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Evendale Police Chief Tim Holloway -- 4/16/26 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Hey, thirty three fifty five CASS City Talk Station. Normally
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  Speaker 1: I'd say, hey, welcome back to the morning Show. iHeart
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  Speaker 1: media aviation expert Jay Rathlup jays on vacation and my
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  Speaker 1: next guest. He's a great guy. Chief Tim Holloway leads
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  Speaker 1: even to a police department. He's throw an empower you
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  Speaker 1: summon ar Tonight we're going to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: ofou that and Chief kind enough to kick your slot
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  Speaker 1: to the eight to thirty hours so we could talk
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  Speaker 1: with vivig Ramaswami, who was the late edition on the
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show. Thank you very much for that. But so
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  Speaker 1: my friends know all about you. Thirty five years of
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  Speaker 1: experience in law enforcement, patrol, investigations, drug enforcement supervision addition
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  Speaker 1: to your regular duties, Chief Holloway's dedicated more than twenty
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  Speaker 1: years as a member the Hamilton County Police Association SWAT Team.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond that, first Vice President of the Hamilton County Police Association,
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  Speaker 1: Vice par of the Shield Ohio as well as the
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  Speaker 1: President of the Hamilton County Associations the Chiefs of Police,
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  Speaker 1: and also chair of the Committee on Criminal Justice and
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  Speaker 1: Public Safety for the Chiefs Association. Welcome to the fifty
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  Speaker 1: five Kocy Morning Show, Chief Holloway, it's a pleasure to
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  Speaker 1: have you on today.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: And perfect topic. I you know, every single day, Chief Holloway,
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  Speaker 1: not just telling you anything. You don't know, these massive
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  Speaker 1: outbreaks of youths. They get together on social media, they
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  Speaker 1: do a takeover, they get end up getting in fights,
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  Speaker 1: they block streets, engage in terrible conduct, and I just
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  Speaker 1: I feel very diffic very sorry for law enforcement trying
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  Speaker 1: to deal with this. Not only do we have the
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  Speaker 1: woke realities going on in downtown Cincinnati where they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to arrest anybody, but we're broadly speaking, this has
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  Speaker 1: become a growing challenge for law enforcement. How do you
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  Speaker 1: respond to it? And what are you gonna be talking
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  Speaker 1: about tonight in your class?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Brian, We're gonna I'm gonna kind of walk
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  Speaker 3: everybody through what is the criminals system and how do
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  Speaker 3: we or how do we get to where we are
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  Speaker 3: and what do we do to try and improve it
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  Speaker 3: to address issues like you just brought up. You know,
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  Speaker 3: public safety isn't just an issue for police officers or
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  Speaker 3: prosecutors or courts or legislators. It's a bit for everybody,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, power you America. Their mada there is
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  Speaker 3: educate and and join engage, And I hope tonight could
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  Speaker 3: educate everybody, do it an enjoyable way, and hopefully motivate
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  Speaker 3: them to engage. And I think by understanding how each
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  Speaker 3: part of the criminal just system works. Don't know where
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  Speaker 3: to engage and where to exact leverage and who to
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  Speaker 3: express our opinions to.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the ones responsible for the criminal justice system. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we have law enforcement officers doing the arresting and gathering evidence.
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  Speaker 1: We have prosecutors taking the evidence of prosecuting cases, and
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  Speaker 1: of course we have judges who are responsible for bonds
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  Speaker 1: and meeting out sentence. Somewhere along the line, the collective there,
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  Speaker 1: with the exceptional law enforcement, I might note, has decided
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  Speaker 1: they want to kick the critical leg, the most important
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  Speaker 1: leg of the criminal justice system, out from under it,
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  Speaker 1: which is punishment. Punishments which act as a deterrence a
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  Speaker 1: cautionary tale. Don't do what Johnny did. Look what happened
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  Speaker 1: to Johnny. He got arrested, he went to jail or juvenile,
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  Speaker 1: He's got a record. Now bad. Don't do that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: isn't that the same simplest reality enforce the punishment component
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  Speaker 1: of the justice system.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when we started this committee last year in
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  Speaker 3: response to some of the high profile incidents, we were
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  Speaker 3: going to focus on three topics. That was accountability, cooperation,
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  Speaker 3: and transparency. And we're making some headway on the cooperation
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  Speaker 3: and transparency, and we still have a lot of work
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  Speaker 3: to do on accountability. We have law enforcement. When we
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  Speaker 3: met with some of these other partners in the system,
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  Speaker 3: we acknowledge some of our faults and we still do
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  Speaker 3: and we've met with the judges in order to.
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  Speaker 2: Try and get them better information.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, it is a
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  Speaker 3: judge that passes out a sentence and it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Judge that issues bonds.
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  Speaker 1: Well in a world full of again, not trying to
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  Speaker 1: insult anybody. Low information voters the lowest information, and this
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  Speaker 1: even hits people who follow politics closely. Which judges do
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  Speaker 1: I vote for? I mean, elections have serious consequences. But
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  Speaker 1: if you have an understanding of a judges percon of
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  Speaker 1: law enforcements, some are woke and ideologus and others are
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  Speaker 1: harsh on a strong on crime and understand the nature
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  Speaker 1: of the criminal justice system. It's so important that we
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  Speaker 1: get information about the judges as we go into primaries
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  Speaker 1: and the election. I'm not sure how to overcome the
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  Speaker 1: hurdle of the lack of information that's out there, you know.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of the things we're working with the Accountability
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  Speaker 3: and Transparency is to find a way to track the
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  Speaker 3: information right now. One of the things we discovered is
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  Speaker 3: the Hamil County criminal just system has not changed a
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  Speaker 3: lot since I first start working at it in nineteen
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  Speaker 3: ninety one. When you go down to the courthouse, everything
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  Speaker 3: is done by paper, and when you go into court
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  Speaker 3: room may in the morning, you have people from three
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  Speaker 3: or four different county departments writing down their own handwritten notes.
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  Speaker 3: And if a voter wants to look and see what's
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  Speaker 3: the average bond that a judge issues on a fellony
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  Speaker 3: three for a particular judge, there is absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: No way to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody would have to do public records requests for all
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  Speaker 3: the handwritten judge sheets and then collate their own.
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  Speaker 2: Database, and that's a daunting task. And trying to find.
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  Speaker 3: A way to track defendants and track how the system
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  Speaker 3: works and what's working and what's not working is one
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  Speaker 3: of our goals.
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  Speaker 1: That is an outstanding suggestion. I imagine with artificial intelligence
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  Speaker 1: these days, and you can easily accomplish finding out the
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  Speaker 1: judges records on pretty much any given statistic. That would
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  Speaker 1: be great information for my listeners and me to know
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  Speaker 1: about when we go into the voting booth.
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  Speaker 2: That's terrific. Well, I hope we can get that done, Brian.
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  Speaker 3: And this is a tall task, and when the Chief
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  Speaker 3: Association started this.
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  Speaker 2: Committee last year, we agreed that this was not a
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  Speaker 2: six month flash in the pan. We're going to make
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  Speaker 2: a public statement or two and pad on the table now.
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  Speaker 3: We committed to doing this for years and we're working
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  Speaker 3: with everybody, with.
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  Speaker 2: The judges, Prosecutor's office trying to get probation and parole
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  Speaker 2: to the table.
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  Speaker 3: Met several times with the legislators you had warned Davidson
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  Speaker 3: on earlier.
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  Speaker 2: We met with him.
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  Speaker 3: We met with the Attorney General, Daveyos from here in Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: We've had some discussions with the University of Cincinnati for
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  Speaker 3: some of the.
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  Speaker 2: Data gathering and collating that data.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a big task, but we're not gonna let
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  Speaker 3: up on it.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm glad to hear that because it seems to
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  Speaker 1: me that everyone has really concerned about crime and public safety.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a political issue from my perspective. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think anybody in any given neighborhood is against the
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  Speaker 1: idea of living in a safe neighborhood, which of course
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  Speaker 1: includes law enforcement presence. So I think you're on a
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  Speaker 1: role here. The time is appropriate for some reforms. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're gonna be talking about them tonight, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to encourage my listeners to either log in from
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  Speaker 1: home from empower Youamerica dot org or show up to
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  Speaker 1: hear you speak live at Scarlett Oaks Campus, three hundred
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  Speaker 1: Scarlett Oaks Drive at the empower Use Studio.
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  Speaker 2: It's great having on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you're willing to do this, sir. It's I
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to be very informative and I wish
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  Speaker 1: you all the best and bringing about some of these reforms.
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  Speaker 3: Chief Holloway, Brian, I really appreciate the imitating from now
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  Speaker 3: empower You appreciate your invitation be on the radio, and
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  Speaker 3: I hope people engage on this well.
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  Speaker 1: My pleasure on behalf of my entire listening audience myself.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your dedication and commitment to public safety
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  Speaker 1: and your career in law enforcement. I know it means
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  Speaker 1: a lot to folks. And keep up the great work, sir.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Thank you Brian, Thank.
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  Speaker 1: You, Chief Holloway. Empower Youamerica dot org is place to be.
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  Speaker 1: Stick around, folks. Got a little bit more time, Sean
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  Speaker 1: can Ope up the phone lunch. You have a comment
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  Speaker 1: you want to make. I'd love to hear from you
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I'll be right back. Fifty five KYRC. We
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