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Child left in car and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas in The Power Hour on six ten wtv
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  Speaker 1: N A two one nine eight eight six my number
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  Speaker 1: eight two one WTVN or eight hundred and sixty ten
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  Speaker 1: DOUBTV and and I'm not sure why, but Fox News
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  Speaker 1: has chosen to tell us what Martina and nevertte a
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  Speaker 1: lod of things about the Idaho shooter.
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  Speaker 2: Is it something stupid?
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  Speaker 1: It's I mean, there's nothing except for the fact that
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  Speaker 1: she took to her her Twitter account and said, basically,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the country's messed up something like that. What
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  Speaker 1: was it? Our country is messed up. Rest in peace
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  Speaker 1: to the heroes who died and made the killer, uh
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  Speaker 1: not be some hellish or made the killer my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: made the dead killer, not in some hellish place. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but that was her post on Twitter. But
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  Speaker 1: she's Martina never she's a she's a tennis player. Why
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  Speaker 1: is that? Even Fox? Come on?
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  Speaker 2: When did she retire like an eighty A long time ago? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say she's been retired for years.
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  Speaker 1: Mansfield, Ohio was on my mind because of this child,
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  Speaker 1: because of this five year old child, not just this child,
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  Speaker 1: but in the past. What was it? What did I say,
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  Speaker 1: eight days, we've had five children?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, twelve twelve, twenty twenty five, but the past
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  Speaker 2: five days or.
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  Speaker 1: Eight children in five days? What was it? Eight and five? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: See that's ridiculous. I don't retain it because it's it's
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  Speaker 1: just not even comprehensible to me. How how do you
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  Speaker 1: forget your child in blazing hot Ohio weather that we've
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  Speaker 1: had the past couple of weeks now in a car
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  Speaker 1: by themselves five years old? What in your life is
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  Speaker 1: so important that you can get out of that car
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  Speaker 1: and leave your child And I don't even know if
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  Speaker 1: the mother at this point is clean. I forgot the
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  Speaker 1: child was back there or I have no idea what
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  Speaker 1: the defense to this is, but I don't care because
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  Speaker 1: there is none. There is none A two one nine,
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  Speaker 1: eight eighty six. Back to your calls, Rochelle, you are
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  Speaker 1: on six to ten dou wutvn TEX.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for taking my call. I'll try to be quick.
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  Speaker 3: And this is wonderful that you are covering this topic
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  Speaker 3: because this is just happening too often. But now I
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  Speaker 3: would like to think that I would never this is
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  Speaker 3: something of which I would never be capable because I've
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  Speaker 3: got so much OCB. And I'm a control freak, so
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  Speaker 3: I don't think hopefully or hopefully I would never do this.
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  Speaker 3: But these poor people, and I know it's terrible, it's
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  Speaker 3: terrible what happened. Okay, there was a lady remember her
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  Speaker 3: in Cincinnati, the school teacher. They have tried to look
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  Speaker 3: at why these things happen. That woman in Cincinnati. It
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  Speaker 3: happened with her child. She had changed her pattern in
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  Speaker 3: the morning, she was excited because she was buying the
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  Speaker 3: staff members donuts. She unfortunately changed her pattern and when
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  Speaker 3: she did that, for some reason, how she left her
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  Speaker 3: baby in the parking lot. There was also the guy
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  Speaker 3: who worked at NASA who also did the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: A man at NASA, so this guy's smart. It can
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  Speaker 3: happen to anyone. And I think part of it is
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  Speaker 3: these poor parents, the pressures under which they're working every day.
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  Speaker 3: I think they just get distracted. It is no excuse.
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  Speaker 3: And the other one thing I want to add, those
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  Speaker 3: poor people for the rest of their lives. I heard
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  Speaker 3: one story the poor little girl that was in the car.
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  Speaker 3: There were scratch smarks all over her neck were the
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  Speaker 3: poor thing when it was getting hot. She was trying
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  Speaker 3: to call her clothes off, you know, reflectively. So those
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  Speaker 3: poor parents, they're going to have to live for those
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  Speaker 3: thoughts forever. And obviously I don't think they do it
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  Speaker 3: on purpose, obviously, but and it's sad, but I just
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  Speaker 3: think they they need to do more study about this.
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  Speaker 3: Their brains get focused, they're obsessed with something else, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what makes them forget that their child
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  Speaker 3: is in the back. And it's so sad. But not
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  Speaker 3: any single person is perfect. I think this could happen
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  Speaker 3: to almost anyone. And I know these other people are like, oh, murder. Whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Those people the thing with which they had to deal
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  Speaker 3: with the rest of their life, they're already going to
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  Speaker 3: be in their own you know, misery.
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  Speaker 1: No, Rochelle, I got to tell you, I can guarantee you,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely beyond the shadow. If Jesus were standing in the
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  Speaker 1: room with me, I can guarantee you it would never
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  Speaker 1: happen to me. Guaranteed. Why I can never I could
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  Speaker 1: never ever my children, my grand I created them. How
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  Speaker 1: could I forget where they are? I don't even want
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  Speaker 1: my grandson at the park without checking in with me
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  Speaker 1: to let me know where you are. And he's almost
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  Speaker 1: six feet tall. I to have created life and forget
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  Speaker 1: life in the back seat of your car. I don't
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  Speaker 1: comprehend that I can't pick make sure any day being
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  Speaker 1: so messed up, any pattern so changed, that I would
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  Speaker 1: ever forget something like that in my car, A precious
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  Speaker 1: life that I made. I just I can't grasp it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're very lucky that you, you know, know that
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  Speaker 3: you would never do that, and I again, I hopefully
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  Speaker 3: I would never do that, But you just you have
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  Speaker 3: to think of some of these people are full A
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  Speaker 3: younger who knows. Maybe they're running late to work, they
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  Speaker 3: don't get a lot of sleep, something's on their mind.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they think they're going to lose their job and
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  Speaker 3: they're obsessing, and they just rush out of their car
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  Speaker 3: and use the poor baby in there. It is it's
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  Speaker 3: it's terrible, and it's a terrible death for the child.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's awful. But you know, I wish, I
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  Speaker 3: just wish it didn't happen. But thank you for doing
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  Speaker 3: this show so that we can get the word out
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  Speaker 3: to remind people, you know, And yeah, put your shoe
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  Speaker 3: back there so you don't forget about your child. Put
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  Speaker 3: your briefcase back there so you don't forget. So thank
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  Speaker 3: you to that.
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  Speaker 1: You're awesome, You've got a kind heart, Rochelle. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your call. Eight two one ninety eight six eight two
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  Speaker 1: one WTV. And we're not an agreement on that, but
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  Speaker 1: you know what, that's what I'm a It's what I'm want, debate, discussion,
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  Speaker 1: disagreement with respect. Everybody's entitled to their thoughts, to their opinions.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you. You know, I'm not one
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  Speaker 1: of those people like, yeah, R get off my phone.
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  Speaker 1: I don't do that, but I just I can't. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, you bring up young parents. I think honestly youth.
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  Speaker 1: Youth is a problem, not because you're young, but because
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  Speaker 1: of what we have allowed our young people to become.
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  Speaker 1: They face it. These these are not girls turning into
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  Speaker 1: women who walk twenty blocks to downtown Columbus to pay
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  Speaker 1: a phone bill with paper in the sole of their
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  Speaker 1: shoe because they couldn't afford new shoes, but that bill
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  Speaker 1: had to be paid. We are not the great American pioneers.
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  Speaker 1: This is why you know, you got to have signs
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  Speaker 1: of distracted driving and turn around and don't drown and
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  Speaker 1: don't text and dry when we were kids. Man, Dad
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  Speaker 1: had us on the road. He's yelling to the backseat,
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  Speaker 1: you kids, don't make me turn this part while he's
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  Speaker 1: in the radio, while he's got a map open on
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  Speaker 1: the dashboard. He wasn't running into stuff. But we are
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  Speaker 1: incompetent today. We don't know how the young people just
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  Speaker 1: the multitasking is beyond them. Don't ask them to do
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  Speaker 1: two things at once. And we, the old folks, have
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  Speaker 1: allowed this. We have coddled to the point where, man,
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  Speaker 1: we're just each generation comes, it seems like they are
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  Speaker 1: more and more incompetent. You love them, they're yours. But man,
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  Speaker 1: the parenting, the educational system. My nineteen year old about
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  Speaker 1: a year ago, Now, what do you mean endorse the check? Huh? Didn't?
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  Speaker 1: Is there no home backed business class? Nothing in school? Really,
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  Speaker 1: what do I mean endorse a check? It's crazy?
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  Speaker 2: I definitely think money management and college. If you're going
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  Speaker 2: to go to college, how loans work for that should
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  Speaker 2: be a mandatory at least one semester of that. When
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  Speaker 2: you're in high school.
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  Speaker 1: And colleges have gone to you know, here's what to
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  Speaker 1: think as opposed to here's how to think the analytical
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  Speaker 1: ability of young people going by the wayside in favor
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  Speaker 1: of programming young peoples. As Rochelle just pointed out, the
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  Speaker 1: one guy worked at NASA. You don't get much more
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  Speaker 1: college educated than working at NASA. Doesn't make you smart.
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  Speaker 1: It means you got a degree. But I've met some
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  Speaker 1: really stupid people with degrees too. I've also met people
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  Speaker 1: who dropped out in eighth grade and were probably smarter
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  Speaker 1: than most of the people in my zip code. I've
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  Speaker 1: said that about my dad. One of the reasons. One
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons I idolized Charlie, this man until I
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  Speaker 1: think he was in seventh grade. He went to school
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  Speaker 1: in a one room schoolhouse in southern Ohio. When he
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  Speaker 1: got to the teen years, he went to Jackson High School,
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  Speaker 1: so it was a bigger school, but he was in
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  Speaker 1: a little Colton, Ohio. They're claim to fame is the
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  Speaker 1: birthplace of Governor Jim Rhodes. One room was right next
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  Speaker 1: door to my grandmother's house. And Dad died smarter than
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  Speaker 1: I will ever be. Knowledge and education meant something back then.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's just a formality. I got to get through
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  Speaker 1: this so I can get that piece of paper. We
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  Speaker 1: don't hold kids to the standards. I've shared my youngest son,
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  Speaker 1: my youngest son, who is I just the way I
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  Speaker 1: feel about him. In fact, his birthday's coming up this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and it's breaking my heart because we're not on the
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  Speaker 1: same page in life right now. But he did the
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  Speaker 1: online schooling for a while. He didn't want to be
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  Speaker 1: in school, so he's doing it online.
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  Speaker 4: And uh.
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  Speaker 1: And in tenth grade, he took the Ohio graduation test
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  Speaker 1: because they make you take it in tenth, eleventh, and
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  Speaker 1: twelfth until you pass it. He took it in tenth grade.
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  Speaker 1: He passed all parts of it in tenth grade. And
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  Speaker 1: he asked me, So, Dad, why do I have to
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  Speaker 1: keep going to school? I just passed the test the
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  Speaker 1: state requires to show that I should graduate. Why should
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  Speaker 1: I continue to go to school? If I've shown them
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  Speaker 1: I I meet their standards.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough one answer.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliant question from a fifteen year old kid. Yeah, or fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: I guess he was at that time. Brilliant question, you
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  Speaker 1: pass the test, why do you have to keep doing this?
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  Speaker 1: Because it was all about just just the formalities. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't about education, It was just the formalities. A two
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  Speaker 1: on WTV and is my number, Mike, you are on
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  Speaker 1: six to ten WTV.
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  Speaker 4: And high Hey, how you doing. I got a little
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  Speaker 4: quick comment here. At a glance, I could not stand
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  Speaker 4: them ever forgetting my child or my grandchild. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I'm all the time looking back in the back and
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  Speaker 4: make sure they're not choking on or anything. I'm all
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  Speaker 4: the time just checking on them. But when I opened
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  Speaker 4: my mind up a little bit, I'm sure there's circumstances like,
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  Speaker 4: let's I'm gonna throw one at you. Uh, the dad
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  Speaker 4: drops the kid off one day, the mom drops the
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  Speaker 4: kid off one day. Let's say it's dad taking the kid,
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be taking care of the kid, gets distracted,
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  Speaker 4: has his radio on, and it's thinking about the high
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  Speaker 4: stress situation he's dealing with at work, and just thinks
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  Speaker 4: moms took the kid. I mean, things can't happen, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean each case is gonna have to be looked
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  Speaker 4: at closely, Like, you know, are you in charge of
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  Speaker 4: the kid every day all day? Or where was you?
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  Speaker 4: Was you going to the bar? Was you drunk or
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  Speaker 4: on drugs? I mean a whole bunch of factors. To me,
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  Speaker 4: it's unforgivable. I couldn't imagine. But I do know that
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  Speaker 4: in high stress situation like a lot of these young
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  Speaker 4: families are dealing with, they could happen.
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  Speaker 1: As I told Rochelle Mike, you're more your your softer
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  Speaker 1: hearted than I am. I just again, I go. You
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  Speaker 1: would not believe I don't bring my stress to the airways.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't believe the stress of my life. I still
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  Speaker 1: would never forget a kid in the backseat. I can't.
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  Speaker 1: My glasses aren't on. What Sandra, Sandra? Thank you, Sandra,
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  Speaker 1: You're going to wrap us up. You're on sixten ol?
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  Speaker 1: You TVN.
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  Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: I hear you?
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  Speaker 3: Fine, Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I was thinking about another kind of scenario. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I could never forgive myself, but I would never do
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  Speaker 5: it because I'm just not that type of person. But
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  Speaker 5: the one person, there's somebody else to think about. How
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  Speaker 5: about the grandparents of that child. They will never ever
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  Speaker 5: ever understand how their own child could do that, and
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  Speaker 5: they also have to live with that burden and that
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  Speaker 5: hurts the rest of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Amen, you you create them, you raise them, and
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  Speaker 1: then you wonder how the heck could did Did I
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  Speaker 1: not show you how this is done. I know I have.
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  Speaker 5: I have two daughters and they just love their children
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  Speaker 5: to death and they were such good parents, so I
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  Speaker 5: don't understand it, but I was thinking, gosh, as a grandparent,
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  Speaker 5: you would just absolutely never be able to get over it.
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  Speaker 1: And as a grandparent, I completely agree with you.