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Joe Motil Interview · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: And we are back the Power Our on six' TEN
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  Speaker 1: wtv and this morning Hosting Columbus This Morning, news filling
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  Speaker 1: in For Mike, elliot AS i will be again tomorrow And.
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  Speaker 1: THURSDAY i was talking about the McCoy park situation again
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  Speaker 1: And Joe, motill who has run for office here in
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  Speaker 1: The city Of columbus for some, reason can't. WIN i
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Why if we're going to Have democrats. Everywhere
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  Speaker 1: he's the kind of Democrat i'd like to. Have BUT
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  Speaker 1: i was talking to him this morning on the show
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  Speaker 1: about the McCoy park thing and asking, him you, know
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  Speaker 1: everybody's playing, stupid like they forgot that they passed two years.
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  Speaker 1: Ago they passed at a council, meeting this plan to
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  Speaker 1: redevelop this park into something the neighborhood can be proud.
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  Speaker 2: Of, YEAH i. Know and you, know after attending city
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  Speaker 2: council meetings for nearly forty, YEARS i, mean once in
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  Speaker 2: a blue, moon you think maybe council members are going
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  Speaker 2: to take the side of the people instead of the rich and.
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  Speaker 2: Powerful but it just never, feels you know, that regardless
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  Speaker 2: of the overwhelming community opposition to this issue and, others
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  Speaker 2: the majority of council members vote who writes the checks
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  Speaker 2: form and who puts him in. OFFICE i, MEAN i
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  Speaker 2: went to the meeting last, night and the hypocrisy that
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  Speaker 2: came out of the mouths Of harden And bankston And
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  Speaker 2: remy And ross was it was just hard to. STOMACH i,
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  Speaker 2: mean they rightfully Blamed ginther on you, know this behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes backroom deal with Director reese and Director, stevens
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  Speaker 2: the development director In Rerexham, parks with hasms and. Such
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  Speaker 2: but you, know it was just it was it was.
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  Speaker 2: OUTRAGEOUS i, mean led By, harden who he would lead
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  Speaker 2: you to believe that he was cleaning Up ginther's mess
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  Speaker 2: by adding a few bogus amendments to the legislation that
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  Speaker 2: basically already spit in the face of The franklinton And
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  Speaker 2: Southwest Area commission and the say in the city is
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  Speaker 2: A columbus citizens Of. Columbus but you, know he had
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  Speaker 2: four members in his, pocket and you know for the
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  Speaker 2: theft of McCoy park and a twenty five million dollar
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  Speaker 2: Tax beyer. RIPOFF i, mean it was it was just
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  Speaker 2: it just made me, sick and it made a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people. SICK i, MEAN i JUST i just Don't
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  Speaker 2: their lack of integrity shined through last night and they
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  Speaker 2: could have done the right. Thing AND i just, don't you,
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  Speaker 2: KNOW i don't understand how anybody can be so.
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  Speaker 1: Shameless, Well, joe here's the Question i've been asking for
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  Speaker 1: a week, now ever since this was announced as a.
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  Speaker 1: Possibility why? There why that particular piece of. Land ginther
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  Speaker 1: apparently alluded to the fact that it must be, There
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  Speaker 1: it can't be An Why why is McCoy park the
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  Speaker 1: only possible. Location Why Cooper stadium is, dilapidating falling apart decayan,
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  Speaker 1: Over why not?
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  Speaker 2: There, yeah the Reason i'm hearing is they were saying
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  Speaker 2: it was development, ready you, know flat piece of grant,
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  Speaker 2: grass you know. Land there no utilities under it or
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  Speaker 2: anything like. That you, know shovel, ready just go in
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  Speaker 2: there with their bulldozers and shovels and start knocking it
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  Speaker 2: out and building your training. Facility and they also claimed
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  Speaker 2: somehow that it in proximity to The Crew stadium, Too
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  Speaker 2: it was supposed to be kind of. Close but you
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  Speaker 2: know that, again The Southwest Area. Commission i've been working
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  Speaker 2: since twenty twenty three with The city At rex And
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  Speaker 2: Parks department to build this new playground and facility for
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  Speaker 2: those with handicapped needs and, such and for the you,
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  Speaker 2: know the residents in. General.
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  Speaker 1: There i'll tell you again that argument makes no. Sense i'm,
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  Speaker 1: sorry But i'm going to jump in just to say
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  Speaker 1: that argument makes. It you said closer To Cruz. Stadium
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  Speaker 1: that is not coming Down Harbin avenue and turning Through
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  Speaker 1: franklinton to get across Broad street over to the north
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  Speaker 1: side at McKinley to the New Crew. Stadium it is.
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  Speaker 1: NOT i can Leave Cooper, stadium hop on, seventy hit
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  Speaker 1: the three fifteen ramp real, easy and get myself to
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  Speaker 1: That Creuse stadium in less time than going Down Harmon.
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  Speaker 1: Avenue THAT'S. Bs that's another. Lie.
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  Speaker 2: YEP i, agree one hundred. Percent.
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  Speaker 1: YEP i JUST i don't buy. THIS i don't buy.
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  Speaker 1: This there's, Something, joe there's something we don't. Know this
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  Speaker 1: Is Joe motil by the way on Sixth ENABLE. Etv
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  Speaker 1: AND i don't buy any what we're. Hearing and by the,
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  Speaker 1: way is there a? Team is? There there's no guarantee
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  Speaker 1: we're getting a team all this.
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  Speaker 2: TIME i, Think, well, today The Franklin County board Of
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  Speaker 2: commissioners votes on their twenty five million dollar handout for,
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  Speaker 2: this AND i THINK i have a sense that once
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  Speaker 2: the fifty million dollars is, secured that that will make
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  Speaker 2: THE nwsl happy and they'll, probably you, know likely get the.
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  Speaker 1: FRANCHISE I i sent some blood in the water here
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  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty. Seven AND i have to ask, you
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  Speaker 1: do you have any more yard signs? Left because you know.
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  Speaker 2: Them boxed up for historical.
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  Speaker 1: Purposes his own, people his own people have an extreme
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  Speaker 1: distaste for what they have just.
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  Speaker 2: Witnessed and Between harden And, GINTHER i, mean they're both
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  Speaker 2: from the same. Mold if they run against each, other
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter which one of them would get. Elected
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  Speaker 2: we got to have somebody else that that's going to.
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  Speaker 1: Run, oh don't, Forget client will probably Throways had in there.
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  Speaker 1: Too they all want. It they all want. It and you,
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  Speaker 1: know this isn't honestly for, me AND i said this
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  Speaker 1: last night, Too this isn't really Even republican Or democrat
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  Speaker 1: for me. Anymore this is the insiders versus the. Outsiders
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  Speaker 1: you got a whole bunch of people down, there and
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  Speaker 1: their moms worked for, you and you babi sat their,
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  Speaker 1: kids and there's just too much intermingling of too many
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  Speaker 1: personal relationships that exist outside of the governance of the
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  Speaker 1: city that are deciding who governs the. City they all
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  Speaker 1: need to go and we need to replace them with
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of strangers who never knew each.
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  Speaker 2: Other, yeah, yeah it would be. Helpful yeah. Yeah the
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  Speaker 2: one party control here In, columbus And i'm A democrat
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  Speaker 2: lifelong and it just it makes me sick what they
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  Speaker 2: do down. There they don't, Care they don't care about the.
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  Speaker 2: People it's about pandering to the rich and, powerful protecting their.
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  Speaker 2: Investments AND i, mean all you got to do is
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  Speaker 2: look at downtown and compare it to some of the
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  Speaker 2: neighborhoods Around.
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  Speaker 1: Columbus is it a done? Deal? Now do we give
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  Speaker 1: up as the ship? Sunk or is there any pushback
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  Speaker 1: to be?
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  Speaker 2: HAD i you, Know i've heard like some people are
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  Speaker 2: in a right to the commissioner of THE wsl and
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  Speaker 2: and let her know that there isn't the support that
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  Speaker 2: they may think. Is there isn't here In columbus for
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  Speaker 2: this to happen where it's not like they're against women's
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  Speaker 2: soccer professional women's soccer, team but it's against the way
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  Speaker 2: they've done it this backroom deal stealing theft of public.
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  Speaker 2: Parkland you know they're they're being. Made they were made
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of promises last night from The recreation And
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  Speaker 2: parks director and you know And harden and everybody that you, know,
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  Speaker 2: well we're going to find you new. Space you know
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  Speaker 2: they stole public. Parkland you know you. Don't you don't
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  Speaker 2: give away public parkland to the highest. Bidder AND i
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to set a precedence for more to,
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  Speaker 2: come if you, know since they've done.
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  Speaker 1: This, yeah AND i do you know as far as
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  Speaker 1: giving twenty five million dollars to this, EFFORT i you,
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  Speaker 1: Know god bless the Has. On if you've got a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of money and you want to buy sports, teams,
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  Speaker 1: fine go do. It but why if you've got all that,
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  Speaker 1: money and you're making all that, money and you're invested
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  Speaker 1: investing all that, money why do you keep coming back
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  Speaker 1: to the. People cut us, In cut us, in do
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  Speaker 1: The Green Bay packers. Thing cut me in for a
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  Speaker 1: share of the profits generated by what you're asking you
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  Speaker 1: to invest. In then we could, talk but stop taking
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  Speaker 1: my money so you can make.
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  Speaker 2: Money, yeah, well you know they wanted to take total
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  Speaker 2: park two about ten years, ago they wanted to use
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  Speaker 2: it as their training facility that you may or may not.
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  Speaker 2: Recall and you, Know i've been volunteering At tuttle for
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  Speaker 2: thirty four. Years and again they were trying to turn
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  Speaker 2: that into their training, facility and the citizens Of berea
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  Speaker 2: stood up and, said you, know it's been up there,
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  Speaker 2: forever and they raised a holy hell about, it and
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  Speaker 2: for some, reason you, know they discontinued their. Proposal but
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  Speaker 2: they were going to Take Tuttle, park and they, were you,
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  Speaker 2: KNOW oshu was going to use it for innermurals when
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  Speaker 2: The browns weren't down. There and even the city Of
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  Speaker 2: columbus And county was going to have a couple of
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  Speaker 2: offices inside of the new rec center that they were
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  Speaker 2: going to. BUILD i mean, THIS i, mean these proposals
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  Speaker 2: are just. Outrageous some of the stuff that they the
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  Speaker 2: city went to do for these rich and powerful people
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  Speaker 2: that control.
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  Speaker 1: Them, Hey Joe, motil just about a minute. Left let
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  Speaker 1: me ask you real, quick what's the sudden push toward women's.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Andy ginter wants to raise his flag and go
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  Speaker 1: say we love women's, sports we Support when THE wnba
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  Speaker 1: was looking for a. Place AS i, understand the city
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  Speaker 1: Of columbus didn't even throw a hat in the. Ring
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  Speaker 1: what's the sudden need to bring in women's? Sports they.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't AND i actually brought that issue. UP i followed
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  Speaker 2: The Indiana. Fever i'm a Big fever, fan and AND
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  Speaker 2: i was, like you, know WHEN i heard him say,
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  Speaker 2: THAT i, thought, well why aren't you you, know trying
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  Speaker 2: to get an expansion team with THE. Wnba but you,
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  Speaker 2: KNOW i just have a feeling that they're not capable
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  Speaker 2: and you know that of getting a professional sports team
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  Speaker 2: like for, baseball basketball or football because of The browns
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  Speaker 2: and The bengals In ohio. State and so it's about
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  Speaker 2: trying TO i, think Put columbus on the map for,
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  Speaker 2: something you, know and this is a desperate, effort but
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of soccer players and you, know soccer
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  Speaker 2: activity in the city. Now but again it's it's, just you,
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  Speaker 2: know you can't get anything. Else so this is the
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  Speaker 2: second best thing.
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  Speaker 1: Proving that you don't have to be at the same
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  Speaker 1: political stripes to find some common. Ground that was my
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  Speaker 1: talk from this morning With Joe. Motilu you know this,
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  Speaker 1: uh this, week this week is only two days. Old
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  Speaker 1: at this, point and it's already been, very very eventful
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  Speaker 1: With Austin osman, again another member of The Osmon brothers
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  Speaker 1: passing away this. Morning alan was it this, morning this
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  Speaker 1: morning or last, evening which is kind of, sad AND i,
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  Speaker 1: was believe it or. NOT i was listening to The
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  Speaker 1: osman's over the. WEEKEND i like to. Reminisce everybody knows.
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  Speaker 1: That AND i was listening to The Lazy river As
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  Speaker 1: donnie got older that he got that, grid you know
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  Speaker 1: that down but lady we. SAT i was listening to,
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  Speaker 1: that and THEN i went back and listened to To
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  Speaker 1: Yo yo and of Course One Bad, Apple and just
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  Speaker 1: thinking about those times times when The Osmen brothers and
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  Speaker 1: The jackson five that was the big debate who was
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  Speaker 1: better The Osman brothers of The jackson. Five and we
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  Speaker 1: have been losing, them several of them here just in
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  Speaker 1: the last five, years and just makes me want to,
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  Speaker 1: say be good to each. Other we never know what tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Holds AND i know it's fun to get outraged and
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  Speaker 1: make noise, sometimes but be good to each, Other, okay
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  Speaker 1: just because