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Speaker 1: Seven thirty one, fifty five KRCD talk station, Happy Friday,

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Speaker 1: Andre Young brother Dre after the top of their news

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Speaker 1: the fifty five Cars Morning show. Head of the Ohio

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Speaker 1: Republican Party Alex Cherouta Filo, always great having on the program. Alex,

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Speaker 1: welcome back in advance. Happy, happy Christmas, Merry Christmas to

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Speaker 1: you and your family.

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Speaker 2: Well, Brian, thank you, and merry Christmas and happy Holidays

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Speaker 2: and everything to you and your listeners. And always good

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Speaker 2: to be with you two.

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Speaker 1: Buddy. All Right, I'm gonna get a We're going to

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Speaker 1: try to do a bit of a year in review

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Speaker 1: here and then we'll look forward to twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: And insofar as the latter topic and even the former

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Speaker 1: topic is concerned, I just wanted to get your reaction

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Speaker 1: to Governor to Wine statements relative to V. V. Ramaswami,

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Speaker 1: who I understand enjoys the Republican Party endorsement already, he

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Speaker 1: won't endorse him yet, and he really tried to salvage

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Speaker 1: a certain degree Doctor Amy Acton, Amy Lockdown acting Democrat.

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Speaker 1: He appointed to be the medical director during COVID lockdown times.

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Speaker 1: She's the one that came up with the concepts like

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Speaker 1: let's not drink after ten pm, but you don't have

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Speaker 1: to go home in a bar. It didn't make any

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Speaker 1: sense Lockdown Amy Acton, but he provided her cover, saying

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Speaker 1: the buck stops with him, which I agree, But I

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Speaker 1: kind of wonder why he was trying to provide her

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Speaker 1: some cover and what his problem is with endorsing VI

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Speaker 2: Alex weit covered a lot of ground and it's all fair.

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Speaker 2: So Brian want to say this to you. First of all,

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Speaker 2: the vike Ramaswami did receive our full endorsement. You know,

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Speaker 2: I go way back with a Vike. I've known him

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Speaker 2: a long time. He's an incredible candidate for the Republican Party,

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Speaker 2: very strong. Look, no matter what the governor says, Amy

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Speaker 2: Acton is going to have to answer to Ohioan's for

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Speaker 2: her conduct in the same way that Anthony Fauci answered

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Speaker 2: for his conduct. It wasn't Joe Biden or Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: who made decisions and advised you know, non scientist, non doctors.

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Speaker 2: So Amy Acting is going to have to answer for

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Speaker 2: all of those things. You know, you can, the governor

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Speaker 2: can can continue to do what he's going to do.

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Speaker 2: But let me tell you it's not going to us

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Speaker 2: one bit from pointing out Amy Acting's absolute failures in

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Speaker 2: her job, and also to talk a lot about the

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Speaker 2: vake Ramaswami and the incredible gifts and talents that he

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Speaker 2: Ultimately Brian is the party's leader here in Ohio. I

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Speaker 2: expect the governor will endorse the Republican nominee and that's

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Speaker 2: going to be the vike ramis Swami. I think that's

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Speaker 2: going to happen. I think in the meantime, you know,

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Speaker 2: the governor is going to stand up for, you know,

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Speaker 2: for what he did and say what he did was

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Speaker 2: what he did, and in one small way you can

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Speaker 2: respect it. At least you know he's taken them. He's saying, look,

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Speaker 2: I was the decision maker and that's kind of what

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Speaker 2: leaders do. But that is not to absolve Amy Act

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Speaker 2: in one bit for her lockdowns, for masking our children,

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Speaker 2: for shutting down businesses, and for all the other terrible

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Speaker 2: and I mean awful decisions that she put upon Ohio

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Speaker 2: and during COVID disaster. So you know, there's not going

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Speaker 2: to be any absolution of her, you know, because of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's kinda high behind. Well, the information was unfolding.

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Speaker 1: We didn't have it all in front of us. We

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Speaker 1: were erring on the side of caution. Well, you didn't

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Speaker 1: the first states to do. So look what Florida did.

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Speaker 1: They didn't lock down, they didn't have any problems, and

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Speaker 1: there were multiple directions to go. And of course there

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Speaker 1: could have been a middle ground somewhere in there, I suppose,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, I've asked him, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I think he's just going running through his trap. So

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Speaker 2: what he has said to me is what do you

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Speaker 2: have said publicly? And I wouldn't disclose any said to

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Speaker 2: me privately anyway, as you well know, Brian, but I

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Speaker 2: having a little bit of a warming up period. Look,

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Speaker 2: going to have a binary choice. I mean we're still nine,

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Speaker 2: answer is going to really be the vake Ramaswami will

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Speaker 2: be the next governor of this great state. He is

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Speaker 2: going to have every advantage that the candidate needs. This

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Speaker 2: is still still very much a red state. The generic polling,

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Speaker 2: you're a Republican or a Democrat, it's still about seven

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Speaker 2: percentage points in the state. Donald Trump won this state

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Speaker 2: by eleven percentage points, So you know, we're going to

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Speaker 2: be in very good shape. And what we did, frankly,

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Speaker 2: what I did here at the Ohio Republican Party is

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Speaker 2: we endorse the vake. We endorse them early. We have

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Speaker 2: recognized a generational talent and one of the most thoughtful

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Speaker 2: conservative leaders in America, and we're lucky to have him

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Speaker 2: and Brian. I mean, I'm on the ground, was a

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Speaker 2: vake all around Ohio, and I really I may perhaps

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Speaker 2: I'm put to hyperbole, but let me just say this

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Speaker 2: to you about that. The level of support, the excitement

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Speaker 2: unlike anything I've ever seen for any politician other than

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump in Ohio and Vivig showed up at Miami

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Speaker 2: University on a cold winter's night two weeks ago and

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Speaker 2: their students lined up two blocks in the middle of campus.

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Speaker 2: Yeah to hear from Vivake Ramaswami. My man, that's not

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Speaker 2: happening for Amy acting. That's not happening for even my

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Speaker 2: like that is going to Ultimately what gets it done

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Speaker 2: for him, What gets it done is his his skills,

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Speaker 2: his acumen. Is a candidate and as a person as

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Speaker 2: so it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a fun campaign, Brian,

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Speaker 2: It already is.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and he is such an inspirational speaker, sort of

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Speaker 1: Reagan asking his ability to charge a crowd up and

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Speaker 1: get them excited and positive thinking, it's wonderful to behold.

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Speaker 1: Seven fifty five krc DE talk station Happy Friday, Brian

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Speaker 1: Thomas with a higher Republican Party Chairman Alex Chairmanta Filo.

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Speaker 1: Before we look forward, and I know the all important

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Speaker 1: midterm elections where the party that is not in presidential

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Speaker 1: power usually ends up scoring some extra seats. We'll get

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Speaker 1: your analysis of that in the next as we look forward.

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Speaker 1: But looking back on twenty twenty five, anything you're particularly

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Speaker 1: proud of that we got to accomplished here in the

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Speaker 1: state of Ohio. It seems to me, in spite that

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Speaker 1: we are very red and we have an overwhelming well,

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party has an overwhelming majority in the state House.

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Speaker 1: They it's like hurting Cats a lot of times, we

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Speaker 1: expect a lot more because we all think that the

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Speaker 1: Republicans will play nicely together in the name of benefiting

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Speaker 1: all Ohioans. And yet it doesn't always seem to work

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Speaker 1: out that way. But what's your take on twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five before we get to this upcoming year, Alex, Well.

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Speaker 2: Look, I mean, you know some of this is inside baseball.

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Speaker 2: But for instance, my organization, we contributed, participated did mail

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Speaker 2: for one hundred and fifty six races. We won more

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Speaker 2: we do very well. Look if you live here in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: not so good. And I look, I still spend about

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Speaker 2: love my Hamilton County community. But look, I mean, when

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Speaker 2: does very well. But listen, Rian, you said it, the

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Speaker 2: pendulum swings back. I've been at this long enough to

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Speaker 2: know that the party out of power in fact does

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Speaker 2: suffer losses in the midterms. So we know you know

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Speaker 2: what the potential is here, and that is that we

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Speaker 2: we get a bit of a correction back to the center,

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Speaker 2: God forbid, back to the left. So you know, we're

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Speaker 2: fighting every single day to keep that from happening. My

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Speaker 2: further analysis of twenty twenty five is that Republicans cannot

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Speaker 2: stay home. One of the things that's just kind of

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Speaker 2: you you know, you tend to just say, well, okay,

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Speaker 2: have repeatedly seen that motivated voters in twenty twenty four

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Speaker 2: problem has been solved. So a lot of Republicans, you know,

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Speaker 2: don't impeach President Trump. So, you know, twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: we need them to vote. If Republicans vote Brian in

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four in Ohio, will win everything again.

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Speaker 2: You know, we won everything in twenty twenty four, really

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Speaker 2: had blowout losses. Really in twenty two twenty four with

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Speaker 1: Well, and you know, since we move aside from the

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Speaker 1: whole healthcare debacle, which I think just illustrates the failure

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Speaker 1: of Obamacare generally speaking, but that is obviously one of

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Speaker 1: the Democrats' favorite talking points, and we go into November,

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Speaker 1: the subsidies are gone, the supplet you know, the enhanced

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Speaker 1: premiums up there. Well, you know, that's just revealing the

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Speaker 1: reality of the failure of Obamacare. But that's an issue.

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Speaker 1: But the other issue that very difficult for Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: or any president to get on top of his inflation,

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Speaker 1: and inflation ticked up less this past month than they

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Speaker 1: opposed to three point three percent. That's still going up

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Speaker 1: and still beyond the desired rate of inflation. What can

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Speaker 1: you know? Inflation is so complicated. You know, the price

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Speaker 1: just the bird flu The beef herds are way down

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Speaker 2: Alex I think, I think a couple of things are

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Speaker 2: cost of energy Brian, that we just talked about, that

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Speaker 2: The laws that he passed when he entered office. That's

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Speaker 1: Well, it'd be nice to get a relief from our

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Speaker 1: Duke Energy bill because of course that keeps going up

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Speaker 1: at least under the Trump administration, we're backing off that

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Speaker 1: provide us relief, you know, cheaper energy prices. That's just

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Speaker 1: That's an easily accomplishable goal, but it does take time.

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Speaker 2: Alex, no question about it. And I'll tell you this

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Speaker 2: again of a Vek is just absolutely eloquent on what

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Speaker 2: The market will drive this, Brian, we're both free market capitalists.

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Speaker 2: If we allow the free market to operate to produce

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Speaker 2: But again you have to be a free market capitalist,

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Speaker 2: remove regulation, walk away from this this green New deal

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Speaker 2: hopefully all those things come together to drive down as

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Speaker 1: Alex Jean Defilo, you are always welcome on the fifty

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Speaker 1: five Carecy Morning Show. I appreciate you willingness to speak

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Speaker 1: and Joe Strecker myself again, a really heartfelt Merry Christmas

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Speaker 1: to you and your family and if you're driving anywhere

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Speaker 1: going anywhere, safe travels to you and your family. Alex,

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Speaker 1: thanks again for coming on and we'll do it again

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Speaker 1: next year for sure.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you.

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