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Smoking ban · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: It's another three day work week for the Power Hour.
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Speaker 1: We've got a special Bucks line coming up this Thursday night,
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Speaker 1: because of course, Ohio State is kicking butts and taking
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Speaker 1: names and headed for the National Championship against Notre Dame
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Speaker 1: on the twentieth. And why that's on a Monday night,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I know it's always been
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Speaker 1: on a Monday night. I just don't like it on
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Speaker 1: a Monday night because, look, it's the National Championship. Perhaps
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Speaker 1: I'd like to stay up late. Perhaps I will be excited.
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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily want to have to get up the
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Speaker 1: next day at six am after being up late screeching
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Speaker 1: myself to death over a national championship football game. But
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Speaker 1: it is what it is. It's also Inauguration Day, so
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Speaker 1: I'll be screeching myself to death over that. And I'm
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Speaker 1: sure there's something else going on that i'll because I'm
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Speaker 1: a screecher. It's what I am, it's what I do,
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Speaker 1: it's my life. During the Blazer Show, he and I
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Speaker 1: were talking about the flags being at half masted, and
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Speaker 1: at least one governor has ordered that they be raised
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Speaker 1: for Inauguration Day in his state. But I was curious
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Speaker 1: because I thirty days just seemed very long, and I
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Speaker 1: have yet to find anything that I consider to be
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Speaker 1: a viable source. Apparently the rules are. The rules are
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Speaker 1: that it is a thirty day period of morning where
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Speaker 1: the flags are to be at half staff after the
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Speaker 1: death of a former US president or a US president period.
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Speaker 1: I do not recall, Zach. I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: because you weren't born until until after he'd been in office.
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Speaker 1: But I don't recall if there was a thirty day
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Speaker 1: period of morning with flags at half staff after Ronald
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Speaker 1: Reagan died or not.
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Speaker 2: I have no idea. Maybe that's more of a traditional
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Speaker 2: thing and not like a rule, so to speak.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure. Yeah, I think that is. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's a national observance thing. From what I've been what
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Speaker 1: I've been able to find here in the last half
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Speaker 1: hour or so, so that I mean, it's within the rules.
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Speaker 1: I just don't I don't seem to remember this when
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Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan passed away. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't
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Speaker 1: seem to remember a few things I want to cover,
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Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a point in the show to
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Speaker 1: night where I need to I just tell me if
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Speaker 1: I'm wrong, You're wrong, That's what it comes down to.
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Speaker 1: Just tell me. Because I had a thought, I had
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Speaker 1: an idea, had I had a burrow of my Sarah
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Speaker 1: Sarah saddle, a hair up my nose, or whatever you
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Speaker 1: want to call it. But this thing just popped into
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Speaker 1: my head this weekend and it seems like really, really,
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Speaker 1: really practical to me, which means I'm probably missing something.
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Speaker 1: But I want to run it past you guys and
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Speaker 1: let you jump on eight two one nine eight eighty
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Speaker 1: six A two one WTV in and tell me if
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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm completely off base, So stand by for that.
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Speaker 1: Newborn puppies ten newborn puppies they're calling the Morse Road
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Speaker 1: Miracle puppies rescued after being abandoned in a box on
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Speaker 1: the side of Morse Road nineteen degree temperature, according to
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Speaker 1: a Facebook post from the Franklin County Dog Shelter and
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Speaker 1: Adoption Center. May I just say, whoever did that, whoever
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Speaker 1: did that, you are one six sack of crap. If
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Speaker 1: you don't want them, take them to the shelter, let
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Speaker 1: them be adopted out. But dumping the puppies in a
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Speaker 1: box nineteen degrees you are garbage? Did I make my
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Speaker 1: point on that? Was that strong enough sack? Do you
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Speaker 1: think I made? Was that? Was it clear enough?
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Speaker 2: It was clear enough. I don't think it was harsh enough, though,
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Speaker 2: but I totally agree with you. You have to be
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Speaker 2: a terrible human being.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I saw a guy dump driving into Cincinnati across the
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Speaker 2: bridge who was on the side of the road and
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Speaker 2: dumped a box of puppies all the side of the highway.
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Speaker 1: Why. I don't why would anybody do that. I don't
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Speaker 1: understand why anybody would do that. That's just that's that's uh.
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Speaker 1: I can't even say it's heartless, it's senseless. They're puppies,
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Speaker 1: they're little puppies, newborn puppies. They would get adopted, and
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Speaker 1: if they don't get adopted, heaven forbid that happens, they
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Speaker 1: would be at least euthanized, you mainly, and not left
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Speaker 1: out to freeze. Right.
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Speaker 2: I remember watching or reading that you could read studies
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Speaker 2: that they do on different movies and types of movies
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Speaker 2: of people who like horror movies watching somebody die as
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Speaker 2: one thing, because it's but anytime there's an animal, the
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Speaker 2: audience gets way more upset. If like a dog dies
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Speaker 2: in a movie or a cat as opposed to you know,
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Speaker 2: just a guy. It's always been like that.
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Speaker 1: That's me. Yes, we're just we're wrong. We are so
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Speaker 1: wrong are our as you do to the least among us,
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Speaker 1: you know, and that includes newborn puppies as far as
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Speaker 1: I'm concerned. Also, I groused about this last summer. I'm
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Speaker 1: about to do so again because I don't understand. I
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Speaker 1: don't understand what seems to be almost an obst session.
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Speaker 1: The story from the WSYX six website. The first super
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Speaker 1: load of the year. We'll move through central Ohio starting
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Speaker 1: this Friday. According to Odd, nineteen plus foot truck will
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Speaker 1: leave from Adams County at eight to fifteen on Friday,
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Speaker 1: traveling through SiO to Pike Ross Counties before stopping overnight
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Speaker 1: at the Ross County Fairgrounds. On Saturday, the super load,
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Speaker 1: we'll leave Ross County, travel through Pickaway and into Franklin
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Speaker 1: County on State Route one oh four and seven sixty two.
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Speaker 1: It will stop overnight at Rickenbaker before departing at seven
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Speaker 1: thirty am on Sunday. We'll move past Groveport through Canal Winchester,
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Speaker 1: entering Columbus via Gender and Bryce Roads, and we'll move
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Speaker 1: through Columbus until taking State Route three ten to US
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Speaker 1: Fortney forty over two Etna. What is he super load?
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Speaker 1: It's it's a big semi with a big, giant thing.
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Speaker 1: It's just Carrie, how many times have you been on
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Speaker 1: the freeway and passed it looks like a nuclear missile
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Speaker 1: silo in the back of a truck or something. And
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Speaker 1: we don't make a big deal out of it. I
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Speaker 1: don't understand. I guess because it's associated with all of
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Speaker 1: the Intel slash Google slash Microsoft development. You know to
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Speaker 1: our east that this is a big but it's I
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Speaker 1: just I don't get it. Man. It's just trucks moving stuff.
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Speaker 1: That's what trucks and truck drivers do, isn't it. Do
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Speaker 1: you get excited over the superload? Are you gonna have
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Speaker 1: like a superload party? You having a superload tree up
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Speaker 1: or anything like that. I do not.
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Speaker 2: I do not get excited for super load.
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Speaker 1: I just I don't know. Again, something's wrong with us.
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Speaker 1: All right, So here's here's my thought. Here's my idea.
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Speaker 1: Years ago, Franklin County, Ohio implemented a smoking band. There
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Speaker 1: was a guy, Steve over on the West Side, owning
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Speaker 1: a place called Crimson and Clover if you're familiar with
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Speaker 1: that on Harrisburg Pike, who actually camped out on the
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Speaker 1: roof of his little bar slash restaurant in protest, and
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Speaker 1: then he formed a private club where you were like
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Speaker 1: you became a member of the club and had a card.
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Speaker 1: It was like a buck to join the thing. But
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Speaker 1: essentially what it said is this is a you know,
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Speaker 1: we use tobacco in this establishment. By becoming a member,
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Speaker 1: you understand that tobacco may be used during your visit
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Speaker 1: within the premises, which okay, I think that's reasonable cause
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Speaker 1: you're you are heretoforewarned that they smoked tobacco in here,
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Speaker 1: and if you don't like that, then you don't go
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Speaker 1: in there. You don't become a member, right That just
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Speaker 1: that makes sense, That's logical, That's what grownups would do.
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Speaker 1: So Franklin County didn't care about that. They decided we're
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Speaker 1: going to have a smoking man. So smoking became illegal
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Speaker 1: in all these public places. You couldn't go to the bar,
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Speaker 1: couldn't go to the bowling alley whatever and have a cigarette.
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Speaker 1: Now here we are twenty some maybe is it thirty
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Speaker 1: years later. I don't know, but we had cigar bars
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Speaker 1: out there. We got hook a lounge. Has you ever
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Speaker 1: been to a hook a lounge, Zach? You look like
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Speaker 1: the hook a lounge? Tight.
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Speaker 2: I think they're pronounced hookah lounge.
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Speaker 1: Hooka because it sounds more like hooker and I like that.
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Speaker 1: A hook a lounge. Some hit named bat Bet at
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Speaker 1: the front door. Hey, welcome to the hook a lounge.
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Speaker 2: Diamond really likes me, she says, so.
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Speaker 1: Every time I give her a dollar. Yeah. The hookah lounge,
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Speaker 1: I guess, is the correct pronunciation, which is a cultural thing,
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Speaker 1: I think, But basically that's people smoking flavored tobacco and bongs.
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Speaker 1: That's what it is, big water bongs and they put
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Speaker 1: in the tobacco and it's got, you know, various flavors
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Speaker 1: and so worth. But those are You go past one
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Speaker 1: of those and the smoke just billows out the door.
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Speaker 1: So you got the hook a lounge, you got the
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Speaker 1: cigar bar. You now have legal recreational weed in the
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Speaker 1: state of Ohio. And if you don't think weed bars
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Speaker 1: are right around the corner, you're fooling yourself. So with
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Speaker 1: all this considered, could it maybe be time for us
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Speaker 1: to revisit this tobacco free thing and go back to
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Speaker 1: the idea that I had thirty years ago when they
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Speaker 1: started talking about that, That is, let the businesses allow
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Speaker 1: what they choose to allow. They can put their warnings
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Speaker 1: on the door, just like the Surgeon General, and if
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Speaker 1: people want to go there, they will and the business
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Speaker 1: will thrive and prosper. And if people do not want
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Speaker 1: to go there, they will not and the business will fold.
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Speaker 1: Does that not make sense in this capitalist world we
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Speaker 1: call the United States of America? Is that out of zach?
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Speaker 1: Is it out of the question?
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Speaker 2: Nope, makes perfect sense.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what if you I'm sorry him in the
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Speaker 1: coffin here? What if you want, you know, I'll go
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Speaker 1: to the tobacco bar and smoke your houkah. I don't care.
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Speaker 1: What if a bar wants to be a tobacco bar
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Speaker 1: but only for cigarettes, or only for cigars, or only
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Speaker 1: for pipes. I suppose there's still some people out there
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Speaker 1: smoking pipes, right, I think they should be able to
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Speaker 1: do that. And again, as long as you say, look,
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Speaker 1: this is the bar, we already sell liquids that you know, inebriate,
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Speaker 1: you make, you lose control and destroy your brain cells.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna add tobacco to that because we think
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Speaker 1: that's good. And if you don't want to go, you
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Speaker 1: don't go. And if you want to go, you go.
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Speaker 1: Like every other thing, that freedom, freedom to decide what
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Speaker 1: it is you will do. You can eat all organic vegetables,
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Speaker 1: or you can go buy the cheapest possible vegetables. If
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Speaker 1: you have to have vegetables, you can have carrot sticks
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Speaker 1: instead of cheetoes. But in America you get to choose
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Speaker 1: the cheetoes, and if you're particularly demented, you can choose
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Speaker 1: the flaming hot cheetoes. But that freedom of choice is
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Speaker 1: what we are all about, isn't it? Wasn't it? Shouldn't
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Speaker 1: it be? I think it's a reasonable question to ask,
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Speaker 1: especially as we have modified ourselves as a country to
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Speaker 1: accommodate so many other people from so many other places.
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Speaker 1: Can an American go in have a Marlborough with his Budweiser?
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Speaker 1: Is it okay? You tell me? Should we be looking
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Speaker 1: in that direction? A two one nine eight eighty six,
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Speaker 1: A two ony WTV? And is my number? Got a
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Speaker 1: couple standingbuy? Let's try to get at least one in
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Speaker 1: here before the traffic, Frank, you're on six to ten WTVN.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Chuck, thanks for taking my call. Can I throw
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Speaker 3: a few points out.
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Speaker 1: Real quick as long as you're real quick? Okay?
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Speaker 3: So, first of all, when they put the legislation together,
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Speaker 3: the people who proposed this said that private clubs would
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Speaker 3: still be able to smoke. The eagles, the moose, all
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Speaker 3: these people, they would all still be able to smoke.
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Speaker 3: It would be you know, regular restaurants and bars that
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Speaker 3: that would be you know, excluded.
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Speaker 1: That's what they said. But that's not how it worked.
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Speaker 3: Then, once the people voted for it, because they thought
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Speaker 3: they were still going to be able to smoke in
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Speaker 3: their private clubs, they modified the language, which to me
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Speaker 3: that makes it null on point anyway. Okay, but who
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Speaker 3: am I? Then also there was a gentleman who had
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Speaker 3: a gadget that was an air curtain that he said
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Speaker 3: could divide any restaurant or bar. It's like twenty five grand.
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Speaker 3: The air curtain divided the haves between smoking and non smoking,
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Speaker 3: and it wouldn't even mess up your hair when you
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Speaker 3: go through. Okay, Nope, not allowed to consider that. Not
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Speaker 3: allowed to consider that either. And I really think it's
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Speaker 3: the insurance companies that pushed this.
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Speaker 1: Well, those are those are the people that have you
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Speaker 1: earned in your car?
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Speaker 3: Well right, but not a helmet if you're.
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Speaker 1: A motorcycle exactly.
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Speaker 3: But it's back to your one point. It's called liberty.
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Speaker 3: Look up liberty in the Merriman webster. It means quite
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Speaker 3: a bit, simple word, it means quite.
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Speaker 1: A bit, and we have we have been denied and
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Speaker 1: allowed ourselves to be denied a liberty to a ridiculous extent. Frank,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, buddy, Thanks very much for the call.