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23 1215 Die Hard and such · Chuck Douglas

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  Originating from the iHeartMedia Megaplex and Columbus, Ohio, the studios of six'
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  ten WTVN. This is Chuck Douglas Power Our Podcast. Greetings, my friends,
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  said, welcome to the Chuck Douglas Power Our Podcast. Going into the
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  weekend. It is the fifteenth day of December and twenty e twenty three,
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  And of course the debate always comes up each and every year. Every single
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  year, the debate comes up, is or is not die Hard a Christmas
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  movie? I finally came up with the definitive answer as I had this conversation
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  in this past week. Diehard is a Christmas movie as long as Same Old
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  Langzine is a Christmas song. Ha ha. But Same Old Langzine isn't a
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  Christmas song according to my buddy. So if it's not, then Diehard.
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  Scott, sorry about your luck. But the that's the way it goes.
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  Some stuff I didn't get a chance to talk about on the air this week
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  that I want to talk about on the podcast, including the effort in New
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  Jersey to eliminate their graduation test throughout the state of New Jersey. And I
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  was thinking about that. You know, your initial reaction is, oh,
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  no, we don't want to do that because we have to measure the academics,
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  the academic performance of our students before we give them a diploma and send
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  them out into the world. On the surface, that's correct. But the
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  reason I'm thinking this may not be such a bad idea in New Jersey and
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  frankly all over the place is because of my experience right here in central Ohio
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  with my kids coming up, my youngest child, my son, my clone
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  who you know, watching him grow up, I couldn't have been happier,
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  couldn't have been happier. Of course, he stumbled every year and there and
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  did some stupid stuff. That's what teenagers do. But all in all,
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  man, man, what a kid. And he turned into quite a young
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  man as well. But when he was a senior in high school, he
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  was querying me about the Ohio High School graduation test. In fact, he
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  wasn't even a senior. He was in tenth grade. But you start taking
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  it, this is how worried they are you're not going to pass. You
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  start taking it as a sophomore. So in tenth grade he took the Ohio
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  Graduation Test for the first time, and he passed it. He passed it,
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  So he asked me he did. He asked me, hey, Dad,
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  He called me dad, Hey Dad? Why do I have to keep
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  going to school? If I passed the graduation test, because that's the stuff
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  you're supposed to know in order to graduate. And if I passed the graduation
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  test in tenth grade, why do I have to go to eleventh grade in
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  twelfth grade? What's the point I've already shown that I know as much as
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  they require me to know to graduate from high school. And the best I
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  could come up with was that Scooby do noise. Because there is no answer
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  to that. There is no answer. It's like, you know, the
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  let's call it the young Sheldon concept. Kids go into you know, college
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  when they're just youngsters, just by a base, and they're smart enough.
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  Every now and then somebody comes along. It's just a genius. They're smart
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  enough to go to college when they are in their you know, preteens.
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  Even so that can happen and those kids are not stopped from pursuing further academics.
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  Why should then kids be forced into pursuing further academics if they have already
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  shown that they meet or exceed the criteria set forth by the academic gods as
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  to what they need to know in order to graduate. The boy was in
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  tenth grade. He was absolutely right. Unless they're gonna throw some nil money
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  at him, why should he stay around. So if you up, you
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  hear about the story in New Jersey and you think immediately, oh, no,
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  that's a bad idea. We shouldn't do that. I'm asking you,
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  rethink that before you commit yourself ultimately to a position. Rethink that, because
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  my son's situation, quite frankly, taught me a whole bunch. While I'm
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  thinking about the schools, the public school systems, at least here in the
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  city of Columbus, Ohio. And while I'm thinking about that, here's I
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  got something I got to ask you again. I got to ask you this.
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  What business is it of the school system whether or not your teenager gets
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  a part time job? This is something this is completely new to me.
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  It's not the way it was when I was a kid way back in the
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  seventeen hundreds. But apparently for your high schooler to get their first part time
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  job, you know, everybody wants to get old pocket money. They turn
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  sixteen, they want to get a job. Okay, in order to do
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  that, you must go to the Board of Education and request a work permit.
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  Permit as in permission. Since when does the public school system need to
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  give their permission for somebody to go out and get a job. I think
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  that's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. I'm in a really
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  bad position here of having to once again say, you go to John Fetterman.
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  Hang on a second, I'm gonna throw up. So mister Federman,
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  I'll call him Senator Feederman. You know what, I'm going to give him
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  the respect because he's he's acting far differently than I expected his shorts and hoodie
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  to act. I will call him Senator Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, breaking
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  with progressives, according to MSNBC News here over the hot button issues, his
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  fiery support for Israel and his calls for Democrats to engage on tougher immigration laws
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  disappointing some on the left as he shows an independent streak. He's continually scoting
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  Democrats for not pushing Senator Bob Menendez out of office after he was indicted on
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  federal charges of taking bribes and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt, which
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  the new Jersey Democrat denies Fetterman. Fatterman is wow. Man, you go,
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  John Fetterman. If you keep this up, Democrat or not, I'm
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  impressed. I'm sure you'll go back to your evil Democrat waits, But for
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  now I am impressed. He is. Actually, I mentioned a few weeks
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  ago, he seems to be more coherent, he seems to be more vocal,
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  and what's coming out of his face is actually pretty dog gone good.
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  So as long as he stays on this path, I'm going to be a
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  Fetterman's cheerleader. Believe it or not. Crazier things have happened. I had
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  mentioned during the radio show this past week a lawsuit that had been filed by
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  the family of someone. They lost their They a woman lost her son,
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  a young man I believe he was twenty one years old. He tried to
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  stop a robbery at a gas station on the west side of Columbus. He
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  was killed in his attempt to stop that robbery. Well, the family is
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  suing the gas and while I completely understand the pain, I'm a dad,
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  I'm a granddad. I understand the pain of losing this young man, of
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  the child that is his biologically never knowing him. That's something that is It's
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  tragic, it really is, But suing a gas station for not protecting a
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  customer just seemed to bid out of line. The gas station can only do
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  so much. People come and go. It's a gas station. It's open
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  to the public. Anyone can come on that lot, and there's unless they're
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  you know, loitering, hanging around doing something. They can't really even be
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  asked to be removed from the lot. And if they refuse to go,
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  what are you going to do. It's not like the police are going to
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  show up and tell you to get off the lot. So I don't know
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  what the gas station could have done, and I absolutely understand the pain the
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  family is experiencing, but I thought their efforts to sue the gas station were
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  misdirected. And then there was this story out of Chicago. She was nineteen
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  years old, Kanika Jenkins. She went to a party at a hotel in
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  Illinois and apparently she was taking some medication, some prescribed medication, drinking on
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  top of it, and about three o'clock in the morning, she is seen
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  on security video going into a freezer in the hotel and she died in that
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  freezer, and her family sued there was an award from the court from the
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  Crown Plaza, Chicago O'Hare Hotel to the family of ten million dollars ten million
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  dollars. Now, the most offensive part of that ten million dollars, aside
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  from the fact that this adult person chose to drink, become disoriented, walk
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  into a freezer, pass out, and die as an adult, not a
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  baby. An adult she did this of that ten million dollars, A copy
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  of the settlement order Tuesday in the Circuit Court of Cook County says the Jenkins
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  mother, Teresa Martin, will receive approximately three point seven million dollars out of
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  that ten million. Other parts of the settlement will go towards the payment of
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  attorney fees, funeral costs, and other expensive what kind of fees you ask?
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  Well, two other family members unnamed in this account will receive a combined
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  two point seven million dollars, so one point three to five apiece, one
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  point three to five apiece for two family members, three point seven million for
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  the mother of this woman, and it costs six thousand dollars for her funeral.
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  Now I know what you're thinking. Well, wait a minute, hang
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  on there's millions left there, where's a other millions going the attorneys. The
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  attorneys are taking the rest of that money. First of all, I think
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  the lawsuit was wrong. I don't think it should have been filed. An
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  adult walked into a freezer, got locked in and died. Nobody made that
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  happen. She made that happen. Secondly, the attorney's taken that kind of
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  chunk, basically a third of the settlement. When the funeral for the deaarly
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  departed cost six thousand dollars, really six thousand dollars toward the person whose life
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  is over, that just sounds crazy, absolutely crazy. And for the court
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  to have awarded this ten million dollars also absolutely crazy. But then again it's
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  Cook County, Illinois. Continually get compensated in our justice system who really probably
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  shouldn't be, and then people are are penalized who probably shouldn't be. But
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  that is indeed the way of the world. And I had this conversation a
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  few months ago actually about how people you think should get paid something. It
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  all actually came up over the nil situation. These college players and millions upon
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  millions of dollars now being thrown at college players, and somehow someway we ended
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  up getting onto things like blood donation, because what's a pint of blood cost
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  at the hospital? Do you know, maybe you work in medical billing or
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  work in a hospital situation, Look at what a pint of blood is going
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  for these days for a patient at the hospital. But they want me to
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  donate. I get what a glass of orange juice and a cookie, and
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  they charge people for that pint of blood. They then charge people to hang
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  that bag and put that blood into their body, but they want me to
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  donate the blood. Same way with organ donation as a concept. I don't
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  have a big problem with organ donation as a practice. I do. Look
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  if if I, let's let I'm losing my house, or one of my
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  kids is in big trouble, or you know, somebody in the family needs
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  some major medical thing, I can't sell a kidney and pay for it.
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  My body, my choice. I want to abort a baby when it's you
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  know, forty seven years old. There's people out there that think I should
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  be able to do it. My body, my choice. People think your
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  fourteen year old daughter ought to be able to go in and get an abortion.
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  My body, my choice. They think you're teenager one to lop things
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  off of themselves and identify as something other than what they are. My body,
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  my choice, but it's not my body my choice. If I want
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  to sell a kidney because you know, my son needs some major surgery,
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  I can't do that. It's illegal. It's illegal for me to profit off
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  of the sale of my organs. Now, if I wanted to go do
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  things into a cup, I could get compensated for that, so somebody could
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  have a baby that looks just like me if I did donate my kidney or
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  upon my death all kinds of organs. The doctors that take it out of
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  me will get paid, The hospital where they work will get paid. The
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  people that transport it to the person receiving it will get paid, the hospital
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  that puts it in will get paid. The doctor does that surgery will get
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  paid. Everybody gets paid except the guy losing the organ. I don't think
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  it's right. And while I'm thinking about lopping things off and identifying as something
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  else, I had to go to Great Britain for this, the Great Britain
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  News Network. Maybe I should should I read the story like that. Actually,
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  I don't know. It's a story from Florida, but I had to
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  get the news from Great Britain News. American schools slapped with huge fine after
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  letting transgender teenager play football I'm sorry, volleyball against girls. Yeah. Under
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  the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, trans student athletes are banned from playing in
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  school sports teams that align with their gender identity. This was introduced by presidential
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  candidate of course Ron DeSantis two years ago. According to Pink News, Monarch
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  High School has been fined a huge it's in British again, I'd say a
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  huge thirteen one hundred and sixty pounds by the Florida High School Athletic Association.
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  It's claimed in a letter sent to the school that they will be on administrative
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  probation for a full calendar year. The student athlete has been declared ineligible to
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  represent any member school for a period of one year from the date of discovery,
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  which was the twenty first of November. Acting to the development, Florida
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  Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Junior wrote, thanks to DeSantis, Florida passed legislation to
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  protect girls sports and we will not tolerate any school that violates this law.
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  State of Ohio similarly, House Bill sixty eight, at the time of this
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  recording still sitting on Governor DeWine's desk awaiting his signature, but it has passed
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  and it does much the same thing in the state of Ohio. DeSantis de
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  Wine. I don't know, maybe that's a good sign. And finally,
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  before I get out of here, I've been on Santos Santos. Santos has
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  been saying he had to go since he got into the United States Congress.
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  Well, you know what, maybe maybe there is there a drug problem.
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  The New York candidate that they are bringing out to replace mister Santos, although
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  this candidate ran as a Republican. Mount Mazi Malessa Peep I think it's pronounced,
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  a Ethiopian born Jew Israeli Defense Force veteran and a member of the Nassau
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  County Legislature, will be announced or has been announced now as the candidate to
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  replace Santos. While this person previously ran for a seat in the county legislature
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  as a Republican and still says that they are Republican, Politico is saying she's
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  registered to vote as a Democrat. Register Santos was nothing that he said he
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  was, and now we got somebody running as a Republican to fill a Republican
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  seat. That's a registered Democrat. New York, New York. It's a
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  wonderful town. It is time for me to get out of here, all
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  right. I hope you enjoined this edition of the Chuck Douglas Power Hour Podcast.
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  More to come. I'll be on the air a lot more too,
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  as we get into the holiday season. People taking time off and so forth,
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  so we will get some more time on six' ten WTV. And
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  com. Mm hmm