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Local Music of The Past · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: My mama knows something's wrong. Did I wait too long
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  Speaker 1: last night? Today we got in a fight. Oh, oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: Now she says that I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Sleep at night.
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  Speaker 1: Anymore and it really burns me up. You know the chorus,
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  Speaker 1: come on.
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  Speaker 2: As we say goodbye to Mimi Russo today, that is
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  Speaker 2: spitting image from my youth. That was, that song was
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  Speaker 2: in what we call heavy rotation, meaning they played it
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  Speaker 2: a lot. on the old 92X. Time does not stand still.
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  Speaker 2: Mimi Russo, the voice of Spittin' Image, and that was
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  Speaker 2: their one big hit. You're never going to forget it
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  Speaker 2: if you were around back then. But she has passed away,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just, I've been watching the social media today,
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  Speaker 2: and it's amazing how many people still did remember the song,
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  Speaker 2: remember her, and... I don't know. It just had me
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  Speaker 2: kind of hearkening back all day long. This was before
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  Speaker 2: your time, Zach, and before your time in Columbus. Columbus...
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Spitting Image is a Columbus band. Maybe he
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  Speaker 2: was living up in Lewis Center, and I think... I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe sometimes in Arizona too. But we used to
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  Speaker 2: have regional bands, regional hits. Columbus was full of music.
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  Speaker 2: Your little bar, the neighborhood bars would have a band
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  Speaker 2: playing on the weekends. All over the place. You could
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  Speaker 2: go and hear actually some pretty good bands. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there were some out there that were terrible too. But
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  Speaker 2: And I miss it, and I have found myself missing
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  Speaker 2: it all day ever since I saw the first post
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  Speaker 2: this morning from Mimi's husband on her Facebook page announcing
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  Speaker 2: that she had passed away. I wish we still had that.
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  Speaker 2: I wish we still had that vibrance that we don't
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  Speaker 2: have anymore. And I saw a lot of bands... I've
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  Speaker 2: said before, my favorite bar band in Columbus, and watch
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  Speaker 2: somebody who's going to argue with me. It was probably
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  Speaker 2: a band called Prowler, which also had a lead vocalist,
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  Speaker 2: Sherry Allen, who was just absolutely amazing. Circleville girl. Danny
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  Speaker 2: Thurman on drums. And they were just a fun band.
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  Speaker 2: Jack and Steve playing guitar. And Steve dressed really, really nice,
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  Speaker 2: like Mr. Rock and Roll. And he and I were
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  Speaker 2: talking one night. And I'm not going to tell where
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  Speaker 2: he got his clothes. I wouldn't do that to me.
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  Speaker 2: But you'd be surprised. Bombardiers, J.P. Dibble, guitar player. Amazing.
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  Speaker 2: One original song called Rats from Mars that they used
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  Speaker 2: to do and JP would just go crazy. He'd end
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  Speaker 2: up like stepping up on the bar and doing his
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  Speaker 2: own coyote ugly thing. And he would wear these glasses
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  Speaker 2: that had flashlights essentially on them for Rats from Mars. Bombardiers.
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  Speaker 2: Used to like seeing the Bombardiers quite a bit. Tommy
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  Speaker 2: Cash played in any number of bands that I enjoyed.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, if you went up to Al Rosa, you
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  Speaker 2: could not escape seeing the gods, Eric Moore and his group.
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  Speaker 2: And a local band made it on the radio. And
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't crazy for that to happen back then. That
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  Speaker 2: wasn't unusual. Unusual. Do you have them in any particular
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  Speaker 2: order in there, those pieces I sent you earlier today?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have them in any order at all?
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  Speaker 1: No, some of them are.
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  Speaker 2: Just give me a minute. There was another... About the
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  Speaker 2: same time that Spittin' Image had The Boy's a Dancer,
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  Speaker 2: there were some other things out. And there was one
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  Speaker 2: that I found that.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't local. They were actually a California band, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they got played around the country much.
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  Speaker 2: And their last album was in 2019, I believe. But
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  Speaker 2: they were called The Muffs. The Muffs. M-U-F-F-S. And one hit,
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  Speaker 2: as far as I know, called I Don't Take No
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  Speaker 2: Lip From Pucks. And it was such... Such an odd
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  Speaker 2: title that I couldn't help but like the song. Is
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  Speaker 2: that one available? I'm going to give Zach like a
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  Speaker 2: stress headache. Are you with me? He's fielding a phone call.
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  Speaker 2: Hang on.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Do you have the muffs available? Hang on. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if they're not available, just say no. There's just so
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  Speaker 2: much to go through. But I have to, like, send
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  Speaker 2: it to myself. Okay, well, I don't want to give
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  Speaker 2: you a headache. Don't worry about it. I just, I
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  Speaker 2: was going to, we had that. We had another local group,
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  Speaker 2: which it was kind of a parody song that was
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  Speaker 2: a hit locally. Oh, there's the moths. It's really nothing personal.
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  Speaker 2: Not the way. I don't know why I like this
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  Speaker 2: song so much, but it got a lot of airplay.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's catchy. During that period there, it got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of airplay. And you must remember, Top 40
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  Speaker 2: back then was so... There was a little punk influence,
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  Speaker 2: a little British electronic. This was before the 80s. It was...
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  Speaker 2: And I talk about 92X because it was a great
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  Speaker 2: station as far as I'm concerned. But you would tune
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  Speaker 2: into 92X and you would hear, you know, something from
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  Speaker 2: Hall & Oates and something from Parliament Funkadelic and then
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  Speaker 2: Kenny & Dolly with Islands in the Stream. It truly
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  Speaker 2: was a reflection of the, you know, the top 40
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  Speaker 2: songs in the country, what people were buying. And again,
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  Speaker 2: we were just more musical and we would go out
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  Speaker 2: and see and support bands, and then it just got
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  Speaker 2: cheaper to hire DJs, and the next thing you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's just jukeboxes. Like Cher said, if I
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  Speaker 2: could turn back time, man, I would go back to
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  Speaker 2: that era. 821-WTVN is my number, by the way. Matt,
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  Speaker 2: you're on the LegacyRetirementGroup.com phone lines.
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  Speaker 3: Hi. Good evening, Chuck. I have totally one, but I
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  Speaker 3: just thought of another local band. But one local band
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  Speaker 3: that actually went big, I'm a big fan of them.
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  Speaker 3: Is McGuffey Lane?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got kind of big. I mean, John is
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  Speaker 2: still performing. John Schwab is still performing all over Central
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  Speaker 2: Ohio all the time. So you can still go out
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  Speaker 2: and get a taste of that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they still have the band of the members that
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  Speaker 3: are left. You can go see them. I saw them
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  Speaker 3: last year. And then another one is Rainbow Canyon. They
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  Speaker 3: had My Franklin County Woman.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the one I was getting to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they used to play on the OK-95. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But that's it. You're taking.
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  Speaker 3: Me back to.
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  Speaker 2: My youth, man. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Again, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and this this was a it was a goof song.
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  Speaker 2: But people said, hey, we like that. And you're right.
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  Speaker 2: It started getting played on K-95, which was in Lancaster.
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  Speaker 2: But even out of Fairfield County, they were playing Franklin County.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And I used to know the guys that played
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  Speaker 3: that worked out the old K-95s, as I'm sure you did, too.
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  Speaker 2: Maxwell and Hunter. I started on their AM station, and
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  Speaker 2: Max and Jeff became very good buddies of mine.
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  Speaker 3: Very good.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff and I still talk back and forth. He's on
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  Speaker 2: my Facebook page quite a bit. He's still out there,
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  Speaker 2: got himself into politics, became a county commissioner, and he's
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  Speaker 2: still kicking.
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  Speaker 3: Very good. Speaking of politics, may I ask you a
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  Speaker 3: political question?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I suppose.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so one, I'm a truck driver, and I'm local.
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  Speaker 3: I haul stone, and lately I've been going from east
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  Speaker 3: of Mansfield over to Bucyrus to Stone Quarry back and
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  Speaker 3: forth four times a day. I see four, and you
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  Speaker 3: talk about the Franklin County Republican Party being so stingy,
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  Speaker 3: not supporting people, this and that. There are four or
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  Speaker 3: five Sherrod Brown signs, and I think two or three
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  Speaker 3: Amy Atkins signs. There are no John Husted billboards up.
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  Speaker 3: There are no Vivek Ramaswamy billboards up. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: think it's just a Franklin County Republican Party issue. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what the Ohio Republican Party's doing, but they
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  Speaker 3: sure aren't backing those two candidates a whole lot. And
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  Speaker 3: that's on U.S.
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  Speaker 2: 30s.
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  Speaker 3: And it's about an hour distance between each where I'm
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  Speaker 3: going and picking up and stuff. There's nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Franklin is getting better. They've got some new folks in leadership.
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  Speaker 2: Franklin County is getting better. And a lot of times,
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  Speaker 2: I think, honestly, people are scared to put a sign
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  Speaker 2: out in support of a conservative or Republican candidate. I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you, nobody in my neighborhood in the last presidential election,
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  Speaker 2: there was no Trump. There was no Trump anywhere. There
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  Speaker 2: was Biden and Black Lives Matter. That's all I could find.
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  Speaker 2: And I put a Trump sign out. And the next day,
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  Speaker 2: I got a guy down the street that was painting
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  Speaker 2: Trump 24 on the back of his truck. And he
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  Speaker 2: had the Trump flag flying and blowing their horns when
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  Speaker 2: they go past the house. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: the Trump signs went. I was like, somebody had to
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  Speaker 2: take the first step and not be afraid to put
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  Speaker 2: a sign out. And I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: were scared. They don't want to argue. And they don't
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  Speaker 2: want some rabid lefty coming over and telling them everything
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  Speaker 2: they've ever done wrong in their life. And so they
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  Speaker 2: don't even bother to put a sign in their yard.
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  Speaker 3: And my second question is the Amy Acton radio spots.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not trying to be facetious. I'm being serious.
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  Speaker 3: Does she not sound like she's drunk?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she does. To me, to my ears, she does.
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  Speaker 2: I can't say she is. I just say to my ears,
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  Speaker 2: she sounds like it.
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  Speaker 3: She sounds like she is, you know, what is it?
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  Speaker 3: Was it Emmylou Harris? Two more bottles of wine. She
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  Speaker 3: looks like she sounds like she's on the six one.
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  Speaker 2: She has a slurred speech pattern to begin with. And
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  Speaker 2: I know I think that's one of the reasons, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they'll tell you when you go to an acting gathering
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  Speaker 2: because there are a few. And, you know, we love pictures,
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  Speaker 2: video and audio. Not so much. So please no recording.
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  Speaker 3: And but she just sounds like she's drunk. And then
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  Speaker 3: she's you know, she's what, 60 years old and. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: it's Damien Acton here. Sorry to interrupt your whatever mosh
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  Speaker 3: pit thing that she's saying. You know, it's like you're
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  Speaker 3: 60 years old. Do you really think you're going to
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  Speaker 3: sound that super cool to 20-somethings and 30-somethings? Because you're not.
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  Speaker 2: Hoping the college kids are going to come out and
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  Speaker 2: put her over the top.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I imagine. I just thought I was the only one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'll get Chuck's opinion on it because you're
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  Speaker 3: a pretty straightforward, honest type of guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just, you know, and like I say, I
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  Speaker 2: can't say she is. I can only say to my
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  Speaker 2: ears she sounds very slurred, very vocally disheveled, if you will.
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  Speaker 3: She sounds hammered.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, you never know. Matt, I appreciate the call, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks very much. 821-988-6821-WTV. There was also a guy named
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  Speaker 2: Donnie Day that used to play around town. I wonder
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  Speaker 2: whatever happened with Donnie. He was solo. Just him and
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  Speaker 2: his guitar. And I would go see him. And a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times he'd have me come up because I
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  Speaker 2: was a major Simon and Garfunkel. And he and I,
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  Speaker 2: we harmonized very well together. And Donnie just disappeared one day.
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  Speaker 2: He played, I believe it was a teal green fender,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken. And he was up at the
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  Speaker 2: whaling station in Worthington quite a bit. I just miss
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  Speaker 2: the live entertainment. I really do.