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Kevin Gordon in for Brian 7/13/2026 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on
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  Speaker 1: fifty five KOs The Talk Station.
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  Speaker 2: Five minutes after five o'clock fifty five KRC The Talk Station.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for tuning in. I certainly appreciate it. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: if you happen to go to my Facebook page, you'll
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  Speaker 2: notice that every time I'm on, I will post who
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  Speaker 2: my guests are and what is going to transpire Between
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  Speaker 2: now and seven twenty. It's going to be me news
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  Speaker 2: and views. And at seven twenty we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: talking with Christopher Smitherman. He is a former vice mayor
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  Speaker 2: of Cincinnati, and people that tune into this show on
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  Speaker 2: a regular basis you'll know that that is the period
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  Speaker 2: of time when he does his smither vent he will
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  Speaker 2: be on, and after that it will just be you,
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  Speaker 2: me and the phones. And actually right now, you me
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  Speaker 2: and the phones. Seven four nine fifty five hundred one,
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eight
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  Speaker 2: on that at and T wireless phone. Want to remind
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  Speaker 2: you that if you miss any part of the show,
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  Speaker 2: or if you are away from the phone, or you're
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  Speaker 2: away from the radio. You can always catch us live
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  Speaker 2: streaming on fifty five KRC dot com or later on
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  Speaker 2: the podcast will be uploaded and you can listen to
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  Speaker 2: it later on at your leisure. A lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: going on over the weekend. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: if you're just now tuning into the news, you'll find
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  Speaker 2: that Lindsey Graham's seventy one years old, the senator, senior
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  Speaker 2: senator from South Carolina, died over the weekend. Died late
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  Speaker 2: saturd or actually either Saturday night early Sunday morning. Big shock.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk a little bit about that a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit later on.
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  Speaker 2: Also, of course we've got all the different news that
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  Speaker 2: we need to catch up on since the last time
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  Speaker 2: I've been in and so on. But to get started,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to talk a little bit about my weekend.
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  Speaker 2: We had a fantastic weekend. I hope you had the same.
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  Speaker 2: We went to visit our youngest granddaughter. She turned fifteen
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  Speaker 2: years old over the weekend, so we went to visit her,
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  Speaker 2: surprised her with kind of an interesting gift, and had
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  Speaker 2: some great food. Her father is just an absolutely remarkable chef.
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  Speaker 2: He's now in the management area, but he still has
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  Speaker 2: those cooking chops or chef chops, I should say. So
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  Speaker 2: it was a great visit, fantastic food. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: guy treated us like we were I mean, it's like
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  Speaker 2: visiting a five star restaurant. It was just absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of a drive three and a half hours,
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  Speaker 2: but it was a lot of fun interesting. If it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't too bad, I will tell you that the wheels
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  Speaker 2: of the economy are going on very well out there.
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  Speaker 2: You got an awful lot of trucks, an awful lot
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  Speaker 2: of truck traffic, so I can tell you from my aspect,
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  Speaker 2: the wheels of the economy are doing well. Also over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend, and what's unusual is that our son is
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  Speaker 2: a mma officient he watches all the UFC fights and
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  Speaker 2: he was talking about that. Or one of the grand
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  Speaker 2: couple of the grandchi daughters are interested in soccer, so
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  Speaker 2: they were talking about soccer. And quite honestly, I mean
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  Speaker 2: after the US lost, I kind of lost interest in
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  Speaker 2: following the games and all that sort of stuff. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's a little xenophobic on my end, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: you like your team, you like your country, and you
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  Speaker 2: want them to do well. And when they are booted
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  Speaker 2: out and they are you know, basically, well they're eliminated.
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  Speaker 2: And it was not a very good game on the
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  Speaker 2: part of the US. I'm sure a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: have talked about that. But the teams that had shown
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  Speaker 2: up for the two three previous games just sat on
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  Speaker 2: the sidelines. I don't know why you would not show
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  Speaker 2: up for the biggest game of the year, the biggest
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  Speaker 2: game of the tournament and so on. But that aside,
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  Speaker 2: but they wanted to watch what was it, the England
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  Speaker 2: game England played today? Somebody have to refresh my memory,
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  Speaker 2: and then the Argentina game and so on, and so
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  Speaker 2: we had two rounds of that, and then my son
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to watch the UFC fights and with Connor
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  Speaker 2: McGregor and all that sort of stuff and the hype
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  Speaker 2: involved in that. So we'll talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: that as well. It was interesting from the standpoint of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you have your routine, you have the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that you normally do on a regular or basis, and
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  Speaker 2: then when you go on vacation or you go anyplace else,
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  Speaker 2: you kind of knocked off kilter a little bit. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're doing something different, You're waking up in
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  Speaker 2: a different environment. You're waking up in a different place,
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  Speaker 2: and so your routine gets knocked off. I didn't look
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  Speaker 2: at I mean I checked my phone occasionally over the
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  Speaker 2: weekend to see what was going on news wise, and
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  Speaker 2: of course Sunday morning seeing the news about Lindsey Graham.
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  Speaker 2: I caught up on that, caught up on a couple
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  Speaker 2: of other headlines. But the shows that you watch, the
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  Speaker 2: news programs that you watch, the interaction there. Because we
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  Speaker 2: took off it was Friday, Friday afternoon, probably around I
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  Speaker 2: guess it was probably around two o'clock or so three
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  Speaker 2: and as I said, at three and a half hour drive,
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  Speaker 2: we got up there in time for dinner and so on.
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  Speaker 2: But it's that routine that you're used to in terms
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  Speaker 2: of sitting around the you know, at night, and the
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  Speaker 2: stuff that you talk about, the different things that you
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  Speaker 2: programs that you watch we watch. I got it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you probably guessed that I watch a lot of Fox
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  Speaker 2: News and so from those programs and the aspects of that,
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  Speaker 2: and I guess it's kind of a well I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it's too much annoying to my wife, but I'll
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  Speaker 2: watch these shows where they have the panels on and
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  Speaker 2: they'll be discussing the topics and so on, and it's
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  Speaker 2: when they hit a topic and I have a comment
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  Speaker 2: or a thought about it, I'll put the comment out there,
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  Speaker 2: and it's interesting to see how quickly somebody else on
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  Speaker 2: the panel says the same thing that I said. So
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  Speaker 2: at least you know we're in the same church, pew,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera on some of these topics. And I guess
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  Speaker 2: probably one of the overarching themes that we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk a little bit about today too is quite honestly,
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  Speaker 2: after what we have seen during the primaries, in especially
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic primaries, I for the life of me cannot
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  Speaker 2: understand why anybody that has a rational brain has any
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  Speaker 2: type of how should we say, moderate viewpoints, that you're
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  Speaker 2: not a radical lib that you're not a communist and whatever,
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  Speaker 2: that you would actually feel as though that you still
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  Speaker 2: have a home in the Democratic Party. Between the anti Semitism,
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  Speaker 2: the Jew hating and the hatred of Israel, the pro
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  Speaker 2: Palestinian movement and the open borders policies and so on,
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand how anybody could be a Democrat anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And then throw on top of that, we saw this
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  Speaker 2: whole deal in Maine with Graham Platner, and if ever,
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  Speaker 2: it was a situation of where you see how the
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  Speaker 2: spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media, and I call
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  Speaker 2: them that for a reason. They do not do the
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  Speaker 2: news themselves. They are handed talking points, it appears from
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party or from some liberal organization, and then
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  Speaker 2: they regurgitate that to the individual people that are on
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  Speaker 2: their programs or the people that they cater to, and
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  Speaker 2: it's just the regurgitation of talking points. So they are
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  Speaker 2: spoon fed the information and then they regurgitate it. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why I refer to them as the spoon fed
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  Speaker 2: regurgitators in the mainstream media. Everybody was on board with
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  Speaker 2: Grand Platnir. You know, it wasn't enough that he had
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  Speaker 2: some baggage, a lot of baggage with them that they
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  Speaker 2: knew about in terms of PTSD and some tweets and
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  Speaker 2: stuff that he put on Reddit. Then it came out
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  Speaker 2: that he had the Nazi tattoo, and they tried to
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  Speaker 2: deny that, or he tried to deny it. He covered
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  Speaker 2: it up, didn't get rid of it, he covered it up.
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  Speaker 2: So he still has a Nazi tattoo. And yet the
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  Speaker 2: party that keeps calling Donald Trump any Republican, racist, homophobe, Nazi, etc.
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  Speaker 2: They have one in their party that they give their
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  Speaker 2: blessing to he wins the primary. It's okay that he
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  Speaker 2: has a Nazi tattoo. It's okay that he had a
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  Speaker 2: history of sexting that his wife turned into the campaign,
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  Speaker 2: and then that game became a news item where he
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  Speaker 2: was on I can't think of the name of the
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  Speaker 2: whatever the website was, where it basically caters to young
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  Speaker 2: almost teenage girls that he's chatting with them, information about
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  Speaker 2: him being rough with people, almost date raping type of thing, Alcoholism,
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  Speaker 2: his communist statements, going after a veteran, telling a veteran
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  Speaker 2: that he should have died from his wounds. That wasn't
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  Speaker 2: enough for him. It wasn't enough that he had raped
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  Speaker 2: a Republican woman. But the thing that did it for
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats was that he raped a Democrat woman.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the.
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  Speaker 2: Republican. That's okay because you know, she's an operative, she's
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  Speaker 2: you know, we discount what she has to say because
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  Speaker 2: she's a Republican. You can't trust what the Republicans say.
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  Speaker 2: So everything that everything that they've ever accused a republican
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  Speaker 2: of being they have in their party. And the thing
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  Speaker 2: that they kept saying was that, well, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: had some baggage. You know, he had some problems. He
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  Speaker 2: had a dark period of his life, but he's over
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  Speaker 2: that now and he sought help and he's to be
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  Speaker 2: praised for that. The bottom line was, and when they
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  Speaker 2: really boiled down and said what they actually was on
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  Speaker 2: their mind, we need to gain control of the Senate
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  Speaker 2: by any means necessary, which by the way, is a
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  Speaker 2: phrase from the Communist Party, by any means necessary. And
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  Speaker 2: so no matter what it is, whether the person is
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  Speaker 2: anti Semitic, whether he's pro Palestinian, whether he's Nazi, whether
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  Speaker 2: he's a racist, no matter what it is, as long
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  Speaker 2: as we get control of the Senate, that's okay with us.
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  Speaker 2: And quite honestly, I would love to hear somebody like
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  Speaker 2: Greg Landsman, who is Jewish, who is a congressman representing
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  Speaker 2: the districts in a Cincinnati excuse me, in the greater
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati area, how he can justify remaining a Democrat in
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  Speaker 2: the environment five one three, seven nine fifty five hundred one,
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  Speaker 2: on that AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in
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  Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station. Five
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  Speaker 2: twenty in the morning Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: fifty five KRC the talk station. One thing I managed
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  Speaker 2: to bring back with us from our trip was apparently
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: a cold, allergy or something along those lines, but I
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  Speaker 2: got a little bit of plug. I can tell it
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  Speaker 2: a little bit my nose, a little bit my voice
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  Speaker 2: and so on. So bear with me on that. I
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  Speaker 2: think that will go away here shortly. Who knows. But
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  Speaker 2: again we're talking a little bit about the previous segment
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  Speaker 2: talking about the Democratic Party. I just you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that Donald Trump, whether you like him
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  Speaker 2: or not, one of the things that he has been
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  Speaker 2: able to reveal about the Democratic Party is they've shown
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  Speaker 2: who they are. That he has ripped off the cloak,
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  Speaker 2: ripped off the mask, whatever you want to call it,
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  Speaker 2: and drill down to exactly who they are. A TDS
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  Speaker 2: is definitely a condition Trump derangement syndrome. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: what Donald Trump comes up with, that Democrats are against it,
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  Speaker 2: and you go back to Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was
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  Speaker 2: a Nazi. Mitt Romney was a Nazi. Every Republican from
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  Speaker 2: as long as I can remember was a racist, a homophobe,
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  Speaker 2: all these kinds of things. And yet when you look
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  Speaker 2: at the Democratic Party, their racist passed. The Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: the party of racism, and we can discuss that anytime
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  Speaker 2: anywhere you want to. We also know of their ties
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  Speaker 2: to the Nazi Party and the ties to anti Semitic
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  Speaker 2: I guess leanings. Even as far back as World War Two,
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  Speaker 2: FDR turning around a ship that had nine hundred Jews
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  Speaker 2: on board that were trying to immigrate get out of
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  Speaker 2: ahead of Nazi Germany. And they got out of Germany,
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  Speaker 2: but they kept bouncing around. No country would accept them.
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  Speaker 2: They were in the port. FDR sent them back. They
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  Speaker 2: wound up docking in Belgium. But then Belgium eventually and
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  Speaker 2: the Netherlands were eventually over run by the Nazis themselves,
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  Speaker 2: and so they were right back in the thick of things.
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  Speaker 2: Over a third of the people that were on that
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  Speaker 2: ship died during the Holocaust, Thank you very much, FDR.
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  Speaker 2: And then you go through the history of the civil
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  Speaker 2: rights movement, who was on what side of the issue
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats were on the wrong side of that, And
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  Speaker 2: right on down the line you go to even something
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  Speaker 2: as simple as Donald Trump announcing that he was going
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  Speaker 2: to run for president. All of a sudden you had
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  Speaker 2: the Russia Russia Russia hoax, and then, which was a
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  Speaker 2: shock to me. I actually did a podcast about this,
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  Speaker 2: is that how can you have somebody that you're saying
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  Speaker 2: is a communist or ties to Putin or ties to
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  Speaker 2: the Communist Party when you have Obama in twenty twelve
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  Speaker 2: saying to Medvedev the president or prime minister or whatever, that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: could you could you, you know, kind of ease up
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  Speaker 2: a little bit? Can you can you have.
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  Speaker 3: Putin?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of back off a little bit because I'm in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of an election, and once the election's over,
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  Speaker 2: I have more freedom. You had Hillary Clinton going over
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  Speaker 2: there with that stupid button from was Staples, the easy
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  Speaker 2: button that had a translation on it that supposedly said
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  Speaker 2: a new Start, and he said, well, actually you got
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  Speaker 2: the name wrong. So they cater to him. I bet
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  Speaker 2: you know the number of Democrats that probably have Shay
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  Speaker 2: Guavara T shirts in their closets, the number of them
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  Speaker 2: that have never met a Communist that they didn't like,
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  Speaker 2: that has always been part of the Democratic Party, and
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  Speaker 2: now they're very open in terms of their hatred of Jews,
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  Speaker 2: that this whole you know, allowing the arm of and
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  Speaker 2: not tamping it down from the from the river to
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  Speaker 2: the sea, Palestine shall be free, and allowing that nonsense
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  Speaker 2: to go on, lying about the existence of a country
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  Speaker 2: that never existed in the history of mankind, that people
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  Speaker 2: that were never actually a people or a government as
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  Speaker 2: of themselves, that somehow that they are being trampled on.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the history of the Arab countries
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  Speaker 2: towards Israel, it is. And then every time, I mean
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  Speaker 2: every time Trump was tough with the little Rocketman, all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, what side of the media and what
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  Speaker 2: side are the Democrats on? No matter what side Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump is on. Even with the war in Iran which
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  Speaker 2: has occurred since the last time I was on the air,
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  Speaker 2: here the fact that they have taken sides and keep
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  Speaker 2: talking the points and doing the talking points of the
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  Speaker 2: people from Iran, the ministry there talking about that they're winning,
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  Speaker 2: that we're not. I mean, I can go into that
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  Speaker 2: if you want. There's a whole litany of things there
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  Speaker 2: that's a falsehood that even the conservative press aren't talking about.
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  Speaker 2: But again, that's all the stuff that we can talk
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  Speaker 2: about today. But I do want to get into and
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  Speaker 2: talk a little bit about Lindsey Graham before we get
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  Speaker 2: too much further into the program. Phone number seven five one, three,
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  Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: Phone numbers five one, three, seven four, nine fifty five
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  Speaker 2: Since any some local headlines were covering for you this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Since Anty police are investigating what led to a gunshot
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  Speaker 2: victim and the UC Medical Center this last evening, the
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  Speaker 2: victim arrived. The victim arrived just after nine PM officers
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  Speaker 2: were able to find out that the shooting happened along
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  Speaker 2: Burton Avenue in North Avondale neighborhood. Currently, there's no suspect
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  Speaker 2: information at the time no further threats to the general public.
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  Speaker 2: Indiana State Police continue to investigate the shooting death. In Switzerland.
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  Speaker 2: County troopers out of the for Sales Post arrived with
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  Speaker 2: other agencies just before nine pm Saturday night to Bryant's
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  Speaker 2: Creek Road outside of Antioch. That's where they found a
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  Speaker 2: forty eight year old man suffered from gunshot womb. He
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  Speaker 2: was pronounced dead at the scene. They're still investigating that
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  Speaker 2: since any police are in skating the shooting in East
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  Speaker 2: Price Hill. Just after ten Sunday night, en PM officers
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  Speaker 2: reported to a Woodlawn Avenue near Warsaw Avenue intersection. A
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  Speaker 2: man was found with a gunshot wound and promptly rushed
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  Speaker 2: to an area hospital. He is expected to recover. CPD
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  Speaker 2: do not have any details or information on the suspect
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  Speaker 2: at this time, since Anti police continue to search for
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  Speaker 2: the suspect in a fatal Westwood shooting. From Saturday evening,
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  Speaker 2: officers were called to the Glen Way Glen Way Avenue,
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  Speaker 2: Chip Chip pil a my goodness and unbelievable anyway, around
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  Speaker 2: six pm for a person shot. Eighteen year old Shedeen
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  Speaker 2: Coggins was rushed to the hospital but would later die
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  Speaker 2: from his injuries. Chapotle is what I'm trying to say there,
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  Speaker 2: It just spelled wrong. Officers continue to search for the suspect.
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  Speaker 2: If you haven't, if you witnessed any of this, please
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  Speaker 2: can please call the since A Police department at five
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  Speaker 2: one three three, five two three, five four to two.
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  Speaker 2: One employee suffers burns on a chemical explosion in a
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  Speaker 2: Winton Hills factory Friday night. It happened at the Beer
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  Speaker 2: Locker a bear Locker rather USA facility along Highland Ridge
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  Speaker 2: Drive just after ten pm. A company spokesman confirmed that
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  Speaker 2: the workers suffered serious injuries and was taken to UC
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  Speaker 2: Medical Center. As Matt Cruz continued a chemical in look
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  Speaker 2: for the chemicals inside and contain that none of them
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  Speaker 2: were released into the environment. So a lot going on,
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  Speaker 2: and of course with these different shootings it again during
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  Speaker 2: the summer months. It seems that the tempers flare. People
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  Speaker 2: decide they're going to settle their differences with a gun
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  Speaker 2: as opposed to maybe even a fist fight or something
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: along those lines, but the killings continue. A Sunday morning
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: crash and Alexandria leaves a fifty one year old man
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: in critical condition took place around three on Wiley Road
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: early Sunday morning. At three am on Riley Road, officers
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: found would find Span unresponsive. He was transported to UC
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Medical Center with potential life threatening injuries. Alexandria Police are
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: investigating and ask those with information to contact them at
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: eight five, nine, four, six, six, seven nine one three.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: So again, a lot of events over the weekend, none
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: of them, A couple of them not good, A lot
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: of them not good with all the shootings and stuff.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: So anyway, five one three phone numbers five one, three, seven,
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  Speaker 2: four nine fifty five hundred one eight hundred eighty two
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  Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC
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  Speaker 2: the Talk state five forty of the morning. Kevin Gordon
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRS. The talk station.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five
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  Speaker 2: hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound, five
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  Speaker 2: point fifty and that on that iHeart at and t
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  Speaker 2: Wireless fund. I mentioned at the beginning of the show
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: that over the weekend, we were out of town about
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: three and a half hours away, uh, visiting our well,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: our our fifteen Our youngest granddaughter turned fifteen, and so
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: we went to celebrate that birthday with her. And uh,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: again I mentioned that being in a different environment, you
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: you know, you kind of, you know, fall into that
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: trend or whatever. And I had mentioned that the kids,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the daughters were interested in the soccer games. Now I
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: mentioned that after US got beat by Belgium, I kind
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: of lost interest in terms of the games, but they
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: wanted to watch the game. So I was watching that
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: with them because I wanted to spend time with them
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: and all that. Now, our son is into UFC fighting
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: and stuff, and he just watches it on a regular basis.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: He really gets into it. And so the soccer game
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: was pretty much determined, or the games that were on
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: were pretty much over. Well, one of them was over
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: by close to around ten o'clock, and that's when the
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: UFC fights were beginning, and I don't well, I know
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: that I've never watched a UFC fight from beginning to end,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: mainly because usually I'm watching television with my wife and
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: my wife doesn't appreciate watching people beating each other up,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: so that's kind of a non starter there. But because
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: there were two separate TVs and two separate different rooms
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and so on, I was able to do that. And
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I was shocked that my wife actually came in and sat,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: but she I think she was more or less scrolling
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: through the phone when these, at least the last two
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: fights came on, and I guess that if you're going
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: to watch or if I'm going to watch a UFC fight,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: these two were probably the most bizarre fights ever. The
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: first one was and of course the night was billed
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: as a UFC three twenty nine. It was going to
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: be the comeback of Connor McGregor, who hadn't been fighting
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: for five years after he had broken his leg in
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: a prior match five years ago, and the recovery that
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: was necessary for that. But leading up to that, there
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: was a fight that was supposed to well that took place,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: and it was again bizarre. I mean it was. It
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: was bizarre to begin with because I hadn't seen the
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: lead up or the undercards or any of that sort
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: of stuff. It was a fight between Patty Bimlett and
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Benoit Saint Denis. And this was Patty Bimlett. Now he's
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: from I believe he's from Ireland or from England or whatever,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: but bouncing back from his first loss since twenty eighteen,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: it only took him fifty two seconds. They talked about
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: the most stunning outcome of Saturday Night, the always entertaining
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Englishman Benoit Saint Dennis was put to sleep via the
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Rcha choke in less than a minute. It was the
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: second fastest the arch choke a submission in UFC history,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: only to Kyle to Cause to Cause in fifty seconds. Now,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: what was bizarre is that this Bano went in for
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: a through a kick, went in to try to get
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: a takedown, but he got into this headlock from this
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: guy Pimblot and what they call the guillotine, and he
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: had him in that. They rolled over a couple of
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: times and then he pressed down and basically he put
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: the guy to sleep. I don't think he even threw
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: a punch at all. And this guy was out and
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: the way the referee jumped in, I mean he was
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: right on top of it. I got to give credit
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: to these guys, because you know, if somebody passes out
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: from being choked, obviously they can die or whatever. But
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: it was incredible to watch, and I'd never seen anything
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: like that. It was very shocking to me, but at
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: the same time kind of entertaining. Five one three, seven
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  Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr
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• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs. The talk
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: station phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty,
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound
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• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I mentioned that, you know, again, over the weekend we
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: were out of town and into a routine that not
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: normally we do, and one involved watching a UFC fight,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: which I have never watched before, and I actually watched
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: my first two over the weekend and it was interesting.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Interesting to say the least. I had mentioned the previous
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: segment about this brash englishman who really I mean, he's
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: always entertaining, took down a guy by the name. The
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: fighter's name was Patty Pimblet took down Benoi's Saint Denis
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: and this what they call the guillotine move, with a
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: compression to the neck, took him down in fifty two seconds.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: The guy passed out, and of course the ref had
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: to jump in and I got a handed to the ref.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, he was right there on top. He saw
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: that the guy had him in a position and had
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: been clamping down and was holding him. And the ref
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: came over and you know, make sure that he grabbed
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: the guy's arm to see if it was limp and
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: it wasn't. Boom, he cut the fight off immediately, and
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: it was It was shocking. I mean, I just amazing
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: to see something like that that quickly. But then the
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: headline of the entire night of this UFC three twenty
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: nine was supposed to be the return of Connor McGregor,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: who's one of the very famous one of the most
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: famous UFC fighters, hadn't fought in five years, hadn't fought
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: since broke his leg in a loss to Dustin Porier
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, And they showed before the fight
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: all of the rehab that he had done, all the
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: stuff that he had been going through in order to
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: return after this horrible injury. Now, in the lead up
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: to the fight, McGregor had done dozens of interviews talked
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: about what a changed man he was. I mean, he
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: had dedicated himself to religion and rededicated himself to training again.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: They talked about how his previous years when he was
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: fighting prior to twenty twenty one, that he kind of
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: had questionable training techniques or whatever, and public behavior including
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: several legal issues, so kind of the bad boy of
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: the sport, so to speak. But when he got into
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: the ring, he tried to do this flying kick right
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: from the start and his right now his leg that
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: was broken was his left leg, and it was his
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: right knee that buckled, and he went down and people
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: thought he had slipped and fallen fallen, and he pretty
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: much got right back up. And then as he started
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: approaching the guy, he looked like he slipped and fell again.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: The guy was on top of him, hitting him, hitting
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: him several times and it looked like, I don't know what,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: but instead of having his fist clinched, his fist or
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: his hands were kind of open and he was kicking
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: trying to get out of it. But we find out
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: after the fight that he couldn't stand on his leg
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: and to the benefit of his opponent, Max Holloway. Max Holloway,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: you could tell he was as he was, uh, you know,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: pounding him. You know, it wasn't like he was you know,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: he was laying landing some effective blows, but not to
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: the point of knocking him out. Most of a lot
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: of them were blocked. But he could tell that something
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: was off and he kept looking at the ref like
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: are you gonna call this? Something's wrong here? And then
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: what is unusual in UFC fighting. McGregor was on the
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: ground and this guy could have easily gotten on top
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: of him and just started pounding away at him and
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: had the fight called. But he backed off and he
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: was like, all right, get up, And apparently during that
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: period of time, McGregor was saying fight, fight, and he
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: was going, well, okay, if you want to fight, then
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: get up and fight, and he went backed off and
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: McGregor got up and his knee buckled again and that's
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: when the referee stopped to fight now again. To Max
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Holloway's credit, he didn't pumble the guy, He didn't really
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: pound on the guy. One of the things he mentioned
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: after the fight was that Connor McGregor's kids were in
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: the front row and he didn't want his kids to
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: see him getting pummeled horribly, and so he figured he'd
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of backed off. And you know, in
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: some of the recaps that I've seen of UFC fights
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: of where when these guys have somebody on the ground,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is just wailing away, wailing away and
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: wailing away, blood going everywhere, and this could have been
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: the situation then, But I thought it was quite the
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: gentlemanly move to get him to get up, to show
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: the referee that he couldn't continue. And it was, of
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: course everybody leaving that people were shocked, and everybody was
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: talking about it all day Sunday and stuff. But anyway,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: that's one of the things I did Saturday night. Coming up,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: we'll get into some news of the day, talk a
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: little bit about Lindsey Graham coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas fifty five k SEE the Talk.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Station and now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: on fifty five KOs the Talk Station.
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• 34:36
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• 34:51
  Speaker 2: If you check out my Facebook page cleverly named Kevin Gordon,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: where I usually not usually every time i'm in I
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: will post on Facebook who my guests are in the
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: lineup for the day. And really the only thing we've
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: got going on this morning is at seven twenty to
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: seven fifty five we're going to be talking to Christopher Smitherman,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: former Vice mayor of Cincinnati, the weekly smither Event. I'm
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: looking forward to that. He and I have only chatted
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: a couple of times on Mondays when I filled in,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: which I'm really cool. But between now and then, it's
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: basically as I call it, news and Views, and well
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: a few opinions, because as you know, I have an opinion,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not afraid to use it. If you want to
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: check out what's going on or whatever, I'm head over
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: my Facebook page. It gives the summary and so on.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I posted some stories there. I've been kind of relaxed
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: on Facebook here recently. I probably need to up that
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: a little bit, but it's been kind of an interesting
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: news cycle and stuff going on. Of course, you may
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: know that I host America's Truck and Network on our
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: sister station every two Tuesday through Friday, and so it's
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: you know, you get into a certain genre and you
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: start looking at that news more than others. But of
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: course I always keep up with the news. I was
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: listening to some people over the weekend, we actually early
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: on this morning talking about coming back from vacation. And
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I have never had a situation where I went on
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: vacation where I didn't at least read a newspaper check
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: on what's going on, because so much can happen within
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: a one week, one day period of time. I mean,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: who would think going to bed Saturday night that you
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: would wake up the next morning and find out that
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: somebody like Lindsey Graham dies of a heart attack at
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: the age of seventy one. Who would think that, you
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: know that some of the events that we have seen,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: whether it's been a acts on the Strait of horror moves,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: or would occur overnight, and that you're not aware of
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: that when you're on vacation, or that you're not paying
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: attention to it. It only takes a little while just
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: to kind of keep updated on some of the news
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: and stuff. And especially what kind of shocked me is
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: that these talk show hosts, they were talking about the
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: fact that, you know, they try to get away from
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: the news when they're on vacation. You know, I've always
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: taken the impression or taken the stance being behind the
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: microphone and a talk show host is that you were
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: doing one of two things. You're either doing show prep
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: or you're on the air, and you're not necessarily show
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: prep in the sense that you're reading every news article.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, you look at a news you look at
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: the headline, and you say, and you make the determination
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: is that going to carry water? Is that going to
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: carry more than a news cycle or two? And will
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: it be relevant when I come back from vacation, you
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: push that off to the side. But also the part
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: of a show prep is actually living, observing what's going on,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: having commentary on the day, commentary on local events or
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: events of wherever you happen to be. If you're on vacation.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: The tips are information about that particular location or things
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: that you've observed people doing, whether it's driving down the
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: road in a different state or a different highway or
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: in a different area where you normally don't drive. People
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: that are familiar with me know that on a regular basis,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: my wife and I drive up to Columbus, Ohio, where
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I was born, where I'm from, and there's a pizza
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: place up there that we both love. I love it.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: I've been eating that pizza all my life. And so
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: about once a month we'll drive up to Columbus on
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: a Friday afternoon or a Saturday afternoon, have dinner, and
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: then drive back. And so I'm familiar with that Stretcher road,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: a Stretcher road that I'm really not all that familiar with.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: I drive it, you know, periodically, is I seventy five
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: north towards the Dayton area, and occasionally down to Louisville
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: or even as far as Nashville, but that's only like
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: once a year or twice a year, so it's not
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: something that I'm familiar with. So part of observing in
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: terms of being out on the road or observing life
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: as it goes by as stuff to talk about. You
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: talk about the difference in driving certain stretches of highway,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: even the type of people that are on one stretch
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: of highway versus another, how much the traffic is flowing,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: how much truck traffic there is, And again, doing hosting
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: America's Struck A Network, I'm a lot more tuned to
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: what is going on in the trucking industry. I've listened
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: to that show a long time as a recovering accountant
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: that I am. Whenever I drive at night or something
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: like that late at night coming back from my parents'
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: house when I go up and visit them on the
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: weekends and come back or whatever, I'd listen to the show.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: So I'm pretty much familiar with the trucking industry. I
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: had clients that were in the trucking industry, so I
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: was aware of that. But when you when you're talking
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: about the economy, when you see about the economy, and
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: we had the news. At the top of the hour,
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: they were talking about what business reports are going to
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: be going on this week, what information is going to
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: be released as far as the economy is concerned. Part
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: of the economy and part of show prep. Noticing how
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: many trucks are on the road, knowing that on a Sunday,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: after a Friday afternoon, Sunday afternoon thereabouts, seeing the amount
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: of traffic that's on the highway. You know, on Saturday
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: and Sunday, or on Friday and Saturday, you're going to
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: see a lot of people out on vacation. And I
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: observe license plates to see where people are from, where
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: the cars are from. Now, of course, you know, if
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: it's a rental car, you don't know any idea where
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: the people are actually from. But when you see the
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: amount of traffic on the road, you kind of indicate that, Okay, well,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: the economy must be doing somewhat well because people are traveling,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: they're on vacation. It seems that a lot of people
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: that I know are on vacation over the last couple
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: of weeks. Obviously, Joe Strecker's on vacation, Brian Thomas is
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: on vacation. I think Joe will be back tomorrow. But again,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: you know that people are on vacation. As a matter
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: of fact, a couple of people that I had lined
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: up to talk or to be guests on the program today,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: they had to bail because they said, well, yeah, I
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: can do that because I'm going to be out of town.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be on vacation and I can take
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: a couple of minutes or whatever. But their schedule changed
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: or they I don't know if their their wife got
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: on them about working while they're on vacation. But anyway,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: those fell through, which is okay because I've got lots
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: to talk about that I want to talk about. But again,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: observing what's going on, and so I don't understand how
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: some of these people will actually come back to the
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: job and say, gosh, you know, I'm gonna have to
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: get caught up on the news. I don't know what's
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: going on. I didn't pick up a newspaper, I didn't
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: listen to any news or whatever. Because again, all part
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: of what you're doing, as far as whether you're on
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: vacation or not, observing things in terms of content for
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: your show, show, prep et cetera. So again, talking about
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: what I did over the weekend, again, watching UFC fights
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: that I never watched before, not a UFC aficionado, my
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: granddaughters wanting to watch soccer and spending time with them
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: and watching the soccer games even though the US is
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: no longer in it. So again, some of these things
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: that you observe, and when you're in a different city,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: things that you observe as far as what is going
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: on in that particular city. So again, just kind of
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: experiencing thing. Now. One of the things that I want
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: to talk about too is that, let's not forget Burger
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Week is this week, which is great because one of
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: my favorite foods, well, you know, you always have me
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: at Burger's pizza and certain Chinese food, So any of
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: those that are on the menu, and if that's available,
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: I'm in. I'm there, I'm ready to go. So it's
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: going to be interesting. I was doing some show prep
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: last night before I went to bed, and I noticed
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: that it was Burger Week, and I didn't have a
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: chance to talk to my wife about that. So I'm
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: sure she's going to want to get online and check
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: a couple places out to see where we might want
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: to go this week. And who's got the best deals
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: and so on, So it's going to be a lot
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: of fun. Of course, you know, I love to eat,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: and I don't deny the fact that I love to eat,
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: so and when he comes to pizza and Burger's, I'm in.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: So that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Talking
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: a little bit about Lindsey Graham coming up when we
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: get back, but sad, sad information about him anyway. Phone
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  Speaker 2: when I got up and it was just, you know, again,
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  Speaker 2: even though out of town, kind of relaxing over the
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  Speaker 2: weekend and so on, visiting our fifteen year old daughter,
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  Speaker 2: our granddaughter, youngest granddaughter who turned fifteen and for her
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: birthday celebration and everything, and just you know, just up
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: in the morning, just checking my phone and scrolling through
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: some of the headlines. Shocked to learn and just absolutely
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: amazed that Lindsey Graham died. And it was all the
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: stories that were coming out in the different timelines and
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: where he was, where he was coming from. He had
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: just been in Kiev and talking to Vodimore Zelensky and
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: talking about how they could end or what needed to
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: be done to end the war between Russian Ukraine. The
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: long airplane trip and what is about sixteen hours or
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: so there about back to Washington, DC, hits the ground,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: gets to his I don't know if he called on
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: the way to his home or if he was at
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: home talking to President Trump and Trump talking about later
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: on we'll get into that a little bit, but he
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: said he seemed like he was tired and he was
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: going to go to bed and so on. He had
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: to get up in the morning to go to a
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: meet the Press. He was scheduled to be on Meet
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: the Press on Sunday morning, and shortly after he talked
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: to President Trump sometime around I think they talked somewhere
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: around seven thirty eight o'clock or whatever. The emergency vehicles
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: came to his residence somewhere around Tennis thereabout and took
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: him to the hospital and apparently he had died of
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: a well they're saying now, a massive heart attack. So
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: just like that. I mean, you know, you're here one
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: minute and you're gone the next, which is a shock.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: And as I started reading some of the stories about
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: him and read about what led up to this and
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: so on, of course, you know the first initial stages
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: they were talking about, oh, you know, being a high
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: profile individual and being involved in the Russia Ukraine, trying
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: to broker that piece or try to get the sides
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: together on that. And if he's in Ukraine, obviously that
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: would not make the Russians happy, you know, did the
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Russians poison him? There was a targeting of Lindsey Graham
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: years ago and even recently from Iran that said he's
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: one of the top ten people that they want to assassinate.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: So there was all those rumors floating around, and of
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: course prior to the weekend President Trump coming back on
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: Air Force One. Of course, the diversion of the plane
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: from one location to another and then on the way
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: back may have been legitimate, may have been precautionary, may
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: have been a security issue, whatever. We may not know.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: But the people on the on board were questioning him about,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: you know, why did you change planes? Why are you
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: on the old Air Force one as opposed to new
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Air Force one? And the story was that New Air
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Force one was at an air Force base and that
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: the troops were getting a chance to see it and
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: all this. But again they kept pressing him, well there
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: were security concerns, are you concerned about certain things? And
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: he goes, well, you know, I am on their hit list,
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: and kind of off the cuffs said, you know, at
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: this stage, you know, if I die, you die kind
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: of thing. If the plane goes down, you go with me.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: And so that was kind of interesting that that intrigue
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: was out there. And then of course, you know again
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: all the rumors. You know, when when something initially happens,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: you have people on one side saying one thing all
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: and you have the conspiracy theorists and you have all
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: this kind of stuff, and generally it's a good idea
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: to kind of step back, you know, unless you're on
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: the air at that particular time and need to address it,
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: but you address it in a way of Okay, here
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: is what we know. Here is what we don't know.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Here are some of the things that are being talked about,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: and we can kind of discuss those, but we don't
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: want to give too much weight to him until we
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: actually know what the situation is. So again, with word
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: of caution on that, I'm going to be talking about
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: some things here and maybe a little bit about well
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: not maybe, but a little bit about his background, some
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: of the things you may not have known about him,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: some of the complicated issues that he had with Donald
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Trump from the past, and one of some of the
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: stuff behind the scenes of what he was actually working
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: on leading up to his death. Because this is a
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: guy that, obviously, if you follow any bit of politics,
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: you know about Lindsey Graham. You've known about how he's
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: questioned certain people during committees, committee hearings. You know that
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: he's been on a lot of the talk shows. He's
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: been a regular and was a regular on meet the press,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: and very outspoken, very opinionated. You either like him or
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: you hate him. A lot of the stuff that he
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: would say once in a while, I'd kind of go, Lindsey,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: you know, you're kind of going a little bit off
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: track here. I'm not sure that I can agree with that.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: But again, with most people, you're not going to agree
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: with anybody one hundred percent of the time. As Ronald
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Reagan used to say, if you agree with somebody seventy
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: five percent of the time, that makes you a seventy
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: five percent friend, not a twenty five percent enemy. And
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: so you work together on the stuff that you agree with,
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: and then you fight like hell on the stuff that
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: you disagree with. But Lindsey Graham was one of those
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: guys where sometimes he'd really say something, say something that
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: really pissed me off, and then other times it was like, yeah,
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: I agree with that. Yes, I think he's been taking
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: a very strong stance on this. But the one thing
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: that he never waivered on was to be They called
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: him a warmonger. I would call him an individual who
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: wanted the United States interests protected and if we had
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: to show our strength as opposed to our weakness. He
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: was in favor of that. We'll talk a little bit
• 51:32
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• 52:19
  Speaker 2: reported to a Woodlawn Avenue near Warsaw Avenue intersection. A
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: man was found with a gunshot wound and promptly rushed
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  Speaker 2: to the area hospital. He is expected to recover. Since
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  Speaker 2: at Police Department do not have any information on the
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  Speaker 2: suspect at this time. Since s Anti Police continue to
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: search for the suspect in a fatal Westwood shooting from
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: Saturday evening, officers were called to Glenway Avenue Chipotle around
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: six pm for a person shot. Eighteen year old sdid
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: Coggins was rushed to the hospital, but he would later
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: dive from his injuries. Officers continue to search for the suspect.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: If you witness the shooting, you are asked to call
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  Speaker 2: since At police at five to one, three three five
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  Speaker 7: Four to two.
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  Speaker 2: Eighteen years old. Unbelievable, unbelievably sad since a police are
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: investigating what led to a gunshot victim UC Medical Center
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: last evening. Uh The victim arrived just after nine pm
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: and officers were able to find out that shooting happened
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: along Burton Avenue in North Avondale neighborhood. There currently is
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: no suspect information at this time, nor further threats to
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: the general public. Indiana State Police continue to investigate his
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: shooting death. In Switzerland, County troopers out of the Versailles
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: posts arrived with other agencies just before at nine pm
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Saturday night to Bryant's Creek Road outside of Antioch. That's
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: where they found a forty eight year old man suffered
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Indiana State Police and Versales is leading this investigation. One
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: employee is suffered burns in a chemical explosion in a
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Winton Hills factory Friday night. It happened at the bare
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Locker USA facility along Highland Ridge Drive just after ten pm.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: A spokesman for the Let Me See A company spokesman
• 54:27
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• 54:31
  Speaker 2: a UC medical center. Has met crews contained the chemical inside.
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  Speaker 2: None of it was released into the environment, which is
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: good news for the area surrounding that area as well.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: But it is just.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Shocking the number of shots people shooting each other. Three
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: stories just in local news. A Sunday morning crash in
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Alexandria Le's a fifty one year old man in critical
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: condition took place around uh three a m. On Riley Road.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Officers would find this man unresponsive. He was transported to
• 55:09
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• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Police are investigating and anybody with information is asked to
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: call the Alexandria Police Department. Again, not good news as
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: far as shootings over the weekend and over the last
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  Speaker 2: Six thirty eight Morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we'll have the weekly smither Vent, which I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to. I think I've I know, I've talked
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: to him a couple of times, and particularly on a Monday,
• 1:00:38
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• 1:00:41
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, getting back to Lindsey Graham. Now, the latest
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: on this is again Lawmaker Lindsay Grants Graham, South Carolina
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: lawmaker seventy one, died of a ruptured according to the
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Medical Examiner, died from a ruptured a order brought on
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: by chronic heart disease, according to preliminary examination findings for
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: the DC Office of the Medical Examiner. Graham's communication director
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Taylor Reedy, shared the Medical Examiner's political preliminary findings on
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: X on Sunday, July actually last night. His death was
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: officially listed as a ortic dissection due to arterial scloratic
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: cardiovascular disease. The death certificate will be pending until of
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: toxicology and microscopic techting testing are finalized, and at that
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: point the death certificate will be updated to reflect any
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: of the information. Now they talk about how his rise
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: grew up in small town in central South Carolina, became
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: an influential vote a voice on foreign policy throughout the years.
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  Speaker 2: He was elected the House of Representatives nineteen ninety four,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: having previously served as an Air Force lawlawyer. After being
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: elected to the Senate in two thousand and two, he
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: went on to a brief presidential campaign in twenty sixteen.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: At the time, he was a sharp critic of front
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: runner Donald Trump, writing on X if we nominate Trump,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: we will get destroyed and we will deserve it. But eventually,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: as you know, he came around and became a very
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: avid Trump supporter, And I guess it's a matter of
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: getting to know Donald Trump and understanding where he's coming
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: from and the fact that he is America first. On
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  Speaker 2: true social Post. Shortly after his death, President wrote Senator
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  Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and senators I
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  Speaker 2: have ever known is dead. He was always working. He
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  Speaker 2: was a true American patriot, Lindsey will be greatly missed.
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  Speaker 2: Details and arrangements to follow, So sad President Donald J. Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He was recently serving as the chairman of the Senate
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  Speaker 2: Budget Committee and was seeking a six year term in
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. In November, he beat his opponent numerous opponents
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  Speaker 2: in the primary in South Carolina and was kind of
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  Speaker 2: the odds on favorite to win that again win that election.
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  Speaker 2: Just days before his trip, he was meeting with As
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, he was coming back from a
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  Speaker 2: trip after visiting Ukrainian President Volodimyir Zelensky and Kiev. He
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  Speaker 2: had texted previously on X or posted earlier on text
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  Speaker 2: good meeting with Actually this came from Vladimir Zelensky. Good
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  Speaker 2: evening with a good meeting with US Senator Lindsey Graham.
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  Speaker 2: Zelensky wrote on X on Friday, July tenth. He is
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  Speaker 2: already his tenth visit to our country and we appreciate
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  Speaker 2: his support. I'm grateful to Lindsay for recognizing our warriors.
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  Speaker 2: Graham was scheduled to discuss the trip in his stance
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  Speaker 2: on NBC Meet the Press, and of course that is
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  Speaker 2: just you know, kind of a brief update there. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get a little bit more into some of the well, actually,
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  Speaker 2: right from the bat, you know, having just come back
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  Speaker 2: from Kiev, the discussion is whether or not he had
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  Speaker 2: been poisoned, whether it was a Ran or whether it
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  Speaker 2: was the Russians, whether it was a hit job or
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: something along those lines. Of course, with tossicology reports and
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: so on, microscopic biology tests and so on, will know
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  Speaker 2: much more in the coming days, but at least preliminarily
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  Speaker 2: it looked like a aortic you know, ruptured aortic vain
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  Speaker 2: artery rather and there are stories about the fact that
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  Speaker 2: his father had died of a similar death from heart
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  Speaker 2: disease at age sixty nine, so Lindsey was very well
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  Speaker 2: aware of that and was, you know, seeing doctors to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that, you know, his heart was in order.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's interesting that, you know, being on that long
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  Speaker 2: of a flight, you would, I hope, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: we have seen instances where people have different diseases, and
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  Speaker 2: especially if they're subject to blood clots and so on,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that you need to move around and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: during the flight he got up and moved around a lot,
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  Speaker 2: because there have been instances where people have been in
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: a certain seated position for a long period of time,
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  Speaker 2: and when then they get up, they throw a blood
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: clot which kills them. And so if you've got this
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: heart disease, you know, you're hoping that he was medicated
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: and making sure that he was his medications were all
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: in order, and that he was in good shape or
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: relatively good shape along the flight and so on. But
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  Speaker 2: a sad, sad day as far as that is concerned,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: going to be missed in the Senate, and we'll talk
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: a little bit more about what his final days were
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  Speaker 2: up to and some of the things he was trying
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  Speaker 2: to accomplish before he died. That all coming up here
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  Speaker 2: shortly right now. But by the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven,
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  Speaker 2: four nine, fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two
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  Speaker 2: three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two
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  Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR.
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  Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See the
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  Speaker 2: talk station. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine,
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  Speaker 2: fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk
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  Speaker 2: one eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound,
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  Speaker 2: five point fifty at and T wireless phone. And again
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: we're talking a little bit about Lindsey Graham here, talking
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  Speaker 2: about his passing. It's really sad. I mean, you know,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: the more and more you dig into it, the more
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  Speaker 2: you learn about it, and so on. We touched on
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  Speaker 2: briefly and again you know, these these talk this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whenever somebody dies unexpectedly, I mean, he was not expected
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: to die. There was no indication that he was suffering frond,
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  Speaker 2: long term illness that we knew about. But with dying
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  Speaker 2: like that, and especially coming back from Kiev where he
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  Speaker 2: had been with Volodomor's Zelensky, and as they said, this
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  Speaker 2: was his tenth time since the start of the Russian
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  Speaker 2: invasion to Ukraine in February of twenty twenty two, and
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  Speaker 2: so the fact that this was his tenth trip there
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  Speaker 2: was core speculation about Russia's involvement now kind of supporting
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: some of these conspiracy theories. While the Russian angle dominates
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: Eastern European discourse, the second equally virulent wave from conspiracy
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  Speaker 2: theories pointed correly at Iran. Graham was arguably one of
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  Speaker 2: the most vociferous anti Iranian hawks. Hawks on Capitol Hill
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  Speaker 2: spent decades advocating for the total isolation of Tehran and
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  Speaker 2: consistently pushing for military action to dismantalist ballistic missile system
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: and nuclear programs, which quite honestly, I don't understand why
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: everybody else wasn't doing that as well. Now on Iranian
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: state television announced his death in openly celebratory language, describing
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: him as a war mongering and anti Iranian US senator
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: and congratulating Iran on his passing. Now, he had been
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: reportedly threatened by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Has Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: They do have their hit list. As a matter of fact,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: during the burial of Komayanee last week, there was a
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: banner there talking about assassination of Donald Trump. So this
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: isn't something to just sneeze at. Now, again, getting to
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: the Kiev and the Russia connection they talk about. Days earlier,
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  Speaker 2: Graham had announced progress with the Trump administration on sanctions
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  Speaker 2: package targeting Russia, reinforcing the reputation is reputation in one
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  Speaker 2: of the congress most vocal critics of Moscow. Some commentators
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  Speaker 2: pointed to what they described as Russia's well documented history
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  Speaker 2: of using specialized nerve agents and radioactive poisoning to kill
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: prominent adversaries. Now, some of the people that were talking
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: about and Chime talked about Lindsey Graham. NATO's Secretary General
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: Mark Ruti described him as a powerful advocate for America
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  Speaker 2: who believed deeply in the Alliance and worked to help
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: in Russia's war against Ukraine. Former NATO chiefs Yun's Stoltenberg
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: similarly praised his steadfast commitment to the alliance. European LADO
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: leaders all echoed those sentiments. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, and
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  Speaker 2: Germany all highlighted Graham's unwavering backing for NATO's eastern flank
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  Speaker 2: and his support for Ukraine as the Russian invasion entered
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  Speaker 2: its fifth year. So a lot of praise coming in
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  Speaker 2: from Lindsay Graham. And we'll talk a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: about that coming up. So sad news out of South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: And again, the official cause of death at this point
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: is that a ordic section due to arterial scloratic cardiovascular disease.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: So again phone numbers five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
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  Speaker 2: fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three Talk one,
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound,
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  Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon
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  Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see the talk.
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  Speaker 1: Station, and now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas
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  Speaker 1: on fifty five KOSS the Talk Station.
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  Speaker 2: Five minutes after seven o'clock. Thank you so much for
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: being there. I certainly appreciate it. Can squeeze in some
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: phone calls between now and seven twenty when we talk
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: to Christopher Smitherman, former Vice mayor of Cincinnati, for his
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: smither event. But if you want to jump on board
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  Speaker 2: real quick phone numbers five one, three, seven four nine, fifty,
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  Speaker 2: five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one,
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred A two three eight two, five five pound,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. We've been
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  Speaker 2: talking briefly a lot about the passing of Lindsey Graham,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: which was a shock to everybody. As I mentioned, I
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: was out of town of the weekend and on Sunday
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: morning just got up, you know, because I usually scroll
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  Speaker 2: through that. Yeah, you know, people brag about being away
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: and being on vacation and not paying attention to the news.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you do that because of the news,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: and I don't know how people make the comment I
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: don't follow politics, because the fact is politics follows you,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: and so you need to know who's following you, basically.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: But I've always kept tracking news as a kid, as
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: a young adult, and even today. So again, I don't
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: know what it's like to be away from the new
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: and not know what's going on. But I got up
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: and I was just kind of puttering around the house.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: We were out of town visiting our son, our granddaughter.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: Youngest granddaughter turned fifteen over the weekend, so we were
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: there for that. But I'm scrolling to the headlines and boom,
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  Speaker 2: right there. Lindsey Graham dying seventy one years old after
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: returning from Kiev after a meeting with Vlodomoor's Lensky and
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: trying to secure more funding for the Ukrainian War and
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: hopefully trying to broke or some sort of deal, and
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: of course the speculation as to whether or not there
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: was any poison involved from Russia or whether Iran, because
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: he was an outspoken critic of Iran for decades talking
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: about that they need to rein in the ballistic missile
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: systems there all along and they say they've reported that
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: Iran has a hit list, and Lindsey Graham I think
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: was number three on the list. I'm not sure who
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  Speaker 2: number two is, but I know number one is Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: That is not nothing to sneeze at or take lightly.
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  Speaker 2: So there was speculation about that. But apparently it was
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  Speaker 2: an a ortic dissection is what they called it. And
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  Speaker 2: uh it was a short well heart attack or cardiac
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  Speaker 2: arrests what they called a.
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  Speaker 1: What do they call that?
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  Speaker 2: A ordered dissection or something along those lines I called.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: I talked about that in the previous segment, but I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to talk about here briefly. Yeah, a ordic this
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  Speaker 2: section due to arterioscleoratic cardiovascular disease. But some of the
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: things about him, and there was some stories I was
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: I was looking at, and what was interesting is that
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: there was a story that said five things you need
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: to know about Lindsay Graham, and I thought, oh, that
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: might be something to click on. And what was interesting
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: that it was a story. And I guess when you
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: you know, most news agencies, news outlets have what they
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: basically have for most prominent people, they already have an
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: obituary file on file about that person, so that in
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: the event something happens, they can just pull it out
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: and talk about it and so on. Well, on this
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: you would think five things to know about Lindsey Graham.
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  Speaker 2: It would be recent things, and maybe the file would
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: be updated and some of the things would be inserted
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  Speaker 2: in there. But I don't think apparently they expected him
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  Speaker 2: to die, because they some of the original reporting was
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: really weird. But one of the articles that I saw
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: five things you should know about Lindsey Graham. The date
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: of this story was May thirty first, twenty fifteen. Now,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: there are some interesting things in here. They talk about
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: the fact that Graham's parents died within fifteen months of
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: each other. When he was in college, he came home
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: on weekends to spend time with his sister, eventually adopting
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  Speaker 2: her so that she could take advantage of his military
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  Speaker 2: benefits because he entered the Air Force and had a
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  Speaker 2: career there I think thirty some years in the Air
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  Speaker 2: Force that rose to the level of colonel in the
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  Speaker 2: Air Force, and throughout his career as an attorney as
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: a lawyer in the Air Force had you know, the
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  Speaker 2: medical benefits for his sister until she, you know, was
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  Speaker 2: of age, and so they talked about how devoted he
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  Speaker 2: was to his sister and how he was a very good,
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  Speaker 2: well substitute parent for her that you know, they talked
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: about how he was on the stage of prominence during
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: the Clinton impeachment proceedings. They talked about that he had
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: recently now this is in twenty fifteen, they had recently
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  Speaker 2: retired from the Air Force. He was fifty nine years
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: old at the time, and they require you and the
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  Speaker 2: Air Force to retire at age sixty. So he'd put
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  Speaker 2: his papers in for that and retired after thirty years
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: in the military. Again at constant Obama agitator, and he
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: claimed when he ran for president in twenty fifteen that
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: he had never sent an email, because everybody, you may recall,
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  Speaker 2: at that time, everybody was talking about Hillary Clinton's server
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  Speaker 2: and the emails that were sent, the number that were
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: sent on a private server as opposed to that as
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of State and so on. So a lot of
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: the controversy back then. But he claimed in twenty fifteen
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  Speaker 2: that he had never sent an email. Now, one of
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: the interesting things too. Before we get to Christopher Smitherman
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: here in a few minutes, the fact that in the
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: final weeks, it was laying groundwork for an ambitious new
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: push to normalized relationships between Saudi Arabia and Israel, and
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: he was working on that as well as trying to
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: kind of get the sides together between Ukraine and Russia
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: to try to end that. But one of the final
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: things that they talked about was some of the things
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: that he was working on again trying to normalize those relationships,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: and they said one of the sticking points was the
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: agreement that to allow a Palestinian state. Well, this seems
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: to be with some of the Israeli hardliners right now
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: one of the things that they've bulked at. But in
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  Speaker 2: the past they have been very receptive to this, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure that that would have been a huge
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: sticking point. Now Saudi Arabia and a lot of the
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: Arab nations have warmed up to Israel and are on
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: better footing as a result of the Abraham Accords, but
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: certainly not Iran. They still pushed for the annihilation of Israel,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: and so the fact that they want to destroy Israel
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: and want to destroy the United States is a key
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: factor and especially one of the reasons they shouldn't ever
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: get a nuclear weapon. But they talk about in the
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: final hours of Lindsey Graham that he talked to President
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: Trump when he arrived and touched down after his trip
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: to Ukraine, and Trump mentioned on that you know, it's
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: a several hour flight, about sixteen hours. I believe he
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: told Graham that he was preparing to launch fresh strikes
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: against Iran after another attack on commercial ships in the
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz. A person who spoke with Graham shortly
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: after the phone call said the Senator complained that he
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: was feeling unwell. When the person urged him to seek
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: medical attention immediately, Graham's said he would do so Sunday morning,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: after his scheduled appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. Now
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: he was a frequent guest on that anytime anywhere anybody
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: wanted him on their show, he would be on there,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: and he would be a guest, and he was scheduled
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: to be there. Graham then joked, I can't die now.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: I still need to do the Russian sanctions, get a
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: Ran sorted out, and do Israelis Saudi normalization. He passed
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: a few moments later or a few hours later. Let's
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: skip to the phones here real quick. Oh okay, oh okay,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: we've got a caller. We've got Chris Smithman. I thought
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: we got another phone called. But anyway, So to wrap
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: up here in this particular segment, it's very interesting to
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: see that in the final hours he was still working
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: hard on two very main programs that he wanted to
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: push through, normalization of relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: and try to end that Russia Ukraine war. So again,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: a sad day, sad situation. Lindsey Graham dead at age
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: seventy one, seven twenty in the morning, Kevin Gordon in
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas fifty five krs the talk station. When
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: they talked to me and told me or asked me
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: if I could come in and be here for Brian.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: One of the things I was looking forward to is
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: talking to my next guest, Chris Smitherman, former Vice mayor
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: of Cincinnati, for the smither Event. I think we've only
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: done this one time before, but I'm certainly looking forward
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: to it. Good morning, Chris, how.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 4: Are you today? I'm doing great. Good morning to you,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 4: and thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like you got a little frog in your
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: throat this morning.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 4: Huh, I do? I do?
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: Now, we talked yesterday. We talked yesterday. I started getting
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: a little bit of frog. Did we pass it through
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: the phone or something here?
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know, Yeah, I don't know. But look, one
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 4: of the things that I continue to see across our
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 4: country that concerns me is this anti rhetoric regarding our
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 4: symbol of the flag, the United States flag. And this
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 4: this permeated up on the View which I don't watch,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 4: where one of their hosts that if they go into
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: a neighborhood they see the American flag on homes, they
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 4: don't feel safe. Yeah. I have a yes, I have
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 4: a totally different perspective about the flag. But I want
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 4: to speak to it because I have a sense that
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: young people are moving in this direction about our flag,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 4: about our country, the symbol of two hundred and fifty
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 4: years fourth of July, whatever is going on in their minds,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 4: that the flag itself is racist. So this notion that
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: someone puts the flag up in front of their house,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 4: or they have it on their car, or they have
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 4: it in front of their business, whatever, that that entity
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 4: in itself is racist because they are saying I love
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  Speaker 4: my country. And this is a very dangerous slope that
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  Speaker 4: I am seeing. I don't believe that I'm saying something
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  Speaker 4: that's like over the top. I consistently am feeling and
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: hearing this kind of drum beat, and it's really scary, right,
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  Speaker 4: And so I want to make sure that people understand
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  Speaker 4: that you know somebody who is who has served our country,
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  Speaker 4: and this is the step that I'm going to take.
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  Speaker 4: You know, somebody walking up and saying thank you for
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: your service, instead of looking at that person who has
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  Speaker 4: served our country saying there's something bad about them because
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 4: they fought or they served under the flag. And so
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 4: what happens is the next step is I don't like
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  Speaker 4: the flag, I don't like the symbol. I don't like
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  Speaker 4: my country. But I then also don't like those who
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  Speaker 4: protect those symbols, like the military, like the police, like
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 4: the firefighters. And Christopher, if I could jump in that
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  Speaker 4: really concerns me.
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  Speaker 2: If I could jump in here for a moment, one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that I thought was one of the
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: most remarkable things that I have ever seen. And as
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: you look into race relationships and you look into the
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: Civil Rights movement, and that began as I was a
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: younger man and listening to the stories of these returning
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: veterans who volunteered, who wanted to serve in World War Two,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: even though in their home city, their home state, they
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: were treated as second class citizens, but they still had
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: the love of this country that served anywhere anyway and
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: came back to a hostel where they weren't treated properly.
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  Speaker 2: And the respect that I have for those and what
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  Speaker 2: I think was part of the turning point of the
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: Civil rights movement was the fact that it wasn't people
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  Speaker 2: who hated the country. They loved the country and wanted
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  Speaker 2: it to be better.
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  Speaker 4: No, I absolutely agree with you, and I think that
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  Speaker 4: there's a conspiracy now this is you know, this is
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 4: not a fact from my perspective, but I think places
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 4: like China and Russia, for example, are using this social
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 4: media platform, which, by the way, I think is one
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  Speaker 4: of the worst creations that we ever have had in
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 4: our country. It's tearing families apart, it's tearing friendships apart,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 4: it's tearing relationships apart. I think the social media, but
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 4: it's also tearing our country apart. And so don't that
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  Speaker 4: there are people out there in the world who want
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: us to destroy ourselves from within. And so whether it
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 4: is hating our country or me saying I don't like
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: somebody just because of their ethnicity, it is a very
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  Speaker 4: scary time. And I just wanted to start off this
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  Speaker 4: morning saying I'm a black American. I love my country,
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  Speaker 4: I love our flag. I respect those who have served,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: those who have paid the greatest sacrifice. I respect our
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  Speaker 4: police that are firefighters, and anybody out there, teachers who
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: are serving in these types of professions. We've got to
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 4: lift them up and make sure that we drown out
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  Speaker 4: some of those voices, like the woman on the View
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 4: who says, I walk into a neighborhood, I see the
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 4: American flag and I don't feel safe. I am the
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  Speaker 4: exact opposite of that. That's the door I want to
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 4: knock on. And I told you when we spoke yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: if I was in trouble and I was in one
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 4: of those neighborhoods that that lady on the View was
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 4: talking about, that is the house that I'm running to,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 4: because the reality of it is, I believe that when
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  Speaker 4: I get inside that house, there's a high probability that
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 4: whatever's coming after me, whether it's a bear or another person,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 4: that that person just might believe in the Second Amendment
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: and they're going to have a hard time getting to me.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, we need to take a quick break and when
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  Speaker 2: we come back, we'll continue our conversation with Christopher Smitherman,
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  Speaker 2: former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati and a
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  Speaker 2: great friend of the show. I'm Kevin Gordon in for
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas fifty five car See the talk station seven
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: point thirty in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: fifty five care see the talk station. Continue our conversation
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  Speaker 2: with Christopher Smitherman, former vice mayor of the City of
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati during the smither Vent. Now, Christopher, in the previous segment,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: you mentioned about Sonny Houston on the View and what
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: she had to say about the flags in the community,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: and I think we have that clip. Oh well, okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's taken a little bit of time to loading, but
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  Speaker 2: it'll play and probably interrupt us while we're talking. But
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  Speaker 2: in that conversation as well, she said that the American
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  Speaker 2: flag on a cap it might as well be a hood. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I mean that that is a bridge too far, especially
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: from a woman who we find out whose third great
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: grandfather was slave owner. I mean, it's just oh, and
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: not only that, but was a slave owner in Spain.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: When they outlaws slavery, he moved to Puerto Rico, so
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: he continued the slave trade.
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  Speaker 10: Times when I walk into a community and I see
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 10: American flags all over the community, and I suddenly feel
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  Speaker 10: unsafe because there's a section of this country that has
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 10: co opted the American flag, and they equate being an
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 10: American or an American flag with white supremacy, and that
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  Speaker 10: should never be ever the symbol of white supremacy.
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  Speaker 2: But that is just absolutely discussing. And if you notice,
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  Speaker 2: usually the usually the view the audience is always like,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: you know, a bunch of lapdogs clapping like crazy. There's
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  Speaker 2: it seemed like there was about twelve people in the
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: audience that was clapping for that. But anyway, that's it's just.
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  Speaker 4: That scary stuff because you you know, let me also say,
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  Speaker 4: I bet you if you went to her home, it's
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 4: probably you know, ten million dollar home north of that. Yeah,
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 4: probably gated, probably gated, and she probably travels with security.
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  Speaker 4: You know. That's the thing that bothers me about people
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  Speaker 4: like her, like the average person out here doesn't have
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  Speaker 4: anywhere close to her wealth, doesn't travel with gunned people
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 4: with guns with security around her and her family. That
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 4: is just so over the top. But at the beginning
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 4: of the show, that's why I started here, because there's
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 4: this anti American sentiment out there. And if you put
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  Speaker 4: out the flag, if you say you love your country,
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 4: she's saying you and I are racist or anybody in
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  Speaker 4: that group, that we have to put a hood on
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  Speaker 4: and that we're members of the klu kluf Klan. I
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 4: don't know what she's talking about, but it's very, very
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 4: dangerous rhetoric. I want to switch and talk about local
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 4: violence in Cincinnati. And by the way, we're not unique
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 4: of the violence that we're seeing in our urban core,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 4: you know, but to wake up and I heard your
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 4: show early. I've been listening and you were talking about
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 4: the Chipotlet shooting in Westwood and then the shooting that
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 4: we had in Price Hill and the shooting that we
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 4: had in Avondale. You know, you and I were talking
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 4: like night and I said, hey, I'm praying for rain,
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 4: you know, I want to storm. And so we wake
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 4: up to these shootings and every single weekend you see
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 4: the bloodshed across our communities. What frustrates me, right is
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 4: that we never hear from our mayor about this issue.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 4: It's like he has no solution, no desire to wrap
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 4: his arms around it. He almost acts as if it
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 4: doesn't exist. And here's the reason why he doesn't want
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 4: to own the problem. He has no leadership, so he
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 4: doesn't He wants to have a mural that says black
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  Speaker 4: lives matter, but he doesn't want to own solving the problem.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the problem with politicians. It is the worst.
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  Speaker 4: Like he is one of the worst politicians I have
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  Speaker 4: ever seen in my life. I believe one of the
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 4: worst mayors that Cincinnati has ever had. He's a guy
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 4: that is you using us, and he's trying to go
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 4: somewhere else, and he doesn't care what happens to our community. Well,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 4: these are black Americans, and I happen to be a
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 4: black American, so I can speak directly to black males
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 4: being slaughtered in Cincinnati and having a mayor and members
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 4: of council being completely silent on it. I don't want
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 4: to hear about let's open up midnight basketball. I don't
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 4: want to hear about oh Man rec Centers. Right, I
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 4: want to hear I'm engaging our police department to go
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 4: out and do proactive policing and keep our neighborhood safe.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 4: Get these guns off these young people. And I want
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 4: to hear judges that are willing to put people in jail.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 4: You take a life, you go to jail for life.
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  Speaker 4: My point is that we have a soft on crime,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 4: anti police Reimagine the police department down at City Hall
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  Speaker 4: and guess what here are the result of that. No
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 4: coordination with the ATF, no coordination with the FBI, no
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 4: coordination with the Governor's office, no coordination with the sheriff.
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  Speaker 4: There's nothing going on down there that says I'm interested
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  Speaker 4: in solving this and stopping the bloodshed. Kevin, this is
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  Speaker 4: what really bothers me about Cincinnati leadership.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what bothers me on a human nature is where
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: is the empathy for every killing. This eighteen year old
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: boy that was shot and killed, young man that was
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: killed at Chipotle, He's got a family. There is a
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: family that is now devastated and devastated for the rest
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: of their lives. When the person that has shot him,
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: there may be two or three individuals involved with that.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: Those are two or three more families that are going
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: to be scarred for life as a result of this.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: And yet where is the empathy on the part of
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: leadership that can lay their heads on them on a
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: pillow at night and know that that night somebody is
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: going to die and they have done absolutely nothing to
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: stop it.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's so true. And then they'll come out with
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 4: ribbon cuttings. Oh yes, soft ribbon cuttings today or tomorrow
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 4: that mean nothing. Right, this is the problem. It is
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 4: the centerpiece of where I would like to see Cincinnati
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 4: leadership focused. And I'm just telling you, Kevin, I don't
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 4: see it. It's incredibly concerning. And I'm saying, whether it's
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 4: Cincinnati or Chicago, we are looking like Gossam City. Now.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 4: This is what it feels like like. Crime is out
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 4: of control. We don't even talk about the fifty cars
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 4: that were broken into in Mount Adams, right. We don't
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 4: talk about cars that are being broken in in OTR.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 4: We don't talk about assaults that are happening every single weekend.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 4: Because the bloodshed of the murders, people just showing up
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 4: at uc right shot to shot, shot, all up. And
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 4: by the way, Kevin, if we did not have the
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 4: medical facilities that Cincinnati has, there'd be more death. Meaning
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 4: these doctors are so good, it's like they're in the
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 4: middle of a war zone and they're being trained on
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 4: how to deal with these kinds of wounds. And so
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 4: people make it to UC over there and we have
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 4: some of the best doctors in the world who are
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 4: saving those lives. Without that, there'd be more death in
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 4: destruction in Cincinnati. So I don't want to downplay, which
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 4: really bothers me. We have this technology called shots fobber.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 4: You and I are talking about the people who got shot,
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 4: but guess what, maybe twenty shots were fired. Meaning the
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 4: Cincinnati doesn't put out the information. People are living in
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 4: neighborhoods like Avondale where every night they're listening to bang
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 4: bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 4: bang bang. And we have a mayor and a city
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 4: council just on the sidelines doing ribbon cutting about nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Again, my guest Chris Smitherman, Christopher Smitherman of former
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: vice mayor of Cincinnati, and just we've got to start
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: somewhere and maybe we can talk about some solutions coming up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR
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  Speaker 2: See the talk station seven forty three in the morning.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five K see
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: the talk station. Continue our conversation with Christopher Smitherman for
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: Vice Mayor of Cincinnati and just an all around I
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: just love talking to you and having you as a
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: guest on the program. Continuing the smither event. And you know,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: do we talk about solutions or can I make a
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: controversial comment? I know we have to. We should probably
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: take a break here to stay on schedule here in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. But you know, it almost seems
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  Speaker 2: to me, and as I thought think about this, that
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: is this intentional on the part of these mayors. If
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 2: you look at where the high crime is and the
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: victims of these crimes, it's generally in blue cities. Now
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: there are some red cities and states, but for the
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: most part, you got Chicago, Los Angeles, now City of Cincinnati, Detroit, Philadelphia,
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: on and on. And they are blue cities run by
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: Democrats for decades. And we already know that the Democratic
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: Party was the party of slavery, black black codes Jim
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: Crow Ku klux Klan Segregation Southern Manifesto, opposition to the
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: Civil Rights Act of sixty four Voting Rights Act of
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: sixty five. Is this intentional on these community to continue
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: this dislike of the African American community on the part
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: of Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so. First of all, all those points
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 4: are your historical points are are correct, and a lot
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 4: of these cities you have black Americans that are running them.
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  Speaker 4: What it is is it is it's playing to this
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 4: progressive part of their party that they think, for whatever reason,
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 4: they have to play to that and not say very
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 4: common sense solutions. Meaning anybody listening to me who doesn't
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 4: believe that I talk about solutions. When I stay support
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 4: our police, that is a solution. When I say you
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 4: need to make sure that you have proactive policing, that
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 4: is a solution. When I say you have to make
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 4: sure that when our officers are involved in critical incidents
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 4: that the electeds in those communities do not throw those
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 4: officers under the bus, that is a solution. And the
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 4: problem is you're undermining law enforcement in all of those
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 4: blue cities where cops feel like New York they were
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 4: throwing there's no balls and hitting them in the face
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 4: with ice balls in this last winter, and nobody's doing anything.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 4: You see people spinning in officers' faces across our country
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 4: and people aren't being arrested. Right, that's the problem in
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 4: these blue cities. They have police departments that are being humiliated,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 4: and you have FOP presidents who are fighting back as
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 4: hard as they can, but they realize that if their
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 4: officers are in a critical situation, that those blue city
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 4: leaders will throw them under the bus. Kevin, let me
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  Speaker 4: say this before Let me say this before we go. Look,
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  Speaker 4: we're in the middle of a petition drive. All of
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 4: this is connected. We have a city manager who's terminated
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 4: a fire chief, police chief, and it's going to cost
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 4: us tens of millions of dollars. I don't believe that
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 4: one sole person should be able to make that decision
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 4: in impact taxpayers. Citizens of Cincinnati, you have an opportunity
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 4: to sign our petition, place the issue on the ballot.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 4: We have over eighty people out there now who are
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 4: collecting signatures. This is not something that Smitherman is doing.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 4: This is saying, hey, there's a collective effort out there
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 4: where citizens are saying sign a petition place the issue
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 4: on the ballot. We want seven of the nine members
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 4: of council going forward. That says, if the city manager
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 4: wants to terminate, they get to have a say in it.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 4: Just like right now, Kevin, if you try to fire
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 4: the city manager, you can't. Seven of the nine members
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 4: have to say yes or no to that. I want
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 4: that same protection for police and fire. Number two's let's
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 4: take money for governors.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break and come back and then
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: and then finish this up because this is extremely important.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: My guest is Christopher Smitherman for the former Vice mayor
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: City of Cincinnati, with some very real concrete solutions and
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: some of the things that need to be done, and
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: this petition drive, I think is extremely important and we
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: need to get behind it. I'm Kevin Gordon in for
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station right
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: seven fifty one in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas fifty five cars the talk station, finishing our
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: conversation with Christopher Smitherman, former mayor of Cincinnati, and this
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: idea of your petition, and can I say something real quick,
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: we need more people like you in the community. To
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: speak out, to have the guts to talk about I
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: support family values, I support patriotism, and this nonsense. As
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: a community, we need to come together to solve these problems.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: And part of the problem is as you talked about
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: supporting our police, supporting the police department, and making sure
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 2: that we have the right judges in place as well.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: But let's I want to give you.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate it. I want to charge seven hundred. I
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 4: want to encourage the seven hundred leadership today to augment
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 4: my voice from time to time at the top of
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 4: the hour throughout the week, so that other Black Americans
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 4: hear that voice, right those other people that are saying,
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 4: we are concerned about this mayor, we're concerned about city council.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 4: We are tired of waking up to Black Americans and
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 4: the bloodshed in our neighborhoods. And it's not a mural
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 4: that's outside of city Hall that says black lives matter
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  Speaker 4: that really matters. It's the public policy. It's saying you
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  Speaker 4: support our police, that you make sure that we have
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  Speaker 4: the right command staff, that you have the right number
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 4: of police officers on the force. We're two hundred down,
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 4: two hundred less. We have a mayor that is absent.
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  Speaker 4: We have a council that is absent, and that is
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  Speaker 4: why we are seeing the suffering across some of our neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 4: But let me end by saying this, Vivek Ramaswami is
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  Speaker 4: running for governor. I want to be clear I support him.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to be clear that I'm asking people who
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  Speaker 4: trust me to vote for the zek. Those independents out there,
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  Speaker 4: those blue dog Democrats out there, those Republicans out there.
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  Speaker 4: I do not want to see the state of Ohio
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 4: in the hands of a socialist, a communist, or some
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 4: derivative of it. We see what's going on in Virginia.
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  Speaker 4: They made the mistake. I don't want to make the
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  Speaker 4: mistake here in Ohio. I don't want to wake up
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  Speaker 4: and have an Ohio governor that's saying things like I
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 4: don't want to lower your taxes, I want to raise
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  Speaker 4: the taxes on Ohioans. Or I don't have a concept
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  Speaker 4: of law enforcement, meaning our cities that are struggling. I'm
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 4: willing to use state resources to come in and provide
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 4: support for some of those blue cities that you're talking about,
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 4: in order to make sure that black men who are
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 4: killing each other, that we're having the right command staff
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 4: and we're having the right law enforcement in those neighborhoods.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 4: That we want to make sure that we make education
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 4: and a top priority in the state of Ohio. How
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 4: do we make education important? Well, those some of those
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 4: issues are state driven. My point is that the vek
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  Speaker 4: Ramaswami is running for Governor Kevin and the election is
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  Speaker 4: upon us, meaning early voting starts in October, around October,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 4: the fourth October, the third October, the fifth, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 4: We're now in mid July. Now look, dude, we're gonna
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 4: wake up two months from now and people are going
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 4: to be voting. So the reality of it is it's
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 4: time now for everybody to start putting out yard signs
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 4: and telling their friends to vote for the vek Ramaswami.
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  Speaker 4: And the last thing is please sign our petition. We've
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 4: got a lot of volunteers out there. Be nice to them.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 4: They're not paid. They're just out there trying to collect
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  Speaker 4: signatures to place this issue on these because they care
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  Speaker 4: about the dog one City and Chief Washington's case. It's
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 4: coming like it is around the corner that that three
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  Speaker 4: panel judge is about to judges are about to make
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  Speaker 4: a decision. It is going to be blockbuster. I believe
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna win yet again, another appeal by the city.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 4: Kevin is gonna go back to the federal judge at
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  Speaker 4: the lower court, and that federal judge is gonna say
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  Speaker 4: two things. City, your time is up. This has been
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  Speaker 4: going on for three years. You're either gonna for Chief Washington.
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  Speaker 4: You're either gonna do two things. The city manager has
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  Speaker 4: fired him. You're either gonna say twelve in the box
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  Speaker 4: or you're gonna say settle the case. And by the way, Kevin, Kevin,
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  Speaker 4: they have not told Cincinnati this important fact. The federal
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 4: judge has said the termination of Chief Washington, which is
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 4: at the heart of our petition, right that it's so
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 4: egregious that Chief Washington can sue the city manager personally.
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  Speaker 4: The news doesn't cover that, meaning not only does he
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 4: have the ability to sue the city, he also has
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 4: the ability to sue the city manager personally. So everything
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 4: she owns is on the line. Dude, and I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 4: please sign our petition.
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  Speaker 2: How long do you have before this? How long do
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  Speaker 2: you have before this? You have week in August first,
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  Speaker 2: and how many. Yeah, okay, look for these petition gatherers
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  Speaker 2: and and make sure you sign your name to this petition.
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  Speaker 4: You'restive. American people can follow us on on UH on
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  Speaker 4: social media on x AT vote Smitherman's Kevin, thank you
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  Speaker 4: so much, and I'm going to continue to listen to
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  Speaker 4: your showf.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you have a great day. Take care again.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit late for a break, but hey, important stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five Care
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  Speaker 1: And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on
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  Speaker 2: Six minutes after eight o'clock. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: tuning in. I certainly appreciate it. That was one great
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  Speaker 2: conversation with Christopher Smitherman, former Mayor of Cinnati Vice Mayor
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: of Cincinnati. Common sense approach to the issues of the day.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you if more people were like Christopher
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 2: Smitherman in the city of Cincinnati, and I'm not talking
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 2: just black white, I'm talking about everybody in the city
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: of Cincinnati would have a common sense approach to things,
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 2: things would be a whole lot better. But for anybody
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 2: that wants to complain about what's going on in Cincinnati.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 2: Look at who you voted for, look at who you
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 2: put in office, look at who you continue to put
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: in office. And it is that same old, same old,
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: same old that comment that you know, the definition of
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 2: insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 2: and expecting a different outcome. How long has the city
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: of Cincinnati been controlled by Democrats? And I'm telling you,
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: I just I started off the program talking about some
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: of the stuff that I've seen from the Democrats and
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 2: some of the things that I've seen, the vitriol, the
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: nasty comments, the comments about you know, the Trump is Hitler,
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: that the Nazis and all this sort of stuff and going,
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can go back to Ronald Reagan. I mean,
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: how many how many different advertisements did we see about
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 2: the only thing that Republicans want to do is push
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  Speaker 2: Granny off a cliff? Take away, social Security take away,
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  Speaker 2: Medicare take away, all that. It's like, it's like the
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 2: the the green New steel. They keep telling us that
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 2: the Earth is going to overheat, We're going to be
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: because of climate change in the next ten years, three years,
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  Speaker 2: four years. It hasn't happened since nineteen seventy six, the
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  Speaker 2: first Earth Day, when they predicted that we were going
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 2: to go into an ice age. They've been wrong there.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 2: Democrats have been wrong about Reagan, wrong about Bush one,
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 2: Bush two, wrong about any of the Republican candidates. I
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 2: mean even a moderate like Mitt Romney or John McCain.
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  Speaker 2: How they were savaged by the Democrats that they're going
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  Speaker 2: to take away the rights, they want to put you
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  Speaker 2: back in chains and all this sort of thing, and
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: it's just absolute nonsense. Do a little bit of history,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 2: do a little bit of searching about the Democratic Party
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 2: and their relation to the African Americans and what they
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: stood for and they still stand for today. They're not
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 2: about bringing people up. They're about stirring the pot, getting
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: themselves reelected and never solving the problem. And Christopher Smitherman
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 2: mentioned they're not about solving the solutions. They're not about
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: solving the problems. They act as though the problems don't exist.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: But yet come election time they will tell you they
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: have the solution for those those problems. And the nasty
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 2: Republicans on the other side, they're just, you know, a
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: bunch of klansmen, a bunch of Nazis. Yet you have
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party as it's been exposed over the last
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: several weeks with Graham Platner and Maine. I mean, how
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 2: much more obvious can it become? How much more obvious
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 2: can the fact that the spoon fed regurgitators in the
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 2: mainstream media are just part and parcel of the propaganda
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: arm of the Democratic Party. They spit out, they regurgitate
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 2: all their spoon fed the information from the liberal organizations
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: or the DNC or in this case, the DSA, and
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 2: then they regurgitated to the American public as if as
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 2: if it's the gospel. And yet we saw with Graham
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  Speaker 2: Plattner up there, how many how much contortion did they
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: do to try to get this guy. You can't have
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  Speaker 2: a more moderate person one of the more liberal Republicans
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 2: in the Senate than Susan Collins, they claim, and I
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: failed on in this regard. They say that she they
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 2: claim that she votes ninety four percent with Trump or
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 2: the Republicans or whatever. But I would like to see
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 2: it because it seems where it comes down to stuff
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: like Obamacare, when it comes down to voting rights, when
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 2: it comes down to the Save America Act, and some
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 2: of the key pieces of the Trump administration and the
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 2: stuff she votes with the Democrats. Now, you know, if
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 2: you're voting with somebody ninety four percent, it depends on
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 2: what ninety four percent, But if it's the key things
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 2: that are necessary, those six percent really matter. And the
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 2: fact that even the Republicans have tried to try to
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 2: get somebody in there that's a little bit more conservative
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 2: and have failed. She has been, you know, one of
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 2: the best advocates for the Democratic and she wasn't even enough.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 2: You got the what's the guy's Josh is it Josh
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 2: Wiener out in California, gay proponent LGBTQIA or whatever, pushing
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 2: those are those those bills and support of the community
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: being one himself, and yet he shows up at a
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 2: rally and they chase him away because he's a Jew,
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 2: because of his stance on Israel, that the Democratic Party
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 2: has become anti Israel, pro anti Semitism, right on, anti patriotism,
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 2: the whole nine yards. And then when we say, getting
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 2: back to Graham Platner, the fact it wasn't enough that
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 2: this guy had a Nazi tattoo that he still has.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 2: He just covered it up with another tattoo over top
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 2: of it, it's okay. His previous comments on Reddit, his
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 2: communist standings, him criticizing a veteran for his injuries and
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 2: saying the guy should have died, talking about the United
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 2: States an awful then getting into the whole idea of
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 2: his treatment of women. His wife when he first started
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 2: running for office, he she sent to the campaign, Hey,
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 2: you might want to look into this. He's been sexting
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 2: with people, and he's been talking to people on these
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 2: websites that catered to little girls. You might want to
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 2: look into that. And then you had some people coming
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 2: forward that said that he was abusive, that in cases
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 2: that it bordered on rape, but that was a Republican woman,
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: so that didn't matter. But what mattered is finally when
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 2: a Democrat came forward and said that he had raped her.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, and even with that, they were willing to
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: support him. They were willing to stand behind him. If
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 2: his poll numbers were beating Susan Collins at this point,
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 2: he would not have dropped out of the race. They
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 2: would have supported him to the end. And it all
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: comes down to this whole idea of by any means necessary,
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: we cannot have a party that stands on the principles
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 2: of just the Democratic Party. We have to allow in
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 2: the river to the sea, pro Palestinians, anti Israel, kill
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 2: all the Jews, anti Semitism. We've got to have the
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 2: Communists in there, because with that we can then build
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 2: a coalition to have enough senators. And these idiots like
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 2: Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer that is allowing this to
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 2: happen in their party and not putting an end to it.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: The fact that they think that, oh well, once they
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 2: get into the Senate, in the House, we'll be able
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 2: to control them and we'll be able to good luck
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 2: with that. How well have you controlled aoc Rashida Talib?
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  Speaker 2: How well have you ilhan Omar any of these radicals
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 2: that are in there. Now you are catering more and
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 2: more to the base. The Democratic Party is darn near lost.
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 2: They are going to fracture. Even James Carvell and as
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 2: stupid as he is, can point this out. And yet
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 2: I don't understand how any moderate Democrat, how any Jewish
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 2: Democrat can still be a Democrat. Greg Lansman, how in
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 2: the hell can you be a Democrat still with the
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 2: way that party is stilting? I don't understand it. Five one, three, seven,
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  Speaker 2: atn T wireless phones. To the phones we go. We've
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  Speaker 2: got Bobby J on the phone. Bobby, how are you
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  Speaker 2: this morning?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, my friends, face flag family, and I
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 3: tell you what. We're glad to hear your voice again.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad to be behind the microphone again. Let me
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 2: tell you how you been.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, my friend. I'll tell you what. These
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  Speaker 3: individuals that don't like the flag, they just don't love
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  Speaker 3: our country. And if they don't love our country, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to say anthing negative about them, you know,
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 3: exactly who they are. Yeah, and that's exactly the way
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  Speaker 3: it is. And I worry about the state of Ohio
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  Speaker 3: and my area around here, within one hundred miles radius
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 3: of Cincinnati. You look at all the counties that are red,
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 3: and look at all the counties that are blue. We
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 3: haven't surrounded.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we do. But the thing is, and that
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 2: I don't understand. Okay, these common sense things. Okay, they'll say,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 2: you know, when somebody says I support the flag, and
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 2: I get irritated, you know, because it's a symbol of
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 2: our country. If you're desecrating the flag, that is basically
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 2: desecrating and stomping on America. And then they'll say, well,
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 2: you know, it's just a piece of cloth. Why are
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 2: you so agitated about Why do you want to pass
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 2: a law to make it illegal. Well, my response is
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 2: is that if it's just a piece of cloth, why
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 2: is it so important for you to burn it? You know,
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 2: it's a push back of the argument. You push them
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 2: back even harder. And this whole idea that patriotism is
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 2: racist somehow, that somehow it's a symbol of white supremacy,
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 2: that the fact that we push for instead of open borders,
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 2: we push for restricted immigration and that we try to
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 2: assimilate people. I mean, we've been around for two hundred
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 2: and fifty years. There have been people from all over
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 2: the world coming to the United States, and they have assimilated.
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 2: We have not. I mean, why is somebody waving a
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 2: flag from a country that they fled from, in a
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 2: country that they fled too. I don't understand it. You know,
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 2: if this country is so horrible, how many people are
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 2: are We're not trapped here. You can go any damn
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 2: where place you want to go.
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  Speaker 5: Go.
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 3: But that's exactly correct. The people where can I go
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 3: in this great country?
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, and one other thing before I go, And
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 3: I know you've got other people on the line. Then
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 3: it's just not God bless our country. But the people
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 3: that keep it moving are truckers. Yeah, you know what
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 3: I'm saying. People. People don't realize exactly how the foe goes. Yeah,
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 3: if you cut off that, if you cut off that segment,
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 3: how long would these cities last?
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 2: Not long at all, out, not long at all. Just
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 2: you look around, just walk around your house, walk around
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 2: the grocery store, walk around any furniture store, appliance place, anything.
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 2: Realize that everything that you look at has touched a
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 2: truck at some point. So as you're out on the
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 2: highway and okay, you may be tied up in a
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 2: little bit of traffic because the trucks are a little
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 2: bit heavy on the on the roadway that day, realize
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 2: that that they're the ones that are delivering this stuff
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 2: that you are enjoying. And when you're out vacationing or
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 2: on these holiday weekends, when you're celebrating on Independence Day,
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 2: Memorial Day, well you're not you're not celebrating then, but
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 2: you're recognizing that Veterans Day, any of these holidays, they're
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 2: out on the road and you're partying. So it just
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 2: to have an appreciation of people that keep these wheels
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 2: of the economy flowing. It's necessary. Thank you, my friend,
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend. Thank you so much for calling.
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 2: Certainly appreciated. And that's a great point. It's you know,
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 2: I I when you when you show me a communist
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 2: country that has ever succeeded, show me a socialist country,
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 2: a truly socialist country that has ever existed. I thought
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 2: the left was talking about no kings, that Trump wanted
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 2: to be a dictator. Well, who runs a communist country,
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 2: A dictator who runs a socialist country. A dictator. Okay,
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 2: he's not a king or she's not a king, but
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 2: it's the same thing. They control everything. And yet you
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 2: mind's full of mush out there that are buying into
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 2: the fact that, oh, I oh, this guy says that
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  Speaker 2: this is going to be free, that I oh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to get a free medical I'm going to get
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  Speaker 2: free housing, I'm going to get free money. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have to work, I'll get a thirty two hour work week,
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  Speaker 2: I'll get all of these, all these benefits because we're
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  Speaker 2: going to tax the rich. How many rich do you
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  Speaker 2: think there are out there that can support your lifestyle
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  Speaker 2: if you want, if you want. If you think things
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  Speaker 2: are expensive today, wait until everything is free and see
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  Speaker 2: how expensive it is. Five one, three, seven four nine
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  Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs. The talk station,
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  Speaker 2: eight thirty two in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five krs. The talk station some local
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  Speaker 2: headlines that we're covering for you this morning. We talked
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  Speaker 2: about a lot of these with our guest Christopher Smitherman
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  Speaker 2: at during the smither Event.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately a lot of these have to do with shootings
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  Speaker 2: in the Greater Cincinnati area, since Anti Police are investigating
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  Speaker 2: a shooting in East Hype and East Price Hill. Just
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  Speaker 2: after ten pm Sunday night off reported in Woodlawn Avenue
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  Speaker 2: near Warsaw Avenue intersection. A man was found with a
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  Speaker 2: gunshot wound and promptly rushed to an area hospital. He
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  Speaker 2: is expected to recover. Since a police department do not
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  Speaker 2: have any information on a suspect at this time. Since
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  Speaker 2: Anti Police continue to search for the suspect in a
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  Speaker 2: fatal Westwood shooting from Saturday evening, officers were called to
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  Speaker 2: the Glenway Avenue Chipotle around six pm for a person
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  Speaker 2: shot eighteen year old Shadid Coggins. Eighteen years old Shadid
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  Speaker 2: Coggins was rushed to a hospital who would later die
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  Speaker 2: from his injuries. Officers continue to search for the suspect.
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  Speaker 2: If you witness the shooting, you're asked to call since
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  Speaker 2: ANAPD at five one three three five two three five
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  Speaker 2: four to two. Since ant police are investigating what led
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  Speaker 2: to gunshot victim to u See Medical Center last evening.
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  Speaker 2: Victim arrived just after nine pm. Officers were able to
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  Speaker 2: find out the shooting happened along Burton Avenue in North
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  Speaker 2: Avondale neighborhood. There currently is no suspect and information at
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  Speaker 2: this time, nor further threats to the general public, according
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  Speaker 2: to the police. Indiana State Police continue to investigate a
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  Speaker 2: shooting death in Switzerland County. Troopers out of the Versales
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  Speaker 2: Post arrived with other agencies just before nine pm Saturday
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  Speaker 2: night to Bryant's Creek Road outside Antioch. That's where they
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  Speaker 2: found a forty eight year old man suffered from a
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  Speaker 2: guns shot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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  Speaker 2: Indiana State Police for Sales is leading this investigation. Just
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  Speaker 2: tragedy all over. One employee suffers burns in a chemical
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  Speaker 2: explosion in a Winton Hills factory Friday night. It happened
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  Speaker 2: at the Barrett Locker USA facility along Highland Ridge Drive
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  Speaker 2: just after ten pm. A company spokesperson confirmed that a
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  Speaker 2: worker suffered serious injuries and was taken to a UC
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  Speaker 2: medical center. Has Matt Cruz contained the chemicals inside, none
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  Speaker 2: of them released into the environment, which is good news.
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  Speaker 2: But my goodness, as Christopher Smitherman said, these shootings have
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  Speaker 2: got to stop, and our city leaders and I need
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  Speaker 2: to start taking and supporting the police department in order
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  Speaker 2: to end this violence. Five one, three, seven four, nine, fifty,
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  Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas, five K See the talk stations. Phone
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  Speaker 2: numbers seven five one, three, seven four nine fifty, five
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  Speaker 2: of which, let's go to the phones and talk to Evelyn. Evelyn,
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  Speaker 2: how are you this morning? Thank you so much for calling.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, thank you, Givin, and you know, thank you for
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  Speaker 11: what you're doing. It's very enlightening when you talk about
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  Speaker 11: that little tiny Israel and the anti Semitism It makes
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  Speaker 11: me think of people who just don't know anything exactly
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  Speaker 11: and they fall for they fall for things like from
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  Speaker 11: the River to the Sea because rhymes, yeah, and there's
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  Speaker 11: it's just so frustrating. It has not only to do
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  Speaker 11: with Israel that people pick up propaganda like it's a
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  Speaker 11: you know, a healthy a healthy piece of meat or
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  Speaker 11: something in that.
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  Speaker 1: Lies and lies.
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  Speaker 11: I can't, you know, I can't deal with uh, the
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  Speaker 11: way people will just buy into things. You know. It's
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  Speaker 11: especially when it comes to women's things like why should
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  Speaker 11: a man be allowed in a woman's locker room? Or
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  Speaker 11: why should a child have surgery for a sexual whatever
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  Speaker 11: they diagnose. It's just so strange. I appreciate you. And
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  Speaker 11: there's a book that Alan Dershowitz just put out, which
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  Speaker 11: I thought I didn't do. It's a very little paperback
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  Speaker 11: and it's called Palestinianism. Palestinianism maybe is a book that
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  Speaker 11: you've run into, but it's new and it tells about,
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  Speaker 11: you know, the propaganda that people buy into that makes
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  Speaker 11: the Palestinian story real, as if the Palestinians had been
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  Speaker 11: just standing there and all of a sudden, there they
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  Speaker 11: are being attacked.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, exactly.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, So fakes again, But you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what is amazing and you can take pride in
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  Speaker 2: the fact that being a woman. I don't understand the
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  Speaker 2: women's group that don't stand behind women protecting women and
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  Speaker 2: women's sports. I mean, I thought that was what title
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  Speaker 2: nine was all about. But you women are a lot
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  Speaker 2: smarter than men. I don't see any women that want
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  Speaker 2: to go into men's locker rooms. It's only the men
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  Speaker 2: that want to go into the women's locker room, you know.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, but you know, but the whole thing about the women,
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  Speaker 11: and say Eddy, of the Middle Eastern countries other than Israel,
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  Speaker 11: mostly women are second class, is exactly are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, can't drive, can't leave the home without accompany
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  Speaker 2: by a male I mean, for crying out loud, where
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  Speaker 2: are the women's groups?
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  Speaker 11: Right? Exactly exactly? Thank you so much so. The fact
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  Speaker 11: the fact that people don't realize that proper propaganda exists
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  Speaker 11: makes them, you know, makes some naive, maybe not stupid,
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  Speaker 11: but very naive.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, uninformed? Shall we say, we'll be kind? Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much, Evely, and I certainly appreciate the call. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that is the thing. I mean, there is just so
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  Speaker 2: much and once in a while you headline scrollers. Again,
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  Speaker 2: I make the point all the time that what we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing now is people getting their news from TikTok. If
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  Speaker 2: somebody is presenting a video to you and trying to
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  Speaker 2: teach you something that's coming from their perspective, open your horizon,
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  Speaker 2: do horizons, do a little bit of investigation on your own,
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  Speaker 2: and dig behind this when you see the contrasts, when
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  Speaker 2: you see the women's groups that are supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: for women when it's supposed to be believe, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Me Too movement, believe all women. Except when a
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  Speaker 2: Republican is accusing a Democrat, then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: we don't believe that. If you're standing up for women's rights,
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  Speaker 2: you want a fair equity, you want scholarships for women
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  Speaker 2: Title nine in these college sports, and then you try
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  Speaker 2: to destroy that by having men competing in women's sports.
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  Speaker 2: That's hypocrisy, that doesn't make any sense. Then when you
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  Speaker 2: say that, okay, Republicans are Nazis, Republicans are racist, and
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  Speaker 2: yet you have klansmen that were prominent people in the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party even up until the time that Robert Byrd,
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  Speaker 2: a Democrat from West Virginia, died and Hillary Clinton eulogized him.
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  Speaker 2: You had a klansman in the party. You have a
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  Speaker 2: Nazi who not only had a well you know, he
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  Speaker 2: had a Nazi symbol, he had a Nazi tattoo. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't get rid of it. He covered it up. The
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  Speaker 2: whole rhetoric about, you know, a democratic socialist. There is
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  Speaker 2: nothing democratic about socialism. It is communism. If you're no kings,
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 2: just switch no kings for no dictator, because that's what
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get with communism. The common sense of it,
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  Speaker 2: all the hypocrisy is incredible. Read a book, pick up
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  Speaker 2: a little history. You river to the sea people, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how many people are are interviewed to say, do you
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  Speaker 2: know what the river to the sea means?
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  Speaker 11: No?
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  Speaker 2: Well, then why are you out doing this? Why are
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  Speaker 2: you putting your face, your body, your placard, you're waving
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  Speaker 2: the flag when you don't even know what the hell
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about other than the fact that it's anti Trump,
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  Speaker 2: anti Jew and you want to be an anti semi.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only thing that makes any sense. Five one three,
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  Speaker 2: The talk stations A fifty one in the morning, Kevin
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  Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five car or see
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  Speaker 2: to Bill, Bill fifty five car. See how are you
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  Speaker 2: this morning?
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  Speaker 1: Hey?
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  Speaker 12: Doing great? And it's barely to talk to you on
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  Speaker 12: the phone. I'll get to my point, man, and uh,
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  Speaker 12: this is this is what's happening. I see it every day,
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  Speaker 12: we all see it. Okay, these people the judges is desert.
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  Speaker 12: There's the problem. Okay, I get to my point. You
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  Speaker 12: see it every day. These people get life. They just
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  Speaker 12: slaughtered and raped and killed a family and murdered little kids,
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  Speaker 12: but they get life in prison. Now here's the problem
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  Speaker 12: is when these judges give these guys like a prison
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  Speaker 12: that means three taxpayers, you might as well put them
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  Speaker 12: in the sale with him to take care of him.
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  Speaker 12: And number two, I mean, look, they take somebody's life. Okay,
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  Speaker 12: you got one week and your turn is up. And
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  Speaker 12: that's the.
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  Speaker 2: Man we got.
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  Speaker 3: We got to get to it.
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  Speaker 12: And I think the lawyers and the judges is and
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  Speaker 12: ca who because that keeps doing the job. But I mean,
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  Speaker 12: did you hear it every day he's getting life in prison. Well, Howard,
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  Speaker 12: that's a hotel to him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well prison life isn't sir. Well, prison life first
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  Speaker 2: of all, isn't the greatest. I mean it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: still confinement. There have been cases where people have been
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  Speaker 2: found innocent twenty twenty five years later, And I agree,
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  Speaker 2: when something is absolutely cut and dry in terms of
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  Speaker 2: a of a murder conviction, I still think that death
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  Speaker 2: penalty is a deterrent. I don't care what people talk about.
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  Speaker 2: If nothing more, it's a deterrent from that person ever
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  Speaker 2: committing another murder in the event that some compassionate and
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  Speaker 2: I put the air quotes around that some governor comes
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  Speaker 2: along and says, well, I'm going to commute their sentence,
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  Speaker 2: or as we have in some of these more liberal states,
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  Speaker 2: that they say that once a person reaches the age
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  Speaker 2: of sixty five that they're not a danger to the
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  Speaker 2: community and they are going to re release or they're
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  Speaker 2: going to release them back into the community because they're
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  Speaker 2: not probably going to commit any more crimes. No, they
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  Speaker 2: just want to cut the healthcare bill of that person
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  Speaker 2: as they age in prison, and they want to eliminate
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  Speaker 2: that cost. But to put the burden back on the people,
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  Speaker 2: we do need judges to do a firm and concise
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  Speaker 2: and accurate sentencing. And yes, I believe in the death penalty,
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  Speaker 2: and the death penalty should remain in force. Bill, Thanks
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  Speaker 2: so much for the call. I certainly appreciate kind of
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  Speaker 2: wrap up the day. We did talk about the death
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  Speaker 2: of Lindsey Graham, and we talked about a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stuff about that, the cause and to kind of tamp
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  Speaker 2: down some of the rumors and what the medical examiner
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  Speaker 2: had to say, talked about some of the people from
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 2: around the world what they had to say about him,
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 2: and of course his relationship with Donald Trump. Then we
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  Speaker 2: talked to Christopher Smitherman at the seven twenty at seven
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  Speaker 2: twenty and a fantastic conversation with him. I wish we
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  Speaker 2: had longer on that. I did mention a little bit
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  Speaker 2: that I finally did see at the beginning of the show.
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 2: I did mention that I saw for the first time
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  Speaker 2: my first two UFC fights because of being on the
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  Speaker 2: weekend with our son and he is into that and
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 2: to spend time with him. So I did watch that,
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  Speaker 2: and of course all the conversation with you and the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we need to do something in this country
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  Speaker 2: to promote life. We need to pres to either strength,
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  Speaker 2: we need not either. We need to strengthen the families,
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  Speaker 2: get a grounding as far as morals are concerned, and
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  Speaker 2: get our leaders to pay attention to what's going on,
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  Speaker 2: especially in these cities, and actually have some empathy for
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  Speaker 2: the citizens, and stop all of these deaths. Support the police,
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  Speaker 2: get the right judges in place, and let's end the crime.
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  Speaker 2: There are way too many people that are getting slaughtered
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  Speaker 2: on the streets of the Blue Cities. For that matter
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  Speaker 2: of fact. Well, folks, that does it for me. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be in again tomorrow. Stay ready and raring to go,
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  Speaker 2: taking your phone calls and so on. So with that,
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  Speaker 2: Glenn Beck's top the Er. Stay tuned. I'm Kevin Gordon
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  Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas fifty five krs the talk station.