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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Chuck Douglass, you know who you are. We take
it from there.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We get one hour together, which means I talk really
fast and you must listen even faster. My number eight
two one nine, eight eighty six, eight two one dou
wutv in or eight hundred and six to ten dou WUTV.
And so very much on my mind today, including the
parking space thing. We were talking about the handicapped parking
placard for pregnant women in OHI. Yeah, I got a
problem with it anyway, I'll get into that. I got
a tragic story. Really, it's a si it's a trap,
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but it's it's really I mean, it's tragic, but it
got me thinking.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
If I knew this was it, this was the end.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm finished. I'm through, I'm done in this situation. I
think I'd have a little fun with it, and I
just I want to see if I'm twisted or maybe
somebody out there goes you know what, that's that's actually
a good idea. So I want to talk to you
about that San Francisco judge. I got to talk to
you about this San Francisco judge who is considering releasing
this idiot he was, he was convicted bag he was
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arrested back in twenty twenty. First of all, struck two
women with his car high on the methruck two, killed them,
killed them. And he's been in jail for five years
now and the judge is considering letting him out on
early release. By the way, he's a ninety one time felon.
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This is what's wrong with.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Everybody but me A two one nine eighty six my number.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Let's get into the the bill that Blazer was talking about.
This what they want to do is give a temporary
handicap parking permit to the pregnant women. First of all,
I call byes because it's twenty twenty five, and if
I want to be a pregnant woman, I could be
a pregnant woman. Really, who's gonna tell me I'm not.
Who's gonna tell me if I'm a pregnant woman. If
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that's how I identify, then I want the placard. Secondly,
instead of five dollars like everybody else pays for their
handicap placard, it cost eight dollars for the pregnant woman.
So it's a money grab. What are you discriminating against
because it's a woman, or because it's a pregnant person
or a birth giver as they call them these days,
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Why is it eight dollars for them? I meant only
five dollars for somebody who has the arthritis or you know,
a limb missing or something. Why that doesn't make any
sense to me either. I think it's discriminatory on its surface. Finally,
I'm sick of seeing people abuse those placards. I said
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skipping earlier, but I mean, you know what I mean.
When you see somebody pull it into a parking space
with a handicap placard and.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
They get out and they're just you know.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Walking fine, no problems, zippity as they enter the establishment,
even if they have some sort of handicap.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's obviously not acting up that day.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
They could park a few spaces down so that somebody
who perhaps isn't moving well that day could use the
handicap parking closer to the venue or the store or
whatever it is that you're trying to. By the way,
can I zach check the check the rules. Can I
still say handicap parking because that isn't handicapped?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Isn't that derogatory?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Handy capable parking. That Scott's what I would say. You
have to be on the safe side.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I don't want to be insulting to the handicapped people.
You corrected yourself and said birthing person, which I appreciate.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Person out to call HR on it.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, you know, I want to be fair minded with
this whole thing. But people abuse those things to begin with.
I think that, you know, Look, everybody can be everything,
identify as anything they want to identify all that bs
these days, Why should you need a doctor's excuse? Why
should you be able to violate someone's hip of protections
by insisting that they tell you what's wrong with them
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before you give them that blackcard? Why can't they just
say I need it and you give it to them.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I'm waiting for an answer. There's no answer.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And why charge a pregnant woman more Now, I know
somebody with a business, somebody who deals with the business,
and they've got parking in their parking lot, and they've
got handicapped spaces out there, and they've got somebody who
comes there a.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Lot, a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And he was born he was born back sometime before
the Civil War. He's not the most mobile person in
the world. But he's there all the time. He doesn't
get any special parking. Eric Delbert from LAPD Firearms arranged
nine ninety nine methel Road is the man I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Eric. You know as well as I do, people abuse
those spaces.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Chuckie, you hit a nerve with me today. This is
one of my main pet piece at the store. My office,
as you know, overlooks the handicapped spots, and literally sixty
percent of the people that I see pulling into the
spots every day, I wonder how they got to pass.
I don't know if his grandma's passed or what. And
as you mentioned, we have the gentleman who comes every
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Saturday for the show eighty nine years old and he
parks across the lot and walks in. It is something
that every day you ask for our employeed. I'm like,
oh my goodness, look at this guys.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Does he have a handicap placard?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I asked him about it recently and his words were,
and I'm sure you could hear him say this, Why
do I need one of those? I'm not handy.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
See, that's what I love about that old dude And
he'll get in the car and he turns up the
speakers real allow listen into some hip hop out in
the parking lot. No, it's actually I think Nat King Cole.
But still, you know, he's a lively old gentleman. He's
not necessarily spry, as you said, he's eighty nine years old,
but you know he's served in the military, he's worked
hard his whole life, and he don't want you stinking placard.
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But if he wanted one, it would sure would be
nice for him to be able to park there and
get himself inside instead of seeing people get out with
a placard in their window that obviously are not hurting
in any way.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Chuck, I've actually gone, and it's probably not politically correct,
but we have several individuals in wheelchairs who come to
our store frequently, and I have seen them have the
park lost the parking lot, and I've gone in and
gone up to people I've seen and says, hey, you know,
are you the one in the handicap spile? I have
someone in the wheelchair, you know, would you consider moving?
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I mean, I don't know how they're getting them, but
it is. It's happening all the time. And it seems
to be individuals between twenty and thirty. And it's not
to say that someone between twenty and thirty can't have
some type of handicap or physical ability that that warrants it.
But I tell you there is a lot to have
them who appear to be abusing them.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, and if it's not acting up that day, you know,
say your prayers, be thankful for that, and don't take
up that space when maybe somebody else who is having
a problem that they needs it more than you. Absolutely,
And plus it's it's LVPD firearms. Just come out and say, hey,
get out of that space. I either go shoot to
my little friend.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I will see you soon, buddy, it's been a while.
I miss you.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yes, miss you too.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Check you talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Eight eight one WTV and Chris, you're on six to
n WTV.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
In Chuck, my brother, How you doing.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I am fine as far as I know, but I
try not to ask too many questions.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Actually, well, I got an answer for you. On the
whole handicapped parking, It is no longer called handicapped parking.
It is called mobility challenged.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Can they get that on the sign?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yes, it's on the sign I have a one of
my doctor's offices is up in Upper Arlington and it's
a brand new facility, brand new building, brand new road
around it, and the parking out back it is a
mobility challenged parking.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Now what I don't understand because it doesn't it's not
your regular handicapped parking sign that's there. It's a green
and white sign. And it makes me wonder, Okay, is
this is just something that if a person pulls up,
maybe you should be considered of somebody or or I
don't know. I'm stuck because there isn't even a picture
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of a wheelchair or anything anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'll have to, you know, I'll check into that. It
maybe just be something they're doing there just to try
to be considered of their clientele.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
It's hard to tell. It could be six and one
and a half a dozen of another. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, there are times, and you know, I just I'm
not I'm not a sob story kind of guy, but
I got you know, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I still really don't know, but I'm pretty.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Sure it's got to do with the sciatic nerve on
my back and and my left leg.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Chris sometimes it hurts so bad, I just I want
to tear up. It's terrible.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
But you know, hey, well brother, i'll tell you what.
I'll tell you where I'm at right now. I have
a degenerat disc disease. I have a fifteen count of
fifteen stints in my heart. Oh I'm sitting here in
my car looking at my handicapped placard, and yes, I
do use it. I don't use it all the time,
but when there's situations where it's parking lots full, guess
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we're on parking.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But if you're if you're feeling good that day and
and you don't need the space, okay, See, that's all
I'm asking is if you don't.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
If my backs lined up and I'm feeling you know, froggy,
and hey we get out, we jumped, and.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I'll good you're my kind of guy.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Then yes, sir brother, Hey, families on me heading up
to Michigan here soon again. I'll see if I can stop.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
All right, Chris, I appreciate you, Thank you very much.
Be careful out there. You know, it's again when I
get flair ups, it hurts, It hurts really bad. It
hurts really really bad. But Honestly, unless unless I was
prone to just falling down from the pain, I'm hard hitded,
I probably would never get one of those placards, because
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no matter how bad off I think I am, I'm
sure that there are always people worse off than me
in one way or another. I'm gonna make it wherever
I gotta make it, and that's you know, that's just
how Charlie Son deals with things. But for those people
that you know, may have the same thing and just
don't have that kind of determination or so forth, if
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they had the placard and it was really painting them
that day, that's fine. But if they weren't, if they
took you know, the tail and all the leave whatever
they take, and they were feeling good and didn't need it,
I would hope they'd be decent enough to park two
spaces down so somebody who was really hurting that day
could could get a little bit closer. H two one
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I chucked.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I just wanted to comment, my mom's got one of
those handicapped placards, and my sister uses that work. I mean,
she has the little hip problems every once in a while,
but you know, and and there's not very many handicaps
at work, so I don't really say much to her
about it. But yeah, there's a lot of people use
their mothers or their grandparents placers and parking those handicapped spots.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And that See, that's just wrong, that's wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And I, as I said, I know somebody personally that
they've got a kid that qualifies for handicap parking. They're
not in any way, shape or form handicapped. They could
go climb a mountain, but they even when they're just
by themselves, if they pull into the store, they will
park in that space because they've got their placard. And
that's that's just it's dishonorable. Can you still use that
word dishonorable?
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yes, I would say so. Yes, I'm old school.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I appreciate you married, but thank you. And straighten your
sister out for me, will you, because she's she's she's
being dishonorable. Ed you are on six ten double the
UTV and.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Hi, Hey Chuck man, I love you guys. Man, I
look at you all the time. I drive a truck
for a living, and you guys keep me awake all
the time.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Yeah, I know you graduated West High School. And I'm
going off record here. You graduated West High School?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
What year?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Nineteen eighty three?
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I graduated in nineteen eighty three myself? Really, yes, sir
from West High School?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yes, well, do we know each other?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
We might by seeing you. It's been a while, but
I might.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
I got one other quick question. I tried to get
a hold of you guys a while back when you
talking about these kid boys. Remember mister Grass.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh yes, mister Graf he was. He used to come
to your door if you weren't in school, that true
officer West High School.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
He'd come get you.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Yes, yes he would. Do you think those kid boys
would be doing that back then?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
If?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Oh no, well, I mean not, I mean not back then,
I mean right now, if he was still alive.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Not at all, not at all.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
We I mean, all of society was different back to
we had Graf as the truant officer and Donald Schreil
who was the vice principal. And he didn't he sound
didn't he sound like Burgess Meredith as the penguin and Batman?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You can't get you can't smoke back here, and.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
But you know there was they were president in your life,
and they they would call your parents and don't let
dad here and did something bad because Dad would would
take care of you after the school got done, taking
care of you exactly.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
And you didn't want mister bat to get ahold of
you because I've seen him drib a couple of people
up back in the day. And yeah they back then, yes, yeah,
he wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Innuit that nowadays, No, you wouldn't. But you deserved it
back then, and you know it. That's why you got it.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And I appreciate the smile, buddy, Thanks very much, and
look me up on Facebook via Facebook, print or something,
because if you're a West High Cowboy, you are always welcome.
I got Debbie standing by and room for you too.
If you want to jump in on this handicapped parking subject,
feel free to do so. Eight two one nine eight
six h two one WTV. And also a tragic story.
I mean, somebody lost their life, but it's one of
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those tragic stories. It's so stupid. It made me think
I wonder what I would do in that same position,
and I wonder what you would do in the position
as well. I will share that with you