The Blazor Show Wednesday 1/8/2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Show.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
All right, here we go a two to one WTV
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
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Speaker 4 (00:23):
Available for you joiners. Chuck Douglass, how you doing, man?

Speaker 5 (00:28):
I am here, I am here. I am over here.
Now though you mad?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
You made, you made, you made A made the.

Speaker 6 (00:36):
Snow, I mean yeah, it was snow, so I grew
up here. I'm not intimidating.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Right.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well, that's the thing too, you know, watching on socials,
because I was not in the city, but watching on socials,
I saw a lot of people go on, I want
my money back, you know, I fire, I was supposed
to get more than this, so on and so forth.
My wife's like, it was probably two to three inches
in the Delaware area roughly. And trust me, she knows
what two to three inches. I mean she does. So

(01:04):
I'm just saying she is a ruler. What are you
one of those you know, the tape measure? Yeah, so
I trust her telling me that.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
Yeah, so I had about four and a half at
my house.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh did you ragging?

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:20):
Yeah, well you know, uh it was it wasn't it
wasn't light, but it was it was a nice little
winter snow. I don't need a blizzard in order to say, yeah,
we got some snow.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah I will.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
I didn't realize that, you know, I was in DC,
and I didn't realize that they didn't get this kind
of snow more than we do, because they made as
big or bigger deal of this whole thing, because they
were getting ready to get pummeled just shortly after us,
right a similar time for well a little bit obviously

(01:53):
a little bit different as far as the timeframe goes,
but they hadn't had anything significant, I guess for about
three years.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I didn't realize that it had been that.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Well hole by an administration.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
They kept it away for you know, significance is coming, though,
just give it a few more days.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's a great comment, and various two.

Speaker 6 (02:11):
I've been even I don't know if you've got a
chance to hear yesterday when I was talking to Marshall,
you know all those Buckeye fans headed down to watch
the game tomorrow night in Dallas. Even Dallas is expecting
snow tomorrow. Yep, yeah, that's crazy. Or Friday.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
I guess it's coming.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Global warming.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
It's it's what it called the ball your car but
all sets then very pig lugs at cold. The the
idea that people were upset though that they didn't get hammered.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
It just it's.

Speaker 7 (02:37):
Crazy to me.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
So they got about right in the DC areas, right
around seven inches of snow some something along those lines.
Some of the places further south got around the ten
inch area something like that. But it was interesting because
I was staying at a place that was about, on
a normal day, probably a twelve minute drive into the

(03:04):
Navy Yard area, which is less than a mile from
the Capitol.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
We'll call it in the Shadow of the Capital, and.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
So it sounds like a John Grisham.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Book In the Shadow of the Capitol, available.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
In Amazon dot com.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Now, Yeah, So what I did was I had originally
scheduled myself to stay in Navy Yard, and then I
canceled it because I had a better situation at a
different place that was a little farther away. So then
what I did was I realized on Sunday that that
snow was going to come in late Sunday night into Monday,

(03:39):
and it was basically the way.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
That they were.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Like, the whole DC area was gonna shut down. So
I was like, you know, I better rebook for where
I was gonna stay, and luckily they still had stuff available,
so I rebooked, and on Sunday, I left the place
that I was at went to the place that was
a navy yard because I knew I could walk to

(04:03):
the Capitol from there. It's literally a well it's about
a mile.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
And so I knew.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
I didn't know like what kind of driving was going
to take place and so on. But on Monday morning,
you know, I did get a taxi from the hotel
over to that area.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
And it was so old school. A taxi. Yeah, yeah,
not an Uber, not a Lyft, but no, I soonder
I could see on a scooter he took a taxi. Yeah,
was it yellow? It's DC yellow taxi or yellow cab its.
In the app, it works just like Uber. You get
on there and they you know, allow them to look.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
At your location from a while using okay, I okayed that,
and then you have to connect a credit card and
then you just you summons the taxi.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
And then it shows up. It's just like Uber. It's
the same thing, only it's a taxi.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
So I get in and he was like, you know where,
and I had already put in there where I wanted
to go, which which it's called the Rayburn Building. There's
a bunch of buildings there, the house of a lot
of them. Their offices are all in these buildings. Cannon Building,
the Long Work Building, the Rayburn Building. Congressman Balderson's in
the Rayburn Building. So I was like, the raver, It's like,
we can't get to we can't get close to that

(05:16):
because and I said, I understand that because you should
have seen the way they had the gates.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
It was like it was like the Pentagon. Oh, it
was ridiculous, dude.

Speaker 6 (05:28):
I'm assuming that they were anticipating I mean, it was
January sixth, on top of everything else. I'm assuming they
were anticipating issues.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
They they did that out of I guess they thought
something was going to happen, but nobody was going to
nobody was objecting to the results. So there's that for starters.
But okay, they wanted to excuse me, play it up.
So he gets me to the point where I'm still
I'm still I'm still probably a quarter mile from the building,

(05:58):
but that's as close as he says that he can get. Wow,
it was thirty dollars to go less than a mile.
There was a fifteen dollars some sort of snow charge.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
I was like, snow charge, well, it's called there was
like some other.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
Job was more like it.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
It was ridiculous. That's crazy. It was ridiculous. And I
was like, can I pay cash?

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Nope?

Speaker 5 (06:18):
I'm like, did the driver at least put on extra
dr car noir for you?

Speaker 6 (06:22):
I mean no, Did you need to hear about his
family anything?

Speaker 5 (06:27):
No?

Speaker 4 (06:28):
As a matter of fact, it was you know, uh,
this is close. Like good, I mean that was really
about the whole conversation.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
And I was just like, but we could go around
the front.

Speaker 8 (06:38):
Nope.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
We get up and I was like, I have a
congressman who just I good?

Speaker 5 (06:42):
Good?

Speaker 3 (06:43):
I was like, okay, I'm tried to visit the congressman.

Speaker 6 (06:46):
It took him seven hundred and twenty six dollars to
drive fifteen feet down the street because the snow was
not funny, but.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
It was coming.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
We knew it that we charged team.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yes, it was crazy. It was crazy.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
So how is it that, by the way, I'm two
for two, which I know you guys played the the
the little conversation I have with Balderson.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
After Yes, but how is it.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
I'm two for two in the Capitol, being within like
close enough to literally push Nancy Pelosi over.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
And yet you don't get the job done.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
No, she's she was She was pushing a walker. Yeah,
like somewhere in Germany. I guess she fell and broke
a hip or did something. I wasn't even privy to that,
but Balterson says to me, like, uh, actually.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
Go ahead, pusher, That's what he said.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
So we're standing there with Stenny Hoyer right waiting on
the elevator, and this is an elevator where you have
to have the pin on.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
You could be a member to ride the thing or
with somebody.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
Right, So we're standing there and Steady goes, we can
we let the speaker go. Well, she was behind us,
and Troy in his mind goes, oh, we got Johnson
standing here and like swings around thing and we're going
to see Mike Johnson and he was going to introduce
me to my No, it was Gelosi standing there and
we both turn around.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
You got to be kidding me, man, It's like, why
is eleanor Mark? Why is it?

Speaker 4 (08:07):
I see every you know, Nadler's right in front of me.
Chuck Schumer is there, you know, Adam Schiff. I was
telling Zach earlier, I'm like, why is it everybody that
I detest?

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I end up seeing it.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
So when you get really close to Nancy Pelosi like
that and you can really see her up close all.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
The she has a permanent joker smile. Is her hair
made of snakes? I was just curious now because I
didn't turn to Stone so luckily looking at her, I
didn't see anything.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
You kind of did biologically anyway, you left him back home.

Speaker 6 (08:40):
But you you hey, it became Stone right next generation
till two point zero, if you will.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Anyway, it was crazy to go missed you have you
have you ever been inside the chamber, because that's the
first time all fifty five years on this planet about
to be fifty six years, I have never been inside there. No,
And I'm telling you it is such a special place
where I'm sitting. And I was even saying, I'm sure
you heard. I was like, man, I you know, I
can't help but think rush Limball was up here.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
You know Urban Meyer.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
As a matter of fact, I was told Urban was
sitting not very far from where I was sitting, where
Troy had me up there or whatever.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
You know, a good close personal van Brian Steel was
down there. Did you run across him?

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Oh? I didn't even know.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
President Biden had him come down there for the signing
of that Social Security Uh.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
Oh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
Yeah, the Social Security Fairness Act, which apparently the FOP
had been kind of pushing for.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
I wish that I would have known he was in
the city.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
I didn't find out until today that when he was
on Facebook that Beten down there.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
It was incredible to you know, when Klobuchar stepped up there,
the Senator, she stepped up to the podium and they start,
you know, they're certifying every state, and man, it was
so good listening.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
And at one point did you hear any of it?
By chance? Did you hear any of the.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
Same book I heard the presidential when she went through
the presidential boy, And I actually commented on the fact
that I think Kamila Kamala whatever did a pretty good
job of you know, she had to be basically stay
and in front of her colleagues and beat herself with
a stick, and she held it together.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
No nastiess they were all cheering every time she read
a state that she won.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
They were all cheering. It was it was you know,
it had hurt her. It had to break her heart
to just stand up there and have to read that
and then finally say, President of the United States, Donald Jr.
You know that killed her.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
So the thing the reason I asked you if you
heard it, I swear it sounded like and I was
having to listen. I didn't hear it on TV or whatever,
but it sounded like her voice was cracking at one point.
Am I hearing things or because I go she was
gonna cry. That's what I kept thinking to myself. You
know I didn't notice that, but I wouldn't be surprised. Okay,
I mean that's I'm serious. I complimented her.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
I criticize everything she does because everything she does is
worthy criticism, except I had to acknowledge that one thing
she she held.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
It to good.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
I wouldn't go as far as eloquent, but she was
sustained and she got the job done.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
She kept the brave face on, she smiling, and yeah,
I watched her. She comes in and I'm just watching her.
Her and Johnson are up there chit chatting.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
She could be Amy Acting's lucinant governor.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
That'd be perfect.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
More gas for the sign, Zack, I'm gonna need more.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
She did have to gabble the conservatives the left side
of the room. Ironically enough, they're on the left. She
had to gabble them into, uh, you know, calming down
when she announced, especially Ohio because Shady Vance was sitting
there and all that.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
It was.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
It was crazy.

Speaker 6 (11:28):
Man.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Uh here I am this nobody from Westerville sitting there
watching this thinking to myself, Man, I am incredibly humbled
to be sitting here.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
I mean it was. It was so humbling, dude, in
that room. You think about all the history that has
happened in there, and it's just like, wow, I'm about
to cry right now.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
That's arazy.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Get good study table at the library. So I know
how you must have felt sitting in the hellld halls
of conger.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
It was nuts. It was nuts to experience that very special,
incredibly special.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
Well, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
I did, thank you, thank you you, and I missed you.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
Of course you did. Let these legs my god. You
mentioned state the obvious.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
That big snow headed to Dallas just in time for
the Sugar Bowl. Yes, you know, the Ohio people are
not going to have any trouble getting around in that
if they have to.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
I know, But you think New Jersey made hell out
of the the the what do you call hims flying
around up there? Wait till the Texans see the snow coming. Yeah,
there's gonna be a.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
Good bunch of little tanned white UFO's.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
Their phoneses got laying on the ground killing anybody on
the roads.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
We don't.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
That's snow, sir, that's snow. Never mind, that's snow, sir.
So I thought that. I was like, what they're predicting
six inches for that area?

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 6 (12:41):
Everything in Texas is bigger. We got four here and
they got to get six there. That's how they are.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
Man, let me tell you they're going to be They're
not set up with infrastructure any of that. I'm telling
you that city is going to be a mess. Now
that I think about the city. Here's a question.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Why is j R. Ewings hat not in the Smithsonian?

Speaker 3 (12:57):
It should should be absolute?

Speaker 5 (13:00):
But just flashed into my head like many things, and
there it goes. It's gone.

Speaker 9 (13:03):
Big Weather Sports and the Mark Blazer Show on six
' ten wtv AH.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
You brought it to my attention.

Speaker 6 (13:10):
It's Elvis's birthday almost King King would have been ninety
years old today nine day, Oh, all shook up?

Speaker 5 (13:18):
Ninety years old?

Speaker 6 (13:19):
Could you imagine nine now with the trimmers all shook
up for real? Now, maybe look at my collar. My
collar don't even stand up no more? Called it can
walk out because I love you too much speaking Where
are you? I can't see you. I'm ninety years old.

(13:40):
Now the do you ever get those things? Those Bob
Joyce things. The pastor out there in Arkansas, Bob Joyce,
they say as Elvis Presley, I have never dude, Seriously,
you gotta check because if you want to believe he's
still alive, you would believe he's still alive. The pastor,
I mean, you know, he's doing a sermon and everything
and the Book of Thessalonians. I want to quote today

(14:02):
what was told to the people. And he's he like
sounds like Elvis. The people who were in Elvis's circles
a band member, what they go to the church in Arkansas.
There's been some slips of the lip where people and
when you if you want to believe he's still alive,
you watch those Bob Joyce videos. Yeah, there's a king

(14:23):
right there. That's see him. I mean, he's nine years old,
but he looks good. Looks kind of like a Kenny
Rodgers had had too much of his own chicken now.
But he's a big boy, big boy.

Speaker 10 (14:33):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (14:35):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Chief Meteorologist Marshall McPeek is joining us now. Marshall, I
was telling Chuck, you know, he's.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
In d C.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
For the snow and in the DC area it was
around seven inches somewhere around there, and some of the places,
you know, a little south and and almost like kind
of west of there, there were some I think they
were reporting and it was local that I was watching
there the news and stuff, you know, around ten inch.
But you know, they they dealt incredibly well because I

(15:04):
drove later Monday night and then Sunday night before it
really started hitting. But they did so well for a
place that doesn't typically get that kind of and I thought.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
That they did get more snow than we did.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
But it's been about they were saying around three years
since there's been a significant snow event there, and they
called this significant. But it was pretty crazy there, I
know it was, you know, depending where you're at here,
got a little crazy as well.

Speaker 11 (15:32):
Ye, storm total in Columbus was around four point three
at the airport, and a lot of places had much
more than that, especially to our south, where you were
looking at ten and even twelve inches worth of snow
in parts of southern Ohio. So we have not had
a six inch snowfall in Columbus since twenty fifteen. It's

(15:53):
been ten years. Wow, we've had four inch snowfalls, but
we haven't had a six inch snowfall almost ten years. So,
I mean, it's just it's really incredible. But the question now,
so there's a thing happening on Friday. It's out of
town and there in the Yeah, in that area, and

(16:16):
there are a couple of people from here going there.
Mm hmm, like probably thirty to forty thousand people from
here to there. Yeah, fuck eye fans trying to get
into Dallas. Yeah, so let's see how Dallas deals with
ice and snow.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, their infrastructure clearly is not set up for that.
And I told Chuck, I go, if they get six
inches of snow, that city's gonna.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Shut the f down. They just are. It's good, well
nuts there.

Speaker 11 (16:42):
So what's worse is that they're looking at probably a
tenth to a quarter inch of ice first, Oh boy, yeah, yeah,
So I mean you saw what happened to us with
four inches of snow. I mean we we didn't shut down,
but and we have the equipment to deal with it,
and you know, eighteen twenty four hours later, we're good
to go again. We're dry roads. But they don't have

(17:04):
the same kind of equipment there. They are already planning
on brining. However, that doesn't help when you get freezing rain.
It just washes all the brian away. So you end
up with this layer of freezing rain and ice, and
then you put another at least one to three maybe
even four or five inches of snow on top of that,

(17:25):
and Dallas is gonna have some issues. If you are
flying to Dallas, check with your airline because anytime after,
if you're not landing before ten o'clock in the morning tomorrow,
you're really gonna run a good chance of delays if
you have a connecting flight that's on the East coast
and then to Dallas, because they never send you in

(17:48):
a direct route.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
Have you ever noticed that.

Speaker 11 (17:50):
It's like I need to go to Houston and they
run you through Minneapolis first, whatever. So if you're going
to the East Coast for a connection, they're gonna have
your own issues. So you're looking at all kinds of
delays tomorrow, likely through Baltimore and DC up into parts
of the East Coast metro areas, and then trying to

(18:11):
get to Dallas, where they're gonna have issues. So I
think the airlines are gonna really have some challenges on Thursday.
So if your flight is Thursday, keep checking with your
airline to find out whether you're on time, because I
think you're gonna find some delays. Then for us on Friday,
we're gonna go with some snow for Friday night into

(18:31):
Saturday morning. It's an overnight snow. We'll throw an alert
on this one, looking at one to three, maybe even
two to four. So that's gonna be another one we're
probably gonna have to shovel out of.

Speaker 9 (18:42):
But it's not gonna be as deep as what we
just had. So there's some snow coming.

Speaker 11 (18:46):
It'll make some slick spots Friday into Saturday, and then
we're still gonna be below freezing on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
All right, Marshall, thank you very much. Twenty four.

Speaker 6 (18:56):
Right now, I'm guessing Dallas will be back in the
seventies next week, though, right, this is an anomaly that
it gets cold enough to ice and snow and stuff
down there, so hopefully they don't have to suffer too long.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
With all that.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I got a guy that I worked with when I
first started in radio here who lives there. He's been
there a long time now, and I think he's He
told me he's been there probably twenty five plus years,
and I think it's only snowed literally a couple of times,
and he said it is a mess. But he's originally
from Connecticut and then lived here of course a lot

(19:28):
of his life, so he's completely comfortable in any of that. However,
it's like anything else, you don't drive in it for
a while and then it can get see.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
Snow in Connecticut would be wonderful. Or Vermont like the
beginning of the old New Heart Show. I would love that.
That would be a great place to have to experience snow.
But Dallas, I just want to cuss all day, right.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
New computers, new cars, and a salty spoon. What it's
the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, day two going
and ABC News technology re order Mike Dubuski is joining
us now, Mike, Happy New Year, brother.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Happy New Year to you.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
Yeah, Happy CEES week as well.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, absolutely so, do tell what is going on on
day two in my favorite city in the United States,
Las Vegas.

Speaker 7 (20:16):
Yes so, Las Vegas obviously playing host to CES as
does around this time every year, and this year is
all about artificial intelligence, as it has been for the
past couple of years. Obviously, AI has taken over the
tech world in a really big way. Yesterday we learned
that in video, which has been getting a lot of
attention in the last year for making really powerful computer

(20:37):
chips that are really good at running and building AI models,
we learn that they're building their own computer. It's a
small desktop style computer that they're calling a mini supercomputer.
It's called Project Digits, and it's designed for basically developers.
It's kind of a niche product, but it's designed for

(20:58):
people who want to build an AI tool or maybe
even build their own large language model by kind of
linking a couple of them together. It is three thousand dollars,
but it is pretty interesting to see this company, which
has really been on this meteoric rise in the last
year or so, get into something that's a little bit
more consumer facing than your traditional computer chips and GPUs

(21:22):
that they used to make.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
That world where I don't think combustion engines are still
going away.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
It feels like depending on who you listen to speak
about it.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
As far as electric vehicles and all of that, it's
still a long time and I guess California probably will
be first with regard to making them or attempting to
make them go away. But something like this is interesting
to at least peruse and kind of look at what
the future could hold.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Right.

Speaker 7 (21:52):
Yeah, with regards to electric vehicles, absolutely, CEES has always
kind of been a secret car show, and this year
there is no exception. Honda showing up in a pretty
big way with two new prototypes. They're called the Zero
Saloon and the Zero Suv. Saloon is kind of a
different word for sedan, so it's absidan and an suv,
and they have this really interesting sort of retro future looks.

(22:16):
They've kind of got squared off designs. Some people have
compared them to like the Lamborghini Kuntash of the nineteen
eighties stuff from Back to the Future too, when they
go into the distant future of twenty fifteen. That's kind
of the aesthetic that these cars are going for. And
beyond the looks, they are meant to point at what
Honda thinks their electric future is going to look like. Obviously,

(22:39):
in the last year or so, electric vehicles and the
electric vehicle market in the United States has been a
little chaotic, right There has been a sort of retrenching
into the world of hybrids as sales of evs have
kind of not tapered off necessarily, but been a little
bit softer than the years that came before. Honda, though,
is still sort of playing ketchup. They haven't even reached

(23:02):
really square one. They only have one electric vehicle on
the market and that vehicle itself runs on General Motors architecture.
These new prototypes are meant to be their ground up
electric vehicles and they are set to hit the road
we think in twenty twenty six. What's more, they are
also a showcase for Honda's new technology known as Asimo,

(23:24):
is their latest operating system that is supposed to go
into all their future cars, and it is a reference
that name to the bipedal robot of the late nineties
and early two thousands.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
Interesting and Finally, you know, in this description of your
hit with us here a salty spoon is there.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
What does what does that mean?

Speaker 7 (23:46):
Well, it's a spoon that makes your food taste salty.
That is basically what this Kiuran electric salt spoon, as
it's known does. It is from a Japanese brand called Kiiran.
It's actually already on sale in Japan for the equivalent
of about one hundred and twenty five American dollars. But
the idea here is that this uses a small electrical charge.

(24:07):
It actually shocks you in a very low level kind
of way to sort of trick your taste buds into
experiencing a salty flavor when you're eating something that is
not itself very salty. So people have gotten their chance
to try this, have eaten relatively bland soup, for example,
and use this spoon and found that, yeah, no, it

(24:28):
actually does taste kind of salty. And the idea here
is that you can, you know, lower your sodium intake
while still having a flavorful dish in front.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
Of you from electric shock. That's the thing.

Speaker 6 (24:40):
You got to get an electrical shock to get what
really I'm trying not to laugh, but it was hard
to hold that in.

Speaker 7 (24:46):
But that's kind of what that's kind of what cees
is all about. And that's kind of why it's fun
to cover, right, it is because you get these like
weirdo gadgets and things like that that like no mainstream
consumer is really gonna buy, but it's stuff for But
he used to throw at the wall and see what sticks.
Some of these things actually hit.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
But yeah, it's the.

Speaker 7 (25:05):
Salty spoon going to be in all our kitchens in
the next couple of years.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
I doubt I'm terrified of the concept of the pepper fork. Now,
I don't know. I want to know what that does
to you.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Interesting all right.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
ABC News Technology reporter Mike Dubuski, Mike, thank you very much, brother,
appreciate you, of course, take care.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
See you man.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
I wonder what the electric vehicles if one of the
things are working on is lightening them up, whether it's
the structure or the battery.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
Okay, follow me here.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
The lighter a car is a combustion car, the better
the potential gas mile ex So I'm wondering will a
battery get more distance in a lighter vehicle than it
does in a heavier vehicle.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Well, like anything else. I feel like that will develop.
The battery in and of itself is incredibly heavy. That's
part of the larger part of the weight for that vehicle.
I think they get to the point with that where
it gets lighter and lighter and lighter. But we're a
few years down the road and they'll be more efficient
and they'll hold charges all that stuff.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
Then they'll be so fast that Johnny can't keep track
of him anyway, so he won't have anything to do
exip laugh at stuff we do.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
And then think about this the like in fifteen years
or even twenty years from now, they'll look back and go,
can you believe well, like three three hundred two mile
whatever it is on the charge?

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Now I go two thousand mosque.

Speaker 5 (26:25):
You know have selling cell phones into nineteen eighty four,
trust me.

Speaker 12 (26:28):
I know.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Show h two one WTVN one eight hundred and six WTVN.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Thank you for listening, you know, as we bring in
Don Ross the retirement boss. Don, how are you brother
in uh, well, somewhere warmer than here.

Speaker 12 (26:59):
Let's just say, doing very well, working away and glad
to be back. I know you had a great trip
to DC, which is an amazing place. So but good
to be back on the air with you guys.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Yeah, what was that sound?

Speaker 6 (27:12):
Did you just swim up to the edge of the
pool to get to the microphone to say hello?

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Is that what that was?

Speaker 1 (27:17):
You have to ask Zach what that is. We're not
quite sure that's something in the feed. I don't know
that well.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
When you first were coming on, it literally did sound
like some waves were coming in or something of aquatic nature.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
No, no, no, I tested the link here with Zach
a few minutes ago.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
That sounds good right now, though, Okay, all right, yeah, no,
it anesome, sounds good, sounds good.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
I'm good.

Speaker 12 (27:41):
I'm glad you guys are well, and it's fun to
be back. New Year well, twenty twenty five, and we're
gonna crush it. It's gonna be a great year.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
Absolutely, I am happy to say I'm glad that you're
not in California because you know those wildfires. I'm sure
you've been watching the footage and we have it on
here in the studio, and how could you not have
seen any of this footage? Is absolutely incredible what we're witnessing.
I think I read earlier I saw on a friend
of mine Susie on her Facebook page that Mark Hamill

(28:12):
had lost his home and then also also James Woods has.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Lost his home in this bad for two of those people.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
Yeah, certainly Mark Hamill is a stinker when it comes
to politics.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
But I you know, I gotta say, stood on the
front porch and used the force.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Well, yeah, that was one of the first things Zach
said to me too when I was telling me in
discussing with him earlier about this. But you think about
at first, foremost, before we're anything, we're all human, before
we're left right, red, blue, anything else, And the human
side of me has to sympathize with somebody who lose.

(28:51):
And I don't know, but you think about now, there
was no loss of life from what I understand with
his situation, but when you lose your home and everything
associated with it. I have never been in that situation,
the unfortunate circumstance of the house fire, but I can't
begin to imagine the type of despair that hits you.

(29:12):
And when you talk about Luke Skywalker, did he have
any memorabilia in that house? You know, I would just
stuff like that is the type of stuff way I
process it. But in addition to everything else. But you're
seeing this, watching this footage. We're watching live Pacific Palisades
footage right now, don And I'm sure you have it

(29:34):
on too, yep. And the mass evacuations ordered, and you know,
all of these things happening.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
It looks like they were driving through where was it.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
There was a footage earlier on Facebook that I was
watching somebody driving through that area. It really did look apocalyptic.
It looked like something out of some sci fi movie
that had been ravaged, you know, by explosions and everything.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
It was crazy, so crazy.

Speaker 12 (30:00):
I have a colleague that was through the Real Bad
Ones six years ago, and she said it literally the
fire literally went down her call to sack at about
fifty miles an hour, so you had no time to
even blink. You had to get out of there, and
it melted everything in its way. I mean, total decimation.
And it's uh, I can't even imagine. I mean, we're
working on getting hail damage on our roof and the

(30:22):
work you go through that, which is nothing. Imagine rebuilding
a house from literally scratch. You got to get the
insurance plane, you got to get the adjuster out there,
and then you got to find contractors to build hundreds
of homes and everybody's gonna be pulling for it.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
So yeah, definitely feel for it.

Speaker 12 (30:37):
You know, whether it's tornado hurricanes, these fires are absolutely fires, wicked, evil.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
It's bad.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
In addition to all that, I heard that there are
a lot of these people that aren't covered because they
could not have they couldn't get coverage, they were unable
to get insurance coverage.

Speaker 12 (30:53):
So that's that's not uncommon in certain places like that
or places that have hurricane in the tornadoes, it's bad.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
Well, you told me a situation too, where like people
in Florida or you know that could be hurricane the
coverage is only it's minimal what you can even get,
it doesn't even begin to It's almost like it covers,
you know, in some cases just a fraction of what
the house would be worth or to rebuild or whatever.

Speaker 12 (31:23):
Yeah, flooded shirts is two fifty backs, So it doesn't
cover a lot of houses in Florida that you know
are two, three.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Four, five, six, seven million dollar houses.

Speaker 12 (31:32):
But right a lot of those people are self insuring,
you know, they're putting money aside and that's what they'll
pay for In the next hurricane. I don't know how
it works in California because I don't know much about
how the fire insurance works, but I'm sure it's not
cheap if you can get it. Now.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Look at that.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
They showed a picture earlier from space. It was and
I don't know how far up, but you literally could
see the fire. You could see the you could see
the like the flickering of the fire from this aerial
view that was way way up. And then of course
the plume, the plume of smoke that is coming from

(32:09):
the edge of California and it's strifting out.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Did you see it?

Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yeah, it looked like crazy. It's crazy. Yeah, yeah, scary,
you know.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
And there's people that just finish their home, renovating it
or something like that, and it's like, oh, bye bye.
So we definitely feel for him, you know, yeah, definitely
feel for him.

Speaker 5 (32:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
I can't. I can't.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
It's it's you know, they're continuing to do all this
live coverage simply because it is not dying down. And
what I think it's the Santa Anna winds that they
talk about there that makes this so And then we're
talking about one hundred plus mile an hour winds go. Yeah,
at that point where the fires jumping across concrete, like
across the.

Speaker 12 (32:50):
Street, they can move instantly. I mean, it's extremely dangerous.
And then the toxic, the toxic smell. And I think
I just saw a clip where Biden was doing press
conference and who said the good news is I just
had a great grandson.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Or daughter or something.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
I'm like, did he really say that?

Speaker 1 (33:06):
I just saw a clip with hearing that Newsom.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
Does he admit to this one?

Speaker 12 (33:12):
I don't know, but I'm like, you're really gonna say that,
I mean, speaking about burning down of the house, man,
that's all he's doing, leaving this White House.

Speaker 5 (33:20):
In loss of life or so even Mark Hamill, even
Rosie o'donald, I would, yes, I would. I would mourn
the loss of life and.

Speaker 6 (33:26):
Something like this, but the property of people like Hamill,
who has said nothing but nasty, vile things about Donald Trump,
Trump's supporters, Republicans, conservatives, anything not Democrat in general over.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
The past two years.

Speaker 6 (33:36):
So you know, there's not a lot of sympathy there
for California itself. My buddy Tom Delbacaro, who tried to
become governor a couple of years ago, as a matter
of fact. But one of Tom's posted today said it's
about priorities. The LA Library System got the fourteen point
six million dollar budget increase this year. The fire department
got a seventeen point six million dollar cut in LA County,

(33:57):
and now we're moaning about fires and not enough sources
to fight them.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
Think about it.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Yeah, yeah, self inflicted absolutely, Yeah, yeah, no doubt. National
Day of Morning is not a federal holiday, but it
is tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
It is happening. It's a National day of Mourning for
President Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
The US stock markets, the question was posed, will they
be open tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (34:21):
The answer is no, correct don Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
The stock markets, Yeah, you know what, good question, but
I think, uh.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
They'll be closed tomorrow. Yeah, yep.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Trading of all US equities and options will be closed
as well, according to Nasdak.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, I was just so. Yep.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
The mail will not be delivered tomorrow, So if you're
looking for your regular mail, not going to get it.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
But this is all federal, This isn't state level or
municipal stuff.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Says federal.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yep, yep. Post offices will be closed tomorrow.
You will not receive your regular mail or packages. FedEx, however,
will be operating at normal capacity tomorrow, so FedEx and ups.
Oh yeah, Will banks be open? No, banks will be closed.

(35:10):
Their branches will be closed as they will follow the
federal holiday schedule as well, even though it's not a
federal holiday.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
That's kind of goofy.

Speaker 6 (35:21):
I mean, I don't know that I've got a problem
with a National Day of Morning with the President passing,
you know, that's not but for to be you know,
scattered like Okay, we'll observe it and we won't. And
it's really not a holiday, but we're gonna call it.
That needs to be way more organized if we're.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
Going to do it.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
So listen to this. It gets better.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
The National Day of Morning is not a federal holiday,
but federal offices will be closed tomorrow, so will they
have the day off? According to the White House, yes,
not all federal workers will be exempt from working though,
so I guess you have to call around and try
to figure out if you're working if you're a federally.

Speaker 12 (35:58):
Yeah, spend spend the next four hours trying to figure
out if I'm off tomorrow? Right?

Speaker 3 (36:03):
And you know what this is?

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Right?

Speaker 4 (36:05):
Isn't this right in line with this administration. I mean,
it's one thousand percent perfect. It's perfect in nature.

Speaker 6 (36:12):
It's not a federal holiday, but federal offices are closed,
but you may have to work anyway, but we can't
tell you if you do or not. Welcome to biden Land.
Tickets are fifty dollars each and the hunter should come
through the gate. Is there trash pickup? And it says
that January ninth is not showing as a holiday. So

(36:32):
locally all the day from the City of Columbus and said,
my trash is being picked up tomorrow, so dog gone,
it will be at the curb.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
They better come get it. Yeah, yep, yep, yeah yeah
not I'm taking it. Downtown schools and colleges will be
open tomorrow. I'm just going over this because I felt
it kind of interesting.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Slash.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
I think most people kind of understand or even know
what's going to be happening tomorrow, But in case they don't,
I just figured I would. I would kind of go
over this, and I figured we'd have some fun comments
a long way and then will restaurants and stores be
open tomorrow? Yes they will, So there's hopefully that kind
of covers a lot of people's lives tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
But yeah, for profit organizations will be open. Keyword for profit.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Yeah that's good.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
That's not the government.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
That's a great way to put it, for sure. Do
you have thoughts on.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
So, you know, it is looking like Lieutenant Governor John
Houstad is going to be I mean, there's a lot
of rumblings. I don't know if it's one hundred percent
going to happen or whatever, but the Wine is going
to end up appointing him and jd Vance's slot as
Senator for Ohio. And so it's looking like that. Well,

(37:48):
it's interesting. There was an opinion piece in the Dispatch
that I came across.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Have you seen this, Chuck? Did you happen to see
this dispatch? Yeah? Well I just know, I don't I
read I read it to.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
Yeah, yeah, you read it for the pictures. Well that's playboy.
You read that for the articles.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
Oh no, for the pictures. I'm honest to a funt,
to a fault, I'm honest. So listen to this.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
Here's the opinion piece for years the two of you.
This is to dear Mike and Fran the wine. This
is from Dan in Worthington, because for years the two
of you have denounced bias, slant, and favoritism in Ohio politics.
Now I read that John Houstead is being seriously concerned. Uh,

(38:39):
seriously concerned. I think it's considered for the vacant Senate seat.
Are you too sleeping well at night? John Houstead has
been nothing but a poster boy. This is what Dan
was saying from Worthington. His clean cut hair and all
American front have been posterized by the two of you.
Houstead is often I've seen glistening in the back, glistening

(39:02):
he used to glistening in the background of video press
conferences and photo opportunities during the state COVID updates. He
proved to be nonsensical and a simpleton. Please rethink your
thinking to affirm the DeWine legacy. Please appoint someone who
will be a diligent worker toward improving the health and
welfare of mainstream Ohioans.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
And who do you think comes to mind?

Speaker 4 (39:25):
For Dan from Worthy am acting No, think think larger,
think bigger. Yeah, it's a shared brown, shared brown comes
to mind. That's how he finished this, once again not
being able to read the room. It's like, Dan, do
you realize what had happened. Do you understand what's happened

(39:46):
in Ohio? Shared Brown just lost. There's a reason he lost.
Think about the wreck. The name recognition versus a Bernie Marino.
Think about the name recognition. There's a reason, Dan, he's
been given his walk looking papers. And you want to
turn around and make him governor. I'm sorry, you want
to turn around?

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah? Yeah, you want to turn around and have him
come on?

Speaker 6 (40:08):
Danz and Worthington, You say, yeah, Dan, I need to
quote the immortal Whitney Houston crack is whack.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
And senator not governor. I got that wrong, I said.
I said governor, yes, senator exactly. So anyway, when I
just saw this piece and I go, come on, So
I didn't know like what your thoughts were done on
on this Hustead becoming senator is something you would be
you're good with you know him?

Speaker 6 (40:35):
Then?

Speaker 12 (40:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I know through a group of guys,
I do you know, we do a couple of events
each year together and it's just a real small group.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
He's part of that group.

Speaker 12 (40:47):
Great guy, capable and yes, both our wives would say yes,
he's very handsome.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
So he's listening so yes, very very capable.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
He's listening in the background, according to that, right, that's
what the.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Good old insults.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
It actually sounds really nice because I'd love for somebody
you see Chuck today. Oh he was listening in the background,
the front, ground, background, to the side, left side, right,
just glistened, disting.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
Boy, I look so good.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
Yes, I think that's complimentary, but I know it was
meant to be insulting.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
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Speaker 3 (41:32):
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Speaker 10 (41:36):
On six ' ten WTV, Crispy Kream introducing the Crispy
Cream X pop Tarts Crazy Good Donuts Collection.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
I think that's really the name. Yeah, they have collaborated
to introduce. Let's bring in chief Media Religis Marshall McPeak.
He's always good on these things.

Speaker 9 (42:00):
Had me at donut.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
The Krispy Cream, Pop Tarts Crazy Good Donuts Collection features
three new flavors. Including the collection are the pop Tarts
frosted strawberry donut?

Speaker 5 (42:12):
Yes, yes, please?

Speaker 4 (42:14):
The pop Tarts frosted chocolatey fudge donut.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
Okay, okay, that's milk.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
That hit me bright. Yeah. And the pop Tarts frosted
brown sugar cinnamon doughnut.

Speaker 5 (42:27):
I'm on that one, okay.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
So you only like the strawberry. You and Marshall are
good on the strawberry. Yes it look there. They're Krispy creams.
I will eat them right, yes, period, I will eat them.

Speaker 11 (42:41):
I would rank them though, by strawberry and then the cinnamon,
and then the chocolate.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
So the strawberry contains short bread icing pop Tarts pieces
with strawberry filling to make a pink colored specialty donut.
Then there is the pop Tarts frosted chocolatey donut, an
original glazed donut with butter cream and frosted chocolatety fudge
pop tart bites.

Speaker 9 (43:08):
Okay, that's a whole new world. That's a game changer.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
Oh okay. I heard the tremble in his breath as
he inhaled. There I did.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
I was like Marshall, just his knees got weak right there.

Speaker 9 (43:20):
I could see it.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
Then the pop Tarts frosted brown sugar cinnamon donut a
cinnamon sugar donut. Top with a brown sugar cinnamon cream
cheese flavored butter cream with.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
A frosted cinnamon roll pop tarts piece.

Speaker 9 (43:36):
Okay, just just get a dozen of each and let's
do this.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
When they come up with this stuff, honestly, I have
to wonder, because they've got corporate officers for everything else.
Is there somebody Krispy Cream who goes, okay, now, how
bad will this one be for you? Do they do
they look at the calorie clown or the do you
care about any of them?

Speaker 3 (43:58):
Cream?

Speaker 9 (43:58):
Thinking I'm getting health food?

Speaker 3 (44:00):
That's just that's part of the marshall. You nailed its point.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
No one health conscious is eating a Krispy cardiac and
instant cardiac.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
There's gotta be that line where you're like, Okay, we
just can't give.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
This lippator line of Krispy Kreme.

Speaker 5 (44:13):
This is too much. We can't do that. We've got
to keep this under lock and key.

Speaker 11 (44:17):
You've been to the stay Fair and had the Krispy
Kreme burger, Yes, yeah, I've talked about that.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Absolutely fantastic, it really is.

Speaker 4 (44:25):
So there's a lippiatur Krispy Kreme and also a met
foreman for the type too, Marshall.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
If it says Krispy Kreme, I say, Marshall, they got
a new garlic and Tennis Hue flavor.

Speaker 5 (44:34):
It's Krispy Kreme. He's in.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (44:36):
Yeah, that's basically the way that works.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
Yes, hey, with the ones, I was just saying, they
crush up, you know, like say lippatoor, and then sprinkle
it all over it and then you're good. Uh, not
to be confused with skeletor, which is a he man thing,
but anyway, and.

Speaker 9 (44:50):
Then the man who needs a spoonful of sugar. When
you've got that right, the medicine goes down.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
That ain't you supposed to say that with the British
accent though, really it just doesn't have the same effect.

Speaker 8 (45:00):
It's a crispy cream that wasn't bad, Not really, Julie Andrews,
but still not. There is only one Julians. Let's just
be here and and do you when you have pop tarts?
Do you put them in the toaster? Do you eat
them cold?

Speaker 7 (45:18):
So?

Speaker 11 (45:19):
So what you do is you slather that with a
little bit of butter and you put it in the
microwave for eleven seconds.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Oh just I mean, is that something you've done before Marshall, Oh.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
Yeah, yes, and there on Baystones.

Speaker 6 (45:32):
I think is a very underrated condiment because it seems
to work on pretty much. You can put rich cookies
a little butter on top and it's oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
Yes, so you put that.

Speaker 9 (45:41):
Butter on there, yeah, yeah, yes, with the frosting, yes, yes, yes, and.

Speaker 11 (45:47):
Then you put it in the microwave for a few
seconds and then you add the lipotour to it.

Speaker 9 (45:53):
And it warms it up justin it's delightful.

Speaker 5 (45:56):
Yes, yes, yes, I'll have what he's having.

Speaker 11 (45:58):
Yes, Harry Bett Sally love it all right. So do
we have need something to keep you warm anyway? Because
it is gonna get So there is a cold weather
advisory for tonight, and I believe this is the first
time we've ever had that. This replaces what used to
be the wind chill advisory. It has a new name now,

(46:20):
so it's a cold weather advisory, and our air temperatures
are going to be in the single digits the wind
chill adder below zero, so really bundle up again tomorrow
morning Thursday during the day partly cloudy twenty two. Friday
twenty five, and we'll get some snow Friday night into Saturday.
We could end up with one to three pockets, closer

(46:41):
two to four. So we're gonna be probably we're gonna
be looking at something to shovel by Saturday morning.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
All right, very good, Marshall, thank you. It is twenty four.

Speaker 6 (46:52):
Down the Lasen Down, go down, just the seindic down.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
That was Chuck singing.

Speaker 6 (47:07):
By the way, Chuck Victor Victoria, don't make fun of
the julianers.

Speaker 5 (47:12):
Chuck.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Yes he is.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
Uh, he is Ross Wealth Advisors. It is Don Ross,
the retirement boss. Who's going Do I really have to
come back on after that?

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Hello? Checking in? Hello?

Speaker 12 (47:28):
There he is?

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Yeah, So I like sugar candy, candy, corn candy cans?

Speaker 3 (47:34):
Is that what that all I was gonna I was
gonna say this is Uh.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
I didn't want to really divulge exactly what might be
going on in your personal life, But was that a
tough conversation to listen to, Don.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
I'll just ask and and kind of leave it.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
At that, huh, because I'm trying awake in one.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Yeah, that's what I That's where I was going for.
I wanted you to actually say it, but yeah, I just.

Speaker 12 (47:55):
It's the new year, you know, and I'm a pretty
fit guy, but I thought i'd try it because we
like to take inventory of our health and our wealth
every first of the year.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Yes, thanks to you. I'm trying a weaken away and
I'm freaking starving right now. But I talked to my coach.

Speaker 12 (48:12):
He says, had a little healthy fats, hunts some broccoli
and you'll get to dinner. So I feel good.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
Yeah, that's what they That is one of the things,
as a matter of fact, for their shakes. The stuff
that you make with that you can use like avocado
oil in it, which might some people go what, but
it's it is weird the effect that it has because
it does add the healthy fats.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
But that makes you feel full. There's there's no question
about that.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
And that's really what the coroversion, right, extra virgin olive
oil that it's.

Speaker 12 (48:43):
I mean, it's all education, you know, food and consumption,
and of course, ye think I think our country needs a.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Lot of education that but it's fascinating.

Speaker 12 (48:51):
It's like a little science project I'm going to do
for a couple of weeks and you know, shed a
few and and be a lean, mean fighting machine.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
I think you're going to get there.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
I really do.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
I think he will. How about Trumpett? How about Golf
of America? Where are you guys coming? Yeah, I saw
that way. Oh my gosh, this is amazing. Then what
you have the lefties posting now?

Speaker 4 (49:12):
Their meme is I'm trying to figure out how Golf
of Mexico is going to help reduce the cost of
groceries at the grocery store's and I go, what he can.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
Only he's not Biden. He can do more than one
thing at once. That's what I wanted to reply.

Speaker 12 (49:26):
To that he's already He's already in DC and have
dinner with the GOP senators tonight.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
I mean, this guy is asleep, man.

Speaker 12 (49:33):
I mean I'm reading his first book in nineteen eighty seven,
Yard of the Deal. I've been a fan of this
guy since nineteen eighty seven a person found out who
he was. This guy understands how to get stuff done,
and we're all going to benefit from it.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
I don't even care if you're the ones that hate him,
because he's gonna a threat to democracy. He's going to
get I mean, I just can't even I can't even
keep up with.

Speaker 12 (49:57):
A guy, you know, I mean, six four hours to night.
I think he's just phenomenal. He's gonna do for this
country and it's long needed. So four years, as we
all know, it's been horrible.

Speaker 5 (50:06):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
Marjorie Taylor Green out of Georgia, of course, submitted legislation
in the House yesterday afternoon, immediately after Trump mentioned the
idea to officially change the name to Golf of America.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
So she's right on it.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
That's how you know it's out.

Speaker 7 (50:21):
Though.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
When Marjorie Taylor Green jumps on it like that, it's
something's wrong with it. Donald Trump is trolling. It's if
it caught the Golf of Mexico. Call it the big
body of water, call it the golf. It doesn't matter.
He's just screwing with people to give them something.

Speaker 5 (50:35):
To talk about.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
He loves it.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Let's get let's get oil out of it.

Speaker 12 (50:39):
I don't care what you call.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Let's get that oil out of there, and then let's
make let's make Greenland great again.

Speaker 5 (50:44):
Yeah, why not.

Speaker 6 (50:45):
We're gonna send the seas on the Commando Greenland and
then they're gonna take obts.

Speaker 5 (50:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Feederman said, think of my aggression. So what do you
think about him? Did you see him mine yesterday with
that uh Federal Saturday, I forget her name.

Speaker 12 (51:01):
He's actually like a Joe Manchin almost well, a moderate
Chuck mentioned earlier to me, what were you saying earlier
before and.

Speaker 6 (51:09):
The whole saying that if if we get to the
end of this year and he has not flipped parties,
I will be surprised. I think Fetterman is on the
verge of making the jump over to Trump Land.

Speaker 5 (51:17):
I really do.

Speaker 6 (51:18):
And then of course the Democrats will say, well, he's
brain damaged after his stroke. You know, they'll say everything
that we were had in concerns about they nullified. Then
it will become an issue the moment he jumps. But
I think he's gonna jump ship on him.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
I really do.

Speaker 12 (51:31):
But but you know what, Chuck, maybe he stays at
them and he's a he's a he's a Demo or
a dimo what they call a democratic name only you know,
maybe he.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
Stays there and it's like another Republican vote.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
Could be that's not a bad strategy. That's interesting.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
That was my wife's idea, you know what, And yeah,
that is that is a good idea, and he absolutely
I would not be surprised if that happened if he
voted conservative on some of the stuff coming through. But
I don't know that we'll need him if we're going
down party lines anyway. But it would be interesting if
he did that, because he seems like a guy at
this point who's just.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Going to do what he feels is common sense.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
I was even kind of pointing out to Chuck the
stuff that he's talking about is like, it's common sense.
It's not even necessarily right or left, it's just common
sense stuff.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
I hate. Yeah, those two words.

Speaker 6 (52:22):
The gateway Democrat that Mansion failed to be. That's something else.
Joe Manchin was never strong enough in his moderation to
bring others behind him that might have been inclined to
come behind him. Could Fetterman be that gateway to bring
some Democrats over, even on the vote, even if they
stayed Democrats seeing the logical side of the vote and
not voting along those party lines.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
That could be a big deal.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
The other thing I wanted to point out too was
and get your take on this too, Don before we
go was talking about Greenland and everything that he's talking
about with that and the Panama come out canal.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
He was asked by a reporter if he would rule out.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
Using military force or economic coercion in his attempt to
take over Greenland and the Panama Come Out Canal. Trump responded, No,
I can't assure you on either of those two.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
He is definitely trolling.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
He's messing with It is so funny how the media
they're going to use all of these quotes and say
that he's going to do this, and he's going to
do that, just like the bleach thing in the veins. Remember,
you know, inject bleach you can get rid of COVID
kind of remember that. Yeah, he's just messing with people.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 12 (53:30):
It's like it's like your buddy just having a little fun.
But I mean he's kind of a he's kind of
a powerful leader. So maybe you shouldn't joke about thirty things.
I think the Panama Canal is a very very strategic,
very important piece of real estate. We definitely don't want
to lose any kind of control of.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Yeah, that's my thought.

Speaker 4 (53:48):
Yeah, sure, so you are going to be back in
this area hopefully when the snow is gone, don Or
you'll be You're back and forth, I know, because you
have offices there too, obviously.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Yeah, I've spent h I mean I worked all day
to day. This is the time of year. I do
all client reviews.

Speaker 12 (54:08):
You know, we see our clients twice a year minimum,
whether it's Zoom or in office, and we're going over
the first of the year stuff and positioning for the future,
and so we were working hard away.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
And uh, just just just so you know, yeah, so
you know we're working hard.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Well, I know that absolutely.

Speaker 6 (54:25):
Do we really want him to come back up here?
Can we go down where he is and do the
show from there?

Speaker 3 (54:29):
We could?

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Yeah, I mean we did that.

Speaker 12 (54:33):
We did the broadcast from the net, you know, National Veterans.
So there's just a couple of pieces of quick and
bring with you and yeah, and on the dock, Yeah,
sitting on the dock of the day of the dock
or whatever.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
That's all seating there is exactlyfeicially that top gun scene.
You know, he's sitting there listening to music.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:53):
Eight three three don Ross. That number still works even
though he's far south from us right now. Eight three
three don Ross eight three three D O N R
O S S. And yes, he may be there, but
he's working away and can still you know, questions answer
any questions any of those things. You can also still
get his book in all of those things. You got
something going on with the website yet, I know it's

(55:15):
in the process of being built still correct, Yeah, yep.

Speaker 12 (55:18):
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(55:41):
the leisure, their home or office or on their phone
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Speaker 1 (55:45):
Not me telling you, but you deciding yourself.

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Speaker 4 (56:05):
Very good Don Ross, the Retirement Boss with Ross Wild
Advisors eight three three D O N R O. S. S.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Don happy New Year. Thank you very much for checking
in with you, and we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 5 (56:16):
Brother.

Speaker 9 (56:16):
All right, brother, take care, Thanks, bye bye, see ya.