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Driving Issues · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: Grating salutations. Welcome my friends to another edition of The
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Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten DOUBLEUTV, 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 in one eight hundred six ten double UTV in Okay.
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Speaker 1: First of all, Florida. Two things you can usually count
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Speaker 1: on for Florida. One crazy people in the news. Am
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Speaker 1: I wrong about that? Am I not a Florida man?
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Speaker 1: You know it's about crazy, bet, you know it's something nutty. Secondly,
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Speaker 1: generally pretty normal politically. Last night, the far left megaphone
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Speaker 1: using socialist Nixon won her primary.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: At the same time and Byron Donald's will likely be
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Speaker 1: the next governor Florida is suddenly making no sense to me,
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Speaker 1: and the fact that her name is Nixon thrills me
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Speaker 1: to no end. By the way, but I have been
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Speaker 1: watching video of this woman and she is, uh, she
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Speaker 1: is what Dad would have called a piece of work,
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Speaker 1: and I was I was really surprised to find out
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Speaker 1: this morning and watching Good Morning America. Robin Roberts was
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Speaker 1: talking to Shapiro. By the way, Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 1: Had he been the running mate of Kamala Kamala whatever, Harris,
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Speaker 1: she actually might have been victorious if people looked at
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Speaker 1: this guy went Okay, well he's there for backup. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go ahead and vote for her, because with
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Speaker 1: that vice president, that's a good thing. He's reasonable, presents
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Speaker 1: himself well, pretty middle of the road. Why she went
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Speaker 1: with Tim Walls over Shapiro is beyond me. I know,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people referenced his Jewish heritage making him
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Speaker 1: making him unattractive to her. But had he been her
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Speaker 1: running mate, she might have stood a chance. Anyway, Roberts
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Speaker 1: on on Good Morning Marika was talking to him about
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Speaker 1: this Florida election, and she said, right out loud, the
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Speaker 1: socialist candidate one in Florida. She didn't say Democrat social
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Speaker 1: she said socialist candidate one in Florida. Subsequent references to
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Speaker 1: the candidate were Democrat socialists, but the first time she
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Speaker 1: said socialist. I every now and then I have confidence
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Speaker 1: in Robin as well as well. But anyway, I'm just
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm freaking out about that. Yesterday Mark and I
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Speaker 1: were talking about I said, dash cams. We had to
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Speaker 1: have city provided dash cams. As long as you agree
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Speaker 1: that your dash cam video can be used in a
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Speaker 1: court of law, that you'll provide it the request of
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Speaker 1: the police department. Today we hear that you know this
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Speaker 1: this idiot that stopped on six seventy. As far as
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Speaker 1: I know, they still have not identified the car. And
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Speaker 1: the dash cam thing came up again, and then I
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Speaker 1: got to thinking, you know, security cameras, Who which one?
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: Who's Amazon? Amazon owns? Which is it ring that Amazon owns?
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Speaker 2: I We'll just say the one that most people buy.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think it was. I think
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Speaker 1: it was ring cameras, and Amazon I believe owns it.
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Speaker 1: Where they found out that they were providing I guess
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Speaker 1: information to police departments for people's ring doorbell cameras without
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Speaker 1: the express written consent or otherwise consent of the homeowners
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Speaker 1: and uh, and that became a big topic of conversation.
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Speaker 1: He said, oop, sorry, we'll never do that again. I'm thinking, honestly,
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Speaker 1: that should be another tax break if if you sign
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Speaker 1: on to make your your security camera video available. I
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Speaker 1: think the city should reduce whatever their portion of your accounting.
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Speaker 1: Property taxes are as compensation for making your camera video.
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Speaker 1: And I say this after I was sitting on my
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Speaker 1: own sofa watching well, I was watching TV, but I
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Speaker 1: can see the living room windows, and a car went
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Speaker 1: by my house today. This is not uncommon. Unfortunately, went
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Speaker 1: by my house today, and I swear to you it
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Speaker 1: was going at least sixty miles an hour blue through
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Speaker 1: the intersection where there is a stop sign. I see
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Speaker 1: it pretty much every day, if not every day, five
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Speaker 1: days a week. I see this kind of stuff coming on.
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Speaker 1: I would be willing to say, Okay, I'll put marks
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Speaker 1: up here so you can judge the speed of the car.
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Speaker 1: I'll be your speed camera. I mean, hey, I'm there,
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Speaker 1: I see it. I know we got rid of the
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Speaker 1: speed cameras and the red light cameras and everything else.
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Speaker 1: But you know what, the more I watched society decline,
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Speaker 1: and it's a neighborhood for goodness sake, there are people
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Speaker 1: out walking their dogs and pushing strollers and riding their bicycles,
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Speaker 1: and these idiots, idiots flying through there at highway speeds
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Speaker 1: is really getting all my nerves. But I volunteered once
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Speaker 1: to go down and I said, I'll fill out the affidavit.
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Speaker 1: I will sign the affidavit watching somebody who sat at
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Speaker 1: an intersection, opened their car door, took out a pizza box,
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Speaker 1: couple of fast food bags, couple of fast food cups,
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Speaker 1: put them under their car, closed their door, and then
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Speaker 1: drove away from the intersection. I'm like, I will be
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Speaker 1: your eyewitness complainant on this. And the officer said, we
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Speaker 1: can't do anything about that unless we witness it ourselves.
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Speaker 1: And I said to him, how many littering tickets have
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Speaker 1: you written in this precinct in the last year, you
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Speaker 1: or any other officer? He couldn't answer, but he said,
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Speaker 1: I doubt if there's a Dutch And why do we
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Speaker 1: have a five hundred dollars fine for littering if we're
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Speaker 1: not going to enforce it. I do know somebody who
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Speaker 1: got pulled over one time. They did not get a ticket,
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Speaker 1: They got a talk into a warning flipping a cigarette
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Speaker 1: butt out their window and they were all upset by man,
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Speaker 1: it's just a cigarette, but yeah, well that's litter. That's litter.
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Speaker 1: Don't flip them out your window. Get yourself a little
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Speaker 1: ass tray like I do, and when it gets full,
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Speaker 1: take it to the trash dump it out. You don't
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Speaker 1: flick it out the window. On top of the fact
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Speaker 1: that it's litter. You know, if it's summer and things
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Speaker 1: are dry, like they never are in Columbus this year.
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Speaker 1: But if they are, you know, you hit somebody's leaf
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Speaker 1: collection bag or something like that as you drive through
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Speaker 1: the neighborhood, then you've started a fire. But if we've
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Speaker 1: got a five hundred dollars litter penalty, we should be
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Speaker 1: using it. Little things like this. Honestly, that's what makes
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Speaker 1: city overall better. When you do this little stuff inside
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Speaker 1: the neighborhood, inside the community, that's what makes it better.
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Speaker 1: I guess this has been on my mind a lot
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Speaker 1: in the last step, I don't know, two or three days,
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Speaker 1: just because I keep witnessing so many of those things
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Speaker 1: that are the little things that, if changed, would improve
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Speaker 1: a neighborhood. And when neighborhood after neighborhood after neighborhood improves,
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Speaker 1: then the whole city improves. Little things like trash cans,
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Speaker 1: recycling cans. Your trash can goes out the night before pickup,
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Speaker 1: you have all that night they pick it up in
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Speaker 1: the morning hopefully, and then you've got all the rest
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Speaker 1: of that afternoon and that evening and until nine o'clock
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Speaker 1: the following morning to take it off the street. When
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Speaker 1: your trash can is still sitting out there days later
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Speaker 1: and people are dodging her around it because they got
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Speaker 1: to maneuver their way through the street with cars parked
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Speaker 1: and people walking and all that kind of stuff, and
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Speaker 1: your trash can is still out there. That should be fine,
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Speaker 1: and I'm quite sure that there is. Nortons It says
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Speaker 1: it can be fine, but we don't find. On the
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Speaker 1: other hand, some ninety year old lady who has chipping
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Speaker 1: paint cote enforcements at her door. The little things. Man
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Speaker 1: driving the speed limit, Now, what you do out on
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Speaker 1: the highway, you know that's between you and the highway patrol.
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Speaker 1: But in the neighborhoods, slow your butts down. It's twenty
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Speaker 1: five school zones twenty miles per hour. If those lights
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Speaker 1: are flashing, you go to twenty. I don't care how
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Speaker 1: slow it feels. School starts in Columbus tomorrow as well
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Speaker 1: as several other districts. School buses will be out right now.
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Speaker 1: We're still in August, so it's not not too dark
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Speaker 1: by the time they're getting on the bus. In most cases,
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Speaker 1: well it depends. Last year, I had one kid that
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Speaker 1: was getting on the bus that he got on at
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Speaker 1: six fifty and sunrise this morning, Zach, was it? I think?
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Speaker 3: Do you know?
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Speaker 1: Was it six forty six? If I'm not mistaken, not sure,
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Speaker 1: But it's something like that because I get up before
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Speaker 1: it's the sun comes up. Yeah, So I mean at
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Speaker 1: six point fifty the sun is just coming up right now.
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Speaker 1: A month from now is still on me be dark.
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Speaker 1: So if there's a kid out there catching a bus
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Speaker 1: at six fifty six, forty five, even six thirty in
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Speaker 1: the morning, they're going to be in the dark. And
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Speaker 1: you're crazy. But driving through the neighborhood fifty sixty miles
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Speaker 1: an hour, that's ridiculous. Act AKA, act like you have
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Speaker 1: some sense. These are just all the little parts of
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Speaker 1: civilization that, if corrected, neighborhood by neighborhood, street by street,
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Speaker 1: make our city overall better. Now, as far as the
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Speaker 1: violence and all that kind of I have no answer
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Speaker 1: for that except catch them and put them in jail
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Speaker 1: for as long as possible. But for little things like this,
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Speaker 1: small things that you can control. This is my personal
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Speaker 1: request to you. I am urging you me to you
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Speaker 1: do what you can to make it better. Take the
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Speaker 1: trash can in when it's supposed to be in. Somebody
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Speaker 1: threw a water bottle on the street in front of
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Speaker 1: your house overnight, pick it up, put it in the trash. Man,
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Speaker 1: I don't care that it's not your water bottle. Pick
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Speaker 1: it up and put it in the trash. Little things,
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Speaker 1: little things add up to big things. Or maybe that's
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Speaker 1: just me. If you have any thoughts on that. By
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Speaker 1: the way, A two one nine eight eighty six A
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Speaker 3: And on the speed thing, how about left lane drivers
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Speaker 3: in a four lane highway that hold up traffic forever.
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Speaker 2: They should be arrested for impeding traffic.
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Speaker 3: Get out of the left lane.
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Speaker 1: We were just talking about that in that last hour.
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Speaker 1: I know that you can. If you're going substantially below
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Speaker 1: the speed limit, you can get it impeding the flow
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Speaker 1: of traffic. I do not know, Oh my god, I
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Speaker 1: do not know. Though, if you know if everybody in
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Speaker 1: the left lane is going eighty in a sixty five
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Speaker 1: and you're only going seventy, you're impeding the flow of traffic,
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Speaker 1: but you're also exceeding the speed limit at the same time.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not sure whether whether you could get ticketed
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Speaker 1: for that or not.
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Speaker 2: I'll be more direct, like it's seventy miles an hour
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Speaker 2: and somebody is going sixty in the left lane and
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Speaker 2: refuses to move over back into the driving lane.
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Speaker 1: It is. It is very frustrating. I get up, I
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Speaker 1: come down McKinley Avenue to come to the radio station
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Speaker 1: every day, and the speed limit it's odd. It's forty
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Speaker 1: five if you're going one direction. It's fifty if you're
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Speaker 1: going the other direction, which I don't get.
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Speaker 3: But oh that is fun.
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Speaker 1: There's always someone in front of me. And pretty much
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Speaker 1: every day that I'm coming here in that fifty mile
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Speaker 1: an hour side that's going thirty and I don't get it.
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Speaker 2: You got well, that was all my comment.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate, especially love the buff thing.
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Speaker 1: Oh thank you, just lose that these these are yeah,
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Speaker 1: the kids, these are kids, these are children, and uh
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Speaker 1: and yeah, act responsible going and that's just it's out
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Speaker 1: of the question to drive like that.
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Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for taking my call.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for making the call, and I appreciate you.
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Speaker 1: Eight two one nine eight eighty six. Chris, you're on
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Speaker 1: six ton WTV and.
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Speaker 2: High Chuck you do you my brother?
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Speaker 3: How are you doing?
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Speaker 1: Doing all right? How are you?
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Speaker 2: Man?
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Speaker 1: I haven't been Chucky Dan a long time.
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Speaker 3: As frustrated as you are with the speeders. I live
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Speaker 3: over on south Gate Drive, south side of Plumbs, right
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Speaker 3: off of High Street, right between High and Parsons. We
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Speaker 3: are the only thoroughfare other than Williams and Oh Bets
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Speaker 3: that cuts.
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Speaker 2: Through has no speed bumps. Yeah, we are only twenty
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Speaker 2: five mile an hour. And just last night I had
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Speaker 2: a guy out on our street on a in a
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Speaker 2: race car, nothing street legal whatsoever. And did one hundred
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Speaker 2: mile an hour pass past my.
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Speaker 1: House on Southgate.
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Speaker 2: Yes, now here's the beautiful part. Last week, the city
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Speaker 2: of Columbus and their infinite wisdom, because I've been complaining
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Speaker 2: about this three years, they put up a crosswalk. Wey, yes,
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Speaker 2: we have a crosswalk. And I asked. I went out
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Speaker 2: and asked the gentlemen, I said, why do we have
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Speaker 2: this crosswalk? And he says, well, it's because of the schools.
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Speaker 2: I says, Oh, you mean the want Buckeye Middle School
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Speaker 2: that they're closing.
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Speaker 1: Brilliant.
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Speaker 2: I've asked for speed bumps. I have asked for speed bumps,
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Speaker 2: and I've been told no because of fire station twenty
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Speaker 2: two at the end of the street. Really, so you're
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Speaker 2: going to Tenna stand or tell me with a straight
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Speaker 2: face that fire station twenty two, that all fire stations
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Speaker 2: stop at every apartment complex and they can't go in
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Speaker 2: because they got speed bumps in there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't see that being who told
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Speaker 1: you the fire station was the reason you couldn't have
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Speaker 1: the speed bumps?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Just people in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: I I I would uh yeah, I talked to your
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Speaker 1: Go go for what it's worth. Go to a meeting
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Speaker 1: of the South Side Area Commission and at least introduce
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Speaker 1: that on the floor. See if you can get the
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Speaker 1: uh the Area Commission to at least put that on
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Speaker 1: their agenda. Put it on the table, gets some discussion going.
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Speaker 1: They may be if not spin bumps, yeah, if not
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Speaker 1: speed bumps, at least those big speed humps that are
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Speaker 1: not as abrasive as the speed bumps, but they'll help
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Speaker 1: slow things down. But uh yeah, the school was closing
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Speaker 1: and the fire station argument I just don't buy. I
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Speaker 1: appreciate you, friend.
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Speaker 3: You enjoy the rest of your week.
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Speaker 1: You too, take care of yourself.