Helping each other and the government shutdown

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are the big noon kickoff on Fox this weekend
with Penn State coming to town six ten level the UTV,
it's the best Buckeye coverage. Pregame will start at nine
a m. From TNT equipment. You can be a part
of all the game day stuff, the tradition that we
have here at six ten. Doa UTV and we'll take
it right up to kickoff on Saturday at noon and
at Penn State's gonna come play hard. Just so you know,

(00:21):
I know a lot of people think, oh, they're terrible
or share we're gonna walk all over them. No, no,
we're not. We'll win the buck. Guys will beat Penn State,
but it shall be no walk in the park. Let
me just say that right here, right now, right straight
to your face. Whatever happened to Penn State because they
were ranked highly and however they lost the games and
their coach and all that they have talent, Yes, and

(00:43):
that's they're no joke. So it's not going to be
a fifty six oh game. And let's not forget their
defensive coordinator was our defensive coordinator and helped us get
a championship right before he left, so he's he's going
to have something right. Yeah, he'll have everything on the
table that he can possibly put on the table to
try to keep our offense from doing what they've been doing.

(01:06):
I don't know what their offense can do against our
defense because our defense is amazing. But yeah, he's they're
gonna play as tough. They really will. Got a couple
of emails over the past week or so from people
who are running for various things, and I wanted to
address that with you real quick. They were asking, you know, hey,
can I get on with you because I think you

(01:28):
know the people the voters need. No, you can't because,
first of all, because you waited too long. Okay, I'm
just I'm telling you straight out, you waited too long.
I have three nights a week, one hour a night
that I get in here and get to do this.
That is not enough time for me to invite your
competitor on. And I generally do that because I believe

(01:50):
in trying to make people wear both sides of whatever
issue or stories out there. You know, I try to
be fair no matter what my opinion is. I try
to be when it comes to the actually covering things
and having guests on the air. So there's not enough
time to put it together, and frankly, there's just not

(02:10):
enough show during the course of the week with Buckeye
season going on for me to be able to do
that as it should be done. I love getting candidates
in here. I love it, especially especially when we don't
necessarily agree on things. Most of the time those candidates
do not accept the invitation. But it's just for those

(02:31):
that did email me over the past week, I just
it's not possible. Can't be done. Okay. A couple of
restaurants I wanted to mention here. Channel six profiled them
on their website, and I wanted to just kind of mention.
First of all, up at Polaris Chicken Salad Chick. You
ever been that chicken salad chick at Polari's Never even

(02:52):
heard of it. It's a franchise store. Jen Cinchfield, Crinefield,
I'm sorry, Crinchfield, She says. Her restaurant's offering free meals
for kids over the next few weeks if they need
to with this government shut down for people that are
facing you know, the snap benefits being non existent and
so forth, and at least trying to help people feed

(03:13):
their kids, which I think is a beautiful thing down
in Hacking County at the feed is the name of
the place, Tristan Tristan Rowley says, they get people in
there all the time asking for help, and she knows
there's going to be more with this going on. And
she was just telling them over there at Channel six
that you know, somebody comes in here and they're hungry

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and they don't have the means to buy meals. She's
going to be feeding them anyway. This is what I
like about garbage is because sometimes some people in some places,
in some situations, can turn that garbage into art. And
I believe that when we are faced with the darkness
and the bad things, we have an opportunity to be

(03:59):
our best as you human beings. And so when I
saw that story, it made me very very happy because,
you know, first of all, because they're doing that, and
secondly because the folks over at ABC six chose to
give them a little pub for it. We need to
talk more about that kind of thing and those kind
of people, because not everything is rape, robbery, violence and

(04:22):
political corruption. Sometimes there's actually good stuff happening out there.
I'll be over because Friday, I'm working. I'm filling in
for Mike on Columbus Morning News Friday morning, so I
won't be on with Blazer, but that's going to free
me up. In the afternoon, I'll probably be over at Crossroads,
the ugly little church down there at the Bottoms that
I'm always talking about on Facebook, for their free food Friday,

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and I have a feeling the turnout this week is
going to be amazing. I mean, they have people, hundreds
of people every weekend, Fridays and Saturdays that show up
there and get groceries for their families, and it's a
beautiful thing. It's a depressing and it's a beautiful thing.
At the same time, I'm glad that they are there

(05:04):
doing the work. Okay, it's all volunteer, there's no nobody
getting paid for doing this. I'm glad that they are there.
I'm glad that the businesses, the organizations that donate the
food are still doing that. That's a wonderful thing. Mount
Carmel Hospital brings meals down there, and Panera bread and

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I think Whole Foods is still doing it. And Kroger
was donating stuff, a bunch of it and they lay out,
you know, beautiful food. It's not just you know, potato
chips and sandwiches. It's groceries produce and you know, meats
and desserts and so forth, and people turn out there,

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and I'm glad that they are there to do it.
On the other end, I'm sad that those people are
there every week, hundreds of people coming in there every week.
Even in the best of times, they still there are
hundreds of people down there, and they are one of
many organizations around central Ohio that do that. And it
makes me sad that there is that need slash even

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want in the city of Columbus, because some people do
it just because it's easier than going to the store
and buying stuff. Quite frankly, I'm not gonna lie. I
know that. But they're not turned away. You show up.
There's no government forms. You don't have to be a

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food stamp recipient or a SNAP recipient. I guess you're
supposed to call it now. You don't have to be
a SNAP recipient. You don't have to be on any
government program. You show up, they say, Hi, how you doing.
What's your name? Name's John Smith. How many people in
the family are feeding me? My wife and two kids?
All right? John you're on the list, and then at

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four point thirty on Friday afternoon, they start going through
the list and they call you, and you start going
through the line and getting stuff. And I have a
feeling that list is going to be much longer this week,
So I want to get down there to UH if
nothing else, help carry stuff out. As the tables are empty,
then we need to replenish, and that will probably be

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the you know, for the foreseeable future, be a necessity
down there. But in your community, if you've got you know,
food banks and and UH and churches and so forth,
consider if you if you can't donate food, if you
don't need the food, but you just want to make

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a difference, maybe just go down help carry some boxes
or something like that. Because the people who do this
kind of thing, who try to serve their fellow man,
they're going to work their butts off until this is resolved.
I'm not joking. They are going to They're they're going
to have a lot of people calling on them for

(08:00):
their services. And if you can carry out, you know,
a box of canned vegetables instead of having the sixty
eight year old lady do it, go on down there
and help out. Nothing wrong with that. We all have
to give back in one way, shape or form. So
I know what I'm doing, and uh, maybe you can

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find a place where you want to do it over
the course of this week, in the next couple of weeks,
until the government gets their crap straightened down. I'm hoping,
I'm hoping it won't be much longer. And I believe
that people out there, even those that they are assuming
are too stupid to understand it. I think even they're
coming to the realization, Wait a minute, why because you

(08:44):
people want to fight over you know, illegal aliens, healthcare?
Why are Americans going without their groceries this month? Why
are government employees going without their paychecks? Even they're starting
to ask the question, now, what was passed? What was

(09:05):
passed before? Thirteen times before? For Chuck Schumer as a
matter of fact, he's voted, he's voted thirteen times in
the past for what they call this, this continuing resolution,
this clean bill to fund all the essential government services.
But the Congressional Democrats are choosing to die on this hill,

(09:27):
if you will, because they want one point three trillion dollars.
And I don't know if you heard the list or not.
But I mean, it's not just about illegal aliens in
the United States getting healthcare. It's hundreds of thousands, if
not millions of dollars to fund things like LGBT projects
in other countries and stuff like that. And the Republicans

(09:51):
are saying, no, we're not putting that in this budget.
This is to keep America going. We'll sit down, we
can talk about each one of those, each one at
a time and argue it out, but we're not including
it in here. What you're saying, Democrats is you won't
allow us to pay government employees, or fund snap or
fund women, Infants and Children program until we give you

(10:12):
your one point three trillion for the LGBT theater in
Sali Arabia or whatever it is. I think the people
in general are starting to catch on to that. I
hope so, because ultimately it's the people in general that

(10:33):
are going to have to hold these people accountable. You
are going to have to get on the phone and
get on the email and let your representatives, your senators know,
cut the crap and fund our government. You would be
surprised how responsive they will be if you turn out

(10:56):
in numbers, because they'll say you know, one phone called
or office represents one hundred and seventy seven constituents in
the district or something like that. So if they get
five hundred phone calls from people in the district, that
represents a few thousand voters. That gets their attention.