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Bad People Do Bad Things · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greetings, salutations, welcome my friends to another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on 610 WTVN. I'm Chuck Douglas, you know
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  Speaker 1: who you are and we take it from there. We
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  Speaker 1: get one hour together, which means I talk really fast
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  Speaker 1: and you must listen even faster. My number 821-9886-821-WTVN. 1-800-610-WTVN
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  Speaker 1: as well. First of all, I told, if you were
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  Speaker 1: listening to the Blazer show this afternoon when I first
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  Speaker 1: came in, Mark and I were talking about just how
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  Speaker 1: messed up. This day has been crazy. And I told
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  Speaker 1: him I didn't want to talk about it at the time. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, since then, things have changed a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to let you know. Somebody to whom
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  Speaker 1: I have a connection, I'll put it that way, was
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  Speaker 1: involved in an auto accident this morning. They were driving
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  Speaker 1: in their assigned lane at the assigned speed limit and
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  Speaker 1: a truck pulled out of a side street and basically,
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  Speaker 1: while sitting still, sideswiped them because they pulled out into
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  Speaker 1: the oncoming traffic. Their vehicle then slid and basically they
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  Speaker 1: got the pit maneuver that the police do. Pretty much
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  Speaker 1: what happened here. Their vehicle flipped over. They did have
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  Speaker 1: a child on board. The child is okay. And it
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  Speaker 1: looks like they are okay as well. Thank goodness for that. Car,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, totaled. But when this happened, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my first thought was, see, we don't want the flock cameras.
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  Speaker 1: Got to shut down the flock cameras. The person in
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  Speaker 1: the truck fled the scene, dumped out of the truck
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  Speaker 1: a few blocks away, hid it behind a building, and
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  Speaker 1: took off. The flock cameras... would have been able to
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  Speaker 1: see that truck, where it went, who got out, and
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  Speaker 1: where they went. This is why I don't get the
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  Speaker 1: anti-flock mentality. Now, I get it that bad people do
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  Speaker 1: bad things. You shouldn't be following your ex in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: officers should not be running checks on license plates to
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  Speaker 1: see where their ex-spouse is going or whatever. I understand
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  Speaker 1: all that. But Denying yourself access to technology that makes
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  Speaker 1: society better and or safer because people are bad makes
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  Speaker 1: no sense to me. So at last check, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whoever was driving the truck is still still uncaught. There
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  Speaker 1: there are plenty of residential cameras and and other surveillance
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  Speaker 1: in that area. They will catch them. They will catch them.
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  Speaker 1: But the flock cameras would have followed that truck, and
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  Speaker 1: this would have been much easier. So cutting off your
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  Speaker 1: nose to spite your face, if you will, is I
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  Speaker 1: think that's where we stand with those things. And I've
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  Speaker 1: been saying it since the beginning. Everybody who called out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my invasion of privacy. I shouldn't be on camera.
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  Speaker 1: You're on camera everywhere anyway. Your phone's listening to you,
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  Speaker 1: everything you say, you're driving in the car, you got
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  Speaker 1: the phone, you drive past a pizza shop and suddenly
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  Speaker 1: pizza ads start popping up on your Facebook page. That's technology.
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  Speaker 1: It's all over. You're not getting away from it. You
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  Speaker 1: don't think your smart TV is listening to you. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is. Reporting back whatever you're watching. Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 1: That Alexa device. Yes, it is. You are under surveillance
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  Speaker 1: all the time. And when you're on a public street,
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  Speaker 1: your invasion of privacy is not even a consideration. Bad
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  Speaker 1: people do bad things. Sometimes they have access to technology
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  Speaker 1: we don't want them to have access to, and they
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  Speaker 1: should be penalized, penalized heavily when they misuse that technology,
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  Speaker 1: especially if they are in a position of trust, if
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  Speaker 1: they are a political figure, a law enforcement or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. Absolutely. Absolutely. But to deny yourself access to
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  Speaker 1: valuable technology because bad people do bad stuff is stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely stupid. Again, the driver of the vehicle and the
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  Speaker 1: child that flipped over, both are okay. But it's just
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  Speaker 1: a little goofy that the city of Columbus has decided
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  Speaker 1: we– we should take away a valuable tool because it's
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  Speaker 1: a hot button issue. It's a hot button issue. A
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  Speaker 1: year ago, data centers, everybody wanted the data centers. Let's
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  Speaker 1: bring in the data centers. And then somebody said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what about all the electric use and the water use?
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  Speaker 1: Then data centers are bad. Everybody's against the data centers.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hot button issue. We have got to stop
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  Speaker 1: governing like that. Enough people get mad and start saying stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and the next thing you know, there's a meeting of
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  Speaker 1: some lawmaking body, and they do something that's completely stupid
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  Speaker 1: because people are talking about it. That's why we end
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  Speaker 1: up with laws that contradict one another. Laws that seem
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  Speaker 1: to make no sense. Because at some point, somebody, some
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  Speaker 1: group of buddies... were loud enough to get the attention
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  Speaker 1: of people who wanted their support. And suddenly, it becomes
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  Speaker 1: an issue. Or maybe that's just me. Anyway, wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get that out of the way. Zachary is on the
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  Speaker 1: other side. You've been relatively quiet today, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Are you feeling okay? I know you worked yourself to
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  Speaker 1: death last week. Are you okay this week? I'm very okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that things worked out the way, you know.
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  Speaker 2: all circumstances aside.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I am too. Yeah, I am too. I would
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  Speaker 1: hate to see, uh, I would hate to see something bad.
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  Speaker 1: And to be powerless when something really bad happened would
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  Speaker 1: be even worse.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Fair enough. So, yeah. Um, what do I got
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  Speaker 1: going on here? There's, there's so much stuff. We had
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  Speaker 1: a call during the blazer show about issue three, and
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple of notes from, uh, People at
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  Speaker 1: the Board of Elections that are on my, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: my friends list or whatever, just thanking me for concisely
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  Speaker 1: answering what Issue 3 is all about. If you weren't
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  Speaker 1: there for that, people are questioning that. Isn't it already
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  Speaker 1: the rules? Isn't it already the law that you have
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  Speaker 1: to show ID to vote? Yes, it is. What Issue
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  Speaker 1: 3 is doing, I'm going to say this again, just
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  Speaker 1: in case you weren't listening earlier. State Issue 3 makes
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  Speaker 1: the requirement to provide identification to vote a state constitutional
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  Speaker 1: issue as opposed to just making it the law, the legislation.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, if you get, and you know, it's possible.
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  Speaker 1: If you get enough people from the left side of
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  Speaker 1: the political spectrum into the legislature and they decide they
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  Speaker 1: want to change that law, they can. And that's something
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  Speaker 1: that seems to be a point of unity with Democrats
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  Speaker 1: slash lefties. You shouldn't have to show ID to vote.
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  Speaker 1: You just should be able to vote. If you're there,
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  Speaker 1: you should be able to vote. No. No. By making
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  Speaker 1: this a constitutional issue as opposed to a piece of legislation,
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  Speaker 1: future legislators in the state of Ohio can't just decide
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  Speaker 1: to change the rules. It would take a vote of
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  Speaker 1: the people of the state of Ohio, and I think
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  Speaker 1: we would need a two-thirds majority if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: It's worded some way that we would need so many
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  Speaker 1: votes from so many counties or whatever in order to
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  Speaker 1: change the state constitution. But this makes sure that voter
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  Speaker 1: ID will be required. Absolutely nobody can change it unless
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  Speaker 1: the people of the state of Ohio as a whole
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  Speaker 1: decide to change it. And I've said before, I've been
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  Speaker 1: checked for ID. I've never voted and not been asked
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  Speaker 1: for my identification. Even when the poll worker was my
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  Speaker 1: next door neighbor for many years, I had to show identification.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like common sense. But again, there's no
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  Speaker 1: such thing these days as common sense. What we take
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  Speaker 1: for granted, some people are adamantly against. And I really
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  Speaker 1: don't know why. I really don't know why. Well, some
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  Speaker 1: people can't afford to get an ID. Okay, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: If you are that broke, then I'm sure we can
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  Speaker 1: come up with a program to provide you with a
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  Speaker 1: state identification card. If you're that broke, you're probably receiving SNAP, EBT, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: or Medicaid or any of the other state programs that
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  Speaker 1: are there to supposedly take care of people. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're on one of those and you don't have an
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  Speaker 1: ID or a driver's license, yeah, fine. Apply and the
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  Speaker 1: state should give you one. Why not? We spend tons
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  Speaker 1: of money on everything else. Take away that one argument.
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  Speaker 1: That one argument. People can't afford to get it. Take
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  Speaker 1: away that and they got nothing left. Nothing left unless,
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  Speaker 1: of course, they want to be completely insulting to the
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  Speaker 1: people that they are using as a political crony. in
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  Speaker 1: order to justify their argument. The only thing you got
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  Speaker 1: left after a free ID is available, only thing you
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  Speaker 1: got left is people are just too stupid and lazy.
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  Speaker 1: That's all you are left with. And if you want
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  Speaker 1: to start calling them stupid and lazy, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: cancel out any support you have from them. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not into big government. I hate government constantly spending
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  Speaker 1: money on silly things. But if that would negate the argument,
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  Speaker 1: providing free identification to anybody who needs it, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying give them a free driver's license. If you want
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  Speaker 1: the privilege of driving, then you need to pay the
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  Speaker 1: cost for that. Get a driver's license, pay the toll.
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  Speaker 1: But if you just want an ID, yeah, let's provide it.
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  Speaker 1: Questions from the class over there? You got any questions
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  Speaker 1: from there? Are you with me on this or not?
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  Speaker 2: No, I do like the idea of setting up a
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  Speaker 2: whole governmental program just to get people ID.
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  Speaker 1: You got the programs in place already. I know. It's
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  Speaker 1: in place already. All they have to do is apply
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  Speaker 1: and check the box on the form. I received this
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  Speaker 1: social welfare benefit of whatever and check the box on
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  Speaker 1: the form. Cross check it.
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  Speaker 2: Do they?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they do. Bam. Give them their ID. It would
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  Speaker 1: not be that– it only gets hard when people make
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  Speaker 1: it hard to justify the paycheck that they're getting at
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  Speaker 1: taxpayer expense. That's when things get difficult.
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  Speaker 2: They could have whole classes. You graduate from a class,
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  Speaker 2: government class, to learn how to.
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  Speaker 1: Get an ID. Do they even have government classes in
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  Speaker 1: school anymore? If you have a high school kid, do
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  Speaker 1: they still– we used to call it POD, principles of democracy.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: Charlie's in– Junior high?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, you didn't take that until your
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  Speaker 1: senior year of high school when I was a kid. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's when you're older.
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  Speaker 1: I'll check it. Yeah, if you've got a high school
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  Speaker 1: senior and they're still doing POD or government, I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to know at 821-9886, 821-WTVN, because I doubt that they are.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like they teach history anymore. Why should they
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  Speaker 1: teach civics? Don't laugh at it. I'm being serious.
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  Speaker 2: All I remember from my history class at high school
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  Speaker 2: was 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade. America,
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  Speaker 2: World War II, Hitler won– or I'm sorry. We beat Hitler, America,
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  Speaker 2: and Hitler, American Hitler, and then America and Hitler, America won.
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  Speaker 2: And then a little bit about the Civil War.
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  Speaker 1: That's literally it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember anything else.
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  Speaker 1: I got the same way. I loved history. I got
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  Speaker 1: the same way. It was so– every year it was
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  Speaker 1: just re-teaching the same crap. Yes. Until February, in which
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  Speaker 1: case peanut butter. But aside from that, there was nothing.
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  Speaker 1: School camp. bore your mind. If you get bored, you
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  Speaker 1: don't learn anymore. And it kind of negates the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of going to school, doesn't it? At least I think so.