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What to do downtown · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Grating salutations, welcome my friends. Do another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten double the UTV, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas. You know who you are, and we take
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  Speaker 1: it from there. We get one hour together, which means
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  Speaker 1: I talk really fast and you must listen even faster.
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  Speaker 1: My number eight two one nine eight eighty six eight
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  Speaker 1: two one double the UTV in or one eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and six y ten WTV. And I hope, I hope
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  Speaker 1: sincerely that you had a meaningful Memorial Day. The weather
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  Speaker 1: was perfect, absolutely gorgeous. I did take the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: speak to the grandkids and UH and make sure that
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  Speaker 1: they understood the reason for the holiday and why there
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  Speaker 1: was no school and why I had a day off
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  Speaker 1: work and and basically why we were spending time at
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  Speaker 1: home doing family stuff and cooking out and I cut
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  Speaker 1: the grass yesterday and just just that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: But I wanted to, you know, not just a day off,
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  Speaker 1: It's a day of meaning and that was very important
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  Speaker 1: to me. And I think we accomplished that. And then
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  Speaker 1: we ate like pigs. It was wonderful. Did you did
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  Speaker 1: you enjoy everything in Kentucky? That? Did that go? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Everything was fine, did you grill? No, that takes effort.
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  Speaker 1: I was sure you would go down there and grill
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  Speaker 1: for your mom and dad. Well, there's just it just didn't.
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  Speaker 1: It just didn't work out. But everything was okay. At
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  Speaker 1: any point during bringing you up, did they consider selling you?
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  Speaker 1: Many times? I just I figured that was probably not
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  Speaker 1: worth it. That was probably the case. In case you
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  Speaker 1: did not hear the news, Mitchell Steakhouse in downtown Columbus
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  Speaker 1: is vamus. It is gone, very abruptly gone on the
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  Speaker 1: third Street. They're just off of Broad Street. And so
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  Speaker 1: we lost Morton's Steakhouse several years ago. It was in
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  Speaker 1: a weird location. Uh, but you know the legendary Morton's
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  Speaker 1: of Chicago, and then Mitchell's, which is actually, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if people know it or not, Mitchell's Steakhouse was
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  Speaker 1: founded by Cameron Mitchell. So you know, that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like home town boy makes good with a downtown steakhouse.
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  Speaker 1: So Morton's gone, Mitchell's gone, we have no Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.
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  Speaker 1: This is just once again the case in point. I
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  Speaker 1: keep saying it over and over again as they continue
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  Speaker 1: to build all these houses, all these condos, all these
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  Speaker 1: apartments downtown. You've got to have something for people to do.
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  Speaker 1: Even a high end steakhouse was at least something for
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  Speaker 1: some people to do. But with all of the politicians,
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  Speaker 1: all of the financial institutions, that we couldn't keep Morton's,
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't keep Mitchell's. We can't attract Ruth Chris down.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody better rethink the game plan. I mean not that
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  Speaker 1: the view. The view was just absolutely scenic as you
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  Speaker 1: entered Mitchell's. Because you go look right across the street
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  Speaker 1: and see those wonderful two million dollar public toilets. You
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  Speaker 1: find humor in that, do you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Those toilets have been a source of life for two years.
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  Speaker 1: They really. I don't think anybody's established a campsite in
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  Speaker 1: there yet, but I still anytime I'm going through downtown,
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  Speaker 1: I look, I'm just waiting to see somebody walk in
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  Speaker 1: or out, and they never do, never do two million
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  Speaker 1: dollars worth of toilet anyway, Goodbye Mitchell's, Goodbye we used
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  Speaker 1: to have. You know, the clock was down there, the
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  Speaker 1: waterworks was down there, Claremont was down South High Street,
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  Speaker 1: but it was close enough to downtown I think to
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  Speaker 1: be considered a downtown eatery Florentine and Franklinton, but still
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  Speaker 1: close enough to downtown, probably considered a downtown eatery by
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  Speaker 1: some spiros. It's over here on McKinley Avenue now used
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  Speaker 1: to be on Third Street Downtown. It was more of
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  Speaker 1: a bar than a restaurant back then, as I recall,
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  Speaker 1: that was way way long ago, back in the eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Grocery stores where are they? I guess you could go
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  Speaker 1: down to the Kroger in German Village. But there's really
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do, nothing to do in downtown Columbus except
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  Speaker 1: for those that go to work and come home. You
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  Speaker 1: want to stay late and see us, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: a Kappa show or something like that. Okay, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: grab dinner where my gosh even you know the tim
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  Speaker 1: Hortons used to close down at like five or six.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when they opened. They were a twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to seven restaurant. I mean, yes, it's sandwiches, no nothing
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  Speaker 1: so forth. But there's no Panera down there. There is
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  Speaker 1: a Chipotle, just as on the fringe there of downtown
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  Speaker 1: and German Village. I don't know what their hours are,
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  Speaker 1: but we continue to pump money and resources and talk
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  Speaker 1: about all of this growth that we're going to see,
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  Speaker 1: all this the tremendous growth in population, and this is
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  Speaker 1: why we need all these new apartments, and and they're
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  Speaker 1: expensive apartments too, by the way, all this stuff done.
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  Speaker 1: If people are going to pay that much money to
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  Speaker 1: live down there, they're going to expect something, aren't they.
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  Speaker 1: There's got to be something for them to do. And
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  Speaker 1: now we've lost yet another I just I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some you know, little you know hitting
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  Speaker 1: coffee shops and stuff down there. I'm not thinking of.
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  Speaker 1: But Mitchell's was prominent and we couldn't even keep that going.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, if you live downtown or you're considering living downtown,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Is having something to do other than
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  Speaker 1: go home important to you? I would think it would be.
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  Speaker 1: My number's eight two one nine eight eighty six, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, A two one WTV and that's the Legacy
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  Speaker 1: Retirement Group dot com phone lines, Tanya standing by. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get you on Tanya. You're on six ten WTV and
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  Speaker 1: hip thank her.
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  Speaker 2: So my husband and I went to a retirement dinner
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  Speaker 2: at Ruth Chris Steakhouse and I was sitting face in
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  Speaker 2: the window, and there were a couple guys across the
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  Speaker 2: street and they were drinking. They had a brown bag,
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  Speaker 2: they had a bottle of something. Another guy came up.
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  Speaker 2: They walked around to the front and they started arguing.
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  Speaker 2: So the waiter went out and told to move along.
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  Speaker 2: So the two guys went back over across the street.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting a free dinner for the retirement Shiel. And
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  Speaker 2: the guy comes walking over to the building. He walked
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  Speaker 2: over to the building and it's like five thirty in
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  Speaker 2: the evening and proceeds to pee on the side of
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  Speaker 2: the building and you can see everything. And I said,
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  Speaker 2: who would have thought we were going to get a
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  Speaker 2: free dinner and a free show in downtown Columbus at
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  Speaker 2: five thirty in the evening?
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  Speaker 1: Where were you? Where were you? Because that wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: Ruth Chris If it was in downtown. Were you at Mitchell's.
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  Speaker 2: No, we were at Ruth Chris Steakhouse downtown in Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: Where is Ruth Chris downtown?
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  Speaker 2: Where was it? A Hunt High and Hiens High and Spring.
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  Speaker 2: My husband said, maybe, I'm not real sure, but definitely
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  Speaker 2: it was Ruth Chris.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know they had one down there. I
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  Speaker 1: knew they had the one up there on campus view
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  Speaker 1: back of Jay Alexander's, and that closed down. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know they had one in downtown. Is it still there?
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  Speaker 2: It's not still.
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  Speaker 1: There, is it?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, sir. And a couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Ago that just looked it up, he said, apparently they
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  Speaker 1: are still there. Now there you go. There's something else.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know they were there. So how much
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  Speaker 1: success are they having.
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  Speaker 2: Well with unsightly things like that happen?
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know, Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: was your was your your waiter made aware of this?
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  Speaker 1: Your server made aware of what was going on out there,
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  Speaker 1: because I would think they would do something to try
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  Speaker 1: to get you back in there to have a better experience.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure sure. We didn't go back, but the
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  Speaker 2: waiter went outside and told him when they were out
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  Speaker 2: in the front of the restaurant, you know, move along.
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  Speaker 2: And the two guys went back across the street on
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  Speaker 2: the side, and he came walking over and he was
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  Speaker 2: and I go, oh, my gosh, he's going to go
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  Speaker 2: to the bathroom on the building. Sure enough, they.
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  Speaker 1: Got that two million dollar toilet right down the Street.
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  Speaker 2: For goodness sake, What in the world was he thinking?
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't thank you for I appreciate the laugh. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much. A two six Diane. You're in the
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  Speaker 1: Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line side hik check.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm amazed. I moved out of Columbus about
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  Speaker 3: five years ago. But they've been trying for thirty flats
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  Speaker 3: years to get people to move downtown, and people don't
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  Speaker 3: want to live down there. You know, you've got the
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  Speaker 3: hood which is right next door to to go and
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  Speaker 3: put easton also where it is located.
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  Speaker 1: What do you have?
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  Speaker 3: Do you have the hood? And then between the homeless
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  Speaker 3: and everything, and why in the world did they put
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  Speaker 3: a two million dollar bathroom down there? Is because the
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  Speaker 3: city is it, because the city gets so much kickback
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  Speaker 3: from all this stuff. I avoid Columbus like the plague.
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  Speaker 3: I'm born and raised there and there's nothing but trouble
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  Speaker 3: on Columbus and I'm certainly not going to go down
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  Speaker 3: there in the evening.
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  Speaker 1: There are a few bright spots here and there, but
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  Speaker 1: the problems are they are seen to be growing, and
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  Speaker 1: they're growing. I think with the permission of the people,
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  Speaker 1: the powers that could stop them from growing. That's the
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  Speaker 1: most annoying part.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they don't want to do that, No, want to
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  Speaker 3: they don't. They don't enforce when people get caught doing
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  Speaker 3: stuff and from the flop on the hand and let
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  Speaker 3: them go. It's Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I am a Republican, but I can tell you there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of even Republicans. I don't go along with
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  Speaker 3: the lineups. But the Democrats, it's like.
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  Speaker 2: This is their thing.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see how bad we can trash a city. I
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  Speaker 3: don't understand it other than you know, because they allow
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  Speaker 3: all of this stuff. Then they get to vote. They
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  Speaker 3: get to vote, and it's beyond me. In Ohio, you've
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  Speaker 3: got Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus. They're all rammed by Democrats,
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  Speaker 3: and as far as I'm concerned, they're all failures.
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  Speaker 1: I will not I will not doubt Diane. There's a
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  Speaker 1: political agenda behind it, a lot of what goes on.
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  Speaker 1: And being that we are pretty much an entirely Democrat
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  Speaker 1: controlled county, I guess you have to take that into account.
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  Speaker 1: But honestly, you should be able to go and have
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  Speaker 1: your four hundred dollars steak dinner celebrating your wedding anniversary
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  Speaker 1: or retire or whatever without having to watch a guy
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  Speaker 1: make a pepe on the wall outside the building. That's just,
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  Speaker 1: but there are no repercussions. That's the problem. There are
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  Speaker 1: no You pay no price for degrading society. It's okay
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  Speaker 1: to do it, and uh, you know we're paying the
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  Speaker 1: price for it.