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Dr. Steven Erbeck for Congress · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I've been welcome to the fifty five Caarsee Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure not the first time. We'll be talking to
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  Speaker 1: doctor Steven Urbach. He is running for a district one
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  Speaker 1: for Congress and you can find him online at rbek
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  Speaker 1: E rb E c K four that's the word four
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  Speaker 1: congress dot com. Steve Urbeck, Welcome to the fifty five
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  Speaker 1: KRSCESE Morning Show. It's great having you on today, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. I really enjoyed a few weeks
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  Speaker 2: back seeing you at your listener's lunch and meeting some
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  Speaker 2: of the folks that had previously supported and listened to
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  Speaker 2: you for many years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate you being there, and I think it
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  Speaker 1: was a pleasure for me to meet you as well.
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  Speaker 1: And of course you're always invited to listener to lunch.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is. So I'll put a plug in for the
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  Speaker 1: next one, which is going to be at Ron's Roost
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  Speaker 1: Westside on the fourth of February. We do them every
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  Speaker 1: first Wednesday of every month, so an opportunity to meet
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  Speaker 1: some voters and some really active political folks too, Stephen,
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  Speaker 1: because they'll knocked doors and they'll pass out flyers and
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  Speaker 1: they'll have conversations with people. So my listening audits are
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  Speaker 1: great in that regard. So shout out to you in
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  Speaker 1: a candidate that want some help on the streets. In
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, Steven, what you're a doctor of your dentist right,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a fourth generation. Yeah, you're really following with
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  Speaker 1: the family practice.
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  Speaker 2: There no doubt. It's a good thing. I like it, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, four generations of dentistry downtown Mason. My
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  Speaker 2: great grandfather started the practice in nineteen twenty six. So
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  Speaker 2: this year we've got one hundred years of indo our
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  Speaker 2: business and we do have about ten or fifteen patients
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  Speaker 2: to have seen all four generations. So our joke is
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  Speaker 2: if they got their teeth, we must be doing something right.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. I love that motto. Now, in so
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  Speaker 1: far as your motive for running for Congress, what's pushing
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  Speaker 1: you in that direction, because that's not a road I
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  Speaker 1: go down. To be honest with you, Steve, Well.
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  Speaker 2: You're spot on. I had a patient in a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks back and he said, you know, Steve, you are
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  Speaker 2: going from the second most dislike profession to the first
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  Speaker 2: most dislike profession, from dentistry to politics and I said,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for the encouragement. But I had a time
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  Speaker 2: back in college at Ohio State, I had the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to intern on Capitol Hill, and that really was an
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  Speaker 2: eye opening experience. He gave me that knowledge of how
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  Speaker 2: our federal government works, but also that passion for policy
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  Speaker 2: and for public service. So I stayed involved with the
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  Speaker 2: dental associations and pushed, you know, for advocates, for patients
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  Speaker 2: and for consumers of dentistry and all the rest and
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  Speaker 2: our profession. We went to Washington in twenty eighteen and
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  Speaker 2: worked on the opioid issue through the Support Patients in
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  Speaker 2: Act of twenty eighteen, and what that did was kind
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  Speaker 2: of decreased, you know, increased the regulations on opioid addictions
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  Speaker 2: because twenty seventeen, you know, Southwest Ohio has hit really hard,
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  Speaker 2: and so we dropped those regulations down where you know,
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  Speaker 2: on average, people were getting seven days at prescriptions and
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  Speaker 2: navigating three, which is a lot less likely that they
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  Speaker 2: would get hooked on opiates and lead to you know,
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  Speaker 2: ventanyl addictions and.
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  Speaker 1: The rest, no question about it. Sadly, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are turning to the ones they find on the streets,
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  Speaker 1: which are usually counterfeit contained fentanyl and will likely kill you.
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  Speaker 1: So don't go down that road either, Steve. If you
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  Speaker 1: had to choose a topic, and I know you're into
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  Speaker 1: you know, family values, affordable health care, clearly have an
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  Speaker 1: interest in healthcare giving. You're a doctor, our dentist. Savor communities,
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  Speaker 1: protecting the country, and housing affordability, all the issues right
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  Speaker 1: there on your website. If you had to pick a
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  Speaker 1: reason your primary motivation for wanting to run for District
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  Speaker 1: one in Congress, what would it be?
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  Speaker 2: It's to get back to work, to dignified work in
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  Speaker 2: strong families. That's what we need in this country. That's
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  Speaker 2: what's built this country. And I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from the left, you have a full attack on that.
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  Speaker 2: And as Republicans, that's what we need to be the
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  Speaker 2: party of. We need to stick out for the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the young families that are trying to buy a house,
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  Speaker 2: get ahead and live that American dream. My family and
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  Speaker 2: I we've been blessed to live that dream, and I
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  Speaker 2: want that opportunity for others, Brian. But we lead the
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  Speaker 2: leaders in Washington. They can deliver real results, and that
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  Speaker 2: starts with small business owners. That starts with people who
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  Speaker 2: have been out there, who've done real things, who have
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  Speaker 2: families and understand what's going on in the first district.
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  Speaker 2: You know, through this process, I've had a chance to
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  Speaker 2: speak with thousands of voters across the first District, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm starting to get a feel for what it is
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  Speaker 2: that's important to them. So I looked at President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: and you know the things that he got re elected
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  Speaker 2: on the three promises that I saw. We're closing the
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  Speaker 2: southern border, they were addressing the crime and the cities
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  Speaker 2: and the great American cities we've got, and then tamping
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  Speaker 2: down the inflation you know that was caused by the
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  Speaker 2: Biden min So you know, I'm big on the economy.
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  Speaker 2: I think we need to be on shore jobs in
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  Speaker 2: southwest Ohio. You look back to the manufacturing base that
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  Speaker 2: was Ohio and the last turn of the last century
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  Speaker 2: with Longworth Hall and the railway centers there, ak steel
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  Speaker 2: up in Middletown. I mean, these are really good paying,
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  Speaker 2: stable jobs for you know, middle class Americans that led
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  Speaker 2: them to that American dream. And so we can bring
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  Speaker 2: back those semiconductor jobs, we can bring back the pharmaceutical industries,
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  Speaker 2: and that helps us with our national security. Purpose there.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm big on the economy. I'm big on young
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  Speaker 2: families and getting people back into work.
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  Speaker 1: And one of my favorite topics I mentioned several times
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  Speaker 1: this morning, but I typically bring it up the idea
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  Speaker 1: of a quality education. I believe in flexibility, and I
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  Speaker 1: struggle with the idea that there are families out there
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  Speaker 1: with school age children, say K through twelve, that reject
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  Speaker 1: the idea of choice when it comes to where their
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  Speaker 1: children can go to school. I cannot believe that that
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  Speaker 1: is a popular concept. What are you hearing when you're
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  Speaker 1: out in the world asking about education and what potential
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  Speaker 1: education reforms you have?
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  Speaker 2: In Steve, that's spot on, Brian. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was educated at public schools. I went to Mason
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  Speaker 2: all the way through. But I think it's really a
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  Speaker 2: different time. I mean, I have a young daughter. She
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  Speaker 2: just turned one, and so she'll be school aged soon
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  Speaker 2: enough before I know it. And me and my wife
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  Speaker 2: and I are Catholic and we want her to share
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  Speaker 2: those values. And so you know, you have to have
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  Speaker 2: avenues for people. You know, families like ours and other
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  Speaker 2: families who want to send their kids to schools. They
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  Speaker 2: can use the money that they're paying, you know, through
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  Speaker 2: tax fair dollars towards their kids' education. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big proponent of school choice, and I hear
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  Speaker 2: that a lot of folks are concerned with the education
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  Speaker 2: that their kids are getting in the public school system.
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  Speaker 2: And or you know, the kind of indoctrination that's coming
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  Speaker 2: from the left there that you know previously wasn't the
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  Speaker 2: case when I grew up.
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  Speaker 1: And Steve Erbek Erbek for Congress is where you find
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  Speaker 1: them online, Erbek for Congress dot Com Energy policy. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to Americans for Prosperies Donovan earlier about
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  Speaker 1: energy policy, the Speed Act, and ways that we can
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  Speaker 1: streamline the the energy generation and you know, maybe fix
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  Speaker 1: our power line problems. We have constantly increasing demand and
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  Speaker 1: you had a bureaucracy that refuses, seemingly intentionally to allow
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  Speaker 1: us access to abundant, reliable energy sources. Where are you
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  Speaker 1: on energy policy, mister Irbek.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's right. I mean you look at Ohio and
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  Speaker 2: that's you know, it's one of the large national and
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  Speaker 2: natural gas producers in the country, and we have to
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  Speaker 2: you know, deregulate what the Abiden of the Abiden administration
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  Speaker 2: threw up in constant regulation that really hurt oil companies
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  Speaker 2: and exploration and all the rest. We need to open
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  Speaker 2: up those lands where we do have that production. I
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  Speaker 2: really am kind of a free market capitalist at heart
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  Speaker 2: and think the government should stay out of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the business of you know, the economy and letting people
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  Speaker 2: get back to doing their job because that's what small
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  Speaker 2: business owners and big businesses do best. It's drop prices
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  Speaker 2: for consumers. And so, you know, we've got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that these ev manmates and all the things that
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  Speaker 2: were pushed, you know, in that administration really are cut
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  Speaker 2: back so that the free market can get ahead of things. Well.
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  Speaker 1: And the other issue that's really festering out there given
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  Speaker 1: the well the interest rates currently, but they're dropping down
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  Speaker 1: and they aren't nearly as bad as they were when
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  Speaker 1: my wife and I bought our first house. But putting
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  Speaker 1: that aside, I knew similar your energy policy viewpoints are
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  Speaker 1: similar to your policies that encourage affordable housing, like responsible development,
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  Speaker 1: reducing unnecessary regulations, expanding housing supply, which comes when you
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  Speaker 1: reduce unnecessary regulations. And I think about this, and I
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  Speaker 1: talk about your energy your housing policy. I think about California.
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  Speaker 1: They have all those wildfires out there, but they haven't
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  Speaker 1: even put out any permits to build if they could
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  Speaker 1: find the builders. They're not making it easy to build.
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  Speaker 1: That's a nefarious thing, which standing in the way of
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  Speaker 1: affordable housing, not that California was really ever affordable, Steve.
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  Speaker 2: Oh one hundred percent. I mean, you know, the tough
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  Speaker 2: part is that you need to cut these red tape
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  Speaker 2: regulations that have stopped builders from being able to build.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, back in the day, you could afford to
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  Speaker 2: buy a house, send your kids to school, sometimes on
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  Speaker 2: a single job, on a single income, when you know
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  Speaker 2: a significant other could raise the children. And these days,
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  Speaker 2: for my generation, that's becoming ever harder. And what that
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  Speaker 2: does is it delays family formation, that delays child bearing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know this, but it's hard to raise
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  Speaker 2: four kids in a one bedroom apartment, right, Brian. So
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  Speaker 2: the hope is that we can get out there, make
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  Speaker 2: the housing stock a lot bigger for this next generation
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  Speaker 2: and also allow them that next shot at the American dream.
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  Speaker 2: For most folks, housing is you know, their primary investment,
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  Speaker 2: it's a buy into the American dream.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Steven Erbak find him online rbek RB e c
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  Speaker 1: K four Congress dot com help him out. There's a
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  Speaker 1: donate button. I'll encourage my listeners to take advantage of that,
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  Speaker 1: but also to help you take action, spread the word
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  Speaker 1: about your campaign, and you are always welcome here in
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  Speaker 1: the fifty five KRC Morning Show. I feel very confident
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  Speaker 1: that you and I'll be speaking quite a few times
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  Speaker 1: between now in November.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, thanks so much, Brent, take care of
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  Speaker 1: My friend Steven Erbek for Congress eight fifty five fifty
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