The Blazor Show Wednesday 02/19/2025

News, Politics, Sports

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mark Blazer Show.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
First of all, I'd like to start today by saying
you're welcome, and by that I mean I just I
was just telling I was just telling Chuck before we
went on that I went ahead and I ordered, uh
the I went I ordered the new blades for my

(00:46):
for my snowblower. So when those come and I 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 think that you can do

(01:07):
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 gonna try to do it first.
If I can't do it myself, I get like stonewalled here.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
I'm gonna then I'll pass it off to you, Zach
attack boy.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
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. I'll really concentrate.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
I mean, I'm getting booked up as we speak. I'm
kind of upset that you just said, Oh, we're can
do it myself. You don't want the swarts guarantee. Okay,
well do it yourself and see what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Pal Man, Oh man, I just got reprimanded. What's wrong
with me? Try to save a couple of guys. I
think you absolutely should do that.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
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 (02:11):
Hey, we were talking about putting stuff on it, like
a seat of a writing snowblower.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
That was going to come free.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
So if I if I use you now, I guess
I'm not going to get the bonus writing snowblower out
of it.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh, I'm just kidding. You're one of my best costs.
That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
I just didn't want to say it on air, and
I get a bunch of calls and people.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Going, hey, can I get that too?

Speaker 4 (02:36):
And then I got to sign autographs.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
When I leaves Christmas, people are standing down there waiting
on him standing in the parking lot.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Are they putting in the air filtration system in this building?

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I'm not getting any of it, just him. I guess
it's going right to his room. So anywhere where.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
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 gonna 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 2 (03:13):
So you're welcome ahead of time.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Because I started thinking, you know, 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 before I come to work. Lucky you appreciate,
oh yeah, lucky you that I did it in that order.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
And I bent over.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
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 bair and I was like oh, and I'm like
almost falling down. So now I'm hobbling around. And it's
all because the day before I used a shovel on

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the driveway trying to bust up this stupid ice that's
was into 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 snow blower, and I fired
it up.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
It took me about ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
I finally get it going, and I get it down
by the edge of the end of the driveway where
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 to the yeah,
and you know it's like a it's like a dam
down there because we got so much rain before it
turned to snow.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, it's a bunch of iced So I take the.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Snowblower of it and these these uh, this the Auger
or whatever. They're like these thick rubber blades and they
just basically got all chewed up. When I started hitting
that rubber, I'm 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.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I mean it's made. It's a thick, very hardy rubber
that is on.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
It's a it's a brigs and Stratton, it's a you know,
it's an entry level snow thrower.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I don't even know that.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
So I'm re placing these now and we're not going
to get any more snow, So you're welcome.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's what I'm going with.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Now, who are you suing the snowshovel manufacturer, the asphalt
provider for your driveway? 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 (05:19):
I did watch late night TV. There's commercials all over
the place. Well, I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
I just don't know where to begin as far as
suing somebody media.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Just Andrew buck Michael, who is responsible for the weather
no matter how many high rates he throws on Facebook,
he is responsible.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, so yeah, you could sue him. Well, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
They're nice people and they can't control that is a
god thing.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
So they can't really, they just predict the weather. Oh
not Buck, No, he can control it as a thing
in his basement.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
If you go over to Hillyard, you'll see his house
glows all the time. That's a little scared.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
A lot of power coming off that basement. He's gonna
be waiting for me in the parking line probably.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
He's a large individual.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
He is, Yeah, but he has nice pocket square so
I'm not scared of him.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Well, and he runs. He runs marathons and such, and
you don't. That's because I don't run, period. Yeah, but
you got to watch out for if ever.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Seriously, if you ever see me running, just get the
hell out of dodge, like follow whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's big, it's very big. I can I can vouch
for that.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
I've known you literally our entire careers and uh, yeah,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
I've never seen you run much. No, so I'll go
with you on that.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
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?

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Not talking? He was kind of like Boomhouer from King
of the Hill. I was listening to that video as
I'm gonna drag on little put down, down down. We're
righting down, three four, turn right down on that. How
do you can get into that? Was it a YouTube video?
It was, Yeah, that's Jerry. That's Jerry. It's one of
my he's part.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Time, so he's not good at the social media stuff yet.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, he seemed thorough, very far too thorough.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
I was waiting on some sort of recipe in there
while he was, you know, loosening nuts and bolts and such.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I gotta find his sea legs. He's trying to overcompment.
It was something like that. But anyway, to be continued
on that.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
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 2 (07:47):
Yeah, it's cool in there.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
I'm against outside this time of year, no matter what
the occasion is.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
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's there was some sort
of indoor area, yes I'm that guy. As far as
like a box or something like that, sure I probably
would go to. But then you're probably talking about twenty
five hundred dollars ticket or something like that. I'm not
paying that. But look, there's a lot of stuff leading

(08:14):
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, uh this festival tailgate thing.
Oar is gonna play rock band.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Do you know them? Heard of that?

Speaker 3 (08:33):
I'm no, I've heard of them, but I don't even
Zach Atteck. You know Oar.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
I've heard of them?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
I don't know anything.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, they're doing a free pregame concert, you know, seating
for the concert first come, first served. Tailgate festival is
going to be open until five o'clock, which is an
hour before puck drop, which puck drop is at six.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
So that looks like it's gonna be fun. Though. There
are a rock band found founded in Rockville I can
tell you 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 3 (09:09):
Well, they're 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.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
But I'm going to their official site right now just
to see what they're all about.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, so how about this? The State of Ohio denies union.
I finally agree with something that the wine has done.
He has a spine in this situation, but he denied
the union request to negotiate over return to office policy.
You know, if you can do your job from home
and you're efficient at it and your company's okay with it,

(09:44):
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.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
We've talked about this.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
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 part kind of like working for the government.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
They like working for local government. 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 will have an opportunity.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
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 rescind its policy
changes until those talks are complete.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Stall Stall, Stall, Eh.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
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
I reading this right, I think so before his order
large which private employers on Ohio started requiring employees to

(11:02):
stop 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.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Right now they're saying that's not going to happen.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
You know what I want is I want COVID and
everything associated with it in a rearview mirror that I
can barely see anything in. That's what I want right now.
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.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
You know, Look what's happened to the kids.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
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 like maybe had some
collateral damage from all of that, having to go from home,
and I 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

(12:07):
few years ago. I think old enough to unfortunately have
dealt with it and.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
You know, dealing with some of the PTSD now if
you will. But that remains to be seen. I don't know, and.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's going to be down the road I think with this.
But look, my point is I want all of this
in the rearview 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 any lost benefits, accommodations and wages. Teleworking
is not a contractual benefit, and the State of Ohio

(12:42):
maintains there's been no violation of the collective bargaining agreement.
This is the DAS spokesperson saying this. The state is
not listen to me. The state is not obligated to
negotiate the policy change.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
They're not obligated. They're not obligated.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
This is the same as is if I come in
here tomorrow and iHeart decides this studio should be painted purple. Okay,
they didn't tell me. I got 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.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Period.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
I signed on to do this, not to decorate the place.
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 2 (13:30):
Right.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
It happened, and they're now saying it can't happen anymore.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
You gotta come back. Hey, Look, who wouldn't be upset
about that?

Speaker 3 (13:38):
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

(13:58):
gaming the system.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't. I don't want you because if you were not.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Gaming the system, I feel bad for you because that's
a pretty sweet setup. If you can work from home,
I gotta tell you when I went from home during COVID,
when I had to do this show from the house,
I freaking hated it. 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

(14:24):
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.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Nothing feels like this.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
You know, behind 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
that I understand why it happened. We got split up

(14:57):
because we didn't know what we are up against with
this crazy virus. 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 1 (15:14):
The letters to the editor, I've been keeping an eye
on those, just coming out of the dispatch here. Dwin's
return to work order will destroy the state workforce.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Oh shut up the Wines.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Back to work order increase to increase in traffic and
pollution derinds back to work order. He should use empty
buildings for housing, not force my God into offices. The
Wines should be 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

(15:45):
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 payer, right, there's
a whole lot of people hitting with the letters to
the editors though, and so forthing up with every possible reason.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
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.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Pot if you will.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
If man, look, Daddy de Wine is and I call
him that simply because I feel like in this situation,
he's going, okay, kids, back to where Dad's cracking the whip,
and I don't care what you come up with.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
So so there it is.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
But I I actually agree with him on this is
kind of where I was going with.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Shows Traffic, Weather, Sports, and The Mark Blazer.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Show on six ' ten WTVN.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Hey, I'm happy to report that.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Going back and forth with Marshall and yeah, I mean
he's talking about possibly being back on air Monday, but
he's going to jump on with us tomorrow. Literally, just
just going back and forth with him. So he said
he was going to jump on and uh, we'll just
chit chat about things. But you know what I was
telling him, I'm like, man, people are concerned. I've had

(17:06):
people sending me messages going, I hope Marshall's okay and
so on and so forth. And I know he posted
something on Facebook and uh, yeah, Chuck and I talking
about it and Chuck, you brought up you go, you
know what, should we have him on him? Like, I'll
invite him. He's always welcome and uh, we can just
talk about booze.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
He's part of the family. I just you know, I
know people have been asking where he is, why we
haven't heard from him, and I just thought that would
be nice to check in given, you know, a little update.
I'm okay and that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, absolutely, Meteorologist Sarah Converse is joining us now.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
It was not okay, what excuse me, I'm just waiting
for her to say something with teen in it.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
Oh my goodness. I know I have to fill in
big shoes when I fill in for Marshall, but come on.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Oh no, he was giving you the business, Sarah, and
you know, you know, it's just you know, you do uh,
I don't know where am I at now? Around six
ish years or so with Marshall day in, day out,
three times a day, and you know, we we've become buds,
and I just you know, I'm concerned about him and

(18:12):
I know you love him too, and so the listeners,
the viewers, I mean, it's crazy, but a lot of
people are like, hey, you know what's going on? And gosh, man,
and look, it's nothing like what and unfortunately we you know,
what happened while I was gone to Chuck. You had
to you had to talk about, you know, Jim passing,
and it was like it was really really I saw

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that when I was I was in Las Vegas and
it popped up on my phone and I was I
was like so bummed, my heart was so heavy seeing
that I've known Jim a long time. I golfed with
him back in the day, and obviously he's been a
staple in this city. And so it's just people get
attached to I mean, look, they're already I see people

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posting on your Facebook page and stuff, Sarah, and people people,
you know, they they attached themselves to you guys, you know,
and to us, and.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
We're part of their lives, you know how, guys.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
So yeah, absolutely, I mean you invite us into your
homes every day, and there's a you know, you kind
of like girl like a little relationship. You get to
know us personally, whether it's on the screen or I know,
for me, I do my Facebook lives and you get
to get like a little bit more sneak peek in
like my background and also how I grew up and whatnox.
I share lots of stories about how I got into

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meteorology on my Facebook page. So yeah, and you know
it's not the same without Marshall in here. And he's
I mean, I can rave about Marshall all day long,
ever since I got here to Columbus. I mean, he
has welcomed me into the team with open arms.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Really he is.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
He is the one of the best people that I
have worked with so far. And I've worked with quite
a bit of metrologist not that they were good either,
they were great, but yeah, Marshall has just been such
a mentor to me. He knows this city inside and out,
and I'm always amazed of the new knowledge that I
get to learn from him.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well, and he talks all the time, like with us,
He'll go, I'm gonna nerd out right now, and then
he goes into some crazy explanation and I can't tell you.
And all of the inclement weather coverage and you, by
the way, you know, you jumping right in when you
first got here, and there's stuff happened, tornadoes and all
that stuff. It's like, it's amazing where you just you

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just fit right in in the middle of that. And
then Marshall's doing his thing and it's almost seamless, like
watching you guys come to that.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
And I'll text him and go, dude, I cannot believe.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
The type of you know, the types of things that
you're using to kind of you know, Layman's terms and
getting people to understand different things, and there's so much
to it, and you guys are so embedded, you're so
ingrained in that, and you can feel it with you
as well, like when you watch you. And this is
not a knock on. I just wanted to have him
on because a lot of people are asking us. It's

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not that they're going.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Hey, we would like him back and get rid of
everybody else. It's not that.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's just it was one of those things things where
people were saying things and we thought, you know, it'd
be cool to have him on because people get used
to that, you know, they get used to hearing people
absolutely no.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
And I was just joking because I know I've been
ever since I've been filling in for Marshall, I feel
like I've been sharing you know, the nasty weather news
all the time.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
So well, it is what it is. You can't control that, trustee.

Speaker 6 (21:17):
When Marshall gets back, he's gonna be feeling like, oh,
it's sunny, it's warm, and I'm like, oh, of course
we're gonna get Marshall back to get all the nice weather.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Huh, I'm emailing you a link right now. Hopefully you'll
be able to open it. But next time we talk,
I'd love for you to tell me if this is
real or not. It's Eliza in Detroit, it's it's some
pretty meteorolog video. Oh you know, it's weather video from
up there. Oh like reset, yeah, just it's just popped
up on my screen. Oh okay, I almost think it's AI.

(21:46):
There's no way.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Maybe that's not. That's the other thing, Sarah, you guys
have to deal with. I mean, you think about seeing
some stuff, you guys can probably kind of spot like, ye,
hang on a second, that doesn't that's not that's not
making sense.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Kind of the things.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
Oh, I've seen some pictures floating around are three weather
outbreaks and I'm like, no, that's AI, that's right, or
that's from a previous event from like years ago.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, so here's the good news I saw, you know,
from the forecast. It's uh, you know, we're steadily the
low is getting a little higher. It's still really cold,
but it's it's a few degrees better each each night,
which is the direction we want to go.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Right now, that's.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
Right, and we're gonna have Unfortunately, squeeze out a few
more snow showers for the area. So we do have
a winter weather advisory in place for Columbus and surrounding
counties for tonight around eight pm and that will last
until eleven am Thursday morning, as many areas will be
picking up at least an inch, but with some of
those pockets that develop after ten pm tonight could potentially

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push some communities up to an inch and a half
to up to even two inches, but again that will
be very isolated where we'll see some of those higher spots,
so just be prepared for Thursday morning commute for some
slick spots, especially on untreated roadways, bridges and overpasses, and
also some blowing snow wins are going to be a
big issue from the north at around five to fifteen
miles per hour GUS up to twenty to twenty five

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by Friday. Again a few flurries possible, otherwise mostly cloudy,
upper twenties and then finally above freezing by the weekend
with some more sunshine. Low thirties for Saturday, but upper
thirties to near forty degrees for Sunday, and then next
week we will be well above.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Average we're going to be in the mid to upper
forty all right, I like her.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now, yeah, that's great, fantastic, all right, Sarah, thank you
very much. It is twenty two right now. Man, this
story is interesting to me. But then I thought, man,
is there any other way really to proceed with this?
And I'm talking about the Gahanna subway shooting suspect, and

(23:46):
he was granted mental health evaluation for possible insanity play.
So I feel like setting this up just in case
you're going, wait a minute, I think I remember s
William Marshall.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Sky's thirty years old.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
He shot seventy one year old Gary at a Gahanna
subway restaurant on December twentieth. He walked in and shot
like execution, shot him in the back of the head.
He doesn't have a connection to the person that he shot,
and it's a head scratcher. Well he does that, goes outside,

(24:20):
takes off his clothes, and waits for the police to
roll up, and then is taken into custody. So when
I see mental health evaluation, I'm like, is there real?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Do we really?

Speaker 3 (24:32):
I mean, how much more of an evaluation when you
see somebody do something like that? So then immediately my
brain says, either he did this to set himself up
for this, so it definitely looks like because let's face it,
that is not even close to it. First of all,
just shooting anybody that you don't even I don't understand

(24:53):
what happened here. I'm really I don't get it unless
there are some holes in this story that aren't being published,
because clearly I don't know anybody connected to this. But
then I started thinking to myself, I'm like, all right.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Let's say he does. And by the way, he got
the gun legally.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
He purchased the gun legally, this guy, and so let's
say the mental health evaluation does say he's going to
be you know, guilty by he'll plead insanity and who
knows where this goes from there. But then, you know,
I start thinking to myself, if he goes into a
gun store and he's exhibiting any kind of bizarre behavior,

(25:34):
and bizarre, I mean like bizarre, not just he seems
nervous or because there are a lot of people maybe
they're first buy that they're buying a gun for the
first time, maybe they are nervous or whatever. And he
goes in and he's buying this weapon, and if you're
the person working there, if he gets through the forty
four to seventy three, which clearly he did, which is

(25:54):
the form you have to fill out it clearly bounced
back and said, everything's cool.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
But if you witnessing that, do you let him buy
the gun there?

Speaker 3 (26:04):
I mean, you're then going I'm gonna take away your
your constitutional right to buy because you're exhibiting some weird behavior.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
To me, I just it's a it's a it's an impasse,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
It's like it's a it's a weird position, and I
just feel like it's an interesting question.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
I haven't even seen the guy. Is he a white guy?
Because I don't I try to think do I haven't
seen pictures of him? Yeah, William, if he walks in
acting squirrely and uh, you know he say he walks
into l EPD because you know, they're very diligent about
who they sell to, who they deal with. He walks in,
he's acting squirrely, they refuse to sell him a firearm

(26:42):
even though he passed Nicks.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
There's no reason legally.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Except for the fact that Eric's got him at the
countergoing something right with this guy if he is you know,
a black person or black he is ba boom, there's
the there's the races in lawsuit and then Eric's gotta.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Go fight that there is no legal buy it at
lap No.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
But I'm saying there's no legal reason why he could
not buy. And you know, common sense gets displaced by
the rules sometime, especially when it's profitable to see it
that way.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
It is.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
It is a it's such a sticky question that and answer.
But you know, if you're a purist, if you're a
constitutional purist, then you say, if he got through that form,
you don't have the right to stop him from buying,
even if it looks what if he walked in and said,

(27:35):
I want to buy this because I'm probably gonna go
wreak havoc and then they go, well wait a minute,
and he fills that out and it comes back and
it says.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Past, Yeah, if somebody comes in and says, though I'm
going to use this to commit a cry and they've
got grounds to not sell, or if.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
They go I'm not feeling so good about myself and
I might use this to so if you say I'm
gonna harm myself, do they then have grounds to go.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
And if they say something out loud, you hear. But
you can't just say I don't like the way this
guy looks or the way he's acting or whatever. If
they say something that red flags, then yeah you could,
you could defend that, but the whole I mean, he's
thirty years old, he's out there living life.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
I don't know what he did for a living.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
I don't know where he lived, but I'm assuming he
interacted with other human beings all these years, probably police departments.
We know that he was not red flag, but pink
slipped a few times where people were worried about his
his and he was still out among us. Yeah, man,
it's somebody here legally has constitutional rights. Somebody here legally
has constitutional rights, even if they've been looked at with

(28:37):
the cross side.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Now and then, yeah, pink slip is not even grounds
for No, it's not saying you can't have one, No,
it's not.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
But it is a red flag.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Law, and it's just a lighter shade of red is
the pink slip. I mean, it's a pink flag if
you will. So it's it's no different that I struggle
with that because you got somebody who's just mad at
you or wants to be a pain in your ass,
and then that man, it is such a that is
a great, very very deep question.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
And much that is subjective about this.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Right now, we have legislation to try anybody who has
domestic violence charges. You can't owe a firearm. Do you
know how many people lie on each other? She hit
me or hit me or whatever. You have no constitutional
right to your firearm because somebody made that accusation.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
This. We don't need laws, we need rules though, Yeah,
man Bleazer show.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
H two one WTBN one eight hundred and six WGBN.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Certainly you can join us if you'd like.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Somebody who is far, far far from his Florida office
is one Donal Loss, the retirement boss boy.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Who is uh well, his teeth were chattering while we
were during the break.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
When he died, and he was like, oh I love it.
It's eighteen degrees. He's got a sun down. Let's see negative.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Not really he does it.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
In a difference of code.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Oh no, I look, you always get defensive about that.
Here's the thing I mean, if you're down there, Look
what's the difference if you're working here and it's in
the summer. You still could be outside and you know,
you go, uh, I don't know, you took the afternoon
off to go play nine holes or something. I mean,
it's no different than when you're down there. Look, the

(30:36):
bottom line is you're your own boss, and you're getting
people what they're after when they invest with you, when
they go with Ross Weld Advisor. So that's that's that's
all that matters with that. The fact that you have
a Florida office. I almost think, like you you get like, oh,
I don't. I don't know if I I think it's
a it's a it's a sign of accomplishment. It's a

(30:58):
thing that your business is doing well. So anyway, that's
my thoughts.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Well, we're it's all about serving the clientele, and I
guess my proximities are relevant as long as we're taking
care of and I'm in a handholding business, that's what
it's about.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yes, absolutely, In high school handholding that was my living. Yes, handholder.
I'm not going to ask handholder dot com. Yes, Oh,
let me see if that's a boy you.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Better watch really got to watch that, Like how you're yeah, uh,
talk to me about this. Five thousand dollars doze dividends?
I mean, is this something that I don't know how
to feel about this. I mean, on one hand, I'm like,
five thousand dollars found money?

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Are you kidding me? And then part of me goes, man,
it's the government.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
Give it everybody, five thousand dollars if they found all
of this doge? I mean, they're they're like, look what
we've uncovered. We pulled the rug back and look under that.
Oh look at this rug under here. Oh look what's
under here? Oh look what's and so it to the
tune of where are we at? Is it trillions?

Speaker 7 (31:59):
Yet?

Speaker 3 (32:00):
I know it's billions at least that's not trillions. It's
not trillions, Okay, I think I saw. Last I saw
was fifty five billion total saving fifty five billion in counting.
I mean, it's absolutely staggering what is being found, what
types of things were being This money was being spent
on all over the world, clearly not just here. And

(32:22):
it's funny the outrage that we're witnessing from the left.
It has not like what why aren't they outraged that
the money?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Because they're they're complicit. Is the feeling there.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
And they're talking about You know, Chuck and I were
having this conversation as we were going on the air
about what Elon is doing right now, and they keep
calling it Elon's doge, Elon's doze, Elon's does. But the
bottom line is he's not in that position unless Trump
allows him to be. This is under Trump, this is
under the president forty seven. Trump said this is what

(32:58):
I would like you to do, and people are like,
he's not even officially part of It's just like, would
that make you feel better if he had an office
in the White House.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
He's a chief executive and he knows how to delegate.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Unlike these lifers in Congress, like the past president, what embarrassment?
Fifty years in government? You know, sorry if anybody's done that.
But you know what, the founding fathers did not intend
you to go to Washington. You went to Washington, you worked,
you two to six years, you went back to your
farm and worked. And so they're just coming on hints
on anything. And what you see on social media is

(33:31):
a lot of there's a lot of angry people out
there and it's sad. You know, we pray for him
every day, Like, man, you got to get over this anger,
so they'll never get she's a chief executive. He's delegating,
and he's brilliant at I mean, build an empire. Oh
well he filed bankruptcy. Well, those are the rules. Okay,
Remember he debated Remember he debated Hillary Hillary that last time,
and she said, you're using all your file, you're doing

(33:54):
all this, and that he goes, they're the tax rules.
You know, if you're going to use the rules and
use him to your advantag.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Well, he also said, if you don't like the tax rules,
change them. If you let's let's put them out there.
Let's put right. That's the thing she forgets or she
you know, conveniently forgets to talk about. But if they're
out there, the tax rules are there, you don't like them,
let's run it through Congress.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Let's change it.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Let's change all let's as a matter of fact, while
we're at it, why can't we get to term limits.
And I'm talking both sides of the aisle. It's enough
with Mitch McConnell, and I know I'm using like the
stinker of but I'll throw Lindsay Graham in there. I'm
not so happy with the way that he's I'll throw
any of them who've been there a long, long, long time.
The longer they're there, the higher the chance or higher

(34:37):
risk that they've been gotten to.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
If you know what I'm saying, such reality, I think,
But what happens when you have somebody who's really good?

Speaker 5 (34:45):
How long? How long Jim Jordan should jan?

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah? Exactly? No, No, that's the problem. Yeah, term limits.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
If you get somebody who really working on behalf of
the people, and you believe in them and trust them,
you count on them to say, Okay, you've done your
two terms, you have to go. That does not benefit you,
especially if the follow up is an idiot.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
Imagine if it was like jury duty. All right, check,
you're going to Congress for a couple of years. Gosh,
the apartment for you and everything.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
I will say, I believe Unfortunately, it's going to affect
the good ones as much as the bad ones.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
You can't pick and choose that. I just wish we
were smarter as an electorate. Oh ya, that pecaris your
term limit right there? Not having idiots casting votes? Well,
she got to take a test before you can cast
a vote.

Speaker 5 (35:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Well, Elon just retweeted defiant l at defiant l here
who had sent out a tweet from and I'm embarrassed
to say her handle is at oh you girl, Oh
you Girl. I don't know if that's inn o how
university sounds like it sounds like it.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
But from October thirtieth of twenty four she tweets, didn't
have any meetings today, so I've been wearing mijammies all day,
but now I have a meeting in thirty minutes, so
putting on a hoodie eventually that what the life is
going to get you. On the fifteenth of this month,
she says, I was terminated today from my dream job

(36:05):
with Children's Bureau due to Federal restructuring Executive Order and DOGE.
I'm unemployed for the first time since I was fifteen
years old. I hope you get your blank.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
They always spotlight the ones. They always want to put
the ones and focus on. Put the bright spotlight on
the one, two, three, five, ten situations where you know
it might be like, oh is it questionable?

Speaker 2 (36:27):
It wasn't justified?

Speaker 3 (36:29):
And what about the thousands and thousands and thousands of
other ones where they're going quietly they're like, okay, well,
and then we'll talk about so the government buyout, which
kind of leads us into this the whole government buyout thing.
Trump's like, hey, I'm giving you a chance. When do
they when they have to pull the trigger on that.
They have to make a decision soon, right, pretty soon.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
I think they said the first of October, and then
they extended it for a couple of weeks October, but
the first of February, and then they extended it for
a couple of weeks. Right, but everybody's out as if
I think October first, I'm not mistaken. That's your So
they have to be paid through then.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Yeah, Well, what's interesting is there's a there's something that's happening,
like in your business with regard to the government buyout thing.
There's a lot of people who are, by the way,
going yeah, i'll take that because I can double dip.
I'll get paid through. Let's call it October first. Again,
I don't have the specifics right in front of me.
But then they're going, okay, I'm gonna get paid there.
But I can go get another gigi while I'm doing this,

(37:24):
or I could take a month or two and then
get another gig.

Speaker 5 (37:26):
Yeah, and we call it retire rehire so a lot
of people do that in the government organization. So, but
the question would be some some are asking themselves or
asking you know, friends or advisors, Hey, if I take
this buyout, could I afford to retire? Now? If you're
twenty two years old, No, but you know, you get
to your mid fifties and you've been doing that twenty
five thirty years, you might want to have that question

(37:48):
answered by you know, an advisor that can help you
with that, because if it goes through, there's gonna be
a lot of them, right, I mean thousands, yes, so easily,
and they'll be the retirement plans, they'll they'll take part
of there, there will be some pension options probably. I
don't know all the details yet, but those are questions
you have to make. You have to answer that could

(38:09):
have large tax consequences if you don't do it right.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Last number I saw was sixty five thousand had accepted
people buyout.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
Yeah, that's quite a few.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
And then I'm wondering, you know, do you get paid
on your pay schedule for six months or do they
give you a lump sum, because I think that would determine, say,
if I'm going to get sixty thousand dollars to say
goodbye right now, versus get you know, six thousand dollars
a month for six months or whatever it is that
that might make a difference in what I decide to do.

Speaker 6 (38:39):
Too.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
Well, if you have you know, another job lined up,
that's going to be important. So like you're asking me
earlier off air, it is case by case. You know,
now maybe you've worked thirty years, you're going to get
a buy out, one year's salary and something else, but
you've saved nothing. It might be a little problematic. Now
you'll get a nice pension, okay, and those there's probably
of those sixty some thousand. I bet there's five hundred

(39:03):
to one thousand here in Columbus while you know, between
DFA and other government agencies. So it's just a math.
It's you know, I always say math doesn't lie. You know,
how much you save, what's your income going to be,
what are the taxes you're going to pay? And how
long would that last? You know, that's and you guys
doesn't lie.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Now there's a with in tandem with this not tandem.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
But because of this, you guys are developing a product
for it, right am I saying that right, I probably
said it wrong, but you know what I mean, Like
the government buy that's something that people can really look
at now and go, yes, I'm going to pick up
ross Wealth Advisors to help me with this, and I'm
also gonna I'm going to get another gig too, and
then I'm gonna have that. Yeah, it starts, and maybe

(39:47):
it's something where people have already have investments, but they go,
all right, you got another investment, now you can get
this in it.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
So some people, a lot of government employees will have
a TSP. It's kind of like the government four oh
one k and you can leave it there, you can
roll it over, take your new job, and take your
nice pension. You know, government has some very nice pensions.
And again we use a very powerful software to show
people what's it looked like the next twenty thirty years. Hey,
you might have a shortfall and frankly, you know, we

(40:14):
talk about what's in your heart in your head. Some
people are like, you know, I'm fifty five, what that
You know? What am I going to do if I
retire a lot of people need to have some kind
of purpose in their life because they all have different
reasons why they may not want to retire. They may
have plenty of money, but they're like, what am I
going to do?

Speaker 2 (40:30):
If you have I'm gonna play golf every day. If
you had enough, would you go come? Sail?

Speaker 5 (40:36):
Away comes right now?

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Away comes right bye bye. Just I don't know that
I buy that. I don't know that I believe that because, well,
you could use social media. I guess scratch that that
creative itch that you have.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
I see it a lot. You post a lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Oh, I would still stay busy. I just would not
work for a living. I wouldn't come out and do
what I do every day to make a check to
support people. If I had enough money I still have,
I'd still have a microphone. Chances are I would have
a studio and I would do I've like a podcastoon.
Yeah no, I would do character animations and you know that. Oh,

(41:14):
so you wouldn't do like spoken word like what we're doing.
I might talk radio.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
I might. I enjoy this a great deal.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
I know to not have to do it to make
a living to pay the bills pressure, that's yeah, that's
a completely different animal.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Then I can do it because I love it. And uh,
if I had that opportunity. Yeah, I do it.

Speaker 5 (41:32):
So we're saying that what we talk to people of
that is now work is optional because you can create
your own we call it a playcheck. Once you retire,
you have enough savings and a pension or social security,
you can create that playcheck where you don't have to
convert your time for a paycheck. So, and that's retirement
income planning, which is one of the key points of
our armor up strategy.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
I don't want to blindside of just curiosity. Are you
hearing many people over.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
The last few years are telling about retiring someplace other
than the United States.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
I'm not.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
You know, most of the people that are attracted us
and were attracted them are conservative, Bay Route or root.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
I look at a couple of Marines are on Panama.
The xpac community is pretty strong there. The dollar is
very strong and uh, you know, is one for nothing
more than a social Security check?

Speaker 2 (42:17):
You can live and don't forget their theme Panama. Oh
that's a really good. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
I would have a Van Halen alarm clock. Yeah, just
so everybody that I lived around could hear.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
It.

Speaker 7 (42:32):
Reached down between seatback, news, traffic, weather, sports, and the
Mark Blazer Show on six ' ten wtv N. All right,
so more here with Don Ross, the retirement boss, who's
in studio with us. Stand by because well, we're going
to test drive the eighty second airboard straight bourbon whiskey.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Oh four minutes down the road, you can do. Meteorologist
Stair Converse is joining us. Now, did I hear a gasp?

Speaker 5 (43:06):
There?

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Where you?

Speaker 6 (43:06):
Like?

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Over there?

Speaker 2 (43:11):
You know it? Man?

Speaker 3 (43:12):
I mean that's it's just what we do. So, uh, look,
you're invited any time. I don't even know if that's
your thing, but look, you know.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
I would say make sure her saying yes, well maybe
maybe not. I don't know. Sarah doesn't come across like
bourbon drink. I'm more of like magarita.

Speaker 6 (43:31):
Not even Margarita needs to be like really fruity. I
cannot taste the alcohol. If I can't taste like a.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Dacorie strawberry jac yeah, or like a mimosa. I've had
a mimosa.

Speaker 6 (43:46):
I don't really take the care for it.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
Okay, all right, I was just trying to think of
something that has training wheels. It's all water.

Speaker 6 (43:55):
Oh, but that's just the only way I can I
can drink something that has alquohol on it. I just
I can't taste. I can't taste, and if I don't
taste it, then it's actually kind of dangerous if I
don't taste it.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
But of course, well you can put some fresh fruit
in a lot of different type of sprints, wines and
stuff like that, and.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Really it really perks it up. You go, Oh, that's
that's nice. Thirty dollars Bloody Mary's you were talking about. Yeah,
I don't see Sarah like and Bloody Mary's either. Yeah,
I just don't.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
It's not that they're harsh, but you know, that's an
acquired taste. Not a lot of people even like tomato juice,
you know, but I could get in it. What else
do you need to do?

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Man, I had five of those on the plane on
the way to Las Vegas. I'm not kidding. Five of
those and our flight left at seven fifteen in the morning.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Well, look it's early. You gotta drink. You have to
drink bloody berries in the morning.

Speaker 6 (44:50):
It's five pm somewhere, I guess.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Look, I was headed to Las Vegas. It's time. It's
time to get this party turned. Let's get it going.

Speaker 6 (44:58):
Yeah, Well, another type of drink that'd be good for
tonight is maybe some hot coco. It's gonna be another
cold one for tonight. Temperatures are going to fall into
the teens and we do have some snow showers on
the way that will last through the early morning hours
for a Thursday, just before like the heart of the
morning commute. But some of those snow showers, we'll be
picking up about an inch or so of snow, though

(45:19):
some locally higher mounts trying to push up to an
inch and a half to even two inches could create
some six spots on the roadway, especially on untreated roads, bridges,
and overpasses. And then we'll just have to contend with
the blowing snow as winds start to pick up, because
this snow is going to be a dry, powdery snow.
Highs low twenties for Thursday, upper twenties for Friday with
a few flurries, and then the weekend we'll dry things out.

(45:41):
We'll have some sunshine, temperatures warming up. We'll be back
into the low thirties on Saturday, upper thirties by Sunday.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
All right, Sarah, thank you, it is twenty one right now,
Oh Bunn, tell are you read it all for the nookie.

Speaker 5 (45:57):
Are you reaching for that bottle over there?

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (46:00):
Full Master Aviator or Master jump wings on the front
of it. Yeah, Second Airborne.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
This is an incredibly beautiful bottle.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
You asked me if we had done you know, if
we had test drove this before, and I didn't remember
that we did.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
We haven't. Okay, good.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
Good buddy Dan, who we met, because he's a listener,
he brought that in. Every time he comes in, he
brings a beautiful bottle of bourbon. But being a VET,
for those who haven't heard, we've been bringing in gosh,
maybe eighty nine months now, every so often bring in
a bottle that's either distilled and made by veterans and
or honoring. So this is the eighty second Airborne made

(46:37):
by Boundary Oak Distillery down in good old Kentucky. And
it's tasty. I can't really pull up the flavors, you know,
like that tastes.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Just that bottle on the shelf would get my attention.

Speaker 5 (46:50):
Well, it's gorgeous, you know, the legendary eighty second Airborne
based at Fort Bragg. Yes, Fort Bragg, Fort Bragg, not
Ivan Bragg, Fort Bragg, Thank you sect heg seth for
changing the name back from that nonsense. Right, So it's uh,
it's a beautiful bottle. And on the back I can
read any more details once you get the glug glug

(47:11):
glug glug glug lug. Oh, yeah, that I've forgotten what
Fort Bragg was changed to before it was changed back?
What was it Fort who Doesn't Matter?

Speaker 2 (47:20):
For Fort who Cares?

Speaker 1 (47:22):
Yeah, during the Obama administration was going to be Fort
We're so sorry, but they didn't.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
They didn't go with that.

Speaker 5 (47:26):
Well, you know what, en listenings are up, very thankful,
thank you. Yes, I wondering when people laughing when you
pour this in here like this, are they laughing?

Speaker 2 (47:35):
No, they're crying because they're not here.

Speaker 5 (47:37):
Dona the eighty second Airborne just you know what legendary.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
One of the beautiful things I love about Don Ross
is he brings in it's the best stuff to test drive.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
We are not there's no uh what is this is
some nice hoot? I a twelve pack?

Speaker 5 (48:00):
Yeah, so it's eighty second Airborn. And now obviously you
know I manage money, and I built a couple of
models in the house that I manage funds. And one
of them is called the eighty second eighty. It's called
the Airborne Edge and it's twenty stocks and I rebalanced
regularly and it just kills it. But I named it
after my Airborne Ranger buddies.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
So is there a certain criteria you have to have
in order to invest in that or be invested?

Speaker 5 (48:26):
No, okay, if it fits in your needs and your
goals where you're trying to accomplish as a client, it's
a great I even named one. It's been in the
news lately, Blackhawk. I have another portfolio named Blackhawk Edge
and it's goes goes right with the fact that you
flew Yeah, and that does really well. It's got more
of a the stocks in there, a predominantly military contractor basis.

(48:50):
Some tech. We're going to move to some AI ETFs
maybe soon. But it's all about growing the money for
our clients at the rate that they're comfortable with, because
not everybody wants to be on the roller coaster ride.
So eighty second Airborne, Whiskey and honor are great guys.
I served with, guys and gals and of course the
legendary since World War One, eighty second Airborne, those of

(49:11):
you served. I want to thank you, and we don't
want to leave out the hundred first Airborne. There is
a bottle of that and maybe I'll get that next time.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Also, when I want to ask you a relatively elementary
question with with regard yummy, excuse.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Me, are you like in something like this, could you go?

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Yeah, if you are, you're going to be part of
the Airborne Edge, which is this you know product that
I one of the Yeah, yeah, that in addition to
signing up for that, you then get a bottle of
the Airborne So I know, is that too gimmicky.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Or is that cheesy?

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Or is that something you're not allowed to do because
it's they're certain you have so many laws, you know,
there's so much compulsion.

Speaker 5 (49:55):
I know, Yeah, no, probably that's over the limit we're
technically give as a gift, but you know, wink wink.
But anyhow, I probably got someone from the SEC. Oh,
I'm gonna go pay a visit to that ross. Yeah,
and we'll drink. So anyhow, I'll figure out the next one.
But again, in honor of all those have served, whether

(50:16):
you're airborne, aviation, infantry, armor, I want to thank you
for your service. And there's many of you listen right now. Yeah,
I never think anybody took advantage of it or look
down on you. You know, it was one of the
greatest decisions you made in your life to raise your
right hand to protect this country from those who want
to hurt us outside this country and damn it inside
this country unfortunately in Yeah, thank.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
You for all of you to do that.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
I mean it, And I get goosebumps because I missed
my twenty five years. I'd love to go back in,
but I'm sixty two now, so not going to do it.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Yeah, you see some things you're like, all right, I'm
ready to run through a wall again.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Because you see stuff on the news and you're like,
calm on, and what is happening here?

Speaker 5 (50:54):
Well, on a side note, there are many of you
out there that have great skills, and you know there's
a way to volunteer.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
You know you can do it.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
You can't list if you're over sixty. Most of the
time that's the age out. But there's some guys and
gals out there are some very good skills that could
be used in all different situations. So enough set on that.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Where are you at on this chuck? I take a
sip on it. Yeah, I like it. It's the consistency
is heavier. It is heavier. It's it's.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Almost like, I mean, not flavor wise, not, but just
the consistency in your mouth is almost like a Southern comfort.

Speaker 5 (51:27):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
It's got a kind of a heavier sipping whiskey kind
of feel going down. It does not have the bourbon
after burn, well, I which is very nice. I took
a sip of. This is like getting punched in the
face in a good way. I just could nothing subtle.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
Is very reasonably priced in the in the scheme of things. Yep,
so boundary ooak. I don't know where you could find
it in town. It was a gift again from a
great client that I met through you, and uh, I appreciate.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
You too, Mark.

Speaker 5 (51:54):
So yeah, Chuck, you guys are awesome. I love being
in here, met some great clients and again you have
great listeners and.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Uh absolutely certainly welcome.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
So back to this because I really didn't get a
definitive answer from either one of you, but the five
thousand dollars doze dividends. This is I feel like, because
they got floated. Can can they introduce something like this
and then go eh nah? Because there. I would think
more United States Americans citizens that would see this and be.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
All for it than they would be against it. And
I don't.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
I feel like since it's been floated, it's probably going
to happen. And I can hear it all now from
the left, we're.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Loving it, buying everybody's vote for Bantzer.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Whomever coming up in twenty eight. You know, I could
we've buying their votes or whatever. You know what, how's
this any You let millions, you know, millions and millions.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Of illegals came in. You were trying to harvest those votes,
So shut up with that and A and B. This
is just him giving some of this tax money back
that we've all paid as it should be.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
So we're uh. I look over at Chuck, here's this
look you know how I am. I'm I'm a greater
good kind of guy.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Yeah. I understand people would say, oh my gosh, five
thousand dollars, Yes, I'll take found money.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
For the good of the country, I would rather it
not happen. Tax rates go down, people keep more of
what they make, and we don't. We don't create new
debt because we found some debt to eliminate let's get
out of the hole. Don't say, look, we saved one
hundred dollars, so let's give away fifty. It doesn't make

(53:35):
sense to me.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Good point.

Speaker 5 (53:37):
I don't know enough about the details, and I'm not
going to try to make it up. I don't know,
but it sounds like some kind of refund. But I'm
gonna think we haven't scratched the surface. Wait till we
hit the pentagon.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
I'm going to disagree with Chuck Oh that never happens.
I'm going to.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
Disagree and say I absolutely would one thousand percent be
all for this, because we're talking about people, not couples,
not people who are married, not marriages, not man and wife.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Get we're talking ten thousand. Then at that point, now
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
It's such in such a fledgling stage, they haven't really
specified exactly who qualifies.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
And then I see people floating.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Well, there have been people complaining about this on the
left that they shouldn't be no, no, they should.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Be involved in this.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
They should absolutely if this happens, they should benefit from
it as well. That's the beauty of this president. You
get to benefit from it, whether you supported him or not.
I really one hundred percent feel.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
That way if they just don't take Let's say you're
married filing jointly. Next year, you file your taxes, Okay,
we owe twenty four hundred dollars. Then you implement your
five thousand dollars per taxpayer thing. Now you've got twenty
four twenty four hundred is gone, you got a ten
thousand dollars credit against it. You get back the eighty
six hundred dollars difference in your tax refund. Okay, I'm

(54:57):
good with that. I just don't want to see the money.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Six and one a half dozen of the other in
a situation like that particular situation. But what about people
who are already getting a refund, you know, and then
they get another five thousand Okay, well it's the same, Yeah,
it's six and one a've.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
Done, except they're actually tax paying citizens and not just
somebody here who is.

Speaker 5 (55:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
You know, there's plenty of American citizens that that mess
with taxes too. They they've never worked a day in
their life, and they get back fifteen thousand dollars from
the federal government every year.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
I don't know how that all that works.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
Yeah, yeah, that's tax Maybe the nice stimulus to the economy. Also,
people get a bunch of money. Yeah, it could never hurts,
you know, to stimulate the economy.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
George W. Bush did it.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
And I remember that six hundred dollars check when I
got it. I went out and stimulated the economy.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
Yes, I will be stimulating. Put it on black and
double it. Oh see, that's the way that works. Five
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As always save travels, my friend, thank you for stopping by.
We appreciate you very much and we'll talk again soon.