Life Goals and pitbulls

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Greeting salutations. Welcome my friends to another edition of the
Power Hour on six ten WTV, and I'm Chuck Douglass.
You know who you are. We take it from there.
We get one hour together, which means I talk really
fast and you listen even faster. The number eight two
one nine eight eight six eight two one WTV and
or eight hundred and six to ten WTV. And we
actually have four hours together today. I mean I consider

(00:26):
the three hours before this together more or less. And
I was just telling Zach, attitude is everything, you guys.
First of all, the calls were awesome. The guest Harry
trump Bite is awesome. If you if you did not
hear that, make sure you go to the six ten
WTV and pull up the Blazer podcast and listen to
that first hour. FBI agent or former retired now special agent.

(00:49):
Harry trump Bite has a new book coming out and
it just sounds interesting as all get out. But between
shows here Zach and I were both walking out of here,
walk through the newsroom, walk down the hall. I said,
see this is attitude, man. I've always seriously, I'm not joking,
I'm always in pain. Okay, the sciatic nerve thing the
lower back and the left leg always hurting. But after

(01:14):
three hours with you guys and having what I consider
to be a pretty dog gone good show, I the
adrenaline was just so high. I was walking like I
was twenty five. It was pretty awesome. And I even
asked Zach, I'm like, am I walking as well as
I think I will? He said, yeah, you are, that's great.

(01:36):
I just I don't know. Attitude is everything? Is your attitude? Okay,
I mean you got to spend another hour with me.
You're gonna be all right with that.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I mean, I get to be here and do this. Yes,
this is what I've always wanted to do in my life.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Really seriously, be on the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, be on the radio, be in radio.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Why didn't you do it earlier?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
People don't always foresee their dreams and things happen.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay, So I'm just I was curious. I didn't start
until I was twenty six because I tried to be normal.
I went to college for a while, worked for AT
and T, worked for the club's dispatch. I had normal jobs,
try to be a normal guy living a normal life.
And then finally, at twenty six, I said, you know what,
I'm gonna do what I've always wanted to do, and
uh yeah, I probably if i'd have started ten years beforehand,

(02:22):
who knows.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah No. I for a second there
I was like, man, I've fort like I waited too
long before it. And then I was like, nah, there's
no reason to sit here and worry about what happened
and what I didn't do. Like, yeah, I want to
do something, just do it now.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
It's a shame. Seriously, it's a shame. We can't live longer.
And by longer, I mean like two hundred years, right,
and not because there's more. There's so much stuff I
want to do, so many things I want to do,
and there's just you could only fit, you know, cram
so much into to eighty years or whatever. You get. Yeah,
that it's kind of sad. I would still I'd still

(03:00):
kind of like to go to law school. Oh he'd
be a good lawyer. I think I would. And I
have reconciled all those problems I had as a youngster
when I said, you know, I could not at eighteen
years of age, I could not go pre law because
I knew that I would do criminal law and I
knew that I would be good at doing criminal law,
and I did not want to be responsible for putting
bad guys back on the street. So you would be

(03:24):
a defense I'd be. I'd be a defense lawyer. Yes, Yes,
that's that's where the glory is, man, that's where the
challenge is. Yeah. And I would have to have been
a criminal lawyer. And it was the eighties, so you know,
LA law was big on TV at the time, and
and everybody going to capital for pre law. They all

(03:46):
wanted to be corporate lawyers. I'm not a paper pusher.
I'm more of the Perry Mason Matt Locke type, investigating
and fighting that one flaw in the store. Sorry that
gets my client to walk out of that court room.
That's what I'd have to do. Yeah, And it occurred

(04:07):
to me that I would be doing it for people
who were probably guilty of heinous things, and I just
I could not at eighteen years of age, could not
allow myself to do it. Now that I'm old, I
see things a different way. And like most lawyers will
tell you, you are entitled to the best defense you
can afford, and I would be very unaffordable, but still

(04:34):
I would be very good at doing the job, and
if I could go to law school, I probably would
do that. Now. Teaching is another thing, especially since my
recent work with my old my high school, the West
High School chaired the scholarship committee this year for the
alumni Association, and my time back in the school. And

(04:56):
I'll tell you there's some wonderful stuff happening at West
High School. Doctor Roberts, the Prince to Belo over there.
He is a he's a firework man, and so many
good things are happening there. And it got me fired
up again. And I'm sitting in this school and I'm
talking to students and and we're doing interviews for the
scholarships and everything, and I'm thinking I should have been

(05:16):
a teacher. But we don't get two hundred years. And
that's I guess that's how it's supposed to be. Maybe
one day we will, all right. So this hour I
wanted to I wanted to talk about in fact, is
that is that what our caller is calling about? Or
is he calling about something completely different.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
It's a special caller.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
I know it's a special caller. He's very special. Yes,
he's a special guy. But what is he calling about?
Is he calling about the subject matters, you have something
else for me?

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I think you have to pick up and find out.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh my gosh, seriously, you are so lazy. All right,
let's go to the phones. Here, boots, what's up?

Speaker 3 (05:55):
It is about your subject matter? I'm driving to Philadelphia.
Listen to you on iHeart. So here's the I talked
to the infamous Joe Day today and you know what
he said?

Speaker 1 (06:03):
What did he say?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
He said, you can hear me? Yep, all right, Joe
Day said ten years ago, twenty years ago, if I
would have listened to you and Chuck Douglas almost every
day of the week, I'd have said you were crazy
because you were two awesome guys to work with and
great car guys. So who knows what's our career past
want to go? I never dreamed of.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Being radio, Yeah, I never. I never wanted really to
do anything else. This, this is my twelve year old
dream was to be on the air. And yeah, the car,
the car sales thing was between radio jobs. And our
dearly beloved and late Kelly John was my neighbor and

(06:42):
he said, well, if you need something, I can hook
you up over here at the auto mall. And so
that's why I end up selling cars. It was kind
of crazy because I was selling and across the street
at the Hundai dealership, Susie Wad was over there, so
right right, it was kind of it was kind of
odd we both end up doing that at the same time.
But you know, when it came down to it, they

(07:06):
they came after me again and the phone started ringing,
and the wonderful Vollone my boss. After Yeah, after getting
half a dozen phone calls from a radio general manager,
he called me into the office. He goes, Okay, CHUCKI
what's it about. Why are you getting all these calls?
I said, it's a radio station. Here's what they want
me to do. Here's what they're offering me. He goes,
it's what you love, right, I said, yeah. He goes,

(07:27):
you'd be a damn fool say yes and go.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
And why here's some funny about Johnny Blone.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Kyleen's one of my producers, and I was there when
him and his lovely wife brought Kyleen home from the hospital.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
You are kidding me, Oh my gosh, I'm gonna have
to come in. Is she up there at the Germaine
place with you?

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Sometimes I mean, she fills in when my other two
guys can't make it. She'll be there in two weeks
filling in. She's been with me now for sixteen years,
helping the producer shows.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
I might have to wake up in time for Auto
Smart so I can come up there and see her.
I've not seen her since I think she was eleven
the last time I saw her.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Oh yeah, she's ice taker to chuck e cheese that's old.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Or get Yeah, well, you be careful on your way
to the City of Brotherly Love, and then get the
hell out of there as quick as you can, because
there's not much love down there anymore.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Oh no, I'm going to suburban. If you see the
house I'm going to, I'm delivering a sixty seven Chavelle
SS three ninety six for cruising classics. It's not six
figure cars sold.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, all right, Well, if you get your hands on
a seventy one version of that, I'll give you my address.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
There you go, I already own it.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Good to talk to you, buddy, Take care eight two
one ninety eight six eight two one WTV in and
and then Boots talking about that, you know, essentially uh
uh purpose there and honestly, Yeah, I think it was.
This is what I was cut out for. It's what
I always wanted to do. And uh, like Zach just said,

(08:54):
I'm doing this for a living. Of course I can
do some more of it. That's That's exactly how I
get a chance to feel every day. And I'm I
am so blessed beyond belief. I know it sounds corny,
but I love you guys. I really do you make
this possible. If you turned off your radios every time

(09:16):
I turned on a microphone, I would not be here.
Because you seem to enjoy it and want to participate.
I get a chance to do what I love, so
God bless you. And I mean that A two one
night six A two one WTV and Jeff, you're on
sixt WTV.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
God bless you, sir. Let's get AM radio in the cars.
What's going on with this planet?

Speaker 1 (09:39):
They tried to take it out but that failed miserably.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Thank goodness, Yes, sir, I am so glad to have
you on the radio.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, I'm no, really, you guys are the ears and
the eyes of Ohio for sure. I mean, come on,
we don't get to talk on the radio. Anymore. Here
in Mansfield, they have like a blank station, so we
don't get to talk up here. It's a it's a

(10:09):
it's a paid for program. So I'm really happy to
have you down there. And the guy that's the guy
that's at the zoo down there that gets on the radio,
you know, Dave, Dave from the zoo. Yeah, yeah, he
gets on there. And boy man, when he gets on

(10:30):
his box, he's wonderful and I love that guy. Let
me say this. We have a really bad country, a
bad country, and the fact that we're corrupt. We've got
corrupt judges, we've got crupped cops, we got corrupt people,
and we don't think uh sweet stuff anymore. We don't

(10:53):
talk about things that make your neighbor wonderful, that make
your family wonderful. And I want to say this, and
I'm going to shout out to this country and we
say listen, you got to love your mother, your father,
your country, or it's all gone. I mean, it's all gone.

(11:15):
This is about freedom. And freedom doesn't mean just going
crazy about being crazy, and I mean you just can't
do anything you want because freedom has restraints. But we
have to have love in this country or We're going
to die and this country is going to die if

(11:37):
we don't have people like you to get us on
the air and talk about what's going on with the world.
And you are it.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Thank you, Jeff. I appreciate you saying it. I appreciate
you being out there listening. As I said earlier, you
make it possible. Guys, guys and ladies like you make
it possible for us to be here doing what we
do and end up I can't be more sincere with
my appreciation. I got Steve standing by and room for
you too. I want to talk to those pit bulls

(12:08):
by the way, you know, because Zach Zach wants to exterminate.
I just think we need to sit down and have
a real conversation. After a pit bull was shot, people
were up in arms. The club's police officer shot the
pit bull, the attacking pit bull, the attacking pit bull
that came after a woman and her dog that was
on a leash while the police are sitting there talking

(12:29):
to her, and you hear in the body cam video,
you hear the claws on the ground. Is this pit
bulls racing at them and the officer's yelling at her
to get out of the way. She's trying to protect
her dog, and the officer fired. The pit bull lay
wounded and eventually died, and people are up in arms,

(12:49):
not that this dog was running loose, not that this
dog attacked and jeopardized not only the life of someone's
licensed pet on a leash, but also jeopardize that someone
or upset that the dog laid there and bled to death.
I'm sorry, man, I just I'm not getting our priorities.
I am not getting our priorities. But I think it

(13:10):
is time to have the conversation about licensing, about insurance
requirements for knowing vicious dog breeds. If you're gonna keep
you know, poisonous snakes, you gotta have a license. You
gotta be if you're gonna sell guns, you know, guns
cannot just attack people. Somebody has to do that. There

(13:31):
must be some malfeasans on the part of a human
being for a gun to hurt somebody. A dog can
go off at any time, right, So maybe we need
some rules and some insurance requirements and so forth for
the pit bull ownership. It's it's worth the conversation.