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Mayor Ginther and Vivek Ramaswamy · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas, the Power Hour, 610 WTVN, 821-9886. My number, 821-WTVN, 1-800-610-WTVN.
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  Speaker 1: Quickly here. I know you're a UK guy, University of
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky guy. How do you feel about Louisville? Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: The city's cool. The basketball team's not cool. How about football?
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  Speaker 1: Don't care at all. I liked Louisville when Rick Pitino
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  Speaker 1: coached them because he was a coach for Kentucky prior. Well,
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  Speaker 1: following in the footsteps of Kyle McCord and one Joe Burrow,
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Kineholz, after being dismissed from the Ohio State University,
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  Speaker 1: filing his transfer portal stuff and all that stuff, will
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  Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback at Louisville this season. So we
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  Speaker 1: see how that worked out for Burrow. See what happens
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  Speaker 1: to Louisville. Here's Burrow. Shut up. Shut up. I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe we let him go. When I watch now, I'm like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if only. But, you know, you can only have so
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  Speaker 1: many members on a team. That's what it comes down to.
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  Speaker 1: This is a bothersome story. And it's not an unfeeling
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  Speaker 1: story because I don't know. Honestly, I don't know how.
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  Speaker 1: I could possibly take losing one of my kids, especially
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  Speaker 1: at their own hand. But the story of this Haitian immigrant,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mad at him. I'm mad at all of
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  Speaker 1: the grandstanding virtues signaling crapola that I'm seeing from individuals
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  Speaker 1: or organizations, politicians, including in cutting to the wind, He
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  Speaker 1: had to take this opportunity to once again issue his
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  Speaker 1: statement in disagreement with the Trump administration. Of course, he
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  Speaker 1: has more right to do that, as far as I'm concerned,
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  Speaker 1: than the mayor of Columbus, Ohio, because Andy Ginther had
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  Speaker 1: to issue his statement, too. I think it took four screenshots,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, for him to post his thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on this tragic event. And as usual— The responses that
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  Speaker 1: I was reading on his Facebook page, probably not what
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  Speaker 1: he was expecting. Look, I used to say this. If
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  Speaker 1: I could talk to Joe Biden, I would have said, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: you're done. Stop. If I could talk to Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: it would be, Don, don't tweet squat. Send it to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll work it into something non-offensive. Still keep your meaning,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll tweet on your behalf. And if I could
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  Speaker 1: talk to Andy Guenther, I'd say, just get off social media.
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  Speaker 1: Everything he's posting, do you follow his page? No. I
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  Speaker 1: might follow him, but I don't ever look. You would
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  Speaker 1: think his supporters, and he's got some, you would think
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  Speaker 1: that they would be there to pump him up every
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  Speaker 1: time he puts something on his social media, his Facebook page.
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  Speaker 1: Everything I've seen the last few days is I've been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, paying more attention, paying closer attention. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say anywhere from 65 to 80 percent negative. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know why he keeps doing it. Probably
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  Speaker 1: not him. Probably a staffer or something. Could be a staffer,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm assuming that he would... Oh, I would be like,
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  Speaker 1: stop doing that. Yeah, at least be monitoring what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: And again, people need people to tell them the truth.
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  Speaker 1: You get too many yes men around you and they
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  Speaker 1: never tell you what's actually going on. Hey, you're making
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  Speaker 1: an idiot of yourself here. Somebody needs to tell them
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Dude, you need to go look at your
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  Speaker 1: page because everybody responding to everything that gets posted... You've
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  Speaker 1: got an 8 out of 10 chance they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be slamming you. And there's been no shortage, as I
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  Speaker 1: said earlier during the talk with Mark. His pandering is
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  Speaker 1: just over the top. And then this. He had to
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  Speaker 1: issue his statement. It didn't happen in Columbus. You're not
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  Speaker 1: the mayor of Springfield. You're not the mayor of Springfield.
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  Speaker 1: But you had to turn it into, you know, you try.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make it about Columbus and the immigrant community. No,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't. It was you saying, see me, see me,
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  Speaker 1: see me. Here's a picture of me with a black
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  Speaker 1: church group. Here's a picture of me with a black society.
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  Speaker 1: What is it? The merrymakers, a social group. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: picture of me with the gay softball players. He's just special,
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  Speaker 1: interesting himself like crazy. Pandering. And again, I say this
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  Speaker 1: is because of Shannon Harden's announcement. When Shannon Harden announced
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  Speaker 1: he was running for mayor, first of all, that's that.
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  Speaker 1: You don't do that. You don't do that. You're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to stay down there on your level. The boss is
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  Speaker 1: up here on this level. Don't you dare. But he did. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm no fan of him either. But. I
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  Speaker 1: think chances are pretty good that he takes Ginther out
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  Speaker 1: of contention in the mayoral election next year. While they
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  Speaker 1: are both left-leaning, liberal-minded, socialist-thinking people, Hardin has the advantage.
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  Speaker 1: He has the advantage. Younger, black, and gay. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how many pictures Andy Ginther takes with gay athletes,
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  Speaker 1: the bona fides, as they say, are with Shannon Harden.
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  Speaker 1: And that is exactly why he's doing all these social
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  Speaker 1: media posts all of a sudden. Ask yourself this, people.
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  Speaker 1: Especially you. I was in a picture with the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: It was wonderful to take a picture with the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: I love taking a picture with the mayor. When did
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  Speaker 1: you see him in your neighborhood before that? What events
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  Speaker 1: did he attend before that? Politicians are one, and I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, both sides of the fence. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: just Democrats. This is a person thing. They come out
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  Speaker 1: when they want something from you. They show up at
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  Speaker 1: your events when they want something from you. Not like
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  Speaker 1: the good old days. They used to actually be around
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  Speaker 1: now and then. We had over on my beloved west side,
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  Speaker 1: actually not too far from where you live now, Zach,
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  Speaker 1: Gene Watts. Gene Watts, a member of the legislature, and
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  Speaker 1: you used to see Gene all over the place. Chalmers Wiley.
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  Speaker 1: He had that Porter Wagner hair. Chalmers had the big hair.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what? I'd see him at the Dairy Queen.
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  Speaker 1: See him at the bowling alley? Always had Chalmers Wiley
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  Speaker 1: pins and pencils to give you, too, so his name
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  Speaker 1: was in your hand. Michael Stenziano. What, he was a
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  Speaker 1: state rep? Not Stenziano or auditor. I'm talking the previous
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  Speaker 1: generation of Stenziano. But down at the corner of West
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  Speaker 1: Broad Street and White Thorn Avenue. There was a brick
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  Speaker 1: house that he used as his community office, had the
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  Speaker 1: Stenziano banner painted on the front, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times you'd go in there and you'd find him right
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  Speaker 1: in there. Somewhere I still got a postcard, a Christmas
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  Speaker 1: postcard from M.E. Sensenbrenner that was sent Christmas time to
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  Speaker 1: my grandmother. Sensenbrenner is a Democrat. Grandma voted straight out Republican.
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  Speaker 1: But Mayor Sensenbrenner had it on the mail list for
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  Speaker 1: the official holiday card. Those days, they were involved with you.
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  Speaker 1: You heard from them. You saw them occasionally. They were
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood or they'd come to the community events.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's only when they want something. And if you've
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  Speaker 1: looked back through pictures, pictures, pictures, pictures all over social media...
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  Speaker 1: and seen none of this, and now you're seeing nothing
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  Speaker 1: but this, that should tell you something. This is specifically
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  Speaker 1: heavy on my mind because of, and I addressed this
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  Speaker 1: on my Facebook page the other day, a criticism, a
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  Speaker 1: rather sharp criticism I saw, of Vivek Ramaswamy, or Vivek Ramaswamy,
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  Speaker 1: I guess is the correct way to say that. And
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  Speaker 1: I've been very clear about him. Yeah. I'll vote for him,
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  Speaker 1: most likely. I'm not thrilled about it. I'm not thrilled
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  Speaker 1: about the way the whole process went. Not thrilled about
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio Republican Party endorsing him before the people got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to make some choices. But if it's between
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  Speaker 1: him and Amy Acton, unless the Libertarian candidate makes a
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  Speaker 1: big surge and starts getting some attention, if it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to him or Amy Acton, yeah, I'll end up
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  Speaker 1: voting for him. But someone had posted a very, very pointed,
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  Speaker 1: fairly nasty post about Ramaswamy and the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: never see him with any people of color. Every picture
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  Speaker 1: he takes is with white people. And I'm like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: If you think about it, the pictures he takes are
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  Speaker 1: generally like at his events where people have come out
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  Speaker 1: to see him and listen to a speech or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's because not a lot of people who are
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  Speaker 1: non-white are showing up at those events. And perhaps if
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  Speaker 1: they see themselves as being used and manipulated and nothing
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  Speaker 1: but photo opportunities for politicians, maybe they would go hear
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  Speaker 1: what the man has to say. And then they could
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  Speaker 1: take a picture with him. And then you'd be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But it really bugged me that somebody... We shouldn't care.
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  Speaker 1: It should not matter. How the hell did we go backwards?
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  Speaker 1: We have gone backwards. When I was a young man,
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  Speaker 1: a young adult... Seriously, the whole race thing was pretty
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  Speaker 1: much gone. We just did not care. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: gay people were becoming more open. And we were just,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, we just accepted each other as being
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  Speaker 1: each other. And we were on track. And somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: the last 20 years, we just, we about faced, man.
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  Speaker 1: Now people are worried about, I have to take pictures
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  Speaker 1: with some black people. I have to be seen with
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  Speaker 1: the black people. Why isn't he taking pictures with the
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  Speaker 1: black people? Man, can we put all that crap down
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  Speaker 1: the toilet and flush it and get on with the
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  Speaker 1: real business of life, which is how are you going
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  Speaker 1: to represent me? What are you going to do for
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  Speaker 1: my state, my fellow man, the big picture, the greater good,
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  Speaker 1: not just me, me, me, me, me, me, me, but us?
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  Speaker 1: Nobody thinks that way anymore. I'm such a dinosaur. Music's playing.
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  Speaker 1: Time for me to fly. Back in a blazer tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: beginning at 3. Join us on 610 WTVN.