May 11, 2025 • 13 mins
Mindy and Boots speak with Beth Johnson from Honor Flight Columbus!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sometimes I wish that people could hear our arguments and
our conversations when we're in commercial break.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Father's Day, I'm getting Randy a big flat bow of
bouquet of flowers.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Okay, that's great. Anyway, you have a best or a
guest in And what's your name, Pam?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is this Pam Johnson? It's Beth Johnson from on her flight?
Truly truly one of my favorite people on the planet.
She works so hard, she's underpaid, overworked, but you know what,
she loves what she does, and that's hard to say
with a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Is that true? Though overworked and underpaid.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
She's paid.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Okay, you think most Americans think that they're overworked and underpaid? Honestly,
do you guys think that's the way it is for
most people?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No, most people don't think. I wait, if they love
what they're doing, If you love what you're doing. When
she loves, I mean when she gets off that plane,
she's lit up like an odd lights Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So for people who are tuning in and don't know
anything about Honor flight or what exactly you do, what
do you do for on a flight that you love
so much?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh my gosh, It is the veterans. The veterans stories.
The veterans just keep bringing us back, like we had
a flight Thursday and we were late and I was tired,
still tired now, but I will keep doing what I'm
doing because it's the vets.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But when you mentioned Honor Flight, let's say someone's listening
for the first time and they have no idea what
is honor flight.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Honor Flight, we're their organization who takes senior veterans to Washington,
d C. To visit the memorials built in their honor.
It's a free, one day trip. It's a long day,
but man, it's so rewarding for the veterans to see
their memorials, see the honor that they are so deserving of,
with grateful Americans coming out and saying thank you for
(01:45):
your service and welcome home.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And start like originally, who thought of this idea veterans?
Because it's very generous.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Oh yeah, Well, in two thousand and four, two thousand
and five, the World War Two memorial open up and
there was a physician assistant in Springfield, Earl Morse, who
was asking his World War Two patients, are you going
to get to go see your memorial. A lot of
them said, no, there's no way I can financially do
it or physically do it. What was put on his
(02:15):
heart to do something about it? In May twenty first,
two thousand and five, coming up on twenty years was
the very first honor flight. He took. Cessna Airplanes loaded
him up with sixteen World War Two vets and that's
how Honor Flight began. When they got back, the applications
started coming in fast and furious, and they said, we
have to do something, and so Springfield.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
O High Springfield Highs started it. There's got to be
other honor flights or something like it in other parts
of the country.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, so it started it. It started in Springfield. Then
Jeff Miller, a dry cleaning executive in Hendersonville, North Carolina,
caught wind of it and said, we need to do
it bigger. He started charter airplanes. So Honor Flight started
with Earl on Her Air started with Jeff, and then
they e merged together to become the Honor Flight Network
(03:04):
in two thousand and six, and then honort Fly like
Columbus was the first hub in the network in two
thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Boots, how did you get involved? I know why you
got involved.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
That's where you know, you know why.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
But Rotary Club years and years ago, Lonnie Lonzo and
I were sitting there in Christi Alonzo, We're at the
same table, and this lady come in and spoke, I
don't remember her name, go figure. And she had every soccer,
every every one of our type of belief like most
mostly patriotic people. Some people in the room were not
(03:34):
paying attention, but it ate at me. It just it
just something about it. And then when I started Auto Smarts,
I wanted to have a good charity. Well I did
a few charities, and I've come to find out that
the money.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Didn't go to the charity. Most of it went to
the executives. And I had a problem with that. I agree.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, then I kept think about keep on an honor flight.
And then I'm trying to remember how who first?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So all Vance Outdoors.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So Vance Outdoors came to me and said, hey, we
don't believe in radio, we don't think it works, but
we do need a car show.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Ten years ago probably, and he goes radio was big. Yeah,
well but they were big on with the new Internet
coming along and all that.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So anyway, so I said look, I promise you my
part of the radio still works. I don't understand the
rest of it, but I will do a car show
and we will fill this up. And I've always wanted
to be a part of Honor Flight. And this is
where the proceeds went. And I think that first year
we wrote a check for maybe forty thousand from April
first to the car show. And then last year, after
(04:38):
ten years, it was one hundred and eighty thousand dollars
wrote the Honor Flight. So we built this together. So
hats off the Vances. And they got me involved. Well,
there was a gentleman. I was one of the They
invited me to be a speaker one night and it
was it was kind of a little over the top.
They had too many Indian chiefs and I can say that,
you can't. And I was looking around and I went
(04:59):
to the guy was her predecessor, and I said, this
needs to chow out. You said, it's about the vets
and we got all these people. It's about them, not
about the vets, and he goes, okay, he got rid
of everybody.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
But me. I thought, what my intention was? Yeah, right,
I swear it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And I said I got to make this about the vets,
and that's where we came up with welcome home and
thank you for your service in the Vietnam. Guys especially
you hold I hold their hand tight because some of
them get weakening tears in her eyes because it's fifty
years late. So that's how it evolved. And I will
give you my right leg for this company.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
For this organization. And you do you know every Thursday
night you're down at the airport meeting and greeting people
twice a month. Twice a month, yeah, every other Thursday.
So what you see though through the years of how
it changed because it started with World War Two, yes,
and now it's grown to include other wars because there's
not too many veterans in World War two around anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Very very few and far between is World War two Korea?
Where even and seeing less and less ninety my dad.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
How would your dad be ninety five?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Or yes, that's what we're dealing with. But I gotta
tell you a quick story about better.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
First of all, there's no such thing as boots telling you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Quick, no, no real quick, no, you can't tell.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Why I'm so veteran friendly And I shared us with everybody.
I was a little boy and we were living check
to check family. We were an upper we were a
good old family. We'd go to Bonanza. That was my
dad's favorite place to eat. Is my mom brother market,
the same thing that they owned both. But we were
in line and there was three vets ahead of us
and my dad.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I looked at my mom.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
My mom smiled, winked at my dad, and my dad
went up paid for the vets, and my mom walked
me to the Cordova. I'm like, where are we going.
We're going home. I was like, while we're going home, well,
your dad's buying the veterans dinner. I'm like, what's that
they gotta do with us?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Because they can't afford to buy you.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
We can't buy our dinner, and we're just about their dinner.
And I walked out. I had tears in my eyes.
Fast forward Champs Easton, which isn't there? Nick, Nick Pope
and I were sitting there. Nick was a little gruffy
at first, and I had my little two thousand dollars
was a month sponsorship from Pepsi for auto smarts.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I told you, Qui, this one's juicy.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And this sergeant comes over. I go over, I pay
their bill. At that time, I had seventy five dollars
in our account. I went and to bill thanked gosh
Ay Chicken that day and I was like seventy two
dollars and I had enough cash to tip the waiter
walk outside. I didn't want Nick to know because I
I didn't want anything Nick. This sergeant come out, shook
my hand and said, I don't know. This is when
a brock was still in and she said nobody does
(07:27):
this for anymore. Thank you, and he goes, what did
you do? I told him went back to PEPSI. He
scratched my two grind out and tripled it. Wow, so
it pays off, so I can to me, I'm paying
it forward for many many reasons. And my dad beat
that in my head, and I will do that till
I meet the maker.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Next time. I'm going to time him when he said
he's going to tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That was a Bennette. How about we tire start time
to break down the show? Right? All right, we'll go
to break more of Pam Johnson.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
We'll tell you how you can win this awes golf
Curt Pam Johnson back, and then I'm Calle that from
now on, actually bet you. So when we get back,
we're when I covered the golf cart that we're giving
away from our fine sponsors, this raw Indian boots.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
On the radio.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
We're back there. We have a full crowd here because
you know what, I can admit when I make a mistake,
and I think my mind's been so boggled with so
much stuff with the end of cammi senior year, and
so it's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
To be here.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Ever that I overbooked to next my apologies, Mandy.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So now we have a full Randy funny how it
happens the episode where she was talking about boost now
remembering still.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Hey, Chris, I'm down in there. We didn't ask for
your two days because.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
You don't have a heart. On Mother's Day, you drugged
these beautiful girls right from the park.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I didn't mean to do it on Mother's Day.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
That's what I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I made that big of a mistake. All right, Wait,
we're gonna have a full fun hour coming up.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You can have a better with with with my little
buddy and Cooperman. It's going to be all right, So
Beth right, Beth Connorflight Columbus. We're going we're giving away
a golf raffling off a golf cart. It's a fifteen
thousand dollars loaded golf cart. That are good friends at
Ride Power Sports.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Would you say loaded loads all on this thing.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Like speakers, stereo, backup camera, cag you could put on it.
It's a four bucket seater. I mean it's got leather,
it's got alloy wheels. It's good, it's street legal.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
How much does that something like that really cost if
someone would go out and buy one and you can
win it for free, well for twenty bucks twenty bucks
a ticket, yes that's two today.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
But we've got so many great sponsors that bought the car,
the golf cart, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
We lucked out because and I felt kind of guilty
reaching out to my sponsors. I thought, well should I
do this? And I say, you know what this it's
a it's a good cause. And not one person hesitated.
They jumped right on top of it, from Jim Everson
to Larry Pendleton, to Plumbus Garage for coding the Columbus Squa,
every sponsor we have in Auto Smarts. I did it
more towards auto smarts because I thought that you know,
(10:07):
we all related and we've all been such a big
part of our flights. But now our sponsors on raw,
like the guy Tom I right, will hit him up
with some golf carta.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Doctor Cohen because he donates to everything. If there's any
professional that has a heart of goal that donates, it
is doctor Brian.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And I'll tell you the golf cart's cool, especially in
like the Dublin parades and the Upper Arrington parades. Golf
carts are becoming a big thing, and.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Not just parades that people just like to use them.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, I mean especially in their tire communities. If you
have a summer home, so let me go down. That's sure.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Robert Cooperman is going to be soon in a retirement community.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Right, Robert Columbus garage floor coding Rick had no hesitation,
Columbus pest control, Lonnie not a single Larry Cruise and
classics fast response heating and cooling ends keep printing printed
thousands of dollars worth of raffles said, don't worry about boots.
It's for the vets. I mean it was so cool
peak retirement not a problem. Tattletale alarm systems, Tritteco design.
(11:04):
He does all our banners and all that a Western
automotive Scott loves.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I mean everybody. We're naming and.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Getting so many different things in life. But it is
hard to battle against veterans. That's just you're not going
to win that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Can you imagine you're eighteen years old and dropped into
a jungle to fight a war that we shouldn't be in,
and then you get home and get disrespected because you
were doing what your dad did in World War two
and you didn't know any better. The Vietnam War was
not a good war. We'll agree to that. But what
I won't agree with is these young men and women
got treated so poorly, and they bottled it up for
(11:41):
fifty five years. And we because of her hard work,
Beth and I and the crew, we got such a
great ground crew. Our volunteers are amazing and we give
them a day to let a little bit go in
the I'd love to see your emails you get from
these vets.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Well, I was in the office Friday, like so tired.
We I got three phone calls between nine fifteen and
ten o'clock with veterans that had gone. They're like, Oh,
I didn't figure anybody would be in. I was going
to leave a message, and it was just a three
veterans that just was still on cloud nine and just
(12:18):
love it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well when you know that you're making a difference. Oh
and you see it yourself. So someone's listening right now
and there's a veteran in their family and they really
want them to go on on our flight. What is
the best way to get a hold of or if
someone just wants to donate to the car.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Absolutely, Honor Flight CMH dot org is applications, our donation link,
the golf cart link is on there. The golf carts
raffle is going through now through August seventh. We're pulling
the ticket on August ninth at the Vance Car Show.
But Honor Flight CMH dot org is the one stop shop.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Okay, Yeah, And it's a win win for.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Everybody, absolutely right. Go check it out everybody. If you've
never heard of it, If you have heard of it
and you've give before, thank you because it's a it's
a great cause.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
If you want to see the golf cart, it's the
moose on Shrock Road in the showroom and right now
we're how many tickets?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I like six and forty six tickets one week?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, one week, because it matters. All right, guys, thank
you Beth for coming in. Hey you, thanks Pam, Bethambeth,
and we are going to be back with the most
exciting hour because we have a studio.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Awesome girls.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I did this on purpose with doctor Brian Owen of
an orthopedic and also Robert cooperan and his awesome wife
who's a mom, So we're all going to celebrate Mother's
Day together. Call in and have fun with us.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Oh, this is raw many boots on whose Radio six
TV
Sometimes I wish that people could hear our arguments and
our conversations when we're in commercial break.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Father's Day, I'm getting Randy a big flat bow of
bouquet of flowers.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Okay, that's great. Anyway, you have a best or a
guest in And what's your name, Pam?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is this Pam Johnson? It's Beth Johnson from on her flight?
Truly truly one of my favorite people on the planet.
She works so hard, she's underpaid, overworked, but you know what,
she loves what she does, and that's hard to say
with a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Is that true? Though overworked and underpaid.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
She's paid.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Okay, you think most Americans think that they're overworked and underpaid? Honestly,
do you guys think that's the way it is for
most people?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No, most people don't think. I wait, if they love
what they're doing, If you love what you're doing. When
she loves, I mean when she gets off that plane,
she's lit up like an odd lights Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So for people who are tuning in and don't know
anything about Honor flight or what exactly you do, what
do you do for on a flight that you love
so much?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh my gosh, It is the veterans. The veterans stories.
The veterans just keep bringing us back, like we had
a flight Thursday and we were late and I was tired,
still tired now, but I will keep doing what I'm
doing because it's the vets.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But when you mentioned Honor Flight, let's say someone's listening
for the first time and they have no idea what
is honor flight.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Honor Flight, we're their organization who takes senior veterans to Washington,
d C. To visit the memorials built in their honor.
It's a free, one day trip. It's a long day,
but man, it's so rewarding for the veterans to see
their memorials, see the honor that they are so deserving of,
with grateful Americans coming out and saying thank you for
(01:45):
your service and welcome home.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And start like originally, who thought of this idea veterans?
Because it's very generous.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Oh yeah, Well, in two thousand and four, two thousand
and five, the World War Two memorial open up and
there was a physician assistant in Springfield, Earl Morse, who
was asking his World War Two patients, are you going
to get to go see your memorial. A lot of
them said, no, there's no way I can financially do
it or physically do it. What was put on his
(02:15):
heart to do something about it? In May twenty first,
two thousand and five, coming up on twenty years was
the very first honor flight. He took. Cessna Airplanes loaded
him up with sixteen World War Two vets and that's
how Honor Flight began. When they got back, the applications
started coming in fast and furious, and they said, we
have to do something, and so Springfield.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
O High Springfield Highs started it. There's got to be
other honor flights or something like it in other parts
of the country.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, so it started it. It started in Springfield. Then
Jeff Miller, a dry cleaning executive in Hendersonville, North Carolina,
caught wind of it and said, we need to do
it bigger. He started charter airplanes. So Honor Flight started
with Earl on Her Air started with Jeff, and then
they e merged together to become the Honor Flight Network
(03:04):
in two thousand and six, and then honort Fly like
Columbus was the first hub in the network in two
thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Boots, how did you get involved? I know why you
got involved.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
That's where you know, you know why.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
But Rotary Club years and years ago, Lonnie Lonzo and
I were sitting there in Christi Alonzo, We're at the
same table, and this lady come in and spoke, I
don't remember her name, go figure. And she had every soccer,
every every one of our type of belief like most
mostly patriotic people. Some people in the room were not
(03:34):
paying attention, but it ate at me. It just it
just something about it. And then when I started Auto Smarts,
I wanted to have a good charity. Well I did
a few charities, and I've come to find out that
the money.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Didn't go to the charity. Most of it went to
the executives. And I had a problem with that. I agree.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, then I kept think about keep on an honor flight.
And then I'm trying to remember how who first?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So all Vance Outdoors.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So Vance Outdoors came to me and said, hey, we
don't believe in radio, we don't think it works, but
we do need a car show.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Ten years ago probably, and he goes radio was big. Yeah,
well but they were big on with the new Internet
coming along and all that.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So anyway, so I said look, I promise you my
part of the radio still works. I don't understand the
rest of it, but I will do a car show
and we will fill this up. And I've always wanted
to be a part of Honor Flight. And this is
where the proceeds went. And I think that first year
we wrote a check for maybe forty thousand from April
first to the car show. And then last year, after
(04:38):
ten years, it was one hundred and eighty thousand dollars
wrote the Honor Flight. So we built this together. So
hats off the Vances. And they got me involved. Well,
there was a gentleman. I was one of the They
invited me to be a speaker one night and it
was it was kind of a little over the top.
They had too many Indian chiefs and I can say that,
you can't. And I was looking around and I went
(04:59):
to the guy was her predecessor, and I said, this
needs to chow out. You said, it's about the vets
and we got all these people. It's about them, not
about the vets, and he goes, okay, he got rid
of everybody.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
But me. I thought, what my intention was? Yeah, right,
I swear it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And I said I got to make this about the vets,
and that's where we came up with welcome home and
thank you for your service in the Vietnam. Guys especially
you hold I hold their hand tight because some of
them get weakening tears in her eyes because it's fifty
years late. So that's how it evolved. And I will
give you my right leg for this company.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
For this organization. And you do you know every Thursday
night you're down at the airport meeting and greeting people
twice a month. Twice a month, yeah, every other Thursday.
So what you see though through the years of how
it changed because it started with World War Two, yes,
and now it's grown to include other wars because there's
not too many veterans in World War two around anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Very very few and far between is World War two Korea?
Where even and seeing less and less ninety my dad.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
How would your dad be ninety five?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Or yes, that's what we're dealing with. But I gotta
tell you a quick story about better.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
First of all, there's no such thing as boots telling you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Quick, no, no real quick, no, you can't tell.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Why I'm so veteran friendly And I shared us with everybody.
I was a little boy and we were living check
to check family. We were an upper we were a
good old family. We'd go to Bonanza. That was my
dad's favorite place to eat. Is my mom brother market,
the same thing that they owned both. But we were
in line and there was three vets ahead of us
and my dad.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I looked at my mom.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
My mom smiled, winked at my dad, and my dad
went up paid for the vets, and my mom walked
me to the Cordova. I'm like, where are we going.
We're going home. I was like, while we're going home, well,
your dad's buying the veterans dinner. I'm like, what's that
they gotta do with us?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Because they can't afford to buy you.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
We can't buy our dinner, and we're just about their dinner.
And I walked out. I had tears in my eyes.
Fast forward Champs Easton, which isn't there? Nick, Nick Pope
and I were sitting there. Nick was a little gruffy
at first, and I had my little two thousand dollars
was a month sponsorship from Pepsi for auto smarts.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I told you, Qui, this one's juicy.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And this sergeant comes over. I go over, I pay
their bill. At that time, I had seventy five dollars
in our account. I went and to bill thanked gosh
Ay Chicken that day and I was like seventy two
dollars and I had enough cash to tip the waiter
walk outside. I didn't want Nick to know because I
I didn't want anything Nick. This sergeant come out, shook
my hand and said, I don't know. This is when
a brock was still in and she said nobody does
(07:27):
this for anymore. Thank you, and he goes, what did
you do? I told him went back to PEPSI. He
scratched my two grind out and tripled it. Wow, so
it pays off, so I can to me, I'm paying
it forward for many many reasons. And my dad beat
that in my head, and I will do that till
I meet the maker.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Next time. I'm going to time him when he said
he's going to tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That was a Bennette. How about we tire start time
to break down the show? Right? All right, we'll go
to break more of Pam Johnson.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
We'll tell you how you can win this awes golf
Curt Pam Johnson back, and then I'm Calle that from
now on, actually bet you. So when we get back,
we're when I covered the golf cart that we're giving
away from our fine sponsors, this raw Indian boots.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
On the radio.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
We're back there. We have a full crowd here because
you know what, I can admit when I make a mistake,
and I think my mind's been so boggled with so
much stuff with the end of cammi senior year, and
so it's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
To be here.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Ever that I overbooked to next my apologies, Mandy.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So now we have a full Randy funny how it
happens the episode where she was talking about boost now
remembering still.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Hey, Chris, I'm down in there. We didn't ask for
your two days because.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
You don't have a heart. On Mother's Day, you drugged
these beautiful girls right from the park.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I didn't mean to do it on Mother's Day.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
That's what I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I made that big of a mistake. All right, Wait,
we're gonna have a full fun hour coming up.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You can have a better with with with my little
buddy and Cooperman. It's going to be all right, So
Beth right, Beth Connorflight Columbus. We're going we're giving away
a golf raffling off a golf cart. It's a fifteen
thousand dollars loaded golf cart. That are good friends at
Ride Power Sports.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Would you say loaded loads all on this thing.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Like speakers, stereo, backup camera, cag you could put on it.
It's a four bucket seater. I mean it's got leather,
it's got alloy wheels. It's good, it's street legal.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
How much does that something like that really cost if
someone would go out and buy one and you can
win it for free, well for twenty bucks twenty bucks
a ticket, yes that's two today.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
But we've got so many great sponsors that bought the car,
the golf cart, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
We lucked out because and I felt kind of guilty
reaching out to my sponsors. I thought, well should I
do this? And I say, you know what this it's
a it's a good cause. And not one person hesitated.
They jumped right on top of it, from Jim Everson
to Larry Pendleton, to Plumbus Garage for coding the Columbus Squa,
every sponsor we have in Auto Smarts. I did it
more towards auto smarts because I thought that you know,
(10:07):
we all related and we've all been such a big
part of our flights. But now our sponsors on raw,
like the guy Tom I right, will hit him up
with some golf carta.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Doctor Cohen because he donates to everything. If there's any
professional that has a heart of goal that donates, it
is doctor Brian.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And I'll tell you the golf cart's cool, especially in
like the Dublin parades and the Upper Arrington parades. Golf
carts are becoming a big thing, and.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Not just parades that people just like to use them.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, I mean especially in their tire communities. If you
have a summer home, so let me go down. That's sure.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Robert Cooperman is going to be soon in a retirement community.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Right, Robert Columbus garage floor coding Rick had no hesitation,
Columbus pest control, Lonnie not a single Larry Cruise and
classics fast response heating and cooling ends keep printing printed
thousands of dollars worth of raffles said, don't worry about boots.
It's for the vets. I mean it was so cool
peak retirement not a problem. Tattletale alarm systems, Tritteco design.
(11:04):
He does all our banners and all that a Western
automotive Scott loves.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I mean everybody. We're naming and.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Getting so many different things in life. But it is
hard to battle against veterans. That's just you're not going
to win that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Can you imagine you're eighteen years old and dropped into
a jungle to fight a war that we shouldn't be in,
and then you get home and get disrespected because you
were doing what your dad did in World War two
and you didn't know any better. The Vietnam War was
not a good war. We'll agree to that. But what
I won't agree with is these young men and women
got treated so poorly, and they bottled it up for
(11:41):
fifty five years. And we because of her hard work,
Beth and I and the crew, we got such a
great ground crew. Our volunteers are amazing and we give
them a day to let a little bit go in
the I'd love to see your emails you get from
these vets.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Well, I was in the office Friday, like so tired.
We I got three phone calls between nine fifteen and
ten o'clock with veterans that had gone. They're like, Oh,
I didn't figure anybody would be in. I was going
to leave a message, and it was just a three
veterans that just was still on cloud nine and just
(12:18):
love it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well when you know that you're making a difference. Oh
and you see it yourself. So someone's listening right now
and there's a veteran in their family and they really
want them to go on on our flight. What is
the best way to get a hold of or if
someone just wants to donate to the car.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Absolutely, Honor Flight CMH dot org is applications, our donation link,
the golf cart link is on there. The golf carts
raffle is going through now through August seventh. We're pulling
the ticket on August ninth at the Vance Car Show.
But Honor Flight CMH dot org is the one stop shop.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Okay, Yeah, And it's a win win for.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Everybody, absolutely right. Go check it out everybody. If you've
never heard of it, If you have heard of it
and you've give before, thank you because it's a it's
a great cause.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
If you want to see the golf cart, it's the
moose on Shrock Road in the showroom and right now
we're how many tickets?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I like six and forty six tickets one week?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, one week, because it matters. All right, guys, thank
you Beth for coming in. Hey you, thanks Pam, Bethambeth,
and we are going to be back with the most
exciting hour because we have a studio.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Awesome girls.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I did this on purpose with doctor Brian Owen of
an orthopedic and also Robert cooperan and his awesome wife
who's a mom, So we're all going to celebrate Mother's
Day together. Call in and have fun with us.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Oh, this is raw many boots on whose Radio six
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