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Stolen cars · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: Stolen cars. We haven't heard about the Key Steffs in
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Speaker 1: a while, but then none of the car got stolen.
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Speaker 1: Was he even a car? Was an suv? You know
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Speaker 1: where I'm going with this?
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Speaker 2: No, this is something in the news. I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, it's one of our friends. And if
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Speaker 1: this guy's car can get stolen, anybody's car can get stolen.
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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty one Chevy Tahoe, White, Chevy Tahoe.
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Speaker 2: Is this a friend we both know we can talk
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Speaker 2: about yep.
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Speaker 1: Okay, stolen from the driveway. Lives in northwest Columbus. Distinguishing
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Speaker 1: features are an Ohio Marine Corps license plate taking sometime
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. White twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: Chevy Tahoe. It's the high Country edition. By the way,
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Speaker 1: If this person can get their cars stolen, anyone can.
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Speaker 1: Do you know who I speak of?
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Speaker 2: I have a guess, but I'm not gonna guess who.
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Speaker 1: Do you think it is? Not? Don Ross twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: one is way too old for anything that is.
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Speaker 2: That is true? No, I don't. I was gonna say, Boots.
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Speaker 1: But President of FOP Lodge number nine, Officer Brian Steele,
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Speaker 1: really he may be Sergeant Steele instead Officer Steel.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to get it wrong and have yeah, okay, but.
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Speaker 1: Holy mo, dude had his car. This This guy's the
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Speaker 1: president of the Fraternal Order of Police. He is constantly
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Speaker 1: on your television screens, on your radio speakers representing law
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Speaker 1: in Order of Columbus, Ohio, and the officers that go
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Speaker 1: out there and serve and protect does a stand up job.
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Speaker 1: Is admirable as an officer and as a leader in
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Speaker 1: the FOP. He's he is a public servant to the
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Speaker 1: nth degree, and he can't even go to sleep at
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Speaker 1: night without having his vehicle stolen from his driveway. Tell me, Andy,
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Speaker 1: tell tell me how it's getting better.
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Speaker 3: I wonder if the perpetrators knew or if it was
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Speaker 3: just a random Probably not yeah, because why would you
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Speaker 3: steal from that gun?
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Speaker 1: Probably not just just absolutely just this is this is
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Speaker 1: getting seriously, this is stupid now. And I've said before,
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Speaker 1: I got one vehicle, I don't even lock it. I
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Speaker 1: keep nothing in there for anybody to steal. And you know,
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Speaker 1: it's the same drug infused psychotic dirt balls walking through
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Speaker 1: the neighborhood every night. But they continue to get in
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Speaker 1: that car I know this because I come out and
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Speaker 1: the glove compartments open because why you.
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Speaker 2: Know why looking for guns?
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Speaker 1: They want a gun? They think, yes, yes, so the
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Speaker 1: glove compartment's always open. They have actually change in my
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Speaker 1: little cup holder thing looking for guns. I'm telling you, man,
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Speaker 1: there's I'm laughing.
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Speaker 2: At the absurdity.
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Speaker 3: Obviously not what have happened, but wow, that's wonder if
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Speaker 3: it just fell out of their pocket.
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Speaker 1: I do you never know, You never know, and I
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Speaker 1: know I don't know that. I don't want to let
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Speaker 1: any cats out of the back because I asked Brian,
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Speaker 1: you know, how did this get stolen? It doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: like it's new enough to be able to be uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, hijacked with an app or anything, because it's
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Speaker 1: you know, five years old at this point. So he
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Speaker 1: told me how they were able to do this, but
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Speaker 1: I don't know that. I want to share that without
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Speaker 1: him telling me blatantly to share that part, because it
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Speaker 1: just I could be putting ideas in somebody else's head.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's how I can do it. I will tell
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Speaker 1: you that I had a guy, yeah, go by my
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Speaker 1: house probably, I don't know, ten years ago. I was
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Speaker 1: going outside, I had a lot of crap. I was
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Speaker 1: go into a listing. I was putting a sign in
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Speaker 1: a yard a house I was listing. So I had
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Speaker 1: my real estate sign, I had my bag, oh stuff,
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Speaker 1: I had my laptop. I had to go back and
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Speaker 1: get my coffee, and so I put all that out there.
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Speaker 1: I had a big ball of keys, those who were
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Speaker 1: up on top of the car. I went in the house,
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Speaker 1: not not ten seconds, not ten seconds to grab my
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Speaker 1: coffee cuff off the entry way table. I came out
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Speaker 1: and the first thing I noticed, that big key ring
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Speaker 1: was gone from the top of my car. I looked
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Speaker 1: down the street and I see some heroin hid walking
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Speaker 1: down the street. So I chased his button down. O
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Speaker 1: got your keys, man, I do I take no keys? Now.
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Speaker 1: It was key, so it wasn't a life threatening situation.
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Speaker 1: I did not kill him. However, I did pull out
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Speaker 1: my phone and say, we're gonna call the police right now.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna tell me if you've got my keys. He
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Speaker 1: reached his pocket, took out my keys and threw them
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Speaker 1: at me.
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Speaker 2: What was he gonna do with the keys? He didn't know.
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Speaker 1: This is my point. Some of these people don't even
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Speaker 1: know what they're stealing, or why they're stealing. They just
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Speaker 1: know it's there. I should take it. Maybe I can
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Speaker 1: find the key on this key ring that'll let me
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Speaker 1: break into this house when they're not there. Maybe I could.
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Speaker 1: And the thing of it was, none of those keys
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Speaker 1: had anything to do with my house or my vehicles.
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Speaker 1: They were all for real estate stuff. There were no
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Speaker 1: tags that would tell him what they went to or
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Speaker 1: anything else. But they were there, so he took them.
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Speaker 1: And we are increasingly seeing that mentality anymore. People don't
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Speaker 1: even care. It's not because it's not like boosters going
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Speaker 1: out where somebody goes. I tell you what I want.
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Speaker 1: I went to nineteen eighty seven, Parsch ninety four, and
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Speaker 1: they go out and steal what. No, it's not about
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Speaker 1: going out and doing that. It's just about taking somebody
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Speaker 1: else's stuff because it's there. And our court system puts
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Speaker 1: this way down. There was a time in this country
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Speaker 1: where you steal a man's horse, you got shot, you
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Speaker 1: got hung. You know that horse thievery will get you killed,
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Speaker 1: strung up from the nearest tall tree. You don't steal
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Speaker 1: a man's horse today is steal your car. Well, today
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Speaker 1: that my car is my horse. That's what gets me
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Speaker 1: across the dusty plains from one place to another. But
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Speaker 1: law enforcement, even if they are fortunate enough to catch
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Speaker 1: somebody stealing a car or in a stolen car, they
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Speaker 1: will take them down to that that place we call
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Speaker 1: the courthouse and they will get what is a fourth
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Speaker 1: degree fellony. I think they'll get an R O R
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Speaker 1: R O R stands up on recognissance. We recognize you,
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Speaker 1: released on recognissance RECOGNI why do you recognize them? Because
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Speaker 1: they're in there all the time. That's why.
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Speaker 2: Probably a big deterrent though.
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Speaker 1: You get an ro R with a desk appearance that
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Speaker 1: you never show up for, or what happens now you
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Speaker 1: got another warrant, big deal you had fifteen when you
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Speaker 1: walked in there. But our justice system refuses to even
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Speaker 1: get close to justice the victims. The victims are meaningless,
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Speaker 1: they're pointless. It's all about the criminal's rights, their situation.
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Speaker 1: They're economics, socioeconomic status, their familial status. Where they have
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Speaker 1: a race that we can say, ah, poor baby. Where
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Speaker 1: they have a gender, were they a gender dysphoric person,
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Speaker 1: where they sexually confused? Where they is there is their
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Speaker 1: hair got some tangles in it? What can we use
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Speaker 1: to create a sympathetic picture of the people that are
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Speaker 1: out there breaking the laws and taking your stuff. And really,
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Speaker 1: in the scheme of things, taking your stuff is meaningless
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Speaker 1: next to shooting at you or killing you. But those
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Speaker 1: don't seem to matter much either, unless, of course, you
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Speaker 1: kill you know, the right person. If it's the right person,
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Speaker 1: people are gonna talk about they're gonna do something about it.
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Speaker 1: But if it's one of those you know, average tax
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Speaker 1: paying people, nah, we don't care about that. We're getting
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Speaker 1: really screwed up people. We are getting really, really screwed up.
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Speaker 1: So if you see, if you see the vehicle out there,
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Speaker 1: Brian says, do not approach. If you happen to run
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Speaker 1: across this vehicle, do not approach it. Call the police,
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Speaker 1: let them know where you're seeing it, and let them
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Speaker 1: do their thing from there. And trust me, you call
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Speaker 1: in and say I see the FOP president stolen vehicle.
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Speaker 1: They will respond no doubt about that. I just I
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Speaker 1: don't know, you know how much longer I I don't
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Speaker 1: know if I'm more upset over the continuing crime in
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Speaker 1: my hometown or if I am more upset by the
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Speaker 1: people in my hometown who continue to try to tell
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Speaker 1: me that it's so much better than it actually is.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe when you have personal, armed bodyguards
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Speaker 1: everywhere you go, you feel very safe in Columbus. But
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Speaker 1: if you're an average citizen out here you don't have
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Speaker 1: a security detail everywhere you go, sometimes you can be
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Speaker 1: scared poopless. I'm not joking. He wants to be re
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Speaker 1: elected in twenty seven. You know, I love, love, love Columbus, Ohio.
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Speaker 1: Don't care much for the way it's being run. And
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Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to, Zachary. Anything you want
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Speaker 1: to add, you want to stolen car story? Have you
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Speaker 1: ever stolen a car? Did you steal Brian Steele's car?
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Speaker 2: I did not steal Brian Steel's.
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Speaker 1: That's good. I would turn you into him.
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Speaker 3: When I was twelve, we used to take my parents'
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Speaker 3: jeep when they weren't home and drive around the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: So you're that kid.
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Speaker 2: Oh I was that kid. Never gotten a wreck, nothing?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Did they ever find out about it? Oh?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay they can't. I can't. They came home one
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Speaker 2: day and see, I let my friend drive.
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Speaker 3: That was a mistake, yes, because he didn't know what
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Speaker 3: he was doing and he hit the gas real hard
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Speaker 3: and he hit the mailbox that was wooden, that flew
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Speaker 3: up in the in the yard, broke it in half.
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Speaker 3: So I put it back together with nails, making it
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Speaker 3: would be smart, and then parked the jeep back in
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Speaker 3: the driveway.
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Speaker 2: My dad parked a car when he got home. I
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Speaker 2: looked at him out of the window.
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Speaker 3: He walked past the jeep and went and put his
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Speaker 3: hand on top of the hood. He goes, oh, that's warm,
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Speaker 3: and then he went out, looked for the mail opened
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Speaker 3: the mailbox, and the mailbox just went fell down.
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Speaker 1: Didn't the jeep have a big dent in it as well?
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Speaker 3: It was like a very small but had a rubber
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Speaker 3: where it hit was like the Vinyl rubber front part.
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Speaker 2: It was one of those ninety jeeps. I don't know
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Speaker 2: how to explain it.
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Speaker 1: It was a criminal, man. I never did anything like that.
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Speaker 2: Well, that was the worst it got.
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Speaker 1: Your parents were too nice. Oh you got away with stuff, man.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a problem for a while.
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Speaker 1: My dad would wake me up and smack my butt
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Speaker 1: for dreaming about doing something bad. That's that's why I
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Speaker 1: grew up the solid citizen. I was. You're out there
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Speaker 1: stealing your parents jeep.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I was just doing kids stuff.
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Speaker 1: It's uh. Every time I ask you a question, I
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Speaker 1: learned something new and become more frightened of you.
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Speaker 2: Yep, it's gonna get worse.