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Driving · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: Was there something sequentially missing there?
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Speaker 2: Yes, you should have heard whatever you hear before the
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Speaker 2: that little.
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Speaker 1: Second whatever, yeah, like one to those six yeah, and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't there, And it completely threw me on.
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Speaker 2: No, it wasn't there. And the only thing that was
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Speaker 2: there was the bucks Line intro.
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Speaker 1: So oh my gosh.
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Speaker 2: Again, I was gonna let it play it just absolutely
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Speaker 2: pretending I would have.
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Speaker 1: Come through that two panel thick glass and dealt with you.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's bucks On.
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Speaker 1: Oh who's who's in charge of that? Okay, that's three
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Speaker 1: weeks in a row. I need to put a memo out.
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Speaker 2: I think it's I would ask Elliott.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, you know that's gonna go so anyway, that's
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Speaker 1: on you. Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: In case you haven't heard, there's a heat wave coming
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Speaker 1: and everybody's panicking over that because the humidity is just
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Speaker 1: going to be terrible. What I find interesting, and bless
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Speaker 1: their meteorological hearts, all of them, but I've been looking
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Speaker 1: all the weather forecasts, and nobody's going past Monday, which
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Speaker 1: is odd because usually they'll, you know, they'll give you
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Speaker 1: the forecast, then they'll say here's the extended forecast. Nobody
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Speaker 1: is placing any bets on the weather past Monday, because
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Speaker 1: this storm system is so unsure at this point what
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Speaker 1: it's going to do because of the you know, crossing
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Speaker 1: over the Rockies and the fact that the Rockies will
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Speaker 1: kind of determine the airflow and the direction it will take,
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Speaker 1: and whether at the ABC six crew seems to be
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Speaker 1: kind of universally in line. They believe six inches here
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Speaker 1: in central Ohio, right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, six to ten.
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Speaker 1: See, that's a big difference, six to ten.
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Speaker 3: I heard.
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Speaker 1: I heard this afternoon. Phil Kelly, I believe, was saying
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Speaker 1: that they've all kind of talked and they're gonna go
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Speaker 1: with six six inches here in central Ohio. That's what
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Speaker 1: they're putting their money on. So I just I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It depends. Uh. We don't do a great job with
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Speaker 1: weather around here in many respects. The road maintenance is
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Speaker 1: not primo. The driving, the handling of it not good
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Speaker 1: at all. People panic, people who are terrified to get
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Speaker 1: behind the wheel on a gorgeous day. We still think
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Speaker 1: they got to go out there and drive when the
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Speaker 1: roads are slippery and icy and snowy, and they're even
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Speaker 1: worse today. I almost rammed somebody today, by the way,
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Speaker 1: because you're mad at them. No coming down. I'm coming
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Speaker 1: in from my beloved west side. Came down Hague Avenue
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Speaker 1: North Hay Avenue there, and you know how they've got
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Speaker 1: the right turn cut off there where you come over
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Speaker 1: to Fisher Road and you either go the right lane
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Speaker 1: to be on the freeway or the left lane to
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Speaker 1: be on Fisher Road. So I'm going in my right lane.
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Speaker 1: Cut off light is in my favor. I don't have
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Speaker 1: to worry about anything. Some dummy goes up into the
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Speaker 1: inner section then turns right instead of taking the right cutoff,
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Speaker 1: and I'm coming out of the cutoff, you know, thirty
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Speaker 1: miles an hour, and I had to hit my brakes
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Speaker 1: to keep from running into this moron who then got
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Speaker 1: in the far right land and got on seventy eastbound.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea I didn't stop to see. Could
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Speaker 1: have been anybody. Oh my gosh, his name is Zach.
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Speaker 1: You can find him usually hanging out outside of places
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Speaker 1: he shouldn't be. But yeah, I mean, there are the
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Speaker 1: people in this town drive so terribly in good weather
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Speaker 1: with the sun out and the roads dry, and there
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Speaker 1: are far too many of them that that should not
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Speaker 1: be on the roads when the conditions are good, I
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Speaker 1: am hesitant to even want to be around them when
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Speaker 1: we have some weather. It's got nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: the weather. It's got to do with their inability to
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Speaker 1: handle it. So the fact that this is happening on
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Speaker 1: the weekend, hopefully that will give O dot up and
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Speaker 1: City and Township Cruise enough time and enough working space
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Speaker 1: to get it done so that we can go into
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Speaker 1: Monday morning and be mobile again. But I'm just I'm
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Speaker 1: not looking forward to it. It's got everything to do
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Speaker 1: with our response and our handling of the situation, and
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Speaker 1: very little to do with the weather itself. I'll just
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Speaker 1: I'll stay home and watch. I don't mean I'm not
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Speaker 1: Zach's giving me the phase like I'm being pessimistic. I'm
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Speaker 1: not being pessimistic. I'm being realistic. I complain all the
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Speaker 1: time about the slow driving, and you know, the people
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Speaker 1: going thirty in a forty five, and it's just become
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Speaker 1: so regular that it's accepted now.
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Speaker 2: I mean again, I think it's just because driving is
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Speaker 2: incredibly easy. I mean, you have to pay attention, like that's.
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Speaker 1: The main thing that you have to that helps, yes.
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Speaker 2: And then other That's most of the reason that there's
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Speaker 2: racks and things.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why it is. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: they're distracted by you know, phone kids thinking about problems.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea. I just know that you're right.
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Speaker 1: Paying attention is the biggest part of the game out there,
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Speaker 1: and too many people are not doing that. Otherwise they'd
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Speaker 1: pay attention to the sign that says it's forty five
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Speaker 1: this little stretch of Fifth Avenue that runs outside of
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Speaker 1: the radio station between Riverside and McKinley, that's twenty five
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Speaker 1: miles an hour. There are people who are either going,
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Speaker 1: you know, ten miles an hour or fifty.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no middle ground. None, none. And I pointed
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Speaker 1: this out to an officer years ago. As you pull
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Speaker 1: out of this station, if you're going to turn left
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Speaker 1: onto Fifth Avenue and head toward McKinley, and it's better
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Speaker 1: now that the construction's done, you can see a little
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Speaker 1: farther down, But before that construction you could barely see
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Speaker 1: past the tree line behind the iHeartMedia building. So somebody
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Speaker 1: coming around that curve at fifty miles an hour when
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Speaker 1: you're expecting twenty five mile an hour traffic, that could
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Speaker 1: be a problem. But you pull out in front of
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Speaker 1: them because you don't know they're moving that fast and
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Speaker 1: they end up hitting you. It's your fault, so they
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Speaker 1: you know, we we I don't know. I'm just not
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Speaker 1: looking forward to this weekend any of the fig It's not.
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Speaker 2: As terms is driving and people are. It's not gonna
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Speaker 2: get any better. People aren't just gonna get better at driving.
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Speaker 2: They're just too many people who apparently it's just a
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Speaker 2: massive task that they cannot perform properly.
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Speaker 1: And they wait so long to start driving. Now, I
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Speaker 1: think that's that's the enthusiasm is not there my age, man,
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Speaker 1: you turn sixteen, that's what you wanted driver. Now you've
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Speaker 1: got kids, twenty five years old. I guess I'll get
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Speaker 1: my license.
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Speaker 2: Really, I always wanted my life. I wanted it when
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Speaker 2: I was twelve, just wanted to go.
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Speaker 1: There's no enthusiasm for it anymore, and I think that
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Speaker 1: makes also for bad drivers. When you're enthusiastic about doing it,
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Speaker 1: you're better at it. You want people to be impressed
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Speaker 1: by your ability behind the wheel. But when you don't
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Speaker 1: care and you only get a driver's license out of
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Speaker 1: necessity because you know it just tossed so much to
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Speaker 1: take an uber everywhere. I guess I'll get away.
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Speaker 3: Sis.
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Speaker 1: Those are the people again who should not be driving.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday. Didn't get a chance to cover it.
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Speaker 1: But since he's going to be a rain tomorrow. This
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Speaker 1: guy that they say he killed his wife and her
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Speaker 1: husband or his ex wife and her new husband. I
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Speaker 1: mentioned this yesterday and you never got a chance to
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Speaker 1: chime in. Looking at that picture, am I exaggerating? I've
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Speaker 1: been trying to figure out what it was so strange.
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Speaker 1: He looks to me like a Pixar computer generated character.
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Speaker 1: He looks his face looks like mister Incredible, where his
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Speaker 1: mouth is really really low on his face.
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Speaker 2: He's got a very flat jaw.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no distinguishing feature, wrinkle, crease, nothing. He almost
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Speaker 1: looks fake to me.
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Speaker 2: It's like when you it's like the the very but
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Speaker 2: like when you make a video game character and they
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Speaker 2: just give you a basic person to build their attribute.
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Speaker 2: That's him, Like there's just nothing there.
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Speaker 1: If you if you look at mister Potatohead before you
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Speaker 1: put the pieces on him, that's kind of what the
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Speaker 1: guy reminds me of. Anyway, I wanted to let you
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Speaker 1: know he is going to appear for his arrangement in
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Speaker 1: court tomorrow, and I don't think that there is any
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Speaker 1: doubt that he will be charged. I've seen two prominent
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Speaker 1: local attorneys, one of which is our own Brad Coffee
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Speaker 1: Legal expert here on six ten WTV, and that have
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Speaker 1: been featured on television news kind of given h you know,
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Speaker 1: an idea of what may be going on and so forth.
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Speaker 1: And I'm I'm not sure how productive that is, quite honestly,
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Speaker 1: because there's, first of all, there's no telling what's going
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Speaker 1: to happen in the courtroom these days. Secondly, there's no
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Speaker 1: telling what he's going to do until they bring the
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Speaker 1: strategy forward and the attorney representing him, I don't even
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Speaker 1: know who's representing him, goes in there and you know,
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Speaker 1: puts the flea forward. We don't know, So there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of speculation going on. I don't think that there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of doubt. And because of that, I'm wondering
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Speaker 1: if a change of venue is going to be among
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Speaker 1: the many things they ask for. But of course we
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Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. And and and see Mark
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Speaker 1: was also talking about a story I wanted to kind
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Speaker 1: of touch on in southern California they've got some cameras
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Speaker 1: going up. ICE cameras for their border cameras. A lot
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Speaker 1: of illegal immigration coming up in southern California. A lot
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Speaker 1: of folks apparently want it, want the cameras. But there's that,
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Speaker 1: you know, the that loud contingent out there that hates
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Speaker 1: ICE so much. The common sense evades them and they're
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Speaker 1: standing up against it. You know, there are cameras everywhere,
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Speaker 1: right everywhere you go. There are cam you can't get away.
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Speaker 1: They're on the street, they're on the light poles, they're
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Speaker 1: on front porches, they're on cars. There are dash cams,
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Speaker 1: there are backup cams. There's cams everywhere you pull into Walmart.
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Speaker 1: The cams out there know who you are and what
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Speaker 1: you generally buy before you get in the store. And
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Speaker 1: these people are objecting to cameras, but it's simply because
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Speaker 1: they are Ice cameras. But I love that. What was
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Speaker 1: the line they used on there could see somebody on
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Speaker 1: an island forty miles away until if they're smiling or not.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I know what you're talking. I can't remember.
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Speaker 1: I want to know if we've got that, seriously, I
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Speaker 1: mean this, if we got that kind of technology. Why
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Speaker 1: why is it takes so long to find some criminals?
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Speaker 1: If we've got cameras that can do like that, why
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Speaker 1: is it takes so long to find criminals? And please, please, please,
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Speaker 1: can we put them in banks so those so the
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Speaker 1: next time a bank gets robbed, they don't put a
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Speaker 1: video out there and go, this was the robber coming
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Speaker 1: in and you can't tell. It looks like it was
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Speaker 1: taken on a Kodak Super eight handheld camera from nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty two. Terrible video. I was not aware we had
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Speaker 1: that kind of of what's the word, I'm looking for,
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Speaker 1: that kind of ability with a surveillance camera. I know
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Speaker 1: they've said satellites are satellites orbiting the Earth that can
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Speaker 1: see things, And with the Hubble telescope, we see that,
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Speaker 1: you know, we can get pictures from from millions of
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Speaker 1: miles away. I just didn't know that there was anything
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Speaker 1: like that that was in use by government agencies down here,
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Speaker 1: just to look around down here. But if we got them,
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Speaker 1: it's not like they're not already being used. I'm kind
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Speaker 1: of surprised that the government even went forward and got permission,
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Speaker 1: and because you know what, if they don't like it,
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Speaker 1: It sounds like you could probably put these cameras in
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Speaker 1: Nevada and still see California. So why they had to
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Speaker 1: go try to get, you know, permission from this city
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Speaker 1: in California to put these cameras. That's kind of be
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Speaker 1: all me. It doesn't make a lot of sense, you know,
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Speaker 1: was there an extenuating circumstance of any time? Any kindzac is?
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Speaker 1: You know, does a congress person are the people who
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Speaker 1: live there like rich people? Is it where Charlie she
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Speaker 1: might have a beach house or are they just regular
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Speaker 1: folks or what?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: You don't know anything today, man, I don't you want
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Speaker 1: to back up twenty minutes to play the bucks line
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Speaker 1: thing again? Would you be happier about that?
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Speaker 2: I'll play it the next inro you probably will.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at traffic from London Chrasler, Dodgs,
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Speaker 1: Jeep Rams on News Service and or how's it going
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Speaker 1: Johnny Chuck Doug in the Power Hour six ten w TV,
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Speaker 1: And that inertia in Whitehall has kind of changed directions.
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Speaker 1: If you ever heard that story, this is really we're
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Speaker 1: gonna need popcorn. I will share that with you here momentarily. Also,
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Speaker 1: I posted something on Facebook today about I was looking
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Speaker 1: for a word, searching for a word, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are giving me words, terms and so forth
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Speaker 1: that have always been around. But I'm trying. I need
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Speaker 1: a new word. That's what I'm looking for. And Zach,
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Speaker 1: I heard you kind of like a semi skillfully allude
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Speaker 1: to the post a little while ago. Any anything that
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Speaker 1: you can come up with, Can you give me a
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Speaker 1: new word. Let's create a new word that means what
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Speaker 1: I'm looking for. Nope, you're just not helpful at all. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So whatever it is, it will apply to you once
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Speaker 1: we've established the word. But uh, there is what I
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Speaker 1: can't say it though? Why is it dirty? No?
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Speaker 2: Journalists got fired for saying it.
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Speaker 1: Oh then I don't need you to say that. No, No,
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Speaker 1: it's got something to do with journalism. Stay away from it.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Also, but if you're on my Facebook page, seriously go
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Speaker 1: in there and take a look at that last post.
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Speaker 1: I want to come up with a new word. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they keep redefining the words that exist. I want to
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Speaker 1: come up with a brand new word to describe the
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Speaker 1: person that I'm talking about on Facebook. Just look up
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Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas big melon head blue soup.
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Speaker 3: That's me.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm so used to saying that. No, I've
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Speaker 1: got a picture of Loopa on there. That's me Mi
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Speaker 1: Chuala okay. And then Whitehall A two one six number
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Speaker 1: e two one WTV and Dippers apparently got a couple
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Speaker 1: of thoughts on the California camera situation. Dipper, you're on
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Speaker 1: the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines. What's up?
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Speaker 3: Not much? Alex Stoneway is talking about so the border
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Speaker 3: crossings and then the interior being more red than the cause,
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Speaker 3: which he's corracked on. But he made a comment that
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Speaker 3: remind me of when I I was out in San
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Speaker 3: Diego in the late eighties early nineties, the station out
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Speaker 3: there about the pedestrian signs on the freeways. There they
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Speaker 3: are out there, They're huge. You can't miss them you're
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Speaker 3: going down High five. They had these huge Podessa warning signs.
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Speaker 3: The reason they were put up I believe it was
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Speaker 3: ninety or ninety one. What the soon to be illegals
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Speaker 3: would do is they bumper us the border crossings, so
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Speaker 3: they get one hundred and two hundred people. They just
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Speaker 3: run through between the cars and run up the freeway
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Speaker 3: and they go up the meeting and break away, so
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Speaker 3: the border patrols are overwhelmed. They might catch one or
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Speaker 3: two or ten, but most of the get away. Well,
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Speaker 3: a pregnant woman got hit by a car and she
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Speaker 3: was taken to a hospital. She's able to survive and
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Speaker 3: she ended up having their baby there. Well, so instead
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Speaker 3: people saying, well, that a stupid herbie run up the freeway,
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Speaker 3: they decided, well, we can't have border patrol chase these
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Speaker 3: people anymore because the dangers to run up the freeway.
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Speaker 3: So they put these huge warning signs and it's like
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Speaker 3: a feel good story was this poor lady got hit
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Speaker 3: by a car, was able to survive and have her
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Speaker 3: baby in California. So that's the stupidity that we're dealing with.
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Speaker 3: And instead of saying, hey, we need to teach these
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Speaker 3: people from running up the freeways, it's like, oh, we'll
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Speaker 3: put a giant pedestrian crossing side up.
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Speaker 1: That's that is, and that logic still works today. Different
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Speaker 1: It hasn't been that long ago. We had people blocking
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Speaker 1: roads all over the United States and you know, folks
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Speaker 1: having to get out of their cars and physically pick
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Speaker 1: them up and get them out of the way. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what it is. It gives these folks the thought,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm invulnerable to pain and can't be squished.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I would. I mean just like I
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Speaker 3: know Boots always talks about how bad the drivers around Columbus.
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Speaker 3: I and I one percent agree and to you agree too. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: but you know you're you're willing to sit out in
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Speaker 3: the middle of the street Columbus drivers coming at you just.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, running around in traffic or trying to block traffic
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Speaker 1: to make some political point is just stupid. That's what
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Speaker 1: it comes down to. But it's that is that is
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Speaker 1: the modus operande over and over again. We keep seeing it.
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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I've watched some video from over
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Speaker 1: in Europe. England has had one hell of a time
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Speaker 1: with especially in London, and people there they man, they're
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Speaker 1: not taking it. They're just getting out of the cars
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Speaker 1: and whooping up on you until you get out of
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Speaker 1: the road. And I have a feeling, if you know,
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Speaker 1: if that crep bol keeps happening here, we're going to
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Speaker 1: see some of that same stuff. Maybe maybe that's just
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Speaker 1: me