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Kansas singer Tommy DeCarlo passed away · 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 double UTV in 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: faster and you must listen even faster. The number eight two, one, nine,
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  Speaker 1: eight eighty six eight one DOUBLETV in or one eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred to sixty ten dou WUTV. And let's begin by
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  Speaker 1: paying homage. Tonight, tell me to Carlo. Since two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and seven, the lead vocalist for the band Boston sounded
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  Speaker 1: so much like the original lead vocalist it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: hard to tell whether you're listening to him or the
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  Speaker 1: original rendition. Their original lead singer passed away in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven by his own hand. And Tommy, Tommy
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  Speaker 1: was working at Home Depot, big Boston fan and used
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  Speaker 1: to sing along all the time, and they were holding
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  Speaker 1: auditions and he tried and he got blown out. Now
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  Speaker 1: we don't want you. Then they said, you know, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: So this guy was a Cinderella story. From Home Depot
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  Speaker 1: one day to lead singer Boston the next. And not
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  Speaker 1: many of us get to live a life like that.
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  Speaker 1: A dream like that just coming true from Can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine seriously just going from the mediocrity of an everyday
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  Speaker 1: normal life to something like that. But he has passed away,
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  Speaker 1: sixty years old, very sad and yes it was cancer,
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  Speaker 1: brain cancer, I believe in this case, but what a shame. First,
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  Speaker 1: before I get into news and stuff, got something else
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about. And Zach will be totally
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  Speaker 1: taken aback by this because he's what I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. You have any idea where I'm going with this.
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  Speaker 2: Does it have to do with social media?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? It does. Yes it does, because you'll notice I
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  Speaker 1: didn't fire back at anyone. I stayed cool, calm, and collected.
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  Speaker 1: But on Zach's behalf this weekend, I got a little upset.
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  Speaker 1: And these are people, you know, at least a couple
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  Speaker 1: of them are people that I like, that have been
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  Speaker 1: on my social media page or I've met in person
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, that are nice, decent people. But the movement
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  Speaker 1: began this weekend kind of taking Zact to task as
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  Speaker 1: host of Saturday Morning Open Phones. Now, essentially, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a lefty, he's a liberal, and I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know honestly, I listened to him on an office I
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  Speaker 1: was getting my Saturday stuff together. I don't even know.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what it was? What was the catalyst?
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  Speaker 1: What you said?
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  Speaker 3: I think maybe everybody has different opinions on whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You can't agree with another human being on.
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  Speaker 3: Every single topic, So I get it.
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  Speaker 2: It might have been my opinion on.
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  Speaker 3: Kids getting quote unquote free lunches, and some people think
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  Speaker 3: the state shouldn't be responsible, and I totally get it,
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  Speaker 3: but I think that's something that should be a thing.
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  Speaker 2: Other than that. Or and I did mention SNAP briefly.
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  Speaker 2: You talked about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, I don't care if a family gets
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  Speaker 3: their kid a coke you can't. And one of the
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  Speaker 3: reasons was like, this will make healthier outcomes for families
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  Speaker 3: on SNAP if they can't buy sugary drinks, And I
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  Speaker 3: was like, right, and you can't buy vitamins with it,
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  Speaker 3: you can't buy medicine with it. And I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if healthy is actually what they're going for. Are they
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  Speaker 3: demonizing the poor or I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But it wasn't like a whole.
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  Speaker 3: Ten minutes of railing against people getting SAP benefits that
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  Speaker 3: don't get enough or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, So Okay, those you haven't said anything
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  Speaker 1: that I consider to be left liberal or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: So if that's what they were upset.
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  Speaker 2: About, yeah, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: You folks need to to, you know, check your prescriptions.
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  Speaker 1: Look Saturday morning open phones has always been an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for people to call up. Years ago, when I attempted
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  Speaker 1: to get the Mike Mental when he was president of
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  Speaker 1: Kalamas City Council on the air, tried to get him
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  Speaker 1: in the studio. I wanted to talk about the red
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  Speaker 1: light cameras. And at that time, I'd had Mike in
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  Speaker 1: the studio before a couple of times. In fact, I
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  Speaker 1: had him in one week, and I had Paula Paula
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  Speaker 1: what puts Paul's name, Franklin Heughty commissioner, Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: not Paula, No Brooks come in. In fact, she came
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  Speaker 1: back and brought me baclavah homemade baklava. Got along both Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: But I treat everyone well. I'm not nasty to anyone,
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  Speaker 1: even in disagreement. So I had had I had Mike in,
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  Speaker 1: I had paul in, and I've had several Democrats in
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  Speaker 1: over the years. Well, at that time, I emailed Mike
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  Speaker 1: Mental's office asked him if he could come in so
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  Speaker 1: we could talk about these red light cameras that Columbus
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  Speaker 1: was about to install and the implications and the costs
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  Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. It got intercepted by their watchdog,
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  Speaker 1: which at the time was former news reporter John Ivannik
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  Speaker 1: and he has since deceased, But Jock John wrote me
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  Speaker 1: back and said, Chuck got your email, which I chuckled
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  Speaker 1: at because it wasn't addressed to him. I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to recommend that Mike pass on this opportunity. So I
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  Speaker 1: called him and I said, why does he need to
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  Speaker 1: pass on this opportunity. I'll get him in. Whatever day
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  Speaker 1: works for him is fine with me. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: here was the logic, just too many Democrat bashing people
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  Speaker 1: on your station, said John, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Too many different I have always been fair, completely fair
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  Speaker 1: with anybody that's come in here. He said, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: not you. I said, well, who do you have a
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  Speaker 1: problem with? He said those people that call on Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 1: But that you know, And I said, John, that Saturday
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  Speaker 1: morning open phones. You know, Democrats can call too.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody could call. That's the point of the show.
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  Speaker 1: The idea of the you know, the whole phrase open phones.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone can call, even normal people if they wish, anyone,
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  Speaker 1: anyone can call. But because of the people that called
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning open phones at that time, he would not
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  Speaker 1: allow this Democrat president of Columbus City Council to even
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  Speaker 1: see the email and make his own decision about whether
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  Speaker 1: or not he wanted to come in and talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: And I told him, well, I'm sorry you're making that decision.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't ever contact me again. Because Columbus City Council
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  Speaker 1: would always seem to have something they needed to publicize
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. I said, I won't be able to help you.
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  Speaker 1: That was the last time he and I talked. The
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  Speaker 1: same is true for the other side of this argument.
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  Speaker 1: If you are listening to this station and you say,
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  Speaker 1: I want a good conservative station. Okay, Conservatism based in
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  Speaker 1: what constitutionality, this concept that we live in a country
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  Speaker 1: where where speech, where speech is welcome, where ideas are welcome,
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  Speaker 1: where disagreement is welcome. I may not agree with you,
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  Speaker 1: but I will defend to the death you're right to
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  Speaker 1: say it. Do you remember those words, They're not just words,
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  Speaker 1: that's actually what we're supposed to be about, and whether
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  Speaker 1: it's a caller or Zach does not matter. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: a lockstep thing. Freedom, live, independence, That is what we
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  Speaker 1: are supposed to be about. And if seriously, someone cannot
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  Speaker 1: have a different opinion without getting trashed on social media,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you're grasping the whole concept of what
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  Speaker 1: conservatism is. We believe we know the best route. We
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  Speaker 1: believe that our philosophical stance politically is what we need
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  Speaker 1: to stand by in order to get us to the
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  Speaker 1: end where we want to be. But that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: shutting up, shutting down, shutting out anyone else. And the
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  Speaker 1: whole idea of open phones is if you disagree with
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  Speaker 1: something Zach is saying, call him up and talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: How do I spring into him from the Boston story?
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  Speaker 1: I know we were just talk about Boston. Here's why
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  Speaker 1: that guy went from home depot to being the lead
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  Speaker 1: singer for Boston. About three years ago, Zach was working
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  Speaker 1: in an airport. He hadn't worked in radio before opportunity
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  Speaker 1: came up to be a producer here at the radio
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  Speaker 1: station at six ten WTV UP. I'll go in and
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  Speaker 1: talk to him. Why not, and they hired him. And
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  Speaker 1: he was hired to push buttons and answer phone calls.
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  Speaker 1: That was his job. I met him shortly after he
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  Speaker 1: started working here. I started working here again, and after
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  Speaker 1: talking to him for a couple of weeks, I saw, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he's got some wit, he's fairly quick, and I let
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  Speaker 1: him interact with me, probably more than he ever expected
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  Speaker 1: me to. Mark began letting him play with him on
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  Speaker 1: the air some more. Then he was asked to fill
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  Speaker 1: in here and there on a couple of things. The
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  Speaker 1: next thing you know, he's hosting Saturday morning open phones.
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  Speaker 1: He's the poster child of what we're supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: about people getting in, pursuing something, doing it well, and advancing.
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  Speaker 1: And to take to your social media to slam him
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  Speaker 1: because you don't agree with something he said, it makes
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  Speaker 1: me angry on his behalf. It makes me sad for you.
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  Speaker 1: We're better than that, and if we're not, then we
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  Speaker 1: need to work on ourselves. Or maybe that's just me. Zach,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, had no idea that I was going
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  Speaker 1: to do this today. So don't call him up and
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  Speaker 1: gripe at him about that. A two one nine six
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  Speaker 1: number E two one WTV in or one eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and six to ten WTV, And I heard you try
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  Speaker 1: to chirp in there. Did you have something you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to add?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think it depended on what you're talking.
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  Speaker 3: I think the only point about open folds that I say,
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  Speaker 3: if you disagree with me and you call in and
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  Speaker 3: I see a different perspective, I could definitely be wrong.
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  Speaker 3: And if we have a debate or discussion and I'm
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  Speaker 3: see a new path to something or I'm wrong about something,
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  Speaker 3: I'm better off for it. That's what the whole discussion
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  Speaker 3: and debate thing is all about, at least in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's some people too, you know. It is about
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily even the message. It's the messenger. Yeah. True,
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  Speaker 1: they will hear something from one person that they won't
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  Speaker 1: hear from another, because what you said is really nothing
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  Speaker 1: more than what I've said, nothing different, pretty much the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. It is a bit annoying now if we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have the food stamp, that snap the EBT
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  Speaker 1: program and then to micromanage what people are allowed. You're
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  Speaker 1: only allowed to buy this, You're not allowed to buy that.
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  Speaker 1: If it's food, whether it's the kind of food you
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  Speaker 1: would feed your kids. Doesn't matter if it's food, if
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  Speaker 1: it's sold in the store as food, there are plenty
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  Speaker 1: of people who think you gotta be able to buy
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  Speaker 1: it for your family. Look, you're the same state, the
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  Speaker 1: same legislature, the same people out there state. You know,
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  Speaker 1: even if you spin your family into the ground, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna legalize gambling so you can bet on every damn
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  Speaker 1: thing under the sun. Even if you're gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: drunk and drink your family into the poorhouse. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make sure we're making our money on every bottle of
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  Speaker 1: booze you buy. Even if you're gonna get cancer, we
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  Speaker 1: wanna make sure we're getting the tax stamp on your cigarettes. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you want some wheat is bad. It's
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  Speaker 1: a gateway drug. But since we can tax it, that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be legal too. But don't you dare think about
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  Speaker 1: buying a can, a pop and a candy bar for
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  Speaker 1: your five year old kid because they were good at
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  Speaker 1: the grocery store. Yeah, I'm sorry, I think that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of goofy too. I'm saying the same thing Zack was saying.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't make me a lefty, makes me a man with
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  Speaker 1: an opinion, and those are allowed. I know some circles
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  Speaker 1: don't agree, but trust me, those are still allowed.