is that the agencies don't really have the
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 6: capabilities to catch fraud. And then the other thing is
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 6: when we went through the COVID era, for example, on
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 6: Ways and Means Committee, when they were talking about unemployment
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 6: and taking care of those benefits and getting all that out.
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 6: The Democrats insisted on self attestation, in other words, you
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 6: didn't have to prove in any way, shape and shape
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 6: or form really who you were and are you really unemployed?
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 6: And we thought that and they insisted on, no, you
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 6: don't have to attest and improve in any way. It's
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 6: kind of goes with the voting thing. You don't have
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 6: to prove really who you are. And I don't get this,
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 6: but it's created a lot of mayhem. Certainly has ripped
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 6: off the taxpayers. So everyone who goes to work and
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 6: pay taxes need to know that it's these types of
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 6: policies and deficiencies within the agencies that is throwing their
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 6: hard on dollars out the window to people not only
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 6: in this country that are committing fraud, but overseas.
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: As you look at why it has become impossible to
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: pass legislation that would deal with voter identification. Why has
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: this debate gone the way it's gone.
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 6: Well, I think that they have their reasons. They'll try
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 6: and throw out everything is is Jim Crow and this
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 6: and that, but they know that they can go around
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 6: and rally people to vote in California, you know, going
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 6: door to door, the policies are somewhat crazy, and requiring
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 6: an ID would make it more difficult for them to
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 6: be able to do that, I guess is their reason,
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 6: but there really is no good reason. Everything requires an
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 6: ID today and they know it. And I think that
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 6: real American citizens, people that care about this country, people
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 6: that value their citizenship, will be the ones to say, yes,
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 6: you should value your citizenship the same way I do,
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 6: and prove that you are a US citizen and you
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 6: are who you are. And I think the majority of people,
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 6: as we know, this is a common sense issue that
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 6: has high value, and I don't understand why they want
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 6: to keep pursuing just the opposite. It doesn't even make play.
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: Eighty plus percent of Republicans agree with this, Seventy six
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: seventy seven percent of Democrats want this. You've got Hispanics
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: and other minorities in the seventy percent range that want this,
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: and the notion that we can't get the Save America
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: Act through and have common sense legislation that says, you know,
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: we want American citizens to vote in our elections and
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: we don't want illegal aliens voting in our elections. It
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: just a If you would have told me ten years
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: ago that we'd be having a problem getting legislation like
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: this approved, especially when Republicans have control of the White House,
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: the House, and the Senate, I would have said that
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: you're crazy about that.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 6: Well, of course, the problem predominantly lives in the Senate.
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 6: And let's just face it, there are just too many
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 6: people in the Democrat Party that if Donald Trump says
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 6: he's in favor of something, they will be against it.
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, just you watch it visibly during the State
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 6: of the Union. I mean, the wonderful things that he
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 6: was pointing out many times they couldn't even applaud because.
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: He said it.
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 6: And when you let your hatred dominate your common sense
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 6: and overrule your common sense, it's really a problem for
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 6: us as a country, especially if you're in a position
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 6: of leadership serving in the House of the Senate. That
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 6: is a problem for America today and I'm ashamed that
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 6: some people can't get over it. And it's been interesting
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 6: to hear the comments from John Fetterman and Democrat senator
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 6: who seems to be going in the other direction from
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 6: many of his Democrat colleague.
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a he's turned out to be a bit
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: of a surprise, and it turned out to be actually
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: courageous in the fact that and he's not doing anything
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: that's all that radical. He's simply looking at the facts
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: and the truth of the situation and speaking truth to
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: what's actually going on. But brad Winstrip, we're up against
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: the clock. We got to run. Thank you so much
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: for checking in this morning, and Chris Smitheman has something
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 1: for you real quick.
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 2: Congressman, thank you so much for coming on.
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 12: Great and both both Dan Carroll and I and I
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 12: think I thanked him for his service, and we thank
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 12: you for your service, your military service to our country.
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 6: Well same of you, fellas. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 5: God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Brad Winstrop, thank you very much. Take care
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 1: of yourself, have a great day. Eight forty nine, We
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  Speaker 1: got to get to a break on fifty five krc
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  Speaker 1: detalk station, fifty five KRC dot com talk station. Excellent,
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: all right, fifty five KRCV talk station, getting ready to
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: wrap things up with Chris Smitheman in studio for the
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: last couple of hours. So uh seven and nine this morning.
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: It has flown right by, and not only did we
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: have a viake Ramas Swami check in. We had brad
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: Winstrip checking in as well, so you'll be Joe will
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: people be able to listen to that on the podcast
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: a little bit later, So you can check that out
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: on the podcast a little bit later on this morning.
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: But Chris, we've got about a minute and a half here.
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: I'll give you the final word.
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 12: No, thanks for having me on. People can follow me
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 12: at vote Smitherman. I like that because I'm trying to
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 12: create a community on x where I can continue to
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 12: communicate in between the week in between the Monday.
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 2: So I thank you Dan Carroll for having me on,
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 2: and I've enjoyed my time with you.
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I appreciate you being here, especially during your
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: busy time, and appreciate vi vike Ramas. It's it's so
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: cool to know that Vi vike Ramas Swami and brad
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: Winstrip and many others are listening to us, listening to
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 1: the conversation. Yeah, I really appreciate that.
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 2: It's pretty it's pretty awesome.
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 12: And I and I said in the break, it would
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 12: be nice to have the other candidates coming and calling
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 12: in and giving you an opportunity.
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 2: One of the things I like about.
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: That's just it. I mean, Joe Strucker, if if if
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: I'm not look, I'm not here every day. But if
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: Amy Acton called in and wanted to come on and show,
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: I'd be more than happy. And I mean Brian Thomas
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: would be more than happy to have her on. And
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: he has on candidates from from any any political strike.
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 1: He has them on all the time. So it's the phones.
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 1: Are you know ours? It's right. I don't know how
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: to say radio in Spanish me radio radio.
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 12: But that's one of the things that I like about
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 12: vive A and and and and and many in many
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 12: of his peers. They go on all the shows.
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 2: They don't mind.
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 12: They make themselves available to the American people. I don't
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 12: see the same from the other side.
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: All right, we got to run. Thanks about Chris, Thank
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: you man. Great great time, really great time to go
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: to work now, buddy, gotta go to work. Be careful.
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 1: I know you're driving around the city, so be careful
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: out there and we'll see you next time. Glenn Beck
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: is coming up next. Joe Streker, thank you for everything.
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 1: I get to see you again tomorrow morning. So I'm
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: looking forward to that on fifty