The Blazor Show Tuesday 1/28/2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
He might be going to us.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, me, Mark Laser, and Chuck Douglas is with me
as well. You know, you're just talking about, you know
something I think, Chuck, everybody either is dealing with, has
dealt with, or is.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Going to deal with at some point in their lives.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
And that is well, actually it's twofold because you bring
up You're like, you know, I was talking about porch
pirates and everything, and I go, oh, no, no, no,
you know, I'm going no, please tell me it's okay.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I know.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
But then you were like, no, they didn't take it.
I'm like, oh, but you're going why would they just
put it out there? So it's a new modem that
you got. I don't know if you want to divulge
any the companies, that's up to you. But you get
a you get something that literally is not in like
a plane brown wrapper that looks like, well, it could
be an old shoe in there, or it could be something.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Now, this is about the size of four shoe boxes.
If you were to stack them like on their sides
and put and then it's wrapped in a bright white
package with big blue letters across the front going hello, steal.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Me that goes it's a modem.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Propped up against the door at the house. I'm like, man,
what are you guys thinking?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
But but it was not still what So was it
delivered while you weren't home or while.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
You were No, it was right after I had left
the house apparently.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
So here's another thing on a side note, we'll get
back to that because it's interesting the way you were
telling this story. But I will be sitting there and
it's always delayed. When you're notified that your package has arrived,
typically five eight minutes, give or take. Could be a
little longer than that. I guess it depends on how
long that it takes the driver to send the photo

(02:00):
and so on and so forth. So did you receive
a photo that said your item has been delivered and
it's a picture of it sitting on your paple?

Speaker 5 (02:07):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:07):
I have you have to see that? Okay?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
So, and it wasn't Amazon that brought it, No, it
was the company.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, So with Amazon, I just wish and I get it.
They don't have, Their drivers don't have and you know
what now that I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
So I'm going, well, why are they going to remedy
this blazer? Are you ding back?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
But but they they bring it and they don't ring
your doorbell, and I understand they don't have to think
about all of the deliveries. It one day that the
Amazon drivers just dropped off your stuff. Think about how
many other porches or back porches or whatever garage code
to put in. You can give them all kinds of
different instructions, and I'm not giving them that. So typically

(02:47):
it ends up on the front porch. Sometimes it's on
the back porch. I told them, please put it on
the back porch. That's what I always do. There are
no neighbors right directly behind me, so I feel a
little safer when it's back there. Some times it ends up.
Remember I showed you the other day I had something
on the back porch. You could see esther almost in
mid mark in the picture, like she's gonna do anything.

(03:09):
And then sometimes it's on the front porch. I'm like,
don't put it on the front porch. We're on the main.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Street in there. Do you make your watch out.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
I mean, yeah, one of those neighborhoods where if something happens,
people are on top of it.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
I think, yeah, I've got my really dear friend is
on the one side. He's retired, but he's in and out,
so he may or may not be there.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
And he's great.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
If it's something really expensive and I'm here and nobody's
home and I know, and I'll be like Josie and
she's like, I'm at work and I know nobody's there.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Jenny's at work.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'll text him go, hey, can you stick because he
has the code, I'm like, can you stick that in
the garage?

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Please?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
And if he's home, he'll run right over and take
care of He's very good about that. Good so. But
when it's something that's really kind of expensive. But I
wish that there was a quicker way, because you say
to yourself, there's a little window there where somebody could
just be like whoop and just take it from when
you're notified, from when they drop it off. Now, it's
not like I live, you know, in Compton or anything,

(04:10):
or Watts or whatever, and it's just like people are
going up and down the streets just constantly, you know,
because they follow Amazon vehicles.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yes, they'll follow.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
On FedEx up if they see him in a neighborhood. Yeah,
they'll just wait for them to drop something off.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, and they wait for him to drive off.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
There's one a couple of weeks. Well, it's right around
Christmas time. You remember, the Amazon driver is taking the
damn picture of the package on the porch that he's left,
and a guy comes up and takes the package off
the porch while he's taking a picture of it. They
don't care.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's balls and or you're just a moron. You're just
an idiot and you don't even care. It's just like
you're you're in the picture, and you know with ring
and everything else. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Though.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Try calling the police and going you have a buckets.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
They don't care. They know there's no repercussions for the actions.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah. So back to what you were talking about, you're
having all this trouble with your modem. I had that
going on too, where you're like, man, I'm having to
reset this thing constantly, and I had.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
One basically that was just out of date. It was old.
I knew that.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I was just not wanting to hear that they were
not going to be able to because I don't ever.
I don't get their rentals because I feel like sometimes
you might just be picking up somebody it's refurbished, and yeah,
you know, it's probably going to go out again, and
I don't know if I want to do. Plus, you're
paying a monthly premium typically for that. I'm going now,
I'll just spend one hundred and eighty bucks and get

(05:30):
a decent modem and that'll be that.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm done with it.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I don't want this monthly you know, five ninety nine
or whatever it is they want to charge, in addition
to the outrageous money they want to charge you for
Internet that doesn't even work half the time, where it's
real slow or I don't know, goofy stuff happens. But
you told me that you did get a new modem
because you were having that trouble.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, well, but the problem see, I think I don't
know the company, and I went too. I used to
be Breezelining and was Wow way before that. It was
Americast before that, so I've been with them for a
long time. But I got tired of them constantly doing
the song and dance with the bill and so forth,
and the Spectrum guy came around. He's like, hey, we'll

(06:13):
do this. Well. The trouble is with Spectrum, this is
my experience, may not be yours, but every dagone week man,
every day, especially on weekends, it seems like my internet
was crashing. The night of the not the buck Get,
not the National Championship, but the game before the National
Championship that was a seven thirty kick or whatever. Yep,
seven twenty nine Internet crashes. I'm like, I'm paying how

(06:34):
much for slings so I can have ESPN to watch
this game? And the Internet crashes again. And it was
one of those where you had to go up and
reset the modem again, but it was constantly, we'll send
a signal to the modem, or you have to go
reset the modem. And last night, about eight minutes before eleven,
I was just fading into heavenly blissful sleep when I

(06:55):
hear the queen sawt voice.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
Saynett again, Oh yeah, okay, so bless her heart, And
I said, you know, I can't do this anymore, and
I called Spectrum.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
They didn't even try to save me, didn't even try
to retain me. Can we do this? Can no I said,
I'm sick of this. Every week I'm calling you guys
to do something. Okay, well termin at your service as them. Great,
thank you? Was that quick?

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (07:20):
It was act quick. They didn't even bother to try.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
They must have heard it in your voice like yeah,
he's not salvage opaining.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah. Yeah. So like eight fifteen this morning, I get
online and check all the offers that are out there
and work the guy Breezeline a little bit and I
got the their modem but I'm not paying for it,
which is good. That is great. And I'm getting their
the one gig Internet service, which is what I had
before was Spectrum, and I'm getting that for like twenty
two dollars a month less than what I was paying

(07:47):
spec for it. So that's very nice. And it's locked
in for two years. And they had the stuff there
to day, which is impressive. That is impressive. Yes, now
that customer serve, that's very good. But don't leave it
on the porch for everybody to see and steal. They
probably it's Chuck Douglas. Get sure like they care. We
got to get that right over there. That got double
That guy's going to get on the air and give
us the business. Hey, Jason, thanks for listening.

Speaker 6 (08:09):
Man.

Speaker 7 (08:09):
What you got hey, real quick comment. Yeah, in my
neighborhood we had packages so long for the past couple
of years. But I got a new garadgear opener called
a Chamberlain and it comes with a app called my Queue,
like the letter Q. And when you purchase something on Amazon,
you give them permission and they just come in open
your garage door and throw you packages inside your garage

(08:31):
door like Amazon has uh some sort of code. I
don't know how they do it, but they can open
my gradge ate and put all packages in there for me.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Does that scare you Jason, that they decide one of
their drivers goes rogue and he's got access, and you
come home and your vintage Ferrari's gone?

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Then what.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Great point?

Speaker 7 (08:49):
But the garage oprener has a camera so you can
watch them actually do it, right, So yeah, I've never
thought of that. But they have access, one time access,
and they have to take a picture inside the garage
and then they have to physically close and.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yep, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Jason. Thanks, And that's all good and well unless until
that happens and you go there goes my lawnmower and
my snowblower.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
They're gone. They stole it.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
The driver stole it, and oh, by the way, you
call in and they go, yeah, he quit. Then you
call the police and they go, yeah, blow it out
your snowblower.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yep, you know you can't, just because they're driving. It's
before they used they don't. Didn't you always do? Pictures
used to get a text message just telling you your
package you've been delivered. Five six years ago, I got
a text message telling me my package had been delivered
left on my front porch. I called him up and
if my package has not been delivered? Yes, sir, it
was left on the front porch. No, it was it.

(09:40):
Did you check the front porch? I'm sitting on the
front porch.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
I hate when they do that. Did you checked?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Shut up?

Speaker 2 (09:45):
What do you mean? Why would I tell you it's
not there if I hadn't.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
Jack.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
People ask stupid questions, do it's great, Wow? Did you
hurt yourself?

Speaker 6 (09:53):
No?

Speaker 4 (09:53):
I just like it's a it's a.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Really stink smell it and you're like, wait, no, you
just had a stink.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Anyway, Yeah, people do they but he's anyway, And I said,
I'm sitting on the porch. I've been sitting on the
porch for like an hour and a half. The package
did not come twelve minutes ago, and they wanted to
be well, we'll send you a form to fill out
for I'm like, really, do you think.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
The driver takes a picture of it, then just takes
it with him and then sends it like it's there
and then he's keeping it and he's got a chop shop.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
If there's no security cameras or whatever. They may take
that chance. They may take that chance. But in those days,
like I say, you just got a text, they didn't
take a picture of the package, right, so you know,
I'm it was nice evening. I love to watch the
sun go down, have a beverage. And that's exactly where
I was when they said it was delivered. I'm like,
you're a lion sack of something or other.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
And by the way, Jason, please don't take a fence
to I was just being goofy there with regard to that.
I'm sure you got it locked down and figured out.
I just get nervous with that type of because then
they can come into your home and I don't know,
you're putting a lot of trust in them, And that's fine.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
It's not paranoia when there's a reason for it. Yeah,
I mean that's I've got one account specific specifically for it.
If we'll give you ten dollars a month off, if
you let do direct withdrawal from a checking account, I'm
not giving them access to my primary stuff. I've got
one account specifically for that crap. One debit card specifically
for online stuff.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I use a credit card because you're not even on
the hook if they take you with a credit card
the one I use, and it's a small limit so
they can't really get me. Yeah, I do that a lot, dude,
So I know exactly what. I don't ever use a
debit card for any recurring no, no, no, no, because
did they empty out your bank account?

Speaker 3 (11:35):
And now what you're chasing down the bank?

Speaker 2 (11:38):
I know that Chase will give it back, they'll get it,
but I don't know when. And now you set off
a series of good.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Catastrophe, you know, or get a recurring thing on like
a visa gift card. That's always funny because when you're
ticked off at him, you just don't put any more
money on the gift card. You're out of a lot.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Sorry, yeah, there you go, man, Caroline Lovett. Trump's President Trump.
And look, I don't want to just keep I don't
want to keep just saying Trump, but it's just easier
to say because I've never I don't disrespect him. I
would never just call him Trump because you'll hear that
a lot. President Trump's press secretary, but Trump's press secret

(12:15):
She today was her debut, right around fifty minutes or so,
and like I told you, immovable, steadfast. I mean, this
woman was prepared. It was amazing, especially given you know,
we watched KJP just parrot what her boss would tell her.

(12:36):
I'm not even her boss, whoever was giving her instruction.
She wasn't answering. KJP didn't answer. If you'll remember, it
was always just some sort of word salad or what
have you. Today, what Caroline Levitt did is absolutely amazing.
She went toe to toe with everybody in there and
she said a president. And I hope that she doesn't

(13:00):
falter at some point, because it seems like they always
end up switching, you know, during administrations, and I hope
that she just doesn't go.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
I just can't do this anymore. They're just beating me.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Down.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
I don't know exactly what's behind that. Why you usually
don't have someone from the beginning of the of the
term to the end, you know what I mean. I
I that's a thing, and so with her, I hope
that she continues to do this because it was really
really super and she's super easy.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
On the eyes. I'll say that too. I'll just say it.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
I'm going so whatever.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
I'm sorry I missed this because you've been raving about
her since I walked in the door and said hello today.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
She's good.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
She's really good.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Man.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Did you happen to check any of it out? Did
you catch any of it? Zach attack, Did you happen
to to to catch any of Carolina? None of it.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
I just heard some excerpts.

Speaker 8 (13:52):
But she seems like she doesn't take anything from anybody.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
So she's just focused. Man, she's focused. They asked trek
her a question, and you know, they're notorious, depending on
who it is, they're notorious for trying to you know,
rapid fire her or whatever. And she's just answering exactly
what I mean. It was good.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
It was really good.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
I'm so happy. I'm really excited if she continues down
this path. If she really is who we watch today,
this These crazy legacy mainstream idiots have no chance with
this woman. None, They will have no chance. And when
she finished today she said, and thank you everybody. That's it,

(14:35):
and uh, you know I'll end with that and blah
blah blah blah blah, and she walked off. Look, you
know people are yelling. She didn't look back. She just
kept walking. And I said, good for you. Don't give
them that at the beginning. Don't let them think, oh yeah,
we can get her on her way out and we'll
keep her there and we'll keep stringing her along.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
And no, no, no, man. It was good. So I
didn't even she's twenty seven years yes, wow, you.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Went for around fifty minutes. I don't have the exact
number in front of me, but oh I knew that.
I just didn't even think to throw that in.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
But I just saw a picture I haven't seen her,
and I just guessing how old she.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
Was, and I look, I was like, oh, my goodness's
she looks older than twenty seven to me.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
No way, when you watch her speak, everything falls in line,
and that's not a bad thing. But she's got that vigor,
that young thing going when she speaks it, but not
like you know where it's bad, where it's dragging her
down or it's a negative or what have you. But wow, man, Yeah,
and uh yeah, she's cute too. On top of everything else,

(15:36):
she's the she chucks all the boxes as of right now.
So I'm hoping that continues.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Traffic, Weather, Sports, and the Mark Blazer Show on six
' ten WTV in.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Went Indeed, I do remember you telling me that you
thought by Friday it was going to be in the fifties.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
I just got a good, good, good, good vibration from
yesterday's forecast. I figured we'd make it into the fifties.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
So Chief Meteorologist Marshal leak Peak is joining us now.
So it looks like that is the case for Friday.
But I'll take the rain with it, Marshall.

Speaker 8 (16:14):
There, I'm bumping fifty up to I'm bumping fifty up
to Friday too. That's it, Yes, Friday up to fifty two.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yes, I was just seeing that.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
I'm like, I'll go dance in the rain at fifty
two degrees.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Well, it's gonna be windy.

Speaker 8 (16:29):
Windy and wet, but fifty two as opposed to next Monday.
Where when I sent the forecast the first time, there
was a type and it said it was going to
be four hundred and one.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
I just saw that, Mike w Y it's the end
of the world.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Now, at what point do we vaporize way before that?
So we'll never know if four oh one actually happens, Marshall.
So for all the tons of purposes we're we're.

Speaker 8 (16:54):
We're well baked by then we're done. What is it
like one, it'll be forty instead of four hundred and one.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
We're cooked by one forty, aren't we or something like that?

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, maybe before.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
It depends on when the little thing pops up out
of your head. That's when you know you're done.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
We got one of those internals. It just pops up
like the turkeys do or whatever its internal.

Speaker 8 (17:19):
Suddenly everybody's got an audie and now you know. But
it's beautiful out there right now, sunshine galore. We're doing
some melting. It is a beautiful afternoon for January. We'll
stay mainly clear to partly cloudy through the night. Tonight
still gonna be breezy, so you'll have a wind chill
to deal with. But the air temperatures are still gonna

(17:40):
be close to freezing, so it's gonna be compared to
last week. It's fine, forty one degrees on Wednesday, breezy,
mild er, we'll have some sunshine Thursday, the clowns will
start thickening up during the day and we'll still get
to forty six degrees. And then there's your fifty two
with rain on Friday.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
So Marshall, I don't know if you want to if
you got get going, I didn't know where you come
down on this, this new Wendy's Frosty that's coming out.
But if you got to go, I just want to
do it, because I meant to do this before we
actually even got into the forecast.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
But I've got I've got two minutes for Frosty. You
know that.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Well they're dropping the girl scouts, thin mince Frosty Wendy.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
I had two minutes, But there we go. We're done now.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
So no, you know that's not you? Then okay you're like, no,
you're not so much, not so much, Okay, I.

Speaker 8 (18:26):
Mean, good for them for coming up with a new flavor.
It only took forty years to come up with something
other than chocolate. Yes, so you know awesome that there's
there's there's a new that's.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Fantastic, like the one they had now vanilla with the
chocolate chips in it. That was my favorite. Well, yeah,
that's easy enough. You can make one of those every
time you get it. John Marshall, I should have been
here for the chili. Oh, I was gonna be yeah,
did you did you?

Speaker 2 (18:48):
We test rove that on the air and I we
just didn't have It.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Was one of those things where I was like do
we do this? Was Marshall on Then he goes.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Hey, you guys, knock it off with that. You keep
doing that when I'm on the It's not fair. But
we I went and tracked down some of that Skyline
Grater's chili ice cream and absolutely we drove. We we
ate some on the air yesterday and it just went
into the stores yesterday.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
I went over on Lake.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
How was it? Hola Cow? It's amazing, I mean amazed.

Speaker 8 (19:17):
So you're getting kind of a Skyline chili flavor, but
it's icy cold goodness.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
So it's like cinnamony. When you first start, you know,
you feel it on the palette and then when it finishes,
you swall it and you go, oh, there's the chili.
You can actually kind of taste it. And then there
are oyster crackers.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
All through in the ice cream. They stayed.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
How did they do that?

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Don't know what, Marshall. It's witchcraft. Is witchcraft, I think,
but it was. You'll be blown away. I'm not kidding, dude.
Like Zac Attack liked it. I liked it, Chuck liked it.
It was one unanimous and we got some uh I
before it was all happening. I told Chuck off the area,
go hey, so there's an and I got some of it.

(20:01):
He goes, are you kidding me? I can't eat chili
ice cream? I go look, reserve judgment and we tried
it and I'm watching his face. He ended up taking
the rest of it home last night, but.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
He didn't get any of it. Have you seen the
movie Piranha. My grandchildren smelled it through the bag from
the outside of the house. I walked in the door.
Their hands had taken the shape of spoons. Weird little creatures.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
It was great, Marshall, Seriously, it was.

Speaker 8 (20:31):
It's really goods like that to give you sort of
an experience where like you said, you're starting with that
cinnamon and then there's like a whole second round in
the same bite.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
It's French.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
It's French pot ice cream. It's what they start with.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Then the spices are in there, and of course cinnamon
is a staple there for Skyline chili, and it's it's
that's how it starts. It actually has that aroma when
you pop the lid off and then you just and
then you you discover an oyster cracker. At some point
you go, what just happened there? It works so well.
I can't even tell you you'll you'll love it. I

(21:07):
have a feeling you'll love it.

Speaker 8 (21:08):
There was an ice cream what was it, cucumber, honeydew,
cayenne uh, that did the same kind of thing. At
the beginning, you had this sort of cucumber flavor. It
was very mild, and then it sort of morphed into
the melon, which was great, and then you got the heat.
It was literally an experiment in playing with your taste
buds and how to how to trigger different parts of

(21:32):
your taste sensation.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
I think those are fun.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, it was good. It's good if you get a chance,
get you some of it. And they got it at Greaters,
for sure. Kroger's is gonna have it at some point,
I said, Krogers. See I just did that, which you
shouldn't have an S on there, Kroger. But at some
point they're gonna have They're supposed to have it as well.
But yeah, it's a it's a really good marriage. I'm
really shocked, but it really works. So if it works,

(21:57):
it works. I got a run and we'll talk to
you later.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
I see you.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
The psychological weather out there right now is so nice.
I didn't even wear a co did this. This is
what I wore to work today. The flannel on the
T shirt. I don't need a jacket, don't need to
add it's the sunshine makes it feel warmer than whatever
it is.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, as long as you're gonna get a stiff breeze,
you're good man out there. Anyway, back to the So,
the Wendy's Girl Scouts Thin Mints Frosty's start on Friday,
February twenty first at participating Wendy's location station wide.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
But yep, they're doing it. The Girl scouts Thin Mints frost.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
It'll be a good seller for him. I mean the
flavor wise, the chocolate, the mint and the vanilla ice
cream will go together. Well, I think it'll it'll be
a good seller form frosty.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Senate Bill thirty has been proposed. I guess this is
the third time that state Senator Bill Blessing out of
coal Raine Township has introduced this and it's a new proposal.
Bipartisan support aims to tackle the rise and cash lists businesses.
Supporters of the bill say businesses going cashless harms people

(23:01):
who do not bank their money, raises privacy concerns, has
caused seniors to struggle to pay on apps when required,
and like we were just saying, it's legal tender. Why
is cash the enemy? Now? People look at you like
you have a horn grown out of your head when
you go, yeah, I got cash. And and this is

(23:22):
this is an honest to god statement. My daughter told
me the other day someone she works with they have
a register and she said, is this a dime? And
the girl was dead serious and held up a nickel.
I swear to you, And that's the problem we're having
with this generation now. They can't count change, they don't

(23:45):
know how to do any of it. But forget about
all of that, I get it. When you have a
place like Nationwide Arena, which, by the way, they have
an alternative there. From what I read, it's called reverse ATM.
There are like Cedar Point and Nationwide Arena.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
I don't think Great American Ballpark offers that, but I
know these large places one of those venues with a
capacity over ten thousand would be exempt from this if
it gets through. But businesses move cashless, and I know
that they did this, but they're talking about saving on
labor costs. Cashless retailers can close their stores faster, saving

(24:28):
time they would have to spend counting a register for example.
Busy businesses can process cashless payments faster without the need
to count change. Well, you could fool me because I've
been through plenty of businesses that don't take cash and
they're slow as hell. So don't tell me that's what
was slowing them down before. Besides, I feel like this

(24:50):
was introduced during COVID. Do you remember when it was
What was it that was becoming Like was it the
change with banks? Like you were unable to Yeah, we
couldn't get change with banks. Yeah, like they were saying
we can't, we can't. They're they're not minting.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
Enough stupid time it was, you remember that, it was.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
The dumbest thing. And I feel like this in part
was basically when it kind of took hold was during
that because they said, well, you got that dirty money,
and you know everything's transferred to the touch, so you
might be transferring COVID, so we're gonna go cashless, and
now what these And it's just like everything else, they're

(25:33):
leaning on that as a as some sort of a
reason why they're doing it now. Yet COVID is long gone,
not even in the rear view anymore. Can't see it.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
The whole you know, the biblical folks, the cashless society folks,
the mark of the Beast, Book of Revelation folks. They
have been saying, well since I was a kid. I remember,
I think it was Barbara Walters when she was still alive,
talking about how dirty our money was and how they
tested it. It was the eighties, so a lot of
cocaine was being snorted. Who rolled up bills and they
would find you know, bodily fluids and so forth all

(26:05):
over the money. So they've been singing this for forty
to fifty years now about how dirty the money is,
and even back then my mom was going, this is
the way to try to get us to be scared
of money, and so they're trying to do and she
was right.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
The more places and systems you interact with this is
a lobbyist for the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants. More
places and systems you interact with with your credit card,
the more likely it is that something is going to
get hacked or this is a different lobbyist. I'm sorry
who said something is going to get hacked or something
along those lines, and your financial security, at least in

(26:38):
part might be compromised. There's also that, I mean, there
are a lot of people you can't even pay, you
have to use. How about all these places you pull
up to the I've never understood this. You pull up
to a fast food place and they're like, good afternoon,
will you be using the mobile app today? No, I'm
sitting right here. Why would I use the app? And
I think they're talking about to pay or whatever. Psych

(27:01):
I'm here, I'm sitting right here. And then they offer
you all these incentives to get the app and to
buy on the app.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Well, a lot of them like it. I know McDonald's
does this because The queen used to manage a McDonald's,
so she was like big into the app thing. But
she said, let's stop up here and grab the kids lunch.
I can be you know, a quarter mile from the McDonald's.
She gets on the app and puts in the order,
and because she put it in on the app, she
has an order number and she got a large free
fries or something. So I think a lot of people

(27:30):
do that just to get a freebie when they go through.
But you've got to be like a professional at using
those apps to be able to do them, be that
efficient with them.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Is it usually like a one time thing with regard
to that, they're just trying to get you hooked on that. Oh,
then the next time you would get a free fries.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
As all building of points so that it'll say congratulations,
this order you call it a lot for in.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Other words, not every order. That is what I was at.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, but it's usually something, you know, a free saft
drink or an upgrade on something or whatever.

Speaker 6 (27:55):
Well.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Also, what's interesting, in addition to some of the other
exempt airport vendors and terminals with at least two places
selling food that accept cash also exempt from this if
it gets through parking facilities owned by a city, of course,
parking facilities that only take mobile payments, and you know,

(28:16):
you know, in Vegas, it's like, oh, did you get
the number on your phone when you punched up on
the kiosk or whatever? And I was in a like
a food court. I was like, no, I don't have
my phone with me. It literally was charging in my room.
And they were like, well, we sent the number to
your phone. And I go, well, that's up in my room.
And they were like, well you have to have that,

(28:37):
and I go, what if I don't have a phone.
And then she's like, well, you needed to indicate that.
I was like, man, I can't believe they just are
going to argue till the ends. Degree I'm like, I
want the damn food.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
Like what is this?

Speaker 2 (28:49):
It is so complicated.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
I used to never want to bring my phone into
a studio because I was scared something would happen while
I was on the air, would ring or beep or whatever.
But here I'm sitting in that chair. I tried to
log into my iHeart official email. I have to have
my phone to log into my email on the computer
that's in front of you, right now because it has
to send me a code, right, Like really.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
The Mark Bleezer show, you know, it hit me with
as many people that asked me about this opening song.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
I should get royalty Svlen. I think people are like, man,
I oh you know what, oh yeah, and then they hear.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
The whole song, They're like, man, you know, even though
he's dead.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
I've seen two Eddie van Halen stories in the last
probably thirty six hours or so about people who had
given guitars to One of them was Frank Zappa's kid,
Dueseluzl and I forget who the other one was, but
for eighteen years he said his guitar somebody had stolen
his guitar and only found it and it hadn't been stolen,
and it was like it wasn't a flying V. It

(30:05):
was a weird shaped guitar. I can't even remember who
the guitarist was now, but it wasn't Tweezls, no, somebody else.
Two different stories about Edie van Hale and I mean,
I won't use the word iconic because I think it's overused,
but it just shows you, oh, you know, we're still
talking about him as if he's he's with us. And
that tells you the kind of impact he made.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
He created an entire way to play the guitar that
Hendrix didn't create, that Eric Clapton didn't create. You can
go down the list of who you think is the
best guitarist of all time. That's why that conversation continues
throughout time, because it's an opinion, and you know, people's

(30:47):
opinions are shaped by different types of things that happen
in their lives and the types of music that they idolize,
and so on and so forth. But with Eddie, you
cannot one thing that's really not arguable. He created an
entire style of playing that was not there.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
I mean, that was that was pretty much all him.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
It's interesting because it might have been I think it
was duezl. That's on Facebook right now. It's a current
video where he's playing Eruption and he plays, he plays
the whole beginning of it, and it's, uh, it's pretty cool,
you know, before You Really Got Me, which is on
the Van Halen record, but and he and he does,
you know, it's pretty done good. And that's also what's

(31:30):
interesting too about Joe Satriani, who's playing, you know, with
Sammy and you know, you got Michael Anthony and then
they now have Kenny Arnoff who's playing drums for them,
as opposed to you know, you had Jason Bonham, who's
Johnson who was playing for a while too when they
were touring. But that's the one thing that I saw.
I saw Sammy talking about that on one of the

(31:50):
talk shows, that with Satriani playing all of Ed's stuff,
you got to have somebody who is that intricate and
knows what they're talk what they're doing. He understands what
Ed was playing there, not just replicating it, and there's
a different feel to it when it comes out of
the amp off of the guitar, through the pickups and

(32:12):
so on and so forth. But yeah, he arguably I think,
is the best guitar player. But it's just like, well,
what genre, what type of because there's different types of
guitar players, you know, jazz and so on, But as
far as rock guitar players, I for me. But that's
also right in my wheelhouse when I was growing up,

(32:32):
Hendricks is before me and I cite Hendricks as Oh
there it is.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
That's it's just they're always listening. We're talking about Eddie
Van Halen and look what pops up on my Facebook feed.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, and that's funny. Somebody playing a Van Halen replicating
and yeah he's got the he's got.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
That's called Frankenstein, I think is the name of that guitar,
the one with all the line crazy lines and stuff.
You know his At hard Rock in Cincinnati, they have
his Porsche in there on display Ed's Porsche's pretty cool.
Right when you walk in, it's like right there, roped
off and then it's got all the different you know
if Gene Simmons axe base in there, it's.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
On the wall like you know, framed and you know
all the this is so cool, all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
I love, man, I could, I could if I if
money was not an issue, I would try to. I
would try to get some of that stuff just to have,
because I'm fascinated by all of that. Jack Nicholas clubs
and putters.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
And just stuff like that. Just yeah, it's a whole
that's a that's a whole conversation.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
I don't know the entertainment stuff I would ever, maybe
old entertainment, old Hollywood, but historical stuff, American history stuff,
I would that would be probably what I would indulge.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
In Yeah, Sena or yeah, Senate Bill five ninety three.
This Oklahoma, this senator out of Oklahoma, Dusty Devers. And
it says in parentheses, which I think is funny because
he's connected to this story.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
That is his real name, not his porn name. Yeah,
Dusty Devers.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
That's exactly what.

Speaker 9 (34:12):
Queen the poolsies by name, Dusty Devers.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
So Senate Bill five ninety three would increase existing penalties
for any sort of engagement with pornographic material. It would
increase the penalty for possession and distribution of child pornography
now one hundred percent. We can all agree to child born.
There's no place for any of that in society, period,
end of story. And I don't care if you have

(34:42):
a sickness where that's your thing. I there's just nothing
for that. You need to jack the jail up and
put you under it. As I've always said, Yep, Jalen's
too good. But they go on to talk about making
distributing or consuming pornographic material could get you ten years
in jail. And this, this is this Senator Dusty Devers,

(35:02):
saying it would restore moral sanity.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Listen to me, as far as look, I'm indifferent about this.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
I don't care if it gets if it got outlawed,
or it became whatever.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
I'm indifferent about this.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
I mean it, I couldn't care less if this were
What's funny is it will never stop because people have
so much of it saved, you know what I mean,
as far as whatever divide, they can save this stuff.
And then I I think you can use VPN Virtual
Private network, or the dark way. I mean, there's all

(35:37):
kinds of different ways to get around this kind of stuff.
So think about this is like to me eradicating guns
in the US, let's get rid of all the guns.
We're going to get rid of all whatever it is,
three hundred million or two hundred million guns, or you
know what I mean, whenever they propose.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
And that's just in my house.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
But I think you know what I'm saying. So he
described this dusty Devers. It's hard to be It's hard.

Speaker 9 (36:08):
It's hard to be feeling, maybe as your pool needs
be clean, Dusty, Dusty Devers.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
It's hard to uh anyway, describe pornography as both degenerate
material and a highly addictive drug. It ruins marriages, it
ruins lives, It destroys innocence, It warps young people's perception
of the opposite sex. It turns women into objects, turns
men into objects, degrades human dignity, corrodes the moral fabric
of society. And I love how the take of this article.

(36:43):
They go, it seems like he's not that flexible in
his feelings here.

Speaker 9 (36:53):
I had feelings once. I've never had a feeling like
I got what I see you, ma'am. I'm Dusty, Dusty divers.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
You know what's funny is you're trying to make your
voice deeper, and it actually sounds not as deep as
it typically does. Yeah, that's what's funny. It's like, Chuck,
just talk. You don't even have to act like you
make your voice. You know, me, I gotta I gotta talk.
I gotta change it. If I'm gonna make mine deeper,
you're like you're trying to anyway, it's just there.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Sorry, I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Anyway, he's talking about restoring moral sanity. In Oklahoma, we
had somebody who was on hold. I immediately as soon
as I promoted that this was a thing and we
were gonna talk about it, boom, the phone's rang. Imagine
that yeah, and then they're gone.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
But he was on hold real quick, but he got
off real.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Fast, right and I was trying to figure out what
exactly he did. He happen to tell you his message
or what he thought. I'm guessing right away he's gonna
go This is not the answer, pretty much.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
He was very excited to be on and then.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
He just had to hang up to get back online from.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Again. I'm okay with saying I am indifferent about this.
We all know that this will never go anywhere. But
I'm indifferent about it. If it went away or it
became illegal, then so be it. It's it's such an
enormous business and that it's almost like saying, you know,

(38:30):
the oil will go away or big tobacco is ever
going to go away.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
There is a.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Reason you can go to the store tonight and buy
a twelve pack on the way home. They tried prohibition,
they tried making government the moral authority over people, and
it didn't work because human beings and their vices are
what they are. You're not going to stop people. You
take away you know, online porn or dirty magazines or whatever.

(38:56):
They're going to find somewhere somewhere else. It's it's you
cannot change the nature of people with legislation. It's it
just it won't happen. So get rid of one form
and it'll come back in another form.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
I didn't know this, but Oklahoma already has an age
verification law in the books. It prevents anyone under the
age of eighteam from accessing pornography. In that decision, according
to this resulted in porn Hub pulling out of the state.
And I would imagine, because you go, well, how are
they gonna, you know.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
Because no kid knows how to lie or steal a
parent's credit card number or anything.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
So but then they are I'm going, well, as far
as pulling up, it must be a similar process or technology.
Where have you ever tried to place like Okay, for instance, DraftKings.
I have an account DraftKings, and I can bet online
on sports. I've been in Michigan and tried to place

(39:57):
a bet on DraftKings, but it says you're unable to
do that because I wasn't in Ohio. It knew, you know,
from my phone based on where the GPS where the
location is. So I would imagine it's the similar technologies.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
You would think for things like that. When a grown
but adult is traveling and wants to place a bet
from another state, you would think they'd have like an
access code, a pin numbers something, so you can say, yeah,
I'm in Vegas right now, but I'm this is me. Yeah,
that's kind of crazy that you were not allowed to
use it in Michigan.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
And I will tell you this, going from Toledo into Michigan,
I was that close. And as soon as I got
into Michigan, I go, I'm gonna test this.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Nothing.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Nope.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
Then you come back into Ohio and boom, there it is.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Man.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
It's crazy. It's crazy how they're.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Able to do that.

Speaker 4 (40:53):
Well remember during COVID, right you entered the city limits
of Columbus, you cross two seventy and you got a
cell phone message telling you that Columbus required masking or whatever.
I forget what it was, but it was as any
time I would cross over two seventy, as soon as
I came back over to seventy, there's the city of
Columbus on my phone. Yeah. So yeah that man, We're
tracked everywhere.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
Senate Bill five ninety three.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
So if this goes through, I uh, Zach, you're gonna
have to find another avenue for side money.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
You know, you stick your finger to the middle of
it and kind of hold it and bite it. You know,
his career is over before he gets nominated for his
first Emmy.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Wow Traffic, Weather, Sports, and The Mark Blazer Show on
six ' ten wtv A.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
I don't know if I go that far, it's not
really getting hot and well then put that back on.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Oh sorry, Chief Meteorologist Marshall McPeak joining us now, and.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
It's not quite hot in here. We're not to that
point yet. We'll wait till Friday, the hot and then
it's bally.

Speaker 8 (42:04):
You're looking around wondering where did all these palm trees
come from?

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Hey, the serious question, do you see in your crystal
ball the type of cold snap that we had, you
know what a week ago, a week and a half ago,
whatever it was around there.

Speaker 8 (42:20):
The eight to fourteen day outlook at this point looks
like most of this part of the country stays above
average into at least the early part of February.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
So there's that to look at after that.

Speaker 8 (42:32):
I mean, it's yeah, yeah, I wouldn't trust anything beyond that,
so but yeah, at this point, looking at groundhog day.
Looks like the clouds are going to be thick enough
that the groundhog may not see his shadow because there
won't be much sunshine, So that would mean he does
not dive back into his hole.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
So early spring. I like that. And the thing that
really I kind of try to focus on right now, Marshall,
is the more more daylight we're getting each day.

Speaker 8 (43:02):
We are still picking up two minutes of daylight each
and every day, and over the next few weeks that'll
turn into two minutes and ten seconds, two minutes and
fifteen seconds, and so each the farther we get in
here in the next few weeks, we start getting more
and more each day.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
But right now we're sitting at two minutes a day.

Speaker 8 (43:20):
Sunrise tomorrow is at seven forty two, sunset at five
forty seven, So there's more light for the morning and
afternoon commutes right now. So you probably as you're driving
into work and back home again, you may have noticed
that in the last just couple of weeks, tonight will
be mainly clear. We'll drop to thirty three degrees for
the overnight low, but the wind is still going to
be beating on the car. So hang onto that steering

(43:42):
wheel extra tight, especially if you've got a high profile vehicle. Tomorrow,
windy forty one degrees, plenty of sunshine, a few clouds. Thursday,
more clouds with a high near forty six degrees and
some rain late. That's going to give way to a
very soggy Friday and a higher wait for it, wait
for it, fifty two.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Hey, all right, marshall, thank you forty two right now.
And you know what, I'm so happy that we have
businesses that seem to be going back to pre pandemic
as far as their policies go. And I'll be one
thousand percent honest with you, I did not see this
coming with one Starbucks. But they are making changes to

(44:26):
the in store policies and they start this week. And again,
this is one of those things they took away because
of COVID.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
Can I just say large now? Is that going to
be a new thing?

Speaker 9 (44:38):
That's not?

Speaker 4 (44:38):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Well, they weren't doing that pre COVID, I know, but
I'm just hoving what is it? VENTI I don't know.
I don't have those memorized.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
I'm not in there enough. I like their I buy
it for the house. I'll buy their Starbucks coffee for
the house. I do that. I'll you know, I'm a
little bit of a coffee snob. We've talked about this before.
I know, year going the best part of waking up
for me.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
I'm good with that. You're good with all of that.
And you know what, maybe they stepped up something. Maybe
I should give it a test drive at some point
because it would save me. But I will say this,
I'll buy at the store the McDonald's coffee, and that's
going to be more along the lines of a of
a Maxwell House or a Folger's or probably yeah as
far as the price goes. But the McDonald's I love that.

(45:26):
But we so I rotate, though I don't just have exclusively.
If there's something on sale that is in the rotation,
and it would mean okay, I gotta buy it now
it's a second time in a row.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
I'm gonna be I'll do that.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
I like to like the pods, like the Curry make,
but for some reason, I tried it the scupable into
a regular coffee maker once and it didn't taste the same.
M So out of a pod, I like the McDonald's coffee,
but not not out of a coffee pot.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
See I'm the other way. I had never tried it
with the pods, so I can't really speak to that.
But the scupa bowl you got to get that right though.
I mean as far as the and but the pot
of coffee I make sometimes is I'm like, oh, yeah,
this is good. The next morning, I'm like, what happened?
I feel like I'm like I put the same amount.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
It's like, you know, I'm like licking my finger holding
it up in the air, going, oh, the wind is off.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
That's probably what happened with this pot.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
I probably overdo it by most people standards because I
put my coffee in there in the grounds because I.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Go, wait, I'll turn it on.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
Okay, thank you. Grounds. The grounds are that strong and
they reach up and turn on the pot. They don't
need me.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
So Starbucks, Yeah, they're they're going back to pre COVID.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
As far as some of the changes, now, you might
be going, man, really you're excited about that. Well, I
don't know about excited. I'm just happy to see that
they're doing this. And you know some of the buffets,
if you will, which kind of pops into my head.
Going back as well, some people are like, they're good
riddance to buffets.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
They don't.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
I got family members who are like, uh huh, you know,
they don't want anything to do with that. Depending on
where I'm at, like Las Vegas. If you're in, for instance,
Win the Wind Property Resort, their buffet is ridiculous. It
is so good and they're right on top of it.
I mean it is. You think about the amount of

(47:16):
people that go through that place and the types of
things that they are. It's really expensive. It's pretty expensive,
but it's fantastic from top to bottom. There's no there's
no weaknesses if you will in the armor there. I mean,
it's like, oh so good. But anyway, so they're bringing
back the condiment bar. Now I know you're gonna really
that's what. But you could add your own sweetener and

(47:38):
the coffee, the creamer, all of that stuff. They're starting
to have those out and offering free refills on certain beverages.
Are you kidding me? So it's their new coffee house
Code of Conduct and it bans discrimination and harassment. We
knew that was there, so on and so forth, but

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they're making just like you be able to add your
own like I'm just saying free refills all bat are
back for if you're.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
There ordering in store.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
And also if you order for here, you're going to
get an actual coffee cup like a ceramic glass or
whatever coffee cup if you're ordering it for there, and
you can get free refills. If you're ordering just regular coffee.
Now you can't go up and get one of those
fufu refill free. You know. If you're getting a triple

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layout Sukahara with a half twist, I mean that's you
can't get that again.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
It sounds like something a gymnast does in the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
It is, I just just just popped into my head.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
I don't even know with a half twist, a triple
layout sukhar with a half twist, Yeah, you can't get
that free refills. But those are just you know, a
couple of things. Drinks and disposable cups don't get free refills.
And like I was just saying, the specialty drinks and
all and all of that. I just like that there,
it's going to feel a little more normal if you're

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going in there.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
Yeah. So I'd love to see all all of the restaurants,
you know, for all my beloved west side on West
broad Street. There was for years. I used to go
there all the time, a Burger king just west of
Wilson Or. I love Burger king Man, and it was
like when I was working the bars and stuff, that
was kind of my stop every night. Double cheeseburger combo
was what I got. And and they closed it down

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apparently it got in pretty bad conditioned about two years ago,
and I kept waiting, thinking another restaurant, that's maybe Jack
in the Box will come in, maybe they I see
today somebody posts on one of the Facebook community groups
it's going to be an oil change place. For two
years now, I've been driving past there, going somebody please
bring in a restaurant, get back to something we like
in this normal it's been closed for two years. Yeah,

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just an iceore sitting there. It's just sitting there doing nothing.
It's boarded up and sitting next to a very active McDonald's.
Nice and it's gonna be an oil change place. I
guess I hate that too, very sad.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
There's enough oil change places a people, there's enough Burger King.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
I don't know that's how we are anymore. What's down
this street here, will let's see there's a dollar tree
next to the family dollar, next to a dollar general.
Really you're like, well, it's like the eighties with a
seven eleven every twelve feet in Columbus. Everywhere you went
there was a seven eleven. Couldn't get away from them.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
One of Donald Trump's first actions after last week's inauguration,
we know, is to sign an executive order renaming the
Golf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Yes, as
well as Dnali to Mount McKinley. So Google has announced
it will follow Trump's directive changing how these landmarks are
labeled in Google Maps. Now, there is a little bit

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of a twist to this. Geographic Names Information System g NIS.
That's the government's official source for geographic features names, maintaining
records and stand standardizing rather information the country. So as
of Monday, the GNIS had not yet updated to reflect

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Trump's executive order. It still lists the sea and mountain
in question as the Golf of Mexico and Denali respectively.
So trump directive he did include a thirty day deadline
for the name changes to be completed, but listen to this.
Google has said it will wait until the GNIS amends
its records, and then it will switch over. And when

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this happens, it will update the Google Maps in the
US quickly to show this. And then also they confirm
that name changes won't only be visible to US users,
it will be to everyone, regardless of the country they're in,
so on and so forth, which.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
I'm I'm uh, is.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
This a new era?

Speaker 3 (51:49):
This is a new era we're going in.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
I'm just thinking, who named the Gulf of Mexico the
Gulf of Mexico to begin with?

Speaker 2 (51:55):
This was?

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Where did that start?

Speaker 5 (51:57):
What?

Speaker 4 (51:59):
Who's the authority? Why is the moon the moon? Who
makes those kind of decisions?

Speaker 2 (52:04):
I have no idea, but I think this is you know,
if this isn't something he got done, I wouldn't go well,
he promised he was gonna do that. This guy is
really hollow. He didn't get anything done he promised he
was going to. So I'm indifferent. I think it's funny
more than anything. And it's not like, well, my day
is really made now because when I go on Google

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Maps it says Golf of America now instead of Golf
of Mexico. But I think it's interesting they're falling in line.
Google is not pushing back here.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
A lot of stuff that he does is not because
it necessarily needs to be done. It is just to
get people to go, my god, what can't the man do.
I think he's just he's getting He's a showman. He's
looking for reaction while I'm doing all the serious legislating
and arm twisting and stuff with Congress over here. Oh watch,
I'll pull a rabbit out of this hat and people go,
look at what he did again. It's that has been

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Trump's nature since the day he introduced himself to the country.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
Up next, he's going to leap tall buildings in a
single bag. Yes, I think that is.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
The moon should be closer to the sun. I'm gonna
have you on move it with satellites tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
It's going to be the greatest thing in history it's
ever been the history of histories.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Huge suorelines will get larger, ah tides will be earlier.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
I just think this is hilarious and we'll see if
it actually happens. But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
They got what would that be twenty five ish, twenty
four ish days or something. And then the gnis is
something that the Official Source for Geographic Features names maintaining
records and standardizing information across the country. They have to
change us. Once they do, then Google will go, Okay,
we're on board, we've done it, but I'm going to Uh.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Wouldn't it be cool to get a map at least
with that on it.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
That'll be a collector's I want to leave it to
your great grandchildren. They'll be able to make money on that.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Exactly