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OSU buildings and pool costs · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're back second half of the power hour six
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  Speaker 1: ten double UTVN eight two one nine eight eighty six
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  Speaker 1: eight two one DOBUTV in the number. So Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still on Ohio State here. The tuition increase. The
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  Speaker 1: new rate for Ohio residents is now set at fourteen
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  Speaker 1: thou fifty dollars, an increase of four hundred and nine dollars.
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  Speaker 1: That's three percent from twenty twenty five. The increase applies
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  Speaker 1: to incoming students only. Most current students are covered under
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State Tuition Guarantee will not see an increase
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  Speaker 1: the I don't know if they had. They were looking
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  Speaker 1: at doing it higher, a higher increase for out of
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  Speaker 1: state students, and I'm not seeing that published at this point.
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  Speaker 1: But fourteen thousand and fifty dollars a year. Now, here's something.
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  Speaker 1: I've suggested this to members of the legislature I have.
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  Speaker 1: I actually had an opportunity to suggest it to a
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  Speaker 1: couple of faculty members at Ohio State at one point too,
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  Speaker 1: and it's never been done. Here's something I think would
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  Speaker 1: be logical, reasonable and would help these college students save
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. It's a state university, all here,
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  Speaker 1: make it a law. Make it a statute, all texts
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  Speaker 1: that will be used at this state university or any
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  Speaker 1: state university shall be made available in electronic form. You
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  Speaker 1: know how much some of these college textbooks cost. Now,
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  Speaker 1: of course they still want to make a profit on
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  Speaker 1: the text but you know, paying thirty nine to ninety
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  Speaker 1: five for the electronic version of the textbook as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to four hundred and fifty dollars for a paper version
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  Speaker 1: of the textbook makes a lot of sense. That would
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  Speaker 1: save a tremendous amount of money, probably save a lot
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  Speaker 1: of backs, you know, especially the freshman year man. These
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  Speaker 1: kids got a backpack and everything they need for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the day is on their back because they're
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  Speaker 1: running around West Campus and trying to find time to
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  Speaker 1: sit down and have lunch. Maybe or well it's ramen
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  Speaker 1: new but still it's what they call lunch. It just
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  Speaker 1: just you know, take a little burden off instead of
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  Speaker 1: putting a burden on. So four percent increase, as I
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  Speaker 1: understood it earlier, are three percent increase that is to
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  Speaker 1: be up for the next four years. So beginning with
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  Speaker 1: the next class, you'll be paying that three percent increase again,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen fifty dollars for Ohio residents out of state students.
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  Speaker 1: Not sure what they're going to be, but I'll find
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  Speaker 1: out now. Secondly, the other Ohio State store after the
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  Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars settlement, after the announcement, we're increasing
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  Speaker 1: tuition three percent for in state students. One more thing
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  Speaker 1: to tell you about. Ohio State apparently is looking at
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  Speaker 1: leasing two hundred thousand square feet of the old Huntington
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  Speaker 1: building down at Broad and High, right across the street
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  Speaker 1: from the State House. I don't know, why have you
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  Speaker 1: been on the Ohio State University campus. It's one big
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  Speaker 1: construction site. I mean seriously, they have building, building, building
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  Speaker 1: everywhere is going on, and they've already got a number
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  Speaker 1: of buildings and parking garages and it's a massive, massive university.
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  Speaker 1: But they want the Huntington building downtown now. Twenty year
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  Speaker 1: lease is what they're looking at. I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: what they will end out shelling out for this at
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  Speaker 1: the corner of Broad and High. But my first question
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  Speaker 1: was why I've been reading the online speculation. Have you
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  Speaker 1: read any of these stories, Zachary, No, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: I'm uninformed about this. Is there anything in your mind
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  Speaker 1: that immediately pops up if I say, why does Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State University need this? What is it? A thirteen story building?
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  Speaker 1: I think a Huntington Bank building at the corner of
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  Speaker 1: Broad and High. Is there anything that pops into your
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  Speaker 1: head is a reason that makes sense? Now? The online
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  Speaker 1: speculation and chatter seems to be they're planning on moving
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  Speaker 1: the law school there, so.
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  Speaker 2: That what's wrong with the building They're in for buildings?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, what are they going to do
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  Speaker 1: with the old buildings? I don't know. Okay, does that
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  Speaker 1: answer your question?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I I seriously, I don't get it. Two hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: square feet that's a lot of space to begin with.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, a twenty year lease Capital University, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's downtown kind of sort of. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: officially in Bexley kind of downtown. There really is not
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  Speaker 1: much downtown anymore except for government. I mean a few
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  Speaker 1: you know, investment firms and things like that. But downtown
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  Speaker 1: is not Uh, it's not like a hustle and bustle.
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  Speaker 1: This is where business gets done and people meet and
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  Speaker 1: friends gather type of place anymore. It's kind of vacant.
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily even if it is law school. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure why what the advantage What is the strategic
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  Speaker 1: advantage to law school students being in this building at
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  Speaker 1: BroadOn High If they could say, well, it's proximity to
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  Speaker 1: the court and the programs that the internships that will
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  Speaker 1: be made available to them because they're proxiity. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: mean most law school students do not spend a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of time after first year sitting in a classroom
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  Speaker 1: lecture hall anyway. So I don't know, I don't get
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  Speaker 1: the logic. But that's three OSU stories all in the
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  Speaker 1: same day, and each and every one maybe go huh really? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: As much as as much good as the school has
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  Speaker 1: been known to do, it does confuse me sometimes with
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  Speaker 1: some of the decisions that are made, and this is
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  Speaker 1: one of them. Are you a public pool person? You
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  Speaker 1: go to public pools? Sure? What Charlie wants to go?
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  Speaker 1: Take them? Like like a public park thing? Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Parks and Recreation or Columbus Recreation in Parks I
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  Speaker 1: guess officially is their name. The kids were telling me
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  Speaker 1: the pools closed, we can't go to the pool. I'm like, really,
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  Speaker 1: why it opened? All Memorial Day. I know because I
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  Speaker 1: took you and they said, yeah, but they're closed now.
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  Speaker 1: So I checked, just a really short season they're closed. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they closed. They opened the Memorial Day because I guess
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  Speaker 1: it was Memorial Day, even though it was not very
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  Speaker 1: warm and not very summer like, they opened. But then
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  Speaker 1: they closed all the weekdays until this weekend. They opened
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  Speaker 1: up on the sixth, like they do with casinos. It
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  Speaker 1: was a soft opening, I guess. But I'm just wondering
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  Speaker 1: why bother. I mean, it really was not. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a great day to go the pool anyway, and why
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  Speaker 1: bother with just that one day and then close them
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  Speaker 1: down until the sixth of June. You should have just
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  Speaker 1: kept it closed. Then I started looking at the prices
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  Speaker 1: and you would think again, you know, we talked earlier
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  Speaker 1: about Columbus and they spend stupid money on stupid stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and then the stuff you would think they'd spend some
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  Speaker 1: money on, they don't, the admission to a city Columbus
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  Speaker 1: city pool. I will here's how much of a dinosaur
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  Speaker 1: I am over on my beloved West Side. When glen
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  Speaker 1: Wood Pool first opened, which was nineteen what seventy four
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  Speaker 1: maybe admission to Glenwood Pool was ten cents. It is
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  Speaker 1: now three dollars. That's a little bit of a price increase.
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  Speaker 1: And you would think that as a city parks and
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  Speaker 1: recreation and recreation and parks department, you'd be able to
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  Speaker 1: buy like a pass, a sea pass. The kids are
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  Speaker 1: out of school, buy them. No, no, you pay three
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  Speaker 1: dollars per entry, per day. That's per entry. So don't
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  Speaker 1: let the kid have to run out to the car
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  Speaker 1: and pick up some vending machine money from you, because
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  Speaker 1: they've got to pay another three dollars to go back in.
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  Speaker 1: And you must have a leisure card. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know what that is. It's like a membership card to
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  Speaker 1: the parks and Recreation department. I guess how much does
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  Speaker 1: that cost. I think that's a dollar. So you pay
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  Speaker 1: the dollar to get the card, and then it's three
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  Speaker 1: dollars every time. Now, if I were to send the
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  Speaker 1: two older boys to the pool, hey it's summertime, go
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  Speaker 1: to the pool. If they wanted to go Monday through
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  Speaker 1: Friday and go to the pool, that's thirty dollars a week.
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  Speaker 1: It's one hundred and twenty dollars a month for them
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  Speaker 1: to go to a city pool. Again, just seems like
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  Speaker 1: if the city they got these pools, you want to
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  Speaker 1: have the what do you call them, the squirt playgrounds
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  Speaker 1: for the kids and talk about how family friend you
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  Speaker 1: are and and we care about our neighbors and our commutee.
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  Speaker 1: It really seems like parks and Recreation should offer you know,
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  Speaker 1: a summer long pass one hundred bucks, come as often
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  Speaker 1: as you want. And thought, all these city dwelling kids
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  Speaker 1: come to the city parks and that would be bad.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred that's a lot of money. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how many trips they'll be making the city pool.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying. There was a place, O, we're in
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  Speaker 1: Grove City when I lived there, a big splash and uh,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was kind of weird. We couldn't we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't openly take kids there because it was you had
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  Speaker 1: to be a Grove City resident. Well, on the mayl
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  Speaker 1: I was a Grove City resident. However, officially I was
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  Speaker 1: a City of Columbus resident, so I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: like in the Grove City ghetto. And I was You've
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  Speaker 1: seen places like that where it says and I always
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  Speaker 1: ask people who picks up your trash, that's the easy
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  Speaker 1: way to well, I live. I live in Gallilee. Who
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  Speaker 1: picks up your trash Columbus? Then you're in Columbus. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what the mail says. I don't care what
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  Speaker 1: the zip code says. You're in Columbus. That's what's When
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  Speaker 1: I was in four three one two three, I was
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  Speaker 1: in Columbus with a Grove City address. So the kids
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  Speaker 1: want to go. Can wake got a Big Splash and uh.
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  Speaker 1: I went over and checked into it and they said no,
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  Speaker 1: So I can't well, but I said no, and the
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  Speaker 1: kids were sad about that all summer. I couldn't drive
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  Speaker 1: past Big Splash without hearing that they really wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go there. So, you know, the city pools not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: as as well equipped or as nice, even although Glenwood
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  Speaker 1: is relatively new as as someplace like Big Splash was.
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  Speaker 1: But still it's a diversion and it's something for him
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  Speaker 1: to do. And you don't want your kids hanging out
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  Speaker 1: and doing necessarily bad stuff in the summer. So this
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  Speaker 1: is a nice all American thing to do is go
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  Speaker 1: to the swimming pool. I just I was a little
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  Speaker 1: a little dismayed by the fact that they don't have
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  Speaker 1: any kind of pass program on here three dollars per
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  Speaker 1: day per jury period. And by the way, we're closed,
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  Speaker 1: just just saying, I get is it? Sis? I can
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  Speaker 1: never tell when zach is type and stuff? Sis? Is that?
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  Speaker 2: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: Your name? Sue? Sue say? He man, he messes me up.
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  Speaker 1: You've got some thoughts on the leisure card. Get him
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  Speaker 1: in there real quick.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was just soon, SAYO. When my son was little,
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  Speaker 3: we went to the school and I had to get
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  Speaker 3: that leisure cards or dollars, and there was a sign
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  Speaker 3: up that said collect or exact change requested. I had
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  Speaker 3: a twenty dollars bill of feet but it was two
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  Speaker 3: of us getting a leisure card. There was also a
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  Speaker 3: stack of like fifteen people in front of us, and
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  Speaker 3: it just said requested. I get up there, and she's like,
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  Speaker 3: I can't take this. What do you mean? She said,
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  Speaker 3: it's exact change only.
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  Speaker 2: I said, that's not what the sign says. It says,
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  Speaker 2: if exact change requested, you've got plenty of change. She said, no,
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  Speaker 2: I can't take a twenty dollars bill. And then after
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  Speaker 2: waiting in line for that long, she was going to
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  Speaker 2: send me back out to the car because I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: leave my three year old kids sitting there in line.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody took pity on me and gave me two dollars
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  Speaker 3: to cover the leisure cards, and then I went to
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  Speaker 3: the car. I got the money and came back and
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  Speaker 3: gave us to them, and they weren't trying. They had
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  Speaker 3: planned for it just to be a gift, but I
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  Speaker 3: didn't want them to have to do that. But I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was pretty stupid.
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  Speaker 1: You see, Sue, you are so much yourself was stupid.
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  Speaker 1: You're so much nicer than I, because I would have
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  Speaker 1: turned that into a more POVID show segment. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the call of the story. Thanks very much. Take care
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. Yeah, it says specifically it's requested, exact change requested,
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  Speaker 1: not mandatory. When you're too stupid to enforce your own rules,
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  Speaker 1: you probably shouldn't be enforcing them,