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Man picks a fight with Waffle House curb · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas. The Power Hour is on six TENU WUTVN
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  Speaker 1: A two one nine eight eighty six is my number
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  Speaker 1: eight two one WUTVN one eight hundred and sixty ten
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  Speaker 1: WTV in. Can I just cant your mind? If I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to stop here for a moment for some good news?
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  Speaker 1: Can I do that?
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  Speaker 2: Is that?
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  Speaker 1: Is that in the company handbook? Is good news? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Is that allowed? Because I you know, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to break any rules.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's permissible.
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  Speaker 1: It's permissible, okay, if good news is permissible, I just
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  Speaker 1: I want to take a moment here just to say
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  Speaker 1: congratulations to Daylan Swain. Do you know who Dalan Swain is?
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  Speaker 1: You have any idea?
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  Speaker 3: Most I do have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Columbus afrocentric high school graduate Dalan swayn draft at number
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  Speaker 1: fifteen by the Chicago Bulls at the NBA Draft. Congratulations
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  Speaker 1: Dalan dag gone it. I don't know you, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy for you. I'm proud of you. I'm happy for
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  Speaker 1: your family. I saw the joys as the announcement was made,
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  Speaker 1: and h and so many people just just jumping up
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  Speaker 1: and down for you, and and uh in my heart
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  Speaker 1: I'm jumping up and down for you too. Congratulations. I
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  Speaker 1: hope it is. Uh, I hope it's a wonderful career
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  Speaker 1: for you, and you you make the best of it
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  Speaker 1: and and go out there and set them on fire. Man.
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  Speaker 1: That's just that's good. There's enough bad stuff to talk
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  Speaker 1: about every day. I just had to stop for a
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  Speaker 1: moment to say, Daylan Swayin had a very good day.
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  Speaker 1: NBA would never have drafted me. Why because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: play basketball. My brother in law tried to teach me
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  Speaker 1: when I was a youngster. I just never got in.
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  Speaker 1: Are you a basketball guy? Do you like playing basketball?
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  Speaker 3: From Kentucky? It's you're You're born into it.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I was wondering with the whole UK mentality
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  Speaker 1: down there. Did you play a lot as a young man? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Do you still go out and play now? And then?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I play. I've never been good, but I play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You're tall, though, so I could see why somebody would
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  Speaker 4: want to get you in a in a player.
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  Speaker 1: And no, no, I just I was never a fan
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  Speaker 1: of basketball. And in spite of my my substantial girth,
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  Speaker 1: I uh, I did like a lot of high movement sports.
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  Speaker 1: When I was like a teenager, basically before I got
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  Speaker 1: a car. Once you get a car, you get lazy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, before the car, when you're on when you're
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  Speaker 1: on the bicycle all the time, and so forth. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you're a big kid, you've got energy, man, because
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  Speaker 1: you're not You're not You're not slacking. And uh, I
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  Speaker 1: was actually pretty good in volleyball and in tennis. Believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not, I loved that aggress. I was kind
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  Speaker 1: of a you know, a Venus Williams kind of uh.
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  Speaker 1: On the tennis court.
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  Speaker 3: I was never good.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed it a lot because it's like combat. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's both force finesse, and then you have to throw
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  Speaker 1: skill into their thing. The the sometimes hitting that ball
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  Speaker 1: really hard is the best possible thing. Sometimes hitting it
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  Speaker 1: really soft and the you know your opponent's ready for
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  Speaker 1: something to come flying and you're just barely putting it
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  Speaker 1: over the net.
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  Speaker 4: That's making decisions quick. Yeah, that's a mental game you're
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  Speaker 4: also playing.
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  Speaker 1: And I was to be as large as I was,
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  Speaker 1: I was actually pretty uh pretty good at both volleyball
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  Speaker 1: and tennis. And uh, and of course I loved football.
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  Speaker 1: But your brain wants to be a quarterback or running
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  Speaker 1: back when you know your body is suited to be alive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're alignment, you're a lot. You're just a big guy.
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  Speaker 4: So of course that's immediately where they were thinking of
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  Speaker 4: putting it.
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  Speaker 1: And now you know, I'm all upper body too, which
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  Speaker 1: makes me great on the line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can also run too, short.
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  Speaker 1: Legs, short legs, short legs. Everything my body is like
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  Speaker 1: hips up is my tall.
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  Speaker 3: So that's you're tall. She got low center of gravity?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, great, Yes, And I enjoyed it, although didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to play it nearly as much as I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: because I had what we call a mother, and she
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  Speaker 1: was everything you were gonna do is gonna put an
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  Speaker 1: eye out, That's how she was everything. You know what
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  Speaker 1: a bat? You're playing football? Got that break your neck?
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  Speaker 1: Is what you And I heard that, you know, most
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  Speaker 1: of my life coming up. And by the time I
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  Speaker 1: got old enough to basically defy her and say, look,
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  Speaker 1: I want to play football. These other kids have been
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  Speaker 1: playing for five or six years and uh, and they
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  Speaker 1: were way ahead of me. I was big, I was slow,
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  Speaker 1: and I just I blew my shot because you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: break your leg and you break your neck or pick
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  Speaker 1: your eye out or a thing. Your mom wasn't like that,
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  Speaker 1: was she No, your mom was like, go ahead, Sachy
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  Speaker 1: breaks stuff, You're fine.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I broke stuff, but it was okay.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see the waffle house story?
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  Speaker 3: No? Was there a fight.
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  Speaker 1: No, there's a lawsuit. And I forgot to bring it
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  Speaker 1: over from the other side I had when when I
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  Speaker 1: was working with Mark earlier. The uh, it's an eighty
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  Speaker 1: four year old man. I believe it's Florida if I'm
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  Speaker 1: not mistaken. His most crazy things are and and he's
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  Speaker 1: filing lawsuit against waffle House. And this kind of falls
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  Speaker 1: in line with the the case I was talking about
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  Speaker 1: yesterday where it's sad these men were shot. These men
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  Speaker 1: were killed while on vacation. But I didn't understand filing
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  Speaker 1: a lawsuit against the homeowners association. I'm I'm kind of
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  Speaker 1: this way too, waffle House. This guy's suing waffle House
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  Speaker 1: because he's eighty four. So he's making his way through
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  Speaker 1: the parking lot to the waffle Hey. Had he get
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  Speaker 1: in there and get my getting me a waffle tody Hey,
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  Speaker 1: And he gets up to and he goes it's this
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  Speaker 1: curbage curbs you ab normally, Hay, And I'm thinking, okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, does anybody go to a waffle house
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  Speaker 1: for the very first time. He probably goes to that
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  Speaker 1: waffle house all the time, unless he just had new
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  Speaker 1: sidewalks put in. So why didn't he just go down?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't an incumbent upon you every now and then to
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  Speaker 1: not do the stupid thing? So why didn't he just
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  Speaker 1: walk down three feet and go to an area where
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  Speaker 1: the curb was not as high? But he goes he's
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  Speaker 1: cray curbs ken Hey, and he's distracted, he says, because
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  Speaker 1: they have I guess a poster in the waffle house
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  Speaker 1: window of something. I forget what it was, like a
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  Speaker 1: strawberry short cake waffle or something.
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  Speaker 4: I have a right distracted by window signage for its
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  Speaker 4: limited edition strawberry short cake waffle.
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  Speaker 1: Yay, it got my attention. So he says that because
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  Speaker 1: that advertising was in the window, he tripped over the
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  Speaker 1: curb and bustified himself and he's filed a lawsuit now
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  Speaker 1: against waffle house because of that. They're okay, there there
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  Speaker 1: are two things here. First of all, in my world
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  Speaker 1: where logic and common sense prevail, this gets thrown out.
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  Speaker 1: In the real world where our court system is what
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  Speaker 1: it is, this man's going to be a millionaire. He's
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  Speaker 1: probably going to get paid, if for no other reason
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  Speaker 1: than because the waffle House attorneys go, yeah, we don't
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  Speaker 1: even want to take this to court. He's a sympathetic figure.
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  Speaker 1: He's eighty four years Oldie Phil down went boom. Here
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  Speaker 1: you know, here's a million. Please just leave us alone.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Does it say in that story how
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  Speaker 1: much he is seeking in damages?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. But this is as I'm going through it, this.
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  Speaker 1: Quote.
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  Speaker 4: It would be disingenuous for waffle House to suggest that
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  Speaker 4: mister Bowlds is his name, should have been watching where
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  Speaker 4: he was walking and when it was waffle House who
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  Speaker 4: distracted his attention away from where he's walking. By that logic,
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  Speaker 4: there is no advertisements on the road ever. Again, ever,
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  Speaker 4: because I could wreck, I could walk into something. Yeah, uh,
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  Speaker 4: this could open the door to anything.
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  Speaker 1: Well see, and again you go back to the stupidity
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  Speaker 1: the hot button legislation that we have and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: and what they'd like to call distracted driving. You know
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  Speaker 1: what they say, don't do it, don't do distracted driving.
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  Speaker 1: What they're talking about, it's texting your phone, wall driving,
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  Speaker 1: but they use this umbrella term distracted. Don't do distracted driving.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm driving seventy miles an hour thirty five hundred
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  Speaker 1: pounds in metal. You know what distracts me more than
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  Speaker 1: anything else. Those Department of Transportation digital signs that say
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  Speaker 1: there's a missing adult or a missing child or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Because you have you have they switch and I was
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  Speaker 1: saying missing adult, Honda accord, and then you got to
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  Speaker 1: wait for the next thing to see what's the license
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  Speaker 1: number or whatever. So that's distracting. If here you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be distractive, here's how you fix that. Low
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  Speaker 1: power transmitters like people use for their Christmas lights and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and you put those on the freeway and instead of
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  Speaker 1: having a sign that I have to pay attention to,
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  Speaker 1: I actually have to look up and watch. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: the semi in front of me that's trying to get
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  Speaker 1: over from the left lane, I'm looking up at your son.
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  Speaker 1: You have a light on the freeway at mile marker,
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  Speaker 1: you know one, five, ten, fifteen, And if it's flashing,
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  Speaker 1: then people know they should tune to what five seventy
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  Speaker 1: am or anything, you know, an unused frequency and they
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  Speaker 1: can hear the Ohio Department of Transportation is announcing a
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  Speaker 1: missing adult age ninety four. That way, you can just
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  Speaker 1: hear it as you're driving and not be distracted looking up.
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  Speaker 1: Does that not make sense?
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  Speaker 3: Makes sense?
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  Speaker 1: That's that's afar. But I'm just my distracted driving comes
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  Speaker 1: from reading the sign age from the people telling me
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  Speaker 1: not to distractedly drive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it totally makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: Just fy Bulls and his wife would have accepted a
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  Speaker 4: settlement of three hundred grand.
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  Speaker 3: Waffle House turned that down.
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  Speaker 1: Really yeah, oh waffle House said they ain't playing, then.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna go. They're gonna go to battle.
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  Speaker 1: Would have accepted three hundred because she fell on my
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  Speaker 1: Boom boom.
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  Speaker 2: Eighty four years old. I was, I'm the greatest generation.
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  Speaker 2: I was in World War Two and I fought the Japanese,
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  Speaker 2: the Germans and all at once. I had one rifle.
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  Speaker 2: There was eight hundred of them. I got them all,
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  Speaker 2: and I flew a airplane the helicopter at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's a paratrooper, so I jumped out of
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  Speaker 2: both those. I fell at waffle House with boom boom.
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  Speaker 2: I beat.
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  Speaker 3: I beat the Nazis in the and the I lost
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  Speaker 3: World War.
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  Speaker 1: Three to the I just I just wonder what this
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  Speaker 1: guy's story is. I'd love to talk to him as
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  Speaker 1: long as I can make fun of him. Fall down,
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  Speaker 1: go boom, three hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I can see a picture. He's got a black eye.
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  Speaker 1: But did you say what?
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  Speaker 3: He's got a black eye? I can see in a
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  Speaker 3: picture of him.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so he fell with boom boom on his face.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he said he has a tour rotator cuff.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, he's not gonna be playing tennis.
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  Speaker 3: And he has a band aid and he looks like
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  Speaker 3: he looks like he found.
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  Speaker 1: Is he stuck on the band aid or is the
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  Speaker 1: band aid stuck on him?
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  Speaker 3: I know, I have to ask mister Manilo about that.
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  Speaker 1: You were, you know, Barry wrote that good for My.
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  Speaker 3: Mom was a big Barry fan.
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  Speaker 1: And I am stuck on Bendave Branclea's brand ad stuck
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  Speaker 1: on me.
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  Speaker 4: She has seven hundred and fifty eight Barry Manilo albums
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  Speaker 4: and one of them was him live just doing the
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: That's I can't. I'm very proud of you for even
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  Speaker 1: knowing that something else while I'm thinking about things we
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  Speaker 1: need to do on our roads to that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how you're going up a ramp. We've got
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  Speaker 1: one right around the corner here, going up a ramp
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  Speaker 1: getting on the freeway, and they've got those red green
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  Speaker 1: lights where you're you know, suppose if it's red, you
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  Speaker 1: wait and then it turns green and you go take
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  Speaker 1: those out there? Stupid. There are more problems caused by
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  Speaker 1: people trying to adhere to that than just people getting
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  Speaker 1: on the freeway. The light is red, now, it's green,
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  Speaker 1: now it's red. Between the change from red to green
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  Speaker 1: to red, there's not enough time to hit your accelerator.
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  Speaker 1: They're dumb. I'm telling you, you're causing more problems having
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  Speaker 1: red and green lights on the entrance ramp than if
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  Speaker 1: you just had a caution signe use caution while entering freeway.
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  Speaker 1: That's it there. Do you like them?
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  Speaker 3: The lights when you're getting yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's every time I see it a cringe. If
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  Speaker 4: I'm driving past somewhere and I could see people getting
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  Speaker 4: on the entrance remp because it's red green, red green,
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  Speaker 4: red green.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way that you're going to do it. And
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  Speaker 1: then you're causing people. You know, I'm behind you, going
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  Speaker 1: these things don't work, and then the idiot in front
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  Speaker 1: of me goes, oh, it's right, I gotta hit my brakes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so now you've caused an accident because you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: that it doesn't work. Man, I'm just fixing everything today.
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  Speaker 1: I seriously get rid of the digital signs and get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the red green flash at the entrance rams.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I think we got a country right. It
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  Speaker 1: was somebody calling to say, don't don't make fun of
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  Speaker 1: the old guy. Is that what you don't know?
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  Speaker 4: I was expecting that also, But it was something about
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  Speaker 4: having coins or the tokens for arcades.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you had to have tokens because they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: somebody to break into the machines. If if there were
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  Speaker 1: quarters in the machines, then the machines would all be
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable to theft. If there were only tokens in the machines,
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  Speaker 1: they thought, okay, well, nobody's going to steal the tokens.
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  Speaker 1: And the only thing they had to guard that had
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  Speaker 1: actual money, and it was the bill Changer.
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  Speaker 3: What was the best arcade game you ever played?
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  Speaker 1: I you know, it's hard. It's There was one called
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  Speaker 1: Astro Blaster that I was amazingly good at Astro last year.
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  Speaker 3: It was what I called my prep before my coh Oscar.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of those where the screen from the bottom,
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  Speaker 1: the ship was at the bottom, and then the asteroids
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  Speaker 1: traveled at you, you know, coming at you, and you
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  Speaker 1: had to to blow them away before they busted you up.
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  Speaker 1: And then if you got the spaceship that was hiding
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  Speaker 1: inside the asteroids, that was bonus points and stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: it was definitely a game of patterns and I learned
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  Speaker 1: those patterns very well. And yeah, it was hard to
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  Speaker 1: outscore me on that. I was constantly winning pizzas at
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  Speaker 1: the Neighborhood Arcade.
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  Speaker 4: Playing Astra was arcade gave a lot of those were memorization.
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  Speaker 4: But it's incredibly difficult to time things from what I
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  Speaker 4: played on.
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  Speaker 3: Those old sets.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, very difficult, yep. But they were they hey man again,
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  Speaker 1: the social element, that's what made them great. Speaking of
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  Speaker 1: me in social I'm getting out of here.