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Man drives into crowd and Skywest incident · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas Power Hour six ten double UTV and my
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  Speaker 1: number eight two one nine eight eighty six A two
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  Speaker 1: one WTV. And during my time in radio, which has
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of time, got my first job February
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  Speaker 1: tenth of nineteen ninety and I met all kinds of people.
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  Speaker 1: Many many were, you know, just less than memorable, fairly mediocre.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them were downright trash that I would not
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  Speaker 1: even want to share a lifeboat with if it meant
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  Speaker 1: the end of my existence for failing to do so.
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  Speaker 1: And then every now and then there's been someone stellar,
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  Speaker 1: someone decent, honest, supportive that you just want to see
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  Speaker 1: good things happen for. And one of those people works
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  Speaker 1: for the company where I used to work, and he's
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  Speaker 1: been on the air for a very long time. And
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  Speaker 1: I can say this now because he apparently said it
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  Speaker 1: on the air this afternoon, So now that it's out there,
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  Speaker 1: I can say best of luck, best wishes, and I
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  Speaker 1: hope you enjoy your retirement years. To Bob Bernie, who
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  Speaker 1: I can't find a bad word to say about. The man.
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  Speaker 1: Bob has been on a Christian talk radio for many years.
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  Speaker 1: He is a pastor. He and his wife are constantly
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  Speaker 1: out ministering, and Joy's had a couple of books which
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  Speaker 1: yes I've read an or on my shelf. Thanks Bob.
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  Speaker 1: Just a good human being, just a good decent human being,
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  Speaker 1: and there are so few of those left in the world,
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  Speaker 1: much less the broadcast industry that when one of them
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  Speaker 1: says goodbye, it means something. But Bob of August first
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  Speaker 1: is going to probably work harder than ever as he
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  Speaker 1: hangs up his headphones for the last time. And my
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  Speaker 1: thanks to him for the person that he was, for
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  Speaker 1: knowing him, for the talks that we had, and for
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  Speaker 1: the inspiration that he was simply through his conduct and
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  Speaker 1: the kind of human being he was much less broadcaster.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's way down on the list of things to
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  Speaker 1: consider when I'm looking at somebody like him. He was
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  Speaker 1: just he was a good influence, good person to be around.
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  Speaker 1: And I seriously I'll wish him all the best and
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  Speaker 1: the airwaves will miss him. Thank you, Bob Bernie. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So Billy Joel, I've got to talk about Billy Joel.
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  Speaker 1: He is the subject of a Bill Maher interview which
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  Speaker 1: is currently running on HBO Max. Do you have HBO Max,
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  Speaker 1: Zach because I'm cheap. I don't kind of come to
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  Speaker 1: your house. Yeah, you can come over anytime you want.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, it's one of the only streaming services I used
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  Speaker 2: because they have good movie movies excuse me, and the
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  Speaker 2: shows are really good.
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  Speaker 1: Have you watched the Billy Joel interview, I have not. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things that he he says in there,
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  Speaker 1: one of which is encouraging about his health because you know,
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  Speaker 1: he canceled the tour. He has this brain disorder, and
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  Speaker 1: apparently in the What's Running Right Now Part two is
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  Speaker 1: coming out Friday, but he tells Bill Mahers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I feel good, he said, My balance stinks. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like being on a boat all the time. But
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  Speaker 1: I feel good. And the doctors are working on it,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he's he's in good spirits and he's
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  Speaker 1: very encouraging. But he's what's seventy six now? And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I hope they take it seriously, Yeah, seventy six. They
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  Speaker 1: don't know what causes this brain disorder. He said quite
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  Speaker 1: frankly that he thought it was from drinking, because he's
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  Speaker 1: been sober for a couple of years now. But Billy
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  Speaker 1: was a he was a drinker, and that's how he
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  Speaker 1: got into the motorcycle rrec I believe where they said
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  Speaker 1: he'll never play piano again, and he showed them differently.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to see this and I don't have HBO. Max.
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  Speaker 1: Also this take, which kind of surprised me because I've
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  Speaker 1: never thought about Billy is not a political person. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't come out like you know, like Springsteen or Mellencamp.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't come out on stage and preach to you.
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  Speaker 1: He plays music.
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  Speaker 2: But in.
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  Speaker 1: This interview on Club Random, which is Mar's podcast, was
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  Speaker 1: released yesterday, he said, at this point they were talking
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  Speaker 1: about the you know, woke people out there. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a nerd to it. I've never heard the word
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  Speaker 1: in nerd before, Joel said. In his reply to Mayor Mar,
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  Speaker 1: asking if he doesn't care what people criticize him, he said, uh.
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  Speaker 1: One of his songs, I believe I passed the age
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  Speaker 1: of consciousness and righteousness rage. I found that just surviving
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  Speaker 1: was a noble fight I once believed in because causes too.
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  Speaker 1: I had my pointless point of view, and life went
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  Speaker 1: on no matter who was wrong or right. With help
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  Speaker 1: from Billy Joel, Bill Maher recited those lyrics and commented,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's a message of the age that
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  Speaker 1: even some people will hear it and say, look, these
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  Speaker 1: two are blanks, and Billy Joel said. Boomers chimed, I've
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  Speaker 1: not known but to say he doesn't care about the
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  Speaker 1: the woke the left, and he asked him directly. Bill
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  Speaker 1: Maher said, you don't care what they say about you,
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  Speaker 1: and Billy Joel said at this point no. On the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, I'm always trying to find out the other
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  Speaker 1: point of view. What's you know, not my point of view,
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  Speaker 1: somebody else's point of view, Okay, I'd like to understand
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  Speaker 1: why they think that way. So that sounds to me
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  Speaker 1: like Billy's a little more right leaning than a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people in his what's the word ilk profession genre lifestyle,
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  Speaker 1: East Hollywood, California. After plotting a car inside this see
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  Speaker 1: this is street justice taken way overward after plowing his
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  Speaker 1: car into a crowd outside in La nightclub, the driver
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  Speaker 1: was beaten and shot by bystanders bustling East Tyllywood Nightclub.
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  Speaker 1: Dangerous turned Saturday car barreled through the crowd onto the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 1: injured at least thirty six people. Crash occurred outside the
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  Speaker 1: Vermont Hollywood. Twenty nine year old Fernando Ramirez had reportedly
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  Speaker 1: been kicked out for being disruptive before police say that
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  Speaker 1: he intentionally drove his car into the crowd. The suspect
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  Speaker 1: was dragged out of his car by bystanders, beaten. One
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  Speaker 1: person pulled out a gun and shot him in the
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  Speaker 1: lower back, police said. Video footage after the crash showed
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  Speaker 1: the blood on the street, injured patrons sprawled all over
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  Speaker 1: the payment. First responders arrived, seven of the injury in
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  Speaker 1: critical condition. The crowd had gathered outside for valet services.
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  Speaker 1: Food stands well see now Ginther's onto something right were
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  Speaker 1: out there by and brought worst after ten pm.
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  Speaker 2: If it's after ten, it's they didn't have it out there.
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  Speaker 1: Food stands and entry to the nightclub at taco stand
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  Speaker 1: and valet podium were among the structures hit. The venue
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  Speaker 1: itself had no structural damage. Ramirez, who remains hospitalized, was
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  Speaker 1: arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, but
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  Speaker 1: a motive has not yet been identified. He was mad
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  Speaker 1: and drunk. That here's what we know so far, as
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  Speaker 1: investigators pieced together what happened that night, it was around
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  Speaker 1: two am local time. Patrons were leaving driver vered onto
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  Speaker 1: the sidewalk, construct multiple individuals. They said in a statement.
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  Speaker 1: The club was hosting a reggae hip hop event ten
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  Speaker 1: pm to two am, according to its online calendar, fight
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  Speaker 1: broke out outside of the club before the crash. Maria
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  Speaker 1: Medrano told the Associated Press that she was selling hot
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  Speaker 1: dogs alongside her husband, who nerdally escaped injury and the
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  Speaker 1: police initially reported to our reports of an assault with
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  Speaker 1: the deadly weapon, arrived to find the car had plowed
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  Speaker 1: through the crowd. I detaining, even maybe roughing him up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. I I wouldn't have been surprised, but
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  Speaker 1: somebody pulled out a gun and shot the guy in
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  Speaker 1: the back. That's going a little too far, just saying.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, sky West who sky West is Delta? Is
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  Speaker 1: that right? You worked at an airport?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't think sky West was anywhere that
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  Speaker 2: I worked.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, that's a subsidiary of Delta Air.
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  Speaker 2: There's a ton of them, like a ton of local ones.
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  Speaker 2: There'll be a subsidiary of Delta. And like Wisconsin, you've
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  Speaker 2: never heard of that only flies and Wisconsin and Michigan
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  Speaker 2: or something, so that's hard to them.
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  Speaker 1: When Alex Stone was talking about that near mishap in
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  Speaker 1: the air, it was a sky West flight that had
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  Speaker 1: been diverted, right, which.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, it is a subsidiary of Delta.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at that immediately the light bulb went off
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  Speaker 1: because somebody had sent me on Messenger early today, like
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  Speaker 1: at Newnish a story from the WSYX website about a
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  Speaker 1: plane that was on its way to Detroit and it
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  Speaker 1: diverted to Columbus, no reason given, no, at least the
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  Speaker 1: last time I looked. There's no story behind this story.
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  Speaker 1: But it also was a sky West flight, and I
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  Speaker 1: found it odd that sky West was in two stories
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  Speaker 1: in one day, especially when I have not heard of
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  Speaker 1: them before. Suddenly boom boom twice just seemed a little straight.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want going to I'm not gonna go tenfoil
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  Speaker 1: head on you. I'm just saying I found it a
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  Speaker 1: little odd. And if you got the music cueued up,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to be ready with that, Zach, because
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  Speaker 1: I want to let you know before we get out
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  Speaker 1: of here. We were talking about the the politicians failing
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  Speaker 1: to come back to override what they were trying to
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  Speaker 1: override with the Governor Mike Dewines up what they're calling
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  Speaker 1: property tax vetos. I fail to see how they are
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  Speaker 1: property tax vetos, as property taxes are you know, collected
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  Speaker 1: and distributed at the county level. I see nothing on
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  Speaker 1: the disbursement that says state property tax. And so I
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  Speaker 1: was questioning that, and our state Senator Andrew Britner was
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  Speaker 1: sending me text messages and he said I was pretty
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  Speaker 1: much on target with what they're doing basically is trying
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  Speaker 1: to get this amendment pass that would it would essentially
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  Speaker 1: regulate how levees are placed to keep these you know,
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  Speaker 1: invisible fees from showing up. You vote a levee for
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  Speaker 1: you know, say the school, and the next thing you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's more money being taken out because it's also going
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  Speaker 1: to fund Code of But nobody told you that upfront,
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  Speaker 1: and so they want to they want to clarify that
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  Speaker 1: and keep the little mystery levees and mystery dollars for
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  Speaker 1: being added to property taxes. That is the amendment that
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  Speaker 1: I guess they want to pass, but the House needs
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  Speaker 1: to get done with it because that's where it originated
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  Speaker 1: before the Senate, where state Senator Britter is working before
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  Speaker 1: they can take any action and amend this thing. And
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  Speaker 1: that's where we are right now. The number of dollars
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  Speaker 1: get taken off. Who knows we need to clarify that
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  Speaker 1: once it's passed, because I hate to go Polosi on it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll know what's in the bill when we pass it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's kind of where I am. And a big
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  Speaker 1: thanks to Andrew Binner give me the Andrew Bitner theme
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  Speaker 1: song for texting me while working on his tractor today.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he was. He said, I'm listening to you
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  Speaker 1: in the headphones. I can't call you because I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: out here on the tractor working right now. But bless
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  Speaker 1: his heart for at least trying to trying to clarify
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  Speaker 1: what's gone this story. It's bad enough when the headlines
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  Speaker 1: are not accurate, but if they are accurate and I
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  Speaker 1: just can't grasp the story, that makes me even crazier
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  Speaker 1: because I want to understand. I really do, and I
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  Speaker 1: have the capability, I have the capacity to understand, and
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  Speaker 1: yet I don't. So as soon as it is feasible, practicable,
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  Speaker 1: I will get Maybe Senator Brinner, some other members of
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  Speaker 1: the legislature, we will get them in here and actually
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  Speaker 1: talk about you know, Okay, here's what your taxes were,
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  Speaker 1: here's what they're going to be, and here's what we
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  Speaker 1: did to make that happen. Because I think ultimately that's
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  Speaker 1: what we care about, isn't it how many dollars am
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  Speaker 1: I going to stop playing in blackmail every year to
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  Speaker 1: continue to own my home that I paid for with
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  Speaker 1: post tax dollars that you shouldn't be taxing anyway,