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Oscars and TV · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: American Dad came back this weekend. That made me happy,
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Speaker 1: It really did. I was just during the break here
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Speaker 1: watching video. I don't even know who this guy was.
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Speaker 1: He was running around the red carpet at some awards.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it was the Academy Awards last night, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but he just he apparently is very good at impersonating people.
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Speaker 1: Although I didn't think he was that good. Maybe it's
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Speaker 1: when you see him in person doing it. But he
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Speaker 1: was going up to people and impersonating them, Nicholas Cage
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Speaker 1: and and the one he goes up to Seth MacFarland
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Speaker 1: and he starts doing Stewie and then he flipped over
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Speaker 1: to Roger and Seth MacFarland although he used some gratuitous
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Speaker 1: language in there, said if you did this all the time,
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Speaker 1: I could get my weekends off. And I just I'm
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Speaker 1: watching that going, oh my gosh. I wish he'd say
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Speaker 1: that to me, because I I would, in a heartbeat,
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Speaker 1: learn to do those voices for it. I don't even
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Speaker 1: know who this guy is. Just so you have any
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Speaker 1: idea who I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: No, I have no clue, cannot tell you, cannot help.
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Speaker 1: And he was talking, he was talking about yeah, that's true,
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Speaker 1: and you're very good at it. You He was talking
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Speaker 1: to I think it was Adam Sandler. Does Adam Sandler
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Speaker 1: sound really gruff lately? Is he getting old? And his
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Speaker 1: voice is more like, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, he's getting older. I don't think he sounds rough.
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Speaker 1: He not the same old guy. He's just I don't know,
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Speaker 1: there's something about him that just But anyway, he was
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Speaker 1: talking to him and uh, and he said, you gotta
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Speaker 1: get on SNL or something. He goes, I don't think
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Speaker 1: the kid said, I don't think they even know about it.
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Speaker 1: He goes, well, they will, so maybe he'll pop up
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Speaker 1: on the next season of Saturday Night Live. Nice be
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Speaker 1: nice to have somebody actually funny in there, really, I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's nobody who stands out is do you are you
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Speaker 1: still watching? No?
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Speaker 2: I haven't watched. Like I'll see clips on YouTube and
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Speaker 2: stuff like the fake commercials they do, and some of
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Speaker 2: it's funny, but I just I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I've never there will never be a fake commercial better
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Speaker 1: than the basmatic just saying, uh, we were talking about
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Speaker 1: it last week, Mark and I a little bit just
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Speaker 1: that what used to be in the very beginning, you know,
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Speaker 1: they're not ready for prime time players. I think there
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Speaker 1: were sick. I think we ended up with six. Now
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Speaker 1: they have like eighteen nineteen people in the cast, and
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Speaker 1: the show is not as productive or groundbreaking or humorous
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Speaker 1: now with all of those brains involved in putting it
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Speaker 1: together every week, not even close to what it was
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Speaker 1: way back in you know, the seventies when it started.
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Speaker 1: So they could use a breath of fresh air. The
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Speaker 1: problem is, once somebody really goes in there and makes
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Speaker 1: a big name for themselves, you know they'll be gone immediately,
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Speaker 1: like Eddie Murphy was. Piscopo went on to something completely
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Speaker 1: different instead of you know, he did a little acting
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Speaker 1: here and there, they little stand up here and there,
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Speaker 1: but you know he's doing he's doing and radio. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Yes he's been. I think he's a
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Speaker 1: w ABC in New York. Been there for years. He
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Speaker 1: has been there for years. And uh, you know, Eddie
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Speaker 1: Murphy and Joe Piscopo as a team were excellent. Piscopo
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Speaker 1: and Billy Crystal together were excellent. What we just that
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Speaker 1: was kind of the end of it for me. There's
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Speaker 1: been nobody since then. Michael Jay every now and then
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Speaker 1: made me chuckle. Yeah, and he says funny stuff too.
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Speaker 1: The trouble is his delivery bothers me. The line may
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Speaker 1: be good, but he has this like I'm embarrassed to
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Speaker 1: say this thing going on all the time.
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Speaker 2: I always liked the news on it. But just to
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Speaker 2: varying degree is Norm McDonald was say the most basic
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Speaker 2: yeah ever and it would be hilarious his deadpan delivery
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Speaker 2: and how he did it.
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Speaker 1: Norm McDowell, and he was he was with Seth MacFarlane
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Speaker 1: in uh uh, the Orville and he played a blob,
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Speaker 1: just a gelatine blob of a character and it was
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Speaker 1: actually pretty good. So anyway, I don't know why that
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Speaker 1: popped into my head again. Columbus, City of Columbus, I
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Speaker 1: told you this. There was something that the mayor said,
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Speaker 1: and when he said it, I said, no, it's not
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Speaker 1: gonna happen, not gonna happen. Well, they've released the numbers
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Speaker 1: and it didn't happen. That was the number of police
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Speaker 1: recruits in twenty twenty five. The numbers are out and
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Speaker 1: we fell sixty short of the stated goal that the
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Speaker 1: mayor put out there. Now, I don't think that's because
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Speaker 1: you know, the hiring requirements are so stringent that people
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Speaker 1: couldn't get passed. Honestly, because and I got a lot
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Speaker 1: of cops that listened to this show. It's not like
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Speaker 1: I'll never be bad mouthing the police, but hiring standards
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Speaker 1: are not necessarily what they were twenty five years ago,
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Speaker 1: I'll put it that way. The trouble is, who really
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Speaker 1: wants to be a police officer these days, if they're
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Speaker 1: just starting out, They're watching the way the media handles
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Speaker 1: the police, the way the municipality, the government handles the police,
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Speaker 1: the lack of backing, the constant blame. It's hard to
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Speaker 1: get somebody twenty one years old, twenty years old and say, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you want to do this for the rest of y'all.
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Speaker 1: You want to go out and you want to risk
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Speaker 1: your life and be shot at and accused of things
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Speaker 1: and all this for the rest of your life, or
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Speaker 1: at least for the next twenty five years, and in
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Speaker 1: exchange will give you a paycheck. There's too many other
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Speaker 1: ways for people to make some pretty decent money, especially
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Speaker 1: young innovative people, for them to say, yeah, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to do this. I'm going to be a police officer
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Speaker 1: in a city where I don't if it hits the fan,
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Speaker 1: who's got my back, perhaps my fellow officers, But after
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Speaker 1: that we're kind of on our own. And I knew
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Speaker 1: that they would fall short on that goal, and I'm
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Speaker 1: sad that I was right, because I don't want to
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Speaker 1: be right. I want the service to your fellow man
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Speaker 1: as an officer of the law to be a respected
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Speaker 1: and desired occupation. I want kids to want to grow
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Speaker 1: up to be a policeman, to be a fireman, to
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Speaker 1: be a soldier or whatever those things of my ilk
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Speaker 1: my era that seemed so normal, so natural. But you're
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Speaker 1: not going to be able to do that today. Public
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Speaker 1: Safety Department said, CPD has a record number right now,
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Speaker 1: which I still think is too small, nineteen thousand, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: nineteen hundred and eighty five officers. I believe that is
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Speaker 1: these new glasses are absolutely terrible. Are had a record
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Speaker 1: number nineteen thousand or nineteen hundred eighty five in twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 1: As of January first of twenty twenty six, they had
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Speaker 1: nineteen hundred twenty five, so sixty fewer officers than they
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Speaker 1: did in twenty nineteen. The city continues to grow the
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Speaker 1: city's population continues to become more diverse. The calls upon
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Speaker 1: law enforcement are are just constant. There are people here.
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Speaker 1: And I've mentioned this before, back when I was working
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Speaker 1: traffic here. We had a big wall full of scanners
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Speaker 1: out there in the newsroom. And there was one one
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Speaker 1: apartment community which is largely non Indigenous peoples, if you will,
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Speaker 1: There was a maternity run pretty much every morning where
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Speaker 1: these women were pregnant and instead of going to their doctor,
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Speaker 1: they would just call the ambulance to come by and
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Speaker 1: you know, check them out. Constantly. Almost every morning you
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Speaker 1: would hear that call going out to the apartment complex.
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Speaker 1: They don't use the services in the most responsible way,
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Speaker 1: but fire and police still have to respond. Last week,
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Speaker 1: the city announced that they were going to have these
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Speaker 1: the social workers, the mental health people going out. Do
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Speaker 1: you think they're going to go out without police accompaniment. No,
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Speaker 1: of course not. At least they better not because if
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Speaker 1: you send some you know, fresh from college social worker,
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Speaker 1: young lady holding her clipboard and remembering her textbooks into
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Speaker 1: some crazy person's world, and something happens to them because
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Speaker 1: they had no backup, that's going to be a whole
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Speaker 1: new ball. That's when it comes to lawsuits. You can't
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Speaker 1: do that. Officers are going to have to be there.
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Speaker 1: And the mental health issues are running rampant, drug induced
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Speaker 1: or otherwise running rampant in central ohioland across this country.
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Speaker 1: We need more than nineteen hundred and was nineteen or
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Speaker 1: twenty five officers. Let us not forget too that among
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Speaker 1: those are senior staff members, not street officers. Among those
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Speaker 1: are detectives, not street officers. Among those are administrative not
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Speaker 1: street officers. So I don't know of the nineteen twenty five,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many of them are actually street officers.
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Speaker 1: Big city continuing to grow, annexing land More area to
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Speaker 1: cover more people coming in, more problem coming with those people,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not surprised. According to the Channel six story,
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Speaker 1: Mayor Ginther said Columbus needed to remain competitive with paying benefits.
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Speaker 1: And I will suggest this in addition to the benefit
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Speaker 1: of your hourly pay, your vacation time, your medical benefits,
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, is the benefit of knowing the Mayor's
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Speaker 1: office has your back. And until we can can provide
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Speaker 1: that benefit, I don't know that any amount of money
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Speaker 1: is going to convince any young person, especially if they
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Speaker 1: talk to a cop who's been on the job going
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Speaker 1: to convince them that that's the way to go. So
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Speaker 1: I believe that recruitment of officers is likely going to
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Speaker 1: be a problem for at least the next few years.
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Speaker 1: Unless I don't know, something happens at the ballot box
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Speaker 1: that will never happened here. Of course, they talked to
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Speaker 1: Brian Steele, the FOP President of lodgeing On. He said,
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Speaker 1: the City of Columbus set an ambitious goal for hiring
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Speaker 1: police officers, and unfortunately that goal has not yet been met.
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Speaker 1: It's important to recognize that this is not due to
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Speaker 1: a lack of effort or commitment from Chief Elaine Bryant,
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Speaker 1: Mayor Andrew Ginther, or the dedicated recruiters within the Columbus
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Speaker 1: Division of Police. They have been working tirelessly to attract
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Speaker 1: qualified candidates, and I appreciate the continued support from the
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Speaker 1: mayor and city Council for the men and women who
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Speaker 1: serve in uniform. Love you, Brian, but that was a
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Speaker 1: very well crafted statement. It was a very well crafted
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Speaker 1: statement their support in the effort to recruit. Okay, I'll
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Speaker 1: go along with that, but until the support is overall,
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Speaker 1: I just don't see it getting any better. And that's
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Speaker 1: sad because I think we probably benefit with the city
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Speaker 1: this size, at this point in time, with this population,
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Speaker 1: we'd probably benefit from about twenty seven hundred officers, allowing
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Speaker 1: for about nineteen hundred of those to be street officers,
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Speaker 1: three shifts a day, twenty four hours a day, seven
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Speaker 1: days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year.
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Speaker 1: And that's just for the immediate foreseeable future. We want
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Speaker 1: to be like the big cities. We're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: staff like the big cities. Or maybe that's just me.
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Speaker 1: You're looking, you're peeking over. You look like that Where's Waldoka?
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Speaker 1: Not where's Waldo? But that character from the eighties that
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Speaker 1: used to peak over the ledge at.
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Speaker 2: People Home Improvement, the neighbor guy.
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Speaker 1: Yes, there you go. I was his name, just neighbor Wilson. Wilson.
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Speaker 1: That's right. He's dead now, so it doesn't matter. Okay, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll forget him.
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Speaker 2: But no, I was trying to make sure things run. Okay,
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Speaker 2: back here. Not an easy job.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you're still talking to Sarah, aren't you. No? What
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Speaker 1: movie are you going to see?
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Speaker 2: Devil's Reject with the kids?
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Speaker 1: Never heard of that.
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Speaker 2: Came out twenty years ago.
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Speaker 1: The good movie.
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Speaker 2: It's Rob Zombie movies.
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Speaker 1: You check it out.
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Speaker 2: It's the sequel to the House of a Thousand Queestions.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to help you when you keep unhelping yourself.
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Speaker 2: Man, Yeah,