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Speaker 1: If you do have KERCD talk station, Happy Monday always

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Speaker 1: made extra special and happy. I feel a weight of

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Speaker 1: talk matters related to downtown. Since are generally welcome back,

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Speaker 1: my friend, and congratulations to Camille your daughter.

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Speaker 2: See my man, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Man. Tell our listeners what happened.

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Speaker 2: So, you know, we had had a weekend of swim.

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Speaker 2: You know, girls from all over the region swimming for

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Speaker 2: times and their relay team, which was the two hundred

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Speaker 2: freestyle relay made it to State.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll find out more details today. My hat

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Speaker 2: goes off to all the all the parents you know

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Speaker 2: who are who have been sitting there going through this

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Speaker 2: with seating the seating girls, because it's a lot, as

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Speaker 2: you know as a former swim Yeah, for the parents,

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Speaker 2: it's a lot for us. My hat goes out to

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Speaker 2: the to the to the Seaton High School, the athletic team,

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Speaker 2: the athletic program, and then specifically for coach Jody Schaeffer.

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Speaker 2: I mean, she doesn't she's not getting any real money

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Speaker 2: for this. No, this is her passion and she really

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Speaker 2: is a great leader, uh for these girls on the

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Speaker 2: swim team. So we're really happy coaching Jody Shaefer. My

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Speaker 2: hat goes out off to you and to all the

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Speaker 2: girls who will be swimming for a state championship coming

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Speaker 2: up soon. So well, thank you, Brian from a from

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Speaker 2: a former swimmer, which I am not, no.

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Speaker 1: I just as you were talking about that, I just

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Speaker 1: kept thinking of my mom because I was on Barlin's

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Speaker 1: and of course swim from my high school o'll Kills

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Speaker 1: high school. But my mom and the other women who

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Speaker 1: it was all moms who would car pull us over

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Speaker 1: to keating that adatorium which is a half hour plus

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Speaker 1: least exciting thing like when you're watching a swim practice

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Speaker 1: as a student or as a kid who was swimming

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Speaker 1: for the parents out there involved in swimming, then of

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Speaker 1: course come to swim meets Christopher. You know this. You

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Speaker 1: it's over in like thirty seconds or less, and that's it.

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Speaker 1: Then you sit around a wait for a few more

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Speaker 1: hours for your kid to compete. Again. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's a tough sport. Everyone involved, they serve some praise

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Speaker 2: And the other thing about it is the conditioning that

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Speaker 2: second Yeah, I mean, you know, my daughter is constantly

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Speaker 2: So like those these these these are real athletes. People

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Speaker 2: who have never watched swimming or you know, don't appreciate.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'm telling you these are some of the strongest

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Speaker 2: people athletes in the world. Their full body workout aerobic amazing.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, my hat goes off to you seriously as

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I typically view my keating adatorium days and

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Speaker 1: I don't look back with real positive thoughts. But I

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Speaker 1: the benefit of physical fitness from it, Christopher, So you know,

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Speaker 1: it is a great sport if you want to be

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Speaker 2: Love you, Mom, I love you. I'm sure thank you

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Speaker 2: they prepared her spiritually, They have prepared her culturally, meaning

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Speaker 2: I just can't say enough about Seaton High School. So

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Speaker 2: but it's going to be a nice pivot into where

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Speaker 2: I'm going into my next subject matter when I vent you.

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Speaker 1: Sound station, so if you have Kercite talk station Monday,

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Speaker 1: of course we're in the middle of Christopher Smidman and Smidavan,

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Speaker 1: former vice man of the City of Cincinnati. I can't

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Speaker 1: the relay provided a pivot that you can get to

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Speaker 1: What's going on, Christopher Smitheman, Well, look, as.

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Speaker 2: As much as I'm honored about what's happening, you know,

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Speaker 2: if my daughter a Seaton noticed that there aren't any

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Speaker 2: school walkouts that are happening at Seaton. Oh okay, these

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Speaker 2: planned walkouts that the administrations are allowing kids to do

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Speaker 2: there marching out if you're a fifth or sixth grader

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Speaker 2: and you're indoctrinating them into protesting. But anyway, in North

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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, it looked like about fifty kids

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Speaker 2: I were Kroger, I would absolutely sue the school district

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Speaker 2: because you have a sponsored activity that you're saying kids

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Speaker 2: they just started running through the store, tearying it up

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Speaker 2: North College Hill, if you're listening, you owe all of

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I'll go back to the point I made

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Speaker 1: Parentis a Latin term which means that they put themselves

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Speaker 1: of Kruger, if I could be held responsible for allowing

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Speaker 2: I don't get it. When I was a parent, you know,

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Speaker 2: talking about where they get in some very serious, deep trouble,

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, the if I recall a statement from

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Speaker 1: these criminal acts in the Kroger won't be tolerated, they

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Speaker 1: It was okay for the other ones to leave the

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And if I'm a parent out there and this

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Speaker 2: to weigh it on that too. So if I'm a parent,

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Speaker 2: you didn't tell me this was happening my kid in

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Speaker 2: why this is incredibly dangerous stuff. To allow this to

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Speaker 2: real kicker. They're not even doing a good job on

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they get stellar academic awards for their achievement

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Speaker 2: Look, brother, I went into a Kroger. I had to

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Speaker 2: And that that the that is that is so condescending.

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Speaker 2: this is crazy. Don't use us right to promote your

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Speaker 2: It's not about African Americans. It's about using us right,

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Speaker 2: If you're trying to go into any federal building in

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Speaker 1: Require and white guy Brian Thomas, I was a member

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Speaker 1: I had to present my photo idea what I wanted

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Speaker 2: Did, and they and sometimes in some areas they will

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Speaker 2: I just want to tell everybody. I bought some Alcoa

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Speaker 1: That really bloils it down to its faris Elemen's Christopher,

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Speaker 1: And that statement comes from primarily a white guy in

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Speaker 2: What would be racist if they said African Americans were

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Speaker 1: That is not racist. Everybody, Alca Seltzer must provide a

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Speaker 2: And by the way, if I didn't have identification, they

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Speaker 2: She said, hey, I need some identification to buy the suit,

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Speaker 2: our border under the previous president, President Biden. We need

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Speaker 2: to get these gang members out of our country AFAP.

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Speaker 2: I don't want any city in the United States to

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Speaker 2: look like Mexico looks like today.

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Speaker 1: Amen, and maybe we've seen the beginning of the end

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Speaker 1: of the drug cartels of Mexico. Fingers crossed for that.

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Speaker 1: Christmas Smithman, we'll talk next Monday. God bless you and

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Speaker 1: thank you for your vent. I appreciate what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: want to keep your home safe and