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Bus drivers and politics · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I heard in Allison's News there a story about the
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  Speaker 1: school bus accidents, telling we already had one thousand school
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  Speaker 1: bus related accidents this school year in the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: And they are admonishing drivers and want you to be
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  Speaker 1: careful near a school bus and act as if it's
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  Speaker 1: full at all times. And I'm good with that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: good with that. However, I would like to add something
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  Speaker 1: that was likely going to be unpopular with some. We
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  Speaker 1: must also and MANI school bus drivers to drive like
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  Speaker 1: they got some damn sense. Twice now in the last
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  Speaker 1: few days. I think it was Thursday, if I'm not mistaken,
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  Speaker 1: and yesterday when I have been in residential areas and
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  Speaker 1: I have seen school buses zipping through there at forty
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  Speaker 1: forty five miles an hour. I don't know if they
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  Speaker 1: had students on them or not, doesn't matter you're a
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  Speaker 1: school bus. I understand there's a shortage of drivers. It's
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  Speaker 1: been hard to recruit drivers, the private companies, the school systems.
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  Speaker 1: I get it, But you know what they need those
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  Speaker 1: things on there, Like what's the insurance companies act that
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  Speaker 1: they can put something in your car to tell how
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  Speaker 1: you drive, to adjust your rates if you're an idiot driver,
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  Speaker 1: your rates go up, and if you're a good driver,
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  Speaker 1: you go down.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't State Farm have it?
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  Speaker 1: Is it? State Farm? I think? So they need those
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  Speaker 1: on school buses. I'm not joking.
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  Speaker 3: I've got I see it. There's a what are the
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  Speaker 3: roads that I drive on to take Charlie to school?
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  Speaker 3: They pull across half of the road so oncoming traffic
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  Speaker 3: doesn't zoom by, it.
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  Speaker 1: Has to stop. That actually kind of makes sense if
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  Speaker 1: it's a country type area.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they do it where they're driving and then
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden they just pull in front.
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  Speaker 2: Of you, like really quickly.
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  Speaker 1: That's bad.
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  Speaker 2: It happens all the.
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  Speaker 3: Time, and you're like, uh, your school bus, Like yeah,
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  Speaker 3: take it easy.
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  Speaker 1: There are some I mean, there are times when you
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  Speaker 1: want to assume the guilty party and the non guilty
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  Speaker 1: party in situations, but you know, it's not always who
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  Speaker 1: you think it is. And I just like I say,
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  Speaker 1: it's been twice now within a week that I've seen
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  Speaker 1: school buses in residential areas and Columbus that are just
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know if they're Columbus buses or first
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  Speaker 1: student or who. I have no idea because they went
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  Speaker 1: by that fast. That's just it's irresponsible. Now. On the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, if it's a Coda bus, you can drive
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  Speaker 1: by like there's nobody on it, because there probably isn't
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  Speaker 1: a two on nine eight eight six, y up or
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  Speaker 1: a two I WTV and just got done with the
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  Speaker 1: Blazer Show. Big thanks to Congressman Troy Balderson for spending
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  Speaker 1: all three hours with us this afternoon. I love that guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's so normal. He is so normal. He is not uh.
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  Speaker 1: There is no pomping circumstance, no pretense about him. He's
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  Speaker 1: just He's just a guy, just a guy from from
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  Speaker 1: southeast or not southeastern, but I guess east central Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: I can totally back that up because when you talk
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  Speaker 3: to him off air, he's the same.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just nice, genuinely nice human being.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, jeans, tennis shoes down best, Hey, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: And I love that about him. There is, uh, there's
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to be rather snooty when you achieve, you know,
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  Speaker 1: something like a congressional seat, and he's just a normal person.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed having him in here. I wish more
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  Speaker 1: were like him. He and I were talking off the
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  Speaker 1: air about out of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, I'm waiting for
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  Speaker 1: him to make the jump. He's all right now, he's saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know what the Republicans need to do. They just
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  Speaker 1: need to kill a filibuster. And all the Democrats who
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  Speaker 1: are going to whine about it, don't whine about it,
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  Speaker 1: because I ran on it, You ran on it. We
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  Speaker 1: all ran on getting rid of the filibuster to eliminate
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  Speaker 1: the sixty vote rule. So don't whine about it. Let's
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  Speaker 1: just the Republicans need to get it done so we
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  Speaker 1: can move forward. This is a guy who when he
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  Speaker 1: was running, I thought he would have to move up
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  Speaker 1: a couple of notches on the intellectual belt to be
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  Speaker 1: brain damaged. I had no hope for him whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, technically he was brain yeah he was.
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  Speaker 1: He had a stroke and he was in rough shit.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't speak, he was, he was not making sense.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he even took time off for depression because
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  Speaker 3: of that. Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't I
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  Speaker 3: don't blame on that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't fault the guy when when obviously, what
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing of him now is far more vibrant than
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  Speaker 1: what we saw when he was running for our office,
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  Speaker 1: And I would be depressed too, because if now that
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  Speaker 1: I see what he can be, perhaps this isn't even
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  Speaker 1: what he was yet. Maybe he hasn't achieved his full
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, because I don't know what he was
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  Speaker 1: like before the stroke. But I would be depressed too
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  Speaker 1: if I were that guy. We poked at him, but
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  Speaker 1: knowing knowing what he had to offer and knowing the
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  Speaker 1: way his mind worked. To go home every night realizing
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  Speaker 1: how you had presented yourself that day, wouldn't that depress you? Sure?
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  Speaker 3: I don't blame him, like I said, that's that's totally
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  Speaker 3: a normal thing to be. Like, Hey, I just like
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  Speaker 3: imagine his with the debate happened with Oz, and he
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  Speaker 3: was just like, oh, I couldn't imagine how he.
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  Speaker 2: Felt at the end he won. Yeah, but still, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he messed up a bunch.
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  Speaker 1: And I see, I was never a doctor OZ fan anyway.
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  Speaker 2: There was a problem. I always thought he sold like
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  Speaker 2: fake remedy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've considered long before he attempted to be a politician,
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  Speaker 1: I've considered him kind of a snake oil, right, And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was not fond of that choice. But you know, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 1: you could have done worse. You could have done much worse.
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  Speaker 1: I think John Fetterman is coming around, and I would
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  Speaker 1: not be surprised to see him get fed up and say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I can't even be part of this
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  Speaker 1: club anymore. I'm moving across the aisle.
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  Speaker 2: I could see him go independent, also not Republican.
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  Speaker 1: It's a possibility. See the problem with being an independent,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of idealistic people who do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'd vote independent, I vote libertarian. Well, you vote to
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  Speaker 1: lose then, because the elections, whether we like it or not,
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  Speaker 1: it is what it is. And that is about money.
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  Speaker 1: It is about fundraising, It is about party power and
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  Speaker 1: an independence most of the time don't have anything to.
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  Speaker 2: Work with unless you're already established.
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  Speaker 1: If you very established, right, if you ran as a
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  Speaker 1: Democrat or a Republican, you got elected, you have a
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  Speaker 1: reputation holding onto the seat. As an independent candidate, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that may be possible. We saw that with Mansion. Lieberman
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  Speaker 1: was was, you know, an independent.
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  Speaker 3: However, I can never forget somebody calling him that the
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  Speaker 3: first time.
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  Speaker 2: I can't unsee it.
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  Speaker 1: Once you are there, Yes, getting re elected is possible,
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  Speaker 1: but to get elected to not be an incumbent to
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  Speaker 1: get elected as an independent or a libertarian or Green
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  Speaker 1: Party or or whatever else you consider yourself. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty much impossible. Minnesota kind of a different beast. I
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  Speaker 1: mean they when they elected Jesse Ventura as governor, I
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  Speaker 1: was impressed. I mean, I didn't know how crazy Jesse
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  Speaker 1: would eventually become, but it really showed an independent streak
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  Speaker 1: on the part of the people of Minnesota. So I
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  Speaker 1: was kind of good with that. And as a youngster,
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  Speaker 1: as a young man, I was very idealistic about politics.
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  Speaker 1: I actually believed that honesty, integrity, ingenuity, creativity, accessibility, humility.
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  Speaker 1: I thought all that stuff came into play. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it mattered, and honestly, it doesn't. It doesn't. It depends
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  Speaker 1: on the packaging and who's backing you, and importantly too,
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  Speaker 1: who's working against you when you're trying to attain that
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  Speaker 1: seat for the first time, that office for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: And some people know their limitations. Andy Ginther knows his limitations. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he wants to be re elected mayor of Columbus in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven, but you know, shared Brown's not running
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  Speaker 1: for governor. Amy Acton isn't much of a choice for
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  Speaker 1: Democrat voters. I haven't heard a peep about Andy Ginther
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  Speaker 1: considering himself prepared, ready, or interested in the office of governor.
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  Speaker 1: He knows his limitations. This is where he's got something
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  Speaker 1: and he's going to try to hold onto that in
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven. Being being what you must be what you
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  Speaker 1: are when it comes to politics, I'm good with that.
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  Speaker 1: Some people know I am destined for this, this is
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  Speaker 1: what I might and they program themselves to be prepared
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  Speaker 1: to fight those battles and to rise to that level.
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  Speaker 1: And there are some people who have no interest in
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  Speaker 1: that kind of office. Again, a conversation off the air
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  Speaker 1: that we had earlier with Mark and Troy and I
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the idea of being in Washington never
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  Speaker 1: never appeal to me. But as a young man, as
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  Speaker 1: a young idealistic man who wanted to make the world
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  Speaker 1: a better place, yes, local office absolutely appeal to me.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I didn't want to do it. I felt
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  Speaker 1: like I was supposed to, Like I was this this
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  Speaker 1: this conviction that I have this, this ability to talk
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  Speaker 1: to anybody anytime, anywhere about anything. I thought I'm supposed
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  Speaker 1: to use this, and then you know, time moved on.
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  Speaker 1: Circumstances changed, and here I am ready ready to you know,
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  Speaker 1: cross over the retirement rainbow in a few years. No
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  Speaker 1: so oh no, no, no, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: You're never going to retire.
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  Speaker 1: No ever, I may retire, not voluntarily. It may be
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  Speaker 1: like okay, well good, no, no, we're gonna need nine
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  Speaker 1: to one one in the studio. You never know. That'd
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  Speaker 1: be kind of cool though. If I was a rock star,
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  Speaker 1: I'd want to go on stage, so why not? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: fair enough. Oh but it just, you know, as a
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  Speaker 1: young man, I just I really believed that wanting to
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  Speaker 1: do the right thing, the right way, for the most people,
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  Speaker 1: to make the world a better place, at least your
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  Speaker 1: little corner of the world. I was convinced. I was
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  Speaker 1: convinced that's what I was here for. And today, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: if you paid me an untraceable gold bars, I would
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  Speaker 1: probably not have any interest, just because the political process
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  Speaker 1: has become so so dismal. Integrity has been prostituted in
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  Speaker 1: the name of power, and it's no longer about being
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  Speaker 1: a positive change. It's about being in control. And that's
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  Speaker 1: not something I'd want to have any part of. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a good thing as far as I'm concerned to
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  Speaker 1: be in control of people.
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  Speaker 3: It's not your one hundred percent that right. If anybody
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  Speaker 3: out there is listening with gold bars though, that just
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  Speaker 3: want somebody to run and do what you want them to.
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  Speaker 1: Call me, Amaze me. Sometimes you are for sale for anything,
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  Speaker 1: aren't you. Absolutely?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, there's no integrity here.
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  Speaker 1: We need somebody to open a gallon of bleach and
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  Speaker 1: drink it straight down. Nobody will do it well. Zach
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  Speaker 1: will if you'll pay him in gold bars, untraceable gold bars.
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  Speaker 1: They have to be some of them Tulsa King gold bars.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you want