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From this laurious Thursday afternoon in the
tri Stay and of course coming up about

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an hour or so as Brian phil
Mead of Fox News to talk about doings

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in New York, but also Fox
and Friends in the Morning and his new

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book that's out. Later on.
Also is Ali Bradley from News Nation with

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a live report from the Texas border
Eagle Pass and what's happening on the southern

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border, and some of her reporting
last night indicated that in the first eleven

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days of December, there were one
hundred thousand illegals identified. It came across

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the border one hundred thousand and eleven
days, and they were dispersed all over

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the country, and that number is
continuing. In fact, it's accelerating.

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But until then, you might recall
a few couple of weeks ago, David

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Yost, the Attorney General, came
on to talk about a lawsuit that he

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joined with other states attorney generals to
sue the NCAA, and many people,

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including Tony Bender, thought it was
a fool's errand that the federal courts are

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not going to be involved in basketball
matters because there's a player at uc that

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was denied ability to play and David
Yost was successful. At this point,

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we'll see what occurs in the future. David Yost, first of all,

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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year,
and explain to the American people this Thursday

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afternoon what the lawsuit was about.
Then we'll talk about its success. Up

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to this point. Well, Merry
Christmas to you. Bill. The lawsuit

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was an anti trust lawsuit is a
very old law. It's been in the

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law for one hundred and forty years
in in this country, one hundred and

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thirty years called the Sherman Anti Trust
Act, and basically what it says is

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you're not allowed to collude, you're
not allowed to have an agreement that restrains

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trade. There's a lot of nuance
to it, but that's the basic idea,

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and the NCAA is essentially one big
agreement to restrain trade. When it

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comes to athletes, so at particularly
is you is they're double transfer rule.

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So if you go into the trans
into the portal once as an athlete,

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that's a free be and you can
play right away. But if you do

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it a second season, uh during
your college career, you have to sit

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out for a year, which is
a huge penalty. If you've got four

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years of eligibility. Uh, and
at that point in your life. You

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know, the pro pro athletes,
with a few exceptions, most of the

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time, their careers are done by
the time they're in their late twenties the

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early thirties. So taking a year
is a big big deal. Then on

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top of that, they allow waivers, but there's no no rhyme or reason

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to it. They give some not
to others. You see, guy one

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one was deny another one on their
their basketball team. So we went to

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court and said, judge, make
them stop. They'm allowed to operate like

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this, suspend that rule. And
that's what the court did yesterday. It's

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put a fourteen day halt to it. And candidly, when you read the

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decision, it's hard to believe that
the NC double ALL will prevail when we

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come back in two weeks to have
the trial on the preliminary injunction. So

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this this kid, this young man
at you see, I think his name's

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Reynolds, he can play the next
fourteen days. Is that what you're saying?

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Yeah, And the court also withheld
NC double A, has this massive

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club to beat you with it.
Actually, dare to challenge their rule and

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don't eventually win, called the restitution
rule, and it says all those wins

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you got with the kid that you
know, we think was in eligible,

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all your TV revenue, any championship, all that stuff goes on. If

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I call it the Astoris school.
But obviously that's a heavy price to pay,

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and it's not much of a not
hard to understand why kids wouldn't be

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going to court to challenge this stuff
when it's going to cost your team,

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your school, and you if you
lose. And so the idea is restrained

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too. That's important because if down
the road, if in three weeks a

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court of appeal says, well,
that trial judge was wrong. Now we're

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going to punish the University of Cincinnati
for playing this kid that shouldn't have been

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playing, then you got terrible problems. So let's go back a little bit.

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Well, when we talk about an
eighteen, nineteen, twenty twenty two

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year old man, this is an
adult, and the NCAA has rules that

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restrict trade, which is restrict commerce. And so if Tony Bender is a

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six foot ten inch basketball player that
can jump out of the gym, and

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he's at the University of California and
the coaches fired, he can then transfer

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University of Utah. Then if Utah
doesn't work out because Tony caught COVID and

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Tony wants to go to sen in
the real world, that's okay. So

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if you're working for General Electric and
you want to work for Procter and Gamble,

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then you want to work for Sentos. Unless you have some agreement you've

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signed that says you won't do it, you can go quit and go work

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somewhere else. In the real world, the NCAA rules don't work. But

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in the rules they made up that
the kids, the young men have got

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to comply with, they don't have
a choice. And so whenever a guy

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like you goes to court and says, wait a minute, in the real

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world, you can't do this,
the NC double A has got to pay

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attention. Now. One big question
came to mind is did the NC DOUBLEA

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get a hold of you as state's
attorney general and there's six, six or

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seven states involved, and try to
work this out ahead of time or they

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simply said no, oh see in
court, Well, Bill, you know

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you've known me for a long time. Does that sound like does that sound

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like my style? That I wouldn't
talk. No, of course not.

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You're going to call him and say, hey, can we work this out?

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And I guess they said no,
which is why you went. You

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went for the t r O and
then the preliminary and the nc double A

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says no, we're going to continue
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what makes sense is for them to
say, Okay, you know what,

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we're going to just let the tro
stay in effect. We'll convert it to

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a p I and we're going to
write some new rules that do comply with

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the law. That way, you
know, we can move we can move

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on and have some stability. We'll
see if that happens. Uh. But

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you know, there's one other thing
I want to mention to you about this

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because because you'll appreciate this, uh
with your legal training. The former assistant

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Attorney general. Uh, the court
UH looked at the n C Double a's

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justifications for this, UH because they
say, hey, look, you know

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this is going to be disruptive to
the kids anytime to acclimate well worried about

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their grades. Uh, the court
said. He the judge said he found

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those pretextual reasons that they were pretextual. As you will remember from your days

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as an assistant Attorney General means that's
a legal term from the Latins, that

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means bs Reynolds, I guess if
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sense you see is your client in
a sense richel if you were giving direct

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legal advice to Wes Miller, who, by the way, just lost his

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Xavier again, which they do all
the time. I mean, they haven't

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beaten them back to back since nineteen
ninety six, and you see as a

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terrible time beating Xavier, as it
should. But nonetheless, what would you

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say about playing this Jamil Reynolds character. Would you say, okay, he

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can play or would you say,
wait a minute, you better wait for

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the fourteen days and the appeal time. They haven't filed an appeal yet with

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his circuit. What advice would you
give Wes Miller? Well, as you

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noted, I am the lawyer for
them or our office is so any advice

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I would give specifically to the versus
Cincinnati would be privileged, and I wouldn't

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talk about it on the radio.
However, I can say as a general

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application of the rule across Okay.
Now, secondly, page two, I'm

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going to spring this on you a
little bit about marijuana. I had on

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governor of Mike Took at the time, the Governor Mike DeWine yesterday, and

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he was very fourthright. Doesn't like
marijuana, doesn't use marijuana as never us

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Mike. If Mike Dwine ever smoked
a doobie, I'd be going crazy.

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That's a non sequitor. And so
he's everything about him is like, I

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hate this. But then he's got
to implement it. He's got to say,

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Okay, I got to do it. So he works out a deal

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with the state Senate which changes cutting
around the edges, cutting the plants in

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half inside the home, which is
right now, the law allows about seven

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thousand joints a year to be grown
in your home for personal use. This

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is a cheech and showing special I
can't imagine how much smoking is being done

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for seven And so they cut that
in half, They move the thhg content

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down, They give home rule more
power to not to all out in Sycamore

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Township or whatever. But he says, at this point, you can possess

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marijuana in Ohio, but you can't
buy it legally anywhere. So I said,

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well, you can go to Michigan. And get a pound or two

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of marijuana, four or five people
drive across the border. And Mike DeWine

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said, well, that's probably legal. And so what advice, if any,

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is the state attorney general giving to
county prosecutors, city prosecutors, et

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cetera, when someone's walking around smoking
marijuana maybe tonight, Well, what advice

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can you give? Well, possession
within the prescribed limits is perfectly legal in

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Ohio. Right now, you're not
allowed to smoke marijuana in public where you

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wouldn't be allowed to smoke the tobacco. But at the end of the day,

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is the governor's right. It's a
a bit of a mash right now,

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And well, we're going to have
to see things are going to develop.

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This is very complicated and candidly,
the statute that was voted on by

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the people was not a paragon of
great draftsmanship. And so that's the idea

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of this proposed initiative to allow the
legislature to come together. And I made

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the comment to Mike that basically,
we have a Republican party in charge of

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everything in the state of Ohio,
and they advocate, but they don't rule,

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they don't govern, And he kind
of said yeah, in a sense,

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do we have a functional legislature in
which the Senate, which passed the

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changes and the House that refuses can
actually get together? He said, this

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thing may go on for about another
year. And so assuming you could smoke

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a cigarette on the side walk or
walking down the street, which of course

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you can, it also means you
can smoke marijuana in a public place not

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otherwise prohibited from cigarette smoking. And
then you have all the problems with children

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and the access to these products.
It's a mess. And so do you

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have a sense this Thursday afternoon that
the that the State House is going to

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move in concert with what the Line
and the Senate want. Well, I

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think the and understand I don't have
a voter or a veto in my current

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job, so I don't have a
dog in this fight other than I want

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to see low taxes because I want
I want the illicit market to go away,

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right, But beyond that, you
know, that's that's for our policy

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friends to decide, and the Senate
and the House have some real differences on

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how they think the state ought to
move forward. I don't think it's fair

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to completely ascribe this to political infighting
or obstructionism. They're genuine different differences of

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opinion here, and the way our
constitution works, the Senate and the Governor,

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if they get together, still have
to persuade the House. And so

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that's the way the process is supposed
to work, and I'm sure that it

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will. It's just going to take
a little bit longer than everybody wants it

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to. And lastly, the key
point here is what you brought up,

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which is the low taxes and Senator
Blessing from Coleraine Township, not exactly a

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flaming liberal, has said that we
want to collapse, if possible, the

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dark market by keeping the price of
marijuana at or lower than what you can

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buy on the street. And so
that's a great point. Because the Senate

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increased the state take by about fifty
percent. They want from ten percent to

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fifteen percent. That's on top of
the seven or eight percent, So you're

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going to have twenty three to twenty
five percent more, but then you also

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have a better unadulterated product, without
fentanyl, without mold. But nonetheless,

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to keep the price at or below
the dark market. You say that's important,

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Well, it's critically important, not
only from a governance standpoint, Like

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you talk about the purity of the
product and quality control, but also the

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tax structure and all of the stuff
that goes with an illicit market, with

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the threats to the coersion, sometimes
violence, the money laundering. Is there's

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nothing good for society that comes out
of an illicit market, and governments are

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the largest creators of the illicit markets
by the way they regulate and tax.

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Candidly, I thought that ten percent
tax was too high. I'd prefer to

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see something in the single digits precisely
to ease that transition from with the way

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things have always been on cannabis to
a regulated, responsible market. If that

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comes at a price premium, people
simply aren't going to pay it. They're

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used to buying stuff on the street. So we've got to remove that barrier.

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In my humble opinion, again,
I don't get a voter of eto.

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All right, Attorney General David Yost, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year,

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and thanks for coming on the Bill
Cunningham Show this Thursday afternoon, and

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we'll see what happens down the road. But good job got Reynolds. Of

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course, if he played or not
against Xavier, would have made no difference

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whatsoever, because Xavier just dominated you
see, as they always do. But

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it's at least they don't have an
excuse for a failure in the future.

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But David got bitter about it.
Not at all, not at all.

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I'm I'm glad the judge waited until
after the crossdown shootout. To be honest,

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I don't know. I don't know
how good this Reynolds guy has.

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Have you ever met Reynolds? You
know who he is. I never met

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the guy. I don't know who
the guy is. But he ought to

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be able to work and he's getting
paid. I think fifth do you to

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one hundred thousand dollars to play basketball? Which is unbelievable. It used to

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be you couldn't take a free happy
meal or get a tattoo, and now

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the UC Bearcat players are making one
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And so to say to this guy
Reynolds, you can you can't work

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when the one thing you want to
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to work, which is play basketball, is ridiculous. And I'm glad that

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you took up the calls. And
David Yost, once again, thank you

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for coming on the Bill Cunningham show. We'll do it again. Thank you,

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mister Attorney General. Thank you.
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. Let's

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continue keep the price low and sell
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seven hundred. You held over you
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and Gretel. Wait a minute,
where's henzel? Word? A witch got

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him, turned him into a stew, a stew. I told him to

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stay away from the big boiling pot. How did you get away? It

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was simple. I turned on Eddie
and Rocky and the witch started lamping so

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hard. I tossed her in a
pie crossed and threw her in a witch

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pie. It was delicious. Eddie
and Rocky give your day a fairy tale

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ending Eddie and Rocky This afternoon at
three on seven hundred WLW. The holiday

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