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Speaker 1: Oh, another big night on seven hundred WLW. Three hours

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Speaker 1: of live radio coming your way five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,

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Speaker 1: eight hundred the Big One. If you want to get

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Speaker 1: on board, I'm Dan Carroll. We call this the Thursday

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Speaker 1: night edition of the Midweek Crisis, and Joe Waddell is

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Speaker 1: running the big board in the seven hundred WLW command center,

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Speaker 1: so I want to thank him for that. Where do

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Speaker 1: we start tonight? Snow is moving in. If you're out there,

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Speaker 1: be more than happy to hear about that. Hear how

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Speaker 1: things are going out there. I know I left here

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Speaker 1: last night. Joe Wadell, how was your drive home last night?

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Speaker 1: Little tricky? Yeah, that snow is coming down last night,

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Speaker 1: probably the same thing heading home tonight. You know, you

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Speaker 1: gotta be uh, you got to be realistic about your

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Speaker 1: about three and a half four inches on the ground,

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Speaker 1: So we will see what happens. Wintertime is not wintertime yet,

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Speaker 1: but wintertime certainly feels like it's here. What do we

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Speaker 1: in one hour from now. I've got a guest on

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Speaker 1: this guy I've never had on before. His name is

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Speaker 1: what did I hold on once? Pete Caldwell is his name,

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Speaker 1: and he is a neighbor of mine out in Anderson

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Speaker 1: Township and a friend, a mutual friend of ours, sent

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Speaker 1: me a narrative that he wrote about an experience he

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Speaker 1: had downtown. And I'm going to read that here in

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Speaker 1: just a moment. But before I do that, I want

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Speaker 1: to give some props. Look, I sit up here and

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Speaker 1: I'm behind this microphone, and I hammer the media all

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Speaker 1: the time, but I also try to point out instances

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Speaker 1: where they do things quite well. And I want to

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Speaker 1: give some props to WKRC Channel twelve. And I came

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Speaker 1: across the story as I was getting ready for the

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Speaker 1: show today. It came across the story that they did.

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Speaker 1: Morella Porter is the reporter that did this story. And

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Speaker 1: they asked the question, why has in Cincinnati spent the

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Speaker 1: over thirty million dollars allocated for street repairs across the

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Speaker 1: city nearly two years after Cincinnati closed the one point

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Speaker 1: six billion dollar sale of its railway in March of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So they say, nearly two years. I

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Speaker 1: was going to say, if someone had told me it

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Speaker 1: had been nearly two years since that sale closed, I

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Speaker 1: would not have guessed that. So it was in March

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. This is the end of twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Is maybe a slight stretch to call it two years

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Speaker 1: nearly two years, maybe, but in any case, it's a

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Speaker 1: something along those lines. It's been a while, nearly two

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Speaker 1: After Cincinnati closed it's one point six billion dollar sale

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Speaker 1: on the railway in March of twenty four, people across

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Speaker 1: the city scratching their heads. Complaints about city streets aren't

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Speaker 1: hard to find. Some areas on Queen City are of

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Speaker 1: concerned me, said Sandra Oliver. The roads out here they

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Speaker 1: broke by muffler. Half of it fell off, said Brook Logan.

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Speaker 1: We need the roads saved. And they make a good point.

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Speaker 1: This money that came from the railroad sale was supposed

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Speaker 2: Spent on.

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Speaker 1: The late you know, the hottest social program of the

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Speaker 1: signaling stuff like that. Although, yeah, we'll keep an eye

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Speaker 1: hell some of that money may wind up doing things

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Speaker 1: It's almost thirty four million allocated and available for street

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Speaker 1: repairs and bridges. But so far about only six percent

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Speaker 1: fixed the money is there. Council Member Anna Alby says

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Speaker 1: She says, if we can't even get the contract of

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Speaker 2: The city has something.

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Speaker 1: Called the on track Dashboard, and I look this up

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Speaker 1: and it's got a breakdown of all the money that's available.

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Speaker 1: That city has projected received roughly fifty five million annually

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Speaker 2: Kind of money floating around.

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Speaker 1: So that's the kind of reporting that local TV local

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Speaker 1: Channel twelve on that one for reporting that story. Now

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Speaker 1: by Pete Caldwell, and this really points out it gives

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Speaker 1: Pete Caldwell writes, I haven't seen or heard any media

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Speaker 1: mention of a shooting that occurred Tuesday night around nine

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Speaker 1: My family and I were at ryan Geist Brewery with

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Speaker 1: got a call a few minutes later from him. Panicked,

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Speaker 1: he inadvertently drove through a shootout on East McMicken among

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Speaker 1: He found no holes in his person, but found four

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Speaker 1: they can do, is try to catch these slugs and criminals.

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Speaker 1: But the judges, who don't live in these areas keep

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Speaker 1: As usual, these perpetrators all scurry into the dark escape

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Speaker 1: another gunfight while parked in front of the Aaron Off

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Speaker 1: Center back in June June twenty third, in which a

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Speaker 1: police were slow and hardly responded, waiting until the gangsters

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Speaker 1: have obviously decided to do whatever they can to prevent

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Speaker 1: by media, and then he says you should public records request.

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Speaker 1: A couple of months after that, September, fifteenth to ten

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Speaker 1: everyone knows that they're immune to consequences. Of course, I'm

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Speaker 1: mayor perval, the city manager, city council, the pseudo government

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Speaker 1: organizations like three CDC have tried their hardest to hide

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Speaker 1: the reality of the violence and crime downtown. People who

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Speaker 1: have no ability to vote in the city, but who

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Speaker 1: have long kept it alive with their patronage and spending

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Speaker 1: My family, as Anderson townshippers, have heeded the call of

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Speaker 1: smashing grabs, just part of the privilege of living or

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Speaker 1: voters have spoken they value criminals more than residents, businesses,

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Speaker 1: and everything he says, everything he writes in this narrative,

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Speaker 1: you know it and I know it. It rings true.

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Speaker 1: And we have heard the frustrations from Ken Kober. We've

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Speaker 1: people who are downtown every day and in this last election,

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Speaker 1: I wrote on my social media and and this was

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Speaker 1: the voters of Cincinnati apparently once because they vote in

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Speaker 1: exact same judges that do not address crime in a

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Speaker 2: But for.

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Speaker 1: A small change in timing, but for being a few

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Speaker 1: Like when President Trump got shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, had

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Speaker 1: he not turned his head, we would have seen a

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Speaker 2: Had he.

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Speaker 1: Just been just millimeters the other way, it would have

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Speaker 1: been a completely different outcome. Same thing downtown. If you've

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Speaker 1: in anger?

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Speaker 3: I have.

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Speaker 1: That is a moment in your life that things get

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Speaker 1: very real in an instant, in a very quick way.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a building that you frequent

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Speaker 1: been standing there when that bullet came through. Those are

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Speaker 1: the kind of things that Pete Caldwell has to think about,

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Speaker 1: And Ohio wallmakers have sent a bill to Governor Mike

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Speaker 4: How you doing, Dan, It's great to be with you.

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Speaker 4: It's to be with you. And that introduction was interesting

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Speaker 1: Have you guys been talking a lot about marijuana up

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Speaker 2: Is that illegal? Now?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 1: But the whole notion, what kind of message does that

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Speaker 4: You know. I mean elections have concert and to stand.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, kid, So here in Ohio we've got uh, we've

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you you bring on some really good

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Speaker 1: have the you know, grow their own or sell their

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Speaker 1: own outside of the legal avenues that we have to

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Speaker 1: sell it. Now, what's your sense of the black market

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Speaker 1: that we have here in Ohio? And when it comes

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Speaker 1: to marijuana sales.

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Speaker 4: Well, then, unfortunately, I have no idea about the black market.

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Speaker 4: I I I don't use it. I don't know anything

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Speaker 4: about it, and I don't even I don't even know

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Speaker 4: if I know anybody who does. And it's I just

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Speaker 4: I don't know abouch about that. But I can tell

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Speaker 4: you that that you know, we the issue too that

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Speaker 4: the voter's approved allow for you to grow a couple

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Speaker 4: of plants in your own house. It also, the world

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Speaker 4: that we just passed allows landlords to ban marijuana smoking

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Speaker 4: and vaping and growing on their property if they want,

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Speaker 4: and and it forbids people from growing and cultivating on

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Speaker 4: behalf of other people. And it's interesting here too. We

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Speaker 4: also we prohibited people who are fired for marijuana use

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Speaker 4: from obtaining state unemployment benefit. So, in other words, the

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Speaker 4: law of Ohio might say you can use marijuana, but

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Speaker 4: your employer can still say no, no, no, not not

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Speaker 4: here at work and not under the influence here at work.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Well, at least I think businesses should be able to

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Speaker 1: have that, uh, that ability to do that. So I

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Speaker 1: think that's a good thing. Let me ask you about

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Speaker 1: another another issue. Agriculture is still the number one industry

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Speaker 1: here in the state of Ohio and twenty four billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump just passed a twelve billion dollar aid package

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Speaker 1: for farmers, the people that you know in the agriculture community.

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Speaker 1: Is this going to help them at all here in Ohio?

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Speaker 1: Is this just a band aid? Is this not really

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Speaker 1: addressing whatever whatever serious issues that that farmers and those

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Speaker 1: in the agricultural community have.

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Speaker 4: Well, the Ohio Farm Bureau and the US Farm Bureau

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Speaker 4: are obviously important stakeholders and all of this, and and

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Speaker 4: many of the farmers that live in my agricultural district

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Speaker 4: deeply care about what is in that farm bill and

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Speaker 4: the what I am hearing. I know this is not

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Speaker 4: a good answer for you, Dan, but the Ohio Farm

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Speaker 4: Bureau is still dissecting that bill. I've had farmers call

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Speaker 4: me and ask me what's in it, and I'm like, well,

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm your state legislator, not your congressman. So

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Speaker 4: we are still you know, I'm still trying to understand

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Speaker 4: what's in there. I don't have much information on you

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Speaker 4: for you on that.

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Speaker 2: No, that that's okay.

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Speaker 1: I just you know, farming is big business here in Ohio,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know, and it's the I should read

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Speaker 1: more about it. I should know more about it if

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Speaker 1: I'm going to I really I haven't talked about it

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Speaker 1: that much. But you got twelve billion dollar aid package

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Speaker 1: out there, and you know, farming is big business here

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Speaker 1: in Ohio, and and it just seems to me that

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of Ohio farmers that

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Speaker 1: that may or may not be affected by that.

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Speaker 2: And then how do you know?

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Speaker 1: Then I was going to ask, you know, how do

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Speaker 1: we get in the situation where a twelve billion dollar

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Speaker 1: aid package from the federal government is necessary for the

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Speaker 1: for the people farming in Ohio.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know the answer to that, but I

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Speaker 4: can't speculate that there is you know, there may be

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Speaker 4: some rampifications by you know, the tariff that Trump is

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Speaker 4: putting on certain products in certain countries, and sometimes they

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Speaker 4: pushed back by slapping a tariff on on soybeans from Ohio.

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Speaker 4: And you know, so since there's since that happening limits

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Speaker 4: trade from Ohio soybeans to Canada or Africa, then those

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Speaker 4: countries slapped, you know, a tariff on us, and we

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Speaker 4: lose a market. So it might be something about that.

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Speaker 1: We got about a minute left, Adam Bird, what what

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Speaker 1: are you hearing from constituents as far as electric bills

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Speaker 1: and energy bills go this winter?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm hearing, I am hearing a little bit about that.

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Speaker 4: And of course that sticker shock always comes along right now.

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Speaker 4: But remember Dan, that we passed House Bill fifteen about

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Speaker 4: seven months ago, which said we are not going to

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Speaker 4: provide at a state of Ohio anymore subsidies for solar,

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Speaker 4: for wind, for nuclear, for anything. We want the market

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Speaker 4: to play out and we want, you know, and we're

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Speaker 4: going to support in all of the above kind of

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Speaker 4: attitude when it comes to energy. We want natural gas,

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Speaker 4: we want coal, we want nuclear, solar or whatever. We

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Speaker 4: want all of that. And and so when you put

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Speaker 4: allow the market forces to work, sometimes they're going to

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Speaker 4: go up. But but I do think eventually they'll come down.

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Speaker 4: And and so you know, I hope that we are

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Speaker 4: putting in place policies that will will reopen you know,

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Speaker 4: energy producers like Vitra Energy, which owns Zambra Power Station

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Speaker 4: in Clarmont County. It's sitting there unused, and it's it's

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Speaker 4: in very good condition. And we're just you know, Vitra

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Speaker 4: Energy in Houston, Texas owns that and we need them

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Speaker 4: to open it back up. We need them to start

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Speaker 4: producing electricity again. And and and let's start employing people

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Speaker 4: from Climat County and that plan again. And we need

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Speaker 4: that to happen soon for people, and especially when data

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Speaker 4: centers coming. Yeah, we've got a lot of We've got

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Speaker 4: a lot of people who need that electricity, not just

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Speaker 4: homeowners but businesses. We've got Honda here, and we've got

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Speaker 4: Intel coming, and we've got andrewl and Pickaway County. So

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Speaker 4: a lot of good stuff happening. We need energy for

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Speaker 4: it though.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Adam Bird, with that, we got to run

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Speaker 1: as always, I appreciate the time, keep up the great work,

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Speaker 1: and we will be talking again before.

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Speaker 2: Too long, my friend.

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Speaker 4: Awesome, Thanks so much. Dan.

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Speaker 1: All Right, there you go, State Representative Adam Bird. And

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Speaker 1: the bottom line is Joe Waddell, no more driving to

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Speaker 1: Michigan to get your marijuana needs. So there you go.

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Speaker 1: Nine seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 2: Right back on the Big.

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Speaker 1: One, seven hundred WLW ten O nine Dan Carroll till

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Speaker 1: Midnight Tonight, Thursday Night edition of The Midweek Crisis And

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Speaker 1: if you were, if you were with me at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the show, I read you a narrative that

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Speaker 1: was written by a guy named Pete Caldwell who lives

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Speaker 1: in Anderson Township, and essentially he was telling the story

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Speaker 1: of his family. They were out at rhein Geist at

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Speaker 1: night and as his son was leaving the event preparing

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Speaker 1: to drive home, drove past the shooting that was going

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Speaker 1: on on Nick Mickon and wound up with bullet holes

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Speaker 1: in his car for his trouble. And it was a

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Speaker 1: real life lesson in what happens and how people are

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Speaker 1: affected by crime in downtown Cincinnati. We recently just had

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Speaker 1: an election where it appears the twenty eight percent of

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Speaker 1: voters who showed up are perfectly fine with the way

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Speaker 1: things are, and Pete Caldwell has graciously decided to join

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Speaker 1: us tonight to tell his story. In Pete Caldwell Great

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Speaker 1: to have you on and welcome to seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 7: Hi Dan, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you're here. The story and I read

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Speaker 1: the narrative that our mutual friend sent to me, and

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Speaker 1: it just it just rings true in every sense that

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Speaker 1: there You know, you talk about these these marauding groups downtown,

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Speaker 1: that we've seen the video of these running gun battles

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Speaker 1: that take place in downtown Cincinnati. We we know that

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Speaker 1: there are so many random victims who either get shot

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Speaker 1: or killed when these incidents happen. We know that you

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Speaker 1: sense the frustration from the police who talked to your

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Speaker 1: son that night. He was giving them all the information

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Speaker 1: he possibly could to help them affect and arrest, and

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Speaker 1: you sense their frustration. But everything you write about this

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Speaker 1: is it just just rings with truth from every sector

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Speaker 1: that we have heard from. But but I think the

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Speaker 1: most overlooked sector of all this are people like you

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Speaker 1: and your family, the people who really are the victims

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Speaker 1: of these idiotic soft on crime policies that we've had

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Speaker 1: so long here for you know, here in Cincinnati and

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Speaker 1: here in Hamilton County.

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Speaker 7: I mean, we're the victims in this case here and there.

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Speaker 7: But in the long term, it's going to be the

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Speaker 7: downtown businesses that are going to continue to lose business

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Speaker 7: if people start realizing the reality of how rampant crime

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Speaker 7: is downtown.

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Speaker 1: And that's the other part that rings true to this.

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Speaker 1: You and Iron neighbors. We both live in Anderson Township,

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Speaker 1: and I can think of numerous times where I find

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Speaker 1: reasons that there's player's plenty. Look, there's all kinds of

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Speaker 1: different events that happen in downtown Cincinnati all the time,

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Speaker 1: and I can't think of any number of reasons and

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Speaker 1: any number of excuses that I can find. And it

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Speaker 1: gets easier to find excuses to not go downtown, to

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Speaker 1: not attend these events. Why bother, you know, why bother

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Speaker 1: with the hassle and potentially becoming a victim of crime

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Speaker 1: if you don't have to.

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Speaker 7: Well, we struggle with that for years. My family loved

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Speaker 7: going downtown. I used to like going downtown, but I

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Speaker 7: can't separate myself from the statistics. And I know daytime

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Speaker 7: is different than nighttime, but we were only down there

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Speaker 7: at seven PM. My son left Ryan guys at nine thirty.

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Speaker 7: That's not real late. And I always tell the kids,

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Speaker 7: you know, they're like, you know, most most crime is targeted.

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Speaker 7: You keep hearing the stories on the media. Most of

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Speaker 7: the crime is targeted usually know you're you know your assailants.

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Speaker 7: There's very little random violence. Well I don't agree with

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Speaker 7: that because my daughter works downtown and she tells me

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Speaker 7: all the time about these unreported stories. More shoe jings,

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Speaker 7: more fights, more kids running down the street, cops chasing them,

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Speaker 7: not than ever makes the media very rarely unless somebody,

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Speaker 7: you know, a citizen, captures it on their own phone,

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Speaker 7: puts it on social media, and that gives the media

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Speaker 7: sort of sort of primes the pump that they can

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Speaker 7: then cover story. But there's so many stories and so

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Speaker 7: many incidents that are unreported, they don't show up on statistics.

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Speaker 7: Therefore the mayor can go out there and say crime

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Speaker 7: can be down. Well, maybe it is. The reports are

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Speaker 7: down because people are reporting it. But I mean, I

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Speaker 7: love downtown, love going down there. That's where the nice

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Speaker 7: bars are, the nice restaurants. And I've always told the kids,

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Speaker 7: you know, still got to keep your eye open. And

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Speaker 7: here's the example of my son. He was not involved

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Speaker 7: in anything, just went through the crossfire and luckily he's

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Speaker 7: still find his car, still run somehow.

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Speaker 1: How has that affected him that he was that close

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Speaker 1: to becoming of well, he was a victimy the way.

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Speaker 1: I mean his car got hit with bullets. But has

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Speaker 1: that affected him? I mean, you know, I was talking

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Speaker 1: about this in the first segment. I've had a gun

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Speaker 1: pointed at me in anger before. I know what that

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Speaker 1: feeling is. And to realize that you were literally just

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Speaker 1: inches away or millimeters away, or had he been going

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Speaker 1: you know, had he left the bar a minute earlier,

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Speaker 1: a minute later. I mean that sort of thing is

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Speaker 1: how's he dealing with that, that sort of reality?

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Speaker 7: Amazingly? Well? I asked him, I said, did you sleep well?

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Speaker 7: Did you go to sleep? I couldn't sleep that night,

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Speaker 7: Just thinking run into my mind. You know where we

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Speaker 7: could be tonight. We could be in the hospital, we

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Speaker 7: could be playing funerals. He didn't seem to be too

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Speaker 7: bothered by it roll off of him. But it just

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Speaker 7: once again, is that I've been warning these kids for years.

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Speaker 7: You know, something can happen down there. There's things that

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Speaker 7: happen that won't probably happen in airstonnship. When you get

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Speaker 7: down there, you're taking some risk on now. I keep

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Speaker 7: telling I've been using an analogy in the last couple of

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Speaker 7: days here of if somebody knew there was a landmine

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Speaker 7: or a bomb in the middle of a one hundred

656
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 7: acre park. Yeah, the odds are probably one in ten million.

657
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 7: You're going to step on it. But there's no way

658
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 7: anyone would go in that park, and there's no way

659
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 7: the government would let you go in the park. They'd

660
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 7: lock it down. But we know that the odds of

661
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 7: something bad happening, whether it's just crime minor crime mugging,

662
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 7: windows broken out, or you can catch a bullet, they're

663
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 7: much higher than that. But as part of what we're

664
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 7: considering normal. And I don't know what normal is anymore,

665
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,800
Speaker 7: because I guess it's normal now to walk down the

666
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 7: street and smew weed. Normal to see defecation on the

667
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 7: streets down some of those areas downtown. It's normal to

668
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 7: see the panhandlers chasing down the street demanding money. Things

669
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 7: are becoming normal, and maybe random gunfire is supposed to normal.

670
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: Well, I'm like you, I would like to think that

671
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: that's not normal for downtown Cincinnati. I would like to

672
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: think that we still live in you know, we just

673
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: had a settlement that went out eight point one million

674
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 1: dollars that is going to get paid to people who

675
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 1: were rioting and disobeying lawful commands by police to disperse

676
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: in violation of a curfew that was put in place

677
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: by Mayor John Cranley. And I would like to think that,

678
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: you know, we don't have those sorts of things that

679
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: go on in downtown Cincinnati. I like to think that

680
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: where we live in Anderson Township, when will you hear

681
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: crime reports? Very seldom? And I think we live in

682
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: a place where we do not want to tolerate that.

683
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,760
Speaker 1: And we wouldn't put up for one minute if the

684
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: sheriff's deputies that patrol Anderson Township would just turn a

685
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: blind eye to that and let that sort of thing slide.

686
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: And I don't think law enforcement in the City of

687
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 1: Cincinnati does that, But I think we have I think

688
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: we have judges, and we have political leadership that doesn't

689
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: really want to address that in a serious way. When

690
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: when the election season was going on and Corey Bowman

691
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: was running for mayor, did you were you like me,

692
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: did you hold out hope that he might have a

693
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: chance that he was talking to people about addressing these

694
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: issues in a serious way in a meaningful way that

695
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: could just electing a new mayor isn't going to change

696
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: the outlook on crime overnight, but maybe bring a new

697
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,280
Speaker 1: sense to city Hall and a new way of dealing

698
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: with this. Did you hold out hope that maybe he

699
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 1: might have a chance of breaking through and hopefully at

700
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: least be the beginning of some sort of change in

701
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: the way this issue is looked at at city Hall.

702
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 7: Well, I was hoping, and I guess I could never

703
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 7: imagine that he couldn't get more than twenty percent of

704
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 7: the vote. Yeah, but I think most of the voters

705
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 7: in Cincinnati get that little blue ticket when they get

706
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 7: to the ballot box, just go down the line checking these.

707
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: How disappointing is that though, because he because you said,

708
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, you're you're a guy that you like that,

709
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: you like coming downtown, you like what what downtown has

710
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: to offer, and now you have to seriously think twice

711
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: before you before you pull the trigger on that.

712
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 7: Well, especially since you're paying for it. I mean it

713
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 7: sort of feel a little bit of the taxation and orbitanation.

714
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 7: I mean word in Helda County, we take big taxes,

715
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 7: We have poppy taxes, we have levies going and we

716
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 7: have zoo levees, we have paying for the stadiums or

717
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 7: paying for all kinds of stuff. And you think you

718
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 7: should have a little saying things, but you really have none.

719
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 7: And I was a city worker retired from the city.

720
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 7: So I've paid this city taxes for twenty seven years.

721
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 7: And you think you have some saying, you really don't.

722
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 7: You just pay and you go down there and some

723
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,760
Speaker 7: else does and affects the uh, the government.

724
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: So you're actually retired or from working for the city. Yes,

725
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,959
Speaker 1: WHATSD You worked for MSD for how long?

726
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 7: Twenty seven years?

727
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: Metropolitan Sewartistics. So did you were you over there in

728
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 1: Queen's Gate every.

729
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,320
Speaker 7: Day, every day, all down the city every day.

730
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: In Queensgate, all around the city generally speaking, in the

731
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: time that you spent working with the city, did you

732
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 1: have any concerns about going out and doing your job

733
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, going to different parts of the

734
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: city on a on a regular basis to do the

735
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: work you had to do.

736
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 7: You knew what areas were very dangerous, but there weren't

737
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 7: as many dangerous areas. They were pretty much defined that

738
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 7: this is an area that scen area. Maybe you bring

739
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 7: a buddy with you, just to have some extra eyes

740
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 7: on site. But I take the last last ten ten

741
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 7: to fifteen years, it changed and you never know where

742
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 7: you could go.

743
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: So you saw a change in the time that you

744
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 1: were that you were working for the city. Is there

745
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: anything that you can put your finger on that that

746
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 1: caused this to change?

747
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 7: Not really. I mean, I think we used to have

748
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 7: a little more of a mixed city council. We had

749
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 7: a mixed county commissioners. We have some Republicans, we have

750
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 7: some Democrats, we have some charter rights on city and

751
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 7: now it's pretty much one party, one group of one

752
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,240
Speaker 7: way of thinking. And I mean, so many areas downtown

753
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 7: have gotten nice. So I feel I don't know if

754
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 7: I'm more mad, angry or just sad that we spent

755
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 7: so much money and product people spent so much money

756
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 7: building up these businesses in these restaurants and Bye Street

757
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 7: and Main Street, and we saw what happened in the nineties.

758
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 7: We had a beautiful Main Street did Bar district down

759
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 7: there that came up mostly prod of money. Was a

760
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 7: very little government involvement. That's sort of before the v

761
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:53,919
Speaker 7: CDC people got involved, and it was a great place

762
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,240
Speaker 7: to go. It was a little dangerous on the outskirts,

763
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 7: but you felt like you were Low Island and there's

764
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 7: cops walking around. You felt some much safe and that

765
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 7: little little island. And then you know, Riot two thousand and one.

766
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 7: Riots came and I watched the police not enforced things,

767
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 7: and they were cold, not to enforce rules. And next thing,

768
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 7: you know, most of the restaurants, bars closed. Now they're

769
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 7: coming back up again a little bit little, but you

770
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 7: hate to see that kind of waste. And I'm afraid

771
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 7: we're gonna see it in Vine Street and you were

772
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 7: seeing the banks. The bank's supposed to have all this

773
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 7: great promise, and now you go down there and it's

774
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 7: not what it was five years ago. It's you know,

775
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 7: they they've affected the uh, the curfews and they don't

776
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 7: really work, and they get the little kids out, but

777
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 7: it's definitely once it gets dark, it's a much rougherreer

778
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 7: than it was imagined you know ten years ago.

779
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: Well, uh, Pete, when when you talk to other people

780
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,280
Speaker 1: that who were your neighbors and your friends and Anderson Township,

781
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: do you get the same sort of feeling from them

782
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,800
Speaker 1: that like I have that look if we're going to

783
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: go out and do something that Downtown's not necessarily going

784
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: to be my first choice, or my second choice or

785
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: my third choice.

786
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 7: I think everybody likes the idea of going downtown. They

787
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 7: feel a little safer about doing it during the day.

788
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:19,839
Speaker 7: But I think the ideas are going down there and

789
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 7: night timing.

790
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 2: That's these days are over.

791
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 7: Most people I talk to, they're like, I want to

792
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:25,439
Speaker 7: not be down there after dark.

793
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're going to go downtown, maybe go to

794
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: a Reds game, go to a Bengals game, go to

795
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: an event. It's you go downtown, you go to the event,

796
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: you leave, you don't want to you don't want to

797
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: hang around. And that's It's a shame, isn't it. I mean, really,

798
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: it's just it's just a shame that I mean, it

799
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,760
Speaker 1: was that crime was the number one issue during the campaign,

800
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: and we are going to be talking about, you know, tomorrow,

801
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: will be talking about hopefully they can get the roads

802
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: cleared when the snow comes. But uh, you know, we'll

803
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: be talking about crime for a long time to come

804
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: because we know that it at least in this latest

805
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: election cycle, it has not been addressed in any way.

806
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 2: That's going to make any difference.

807
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 7: Absolutely, And at least if you go down here during

808
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 7: the days on a big event day, you've got many

809
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 7: cops down there directing traffic, supporting the event, so you

810
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 7: feel definitely much safer. So you go down the evenings,

811
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 7: you might not see any cops all night.

812
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, Well, Pete Caldwell, did you write so

813
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: this narrative that I read here?

814
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 2: Did you write? Did you send this into the Inquirer

815
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 2: or the paper or.

816
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 7: I sent it to the Inquirer. I've stayed to a

817
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 7: couple of talk show guys.

818
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 2: Is the quire going to print to you know?

819
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 7: I receive nothing.

820
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 2: Back, so no idea, Well they should.

821
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: I think it's really I think it's really well written

822
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: and really well done. And Pete Caldwell, I appreciate you

823
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: taking the time to tell your story here on the

824
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: radio tonight.

825
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me.

826
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 2: You're hearing it all right.

827
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: And I know you're an army guy. Who do you

828
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: like in the Army Navy game this weekend?

829
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 7: Definitely not to.

830
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 2: Pete Caldwell.

831
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: Thank you for your service and uh you have a

832
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: great night and all the best to you and your family.

833
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 1: Great talking to you tonight. I really appreciate it, all right,

834
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: good night, all right, there you go, Pete Caldwell and

835
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this five one three, seven four nine,

836
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 1: seven hundred The Big One, Joe Waddell, let's go ahead

837
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: and open up the phone lines as we roll on

838
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: till midnight tonight on seven hundred WLW back on the

839
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: Big One, seven hundred WLW ten thirty eight. Want to

840
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 1: think Pete Caldwell coming on and telling his story about

841
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: being downtown, his son, the families at ryan Geist the

842
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: sun leaves, gets caught up in a a gang shooting

843
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: I guess it was. And then and his daughter who

844
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: works downtown, has had her car windows busted out, got

845
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: pepper sprayed or maced by some ten or twelve year

846
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: old kids. She's been caught up in a gunfight as well.

847
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 1: It is absolutely terrifying in many cases to go downtown.

848
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: People are reacting to that. Five one three seven four

849
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: nine seven thousand, one eight hundred The Big One. Let's

850
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: start out with JP on the west side. Then we

851
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: got Christy who also lives in Anderson Township. And then

852
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: Mark and JP. How are you tonight, hey, JP? JP

853
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: going once, JP going twice. We'll put them on hold

854
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 1: and see if we can get them to pay attention there,

855
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: Christy and Anderson.

856
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 6: How are you tonight, Hey, Dan, I'm great, Thanks for

857
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 6: taking my call.

858
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 1: Sure.

859
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 4: Also want to.

860
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:59,840
Speaker 6: Thank Pete Caldwell for making its aware of this extremely

861
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 6: concerning and ongoing violence in our city. And what are

862
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 6: the odds that both of his children have had their

863
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 6: cars shot up in recent It's just crazy to me.

864
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:15,760
Speaker 6: Thank god both of them are Okay.

865
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,879
Speaker 1: It shouldn't happen it, really, I mean, it's it's ridiculous

866
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: that it happens to one of them, but they have

867
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: both of them get caught up in this, and his

868
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 1: daughter has been involved in more than one incident downtown,

869
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 1: So I mean, it shouldn't. It shouldn't have to be

870
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: that way. How How can I mean? I used to

871
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: work downtown and I never felt like I had a

872
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: problem going down there, And you know, I never had

873
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: my car broken into, never became a victim of crime,

874
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:50,720
Speaker 1: never saw any crime.

875
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 2: But that was years ago.

876
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 1: If I had to do that all over again, and

877
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: given the circumstances that we have right now, I don't

878
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: know that I would want to do that. I have family,

879
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: family members who go downtown every single day, and they're

880
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 1: reacting to this story that we heard from Pete Caledwell,

881
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: and they're telling me that everything he said is exactly

882
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: what they experience almost on a daily basis.

883
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 6: It's frightening. And I have two adult children, one twenty one,

884
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 6: one thirty two who work downtown and in OTR and

885
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 6: I'm worried for their safety. My daughter's co worker was

886
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 6: attacked in a public restroom downtown, but she was able

887
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 6: to fight off her attacker. That happened during the day.

888
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 6: Needless to say, my daughter's company have put in safety measures.

889
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 6: They're actually making all of their employees who work within

890
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 6: the city and other cities as well, because they branch

891
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 6: out beyond Cincinnati, and they have to take a physical

892
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 6: training course, defensive training, and they have to carry math

893
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 6: and they're not allowed to use public restaurants. And you know,

894
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,760
Speaker 6: it's imperative that we get better governance within our city

895
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 6: and we have to hold our elected officials accountable. We

896
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 6: live close to downtown, we want to feel safe, we

897
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 6: want to be able to visit downtown.

898
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: Well, the elected officials who let things get to the

899
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: state that things are in keep getting re elected, so

900
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: we you know, we look, election has Elections have consequences,

901
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: And the last time we had a vote, I think

902
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,839
Speaker 1: it was twenty eight percent of the voters showed up

903
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: to vote, and the vast majority voted for the status quo,

904
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: keeping exactly what we have right now. And I remember

905
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 1: I put out on my social media, I said, apparently

906
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: this is what voters want.

907
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 2: They want.

908
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: They want there to be regular crime, they want there

909
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 1: to be in regular incidents. We hear about them on

910
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: short Vine, we hear about them downtown, we hear about

911
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: them over the Rhine, we hear about him, you know,

912
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: on the banks. Just we saw the video that was

913
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:17,439
Speaker 1: just a block away from from Pay Corpse Stadium where

914
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: you had the running gun battle, and so and I asked,

915
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: I remember asking Chris smitham and I said, is that

916
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,479
Speaker 1: a fair comment? He said, it's absolutely fair.

917
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 2: So well.

918
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 4: To continue on with that.

919
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:37,879
Speaker 6: These crimes that are happening, actions should have consequences, right,

920
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 6: especially horrible actions. What's happening a slap on the wrist,

921
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:43,760
Speaker 6: and all we're getting is lip service.

922
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:46,280
Speaker 4: We need action.

923
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 6: We have to do better for public safety. We want

924
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 6: people to feel safe downtown. We want to visit downtown,

925
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 6: we want to support local businesses and we don't feel

926
00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 6: safe doing that. I definitely do not want to go

927
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 6: downtown or to otr.

928
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: Well, all these all these judges that we have that

929
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: believe in restorative justice and all these uh, you know,

930
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 1: it's kind of kumbay always of dealing with criminals and crime.

931
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: How we looking? How well is that getting the job done?

932
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:18,839
Speaker 6: Not getting the job done?

933
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 2: Christy. I appreciate the call tonight.

934
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:21,839
Speaker 5: Thanks Dan.

935
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 2: All right, thank you very much.

936
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: Let's go to Montford Heiss and we'll say say hey

937
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: to Mark and then we'll try and go back to

938
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: JP Mark seven hundred WLW.

939
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 2: Hey Dan.

940
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 3: A long story and I'll try to keep the short.

941
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 3: But several several years ago, I mean, the girls always

942
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 3: heard are girls always heard about going down to their fireworks.

943
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 3: We had friends bring buckets to chicken the cooler and

944
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 3: it was just, I mean, it was fantastic.

945
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 2: It was a great time. I remember those days. It

946
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 2: was yeah.

947
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 3: And my daughter, my youngest daughter, always wanted to get

948
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 3: down to their fireworks. I said, it's not the same anyway.

949
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 3: We went down there. Long story short, gunfire breaks out,

950
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 3: We get out of there, and it was funny because

951
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 3: the blacks we thought it was fireworks. They knew it

952
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 3: was gunshots. So we took off with them and they

953
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 3: just bum rushed the gates, these ten foot ten foot gates.

954
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 2: And knock them down.

955
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,799
Speaker 3: We ended up going the wrong way. Guy down there,

956
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 3: just the bloody mess. The guy got shot. Now coming

957
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:45,839
Speaker 3: up to today, we had to go to I think

958
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 3: of wife for a friend of ours that had passed away,

959
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 3: and it was park in the Washington Park Garage, which

960
00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:01,319
Speaker 3: I wasn't a big fan of, and this was kind

961
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 3: of a high profile because it was a medical professional

962
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:10,239
Speaker 3: here in Cincinnati, and I thought, there's a lot of

963
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 3: money here and if they catch wind of it, you know,

964
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 3: I mean, they're going to be robbing people.

965
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: You know.

966
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 3: My mind is just running, and I brought my gun

967
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 3: and I told my wife, I said, if anything happens,

968
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 3: just drop to the ground.

969
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 2: I'll handle it.

970
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 3: And it shouldn't be that way.

971
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: Now, I was going to say, it's it's a shame

972
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: that that has to be your mindset when you are

973
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 1: attending even though it was a celebration of life downtown,

974
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:44,919
Speaker 1: did you feel like you have to do that when

975
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: you come downtown for any reason. It would be nice

976
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: if we lived in the city where you didn't have to.

977
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 3: Entertain that notion, and you know, and their restaurants down

978
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 3: there we would frequently go to, not not going down

979
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,640
Speaker 3: there drinking, but they have dinner or if we have

980
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 3: out of town guests. And now you know, people coming

981
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 3: to town, they say, oh, can we go back down

982
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 3: to that place down there? And we didn't know we.

983
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 2: The best not the best idea.

984
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: Well, Mark, Yeah, Unfortunately, that is a feeling that is

985
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: becoming all too prevalent, especially for people like us who

986
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: do not live in the in the city limits.

987
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 2: And I appreciate your thoughts on that.

988
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the west side and say, hey

989
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 1: the JP JP seven hundred WLW Hey JP. All right, Joe,

990
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: did we try and talk to JP? I guess all right, Well,

991
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: I guess he's a JP is done for all right, JP,

992
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: We'll see you later.

993
00:58:57,400 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 2: You call in. You got to be more on the ball.

994
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm you know, I was talking to Pete

995
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: Caldwell there in that last segment, and my phone was

996
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: blowing up with people who were telling me the exact

997
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: same stories. People who work in the downtown area and

998
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 1: tell me how things that they've changed their ways of

999
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: doing business because of what happens. So uh, we you know,

1000
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: when we have leadership in the city of Cincinnati that

1001
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: tries to tell you everything is safe and everything is

1002
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: copasetic and it's all cool, come on down, I think

1003
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who might say otherwise, and

1004
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 1: it's a it's a shame that this is what we're

1005
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: dealing with. So uh any more thoughts on that five

1006
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 1: p One three, seven, four nine, the big one? What

1007
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: else is going on? What else is going on? Christin Um,

1008
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: who is the the Secretary of Homeland Security, was up

1009
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill today and.

1010
00:59:59,320 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 2: I mean she.

1011
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: The members of Congress who were trying to make her

1012
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: look bad just showed themselves for the idiots and the

1013
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: clowns and the fools that they really are. There's a

1014
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 1: guy up there, his name is Shrie Fender and he

1015
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 1: is a Congressman and he was I mean, I mean

1016
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 1: he really is. He's an ass clown. I don't know

1017
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: any other way to what to describe him. He's filed

1018
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 1: articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and he was talking

1019
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: with Christine nom today and she wasn't taking any of

1020
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 1: his crap and Christine Noam was was on fire today

1021
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: and I definitely want to play some of that. So

1022
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: Joe Waddell, let's get let's get the audio ready and

1023
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 1: if you have it there, let's hear cut number twenty one.

1024
01:00:56,240 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 1: Christineoam with Representative Scherie Fander on Capitol Hill today.

1025
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 8: I am sick of your lives. The American people are

1026
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 8: sick of this lies. American people demand truth.

1027
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 9: America is very happy that finally they have a president

1028
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,120
Speaker 9: in the White House that gets up every day to

1029
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 9: keep them safe.

1030
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 8: Madam Secretary, you're incompetence and your inability to truthfully carry

1031
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 8: out your duties of Secretary of Home Land Security. If

1032
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 8: you're not fired, will you resign?

1033
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:24,520
Speaker 5: Sir?

1034
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 9: I will consider you're asking me to resign as an

1035
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 9: endorsement of my work.

1036
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: This guy, this guy doesn't even know what he's talking about.

1037
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: He has no clue what he's talking about. All he's

1038
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 1: doing is he got some talking points from the DNC

1039
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: and he is literally sitting there reciting talking points, trying

1040
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 1: to act like he's some kind of tough guy, and

1041
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 1: he really is just a clown and a joke of

1042
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 1: a congressman.

1043
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 2: And christin Um.

1044
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 1: Pretty much pretty much put it right back in his face.

1045
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 2: So I like that.

1046
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 1: Here's another guy who was testifying before the committee today

1047
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,840
Speaker 1: and we don't hear Christy Noman this one. But this

1048
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 1: guy's name is George Reedy's and he claims this is Look.

1049
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 1: The Democrats spend a lot of time preparing for this hearing,

1050
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:32,560
Speaker 1: creating phony narratives and telling a bunch of fake stories

1051
01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: to try and make the secretary look bad, and they

1052
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 1: did a pretty piss poor job. This guy, George Reedy's,

1053
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: got before the committee and told his sob story.

1054
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 2: Let's hear cut number twenty two.

1055
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 10: Identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but

1056
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 10: that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed to your gas,

1057
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 10: and pepper sprain to my car, dragged me out. I

1058
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 10: was choking on gas, unable to breathe, while officer has

1059
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 10: shout at conflicting commands. Even after I complied, I was

1060
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 10: taken to a detention center and held for three days

1061
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 10: without charges, no phone call, no lawyer, no medical care.

1062
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 10: Even though my skin burned from the chemicals, my family

1063
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 10: had no.

1064
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 2: Idea where it was.

1065
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 10: I was released without explanation and without a single charge. I.

1066
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 1: Well, there's a guy who is lying to members of Congress.

1067
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 1: And thankfully Trisha McLaughlin, who is from I believe she

1068
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 1: is from Cincinnati. She is the number two person at

1069
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security, and she set the record straight

1070
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: on this guy. And so this guy, I mean, when

1071
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:52,959
Speaker 1: you are when you run into law enforcement of any type,

1072
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: do you identify yourself as I'm a veteran, so you

1073
01:03:56,040 --> 01:04:00,440
Speaker 1: can't touch me. Now, Trisha McLaughlin sets the record straight.

1074
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 1: Agents were executing criminal search warrants on July tenth at

1075
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: marijuana sites in Camarillo, California. This guy that you just

1076
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 1: heard Readi's became violent and refused to comply with law enforcement.

1077
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:20,560
Speaker 1: That's why he was arrested. He challenged agents and blocked

1078
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 1: their route by refusing to move his vehicle out of

1079
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: the road.

1080
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:26,400
Speaker 2: So this was.

1081
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: The criminal search warrant at marijuana growing sites in Camarillo, California.

1082
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 2: You may remember this.

1083
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 1: This story was on the news for I don't know

1084
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 1: two or three nights, and it turned out there were

1085
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: all kinds of children, I mean young kids, little kids

1086
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: who were working at these marijuana grows sites. These were

1087
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 1: kids that came in the country illegally supposed to be vetted.

1088
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 1: I read that article last night talking about the three

1089
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:03,800
Speaker 1: hundred thousand and plus kids that came into the country unvetted,

1090
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 1: put with the people who just abuse them in some

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Speaker 1: of the worst ways imaginable, and a lot of these

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Speaker 1: kids turned out. We're working at these California gross sites.

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Speaker 1: And so this guy who I you know, look, he

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Speaker 1: maybe it may have been a veteran, which is perfectly fine,

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Speaker 1: that can be true too. But just because you're a

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Speaker 1: veteran doesn't mean you can't do something that makes you

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Speaker 1: worthy of getting arrested. And according to Trisha McLaughlin, that's

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Speaker 1: exactly what this guy did. He was blocking ice agents,

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Speaker 1: God violent, got himself arrested, and yet he conveniently glosses

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Speaker 1: over that when he's given this fake and phony testimony

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Speaker 1: to members of Congress on Capitol Hill ten fifty four.

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Speaker 1: We got to get to a break. We'll have more

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Speaker 1: Christi nume cuts coming up on the other side, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully more You're phone calls five one, three, seven, four,

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Speaker 1: seven thousand, one eight hundred, the Big One as we

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Speaker 1: roll on till midnight tonight. On the Thursday night edition

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Speaker 1: of The Midweek Crisis seven hundred WLW seven hundred WLW

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Speaker 1: eleven eight can carroll till midnight tonight Thursday Night edition

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Speaker 1: of the Midweek Crisis. A DC Appeals court has uphold

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Speaker 1: or upheld the Trump prohibition on trans in the military.

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01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 1: Major win for Trump. Federal Appellate Court upheld the Pentagon's

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Speaker 1: prohibition on trans identifying individuals from serving in the military

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Speaker 1: two to one ruling free judge panel DC Circuit Court

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Speaker 1: of Appeals fully palls the march injunction issued by Biden

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Speaker 1: appointed district judge. Writing for the majority, Judge Gregory Catis

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Speaker 1: Appoint noted how War Secretary Pete Hexth concluded that adopting

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Speaker 1: a policy prohibiting gender dysphoria individuals from service would advance

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01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:16,120
Speaker 1: important military interest of combat readiness, unit cohesion, and cost control,

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Speaker 1: despite the Secretary's consultation of existing data and more recent studies.

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Speaker 1: To justify the decision, Katis wrote, the District Court nonetheless

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Speaker 1: preliminary and join the twenty twenty five policy based on

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Speaker 1: its own contrary assessment of the evidence. In our view,

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Speaker 1: the court afforded insufficient deference to the Secretary's considered judgment,

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Speaker 1: so there is some sanity in the courts out there,

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Speaker 1: and that is good to know. Meanwhile, over at Health

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Speaker 1: and Human Services, the Department of Health and Human Services

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Speaker 1: has altered the display information under the official portmit or

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Speaker 1: portrait of Admiral Rachel Levin. The portrait has been changed

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Speaker 1: underneath to include the Admiral's real name, Richard Richard Levin

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Speaker 1: is this person's real name. The portrait was recently altered.

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Speaker 1: Spokesperson for HHS confirmed digital photograph of the portrait obtained

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Speaker 1: by MPR shows Levin's previously previous name is now type

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Speaker 1: below the portrait. Richard R. Levin, MD and the the

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Speaker 1: one time Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary, responded to this,

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Speaker 1: calling it an act of let me see if I

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Speaker 1: can find this. I mean, what the heck did I

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Speaker 1: do with that? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Of

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Speaker 1: course I can't find it when I'm looking for but.

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Speaker 2: Let me see. Oh, dun dun, dun, dun, dun. Let's

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Speaker 2: see here it is. That's not it. That's not it.

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Speaker 2: That's not it.

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Speaker 1: I had it right in front of me a second ago,

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01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 1: but they they changed the name. And it's uh, it's

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01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:34,800
Speaker 1: it's biological biological reality.

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Speaker 2: And what's wrong with that now?

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Speaker 1: Levin called this a uh I think an act of bigotry. Yeah, yeah,

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01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:55,559
Speaker 1: and petty. No, it's an act of truth. And so

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01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 1: when you have an act of truth, this is what

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01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 1: people like the people like Levin consider to be petty.

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Speaker 1: The truth to them is petty. The truth means nothing.

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01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:11,439
Speaker 1: The only thing that means anything is is their view

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01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:14,920
Speaker 1: on the world. The only thing that means anything is

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01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 1: their agenda, and as long as their agenda is being served,

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01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 1: they don't care who gets hurt in the process. Let

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Speaker 1: ry remind you of what kind of person this Levin

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01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:35,759
Speaker 1: character really is. This is a cut of Rachel Levin

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Speaker 1: Richard Levin talking about mutilating children and was a staunch

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Speaker 1: advocate for experimental surgeries on children. Let's hear cut number three.

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Speaker 11: Gender affirming care is life saving, necessary, age appropriate, and

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01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:08,400
Speaker 11: a critical tool for healthcare providers. As a pediatrician when

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Speaker 11: it comes to making sure kids are healthy and happy,

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01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:16,760
Speaker 11: I know how important care. The deffermed someone's true identity

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Speaker 11: can be.

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Speaker 1: What a bunch of crap. It's all lies. Rachel Livin

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Speaker 1: knew it, knew it when he or she spoke those words,

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01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:39,920
Speaker 1: and most definitely knows it now, But again, the cost

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Speaker 1: to real human beings, the damage that this kind of

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Speaker 1: surgery does, is of no consequence to someone like Levin.

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Speaker 1: In Florida, the Attorney General there s filed a lawsuit

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Speaker 1: against three of the most insidious argumentations pushing for the

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Speaker 1: mutilation of children in fealty to transgender ideology, the World

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Speaker 1: Professional Association for Transgender Health WPATH, the Endocrine Society, and

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Speaker 1: the American Academy of Pediatrics. The lawsuit brings a racketeer

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01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 1: influenced and corrupt organization a reco case as well as

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01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 1: a consumer protection case based on the state's contention that

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Speaker 1: the organizations knowingly disseminated false information about transition procedures to children.

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Speaker 1: The disinformation campaign then led to children's genital mutilation, chemical castration,

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Speaker 1: other irreversible outcomes associated with the interventions, which were very

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Speaker 1: profitable to the organizations recommending them. For years, these groups,

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Speaker 1: this is the Attorney General speaking for years of these

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Speaker 1: groups insisted the recommendations were settled science, but behind closed

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Speaker 1: doors they knew the evidence was weak. This is the

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Speaker 1: Attorney General Uthmyer. He said this in a video he

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Speaker 1: posted on social media. He said they knew the outcomes

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01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:23,679
Speaker 1: were uncertain and the risks were very real. Parents were

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01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 1: not told the full story. In fact, some parents were

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01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 1: told that if they didn't put their kids through permanent,

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01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:35,799
Speaker 1: life changing, life altering sick procedures like double massed ectomies

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Speaker 1: and castration, their child would commit suicide. Not only is

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Speaker 1: that unethical and dangerous medicine, but it's against the law.

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Speaker 1: So the State of Florida knows that this narrative that

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Speaker 1: was being spun by Rachel Levin Richard was completely false,

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01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 1: completely unnecessary, a complete and total lie in furtherance of

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01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:13,439
Speaker 1: the agenda of the radical left and this movement that

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01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 1: is quickly dying, as it should be, it should have

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Speaker 1: died a long time ago. But this movement, this radical

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Speaker 1: trans movement, and just because we have a leader in

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Speaker 1: the White House who will not put up with this crap,

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Speaker 1: who is outlawing this whole notion that you can surgically

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Speaker 1: mutilate kids, it's being done away. I mean, just because

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01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:49,960
Speaker 1: there's new leadership now that's letting that happen. This movement

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01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:53,759
Speaker 1: will it'll die down, It won't go away completely because

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01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:56,000
Speaker 1: there will always be people out there who think that

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01:14:56,080 --> 01:15:00,479
Speaker 1: this needs to continue. But Rachel Levin can cry and

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01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: complain all he or she wants to about their real

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01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 1: name being put up under their portrait of Health and

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01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:12,400
Speaker 1: Human Services. But this Levin is one of the most

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Speaker 1: reprehensible characters that you can possibly imagine. Ken and Mason

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Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 5: Dan I agree with you completely about transgenderism. It's actually

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01:15:24,479 --> 01:15:30,040
Speaker 5: it's a perversion. There's nothing normal about it. And most

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01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:32,800
Speaker 5: kids have no idea what they are until they're twelve

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01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:36,320
Speaker 5: thirteen years old. My three daughters were tom boys, all

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01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:38,479
Speaker 5: of them, but by time they were thirteen or fourteen,

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01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,640
Speaker 5: they were girls, and they were interested in boys and

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01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:45,519
Speaker 5: dances and dresses and everything else. The natural progression of life,

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Speaker 5: you know, the kids are just playing when they're early on.

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Speaker 5: And to perform surgery like that on children as heinous,

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Speaker 5: that's that's a crime.

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Speaker 1: And this and this the doctor Levin, this Rachel Levin

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Speaker 1: is out there talking about how these surgeries are necessary

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Speaker 1: in life saving. It does come complete and utter falsehood,

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01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:15,080
Speaker 1: a complete lie, and an absolute disgrace and unbelievably dangerous

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Speaker 1: to children. And we're supposed to wring our hands because

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Speaker 1: they they put the h they put this person's real

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Speaker 1: name under their portrait of health and Human services and

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Speaker 1: what is and what does he do? He says, well,

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Speaker 1: that's petty, and it figures that's the word they would

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01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:39,519
Speaker 1: use because the truth to leftists and these radicals, the

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01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:42,720
Speaker 1: truth to them is petty and meaningless.

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Speaker 5: Well, Danie'll remember last September, there were about one hundred

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Speaker 5: and forty transgender girls that were going back to being

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Speaker 5: a girl. Talk the horror stories of administrators and teachers

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01:16:56,040 --> 01:16:59,320
Speaker 5: telling them that you know, initially they were confused what

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Speaker 5: they were and that they wish they had never performed

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Speaker 5: the transgender procedures ever, and most of them will never

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Speaker 5: be able to have a child in their lifetime. I mean,

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Speaker 5: it was an absolutely heartbreaking the experience. And listen to

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01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:16,000
Speaker 5: all these girls and how they were influenced by these teachers.

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Speaker 5: You know, our educational system is a disaster right now.

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01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 5: Dan They've been doctrinating kids now for up to fifty

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01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:27,320
Speaker 5: years with all this BS. They're not teaching them reading, writing,

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01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 5: and arithmetic like they should, developing an educational foundation. They're

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01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:34,920
Speaker 5: not teaching them civics like they should. They're teaching them

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01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 5: to hate America. You know, I've been at some basketball

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01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:40,720
Speaker 5: games in the last two weeks, stand and half the

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01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:42,839
Speaker 5: audience won't stand up for the national anthem?

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? I thought we were I thought

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Speaker 2: we were past all that.

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Speaker 5: No, I mean, I'm telling you there was half the

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01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:53,760
Speaker 5: crowd wasn't standing for the national anthems.

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Speaker 1: That that is unbelieving. And they're doing this in front

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01:17:56,640 --> 01:18:00,200
Speaker 1: of How old are these kids that are playing basketball.

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Speaker 5: When they're sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and.

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Speaker 1: Then these kids are sitting there watching this. That's embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: Are the athletes at least standing up for the national anthem?

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01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:12,479
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, the school makes some stand up.

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01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 2: Well thank god.

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Speaker 5: You know, I've told people next to me, get your

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01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 5: rear end up. That's the national anthem.

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Speaker 1: If I was on the if I was on the PA,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't start the national anthem until I saw everyone standing.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I remember I was my son My son was was

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01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 1: went to Virginia Tech and he was a swimmer. And

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Speaker 1: this was this was when the you know, the whole

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01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick thing was going on and people were taking

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01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:43,360
Speaker 1: knees and all this stuff. And you had different little

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01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 1: league sports teams, you know, their coaches and their parents

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01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:48,240
Speaker 1: would tell them to take a knee during the national anthem.

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01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:51,080
Speaker 1: What a bunch of crap. But the thing that I

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01:18:51,160 --> 01:18:53,720
Speaker 1: was most proud of when I would go to these

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Speaker 1: these swim meets and you'd go into these arenas that

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01:18:57,000 --> 01:18:59,960
Speaker 1: would be packed full of people. You would look around,

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01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:02,799
Speaker 1: they would play the national anthem before the events would start,

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01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:07,160
Speaker 1: and there was not one person that was taken a knee.

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01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:12,000
Speaker 1: Everybody was standing. Everybody was respecting our national anthem and

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01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:16,040
Speaker 1: respecting the flag, from every athlete who was competing, to

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01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 1: every person who was in the stand, and it was

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01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:23,680
Speaker 1: and it was unbelievable. So's there's still wide sections of

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01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:27,799
Speaker 1: people in this country who love the flag and respect

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01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 1: the flag and don't go along with that crap that's

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01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 1: about taking a knee. And it blows me away, Ken

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01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:40,479
Speaker 1: from Mason, that there's still people out there doing that today.

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Speaker 5: Dan, I've been lucky enough in my life in my work,

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01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:49,639
Speaker 5: I've traveled around most of the world, and America is

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01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:53,760
Speaker 5: the best country on God's green earth. These people, it's

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01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:57,680
Speaker 5: more than just stupidity. They're completely naive and they've been

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01:19:57,760 --> 01:20:00,840
Speaker 5: misled and they don't challenge any thing that they hear

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01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 5: has been said to them, if they would go, if

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01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:06,040
Speaker 5: they could go to Russia and see how life goes

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01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:07,880
Speaker 5: on in Russia, If they could go to China to

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01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 5: see how life goes.

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Speaker 2: On in China.

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01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 5: You know, if they could go to Turkey and see

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01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 5: how life goes on there, you know, they would love

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01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:18,440
Speaker 5: America with all their heart and soul. People don't understand

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01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:21,839
Speaker 5: what a hell hole most of the world is compared

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01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 5: to America. America, we have a great These people are

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Speaker 5: allowed to say all these stupid, idiotic things because of

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Speaker 5: our constitution. We have the greatest setup in a life

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Speaker 5: of all time in this world. I mean, they're allowed

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Speaker 5: to be idiots if they want to be. You know,

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Speaker 5: they'd be dead if they were in Russia doing idiotic things.

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Speaker 5: They'd be dead in China if they were doing idiotic things.

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Speaker 5: You know, they don't understand it, They don't get it.

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Speaker 5: They think there's a better place. They think in Europe

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Speaker 5: it's a better situation. You know, ninety five percent of

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Speaker 5: people in Europe can't afford a car.

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Speaker 1: I think of I think of the election of a

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Speaker 1: guy like Mandani and peg I peg a lot of

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Speaker 1: that on the failure of our education system. He had

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Speaker 1: so many people vote for him who were young people

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Speaker 1: who were in their twenties, who were in their thirties,

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Speaker 1: that were seduced by his talk of what free buses,

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Speaker 1: rent control, free grocery stores, money for this, that and

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Speaker 1: the other thing. Socialism. They've been seduced by this socialism.

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Speaker 1: And have they had a decent education and a foundation

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Speaker 1: to fall back on, they would have known the fallacy

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Speaker 1: of the ideas that he's putting out there. They would

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Speaker 1: have known they were being sold to Bill of Goods.

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Speaker 5: And Daniz's led. Like we've been talking about Elanamar in Minnesota,

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01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:54,600
Speaker 5: it gets worse day by day. This woman needs to

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Speaker 5: go to jail. This woman is a thief, she's a liar,

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Speaker 5: she's a con artist.

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Speaker 4: You know, we talked about it. She's now worth thirty.

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Speaker 2: Million, thirty million dollars.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, she's never had a job.

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Speaker 1: And Tom tom Homan, Tom, I heard Tom Homan, he

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Speaker 1: was on you know, he might have been on news

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Speaker 1: I think he was on news Max earlier today, but

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Speaker 1: he he said they he's got the best investigators at

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security looking into her now. So she's nice, she's

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Speaker 1: gonna she's going to get hopefully she's going to get

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Speaker 1: exposed and get what's coming to her. She's smart, she'll

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Speaker 1: head back to Somalia before too long. Ken, we got

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Speaker 1: to run, We got to get to a break. But

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Speaker 1: as always, man, appreciate you listening, Appreciate you picking up

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Speaker 1: the phone.

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Speaker 5: All right, Dany, have a good one.

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Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Ken from me some eleven

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Speaker 1: twenty five at seven hundred WLW seven hundred WLW, Dan

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Speaker 1: Carroll till midnight tonight, Thursday Night edition of the Midweek Crisis.

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Speaker 2: I want to get back to Christy Nome.

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Speaker 1: She was testified today in front of the Congressional Committee.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a it's amazing how how much

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Speaker 1: on a on a weekly basis, I get ready for

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01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:14,040
Speaker 1: these shows. And I mean, you just see how much

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01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:18,439
Speaker 1: the left and Democrats, how much they lie and mean.

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01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:23,320
Speaker 1: Yet I played Rache Levin earlier. She's lying about how

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Speaker 1: this transgenda gender affirming care is necessary and life changing,

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01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 1: life changing for children. It's a complete and total lie.

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Speaker 1: Promila Jaya Paul is out there talking about what Somalians

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Speaker 1: did for America, saying that Somalis and Indians and Latin

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Speaker 1: Americans built this country, made it what it is today,

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Speaker 1: it's a complete that's just completely false. Alyssa Slotkin still

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Speaker 1: trying to get out from under that the d that

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Speaker 1: she made with the other seditious six Democrats talking about

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Speaker 1: the illegal orders. How are men and women in the

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Speaker 1: military don't have to don't have to follow those illegal orders.

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Speaker 1: Now she's doing an interview, she did an interview with

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Speaker 1: The Daily Beast. She's claiming that the only reason that

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Speaker 1: she and the other Democrats released that video, that disgraceful video,

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Speaker 1: was because they were approached by so many members of

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Speaker 1: the military who were concerned about this very thing. Does

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Speaker 1: anyone believe for a minute that they approached her that

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Speaker 1: there were so many so many military members came to

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Speaker 1: her and said that we are we're concerned about the

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Speaker 1: illegal orders that we might get from Trump. And so

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Speaker 1: she in turn made that video. What a complete that's

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Speaker 1: another completing total line. And then these people on the

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Speaker 1: committee today talking to Secretary No, they didn't do anything

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Speaker 1: that was for the benefit of the American people. Their

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Speaker 1: mission today was to bash Christinome, bash Donald Trump, bash

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Speaker 1: his policies, try and make Trump look like the bad

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Speaker 1: guy because we're deporting illegal aliens out of our country.

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Speaker 1: Still not as many as Obama did, but that doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Benny Thompson was on the committee. He said something completely reprehensible.

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Speaker 1: But I want to start with this dude Rhode Island.

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Speaker 1: This guy's from Rhode Island. His name is Seth Magaziner,

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Speaker 1: and so he's talking to the secretary and he's trying

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Speaker 1: to get her in a gotcha moment and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: work out very well. And you're gonna see, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: during the SoundBite here, you're going to hear him make

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Speaker 1: reference to someone named, say June Park, say June Park,

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Speaker 1: who actually was in the United States military. And as

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Speaker 1: he says this, you see a one of his aides

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Speaker 1: come up with what looks like an iPad and this

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Speaker 1: guy's picture on the iPad like he's sitting there, like

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Speaker 1: he's bringing actually bringing him into the into the hearing

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Speaker 1: by remote. And this, this exchange is just unbelievable. With

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Speaker 1: Seth Magazine or as this guy's name from Rhode Island

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Speaker 1: and Joe Waddell, let's here cutting Umber twenty three, Please.

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Speaker 2: Jerry, United States military veterans. Have you deported.

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Speaker 7: Sir?

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Speaker 9: We have not deported US citizens or military veterans.

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Speaker 2: I don't believe you served in the military. I haven't either,

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Speaker 2: but I think you and I can agree that as

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Speaker 2: Americans we owe everything to those who have served our

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Speaker 2: country in uniform, particularly those who have served in combat.

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Speaker 2: Do you agree with that, sir?

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Speaker 9: I believe that people that are in this United States

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Speaker 9: that are citizens have legal status here.

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Speaker 2: Those man, Secretary, We are joined on zoom by a

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Speaker 2: gentleman named sa Jean Park. He is a United States

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Speaker 2: Army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our

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Speaker 2: country in Panama in nineteen eighty nine. Like many veterans,

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Speaker 2: he struggled with PTSD and substance abuse after his service.

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Speaker 2: He was arrested in the nineteen nineties for some minor

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Speaker 2: drug offenses, nothing serious. He never hurt anyone besides himself,

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Speaker 2: and he's been clean and sober for fourteen years. He

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Speaker 2: is a combat veteran, a Purple Heart recipient. He has

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Speaker 2: sacrificed more for this country than most people ever have.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this year, you deported him to Korea, a country

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Speaker 2: he hasn't lived in since he was seven years old.

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Speaker 2: Will you join me in thanking mister Park for his

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Speaker 2: service to our country.

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Speaker 9: Sir, I'm grateful for every single person that has served

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Speaker 9: our country and follows.

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Speaker 12: Can you please tell every one of them needs to

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Speaker 12: be enforced.

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Speaker 2: But you understand that many veterans struggle with PTSD, Many

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Speaker 2: veterans struggle with with substance abuse challenges. This man took

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Speaker 2: two bullets for our country. Will you you have brought authority,

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Speaker 2: by the way as Secretary to issue humanitarian parole to

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Speaker 2: do deferred action. Will you commit to at least looking

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Speaker 2: at mister Park's case to see if you can help

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01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:43,000
Speaker 2: him find a pathway back to this country that he

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Speaker 2: sacrificed so much for. I will absolutely look at his case, but.

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Speaker 1: I want you well, it turns out that his case

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01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: has already been looked at. Thanks again to Trisha MacLachlan, say,

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Speaker 1: June Park has an extensive criminal history. Now it's true

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Speaker 1: we served the military, but again, just because you served

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Speaker 1: in the military doesn't mean that we need to bow

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Speaker 1: down to you. This guy has an extensive criminal history,

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Speaker 1: no matter if he's got PTSD or what. Still an

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Speaker 1: extensive criminal history that includes convictions for drugs and weapons

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Speaker 1: offenses as well as bail jumping. These convictions led to

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Speaker 1: his green card being revoked in a final order of

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Speaker 1: removal from the United States. His criminal record includes convictions

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Speaker 1: for possessing, manufacturing, or selling a dangerous weapon. And so

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Speaker 1: this this fool, this idiot from Rhode Island, Okay, just

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01:29:47,240 --> 01:29:49,759
Speaker 1: a few minds, just got arrested for a few minor offens,

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Speaker 1: just some minor offenses. Possessing, manufacturing or selling a dangerous weapon,

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Speaker 1: carrying a loaded firearm in a publica assault, criminal possession

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01:30:02,840 --> 01:30:07,679
Speaker 1: of a controlled substance otherwise known as crack cocaine, jumping bail,

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Speaker 1: failure to appear in court.

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Speaker 2: So this is the.

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Speaker 1: This is the kind of criminal activity that this individual

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Speaker 1: was engaged in. He served approximately two and a half

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Speaker 1: years to three years in prison for his convictions. In

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty oh nine, after his release, he was issued

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Speaker 1: in order of removal, but was initially allowed to remain

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Speaker 1: in the US under deferred action. So he was ordered

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Speaker 1: out of the United States before Trump even thought about

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Speaker 1: running for office. So don't give me this crap about

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Speaker 1: how in twenty twenty five he was finally caught up

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Speaker 1: with and sent out following the order that had been

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Speaker 1: issued for him to get the hell out of the country.

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Speaker 1: And then we've got one more Benny Toimepson. And if

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Speaker 1: that name sounds familiar, it should because Benny Thompson is

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Speaker 1: the guy that headed up to January sixth committee with

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Speaker 1: Liz Cheney, and he's again going after Secretary Christino. And

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Speaker 1: he mentions the two National Guard members who got shot

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Speaker 1: in DC and listened to the way this buffoon, this

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Speaker 1: clown talks about that cut number twenty four.

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Speaker 2: What you did.

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Speaker 13: Mount in Secretary of you and a gentleman from ct

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Speaker 13: N CTC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with the

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Speaker 13: National guardsman in Kio.

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Speaker 12: You think that was an unfortunate accident.

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Speaker 13: I mean there's a territ Wait wait, look, I'll get

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01:31:53,120 --> 01:31:53,519
Speaker 13: it straight.

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Speaker 12: Then you can shot our National guardsman in the head.

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Speaker 13: Look, musam, will you direct witness to allow me to

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Speaker 13: ask my question? It was an unfortunate situation.

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Speaker 1: Allow me to ask my questions. Benny Thompson refers to

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Speaker 1: two National Guard members who got shot as an unfortunate accent.

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Speaker 2: Justin just an accident. We got an Afghan dude who lives.

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Speaker 1: In Washington, drives across the country, lies in wait for

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Speaker 1: these two and then shoots them both in the head

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Speaker 1: kills one seriously critically wounds another, and he refers to

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Speaker 1: it just an unfortunate accident and thank god for Christy Nomes.

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Speaker 1: She says, you call that an accident. He shot two

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Speaker 1: people in the head. So again we hear democrats, liberal leftists,

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Speaker 1: radical democrats lying. Every one of these Democrats on this

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01:33:11,240 --> 01:33:14,840
Speaker 1: committee has put up a false narrative in front of

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Speaker 1: the secretary to try and make her look bad, and

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Speaker 1: she fired back with this today, Christine om cut number

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Speaker 1: twenty five.

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Speaker 9: I think it's shameful to see the defense of individuals

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Speaker 9: who break our laws. We are a nation of laws.

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01:33:30,360 --> 01:33:31,840
Speaker 9: If we are not a nation of laws, we are

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Speaker 9: no nation at all. And that is what we are

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Speaker 9: doing every day.

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Speaker 12: Is following us. If you guys don't like the law,

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01:33:36,760 --> 01:33:39,240
Speaker 12: go change it. That's your job. You don't complain.

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Speaker 9: I was raised by a dad who said, we don't

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01:33:40,960 --> 01:33:41,960
Speaker 9: complain about things.

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Speaker 12: We fix them. Well go fix them.

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01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:45,600
Speaker 9: If you don't like the law, quit belly ach and

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01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:48,599
Speaker 9: quit hitting and attacking our ice officers. Quit going out

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01:33:48,680 --> 01:33:51,639
Speaker 9: and protesting and screaming vile things at them, Quit calling

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01:33:51,720 --> 01:33:52,120
Speaker 9: them names.

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01:33:52,160 --> 01:33:53,559
Speaker 12: We wouldn't let our children do that.

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01:33:53,800 --> 01:33:56,839
Speaker 9: Go do something that actually matters by having an honest

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01:33:56,880 --> 01:33:58,160
Speaker 9: debate and changing the law.

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Speaker 12: That's your jobs. You all should be fine, and my viewpoint.

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Speaker 1: You all should be fired, and she's absolutely right with that.

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Speaker 1: I got to call it a night. We will see

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Speaker 1: you next time on the Home of the Best Bengals

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Speaker 1: coverage seven hundred WLW