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The "Smither-vent" - Episode 158 - Don't believe the polls. Get out and vote! · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 2: 722-55-KRC, the talk station. A little bit late into the segment,
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Speaker 2: but I am so pleased. Welcome back to the 55
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Speaker 2: KRC Morning Show. Former Vice Mayor of the City of
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Speaker 2: Cincinnati and political commentator here on the morning show, Smithervent Time,
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Speaker 2: Christopher Smitherman. Welcome back, my friend. Great having you on,
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Speaker 2: as always.
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Speaker 1: Hey, brother. Thanks for having me on. You know, I
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Speaker 1: just want to touch on coming out of the gate,
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Speaker 1: the Vivek Ramaswamy commercial that I see all the fake
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Speaker 1: outrage about the commercial. Let me address a couple of things.
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Speaker 1: Number one, the commercial never talked about sexual misconduct, making
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Speaker 1: fun or light of anything that happened in his opponent's life.
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Speaker 1: The commercial says that this is a mother who says
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Speaker 1: that she doesn't like her or believes that she's lying
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Speaker 1: and that she didn't grow up in a tent. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm not here to talk about the commercial. I'm more
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Speaker 1: here to talk about two things. Number one, that Republicans
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Speaker 1: who are going to vote for Vivek are still voting
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Speaker 1: for him. Number one, Democrats creating this false outrage. They're
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Speaker 1: just so concerned. They can't believe how bad and vile
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Speaker 1: the commercial is. Let me remind you that when Charlie
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Speaker 1: Kirk was murdered, these are the same people that were
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Speaker 1: mocking his murder. All of them. And not one person said, oh, man,
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Speaker 1: it's really bad with people standing at a rally faking
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Speaker 1: like they have a gun and shooting themselves in the
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Speaker 1: head or the neck. There were people that lost their
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Speaker 1: jobs for things that they said about that. What about
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Speaker 1: the comedian who cut Trump's head off and was holding
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Speaker 1: it in her hand? Where was all the outrage about
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Speaker 1: all of that? What about all of the crazy commercials
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Speaker 1: they have out there running about Vivek Ramaswamy, right? I mean,
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Speaker 1: whether it's his mother that they're injecting into those commercials,
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Speaker 1: whether it's saying that he lied about some drug, which
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Speaker 1: isn't true. I mean, the reality of this is that
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Speaker 1: this is a very tough profession, this thing called politics.
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Speaker 1: You have to have tough skin to be in it, right?
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Speaker 1: And I'm just suggesting that if the Democratic candidate cannot
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Speaker 1: debate won't show up and defend whatever position she has, right?
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Speaker 1: If she says that she thinks something isn't true, where
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Speaker 1: do you clarify that? On a debate stage. If your
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Speaker 1: opposition has said something, then you bring that information to
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Speaker 1: the debate, and that is where you clarify it. You
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Speaker 1: don't sit back and just say, oh, I'm a victim.
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Speaker 1: I'm worried. I can't believe that he said that about me.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. People understand and Republicans understand
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Speaker 1: across the state that they are voting for their country.
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Speaker 1: They're not in the data centers. I haven't had one
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Speaker 1: person walk up and say, man, I'm really worried about
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Speaker 1: the data centers. They're talking to me about communism, socialism,
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Speaker 1: men in locker rooms with their daughters, and they're out
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Speaker 1: here talking about saving their country. They're saying, I'm not
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Speaker 1: voting on early voting. I'm voting on election day. I'm
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Speaker 1: a patriot. These are things that people are saying to me,
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Speaker 1: and that is why the polls are off, because I
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Speaker 1: want to remind you, your listening audience, and everybody, the
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Speaker 1: state of Ohio is still a farming state. When you
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Speaker 1: get out of Cincinnati, you get out of Columbus, you
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Speaker 1: get out of Toledo, for example, you get out of Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: you got farmland. And I don't know why the Democrats
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Speaker 1: think that farmers aren't critical thinkers or incredibly smart. They
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Speaker 1: know what they're doing. They're going to show up in
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Speaker 1: droves in these small towns around the state of Ohio,
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Speaker 1: and they're not worried about that commercial. They're worried about
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Speaker 1: their country. They're looking at France, and they're saying, I
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Speaker 1: don't want my country to look like France.
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Speaker 2: Preach it, Christopher Smitherman.
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Speaker 1: Pause.
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Speaker 2: We'll bring it back. He will continue.
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Speaker 1: The Talk Station.
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Speaker 2: 7.30, 55 KRC Talk Station. Happy Monday. Christopher Smitherman's on
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Speaker 2: the phone doing the Smitherman. Yeah, he's got to observe, Christopher.
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Speaker 2: You did a great job about this whole Amy Acton
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Speaker 2: thing with the Ramaswamy ad. She won't answer questions at
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Speaker 2: campaign events, right? You're not allowed to record her. You
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Speaker 2: can't take pictures of her. I have her people assault
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Speaker 2: you or whatever. She will not debate Vivek Ramaswamy. And
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Speaker 2: now it's this chorus of faux outrage. And I agree,
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Speaker 2: it's faux outrage, Christopher. You can't criticize the victim. So
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Speaker 2: in other words... We can't get any information out of her.
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Speaker 2: We're just supposed to accept her and let her play
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Speaker 2: the victim card and then have people actually go out
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Speaker 2: and vote because she's a victim of some sort? What
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Speaker 2: the hell kind of logic? It's the most illogical thing ever.
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Speaker 2: What are her qualifications? I don't want to hear victim
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Speaker 2: under qualifications because that is not a qualification to be
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Speaker 2: governor of the state of Ohio, Christopher.
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Speaker 1: It's not. It's not. And that's the part that I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, what the Democrats, they just drill down and
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Speaker 1: want us. to focus and be distracted. That's basically what
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Speaker 1: you're saying. And then all of a sudden, that's the
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Speaker 1: reason I'm not going to debate him because he's such
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Speaker 1: a bad guy, right? The reality of it is that
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Speaker 1: when you go up and you debate, that's the interview.
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Speaker 1: That's the moment where you stand in front of Ohio
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Speaker 1: voters and you say, here's my interview. And I get
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Speaker 1: to ask you questions. So what you're saying, Brian, and
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Speaker 1: I want to make sure your listening audience heard clearly
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Speaker 1: what you said. Not only is she unwilling to debate,
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Speaker 1: she's unwilling to come on your show, come on anybody
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Speaker 1: else's show, and really sit down with people who are
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Speaker 1: not going to give her softball questions. Ask her tough
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Speaker 1: questions about her position on things like education, school choice,
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Speaker 1: what's her position on property taxes. data centers? What does
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Speaker 1: she think about dudes being in the locker room with
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Speaker 1: our daughters? That's a big deal. What is her position
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Speaker 1: on immigration and working with ICE? Meaning this is someone
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Speaker 1: who is at a Cleveland event who literally called parts
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Speaker 1: of law enforcement the KKK. I'd like somebody to ask
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Speaker 1: her some questions about that. What did you mean when
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Speaker 1: you said that? Do you have a different position now
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Speaker 1: that you want to be the governor of the state
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Speaker 1: of Ohio? Because I certainly do not think that law
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Speaker 1: enforcement officers are the KKK. So now she's playing this
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Speaker 1: role of I am a victim. I want you to
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Speaker 1: vote for me, but I don't want to answer any
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Speaker 1: of your questions about my public policy. No way. No way.
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Speaker 2: Well, she would come on this program because I'd ask
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Speaker 2: those exact same questions. But, you see, that's exactly what
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Speaker 2: Vivek would do. I mean, he'd be on a stage
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Speaker 2: with her. He'd be explaining his policies and platforms, and
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Speaker 2: she could contrast hers with his. And then we get
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Speaker 2: to decide who makes a better argument and who's got
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Speaker 2: a better idea. Just not happening. So we're left to speculate.
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Speaker 2: We have no idea what she would do. I mean,
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Speaker 2: we know in her role as medical director what she
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Speaker 2: did and the harm that that brought about, but then
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Speaker 2: she quit. I mean, like just walked off the job,
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Speaker 2: which apparently she's got a history of doing that as well.
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Speaker 1: That's correct. You know, and I want to remind your
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Speaker 1: listening audience and your voters across the state of Ohio
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Speaker 1: to remind them that, look, if she were to win...
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Speaker 1: They're going to use the state of Ohio as a
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Speaker 1: launching pad for all of their social experiments.
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Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
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Speaker 1: Meaning they're going to go and invite this guy, Abdul Saeed.
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Speaker 1: He'll be sitting at the governor's mansion. They'll invite the
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Speaker 1: AOC lady from New York because she'll be running for president.
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Speaker 1: This Alon Omar, she'll be at the governor's mansion. I'm
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Speaker 1: sharing with you it will be a who's who of
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Speaker 1: communist and socialist guests that are at the statehouse. It
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Speaker 1: will be such an embarrassment. This is one of those
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Speaker 1: most consequential elections, and that's why I'm so passionate about it,
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Speaker 1: to send the message that people have to take action.
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Speaker 1: What is this simple action? Show up and vote in droves.
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Speaker 1: Don't listen to what the polls are telling you. Make
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Speaker 1: your voice be heard, Brian Thomas. That's what we do.
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Speaker 1: And this notion that Republicans aren't showing up and independents
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Speaker 1: and blue dog Democrats aren't showing up to say, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm voting my country. Right. The reality of it is,
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Speaker 1: is Republicans don't do polls. It's they just don't don't
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Speaker 1: call me and ask me how I'm going to vote,
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Speaker 1: when I'm going to vote. It's none of your business.
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Speaker 1: And still, the state of Ohio is a small town state.
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Speaker 1: Those people are going to vote on Election Day. They're
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Speaker 1: going to walk right down to their library or walk
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Speaker 1: right down to their schools where they've been voting for
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Speaker 1: the last 50 years with their spouses, with their children,
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Speaker 1: with their grandkids, and they're going to rock the vote
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Speaker 1: on November the 3rd. That is what is about to happen.
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Speaker 1: And that's why the polling is so off, because they're
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Speaker 1: only polling the other side, Brian Thomas. Ohio will remain red.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who's going to win and who's going
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Speaker 1: to lose, but Ohio will remain red.
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Speaker 2: I love your optimism, Christopher. Here's one more reason for
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Speaker 2: my listening audience to vote. I think if I had
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Speaker 2: to guess, Christopher, and I think it's the case, most
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Speaker 2: of my listening audience is not exactly happy with Mike DeWine.
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Speaker 2: Who's DeWine defending and who's DeWine distancing himself from? I mean,
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Speaker 2: he basically withdrew his endorsement for Rama Swami the other
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Speaker 2: day after this whole non-issue became an issue. When he
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Speaker 2: asked about his, you know, you endorsed the entire Republican ticket,
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Speaker 2: he said, yes, I did. He goes, well, now he's like, well,
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Speaker 2: with the exception of certain of them. I'm only endorsing
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Speaker 2: the ones I worked with, which was clearly directed at
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Speaker 2: Vivek Ramaswamy. So, you know, if you don't like Governor DeWine,
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Speaker 2: are you angry with him for the positions he's taken
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Speaker 2: during his period of time in the statehouse or in
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Speaker 2: the governor's mansion? Then, you know, go ahead and vote
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Speaker 2: Ramos for me just to piss the wine off. How's
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Speaker 2: that for a reason, Christopher?
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Speaker 1: Well, here's what I will say to voters, right? You
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Speaker 1: and I talked about this, you know, I guess it
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Speaker 1: was two months ago, right, that they were going to
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Speaker 1: have the Jerry Maguire moment, that they're searching for whatever
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Speaker 1: to distract us. For them, it ended up being the
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Speaker 1: commercial in the state of Ohio. They just thought that
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Speaker 1: that was going to be that moment, whoever it is.
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Speaker 1: What we have to do is stay away from the
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Speaker 1: distraction and focus our family and friends to rocking the vote.
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Speaker 1: We should be early voting. People should be out voting
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Speaker 1: on election day and make sure that we send the
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Speaker 1: message that we're not going to look like Virginia and
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Speaker 1: have all these regrets on Wednesday that we didn't show
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Speaker 1: up and participate in the process. And let me also
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Speaker 1: say I want to emphasize those things that they, the
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Speaker 1: Democrats have said about the Republican candidates, you know, they're,
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Speaker 1: they're racist or. The things they've said about the current president,
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Speaker 1: whether you like him or you don't like him, my
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Speaker 1: statement is a true statement. The things that they've said
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Speaker 1: about him are horrific. The assassination attempts and the mockeries
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Speaker 1: after the assassination attempts by the Democratic Party, they just
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Speaker 1: don't have any space in my mind. to sit back
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Speaker 1: and talk about the commercial. That's really what I want
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Speaker 1: to emphasize to you, that they should not be sitting
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Speaker 1: back with this fake outrage, knowing what they've been doing
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Speaker 1: over the last two years, or maybe even over the
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Speaker 1: last 10 years. Pause.
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Speaker 2: We'll continue with Christopher Smith with this edition of the
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Speaker 2: Smith event. After I mentioned... 75KRC, the talk station. 741,
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Speaker 2: the 55KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas with Christopher Smith event.
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Speaker 2: Regular feature here on the 55 KRC Morning Show. Not
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Speaker 2: a regular feature after the top of the hour news.
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Speaker 2: A full hour with Signal 99 in the studio, mostly
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Speaker 2: about Judge Bloom and the magistrate, or rather Judge Bloom
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Speaker 2: and the juvenile court. Things have really spiraled out of
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Speaker 2: control under her responsibility. So we'll talk with that. Coming
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Speaker 2: up after Christopher Smithman. You got more on your mind, Christopher,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure of that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to conclude our conversation that the
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Speaker 1: main reason that Vivek Ramaswamy's opponent doesn't want to have
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Speaker 1: a real discussion is about the public policy. Meaning, so
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Speaker 1: you distract and you deflect. So that's why there's a
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Speaker 1: whole discussion about something that's a bunch of nonsense, this
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Speaker 1: fake information. outrage is because ultimately what you, Brian, and I,
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Speaker 1: and your listening audience and Ohioans care about is her
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Speaker 1: public policy. And for whatever reason, we can't dig down
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Speaker 1: and figure out what that is. And Democrats don't care.
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Speaker 1: They just see the D, they're voting the D, and
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether Vivek Ramaswamy is
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Speaker 1: the most qualified person to be the next governor from
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Speaker 1: their perspective. He's just not a D, and they're not
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Speaker 1: heading in that direction. And what most voters like me
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Speaker 1: an independent who falls on the conservative side. I'm worried
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Speaker 1: about communism and socialism, and I'm just not interested in
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Speaker 1: electing people that hold those views. So I want to
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Speaker 1: also say that Chief Washington has won big. 19-0. The
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Speaker 1: appellate court has said we're not going to hear the case.
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Speaker 1: This is now going back to Judge Cole at the
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Speaker 1: federal court, and Judge Cole is going to say, listen,
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Speaker 1: here's where we are. We've gone through this for four years.
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Speaker 1: You have appealed. You've hired every private law firm possible,
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Speaker 1: costing taxpayers millions of dollars. Now it has been settled
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Speaker 1: that all of my rulings, I'm talking about Judge Cole,
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Speaker 1: the lower court, everything that I've said has been upheld.
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Speaker 1: You have nowhere to go. So now this is about settlement.
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Speaker 1: This is about how much money you're going to pay
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Speaker 1: or is it going to be a jury trial around
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Speaker 1: not the facts. This is important. The facts now are
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Speaker 1: no longer about Anything other than this, it's been found
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Speaker 1: that he was wrongfully terminated. That's it.
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Speaker 2: Well, and just one of the two we're going to
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Speaker 2: be dealing with in the city of Cincinnati, Police Chief
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Speaker 2: Fiji is probably going to be teeing hers up at
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Speaker 2: no time.
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Speaker 1: 100% she's going to tee it up. I mean, why
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Speaker 1: wouldn't she tee it up? She's going through the administrative hearing,
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Speaker 1: meaning they've learned. And now they are saying, hey, we've
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Speaker 1: got to take her through this administrative hearing before we
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Speaker 1: say she can't have her job. But at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day, all the things that they said that
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Speaker 1: hurt her, whatever they were, the wrongful termination, there's still
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Speaker 1: going to be some settlement for Chief Fiji. So everything
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Speaker 1: that I've been communicating over the years have now come
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Speaker 1: to be totally true. All the lies that they've been saying,
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, even the appellate court, and I
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Speaker 1: think Signal 99 will talk in detail about it most likely,
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Speaker 1: is that the appellate court literally said that the city
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Speaker 1: manager did not tell the truth. And she didn't even
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Speaker 1: take the advice of her attorney. So stay tuned. I
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Speaker 1: don't know when the conference between the lawyers are going
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Speaker 1: to happen. I don't have any visibility on that. I
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Speaker 1: just know that Chief Washington is now even closer to
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Speaker 1: a massive settlement based on what the city did to him.
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Speaker 1: And I believe that his reputation should be just lifted
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Speaker 1: up and we should be saying the great things that
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Speaker 1: he is because he's applied for approximately 21 jobs and
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Speaker 1: hasn't gotten those jobs because of what's happening here in
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Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati. And I just think that is terrible.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is not a reflection on his competence
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Speaker 2: to be a police or a fire chief elsewhere. It
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Speaker 2: has always come down to, from everything I've heard and
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Speaker 2: during my minimalist conversations with the man, that they cite
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Speaker 2: this ongoing problem that why he can't get hired or
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Speaker 2: it wasn't hired. It's not because he lacks qualifications. He's
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Speaker 2: eminently qualified. It's just this is hanging over his head.
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Speaker 2: And going back to Cheryl Long, you mentioned that she
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Speaker 2: rather ignored the advice of her attorney. She's got the
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Speaker 2: solicitor's office. After six months on the job, it says
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Speaker 2: in black and white he is entitled to an administrative hearing,
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Speaker 2: and yet he was denied one. I mean, that in
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Speaker 2: and of itself sealed her fate, didn't it, Christopher?
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Speaker 1: It did. It totally did. It totally did. And this
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Speaker 1: notion that he wasn't covered or wasn't protected or there
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Speaker 1: shouldn't have been a process after six months of him
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Speaker 1: being on the job outside of the probation. I think
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Speaker 1: he'd been the chief for two years. That clearly her
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Speaker 1: lawyers went and said, hey, city manager, you can't do this.
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Speaker 1: She said, I'm going to do it anyway. And so
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Speaker 1: I just want voters to know as they go out
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Speaker 1: and vote, because this is connected. These are the kind
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Speaker 1: of things that cost us the taxpayers. It's not like
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Speaker 1: they're paying the bill, ultimately. You and you and I
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Speaker 1: and the taxpayers, anybody that is paying that income tax
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Speaker 1: or doing business in the city of Cincinnati, we ultimately
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Speaker 1: are the ones that will be paying that bill. And
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Speaker 1: I'm saying... You know, the elections, whether I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: the one, the midterm elections coming up, this should be
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Speaker 1: firing up, in my opinion, voters in Cincinnati to come
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Speaker 1: out and say, hey, we just can't take it anymore.
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Speaker 1: And we've got to make sure we're putting competent people
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Speaker 1: at all levels of government. The last point I want
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Speaker 1: to make is the violence in the city. Why do
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Speaker 1: I have to go to Signal 99 and setting up
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Speaker 1: your commercial, your next interview with Signal 99, why do
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Speaker 1: I have to go to that website to figure out
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Speaker 1: what's going on in the city of Cincinnati? Meaning the
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Speaker 1: major TV stations did not cover the drive-by. Meaning I'm
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Speaker 1: looking on Signal 99 and I'm going, what? These two
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Speaker 1: cars are shooting out of their window? Guess what? You
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Speaker 1: can't find it. in the news, anywhere, right? You would
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Speaker 1: think in a normal way, they would be showing that
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Speaker 1: video on TV so everybody could see it. Do you
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Speaker 1: know why they don't do it? Because they're trying to
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Speaker 1: hide the football like Charlie Brown. We're in the middle
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Speaker 1: of an election and they don't want safety between now
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Speaker 1: and November to be on the ballot. And I understand
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Speaker 1: that my safety is on the ballot, meaning the next
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Speaker 1: governor has a lot of authority Whether it's Faber, who's
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Speaker 1: running for attorney general, or whether it is governor, soon
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Speaker 1: to be governor, Vivek Ramaswamy, they have a lot of
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Speaker 1: assets that they can bring to bear in order to
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Speaker 1: make sure that we hold criminals accountable. in our cities,
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Speaker 1: in our urban cities, mostly accountable. So I hate to
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Speaker 1: act like I'm pushing a conspiracy, but I believe that
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Speaker 1: they're suppressing this kind of stuff on purpose. And if
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Speaker 1: it wasn't for Signal 99, I certainly wouldn't know about it.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have the information that there was a drive-by
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Speaker 1: in our city where people were shooting outside their car
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Speaker 1: right before the election. But those are the kind of
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Speaker 1: things that tell voters, hey, man, I need to get
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Speaker 1: out here and participate, Brian Thomas.
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Speaker 2: Well, without question, although, you know, I think if you
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Speaker 2: poll the people in the greater Cincinnati area in a
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Speaker 2: variety of different neighborhoods, they're painfully aware of the violence
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Speaker 2: that's going on. If you hear gunshots so often that
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Speaker 2: you just ignore them because they happen so frequently, that
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Speaker 2: is an awareness perhaps that more people have than Maybe
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Speaker 2: our media partners out in the world are giving credit
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Speaker 2: because I presume like all media outlets, the local media
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Speaker 2: is very liberal and they have no interest in perpetuating
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Speaker 2: a narrative that isn't, well, favorable to the current purely
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Speaker 2: Democrat administration in the city of Cincinnati and, of course,
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Speaker 2: in Hamilton County.
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Speaker 1: No, no question about it. No question about it. And
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Speaker 1: when you continue to just connect the dots, whether we're
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Speaker 1: talking about Chief Fiji or Chief Washington, right, or the
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Speaker 1: beat down that happened a year and a half ago,
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Speaker 1: as one example, or just the random violence, meaning I've
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Speaker 1: got so frustrated, Brian, when they started trying to measure
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Speaker 1: crime within the murder rate. That is the worst way, right,
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Speaker 1: to say crime is down because murders are down. First
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Speaker 1: of all, every murder is horrible. The petty stuff that's happening,
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Speaker 1: the breaking into cars, the assaults, and the number of
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Speaker 1: people that are being shot, are shot at, right? Those
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Speaker 1: numbers are through the roof. And we have to recognize it.
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Speaker 1: And those, and there's specific neighborhoods, which I don't want
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Speaker 1: to mention, but there's specific neighborhoods, we know where they are,
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Speaker 1: that are being overwhelmed with that random shooting or those
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Speaker 1: random assaults or those break-ins in their cars or break-ins
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Speaker 1: in their homes. You and I know that they're happening
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Speaker 1: across our 52 neighborhoods in the city of Cincinnati. And
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Speaker 1: if they're happening there, Brian Thomas, because of this movement
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Speaker 1: of defund the police, underfund them, reimagine them, no support
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Speaker 1: for law enforcement. That's why the other candidate running against
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Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy. called some portion of law enforcement the KKK.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, just so people understand, I happen
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Speaker 1: to be a black American. My family happens to be
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Speaker 1: from the South. My grandfather, Papa, my grandfather, Granddaddy Otis,
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Speaker 1: his church was burned down by the KKK. My grandfather
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Speaker 1: had a gun in every single corner in his house
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Speaker 1: when I visited him. And he said, we might have
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Speaker 1: a visit. I was born in 1967. We might have
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Speaker 1: a visitor and it could be the KKK. He was
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Speaker 1: always worried about that as a child. And he taught
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Speaker 1: me how to shoot, what window to go to, where
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Speaker 1: to be prepared if that domestic terrorist group showed up
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Speaker 1: to his farm. So I am offended when I hear
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Speaker 1: Amy Atkin comparing law enforcement to a domestic terrorist organization
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Speaker 1: and calling them the KKK. It absolutely makes her a
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Speaker 1: person that no one in the state of Ohio should
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Speaker 1: be voting for. Amen.
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Speaker 2: It brought back your childhood trauma, Christopher. We can't have
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Speaker 2: politicians doing things like that. Christopher Smithman, God love you, man.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, brother.
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Speaker 1: Take care. Follow me on X, at Vote Smithman. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for your time, Brian Thomas, and I'll see you next Monday.
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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure.