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Speaker 1: You know him best, probably his producer Jason, who spent

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Speaker 2: Hello, Well that was actually about one year with Tony. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So, so you went down there. You're a guy who

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Speaker 1: Schnitzelbank, Right, doesn't that just scream Southern Indiana.

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Speaker 2: The Schnitzelbank, right, And and and it's a it's a

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Speaker 1: Well, she certainly went out with a bang on that

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Speaker 1: That's always what I've been my whole life with you?

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Speaker 1: Kenell The Casey Show, ninety three WIBC. The governor's approval

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Speaker 1: And of course we've been talking about this last several days.

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Speaker 2: Well that and more importantly, I think they're upset that

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Speaker 2: And we'll probably get to that tomorrow. But yesterday you

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Speaker 2: So I talked to a lady that we talked about

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Speaker 2: So are you for or against the Mid State's Corridor.

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Speaker 4: I'm against. I'm here helping my friends that have businesses

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Speaker 2: What is your understanding The reason then that they're pushing

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Speaker 4: To the traffic and the flow like three out three minutes,

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Speaker 4: No, we love progress, we want to see more progress,

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Speaker 2: And did you vote for Mike Braun for governor?

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Speaker 1: Hell?

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Speaker 2: No. Has he come down to Jasper or du Bois

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Speaker 4: Supposedly he's brought somebody down, but I've never seen him,

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Speaker 2: If Mike bron walked into this meeting tonight, what question

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Speaker 1: I think this is By the way, it's Kelly Casey

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Speaker 1: These people are not screwing around like they are genuinely

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, And like I said, it's not just Jasper,

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Speaker 1: And so again we're playing some of these clips of

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Speaker 1: what are we doing here? I don't see the value

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Speaker 1: for Who else do we hear from?

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Speaker 2: We hear from Mary or excuse me, Maggie Mary Stone,

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Speaker 5: Erry Stone. I moved here in twenty twenty three with

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Speaker 2: Was in the path of the proposed Mid States Corridor.

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Speaker 2: So you went from the politics of Chicago to the

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Speaker 5: That's a funny question. I worked in politics in Chicago,

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Speaker 5: All politics is local, and there's always an issue that

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Speaker 2: From an outside perspective, you look at it like you

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Speaker 5: It's interesting that you frame it that way, because it's true.

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Speaker 5: We are unlike a lot of other people in this room.

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Speaker 5: And truth be told, if I was convinced that the

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Speaker 5: That would pay for this road, and I don't think

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: She's fascinating to me. By the way, it's Kennell Casey

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Speaker 2: Just it was just so surreal and really interesting to

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Speaker 1: All right, who we got time for one more? Here?

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Speaker 2: Somebody you talk to who we're gonna hear from. Okay,

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Speaker 2: this is Mary Allen. She is a She serves as

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Speaker 2: And what she's talking about here is, as you were

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Speaker 6: I'm Mary Allen. I am the Democrat candidate for the

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Speaker 2: And why are you here tonight in a room full

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Speaker 2: You've got a big round of applause tonight when you

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Speaker 1: This is probably the first time that's happened.

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Speaker 2: And well, thank Governor Braun for that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, all right, So that's going to do it for

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Speaker 1: us today on this But Producer, Jason, you're gonna come

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're buddy. One hundred and sixty five people taken

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Speaker 2: to court by Todd Rokeita, and that's a juicy story.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll do it tomorrow. Jason'll be back with us.

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Speaker 1: More on the way next Kennel Casey Show ninety three,

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Speaker 1: WIBC