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Sales Taxes and Riding The Bus · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Yippie sales tax going up in Franklin County, so both
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  Speaker 1: of those people that ride the buses will be okay. Greetings,
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  Speaker 1: my friends, welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Chuck Douglas.
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  Speaker 1: You know who you are. We get one hour together.
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  Speaker 1: I talk really faster. You must listen even faster. My
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  Speaker 1: number eight two one nine eight eight six eight two
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  Speaker 1: one DOUBLETV and or eight hundred and sixty ten WTV.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, we go from seven and a half to
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  Speaker 1: eight eight percent sales tax. That's tomorrow morning because of
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  Speaker 1: Cola Levy and I you know the number of times
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  Speaker 1: I see buses running with nobody on them, and to
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  Speaker 1: see the sales tax going up in a time when
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  Speaker 1: we just don't need any more taxes. Yes, it's frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: It's frustrating, but it is, as I am prone to say,
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  Speaker 1: what it is. I can't get this song out of
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  Speaker 1: my head. It's been with me all day. I can't
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  Speaker 1: shake it. I don't know why I listened to it
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  Speaker 1: a few times years ago, and it's just it's staying
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  Speaker 1: in there. The soulful woo oo's at the beginning, and
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  Speaker 1: the lead vocalists.
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  Speaker 2: Flowers in her hair, don't they make a lovely meant
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  Speaker 2: last night and.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Frank Sinatra and juniors all night. Preacher did the ceremony,
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  Speaker 1: his wife throws men at rice the tears of phony.
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  Speaker 2: But wedding bows in Vegas aren't meant to last for age.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got to be courageous.
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  Speaker 1: Nice mellow song and again those uh, those soulful oos
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning, and the the smoothness of guest vocalist
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  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra Junior. Now you, Zach, because you can see
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  Speaker 1: what you are playing in there, you already know who
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  Speaker 1: that is. But had I not asked you to play
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  Speaker 1: that and I just played that song for you without
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  Speaker 1: showing you what was on the screen, would you have
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  Speaker 1: known who was performing that song.
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  Speaker 3: No, I've never even heard it before.
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  Speaker 1: So it's I think it's track three if I'm not
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  Speaker 1: mistaken on the CD. Wow, hopefully it's three. Don was
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  Speaker 1: and his brother known on the charts as was not
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  Speaker 1: was the folks who brought you Boom boom a lacka
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  Speaker 1: lack of boom boom boom alcoholocka boom boom Walk the Dinosaur. Also,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a fan of the movie, pump up the volume.
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  Speaker 1: There's a part in there where Christian Slater plays a
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  Speaker 1: song Oh Dad, I'm in jail. That's that's also was
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  Speaker 1: not what and then that the song really sticks out
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  Speaker 1: as an oddity on that CD. But for some reason
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  Speaker 1: I have not been able to shake it out of
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  Speaker 1: my brain all day.
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  Speaker 3: What is that circa eighty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere in that area? Okay, Yeah, do you remember walking
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  Speaker 1: the Dinosaur? You couldn't get away from that?
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  Speaker 3: I remember that as a kid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely remember that.
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  Speaker 1: And it made no sense. The song made no sense.
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  Speaker 3: If it sounded good, sometimes it's all it matters.
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  Speaker 1: That's all that was necessary. Yes, it had a good
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  Speaker 1: sound anyway. Yeah, that's been in my head all day.
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  Speaker 1: And uh and again the uh the sales tax going. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: do you ride the coda bus? You ever ride the
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  Speaker 1: Coda bus? You've been on a Coda bus before? And
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  Speaker 1: there's the common answer.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't help but see them. When you're in
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  Speaker 1: the right lane trying to get somewhere. They're usually stop
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  Speaker 1: to pick somebody up or drop somebody off. And that's
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  Speaker 1: somebody that they're picking up has like, you know, four
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  Speaker 1: backpacks and and a bicycle on the front. Rack of
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  Speaker 1: the bus, so it takes forever to uh to I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't I just Code is like Columbus's Amtrak.
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  Speaker 1: To me, there are so few people every time I
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  Speaker 1: look at a bus that it just they they charge
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  Speaker 1: a fair to ride it, So why not raise their fares? Did?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry? You want to voucher program for that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: try to get that through the uh, through the powers
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  Speaker 1: that be. But I just it bugs me to pay
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  Speaker 1: for things that just uh. I just don't see the
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  Speaker 1: practical use of in society. For society to bear the burden.
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  Speaker 1: Society should benefits, shouldn't they. Now? I know that there
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  Speaker 1: are some people that not a lot, but there are
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  Speaker 1: some people who they'll take Code into downtown. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: face it, downtown is not what it used to be
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  Speaker 1: in an age and a time, in an era when
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  Speaker 1: so many jobs were in downtown Columbus. Okay, yeah, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people would take the bus down Broad Street
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  Speaker 1: or High Street or whatever to get into downtown. But
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  Speaker 1: it is rather an inco convenient way to travel, especially
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  Speaker 1: if you are in a hurry or if he you know,
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  Speaker 1: the weather's bad or something like that. It's just not
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  Speaker 1: much like I've said about train travel in this country,
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  Speaker 1: when people, oh, we shaid have trains that take you
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  Speaker 1: from Columbus to Philadelphia and Columbus to Chicago, that'd be
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  Speaker 1: gret okay, if I want, you know, to reminisce if
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for a scenic trip, if I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: take a nap while I travel, and I'm not in
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  Speaker 1: a rush to get there, all right, maybe, But if
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  Speaker 1: I can spend forty dollars on gas drive myself get
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  Speaker 1: there when I want to not have to exit a
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  Speaker 1: train station, call for a cab, call for an uber,
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  Speaker 1: call for a lyft to get to my destination, and
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  Speaker 1: I can just drive to my destination instead, I think
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  Speaker 1: i'd I'd rather do it under my own power instead
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  Speaker 1: of getting on the train. And I feel the same
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  Speaker 1: way about the bus if it's an absolute necessity, and
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  Speaker 1: I've taken them in the past, like if the car
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  Speaker 1: broke down or something, or you know that I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: use the car that day because somebody in the family needed.
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  Speaker 1: I've taken a bus, not as a regular thing, but
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  Speaker 1: I have been known to get on a bus. But
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't see the uh, we ain't New
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  Speaker 1: York we ain't Chicago, We ain't wait Cleveland. Even Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: for goodness sake, has an underground train system. Why Columbus
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  Speaker 1: does not, I don't know. I think Cincinnati does too,
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  Speaker 1: except they shut it down. So now it's just a
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  Speaker 1: series of tunnels under the city that aren't used. Correct.
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  Speaker 3: But with Cleveland, though, it's Cleveland, and to be able
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  Speaker 3: to use that, you'd have to be like in that city.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's not good. Yeah, they've got they call it
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  Speaker 1: the rapid or rapid transits right. Cleveland has its pluses,
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  Speaker 1: but it you know, it's kind of nice because, like
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  Speaker 1: I remember as a kid, my uncle Door, my uncle Dors,
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  Speaker 1: my aunt Doors and uncle and uncle Bill lived up
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  Speaker 1: there and shake her heights and we went to visit,
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  Speaker 1: and we took the rapid into you know, the downtown
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  Speaker 1: is what she and it goes under the stores. You
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  Speaker 1: get off of the train and just go up the
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  Speaker 1: escalator into the stores. It was really cool. Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 1: It was a really cool thing. And I would love
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  Speaker 1: for Columbus to have had something like that, but there
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  Speaker 1: is no central retail area. Perhaps if we would have
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  Speaker 1: had a subway or rapid transit system that took you
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  Speaker 1: into the downtown, retail area, city center area. Blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. The downtown would not have died.
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  Speaker 3: We could have like an underground system like subway system
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  Speaker 3: to take you just three or one big route to
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  Speaker 3: go from one of the two million dollar toilets to
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  Speaker 3: the other and just back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's true, you could just ride from one two
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  Speaker 1: million dollar toy to the I have more money, I
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  Speaker 1: go through, and I'll go through downtown and it's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a noon one o'clock, middle capital city in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio, and there's like three guys, a goat, and
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  Speaker 1: a two million dollar toilet. There's nothing happening down there.
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  Speaker 1: And then during the years, you know, when so many
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  Speaker 1: people were working from home that worked for the government,
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  Speaker 1: even those few people that still worked downtown weren't downtown.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a ghost town. All we're missing was tumbleweeds.
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  Speaker 1: So we don't we don't have the trains, we don't
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  Speaker 1: have you know what I consider to be legitimate multi
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  Speaker 1: transportation in this city at all. I always thought it
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  Speaker 1: was ridiculous, And until recently, you couldn't hail a cab
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  Speaker 1: in Columbus. So when we had City Center, when we
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  Speaker 1: had Jacobson's and Cole's and Macy's and up and uh oh,
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  Speaker 1: I forget all the other anchor stores that were in
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  Speaker 1: that city center, moll when we had them, like trying
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  Speaker 1: to be a big city, try to look like a
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  Speaker 1: big city, try to act like a big city, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: smelling like a big city. When we had them, you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even go out in front of the city Center
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  Speaker 1: and hail a cab because that was illegal in Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: This is the trouble with this city. We have tried
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  Speaker 1: so often so hard to look so grown up when
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  Speaker 1: we're not. Why was that illegal? It was you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: hail a cab. You couldn't go out in the street
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  Speaker 1: to hail a cab in Columbus.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if you want to be more like
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  Speaker 3: Chicago or New York.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly, but you couldn't do it. You had
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  Speaker 1: to like go to a cab stand or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't just you know, taxi and have them come
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  Speaker 1: over and pick you up in the street. That it
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  Speaker 1: was illegal. And uh, you know taxis of all, but
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  Speaker 1: the taxi cab. The glamour there was a glamour. There
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  Speaker 1: was a certain gritty glamor to taxis that isn't even
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  Speaker 1: there anymore. When the old Checker company made the taxis,
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  Speaker 1: even if it was a green cab, it was a checker,
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  Speaker 1: a Checker cab, the green cab, the yellow cab, and
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  Speaker 1: they were all those big Checker vehicles. Those were cool.
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  Speaker 1: Now I see a white Prius with a black stripe
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  Speaker 1: that says yellow Cab on it. No, No, the romance
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  Speaker 1: of the cab just I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: We we tried to grow up, and we grew left
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  Speaker 1: and sideways and diagonally and stuff instead. And Coda is
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  Speaker 1: a remnant of what it was when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: More people took the bus back then than I see
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  Speaker 1: taking the bus now. And quite frankly, I remember when
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  Speaker 1: my daughter said she wanted to write, she called it
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  Speaker 1: to Coco bus. She didn't say Coda, Cocoa bus. Daddy
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  Speaker 1: would take me on the Cocoa bus. We go on
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  Speaker 1: the Cocoa bus. I just took her from a parking
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  Speaker 1: ride into downtown and back. But you know, I got
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  Speaker 1: p smelling dope, smoking radio playing foul mouth punks in
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  Speaker 1: the back of the bus. I don't want to expose
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  Speaker 1: my daughter this.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have a good time?
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  Speaker 1: No, she was terrified.
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  Speaker 3: That was the last time she did it.
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  Speaker 1: She was terrified to that. And you know, we got
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  Speaker 1: air marshals, we need bus marshals. But to ask somebody
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  Speaker 1: like me to put up with the delay getting where
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  Speaker 1: I want to get, the inconvenience of then having to
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  Speaker 1: walk half a mile after I get off the bus
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  Speaker 1: in the crappy weather, to raise the tax for something
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  Speaker 1: that's inconvenient I don't want to use, I wouldn't use,
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  Speaker 1: I don't use. And then on the few times I
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  Speaker 1: go to have that kind of experience, I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 1: pay for that. I just find that kind of bothersome