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Back to School Supply List · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglass in the Power Hour six ten WUTV at
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  Speaker 1: A two one nine eight eighty six my number eight
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  Speaker 1: two one WTV in one eight hundred and six to
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  Speaker 1: ten WUTV and still another good story. Uh and then
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  Speaker 1: and then uh, and then a question about a commercial
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  Speaker 1: I heard on our airwaves earlier, and uh, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't get and then and then and then the boiling point.
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  Speaker 1: The boiling point of course, over the school supply list
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  Speaker 1: if you have not received yours yet for your kids
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  Speaker 1: or your grandkids or whatever. Man, man, what man? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little upset about about some of the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Allison alluded to it there in the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: hour news update, Central Ohio University drops and proposed twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six ballot issue after review. She is talking about
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  Speaker 1: Columbus State Community College. They were going to hit us
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  Speaker 1: up for another levee, and the story reads here the
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  Speaker 1: Columbustate Community College decided not to move forward with the
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  Speaker 1: proposed ballot issue in twenty twenty six, ending plans for
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  Speaker 1: a levey that would have expanded investments in job focused education,
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  Speaker 1: student success and affordability. And this is a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Why the current outrage over property taxes. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is how this would have been funded. We don't
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  Speaker 1: need any more straws on that camel's back. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not whether or not Columbus State does a good job,
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  Speaker 1: but they what they do. It's got nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with that. I am actually very impressed with that Columbus
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  Speaker 1: Promise program and with the speed and efficiency at which
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  Speaker 1: they move their students through the academic process. And I
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  Speaker 1: love the collaboration they have with Columbus City Schools where
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  Speaker 1: so many of these kids are able to graduate from
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  Speaker 1: high school, get their high school diploma and an associate's
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  Speaker 1: degree from Columbus State at the same time, immediately allowing
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  Speaker 1: them to go into the job world. All great things,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful things, but adding to the property tax bills of
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  Speaker 1: people when people are outraged right now and ready to
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  Speaker 1: just abolish property tax altogether, is a bad idea. And
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  Speaker 1: they decided it's time to back off of that. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll come back, they'll come back some other
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  Speaker 1: way trying to get some money to run this, but
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  Speaker 1: they are doing something there that overall looks productive. I'm
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  Speaker 1: much more apt to vote in favor of a levey
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  Speaker 1: that would support what Columbus State is doing. That I
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  Speaker 1: am for CODA. Throwing more money at empty buses doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make any sense to me. But I believe what they
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  Speaker 1: do down there would presented logically to people that care
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  Speaker 1: one way or another. I think they could make their
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  Speaker 1: case for funding just not do property taxes, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: a sales tax and income tax, whatever they might propose
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  Speaker 1: in the future, present it well and logically, I think
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  Speaker 1: they've got a chance. Did you ever go to Columbus
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  Speaker 1: State for anything?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I did.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I went for like a semester or two.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't what I was. Did they kick you out? No? No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: Well that shows bad taste in them right there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I can't even believe I got accepted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were when I was a kid, they were CTI.
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  Speaker 1: The Columbus Technical Institute changed and we used to have
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  Speaker 1: actually o T which is the Ohio Institute of Technology,
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  Speaker 1: which became DEVRYE. That's how old I am. So anyway, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, computers were becoming part of life, and so
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  Speaker 1: everybody wanted to learn how to program. They call it
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  Speaker 1: coding these days, but everybody wanted to learn how to program.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the kids were coming out and Columbus Technical
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  Speaker 1: Institute that was a place to go to learn basic programming.
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  Speaker 1: And h I tried to do it on my own.
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  Speaker 2: And it's learning a different language basically and then putting
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  Speaker 2: it together.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, and there were just there were two many languages. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I tried see Eunuchs, Pascal. And then of course you
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  Speaker 1: had your basic, which was if you bought a Texas
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  Speaker 1: Instrument's home computer or something like that, you could program
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  Speaker 1: in basic. You know, a care it go to. But
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  Speaker 1: the the people who were developing the programming languages were
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  Speaker 1: trying to make their stand out above all others, and
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  Speaker 1: so they were very, very different. And if you learned,
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  Speaker 1: if you learn it's like learning Spanish. You go to
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  Speaker 1: school and you learn to speak Spanish, and then you
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  Speaker 1: go to school and you learn to speak Russian. They
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  Speaker 1: are two completely different. And to call on your brain
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  Speaker 1: in a split second to switch from Spanish to English
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  Speaker 1: to Russian, that's a special talent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have it or the patients. Charlie loves
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  Speaker 2: it though, really love it. They teach it in school
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  Speaker 2: like basic, basic, basic kind of stuff. That's like an
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  Speaker 2: elective for him, and he loves all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: First computer I ever had the T I ninety nine.
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  Speaker 1: It was bub I don't know, about ten inches wide
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  Speaker 1: maybe and maybe eight inches tall. The memory was a
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  Speaker 1: cassette like an audio cope.
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  Speaker 2: I remember that, I mean vaguely.
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  Speaker 1: But the graphics were just blocks and if you could
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  Speaker 1: if you could successfully program it to randomly scatter blocks
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  Speaker 1: on the screen and then turn them into a building
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  Speaker 1: or something, you had a good day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I remember.
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  Speaker 2: The first computer my dad got was a It had
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  Speaker 2: the floppy, real big floppy floppy floppy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like the eight and a half inch floppy discs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was if you played a game. The
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  Speaker 2: games were all text and you would just answer like yes, no, yes,
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. And then we got another one where we
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  Speaker 2: had the small hard They were still called floppy disc
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  Speaker 2: but the small disc you have to put like twenty
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  Speaker 2: of them and download twenty of them to get like
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  Speaker 2: a very basic Jeopardy game.
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing. At the time. I still got some
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  Speaker 1: three and a half inch disc I should probably check
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  Speaker 1: at microcenter and see if they have a USB disc
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  Speaker 1: reader or something that I could attach and read what's
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  Speaker 1: on those discs. For all I know, there's something important
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  Speaker 1: on them. I have no idea what's on them. None
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  Speaker 1: commercial that I heard a little while ago here on
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  Speaker 1: this radio station was urging people to text a number,
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  Speaker 1: text AM to a number because they're saying AM radio
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  Speaker 1: maybe discontinued from cars. Now. I'm getting older, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: asking you. Didn't we just do this am I misremembering
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  Speaker 1: just maybe two years ago? Did was there not some
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  Speaker 1: campaign to text? And the FCC told uh, maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was Chrysler that wanted to take AM radios out of cars.
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  Speaker 1: And we made our case as an industry that especially
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  Speaker 1: in emergency situations, AM radio is vital because our signal
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  Speaker 1: travels where FM does not go.
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  Speaker 2: I still get those text messages.
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  Speaker 1: But we're running these commercials again to text this to
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  Speaker 1: this number to let them know we don't want AM
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  Speaker 1: radio to removed from cars. And I don't did something
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  Speaker 1: new happen. I've tried to look it up. I've tried
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  Speaker 1: Google and Duck Duck, and I haven't seen any new news.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like something else has happened, because we
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  Speaker 1: just did this a couple of years ago, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was resolved that that AM radio was going
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  Speaker 1: to stay in cars. I don't. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: can't see anything, but I wanted to bring that up
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  Speaker 1: just in case I, you know, I miss something and
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  Speaker 1: maybe somebody can edumacate me because I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: School supply list. I got a couple of them already
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  Speaker 1: for the grand kids and for or are one of
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  Speaker 1: the older boys. Which age is this? I think this
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  Speaker 1: is for the eighth grader. Here's the list. Pens, pencils,
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  Speaker 1: paper folders, backpack, headphones for testing. That's it. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, that's cool. I can handle that. Now
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  Speaker 1: for the seven year old, I know it's gonna get worse.
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  Speaker 1: Do we have any church music? Any church? Or Lord
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  Speaker 1: help me? Because I feel like I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: need Jesus when I read this. This is the first
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  Speaker 1: grader's list of stuff that their school wants. A backpack,
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  Speaker 1: but it must have no wheels of draw strings because
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't have wheels or draw strings. Did he A
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  Speaker 1: pencil box which the child will lose immediately during the
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  Speaker 1: first week of school? Count them three packs of twelve
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  Speaker 1: count pencils. Even though they don't say number two, you
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  Speaker 1: know they want number two pencils. One pack of highlighters.
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  Speaker 1: Does not specify yellow only or multicolor. One pack of
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  Speaker 1: index cards. In case your child needs to deliver a speech,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose three large pink erasers. Why pink? I mean
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  Speaker 1: I can get him, but why pink? Now we get stupid?
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  Speaker 1: Ten large glue sticks. Ten I've got glue sticks in
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  Speaker 1: the junk drawer that are like five years old. He's
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  Speaker 1: not going through ten eight large expo chisel tip low
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  Speaker 1: odor dry erase markers. They want to tell me what
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  Speaker 1: brand buy.
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  Speaker 2: That's highly specific.
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  Speaker 1: Four boxes, four boxes of twenty four packed crayons. They're
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  Speaker 1: not specifying Crayola at least one pair of kid scissors,
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  Speaker 1: one box of gallon ziploc bags, one box of court
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  Speaker 1: size ziplock bags, two clorox uh uh what is that?
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  Speaker 1: Or clorox or lysol, containers of wipes, three boxes of tissue,
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  Speaker 1: one pair of over the head headphones. One change of
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  Speaker 1: clothes does not have to be the school uniform, and
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  Speaker 1: they want a complete change of clothes, including underwear and socks.
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  Speaker 1: And they must be packed in a zip block bag
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  Speaker 1: with the child's name. This may be replaced if the
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  Speaker 1: child has to use it to really one twelve pack
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  Speaker 1: of chisel tip dry erase markers if you're a girl,
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  Speaker 1: one twelve pack of fine tip dry erase markers if
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  Speaker 1: you're a boy. So here's the problem with this. You
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  Speaker 1: and know your kid is not gonna use all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: This is communism. I'm sorry, but it is. And this
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  Speaker 1: is where I blow up. There are all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: school supply drives. The Rotary probably doing one, Kawana is
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  Speaker 1: probably doing one. ABC six is doing one. Ryker Ford Chevy,
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  Speaker 1: whatever they're selling, they're doing one. There's school supply drives
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  Speaker 1: all over the state of Ohio, and most definitely here
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  Speaker 1: in Central Ohio. Any parent, any family that does not
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  Speaker 1: have school supplies can show up at a given library,
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  Speaker 1: recreation center, or public event during the course of the
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  Speaker 1: month of August. There are all kinds of school supplies
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  Speaker 1: for free. And yet you want parents who bother to
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  Speaker 1: actually go out and shop for the school supplies, to
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  Speaker 1: shop for the whole class. I guarantee you my boy's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be using all those crayons. That's crayons
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  Speaker 1: for the other kids too. That's tissues for the other
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  Speaker 1: kids too. That's pencils for the other kids too. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sorry if you know what, if my neighbor comes to
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  Speaker 1: me and goes, man, I can't do it. I can't
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  Speaker 1: buy all this stuff. I'll say, come on, I got
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  Speaker 1: school supplies out here in the garage. I'll helpe y'all.
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  Speaker 1: That's what neighbors do, that's what friends do. And then
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  Speaker 1: you've got all again, these organizations and charities that are
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  Speaker 1: collecting and distributing free school supplies. There's no reason, despite
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  Speaker 1: your intentions, for any school or teacher to be sending
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  Speaker 1: home a list that is expecting me to buy, especially
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  Speaker 1: brand specific supplies that are to be shared with other kids.
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  Speaker 1: I will take care of mine, and if the other
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  Speaker 1: kids have nobody to take care that this is send
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  Speaker 1: me a mister Douglas. We have a kid in the
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  Speaker 1: class who doesn't have a mother or a father, or
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  Speaker 1: an aunt or an uncle or a grandmother or a grandfather,
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  Speaker 1: and doesn't have any neighbors, doesn't have any friends. He
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  Speaker 1: actually lives in plastic bubble and no one provides anything
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  Speaker 1: for him. He needs some preyans. I will buy the
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  Speaker 1: damn crayons for that child, but don't. If everybody complies
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  Speaker 1: with this, you're going to have so many crayons and pencils,
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  Speaker 1: and it'll be shared not only with their class, but
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  Speaker 1: with the class next door. They're asking too much. Life
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  Speaker 1: is rough for a lot of people, some a little rough,
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  Speaker 1: some a lot rough. Do not add to our burden
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  Speaker 1: by placing your utopian requests upon us. Is that too
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  Speaker 1: much to ask? I don't think so.