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Violence in Columbus and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck down this in the Power hour six to ten
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  Speaker 1: double UTV and just reading over some more stuff out
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  Speaker 1: will go in through a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: suffering down there. A two one ninety eight six number
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  Speaker 1: e two one do WTV and talking about the city
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  Speaker 1: of Columbus, it's decline, it's rapid decline. It's uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: disgusting decline into this, this center of violence, the constant shooting, killing, assaulting,
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  Speaker 1: the fear, the the uneasiness, and and the pointless words
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  Speaker 1: from the city leadership, whether it's a or the council members.
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  Speaker 1: They keep saying stuff, and I'm saying somebody needs to
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  Speaker 1: do stuff. Or maybe that's just me. A two one nine,
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  Speaker 1: eight eighty six, Doug, You're on six ten do ETV
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  Speaker 1: at height.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Chuck, Hey, Uh. The first error is to expect
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  Speaker 2: that this anti Christ Democrat party who controls so many
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  Speaker 2: of these cities, uh, will come up with a solution.
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  Speaker 2: Their solutions are the one has gotten us to this point, Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say that they will not come
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  Speaker 2: up with a solution because money. And that's all the
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  Speaker 2: government can do is throw money at the situation. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a money situation, it's not a financial It is
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  Speaker 2: the lack of love and these folks are just have
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  Speaker 2: not been raised with that. And you know, we're always saying,
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  Speaker 2: what are the parents? Where are the parents? The problem
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  Speaker 2: is the parents, unfortunately many times are just as big
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  Speaker 2: as jerks as these young youth are. Who's committing all
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  Speaker 2: this violence? Okay? And you know, Chuck, I just hear
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  Speaker 2: deadbeat dads, deadbeat dads. Well, and then they're glorifying the
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  Speaker 2: single mother. You know, truth be told, these women need
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  Speaker 2: to teach these young girls that, you know, if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to lay down with a man, be sure that
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  Speaker 2: his goal in life is just not to satisfy his
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  Speaker 2: immediate lust Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Man, that's all that. That's more than violence. So man,
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  Speaker 1: that's just the state of humanity anymore people have. The
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  Speaker 1: standards are gone, the the I don't know what used
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  Speaker 1: to be normal, just as far as behavior is gone.
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  Speaker 1: And that has nothing to do with necessarily sexual activity
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  Speaker 1: or single moms or anything else. We're just we are
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  Speaker 1: in decline. That's what it comes down to. And again
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  Speaker 1: we're fixing it with words, with programs, within another task force,
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  Speaker 1: with another you know, youth basketball league, within an do something.
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  Speaker 1: A two nine eight eighty six is the number of
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  Speaker 1: mark you are on sixtendable etvn.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Chuck Hey. One of my favorite favorite quotes by
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  Speaker 4: Denzel Washington is he talks about fatherless homes is basically
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  Speaker 4: the root of a lot of the problems in our country.
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  Speaker 4: I forget the exact way he says it, but I
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  Speaker 4: totally agree. Paul Harvey used to say self government won't
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  Speaker 4: won't work without self discipline. But I think above all
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  Speaker 4: that is the pastors in any community are a great
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  Speaker 4: influence on the not only the people that attend their church,
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  Speaker 4: but the community itself. And one bad example of that
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  Speaker 4: is documented by people that used to work at a
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  Speaker 4: certain church on the southeast side of Columbus. It's a
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  Speaker 4: YouTube channel called Mega MANI. This is by one woman
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  Speaker 4: that used to work there at this large church. I
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  Speaker 4: won't say who the guy's name is because I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to embarrass Rod Parsley. But if you check head out,
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  Speaker 4: you'll find out one reason our churches are a mess
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  Speaker 4: and as a result, our families are a mess and
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  Speaker 4: our kids are a mess.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm not going to argue with you. In
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  Speaker 1: in fact, the big megachurches, man, that doesn't bother me
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  Speaker 1: as much as the little neighborhood churches. That's frankly where
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  Speaker 1: I expect pastors to be out and more involved. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're standing in front of you know, fifteen thousand people.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have that. But when you got fifty people,
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  Speaker 1: if you're lucky, that's the kind of pastors I pray
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  Speaker 1: will come out of the pulpit and go out in
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  Speaker 1: the street and actually, you know, take it to the
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  Speaker 1: streets because that's where it happens and that's what needs
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  Speaker 1: to be fixed. And I would love to see that.
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  Speaker 1: But too often, the only time you see or hear
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  Speaker 1: anything about, you know, pastors involvement is Win. The mayor
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  Speaker 1: has asked them to serve on a commission, and they
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  Speaker 1: go downtown and put on their suits so they can
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  Speaker 1: get in front of the news cameras and talk about
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  Speaker 1: the important stuff they're doing. Dear lord, that's not how
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  Speaker 1: the book says it's done. Or maybe that's just me.
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  Speaker 1: Uh A two one w TV and is my number?
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  Speaker 1: Back to your cause here, Dean. You're on the Legacy
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  Speaker 3: Tight, Yeah, good morning, forget afternoon. Uh well, I'm the
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  Speaker 3: best thing. Probably four or five gangs doing most of
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  Speaker 3: shooting there in Columbus. You want to solve the problem,
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  Speaker 3: you put the gangs down. I mean you put the
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  Speaker 3: put them four or four auto. You go into the
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  Speaker 3: gang house and nobody comes out of line.
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  Speaker 1: So you fix You fix the shootings by shooting people
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  Speaker 1: have a problem. You fix the shootings by shooting people.
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  Speaker 1: What you fix the shootings by shooting people.
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  Speaker 3: The trouble is the only thing they understand is guns.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care any of you. Gotta put them down.
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  Speaker 3: They did that in a couple other towns and I'm shooting. Stop.
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  Speaker 3: They've got another towns out west and the shooting stopped.
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  Speaker 1: What towns did they do this?
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  Speaker 3: Then I'm trying to remember one of them ones somewhere
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  Speaker 3: in Colorado, and you know, one of them was out
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  Speaker 3: in New Mexico. I can't remember which one it was.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'll try to look something like that. I've
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  Speaker 1: never heard of in the United States where we just
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  Speaker 1: going start killing people.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little bit different.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe just have it different, Yeah, but I yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: do see that. Again, that doesn't work for me either.
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  Speaker 1: Going in and just kidding now, if you are attacked,
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  Speaker 1: attacking back is a different matter. But to just go
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  Speaker 1: in and start exterminating people, no, that's see, that makes
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  Speaker 1: you no better than what you're trying to fix. And
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  Speaker 1: being weaker isn't necessarily being better, And being better isn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily being weaker. But there is a point where you
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  Speaker 1: have to control your response to things, otherwise your strength
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  Speaker 1: is actually a weakness. Oh you couldn't deal with it,
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  Speaker 1: so you just had to blow it up. Yeah, basically,
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's no way to go either. A two
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  Speaker 1: one nine eight eight six w on six n WTVN Hey.
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  Speaker 5: Chuck Man, you hit a nerve with me today, And
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  Speaker 5: I really like it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Did you say I'm on your nerves?
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  Speaker 6: No, No, it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Good nerd Oh, okay, it's it's a good nerve.
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  Speaker 3: Hey.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I want to give you a little metaphor
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  Speaker 6: and for all your listeners out there, especially the last coupler,
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  Speaker 6: uh man. The metaphor is, you know, the mayor's trying.
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  Speaker 5: To build a beautiful you know, and it looks great
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  Speaker 5: all those passing by and come invest in our city.
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  Speaker 5: But I think everybody's forgotten how you get a real
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  Speaker 5: beautiful garden. It's the soil. They're trying to build.
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  Speaker 6: All these things and make us look like a big, old,
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  Speaker 6: beautiful city.
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  Speaker 5: They forget the soil and us people are the soil.
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  Speaker 5: The kids are the soil. That's where the plants grow from.
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  Speaker 5: And if you don't invest in the soil and quit
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  Speaker 5: trying to make this facade of all these beautiful flowers,
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  Speaker 5: well pretty soon you're not gonna have big, beautiful flowers.
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  Speaker 5: And it's just gotten on my last nervous I'm getting
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  Speaker 5: older and I'm approaching sixty three now, I'm just like
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  Speaker 5: real tired of everybody blaming the kids and the parents
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  Speaker 5: of the kids. When the maryor is trying to build
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  Speaker 5: all this stuff.
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  Speaker 6: And he's like, oh, I'm bringing revenue to the city.
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  Speaker 5: He forgets the people people bring revenue to your city.
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  Speaker 6: You have to invest in your young folks.
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  Speaker 5: There they are your soil that you're gonna have years
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  Speaker 5: down the road. That is what grows a beautiful garden.
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  Speaker 1: And we're spending a lot of time, spending a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time on that foundation of sand, trying to make
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  Speaker 1: things look like something they are not. And you're exactly right, Debbie.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your thoughts, because, yeah, if it's if it's
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how crystal clear the water is. If
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  Speaker 1: it's poison, you bring all the thirsty people in the
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  Speaker 1: world to it. But if it's poison, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, that is kind of where we are. Oh
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  Speaker 1: col A smart, sheety look around. We ain't all that smart.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying eight two or nine, eight eighty six. Susan,
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  Speaker 1: you're on six ten WUTVN.
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  Speaker 7: Good evening.
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  Speaker 3: How are you this evening?
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing great? Thank you. A couple of comments got
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  Speaker 7: a year ago, I sent a letter to the mayor
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  Speaker 7: regarding some concerns I had about the city. I don't
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  Speaker 7: know if he looks up voter registration to find out
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  Speaker 7: who's Democrat and who's Republican, so he knows who to
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  Speaker 7: respond to. But I got no response and nothing's been
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  Speaker 7: done as a result of my letter. So it tells
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  Speaker 7: me that he really doesn't care about the communities, so
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  Speaker 7: to speak. He cares about his image. And as far
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  Speaker 7: as the young people, I agree with a previous caller.
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  Speaker 7: We have to start out when our children are young
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  Speaker 7: and get them at an early age into good programs
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  Speaker 7: that are not just basketball and sports, but things that
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  Speaker 7: are going to truly develop their character and teach them
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  Speaker 7: responsibility and how to be outstanding citizens in their community.
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  Speaker 7: Take them with you as a parent when you vote
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  Speaker 7: so they realize that voting is a good thing to do.
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  Speaker 7: Take them into the churches where they have programs for
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  Speaker 7: the children. The church I attend has an Iwana program.
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  Speaker 7: Kids learn Bible versus but they learn about being responsible.
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, how long has it been since we've heard
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  Speaker 1: about Iwana or the Boys any of those organizations.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely, and Life Wise Academy as well, where these students
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  Speaker 7: in public schools can be out for a period of
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  Speaker 7: the day to learn about the Bible, to learn how
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  Speaker 7: to become responsible citizens.
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  Speaker 6: We need to.
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  Speaker 7: Start at the ground level, as the previous callers said,
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  Speaker 7: make sure we have good soil and these kids are
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  Speaker 7: planted with good thoughts and ideas. Don't make it easy
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  Speaker 7: for them to become a gang member. Let them stand
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  Speaker 7: up for themselves and become real responsible citizens early on.
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  Speaker 1: You're right now, when they are young, when they're first grade,
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  Speaker 1: second grade, just going out into the world. Don't wait
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  Speaker 1: until they're in high school. Then go back and try
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  Speaker 1: to fix all the damage that's happened over a day.
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  Speaker 7: Right then it's too late. Then. Our church just sent
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  Speaker 7: a team of members to a town in Costa Rica.
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  Speaker 7: Two young boys went with mom and dad. I think
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  Speaker 7: they're like maybe second and fourth grade. Tell me about
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  Speaker 7: what they're learning this week about becoming responsible citizens and good, young,
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  Speaker 7: upstanding Christian men. That's where we need to start. I
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  Speaker 7: think our churches are the key, and our pastors rather
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  Speaker 7: than well, not rather than our pastors need to be
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  Speaker 7: encouraging the young people as well, and they need to
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  Speaker 7: be taking steps into the community.
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  Speaker 4: I tried to get.
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  Speaker 7: Voter registration at my church for the presidential election. My
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  Speaker 7: pastor said, well, that's something I've never really gotten into.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, gone, Oh.
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  Speaker 7: My goodness, don't talk to me on Sunday morning about
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  Speaker 7: being a good citizen exactly.
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  Speaker 1: How can you preach from the moral high ground when
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  Speaker 1: you can't even deal with the.
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  Speaker 3: You can't do.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Suzanne, you've inspired me though, because you
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  Speaker 1: got my head rolling right now. And seriously, we need
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  Speaker 1: to we need to check into the the whole scouting thing.
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  Speaker 1: And there used to be so many organizations like that
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  Speaker 1: that have gone by the wayside. And I know they
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  Speaker 1: they had some scandals and the boy Scout started letting
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  Speaker 1: in girls and and all that kind of stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm always talking about returning to. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that is something the bunch of guys, you know, dads
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  Speaker 1: and Grandpa's we ot to do is get scouting going again.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, before I grew up in a want that was
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  Speaker 7: a blast from a past.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't heard that name in a really long time.
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  Speaker 1: It's been at least probably a decade since I've a
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  Speaker 1: long ago.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even know it was still out there.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I just all those traditional things that we used to do,
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  Speaker 1: I think would be we got to find our way
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  Speaker 1: back somehow, we can't keep going in this direction. This
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  Speaker 1: is the wrong direction. Nothing but bad stuff has happened.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing but bad stuff is going to happen, and bad
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  Speaker 1: eventually becomes worse. So unless unless you retreat to where
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  Speaker 1: things were good and solid and wholesome, you know, back
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  Speaker 1: at a time when we didn't do dry by shootings,
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  Speaker 1: and there weren't heroin addicts strung out on the streets
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  Speaker 1: and sleeping behind dumpsters, and people out of their minds
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  Speaker 1: and dancing in traffic. All right, you haven't progressed with Well,
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  Speaker 1: before we progressed, we were better, weren't we. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that hard to take a picture and compare it to
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  Speaker 1: a picture from thirty years ago.