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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've got in this building and this here ihearten megaplex
in clubs. We've got lots of different businesses. We are
a tenant in the building, and one of the businesses
we have is a they do CPR training. Do you
know what the name of the place is? By chance?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes, CPR training?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Is that what it's called?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I don't know, but I know they do it right now.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Like once a month they have training over there. And
people walk in and they're all confused about how to
get there, and they try to come up in the
elevator that comes to the radio station. That won't take
them there. And so I'm going down and go to
have my pre show Nicotine, and there's a girl look
at and she's looking lost and can't I said, you're
looking for CPR. She said yes. I said, okay, you
(00:42):
go down here. You go through those double class doors.
Turn to your right, there's stairs. There's also an elevator.
Either way you go to the second floor. As soon
as you get off the elevator or reach the top
of the step, CPR places right there. Okay, thank you.
I go outside. I'm looking back inside the build and
she's like walking in circles like a lost puppy cannot
figure out how to get up there. And then as
(01:02):
I'm outside, there's a woman. She's on the phone, and
I thought she was waiting on an uber driver or something,
but she was waiting on somebody else who was going
to attend the CPR class with her tonight. And she's
explaining to him how to get here, and she keeps going, no,
you're crossing railroad tracks, are you? And so I jumped
in and tried to help and guide the guy in,
and she's the building says twenty three twenty three on it.
(01:25):
It's a big twenty three twenty three. You can't miss it.
And I'm right at those doors and there's an iHeartMedia
sign right outside the door, and she was just having
fits trying to get him in here. So I spent
my little break there between shows giving directions on trying
to get people here.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Did the guy not have GPS? And did the girl
ever find? You know? It sounds like the girl needs GPS.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It's an excellent Yeah, it's an excellent question. I don't
know if he didn't have the GPS or what, but
I'm like, okay, let me help you. And so I
think I got him guided in before I had to
come back in here, and then I was looking at
Marshall's forecast. I'm all depressed over that. Tomorrow tomorrow when
it's it's gonna be cold again. But I gotta go
get stuff out of storage. You got a storage unit,
(02:09):
No I do not. Okay, I got a storage Actually
now I have to because I'm moving stuff from the
old storage unit to a new storage unit which is
closer to home that I can actually get to. And
here's the problem. Okay, the lady who runs the storage
place where I've been paying for storage forever, she's very nice,
she really is. She is a very nice woman. However,
(02:30):
they've got this one tenant in there who apparently thinks
he owns the place. And every time I go in
and attempt to get to my storage unit to put
stuff in or take stuff out. We want holiday decorations,
want summers or whatever, I can never get to it
because he's got four hundred and seventy five thousand vehicles
that are all parked out there and constantly blocking getting
(02:52):
And she's, you know, just as nice as well. If
you tell me when you're going to be coming, I'll
let him no. See, this is I'm paying full freight.
You expect me to pay every I should not have
to call you to call another guy to get his
crap out of the way so I can get to
my storage unit. This is why I have to go elsewhere.
As nice as you are, this is ridiculously inconvenient. Well,
(03:14):
I don't want to pay for December for a story
uit that I can't use. I told her to get
it out by the end of the week. And Thursday's
really my only day because Friday is busy, and saturday's
the toy drive and I'm just so tomorrow I'm gonna
be freezing my mind. But it took us off out
there getting so Zach. If you're not busy, feel free
just say it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
What time I'm busy.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, I figure I have to do.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
If you need help, just let Mark know.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, I'll let Mark know and he'll tell somebody about it.
So anyway, that's yeah, that's where my brain is right now.
Before I even get into the school, somebody's on the
phone about the school. So let's get him on here. Doug.
You're on six ten up of the e TV, and
we you get thinking.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I got a questions right, what year? What year did
you graduate from West High School?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The year nineteen hundred and eighty three.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Okay, I was in the class of sixty seven when
you had when you had.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Your dude, you're ancient, you're old? How could you even talk?
Does your jaw work?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Did you have?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Did you have your graduation at the school or where
did you have it?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
We had our graduation at Veterans Memorial?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Who paid the bill for it? Did your parents have
to get deep down.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
In their pockets to come up with case? I don't
believe so public school is paying for it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I think the schools paid for it because we didn't.
We didn't have to pay for it.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
In nineteen sixty seven, we had our graduation at the high.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
School, right, I remember I had a sister in that class.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Don't you think they would turn around and that would
be one of their cuts that put the graduations back
in the high school. Well, plus we had the graduation
was in the school, and then they had a church
program thing in the auditorium the Sunday before we graduated.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I'm sure it's costing a pretty penny to rent out
the Ohio Theater, which is where they the last graduation
I went to was at the Ohio Theater, and they
just cycle the schools through, like you know, West High
School will be at ten am, and the East High
School will be at eleven thirty am, and South High
School will be at two o'clock. They just cycle them through.
(05:18):
And it was quite frankly one of the least enjoyable
experiences of the last decade for me, because the people
were were just ridiculous that everybody's yacking and talking and
there was no dignity to it whatsoever and uh, completely impersonal,
which I didn't like at all.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
They just they all the money they'd be saving if
they go back to the schools again.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, yeah, I can't disagree with you there. I don't
know how big I know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I remember I remember one year West High School their graduation.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
They had enough people.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They didn't even go inside. They were out at the
old vets. They were up on that balcony up there
on the upper level.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Where he went up.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
That's where they had the graduation.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
And West could probably host, like for all the schools
this side of High Street. West could probably host because
it's the fourth largest auditorium in Franklin County. So the
other schools could. Probably that's not a bad idea. I
don't know how much it'd saved, but it's not a
bad idea at all. I just again, they didn't put it.
They didn't put the kaibash on the bussing. And I've
been saying this since this conversation began. We have to spend,
(06:22):
say fifty million dollars in spending, stop the buses. It's
it's pretty simple. And I said, I'm seeing that would
make my life difficult, but it's practic goal. There is
no need for bussing. In twenty twenty five, the whole
desegregation thing that started it has gone out the window.
(06:46):
It wasn't a fix to begin with. It was a
band aid on a bullet hole, as I have been
saying since I was a kid. And suddenly a member
of Congress has picked up that phrase that Maxine Waters.
I think she's the one that said that. The end.
I'm like, hey, man, that's mine. I've been saying that
for years.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Do you think Maxine Waters coped?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
She probably did. She probably did. She takes her words
from me and her appearance from from the crypt keeper,
and so the uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
What you're talking. She's a very good looking woman.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
She's very good looking, and oh, my gosh, is that
a real person kind of way?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Oh? Is she?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Three hundred and seven? Right, Maxine Waters. If you take
that phonetically, break it down and translate it into the
old Hebrew, it's medusa.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I don't so what necrocomicon book.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It'll come back. She's yeah, so anyway, Yeah. Bussing was
a ridiculous, a ridiculous concept, and it was a stupid
way to fix the alleged racial disparities in City of
Columbus schools back in nineteen seventy eight was it seventy
seven seventy eight when Judge Robert Duncan handed down the
(07:58):
order saying the Columbus City schools were segregated the schools.
The schools were not segregated. Life was segregated neighborhood schools.
If you were in a neighborhood where predominantly white people lived,
the school was going to have a predominantly white student body.
(08:18):
It wasn't about the school being segregated, it was about
the world being segregated, and busing kids in Columbus City
schools did nothing to fix that, And now there's everybody's everywhere.
Nobody you know, is there. I'm trying to think, is
there anything I would call within the city of Columbus proper,
anything that I would call a white neighborhood or a
(08:41):
black neighborhood, or I don't think so. I've grown up
here my whole life. There's nothing at this point that
I would say is one particular race. So the whole
concept is just out the window. And yet we are
spending all this money each and every school day to
(09:05):
run these buses. I was I passed buses the other
day going past my beloved West High School, and there
were three busses sitting out there running because it was cold,
so they want to keep the buses warm. Three buses
sitting out there running. It was like eight minutes before
two o'clock. School lets out at two thirty, so for
thirty two minutes, those buses were going to run before
(09:27):
the kids even got out, burning fuel. You're paying for
the fuel. You're paying for the driver's salary or benefits
if they're full time drivers. You're paying for the wear
and tear on the buses, the regular routine maintenance on
the buses, replacement of headlights and tail lights, and you know,
oil changes and such. You're paying for tires on the buses.
(09:48):
I don't know if they pay for insurance or not.
Because you're not over five vehicles, I think it is
you're considered a fleet. You could be self insured, so
I don't know if it's costing them for insurance. However,
I have to assume there's some sort of property damage
insurance just in case somebody breaks into the bus center
and vandalizes the buses or something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Did you just not get to ride the bus as
a school and you're just upset about it?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Oh, I got to take a bus to school in
junior high school. Yeah, when desegregation first started, I had
to take a bus. They hit I was a Hiltonia student,
but they moved me to Westmore as part of the desegregation.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
How long was the bus ride?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
No, it was like fifteen minutes. It wasn't a big deal.
And seriously, Hiltonia and West Moore are about equal distances
from my house where I grew up.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So they just made you, they forced you to go
to one.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So they sent me to wes Moore and put me
on a bus. Yeah, and then they sent me to
West High School, which was sixteen blocks from my house,
which we walked in the morning and until my senior year.
I drove in my senior year, but you know, it
wasn't uphill both ways and all that kind of stuff.
(11:00):
It was just walking to school. West High School was
my high school. That's where I went to school. Why
can't we send kids to school down the street from
where they live and quit spending money on all those buses.
I don't know if anybody from the board is listening.
I don't know if any Maybe they've got people to
listen just to see what they can gripe about tomorrow.
But if a member of the board or or you know,
(11:22):
somebody who works in the superintendent's office, I'd love to
see in accounting exactly between the salaries, the maintenance, the fuel,
the insurance cost, and anything associated with the buses, what
are we spending in the school district out of that
one point seven billion dollars or whatever it is of
our budget, what are we spending each year on buses?
(11:45):
I think it's a reasonable question. I'll never get an
answer to it, but I think it's a reasonable question.
We've got in this building and this here ihearten megaplex
in clubs. We've got lots of different businesses. We are
a tenant in the building, and one of the businesses
we have is a they do CPR training. Do you
know what the name of the place is? By chance?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes, CPR training?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Is that what it's called?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I don't know, but I know they do it right now.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Like once a month they have training over there. And
people walk in and they're all confused about how to
get there, and they try to come up in the
elevator that comes to the radio station. That won't take
them there. And so I'm going down and go to
have my pre show Nicotine, and there's a girl look
at and she's looking lost and can't I said, you're
looking for CPR. She said yes. I said, okay, you
(00:42):
go down here. You go through those double class doors.
Turn to your right, there's stairs. There's also an elevator.
Either way you go to the second floor. As soon
as you get off the elevator or reach the top
of the step, CPR places right there. Okay, thank you.
I go outside. I'm looking back inside the build and
she's like walking in circles like a lost puppy cannot
figure out how to get up there. And then as
(01:02):
I'm outside, there's a woman. She's on the phone, and
I thought she was waiting on an uber driver or something,
but she was waiting on somebody else who was going
to attend the CPR class with her tonight. And she's
explaining to him how to get here, and she keeps going, no,
you're crossing railroad tracks, are you? And so I jumped
in and tried to help and guide the guy in,
and she's the building says twenty three twenty three on it.
(01:25):
It's a big twenty three twenty three. You can't miss it.
And I'm right at those doors and there's an iHeartMedia
sign right outside the door, and she was just having
fits trying to get him in here. So I spent
my little break there between shows giving directions on trying
to get people here.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Did the guy not have GPS? And did the girl
ever find? You know? It sounds like the girl needs GPS.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It's an excellent Yeah, it's an excellent question. I don't
know if he didn't have the GPS or what, but
I'm like, okay, let me help you. And so I
think I got him guided in before I had to
come back in here, and then I was looking at
Marshall's forecast. I'm all depressed over that. Tomorrow tomorrow when
it's it's gonna be cold again. But I gotta go
get stuff out of storage. You got a storage unit,
(02:09):
No I do not. Okay, I got a storage Actually
now I have to because I'm moving stuff from the
old storage unit to a new storage unit which is
closer to home that I can actually get to. And
here's the problem. Okay, the lady who runs the storage
place where I've been paying for storage forever, she's very nice,
she really is. She is a very nice woman. However,
(02:30):
they've got this one tenant in there who apparently thinks
he owns the place. And every time I go in
and attempt to get to my storage unit to put
stuff in or take stuff out. We want holiday decorations,
want summers or whatever, I can never get to it
because he's got four hundred and seventy five thousand vehicles
that are all parked out there and constantly blocking getting
(02:52):
And she's, you know, just as nice as well. If
you tell me when you're going to be coming, I'll
let him no. See, this is I'm paying full freight.
You expect me to pay every I should not have
to call you to call another guy to get his
crap out of the way so I can get to
my storage unit. This is why I have to go elsewhere.
As nice as you are, this is ridiculously inconvenient. Well,
(03:14):
I don't want to pay for December for a story
uit that I can't use. I told her to get
it out by the end of the week. And Thursday's
really my only day because Friday is busy, and saturday's
the toy drive and I'm just so tomorrow I'm gonna
be freezing my mind. But it took us off out
there getting so Zach. If you're not busy, feel free
just say it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
What time I'm busy.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, I figure I have to do.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
If you need help, just let Mark know.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, I'll let Mark know and he'll tell somebody about it.
So anyway, that's yeah, that's where my brain is right now.
Before I even get into the school, somebody's on the
phone about the school. So let's get him on here. Doug.
You're on six ten up of the e TV, and
we you get thinking.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I got a questions right, what year? What year did
you graduate from West High School?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The year nineteen hundred and eighty three.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Okay, I was in the class of sixty seven when
you had when you had.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Your dude, you're ancient, you're old? How could you even talk?
Does your jaw work?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Did you have?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Did you have your graduation at the school or where
did you have it?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
We had our graduation at Veterans Memorial?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Who paid the bill for it? Did your parents have
to get deep down.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
In their pockets to come up with case? I don't
believe so public school is paying for it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I think the schools paid for it because we didn't.
We didn't have to pay for it.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
In nineteen sixty seven, we had our graduation at the high.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
School, right, I remember I had a sister in that class.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Don't you think they would turn around and that would
be one of their cuts that put the graduations back
in the high school. Well, plus we had the graduation
was in the school, and then they had a church
program thing in the auditorium the Sunday before we graduated.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I'm sure it's costing a pretty penny to rent out
the Ohio Theater, which is where they the last graduation
I went to was at the Ohio Theater, and they
just cycle the schools through, like you know, West High
School will be at ten am, and the East High
School will be at eleven thirty am, and South High
School will be at two o'clock. They just cycle them through.
(05:18):
And it was quite frankly one of the least enjoyable
experiences of the last decade for me, because the people
were were just ridiculous that everybody's yacking and talking and
there was no dignity to it whatsoever and uh, completely impersonal,
which I didn't like at all.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
They just they all the money they'd be saving if
they go back to the schools again.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, yeah, I can't disagree with you there. I don't
know how big I know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I remember I remember one year West High School their graduation.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
They had enough people.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They didn't even go inside. They were out at the
old vets. They were up on that balcony up there
on the upper level.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Where he went up.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
That's where they had the graduation.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
And West could probably host, like for all the schools
this side of High Street. West could probably host because
it's the fourth largest auditorium in Franklin County. So the
other schools could. Probably that's not a bad idea. I
don't know how much it'd saved, but it's not a
bad idea at all. I just again, they didn't put it.
They didn't put the kaibash on the bussing. And I've
been saying this since this conversation began. We have to spend,
(06:22):
say fifty million dollars in spending, stop the buses. It's
it's pretty simple. And I said, I'm seeing that would
make my life difficult, but it's practic goal. There is
no need for bussing. In twenty twenty five, the whole
desegregation thing that started it has gone out the window.
(06:46):
It wasn't a fix to begin with. It was a
band aid on a bullet hole, as I have been
saying since I was a kid. And suddenly a member
of Congress has picked up that phrase that Maxine Waters.
I think she's the one that said that. The end.
I'm like, hey, man, that's mine. I've been saying that
for years.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Do you think Maxine Waters coped?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
She probably did. She probably did. She takes her words
from me and her appearance from from the crypt keeper,
and so the uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
What you're talking. She's a very good looking woman.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
She's very good looking, and oh, my gosh, is that
a real person kind of way?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Oh? Is she?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Three hundred and seven? Right, Maxine Waters. If you take
that phonetically, break it down and translate it into the
old Hebrew, it's medusa.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I don't so what necrocomicon book.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It'll come back. She's yeah, so anyway, Yeah. Bussing was
a ridiculous, a ridiculous concept, and it was a stupid
way to fix the alleged racial disparities in City of
Columbus schools back in nineteen seventy eight was it seventy
seven seventy eight when Judge Robert Duncan handed down the
(07:58):
order saying the Columbus City schools were segregated the schools.
The schools were not segregated. Life was segregated neighborhood schools.
If you were in a neighborhood where predominantly white people lived,
the school was going to have a predominantly white student body.
(08:18):
It wasn't about the school being segregated, it was about
the world being segregated, and busing kids in Columbus City
schools did nothing to fix that, And now there's everybody's everywhere.
Nobody you know, is there. I'm trying to think, is
there anything I would call within the city of Columbus proper,
anything that I would call a white neighborhood or a
(08:41):
black neighborhood, or I don't think so. I've grown up
here my whole life. There's nothing at this point that
I would say is one particular race. So the whole
concept is just out the window. And yet we are
spending all this money each and every school day to
(09:05):
run these buses. I was I passed buses the other
day going past my beloved West High School, and there
were three busses sitting out there running because it was cold,
so they want to keep the buses warm. Three buses
sitting out there running. It was like eight minutes before
two o'clock. School lets out at two thirty, so for
thirty two minutes, those buses were going to run before
(09:27):
the kids even got out, burning fuel. You're paying for
the fuel. You're paying for the driver's salary or benefits
if they're full time drivers. You're paying for the wear
and tear on the buses, the regular routine maintenance on
the buses, replacement of headlights and tail lights, and you know,
oil changes and such. You're paying for tires on the buses.
(09:48):
I don't know if they pay for insurance or not.
Because you're not over five vehicles, I think it is
you're considered a fleet. You could be self insured, so
I don't know if it's costing them for insurance. However,
I have to assume there's some sort of property damage
insurance just in case somebody breaks into the bus center
and vandalizes the buses or something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Did you just not get to ride the bus as
a school and you're just upset about it?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Oh, I got to take a bus to school in
junior high school. Yeah, when desegregation first started, I had
to take a bus. They hit I was a Hiltonia student,
but they moved me to Westmore as part of the desegregation.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
How long was the bus ride?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
No, it was like fifteen minutes. It wasn't a big deal.
And seriously, Hiltonia and West Moore are about equal distances
from my house where I grew up.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So they just made you, they forced you to go
to one.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So they sent me to wes Moore and put me
on a bus. Yeah, and then they sent me to
West High School, which was sixteen blocks from my house,
which we walked in the morning and until my senior year.
I drove in my senior year, but you know, it
wasn't uphill both ways and all that kind of stuff.
(11:00):
It was just walking to school. West High School was
my high school. That's where I went to school. Why
can't we send kids to school down the street from
where they live and quit spending money on all those buses.
I don't know if anybody from the board is listening.
I don't know if any Maybe they've got people to
listen just to see what they can gripe about tomorrow.
But if a member of the board or or you know,
(11:22):
somebody who works in the superintendent's office, I'd love to
see in accounting exactly between the salaries, the maintenance, the fuel,
the insurance cost, and anything associated with the buses, what
are we spending in the school district out of that
one point seven billion dollars or whatever it is of
our budget, what are we spending each year on buses?
(11:45):
I think it's a reasonable question. I'll never get an
answer to it, but I think it's a reasonable question.
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