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WhiteHall City Counsil · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: This, this Whitehall situation, councilman Dixon. They tried last night
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  Speaker 1: to remove him from council again. This is the second
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  Speaker 1: time they failed again they failed by one vote. And
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  Speaker 1: the media reports, and I was discussing this with Zach
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show, the media reports are
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  Speaker 1: not naming the council member who is voting against his removal.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know why. I'm not sure why. I
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  Speaker 1: heard a little bit of what he had to say,
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  Speaker 1: and what he had to say is essentially the same
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  Speaker 1: thing I've been saying you me, Zach Mark. Anybody can
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  Speaker 1: be accused of anything at any time by anyone until
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  Speaker 1: there is action on the accusation, until there is an indictment,
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  Speaker 1: a trial, and a conviction. You are innocent until proven guilty.
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  Speaker 1: That is the basis of the American justice system. Innocent
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  Speaker 1: until proven guilty. This guy has not only not been
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  Speaker 1: proven anything, he has not been formally indicted. The police
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  Speaker 1: arrested him, pseudo arrested him, took him to jail, booked
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  Speaker 1: him in, went before a judge. The judge dismissed the
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  Speaker 1: charges and released him because the prosecutor was completely unprepared.
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  Speaker 1: Because the police department didn't provide the prosecutor with any
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  Speaker 1: information to present at his arraignment, so the prosecutor couldn't say,
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  Speaker 1: here's what he did, and here's why we're asking for
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  Speaker 1: this bail or whatever, because the prosecutor did not have information.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to arrest somebody, especially on heinous charges
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  Speaker 1: such as these, don't you get your ducks in a row?
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  Speaker 1: Where was the grand jury? Where was the normal indictment
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  Speaker 1: leading to the arrest. Honestly, frankly, this seems like a
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  Speaker 1: personal vendetta clown show more than anything else. We're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna harass this guy into quitting because we don't like him,
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  Speaker 1: because we don't want him here. I'm not saying he's innocent.
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  Speaker 1: If he's guilty, hang him high. I will go straight
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  Speaker 1: Clint Eastwood on you. But until he has proven guilty,
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  Speaker 1: the presumption of innocence is exactly that, and it's what
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  Speaker 1: you deserve, and I deserve, and everybody in America deserves.
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  Speaker 1: That's the basis, That is the basis of our system
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  Speaker 1: of justice. Or maybe that's just me. I hope not
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  Speaker 1: a two one ninety eight eighty six. If you have
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  Speaker 1: any thoughts on this, feel free A two one WTV
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  Speaker 1: and or if you have any thoughts on why they're
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  Speaker 1: not identifying that council member, because I find that odd.
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  Speaker 1: I won't say suspicious. I won't say suspect. I do
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  Speaker 1: find it odd that they are not identifying. Do they
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  Speaker 1: fear some public retaliation if they say his name? We're
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  Speaker 1: going to use the name of the guy. Who are
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  Speaker 1: we're saying, you know, is diddling kids, little boys. We'll
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  Speaker 1: throw his name all over the place. Here's his picture,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, he won't know where he lives. We'll
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  Speaker 1: point at the house, here's a GPS league. But the
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  Speaker 1: one member of council who votes to not get rid
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  Speaker 1: of him. They don't seem to want to say his name.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been googling? I know how you are. Have
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  Speaker 1: you been googling in there to try to find him? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can't. You can't find him. See, I would invite
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  Speaker 1: him on the show. I'd love to have a talk
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  Speaker 1: with him, because it sounds like he and I are
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. And as I said Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: I did invite mister Dixon send an email to his
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  Speaker 1: office immediately when these accusations first came out and the
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  Speaker 1: judge kicked it to the curb and he was released.
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  Speaker 1: I sent him an email immediately letting him know that
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  Speaker 1: he I have a microphone for it. He has been
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  Speaker 1: largely silent, which is probably wise because anything he says
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  Speaker 1: canon will be used against him, not only in a
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  Speaker 1: court of law, but in the media. You think he
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  Speaker 1: found that councilor's name public medias? All right, we'll give
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  Speaker 1: them the benefit of the doubt on this one. They
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  Speaker 1: did something well. Only Counselman Larry Morrison defended Dixon and
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  Speaker 1: voted to keep him on. Counsel Larry Morrison, all right,
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  Speaker 1: see what you can find out about him, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you can find some contact information, because I again, I
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  Speaker 1: would love to have him on here. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he has anything to defend. I think that what he
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  Speaker 1: did was truly you know that that is how it's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be, and I'd love to have him in here. Also,
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  Speaker 1: keep working on a Hillier thing, because I want to
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  Speaker 1: if something happened in Hilliar that I don't know about,
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  Speaker 1: I want to. I want to make sure I stay
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  Speaker 1: on top of that. That message last night just kind
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  Speaker 1: of threw me off because it said, do you feel
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  Speaker 1: the same way now as if something so something has happened,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure what it is, A two one
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight six A two one WTV. And let's get
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  Speaker 1: a few in here before we have to say goodbye
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  Speaker 1: for the night. Dondee, you're on sixth N do WLEUTVN Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck, not in the court of public opinion. You and
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  Speaker 2: I both know if you dirty someone's reputation before then
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  Speaker 2: the general public is going to remember that. But that's
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  Speaker 2: not Whitehall. It's not the reason why I called. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna try to make this quick. The real reason why
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  Speaker 2: I called is what you said earlier about telephone numbers.
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  Speaker 2: You ain't seen nothing, my friend, and I say, my friend,
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  Speaker 2: I've been knowing you since the Saturday Shows about twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: If you mentioned the word money in any way, shape
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  Speaker 2: or form, you gonna get a thousand, a thousand phone calls.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you some Chuck. Of course, you know
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  Speaker 2: I had that fire, and because it was public, the
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  Speaker 2: informations out there, Man, I get all kind of phone calls.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm sure you got lawyers that want to
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  Speaker 1: help you, in insurance companies that want you to they'll
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  Speaker 1: give you a better rates on the new gold and
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  Speaker 1: all that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh my gosh, I'm down here in southern Kentucky
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  Speaker 2: to see my eighty some year old in and my
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  Speaker 2: nephew who graduated from Marrying Franklin High School class of
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  Speaker 2: twenty oh seven. He flies Apache helicopters.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck, cool, that's a good job.
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  Speaker 2: I've always dreamed of seeing one up close. And he
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  Speaker 2: told me if I ever made it down here, he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna get me a tour of Fort Campbell.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, we got this weather, this weather moving in.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Kentucky's going to get afected by that too,
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  Speaker 1: so you be careful while you're down there. Enjoy yourself
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  Speaker 1: and be careful because it's going to get nasty. I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the fact that I wanted to be a helicopter pilot,
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  Speaker 1: and I've got an email. Somebody emailed me a few
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  Speaker 1: months ago. But then the weather turn and things got busy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll hit him up in the spring. But the guy listens,
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  Speaker 1: his dad, I guess, is still an instructor, and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take you up if you want to go. So
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  Speaker 1: that that's on my to do list for this spring
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  Speaker 1: to go up. And I know I'm getting older, but
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  Speaker 1: I still want to be a helicopter pilot. Donovan, You're
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  Speaker 1: on six ten WTVN.
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  Speaker 3: How are you pretty good today? Tuck? How you doing? Man?
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  Speaker 1: All right, sir?
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  Speaker 3: All right? I was calling about the councilman allegations.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things that I've noticed, and I've
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  Speaker 3: been fortunate not to be in trouble in the judicial system,
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  Speaker 3: is that I think the media plays on these words
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  Speaker 3: like arrested or convicted, or or charges brought against. My
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  Speaker 3: problem is that I don't even know what detainment means
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  Speaker 3: when we talk about some of the ice crackdowns. I
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  Speaker 3: thought detainment meant that you instantly went to Alligator Alcatraz,
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  Speaker 3: but apparently it can just be a fifteen minute extended questioning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So the thing going on there with the councilman, I
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  Speaker 3: think Laura, when's Laura wife husband from little house in
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  Speaker 3: the prairie.
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  Speaker 1: Her husband just went through Itfield.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, the picture in the orange jumpsuit, it is much.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's what people just really wanted to put
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  Speaker 3: out there in order to damage somebody's reputation.
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  Speaker 1: Busfield stories getting interesting too, because apparently the police have
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  Speaker 1: audio of the victims who were interviewed prior to this,
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  Speaker 1: saying that, yeah, well he didn't really touch us. We
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  Speaker 1: were just making it up. So if that's the case,
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  Speaker 1: he walks on that.
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  Speaker 3: Right, and you know not, Like, again, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if this guy is innocent or guilty, but I suppose
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  Speaker 3: that one council person that keeps holding out is operating
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  Speaker 3: on the basis of, hey, he's not been convicted yet.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't even faced the trial yet, so how can
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  Speaker 3: we kick him off the thing if he doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Resign exactly, And I would expect the same thing for
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  Speaker 1: you or for me. That's the American way. Innocent until
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  Speaker 1: proven guilty is the way we roll in this country.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't just put that aside because you don't
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  Speaker 1: like somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. So the legal system it's a little confusing, and
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  Speaker 3: especially if you're fortunate enough not to have been caught
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  Speaker 3: up in it. Because, like I said, the one thing
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  Speaker 3: that bothers me right now is the report on the
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  Speaker 3: US citizens being detained by Ice. And I know that's
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  Speaker 3: a whole other thing, but I didn't know what detainment means.
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  Speaker 3: And when you keep reporting on that, that tells me
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  Speaker 3: that man US citizens, obviously you know being putting that
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  Speaker 3: yalligated Alcatraz having top proved to dear Americans, and apparently
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  Speaker 3: the definition of entertainment is a little bit less.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing of it is, Donavan, is there are
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  Speaker 1: people out there who are propagating that news. They are
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  Speaker 1: counting on you to not know what it means, and
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  Speaker 1: they are counting on the news eaters whould have a
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  Speaker 1: teleprompter in front of them don't even know what they're saying.
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  Speaker 1: Half the time. They just read average on the script
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  Speaker 1: they read it to you, so it just goes over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. It soaks into your brain. The next
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  Speaker 1: thing you know, it's truth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I know it's on us to do our own
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  Speaker 3: work and understand this stuff. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: I am getting to a point now where I believe
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  Speaker 3: like the media is playing on the stuff that we
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  Speaker 3: don't know. And sometimes I feel like we're playing a
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  Speaker 3: game of checkers and they're only giving us half the pieces.
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  Speaker 1: The music's playing, Donovan, But I gotta tell you, I
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  Speaker 1: cannot remember the actor's name. But on the new rendition
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  Speaker 1: of Hawaii five, oh, the guy that played Grover, did
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  Speaker 1: you ever watch that?
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  Speaker 3: Not the new one?
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  Speaker 1: Oh Man, you need to look that up because you
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  Speaker 1: sound so much like that actor and I can't recall
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  Speaker 1: his name. Take care of yourself at stay warm, avoid
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  Speaker 1: the snow,