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<v Speaker 1>Number one preset for instant access to the information that

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<v Speaker 2>Always on fifty five KRC, the talk station TATO six

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<v Speaker 2>I fifty five kr CD Talk station. Hey, Happy Thursday

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<v Speaker 2>to you. Freddie E.

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<v Speaker 3>Resident expert on all things local, county and City Adam

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<v Speaker 3>Keaylor returns. He's in the studio to talk about really

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<v Speaker 3>fun stuff the Bengals in the county and the stadium negotiation,

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<v Speaker 3>as well as the reality about the city and the

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<v Speaker 3>county and city wasting our money. Adam Keaylor, Welcome back

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<v Speaker 3>to the studio. Man, it's always great saying thanks. Anyhow,

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<v Speaker 3>let's start with the stadium because this also it deals

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<v Speaker 3>with state issues as well. As you and I were

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<v Speaker 3>talking about before the segment started, that the ridiculous, insulting,

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<v Speaker 3>crazy proposal of funding the the the multi trillion dollar

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<v Speaker 3>Cleveland Brown Complex. These well connected team owners with their

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<v Speaker 3>millions and if not billions of dollars, the idea that

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<v Speaker 3>taxpayers are supplementing and supporting what funds they're millions and

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<v Speaker 3>billions of dollars, and and for for like bread and

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<v Speaker 3>circus kind of stuff. Here, Oh, the stadium six hundred

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<v Speaker 3>million dollars in bonds, which are ultimately going to cost

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<v Speaker 3>the taxpayers of the state of Ohio what a billion

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<v Speaker 3>dollars when you thought factor.

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<v Speaker 4>In tracker every year every year, it's like, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>tens of millions of dollars it's going to cost us. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>it's not free money. It's no, it's no, that's yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>And that's my point. And there's a finite amount of

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<v Speaker 4>money in the world. And I always like to point

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<v Speaker 4>out everybody's got a list of stuff and things they

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<v Speaker 4>want from government. I have a limited list, like, let's

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<v Speaker 4>take care of what we've built already, so we don't

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<v Speaker 4>go further into a whole and you have to ask

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<v Speaker 4>for more money from me, Like, let's take care of

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<v Speaker 4>roads and infrastructure and provide us with a safe community,

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<v Speaker 4>and then we'll take care of the rest. We don't

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<v Speaker 4>need much of stuff and things. Roan I got, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>maybe twenty thousand dollars with a landscape and I'd like

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<v Speaker 4>to get done at my house.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Really, you know what, I'll tell you what, why don't

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<v Speaker 3>we have everybody listening on is pay tax to take

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<v Speaker 3>care of your landscaping?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>But anyway back to the stadium, so they commit and

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<v Speaker 3>the Bengals work out this phase one of what it's

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<v Speaker 3>supposed to be four phases. Now the Bengals, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>because they know that they got a pr problem and

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<v Speaker 3>a good will problem because they have this we're going

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<v Speaker 3>to take our team and run away if you don't

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<v Speaker 3>give us what we demand mentality, which is fueled by

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<v Speaker 3>the terrible stadium deal that we got into originally, Ye,

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<v Speaker 3>the worst in the Nation's theatrically worse.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, it's documented that it's the worst. There's experts

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<v Speaker 4>that have come out and said it was the worst.

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<v Speaker 4>So do you think any of the.

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<v Speaker 3>Voters that are still around, the voted for that had

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<v Speaker 3>any understanding of how lopsided this thing is that we

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<v Speaker 3>are going to perpetually be obligated to keep up with

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<v Speaker 3>the Joneses in terms of stadiums in this country.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, the sales tax never ended, I know, remember that

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<v Speaker 4>was supposed to get sunseted and that never ended. And

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<v Speaker 4>that's what we're funding this with. That's what the county

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<v Speaker 4>portion of the money is supposed to be coming from.

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<v Speaker 4>Is that sales tax that they just continued to save

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<v Speaker 4>up that they never you know, they they never stopped

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<v Speaker 4>charging us for so that's where the money is coming from.

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<v Speaker 4>In the Bengals money is actually alone from the NFL.

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<v Speaker 4>Part of it alone from the NFL. That G six

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<v Speaker 4>or G seven money or whatever it is. Yeah, some

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<v Speaker 4>of that's.

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<v Speaker 2>Total involved here.

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<v Speaker 3>It's like one hundred and eighty five million dollars they're

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<v Speaker 3>gonna pony up for this phase. Yeah, yeah, they're gonna

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<v Speaker 3>puy up one twenty, which the Bengals getting credit for.

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<v Speaker 3>But ultimately it's a loan or is it a gift

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<v Speaker 3>or a loan?

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<v Speaker 4>It's a kind of a gift, so it's future revenue.

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<v Speaker 4>It's it's like a loan on future revenue that they're

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<v Speaker 4>going to get anyway.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, but it makes some good look good on paper,

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<v Speaker 3>like see, oh yeah, look, we we don't have any

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<v Speaker 3>obligation or the least to do this, but here we

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<v Speaker 3>are funding part of the upgrades. But the other, the

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<v Speaker 3>other component of this is what they're what we collectively,

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<v Speaker 3>This what the stadium collectively is going to get from

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<v Speaker 3>these upgrades. And I have to ask out loud because

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<v Speaker 3>you know, I sound like a bit of a populace

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<v Speaker 3>and all this, but I keep pointing out a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of this money is going toward like the boxes where

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<v Speaker 3>the rich people play.

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<v Speaker 4>Some of that is yeah, yeah, there's some electric upgrades,

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<v Speaker 4>there's like escalators, they're moving things around, they're shifting the

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<v Speaker 4>way things are, and you know, they're trying to keep

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<v Speaker 4>up with the demands of the NFL, like some of

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<v Speaker 4>these other cities that are you know, building brand new stadiums.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean in Jacksonville, they're doing a billion dollars worth

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<v Speaker 4>of upgrades to their stadium. A team that sucks worse

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<v Speaker 4>than the Bengals have you know, failed us over the years,

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<v Speaker 4>and you know they're doing they're spending that kind of

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<v Speaker 4>money just on upgrades and we're at like eight hundred

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<v Speaker 4>and thirty million something like that. Yeah, to make the

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<v Speaker 4>Bengals happy. But you remember they can renew that lease.

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<v Speaker 4>They have what five different times or is it two

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<v Speaker 4>five year extensions or is it five two year extensions.

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<v Speaker 3>It's one of the two. My recollection is it's the latter.

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<v Speaker 3>But it doesn't matter. They can cause this thing to

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<v Speaker 3>last what another ten years or.

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<v Speaker 4>What they can drag it out before and then they're

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<v Speaker 4>going to ask for a new stadium at that point,

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<v Speaker 4>like you know, this.

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<v Speaker 2>Is going to happen it makes my head just spend. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>and after that draft, I don't know, you know, I

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<v Speaker 2>just keep going back to this.

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<v Speaker 3>You literally could have the Bengals play on a high

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<v Speaker 3>school football field.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they get it.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean the game is played on that finite amount

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<v Speaker 3>of space predetermined by the rules how big a football

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<v Speaker 3>field must be. And the idea in a day when

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<v Speaker 3>you considered home with an eighty inch TV screen with

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<v Speaker 3>nine gajillion cameras watching the game like you're sitting on

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<v Speaker 3>the field high resolution, missing nothing by your drinking your

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<v Speaker 3>own inexpensive beer and using your clean bathroom. The idea

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<v Speaker 3>that we keep building and expanding and building expanding these

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<v Speaker 3>elite stadiums where most of the masses can't afford to

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<v Speaker 3>even go, is just it just frankly pisses me off.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, and I think the general public has become more

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<v Speaker 4>cognizant of the fact that we don't have this kind

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<v Speaker 4>of money, like what right? The taxpayer just keeps getting

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<v Speaker 4>beat down more and more and more, and it affects

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<v Speaker 4>the middle class more and more and more. And if anything,

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<v Speaker 4>Trump and what they're doing with Doze and Elon Musk

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<v Speaker 4>and all this other stuff where they're uncovering all this waste.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, it almost makes you wonder. It kind of

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<v Speaker 4>opens up the door for the conversation of what else

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<v Speaker 4>are they wasting our money on. Why can't we come

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<v Speaker 4>up with with some money for this stuff? Why is

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<v Speaker 4>it so hard to do this? And we're broke? Like

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, even Dwine said it, he said, we don't

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<v Speaker 4>have the money for this kind of stuff. Right, So

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<v Speaker 4>the general public is now like, hey, maybe money doesn't

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<v Speaker 4>grow on trees. And the average voter, you said, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>twenty five years ago, thirty years ago, whenever they did

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<v Speaker 4>this this last lease, I think it was twenty five

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<v Speaker 4>year lease. You know, did the average voter know what

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<v Speaker 4>they were voting for and knowing what they were getting into, know,

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<v Speaker 4>because I mean, if you talk to the average voter,

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<v Speaker 4>they're busy taking care of their kids, they're busy doing their.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, it boiled down to like, I don't want

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<v Speaker 3>to lose the Bengals in Cincinnati. Now, that's what the

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<v Speaker 3>vote was for, right, because if we don't build a

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<v Speaker 3>new stadium, then they may move to another city.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah exactly.

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<v Speaker 4>And you mentioned people that are in politically this is

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<v Speaker 4>what's going on up there, right, and it's not just

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<v Speaker 4>sports teams, it's it's everybody. It's developers, it's I mean

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<v Speaker 4>you see this with the connected community situation and high parts.

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<v Speaker 4>It's other businesses that, hey, move to Cincinnati, moved to

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<v Speaker 4>Hamil County, We'll give you tax breaks. And that's your

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<v Speaker 4>competing against every city and every municipality. They're all trying

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<v Speaker 4>to attract businesses. They're all trying to bring things that

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<v Speaker 4>are going to excite the citizens to their city, and

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<v Speaker 4>they're always offering some sort of a tax break or

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<v Speaker 4>some sort of a And now you've got FC Cincinnati saying, hey, look,

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<v Speaker 4>we spend all this money on this stadium. We're building

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<v Speaker 4>this billion dollar plus entertainment area in the West End.

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<v Speaker 2>Can we get some of that money back?

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<v Speaker 4>State of Ohio like, hey, we'd love two hundred and

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<v Speaker 4>fifty million dollars or whatever it was, or they spent

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<v Speaker 4>two hundred and fifty million dollars in a stadium. They

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<v Speaker 4>want a little bit of that back. So you're going

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<v Speaker 4>down a slippery slope. And Senator Blessing he mentioned this

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<v Speaker 4>recently where he's like, look, you know you do this

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<v Speaker 4>for the Browns. Next thing, you know you're doing it

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<v Speaker 4>for the Bengals, You're doing it for the Blue Jackets,

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<v Speaker 4>You're doing it for the Reds, right. I mean it's

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<v Speaker 4>beautiful last couple of days and the Reds had five

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<v Speaker 4>I mean you you know, yes, you could play it

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<v Speaker 4>on that field, right, you got fifty thousand seats in

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<v Speaker 4>that stadium and ten percent of a field, right, So,

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<v Speaker 4>I mean the teams have to put a good product

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<v Speaker 4>on the field, which lately the Bengals have been, even

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<v Speaker 4>though they missed the playoffs and they shouldn't have last year.

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<v Speaker 4>But uh, you know, the fans are saying, hey, look,

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<v Speaker 4>what what are you giving us? Like, yeah, you can leave,

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<v Speaker 4>but at the end of the day, you're you're still

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<v Speaker 4>going to put a good product on the field. And

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<v Speaker 4>how are you giving the Browns six hundred million dollars?

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<v Speaker 4>They haven't put a good team on the field in decades.

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<v Speaker 4>They can't even get a quarterback.

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<v Speaker 2>I know.

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<v Speaker 3>But and that that even is a concept that we're

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<v Speaker 3>talking about the potential of the state taxpayers funding the

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<v Speaker 3>Cleveland Browns project. Yeah, I mean that those words are

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<v Speaker 3>coming out discussing it as a concept is just to me,

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<v Speaker 3>it's mind boggling.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, and maybe all those.

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<v Speaker 3>Problems and concerns and all the finite amount of money

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<v Speaker 3>that has taken in Columbus and that are elected officials.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, have it as a written proposal. Yeah, to think.

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<v Speaker 4>It's Haslam family. Know what kind of photos do they

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<v Speaker 4>have of our elected officials? Well, they donate money, so

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<v Speaker 4>they donate money to the right people. So there is that.

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<v Speaker 4>But also, I mean, the Browns packaged up their deal

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<v Speaker 4>and you know, they put it together the right way,

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<v Speaker 4>They got it in in time, and here come Zamon

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<v Speaker 4>County the day a day later, it's too late, after

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<v Speaker 4>the budget was already passed, saying hey what about us,

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<v Speaker 4>here's we want some money too, and it.

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<v Speaker 2>Just looks it look bad. Yeah, it looks bad.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, but Brian, they had twenty five years of work

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<v Speaker 4>on this. They kept kicking the can down the road.

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<v Speaker 4>They wait last minute the Bengals mentioned it. They said, look,

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<v Speaker 4>we don't know what's going on, Like, what's are they

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<v Speaker 4>them play. I mean, they negotiate with multimillion dollar you know,

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<v Speaker 4>how to negotiate, and they're dealing with these you know,

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<v Speaker 4>not like the three people sitting in Hamilton County are

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 4>They just had to pay some what was a guy

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<v Speaker 4>That's and most of them aren't, you know, business owners.

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<v Speaker 3>say Happy Thursday? It's like the subject matter we've been

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<v Speaker 3>talking about all day. I mean, from Indian Pakistan breaking

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<v Speaker 3>Adam Taylor and studio breaking it down for us. And

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<v Speaker 3>of course, in the aftermath of the revelation, he reached

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<v Speaker 3>Bengals for phase one of what ultimately will be an

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<v Speaker 3>eight hundred plus million dollars stadium upgrade deal. In the background,

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<v Speaker 3>we've got Columbus approving or at least moving in the

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<v Speaker 3>direction of allowing six hundred million dollars in bonds to

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<v Speaker 3>go to the Cleveland Browns, and one of the things

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<v Speaker 3>and I talked about it. I guess it was last

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<v Speaker 3>and you had mentioned it a couple times off air

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<v Speaker 3>that the legislation itself limits these these the funding of

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<v Speaker 3>sports teams to one counties with one million or more YEP,

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<v Speaker 3>which means Hamilton County is out of it because we

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<v Speaker 3>only have eight hundred or so thousand people in Hamilton County.

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<v Speaker 3>So that would mean Columbus and Franklin County in Cuyahoga County.

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<v Speaker 3>Are those the only two qualifying counties?

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<v Speaker 2>They are the only two.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the House added a rule only counties with a

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<v Speaker 2>And since Hamilton County, which.

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<v Speaker 3>Man Hamilton County obviously was designed to exclude the Bengals,

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<v Speaker 4>Well we always get treated to like the red headed

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you had mentioned that figure off air, and my

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<v Speaker 3>Hamilton County friends might be interested in knowing. So how

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<v Speaker 3>much does Hamilton County pay in taxes, So.

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<v Speaker 4>We pay about two and a half billion dollars a

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<v Speaker 4>the federal government and everything. That's not the same thing though, No,

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<v Speaker 4>But if you're talking about money we put into the

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<v Speaker 4>state versus money we get back, we essentially subsidize. Out

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<v Speaker 4>of the three biggest counties, we're the biggest subsidizer of

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<v Speaker 2>Contrast that with Franklin.

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<v Speaker 4>Let's say so so well, I mean you look at

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<v Speaker 4>so they pay what they pay from what they pay. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>and that gain of and then Cleveland somewhere in the middle.

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<v Speaker 4>Cleveland's still they lose more than they actually put in.

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<v Speaker 4>But now you're talking about another six hundred million dollars,

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<v Speaker 4>like the county does own that, like I own a

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<v Speaker 4>when it comes to that. I get why the Bengals

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<v Speaker 4>at the same time, it's like, if you're going to

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<v Speaker 4>tens of million dollars a year in bonds to pay

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<v Speaker 4>put in a rule that says, wait a minute, only

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<v Speaker 4>it can get it. But anybody under and we're at

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<v Speaker 4>what eight hundred and thirty thousand residents. Half our cities,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, a third of our city actually is in

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's a valid point geographically obviously, Yah River in

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, this is why I want to seceed Brian.

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<v Speaker 4>Take northern Kentucky, take southeastern create our own state, state

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<v Speaker 4>of Cincinnati. Let's just create our own state, because I mean,

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<v Speaker 4>this kind of stuff comes up and this ends up,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, screwing us a lot of times. But we're

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<v Speaker 4>of Kentucky, right, which we're in in Ohio, but it's

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<v Speaker 4>in our metro area. We're the biggest economically, we have

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<v Speaker 4>you know, they they h annexed a lot of their

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<v Speaker 4>when they're looking to do stuff, they say, oh, Columbus

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<v Speaker 2>Wrong.

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<v Speaker 4>Cincinnati is the biggest city. It's the most cosmopolitan city,

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<v Speaker 4>it's the most historical city, it's the most geographically interesting city.

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<v Speaker 4>It's you know, it's it's it's the north and the south.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, if you get you get the benefit of you know,

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<v Speaker 3>areas are annexed or they're not under the control, which

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<v Speaker 3>that's a draw right.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, look at Franklin, I mean it's all you know,

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<v Speaker 4>just like here, one party rule exactly, and it's mostly progressive.

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<v Speaker 4>So what you're gonna get up there and what you're

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<v Speaker 4>So del Hi doesn't vote like the rest of the city.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, it's it's it's more conservative. So if it

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<v Speaker 4>it's gonna you know, have to deal with it. Although

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<v Speaker 4>it would help with voting when it comes to the city,

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<v Speaker 4>our guy, Corey Bowman, it would help him out a

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<v Speaker 4>whole lot. You know, bring Norwood in, that would help

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<v Speaker 4>Cory out a little bit.

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<v Speaker 3>He may have nabbed some of the Hyde Park folks. Oh,

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<v Speaker 3>I think he nabbed a whole lot of Hyde Park folks.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm hoping so, And I hope my hard Park friends

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<v Speaker 3>out there go and vote for Corey Bowman. Just as

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<v Speaker 3>a slap in the face to have to have purvol

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<v Speaker 3>and the insult that they heap down upon you by

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<v Speaker 3>Corey Bowman or Bowman, Adam Keylor, it's always a pleasure

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<v Speaker 3>having you in the studio. Man, get at me all

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<v Speaker 3>riled up this morning. Yeah, but that's what it's all about.

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<v Speaker 3>Spreading the awareness and hopefully someone will finally make a

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<v Speaker 3>you can stick around. We got iHeart Media eighty eation

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<v Speaker 3>Stick around fifty five KRC, the talk station at U Line.

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<v Speaker 2>They know for