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Speaker 2: Hey forty five if you got KRC the talk station,

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Speaker 2: very happy Monday to you.

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Speaker 1: MLK Junior Day.

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Speaker 2: And if you didn't hear Christopher Smithvin heed his advice,

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Speaker 2: do what Christopher said during the hour long spleen vent.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the fifty five Kresday morning. Sure, Eric Conroy,

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Speaker 2: somebody's got to beat Greg Landsman District one. Can it

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Speaker 2: be Eric Conroy? You can find them online in ericconroy

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Speaker 2: dot com just like it sounds.

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Speaker 1: Eric.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming to the studio today.

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Speaker 2: It's a real pleasure to see you again. Brian, thanks

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Speaker 2: for having me. Happy New Year and it is always

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year to you too, sir. And let me

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Speaker 2: just thank you for your service to our country. You

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Speaker 2: went to the US Air Force Academy and then you

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Speaker 2: ended up in the CIA. So how was your time

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Speaker 2: at the State Department. I'm just kidding me, but I

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Speaker 2: appreciate and my listeners appreciate your service to our country.

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Speaker 2: By way of background, what is your what do you

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Speaker 2: do for a living? What's your you know, sort of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so a little bit about me.

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Speaker 3: I was born and raised on the West Side, went

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Speaker 3: to Utter High School and then the Air Force Academy

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Speaker 3: for college. Yeah, seven years active duty in the Air Force,

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Speaker 3: mostly in special operations. And then I did another seven

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Speaker 3: years in the CIA where I served in war zones

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Speaker 3: and in Europe overseas.

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Speaker 2: Living and shipping containers in Martinia.

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Speaker 1: Huh something like that. Yeah, I got.

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Speaker 2: I got a State Department relative.

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Speaker 3: After that, wrapped up a master's in economics and work

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Speaker 3: in finance right now and investing in so on the side,

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Speaker 3: I help invest in defense and aerospace companies, of which

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Speaker 3: we have plenty in the area, with you know, larger

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Speaker 3: companies like GE and right Pison Air Force base up

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Speaker 3: the road. So but now you know, my main focus

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Speaker 3: is this campaign and defeating the radical leftists that we

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Speaker 3: know of Greg Lansman.

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Speaker 2: And he is and there's a million places we could start.

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Speaker 2: But giving your you know, your data background and all that,

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Speaker 2: let's just look at the sorry ass situations going on

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Speaker 2: in Minneapolis. Our federal tax dollars. I don't think any

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Speaker 2: human being on the left side of the political ledger

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Speaker 2: cares a whit what happens with our dollars. They are

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Speaker 2: clearly not responsible stewards with our money. And as we're

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Speaker 2: learning more and more billions of dollars being thrown out

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Speaker 2: in fraud, waste and abuse just in minutes, Soda haven't

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Speaker 2: moved over to California or New York yet or even

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Speaker 2: here in Ohio where we know we have tons of fraud,

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Speaker 2: waste and abuse. This is an area that really means

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Speaker 2: a lot to me, sir.

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Speaker 1: It does to me as well, right.

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Speaker 3: And I worked in two large government bureaucracies, in the

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Speaker 3: Air Force and the Intelligence community, and I've seen that fraud,

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Speaker 3: waste and abuse first have and that is your tax

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Speaker 3: payer dollars, Brian, right, And that is your money being waste.

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Speaker 3: So that is your hard earned money being wasted. And

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Speaker 3: I'm very big on fiscal cuts and downsize in our

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Speaker 2: Well, and I'm glad to hear you say that because

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Speaker 2: you know someone who served in his military. Proudly, I

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Speaker 2: am the first person to guess nothing concrete to go on,

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Speaker 2: but any trillion dollar military budget, there's got to be

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Speaker 2: a lot of fraud, waste and abuse in that too.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's definitely inefficiencies. Rum.

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Speaker 3: I spent some time at the Pentagon, And there's a

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Speaker 3: great story I remember for my time there. General Flynn

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Speaker 3: my unit. And finally the assistant went to the general said, General,

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Speaker 3: it's about trimming the fat and making everything more efficient

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, it just reminded me of the

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Speaker 2: So maybe that's what they're doing, or they're playing video games,

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Speaker 3: A review is definitely needed, right, And this is what

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Speaker 3: I appreciate about the Trump administration, as they're not afraid

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Speaker 3: to take a hard review of how your money's being spent.

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Speaker 3: And that means our bloated government bureaucracy, whether it's Defense, Intel,

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Speaker 2: Well, Chucky Schumer just came out the other day, I

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Speaker 2: think it was yesterday, saying that when they take back over,

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Speaker 2: we're talking, can he be serious about that?

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Speaker 1: Look?

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Democrats, including my opponent Greg Lanceman, have

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Speaker 3: never been serious about your money or about the operation

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Speaker 3: the administration's approach of taking a hard look and looking

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Speaker 3: at some cuts is needed.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: And you know, maybe thirty years ago you needed more

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Speaker 3: have to have these massive government bureaucracies. Department of Education

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Speaker 3: and my opponent Greg Lansman and his party members do not.

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Speaker 3: They want to waste their money at the highest level.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I go back to the whole immigration thing.

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Speaker 2: They're protesting because our government is trying to get rid

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Speaker 2: and I asked out loud this morning, as I have before,

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Speaker 2: recipe for success in this country, that abusing ice agents

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Speaker 2: I can't buy that. That is a topic that resonates.

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Speaker 2: I feel the same way about the education that you

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Speaker 2: were just talking about. What parent doesn't want to control

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Speaker 2: where their child goes. Go ahead, go to the traditional

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Speaker 2: public school if you want. But if you want to

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Speaker 1: You're right, And back to Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Right, Look, this situation is concerning right, and anytime there's

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Speaker 3: a loss of life, it's very tragic. And this is

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Speaker 3: a very fast moving situation. But I think it's it's

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Speaker 3: And if you disagree with the policies, that's fine, but

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Speaker 3: you need to protests smartly, and that doesn't mean interrupting

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Speaker 3: as we saw this summer here with our brawl downtown,

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Speaker 3: Channel five, the interviewer asked them, Hey, what are you

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Speaker 3: doing at the federal level to solve the crime issue here?

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Speaker 3: Ant sir was, I'm working with Honda and Kia to

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Speaker 3: make sure their cars are less stealable. Like, does that

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Speaker 3: as your congressman? Brian, No, that's what I thought. I

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Speaker 3: don't even recall him sick. I believe you all day long,

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Speaker 3: but that sounds like a well backcrap insanity. Now he

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Speaker 3: some bill that was passed so we can buy cameras

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Speaker 3: or something. Wow, okay, cameras that were promised by city

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Speaker 3: Greg's money even lands in the neighborhood. What we should

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Speaker 3: to increase our police force. Right we have a shortage

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Speaker 3: of course officers. There are ways to get DHS and

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Speaker 3: that's hopefully in personnel, but in other ways too.

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Speaker 2: You got to get people that want to sign up.

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Speaker 2: They had thirty open spots for laterals. They had I

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Speaker 2: Joe says seven spots. Seven people for thirty open spots.

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Speaker 2: So all the money in the world is not going

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Speaker 2: you have elected officials that regularly demonize them and tell

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Speaker 3: And we need to get back to the basics right,

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Speaker 2: Indeed, any of the hot topics you wanted to touch upon,

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Speaker 2: we've of course dealt with the corruption in Minnesota as

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Speaker 2: well as elsewhere. The immigration problem. I got a comment

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Speaker 2: on that, where were all of these leftist protesters when

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Speaker 2: Barack Obama was kicking millions of people out of our country?

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Speaker 2: Or Bill Clinton was kicking millions of people, or even

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Speaker 2: Not a peep, not a word and here we are.

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Speaker 2: It's evil Orange man. It's only because it's Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: You're exactly right, Brian. And what's even worse now is

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Speaker 3: they're talking about abolishing ice or potentially trying to do

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Speaker 3: some kind of shut down the government ploy to the

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Speaker 3: ice operations in Minnesota. And this is absolutely absurd. And

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Speaker 3: this is how they try to screw over Ohioans every day.

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Speaker 3: Ohioans to shut down the government whenever they get what

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Speaker 3: mentality that we've seen in Greg Landsman and in some

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Speaker 3: of his party mates that just totally totally throws to

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Speaker 3: is why we need to change.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a petulant child putting the hands over

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Speaker 2: and trying to prevent you know, content from entering into

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Speaker 2: you and I can embrace all day long, which Eric

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Speaker 2: You help him out with his campaign action center. You

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Speaker 2: can learn about his issues. It's all right there, Ericconroy

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Speaker 2: dot com. Eric, I'm sure you and I be talking

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Speaker 2: it again.

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Speaker 3: Well, love to please send me on any time. And

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Speaker 3: we're going to defeat Greg Lands when this fall. I'm

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Speaker 3: very excited.

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Speaker 2: I sure hope so