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Life Goals and pitbulls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salutations. Welcome my friends to another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten WTV, and I'm Chuck Douglass.
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  Speaker 1: You know who you are. 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 listen even faster. The number eight two
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  Speaker 1: one nine eight eight six eight two one WTV and
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  Speaker 1: or eight hundred and six to ten WTV. And we
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  Speaker 1: actually have four hours together today. I mean I consider
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  Speaker 1: the three hours before this together more or less. And
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  Speaker 1: I was just telling Zach, attitude is everything, you guys.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, the calls were awesome. The guest Harry
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  Speaker 1: trump Bite is awesome. If you if you did not
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  Speaker 1: hear that, make sure you go to the six ten
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  Speaker 1: WTV and pull up the Blazer podcast and listen to
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  Speaker 1: that first hour. FBI agent or former retired now special agent.
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  Speaker 1: Harry trump Bite has a new book coming out and
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  Speaker 1: it just sounds interesting as all get out. But between
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  Speaker 1: shows here Zach and I were both walking out of here,
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  Speaker 1: walk through the newsroom, walk down the hall. I said,
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  Speaker 1: see this is attitude, man. I've always seriously, I'm not joking,
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  Speaker 1: I'm always in pain. Okay, the sciatic nerve thing the
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  Speaker 1: lower back and the left leg always hurting. But after
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  Speaker 1: three hours with you guys and having what I consider
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  Speaker 1: to be a pretty dog gone good show, I the
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  Speaker 1: adrenaline was just so high. I was walking like I
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  Speaker 1: was twenty five. It was pretty awesome. And I even
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  Speaker 1: asked Zach, I'm like, am I walking as well as
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  Speaker 1: I think I will? He said, yeah, you are, that's great.
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't know. Attitude is everything? Is your attitude? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you got to spend another hour with me.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be all right with that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I get to be here and do this. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: this is what I've always wanted to do in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Really seriously, be on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, be on the radio, be in radio.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't you do it earlier?
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  Speaker 2: People don't always foresee their dreams and things happen.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm just I was curious. I didn't start
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  Speaker 1: until I was twenty six because I tried to be normal.
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  Speaker 1: I went to college for a while, worked for AT
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  Speaker 1: and T, worked for the club's dispatch. I had normal jobs,
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  Speaker 1: try to be a normal guy living a normal life.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally, at twenty six, I said, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what I've always wanted to do, and
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah, I probably if i'd have started ten years beforehand,
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  Speaker 1: who knows.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah No. I for a second there
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  Speaker 2: I was like, man, I've fort like I waited too
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  Speaker 2: long before it. And then I was like, nah, there's
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  Speaker 2: no reason to sit here and worry about what happened
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  Speaker 2: and what I didn't do. Like, yeah, I want to
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  Speaker 2: do something, just do it now.
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  Speaker 1: It's a shame. Seriously, it's a shame. We can't live longer.
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  Speaker 1: And by longer, I mean like two hundred years, right,
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  Speaker 1: and not because there's more. There's so much stuff I
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  Speaker 1: want to do, so many things I want to do,
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  Speaker 1: and there's just you could only fit, you know, cram
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  Speaker 1: so much into to eighty years or whatever. You get. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that it's kind of sad. I would still I'd still
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  Speaker 1: kind of like to go to law school. Oh he'd
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  Speaker 1: be a good lawyer. I think I would. And I
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  Speaker 1: have reconciled all those problems I had as a youngster
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  Speaker 1: when I said, you know, I could not at eighteen
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  Speaker 1: years of age, I could not go pre law because
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  Speaker 1: I knew that I would do criminal law and I
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  Speaker 1: knew that I would be good at doing criminal law,
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  Speaker 1: and I did not want to be responsible for putting
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  Speaker 1: bad guys back on the street. So you would be
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  Speaker 1: a defense I'd be. I'd be a defense lawyer. Yes, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's where the glory is, man, that's where the
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  Speaker 1: challenge is. Yeah. And I would have to have been
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  Speaker 1: a criminal lawyer. And it was the eighties, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: LA law was big on TV at the time, and
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  Speaker 1: and everybody going to capital for pre law. They all
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be corporate lawyers. I'm not a paper pusher.
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  Speaker 1: I'm more of the Perry Mason Matt Locke type, investigating
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  Speaker 1: and fighting that one flaw in the store. Sorry that
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  Speaker 1: gets my client to walk out of that court room.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'd have to do. Yeah, And it occurred
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  Speaker 1: to me that I would be doing it for people
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  Speaker 1: who were probably guilty of heinous things, and I just
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  Speaker 1: I could not at eighteen years of age, could not
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  Speaker 1: allow myself to do it. Now that I'm old, I
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  Speaker 1: see things a different way. And like most lawyers will
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  Speaker 1: tell you, you are entitled to the best defense you
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  Speaker 1: can afford, and I would be very unaffordable, but still
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  Speaker 1: I would be very good at doing the job, and
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  Speaker 1: if I could go to law school, I probably would
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  Speaker 1: do that. Now. Teaching is another thing, especially since my
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  Speaker 1: recent work with my old my high school, the West
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  Speaker 1: High School chaired the scholarship committee this year for the
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  Speaker 1: alumni Association, and my time back in the school. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you there's some wonderful stuff happening at West
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  Speaker 1: High School. Doctor Roberts, the Prince to Belo over there.
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  Speaker 1: He is a he's a firework man, and so many
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  Speaker 1: good things are happening there. And it got me fired
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  Speaker 1: up again. And I'm sitting in this school and I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to students and and we're doing interviews for the
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  Speaker 1: scholarships and everything, and I'm thinking I should have been
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  Speaker 1: a teacher. But we don't get two hundred years. And
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  Speaker 1: that's I guess that's how it's supposed to be. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: one day we will, all right. So this hour I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to I wanted to talk about in fact, is
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  Speaker 1: that is that what our caller is calling about? Or
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  Speaker 1: is he calling about something completely different.
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  Speaker 2: It's a special caller.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a special caller. He's very special. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's a special guy. But what is he calling about?
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  Speaker 1: Is he calling about the subject matters, you have something
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  Speaker 1: else for me?
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  Speaker 2: I think you have to pick up and find out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, seriously, you are so lazy. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. Here, boots, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: It is about your subject matter? I'm driving to Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to you on iHeart. So here's the I talked
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  Speaker 3: to the infamous Joe Day today and you know what
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  Speaker 3: he said?
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  Speaker 1: What did he say?
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  Speaker 3: He said, you can hear me? Yep, all right, Joe
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  Speaker 3: Day said ten years ago, twenty years ago, if I
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  Speaker 3: would have listened to you and Chuck Douglas almost every
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  Speaker 3: day of the week, I'd have said you were crazy
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  Speaker 3: because you were two awesome guys to work with and
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  Speaker 3: great car guys. So who knows what's our career past
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  Speaker 3: want to go? I never dreamed of.
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  Speaker 1: Being radio, Yeah, I never. I never wanted really to
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  Speaker 1: do anything else. This, this is my twelve year old
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  Speaker 1: dream was to be on the air. And yeah, the car,
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  Speaker 1: the car sales thing was between radio jobs. And our
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  Speaker 1: dearly beloved and late Kelly John was my neighbor and
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  Speaker 1: he said, well, if you need something, I can hook
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  Speaker 1: you up over here at the auto mall. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's why I end up selling cars. It was kind
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  Speaker 1: of crazy because I was selling and across the street
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  Speaker 1: at the Hundai dealership, Susie Wad was over there, so
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  Speaker 1: right right, it was kind of it was kind of
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  Speaker 1: odd we both end up doing that at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, when it came down to it, they
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  Speaker 1: they came after me again and the phone started ringing,
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  Speaker 1: and the wonderful Vollone my boss. After Yeah, after getting
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  Speaker 1: half a dozen phone calls from a radio general manager,
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  Speaker 1: he called me into the office. He goes, Okay, CHUCKI
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  Speaker 1: what's it about. Why are you getting all these calls?
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  Speaker 1: I said, it's a radio station. Here's what they want
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  Speaker 1: me to do. Here's what they're offering me. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: it's what you love, right, I said, yeah. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: you'd be a damn fool say yes and go.
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  Speaker 3: And why here's some funny about Johnny Blone.
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  Speaker 1: What's that?
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  Speaker 3: Kyleen's one of my producers, and I was there when
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  Speaker 3: him and his lovely wife brought Kyleen home from the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: You are kidding me, Oh my gosh, I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to come in. Is she up there at the Germaine
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  Speaker 1: place with you?
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes I mean, she fills in when my other two
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  Speaker 3: guys can't make it. She'll be there in two weeks
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  Speaker 3: filling in. She's been with me now for sixteen years,
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  Speaker 3: helping the producer shows.
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  Speaker 1: I might have to wake up in time for Auto
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  Speaker 1: Smart so I can come up there and see her.
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  Speaker 1: I've not seen her since I think she was eleven
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  Speaker 1: the last time I saw her.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she's ice taker to chuck e cheese that's old.
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  Speaker 1: Or get Yeah, well, you be careful on your way
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  Speaker 1: to the City of Brotherly Love, and then get the
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  Speaker 1: hell out of there as quick as you can, because
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  Speaker 1: there's not much love down there anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm going to suburban. If you see the
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  Speaker 3: house I'm going to, I'm delivering a sixty seven Chavelle
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  Speaker 3: SS three ninety six for cruising classics. It's not six
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  Speaker 3: figure cars sold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, if you get your hands on
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  Speaker 1: a seventy one version of that, I'll give you my address.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, I already own it.
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  Speaker 1: Good to talk to you, buddy, Take care eight two
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  Speaker 1: one ninety eight six eight two one WTV in and
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  Speaker 1: and then Boots talking about that, you know, essentially uh
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  Speaker 1: uh purpose there and honestly, Yeah, I think it was.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I was cut out for. It's what
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  Speaker 1: I always wanted to do. And uh, like Zach just said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing this for a living. Of course I can
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  Speaker 1: do some more of it. That's That's exactly how I
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to feel every day. And I'm I
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  Speaker 1: am so blessed beyond belief. I know it sounds corny,
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  Speaker 1: but I love you guys. I really do you make
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  Speaker 1: this possible. If you turned off your radios every time
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  Speaker 1: I turned on a microphone, I would not be here.
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  Speaker 1: Because you seem to enjoy it and want to participate.
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  Speaker 1: I get a chance to do what I love, so
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. And I mean that A two one
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  Speaker 1: night six A two one WTV and Jeff, you're on
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  Speaker 1: sixt WTV.
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  Speaker 4: God bless you, sir. Let's get AM radio in the cars.
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  Speaker 4: What's going on with this planet?
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  Speaker 1: They tried to take it out but that failed miserably.
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  Speaker 4: Thank goodness, Yes, sir, I am so glad to have
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  Speaker 4: you on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm no, really, you guys are the ears and
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  Speaker 4: the eyes of Ohio for sure. I mean, come on,
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  Speaker 4: we don't get to talk on the radio. Anymore. Here
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  Speaker 4: in Mansfield, they have like a blank station, so we
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  Speaker 4: don't get to talk up here. It's a it's a
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  Speaker 4: it's a paid for program. So I'm really happy to
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  Speaker 4: have you down there. And the guy that's the guy
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  Speaker 4: that's at the zoo down there that gets on the radio,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Dave, Dave from the zoo. Yeah, yeah, he
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  Speaker 4: gets on there. And boy man, when he gets on
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  Speaker 4: his box, he's wonderful and I love that guy. Let
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  Speaker 4: me say this. We have a really bad country, a
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  Speaker 4: bad country, and the fact that we're corrupt. We've got
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  Speaker 4: corrupt judges, we've got crupped cops, we got corrupt people,
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  Speaker 4: and we don't think uh sweet stuff anymore. We don't
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  Speaker 4: talk about things that make your neighbor wonderful, that make
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  Speaker 4: your family wonderful. And I want to say this, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to shout out to this country and we
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  Speaker 4: say listen, you got to love your mother, your father,
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  Speaker 4: your country, or it's all gone. I mean, it's all gone.
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  Speaker 4: This is about freedom. And freedom doesn't mean just going
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  Speaker 4: crazy about being crazy, and I mean you just can't
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  Speaker 4: do anything you want because freedom has restraints. But we
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  Speaker 4: have to have love in this country or We're going
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  Speaker 4: to die and this country is going to die if
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  Speaker 4: we don't have people like you to get us on
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  Speaker 4: the air and talk about what's going on with the world.
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  Speaker 4: And you are it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jeff. I appreciate you saying it. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you being out there listening. As I said earlier, you
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  Speaker 1: make it possible. Guys, guys and ladies like you make
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  Speaker 1: it possible for us to be here doing what we
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  Speaker 1: do and end up I can't be more sincere with
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  Speaker 1: my appreciation. I got Steve standing by and room for
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  Speaker 1: you too. I want to talk to those pit bulls
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you know, because Zach Zach wants to exterminate.
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  Speaker 1: I just think we need to sit down and have
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  Speaker 1: a real conversation. After a pit bull was shot, people
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  Speaker 1: were up in arms. The club's police officer shot the
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  Speaker 1: pit bull, the attacking pit bull, the attacking pit bull
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  Speaker 1: that came after a woman and her dog that was
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  Speaker 1: on a leash while the police are sitting there talking
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  Speaker 1: to her, and you hear in the body cam video,
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  Speaker 1: you hear the claws on the ground. Is this pit
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  Speaker 1: bulls racing at them and the officer's yelling at her
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  Speaker 1: to get out of the way. She's trying to protect
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  Speaker 1: her dog, and the officer fired. The pit bull lay
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  Speaker 1: wounded and eventually died, and people are up in arms,
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  Speaker 1: not that this dog was running loose, not that this
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  Speaker 1: dog attacked and jeopardized not only the life of someone's
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  Speaker 1: licensed pet on a leash, but also jeopardize that someone
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  Speaker 1: or upset that the dog laid there and bled to death.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, I just I'm not getting our priorities.
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  Speaker 1: I am not getting our priorities. But I think it
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  Speaker 1: is time to have the conversation about licensing, about insurance
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  Speaker 1: requirements for knowing vicious dog breeds. If you're gonna keep
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  Speaker 1: you know, poisonous snakes, you gotta have a license. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta be if you're gonna sell guns, you know, guns
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  Speaker 1: cannot just attack people. Somebody has to do that. There
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  Speaker 1: must be some malfeasans on the part of a human
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  Speaker 1: being for a gun to hurt somebody. A dog can
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  Speaker 1: go off at any time, right, So maybe we need
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  Speaker 1: some rules and some insurance requirements and so forth for
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  Speaker 1: the pit bull ownership. It's it's worth the conversation.