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Speaker 1: Tom Brenneman. He really likes to stay hydrated. He has

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Speaker 1: two giant Yetti mugs in here. Each one of these mugs,

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Speaker 1: by the way, forty eight ounces. He has two of

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Speaker 1: five hours. That's a lot of liquid. Tom has a

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Speaker 1: We got some news here in solving the city of

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Speaker 1: they allotted in the fall one hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 1: of course, did we have security cameras know around the

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Speaker 1: years prior, same thing where told cameras will go up

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Speaker 1: deep dive on this. And joining the show this morning

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Speaker 1: would be council member Mark Jeffries. Welcome, Mark, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing well, Thanks Scott.

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Speaker 3: Do you think one.

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Speaker 1: Hundred ounces of liquid in a five hour period is excessive?

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Speaker 2: I have that. Let me tell you. I wake up

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Speaker 2: My dad is Dutch. I think they're the most. They

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Speaker 2: four to five cups coffee person today, so I have

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Speaker 1: But yeah, but one hundred ounce that's not four or

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Speaker 1: Let's say he's like his own. This bladder's like its

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Speaker 1: into the security camera issue. You guys have met about this.

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Speaker 1: I know folks in the West End communit leaders are

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Speaker 1: have you have eyes in the skies, you can apprehend people,

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Speaker 1: maybe making people think twice about this. As you investigated

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Speaker 1: public safety, and we're supposed to have cameras in and

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Speaker 1: nothing happened. How can you put in a context what

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple things on this, Scott. So, First, the

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Speaker 2: folks in the West End actually want cameras, and there's

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Speaker 2: leading an effort to put cameras in more areas. So

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Speaker 2: people there, I don't care where you live in the

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Speaker 2: So we did allocate the money. What we have a

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Speaker 2: he has a commitment to fix ninety nine total or

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Speaker 2: Eyes on the ground.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, as I put in the context here,

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. I mean, I think people who might

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Speaker 3: There's cameras all over there. They don't care about it.

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Speaker 1: where's the damn cameras? How can you assuage people's fears

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Speaker 3: Going to do.

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Speaker 2: I think we kudos to Interim Chief Henny who said

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Speaker 1: I'll circle back because you know, I was speaking the

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Speaker 2: Yep, no much needed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and that's a good thing. I know, more

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Speaker 3: It's what that is. There's something else going on.

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Speaker 1: But it's also extremely cost prohibitive because the team has

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of things. I mean, look, youth football, it's,

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Speaker 2: and that outlasts any of the games, right, and so

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Speaker 2: we know that those are life lessons, and especially kids,

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Speaker 2: to a productive activity. We have dedicated baseball fields in

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Speaker 2: We don't have any dedicated youth football fields, so we

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Speaker 2: also have the police academy down in Lower Price. OK

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Speaker 2: we need to identify these fields to give kids an opportunity.

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Speaker 2: I mean, every kid deserves a access to safe, positive

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Speaker 1: I know that Spinny Field is under consideration, as is

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Speaker 3: Do you have any other sites picked out that may

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one the Hamilton County Fairgrounds, and we were

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Speaker 2: looking at that. You could probably host two games at

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Speaker 2: these are all volunteers. All the people who do this,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that makes sense, and you get you know

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Speaker 1: a direct line between reducing crime powered all those things.

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Speaker 1: If you can keep kids engaged in school, in doing well,

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Speaker 3: We know that to be a fact now.

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Speaker 1: And expanding those programs you mentioned the Reds, you mentioned

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Speaker 2: Have you approached them yet I have been talking to

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Speaker 2: I have asked them repeatedly to invest in If you

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Speaker 2: I say Cincinnati's over a million a year. The Bengals

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Speaker 2: did donate thirty thousand dollars in equipment. I've been pushing them, like,

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Speaker 2: so I've been pushing them. I think, you know, it

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Speaker 2: So I've been encouraging that and hopefully continue to push

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Speaker 1: Have they been receptive to hearing that or is it lipser?

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Speaker 2: I have had several meetings with them, living with folks

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Speaker 2: I am asking for their help to be the partner

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Speaker 1: I'd say you're calling them out, and you know what,

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Speaker 2: This for a year and a half, and I believe

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Speaker 1: And the thing is, they never bowed to public pressure.

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Speaker 1: You can't tell them what they want to do with

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Speaker 1: We know that Charlie Frank and the Red's Community Fund,

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Speaker 1: I've talked to Charlie and he's going. He goes to

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Speaker 1: the Red's Community Fund that the mission there is to

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Speaker 1: FC and Jeff Birding saw this and said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: those teams are doing it. The Bengals are not. And

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Speaker 1: And it's good for the brand, it's good for the team,

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Speaker 3: The Bengals won't one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: You said it better than I could, Scott. I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: at minimum, they should be doing something like book the

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Speaker 3: Mark Jefferies.

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Speaker 1: You know the other thing too, is we just built

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Speaker 1: It's going to cost Hamlin County commissioners approved what four

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy million dollars for renovation, and that's about

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Speaker 1: seventy four percent the Bengals, the NFL, and the hook

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Speaker 1: for twenty six percent. Hamlin County is going to pick

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Speaker 1: up seventy four percent. It's a lot better than the

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Speaker 1: deal we had last time around the nineties. But when

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Speaker 1: even I mean, there's some stadiums that are forty or

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Speaker 1: So they're taking money from Hamlin County and taxpayers. You

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Speaker 1: think maybe a little kickback, if you want to call

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Speaker 1: it that, to the kids, to the youth, to maybe

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Speaker 1: build a couple of football fields. I don't know, what's

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Speaker 1: that going to cost? A million dollars out of three

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think at minimums got they should commit to

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Speaker 2: five hundred thousand, which would help operating costs for that's

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Speaker 2: not it's a drop in the bucket. Yeah, it's not

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Speaker 3: Now it's good for the community too.

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Speaker 1: You can't force someone to spend money on something that

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Speaker 1: Considering we just approved another contentious stadium deal and the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have. I know that the county there's still

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Speaker 2: So I'm not in not pervy on what those negotiations,

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Speaker 2: as the county's negotiating with them, I have encouraged investment

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Speaker 3: Do you need a contract to do this? I mean,

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Speaker 1: Okay, the negotiating a deal and the community impact all

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Speaker 2: Oh, of course, Scott. But you know it's not happening.

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Speaker 2: So you know some things that are happening. My you know,

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Speaker 2: my belief is you he's only a private You try

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and now you're going to publicly shame them. So

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Speaker 3: and sometimes that works.

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Speaker 2: You know when you're not you're not doing it, then

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Speaker 2: come on, let's let's let's push on all angles.

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Speaker 1: Yeah all right, te here's a council member, Mark Jefferies,

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Speaker 1: really putting it out there for us, a smarting Mark.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the time. And also I agree one hundred

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Thanks again, I appreciate it. Scott all right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: all the best man there you go. Are you blown

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Speaker 1: Maybe not surprised, but the fact that he's been working

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Speaker 1: I mean two or three football fields. You look at

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Speaker 1: You've got all these programs that they do, and that

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Speaker 1: Are you surprised by this? I don't think I am.

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