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Speaker 1: You want to be an American back half the week,

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Speaker 1: got a love it Sloanely seven hundred WLW and a

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Speaker 1: big sports weekend head more on that a little bit

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Speaker 1: later and news involving Joe Burrow will have that covered

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Speaker 1: for you this morning.

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Speaker 2: Could be maybe possibly will we see him in action

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Speaker 2: against the Patriots of New England on Sunday. So you're

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Speaker 2: saying there's a chance before that. The city wants to

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Speaker 2: move forward on a plan to finish the banks, but

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Speaker 2: the county says we're broke, it's not a priority, and

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Speaker 2: we've got more disagreement between the county and the city.

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Speaker 2: The plan calls for up to eight hundred million dollars

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Speaker 2: in redevelopment over the next fifteen years to complete the

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Speaker 2: five remaining lots at the now twenty year old banks.

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Speaker 2: And we have a new twist Council unanimously approving four

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Speaker 2: million to buy the former free store food bank location

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Speaker 2: on Central Parkway that's next to TQL that's causing speculation

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Speaker 2: as a possible site for a new arena. All this

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Speaker 2: and more. He is the development guy on City Council.

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Speaker 2: That would be council Member Seth Walsh on the Scotslane show.

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Speaker 3: Soeth, good morning.

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Speaker 4: How are you moring, Scott see how Man?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, doing well.

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Speaker 2: Lots to unpack here, and this is so in your wheelhouse, obviously,

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Speaker 2: let's start with this new information about buying the four

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Speaker 2: million dollars a lot. I'm looking at the aerial on

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Speaker 2: Google Earth of this thing. I'm looking at it, going okay, well, uh,

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Speaker 2: it's next to public television, public radio. Across the street

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Speaker 2: is Queen City Radio, so it's in the shadows of

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Speaker 2: TQL Stadium. But I'm trying to see how you fit

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Speaker 2: an arena in there? Can you do it? If CET

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Speaker 2: goes away? Although I know they just spent a ton

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Speaker 2: of money on their their remodel. The other side of

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Speaker 2: this is a Duke Energy substation that's not movable. You've

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Speaker 2: got houses behind it. The neighbors don't want this going

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Speaker 2: across Central Avenue and keep it on Central Parkway. Is

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Speaker 2: this the site for a future arena?

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Speaker 4: I mean it could be very well, could be.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's one of the sites, and you know, Scott

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Speaker 5: to take a look at it. You know, it's identified

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Speaker 5: in the arena study that was done last year in

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty four as one of the four cential sites

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Speaker 5: for where we could be putting an arena, including the

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Speaker 5: existing location. And that's why this acquisition is so important,

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Speaker 5: even if it ultimately doesn't become an arena. Let's get

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Speaker 5: control of the land so we can have that conversation

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Speaker 5: and we can drive this conversation and make sure that

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Speaker 5: we are evaluating all the options and we don't ultimately

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Speaker 5: get strung out with somebody having control of a valuable

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Speaker 5: parcel that we want if we want to put an

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Speaker 4: So yeah, it absolutely could be an.

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Speaker 3: Arena possibility there.

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Speaker 2: So moving some stuff right of course, you know, we

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Speaker 2: know what's going on with the public public media. CET

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Speaker 2: owns the building in the air rights, the city owns

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Speaker 2: the land itself. Cost about fifty million dollars to move

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Speaker 2: this thing, and you know you got to come up

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Speaker 2: with fifty million.

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Speaker 3: Dollars to do that.

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Speaker 2: If that's a possibility, then certainly you could put that

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Speaker 2: right next to TQL Sadam and almost like what you know,

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Speaker 2: putting the arena next to pay Corp, which I think

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Speaker 2: Because now you can share facilities, you can share infrastructure

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Speaker 2: that that's good, But doesn't that then take away what

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Speaker 2: we're talking about from the Banks, Because I'm sure that

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Speaker 2: the entities at the Banks, and now you're negotiating with

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Speaker 2: the county on this, want to keep the arena in

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Speaker 2: its present location. A new arena if they're to build it,

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Speaker 2: why spend all the money in the Banks. If you're

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Speaker 5: End, well, the Banks, regardless of whether there's an arena

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Speaker 5: not like we would be taking all the supporting opportunities

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Speaker 5: not even close to being decided. And I think there's

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Speaker 5: Moved off the Banks, I think that's part of the

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Speaker 4: This is the front bord to our city and it's.

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Speaker 5: The last great frontier of how we can really rebuild

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Speaker 4: Frankly, which is what gets me excited about the plan.

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Speaker 2: Is this also maybe leverage because you know, the county

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Speaker 2: stand we're broke, it's not a priority. The ferris wheel

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Speaker 2: will screw up the Freedom Center on all these other things,

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Speaker 2: and you guys so far to the man and women

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Speaker 2: on city Council. You want to move forward like yesterday

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Speaker 2: go anywhere. You need both entities to go. Is this possible?

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Speaker 2: This four million dollar land by at the free Store

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Speaker 2: in Central Avens that a way for you to go.

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Speaker 3: Hey, listen, we've got some leverage here.

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Speaker 4: I don't see this as a leverage play.

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Speaker 5: I see this as having a vision for what we

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Speaker 5: want Cincinnati to become and I think for the future

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Speaker 5: of Cincinnati for the next ten to fifteen years. To

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Speaker 5: really put us on the national stage, we need to

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Speaker 5: have an arena and we need to have a thriving banks.

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's an.

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Speaker 5: Either or, and I think either location, any of the

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Speaker 5: can't just build an arena and not be solving the

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Speaker 5: banks situation. Yeah, and likewise, we can't solve the bank

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Speaker 5: my opinion on this is this is called vision and

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Speaker 5: this is called leadership, and it's not trying to leverage

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Speaker 3: Seth.

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Speaker 2: You can't control what you take your contemporaries over at

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Speaker 2: You don't control them. But can you do an arena?

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Speaker 2: Can the City of Cincinnati do an arena without county involvement?

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Speaker 5: You know a lot of people say no. My answer

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Speaker 5: And I think it's something we have to commit to

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Speaker 5: the answers to it regardless. Look at what we did

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Speaker 5: that's what I think is going to take to do

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Speaker 5: of this conversation. I would like them to be driving

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Speaker 5: be prepared to figure out ways to fund it even

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Speaker 2: What does that look like relative to financing? Is there

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Speaker 2: you can be confident in saying we got enough private

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Speaker 5: Well, you're asking a question much further down the line

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Speaker 5: very beginning stages of the arena conversation. But in the Arena.

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Speaker 4: Study it does specifically.

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Speaker 5: Call out that modern day arenas are being built with

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Speaker 5: about one third of it coming from private money. Yes,

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Speaker 5: that would require private epsteins to get involved. It require

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Speaker 5: figuring out how we keep it occupied throughout the entire year,

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Speaker 5: good questions to it, but again it's something we have

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Speaker 5: and you figure out how you're going to do it

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Speaker 5: from there, what.

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Speaker 3: Is the timeline in your mind?

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Speaker 4: So it's up to me.

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Speaker 5: As Jerry said, it would have been two weeks ago,

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Speaker 5: you know, we had been doing this. I think I

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Speaker 5: I'd love to see shovels in the ground by then.

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Speaker 2: All Right, I'm talking to council Member Seth Walsh of

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Speaker 2: rulling that out. Money is the question because typically as

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Speaker 2: Alsha Reese said on the show, you know, we're kind

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Speaker 2: probably not. And that's just the best banks let alone arena.

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Speaker 2: The banks have come before in arena if they have money.

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Speaker 2: Do the banks they certainly don't have money to do

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Speaker 2: simply we don't have the cash.

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Speaker 5: That's a million dollar question, isn't it. The banks has

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Speaker 5: never been done exclusively by the county. It has always

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Speaker 5: been done through a partnership. I think the conversation that

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Speaker 5: steering committee that brought this plan together. If there's a

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Speaker 5: steering committee that suggests these ideas. It is a lot

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Speaker 5: who are doing the planning and making these things reality,

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Speaker 5: to go out and find us these projects and these

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Speaker 5: what it takes to get the to happen. The resources

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Speaker 5: exist for development, we see it all the time. You

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Speaker 5: to do that, we need the projects being brought to us.

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Speaker 5: And so there are people including Phil Becker, came presented

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Speaker 5: the plan of reality now and that's how this happens.

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Speaker 5: And when they come to us and they say, hey,

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Speaker 5: we start answering at that stage, says Walsh.

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Speaker 5: And that's my comment that I made during council. Obviously

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Speaker 4: So it's not small, but it feels small. We need

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Speaker 2: Okay, the specific plans for this thing, it's going to

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 5: And again you're we're going down a pathway of assuming

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's really cool, is my daughter. Last

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Speaker 2: And that's kind of what you're proposing here. I know

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, when I walked around downtown, one of

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's just because you know, this is what I

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Speaker 5: When we were designing the downtown, when we were building

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Speaker 5: And we're talking about five plots of big acreage writing

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Speaker 4: Know, the core of downtown. We can do that.

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Speaker 5: We can build the next one hundred hundred and fifty

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Speaker 4: To want to be part of. You're right overlooking these stadiums.

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Speaker 5: That's an amazing opportunity. Like what's not recited that it's

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Speaker 2: Okay, A legitimate question here about the timeline is the

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Speaker 4: Well, And that's that's the point that I made earlier.

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Speaker 2: It is at the same time, you know, in circling

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Speaker 2: How much weight do the Reds, the Bengals and the

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Speaker 2: Well, well, development of the banks, but also let's factor

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Speaker 2: what we've decided because we're the power brokers. I think

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Speaker 5: Well, when you talk about the arena, and as we

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Speaker 4: And that's gonna be a big part of the conversation.

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Speaker 5: So if the power brokers quote unquote whoever that is

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Speaker 2: H the illuminati said that's the Illuminati. We'll call it

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Speaker 4: Whatever we want to call it.

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Speaker 5: If they want to go a certain location, they're gonna

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Speaker 4: None of these are gonna be cheap, but you.

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Speaker 5: Know, the future in the vision of Cincinnati is going

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Speaker 5: Hopefully that's the next one hundred years of success. People

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, And then I think the same

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly it.

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Speaker 5: You know, we're all a team, but ultimately we got

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Speaker 5: They have a seat at the table. They've been very

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Speaker 5: All right, team, let's make it happen together.

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Speaker 3: Got it?

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Speaker 2: Council Member Seth Wall, It's always a pleasure, love the Insight.

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Speaker 2: Thanks again for coming on the show and Ed and

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we will want to talk. But have a

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Speaker 2: wonderful thanksgiving you two. Scott, all right, take care, appreciate

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Speaker 2: your time as always. Let me get a time out

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Speaker 2: in some reaction maybe here too as well. And that

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Speaker 3: Don't you like you know what? You guys won't move up.

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Speaker 2: We got this, we got this interesting more to follow, Sloany,

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Speaker 2: Here's new seven hundred W Dowd, Cincinnati,