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Senator Jon Husted · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salitations. Welcome my friends to another edition of The
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten double the 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. We get one hour together, which means
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  Speaker 1: I talk really faster. You must listen even faster. My
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  Speaker 1: number eight two one nine eight eighty six A two
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  Speaker 1: one WTV in or one eight hundred six ten dou WUTV.
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  Speaker 1: And during the course of this next hour, I've got
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  Speaker 1: some thoughts on the McCoy Park, the Haslim family, and
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  Speaker 1: women's soccer in the city of Columbus. We'll get into that.
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  Speaker 1: Also the announcement from the city Attorney zat Clin regarding
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  Speaker 1: a daycare being shut down. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: heard about it. Saw It's not what you expect considering
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  Speaker 1: recent headlines, but I will share that with you. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: you'll you'll raise an eyebrow. I think right now though,
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  Speaker 1: Right now, though, you get a guest. Got somebody standing
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  Speaker 1: by Wright and wants to talk to you. A very
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  Speaker 1: important guest, well he thinks he is. No, I a
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  Speaker 1: very important guest, somebody I've had a chance to talk
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  Speaker 1: to many many times over the I don't know the
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  Speaker 1: last ten twelve years, and he always puts a smile
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  Speaker 1: on my face. He's always pleasure to talk to. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to get him on the line right now, John Housted,
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  Speaker 1: are United States Senator? Good afternoons there?
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Chuck? You know, I don't think I'm important.
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  Speaker 2: I just think my job to serve you is important.
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  Speaker 1: Right there, you go, that's the right answer. Are you
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  Speaker 1: are you? Are you enjoying some good weather down there today?
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  Speaker 1: It's beautiful here.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, if I ever get outside, I think
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  Speaker 2: it is nice out there, judging from what looks like
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  Speaker 2: in the wind out the window. But I've been inside
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  Speaker 2: working all day.
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  Speaker 1: I stepped outside during the top of the hour news
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  Speaker 1: and I've got sunshine, blue skies, eighty degrees and the
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  Speaker 1: sound of lawnmowers running. I am in heaven right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's oh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's fun to see all the people though
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  Speaker 2: that do come to Washington to take their spring breaks
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  Speaker 2: and show the kids around, you know, the visit from
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  Speaker 2: the schools and things like that. It's nice to see
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  Speaker 2: them out there. And I think I got a school
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  Speaker 2: group visiting this week, and I look forward to spend
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  Speaker 2: some time with them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to get down there before I
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  Speaker 1: kick off for the cherry blossoms. My entire life I've
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  Speaker 1: heard about. You've got to see the cherry blossoms in
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  Speaker 1: the spring.
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  Speaker 2: They're kind of already passed though you missed them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, I mean I don't have to, don't
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  Speaker 1: do it anyhow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know what though, but look in the two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our nation. It's a great
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  Speaker 2: place to come. You just take that walk. It's about
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  Speaker 2: a six mile walk, but you can round trip. But
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  Speaker 2: you walk from past the Supreme Court, down past the Capitol,
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  Speaker 2: down past the reflecting pool that has Grant, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Grant up on this enormous statue riding his riding the horse,
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  Speaker 2: and then you walk down the mall and then you
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  Speaker 2: see the Washington Monument, and then you walk past the
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  Speaker 2: World War Two Memorial, and then you head down to
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  Speaker 2: the Lincoln Memorial and you can take offshoot to that
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  Speaker 2: and go see others. But that is that makes you
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  Speaker 2: proud of the country when you walk down there and
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  Speaker 2: you see all that.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine tomorrow in Washington, d C. I don't know, well,
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  Speaker 1: will there be any visible any visible evidence of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it's April fifteenth, that it's tax day, that
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  Speaker 1: taxes are such a contentious issue right now in this country.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you want to know something, tomorrow, Tomorrow is a
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  Speaker 2: better tax day than most because we passed the Working
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  Speaker 2: Family Tax Cut Act, and the average refund is showing
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  Speaker 2: to be thirty five hundred dollars higher than it was
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  Speaker 2: last year. And you know, no tax on tips, no
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  Speaker 2: tax on overtime, increasing the standard deduction for small businesses,
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  Speaker 2: six thousand dollars, deduction for senior citizens, child tax credit
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  Speaker 2: of twenty two hundred dollars for working families, you know,
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  Speaker 2: adoption tax credit, which is you know, important to me
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  Speaker 2: as an adopted kid. But this is going to end up.
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  Speaker 2: This is a big deal, a real, a real tax cut.
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  Speaker 2: For an average family making eighty thousand dollars a year,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to see over a five thousand dollars tax
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  Speaker 2: benefit than what they would have had if we hadn't
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  Speaker 2: passed it.
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  Speaker 1: And the support for this, well, I mean these tax cuts,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, you did get some help from
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the aisle, which I hope that
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  Speaker 1: is a.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no. We did not get any help from them.
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  Speaker 1: Did you not get a couple of the.
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  Speaker 2: Vote in fifty No? No, no, we had fifty votes
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  Speaker 2: only and JD. Vance had to come in and break
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  Speaker 2: the tie. And that's how we got this done.
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  Speaker 1: For some man, I was giving a couple of Democrats credit.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we welcome them to join us in trying to
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  Speaker 2: give tax relief to people, you know, because look, I
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of people that are like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're just gonna the government should do more for people.
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  Speaker 2: And how does the government do more for people? It
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  Speaker 2: takes their money and then decides how to send it back.
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  Speaker 2: But in this particular case, it's like, just keep your
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  Speaker 2: money and you decide what's best for you and your family.
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  Speaker 2: More of that attitude, the better we are, because individual
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  Speaker 2: families will make better decisions about how to spend the
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  Speaker 2: money to meet their priorities than the government will.
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  Speaker 1: Always. This is our Senator John Husted joining me right
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  Speaker 1: now on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've had a lot of observing to do
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  Speaker 1: as you can kind of jumped into this role here
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  Speaker 1: mid season and try to get caught up. You've been
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  Speaker 1: very active and you didn't just sit down and watch,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm proud of you for that. But I wonder
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  Speaker 1: the conversations about taxes that that occur, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: when it's just a couple of people sitting over a table,
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  Speaker 1: is it Is it more the mentality in the Senate,
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  Speaker 1: specifically the Congress overall that we need to work within
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  Speaker 1: the tax system to try to make it better, or
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  Speaker 1: is there any talk whatsoever about we just need a
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  Speaker 1: better system of taxing because this is getting too complicated
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  Speaker 1: for the people to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there's a variety of that. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: want you want lower taxes, you want to have simplicity,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but it's really hard to get consensus on
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  Speaker 2: any of that stuff when you, like I said, you
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  Speaker 2: only get fifty people that are willing to make to
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  Speaker 2: make the vote to get that done. And and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's complicated, and you know, and and but it just
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  Speaker 2: depends on who you trust. You trust the people to
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  Speaker 2: keep more of their money to spend and safe on
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  Speaker 2: their priorities, or do you do you want to give
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  Speaker 2: more resources to government for the government to make the decision.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: And that thirty three hundred dollars average is nothing to
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  Speaker 1: sneeze at because it is an average that means that
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  Speaker 1: quite a few people in this country will be getting
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  Speaker 1: more than that with all these credits and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know that we talk about all the
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  Speaker 1: bad the gasoline prices and so forth. They're kind of
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  Speaker 1: that kind of infusion of funds into your pocket right
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  Speaker 1: now in our history could be a big deal toward
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  Speaker 1: helping families survive comfortably and move into hopefully.
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  Speaker 2: Better they can afford things, so they can afford things,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I ask. I went and visited a group.
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  Speaker 2: I went and visited a group at a restaurant of
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  Speaker 2: people who were restaurant workers. And I met a pizza
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  Speaker 2: delivery driver. You know, he uses his car to do
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  Speaker 2: his work, and he said, yeah, with the extra money
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  Speaker 2: I'm saving on overtime and no tax on tips, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be able to pay off my car. A
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  Speaker 2: big deal. And then I met a young lady who
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  Speaker 2: was going to college or had just graduated from college,
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  Speaker 2: and she was going to work in the restaurant industry,
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  Speaker 2: and she's like, yeah, the amount of money I save
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  Speaker 2: will help me pay off my college loan. All of
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  Speaker 2: those things matter to people and in some aspect of
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  Speaker 2: their lives, and it's just, you know's that's great. I
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  Speaker 2: just love the fact that hey being here casting a
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  Speaker 2: vote for the working family tax cut plan is making
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  Speaker 2: those lives a little bit easier because they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be able to keep more of what they earn. And
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  Speaker 2: these are you know. I talked to a another young
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  Speaker 2: man up in Finley when I was up there, and
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  Speaker 2: he's going to work fifty five hours a week and overtime.
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  Speaker 2: He said, Look, I'm working fifty five hours a week
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  Speaker 2: over time the whole year, and the amount of money
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  Speaker 2: that I save extra is going to go towards the
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  Speaker 2: down payment on a house that I'm going to buy.
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  Speaker 2: All of those things are choices that people get to
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  Speaker 2: make with their own money when you let them keep
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  Speaker 2: more of it.
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  Speaker 1: That's an important phrase right there. Get to make, not
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  Speaker 1: have to make, not dream of making. They get the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to finally do it. And that's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you can spend it on whatever you want.
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  Speaker 2: You can. You can blow it on silly things. I
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  Speaker 2: guess too, but that's your choice. People that but typically
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  Speaker 2: people who work for their money don't blow it on
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  Speaker 2: silly things. They they they're just taking care of the essentials.
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  Speaker 1: So what else do you have cooking? What are you
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  Speaker 1: working on? I mean, we're still going into the second
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  Speaker 1: quarter here. What is on the horizon for Senator John Houston,
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  Speaker 1: anything you're.
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  Speaker 2: Looking forward to, Well, you know, we still have to
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  Speaker 2: fund the Department of Homeland Security, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be doing that next week, I hope of because the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats blocked our funding for border control and funding border
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  Speaker 2: control and customs enforcement, right, so they wanted to cut
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  Speaker 2: off funding, essentially defund the police on anything that has
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  Speaker 2: to do with immigration. So we're going to do a
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  Speaker 2: budget reconciliation bill focus seen on funding border enforcement and
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  Speaker 2: immigration enforcement for three and a half for the rest
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  Speaker 2: basically for the rest of the Trump presidency, because the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are never going to help us with it. And
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  Speaker 2: I've watched it all happen with sanctuary cities, millions of
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  Speaker 2: people coming across the border, real crime, more drugs, more
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  Speaker 2: human trafficking, more violent crimes. We see it in the
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  Speaker 2: news every single week from people who are in this
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  Speaker 2: country illegally, who've committed crimes, who are doing bad things
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  Speaker 2: to the people in our state and across this country,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to fund the ability to deport the people,
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  Speaker 2: to find them, get them out of our country when
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  Speaker 2: they've committed these crimes and violations. And Democrats are trying
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  Speaker 2: to block us. We're going to get this done. Not
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  Speaker 2: only we're going to get it done for this fiscal year,
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  Speaker 2: but we're going to fund it for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the Trump presidency. That is an important thing to do
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  Speaker 2: because you're whether it's Lake and Riley, who's the nursing
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  Speaker 2: student who was murdered by an illegal from Venezuela who
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  Speaker 2: was released because of sanctuary city policies, or the sanctuary
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  Speaker 2: city policies that are doing this all over the country.
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  Speaker 2: There was a young woman who was murdered in Chicago
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  Speaker 2: just a few weeks ago, a veteran, eighty three year
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  Speaker 2: old veteran who was pushed out in front of a
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  Speaker 2: subway car. All all of these people were killed, murdered
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  Speaker 2: by people who are in this country illegally, and the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats don't want to allow us to fund the very
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement officials hunt that tracked them down and deport them.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to get that done.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking with my grandson about a week and
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  Speaker 1: a half ago about the whole immigration issue and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that I use the word obstructionist when I was
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Democrats in Congress, because I explained to
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  Speaker 1: him this is like ordering a beautiful eight course meal
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  Speaker 1: and a nice cold pepsi to go with it, and
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  Speaker 1: they bring the meal to the table and it's gorgeous,
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  Speaker 1: and they bring you a coke and you throw the
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  Speaker 1: whole meal on the floor because you wanted pepsi and
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  Speaker 1: not coke. You threw that whole beautiful meal away. That's
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  Speaker 1: essentially what the dim We want ice to not wear
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  Speaker 1: a mask and we want and since we can't get
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  Speaker 1: our way on this, we're not funding anything. And that's
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  Speaker 1: just stupid. The business the safety of the people of
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  Speaker 1: the country should be the priority.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and one last thing, Chuck, I know we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to go, but but how about how about the
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  Speaker 2: amazing artemis too, you know, clean the circleing the mood.
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  Speaker 2: And Ohio had such a big part of this. We
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  Speaker 2: had fifty seven Ohio companies that contributed everything from the
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  Speaker 2: propulsion system to the heat shield that had to withstand
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  Speaker 2: five thousand degrees fahrenheit heat to everything from valves, fasteners,
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  Speaker 2: fittings that came through precision manufacturing, our state software and
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  Speaker 2: you know all of those kinds of things, companies from
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  Speaker 2: around our state doing that stuff. Plus the contribution of
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  Speaker 2: NASA gland up by Cleveland that did testing. There was
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  Speaker 2: testing done up in Sandusky, So Ohio. Even though we're
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  Speaker 2: not the place that launched from, we are the brains
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  Speaker 2: in many ways behind that mission. And that's a that's
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  Speaker 2: a great thing to be proud of as Ohioans.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what's the genesis of the whole? I mean, is
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  Speaker 1: it simply because it's our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: Was this a committee decision? Was this a directive from
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  Speaker 1: the president? Why? Why did we do it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've been we've been looking, you know, the new
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  Speaker 2: NASA administrator, you know, had had big connections to some
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  Speaker 2: of the things that SpaceX was doing and and look
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  Speaker 2: at this is this is an important part of the
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  Speaker 2: future of you know, leading in space because it's it's
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  Speaker 2: the next frontier, right, But it's always the innovations that
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  Speaker 2: come from this that allow us to do the next,
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  Speaker 2: the next thing. But you know, there's spaces Space is
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  Speaker 2: going to be an important part of our communications network.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be an important part of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: our future. And America has always led and Ohio has
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  Speaker 2: been a big part of the brains behind us. From
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  Speaker 2: when the Right Brothers did the did the engineering and
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  Speaker 2: design of the first flight, to John Glenn doing the
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  Speaker 2: first orbit, to Neil Armstrong being the first person on
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  Speaker 2: the Moon to what we're contributing to this. Ohio always
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  Speaker 2: plays a big thing because we are the heart of
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  Speaker 2: it all and we're we're the brains behind the space program.
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  Speaker 1: It gave me the warm fuzzies. I felt like I
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  Speaker 1: was six years old again watching Apollo, and it felt
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  Speaker 1: good to see us back in the position of prominence.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was the the I always like when you saw
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  Speaker 2: those photos, it's like brought to you by your local
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  Speaker 2: STEM class, Right, These these are the These are the
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  Speaker 2: scientists and engineers that that allowed all this to happen.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty amazing, you Like, I think they the reentry
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  Speaker 2: is at like twenty four thousand miles per hour or
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  Speaker 2: something like that, and by the time they splashed down,
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  Speaker 2: they're going nineteen So I'm like, wow, just pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: It definitely was Senator John Houston, you know, I always
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  Speaker 1: love talking to you. Anytime you are in town, feel
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  Speaker 1: free to stop by the studio. I'd love to see
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  Speaker 1: you anytime.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely thanks John.
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  Speaker 1: And you know I wish you well. Thanks for your
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  Speaker 1: time this afternoon.