October 10, 2024 • 15 mins
He is running against long-time incumbent Joyce Beatty. Michael Young joined me on October 7, 2024.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Greeting salitations and welcome my friends to another edition of
the Power Hour. I'm chugged unless you allegedly know who
you are. We take it from there. We get one
hour together, which means I talk really fast and you
must listen even faster. The number eight two one nine
eight eighty six eight two one DOUBLETVN or eight hundred
and sixty ten dou WTV. And I'm gonna coach while
we're on the air here because I didn't pay any
(00:22):
attention to the fact somebody for some reason unplugged the headphones.
Not mine. Mine are here, but Zach's coming in. Zach,
can you help our guest over here? Somebody unplugged his headphones.
He's like, well, there's nothing coming out. Of course, there's
nothing coming out. It's like a government program. It's there,
but it's meaningless until it's connected the way it's supposed
(00:45):
to be. Now, you should have a little up volume
adjustment thing over there so it doesn't blow your ears
off the side of your head. And uh, now he's
going to go back over in that room and push
his buttons, which will allow you to actually be on
the air with me. The you that I'm talking to
by the way, way is the man who has the
audacity and you may not. I've complained actually on the
air about him because I'm like, dude's like invisible. I
(01:07):
haven't heard about him till just now. His name's Michael Young.
He is running against Joyce Batty. I'm sorry, And isn't
that how you're supposed to say? Is zach? Isn't that
I've changed the hope of what was what could be
unburdened by saying it regularly or something like that. Yeah,
So anyway, Yeah, Joyce Baty, who's been in office since
(01:31):
what the year is seven? Something like that, And and
so Michael Young says that's enough of that, and he's
running against her. And Michael Young, welcome to the studio.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Hi, Hey, thank you a lot, Chuck. You know, I
used to listen to you before on a previous radio station,
and you're a very well received and loved individual in
this community.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
People who admit openly to listening to me for any
period of time are automatically doubted by the saying among us,
I'm just I'm mourning you. You don't want to, you
don't want to make that claim, and you running against
choice Baty which some people may not think is the
greatest possible move either. But you don't think that she
is an unbeatable force in the political arena.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, look, I know Joyce has been in for quite
a long time, like five or six different terms, maybe
a little longer. But anyway, you know, I think I
have a way of getting things done. I have a
lot of experience. I've been in real estate business and
development for thirty five years, been in oil and gas production,
(02:31):
been involved in the community and lots of roles, even
set on the board of the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce.
And so I've been in the real estate industry like
a long time, and I know a lot about this
and I've helped other people in other campaigns, you know.
But we need to make a change here. You know.
I am for everyone in this district, Congressional District three,
(02:55):
not just the Republicans, not just the Democrats, not just
a non affiliated but everyone. And we have a problem
with our federal government. One of our problems we have,
of course, is you know, we haven't shut down our
southern border yet it appears yet it was so simple
all Joe Biden had to do if he wanted to
lift the restrictions put in by Donald Trump is to
(03:17):
put our military down there in the border if our
border guards were being you know, overrun and overcome. It's
so simple to do. We need any bills in Congress.
We didn't need any of that. That's one of the
main things that you know, I will be involved in.
We have to stop that. We also have to stop
this thing where any president could go around issuing executive
(03:38):
orders to do something that they want to get done,
but that maybe the Congress doesn't want to do. This
country needs to be run by the Congress. The executive
branch should only be carrying out what the Congress passes
or doesn't pass, except in some key areas where maybe
executive orders because of ourational defense or other like hurricanes
(04:03):
and things that we need to address on an immediate basis,
but then only for a period of like sixty to
ninety days, where the Congress has to go and approve
that measure.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What happened to that old school train of thought and
practice that you know, the House controls the purse first
of all, which isn't the case anymore. I mean, we've
watched with the Biden administration and to some extent. Quite frankly,
the Trump administration president wants the money, sign this executive
order that billion dollars into what happened to Congress controlling
the per strings. I would think that that would be
(04:36):
more important to members of Congress.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I agree with you one hundred percent. The problem is
they passed too many bills and too much legislation where
they set up these funds that can be used almost
indiscriminately by an administration. Otherwise, Oh, we're going to take
you three billion dollars out of this fund and do
this with it, or we're going to take this money
(04:59):
out of here. No, No, we got to get realistic here.
We need to Congress that when they passed legislation and
they delve out money, that it is down to a
real accounting, principal situation where we can show where this
money is gone and if it wants to be used
somewhere else, there has to be a special legislation by
(05:20):
the Congress to allow this. We need to get control
of this, and I mean, otherwise we're not going to
have the country anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
The man you're listening to right now, by the way,
if he just jumped in here, Michael Young, he is
running for the Ohio or not the the Ohio third
congressional seat to replace Joyce Baby, which you know some
people think is just crazy, that's nuts, You're not going
to be here. I'm proud that somebody's stepping up. How
many times have I said it, quick, gripe and then
do something. And he's chosen to do something. He's looking
(05:47):
for your support. And because I did not know about
him until I said something a few weeks ago that
I was just hearing of him, I thought it important
here on this final night of voter registration, that you
know who he is. Early voting start. It's tomorrow in
the state of Ohio. You have until tonight at nine
pm to get yourself registered. I think I'm registered. If
(06:07):
you think you're registered, you're probably not. You're lazy but
hasn't been to the post. You can go to my
Facebook page right now. I put a link up there
where you can click the link, put in your and
ask for your name and your birth gear and the
street number to your house. It will tell you if
you're registered to vote or not. And if you are not,
you have until nine o'clock tonight to fix that. This
(06:29):
year is dreadfully important. Early voting dreadfully important as well.
I'm going to get into that in the second half
of the show. I know that you know you talk
about the borders. That's a big issue, that's at the
top of your list. That is your first amendment to
your campaign material. Really, yes, what as a freshman member
of the House, what could you do? What could you
(06:49):
instigate that might have some momentum where you think other
members might get behind you say Okay, this new guy's
get onto something here.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, obviously I would try to make my voice known
and to get in with the House leadership to show
that hey, I'm not your little novice here that doesn't
know anything about legislation, about laws, about how the country
has run. And you know, I don't need to be
schooled too much about bringing my talents to bear here.
(07:20):
And maybe I could get appointed to one of the
important committees that could help do this. And that's what
I would really work hard on.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
What scares me most about you is the fact that,
just as we were talking before we went on the air,
we are so similar in so many ways our experiences.
I encouraged you to say something that you said, I
just don't want to do that guy. So so I'm
going to say it for you if you don't say it.
Everybody knows I've been in real estate since two thousand
and three. It's what I do when I'm not in here,
is sharing time with you. There was a time up
until I believe it was in nineteen sixty nine, when
(07:50):
black people could not be members at the Columbus Board
of Realtors. They just on paper, were not allowed. Just
wasn't happening. There was an organization out there called Realtists,
which essentially were the black real estate agents in Columbus, Ohio.
They did not have access to the Multiple Listing Service
the MLS. They weren't able to put their homes in there.
They weren't able to see what homes other people might
(08:12):
have in there who were non you know, the white people, basically,
and that was just ridiculous. And I'm impressed with your story,
and the fact that you won't share it probably impresses
me even more because everybody uses everything they can, especially
when it comes to race, to manipulate the minds of
the voters, of the public, of their neighbors. But you
(08:33):
did something in the early mid seventies that quite frankly,
not a lot of white people, not just realtors, but
not a white people might have done on behalf of
a Central Ohio black real estate agent. I just I'm
proud of you for doing it, and I'm impressed by
you for not wanting to wave your flag. But you
know the race angle is going to be used against
(08:54):
you at every turn. So I'm encouraging you to tell
that story as you know, as quick as you are
comfortable telling it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But just to make your point, well, you have to realize,
first of all, you know, I'm raised by a good,
good family. We went to Catholic schools. We were taught
to accept everyone. I don't care what their race, religion.
Creed was. I played football in grade school, high school,
and even freshman one time up at Ohio State. But
(09:24):
a lot of my friends African American people, and we
best buddies. Whoever year. We had some great football teams
in high school. But anyway, you know, when in real
estate back in the seventies, we had a co op
deal with Harris Realty, Ray Harris being the broker, and
I asked, Ray, Ray, don't you want to be in
multiple listing because I see this listing that we have
(09:44):
a co op on. It's not in the system. He said, oh, Mike,
I'm not in the Border Realders because they you know,
I could never get in there and said why not? Well,
because of my color? I said, Ray, do you think
I would be a member of this organization if I
would go along as such a thing? I said, do
you you want to join the Border Reealners? I would
really like to. He said, hey, good. The next week
(10:04):
I had the application in front of him, he signed it,
went in, got approved the course, and after that a
lot of other brokers of African American blood came into
the Border Reealners and you know it was a done deal.
But you know the thing is, I'm so tired of
this racism thing. You don't even know. Look, we're all
in this together.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's a beautiful thing too, the fact that it doesn't
matter to you, because it does not matter to me.
But like I say, it's going to be used against you.
You because the large chunk of what you're trying to
get in the third district is African American voters and
they need to know that. You know, you're not just
some white guy that doesn't care one way.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Look, I've had a lot of experience in the real
estate business and construction of people that work for us,
people work in our company, some of my best friends,
et cetera. I don't have this thing about color, because look,
when they talk about color, we're all a piece of
a color. I just happened to be a little more
white than somebody else.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Look, I said this off the ar two. For those
of us that are old and we remember older performers.
There was a comedian once, John Binder, and I swear
it looked like John Binder. It's really freaky how much
you look like him.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, I've been told that before. And John Binder he
was a pretty special talent.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yes, he was odd and odd was good back then.
John Binder Jonathan Wintersey both had that kind of weird,
just left of center mentality. Where do we find out
more about you? People who potentially you know, they live
in the district, They want to consider voting for you,
They want to know more about you.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, if you want to know a lot about me,
go to our website. Website is called Young for Congress
dot us, and that has a lot of the information
on it about myself, about the things which I feel
are important in our government that need to be taken
care of in Congress. And about my resume in terms
(11:52):
of my background and real estate development, legal issues, oil
and gas, music, et cetera. So I have a pretty bad,
pretty broad background. So I think I can do the
job in Congress. And believe me, I'm there for all
the people. I want to, you know, stop this government,
this federal government, of them being involved in every little
(12:14):
aspect of our lives. It's gotten way too big and
we need to do some cutting work here to get
out of things that federal government should not be involved in.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
From all the little media talks that you've done, and
and so forth, and trying to prepare for this race,
is there anything nobody's asked you that you wish somebody
would ask you because you want to make sure you
get it out there.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Well, I haven't been asked much about, you know, aid
for Ukraine. I'm one hundred percent behind aid for Ukraine
in clearly, even military aid. If we would have gotten
together with our NATO allies back when this invasion started,
you know, there wouldn't be any invasion anymore. We could
take care of Putin and the Russian invasion quite nicely.
(12:57):
We're three times as powerful with our NATO allies as
Russia will ever be. I've been to Ukraine five times.
I know the people there. I have family relatives. My
son is half Ukraine, his mother's Ukrainian, etc. So I
have contact with them all the time. And I've been
to Russia several times, so I have a pretty good
(13:19):
basic knowledge of what's going on here, and we need
to give them the help they need and to push
back against this invasion.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
All right, sir, I appreciate your time today. I hope
we've done a little something to draw some attention to
who you are, what you stand for, and maybe get
some people to visit Young Forcongress dot US and learn
some more and voting your favor coming November fifth or
early if they have any sense.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I appreciate Chuck, and I really appreciate it me on
your show because you've always been one of the guys
I've been looking up to in radio for a long
long time.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
See you're demeaning yourself again. If he likes that, Chuck guy,
I can't vote for it. Oh, by the way, before
you get out of here, I just want real quick
here the Columbus Italian Festivals. He brought in a poster
for the colubust Italian Festival the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteen,
and they've got the see. I didn't even know rig
Brunetto was still playing. Man, I'm sorry. The rig Brunetto
Big Band one of my favorite Columbus based entertainment organizations.
(14:10):
And I call him that because it's not just a band,
it's it's up. It's kind of an experience. If you
haven't seen him, you need to. Cecilian tenors Lisa del Rosa,
cordyon cha Accordion champion, Cory Pastorano. Is that how you
say that?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's how you're saying all at the Italian Festival starting
this weekend, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And this is going to be this is going to
be what Saturday? Is it Saturday and Sunday or is
it Friday? Saturday?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Starts Friday Saturday and winds up on Sunday. And of
course it's located just there on North Forest Street until
the just past the downtown.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Court Street and Lincoln right that Lincoln's just a little
east West Street just north of six.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Even right, and Saint John the Baptist Church is right
there in the middle of.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It, all right. Well, I'll take a picture of this
and put it up on the Facebook page too, because
Italian Italian Festival means there's gonna be pasta and stuff
that's probably bad for me, so I'll be there all right.
I appreciate you very much, Michael. You have a great
evening and uh and best of luck come November five.
Greeting salitations and welcome my friends to another edition of
the Power Hour. I'm chugged unless you allegedly know who
you are. We take it from there. We get one
hour together, which means I talk really fast and you
must listen even faster. The number eight two one nine
eight eighty six eight two one DOUBLETVN or eight hundred
and sixty ten dou WTV. And I'm gonna coach while
we're on the air here because I didn't pay any
(00:22):
attention to the fact somebody for some reason unplugged the headphones.
Not mine. Mine are here, but Zach's coming in. Zach,
can you help our guest over here? Somebody unplugged his headphones.
He's like, well, there's nothing coming out. Of course, there's
nothing coming out. It's like a government program. It's there,
but it's meaningless until it's connected the way it's supposed
(00:45):
to be. Now, you should have a little up volume
adjustment thing over there so it doesn't blow your ears
off the side of your head. And uh, now he's
going to go back over in that room and push
his buttons, which will allow you to actually be on
the air with me. The you that I'm talking to
by the way, way is the man who has the
audacity and you may not. I've complained actually on the
air about him because I'm like, dude's like invisible. I
(01:07):
haven't heard about him till just now. His name's Michael Young.
He is running against Joyce Batty. I'm sorry, And isn't
that how you're supposed to say? Is zach? Isn't that
I've changed the hope of what was what could be
unburdened by saying it regularly or something like that. Yeah,
So anyway, Yeah, Joyce Baty, who's been in office since
(01:31):
what the year is seven? Something like that, And and
so Michael Young says that's enough of that, and he's
running against her. And Michael Young, welcome to the studio.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Hi, Hey, thank you a lot, Chuck. You know, I
used to listen to you before on a previous radio station,
and you're a very well received and loved individual in
this community.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
People who admit openly to listening to me for any
period of time are automatically doubted by the saying among us,
I'm just I'm mourning you. You don't want to, you
don't want to make that claim, and you running against
choice Baty which some people may not think is the
greatest possible move either. But you don't think that she
is an unbeatable force in the political arena.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, look, I know Joyce has been in for quite
a long time, like five or six different terms, maybe
a little longer. But anyway, you know, I think I
have a way of getting things done. I have a
lot of experience. I've been in real estate business and
development for thirty five years, been in oil and gas production,
(02:31):
been involved in the community and lots of roles, even
set on the board of the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce.
And so I've been in the real estate industry like
a long time, and I know a lot about this
and I've helped other people in other campaigns, you know.
But we need to make a change here. You know.
I am for everyone in this district, Congressional District three,
(02:55):
not just the Republicans, not just the Democrats, not just
a non affiliated but everyone. And we have a problem
with our federal government. One of our problems we have,
of course, is you know, we haven't shut down our
southern border yet it appears yet it was so simple
all Joe Biden had to do if he wanted to
lift the restrictions put in by Donald Trump is to
(03:17):
put our military down there in the border if our
border guards were being you know, overrun and overcome. It's
so simple to do. We need any bills in Congress.
We didn't need any of that. That's one of the
main things that you know, I will be involved in.
We have to stop that. We also have to stop
this thing where any president could go around issuing executive
(03:38):
orders to do something that they want to get done,
but that maybe the Congress doesn't want to do. This
country needs to be run by the Congress. The executive
branch should only be carrying out what the Congress passes
or doesn't pass, except in some key areas where maybe
executive orders because of ourational defense or other like hurricanes
(04:03):
and things that we need to address on an immediate basis,
but then only for a period of like sixty to
ninety days, where the Congress has to go and approve
that measure.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What happened to that old school train of thought and
practice that you know, the House controls the purse first
of all, which isn't the case anymore. I mean, we've
watched with the Biden administration and to some extent. Quite frankly,
the Trump administration president wants the money, sign this executive
order that billion dollars into what happened to Congress controlling
the per strings. I would think that that would be
(04:36):
more important to members of Congress.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I agree with you one hundred percent. The problem is
they passed too many bills and too much legislation where
they set up these funds that can be used almost
indiscriminately by an administration. Otherwise, Oh, we're going to take
you three billion dollars out of this fund and do
this with it, or we're going to take this money
(04:59):
out of here. No, No, we got to get realistic here.
We need to Congress that when they passed legislation and
they delve out money, that it is down to a
real accounting, principal situation where we can show where this
money is gone and if it wants to be used
somewhere else, there has to be a special legislation by
(05:20):
the Congress to allow this. We need to get control
of this, and I mean, otherwise we're not going to
have the country anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
The man you're listening to right now, by the way,
if he just jumped in here, Michael Young, he is
running for the Ohio or not the the Ohio third
congressional seat to replace Joyce Baby, which you know some
people think is just crazy, that's nuts, You're not going
to be here. I'm proud that somebody's stepping up. How
many times have I said it, quick, gripe and then
do something. And he's chosen to do something. He's looking
(05:47):
for your support. And because I did not know about
him until I said something a few weeks ago that
I was just hearing of him, I thought it important
here on this final night of voter registration, that you
know who he is. Early voting start. It's tomorrow in
the state of Ohio. You have until tonight at nine
pm to get yourself registered. I think I'm registered. If
(06:07):
you think you're registered, you're probably not. You're lazy but
hasn't been to the post. You can go to my
Facebook page right now. I put a link up there
where you can click the link, put in your and
ask for your name and your birth gear and the
street number to your house. It will tell you if
you're registered to vote or not. And if you are not,
you have until nine o'clock tonight to fix that. This
(06:29):
year is dreadfully important. Early voting dreadfully important as well.
I'm going to get into that in the second half
of the show. I know that you know you talk
about the borders. That's a big issue, that's at the
top of your list. That is your first amendment to
your campaign material. Really, yes, what as a freshman member
of the House, what could you do? What could you
(06:49):
instigate that might have some momentum where you think other
members might get behind you say Okay, this new guy's
get onto something here.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, obviously I would try to make my voice known
and to get in with the House leadership to show
that hey, I'm not your little novice here that doesn't
know anything about legislation, about laws, about how the country
has run. And you know, I don't need to be
schooled too much about bringing my talents to bear here.
(07:20):
And maybe I could get appointed to one of the
important committees that could help do this. And that's what
I would really work hard on.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
What scares me most about you is the fact that,
just as we were talking before we went on the air,
we are so similar in so many ways our experiences.
I encouraged you to say something that you said, I
just don't want to do that guy. So so I'm
going to say it for you if you don't say it.
Everybody knows I've been in real estate since two thousand
and three. It's what I do when I'm not in here,
is sharing time with you. There was a time up
until I believe it was in nineteen sixty nine, when
(07:50):
black people could not be members at the Columbus Board
of Realtors. They just on paper, were not allowed. Just
wasn't happening. There was an organization out there called Realtists,
which essentially were the black real estate agents in Columbus, Ohio.
They did not have access to the Multiple Listing Service
the MLS. They weren't able to put their homes in there.
They weren't able to see what homes other people might
(08:12):
have in there who were non you know, the white people, basically,
and that was just ridiculous. And I'm impressed with your story,
and the fact that you won't share it probably impresses
me even more because everybody uses everything they can, especially
when it comes to race, to manipulate the minds of
the voters, of the public, of their neighbors. But you
(08:33):
did something in the early mid seventies that quite frankly,
not a lot of white people, not just realtors, but
not a white people might have done on behalf of
a Central Ohio black real estate agent. I just I'm
proud of you for doing it, and I'm impressed by
you for not wanting to wave your flag. But you
know the race angle is going to be used against
(08:54):
you at every turn. So I'm encouraging you to tell
that story as you know, as quick as you are
comfortable telling it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But just to make your point, well, you have to realize,
first of all, you know, I'm raised by a good,
good family. We went to Catholic schools. We were taught
to accept everyone. I don't care what their race, religion.
Creed was. I played football in grade school, high school,
and even freshman one time up at Ohio State. But
(09:24):
a lot of my friends African American people, and we
best buddies. Whoever year. We had some great football teams
in high school. But anyway, you know, when in real
estate back in the seventies, we had a co op
deal with Harris Realty, Ray Harris being the broker, and
I asked, Ray, Ray, don't you want to be in
multiple listing because I see this listing that we have
(09:44):
a co op on. It's not in the system. He said, oh, Mike,
I'm not in the Border Realders because they you know,
I could never get in there and said why not? Well,
because of my color? I said, Ray, do you think
I would be a member of this organization if I
would go along as such a thing? I said, do
you you want to join the Border Reealners? I would
really like to. He said, hey, good. The next week
(10:04):
I had the application in front of him, he signed it,
went in, got approved the course, and after that a
lot of other brokers of African American blood came into
the Border Reealners and you know it was a done deal.
But you know the thing is, I'm so tired of
this racism thing. You don't even know. Look, we're all
in this together.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's a beautiful thing too, the fact that it doesn't
matter to you, because it does not matter to me.
But like I say, it's going to be used against you.
You because the large chunk of what you're trying to
get in the third district is African American voters and
they need to know that. You know, you're not just
some white guy that doesn't care one way.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Look, I've had a lot of experience in the real
estate business and construction of people that work for us,
people work in our company, some of my best friends,
et cetera. I don't have this thing about color, because look,
when they talk about color, we're all a piece of
a color. I just happened to be a little more
white than somebody else.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Look, I said this off the ar two. For those
of us that are old and we remember older performers.
There was a comedian once, John Binder, and I swear
it looked like John Binder. It's really freaky how much
you look like him.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, I've been told that before. And John Binder he
was a pretty special talent.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yes, he was odd and odd was good back then.
John Binder Jonathan Wintersey both had that kind of weird,
just left of center mentality. Where do we find out
more about you? People who potentially you know, they live
in the district, They want to consider voting for you,
They want to know more about you.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, if you want to know a lot about me,
go to our website. Website is called Young for Congress
dot us, and that has a lot of the information
on it about myself, about the things which I feel
are important in our government that need to be taken
care of in Congress. And about my resume in terms
(11:52):
of my background and real estate development, legal issues, oil
and gas, music, et cetera. So I have a pretty bad,
pretty broad background. So I think I can do the
job in Congress. And believe me, I'm there for all
the people. I want to, you know, stop this government,
this federal government, of them being involved in every little
(12:14):
aspect of our lives. It's gotten way too big and
we need to do some cutting work here to get
out of things that federal government should not be involved in.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
From all the little media talks that you've done, and
and so forth, and trying to prepare for this race,
is there anything nobody's asked you that you wish somebody
would ask you because you want to make sure you
get it out there.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Well, I haven't been asked much about, you know, aid
for Ukraine. I'm one hundred percent behind aid for Ukraine
in clearly, even military aid. If we would have gotten
together with our NATO allies back when this invasion started,
you know, there wouldn't be any invasion anymore. We could
take care of Putin and the Russian invasion quite nicely.
(12:57):
We're three times as powerful with our NATO allies as
Russia will ever be. I've been to Ukraine five times.
I know the people there. I have family relatives. My
son is half Ukraine, his mother's Ukrainian, etc. So I
have contact with them all the time. And I've been
to Russia several times, so I have a pretty good
(13:19):
basic knowledge of what's going on here, and we need
to give them the help they need and to push
back against this invasion.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
All right, sir, I appreciate your time today. I hope
we've done a little something to draw some attention to
who you are, what you stand for, and maybe get
some people to visit Young Forcongress dot US and learn
some more and voting your favor coming November fifth or
early if they have any sense.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I appreciate Chuck, and I really appreciate it me on
your show because you've always been one of the guys
I've been looking up to in radio for a long
long time.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
See you're demeaning yourself again. If he likes that, Chuck guy,
I can't vote for it. Oh, by the way, before
you get out of here, I just want real quick
here the Columbus Italian Festivals. He brought in a poster
for the colubust Italian Festival the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteen,
and they've got the see. I didn't even know rig
Brunetto was still playing. Man, I'm sorry. The rig Brunetto
Big Band one of my favorite Columbus based entertainment organizations.
(14:10):
And I call him that because it's not just a band,
it's it's up. It's kind of an experience. If you
haven't seen him, you need to. Cecilian tenors Lisa del Rosa,
cordyon cha Accordion champion, Cory Pastorano. Is that how you
say that?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's how you're saying all at the Italian Festival starting
this weekend, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And this is going to be this is going to
be what Saturday? Is it Saturday and Sunday or is
it Friday? Saturday?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Starts Friday Saturday and winds up on Sunday. And of
course it's located just there on North Forest Street until
the just past the downtown.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Court Street and Lincoln right that Lincoln's just a little
east West Street just north of six.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Even right, and Saint John the Baptist Church is right
there in the middle of.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It, all right. Well, I'll take a picture of this
and put it up on the Facebook page too, because
Italian Italian Festival means there's gonna be pasta and stuff
that's probably bad for me, so I'll be there all right.
I appreciate you very much, Michael. You have a great
evening and uh and best of luck come November five.
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