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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I was just telling Chuck before we went on that
I went ahead and I.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Ordered the.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I ordered the new blades for my snowblower. So when
those come and I think I'm gonna be able to install,
I was telling you I was looking on YouTube and
it was literally the exact model the guy was replacing,
I go, oh, man, I just hit the jackpot being
able to because you know, for the most part, you
can find anything on there as far as how to
replace it or whatever. It's a matter of do you
(00:30):
think that you can do it by watching that person,
and do you have the tools that you need, because
if you start trying to just use anything you can
find it's close to the you can get into big
trouble depending on what you're replacing. So I saw that
and I got encouraged by it. So I jumped on
and I spent one hundred and thirteen dollars and I'm
going to try to do it first. If I can't
(00:52):
do it myself, I get like stonewalled here, I'm gonna
then I'll pass it off.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
To you, Zach attack.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'll boy, hopefully you'll be able to make heads or
tails out of this, and I won't ruin any strip,
any screws, or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'll really concentrate.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I mean, I'm getting booked up as we speak. I'm
kind of upset that you just said, Oh, I can
do it myself. You don't want the Swarts guarantee. Okay,
Well do it yourself and see what happens.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Pal Man, Oh Man, I just got reprimanded.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
What's wrong with me?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Try to save a couple of dolls.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I think you absolutely should do that.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
I think you should absolutely avoid letting Zach anywhere near
your snowblower because when he gets done with it, it will
be a microwave of it.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Hey, we were talking about putting stuff on it, like
a seat of a writing snowblower that was gonna come free.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So if I if I use you now, I guess
I'm not gonna get the bonus writing snowblower out of it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You're one of my best costs. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I just didn't want to say it on air, and
I get a bunch of calls and people going, hey,
can I get that too? And then I got to
sign autographs.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
When I leave, my God.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Christmas people are standing down they're waiting on I'm standing
in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Are they putting in the air filtration system in this building? Now?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I'm not getting any of it.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
He just him, I guess right to his room.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So anywhere where, anyway. Where I was going with this
was you're welcome in advance. I told Chuck, I go
all right, I'm gonna order these. I got one hundred
and thirteen dollars in this. They're going to show up
on Monday. There's they're slated to arrive Monday. I'm gonna
take a swing at it next week and we won't
get one flake of snow after I do this.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So you're welcome ahead of time. Because I started thinking,
you know.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I used a shovel and shoveled off the driveway, and
I'm not against that, it's just I did that, and
then yesterday I'm putting on my pants.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Before I come to work. Lucky you appreciate, oh yeah,
lucky you that I did it in that order. And
I bent over.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I had won the right leg in and I started
to put my left leg in and it felt like
I've never been cattle prod before, but I think that's
what it feels like. Somebody in my low back was
like baer and I was like oh, and I'm like
almost falling down.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So now I'm hobbling around.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And it's all because the day before I used a
shovel on the driveway trying to bust up this stupid
ice that's frozen too the driveway, and that's what started
this whole thing. I got this thing out, I find
I didn't even use it last year, the snowblower, and
I fired it up. It took me about ten minutes.
I finally get it going, and I get it down
by the edge of the end of the driveway where
(03:38):
the where the where the gutter is that what you
call it, the gutter down by the curb, down in
that where the water kind of runs.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
To the yeah, and you know, it's like a it's
like a dam down there.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Because we got so much rain before it turned to snow. Well,
there's a bunch of iced So I take the snowblower
of it and these these uh this auger or whatever,
they're like these thick rubber blades and they just basically
got all chewed up when I started hitting that rubber
or hitting the ice, and I was just like you
gotta be kidding me. And then you and I came
to the conclusion that it's dry rots. I mean, it's
(04:12):
it's a thick, very hardy rubber that is on. It's
a it's a Briggs and Stratton, it's a you know,
it's an entry level snow thrower.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I don't even know that.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So I'm replacing these now and we're not gonna get
any more snow.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So you're welcome. That's what I'm going with.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Now, who are you suing the snowshovel manufacturer, the asphalt
provider for your driveway?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I mean there's there's half a dozen lawsuits in there.
If you really hurt your back shoveling the driveway, I
did you need to be compensated.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I did watch late night TV. There's there's commercials all
over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, I didn't even think about that. I just don't
know where to begin. As far as suing somebody.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Metiorist Andrew buck Michael, who is responsible for the weather.
No matter how many high rates he throws on Facebook,
he is responsible.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, so yeah, you sue him?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They're nice people and they can't control that is a
god thing.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So they can't really, They just predict the weather.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Oh not not Buck, No, he can control it. He
has a thing in his basement. Oh yeah, if you
go over to Hillyard, you'll see his house glows all
the time. That's a little scared. A lot of power
coming off that basement. He's gonna be waiting for me
in the parking line probably.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
He's a large individual.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But he has nice pocket square, so I'm not scared
of him.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, and he runs, He runs marathons and such, and
you don't.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's because I don't run, period.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, but you got to watch out if ever.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Seriously, if you ever see me running, just get the
hell out of dodge, like follow whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It's big, it's very big.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I can vouch for that.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I've known you literally our entire careers and uh, yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I've never seen you run much. No, so I'll go
with you on that.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But it's one of those things that now and it
looks very simple to replace this, and it always does
right as far as these blades or whatever. It looks
like just a few bolts. But the guy that was
doing it made it look pretty easy. And man, I'll
tell you he was flapping his gums so much. I
was like, can we get to the stinking replacements? Stop talking?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
He was kind of like Boomhower from King of the Hill.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I was listening to that video as you I'm going
to drag on, put down, down on down, We're righting
on three four turn right down on?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
What? How do you even get into that?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Was it a YouTube video?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It was, Yeah, that's Jerry. That's Jerry.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
He's part time, so he's not good at those social
media stuff yet.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, he seemed thorough, very too thorough.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I was waiting on some sort of recipe in there
while he was, you know, loosening nuts and bolts and such.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Yeah, he's got to find his sea legs. He's trying
to overcomp and that.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It was something like that. But anyway, Uh, to be
continued on that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Also, the NHL is hosting a free fan festival tailgate
prior to the Jackets outdoor game that's coming up. You know,
there's a lot of fanfare around this. I'm not going.
I've had a lot of people ask me. I'm not
totally against it, but I'll tell you inside Nationwide Arena
there's really no wind.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, it's cool in there.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I'm against outside this time of year, no matter what
the occasion is.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So I'll just let everybody else enjoy it and I'll
watch it. Hopefully it'll be on TV and I'll watch
it that way. And if there was some sort of
indoor area, yes I'm that guy. As far as like
a box or something like this, sure I probably would
go to. But then you're probably talking about twenty five
hundred dollars ticket or something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I'm not paying that.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
But look, there's a lot of stuff leading up to this.
It's a one of a kind type the first time
happening here. The NHL Stadium Series again, March first, Jackets,
Red Wings, gonna be fun. So from noon to five
they're doing this this festival tailgate thing. Oar is going
to play rock band.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Do you know them? Heard of that?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I'm no, I've heard of them, but I don't even
Zach Atteck you know.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oar, I've heard of him. I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, they're doing a free pregame concert, you know, seating
for the concert, first come, first serve tailgate festival is
going to be open until five o'clock, which is an
hour before puck drop, which puck Drop is at six,
so that looks like it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Though.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
They're a rock band found founded in Rockville, I can
tell you, are you serious? Rockville, Maryland in nineteen ninety six.
Consist of a lead vocalist, guitarist, drummer it looks like
five of them here, I guess, and a saxophonist.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, they're they're a they're a legitimate act. I mean,
they're a big act. I just don't know anything really
about them. I'm nothing against them that kind of thing, but.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
I'm going to their official site right now just to
see what they're all about.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, So how about this? The State of Ohio denies union.
I finally agree.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
With something that Dwine is done.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He has a spine in this situation, but he denied
the union request to negotiate over return to office policy.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You know, if you can do your job from home
and you're.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Efficient at it and your company's okay with it, have
at it. But if your company's saying you got to
come back and you're whining about it, then get a
different job. We've talked about this, get another gig, and
people work for the State of Ohio are going well.
I don't want to give up that. I mean, that's
let's be honest. A lot of people, for the most
(09:25):
part kind of like working for the government. They like
working for local government.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Nothing in life is perfect, but this is what it is.
Either deal with it or don't. And the worst case
scenario is a bunch of people trying to get state jobs.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We'll have an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So they claim the Department of Administrative Services violated their
bargaining agreement by failing to negotiate with the union before
making changes to telework policy. And this was a grievance
letter that was filed a few days ago requested the
DAS to negotiate with the union and resend its policy
changes until those talks are complete. Stall Stall, Stall, Eh,
(10:04):
it didn't happen. The lines like na baby nah. He
signed an executive order February fourth mandating state employees under
his authority routinely complete their work in office by March seventeenth.
He's given them till the seventeenth, according to ran Am.
My reading is ray, I think so. Before his order,
large private employers on Ohio started requiring employees to stop
(10:27):
remote work. Look, it's the way that everybody is falling
into play. Why are you any different if you're a
state employee and if you're able to pull it off
from home and you could do it efficiently, then that's
a different conversation, especially if it's with the State of Ohio.
Right now, they're saying that's not going to happen. You
know what I want is I want COVID and everything
(10:50):
associated with it in a rearview mirror that I can
barely see anything in.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
That's what I want right now.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I'm tired of all that craziness that happened. I want
to start forgetting about it, putting it behind us, and
letting it go. People are trying to hold on to
those things, the masking, the jabs. You know, look what's
happened to the kids. I have kids that were unfortunately
involved in all of that, and they are suffering from that.
I have a daughter who is nineteen, and I feel
(11:18):
like maybe had some collateral damage from all of that,
having to go from home, and I don't know that
we'll feel the full effects of all of that stuff
for a long time now. But Stone was, you know,
pretty young during that a few years ago. I think
old enough to unfortunately have dealt with it, and you know,
(11:38):
dealing with some of the PTSD now if you will,
but that remains to be seen. I don't know, and
it's going to be down the road I think with this.
But look, my point is I want all of this
in the rear view mirror. It also goes on to
say it reads the policy changes creates hardship for employees
by negatively impacting their working conditions, and requests the state
make employees whole for anny lost benefits, accommodations and wages.
(12:03):
Teleworking is not a contractual benefit, and the State of
Ohio maintains there's been no violation of the collective bargaining agreement.
This is the DAS spokesperson saying this.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
The state is not listen to me.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
The state is not obligated to negotiate the policy change.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
They're not obligated. They're not obligating.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
This is the same as if I come in here
tomorrow and iHeart decides this studio should be painted purple. Okay,
they didn't tell me I got to work in a
neutral studio. If they want it purple, they can make
it purple. It does not affect my employment. Would I
do or how I'm compensated in any way, shape or form.
It's purple now because that's what they want. Period. I
signed on to do this, not to decorate the place.
(12:48):
They signed on to go to work for this department,
not to work from home. That is something that happened,
but it's not what they signed on for.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It happened, and they're now saying it can't happen anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
You gotta come back. Hey, Look, who wouldn't be upset
about that?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
If you were at home and you got to be
a few steps from your microwave, a few steps from
your own coffee pot, and you get to set there
in your pajamas and log on and log on right,
and log on, and you know, you know, move the
mouse every Look. I'm not saying everybody was taking or
(13:23):
gaming the system. I don't want you because if you
were not gaming the system, I feel bad for you.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Because that's a pretty sweet setup if you can work
from home.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I gotta tell you, when I went from home during COVID,
when I had to do this show from the house.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I freaking hated it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I hated it, you know why, because it felt like
I never left work. That's what it started feeling like
to me. I had a separate room setup for it.
I had a separate studio set up in my office
and I at first I was like, okay, this is interesting,
but nothing feels like this what we're in right now
in the studio, nothing feels like this. You know, behind
(14:02):
your head, Chuck is the big six to ten WTV
and it's on the wall news radio. It's just even
if I decorated, I had to stare at the guys.
I'm on the air with one of them I would
do on FaceTime and the other one was here. I
didn't see And okay at first, but I understand why
it happened. We got split up because we didn't know
(14:23):
what we are up against with this crazy virus.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
And it turns out it was, you know, not what
everybody thought. But look you're doing cautious Okay. I hated it, man,
I was so happy when I got to come back.
I had to do it for two months and it sucked.
I hated it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
The letters to the editor, I've been keeping an eye
on those. Just coming out of the dispatch. Here, dwines,
return to work order will destroy the state workforce. Oh
shut up the winds. Back to work order increase to
increase in traffic and pollution derinds back to work order.
He should use empty buildings for housing, not for oh
my god, into offices. The wine should be you see,
(15:02):
this is because of the commitment to brick and mortars.
Is the only reason that he is having people return
to work. All these I mean, they're going nuts trying
to push this issue and get people to go along
with them. You're not seeing the same thing about the Wines.
Back to work order makes perfect sense for the American taxpayer,
the aut taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
There's a whole lot of people hitting with the letters
to the editors though and so forth, coming up with
every possible reason.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, and they're going to keep publishing those because they
have the right to either publish those or not. Right,
So the fact that they're doing that is enabling or
you know, stirring the pot if you will.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Look, Daddy DeWine is and I call him that simply
because I feel like, in this situation, he's going.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Okay, kids, back to work.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Dad's cracking the whip, and I don't care what you
come up with.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So there it is. But I actually agree with him
on this is kind of where I was going with
that
I was just telling Chuck before we went on that
I went ahead and I.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Ordered the.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I ordered the new blades for my snowblower. So when
those come and I think I'm gonna be able to install,
I was telling you I was looking on YouTube and
it was literally the exact model the guy was replacing,
I go, oh, man, I just hit the jackpot being
able to because you know, for the most part, you
can find anything on there as far as how to
replace it or whatever. It's a matter of do you
(00:30):
think that you can do it by watching that person,
and do you have the tools that you need, because
if you start trying to just use anything you can
find it's close to the you can get into big
trouble depending on what you're replacing. So I saw that
and I got encouraged by it. So I jumped on
and I spent one hundred and thirteen dollars and I'm
going to try to do it first. If I can't
(00:52):
do it myself, I get like stonewalled here, I'm gonna
then I'll pass it off.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
To you, Zach attack.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'll boy, hopefully you'll be able to make heads or
tails out of this, and I won't ruin any strip,
any screws, or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'll really concentrate.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I mean, I'm getting booked up as we speak. I'm
kind of upset that you just said, Oh, I can
do it myself. You don't want the Swarts guarantee. Okay,
Well do it yourself and see what happens.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Pal Man, Oh Man, I just got reprimanded.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
What's wrong with me?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Try to save a couple of dolls.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I think you absolutely should do that.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
I think you should absolutely avoid letting Zach anywhere near
your snowblower because when he gets done with it, it will
be a microwave of it.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Hey, we were talking about putting stuff on it, like
a seat of a writing snowblower that was gonna come free.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So if I if I use you now, I guess
I'm not gonna get the bonus writing snowblower out of it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You're one of my best costs. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I just didn't want to say it on air, and
I get a bunch of calls and people going, hey,
can I get that too? And then I got to
sign autographs.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
When I leave, my God.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Christmas people are standing down they're waiting on I'm standing
in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Are they putting in the air filtration system in this building? Now?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I'm not getting any of it.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
He just him, I guess right to his room.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So anywhere where, anyway. Where I was going with this
was you're welcome in advance. I told Chuck, I go
all right, I'm gonna order these. I got one hundred
and thirteen dollars in this. They're going to show up
on Monday. There's they're slated to arrive Monday. I'm gonna
take a swing at it next week and we won't
get one flake of snow after I do this.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So you're welcome ahead of time. Because I started thinking,
you know.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I used a shovel and shoveled off the driveway, and
I'm not against that, it's just I did that, and
then yesterday I'm putting on my pants.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Before I come to work. Lucky you appreciate, oh yeah,
lucky you that I did it in that order. And
I bent over.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I had won the right leg in and I started
to put my left leg in and it felt like
I've never been cattle prod before, but I think that's
what it feels like. Somebody in my low back was
like baer and I was like oh, and I'm like
almost falling down.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So now I'm hobbling around.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And it's all because the day before I used a
shovel on the driveway trying to bust up this stupid
ice that's frozen too the driveway, and that's what started
this whole thing. I got this thing out, I find
I didn't even use it last year, the snowblower, and
I fired it up. It took me about ten minutes.
I finally get it going, and I get it down
by the edge of the end of the driveway where
(03:38):
the where the where the gutter is that what you
call it, the gutter down by the curb, down in
that where the water kind of runs.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
To the yeah, and you know, it's like a it's
like a dam down there.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Because we got so much rain before it turned to snow. Well,
there's a bunch of iced So I take the snowblower
of it and these these uh this auger or whatever,
they're like these thick rubber blades and they just basically
got all chewed up when I started hitting that rubber
or hitting the ice, and I was just like you
gotta be kidding me. And then you and I came
to the conclusion that it's dry rots. I mean, it's
(04:12):
it's a thick, very hardy rubber that is on. It's
a it's a Briggs and Stratton, it's a you know,
it's an entry level snow thrower.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I don't even know that.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So I'm replacing these now and we're not gonna get
any more snow.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So you're welcome. That's what I'm going with.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Now, who are you suing the snowshovel manufacturer, the asphalt
provider for your driveway?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I mean there's there's half a dozen lawsuits in there.
If you really hurt your back shoveling the driveway, I
did you need to be compensated.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I did watch late night TV. There's there's commercials all
over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, I didn't even think about that. I just don't
know where to begin. As far as suing somebody.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Metiorist Andrew buck Michael, who is responsible for the weather.
No matter how many high rates he throws on Facebook,
he is responsible.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, so yeah, you sue him?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They're nice people and they can't control that is a
god thing.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So they can't really, They just predict the weather.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Oh not not Buck, No, he can control it. He
has a thing in his basement. Oh yeah, if you
go over to Hillyard, you'll see his house glows all
the time. That's a little scared. A lot of power
coming off that basement. He's gonna be waiting for me
in the parking line probably.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
He's a large individual.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But he has nice pocket square, so I'm not scared
of him.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, and he runs, He runs marathons and such, and
you don't.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's because I don't run, period.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, but you got to watch out if ever.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Seriously, if you ever see me running, just get the
hell out of dodge, like follow whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It's big, it's very big.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I can vouch for that.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I've known you literally our entire careers and uh, yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I've never seen you run much. No, so I'll go
with you on that.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But it's one of those things that now and it
looks very simple to replace this, and it always does
right as far as these blades or whatever. It looks
like just a few bolts. But the guy that was
doing it made it look pretty easy. And man, I'll
tell you he was flapping his gums so much. I
was like, can we get to the stinking replacements? Stop talking?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
He was kind of like Boomhower from King of the Hill.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I was listening to that video as you I'm going
to drag on, put down, down on down, We're righting
on three four turn right down on?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
What? How do you even get into that?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Was it a YouTube video?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It was, Yeah, that's Jerry. That's Jerry.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
He's part time, so he's not good at those social
media stuff yet.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, he seemed thorough, very too thorough.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I was waiting on some sort of recipe in there
while he was, you know, loosening nuts and bolts and such.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Yeah, he's got to find his sea legs. He's trying
to overcomp and that.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It was something like that. But anyway, Uh, to be
continued on that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Also, the NHL is hosting a free fan festival tailgate
prior to the Jackets outdoor game that's coming up. You know,
there's a lot of fanfare around this. I'm not going.
I've had a lot of people ask me. I'm not
totally against it, but I'll tell you inside Nationwide Arena
there's really no wind.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, it's cool in there.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I'm against outside this time of year, no matter what
the occasion is.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So I'll just let everybody else enjoy it and I'll
watch it. Hopefully it'll be on TV and I'll watch
it that way. And if there was some sort of
indoor area, yes I'm that guy. As far as like
a box or something like this, sure I probably would
go to. But then you're probably talking about twenty five
hundred dollars ticket or something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I'm not paying that.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
But look, there's a lot of stuff leading up to this.
It's a one of a kind type the first time
happening here. The NHL Stadium Series again, March first, Jackets,
Red Wings, gonna be fun. So from noon to five
they're doing this this festival tailgate thing. Oar is going
to play rock band.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Do you know them? Heard of that?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I'm no, I've heard of them, but I don't even
Zach Atteck you know.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oar, I've heard of him. I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, they're doing a free pregame concert, you know, seating
for the concert, first come, first serve tailgate festival is
going to be open until five o'clock, which is an
hour before puck drop, which puck Drop is at six,
so that looks like it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Though.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
They're a rock band found founded in Rockville, I can
tell you, are you serious? Rockville, Maryland in nineteen ninety six.
Consist of a lead vocalist, guitarist, drummer it looks like
five of them here, I guess, and a saxophonist.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, they're they're a they're a legitimate act. I mean,
they're a big act. I just don't know anything really
about them. I'm nothing against them that kind of thing, but.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
I'm going to their official site right now just to
see what they're all about.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, So how about this? The State of Ohio denies union.
I finally agree.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
With something that Dwine is done.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He has a spine in this situation, but he denied
the union request to negotiate over return to office policy.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You know, if you can do your job from home
and you're.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Efficient at it and your company's okay with it, have
at it. But if your company's saying you got to
come back and you're whining about it, then get a
different job. We've talked about this, get another gig, and
people work for the State of Ohio are going well.
I don't want to give up that. I mean, that's
let's be honest. A lot of people, for the most
(09:25):
part kind of like working for the government. They like
working for local government.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Nothing in life is perfect, but this is what it is.
Either deal with it or don't. And the worst case
scenario is a bunch of people trying to get state jobs.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We'll have an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So they claim the Department of Administrative Services violated their
bargaining agreement by failing to negotiate with the union before
making changes to telework policy. And this was a grievance
letter that was filed a few days ago requested the
DAS to negotiate with the union and resend its policy
changes until those talks are complete. Stall Stall, Stall, Eh,
(10:04):
it didn't happen. The lines like na baby nah. He
signed an executive order February fourth mandating state employees under
his authority routinely complete their work in office by March seventeenth.
He's given them till the seventeenth, according to ran Am.
My reading is ray, I think so. Before his order,
large private employers on Ohio started requiring employees to stop
(10:27):
remote work. Look, it's the way that everybody is falling
into play. Why are you any different if you're a
state employee and if you're able to pull it off
from home and you could do it efficiently, then that's
a different conversation, especially if it's with the State of Ohio.
Right now, they're saying that's not going to happen. You
know what I want is I want COVID and everything
(10:50):
associated with it in a rearview mirror that I can
barely see anything in.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
That's what I want right now.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I'm tired of all that craziness that happened. I want
to start forgetting about it, putting it behind us, and
letting it go. People are trying to hold on to
those things, the masking, the jabs. You know, look what's
happened to the kids. I have kids that were unfortunately
involved in all of that, and they are suffering from that.
I have a daughter who is nineteen, and I feel
(11:18):
like maybe had some collateral damage from all of that,
having to go from home, and I don't know that
we'll feel the full effects of all of that stuff
for a long time now. But Stone was, you know,
pretty young during that a few years ago. I think
old enough to unfortunately have dealt with it, and you know,
(11:38):
dealing with some of the PTSD now if you will,
but that remains to be seen. I don't know, and
it's going to be down the road I think with this.
But look, my point is I want all of this
in the rear view mirror. It also goes on to
say it reads the policy changes creates hardship for employees
by negatively impacting their working conditions, and requests the state
make employees whole for anny lost benefits, accommodations and wages.
(12:03):
Teleworking is not a contractual benefit, and the State of
Ohio maintains there's been no violation of the collective bargaining agreement.
This is the DAS spokesperson saying this.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
The state is not listen to me.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
The state is not obligated to negotiate the policy change.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
They're not obligated. They're not obligating.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
This is the same as if I come in here
tomorrow and iHeart decides this studio should be painted purple. Okay,
they didn't tell me I got to work in a
neutral studio. If they want it purple, they can make
it purple. It does not affect my employment. Would I
do or how I'm compensated in any way, shape or form.
It's purple now because that's what they want. Period. I
signed on to do this, not to decorate the place.
(12:48):
They signed on to go to work for this department,
not to work from home. That is something that happened,
but it's not what they signed on for.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It happened, and they're now saying it can't happen anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
You gotta come back. Hey, Look, who wouldn't be upset
about that?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
If you were at home and you got to be
a few steps from your microwave, a few steps from
your own coffee pot, and you get to set there
in your pajamas and log on and log on right,
and log on, and you know, you know, move the
mouse every Look. I'm not saying everybody was taking or
(13:23):
gaming the system. I don't want you because if you
were not gaming the system, I feel bad for you.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Because that's a pretty sweet setup if you can work
from home.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I gotta tell you, when I went from home during COVID,
when I had to do this show from the house.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I freaking hated it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I hated it, you know why, because it felt like
I never left work. That's what it started feeling like
to me. I had a separate room setup for it.
I had a separate studio set up in my office
and I at first I was like, okay, this is interesting,
but nothing feels like this what we're in right now
in the studio, nothing feels like this. You know, behind
(14:02):
your head, Chuck is the big six to ten WTV
and it's on the wall news radio. It's just even
if I decorated, I had to stare at the guys.
I'm on the air with one of them I would
do on FaceTime and the other one was here. I
didn't see And okay at first, but I understand why
it happened. We got split up because we didn't know
(14:23):
what we are up against with this crazy virus.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
And it turns out it was, you know, not what
everybody thought. But look you're doing cautious Okay. I hated it, man,
I was so happy when I got to come back.
I had to do it for two months and it sucked.
I hated it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
The letters to the editor, I've been keeping an eye
on those. Just coming out of the dispatch. Here, dwines,
return to work order will destroy the state workforce. Oh
shut up the winds. Back to work order increase to
increase in traffic and pollution derinds back to work order.
He should use empty buildings for housing, not for oh
my god, into offices. The wine should be you see,
(15:02):
this is because of the commitment to brick and mortars.
Is the only reason that he is having people return
to work. All these I mean, they're going nuts trying
to push this issue and get people to go along
with them. You're not seeing the same thing about the Wines.
Back to work order makes perfect sense for the American taxpayer,
the aut taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
There's a whole lot of people hitting with the letters
to the editors though and so forth, coming up with
every possible reason.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, and they're going to keep publishing those because they
have the right to either publish those or not. Right,
So the fact that they're doing that is enabling or
you know, stirring the pot if you will.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Look, Daddy DeWine is and I call him that simply
because I feel like, in this situation, he's going.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Okay, kids, back to work.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Dad's cracking the whip, and I don't care what you
come up with.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So there it is. But I actually agree with him
on this is kind of where I was going with
that
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