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We have too many abbreviations · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: What was it? Low LP, high little A big AC?
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  Speaker 1: What was it? I mean, everything's abbreviated.
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  Speaker 2: Now high LP, low l A P D Are we
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  Speaker 2: c M H L A X?
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  Speaker 1: Are we that lazy? Everything has to I have MD,
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  Speaker 1: I have I have low l P I have We
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  Speaker 1: have to abbreviate everything. Can Can we take time out
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  Speaker 1: to say the name of the affliction? Is it? Are
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  Speaker 1: we that busy that we can't actually say macular degeneration?
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  Speaker 1: We have to say MD?
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  Speaker 2: Low testosterone?
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  Speaker 1: Oh you got the you got the low T. You
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  Speaker 1: don't even have low testoster and you can low T. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we can't say words anymore. I'm so it's c bus
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  Speaker 1: instead of Columbus. Why why, it's just it's annoying. For
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  Speaker 1: goodness sake, it's annoying. How you doing, Zach good?
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  Speaker 2: And if you just say exactly what you have, you
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  Speaker 2: could help other people and you could get like a
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  Speaker 2: support group, like if you have ED say it proudly
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  Speaker 2: like on social media. I would say that, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to do a good thing and connect people with
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  Speaker 2: one another so they can share experiences.
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  Speaker 1: But is that what it is? Yeah? Not working? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the whole uh, the whole need does shortened things has
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  Speaker 1: always bothered me. When Cooper Stadium, you know, you started
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  Speaker 1: calling it the coop bugged me. But the coop it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a place to keep chickens. We weren't the
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  Speaker 1: Columbus chickens. We were Columbus Clippers, the Redbirds before that,
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  Speaker 1: there was the Columbus Jets before that. At no point
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  Speaker 1: do we need a coop, But the Cooper Stadium was
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  Speaker 1: the coop. I just I don't like it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: The Shott and Stein Center is the shot. Stop it
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  Speaker 1: say the words. If you are so busy that two
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  Speaker 1: extra syllables will throw a crimp into your day, just
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  Speaker 1: stop communicating. Or maybe that's just me because I am
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  Speaker 1: a grumpy old man at this point. I just I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, man, I just it's it's uh, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's an annoyance for me, it really is. And I
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  Speaker 1: get you know, we all know. I just people who
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  Speaker 1: actually in conversation will say l L bug me. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to l O L, how about you do this?
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  Speaker 1: Just laugh if something's funny.
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  Speaker 2: Lma am I right, you know what, just laugh.
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  Speaker 1: We've been abbrevious. The internet is always Back in the
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  Speaker 1: early days of the Internet when everybody was on chatting
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo chat
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  Speaker 1: and everything. But one of the first thing you you'd
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  Speaker 1: say hello to somebody in the first as L you remember,
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  Speaker 1: a SL was ASL around for you.
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  Speaker 2: I do remember that age.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, pervert, you don't need to know how old
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  Speaker 1: I am. You don't need to know my gender. You
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  Speaker 1: definitely don't need to know where I live. But that
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  Speaker 1: was the first thing everybody wanted to know when you
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  Speaker 1: started chatting with somebody online. And yes, those were abbreviations
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  Speaker 1: basically because uh, the perverts are lazy. Or again, maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's just me. Oh wait a minute, maybe does Michelle
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  Speaker 1: agree with me or not? Michelle, You're on sixth n
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  Speaker 1: W TV, and do you agree with me? Or you
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  Speaker 1: call it? You take me to task?
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  Speaker 3: Chuck igree with you? You know what, that's stupid commercial.
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  Speaker 3: You are so right and once again, brillia as you
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  Speaker 3: hit the chord, because that's stupid commercial. I know it's
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  Speaker 3: probably been on for a few weeks, this high l
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  Speaker 3: little as. It's the stupidest thing ever. Now, the one
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  Speaker 3: problem is by being annoying like that, it sticks in
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  Speaker 3: her brain, and so I actually went and googled what
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  Speaker 3: the hell heck that thing was. I was like, it's
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  Speaker 3: so annoying and I'm sick of this commercial, but yes,
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  Speaker 3: you are one right again.
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  Speaker 1: Well see it's stuck in your brain. But it did
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  Speaker 1: not stick in mind because I had to ask Zach,
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  Speaker 1: what is it? Little l low pe. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: I just heard it and I couldn't remember it, so
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  Speaker 1: it didn't really help me.
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  Speaker 3: Well you're lucky, but unfortunately we're probably gonna hear a
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  Speaker 3: few more weeks and you know, it's just annoying, but
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  Speaker 3: you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Michelle. I appreciate you. Call it eight
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  Speaker 1: two nine eight eight six at y double UTV in
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  Speaker 1: my number. You're always welcome here when I'm on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Just so you know that I'm not the most structured
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  Speaker 1: person in the world. I in fact, I don't even
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  Speaker 1: call this talk radio. I call it conversation radio. I
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  Speaker 1: talk to people, they talk back, and that's how it
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  Speaker 1: works with me. So I am not one of those
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  Speaker 1: people say okay, you may call between six four and
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  Speaker 1: six oh seven, and now now the spirit moves you,
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  Speaker 1: something comes up and you go, hey, yeah, I was
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  Speaker 1: just thinking about that feel free West.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Rockets. Sorry, every single time I hear a
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  Speaker 2: radio number that always pops in my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Now East of the Rockies with a bad attitude called
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  Speaker 1: eight two one nine eight eighty six, West of the
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  Speaker 1: Rockies in a positive mood called eight to one double UTV.
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  Speaker 2: Broud Slippers in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: It's a one hour show, take fifty eight minutes giving
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  Speaker 1: the phone numbers. Last night, Columba City Schools had the
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  Speaker 1: first of their meetings, their their community meetings. Tonight they're
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  Speaker 1: having another one, I think, is it Linda McKinley. I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember where it is tonight, but last night it
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  Speaker 1: was at my beloved West High School, and I just
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  Speaker 1: want to say, I'm gonna give kudos to the people
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  Speaker 1: of Columbus. After I got off the air last night,
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  Speaker 1: I drove by West to see what kind of crowd
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  Speaker 1: was there. It was. It looked like a football game
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  Speaker 1: was going on. Lots of cars back parking lot, filled
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  Speaker 1: side parking lot filled Olive Avenue, filled cars on Powell Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of people turned. I don't know what they said.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether I agreed with them or not.
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  Speaker 1: I have no clue. I was just so happy to
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  Speaker 1: see people participating in the process and going in there
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  Speaker 1: to hear what needed to be heard and to say
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  Speaker 1: whatever they felt the need to say. As Columbus City
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  Speaker 1: Schools tries to cut fifty million dollars from their budget
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  Speaker 1: after you just approved one hundred million dollars for I
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  Speaker 1: don't ask me. They asked for one hundred mil. You
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  Speaker 1: gave it to them, and after you gave it to them,
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  Speaker 1: they said, by the way, we're not actually adding anything,
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  Speaker 1: or this is just to keep us going. And then
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  Speaker 1: less than a year later, we need to cut fifty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. I think there's a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of bs going on, quite frankly, and I say the
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  Speaker 1: same I've been saying it for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Though.
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  Speaker 1: First thing, you do, drop the buses. I'm not talking about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, special education buses. I think even a charter situation,
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  Speaker 1: you want some of the money back from the charter schools,
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  Speaker 1: have them participate, find a way to work it out,
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  Speaker 1: get the legislature involved so that they can participate to
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  Speaker 1: some degree in transporting students to the charter schools. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, you want to transport to the charter schools. Fine,
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  Speaker 1: you want to inter into contracts with the private schools
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  Speaker 1: to transport their fine, you have to take care of
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  Speaker 1: your special education kids, that's fine. But the majority, the
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  Speaker 1: majority of the students in the school system should and
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  Speaker 1: could be going to their neighborhood schools period period. Get
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  Speaker 1: rid of there was the rest of those buses. That's
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  Speaker 1: step one. You will save tons o money because first
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  Speaker 1: of all, you won't own the buses. You won't have
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  Speaker 1: any liability with the buses because you know they're paying
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  Speaker 1: out claims. The buses hit stuff all the time. It
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  Speaker 1: happens going through narrow streets and so forth, so you
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  Speaker 1: won't have the liability there. You won't have the fuel expenses,
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  Speaker 1: you won't have the maintenance expenses, you won't have to
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  Speaker 1: buy tires for buses. You won't have to pay bus
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  Speaker 1: drivers or bus driver benefits. You won't have to pay
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  Speaker 1: into the workers comp fund for the bus drivers. You
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  Speaker 1: won't have to pay. It'll save you a bunch of money.
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  Speaker 1: So let the neighborhood kids go to their neighborhood school.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, boom, save you money immediately. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: the second thing, which is near and due to my heart,
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  Speaker 1: you got no business owning a radio station. To show
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  Speaker 1: me how much money that radio station has made for columbusities.
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  Speaker 1: Show me that it's a profit center for club of
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  Speaker 1: city schools. Unless it is making you money, sell it,
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  Speaker 1: take the proceeds, sell it. It is what they call
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  Speaker 1: an educational frequency, So they'd have to sell it to
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  Speaker 1: a university or something like that. But trust me, universities
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  Speaker 1: with big endowments, somebody would jump up and say, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we'll buy that radio station, preferably not WSU, because they
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  Speaker 1: have enough. Maybe a couple of schools will go in,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Yatt Are buy and Ohio Dominican will come together
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  Speaker 1: and do something to buy it, use it as a
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  Speaker 1: training ground for potential future broadcasters who are majoring in
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  Speaker 1: broadcast journalism in the school. Why not sell it. If
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  Speaker 1: it's not making money, get rid of it. Third, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk contracts, because a lot of people are getting paid
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. And I'm not talking about teachers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about I'm talking about the upper echelon. Frankly,
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  Speaker 1: we're not seeing the results. We continue to not see
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  Speaker 1: the results. Student enrollment down, graduations down. Now there are
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  Speaker 1: anomalies within the system, like again might be loved West
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  Speaker 1: High School, where doctor Roberts, the principal over there, is
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  Speaker 1: making extreme strides. I'm so I'm so proud of that place.
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  Speaker 1: I talk to him fairly often, and I have seen
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  Speaker 1: the growth, the academic growth within that school. And this
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  Speaker 1: guy's just got He's got vision and energy that is
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  Speaker 1: so admirable and so positive, and he's bringing so much
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  Speaker 1: into that school, and the students are stepping up because
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  Speaker 1: because he's requiring it. I wish we could clone him
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  Speaker 1: and put him in a bunch of schools. So there
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  Speaker 1: are those anomalies like West within the system, but the
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  Speaker 1: system overall is not performing as promised. We'ren't getting no
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  Speaker 1: bang for our buck. So you know, just like the
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  Speaker 1: football team, man, sometimes you got to look at the
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  Speaker 1: head coach and work your way down what kind of
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  Speaker 1: compensation is going to whom and for what? What are
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  Speaker 1: we getting for it? Fifty million dollars they say they
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  Speaker 1: need to cut. But again, it's not about the schools
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  Speaker 1: right now. It's just it's about my need, my desire,
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  Speaker 1: my want to come in here and make sure that
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  Speaker 1: I paid you, the people of Central Ohio. The complement
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  Speaker 1: of acknowledging the fact that you turned out strong last
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  Speaker 1: night and it was great to see so many people
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  Speaker 1: over there. I hope they had the same kind of
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  Speaker 1: turnout tonight. I really do. It's going on right now.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what kind of numbers they have,
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  Speaker 1: but if last night was an indication, tonight be the same,
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  Speaker 1: They're going to hear a lot of voices. That's great,
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  Speaker 1: A two one w TV. And then Chris, you're on
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  Speaker 1: the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Hey Chuck, Yeah, I'm kind of with you about
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  Speaker 4: Columbus public schools selling their radio stations. The days of
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  Speaker 4: school boards owning radio stations is over, and you're talking
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  Speaker 4: about who could buy it. Well, os, you would probably
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  Speaker 4: want to buy it, because remember when they sold their
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  Speaker 4: AM to the religious broadcasters, they put the AM format
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  Speaker 4: on the FM frequency and then had to buy CD
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  Speaker 4: one on one's old frequency to keep producing classical music.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but LSU has so much at their disposal.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to see a little school or a couple
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  Speaker 1: of little schools come in together and purchase WCB. I
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  Speaker 1: really will.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, well, well, here here's the thing. Uh C O
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  Speaker 4: s U could sell uh CD one oh one and
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  Speaker 4: you know, a commercial a non com can buy a
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  Speaker 4: commercial frequency, but commercial frequency really really has uh, but
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  Speaker 4: a non commercial frequency is kind of limited about who
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  Speaker 4: can buy it. And you know who's buying just about
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  Speaker 4: every frequency anymore is not schools like are buying it's institutions. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: the e MS Educational Media Foundation that air one and
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  Speaker 4: k love those are the ones that those are the
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  Speaker 4: ones that are buying.
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  Speaker 1: Up all the frequent Yeah, the big religious broadcasters basically
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  Speaker 1: because there they technically don't conduct themselves as commercial radio
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  Speaker 1: because they get on the air every three months and
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  Speaker 1: ask for donations to UH to pay for things and.
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  Speaker 4: UH, which is exactly what PB, which is exactly what
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  Speaker 4: os U does to and the CBS.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, sadly, I'd be a lot more generous
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  Speaker 1: to the television station WSU TV if the programming that
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  Speaker 1: they ran while they were trying to get me to
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  Speaker 1: give them money was what they ran all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly. Yeah, I'm the same way. Yeah, we know what
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  Speaker 4: you want to see, but we'll want to show it
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  Speaker 4: to you when we want it.
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  Speaker 1: Open your check there, you go write that check. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you, Chris, thanks very much. Let me get Victor.
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  Speaker 1: Right here, real quick, Victor, You're on six end up
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  Speaker 1: with EUTV ED.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 5: Been listening to you tonight, and I listening to you
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  Speaker 5: a lots, but you were talking about using the letters
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  Speaker 5: and stuff instead of setting it out. And then just
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  Speaker 5: about six months later. Now, I don't want you to
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  Speaker 5: think I'm a wise guy or anything, but six months
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  Speaker 5: later you said, BS.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's because I like keeping my license intact.
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  Speaker 5: Oh okay, well I just wondered, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The FCC will allow me to say that word as
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  Speaker 1: a fleeting expletive, but I've been doing this since what
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, I think it was when I started,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just pre programmed to avoid those words.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well, I'm just checking, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Victor. I appreciate you. Thank you, buddy,