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Speaker 1: Well, we're about to celebrate Labor.

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Speaker 2: Day, and let's spend some time today talking about how

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Speaker 2: you are just basically laboring yourself into a slave.

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Speaker 3: Existence showing Okay, it's kind of a Casey shuts uplifting

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Speaker 3: in fun.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look at the reality and we are

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Speaker 2: the we are the show. Or if you want to

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Speaker 2: feel good about yourself, or you want to hug or

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Speaker 2: you want to be the lied to, you come to

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Speaker 2: the wrong place. If you want the hard facts about

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Speaker 2: what's going on in society and who the people are

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Speaker 2: that run it and how they use and abuse you,

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Speaker 2: we are the place. We are the place for the

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Speaker 2: adults to have the adult conversation. Okay, it's Kenel Casey

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Speaker 2: show im Rob Casey's here. And you know, I was

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Speaker 2: having this conversation with a very dear friend of mine

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Speaker 2: who is who spent decades in the radio industry and

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Speaker 2: had a lot of success in this in this business.

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Speaker 2: And we had lunch yesterday and we were talking about

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Speaker 2: the position radio is in and he said something was

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Speaker 2: very interesting. He said, from about from the nineteen sixties

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Speaker 2: until the mid nineties, the worker in the radio industry

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Speaker 2: had all the power because the radio the radio executive

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Speaker 2: was always fearful that if you got blown out, you

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Speaker 2: were going to walk across the street and make them pay.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't so much.

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Speaker 2: They kept around because they liked you, but they were

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Speaker 2: worried because of the dominant stranglehold that radio had in

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Speaker 2: terms of the entertainment industry and in every individual major market,

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Speaker 2: especially when like Indianapolis, that you could walk across the

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Speaker 3: Well, that's why non competes came into existence.

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Speaker 2: Well, right, and so then obviously through a variety of

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Speaker 2: things that have happened in this in this industry, the

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Speaker 2: corporate takeovers, the ability to own many radio stations in

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Speaker 2: a market, et cetera. Over the last thirty years, the

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Speaker 2: power of the worker in this business, unless you're a

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Speaker 2: tippy tippy top person is basically non existent. And the

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Speaker 2: answer to that is the industry has rigged it to

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Speaker 2: where they no longer fear the worker. And which is

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Speaker 2: which is which is timely because we're about people are

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Speaker 2: about to embark on a Labor Day celebration, which is

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Speaker 2: a celebration of the labor movement, the worker movement in

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Speaker 2: this country, and I was thinking about that we're having

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Speaker 2: that conversation instagram. I was thinking about that how it

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Speaker 2: relates to what's going on with our government, which is

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Speaker 2: because of the way that the politicians have rigged the

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Speaker 2: system itself. And we're having this conversation front and center

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Speaker 2: as it relates to gerrymandering, right, And that really is

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Speaker 2: the way they have most rigged the process in which

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Speaker 2: they have drawn these districts to where the only thing

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Speaker 2: the politician really has to fear now it's Republicans in

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Speaker 2: our state, it's Democrats and other states, the only thing.

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Speaker 1: They have to fear losing power.

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Speaker 2: Is losing primary, is losing a primary, and otherwise other

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Speaker 2: than that, they hang on to their power. And so

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Speaker 2: what they've come to recognize is you don't have the

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Speaker 2: power anymore. The same way as the radio executive doesn't

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Speaker 2: fear the worker anymore because there ain't nowhere to go right,

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Speaker 2: the politician doesn't fear you, the voter anymore, because the

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Speaker 2: system is so set up to where the power brokers dictate.

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Speaker 2: The power brokers are the party leadership, they're the people,

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Speaker 2: the money behind the behind, the lead, behind the why

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Speaker 2: won't anybody touch Secretary of State Diego.

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Speaker 1: Morales because of the money.

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Speaker 2: The money, right, everybody knows who the money is, and

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Speaker 2: everybody knows that the money touches almost all of them.

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Speaker 3: M hmm.

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Speaker 2: You look at who the people who are who are

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Speaker 2: willing to get mouthy about Diego, the people who don't

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Speaker 2: care about the money. Andrew Ireland came in here yesterday

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Speaker 2: and did the thing where he showed all the receipts.

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Speaker 2: That was a giant middle finger to Diego Morales because

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Speaker 2: they doesn't care about the money. He doesn't care if

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Speaker 2: they unelect him tomorrow. He doesn't care. And so when

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Speaker 2: you look at the system being rigged, coupled with and

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Speaker 2: this is what's important, the apathy of the citizen, the

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Speaker 2: money and the power believes they can beat you because

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Speaker 2: of the general apathy of this of the citizen ourselves.

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Speaker 3: Well clearly they can. We saw it on full display

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Speaker 3: to look at the property tax rally, right, We had

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Speaker 3: a thousand people show up. It was the number one

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Speaker 3: talking point. The governor put it on his platform that

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Speaker 3: it wasn't even there before. He said, yep, this is

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Speaker 3: a problem. We all showed up and they what did

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Speaker 1: Go along, and so thee nothing happens.

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Speaker 2: So these politicians believe they can get away with anything,

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Speaker 2: and we're about to talk about one who just did.

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Speaker 2: But it's happened time and time and time again. So

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Speaker 2: there has now been a plea agreement in the Mike

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Speaker 2: Bohatchik case. So for those of you who may not remember,

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Speaker 2: Mike Bohatchick is a senator from Northern Indiana, a Republican,

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Speaker 2: a state senator. Who I mean, he's pled guilty now,

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Speaker 2: so there's no Allegedly, he was incredibly drunk, almost sak

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Speaker 2: three and a half times the legal limit. He was

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Speaker 2: so drunk in a pand Express that the pand Express

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Speaker 2: people or the people at the pand Express called the

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Speaker 2: whistle on him. How drunk do you have to be

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Speaker 2: that the pand Express people or people at the pand

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Speaker 2: Express are like, hey, that guy can't be getting an

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Speaker 2: automobile exactly. And then of course so they you know,

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Speaker 2: I think multiple people call the police on this guy,

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Speaker 2: and he then gets pulled over. He can't even follow

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Speaker 2: basic commands from the officer. He's trying to drink and

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Speaker 2: eat his food.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got food all over.

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Speaker 2: Well, the officer is giving him commands on what to do.

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Speaker 2: He refuses the breathalyzer. I think point two eight three

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Speaker 2: or two eighty seven. I think it was point two

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Speaker 2: eighty three. Two point two eighty three was the final

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Speaker 2: number on the blood test, so who knows what it

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Speaker 2: actually was when he was actually pulled over.

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Speaker 1: Then, because he's a lawmaker.

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Speaker 3: Legislative immunity, they hide it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for months, he goes back, he votes on your behalf,

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Speaker 2: a highly leveraged person, by the way, Because you think

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Speaker 2: the leadership didn't know, we know.

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Speaker 1: Jim Merritt told us.

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Speaker 2: Came on this program and said he talked to numerous

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Speaker 2: people in there who knew, and they hit it from you.

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Speaker 1: For months.

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Speaker 2: They had dirt on this guy. They had the ability

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Speaker 2: to put the kay bash and him. And you think,

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Speaker 2: if you are, if he's your senator, you think you

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Speaker 2: got any any individualism, anything for you or do you

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Speaker 2: think it was all for the people who had the

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Speaker 2: ability to sound the whistle on this guy at any time, so.

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Speaker 3: That he was attending meetings throughout the entire.

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Speaker 1: Time and he got to keep his license.

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Speaker 2: If you if you fail to take the breathalyzer in Indiana,

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Speaker 2: automatic revocation of license right, But somehow, because of his

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Speaker 2: legislative immunity, because the case couldn't be adjudicated.

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Speaker 1: He got to keep his license.

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Speaker 2: Yep, So no mugshot, no suspension of license. He gets

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Speaker 2: to go back to his job and not tell anybody

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Speaker 2: about it. If casey, do you think of Rob Kendall

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Speaker 2: this weekend? Let's say for some reason, I went on

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Speaker 2: some bender and was so drunk that the Panda Express

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Speaker 2: had to call the whistle on me, and I got

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Speaker 2: pulled over, and I got food all over me, and

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Speaker 2: I got and I can't follow commands, and I refuse

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Speaker 2: a breathalyzer and my blood test is point two eighty three.

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Speaker 1: Do you think there'd be any grace for Rob Kendall?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: Do you think it wouldn't be out in the public sphere.

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Speaker 2: Do you think I'd get four months? You think I'd

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Speaker 2: get a no mugshot?

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Speaker 1: No? Do you think I get to keep working? Do

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Speaker 1: you think I get to keep driving? It would be

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Speaker 1: all over the internet, all over And.

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Speaker 2: Yet this clown got all of those things, and now

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Speaker 2: his plea deal there basically is no punishment.

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Speaker 1: Capitol Chronicle, amongst.

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Speaker 2: Others, has the story he has to pay one hundred

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Speaker 2: and ten dollars and fifty cents in fines, one hundred

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Speaker 2: and eighty nine dollars and fifty cents in court costs,

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Speaker 2: two hundred dollars for countermeasurement fees. So the collective fine.

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Speaker 2: By the way, this guy who makes probably seventy thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars as a state senator, that's his part time job.

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Speaker 2: So he got what is at two three four five

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Speaker 2: hundred dollars in fines roughly yep or payments. He was

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Speaker 2: also ordered to complete a substance abuse evaluation. No kidding, idiots,

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Speaker 2: if you're that drunk that you're that your blood test

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Speaker 2: is appoint two eighty three. Yeah, you got a serious

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Speaker 2: you know, skip the test and go right to the rehab.

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Speaker 3: Serving in the Senate since twenty sixteen, he sits on

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Speaker 3: Legal and Health committees. Legal and Health committees.

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Speaker 1: Oh but it gets better.

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Speaker 2: I'll just read it to make sure I get this

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Speaker 2: correct for the Indiana Capitol Chronicle.

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Speaker 1: All those special Judge Jeffrey L.

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Speaker 2: Foe of Superior Court in the neighboring Porter County impost

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Speaker 2: to three hundred and sixty five day jail sentence.

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Speaker 1: Oh but it was fully suspended.

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Speaker 2: He will instead serve three hundred and sixty five days

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Speaker 2: of informal probation. I had to ask my old man,

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Speaker 2: who is a federal probation officer, what the hell informal

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Speaker 2: probation was?

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Speaker 3: See if to sign off on a piece of paper

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Speaker 3: once a month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like, basically you don't have to go like

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Speaker 2: there is basically no monitoring. The judge also issued a

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Speaker 2: twenty day license suspension, so you would lose yours for

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Speaker 2: a year. He gets twenty days. This is our society. Hey,

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Speaker 2: if you're out working today, this is what our system

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Speaker 2: of elitists think of you. Mister guy digging a ditch

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Speaker 2: right now, mister labor movement, if you're out with a

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Speaker 2: jackhammer or a shovel, or you're on a roof, or

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Speaker 2: you're laying carpet or whatever you're doing right now, do

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Speaker 2: you think if you behaved, mister labor Movement man, the

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Speaker 2: way Mike Bohatcheck did that, you would get that sweetheart deal.

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Speaker 3: No, you wouldn't. It's the General Assembly just immune to arrest.

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Speaker 3: They're also immune to shame.

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Speaker 2: Oh Steven our pal Stephen Whitmer at Indie Underscore reporter

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Speaker 2: Underscore on Twitter says in twenty twenty four, Bohachik was

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Speaker 2: paid seventy seventy three thousand.

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Speaker 1: Nine hundred and twenty six dollars.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so he got a five hundred dollars fine whatever

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Speaker 2: he had to pay his attorney. So let's just say

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Speaker 2: that was two grand. So let's say he's twenty five

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Speaker 2: hundred in, he got seventy three, nine hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: six dollars of your money.

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Speaker 3: Still impositive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they He's still up over seventy grand

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Speaker 2: and he behaves like an idiot and nothing happens to him.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: That's what our state, that's what our justice system, that's

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Speaker 2: what our political system.

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Speaker 1: That's what they think of you, mister labor movement person.

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Speaker 1: Oh you get one day off. Congratulations,