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Congressman Troy Balderson has joined me, and uh man, tis

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the season baseball is here. We were just talking baseball

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when we were coming on, and I.

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Love the stony. I love that imitation you did of

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your son. Man, that's awesome.

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I can't even tell you, like, I'm just like, he

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started pitching last year and now we got him working

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with a pitching coach on mechanics and stuff, and he's

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throwing like fifty five fifty six, fifty seven miles an hour.

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He's eleven. He's strong as an ox. So I love it.

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I love that, and he's he's done it about face

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last year or the first year, he was like, I

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just I hope I get walked. He would tell I'm

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afraid to get hit dad, and I think that's pretty

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normal at that age. Oh, but he's he's got it.

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He's got like an elbow. I mean, he's got the

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gear now and all this stuff, and it's created some

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a little bit of confidence. And then he started hitting

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and stuff. He's doing well. He goes, we have a

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membership and he goes and works on stuff. So it's, man,

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it is so fun watching him. I'm I'm living vicariously

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through him. He's talking about he's going to buy me a house and stuff. It's the greatest.

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And I can sure still remember a little stunny with his ice cream cone melting walking down.

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To the DC like it was like it was so

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it was so hot. Oh my gosh. Man, I was

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leaving the house today and Josie's there. I go, I'll

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tell uncle Troy. He said, hi, he's coming in today.

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She's like, oh, yeah, I'll tell him. I said hello.

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So yeah, they're all great kids. Yeah, thank you, brother, right,

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and they're growing up. You know how it goes, Man,

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yours are.

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I got to give a shout out today my one

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and known lady Josh was celebrating his birthday today.

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Oh wow, that's great, Josh was.

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I got my my Josh's birthday today. And my mom

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is turning eighty five on Thursday.

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That's amazing. That's a big week.

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And and the Balderson claims.

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Man, that's awesome. That is awesome. Eighty five is a

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is fantastic. My dad on the fifteenth, he's tax day,

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is his birthday. He just turned eighty three. So born

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in forty two. So there it is, man. Your mom

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was born in forty forty. Yeah, so there it is.

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I got him one of those cards. It's it's enormous,

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it's like oversized, and then it says like, you know,

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eighty three that means your and then it breaks it

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down to like how many days old you are? Hours old? Yeah, second,

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excuse me, seconds you're you know how many seconds old

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you are? And then it goes through what was in

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nineteen forty two, all the different like the Academy Awards

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all that stuff, So it kind of it's like a

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time capsule almost on the card.

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I go to Hallmark trying to find good cards like that,

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and I can't.

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Even find Oh yeah no that was an Amazon special.

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Amazon.

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Yeah, I look, and then I got in this other

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one and said, you know, it's like a vintage you know.

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He is like all original parts and the T shirt

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you know, and all of that. So he loves that stuff.

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Man.

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It's great. It's great, man, fantastic. I you know, so

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blessed you know to have our parents. Yeah, absolutely, the

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same with my mom.

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Yeah, it's all good.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, So everything good. You're You're

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off right now? I never know your schedule. I mean

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you're like, oh.

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Well, I get all excited. I know when you text it's it's it's gonna be a good day. Yeah, we're here.

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We're in district this week, So ran around this morning,

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was in Lancaster this morning.

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No rest.

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Well, it's this is the best part. I mean, this

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is when you're able to come back, get in the district.

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Tomorrow we're going to be up in Tuscarars County spending

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a whole day up there. Uh, Friday, will be in

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Holmes County all day. So it's it's good. It gives

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you the ability to jump around the district. We'll be

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in Friday, will actually be we'll be in Holmes County

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and then we'll finish up am Jen and the pharmaceutical

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facilities opening up and up outside in Licking County.

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So, man, there's so much stuff happening in Ohio. It's exploding, right.

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It is the great talk of the country. It's crazy,

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it really is.

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It's great also too, just going back a little bit.

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But I can't help but think of you and and

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you know Congressman Jordan, and of course you know Carrie

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and all you guys who are flying in and out

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all the time to Reagan and watching all of the

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craziness that is happening there, and you're and I'm sure

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you're like, not me. I'm flying into Philly now, I'm

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just gonna drive in Dallas. I'm going to Dallas because

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nothing stupid's happening over there, dude with with Reagan, it's

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just you know, for a while there and you you

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say to yourself, are they target is that the mainstream media?

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Because dumb stuff happens at a lot of airports. We

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probably don't need to know about all of it because

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some of it would probably and I think it happens everywhere.

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Let's face it, there were humans involved in getting planes

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up and down and in and out and all of that.

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But that's what that's scary. Part of this. Was it

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really a near miss? Well, some of it, I would

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imagine is you could quantify as a near miss. But

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it seems like there it was like the mainstream media

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wanted to focus on that, and it was.

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Well they do they want to focus on anything like

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that because they think it's been impact and look.

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And they want to go The Transportation secretary sucks, you know, better.

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Than boota jag name is right, who's sporting a beard now?

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I did not know that. I saw him on TV. He's a beard and at that particular airport, it's a

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little airport. I mean it's it's smaller than Columbus and

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it's a lot of traffic.

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I just.

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Yeah, man, you said you saw what I was like,

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and it's just it's it's basically on an island on

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the Potomac there, So it's it's a small airport.

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You know.

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It's got nothing to do with those. It's just those

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are some of the mishaps that unfortunately happened. But every

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like you said, every little thing that's going to happen

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over there is going to be announced and they're going

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to try to attribute to something that's happened under the

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Trump administration, right, which is not true.

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Well, there are some things that are I mean, you know,

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the stuff that they report is happening. But the thing

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is that the thing to remember is most likely it

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was already. There are all these other instances where it's

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happened over the years as well. Either way you stack it,

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it doesn't sit well with people, especially when they're privy

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to it. Now exactly, they shine a light on it,

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an extra light, an extra bright light, and you know,

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as busy as that place is. And then as you know,

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you saw what happened with the helicopter and the crash

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there got oh my gosh, they're.

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No longer flying helicopters anymore. That's done.

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And that was the first thing. You know, Chuck and

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I were on the air and I said, man, I

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am a simple minded person as it gets. I really am.

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Here and there all have some common sense that makes sense.

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But the first thing I thought of, I'm like, why

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would they be flying near any path of any commercial aircraft?

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They did before all the time I was seeing them

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coming in.

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That's my thing that I didn't understand. I was like,

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why are they doing why? And They're like, well, they're

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just preparing for real, a real world emergency or whatever.

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And I'm like, they need to prepare that somewhere else. Sorry,

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I mean, this is that was just it was so unavoidable.

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It's like why all those people perished for nothing? For nothing?

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I mean, it was like, I know, you guys had

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to all be stunned.

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Stunned. And then you know, I flew back that first

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week and you know, after the first after it happened,

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and I could you could still see everything. The debris,

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I mean, it was there. It's just and look, you

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know I've talked about that.

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You can't help the thing.

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Can't say prayers on that plane. Yeah, and uh, it's

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just it's just it was hard broken.

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Heart when I when I came in in January to

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watch the certification in the in the chambers. When I

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flew in for that, Uh, coming in, we bounced around

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like that was pretty rough.

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Yeah.

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I mean for me and I've flown not a lot,

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not even close to as much as you, but I

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was like, uh, it was it was pretty I was

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looking around on the plane to see if anybody else

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had like the white knuckle. Yeah, and I'm like looking

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around and everybody else was just kind of looking at

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their their phones and stuff. And I'm guessing most of

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those people flew that that path all the time. I

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don't know what it is cross winds, man, I'm telling you, dude.

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It was like it is always bumpy coming in there,

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and sometimes it'll just that plane just drops.

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I did it. I didn't like it. I was like,

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WHOA did not like it?

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Dollars flying the dollars to forty five minute drive though

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from Dollars to the Capitol. Yeah, that's that's that's the downside,

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and that's why you.

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Or whatever, don't you or you know.

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My no, no, I do. My staff will pick me up.

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Oh okay.

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And that's for most part. I mean sometimes we'll we'll

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catch up together. I mean, if if Jimy's on the

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same flight, we'll all tag team up together to I mean,

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could we all go the same off this building right

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just right over again? Yeah, carpool carpool. Yeah, I couldn't

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think of the word. Yeah, carpool, not very much, but

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sometimes right, so.

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Yeah, I don't know. That wasn't even it just popped

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into my head thinking because you're just back and forth

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so much. So it was you know that traveling that

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route and then seeing you know, something else where, uh,

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you know, a Southwest plane just a near miss or

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when wings clip almost clipped when they're on the ground,

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and it's just silly stuff and you never really hear

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about that. Think about I don't know how much is

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going in and out of DC, but you know how

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much I go to Las Vegas. I mean, think about

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the air traffic going in and out of Harry Reid. Yeah,

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and it has to rival. I would think DC, maybe not,

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though I don't know.

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Yeah, I would know, And they just came out the

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top ten airport so I can't remember that list was.

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We need to dig that up on our next commercial break, I'll find it. The top ten airports, the ten busiest.

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Oh yeah, I have that, you do. Okay, here we

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go at number one.

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You you're on it.

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I know. How about that? Well, have you been to

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Shanghai that's at ten? Wow? I have not been saying,

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You're like, uh yeah about three weeks ago. Why, I'm like,

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what got something against it? No, that's fine. New Delhi

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is at nine. Then you got Chicago. Now they don't.

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I flew in the Chicago. It's recently.

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It's O R D. So that is not there's uh,

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there's one big Midway than that, that's O'Hare. Yeah, right, okay,

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because Midway is in the middle of a neighborhood.

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It's in the middle of the neighborhood. Yeah.

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Literally. As a matter of fact, I remember now I've

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connected through Midway when I've been going to Vegas before,

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and uh, I don't. I don't remember which airline it was.

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All I know is I do remember reading as a pilot.

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You have to have logged so many hours to fly

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in and out of there if you're going to be the guy in control of getting the plane off the

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ground and onto the ground, so you could be the copilot,

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but you can't be you have to have so many hours.

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Now that was once upon a time. I don't know if that's still the case. But because the plane comes

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in like this, it almost has to go and then land,

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it's not it can't come in at this side. Well

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there's some sort of ordnance noise or yeah, because they

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have to stay up so high before they come down

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or else. Think about if you lived anywhere in that vicinity,

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you'd be like your house would just shake all the time.

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That'd be horrible. Oh my god.

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Yeah, Well I was just say I love golfing at

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the airport golf course. Oh number I mean they'd fly over,

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but any of the noise.

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Yeah, yeah, keep on. At number seven is Stanbul? Where's

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that Turkey? Okay? Okay, I hear uh? At number six Denver,

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I've flown into Denver too, Yep. Number five London, Heathrow.

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Never never been to London, I haven't either. Tokyo at

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number four, then Dallas Fort Worth at.

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Three blown in there before. It's a huge airport.

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And then have you been to Dubai No, I haven't.

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No, And that's a good They got a good golf

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course over there, don't there.

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Oh a couple yeah, memorates that place. Is it's Richie

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rich over there. That's at number two and the number

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one busiest airport Atlanta. Yeah, so so Dallas and Reagan. No,

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they didn't even make it in the top ten for as far as world's ten busiest, these are the ten

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busiest airports. So it's funny that you bring that up.

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I'm like, Oh, I happen to have that info right in front of me. That story just dropped today.

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I saw it somewhere in the last twenty four hours,

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so it just didn't know.

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Yeah, and again I'm a little surprised that there weren't

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some but there were four US airports in the top

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ten there, so not surprised. Yeah. Atlanta is ridiculous. I've

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flown into there too. So if you fly Delta, I

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would think just about every time you're gonna end up somehow going through Atlanta. Yeah, somehow, Someway.

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Is and that's America is a hub now for Reagan,

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So that's a lot of transfers have done there. I

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think Columbus Airport Joe out there is doing a fantastic job.

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I mean he's managed in the construction site.

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I can't wait for it to be finished. It's gonna

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be really beautiful.

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I've been on a plane a couple of times with people that have just their first time flying in the

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Columbus and they saw they said, like, man, this is awesome.

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I mean, this is a nice airport and you can

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maneuver and get around really easy. And so I'm excited

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for him.

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It is easy to get around that all the different concourses.

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There's nothing confusing there. And but when we get when

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everything is complete, it's I don't know how long it's

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going to be a lot.

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Twenty seven eight, I think is what it was.

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Really.

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I think so real years now. I don't want to

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get the listeners all pumped out here. Maybe I shouldn't

13:50

say that, but that's incredible. Yeah, I mean it's moving fast.

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I mean I like Mike may and that McDonald's was.

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Gone, I know, bummer yeah. So uh more with Congressman

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Troy Balderson, who's here, Harvard University suing the Trump administration

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to stop the funding freeze. Can we laugh, Yes, we