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April 4, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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lot of rain going on today, heavy rain at times.
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Rains likely tomorrow.

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of forty five overnight with showers continuing along with a
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Speaker 1 (00:57):
Seven thirty one if you've have KRCD talk station, A
very Happy Friday made an extra special very Happy Friday.
Welcome back to the fifty five krc Morning Show Man
who I am a huge fan of and who will
be Ohio's next governor, Vike Gramaswamy. Good to have you
back on the program.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's good to be on. Man. How are you doing
really well? Doing really well?

Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm gonna recommend my listeners check out VIVEK for Ohio,
viv e K for Ohio dot com. Uh, that's your
early campaign web page. We can of course start working on.
You know you'll be in advance of the primary when
we finally get to it. And I know you're going
to be speaking tonight to Lincoln Day Dinner Claarremont County
GOP's having for you. But real quick here for those
people are saying, well, wait a second, the governor race

(01:37):
isn't for until twenty twenty six. We got twenty months
ahead of that. I know there's a primary, but we're
pretty far out. You your name is, and you are
everywhere around Ohio. Why are you getting in advance of
this so early I think I might know, but let
my listeners know about.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
What's going on. Well what First of all, there's a
few reasons for that. One is we have unprecedented unity
in our Republican Party Ryan like we've never seen in
an Ohio election cycle before. And I want us to
take advantage of that unity to be able to actually
push an agenda that lifts up all Ohioans. And I
think that's going to require some ambition. And so that's

(02:12):
the number one reason is we're united. Want the primary
phase of this is effectively over. We're moving on to
the general election, and I want to do to the
general election in the next three months what we've already
done to this primary, which is effectively to render the
infighting moot and to focus on what we're actually going
to do for Ohioans. The other reason, though, is that

(02:33):
President Trump is doing something unique with the federal programs,
which is he's sending a lot of them back to
the states and to the people where they belong. Look
at the Department of Education. He shut that down or
started shutting it down. But the real answer is going
to be on the shoulders of the states of how
we fix the education policy for our kids. And so

(02:54):
I do think a running start, a head start is
really important here. I'm not just focused on winning the
primary or winning the general. I'm focused on setting a
governing agenda that we start when I take office with
a running start, not a standing start, and I think
it's really important for the success of our state.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Very Trump asked that running start. He's been in a
full on sprint since the elections or since he was
sworn in. It's a pretty amazing thing to behold given
the four year administration now in terms of the event,
and I let's get the details on that. You're doing
the Lincoln Day dinner speech. Actually, I'm going to be
at the Warren County one next week where you're the
keynote speaker, and I'll have an opportunity to speak in

(03:33):
advance of you talking as well. I'm feelberty blessed to
have been asked for the ask to attend that.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Great great you know, we'll be the Clemont County Lincoln
Day Dinner tonight with on a fourth night straight that
we're doing sellout crowds across the state. And one of
the things I'm trying to do, Ryan is also visit
parts of the state that haven't traditionally been you know,
the usual places where candidates go. We've gone in the
last week through Irontend at the southern tip of our state,

(04:02):
all the way the week before through Jefferson County, the
eastern end of our state, to Preble County out in
Mahoning County last night. And what I'm seeing is a
level of energy we really haven't spent in certainly in
our state, to the extent I've seen in a very
long time. I think it's a positive thing for us.
I think people are ready to not just move on

(04:22):
from the Biden Kamala Harris era. Right we knew what
we were running from last November. Now the question is
what are we running too. And I think that this
is a moment where we as a Republican Party have
an opportunity to lead not just the sixty percent of
the state that's with us, but the remainder of the
state that might not realize they're with us too, as

(04:44):
long as we can tell them how we're going to
reform education in the state, how we're going to put
more money in their pocket. One of the things I'm
talking about is I travel a lot of the state
is educating our people on a looming electricity crisis in
our state. We have a major risk of shortages with
the war on coal and natural gas across our region.

(05:05):
At the same time, these AI data centers are moving
into our state. Yeah, the AI data center boom is
a good thing. It can be a good thing, but
only if we provide baseload power generation. And see, these
are issues that politicians and frankly both parties aren't really
talking about or addressing enough. But if we educate our
people and prepare them for what we're about to do,

(05:26):
which is to really take Ohio into the future, then frankly,
it's not just going to be the nearly thousand people
in Mahoning Valley that showed up last night, or there
are many more in Clermont County tonight. But it's also
going to be all the people who want in the room,
who are going to benefit from the policies that we
actually implement. And that's what I'm most excited about right now.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Isn't it interesting that artificial intelligence centers are actually launching
interest in modular nuclear reactors. Finally, I've been screaming about
this on the Morning Show for years. Listen, you don't
build three mile island towers anymore. These are small. They're
at one size fits all all. They smitten fit in
a very small footprints, so you're not using up in

(06:04):
gobs of space. They produce massive quantities of electricities that
can run entire cities and artificial intelligence data centers, and
they're comparatively easy to build. The only stating things standing
in the way of those being built right now is ourselves.
We are our own worst enemy.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
You nailed it. It's actually this week that I unveiled
it in several of the speeches across the state. That
is how we power our electric grid for the future.
In the short term, to making sure we use fossil fuels, coal,
natural gas an important part of providing energy and the
power for our electric grid. But in the long run,
I want Ohio to be the state that isn't playing

(06:42):
from behind. I want a high to be the state
that leads the way in small modular nuclear reactors. This
is the way of the future. This is the way
that we can use this AI data center boom as
an opportunity to make sure that we're powered for the
next century. That Ohio is leading the way in energy
dominant for the entire twenty first and likely twenty second

(07:02):
century and beyond. It's just red tape that gets in
the way. I mean. The beauty of small modular nuclear
reactors is that they're smaller as the name suggests, they're
self contained, that takes care of the wasteissue, and they
can be actually tailored and fit for purpose. So imagine
a future in our state when you have clusters and
regions of our state worth multiple different AI data centers,

(07:23):
but all populated and powered in that same region by
the same small modular nuclear reactor or a series of them.
That's what the energy grid of the future looks like.
That's really what the Ohio of the future looks like,
and that allows us not to have to fear rotating
power outages, which is where we would be headed right
now without a solution, but instead to be a state

(07:43):
that the energy dominant and even exporting energy to other
states in our regions. So that's where I want to
lead our state, and I see an opportunity because you
think about it, Brian, we were the state that led
the first Industrial Revolution, that was Ohio. We've always been
the pioneers the explorers, the unafraid. My hometown of Cincinnati,
as you well know, was known around the world as

(08:05):
the Queen City, the consumer products capital of the world,
just as Toledo lead and glass, Akron and rubber Youngstown
where I was last night, led the way and steel.
We've been the leaders of the nation, right and I
think that we got to get out of this mindset
where somehow this is just part of the rust belt
whose best days are behind us. No far from it.

(08:27):
We're going to lead Ohio to our future. It's our
best days are still ahead. If Silicon Valley led the
way in the American economy for the last ten years,
I'm here to make sure it is the Ohio River
Valley for the next ten years. And it's going to
be not just the sectors of the past, but also
the sectors of the future, including small modular nuclear reactors,

(08:48):
including semiconductor production, including the areas that are going to
power the American economy. And so yes, are we on
the cusp of a golden age in America? I think
we are. I think we can be. But I think
it's going to be Ohio. And it ought to be
Ohio rather than Florida. Or Texas that leads away from
the center of the country, from the heart of the country.
We have every God given gift we could want to

(09:11):
do it, from fertile farmland to great natural resources. All
we need to do is to actually believe in ourselves
to actually do it. And that's the job of a governor.
The job of a good leader is to revive our
conviction in our state, to frankly market our state effectively
to the rest of the country so we can have
people moving in rather than moving out. And that's exactly

(09:32):
what I'm going to do as the next leader of
this state. I'm looking forward to getting started. Of course,
we've got to win this election to do it, but
I think that that energy is part of why we've
had I don't think we've seen endorsements like this that
are that one sided in our state for the history
of our gubernatorial elections. And I'm grateful for that, and
I want to use that unity in our party to

(09:53):
supercharge us forward. Well, we certainly can use that unity.
Your message comes through loud and clear, Your enthusiasm comes
through loud and clear. And if there's one person that I
am certain that could herd the cats in Columbus that
have been the Republican party of the past decade or more.
I think it's you.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
You can get it done and get everybody plan on
the same page and making Ohio an energy leader. That
is one fantastic way of doing it. It would be less
expensive for us to charge and heat and air condition
our homes, less expensive for business. Was would be a
real magnet. And then maybe we could do something like
eliminate the income tax, right and you know go, yeah,
there you go. Well, I'll tell you what I got

(10:29):
to ask you this for. I know we're going to
part company right now. I gotta let you go, Bud.
They're talking about six hundred million dollars to go to
the Cleveland Browns to help them build some sort of
stupid two point seven billion dollar mega complex. I'm against
taxpayer dollars for stadium facilities. We've got so many other
demands that have been placed upon Ohio taxpayers real quick.
Can you chime in on the that conceptually, if not specifically,

(10:51):
on that allocation to the extent it goes through.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, I mean, look, that one's going to be resolved
long before I take office. Bought a principle, right, They
brought a principle. Is where am I focused, Brian. I
want to take the income tax down to zero. I
want to eliminate the income tax in our state. I
want to put a cap on property taxes in our
state because they've gotten insanely high. It's your money, not
the governments. It is your land, not the governments. And

(11:15):
those are the principles we need to restore if this
is a state that people move into instead of out of.
Right now, we're chasing a lot of people out of
our state. We have more people moving out than in.
I'm going to reverse that. We're going to become a magnet.
Right now, Florida is number one, Texas is number two.
Ohio is number thirty eight for moving in versus out.
By the time I'm done, I want us to be

(11:36):
number one. I want the rate of growth in our
state to be the top in the country. And the
way we're going to do it is by time tested
principles of allowing people to keep the money that you earn.
It's not too much to ask. That's who we are as.
Ohio wants to reward hard work, to reward meritocracy, to
reward capitalism. I think true capitalism. I'm talking about state

(11:58):
sponsored or crony capitalism. You're talking about true capitalism. That's
what I stand for. And you know, I'll tell you
this is I'm grateful that that's the message that so
many have been able to rally around. The day A
launched this campaign, I was honored to get President Trump's endorsement,
and since then it's only been you know, all of
the Congressmen who have endorsed both chambers of the Republicans

(12:19):
in both the House and the Senate, and the state
and all the way up and down. We are united.
We're ready for this mission. We're ready to lead Ohio
to our future, to a population boom, to an economic
boom of a kind that we haven't seen since the
first Industrial Revolution, to a revival of educational achievement in

(12:40):
our state. And yes, Brian, that is achievable if we
have a governor who rolls up the sleeves and focuses
on it. And all we're going to have to do
is bring that level of energy to the leadership of
our state. And I do think it's going to require
a new generation of leaders. And you know what, I
think it time to turn the page on the future,
building on the foundations of the past. I'm not going

(13:00):
to criticize my predecessors at all, to the contrary to
compliment them for their accomplishments. But I'm going to build
on that foundation to lead our state to our future.
And that's coming up as soon as we win this election.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
And I'm certain you will THEVEC four Ohio dot com
where you can find his website help out and I
look forward to seeinging next Thursday at the Lincoln Rank
and Dinner in Warren County. Enjoy the evening tonight, and
I'll look forward to having you back in the morning
show really soon. Keep up the great work, my friend.
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