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Billy cunning in the Great American and
I welcomed this. Lauri's Wednesday afternoon in

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the tri State. Yesterday we had
on the Great Brian Hambrick to talk about

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the events transpiring. And now we
got Shuri Palelo and first of all Shari,

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Merry Christmas in the happy New Year. How's the Poelo household? This?

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Five days before Christmas? Merry Christmas
to you, Willie. Well,

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we're trying to get over a little
virus that's been in our house. But

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I think everybody's finally on the men
so it actually the timing worked out well.

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It was two weeks before Christmas.
We're good. Can you imagine how

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many people something like ninety seven percent
of us have either been vaccinated or have

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had COVID. There's the flu running
around the RSV. About three weeks ago,

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I had an I thought I had
COVID, So you know, I

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waited a day or two, get
tested. No, it's negative. I

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go to the doctor. I have
an RSV, whatever the hell that is.

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And it felt like COVID. It
felt like the flu. It felt

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like my body was rebelling against me
for three or four days. Did you

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have a similar circumstance. I did. I did, and you know,

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I actually tested positive for COVID.
I thought it was the flu. That's

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how bad I felt. I had
just the aches and pains and then all

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sorts of head congestion. So thankfully, you know, I had been vaccinated.

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I did not get the new one
this year, and you know,

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it lasted about four days and then
I was fine. I still have some

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head congestion and that sort of thing. But I know there's so much going

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on. My boys have had various
things. We've tested them for flu,

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COVID. It was negative. So
I think there are so many viruses out

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there. Right now, let's talk
about the issues. There's so little time

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and two or three issues looking back
on this year, and I think in

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some ways it was a great year. In other ways, it was not

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a very good year. The economy
is not doing as well as it could

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do. Last night, once again, you had an incident on Interstate Highway

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seventy five in which I guess someone
being kidnapped runs across the road. Every

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time when you and Mike show up
about two o'clock, three o'clock in the

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afternoon to get ready, it is
in crime and what's happening A serious concern

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that is just below the surface in
the city of Cincinnati, which is not

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as bad as elsewhere, but it's
getting there one hundred percent. You and

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I've talked about this so often.
Look, this is a city I grew

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up in, and I hate to
see what's going on, and it feels

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like day in and day out,
we're telling you about a different shooting that's

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happening, and too often. MY
biggest concern, and this is what I

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talk to my friends and family about, is you know, you have innocent

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people being caught in the crossfire.
So yes, typically, if you're not

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dealing drugs, if you're not involved
in crimes and robberies and that sort of

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thing, you're not going to become
a victim. But unfortunately, because the

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crime has escalated so much and you
have so many people opening fire in public

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places, I do think it's a
huge issue. If you're talking to me

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about what I think the biggest stories
around Cincinnati, I think it's kicked off

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in January with the DeMar Hamlin such
with him collapsing at Peycurse Stadium, and

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that was such a huge story across
the country for an entire week where we

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thought this guy died on the field, and you know, I've never seen

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pay Corps so quiet in my life. I was working that night. We

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had a team of course down there
at the stadium. Mike was down there

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as a fan with his son and
some buddies, And that's one of those

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stories you'll never forget. You know, what you were doing when that happened,

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because you thought you're literally watching a
guy die on the field. Thank

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god, it turned into this horrible
situation that then turned into a miraculous situation.

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So I think that was one of
the biggest stories here locally that got

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national attention. I'd also argue that, you know what happened in November with

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Issue on an Issue too, those
local issues that had national implications with abortion

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rights and recreational mara, a lot
of both being passed that you know,

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we were looked at all the eyes
of the country were looking at Ohio on

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that night. So I think those
were two huge issues across Cincinnati this year.

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But if you're talking about good stuff, you know, I was kind

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of racking my head thinking what were
the big stories this year. I think

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one of the really big positive stories
that was you know, really fun this

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year was Taylor Swift coming to Cincinnati. I mean, I've never seen so

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much excitement. I mean, you
know, the Reds were playing that weekend.

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The city was just bustling and booming, and you know, you had

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people coming in from all across the
country to come see Taylor Swift here in

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Cincinnati's with two night. So I
think that was also a big, big

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story. And then of course you're
you know, most recently, unfortunately we

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had with Burrow being out for the
whole season. I think that was a

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pretty you know, crushing news story
that we covered for you know, several

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several days. And now hopefully Browning
can kind of surprise all of us and

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maybe continue to take us into another
third straight year of a playoff run.

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That would be pretty exciting. But
you know, I will say that,

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yes, crime has been this underlying
story. It feels like day in and

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day out. When I was thinking
back to the stories though for this year,

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thank god we didn't have locally,
you know, a mass shooting.

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This year, we didn't have you
know, we didn't have those sorts of

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big stories like we've had in past
years, at least here locally. If

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that's a silver lining. I guess
yeah. When I had these issues with

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Tom Striker, like ten fifteen years
ago, things were bad. Seven eight

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it became and Striker said something I'll
remember that you reference, and that is,

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if you're not involved in drugs or
gang activities or prostitution or something like

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that, the odds of you being
the victim of a crime are extremely rare,

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extremely low. However, that's changed
with the mass shootings and going up

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and down Vine Street. There's stories
about the banks, how the banks are

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becoming unsafe, especially after midnight.
And there's going to be like twenty thousand

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shots fired in the city of Cincinnati. And I'm not talking about hand in

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the county. The city of Cincinnati
is going to have about twenty thousand shots

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fired or more, including about four
hundred people are going to be wounded.

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It's going to be eighty five to
ninety killed. And the ages get younger

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and younger all the time. And
I think that's a big issue that all

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of us like to follow, but
all of us don't. We don't want

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to think of our city like Detroit
or Chicago, or Atlanta or Washington,

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d C. But do you have
a fear that's the direction we're headed.

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I do and listen. You know, it's interesting you bring this up about

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the age Lily. A few weeks
ago, we had a shooting where multiple

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little kids were caught in the crossfire
in I believe it was the over the

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Ryne area, and I remember talking
with a police source of mine and I

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said, he goes, why are
you guys so fixated on this story?

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I said, what do you mean? We had four little kids who were

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shot, one who was killed.
And he said, well, your definition

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of little kids in mine is different. Shre and he wasn't. He goes,

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look, I know nothing about this
particular case, but what I'm telling

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you is kids involved in the drug
ring are getting younger and younger. So

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your definition and what you perceive as
an eleven year old, you know,

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or a thirteen year old. You
know, I have a little I have.

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My youngest is thirteen. He goes, your thirteen year old is much

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different than the twelve and thirteen year
olds we encounter their drug runners. Some

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of them they're you know, they
get used up by these drug dealers and

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violent criminals on our streets because they
know if they if a kid gets caught

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with a gun, or if a
kid gets caught with drugs, they're not

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going to face the penalties that someone
eighteen and old or will So it gave

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me a whole different outlook, and
it does concern me, Willie, and

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I think everybody should be concerned.
You and I've talked about this before.

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The issue has to be handled,
whether that means locking people up longer,

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stiff for penalties. If you know, if you get caught with a gun

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and you're a felon and you're immediately
going to be locked up instantly for ten

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years, you might think twice about
carrying a gun and continuing to be involved

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in crime. And I think that's, you know, the direction that a

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lot of prosecutors who we talk with, police officers, the chief of police,

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it's infuriating to them because they do
lock these guys up, but then

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within days they're released doing the same
sort of thing. So I think it

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starts in the judicial system where we
have to handle this before it continues to

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escalating. As you said, before
we become the next Chicago and a few

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minutes here, I'm going to have
on Representative Adam Bird of Clairemont County.

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He's got a bill, he's introduced. And what happened in Clairemont County is

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is that one of our finest one
out there and raped a girl who had

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special needs female and then came back
to Hamilton County and he was arrested and

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the lawyers, which is good lawyering, is having him sentenced in Hamilton County

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Juvenile Court, which will not be
a sentence at all for rape of a

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special needs a child. Because in
Clarmont County when those things happen, I'm

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told by the judges out there that
they ship them up north the Orient.

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They're gone underage kids sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, you've got to be at

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least fifteen on a felony who commit
a serious offense. Isn't stealing a Fifth

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Avenue candy bar from a Walmart.
This is the rape of a special needs

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girl that they would be sent up
north. But what happened is the child,

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so to speak, the rapist who's
sixteen years old, lives in Hamilton

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County, the city of Cincinnati,
and what happened is he got probation and

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a treatment program. And that's angering
some around the tri State that say,

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including Rob Sanders, that your crime
is spreading out all over the place,

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and I hear the same thing out
of Dearborn County that we don't want that.

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And so there was a movement.
There was a movement afoot to have

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a judicial district in which the twelfth
Appellate District would lose Claremont County to join

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Hamilton County. And when that became
public that Claremont County public officials said,

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wait a minute, you mean Hamilety
County residents are going to pick our judges.

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Ain't no way that's going to happen. And there's just a reputation now

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around the tri State that we call
home that the City of Cincinnati is going

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to be have big problems down the
road that are insoluble because the other surrounding

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communities are starting to say, wait
a minute, keep your crime out of

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our community. And it's spreading throughout
now. Secondly, well, you bring

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up issue one and two. When
I spoke to Governor Mike DeWine, I

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said, tongue in cheek to him, I don't know anyone politically more popular

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than you are right now. He's
got a seventy percent approval rating, and

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Mike DeWine, I said, hey, I said, Mike I've known him,

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I can speak frankly with him for
many decades. I said, Mike,

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you're the governor and we're going to
have partial birth, abortion on demand,

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and recreational marijuana everywhere. How does
that make you feel? And so

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you know, he dropped a few
epithets on me. But nonetheless an issue

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one and two, Well, you
surprised about recreational marijuana getting approved by fifty

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seven percent. It wasn't even close. No, No, I think you

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and I even talked about it a
week before. It didn't surprise me at

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all. And I'm going to be
clear here again, I am not a

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fan of marijuana period. I don't. It's not my thing, right,

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So I don't like the smell of
it, you know all of that.

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When we went out to LA for
the Super Bowl, you could smell it

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everywhere. It's just it's not something
I like. But I do think that

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it is very popular. It does
not surprise me at all. I think

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even people who are conservative. I
have friends who are conservative, They do

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gummies. They like their pot,
they like it better than they do alcohol.

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They feel like it's better than alcohol. So it didn't surprise me at

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all. And I think we're kind
of late to the pop party. Remember,

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twenty six states have already passed it, so it didn't surprise me at

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all. And listen, I think
part of the reason you touched on it

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with Governor Duine, the reason that
his approval ratings are so high is because

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he is able to reach across the
AIS. Always seen it with gun issues,

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and we're seeing it now with abortion
and with marijuana. I mean,

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look, the day after the election, you had some conservative lawmakers who are

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saying, no, no, no, you know, we're going to fight

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this, and I believe Governor Dwine
was saying, no, this is what

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Ohio voters wanted. We just now
have to put you know, the laws

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in place, because yes, issue
to pass. You can now legally use

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recreational marijuana. But you still people
don't know how do they get it where

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and they buy it? And I
think that's what you know Dwine is trying

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to work through right now so that
unfortunately, you know, this pass before

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we had our ducks in order.
But I do think that's why his approval

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ratings are so high, because despite
him being conservative, and despite the fact

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that he is you know, against
abortion and against recreational marijuana, so against

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issue wanted too, he realizes that's
what the voters wanted socially. Yeah,

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basically got a big decision on his
desk right now about a bill passed by

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the House and the Senate, which
is transgender rights and giving a seventeen or

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sixteen or fifteen year old the opportunity
to wait till they're eighteen for some hormonal

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or surgical changes in their physical being. And he's got to wrestle with that.

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But nonetheless, when it comes to
marijuana, yours truly uses gummies quite

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often. I think it's a good
anti inflammatory. I won't smoke any of

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that stuff because I don't like this. Next step is recreational pot. I

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have lawyer friends of mine who enjoy
Adobe every now and then on the back

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deck on a summer's evening inste Instead
of a couple of shots of a booze

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or whatever, it's an ice relaxer. And I think, essentially, moving

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forward, we're going to have recreational
pot. And Mike Dowain wants to limit

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it greatly and work through the medical
system. But I spoke to a grower

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who told me that the system in
Ohio the product must be only manufactured or

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grown in Ohio and processed. They're
not ready for a whole but they have

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scaled the business to medical marijuana.
They haven't scaled it the recreational and so

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it takes it. But listen,
they'll figure it out right three to four

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months. People want to make money. People want to make money, and

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there are buyers out there, a
lot of them, and I know a

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lot of people who say, I
love this. I want to know that

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what I'm getting, or what my
kids are getting, you know, college

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students are getting, is at least
safe. You know, That's that's been

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the biggest concern for me as a
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if that's something they want to do, or if friends and family want to

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do that. I just want to
know that what they're getting is safe and

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not placed with sentanol or something that's
important. That's critical. And that's where

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Mike DeLine is. He says,
look, we want to grow it in

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Ohio, we want to process it
in Ohio. We want to sell it

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in Ohio without mold, without fentanyl, and kill the dark market. I

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said, well, if you can
get that done, that is a social

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benefit that I think most adults,
most parents, and grandparents would say,

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well that's okay then, and that
that's where Mike is focused. That's what

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that's what text all and and make
text and make money off of it,

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just like you know, we had
this same debate when we're gambling going to

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be legalized, you know, and
everybody was up in the sort of thing.

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And listen, I say all the
time, I have alcoholism, drug

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addiction, and addiction in general runs
in part of you know, in my

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family. So I've seen the other
side of it. I've witnessed it firsthand.

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And I know the concerns for the
people who are anti all of those

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things. But if it's going to
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the time, we all know it. We have friends and family members who

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do it, then why not a
make it legal so we know it's safe

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and be make sure we're profiting off
of it. Well, it is the

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next step prostitution. Then we got
gambling, I said, Mike, we

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got gambling, we have recreation.
What's next prostitution? He said, not

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on my watch. I said,
well, you know all the vices are

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but oh sureI thank you. We'll
see what happens. And you and I

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have done this a long time.
You've been at it for about twenty twenty

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five years. How many more years? How much rubbers left on the tread

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for me? Yeah? Plenty.
Oh, I hope a little while.

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I hope you're not, you know, putting me out the pastors it yet.

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No, you got about fifteen twenty
years on me, But I got

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a year or two left in the
time. No. No, at some

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point, you know, you enjoy
what you're doing. But if you went

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back in time to two thousand and
two and all of a sudden you find

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yourself waking up in your life today, what would Shri Palelo say? I

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think she'd be blown away at how
lucky I've been. I mean, seriously,

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Willie, you, you and I
talk about it all the time.

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I still love what I do.
Yes, the business has changed. It's

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crazier than ever before. People don't
respect journalism like they used to. Rightfully

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so with what we've seen at the
national level and at times the local level.

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But I do still believe in fighting
the good fight, helping people who

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need a voice, and so I
still love my job. And then the

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fact that I get to do it
where I grew up. I mean,

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I really couldn't ask for a better
gig. Let's leave it at that.

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Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, Suri Pullello. Get my best to

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Mike Dartis and you're a great American, you too, will Amory Christmas,

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God bless you. Let's continue with
more coming up next to State Representative Adam

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Byrd about proposals and Columbus to isolate
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for myself a code glass of mister
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milked by tiny hands. Mmmm.
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