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Drivers ED and old cell phones · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Eight to one WTVN or eight hundred and six to
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  Speaker 1: ten double UTV in. If you still still use the
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  Speaker 1: toll free, I don't know of anybody who does, just
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  Speaker 1: because everything is you know, most people use cell phones now,
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  Speaker 1: so everything is free around the country. Right, there's no
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  Speaker 1: cell phone company that charges for long distances.
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  Speaker 2: There no maybe when they first came out, I can't
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  Speaker 2: even imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Well, when they first came out, they charge you by
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  Speaker 1: the minute. I was selling cell phones when they first came.
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  Speaker 2: In, the big brick ones.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, oh boy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well I met the first small ones.
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  Speaker 1: We were getting twenty five hundred dollars for a phone
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  Speaker 1: that weighed eight pounds. You carried it in a bag.
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  Speaker 1: It had about thirty minutes of battery life, and it
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  Speaker 1: had one half what of transmitting power, and you paid
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  Speaker 1: seventy five cents a minute, twenty five cents off peak,
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  Speaker 1: which was seven pm to six am.
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  Speaker 2: So I was, hey, how's it going. I'll be, I'll be.
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  Speaker 1: That's all you could do. That's all you could do.
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  Speaker 1: It would cost you a fortune every month because your
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  Speaker 1: bill was like thirty dollars just to have the service.
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  Speaker 1: Then you would pay by the minute, and there was
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  Speaker 1: no such thing as texting back then. It was all calls,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, it was. It's incredible what people paid for
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  Speaker 1: back then.
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  Speaker 2: This is like two towers in the country that it
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  Speaker 2: pinged off of.
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  Speaker 1: Or probably, I don't know, probably there weren't a lot
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  Speaker 1: of towers. And on top of the fact there weren't
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  Speaker 1: a lot of towers, it just there was such the
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  Speaker 1: phones like these, these are like three watts of transmission power.
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  Speaker 1: Sure those were one half of one watt. That's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely crazy. But at the same time, I was also
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  Speaker 1: selling what we called our PC sixty three hundred, which
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  Speaker 1: was a monochrome monitor, Amber monochrome monitor, or you could
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  Speaker 1: get green if you want it. And it was a
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  Speaker 1: four eighty six machine. That's all. It was all it was.
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  Speaker 1: And people were paying three thousand dollars for those. And
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  Speaker 1: now look VCRs came out. It was two thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: to buy a VCR.
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  Speaker 2: See I remember my dad's saying when I was a
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  Speaker 2: little baby, they would rent a VCR.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I think I would do that.
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  Speaker 2: Buy one. You could rent one.
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  Speaker 1: I would go over to rent a center for like
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  Speaker 1: six dollars a night and rent a VHS player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they were super expensive.
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  Speaker 1: I get.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, DVD players with the same way. Flat screens
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  Speaker 1: were the same way. It's funny that all of the
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  Speaker 1: crap that we really don't need has really come down
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  Speaker 1: as far as what it cost you. And all of
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  Speaker 1: the survival things go up. The gas you need to
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  Speaker 1: get to work goes up, the water you need to
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  Speaker 1: bathe yourself and flush goes up. The electricity that keeps
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  Speaker 1: your home light, the natural gas that keeps your home warm,
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  Speaker 1: those all go up. But all of the garbage that
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  Speaker 1: we don't need that comes down.
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  Speaker 2: My neighbor had a Beta Max.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I never had a Beta Max.
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  Speaker 2: You would go to the local videos storre to rent movies.
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  Speaker 2: They had one section that was Beta Max and that
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  Speaker 2: was like eight eight of them, and then that went
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  Speaker 2: away real quick.
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  Speaker 1: And Beta Max was superior. The video was superior. Hs Yep,
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  Speaker 1: it was just bad marketing. It was bad marketing. Sony
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  Speaker 1: was like Apple back then. Sony exclusively had Beta Max.
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  Speaker 2: I I one of the reasons I read this so
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  Speaker 2: I'm not making it up just to make a joke.
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  Speaker 2: One of the big reasons that VHS took off and
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  Speaker 2: won that wore They used to make adult movies and
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  Speaker 2: only put them on VHS, so that'll do it too.
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  Speaker 2: That pushed it over the edge.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that had a lot to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: Plus the VHS people, you know, they took the Microsoft route.
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  Speaker 1: They just made themselves so accessible. Everything was available except
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  Speaker 1: for you know what Sony had control over. And there
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  Speaker 1: was just so much variety out there in VHS that
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  Speaker 1: nobody went with the Beta Max and Beta Max continue
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  Speaker 1: to cost more than the HS until its demise. Quality
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  Speaker 1: it was better what we have now do The DVD players,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, those are those are our most archaic At
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  Speaker 1: this point, people don't really you don't go out and
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  Speaker 1: buy a DVD player. And remember Blu Ray came in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that was a big deal and boom it's gone.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody talks about Blu Ray anymore.
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  Speaker 2: The were starting to buy all physical media though, because
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  Speaker 2: they're starting to re release movies, especially or added it.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm trying to buy a bunch of physical media
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  Speaker 2: just because of that.
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  Speaker 1: Especially the stuff you know they couldn't get it. I
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  Speaker 1: would love to find like an original DVD pressing of
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  Speaker 1: Blazing Saddles, right, because I guarantee you whatever passes for
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  Speaker 1: blazing saddles on streaming services is going to have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff cut out. And that's sad. But we
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  Speaker 1: are we I don't know, we keep going backwards. The
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  Speaker 1: more the more knowledge and freedom we allegedly have, the
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  Speaker 1: more restricted we are on what's available to us. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't don't necessarily care for that either. They're now
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  Speaker 1: we're talking right before the end of his show, and
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  Speaker 1: then I think it was Crumbly or maybe it was
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  Speaker 1: Ugino in the six o'clock news talking about the driver's
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  Speaker 1: ed requirements and that they're adding through the budget. I
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  Speaker 1: take exception to the fact that somehow, some way the
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  Speaker 1: legislature managed to remove the high school drivers at which
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about months ago, which I think is
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  Speaker 1: a brilliant idea to return. There's all kinds of stuff
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  Speaker 1: that schools used to teach. Now stick with me here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean, I don't mean shell it you old
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  Speaker 1: over gay, but I know I'm going to I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: shll it, old old guy when reading writing and arithmetic
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  Speaker 1: or the goal, when we did things like industrial arts
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  Speaker 1: and home economics and drivers at in our schools, people
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  Speaker 1: knew how to balance check books and household budgets. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't have foreclosure crises. If something broken in your house,
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  Speaker 1: you could fix it. If you didn't have a house,
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  Speaker 1: you could build it. We had rightful teams and schools,
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  Speaker 1: and way on back, we had kids take their little
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  Speaker 1: twenty two to school with them and go squirrel hunting afterward,
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  Speaker 1: rabbit hunting. There were no drive by shootings. We have
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  Speaker 1: decayed as people, and the more we progress, allegedly, the
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  Speaker 1: more we have regressed. And I just I wanted. I
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  Speaker 1: want to say this because I know we've got a
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  Speaker 1: few members of the legislature that do listen. We need
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying I want. I'm saying we need drivers
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  Speaker 1: education back in our state schools. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: it could. How do you become you had any idea
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  Speaker 1: how to become a member of the board of Education,
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  Speaker 1: the state board of education, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know, can you?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it is at the point position
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  Speaker 1: or I have no clue. I've never looked at the
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  Speaker 1: state level before.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know a local you can run.
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  Speaker 1: But if we need to, if we need to get
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  Speaker 1: in there and handle that and start putting people on
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  Speaker 1: the board of education at the state level to begin
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  Speaker 1: pushing this stuff, pushing the governor, pushing the legislature. Then
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe that needs to be a target because
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  Speaker 1: the smarter we allegedly are, the dumber are the things
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  Speaker 1: that we do.
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  Speaker 2: What was the reasoning for taking it out. I don't
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  Speaker 2: understand taking it out because it just seemed like a
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  Speaker 2: normal thing. I was a kid. Everybody took it.
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  Speaker 1: It was Bill Young was my classroom teacher, and uh
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  Speaker 1: and we had you know, the chairs that we sat
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  Speaker 1: in the classroom had four buttons. There was like a
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  Speaker 1: little console thing and you had to answer questions. There
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  Speaker 1: were movies and you learn the lessons and then the
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  Speaker 1: movie will go and it would say, now what should
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  Speaker 1: you do? And you had to pick your ABC or
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  Speaker 1: D on your little console thing. That's how you took tests,
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  Speaker 1: and it was to show that you were actually learning
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  Speaker 1: what you were supposed to do. It was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a semester long, so you had nine weeks of that
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  Speaker 1: in the classroom and then after you were done in
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  Speaker 1: the classroom, you did the next nine weeks out on
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  Speaker 1: the road with with the driving instructor. And Sandy was
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  Speaker 1: our driving instructor. The subcontracting company was American Cities. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if there's still around or not. She was nuts.
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  Speaker 1: She took us out on ice. It was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: school year, so it was winter. Took us out on
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  Speaker 1: ice at a park in a parking lot and a
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  Speaker 1: park no cars in there, and had us get it
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  Speaker 1: going as quick as we can, and then she would
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  Speaker 1: slam the brake on on her side of the car
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  Speaker 1: and spin the wheel and calmly tell you, now get
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  Speaker 1: out of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's not a normal tea.
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  Speaker 1: That was wonderful because I'd.
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  Speaker 2: Say it's great because you can learn, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it was very practical because you're going to run
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  Speaker 1: into I just watched the video of an Amazon truck
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  Speaker 1: I think it was, was it KYC one of the
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  Speaker 1: TV stations here in Ohio. The Amazon semi hydro planing
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  Speaker 1: on the freeway. You're going to slide at some point.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing what it feels like and how to act and
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  Speaker 1: react is an important part of driving. And frankly, again
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make that an old folks man. I think
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  Speaker 1: once you have passed a certain point in life, or
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  Speaker 1: once you have had a certain number of rex in
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  Speaker 1: a given period, of time that you ought to have
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  Speaker 1: to take driver's tests as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I will use an example of my dad who's
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  Speaker 2: he's eighty six now. For the past twenty five years
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  Speaker 2: he's been saying, I think they should make me to
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  Speaker 2: a driver's say yes, cause you don't. Maybe I think
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  Speaker 2: I'm the best driver in the world, and I might
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  Speaker 2: drive off a bridge. I don't know if I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, bless their hearts. But when I am
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  Speaker 1: trying to get to work it is a forty five
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  Speaker 1: mile an hour road and I only got one lane,
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  Speaker 1: and the person in front of me is eighty six
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  Speaker 1: years old and they're doing twenty five. You're not road
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  Speaker 1: worthy anymore. Bless you. I love you seriously, I mean it.
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  Speaker 1: I hopefully God will allow me to be your age
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  Speaker 1: one day. But impeding the flow of traffic is actually
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  Speaker 1: a ticket of ball offence. And this going twenty and
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  Speaker 1: thirty miles an hour under the speed limit stuff. I'm
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  Speaker 1: seeing that way too often, and it's either old people
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  Speaker 1: or here let me get in trouble again. It's a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of people that came from someplace where there were
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  Speaker 1: no paved roads, and they don't know what the hell
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  Speaker 1: they're doing on our roads, and they are they're making
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  Speaker 1: it very I had the last two days as I
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  Speaker 1: come here. Every day I come down the street, a
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  Speaker 1: residential street, which is a one way street. It empties
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  Speaker 1: on to Broad Street, Okay, which is three lanes eastbound,
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  Speaker 1: three lanes westbound. You can turn left or you can
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  Speaker 1: turn right. The last two days, somebody's been in front
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  Speaker 1: of me in the right hand lane of this one
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  Speaker 1: way street waiting to turn left. I could have turned
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  Speaker 1: and been to the traffic light and turned again a
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  Speaker 1: bit on my way here, but they're waiting to turn
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  Speaker 1: left from the right hand side. Had they gone to
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  Speaker 1: high school, drivers said they would know better than that.
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  Speaker 1: On the way home from here last night, I turned
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  Speaker 1: on the Fisher Road up here and I got let
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  Speaker 1: me turn to remember where this happened. The car was
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  Speaker 1: in the left turn lane approaching I seventy, but then
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  Speaker 1: just kept going through the left turn lane and kept
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  Speaker 1: going straight, and so I, you know, I think I'm
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  Speaker 1: passing a car that's could have turned it, and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't turn they and then then as we continue they
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  Speaker 1: are in a straight lane and in front of me,
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  Speaker 1: and they turned left from the straight lane at the
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  Speaker 1: next intersection. They would not be doing that had they
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  Speaker 1: passed high school semester long driver's head. Members of the legislature,
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  Speaker 1: I call upon you make this happen. This is a
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  Speaker 1: matter of my convenience and your convenience. This is a
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  Speaker 1: matter of public safety. This is a matter of economics
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  Speaker 1: due to insurance costs rising with the more rex we have.
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  Speaker 1: This is a matter of not bringing tragedy to the
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  Speaker 1: people of the state of Ohio by allowing somebody they
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  Speaker 1: love to be severely injured or even killed in a
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  Speaker 1: traffic accident caused by a moron who probably shouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: been on the road in the first place. And I think,
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  Speaker 1: quite frankly, that is worth your legislative time. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like a lottery or anything, but I think
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  Speaker 1: that's where that represent the people go do something that
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  Speaker 1: handles the business of the people, that helps the people.
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  Speaker 1: Am I asking too much? I don't know. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 3: Hi, how you doing, huck?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I feel kind of grumpy right now.
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  Speaker 3: That's all right. If you've driven within the city limits,
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  Speaker 3: you have a right to be grumpy.
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  Speaker 1: It's getting it is getting really bad. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: anecdotal anymore. This it's getting really bad in this city.
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  Speaker 3: No, yeah, it's real bad.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I did, like you, I took my driving courses and
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  Speaker 3: stuff when I was in high school. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: they throve four of us, well three to four of
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  Speaker 3: us in a car with the instructor, you know, after
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  Speaker 3: we did our classroom work, and yeah, we'd learned how
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  Speaker 3: to drive. Either we started out in a in the
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  Speaker 3: parking lot and then worked our way out onto the
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  Speaker 3: road and then onto the freeway. And that's how we learned. Now,
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  Speaker 3: as far as like when I upset a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people when I say this because.
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  Speaker 4: I drive around the I drive a lot, and it's
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  Speaker 4: like people are getting dumber and dumber and dumber. I'm
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  Speaker 4: a firm believer that you should have to in order
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  Speaker 4: to get your driver's.
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  Speaker 3: License renewed, you should have to take the test.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, every time, Yes, in English?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that way, there is no I didn't know. Well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you've had a driver's license for twenty years.
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  Speaker 3: You've had to take you've had to get it renewed
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  Speaker 3: at least five times. You've had to take a driver's
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  Speaker 3: test every time. You know the laws and because to
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  Speaker 3: me people, I mean, how many times are you sitting
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  Speaker 3: light turns dreamed for you and you've got three cars
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  Speaker 3: going the opposite direction? You know they don't stop for
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  Speaker 3: the red light, They just keep going four way stop
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  Speaker 3: sign or stop sign period that people don't care they're
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  Speaker 3: in such a hurry. Well, you know what if you
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  Speaker 3: have if you have points on your license, I'm just
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  Speaker 3: I just believe that in order to get your license
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  Speaker 3: renewed each and every time, you should have to go
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  Speaker 3: take a driving test to come in with a slip
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  Speaker 3: saying you've passed it.
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  Speaker 1: Dave, you know what, I'm not going to tell you
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  Speaker 1: you're out of line on that. I really it might
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  Speaker 1: not at this point because of what we're dealing with.
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  Speaker 1: That might not be a bad idea. I appreciate you. Buddy, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: you are coming up next by the way. Last week,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in Hilliard, get off at the Cemetery Road and
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  Speaker 1: you go, you're going westbound on Cemetery. There's a McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: right there. What is that street? Is that that's not avery,
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  Speaker 1: what is that? But anyway, Uh, there's bag of nails
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  Speaker 1: on one side, McDonald's on the other. So I'm going
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  Speaker 1: down and eventually you come to traffic circles, right the
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  Speaker 1: car in front. I mean, we get to the traffic circle.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what it does. Guess what it does? But stop, stop,
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  Speaker 1: dead stop. It's a traffic circle. You're supposed to go
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  Speaker 1: in a circle. Don't stop. Wait, the guy put his
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  Speaker 1: brig and stopped at the traffic circle. And if I
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  Speaker 1: would have rear ended him, guess whose fault it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's always the person behinds. You can't really, that's always
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  Speaker 2: an argument.
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  Speaker 1: You wrote.
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  Speaker 2: You can't win that one. It's always the person that
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  Speaker 2: hits them from behind.
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  Speaker 1: You're the idiot coming to a dead stop at the
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  Speaker 1: traffic circle, and it's my fault if I hit you.
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  Speaker 1: Something very wrong about that.