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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chuck Douglas in The Power Hour on six ten wtv
N A two one nine eight eight six my number
eight two one WTVN or eight hundred and sixty ten
DOUBTV and and I'm not sure why, but Fox News
has chosen to tell us what Martina and nevertte a
lod of things about the Idaho shooter.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is it something stupid?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's I mean, there's nothing except for the fact that
she took to her her Twitter account and said, basically,
you know, the country's messed up something like that. What
was it? Our country is messed up. Rest in peace
to the heroes who died and made the killer, uh
not be some hellish or made the killer my gosh,
made the dead killer, not in some hellish place. I
(00:41):
don't know, but that was her post on Twitter. But
she's Martina never she's a she's a tennis player. Why
is that? Even Fox? Come on?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
When did she retire like an eighty A long time ago? Okay,
I was gonna say she's been retired for years.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Mansfield, Ohio was on my mind because of this child,
because of this five year old child, not just this child,
but in the past. What was it? What did I say,
eight days, we've had five children?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, no, twelve twelve, twenty twenty five, but the past
five days or.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Eight children in five days? What was it? Eight and five? Okay,
See that's ridiculous. I don't retain it because it's it's
just not even comprehensible to me. How how do you
forget your child in blazing hot Ohio weather that we've
(01:38):
had the past couple of weeks now in a car
by themselves five years old? What in your life is
so important that you can get out of that car
and leave your child And I don't even know if
(01:59):
the mother at this point is clean. I forgot the
child was back there or I have no idea what
the defense to this is, but I don't care because
there is none. There is none A two one nine,
eight eighty six. Back to your calls, Rochelle, you are
on six to ten dou wutvn TEX.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Thanks for taking my call. I'll try to be quick.
And this is wonderful that you are covering this topic
because this is just happening too often. But now I
would like to think that I would never this is
something of which I would never be capable because I've
got so much OCB. And I'm a control freak, so
I don't think hopefully or hopefully I would never do this.
But these poor people, and I know it's terrible, it's
(02:43):
terrible what happened. Okay, there was a lady remember her
in Cincinnati, the school teacher. They have tried to look
at why these things happen. That woman in Cincinnati. It
happened with her child. She had changed her pattern in
the morning, she was excited because she was buying the
staff members donuts. She unfortunately changed her pattern and when
she did that, for some reason, how she left her
(03:05):
baby in the parking lot. There was also the guy
who worked at NASA who also did the same thing.
A man at NASA, so this guy's smart. It can
happen to anyone. And I think part of it is
these poor parents, the pressures under which they're working every day.
I think they just get distracted. It is no excuse.
And the other one thing I want to add, those
(03:27):
poor people for the rest of their lives. I heard
one story the poor little girl that was in the car.
There were scratch smarks all over her neck were the
poor thing when it was getting hot. She was trying
to call her clothes off, you know, reflectively. So those
poor parents, they're going to have to live for those
(03:47):
thoughts forever. And obviously I don't think they do it
on purpose, obviously, but and it's sad, but I just
think they they need to do more study about this.
Their brains get focused, they're obsessed with something else, and
I think that's what makes them forget that their child
is in the back. And it's so sad. But not
any single person is perfect. I think this could happen
to almost anyone. And I know these other people are like, oh, murder. Whatever.
(04:11):
Those people the thing with which they had to deal
with the rest of their life, they're already going to
be in their own you know, misery.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
No, Rochelle, I got to tell you, I can guarantee you,
absolutely beyond the shadow. If Jesus were standing in the
room with me, I can guarantee you it would never
happen to me. Guaranteed. Why I can never I could
never ever my children, my grand I created them. How
(04:38):
could I forget where they are? I don't even want
my grandson at the park without checking in with me
to let me know where you are. And he's almost
six feet tall. I to have created life and forget
life in the back seat of your car. I don't
comprehend that I can't pick make sure any day being
(05:01):
so messed up, any pattern so changed, that I would
ever forget something like that in my car, A precious
life that I made. I just I can't grasp it.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Well, you're very lucky that you, you know, know that
you would never do that, and I again, I hopefully
I would never do that, But you just you have
to think of some of these people are full A
younger who knows. Maybe they're running late to work, they
don't get a lot of sleep, something's on their mind.
Maybe they think they're going to lose their job and
they're obsessing, and they just rush out of their car
and use the poor baby in there. It is it's
it's terrible, and it's a terrible death for the child.
(05:36):
It's just it's awful. But you know, I wish, I
just wish it didn't happen. But thank you for doing
this show so that we can get the word out
to remind people, you know, And yeah, put your shoe
back there so you don't forget about your child. Put
your briefcase back there so you don't forget. So thank
you to that.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You're awesome, You've got a kind heart, Rochelle. I appreciate
your call. Eight two one ninety eight six eight two
one WTV. And we're not an agreement on that, but
you know what, that's what I'm a It's what I'm want, debate, discussion,
disagreement with respect. Everybody's entitled to their thoughts, to their opinions.
I'm not going to tell you. You know, I'm not one
of those people like, yeah, R get off my phone.
I don't do that, but I just I can't. And
(06:14):
you know, you bring up young parents. I think honestly youth.
Youth is a problem, not because you're young, but because
of what we have allowed our young people to become.
They face it. These these are not girls turning into
women who walk twenty blocks to downtown Columbus to pay
(06:35):
a phone bill with paper in the sole of their
shoe because they couldn't afford new shoes, but that bill
had to be paid. We are not the great American pioneers.
This is why you know, you got to have signs
of distracted driving and turn around and don't drown and
don't text and dry when we were kids. Man, Dad
had us on the road. He's yelling to the backseat,
(06:56):
you kids, don't make me turn this part while he's
in the radio, while he's got a map open on
the dashboard. He wasn't running into stuff. But we are
incompetent today. We don't know how the young people just
the multitasking is beyond them. Don't ask them to do
two things at once. And we, the old folks, have
(07:19):
allowed this. We have coddled to the point where, man,
we're just each generation comes, it seems like they are
more and more incompetent. You love them, they're yours. But man,
the parenting, the educational system. My nineteen year old about
(07:40):
a year ago, Now, what do you mean endorse the check? Huh? Didn't?
Is there no home backed business class? Nothing in school? Really,
what do I mean endorse a check? It's crazy?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I definitely think money management and college. If you're going
to go to college, how loans work for that should
be a mandatory at least one semester of that. When
you're in high school.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And colleges have gone to you know, here's what to
think as opposed to here's how to think the analytical
ability of young people going by the wayside in favor
of programming young peoples. As Rochelle just pointed out, the
one guy worked at NASA. You don't get much more
college educated than working at NASA. Doesn't make you smart.
(08:33):
It means you got a degree. But I've met some
really stupid people with degrees too. I've also met people
who dropped out in eighth grade and were probably smarter
than most of the people in my zip code. I've
said that about my dad. One of the reasons. One
of the reasons I idolized Charlie, this man until I
(08:53):
think he was in seventh grade. He went to school
in a one room schoolhouse in southern Ohio. When he
got to the teen years, he went to Jackson High School,
so it was a bigger school, but he was in
a little Colton, Ohio. They're claim to fame is the
birthplace of Governor Jim Rhodes. One room was right next
(09:15):
door to my grandmother's house. And Dad died smarter than
I will ever be. Knowledge and education meant something back then.
Now it's just a formality. I got to get through
this so I can get that piece of paper. We
don't hold kids to the standards. I've shared my youngest son,
(09:41):
my youngest son, who is I just the way I
feel about him. In fact, his birthday's coming up this weekend,
and it's breaking my heart because we're not on the
same page in life right now. But he did the
online schooling for a while. He didn't want to be
in school, so he's doing it online.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And in tenth grade, he took the Ohio graduation test
because they make you take it in tenth, eleventh, and
twelfth until you pass it. He took it in tenth grade.
He passed all parts of it in tenth grade. And
he asked me, So, Dad, why do I have to
keep going to school? I just passed the test the
state requires to show that I should graduate. Why should
I continue to go to school? If I've shown them
(10:21):
I I meet their standards.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's a tough one answer.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Brilliant question from a fifteen year old kid. Yeah, or fourteen,
I guess he was at that time. Brilliant question, you
pass the test, why do you have to keep doing this?
Because it was all about just just the formalities. It
wasn't about education, It was just the formalities. A two
on WTV and is my number, Mike, you are on
six to ten WTV.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
And high Hey, how you doing. I got a little
quick comment here. At a glance, I could not stand
them ever forgetting my child or my grandchild. I mean,
I'm all the time looking back in the back and
make sure they're not choking on or anything. I'm all
the time just checking on them. But when I opened
(11:06):
my mind up a little bit, I'm sure there's circumstances like,
let's I'm gonna throw one at you. Uh, the dad
drops the kid off one day, the mom drops the
kid off one day. Let's say it's dad taking the kid,
supposed to be taking care of the kid, gets distracted,
(11:27):
has his radio on, and it's thinking about the high
stress situation he's dealing with at work, and just thinks
moms took the kid. I mean, things can't happen, you know.
I mean each case is gonna have to be looked
at closely, Like, you know, are you in charge of
(11:48):
the kid every day all day? Or where was you?
Was you going to the bar? Was you drunk or
on drugs? I mean a whole bunch of factors. To me,
it's unforgivable. I couldn't imagine. But I do know that
in high stress situation like a lot of these young
families are dealing with, they could happen.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
As I told Rochelle Mike, you're more your your softer
hearted than I am. I just again, I go. You
would not believe I don't bring my stress to the airways.
You wouldn't believe the stress of my life. I still
would never forget a kid in the backseat. I can't.
My glasses aren't on. What Sandra, Sandra? Thank you, Sandra,
You're going to wrap us up. You're on sixten ol?
(12:29):
You TVN.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I hear you?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Fine, Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I was thinking about another kind of scenario. I mean,
I could never forgive myself, but I would never do
it because I'm just not that type of person. But
the one person, there's somebody else to think about. How
about the grandparents of that child. They will never ever
(12:58):
ever understand how their own child could do that, and
they also have to live with that burden and that
hurts the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Amen. Amen, you you create them, you raise them, and
then you wonder how the heck could did Did I
not show you how this is done. I know I have.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
I have two daughters and they just love their children
to death and they were such good parents, so I
don't understand it, but I was thinking, gosh, as a grandparent,
you would just absolutely never be able to get over it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And as a grandparent, I completely agree with you.
Chuck Douglas in The Power Hour on six ten wtv
N A two one nine eight eight six my number
eight two one WTVN or eight hundred and sixty ten
DOUBTV and and I'm not sure why, but Fox News
has chosen to tell us what Martina and nevertte a
lod of things about the Idaho shooter.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is it something stupid?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's I mean, there's nothing except for the fact that
she took to her her Twitter account and said, basically,
you know, the country's messed up something like that. What
was it? Our country is messed up. Rest in peace
to the heroes who died and made the killer, uh
not be some hellish or made the killer my gosh,
made the dead killer, not in some hellish place. I
(00:41):
don't know, but that was her post on Twitter. But
she's Martina never she's a she's a tennis player. Why
is that? Even Fox? Come on?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
When did she retire like an eighty A long time ago? Okay,
I was gonna say she's been retired for years.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Mansfield, Ohio was on my mind because of this child,
because of this five year old child, not just this child,
but in the past. What was it? What did I say,
eight days, we've had five children?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, no, twelve twelve, twenty twenty five, but the past
five days or.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Eight children in five days? What was it? Eight and five? Okay,
See that's ridiculous. I don't retain it because it's it's
just not even comprehensible to me. How how do you
forget your child in blazing hot Ohio weather that we've
(01:38):
had the past couple of weeks now in a car
by themselves five years old? What in your life is
so important that you can get out of that car
and leave your child And I don't even know if
(01:59):
the mother at this point is clean. I forgot the
child was back there or I have no idea what
the defense to this is, but I don't care because
there is none. There is none A two one nine,
eight eighty six. Back to your calls, Rochelle, you are
on six to ten dou wutvn TEX.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Thanks for taking my call. I'll try to be quick.
And this is wonderful that you are covering this topic
because this is just happening too often. But now I
would like to think that I would never this is
something of which I would never be capable because I've
got so much OCB. And I'm a control freak, so
I don't think hopefully or hopefully I would never do this.
But these poor people, and I know it's terrible, it's
(02:43):
terrible what happened. Okay, there was a lady remember her
in Cincinnati, the school teacher. They have tried to look
at why these things happen. That woman in Cincinnati. It
happened with her child. She had changed her pattern in
the morning, she was excited because she was buying the
staff members donuts. She unfortunately changed her pattern and when
she did that, for some reason, how she left her
(03:05):
baby in the parking lot. There was also the guy
who worked at NASA who also did the same thing.
A man at NASA, so this guy's smart. It can
happen to anyone. And I think part of it is
these poor parents, the pressures under which they're working every day.
I think they just get distracted. It is no excuse.
And the other one thing I want to add, those
(03:27):
poor people for the rest of their lives. I heard
one story the poor little girl that was in the car.
There were scratch smarks all over her neck were the
poor thing when it was getting hot. She was trying
to call her clothes off, you know, reflectively. So those
poor parents, they're going to have to live for those
(03:47):
thoughts forever. And obviously I don't think they do it
on purpose, obviously, but and it's sad, but I just
think they they need to do more study about this.
Their brains get focused, they're obsessed with something else, and
I think that's what makes them forget that their child
is in the back. And it's so sad. But not
any single person is perfect. I think this could happen
to almost anyone. And I know these other people are like, oh, murder. Whatever.
(04:11):
Those people the thing with which they had to deal
with the rest of their life, they're already going to
be in their own you know, misery.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
No, Rochelle, I got to tell you, I can guarantee you,
absolutely beyond the shadow. If Jesus were standing in the
room with me, I can guarantee you it would never
happen to me. Guaranteed. Why I can never I could
never ever my children, my grand I created them. How
(04:38):
could I forget where they are? I don't even want
my grandson at the park without checking in with me
to let me know where you are. And he's almost
six feet tall. I to have created life and forget
life in the back seat of your car. I don't
comprehend that I can't pick make sure any day being
(05:01):
so messed up, any pattern so changed, that I would
ever forget something like that in my car, A precious
life that I made. I just I can't grasp it.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Well, you're very lucky that you, you know, know that
you would never do that, and I again, I hopefully
I would never do that, But you just you have
to think of some of these people are full A
younger who knows. Maybe they're running late to work, they
don't get a lot of sleep, something's on their mind.
Maybe they think they're going to lose their job and
they're obsessing, and they just rush out of their car
and use the poor baby in there. It is it's
it's terrible, and it's a terrible death for the child.
(05:36):
It's just it's awful. But you know, I wish, I
just wish it didn't happen. But thank you for doing
this show so that we can get the word out
to remind people, you know, And yeah, put your shoe
back there so you don't forget about your child. Put
your briefcase back there so you don't forget. So thank
you to that.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You're awesome, You've got a kind heart, Rochelle. I appreciate
your call. Eight two one ninety eight six eight two
one WTV. And we're not an agreement on that, but
you know what, that's what I'm a It's what I'm want, debate, discussion,
disagreement with respect. Everybody's entitled to their thoughts, to their opinions.
I'm not going to tell you. You know, I'm not one
of those people like, yeah, R get off my phone.
I don't do that, but I just I can't. And
(06:14):
you know, you bring up young parents. I think honestly youth.
Youth is a problem, not because you're young, but because
of what we have allowed our young people to become.
They face it. These these are not girls turning into
women who walk twenty blocks to downtown Columbus to pay
(06:35):
a phone bill with paper in the sole of their
shoe because they couldn't afford new shoes, but that bill
had to be paid. We are not the great American pioneers.
This is why you know, you got to have signs
of distracted driving and turn around and don't drown and
don't text and dry when we were kids. Man, Dad
had us on the road. He's yelling to the backseat,
(06:56):
you kids, don't make me turn this part while he's
in the radio, while he's got a map open on
the dashboard. He wasn't running into stuff. But we are
incompetent today. We don't know how the young people just
the multitasking is beyond them. Don't ask them to do
two things at once. And we, the old folks, have
(07:19):
allowed this. We have coddled to the point where, man,
we're just each generation comes, it seems like they are
more and more incompetent. You love them, they're yours. But man,
the parenting, the educational system. My nineteen year old about
(07:40):
a year ago, Now, what do you mean endorse the check? Huh? Didn't?
Is there no home backed business class? Nothing in school? Really,
what do I mean endorse a check? It's crazy?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I definitely think money management and college. If you're going
to go to college, how loans work for that should
be a mandatory at least one semester of that. When
you're in high school.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And colleges have gone to you know, here's what to
think as opposed to here's how to think the analytical
ability of young people going by the wayside in favor
of programming young peoples. As Rochelle just pointed out, the
one guy worked at NASA. You don't get much more
college educated than working at NASA. Doesn't make you smart.
(08:33):
It means you got a degree. But I've met some
really stupid people with degrees too. I've also met people
who dropped out in eighth grade and were probably smarter
than most of the people in my zip code. I've
said that about my dad. One of the reasons. One
of the reasons I idolized Charlie, this man until I
(08:53):
think he was in seventh grade. He went to school
in a one room schoolhouse in southern Ohio. When he
got to the teen years, he went to Jackson High School,
so it was a bigger school, but he was in
a little Colton, Ohio. They're claim to fame is the
birthplace of Governor Jim Rhodes. One room was right next
(09:15):
door to my grandmother's house. And Dad died smarter than
I will ever be. Knowledge and education meant something back then.
Now it's just a formality. I got to get through
this so I can get that piece of paper. We
don't hold kids to the standards. I've shared my youngest son,
(09:41):
my youngest son, who is I just the way I
feel about him. In fact, his birthday's coming up this weekend,
and it's breaking my heart because we're not on the
same page in life right now. But he did the
online schooling for a while. He didn't want to be
in school, so he's doing it online.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And in tenth grade, he took the Ohio graduation test
because they make you take it in tenth, eleventh, and
twelfth until you pass it. He took it in tenth grade.
He passed all parts of it in tenth grade. And
he asked me, So, Dad, why do I have to
keep going to school? I just passed the test the
state requires to show that I should graduate. Why should
I continue to go to school? If I've shown them
(10:21):
I I meet their standards.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's a tough one answer.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Brilliant question from a fifteen year old kid. Yeah, or fourteen,
I guess he was at that time. Brilliant question, you
pass the test, why do you have to keep doing this?
Because it was all about just just the formalities. It
wasn't about education, It was just the formalities. A two
on WTV and is my number, Mike, you are on
six to ten WTV.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
And high Hey, how you doing. I got a little
quick comment here. At a glance, I could not stand
them ever forgetting my child or my grandchild. I mean,
I'm all the time looking back in the back and
make sure they're not choking on or anything. I'm all
the time just checking on them. But when I opened
(11:06):
my mind up a little bit, I'm sure there's circumstances like,
let's I'm gonna throw one at you. Uh, the dad
drops the kid off one day, the mom drops the
kid off one day. Let's say it's dad taking the kid,
supposed to be taking care of the kid, gets distracted,
(11:27):
has his radio on, and it's thinking about the high
stress situation he's dealing with at work, and just thinks
moms took the kid. I mean, things can't happen, you know.
I mean each case is gonna have to be looked
at closely, Like, you know, are you in charge of
(11:48):
the kid every day all day? Or where was you?
Was you going to the bar? Was you drunk or
on drugs? I mean a whole bunch of factors. To me,
it's unforgivable. I couldn't imagine. But I do know that
in high stress situation like a lot of these young
families are dealing with, they could happen.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
As I told Rochelle Mike, you're more your your softer
hearted than I am. I just again, I go. You
would not believe I don't bring my stress to the airways.
You wouldn't believe the stress of my life. I still
would never forget a kid in the backseat. I can't.
My glasses aren't on. What Sandra, Sandra? Thank you, Sandra,
You're going to wrap us up. You're on sixten ol?
(12:29):
You TVN.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I hear you?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Fine, Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I was thinking about another kind of scenario. I mean,
I could never forgive myself, but I would never do
it because I'm just not that type of person. But
the one person, there's somebody else to think about. How
about the grandparents of that child. They will never ever
(12:58):
ever understand how their own child could do that, and
they also have to live with that burden and that
hurts the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Amen. Amen, you you create them, you raise them, and
then you wonder how the heck could did Did I
not show you how this is done. I know I have.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
I have two daughters and they just love their children
to death and they were such good parents, so I
don't understand it, but I was thinking, gosh, as a grandparent,
you would just absolutely never be able to get over it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And as a grandparent, I completely agree with you.
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