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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I heard in Allison's News there a story about the
school bus accidents, telling we already had one thousand school
bus related accidents this school year in the state of Ohio.
And they are admonishing drivers and want you to be
careful near a school bus and act as if it's
full at all times. And I'm good with that. I'm
good with that. However, I would like to add something
(00:23):
that was likely going to be unpopular with some. We
must also and MANI school bus drivers to drive like
they got some damn sense. Twice now in the last
few days. I think it was Thursday, if I'm not mistaken,
and yesterday when I have been in residential areas and
I have seen school buses zipping through there at forty
(00:43):
forty five miles an hour. I don't know if they
had students on them or not, doesn't matter you're a
school bus. I understand there's a shortage of drivers. It's
been hard to recruit drivers, the private companies, the school systems.
I get it, But you know what they need those
things on there, Like what's the insurance companies act that
(01:04):
they can put something in your car to tell how
you drive, to adjust your rates if you're an idiot driver,
your rates go up, and if you're a good driver,
you go down.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Doesn't State Farm have it?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is it? State Farm? I think? So they need those
on school buses. I'm not joking.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I've got I see it. There's a what are the
roads that I drive on to take Charlie to school?
They pull across half of the road so oncoming traffic
doesn't zoom by, it.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Has to stop. That actually kind of makes sense if
it's a country type area.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, but they do it where they're driving and then
all of a sudden they just pull in front.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Of you, like really quickly.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's bad.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It happens all the.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Time, and you're like, uh, your school bus, Like yeah,
take it easy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
There are some I mean, there are times when you
want to assume the guilty party and the non guilty
party in situations, but you know, it's not always who
you think it is. And I just like I say,
it's been twice now within a week that I've seen
school buses in residential areas and Columbus that are just
and I don't know if they're Columbus buses or first
(02:05):
student or who. I have no idea because they went
by that fast. That's just it's irresponsible. Now. On the
other hand, if it's a Coda bus, you can drive
by like there's nobody on it, because there probably isn't
a two on nine eight eight six, y up or
a two I WTV and just got done with the
Blazer Show. Big thanks to Congressman Troy Balderson for spending
all three hours with us this afternoon. I love that guy.
(02:27):
He's so normal. He is so normal. He is not uh.
There is no pomping circumstance, no pretense about him. He's
just He's just a guy, just a guy from from
southeast or not southeastern, but I guess east central Ohio.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I can totally back that up because when you talk
to him off air, he's the same.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, just nice, genuinely nice human being.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yep, jeans, tennis shoes down best, Hey, how you doing?
And I love that about him. There is, uh, there's
an opportunity to be rather snooty when you achieve, you know,
something like a congressional seat, and he's just a normal person.
I really enjoyed having him in here. I wish more
were like him. He and I were talking off the
(03:13):
air about out of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, I'm waiting for
him to make the jump. He's all right now, he's saying,
you know what the Republicans need to do. They just
need to kill a filibuster. And all the Democrats who
are going to whine about it, don't whine about it,
because I ran on it, You ran on it. We
all ran on getting rid of the filibuster to eliminate
(03:35):
the sixty vote rule. So don't whine about it. Let's
just the Republicans need to get it done so we
can move forward. This is a guy who when he
was running, I thought he would have to move up
a couple of notches on the intellectual belt to be
brain damaged. I had no hope for him whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I mean, technically he was brain yeah he was.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
He had a stroke and he was in rough shit.
He couldn't speak, he was, he was not making sense.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I mean he even took time off for depression because
of that. Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't I
don't blame on that.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, I can't fault the guy when when obviously, what
I'm seeing of him now is far more vibrant than
what we saw when he was running for our office,
And I would be depressed too, because if now that
I see what he can be, perhaps this isn't even
what he was yet. Maybe he hasn't achieved his full
(04:30):
I don't know, because I don't know what he was
like before the stroke. But I would be depressed too
if I were that guy. We poked at him, but
knowing knowing what he had to offer and knowing the
way his mind worked. To go home every night realizing
how you had presented yourself that day, wouldn't that depress you? Sure?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I don't blame him, like I said, that's that's totally
a normal thing to be. Like, Hey, I just like
imagine his with the debate happened with Oz, and he
was just like, oh, I couldn't imagine how he.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Felt at the end he won. Yeah, but still, you know,
he messed up a bunch.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And I see, I was never a doctor OZ fan anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
There was a problem. I always thought he sold like
fake remedy.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, I've considered long before he attempted to be a politician,
I've considered him kind of a snake oil, right, And yeah,
I was not fond of that choice. But you know, Pennsylvania,
you could have done worse. You could have done much worse.
I think John Fetterman is coming around, and I would
not be surprised to see him get fed up and say,
(05:36):
you know what, I can't even be part of this
club anymore. I'm moving across the aisle.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I could see him go independent, also not Republican.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It's a possibility. See the problem with being an independent,
and there's a lot of idealistic people who do that.
I'd vote independent, I vote libertarian. Well, you vote to
lose then, because the elections, whether we like it or not,
it is what it is. And that is about money.
It is about fundraising, It is about party power and
an independence most of the time don't have anything to.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Work with unless you're already established.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
If you very established, right, if you ran as a
Democrat or a Republican, you got elected, you have a
reputation holding onto the seat. As an independent candidate, Okay,
that may be possible. We saw that with Mansion. Lieberman
was was, you know, an independent.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
However, I can never forget somebody calling him that the
first time.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I can't unsee it.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Once you are there, Yes, getting re elected is possible,
but to get elected to not be an incumbent to
get elected as an independent or a libertarian or Green
Party or or whatever else you consider yourself. It's it's
pretty much impossible. Minnesota kind of a different beast. I
(06:55):
mean they when they elected Jesse Ventura as governor, I
was impressed. I mean, I didn't know how crazy Jesse
would eventually become, but it really showed an independent streak
on the part of the people of Minnesota. So I
was kind of good with that. And as a youngster,
(07:16):
as a young man, I was very idealistic about politics.
I actually believed that honesty, integrity, ingenuity, creativity, accessibility, humility.
I thought all that stuff came into play. I thought
it mattered, and honestly, it doesn't. It doesn't. It depends
on the packaging and who's backing you, and importantly too,
(07:37):
who's working against you when you're trying to attain that
seat for the first time, that office for the first time.
And some people know their limitations. Andy Ginther knows his limitations. Yes,
he wants to be re elected mayor of Columbus in
twenty twenty seven, but you know, shared Brown's not running
(08:01):
for governor. Amy Acton isn't much of a choice for
Democrat voters. I haven't heard a peep about Andy Ginther
considering himself prepared, ready, or interested in the office of governor.
He knows his limitations. This is where he's got something
and he's going to try to hold onto that in
twenty seven. Being being what you must be what you
(08:25):
are when it comes to politics, I'm good with that.
Some people know I am destined for this, this is
what I might and they program themselves to be prepared
to fight those battles and to rise to that level.
And there are some people who have no interest in
(08:46):
that kind of office. Again, a conversation off the air
that we had earlier with Mark and Troy and I
the you know, the idea of being in Washington never
never appeal to me. But as a young man, as
a young idealistic man who wanted to make the world
a better place, yes, local office absolutely appeal to me.
(09:09):
In fact, I didn't want to do it. I felt
like I was supposed to, Like I was this this
this conviction that I have this, this ability to talk
to anybody anytime, anywhere about anything. I thought I'm supposed
to use this, and then you know, time moved on.
(09:31):
Circumstances changed, and here I am ready ready to you know,
cross over the retirement rainbow in a few years. No
so oh no, no, no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You're never going to retire.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
No ever, I may retire, not voluntarily. It may be
like okay, well good, no, no, we're gonna need nine
to one one in the studio. You never know. That'd
be kind of cool though. If I was a rock star,
I'd want to go on stage, so why not? Yeah,
fair enough. Oh but it just, you know, as a
(10:07):
young man, I just I really believed that wanting to
do the right thing, the right way, for the most people,
to make the world a better place, at least your
little corner of the world. I was convinced. I was
convinced that's what I was here for. And today, honestly,
(10:28):
if you paid me an untraceable gold bars, I would
probably not have any interest, just because the political process
has become so so dismal. Integrity has been prostituted in
the name of power, and it's no longer about being
a positive change. It's about being in control. And that's
(10:52):
not something I'd want to have any part of. It's
not a good thing as far as I'm concerned to
be in control of people.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
It's not your one hundred percent that right. If anybody
out there is listening with gold bars though, that just
want somebody to run and do what you want them to.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Call me, Amaze me. Sometimes you are for sale for anything,
aren't you. Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Absolutely, there's no integrity here.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
We need somebody to open a gallon of bleach and
drink it straight down. Nobody will do it well. Zach
will if you'll pay him in gold bars, untraceable gold bars.
They have to be some of them Tulsa King gold bars.
That's what you want
I heard in Allison's News there a story about the
school bus accidents, telling we already had one thousand school
bus related accidents this school year in the state of Ohio.
And they are admonishing drivers and want you to be
careful near a school bus and act as if it's
full at all times. And I'm good with that. I'm
good with that. However, I would like to add something
(00:23):
that was likely going to be unpopular with some. We
must also and MANI school bus drivers to drive like
they got some damn sense. Twice now in the last
few days. I think it was Thursday, if I'm not mistaken,
and yesterday when I have been in residential areas and
I have seen school buses zipping through there at forty
(00:43):
forty five miles an hour. I don't know if they
had students on them or not, doesn't matter you're a
school bus. I understand there's a shortage of drivers. It's
been hard to recruit drivers, the private companies, the school systems.
I get it, But you know what they need those
things on there, Like what's the insurance companies act that
(01:04):
they can put something in your car to tell how
you drive, to adjust your rates if you're an idiot driver,
your rates go up, and if you're a good driver,
you go down.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Doesn't State Farm have it?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is it? State Farm? I think? So they need those
on school buses. I'm not joking.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I've got I see it. There's a what are the
roads that I drive on to take Charlie to school?
They pull across half of the road so oncoming traffic
doesn't zoom by, it.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Has to stop. That actually kind of makes sense if
it's a country type area.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, but they do it where they're driving and then
all of a sudden they just pull in front.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Of you, like really quickly.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's bad.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It happens all the.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Time, and you're like, uh, your school bus, Like yeah,
take it easy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
There are some I mean, there are times when you
want to assume the guilty party and the non guilty
party in situations, but you know, it's not always who
you think it is. And I just like I say,
it's been twice now within a week that I've seen
school buses in residential areas and Columbus that are just
and I don't know if they're Columbus buses or first
(02:05):
student or who. I have no idea because they went
by that fast. That's just it's irresponsible. Now. On the
other hand, if it's a Coda bus, you can drive
by like there's nobody on it, because there probably isn't
a two on nine eight eight six, y up or
a two I WTV and just got done with the
Blazer Show. Big thanks to Congressman Troy Balderson for spending
all three hours with us this afternoon. I love that guy.
(02:27):
He's so normal. He is so normal. He is not uh.
There is no pomping circumstance, no pretense about him. He's
just He's just a guy, just a guy from from
southeast or not southeastern, but I guess east central Ohio.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I can totally back that up because when you talk
to him off air, he's the same.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, just nice, genuinely nice human being.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yep, jeans, tennis shoes down best, Hey, how you doing?
And I love that about him. There is, uh, there's
an opportunity to be rather snooty when you achieve, you know,
something like a congressional seat, and he's just a normal person.
I really enjoyed having him in here. I wish more
were like him. He and I were talking off the
(03:13):
air about out of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, I'm waiting for
him to make the jump. He's all right now, he's saying,
you know what the Republicans need to do. They just
need to kill a filibuster. And all the Democrats who
are going to whine about it, don't whine about it,
because I ran on it, You ran on it. We
all ran on getting rid of the filibuster to eliminate
(03:35):
the sixty vote rule. So don't whine about it. Let's
just the Republicans need to get it done so we
can move forward. This is a guy who when he
was running, I thought he would have to move up
a couple of notches on the intellectual belt to be
brain damaged. I had no hope for him whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I mean, technically he was brain yeah he was.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
He had a stroke and he was in rough shit.
He couldn't speak, he was, he was not making sense.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I mean he even took time off for depression because
of that. Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't I
don't blame on that.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, I can't fault the guy when when obviously, what
I'm seeing of him now is far more vibrant than
what we saw when he was running for our office,
And I would be depressed too, because if now that
I see what he can be, perhaps this isn't even
what he was yet. Maybe he hasn't achieved his full
(04:30):
I don't know, because I don't know what he was
like before the stroke. But I would be depressed too
if I were that guy. We poked at him, but
knowing knowing what he had to offer and knowing the
way his mind worked. To go home every night realizing
how you had presented yourself that day, wouldn't that depress you? Sure?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I don't blame him, like I said, that's that's totally
a normal thing to be. Like, Hey, I just like
imagine his with the debate happened with Oz, and he
was just like, oh, I couldn't imagine how he.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Felt at the end he won. Yeah, but still, you know,
he messed up a bunch.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And I see, I was never a doctor OZ fan anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
There was a problem. I always thought he sold like
fake remedy.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, I've considered long before he attempted to be a politician,
I've considered him kind of a snake oil, right, And yeah,
I was not fond of that choice. But you know, Pennsylvania,
you could have done worse. You could have done much worse.
I think John Fetterman is coming around, and I would
not be surprised to see him get fed up and say,
(05:36):
you know what, I can't even be part of this
club anymore. I'm moving across the aisle.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I could see him go independent, also not Republican.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It's a possibility. See the problem with being an independent,
and there's a lot of idealistic people who do that.
I'd vote independent, I vote libertarian. Well, you vote to
lose then, because the elections, whether we like it or not,
it is what it is. And that is about money.
It is about fundraising, It is about party power and
an independence most of the time don't have anything to.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Work with unless you're already established.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
If you very established, right, if you ran as a
Democrat or a Republican, you got elected, you have a
reputation holding onto the seat. As an independent candidate, Okay,
that may be possible. We saw that with Mansion. Lieberman
was was, you know, an independent.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
However, I can never forget somebody calling him that the
first time.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I can't unsee it.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Once you are there, Yes, getting re elected is possible,
but to get elected to not be an incumbent to
get elected as an independent or a libertarian or Green
Party or or whatever else you consider yourself. It's it's
pretty much impossible. Minnesota kind of a different beast. I
(06:55):
mean they when they elected Jesse Ventura as governor, I
was impressed. I mean, I didn't know how crazy Jesse
would eventually become, but it really showed an independent streak
on the part of the people of Minnesota. So I
was kind of good with that. And as a youngster,
(07:16):
as a young man, I was very idealistic about politics.
I actually believed that honesty, integrity, ingenuity, creativity, accessibility, humility.
I thought all that stuff came into play. I thought
it mattered, and honestly, it doesn't. It doesn't. It depends
on the packaging and who's backing you, and importantly too,
(07:37):
who's working against you when you're trying to attain that
seat for the first time, that office for the first time.
And some people know their limitations. Andy Ginther knows his limitations. Yes,
he wants to be re elected mayor of Columbus in
twenty twenty seven, but you know, shared Brown's not running
(08:01):
for governor. Amy Acton isn't much of a choice for
Democrat voters. I haven't heard a peep about Andy Ginther
considering himself prepared, ready, or interested in the office of governor.
He knows his limitations. This is where he's got something
and he's going to try to hold onto that in
twenty seven. Being being what you must be what you
(08:25):
are when it comes to politics, I'm good with that.
Some people know I am destined for this, this is
what I might and they program themselves to be prepared
to fight those battles and to rise to that level.
And there are some people who have no interest in
(08:46):
that kind of office. Again, a conversation off the air
that we had earlier with Mark and Troy and I
the you know, the idea of being in Washington never
never appeal to me. But as a young man, as
a young idealistic man who wanted to make the world
a better place, yes, local office absolutely appeal to me.
(09:09):
In fact, I didn't want to do it. I felt
like I was supposed to, Like I was this this
this conviction that I have this, this ability to talk
to anybody anytime, anywhere about anything. I thought I'm supposed
to use this, and then you know, time moved on.
(09:31):
Circumstances changed, and here I am ready ready to you know,
cross over the retirement rainbow in a few years. No
so oh no, no, no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You're never going to retire.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
No ever, I may retire, not voluntarily. It may be
like okay, well good, no, no, we're gonna need nine
to one one in the studio. You never know. That'd
be kind of cool though. If I was a rock star,
I'd want to go on stage, so why not? Yeah,
fair enough. Oh but it just, you know, as a
(10:07):
young man, I just I really believed that wanting to
do the right thing, the right way, for the most people,
to make the world a better place, at least your
little corner of the world. I was convinced. I was
convinced that's what I was here for. And today, honestly,
(10:28):
if you paid me an untraceable gold bars, I would
probably not have any interest, just because the political process
has become so so dismal. Integrity has been prostituted in
the name of power, and it's no longer about being
a positive change. It's about being in control. And that's
(10:52):
not something I'd want to have any part of. It's
not a good thing as far as I'm concerned to
be in control of people.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
It's not your one hundred percent that right. If anybody
out there is listening with gold bars though, that just
want somebody to run and do what you want them to.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Call me, Amaze me. Sometimes you are for sale for anything,
aren't you. Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Absolutely, there's no integrity here.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
We need somebody to open a gallon of bleach and
drink it straight down. Nobody will do it well. Zach
will if you'll pay him in gold bars, untraceable gold bars.
They have to be some of them Tulsa King gold bars.
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