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Jail Insurance · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas and the Power Hour on 610 WTVN. We
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Speaker 1: were talking earlier about all the people going back and
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Speaker 1: forth on social media over Dolly Parton, everybody being called
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Speaker 1: out for, you know, really making some remarks that didn't
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Speaker 1: need to be made. Even though they tried to pay
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Speaker 1: tribute and say something nice, they had to intermingle their thoughts.
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Speaker 1: And it just, Ricky Schroeder comes to mind right off
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Speaker 1: the top of it. Just, you know, we don't care
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Speaker 1: about whether she supported Or anything else. People just wanted
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Speaker 1: to remember. And he got called out by lots of people. Hey,
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Speaker 1: shut up.
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Speaker 2: There's so many people that were like, she's a MAGA conservative.
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Speaker 2: And then other people were like, she's a liberal. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: I think she was just a person. I don't think
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Speaker 2: she talked about politics that much.
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Speaker 1: No, she didn't. And she's a decent, good human being. No,
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Speaker 1: she didn't. And those are all just matters of opinion.
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Speaker 1: Opinions that probably should not have been expressed at that
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Speaker 1: time or in that way. However, blatant stupidity is another matter.
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Speaker 1: And yes, I am talking about CNN. I will tell
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Speaker 1: you about that here momentarily. 821-9886, my number, 821-WTVN. Mike
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Speaker 1: has been holding on through the news here. Mike, you're
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Speaker 1: on 610-WTVN. Yeah, Chuck. We went to Spain to see
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Speaker 1: the eclipse just here a couple weeks ago. Just to
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Speaker 1: see the eclipse. Yep. Well, not totally just for that,
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Speaker 1: but we really enjoyed the eclipse here. And my daughter
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Speaker 1: lives in Spain, so we decided what the heck. It's
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Speaker 1: going to be close to her. Are you retired? I actually,
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Speaker 1: my last day at work is tomorrow. All right. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you burned some of that paid time off or something.
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Speaker 1: Because I'm like, who could just go, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: not busy Tuesday. I think I'll travel across the world. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my gosh. So in the end, Mike, was it worth it?
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Speaker 1: It was absolutely worth it. Then that's all that matters.
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Speaker 1: If it fulfilled you and made you feel like this
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Speaker 1: was money and time well spent, that's all that really matters. Exactly.
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Speaker 1: Love your show, Chuck. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate the call.
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Speaker 1: So CNN, CNN's doing their typical, they have obituaries made
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Speaker 1: up in advance. You know that. Once you get old
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Speaker 1: or you get sick or whatever, so that way they
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Speaker 1: can be the first to put the thing on the air.
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Speaker 1: You're dead and here's your life. They didn't plan this
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Speaker 1: one out real well. They cut to their Nashville reporter
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Speaker 1: to talk about Dolly Parton. And while the reporter was talking,
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Speaker 1: five images of Dolly Parton were on the screen. Problem
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Speaker 1: was the sixth image, which wasn't Dolly. It's an impersonator
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Speaker 1: named Kelly Vaughn. Who, frankly, does not look much like
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Speaker 1: Dolly Parton to me. And to be even more frank,
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Speaker 1: I had to check to see if Kelly Vaughn was
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Speaker 1: actually a female. I went into her Instagram. Yes, she's
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Speaker 1: a woman. And without all the glitz and glam and
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Speaker 1: stuff dressed up as Dolly, she's a completely normal-looking, lovely woman.
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Speaker 1: Could live next door to you. You know, just a normal-looking.
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Speaker 1: But her Dolly makeup, not real convincing.
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Speaker 2: She.
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Speaker 1: She actually kind of looks like Wendy Williams in this
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Speaker 1: picture wearing a Dolly wig. So it's how CNN, anybody
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Speaker 1: at CNN who is at least partially cited was able
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Speaker 1: to put this picture into their montage and believe it
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Speaker 1: was Dolly Parton. It's beyond me. This is, you know,
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Speaker 1: this is the problem when you have children doing grownup things.
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Speaker 1: And I bet you anything, whoever did this is, is
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Speaker 1: under 25 years of age. They have no idea who
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Speaker 1: Dolly Parton was, man. They didn't know. It happens all
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Speaker 1: the time. Younger people work cheap. And these media companies,
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Speaker 1: they'll get them in there and they don't know. They
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Speaker 1: don't know. But this woman looks nothing like Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 1: So CNN had to apologize. Lisa Hartman. Do you remember
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Speaker 1: Lisa Hartman? Are you old enough for Lisa? Lisa. Used
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Speaker 1: to be one of the Entertainment Tonight hosts.
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Speaker 2: It sounds familiar, but I can't say yes for sure.
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Speaker 1: She was very plastic. Lovely lady, but very plastic looking.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of who this woman looks like when she's
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Speaker 1: in her dolly gear. So Ms. Vaughn got on her
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Speaker 1: Instagram and also interviewed with the New York Post. And
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Speaker 1: she said, somebody at CNN really messed up. They didn't
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Speaker 1: do their research. I started getting all these texts from
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Speaker 1: friends saying I was on CNN and I couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 1: I was already heartbroken losing Dolly because of how much
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Speaker 1: she's given me as a woman, as an artist. But
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Speaker 1: then to see these images of me on screen was
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Speaker 1: just weird. And she put out a statement saying, please,
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Speaker 1: nobody be mad at me. I did not submit any
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Speaker 1: photographs to CNN to be used in that story. I
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Speaker 1: love Dolly and I would never have done that. Good
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Speaker 1: for her. But I just, man. Your CNN, you used
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Speaker 1: to be the place to go in the Ted Turner days,
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Speaker 1: in the beginning days. And, you know, around the world
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Speaker 1: every 30 minutes, this is CNN. It was awesome. It
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Speaker 1: was awesome. You had two CNNs. You had the long-form
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Speaker 1: CNN and you had CNN headline news. And if something
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Speaker 1: was happening anywhere on the globe, CNN would have it.
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Speaker 2: I loved CNN headline news when I was a kid.
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Speaker 2: Not a kid, but like a high school, right out
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Speaker 2: of high school. That and I watched C-SPAN a lot. Really?
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Speaker 1: Good for you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Good for you. I watched CNBC quite a bit because
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Speaker 1: I take it in from all sides. I like to
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Speaker 1: know who's saying what. And CNN, again, in their early days,
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Speaker 1: I was big into them because I guess it began
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Speaker 1: with Operation Desert Shield when we went into Iraq the
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Speaker 1: first time. And they were instrumental there. But they used
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Speaker 1: what we used to call stringers, which were not staff personnel.
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Speaker 1: They didn't work for CNN. They probably might have sold
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Speaker 1: cars during the day, for all you know. But they
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Speaker 1: had a camera and a microphone. And if something happened
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Speaker 1: in Bangladesh... There was some stringer in Bangladesh that went out,
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Speaker 1: set up a camera, stood in front of that camera,
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Speaker 1: turned on the microphone and says, this is such and
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Speaker 1: such reporting from Bangladesh where a fire just broke out
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Speaker 1: in this hotel. People are jumping from windows, blah, blah, blah.
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Speaker 1: And you're like, wow, CNN is all over the place. No,
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Speaker 1: that was a stringer. They probably got a check for
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Speaker 1: 150 bucks for doing that story. We don't have that
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Speaker 1: anymore either with the Internet and everybody's got cell phone video.
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Speaker 1: The Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, those are your stringers. They're the
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Speaker 1: ones that are out there doing it. Locally, this is
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Speaker 1: one of those things where I wish I had like
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Speaker 1: a 15-hour show because this isn't one of those questions
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Speaker 1: anybody can really answer quick, fast, and in a hurry.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about this juvenile court officer being charged in
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Speaker 1: the hit and run. 71-year-old man was killed. And the
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Speaker 1: big story, his name's Denzel Kinley, by the way, the
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Speaker 1: big story with everyone that's covered this doesn't seem to
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Speaker 1: be the fact that the 71-year-old man lost his life.
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Speaker 1: They're all going after the fact that he's still employed
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Speaker 1: by Franklin County, still has a job. He's facing charges
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Speaker 1: of aggravated vehicular homicide, and felony failure to stop. These
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Speaker 1: charges stem from a January hit-and-run incident that, as I said,
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Speaker 1: resulted in the death of 71-year-old Anthony Farmer. Although the
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Speaker 1: criminal case has raised questions regarding his continued employment, the
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Speaker 1: court has confirmed that he does remain employed with the
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Speaker 1: Franklin County Juvenile Court. Now, for everybody who's going, I
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Speaker 1: can't believe it! Let me tell you something. I'm okay
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Speaker 1: with that. He's been charged. He's not been convicted. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what the evidence against this guy is. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what they've got. But just because somebody points
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Speaker 1: their finger at you, whether it's the guy across the
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Speaker 1: street or the court system, the prosecutor, innocent until proven guilty.
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Speaker 1: And when people go, oh, you're just a right winger. No,
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Speaker 1: I have no idea what his politics are. If he's
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Speaker 1: employed by the court system, probably a Democrat. He probably is.
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Speaker 1: Don't care.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean anything if it's.
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Speaker 1: Everyone has a fair trial. Absolutely. We all have the
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Speaker 1: right to a fair trial. This guy may be guilty
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Speaker 1: of sin. And if he is, he'll no longer be employed.
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Speaker 1: But in the meantime. While he's charged and not convicted.
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Speaker 1: Life still goes on. I don't know anything about him.
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Speaker 1: Does he have a family? Does he have a wife
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Speaker 1: and kids at home to support? Does he? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: If he did what he is accused of doing, if
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Speaker 1: he took this man's life, then he should be appropriately
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Speaker 1: punished for it, which would mean not going to work
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Speaker 1: and making a paycheck. By the way, this is something else.
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Speaker 1: This occurred to me about two weeks ago, and I
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Speaker 1: never brought this up. Why can't you buy going to
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Speaker 1: jail insurance? I'm being serious. Stop laughing. Stop laughing. But
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Speaker 1: why can you, if you hit somebody with your car,
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Speaker 1: you got insurance. If you die, you got insurance. If
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Speaker 1: something falls off your house and hits you, you got insurance.
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Speaker 1: somebody you got insurance if they slip on your sidewalk
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Speaker 1: you got insurance if your dog bites somebody you got
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Speaker 1: insurance why can you not purchase just in case my
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Speaker 1: butt goes to jail insurance kind of like Aflac for
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Speaker 1: criminals that would continue to pay the rent and keep
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Speaker 1: a roof over your kid's head and If you go
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Speaker 1: to jail, doesn't that make sense?
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Speaker 2: It totally makes sense. I've just never thought of that.
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Speaker 2: And I've never heard anybody say that before.
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Speaker 1: I'm a unique individual.
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Speaker 2: You are.
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Speaker 1: It makes sense. It makes total sense. I mean, it
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Speaker 1: would cost you through the nose, especially if you have
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Speaker 1: a criminal record or if you, you know, fitted a
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Speaker 1: seat probably because of profiling. That's what it is. They'll say, oh,
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Speaker 1: you're a 24-year-old male black in a 43205 zip code,
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Speaker 1: and your mother has an arrest record, and you have
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Speaker 1: two siblings, and both of them have been to jail before,
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Speaker 1: so your premiums will be through the roof. They will
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Speaker 1: profile the hell out of you. But if you can
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Speaker 1: pay those premiums, seems to me that that'd be wise
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Speaker 1: to have going to jail insurance. Some agent out right
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Speaker 1: now is going, I'm writing this down.
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Speaker 2: Somebody's going to steal your idea and make a million bucks.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you watch. Everybody remember, what is today's date? The 26th?
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Speaker 1: August 26th? 27th. 27th. August 27th, 2026. Chuck Douglas suggested
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Speaker 1: on the public airwaves, we should have go-into-jail insurance. Why not?
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Speaker 1: The whole thing, what brought it up, actually, was I
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Speaker 1: was looking at a couple of different shooter... insurances, US,
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Speaker 1: what is it? USSC, I forget. But anyway, I was
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Speaker 1: looking at those and just in case you ever have
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Speaker 1: to use your weapon, legal coverage to help pay for,
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Speaker 1: you know, expenses with a lawyer and all that kind
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Speaker 1: of thing. And I thought, okay, that's very smart. Even
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Speaker 1: if you never use it, you know, hopefully you never
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Speaker 1: have to fire your weapon, but that's very smart, which
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Speaker 1: is what got me thinking the other side of the coin.
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Speaker 1: What about the bad guy's family? What if he ends
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Speaker 1: up getting convicted and going to jail? He might have
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Speaker 1: a perfectly nice family sitting at home. Doesn't know daddy's
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Speaker 1: out carjacking people. Should they have some kind of coverage?
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Speaker 1: That's what put it in my mind in the first place.
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Speaker 1: Cause that's the way my wheels turn. So I've surprised
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Speaker 1: you with two different things, going to jail insurance. And
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Speaker 1: I don't think Denzel Kinley should be, uh, canceled on
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Speaker 1: his job until we have a reason to cancel it.
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Speaker 1: Accusation is not reason for this guy to lose his livelihood. And, uh,
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Speaker 1: And again, if he's found guilty of taking the life
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Speaker 1: of this 71-year-old man through his reckless operation of a
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Speaker 1: motor vehicle and then fleeing the scene, not having the
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Speaker 1: guts to stand by and take responsibility for his actions,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, fry him. Many years you can give him,
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Speaker 1: give him to him. But in the meantime, he should
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Speaker 1: be able to go to work, do his job, collect
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Speaker 1: his check, buy some groceries, pay the rent. Right is right.
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Speaker 1: Political agendas aside, hot button issues aside, and wrong is wrong.
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Speaker 1: Because that's the way I roll.