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Lotto winners with a twist a cannibal released from prison and Roberta Flack memories · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Joe was standing by with something about ROBERTA. Flack. How
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  Speaker 1: are you, Joe, I'm just great.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to tell you what ROBERTA. Flact Is meant
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  Speaker 2: to me and my wife. Okay, back in nineteen seventy two,
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  Speaker 2: I spotted my wife in the window of a jewelry store.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's an expensive first look. I just want you
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  Speaker 1: to know that, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it turned into a fifty years of really great love.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: And when we got married, she walked down the aisle
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  Speaker 2: at the church to ROBERTA FLAC's first time ever, I
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  Speaker 2: saw your face. Oh yeah. And this past summer we
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  Speaker 2: celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary and I get an awful
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff to surprise her. But one of the
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  Speaker 2: things was when we renewed our vows at my church
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  Speaker 2: that I get too. I add ROBERTA flex first time ever,
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  Speaker 2: I saw your face playing as she walked down the aisle.
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  Speaker 1: That is beautiful, Joe. And that song, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: that that song is very memorable. But also for somebody
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  Speaker 1: who loves to sing along, that is one of the
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  Speaker 1: hardest songs in the world to sing along with her
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  Speaker 1: her pays her. It's almost just a free form type
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  Speaker 1: of song. But it's so beautiful you don't even care
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: That's absolutely true, Absolutely true. But I just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: share that with you and let you know that there
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  Speaker 2: is still some of us guys out there who have
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  Speaker 2: a very what do you.
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  Speaker 1: Call it, a romantic streak.
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  Speaker 2: Romantic streak.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. I'm right along with you, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks very much. Else, And I love.
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  Speaker 2: Her just as much today as I did the day
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  Speaker 2: I saw her.
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  Speaker 1: Ever, let a day go by that you don't tell
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  Speaker 1: her that.
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  Speaker 2: I try not to.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, buddy, take care of yourself. Stay warm tonight. Shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be too hard with our low in the mid thirties.
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  Speaker 1: Good few days here. Yeah, I just I can't say
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  Speaker 1: enough as a listener of music, how much I appreciated
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  Speaker 1: she was. She was very much like John Denver to me,
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  Speaker 1: because I've often described him the same way. Pure, just
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  Speaker 1: there was no there was no what do you call
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  Speaker 1: that crap that they used today? Yeah, auto tune stuff,
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  Speaker 1: just pure. And I'm not talking about Thank God, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a country boy, which you know anybody, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: you listen to Annie's song or Rocky Mountain High and
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  Speaker 1: you just hear the purity of Denver's voice, and ROBERTA.
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  Speaker 1: Flack was very very much the same way. And as
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  Speaker 1: Mark and I were talking earlier about progress and change
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  Speaker 1: not being the same thing, we have changed a great
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  Speaker 1: deal musically over fifty years, but I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: it's necessarily progress, because I appreciate thoughtful lyrics and soulful
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  Speaker 1: delivery and clarity of that delivery. And it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: think even though today you turn on what does that
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  Speaker 1: show Lionel Richie? Is he still a voice guy? A
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  Speaker 1: judge on that one? The voice or America's Got talent
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  Speaker 1: or one of those. I haven't any idea.
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  Speaker 3: I've never watched any of them. I find the voice
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  Speaker 3: was where they they have three judges and they turn
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  Speaker 3: around to see the person or something, or am I
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  Speaker 3: thinking of the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not sure. I don't watch any
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  Speaker 1: of them. I see clips on Facebook now and then.
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  Speaker 1: But I find it odd that these people, the country
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  Speaker 1: artists and people like Lionel Richie, who made their bones,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, writing and performing these thoughtful songs that
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  Speaker 1: had meaning behind them, are sitting in judgment of people
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  Speaker 1: who will today come on there and perform in a
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  Speaker 1: way that they understand, but go on to careers that
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  Speaker 1: don't come anywhere close to what they did. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a little odd.
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  Speaker 3: He's still on American Idol.
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  Speaker 1: It seems okay, see a good ballad, man you used
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  Speaker 1: to You couldn't lose with a good ballad. That's why
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  Speaker 1: there were Lionel Richies and Barry Manilow's out there, because
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  Speaker 1: you grabbed the heartstrings. Now, I don't know that I've
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  Speaker 1: heard anything that passes as a ballot in fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: So I will I will probably go to sleep tonight
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  Speaker 1: with ROBERTA in my headphones, especially the Donnie Hathaway duets.
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  Speaker 1: I love those. Here in the state of Ohio, group
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  Speaker 1: of Ohioans and former Attorney General Mark Dan Yeah I know,
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  Speaker 1: scored a major victory with a Franklin County judge ordered
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  Speaker 1: Governor Mike Dewin to recoup nine hundred million dollars he
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  Speaker 1: declined from the federal government for unemployment. In twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: a class action lawsuit was filed against the governor on
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  Speaker 1: behalf of those who were receiving unemployment benefits during that time.
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  Speaker 1: Franklin County Judge Michael Holbrook Yeah ruled that dowahin turning
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  Speaker 1: away nine hundred million dollars in federal unemployment benefits was
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  Speaker 1: against state law. So not just a bad move, but
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  Speaker 1: again a law. The line into the federal Pandemic Unemployment
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  Speaker 1: Compensation Program ten weeks early in twenty twenty one, which,
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  Speaker 1: considering you know, the thumb he put on us, the
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  Speaker 1: government put on us and act and put on us
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  Speaker 1: during COVID, seemed kind of odd that he ended ten
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  Speaker 1: weeks early. That program paid out an additional three hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars per week to ohioan's receiving unemployment benefits. More than
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  Speaker 1: three hundred thousand people were receiving benefits from the pandemic
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  Speaker 1: fueled program. I couldn't make the rent, one of the
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  Speaker 1: lawsuits plaintiffs, Michelle Carr said, I was unemployed. I was
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  Speaker 1: out looking for jobs throughout. You know, I love it
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  Speaker 1: a small town. They really ain't a whole whole lot here.
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  Speaker 1: That's their quote. That's how it's pretty. The next one
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  Speaker 1: is we put all our faith in him. Another plaintiffic
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  Speaker 1: said in the lawsuit, justin purtue set and we feel
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  Speaker 1: like he let us down. He is still and he
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  Speaker 1: still is. It's not about you know, Republican Democrat. It's
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  Speaker 1: just about doing the right thing. Attorney for the governor's
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  Speaker 1: office have filed an appeal to this ruling. My question
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  Speaker 1: is where's it going to come from? I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: we were still under the Biden Kamala Harris, okay, maybe
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  Speaker 1: maybe you would stand a chance. Now follow me here,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you would stand a chance. But under the Trump administration,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to go back and dip from three
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  Speaker 1: years ago nine hundred million dollars to put into the
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  Speaker 1: state offers, especially when there's no stated reason for them now,
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  Speaker 1: and especially if it's a violation of law. So if
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  Speaker 1: Judge Holbrook finds it's a violation of law, if that
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  Speaker 1: money is not obtainable from the federal government, where does
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  Speaker 1: the nine hundred million come from? Since the wine is
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  Speaker 1: named specifically in the complaint, where does the nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: million come from? I don't see how that? Am I
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  Speaker 1: missing something? Do you see how this gets resolved? If
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  Speaker 1: the if the Trump administration says, no, you missed out
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  Speaker 1: on it. You don't get it. Now there's a new
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  Speaker 1: game in town. Where does the nine hundred million come from.
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  Speaker 3: He hopefully has a big car collection. He could sell nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't get it. I mean, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get any of that COVID crap quite frankly, Connecticut cannibal
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  Speaker 1: killer given unc I'm sorry, given conditional Yes, put the
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  Speaker 1: conditional release after twenty one or twenty eleven murder in
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  Speaker 1: which he ate the victim's brain and one of their eyes. No,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot make this crap up. An institutionalized man who
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  Speaker 1: confessed to the twenty eleven killing of a homeless man
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  Speaker 1: in Connecticut, in which he also ate victims body parts
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  Speaker 1: in a cemetery, was granted a conditional release. Tyree Smith
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  Speaker 1: granted this released by a Nutmeg State Psychiatric Security Review
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  Speaker 1: board on Friday, allowing him to leave Connecticut Valley Hospital
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  Speaker 1: in Middletown, although he will remain under adult supervision. I
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  Speaker 1: no under supervision and will continue to receive mental health services.
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  Speaker 1: It really Smith's doctor said that the cannibal killer has
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  Speaker 1: been rehabilitated. No, you know how they say, when a
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  Speaker 1: dog tastes blood, you got to put the dog down.
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  Speaker 1: How do you rehabilitate somebody who is screwed up enough
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  Speaker 1: in their head, that they took a life, eight parts
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  Speaker 1: of their victim in a cemetery, and he's been rehabilitated,
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  Speaker 1: really really, to quote the director there, he is a joy.
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  Speaker 1: He's considered a support to the other people there. What
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  Speaker 1: they're letting this guy out, he'll be supervised. Well, we've
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  Speaker 1: seen how supervised goes, haven't we. This man should never, ever, ever,
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  Speaker 1: ever walk among human beings again. I'm sorry. You know,
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  Speaker 1: heat of the moment and you got no and you
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  Speaker 1: shot some Okay, maybe maybe you could be here, but
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  Speaker 1: but this guy, I don't think so. I'm sorry. Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: I used to think was such a wonderful place. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so now. And last, but not least, this
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  Speaker 1: is a story. He's act sent me a lottery ticket
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  Speaker 1: story that I just I think this is only fair.
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  Speaker 1: This is just thieves used a stolen credit card to
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  Speaker 1: buy a winning French lottery ticket worth half a million
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  Speaker 1: year heroes. That's about five hundred and twenty three thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: But they vanished before they cashed it in, and now
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  Speaker 1: they're among France's most famous fugitives. The man whose card
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  Speaker 1: was stolen Listen to me now, the man whose card
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  Speaker 1: was stolen identified in police documents, is offering to split
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  Speaker 1: the cash with the lucky winners. He wants his wallet
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  Speaker 1: back too. Here's my Cassillon put a Franz. If you
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  Speaker 1: know this guy's card was stolen, and you know this
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  Speaker 1: guy's card was used to buy the ticket, why do
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  Speaker 1: you need him to split it with the other guys.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't he just be able to get the money. If
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  Speaker 1: you're able to say that the winning ticket was bought
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  Speaker 1: with his credit card, then you know he paid for
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  Speaker 1: the ticket on his credit card. So shouldn't he just
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  Speaker 1: get the five hundred and twenty three thousand dollars? Forget
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  Speaker 1: the criminals, This guy should just get it. The thieves, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: face the risk of arrest. As of Saturday, the state
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  Speaker 1: lottery operator said that no one had submitted the ticket
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  Speaker 1: to cash out. Jean David discovered earlier this month that
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  Speaker 1: his backpack had been stolen from his car in this
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  Speaker 1: city of Toulouse, including bank cards and other documents. I
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  Speaker 1: think this guy should get the five hundred twenty three thousand.
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  Speaker 1: I just I think it would be the right thing
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  Speaker 1: to do if they can prove his credit card bought
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  Speaker 1: the winning ticket. Forget whether he has the ticket or not,
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  Speaker 1: forget whether the criminals have turned in the ticket or not,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, Zach. Should he get the buddy? Maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: He's not the one who bought the ticket.
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  Speaker 1: Well, his credit card bought the ticket.
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  Speaker 3: He should have held onto it better if he had.
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  Speaker 1: Five hundred twenty three thousand. Do you imagine how much
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  Speaker 1: he could spend on having you repair his lawnmower?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know, no all jokes aside. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: that should be his money.