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Chucks uber ride and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: It's a radio talk show, but people love that messenger.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to know what it was about the Uber
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  Speaker 1: ride that was so terrible that I was complaining about it.
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  Speaker 1: Car was dirty, and I don't mean just like dust
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  Speaker 1: on the exterior. Inside, you know, carpets were dirty, and
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  Speaker 1: it was dirty in the back seat doors. There were
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  Speaker 1: some plastic cups. I'm assuming their children probably the ride
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  Speaker 1: in the back seat of that car. It was just
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  Speaker 1: it was dirty. And the driver drove as if he
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  Speaker 1: was a stunt double in Starsky and Hutch. It just
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  Speaker 1: he was. He was swerving in and out of lanes
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  Speaker 1: and uh, this was Newnish somewhere around there. Yeah. At
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  Speaker 1: one point, we're getting off the freeway. He needs to
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  Speaker 1: get to the end of the ramp and make a
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  Speaker 1: left hand turn, and he was not familiar with his
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  Speaker 1: brakes and it seemed like he was about to flip
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  Speaker 1: that prius, and uh, it was a little frightening. It
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  Speaker 1: was a little frightening. So I was just grateful to
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  Speaker 1: be home. I didn't care about the booking fee at
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  Speaker 1: that point. You give them five stars, no, no, but
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  Speaker 1: I was not heartless. They force you if you give
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  Speaker 1: less than five stars. They force you to pick something
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  Speaker 1: that's wrong on the appeah, So I just picked one
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  Speaker 1: thing instead of the several I could have And and
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  Speaker 1: honestly even gave the guy a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: tip because I mean he's out there hoofing to try
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  Speaker 1: to make money. He's obviously from the back seat. Condition
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  Speaker 1: has kids, so I wanted to be decent about it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, he should be better at that job, just
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  Speaker 1: saying A two nine, A two one WTV and Kendall's
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  Speaker 1: been hanging on through the break. So Kendall, you're on
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  Speaker 1: six to TENU WTV at Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, this is a slight tangent. And this is on
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  Speaker 2: gift cards. Now you know Value City, the furnature store
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  Speaker 2: is claiming bankruptcy yep. And they said on the news,
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  Speaker 2: and it was on six' ten that if you have
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  Speaker 2: gift cards and they're having a liquidation, sale you cannot
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  Speaker 2: use the gift card even though there's cash that was.
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  Speaker 2: PAID i heard the same, thing, RIGHT.
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  Speaker 3: I heard the same thing that the.
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  Speaker 1: Gift cards will not be it won't have any value
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  Speaker 1: after the stores.
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  Speaker 2: Close, well, right, WELL i. TALKED i called in AND
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  Speaker 2: i talked to a sales person and she said it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the board of, directors ALTHOUGH i think they had
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  Speaker 2: a hand in. It she said that it was the
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  Speaker 2: judge that decided, that so that whatever money that was
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  Speaker 2: paid in advance that could not be used towards the
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  Speaker 2: liquidation sale will go towards the. Bankruptcy AND i, said
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  Speaker 2: that's not. Right that cash was paid on those. Cards,
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  Speaker 2: somebody people in good, faith paid in advance on those.
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  Speaker 1: Cards but that's not what they're doing. There this is
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  Speaker 1: how the legal system, operates not about. Justice it's not
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  Speaker 1: about resolving. Things it's about continuing keeping everybody. Fed the
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  Speaker 1: lawyer's got to get, paid the judges got to get,
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  Speaker 1: paid even the bailift's got to get. Paid so you
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  Speaker 1: have to keep suits. Going what happens here is that
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  Speaker 1: now all those people who are like you and disgruntle
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  Speaker 1: that they paid cash for a gift card and basically
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  Speaker 1: had that money stolen from, them they file a class
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  Speaker 1: action lawsuit to get back fifteen cents for every hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars while the lawyers make a whole bunch of. Money
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  Speaker 1: that that's exactly how this thing's going to end up.
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  Speaker 2: Going, OKAY i get, it it's not, right BUT i
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  Speaker 2: understand what you're.
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  Speaker 1: Saying it's absolutely not. Right, yeah AND i feel bad
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  Speaker 1: for people, that you, know they they barely they're they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to make things work and trying to make ends
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  Speaker 1: meet and so. Forth somebody gives them a gift. Card,
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  Speaker 1: well things get, okay they don't have to they don't
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  Speaker 1: have to use. It they put it in the dresser,
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  Speaker 1: drawer they put it in the night, stand, whatever and
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  Speaker 1: then it gets a little tight. Again HEY i got
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  Speaker 1: that one hundred dollars gift card and they go to
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  Speaker 1: use it and they find out there's only eighty seven
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  Speaker 1: dollars on it because there's a fee for non use
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  Speaker 1: or a fee for not. Right that's that's ridiculous if
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  Speaker 1: somebody that gift card should be worth whatever was paid
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  Speaker 1: for it until you start using. It and they shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be able to just make money disappear off of, it
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  Speaker 1: because you know they.
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  Speaker 2: Can you're, right AND i agree. Wholeheartedly but that's WHAT
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  Speaker 2: i wanted to say so that the public heard about
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  Speaker 2: it that didn't know about. It and thank you for the, Time,
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  Speaker 2: kell thank.
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  Speaker 1: You for the. CALL i appreciate. You you have a nice.
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  Speaker 1: Evening one nine eight eighty SIX a two ONE wtv
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  Speaker 1: and the, yeah the whole idea of you, know money just.
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  Speaker 1: Disappearing But ohio, again see this is how the law works.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly you probably you haven't been here long. Enough you're
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  Speaker 1: probably not old enough to have. Cared when when they
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  Speaker 1: got rid of the payday, lenders the payday lenders that
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  Speaker 1: were where you would go and, OKAY i get five
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  Speaker 1: days to like get. PAID i got to buy. GROCERIES
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  Speaker 1: i need one hundred. Bucks so you take a pay
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  Speaker 1: check in there and you write a check and they
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  Speaker 1: cash it in five, days and then they charge you
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  Speaker 1: a fee for. Whatever well they said these fees could
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  Speaker 1: amount to amount of three hundred and ninety percent or
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  Speaker 1: something like. That the thing of it is is if
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  Speaker 1: you were in that position and you got to get
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  Speaker 1: groceries and the kids are, hungry and you got a
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  Speaker 1: few days to and you go bounce a check, instead
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  Speaker 1: the fee for the check from the store for bouncing
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  Speaker 1: a check and for your from your bank for bouncing
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  Speaker 1: a check is way higher than the interest that the
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  Speaker 1: payday lenders were charging. You but the government has to protect,
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  Speaker 1: you you, see they're all about protecting. You but it
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  Speaker 1: was it cost you way more to go basically float
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  Speaker 1: a check than it did to just go pay the.
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  Speaker 1: Fee and now what do you? See they got them, All, Dave, Dan, Bridget, Joe, John,
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  Speaker 1: phil they got all they all got names like. THAT
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  Speaker 1: i think they're probably all the same. Company but you
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  Speaker 1: can you can Call dan or log on To dan or,
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  Speaker 1: yeah well and they'll they'll give You they'll give you
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  Speaker 1: a hundred bucks or something for a week and that
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  Speaker 1: kind Of so while the payday loans were, outlawed you
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  Speaker 1: could go online and get you, know a payday advance
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  Speaker 1: basically from a bunch of who, knows probably some companies
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  Speaker 1: In bangladesh or some it so you're sending your money to.
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  Speaker 1: Them absolutely. Ridiculous, again government protecting us from the most absurd,
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  Speaker 1: things in the case Of Columbus City, council protecting us
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  Speaker 1: from having a moonlighting job with people they don't approve.
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  Speaker 1: OF i JUST i can't get what if you're work
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  Speaker 1: At you've got a full time job at like a,
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  Speaker 1: gym working at A Planet fitness Or Victory Fitness center
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  Speaker 1: or something like, that and they, say, oh, sure you
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  Speaker 1: can get a second, job but it can't be any
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  Speaker 1: place that sells high calorie. Foods i'd be, like you
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  Speaker 1: should work in because that way you get people all
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  Speaker 1: ump chubbied up and send them over to your other
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  Speaker 1: job is what you. Do but they could do that
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  Speaker 1: if the city Of columbus can say you can't work
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  Speaker 1: for these government agencies as a part time second, job
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  Speaker 1: if they have that, right then every employer In columbus
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  Speaker 1: will end up having the right to tell you where
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  Speaker 1: you can work a second. Job your family's gas bill be.
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  Speaker 1: Damned we are in. Control and in case you're missing
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  Speaker 1: the point of all, this that defies the meaning Of. America,
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  Speaker 1: we unless you're talking about the, people should never be in.
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  Speaker 1: Control we should be subservient to the. People or, again
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's just ME a two one nine eight eight.
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  Speaker 1: Six let's Get bury on six' ten Wtv And.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, barry hey how.
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  Speaker 1: YOU doing i, am fine don't let them tell. You
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  Speaker 1: otherwise i'm a.
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  Speaker 3: LONGTIME listener, i mean let's say, three Years but i've
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  Speaker 3: really you Enjoy YOUR so i was calling this my first.
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  Speaker 3: TIME calling i was calming on. The woman what's the
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  Speaker 3: gift Cards At? Value? City yes so if you had
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  Speaker 3: a loan, with them is that? Right? Off then then
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  Speaker 3: oh you know better, Than, THAT okay i just wanted
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  Speaker 3: to bring, it up make sure see if that. Could
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  Speaker 3: happen you Know what, I'm, saying hey fair?
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  Speaker 1: Is fair fair. Is fair if you were financing furniture
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  Speaker 1: ninety days same as cash, or something and they file
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  Speaker 1: bankruptcy and, closed up if they don't have to pay
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  Speaker 1: off on your credit card or your, gift card why
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  Speaker 1: should you have to pay off on your ninety day same.
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  Speaker 3: As cash That's what. I'm saying but of course.
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  Speaker 1: That money will go into. THE bankruptcy i guess they
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  Speaker 1: Filed a, chapter eleven, Didn't they or maybe it's a seven,
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  Speaker 1: This time but that'll go into the bankruptcy so that their,
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  Speaker 1: creditors can, you know basically take what meats on the
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  Speaker 1: bones and throw the carcass aside when.
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  Speaker 3: They're, done now why did they go? Into bankruptcy does?
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  Speaker 3: Anybody know just weren't doing weren't doing.
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  Speaker 1: The business they weren't doing. The BUSINESS and i take them,
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  Speaker 1: really personally, quite FRANKLY because i, for many, many years
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  Speaker 1: for oh lord ABOUT six i suppose, IT was i
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  Speaker 1: was the Voice In Shottenstein's value city, department stores and
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  Speaker 1: occasionally they would call me and have me do some
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  Speaker 1: commercials for the for the furniture, store too, not often
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  Speaker 1: but now and then uh so that, you know they
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  Speaker 1: were a, homegrown company, and uh they just they went
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  Speaker 1: some odd directions as time, went on before u before
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  Speaker 1: they stopped. Using me the department stores wanted to have
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  Speaker 1: kind of a higher end reputation because they were basically a.
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  Speaker 1: Buyout store they were the big lots of, department stores,
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  Speaker 1: and uh they wanted a higher. End clientele so They
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  Speaker 1: started they had An Official liz. Claiborn line they had
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  Speaker 1: come in and just trying to kind of up their
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  Speaker 1: game a. Little bit their bread and butter was, you
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  Speaker 1: know the broke folks that were trying to put clothes
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  Speaker 1: on all the kids for the new. School year it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't high.
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  Speaker 3: End people and, They exactly i'm chilly.
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  Speaker 1: With you on that's that was kind of the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of beginning of, THE decline i think for the department
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  Speaker 1: stores and then the. Furniture store, you know you've Got
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  Speaker 1: big sandy out there just advertising, like crazy and the
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  Speaker 1: competition is pretty strong in. That business and of COURSE
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  Speaker 1: when i was, coming up We. Had glicks glicks was
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  Speaker 1: where everybody went. For furniture but the competition, is stiff and,
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  Speaker 1: you Know Even big lots is, selling furniture so they're
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  Speaker 1: just they're not getting enough business to keep. It going
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  Speaker 1: and it does make me, sad BECAUSE like, i said they.
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  Speaker 1: WERE homegrown i was always rooting.
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  Speaker 3: For, HIM yeah i Do remember glicks and they're On The.
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  Speaker 1: West, Side, yep glicks which Was. Now don's there Was
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  Speaker 1: A dons furniture. Back Then And don's furniture is actually
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  Speaker 1: What Became Value city furniture Once shotten stein's had acquired
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  Speaker 1: him And the shottenstein's department stores Everywhere, But columbus ohio
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  Speaker 1: Were Called value city. Department stores But, in columbus Where
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  Speaker 1: the shottenstein, family is they those stores had their name.
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  Speaker 3: On them just a little.
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  Speaker 1: Retail history it is. VERY interesting i appreciate.
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  Speaker 3: IT and i will listen to you the rest of.
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  Speaker 1: The Night, THANKS berry i appreciate. You, calling, UH yeah
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  Speaker 1: i got. That gig the guy who was doing their
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  Speaker 1: commercials for. Many years his Name Is jim Marsco and
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  Speaker 1: jim had a. Heart attack, and uh if you've Been,
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  Speaker 1: in columbus if you remember, the audi he was, that
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  Speaker 1: big boisterous way, you go it's the moon light mad
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  Speaker 1: and the sale going on now at, shot STAGE and
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  Speaker 1: i got a call and, they, said hey can you
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  Speaker 1: kind of sound like this guy because he had a
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  Speaker 1: heart attack and we need to get these. Commercials DONE
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  Speaker 1: so i went in and started sounding like. This guy
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  Speaker 1: and then when it was apparent that he wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to come back and do, it anymore
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  Speaker 1: kind of made it, your own made it, my own,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah did it for a lot of years. After,
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  Speaker 1: that oh. From tragedy sometimes there's, something good at least
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  Speaker 1: there was. For me, all right music's PLAYING that i
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  Speaker 1: can't believe how quick this hour goes