Adam Koehler - Talking Cincinnati Politics

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Speaker 1 (00:14):
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in studio. It's a wonderful thing, you know, to look
face to face with a good man, and that good
man is Adam Kahlor, who's return to talk about all
things City of Cincinnati and the County of Hamilton. Adam,
always a pleasure, you see you man.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Thanks again, Brian, good to see you too.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I'm not quite sure where to start, so let's start
with the topic. We're just talking about the market's obviously
tanking a little bit. We've had a correction which has
been predicted for quite some time now. Now you want
to blame it on Trump's tariffs. That's fine. I'm not
quite sure where I am on tariffs. I know I
reject them along some lines and I understand them along others.

(01:16):
And we're going to again talk with John Carney from
Breitbart about that at eight oho five. We'll see where
he is. But whether or not those are responsible for
the recent market downturns, that does have an impact on
people's investment, that's right. So let's ignore the origins of
the downturns and just focus on the realities. Markets go up,

(01:37):
that markets go down, we all get heartburn over and
oh my god, my four oh one K loss whatever whatever.
That's why I never look at my numbers. I'm in
for the long haul. I just ignore the downturns and
never pay attention to them because they've always come back.
But in the context of the City of Cincinnati, there's
that railroad fund. The one point six billion dollars that

(01:57):
we sold the railroad for is supposed to be generating
a lot of interest, you know, on the money in
bened They didn't have to tap into the principle to
get the money that we otherwise would have gotten annually
guaranteed in a lease agreement. How's that working out right now,
Corey or Adam?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, apparently it hasn't been working out very well. I've
got a buddies, a financial advisor that lives over in
Hyde Park. He's been keeping an eye on everything, going
in to the meetings, asking for documentation, kind of weeding
through everything to try to figure out what's going on.
And you know, we warned a lot of people about
the situation. It actually doesn't necessarily matter how much money

(02:33):
you make in the fund. Infrastructure is what they have
to spend the money on existing infrastructure. Whenever you're talking
about infrastructure, talking about things like roads, right, roads is
a good thing to kind of look at asphalt, concrete, steel.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, the road projects that have been delayed over and
over and over and neglected over year after year after year,
they keep falling further behind.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
I mean Sunset Avenue, ah, right, our favorite turning left
on Sunset from Queen City there going up the hill.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh my god, that road is so awful.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I've actually heard that from more people than you, Like,
there's other people that on Twitter they'll say Sunset going up,
you know, taking a left there from Queen City going
up Sunset. He's like, I don't know what happened there.
It's like some tanks, like there was a war.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Right now, I know, I say, it's like a road
out of Gaza, and I know it's my favorite illustration.
My regular listeners go, oh my god, he's going on
about sunset again. But it's just for me, it's the
best illustration because I do use that road from time
to time, like when we have listener launch of Pricel
Chili or I have to go to the West Side
for some other reason. It's just it's been that way
for so many years. I mean years and years. It's

(03:35):
been terrible, that's right. And I'm sure there's someone out
there that lives in the city since they going, well,
it's not nearly as bad as the road filling the blank,
this road that I drive on, but it's one of
many roads in an absolute state of horrific disrepair. And
they fall behind every year on the number of miles
of roads that they are, you know, obligated to fix.
It's just like they just ignore it. They completely ignore it.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
And you know, you and I both know they hate
the West Side, and uh, you know, later today, I
believe it's today westside. Jim Keefer over there it is
going to have his, uh one of his meetings later
on around six pm. And you got to go up
that road. Yes, you do to get to price El Chili.
I do to get to his meetings, right and uh,
it's it's an absolute war zone over there. But but

(04:18):
the thing is is, you know you're buying things like asphalt, concrete, steel,
union labor. Those are some of the things that you
have to pay for it. When you're talking infrastructure exactly. Well, guests,
take a wild guest, Brian, what the cost to pave
a mile a road went up last year?

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Well, since you told me already, it's since last year,
according to you, it's gone up fifty.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Fifty one percent. That's not according to me, it's according
to Rocky Moretti. He's the director of policy and research
for an organization called trip and what he said is
the challenge is that over the last two years, we've
seen highway construction costs, which are essentially labor and material,
increased thirty six percent. But in Cincinnati, the cost to

(05:04):
rehab one lane mile rows fifty one percent in just
a year. It now sits at five hundred thousand per
lane mile. So pretend you're making six and a half percent,
which is what the financial firms have told us that
they're gonna make every year on average in this trust
six and a half percent. But the things you buy

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just went up fifty one percent in the last year.
So now you're behind the eight ball. So now what
next year you're gonna make sixty percent to make up
for it? Is that how this is gonna work. So
the buying power of those dollars just decreased. We it
was one point six billion. Now you're looking at a
little over half a billion dollars that the moneies that

(05:48):
that that buying power is worth. And I tried to
warn people about this, but I don't think it really
set into their heads that the inflation of the things
you're buying with the money is going to outpace the
money that you're And they've spent I think a little
over ten million dollars already or two million dollars SORR.
Two million dollars in fees for the managers.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Of the money.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, of the money. So so now you're behind. But
from what I've been told, the equity portion, they didn't
invest that right away when they got the money they
phased it. Okay, they invested a chunk of that before
the downturn, so the money was going up when they
were like, oh, we're going to sell the railroad. Everybody

(06:28):
was high on the stock market. Money was cheaper, right,
people were throwing money in the market. There wasn't really
anywhere else to put it. Well, now you see where
it's shifted to gold, precious metals, commodities, things like that
are going up. I mean gold just hit three thousand
dollars an ounce, right, Yeah, it's amazing. If you're invested
half the money in the stock market, the other half
is in a you know, fixed income, which they have

(06:51):
to rotate in and out of. So if you're buying
the year these ten year bonds for four percent, you
have to rotate out of this. You can't just hold
them for ten years or four percent. So in the
future they're going to go back down to where they
normally are two percent two and a half percent.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
So maybe, I mean, I might understand on a global level,
nobody is interested in buying our bonds anymore.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
I buy our debt are I mean, you know how
cash is? I mean, it's six.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Trillion dollars in the hole. I think people are starting
to worry about whether we will be remain solvent, which is,
you know, the the ultimate existential crisis we face.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, and that's you know why we have things like
doge now and they're looking at this money, which is
freaking out the other side of the aisle because their
corruption is being found out.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, that's the only thing I can discern from this,
and you have you're left to draw your own conclusions
why they're so wigged out about what Elon Musk and
the Department of Government Efficiency is doing when it is
literally indefensible to protect these ridiculous payments we're making to
these ridiculous organizations and these ridiculous you know, research studies.

(07:55):
But there they are coming unhinged over it. And I
think that is exactly why. Because someone is looking and
watching the money trail, pointing out the stupidity of the
grants at the outset, like how can you justify circumcisions
in Jakarta or whatever with the US taxpayer dollars, But
then realizing as they do that sometimes somebody is going

(08:18):
to go to Jakarta or see if that study was
actually even done and find out that the money never
made it there, and it's stayed in Washington, DC and
it's being used to fund lobbyist organizations and their own
left wing causes and campaigns to get these elected officials reelected.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
That's right. It all ends up back in the hands
of these donors, right, because these donors are running NGOs
other nonprofits. It goes into those nonprofits. These people charge
an outrageous amount of money for their contractor companies to
build houses in Africa or whatever they're trying to do.
So maybe it costs ten thousand dollars to build one

(08:53):
of those who you charge fifty, right, and then you
turn around, you put the money back into your pocket
and then you donate it back to the party.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah. Or there's you know to five o' one C
three corporation type styles set up so they're not you know,
taxable entity, but yet they are executives and the people
that run the organizations make these massive six figure salaries.
It's all the same thing.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Unbelievable, unbelievable, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (09:16):
So double the price for lane mile thanks to a
one year passage in time. So yeah, can we climb
out of this hole that the city of Cincinnati's Douglas
in perhaps maybe Corey Bowman can solve the problem. We'll
here from Adam about Corey Bowman among other topics too.
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Seven nineteen fifty five KERR CD Talk Station. A very
Happy Tuesday too, Brian Thomas with Adam Taylor and Studio
talking Cincinnati and Hamilton County politics. And apparently Todd Zinzer
did address the railroad money the concerns we're talking about
right now or that we just were talking about Adam
in two of his Citizen Watchdog podcasts. And Todd, you know,

(11:50):
is former inspector, gentleman, he has he just paid attention
to everything, right, So guy, Yeah, and you know, I
say what you want about Sharon Coolis from the inquire
she would go to city council meetings and do some
reporting on them. She's now the spokesperson or somebody on
behalf of Connie Pillach at the Prosecutor's Oscar's office. So

(12:10):
she's no longer to be working at the Enquirer. So
I guess no one will be reporting on what's going on.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
In I mean yeah, And I like Sherry. I mean
she's she's she's a good person, seems like she's you know,
she gets in there, she's not afraid to say the
things that need to be said. And she would come
here on the morning show. Yeah, yeah, you got her on.
That's right, I could.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
You couldn't get any of this insane council members to
come on the program.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
No, And I couldn't imagine I mean doing that day
in and day out for as many years as she's
done it, and just dealing with city Hall. I mean
that was her main focus. And some of the stuff
that's going on down there. I mean, it's got to
get to you. And you know, maybe an opportunity opened
up or whatever. I don't know. Some people may not
be happy about it because you know, it's it's a
Democrat prosecutor and we should probably have a Republican prosecutor

(12:56):
right now. I think if people would vote smarter. But
you know, opportunity opens up, you take it, you know.
So we'll see what happens there. But I'll tell you what.
Todd zinzer Man does a hell of a job on
his Citizen Watchdog podcast and just in general. And the
guy really wants to figure this thing out, like what's
going on. He's only one.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
He's like Cincinnati's version, although without any power or ability
to change things. He's like Cincinnati's version of Elon Musk. Yeah,
I mean he sees the problems. He can identify one
particulate him completely explain why you know it's not right,
it's not appropriate, or it's crazy. And he's got the
statistics and the documents and the wherewithal to explain it

(13:39):
in full detail. And you know, it's just too bad
he doesn't have powered authority to change it well.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
On his approach, the way he presents the stuff. And
you know, the difference between like me and Todd is
as I'll see something, I'll get it, I'll get all
hyper about it and just tell people and know whoa dude,
slow down. But but Todd, Todd's his demeanor, credibility background.
It's like if Todd presents it, then all of a
sudden it's like this is this is right because of

(14:05):
the way he can put it together and the way
he can frame it for the average voter. Indeed, and
I think, you know, when when stuff comes up, you
got your connected communities which is turning out to be
a nightmare, the railroad deal which has turned out to
be a nightmare. Now, I think if these two mayoral
Republican candidates can go in there and they can take

(14:25):
advantage of some of the stuff that people are frustrated
about in the lies that they that we as as
citizens of Cincinnati, were told about both of these things.
They got a chance. And it's crazy to say that.
I mean, Cincinnati is a seventy percent Democrat district, but
with what's going on federally, with this this twenty one

(14:47):
percent approval rating that the Democrat Party has right now,
I mean it's it's even worse. It's in the teens.
Only the people that think that favorable rating is like
very fam for the Democratic Party, which I don't know
you could ever think that they're very favorable. It's like
sixteen seventeen percent right now. This is the lowest it's
ever been.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, it was a CNN pull out the other day
that said exactly that, and they pulled Democrats and you know, CNN,
no bastion of rights.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
But shift it another five points. Yeah, well whatever they
say is shifted again. They're at minus five. Yeah. Yeah,
But I think we got a chance. And it's like,
if we can just get some energy behind guys like
Cory and get down there and start pushing and really
focus on some of the things that the Democrats have

(15:38):
failed us at, which is a lot. Uh, I think
we got a chance. I mean, our city's not going anywhere.
It's just not no. You see the other day where
the Business Career had a thing that said, the only
reason we've had any migration to this city is because
of immigration. A lot of the open border stuff that's
happened over Biden, which now you know is shut down.

(15:59):
I mean they're closing down some of the some of
the spots, the hotspots on the border because there's nobody
coming across the border right now.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, down to it's off ninety four percent mostistics, that's right.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
And they're gonna save even more money by not having
all these border patrol agents down there. So those just
said they're gonna save another five hundred million dollars or
something because they're just not showing up because they know better.
At this point. I mean, you got helicopters flying around,
you got all this stuff up.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
But Mexico cooperating to a Mexico finally cooperating.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
I mean, these guys around a mile in the ocean
trying to float to the United States now and they're
catching them out there. But it's like you've had those
policies in place for so long, which has led to
migration to cities like Cincinnati. But where's the migration coming from.
If that stops, nobody is coming here.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Well, perhaps because the infrastructure is falling apart, seem to
have an incompetence in administration, and well they make it
very difficult to do business in the city.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, very difficult. Yeah, I mean, and I'm out here,
you know, we're doing another business now. I'm heading up
to Detroit to go talk to some people on Wednesday,
raising some money up there. But it's like, you've got
a lot of problems in the Midwest. Detroit's one of
the cities, Cleveland obviously, these these russ Belt cities that
just haven't been able to turn the corner. And it

(17:20):
looked like for a while there we were going to
start doing it, but under the current administration, things have
just kind of slowed down. Or you got all this
crime down on the banks. That project was supposed to
be a big deal, and what's that turned out to be?
You got what nine acres of land down there that
hasn't even been developed and there's no developer in sight.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
And I believe according to the FBI Crime Statistics or
an article the other I believe we're number twelve per
capita for murder in the entire country.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, yeah, and crime is down according to them.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
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Speaker 1 (20:41):
See the talk station. It's seven thirty coming up at
seven thirty one, if you buy Kercity Talk Station Brian
Thomas with Adam Caller and studio talking City of Cincinnati
issues and troubles and may die him get into some
county issues. I saw that you just pointed out that
the Brown family actually does spend money here. Finally they

(21:04):
could build their whole executive office for what they paid
the two players.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Oh yeah, Oh that was some That was some big,
big money for these guys. I think Jamar's making forty
point five million a year now, and uh yeah, they've
got Tea at a little over twenty eight. I believe a
year a year a year, I think a third of
their a third of the salary cap is going to
go to those two players, Burrow and then probably Hendrickson

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when they can resign him, because they got to keep Hendrickson.
You don't keep Hendrickson, your defense is worse than it
was last year.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, it's just as the sum is just are mind
bogged wining to me. But they can afford it because
they have a lot of money on there.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, we got a road they could fix that we
know about. Yeah really yeah, if they're listening, yeah really, Sunset,
any want to get some private guys out there to
throw some codes down to fix Sunset Avenue. Please do,
I'm down, help us out.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Pivoting back over to Corey Bowman, It's Corey Bowman dot
com for those who are interested in hell open out
Corey's race. We were talking off air about him being
a business owner on the West End and of course
not a whole lot of people opening business on the
West and he's taking it on the chin. People are
suggesting that he is using this campaign as a mechanism
to elevate his coffee shop and get people to come

(22:17):
in the door of his coffee shop.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
I got into it with them and you know, they
hate me online and uh, you know, mostly mostly communists.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
That's why I don't go online.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, they're well, you know me, I love it. I
you know this, It just makes it makes me a
better debater, I think when I can, because you got
to understand what their what their complaints are. But their
complaints are senseless, Like they just doesn't make any any
sense at all. You're like, what are you guys even
talking about?

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Right?

Speaker 2 (22:42):
And you know most of them are What I've discovered
is a lot of them are like service workers, right, so,
and I don't know why they don't try to do
something else. But you know, nothing against service workers. It
just seems to be a parallel between them and communists
for some reason. And I don't know why they would
they would be so upset about a guy who puts

(23:03):
his money where his mouth is and goes into the
West End, opens a coffee shop, runs a church, does
things in the community, tries to give back, and then
they turn that into a negative and say the only
reason he's running for mayor is to promote his coffee shop.
Believe me, people, if you're running a political campaign, it's
taking you out of your business. Yeah, it's not helping you,

(23:28):
because there's one less person working down there. You go
down there a day, he's down there working. He's down
here behind the counter making coffee. I called him up.
I was down in Orlando last week. I call him up, Corey, Hey,
you know, what do you think about talking about this?
He's behind the counter. Can I call you back. I'm
I'm making some coffee. Yeah, And I'm like, look at
this guy. He's running a campaign, he's working a coffee shop,

(23:50):
which you physically have to be at. Right, my business,
I own a digital ad agency. I don't have to
physically be there doing anything. I could be on my
phone and send emails and ask people where projects are.
He's got to physically be down there.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, same thing with his church. He not ministering to
people online.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Let me open up the zoom with all the people
in the pews and I'll just open it up and
I'm I'm little.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Corey Bowman's using the campaign to as a vehicle to
minister before people.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Just unbelievable. And it's it's what do they want from people?
You know, what do you want from a mayor? I mean,
do you just want somebody with good hair and and
and showing his teeth and keep some you know, keep
some nice and white for you? Is that what you want? Well?

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Shades of Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Gavin Newsom right, I mean, we got a we got baby.
Gavin Newsom is our mayor right now. And it's like,
what do you guys want? Do you want somebody who's
just gonna lie to you about things? You know, the
results of what this rail deal was gonna do. Nothing
has turned out the way they thought it was gonna
turn out. It's worse and we all knew the market.
It was the longest bull run in the history of
the stock market. At some point things have to come

(24:56):
crashing down. I mean, these tariffs may be kind of
forcing that to happen, but you almost have to, you
almost have to get something there to cool things off
a little bit. And now what's happening. I mean, they
phased this this investment money into the stock market, and
it just so happened. They put a big chunk in
right before the market dipped. So their return on the

(25:16):
equity portion is a little over one percent, like three
quarters of a percent. And again, a mile a highway
or a mile a road is going to cost you
fifty one percent more than it did last year.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Your number is most notably going to go up again.
That's it's always. I mean, inflation is normally what a
couple of points. Yeah, so you're guaranteed that it's going
to be a couple of points more expensive next year
than this year.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Can you I mentioned if they had gotten the Brent
Spnz bridge project done back when Barack Obama was campaigning
at the foot of it talking about building a new bridge,
when Trump was standing there, or when about yet, oh,
year after year after year, and the price seg just
kept going up and up and up.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
That's right. And it's no different than these these these
players on the Bengals. Right, if you would have negotiated
with them last year, you would have got these guys,
you know, ten million dollars cheaper between the two of them.

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Speaker 1 (28:30):
Seven fifty five kr CEE talk station Bryan tim to
see with Adam Kaylor talking politics. Yeah, Dam, it's interesting
kind of phenomenon going on. You know, we've you've identified
quite a few problems with the city or the roads, bridges,
infrastructures seen to be crumbling. Of course, it's a lot
more expensive now to fix them than it was. They
the Democrats who've run the city now for the last
what four decades have allowed this to happen. We obviously

(28:53):
have a crime problem, even though no one likes to
report on it or talk about it. We've got an
administration never speaks positively about the police. We got this
Connected Communities program, which designed to put dense, you know,
housing in areas that may not want it. In spite
of the fact that local communities in fact don't want it.
They didn't let any of their local communities vote on
the whole concept. So, you know, stepping outside of yourself,

(29:17):
if you're a Democrat, and if you look at the
wasteland that we're dealing with here, you'd think that people
would just sort of wake up to the reality that
they've been sold a lie or a myth that the
Democrats are the ones that are going to help them
out of whatever problems they have, because clearly we're not
in a better place. And this is not the only
city that's struggling with this.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Not the only one now, I mean, and and.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
You look at the states that are underwater. It's Illinois,
it's New York, It's it's maybe California. I'm not quite
sure where they are on a budget standpoint, but I know,
Illinois is in a just a financial Charlie foxtrot. Democrats
have been running Illinois forever. People are running away from
the state.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah, oh, wake up and say we need to quit
doing the same thing over and over again. It's just
it's they love it. They I don't know what it is.
It makes them feel good to vote Democrat. They you know,
they want to outsource their altruism to people like our mayor.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
They feel like they get awards from for their philanthropy
over on the east side Hyde Park mountlookout those type
of folks. Uh, there's there's a circle of just everybody
kind of working together in the Democratic Party. I feel like, uh,
you know, the east Side people get to help the
poor with their with their vote, right. Uh, they get
awards from these nonprofits because then those Democrats that they elect,

(30:40):
they give money to the nonprofits. Yeah, then the nonprofits
get back to the people. So I get to go.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
With that with Todd Zinser on the program last.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, I get I get to feel good about myself.
They make me feel good about myself. Republicans don't because
Republicans are are giving you back your money, right, instead
of giving it to these organizations, it seemed to be
filtering it back into political campaigns. And just look how
much money some of these local Democrats raise. Just go
and look at their finance reports. I mean hundreds of

(31:07):
thousands of dollars. And then you got some of them raise.
The ones with the bigger names, they'll raise the money
and then they'll redistribute the money once they get it
to other candidates that may not have the name recognition
so they can run their campaigns. I mean, we're lucky
at this point that we're even I mean we had
a full slate during the last election. I don't know
in the future if we could even get people to

(31:28):
want to run because they're gonna see and you know,
I love it just because I get a soapbox and
I can just run my mouth and this is my favorite.
So I mean, even if I don't win, at least
I get to say we have a Democrat monopoly. It sucks.
It's not working. It doesn't work in California, it doesn't
work in New York, it doesn't work in Illinois. Why
do you think it's gonna work here? When you have

(31:48):
one political party in charge, it opens things up to corruption,
It opens things up to one set of policies, and
you don't have any balance. There's nobody else to raise
their hand and say, wait, wait, wait, what's going on?
Because as you know, most citizens don't pay attention.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
They don't.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
But who does pay attention? You get one Republican, at
least one Republican for God's sake, on city council. They'll
be there. It's their job to watch the other hand.
What is the other hand doing right? If you don't
have anybody on there, you just leave it up to
the voters and guys like Todd Zenzier to keep an
eye on things well.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
And you know the idea of having at least one
dissenting voice, even if they are not going to have
you know, measurable sway over the direction of the city,
they're at least there to challenge the policy on God proposed.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, just get somebody out there to say, hey, wait
a minute, what is going on here? And we have
an opportunity. You have two Republican candidates running. You decide
who you like there. You know, I've spoken to Corey,
I've been down his coffee shop, I've seen the guy working.
He seems like a level headed guy. He's a business owner.
He's actually doing what we want most people to do.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Point right there. He's doing it in a difficult, challenging neighborhood,
and yet he's sticking it out because he knows he's
doing the right thing. He's helping that neighborhood. He's providing
his service to the neighborhood. And he's also got his
ministry there.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Uh, walk in the walk as we say, if he
was a Democrat, they'd be throwing flowers down in front
of him as he walks.

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Speaker 1 (35:17):
Seven fifty if they five kr see the talk station.
One more segment here with in studio Adam Kaylor talking
mostly City of Cincinnati related issues and topics. And you know,
I think we would have a different political dynamic if
more people really just paid attention to politics. And this
is not something unique to City of Cincinnati. I mean
I think most people do not dedicate really any time

(35:38):
whatsoever to politics. You know what they do is they
get their news from memes. Oh yeah, and I'm not
even joking when I say that. You know, a meme
can do a lot.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Somebody sends you a text message with a meme and
you know, you laugh at it, but it, yeah, it
sets in.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
And sometimes they're great at summarizing complex issues and topics,
I will grant, But when it comes to when you
have this baked into the whole equation, mindset that Democrats
are the only party that's there, and they survive on
topics like class warfare and sturring the racial pot of division,
none of which you know, really goes to help or

(36:17):
serve anyone at all.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Marxism. It is Marxism, I mean, when when you boil
it all down, that's exactly what it is. And you
got to understand that entire party survives off of tax dollars.
They don't survive off of creating new jobs or business like.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
They're not like the Green New Deal. You know, it
wouldn't exist but for the infusion of taxpayer money.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yeah, they're not the party of They're the party resentment.
They they focus on people who resent other people, jealousy, anger.
It didn't work out for me, so the American system
doesn't work. A lot of people hate America on the left.
They just hate this country. And you know, they they
hate you for being successful, They hate me, They hate

(37:00):
business owners. They go after guys like Corey who are
trying to do what they want them to do. It's like, hey,
we need more people to go into these poor neighborhoods
and open businesses and support the communities. They don't actually
want that right, they want to say they do, But
then what happens to their poverty programs, what happens to
their homeless programs, what happens all these things when people

(37:20):
start getting jobs, they don't actually want businesses to thrive.
Which it's like, that's why our city's stagnant. That's why
the West End still looks like it does after all
these years, when there should be more investment dollars over there.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah, you know, I mentioned off air to you. When
I was working at the courthouse. I was just intrigued,
beyond intrigue because I love architecture and I love, you know,
old school craftsmanship. And you know, if you look at
Dayton Street and those old millionaire row houses that were there,
oh my god, they're so epic beautiful, and yet they

(37:54):
never have you know, been a draw. I know, early
in the eighties there was some effort of people to
go there and rehab them, but it never really took
hold because the neighborhood was never revitalized, and I think
people were concerned for safety and the like. But you know,
that's that's an opportunity right there in and of itself.
For for for I want to say, gentrification but that's
a bad word now for in some.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, but you're talking about single family homes, and that's
not what they want. The whole connected communities thing is,
let's throw up a you know, ten unit building where
there's there's six to ten unit building on a couple lots,
and don't put parking in there, and throw in transitional housing,
you know, throw in housing for for people who are
in recovery. Uh. You know, that's that's kind of the goal.

(38:35):
I mean, that's why they want it near bus lanes
because those people don't drive, right, A lot of them
don't have licenses. They've got to take it away by
the court system. So yeah, just throw a go to
go to Hyde Park, knock down a couple, uh you
know houses. I mean, I don't think there's a blighted
house in Hyde Park anymore. Uh, But but go into
these neighborhoods, knocked down some houses. Use this new connected
communities thing to throw up six to ten units with

(38:56):
no parking and throw some some you know, recovering drug
addicts in there.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
You know. Actually, Todd Zenzer pointed out that that's not
a connected community related project. In fact, they're seeking a
variance from the connected communities. Yeah, to build that and
they'll get a massive hotel because it is a in
his words, well connected developer. Oh yeah. Kept he kept
emphasizing well connected developer, which means the project's going to

(39:21):
sail through probably without anybody's in.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
This is how it's in every city. It happens in
Miami too. You read all this stuff about what's going
on down there, and I mean, it's it's this is
just what it is, right, And connected communities is just
a way, you know, to push more housing. You know,
the more units you have, the less parking you build,
the more units you can get in, right because now
I don't have to provide parking. People just park on

(39:43):
the street or they take the car or whatever. So
you know, I make more money per square foot. And
it's just it is what it is. But you've got
to understand, guys, like at the end of the day
and most people, I mean, we're preaching the choir here
for a lot of people, but we've got to get
out there. We've got to support our candidates. We've got
to understand that this city is being run by people
who don't necessarily have any motivation to help out the

(40:04):
small business owner. You can help out the large businesses
and do what they want. And a lot of times,
you know Procter in particular, you know, they promote DEI
and things like that, and they've they've bought in, so
a lot of their employees are going through those training
programs and things like that, and they end up voting
to the left because of that. But guys, Hyde Park,

(40:26):
you got to understand, this stuff is now at your doorstep.
It wasn't at your doorstep for a long time. So
you had you had all the leeway in the world
to just feel good and just you know, be kind
to everybody and have all this compassion and virtue signal,
you know, until it's at your front door, until there's
a homeless person on your steps sleeping, or they pop

(40:46):
a tent up in your backyard. You know, I don't
live in the greatest neighborhoods. I mean it's right by
me all the time. Right, there's drug dealers, there's people
with tents, There's all that stuff that's been happening for years.
I'm for Price Hill. Price Hill's got problems, right, we
got the road problems, we got poverty problems. They don't
see it they're in their little secluded community. But guess what, guys,
this Hyde Park Square situation, what's gonna come from that.

(41:10):
There's a lot of stuff that's gonna happen, and it's
gonna start coming to your doorstep. And if you don't
start straightening up and voting the right way, we're gonna
have issues.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Always a pleasure, Adam Carolla gets your candid assessment on
things going on in the greater Cincinnati area. You're always
welcome on the Morning show. Keep up the great work.
I know you will be hearing from you. Yeah, whether
on the air or off the air, Folks, stick around
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We'll be talk in tariffs in the economy, plus Daniel

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Israel and Hamas. That'll be after the news. Hope you
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