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Trouble with local libraries · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Reading salitations. Welcome my friends to another edition of The
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten WTV, and I'm Chuck Douglas.
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  Speaker 1: You know who you are, and we take it from there.
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  Speaker 1: We get one hour together, which means I talk really
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  Speaker 1: fast and you must listen even faster. My number eight
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  Speaker 1: two one nine eight eighty six eight two one w
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  Speaker 1: ETV in one eight hundred six' TEN, Wtv And i'll
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  Speaker 1: tell YOU i must be worn. OUT i just kind
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  Speaker 1: of reflection it myself in our brand spanking new glass
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  Speaker 1: entry way out. There i'm looking pretty. Rough, yeah, Yeah
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  Speaker 1: i'm worse than. Normal And i'm Just i'm. Tired i'm.
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  Speaker 1: Tired i've been literally i've been in fifth gear overdrive
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  Speaker 1: Started saturday, morning and it Just i've been bang bang
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  Speaker 1: bang bang bay just, constant, constant and UH i gotta
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  Speaker 1: get some, rest gotta get some sleep. Tonight the thing
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  Speaker 1: of it is IS i love. IT i LOVE i
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  Speaker 1: love being productively. BUSY i can't stand being unproductively. Busy
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  Speaker 1: but when things are getting done And i'm making stuff,
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  Speaker 1: happen it's, uhlish it's. Great, Yeah AND i enjoy the.
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  Speaker 1: Tired it's not like the tired that you get when you're,
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  Speaker 1: LIKE i haven't got squat done today AND i don't
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  Speaker 1: gonna go to bed. Now, no that's not, it that's
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  Speaker 1: not BUT i. Do uh, YEAH i do need some
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  Speaker 1: cosmetic enhancement sleep because it's not looking good.
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  Speaker 2: By the.
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  Speaker 1: WAY i want to ask you to because you you
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  Speaker 1: go out and do stuff much more THAN i. Do
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  Speaker 1: in the old, days we used to have che. Cheese
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  Speaker 1: we don't have that. Anymore but you go to, birthday
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  Speaker 1: have a birthday at che cheese and they come. Out
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  Speaker 1: are they coming? Back is it the real chee cheese
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  Speaker 1: or is it just somebody buying the che cheese names
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  Speaker 1: they're making their. Return that would be. Sweet, yeah not
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  Speaker 1: to long ago when you had a birthday at Chea.
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  Speaker 1: Cheese they come out and they do like a heavy
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  Speaker 1: or a heavy birthday and make a big deal out
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  Speaker 1: is does any place even do that? Anymore or is
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  Speaker 1: that all? Done is that like an eighties? Thing? No
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  Speaker 1: texas does? It do?
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  Speaker 2: They?
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  Speaker 1: YEAH i know that for sure BECAUSE i was out
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  Speaker 1: at one of them somewhere and they did. THAT i,
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  Speaker 1: remember like. Recently so, okay BECAUSE I i HAVE i
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  Speaker 1: have a reason to ask, That, Okay i'm. Curious, yeah
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  Speaker 1: BECAUSE i, got you, know two birthdays And Mother's day
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  Speaker 1: in the month Of, may and, uh AND i was,
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  Speaker 1: just you, know thinking about things to, do, go places to,
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  Speaker 1: go things to, buy. Whatever and it occurred to, me
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  Speaker 1: we you, know you used to be able to go
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  Speaker 1: do a birthday thing at Che cheese AND i didn't
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  Speaker 1: know if anybody still did that or. NOT i don't
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  Speaker 1: know If Texas roadhouse would, work though it. Depends we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: Anyway thank you for filling me AND i appreciate. That,
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  Speaker 1: welcome mister social. Butterfly SO i was alluding in the
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  Speaker 1: last hour to the video THAT i. Posted did you
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  Speaker 1: go watch the? Video? AN i told, YOU i put
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  Speaker 1: it up On. Facebook, man why don't you listen to
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  Speaker 1: ANYTHING i? Say video from THE wsyx six. Website that,
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  Speaker 1: is it happened outside The Linden branch of The Columbus Metropolitan.
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  Speaker 1: Library and it bothers me much like, that you know
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  Speaker 1: the STORY i was talking about with The Whitehall mumoo
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  Speaker 1: car washh where all those people in the in the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot should have just ganged up on that guy
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  Speaker 1: and and give him what fur but they, Didn't and
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  Speaker 1: that bothers. Me but this this kid this twelve year
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  Speaker 1: old kid who apparently is is to some degree. Autistic
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  Speaker 1: but you know that's that doesn't mean anything these, days,
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  Speaker 1: seriously because children that the word autism is it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that the child is not functional or. Whatever it
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  Speaker 1: is a very very big. Umbrella and they call this,
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  Speaker 1: kid you, know a child that is on the, spectrum
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  Speaker 1: as they put. It so he's standing outside the library
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  Speaker 1: waiting on mom to come pick him. Up and these,
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  Speaker 1: PUNKS i think there were four of, them If i'm not,
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  Speaker 1: mistaken they go over start talking to, him and then
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  Speaker 1: and just start wailing on this kid and beating him
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  Speaker 1: up and punching him in a little twelve year old.
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  Speaker 1: Boy AND i found myself getting really upse said about
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  Speaker 1: this because you, Know i've seen this conduct a, lot
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  Speaker 1: and the libraries are not what they used to be,
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  Speaker 1: now like overall might beloved West. Side they build a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful new library a few years ago and it's you,
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  Speaker 1: know it's it's well, equipped staffed, well the people that
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  Speaker 1: work there are are helpful and, uh you, know it
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  Speaker 1: has everything you needed to have as a, library except
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  Speaker 1: for the fact that anybody can act any way they want.
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  Speaker 1: Act kids are bad stuff gets stolen all the, time
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  Speaker 1: and they've got a bike rack out. FRONT i know
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  Speaker 1: we've had my grandsons have had two bikes stolen over.
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  Speaker 1: There so. Far there's always dirt bags hanging, around the,
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  Speaker 1: prostitutes the drug, addicts the homeless. People they you, know
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  Speaker 1: they'll camp out back of the. Library they're standing around the.
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  Speaker 1: Entrance excuse, me you, good you get some. Change it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's not a it's not a comfortable place for
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  Speaker 1: people to. Go and the, libraries, honestly they need to
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  Speaker 1: do something about this because they come to, us you,
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  Speaker 1: know not as regular as perhaps some other public entities,
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  Speaker 1: do but they come to us as voters and ask
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  Speaker 1: us to approve levies to fund them to keep them.
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  Speaker 1: Going and they do provide a wonderful, service many wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Services they what they don't do is making a safe
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  Speaker 1: and welcoming. PLACE i mean they throw their hands in
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  Speaker 1: the airline to tell what can they. Do you got
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  Speaker 1: some security guard in there who's you, know making fifteen
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  Speaker 1: bucks an, hour just basically go, hey, kids don't do.
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  Speaker 1: That but you can't ask that security guard to go
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  Speaker 1: walk out into the middle of a bunch of crap
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  Speaker 1: going on in the parking lot like, that because they're
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  Speaker 1: going to get. HURT i don't know what the answer,
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  Speaker 1: is whether it's you, know budgets for special duty, police
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  Speaker 1: somebody with arrest. Power but there's got to be something.
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  Speaker 1: Done And i'm saying this because now Because i'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to take them to, task Because i've used our library
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  Speaker 1: system SINCE i was a. KID i love the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we have so many library. BRANCHES i love the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we have such a wonderful main branch of
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  Speaker 1: Our Columbus Metropolitan. LIBRARY i love the fact that they
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  Speaker 1: have built relationships With Southwest Public libraries so that you
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  Speaker 1: can pick up materials from both, systems return them to either.
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  Speaker 1: System that increases what's available to the people that. Patronize
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  Speaker 1: libraries are a, wonderful wonderful. Thing but if you can't be,
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  Speaker 1: safe feel, safe if you can't let your, kids your
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  Speaker 1: grandkids go in there knowing that there's not going to be,
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  Speaker 1: issues they're going to. Die they are going to. Die
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  Speaker 1: once the good, guys the civilized stop walking through your
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  Speaker 1: doors and you're left only with the animals that want to,
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  Speaker 1: destroy tear, up intimidate, steel you're no longer in, Business
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  Speaker 1: And i'm saying this again out of love and respect
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  Speaker 1: for what our library system. Is something needs to be
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  Speaker 1: done now because it's not Just, linden it Is, hilltop
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  Speaker 1: it Is Lincoln, village it Is. Franklinton i've seen stuff
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  Speaker 1: at all of. Them something needs to be done WHAT
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  Speaker 1: i don't, know but it's time we definitely started talking
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  Speaker 1: about it before you come to us for a new
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  Speaker 1: levee or maybe that's just ME a two nine eighty
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  Speaker 1: six number two In DOBLEED. Tv and if you have
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  Speaker 1: any thoughts on, that that video or the libraries in,
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  Speaker 1: general you are welcome. Here bob is standing By. Bob
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  Speaker 1: you're on The Legacy Retirement group dot com phone. Lines
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  Speaker 1: how are you my?
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  Speaker 2: Wife i'm pretty good my. Wife AND i was on
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  Speaker 2: the way to the doctor today for that, matter and
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  Speaker 2: we drove by The Parsons. Library now that thing is
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  Speaker 2: not the newest, library but it's a nice.
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  Speaker 1: It's only what a year and a half two years? Old,
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  Speaker 1: yeah year and a half two years old something like.
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  Speaker 1: That it's a nice and it's right there On parsons
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  Speaker 1: have a, new, nice big.
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  Speaker 2: Location uh, WELL i there was a bunch of bums
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  Speaker 2: outside the front door smoking. Cigarettes and it's like if you,
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  Speaker 2: know if you, DON'T i, know you smoke chuck AND
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  Speaker 2: i respect that like a. Trade if you don't, smoke
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  Speaker 2: and you go through those bombs with all that cigarette,
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  Speaker 2: smoke it's just a disgusting. Thing, Yeah but one of
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  Speaker 2: the POINTS i wanted to make was the help and.
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  Speaker 2: Side they're all, woke every single one of. THEM i
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  Speaker 2: went to a library On High street and there was
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  Speaker 2: a guy with black hair and, beard and he was
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  Speaker 2: wearing a, dress and he was behind the. Counter and you,
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  Speaker 2: KNOW i know that we're supposed to accept, that but you,
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  Speaker 2: know sometimes you just. Can't and you, know and this
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  Speaker 2: is what the kids have to look at. Too and
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  Speaker 2: and that thing about The partians. Library if there's three
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  Speaker 2: hundred books in, There i'd be. Surprised they're all. Computers
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  Speaker 2: and that's you to do is sit around and look
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  Speaker 2: at you, know softcore. Porn and and we go. There
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  Speaker 2: the only reason we go there is to get copies made.
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  Speaker 1: And playing video. Games they played video games a lot
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  Speaker 1: in there.
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  Speaker 2: Too it's not the. Library you AND i, remember and
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  Speaker 2: one thing you were talking about yesterday AND i called
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  Speaker 2: AND i hit the mute. Button that's why you couldn't
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  Speaker 2: hear me when you came back, on but you, said
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  Speaker 2: If columbus want to, jail they can build a, jail
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  Speaker 2: AND i was, like, no, No, chuck you don't Want
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  Speaker 2: columbus build a jail because it would look like a.
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  Speaker 2: Library because all the schools look like. Jails so that you,
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  Speaker 2: know you're just Looking columbus anywhere near a.
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  Speaker 1: Jail, yeah, YEAH gither would.
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  Speaker 2: Probably have an inmates running the.
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  Speaker 1: ASYLUM gih would probably have them tear down the bars
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  Speaker 1: inside the jail because they would offend, People so you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Want bars would not not work at. Ball it has
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  Speaker 2: to be an open, air you, know green. Facility, yeah
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  Speaker 2: with a.
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  Speaker 1: Commissary he has to be a commissary in there. Too
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  Speaker 1: why not CABLE? TV i appreciate, you, Buddy thanks very
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  Speaker 1: much for the CALL a two one nine eight eight
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  Speaker 1: SIX a two ONE. Wtv and yeah it's and Again
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  Speaker 1: i'm Not i'm not mad at the library, system even
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  Speaker 1: the guy in the dress working at the. Library you,
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  Speaker 1: KNOW i don't like, it but it's all. Over you
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  Speaker 1: can't hide from. It all you can do is raise your, kids,
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  Speaker 1: right which is to a let's not wear dresses boys
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  Speaker 1: and be let's not let's not make fun or taunt
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  Speaker 1: those people for what they choose to. Be that's that's their,
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  Speaker 1: life and that's what the world's. About but we should
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  Speaker 1: be decent to one. Another we should expect, decency especially
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  Speaker 1: in a place where you, know you walk inside a.
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  Speaker 1: Library if it's not on a, bookshelf between, covers if
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  Speaker 1: it's not on, microfilm then it's coming through one of
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  Speaker 1: those terminals in there that's hooked up to that world
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  Speaker 1: wide web. Thing everything man has ever known is available
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  Speaker 1: to you with the. Library that's an amazing. Thing it's
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  Speaker 1: an amazing, thing and that thing is well worth fighting.
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  Speaker 1: For that is well worth raising your voice getting loud
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  Speaker 1: because nobody says sh at the library. ANYMORE i don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you. Again you go in there and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's not just the, kids although after school hours it
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  Speaker 1: gets worse when the kids are in, There but even
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  Speaker 1: adults in the, library they just speak full voice all the.
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  Speaker 1: Time they got no. Problem shut. Up the library is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a quiet place of study and. Reflection
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  Speaker 1: it is not a comedy. Club people don't have respect
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  Speaker 1: for the people that are in the library and don't
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  Speaker 1: have respect for what the library is it should be
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  Speaker 1: used to be at, least but this kind of, behavior
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  Speaker 1: getting that little boy getting beat, on that just that
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  Speaker 1: really lit my fuse this, morning because that could be
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  Speaker 1: your little. Boy my little boy doesn't matter if you
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  Speaker 1: can't be safe at the, library turn off the lights
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  Speaker 1: and shut down the city because we're. Done it's a sad,
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  Speaker 1: reality but it's. True