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Find Your Money and Chess · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about your money. You might even not
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  Speaker 1: know what's your money. I'm not sure. Well, we'll find
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  Speaker 1: out about that. Also, let me just start here with
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  Speaker 1: I wish we and when I say we, I mean
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  Speaker 1: all media. I wish we would just stop reporting on
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  Speaker 1: gas prices for a very practical reason. Honestly, Zaki, I
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  Speaker 1: got any idea, you know what I'm gonna say here,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, I'm kind of off the wall sometime
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I'm curious.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's never right. It's never going to be right,
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  Speaker 1: because the nature of the beast is those prices change
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  Speaker 1: every day, sometimes several times per day. Now, as we
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  Speaker 1: just heard Allison say in the six o'clock news, gas
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  Speaker 1: prices around Columbus are what down would she say, thirteen
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  Speaker 1: cents or something like that. Then you go to the
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  Speaker 1: WSYX six sighting when you get gas prices rise by
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  Speaker 1: fourteen fo et five cents per gallon in Columbus. It's
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  Speaker 1: so volatile. Now, gripe about it, grouse about it all
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  Speaker 1: you want, because I do that. But when you try
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  Speaker 1: to report accurately, it's it's pretty much impossible to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you get trophy or somebody from gas
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  Speaker 1: Buddy on with you and they say, well, here's what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, and then the next day that's completely moved
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  Speaker 1: because that's not the case anymore. It's it's uh, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It's just especially when it's bad news about
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  Speaker 1: prices going up, it's just kind of a frustration. All
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  Speaker 1: you're doing is giving people another reason to go h
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  Speaker 1: or if you say, hey, gas prices are down, then
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  Speaker 1: they go to the corner and it's up twenty cents
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  Speaker 1: over where it was when they passed the place an
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  Speaker 1: hour ago. There you get them reading, and we need
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  Speaker 1: fewer reasons to go ah, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Just makes more sense. And you're nodding. It's radio, you're nodding.
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, it just makes more sense to not not
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  Speaker 1: report gas prices, oil all right, Corky oil or you know,
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  Speaker 1: OPEC prices whatever. I guess I can see that because
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  Speaker 1: it's a little more you know, it's a culmination of
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  Speaker 1: a trading day or whatever. But there's just no way
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  Speaker 1: we can keep up with gas prices. Well, I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: about your money. A couple of things. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: another another story that I saw and I have yet
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  Speaker 1: to read in its entirety on the WSYX site was
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  Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. They say, streamlining streamlining the process
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  Speaker 1: to collect unclaimed funds. Zachary, have you ever done that? No?
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  Speaker 1: Have you never ever known anyone who has no to
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  Speaker 1: claim unclaimed fund You ought to check because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times, like your mortgage company refunds something from escrow
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  Speaker 1: or I just I just checked mine. I cannot believe
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  Speaker 1: how many unclaimed funds I've got on here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've I know what it is. I've just
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  Speaker 2: never I've never even.
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  Speaker 1: Car insurances, homeowners insurance, is all kind of my old
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  Speaker 1: five twenty nine program, contributions for one of the kids,
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  Speaker 1: just a whole bunch going back to nineteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: I've got probably somewhere between twelve and fifteen that are
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  Speaker 1: on here of unclaim funds. Some of them are you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're a buck. I don't know, but I would
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  Speaker 1: urge you guys seriously to check that. And when I
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  Speaker 1: get off the air tonight, I will post a link
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  Speaker 1: on my Facebook page just in case you don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it is. And uh, you can probably just google
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  Speaker 1: Ohio Unclaimed Funds and go to it. But check that
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  Speaker 1: because it's I can't read that. Whatever you were holding
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  Speaker 1: up to me, by the way, was it something important?
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  Speaker 1: Is it vital? Do I need it?
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  Speaker 2: No? I'm trying to communicate with you, not on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: Why I didn't want me to talk anymore?
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  Speaker 1: So? Why who said I don't want you to talk?
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  Speaker 1: Who said I don't want you to talk? I can't
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  Speaker 1: read that.
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  Speaker 2: You were making fun of me earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Hurt my feeling. I make fun of you every day, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But that's time it really hurts.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry. Oh did you have a rough weekend?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: My son's eleven and he beat me at chess over
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  Speaker 2: and all.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a picture of him playing chess. Really is
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  Speaker 1: he that good at eleven years old?
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  Speaker 2: He's he knows all the moves?
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  Speaker 1: Or are you just stinky at chess?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just really bad? Like obviously, Like I'm not joking.
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  Speaker 2: He's teaching me because he learned from his I think
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  Speaker 2: his grandpaw and then his uncle taught him how to play.
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  Speaker 2: So he's like, let's play, and I'm like, I got
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  Speaker 2: the basic and he's like, you don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's I got you if you do this well, Professor Atach,
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  Speaker 1: would you like to play a game?
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  Speaker 2: He just destroys me.
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  Speaker 1: If he starts speaking with a Russian accent, you have
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  Speaker 1: no chance.
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  Speaker 2: They're pretty good starts reading complicated literature.
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  Speaker 1: And I used to have one of those computer ones
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  Speaker 1: where you could play against the computer when I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid, I think, but it is I wasn't bad.
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  Speaker 1: I probably fifty to fifty. But a JC Pitty catalog,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was twenty four ninety five, Wow, and
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah. I had read a book Fred Renfield was
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  Speaker 1: the author called Chess for Amateurs, and started playing chess.
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  Speaker 1: But as I grew older, I found most of my
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  Speaker 1: friends didn't play chess. Nobody played chess in the eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Backgammon was the thing, okay, and so I was one
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  Speaker 1: of those geeks that carried around the leather backgammon briefcase
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  Speaker 1: all the time. I couldn't play it today. If you ask,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I can't remember how to play, don't remember
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  Speaker 1: anything about it, don't remember any of the rules, don't
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  Speaker 1: remember how you went. I don't remember a squat about backgammon.
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  Speaker 1: But it was an addiction. In the early eighties. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: was playing backgammon and again. I think I got that
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  Speaker 1: from the Pennies catalog, if I'm not mistaken. I did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Pennies catalog stuff I was a kid
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  Speaker 1: because Mom had it there at the house, so I
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  Speaker 1: would That's how I shopped. There was no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as Amazon back then, and yeah it was. It was
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  Speaker 1: just it was one of those trendy things that lasted
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  Speaker 1: maybe a couple of years. And now I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the last time I've even seen a baggammon board. But
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't get away from it in the early eighties.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, keep playing with him, maybe you'll learn how
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  Speaker 1: to play better. I think I'd like to play again.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know anybody that has the patience required
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  Speaker 1: to play chess. People want everything quick, fast, in a
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  Speaker 1: hurry these days, and chess is uh. It's a strategic
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  Speaker 1: game and all the characters, all the pieces on the board,
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  Speaker 1: have their their various ways of movement, and it takes
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  Speaker 1: some understanding, and it just doesn't seem like people are
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  Speaker 1: into it. So I'm very proud to hear that young
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  Speaker 1: Charles is getting into UH. It's getting into it. And
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  Speaker 1: again the uh the State of Ole High website, did
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  Speaker 1: I finish saying I'm going to post that on the
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  Speaker 1: Facebook page when I get off the air, just so
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  Speaker 1: you've got a link to it. I don't know if if,
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  Speaker 1: if you've ever got a bunch of money, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not expecting a bunch of money. I just have a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of claims on here. But if it inspire me,
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  Speaker 1: I really I like to hear, yeah, I was on air,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was five thousand dollars. I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: hear that. Nine eight six A two one WTV. And
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  Speaker 1: unclaimed funds, which can come from you know, pretty much anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Any your money gets escrowed. If you don't pick it
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  Speaker 1: up at the real estate company or the lawyer's office
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  Speaker 1: or the insurance company or whatever, they have to put
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  Speaker 1: it in this account with the State of Ohio is
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  Speaker 1: unclaimed and you get to go get it back eventually,
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  Speaker 1: So the timing may be good. A two n w TV.
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  Speaker 1: That's the number. Got Matt standing by with something on chess.
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  Speaker 1: How are you, Matt?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm good. How are you doing? Chuck?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Sir?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean Zach hand inerve with me because he
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  Speaker 3: said that his eleven year old boy is beating him
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  Speaker 3: at chess, and I have eleven year old son, and
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  Speaker 3: we played chess over the weekend and I got him
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  Speaker 3: this time, but he beats me sometime. I mean, we're
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  Speaker 3: kind of neck and neck.
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  Speaker 1: Huh. Maybe maybe we'll have to have a showdown of
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  Speaker 1: the suns here, Zach.
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  Speaker 2: I again, I can't judge she's good or.
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  Speaker 1: They're both eleven, so that would be a fair match.
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  Speaker 2: That's fair, that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: How long, Matt, how long has your son been playing?
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  Speaker 3: Your boy's probably better. I don't know, a couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: We don't play as often as we'd like, but here
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  Speaker 3: lately he's been like, you know, i'd like to play.
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  Speaker 3: I said, how about once a week? So every weekend
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  Speaker 3: we'll play. We'll play a game. And but the difference is, though,
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  Speaker 3: is kind of to give him an advantage. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to say, whatever, he's eleven, you know, I'm forty eight.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be forty eight this week. I don't watch YouTube
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  Speaker 3: videos or read any research or anything. I just do
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  Speaker 3: from what I know. And you know what, I don't
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  Speaker 3: say common sense or whatever comes to me. But he's
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  Speaker 3: watched some YouTube videos and he came out with this
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  Speaker 3: opening a few times ago. We played, and I found
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  Speaker 3: out today it's called the Italian Opening, and I guess
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  Speaker 3: there's also a London opening that's very similar, yea. And
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  Speaker 3: he came out with it and just beat me something fierce,
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  Speaker 3: and so I knew that, and then I started seeing
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  Speaker 3: it come out more and I was like, okay, I
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  Speaker 3: got to figure out a defense against this thing. And
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  Speaker 3: this weekend, it was yesterday, actually we had a game
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  Speaker 3: and I saw it coming and I was like trying
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  Speaker 3: to theorize and figure and I defended against it and
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  Speaker 3: we got to It was a really good It was
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  Speaker 3: a really good game. We were both at each other's
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  Speaker 3: throats so were hard. It was like I had two
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  Speaker 3: of his pawns, he had two of my pawns, but
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  Speaker 3: all our power pieces right in the middle of the
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  Speaker 3: of the board, and just I was like, it's a
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  Speaker 3: tipping point. Something's gonna happen and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: pieces are gonna start flying, you know, off the board.
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  Speaker 3: And I got him, but he made me earn it.
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  Speaker 2: Matt's Son's definitely played longer than Charlie, but Charlie was
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  Speaker 2: taught by somebody who's pretty smart, so I, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know those formula players, the ones who have memorized, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the classic gamuts from from tournaments and so forth. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they they are either really really good because they can
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  Speaker 1: adjust to you, or they're really bad because they have
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  Speaker 1: to stick within that formula. Which is why if I
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  Speaker 1: know who that's who I'm up against, I'll throw some
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  Speaker 1: just crazy stuff at him. I will don't say my son,
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  Speaker 1: don't say my son was taught by somebody smarter than
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  Speaker 1: Charlie was, because I taught my son. So oh well,
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  Speaker 1: there goes that theory. Matt. Thanks for the call. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you, buddy, and happy birthday, by the way. In
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  Speaker 1: advance later on this week, Chris, you're on six ten
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  Speaker 1: dol etv in Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Hi Chuck. Yeah. I used to play chess with my
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  Speaker 4: dad when I was like fourteen fifteen. I'm sixty six now,
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  Speaker 4: but we were about fifty to fifty on winning the games.
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  Speaker 4: But I remember when I would beat him, he would
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  Speaker 4: get really angry and he would go out in his
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  Speaker 4: he'd get in his sixty eight tempest Pontiac and you
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  Speaker 4: can hear him out the revenue that enjined up real loud.
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  Speaker 1: All that that cheap gas going out the tail fight.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then when he would beat me, I would
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  Speaker 4: just kind of see inside and I wouldn't say anything.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I guess we both kind of had a temper.
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  Speaker 4: But him going out in that car revenue and ended
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  Speaker 4: up just pimming it parked in the driveway was still
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  Speaker 4: funny thinking about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you know, everybody expresses themselves in different ways.
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  Speaker 1: I usually when I lose, if I lose to somebody
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  Speaker 1: I expect to lose to, whether it's chess or anything else.
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  Speaker 1: I'm July okay, I bounce back pretty quickly. If it's
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  Speaker 1: somebody that I thought I should beat, I just I
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  Speaker 1: get very quiet. That's how you can tell you you
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  Speaker 1: got me good. If I shut up and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: quiet about say okay, good game, and we're done.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that hurt, right, She's wanting to know what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: Tell her it was it was all my fault. By Chris,
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  Speaker 1: have a good evening A two one nine eight six
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  Speaker 1: A two one WTV. And I see nobody jumping on
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  Speaker 1: the lines to tell me that they went to the
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  Speaker 1: unclaim funds here in the state of Ohio and got
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of money. I mean, I I'm not expecting
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of money even all these claims. It's probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna amount and would I say twelve to fifteen claims
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  Speaker 1: on there, it's probably twelve to fifteen dollars. Now I
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  Speaker 1: know what Some of it is old uh employee stock stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and uh some of it I recognize. But I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit down probably tomorrow because I'll be tired
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  Speaker 1: when I get home tonight, and act fill this stuff
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  Speaker 1: out and go get it. And Zach, you should too.
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  Speaker 1: You never know and check every zip code you put
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  Speaker 1: in your last name, your first name, your city, and
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  Speaker 1: your zip code, but not just where you live. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you lived in other zip codes in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio, put them into Because I found that I've
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  Speaker 1: got some at my current zip code, and I've got some,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, all the way back to nineteen ninety six,
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  Speaker 1: and I haven't gone back any farther than that. I
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  Speaker 1: may have some from before then when I was living
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  Speaker 1: at my parents or living at campus or whatever. That's
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  Speaker 1: just I think that's that's good. It's good. I probably
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  Speaker 1: not big good news, but it's good. City of Cambus
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  Speaker 1: is gonna spend some more money. On what they call
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  Speaker 1: affordable housing. I said, what they call affordable housing, and
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  Speaker 1: it's going to call looks like about one hundred million
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  Speaker 1: of your tax dollars. I will tell you about that. Also,
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  Speaker 1: this continual banging of the media drum about Republicans turning
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  Speaker 1: against the per and and organizing resistance efforts in the
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  Speaker 1: face of the tariffs, and blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: I have some thoughts on that still to come here
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  Speaker 1: before we get to the end of the Power Hour. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I also wanted to say you. Was it on the
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  Speaker 1: air when you were telling me you worked yesterday? No?
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  Speaker 1: You told Blazer you worked it. Did you also work Saturday? No,
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  Speaker 1: just Sunday? Just Sunday?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't know because I was going to commend
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  Speaker 1: you for doing a seven day week, but you didn't.
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  Speaker 1: You skipped one in there. You got a day of rest,
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  Speaker 1: and I got a respect for you.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I know, pretty lazy. I slept until seven today. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: I know, the days was almost there.
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  Speaker 1: It was done. Yeah, didn't you hate old people who
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  Speaker 1: did that when you were a kid? Washtay Man days
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  Speaker 1: half over. It was like six fifteen in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like my dad, I'm waiting for that stage
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  Speaker 1: of life. Yeah, because I was like that when I
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  Speaker 1: was young. In the middle you're not so much late,
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  Speaker 1: but when you get so old that you need like
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes of sleep and dinner is at three pm. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, where you're you're eating lunch at nine fifteen in the.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, actually from ten to ten twenty two every night. Yea, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll back up again. The thing of it is,
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  Speaker 1: once you've reached that stage of life, you also have
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  Speaker 1: a tendency to take naps at the most inopportune times,
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  Speaker 1: you know, red lights and such, and uh, that is
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  Speaker 1: not something that I'm looking forward to, but I just
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  Speaker 1: you know, I I envied my dad being able to
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  Speaker 1: just get up early and he'd go all day and
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  Speaker 1: I think half the time he might have been unconscious,
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  Speaker 1: but he was you know, he's still fixing the car
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  Speaker 1: while he was sleeping, and he got stuff done. You
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  Speaker 1: the time of your life when you could really seriously
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  Speaker 1: use the energy is the time you don't have it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's very that's that's kind of God's joke.
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  Speaker 1: It's cosmically unfair right now, I could use who is
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  Speaker 1: that youthful or or you know, soon to be elderly,
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  Speaker 1: energy that requires so very little sleep because I could
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  Speaker 1: get so much done at this stage of my life.
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  Speaker 1: If I could do that, by the time I can
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  Speaker 1: do it again, there will be nothing left to get done.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a sad thing.