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Spam calls and texts · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: And my gosh, it feels good to be back at
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  Speaker 1: my own time zone. I'm just I'm just saying, wow,
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  Speaker 1: last night, I uh, I know I left you a
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  Speaker 1: little early.
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  Speaker 2: I was falling asleep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't do that the way that I used
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  Speaker 1: to do it, Quite honestly, when I was a younger man.
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  Speaker 2: When I was a younger man.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't that hard to get up and and and
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  Speaker 1: change gears that way, going from afternoon to uh to
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  Speaker 1: three thirty am, and that it was. It was much
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  Speaker 1: simpler these days, not so much so. It did take
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a toll on me. But we are
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  Speaker 1: back together again, so much, so much of what we
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  Speaker 1: talk about, and in so little time. So let me
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  Speaker 1: get right to it. First of all, Zach, you're being
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  Speaker 1: very quiet today.
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  Speaker 2: You're doing all right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think I'm getting a sign of infection.
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  Speaker 2: Oh goodies.
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  Speaker 4: So that's uh. I have man flu, like the worst
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  Speaker 4: case of man like. Anytime I'm barely sick.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm say I'm not like that. Women say
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  Speaker 1: that about men all the time. We're such babies all
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  Speaker 1: when we get sick. I'm not like that.
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  Speaker 2: I am like that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, I know, but I just you can't do
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  Speaker 1: that because you're you're you're backing up what they say
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  Speaker 1: about us.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I don't want that to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Did something happen in the last forty eight hours or
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  Speaker 1: so that you know of with that building up in
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  Speaker 1: Hilliard that the Islamic Center wanted whenmember we did? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I had him in here, and we had the member
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  Speaker 1: of city council, one standout in city council in Hilliard
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  Speaker 1: that wanted wanted them to be able to get it,
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  Speaker 1: or had the doctor in here, and and and we
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  Speaker 1: spoke about Somebody sent me a message tell saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: about a year ago, you did this, do you still
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  Speaker 1: feel the same now?
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  Speaker 2: And again I was. I was half conscious.
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  Speaker 1: It was eight thirty or something at night when he
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  Speaker 1: sent it to me, and so I didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: was going on. And I still have not found any
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  Speaker 1: any developments that have happened over the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: days that I don't So I have no idea what
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  Speaker 1: he was asking me, if something changed or what if
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  Speaker 1: you find out anything, let me know. Weatherwise, the Sarah
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  Speaker 1: converse has been all over this. I was telling mark
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  Speaker 1: off the year I would much rather Frankly, I would
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  Speaker 1: much rather they say we're going to get, you know,
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  Speaker 1: eight inches of snow and we get three or four,
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  Speaker 1: then to say we'll get three or four and we
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  Speaker 1: get twelve. I don't want to be surprised by anything.
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  Speaker 1: I would much rather have. And the fact of the
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  Speaker 1: matter is, Hey, it's winter, and these things happen Saturday
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  Speaker 1: night into Sunday. Sometime we will be getting snow, which
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  Speaker 1: means everybody will be in the grocery store Friday getting
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  Speaker 1: their white death supplies.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, do you do that? You don't know that,
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  Speaker 2: do yet?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 4: If I need something, I just go to the store.
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  Speaker 4: I don't worry about it. It's snowing.
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  Speaker 1: We stay pretty well stopped most of the time. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there's plenty of you know, cans of soup and
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  Speaker 1: meat in the freezer and things like that, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily right now with the kids, Yeah, you probably
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  Speaker 1: make sure you get some milk.
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  Speaker 3: I try.
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  Speaker 4: The thing is, Charlie eats so much of just everything
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  Speaker 4: because he's.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's twelve.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it doesn't matter what.
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  Speaker 2: It could be cardboard exactly.
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  Speaker 1: They're all like that these days. Yeah, man, I got
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  Speaker 1: a thirteen year old.
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  Speaker 2: That will Will.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know how he eats as
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  Speaker 1: fast as he eats, and my parents used to say,
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  Speaker 1: I ate too fast this this boy before I can
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  Speaker 1: get a fork in my mouth.
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  Speaker 2: His plate's clean. I'm like, dude, what seriously?
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  Speaker 3: All that hitter, all that growing and going through certain things.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks you hungry?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great. What's what's line one one? We haven't
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  Speaker 1: even talked to anything yet.
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  Speaker 3: It's Ransom.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I see it's Ransom. What do you want?
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  Speaker 3: Current topic? About anything that you're talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, hang on this game ran Ransom? What
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  Speaker 2: do you want?
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  Speaker 4: Hey?
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  Speaker 5: Man, you gotta be nice to me, brother. I'm always
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  Speaker 5: rooting for you.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. What's what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 5: Well? I wanted to I try to talk to you
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  Speaker 5: and Blazer about it. But I don't know if you heard,
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  Speaker 5: but the uh A federal judge ruled that the lady
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  Speaker 5: that brought indictments against pleutician James and Jim James call me,
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  Speaker 5: uh she can't you know, she can't do it because
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  Speaker 5: they didn't do it the right way. So the Democrats
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  Speaker 5: found a way too. We's a well of corruption. So
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  Speaker 5: I know, you guys put a lot of political people
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  Speaker 5: on Jim Jordan, Mike Carrey.
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  Speaker 3: Uh uh Oh.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats cut Ransom off. They knew what happened.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Somebody cut him off.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I was just tired of him.
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  Speaker 2: You don't say that, they'll think you really did it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't. I talk to him every Saturday too.
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  Speaker 2: So oh is he a Saturday Morning Open Votes? Guys?
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  Speaker 1: Are you adjusting well to that your new role as
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  Speaker 1: host of Saturday Morning Open Votes?
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  Speaker 2: Is it going okay?
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  Speaker 3: It's super fun.
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  Speaker 2: You enjoy yourself or you just you same way? I
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  Speaker 2: am man. I got a week up this earlier in
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  Speaker 2: the morning.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even go to bed the night before. I
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  Speaker 3: stay up.
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  Speaker 2: No, you don't, do you really know?
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  Speaker 1: I used again. I used to do that when I
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  Speaker 1: was your age. I would do that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And I was working a job at the you know
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  Speaker 1: what used to be a newspaper here, and that started
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  Speaker 1: at three fifteen am. I was spinning records in bars
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  Speaker 1: until two close. The bar at to grab something at
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  Speaker 1: Burger King, and I would hit the regular job at
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  Speaker 1: three fifteen am. I did that every day, and it
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  Speaker 1: was it was normal. It didn't didn't even phaze me
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  Speaker 1: on my radar tonight, the last night I was telling
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  Speaker 1: you about this Monday last night, they finally did it.
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  Speaker 1: The vote in Whitehall for this councilman. I want to
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  Speaker 1: get into that because I and I always encourage you,
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  Speaker 1: even if we're in disagreement. I always encourage you to
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  Speaker 1: call me at eight two one nine eighty six A
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  Speaker 1: two one WTVM because I want to know. But that
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  Speaker 1: will be its subject matter tonight. One odd of the
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  Speaker 1: I find is the one council member who does not
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  Speaker 1: support has not voted in favor of removing Councilman Dixon.
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  Speaker 3: It was the same one. He did that twice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, what's his name? I don't know. There
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  Speaker 2: you go.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Why are they not calling this
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  Speaker 1: councilman by name?
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  Speaker 4: You're right, I mean even on the news, they just go,
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  Speaker 4: there's been one councilman who did not Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But they're not saying his name. And I find that
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  Speaker 1: very odd. So I got a couple of thoughts on that. Also,
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  Speaker 1: just just a very flippant thing that I happened to
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  Speaker 1: notice about this this monster. And I do believe he's guilty.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell, accused of killing his his ex wife
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  Speaker 1: and her husband here in Columbus. That made national news.
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  Speaker 1: But something I noticed about him in the media coverage
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  Speaker 1: today that I just I wanted to note. And the
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  Speaker 1: phone number thing I got that for you, It is
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  Speaker 1: Ransom back. Okay, let's get him on. Okay, So Ransom,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, take up where you left off.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just wanted to share that. You know, you
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  Speaker 5: guys talked to a lot of these political leaders like
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  Speaker 5: Jim Jordan and Mike Carry and Bernie Bverno and John Houston,
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  Speaker 5: all these guys. We still haven't heard anything about the
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  Speaker 5: federal judges that Trump needs. If we had a federal
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  Speaker 5: judge that we actually look at the evidence these two
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  Speaker 5: indictments that was able to get a grand jury indictment,
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  Speaker 5: they wouldn't have been thrown out by a liberal federal judge.
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  Speaker 5: So we need work on that. So if you guys
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  Speaker 5: could talk to them about the next time we talk
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  Speaker 5: to them. And then also, since Jim Jordan talks to
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  Speaker 5: President Trump all the time, I love Pam Bondy, but
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  Speaker 5: she over promises, has under delivered from the first year.
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  Speaker 5: So can you talk to him about, you know, seeing
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  Speaker 5: if Trump can make a switch up so we can
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  Speaker 5: get some things done. We need some accountability in twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty six. I appreciate, I appreciate you guys.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you RD some thank you, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: disagree that we need to see some action and there
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  Speaker 1: has you know, it started with the Epstein files and
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  Speaker 1: got worse from there. However, getting Donald Trump to abandon
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  Speaker 1: ship on anybody who does not deliberately disrespect or sabotage
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  Speaker 1: him is it difficult task. He is known to be
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  Speaker 1: a very very loyal person, even if you're screwing up.
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  Speaker 1: If you're loyal to him, he does what he can
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  Speaker 1: to maintain your your position, in your presence. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's it's a conversation worth having. So I'll try
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  Speaker 1: to next time we get Houston or Jordan on here,
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  Speaker 1: or even Mike Carrey and see, perhaps that's a conversation
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  Speaker 1: in the hallways if you will. I had noted on
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  Speaker 1: Facebook today something an out a year ago, ten years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe remember when they were telling us that everybody you
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  Speaker 1: had to dial an area code for everybody, and you
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  Speaker 1: were going to have to dial a one, you know,
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  Speaker 1: somebody may live across the street, but there'll be in
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  Speaker 1: a different area code, so you'll have to dial A
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  Speaker 1: one to call your neighbor across the street. We were
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  Speaker 1: running out of phone numbers right.
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  Speaker 6: Which today, especially because I have been bombarded, bombarded with
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  Speaker 6: I get a lot of telemarketing calls, lead generation.
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  Speaker 2: Hey are you interested in getting real estate leads for
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  Speaker 2: seventy five dollars and.
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  Speaker 1: All this kind of staff constantly. How do these people
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  Speaker 1: all have multiple numbers? Because I'll block the number, I'll
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  Speaker 1: market as spam or whatever, and then and then it boom,
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  Speaker 1: it's back. They're the same people calling from different they
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  Speaker 1: call from thirty different numbers. Yeah, no matter how many
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  Speaker 1: times you block them and mark them as spam, they
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  Speaker 1: continue to call. So if we were running out of
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  Speaker 1: phone numbers, why did the spammers and telemarketers and scammers
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  Speaker 1: did they get them all? It just doesn't seem normal
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  Speaker 1: that we're, you know, forced to dial one, three, eight
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  Speaker 1: oh or whatever one of the new area codes is
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  Speaker 1: when they've got all those numbers. People don't have home
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  Speaker 1: phones the way they used to. We've got more cell
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  Speaker 1: phones out there, but broadband VoIP is being used a
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  Speaker 1: lot ATMs for a large degree, are are flipping over
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  Speaker 1: to broadband connections as opposed to having phone modems. So
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  Speaker 1: the ATMs aren't doing that. The cash registers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the credit card things at the stores, they're not
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  Speaker 1: using phone lines nearly as much as they were because
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  Speaker 1: of the the you know, broadband and VoIP stuff. So
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  Speaker 1: why why is it that we're still telling people you
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  Speaker 1: got a dial?
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  Speaker 2: Just it doesn't make sense. And I just as I said,
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  Speaker 2: I've been.
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  Speaker 1: Overwhelmed today with phone calls, and I called up a
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  Speaker 1: serve as well. Actually I signed up online. I needed
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  Speaker 1: a particular service, and so I get online. I said, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: contact me, and I said that you can contact me
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  Speaker 1: between eleven thirty am and one pm tomorrow, I should
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  Speaker 1: have time to talk. I got immediately a text from
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  Speaker 1: someone saying when can we as I said on the
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  Speaker 1: contact form, eleven thirty to one tomorrow, and they said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll call you eleven thirty to one tomorrow. And then
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  Speaker 1: I get another phone call and then another phone call
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  Speaker 1: from somebody else, allegedly with to say, have you ever
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  Speaker 1: gone online and gone like a car insurance quote? I
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  Speaker 1: want to see my car insurance and the next thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, every licensed agent in the state of Ohio
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  Speaker 1: is calling you.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I was inquiring about something yesterday where I put
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  Speaker 4: I put my number in which probably might I got
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  Speaker 4: two calls at a text message boom boom boom like
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  Speaker 4: all and it was from different people going Hey, I'll
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  Speaker 4: be your blah blah blah blah blah, I'll help you out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm like, that's this stuff needs to be disclosed.
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  Speaker 1: If you are contacting a company and you think you're
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  Speaker 1: contacting a company and you're expecting a representative from the
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  Speaker 1: company to call you, that's one thing. If you're contacting
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  Speaker 1: a company and that company is just basically a clearinghouse
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  Speaker 1: or a lead generation service for people in that business,
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  Speaker 1: and they send out the lead and you get eighty
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  Speaker 1: different people that are all calling you about your car
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  Speaker 1: insurance or whatever you might have been inquiring about. That
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  Speaker 1: needs to be disclosed upfront, that you're submitting this information
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  Speaker 1: to a lead generation brokerage service or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's only fair. We keep talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: telecommunications fraud and companies being charged thousands of dollars for
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  Speaker 1: not complying with the do not Call list.
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  Speaker 2: And all that stuff. Well, this is just practical.
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  Speaker 1: Disclose up front that when I click the submit button,
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  Speaker 1: I am submitting it to you know, multiple people and
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  Speaker 1: not just your company, because it's been a very very
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  Speaker 1: frustrating day in that respect. William has some thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get him on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
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  Speaker 1: phone lines. William, how are you hey?
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  Speaker 7: Fantastic great to hear from you, guys. I actually have
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  Speaker 7: a solution that really works as far as the spam calls.
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  Speaker 7: I actually will hand the phone to my six year
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  Speaker 7: old daughter and tell her it's Santa Claus. That actually works.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure they enjoy it.
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  Speaker 7: Oh they do, especially since she talks about like my
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  Speaker 7: little pony and Paul Patrol and everything else. So yeah,
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  Speaker 7: so I have the Pope back and be like Daddy.
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  Speaker 7: They hung up.
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  Speaker 1: I have been, I have begun a lot of times now.
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  Speaker 1: I will answer in different languages because I'm worried that
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  Speaker 1: the AI stuff, you know, they get your voice saying
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  Speaker 1: yes or whatever, and then they end up doing something.
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  Speaker 1: So I will answer if I don't recognize it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: like Bun Jordan and I get nothing, and then I'll say,
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  Speaker 1: oh nah, and I'll get nothing, and then.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, tell you yeah, they tell you never say never
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  Speaker 7: say yes, because they can record your voice and record
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  Speaker 7: your for other things.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: I just find a whole bunch of things to say,
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  Speaker 7: or just like hand it to my daughter and tell
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  Speaker 7: her sagua. But ye, you guys have a good one.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, buddy, thanks very much. I have a
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  Speaker 1: six year old hang with me for a couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: She might give rid of some of these calls. And
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  Speaker 1: then I always get that little you get those where
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  Speaker 1: they use.
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  Speaker 2: The auto dialer. I get it here, you really you
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  Speaker 2: answer the phone and nobody's there, and he goes.
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  Speaker 3: Click, and then I hear people like talking at a distance.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so I can get a call center in Indonesia
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  Speaker 2: or something.
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  Speaker 4: Harve, and I got to know this is a radio station. Well,
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  Speaker 4: since I have you on, so then I hang up,
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  Speaker 4: and the next day or ten minutes later, it could
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  Speaker 4: be either hello, Harvey, No, this is a radio station. Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 4: since I have you on the phone. Click, it's always
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  Speaker 4: a different person. So they just autodial or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: The queen got some mail yesterday, and again this is
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  Speaker 1: this is technology, everybody, and it was addressed to Brenda
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  Speaker 1: like Westenheimer or something.
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  Speaker 2: But it's all her.
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  Speaker 1: Information, it's all her stuff in the mail, but it
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  Speaker 1: has a name that neither one of us have ever
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  Speaker 1: heard before. And I'm just waiting for the phone calls
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  Speaker 1: to start rolling in now for Ms. Westerheimer because somehow
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  Speaker 1: someway that somebody made that typo.
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  Speaker 3: Were you married before and didn't tell her y had
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  Speaker 3: a different lives?
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  Speaker 2: Not to not to a Westernheimer.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, just here, I'm just trying to cover your bases.
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  Speaker 2: No, okay, Wisenheimer, but not a Western I'm just anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just getting really annoying. And those calls seriously,
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  Speaker 1: they started, you know, eight o'clock in the morning. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as they are legally allowed to start, it starts ringing,
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  Speaker 1: and it's all nothing but spam. I've said it before.
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  Speaker 1: There's more money seriously, as a realtor, there's more money
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  Speaker 1: selling me services.
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  Speaker 2: Than there is in being in real estate being a realtor,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, we have buyers, we have pre approved, vetted buyers,
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  Speaker 1: which will charge you a fifteen percent commission to get
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  Speaker 1: We'll charge you seventy five percent for pre verified sellers
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  Speaker 1: of homes, and we'll do your document searches for every
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  Speaker 1: single day. And no matter how many times you block
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  Speaker 1: those numbers, the same people, the same companies end up
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  Speaker 1: calling you from different numbers the next day. Ridiculous, absolutely
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  Speaker 1: ridicul