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08/28/2025 Ask the Lawyer with Tom Peyton · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 5: Payton in studio with us this morning. Payton Law Firm
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  Speaker 5: Y t O n P Law Firm dot com. Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Dell Cooper and this is ask the Lawyer with
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  Speaker 5: Tom Pathon from the Payton Law Firm. You can call
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  Speaker 5: us this morning at three zero four three four five
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  Speaker 4: Tom, good morning, How you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing great this morning well, it's great.
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  Speaker 3: Faday was good. Got a little little chill in the air,
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  Speaker 3: just in time for football season to arrive. I guess
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  Speaker 3: you guys have some high school games on tonight, I
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  Speaker 3: think so you can watch one game on the Metro
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  Speaker 3: News app.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's correct.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So network wise, there'll be the the Parkersburg Morgantown
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  Speaker 5: game will be on the Metro News app. Here locally,
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  Speaker 5: we have a double header tonight and another game tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 5: So tonight we're going to have one chs. We're going
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  Speaker 5: to have George Washington in the Spring Valley and we
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  Speaker 5: will have the it should be and then we'll have
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  Speaker 5: Hoover in Independence over on our sister station ninety six
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  Speaker 5: to one KWS. So that's a big night tonight, man
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  Speaker 5: doing all kinds of high school football.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah we're going Dad and I are going up
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  Speaker 3: for the game in Morgantown Saturday. Just hopefully it will
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  Speaker 3: be a blowout, and hopefully it will be one we
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  Speaker 3: can leave early. Perhaps it is, but it'd be good
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  Speaker 3: to see rich Rodriguez back on the field for first
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  Speaker 3: time in what seventeen years.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's such a crazy time to be a Mountaineer
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  Speaker 5: fan because if you would objectively describe the situation, the
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  Speaker 5: West Virginia's football program is in hasn't been ranked in
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  Speaker 5: how many every year, twelve years or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 5: A new coach coming in, that's an old coach that
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  Speaker 5: was at a smaller school last year. Like, if you
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  Speaker 5: described that in an abstract to someone, they would probably
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  Speaker 5: tell you, man, I'm not so sure you're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: that great of a year. But the particular situation that
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  Speaker 5: follows West Virginia and rich Rod, there's a little bounce
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  Speaker 5: to people steps.
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  Speaker 3: It feels on Yeah, And you know, the X factor
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  Speaker 3: factor to me is that you have the transfer portal
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  Speaker 3: now that he didn't have when he was here before.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know whether that, I mean, starting off
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  Speaker 3: from scratch probably helps a bit. We'll see in the
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  Speaker 3: long run whether it helps rich Rod or not because
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  Speaker 3: the days of kind of building up players in your
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  Speaker 3: program or it happens, but it's rare now because they
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  Speaker 3: moved so often. But yeah, I'm looking forward to going
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  Speaker 3: up there and getting and it's gonna be great weather,
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  Speaker 3: mid mid to low seventies, so perfect football day. Hopefully
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  Speaker 3: the Mountaineers play well, and then so I'm driving back
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  Speaker 3: and watch the LSU game because this is my son's
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  Speaker 3: last semester at LSU and they played Clemson at eight
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  Speaker 3: o'clock that night at Clemson, so they're underdogs, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 5: This should be a pretty good game. LS you's supposed
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  Speaker 5: to play a little defense this year.
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Kelly coaches at LSU and this is his I
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  Speaker 3: think fourth or fifth season, maybe fourth And do you
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  Speaker 3: remember he coached at Cincinnati and then Notre Dame. I
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  Speaker 3: really didn't like Brian Kelly. Have to root for him
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  Speaker 3: just a little bit now since he's at LSU, but
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  Speaker 3: I'd say he's on a short least. He has lost
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  Speaker 3: every opening game since he's been there.
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  Speaker 5: The most funny thing about him I found, anyway, is
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  Speaker 5: when he went from Notre Dame to LSU and he
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  Speaker 5: did his first press conference at LSU. Suddenly, yes Southern accent. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: It's like, where did that come from?
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  Speaker 4: Man? You've been living forever the Indiana?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Are you very well? Quick?
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  Speaker 5: Last question question about football, because I'm just curious what
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  Speaker 5: people think they've weekly. I bounced this aroun a little
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  Speaker 5: bit yesterday under Neil Brown Westernet Mountainearst football team the
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  Speaker 5: most points they scored under Neil Brown at any point
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  Speaker 5: with thirty eight thirty eight. So thirty eight over or
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  Speaker 5: under for Saturday for the Mountaineers. Well, I've got to
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  Speaker 5: pick over. Okay, we better hope, so right, that's what
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  Speaker 5: we're looking.
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  Speaker 3: I got to pick Over for a couple of reasons. One,
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  Speaker 3: I think they're going to be really pumped for this game.
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  Speaker 3: Rich's first game back. You got a lot of new players.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing, you know, we got a you know,
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  Speaker 3: multiple quarterbacks that could play three, maybe four, and those
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  Speaker 3: guys are going to be looking to prove themselves. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that, you know, even when if we get yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's say we get twenty eight points in the first half,
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  Speaker 3: I just see it's getting at least a couple more
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  Speaker 3: touchdowns in the second.
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  Speaker 4: There's no real soft edges to Rich either.
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  Speaker 5: He may not win every game for you, but if
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  Speaker 5: he has the opportunity to hang seventy, he's won to
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  Speaker 5: hang seventy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I mean, I don't think there's much probably
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  Speaker 3: so and and and I don't know thing about Robert Morris.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think they're what we used to call
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  Speaker 3: one double a still and I did. I was listening
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  Speaker 3: to the show today. I guess they've had how many
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  Speaker 3: players have they had drafted in the NFL?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yah, yah, Zerra was one. Yeah, it was one.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. I got it right and I got it
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  Speaker 4: wrong that but yeah, one, and that's something else. But
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  Speaker 4: you never know. You gotta you gotta play the games.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta play the games. You get a turn over
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  Speaker 3: here there, and uh, special teams play for Robert Morris.
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  Speaker 6: You just you never know.
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  Speaker 3: We've had a few close ones. I don't think WVU
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  Speaker 3: has ever lost a home opener against a non power five.
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  Speaker 5: And this isn't even a this isn't even like an
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  Speaker 5: Appy State situation where you have like sort of a
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  Speaker 5: venerable program that was in one double at the time.
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  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, ought to be an overwhelming victory, and
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  Speaker 3: it probably will be. I just want to go opening
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  Speaker 3: game and see rich Rod come by and see see
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  Speaker 3: the style of play, just kind of watch the players,
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  Speaker 3: see what kind of attitude they have. It was a
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  Speaker 3: little totally faster than ever, yeah, pace, play, faster than ever, aggressive,
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  Speaker 3: hopefully some excite. I think that's what we've been missing
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  Speaker 3: the last few years with with Neil Brown, so and
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  Speaker 3: I have made the bold prediction of nine and three years.
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  Speaker 5: That's a good prediction, man, every I think every single
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  Speaker 5: Mountaineer fan in within the sound of our voice would
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  Speaker 5: take that and lock it in right now if they could.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably more with my heart than my hand.
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  Speaker 3: But you never know, that's the way it might look
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  Speaker 3: like a genius, right. That's it's it's college sports still,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll have fun with it.
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  Speaker 4: But so what else will you talk about this? There's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of stuff, uh.
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  Speaker 6: You know, in the legal community.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, we have some kind of really upsetting news this
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  Speaker 3: this week, Supreme Court Justice Tim Armstead passed away, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know he was on the He was obviously a lawyer, right,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know they did trial court work or anything.
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  Speaker 3: I never had any real dealings with him as in
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  Speaker 3: my role as a lawyer representing clients, but uh, he
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  Speaker 3: certainly was a public servant. You know, he's in the legislature.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how many years. I think he started
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  Speaker 3: back in the I's like two thousand or maybe even
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  Speaker 3: before that, in the legislature, and he's just always viewed
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  Speaker 3: him as didn't really see how to iye on his
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  Speaker 3: political views and of course in his opinions on the
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court that they were well thought out and don't
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  Speaker 3: agree with. I thought he was a little result oriented
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  Speaker 3: sometimes on some cases. Of course, you wouldn't agree with
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  Speaker 3: everything any judge does, or you'd be the judge. But
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  Speaker 3: one of those kind of old school Republicans that I
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  Speaker 3: wish we had more of around to day. And he
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  Speaker 3: would not participate, I'm sure, and did not in name
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  Speaker 3: calling on social media or belittling other people based on
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  Speaker 3: appearances or labels. He was just kind of an old
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  Speaker 3: school conservative the way I saw am. I I actually
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  Speaker 3: last time I talked to Justice Arms, so we kind
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  Speaker 3: of sat next to each other, he and I, who's
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  Speaker 3: now manaster judge reader at the State Bar annual meeting
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  Speaker 3: in April that was twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 6: He was fine. He was jovial, you know, told jokes,
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  Speaker 6: had good conversation.
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  Speaker 7: And then.
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  Speaker 3: This past winner I noticed during an oral argument he
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  Speaker 3: had lost his hair. But I don't think he kept
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  Speaker 3: that pretty discreet. I don't remember an announcement that he
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  Speaker 3: was ill. I don't remember any large periods where he
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  Speaker 3: was absent from the bench. He was he was hearing
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  Speaker 3: cases and obviously undergoing some some treatment there, and then
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  Speaker 3: I hadn't heard anything recently until we just saw the
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  Speaker 3: news the other day. So it's just a tragic loss.
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  Speaker 6: I hate it.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. The process now, of course, will be you know,
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  Speaker 3: candidates will throw their names in the hat and there's
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  Speaker 3: a commission that will whittle them down to I think
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  Speaker 3: three or it's three to five, and then the governor
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  Speaker 3: will will appoint somebody.
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  Speaker 6: I don't, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure when Justice Armstead's term was to end,
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  Speaker 3: but they'll serve out the remainder of the term and
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  Speaker 3: then uh, there'll be a non assuming it stays non partisan,
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  Speaker 3: non partisan election for a twelve year term on the
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  Speaker 3: Western Supreme Court. I mean, we do twelve year terms
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  Speaker 3: to kind of help make it a political so they're
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  Speaker 3: not running for office every four years like or two
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  Speaker 3: years sometimes like you do on the legislatures.
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  Speaker 6: So you know, uh, I know, he had he had a.
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  Speaker 3: Family, and he was a family man, and so our
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  Speaker 3: our our thoughts and condolences at the Peyton Law Firm
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  Speaker 3: certainly go out go out to them. And I thought
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  Speaker 3: Justice arms said was a good one. So, uh, that's
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  Speaker 3: too bad. It's a loss for the for the legal
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  Speaker 3: community for sure. Beyond that be on the national level.
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  Speaker 3: But one good thing about whether you like the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration or you don't, one thing that I guess has
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  Speaker 3: made life more interesting is that every time I opened
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  Speaker 3: my newsfeed, there's newsfeed. You're you're waiting to see what's
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  Speaker 3: happened now, and you know, legally speaking, I guess in
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  Speaker 3: the last I think it was last week or the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of this week. You know, now he's put out
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  Speaker 3: an executive order. He's very good at hitting the you know,
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  Speaker 3: ignoring kind of principled aspects of the law that have
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  Speaker 3: been around for a long time, like due process, but
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  Speaker 3: kind of hitting at the heart like well, if you
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  Speaker 3: don't understand that or you don't accept it, then you
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  Speaker 3: can get to these kind of issues that strike at
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  Speaker 3: the heart of everyday Americans. Like this week or last
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  Speaker 3: week it was flag burning.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I wouldn't burn a flag.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I can't imagine a scenario where I would
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  Speaker 3: burn the American flag in protest or as an expression
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  Speaker 3: of my views. And I think probably most most listeners
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  Speaker 3: have the same field feeling. But I also understand the
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  Speaker 3: right to do that. Under the Constitution, even though I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't do it. So it's it's tolerate under most certain sections.
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  Speaker 3: Reading comments on social media, which is always dangerous to
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  Speaker 3: do because you have no idea whether unless you know
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  Speaker 3: who's posting it, you don't know whether it's a real human,
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  Speaker 3: a bot, or some foreign national. But so this, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they were they were promoting Trump's position and you shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be able to burn the flag. And it's like, well
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  Speaker 3: if just imagine if somebody did that in Russia, what
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  Speaker 3: would happen to them? And they were saying that to
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  Speaker 3: advocate their position that that we should adopt that that's
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  Speaker 3: a better.
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  Speaker 6: Do you realize what you've just said?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, are we in the twilight for people out
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  Speaker 4: of buildings? You know whatever, It's all good.
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  Speaker 3: But it is interesting. You know, it gave me an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: I thought, well, you know, let me let's look back
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  Speaker 3: at that. It was only nineteen eighty nine when the
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  Speaker 3: US Supreme Court, in the case of Texas v. Johnson,
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  Speaker 3: ruled that laws that prevent the burning of a criminalized
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  Speaker 3: the burning of the American flag when it's an expression
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  Speaker 3: of protest is unconstitutional under the First Amendment. And actually
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know it was a five to four decision,
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  Speaker 3: so it wasn't you know, it wasn't unanimous. I forget
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  Speaker 3: what one of the justices dissented and said, well, it's
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  Speaker 3: just such a symbol that we should make an exception
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  Speaker 3: to the First Amendment and this criminal law should be upheld.
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  Speaker 3: But so Trumpet administration entered an executive order and.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's.
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  Speaker 3: It's a couple pages, and it's mostly political pandering to
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  Speaker 3: that feeling most of us have that no one should
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  Speaker 3: everyone should respect our flag and not burn our flag.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what his administration is really good at and
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  Speaker 3: getting the message out. And it's it's a it's not
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  Speaker 3: saying they're going to violate the Supreme Court's precedent and
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  Speaker 3: in forcing criminal laws, but it's it's close, and it's
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  Speaker 3: it's certainly.
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  Speaker 6: And then of course he has a.
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  Speaker 3: Paragraph in there about deportation if if somebody exercises a
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  Speaker 3: First Amendment right. But that the ruling from the Supreme
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  Speaker 3: Court was interesting when you go back and re read it,
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  Speaker 3: because it's really, you know, there there can be laws,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're allowed. It did not criminalize the respectful
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  Speaker 3: burning of the flag. I guess you would say, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I don't probably should, but I mean there are scenarios
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  Speaker 3: where a flag should be burned as a way too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I like to retire it. That's right, that's right,
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  Speaker 3: and so that's not illegal. On the problem with the
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  Speaker 3: with the law that was passed in the Texas law,
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  Speaker 3: and in that situation, a fall name Johnson had been
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  Speaker 3: a a I don't know if it's Republican National Convention
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  Speaker 3: or something. It was a protest to Ronald Reagan's policies
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  Speaker 3: in at the conclusion of the demonstration, he burned the
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  Speaker 3: American flag. He was clearly burning the American flag as
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  Speaker 3: an expression of protest, and that's really what the Supreme
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  Speaker 3: Court found was unconstitutional.
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  Speaker 6: So if.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there's been any laws that have been
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  Speaker 3: crafted very well around that decision, we'll see if the
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of its local enforcement, so the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration won't really have any other than leveraging local officials,
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  Speaker 3: which they're also.
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  Speaker 6: Very good at, like you do this or you won't
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  Speaker 6: get funded. That's right, you know, we won't help you
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  Speaker 6: with this or that.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see how it plays out.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it got some news I'm just gonna sure
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  Speaker 3: it's really gonna get anywhere. It does say he authorizes
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  Speaker 3: the Attorney General to uh, you know, essentially aggressively appeal.
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  Speaker 3: It's almost like they want to charge somebody again under
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  Speaker 3: a similar factual scenario and then they want to run
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  Speaker 3: it up to the Supreme Court. Change. It was a
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  Speaker 3: five four decision, and as we've seen over the last
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  Speaker 3: few years, the Supreme Court can not follow previous precedent
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  Speaker 3: at times, even though that's the custom. So we'll see
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  Speaker 3: how that that plays out. But you know what the
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  Speaker 3: the Court and Johnson pointed out with if there's a
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  Speaker 3: law that if somebody is burning a flag and it
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  Speaker 3: incites violence and it is a breach of the peace,
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  Speaker 3: then the first of all, there are separate criminal sections
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  Speaker 3: of the code that address that type behavior, So it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't need to be a you can prosecute him over
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  Speaker 3: something else that doesn't have language in the statute that says,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's legal to burn the flag in.
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  Speaker 5: Essence, So is there any and this isn't what the
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  Speaker 5: executive order was over, But personally, I was grown I
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  Speaker 5: was brought up under the same you know, you don't
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  Speaker 5: you respect the flag, you would never burn anything along
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  Speaker 5: those lines. But also there was a very strong vein
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  Speaker 5: of you don't modify the flag either, like like it
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  Speaker 5: was like it was like if somebody took a flag
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  Speaker 5: and did something with it to create like a shirt
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  Speaker 5: out of an actual flag, or you know, did something
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  Speaker 5: like that, that was considered extraordinarily disrespectful, something you shouldn't do.
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  Speaker 5: And although it's not taking a flag and doing I
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  Speaker 5: find it's really strange that there's so many of these
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  Speaker 5: alternate versions of the American flag around that people selling stores,
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  Speaker 5: they wear around and all these things. To me, I
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  Speaker 5: look at that, and I mean not that I think
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  Speaker 5: that they shouldn't be able to do it. I would
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  Speaker 5: never think that, but me personally, I find that a
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  Speaker 5: little distasteful. To be honest with you, Yes I do too,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't. I don't know if that's you only
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  Speaker 5: been on this earth with a memory for so many years.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if that was when that became prevalent
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  Speaker 5: right now especially acceptable, But yeah, that's and then modifying the.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, burning is one thing. What about tearing up?
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: What about putting a peace sign sticker over the middle
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: of the US flag and flying it, which was subject
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: of one of the prior cases to the US Supreme Court,
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: So well, it'll be really interesting to see how it
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: plays out. But you know, that decision by the Uspreme
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Court was very careful to say that it's this context.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's a this in this situation. This person
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: was expressing their protest views by an act, and that's
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: the context in which we decide this case. So it's
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: it's kind of hard to think of other scenarios where
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: it could apply. But we'll see if we don't see
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: in the next six months or so, because you know,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: protesters will now take this and push Sure, they're going
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: to push it. And I think what we what we
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: will see probably is more attempts by the executive branch
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: to enforce criminal laws that don't expressly prohibit flag burning.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you burn, I mean it could it
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: be arson right or public danger or disorderly conduct. In fact,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: the Executive Order says, we, you know, are going to
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: try and prosecute crimes that involve flag burning under open
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: burning restrictions, disorderly conduct, destruction of property laws, things like that,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: and so that that will really push the envelope and
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: the limits of that Johnson case and see see where
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: we get. And you know, that'll be interesting that if
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: you charge somebody with uh, of course, with arson or
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: you know, they burn a flag during your close season
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: for public burning, can you then prosecute that person under
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: an open burning criminal statue even though they were burning
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: the flag and protest as a demonstration. And that's a
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: balancing act there. Obviously, we kind of have a synonymous
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: scenario going on with the vaccine issue right now, where
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: you know, they argument of whether there's a religious exemption
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: in West Virginia for mandatory vaccinations for kids to go
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to public school. I mean, there has to be some
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: limit on your freedom of religion. And where does that
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: line fall? I mean, if you I mean, if your
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: religion is Satanism and it involves human sacrifice or something
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: like that, obviously society is never going to tolerate that,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: and so where do you draw those lines? And so
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: that'll be you know, from a legal standpoint and a
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: all you're'll be interesting to see how this filters up
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: and if it gets to the US Supreme Court, if
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: they'll take it up, and if they'll then refine that
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: decision in Johnson from nineteen eighty nine or just that
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: you know, there's a descent they could adopt that just says,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: you know, we're going to make an exception to the
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: First Amendment for the American flag. Now, I don't know
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: how you because of what we talked about wearing a
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: flag as clothing or putting symbols on the flag, and
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't where does that fall. I think
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: that's a real it's a real slippery slope to go down.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: But they, you know, the Supreme Court could essentially adopt
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: that dissenting view from the nineteen eighty nine case and
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: just say laws that criminalize the burning of the flag,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: whether it's done as an expression of protest or not,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: are valid. And there's not going to be very many
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: exceptions like this. This might be the only one, but
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: we're we're making an exception for this particular situation.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: So we'll we'll see how that plays out.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a it's a to me, it's an
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: obvious just political maneuver by the Trump administration that they're
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: very very good at, just kind of like, you know,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: not you have a murder or a gang member or
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: a deplorable person, and and you know, well, why should
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: they get due process right. So we've talked about that before,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: and it's it's an easy grab for a politician because
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: it's initially you think, well, yes, I.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Mean, it's easy to vilify the person a child molester.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Why do they get all these rights?
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, as we've talked about with the what they
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: call the exclusionary rule, mean, if if key evidence is
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: gathered by the government and violation of the constitutional and
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: for example search and seizure, then the government can't use
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: that information at trial. And and sometimes not very often,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: sometimes that results in a person who's committed a heinous
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: act having their case dismissed.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: But that that's what.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: We accept as a society to maintain a free society
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: and under the orderly rule of all.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: That's the constitution.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: So you don't get to just bend it to what
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: you agree with, which is what the Trump administration seems
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: to be seems to like to do. And of course
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: they hit at the heart of those type issues like
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: I just went through that are just easy, easy pickings
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: because they're everybody, if you ask them, will agree it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Probably you know, a child molester of the worst kind
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: should be incarcerated for the maxim amount of time. And
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: most people will probably say it really shouldn't matter how
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: the evidence was gathered.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: If they're guilty, they need.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: To until somebody is accused that isn't guilty. And then
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: if you don't give them to do process, how you
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: want to find out that they're not guilty.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: So that's right.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: And the rule there is it's a really it's it's
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: called the exclusion rule, and it's just it's to make
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: sure that there's broad or it's a motivation for broad
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: compliance with constitutional provisions. So the executive branch, mostly law enforcement,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: can't just blatantly violate the Constitution based on the gravity
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: of the conduct involved in essence, and so but that
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: was this week from the Trump administration.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: So we'll see. It may die down and just nothing
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: come of it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: It might be something that gets in the in the news.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: It's it's difficult because I think for the federal government
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: to really push this to its limit and get it
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: to the US Supreme Court, because you know, criminal cases
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: involving federal laws generally have to have some relation to
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: interstate commerce. So crime basic crimes like open burning laws
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: sort of the conduct destruction of property, those are all
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: local state. You'd have to get a local prosecutor to
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: to prosecute one of those. We're a I'm not sure,
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: but I question has a I'll just say to probably
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: still have a prohibitional flag burning statue in the code.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: It's just unconstant because you prosecutors can't enforce it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: So we'll see if they might find a way. Now,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: well they can.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: They can always charge somebody with it, and then it's on.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: The defendant would follow motion dismiss saying this is this
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: law is invalid because it's unconstitutional, and then uh, it
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: runs up the ladder from there. If a judge dismisses it,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: or a judge says, no, I think it's it's valid,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: then that's how I mean, that's how the Johnson case
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: got to the US Supreme Court. It would The problem
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: is that it's kind of a hot button issue. We're
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: talking about it today, But to get that scenario to
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: the US Supreme Court would be years. I mean, there's
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: nothing emergent about it, like you're seeing some of the
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: things get to the Supreme Court rather quickly on these
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: deportation issues and things like that. Uh, this would probably
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: take a number of years. To get to the US
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Supreme Court, and yeah, everybody will forget about the publicity
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: of this executive order by then, and you know, Trump
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: administration may not be in place at that time, and
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I would most likely the next administration, no matter who
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: it is, will cool off on this issue a bit.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Do you think that there's a it seems like over
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: the last few years. And I want to tie this
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: back to the Peyton Law Firm, because what we talk
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: about so much with the Payton Law Froom, with you
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: being on the ground here in West Virginia, knowing so
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: well these counties that we're in, that the things that
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: we do in the state, you're closer to what's going
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: on here. You're closer to the law here. You know
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: the judges, you know the prosecutors in some case or
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: whatever it might be. I mean, it's it's there's a
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: relationship there, and there's a even on quote unquote opposing sides,
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: there's a there's a general cordiality. You know, you get along,
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: you follow the laws, whether their laws are kind of
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: unspoken agreements, whatever it might be. There's a process is
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: in place that we that we that we followed forever.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: I feel like that we have some freeing at that
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: at the national.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Levels between lawyers and.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think most prosecutors do a good job, but
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: there's you know, they are elected, at least in West Virginia,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: and and you know they their duty is not I
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: mean when you defend a criminal defender, I mean, your
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: loyalty is to your client pretty much period. I mean,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: if they tell you they're going to commit a crime,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: then you have to report it. But you know, they
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: have a right to remain silent. You you cannot misrepresent
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: facts to a court or to a jury. But on
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: the prosecutors side, they have a lot of power, and
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: so there are some ethical considerations they have that they're
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: really not supposed to just zealously advocate for a conviction
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: all the time. There should be some judgment for example,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: whether you know, let's say a somebody mouse off to
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: an officer. You know, the sandwich story, the DC sandwich
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: story already.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Through the sand.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So yesterday, I guess two grand juries were impaneled
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: and both of them were like, there's no there's no
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: here here and and the judge I think came down
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: on the on the that's attorney. I think it was
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: the former Fox News, Lady pierro King kind of came
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: down on her as like, this isn't a thing. Why
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: are we pushing this type of thing?
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think if it was a local charge,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, that could be a salt you throw a
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: sandwich at somebody's chest, But that's not a I'm not
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: aware of any state, even if it's a law enforcement
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: officers where that would be a felony. And that's where
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: you have to go through the grand jury to get
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: a charge. But yeah, obviously the grand jurys didn't see anything.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: And it's usually grand jury's are one sided, meaning it's
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: the prosecutor and the witnesses they choose to present the matter.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: The defendant's not there. There's no cross examination. So if
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: a prosecutor wants to get an indictment on a charge,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: it's jerally.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: Not that big of a hurdle.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: To do this.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: And they and they and when they present their case
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: to the grand jury, they can't again, they can't misrepresent facts,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: and they but they also don't have to necessarily but
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: all the facts out there, you know, they can put
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: the facts that they think is enough for and the
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: grand jury is just finding probable cause, which is a
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: pretty low standard. It's not beyond a reasonable doubt or
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: anything like that. So you know, they did away with
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: that one. But but prosecutors, you know that they they
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: have to use some judgment on what you know, a prosecutor.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: That's what we're seeing with Pam Bondy. And what you're
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: talking about is like you're you're you're following these charges
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: that don't have much evidentiary basis and taking positions that
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: seem to be based on politics and not on seeking justice.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: And and so a prosecutor that sees a reasonable prosecutor
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: in my opinion, that sees a flag desecration criminal law
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: get charged maybe by a young officer or something like that,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: really should counsel that officer. And then the case I
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: ought to just be dismissed. But we'll see. I mean,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: there will be some out there willing to prosecute these
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: based on the request. Sure Trump administration, for sure, Let's.
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• 31:22
  Speaker 3: flag burning. That's my other disclaimer, because we said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not an advocate of flag burning. I can't imagine
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: that I would ever burn a flag in protest. This
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: is not the way I would I would choose UH
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  Speaker 5: or whatever it might be. But in suddenly kids protesting,
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's suing everybody in the national level for defamation and slander,
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• 32:19
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• 32:41
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• 32:45
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  Speaker 3: supplemental payments from their own insurance carriers. And certainly give
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  Speaker 6: Career, like here's what it costs to get it fixed period.
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  Speaker 3: I've had two or three estimates for example, and this
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  Speaker 3: is the one I want to use for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 3: and Chris minus my deductible. On most policies, you're entailed
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  Speaker 3: to get what it actually costs to get your damage
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  Speaker 3: repaired or replaced. So I've had a couple where, you know, oddly,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: an insurance companies claiming there wasn't really hell damage on
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: the roof, even though every neighbor around I mean, you know,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: as if a hall stopped there was a bubble over
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  Speaker 3: their house or something, and the insurance company's claiming, well,
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: that's pre existing wear and tear, it's not. We have
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: we have a couple of those, and then we have
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: more frequently we have insurance companies that are just not
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: responding or not willing to pay what it will actually
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: cost to get the home repaired. And those are viable
• 34:42
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  Speaker 3: go through that process. So that makes those type claims
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  Speaker 3: viable for us to take on contingency fee like you
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  Speaker 3: see on like we do all injury cases that way,
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  Speaker 3: when lawyers advertise that you know, you don't pay us
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  Speaker 3: unless we win, well, that's that's great, but that's that's
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  Speaker 3: nothing new. That's more different. That's what every law firm
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  Speaker 3: does that handles those type cases. But it's difficult when
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  Speaker 3: you're talking about property damage because of course we to
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  Speaker 3: satisfy our clients, we have to recover enough so that
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  Speaker 3: we get paid and they get enough to actually get
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  Speaker 3: their repairs done. And so when it's your own insurance
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  Speaker 3: company you're fighting with it, it makes it viable for
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  Speaker 3: us to handle them on a contingency fee. So you
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  Speaker 3: can come and you know, we if you meet the parameters,
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  Speaker 3: then we'll take the case, and then we only get
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  Speaker 3: paid if we recover money for the client. And and
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  Speaker 3: we've been real successful in those and getting sufficient funds
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  Speaker 3: to get us paid, get the client enough money to
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  Speaker 3: get their repairs done, and oftentimes get something extra for
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  Speaker 3: the client for their aggravation inconvenience. So if you have
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  Speaker 3: that situation out there, feel free to give us a
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  Speaker 3: call or send us an email at the office and
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  Speaker 3: we'll kind of screen your situation. And you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: folks got to take another step on their own and
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  Speaker 3: coach them up in that regard. You try this, or
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  Speaker 3: you need to get a different estimate or some clarification.
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  Speaker 3: But then we're we're taking we're taking those cases right
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  Speaker 3: now and and we get them filed pretty quickly. And
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  Speaker 3: you never know in litigation, sometimes they resolve rather quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you're a.
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  Speaker 6: Year later waiting.
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  Speaker 3: But most of the damage was in Putnam County area,
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  Speaker 3: and then you know, seeing Albans Cross Lanes area of
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  Speaker 3: Knack County. That's what I'm seeing anyway. So if you
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  Speaker 3: have those situations, you don't have to just concede to
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  Speaker 3: move on and intentional or just disorganized. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: a hassle to keep calling an insurance company or emailing
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  Speaker 3: them and having them not respond at all, or then
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  Speaker 3: they respond in some way that's not even responsive to
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  Speaker 3: what you were asking about, and oftentimes that makes people
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  Speaker 3: just give up. Ye know, if it's if it's a
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  Speaker 3: few thousand dollars, well I'll just get.
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  Speaker 4: A cheaper suit.
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  Speaker 5: My suspicion is that they have the numbers that know
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  Speaker 5: that a certain percentage of people will give up on
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  Speaker 5: the claim if they get non response for long enough.
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  Speaker 4: Hence the reasons have you.
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  Speaker 3: On a joy You understand that this might not be
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  Speaker 3: just disorganization, It might be an organized policy unwritten because
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  Speaker 3: they know that a certain percentage of people will simply
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  Speaker 3: go away if you just ignore them for a while.
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  Speaker 5: In my opinion, it's sort of like needing the foul
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  Speaker 5: paper for a tax rebatea when you're when you're when
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  Speaker 5: your vehicle, right, we're trying to get it's a barrier
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  Speaker 5: that keeps people from doing it.
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  Speaker 3: We're trying to cancel a subscription service like cable or
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  Speaker 3: something like that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's terrible. I just live with it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, right, you just keep it. You don't have
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  Speaker 4: to live with it.
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  Speaker 3: You can call us or email us and we'll take
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  Speaker 3: them on and you just have to communicate with us,
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  Speaker 3: which we try and make as easy and comfortable as
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  Speaker 3: possible for our clients.
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  Speaker 5: That's the Paton Law Firm. You can find more information
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  Speaker 5: Have a great day everyone, Tom. We'll see you back
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  Speaker 5: here next week.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds good, look forward to it.
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