Find Your Money and Chess

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm gonna talk about your money. You might even not
know what's your money. I'm not sure. Well, we'll find
out about that. Also, let me just start here with
I wish we and when I say we, I mean
all media. I wish we would just stop reporting on
gas prices for a very practical reason. Honestly, Zaki, I
got any idea, you know what I'm gonna say here,

(00:21):
because you know, I'm kind of off the wall sometime
I don't.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Actually I'm curious.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Because it's never right. It's never going to be right,
because the nature of the beast is those prices change
every day, sometimes several times per day. Now, as we
just heard Allison say in the six o'clock news, gas
prices around Columbus are what down would she say, thirteen
cents or something like that. Then you go to the

(00:47):
WSYX six sighting when you get gas prices rise by
fourteen fo et five cents per gallon in Columbus. It's
so volatile. Now, gripe about it, grouse about it all
you want, because I do that. But when you try
to report accurately, it's it's pretty much impossible to do that.
And you know, you get trophy or somebody from gas
Buddy on with you and they say, well, here's what's

(01:09):
going on, and then the next day that's completely moved
because that's not the case anymore. It's it's uh, I
don't know. It's just especially when it's bad news about
prices going up, it's just kind of a frustration. All
you're doing is giving people another reason to go h
or if you say, hey, gas prices are down, then

(01:30):
they go to the corner and it's up twenty cents
over where it was when they passed the place an
hour ago. There you get them reading, and we need
fewer reasons to go ah, you know what I mean.
Just makes more sense. And you're nodding. It's radio, you're nodding.
My gosh, it just makes more sense to not not
report gas prices, oil all right, Corky oil or you know,

(01:55):
OPEC prices whatever. I guess I can see that because
it's a little more you know, it's a culmination of
a trading day or whatever. But there's just no way
we can keep up with gas prices. Well, I'm thinking
about your money. A couple of things. First of all,
another another story that I saw and I have yet
to read in its entirety on the WSYX site was

(02:17):
the state of Ohio. They say, streamlining streamlining the process
to collect unclaimed funds. Zachary, have you ever done that? No?
Have you never ever known anyone who has no to
claim unclaimed fund You ought to check because a lot
of times, like your mortgage company refunds something from escrow

(02:40):
or I just I just checked mine. I cannot believe
how many unclaimed funds I've got on here.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean, I've I know what it is. I've just
never I've never even.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Car insurances, homeowners insurance, is all kind of my old
five twenty nine program, contributions for one of the kids,
just a whole bunch going back to nineteen ninety six.
I've got probably somewhere between twelve and fifteen that are
on here of unclaim funds. Some of them are you know,

(03:09):
maybe they're a buck. I don't know, but I would
urge you guys seriously to check that. And when I
get off the air tonight, I will post a link
on my Facebook page just in case you don't know
what it is. And uh, you can probably just google
Ohio Unclaimed Funds and go to it. But check that
because it's I can't read that. Whatever you were holding

(03:30):
up to me, by the way, was it something important?
Is it vital? Do I need it?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
No? I'm trying to communicate with you, not on the radio.
Why I didn't want me to talk anymore?

Speaker 1 (03:40):
So? Why who said I don't want you to talk?
Who said I don't want you to talk? I can't
read that.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You were making fun of me earlier.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Hurt my feeling. I make fun of you every day, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
But that's time it really hurts.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh, I'm sorry. Oh did you have a rough weekend?
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
My son's eleven and he beat me at chess over
and all.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I saw a picture of him playing chess. Really is
he that good at eleven years old?

Speaker 2 (04:03):
He's he knows all the moves?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Or are you just stinky at chess?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
I'm just really bad? Like obviously, Like I'm not joking.
He's teaching me because he learned from his I think
his grandpaw and then his uncle taught him how to play.
So he's like, let's play, and I'm like, I got
the basic and he's like, you don't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
It's I got you if you do this well, Professor Atach,
would you like to play a game?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
He just destroys me.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
If he starts speaking with a Russian accent, you have
no chance.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
They're pretty good starts reading complicated literature.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
And I used to have one of those computer ones
where you could play against the computer when I was
a kid, I think, but it is I wasn't bad.
I probably fifty to fifty. But a JC Pitty catalog,
I think it was twenty four ninety five, Wow, and
uh yeah. I had read a book Fred Renfield was
the author called Chess for Amateurs, and started playing chess.

(04:58):
But as I grew older, I found most of my
friends didn't play chess. Nobody played chess in the eighties.
Backgammon was the thing, okay, and so I was one
of those geeks that carried around the leather backgammon briefcase
all the time. I couldn't play it today. If you ask,
I don't. I can't remember how to play, don't remember
anything about it, don't remember any of the rules, don't
remember how you went. I don't remember a squat about backgammon.

(05:22):
But it was an addiction. In the early eighties. Everybody
was playing backgammon and again. I think I got that
from the Pennies catalog, if I'm not mistaken. I did
a lot of Pennies catalog stuff I was a kid
because Mom had it there at the house, so I
would That's how I shopped. There was no such thing
as Amazon back then, and yeah it was. It was

(05:45):
just it was one of those trendy things that lasted
maybe a couple of years. And now I don't know
the last time I've even seen a baggammon board. But
you couldn't get away from it in the early eighties.
So anyway, keep playing with him, maybe you'll learn how
to play better. I think I'd like to play again.
I just don't know anybody that has the patience required

(06:09):
to play chess. People want everything quick, fast, in a
hurry these days, and chess is uh. It's a strategic
game and all the characters, all the pieces on the board,
have their their various ways of movement, and it takes
some understanding, and it just doesn't seem like people are
into it. So I'm very proud to hear that young

(06:30):
Charles is getting into UH. It's getting into it. And
again the uh the State of Ole High website, did
I finish saying I'm going to post that on the
Facebook page when I get off the air, just so
you've got a link to it. I don't know if if,
if you've ever got a bunch of money, because I'm
not expecting a bunch of money. I just have a
bunch of claims on here. But if it inspire me,

(06:54):
I really I like to hear, yeah, I was on air,
it was it was five thousand dollars. I'd love to
hear that. Nine eight six A two one WTV. And
unclaimed funds, which can come from you know, pretty much anywhere.
Any your money gets escrowed. If you don't pick it
up at the real estate company or the lawyer's office
or the insurance company or whatever, they have to put
it in this account with the State of Ohio is

(07:16):
unclaimed and you get to go get it back eventually,
So the timing may be good. A two n w TV.
That's the number. Got Matt standing by with something on chess.
How are you, Matt?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh, I'm good. How are you doing? Chuck?

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Sir?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well, I mean Zach hand inerve with me because he
said that his eleven year old boy is beating him
at chess, and I have eleven year old son, and
we played chess over the weekend and I got him
this time, but he beats me sometime. I mean, we're
kind of neck and neck.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Huh. Maybe maybe we'll have to have a showdown of
the suns here, Zach.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
I again, I can't judge she's good or.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
They're both eleven, so that would be a fair match.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
That's fair, that's fair.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
How long, Matt, how long has your son been playing?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Your boy's probably better. I don't know, a couple of years.
We don't play as often as we'd like, but here
lately he's been like, you know, i'd like to play.
I said, how about once a week? So every weekend
we'll play. We'll play a game. And but the difference is, though,
is kind of to give him an advantage. I don't
want to say, whatever, he's eleven, you know, I'm forty eight.

(08:18):
I'll be forty eight this week. I don't watch YouTube
videos or read any research or anything. I just do
from what I know. And you know what, I don't
say common sense or whatever comes to me. But he's
watched some YouTube videos and he came out with this
opening a few times ago. We played, and I found
out today it's called the Italian Opening, and I guess
there's also a London opening that's very similar, yea. And

(08:41):
he came out with it and just beat me something fierce,
and so I knew that, and then I started seeing
it come out more and I was like, okay, I
got to figure out a defense against this thing. And
this weekend, it was yesterday, actually we had a game
and I saw it coming and I was like trying
to theorize and figure and I defended against it and
we got to It was a really good It was

(09:04):
a really good game. We were both at each other's
throats so were hard. It was like I had two
of his pawns, he had two of my pawns, but
all our power pieces right in the middle of the
of the board, and just I was like, it's a
tipping point. Something's gonna happen and then all of a sudden,
pieces are gonna start flying, you know, off the board.
And I got him, but he made me earn it.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Matt's Son's definitely played longer than Charlie, but Charlie was
taught by somebody who's pretty smart, so I, you know,
I don't.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Know those formula players, the ones who have memorized, you know,
the classic gamuts from from tournaments and so forth. Yeah,
they they are either really really good because they can
adjust to you, or they're really bad because they have
to stick within that formula. Which is why if I
know who that's who I'm up against, I'll throw some
just crazy stuff at him. I will don't say my son,

(09:54):
don't say my son was taught by somebody smarter than
Charlie was, because I taught my son. So oh well,
there goes that theory. Matt. Thanks for the call. I
appreciate you, buddy, and happy birthday, by the way. In
advance later on this week, Chris, you're on six ten
dol etv in Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Hi Chuck. Yeah. I used to play chess with my
dad when I was like fourteen fifteen. I'm sixty six now,
but we were about fifty to fifty on winning the games.
But I remember when I would beat him, he would
get really angry and he would go out in his
he'd get in his sixty eight tempest Pontiac and you
can hear him out the revenue that enjined up real loud.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
All that that cheap gas going out the tail fight.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, and then when he would beat me, I would
just kind of see inside and I wouldn't say anything.
But yeah, I guess we both kind of had a temper.
But him going out in that car revenue and ended
up just pimming it parked in the driveway was still
funny thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, Well, you know, everybody expresses themselves in different ways.
I usually when I lose, if I lose to somebody
I expect to lose to, whether it's chess or anything else.
I'm July okay, I bounce back pretty quickly. If it's
somebody that I thought I should beat, I just I
get very quiet. That's how you can tell you you
got me good. If I shut up and I'm just

(11:10):
quiet about say okay, good game, and we're done.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, that hurt, right, She's wanting to know what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Tell her it was it was all my fault. By Chris,
have a good evening A two one nine eight six
A two one WTV. And I see nobody jumping on
the lines to tell me that they went to the
unclaim funds here in the state of Ohio and got
a bunch of money. I mean, I I'm not expecting
a bunch of money even all these claims. It's probably

(11:40):
gonna amount and would I say twelve to fifteen claims
on there, it's probably twelve to fifteen dollars. Now I
know what Some of it is old uh employee stock stuff,
and uh some of it I recognize. But I'm gonna
I'm gonna sit down probably tomorrow because I'll be tired
when I get home tonight, and act fill this stuff

(12:00):
out and go get it. And Zach, you should too.
You never know and check every zip code you put
in your last name, your first name, your city, and
your zip code, but not just where you live. Now,
if you lived in other zip codes in the state
of Ohio, put them into Because I found that I've
got some at my current zip code, and I've got some,
as I said, all the way back to nineteen ninety six,

(12:23):
and I haven't gone back any farther than that. I
may have some from before then when I was living
at my parents or living at campus or whatever. That's
just I think that's that's good. It's good. I probably
not big good news, but it's good. City of Cambus
is gonna spend some more money. On what they call
affordable housing. I said, what they call affordable housing, and

(12:47):
it's going to call looks like about one hundred million
of your tax dollars. I will tell you about that. Also,
this continual banging of the media drum about Republicans turning
against the per and and organizing resistance efforts in the
face of the tariffs, and blah blah blah blah blah.
I have some thoughts on that still to come here

(13:09):
before we get to the end of the Power Hour. Oh.
I also wanted to say you. Was it on the
air when you were telling me you worked yesterday? No?
You told Blazer you worked it. Did you also work Saturday? No,
just Sunday? Just Sunday?

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Okay, I didn't know because I was going to commend
you for doing a seven day week, but you didn't.
You skipped one in there. You got a day of rest,
and I got a respect for you.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Now, I know, pretty lazy. I slept until seven today. Wow,
I know, the days was almost there.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
It was done. Yeah, didn't you hate old people who
did that when you were a kid? Washtay Man days
half over. It was like six fifteen in the morning.
It sounds like my dad, I'm waiting for that stage
of life. Yeah, because I was like that when I
was young. In the middle you're not so much late,
but when you get so old that you need like

(13:59):
fifteen minutes of sleep and dinner is at three pm. Oh,
I'm looking forward to that.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, where you're you're eating lunch at nine fifteen in the.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Morning, actually from ten to ten twenty two every night. Yea, yeah,
and then I'll back up again. The thing of it is,
once you've reached that stage of life, you also have
a tendency to take naps at the most inopportune times,
you know, red lights and such, and uh, that is
not something that I'm looking forward to, but I just
you know, I I envied my dad being able to

(14:32):
just get up early and he'd go all day and
I think half the time he might have been unconscious,
but he was you know, he's still fixing the car
while he was sleeping, and he got stuff done. You
the time of your life when you could really seriously
use the energy is the time you don't have it.

(14:53):
And I think that's very that's that's kind of God's joke.
It's cosmically unfair right now, I could use who is
that youthful or or you know, soon to be elderly,
energy that requires so very little sleep because I could
get so much done at this stage of my life.
If I could do that, by the time I can

(15:14):
do it again, there will be nothing left to get done.
And that's a sad thing.