Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chuck Douglas in the Power Hour six ten WTV and
Thursday night edition. I'll be in tomorrow morning doing comas
this morning News and for Mike l eight on six
to ten WUTV in beginning at six am. I'm not
supposed to be here tomorrow afternoon, but I probably will be.
I'm just I'm being honest with you, and the Queen's
probably going, what what I thought? Yeah? But see when
stuff like this happens, you know, this is long term
(00:24):
breaking news. Essentially. Zach was asking me during the top
of the hour break here as we transition between shows,
if you ever got that feeling where something happens and
you're thinking, man, I just wish I had a microphone.
Pretty much every day, pretty much every day, something happens.
And this this goes back to many years ago when
(00:46):
George Bush was in office and we went into Iraq.
What was was it Desert Shield or Desert Storm. I
think Desert Shield was the first one with the shock
and all, and George hw yes and w okay, So
Desert Shield was the first, and then Desert Storm was
(01:06):
the second.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Desert Store Desert Storm was yeah, that was the golf
w that's the first one.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that night I worked for
a music station at that point, and I think it
was about ten o'clock or so at night, and CNN
comes on the air because they used to actually have news,
and uh they said, the United States, Uh, we have
ships that are in the Gulf right now launching missiles
toward Bagdad. And I was like, oh my gosh. And
(01:35):
I was I was, you know, in the business for
what two years, three years or so at that point,
and uh. But I got out of bed and I
was like, I gotta go. This is this is what
we do. And I got to the station, to this
music station, not a news station, not a talk station,
a music station, and half the staff was already there,
(02:00):
and our news director, Tom L. Cicero was there, and
I start pulling copy off of the wire from CNN
and the Associated Press. Tom goes on the air. A
couple of the salespeople were out there making coffee, ordering pizzas.
Nobody called us and said, hey, come in because something's happened.
(02:20):
We just jumped because that was the nature and quite frankly,
the nobility of the broadcasting business before it became a
place that's populated by people with lots of plastic surgery
and the hopes of grandeur where it was it was
just it was about making sure that everybody was informed.
(02:42):
There was a time when in an inclement weather, if
there was a you know, tornadoes, hurricanes, whatever, that that
third class broadcasting license that I used to carry in
my wallet meant that if I needed to be brought in,
they'd send the troopers, they would send the Nash Guard,
whatever it took to get me to the radio station,
(03:06):
because you were that important. One of the reasons we
had this debate a couple of years ago about AM radio.
They tried to remove AM radio from new cars, and
of course my company, iHeartMedia had a blitz out there
trying to get people to contact their congress people and
so forth. Do you know why? Do you know why
it makes sense to keep AM radios in cars? Do
(03:29):
you understand the importance of it. It's got nothing to
do with talk radio. Do you understand why it is important?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Zach?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Do you have any idea why AM is so important
in the vehicle, especially at rural places. If there's an emergency,
it's always used up until now, for AM radio is
a fat radio wave. If you will. Amplitude modulation is
what AM stands for. The wave is big, which is
(04:03):
why if you go under a bridge, a lot of
times you'll lose the AM signal until you come out
of the other because it is so fat that it
can't fit through the hole on the bridge with you.
It can't thread the needle. But when you come out
on the other side, there it is. FM is a
narrow band, and that band can go under the bridge
(04:27):
with you. The difference is it can only go so far.
FM signals travel much less distance than AM signals. You
get yourself a clear night, turn on the radio. Get
you so little AM transistor radio and just move the knob.
I'm talking to old analog knobs. You move them just
(04:50):
just a hair, and you can sit here in central
Ohio and pick up you know, Detroit, Saint Louis, Canada.
You know I used to sit I used to Columbus,
Ohio West Side. I would listen to KMOX out of
Saint Louis at night. Scott Arkin was the guy who
was on and when I wasn't listening to that, I
(05:11):
could listen to WBZ out of Boston. Bob Raleigh was
the late night guy. Up there that I used to
listen to. I've been a radio freak my whole life.
AM travels, So in the event of a natural disaster,
natural emergence, national emergency, something like that, people get in
their cars, they go running, they head for the hills.
They try that AM signal is going to be able
(05:35):
to reach them a lot farther away than an FM signal,
which is why AM is important. And I guess I've
always had an AM type mentality because I've been listening
to this radio station since i was a kid, convinced
that one day I would grow up and I would
(05:56):
be on this station. Dreaming, frankly, one day I would
grow up and I would be the new Bob Connors.
That was a dream as a youngster. I wanted that.
And here I sit in this studio after all these years,
and I was in the studios when they were over
(06:17):
on Dublin Road, and I was in the studios when
they were at forty two East Gay Street. Because I've
always loved it. And one of the reasons I love
it is because that call to duty for people when
you need us, We're supposed to be there. So all
that said, I will likely be in with Blazer tomorrow,
(06:41):
much to his surprise and possibly chagrin. But I just
I can't let this be done until it's done, until
whatever it is is finished, and we have culminated, and
we have answered the question what the hell? Before the
six o'clock hour came in, I was all over social media.
(07:03):
I was on my truth social my Facebook, my Instagram,
and my Twitter because I refused to call it X
and I was looking up all of the Democrats because
it doesn't it make sense to you? Not only does
it make sense they would have used this information to
keep Donald Trump from being elected, but now that Musk
(07:25):
has allegedly put this out there and the blood is
in the water, don't you expect them to take to
their social media platforms and call for the public flogging
of Donald Trump in the town square? Isn't that reasonable?
Don't that assumption is reasonable? And yet nothing, nothing from
(07:50):
the top contributors to the left wing rhetoric, Nothing from
Bernie Sanders or AOC or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer.
I found nothing that doesn't make sense either. None of
this is logical, and even in an illogical way, most
(08:14):
things are logical. There is no beneficial finish to what
I am seeing in front of me right now. No
win for America for her people. This is oddly, very strangely,
(08:39):
confusingly and irritatingly wrong this entire scenario. Or again, maybe
that's just me. The numbers eight two one nine at
eighty six A two one WTV and Jeff is unholding
on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Jeff, Yeah, I think it's interesting that we invented electric
cars that will not allow AM radio signals to get
through the perimeter of the car. And I think that
anybody that has one of those should have a shortwave
radio that's battery powered to go with them all the
time and make sure those batteries are charged. I think
(09:13):
this is a very interesting problem that the government should
stay out of and let the auto industry deal with
as far as AM radio, because am radio, my god.
Without AM radio, I'll tell you what, the Communists and
the Democrats would run the whole planet. What do you think?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, you're differentiating between communist and Democrats at this point,
and I'm not even sure that's necessary. Yeah. The whole
idea of generating that what is it, what do they
call it? That electronic field that blocks AM radio in
the cars.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
There's a name for it, a Tesla field.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Do they call it a Tesla field?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Actually, uh, well, you got me on that one. It's
a it's a box in an electric box that you
can block out electric signals out of. And I can't
it's not maybe it's not a Tesla field, but I
know what it is. I just can't. I can't think
of it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I don't know. I understand there is a way around
that that they chose not to incorporate into the design
of these evs that have been introduced, which that in
itself is kind of interesting. If there's a way around it,
And if AM radio at the time you designed and
build these vehicles was still a consideration, why not build
that protection in there. It doesn't make that Wait.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
A minute, this is this is political. This is political.
Don't think for a second this isn't political as well. Okay,
so you can't have an AM radio in your car.
Where are you going to get conservative talk radio anywhere
else other than if you can stream on the internet.
I think this is political as well as a technological problem.
(10:54):
And they don't want you to have AM radio because
guys like you and me aren't going to call out
the jackasses that are running our government. And there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You may be on this something there too, Jeff. I
appreciate the call, buddy, Thank you. I have never in
my life owned a short wave radio, but it might
be something I think about. I you know, I used
to listen to years ago. I'd listened to to Art
Bell when he was still doing Coast to Coast. I
don't listen to it too much anymore, and like, like
tomorrow morning, I'll be coming in to do the morning show,
(11:27):
so I'll listen to it when I get out. George
Norri is doing it now. Some people go, he's not
Art though, Yeah, and I still like both of them.
George Nory's he's different. I don't dislike him, but I
actually I had him in studio once and interviewed him,
and he he is so guarded of that audience that
(11:51):
you can't you can't even touch upon, you know, maybe
making a crack, a joke, skepticism or anything else. He
seems almost offended by it. I can see that. I
can see that. Yeah, I can see that because I
asked him. That was one of the questions I asked
him you. You hear all kinds of things, spirit world,
outer space, endless holes in the Earth, and so forth.
(12:12):
Have you ever heard something from someone that that, even
after hosting this show night after night, you just found
completely unbelievable And he refused to answer that question. That's
interesting because I do. Man sometimes with the calls he takes,
they go on and on and on and on about nothing. Yeah. Well,
the people, the people who call up and take, like,
(12:34):
you know, three minutes to lead up to the fact
of here's why I'm calling, those are the ones that
always get me and call uh open phones. Also, yeah, yeah,
Chuck Douglas in the Power Hour six ten WTV and
Thursday night edition. I'll be in tomorrow morning doing comas
this morning News and for Mike l eight on six
to ten WUTV in beginning at six am. I'm not
supposed to be here tomorrow afternoon, but I probably will be.
I'm just I'm being honest with you, and the Queen's
probably going, what what I thought? Yeah? But see when
stuff like this happens, you know, this is long term
(00:24):
breaking news. Essentially. Zach was asking me during the top
of the hour break here as we transition between shows,
if you ever got that feeling where something happens and
you're thinking, man, I just wish I had a microphone.
Pretty much every day, pretty much every day, something happens.
And this this goes back to many years ago when
(00:46):
George Bush was in office and we went into Iraq.
What was was it Desert Shield or Desert Storm. I
think Desert Shield was the first one with the shock
and all, and George hw yes and w okay, So
Desert Shield was the first, and then Desert Storm was
(01:06):
the second.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Desert Store Desert Storm was yeah, that was the golf
w that's the first one.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that night I worked for
a music station at that point, and I think it
was about ten o'clock or so at night, and CNN
comes on the air because they used to actually have news,
and uh they said, the United States, Uh, we have
ships that are in the Gulf right now launching missiles
toward Bagdad. And I was like, oh my gosh. And
(01:35):
I was I was, you know, in the business for
what two years, three years or so at that point,
and uh. But I got out of bed and I
was like, I gotta go. This is this is what
we do. And I got to the station, to this
music station, not a news station, not a talk station,
a music station, and half the staff was already there,
(02:00):
and our news director, Tom L. Cicero was there, and
I start pulling copy off of the wire from CNN
and the Associated Press. Tom goes on the air. A
couple of the salespeople were out there making coffee, ordering pizzas.
Nobody called us and said, hey, come in because something's happened.
(02:20):
We just jumped because that was the nature and quite frankly,
the nobility of the broadcasting business before it became a
place that's populated by people with lots of plastic surgery
and the hopes of grandeur where it was it was
just it was about making sure that everybody was informed.
(02:42):
There was a time when in an inclement weather, if
there was a you know, tornadoes, hurricanes, whatever, that that
third class broadcasting license that I used to carry in
my wallet meant that if I needed to be brought in,
they'd send the troopers, they would send the Nash Guard,
whatever it took to get me to the radio station,
(03:06):
because you were that important. One of the reasons we
had this debate a couple of years ago about AM radio.
They tried to remove AM radio from new cars, and
of course my company, iHeartMedia had a blitz out there
trying to get people to contact their congress people and
so forth. Do you know why? Do you know why
it makes sense to keep AM radios in cars? Do
(03:29):
you understand the importance of it. It's got nothing to
do with talk radio. Do you understand why it is important?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Zach?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Do you have any idea why AM is so important
in the vehicle, especially at rural places. If there's an emergency,
it's always used up until now, for AM radio is
a fat radio wave. If you will. Amplitude modulation is
what AM stands for. The wave is big, which is
(04:03):
why if you go under a bridge, a lot of
times you'll lose the AM signal until you come out
of the other because it is so fat that it
can't fit through the hole on the bridge with you.
It can't thread the needle. But when you come out
on the other side, there it is. FM is a
narrow band, and that band can go under the bridge
(04:27):
with you. The difference is it can only go so far.
FM signals travel much less distance than AM signals. You
get yourself a clear night, turn on the radio. Get
you so little AM transistor radio and just move the knob.
I'm talking to old analog knobs. You move them just
(04:50):
just a hair, and you can sit here in central
Ohio and pick up you know, Detroit, Saint Louis, Canada.
You know I used to sit I used to Columbus,
Ohio West Side. I would listen to KMOX out of
Saint Louis at night. Scott Arkin was the guy who
was on and when I wasn't listening to that, I
(05:11):
could listen to WBZ out of Boston. Bob Raleigh was
the late night guy. Up there that I used to
listen to. I've been a radio freak my whole life.
AM travels, So in the event of a natural disaster,
natural emergence, national emergency, something like that, people get in
their cars, they go running, they head for the hills.
They try that AM signal is going to be able
(05:35):
to reach them a lot farther away than an FM signal,
which is why AM is important. And I guess I've
always had an AM type mentality because I've been listening
to this radio station since i was a kid, convinced
that one day I would grow up and I would
(05:56):
be on this station. Dreaming, frankly, one day I would
grow up and I would be the new Bob Connors.
That was a dream as a youngster. I wanted that.
And here I sit in this studio after all these years,
and I was in the studios when they were over
(06:17):
on Dublin Road, and I was in the studios when
they were at forty two East Gay Street. Because I've
always loved it. And one of the reasons I love
it is because that call to duty for people when
you need us, We're supposed to be there. So all
that said, I will likely be in with Blazer tomorrow,
(06:41):
much to his surprise and possibly chagrin. But I just
I can't let this be done until it's done, until
whatever it is is finished, and we have culminated, and
we have answered the question what the hell? Before the
six o'clock hour came in, I was all over social media.
(07:03):
I was on my truth social my Facebook, my Instagram,
and my Twitter because I refused to call it X
and I was looking up all of the Democrats because
it doesn't it make sense to you? Not only does
it make sense they would have used this information to
keep Donald Trump from being elected, but now that Musk
(07:25):
has allegedly put this out there and the blood is
in the water, don't you expect them to take to
their social media platforms and call for the public flogging
of Donald Trump in the town square? Isn't that reasonable?
Don't that assumption is reasonable? And yet nothing, nothing from
(07:50):
the top contributors to the left wing rhetoric, Nothing from
Bernie Sanders or AOC or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer.
I found nothing that doesn't make sense either. None of
this is logical, and even in an illogical way, most
(08:14):
things are logical. There is no beneficial finish to what
I am seeing in front of me right now. No
win for America for her people. This is oddly, very strangely,
(08:39):
confusingly and irritatingly wrong this entire scenario. Or again, maybe
that's just me. The numbers eight two one nine at
eighty six A two one WTV and Jeff is unholding
on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Jeff, Yeah, I think it's interesting that we invented electric
cars that will not allow AM radio signals to get
through the perimeter of the car. And I think that
anybody that has one of those should have a shortwave
radio that's battery powered to go with them all the
time and make sure those batteries are charged. I think
(09:13):
this is a very interesting problem that the government should
stay out of and let the auto industry deal with
as far as AM radio, because am radio, my god.
Without AM radio, I'll tell you what, the Communists and
the Democrats would run the whole planet. What do you think?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, you're differentiating between communist and Democrats at this point,
and I'm not even sure that's necessary. Yeah. The whole
idea of generating that what is it, what do they
call it? That electronic field that blocks AM radio in
the cars.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
There's a name for it, a Tesla field.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Do they call it a Tesla field?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Actually, uh, well, you got me on that one. It's
a it's a box in an electric box that you
can block out electric signals out of. And I can't
it's not maybe it's not a Tesla field, but I
know what it is. I just can't. I can't think
of it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I don't know. I understand there is a way around
that that they chose not to incorporate into the design
of these evs that have been introduced, which that in
itself is kind of interesting. If there's a way around it,
And if AM radio at the time you designed and
build these vehicles was still a consideration, why not build
that protection in there. It doesn't make that Wait.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
A minute, this is this is political. This is political.
Don't think for a second this isn't political as well. Okay,
so you can't have an AM radio in your car.
Where are you going to get conservative talk radio anywhere
else other than if you can stream on the internet.
I think this is political as well as a technological problem.
(10:54):
And they don't want you to have AM radio because
guys like you and me aren't going to call out
the jackasses that are running our government. And there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You may be on this something there too, Jeff. I
appreciate the call, buddy, Thank you. I have never in
my life owned a short wave radio, but it might
be something I think about. I you know, I used
to listen to years ago. I'd listened to to Art
Bell when he was still doing Coast to Coast. I
don't listen to it too much anymore, and like, like
tomorrow morning, I'll be coming in to do the morning show,
(11:27):
so I'll listen to it when I get out. George
Norri is doing it now. Some people go, he's not
Art though, Yeah, and I still like both of them.
George Nory's he's different. I don't dislike him, but I
actually I had him in studio once and interviewed him,
and he he is so guarded of that audience that
(11:51):
you can't you can't even touch upon, you know, maybe
making a crack, a joke, skepticism or anything else. He
seems almost offended by it. I can see that. I
can see that. Yeah, I can see that because I
asked him. That was one of the questions I asked
him you. You hear all kinds of things, spirit world,
outer space, endless holes in the Earth, and so forth.
(12:12):
Have you ever heard something from someone that that, even
after hosting this show night after night, you just found
completely unbelievable And he refused to answer that question. That's
interesting because I do. Man sometimes with the calls he takes,
they go on and on and on and on about nothing. Yeah. Well,
the people, the people who call up and take, like,
(12:34):
you know, three minutes to lead up to the fact
of here's why I'm calling, those are the ones that
always get me and call uh open phones. Also, yeah, yeah,
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.