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July 2, 2025 • 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight to one WTVN or eight hundred and six to
ten double UTV in. If you still still use the
toll free, I don't know of anybody who does, just
because everything is you know, most people use cell phones now,
so everything is free around the country. Right, there's no
cell phone company that charges for long distances.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
There no maybe when they first came out, I can't
even imagine.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Well, when they first came out, they charge you by
the minute. I was selling cell phones when they first came.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
In, the big brick ones.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh my gosh, oh boy.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Okay, well I met the first small ones.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
We were getting twenty five hundred dollars for a phone
that weighed eight pounds. You carried it in a bag.
It had about thirty minutes of battery life, and it
had one half what of transmitting power, and you paid
seventy five cents a minute, twenty five cents off peak,
which was seven pm to six am.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
So I was, hey, how's it going. I'll be, I'll be.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
That's all you could do. That's all you could do.
It would cost you a fortune every month because your
bill was like thirty dollars just to have the service.
Then you would pay by the minute, and there was
no such thing as texting back then. It was all calls,
and yeah, it was. It's incredible what people paid for

(01:22):
back then.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
This is like two towers in the country that it
pinged off of.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Or probably, I don't know, probably there weren't a lot
of towers. And on top of the fact there weren't
a lot of towers, it just there was such the
phones like these, these are like three watts of transmission power.
Sure those were one half of one watt. That's crazy,
absolutely crazy. But at the same time, I was also

(01:47):
selling what we called our PC sixty three hundred, which
was a monochrome monitor, Amber monochrome monitor, or you could
get green if you want it. And it was a
four eighty six machine. That's all. It was all it was.
And people were paying three thousand dollars for those. And
now look VCRs came out. It was two thousand dollars

(02:09):
to buy a VCR.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
See I remember my dad's saying when I was a
little baby, they would rent a VCR.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh, yes, I think I would do that.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Buy one. You could rent one.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I would go over to rent a center for like
six dollars a night and rent a VHS player.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, yeah, they were super expensive.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I get.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, man, DVD players with the same way. Flat screens
were the same way. It's funny that all of the
crap that we really don't need has really come down
as far as what it cost you. And all of
the survival things go up. The gas you need to
get to work goes up, the water you need to
bathe yourself and flush goes up. The electricity that keeps

(02:49):
your home light, the natural gas that keeps your home warm,
those all go up. But all of the garbage that
we don't need that comes down.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
My neighbor had a Beta Max.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Wow, I never had a Beta Max.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
You would go to the local videos storre to rent movies.
They had one section that was Beta Max and that
was like eight eight of them, and then that went
away real quick.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
And Beta Max was superior. The video was superior. Hs Yep,
it was just bad marketing. It was bad marketing. Sony
was like Apple back then. Sony exclusively had Beta Max.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I I one of the reasons I read this so
I'm not making it up just to make a joke.
One of the big reasons that VHS took off and
won that wore They used to make adult movies and
only put them on VHS, so that'll do it too.
That pushed it over the edge.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I'm sure that had a lot to do with it.
Plus the VHS people, you know, they took the Microsoft route.
They just made themselves so accessible. Everything was available except
for you know what Sony had control over. And there
was just so much variety out there in VHS that
nobody went with the Beta Max and Beta Max continue
to cost more than the HS until its demise. Quality

(04:05):
it was better what we have now do The DVD players,
I mean, those are those are our most archaic At
this point, people don't really you don't go out and
buy a DVD player. And remember Blu Ray came in.
Yeah that was a big deal and boom it's gone.
Nobody talks about Blu Ray anymore.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
The were starting to buy all physical media though, because
they're starting to re release movies, especially or added it.
So I'm trying to buy a bunch of physical media
just because of that.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Especially the stuff you know they couldn't get it. I
would love to find like an original DVD pressing of
Blazing Saddles, right, because I guarantee you whatever passes for
blazing saddles on streaming services is going to have a
lot of stuff cut out. And that's sad. But we
are we I don't know, we keep going backwards. The
more the more knowledge and freedom we allegedly have, the

(04:54):
more restricted we are on what's available to us. And
I don't don't necessarily care for that either. They're now
we're talking right before the end of his show, and
then I think it was Crumbly or maybe it was
Ugino in the six o'clock news talking about the driver's
ed requirements and that they're adding through the budget. I
take exception to the fact that somehow, some way the

(05:15):
legislature managed to remove the high school drivers at which
we were talking about months ago, which I think is
a brilliant idea to return. There's all kinds of stuff
that schools used to teach. Now stick with me here.
I don't mean, I don't mean shell it you old
over gay, but I know I'm going to I'm gonna

(05:36):
shll it, old old guy when reading writing and arithmetic
or the goal, when we did things like industrial arts
and home economics and drivers at in our schools, people
knew how to balance check books and household budgets. We
didn't have foreclosure crises. If something broken in your house,

(06:00):
you could fix it. If you didn't have a house,
you could build it. We had rightful teams and schools,
and way on back, we had kids take their little
twenty two to school with them and go squirrel hunting afterward,
rabbit hunting. There were no drive by shootings. We have

(06:21):
decayed as people, and the more we progress, allegedly, the
more we have regressed. And I just I wanted. I
want to say this because I know we've got a
few members of the legislature that do listen. We need
I'm not saying I want. I'm saying we need drivers

(06:44):
education back in our state schools. I don't know what
it could. How do you become you had any idea
how to become a member of the board of Education,
the state board of education, I.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Don't know, can you?

Speaker 1 (06:58):
I don't know if it is at the point position
or I have no clue. I've never looked at the
state level before.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't know a local you can run.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
But if we need to, if we need to get
in there and handle that and start putting people on
the board of education at the state level to begin
pushing this stuff, pushing the governor, pushing the legislature. Then
you know, maybe that needs to be a target because
the smarter we allegedly are, the dumber are the things
that we do.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
What was the reasoning for taking it out. I don't
understand taking it out because it just seemed like a
normal thing. I was a kid. Everybody took it.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
It was Bill Young was my classroom teacher, and uh
and we had you know, the chairs that we sat
in the classroom had four buttons. There was like a
little console thing and you had to answer questions. There
were movies and you learn the lessons and then the
movie will go and it would say, now what should
you do? And you had to pick your ABC or

(07:50):
D on your little console thing. That's how you took tests,
and it was to show that you were actually learning
what you were supposed to do. It was, you know,
a semester long, so you had nine weeks of that
in the classroom and then after you were done in
the classroom, you did the next nine weeks out on
the road with with the driving instructor. And Sandy was

(08:12):
our driving instructor. The subcontracting company was American Cities. I
don't know if there's still around or not. She was nuts.
She took us out on ice. It was, you know,
school year, so it was winter. Took us out on
ice at a park in a parking lot and a
park no cars in there, and had us get it
going as quick as we can, and then she would
slam the brake on on her side of the car

(08:33):
and spin the wheel and calmly tell you, now get
out of it.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's that's not a normal tea.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
That was wonderful because I'd.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Say it's great because you can learn, but.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yes, it was very practical because you're going to run
into I just watched the video of an Amazon truck
I think it was, was it KYC one of the
TV stations here in Ohio. The Amazon semi hydro planing
on the freeway. You're going to slide at some point.
Knowing what it feels like and how to act and
react is an important part of driving. And frankly, again

(09:12):
I'm gonna make that an old folks man. I think
once you have passed a certain point in life, or
once you have had a certain number of rex in
a given period, of time that you ought to have
to take driver's tests as well.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yes, I will use an example of my dad who's
he's eighty six now. For the past twenty five years
he's been saying, I think they should make me to
a driver's say yes, cause you don't. Maybe I think
I'm the best driver in the world, and I might
drive off a bridge. I don't know if I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
And you know, bless their hearts. But when I am
trying to get to work it is a forty five
mile an hour road and I only got one lane,
and the person in front of me is eighty six
years old and they're doing twenty five. You're not road
worthy anymore. Bless you. I love you seriously, I mean it.
I hopefully God will allow me to be your age

(10:09):
one day. But impeding the flow of traffic is actually
a ticket of ball offence. And this going twenty and
thirty miles an hour under the speed limit stuff. I'm
seeing that way too often, and it's either old people
or here let me get in trouble again. It's a
bunch of people that came from someplace where there were

(10:30):
no paved roads, and they don't know what the hell
they're doing on our roads, and they are they're making
it very I had the last two days as I
come here. Every day I come down the street, a
residential street, which is a one way street. It empties
on to Broad Street, Okay, which is three lanes eastbound,

(10:51):
three lanes westbound. You can turn left or you can
turn right. The last two days, somebody's been in front
of me in the right hand lane of this one
way street waiting to turn left. I could have turned
and been to the traffic light and turned again a
bit on my way here, but they're waiting to turn
left from the right hand side. Had they gone to

(11:15):
high school, drivers said they would know better than that.
On the way home from here last night, I turned
on the Fisher Road up here and I got let
me turn to remember where this happened. The car was
in the left turn lane approaching I seventy, but then
just kept going through the left turn lane and kept

(11:36):
going straight, and so I, you know, I think I'm
passing a car that's could have turned it, and they
didn't turn they and then then as we continue they
are in a straight lane and in front of me,
and they turned left from the straight lane at the
next intersection. They would not be doing that had they

(11:58):
passed high school semester long driver's head. Members of the legislature,
I call upon you make this happen. This is a
matter of my convenience and your convenience. This is a
matter of public safety. This is a matter of economics

(12:18):
due to insurance costs rising with the more rex we have.
This is a matter of not bringing tragedy to the
people of the state of Ohio by allowing somebody they
love to be severely injured or even killed in a
traffic accident caused by a moron who probably shouldn't have
been on the road in the first place. And I think,
quite frankly, that is worth your legislative time. I mean,

(12:40):
it's not like a lottery or anything, but I think
that's where that represent the people go do something that
handles the business of the people, that helps the people.
Am I asking too much? I don't know. Maybe it's
just me A two one nine eight eight six A
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Speaker 3 (13:00):
Hi, how you doing, huck?

Speaker 1 (13:03):
I don't know, man, I feel kind of grumpy right now.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
That's all right. If you've driven within the city limits,
you have a right to be grumpy.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's getting it is getting really bad. It's not just
anecdotal anymore. This it's getting really bad in this city.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
No, yeah, it's real bad.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
I did, like you, I took my driving courses and
stuff when I was in high school. And you know,
they throve four of us, well three to four of
us in a car with the instructor, you know, after
we did our classroom work, and yeah, we'd learned how
to drive. Either we started out in a in the

(13:44):
parking lot and then worked our way out onto the
road and then onto the freeway. And that's how we learned. Now,
as far as like when I upset a lot of
people when I say this because.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
I drive around the I drive a lot, and it's
like people are getting dumber and dumber and dumber. I'm
a firm believer that you should have to in order
to get your driver's.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
License renewed, you should have to take the test.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yes, every time, Yes, in English?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, that way, there is no I didn't know. Well,
you know, you've had a driver's license for twenty years.
You've had to take you've had to get it renewed
at least five times. You've had to take a driver's
test every time. You know the laws and because to
me people, I mean, how many times are you sitting
light turns dreamed for you and you've got three cars

(14:42):
going the opposite direction? You know they don't stop for
the red light, They just keep going four way stop
sign or stop sign period that people don't care they're
in such a hurry. Well, you know what if you
have if you have points on your license, I'm just

(15:03):
I just believe that in order to get your license
renewed each and every time, you should have to go
take a driving test to come in with a slip
saying you've passed it.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Dave, you know what, I'm not going to tell you
you're out of line on that. I really it might
not at this point because of what we're dealing with.
That might not be a bad idea. I appreciate you. Buddy, Tom,
you are coming up next by the way. Last week,
I'm in Hilliard, get off at the Cemetery Road and
you go, you're going westbound on Cemetery. There's a McDonald's
right there. What is that street? Is that that's not avery,

(15:32):
what is that? But anyway, Uh, there's bag of nails
on one side, McDonald's on the other. So I'm going
down and eventually you come to traffic circles, right the
car in front. I mean, we get to the traffic circle.
Guess what it does. Guess what it does? But stop, stop,
dead stop. It's a traffic circle. You're supposed to go

(15:55):
in a circle. Don't stop. Wait, the guy put his
brig and stopped at the traffic circle. And if I
would have rear ended him, guess whose fault it is.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
It's always the person behinds. You can't really, that's always
an argument.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
You wrote.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
You can't win that one. It's always the person that
hits them from behind.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
You're the idiot coming to a dead stop at the
traffic circle, and it's my fault if I hit you.
Something very wrong about that.
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