The Blazor Show Wednesday 01/22/2025

News, Politics, Sports

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Show. I gotta tell you rarely, rarely, rarely, and I

(00:24):
mean rarely, not often at all, not often at all.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Do I see my breath in the garage?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
You know?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
When I go out?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Last night? I ran out.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
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 oh, And by then I
had my shoes off, and you know, I'm like, obviously

(00:55):
I know it's cold, but I'm like, I'm seeing my
breath out here, and your garage just 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.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Negative too when I opened my eyes this morning. And
I have never appreciated whoever created blankets more than I
appreciated them this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Man, Man, hy 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 warmer. Whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
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,
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 (01:52):
The blood's a little thinner now.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Oh yeah, and uh, you know, my wife has the
heated steering wheel in her.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Car, a pampered brat. Oh my gosh, heated seats too.
Oh yeah, so you little buns all. Oh yeah, well,
I feel so good because my butt's won buns warm.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
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 look at that as a it helps,
you know, loosen my back. It helps with my back
more than my butt. So I'll deal with that. But
I'm thinking to myself, well, it helps my low back,
because no, I'm just saying because typically I don't you know,

(02:31):
I'm okay, Well, you sit on a cold seat and
it warms up pretty quickly, you know. With my big butts.
I warm it up pretty quickly. But but there are
you know people, and I used to think, like, really
a steering wheel.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
That that that heats?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
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?
If you have those.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Things too much luxury. I told you the cold hit
the service engine 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.
You don't leave till tomorrow morning. You don't have to
do it now, she was. She was ready to let
me just run all night.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, man, I don't know. It's with 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,
all 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

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can't remember. I had a point. Oh no, and I
had something I was like, oh, that'd be a good point.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
It's entirely my fault. I'm sorry for interjecting.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
No, no, no, no, no, it was no.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
No, no, I take the blame me. It's me.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
No, it was because.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
It was because of what you said that made me.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Think of what by it'll come to me again. It
might not be like you know, twenty twenty five, twenty
or it is twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Five, middle of the night. Yeah, Barney Stone is what
I was thinking.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
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
gotta be some records being set. But the coldest days
in history, let's see the January nineteenth, nineteen ninety four

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minus negative twenty two degrees, negative twenty two degrees. You
remember that day?

Speaker 4 (04:34):
I don't remember that. I must. I think I was
just out of elementary school at that time.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, because you were walking out with your then child.
Maybe probably No, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
You never know what.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, let's see that would have made me. I'm trying
to think that, my big guy, I might have lived
multiple lives. There's plenty of me to go around. I was,
I think it was twenty five, then twenty four, okay,
twenty five in nineteen ninety four, you were twenty your
four years old the meat, yes anyway, So then second
on this list, these are the coldest days. Second on

(05:09):
that list. January third, eighteen seventy nine, January sixth, 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 4 (05:24):
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 (05:31):
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 cold 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 you were going back that far in history.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Grandmother was one year old.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
They were they were really struggling to stay warm at
that point.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
And think about that, I mean, there would would you
have what did they have interior heat at that time?
You had fireplaces? I'm assuming they had to have.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, they had to have. I remember what I thought
about earlier that I've forgotten. 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,
you know, was basically the gist of I was just

(06:47):
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. And I heard you
say that I've called a car home before. I heard
you say that last night and when I was driving home,

(07:07):
And that's one thing I did not know about you.
Not asking you to expound, but I'm just saying that
is it puts it in perspective, dude. It just puts
a lot of things in perspective. When you go I
got some problems this or that, and you go, yeah,
well I don't have that problem.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Probably one of the reasons why I have such a
benevolent heart. And yeah, I'm a heart ass in a
lot of ways, but I also understand people that had
not through their screw ups. But sometimes life happens, and
I try to be generous in spirit towards it. I
you know, leaving the car the old beater unlocked because

(07:45):
of the broken handle on it, and people the other
day I got, man, somebody got in my car again,
took out my bottle of listerine. 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

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pile of the donated clothes in the back of the
truck that you're supposed to go to the church because
they were freezy, 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. Yeah,
they're trying to nuts. But survival, Yeah, at some point

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you have to be decent to your ear fellow human beings.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah you have. It's survival, Leona. Are you there?

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (08:33):
I am.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
So what do you got for Hi?

Speaker 5 (08:37):
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 stubbers,
and everybody left message 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 windsill.
But I'm surprised that none of the weather man commented
on that, and so 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 1 (09:19):
Oh well, yeah, so you remember that day?

Speaker 6 (09:23):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (09:23):
I certainly do. My car wouldn't start. We had Eventually
my man friend got my car to a firestone and
they had to get a new battery that day. I
couldn't go to work and everything. No, that was a very, very,
very cold day. I lived down on Maze 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 year

(09:45):
I bring that up. But You're the only one that
has reported that, and I'm so proud of you.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh well, thank you, Leona. I appreciate that you would
have been assault three what sixty at that time?

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Sixty?

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Well, I don't even remember. I'm ninety street dead.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
She was just old enough to have a man friend.
That's all we know that.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
Leon right there, I had a wonderful man. I went
with him for forty seven years. Do you believe that?

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Hang on it? Seven years of being your man? Why
didn't he ever pull the plug on this thing and
make it a fisher over forty seven years?

Speaker 5 (10:15):
It wasn't his fault. There are a lot of things involved.
I just I'm a great procrastinator.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
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 relationships.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
I lost him in two thousand and one. He died
in two thousand and one. But he was a wonderful man.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
I was, you know what, I got to be honest, Leona,
I thought maybe you were telling us you're a play
I thought that's what was happening, and you just had
a man friend. But I get it now, I understand.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
I don't know you want to call him significant other
or what. But any 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.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Do you remember that?

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah? Was that him?

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Or?

Speaker 7 (10:58):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Okay, the same name? Okay.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
He worked at Rockwell North American for thirty four years
out there.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well, my dear, you sound so pleasant marriage or not.
With forty seven years under his belt with you, I'm
sure he left this rock a happy man.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
Well, we did. We had a wonderful relationship, more so
than my friends who were divorced, who were married but
wanted to get divorced and couldn't you know, right, We
were happier than they were, I believe.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah. 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 5 (11:30):
Yeah too, 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, choose. I have been, but I shouldn't be.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
You're probably still a better driver than most in Columbus, Leon,
and let's just say it.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
Yeah, I did. 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 8 (11:53):
You know.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Now you hang in there? You sound bright as all
get out, are you? I love it?

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
I love you guys. Listen to your show every single day.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
This is great.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
I love it. Well, Leona, thank you for calling in,
and you call in any time.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
Okay, thank you very very much, and you stay warm now.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Thank you too, Okaye.

Speaker 6 (12:13):
I love you.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
I love you too. Honey.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Oh, she's one of these people. Let me just tell you.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
You can feel it, get it.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
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. I
talk to them and I'm smiling. I Leona, you don't
know you talk about appreciating. Oh, listen to you. You
know what you brought the light to this day in
this room.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Man, she's a ninety three years old and still sounds
all happy and jolio and that's great.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
You can feel that she's a great storyteller. You can
feel it. And I would actually like to just hear
some stories, you know, from her, like what can we
call it story hour with Leona? And like here some
of the I guarantee she's I've seen some crazy stuff,
but that's it. That is uh man, You're right.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
That was I posted that woman on the Facebook page
last week. Did you see that, the one hundred and
four year old woman no three doctor peppers a day,
and she's just she's she actually looked great, very energetic,
and she said, yeap, I drink three doctor Peppers every day.
I've had two doctors tell me it'll kill me, but
they're both dead now.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
And it was regular doctor Peppers.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Zero doctor three. And she's just a spry of mind
and heart. And yeah, it was great watching it. I
watched about half a dozen times. It was just fun
to watch her.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
I love it. I love it.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Man.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
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 you your

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car was manufactured after nineteen eighty, you can skip this step.
According to Firestone Complete Auto Care, they were referenced for
this article and they talk about, you know, they had
carburetors regulated air fuel mixture. We know what carbs are.
Carburetors are, so in cold temperatures, they couldn't vaporize all
the gasoline they led into the engine, so some of

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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, what
if you do it for a different reason, as in
you want it to be warmer, or the heat already

(14:42):
coming out of the vents.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
This news brought to you by the same people that
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 1 (14:52):
Then they say, listen to this. 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.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
I went, ah ha, there's that eyword.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
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 to differ. I
warm mine up and I feel like just to warm
it up and get it going.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
That is.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
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 close.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
It's actually like.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
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 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 right, it won't work. But if

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the key is in it or the remote. But I
have the old fashioned key in mind, I have to
actually put the key in and turn it.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
My other one is the push button where you have
the remote the fob if you will, And I know
yours is the key too.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Oh yeah, lucky, mine's not a crank on the front
of the car. And I 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. Do you know
I have a feeling if you got like mud on
your tennis shoes and you're trying to walk with a

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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.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Time, and that it kind of got going. Yeah, yeah,
I just like getting in it. And it's already warm
inside with 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,

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they gotta then get my garage door opener. There's just
gonna be a lot of noise if they do try
to steal it, and then that way get it warmed up,
and then you know, and that can get gone. And ma'am,
I just I'm really careful with that because I don't
want to leave the garage door down for obvious reason. Yeah,
you start that and then you know, everybody ends up
and yeah, no good.

Speaker 9 (17:20):
But traffic, Weather, Sports and the Mark Blazer Show on
six y ten WTVN.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Man got me all excited, got me all excited.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
They not endless though I thought endless Shrimp was bad.
The Shrimp your Way promotion. You get two or three
delicious shrimp flavors starting at sixteen ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Okay, I'm because I saw that price and I told you,
I go, wait a minute, didn't they learn a lesson here?
And they suffered because of that twenty dollars in less shrimp?

Speaker 4 (17:52):
I to this day, I don't understand how a buffet,
if it's a good buffet, if it's a buffet that
does business, I don't understand how a buffet stays in business.
I don't get it. I don't. I'm paying eighteen bucks
or whatever, going there, have lunch at the buffet, I'm
eating twenty five dollars worth of meat. How are they
staying in business when you keep going back and getting more?

(18:12):
I don't. I don't unless it's do they hypnotize you
and you just think you ate.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
When you want?

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Because maybe that's what it is.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
I'm not sure, but I I feel like, you know,
food costs, you know, they buy in such bulk those places,
and then it's really how it's prepared at that point.
So yeah, you're eating twenty five, you know, eighteen or
nineteen dollars or whatever it is, but really did it
cost them that? And then if you're getting drinks or

(18:40):
you're you know, there are some other ways, but then
most people are not coming in there and lowering the
boom like that. Most Yeah, most, and I mean most
probably you got it. Twenty five to forty percent that
are coming in and doing what you're doing. And you
got the other ones who are paying eighteen and they
only eat ten.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
I don't eat the stuff, the filler stuff. We were
talking off the year about our favorite breads because Red
Dobster has those those cheddar biscuits. Yeah, and I'm a
big fan of the Texas Roadhouse honey Bun Dinner road Yeah.
But if I'm going to a buffet where I want
to show off and scare people, I don't mess with
the breads. I don't want to fill up on the breads.
I just take me to the protein.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yes, because that's where the rubber meets the road.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
Watch people in the prep room crying.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
It's like, we can't keep up.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
I love that. I love that.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Meteorologists Sarah con Versus joining us now. She's like, oh geez,
here we go talking all food again. What is it
with these two?

Speaker 4 (19:35):
I swear no, it is all good.

Speaker 7 (19:37):
I'm like the worst person though, to bring to a
buffet because I can probably do a plate and a half.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
I can't eat that much.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
You fall asleep at movies too, don't you?

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Uh? Oh no, I don't do.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
That because I've found that to be a common element
people who go and spend money to eat and then
don't eat. Yea, also fall asleep when you've paid twelve
dollars for a movie ticket.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Well, it depends on the movie. I mean certainly, Well
that could be out, but also looked really nice this morning.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
I wanted to tell you that the black and her head,
and she had on the shiny pat and leather shoes
that you look so nice. Oh, thank you start today?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Okay, yeah, yeah, thank you.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
I appreciate.

Speaker 7 (20:13):
Yeah, that red and black dress is one of my favorites.
Of course, it's the best one to purn me out
for the Buckeye games.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Oh yeah, yeah. What you need right now is you
know those uh I guess, I guess they call I
don't know what the types of hats that they wear
in Russia, but that's the kind of hats you need
right now.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
The full fur dress like from head.

Speaker 7 (20:35):
Well, I am still wearing my sweatpants over my dress,
still my snow boots and my fluffy socks are still on.
I'm waiting till the very last second until the five
o'clock show to take it all off because it is
freezing back here in the weather Center. We have this
room in the back.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
You're behind the main desk, right, I mean, that's that's
where you're set up. I was in there hanging with
Marshall a little while ago, and uh, yeah, I'm exactly.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm familiar with it. Back there where the strength boothy.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
I heard bucking about the heat situation back there, and
we got three portable heaters trying to stay warm.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
That's dangerous too. Who you gotta watch out?

Speaker 7 (21:11):
Yeah, yeah, we have two of them back here that
are going because it ain't even with those two, it's
still cold back there. That's why I'm still in the
sweatpants and the fluffy socks and boots. But we are
going to finally see some relief on the way, so
just hang in there. Tonight we'll be in the lower
teens windshills near zero, and then for tomorrow we're in
the upper twenties for the highs, but we will be
dealing with some scattered flurries into the afternoon and early evening.

(21:35):
Little to No accumulation is expected, but don't be surprised
to see a couple of snowflakes, fluffy snowflakes flying. Then
for Friday, we'll dry things out, temperatures a couple degrees cooler,
but still in the twenties mid twenties overall for across
the area. Then the weekend we're in the mid thirties,
closer to average and overall dry. And then heading into
next week, temperatures will continue to be above the freezing mark.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Even by Wednesday, we'll be in the low fort You.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
No, that's what I want to hear right there, very good. Yes,
we got to break out the speedo's. That's what I'm
talking about, Sarah, Thank you very much. Fourteen Right now
she's gone. Didn't need that visual can unsee that.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
She's talking about the sweats, over the dress, over the boots,
over the socks. That I'm having prom date flashbacks. It
wasn't a good year for me. Not if that's your
flashback too.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah. No, it's National Grandpa Day. Yeah is why because
you're a grandpa. You've been a grandpa for a while, and.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
Uh checked my pockets for hard candy. Yep, I'm a Grandpa,
make sure it's in the wrapper. You don't want to
be giving people roll candy. Oh it's good when it's
got to lint on it. I like lint texture.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
You don't try it and then go, this ain't very good.
I'll put in my pocket for somebody else.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yeah, well, it depends on what I have heel about them.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Anyway. It's celebrated today National Grandpa Day. I guess it
reads here in Poland, and it's dedicated to the wisest, humblest,
jolliest men in our lives. As they that's what they're saying.
Grandpas are the wisest, jolliest.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
Humblest I got one out of those. I was gonna say, Yeah,
I'll go I'll give myself wise but jolly and humble.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah no, right uh. And then Polish.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
I'm also not Polish, but I could be Polish grandfather.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
The values instilled on us by our grandparents shape us
for the better. There are a lot of people who
could who could relate to that. And it's exactly why
they say. People in Poland feel so grateful towards their
grandparents and grandfathers and grandparents.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
So you do and come here. I have no Heartscandy.
Hear this kill Basa. It's not in your pocket?

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Both Scotta for you? Yeah, it would be the best
thing to do.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Steve is joining us and Patascala. Steve, welcome to the
show man.

Speaker 10 (23:53):
Hey, thank you for having me.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
Guys, I love you.

Speaker 10 (23:55):
I listened all the time, long time listener, going back
to Corby. Thanks Pom, you almost threw me off there.
I'm thinking about Gary Busey, I'm thinking about buffets. And
now I got to give a shout out to my
dad who has a ninety two year old grandpa.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Oh that's cool man. He maybe him and Leona or is.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
He taken thinking make a love connection here?

Speaker 10 (24:16):
But yeah, that way, I did hear her, and that
wouldn't be the worst idea. But he's still kicking. I
see him every week, a couple times a week. He
lives not too far from me. So anyway, I'm gonna
throw myself under the bus here on the cold weather story.
If my memory serves a couple of those dates in
ninety four were consecutive days. I was a student at OSU,

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and back in those days, not only did you ride
or walk your bike to work or to school. Excuse me,
but you didn't have any phone except the one that
was attached to the wall at your house. Well, they
the first day that was super cold, they did not
cancel classes, so a lot of us topped it out. Well,
I was shacking up with my then girlfriend and now

(24:59):
my for twenty five years, and she had already graduated
and had a regular, full time job and a car,
which I didn't have either of. So she offered to
drive me to my first class in the morning. The
next day she drops me off, she drives away. I
look around. They've canceled classes and I'm alone. I am alone,

(25:24):
thank god, in a heavy wool.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
What's that outside? Yep?

Speaker 10 (25:29):
No, I'm at the central classroom building. I'm not sure
how familiar you are with the campus, but that's very
close to the shoe. Okay, I have to walk back
to my place on East fourteenth between Summit and Indianola. Oh,
and I the straight line, you know as the Profly path,

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is straight through the oval. And I imagine I'm one
of few people to walk through the oval during the
day and there's not a single person in sight. And
I was convinced that the next day in the lantern.
Of course, this is the university newspaper that someone in

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a in a warm building, some lantern reporter with a
camera would have taken a picture from from inside and
captioned it one loan moron. I certainly didn't bother to
turn tune into six ten or whatever it might have
been at that time to find out that morning that
classes were all canceled.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
So well, what's interesting, Steve? You're right, those are consecutive days.
On the eighteenth, that was minus seventeen, but who's counting,
and then on the nineteenth minus twenty two. So yeah,
you are correct. There were consecutive days, two days in
a row there where you know a couple of records there,
but the record and you said it was on the

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coldest day on that nineteenth I think is that right.

Speaker 10 (26:56):
That it was whichever day was the second?

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're the coldest day in Columbus and
you got stuck out in it, and you obviously you
made it because here you are and you didn't get
any frostbite or anything. Right.

Speaker 10 (27:09):
I like to think it made me a little hardier, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Man.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
They say whatever doesn't kill us makes it stronger.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
For sure.

Speaker 10 (27:16):
I did grow up in northeast Ohio. So that's probably helped.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
That did prepare you? I would have to say yeah
for something like that. That's a good story, man, Yeah,
it's a good story. What did she say once you
got there and she found out? What was she like?

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
No, I'm sorry.

Speaker 10 (27:30):
I mean I guess I imagine that. You know, an
hour later I might have called her at work, but uh,
at that point it was too bad. You know, she
just dropped me off and turn around. Cars gone.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Long but for not checking. I would never marry a
man like kids.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
And then you guys are married here you are. That's cool.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
You have kids?

Speaker 10 (27:52):
Yes, we do your kid absolutely?

Speaker 1 (27:54):
All right, that's good stuff man, Well Steve got all right,
thanks brother, I appreciate it, Thank god. Rightezer show.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Ah, Yes, it's a balmy fifteen right now. We're climbing
out of the hole slowly but surely.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
I thought I had felt a little tea go through
the room.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Wow, Mark Blazer with Chuck Douglas over there and then
joining us. Now Don Ross, the retirement boss from somewhere.
That's a little warmer than fifteen degrees, hopefully, Don correct.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
I'm just hanging up my shovel my snowshell.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well, I am seeing that there were all over social
media some friends of mine that you know, used to
live here in the area that have migrated south and
lived there further. For instance, a friend of mine, Scott,
who was the drummer for a band Tammer Lane back
in the day.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Really good drummer.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
But he's a he's down in one of the Carolinas,
I believe, I think, and he it was pictures today
of yes, that's what you think it is. It's snow,
and I'm just like, oh my gosh. And then other
people are posting, do you really have snow there in
Florida or no.

Speaker 8 (29:22):
Well they might have north. I'm down here in Fort Myers,
which is southwest Florida. It's fifty five, so it's not here.
I think some hit in Alabama. I think some hit
in New Orleans. Nothing nothing way down here. And that's
the reason you know we're in this Would we come
to this area because it's pretty safe from snow?

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Right?

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Yeah, five is still not impressive for you know, way
down Florida. Man, that's that's kind of chilly.

Speaker 8 (29:50):
Yeah, I mean, you know, d go out and play
pickleball right now. It's too cold for everybody down here.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah. I got to tell you most people here are
here and you say that and they're going cry me
a freaking river.

Speaker 6 (30:01):
I'm not gonna play it. I just flew. I just
flew back today. Man.

Speaker 8 (30:05):
I was up, I was up at home in the
office seeing people, and uh came down today.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
And uh no, I never I'm never one of those
to come home. I used to know something along time ago.
I want to say, they come back from Florida and
it's so cold up here, like.

Speaker 8 (30:19):
Shit, and it's like, yeah whatever. Yeah, but anyhow, you know,
we're blessed to be able to do that. We worked
out here every day. So duck Judy, he's on a conference.

Speaker 6 (30:31):
Call right now. So work, work, work. We want to
take care of our clients.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, because uh the need for you know,
uh investing and so on.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
It doesn't it doesn't stall in the winter.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
So the fact that you guys just you know, you
just changed the office location. We talk about this before,
but that's just one of those things. Yeah you're there,
but you're still working every day for the most part.
And uh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
Daniel Daniels, sir in the office, know our officer at
Upper roy To. I mean, they're they're there, and.

Speaker 8 (31:03):
You know, I'm just in a different zip code, but
you know, we're not closed ring with that.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
So you know, I thought it was really cool too.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Don that excuse me that you were, you know, for
him being for Donald Jay Trump, our forty seventh president,
being sworn in on Monday, the inauguration and so on.
You and I saw each other when all of that
was getting ready to get under way. We were recording
new commercials and so on. But all of your posts
and stuff about it, and you know, Hallelujah and thank

(31:31):
God and amen that you know, we have this commander
in chief now who is our forty seventh president now
occupying the Oval office and so on. But all of
those things. So yeah, as far as watching all of
that take place, and you know, there's so many if
you think about all the different things that have happened
with this president. Obviously when he was forty five, some

(31:55):
very very different things transpired, and then when he was
not president, all of the things that he witnessed, you know,
the raid on Mara A Lago, and we can go
down a whole list of things that were first for
an ex president, if you will, And now we're watching
this all kind of play out and come full circle.
A lot of people did not have him back in
this situation at any point, and the landslide victory and

(32:19):
so on, and you know, the all the Electoral College
votes and then the popular votes and all that. You
and I kind of talked about it on Monday, but
Manda watch has finally happen. And then it takes place
in the rotunda, which hasn't done in the Capitol there, which.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Hasn't been happens for forty years.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
And to watch that take place, and just the manner
in which all of this gets underway. He's already hit
the ground running. We're talking about all the different things
he's fining. He has so many things going already, signing
all these executive orders and so on. So take me
through the types of things that you're thinking about, impressed by,
and so on with this president right now. And you

(32:54):
know in your business too, you know, interest rates matter.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
There are how many a whole.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Bunch of different things that happened with what you do
that I feel like this president is going to help
or help elevate if you will.

Speaker 8 (33:07):
Yeah, oh absolutely, you know deregulation is huge. And you
know I read his first book in nineteen eighty seven.
You know, last year I had my landscaping company before
I entered the financial services and I've been a fan
of his forever.

Speaker 6 (33:21):
You know, there's just nobody like him.

Speaker 8 (33:24):
And to think we are, what forty five minutes away
from these DEI offs is being shut down. I mean,
I don't want to overuse the term, but you know,
my faith and all that, by the divine intervention man,
this man is back and he's gonna.

Speaker 6 (33:38):
He's gonna save this country. He's done more in the
forty eight hours since I mean he was out.

Speaker 8 (33:43):
He was signing executive orders probably till one in the
morning on Monday.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
He's already done more in forty eight to fifty some
hours than that other guy who's probably napping did in
four years, or you know what in his fifty you
know years in politics, which is I'd be embarrassed to
say I was, you know, a politician for fifty years.

Speaker 8 (34:03):
No offense anybody that is other than sleepy Joe. But
you know what, get out and and and participate other
than sucking the government drives. That's what I have to say.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 6 (34:16):
I uh, you know, I think it's going to be great.

Speaker 8 (34:19):
You know, this whole big investment into the AI and
you know.

Speaker 6 (34:23):
The top guys in the world.

Speaker 8 (34:25):
How about how about it as an auguration You have
the riches, five of the richest men in the world
and they represent you know, social media and AI. So oh,
that's a breath of It's a breath.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
Frush at right.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Well, that's the oligarchy that they're talking about is coming
and we're in big trouble. It's a dark thing that
you Biden. I'll take that.

Speaker 8 (34:42):
I'll take that trouble over the freaking left wolf crap
they've been doing, so no doubt.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Did you happen to see so last night they asked
Trump about you know, these the rich guys being there
and so on, and I was.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
I happened to watch it.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
I was even here at the station when I finished,
you know, you were starting the Power Hour, and I
was in the bullpen there our office, and he's out
there doing his thing, already talking to fifty five minutes
worth of questions after a presser that he had, and
I'm watching it and he says they were asking him
about all these rich people that were front and center,

(35:17):
and he goes, they're not getting anything from me.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
I mean, he just flat out said it, they're not
getting anything from me. He's like, look, if they want
to be part of this, fantastic and I'm paraphrasing now,
but he did say he actually said, they're not getting
anything from me. I'm not going to do anything for them.
I love the fact that he was forthcoming about that.
He's like, look, I'm not going to do them any favors.
These guys are incredibly rich and it's great that they

(35:42):
want to be part of this, and maybe he can
utilize some help from them. They're in a position to
do that. But also he's making sure upfront people realize
they're not getting anything from me. And you know, that's
all the Left has, all of these tired narratives of theirs.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
He's just going to help this billionaire friends.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
That's all he's about.

Speaker 6 (36:04):
Yeah, Rachel Maddows sort of going down that road.

Speaker 8 (36:07):
And you know what, if he does give them something,
it's because it's going to be what America first?

Speaker 6 (36:13):
And that's all that matters to Erica first?

Speaker 4 (36:16):
Does your direction change? I mean, somebody came in two
years ago and said, don I need you to put
my retirement together. I want this kind of income whatever.
Two years ago during the Biden administration, higher interest rates,
lower market, higher unemployment. Does your direction change to somebody
who dealt with you two years ago come back and say, hey,
what are we anticipating? Should I make some changes?

Speaker 6 (36:37):
We could, but we don't.

Speaker 8 (36:39):
We're not in the chase and returns. You know, we're
talking about, you know, managing someone's life savings. Obviously we're
using stock portfolios. We altern it as things like that.
But you know, I meet with our clients twice a year,
so we're going to mend an adjustice and change in
their life. I think it's only gonna be better. So
but to answer your question, I'm we're not making huge.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Changes that because I just wondering if that was going
to take a lot of your life, having to go
back and kind of rework stuff that you worked under Biden.
It's like, oh my god, Okay, Trump's in office, this
is going to happen. We need to start directing people
a different way because.

Speaker 6 (37:13):
Yeah, actually, you know, I managed two portfolios.

Speaker 8 (37:15):
I'm going to design a third one that's going to
have I won't get into it, but it's going to
have alternatives. Alternatives mean, it's a way to invest in
you're not in the stock market. It's called non correlated.
And I have a lot of my clients obviously are
retired and they're taking money from their savings their portfolios.
So we're going to do some adjusting there. I know
a lot of clients are listening. We are going to
do some adjusting there that I do have clients that

(37:36):
are taking out income.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
It's not like.

Speaker 6 (37:39):
Something we're fearing or anything like that.

Speaker 8 (37:41):
It's just to make an adjustment to diversify their retirement
and portfolio income. So in a way, but it's case
by case, Chuck, I have some clients that they're blessed
with pensions and things like that, and they don't need
a lot of their savings, and so we take them
one direction, and some don't have that social security and
they go a different direction.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
So, hey, tell me about that question. Tell me about
a three three armor up.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Now we always talk about eight three three don ross,
which is a way people can text that or they
can call that if they had any questions or whatever.
But I think this is really cool. Uh, the online
thing that you're doing. But it's it's literally the numerals
eight three three. You don't spell that out, it's the
numerals eight three three Armor up dot com. And this

(38:27):
is kind of a newer thing that you have started
doing at at Ross Wealth Advisor.

Speaker 8 (38:33):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of time what we're doing, you know,
when we're down in Florida here, you know, we're working
on the business, like I'm editing my fifth edition of
my book, you know.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
Retirement Armor.

Speaker 8 (38:43):
But so I thought, you know, how it's going to
reach people that they don't feel like they have to
talk to me or anything. So A three three Armor
up dot com is a an online class and it's
a fourteen page white paper like a report, so people
can spend their time evaluating how prepared are they in

(39:04):
the five key areas of retirement.

Speaker 6 (39:06):
The A and armor is asset or state planning? Do
you have in a state in order? The R is
are you invested appropriately? In other words, if there's a no.

Speaker 8 (39:16):
Two thousand and eight, are you going to survive? You
know with a market drop the M and armors what
do you have in place for medical?

Speaker 6 (39:22):
Okay?

Speaker 8 (39:22):
You know, as you get older, you know what happens
if you get sick. The O it stands for outstanding taxes.
Many people, We've said this over and over, have so
much taxes embedded in their retirement accounts. How are they
going to get it out save taxes long term? And
the last R and ARMOR is a retirement income. Do

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you have a year by a year plan that shows
where your income is coming from, what does it cost you,
or accordingly.

Speaker 6 (39:49):
How long it will last?

Speaker 8 (39:50):
So I created it and you can watch these videos
on yourself. And here's anything you evaluate yourself on how
well prepared you.

Speaker 6 (39:58):
Are each of those areas. And we use a We
use numbers from one to ten, no. Seven.

Speaker 8 (40:03):
If you're an eight, nine or ten, you're in rockstar position.
But if you're six or less, you might have work
to do, whether you ever come to us or you know,
you talk to somebody. And so I love educating the
consumer and so A three three R worp dot com.

Speaker 6 (40:18):
Check it out, and I love your feedback whoever would
go to that.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
I also envisioned don that with this president that we're
going to have a lot of people. I feel like
the optimism is going to begin to kind of blossom
here because and I don't know obviously not being in
your business and not being in there every day. I
do talk to you a lot, but you don't talk
a whole lot of shop with regard to that kind

(40:44):
of thing. I feel like with this president, and you know,
he talks about we're gonna make America great again, We're
gonna make America healthy again, We're gonna make America wealthy again.
And there are a lot of people who are going
to to probably begin to feel more optimistic and go,
you know what, I need to kind of you know,

(41:06):
advance this thing that I've been putting off and maybe thinking.
Man during this current administration, you know, being Biden, you know,
the last couple of years, like I just don't want
to make a move. The you know, the FED keeps
raising interest all the different things that could possibly affect
somebody's thought process when it comes to investing and so on.
But I have a feeling that it's it's probably it's

(41:28):
probably going to take off a little bit with people
being a little more optimistic. And I'm not talking about
people that are already in and begin to readjust or
do anything like that, just people who are going, you
know what, now is the time to maybe kind of
start this. So look for that to possibly kind of
spark up man. And I don't know if you've thought
about it like that, but it's something that I feel,
I really do.

Speaker 8 (41:48):
Yeah, I think so what we we do, educational events,
how the community, we'll see those numbers go up and
again at the end of the day.

Speaker 6 (41:55):
Being an independent.

Speaker 8 (41:56):
Fiduciary, you know, I'm not employed by a bank or brokerage,
you or what I would be. I can say on
CUSTOMI as a plan that's totally different for you than
it is for Chuck or you know Zach or you
know the firefighter that just retired, And we work a
lot of firefighters and police and all walks of life,
and everybody's situation is different. So, yeah, we don't pay,

(42:17):
we don't have a pigeonhole. It's a customized plan that
I answers those five areas of the Armor Up Retirement plan.

Speaker 6 (42:23):
Yeah, fun about it.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Yeah, Chuck, myself and Zach very very different. I've got
like about eight dollars to invest, Chuck's probably got about twenty,
and then Zach, he's pretty rich.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
He's got around one hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
That's just that thing that lawnmower thing has really taken off,
and uh yeah, so anyway, but seriously, it's eight eight
three three Armor up dot com and it's a it's
a really cool thing that you kind of started. But
Don Ross, the retirement boss of course with Ross Weld Advisors.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
More with Don here in just a little bit. Don,
thanks for jumping on with us.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (42:55):
Traffic, weather, sports, and the Mark Bleezer SHOWTVN in.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
This well, we know it was really really cold, but
not the coldest in Columbus. It looks like the coldest
was minus twenty two back in February.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Wait, sorry, January.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Of nineteen ninety four is what we saw.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
Those were the days the man was it.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
It was Chili this morning, Chile. I think I saw
when Buck was on this morning. I think I saw
minus four and then the wind chill, for instance, Delaware
where I live, was in the minus eighteen to twenty range.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
It's brutal, right, Sarah, I mean, oh, I.

Speaker 7 (43:45):
Mean yeah, I mean we actually had Patascola. They got
down just the air temperature to ten below. Yeah, it
was cold across the area this morning. The good news is,
though it's not gonna last, so Tonight, it'll still be cold,
but technically not as cold as last night. We'll be
in the lower tines, wind shills will be near zero,

(44:07):
and then for Thursday, highs will be in the upper
twenties with the chance for some scattered flurries, little to
no accumulation expected. And then for Friday, this is slight
dipping temperatures just because of that cool front passing through,
but we're still in the twenties, mid twenties for the
highs on Friday, then back into the thirties. So we'll
be finally above the freezing mark on Saturday, with low

(44:27):
to mid thirties, and then mid thirties still again for Sunday,
and eventually we'll see those temperatures rise even more as
wegin to next week, so by the time we get
to Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, we'll be in
the upper thirties and low forties.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
All right, very good, Sarah Converse, Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Fifteen. Right now he's joining us from hopefully it's sunny
there in South Florida, but it's don Ross, the retirement boss,
and he's at his Florida office, and do it handle
him bitness down there, But Chili. I think we were
saying fifty five earlier. Don I'm pretty.

Speaker 8 (45:02):
Sure, right, yeah, yeah, don't don't bring it u because
already a text with people like fifty.

Speaker 6 (45:06):
Five, I don't want to hear about it.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Yeah, but still that's the thing, you you, you know,
people can be like, well, you weren't complaining. You just
you just said it was cold. You said it was cold,
and and it is.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
That's cold for South Florida.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
I mean, it just is, it's not yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (45:23):
The landscapers are wearing triple Parkers.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
So well. And also, you know, further north from you
in Atlanta on Monday night, you know Roy Hall, who's
part of our best Buckeye coverage, talking to him and
he was at the game, of course, the national championship,
and of course our Buckeyes are national champions It's been
a long time coming, ten years. And so yeah, so
how do you feel about that? I mean, I know

(45:49):
you were watching, most likely and and it was Yeah, I.

Speaker 6 (45:54):
Was saying two weeks ago, Buddy, I was saying, they're
not good. They're not gonna lose. I mean they are
so I mean, you know.

Speaker 8 (46:01):
The Michigan was at a novelyd course, but I was
telling everybody, you know, a Notre Dame doesn't stand a chance.
This team is so well equipped that I was confident
the whole the whole time.

Speaker 6 (46:12):
You know, they got within those eight points or something,
but to score more, yeah, yeah, I had to hit
score more. They would have. They are such great They're
doing a great job executing.

Speaker 8 (46:25):
And you know, Jeremiah just throw it within fifty feet
of him in it and that young man will catch it.

Speaker 6 (46:31):
He's amazing. Hey.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
There was an opinion piece today here locally Don and
Chuck that you know, after winning the CFP, Ryan Day
should head to the NFL and leave toxic Ohio State
fan base. It was the well that was the headline,
and I thought to myself, I'm like, listen, if you
ask me, he's over the hump. He solidified himself. I mean,

(46:54):
he's in rare company now as a coach who at
Ohio State has won a national chamampionship. And some of
the things he has said post that game, especially on stage,
and you know, I watched every bit of it. I
was up late watching all of that, and boy is
he saying the right stuff. And I it feels heart

(47:15):
felt when you're watching him talking about it and saying, look,
it's about these guys. It's about their journey and helping
them with their dreams and their hopes, and you know,
these are things that you know, he he loves being
a part of.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Because they were like, you are.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Now a coach for the you know, the agents, and
you get to you know, you're one of those, you know,
and he was like, listen, this is about the guys
and they're the ones putting in the work and so on.
I just feel he's very, very humbled during this whole thing,
and people who were calling for his head, I feel like,
are have backed off. I mean, you're not seeing any

(47:49):
of those things now, and how could you? And that
was the question we posed after that horrible thirteen to
ten loss as the Wolverines were in our horseshoe and
that was so awful. But boy did the Buckeyes turn
it on after that, you know, with Tennessee and just
ran through the playoffs, the first team to win the
national championship in the twelve team playoff and the four

(48:13):
team playoff, which I thought was very interesting that we're
kind of ushering in both of those things. And then
to watch them do what they've done. They never looked back,
and you know a lot of people call them for
his head and all of that stuff, but this takes
that away. And during that time, I'm like, is that
something as a Buckeye fan when you see a coach
do what he has done and you're calling for his head,

(48:34):
but yet he ends up, you know, coaching a team
through the National Championship navigating what is it? I think
eight of the top ten ranked teams we beat this year. Yeah,
and so there's a lot of positives to take from this,
and I feel like winning the National Championship kind of
takes that away. And certainly they're looking for a win
sooner rather than later when it comes to that team

(48:56):
up north. But boy, with this twelve team playoff, it
changes everything. I mean it feels like the NFL here
where you get a wild card team in the NFL
that My Steelers did it. They entered that and as
a wild card and they ended up winning the Super
Bowl one year. And so when you watch something play
out like that, it feels like we're headed that way
with college football.

Speaker 6 (49:15):
You know, yeah, it was, it was It was just
a pleasure to watch.

Speaker 8 (49:19):
I mean, they're just clear. I mean they only had
six possessions. I think the whole game pretty impressive. And
you know they played what sixteen games.

Speaker 6 (49:28):
So that's that's a lot of work. Man. These guys work.

Speaker 8 (49:31):
Hard, you know, and you know you got to take
your hat off, and they performed like true champions.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
I'm reading that headline and Chuck's going, no, no, no, no,
he'd they better not leave.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
For college and pros are completely different worlds. We've seen
it over and including with Urban Meyer. It doesn't work.
You're not you're not molding young men. You are subject
to the whims of professional, highly paid, elite athletes in
the NFL. Ryan Day is on course right now to
follow and fall into that Woody Hayes category. Yeah, got,

(50:06):
he's got the youth, He's now got the experience under
his bilt. He's got a national championship. He could go
down a legend and get anything he wants in this stage.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
I mean, look at Harball, right, I mean look at Harball.
He goes from last year. He had a different reason
for leaving college football. He ran from it to get
into the NFL. And you know you're talking and great point,
you're you're coaching guys who are making way more money
than you as a as an NFL.

Speaker 4 (50:32):
Coach and bonuses, endorsements and everything. Ryan Day's probably doing
about fourteen million year once he gets his bonuses for
performance and endorsements from various things. Why would you walk
away from being king of the castle and making that
kind of money to go torture yourself.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
I think he's a I think his salary was, you know,
close to eleven and then plus bonuses. So yeah, he's
making there's no question he's making serious bank at least
probably twelve or I'm sorry, at least a million or
a million plus a month, if you will. If we're
gonna that's a pretty good coin. That's that's pretty good
work if you can get it kind of a thing,
and he's earning it.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Don't get me wrong, But you know what you heard.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
I don't know if you saw it either don Or
and and Chuck, but you know, Kirk kurb Street after
the game got emotional when they were talking to him
about everything, and he pointed out that you know, you
got coach Day who took the high road during all
this people calling for his head and so on. What
a great thing for him to do as a coach

(51:31):
because Kirk Street to do all of that, and uh
to take the high road and so on, and and
I don't know, did you see the thing where Herbie was,
you know, getting emotional after the game.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Did you see all that by chance?

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Don Yeah?

Speaker 8 (51:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm pretty you know last time I
saw him it emotional. Did you see the special speel
I did about his dog that died. Yep, he's got
the new one now. I mean there's people that love
and hate the guy. You know, he's a great sports
commentary here. You know, Lover had him. He's a great
you know that he's a great game call or too.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
So yeah, he was on with he was on with
Pat McAfee and he was saying, look, I only know
how I feel at the time. That's not something you
think about or predict. It's just like a perfect storm
for me. My son had heart failure two years ago.
They were talking about a heart replacement for a while.
He had to medically retire. Ryan Day.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
The gratitude I have for Ryan Day putting his arms
around Zach.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
And keeping him involved, and he's almost like a graduate
assistant with what he's doing. Ryan insisted on putting his
arms around and Chip Kelly, all these guys, so they're there,
you know, that side of looking down and seeing him
in his jersey after potentially facing replacing your heart to that.
And then he goes, I haven't really talked publicly much
about this. Ally my wife she had been behind the scenes.

(52:50):
She got diagnosed with breast cancer. And then he's talking
about his dog Ben that died, the one you just
kind of referenced there, Don and he said, look, it
was just a lot of emotion, and you do what
we do. You endure, you endure, you do your job,
and you know, he guys, I think what happened. I
couldn't predict it, but then they won. I was so
happy for them and so on and so forth. But

(53:10):
it was kind of the perfect storm, if you will,
for him to kind of kind of start crying on camera.
But you know what, somebody who I've cried on the air,
you know, indeed died when Demetrius died, and it got me.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
I didn't. I didn't see it coming. And it just
you can't really predict that kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
So I do.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
I do relate with him, and certainly I don't know either.
You hate him or like him here in this market,
it seems like. But hopefully he's endeared a little bit
more to the fans, the Buckeye fan base.

Speaker 6 (53:37):
You know, you know, it's a really neat family.

Speaker 8 (53:40):
You know, I used to see the church before they
moved to Nashville, and actually my brother married him.

Speaker 6 (53:46):
My brother's a retired pastor and.

Speaker 8 (53:49):
He married he married them me a long time ago
and now the kids are on grown, really neat, genuine family.

Speaker 6 (53:58):
So but I don't know, you know, called up a
text him and say hey, let's go get a you know,
a nice teat But right, I you know, I used
to seem at church, talk to him, nice guy.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
That they moved away, so right, sadly I worry that
he does. So many people that have been saying they
hate him, don't like him, don't like the way he
calls it. They may end up getting their way because
it's it's possible because he was genuine and open like that.
He may be taken off of Ohio state coverage because
you know, the network maker, you know, you showed you
were kind of a homer there and we don't want

(54:29):
now our coverage is going to be questioned because of
what you did. So he may not do anymore Ohio
State games. We'll have to see it next years and holds.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Do you feel like he tries he goes so far
the other way during the broadcast, which is what pissed off.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
I think a lot of the Buckeye national don't like
him in the first place. He had the audacity of
Michigan years ago.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Well, he's he's trying hard to not be the Homer,
so hard that I feel like he goes out of
his way to make it, you know, not feel like
he is that.

Speaker 4 (54:59):
It's just like the Buckeye to be honest, I don't
have a problem with the way he calls games. I
either I'm good with it. Neither that woman that they
throw in occasionally, I can't stand her. I know, she's
a esp one of them talks like that, you.

Speaker 6 (55:11):
Know, Oh my gosh, that's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
And then it was it Musburger that used to every time.
So yeah, he'd be like, oh, the Ohio State book
guys come to the field, and here come the West
State Elementary Hawk Sonny. You know, anybody entering the field
was going to be a challenge to Ohio State, And
he talked down all their accomplishments. That always bugged me too,
because you could tell he was an anti guy.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
I paid attention.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
I paid it, especially, like very close attention to Chris
Fowler during the National Championship to make sure you know
that first drive, you know, the Notre Dame fighting they
come down and they score like the fighting Irish score first,
and then when the buck Eye scored, he's like, and
the buck Eye's answer, so he yeah, he was right there.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
Even the enthusiast on both side.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
One thousand paying attention to that, and I know Buckeye nationwise,
so I felt like it was a fair call with that.

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