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Age of consent story · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: It's chilly, it's missed. In fact, you might need this
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  Speaker 1: to hit the horn way you zach you they whoa
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, you'll need the falg horn because it's
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  Speaker 1: rolling in out there, at least at least around the
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  Speaker 1: Ihearten Megaplex. Here. It is getting very foggy, very early
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  Speaker 1: in the evening, So who knows what the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the evening. I'm sure Johnny Hill's going to have his
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  Speaker 1: hands full here in the last half hour. We'll check
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  Speaker 1: in with him momentarily. A couple of things. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, I was paying tribute to
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  Speaker 1: Dalton McMillan, thirty three year old Dalton McMillan, who was
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  Speaker 1: He died. He was killed in Marion, Ohio as a
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  Speaker 1: train incident. He was walking along the tracks with a
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  Speaker 1: twelve year old girl. The train somehow managed to basically
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  Speaker 1: grab them because they were too close to the tracks,
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  Speaker 1: and he put himself on top of the twelve year
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  Speaker 1: old girl. She survived. He did not, and I had
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  Speaker 1: to honor him over the airwaves because that's that's that's heroic.
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  Speaker 1: He saved her his he saved her life because of
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  Speaker 1: what he did. Yes, he put himself on top of
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  Speaker 1: her and the train remember basically grabbed his jacket and
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  Speaker 1: he was killed. Tonight, we have another story that I've
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  Speaker 1: got to honor the memory of Laura Hammond out of
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  Speaker 1: Pickaway County. Have you heard this one yet? I have
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  Speaker 1: not known. Fifty two year old grandma. She was standing
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  Speaker 1: outside of her house on Walnut Creek Pike down in
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  Speaker 1: Pickaway County, saw a Nissan that was veering off the
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  Speaker 1: road coming straight toward her and her grandson. She threw
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  Speaker 1: her grandson out of the path of the car before
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  Speaker 1: she got hit, and she did not make it. And
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  Speaker 1: these these selfless acts, putting other people first, especially children,
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  Speaker 1: that is so honorable. I hate to see anyone know
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  Speaker 1: die tragically, but if that's the way they went, I
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  Speaker 1: can I can guarantee you that in that last millisecond
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  Speaker 1: of life they were good with it. We all used
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  Speaker 1: to be like that. And while I'm sad for the deaths,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm happy for these two stories, oddly because it
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  Speaker 1: tells me that somewhere somewhere out there, good in people
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  Speaker 1: is still prominent. Doing the right thing, no matter the
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  Speaker 1: personal cost, is still on someone's agenda. And Laura Hammond.
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  Speaker 1: I did not know, but I but I honor her
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  Speaker 1: existence and I'm sorry for her passing, but she went
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  Speaker 1: the right way. That's something that you know as a parent,
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  Speaker 1: as a grandparent. It should be part of your DNA.
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  Speaker 1: You can't escape it. Just it just is anything. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people can run their mouth and say, oh, anything,
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  Speaker 1: anything for my child. About half of them are probably
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  Speaker 1: saying that with a caveat well, there is a limit
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  Speaker 1: most things for my child, most things for my grandchild.
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  Speaker 1: Some people can say anything and mean it. And those
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  Speaker 1: two people, those two people here in the great state
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio, meant it. God blessed their memories. I just
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  Speaker 1: good to see yet sad to see at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe I'm just too emotional when it comes to kidstuff.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know this story out of Louisiana. I've been
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  Speaker 1: pondering this all day because I'm not and it's rare.
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  Speaker 1: It's seriously, it's very rare that I have a dilemma
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  Speaker 1: like this because I am so cut and dry, definitive
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  Speaker 1: about what I think and why I think it, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't normally, I don't normally question myself.
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  Speaker 1: But this story out of Louisiana. This mayor in the
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  Speaker 1: former mayor she's resigned now, and I don't do you
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  Speaker 1: remember the name of the town, Wi or Dibde or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. I go, you know, ballistic. We get
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  Speaker 1: these stories constantly, and I'm always telling Zach, why is
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  Speaker 1: it always a good looking blond woman. Many times they
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  Speaker 1: are educators, teachers, or administrators in a school or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. In this case, she was the mayor of
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  Speaker 1: the town after being elected to office in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: She was in her second term. Been charged now with
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  Speaker 1: having sexual relations with a sixteen year old at a
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  Speaker 1: pool party. The sixteen year old said was drunk. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out where we turned a corner
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  Speaker 1: and how I make the transition from the other stories
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  Speaker 1: I was just talking about to this well, because the
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  Speaker 1: children is the issue. For me, I believe wholeheartedly that
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  Speaker 1: we must protect our children. That's not even and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not justifying or condemning because I can't make up my
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  Speaker 1: mind here on this story. And to some degree I
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  Speaker 1: was telling Mark earlier. To some degree, this is a
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  Speaker 1: sexist mindset, I guess because if it was a male
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  Speaker 1: mayor and a sixteen year old girl. I boom decision made.
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  Speaker 1: This is a sixteen year old male and this blond
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  Speaker 1: mayor good looking blond mayor. Now, there was a time
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  Speaker 1: when this kid would have been a hero. Seriously, you
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  Speaker 1: know it and I know it. And it's not like
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  Speaker 1: this is anything new. There were always inappropriate things going
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  Speaker 1: on between teachers and students, teachers and other teachers, college
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  Speaker 1: kids and faculty and all this kind of it's always been.
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  Speaker 1: But today we look at were we just worst human
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  Speaker 1: beings forty years ago? I guess that's my ultimate question,
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  Speaker 1: because I knew of I knew of things that were
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  Speaker 1: happening with teacher and students. When I was in school,
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  Speaker 1: we had a teacher when we were building our senior float,
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  Speaker 1: our senior for the homecoming parade. Building our senior float,
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  Speaker 1: one of the teachers, who a lot of kids thought
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  Speaker 1: was particularly cool, pulled up in his sports car, popped
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  Speaker 1: the trunk and had cold beers. By today's standards, you'd
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  Speaker 1: hang him out to dry. Back then, it seemed normal.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand that when I was a teenager, I
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  Speaker 1: was not the same man that I am today. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just trying to figure out what's different. Is it just
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  Speaker 1: that I'm seeing things through the eyes of an old guy.
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  Speaker 1: Now somebody who has raised children, somebody who has grandchildre
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  Speaker 1: am I just seeing it through different eyes? Or is
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  Speaker 1: it is it a different world? Am I making any
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  Speaker 1: sense to you? I can completely makes sense. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think maybe because of the Internet that we hear about
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  Speaker 1: it more in different states that we might not have heard? Oh? Absolutely, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: social media everything shared. But also also everybody's a victim.
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  Speaker 1: And that's another consideration. As I said forty years ago,
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  Speaker 1: when I was in high school, the kid would have
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  Speaker 1: been a hero every teenage boy out there, including myself.
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  Speaker 1: If I was sixteen at a pool party and a
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  Speaker 1: woman who looked like this, I might not have maintained
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  Speaker 1: my chastity. Just I'm being honest with you. At sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: you are nothing but one big hormone and a little
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  Speaker 1: there's a little stupid throat in there too, but one
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  Speaker 1: big hormone with a little stupid and that would have
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  Speaker 1: been just man. You'd have been writing in your journal
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  Speaker 1: for days. But that was sixteen year old me. Old
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  Speaker 1: guy me doesn't necessarily feel the same way of it.
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  Speaker 1: If it was my sixteen year old grandson. I don't
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  Speaker 1: now have did I change or did the times change?
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  Speaker 1: I get what? Am I what? We We took a
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  Speaker 1: turn somewhere, and it seems really odd that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we take these turns while at the same time all
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  Speaker 1: those things that were taboo back then we have so
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  Speaker 1: openly now. You know, in nineteen eighty, the concept of
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  Speaker 1: of you know, gay men was Jack Tripper on Three's Company.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was Tom Hanks and what's the other
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  Speaker 1: guy's name? I can never remember his name? Peter in
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  Speaker 1: Bosom Buddies. Yeah, skull is that it sounds right? Yeah, guys,
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  Speaker 1: Cross dressing some like it hot still played on the
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  Speaker 1: Big ten Channel ten movies every now and then on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday mornings. But this idea of gay people, it still
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  Speaker 1: wasn't something that was out and open and and as
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  Speaker 1: as commonplace as it is today. That was the taboo
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  Speaker 1: then gay marriage, eh, not something anybody really talked about.
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  Speaker 1: People who identify as as furry creatures. That was that
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  Speaker 1: was something from a joke book that you bought at
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  Speaker 1: the Woolworth Weed, marijuana, pot grass, whatever you call it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that was bad stuff. Now it's legal gambling. No, we're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna gamble Okay, well we'll have a state lottery,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll gamble aside. For now, there's gambling everywhere for everything.
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  Speaker 1: All that stuff that was off is now on, and
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  Speaker 1: something that was happening, though fairly inconsequential most people didn't
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  Speaker 1: worry about, think about, or anything like that. That now is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hang them high. We've changed. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: if it's for better or for worse. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: if it's us as people that changed, or if it's
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  Speaker 1: just the times that have changed and we are seeing
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  Speaker 1: things through a different lens in twenty twenty six than
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  Speaker 1: we did in nineteen eighty. I don't know the stuff
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  Speaker 1: like this ever bother you. I mean that, do you
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  Speaker 1: just let the world go by and don't care about it,
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  Speaker 1: or do you sit sometimes by yourself and go man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I am. I am not on board with
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  Speaker 1: life anymore. Because when I read this story, that's what
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  Speaker 1: my first thought was, she did what get her? And
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  Speaker 1: then I'm reading the story, I'm going every one of
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  Speaker 1: his friends probably thinks this guy's a hero. But if
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  Speaker 1: he was a girl, then the former mayor would be
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate villain. We've changed, Or maybe that's just me