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We're joined today by London Mayor, Mayor Randall Weddle, who has come on to talk about a lot of the coverage happening surrounding your city today.

We appreciate you giving us a few minutes here.

Thank you, guys.

We appreciate your time as well.

Yeah, I want to start by saying again, thank you for coming on.

I'm sure if you haven't, we've posted some TikTok videos from your city council meetings there in London, Kentucky.

Of course, we're also following the Douglas Harless case.

And if you're not familiar with that

we can go listen to other episodes that we've talked about but him just a brief overview was

was he was killed during a search warrant at a home there in London but police mistakenly went to

the wrong house and it was just an awful situation.

But, but mayor, over, over that span of time, we've been reporting on the case.

Things have been a little heated in city council meetings. And I guess my first question to you is,

why on earth would you agree to sit down with some podcasters and draw more attention to

yourself and

the town?

Things are not, I'm sure that your days are not very fun right now.

Not very peaceful.

Yeah, you know, guys, I think that, first of all, regardless if it's with the news or a podcaster,

that it's important to engage with people.

You know, as an elected official, it's not our jobs to run from the hard questions or to run

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