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Columbus City Counsel and Teen Curfew · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salutations, Welcome my friends, do another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten WUTV and I'm Chuck Douglas.
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  Speaker 1: You know who you are, and we take it from there.
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  Speaker 1: We get one hour together, which means I talk really
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  Speaker 1: fast and you must listen even faster. My number eight
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  Speaker 1: two one nine eight eighty six eight two one dou
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  Speaker 1: WUTV and or one eight hundred six' ten DOU wutv
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  Speaker 1: In welcome To. Monday first of, all it's been a
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  Speaker 1: good day for A. Monday it's been a good day
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  Speaker 1: for any. Day it's actually been a pretty good day for,
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  Speaker 1: me AND i hope so for you. Too we've, been you, know,
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  Speaker 1: moaning grown and, complaining gripe and grousing about the. Heat
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  Speaker 1: And i'm gonna tell you. SOMETHING i worked like a dog.
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  Speaker 1: TODAY i worked hard today and it felt, great felt
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  Speaker 1: great out there in the. Heat in, fact this this
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  Speaker 1: troublesome knee of, mine did not start aching UNTIL i
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  Speaker 1: got into The iHeart. Refrigerator So i'm all for the.
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  Speaker 1: Heat AND i JUST i don't know it doesn't bug
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  Speaker 1: you BECAUSE i, mean you dress like It's november the.
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  Speaker 1: Time you always look like you're ready for. Winter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah If i'm out doing like this, MORNING i
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  Speaker 2: went and got a weed eater and weed eat at
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  Speaker 2: the front yard and stuff BECAUSE i had shorts on
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  Speaker 2: and short sleeve shirt or. Whatever If i'm just standing
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  Speaker 2: there doing, Nothing i'm, like. Uh but If i'm moving
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  Speaker 2: around doing, Something i'm, active it kind of kind of.
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  Speaker 1: DISSIPATES i. WAS i was perspiring like crazy. Today NOTICE
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  Speaker 1: i didn't say sweat because it's a family. Show perspiring like,
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  Speaker 1: Crazy but, again it felt, good it really. DID i
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  Speaker 1: MEAN i loved being out. There oh, yeah so you
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  Speaker 1: won't hear me great for, well it'll be about a,
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  Speaker 1: month about a month from, now and Then i'll, Go,
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  Speaker 1: Okay i've had enough of. This but for right, now,
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  Speaker 1: Yeah i'm loving. It Clama City council meeting. Tonight voting
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be voting on the, curfew the new curfew,
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  Speaker 1: laws and according to THE wsyx six website present That Shannon,
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  Speaker 1: Harden Council President Shannon harden, said the curfew the vote
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  Speaker 1: is not a knee jerk reaction To Saint catherine's, funfest
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  Speaker 1: but part of a larger conversation about youth. Violence AND
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  Speaker 1: i say to you, bs Mister PRESIDENT, bs it is
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  Speaker 1: indeed a knee jerk reaction, because as, always laws apply
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  Speaker 1: to law abiding. People the kids that are going to
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to your curfew, law they're not the ones
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  Speaker 1: that are out there starting. Stuff they're not the bad.
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  Speaker 1: Guys they're not the ones that are starting fights and
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  Speaker 1: doing teen. Takeovers laws apply to law abiding. People the
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  Speaker 1: people who don't abide by the law do not give
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  Speaker 1: those stinking about your curfew, man but they are scheduled
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  Speaker 1: to vote on it. Tonight the proposal also includes, penalties
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  Speaker 1: AND i find the wording interesting. Here penalties for those
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  Speaker 1: found outside during curfew, hours including a fifty dollars fine
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  Speaker 1: and up to ten hours of community service for parents
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  Speaker 1: or of curfew avoids avoids that would be, violators wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: It if they're avoiding, it you're not gonna catch. Them
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  Speaker 2: they mean violators like you, Said.
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  Speaker 1: But does it mean outside and away from? Home or
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  Speaker 1: if the police go by and see you plan in
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  Speaker 1: your front yard at ten, o'clock can They can they
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  Speaker 1: get you in trouble for?
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  Speaker 2: THAT i Don't what if you live in like an apartment,
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  Speaker 2: complex you're just your mom goes, hey can you run
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  Speaker 2: down and get the mail real. Quick is that are
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  Speaker 2: you out of?
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  Speaker 1: Here you're outside? Outside, yeah you're? Outside this is this
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  Speaker 1: is so, silly it's. Ridiculous it's you, know we we
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  Speaker 1: should probably just ban brought worst after ten. Pm that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna save us. All as the city continues to do
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  Speaker 1: silly things and give away, money they find themselves at
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  Speaker 1: a fifteen million dollar deficit position right. NOW i don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you saw this story or, not but it's
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  Speaker 1: as you AND i go out there and and deal
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  Speaker 1: with the streets and pump our gas and look over
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  Speaker 1: our shoulders while we're at the pump and try to
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  Speaker 1: avoid all of the the the what's the Word i'm looking?
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  Speaker 1: For is? That give me a? Word give ME i
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  Speaker 1: need a nice. WORD i need a radio friendly. Word. Ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: WELL i was going for a descriptive of the. People.
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  Speaker 1: Ridiculous the ridiculous. People, okay we try to avoid. Them
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  Speaker 1: we have to live with. Them we have to put
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  Speaker 1: up with. Them when they're checking our car doors at
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  Speaker 1: night trying to see if there's any change in the.
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  Speaker 1: Astree we got to put up with. It council, members the,
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  Speaker 1: mayor and the police chief all have protection details did
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  Speaker 1: you know? THAT i, mean most people probably. Knew the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: DID i did not. Know the chief of police has police.
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  Speaker 1: Protection there's a certain irony to. That and our city council,
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  Speaker 1: members WHICH i believe are still considered part time. Jobs
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  Speaker 1: i'm pretty sure they. Are they have police. PROTECTION abc
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  Speaker 1: Six investigating showed overtime spinning for The Executive Protection unit
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  Speaker 1: has climbed sharply over the last three. Years twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: three the units overtime totaled one hundred one, thousand one
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  Speaker 1: hundred sixty six. Dollars the following, year it increased to
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty seven, thousand eight hundred and seventy three.
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  Speaker 1: Dollars by twenty twenty, five overtime had doubled, again reaching
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  Speaker 1: two hundred forty eight, thousand seven hundred five. Dollars that
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  Speaker 1: was an increase of one hundred twenty thousand dollars eighty
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  Speaker 1: three eight hundred thirty two dollars over or ninety four
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  Speaker 1: point five percent from twenty twenty. Four the units total
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  Speaker 1: personnel related spinning also rose. Significantly during the same, period
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  Speaker 1: actual personnel related expenditures increased from seven hundred forty seven
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  Speaker 1: to sixty in twenty twenty three to one, million three
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  Speaker 1: hundred fifty one, thousand nine hundred eleven in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four by twenty twenty, five two, million one hundred and fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: thousand seven hundred ninety. Seven we're spending an awful lot
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  Speaker 1: of money on overtime to protect our, mayor our city,
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  Speaker 1: council and our police, chief while continually giving away money
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  Speaker 1: to various social. Programs thinking we're saving the world some,
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  Speaker 1: way and now we're in a. Deficit this Is we're
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  Speaker 1: coming up On Independence day twenty twenty. Six mark these.
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  Speaker 1: Words By Independence day twenty twenty, seven we will be
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  Speaker 1: told that we are in a true financial. Hole we're in.
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  Speaker 1: Trouble we gotta raise. Taxes we gotta raise water, bills
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  Speaker 1: we gotta raise parking fees and. Fins we got to
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  Speaker 1: RAISE a year from, now mark my, words we will
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  Speaker 1: be in a financial hole in this city that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be coming to you and, saying help us
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  Speaker 1: get out of. This how's your street when you're? Driving
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  Speaker 1: how's your street nice and smooth and well kept or
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  Speaker 1: filled with potholes like you're driving on the surface of the.
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  Speaker 1: MOON i drive around the city every day streets are,
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  Speaker 1: terrible absolutely. Terrible but we have money for all this
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  Speaker 1: as the heat is. Climbing columbus has cooling centers all
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  Speaker 1: over the you, know which is like the libraries other
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  Speaker 1: city buildings where they say come in and get. Cool of,
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  Speaker 1: course when they close at night and it's still eighty
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  Speaker 1: eight degrees at eleven, Pm, YUL i mean really municipal
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  Speaker 1: pools when you wake up in the morning it's eighty
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  Speaker 1: two degrees but feels like it's eighty eight. Degrees you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hot because the pools don't open until one
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the. Afternoon not necessarily consumer friendly, either because
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  Speaker 1: there's no. Pass you can't, buy like a summer pass
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  Speaker 1: for the kid to go to the. Pool can't do
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  Speaker 1: that three dollars for each visit to the, pool and
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  Speaker 1: they won't even take your. Money you have to have
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  Speaker 1: a card of some kind to get into the. Pool
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  Speaker 1: we make so little, Sense and then wonder why people get,
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  Speaker 1: Frustrated wonder why they complain because of stuff like. This
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about being in deficit spending while people can't
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  Speaker 1: get a cop to show up when they need one
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  Speaker 1: because there's not enough police on the, streets not enough
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  Speaker 1: to go. Around and you have personal protection? Details, SURE i.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do you have one of? Those you have personal
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  Speaker 1: protection detail of any?
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  Speaker 2: KIND i mean, PERSONALLY i don't need, one but, wait
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  Speaker 2: some people.
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  Speaker 3: Do.
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  Speaker 1: WELL i mean your kung fu skills probably take care of. You,
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  Speaker 1: YEAH i used to take ni jitsu, class niu, Jitsu,
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  Speaker 1: yeah niu jitsu or ju.
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  Speaker 2: Jitsu, WELL i can't tell you, now, Okay, YEAH i
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  Speaker 2: can't tell you where it was or who the were you.
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  Speaker 1: Any good at? It so you'll never. Know i'll never
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  Speaker 1: be able to Witness it's. What it's kind of a,
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  Speaker 1: secret isn't. It so you just set it out loud
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  Speaker 1: on the radio, Though, yeah but that's just to giver
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  Speaker 1: that's just a, warning just a. Warning are your hands
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  Speaker 1: registered weapons as? Lethal they are lethal? Weapons, alrighty Then
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  Speaker 1: i'd love to have a protection, detail BUT i never. Would.
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  Speaker 1: Again that's one of the things that you look At.
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  Speaker 1: Trump remember When trump was campaigning and they said he
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  Speaker 1: get back in the car because he kept going out
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  Speaker 1: and shaking hands with people and. Stuff, YEAH i missed.
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  Speaker 1: That BUT i have to, wonder, honestly if the if
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  Speaker 1: the mayor and the City council Of, Columbus, ohio where
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  Speaker 1: you know everybody loves. Them they're universally. Loved, yeah why
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  Speaker 1: why do we need all? This is this like round
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  Speaker 1: the clock because they got thirty five hundred hours already
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  Speaker 1: of overtime for these protection details this. YEAR i just
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  Speaker 1: have to. Wonder you, know who's chained at, you yank
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  Speaker 1: that requires all. THIS i don't mind security if you're you,
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  Speaker 1: know out at an event or something like, that because
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  Speaker 1: you know there's crazies in every. Crowd something could go.
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  Speaker 1: WRONG i get, That BUT i mean with those kind
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  Speaker 1: of hours are they are they like sitting outside your
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  Speaker 1: house at? NIGHT i don't. Know is this twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to seven?
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  Speaker 2: Security, maybe like there's drug cartel, bosses there's There's.
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  Speaker 1: Well in the name of transparency and shouldn't shouldn't we know?
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  Speaker 1: This shouldn't we know how many hours a?
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  Speaker 2: Day, well just because we're paying for.
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  Speaker 1: It, yeah but it's, transparency, Man it's all about. Transparency,
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  Speaker 1: look if.
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  Speaker 2: A parent once is, transgender as long as they take
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  Speaker 2: care of the, kid that's.
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  Speaker 1: FINE i didn't say anything about. Transgender it's a, transparency,
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  Speaker 1: yes no, parency. Transparency, SORRY i apologize chance Parents. Paris
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  Speaker 1: oh my, gosh and all the nay saying and the
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  Speaker 1: band and even where you, KNOW i Heard allison's. News
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  Speaker 1: what what's what she? Say the average was now for?
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  Speaker 3: Gas, yeah THAT'S i was looking. On there's all Over,
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  Speaker 3: columbus there's three fifty, six three sixty. Two it's lower than,
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  Speaker 3: that but you got to read the. PROPAGANDA i guess
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  Speaker 3: there Are columbus gas prices at three eighty after a
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  Speaker 3: week's dip national averages down to three seventy. Eight these
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  Speaker 3: could be the highest gasoline temperatures for The fourth Of
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  Speaker 3: july holiday that we've seen in.
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  Speaker 1: Years oh, please it ain't that, bad and it's getting
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  Speaker 1: better and it will continue to get. Better THE wti
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  Speaker 1: crewed closed back right at seventy again, today which is you,
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  Speaker 1: know that's a nice little fall only a week into
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  Speaker 1: the alleged. Negotiations haven't heard of anything else happening in the.
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  Speaker 1: Street a few missiles flying here and, there but overall
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  Speaker 1: everybody seems to be playing at least closer to nice
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  Speaker 1: than they. WERE i am. HOPEFUL i am hopeful new
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  Speaker 1: bill in the state Of. Ohio we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: into that here in a couple of. Minutes i'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: this has to do with those folks that call themselves sovereign,
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  Speaker 1: citizens BECAUSE i don't know why else we would need this,
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  Speaker 1: Bill but we'll get into. It it's, WAITING i, guess waiting.
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  Speaker 1: Governors governor's signature, now as long as he thinks it's
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  Speaker 1: good for a how he'll sign. It but it basically
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  Speaker 1: it makes a misdemeanor out of refusing to identify yourself
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  Speaker 1: to law, enforcement and in a traffic, stop it's not
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  Speaker 1: only the, driver but anybody in the car who refuses
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  Speaker 1: to identify themselves can face charges, now AND i didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that was a big, thing but apparently it's big
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  Speaker 1: enough that we needed a bill to deal with. It
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