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What to do downtown and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Here we are back second half of the Power Hour
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  Speaker 1: six to ten double UTV and the number eight two
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  Speaker 1: And are familiar Zachi familiar with Music Matters Ohio? No,
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  Speaker 1: not at all, all right, Yeah, it seems like a
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool organization here. What they're trying to do is
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  Speaker 1: get instruments. If you got any instruments, the kids played
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  Speaker 1: and then then they stop playing, or you played and
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  Speaker 1: you stop playing. They do donations of instruments to school kids,
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  Speaker 1: and they're having a donation thing coming up Saturday this
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  Speaker 1: Saturday drop. Both locations are arounds all over central Ohio. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: Musicmatters Ohio dot org is the website, so you can
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  Speaker 1: find out where you can go. And you know, they
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  Speaker 1: keep cutting the budget for music in the arts and
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  Speaker 1: so forth in school, and these are some folks that
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  Speaker 1: are trying to actually take it upon themselves to improve
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  Speaker 1: that situation, make things better. Music Matters Ohio dot Org.
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  Speaker 1: Instruments you got in the attic in the basement, you
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  Speaker 1: know nobody's using them, you can donate them and it's
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  Speaker 1: tax deductible, by the way, So I figured, did you
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  Speaker 1: play an instrument in school?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, okay, I got piano lessons. Then
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  Speaker 2: I gave up.
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  Speaker 1: I took clarinet in sixth grade. Here, I'm not joking.
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  Speaker 1: Took clarinet in sixth grade, did not practice one single
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  Speaker 1: bit during summer vacation. By the time I got to
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  Speaker 1: seventh grade, I had forgotten everything everything. Yeah, so my
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  Speaker 1: band teacher in junior high school, I had no idea
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  Speaker 1: who that. Well. I knew he was my buddy, Lonnie's stepdad.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I knew about him. But I had no
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  Speaker 1: idea that he was a bit of a music icon.
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  Speaker 1: Was a He was a featured artist with the Jazz
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  Speaker 1: Arts Group of Columbus. A guy's name was Clarence McBroom.
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  Speaker 1: They called him Sonny Sonny McBroom And he said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you played clarinet, you look more like a sax guy.
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  Speaker 1: He sits me in a practice room with a tenor sax,
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  Speaker 1: said here, learn something. Tried to force me to get
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  Speaker 1: my memory back. Because I knew how to read music
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  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. I just I didn't
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  Speaker 1: practice at all and forgot it. And I never did
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  Speaker 1: never did really grasp the saxophone. And it wasn't until
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  Speaker 1: I got to high school that I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know, just I was in choir. So there's a
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  Speaker 1: piano in the choir room, and I kind of play
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  Speaker 1: with the piano, but I never really played it. Then
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  Speaker 1: I went to Ohio Dominican and they had this but
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  Speaker 1: there was a room in the girl's dormitory called the
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  Speaker 1: Colonial Room that was set up like a ballroom from
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  Speaker 1: the seventeen hundreds, and in there was this beautiful natural
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  Speaker 1: wood grand piano and I sat there and played it,
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  Speaker 1: and I just I taught myself. Next thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm writing songs, and you know, college girls are sitting
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  Speaker 1: around the colony room and going ah while I'm singing
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  Speaker 1: and playing, and it all just came naturally. And then
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  Speaker 1: I got old, and I can't feel my fingers anymore,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't do that anymore either, you know. That's
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  Speaker 1: how That's how life comes at you fast. As they say,
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  Speaker 1: somebody said, what if you're at your hometown, why are
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  Speaker 1: you're beating up on it. I'm not beaten up on
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  Speaker 1: I love Columbus. I just think all the wrong decisions,
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  Speaker 1: all the wrong moves are being made. That's why you're.
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  Speaker 2: Not complaining that you're trying to point out that we
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  Speaker 2: can make it better.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's the point. Absolutely. And making it more more
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  Speaker 1: citizen centric as opposed to finding new and more creative
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  Speaker 1: ways to cater to the people who are basically dependent
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  Speaker 1: upon the citizenry for everything might be a good first step.
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  Speaker 1: The homeless situation, there are two kinds of homeless people.
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  Speaker 1: There are people who are homeless because something went wrong,
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  Speaker 1: something went astray, and they've got There are also people
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  Speaker 1: who choose to be homeless. And a lot of folks
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hear that. Everybody has to be a victim.
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  Speaker 1: You see, there has to be a story, no believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not. Not in every case. There are people
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  Speaker 1: who are living in the woods at your local park
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  Speaker 1: that like being there. Nobody accountable, are accountable to nobody,
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about paying bills, don't have to
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  Speaker 1: keep the utilities on, Nobody worried about paying taxes to anybody,
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about upkeeping their property. Every now
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  Speaker 1: and then they get a new blue tarp. That's about it.
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  Speaker 1: When they need something to excuse me, sir, they go
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  Speaker 1: out to the corner and somebody either hands them money
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  Speaker 1: or hands them what they're asking for and they're good
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  Speaker 1: with it. And whether we want to admit it or not,
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  Speaker 1: whether we like hearing it or not, there is a
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  Speaker 1: certain percentage of people who are considered to be homeless
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  Speaker 1: that feel that way. There are those who met with
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  Speaker 1: unfortunate circumstance, some of which they brought on themselves, sometimes not.
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  Speaker 1: But to grasp the problem of homelesses means that means
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  Speaker 1: you got to dissect it. You got to take it
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  Speaker 1: apart and see that there are these subdivisions, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: within the homeless community. And you also need to be
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  Speaker 1: fair about who you call homeless. Somebody who they didn't
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  Speaker 1: renew their lease, they got kicked out of their apartment
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  Speaker 1: and they're laying on their best friends couts for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of months while they try to find a new apartment.
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  Speaker 1: They are not homeless. That is not homeless, but it
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  Speaker 1: inflates your numbers if you claim them to be homeless
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  Speaker 1: and gets more money coming out of Washington, DC to
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  Speaker 1: take care of your homeless problem. They're not homeless. Or
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  Speaker 1: they throw around that church the unhoused. Hell, I've been unhoused.
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  Speaker 1: Those things happen, but you know again, It's one of
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  Speaker 1: those ways they keep They want to change the terminology
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  Speaker 1: so they can get away with more. Do you remember
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  Speaker 1: when climate change was global warming? But now it's not
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  Speaker 1: global warming, it's climate change. Why because now you can
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  Speaker 1: get away with more. You can encompass more things with
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  Speaker 1: climate change and still scare people. They keep manipulating the
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  Speaker 1: language in order to create a perception, because a perception
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what gets funded if you get enough people
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  Speaker 1: wagging their tongues about it and telling you what a
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  Speaker 1: problem there is. Oh my gosh, we have this problem
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  Speaker 1: with almost is we got to do something. They get money.
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  Speaker 1: When you went into the hospital and you had the
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  Speaker 1: COVID check and they said, oh, you're positive for COVID. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well I feel fun. Yeah, but you're positive for COVID.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah but I broke my finger. Yeah, but you're positive
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  Speaker 1: for COVID. So we get money again. Whether you want
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  Speaker 1: to admit it or not doesn't matter. It is the reality.
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  Speaker 1: You don't chuck, COVID was really I didn't say COVID
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  Speaker 1: wasn't real. What I said was a bunch of people
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  Speaker 1: manipulated information in order to get money. The more COVID
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  Speaker 1: cases they reported, the more money they got. The more
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  Speaker 1: COVID deaths they reported, the more money they got. And
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  Speaker 1: that means that if you fell off of an eighty
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  Speaker 1: story building because you were trying to do a tap
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  Speaker 1: dance on the roofline and it didn't work out so well,
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  Speaker 1: but you tested purpositive for COVID while you were at
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  Speaker 1: the morgue, you were a COVID death. Because they got
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  Speaker 1: more money, Your almost numbers go up, more money, your
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  Speaker 1: drug use goes up more money. There was a story
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  Speaker 1: last week, right before the wood to the Memorial Day
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  Speaker 1: holiday that there was a was it eight overdoses? I
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  Speaker 1: think they were warning us that there have been these overdoses?
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  Speaker 1: Why why are they warning us? If you're reading the
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  Speaker 1: newspaper or watching television news, chances are you don't care
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  Speaker 1: because you're most likely not out buying fitting all laced
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  Speaker 1: heroin on the street. Those people who are probably aren't
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  Speaker 1: paying attention to the headlines because all they want is
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  Speaker 1: they're fitting all laced heroin. But why do they publicize
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  Speaker 1: such things? Why must there be a big news story
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  Speaker 1: about it? Why? More money? That's what it's always about.
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  Speaker 1: Follow the money, Follow the money. If there is no money,
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  Speaker 1: then steakhouses go out of business. I'm still I'm just
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm trying to think of places downtown that
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  Speaker 1: what we need to do, Zach, is like a walking
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  Speaker 1: tour and just go down there and pick a street.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go High Street, once and third Street ones, just
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  Speaker 1: like take inventory of what's exactly down there.
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  Speaker 2: I am more than willing to go if we can
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  Speaker 2: stop by the toilets.
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  Speaker 1: We have to stop by the toilets. Actually that yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a mandatory stop. We should probably stop and do
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  Speaker 1: like a Facebook live from inside the toilets and just
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  Speaker 1: you know, show everybody how amazing they are. For two
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  Speaker 1: million dollars, I understand, there's a you know, sofas in there,
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  Speaker 1: they've got some nice wal art and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm kidding. It's just it's just a public toilet that
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  Speaker 1: we paid. There's three of them, right, total, I think
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  Speaker 1: two four? Are you flipping me?
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  Speaker 2: Three?
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  Speaker 1: Three? Okay, Well that's what I said in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: The total was two million dollars for the three public toilets.
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  Speaker 1: But again, you got any potholes on your street? I
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  Speaker 1: got so all by. I'm just saying there are other
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  Speaker 1: expenditures for a city income that might have been appreciated.
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  Speaker 2: Ruin my car to go to the bathroom and I
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  Speaker 2: can't do math.
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  Speaker 1: But and you have to be one and you have
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  Speaker 1: to be on foot. I mean, there's no way you
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  Speaker 1: can't like pull over in park down there to go.
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  Speaker 1: And that that's something else. I I have never seen
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  Speaker 1: anybody like pull over, you know, the construction sites, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times they'll leave their porta potties out
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  Speaker 1: there on the construction site. I've never seen anybody pull
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  Speaker 1: over and go I gotta get, I gotta go. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying I've.
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  Speaker 2: Made that joke before, but I've never done it.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen anybody do that kind of thing. And
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  Speaker 1: yet we needed to spend that kind of money on
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  Speaker 1: on I don't get it. I don't get it. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: if you're considering a you know, three thousand and four
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars apartment downtown, I'm just saying, you'll probably want
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  Speaker 1: someplace to eat, someplace to shop, maybe someplace to go
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  Speaker 1: entertain yourself that that that is conveniently located that you
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  Speaker 1: can get to. Otherwise you might as well just live
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  Speaker 1: in a nice suburb for less money. When We're getting
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  Speaker 1: to the point that you're you know, you're you're paying
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  Speaker 1: that much for location, the location actually offer something. There
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  Speaker 1: should be a payoff for paying that much to live there,
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  Speaker 1: and I just I don't see it. As as the
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  Speaker 1: restaurants continue to go. I'm trying to think of there's
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  Speaker 1: We've got the summer movie series, the capa summer movie
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  Speaker 1: series over there at the Ohio Theater. But where's what's
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  Speaker 1: the closest theater, what is the closes? I can and
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  Speaker 1: even think where the closest theater would be. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: need to do that walking tour, Pete. Let's get you
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  Speaker 1: in here before we say ta ta for the evening.
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  Speaker 1: You're on sixth n WTVN.
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  Speaker 3: Did you say tatas?
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  Speaker 1: I said nothing about your tatas, Pete.
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  Speaker 3: Oh darn, I'm going to hang up. Then that's what
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 3: No, McDonald's, Franklin University, it's what is that?
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  Speaker 1: Rich? And yes, that's right there, and there's a Donado's
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  Speaker 1: on the other corner.
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  Speaker 3: Very good. Yeah, I don't know. You know, I've brought
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  Speaker 3: up in Central Ohio my whole life. Fifty five. It
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  Speaker 3: just seems like downtown. You know, back in the eighties,
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  Speaker 3: it's it wasn't very you know, it didn't have hardly
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  Speaker 3: much at all compared to what it does now, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like there wasn't the arena district.
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  Speaker 3: I think people just got used to not going downtown
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  Speaker 3: because they're really wasn't there used to never really being
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  Speaker 3: anything down there, you know, besides of course offices, but
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  Speaker 3: in terms of entertainment, I mean, what did you really have?
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  Speaker 1: Well again, you know, I just ask about a movie theater.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a place to go see a movie? That
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  Speaker 1: you made me think when you said the arena district.
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  Speaker 1: Remember we had the arena, grand, nice theater, reclining seats, leather,
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  Speaker 1: it was, it was. It didn't last, right.
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  Speaker 3: But like back in the seventies, what what I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I was just a kid, but you know, was there
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  Speaker 3: really anything down there to to in terms of an
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  Speaker 3: entertainment venue or even in the eighties, you know, it
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  Speaker 3: was uh, you know what I mean. It just seems
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  Speaker 3: like people just got used to doing things in the
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  Speaker 3: suburbs because there wasn't anything downtown.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the suburbs, the suburbs took a lot away from downtown.
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  Speaker 1: But the personality was still there and we still you
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  Speaker 1: know people. The first thing people want to tell you
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  Speaker 1: about is Lazarus. Christmas at Lazarus. The Centrum was a
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  Speaker 1: very cool thing. It was an ice skating rink and
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  Speaker 1: they tore that down. City center was wonderful, great shopping
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  Speaker 1: entity until they let the gangs take over and the
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  Speaker 1: security guys had to run. There been some things down there.
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  Speaker 1: It just we let them go. We let them go
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  Speaker 1: because somebody with an agenda, probably thinking about money, found
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  Speaker 1: something else they wanted to do. I gotta run already, man,
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  Speaker 1: time for me to fly. However,