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Speaker 1: Now your host Ken Brew on news radio seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 2: What a glorious day it is in the tri State.

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Speaker 2: Here you are on this Saturday before Christmas. Everybody is out.

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Speaker 2: It seems like at the Kenwood Town Center. I look

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Speaker 2: over there. Well, most saturdays it's like that, but now

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Speaker 2: it just appears like it's it's completely out of control.

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Speaker 2: I made a joking remark this week that Kenwood Town

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Speaker 2: Center is the reason why God invented Amazon. And I'm

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Speaker 2: not quite so sure that should be a joking reference.

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Speaker 2: It might be true, you know. He said, let there

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Speaker 2: be light, and then after he saw the Kenwood Town

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Speaker 2: Center at Christmas, he said, man, let there be Amazon

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Speaker 2: dot Com. If you're out there today, please be careful.

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Speaker 2: I hate it when people say that to me. You

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Speaker 2: walk out the door, please be careful. WHOA what do

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Speaker 2: you think? I'm not going to be careful, But you know,

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Speaker 2: it's you know, if somebody cuts you off, or you know,

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Speaker 2: if it's the last parking spot and there's two cars

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Speaker 2: it looks like that are ready to attack the spot,

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Speaker 2: just back off. There'll be something that opens up in

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Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. It has been a big week

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Speaker 2: for weed huge week for weed, both good and bad

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Speaker 2: if you're so inclined to partake in weed. First off,

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Speaker 2: the President signed an executive order this past week that could,

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Speaker 2: and the emphasis is on the word could, reclassify marijuana

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Speaker 2: as a less dangerous drug. Right now, marijuana is a

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Speaker 2: Schedule one drug and that would put it in the

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Speaker 2: same classification as heroin LSD. And what the President is

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Speaker 2: doing is trying to get it to a Schedule three substance,

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Speaker 2: which would put it in the same class as things

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Speaker 2: like ketamine and some anabolic steroids. What this means is

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Speaker 2: reclassification by the DEA would not not make it legal

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Speaker 2: for recreational use by adults nationwide, but it could there's

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Speaker 2: that word again, could change how the drug is regulated

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Speaker 2: and reduce a hefty tax burden on the cannabis industry.

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Speaker 2: Right now, medical marijuana is allowed by about forty states

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Speaker 2: and the District of Columbia, So that was on one hand.

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Speaker 2: On the other hand, this week, just yesterday, the Governor

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Speaker 2: of Ohio, on an expiring term, this would be the

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Speaker 2: Honorable Mike DeWine, struck down a provision that was in

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Speaker 2: Senate Bill fifty six. That Senate Bill fifty six basically

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Speaker 2: said that THC drinks in their present form could be

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Speaker 2: sold anywhere in the state of Ohio. Dwine does not

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Speaker 2: want THC drinks. And so when Bill SENATETIL fifty six

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Speaker 2: got there to his desk, it carved out he carved

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Speaker 2: out basically that provision, and it gets into milligrams and

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Speaker 2: how much are allowed per container. And basically what it

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Speaker 2: means is that places that sell THHC drinks, you know,

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Speaker 2: the infused seltzers, are now scrambling to get them off

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Speaker 2: the shelves. And if I'm reading this correctly, they've got

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Speaker 2: to get them off the shelves and got to be

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Speaker 2: done selling them within ninety days of the wine signing

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Speaker 2: this bill, which would make it the middle of March.

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Speaker 2: So what does this mean for you? What does that

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Speaker 2: mean for me if we indulge in these kinds of things?

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Speaker 2: And can you really, in this day and age legislate morality.

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Speaker 2: This ain't nineteen twenty and it's not prohibition. And I'm

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Speaker 2: just wondering what the weed industry thinks about this. So

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Speaker 2: who better to be a spokesman for the weed industry

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Speaker 2: at this particular point in time in the tri State

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Speaker 2: than the weed Man himself. That would be Jerry J.

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Speaker 2: Mann Joiner. He is all things weed. He has his

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Speaker 2: own television show, Weed and Whiskey TV. And the only

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Speaker 2: other person I know know that goes up in smoke

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Speaker 2: more than Jerry Joyner, it's Willie Nelson. And perhaps they

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Speaker 2: know each other. I don't know. We'll find out here

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Speaker 2: in just a second. But let's get into this and

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Speaker 2: what happened with Trump this week, and also what happened

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Speaker 2: with the wine and Jerry Joyner. How are you on

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Speaker 2: this glorious Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm doing great, ken, and thank you for those accolades.

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Speaker 3: Just being in the same sentence with my patriot, Saint

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Speaker 3: Willie Nelson is a real compliment.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: Now you know what happened up here yesterday, I'm sure,

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Speaker 2: And that's the governor of Ohio looked at Senate Bill

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Speaker 2: fifty six, which had passed the House, hadn't passed the Senate,

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Speaker 2: and said, you know what, No, I don't like that.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to wea to veto the part and take

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Speaker 2: out the part where we're going to allow THHC infused

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Speaker 2: drinks greatly reduce things like even selling him even selling

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Speaker 2: marijuana here in the great state of Ohio. Now, when

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Speaker 2: you saw something like that, what did you think.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know that the headline kind of got on

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Speaker 3: the THC, which it seems like Governor de Wine wants.

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Speaker 3: So it is to only be sold in the marijuana dispensaries.

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Speaker 3: No more gas stations, sea stores on the corner or

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Speaker 3: any of those places, or.

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Speaker 4: The vape shops.

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Speaker 3: Even at this point, for milligrams, is such a minute

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Speaker 3: trace that a big fat boy like me might not

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Speaker 3: even show up in a drug dest That is.

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Speaker 4: That minute of an amount.

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Speaker 3: But I think as I did a little research, I

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Speaker 3: found some more interesting things besides the THHC drink issue. Uh,

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Speaker 3: marijuana must now be stored in its original packaging and

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Speaker 3: kept in the trunk of a vehicle while driving. You

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Speaker 3: that again, it says that marijuana must be stored in

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Speaker 3: its original packaging and kept in the trunk of a

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Speaker 3: vehicle while driving out an SUV that doesn't have a trunk.

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Speaker 2: That's true, and and and so you got to run

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Speaker 2: out and buy some of those baggies at the grocery store, Koger,

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have to go out and get some of

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Speaker 2: those and use them for other things, because you know,

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Speaker 2: a lot of people just throw it in there, you know,

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Speaker 2: they buy it, they throw it in there, seal it

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Speaker 2: up and everything's five. Well, you can't do that anymore.

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Speaker 2: You have to use those baggies for something else.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's right.

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Speaker 3: You know that packaging back in the day was just

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Speaker 3: a clear baggie. Let you see exactly what was in there.

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Speaker 3: And now we've moved to big marketing where you've got

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Speaker 3: colorfual graphics, some of them appealing too much towards children.

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Speaker 3: And of course it does allow for some labeling and

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Speaker 3: some information which we really never got that on those

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Speaker 3: just clear baggies that we bought. You know, it's also

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Speaker 3: going to be a state crime now if you went

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Speaker 3: to like Michigan, bought you a little pot and brought

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Speaker 2: So this bill that the Senate passed, it had an

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Speaker 2: exemption for THC infused beverages. At Ohio would have been

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Speaker 2: allowed to sell these things in breweries and bars with

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Speaker 2: no more than five milligrams of THC for serving. That's

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Speaker 2: what DeWine did want. He outlawed that.

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Speaker 3: Now he says, yeah, use the line item veto to

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Speaker 3: immediately ban that.

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Speaker 4: Well, I say immediately, you've got until.

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Speaker 3: Twenty March of twenty twenty six for them to depinish

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Speaker 2: So if I went down to my local liquor store

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Speaker 2: right now, I could if he has it, I could

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Speaker 2: still buy a THC infuse drink with about five milligrams

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Speaker 2: of THCHC. But the guy that owns the place has

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Speaker 2: got to clear the product and it's got to be

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Speaker 2: off the shelves within ninety days three months, which would

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Speaker 2: be the middle of March. But let me go back

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Speaker 2: to something else here. What's the difference in terms of

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Speaker 2: what a THC drink will do for you? What's the

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Speaker 2: difference between five milligrams which the wine says no, and

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Speaker 2: zero point four milligrams, which he says, okay. Up to

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Speaker 2: that you can sell it, but anything over that you

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Speaker 2: got to go to a licensed marijuana dispensary. So just

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Speaker 2: to what it does to you, what's the difference between

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Speaker 2: five milligrams of EHC and point four milligrams of THHC.

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Speaker 3: Ken, let's compare them to beer. A point four is

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Speaker 3: going to be a non alcoholic beer. That's about what

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Speaker 3: it's going to do to you. A five milligram is

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Speaker 3: going to be like a regular beer a two point

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Speaker 3: five milligram, which is what oj Man recommends people to

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Speaker 3: try if they're new to this and they want to

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Speaker 3: see how it compares to to beer and those those

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Speaker 3: things two point five milligrams. But again, it also depends

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Speaker 3: on the size of the can. There's some there's some.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a twelve ounce can't five milligrams is

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Speaker 3: not as much.

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Speaker 4: THC is a two point five milligram.

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Speaker 3: And in a in that small shot thing that they

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Speaker 3: have now, so.

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Speaker 2: You've got to a degree in chemistry to figure out

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Speaker 2: all this.

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Speaker 4: It really does.

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Speaker 3: Used to we just took a piece of rolling paper,

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Speaker 3: got the seeds out, rolled a joint up, and smoked it.

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Speaker 3: And now there's so many ways that you can get

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Speaker 3: THC into your system.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're right, but so so the bottom line

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Speaker 2: of all of this is, despite the fact that the

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Speaker 2: Senate will pass, despite the fact that recent surveys show

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Speaker 2: at about sixty five sixty six percent of Ohioans like

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Speaker 2: it the way it is, our marijuana, our THC laws,

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Speaker 2: the things governing those products to be you know, as

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Speaker 2: free and as loose as possible. The governor says no, no,

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Speaker 2: we're not going to do that. Anything like that goes

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Speaker 2: to a dispensary. And if you want to go to

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Speaker 2: your local liquor store and buy a can of THHC

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Speaker 2: or whatever it is, can't do that after March of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. So it just means you're probably going

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Speaker 2: to be taking your business elsewhere.

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Speaker 3: Right, Well, let's hope that it doesn't go underground or

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Speaker 3: to the black market. You know, the flower aspect of marijuana,

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Speaker 3: cannabis our snip which they call THC a now is

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Speaker 3: still very very popular, and that's going to be difficult

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Speaker 3: for the cartails and organized client people to get in

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Speaker 3: the drink business. It's easy for them to sell that flower,

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Speaker 3: but getting into the drink business is a whole different arena.

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Speaker 3: And I believe by this time next year you'll be

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Speaker 3: able to get those THC drinks in a two point

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Speaker 3: five milligram dose at your liquor stores. I think the

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Speaker 3: liquor industry is going to take over the THHC drinks.

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Speaker 3: You know, they keep trying to carve out the drinks

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Speaker 3: from everything else. Book on the federal level, and now

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Speaker 3: as we see what the governor do wine on the

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Speaker 3: state level, so there's something up with the drinks in

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Speaker 3: how it's going to replace beer in the next five years.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know that's interesting because that would fly in

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Speaker 2: the face of what this from what I can see,

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Speaker 2: what this law says, because as we mentioned earlier, anything

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Speaker 2: more than point four milligrams per curtainer per container have

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Speaker 2: to be sold and licensed marijuana dispensaries. So I guess

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Speaker 2: you're just basically moving state money from a marijuana dispensary

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Speaker 2: to a liquor store, right. I mean, it sounds like

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Speaker 2: it's a book keeping problem for the state of Ohio,

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Speaker 2: is what it sounds like it's going to be.

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Speaker 3: Jory State has these of how they're going to deal

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Speaker 3: with this, and I think the main thing people need

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Speaker 3: to keep in mind, kid is make sure and don't

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Speaker 3: drink more than one of these drinks until you see

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Speaker 3: how it affects you and use common sense. That's something

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six we all need a big dose

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Speaker 3: of it's common sense.

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Speaker 2: Well now, in another front on the marijuana level, President

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Speaker 2: Trump this past week signed an executive order that could

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Speaker 2: reclassify marijuana to a less dangerous drug and that would

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Speaker 2: open up new avenues for medical research. That would be

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Speaker 2: a shift in federal drug policy, and it gets to

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Speaker 2: where a lot of other states are with this. So

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Speaker 2: he's trying to deal with this on the federal level.

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Speaker 2: And from what I read, this reclassification by the DEA

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts, well, we learned that from prohibition, right you know,

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Speaker 2: So your prediction is by November of next year, despite

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't mind people smoking pot, but I

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Speaker 4: At my agent.

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Speaker 3: Willy doesn't smoke anymore, but he's got his own Willy's remedy,

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Speaker 4: You hear that one.

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Speaker 2: When I die, I have another one.

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Speaker 4: It's all going the pot. We lock it or not.

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Speaker 2: Jay Man, it's it's great catching up with you. You

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Speaker 2: On the program today John Houston, who is an Ohio senator.

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Speaker 2: Don't feel badly if you don't know who the guy is.

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Speaker 2: the Daily Signal. Also, the best and worst airlines to

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Speaker 2: rake and hit themselves in the groin. Oh anyway, stand

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Speaker 2: by the DOJ is releasing it and we'll see exactly

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Speaker 2: what's in it. But I can't believe that this things. Well,

438
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Speaker 2: when when did Epstein allegedly off himself? Was it twenty nineteen?

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Speaker 2: We're six years down the road and we're all worked

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Speaker 2: up in a lather over the Epstein files. Okay, you

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Speaker 2: know I mentioned it was twelve forty one, and in

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Speaker 2: most places it is twelve forty one. But as you

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Speaker 2: and I both know, five o'clock somewhere, it's one for you,

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Speaker 2: one for me. Somebody's gone a little Miami, haven't they.

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Speaker 2: That's good stuff? Pop top again, Yes, yes, yes, yes,

446
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Speaker 2: a jans. I've just got time for one more round.

447
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Speaker 2: Set them up, my friend, and what happens after that?

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Speaker 6: Then?

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Speaker 7: Now be gone?

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Speaker 2: You can let some other sick. Dawn gotta be sterling.

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Speaker 2: He's in a three oh six, and I would stay

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Speaker 2: tuned for all the various high jinks that goes along

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Speaker 2: with a sterling program. College football player playoffs continue right

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Speaker 2: now Miami and Texas. A and m are scoreless with

455
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Speaker 2: four minutes to go first quarter, and that is out

456
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Speaker 2: in College Station Texas. Later on, we've got James Madison

457
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Speaker 2: University at Oregon at seven thirty. At three point thirty,

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Speaker 2: it's two Lane at Mississippi, the Lane Kiffin less University

459
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Speaker 2: of Mississippi. Last night, If you didn't see it, you

460
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Speaker 2: watch one of the great meltdowns in college football, and

461
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Speaker 2: that occurred when Oklahoma saw a lead slip away. They

462
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Speaker 2: were up seventeen to nothing in this game, and then

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Speaker 2: it started a hemorrhage. And in the final analysis, Alabama

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Speaker 2: thirty four, Oklahoma twenty four. Over the first twenty minutes

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Speaker 2: of that game, when Oklahoma went up seventeen sid it

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Speaker 2: looked like it was going to be a blowout. In

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Speaker 2: the first twenty minutes of that game, Alabama had a

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Speaker 2: grand total of twelve yards of offense. But then things

469
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Speaker 2: started to go haywire. Alabama came alive in this I

470
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Speaker 2: would say the next twenty twenty five minutes maybe and

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Speaker 2: flip the script out gaining Oklahoma one ninety four to

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Speaker 2: fifty nine. And then there was just meltdowns on a drive,

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Speaker 2: a fourth down touchdown toss before that, a big third

474
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Speaker 2: down conversion, and you could just sense the momentum building.

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Speaker 2: And Oklahoma has not done any favors with its special teams, miskicks,

476
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Speaker 2: block field goals, you name it. And that led to

477
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Speaker 2: this joyous celebration out on the field by Caitlin de Boor,

478
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Speaker 2: who was the head coach of Alabama and in some

479
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Speaker 2: circles still held up and compared to his predecessor, Nick Saban.

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Speaker 2: But here is de Boor jubilant. It seems like, well

481
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Speaker 2: jubilant for him on the field after the game.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, just our guys have, like you said, I had

483
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Speaker 8: been in it all year long, and and uh what's

484
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Speaker 8: up man? Uh, just I'm proud of the fight. I

485
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Speaker 8: know I'm gonna get that every single time we step

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Speaker 8: on the football field. We had to trade our own

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Speaker 8: breaks a little bit. We knew it was gonna be

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Speaker 8: a fist fight. We knew it's gonna be a physical

489
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Speaker 8: game would be hard moving the ball, but you just

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Speaker 8: gotta you just gotta keep playing well.

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Speaker 2: The next one will be the easy one, that's for sure. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: over on the Oklahoma side of things, the head coach

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Speaker 2: Brent Fvennables was well, let's just say during his news conference,

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Speaker 2: he was sniffing the tears. Here's Brent Vennable.

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Speaker 9: You know, I had a seventeen point lead, had great momentum,

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Speaker 9: and and just we lost the momentum and gave up

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Speaker 9: a seventy five yard drive and the third and six

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Speaker 9: that we lost leveraging coverage and then gave up a

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Speaker 9: fourth and two on that drive. And you know, Alabama's

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Speaker 9: got a really good football team and really good staff,

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Speaker 9: and they were able to start to slowly but surely

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Speaker 9: creep back into the game. And and then we had

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Speaker 9: a couple of really ill timed mistakes that they capital.

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Speaker 2: No kidding, no kidden. It was good. It was an

505
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Speaker 2: eight to nine matchup. It was a good matchup. I

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Speaker 2: thought it was a fun game to watch. But you

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Speaker 2: could just tell watching that game that Oklahoma had no

508
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Speaker 2: idea how to stop the steamroller after it turned around

509
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Speaker 2: and came after them. So it's Alabama. That moves on,

510
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Speaker 2: Oklahoma goes home, and more fun and frivolity as today

511
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Speaker 2: goes on and the next week everybody gets into the action.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow it is Cincinnati against Miami in the National Football League, Yes,

513
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Speaker 2: the Bengals. In a just a couple of minutes, probably

514
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Speaker 2: we'll be boarding a plane and heading down to Miami

515
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Speaker 2: where it's supposed to have a game time temperature somewhere

516
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Speaker 2: in the low eighties. Start difference right from what we

517
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Speaker 2: had to sit through last Sunday here with the Ravens. Nevertheless,

518
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Speaker 2: both of these teams are out of it, and what

519
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 2: it becomes is it becomes a showcase really for players

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Speaker 2: that maybe the team is fence sitting on right. It's

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Speaker 2: gonna Schamar Stewart is a guy that he'll be around

522
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Speaker 2: next year, but he hasn't shown much this year either

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Speaker 2: when he was in there healthy yer and now he's

524
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Speaker 2: coming off of an injury. So it's a big game

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Speaker 2: for him. Two rookie linebackers, big game for them. Some

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Speaker 2: players in the secondary who have underperformed, big game for them.

527
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Speaker 2: Defensive line, who's bringing the heat, you know, Trey Hendricks in.

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Speaker 2: It looks like that boat has sailed here and no

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Speaker 2: Joseph Asside tomorrow. So some of the other folks like

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Speaker 2: Miles Murphy is a has it been a canard the

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Speaker 2: last two or three weeks or is he for real? Nevertheless,

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Speaker 2: here's the head coach, Zach Taylor, saying, I still believe

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Speaker 2: in what this team offers.

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Speaker 10: I got a ton of belief in our coaching staff,

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Speaker 10: our scouting department, our ownership, that we are very much

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Speaker 10: in alignment with every decision we've ever made here, and

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Speaker 10: so again, when things haven't been good enough over the

538
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Speaker 10: course of this season, there's really no one to blame

539
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Speaker 10: other than me, and so I know we all play

540
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Speaker 10: a piece of this, but I'm the guy to get

541
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Speaker 10: to sit there and talk to the team every single

542
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Speaker 10: week to present plans and make end game decisions, and

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Speaker 10: so frustrating that I haven't done any job this year,

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Speaker 10: but a ton of confidence, and maybe it rings hollow

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Speaker 10: to everyone listening, but I know that we've been here

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Speaker 10: before and I've seen how we can get out the

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Speaker 10: other side.

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Speaker 2: I'm very confident we're gonna get that done. There go well,

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Speaker 2: I mean again, he's got a little bit of a

550
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Speaker 2: heat under his seat, but he also has two years

551
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 2: left on his contract, and we know Mike Brown does

552
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Speaker 2: not like to pay players or coaches to sit. So

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Speaker 2: Zach Taylor. You know, despite what a lot of people

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Speaker 2: in this town may think, despite what you might see

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Speaker 2: on billboards, I don't think he's going anywhere. This is

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Speaker 2: where it's at for the players. All Right, they're getting paid,

557
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 2: but it's they're getting paid. Let's just put it that way.

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Speaker 2: They're professionals. This is what they're supposed to do, even

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Speaker 2: when there's nothing left to play for. Dalton Riisner one

560
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Speaker 2: of their top offensive line.

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Speaker 11: I mean, we all know that we're both out of a

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Speaker 11: playoff contention, but there's a lot to play for.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I said this last week.

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Speaker 4: I don't speak for the team.

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Speaker 11: But I know this is the mindset of the team

566
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Speaker 11: is we get to be Cincinnati Bengals. We get to

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Speaker 11: wear the stripes, we get to go represent ourselves, but

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Speaker 11: even more importantly, we get to go represent the Cincinnati

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Speaker 11: Bengals on Sunday. So anytime I'm putting on the stripes,

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Speaker 11: I don't care if playoffs on the line or not.

571
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Speaker 11: I'm going out there. I have so much to play for.

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Speaker 11: This is this is a blessing. And if you take

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Speaker 11: it for granted, you ain't. You ain't gonna be in

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Speaker 11: this league for long. So there's a lot to play for.

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Speaker 11: On Sunday, I'm excited to go play the Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna be ready to go.

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Speaker 2: Never met that guy, but I like that guy. That's

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Speaker 2: the way you should at that. That should be the outlook.

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Speaker 2: You're getting paid, you play as a pro. And my

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Speaker 2: guess is he'll be back here again next year too,

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Speaker 2: And that's good. That's good. Keep hope alive, for gosh sakes,

582
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Speaker 2: keep hope alive. All right? Who is John Housted and

583
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Speaker 2: why does he want to continue being the senator in Washington,

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Speaker 2: DC representing the grand of people here in the state

585
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Speaker 2: of Ohio. We'll get into that next as we cruise

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Speaker 2: on till three o'clock on news radio seven hundred w

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Speaker 2: l W.

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Speaker 1: Oh your host Ken Brew on News Radio seven hundred

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Speaker 2: Thank you, mister announcer with a nice voice. Yes it is.

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Speaker 2: I have no fear right till three o'clock and then

592
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Speaker 2: all hell breaks loose when Sterling comes in. But we

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Speaker 2: don't have to worry about that for a couple of hours.

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Speaker 2: It is great to have you with us on this

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Speaker 2: Saturday before Christmas, and so much is going on of

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Speaker 2: course Hanikah, Christmas, then the New Year, and then and

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Speaker 2: then January comes. I was just talking last night about

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Speaker 2: this to a friend of mine. January comes and it's like,

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Speaker 2: what the hell is this? What happened?

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Speaker 6: Now?

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Speaker 2: You're in the sun isn't out, you're inside, it's cold

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Speaker 2: and all that. It just anyway, so enjoyed this month

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Speaker 2: of December what's left of it, because we all know

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Speaker 2: what's coming. Speaking of what's coming, we are about to

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Speaker 2: enter into full bore blast an election season. The midterms

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Speaker 2: are coming up in November, and there are a lot

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Speaker 2: of people that are in office right now, both here

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Speaker 2: in the state and in Washington, DC, that won't be

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Speaker 2: around after the election next November. One would think that

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Speaker 2: it will be a big election night for the Democrats

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Speaker 2: next November. That just is the way it works on

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Speaker 2: off your elections. Now, Donald Trump is going to hold

613
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Speaker 2: a Republican National Convention on this off your election, never

614
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Speaker 2: done that before, to try and drum up support. He's

615
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Speaker 2: got a lot of Democrats that are just running tail.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry Republicans who are just turning tail and running

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Speaker 2: from him. They're retiring, they're getting out. They don't want

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Speaker 2: a part of it. They know that probably they're done

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Speaker 2: in November. So it's going to be very challenging for

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Speaker 2: the GOP to keep the majority in the House. What

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Speaker 2: is the first thing that the Democrats are going to

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Speaker 2: do if they get the House right, They're going to

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Speaker 2: impeach Donald Trump. Doesn't matter for what, They'll impeach Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: First thing. They do nothing to help you live healthier,

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Speaker 2: nothing to help you deal with expenses. They're going to

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Speaker 2: impeach Donald Trump. We just know that, so just leave

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Speaker 2: it there. We know it's coming in the Senate where

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Speaker 2: the impeachment hearings will take place. Aha, that's where it

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Speaker 2: could get crazy. And in the Senate there are a

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Speaker 2: number of seats that are up that the Republicans are

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Speaker 2: interested in, and several seats they're interested in in defending,

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Speaker 2: one of which is here in Ohio. Here in Ohio,

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Speaker 2: we have John Houston. If you just said who, that's

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Speaker 2: fine because in a recent poll it was taken by

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Speaker 2: Emerson College, thirty eight percent of Ohio and said they

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Speaker 2: never heard of John Houston. Even though this dude has

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Speaker 2: been in Ohio politics for his entire life. Nobody knew

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Speaker 2: who he was. Now here in Cincinnati, having worked in

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Speaker 2: local television for over forty five years, I can tell

640
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Speaker 2: to you that the interest in covering what goes on

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Speaker 2: in Columbus and inside the State House in the State Senate,

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Speaker 2: the interest among Cincinnati television stations is somewhere south of

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Speaker 2: zero percent. Don't cover it. Even the paper gives cursory

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Speaker 2: coverage to the Ohio State House and the Senate. So

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Speaker 2: a lot of these dudes that are up there, like

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Speaker 2: John Houstad, until he was appointed to fill out JD.

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Speaker 2: Vance's seat, fill out the term that JD. Evans had,

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Speaker 2: nobody knew who he was. He was a name that

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Speaker 2: appeared on a ballot like once every seven or it

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Speaker 2: was every four years. So he's got a problem, or

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Speaker 2: maybe not. Maybe it's a good thing that forty percent

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Speaker 2: don't know who he is and he can paint over

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Speaker 2: that blank canvas standing by it give her thoughts on

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Speaker 2: all of this. Is one of the finest political writers

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Speaker 2: in this country, and she happens to reside here in Ohio,

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Speaker 2: and she happens to write for the Daily Signal. We've

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Speaker 2: had Rebecca Downs on the show before because we like

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Speaker 2: her and because she has good stuff to say, and

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Speaker 2: she's kind of up to call oute some of her

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Speaker 2: Saturday to spend with us right here on seven hundred

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Speaker 2: at WYLW. So how much you been a dentity problem?

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Speaker 2: Does John Houston have? Sure?

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Speaker 7: So he do have to pay attention to state politics

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Speaker 7: a lot, right, since those are the various offices he's helped.

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Speaker 7: So he was their lieutenant governor. He's also been Secretary

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Speaker 7: of State, state senator, served in the Ohio House, which

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Speaker 7: included the Speaker.

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Speaker 4: Of the House.

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Speaker 7: So at the end of the day, it matters if

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Speaker 7: people know about him enough or like him enough to

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Speaker 7: vote for him. But yes, it is very curious to

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Speaker 7: me that he is our sitting senator currently because he

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Speaker 7: was appointed to fill JD now Vice President J. D.

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Speaker 7: Dance's seat, and so he's running for his special elections

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Speaker 7: next year.

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Speaker 4: So it is very curious.

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Speaker 7: Okay, a lot of people don't a plurality in the

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Speaker 7: Emerson Poles don't know a lot about him. They asked voters,

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Speaker 7: and these are active voters in Ohio, right, They asked,

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Speaker 7: do you have a favorable opinion about this person? Unfavorable,

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Speaker 7: unsure don't know enough about them, and thirty eight percent

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Speaker 7: said that I'm sure don't know enough about which is

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Speaker 7: actually a plurality of responses for what people think.

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Speaker 4: About He said.

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Speaker 5: Now I talked to him about this.

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Speaker 4: I asked him about this, about.

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Speaker 7: That poll during a press conference he had last Friday

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Speaker 7: after he filed, and another reporter asked him, you know,

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Speaker 7: are you worried about those numbers? He seecred as an opportunity, right.

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Speaker 7: He pointed out that if I got to introduce myself

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Speaker 7: to voters, he seems happy to do that. He seems

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Speaker 7: to see it as an opportunity. He also pointed out,

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Speaker 7: from my understanding, what he was saying is, you know,

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Speaker 7: imagine politicians known for how things are not great in

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Speaker 7: Washington type of thing, and there might be a negative

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Speaker 7: connotation with that he's running against. In all likelihood, I

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Speaker 7: don't think anybody's challenging side. Former Senator Shared Brown. So

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Speaker 7: shared Brown has been in politics for a while and

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Speaker 7: he just lost last year to now Republican Senator Bernie Marina.

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Speaker 2: So yes, go ahead, No, it's going to say you're right,

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Speaker 2: I mean it's happened. He lost by Yes, I take

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Speaker 2: a point by about two hundred thousand yea three point

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Speaker 2: six okay, two hundred thousand votes. They ran him out.

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Speaker 2: They ran Shared Brown out in the state. Why would

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Speaker 2: anybody think, let alone Shared Brown, that they want him back.

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Speaker 7: You know, it could be it's a midterm year. How

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Speaker 7: are people feeling, including especially in Ohio, feeling about about Trump?

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Speaker 7: Although you know, is Shared Brown getting donations, support and

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Speaker 7: fundraising emptines for people outside of Ohio, which always is

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Speaker 7: so curious to me because it's only Ohio. Voters are

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Speaker 7: gonna have a say or should have a say, and

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Speaker 7: whether Shared Brown goes back to the Senate or if

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Speaker 7: John Houston gets a full term.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I guess the outside money maybe

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Speaker 2: buys you TV timing, it's a whole thing. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: you're building your coffers up. But I mean it seemed like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: they seems like the state kind of like was over

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Speaker 2: Shared Brown.

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Speaker 12: I mean he was I get that sense increasingly read Yeah, thirty.

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Speaker 2: Two years in Washington, d C. I mean, you pretty

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Speaker 2: much know what you have there. It's not you can't

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Speaker 2: put a fresh coat of paint on Shared Brown and

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Speaker 2: say here it is you and improved. But you raise

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Speaker 2: an interesting point. This is a midterm election. Trump is

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Speaker 2: not on the ballot. The Trump voters aren't going to

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Speaker 2: come out the way they come out when Trump is

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Speaker 2: on the ballot. And so that's where I think Houston

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Speaker 2: has his work cut out for him, because upsets like

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Speaker 2: this occur in.

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Speaker 7: Mid And I yeah, and I did talk. I asked

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Speaker 7: he said, I said, are you worried about the poll?

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Speaker 7: And he kind of looks a lighthearted tone candidly said, oh,

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Speaker 7: you mean the poll where I'm up? So he is

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Speaker 7: up against Shared Brod. I believe it's about uh three

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Speaker 7: or four points.

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Speaker 4: He was up more.

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Speaker 7: So in August. He does not seem to be worried

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Speaker 7: about the polls. He said, you know, poll numbers say

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Speaker 7: come and go. He also has a little less than

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Speaker 7: a year now at this point. Let's voters, this is

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Speaker 7: just means to hear voters. Voters do seem to have

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Speaker 7: a short memory. Will see how short it is and

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Speaker 7: what else is going in the world come next November.

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Speaker 7: And he did tell me on the thirty two years

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Speaker 7: time period. The narratives really seems to be from him,

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Speaker 7: because I talked to him about this in September said,

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Speaker 7: you know, it's the DC guy versus Ohio guy. He

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Speaker 7: sees Shared Brown as working in seteral politics and that

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Speaker 7: you know, that dysfunctional system whereas he has he would

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Speaker 7: tell you he's you know, really far for the people

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Speaker 7: of Ohio, including in those various Ohio state role positions.

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Speaker 7: And I think people don't put better or worse, don't

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Speaker 7: really pay attention to their state politics.

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Speaker 4: No, no whole numbers.

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Speaker 7: Like you said, you know, all of you asked, you've

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Speaker 7: got lost in the phone book, or you ask ten

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Speaker 7: people on the street.

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Speaker 4: Who is this guy?

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Speaker 7: You know? But as he pointed out, he just needs

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Speaker 7: to win by one vote, He needs enough people to vote.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's a that's a very you know, cute

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Speaker 2: and cottage way to look at it.

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Speaker 4: I I do think very true.

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Speaker 2: I do in Cincinnati. This is historically in Cincinnati. We

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Speaker 2: don't pay a whole lot of attention what goes on

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Speaker 2: in Columbus unless it adversely affects our lives. We are

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Speaker 2: the state of Cincinnati, and so the TV stations don't

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Speaker 2: cover it the way they should. The local newspaper relies

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Speaker 2: on the Columbus newspaper to cover state politics.

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Speaker 4: It's just some issues.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not. It's it's it's we're an anomaly in

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Speaker 2: and of ourselves. But I have to be honest with you.

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Speaker 2: I've seen John I've heard him talk. He's not the

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Speaker 2: most stillating guy in the world. And if forty percent

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Speaker 2: of the people don't know who the hell this guy is,

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Speaker 2: it would seem to me that somebody in the hierarchy

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Speaker 2: of the Republican Party would say to somebody in the Senate, look,

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Speaker 2: get this guy in front of the camera and get

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Speaker 2: him involved in some of the big legislation coming up,

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Speaker 2: so that forty percent of the folks you don't know

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Speaker 2: who he is, can at least put a face with

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Speaker 2: a voice, right.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And the NRSC is taking this race very seriously.

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Speaker 7: I think it is the race to watch.

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Speaker 4: The fact that shared brown Democrats like him, you know.

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Speaker 6: Got.

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Speaker 7: Back in the race. They actually did regard the race

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Speaker 7: from likely Republican when he's did opponent wasn't announced yet

789
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Speaker 7: to lean Republican, so he still has an edge.

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Speaker 5: It will be very interesting to watch.

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Speaker 7: So in addition to the NRSC taking it seriously, he's

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Speaker 7: also had Trump's endorsement, the Vice president's endorsement. You know

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Speaker 7: that Ohio nection that he is trying to get out

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Speaker 7: there on healthcare with God bless and that's kind of

795
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Speaker 7: like a bangless issue right now with all that's going

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Speaker 7: on there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So this polling, Rebecca, I don't know how you

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Speaker 2: feel about polling. I think polling is is just I

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Speaker 2: love pulling.

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Speaker 4: I'm not like obsessed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but I think it's I think it's

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Speaker 2: a corrupt business because you never really know what you're

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Speaker 2: going to get, and then you have people like Emerson

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Speaker 2: and NPR and for that matter, matter for Falgar. I

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Speaker 2: mean they all seem to have an agency bias. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: there is, and I think that exists in virtually every

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Speaker 2: polling that's out there. You're never going to get a

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Speaker 2: good result if you're a Republican from an NPR poll.

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Speaker 2: It just doesn't. It just doesn't happen because of their bias.

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Speaker 2: So I don't pay a lot of attention to polling.

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Speaker 2: I don't think any of this really kicks into high

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Speaker 2: gear and polling matters until about Labor Day next year.

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Speaker 2: Would you agree with that?

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Speaker 7: Yes, Yeah, then it's really going to heat up. That's

815
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Speaker 7: when you're like in the grind. That's that's when you

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Speaker 7: really do need to be paying attentions to the polls

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Speaker 7: and how much the candidate is out there. And but

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Speaker 7: I'm like a data walk when it comes to looking

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Speaker 7: at the world.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you always want to be ahead, you never

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Speaker 7: want sure, you're always going to sell burbing ahead, and

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Speaker 7: you never want to be behind. But I can see

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Speaker 7: why it wouldn't be necessary to wear that at this

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Speaker 7: point in time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And you know the other thing we pointed out,

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Speaker 2: nobody knowing Houstad and what he is and who he is.

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Speaker 2: It could be it's a blank can true. There's a

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Speaker 2: yeah beauty in that if you are. We're chatting with

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Speaker 2: Rebecca Downs. Yeah, she is a terrific writer and understands

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Speaker 2: politics in our state top to bottom and she is

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Speaker 2: with the Daily Signal. All right, let's get into this

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Speaker 2: gooblatorial race. Oh yes, the vag Ramaswami on the Republican side.

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Speaker 2: And it looks like doctor Amy Acton, she of COVID fame,

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Speaker 2: is on the Democrat side.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because Tim Ryan's not running.

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Speaker 2: Great and I look at Amy Acton and I think

838
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Speaker 2: the governor of Ohio, current Governor Mike DeWine unwittingly built

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Speaker 2: this woman up into be some sort of godlike figure,

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Speaker 2: and now all of a sudden she's coming back, roaring

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Speaker 2: at the Republicans and trying to be the governor of

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Speaker 2: this state. I don't know what her favorability rating is statewide.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe it would be great, just because she

844
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Speaker 2: is the COVID queen in Ohio and we all know

845
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Speaker 2: how that went five years ago. Yeah, why is she

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Speaker 2: running and does she have, in your opinion, enough grassroots

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Speaker 2: support to pull this thing off.

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Speaker 7: Her fund raising numbers have been impressive for a Democrat.

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Speaker 7: Let's emphasize that it's for a Democrat, but also the

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Speaker 7: day Grammar Swammy has raised a ton of money too.

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Speaker 7: Her favorable rating, she is looking at a thirty five

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Speaker 7: percent favorable rating, rights towards the bottom. It's a little

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Speaker 7: bit better than her unfavorable rating, which is thirty three

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Speaker 7: percent and then thirty two percent.

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Speaker 4: Say, you know, I'm.

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Speaker 3: Sure I've never heard of her.

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Speaker 7: It's only a little bit better than John he said

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Speaker 7: in that regard.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they should run as a team.

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Speaker 7: Yeah right, so true. So you know, the Ohio gop

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Speaker 7: here they are really hammering the narrative, Oh, the COVID

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Speaker 7: queen and COVID closures. And I think that does matter

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Speaker 7: in a red state. I really do, especially when when

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Speaker 7: parents think about how their kids were affected in school closures,

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Speaker 7: and that's certainly a narrative. I said, the Ihio GOP

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Speaker 7: is really hammering. That's what I've seen from them. The

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Speaker 7: Wine is a very interesting calculation in this mixt and

868
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Speaker 7: he is the current governor, and he was the governor

869
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Speaker 7: when all this was going on, So I think it

870
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 7: puts him in an awkward spot. I will say, to

871
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 7: put it politely, that not everybody in Ohio, from the

872
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Speaker 7: repubt book inside, is a fan of Mike de Wine.

873
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 7: I think they see him as an establishment or what

874
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 7: some people call rhinos Republican a name only I do

875
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 7: see their argument, you know. I think I think you

876
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 7: could also say Republicans would say he was better than

877
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Speaker 7: what the Democrat Nan Leally, who lost him by like

878
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 7: twenty five points in twenty twenty two, would be. So

879
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 7: I think I don't I have to wonder how much

880
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 7: I'm getting involved in the race would would help because

881
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 7: of both you know, how.

882
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 2: The Wine hasn't endorsed Ramaswami, and I don't know that's

883
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 2: not and I don't you know, I don't know how

884
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:42,919
Speaker 2: he views acting. I would view her if I were him,

885
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 2: as a political liability. But I do find it that

886
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 2: the Wine either thinks his anointment of some sort of

887
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 2: candidate like ramas Swami would carry any kind of weight.

888
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 2: He's a lame duck governor and he is he is

889
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 2: not what anyone would discribe as an ultra conservative and

890
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 2: certainly not part of the Maga movement. So I maybe

891
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 2: it's a pleasing that Ramaswami doesn't have his endorsement yet.

892
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 7: True, I do believe it's going to come, because he

893
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 7: said he would endorse, and my sense was he would

894
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 7: endorse the Republican candidate, not that Ramaswami and he were

895
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 7: best friends, but you know, Ramaswami is the Republican Canada.

896
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Speaker 7: I do wonder if Dave yoc Attorney General, had he

897
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Speaker 7: stuck in the race. I don't think he would have

898
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Speaker 7: gotten the nomination, to be frank, given that the Ohio

899
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 7: GOP endorse Ramaswami, I do wonder if the Wine would

900
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 7: have thrown his support behind him much more quickly. But

901
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 7: you know, that's that's where we're at, he said. He

902
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Speaker 7: this is the wine said, he's had conversations with Ramaswami,

903
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 7: is my understanding.

904
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Speaker 4: So it's probably coming.

905
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Speaker 7: They're probably gonna, you know, maybe it would be a

906
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 7: photo up or or you know, just tell each other

907
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 7: what they want to hear. I do wonder if who

908
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,760
Speaker 7: promise Bammy Picks as his lieutenant governor will have any play,

909
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 7: especially because it's someone currently in state politics. The names

910
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 7: I'm hearing and I'm sure everybody else are hearing, or

911
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 7: you know, frank Le Rose. Also, you've got few state senators,

912
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 7: so I think it's going to be so interesting to

913
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 7: see if that, if that has no effect as well.

914
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Speaker 2: And that's why you got to read Rebecca downs on

915
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Speaker 2: the Daily Siguation. He is on top of it all.

916
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Speaker 2: And Rebecca, we appreciate your time here today and you

917
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Speaker 2: know we will be calling, but if not before Christmas.

918
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Speaker 2: Every Christmas to.

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Speaker 4: You and Christmas to you too.

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Speaker 7: God bless, happy New Year and happy han It as well.

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Speaker 4: That's going on right now.

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Speaker 2: That's wonderful. Thank you. Appreciate that the GOP in this

923
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Speaker 2: state anointed ramas Swami and that ticked off a lot

924
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Speaker 2: of the shall we say, longtime Republicans in this state,

925
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Speaker 2: and that could be one of the reasons why the

926
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Speaker 2: governor has withheld his endorsement Ramaswami. He says he will

927
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Speaker 2: endorse the Republican candidate, but he might not have liked

928
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Speaker 2: what happened about six months ago when it was a

929
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Speaker 2: coronation of Ramaswami. Is that bad for Vivek or we're

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Speaker 2: not good for Vivike?

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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961
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Speaker 2: ken Brew two O six. What's going on in Venezuela?

962
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Speaker 2: What's Trump up to? Blockhanding the country? Blown up drug boats,

963
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Speaker 2: alleged drug boats and trying to get Maduro the hell

964
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 2: out of that country. Now there's a line of thinking

965
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Speaker 2: that Maduro and the person that had the power before him,

966
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Speaker 2: Hugo Chavez that they simply just stole all the equipment

967
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Speaker 2: and all of the rigging and all of the everything

968
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Speaker 2: that oil companies invested in years ago, and some oil

969
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Speaker 2: companies gave it up willingly just to get out of

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Speaker 2: the country, and others basically, we're just run out of

971
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Speaker 2: the country. And Trump wants his oil back, he wants

972
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Speaker 2: the rigging back, and he wants Maduro out. So exactly

973
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 2: where are we going here and how does he plan

974
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Speaker 2: on doing that? We'll get into that in just a

975
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Speaker 2: little bit. You're you're invariably, if you're going out of

976
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 2: town for the holidays, you're going to encounter some problems,

977
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 2: either traffic on the roadway or if you're going to

978
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 2: the airport, delays and cancelations and lost bags, and so

979
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 2: the question becomes what airline is the most dependable if

980
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 2: you are flying out of town over the holidays, whether

981
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 2: it be for Christmas or Honikah or for the New Year? Well,

982
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 2: how about this? Finance Buzz is a website and it

983
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 2: examined data for the months of November and December from

984
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,399
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four to find which

985
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 2: airline are the best for holiday travel and that's based

986
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 2: on what I just mentioned, delays and cancelations, mishandled luggage

987
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 2: the best the top of the heap Delta Delta Delta

988
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 2: through that time period when this survey was done, only

989
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 2: had thirteen point seven percent of their flights delayed and

990
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 2: less than one percent of their flights canceled. Now, there

991
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 2: were delays, some is long or averaging out to an hour,

992
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,919
Speaker 2: but some are just not good. Jet Blue Alaska, even

993
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:59,439
Speaker 2: the low cost carriers Allegian in Frontier not very good.

994
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 2: So I wanted to get an aviation expert on today.

995
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:06,839
Speaker 2: There are a lot of them out there. We have

996
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 2: our own Jay Ratliffe here on seven hundred WLW. But

997
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 2: Brandon Blewett wrote a book a few years ago that

998
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 2: I bought and I liked, and I thought it was

999
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 2: kind of cool. It's called how to Avoid Strangers on Airplanes,

1000
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 2: Survival Guide for the Frequent Business Traveler. And I wanted

1001
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,839
Speaker 2: to get his thoughts on what Finance Buzz did here

1002
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 2: and whether or not there's any truth to what we're

1003
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:34,359
Speaker 2: seeing in here. The survey is interesting. I don't think

1004
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 2: it is, Brandon. I don't think it's particularly great for

1005
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 2: any of these airlines It's.

1006
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,760
Speaker 12: Really interesting the list of finance Buzz put out right

1007
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 12: because how they factored it is in what's the most

1008
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,360
Speaker 12: disruptive and what is the least dependable probably depends on

1009
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 12: you know, how often you travel and you know what

1010
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 12: your travel plans are, because for me, I travel every week.

1011
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 12: So if applies the aid, yes that's annoying, but it's

1012
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:04,919
Speaker 12: not going to be devastating. So a flight cancelation would

1013
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 12: be the bigger drawback for me. You know, I'm looking

1014
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 12: through the you know, the stats, and it looked like,

1015
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 12: you know, Delta, you know, score the best and in

1016
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 12: almost you know, every category. So look, they have, they

1017
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 12: have a stellar reputation. I lived in Atlanta four eleven years,

1018
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 12: flew them every week and generally had a very very

1019
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 12: positive experience with them. So I do think that they

1020
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:28,919
Speaker 12: are you know, king of the hill, so to speak,

1021
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 12: based on the latest ratings. I also think with airlines

1022
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:34,799
Speaker 12: that you mentioned that the ratings aren't that good for

1023
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:35,399
Speaker 12: all of them.

1024
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:36,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fair.

1025
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 12: I do think that the airline industry in general has

1026
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 12: to deal with so many external factors that a lot

1027
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 12: of other businesses don't have to deal with, you know,

1028
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 12: namely weather, if you have a hub and spoke model

1029
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 12: and a storm roll through your hub, that's just going

1030
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 12: to cause a chain reaction of bad events that happen,

1031
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 12: you know, across your entire network.

1032
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, that's true. There's a lot of things

1033
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 2: that are outside the airlines controlled. There's no quoest that,

1034
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 2: and just the skies are jammed, let's face it. I mean,

1035
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 2: these air traffic controllers are They're wizards and make holding

1036
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 2: this work. But I'd be interested to drill down and

1037
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 2: see what they mean by number of flights delayed. If

1038
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 2: you leave the gate, if that plane pushes back and

1039
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:22,959
Speaker 2: sits on the tarmac, is it delayed because it left

1040
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:27,280
Speaker 2: the gate on time? And the percentage of flights canceled?

1041
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 2: I think you really can't get around that one all

1042
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,959
Speaker 2: that much. You know, there's some lines that say, hey,

1043
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 2: it's another un time departure, and then you sit on

1044
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:39,320
Speaker 2: the tarmac for two So flights delay is a really

1045
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 2: kind of nebulous thing, is it not?

1046
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 12: It is, And it's even more complicated by the fact that,

1047
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 12: as I understand, the FAA used to measure it based

1048
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 12: on arrival time, so long as you were within thirty

1049
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:54,799
Speaker 12: minutes of your scheduled arrival. So there's even a little

1050
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 12: bit of wiggle room for the airline there. And I

1051
00:56:57,480 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 12: think we shall also see with many of the airlines

1052
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 12: now is we'll pad the flight time. Right, So even

1053
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 12: if you sit on the tarmac for an extra twenty

1054
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 12: minutes because they have booked, say three hours before a

1055
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 12: flight that's likely only two hours and twenty minutes in airtime,

1056
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 12: you'll still wind up that your destination on time, so

1057
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 12: as I understand, and what they use here to calculate

1058
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 12: was not based on when you leave the gate. It's

1059
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 12: based on when the plane arrives at the gate of

1060
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 12: your destination.

1061
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, okay, So out of a score of fifty,

1062
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 2: Delta was overall thirty five point nine, and the rest

1063
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 2: of the airlines that we would fly here in this

1064
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 2: area of the country would not stack up all that well.

1065
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 2: I guess. The next ranked one was Hawaiian Air But

1066
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 2: obviously Cincinnati's about and far away from Hawaii as you

1067
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 2: can get.

1068
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 12: When you're only flying between the California and Hawaii, the

1069
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 12: weather's always perfect, You're probably not going to be a

1070
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 12: subject to most of the elements of the rest of

1071
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 12: the country as well.

1072
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 2: Right, but you get when you get to airlines like

1073
00:57:55,800 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 2: United and Spirit and American, in Frontier and Allegian and

1074
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 2: Jet Blueth and Southwest, you're talking basically fifty percent. If

1075
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 2: the score is fifty these airlines are all scoring below

1076
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 2: twenty five percent. So that's not good, is it?

1077
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 4: No, it's not.

1078
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 12: And if you look at Southwest in particular, so for

1079
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:22,479
Speaker 12: Southwest and percent of percent of flights canceled, you'll notice

1080
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Speaker 12: THEIRS is two point four percent, which is higher than

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00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 12: I think almost every other airlines stay of Alaska. If

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00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 12: you look at Delta, United an American, you'll see they're

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00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 12: all below one percent. And the reason for that is

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00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 12: that Delta, American and United have a hub and spoke model,

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00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 12: so they within their network, they have call it eight

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00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 12: to ten airports where all their show and they all

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00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 12: leave there. So if you're able to fly people to

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00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 12: that hub, the likelihood that they can get a new plane,

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00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 12: get a new crew. If something you know where to

1090
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:55,919
Speaker 12: go wrong, you know your inbound crew, your inound plane

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00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 12: are delayed, they can mobilize. They have mechanical operations at

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00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 12: those those at those airports, and so they're able to

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00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 12: get things moving. When you see airlines like Southwest, they're

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00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 12: more of a point to point airline, so they don't

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00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 12: fly everything into one, you know, into eight to ten

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00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 12: airports and everything goes from there. So if a flight

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00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 12: gets delayed or canceled, it causes a serious chain of

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Speaker 12: the events where all these subsequent flights that were depending

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Speaker 12: on that aircraft could get canceled. And then airlines like

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Speaker 12: you know, Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant, you know Jet Blue, to

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Speaker 12: some extent, they just have a very limited network and

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Speaker 12: so if a flight gets canceled or a flight gets

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Speaker 12: severely delayed, it just creates, you know, math, chaos within

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Speaker 12: within the system for the rest of the day.

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Speaker 2: Brandon Blew, it's an expert on airline passenger experience, sees

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Speaker 2: the author of How to Avoid Strangers on Airplane Survival

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Speaker 2: Guide for the frequent business traveler. How do you avoid

1108
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 2: strangers on airplanes? They're all strangers. You just want the

1109
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 2: stranger that doesn't talk to you.

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Speaker 4: Right, you buy my book and you hold up the cover.

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Speaker 4: People get the points.

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Speaker 2: It's all in. It's all in the jacket. It's all

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01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 2: in the jacket. The other thing I got you here,

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Speaker 2: here's another pet peeve with my Brandon's sorry, I'm just

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01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 2: gonna stud I think they should ban outside food on

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Speaker 2: a plane, because invariably somebody is going to come strutting

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Speaker 2: down that aisle as loaded with onions and garlic or

1118
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 2: some other curry or something is just going to stink

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01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 2: to high heaven. These airlines should say no outside food

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Speaker 2: on this plane. It just drives me crazy. Well anyway, Uh,

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Speaker 2: this is interesting stuff, and you're an interesting guy. And again,

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Speaker 2: Brandon's book has how to Avoid Strangers on Airplane Survival

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Speaker 2: Guide for the frequent business traveler. Sounds like a good

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Speaker 2: read for anyone that's boarding a plane this holiday season. Uh, Brandon,

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Speaker 2: you stay well and hopefully we can visit again down

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Speaker 2: the road. Thanks absolutely, enjoy I will whatever tours. Delta

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Speaker 2: number one, Hawaiian Airlines two Southwest three in terms of

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Speaker 2: best airlines for a holiday travel, United is a distant fourth,

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Speaker 2: and then if you want a fistfight, you could always

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Speaker 2: fly Spirit. They're coming in at number five in this

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Speaker 2: survey done by finance Buzz. If you're flying, I hope

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Speaker 2: the skies are friendly to you. Coming up on one

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Speaker 2: fifty three News Radio seven hundred wl w W two

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Speaker 2: ten on this Saturday afternoon, and welcome back. Great to

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Speaker 2: have you with us. Well, without you, I would simply

1136
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 2: be one man sitting in a room babbling to himself.

1137
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 2: Why would I have to leave home to do that?

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Speaker 2: What's going on in Venezuela, well a lot. It seems like,

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Speaker 2: first of all, you have these drug boats, these cigar boats,

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Speaker 2: if you will, that have been leaving Venezuela and heading

1141
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 2: north through the Atlantic or the Caribbean, or god knows where.

1142
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Speaker 2: And so the United States and the Department of Defense,

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01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 2: Department of Warbs, i should say, have been blowing things,

1144
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Speaker 2: these things up. And now we heard just the beginning

1145
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 2: of this past week that the United States has a

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Speaker 2: blockade around Venezuela. So it would seem to me that

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01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 2: there is a decided effort right now by the Trump

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Speaker 2: administration to do something in Venezuela. And although Trump says

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Speaker 2: it would not involve boots on the ground, it's hard

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Speaker 2: to imagine that the strong man in charge of that

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01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 2: particular country, Nicholas Maduro, would leave under any circumstances other

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Speaker 2: than through an invasion or through just basically getting taken out,

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01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 2: if you will, by an organization like the CIA. But

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01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 2: what's really going on besides drugs? Why are we so

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01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 2: interested in drugs and are they only Maybe the overarching

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01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 2: theme to all that and that the real issue with

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01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:04,920
Speaker 2: Venezuela is oil. Upon a time, major oil companies like Exon, Mobil, Conicco, Shell,

1158
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 2: they were all in Venezuela and actively pumping oil out

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Speaker 2: of the ground, building the infrastructure needed and staffing with

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Speaker 2: the people needed to get oil out of the ground.

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Speaker 2: And it was under Hugo Chavez that they were run out.

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01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 2: They are either left on their own or were forced out.

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01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 2: But guess what all of that infrastructure remained. And so

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Speaker 2: when you hear Donald Trump say we want to get

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Speaker 2: our oil back, that's what he's speaking of oil. It

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Speaker 2: seems like maybe the number one reason why we are

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01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:39,840
Speaker 2: so interested in Venezuela and the oil that it takes

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Speaker 2: out of the ground and ships to other countries like

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Speaker 2: China may be something that is also a part of

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Speaker 2: this as well. Let's get the expert opinion on all

1171
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 2: of that, and that would be coming up from someone

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Speaker 2: who has studied this on a very large basis. Bill

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Speaker 2: Conroy is a veteran journalist forty years of experience in

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01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 2: print and online reporting and editing. And Bill Conroy is

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01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:07,439
Speaker 2: someone who is now working and working diligently to find

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Speaker 2: out what's going on in Venezuela. And he's kind of

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Speaker 2: enough to carve out some of his time here on

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Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW. And Bill Conroy, how are you on

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Speaker 2: this glorious Saturday.

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Speaker 6: I am doing well, doing well.

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Speaker 2: You've had your eye on Venezuela for a very long time.

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01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 2: You had a book that came out a few years back,

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01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 2: The Great Pretense, a tour through the Boneyard of the

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01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:34,320
Speaker 2: CIA's War for Drugs. But this seems a little bit

1185
01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:36,520
Speaker 2: more in depth, and it seems like a minute, a

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01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 2: little bit more broader of an attack on Venezuela than

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Speaker 2: just drugs. You seem to think it has to do

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Speaker 2: with oil. Can you explain that?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? I can't. By the way, that book is coming

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Speaker 6: out in February. It hasn't come out.

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Speaker 2: Oh I thought it was already out. Oh it's not

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Speaker 2: out yet. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: The prior book was about the Warris Cartel in Ice

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01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 6: and it's called Dispatches from House of Death. But we

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01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:07,880
Speaker 6: want to talk about Venezuela. Yeah, I have been following

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01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:10,760
Speaker 6: it because part of you know, kind of the last

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Speaker 6: part of the great pretense, you know, I kind of

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Speaker 6: had to explore that because it's you know, it sits

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Speaker 6: in and you're right, the summary is pretty much on

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Speaker 6: the button. I would say, what we're really seeing, Yeah,

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01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 6: the drug boats, just to tell you it's not you,

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01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 6: it's there. They're carrying cocaine, right, and that's what comes

1203
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 6: out of the out of Colombia, for the most part,

1204
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:37,920
Speaker 6: in the Andes, the only place you can grow coca plants.

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Speaker 6: So you know, Venezuela is not a producer, but it

1206
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:45,280
Speaker 6: is a transit nation and it probably plays a bigger

1207
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:47,360
Speaker 6: role in the money side because you know, they have

1208
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Speaker 6: a financial system that can help the launder money. Right,

1209
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:54,880
Speaker 6: So you know that what's coming out of Venezuela in

1210
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Speaker 6: terms of drug boats, it is probably actually Colombian cocaine

1211
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 6: or or someone else in that region. Is that there's

1212
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 6: there's a diversion of cocaine. You know, there's cocaine all

1213
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:08,280
Speaker 6: over the place, you know, But let me give you

1214
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:10,560
Speaker 6: the real factor. So those drug boats are the cigar

1215
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,520
Speaker 6: boats as you want to call them. At most, you know,

1216
01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:16,600
Speaker 6: and this is generous, might carry four tons right, But

1217
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 6: those little ones are probably carrying like a ton of

1218
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 6: cocaine and they've done like twenty eight strikes so far

1219
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 6: right as of this moment, and that adds up at

1220
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Speaker 6: most about one hundred tons of cocaine. That's a lot

1221
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 6: of cocaine. But the production annually, and it's been growing

1222
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:38,840
Speaker 6: every year. And this is you know, from surveys on

1223
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 6: the ground that the UN does they have the estimate

1224
01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 6: of three thousand and seven or eight tons of pure

1225
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 6: cocaine that's that's hitting the market, and that was in

1226
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:50,919
Speaker 6: two twenty three. It's going to be even higher now.

1227
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Speaker 6: And also while they're blowing up the drug boats, we

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01:06:55,280 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 6: had you know, a huge growth in seizures at the

1229
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Speaker 6: southern border of cocaine, I mean exploded and seizures are

1230
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 6: only at indicator how much is coming to because they

1231
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 6: don't measure what got through it. And yeah, with the

1232
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 6: cartels where they operate, they'll send like across the bridges

1233
01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 6: where I covered it, they'll send three trucks through roughly

1234
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 6: at the same time, figuring maybe one gets caught and

1235
01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 6: the other two get through.

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01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 2: Right.

1237
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 6: So that's and and uh so we're not going to

1238
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 6: stop the drug war by blown up drug boats. That's

1239
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 6: more of a shock and awe campaign. I think it

1240
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 6: was like the first sell bow and they're blown up bullets.

1241
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 6: They're probably you know, the ones that are in the

1242
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 6: Eastern Pacific are likely you know, coming out of Columbia,

1243
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 6: you know, and then the Caribbean that's probably Venezuela, and

1244
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 6: most of that cocaine headed to the States. It's headed

1245
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:52,440
Speaker 6: up to out to Europe. That's that's you know, it's

1246
01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:55,880
Speaker 6: they're they're moving it to push it across across the Atlanta.

1247
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:57,960
Speaker 6: There's a huge cocaine market in Europe, as.

1248
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 2: Is in the US with the US. A ton in

1249
01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 2: the US, if my facts are straight, a ton of

1250
01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 2: cocaine is somewhere around thirty thirty five million dollars.

1251
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 14: So they're not I mean, it's not chin right, but

1252
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 14: you got to remember it's a renewable resource, right, So yeah,

1253
01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:18,479
Speaker 14: it's it's it's a loss of potential profit.

1254
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:20,760
Speaker 6: But you know there's plenty of cocaine. They just think

1255
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:24,960
Speaker 6: more and you know, it's the system is just how

1256
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 6: do you get it to where you to market? And

1257
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,040
Speaker 6: there's drug routes and there's plazas like all along the

1258
01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 6: border they call like wars Is a major plaza and Tijuana,

1259
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:35,080
Speaker 6: you know, all the big border cities, and then they

1260
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 6: move that stuff across the border and they have you know,

1261
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 6: a arrangements on our side of the border, warehouses and

1262
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:41,559
Speaker 6: stuff where it gets stored and it gets cut up

1263
01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 6: and then moved across the interstates or planes that use

1264
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:46,400
Speaker 6: a lot of planes. And they also, you know, boats

1265
01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:48,519
Speaker 6: are big, so there's so many ways to get it

1266
01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:52,080
Speaker 6: in there. Blowing up. Yeah, two dozen drug boats is

1267
01:08:52,200 --> 01:08:55,040
Speaker 6: you know, like popping a pimple. You know, it's nothing, right,

1268
01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:57,920
Speaker 6: And yeah, for the guys that lost the cocaine, you know,

1269
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 6: but they're they got a problem. But the guys are

1270
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:03,680
Speaker 6: competing with just moving and take over that market. Does

1271
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:07,759
Speaker 6: that make sense? It's it's extreme, yeah, but it's it's funding.

1272
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:10,759
Speaker 2: It's funding someone, right, I mean, the coc is funding

1273
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:15,000
Speaker 2: something or someone, right, and it's probably directly linked back

1274
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,080
Speaker 2: to the guy that's in charge of Venezuela and Maduro right.

1275
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:20,400
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I mean I think he had to take

1276
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:23,679
Speaker 6: of it this way. Like all the corrupt politicians that

1277
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 6: the ones that we found that show up, everyone's along

1278
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:29,640
Speaker 6: the states. It's the same down there, so it's not

1279
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:31,760
Speaker 6: they get it cut it like in other words, I'll

1280
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:34,280
Speaker 6: tell you how it worked. In Honduras. The guy that

1281
01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:38,000
Speaker 6: the president Honduras right got convicted, sentenced to forty five

1282
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:42,040
Speaker 6: years in pardon just just recently by Trump. But what

1283
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:46,080
Speaker 6: he was doing is he allowed the Cinelague cartel free

1284
01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:50,600
Speaker 6: passage through Honduras. In fact, helped guard the loads so

1285
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:52,880
Speaker 6: they would pass through Honduras and then they get upped

1286
01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 6: into Mexico up to the plazas along the border. And

1287
01:09:56,120 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 6: they asked him that he led about four hundred tons

1288
01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,679
Speaker 6: of cocaine through Honduras or ten years period where he's

1289
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:04,559
Speaker 6: doing that, right or not when he was office so

1290
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Speaker 6: and and we died him and connected him and now

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Speaker 6: he's out. But it's like that all over. There's so

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Speaker 6: much money. I mean border patrol. I wanted to border.

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Speaker 6: I mean, these guys are making you know, you know

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Speaker 6: when I was covering a maybe fifty five grand a year,

1295
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Speaker 6: you know, by winking and letting loads through for the cartel,

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Speaker 6: they could make that in a week. I mean maybe

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Speaker 6: not a week, right, I mean they're getting ten grand

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01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 6: pop for letting these loads through. And so there's there's

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Speaker 6: weak points in every system and that you know, the

1300
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Speaker 6: cartels are the distribution just distributors. But you know it's

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Speaker 6: like an iceberg. You always see the chapel, Guzman's and

1302
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 6: the you know the names, the bad villains, the guys

1303
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:47,919
Speaker 6: in the black ant, but underneath that is the real cartel.

1304
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Speaker 6: And you know, none of this works unless the money's laundered.

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01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 6: So the financial system is you know, huge player in

1306
01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 6: laundering drug money and you know donald stream from that.

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01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:02,160
Speaker 6: You know, it's just suddenly gets you know into our

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01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 6: economy and it's condos in Miami or it's real estate

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Speaker 6: or Mexico wherever. Yeah, there's probably Yeah, I wanted to I.

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Speaker 2: Want to go ahead, finish your thought. I want to

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Speaker 2: tie this back to.

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Speaker 6: The world with Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: The way the way it works is there's other the

1315
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 6: generals are you know, probably guarding or facilitating the transport

1316
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Speaker 6: of these loads, you know through Venezuela. Out of Venezuela

1317
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:32,880
Speaker 6: they use planes to you know, not just boats. And

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Speaker 6: they're getting a cut of the action, right, they get

1319
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:39,840
Speaker 6: a cut for basically you know, facilitating, uh, the movement

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Speaker 6: of the of the product. And you know, with Duro,

1321
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:45,439
Speaker 6: no doubt is you know, getting a cut of all

1322
01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:47,960
Speaker 6: that action too. It's not like he has necessarily be

1323
01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:50,559
Speaker 6: involved in moving the drugs. He's just allowing it to

1324
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 6: happen and they pay him off. And in the Wayes

1325
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 6: explained to me this was about Mexico is if you're

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01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:01,799
Speaker 6: a politician or any kind of you know, public figure

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01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 6: in a position with some power to that they would

1328
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:08,160
Speaker 6: see you of use. You got two choices. Either, you know,

1329
01:12:08,280 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 6: if they're all going to say you can, you know,

1330
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 6: will pay you or essentially will kill you. And if

1331
01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 6: you don't work with any of the cartels, you're against

1332
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 6: all of them. You know, you almost have to pick

1333
01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 6: one to have protection.

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Speaker 2: Well you got you got, yeah, okay, so you got this.

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Speaker 2: Terasury Department UH started sanctioning as sanctioning seven family members

1336
01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:33,320
Speaker 2: of Maduro. That was Friday Rubio, the Secretary of State

1337
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 2: comes out and called transnational terrorists criminal organizations, praise some

1338
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:43,520
Speaker 2: South American countries that are not transnationals, but slam Venezuela.

1339
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:45,639
Speaker 2: And you mix all of that in with the fact

1340
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Speaker 2: that Trump thinks that Venezuela basically stole our oil. They

1341
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 2: certainly kept the rigging when they run ran countries out

1342
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 2: like Conco Phillips and they ran countries out like Shell

1343
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 2: and whatnot. So is the endgame here do you think

1344
01:12:59,080 --> 01:13:02,479
Speaker 2: in Venezuela or Trump to get those oil fields back,

1345
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:05,839
Speaker 2: cut down on what goes out of Venezuela to places

1346
01:13:06,120 --> 01:13:10,240
Speaker 2: like China and in essence become an oil field for

1347
01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:12,599
Speaker 2: the United States. And you think that's the endgame here

1348
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:14,440
Speaker 2: for him?

1349
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 6: In a word, yes, but I think getting there is

1350
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 6: a lot more of a complicated road. What as you know,

1351
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 6: they seize one of the tankers, that's like the like

1352
01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 6: they rare. Maybe I can't remember a time that that.

1353
01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 6: You know, these sank and chips, there's like there's like

1354
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:33,920
Speaker 6: a thousand of them. And to set it up, let

1355
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:36,519
Speaker 6: me set it up so that I can break it

1356
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:42,519
Speaker 6: down real simple. Russia, Iran, and Venezuela all are sanctioned

1357
01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:46,719
Speaker 6: by the US, so they're basically blackballed from our financial system,

1358
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:52,040
Speaker 6: et cetera. And so when they're delivering oil to China,

1359
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 6: and most of the Venezuela and oil eighty percent of

1360
01:13:55,400 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 6: it ends up in China right where and it's refined

1361
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:02,960
Speaker 6: in China. We sanctioned a couple of Chinese they call

1362
01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:06,759
Speaker 6: the teapot refiners. There's our clandestine miners and they refine

1363
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:10,519
Speaker 6: Iran's oil and uh, I mean in Venezuela. You know,

1364
01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 6: if it doesn't come that you know, so basically that's

1365
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 6: and then it gets distributed in China and they pay

1366
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 6: you know, sub market prices for it because of the

1367
01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:21,639
Speaker 6: risk premium because they're all sanctioned, right, So it's cheaper oil,

1368
01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 6: and it's that's that's helping the fuel of the Chinese economy.

1369
01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 6: One SMI had is about four percent. Venezuelan oil accounts

1370
01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:33,360
Speaker 6: about four percent of China's oil use and China, I

1371
01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:36,400
Speaker 6: ran and Russia together about a quarter. So now think

1372
01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:39,479
Speaker 6: about that. So we are starting to seize the boat.

1373
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:41,559
Speaker 6: We deceased one boat, and we put up a blockade

1374
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 6: to seize other sanctioned vessels. They figure and these are

1375
01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:47,960
Speaker 6: these aren't Venezuelan tankers. They're like they're fleets owned by

1376
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:51,719
Speaker 6: private companies that maybe indirectly are being funded by Russia

1377
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:55,439
Speaker 6: or you know, definitely Russia, uh and Iran and and

1378
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:58,360
Speaker 6: they you know, they're like a pirate fleet. They come

1379
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 6: and they get the oil and they you know, they

1380
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:04,720
Speaker 6: become ghost ships, so you can't track them and and

1381
01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 6: they you know, maybe delivered it to Malaysia, which now

1382
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:12,280
Speaker 6: which is suddenly a giant explort of oil and it

1383
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 6: doesn't have any because you know, they delire to a

1384
01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:18,880
Speaker 6: middle cour company country and then from Americas to China

1385
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 6: to try to mask where it's coming from. Right, that's

1386
01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:25,520
Speaker 6: the game. Well, we're we're seizing oil tankers out in Venezuela.

1387
01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:29,240
Speaker 6: That's an eight billion dollar black market for Venezuela and

1388
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:32,520
Speaker 6: that is the real source of income, not the drugs,

1389
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 6: for the Venezuelan economy and frankly for Maduro's you know

1390
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:40,960
Speaker 6: slush one. Right, and you know, Europe is starting to

1391
01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 6: crack down a little bit more on these these uh

1392
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:48,040
Speaker 6: you know ghosts sports ghost ships as well, not seizing them,

1393
01:15:48,080 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 6: but at port, making them prove they have insurance, et cetera.

1394
01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:54,400
Speaker 6: So they they're afraid to go into port. And then

1395
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:58,679
Speaker 6: you know, finally the Ukrainians, you know, the war with Russia,

1396
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 6: they've been blowing these boat out, right, they've been going

1397
01:16:01,479 --> 01:16:04,080
Speaker 6: after them. So there's a lot of pressure on this

1398
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:06,840
Speaker 6: this shadow oil fleet that's going around the world. Right,

1399
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:09,240
Speaker 6: some of them won't go into Venezuela now because they're

1400
01:16:09,280 --> 01:16:12,040
Speaker 6: afraid of the blockade that's there and getting getting caught

1401
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:13,800
Speaker 6: up in it. And they're all like older twenty year

1402
01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:18,000
Speaker 6: old tankers. They're literally like modern pirates to me. And

1403
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:21,240
Speaker 6: that's the game. So as we increased pressure on Venezuela,

1404
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:25,760
Speaker 6: and there's an increased pressure on Russians and you know

1405
01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 6: Iran that chokes off oil to China, so you can

1406
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:32,440
Speaker 6: see where this is headed. Russians are already well, it's

1407
01:16:32,479 --> 01:16:37,240
Speaker 6: setting it's it's warships to guard these ghost tankers for delivery.

1408
01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:40,400
Speaker 6: Venezuela the other day sent out it's ships to guard

1409
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 6: these takers. Now it's not going to it says, it's

1410
01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:45,160
Speaker 6: not going to have a confrontation with the US Navy.

1411
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:47,280
Speaker 6: They would back off that they try to seize these

1412
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 6: but you can see how how hair trigger this is.

1413
01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:52,240
Speaker 6: All it takes is for one of these ships. That's

1414
01:16:52,240 --> 01:16:54,400
Speaker 6: how World War one started, right or World War two.

1415
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:56,840
Speaker 6: You know they're sinking ships going across the ocean. It

1416
01:16:56,960 --> 01:16:59,800
Speaker 6: was Mercantaile ships that were that were the tip of

1417
01:16:59,840 --> 01:17:02,880
Speaker 6: the spear that ended up, you know, resulting in a

1418
01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:06,040
Speaker 6: Rul's war because everyone was blowing their Merchantais ships up.

1419
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:10,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's yeah, I think that's where it's headed.

1420
01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 2: I think, And as you mentioned earlier, you know that

1421
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:15,200
Speaker 2: our conducts are one thing. It's more probably gets through

1422
01:17:15,439 --> 01:17:18,360
Speaker 2: than anything else, but it might have gotten Venezuela's attention.

1423
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:20,760
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, you're right, we're we're

1424
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 2: we're seizing ships and now we've got a blockade. Build

1425
01:17:24,120 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 2: your book. Dispatches from the House of Death, A war

1426
01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:31,560
Speaker 2: is cartel informed, a d As whistleblower, mass murder and

1427
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:34,599
Speaker 2: a cover up on the edge of the Empire. That's out.

1428
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:37,559
Speaker 2: But the great pretense, the tour through the bone yard

1429
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:40,240
Speaker 2: of the CIA's war for drugs, that's out again. When

1430
01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:41,920
Speaker 2: it's out again in a couple of months, right, did

1431
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:43,479
Speaker 2: you just say that February?

1432
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, February nineteenth is supposed to be out, And just

1433
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:49,400
Speaker 6: you know, they're almost like a series because it's all

1434
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:51,560
Speaker 6: based on the reporting I did over twenty years on

1435
01:17:51,600 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 6: the drug war. And so one part looks that, you know,

1436
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:58,639
Speaker 6: the US side of the border, in US law enforcement,

1437
01:17:58,720 --> 01:18:01,679
Speaker 6: that case is you know, that's going to Latin America

1438
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:03,960
Speaker 6: as well, but it's more focused from this side. And

1439
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:07,640
Speaker 6: then the new book is you know what's happening in

1440
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 6: Latin America in terms of our US law enforcement and

1441
01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 6: intelligence agencies in the drug war. So that's the way

1442
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 6: to put it.

1443
01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:19,360
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, well Bill, Bill Conroy, we got to run.

1444
01:18:19,439 --> 01:18:22,639
Speaker 2: But those are the books and his thoughts on what

1445
01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 2: exactly is going on in Venezuela. Good stuff. Bill, Thanks

1446
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:27,800
Speaker 2: for joining us, carving out a little piece of your

1447
01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:30,280
Speaker 2: time today, and let's do this again. I want to

1448
01:18:30,320 --> 01:18:31,880
Speaker 2: do this again down the road. We got a lot

1449
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 2: more we got to get into. But for your time today,

1450
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:35,599
Speaker 2: thank you. Well.

1451
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 6: I appreciate talking to you guys. All right, and happy

1452
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:39,760
Speaker 6: holidays everyone out there.

1453
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Merry Christmas to you too. Christmas there, whatever.

1454
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1455
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Speaker 2: Do It Right? What is it that means living your

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Speaker 2: life so you don't do the right thing in front

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Speaker 2: of other people that you're always from an etiquette standpoint

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Speaker 2: on solid ground? And that would get back to gift

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Speaker 2: giving this holiday season. And here now is this list

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Speaker 2: apparently the worst gift anyone can give anybody in this

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Speaker 2: holiday season. Val are self help books? Whatever you do,

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01:21:43,439 --> 01:21:46,479
Speaker 2: don't give someone a self help book this holiday season?

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Speaker 5: Well, I would agree with that. However, I'm wondering who

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Speaker 5: wrote that, because maybe that's a real experience. You know,

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01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:59,080
Speaker 5: I'll buy my own self help books. I think that's

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Speaker 5: the point. Ken. You don't have to a friend that

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Speaker 5: or a relative doesn't have to tell me I need help.

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Speaker 5: I know I need help, but if I do, I'll

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Speaker 5: buy my own books. So I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: There you go, don't buy self help books. Accept Valterie

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Speaker 2: self help book, right, except.

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Speaker 5: What you buy for yourself, which says something you know.

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Speaker 5: If you've got enough emotional intelligence to know you might

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Speaker 5: need a little self help, go buy a book and

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Speaker 5: look at it, do some research, figure it out yourself.

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Speaker 5: But right, don't give it to someone else. And that

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Speaker 5: would be offensive.

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Speaker 4: I think.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I'm agreeing. I agree with you one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: But it would seem to me, if you're struggling right

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Speaker 2: now to find a gift for someone else, find that

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01:22:39,479 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 2: perfect gift, you probably don't know that person. Is that

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Speaker 2: fair to say?

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Speaker 5: I think that's very fair. And one thing to do

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Speaker 5: is to observe as much as you can someone that

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Speaker 5: you're wondering what to buy a gift for. What do

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Speaker 5: you know about that person? What have you observed for example,

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Speaker 5: I have one of the best gifts just given to

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Speaker 5: me by a woman who knows that we're going to

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Speaker 5: have a little place in the country. We're getting it

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Speaker 5: all fixed up, and she brought over a few days

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Speaker 5: ago alive in a little pot, small fern that really

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01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:22,120
Speaker 5: can be planted. And because it's Christmas, she took the

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Speaker 5: extra time and this is the point to put little

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01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 5: lights around it like it was a Christmas tree. I'll

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01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:32,719
Speaker 5: never forget the intention that she gave it, that gave

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01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:37,599
Speaker 5: for that gift, the time it took to put something

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01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:42,920
Speaker 5: together for me. And I'm telling everyone about that because

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01:23:42,920 --> 01:23:45,719
Speaker 5: it shows that you have put some time and effort

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Speaker 5: into it. And I'll tell you something else that's a

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01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:52,640
Speaker 5: really good gift for anyone, and that's an experience. For example,

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01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:57,679
Speaker 5: my son gave me tickets to go see a rock

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01:23:57,720 --> 01:24:02,000
Speaker 5: star that I like in country music, and that was

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01:24:02,080 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 5: extremely thoughtful. So think about experiences, think about tickets, but

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Speaker 5: don't do the same old, same o. And for heaven's sakes,

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01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 5: don't give underwear and socks.

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Speaker 2: I no I could. By the way, you can't leave

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01:24:17,640 --> 01:24:19,599
Speaker 2: it at that val who's this rock story you're going

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01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:20,080
Speaker 2: to see?

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01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:27,440
Speaker 5: Oh Bell? It was in Nashville and it was Nate BARGATSI.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, oh, great gift, great gift.

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01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:33,000
Speaker 5: Think he's the funniest thing since life break.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah he was. He was just in town here.

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Speaker 2: I want to say about a month ago, a couple

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Speaker 2: of months ago. Was it October? What was it? What

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01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:45,000
Speaker 2: was that called big big dumb big world eyes, dumb eyes. Anyway,

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01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 2: his world tour and play with the Bigger in a

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01:24:48,479 --> 01:24:51,360
Speaker 2: downtown see this is These are the kind of things

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Speaker 2: I think that are great gifts because your kids knew

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Speaker 2: mom likes something like that, they took the time to

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Speaker 2: think about what you like.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, it is absolutely and it can be something simple,

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01:25:05,520 --> 01:25:09,840
Speaker 5: but again observation. Another example is if you know a friend,

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Speaker 5: a woman in my case, that likes to journal, so

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01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:18,000
Speaker 5: get her a lovely above beyond the paper normal journal,

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01:25:18,040 --> 01:25:20,840
Speaker 5: get her a really nice journal or a nice pen

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01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 5: to journal with. If you have someone that you know

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01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:28,479
Speaker 5: likes to cook, find some even silly. There's always new

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01:25:28,520 --> 01:25:32,920
Speaker 5: little gadgets for the kitchen, even spoons, things like that.

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Speaker 5: So it's taking the personal aspect to it and being

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Speaker 5: purposeful with a good intention. And you can't go wrong

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01:25:41,040 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 5: when you think other word rather than inward. It isn't

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01:25:44,479 --> 01:25:47,200
Speaker 5: about you this Christmas. It's about other people and what

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Speaker 5: you want to give intentionally.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And look, I think people struggle giving gifts or

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01:25:54,120 --> 01:25:56,760
Speaker 2: getting the right gift because they don't pay attention. We

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01:25:56,880 --> 01:25:58,519
Speaker 2: just talked about this a couple of minutes ago. But

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01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:01,599
Speaker 2: you know, if someone that is important to you and

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01:26:01,640 --> 01:26:04,880
Speaker 2: you don't see them that often, when you do see them,

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01:26:05,200 --> 01:26:07,280
Speaker 2: pay attention to what they do, what they need, what

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01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:09,640
Speaker 2: they use, and then store that in the back of

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01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 2: your brain. And if you do that, here's a little

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01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:14,400
Speaker 2: tip that might save you some time and money in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. But if you do that early enough

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01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:20,639
Speaker 2: in the year, you're not scrambling Christmas Eve a couple

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01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:23,640
Speaker 2: of days before Christmas running around trying to figure to

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01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:27,120
Speaker 2: what to get this particular person. All you have to do,

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01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:29,760
Speaker 2: and this is like ninety five ninety five percent of life.

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01:26:29,800 --> 01:26:32,719
Speaker 2: All you really have to do in life is pay attention.

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01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:36,040
Speaker 2: It's amazing what you see and understand if you simply

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01:26:36,040 --> 01:26:37,760
Speaker 2: pay attention. Am I right on this?

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01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:39,080
Speaker 5: Oh?

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01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 6: Ken?

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01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:43,040
Speaker 5: You should write a book on that.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you wrote do it right? I could write the book.

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Speaker 6: I did it rightful.

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Speaker 2: We could, we could sell we could go to bookstores

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01:26:53,800 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 2: and and and sell them in tandem. I guess. But

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01:26:56,120 --> 01:26:59,040
Speaker 2: I mean this is I mean, this isn't brain surgery, right.

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01:26:59,240 --> 01:27:02,559
Speaker 5: Yeah, it isn't that hard, honestly, it's just it's just

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01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:06,040
Speaker 5: do you care. Let's just simplify it to that. Absolutely

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01:27:06,080 --> 01:27:08,800
Speaker 5: what you said, think about it all year, and even

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01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:11,880
Speaker 5: make a list. If you see something that strikes the

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01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:14,120
Speaker 5: chord about someone and you think, you know, I'm going

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01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 5: to remember that for Christens, write it down.

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01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:20,599
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, absolutely. If you have a bad memory anything right, Right,

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01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 2: If you meet somebody for the first or second time

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01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:26,120
Speaker 2: and you know you have a difficult time remembering names,

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01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:28,439
Speaker 2: write the person's name down, and just a little bit

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01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:31,920
Speaker 2: about your interaction. By the way, we're chatting with Valerie Sokolowski.

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01:27:32,080 --> 01:27:34,000
Speaker 2: She is the author of the book Do It Right.

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01:27:34,680 --> 01:27:37,080
Speaker 2: A lot of the stuff in that book is you

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01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:39,479
Speaker 2: should know anyway, but a lot of it maybe can

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01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:42,120
Speaker 2: help craft your life in just a little bit different way.

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01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:44,280
Speaker 2: I bought the book now, by the way, I was

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01:27:44,320 --> 01:27:47,320
Speaker 2: the second or third time that we talked. I went out,

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01:27:47,360 --> 01:27:50,080
Speaker 2: I bought it on Amazon. I read it, and I

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01:27:50,200 --> 01:27:51,200
Speaker 2: highly endorse it.

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01:27:51,280 --> 01:27:52,720
Speaker 4: I do you know what.

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01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:56,479
Speaker 5: That's so honoring. Well, thank you. That means a great deal.

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01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:58,519
Speaker 5: You just made my day, week, and year.

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01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:01,760
Speaker 2: Thanks well, listen, you're making me and that's not a

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01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:04,719
Speaker 2: difficult thing to do for a redhead. Look, one more question,

1627
01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:08,320
Speaker 2: and that's about regifting. Regifting is okay, I think, but

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01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:11,760
Speaker 2: if you're going to regift, you might want to regift

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01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:14,320
Speaker 2: in a part of your family or friends that are

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01:28:14,360 --> 01:28:17,080
Speaker 2: on like the other side of the country so it

1631
01:28:17,120 --> 01:28:19,840
Speaker 2: doesn't come back and embarrass you. I think when you regift,

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01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:23,320
Speaker 2: you probably want to do it in some place that's

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01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:26,920
Speaker 2: safe harbor. Other than that, you're probably running the risk

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01:28:27,439 --> 01:28:30,800
Speaker 2: of making an embarrassing situation for everybody. Right.

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01:28:31,520 --> 01:28:34,280
Speaker 5: I think you said the right word. You better be safe.

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01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 5: And I might have told you this on a show once,

1637
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:40,360
Speaker 5: but I'll tell it again. A friend that came over

1638
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:44,120
Speaker 5: regifted something. She forgot to take the tag off that

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01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:47,160
Speaker 5: had been gifted to her, and she walked in so

1640
01:28:47,360 --> 01:28:50,920
Speaker 5: proudly at this party and she said Merry Christmas and

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01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:52,080
Speaker 5: the tag said.

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01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:54,960
Speaker 4: To Joan love Mary.

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01:28:55,240 --> 01:29:01,639
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh my gosh. That yeah not good, right,

1644
01:29:01,880 --> 01:29:02,360
Speaker 2: not good?

1645
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 5: True story.

1646
01:29:03,920 --> 01:29:06,880
Speaker 2: So okay, So the person that did that, were they mortified.

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01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:11,000
Speaker 5: You know, I didn't say a word because that wouldn't

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01:29:11,040 --> 01:29:12,479
Speaker 5: be doing it right, would it.

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01:29:12,560 --> 01:29:14,599
Speaker 2: No? No, one hundred percent. You played it the right way,

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01:29:14,680 --> 01:29:17,840
Speaker 2: battery one hundred percent now, and regifting is okay. I

1651
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:20,200
Speaker 2: don't have any problem with it done the right way,

1652
01:29:20,240 --> 01:29:22,680
Speaker 2: as we said, because if you get a gift and

1653
01:29:22,760 --> 01:29:26,559
Speaker 2: you don't need a gift, what's worse regifting it or

1654
01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:30,160
Speaker 2: just letting it sit somewhere and you never get any

1655
01:29:30,240 --> 01:29:32,479
Speaker 2: enjoyment out of it, never get any use out of it.

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01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 2: But man, I'll tell you what if if if I

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01:29:36,280 --> 01:29:38,439
Speaker 2: did what that woman did to you, I would be

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01:29:38,520 --> 01:29:41,320
Speaker 2: talking to myself all the way home. I would be saying,

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01:29:41,360 --> 01:29:44,759
Speaker 2: you stupid, sweet. Can't you figure out one thing from another?

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01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:46,280
Speaker 7: Well?

1661
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:49,640
Speaker 5: Yes, and you know, if you get something that you

1662
01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:53,120
Speaker 5: don't want, don't need, just think about how many people

1663
01:29:53,160 --> 01:29:56,800
Speaker 5: aren't getting anything. So do something with it.

1664
01:29:56,920 --> 01:29:57,479
Speaker 6: Do it right.

1665
01:29:57,600 --> 01:30:01,560
Speaker 5: You can take it to a shelter, to children's hospital,

1666
01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:07,080
Speaker 5: to whatever, and gift it to someone that would appreciate it.

1667
01:30:07,280 --> 01:30:11,200
Speaker 5: Don't just stick it in the closet, you know, keep

1668
01:30:11,240 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 5: giving it. A gift is worth giving more too.

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01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:17,880
Speaker 2: Absolutely, pass it on. I guess is what is what

1670
01:30:17,920 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 2: the popular vernacular is. By the way, you can find

1671
01:30:20,439 --> 01:30:24,920
Speaker 2: Valerie at Valeriandcompany dot com, Batteryancompany dot com. So if

1672
01:30:24,960 --> 01:30:27,439
Speaker 2: you're wandering around the streets here, you're a complete dolt.

1673
01:30:27,479 --> 01:30:30,080
Speaker 2: You don't know what's going on half the time. But

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01:30:30,320 --> 01:30:32,599
Speaker 2: enough about me. But if you're if you're, if you're

1675
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:34,920
Speaker 2: that way, or even if you're a company that's just

1676
01:30:34,960 --> 01:30:37,040
Speaker 2: trying to get a little bit better in the way

1677
01:30:37,120 --> 01:30:40,599
Speaker 2: you present yourself to your employees or to your business partners.

1678
01:30:41,160 --> 01:30:47,080
Speaker 2: She is again, Valerie Sokolaski Valerie and Company dot com. Valerie,

1679
01:30:47,160 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 2: I wish you a merry Christmas. I know it will

1680
01:30:49,240 --> 01:30:52,280
Speaker 2: be the perfect Christmas because that's the way you are.

1681
01:30:52,360 --> 01:30:55,320
Speaker 2: You just do things perfectly. And of course for your

1682
01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:59,320
Speaker 2: time today, we thank you, stay well, it's so good

1683
01:30:59,320 --> 01:30:59,880
Speaker 2: to be with you.

1684
01:31:00,080 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 12: Marry Marry Mary.

1685
01:31:01,280 --> 01:31:06,120
Speaker 2: Yes, thanks you you bet you bet. No self help books.

1686
01:31:06,120 --> 01:31:09,599
Speaker 2: Here's some other bad ideas. Something totally off, totally off

1687
01:31:09,640 --> 01:31:13,920
Speaker 2: in size, vibe and taste. Don't give socks something not

1688
01:31:14,040 --> 01:31:18,840
Speaker 2: on someone else's wish list and a subscription. I mean,

1689
01:31:18,880 --> 01:31:23,519
Speaker 2: that's that's kind of lame. No self help books. It

1690
01:31:23,600 --> 01:31:25,680
Speaker 2: is coming up on two fifty three from a man

1691
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:28,439
Speaker 2: who needs a lot of help. News Radio seven hundred

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Speaker 2: w l W.

1693
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Speaker 1: When you're on the go, your kids deserve a clean,

1694
01:31:32,880 --> 01:31:35,439
Speaker 1: safe place to play, which is why over half a

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Speaker 1: million parents trust