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August 18, 2025 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jack Douglas in the Power Hour.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is six to ten WTV and my number eight
two one nine eight eight six eight two one WTV
and the city's budget just it has me worried. That's
a lot of money. It's a long commitment for for
you know, potentially outgoing mayor. We've still got a full
year of his plan if this has passed, what council

(00:23):
has passed it, if he does not win in November
of twenty seven, and that's not a likely occurrence, quite frankly,
because Franklin County GOP, it's are they still check and
see a look online, see if they're still open. They
may be close, you know, running unopposed. There's a pretty

(00:43):
good chance he becomes mayor again. But just in the
unlikely event he doesn't, we still have a year a
billion dollars left to.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Spend on his game plan.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Of this budget, eight million dollars being used to improve
these dangerous intersections that are always on the list every
blasted year, the same intersections, it seems, are on the
list or of majority.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I want to know what.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
They're going to do, because I've seen what they do
in the name of traffic calming and safety.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
And it's largely stupid, as.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Was by the way, that ridiculous graffiti bridge.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
That's another Prince reference, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
That ridiculous graffiti bridge over there at seventy and Solvent
Avenue between Franklinton and the Hilltop.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's just stu.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
You're going down there, especially at night, and it's got
these glowing color changing led light tubes and all this
Multicut look like a damn spaceship is landed on the
road in front of you. I have no idea what
that was supposed to accomplish, except to call attention to
the fact that look at everything around this bridge and

(01:57):
notice what crappy condition it's in. That's how the city
spends money. Man doesn't work for me. Maybe I'm just
an old curmudget. I don't know A two nine eight
eight six eight two n WTV and John, you're on
six to ten doua.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
ETVN Hey, Chuck, how you doing?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Grousey, grumpy and gripie, how are you?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'm great, and I'm glad to hear your grumpy, grouchy
and all that good stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
You're great. At least you got the phonetics right.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'm glad to hear that absolutely what I needed from you.
Run Run, run, I.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Don't run from anything, man, I face everything.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
No, run for office.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
No, I don't want to leave the air.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, I don't want you to leave the area either.
You can do both. Apparently, Dumper or Ginster or whatever
the hell you want to call him can do whatever
he wants to do, so I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
You can not as a candidate.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
If I were to announced myself as a candidate for
a public office, I would have to remove myself from
the air until after the election.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
And I don't.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I've got more to accomplish this way than I ever could.
You know, people say, first of all, why don't you
remember of city, your council. Okay, now there's nine people
down there, eight of them going to disagree with everything
I say. So that's pointless. You know, running for mayor
that trust me, that machine. They will spend millions upon
millions of millions of dollars to make sure the Democrats

(03:33):
do not lose that seat. Like a mayor of a
conservative mayor or a Republican mayor with an all Democrat council,
all you're going to get is an uphill battle for
four years. You'll get nothing accomplished. You'll go down in
flames looking like a terrible mayor nil until the county
party can get a slate of people out there to run.

(03:56):
I mean, if there's four council seats coming up, we
need eight people in the primaries. Man, we we've got
to go after and capture a lot of stuff all
at once, because one piece of a time is just
like throwing a piece of steak in a Piranha pool.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Right, I agree, one hundred percent. But also I wanted
to touch base real quick too with the uh the
gentleman that uh, well, the man that walked into the
building and shot everybody up. I'm getting tired of hearing
people saying we think he was, we think he was.

(04:36):
You have no idea what he was thinking. He had
scrambled eggs for brains.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well, come on, Ceenn thought he was possibly a white guy.
I mean, I'm looking at Lenny Kravitz carrying an AR fifteen.
They thought it was a white guy. I don't get it, right.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
I I'm so tired of it. I'm tired. And Columbus
City Schools absolutely get rid of the buses.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
What don't we have schools for?

Speaker 3 (05:03):
There's nothing more than babysitters. The graduation rate is horrible.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well, and kids going to their neighborhood schools. First of all,
it's more convenient for the family because you don't have
to get your kid up to catch a bus an
hour and a half before the school day starts. Because
they're walking down the street to the neighborhood school. I
think they're more productive because they are in their neighborhood
school where they live, where the neighbors know them.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
They say, hey, little belly ride nearby.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
They called, They know who you are, and they will
tell your mama if you're acting like a fool on
the school yard that there's an advantage. There's a social
advantage as well as an economic advantage advantage to having
the kid walk down the street to their school instead
of having to catch a bus in the dark and
crappy weather after crossing a road with a bunch of
traffic to go to a school.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Absolutely, well, Chuck, you keep doing what you do and
you are fantastic and keep doing it.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
I appreciate you, John, thanks very much for the call
A two one nine eight eighty six A two y
W TV.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
And you know I'm not trying to be outrageous. I
don't say stuff to be outrageous.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
I say everything basically to be sensible, because I just
I look at the world around me and I say, you.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Know, this doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
We spend way too much time doing way too many
things that make no sense. When we started the show
to the Blazer Show today, what's the first thing? I
was talking about? The breasticles and what's her face? Yeah,
And the fact that with all of the crap going on,

(06:39):
whether you want to talk about Gaza and Israel, whether
you want to about Ukraine and Pootin, whether you want
to talk about tariffs and Trump and Scotland, whether you
want to talk about people trying to beat the hell
out of each other in the streets of Cincinnati, the shooter.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
In New York City.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
We have real serious stuff that we can actually concentrate on,
talk about and maybe maybe at do something about. But
some actresses, actress in her cleavage. Really that's what's captivating America?

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Or the who was it?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Was it Jessica Simpson I was talking about yesterday. They
were all upset because she apparently she had a little
bladder problem performing on the Today Show and that's news.
We waste our time talking about the most ridiculous things.
I'm not saying everything has to be serious. It's fine
to be a little frivolous with your conversation and have

(07:34):
fun and find smiles perhaps where you don't expect to
find them.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's good, that's wonderful. We need those moments.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
But when we do talk about things that we consider
to be serious or want to be serious, or or
you know, intimate that they are serious, when we're talking
about them and they're stupid things like that, and I
just I don't know, I feel like it's a waste
of life. You do not get life back. There's no
such thing as time. Time is just the way you

(08:03):
measure life. And if you have wasted time, you have
wasted life.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's that simple. I'm such a philosophical formerly fat.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Man eight two one, nine eighty six and Steve, you're
on six to ten dovel the EU TV in height.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Hi Chuck, thank you. H Yeah. I really don't like
much of what they're doing around the roads these days anyway,
except for maybe roundabouse. That's about it. I mean, well,
just a couple of examples, like just today, I'm coming
uh what what is that to seventy west? I believe
coming back by High Street and you used to be

(08:37):
able to get off the High Street and go north there.
They've had that closed off forever.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well, yeah, because the angle of that ramp, every time
it rained hard would flood out, and they had all
kinds of problems down there. But I thought by now
they would have changed the U, they would have changed
the incline a bit so people could get off there,
and they still haven't.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
If you look the ramp is it's it looks like
it's ready to go to me. I don't know. It's
been like that for six months. It seems like I don't.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Know the other side, the other side of two seventy
when you're headed eastbound and you try to get off
on the two seventy north, that needs to be fixed.
That curve is way too sharp and people are way
too stupid, and there's constantly a vehicle flying off of there.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
I would agree with that. I've seen cars over there
throughout my life. You're right, You're right about that. You
know right here in Grove City, right there at Grove
City at two seventy. You remember how you used to
be able to get off and you're going to go
what would be I guess north on sixty two, right,
And so there used to be a continuous ramp. You

(09:41):
didn't have to stop at the light at all. Right,
it was like a merging lane. That was so nice.
And so now you've got to stop at a red
light and it's a no turn on.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Rent And there's absolutely no chance that Turkey Hill and
Sheets paid to have that happen.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
So you had to sit at the light and notice
their stores over there.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
No chance that was right exactly.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Oh, we figured that out a long time ago about
a lot of places around Columbus. They do that everywhere,
but overall there's construction everywhere.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Out of nowhere.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Steve, it was like, okay, no construction, and then boom,
suddenly there's orange barrels and busted up railroad tracks everywhere
I'm going.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
I totally agree. It's kind of annoy Yeah, it really is.
Especially I drive a lot, like you you know, I
drive a whole lot. I drive for a living basically,
you know, I mean, I'm everywhere, so especially in Columbus,
and I just it's just crazy.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
The railroad track thing right now, because I've been graping
about that, and I'm wondering if this does this have
anything to do with this ridiculous notion we're going to
get passenger rail in Ohio. I just all suddenly every
intersection where there's railroad tracks on my beloved West Side
is under construction. They're putting down new railroad ties and
new pavement as it crosses the intersection. And I'm not

(10:54):
sure if that's what it's for or not, but it
just it's odd that it's happening everywhere right now.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
At the same time.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Down there by on Mound Street by three c there,
them tracks were in bad shape. They had they were
popping up everywhere, So I agree with you it could
be because they were trying to push that. I haven't
heard that yet either, so I should know. I'd hear
that from you first.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Well, you know that's how my head works, Steve. I
got to run here, buddy. I got someone another call
from Jim. I want to get down before we say
goodbye for the night. Jim, you were on six WTVN.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Hi, Chuck, you just named the topic I was going
to call about, regarding the traffic calming. I believe that's
basically a strategy by the city to get the voters
to want the light rail system put in.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
You know, that's an interesting concept, Jim, That is an
interesting concept. I hadn't thought about that, but you manipulation.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
Is if you can remember seventy one when they widened
the seven seventy one North some years ago, after the
project was finally done, the city went in and they
narrowed what summit and forth. Yes, the one way streets
in and out of downtown parallel to seventy one. They

(12:18):
narrowed them and calmed the tra traffic.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Man put the bike lanes in and the concrete barrier
between the bike lane and the moving traff in.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
I think the object was to put the traffic back
onto I seventy one, and then it becomes less convenient again,
and they can just say, see, it didn't solve anything.
We need light rail.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Jim Genius called great way to end the show. I
appreciate you
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