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  Speaker 5: Threes are four none three five five zeros you eight
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  Speaker 5: and studio with me this morning. To put the power
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  Speaker 5: Peyton on your side is Tom Peyton from the Payton
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  Speaker 5: Off from Tom. Good morning, how you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 4: Great? The power is here. It's good to know at
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  Speaker 4: least half the power or seventy percent of it. I
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  Speaker 4: guess Dad's in. He always voted the most loyal mountaineer
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  Speaker 4: in Morgantown there and got an award.
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  Speaker 3: Tom went Harvey was.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, ten years ago, I got to go to the
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  Speaker 4: field half time. We all went up and it was
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  Speaker 4: he was really proud of it. And because he is
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  Speaker 4: an extremely loyal mountaineer and that's where he is. This
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  Speaker 4: week he's went down to Arizona to watch the Mountaineers
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  Speaker 4: play against Arizona Saturday night. So I think if I
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  Speaker 4: recall correctly, when we went to the Big twelve, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, ten years ago or something. Actually, for the
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  Speaker 4: first two seasons, I think he went to every away
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  Speaker 4: game because they alternate year and so he was able
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  Speaker 4: to hit like every venue. Wow wow.
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  Speaker 5: That is because there's not many West Virginia fans after
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  Speaker 5: they moved out of the Big East that's spending.
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  Speaker 4: Lavish Texas tech Iowa State aims. He went to all
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  Speaker 4: of them, I believe. And so now we've got new members.
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  Speaker 4: One of them being Arizona, So I assume he's on
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  Speaker 4: the same path. But you got to be a little
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  Speaker 4: Mountaineer to head Arizona this season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: My uh, my pre season prediction I did on the
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  Speaker 4: radio is already already gone because I I was quite
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  Speaker 4: optimistic at nine and three, and uh, you know, feel
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  Speaker 4: bad for the team because it's one of those depths
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  Speaker 4: depth and maybe you know, schools that have a little
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  Speaker 4: easier job recruiting down south can get more depth in
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  Speaker 4: the Mountaineers. But we just had so many injuries. It's
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  Speaker 4: just it's hard to be too critical when just injuries
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  Speaker 4: all over the place and we're filling the slots, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure we're filling them with the same talent
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  Speaker 4: we had or anywhere close to it that where the starters.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, that's where Dad is. So I'm here today
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  Speaker 4: do my usual live traffic report on before. So here's
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  Speaker 4: the report. If you're coming from tays Valley, it takes
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  Speaker 4: about thirty minutes on the Interstate sixty four east from
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  Speaker 4: the Tay's Valley exit to get just to the Nitro exit.
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  Speaker 4: After that, it was smooth sailing on the way in,
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  Speaker 4: but be prepared if you're coming from Hurricane area this direction.
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  Speaker 4: They've got the left lane closed. They just seem to
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  Speaker 4: alternate which lanes they're having closed as they're finishing up
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  Speaker 4: this widening project, and so you don't really know till
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  Speaker 4: you get up closed. Everybody's kind of in a you
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  Speaker 4: don't know which lane to get in and that kind
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  Speaker 4: of thing. With the left lanes close up near the
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  Speaker 4: Nitro bridge there on the Interstate, so get over the
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  Speaker 4: right lane and hopefully it'll keep moving, but it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be a pretty significant delay if you're coming from
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  Speaker 4: that direction this morning. Hopefully they'll have that finished in
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  Speaker 4: the next two weeks. They're doing rolling roadblocks. They were
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  Speaker 4: supposed to do with them yesterday with the paint truck broke,
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  Speaker 4: so they after all the announcements, they didn't do it.
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  Speaker 4: So they're just painting the lines now, which means there's
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  Speaker 4: light at the end of the tunnel. But there's rolling roadblocks.
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  Speaker 4: They're doing it both ways. It's just a random draw.
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  Speaker 4: Whether you hit the wrong time or not. They hold
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  Speaker 4: the traffic up maybe I don't know how long, twenty
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  Speaker 4: fifteen minutes or something completely to red block and they
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  Speaker 4: roll it forward after they put some paint down. I
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  Speaker 4: guess then they come and do it the other direction.
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  Speaker 4: That'll be going I think between around ten ten thirty
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  Speaker 4: this morning until about three thirty this afternoon. So beware
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  Speaker 4: if you're traveling to our office, for example, from Charlsty,
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  Speaker 4: you might have a little bit of a delay and
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  Speaker 4: think about taking an alternate route.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously this has to be done and they're
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  Speaker 5: doing it the right way. It's just time has to
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  Speaker 5: be It has to be done at some point in time,
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  Speaker 5: and it's just unfortunate sometimes it creates So.
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  Speaker 4: If you look back three years with the little interstate
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  Speaker 4: bridge that was there, I mean it was hard. I
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  Speaker 4: think they've done a pretty quick job once they got started,
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  Speaker 4: based on the bridge work that they had to do.
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  Speaker 4: Now it seems like it's kind of like they lost
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  Speaker 4: their steam at the end. We're moving a little bit slower,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, it'll be really good. So it'll be three
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  Speaker 4: lanes all the way through to Says Valley, both directions,
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  Speaker 4: and then the other good thing, which is maybe we'll
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  Speaker 4: make up for all the terrible traffic patterns we've had
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  Speaker 4: in the last two years from the Saint Almonds entrance.
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  Speaker 4: It appears that when you come one this in almost
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  Speaker 4: Entrance East, you'll just stay in that lane if you
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  Speaker 4: want to get off at Nitro. Oh, I said, only
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  Speaker 4: you don't have to merge, which a lot of folks
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  Speaker 4: rather than using the sit Alma's Nitro Bridge kind of
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  Speaker 4: downtown there off Route sixty come that way and just
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  Speaker 4: go over the interested and get right back off at Nitro.
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  Speaker 4: So they'll be able to just keep flowing.
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  Speaker 5: It's almost like just having a yeah, that will come
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  Speaker 5: in very handy. It's nice to see these things done.
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  Speaker 5: And I think Harven and I talked about this last
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  Speaker 5: time he was in the thing. That's a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: This h disheartening as you see the project that project's
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  Speaker 5: moved along pretty well. The one in Cross Lanes is
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  Speaker 5: a pretty major one. That's to have some widening out there,
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  Speaker 5: and that's moved them along at a good pace. And
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  Speaker 5: I live in Kanas City and here we are just
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  Speaker 5: underneath this thing that has been going on forever.
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  Speaker 4: And sure one of my friends runs a jewels jewelry
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  Speaker 4: shop there and I've done a little Christmas shop in
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  Speaker 4: the last couple of years, and it's just been he's
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  Speaker 4: had piles of rebar in his in his parking lot,
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  Speaker 4: and you're driving over. You don't know where to park,
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  Speaker 4: you don't know where to go. It's confused. Doesn't seem
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  Speaker 4: like it should be that complicated of a of a project,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, obviously it's there's been some kind of
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  Speaker 4: delay and and you know it's just one of those things.
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  Speaker 4: We're probably a d H agent or an agent from
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  Speaker 4: a contractor approach to them and staid, here we sign
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  Speaker 4: off on this little widening. We're going to use what
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  Speaker 4: they get temporary easy. You know, d o H generally
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  Speaker 4: has no right like anybody else just to come and
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  Speaker 4: park their supplies on your proper or anything like that.
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  Speaker 4: If it's real temporary, you know, most people just let
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  Speaker 4: them do it. But for a longer project, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you're entitled to some compensation for that. And of course,
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  Speaker 4: looking back on the Keno City projects and those businesses
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  Speaker 4: probably wish they could go back and let me reconsider
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  Speaker 4: signing this because it has to have had some impact
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  Speaker 4: on business, because you could i mean driving driving along
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  Speaker 4: there and you can't get access, or it doesn't appear
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  Speaker 4: you can get access, or it's difficult. It'll deter p
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  Speaker 4: people though, it just go somewhere else. So you haven't
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  Speaker 4: been to Kanol City here recently, so that one hopefully
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  Speaker 4: it's getting close to being here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a step forward and a half step back.
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  Speaker 5: It's like very little progress, and then they get to
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  Speaker 5: the next area and it tears things up again.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a shame.
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  Speaker 5: I owned a small business in Charleston years and year
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  Speaker 5: or in Kennass City years and years ago, and without
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  Speaker 5: that flow of traffic that's coming in properly up and
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  Speaker 5: down with Corkway Avenue. It's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of a challenge anyway, because if you're on
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  Speaker 5: one side of the street or the other, you have
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  Speaker 5: to cross for the other way traffic to get over there.
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  Speaker 3: So you need that to be accessible.
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  Speaker 5: And when it's not, I mean you're basically shutting yourself
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  Speaker 5: down to one lenk one way of traffic. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: people aren't going to make the extra stop. They'll just
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  Speaker 5: go to the next place.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, Thomas George is what I was referencing. Trying
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  Speaker 4: to get it out there, and you can get the
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  Speaker 4: back road, but then it's really not there's not really
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  Speaker 4: good signage about where you're supposed to turn back to
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  Speaker 4: get to the business you want to. It's kind of
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  Speaker 4: a crap sheet, but I made it and got some guests,
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  Speaker 4: so hopefully I will get resolved.
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  Speaker 4: But certainly we're potentially available twenty four hours a day.
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  Speaker 4: But I thought we'd talk a little bit. We got
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  Speaker 4: the election coming up, of course, and early voting started yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: I believe in West Virginia. But you know, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: realize until a few weeks ago. It's kind of been
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  Speaker 4: under the radar. There's a constitutional amendment on the ballot
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  Speaker 4: this election, and it's interesting. So when you go to
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  Speaker 4: fill out your ballot, you will see it says ballot
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  Speaker 4: on constitutional amendments. There's only one. It's Amendment number one,
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  Speaker 4: and it has a title that's given to it by
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  Speaker 4: the legislature and when they passed the resolution to put
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  Speaker 4: it on the ballot. The title is Protection of Persons
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  Speaker 4: against Medically assisted Suicide. Well, it's I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: you protect people from that. It seems kind of an
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  Speaker 4: odd statement in the first first place. And then it's
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  Speaker 4: didn't have to about a summary. It says summary of purpose.
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  Speaker 4: The purpose of this amendment is to protect West Virginians
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  Speaker 4: against medically assisted suicide. Now, how you protect yourself from yourself?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not like it has agency of someone.
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  Speaker 4: Well I'm not really sure about that either, but anyway,
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  Speaker 4: that's what it. So that's what you read at the beginning.
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  Speaker 4: The purpose of this amendment is to protect West Virginians
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  Speaker 4: against medically sistans suicide. The title is protection of Persons
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  Speaker 4: against medically assisted Suicide. Then the instructions to voters to
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  Speaker 4: vote in favor of the amendment submitted, make a selection
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  Speaker 4: next to four. To vote against the amendment, make a
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  Speaker 4: selection next to against. So when I read that, of
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  Speaker 4: course I knew the background of it when I first
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  Speaker 4: read what's actually on the ballot, so I kind of
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  Speaker 4: cheated a little bit. I was skewed. I thought, well,
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  Speaker 4: that's confusing. I don't really know what this is, and
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  Speaker 4: I don't really understand what a four or against the
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  Speaker 4: vote is because they don't type in the entire They could.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, like we have a school bond issue in
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  Speaker 4: Puttnam Counny. What takes up a whole page of the battle.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they could. The actual amendment to the Western
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  Speaker 4: Constitution is a well maybe one big run on sentence,
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  Speaker 4: but it's basically a small paragraph. But when when you
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  Speaker 4: hear that, I mean, what do you think, as the public, like,
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  Speaker 4: what is voting for and what it was voting against? Me?
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  Speaker 4: So I took it out to my reception steut Front
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  Speaker 4: and handed it to her. She didn't know it was
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  Speaker 4: on the ballot either, or maybe she'd heard of it,
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  Speaker 4: but no background on it whatsoever. So I just had
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  Speaker 4: to read that cold like like I did. And she
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  Speaker 4: told me she would vote one way, but what she
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  Speaker 4: was doing is voting in the opposite of what she
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  Speaker 4: thought she was doing. So it's a very confusing amendment
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  Speaker 4: and what it really it's of course, this is a
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  Speaker 4: you always look for ulterior motives with the legislature, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure this is again one of those let's
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  Speaker 4: waste time and money solving a problem. It isn't there.
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  Speaker 4: So what this language does in the Constitution is that
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  Speaker 4: it basically enshrines in the Constitution the illegality of assisting
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  Speaker 4: medical personnel, healthcare providers, doctors, any person from participating in
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  Speaker 4: the practice of medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing
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  Speaker 4: of a person. And that's not really defined any further
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  Speaker 4: than that, So it would make that illegal in essence.
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  Speaker 4: So if you want to make that illegal via the
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  Speaker 4: Constitution meeting, once it's in the constitution, you know, legislature
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  Speaker 4: can't just change the law like West Virginia Code, You've
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  Speaker 4: got to go back and repeal it. I assume the
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  Speaker 4: same way you do in which you would add an
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  Speaker 4: amendment to the Constitution with a vote. So if you
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  Speaker 4: want the West Virginia Constitution to ban, probably forever or
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  Speaker 4: for the foreseeable future, the ability of a physician to
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  Speaker 4: provide medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of a person,
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  Speaker 4: then you vote, and you need to vote four on
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  Speaker 4: this one, otherwise you want to vote against it. Now,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't change anything, which is why I said it's
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  Speaker 4: a complete and utter waste of time, because it's already
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  Speaker 4: depending on the circumstance. We're not one of the estates,
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  Speaker 4: one of the I think there's eight or nine states
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  Speaker 4: that have basically authorized this, and I haven't read those laws,
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  Speaker 4: and there's regulations. You got to be in a real
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  Speaker 4: terminal condition and meet certain requirements. If you're older. You
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  Speaker 4: remember doctor Kavorkian, which was you know, that was just
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  Speaker 4: kind of outlaw behavior because I don't think it was
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  Speaker 4: sanctioned in any state when he was out traveling around
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  Speaker 4: doing this. But we don't permit it anyway Virginia. It's
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  Speaker 4: a homicide if it's done. You know, if you killed
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  Speaker 4: contribute intentionally to the killing of another person, it's homicide.
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  Speaker 4: And now that when I say homicide, that means it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't mean it's first degree murder necessarily or second it
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  Speaker 4: could be manslaughter, for example, but it's it's already illegal
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  Speaker 4: in West Virginia. So I don't know why we're messing
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  Speaker 4: with this amendment in the first place. Now, the when
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  Speaker 4: you read it, of course, my thought was well then,
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  Speaker 4: and so I read what it bars. The amendment continues on,
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  Speaker 4: saying nothing in this section prohibits the administration or prescription
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  Speaker 4: of medication for the purpose of alleviating pain or discomfort
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  Speaker 4: while the patient condition, while the patient's condition follows its
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  Speaker 4: natural course.
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  Speaker 5: So permissing hospice care, which is sometimes a form.
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  Speaker 4: Of uh right, I mean, unfortunately, I've dealt with this
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  Speaker 4: with family members. And you know, when folks get so
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  Speaker 4: bad and have no quality life, and they've got a
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  Speaker 4: terminal condition, and you know it certainly to keep comfort
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  Speaker 4: a high level of morphine will bring death on sooner.
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  Speaker 4: But it you know, where does that line get crossed?
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  Speaker 4: I think we're getting this. I don't know sure why
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  Speaker 4: this is going in a constitutional amendment because it just
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  Speaker 4: has so many ray areas and it's so fact based.
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  Speaker 5: When you include a term like euthanasia, euthanasian and suicide
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  Speaker 5: are two different things, and without defining what euthanasia means,
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  Speaker 5: you could you could fit a lot of things underneath
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  Speaker 5: underneath the euthanasia. I was curious that, like, if you remember,
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  Speaker 5: several years ago, there was a case in the UK
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  Speaker 5: where there was a baby that was determined before it
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  Speaker 5: was born to be basically without a brain. I forget
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  Speaker 5: what the condition was, but it was a very rare
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  Speaker 5: disease where the baby was born without a working brain.
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  Speaker 5: The body would function, but there was no brain. There
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  Speaker 5: was no chance of life beyond anything. And in fact,
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  Speaker 5: most doctors said that whatever the baby could feel it
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  Speaker 5: was pain, like it just was living in pain. And
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: there was a big legal battle between the parents and
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  Speaker 5: the doctors, and the parents wanted to carry it. The
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  Speaker 5: doctors are like, this is just torture, basically, and it
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  Speaker 5: turned into a huge, a huge thing. What I'm wondering
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  Speaker 5: is if that was reversed where the parents were like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, my wife is in is in peril. This
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  Speaker 5: baby cannot live anyway because it's going to be born
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  Speaker 5: without a brain. This is something that we don't want
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  Speaker 5: to carry to term because of the risk to my wife.
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  Speaker 5: Is this something that could be then well that's euthanasia,
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  Speaker 5: that's and that's constitutionally illegal, right.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, And that's you know, then there's another kyliat
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  Speaker 4: in the actual amendment language that says, nor does anything
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  Speaker 4: in this section prohibit the withdrawing or withholding of life
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  Speaker 4: sustaining treatment as requested by the patient or the patient's
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  Speaker 4: decision maker in accordance with state laws. So they're referencing
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  Speaker 4: back to advanced directives or living will language. Like my clients,
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: we combine that in a medical power attorney because pretty
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  Speaker 4: much universally all my clients want that in there, and
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  Speaker 4: my clients generally want to have a choice if they
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  Speaker 4: get in a terminal consistent pain situation. And I think
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  Speaker 4: growing up here in Westvinion, West Virginians, you know, would
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  Speaker 4: want to have that choice ultimately if it's in the
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  Speaker 4: right parameters. Now it's illegal right now, but you just
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: won't be able to go back and if things advance
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  Speaker 4: and you won't be able to do anything with it.
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  Speaker 4: From the legislative standpoint, if this passes absent repealing the
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  Speaker 4: modifying the constitution. Again the interesting thing then at the
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  Speaker 4: very end, there's a sentence that's in the actual amendment
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  Speaker 4: says further, nothing in this section prevents the state from
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: providing capital punishment, which was banned in the state in
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: like the sixties. I have no idea why that was
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  Speaker 4: done in there. Obviously, position assisted easthanasia or suicide is
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  Speaker 4: at the request of the patient, at least by implications.
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  Speaker 4: So capital punishment has absolutely nothing to do with this,
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  Speaker 4: because presumably most folks that are on death row or
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: are not there voluntarily. I don't know if they wanted
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: folks that want capital punishment to read this in the
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  Speaker 4: amendment and then push for it to be passed. I
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  Speaker 4: will vote against this, and I would encourage others to
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  Speaker 4: vote against it because it's unnecessary, and it's already illegal,
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  Speaker 4: and it prevents us from perhaps modifying our law if
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  Speaker 4: we want to in the future. From a legislative standpoint
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  Speaker 4: in West Virginia code, and I think from what I
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  Speaker 4: see from most of my clients because I deal a
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: little bit with this, is that is the right to
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  Speaker 4: have a choice when you get into these particular situations.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying, you know, I don't want to live anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I've got depression and just having a doctor assists suicide.
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  Speaker 4: That's not what I'm talking about. But there potentially could
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: be a law in the future that if you meet
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  Speaker 4: certain parameters, you have that choice, and it would have
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: to be a limited set of parameters. But now you
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: can't pass that if this amendment passes, you can't get
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: into that. From the legislative legislator standpoint, unless you go
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: and redo the constitution again, So I would, but you
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: want to vote if you don't want this to be
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: in the constitution and you don't want banned absolutely, then
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: you want to vote against this, not for this, And
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: so that's you know, when I was asking my staff
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: member how she would vote, she told me what her
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: intent was, but when she said how she would market
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  Speaker 4: on the ballot, it was the opposite of what she
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: wanted to vote. She wanted her vote to indicate. So
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  Speaker 4: just be careful if you on this ballot and vote
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  Speaker 4: against if you don't want this to be banned from
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: a constitutional level. And it's just more of a nothing. Actually,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: when I first read it and heard about it, it
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: might still be. I thought, this is some hardline, really
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: far right faction that's pro life is going to use
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: that they want to get this pass and then try
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: and spin it into kind of the situation you were
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: talking about with the unborn child, and then fit that,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: you know, maybe an abortion at some point into this paradigm.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Taking bad faith actors using fag legging, which to define
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: whatever they want.
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  Speaker 4: Right, like you know, doctor medically assisted euthanasia or mercy
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: killing of a person and you know, can that be
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: spun into that other arena. I don't know, that would
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: be backdoor conversations. And I guess if you go back
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: and look and see what motivated this in the first place.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: But it's it's just not it's a complete waste of
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: time in my opinion, and just should be voted against.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: And we'll see how it comes out though, because we'll
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: know in the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 5: It'd be kind of interesting to see. That's Tom Peyton
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  Speaker 5: from the Payton Law Firm. Let me get the information
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