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Energy prices and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: The utility bill just sent me off today, the gas
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  Speaker 1: bills is it made me crazy and I wanted I
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  Speaker 1: want to say that I did. I did reach out
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  Speaker 1: to Columbia Gas, Columbia Gas of Ohio, I guess is
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  Speaker 1: their official and anyway, send an email into him and said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm a bit I'm a bit confused here.
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  Speaker 1: This is kind of crazy that the bill is like this.
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  Speaker 1: And where when I didn't know what Spires Energy was,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I did not authorize any change. Columbia Gas
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio was supposed to be my provider. And I
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  Speaker 1: did get a message back, a nice email from an
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  Speaker 1: Erica Coronaberry. I believe that is who is a communications
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  Speaker 1: director for Columbia Gas of Ohio and Pennsylvany, Ohio and
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  Speaker 1: Maryland and uh and it was a very detailed email
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  Speaker 1: as to why it is what it is. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't like what it is. It's that simple, which is
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  Speaker 1: why I went in and found a new supplier of
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  Speaker 1: natural gas today. If you missed the first part of
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  Speaker 1: the show, if you're on my Facebook page, just so
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  Speaker 1: to my Facebook page. The last thing I posted is
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  Speaker 1: a link to the comparison page where you can look
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  Speaker 1: at what you're paying on your gas bill and then
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  Speaker 1: look at what's available to you. I personally recommend locking
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  Speaker 1: in and not going at the variable rate. That's just
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  Speaker 1: my nature. You can do what you want. But instead
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  Speaker 1: of the dollars seven per cubic foot that Columbia Gas
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  Speaker 1: is charging me through the Spires Energy that they chose
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  Speaker 1: as my provider, I'm now going to pay forty nine
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  Speaker 1: point nine cents per cubic foot instead of a dollar
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  Speaker 1: seven per cubic foot. That should make the bills a
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  Speaker 1: little easier to handle. And it's linked on my Facebook page.
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  Speaker 1: Right now A two on nine eight eighty six A
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  Speaker 1: two WTV And back to your calls, Randy are on
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  Speaker 1: the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line, type.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, how's it going?
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  Speaker 1: Fine, sir? How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well. A couple of other things, Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: I talked to In the last election, that's Throuma City
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  Speaker 2: residents actually voted for right thirteen to seventeen percent rate
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  Speaker 2: hike for infrastructure stuff due to the city. And another
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  Speaker 2: thing is I know that anything the city votes on there,
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  Speaker 2: everybody in the city gets to vote on there. The
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  Speaker 2: overside board for the police Department I live in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the West Side, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Franklin Township and that overside board. I was not allowed
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  Speaker 2: to vote for that issue, but it directly affects me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, everything is I've never heard of a vote for
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  Speaker 1: a price or a rate increase for the public utility.
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  Speaker 1: That's something that goes in front of the PUCO and
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  Speaker 1: then they make a decision on behalf of the people.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't get to vote on those.
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  Speaker 2: Man. I think it's in that big build that the
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  Speaker 2: mayor put out there. They asked for a thirteen or
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  Speaker 2: seventy percent rate hike consent for the city to do
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure work.
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  Speaker 1: That you're talking about part of the bond package. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if there's any money in there designated for
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  Speaker 1: AEP or not. But now that you said that, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to have to go back and look, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Not put my word on it, you know, I'm handing
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  Speaker 2: that it's in there because it doesn't found it when
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  Speaker 2: people passed it. I'm like, you voted on it, this
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  Speaker 2: ship for real. But it part of my language. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but not everything that the city, like, everything that is
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  Speaker 2: voted on in the city, not everybody gets to vote
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  Speaker 2: on that and you are directly effective by it, which
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  Speaker 2: does not make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah, if you live outside of the city, like well,
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  Speaker 1: with you in Franklin Township. Mark was talking earlier. He
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  Speaker 1: lives in Delaware, but he works in Columbus, so he's
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  Speaker 1: got to pay income tax to Columbus as well as
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  Speaker 1: what he pays in Delaware. And yeah, I mean you
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  Speaker 1: you should have a say if you're going.
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  Speaker 2: To pay any Brown Road. I'm on Brown Road, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. That's so much the center of
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  Speaker 2: the west side, so I should that directly affects me
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  Speaker 2: because except we have Franklin Township Police, but I'm in
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  Speaker 2: the city at Columbus, you know what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 2: I think has readen. Some of this stuff gets fast
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  Speaker 2: because they pick and choose who gets to vote on
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  Speaker 2: this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and be thankfully you got Franklin Township Police still
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  Speaker 1: over there, buddy. That's they They are trying to dismantle
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  Speaker 1: that too, and it's uh, it's between the police and
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  Speaker 1: the fire station shutting down.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're down to just one now. I think
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  Speaker 1: one ninety two is the only functioning Franklin Township Fire Department,
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  Speaker 1: and I want them to continue, but I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if they will. They may. I could see merging with
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Jackson Township and in the long run maybe even
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  Speaker 1: being swallowed up by Grove City if if they've got
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  Speaker 1: any say about it. Hopefully Columbus will never swallow them up.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, Time time will TEL.
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  Speaker 1: I just hope not A two one ninety six eight
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  Speaker 1: two one WTVN and Pat, you're on the Legacy Retirement
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  Speaker 1: Group dot com phone lines. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm fine? Hey, Chuck AEP with the space Energy so
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  Speaker 3: it is the same one, same AEP as an office
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  Speaker 3: out herelf of Morrison and Claycraft. Thereof two seventy Ghanna
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  Speaker 3: and I believe we did. They came in somebody wanted
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  Speaker 3: to raise or something. Oh, I don't know what. We
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  Speaker 3: didn't vote. They went to the PUCO to get money
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  Speaker 3: to clip their put up new lines. Do all this
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  Speaker 3: stuff right? They used to do that. The lines are
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  Speaker 3: insured at one time. They probably took it to stop that.
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  Speaker 1: But they should be insured. That is your equipment. That
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  Speaker 1: is part of doing business. You should be containing yourself.
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  Speaker 1: We should just because you want a new pair of shoes.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't come to me to buy them.
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  Speaker 3: Well, one more thing, the city of Columbus at one
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  Speaker 3: time got to pick your gas supplier.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a long time ago. I remember that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if they stopped that or not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm going a loss, and you watch what
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  Speaker 3: all they do. We're getting stuck with everything for everybody
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  Speaker 3: and just support middle classes just dying.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what they've done now is that they've allowed the
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  Speaker 1: utility company to choose your provider for you unless you
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  Speaker 1: choose otherwise.
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  Speaker 3: Correct. Correct, And there's a lot of people might not
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  Speaker 3: even be able to do anything about that because they
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  Speaker 3: don't have a computer in a time to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Poor people don't have that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good point. The people that are hurting the
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  Speaker 1: most paying those bills probably don't have access to everything
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  Speaker 1: that all right, Now, see, Pat, you're gonna make me
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  Speaker 1: do some public service stuff. You watch. Maybe we can
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  Speaker 1: get something going at a couple of the libraries or
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  Speaker 1: a couple of churches or something and try to head
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  Speaker 1: this off before next whether next season's whether.
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  Speaker 3: It gets bad, yes, sir, take care of all right, you.
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  Speaker 1: Two, Pat, I appreciate the call a two one six
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  Speaker 1: a two one WTV. And that's an next interesting point though,
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  Speaker 1: if for the people that don't know how to sign
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  Speaker 1: up for it, and honestly from everything I know, especially
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  Speaker 1: if you're dealing with those the programs, the Home Energy
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  Speaker 1: Assistance Program or what they what do they call the
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  Speaker 1: PIT program where you pay a percentage you get like
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  Speaker 1: a reduced rate based on income or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: What I heard last year is that the number of
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  Speaker 1: people that are applying for this is just gone through
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  Speaker 1: the roof as well. So Frank, I don't know when
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  Speaker 1: they start letting you apply for it for the next year,
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  Speaker 1: but I'd be there on day one, day one to
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  Speaker 1: get my application in for that kind of thing, because
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to get to the point where, well,
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  Speaker 1: too many people have applied, we don't have any more
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  Speaker 1: money to fund it. And that happens more often than not.
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  Speaker 1: Never never. It doesn't seem for like, you know, people
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  Speaker 1: who need new new parking spaces for their private jets,
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  Speaker 1: but for stuff like you know, I got a help
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  Speaker 1: help with the GASH bill so I can feed my children. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they always seem to run out of funds for them
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  Speaker 1: A two one nine eight eighty six data. You're on
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  Speaker 1: six ten double the UTV in something completely different a
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  Speaker 1: few months ago. Why are you thought about something completely different?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it may be it's related to what the city
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  Speaker 4: was doing to you and you were getting tired of
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  Speaker 4: and you were thinking about moving to a small town
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  Speaker 4: really sturgishly, And I thought, are you still considering.
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  Speaker 1: It at I consider it every day of my life, Dana,
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know what you.
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  Speaker 4: Have planned for the joke for the kids who were
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  Speaker 4: a fourteen year older for Summer Humanity. But the rec
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  Speaker 4: centers are starting hiring, I believe in March, and it
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  Speaker 4: struck the amount of fifteen dollars an hour for fourteen
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  Speaker 4: year old and it's an eight week period and they
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  Speaker 4: employed them for that and they get to do a
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  Speaker 4: lot of nice things and help other people out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's kind of an offshoot of what we
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  Speaker 1: used to call SIDA when I was a teenager. It
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  Speaker 1: was a city a city employment program. Sometimes it'd be
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  Speaker 1: at rec centers. Sometimes you'd be out working with you know,
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  Speaker 1: the crews in parks and recreation picking up sticks or
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  Speaker 1: you know, groundskeeping stuff like that. But yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful thing, and I'm glad to see that seems
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  Speaker 1: to be uh, you know, kind of coming back. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what this when this program originated they're running now,
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  Speaker 1: but I was glad to hear about it this year.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I hope you don't leave the Columbus market, but
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  Speaker 4: as you do, I want to watch your good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I appreciate that data. This is my hometown.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to uh, it's it would be very hard
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  Speaker 1: for me to not be here. While at the same
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  Speaker 1: time as I look around and I see things like
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  Speaker 1: you know, tonight five o'clock, five o'clock this afternoon, got
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  Speaker 1: a shooting. Somebody seriously injured in a shooting. Where the
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  Speaker 1: library Martin Luther King Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library.
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  Speaker 1: My grandsons go to a couple of different libraries, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, I'm to the point where I
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  Speaker 1: don't even like them going there because between the crackheads
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  Speaker 1: and the homeless people in the bathroom and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: it's just not a safe place. The library is not
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  Speaker 1: Remember the library when I was a kid, Zach, when
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  Speaker 1: you were a kid, when you went to a library,
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  Speaker 1: did you hear somebody when you walked in. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you got to be real. QUI see now, No, not now.
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  Speaker 1: You go in there now and it's like it's like
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  Speaker 1: the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. It's just yeah,
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  Speaker 1: being quiet.
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  Speaker 2: Was that's the point of a library.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is. And I keep trying to tell the boys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, look, you got everything. Every piece of information
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  Speaker 1: that mankind has ever had is available to you, either
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  Speaker 1: through books or even online in this building. It's a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful resource. The trouble is the atmosphere is not conducive.
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  Speaker 1: So you got the you know, shooting of the library tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday we had a you know, a kid that they
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  Speaker 1: arrested today, by the way, at Dominion Middle School for
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  Speaker 1: having a gun. They found the gun in his locker.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with that. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure what the story is behind it. I know Dominion
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, was a junior high school
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  Speaker 1: and it was a gifted and talented school. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it's still that or not. But stories like
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  Speaker 1: this pretty much every day, somebody shooting somebody, somebody killing somebody,
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  Speaker 1: somebody beating somebody at a gas station, and you know
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  Speaker 1: every time I go to get gas, I get and
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, sir, from somebody. Yesterday, yesterday, I pulled up
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  Speaker 1: to an intersection on my beloved West Side and I
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  Speaker 1: was driving. It's nice, the weather was nice. I had
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  Speaker 1: the window down. I had a cigarett my mouth, but
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't lit it yet because I had the window down.
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  Speaker 1: And I pull up to the intersection, to the stop sign,
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  Speaker 1: and for like fifty feet away, somebody down the sidewalkers, hey,
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  Speaker 1: could I buy a cigarette? Really? Really? Yeah. As much
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  Speaker 1: as I love my hometown, moments like that make me
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  Speaker 1: wonder where the closest Mayberry is. And so when the
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  Speaker 1: weather's nice during the spring and summer, it's one of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons I'm on the road as much as I am.
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  Speaker 1: And I love it when some client says, Hey, i'd
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  Speaker 1: like to see a house that's up by Mount Vernon.
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  Speaker 1: Would you mind showing it? Absolutely not, man, because I'll
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  Speaker 1: drive through Mount Vernon and Fredericktown and all through the air,
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  Speaker 1: just just looking and thinking if i'd like to stay
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  Speaker 1: close to home. I definitely love my microphone, but just
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  Speaker 1: getting away from what is quickly becoming the norm my
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  Speaker 1: hometown is becoming more and more desirable, so we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what the future holds