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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Greeting, salutations, and welcome my friends to another readership at
the Power Hour. I'm Chuck Douglas. You know who you are,
and we take it from there. We get one hour together,
which means I talk really faster and you must listen
even faster. My number eight two one nine eight eighty
six A two one WTVN. My morning began, My morning began.
My morning began with some truly beautiful music. M M.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
All right, hello, what's the crowds?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
His name is Marcus Dixon. He is a senior at
my beloved West High School. I was there this morning
because I had the honor of being chairman of the
scholarship committee for the West High School Alumni Association. And
the presentations were this morning, all the awards that were
handed out and everything to the kids, and it was
absolutely wonderful. Marcus is he's going to Ohio State University,
(02:16):
and I want you to know he's outstanding. They say.
As a member of the West High School football team,
he's alignment there. He also performs the pre game and
during halftime with the marching band while wearing his football uniform.
And he will be attending the Ohio State University as
(02:37):
a music student on a full ride scholarship. Bless his
heart and the crowd reaction. Those were all Racus High
school kids out there sitting in dead silence listening to
the playing of our national anthem. From this young man.
He captured the room. It was a wonderful way to
start all of the awards presentations today. And as I said,
(02:59):
the scholarship commit great, great work and not an easy task,
taking all the applicants, doing interviews with him and narrowing
it down, and we I believe it's an organization the
Alumni Association helped out greatly. I don't want to congratulate
our winners, Elizabeth Andris and Trimble Bartley and Grant Burns
and Alexa Espinos Malarisa. I think it's correct. Martin. We
(03:24):
had it spelled one way, it's pronounced another way. Genesis Morales, Rodriguez,
Lyzethe Padilla, Martinez, Shilin Chante, Roddy and Vanessa Galvin Salinas
all receiving scholarships from the West Athletic or of the
West Alumni Association this morning. And I guess I'm all
excited about this because as a cowboy, as a Westside cowboy,
(03:47):
as I told the kids this morning, after I graduated
in nineteen eighty three, everything just kind of went downhill.
I mean, my absence causes this, I understand, But in
the last couple of years the trajejectory at the school
has changed tremendously. Last week they graduated from Columbus State
(04:10):
for students who won't even graduate high school until next week.
But they did. And that is the most of any
Columbus City school. They've got. The whole technology thing is
just growing there by leaps and bounds. The school pride
is up. Daniel Roberts, doctor Daniel Roberts, is the principal
over there, and if he is Batman, his Robin is
(04:33):
Matthew Eyer, who I believe is official title is secretary.
But those two guys, they've just the school is on fire.
And it was wonderful, with such a positive experience to
see and be a part of all of this today.
Because the we gripe about young people all the time,
and oh my gosh, it's wrong with these kids, and
(04:56):
we gripe about schools, especially Columbus City schools, all all
the time. And here is this one beacon in the
darkness of what we presume to be our daily reality.
And when it comes to our youth and our and
our Columbus schools, this moment in time is just emblazoned
(05:16):
in my mind, and I'm grateful that I got a
chance to be a part of it. And uh, I
just you know, like I did that video from downtown
this weekend, when I was walking around downtown and finding
all these little nooks and crannies and restaurants and shops
and so forth that you don't see when you're driving through.
You don't see what's going on anywhere with anything when
you've got the cruise control set and you're moving through.
(05:38):
And these are two events that have happened to me
in the last two and a half days where the
song that I quoted on Facebook over the weekend is appropriate.
Slow down, you move too fast. We got to slow
down and start looking around because there's a lot of
positive to be seen. And I'm so very proud of
(06:00):
of all of these young people today and and of
MI alma Mater West High School. So I just wanted
to let you guys know. After after a few days
off and laying in enough little bed and eating huf
middle boot, I came out and I got a chance
to start the day that way, and it was wonderful.
You ever get back to your high schools that I'm
assuming you went to high school? Do you ever get
back to your high school? No?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I don't really. It wasn't a big thing. Wasn't a
big thing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Now we'll see you because if you but if you
went back, it would probably inspire people. You've got this,
you know, multimillion dollar long care business, long repair business, schooling.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Now they ask me to come back and do speeches,
but they don't pay me enough. Yeah, why am I
going to drive down there waste my time for like
one hundred grand?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, I'm sure they put you up in the motel
six or something like that.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
They don't even have a motel in the town.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You're kidding me.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
No, no hotel, nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
We'd leave the light on for you.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
There isn't one.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
There ain't no building. Yeah, that's sad.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's time, very tiny town.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You should go back. All the more reason to go back,
just just you know, you never know what your influence
might do for it, and you never know how they
might influence you.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, I don't want to be influenced by that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You need to be influenced by good educated young people. Okay,
so you can go out there and be a responsible
part of society, cast your votes appropriately, and so forth.
Speaking of voting, Speaking of voting, did you see the
numbers from the Franklin County Board of Election regarding our
May election?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I mean, there were so many people.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
They didn't have that many ballots County, oh Castle, There's
just so many people came out to vote.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I'm insulted when we only have like eighteen percent of
the vote in and off year election. Official totals in
Franklin County show that seventy five, eight hundred and seventeen
out of nine hundred seven thousand, six hundred and seventy
four eligible voters actually cast votes. That equals eight point
(07:53):
three five percent. And I'm not going to CHASTI city
won because I was among the ninety one point sixty
five percent that didn't vote. Because, as I said before
the election, it was just it was pointless. You know,
you know the state issue is going to pass, you
(08:15):
know that the you know, the endorsed lefties and Franklin
County are going to win everything. It just there was
no there was no zest, no reason for me to participate,
and I of obviously was not alone in my thought
process issue too, which was the statewide issue reauthorize that program,
(08:36):
which will provide two point five billion dollars for Rhodes
Bridges and other needed local infrastructure over the next decade.
It was renewed and expanded, but I'm not sure how
much and how that expansion is reflected, whether it's millage
or what, which is kind of funny. At the same time,
we're talking about, you know, eliminating the property taxes or
(08:59):
were coming up with a new money to spend. Sorry,
don't get it. Don't get it. Also, what I'm thinking
about the city of columb is that down there at
the the Scioto Mile. You know the Psoto Mile, don't
you said downtown? No, it's about a mile long. They
had a restaurant. They had a restaurant in there. I
(09:22):
was called Milestone two twenty nine. Did you ever eat there?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
No? I never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Milestone right there? What is that town and Marconi? I
think it is.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
You know, way more about this.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Look there once you go past Tilliard towards downtown.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, I'm lost, really lost.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I have to use my GPS.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I never go anywhere, so alrighty, then well.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I love it. I just don't.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I don't just like go down there for no reason
or drive around or whatever. I just stick to my
own little corner of the world.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
This shows you how disconnected I am becoming with the
workings of ninety West Broad Street Club City Council. Nick
Bankston don't even recognize it. I have no idea who
Nick Bankston is. We go way back, way, probably way
back to the late fifties. Nick Bankston sponsoring an ordinance
for the City of Columbus that will lease the facility
that milestone two twenty three or two twenty nine. Nice
(10:17):
facility by the way, right, they're overlooking the water and
lease the facility to get guess what, guess what? Just
think about it, right, got it? Got it to two
food trucks. I'm sorry, is that ghetto? I mean, you've
got a nice facility there over They and the City
(10:40):
of Columbus, I guess, must own it. So they're trying
to get their own tenants and two food trucks.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I mean, are they Is there such a thing as like, uh,
fine dining food trucks?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I don't think so. Otherwise they be called restaurants.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Okay, I was just trying to figure out a way
what two food trucks would take.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I don't know of anybody that ever ate there when
it was Milestone that I can think of, and so
apparently that's probably one of the reasons they closed. They
weren't as big of a draw as perhaps they could
have been and should have been. So okay, let's put
some other dining in there, but two food trucks.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Do they know what the food trucks are going to be?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I have no idea. I have no idea if this.
I don't think the ordnance can be specific to the
food trucks because then you'd be favoring a vendor. I
guess they would just have to change whatever zoning change
to put two food truck spaces in there. But it's
just so I hated when they built this thing, okay,
(11:47):
because we needed money for other stuff in the city
of Columbus, and I railed against that. Plus the bridge,
that's stupid bridge with the deer on it. You ever
go through there, and now because you don't have a GPS,
but there's a fake deer stand on the bridge that
looks out over you know, the water when the site
would have some in it and up and because I
(12:07):
mean even when it's at full capacity, it's like fourteen
inches deep. It's not it's not a real river when
it flows through downtown.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's a kit It's a creek.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah it's it's the crick. It's not even a creek.
It's a crick a creek and uh it's But there's
this stupid deer statue thing. I don't know why it's there.
I have no idea what it would have made more
sense to put, you know, a statue of brutus or
something on there, but it's a stupid deer. Anyway. We
spent or authorized twenty million dollars is what they authorized
(12:38):
council to spend on the construction of this new bridge,
and when all was said and done, they actually spent
I think it was sixty two million, but I don't
recall any reauthorization votes for additional funds or anything like.
They just kept moving money around. So I was not
happy that we spent sixty some million on a twenty
million dollar approved bridge, and on the fact that the
(12:59):
kublic just needed other stuff and it's a nice area aesthetically,
I'll tell you, to be honest with you, The last
time I was down there, I did not care for
my surroundings when it came to the human inhabitants. There's
a bunch of little thugs down there, just they were
waiting for something to do, and I knew exactly what
(13:20):
they were doing. I saw what they were doing. I
saw their little girlfriends or little thug what do you
call them, thuggets? That's the proper turn, the little thugets.
They were over on the other side of MARCODI like
a corner of a building, kind of hiding out, watching
their thug boys over there waiting to jump on somebody
or steal a purrs or who knows what they are.
But I said, okay, I'm gonna get the hell out
of here, for I had to hurt somebody. So I
(13:40):
left and I haven't been back since. And it's sad
because it is beautiful. The swings are nice. It's a
nice view over the river. You got Kosai on the
other side of the river. I'm sorry the crick the
swings out there. You can sit with your little sweetie
and sling on the swings and the beautiful flowers. It's nice.
(14:01):
But I need to see some cops walk in the beat,
and and I need to see something other than food
trucks in that food trucks really
Greeting, salutations, and welcome my friends to another readership at
the Power Hour. I'm Chuck Douglas. You know who you are,
and we take it from there. We get one hour together,
which means I talk really faster and you must listen
even faster. My number eight two one nine eight eighty
six A two one WTVN. My morning began, My morning began.
My morning began with some truly beautiful music. M M.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
All right, hello, what's the crowds?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
His name is Marcus Dixon. He is a senior at
my beloved West High School. I was there this morning
because I had the honor of being chairman of the
scholarship committee for the West High School Alumni Association. And
the presentations were this morning, all the awards that were
handed out and everything to the kids, and it was
absolutely wonderful. Marcus is he's going to Ohio State University,
(02:16):
and I want you to know he's outstanding. They say.
As a member of the West High School football team,
he's alignment there. He also performs the pre game and
during halftime with the marching band while wearing his football uniform.
And he will be attending the Ohio State University as
(02:37):
a music student on a full ride scholarship. Bless his
heart and the crowd reaction. Those were all Racus High
school kids out there sitting in dead silence listening to
the playing of our national anthem. From this young man.
He captured the room. It was a wonderful way to
start all of the awards presentations today. And as I said,
(02:59):
the scholarship commit great, great work and not an easy task,
taking all the applicants, doing interviews with him and narrowing
it down, and we I believe it's an organization the
Alumni Association helped out greatly. I don't want to congratulate
our winners, Elizabeth Andris and Trimble Bartley and Grant Burns
and Alexa Espinos Malarisa. I think it's correct. Martin. We
(03:24):
had it spelled one way, it's pronounced another way. Genesis Morales, Rodriguez,
Lyzethe Padilla, Martinez, Shilin Chante, Roddy and Vanessa Galvin Salinas
all receiving scholarships from the West Athletic or of the
West Alumni Association this morning. And I guess I'm all
excited about this because as a cowboy, as a Westside cowboy,
(03:47):
as I told the kids this morning, after I graduated
in nineteen eighty three, everything just kind of went downhill.
I mean, my absence causes this, I understand, But in
the last couple of years the trajejectory at the school
has changed tremendously. Last week they graduated from Columbus State
(04:10):
for students who won't even graduate high school until next week.
But they did. And that is the most of any
Columbus City school. They've got. The whole technology thing is
just growing there by leaps and bounds. The school pride
is up. Daniel Roberts, doctor Daniel Roberts, is the principal
over there, and if he is Batman, his Robin is
(04:33):
Matthew Eyer, who I believe is official title is secretary.
But those two guys, they've just the school is on fire.
And it was wonderful, with such a positive experience to
see and be a part of all of this today.
Because the we gripe about young people all the time,
and oh my gosh, it's wrong with these kids, and
(04:56):
we gripe about schools, especially Columbus City schools, all all
the time. And here is this one beacon in the
darkness of what we presume to be our daily reality.
And when it comes to our youth and our and
our Columbus schools, this moment in time is just emblazoned
(05:16):
in my mind, and I'm grateful that I got a
chance to be a part of it. And uh, I
just you know, like I did that video from downtown
this weekend, when I was walking around downtown and finding
all these little nooks and crannies and restaurants and shops
and so forth that you don't see when you're driving through.
You don't see what's going on anywhere with anything when
you've got the cruise control set and you're moving through.
(05:38):
And these are two events that have happened to me
in the last two and a half days where the
song that I quoted on Facebook over the weekend is appropriate.
Slow down, you move too fast. We got to slow
down and start looking around because there's a lot of
positive to be seen. And I'm so very proud of
(06:00):
of all of these young people today and and of
MI alma Mater West High School. So I just wanted
to let you guys know. After after a few days
off and laying in enough little bed and eating huf
middle boot, I came out and I got a chance
to start the day that way, and it was wonderful.
You ever get back to your high schools that I'm
assuming you went to high school? Do you ever get
back to your high school? No?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I don't really. It wasn't a big thing. Wasn't a
big thing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Now we'll see you because if you but if you
went back, it would probably inspire people. You've got this,
you know, multimillion dollar long care business, long repair business, schooling.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Now they ask me to come back and do speeches,
but they don't pay me enough. Yeah, why am I
going to drive down there waste my time for like
one hundred grand?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, I'm sure they put you up in the motel
six or something like that.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
They don't even have a motel in the town.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You're kidding me.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
No, no hotel, nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
We'd leave the light on for you.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
There isn't one.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
There ain't no building. Yeah, that's sad.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's time, very tiny town.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You should go back. All the more reason to go back,
just just you know, you never know what your influence
might do for it, and you never know how they
might influence you.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, I don't want to be influenced by that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You need to be influenced by good educated young people. Okay,
so you can go out there and be a responsible
part of society, cast your votes appropriately, and so forth.
Speaking of voting, Speaking of voting, did you see the
numbers from the Franklin County Board of Election regarding our
May election?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I mean, there were so many people.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
They didn't have that many ballots County, oh Castle, There's
just so many people came out to vote.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I'm insulted when we only have like eighteen percent of
the vote in and off year election. Official totals in
Franklin County show that seventy five, eight hundred and seventeen
out of nine hundred seven thousand, six hundred and seventy
four eligible voters actually cast votes. That equals eight point
(07:53):
three five percent. And I'm not going to CHASTI city
won because I was among the ninety one point sixty
five percent that didn't vote. Because, as I said before
the election, it was just it was pointless. You know,
you know the state issue is going to pass, you
(08:15):
know that the you know, the endorsed lefties and Franklin
County are going to win everything. It just there was
no there was no zest, no reason for me to participate,
and I of obviously was not alone in my thought
process issue too, which was the statewide issue reauthorize that program,
(08:36):
which will provide two point five billion dollars for Rhodes
Bridges and other needed local infrastructure over the next decade.
It was renewed and expanded, but I'm not sure how
much and how that expansion is reflected, whether it's millage
or what, which is kind of funny. At the same time,
we're talking about, you know, eliminating the property taxes or
(08:59):
were coming up with a new money to spend. Sorry,
don't get it. Don't get it. Also, what I'm thinking
about the city of columb is that down there at
the the Scioto Mile. You know the Psoto Mile, don't
you said downtown? No, it's about a mile long. They
had a restaurant. They had a restaurant in there. I
(09:22):
was called Milestone two twenty nine. Did you ever eat there?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
No? I never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Milestone right there? What is that town and Marconi? I
think it is.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
You know, way more about this.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Look there once you go past Tilliard towards downtown.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, I'm lost, really lost.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I have to use my GPS.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I never go anywhere, so alrighty, then well.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I love it. I just don't.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I don't just like go down there for no reason
or drive around or whatever. I just stick to my
own little corner of the world.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
This shows you how disconnected I am becoming with the
workings of ninety West Broad Street Club City Council. Nick
Bankston don't even recognize it. I have no idea who
Nick Bankston is. We go way back, way, probably way
back to the late fifties. Nick Bankston sponsoring an ordinance
for the City of Columbus that will lease the facility
that milestone two twenty three or two twenty nine. Nice
(10:17):
facility by the way, right, they're overlooking the water and
lease the facility to get guess what, guess what? Just
think about it, right, got it? Got it to two
food trucks. I'm sorry, is that ghetto? I mean, you've
got a nice facility there over They and the City
(10:40):
of Columbus, I guess, must own it. So they're trying
to get their own tenants and two food trucks.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I mean, are they Is there such a thing as like, uh,
fine dining food trucks?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I don't think so. Otherwise they be called restaurants.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Okay, I was just trying to figure out a way
what two food trucks would take.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I don't know of anybody that ever ate there when
it was Milestone that I can think of, and so
apparently that's probably one of the reasons they closed. They
weren't as big of a draw as perhaps they could
have been and should have been. So okay, let's put
some other dining in there, but two food trucks.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Do they know what the food trucks are going to be?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I have no idea. I have no idea if this.
I don't think the ordnance can be specific to the
food trucks because then you'd be favoring a vendor. I
guess they would just have to change whatever zoning change
to put two food truck spaces in there. But it's
just so I hated when they built this thing, okay,
(11:47):
because we needed money for other stuff in the city
of Columbus, and I railed against that. Plus the bridge,
that's stupid bridge with the deer on it. You ever
go through there, and now because you don't have a GPS,
but there's a fake deer stand on the bridge that
looks out over you know, the water when the site
would have some in it and up and because I
(12:07):
mean even when it's at full capacity, it's like fourteen
inches deep. It's not it's not a real river when
it flows through downtown.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's a kit It's a creek.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah it's it's the crick. It's not even a creek.
It's a crick a creek and uh it's But there's
this stupid deer statue thing. I don't know why it's there.
I have no idea what it would have made more
sense to put, you know, a statue of brutus or
something on there, but it's a stupid deer. Anyway. We
spent or authorized twenty million dollars is what they authorized
(12:38):
council to spend on the construction of this new bridge,
and when all was said and done, they actually spent
I think it was sixty two million, but I don't
recall any reauthorization votes for additional funds or anything like.
They just kept moving money around. So I was not
happy that we spent sixty some million on a twenty
million dollar approved bridge, and on the fact that the
(12:59):
kublic just needed other stuff and it's a nice area aesthetically,
I'll tell you, to be honest with you, The last
time I was down there, I did not care for
my surroundings when it came to the human inhabitants. There's
a bunch of little thugs down there, just they were
waiting for something to do, and I knew exactly what
(13:20):
they were doing. I saw what they were doing. I
saw their little girlfriends or little thug what do you
call them, thuggets? That's the proper turn, the little thugets.
They were over on the other side of MARCODI like
a corner of a building, kind of hiding out, watching
their thug boys over there waiting to jump on somebody
or steal a purrs or who knows what they are.
But I said, okay, I'm gonna get the hell out
of here, for I had to hurt somebody. So I
(13:40):
left and I haven't been back since. And it's sad
because it is beautiful. The swings are nice. It's a
nice view over the river. You got Kosai on the
other side of the river. I'm sorry the crick the
swings out there. You can sit with your little sweetie
and sling on the swings and the beautiful flowers. It's nice.
(14:01):
But I need to see some cops walk in the beat,
and and I need to see something other than food
trucks in that food trucks really
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