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June 25, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Greeting salutations. Welcome my friends to another edition of The
Power Hour on six ten WTV, and I'm Chuck Douglass.
You know who you are, and we take it from there.
We get one hour together, which means I talk really
fast and you must listen even faster. My number eight
two one nine, eight eighty six eight two one WTV
in or eight hundred sixty ten dou WTV And Zachary, Okay,
you're pretty mellow over.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
There today, man, I'm always okay.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
There's a whole courtyard full of women down there waiting
on you to get off work.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I did well. They keep ringing the buzzer here and
trying to get me to count. I said, look, I
gotta I gotta help Chuck with the show.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I have advised them that you're off at seven and
they may begin the ravishing at seven oh oh one
in groups of no more than four at a time.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I mean, this is not a new problem for me.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I'm sure that you probably fight them off with a stick.
It's the beard, Yes, that's what it is. It's the
beard and the lack of height, because the head does it.
The shorter you are, the harder they fall. Yes, oh,
my gosh. So so anyway, we've had some rain move.
Mark and I were talking about the I don't get
the weather warnings today because we had the severe thunderstorm

(01:07):
watch in Muskingham or No Licking and Delaware counties to
our east and northeast. Then we had the thunderstorm warnings
in Madison and Clark Counties to our west and farther west.
But it just skipped right over Franklin County. And I
was looking at the security stuff from my house, the cameras,

(01:31):
and it looked like we'd had nothing. The Queen says, yeah,
we got a bit of a sprinkle, that was about it.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's what it seemed like. I got darker here because
of the clouds. I think it rained out there for
a couple of minutes. That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, don Ross, the retirement boss, came in here and
he was saying, coming through Upper Arlington, it was just
a deluge. So this is like very very selective, very spotty.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Just raining in one spot and completely nothing in the other.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Right, but the temperature change is kind of universal. As
the cold front went through, we dropped from ninety six
down to seventy eight right now.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, yeah, because I came in. Well, we come in
about the same time, but it was what ninety two
or something, and I was like, man, it's that heat.
I used to stand outside for very long and then
I went back outside at like four thirty.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
You got a pool.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
It was like twenty degrees lower.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
No, you gotta pull you on a pool. I bought
two by.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Mistake, gain I thought they canceled one.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I thought so too, but when I got home, I
found that he had just taken them all back in
one load. So I have a second pool, which it's
a nice pool. I was actually kids for you. I
was actually lounging today before I came in here, and
it was difficult and frankly, I see, I've never been
in a pool. Well, I was in a pool when
I was like four years old. My dad tried to

(02:42):
teach me to swim. And that was back when Dodge
Park was called Sunshine Park and Dad taught me, or
try to teach me to swim out there. But I've
not been in a pool since. I'm not a pool person.
I've never so we bought this pool basically for the kids.
It's not big, I mean, it's not a little bitty
when it's twelve twelve feet twelve feet and like two

(03:03):
and a half feet deep or something like that. So
we got it all set up and up, and I decided, okay,
let me let me. I'm gonna venture into a pool
for the first time in my life. And uh, and
I didn't want to get out.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Did you can you swim? I'm not trying to know to.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Know, I'm a fat guy. I've always been able to float.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Okay, no, I'm just curious, but.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I've never I've never learned to swim. I now, that
being said, if I was like in a boat and
one of my grandkids or something fell, I trust me,
I'll swim.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I mean you could doggy paddle. At the least.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
I might have a heart attack and die, but that
child would be rescued. But so I'm in there and
it's it's so weird. It was such a weird feeling,
just that weightless outer space floating in the pool thing.
I just I never experienced that before, and once I
got used to it, I did not want to get out.
And it's like the queen goes, you know, it's time

(03:58):
for you to go to work, and I'm like, you
know what, Mark and then I said, no, I like him.
I better go in, but you just call in. It
was I should have done the show live from my
pool here I am. Yeah, so anyway, two pools. I
don't uh, I guess, I don't know. Unless you want it,
I'm gonna send it back.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
No, that's okay, but you get to call it in
on your favorite, your iPhone, and it would have been great.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
My phone. I hate this. Oh my god, I love you. You
came through what I needed a phone, but I find
it so bad. It's it's a plus. I don't know
if I mentioned this or not, but I don't know
if it's like an iOS reset plus. I've got a
missage you hang on here. It tells me that iOS
eighteen point five is available and will be installed leader tonight.

(04:45):
Whether I want it or not doesn't matter. Yeah, we're
installing it tonight. Installed, and I guarantee you all my
passwords will disappear again.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
See. I don't know what happened there, because mine doesn't
do that.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Mine all disappeared. The bank, the the media stuff that
I use, and last night when I was trying to
get back in the building, and even the app that
opens the door here at the Palatial. iHeartMedia states it
wouldn't even open the door because I had to put
in the password. Then I had to re establish the
Bluetooth connection, and I don't know why everything has reset

(05:21):
on this phone. Don't care for that. I can't say
I'm a fan. Oh all right, so what we are
you gonna do? The I'm just looking through the news
to make sure I didn't miss anything. Sammy Kershaw was
talking to Mark about Samy k are you and Sammy Kershaw?
You're not a country music guy, though, say I like

(05:43):
Sammy Kershaw because he came around during that time when
I was making the country transition. And if you're new
to me, I've been in radio for a long long
a long time. Mister Marconi and I we perfected the
off the radio and uh so I was working for
this station and it was called the Mix. A better

(06:06):
mix of music with less talk and less repetition. That's
what we were. So then they sold that station at
the mix became country, so I became country, and instead
of being Chuck Douglas doing mixed midnight request, I became
Big Chuck Douglas because that's a country name. I even
had a jingle Big Chuck Douglas. It was cool and

(06:29):
I got into country music. I actually was enjoying it.
Travis Tritt was coming along, and Garth Brooks was coming along,
and Diamond Rio Yeah, early nineties Diamond Real and Sammy Kershaw,
Brooks and Dunn Well. Sammy Kershaw in the news today
because he apparently was at an airport down in Lowsean
and uh and and hey he had a loaded gun

(06:50):
and his uh and much like Leanne Rhymes and her
teeth falling out. I love the way Sammy Kershaw handled
this because he could have gone to jail, but he did.
He goes. I have written songs about heartache, heartbreak, trucks
breaking down, and dogs died. I've never written a song
about forgetting. There's a gun in my bag.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
There's some new material that's half an album right there.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
I love it, love it. I missed that country era
so much because it was a wonderful bridge between the
old classic country, which my dad loved and I hated.
I've said it before. I you know, I worshiped Dad.
He was he was an inspiration. He was a wonderful
human being, and I hope he raised a good son.

(07:35):
God knows. I hope he raised a good son. But
Dad was into the old Hank Williams senior stuff, you know, blue.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
As kinds, different era and different.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, yeah, that wasn't me so. But I was never
really into Hank Junior too much. I didn't like that
whole rebel drunken thing going on. And we went to
see Hank Junior once when I was working at the
country station. We took a bus of people, bus full
of people, some of them were active, took them down
to the Anutter Center in Dayton to a concert. It

(08:05):
was a listener thing and there was like sixty people.
The opening act was Patty Loveless and she she was
very nice. Enjoyed Patty Loveless. Then second second was Doug Stone.
You remember Doug Stone. Yeah, I thought it was you.

(08:25):
Doug Stone was He was like a little white country
Michael Jackson. He danced on that stage. He put on
a heag of his show. Two weeks later he had
open heart surgery, but that night he was hot. Then
the headliner comes out, ladies and gentlemen, Hank, Where's Junior?
It took him two songs to empty the Nutter Center

(08:46):
out the halfway.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
It was hammered.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
He was so inebriated. The band was playing in four
four times. Hank was in two four time.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Jenk has done that a few times, so did his daddy.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
So the frand lost a live But I decided dude's
eye and the bad band was like, what is he doing? Man?
We got it was terrible.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
He woke up the next day. I didn't even think about.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
It, didn't want. I got a beard, numb rich so
he didn't care. So he but it was. It was
a bad concert, It really was, except for Doug Stone
and Patty Loveless. They were They were wonderful. And Another
Center was a nice place too. It's the only time
I've ever been there, pretty too. So anyway, Uh, that
whole era was wonderful, was quite wonderful. And Brooks and Done.

(09:33):
I was a big Brooks and dun fan. And John Conley.
A lot of people forgotten about John Conley, but he
had one hit It's called Domestic Life. And I was
a you know, a young husband and father at the time,
and so that song it resonated with me because the
language what was, well, I'm living my domestic life, happy

(09:54):
children and a pretty Why uh, how could anybody be
so lucky. Now I'm owing my domistic stick yard lord.
I ohe I sold a master card. I'm like, oh,
my gosh, that is my anthem. So I got into
the oh, just the whole feel of country music.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Right.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
We had just come out of the urban cowboy phase
a few years before that. Urban Cowboy is perhaps the
worst movie ever made about people wearing stetsons.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
It is seated so long, but I know it's first.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Of all, it's John Travolta, for goodness sake.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, did he do Urban Cowboys after Saturday Night Fever?

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Wasn't? Yes, it was Now. The soundtrack was wonderful. Johnny Uh,
what's Johnny? Helped me looking for love and all the
wrong places looking for who was it? H Lee? Johnny Lee,
thank you? And then Gilly and uh Mickey Gilly. Yes,

(11:00):
the soundtrack to Urban Cowboy was wonderful. John Travolta as
an urban cowboy, suburban cowboy, even a Japanese cowboy, is
not convincing. I don't know who decided on that casting,
but it was the worst casting on the planet.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
He's better at disco dancing.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Maybe he at disco dancing. He was fine. That was
fine because he's a New York boy. I understand he
was the Bible reno, but as a cowboy. No, John
Travolta didn't cut it. I was where am I even
going with this?

Speaker 2 (11:31):
John RAULTA filmography. That's what the show's on today?

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Is that what the show is on? John Buzz, No,
the show at first, I gotta get this woman in
LA and well it's a suburb of LA, but she
is a she. I'm incensed with the fact that she
hasn't been arrested yet and she should be vice mayor
or not. She should be a two to one w TV.
And is my number, John, let's get you in before
the break here on six to ten WTV.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, just one. Let's know down here and Grove Tucky. Man,
it was like a hurricane come through here. So we
got nailed with the weather.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Really, it's weird how segmented this is tonight. It's very strange.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Oh, we got nailed. So yeah, it came through Grove
City big time.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Now you closer to are you closer to Broadway or
Buckeye Parkway? Which which part of Grove City are you in?

Speaker 3 (12:22):
I live on Broadway?

Speaker 1 (12:24):
You live on Broadway?

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Sweet on Broadway just south of downtown.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Do dute do do Do do doo. My name is Johnny.
I'm living here on Broadway. I'm glad that you survived it,
but I'm really surprised at how segment of this rainfall
has been this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Oh it's crazy, but yeah, I was calling in about
this crazy person. If you want to call her a woman,
do you know the vice mayor out there?

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah, calling on the street gangs to mobilize.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, basically rise up and uh go against ice and it.
I don't know how, Like you said, I don't know
how she's not in prison already. But you know, again
it's California number one, number two. She is a dam so.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
And she's calling she's calling on known and recognized criminals
to to uh to go after federal employees in the
in the commission of their job, which is ridiculous. She
is a domestic terrorist. She should be charged.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yep, should be But you know, like I said, it's
they get away with murder anymore. But yeah, I just
wanted to say I totally agree to anybody. I'm sure
you're gonna play it, but anybody hasn't heard it. Uh,
she's a lunatic.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
All right, buddy, I appreciate you being out there. I'm
gonna drive down Broadway after the show and I just
blowing my horn waiting to see you wave at me.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Oh you'll see me, man. I'm right across from the church.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Okay, really.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
My real estate office was right across from the church
from twenty and three to twenty eighteen.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, yeah, where.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Holy moly, you were right next door and I didn't
even know
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