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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I gotta tell you rarely, rarely, rarely, and I mean rarely,
not often at all, not often at all.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Do I see my breath in the garage?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
When I go out Last night? I ran out.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It was so funny because we're getting, you know, sitting
down to dinner, and Stone's like, hey, what do you want,
like from the fridge, you know, out there because the
overflow for the you know, to drink for you know,
And I'm like, oh, I grab it, and I go
out there and I'm like ah, And by then I
had my shoes off, and you know, I'm like, obviously,
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I know it's cold, but I'm like, God, I'm seeing
my breath out here, and your garage is typically warmer
than obviously outside. But I felt like not by much
as far as but man, this morning too, I was like,
oh my gosh too.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
When I opened my eyes this morning. And I have
never appreciated whoever created blankets more than I appreciated them
this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And man, uh they that was the three dog night thing,
which I've had that conversation with Marshall many times, but
that is where that name came from. Because it's so cold,
it's a three dog night, you would have three dogs
that helped keep you warm or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I do not wear gloves. I find them uncomfortable and tedious,
nor do I Driving home last night, by the time
my hands hurt from the cold of my steering ache. Yeah,
it was amazing. It's I'm sure we'd been this cold before,
but not in recent memory. And I wasn't this old
when it happened last time.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Blood's a little thinner now.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And uh, you know, my wife has the heated steering
wheel in her car with a pampered brat.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh my gosh, heated seats too.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh yeah, so you little buns all.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh yeah, I feel so good because my butt's won
yeah buns warm.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Although I will tell you when I drive her car
and I'm going on like a trip or whatever, and
you know whatever, I I look at that as a
it helps, you know, loosen my It helps with my
back more than my butt. So I'll deal with that.
But I'm thinking to myself, it helps mem a low back,
because no, I'm just saying because typically I don't you know,
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I'm okay, Well, you sit on a cold seat and it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Warms up pretty quickly, you know. With my big butt,
so I warm it up pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
But there are you know people, and I used to think, like,
really a steering wheel.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That that that heats?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Are you kidding me? And then the first time I
experienced it, I go one of the nicest things ever.
But that's what makes us soft as Americans, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
If you have those things.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Too much luxury. I told you the cold hit the
service engine light went off in the remote story. So
the queen says, that's a real story. By the way,
I'm going to start the car, so it's all warmed up.
I swear you don't leave till tomorrow morning. You don't
have to do it now, she was. She was ready
to let it just run all night.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, man, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's with this cold the way that it is. And
I had something. You had said something earlier. It made
me think of something. And now you know what I
typically do in that situation. I'll jot down in front
of me a keyword just because the conversation continues. And
what I did was I didn't jot down the keyword
just now, and now I can't remember. I had a point.
Oh no, and I had something I was like, oh,
(03:20):
that'd be a good point.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It's entirely my fault. I'm sorry for interjecting.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, no, no, no no, it was no.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
No, no, I take the blame. No of sell me. It's me. No.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It was because Atney. It was because of what you
said that made me think of what by It'll come
to me again. It might not be you know, like
you know, twenty twenty five, twenty or it is twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Middle of the night. Yeah, Blarney Stone is what I
was thinking.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, this what was the coldest day
in Columbus history? And how does twenty twenty five compare?
Because we know right now there's it feels like there's
got to be some record being set.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But the coldest days in history, let's see the.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
January nineteenth, nineteen ninety four minus negative twenty two degrees,
negative twenty two degrees.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You remember that day.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I don't remember that. I must. I think I was
just out of elementary school at that time.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, because you were walking out with your then child.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Maybe probably No, I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, let's see that would have made me. I'm trying
to think.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That big guy, I might have lived multiple lives. There's
plenty of me.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You go around, I was, I think I was twenty five,
then twenty four, okay, twenty five in nineteen ninety four,
and you were twenty You're four years older than me. Yes, anyway,
So then second on this list. These are the coldest days.
Second on that list. January third, eighteen seventy nine, January sixth,
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eighteen eighty four, February tenth, eighteen ninety nine. All of
them are tied for minus twenty degrees. I didn't even
know we kept records then.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, I think it's eighteen twenty nine is kind of surprising.
I thought it was like eighteen eighty six or something
when we started keeping records.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But eighteen eighty four, eighteen seventy nine, and eighteen ninety
nine are on here. We're going to party like it's
eighteen ninety nine. January seventeenth, nineteen seventy seven, January twentieth,
nineteen eighty five, minus nineteen degrees. That's third on the
list coldest days in Columbus history. January eighteenth, nineteen ninety four.
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February ninth, eighteen ninety nine, minus seventeen degrees. So I
wonder think go back to eighteen ninety nine, and you know,
we're going back that far in history.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
They were, grandmother was one year old.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They were, they were really struggling to stay warm at
that point.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And think about that, I mean, there would you have
Did they have interior heat at that time? You had
fire places? I'm assuming they had to it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, they had to do it. I remember what I
thought about earlier that I've forgotten.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I was watching TV and they did a story on homeless,
you know, for that and I can't even you know,
Stone says to me, I'm so happy that we aren't
in that type of predicament.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You know, was basically the gist of.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I was just like son, I know, and I don't
even understand how people survive in this kind of cold,
if you're homeless and you're outside and you're in a
tent or you're in I don't even understand it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And I heard you say that I've called a car
home before.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I heard you say that last night and when I
was driving home, And that's one thing I did not
know about you.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Not asking you to expound, but I'm just saying that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Is it puts it in perspective, dude, It just puts
a lot of things in person. Eive when you go
I got some problems this or that, and you go, yeah,
well I don't have that problem.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Probably one of the reasons why I have such a
benevolent heart. Yeah I'm a heart ass in a lot
of ways, but I also understand people that had not Doro.
They're screw ups. But sometimes life happens, and I try
to be generous in spirit toward it. I gripe, you know,
leaving the car the old beater unlocked because of the
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broken handle on it, and people the other day I got, man,
somebody got in my car again, took out my bottle
a listine. I'm a smoker. I keep a little bottle
of Listerine in the console in case I got a
meeting or something. I'm scared to use it now. I
had just opened it. But I'm scared because I don't
know it. But if I went out last night and
found somebody like sleeping under a pile of the donated
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clothes in the back of the truck that was supposed
to go to the church because they were freezing, I
don't think I'd be angry with them. As crazy as
that sounds, stealing stuff trying to get that's one thing.
But if somebody saw, hey, this car is open and
there's stuff in the back, I can stay warm. I
don't know that I'd be upset that they're trying to.
But survival, yeah, at some point you have to be
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decent to your year, fellow human beings.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, you have it, survival, Leon, I are you there?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So what do you got for Hi?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I have been trying for at least a week. I've
called every station. I've called NBC. I've called the two
six ' three I don't know, you're sixty six six numbers,
and everybody left messages and everything. I never could talk
to anybody, and nobody ever ever called me back. But
I was so desperate I wanted them to comment on
that fact that I am ninety three years old, Mark
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and I survived that in January nineteenth, nineteen ninety four,
it was twenty two degrees below zero actual temperature, not windshill, right.
But I'm surprised that none of the weather man commented
on that until I Apparently maybe it was because of
my call that you did get that reported, which I'm
I'm happy for. I really appreciate that, believe me.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh, well, yeah, so you remember that day, Oh.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I certainly do. My car wouldn't start. We had to
Eventually my man friend got my car to Firestone and
they had to get a new battery that day. Couldn't
go to work and everything. No, that was a very,
very very cold day. I lived down on Maize Road
at that time, and I can say I'm ninety three
years old now, but I'll never forget that day. I
have it written down everywhere in my records here. Every
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year I bring that up. But You're the only one
that has reported that. And I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Oh well, thank you, Leona. I appreciate that you would
have been assaultree what sixty at that time?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Sixty?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Well, I don't even remember. I'm ninety three.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
She was just old enough to have a man friend,
That's what were I had.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
A wonderful man. I went with him for forty seven years.
Do you believe that?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I do hang on it?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Seven years of being your man? Why didn't he ever
pull the plug on this thing and make it a
fish over forty seven years?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
It wasn't his fault. There are a lot of things involved.
I just I'm a great procrastinator. For one thing obviously,
and I had a lot of kind of family responsibility
and many many reasons we didn't. But we loved each
other and it was a very wonderful relationship. I lost
him in two thousand and one. He died in two
thousand and one. But he was a wonderful man.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I was, you know what, I got to be honest, Leona,
I thought maybe you were telling us you're a play Yeah,
I thought that's what was happening, and you just had
a man friend. But I get it now, I understand.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I don't know you want to claim significant other or what,
but that way. Yeah, his name was plain old Joe Hill.
You know one time there was a sports guy here
in town named Joe Hill too. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah? Was that him? Or oh, okay, the same name? Okay, No.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
He worked at Rockwell North American for thirty four years
out there.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, my dear, you sound so pleasant and marriage or not.
With forty seven years under his belt with you, I'm
sure he left this rock a happy man.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Well, we did. We had a wonderful relationship, more so
than my friends who were divorce who were married but
wanted to get divorced and couldn't you know, right, we
were happier than they were, I believe.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, so when you welcome, it's experiencing yesterday and today.
You're going, oh, this ain't so bad. Back in nineteen
ninety four it was minus twenty two air temperature.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
True, But I haven't been out yet. Today. My vision's
getting very very bad. I really shouldn't be driving anymore.
To tell you truth, I have been, but I shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You're probably still a better driver than most in Columbus, Leon,
and let's just say it.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, I do. And I like to pride myself to
think that I am a good driver. But I have
to be very very careful, you know, I understand. Yeah,
and then I have heart failure. I have a million
things wrong with me. But I'm trying to hang in there.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You know you hang in there. You sound bright as
all get out, are you?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Kid me?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I love you, guys. I listen to your show every
single day. I do.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
This is great. I love it. Well, Leona, thank you
for calling in, and you call in any time. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Okay, thank you very very much, and you stay warm now.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Thank you too.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Okay, bye bye. I love you.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I love you too, honey.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Oh, she's one of these people. Let me just tell you.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
You can feel it. I get it.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I've known several you know, it's like ninetieth birthday and
there's this freedom of spirit. She's one of those people.
I don't care how crappy the day has been. Yes,
I talked to them, and I'm smiling. I Leona, you
don't know you talk about appreciate. Oh, I listened to you.
You know what you brought the light to this day
in this room. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Man, she's a ninety three years old and still sounds
all happy and joe el and that's great.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
She you can feel that love. She's a great storyteller.
You could feel it. And I would actually like to
just hear some stories, you know from her, be like
what can we call it story hour with Leona, and
like hear some of the I guarantee she's seen some
crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But that's it. That is uh man, You're right, that was.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I posted that woman on the Facebook page last week.
Did you see that? The one hundred and four year
old woman, No drink's three doctor pepper's a day, and
she's just she's she actually looked great, very energetic, and
she said, yeah, by Drake, three doctors every day. I've
had two doctors tell me it'll kill me, but they're
both dead now.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And it was regular doctor Beverers.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
And she's just a spry of mind and heart. And yeah,
it was great watching it. I watched it about half
a dozen times. It was just fun to watch her.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That is uh, that is good stuff. Should you warm
up your car in the cold weather? And then the
headline is common myth debunked and so warming up your
car according to this on bitter cold mornings is a
standard routine. As we know, for most of us before
nineteen eighty, most cars had carburetors, so if your car
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was manufactured after nineteen eighty, you can skip this step.
According to Firestone, UH complete auto care. They were referenced
for this article and they talk about, you know, they
had carburetors regulated air fuel mixture.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
We know what carbs are.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Carburettors are, so in cold temperatures, they couldn't vapor rise
all the gasoline they led into the engines, so some
of it would be left behind as a liquid rather
than being burned off during combustion. So if you didn't
warm up your car, you risk stalling the vehicle flooded
if you will. So you don't have to warm your
car up now, according to them. But you know what,
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what if you do it for a different reason, as
in you want it to be warmer, or the heat
already coming out of the vents.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
This news is brought to you by the same people
to tell you don't have to wash your chicken before
you cook it. I'm sorry, I'm warming up the car.
I'm washing the chicken. Take it to the bank.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Then they say, listen to this.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Does it cause damage if you warm up your car
in the winter, Idling your engine could damage your engines, pistons,
decrease your car's fuel efficiency, hurt the environment. I went, aha,
there's that e wordp And then so for your car safety,
it says, cancel the warming up the car routine. I
beg to differ on this. I'm with you, I beg
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to differ. I warm mine up and I feel like
just to warm it up and get it going.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
That is.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Look is it one hundred percent? No, you don't have
to do that. And then this is also the season
where all the thieves are driving around neighborhoods looking for
the exhaust spitting out the clock. It's actually like a
beacon for them that goes up in the air and
they go, there's one we can steal while it's running
or whatever. But it's a whole different situation with remote
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start and so on, because if you're remote starting a
vehicle and then the remote's not in the vehicle, you
can bust the window out and get it, and it's
not gonna get You're not gonna put it in drive
and take off. It won't work. But if the key
is in it or the remote. But I have the
old fashioned key in mine, I have to actually put
the key in turn it.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
My other one is the push button where you have
the remote the fob if you will, and I know
yours is.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
The key too.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Oh yeah, looky mine's not a crank on the front
of the car. And you know that whole warming up thing.
I'll tell you what. I warmed up for about three
minutes before pulling out in this cold today, as still
wasn't enough my car was. You know, I have feeling
if you got like mud on your tennis shoes and
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you're trying to walk with a big chunk of mud. Yes,
that's how it was driving until I got out there
for a while because that three minutes was not enough time.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
And then it kind of got going. Yeah, yeah, I
just like getting in it. And it's already warm inside
as far as the heater goes. So what I do
with my garage is I put my garage not quite
halfway up, but maybe a little more than a third
something like that, and then let it run because if
somebody's gonna jump in it and take off, they gotta
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then get my garage door opener.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
There's just gonna be a lot of noise.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
If they do try to steal it, and then that
way get it warmed up, and then you know, and
they can get going.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
And ma'am, I just.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'm really careful with that because I don't want to
leave the garage door down for obvious reason.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, if you start that and then you know, everybody
ends up and then yeah, no good.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
But
I gotta tell you rarely, rarely, rarely, and I mean rarely,
not often at all, not often at all.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Do I see my breath in the garage?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
When I go out Last night? I ran out.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It was so funny because we're getting, you know, sitting
down to dinner, and Stone's like, hey, what do you want,
like from the fridge, you know, out there because the
overflow for the you know, to drink for you know,
And I'm like, oh, I grab it, and I go
out there and I'm like ah, And by then I
had my shoes off, and you know, I'm like, obviously,
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I know it's cold, but I'm like, God, I'm seeing
my breath out here, and your garage is typically warmer
than obviously outside. But I felt like not by much
as far as but man, this morning too, I was like,
oh my gosh too.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
When I opened my eyes this morning. And I have
never appreciated whoever created blankets more than I appreciated them
this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And man, uh they that was the three dog night thing,
which I've had that conversation with Marshall many times, but
that is where that name came from. Because it's so cold,
it's a three dog night, you would have three dogs
that helped keep you warm or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I do not wear gloves. I find them uncomfortable and tedious,
nor do I Driving home last night, by the time
my hands hurt from the cold of my steering ache. Yeah,
it was amazing. It's I'm sure we'd been this cold before,
but not in recent memory. And I wasn't this old
when it happened last time.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Blood's a little thinner now.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And uh, you know, my wife has the heated steering
wheel in her car with a pampered brat.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh my gosh, heated seats too.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh yeah, so you little buns all.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh yeah, I feel so good because my butt's won
yeah buns warm.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Although I will tell you when I drive her car
and I'm going on like a trip or whatever, and
you know whatever, I I look at that as a
it helps, you know, loosen my It helps with my
back more than my butt. So I'll deal with that.
But I'm thinking to myself, it helps mem a low back,
because no, I'm just saying because typically I don't you know,
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I'm okay, Well, you sit on a cold seat and it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Warms up pretty quickly, you know. With my big butt,
so I warm it up pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
But there are you know people, and I used to think, like,
really a steering wheel.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That that that heats?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Are you kidding me? And then the first time I
experienced it, I go one of the nicest things ever.
But that's what makes us soft as Americans, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
If you have those things.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Too much luxury. I told you the cold hit the
service engine light went off in the remote story. So
the queen says, that's a real story. By the way,
I'm going to start the car, so it's all warmed up.
I swear you don't leave till tomorrow morning. You don't
have to do it now, she was. She was ready
to let it just run all night.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, man, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's with this cold the way that it is. And
I had something. You had said something earlier. It made
me think of something. And now you know what I
typically do in that situation. I'll jot down in front
of me a keyword just because the conversation continues. And
what I did was I didn't jot down the keyword
just now, and now I can't remember. I had a point.
Oh no, and I had something I was like, oh,
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that'd be a good point.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It's entirely my fault. I'm sorry for interjecting.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, no, no, no no, it was no.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
No, no, I take the blame. No of sell me. It's me. No.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It was because Atney. It was because of what you
said that made me think of what by It'll come
to me again. It might not be you know, like
you know, twenty twenty five, twenty or it is twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Middle of the night. Yeah, Blarney Stone is what I
was thinking.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, this what was the coldest day
in Columbus history? And how does twenty twenty five compare?
Because we know right now there's it feels like there's
got to be some record being set.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But the coldest days in history, let's see the.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
January nineteenth, nineteen ninety four minus negative twenty two degrees,
negative twenty two degrees.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You remember that day.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I don't remember that. I must. I think I was
just out of elementary school at that time.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, because you were walking out with your then child.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Maybe probably No, I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, let's see that would have made me. I'm trying
to think.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That big guy, I might have lived multiple lives. There's
plenty of me.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You go around, I was, I think I was twenty five,
then twenty four, okay, twenty five in nineteen ninety four,
and you were twenty You're four years older than me. Yes, anyway,
So then second on this list. These are the coldest days.
Second on that list. January third, eighteen seventy nine, January sixth,
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eighteen eighty four, February tenth, eighteen ninety nine. All of
them are tied for minus twenty degrees. I didn't even
know we kept records then.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, I think it's eighteen twenty nine is kind of surprising.
I thought it was like eighteen eighty six or something
when we started keeping records.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But eighteen eighty four, eighteen seventy nine, and eighteen ninety
nine are on here. We're going to party like it's
eighteen ninety nine. January seventeenth, nineteen seventy seven, January twentieth,
nineteen eighty five, minus nineteen degrees. That's third on the
list coldest days in Columbus history. January eighteenth, nineteen ninety four.
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February ninth, eighteen ninety nine, minus seventeen degrees. So I
wonder think go back to eighteen ninety nine, and you know,
we're going back that far in history.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
They were, grandmother was one year old.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They were, they were really struggling to stay warm at
that point.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And think about that, I mean, there would you have
Did they have interior heat at that time? You had
fire places? I'm assuming they had to it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, they had to do it. I remember what I
thought about earlier that I've forgotten.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I was watching TV and they did a story on homeless,
you know, for that and I can't even you know,
Stone says to me, I'm so happy that we aren't
in that type of predicament.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You know, was basically the gist of.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I was just like son, I know, and I don't
even understand how people survive in this kind of cold,
if you're homeless and you're outside and you're in a
tent or you're in I don't even understand it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And I heard you say that I've called a car
home before.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I heard you say that last night and when I
was driving home, And that's one thing I did not
know about you.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Not asking you to expound, but I'm just saying that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Is it puts it in perspective, dude, It just puts
a lot of things in person. Eive when you go
I got some problems this or that, and you go, yeah,
well I don't have that problem.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Probably one of the reasons why I have such a
benevolent heart. Yeah I'm a heart ass in a lot
of ways, but I also understand people that had not Doro.
They're screw ups. But sometimes life happens, and I try
to be generous in spirit toward it. I gripe, you know,
leaving the car the old beater unlocked because of the
(07:26):
broken handle on it, and people the other day I got, man,
somebody got in my car again, took out my bottle
a listine. I'm a smoker. I keep a little bottle
of Listerine in the console in case I got a
meeting or something. I'm scared to use it now. I
had just opened it. But I'm scared because I don't
know it. But if I went out last night and
found somebody like sleeping under a pile of the donated
(07:48):
clothes in the back of the truck that was supposed
to go to the church because they were freezing, I
don't think I'd be angry with them. As crazy as
that sounds, stealing stuff trying to get that's one thing.
But if somebody saw, hey, this car is open and
there's stuff in the back, I can stay warm. I
don't know that I'd be upset that they're trying to.
But survival, yeah, at some point you have to be
(08:09):
decent to your year, fellow human beings.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, you have it, survival, Leon, I are you there?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So what do you got for Hi?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I have been trying for at least a week. I've
called every station. I've called NBC. I've called the two
six ' three I don't know, you're sixty six six numbers,
and everybody left messages and everything. I never could talk
to anybody, and nobody ever ever called me back. But
I was so desperate I wanted them to comment on
that fact that I am ninety three years old, Mark
(08:41):
and I survived that in January nineteenth, nineteen ninety four,
it was twenty two degrees below zero actual temperature, not windshill, right.
But I'm surprised that none of the weather man commented
on that until I Apparently maybe it was because of
my call that you did get that reported, which I'm
I'm happy for. I really appreciate that, believe me.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh, well, yeah, so you remember that day, Oh.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I certainly do. My car wouldn't start. We had to
Eventually my man friend got my car to Firestone and
they had to get a new battery that day. Couldn't
go to work and everything. No, that was a very,
very very cold day. I lived down on Maize Road
at that time, and I can say I'm ninety three
years old now, but I'll never forget that day. I
have it written down everywhere in my records here. Every
(09:26):
year I bring that up. But You're the only one
that has reported that. And I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Oh well, thank you, Leona. I appreciate that you would
have been assaultree what sixty at that time?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Sixty?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Well, I don't even remember. I'm ninety three.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
She was just old enough to have a man friend,
That's what were I had.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
A wonderful man. I went with him for forty seven years.
Do you believe that?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I do hang on it?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Seven years of being your man? Why didn't he ever
pull the plug on this thing and make it a
fish over forty seven years?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
It wasn't his fault. There are a lot of things involved.
I just I'm a great procrastinator. For one thing obviously,
and I had a lot of kind of family responsibility
and many many reasons we didn't. But we loved each
other and it was a very wonderful relationship. I lost
him in two thousand and one. He died in two
thousand and one. But he was a wonderful man.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I was, you know what, I got to be honest, Leona,
I thought maybe you were telling us you're a play Yeah,
I thought that's what was happening, and you just had
a man friend. But I get it now, I understand.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I don't know you want to claim significant other or what,
but that way. Yeah, his name was plain old Joe Hill.
You know one time there was a sports guy here
in town named Joe Hill too. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah? Was that him? Or oh, okay, the same name? Okay, No.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
He worked at Rockwell North American for thirty four years
out there.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, my dear, you sound so pleasant and marriage or not.
With forty seven years under his belt with you, I'm
sure he left this rock a happy man.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Well, we did. We had a wonderful relationship, more so
than my friends who were divorce who were married but
wanted to get divorced and couldn't you know, right, we
were happier than they were, I believe.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, so when you welcome, it's experiencing yesterday and today.
You're going, oh, this ain't so bad. Back in nineteen
ninety four it was minus twenty two air temperature.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
True, But I haven't been out yet. Today. My vision's
getting very very bad. I really shouldn't be driving anymore.
To tell you truth, I have been, but I shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You're probably still a better driver than most in Columbus, Leon,
and let's just say it.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, I do. And I like to pride myself to
think that I am a good driver. But I have
to be very very careful, you know, I understand. Yeah,
and then I have heart failure. I have a million
things wrong with me. But I'm trying to hang in there.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You know you hang in there. You sound bright as
all get out, are you?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Kid me?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I love you, guys. I listen to your show every
single day. I do.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
This is great. I love it. Well, Leona, thank you
for calling in, and you call in any time. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Okay, thank you very very much, and you stay warm now.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Thank you too.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Okay, bye bye. I love you.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I love you too, honey.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Oh, she's one of these people. Let me just tell you.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
You can feel it. I get it.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I've known several you know, it's like ninetieth birthday and
there's this freedom of spirit. She's one of those people.
I don't care how crappy the day has been. Yes,
I talked to them, and I'm smiling. I Leona, you
don't know you talk about appreciate. Oh, I listened to you.
You know what you brought the light to this day
in this room. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Man, she's a ninety three years old and still sounds
all happy and joe el and that's great.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
She you can feel that love. She's a great storyteller.
You could feel it. And I would actually like to
just hear some stories, you know from her, be like
what can we call it story hour with Leona, and
like hear some of the I guarantee she's seen some
crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But that's it. That is uh man, You're right, that was.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I posted that woman on the Facebook page last week.
Did you see that? The one hundred and four year
old woman, No drink's three doctor pepper's a day, and
she's just she's she actually looked great, very energetic, and
she said, yeah, by Drake, three doctors every day. I've
had two doctors tell me it'll kill me, but they're
both dead now.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And it was regular doctor Beverers.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
And she's just a spry of mind and heart. And yeah,
it was great watching it. I watched it about half
a dozen times. It was just fun to watch her.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That is uh, that is good stuff. Should you warm
up your car in the cold weather? And then the
headline is common myth debunked and so warming up your
car according to this on bitter cold mornings is a
standard routine. As we know, for most of us before
nineteen eighty, most cars had carburetors, so if your car
(13:41):
was manufactured after nineteen eighty, you can skip this step.
According to Firestone, UH complete auto care. They were referenced
for this article and they talk about, you know, they
had carburetors regulated air fuel mixture.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
We know what carbs are.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Carburettors are, so in cold temperatures, they couldn't vapor rise
all the gasoline they led into the engines, so some
of it would be left behind as a liquid rather
than being burned off during combustion. So if you didn't
warm up your car, you risk stalling the vehicle flooded
if you will. So you don't have to warm your
car up now, according to them. But you know what,
(14:18):
what if you do it for a different reason, as
in you want it to be warmer, or the heat
already coming out of the vents.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
This news is brought to you by the same people
to tell you don't have to wash your chicken before
you cook it. I'm sorry, I'm warming up the car.
I'm washing the chicken. Take it to the bank.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Then they say, listen to this.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Does it cause damage if you warm up your car
in the winter, Idling your engine could damage your engines, pistons,
decrease your car's fuel efficiency, hurt the environment. I went, aha,
there's that e wordp And then so for your car safety,
it says, cancel the warming up the car routine. I
beg to differ on this. I'm with you, I beg
(14:59):
to differ. I warm mine up and I feel like
just to warm it up and get it going.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
That is.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Look is it one hundred percent? No, you don't have
to do that. And then this is also the season
where all the thieves are driving around neighborhoods looking for
the exhaust spitting out the clock. It's actually like a
beacon for them that goes up in the air and
they go, there's one we can steal while it's running
or whatever. But it's a whole different situation with remote
(15:28):
start and so on, because if you're remote starting a
vehicle and then the remote's not in the vehicle, you
can bust the window out and get it, and it's
not gonna get You're not gonna put it in drive
and take off. It won't work. But if the key
is in it or the remote. But I have the
old fashioned key in mine, I have to actually put
the key in turn it.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
My other one is the push button where you have
the remote the fob if you will, and I know
yours is.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
The key too.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Oh yeah, looky mine's not a crank on the front
of the car. And you know that whole warming up thing.
I'll tell you what. I warmed up for about three
minutes before pulling out in this cold today, as still
wasn't enough my car was. You know, I have feeling
if you got like mud on your tennis shoes and
(16:12):
you're trying to walk with a big chunk of mud. Yes,
that's how it was driving until I got out there
for a while because that three minutes was not enough time.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
And then it kind of got going. Yeah, yeah, I
just like getting in it. And it's already warm inside
as far as the heater goes. So what I do
with my garage is I put my garage not quite
halfway up, but maybe a little more than a third
something like that, and then let it run because if
somebody's gonna jump in it and take off, they gotta
(16:40):
then get my garage door opener.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
There's just gonna be a lot of noise.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
If they do try to steal it, and then that
way get it warmed up, and then you know, and
they can get going.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
And ma'am, I just.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'm really careful with that because I don't want to
leave the garage door down for obvious reason.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, if you start that and then you know, everybody
ends up and then yeah, no good.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
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