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Helping each other and the government shutdown · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: We are the big noon kickoff on Fox this weekend
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  Speaker 1: with Penn State coming to town six ten level the UTV,
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  Speaker 1: it's the best Buckeye coverage. Pregame will start at nine
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  Speaker 1: a m. From TNT equipment. You can be a part
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  Speaker 1: of all the game day stuff, the tradition that we
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  Speaker 1: have here at six ten. Doa UTV and we'll take
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  Speaker 1: it right up to kickoff on Saturday at noon and
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  Speaker 1: at Penn State's gonna come play hard. Just so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people think, oh, they're terrible
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  Speaker 1: or share we're gonna walk all over them. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're not. We'll win the buck. Guys will beat Penn State,
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  Speaker 1: but it shall be no walk in the park. Let
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  Speaker 1: me just say that right here, right now, right straight
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  Speaker 1: to your face. Whatever happened to Penn State because they
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  Speaker 1: were ranked highly and however they lost the games and
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  Speaker 1: their coach and all that they have talent, Yes, and
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  Speaker 1: that's they're no joke. So it's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: a fifty six oh game. And let's not forget their
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator was our defensive coordinator and helped us get
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  Speaker 1: a championship right before he left, so he's he's going
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  Speaker 1: to have something right. Yeah, he'll have everything on the
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  Speaker 1: table that he can possibly put on the table to
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  Speaker 1: try to keep our offense from doing what they've been doing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what their offense can do against our
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  Speaker 1: defense because our defense is amazing. But yeah, he's they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna play as tough. They really will. Got a couple
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  Speaker 1: of emails over the past week or so from people
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  Speaker 1: who are running for various things, and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: address that with you real quick. They were asking, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: can I get on with you because I think you
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  Speaker 1: know the people the voters need. No, you can't because,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, because you waited too long. Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just I'm telling you straight out, you waited too long.
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  Speaker 1: I have three nights a week, one hour a night
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  Speaker 1: that I get in here and get to do this.
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  Speaker 1: That is not enough time for me to invite your
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  Speaker 1: competitor on. And I generally do that because I believe
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  Speaker 1: in trying to make people wear both sides of whatever
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  Speaker 1: issue or stories out there. You know, I try to
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  Speaker 1: be fair no matter what my opinion is. I try
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  Speaker 1: to be when it comes to the actually covering things
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  Speaker 1: and having guests on the air. So there's not enough
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  Speaker 1: time to put it together, and frankly, there's just not
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  Speaker 1: enough show during the course of the week with Buckeye
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  Speaker 1: season going on for me to be able to do
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  Speaker 1: that as it should be done. I love getting candidates
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  Speaker 1: in here. I love it, especially especially when we don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily agree on things. Most of the time those candidates
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  Speaker 1: do not accept the invitation. But it's just for those
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  Speaker 1: that did email me over the past week, I just
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  Speaker 1: it's not possible. Can't be done. Okay. A couple of
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  Speaker 1: restaurants I wanted to mention here. Channel six profiled them
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  Speaker 1: on their website, and I wanted to just kind of mention.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, up at Polaris Chicken Salad Chick. You
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  Speaker 1: ever been that chicken salad chick at Polari's Never even
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  Speaker 1: heard of it. It's a franchise store. Jen Cinchfield, Crinefield,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Crinchfield, She says. Her restaurant's offering free meals
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  Speaker 1: for kids over the next few weeks if they need
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  Speaker 1: to with this government shut down for people that are
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  Speaker 1: facing you know, the snap benefits being non existent and
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  Speaker 1: so forth, and at least trying to help people feed
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  Speaker 1: their kids, which I think is a beautiful thing down
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  Speaker 1: in Hacking County at the feed is the name of
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  Speaker 1: the place, Tristan Tristan Rowley says, they get people in
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  Speaker 1: there all the time asking for help, and she knows
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be more with this going on. And
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  Speaker 1: she was just telling them over there at Channel six
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  Speaker 1: that you know, somebody comes in here and they're hungry
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  Speaker 1: and they don't have the means to buy meals. She's
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  Speaker 1: going to be feeding them anyway. This is what I
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  Speaker 1: like about garbage is because sometimes some people in some places,
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  Speaker 1: in some situations, can turn that garbage into art. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe that when we are faced with the darkness
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  Speaker 1: and the bad things, we have an opportunity to be
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  Speaker 1: our best as you human beings. And so when I
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  Speaker 1: saw that story, it made me very very happy because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, first of all, because they're doing that, and
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  Speaker 1: secondly because the folks over at ABC six chose to
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  Speaker 1: give them a little pub for it. We need to
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  Speaker 1: talk more about that kind of thing and those kind
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  Speaker 1: of people, because not everything is rape, robbery, violence and
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  Speaker 1: political corruption. Sometimes there's actually good stuff happening out there.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be over because Friday, I'm working. I'm filling in
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  Speaker 1: for Mike on Columbus Morning News Friday morning, so I
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  Speaker 1: won't be on with Blazer, but that's going to free
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  Speaker 1: me up. In the afternoon, I'll probably be over at Crossroads,
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  Speaker 1: the ugly little church down there at the Bottoms that
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  Speaker 1: I'm always talking about on Facebook, for their free food Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and I have a feeling the turnout this week is
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  Speaker 1: going to be amazing. I mean, they have people, hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of people every weekend, Fridays and Saturdays that show up
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  Speaker 1: there and get groceries for their families, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful thing. It's a depressing and it's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, I'm glad that they are there
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  Speaker 1: doing the work. Okay, it's all volunteer, there's no nobody
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  Speaker 1: getting paid for doing this. I'm glad that they are there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that the businesses, the organizations that donate the
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  Speaker 1: food are still doing that. That's a wonderful thing. Mount
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  Speaker 1: Carmel Hospital brings meals down there, and Panera bread and
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  Speaker 1: I think Whole Foods is still doing it. And Kroger
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  Speaker 1: was donating stuff, a bunch of it and they lay out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, beautiful food. It's not just you know, potato
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  Speaker 1: chips and sandwiches. It's groceries produce and you know, meats
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  Speaker 1: and desserts and so forth, and people turn out there,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad that they are there to do it.
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  Speaker 1: On the other end, I'm sad that those people are
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  Speaker 1: there every week, hundreds of people coming in there every week.
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  Speaker 1: Even in the best of times, they still there are
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of people down there, and they are one of
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  Speaker 1: many organizations around central Ohio that do that. And it
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  Speaker 1: makes me sad that there is that need slash even
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  Speaker 1: want in the city of Columbus, because some people do
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  Speaker 1: it just because it's easier than going to the store
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  Speaker 1: and buying stuff. Quite frankly, I'm not gonna lie. I
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  Speaker 1: know that. But they're not turned away. You show up.
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  Speaker 1: There's no government forms. You don't have to be a
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  Speaker 1: food stamp recipient or a SNAP recipient. I guess you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to call it now. You don't have to be
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  Speaker 1: a SNAP recipient. You don't have to be on any
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  Speaker 1: government program. You show up, they say, Hi, how you doing.
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  Speaker 1: What's your name? Name's John Smith. How many people in
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  Speaker 1: the family are feeding me? My wife and two kids?
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  Speaker 1: All right? John you're on the list, and then at
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  Speaker 1: four point thirty on Friday afternoon, they start going through
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  Speaker 1: the list and they call you, and you start going
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  Speaker 1: through the line and getting stuff. And I have a
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  Speaker 1: feeling that list is going to be much longer this week,
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  Speaker 1: So I want to get down there to UH if
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  Speaker 1: nothing else, help carry stuff out. As the tables are empty,
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  Speaker 1: then we need to replenish, and that will probably be
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  Speaker 1: the you know, for the foreseeable future, be a necessity
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  Speaker 1: down there. But in your community, if you've got you know,
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  Speaker 1: food banks and and UH and churches and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: consider if you if you can't donate food, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't need the food, but you just want to make
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  Speaker 1: a difference, maybe just go down help carry some boxes
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. Because the people who do this
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing, who try to serve their fellow man,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to work their butts off until this is resolved.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not joking. They are going to They're they're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a lot of people calling on them for
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  Speaker 1: their services. And if you can carry out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a box of canned vegetables instead of having the sixty
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  Speaker 1: eight year old lady do it, go on down there
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  Speaker 1: and help out. Nothing wrong with that. We all have
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  Speaker 1: to give back in one way, shape or form. So
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  Speaker 1: I know what I'm doing, and uh, maybe you can
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  Speaker 1: find a place where you want to do it over
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  Speaker 1: the course of this week, in the next couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: until the government gets their crap straightened down. I'm hoping,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping it won't be much longer. And I believe
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  Speaker 1: that people out there, even those that they are assuming
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  Speaker 1: are too stupid to understand it. I think even they're
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  Speaker 1: coming to the realization, Wait a minute, why because you
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  Speaker 1: people want to fight over you know, illegal aliens, healthcare?
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  Speaker 1: Why are Americans going without their groceries this month? Why
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  Speaker 1: are government employees going without their paychecks? Even they're starting
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  Speaker 1: to ask the question, now, what was passed? What was
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  Speaker 1: passed before? Thirteen times before? For Chuck Schumer as a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, he's voted, he's voted thirteen times in
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  Speaker 1: the past for what they call this, this continuing resolution,
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  Speaker 1: this clean bill to fund all the essential government services.
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  Speaker 1: But the Congressional Democrats are choosing to die on this hill,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, because they want one point three trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if you heard the list or not.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, it's not just about illegal aliens in
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  Speaker 1: the United States getting healthcare. It's hundreds of thousands, if
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  Speaker 1: not millions of dollars to fund things like LGBT projects
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  Speaker 1: in other countries and stuff like that. And the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: are saying, no, we're not putting that in this budget.
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  Speaker 1: This is to keep America going. We'll sit down, we
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  Speaker 1: can talk about each one of those, each one at
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  Speaker 1: a time and argue it out, but we're not including
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  Speaker 1: it in here. What you're saying, Democrats is you won't
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  Speaker 1: allow us to pay government employees, or fund snap or
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  Speaker 1: fund women, Infants and Children program until we give you
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  Speaker 1: your one point three trillion for the LGBT theater in
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  Speaker 1: Sali Arabia or whatever it is. I think the people
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  Speaker 1: in general are starting to catch on to that. I
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  Speaker 1: hope so, because ultimately it's the people in general that
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  Speaker 1: are going to have to hold these people accountable. You
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  Speaker 1: are going to have to get on the phone and
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  Speaker 1: get on the email and let your representatives, your senators know,
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  Speaker 1: cut the crap and fund our government. You would be
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  Speaker 1: surprised how responsive they will be if you turn out
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  Speaker 1: in numbers, because they'll say you know, one phone called
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  Speaker 1: or office represents one hundred and seventy seven constituents in
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  Speaker 1: the district or something like that. So if they get
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  Speaker 1: five hundred phone calls from people in the district, that
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  Speaker 1: represents a few thousand voters. That gets their attention.