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WhiteHall City Counsil drama · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Buck season is over.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we can talk about the buck eys. What do
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  Speaker 2: you want to.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about it's over. You want to talk about any
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  Speaker 1: I don't want talk about the Hoogers. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: the Hoosiers. Okay, they're cool.
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  Speaker 2: They went further than Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Stay. Yes, they did playoffs and they are the champions,
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  Speaker 1: national champions, deservedly so. Excellent team, excellent coaching, excellent coach.
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  Speaker 1: That speaks his mind. I love that, love that. Did
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  Speaker 1: you see him at the halftime?
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  Speaker 2: No, but I know, uh I watched some of it.
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  Speaker 3: I do know, like at all serier jokes aside, like
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  Speaker 3: he is a no crap for real.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all coach. They had him at halftime going
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  Speaker 1: into the locker room. Hey coach, what do you take
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  Speaker 1: the game so far? And you know, the paraphrase was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hits on my quarterback out there that
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  Speaker 1: should have been called that were not called. I'm all
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  Speaker 1: for letting the boys play the game, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's let's not be stupid about this. Let's call
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  Speaker 1: what needs to be called. And he wasn't afraid to
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  Speaker 1: say it. Most coaches always want to be you know,
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  Speaker 1: pc and not angry. He might get fined for it,
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  Speaker 1: but good for him. Good for it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to see a coach on eddy level.
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  Speaker 3: Be like, listen this bs R whatever, you know, good
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  Speaker 3: to see him speaking there.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful thing we'll get this weather coming in gas. Driving
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  Speaker 1: is on everybody's mind, including Steve. Steve, you're on the
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  Speaker 1: Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines. What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 4: How you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Chunk?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I do think that a part of the problem out
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  Speaker 4: here today is when I was a kid, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I rode motorcycles and go carts and everything, and and
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  Speaker 4: you don't even see kids on bicycles anymore. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: if and a lot of people might not think this
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  Speaker 4: is true, but if you're not riding my bicycle when
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  Speaker 4: you're young and just something like you know, oversteering, the steer,
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  Speaker 4: it the handlebars and it kind of flips you off
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  Speaker 4: to the side or something. You know, it does help
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  Speaker 4: you try to It helps you understand the steering wheel,
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  Speaker 4: the brakes, how you coast on a road, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And it might not seem like it, but when when
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  Speaker 4: you start out young and you do it, I think
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  Speaker 4: it does. I really do and I know we need
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  Speaker 4: to bring back driver's edge to school too. I would
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  Speaker 4: like that. I just think kids just don't start early enough.
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  Speaker 4: You just don't even see them riding bikes at all.
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  Speaker 1: And the motion today we've got so much worry about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, are they looking at their phone or are
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  Speaker 1: they paying attention where they distracted in some way when
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  Speaker 1: you are not being a youngster on a bike. And
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  Speaker 1: the worst thing seriously to ever happen to my physical
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  Speaker 1: condition was getting my driver's license, because up till then
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  Speaker 1: I lived on my bicycles, lived on and I'm riding around.
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  Speaker 1: I got no hands, you know, my hands are doing
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  Speaker 1: something else, holding a pop or whatever. I didn't even
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  Speaker 1: need hands to I was my bike and I were
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  Speaker 1: like one. We were just we melded together. I knew
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  Speaker 1: the bike people would then become like that with their cars.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know what your car can do and
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  Speaker 1: how it breaks. And today they're just so disconnected from
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  Speaker 1: the whole concept of of you know, feeling the road
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  Speaker 1: and knowing the curves and the how to finessa turn.
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  Speaker 1: It's just gone. And you're probably right, you know, not
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  Speaker 1: being on bicycles is uh is probably playing into it.
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  Speaker 1: To some degree too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And a lot of people don't see it that
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  Speaker 4: way because because I've actually talked to people and they
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  Speaker 4: think I'm ridiculous, because you know they how's a bicycle
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  Speaker 4: like a car, you know, and you know they go
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  Speaker 4: faster and it truly does give you coordination. That's that's
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  Speaker 4: what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you hit a pothole on your bicycle to
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  Speaker 1: Zach wants to what?
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry if the wife wants to know, Zach wants
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  Speaker 4: to race?
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  Speaker 1: Race on what?
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  Speaker 4: Because of the comedy made about women drivers?
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, Steve's wife wants to race you.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of card is your wife?
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  Speaker 1: Steve? It's a maserati. I think she's got a maserati.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, she she's She's been a lot of NASCAR races,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of them. Oh believe me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, win winner gets a Canada in school bandits, let's
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  Speaker 1: do this, Prangler, Jean Wrangler, Jane just gives certificate and
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  Speaker 1: the skull bandits for life.
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  Speaker 2: Does your wife?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, pardon?
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  Speaker 2: Does your wife dip? Steve?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he asked if she dips skull?
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, everything else but
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  Speaker 5: that probably though, she'll have a beer every now and
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  Speaker 5: then and maybe even use the first word from time
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  Speaker 5: to time.
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  Speaker 1: She'd probably tear him up on the track too. To
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you, I appreciate you, Steve. Be careful
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  Speaker 1: out there. Eight two one, nine and eighty six A
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  Speaker 1: two one w TV. And I don't know why this?
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  Speaker 1: Why does this always happen?
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  Speaker 2: I know as soon as the second one.
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  Speaker 1: Why does this always happen? I'm serious? This is really
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  Speaker 1: what we always seem to get when they call in.
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  Speaker 1: If one calls, they all call. We get usually get
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  Speaker 1: two Steve's and a Steven.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, these aren't the same ones either.
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  Speaker 1: I know they're different guys, but it's just weird that
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  Speaker 1: they maybe they have the same thoughts or the you know,
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the seen type stuff all the time. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know a two, one, nine and eighty six number.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Steve number two. You're on six hana
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  Speaker 1: ETV and Steve number two. Can we just call you
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  Speaker 1: number two?
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  Speaker 6: It's good listening to you, guys. I'm usually making dinner
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  Speaker 6: between six and seven, So I got you on the
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  Speaker 6: radio all the time here and I called in before
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  Speaker 6: I told you before you remind me so much of me.
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  Speaker 6: It's kind of weird.
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  Speaker 1: But well, but my name, my name's not Steve. See
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm falling out of the mix already.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but hey, you guys, I know I listened for
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  Speaker 6: a long time. You guys cover a wide area. So
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  Speaker 6: I'm just going to spread this out to see if
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  Speaker 6: everybody could help us out on this. But I think
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  Speaker 6: everybody was rooting. I mean, since Buckey's lost, and believe me,
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  Speaker 6: this household bleeds scarlet and gray. But when we didn't
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  Speaker 6: make it, everybody around here was rooting for our neighbors.
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  Speaker 6: I like Indianapolis, I like Indiana. There are neighbors. I
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  Speaker 6: thought it would be cool if there was like some
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  Speaker 6: kind of great, big sign we could put at the
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  Speaker 6: border across from a welcome to Indiana that says congratulations
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  Speaker 6: to Indiana, you know, from our fans in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: When that would be nice sportsmanship right there. Yeah, if
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  Speaker 1: the state and maybe the university could get together and
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  Speaker 1: put up up you know, congratulations Hoosiers, we'll see you
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  Speaker 1: next season or something like that at the border, that
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  Speaker 1: would be very cool.
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  Speaker 6: That's all I wanted to say for tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I but I love the idea. Steve, I'm glad you
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  Speaker 1: called with it, thanks very much. A two one nine
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  Speaker 1: eight eighty six, A two one WUTV. And that would
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  Speaker 1: be very classy and it would beat that ugly sign
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  Speaker 1: that's up there. Is it still there? That leaving Ohio sign?
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  Speaker 1: We need a new one. I like it. You would
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  Speaker 1: do when you go go see mom and them, what
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  Speaker 1: do you do seventy five?
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  Speaker 2: It depends.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes they'll go through Dayton. Sometimes they'll go just straight
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  Speaker 3: down through Cincinnati. It just depends. If I'm it just depends.
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  Speaker 1: On trying to remember if is there is there a
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  Speaker 1: big signage there going over the bridge going into Kentucky
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  Speaker 1: out of if you take seventy five straight through, uh No,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing to mark the fact that you're except the river.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just welcome to Kentucky. So that's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of a contradiction in terms too, if you
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  Speaker 1: think about.
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  Speaker 2: It, Welcome Dick Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyway, the uh, I don't I don't remember though.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why, because I've left the state in
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  Speaker 1: three directions.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes I'll go down seventy one, sometimes seventy. It
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  Speaker 3: just depends.
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  Speaker 1: West is the only thing I remember, I don't remember
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  Speaker 1: what it's like to go into West Virginia. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it's like to go into UH, going to Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: I've done it, I just can't remember the what signage
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  Speaker 1: was there? And then is there? We can also we
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  Speaker 1: could go east northeast and go into Pennsylvania. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I've never done that. I don't think. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: I remember driving into Pittsburgh one time. Maybe I'm hallucinating.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, Whitehall is on my mind tonight again because
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  Speaker 1: they did the vote Tuesday night to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: this council member Dixon, and I made myself very clear,
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  Speaker 1: actually extremely clear, overly clear. I am like a man
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  Speaker 1: made entirely of windex clear on how I feel about
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  Speaker 1: that situation. Now, now the residents of Whitehall have a
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  Speaker 1: petition going around that want to get rid of the
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  Speaker 1: mayor and a couple of members of council. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if this is in retaliation for the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they went after Dixon, or if it's because they failed
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of Dixon and people are holding them responsible.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what the motivation is. I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to get somebody from whoever the organization is that is
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  Speaker 1: propagating this petition to talk to me and tell me
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  Speaker 1: what it's all about, because I'm very, very curious whether
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  Speaker 1: this is people in pseudo support of Dixon who are
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  Speaker 1: tired because the mayor has been very open about about
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  Speaker 1: you know, he wants him gone, and he's apparently had
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  Speaker 1: some rough times with the mayor, He's had some rough
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  Speaker 1: times with the police chief. And suddenly you know he
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  Speaker 1: is this uh, this this target that they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of, and now the pushback is coming after
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  Speaker 1: the mayor and two other council members. I am very curious.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard anything in depth, Zach as far as
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  Speaker 1: what the motivating factor is here why they want to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of these people.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not joking.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Again, I'm continuing the theme of not knowing anything, but
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  Speaker 3: I haven't heard any Whitehall serious.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that when you enter Whitehall, your car
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  Speaker 1: stereo should be taken over by a localized transmitter that says,
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  Speaker 1: immediately upon entering, like sens through the hour glass, so
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  Speaker 1: are the days of our lives? Because they are becoming
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  Speaker 1: a soap opera they are.
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  Speaker 3: That would be a good Like many series eight episode
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  Speaker 3: show like a legal drama, the white Hall Legal Drama.
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  Speaker 1: It could be a reality show. Yeah. And while you're
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  Speaker 1: there filming what's going on with the council in the
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  Speaker 1: Mayor's office, Maybe there's a daycare you could invade and
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  Speaker 1: people will be all over it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot going on in this city.
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  Speaker 1: There's a whole lot going on. And sadly, I, as
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  Speaker 1: I said before, I was singing the praises of Whitehall
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  Speaker 1: just a few years ago because they seem to be
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  Speaker 1: on such an upward trajectory and it's it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: stalled out most definitely. I don't know that it's falling apart,
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  Speaker 1: but it's stalled out most definitely because of all the
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  Speaker 1: infighting that is going on in that town and the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you may recall him from his uh, his
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  Speaker 1: work at Columbus City Hall and during the Mayor Coleman administration,
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  Speaker 1: his name was was thrown about quite a bit, and
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  Speaker 1: and then he became uh I think it was. I
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  Speaker 1: think he might have been city attorney for Whitehall first
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm not sure, but it's uh, it's probably
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  Speaker 1: displeasing to politicians outside of Whitehall as well, who have
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  Speaker 1: been in that group in that corner that I know
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  Speaker 1: they've got to be throwing up their hands going, how
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  Speaker 1: could you mess it up? It's Whitehall. It's a substantial town,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not like New York City, and this, this
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  Speaker 1: kind of drama is not something you would expect from
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  Speaker 1: a community like Whitehall. Also, Pickerington on my mind, did
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  Speaker 1: you see Pickerington's going after a new sales tax income tax?
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  Speaker 1: One and a quarter percent of believe it was for
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  Speaker 1: the story for school. But here's the deal. If I understand,
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  Speaker 1: this is the first time in like twelve years that
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  Speaker 1: they have come to the public for any.
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  Speaker 2: More money, so they might actually need it.
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  Speaker 1: There is a property tax that's currently in effect that
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  Speaker 1: apparently expires this year, so it's going away. They're asking
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  Speaker 1: for the one point twenty five percent and it's the
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  Speaker 1: first time in twelve years.
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  Speaker 2: So are they losing money?
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  Speaker 1: They have been deficit spending, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so they might. This might equal it out with.
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  Speaker 1: The report I saw said that they expected to be
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  Speaker 1: in the hole by twenty twenty eight if they don't
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  Speaker 1: start bringing in more money.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but you know what, don't they have good schools up, the.
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  Speaker 1: Way things have run government wise, education wise, and every
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  Speaker 1: if this is the first time in twelve years, and
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  Speaker 1: what you're asking for is one and a quarter percent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's not ever.
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  Speaker 1: I as a voter out there, I don't live there,
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  Speaker 1: but I would be inclined to say yes unless somebody
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  Speaker 1: could convince me really strongly that's saying yes to that
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  Speaker 1: was a bad thing, especially was you know, dirty or something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean pick Rington's had its share of trouble, and
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  Speaker 1: there's been a couple of a couple of speed bumps
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  Speaker 1: with the board and uh, but overall it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: decent district. And they had a girls' high school basketball
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  Speaker 1: I think it was championship twenty years ago or so.
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  Speaker 1: And they had this explosion, I mean just people had
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  Speaker 1: to live there. All of a sudden, everybody wanted to
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  Speaker 1: live in Pickerington schools and so they had this explosion
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  Speaker 1: in the population. And all in all, I would say
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  Speaker 1: they've handled it very well, the growth and everything else.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know, I'll have to educate myself before
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  Speaker 1: you know, it comes time for people to vote, so
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  Speaker 1: I know better. But on the surface, this actually looks
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a gimme, and I don't know. I'd
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  Speaker 1: say yes to their one and a quarter percent before
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  Speaker 1: i'd say it yes to another dime from Columbus City Schools.
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  Speaker 3: That's fair, that's fair. Another known fact about Pickerington is
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  Speaker 3: the video games Halo, the multiplayer you could play against
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  Speaker 3: each other. Yes, the two greatest Halo players in the
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  Speaker 3: history of the world lived in pickering Really.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know that it's safe. Not that I cared,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't important. While I'm thinking about Columbus City
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  Speaker 1: Schools before I have to go. The bus this morning
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  Speaker 1: for one of the kids was late, and they don't
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  Speaker 1: send out anything to say the bus is late. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they've got text messaging services for everything else, but nothing
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  Speaker 1: to say the bus is late.
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  Speaker 2: Say in case the kid's standing out there in his freeze.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the boy's racking his brain. He wants to get
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  Speaker 1: on the bus. And so I said, okay, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna take him, and I got in the car, started
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  Speaker 1: warming up the car, got him in the car. Here
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  Speaker 1: comes the bus. So it's half an hour late. But
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  Speaker 1: I told the queen, I said, hey, I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and take him we're already in the car.
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  Speaker 1: She said, no, you can't. I said, well, he said,
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  Speaker 1: he'll be tardy. I said, well, the bus will get
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  Speaker 1: him there at the same time I will at best.
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  Speaker 1: And she said, you don't understand. If you take him,
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  Speaker 1: he's mark tardy. If he arrives at the same time
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  Speaker 1: on the bus, he's not tardy. That's that's that's tardy
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  Speaker 1: right there.