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Speaker 1: is three oh seven, Dan Carroll, Jason Williams in Freddie

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year there, Jason Williams New Year's Son. I

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Speaker 1: last show, our last show of and yeah, we've had

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Speaker 1: You know, it was back in June, and if memory serves,

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Speaker 1: the news was breaking about the house settlement, and I

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Speaker 3: Does that mean I get a break of my mortgage? Sometimes?

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Speaker 1: I said no, I said, I said, the guy's name

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 4: That is some high praise quite the introduction game. It

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Speaker 1: I can heap on a lot more praise if you want,

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Speaker 1: Take me back to when you came up with this

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Speaker 3: How did that come about?

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Speaker 5: It really started in my freshman year, just kind of

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Speaker 4: And I was like, that just doesn't seem right.

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Speaker 3: So hey, Grant, let me ask you.

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Speaker 1: This part of the settlement means the NCAA pays out

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think to make sure that all athletes involved

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Speaker 4: You know, obviously we have.

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Speaker 5: Precedent involved that limits the date range that it can

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Speaker 5: make sure that it was rectified that as far as

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Speaker 3: So if you're you were an NCAA Division one athlete

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Speaker 4: Yeah? That is one hundred percent accurate.

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Speaker 5: The timeframe to kind of apply for that and like

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Speaker 4: Through any of the sports.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, So grant you in the sport of swimming, you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, another great question. I think the real win.

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Speaker 5: I think that's something that's very uplifting to me. They

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Speaker 5: About five hundred and fifty thousand athletes competing in the

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Speaker 5: And I think that's been a lot of the rewards,

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Speaker 3: And we well said Grant and look, you're not in

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Speaker 5: I think a lot of people just thought I wrote

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Speaker 4: But the legal system was well.

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Speaker 1: All right, grant run, But before we go, I see

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Speaker 3: Is that right?

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Speaker 4: That's the plan right.

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Speaker 3: Now, Olympic Trials. Baby, get it done. Grant. We're rooting

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Speaker 1: Grant, all the best to you, keep up the great work,

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, thanks for having me on. Happy New Year's and

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Speaker 3: Congratulations on all of your successes in and out of

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Speaker 4: Thank you, no place better to be from the five

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 1: We love that grand House. The one and only time

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Speaker 3: Representing Williams, thank you for joining us here and happy

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Speaker 3: New year to you. And I tell you you and

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, a letter was written broad enough to encompass

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Speaker 7: wrote a letter to parents saying, if you do this,

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Speaker 7: you're in violation. You may lose your childcare. If you've

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Speaker 7: done it, you need to request a new pen. And

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Speaker 7: try to guess how many families in the state of

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Speaker 7: Ohio requested a new pen.

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Speaker 2: Over seven thousand for crying. Huh, they had to ask

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Speaker 2: for a new pin.

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Speaker 7: So we've talked to dc WHY about, Hey, how often

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Speaker 7: can we forcibly issue a new pen? And then we

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Speaker 7: have some other things that are in the works. I

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Speaker 7: don't want to spill the beans too early, but I'm

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Speaker 7: drafting legislation that will take care of this attendance problem.

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Speaker 7: In real time, we will have the availability of doing

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Speaker 7: these unannounced inspections of facilities.

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Speaker 2: So we'll be working steadfast in the new year.

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Speaker 1: So Josh Williams in Minnesota, it looks like this the

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Speaker 1: reports of this fraud, and I know there's already been

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Speaker 1: a number of people prosecuted for these these fraudulent activities

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Speaker 1: have taken place in Minnesota. Looks like it goes back

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Speaker 1: to twenty fifteen, if not before that. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how far back in Ohio this story goes. But the

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Speaker 1: show that we had on before Jason and I came

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Speaker 1: on was ken Brew. He was talking with Jim and

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Speaker 1: Ranesi about this, and Jim or Nacy really laid it

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Speaker 1: out and said that, you know, look, the government or

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Speaker 1: the governor has sort of blown this off. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like there was any real appetite in Columbus to

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Speaker 1: follow up on this, especially from I guess a law

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Speaker 1: enforcement perspective. What is the appetite now as far as

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Speaker 1: you're concerned with lawmakers in the state of Ohio, because

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Speaker 1: the action that you're taking here or seeking to take

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Speaker 1: here seems to be the first real you know, the

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Speaker 1: first real words I've seen where someone is coming out

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Speaker 1: and when willing to take the stand against this.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean the appetite within the legislature, the legislative

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Speaker 7: branch of the government.

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Speaker 2: We want increased enforcement.

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Speaker 7: We want the laws that we write in the state

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Speaker 7: of Ohio to be followed. We're always at inherent conflict

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Speaker 7: with the other branches. That's the way Founding fathers designed

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Speaker 7: our three branch system to have this inherent conflict where

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Speaker 7: we rely on the executive branch to enforce the laws.

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Speaker 7: And it's sad to say that we have a governor

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Speaker 7: that sometimes refuses to enforce the laws. I mean, even

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Speaker 7: laws like the death penalty he refuses to enforce. But

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Speaker 7: what we are starting to do as a legislature is

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Speaker 7: take back some of our legislative power and say we

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Speaker 7: have the power of the purse. This department is going

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Speaker 7: to have to come in front of us every two

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Speaker 7: years asking for money. We will defund you if you

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Speaker 7: do not enforce the laws that we pass. And luckily,

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Speaker 7: I mean when I called DCY and spoke to the

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Speaker 7: director directly, they were open to this increased effort. They

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Speaker 7: have been taking it on themselves since this reporting has started.

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Speaker 7: They started to do an increased effort. They appreciated the

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Speaker 7: letter that came out of my office.

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Speaker 2: With over forty of my.

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Speaker 7: Members of the General Assembly signing onto that letter, because

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Speaker 7: it didn't just put the onus on DCY independently doing

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Speaker 7: this that it's the legislature, the funding body who is

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Speaker 7: paying for this childcare, is asking for this investigative tool

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Speaker 7: to be used. Because when DC WHY was asking childcare

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Speaker 7: providers to do these inspections, they were giving a lot

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Speaker 7: of pushback. They were complaining, why are you choosing us?

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Speaker 7: Why are you targeting us? Well, now they can look

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Speaker 7: at our letter and say, actually, the legislature is the

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Speaker 7: one telling us we need to do these inspections, and

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Speaker 7: they're the ones telling us to do them in Columbus.

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Speaker 7: Because we have over fifty one hundred childcare providers, independently

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Speaker 7: childcare providers across the state of Ohio that take government

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Speaker 7: dollars in some form. That's a lot of places to

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Speaker 7: do daily inspections on. So we have to concentrate right

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Speaker 7: now where the allegations are. But we plan on going

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Speaker 7: into every city, including my home city, and you're gonna

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Speaker 7: see legislation coming out. There was a letter sent to

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Speaker 7: fa Auditor Favors office asking for him to look into

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Speaker 7: the daycare providers and the healthcare providers because we know

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Speaker 7: that fraud is.

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Speaker 2: Rampant in that community as well. And I'll give you an.

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Speaker 7: Example of what is not technically fraud, but it definitely

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Speaker 7: is a lack of respect for the state of Ohio

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Speaker 7: and it is a hustle in certain communities. What we

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Speaker 7: are finding is some of these daycare providers will have

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Speaker 7: two or three employees on staff on a day and

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Speaker 7: every child that's at that day care provider is a

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Speaker 7: child of one of the employees. The employees being paid

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Speaker 7: minimum wage so they remain eligible for free childcare, and

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Speaker 7: then the state is paid for you to essentially watch

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Speaker 7: your own children throughout the day, and the.

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Speaker 2: Childcare provider makes a ton of.

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Speaker 7: Money because they're being paid by the state of Ohio.

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Speaker 7: Yet that's not technically fraud, but that is literally a hustle.

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Speaker 7: That's a hustle, no doubt, using the system that's in place.

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Speaker 7: So we're looking at new rules that address that. The

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Speaker 7: fear was always Hey, if we have this single mother

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Speaker 7: with one or two children and she works at a daycare,

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Speaker 7: she should be able to bring her children with her. Yes,

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Speaker 7: that's a very sympathetic story. But when you look at

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Speaker 7: these micro daycarees is what I call it, where they

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Speaker 7: only got ten or twelve kids there and there's three

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Speaker 7: employees and all the employees are our children of the employees. Well,

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Speaker 7: now I'm just subsidizing someone's lifestyle. Now, I'm just paying

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Speaker 7: you to watch your own children. And that's what That's

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Speaker 7: not what Ohioans are paying money for. That's not what

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Speaker 7: we're getting taxed for to give these individuals a free

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Speaker 7: lifestyle where they don't have to go out and earn

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Speaker 7: an honest living. So we're going to approach that issue

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Speaker 7: in twenty twenty six as well.

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Speaker 3: Representative Josh Williams State Representatives with US the Ohio Department

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Speaker 3: of Children in Youth. It sounds like part of your

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Speaker 3: push here is honing in on that department, which you

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Speaker 3: said was just create a few years ago. Can you

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Speaker 3: clarify what that what's the difference between that department and

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Speaker 3: the basically, you know, what's typically known as our you know,

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Speaker 3: Jobs and Family Services department is this is the Ohio

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Speaker 3: Department of Children and Youth specifically focused on these daycare

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Speaker 3: facilities are and in charge of that.

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Speaker 2: They are in.

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Speaker 4: Charge of it.

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Speaker 7: They have a lot of responsibility. We took the responsibility

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Speaker 7: away from the Department of Job and Family Services two

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Speaker 7: years ago in places of the Department of Children and Youth.

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Speaker 2: So on a local level.

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Speaker 7: The Department of Job and Family Services determines eligibility for

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Speaker 7: a parent to get subsidized childcare. Then the actual provider

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Speaker 7: is seeking out licensure from DCY to become a childcare

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Speaker 7: provider that can accept state and federal dollars. They have

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Speaker 7: to meet certain requirements to become eligible for those state

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Speaker 7: and local dollars. They could be a private childcare provider,

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Speaker 7: but to get state in local subsidies, they must meet

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Speaker 7: certain requirements and they have to get certain inspections before

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Speaker 7: they open. One of them has to be unannounced, and

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Speaker 7: then annually they have to get at least one inspection.

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Speaker 7: So we're asking for increased inspections, especially when there's allegations

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Speaker 7: towards a particular daycare provider. And it doesn't mean that

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Speaker 7: a resident has to reach out, go knock on the door,

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Speaker 7: demand to see the children the type of stuff we're

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Speaker 7: seeing online. Simply reporting them to dc WHY, which they

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Speaker 7: have a very good website with the reporting tool, is enough.

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Speaker 2: But DCY is being proactice.

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Speaker 7: They are watching social media, they're watching how Toledo is

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Speaker 7: being viewed across the nation, and they are seeing some

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Speaker 7: of these.

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Speaker 2: Videos and going to investigate themselves.

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Speaker 7: And I applaud them for being proactive because they knew

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Speaker 7: the legislature is going to be coming to call them

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Speaker 7: to task on what they are doing to south this issue.

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Speaker 7: Unlike Minnesota, we are controlled by Republicans.

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Speaker 2: Here, we are.

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Speaker 7: We're not concerned that Columbus is Democrat controlled itself. All

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Speaker 7: of our major metropolitan cities are Democrat controlled, and they

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Speaker 7: got this blue bubble of corruption in fraud. I mean,

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Speaker 7: just go and look at the mayor's financial report and

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Speaker 7: look how many daycare centers donated to him in his

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Speaker 7: last election.

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Speaker 2: And right yeah, ganther, and look at.

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Speaker 7: Our state representatives that represent that district. We're looking through

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Speaker 7: their financial reports right now, and look how many john

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Speaker 7: Does are donating to them, or people donating thousands of

602
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Speaker 7: dollars and not putting down their employment or their addresses.

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Speaker 7: And dozens of daycares that are listed in investigation have

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Speaker 7: donated to members of the Democrat Party within the city

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Speaker 7: of Columbus. So it's our job as Republicans and control

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Speaker 7: of our state to crack down on these blue cities

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Speaker 7: that are simply you know, they have their hands out

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Speaker 7: for state dollars, but they don't want responsibility when the

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Speaker 7: fraud appears. So we're going to crack down, and we're

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Speaker 7: going to crack down hard.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Josh Williams, we're gonna have to leave

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Speaker 1: it right there. You're also a candidate for Congress in

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Speaker 1: Ohio's ninth district, and so I read a little bit

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Speaker 1: about your personal story earlier today. You're an absolute inspiration

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Speaker 1: and keep up the great work, my friend. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: what you're doing. We're going to be watching from here

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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati and the good Lord Willing. I hope we

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Speaker 1: get a chance to call on you in the future.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, Thank you for reporting on this one.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks for representing Williams. Josh Williams. And the

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Speaker 1: first time we've had that guy on. I like him

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Speaker 1: a lot. Time for a little traffic and weather together

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Speaker 1: on seven hundred WLW seven hundred WLW four eleven, Save

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Speaker 1: your Basketball coming up at the bottom of the hour.

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Speaker 1: It's the Eddian Rockey Show, Dan Carroll, Jason Williams sitting

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Speaker 1: in for Eddie and Rock and we just had Josh

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Speaker 1: Williams on State Lawmaker and I like that guy. First

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Speaker 1: time I've had him on the air like that one.

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Speaker 1: He has coined a term, and I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I've heard this before, but he talked about the cities

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Speaker 1: in Ohio the blue the blue surrounded by the blue

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Speaker 1: bubble of corruption.

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Speaker 3: They got to say, you got to say, I kind

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Speaker 3: of like that. Yes, it's the blue bubble. Of corruption.

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Speaker 3: It's like a political ad.

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Speaker 1: Phone lines are open five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,

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Speaker 1: eight hundred, the big one. If you want to say

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Speaker 1: something as we head into the new year, and I

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Speaker 1: got something I want to say, but let's let's go

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Speaker 1: ahead and get this out of the way. Dick from

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Speaker 1: Dating your last chance to be on the air of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five on seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 3: Happy new Year to you, buddy, I we knew your Dan.

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Speaker 6: Happy new year, Jason. That's been Yeah, it's been good year.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 6: I'm waiting for.

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Speaker 8: Ohio State and with that game tonight, something about huh,

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00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 8: big game tonight, big game tonight. But you know what,

649
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 8: thought the Bengals off.

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Speaker 6: But they've got a chance.

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Speaker 8: They might have that four game streak.

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Speaker 2: They have a pretty good record.

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Speaker 1: You know, well, it's still not making the playoffs. Maybe

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Speaker 1: get some momentum going into next year. Who knows, But Dick,

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Speaker 1: give me one thing you hope for in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: Hope for in twenty six?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I want the Bengals to go to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: There you go, that's a good thing to go for.

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Speaker 1: Dick from Dayton, all the best to you. We'll be

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Speaker 1: talking to you again in twenty twenty six, my friend.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you happy New Year. So there you go.

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Speaker 1: Dick from Dayton weighing in on what he wants for

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Let me tell you something that I

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Speaker 1: want for twenty on this. So and I've been thinking

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Speaker 1: about this, let me tell you for the last three

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Speaker 1: days and and just it's a it's a thing that

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Speaker 1: bugs me and I am ready for it to end.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if on social media. I'm on

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Speaker 1: X and so I get up, I look through my

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Speaker 1: ex you know, I see stuff that people are posting

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Speaker 1: out there, and it helps kind of generate shows, you know,

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Speaker 1: ideas for the show and stuff like that. I don't

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Speaker 1: take something I see on X and then take it

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Speaker 1: to the air. It gives me. I go and research

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Speaker 1: it and look it up and make sure because look,

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of that.

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Speaker 4: Yes.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, if if you're looking at social media, how

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Speaker 1: many times have you seen these things? Oh, here's a

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Speaker 1: list of of fifty cities.

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Speaker 3: How many have you been to?

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Speaker 1: Or have you ever and here's a list of things

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Speaker 1: you know, have you ever you know used the rotary

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Speaker 1: phone or have you you know ever used a floppy

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Speaker 1: disk or have you used a manual typewriter? I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's got a list like that. I'm tired of seeing

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Speaker 1: that stuff. But do you get you know, or they

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Speaker 1: say there's no girls name that starts with A and

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Speaker 1: ends with a. I mean, how stupid is that? I

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Speaker 1: saw That's funny. I saw one. That stuff needs to

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Speaker 1: go away. I want all that kind of stuff go on.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to that's all.

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Speaker 3: I agree. That's what you know. What I'm with you,

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Speaker 3: Dan Carroll, that stuff get rid of it? Because I

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Speaker 3: saw one. It was was it this morning or yesterday? What?

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Speaker 3: What's the the state that starts with a vow and

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Speaker 3: ends with a different vow? And like then the gal

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Speaker 3: goes through it and she's like saying, I'm like, what

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Speaker 3: is this? Iowa? That's it. That's that's that's the answer.

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Speaker 3: But she has to go through and it's all it's

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Speaker 3: all made up and it I know, but it's on

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Speaker 3: my feet. I don't follow these people. It's a waste

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Speaker 3: of time.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of that. I don't I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't stop on that stuff anymore. I scrolled right through it.

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Speaker 1: But are we that lazy that it's too much effort

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Speaker 1: to scroll past something like that.

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Speaker 3: Is that your number one wish for twenty twenty It's

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Speaker 3: just startage. It's just something that bothers me that I

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Speaker 3: don't want to see anymore. So that's when I will.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening to us right now, pick up the

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Speaker 1: phone five one, three, seven, four nine, seven thousand, one,

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Speaker 1: eight hundred, the big one. What do you want to

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Speaker 1: what do you want to see in twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 1: Or what do you want to go away in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six? You got anything else? No, I don't have anything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have anything. You don't have any wishes

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Speaker 3: for the new year.

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Speaker 1: This is it, man, This is your last is my

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Speaker 1: chance of twenty twenty five? And we got Xavier basketball

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Speaker 1: coming up at the bottom of the hour. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what you know you don't want to say for

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Speaker 1: the new year is well, you know what I don't

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Speaker 1: want to know. Hold on to that thought and let's

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Speaker 1: talk to Ed in Western Hills ed seven hundred WLWLL.

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Speaker 3: Hillary for Prison twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Boom click, That dropped the mic. That one has been

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Speaker 1: a long time coming, my friend. That was a T

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00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: shirt at one point wasn't it that was a T

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Speaker 1: shirt at one point? Wasn't it that one's a I

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Speaker 1: think you know, people said that that probably goes back

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Speaker 1: to what swenty sixteen A decade. Yeah, I mean we're

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Speaker 1: on our second and third edition of that T shirt now,

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Speaker 1: Eddie and Columbus seven hundred.

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Speaker 3: W W how's it going, Eddie?

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Speaker 6: Fantastic, gentlemen. I want to see a thorough investigation of

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Speaker 6: the waste fraud and abuse in Ohio, and I'd like

738
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Speaker 6: to see less of my president on social media.

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Speaker 1: Eddie, thank you very much for that. You know what

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Speaker 1: that's that's I think that's a pretty good idea. Yeah,

741
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: a little bit, but I look a little bit less

742
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: of Trump putting out some of the because I mean

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Speaker 1: it's so many times he puts stuff out there that

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Speaker 1: is really such an unforced air and it's and stuff

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Speaker 1: that doesn't really serve him all that Well.

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Speaker 3: Well, the thing he said about Rob Reiner, you know

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Speaker 3: and his wife, Yeah, don't say anything, right, Like why

748
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Speaker 3: you say anything? Rob? I mean Rob Reiner said a

749
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Speaker 3: lot a lot of he did worse stuff about Trump.

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Speaker 3: He did, but it's like, yeah, you know, he didn't

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Speaker 3: he didn't need to dude, what are you doing? Yeah, like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you're I mean unforced. There is a good, good phrase

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Speaker 3: for it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he should uh maybe, you know, maybe get someone

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Speaker 1: in there to sort of be a second set of

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Speaker 1: eyeballs on those before you send them out.

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Speaker 3: That's a good idea. I'm saying, you're looking over here

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Speaker 3: at me. That's a great idea.

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Speaker 2: Job.

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Speaker 3: Would you have the temperament for a job like that?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't. I don't have the temperament for a

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Speaker 3: lot of things.

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Speaker 1: Randy and Hamilton seven hundred w l W Happy New Year,

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year?

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Speaker 3: What's up, Brandy?

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Speaker 4: Brandy, not much.

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Speaker 6: I'm just a long time pan of you guys, and

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Speaker 6: I just want to wish I got New Year and.

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Speaker 3: Ye got big plans for.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm just fall asleep.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you on that, Randy. What's how does that

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Speaker 1: football game start?

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Speaker 2: That?

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Speaker 3: Randy? Thank you very much for the call. What times

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Speaker 3: on football game? Kickoff?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I'll look it up.

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Speaker 1: Look it up, because that might go until I mean

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Speaker 1: if it starts at eight, that might go till after

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Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. It's so that could go you know, ten

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Speaker 1: thirty eleven ish. Yeah, it could we'll see a big

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Speaker 1: New Year's celebrator, Dan. You know what we the last

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Speaker 1: few years, we've we've gone out and done a couple

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Speaker 1: of things. But I think this year we're gonna we're

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Speaker 1: gonna dial it back a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I'm not big. I've never been a big New Year celebrator.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna just another day.

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Speaker 1: Gonna watch the watch the football game, maybe a bottle

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Speaker 1: of champagne at midnight. Bill and Coleraine Township seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 1: Then we got Danny and Columbus.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Sure, Happy New Year Year, Happy New Year, Happy New Year.

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Speaker 1: Bill. What what do you hope for the new year?

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Speaker 1: What do you want to see go away in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six?

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Speaker 8: I want to see Terry Coles football CONTI bear catch.

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Speaker 1: Well he's uh is he still on the Michigan staff?

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Speaker 3: I think knew they did the new coach keep him

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Speaker 3: or no?

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Speaker 8: Because that thing he did not he did not is

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Speaker 8: what I'm told he did not what him so he

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Speaker 8: did not stay with Michigan.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, all right, Well, Bill, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about that, your Kerry Combs. If they

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00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 1: announced you're going to go up there, you're going to

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Speaker 1: be the special teams coordinator.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully I hadn't sold his house here yet.

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Speaker 1: And then the next day this stuff comes out about

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Speaker 1: the the head coach up there. I mean, man, that's

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Speaker 1: I mean that you talk about upside down?

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Speaker 2: What a mess.

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Speaker 3: I like the guy that got as their coach. I'm

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Speaker 3: not a Michigan fan. Kyle whittinghams that the guy's a

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Speaker 3: good coach. Cherry Combs is fantastic, though. We we love

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Speaker 3: carry Combs here in Cincinnati, Columbus seven hundred WLW. What

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Speaker 3: do you want to see for the new year or

820
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Speaker 3: what do you want to go away?

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Speaker 8: As an elementary school teacher, I want six seven to

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Speaker 8: go away for the rest of my life.

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Speaker 3: Oh preach it, brother, I preach it.

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Speaker 8: Danny And I.

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Speaker 5: Told my students I was born in nineteen sixty seven

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Speaker 5: and the only thing.

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Speaker 3: I've prad Oh man, his phone cut out. Hey, I

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Speaker 3: will carry I will carry the torch on for Danny

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Speaker 3: on see. Yes, that is exactly what I want to

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Speaker 3: see go away. It's I mean, my kids in the

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Speaker 3: middle of a hitting a baseball hitting thing the other

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Speaker 3: day with this guy, and the guy was like, you know,

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Speaker 3: try to get it to six or seven line drives

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Speaker 3: in a row and my kids stops and he like

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Speaker 3: does the whole like hand balance thing. That's that's part

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Speaker 3: of it. Like where kids will go, you know, six seven,

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Speaker 3: like they're juggling something, and I am like anytime they

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Speaker 3: hear six seven, hey, six or seven, you know, I

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Speaker 3: need you. I need you to be here in six

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Speaker 3: or seven minutes. Oh six seven, all right, thanks Danny,

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Speaker 3: Tom and Amelia. Very quickly. What do you want to

842
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Speaker 3: see go away in the new year?

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Speaker 4: All right, real quick.

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Speaker 7: I like to see the rags and fingals and their

845
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Speaker 7: fraudulent ownerships both go away.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: But with that we are out of here. Jason, Happy

848
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Speaker 1: New Year to you, Joe, thanks for running the big board.

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Speaker 1: Happy new Year to you. Happy new Year to everyone listening.

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Speaker 1: But up next is Musketeers basketball on the hull of

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Speaker 1: the Muskies seven hundred W l W