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Mayor Ginther and Also The City of Dayton · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglass and The Power Hour on six to ten
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  Speaker 1: double UTV in A two one nine eight eighty six
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  Speaker 1: A two one DOUBLEUTV and begging wanted to know what
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  Speaker 1: I meant by revenue enhancement. Isn't that a common terminology
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  Speaker 1: when I say there's revenue enhancement going on on the road, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there should be. I thought it was, Becky. What I
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  Speaker 1: mean is the troopers were out there writing tickets, clocking people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what they how. I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 1: fast you had to go to get a ticket once
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  Speaker 1: you get through the construction. It goes to seventy miles
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  Speaker 1: an hour out there on nice seventy and uh And
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  Speaker 1: I was going, honestly, probably about seventy five and people
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  Speaker 1: were blowing past me like I was in reverse. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how fast you need to go to
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  Speaker 1: get a ticket. But the troopers were out there, at
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  Speaker 1: least the cars were out there. Maybe they just got
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  Speaker 1: cars out there to make people think they're watching, to
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  Speaker 1: try to slow them down.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's part of it too, because I go
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  Speaker 2: to my obviously go to Kentucky a lot, so I'll
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  Speaker 2: go through Dayton or down seventy which some It just
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  Speaker 2: depends on my mood.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes on the.
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  Speaker 2: Day there's a cop every single what do you call
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  Speaker 2: that across the medium.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll see like a ton of them.
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  Speaker 1: It just depends. I got I want and I want
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  Speaker 1: to say said, I don't mean to be insulting, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be I'm gonna give you an honest thought
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  Speaker 1: here after this trip to Dayton. I have not been
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  Speaker 1: in that city before. I've had no reason to be.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, anybody who was on the west side might
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  Speaker 1: be loved West side of Columbus, Ohio. Before you grouse
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  Speaker 1: anymore about your community, you should pay a visit to
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  Speaker 1: the west side of Dayton. I don't even know how
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  Speaker 1: to describe it. It is this hodgepodge of post World
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  Speaker 1: War two cracker box houses, commercial properties, storefronts and auto
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  Speaker 1: repair shops and things like that, and buildings that look like,
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  Speaker 1: once upon a time they were industrial buildings of some sort,
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  Speaker 1: much of which is abandoned at this point. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't know anything. Nan Whale, it wasn't she was she
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  Speaker 1: mayor Dayton that wanted to run for governor?
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  Speaker 2: I remember her?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Was she Dayton?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Hell's no, wow? I don't even and again I can't
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  Speaker 1: even describe it adequately as I was driving through there,
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  Speaker 1: but it was, uh, it was not good. Now heading
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  Speaker 1: back from the west west part of Dayton headed back
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  Speaker 1: toward the freeway to come back to Columbus, I saw
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  Speaker 1: their downtown skyline and I just I was pressed for time.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't get in there. I had to get back
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  Speaker 1: up here. Their downtown skyline looked similar to Columbus, look
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  Speaker 1: pretty decent. But I'll tell you, I'm I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to go back there just because now I have to investigate.
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  Speaker 1: Springfield is a lot like this. Springfield is like two
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  Speaker 1: cities and one there are there's part of a Springfield
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  Speaker 1: where the homes are big and gorgeous. I've actually sold
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  Speaker 1: a couple of homes down there, big beautiful homes, and
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  Speaker 1: and then there's another half of Springfield that is just
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  Speaker 1: nothing but you know, boarded up or abandoned or squatters
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  Speaker 1: or i'll say slumlord properties. And they're like two different
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  Speaker 1: universes existing in the same town. So I need to
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  Speaker 1: go back to dates and find you know, what's on
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  Speaker 1: the south side and north side and east side as
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  Speaker 1: well as in their downtown. Have you been in the
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  Speaker 1: city before you visited Dayton Ferry reason particular.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I went to like the museum thinging they
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  Speaker 2: had there and stopped to eat there, that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 2: but I can't say I have any experience.
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  Speaker 1: And also, coming backwards, just as you make that transition
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  Speaker 1: on the seventy one, a jet scared the bejeebers out
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  Speaker 1: of me. It was going in I'm assuming for a
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  Speaker 1: landing at right Patterson. It's real low and real slow.
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  Speaker 1: It just looked really heavy, yeah, and it was doing
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  Speaker 1: It had gone across the freeway and then was banking
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  Speaker 1: hard to the left I guess to head back toward
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  Speaker 1: the h the Air Force base. It did not look
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  Speaker 1: like a passenger thing. It looked more like a cargo jet.
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  Speaker 1: But it was huge and moving so slow. And the
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  Speaker 1: size of this thing as it went over me was
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  Speaker 1: just terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: People don't realize how big planes are in general if
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  Speaker 2: they don't fly a lot. But if those cargo planes
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  Speaker 2: and stuff are massive, are massive.
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  Speaker 1: The idea that something can move that slow and stay
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  Speaker 1: in the air was kind of fascinating to me too,
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  Speaker 1: just because I guess by nature, I think, okay, jet
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  Speaker 1: fast and you're using you're using propulsion and aerodynamics to
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  Speaker 1: keep this thing going right when you see it, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it was moving faster than it appeared to move,
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  Speaker 1: but it just it was if it was a person,
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  Speaker 1: you would have you the word lumbering to describe the
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  Speaker 1: way this jet was moving. It was lumbering across the
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  Speaker 1: sky and just a very intimidating site. As I was just,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, years ago, I drove through there and
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  Speaker 1: I forget what it was. It was at night though,
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  Speaker 1: and I went past apparently I went past the right
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  Speaker 1: Patterson runways because I had won. This has been thirty
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  Speaker 1: years ago. I had one coming and I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: his wheels touched the top of the car. It was
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  Speaker 1: that low scary. I just And also I must mention this.
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  Speaker 1: I posted this on Facebook channel six, ABC six running
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  Speaker 1: with it on their website over thirty two k and
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  Speaker 1: contributions to Columbus Mayor Ginther from Haslam donors. After the
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  Speaker 1: soccer deal, several people responded on face spoke about well.
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  Speaker 1: One idiot said, now, dude, Trump, this isn't about Trump.
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  Speaker 1: This is about my hometown. This is about Columbus, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is not about Trump, quit trying to work Trump
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  Speaker 1: and everything. But people were saying, well, I understand they
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  Speaker 1: were donating to him before. Okay, yeah they were, but
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  Speaker 1: thirty two thousand in contributions since the soccer deal. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: to see here. I don't know. I just and it
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  Speaker 1: was from several members of the family, because I believe,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, there's a five thousand dollars maximum.
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  Speaker 1: So if I wanted to donate, you know, twenty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars to the mayor's campaign, hang on, I threw up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: If I wasn't looking at you at first, I thought
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  Speaker 2: you were really sick.
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  Speaker 1: Hang On. If I wanted to donate twenty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: to the mayor's campaign, what I'd have to do is
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  Speaker 1: give five thousand dollars to Zach and five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: to Mark and five thousand dollars to the queen, and
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  Speaker 1: I'd have five thousand, and we could each donate the
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  Speaker 1: five thousand dollars, so I could give him twenty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars without it making it look like I gave him
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  Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars. So that's how politics works. And one
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  Speaker 1: person said well, could he give it to other Democrats?
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  Speaker 1: That's how the game is played. Yeah, he with the
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  Speaker 1: biggest war chest has the most number of people who
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  Speaker 1: are beholding to them because well, the guy gave me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, ten grand from my campaign, so I get
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  Speaker 1: to back everything he does because he helped get me elected.
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  Speaker 1: This is politics. Columbus is becoming more and more Chicago
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  Speaker 1: like every day. It really is, and that saddens me.
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  Speaker 1: But I just it's the big story. It is a
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  Speaker 1: lead story on the Channel six website. And honestly I
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  Speaker 1: said it with you know, sarcasm, tongue in cheek. I'm
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  Speaker 1: absolutely completely totally surprised by this. No, I'm not, nor
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  Speaker 1: should you be. This is the way it goes. This
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  Speaker 1: is how things work. Political contributions donate. That's what makes
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  Speaker 1: the h makes the wheel go round. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: crazy about it. I don't like it. It's the appearances
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  Speaker 1: are bad and uh and possibly the intentions I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: But the fact is this is how it works. Now,
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  Speaker 1: instead of do Trump, how about do Harden? And do
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  Speaker 1: who on council was in favor of it. Harden backed
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  Speaker 1: off of this, he was he kind of stood up
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  Speaker 1: and said no, I don't think so. But let's see
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  Speaker 1: all the elected officials who were, you know, pushing for
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  Speaker 1: it versus the elected officials who pushed against it. There
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  Speaker 1: were a couple of them, and just see what their
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  Speaker 1: political contributions look like. I guarantee you will be able
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  Speaker 1: to tell who's who by the dollars. Pete, you are
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  Speaker 1: on sixth n W TV at.
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  Speaker 3: High Hey, so I'm gonna save you a trip that day.
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  Speaker 3: I used to live there for five years because AT
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  Speaker 3: and T made transfer out there. What you do time
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  Speaker 3: worked in a call center?
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, so did I. I was at the what
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  Speaker 1: they called the Addis rebo office back in the eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Oh here in Columbus Road, third floor.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, that became a ticketmaster. Remember I've worked at
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  Speaker 3: ticketmaster there back in the nineties, but now I worked anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Dayton Is as as it's been said to me a
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  Speaker 3: few times, it's a city which has seen it it's heyday.
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  Speaker 3: It's beyond its prime. Its prime was the fifties and sixties,
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  Speaker 3: and since then it's it's just an economically depressed area.
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  Speaker 3: They shut down the I can't remember the name of
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  Speaker 3: the company that made cash registers r right. There you go,
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  Speaker 3: and it's I mean, downtown Dayton is it's it's not
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  Speaker 3: safe in the north end is just pretty much like
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  Speaker 3: the west end that you described.
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  Speaker 1: Was that accurate as far as the way I was
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  Speaker 1: describing the west side of Dayton because I couldn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: find the correct words. I was just trying to convey
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  Speaker 1: a picture.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you're absolutely right. You described it perfectly. It's just
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  Speaker 3: rows upon rows of those those kinds of houses. And
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  Speaker 3: the east side is somewhat the same. The south side is.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you got the University of Dayton there, but
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  Speaker 3: it has some nice suburbs, you know, Beaver Creek, Cattering
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  Speaker 3: and so forth. But I mean, I suppose the nicest
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  Speaker 3: thing about Dayton is the Air Force Museum, which everybody
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  Speaker 3: raves about. I don't know if you've ever been to
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  Speaker 3: that before. Not.
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  Speaker 1: No. I saw the sign as I was coming back
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  Speaker 1: to Columbus and kind of made a note that I
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  Speaker 1: like to go down and check that out. Plus, they
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  Speaker 1: have I guess several sites that are attributed to the
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  Speaker 1: life of the Right Brothers. I want to see those.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is a Right Brothers museum on the near
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  Speaker 3: west side. But when I when I worked in Dayton
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  Speaker 3: and I would tell customers where I was located, some
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  Speaker 3: of them would be like, oh, yeah, been to Dayton
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  Speaker 3: And they'd asked me if I've been to the museum,
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  Speaker 3: and they raved about the music it is. It is
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  Speaker 3: an incredible museum, even if you're not into aviation. So
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  Speaker 3: definitely make a trip there. It's free and then. But
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  Speaker 3: other than the two museums, honestly, there's nothing to write
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  Speaker 3: home about Dayton that the downtown is a lot smaller
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  Speaker 3: than what than what you saw, and uh, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: it's just way beyond its prime.
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  Speaker 1: I got you, Pete, And I'm sorry to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm right, quite honestly, because that's Dayton is a place
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  Speaker 1: of history, and I guess I don't know. I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was kind of crushed driving around there today. In
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  Speaker 1: the residential area that I was in. The electric the
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  Speaker 1: poles are green, green metal poles, and they have like
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  Speaker 1: metal rods that come from the top of the pole
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  Speaker 1: out over the street. It almost looks like streetcar wires
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to have you ever seen anything like that?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea what you're talking. It's trying to
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  Speaker 2: think of it in my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, it's They weren't like you know, thirty foot
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  Speaker 1: tall telephone poles. They were about twenty feet tall, green metal,
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  Speaker 1: and then they had silver metal arms that stuck out
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  Speaker 1: over the road, and the wire ran between those silver
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  Speaker 1: arms down the road. And as I looked at it,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, this is really more appropriate or a streetcar
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  Speaker 1: than it is for for power polls. Maybe it's I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe at one time it was streetcar stuff
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  Speaker 1: and they just decided that was a cheaper way of
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  Speaker 1: doing it. But it is. It's an odd city. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying it's a bad city. I'm just saying it's
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  Speaker 1: if you go to Dayton, it is difficult to figure
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  Speaker 1: that town out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not disagreed with. I will say that Pete was
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  Speaker 2: talking about the Air Force whatever that get that is
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  Speaker 2: really cool.
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  Speaker 1: You've been to the museum, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have like presidents like Eisenhower and Kennedy, I think,
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  Speaker 2: like their Air Force ones that they flew in and
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  Speaker 2: what it looked like back then and stuff like.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of cool stuff that sounds like something
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  Speaker 1: I might like. And I still I've been saying for years,
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  Speaker 1: I want to go to Matt's Military Museum. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been there yet either. That's you gotta make time and
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  Speaker 1: life to do stuff, and I am just so bad
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  Speaker 1: at that.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody needs to make time to go DAT day
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  Speaker 1: And don't don't you know, don't take the tea with
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  Speaker 1: you because you won't fit in