Hi friends, Jean Valentino. Welcome back to another episode here at Jean Valentino’s Grassroots Truth Cast. We

say it each week. We’ve got friends and family and foes from different walks of life, political, social, economic,

scientific, industrial, uh, banking, uh, industries of different types. And today

we’re welcoming in Adam Kohler from Covington, Kentucky. Hello, Adam. How you doing, Jean? Hey, how how’s everything going? I

I love your eagle. You’ve got your American flags back there. You just all kind of patriotic.

We make it as cover. We got one eyeball on that eagle looking at the flag and the other eyeball looking at me. I figure I’m covered. I figure we’re

covered. And let’s have a folks, this gentleman has a path in life very similar to mine, both he has a political

side. We met at a a conference uh recently. uh we share the same conservative beliefs and we also are

inspired by the economic opportunities that this great country has given both of us and he’s got three great companies

he’s been involved with in his career while he had one toe in the water on politics at the same time. We’ve got

that and a lot more to cover on Adam Kohler right after this.

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Kohler. Adam’s uh firsthand experience in engaging with voters and advocating for better ways to serve the public gave

him a background and an inspiration in getting off the ground with some of his enterprises. He um he owns a company now

called content credits which happens to be a form of payment processing. Correct

me if I’m wrong, Adam. It is. And um and uh what I like about it is he’s picking up where I left off in the payment

industry. We sold our payment processing. We actually merged with a publicly traded company and then uh sold

out to NCR in around 19 uh excuse me 200 20145

uh for about $350 million. It was one hell of an opportunity for the 28 employees that merged in with over 200

employees. Then the big fish that came in and bought us out, as I mentioned, for that kind of money was NCR. So the

rags to rich’s story, no one gave me nothing. I don’t know about you, but everything I had, no silver spoon. Uh

worked on everything I have, I did it on on my own. And that’s what turned me on when we met at the conference. You’ve got the same background. Go for it. Pick

it up where you want to start. I know you’re from Ohio originally. Yeah. Yeah. From the Cincinnati area.

So, yeah. And I’ve got my building uh Cubworks. It’s an old Knights of Columbus building over in Northern Kentucky on Madison Avenue about 20,000

square feet. We picked that up uh right after I sold uh right after we sold our old uh company, Doc contracts, digital

contracts company in real estate. Uh sold that in 2015. uh bought the building, turned it into a co-working space. There was nobody in there. No

companies in there really. It was just sitting empty. Now there’s 10 companies in there. There’s a commercial kitchen in the basement. We have a caterer down there. She’s been there ever since we

got there. Uh and we’re actually working on an event center upstairs cuz it’s an old nights of Columbus, so you know, they had a hall in it at one point. Uh

got about 50 parking spaces. So it’s it’s nice to have that in kind of the core of the city. So if nobody really knows, Covington’s the south side of

Cincinnati. So you go across a river, boom, you’re in Covington, Kentucky. If anybody remembers the Covington kids, the the with the the guy that was

beating the drum in that kid’s face and they said he said nasty things and he didn’t. Uh right over by there. So I’m a hop, skip, and a jump from that whole

situation. But a lot happening in Cincinnati. A lot politically, a lot uh economically. Uh I’m glad I was able to be from there. You know, grew up with a

single mom. Didn’t have a whole lot. My dad was out running around and you know, didn’t have a lot for us. So, you know, we grew up a lot like you, Gene. I mean,

we didn’t have a whole lot. Nobody really gave us anything. I got lucky enough to go to a a performing arts school. I had some art talent and one thing led to the other. Next thing you

know, I’m part of a a startup that sells to one of the largest tech companies in the country and uh you know, that allowed me to do other things. So, you

just kind of parlay one thing into another thing into another thing and next thing you know, you’re Gene Valentino and you gota you know, you’re you’re going to Alaska to to see or Adam Kohler, I don’t know.

Yeah.

You know, no, it’s really true. One of the great And hey, for the folks watching, you know, Adam and I come from a way of life that I think you need to

listen to, especially the the Gen Z crowd listening out there. Oh, yeah.

Uh, as you make your way through college, trying to figure out who you are and what you want to be when you grow up. I mean, hey, you’re looking at two people who had the same challenges

trying to do the same thing in their lives. And we figured it out. But no one gave us nothing, as I said jokingly earlier. But I’m serious now. And today

as a result, Adam, I’m adjunct professor at the local college and business and uh what I do with entrepreneurship is shake

the tree on a lot of uh pro prospective opportunities that are out there. Some of which I’ve invested in. But in your

case, you’ve got two or three that you that are the genesis of your experiences. Why don’t you talk about the one that’s currently uh in the foreground, content credits?

Sure. So, content credits is a microp payment solution for paid content. So, if anybody is sick of hitting that payw wall, you know, when you when you’re

going to a news article, you hit that payw wall, it says, “Sorry, you can’t, you know, read this article unless you pay us $30 a month, $40 a month.” Well,

what we do is we allow the publisher to put a button on that payw wall that just says, “Pay us a quarter and get past the payw wall.” So instead of paying for the

entire subscription, you just pay for the one article that you want to read.

And a lot of times what happens is people are just browsing the internet.

They see a social media thing that they click on. They uh you know, they read an article, they’re doing a search and they’re they’re they click on something or somebody sends them an article. You

know, when we sold our company, uh it was behind a payw wall the news about it at our on our local business career and nobody could read it because they didn’t

we don’t want to pay whatever it was for the subscription. Well, they could have just paid a quarter in our case, got past the payw wall and read the article.

So, you end up buying a bundle of credits from us, like $10 worth of credits. They’re pegged at a quarter a piece, so you’ve got 40 credits and you could just use those on any of the publishing partners that we work with.

So, that’s that’s the idea behind it.

But outside of that, we also do um the Cincinnati Exchange and you can get there cycx.com

and that is a local I’d say more conservative uh truthtelling uh publication in the Cincinnati area.

I see. Um what this is this co content credits though is let me let me tell you

my dilemma. Sometimes I’m preparing for a Newsmax interview or another network interview and I’ll get from the producer

a series of links to different stories, New York Times, Substack, uh it could be anywhere, frankly, and um they want me

to click on it, read it, and all of a sudden these subscription requirements kick in that they’re expecting of me before I go through them all. Is what you’re talking about addressing that?

It totally is. Yep. Cuz what you have is subscription fatigue. You You’ve got enough subscriptions. You probably don’t even know how much money you spend on subscriptions. The average person It’s

It’s crazy. It’s The average person spends about $1,600 a year on subscriptions when you think of your Netflix, your Spotify. My car has a subscription.

I have to pay I think it’s $30 a month on my Genesis to get all the if if it gets lost or stolen or whatever, I got to I want to find it. Uh you know, I got

to pay monthly to have that access to that. So everything’s got a subscription now. And and you know what the funny thing is? We talked to some VCs in

Detroit and they said it’s our fault. We require every company we invest in to have some sort of subscription model.

And and it’s just turned into a monster and now everything is a subscription.

Literally everything. And uh people have subscription fatigue. And it’s like I just want to pay for what I want at the time I want it. I don’t need all this

other stuff. So, it may start out with local newspapers and things like that and then expand out into Netflix movies

uh into into whatever you want. Whatever you can just pay for with a micro payment, it could go into that industry.

But right now, we’re just going to start out in in something that we can kind of control an industry that needs us, which is journalism.

Well, boxing leagues. I follow boxing and mixed martial arts a lot and involved in it in business and uh I can

tell you honestly we’re we were trying to put a subscription plan in place. Uh I looked to some of the current um uh

networks of boxing that are out out there and sure enough you’ve got a $5 a month $10 a month subscription fee

if you want to get on board. Are you saying I could You must inter intervene then between me and that and that vendor

to get um them to accept a fee for a one-time basis.

That’s it. Yep. So, we provide them with a with some code with an SDK that can integrate into whatever it is they’re doing. Right now with the publishers, if

they have a WordPress website, we have a WordPress plugin that they can just load and then they can decide which articles.

All they got to do is turn on a little radio button. and it says, “Is this a paid article?” Yes. “How many credits do you want to charge for this article?” “Two, which would be 50.” So, whenever

somebody gets it at payw wall, the button will automatically show up.

Someone clicks on that button and it says, “Hey, you’ve got 10 credits available. Do you want to use two of them on this article?” You say, “Yep.”

Pay wall comes down. So, we get the ability temporarily to also control that payw wall. And then anytime you come back to that article,

then you don’t get a payw wall again. It remembers that you had already paid for that article. So it’s good for the publishers too because they’re, you know, they’re relying almost 100% on

subscriptions and ads right now. And I’m introducing a new layer to that revenue stack that they have, which is micro

payments. And this micro payments through content credits is really a um

conduit that reaches their existing payment engine. So you’re connecting to their in-house you’re creating an

integration into their website’s payment system.

Correct. Yeah. I mean we what we do is that we collect the money then at the end of the month we reconcile with all the partners. So you can actually break

that quarter up into pieces. So, we get a nickel of every quarter. If there’s an affiliate involved, they get a penny or two pennies of the the deal and then the

publisher gets the rest of it. But the publisher can even have a deal with a writer. So, we create essentially a smart contract that says every time

somebody spends a quarter here, this wallet gets this much, this wallet gets this much, this wallet gets this much.

So, say they have freelance writers on that aren’t on staff, they just kind of write every once in a while and they want to financially incentivize them to

continue writing for them. Maybe they get a percentage of that quarter. And if the article does really well and people click on it, say the article makes, you

know, 100 bucks, they get a, you know, whatever it is percentage they’ve they’ve uh, you know, negotiated with the publisher. So, it’s a way for them

for freelancers and people like that that are doing really good journalism to actually get paid uh based on how well

that journalism does based on how well that article does. So, it’s really interesting. It’s much more flexible.

So, it’s also including Paramount, Netflix, Apple TV, uh HBO. You’ve got to be including them all then.

Oh, I’d love to talk to all of them.

Yeah, I’d love to put all every single one of them uh in our in our in our ecosystem. Uh, and right now, uh, we’re testing it out in the state of Virginia.

So, we’re trying to get pretty much all the newspapers in the state of Virginia to use it. We’re we’re partnered with one of the, uh, associations there that

most of the newspapers belong to. So, we’re testing it out with a few of them now. And, uh, also one of the big content management systems that a lot of

the newspapers are a part of. So, a lot of newspapers, they may not want a WordPress website that they have to manage themselves. So they will go to

one of these big providers and these people manage hundreds of websites and we are integrating with one of those platforms right now so that all of the

newspapers not just the ones in Virginia that are part of this uh ecosystem of theirs also become part of our

ecosystem. So it’s a lot easier and you know this from from your business experience. It’s a lot easier to go to somebody like that that already has

distribution than for us to try to go to individual newspapers and sell every single one of them. I mean, there’s hundreds of them in every state. So,

going to somebody who already has those relationships is much better and it’s a lot easier for us. We’re talking with

Adam Kohler of Content Credits, Covington, Kentucky. Content Credits is your current technology and current concept. It’s a privately held company.

Uh you, I presume, and a certain number of staff. You thinking of taking it public or merging with a bigger player?

I mean that’s always I think the the goal is exit you know either exit to another company like you did uh and like

we did in our previous company or you know ultimately go public which would be you know the dream I mean Elon’s going to be a trillionaire a multi-

trillionaire thing I think here soon right the first one in the world he’s um got this IPO we’re we’re recording this in

the end of May 2026 Adam and I are and um in June June 10th

or so, 2026. I have the impression uh uh Mr. Musk will be announcing his IPO for $1 trillion.

He’s wrapping in all sorts of technology. It’s it’s going to be a title wave on the New York Stock Exchange.

Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember when uh what was it? A Ramco became like the first trillion dollar company or whatever.

Saudi Ramco and everybody’s like, “Wow, a trillion dollar company.” Now companies are IPOing at a trillion dollars plus.

Isn’t that something? Boy, it’s absolutely amazing. And it’s funny.

I look at some of these like Walmart, right? The valuation for Walmart and you know, they’ve got revenue, everything else, and then you look at some of these

AI companies with nowhere near the revenue Walmart has. No.

Valued at the same amount of money Walmart’s valued at. Inflation’s gone up a little bit and has reduced value over

the decades, but nonetheless, that’s still a huge number.

Huge, ridiculous number. But I mean, good for him. Good. I mean, he build he builds things that people want. You know, this is the free market, right? We

we choose to to use those services. You know, the federal government and and other companies choose SpaceX to send

their satellites into space. You know, it is what it is. I mean, he’s built great companies. You know, he’s electric cars. I mean, he’s the most popular electric car company.

PayPal. Speaking of payment processors, he’s part of the the PayPal mafia there, right?

So, I mean, the guys had the original days.

That’s right. That’s right. Tremendous career, tre tremendous investor. Almost everything he touches turns to gold.

Just think of his his vision though, Adam. He’s taking um he’s taking web services. He’s taking data transmission,

telephone services, a um hosting platform, and putting it in outer space where there’s perpetual cooling.

Yeah. And free solar if he wants it. But he’s talking nuclear to fire up these um these little hubs throughout the space.

and is he’s actually making a distribution of data and uh power into

outer space to ameliorate some of the problems we’re having here on Earth. Uh I find it most interesting uh who who

would doubt him after if you’ve watched his success in Tesla uh and PayPal prior. Uh you’ve got a a little bit of a

background too. Speaking of prior, you’ve got a company you either have or sold called Dot Loop.

Yeah. I’m I don’t want to steal your thunder. Why don’t you talk about that?

So, it was me and uh two other guys in a Panera Bread on the campus of the University of Cincinnati. And I used to

work at a a big big ad agency working on Proctor and Gamble stuff, you know, all these big big companies, Kagra Foods.

And one of the co-founders, uh, Matt Vorst, he says, “Adam, a friend of mine’s, you know, her son’s got this idea. He wants

to eliminate paper in the real estate world.” And I said, “Oh, that’s that’s wild.” I was already buying property at that point, right? I was a landlord for

a couple years. And uh, so we met up. I like the idea. I got some equity. And we spent probably the next 18 months,

almost every weekend, building this thing out, building the prototype out.

And eventually, you know, years later, uh, we finally got a a big organization with a lot of realtors involved. And then 85% of the business that those guys

did were with other agents. So, they did all of our sales force. And next thing you know, 90% of the industry is at least signed up to use our software. And

uh, before we sold in in 2015 to um to Zillow, it was it was it was wild number. $2

trillion in transactions had passed through our platform.

of real estate transactions and we sold to Zillow, you know, they they they already own the search. So, their strategy was, well, if we own the search, we can also own the contract.

So, all we did was digitize the contracts. They were all, you know, you remember you used to have to fax those back and forth and you have to wait a day or two. The realtor would have to

run down to the real estate office and pick it up and look at it and, you know, three or four generations through that fax machine. You could barely read it.

Well, we digitized all those and uh just for the real estate industry. So essentially like Docuine, if you use Docuine for anything, we were

we were around the same time Docuine was starting but hyperfocused on real estate.

Uh it’s amazing how uh entrepreneurial things are. And uh you sold that company

for something over $und00 million. And I know for certain uh that wasn’t easy.

How many people did you have on board when that happened? Uh well there was probably 150 people working in Cincinnati, Denver, Austin, Texas, and

San Francisco. Most of our development team uh hardcore development guys were in San Francisco. You know, when when a when a Silicon Valley investor throws

money into your stuff, they want to be close to the company somehow. So most of our sales people and support people were in Cincinnati, but then all of our tech

folks were in uh in San Francisco. Back when you could only, you know, the best tech talent, I mean, it’s still kind of true. the best tech talent is, you know, on the west coast.

Yeah. We had 67 people on board and we were focusing with integrations into tax

collectors, county, city, state financial systems. And that was a full-time job just trying to get your

payment processing system integrated into these management information software programs. some very customized some uh you know public public software.

Uh the problem was getting a uniform.

There’s great to have competition but it doesn’t uh help with uniformity in terms of integration amongst all

these people. So you have to be elastic enough or figure out how to become elastic enough to get into connect quickly with all of them. And as a

result, we just stayed in the tax collection uh arena. You stayed in the real estate arena and I looked a far

over there at the real estate side at one point. Said, “Boy, sure would like to get into that.” And I said, “Well, how the heck am I going to do that? I

got I’m drinking water out of a fire hose now.” So shame the shame on the people, especially the

younger generation looking for. There is so much opportunity out there for you right now. Uh feel free to connect with

Adam and find out more about his opportunities if you can’t get through to me. Adam, how do they reach you?

I mean, anybody can find me on LinkedIn.

Adam Kaylor Ko H. I look like this. I I I got, you know, glasses on, I think, in uh in my LinkedIn profile. But yeah,

Adam Kaylor Cincinnati. Uh you know, you can find me on there. I’d love to connect with anybody that would want to connect with me. Also, adamkaylor.com,

koeher, uh there’s a form on the website there.

They can reach out to me. Uh but yeah, anybody that wants to reach out, especially young people, you know, I try to mentor the young people all the time.

I think one of the biggest problems too is Gene, everybody wants everything tomorrow. Nobody wants to wait for anything.

And success takes time. Uh you you know, building your network as you know, your net worth is your net worth. I try to tell people this all the time. The worst

part about being poor is not having access to people. It’s it’s it’s having to start from scratch with a network.

You don’t have daddy’s network or mom who’s a doctor at the hospital that can, you know, you know, get 10 people to invest in your idea. No, you got to

build your network yourself and learn to golf for God’s sake. People like I I I still don’t know how to golf. And I I probably should.

I hate golf, but it’s what I had to do four, six times a year. You had to do.

But, you know, it’s funny. You mentioned that um it I went without a paycheck for three years on the payment processing

company. Thank goodness for something prior that uh turned out very good. As a result, it carried me for the years

while I was playing around with this uh this uh technology and innovation of online payments. Uh but boy, it could

have gone either way and I would have been out of everything. But uh you got you you end up not getting paid for a

while sometimes while you’re trying to get something off the ground. If you’re impatient, expect a paycheck today.

Well, you know, it’s not necessarily what uh the there’s a author Horatio

Alger uh and his book American Gospel to Success and he talks about the patience

of of reaching success through and and maintaining a regularity in your work ethic every day. Adam Kohler’s an

example of that. Adam, what what um so you’re no longer in dot loop? No, no, no, no, no. We sold that. They took over

the company and we all went our kind of separate ways and did our own things after that. Okay. 2009 you founded uh reversed out.

Explain reversed out.

So yeah, Reversed Out is a digital marketing agency and we pretty much do everything. Uh design, I’m a designer

and a marketer by trade and that’s how you know I started out and do loop as well. So, design, marketing, uh,

parlayed that into a bigger agency, started hiring people, folks that I knew from the agency world. When they got let go or they decided they would become consultants, I started pulling them in.

We created the Hollywood model of advertising agencies. So, whenever anybody came to us, they were like, “Hey, do you guys do this?” Sure do.

Call up somebody who’s an expert in whatever that is, social media management, WordPress, websites, front end, backend, web development, uh,

design. bring those folks in and essentially create a team around a project and and that’s what we’ve done for 15 years now and it’s been really

successful and you talk about companies that that help you while you’re building other things. Well, that’s that’s what I was doing the whole time uh we were

building these other companies. So, one thing I noticed very much about you when we met in Washington and and and

since uh is the passion uh for helping other people uh and and doing things for

other people’s is this passion to do good for others, but it’s in parallel with innovation and creative thinking.

How you can make how you can make um things more efficient and effective. You stuck your toe in the water of politics

in trying to make things more efficient there. What happened?

Well, I mean, I ran a couple races in a heavily blue district. Uh Cincinnati is about 80% Democrat now. Uh we just had

JD Vance’s brother run for mayor in Cincinnati and it was an 8020 ter situation and and you know, the the the

city’s being run right into the ground, but it doesn’t matter. You know, you vote blue no matter who, you know, on on the other side and and you get what you

get, right? So, uh, he was a great guy, would have done a great job. Uh, and I ran for state rep in that same district.

I ran for county commissioner in that same district. And, um, uh, you just can’t win. You know, I But what you can

do is you get to soap box and and you get to go up against these people and you get to say what you’ve got to say and, you know, hey, if we don’t do

something about crime, if we keep wanting to defund the police and do all this bail reform and everything else, crime’s going to go up. And what happens? crime goes up. I said it and

here we are. Right. And you make them spend money and make them work for it.

Like nobody should be able to just walk into a district because it makes you lazy. It makes for lazy politicians. Right.

Well, yeah. Stay on politics for a second. I That wasn’t where we were going initially, but what you mentioned

getting on a soapbox is not anybody listening. I begin to see what’s his name in um uh Platt in Platin.

Oh gosh. Yeah.

In in Los Angeles going against um uh the mayor there. That’s Karen Bass.

Karen Bass there. My she is. Oh my gosh.

But but all but that’s 8 to one Democrat over Republican in that area. And uh people are listening to this guy.

Yeah.

And he’s a Republican. Oh, I’m not, you know, in this community, it’s not Republican or Democrat. They even have a

a neutral primary in that regard. But bottom line is is he’s getting a lot of attention. And uh I don’t understand,

you mentioned getting on a soap box. I don’t understand what it is people are not hearing.

More specifically, what it is they’re not seeing, feeling, living in the standards of their life. The denigration

of the quality of life in these Oh my gosh, what a mess. You want to speak to that?

What a mess. I mean, it’s it’s we just had today uh there’s fights happening in our library downtown. There’s people getting shot almost every single day.

Uh, a guy got killed on a bus last week.

I mean, you know, we write the local newspaper, so we we have our own conservative spin that we put on everything that happens a little bit.

You know, we want to be truthtelling. We want to be uh, you know, we don’t want to come off as a bunch of cooks, right?

And and and you know, all crazy Republicans again, you know, scared of cities or whatever they try to say. You know, we’re all scared of cities. What

I’m scared of is investment leaving my city that I was born and raised in. I’m scared of people leaving. I’m scared of people not coming downtown and spending

money with these small businesses. You know, if I’m scared of anything, it’s that, you know, I I mean, I grew up in a bad neighborhood and, you know, a lot of these kids that tell me I’m scared of

cities. You know, they grew up in culde-sac somewhere with both parents and getting all these Christmas presents and, you know, they’re going to they’re going to show up one day and all of a

sudden they’re going to fix everything, right? They go to, you know, take a few years of college and liberal arts and next thing you know, they know everything about crime in a city. And I

think it’s I think it’s an experiment, Gene, to be honest with you. I think what ends up happening is is you got people that every generation and you’ve been around long enough too just like me

to see these different generations coming out of these universities. They all they all think they have the solution, right? They all going to fix something. You know, they’re going to be

the one that comes in and fixes inner city crime that uh fixes the housing problem, the affordable housing problem.

They’re going to make sure the buses are, you know, run efficiently. You know, they’re going to do all this stuff and then they find out how hard it actually is. And I I think they um they

ignore the people problem, right? We got people we got people problem.

And college and upper education was not necessarily meant to be the social rehab clinic for the wayward.

That’s what it’s become. That’s it’s well and look at look at the number of people that are uh the professors that the the only conservative professors you

have are in the engineering school and maybe the business school uh maybe not even undergrad business.

You may end up with a Marxist professor in undergrad. Uh it’s absolutely insane.

Well, I think uh the way Donald Trump is handling education uh uh through Ms. McMahon I think is

exemplary. I think uh if the states want the want to manage it, they can, but they’re going to find that their uh student enrollment will be directed.

They’ll compete for admissions. One of the things I wish he would put in place is a no tax benefit for these

foundations or uh huge endowments that exist between the universities

uh to to to perpetuate the uh extreme liberal left radical thinking uh that

then is engendered into our children that are in those classes which ties into what you just said. it um to me is

missing the mark. I have to listen on the news recently about how uh the college Hey, if you’re collegebound um

take a powder, take a pause and um consider a specific trade and uh people

are now moving in that direction without going to college. And I regret that because there’s a higher advanced

education skills that are going to drive to the Elon Musks of the world looking

for other people on his team to handle spaceship communication

and transportation to satellite um um satellites in orbit that need to be

addressed. And he can’t have some punk with a chip on his shoulder who spent twothirds of his college education time

uh with protesting in the streets anti-Israel pro Palestinian. This is a

complete waste of our time and our money. And frankly, this the uh George Soruses of the world who have been

funding this through the NOS’s is why some businesses in your community may be leaving and coming my way to Florida.

And uh it’s it’s crazy. I was a former county commissioner.

We had a balanced budget. it was constitutionally mandated and uh you just didn’t spend money you didn’t have and and if you did

go into debt, it was on a bond which was managed through the u the through a bond referendum approved of by the people. I

mean, you may need $40 million to build the civic center or to do something downtown. Okay, there’s a place for it

that would disrupt the an the annual budget, but nonetheless in there was economic incentives for businesses to

come in. But at the end of the day, the B budget was balanced. There was no debt

and uh and look at the advantage now. We have no income tax and we’re we’re doing it just off a sales tax and a property

tax. That’s right. I wish I wish the same for you and um and and and I think um the magic would be the right

intervention by federal agencies which the state and local folks don’t want to hear. the right intervention to create a

a an incentive, an inducement, a minimum level of acceptability to fund these

opportunities like yours, like content credits like uh uh um a DOT loop and and the likes that you’ve been involved in.

Uh is you know, you don’t have to come here. I’d like to visit you up there.

Yeah, that’s right. Well, I mean, I I tell them all the time, invest in prosperity, not poverty, right? But but the thing is is you get

votes by pandering, right? You get votes by creating these um poverty plantations is what I call them. And I call our I

call our our politicians, our local uh monopoly of leftist, progressive leftists. Um I call them poverty pimps, right? Because this is what they do.

They they tell people, they promise people stuff. I mean, look at Mani right now. Poverty pimp, right? I mean, he’s a communist. But at the same time, you

know, he’s telling he’s promising people free buses. He’s telling them whatever they want to hear just to get in office.

And now he’s realizing, oo, this is this isn’t working out for me. I mean, Jamie Diamond, I just saw an interview on CNBC with Jamie Diamond

talking about how he talked to Madani and he’s just like, I think the guy’s surprised how hard this job is. And it’s

it’s you know, you got 600,000 people that work in the in the city of New York.

Um, you know, cleaning the sewers and and and work at linemen and you know, people, you know, doing landscaping

around Central Park and I mean, you got all these people that you have to manage and all these budgets that you have to manage and and he’s realizing

this is tough, you know, and and you’re talking about a balanced budget. I don’t When was the last time under Giuliani maybe that New York’s budget was balanced? Was that you’re going back last time?

Help me understand something. You know, I um I’m having trouble understanding

why the Democrat party in New York, some 4 million Democrats,

most of them are Jewish. It’s the biggest hub of um That’s right. Juda Jud outside of outside Israel. Yeah. Outside of Israel.

But that’s what voted in Mam Dani was the Democrat party primary which is

mostly Jewish in that region. I don’t get it. Um maybe I’m wrong with

Well, if you look at the data, uh it wasn’t the I think it was 50% the vast majority of his voters were actually uh new residents to New York.

These were like immigrant people, folks that, you know, I mean, when you’re an immigrant, you first come to America, you’re probably having a hard time. You know, it’s that first generation. You

got to figure out the country. You got to learn the language. You got to hopefully start a business if you if you can. Yeah.

Uh but it’s tough for those first year people. So, the stuff he talks about sounds great, especially if you came from a socialist country.

It sounds familiar, right? And you got a lot of these people and some of them Jewish that that you know it’s blue vote blue no matter who. And you know now

they’re regretting it. I mean you look at what some of the stuff this guy’s saying. I mean I’d be I’d be frightened.

You know I there’s such a small percentage of the population. I think what 2% of the world’s population. That’s right.

Uh and and we all know why that is right. Uh you know history. And here we are repeating it. And here we are with with people chanting anti-semitic slurs

in the streets of one of the most Jewish cities in our in our entire country. And Cincinnati, reformed Judaism was invented in Cincinnati. We have a large Jewish population in Cincinnati.

Really?

Uh yeah, Menachevitz, the the the food and line. It was invented in Cincinnati and the guy later moved to um to New

Jersey. But yeah, I mean we have a really good history. Most of the arts organizations in Cincinnati are funded

and we have a really strong arts community, second oldest opera in the country, primarily funded by Jewish

people, uh, very generous Jewish population. And it’s I went to an arts school, School for the Creative Performing Arts in downtown Cincinnati.

I sit on the funding board now. And it’s uh it’s it’s sad to see, you know, what’s going on uh with this guy in New

York and and and I’m sure a lot of them are regretting their vote and, you know, we’ll see what happens, you know, when when the next election comes up. But

yeah, I I I pray for the people in New York. Uh I really do. I don’t want to see one of the greatest cities in the world collapse. Uh and what he’s doing

with the with the with the property stuff, with the rent, locking in rents.

So what happens is you put these rent controls in place where you can’t raise the rent. So you’re less profitable. So

you can’t do these needed repairs all the time when you would like. So now Mumani and his little group of socialist

communists have decided they’re going to set the rules that allow the city to take your personal property away from you.

and he he was in on on a uh he was talking the other day about a a bee nest that was in the hallway of some

apartment building and how this was terrible and how this would have been one of the reasons that they could have fined and potentially taken someone’s property away

a bees nest. I mean so they set the rules, Jean, right? They decide what is

you know uh who a slum lord is. You don’t remove a bees nest and now you’re a slum lord. So your property gets taken away and put into a land trust or given

to a nonprofit or given to the same tenants that can’t even remove the bee nest themselves. And he said, “Oh, we’re going to give it to a responsible

owner.” I don’t know if I’ve rented property for 30 years, Gene. I giving your property over to a tenant who doesn’t know how to even remove a

bees nest or can’t remove a bees. If it’s so dangerous, just remove it yourself. You know, it’s it’s not that hard. But these are the people you’re

going to hand it over to. I could just see what happens, Jean. I can see the path that this is going to take. And by putting it into a land trust or putting

it into a um a nonprofit, the next mayor that comes in after Manny can’t reverse it. The ownership is transferred.

This is communism. It’s 100% communism.

And property right transfers is the essence of communis. stealing private property away and and uh deciding and what’s going to happen? It’s going to go

into the hands of a nonprofit. They’re buddy buddy with Mumani.

He’s going to leave New York. He probably won’t get reelected. At least we hope he doesn’t get reelected. It’d be crazy if he did. Yeah. But maybe he runs for president someday.

Well, now you you’ve helped all these nonprofits. You’ve transferred all this property into the hands of these nonprofits. Then on top of that, you

probably gave them grants and loans and low interest loans and free money to fix the property up. Then the nonprofit

turns around and sells the property, sits on a whole bunch of cash, and can donate money back into mom donny’s campaign.

Folks, you’re listening to Adam Coer and uh you’re on Grassroots Truthcast here with Gene Valentino. We were talking

about innovation and technology. Adam and I drifted off into a political env uh conversation. But you know what?

Government in the United States from our founding fathers created an environment

for the little guy to win. It’s why we broke off from Great Britain in the first place. Individual rights, not

government rights. And as a result that what we’re talking about is the government’s control of individual

business. In this case, landlords in New York City. It’s a landlord in New York City today, Adam. It’s your business and

my business we started the show off on tomorrow. And that’s what’s scaring me.

If we allow this kind of mentality to encroach into our

economic affairs from social political activities, we have threatened the future of America at its core. That’s

right. And um I couldn’t I couldn’t be more impressed with the fact that you picked up on that. I think it’s incumbent upon uh you and I and millions

of other businessmen and women around this nation, the world for that matter, to stifle any threat of Marxism or communism that’s entering our nation.

And that’s what’s happening while President Trump and our nation saw are tackling some big fish in the world scene. Today it’s Iran. Yesterday it was

Venezuela and so forth where to keep certain things under control worldwide in the worldwide economic global economics.

These perpetrators of illegality are slipping in across a border, some 20 million on the southern border alone.

And these illegals sit in your neighborhood and mine, Adam, and they’re going to strike who knows when, who knows how, just like 9/11.

and we’re going to be concerned about the future of this nation uh in a the question is will we be able to recover

is what’s got me concerned and uh nipping it in the bud and trying to convince this Gen Z crowd and many of

them have been convinced I’ve listened to some graduation commen commencement uh speeches recently by uh by uh you

know pe well people of uh of of repute and uh they um they talk about AI and

they they got booed boo booed on stage by the very students in the graduation audience because they didn’t want

anything to do with too much AI imposing upon their their individual It’s coming. It’s coming.

They’re thinking about it though and that’s what impressed me.

Yeah. Yeah. They know, they know it’s it’s it’s hurting their job prospects.

And you know, there’s a lot of industries right now that are getting shook up. I mean, I’ve got a friend, he’s a designer, amazing designer. You

know, he’s in his 50s now. He’s been doing design work for for 30 years.

There’s just not as many design jobs as there used to be. Especially if you’re, you know, that’s what you do. You just did design. You know, that’s people are

using a lot of automated tools now to do some of this like lower level design work that doesn’t really require a lot

of extensive creativity, right? You can just kind of knock it out and put it on your social media channel. You can do a lot of that stuff in Canva now, right?

You can use AI to create graphics that you couldn’t do before.

Um, you know, it it writers, think about all these writers. I mean, we have an AI uh newsroom that we can use. We can it can do all the research for us. We don’t need a research team.

It’ll go out there and dig around and find the research for us, right? I mean, we could still do that. We do, but on it does 80% of it, right? And

then you got to go interview people and talk to folks on the ground, but at the same time, why would you spend a bunch of time that

you don’t have to when you have these tools available to you as a company, as a business? And this is just the evolution of business over time, right?

This is just the way things have happened. Look at Detroit. You know, you had a lot of people that were making great money, middle class. Next thing

you know, that entire industry shifts over to Asia and and you end up with a bunch of people that don’t know what they’re going to do all day. Sadly, yeah, there’s a story behind that. It

was our growth in the early after the 40s after World War II where I think through unions we got a little too

greedy with our pay and uh it through it ramped up the price of our of our products and so we uh business

outsourced it to third world nations including China and um uh to for a lower price and next thing you know we made

them fat, dumb and happy and now we got a lot of uh dumb and happy Americans who

don’t have a pathway to success. So in the last two and a half minutes, we’ll talk about Adam Kohler, what they can

find out more about COVID works, what where they can go to support you and your campaigns and what you’re up to.

Yeah. So I, you know, the big thing right now for me is getting content credits going bu, you know, any, you know, media partners that want to, you

know, a microp payment solution for for whatever it is they’re doing. If you run a local newspaper, any kind of media

organization at all, give me a call, reach out, hit me up on LinkedIn. Uh the newspaper itself, I mean, we’re actually raising around right now, too, and that

includes the newspaper and content credits. Uh but the idea is is we want to bring uh a conservative news network

back to local cities. The all the newspapers right now are run by corporate activists. I don’t know how

else to say it. Uh there’s a whole entire network of them and and in in my city in Cincinnati, the greater Cincinnati area, include Dayton, there’s around three million people and they’re

at the mercy of what gets written in the city. Right? You got an 80% district. A lot of these people are very left

activist types that work for these local newspapers. So the conservatives in the suburbs and the conservatives over in Northern Kentucky, they’re at the mercy

of that narrative and we don’t think that’s fair. So we’re creating our own network of conservative local uh newspapers and Cincinnati Exchange is

the first one. If it works out in Cincinnati, we’ll go to Columbus, we’ll go to Cleveland, we’ll go to Louisville, we’ll go to Indianapolis, and we’ll just keep branching out from there. And we’ll

bring, you know, our own uh our own ideas and our own truth, right? Uh this is all based in facts and truth. And we

all know that there’s certain people that don’t like facts and truth and they’ll do anything to avoid it. But we we’ll face it head on. So, if you guys

are interested in that at all, hit me up. I’d love to speak to you guys. your address, your we your website.

Uh so contentcredits.com contentcredits.com.

Uh check that out. The Cincinnati exchange.com or cincycx.com

and then the advertising agency is reversed out. Re vo.com

and they can find you through Facebook, Instagram. Oh, I’m on all those things. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. The the the new network of availability.

Well, Adam Kohler, thank you for being with me today. This has been very enlightening. I’d like to have you back.

Uh you reach another milestone in your path. Feel free to chase me down. Let’s get you back on to have a conversation

about the future technologies. We can compare what AI has done up to now to

what it might have done by the time we have our next interview.

Can’t we ask AI to simply find a way of uh of of of getting these blue blue folks to um back off on ice?

Oh my gosh. What’s happening in New Jersey right now? That’s absolutely insanity. like I don’t know what’s going on, but you saw what’s going what what

they just came out with that it’s going to be, you know, if any of these people are arrested, the people who are funding it, the organizations who are funding it

are going to be held responsible. So, I think you need accountability. You can’t just be angry that you lost an election and going out there and uh disobeying

the law and and and bipartisan laws. Our immigration laws are are bipartisan.

Those were put in place. ICE was created in under a bipartisan agreement. This isn’t a left or a right thing. This is about the safety of our country and

knowing who’s here. This isn’t about being mean or being a bad person. This is about knowing who’s in this country

and also not, you know, stuffing our states with a bunch of people so that you can get more uh so that you can you can end up with more congressional seats, which is, I think, a strategy.

Yeah. And we didn’t get into it and it’s worthy of another discussion.

uh but um term limits and u the whole issue of uh the census being the the

basis for avoiding gerrymandering and um um being fair and equitable amongst the

um the the redistricting that goes on every 10 years and uh that that has not happened in many cases. The Democrats

have abused it profusely and yet Donald Trump too big to rig. He still won uh in

throughout the nation, but that’s still not fair. We need to make there needs to be parity and balance in the way we set

up our districts. And it should not be based on uh the voter rights act which is uh actionable actionable based on race. It’s this is not a racial issue.

This is about a democracy that intends to put balance between Republicans and Democrats in all the districts around the nation. This is not a a state issue.

And that’s why I think a if the Republicans can win the House and the Senate, one of the things they need to

do is to create a redistricting rule, tie it to a general uh amendment on

immigration and legal voting uh all under one wrapped envelope of issues

because it deserves to be the next amendment to the Constitution. Our founding fathers didn’t understand what

the word internet was. They they they couldn’t dream about Elon Musk and space

travel. So, uh we have certainly and amazingly on our 250th anniversary, we

find ourselves celebrating so much of what this country has done in 250 years.

Uh the constitution must be working.

It’s elastic enough to have flexed and bent. Admittedly, it’s being challenged

now, but um flexed and bent to handle the most unforeseen issues in terms of

rights and privileges and entitlements that the Constitution of the United States provides for you and me. And one

of the things they did is they gave you an opportunity to create content credits, folks. and he’s going to be he

is very successful and more so if you study the background on content credits.

So please get on his website as he mentioned earlier check it out and I’d like to hear from you too. If you get hold of Adam let me know you did so I

can circle back with Adam as well. Adam Kohler thank you for being with me today.

Thanks so much Jean. I look forward to having you again and thank you ladies and gentlemen for being with us again

for another episode of Gene Valentino’s Grassroots Truth Cast. See you soon.

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