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55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: If you know Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Unlike so many the comment about Donald Trump, he is
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  Speaker 2: not somebody that is that complicated to figure out. Today
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Smith, Am, and that's our guest today singular no
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  Speaker 2: power with Christopher Smith. And we've got a lot to
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  Speaker 2: talk about with the former vice mayor of the City
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  Speaker 2: of Cincinnai. So we'll call this an extended Smither vent
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  Speaker 2: beginning at seven oh five, So Christopher will be in studio.
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  Speaker 2: My dear friend Christopher Smith and I hope you enjoyed,
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  Speaker 2: he has to say. I'm sure he'll have a comment
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  Speaker 2: about well Mayor aftab pro Bol and members of council
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  Speaker 2: and the city manager Cheryl Long all showing up on
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  Speaker 2: Friday to open a skate park. Of course, another ribbon
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  Speaker 2: cutting ceremony for the mayor didn't show up an opening day,
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  Speaker 2: didn't show up for the violence and the chaos and
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  Speaker 2: the whole criminal crime thing that's going on downtown Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: conveniently not here. This is one of the biggest days
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  Speaker 2: in the city of Cincinnati. He's Opening Day parade, So
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  Speaker 2: maybe he knew in advance it was going to be
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  Speaker 2: violence in chaos and he didn't want to be around
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  Speaker 2: it anywhere near it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. The mayor is responsible for this anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So that's one of the things I'm sure Christopher
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  Speaker 2: will chime in on, but I'm sure his list is endless.
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  Speaker 2: So stick around for that at seven oh five. Eh,
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  Speaker 2: So Mom gave me a little earful the other day,
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  Speaker 2: and I appreciate her comments. She does criticize me when
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  Speaker 2: she thinks it's necessary, and I do appreciate her criticisms.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take them to heart. So next time George and
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  Speaker 2: also is there. I hope you had a wonderful easter.
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  Speaker 2: I certainly did. Family was over yesterday. It was really
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  Speaker 2: nice to have everybody over and enjoy a wonderful, wonderful meal,
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  Speaker 2: What is going I guess Tomorrow's day all hell is
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  Speaker 2: going to break use. Did Trump have to use the
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  Speaker 2: F bomb in his statement yesterday? That really just kind
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  Speaker 2: of bothered me. Base language? Is it really if the
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  Speaker 2: president of the United States dropping the F bomb? It
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  Speaker 2: sounds to me like it it makes him sound frustrated
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  Speaker 2: and angry, like he's not getting his way and he's
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  Speaker 2: throwing a bit of a temper tantrum. And I know
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  Speaker 2: my friends out there that really just think Trump can
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  Speaker 2: do no wrong. Hate to hear me say anything by
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  Speaker 2: way of criticism, but I am entitled to a subjective
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  Speaker 2: opinion of what I think as president and not presidential,
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  Speaker 2: and I think a president of the United States should
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  Speaker 2: not be dropping F bombs, So just me. Anyway, He
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  Speaker 2: did threaten to destroy all of Iran's power plants, that is,
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  Speaker 2: if the Iranians don't agree to reopen the straight of
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  Speaker 2: horror moves by tomorrow evening, specifically eight pm Eastern. He said,
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  Speaker 2: if they don't come through, if they want to keep
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  Speaker 2: it closed, they're going to lose every power plant and
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  Speaker 2: every other plant they have in the whole country. Said
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  Speaker 2: that to The Wall Street Journal during a private one
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  Speaker 2: on one interview. He's repeatedly escalated his threats, as we
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  Speaker 2: all know because you've been hearing them, and he quite
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  Speaker 2: often adjusts the timeline. Of course, the Iranians have not
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  Speaker 2: really negotiated in good faith. It'll seem like they want to.
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  Speaker 2: Trump warned during his last address or his address last week,
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  Speaker 2: that he planned to hit Iron hard over the next
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  Speaker 2: couple of three weeks. Now we're entering the sixth week
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  Speaker 2: of the contrary, a conflict which was initially forecast to
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  Speaker 2: the last four to six weeks when the whole thing started,
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  Speaker 2: which I don't know at the time, I kind of
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  Speaker 2: thought to myself, how can you predict how long this
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  Speaker 2: conflict is going to last? I wonder if you'd ask
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  Speaker 2: the Russians before they invaded Ukraine how long they thought
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  Speaker 2: that that.
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  Speaker 1: War was going to take them.
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  Speaker 2: As we entered, what are we in four years on
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  Speaker 2: that one anyway, Iran responding to Trump's threats, they're Parliamentary
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  Speaker 2: speaker Mohammed Bagger Gallibath. For those keeping track of home,
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  Speaker 2: he's still with us, I think, he said on their
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  Speaker 2: version of social media, the only viable path was to
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  Speaker 2: step back from further escalation. Quote, your reckless moves are
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  Speaker 2: dragging the United States into a living hell for every
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  Speaker 2: single family, and our whole region is going to burn,
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  Speaker 2: willing to sacrifice all the surrounding countries.
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  Speaker 1: There, I guess so. And they have been.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently they've been engaged in bombings. Where they got that
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  Speaker 2: update grade? Where is that that?
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  Speaker 1: Mm m m.
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  Speaker 2: So it's tough to keep track of all this anyway. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Tehran fired missiles and duras in the Gulf countries and Israel.
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  Speaker 2: This after Trump's threat to destroy Iran's infrastructure, notably the
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  Speaker 2: power plants and all the other factories, the comment that
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  Speaker 2: I just mentioned to you. So since then and beginning
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  Speaker 2: this morning, I guess they fired four rounds of missiles
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  Speaker 2: on Israel this morning, excuse me. Apparently six people sustained
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  Speaker 2: moderate to serious injuries, a couple of children, buildings, cars
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  Speaker 2: in the cities of Haifan, Tel Aviv damaged, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of people trapped under rubble, and a building struck in
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  Speaker 2: central Haifa found dead, another couple of people missing. Israeli's
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  Speaker 2: military carried out a way with strikes against targets in Tehran,
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  Speaker 2: one hitting the capital Sharif University of Technology. No immediate
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  Speaker 2: report of casualties on that. United Arab Emirates sirens were
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  Speaker 2: going out because their air defenses, I guess detected missiles
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  Speaker 2: coming their way. Following debris from intercepted projectiles did hit
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  Speaker 2: certain areas on the ground, which happens, and we're widely
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  Speaker 2: reported that that happens. Some four waves of projectiles launched
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  Speaker 2: at Kuwait and Saudi Arabia's air defense system neutralized a
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  Speaker 2: couple of drones. Again, all of that happening this morning
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  Speaker 2: after Donald Trump threatened all hell breaking loose, etc. So,
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  Speaker 2: so today the end of the ten day deadline Trump
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  Speaker 2: previously gave to Iran last month opened the Straight of
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  Speaker 2: Tormus in ten days. That was last month, and of
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  Speaker 2: course we now have adjusted this to tomorrow evening eight
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  Speaker 2: pm Eastern time, he said, with an exclamation point. Pressed
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  Speaker 2: whether he thinks the war is going to end, Trump
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  Speaker 2: said in the interview with the Wall Street Journal I
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  Speaker 2: will let you know pretty soon, and when I want
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  Speaker 2: to say, if they don't do something by Tuesday evening,
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  Speaker 2: they won't have any power plans and they won't have
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  Speaker 2: any bridges standing. Now, when asked about the people of Iran,
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  Speaker 2: this is obviously a huge issue because you're hoping the
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  Speaker 2: people of Iran rise up and you know, want to
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  Speaker 2: overthrow the regime. And I guess in state something akin
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  Speaker 2: to a democracy or what we might view as a
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  Speaker 2: better way of life for them to direct their own
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  Speaker 2: lives and not be under the thumb of a supreme
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  Speaker 2: leader's oppression. But asked if he was concerned about the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian people, ninety three million of them, and whether they
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  Speaker 2: can suffer if a civilian infrastructure is hit, his response, no,
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  Speaker 2: they want us to do it. I guess he has
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  Speaker 2: the inside scoople what the Iranian people want. Trump said,
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  Speaker 2: the Iranian people are scared to protest in public, risk
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  Speaker 2: being killed, eacided. The forty five thousand people killed so
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  Speaker 2: far by the Iranians, and I understand that is a
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  Speaker 2: threat to them. But moving over to the whole idea
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  Speaker 2: of hitting the Iranian power plants, now, in some a
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  Speaker 2: thumb their nose at international law. But there is such
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  Speaker 2: a thing. According to the Wall Street Journal, under international law,
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  Speaker 2: the military is allowed to strike civilian power plants and
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  Speaker 2: other key infrastructure only if it contributes to a military
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  Speaker 2: operation and civilian harm is minimized. That seems like a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot of wiggle room, and the whole idea that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's rules with war when you're going in
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  Speaker 2: and killing people and breaking things, which is the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of war. I find that slightly amusing or puzzling, But
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  Speaker 2: there they are. Wall Street Journal previously reported that narrowly
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  Speaker 2: focused strikes, at least according to Trump AIDS, are allowable
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  Speaker 2: because they are meant to hamper Tehran's ability to build missiles, drones,
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  Speaker 2: and nuclear weapons. There's a lot of wiggle room built
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  Speaker 2: in that whole u international law contributes to a military operation. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there you go. They're using roads and bridges, and of
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  Speaker 2: course they're using power plants to generate energy to build bombs,
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  Speaker 2: also keep lights on in factories running that kind of
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  Speaker 2: thing too. So humanitarian and legal questions raised with widespread,
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  Speaker 2: widespread strikes on power plants. Now here's one guy with
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  Speaker 2: an opinion Michael Schmidt, described as a professor emeritus at
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  Speaker 2: the US Naval War College, also as a retired Air
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  Speaker 2: Force lieutenant colonel who served as a judge advocate general
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  Speaker 2: in the military. His comment, disrupting enemy morale or changing
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  Speaker 2: the thinking of leadership by destroying civilian objects, that's not
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  Speaker 2: a thing. You cannot bomb a power station to send
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  Speaker 2: a message. Well, I guess they're going to be arguing
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  Speaker 2: amongst themselves because eight pm tomorrow night, I suppose that's
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  Speaker 2: when it's going to happen. And there's some discussions that
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  Speaker 2: there's back room, you know, negotiations going on pushing for
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  Speaker 2: a forty five days cease fire, although that doesn't look
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  Speaker 2: like it's got any legs. Apparently regional mediators engage in
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  Speaker 2: urgent talks over a potential forty five days ceasefire reach
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  Speaker 2: the idea. The sources speaking at least with Axios, who's
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  Speaker 2: reporting on this one, discussions are ongoing, but the chance
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  Speaker 2: of reaching even a temporary agreement prior to the eight
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  Speaker 2: pm deadline tomorrow night slim, although officials say they're viewing
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  Speaker 2: this final effort as an opportunity to avoid significant escalation. Trump,
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  Speaker 2: in response to talking to Axios did say the US
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  Speaker 2: is in deep negotiations. His words suggest that a breakthrough
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  Speaker 2: remains possible. There is a good chance, he said, But
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  Speaker 2: if they don't make a deal, I am blowing up
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  Speaker 2: going to see what Jay's got this morning. Jay, Happy
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  Speaker 2: Monday to you.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty happy Monday, Brian. Hey, the whole thing in Iran
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  Speaker 4: seems like this is a well worn path that we've
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  Speaker 4: been down before, where it seems intuitive that if you
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  Speaker 4: help the people, the citizens of Iran that are oppressed
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  Speaker 4: by taking out the government or at least weakening it,
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  Speaker 4: that the millions of people and the population would rise
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  Speaker 4: up and overthrow the thousands of people that are keeping
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  Speaker 4: them in a state of.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, how would you say oppression? But it seems like
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  Speaker 5: it's it.
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  Speaker 4: It never works, And I think the reason is that
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  Speaker 4: whenever we send our young men kicking indoors and we
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  Speaker 4: are trying to use American blood to secure their freedom,
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  Speaker 4: it's not worth much. Vince Everard Ellis has said in
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  Speaker 4: his book Iron Triangle, and in order to have true freedom,
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  Speaker 4: a population has got to be willing to die for it.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that this is the real test for
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  Speaker 4: the citizens of Iran. The head of the snake is
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  Speaker 4: severely weakened. So either you stand up and you take
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  Speaker 4: back your country and you put something better in place,
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  Speaker 4: or you stay in fear, stay hidden.
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  Speaker 6: Allow the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Allow our men and women to go in there.
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  Speaker 4: Our young men and women get take all the risk.
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  Speaker 4: And if you want to stay hiding in your shelter
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  Speaker 4: and not stand up and fight at this time, well
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  Speaker 4: then you'll get more of what you've got. Well, and
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  Speaker 4: it seems like this is Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 6: Here we go again.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like just same process expecting a different result.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I suppose the Korean Vietnam didn't involve religion though,
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  Speaker 2: And I mean you got to look at Iranians as
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  Speaker 2: like it's a theocracy. Clearly they are a Muslim nation
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  Speaker 2: filled with Muslim people. And I think there's always a
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  Speaker 2: component that we need to keep in mind, which is
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  Speaker 2: the infidels, which they view us as coming to help
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  Speaker 2: save them, coming to help them help themselves. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you've got a bunch of what in their minds, it's
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of Christians coming over the mountain and they're
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  Speaker 2: going to turn it into a Christian nation or something.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got part of the population has to struggle
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  Speaker 2: with that. I mean, they've been that last thirty forty years.
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  Speaker 2: They've had this America's evil Satanic brainwashing. I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 2: fully indoctrinated into their education system, incorporated into their education system.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, whether or not the hearts and minds
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  Speaker 2: of the Iranian people really don't like the Supreme Leader
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  Speaker 2: and the way the Iatolis have run the country since
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  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy nine, I don't know. I mean, I use
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  Speaker 2: this analogy when I was talking with Daniel Davis last week.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've got millions of hundreds and thousands of protesters,
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  Speaker 2: no King's rally. And if you're an outside observer and
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  Speaker 2: you're getting video from the nation's cities here and you
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  Speaker 2: see hundreds of thousands of people in the street protesting
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump and all the signs talking about changing administrations
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  Speaker 2: or communism or whatever the hell they were supporting, it's
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  Speaker 2: a mixed bag. Then you get the impression of the
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  Speaker 2: American people or maybe interested in overthrowing their government. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's an impression that could be given. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 2: I don't personally know what the Iranian people actually think.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they do want us over there remains to be seen,
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  Speaker 2: but it hasn't happened yet, right Jay, I mean that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of where we are, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the whole world was are are our
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  Speaker 4: soldiers to take the risks that they don't want to take?
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  Speaker 1: NATO?
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  Speaker 4: Clearly I wish they would stand up. Yeah, I hope
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  Speaker 4: they stand up. But it seems like just it's a
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  Speaker 4: human condition that if some other nations trying to secure
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  Speaker 4: your freedom, it's almost like welfare that if you get
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  Speaker 4: free stuff and things, it's not worth anything because I
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  Speaker 4: get more of that any time I want kind of
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  Speaker 4: like it. That's unfortunate. Yeah exactly, yeah, exactly, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not a fortunate I hope they stand up, right as
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  Speaker 2: do I.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm not. I haven't.
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  Speaker 2: I can't draw any conclusion about whether they can or will.
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  Speaker 2: I just know that they're somewhere in there. There isn't
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  Speaker 2: this guarantee that the Iranian people will actually rise up.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't seen it yet. We don't know if there's
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity yet. We don't know if that opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: will present itself. Maybe he's got to blow up all
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  Speaker 2: the power plants and bridges for them to rise up.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That seems to mebe shift the Iranian sentiment in the
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  Speaker 2: opposite direction. I mean, if you can't get your lights
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  Speaker 2: on because the evil Americans, and don't let's not forget
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  Speaker 2: the Israelies, they're not exactly a beloved country or people
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  Speaker 2: in the Iranian hearts and minds, the Israelies and the
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  Speaker 2: Americans blow up my power plan and it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to go back online for years, Maybe then you've just
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  Speaker 2: probably made an enemy of me. That's just that's something
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  Speaker 2: that's being widely discussed right now. What will the reaction
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  Speaker 2: be eight pm tomorrow night. I guess is the time, Jay,
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  Speaker 2: We'll find out, unless, of course, the deadline gets moved again.
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  Speaker 1: Two hours of power for the longest mother vent on record.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, man. I missed hearing from you last week.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're on vacation. I hope you had a
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  Speaker 2: really nice one. It's good to hear your boys.
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  Speaker 8: Uh we did. We went out to Sedona, Arizona. Uh
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  Speaker 8: spent spent the week out there. Beautiful part of the country.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Arizona is beautiful, there's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 8: And a little warm down down the Phoenix end. But
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  Speaker 1: Food, good vacation.
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  Speaker 8: That's that's that's true. And and an added bonus you
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  Speaker 8: I don't know if you're aware of the the National
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  Speaker 8: multiple times a year. So we went ahead and bought
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  Speaker 8: another annual pass and they yeah, as a card, you know,
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  Speaker 8: a credit card sized card. It's got a picture of
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  Speaker 8: something on it and a lizard or a or a
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  Speaker 8: big horn sheep or whatever the year is they have it.
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  Speaker 8: And this year, if you buy an America the Beautiful Pass,
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  Speaker 8: you get a you get two pictures on it, one
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  Speaker 8: of George Washington and the other of Donald J. Trump.
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  Speaker 8: I had to laugh. I had to laugh because all
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  Speaker 8: of the Democrats and liberals that want to go visit, uh,
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  Speaker 8: they want to go visit national parks. They got to
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  Speaker 8: carry a picture of Trumper.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, damn well, that's exactly why his mug's
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  Speaker 2: on there.
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  Speaker 8: There is no question, I'm sure it is slightly slightly
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  Speaker 8: egotistical demand.
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  Speaker 2: It's like building the ballroom. You know, he's paying for
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  Speaker 2: it himself. Although there's some some some hold up on
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  Speaker 2: that one. And you got to remember, wait a second,
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  Speaker 2: what about the underground bunker that's been revealed that they're
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  Speaker 2: putting in there? Has that come out of the taxpayer dollars?
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  Speaker 2: Is that part of the government program or private people
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  Speaker 2: paying for that? But it's the It will forever be
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  Speaker 2: known as the Trump edition, and the Democrats just hate that.
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  Speaker 2: Like from this point forward, every Democrat administration, assuming that
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  Speaker 2: there it will be another one, and I can pray
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  Speaker 2: that there won't be, but presumably there will. It probably
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  Speaker 2: will refuse to have any events in that ballroom, and
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  Speaker 2: by the fact that a much more accommodating place to
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, one definite plus out of all this is driving
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  Speaker 8: the liberals crazy. So oh and I you.
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  Speaker 9: Know, I come back and I'm hearing about all the
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  Speaker 9: all the going on in Cincinnati, and and that one
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  Speaker 9: dude that was involved in that beatdown back in July
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  Speaker 9: he got his charges were dropped.
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  Speaker 8: Against him, and and all the stuff with the Chief
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  Speaker 8: Fiji and all that. I mean, what a what a
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  Speaker 8: mess in Cincinnati. And I I I wish I could
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  Speaker 8: just hang out for for a couple hours and just
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  Speaker 8: listen to Christopher Smathom and go on about it. But
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  Speaker 8: the end result, the end result, Brian, is the same
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  Speaker 8: old thing. Everybody that goes to a voting book needs
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  Speaker 8: to be thinking of out what their vote means and
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  Speaker 8: what it's going to bring about. And election, every election
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  Speaker 8: has consequences. And you know, if you if you're fine
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  Speaker 8: with the way this stuff's going on and you're looking
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  Speaker 8: at it going now, no, this is great, this is wonderful,
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  Speaker 8: then we'll keep doing what you're doing. But if you're not,
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  Speaker 8: if you're not happy with the way things are going
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  Speaker 8: in Cincinnati and you don't like how this is being
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  Speaker 8: done and that's being done, and oh, of course Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 8: I go to UH, I go to a gas station
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, Tom. Glad to hear your voice. And Tom
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  Speaker 2: my submariner friend who is actively involved in Honor Flight.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow is the first flight of the twenty twenty six season,
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  Speaker 2: so get put it on your calendar. Tomorrow going to
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  Speaker 2: Gather in the upper level the departures area as we
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  Speaker 2: schedu to arrive about eight thirty pm, which means veterans
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  Speaker 2: There's a suggestion where you're red, white and blue, or
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  Speaker 1: To invite us.
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  Speaker 2: So if you are someone in your party needs a chair,
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  Speaker 2: please bring it with you. A few seats along the
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  Speaker 2: the veterans to arrive, so there'd be more information coming
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  Speaker 2: out Tomorrow, though, is the day mark it down. The
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  Speaker 2: welcome home ceremony is truly, truly a wonderful patriotic thing
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  Speaker 2: and also quite often for a lot of folks allergy inducing,
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  Speaker 2: if you know what I mean. Let's get to the phone.
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  Speaker 2: See what Bobby's got. Bobby, thanks for calling. Happy Monday
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 10: Happy Monday to you, my friend, pay Flag family. And
• 27:30
  Speaker 10: it's a holiday Monday.
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  Speaker 2: It is a holiday Monday. And also you predicted there
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: was the over and under on people shot or otherwise accosted,
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  Speaker 2: stabbed in the downtown Cincinnati. You know, people who are
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: victims of violence. It was five, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 8: Yes? It was?
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  Speaker 1: And where did we come in, Bobby, Well.
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  Speaker 10: It's hard to get true reporting from the city of Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 10: They never want to I know. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 10: they beat them up every day, That's.
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  Speaker 1: All I know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was widely reported sort of gangs of youths
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  Speaker 2: swarming around on the West Side just the other day,
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  Speaker 2: but I couldn't find a single local news article about it.
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  Speaker 2: The only place that was reported on Facebook. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: left to wonder, can I believe my own eyes want
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  Speaker 2: to read something like that anyway?
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  Speaker 1: What else is on your mind?
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  Speaker 10: Bobby, Well, the only other thing is it's a word
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  Speaker 10: of the past. And I know we're beating up Cincinnati
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  Speaker 10: and they deserve everything they get. But one word we
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  Speaker 10: don't hear anymore is over seers instead of city council
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  Speaker 10: and mayor. Using those words bring up the past of
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  Speaker 10: eighteen fifty and that is what Cincinnati is. It's a
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  Speaker 10: twenty first century plantation with overseers that have changed their names.
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  Speaker 10: It's a pitiful situation. And I know a lot of
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  Speaker 10: people can't say those words, but it's true when you
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  Speaker 10: get eighty five percent of the population vote for these fools,
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  Speaker 10: they have to be what else would it be. It's
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  Speaker 10: Shame's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think the bigger shame, The bigger shame is
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  Speaker 2: it's one you got to give those the folks that
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  Speaker 2: elected this council and returned this mayor a lot of
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  Speaker 2: credit for getting their people organized. The leftists, the people
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  Speaker 2: who enjoy this, who are recipients, Oh, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: of the city large jets whatever, they're the ones that
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  Speaker 2: showed up to vote, I mean in large numbers. But sadly,
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  Speaker 2: the bigger problem this bobby is that three out of
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  Speaker 2: four registered voters didn't show up. They didn't bother cast
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  Speaker 2: a vote.
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  Speaker 10: So they had a democratic machine that's well oiled, in my.
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  Speaker 2: Friend well, and obviously propaganda wise, it's defeated. Anybody who
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  Speaker 2: you know, holds in their minds this sort of hope
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  Speaker 2: that maybe things will change and maybe people will wake up,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe people will recognize they're not happy with the
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  Speaker 2: way the city is being run, and run for any
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  Speaker 2: particular reason. Prioritization of roads and bridges and infrastructure over
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  Speaker 2: social welfare programs or whatever. Bottom line is I guess
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  Speaker 2: they're defeated enough that they don't even bother showing up.
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  Speaker 2: So if you can't get people off their butts to
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  Speaker 2: go and vote for change, then of course you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have the same thing over and over again. The city
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  Speaker 2: will be run by one fourth of the voters who
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  Speaker 2: are registered to vote, and you'll get the same thing
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  Speaker 2: over and over again. Those folks you can count on.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats know it. They can count on that core block
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  Speaker 2: always voting for them, regardless of what they do. Sad
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  Speaker 2: part is the people who are in a position to
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  Speaker 2: change it don't bother. So you know you get what
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  Speaker 2: you're paid for, or you know you you got to
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  Speaker 2: struggle and deal with the realities. If you're sitting at
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  Speaker 2: home and refusing to show up and vote, you know
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  Speaker 2: there's another opportunity showing up in November. Maybe you'll do
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  Speaker 2: it this time. I don't know, Bobby. It's always good
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  Speaker 2: Karse Mornings showed lots of city issues to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, going back last week, please gie Fiji violence
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  Speaker 2: and well, I know he's going to have a combat
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  Speaker 2: about the brand new skate park open now mayor I
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  Speaker 2: have to have purvall. Can't make it an opening day,
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  Speaker 2: one of the biggest deals in the entire city of
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  Speaker 1: This is great.
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  Speaker 2: Lionel Lead. This is all on video too, talking with
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  Speaker 2: one of the not Kings protesters. He said, isn't it
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  Speaker 2: a little bit homophobic that we're so focused on the
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  Speaker 2: straits of Hormuz and not the gaze of Hormuz you're fighting?
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  Speaker 2: Her response, yes, I agree, yes, for sure. He said, well,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think that they're willing to Why do
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  Speaker 2: you think they're willing to leave the gaze of Hormuz behind?
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  Speaker 2: Protester said, well, historically, you know, gays have always been
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  Speaker 2: very discriminated against, which is wrong on so many levels.
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  Speaker 2: And then comedian Lead says, well, even in war, and
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  Speaker 2: she said, yeah, even in war. I just feel like,
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  Speaker 2: if we're going to go in there, we can't leave
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  Speaker 2: the gay people behind. He said, I don't think that
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  Speaker 2: we should go in there at all, But if we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna go, if we're going to the gaze of Hormos,
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  Speaker 2: we couldn't turn into fire Island. Her response, for sure,
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  Speaker 2: for sure, obviously not getting the obvious joke. There there
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  Speaker 2: are streets of horn moose, there are gays of horne moose.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where the other alphabet salad is in
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  Speaker 2: Lake City man arrested yes Saturday at Temple Square. Police
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  Speaker 2: said he disrobed in front of thousands of people who
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  Speaker 2: had come for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
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  Speaker 2: day Saints General Conference. Thirty six year old Michael Dean
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  Speaker 2: Anderson arrested for the investigation of lewdness involving a child.
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  Speaker 2: He was observed completely disrobing his clothes and was completely naked.
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  Speaker 2: That accord to the police booking Affid David, the crowd
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  Speaker 2: included children. Incident witnessed by church security and Salt Lake
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  Speaker 1: No reason why.
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  Speaker 2: At least twenty one times a month. Sean, you got that?
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  Speaker 2: Its apparently your homework assignment, because.
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  Speaker 2: turned a block of Mayor Zorn Mundami's old neighborhood into
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: a what nauseating love nest where they drink and defecate
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  Speaker 2: in pizza boxes. This according to locals who have begging
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  Speaker 2: the city to take action about this single pair of
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  Speaker 2: individuals living in their own trash Thirtieth Avenue near Steinway Street.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to visit, it's in astoria commandeering the
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  Speaker 2: I Why the hell would I want to stand out
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  Speaker 2: they have great brisket. No, no, no, it isn't. There's
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  Speaker 1: Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever remind me of people camping out when an Ikea opened, Like,
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  Speaker 2: are you kidding me? You don't ething better to do
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  Speaker 2: to waiting around for an Ikea to open. But it's
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: free Swedish meatballs. There are people camped out when Nordstrom opened. Seriously, Okay,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: and you're right, Maureen. Tom made a comment about the
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: the The parks pass now have George Washington's image as
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: well as Donald Trump's image on it, So if you
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: want to go to the national parks. Apparently that's the
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• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Trump's arrangement syndrome folks. But Mareenes's Tom's comment about liberals
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: having to carry out a car with Trump's picture on
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: it when they visit certain parks. Just can't wait until
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: they have to carry around our currency with his signature
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: on it, the first sitting president they have his signature
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: on currency while in office. Yes, that is Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: trolling those with tds without question.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Over to the phones.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: We've got got plenty going on in this hour, but
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: let us take calls, because you know I love that
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  Speaker 2: more than me hearing the sound of my own voice.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: James Man, welcome back to the morning show of my
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: sincere Apologies. I didn't get to sit down and talk
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: with you. It was wonderful senior listener lunch last week,
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I do have to say, and I know a lot
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: of listeners were happy to meet you. James, welcome back
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: to the show.
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir, that was a real nice lace. I enjoy it.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: I'm to go back up there sometimes.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: That's what I felt. You know, what a great place
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: for a party like you can call like ten of
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: your friends say hey, let's meet up at the Liberty Collective,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: and you know there's going to be room and everybody's
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: going to be happy about the food selection, the beverage selection.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: So I agree with you. I'm glad you liked it too, James.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: Really, and I never did make it upstairs, did you
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: grow up?
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: No?
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: But it's a giant bar up there. That's one thing.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: You're always close to, a bar at Liberty Collective. I
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: think this it's the real big open space up there.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know where the golf simulator is. That could
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: be up there too. I just know they have one
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: and I didn't see that. But yeah, I didn't bother
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: go up there either.
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: Okay, Well, yesterday I went to Cory Bowman's church schemarship
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  Speaker 6: with him. That it was pretty It was decent, decent
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: sort of in my mind I used the word it
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: was typical, but it was in powering, you know, good,
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: and I reached out to him. I think it was Friday.
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: I went down to his sandwich shop and I was
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: just interested in meeting a man sitting now for lots
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: offying with him, comparing notes, you know, in sort of
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: sense so by going there to a sandwich shop, you know,
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: and I met him, he invited him into service, and
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: I said, okay, men, the wife we went down enjoyed that,
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: you know. Oh yeah, core Bowman, you decromised to have
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: we promised to have other meetings, you know, to talk about. Uh. Well,
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: I guess he's in that position now. He actually is
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: connecting religion and government, you know. Sure, so that type
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: thing dynamics, you know, sure that that going on. So
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: I just called in just say happy day after Easter,
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: you know, and just announced that I did go down
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: and meet him and fellowship with him.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: And I'm glad you passed that along to my listeners,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: and I'm glad you weren't there. I think Corey is
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: a solid man. I think he means the best for
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: everybody in the city of Cincinnati, and that's why he
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: keeps coming up and his head keeps popping up. I
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: don't know that he has any political aspirations down the road,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: but he does care enough. He wants to remain engaged.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: So he's a good resource and of course putting his
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: money where his mouth is. He walks the walk, talks
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: to talk. He lives in one of the more troubled
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: areas in the city of Cincinnati. That's where his church is,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: that's where his coffee shop is. So he knows what
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: it's like to live in one of the more troubled areas.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: So he speaks well from experience. Mississippi. James, good they
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: see you last week. Thanks for calling in this morning.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I'll look forward to hearing from you again real soon.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Let's see what Larry's got. Larry, welcome to the morning,
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: showing Happy Monday to you, sir.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, good morning. I was wanting to expound on
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: the thing about waiting out inside of the outside of
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: the store for it to open. The five below down
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: here and a million.
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: A new five below opened up.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: You're familiar with five below, I am, okay, that's what
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: it's called. Supposedly everything's under five bucks, but that you
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: know how that goes. Sure, But anyway, you this big
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: thing on TikTok and on Facebook is these they're called dumplings.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: It's a stuff toy, like a squishy type toy inside
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: a case, a plastic case, and they're like five bucks
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: and the bigger ones are twenty bucks. But anyway, my
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: great grandkids, my wife had uh thinking that I could.
• 43:02
  Speaker 10: Get them one.
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: We was gonna get them each of the stree up
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: and get them each one of them.
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: But that I talked to the people.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: We was at the five below the day before they
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: had their grand open. They were supposed to open at
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: ten o'clock. And so, uh, I got up like an eight,
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: got there at nine that morning, and they had opened
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: earlier than they opened at eight, and every one of
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: the toys were gone. So neither to say I didn't
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: kept my great grandkids the little toys they went.
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: But I'm just.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: Saying, Uh, it's kind of crazy how that works. It
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: gets on social media and these people.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Were, well you see that. What see My problem is
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: is society's reaction. Why do people go crazy? You know, guy,
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Bucky's gotta be open. I'm gonna be there for the
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: walk in the door, be the first customer in there.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: To the concept of that is foreign to me, Larry,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: I don't get it. There's no way in hell I'm
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: gonna stand outside a retail store and wait for it
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: to open just so I can be the first person
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: in there and get a slice of brisket or even
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: that toy you're talking about. You know, Sorry, grandside, sorry son, granddaughter, grandchild.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: You know, you go there and hang out. Call me callous, Larry.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: I just I'm just not that kind of person. So
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: especially when it comes to a place like Nordstrom. Stand there,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: wait around, spend two hundred dollars out a pair of jeans.
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, yeah.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: All right, so any wait, I wanted to mention that
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: and have a good day.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Larry, appreciate it, man, Yes I do. Real quick
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: here from the Wall Street Journal. And let's give the
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: American military some serious props. We got the downed pilot out.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Americans woke easter Sunday. They ride to the brilliant news
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: that a second American airman have been rescued from Iranian
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: territory after a crash last week. Further evidence of the
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: competence and bravery of the US military, which is the
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: which is one institution that still seems to work and
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: deserves public trust. Details of the rescue filtering out through
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: the press, and one lesson is the importance of training
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: and planning. The airmen and unidentified colonel as we write this,
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: this again came out yesterday's This Wall Street Journal this
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: morning climbed to the mountainous train despite his injuries to
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: escape detection and await rescue. Once the US located him,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: military then sent in special forces on the dangerous rescue
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: mission that would expose them the Iranian fire. That they
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: pulled it off without a single US casualty is extraordinary.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Amen to that the rescue avoided capture, that Iran would
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: have exploited for propaganda purposes. The airmen would have been beaten,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: or worse, paraded before cameras that the global media would
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: have been only too happy to broadcast. Within hours of
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: the crash, the press was already asking the White House
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Press Secretary of the airman's capture would complicate President Trump's
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: war strategy. Instead, the rescue is a moment to celebrate
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: a wartime triumph. There's nothing short of remarkable that more
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: US pilots have not been shot down in the months
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: since the war began. This testifies to the US and
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Israeli dominance of the skies, even if the risks of
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: a lucky shot from the ground can never be eliminated
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: in a conflict. Apparently, I've read that it was a
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: shoulder launched rocket that brought the aircraft down, And how
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: can you bomb away all the shoulder launched rockets in Iran.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: That's a tough row to hoe anyway, relative positive American
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: casualties demonstrates the care and competence of the planning by
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Adam or Admiral Brad Cooper and Central Command, as well
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: as the skill and execution by members of the military.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: All of this takes training, discipline of the money to
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: buy and maintain the best weapons in the world. President
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Trump now recognizing the point about money with his proposal,
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: and you should make some comments on this. One point
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: five trillion dollars in defense spending and fiscal year twenty
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: twenty seven, that's a big ask. Americans take for granted
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: that the volunteer force will keep them safe, and the
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: military's performance can create a sense of complacency about the
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: world's threats. But deterrence isn't cheap, and adversaries who want
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: I want to harm the US are more determined than
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: ever they've been since the end of the Cold War.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: The deterrent value of the Iran conflict will be determined
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: by its outcome and the decision Trump's makes, but the
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: performance of the US military is reason to invest more
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: to continue its record of success. Do you feel that way?
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: One point five trillion dollars. And I have been critical
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: of Donald Trump and his deficit spending. The first term,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: we went up five trillion dollars, I know, COVID COVID,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: but then it got worse under Biden. Someone has got
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: to put a lid on spending. Now Trump has promised
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: to offset this military increase by domestic cuts. One can
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: only pray to God that that happens. I mean, it's
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: nice to see the the government payroll's been cut down.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: We saw the jobs report that came out on Friday.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Labor report, great news, one hundred and seventy eight thousand
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: new jobs, which was great compared to Februaries, which was
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty three thousand decline. But the great
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: part about it the Feds cut yet another bunch of
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: federal jobs. Eighteen thousand jobs got cut in March. So
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: we have gone from a peak hi of three million
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: semi jobs in the federal government under Joe Biden three
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: point zero one million when Trump took office the second time,
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Feds have shd three hundred and fifty two thousand jobs,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: eleven point seven percent of the workforce. It's down two yeah,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: down to two point six five eight million. And the
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: great part about this have you noticed now you may
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: have someone that formerly worked for the government that has
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: been the subject to one of these cuts from the
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: federal government. And aside from your personal connection with that individual,
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: people lose jobs every single day. No one seems to
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: weep for all the jobs to get lost, say in
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: the coal industry or whatever. But oh my god, crime
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: me a river of tears with federal government workers losing
• 49:10
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• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Did you notice that three hundred and fifty two thousand
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: federal jobs have been cut since Trump came into office?
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Probably not, which means maybe they weren't necessary in the
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the morning show.
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  Speaker 13: Well, I'm happy to talk to you, sweethearts. I just
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  Speaker 13: want to say there is a power.
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  Speaker 6: Prayer.
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  Speaker 13: I prayed Saturday for this pilot because I figured if
• 51:41
  Speaker 13: if those evil people would have gotten him, it would
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  Speaker 13: have been horrible. It would have But I just want
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  Speaker 13: to say there is the power of prayer. And if
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  Speaker 13: you don't know a prayer, talk to God because believe me,
• 51:55
  Speaker 13: things will happen. But anyway, Brian, I love your show.
• 51:59
  Speaker 13: I listened to you you every morning. So anyways, sweetheart,
• 52:03
  Speaker 13: you have a good day, and I pray for the cure.
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  Speaker 2: You pat very much, God bless you. Yeah, I power prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Googlet what it was going to go on this one?
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  Speaker 2: I got to get to this later, although I guess
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  Speaker 2: I have to mention it right now. There was an
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  Speaker 2: interesting op ed piece from Josh Hammer. I can't remember
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  Speaker 2: where I read it Epic Times. Perhaps I'll see if
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  Speaker 2: I can't figure out, so you can. It's hot Airs
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  Speaker 2: where I found it James Hammer and dated April third,
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  Speaker 2: and the headline it's really important, that kind of thing
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  Speaker 2: to to consider. It was, it's a food for thought
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  Speaker 2: op ed piece. Now I ain't much in the same way.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I can talk. I can look at that
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  Speaker 2: one point five million dollar ass from Donald Trump for
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  Speaker 2: America's military. I know a lot of that money is
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  Speaker 2: going to have to go to rebuild the stockpiles that
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  Speaker 2: we're out now because of the conflicts we've been using
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  Speaker 2: them up at of course international demand as well. Our
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  Speaker 2: arms manufacturers are working twenty four to seven but one
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  Speaker 2: point five trillion dollars. And I have been on record
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  Speaker 2: for years talking about fraud, waste and abuse, and I
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  Speaker 2: know there has to be blowed and access and the
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  Speaker 2: military budget. And this is someone who you know respects
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  Speaker 2: and has the utmost the support for America's military here
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  Speaker 2: on the fifty five Carnessey Morning. So I personally use
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  Speaker 2: this show as a vehicle to support America's military, but
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: I will not use this this this show is a
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  Speaker 2: vehicle to support bloated spending on any level. And when
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: you have a military budget that can't pass an audit
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: eight separate times in a row, they endeavor to audit
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  Speaker 2: where the money's going and what it's being spent on. Sorry,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: we don't have the records. I'm throwing a giant barbos
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: streisand flag on that where's the money being spent? Now,
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: if you just flip back to the Biden administration, you
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: know massive quantities of money we're going into DEI programs,
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: and you know, talking about the LGBTQIA plus whatever movement
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  Speaker 2: and corporate you know why military is supposed to kill
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: people and break things. I think that's why Donald Trump
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: turned into the Department of War. It's kind of reminding
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: people and it's defense. True, we defend the United States
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: from threats for and and domestic, but you're supposed to
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: be at a wage war. Part of the defense component
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: is actually engaging in warfare with those who might attack us,
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: killing people and breaking things. And that's kind of the
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: focus of the American military right now. And look at
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: what amazing success it's had. I mean, you got the
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  Speaker 2: rescue of those pilots in the middle of the country
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  Speaker 2: of Iran, where it's widely reported that people were all
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: looking for those guys. There was a bounty placed on
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: their heads. They wanted that as pilots, well at least pilot.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: I think they thought there was only one. It's one
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons there was so little information reported on.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: It was two pilots out of the same airplane, and
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Trump wanted to keep the situation on the DL because
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: he didn't want the Iranians, in other words, two of
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  Speaker 2: them out there. But we went in and we got
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  Speaker 2: them out. It's got to be a little frightening to
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  Speaker 2: the Iranians we were able to do that. Then you
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: also have the successful and say what you want about
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: the propriety of it going into Venezuela right, getting in
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: and getting out and grabbing Meduro and taking them with you.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: That is amazing.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: I'm old enough to remember when Jimmy Carter tried to
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  Speaker 2: rescue the hostage and end up with a bunch of
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: wrecked dead pilots and wrecked era helicopters in the middle
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: of the Iranian desert. So salute through the American military.
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  Speaker 2: But someone's gonna have to justify me one point five
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  Speaker 2: trillion dollars when they can't pass an audit. I have
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  Speaker 2: an idea. How about you make a contingent. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to fund the military as long as they can start
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  Speaker 2: well audit compliance. Do you think that's something we all
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  Speaker 2: a stack of local stories I imagine, some of which
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go over with Christopher Smithman. Normally it's
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  Speaker 2: seven twenty for a few segments with Christopher on a Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Today it's two hours of Power with the former Vice
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  Speaker 2: maryor he's going to join the show at seven o'clock
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  Speaker 2: and hang out with me in studio. I think Joe
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: is trying to soften the blow of him being out
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: of the office this morning, taking a vacation day. You
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: don't want to be holding the bag since Monday. Monday's
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  Speaker 2: Brian Jane wasn't gone, So thank you, Joe. If you're
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: out there, he's not. You think he's awake, Shohn pro
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: You think, well, yeah, this is like he normally gets
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: up at what like midnight and comes into work by
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: one o'clock in the morning and hangs out here. Anyway, Joe,
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: Missy anyway, I got Sean McMahon though, and that's always
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: a good thing. Here we go over to the Commonwealth
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  Speaker 2: of Kentucky, your governor. Kentucky Governor Andy Bisheer vetoed the
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: bill lowering the minimum age for concealed carry. House Bill
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: three twelve was to change the age requirement to have
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: changed a concealed care license from twenty one to eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: But Sheer announce his decision to veto the bill on
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  Speaker 2: the second of April. While I believe in the second
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: amendment he started, these pieces of legislation would allow miners
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: under the age of twenty one to carry to carry
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: concealed deadly weapons and protect firearm manufacturers and sellers from
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: liability for gun violence. We must take steps to protect
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: our people and allow them to seek justice for deadly
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: acts like those these families have suffered from. Vetoing these
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: bills was the right thing to do, so they can
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: overturn the governor's signature when they return, and I suspect
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: they probably will. But what is with this Miners under
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: the age of twenty one eighteen, I believe is the
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: age of consent. You can enter into contracts, you of
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: course get married, you can buy a car, and you
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: can be held liable for criminal conduct in big boy court.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: So someone needs maybe enlightened governor on that one. Remains
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: to be seen whether that will be overridden. I'm worried
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: about this one. I don't think it's a good idea,
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: And this is something maybe you can chime in chime
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: in on. There's a petition being circulated out here in
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: the state of Ohio to ban large scale data centers.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: Attorney General David Yoes did approve this the ballot language
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: or the petition language. Ohio Residents for Responsible Development file
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: the request to put this ban on the ballot banning
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  Speaker 2: data centers that use more than twenty five megawatts per month.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: So if it is if they get the number of signatures,
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: the four hundred and thirteen thousand signatures at least sixty
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: five days before the November election in order to be verified,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: that number represents ten percent of the votes cast in
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two gubernatorial election. And apparently they have
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: to get signatures from at least half of Ohio's eighty
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: eight counties by the July first deadline, and we already
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: have according to reporting here, we already have about two
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: hundred of these data centers in central Ohio, primarily in
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Central Ohio. So you can't see. This is the thing
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: I struggle with. This is the direction we're going. Whether
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: you think AI and data centers are the right thing,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: clearly everyone is building them. And if you block them
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  Speaker 2: completely from the state of Ohio, I suppose my friends
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  Speaker 2: and the Commonwealth, our friends in Indiana maybe elsewhere, they'll
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  Speaker 2: move them elsewhere. It's not that they won't be built,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: it's a question whether we get it for our economy.
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  Speaker 2: I always predicate my of course, acceptance of AI and
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  Speaker 2: data centers on the idea that they can manage their
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  Speaker 2: own power. If this becomes a problem for you and
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: I getting our power, then maybe I can embrace the
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: idea of not building one until the grid can handle it,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: until supply can be adequately managed. You got to put
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: the supply and transmission lines before the AI data center.
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  Speaker 2: But if they have that, then why would you want
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: to turn your back on them completely, eradicate them and
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  Speaker 2: render them illegal in the state of Ohio. I just
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: don't know that that's the right direction to go, considering
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the world is moving in that direction.
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  Speaker 2: six thirty five right now. I think you have Kersee
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  Speaker 1: No problem with.
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  Speaker 2: Moving over some really legitimate questions being raised, at least
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  Speaker 2: for the first time in a long time without necessarily
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  Speaker 2: people going absolutely out of their mind because of the
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  Speaker 2: nature of the discussion, which is going to Josh Hammer
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  Speaker 2: and as this article that I saw in Hot Eric's well,
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  Speaker 2: what exactly is the purpose of NATO in the year
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. This is not Brian Thomas advocating for
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: US leaving NATO, but this does raise some very legitimate points,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: many of which we've just run into as a consequence
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: of this Operation Epic Fury. So Josh says, you know,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: one month to go into opera, one month into Operation
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: Epic Fury against Islamic Republic of Iran, A long overdue
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  Speaker 2: conversations finally broken out into the open. What exactly is
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: the enduring rationale for NATO? For decades the question has
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  Speaker 2: been treated in Washington foreign policy circles as heretical, but
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  Speaker 2: it isn't under the credit President Trump, Secretary of State
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  Speaker 2: market UBI are now saying it plainly, saying so plainly,
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  Speaker 2: as Trump recently put a quote, they haven't been friends
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  Speaker 2: when we needed them. We've never asked them for much.
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  Speaker 2: It's a one way street. Rubio similarly blunt quote. If
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: NATO is just about US defending Europe if they're attacked,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: but then doing denying us basic rights when we need them,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: that's not a very good arrangement. So all that's going
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: to have to be re examined US quote. So they're
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  Speaker 2: spot on. If best American European allis has spent decades
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  Speaker 2: free riding on the US security umbrella. Despite repeated commitments
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: to meet baseline defense spending targets, many NATO members still
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: underinvest in their militaries and outsource their national defense to
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: the American taxpayers. Be imbalanced as staggering. United States accounts
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: for the overwhelming majority of NATO's military capabilities, logistics, and
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: strategic lift. Overall, American taxpayers contribute about sixty percent of
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: total spending on NATO defense. Now stop for a second,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm a little critical about a one point five
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: trillion dollar military budget, mainly because they can't pass an audit.
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  Speaker 2: So I'd like that dealt with before we start talking
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: about hard numbers and cents. But I have a question
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: out loud. Is that one point five trillion or one
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: trillion or whatever our annual defense budget include our defense
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: of NATO? Is that part of it? I guess you
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: can reduce to ask on that if it is, and
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: we decide we're not going to do it anymore. Sorry
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: to interject back to the op ed that or some
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: of these same European allies actively undermine US operations at
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: critical moments. Major Western European countries such as Spain and
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: France have restricted or complicated US use of their airspace
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: during operation Epic theory that is farcical. A so called
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: alliance in which members obstruct one another's ability to wage
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: war is not and actually an alliance. It's a liability.
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  Speaker 2: This raises the core question why exactly does need to
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: exist in the year twenty twenty six. Let's recall it
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: to origin. NATO founded in nineteen forty nine with a
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: clear urgent mission to contain and if necessary, to eat,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: the Soviet Union. That mission was compelling, indeed existential. Western
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: Europe lay devastated after World War Two, and the Soviet
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: threat was real, immediate and hegemonic.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: Hegemonic.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: But that world, quite literally no longer exists. Soviet Union
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: collapsed three and a half decades ago, the Berlin Wall
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: felt and, according to the author of the abed piece
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: Josh Hammer, the year I was born a little younger
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: than me. Clearly, Cold War is now a relic of
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: history by any reasonable metric. NATO achieved its reisondetre by
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: early nineteen nineties, it's reason for being, But instead of
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: declaring victory and recalibrating, the alliance drifted. It expanded ever
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: further into Eastern Europe and shifted its ostensible mission into
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: well something simply put. NATO is today an organization in
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: search of a purpose. Is NATO a collective defense pact
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: against the geopolitical successor of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation?
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: If so, why does so many European and NATO members
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: fail to take that threat seriously enough to invest in
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: their own national defense. Is NATO now instead a vehicle
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: for global counter terrorism? If so, why of its members
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: sat on the sidelines and refused to join the United
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: States as it goes to battle against the world's number
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: one state sponsor of jihad. Or is NATO nowadays just
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: a political club for liberal democracies, And if so, what
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: does that have to do with a hard headed conception
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: of the US national interest? NATO has become a catch
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: all institution, long on triumphalist platitudes, but short on the
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: strategic realities on which its existence was predicated. Meanwhile, the
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: global order is shifting. The initial post Cold War era
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: of enthusiastic multilateralism has slowly given way to a more
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: interest driven, nationalist paradigem. Nation states are rediscovering the primacy
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: of sovereignty, borders, and self interest. In such a world,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: the idea that the United States should blindly remain bound
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: to a twentieth century transnational alliance structure is untenable. Certainly
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: does not mean in America should retreat into isolationism, but
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: it does mean that our alliances must be rethought, recalibrated,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: and where necessary, replaced. The geopolitical future lies not in
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: outmoded multilateral boondoggles, but in addible strategic, bilateral and trilateral partnerships.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: These smaller, more focused arrangements allow for clearer expectations, greater accountability,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: and more direct alignment of national interest. They avoid the
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: bureaucratic inertia free writing that's plagued massive superstructures like NATO.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: The highly effective bi national US Israel assault on Iran
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  Speaker 2: over the past month illustrates why a dynamic twenty first
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  Speaker 2: Normally i'd be saying coming over in the next segment.
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  Speaker 2: So welcome back, my friend. It is always a pleasure
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  Speaker 14: But you know, nice easter, man, I did man, happy
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  Speaker 14: Easter to you. Had a great easter. You know, the
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  Speaker 14: weather's a little cold, out there ran a little bit,
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  Speaker 14: a little bit. I can handle it.
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  Speaker 1: You can handle it, you know.
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  Speaker 14: My thought this morning is to start with Chief Thigi.
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  Speaker 14: And it's a little personal because I worked with CHIEFDGI.
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  Speaker 14: This isn't somebody that I don't know. I was the
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 14: former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, I was
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  Speaker 14: Chair of Law and Public Safety. She was in command staff.
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  Speaker 14: So this is somebody that I know I worked with.
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  Speaker 14: And and this you know, when people say, well, Chief
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  Speaker 14: DG did this or Chief CGI did that, you know
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  Speaker 14: you're not going to always agree, Brian with any administrator,
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  Speaker 14: of course not. So that's not what this is about. Well,
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  Speaker 14: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Report that came out from the law firm that was
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  Speaker 2: hired to find a reason to justify her being placed
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  Speaker 2: on administrative leave, sure handpicked and picked and chose specific statements,
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  Speaker 2: none of which were positive. And we learned from russ
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  Speaker 2: Neville Police Chief DG's brother that she had talked to
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  Speaker 2: some of the people who were interviewed by the law
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  Speaker 2: firm and they in fact did have some positive things
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  Speaker 2: to say, some negative of course. But why is that
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  Speaker 2: report that came out so filled with just pure negativity?
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  Speaker 2: There wasn't a positive word said about DG in there,
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  Speaker 2: with the exception of our own words.
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  Speaker 14: They are professionals out there, Brian, who are listening, and
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 14: people who are blue collar workers who are listening. And
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 14: the reality of it is, we know politics on our job.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 14: You know, oh you are your job. They're politics, right,
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  Speaker 14: So here was a report to bury her. First she
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 14: was a scapegoat. Then they hire Frost, Brown and Todd
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  Speaker 14: to bury her, right, And the reality of it is
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 14: she's still on administrative leave. They're still paying her for
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 14: a reason. If they had a reason to separate and terminate,
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  Speaker 14: they wouldn't be paying her full time salary right now.
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  Speaker 2: And they also would have said the reason at the
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: time they put her on administrative to leave or fired
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: her if they'd have fired her. So you know, you
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  Speaker 2: got to you have to have a reason to fire
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  Speaker 2: otherwise you end up in deployment lawsuits. You know, former
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: Chief Washington, the Fire Department knows all about that.
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  Speaker 14: That's not one and so thirty five years of service
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  Speaker 14: by Chief Thiji Brian, not one written reprimand in thirty
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  Speaker 14: five years, so there's nothing in her file. Meaning again
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  Speaker 14: to those who are listening, I worked with at that
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  Speaker 14: time Colonel Fiji.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a professional.
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  Speaker 14: She has family members that are still serving in the profession,
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  Speaker 14: the Neville family. She's Chief Fiji, but her maten name
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 14: is Neville, right, So I don't remember how many years,
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  Speaker 14: but I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say one
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  Speaker 14: hundred and fifty or one hundred and sixty one years.
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  Speaker 2: Last week Russell was on the show, and if you
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  Speaker 2: can get a chance to listen to rush to Russ
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  Speaker 2: he did a great job defending her. He's kind of
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: like the spokesperson for the Fiji family while they go
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: through this third generation. That's three generations in law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: So it doesn't shock me that the collective service from
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: the Neville family is one hundred and fifty plus years,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 14: And Brian, what I would say is if I were
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  Speaker 14: the mayor and I wanted to change horses, meaning you
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  Speaker 14: might not have liked that John Cranley made this pick
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 14: in their minds. This is maybe somebody the same thing
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  Speaker 14: when we talk about Chief Washington, the former administration.
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  Speaker 1: Chief Fiji is a professional.
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  Speaker 14: So what you do is you sit down and you
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 14: say I'm thinking about hitting in a different direction. You've
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  Speaker 14: got thirty five years, you're in drop your grandma. You
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 14: got six or seven grandchildren. Is not like it's not
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  Speaker 14: like she's going, Hey man, I like to stay around
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  Speaker 14: another ten years.
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  Speaker 1: True.
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  Speaker 14: Right, So you sit down and you say, as a professional,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 14: how do we move this along with dignity? Maybe you
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 14: need to go get a lawyer, negotiate something that's favorable.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: But here's what you don't do.
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  Speaker 14: You don't just have her fly into a conference with
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 14: all the chiefs in the whole country and then just
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 14: say you're fired.
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  Speaker 1: Bring your butt back.
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  Speaker 14: And then as she turns and looks at the news
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 14: she's watching as she's traveling back, Chief Thigi's been fired.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 14: Chief Thigi's been fired. The reality of it is what
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 14: they've done is they've placed her in a terrible situation
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 14: that if she wanted to get a job somewhere else
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 14: in the private sector. Let's say she wanted to go
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 14: out and work at Lunkin Airport, Let's say she wanted
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 14: to work for a.
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  Speaker 1: CEO of some company.
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  Speaker 14: These types of reports in the things that they're doing,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 14: and I'm not a lawyer, they just seem like they're
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 14: very punitive, and it seems like she's going to be
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 14: able to litigate and say, there's nothing in my file.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 14: I've never been reprimanded. What was your reason for termination?
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 14: And again she has an employment lawyer. I would expect
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 14: the City of Cincinnati is gonna settle this case for
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 14: millions of dollars. And the last comment I'll make Brian,
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 14: who pays the bill? The taxpayers of Cincinnati will pay
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 14: this bill. It will not be surel long, it will
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 14: not be mayor actable, pure vault. It will be the
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 14: citizens of Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it certainly sounds like you're on the right track.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: I can't fire her. They would have to settle the
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: whole thing. I just can't see any other reason around it.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: But you know, the other component of it is and
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: she was never brought in and even sat down and
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: talked to about the alleged problems they had or the
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: various members of the Cincinnati Police Department contingent apparently were
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: unhappy with her as chief. Thirty two people in the
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: report that were interviewed out of almost a thousand total
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: potential witnesses or people who could have offered their thoughts
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: and comments on it, it just seems suspiciously small segment
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: and it also seems suspicious that I am certain you
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: could go into the police department and find someone who
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: couldn't say anything but positive things about Chief Thigi. So
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: and if you wanted to.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 14: Know, you could have easily done a evaluation or survey
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 14: to the entire police department.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: And they do that from time one hundred percent.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 14: They do, Brian, and no way to know where those
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 14: comments and feedback are coming from. So you do this anonymously.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 14: They picked a specific number of people and why So
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 14: it looks incredibly suspicious on my part. Frost, Brown and
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 14: Todd waste of money. I don't know how much they
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 14: ultimately paid for it. It was like fifty grand. Here's fifty
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 14: thousand dollars to bury Chief Thiji and come up with
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 14: some broad reason of why they terminated her. I think
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 14: your point you made was most important. No one ever
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 14: sat her down and ever had a converse with her
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 14: about it.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 6: Well.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: I asked for us about that. I go a normal protocol.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: You know, if they've got a problem, I said, would
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: that have triggered at performance review? And he said no,
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: but at least would have got somebody give me you
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: sit down and you're going to talk to the city
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: manager about this. They're going to sit down and say, hey,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: we've got these these things have been identified to us
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: as a problem. What's going on. You need an action plan,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: you need to do something. It sounds like a performance review,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: but at minimum you have a conversation and set them down.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: She got nothing. And again you go.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: Back to her thirty five years of service and she's
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: got a clean employment record.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 14: So and that's from patrol all the way up through
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 14: the colonel, all the way as the chief.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: She has nothing.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: Well, and going back to the reputational harm, I think
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: you can put a point an exclamation point on that
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: based upon what has happened to former fire Chief Washington
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: since he was I would say wrongfully terminated. Now that
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: remains to be seen in the court of law, but
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: by all indications, it sounds like someone's going to be
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: writing from the city a big fat check the Chief Washington.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: But when he's gone out into the world, him being
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: terminated is a black cloud hanging over his head. It
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: is an impediment to him getting a job one hundred percent.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 14: And I can say that Chief Washington was searching for employment,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 14: was a finalist in at least one area in our
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 14: country and this situation cost him the opportunity for that job.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 14: And so the realcit you're you're hitting right on this,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 14: Attorney Brian Thomas, this is a big one. I think
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 14: that Chief Washington is going to get a bigger check.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 14: I just believe that he had thirty plus years of service,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 14: yet again no reprimands, nothing in his file.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: And the way they terminated him. I'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 14: I'm sure we have to go to break, but I'll
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 14: talk about how they terminated Chief Washington, which was just
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 14: as grotesque as as their termination of Chiefdiji.
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  Speaker 2: Seems like they should have learned something after that exercise,
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: and no they didn't. They were in the middle of
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: the big struggle with Chief Washington before they put Thieji
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: on administrative leave. Hey, hey, wait a second. You know
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: we got in trouble with Washington over this. You're gonna
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: do this now? Pause will bring Christopher Smithman back. Plenty
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  Speaker 2: of first we were talking about police Chiefdiji and swirling
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  Speaker 2: question marks about why she was even placed on administratively
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  Speaker 2: even we don't He and I both are an agreement.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't look real good for the city leaders having
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  Speaker 2: done that to her, and of course the liability that
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  Speaker 2: they're probably going to face as a consequence of it.
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  Speaker 2: So moving over, you said you wanted to comment about
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  Speaker 2: to was it Chief Washington? You wanted to elaborate on
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, because again we've been down this road before.
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  Speaker 14: So I talked to Chief Washington right after the termination.
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  Speaker 14: I consider him a friend yet again John Cranley hired him.
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  Speaker 14: John Cranley was the former mayor, so he had only
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  Speaker 14: been serving as chief for a couple of years at
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  Speaker 14: the time of his termination, but he had served as
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  Speaker 14: a fire fire person for over thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Years, comparable to Fiji's level of experience with the police department.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, one day he gets a call. He gets to
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  Speaker 1: Shiryl Long, the city manager's office.
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  Speaker 14: From this is his account, did not know that they
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  Speaker 14: were going to terminate him. Walked in, there's a lawyer
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  Speaker 14: there and the city manager. The city manager makes some
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  Speaker 14: kind of pronouncement that you're going to be fired. She
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  Speaker 14: leaves the room and leaves him in there with the attorney.
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  Speaker 14: Again this is Chief Washington's account of it as I
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  Speaker 14: remember it. And they begin to strip him of things
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  Speaker 14: like his badge, his radio. He had traveled there in
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  Speaker 14: his chief you know, washing his chief vehicle, so like
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  Speaker 14: he's in uniform. So they're stripping him of all of
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 14: his stuff. They walk him out, uh take you know,
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  Speaker 14: say we're going to drive you to your house right
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  Speaker 14: now he has no powers or shutting him down from
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 14: his computers and all that. Drive him to his house
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  Speaker 14: and just let him out like any other day. Like
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 14: that was the termination, no clear explanation of the why
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  Speaker 14: what they're doing Chief Yo, Yes, very brutal like. And
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  Speaker 14: the manager is not in the room at the time
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  Speaker 14: like she like like she starts off, then walks out,
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  Speaker 14: left in there with an attorney, and so at the
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  Speaker 14: end of the day there's nothing in his file. And
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 14: so there was this this group that had done some
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 14: type of climate assessment about women and Brian.
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  Speaker 1: What if you read the news, it made you think.
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  Speaker 14: It was sexual misconduct with some subordinate Never, never was it.
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  Speaker 1: This.
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  Speaker 14: This was about saying that firehouses did not have restrooms
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 14: for women. Maybe their uniforms for women, they were wearing
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 14: male uniforms, because that's something we had been working on.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 14: It was a climate assessment and they were literally dropping
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 14: on him, let's say, two hundred years of how the
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 14: fire department might be leaning heavily male culture. So that
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 14: was ultimately it, but that's not what was written. The
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 14: tone was that he was involved in some sexual misconduct
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  Speaker 14: and none of that is true. So what has happened is,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 14: first of all, he's won every legal battle. It went
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 14: to a three panel judge I think two weeks ago,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 14: and what was on the table there was a lower
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 14: court said that Sheryl Long can be sued personally. I've
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 14: never seen this before, meaning he has won everything, and
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 14: they're saying, not only you city have a problem, but
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 14: you said manager personally are on the hook.
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  Speaker 2: Which means Cheryl Long, not the City of Cincinnati taxpayers
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: would write a check for whatever portional liability that jury
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  Speaker 2: might find her responsible for.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: That really is a very very very painful thing to face.
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  Speaker 1: Very painful.
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  Speaker 14: And so she's waiting, as Chief Washington is waiting, what
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  Speaker 14: are are two of the three of these judges going
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 14: to say, we uphold what that lower court said, and personally,
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 14: this man can sue you now he's been waiting for
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 14: a settlement. Meaning I have no idea if I were
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 14: sure along and a lower court had said they can
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 14: take my house, they can take my pension, they can
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  Speaker 14: take everything from me, I'm going to act like I
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 14: have some good common sense and I'm going to come
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 14: to the table and say, listen, negotiate terms and let's
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 14: be reasonable. But that's not what's been happening. And what's
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 14: so crazy about it, Brian. The context is that prior
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 14: to the election, they're down in the bowels of City
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  Speaker 14: Hall negotiating the eight point one million dollar settlement with
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 14: those who are outrioting. So you have it in your
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  Speaker 14: capacity to negotiate terms right with people to give them
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  Speaker 14: twelve to thirteen thousand dollars per person who didn't give
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 14: you thirty years of their life per Fiji, per Washington.
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  Speaker 14: So we know they know how to settle because they
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 14: dropped eight point one million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know when you mentioned at eight point
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: one million dollars, I was getting ready to say I
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  Speaker 2: was thinking you were going to pivot over to their
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: decision to allocate that amount of money over to the
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  Speaker 2: sort of the music venue project. But all of this,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of whether you're going to go that direction or
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: talk about settling with the rioters that were in the
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: street and giving them each fourteen grand or whatever, we're
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: facing how many million dollar budget shortfall they claim million
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  Speaker 2: thirty one million dollars shortfall?
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: They can come up with cash when they kind of
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: want to, can't They They can, And they asked for
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: a tax increase when they got a thirty one million
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: dollar budget shortfall that they probably shouldn't have anyway. And
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  Speaker 2: I know you're going to talk a little bit about that,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: the cations and their decision making when it when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to scarce taxpayer dollar resources. And we'll have lots
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  Speaker 2: of time to do that and elaborate more on these
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  Speaker 2: other issues, because I know you have a comment or
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  Speaker 2: two about Alex Travinsky, you know, no longer facing charges.
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  Speaker 2: He was a victim in that beatdown that we had
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  Speaker 2: to witness when Holly got punched in the face, and
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  Speaker 2: so that was the impetus behind getting rid of Police
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  Speaker 2: Chief Fiji oddly enough. And here's I'll defend her all
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  Speaker 2: day long. And I always struggle with this one because
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: you know, Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles was out
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: of town and on vacation when the fires broke out,
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  Speaker 2: and she faced a lot of criticism for that. Of course,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: mayor have to have par bol facing some criticism for
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: going on vacation when Opening Day parade happens. And of
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  Speaker 2: course the criticism is mounted because of the brawls and
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  Speaker 2: the crazy roving gangs of youths that took over downtown Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: But neither of them knew ahead of time that those
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  Speaker 2: events were going to have outbreaks of violence. So at
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: some point you've got to be able to leave town
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  Speaker 2: and do something, at least in the case that the
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas with in studio Christopher Smithman, former Vice mayor
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  Speaker 2: of the City of sin seg going through the issues
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  Speaker 2: and behind the scenes on all this. We got to
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  Speaker 2: move over this being sort of the the police chief
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  Speaker 2: DJ placed on administrative leave, and so we talked about
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  Speaker 2: that seems very very suspicious. Clearly no articulated reason at
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: the time she was placed on leave for why she
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  Speaker 2: was being placed on leave. Again, enter the law firm
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  Speaker 2: retained to find a reason, returned with a very seemingly
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  Speaker 2: very biased report predicated on the testimony of thirty two witnesses,
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  Speaker 2: some of whom apparently still did say some nice things
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  Speaker 2: about Thiji, none of which came into the report. So
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  Speaker 2: the question swirling around that still don't really have a
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  Speaker 2: clear cut indication as to why that she was placed
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  Speaker 2: on administrative lead. But it happened right after the brawl
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  Speaker 2: last summer, involving, among others, Alex Stravinsky and of course
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  Speaker 2: Holly who's spent on this program several times, and if
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  Speaker 2: you've seen the video of that, you know she just
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  Speaker 2: got cole cocked in the face. Did absolutely nothing to
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  Speaker 2: deserve it was rendering aid to one of the victims
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  Speaker 2: of the beatdown. That was horrific, and she's still struggling
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  Speaker 2: with some cognitive and other medical issues because of how
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 2: severely she was hurting. So that's it right there. Again,
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  Speaker 2: Police Chief Thiji out of town at a meeting of
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement sort of you know, best practices kind of things.
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  Speaker 2: She's going to bring that back to the city Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: for the purposes of perhaps better policing here in the city.
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  Speaker 2: So that was part of her job function anyway, as
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: opposed to being on vacation. But the strain circumstances around
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: swirling around charging Alex Tchrevinsky. Now you recall Christopher wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the two captains on duty at the time would not
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  Speaker 2: sign an ARRESTAFFI David for that man. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember how close Police Chief Thiji was involved with whether
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: or not she refused also to sign it or not.
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  Speaker 2: But the enforcement officers on the street didn't find sufficient
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: information or didn't have sufficient information to charge him. And
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: yet enter former Assistant Chief Henny who did sign it. Yes,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: he had nothing to do with the investigation, but apparently
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: bowing to some pressure, he went ahead and charge him. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Alex has now had all the charges dismissed against him.
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  Speaker 2: There apparently was no there there, which is what the
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  Speaker 2: original arresting officers would be arresting officers determined at the time.
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  Speaker 2: So do you think we're ever going to get to
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  Speaker 2: the bottom of how it is that current Chief Henny
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  Speaker 2: capitulated and bowed to whatever pressure. And most sports, specifically
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: who brought pressure on the police department to go after
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: Alex Stravinsky in the first place, was that they needed
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: a white scalp in this because it was obviously a
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: black on In some cases, white crime optics didn't look
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 2: very good, I'll admit, But do you need a random
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: white guy to charge? Is that where you think this leads?
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  Speaker 2: And if so, who's the one that insisted he be charged?
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  Speaker 14: Well, remember members of council and the mayor and the
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 14: city manager and community leaders held a press conference more
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 14: than one at least two, and they demanded that a
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 14: white person be arrested.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, that was Bob Justice.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 14: Then That's what it sounded like, That's what it felt like,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 14: and Alex Travinsky was the was the scapegoat. And so
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 14: now following this case, all charges dropped. Clearly the pressure
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 14: was coming from city hall to arrest a white person.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 14: That is their language, Brian Thomas, that's not my language.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 14: They said, go and arrest a white person. So a
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 14: white person was arrested. Now a white person has been acquitted,
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 14: not acquitted, but all charges have been dismissed. So if
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 14: I'm serving as the vice mayor, I'm letting the community
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 14: know that the person who would sign off on something
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 14: like this would be the chief. I cannot believe that
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 14: the chief wasn't asked to sign off on those charges.
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  Speaker 2: It had already gotten national attention. The videos were all
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: over the place. I mean, Cincinnati did not look good
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: that night. So I would suspect that you're accurate in
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: that we need the chief to sign the charges. And
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: she probably wouldn't because she got the information from those
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: on the street and those on the scene that said
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: there's nothing to charge him with.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 14: And the person who would make a call like that
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 14: would be the city manager, because the chief reports to
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 14: the city manager.
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  Speaker 1: It most likely't be the mayor.
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  Speaker 14: The mayor would go, hey, city manager, I want somebody charged,
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  Speaker 14: and hey, this is who we're going to charge. And
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 14: this is just me speculating you're a train of command,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 14: and the city manager would call the chief and say, hey,
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 14: we've got these charges and we need somebody from the
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 14: police department to sign off on it. I don't know
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 14: if these facts are true, and the chief would say, no,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 14: you're leading a professional police department. I cannot believe that
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 14: the chief of police was not approached. So then they
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 14: had to find somebody who in the department will sign
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 14: off on these charges. And they found somebody who would
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 14: sign off, and that person now has become the chief,
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 14: the introim chief. So what's going to happen here is
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 14: expect community that Alex Travinsky's lawyer is going to turn.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 14: He's probably working day and night to file a lawsuit,
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 14: most likely in federal court, right because there's gonna be
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 14: some discrimination here because they were saying, go arrest a
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 14: white person. So if if there were a group of
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 14: white people holding a press conference and they said to
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 14: arrest a black person, God.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: That would make national news and a heartbeat.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 14: And so you're going to see a case that probably
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 14: will have national attention because the question is do white
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  Speaker 14: people have the same protections as every other human being
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  Speaker 14: on the planet. And the answer to that is going
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 14: to be yes, So I guarantee you that his lawyer
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  Speaker 14: is going We're going to federal court. We're going to
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 14: make federal law, no question, and you're going to have
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 14: not only putative damages. Because where does Alex Travinsky go
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  Speaker 14: today to get a job to operate in the United
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 14: States of America, having been having been arrested and called
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 14: a total racist and now all charges have been dismissed.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of flies in the face of the Black Lives
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  Speaker 2: Matter narrative that police departments are all systemically racist, at
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  Speaker 2: least when it comes to their treatment of black people.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you are walking through the issues because of course,
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  Speaker 2: Christopher smithm and having been a Cincinnati Council member and
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  Speaker 2: Vice mayor of the City of since then, knows how
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: the operations work. And I'm just really left on that
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  Speaker 2: last note. So we have the Alex Stravinsky issue with
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: charges being dropped and what cause of action he might have,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: but the idea that I'm still reeling over the fact
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: that no one wanted to charge him, and that there
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: was someone behind the scenes. And I guess since the
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: chief sort of reports to the city manager, I think
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: we're left to conclude it was the city manager who
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: demanded the head of a white guy, that a white
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: man be charged, which, as you said, was stated unequivocally
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  Speaker 2: in these press conferences.
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  Speaker 14: Now, remember the Vice Mayor Jay Michelle was there for
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 14: those press conferences. Chair of Law and Public Safety Council
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 14: member Scottie Johnson was there for those, for those conversations
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 14: and these pronouncements. The city manager was there the mayor
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 14: was there, meaning they all were standing there. I cannot
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  Speaker 14: believe that his lawyer would not show that in court,
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 14: that they're standing in front of the entire city. I mean,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 14: you've got the power in the weight of your government
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 14: saying you must arrest a white person.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe their defense, which I think is stupid, but
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: it sounds like it's all they've got. Their defense in
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: coming out and saying that right out of the gate.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: Is because at that time, the only video that I
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: think that was circulating was the one where Alex Stravinsky
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: kind of soft slaps that other guy in the face.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 2: But that was They didn't have all of the video
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: leading up to that moment in time, which is the
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 2: reason the charges were all dropped.
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  Speaker 14: You need to stay on this, Brian, because there was
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 14: so much attention on the slap and that people are
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 14: listening to us right now, Black Americans, white Americans are
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 14: listening to us right now, and many do not know
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 14: that the complete video was released and that video showed
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 14: that the fight and the altercation started before the slap,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 14: meaning the paunch behind the head of somebody who did that,
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 14: whoever did it, was before that, and that was not
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 14: the beginning, and so many people, Brian, when you talk
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 14: to them right now, they still because because the media,
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 14: the mayor, the manager. I'm not letting them off the hook.
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  Speaker 14: And this is why we are trained at city Hall
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 14: after the collaborate of agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Okay that we are not.
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  Speaker 14: Supposed to discuss cases until the investigation is complete.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, that is that is on record.
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  Speaker 2: Let us pause on that note and dive under a
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• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: the next hour as well, sort of wrapping up this whole.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: Fiji placed on administrative leave springing from the beatdown that
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 2: was issued on Holly and most notably Alex Stravinsky, who
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: was in fact chared a charge, and of course that
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 2: was none at the behest of someone, presumably maybe city
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: Manager Cheryl Long and you were talking about in the
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 2: wake of the collaborative agreement talking about going back a
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 2: while that the collaborative agreement requires that CINCINNTI council members
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: and the mayor, and I guess the city manager not
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: comment on matters still under investigation.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: I speculated that maybe they went off sort of half
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 2: cocked because all they had was that one slice of
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 2: video where Alex slaps the other guy in the face,
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 2: but that it was preceded by a whole bunch of
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 2: other videos showing that this was more an active self defense,
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: if I can call it that, than him unilaterally just
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: going out and hitting somebody, which would be a battery.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 2: I guess if you wanted to charge him with something anyway,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: those charges drop. Corey said, well, the entire video was
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: in fact out that they refused to show it. I
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: don't know who they is. If somebody's got video, they're
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: going to put it out there. Your understanding was not
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: that way, but we do know that they did go
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: off half baked, and they did ask for this white
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: guy to be charged.
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  Speaker 14: And I want to just follow up as we go
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 14: into break Brian and say, you know, as the former
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 14: chair of Law and Public Safety, right my position is
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 14: chair at that time, and Kevin Flynn being the vice chair,
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 14: we have oversight of the entire police department. I can
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 14: walk into any district anywhere nine to one one call
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 14: center and get just about anything that I want. So
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 14: if there was a video out there, right, and you're
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 14: the chair of Law and Public Safety, there's no way
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  Speaker 14: that you don't know or shouldn't know that it exists.
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  Speaker 1: Number one. Yeah, that's a good point.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 14: And if you're the mayor, right, you can walk and
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 14: get any of this information. And if you're the city manager,
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 14: you can go get it into this information.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: So it's not for me.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 14: As I watched it going, they didn't know, they didn't
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 14: want to know. They were turning a blind eye. They
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 14: were feeding into the narrative going into an election in
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 14: November in order to hype up the Black American community
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 14: here to vote for them, saying you're a victim that
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 14: they're trying to overcharge you. This is really white racism.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 14: These are clan members. These are Nazi members that are
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 14: in downtown. They were ginning all of this up going
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 14: into the November election to beat Corey Bowman to win
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 14: their nine seats back on council.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this was all about.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 14: And this lawyer is going to pin their ears back,
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 14: Brian Thomas, because this was a political motivated hit job
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 14: on this man, and they never believed that. They never
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 14: believed that he'd have a lawyer, that all charges would
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 14: be dropped, and the boomerang is now coming right back
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 14: in city Hall.
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  Speaker 2: That certainly is. And again it's just if I was
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: in that position regardless of how I felt, you know, politically,
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 2: that you would go out and demand and arrest when
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 2: you know you don't have all the information, you can't
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: definitively state it. And yet they went out and definitively
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: stated that he was, it was justifiable, and it was
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: proper to charge him. I mean, that just puts you
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: in a just a ridiculous position where you're you're going
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 2: to be played the fool down the road when all
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 2: the information ultimately comes out.
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: Brian.
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  Speaker 14: I've been in a nine to one one call center.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 14: The number of cameras that we have downtown. Could read
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 14: your wrist, you read the time on your wrist, meaning
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 14: there's so many cameras. Now my understanding is that there weren't.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 14: There are a lot of cameras in this section, but
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 14: there are a lot of businesses that have cameras on
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 14: there on their businesses, and that's where this footage came from.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: And so three CDC down there.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 14: For example, would he Steve Leeper, you could call him
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 14: on the phone and say, hey, what restaurant, what business
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 14: has cameras? You would never go out in front of
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 14: a camera without pulling all of the video.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you want to do that? You're gonna end
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: up maybe being played the full but you know, unless
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: you want to go out and say you could you
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 2: can see in the future and you were look, I
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 2: was right, I got the video. Now it proved me right.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 2: Neither which is true, you know, if and if Corey
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 2: is correct, as you followed up, you said the video
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 2: of Alex getting punched in the back of the head
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: was on x They being Cincinnati local media, newspaper, city government,
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 2: were the ones who refused to acknowledge it. If that's true,
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: that makes it even worse.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't.
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: I didn't have any of the information, and woops, I
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 2: shouldn't have said that because more video was ultimately released
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 2: that I've got.
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  Speaker 1: The point being it was out there.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 2: It should have been reviewed before they went to the
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 2: street and demanded this this guy get prosecuted because now
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 2: they look like fools. So and it does serve to
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 2: Alex Stravinsky's interest when it comes to a lot of
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 2: the time he files a lawsuit, we presume, which be forthcoming.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 2: We're gonna talk more with Christopher Smithman in the next hour.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 2: We got budget issues, we got prioritization, we got a
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: whole bunch of things. Oh and look, I know that
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 2: Christopher is so excited. We've got another skate park open.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 2: And guess who is there for the ribbon cutting ceremony,
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 2: Christopher Smithvan. Don't go away, We'll be right back. After
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  Speaker 2: the top of the UR news.
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  Speaker 1: We put the app in happening. All voters must show voter.
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  Speaker 2: matters to you, I corrected the record. Brian Thomas right here.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to be with Christopher Smithman who's in the studio
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: and extended smith Event's kind of what I'm calling in here.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: And of course we went through a lot of the
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 2: issues in the last hour of Police Chief Thiji. The
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 2: Alex Stravinsky thing didn't really touch too much yet. Perhaps
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 2: we can dive on into it a little bit, the
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 2: whole Iris Roly connection behind the scenes, because this is
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 2: very suspicious and I know you have some theories and
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 2: thoughts on that. And for regular listeners or for listeners
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 2: aren't familiar with who Iris Rolie is. She's a very
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 2: influential outside activist, well known for her participation in Black
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: Lives Matter rallies. She's been documented on video interfering with
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: performance of law enforcements duties in downtown. But she goes
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 2: all the way back to the collaborative agreement that we
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 2: entered into the city and the federal government to deal
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 2: with issues cropping up after the riots that took place.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 2: What year were those riots? Oh, I'm that positive man.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 2: We go way back on that. Wait, wait, it's been
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 2: over twenty years. She's been around for that long, so
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, she's gained a position of power and
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 2: prominence in the city, and she is currently a ten
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 2: ninety nine employee who's getting what a six hundred and
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars contract to engage with the community or
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: something like that. I know her son is making sixty
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 2: bucks an hour if I recall the figure correctly, doing
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 2: work with youths at government Square or something. So a
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 2: lot of we'll get that later. I know you, and
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: I think it's important that you chime in on this.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 2: How impressive are American military. You can say all you
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: want about whether or not we should be in the
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: situation in Iraq. We are waging a war right now,
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: of course, against the Iranians, but to see the American
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: military a plane gets down and we literally entered that
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 2: country and got the pilots back now impressive, absolutely. But
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 2: I think it's not only a reflection of how much
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: we have made by way of progress in undermining the Iranians'
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 2: ability to defend themselves, but also I think it speaks
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 2: volumes to the skill of those special forces team who
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 2: went in and got them out. I mean, every human
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 2: being in Iran, by all accounts, was looking for those
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 2: two pilots, which means when you send a force it
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 2: of two hundred or so troops to go rescue them,
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 2: then they are targets quite clearly for all of the
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 2: Iranians who are in a position to shoot at one
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 2: of them. So I know you wanted to comment about.
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  Speaker 14: That, CORW So you know, for me, I think as
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 14: an American all of us can appreciate in awe as
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 14: you've just described the success of the mission, you know.
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 14: And I'm going to talk about the politics because as
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 14: I watch you know, social media or I watch the news,
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 14: my sense is that people cannot separate our military, the
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 14: might of our military, the pride in our military, and
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 14: the White House, and so they they bring all this
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 14: together and they shouldn't.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: The can I boil it down?
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 2: As I understand that statement, it's we have Americans who
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 2: want us to fail in run because Donald Trump is
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 2: responsible for the decision making.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: I agree, period.
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  Speaker 14: I mean, it looked it looked like that where I'm
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 14: sitting there with a son who's in the military, who
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 14: did four years active duty in the Air Force, now
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 14: is back in the in the the Air National Guard.
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 14: So he's still serving and and my hat goes off
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 14: and Brian is I know his hat goes off, because
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 14: I hear all of the flights that go out, we
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 14: support the military, our veterans, and we extend our great
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 14: love and support for all of those military families that
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 14: are out there right now. But as I watched and
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 14: listened to think about the coordination of the CIA of
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 14: the pilot himself, mean meaning, I learned a lot that
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 14: they have so much training going into the situation of
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 14: how to survive and what they're supposed to do forty
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 14: eight hours, probably very little contact, you know. I think
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 14: they said he went seven thou mountainous terrain all the
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 14: way to the top and wounded. Right he sets up
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 14: some beacon something that's beeping that says, dude, I'm here
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 14: and come get me. But might not know that they
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 14: see it or they hear it, Like you know what
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 14: I mean, You're kind of out there all by yourself
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 14: with one pistol, what you.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 2: Know, one clip magazine magazine, Excuse me, you're a firearms
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 2: you know that. But I think I would have needed
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: several extra changes of shorts being in that position.
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 14: You don't know where you are is night, you can't
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 14: see you're You're in some crevice somewhere so this was
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 14: It's an amazing rescue.
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: There's probably going to be a movie about this. At
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: some point we mentioned that.
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 2: Before we got on air like these the Maduro capture
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 2: and this rescue would make two fantastic movies. And again
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 2: I always got to think about the people out there that, well,
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 2: we had no legal justification of going to grab a Duro.
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: And I might agree with that.
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, and I'm the same way on initiating a
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 2: war against Iran without some sort of war powers resolution
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 2: or declaration of war. I'm still on that, and I'm
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 2: not alone. There's some other congressmen and some elected officials
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 2: who are also still raising that. But here we are.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 2: I can't avoid the fact that here we are. So
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 2: I can comment on the simple awesomeness of those two
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 2: particular missions.
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: And to think about out the president right.
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 14: Notice I'm not saying who the president is, the president
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 14: of the United States making the decision to not leave
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 14: him behind. That is a risk for a politician because
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 14: everything could go wrong, and now you have more soldiers
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 14: behind enemy lines who are now who are now hostages,
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 14: and so.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 2: Many of who might say, well, those are boots on
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 2: the ground. You had to go into the country of
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 2: Iran with soldiers to get the guys out. So I
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 2: can hear that argument being made as well. But you know,
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 2: the downside political risk is, you know, if you could
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 2: let them, just let that person die or just not
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 2: risk these special forces going in and getting them because
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 2: of all the risks associated with that. The parallel risk
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 2: is the Iranians find that pilot and drag him through
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 2: the streets and subject him to brutal torture and use
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 2: him as a political pawnd to elevate their case and
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 2: bring international attention down and bring a lot more people
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 2: who are already angry about evil Orange Man and not
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 2: happy about the war, giving them an exclamation point to
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 2: put on their arguments that we shouldn't be there in
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 2: the first place. So, yeah, that was a risk, and
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 2: I don't think the Trump administration, any administration could take.
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 14: And at the end of the day, this is about
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 14: our military, our might, the training that they have to
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 14: pull something off like this. They're probably not a lot
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 14: of countries, if not any, who could do what we
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 14: accomplished this weekend.
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: We certainly many of our fellow NATO members. All that's
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: a whole that's a whole nother that's a whole other conversation.
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 14: So I'm a person who roots for our country, right,
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 14: I root for the flag, I root for the success
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 14: of our country. And it's disappointing for me to hear
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 14: people out there rooting against us.
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: And that's tough.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 14: And so at the end of the day, if you're
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 14: if you're listening to Brian and I think about if
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 14: that was your husband or your uncle or your brother,
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 14: and he has been serving the country, he's a colonel,
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 14: he's behind enemy lines. Do you want a president or
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 14: a politician in there that has a mindset of I'm
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 14: not gonna leave them behind.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what it takes to get him out.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 14: Because we saw what happened in Afghanistan, and obviously there
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 14: are differences of how different elected officials think this. One
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 14: said I'm going in to get them at all costs.
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 2: Well, and I mentioned this earlier in the program the
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 2: five o'clock Our Christopher, I think it's worthy bringing it
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 2: back up again. You know, well, Jimmy Carter apparently had
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 2: some measure of resolve in trying to get the hostages
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 2: out of Iran after the revolution. That was an epic failure.
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 2: Those helicopters all crashed in the middle of a sandstorm
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 2: in a desert. So that was a real, true embarrassment
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 2: to the United States of America, and I think it
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 2: suggested to a lot of people our American military forces
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 2: were not up to snuff. Clearly, they've been honing their
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 2: skill set since then, you know what I'm saying.
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 14: Clearly, these are some bad dudes who went in there
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 14: with no mercy. Clearly there was a gun battle at
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 14: some level because they had to be to clear it,
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 14: to clear the area out to get to them, because
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 14: you know, the country is looking for this man. There's
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 14: a sixteen thousand dollars bounty on his head, which is
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 14: probably could be worth a million dollars for them on
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 14: whatever the currency is.
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: But at the end, but at the end of this, they.
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 2: Spent that billion and a half in cash that Obama
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 2: gave him, nearly fifteen grand.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: Left over to give us the reward.
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 14: Yeah, people don't realize that that that was I think
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 14: it was one point seven one point four billion dollars.
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: Palla the cash man. That's that is that is actually
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: that is very true.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 14: But at the end of the day, I just want
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 14: to salute our military, salute the success of the mission.
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 14: And it was important enough for me Brian to bring
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 14: it up because I think young people who are on
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 14: spring break right now, young people who might be listening
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 14: to us, need to understand that there's a time that
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 14: you back your country, you back your flag. You say
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 14: this is my team and I want them to win.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 14: It's not about always like is every detail of this right.
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 14: It's not you and I saying like you just pointed
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 14: out whether you fully agree with the decision to go in,
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 14: we're in, and if we're in, we want to win
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 14: and we want to support that as an American.
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 2: And you know when you step back from moving aside
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 2: from the whole, should we even be there? Is it
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 2: legal for Trump to do this? Did he just go
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 2: it alone?
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 6: With that?
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: I get all that, I trust me.
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 6: I do.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 2: But if we do prevail, we will have benefited the
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 2: entire world. We will have brought a greater sense of
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 2: stability for all of those Arab nations that are right
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 2: there next to Iran. If they don't have I know
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 2: they know it. They're leaning toward our side of the equation.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 2: Iran is bombing it's fellow Arab nations, Saudi Arabia, you're
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 2: notited Arab emdment, it's Kakuwait, they're all on the receiving
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 2: end now of Iran's random missiles. Do you think they
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 2: want that? Of course they don't. So we solve that problem.
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 2: We keep the straight of horror moves open for the
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 2: entire globe, because apparently the entire globe is dependent upon
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 2: that narrow strait right there, and we bring about some
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 2: measure of stability into the future for a long time,
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 2: getting rid of the proxy wars being fought by the
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 2: terrorists because we've dried up their funding source. Now, trust me,
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 2: I hear somebody yelling at the ready. Yeah, but what
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 2: about Russia and what about China? Yeah, they're still there.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 2: But a world without Iran will definitely be a much
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 2: much better place, and most notably for the people in
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 2: that specific region of the world.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 14: Well, let me just say, forty five thousand Iranians lost
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 14: their life to this government. They were shooting them down,
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 14: you know, Venezuela. Venezuelans were saying they were excited about
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 14: this change.
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: Let's not forget that people. Now.
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 14: The only reason I'm raising that is that the Democratic
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 14: Party right. Their brand would tell you that they would
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 14: be for this right. They would say, there's no way
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 14: we're going to see forty five thousand Iranians shot down
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 14: in the streets fighting for freedom and them not lend
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 14: a voice to it. I'm questioning why so many Democrats
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 14: aren't lending a voice.
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: And I think that's what Iranians are saying.
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 14: If you go out on social media, that's what the
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 14: Venezuela and people are saying. What is going on with
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 14: the Democratic Party that they are saying they're against the
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 14: humanity of this because that's all about their brand. I
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 14: get Republicans saying, I'm questioning, you know, we're not the
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 14: police for the world, but that has not been the
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 14: position of the Democratic Party.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: There's something going on here.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 2: It's okay, when Barack Obama starts bombing Libya, for example,
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 2: it was all great, it was the right thing to do.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 2: They represented a threat, I guess under those circumstances, which
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 2: you can't find now in this particular circumstance. Also note
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 2: that the nol Kings rally, Donald Trump didn't send out
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 2: troops to mow them down. Correct, Okay, age seventeen right,
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  Speaker 2: More information about Hey twenty two, I think you about
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  Speaker 2: para City talk station Bright time until Christopher Smid in
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  Speaker 2: an extended Smith event to the end of this hour,
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 2: and Christopher I wanted to get into budget issues thirty
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 2: one million dollar budget shortfall, roads bridges, infrastructures seem to
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 2: be not even on the radar elected officials. I listen,
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 2: we can complain all day long, but do they really
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 2: need to raise our income? Text Christopher. They find money
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 2: seemingly anytime they needed the money for the music venue
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 2: where you know, down by riverbed. Where did that come from?
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 2: I mean all of a sudden next thing, you know
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 2: that since an orchestra or whoever's in charge has their
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 2: handout to the city saying hey, we could use some money,
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 2: and they come up with what was that eight million
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 2: bucks like that, no questions asked, and then now they're
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 2: talking about cutting the police department money.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 14: These are these are the bait and switch moves that
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 14: I see politicians.
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: Issue twenty two that was on the ballot, which was
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: to sell of the.
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 2: Rail railroad sale that was supposed to be the solve
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 2: all our problems railroad.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: Sale, that one that one. So listen to this, it's great.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 14: We have an opportunity, this is right from Issue twenty
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 14: two that was put in all of our mailboxes to
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 14: vote yes on twenty two. We have an opportunity to
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 14: fix our broken infrastructure in every neighborhood voting yes on
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 14: twenty two to sell the city's old freight railroad will
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 14: generate funding we need without raising taxes.
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: Here out raising taxes, that's right.
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's right. The Issue twenty two went through.
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 2: We sold the railroad. Well, why are they saying we're
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 2: going to raise taxes now, Christopher.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 14: Here's where the bait and switch goes from the politicians. Brian,
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 14: we all seen it. You were here saying Issue twenty
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 14: two vote no. You had the railroad spending five million
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 14: dollars on this kind of advertising that was going out
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 14: to everybody to vote for this thing. We lost three
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 14: hundred miles of rail all the way to Tennessee, where
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 14: we were generating about thirty six million dollars a year.
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 14: The biggest issue with Issue twenty two is that, in
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 14: a nutshell, construction inflation is nine percent, but the tenants
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 14: of how they can invest the money I'm a financial
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 14: planner is five percent, meaning they can't swing for the
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 14: fences and do an hour allocation for regular growth like
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 14: in somebody's four oh one k. They have to manage
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 14: it in a more conservative way. So if over the
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 14: next twenty years construction is going up by nine percent,
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 14: they can only invest to get a five percent return.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 14: Our infrastructure is going to be a disaster over the
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 14: next ten or twenty years.
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: It's already bad now, disaster.
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 2: They haven't paid attention to it for the last forty years. Basically,
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 2: how many road miles are we behind in terms of
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 2: filling poddles and repaving.
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: It is massive. It is massive.
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 14: But what I'm saying is that when we were dealing
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 14: with a railroad and we were negotiating their contracts, we
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 14: could negotiate those type of inflation numbers, meaning we're going
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 14: to go up by nine percent in order to keep
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 14: up with the payments that are coming from the railroad.
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 14: We can no longer do that, Brian Thomas. That one
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 14: point six billion dollars is sitting there. We can say
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 14: every day we get a five percent, five percent, five percent,
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 14: we are still four percent in the hole because of
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 14: the cost of construction going up by nine percent.
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 2: And there seems to be a big, a deafening silence
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 2: about projects that are approved and projects that can actually start.
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 2: Does the board have any say over the proposed expenditure
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 2: of money from the interest generated They don't seem to.
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 2: I know that the city manager came out with some
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 2: list of approved projects that had used up some of
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 2: that money in that allocation, but they haven't started and
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 2: there's no details known to the general public about what
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 2: those projects are and who's going to be doing them,
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 2: and have they done you know RFPs. Have they submitted
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 2: to open bidding?
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: Silence? No, we don't have any information, correct.
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 14: But this is an important point because we talked about
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 14: this before Issue twenty two passed. Yeah, we said, look,
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 14: we have full visibility on the railroad dollars because it's public.
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 14: Now you've taken the money to a board that might
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 14: meet down at the Queens City Club making decisions about
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 14: the money that you and I have no visibility on
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 14: anymore that we used to because the money landed at
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 14: City Hall, nine members of council and the mayor and
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 14: the allocation.
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: We have none of that.
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 14: Again the general fund right, well, it was capital dollars
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 14: that went into it, yes, but.
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: The big pile of money at least right there right there.
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 14: None The money came in every member, every council tax dollar, correct,
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 14: They came in and we would then discuss it in
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 14: the public.
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: Now we have no discussion.
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 14: But I cannot emphasize Brian constructions going up nine percent.
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 14: If somebody tried to build a home ten years from now,
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 14: ten years ago and they're trying to build the same
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 14: home today, the cost of construction is higher. It always
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 14: is going higher. And I'm letting you know that this
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 14: mayor pure Vall, who had his car repolled twice, right,
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 14: who cannot manage his own personal budget, sold us on
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 14: a one point six billion dollar transaction that our forefathers
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 14: had for almost one hundred and fifty years in the
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 14: city of Cincinnati.
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: Is one of the worst transactions ever.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 14: And by the way, elections have consequences because he was
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 14: overwhelmingly voted in again after that terrible transaction.
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I figured that phrase would be coming up again
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 2: on this show between you with talking to you this morning, Christopher,
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 2: elections have consequences.
• 2:12:24
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  Speaker 12: Abram fifty five KRZ the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: This eight thirty four here fifty five KRCD talk station
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  Speaker 2: went long and that last segment with Christopher Smith. I
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  Speaker 2: know you got two points you wanted to make in
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  Speaker 2: this segment, but real quick, Christopher, I know you want
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  Speaker 2: to do a reminder. It's an action plan for those
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  Speaker 2: who may not be registered to vote. Christopher, hold on,
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  Speaker 2: your MIC's not on. There you go the Board of Elections.
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  Speaker 14: Today is the last day to register to vote to
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  Speaker 14: participate in the May primary. It's also the last day
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  Speaker 14: to update your address in Hamilton County if your address
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  Speaker 14: doesn't match your registration, so you could be a registered
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  Speaker 14: voter and not be able to participate, meaning you cast
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 14: a provisional ballot. So if you've moved in the last
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  Speaker 14: six months, you've moved in the last year, absolutely go
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  Speaker 14: to the Board of Elections today. It takes thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 14: Fill out a card, update your address, submit it. You'll
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  Speaker 14: be ready to participate in the May primary. The May
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  Speaker 14: primary this year critical there are big races on both sides.
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  Speaker 14: Good point, and I would just say, look, my daughter
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  Speaker 14: right is now a registered voter.
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  Speaker 1: She's ready, So I.
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  Speaker 2: Still can't that man that he's eighteen, eighteen years old
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  Speaker 2: and she'll be voting in her first primary.
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  Speaker 14: And so all of my kids that are here local,
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  Speaker 14: they're all ready to participate, already to vote. They'll vote
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  Speaker 14: in the primary. And all I'm saying is that if
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  Speaker 14: you have an eighteen year old right now who's in
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 14: high school like I do, you might not have thought
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 14: I should register them before four o'clock. You don't want
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  Speaker 14: your child to register when they go away to college.
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 14: You want your child to be registered where they live,
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 14: because what happens is professors, administrators, different social groups try
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 14: to grab our children, register them to vote where they
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 14: are in college, and then.
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  Speaker 1: Direct those votes to the polls.
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  Speaker 14: It's another thing I always tell, and always Pam and
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  Speaker 14: I always told our kids register here and come home,
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  Speaker 14: or do an absentee ballot, whatever you're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: I like to come home. Fark.
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  Speaker 2: That gives you one more opportunity before they go and vote,
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  Speaker 2: to convince them which direction they should vote.
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  Speaker 1: That's what a good parrot does. Now, I don't have
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  Speaker 1: to listen to you. They don't. They don't have to listen.
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  Speaker 14: But I also look at them in their face and
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  Speaker 14: I say, understand, how you eat. Understand that my taxes
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  Speaker 14: being low affords me the ability to pay your bills.
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  Speaker 14: So think about that before you go into cats. I
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  Speaker 14: love you, Chris. That's great.
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  Speaker 2: Eight thirty six will continue with Chris. Thro got a
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  Speaker 2: couple more and some more points you wanted to get to,
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  Speaker 2: which we will together here this morning. But I want
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 2: you to get into Butterbermotors or call butter Remoters that
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  Speaker 2: go to the website butter remoters dot com lawn equipment time.
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 2: It's the season, and I'm so glad that I relied
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  Speaker 2: on butterb Remotors after having a terrible box store experience.
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 2: I got a box store re motor. It sucked. It
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  Speaker 2: counked out midway through the very first time I used it.
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  Speaker 2: I of course had to bring it home and pack
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 2: it back up and bring it back. And Jim Jim
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  Speaker 2: Keefer heard me the westside. Jim Keifer, my friend, heard
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  Speaker 2: me lamenting that one day and he says, Brian but
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  Speaker 2: herb Remotors. It's like really, yes, oh, and what a
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  Speaker 2: great move that was for me. I got Jim Herbert
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  Speaker 2: on the phone working with me, and he knew what
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  Speaker 2: I kind of what I wanted, because I explained I
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  Speaker 2: ended up with a commercial grade Honda push mower. It's
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  Speaker 2: commercial grade. It's designed to be used literally every single day,
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  Speaker 2: multiple times a day, and I, of course don't use
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  Speaker 2: it that much, which is probably one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: he said, it's a last mower I will ever have
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  Speaker 2: to buy. Built that well, it starts up with one
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  Speaker 2: pole every single time, with the exception of the first
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 2: poll of the season. That's a two pool job. It
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 2: gets a run in. They service everything that they sell,
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 2: so I have my lawns law more service by Bud Herberts.
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 2: That's happened before. They'll deliver it to you. They delivered mine.
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  Speaker 2: I was cutting my grass before the truck had even
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  Speaker 2: left the street. They know what they're doing. They've been
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  Speaker 2: locally owned at fifth generation Herbert family running the thing
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  Speaker 2: for more than one hundred years. You will work with
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  Speaker 2: a Herbert family member. They do know everything there is
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  Speaker 2: to know about the wonderful equipment that they sell only
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  Speaker 1: They've got it all.
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  Speaker 2: Trustworthy service, right price great and customer service fantastic. So
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  Speaker 1: Hey, forty one here fift you have KRC City Talk Station.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you've been joined the last, you know, last
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  Speaker 2: hour in this current hour with Christopher Smith, and I
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 2: certainly have going through all the issues and moving beyond
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  Speaker 2: since any politics to a certain degree. I know you
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  Speaker 2: saluted the American troops and God bless the American military.
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 2: Tough job they've got, but they are truly performing in
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 2: amid so much global criticism. But moving back to matters local, Uh, well,
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  Speaker 2: you have something else you want to bring up here, Christopher.
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  Speaker 14: Well, I think you touched on it, which we are
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 14: this discussion about raising our taxes and you constantly hear
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 14: the mayor floating this, we're going to raise our income
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 14: tax and it's because of police. I want to I'm
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 14: connecting issue twenty two, meaning the railroad money. The railroad
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 14: money and the promises made and the bay In switch
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  Speaker 14: that we're seeing right now in front of us.
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: This is the exact same kind of thing. So we've
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: got to wake up.
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  Speaker 14: This is not about cops, meaning raising our taxes is
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 14: not about cops. This is this is a council that
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 14: has clearly sent the message that they want to defund
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 14: the police department. Reimagine the police department. They've just asked
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 14: the police department for a five percent reduction. My point
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  Speaker 14: to you is that this is about, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 14: right laziness not.
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  Speaker 1: Wanting to cut their pet projects.
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  Speaker 14: Number one meaning they're operating a streetcar at five million
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 14: dollars a year. I sound like a broken record, but
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 14: it's real. Those operating dollars are competing directly against the police,
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 14: fire and sanitation, the operation of the city. Every time
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 14: you and I discussed about this, this is a streetcar.
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 14: We never said we were against rail or lightrail. We
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  Speaker 14: talked about the Capitol project. If you build it, they
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 14: will come. Now the operation of the streetcar. People are
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 14: not riding it. They're saying we're going to pay two
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 14: sixty five to ride it. Then it was a dollar
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 14: sixty five. Now they say it's free. Nothing is free.
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 14: Nothing's free. So we're spending five million dollars at least
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 14: a year to operate the street car. We're probably spending
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  Speaker 14: another five million a year to service the debt, meaning
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 14: the debt that was issued the ninety four million. So
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  Speaker 14: we're ten million dollars in every single year.
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  Speaker 2: My point forgot about that because when I think of
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  Speaker 2: the five million figure that you normally reference, that is
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  Speaker 2: just what we have to pay to keep it running. Yes, maintenance, upkey,
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 2: electricity personnel. Yes, that does not touch upon a debt,
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 2: service the interest we owe. So that's an extra five million.
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  Speaker 2: So that's upset. Okay, And here I'm glad you broke
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  Speaker 2: it down that way because you did remind me of
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  Speaker 2: that because Washington, DC just pulled the plug on their
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 2: street car. It's gone. Now that sounds like a plausible idea.
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 2: So if you're going to say five million a year,
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 2: which basically would prevent the police department from being cut
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 2: five million bucks a year, you still have a long
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 2: term obligation to pay off the money you borrow to
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 2: build the damn thing you do. That's but but you
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 2: still free up money. But here's the reality, Brian Thomas.
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 2: They're wanting to raise taxes so they can expand the
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  Speaker 2: street car.
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  Speaker 14: They want to go up Vine to UC. They want
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  Speaker 14: to go really bad. They want to connect UC to downtown.
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 14: And they keep floating this idea very very quietly. They
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 14: don't have enough money to do all the things that
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 14: they want to do. And at the end of the day,
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 14: the community must understand that the city is in the
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 14: business to keep us safe, to make sure that they
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 14: fix our infrastructure, our roads, to make sure they remove
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 14: our snow when it's snows, to make sure they fix
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 14: our roads and our bridges. That's what we're down there
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 14: to do. All this other nonsense that you're hearing them
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 14: talk about is just craziness.
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 2: Solar farm, I mean, that's not part of the course
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 2: services of the city. Since fists involved with building solar
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 2: panel farm. Ryan is so much more, he said core
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 2: core services. I could have said all that and just
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 2: said core services. No, solar farm is not on that.
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  Speaker 1: List and is not going to change the planet's temperature.
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  Speaker 14: Nor any way, shaver or for or is some type
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  Speaker 14: of entertainment location, nor is nor is restaurants that they
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 14: keep trying to shine, that they keep failing. You saw
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 14: what happened in Clifton with the Clifton grocery store that
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 14: now looks like it's going under.
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you could just name.
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  Speaker 14: The project that they decided to pick winners and losers.
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 2: But you know, the argument, I gotta go back to
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 2: this damn music venue, and I didn't think we had
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 2: the city since they had anything to do with it.
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 2: Long comes to CSO or whoever's running and says we
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 2: need some additional money, I guess, and the city says, fine,
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 2: here's eight million dollars or whatever the figure was. And
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 2: the argument that was made at the time, we're gonna
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 2: get a great return on investment. This money will translate
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 2: into X number of dollars because the new music venue
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 2: is going to bring in all kinds of people. And
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 2: I thought to myself, that's gonna happen anyway. If the
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 2: city doesn't pony up any money, they're still building it,
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 2: and therefore they will get the foot traffic revenue that
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 2: they claim is going to come in, except they connected
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 2: it to an additional sum of money thrown at it
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 2: by the City of Cincinnati. Which was not unnecessary and
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 2: I think pointless and also just really really blows a
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 2: hole in this. Oh my god, we got to raise
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 2: income tax and the city and since a police department
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 2: needs to cut its budget by five percent, no, I'm sorry,
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 2: you can't make this right.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 14: Last point, Brian, is that anybody driving around Cincinnati, right,
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 14: we are a dirty city. Right when you drive around,
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 14: you see trash everywhere. That's what I feel like when
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 14: I'm driving around. It's getting worse. It's getting worse. It's
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 14: getting worse. And I'm saying, look, if the mayor and
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 14: his staff are listening right now, clean.
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: Up our city.
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 14: Get people out there on the road, and get this
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 14: trash up. Do what you're down there to do. My
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 14: point is when I travel to other cities, when I
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 14: even travel just out of Cincinnati, if I go to
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 14: just you know, just go up the road a little bit,
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 14: all of a sudden, the roads look a lot cleaner.
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 14: What is it about Cincinnati that we can't keep our
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 14: city roads, our highways right off. Whether it's the Norwood Lateral,
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 14: whether it's parts of seventy five that are in the city,
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 14: or whether it's forty two Renting Road, whether it's pidocked hills,
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 14: whether it's Route fifty, why do they have to be
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 14: so doll gone dirty? And I'm saying the city has
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 14: their eye off the ball and they're talking about things
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 14: like this music venues and they're not handling the basic
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 14: core services of the city.
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 2: Eight forty eight, fifty five KR City Talk Stations, Noko
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  Speaker 12: now chucking from fifty five KRZ the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: At two if you about KRSIT talk station wrapping things
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 2: up a Christopher Smith and it's been a joy to
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 2: have Christopher in studio for the last couple of hours.
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  Speaker 2: Podcast is f fifty one kr SA dot com. Well
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  Speaker 2: thanks Sean McMahon for covering for the vacation Joe Strekcker
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  Speaker 2: right now, final comments, Christopher, I just seem to recall
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  Speaker 2: and wait, wait a second. They closed the police department
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 2: had District five shut down over their objections, and they
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 2: packed everybody over in District three, which makes run times
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 2: a lot longer. Wasn't that supposed to save a whole
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 2: bunch of money twenty million, twenty million dollars?
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  Speaker 1: How did that work out? Not well apparently, And.
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 14: They're still they're still in that that strip mall they've
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 14: putting The owner of the Strip Mall is loving it.
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 14: They're putting millions two three four million dollars into the
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 14: Strip Mall, plus.
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 2: Giving them all free law enforcement support. You never have
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 2: to worry about loiterers over in the Strip Mall hundred percent.
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 14: Look, people can follow me on social media at vote Smitherman.
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 14: I'll leave there. I've appreciated the engagement on on X.
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 14: People have been sending me questions and engaging us here
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 14: on X. So I would encourage people please follow me
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 14: in between the week of the Smith events, uh to
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 14: follow me on at vote Smitherman.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do that, And you know, it's always a
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 2: pleasure having you in here, and I welcome you know
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 2: you've got experience. You were in the role of council
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 2: where you were vice mayor of the city since their
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 2: former vice mayor of the city Cincinnati, and I know
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 2: you bring a lot of common sense and logic and
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 2: reason to this. And that's why when I see elections matter,
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 2: and I'll clear out, I'll close out with that elections matter,
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 2: and most notably because you're one a mixed bag of
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 2: folks least interjecting alternative thoughts and comments about what's going
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 2: to work and what might not work. You got a
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 2: lockstep group of uniform all Democrats, all blindly following the
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 2: same set of talking points given to them by somebody.
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 2: You're never gonna change things. You're never gonna get somebody and.
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 14: People can get to the Board of Elections today by
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 14: four o'clock update.
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: You're a registration if.
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  Speaker 14: You've moved between the elections, register your young people. You
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 14: should register to vote. If you've never voted before, we
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 14: need you in the primary to vote, so today is
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 14: your last day to participate. Register or update your address
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  Speaker 14: at the BOE in Norwood, and.
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  Speaker 2: We will be talking about the very important issues during
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 2: the primary as we fast approach the well the primary
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 2: date here on the fifty five KRC Morning Show. Folks,
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 2: I hope you have a wonderful day, thanks for tuning
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 2: in this morning, and I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 2: Most notably and given that it was Easter weekend, I
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