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Governor Dewine and womens sports · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting, salutations, and welcome my friends to another edition of
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  Speaker 1: the Power Hour on six ten double UTV, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas. You know who you are, and we take
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  Speaker 1: it from there my number eight two one nine, eight
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  Speaker 1: eighty six A two one WTV and or one eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred and six to ten WUTV, and we get one
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  Speaker 1: hour together. I talk really fast, you must listen even faster.
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  Speaker 1: And if you've got the the sixty billion dollar two
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  Speaker 1: year Ohio budget and the accompanying vetos on your mind,
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  Speaker 1: feel free, just free for all. I know you've got opinions,
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  Speaker 1: I know you've got thoughts, and you're welcome. Also, the
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  Speaker 1: big beautiful bill passing the Senate. Hit it back over
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  Speaker 1: to the House for reconciliation today and we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: that goes. Some things that were removed by the Senate
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  Speaker 1: it don't make sense to me, including the the medicaid situation.
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  Speaker 1: As they're panicking everybody about losing their medicaid here in
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  Speaker 1: this country and in the state of Ohio. What what
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  Speaker 1: our governor did with his vetos sixty seven line item vetos.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get most of them. Well, I won't say most,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say the ones that I've actually taken time at
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  Speaker 1: this point to look at and break down.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get.
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  Speaker 1: And we have gone through the past couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: we have gone through a lot of outrage, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of public outcry, people fighting each other in the streets
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  Speaker 1: and arguing on social media and so forth about the
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  Speaker 1: drag shows at libraries and down in Lancaster. This, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just within the last year they had the town Square
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  Speaker 1: down there. There was supposed to be something that it
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  Speaker 1: turned out to not be in guys in women's clothing
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  Speaker 1: and g strings and so forth, and just people have
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  Speaker 1: the right to be whatever they want to be. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to argue that. However, you know, those of
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  Speaker 1: us that aren't that don't like that, don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of it. We have the right not
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of it, don't we. And so
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  Speaker 1: there was part of the budget provision that asked that
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  Speaker 1: the public library.
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  Speaker 2: System, funded by your tax dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Take any of the sexual identity materials and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: and to put them in a section of the library
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  Speaker 1: not accessible by children, which I don't think is all
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  Speaker 1: that out. I mean, we're not saying you can't have it.
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  Speaker 2: Catching the riot bend my friends.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's not what we're saying, but just don't put it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, next to the highlights, magazines or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And for some reason our.
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  Speaker 1: Governor, you know, friends book club for the kids and
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  Speaker 1: so forth, you would think he might be sympathetic toward
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  Speaker 1: that thought process, he decided.
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  Speaker 2: No, we're taking that out, which I don't get.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what's the reason in for keeping it in? That's
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  Speaker 3: the reason for it at all.
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  Speaker 1: Be to make sure that these materials in the public
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  Speaker 1: libraries were not accessible to children.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I mean why keep them near stuff where
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  Speaker 3: kids can find them?
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  Speaker 1: Because that's you know that you've got agenda driven people
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  Speaker 1: doing everything, whether it's media or or anything else. You've
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  Speaker 1: got people who want it. They want to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you know, your six year old kid understands that
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  Speaker 1: he can have four daddies and and that's I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a family thing. That's parents.
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  Speaker 2: That's my job.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, parents need to talk about the sexuality and the
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  Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. And the more intrusive outside agencies, organizations,
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  Speaker 1: individuals are, the more this is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: flame up issue in society. So you have the materials
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  Speaker 1: just you know, put them someplace where where they're not
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  Speaker 1: accessible to the youngsters. And I don't think that's asking
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  Speaker 1: a whole heck of a lot. But the governor decided
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  Speaker 1: to veto that while going with the lower and flat
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  Speaker 1: income tax. He also decided you did not need a
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  Speaker 1: break on your property taxes, which if you know anything
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  Speaker 1: about me, you know how much I absolutely despise property
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  Speaker 1: taxes because it's property, it's yours.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, it's really not.
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  Speaker 1: Because you work your tail off to either go gather
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  Speaker 1: the money together to buy it or you know, to
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  Speaker 1: build the credit to get a mortgage to have it.
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  Speaker 1: But then you have to pay the government every year
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  Speaker 1: for the right to have what's yours. You have to
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  Speaker 1: pay their fees and their taxes on buying it. Then
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  Speaker 1: you have to pay them every year just to keep it.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not a fan of the property taxes at all.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, get ready, Franklin County. As this announcement
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  Speaker 1: comes up about the governor not not signing off on
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  Speaker 1: the reduction of property taxes, both the Columbus Zoo as
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  Speaker 1: well as the ATOM board already announcing they're coming after
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  Speaker 1: you for another property tax levey.
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  Speaker 2: This fall.
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  Speaker 1: So as much as everything goes up, utility bills go
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  Speaker 1: up aep s's beginning June first, or whatever the hell
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  Speaker 1: it was, your electric bills going up, and we want
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  Speaker 1: to increase your property taxes for the ADAM Board, we
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  Speaker 1: want to increase your property tax to Columbus Zoo. I
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  Speaker 1: expect CODA to probably jump on that bandwagon as well,
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  Speaker 1: because they're announcing all kinds of new plans and longer
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  Speaker 1: routes and all that kind So CODA will probably end
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  Speaker 1: up coming to us for something as well. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: the school's always coming back to you for more and
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  Speaker 1: more money. So is your income rising as much as
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  Speaker 1: the cost of living existing, it's not even living, it's existing.
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  Speaker 1: If you're if the combined rate of the utilities and
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  Speaker 1: the property taxes and the income taxes, if that all
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  Speaker 1: goes up eight percent a year and you're getting the
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  Speaker 1: three percent cost of living, you're five percent behind the
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  Speaker 1: eight ball one year after you get your first raise.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense. While at the same time the
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  Speaker 1: governor says it's okay to dip into the state's unclean funds,
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  Speaker 1: I said that inappropriately. I'm sorry your unclaimed funds to
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  Speaker 1: finance things for multi billionaires, football teams, basketball teams, baseball
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  Speaker 1: teams nationwide, arena pay, any of the places around the
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  Speaker 1: state of Ohio where the Bengals and Browns and Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jackets play. We just got the announcement apparently Cleveland's going
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  Speaker 1: to get a w NBA franchise now. Also Joe Modle
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  Speaker 1: posting on Facebook, and I have to agree with Joe,
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  Speaker 1: although we are diametrically opposed on so many things, when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to being a watchdog for what happens at
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  Speaker 1: ninety West Broad Street, he's on it. The city Hall
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  Speaker 1: granting both a tax abatement for a restaurant equipment place,
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  Speaker 1: which is just it's ridiculous, the amount of money that
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  Speaker 1: they're benning him. And the fact that, according to ESPN
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  Speaker 1: and Joe Modele on Facebook, Columbus didn't even vie for
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  Speaker 1: a w NBA team.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see that?
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  Speaker 1: Did you see the Columbus didn't even throw their hat
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  Speaker 1: in the ring and try to get a w NBA team.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have Why not? Why not? Especially after after
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  Speaker 1: apparently Mayor Ginther in a State of the City speech
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  Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, talked about making Columbus the
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  Speaker 1: preeminent place for women's sports.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't we go after the WNBA?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Cleveland has a pro basketball team, like an
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  Speaker 3: NBA team.
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  Speaker 2: They got basketball, don't they got? They got football? Kind of?
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean why wouldn't Columbus go after that.
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  Speaker 1: We've we've got the women's volleyball team. Do we still
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  Speaker 1: have the women's football team? Are they still around?
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  Speaker 2: I can't. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even know there was one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I forget the name of them. They were I
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  Speaker 1: think semi pro if I'm not mistaken. But we've got,
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  Speaker 1: you know, soccer, which in spite of my instincts, has
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  Speaker 1: taken off and has become a major sport in this city.
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  Speaker 2: And of course the Blue Jackets.
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  Speaker 1: But you would think if you said we're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: this a preeminent place for women's sports, we would have
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  Speaker 1: gone after a WNBA franchise.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the NBA is getting more popular. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: not gonna make money for a while, but it's there's
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  Speaker 3: more and more people watching it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm I'm baffled by all of that.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they knew they couldn't use their hot dog vending
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  Speaker 3: machines after the game.
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  Speaker 1: If the game went on too late, could be because
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  Speaker 1: after ten o'clock, you know you can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: Shut it down. Yeah, I gotta shut it down. I
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  Speaker 2: got to keep America safe.
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  Speaker 3: It's thinking outside the ball at sixty.
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  Speaker 1: Seven vetos all in all by our governor. And he
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  Speaker 1: waited until like, what was it eleven forty two last night?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Eleven.
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  Speaker 1: You know he's not normally up that late. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not making fun of him. I'm just saying, look,
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  Speaker 1: he's twenty years older than I am. You know he's
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  Speaker 1: not normally up that late. But again, I say, we
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  Speaker 1: harken back to COVID every day at two o'clock, wanting
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  Speaker 1: to get on your television.
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  Speaker 2: He enjoys. He enjoys the spotlight, He enjoys the anticipation.
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  Speaker 2: He enjoys.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's standing around in the room going, I wonder what
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  Speaker 1: Mike Dwine is doing. And he showed us that again
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  Speaker 1: last night. As far as I'm concerned, well, maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: just me.
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  Speaker 3: If he has a great speaker that was like passionate
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  Speaker 3: to listen to. But those COVID briefings were an hour,
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  Speaker 3: they were fifty eight minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Of fifty six of those were about his.
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  Speaker 3: Necktime nothing, and then the last minute he'd be like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: we're closing this blah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't I don't get a lot of this.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't get a lot of what what uh
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  Speaker 1: ah what he chose to delete from this budget because
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  Speaker 1: it flies in the face of the kind of principles,
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  Speaker 1: practices and uh and and basically, you know, moral positions
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  Speaker 1: that got him elected to office in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: Where we're talking to Senate or or the state House,
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  Speaker 1: what he claimed to be does not walk hand in
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  Speaker 1: hand with what we see in these vetos as far
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  Speaker 1: as I'm concerned. But you're welcome to disagree. A two
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  Speaker 1: one nine eighty six, A two one DOUBLEUTV and Bob,
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  Speaker 1: you're on six ten double UTV and high.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Chuck, you know I won't got to get off
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  Speaker 4: point because you were talking, why doesn't Columbus have a
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  Speaker 4: w NBA team. We used to have a professional women's
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  Speaker 4: basketball Well, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Saying why don't we have it, I'm just saying, look,
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  Speaker 1: there was one up for grabs and Columbus didn't even
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  Speaker 1: bother to throw.
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  Speaker 2: It's had in the ring. We let it go to
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland instead.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they're looking at what was twenty or twenty years ago,
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  Speaker 4: when you know, they did have one and they didn't
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  Speaker 4: make any money that Katie there was a fun phenom
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  Speaker 4: from Lancaster.
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  Speaker 2: Her name was Katie Smith.
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  Speaker 4: Katie Smith. She played on that team for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, if the women's basketball team at Ohio State would
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  Speaker 1: have maintained its prominence back in the late eighties early nineties,
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  Speaker 1: everybody was talking about the Ohio State Buckeyes. They're women's
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  Speaker 1: basketball team. Nancy Darsh's coach, Katie Smith came along. We
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  Speaker 1: couldn't stop. But Ohio State University, typical of their arrogance,
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  Speaker 1: got upset with the media. They wanted us to stop
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  Speaker 1: calling them the Lady Bucks. The Lady Bucks was a
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  Speaker 1: listener friendly name for that team. They wanted them referred
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  Speaker 1: to as the Ohio State University women's basketball team, which
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  Speaker 1: took all the familiarity out of it and the prominence
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  Speaker 1: began to decline.
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  Speaker 2: That was a mouthful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a mistake. Though everybody loved the Lady Bucks.
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  Speaker 1: We all talked about the Lady Bucks. But when they
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  Speaker 1: said don't call them the Lady Bucks, it just died out.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know they snuck that one in there. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I always consider them the lady Bucks, and now I
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  Speaker 4: am what a biggot.
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  Speaker 2: We'll put it in your bobby.
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  Speaker 4: The reason I called was I just wanted to say,
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  Speaker 4: you can turn on the Hoover sound now, because that's
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  Speaker 4: what's gonna happen with that unclaimed fund, is that they
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  Speaker 4: just kicked open a big door. They took a one
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  Speaker 4: eighth of that fund already, and once they come knocking,
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  Speaker 4: once they're gonna get their foot in the door, it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be a big yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I told you earlier, if you were listening
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  Speaker 1: to me in Mark this afternoon, I said, Mike Dwaine
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  Speaker 1: is a magician because he has actually put me on
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  Speaker 1: the same side as Mark Dan, which I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: could ever happen.
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  Speaker 4: But I heard you say that. And I don't know
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  Speaker 4: who Mark Dan is.
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  Speaker 1: For attorney former attorney general here in the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: He is a Democrat. He is he is a left
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  Speaker 1: of center Democrat, and uh, we don't agree on very much,
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  Speaker 1: but on this I have a feeling he'll be the
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  Speaker 1: first to file suit. And I think he's exactly right
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  Speaker 1: to do it. This is not the state's money to distribute,
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  Speaker 1: to play with, to decide about. It does not belong
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  Speaker 1: to them. In their own documents establishing the Unclaim Funds,
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  Speaker 1: it says they will hold it indefinitely for the citizens
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio. They they didn't. They didn't change the rules.
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  Speaker 1: They just decided to change what they did with it.
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  Speaker 4: Not enough to steal our money legally. Now they're going
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  Speaker 4: to try to steal it illegal.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I don't think it'll I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it'll be allowed to happen. And then all of these
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  Speaker 1: people that are licking their chops right now about building
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  Speaker 1: their new arenas and stadiums using this money to back it,
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  Speaker 1: are going to have to find a new game plan.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if you recall when nationwide arena
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  Speaker 1: was being debated here in the city.
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  Speaker 2: It failed.
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  Speaker 1: It took it to the voters twice and it failed,
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  Speaker 1: and they said, well, what's plan B. And they said
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  Speaker 1: there is no plan B. Well, blow and behold there.
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  Speaker 2: Was a plan B.
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  Speaker 4: Oh they did that to the arena downtown. Yes, they
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  Speaker 4: get it one way or the other.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And then once we said we don't want it, and
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  Speaker 1: they came up with a plan B to build it,
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  Speaker 1: and then what happened, Your Franklin County commissioners found a
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  Speaker 1: way to make it yours anyway. So I mean, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's so silly, Bob. I appreciate you, buddy, thanks very
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  Speaker 1: much for the call. The smoke and mirrors thing is offensive.
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  Speaker 1: And while as a general rule I did not dislike
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  Speaker 1: Michael Coleman when he was mayor of Columbus, one of
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  Speaker 1: the most blatant things he ever did as far as
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  Speaker 1: up policy here in the City of Columbus was when
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  Speaker 1: we were voting, as being asked to vote to bring
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  Speaker 1: in the casino gambling and the language for the establishment
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  Speaker 1: of the casino here in the City of Columbus specified
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  Speaker 1: longitude and latitude. It was going down there by the arena,
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  Speaker 1: so it passed. Then Michael Coleman, Mayor of Columbus, said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what was going down there, which is
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  Speaker 1: why we had to vote a second time to put
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  Speaker 1: it out on my beloved west side. My question is,
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  Speaker 1: how can you be the mayor of the city that's
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  Speaker 1: trying to bring in this casino and not know where
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  Speaker 1: it's being placed. But we were asked to believe that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't know it was going to be down
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  Speaker 2: here by the arena. That's not the appropriate place. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: we keep on swallowing it. That's the worst part.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even that the powers that be do what
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  Speaker 1: they do, is that we of the voters continue to
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  Speaker 1: swallow
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  Speaker 2: Them garbage and believe it is reality.