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Speaker 2: Here we go, it's a Scott's Low Show Monday more

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Speaker 2: seven hundred w Here we go from the Big Bengals

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Speaker 2: win yesterday, enjoying life.

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Speaker 1: What is not to love about this time of the year.

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Speaker 2: I got something for you because it's all not you know,

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Speaker 2: happy holidays, even though that's most of the show today.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you caught this, but seven on Friday,

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Speaker 2: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine shockingly line item vetoed a provision

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Speaker 2: of the state CB law which will now effectively ban

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Speaker 2: the sale of something a lot of o'himands enjoy, and

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Speaker 2: that would be the HEMP derived THC beverages that you

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Speaker 2: can get in bars and restaurants and other similar products

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Speaker 2: from general retellers in state, not necessarily carry outs and

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Speaker 2: Lifebo're talking about bars, and we're talking about bars that

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Speaker 2: have spent a fortune to try and stay alive because

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Speaker 2: the craft industry is fading and THC and fused beverages

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Speaker 2: are the future, and they've been embraced by millions of Ohios.

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Speaker 2: And with one stroke with pen, the Governor overrode that

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Speaker 2: and the band means these beverages that millions and enjoy

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Speaker 2: can no longer be sold in locations like convenience stores, bars, breweries,

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Speaker 2: or general stores, and these restrictions will take effect in

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Speaker 2: mid March. I cannot believe that it's come to this.

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Speaker 2: Ohio State Senator Steve Hopman from Just the Tipsity, joining

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Speaker 2: the show this morning on seven hundred WW Steve, I

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Speaker 2: wish I wish you a good morning. It doesn't feel

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've spent so much time on Senate.

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Speaker 2: Bill fifty six being the author of it, and this

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Speaker 3: Well, you're right now, we're done with it. There's a

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Speaker 3: couple of House members that have already introduced some other

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Speaker 3: was a good bill. But unfortunately the governor saw differently

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Speaker 2: Did he explain his reasoning why and please just don't

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Speaker 3: Yes, So whenever he line item vetos, he has a

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, if it's the federal legislation is the root

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Speaker 2: certain THT products when you know, they reopened the government,

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Speaker 2: why did we need Why would the governor have to

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean in the bill we did because we

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Speaker 3: that in ninety days. I'm not sure that there would

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Speaker 2: Governor realize how many millions of Ohioans not only enjoy this,

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Speaker 2: but but how many thousands of people of employees? Does

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Speaker 3: I you know that that would have to be a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and as I talked to purveyors of craft beer,

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Speaker 2: Doesn't that mean jobs and some of these breweries close?

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Speaker 2: Right and kind of cut the middle man out entirely.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, I cringe every time. And you know,

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Speaker 2: Mike the Wine is a Republican, and I hear about

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Speaker 2: proll is and they do things like this that completely

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Speaker 2: There has always been this way.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I again, you need to talk to

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Speaker 2: Mike the Wine is a lawyer. He's not a physician. You,

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Speaker 3: You know? I think, like any other intoxicating substance, it's

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Speaker 3: I don't think we know the long term health effects

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Speaker 3: you know, it's not that bad. You know, maybe beer

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that we currently know.

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Speaker 2: and we listen to that science. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: Plenty of people.

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Speaker 2: Abuse substances, food, whatever it might be. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: Know that today.

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Speaker 2: We know that cigarettes are carcinogen, we know that smoking

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Speaker 2: a month, As I mean, how far does the government go?

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Speaker 2: I hear these things, and you know, damnit, I'm a

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Speaker 2: forget almost six and ten people supported recreational marijuana and

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Speaker 2: Ohio we generated over seven hundred million in the first year.

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Speaker 2: At what point does the legislative modification of a voter

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't disagree with that a lot of that,

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Speaker 3: strictly concerning marijuana. Yeah, but you should, within reason have

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Speaker 2: So but at the same time, we live in a

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Speaker 3: But there's no real scientific research, you know, a high

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Speaker 1: It's simple.

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Speaker 1: Really good? This is an odd game, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I mean you mentioned okay, yeah, the sistanis at initiative

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Speaker 2: and sixty percent of people wanting recreacial THC marijuana. You got, Well,

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Speaker 2: that doesn't this this THHC, the CBD THHG derivative liquids

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Speaker 2: and the alcohol, well not alcohols, but the beverages. It's

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Speaker 2: not really what the vote. But I get that argument

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Speaker 2: the same time, it's I think the spirit of it

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Speaker 2: what is it that far reach to think that would

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Speaker 2: include CBD derived beverages like this? And now that Trump

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Speaker 2: is doing what he's doing, I think that's even more

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Speaker 2: against what what Mike Dwaine thinks with this veto.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't, I don't disagree. You know, when when

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Speaker 3: Trump said that, you know, I'm going to speed up

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Speaker 3: the process of making the marijuana THHC a Scheduled three

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Speaker 3: drug and Schedule one. It will be great for the

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Speaker 3: banking industry. We can't you know, can't bank. It's all

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Speaker 3: cash business and the dispensaries and in everything. Uh. And

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Speaker 3: it'll provide the ability to do scientific research and I

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Speaker 3: am I'm hoping that, uh the academic institutes in the

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Speaker 3: state of Ohio will jump on it and be able

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Speaker 3: to go out and get federal funding to say marijuana

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Speaker 3: is good for you or it's bad for you, and

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Speaker 3: let's settle this for you know, what type and how

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Speaker 3: and what what conditions.

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Speaker 2: Steve another, by the way, that's the Ohio State Senator

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Speaker 2: Steve Huffman on the show on seven hundred W LW.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you heard Mike the line shockingly line item

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Speaker 2: vetoed a provision in our state CBD law. You know,

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Speaker 2: the the CBD slash THHD infused beverages that a lot

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Speaker 2: of people enjoy. That's spurn an entire industr that's rapidly

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Speaker 2: growing as big as a craft bret beer industry. And

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Speaker 2: it was I think in a few years of clips

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Speaker 2: that because so many people want this stuff, might the

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Speaker 2: wine ban that in Ohio. So all these companies that

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Speaker 2: leaned in and invested the small brewers, the rhymegeis the

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Speaker 2: produce that stuff. And so six thousand plus people and

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Speaker 2: not people, but six thousand businesses are no longer going

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Speaker 2: The other element here too, we had talked about, I

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Speaker 2: think last time around Steve, about protections for housing, employment,

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Speaker 2: organ donation, stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: Is that been removed by the governors. That's still in there.

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Speaker 3: It's still in there. Basically, those things are things that

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Speaker 3: mere previous laws. I don't believe there was anything really

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Speaker 3: studies that show that you and so that's why it

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Speaker 2: Is there a connection medically, Steve, between organ donation and marijuana,

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Speaker 2: Why would you be excluded from that?

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Speaker 3: If I remember right, the law doesn't say that you

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Speaker 3: if if if science shows that if you smoke marijuana

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Speaker 3: and you get a liver transplant plant, your likelihood of

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Speaker 3: rejection as higher. If the science is there, then we

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Speaker 3: should should stick by it. But we shouldn't just totally

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Speaker 3: get rid of that not based on science.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if it's science says that you have

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Speaker 2: a higher rate of not being able to get the organ,

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Speaker 2: so it's kind of a waste of that pressure tree.

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Speaker 1: So I kind of get that element.

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Speaker 2: One of the thing I saw too was allowing police

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Speaker 1: Is that still part of.

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Speaker 3: This I can't remember, but again I think that was

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Speaker 3: you know, restated from previously that you know, you know,

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Speaker 3: when we initially did the medical marijuana law back in

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Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, most of the drug dogs in the state

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Speaker 3: were it became obsolete because when they smelled marijuana, they

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Speaker 3: still have probable cause not because you're smoking, because they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of contradictions here. It just leads one

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Speaker 2: scratching there is there any remedy here for the manufacturers

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Speaker 2: and I'll try to get somebody on maybe from Ryan

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Speaker 2: Guister fifty West to talk about this later on.

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Speaker 1: Is this fight completely over? Could this thing the overturned?

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Speaker 3: Well, in the original bill a house in the Senate

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Speaker 3: and had an agreement that we would you know, the

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Speaker 3: Feds are going to get rid of it in a

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Speaker 3: year in November twenty six if they change things, that

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Speaker 3: we would look at that and see because we didn't

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Speaker 3: whole scheme of things, so we kept the plan was

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Speaker 3: to keep it till November, so we can re look

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Speaker 3: at it from that, but from that aspect and see

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Speaker 3: if Governor Dwine has a different view of it. We

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Speaker 3: could look at a veto override it would take two

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Speaker 3: we could reintroduce this, you know when there's a new governor.

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Speaker 2: Well that won't be long, that won't be much either year,

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Speaker 2: but still wrapping down production and ramping it back up.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell the six thousand small

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Speaker 2: was illegal yesterday, now it's illegal today or ninety days.

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Speaker 1: I should say, Steve my head is scratching.

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Speaker 2: You're you're scratching your head, I'm sure, but we'll leave

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Speaker 2: it at that, and you have a merry Christmas. Thanks

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Speaker 2: again for a joining the show and keep us updated

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Speaker 2: and what the future holds for this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Merry Christmas to you and your family and all

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Speaker 3: your listeners. You take care of Scott. Thanks against Steve.

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Speaker 2: That's Ohio State Senator Steve Hoffman from just the Tips

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Speaker 2: city just north of Dayton and Mike to wine again

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Speaker 2: allegedly pro business. I don't know how this is pro

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Speaker 2: business pro consumer because it goes against the face of

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Speaker 2: the hottest growing beverage. I guess niche in the state

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Speaker 2: right now, if not the country. For that manner, we

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Speaker 2: don't want any part of it. Why it's about the children.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, stop seven hundred WLW