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The office of violence prevention · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I want to let you know the Columbus Office. The
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  Speaker 1: Columbus has an office, by the way, the Columbus Office
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  Speaker 1: of Violence Prevention. How exact Zach google that? How does
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  Speaker 1: that work? Because I don't think it's open. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: saying they plan to launch a new Safer Together six
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  Speaker 1: one four campaign this Thursday. Now, I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 1: we mean by the word campaign. Maybe jd Vance can
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  Speaker 1: explain it to us. The office said that Safer Together
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  Speaker 1: at six to one four it now listen, is a
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  Speaker 1: community awareness and empowerment campaign. So what's what is the campaign?
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  Speaker 1: Is it like posters? Are you going to run ads
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  Speaker 1: on TV and radio? What's your campaign focused on providing
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  Speaker 1: tools and resources to members of the community to peacefully
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  Speaker 1: result conflict. There is so very much wrong with that
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  Speaker 1: entire sentence. I'm not talking about the person that composed it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the words. Okay, a community awareness and
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  Speaker 1: empowerment campaign. We're all aware of what's going on. We
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  Speaker 1: are all well aware of the fact we are not
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  Speaker 1: empowered because we can't expect the police to do it.
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  Speaker 1: You don'n't want us to do it, so there is
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  Speaker 1: no power there. Focused on providing tools and resources. What
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  Speaker 1: exactly would those be? Spell it out right now, what
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  Speaker 1: will they be to members of the community. What community
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  Speaker 1: you mean the City of Columbus or a specific group
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  Speaker 1: within the City of Columbus to peacefully resolve conflict. Anyone
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  Speaker 1: who would avail themselves of any of the crap that
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  Speaker 1: was in that sentence. They're not the kind of people
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  Speaker 1: who come to anybody to peacefully resolve anything. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: saying I hate to be an a sayer, but nay.
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  Speaker 1: The Office of Violence Prevention plans to launch the campaign
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  Speaker 1: during an event Thursday at the Columbus Urban League that
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  Speaker 1: would have been two day at the Columbus Urban League.
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  Speaker 1: Infected is going on right now until seven pm. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're in the area of Mount Vernon Avenue, you
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  Speaker 1: want to stop by the Columbus Urban League and see
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  Speaker 1: what what campaign they may have to help your community
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  Speaker 1: feel free. Of course, the community is kind of defined
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  Speaker 1: by the fact that they're doing this at the Columbus
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  Speaker 1: Urban League on Mount Vernon Avenue. Aren't they have it?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying A two one nine eight sixber A
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  Speaker 1: two one WTV And if I'm a pessimist, feel free
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  Speaker 1: to tell me Mike wants to talk about the changing season,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll kick it off with you something lighthearted, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: how are.
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  Speaker 2: You light hearted? But I'll just say thank you for
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  Speaker 2: dating my call. What I agree we all can plain about, Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's too cold in the spring, and there's too warm
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  Speaker 2: in the summer, and it's like in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: you know, our beginning of fall and linter, oh it's
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  Speaker 2: too cold, and it's like, can't we complain about the
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  Speaker 2: good thing? Or look, take the good things in life
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  Speaker 2: that are today. I admit it, I've been bad about it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's we complain about everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. I preached the same sermon. I preach the same
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  Speaker 1: sermon in my family. My grandkids have to hear it
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  Speaker 1: all the time. My queen has to hear all the time.
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  Speaker 1: You can get out of bed in the morning anticipating
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  Speaker 1: every bad thing or expecting some good things. And if
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  Speaker 1: you expect good, you have a tendency to create good.
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  Speaker 1: If you expect bad, you you find a way to
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  Speaker 1: dive face first into bad all day long.
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  Speaker 2: That My dad passed about a year ago, and he
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  Speaker 2: always said, as Americans, if we wouldn't be American, if
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  Speaker 2: we didn't have enough to comp.
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  Speaker 1: I know what words your dad used. Your dad knew
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  Speaker 1: my dad. I'm with you, Mike, and and you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad you heard the words and approved
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  Speaker 1: of them, buddy, because I mean them. I just it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make the world perfect. But if you go into
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  Speaker 1: things with the attitude that you're going to come out
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  Speaker 1: of them on the plus side, a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: you can change the flow of what's going on and
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  Speaker 1: bring yourself out on the plus side. Not always, you
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  Speaker 1: won't always win, but having the right mindset is important.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I'm such a creature of habit. I have
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  Speaker 1: to wear the right things. I'm not talking about my
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  Speaker 1: lucky underwear or something. I'm talking about You know, when
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  Speaker 1: you're going into a given situation, you want to look right.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't look in the mirror and see
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  Speaker 1: yourself the way you want to see yourself before you
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  Speaker 1: go to a meeting or an interview or whatever it
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  Speaker 1: is you're doing, go change. Make yourself what you want
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  Speaker 1: to see, because whatever your mind sees you as in
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  Speaker 1: that mirror is exactly what you're going to present to
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  Speaker 1: the person you're going to deal with. Whether you need
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  Speaker 1: to be a perspective employee or a formidable negotiating opponent
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  Speaker 1: or whatever it is. You have to see yourself that
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  Speaker 1: way before anybody else does. And that is not only
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  Speaker 1: what you're wearing. That is how it fits. That's what
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  Speaker 1: the day looks like outside. Take that into account, open
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  Speaker 1: those window blinds and take it in and say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's my inspiration. I can either be happy because the
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  Speaker 1: blue skies and the sunshine, or I can be pensive
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  Speaker 1: because it's cloudy and a little breezy out there. Find
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  Speaker 1: your inspiration and stuff. Instead of getting annoyed about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it exists. I'm just saying that's how I roll,
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  Speaker 1: and generally it works for me. You'd be surprised how
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  Speaker 1: many crap days I have. You really would, because I
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  Speaker 1: don't let it stop me, especially when I'm in here.
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  Speaker 1: Here my world is perfect. And you know, Zach and
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  Speaker 1: I have had this conversation, Blazer and I've had this
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  Speaker 1: conversation in front of the microphone is the one place
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  Speaker 1: where everything makes sense, and all the little that's out there,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be out there when I get done, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: go deal with it then. But being able to look
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  Speaker 1: forward to doing something you love each day in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of all the stuff you don't necessarily want to
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  Speaker 1: deal with. That's a very empowering thing. I truly mean that.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Columbus Columbus Office of Violence Prevention is
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  Speaker 1: launching a Safer Together six Oh okay, so, anyway, did
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  Speaker 1: you have do you have anything on the six one
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  Speaker 1: four the Safer Together six one four? Did you have
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  Speaker 1: any thoughts you want to add? Any suggestions? Can you
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  Speaker 1: can you throw your your head into the ring to
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  Speaker 1: be a member of that office or anything.
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  Speaker 3: One of the first guiding principles, the very first one
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  Speaker 3: they say on the website is equity.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so I'm all for that equity. Why tell me why?
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  Speaker 3: Because every life matters?
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  Speaker 1: Really, okay, anyway, found not every not every life matters.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry that sounds harsh, but not every life matter.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's that's because you're not in this in this group, you're.
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  Speaker 1: Some human trafficking, sub subexisting, pedophile, child abducting, drug selling
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  Speaker 1: piece of crap. I don't care if you get hit
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  Speaker 1: by a bus tonight or not.
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  Speaker 3: Over the line, we're talking about normal citizens.
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  Speaker 1: Well are we We're talking about the community that's not
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  Speaker 1: defining anything for me.
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  Speaker 3: Collaboration, Okay, here is important.
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  Speaker 1: From the City of Columbus point of view. Collaboration means
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  Speaker 1: do what we say.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's collaboration.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do what we say? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Foundation. And I'm excited with this.
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  Speaker 1: Nights ago when I was telling you about the city
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  Speaker 1: appeasing at citizens by creating area commissions which are toothless
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  Speaker 1: lions that get absolutely nothing done, and they will make
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  Speaker 1: their recommendations to the city and the city will damn
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  Speaker 1: sure completely ignore whatever the area commission says in favor
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  Speaker 1: of whatever they want to do. Do you recall me
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  Speaker 1: saying that, yes?
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  Speaker 3: Are you telling me?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Go read Joe Motles Facebook posts from this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: You're telling me that the Office of Violent Prevention won't
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  Speaker 3: be here in a while.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to be preventing violence, does it?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I mean there's an office for it.
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  Speaker 1: What's the point of having an office of violence prevention?
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  Speaker 1: That should be like my, my, the Chuck Douglas School
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  Speaker 1: of of AFRO Management. Seriously, man, it's why have it
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  Speaker 1: if it doesn't work?
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  Speaker 3: I'm do you mean the hairstyle?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? Well, what else is an AFRO?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Aside from the hairstyle.
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  Speaker 3: I tried to grow on.
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  Speaker 1: Can't you did on your face? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Face rough,