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Bad drivers · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: My number one eight hundred and eight or one.
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Speaker 2: I'm giving them my gosh a two one nine eight
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Speaker 2: ten WUTV I was giving him in a reverse order,
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Speaker 2: I was given the long distance one.
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Speaker 1: First, Oh, I thought you forgot your father.
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Speaker 2: No, I didn't forget my father or anything. I got
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Speaker 2: my father right here. You want you want to play
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Speaker 2: my father?
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Speaker 1: Yes, come on.
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Speaker 2: So a couple of things to cover. First of all,
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Speaker 2: up on Texas on Saturday. So every now and then
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Speaker 2: people post stuff that they're serious about on social media
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Speaker 2: and I laugh at them, and I shouldn't do that,
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Speaker 2: I know, because even though I'm in complete disagreement and
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Speaker 2: I'm not really sure what's going on with the Twitter.
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Speaker 2: By the way, ever since Elon took over the Twitter,
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Speaker 2: I get weird stuff. For a while, I was getting
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Speaker 2: nothing but portographic stuff. And you know, did that happen
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Speaker 2: to you? Did you get any of that? Like everything
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Speaker 2: on Twitter was was porto.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, did that just come up on your
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Speaker 3: feet or are you asking me? Did I look for no?
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Speaker 1: I mean, it just was coming up.
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Speaker 2: I'd open Twitter and I'd go to my and I
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Speaker 2: was a bunch of you know, people and groups and
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Speaker 2: stuff that I wasn't part of, didn't follow, didn't know nothing,
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Speaker 2: but it was all. It was all, you know, click
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Speaker 2: here for my party room and stuff like that, which
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Speaker 2: isn't you know. I had no idea why I was
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Speaker 2: getting it. And now I'm getting just just overwhelmed by liberal,
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Speaker 2: left wing democrat crazy posts. That's all that seems to
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Speaker 2: be in my feed anymore. And there one popped up
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Speaker 2: and just just a couple of minutes ago between the
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Speaker 2: shows that I had the frenchie at the at the
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Speaker 2: what is it? mL three Democrats? Is the handle the
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Speaker 2: frenchie on on the Twitter and it says love him
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Speaker 2: or hate him, you gotta admit he's the fiercest fighter
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Speaker 2: right now. He terrifies Trump's the Abraham Lincoln of our era,
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Speaker 2: drop a heart to support. Do you know who it's about,
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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsome? Seriously, First of all, the Abraham Lincoln of
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Speaker 2: our era? You mean the Republican president Abraham Lincoln, he's
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Speaker 2: the really Secondly, he terrifies Trump. That statement in itself
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Speaker 2: is uh is quite humorous. I don't think he terrifies
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump. I think he's kind of like a mosquito
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Speaker 2: in Trump's ear. You can't get rid of it, and
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Speaker 2: if you hit it hard enough, you'll go deaf. So
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Speaker 2: you can't smack at the mosquito because you might go deaf.
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Speaker 2: And that's kind of what Gavin Newsom is. But I
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Speaker 2: just I laughed, I literally l oled at that, because
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Speaker 2: I'm sure that the Frenchy believes that post puts it
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Speaker 2: out there and believes that and really thinks, really thinks
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Speaker 2: they're right. All right, So coming up tomorrow, want to
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Speaker 2: warn you ahead of time, I've got a guess joining
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Speaker 2: me from the Heritage Foundation. If you have not seen
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Speaker 2: yet you will be seeing in the very near future
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Speaker 2: so inspirational billboards that are going up around the country
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Speaker 2: and they're going to be up for about eight weeks,
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Speaker 2: and patriotic messages and so forth.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to share those with you tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to talk to a representative of the Heritage Foundation,
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Speaker 2: the inspiration behind it and the goal in front of it,
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Speaker 2: and just let you know what they've got going on,
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Speaker 2: because chances are, you know, here in central Ohio, we're
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Speaker 2: going to see a lot of those billboards. And I
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Speaker 2: still I still pay attention to billboards when I'm like
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Speaker 2: sitting in a red light or something. I'm looking around
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Speaker 2: at this now, not necessarily as much on the freeway.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to get a distracted driving ticket trying
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Speaker 2: to read by the way, oh Dot, you know you're
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Speaker 2: distracting me with those digital signs.
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Speaker 1: Just so you know you ever read the digital signs.
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Speaker 3: I always like it when it's like near a holiday
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Speaker 3: like Thanksgiving, It'll be like, hey, yeah, don't drink or
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Speaker 3: drive or like don't do anything because the turkey is
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Speaker 3: the only thing that's supposed to be smoking. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: And I'm like, that's so you somebody got paid to
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Speaker 3: do that.
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Speaker 1: Bruning puts a lot of love into those they put work.
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Speaker 3: They get paid to do that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he actually he solicits people. If you got a
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Speaker 2: good slogan to put up there. And it's not the
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Speaker 2: messaging that bugs me. It's just the fact that I
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Speaker 2: must distract myself in order at sixty five miles an
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Speaker 2: hour to read those digital bulletin boards, and if you
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Speaker 2: can't get it all in one sentence, if the board
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Speaker 2: has to flip from one message to the next, and
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Speaker 2: if it's something important, you know, an elderly person reported
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Speaker 2: missing last scene drug and then I got to wait
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Speaker 2: for it to flip driving a nineteen ninety four Toyota
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Speaker 2: Camra license plate number. Well, I'm moving sixty five miles
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Speaker 2: an hour. I don't have time to wait for it
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Speaker 2: to flip. And what little bit of it I'm going
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Speaker 2: to get I have to distract myself to get. And
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Speaker 2: I also find it interesting how very often they are
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Speaker 2: placed those bulletin boards, billboard things. How often they are
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Speaker 2: placed near either an entrance ramp or an exit ramp.
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Speaker 2: So you're looking up and it's over to the right,
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Speaker 2: and you're trying to read it, and you got cars
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Speaker 2: trying to merge onto the freeway coming up the ramp
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Speaker 2: at the same time as they're just they're inconveniently located.
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Speaker 3: Hey, don't don't you drink too much and get slammed.
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Speaker 1: Don't.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going to end up in a slammer if
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Speaker 3: you drive.
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Speaker 2: If they don't rhyme, nobody pays attention. Turned around, don't drownd,
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Speaker 2: click it or ticket. I don't know who came up
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Speaker 2: with that concept, but it really annoys me too. Amazing
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Speaker 2: And uh, by the way, if you're emerging on the freeway,
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Speaker 2: do so at the speed limit.
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Speaker 1: Can you please do that? Thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: Just a public service announcement for the rest of us
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Speaker 2: that are driving insane. Coming in here today was no
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Speaker 2: easy task. If you were listening to the Blazer Show earlier,
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Speaker 2: you heard I was. I was on a listing appointment
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Speaker 2: for a house. Somebody called me up on to actually
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Speaker 2: sell a house, which was a wonderful thing, and I
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Speaker 2: was trying to find the house and the numbers on
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Speaker 2: the road where they're located are not in numeric order.
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Speaker 2: Believe it or not, you're in the country, yes, mail
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Speaker 2: Meil Neil no, neil, No, No, that's a doorbell on
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Speaker 2: the house mail no mil mil mil mill now.
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Speaker 3: And uh.
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Speaker 2: I went to the wrong house and and but there
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Speaker 2: was some work being done on it, so I thought, well,
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Speaker 2: maybe it's the right place. It's where the house should
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Speaker 2: have been numerically, and I go up. It's got a
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Speaker 2: big gravel driveway and they had their putting up a fence,
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Speaker 2: and across the driveway, across the gravel driveway they had
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Speaker 2: strung a line. It wasn't as thick as weed whacker line,
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Speaker 2: it wasn't as thin as fishing line. It was somewhere
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Speaker 2: in between. And it was yellow and in the sunlight
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Speaker 2: you did not even see it. And I'm walking this
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Speaker 2: driveway going back to the garage to speak to a
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Speaker 2: guy who's sitting in the garage to ask him if
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Speaker 2: I'm in the right place, and that line grabs my
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Speaker 2: foot and boom goes the dynamite right down on that
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Speaker 2: hard gravel.
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Speaker 3: But your knees okay, now, yeah.
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Speaker 1: And that was really strange too. Can I tell you
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Speaker 1: something really weird? This is weird? Okay. I had to
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Speaker 1: pull my pants leg up and check my knee when.
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Speaker 2: I got here to see if there was blood, because
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Speaker 2: when I went down, I hit my knee hit first
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Speaker 2: and then my right wrist. But the thing, the reason
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Speaker 2: I had to check this is gonna sound weird, freaky odd.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe I have a disorder of some sort.
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Speaker 1: My leg My leg got felt wet, which is why
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Speaker 1: I thought I was bleeding.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad that if you thought there was something
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Speaker 3: serious like your legs blaiting, that you drove back and
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Speaker 3: wait until you got to the station.
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Speaker 1: Well, I wanted to.
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Speaker 2: I was running behind because this listing appointment went long,
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Speaker 2: and I knew Blazer was about to go on the air,
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Speaker 2: so I had to get here. I was here, so
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Speaker 2: I'm flying out. I was coming back from you know,
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Speaker 2: it's like a Madison County area. I'm coming back down
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Speaker 2: Broad Street and and everything on Broad Street is a
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Speaker 2: semi or a dump truck or and it. They're all
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Speaker 2: moving very slow, and I'm like, why is this lane
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Speaker 2: of track? Because I was gonna go left on Philippi
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Speaker 2: down to Fisher and then George Jetson did to the station.
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Speaker 2: But but I'm like, why are these dump trucks moving
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Speaker 2: so slow? And I figure, okay, I'm just I'll go
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Speaker 2: down to Wilson I go around them, and I get
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Speaker 2: up there and one dump truck is pulling another dump
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Speaker 2: truck with a chain.
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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, all right, so that's okay.
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Speaker 2: So I get past the casino where the National Road,
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Speaker 2: you know, the forty five mile an hour National Road,
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Speaker 2: has been narrowed down to like one and a half lanes,
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Speaker 2: and most of those two remains lanes are our our potholes,
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Speaker 2: and so I'm trying to get through there. And I
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Speaker 2: finally get up to Wilson Road, and I've got two lanes. Well,
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Speaker 2: there's only one left turn lane at Wilson Road because
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Speaker 2: that's efficient, and I turned onto Wilson Road. So now
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Speaker 2: you got two lanes on Wilson Road. In the left lane,
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Speaker 2: I've got three back to back semis moving very slow.
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Speaker 2: And in the right lane, where I choose to go,
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Speaker 2: I've got one car that.
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Speaker 1: Is not familiar with the accelerator.
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Speaker 2: So so I'm trying. I'm trying. I finally I get
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Speaker 2: up to Fisher Road and I turn on Fisher Road.
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Speaker 2: Lo and behold more dump trucks, but they're all in
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Speaker 2: the right lane. It's okay, it's okay. I'm good. I'm good.
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Speaker 2: I can get to the station now. I'm gonna be okay.
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Speaker 2: And in front of me in the left lane super
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Speaker 2: U wagon twenty miles an hour below the speed limit.
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Zach, what a stressful drive into this
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Speaker 2: place it was today.
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Speaker 3: Nobody drives slower on the planet than the person in
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Speaker 3: front of you when you have somewhere to go.
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Speaker 2: I'm getting I'm really seriously, the rules of the road
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Speaker 2: are getting at a little messed up right now because
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Speaker 2: we've got a bunch of people, seriously that can't drive,
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Speaker 2: or choose to drive badly choose to I'll say it
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Speaker 2: that way. Coming down McKinley Avenue out here, I don't
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Speaker 2: know what the City of Columbus is doing over there,
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Speaker 2: Columbus Water Project. I'm not even sure what they're doing.
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Speaker 2: They've got excavation going on, and they're over there by
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Speaker 2: the quarry that's usually fenced off, where cars occasionally have
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Speaker 2: been known to go off the road and down into it.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what the project is, but the road
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Speaker 2: is a fifty mile an hour road, and I'm telling you,
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Speaker 2: I'm so sick of coming down through there at thirty
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Speaker 2: miles an hour even when there's no construction crews. People
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Speaker 2: are just they're so slow and you can't go around
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Speaker 2: them because it's one lane in each direction. And this
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Speaker 2: is just it's annoying. It is annoying. Today I'm turning
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Speaker 2: left onto Broad Street as I'm headed out there toward
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Speaker 2: the point been in Madison, And as I'm turning left,
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Speaker 2: turning right out of a cross street on the other
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Speaker 2: side of broad Street, and this car like it starts
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Speaker 2: to pull and then stops, and I'm like, dude, you've
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Speaker 2: got the right away, you go, and then I go,
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Speaker 2: But they don't know how to I don't. Do you
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Speaker 2: not know what the right of way is? Did you
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Speaker 2: take any classes before you got behind the wheel at all?
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Speaker 2: Have you read a book in your life? It's just
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Speaker 2: it's frustrating.
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Speaker 3: Do you ever drive and somebody's going slower, they're doing something,
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Speaker 3: whatever it is, and you get to pass them, and
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Speaker 3: in your mind you're like, they look like this or
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Speaker 3: they're this, and when you pass them, you go yup.
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Speaker 1: Yep exactly. Oh yeah, I usually know.
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Speaker 2: I usually know what I'm expecting when I pull up
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Speaker 2: on them. Yeah, And it's just it is getting very
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Speaker 2: frustrated and then then the sun goes down. I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: say this again. I said it about a month ago,
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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna say it again because the sun's going
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Speaker 2: down earlier now, it's getting darker earlier now, and that's
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Speaker 2: going to continue to happen until December twenty First, it's
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Speaker 2: that time of year. These laser beam phasers on full
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Speaker 2: that are coming off the front of these new cars,
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Speaker 2: now that's something else.
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Speaker 1: It's too much, man, it's too dagone much.
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Speaker 2: And my bright lights, my old halogen bright lights, are
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Speaker 2: not as offensive to the eyes as these blue laser
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Speaker 2: beams from the Starship Enterprise that are on the front
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Speaker 2: of these new cars out here. So I don't even
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Speaker 2: know how you can get a ticket for having your
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Speaker 2: braids on in city limits. I really don't. I really don't.
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Speaker 2: They I understand wanting to see I understand wanting to
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Speaker 2: be efficient and use the new technology, all the LED stuff.
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Speaker 1: That's great, that's wonderful. That's fine, no problem with that,
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Speaker 1: But is there a limit?
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Speaker 3: I mean, it is annoyse especially when it's an SUV
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Speaker 3: and I drive a car. Oh yeah, if they're not bright,
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Speaker 3: if their brights aren't on, it's still miserable because you
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Speaker 3: can't see anything behind.
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Speaker 1: The gold suv or pickup truck.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're just like, I hope nobody is like behind
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Speaker 3: them on the lane or or on the line or
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Speaker 3: something in the way. I can't see anything.
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Speaker 2: It's too much and I mean, you know, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 2: it's hit me in the eyes. I'll have the Queen
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Speaker 2: check my forehead or any burn scars or anything, because
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Speaker 2: it's just it's so how you doing, Oh, I'm fine.
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Speaker 2: I never question before we go to what's your question
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Speaker 2: before we go to break?
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Speaker 3: When you walked up there and there were guys out
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Speaker 3: there in front of the house and you felled out
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Speaker 3: the right house.
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Speaker 2: It was only one guy sitting in the garage waiting
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Speaker 2: on his guys to come back, and uh, it was
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Speaker 2: the wrong house that I was at. It was the
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Speaker 2: wrong house. But the guy was wonderful. He came running
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Speaker 2: out of the garadge going, man, I forgot all about
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Speaker 2: having that line. I'm sitting here, I put it up
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Speaker 2: and I can't even see it myself. And you know,
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Speaker 2: he he was, he was very nice and he tried to,
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Speaker 2: you know, help me gather my crap, and uh, you know,
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Speaker 2: because the cell phone. I think my glasses may have
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Speaker 2: flown out of my pocket too. I'm not sure because
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Speaker 2: I wasn't able to find my glasses when I go Fortunately,
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Speaker 2: keep him back up there, but still I may have
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Speaker 2: to go back out there and look for my glasses now,
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Speaker 2: unless somebody's driven.
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Speaker 1: Him over, and then that doesn't matter. Still to come
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Speaker 1: the power Hour. I got that off my chest.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: A couple of things I want to talk about, including
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Speaker 2: a vote of no confidence from the police union in Cincinnati, Ohio. Well,
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Speaker 2: after all the stuff they've been going through lately, police
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Speaker 2: union has issued a unanimous vote of no confidence in
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Speaker 2: their mayor,