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Former OSU football player gets five years · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Joyce B eighty is on my mind. Zach Kaline is
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  Speaker 1: on my mind. Uh, why would you sell that to
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  Speaker 1: my grandson? Is on my mind. But first I got
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  Speaker 1: Allison just updated in the news here. This former Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State player, which is important because we're in Columbus, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: and that has to be uh, that has to be
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  Speaker 1: the lead on the story. Kirk Barton, whose name quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even remember, and I'm a pretty pretty avid
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State fan. But he he was in court today.
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  Speaker 1: He has been sentenced. Now. Uh, I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 1: sound vengeful. I'm not. But right is right and justice
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  Speaker 1: is justice, and this guy got five years and I
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I don't grasp it. I don't Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: he was sorry, but I don't grasp it. Former Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State player Kirk Barton, according to the ten TV website here,
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  Speaker 1: sentenced he at least five years in prison after he
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  Speaker 1: changed his plea for charges related to a crash last
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  Speaker 1: year that killed twenty four year old Ethan Perry. Barton
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  Speaker 1: was charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide two
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  Speaker 1: counts of OVII. He initially pleaded not guilty on all
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  Speaker 1: the charges. Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to one count of
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  Speaker 1: aggravated vehicular homicide. The other charges were dropped. Additionally, the
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  Speaker 1: judge ordered Barton's license be permanently suspended. June twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, police in Dublin reported Barton was driving
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  Speaker 1: the wrong way on throughout thirty three. He turned around
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  Speaker 1: to correct his direction, and he hit twenty four year
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  Speaker 1: old Perry's car with his pickup. In courts, prosecuting attorney
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  Speaker 1: said Barton was going one one hundred and twenty six
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  Speaker 1: miles per hour five seconds before the crash one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fourteen miles per hour at impact. This twenty four
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  Speaker 1: year old man was pronounced dead at the scene. Barton
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  Speaker 1: sustained non life threatening injuries. Barton had a blood alcohol
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  Speaker 1: content of points zero or I'm sorry zero point one seven.
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  Speaker 1: That was revealed UH in court that his blood alcohol
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  Speaker 1: level was point two four to two. Now point oh
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  Speaker 1: eight is what's recognized as legally drunk. Point two four
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  Speaker 1: to two would be three times what is legally drunk.
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  Speaker 1: Barton spoke during a sentencing expressing he regrets his actions
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  Speaker 1: took place at the crash. UH, I'm pleading guilty because
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  Speaker 1: I am guilty, he said, and good for him for that.
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  Speaker 1: Perry's mother, Roslyn, provided a statement to the court on
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  Speaker 1: her son's death. She said, Uh, hang on, I just
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  Speaker 1: got to pop up here. Umm, because of your selfishness,
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  Speaker 1: I'll never be a mother or a group of a
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  Speaker 1: groom or a grandparent because of your selfishness. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: call me in the morning anymore. Barton played for the
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  Speaker 1: buck Guys two thousand and three to two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 1: Bears drafted him in the seventh round of the two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven draft. I believe he played one game,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, he's had a history. The reason
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  Speaker 1: he played one game I think some alcohol issues, and
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  Speaker 1: he's had a history outside of this. There's also a
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  Speaker 1: record here locally at during the Memorial tournament, apparently got
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  Speaker 1: into a scuffle with law enforcement while drinking up at
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  Speaker 1: the bogie En. He's had a history one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty four miles an hour, one hundred twenty six miles
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  Speaker 1: an hour, on hundred fourteen miles an hour right before
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  Speaker 1: this crash, and a twenty four year old man is
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  Speaker 1: no longer. I'm sorry, I just I gotta say it.
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  Speaker 1: If this was If that was my kid, I'd no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You made every wrong decision possible, and it
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  Speaker 1: calls someone's life. Five years just seems like a smack
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  Speaker 1: on the wrist to me. That would not satisfy me
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  Speaker 1: in the least if this was a loved one of
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  Speaker 1: mine that was lost. And again, I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 1: be nasty, grieve, vengeful, nothing. I'm just right, is right,
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  Speaker 1: right is right. I'm glad that he pled guilty, but
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  Speaker 1: let's not forget at the beginning he said I'm not guilty.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't going to take responsibility for it. After they
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  Speaker 1: plea bargain him down from four charges to one, he
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  Speaker 1: played guilty to that single charge. Five years is not enough. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not one of these you know, alcohol gestapos who
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  Speaker 1: think because I got a problem with with the alcohol laws,
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  Speaker 1: I really do. I think to some extent they are
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  Speaker 1: overbearing and I don't like some of the rules, but
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  Speaker 1: they are what they are until they are something else,
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  Speaker 1: and what they are right now, said he was three
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  Speaker 1: times the legal limit, with a history of overindulging and
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  Speaker 1: doing stupid things, and somebody's dead. Five years ain't enough,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe that's just me. You're welcome to disagree. A
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  Speaker 1: two one nine eight eighty six. A two one wtv
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  Speaker 1: N is my number. Now I'm onto zach Klin. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, Columbus City attorney Zach Klein, tell me, Zachary
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  Speaker 1: if I'm being crazy here. But we can get odds
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  Speaker 1: on anything. Now, I think you ought to have to
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  Speaker 1: go to Vegas and ask Vegas what your odds are
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  Speaker 1: of winning a lawsuit before you use taxpayer money to
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  Speaker 1: file a lawsuit. City attorney says executive orders from Trump's
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  Speaker 1: second term are illegal. He didn't say unconstitutional. Illegal is
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  Speaker 1: the quote. Story from WSYX TV City has heardy. Zach
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  Speaker 1: Klin announced a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against the Trump administration,
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  Speaker 1: alleging that executive orders targeting diversity programs and transgender rights
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  Speaker 1: illegally threatened more than one hundred million dollars in city funding. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to understand that opening paragraph. People. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't say threatens the transgender people. He didn't say it
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  Speaker 1: threatens the diversity people, whatever they may be on any
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  Speaker 1: given day. He said it threatens city funding. So let's
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  Speaker 1: know right off the bat what the concern is here.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't you it's the dollar signs, according to a
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  Speaker 1: press release from Client's office. The story continues, the law
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  Speaker 1: argues that President Trump overstepped his authority by placing ideological
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  Speaker 1: constraints on approximately one hundred two million dollars in federal grants,
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  Speaker 1: nearly one fourth of the city's federal support. Client contends
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  Speaker 1: that only Congress has the power to set conditions on
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  Speaker 1: how these funds are spent. His quote here says the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration's attempt to add additional strings to grant funding
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  Speaker 1: isn't cumbersome, it's illegal. Congress, not the President, decides how
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  Speaker 1: funds are spent. That's government one oh one. So you'll
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  Speaker 1: remember the previous president. Have to wonder how much Otto
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  Speaker 1: Penning was involved in all the money the city got
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  Speaker 1: and the state got during the COVID era from the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration. I don't recall that climb bringing any of
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  Speaker 1: this up. Now, if we go strictly by the rules,
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  Speaker 1: you see the House of Representatives, the United States House
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  Speaker 1: of Representatives. The Congress has the purse strings, as they say,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know when the last time was anybody's
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  Speaker 1: held to that standard. The Senate comes up with spending bills.
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  Speaker 1: The president comes up with spending. Everybody seems to come
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  Speaker 1: up with spending, So technically he is right, but he's
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  Speaker 1: only right on occasions when he chooses to be right.
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  Speaker 1: The chances of him winning this lawsuit are probably nil.
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  Speaker 1: You can't say something is illegal because the people deciding
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  Speaker 1: what is legal and not legal just make the laws
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  Speaker 1: what they need him to be to be legal. And
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  Speaker 1: there's no such thing as an illegal alien in Columbus Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: How can there be an illegal presidential decision? It's a
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  Speaker 1: fair question. Columbus Ohio will not recognize illegal aliens. They
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  Speaker 1: won't do anything to assist in any sort of deportation efforts.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's welcome here. We're not a sanctuary city, but we
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  Speaker 1: just won't. We won't arrest anybody. So that's that's illegal,
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  Speaker 1: and you recognize that as not being illegal. But this
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  Speaker 1: you've decided illegal. See me, see me, see me, see me,
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  Speaker 1: see me, see me some more, see me, see me,
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  Speaker 1: see me, and vote for me when I run for
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  Speaker 1: another office. That's all that is all that is. But again,
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  Speaker 1: your tax dollars at work. I bet you if Vegas
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  Speaker 1: got involved with this, if you had to check with
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  Speaker 1: the odds makers in Vegas if they said, yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: got like a one in twelve thousand chants of winning this.
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  Speaker 1: If you if you pursue it anyway and you lose,
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  Speaker 1: you should have to compensate the taxpayers with your own funds.
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  Speaker 1: You're being dead silent over there? Am I sounded like
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  Speaker 1: a crazy man tonight? Is that your problem? Right? I'm
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  Speaker 1: just trying to figure out a way how I can
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  Speaker 1: bet on stuff like this. If we were in the UK,
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  Speaker 1: you could. But what really? Oh they bet on everything
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  Speaker 1: over there? Okay, I didn't know. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in the UK they've got betting markets for everything, politics, religion.
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  Speaker 1: What's the pope gonna do? Yeah, you can bet on
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  Speaker 1: pretty much anything in England, which is why I find
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  Speaker 1: it's so funny here that you know, we we legalized
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  Speaker 1: sports gambling. How long do you think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be just sports? As soon as the legislature the governor
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  Speaker 1: figure out a way to you know, collect more tax
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  Speaker 1: money off of you betting on whether the rain will
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  Speaker 1: last two minutes or three minutes at the airport. They will.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let you do it. They'll let you do it.
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  Speaker 1: They you know, the drugs. The marijuana, well, they figured
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  Speaker 1: out how we can control it, tax it, and so
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  Speaker 1: they let you do it. The booze. The booze is
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  Speaker 1: fine by all the booze you want. As long as
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  Speaker 1: you buy it from a state approved agency where we
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  Speaker 1: can check the prices and make sure we're collecting all
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  Speaker 1: the taxes on it. It's fine. It's all about money.
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  Speaker 1: It's always all about money. So those are the first
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  Speaker 1: two shots across about today, the Zach Klein story and
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  Speaker 1: the the five year prison sentence for killing a twenty
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  Speaker 1: four year old kid, which I just I can't get past.
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  Speaker 1: That's it's really bugging me. It's really bugging me. We've
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  Speaker 1: all known people that have gone to court over something
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  Speaker 1: and they may be, you know, did something stupid, made
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  Speaker 1: a bad decision or whatever, not a series of bad decisions,
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  Speaker 1: but a bad Rarely do you know, does it cost
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  Speaker 1: somebody their life? But they get smacked on the hands
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  Speaker 1: harder than this five years for killing someone because you
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  Speaker 1: were driving at ridiculous speeds and three times the legal
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  Speaker 1: limit in your blood of alcohol. I think something's just
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  Speaker 1: wrong with that. As far as I'm concerned,