The Blazor Show Friday 02/21/2025

News, Politics, Sports

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mark Pleazer Show. All right, here we go, finally Friday. Oh,

(00:30):
thank you, finally here Friday. Hey stop it.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I know you're probably going, oh, geez, hard week of
hosting radio?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Is that what it's been? No, not necessarily, it's just listen.
If this is all I had to do, you know,
I think.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
About having this job and being single, without kids or
without any of the side stuff.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's going on.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I gotta fantasize about that for just a moment, just
a moment.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Here's what I said.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Here's what I said. Because you were like kind of
putting on your headphones and stuff. I go, h, finally
Friday is here. And then I go and you're probably going, ooh.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Tough week of hosting radio shows?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
And I go, no, no, no, it's not that, it's
everything that goes along with it. You know, I wish
this was all I had to do, right And I'm
most I'm sure most people are going cry me up river,
you know, right now, because they have the same thing
going on with their jobs, mostly people who have families
and so on. You're constantly putting out fires. You were

(01:34):
just putting out fires not too long ago.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, every day, Yeah, every single day, that's what we
all go through.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
So that's why I'm so happy it's Friday, because I
do slow down a little bit on the weekend. Matter
of fact, we're doing the uh we're doing my birthday
celebration if you will, with my family, and uh, well
it's gonna be some of Jenny's family was going to
join us, but her sister has begun labor, so now
they're that has entered into the picture. So I believe

(02:03):
my in laws will be with their day with a
birth that'll be nice. Well they'll be with her and
so on and so forth, which is fine, you know whatever,
it's it's great. But tomorrow we're doing that and uh yeah,
Jenny's making that hot fudge cake.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
I think I was telling you about that.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
I really it's it's a Frishist thing and she's gonna
she's taking a swing at it. I'm like, God, love you,
let's go. So all of that is set to go.
My point is I'm real happy that the weekend is here.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
It could have been a little better getting into today
if the USA one on one last night, but they didn't.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
They lost in ot.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I was kind of surprised because last I didn't get
a chance to watch it because stuff. And but I
was watching people posting on social media and stuff last
night and people were saying, man, this goal, he's like,
he's a brick wall. He's stopping stuff. He's amazing, and
I'm like, Wow, the USA's doing well. I was kind
of surprised to wake up this morning and find out otherwise.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, well he did do really well all night. I mean,
to go into ot means both, you know, both goalies
let in two goals each sho. It was to to
we go into overtime and then Connor McDavid ends up
scoring the winning goal. And I was just like, and
now all over social media, you gotta see all these
Canadian pricks everywhere saying all the stuff that they're saying.

(03:20):
They're going tariff this tariff that win. I mean, we're
just dealing with right exactly. And might I add the
national anthem last night there was operatic and I go,
what and the hell is going on with this? It
was terrible he changed it was terrible words too, which
well that was the Canadian Is.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
That what you're talking about?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm talking about our national I thought it was awful.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
That was I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I don't if Zac Attack can find it from last
night try four Nations Championship game US national anthem, Zak
Attack you can, and being serious, obviously don't put up
you know Enrico Palazzo singing it from Naked Gun, which
is hilarious, But I mean, for this one, I'm trying
to prove up. I actually was looking for it earlier

(04:12):
and I couldn't really find it. Zach's actually really good
at finding that stuff. I was like, why can't I
find this? But I thought I even sent a note
to a couple of people in our circles here.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I was like, this is awful, Like what is going on?
It just rubbed me.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
And you're right with the Canadian national anthem, I don't
even know what they call it the anthem or whatever
their anthem Canada, well I knew that, but I don't
know if it's do you call it the national anthem
like we do here or is it called the anthem
or anyway, it's not important. She did change some of
the words and it was almost like a dig at
President Trump. I'm like, well, these people ever stop.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Just knock it off.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
You're not going to become the fifty first state, just
stop it.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
This is all at work.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
He's met man again, living rent free in their heads.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Nike games, so our politics is bittery.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
And then they start talking about how they won this.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
And then I saw NHL Cup thirty one thirty one
of those bad boys for the US, zero for Canada.
So people are like, okay, well let's pull out the
big guns, you know, the actual trophy, and you guys
have none, zero to thirty one to the US. So anyway,
I'm not deep enough to get into all of that.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
You start asking me about Steelers.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
I can tell you all you want to know as
far as Super Bowls go and victories and so on.
But with that, I just saw all that stuff. So
I was reading that this morning. I had to stop.
I was like, my blood started boiling. I'm like, why
am I getting so worked.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Up over this? It's chrazy hockey game. It would have
been nice like one, but you know, don't don't let
it make you nuts.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Man.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
I was. I've been besieged this week by a bunch
of various national anthems over the years from sporting events. Sure,
and I'll tell you what I found some of them.
The Jackson five. It was not overproduced at what The
audio quality was not great in the stadium back then,
nineteen seventy, the Jacksonville it was very sincere little Michael singing.
It was very sincere meat loaf at a baseball game. Man,

(06:09):
you talk about a heartfelt anthem. I've just seen some
really good examples, and I thought these are all so
diverse in the type. So if I was going there
expecting an operatic version of the.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Anthem, I just didn't. I didn't see it coming.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's like Pavarati or something.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
I just it was this girl. It was female.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
I'm like, uh what, And yeah, isn't it isn't it weird? Yeah,
so Zach attacks having trouble finding the American ones, it's
probably yeah. They've made sure that anytime it gets posted,
they're like whoop, they take it back down. And of
course I wasn't rolling tape at home, but I can

(06:48):
tell you there was not booing during the Canadian and
national anthem. There wasn't any booing. Good And I specifically
turned the TV up and people were talking. I go, hey,
you guys, hold on, I just got to see and
I did not hear any booing. I will tell you
at one point. You know Johnny Hockey, Johnny Gudreau. He
did play for a Canadian team, but he's from New Jersey, right,

(07:11):
So last night people were chanting Johnny Hockey, Johnny they
were they were chanting it during the game. I believe
we have that. Okay, here's here's what that sound like.
Pretty cool, pretty.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
And you can hear it saying we're.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Paying respect to him as a former Canadian player.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Absolutely, And you know his wife, she was tweeting out
that how happy she was to see this and that
she's saving this stuff and she can't wait to let
her kids hear it and see it when they get older,
because she is pregnant right now with their third I
think you remember that. Yeah, she announced that during the funeral,

(07:58):
and I watched a clip of that today and I
was like breaking up back there watching that, going, are
you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Are you kidding me? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
So you know, I don't know the USA. Yeah, he
falls short last night. So there it is three two
and ot. Some good news though for the Columbus Blue
Jackets on a local level that Captain Boone Jenner is
back for sure now. Bob mcgalligant, radio voice of the
Columbus Blue Jackets was all with us yesterday and he

(08:29):
alluded to that, saying, Carell Martenko forward as well. He's
the CBJ top goal scorer. He's the top goal scorer.
He is back as well.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Keep in mind, he broke his jaw on the second
of February and it's been twenty days tomorrow for the game,
twenty days, and this guy's back in action twenty days.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
He took a puck to the side of the jaw.
I don't know if you saw the footage of it.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Or easy demon.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Man, So he's been out with that versus Dallas if
you forget, but yeah, unreal that he's only been out
twenty days and the guy's back.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's a different level of hockey players.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's a different I'm really discovering over these last few
years as I've really starting to really get in and
dig into it, become a season ticket hole er, all
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
It is.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Finally I'm like, Wow, I'm just more and more amazed
the more and more I get into this sport. Exactly
what these guys exude. It's insane. It is insane what
they go through. It is a different level. Man, it
really is. I mean the NFL, don't get me wrong,
they're beating the hell out of each other too. You know,
all kinds of injuries it seems like. But man, it's

(09:45):
just injury after injury. Look, every team deals with it.
But the fact that Boone's coming back right now, he's
been gone what I see. I think it was fifty
was it like fifty four games? It was like last
October when Boone went out with shoulder and to have
surgery for that and so on and so forth. So yeah,
this will be great seeing them tomorrow night as the

(10:06):
Jackets will be back in action on home.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Ice at nation Wide Arena. Pretty cool? Is do you think?
Is football still your favorite sport? Is that the one
you get most excited about?

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah? It is?

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Okay, good it is.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I love baseball, but boy, I think hockey is eclipsed
baseball for me. And it's probably mainly because we don't
have a pro team here in Columbus. I mean, I
do love the Reds, but at Cincinnati, and I don't know,
maybe that logic doesn't work because I like the Steelers.
They're in Pittsburgh. We don't have a pro football team. Well,

(10:40):
we have a pro football team.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Here's guy.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Once upon a time, let me, we have a pro
football team here. It's the Buckeyes. So that's pretty much.
But yes, but so continue.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Sorry, I was just saying I was a Steelers fan once,
but I don't hold that against you. Yeah, you know,
but it was a long time ago. It was Bradshaw,
it was Swan, it was Franco, you know that. That's
why I started liking that era. I was also, believe
it or not, a Seattle Seahawks fan for a while
as a youngster, because was a Jim Zorn and Steve Largent,
which I thought were just the amazing. No matter where

(11:13):
the ball was thrown, it was cut they were a
great team. And they were like the Swan and Bradshaw
of the other side of the country, right. And I
finally landed on the Bengals just because, you know, it
was kind of paying homage to my dad and the
fact that he went through so much misery for so
many years, and I felt I had to carry that
tradition on. I thought, you lost a bet, now, No

(11:33):
Dad would he'd sit and watch the Bengals. And I
think I've told you before. When they changed the uniforms.
Most people today don't remember the old uniforms, but they
looked tremendously like the Browns on the field. When the
Bengals played the Browns, it was hard telling who was who.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, you're going the way back.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
But yeah, So they switched and they put these stripes off.
And my dad, oh my gosh, he paced the whole
game back and forth in the living room and he
made that sound. He had this sounding when he was
mad about stuff. He didn't yell, made that sound, and
he'd turned around every now and then look at me.
They look like clowns. They look like clowns out there.
He hated those stripes.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
He hated the.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Strip Wow, what was that sound again? That was like
static or something.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
It's just this thing he made where he would exhale
through his teeth like clinched and yeah, yeah, yeah, I
made you know, one of those Clint Eastwood about to
shoot your faces and then exhaled while he was doing it.
And he just looked like clowns out there, Just clowns
out there. Oh and now we don't think they look

(12:35):
like clowns. They just they unfortunately in the season, like clowns.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Well, it's just a large question mark with them.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
If we're gonna, I mean, if we have to really
say anything about them now, it's like.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
I don't I don't know. I don't follow it.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Close enough to the Bengals to to And there's plenty
of people in iHeartRadio down south in the Cincinnati area
that would jump on and probably try to explain exactly
what's happened with them, because they have a lot of
the same personnel. It doesn't make any sense how they're
so up and down all the time. And everybody then
kind of points to the offensive line and so on.

(13:10):
But anyway, it's not it's not like a sea thing. Yeah,
it's not football season. I'm always football season. Don't see that.
What we're gonna, what we'll do is here in just
a couple of minutes. This is yet another billions of
dollars spent in COVID relief funds for schools.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Did you happen to see this?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yes, I mean, this is this is absolutely There was
an ice cream truck that was purchased. And when I
saw that, immediately I go, well, whose watch was that on?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
The guy that loves ice cream? Is that a coincidence?
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
It was in California renting out pro baseball stadiums. What
the hell is going on COVID to the tune of
what was it two hundred billion, nearly two hundred billion
dollars in COVID relief funds oversight or impact on students.
In other words, it wasn't spent to really help them. No,

(14:05):
it was like it's a under the guise of let's
act like this is helping them or unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
I mean, we spend FEMA money to house illegals in
New York hotels. Why we spend COVID on anything having
to do with a virus.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Well, that's yes, that's a good point.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
We need dose, we need dose.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
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Speaker 2 (14:34):
Well, finally we're gonna begin crawling out of this really
cold weather that.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
We've been having.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Finally beginning to crawl out.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
As a matter of fact, I hate to speak about Monday,
but meteorologist Jennifer Herbert's joining us now, and I mean,
it's not really a bad forecast over the weekend either, considering,
you know, some of the highest week of in twenty
nineteen and so it looks like it's going to be good.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Even over the week.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Can but boy, we're going to flirt with fifty next week,
so I'll take it in February, kidding me.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, it's all happening, yay finally.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
So yeah, are we as far as I've been seeing
this pretty snow globe snow that whenever it kind of
fires eye live in Delaware, and it's like I'll look
out or let the dog out, and.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
I'm like, oh, look at that. It looks like this nice.
You know, this is very pretty.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Snow blows very orson wells or whoever that was it did.
Frosty the Snowman this afternoon just saw it too that. Yeah,
it was beautiful, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
Really light.

Speaker 6 (15:36):
It's not inconveniencing anybody, No, it's just there.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
As a matter of fact, any of that that fell
on a surface, maybe that I had gotten down to
the pavement, if you will, on my property, driveway, sidewalks
or whatever. I could have taken a snowblower, a leaf
blower to it, you know, I could have fire it
up one of those two hundred mile an hour things.

(16:02):
But it looks like, yeah, we're out of the snow woods.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
If you will for a while.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
Right, yeah, that's exactly what it looks like tonight. Even
it's still cold, still temperatures down into the teens. The
wind chills will linger right around maybe ten degrees, so
maybe a little warmer than what we've had.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
And it will be dry.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
Now.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
We'll get some clearing clouds tomorrow, so some peaks of
sunshine Tomorrow, afternoon highs briefly above freezing before falling back
into the twenties going into Sunday morning. Sunday looks even better,
highs in the upper thirties. Of course, this is just
for a few hours, but as we get into next week,
those temperatures continue climbing right up around fifty degrees.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
All right, thank you very much, Jennifer.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
It is twenty eight right now.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
When the snow is light and flooding like that, I
always try to tell the kids, don't walk on the side,
just stay off because you can use the snowblow or
the leaf flow and just but but of course they
have to go out and walk on it, since then
it becomes you know, that little footprint of ice right
which you can't blow away with it, like it would
be so much easier if I could just run out
here with the leaf floor real quick and go and

(17:16):
be done with it.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Right, Just walk in the grass, yeah, walk in the grass.
But no, but then they go out on the sidewalk.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Come on, man, do they give you guys the business
in your neighborhood if you're not doing your sidewalks. I
think we may have talked to that again. You hear
like neighbors complaining.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Or yeah, nobody really does anything officially, but you get
the stink eye from a couple of people if you yeah, yeah,
if you don't clean it up.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's not like they bug me. I don't care about them.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Anyway, right, But it's not like they're yeah, yeah, chuck,
you didn't do your sidewalk, Can you take care of it?

Speaker 1 (17:53):
And you like get off my front porch? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:56):
No.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
I just wondered if that was it, because it's like, a,
I don't know, some people in my area due and
some don't.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Some just leave it, you know, And I guess And
going back to being a younger guy. First house nineteen
ninety five, we were all it was a new subdivision,
so we were all building together, and all the guys
on the street, we were like buddies. It was like
a street wide dorm and we seriously would, you know,
come out there and shovel each other's driveways and sidewalks,

(18:22):
and it was just it was a very unified effort.
I wish life stayed like that for the rest of
your life because it was very cool to you know,
if I was getting home late that night or something,
Kelly would be cutting my grass when I got home,
or it just I really enjoyed that and people aren't
like that anymore.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Was there reciprocity involved?

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Absolutely, like you would do it something absolutely, you know,
his wife would call because he worked a lot of
hours to his wife would call and say, hates the
toilet won't stop flushing or something. I go over and
fix the toilet. We just we took care of each other.
We were family.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
Man.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
I'm like, none of that going on.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
No, I loved it. I did to the world's a
different place.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
If you could go through what the people who crashed
and ended up on their tops, the delta flight that
was in Ontario, if you could go through that knowing
you were going to get thirty thousand dollars on the
other side, no strings attached, which is what they're offering,
would you have done it knowing?

Speaker 3 (19:19):
I'd be okay, gosh.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Because if you go, I just got to go through
this knowing I'm not.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
So if you were told you will live, but they go,
we can't tell you anything else other than you'll live,
because you could say, well, I live, but I.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Don't have legs now and it's not worth it doing so.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
If you were told you have to go through this,
it's going to feel like you're dying, but ahead of time,
you know you're not going to die, you'd be like,
I'll go through it for thirty thousand.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
If I knew I wasn't going to die or be
or be maimed in some way, yeah, disfigured or but
I'd ride the roller coaster for thirty grand suore.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
So you gotta you because those people are probably going
to have to go through there a chunk of them,
if not the whole. There's eighty of them, I think.
And so they're giving thirty thousand dollars to each passenger.
That's what Delta is putting out there. And they say
the Delta care team told passengers this gesture has no
strings attached. In other words, it doesn't affect the rights

(20:18):
of the passengers. You don't have to sign off on
any kind of a lawsuit moving forward. Now, I don't
so what kind of lawsuits are you able to kind
of fire up from this if you're somebody who didn't
really have any hospitalization. If you're not, I think some
people are going to have to go through therapy for that,

(20:40):
because you do have the terror of thinking I'm going
to die. I mean, how many people have already had
dreams about this? I would imagine most of the people
on that flight. Let's face it, anybody who flies you
can't not think about.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Is this it?

Speaker 1 (20:55):
You know?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
When you're getting on an aircraft. I lay hands on
every aircraft going and I pray I'm not kidding, and
I'm I think people who are atheists, people don't even
believe in God, are going jeezus, please God help it
and don't let I think people who you know could
do that. But yeah, they're saying it doesn't affect the

(21:17):
rights of the passengers.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
And it probably serves them well if there is any litigation,
because they made this gesture right off the bat, the
litigant is probably not going to be as bloodthirsty as
maybe they could have been well, man, they tried to
do something decent here. I'm not gonna you know, and
not in all the cases. There's always going to be
somebody who wants to get rich for the rest of
their life. But they may have a good move there.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
I think strategically, yeah, because I think by and large,
if you're going to take everybody that's going to be
involved in lawsuits moving forward, you may have taken the
sting out of some of those.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
To your point, that's interesting. I didn't even think about
it that way.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
And the idea that it sounds very grandiose, ind macho,
I know, and I don't mean it that way. It's
just I know me and so quickly say yes, I
do it because honestly, I'm not scared anything. I am
just so. We talked about that not too long. It
is what it is. If it's if it's gonna land,
it's gonna land. If it's gonna crash, it's gonna crash in.
All the worry and fear and paranoia in the world

(22:14):
is not going to change that. So I've chosen this course.
I'm gonna get on this plane. I will either get
off at the end or I won't.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
I think there are a lot of level headed, normal
people that know what you just said, but applying it
it being applicable is a whole different story because the
fears and anxieties and so on, that all, especially depending
on how close you've watched airline disaster. I mean, there's different,

(22:44):
different special Yeah. Oh I know, man, that's the thing.
You're right, because all that does is stoke fear. Yeah,
stokes the anxiety just throws gas on it.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
I'm making a sandwich. The Queen watches so many of
those husband killing wife reality news shows and all that
kind of stuff. I make a say which I take
a knife out out to go. What's wrong? Nothing, I'm
getting mayonnaise, chill, chill.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I was gonna say, I thought you were gonna go.
You want some of the sandwich? She's like, you eat
some first, Yeah, you'd take a bike. I don't like
the way it's smoking like that. That's a cold cut.
It shouldn't be smoking. You're like, we're talking about just fit.
There are there are so many. There are schools that

(23:26):
have spent billions in COVID relief funds and to the
tune of hundreds of billions of COVID relief funds expenses
that had little impact on students, like Las Vegas hotel
rooms at Caesar's Palace.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
We're saved.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
What a fantastic place that is. But what how are
they doing that?

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Granted?

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Public schools in Utah spent COVID relief funds to the
tune of eighty six grand in hotel rooms at Caesar's Palace.
I first of all, it's a public school. How are
they in Caesar's retreat? It was a retreat.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Well, they're underage.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
It was a retreat for underage.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Just I'm like, what Santa Anna Unified in California spent
three hundred and ninety three thousand to rent out a
Major League Baseball stadium. It was four hundred thousand dollars.
This is their COVID money that they're using.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Now, what are.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
They I'm trying to figure out what angle are we?

Speaker 1 (24:29):
What angle are we doing here?

Speaker 3 (24:31):
This is why government funding of anything always ticks me off.
This is why that you know, these these nonprofits which
now refer to themselves many times as not for profit,
which I find funny. It's not we're not saying we
don't make any money. We're just saying, we're not really
here to make money. We just happened to. But you know,
they they say that's a problem. Yeah, we want to
get this money for, you know, feeding the homeless. And they,

(24:56):
you know, they find their guy out front here, what
are you doing. I just stopped by, say hi, you're
in your car. Yeah you're not in your house. Yeah,
let me buy your lunch. You know, No, wait a minute,
he's not homeless. He was in his car outside the building.
They they stretched the truth and put it under this umbrella.
Here's what we're doing. When they're really not doing that,
They're they're making it look like they're doing something just

(25:17):
so they can get their hands on some free money.
I hate that crap.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Uh yeah, if there they went from nonprofit to not
for profit, it should just be called low profit. Why
don't they just be honest? Yeah, level with America. They're boxy,
but they're good. They're boxy, but there it was a
wonderful slogan.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
It was true.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Safe cars.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Hit a tank with one of those things and you'd
be okay. But yeah, that whole not for profit thing
when they started using that, that's why there's like so
many different five oh one. Ce's now depending upon what
you just man, just do the right thing the right way.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
In put all that, there's also a uh it was
what is it?

Speaker 4 (26:00):
It was?

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Another cost cutting department also revealed school spent sixty grand
of COVID relief funds on swimming pool passes. A California
district use its funds to purchase an ice cream truck.
An ice cream truck? Is there anything? Cause I feel like,
depending on what level of schools we're talking about school districts,

(26:21):
there's got to be some sort of loophole in the
verbiage of the money they're receiving where they're able they
could go, well, we spent it, yeah, on an ice
cream truck, but it falls under provision, you know, Like
I feel like there's something maybe they looked at and
saw it and went, well, that could be it might
be a little questionable, but we probably can scoot that through.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
We can motivational expense for student morale.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
You get a's and you get free ice creak from
our truck out front.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Anyway, I just I saw that.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
I was like, oh, this is the latest one where
it's definitely a head scratcher. You know, what's funny is
the picture that's associated with this particular article is Elon
Musk in front of the Caesar's Palace sign. They like
they somehow like superimposed him or aied him into.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
The I think I'll buy this next.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, exactly. The Blazer Show.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
It was a lovely ceremony too, all.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Right, So, uh, let's welcome back to the show.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
I guess for the second time.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
I think at this point, Chris Dorian, who play by
play for the Columbus Crew, Chris, is the second time
you've been on the show?

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Right? It is Blazer, That's right, second time. Good afternoon
to eat to you and Chuck.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, thank you man, thank you very much for jumping
on with us. You are returning. I was doing a
little bit of digging' you're returning for your and tell.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Me this is right.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Hopefully it'll be right for the fifth consecutive season as
the Cruise radio play by play voice, bringing more than
two decades of MLS broadcast experience to the booth. And
you know, the last time you were here, you were
in studio and I lamented. I was like, you know,
you are one of that. You got to be one
of the most talented people ever, because you're in the

(28:39):
booth by yourself and you have to go for forty
five plus minutes just talking about what's happening there. Correct,
I mean that hasn't changed any right, or do you
have somebody in there with you?

Speaker 4 (28:51):
No? I don't have anybody in there with me. It
doesn't necessarily mean I'm talented. It just means I can
get along with myself for three hours and I don't
need entertainment from others. But you and I have both
met plenty of people who could talk on and on
and maybe can't pull off what we can. But it's
been a real blessing. We're happy to be back in

(29:12):
Ohio and really enjoy the way this team has been playing,
especially over the last couple of years under Wilfred Nazi.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, this is really cool. The season opener tomorrow night
at lower dot Com Field. The Chicago Fire are in town.
And that was so, you were the radio host for
the Chicago Fire. It looks like as I was looking
kind of into your background, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
I did radio and television for the Chicago Fire for
ten years, and coincidentally it was a time for Chicago
when they were very successful. The meetings between Columbus and
Chicago typically tilted in favor of the Chicago Fire. We
had quite the roster and Columbus was kind of feeling
their way through I would say, not infancy, but maybe

(29:57):
their teenage years. Well, in the last ten years, Blazer,
it's been mostly Columbus. You look at I think the
last twenty eight meetings or something, Chicago's only got three
wins in those twenty eight meetings. So the big brother's
been established. Columbus with thirty years of experience in Major
League soccer, Chicago not one of the original clubs. Twenty

(30:19):
eight seasons for the Chicago Fire, and I think that
what we're going to see tomorrow night is a team
that has its identity. Like Columbus we've been playing now
this will be our third season under Wilfried Nazi and
his staff, and for the Chicago Fire, a team that's
looking to establish a new identity, a team that's struggled

(30:40):
to be the I guess a part of the conversation
in the playoffs. And a new head coach in Greg Burhalter,
a guy who's familiar to Columbus fans and men's national
team fans as he's spent some time in Columbus as
a head coach. He's very deliberate, he's very defined in
what he wants from his players, very orchestrated. And I

(31:00):
think you'll see that there's a little bit of skiltedness
in what Chicago brings and a little bit more fluidity
from what Columbus offers. So it should be an interesting
battle of identities tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
And then I was also and look, I'm not going
to act like I know because I was just reading
some of this stuff and I don't follow it as
closely as I should. However, I am getting a little
more interested in it. It only took me thirty years
years finally start getting it. But I saw that is
it Cuco Hernandez? That's how you say his name? Correct?

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah, so he's gone correct and he was a very
integral part of the Columbus crew. Or is that a
source subject that people don't really want to talk about.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
No, you know, I don't know how it is in
other sports. I'll admit a little bit of I guess
disinterested in a lot of other sports, but I don't
know how it is when players move on to other teams.
But in soccer, especially in Columbus. Once you've worn the
black and gold, you're always a part of the family.

(32:04):
For Cuco Ornandez, he came in at the age of
twenty three. We knew he was a talented player. He
was way too young to be committing ten years.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
To this league.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
All due respect to the league, it's just that he
was at a level where the expectation was if he improves,
he's going to be plucked out, and that's exactly what happened.
He was the MVP of MLS Cup in twenty twenty
three when we won the playoffs, and then you look
into twenty twenty four, he was a runner up his

(32:35):
league MVP. He was the league's Cup MVP. The accolades
were all over the place for Cuco. He was surrounded
by great people and you know, luckily he was able
to grow his game. La Liga in Spain took notice
and Realedatis on the last day of the trade deadline
for Spain was able to put an offer in that

(32:59):
you know, caught the attention not just Kucho and his people,
but also the Columbus crew. And you know, you have
to help a guy realize his dreams, and that was
the promise that Columbus made to Kucho when they got
him two and a half years ago. They said, we're
going to help you realize your dreams. If the biggest
dream you want isn't here in Columbus, then we'll find
a way to, you know, help you to the next level.

(33:20):
And that's what happened. Kucho is not a sore subject.
He brought us a lot of great memories. Cool. We
just want to make sure that everyone remembers that. You know,
we've got a roster of players right now, while it's
a little bit short, is a roster of players that
brought so many new records in last year's performance to
the franchise, and we're going to build on that this

(33:42):
year and see what happens. It's going to be exciting.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
It's kind of unselfish, I guess that's the way to
describe it, unselfish because there are so many other sports.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
I think you know this too, Chris.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
We're talking to play by play announcer for the Columbus Crew,
Chris Doran. Chris, I think you know, Like, for instance,
I'm Steeler fan, right and when players leave us, especially
if they go to the Ravens, or they go to
somebody within the AFC North, which is where they reside. Like, yeah,
they'll go to the Bengals, So go to the Browns.
It's like, hey, the hell with that guy? You know, Like,
it's not I'm so happy for him. He's moved on,

(34:16):
he got a bigger contract, knowing well and good. If
it's me that was in that same position, I would
absolutely So I'm with the Steelers, I'm making three million
dollars a year, and then I get an offer from
the Ravens to make seven million dollars a year, and
I'm gonna get mad at the guy for going and
bettering himself, especially offering himself up to the football gods.

(34:37):
He could die on any given play, you know, deep down,
I know that. But that's where soccer is very different.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
You're spiteful, that's your prob.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Well, no, I just I think that's what a lot
of football fans experience, and that's just kind of how
it goes.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
I never I've never heard your talk with Chris from before.
I'm sorry about that, but I was, as I'm listening
to you talk, I have to ask you this your
time in Chicago versus your time Columbus. Is the fan
base more more energized, more supportive here in Columbus than
what you saw in Chicago.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Yeah, more loyal, Chuck, They're way more loyal. And you
know that actually starts from the top. Chicago's a really
big city. It was always hard to find footing in
the news headlines between the Bears and the Cubs and
White Sox and the Bulls and Blackhawks. In Columbus, you know,
you got to find your footing. You're not handed any

(35:33):
headlines or attention because you're a professional sports franchise. You've
got to earn it. But once you do, the loyalty
behind the from the fan base is just exceptional. And
the folks in the front office. And I've said this publicly,
so I don't mind saying it again. And I'm not,
you know, looking at any boots here, but I got to
tell you the quality of person in this club from

(35:56):
top to bottom, is impeccable, and it bleeds over into
the roster, it bleeds out into the fan base, and
the loyalty of the supporters groups is exceptional. I think
we're very fortunate, and I think people who go to
other cities and you know, sample another team find that

(36:18):
Columbus is extremely unique in that way.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
That's awesome and that explains I guess the success. I'll
be frank with you. When the when the crew first
came to the city, I'm like, this ain't gonna work Columbus.
Then I'm gonna like soccer for guys sakes, we're not
a soccer.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Here we are thirty years later.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yeah, here we are thirty years later, and I'll tell
you what. I developed a lot of respect. I'm still not.
I don't follow the game real well, a lot of
it doesn't make sense. But as the cold, cold, cold
weather and these guys are out there and them shorts
running up and down that field, I think I respect that.
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
I think I think injury.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
When I see that, I'm like, man, you really got
to warm up because you get out there like there
goes a hammy snapping like a shade. You know on
your endurance is pretty impressive. Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Well, we've got we've got a grounds crew that was
voted last year as the top grounds crew in the league.
We have a facility that's one of the best in
the nation. The heat system underneath this field is going
to keep it nice and warm, not completely. It's not
going to feel like Daytona Beach in March, but it
is going to be war credible. As they keep the

(37:23):
earth fertile and the grass growing through the winter months,
they crank up the warm water heating system under the
field and the players will feel a little bit of
that radiant heat. So it's not going to be what
it feels like in Section tomorrow, right right, right, but
it'll be it'll be comfortable enough. And you know, I

(37:45):
know everybody. The guy's talking to the media this week,
Daryl chomping at the bit to get started, and they
love playing in front of twenty thousand fans at lower
dot Com. It just doesn't get any better.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
The cardio, the cardiovascular capacity in any sport is unrivaled
than soccer, because yeah, you got, you know, two hundred
feet in hockey and they're flying around, you got, And
I understand that it's they're not running literally the you know,
for forty five minutes straight, but there is what is it,
seven eight hundred yards.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
The size of a side, at least it looks that
way on TV.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
It's so big, and they're constantly running on being a
little facetious there, Chris, But I mean it's like it's
unrivaled though, right, I mean, the the ability to keep
your wind about you is unrivaled in any other sport
on Earth.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
I would take.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Yeah, we talk about the number of yards or miles
really that these players cover, and your wing midfielders are
going to cover anywhere from between six and nine miles.
There are guys that are going to cover slightly more
than that. I know Dwan Jones who's one of our wingers.
He joined us last year, but he's got targets that
he tries to hit, especially when he starts. We're talking

(38:57):
well in excess of eight miles of coverage during the
course of a game.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Oh sanity, Yes, you know.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
And they're doing it at a full sprint, you know,
for fifty yards, but then they're backing off and then
they're doing another three quarter sprint for sixty five yards.
So it's an awful lot and you know, you're going
to feel like, if you're sitting in the stands tomorrow
that you might be inspired to take a sprint or
two with thirty degree temperatures. But it'll be uh, it'll
be one of the things that the crew has been

(39:26):
very successful with over the last couple of years is
fitness and in training their team to be not just fit,
but continuously healthy into the end of the season, because
when you think about the playoffs arriving in late October,
you have to be peaking at that point. You know,
you can't be training until September and then have your
body sort of taper off in October. You have to

(39:49):
be ready to go yet again for another six weeks
with the playoffs. So you know, our staff has been terrific.
Our coaching staff has been very attentive to players who
can't be one hundred percent at any given time, and
the guys who are fit, they put in a full game.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Also, you think about, in addition to that the games
that you're talking about, the practice that leads to being
able to withstand that kind of you know, beating during
the game. And I was just thinking about this before
we went to the top.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Of the hour.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
I was outside, you know, walked out and was kind
of thinking of stuff, and I go, man, those guys
probably get to consume. Remember Michael Phelps when they showed
those tables of food, the guy was consuming like twelve
thousand calories and it was like something insane. Those guys
probably literally can eat anything that they want, not that

(40:40):
they do, because certainly the type of food you put
in you is the type of fuel you're going to
get out of it. So they're not all having hot
fudge cake every day or whatever. But I just started thinking,
I'm like, man, those guys, if they're running like that,
they they just burned through everything that they eat.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
It's got to be crazy.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
It's got to be like a schedule that they have
to eat eat.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
They may not eat it, but it's probably available down
there with all the other stuff they've got, probably, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
Yeah, well they are. That's one of the things. When
the Ohio Health Performance Center came online in twenty twenty
one at the old side of the Historicer Stadium, they
built onto that entire structure, and in training there you've
also got access to a full dining room and chefs.
Throughout the week, most of the guys eat breakfast and
lunch there. They monitor their diets and they're given diets

(41:26):
from the nutritionist so that they're putting the right fuel
in their bodies. Tomorrow, during halftime, we'll expect that the
players will have access to things like hot teas and
hot soups to fuel themselves at halftime. It won't be
unlike what you have available to you on the concourse,
although there are plenty of other grape dishes that are

(41:46):
available for the supporters to fuel up too. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
I got some of those in front of me right now.
Not the actual food, but I dug up some of
the stuff. Chris and pork dumpling salad is one of
those upstairs. I'm like, oh my lord, Then I see
you know dirty Frank Chicago dog is going to be sold.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Is that a nod to Chicago? Since here in town?

Speaker 2 (42:08):
I would imagine got the sport peppers and then you
know the what is it the type of buns that
they have, the little poppy seed buns and yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
Fully loaded with the peppers and pickles on top of Oh.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, man, it looks so amazing.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Then, like the strawberry cream nachos, I just like, what
like looking at this, it's crazy, all this sample size
of brisket mac and brisket mac bowl, which is like
mac and cheese brisket. It just looks amazing when you
start looking at all the different types of they've kind
of to your point with regard to looks like a

(42:43):
nod to Swinson's even they're having like potato teasers and
the Galley Boy. So it's interesting all the different types
of food you can get there too at lower dot Com.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Yeah, and let's just make sure in case people are
listening in and out, that's not what the players are
reading it right. Shout out to chef John Dishiowani, who
spent some time with me this week and went through
all of those dishes in full display. I looked at
the was it strawberry chips or they're not tortilla chips?

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Yeah, strawberry cream nacho yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
I had to clarify whether or not that was a dessert,
and he said it's absolutely a dessert. And they sample
recipes all through the off season and all through the
years so that they can pinpoint exactly what fans want
make sure they're available around the concourse at lower dot Com.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Yeah, man, it looks it looks very yummy, very very yummy.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Will you partake in that like in your breaks because
you're burning a lot of calories. To Chris, you're by yourself,
you're going at it for well, forty five minutes, but
then it's always longer than that, typically right before you
get to a break.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
Yeah, it's always longer than that. They treat us nicely upstairs,
and I'll have something to eat before I go on
the air, but I won't be eating during the Plenty
of fans take advantage of what's downstairs. The media people.
You guys have all been in press boxes before. There
are a few press folks who enjoyed just showing up
for the buffet. Oh yeah, but they treat us really,

(44:13):
really nicely upstairs.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Very cool.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Man The Crew season opener tomorrow night, seven thirty pm,
Lower dot Comfield versus the Chicago Fire and he's play
by play announcer Chris Dora and Chris thank you so much,
Man for jumping on. I know I just kind of
hit you up earlier today. Glad you were able to
squeeze in some time for us, and we'll do this
periodically throughout the.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Season if you're good with that.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
Man.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
I love when you come on. I remember the last
time year on.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
It was a lot of fun and you're an interesting
guy and you got a lot to say.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
So I love it, man, I love it very much.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
I appreciate it. Blazer Chuck, you guys have a great weekend.
I'll talk to you again soon.

Speaker 5 (44:47):
Thanks brother you Jan big Weather Sports and The Mark
Blazer Show on six ' ten WTVN.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Thanks again to play by play announcer for the Columbus
Crew Chris Dorian for coming on. He's a good dude.
It's a it's an art what he does. If you've
listened to him, do play by play man, he's by
himself for forty five plus minutes. The dude just goes
on and on. And I thought to myself, I wonder

(45:21):
what kind of prep it takes for that, because we
talked for three hours, and you know, I put several
hours in every day before we go on the air
to try to research and do this and do that,
and try to figure out we try to book guests
and so on. I can't imagine you might be going, well,
it's forty five minutes. Yeah, But the thing is he's
by himself, and let's face it, there could literally be

(45:43):
the whole forty five minutes and one goal gets scored,
you know, the thing that would be considered.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
You know, hey, some action.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Yes, finally, No, I mean I can't in hockey at least,
you know, there's it seems like there's always something within
a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Tip. It's not like boring.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
I've never heard him work, but I would like to
just because I associate that loud, vibrant socker thing. Yeah,
he has such a very calm metered voice. I'd like
to hear him more.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
It's very good at what he does, very good cruise.
He's an opener tomorrow night, Lower dot Comfield, Chicago Fire
seven thirty. So very cool, all right. Meteorologist Jennifer Herbert
is joining us. Now, going to be cold for that
game out at Lower dot Comfield outside.

Speaker 6 (46:27):
Woo, it's gonna yeah cold outside, really cold outside. We're
gonna see temperatures drop into i mean the mid twenties
while that game is going on.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
So yeah, bundle up out there.

Speaker 6 (46:40):
Not the warmest day tomorrow, but we do make it
above freezing, so that's something. We should make it into
the mid thirties at least for a couple of hours,
and that starts a warming trend. Sunday we're just a
bit warmer in the upper thirties, and by Monday we
see a bigger jump and temperatures are going to be
closer to fifty. Also going to be dry for the
next several days, dry into the weekend, dry on Monday,

(47:03):
maybe even some peaks of sunshine through the weekend as well.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
All Right, sounds good, Jennifer, Thank you twenty eight right now,
Happy birthday today to Chief Jim Gilbert. Yeah, our buddy
is having a birthday today, and it's easy to remember
his birthday simply because mine was yesterday and then his
is always the day after every year. It never changes.

(47:29):
So happy birthday, Chief Gilbert. I know he listens. He
may or may not be listening right this second, but
happy birthday, brother. And you know what he has lost.
He told me at last point he was on a
he was on a weight losing mission, and I think
he told me he was down like sixty two pounds.

(47:49):
That guy's dropped and he's a big dude, so he's
probably looking pretty swell. He's got to be getting to
his fighting weight. I mean, he's looking pretty spelt. I
bet so. He's a big guy. But Chief Chief Gilbert,
happy birthday to you. And I've known that guy a
long time. He was with Columbus when I first met him,
he was with CPD and and he's he man. He's

(48:12):
Kreme de la krem as far as law enforcement goes.
You know what's also interesting about him what he loves
and I love this about him being the chief. Clearly,
all he has to do is go, you guys, go
over there, and do you guys go over there? You girls,
you ladies, you guys. D He gets out there and
he actually patrols. That's his love.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
He still loves to do that, and he will go.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
He'll get in the mix if something's going on, he'll
he'll join up with his guys and girls and law
enforcement and have at it. It's really cool that he
does that. But but happy birthday, Chief. I'm imagining he
has the day off since it's his birthday. Most likely, Well, dude,
when you've done law enforcement for a million years like him,

(48:56):
I think, and and you you're familiar. You got a
lot of law enforcement friends. They get mad time off,
crazy amounts of time off. A lot of them don't
even take it though. And they're an interesting bunch because
they can take a little bit of time throughout the
year and if they call it quits, they can have
years and years of like time off that they can

(49:17):
just get paid out for it, and it's like insane.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
They get like a huge check.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
I remember that was one of the things my dad
got two weeks of vacation and his birthday off. That
was That was a standard when I was a kid.
I don't know that I've ever had my birthday off.
I don't want to have my birthday off. What better
way to celebrate than doing what you'll love to do.
I would not want to, you know, sit at home,

(49:42):
not doing what I want to do, just waiting till
I get to do what I want to do again.
That's not a way to celebrate.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
I don't if I've excuse me, if I've been off
on my birthday.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
It's always been like.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
It really wasn't a scheduled thing, you know, like I
specifically did that it would be Oh, that was a
great week to be in Vegas. We got some good
prices on some stuff and Jenny's birthdays on the eleventh
of February, and we kind of combine them and we
do go to Vegas pretty much every February and do that,
but this time happened to be we literally were there
on her birthday of the eleventh of Tuesday, and then

(50:18):
of course mine yesterday. We weren't out there for it,
but some years we have been out there, but it's
not really a specific.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Thing that we planned for Sunbury. This is an interesting story.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Sunbury and Pickerington some of the fastest growing cities in
central Ohio. The first thing I thought of was that
I go, all right, you're a real tour You're in realty.
As far as that is, there like a boom there
because the population of Ohio counties is it says, while

(50:47):
most of the Ohio County is shrinking, central Ohio has
been on the upswing in recent years, and Columbus Metropolitan
Area for census purposes, is comprised of Franklin County and
then the surrounding ones Delaware, Fairfield, Hawking, Licking, Madison, Morrow, Perry, Pickaway,
and Union. Many of Ohio's fastest growing cities, which are

(51:10):
incorporated areas with more than five thousand people are on
the edge of the Columbus area. Do you find a
lot of people want to look in those areas?

Speaker 4 (51:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Yes, And then I would think one of the big
things with the way the housing market is even going
right now, because Sunbury in Pickerington I'm sure they have
a lot.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Well, maybe they don't have a lot of inventory, but right.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Now, by and large, there's probably not a lot of
inventory because somebody who's sitting in their house who wants
to sell right now, who has a two seven five
or a three point five rate, is going I can't
sell because I'm going to have to take a lot
less if I'm going to get a sixth rate on
the new house.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Do you find that's the case.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Yeah, it depends on what they want to do, and
depending upon where they want to go. I've got a
couple of builders right now that are soliciting. They are
essentially doing the financing what they call a buy down,
and it puts you four point nine percent on new build.
They want the business, so four point nine if you
want to move to something bigger or a brand new
home or something like that. They are building in those

(52:09):
areas for just that reason, like Sunbury and Bickerington. Yeah,
the houses are more expensive than they were ten years ago.
But then again, four point nine and if the if
you can make this I tell people all day, if
you can make the payment comfortably, that's the biggest consideration
every month, when that payment comes to if you can
do that comfortably, don't worry about your interest rate. You're

(52:31):
writing it off your taxes anyway, it's your primary residence.
Mortgage insurance is still tax deductible. Don't freak out about
what that number is. As long as you can comfortably
make the payment, we'll live the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
They're in lives.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
That's the crux because a lot of people, let's say
they're in a home that is we'll just call it
for round purposes, they have a three percent rate. They
were one of the people because I have a lower
rate than that myself, and like they're in a three
percent rate. They're in a four hundred house or three
point fifty house, and then they have that rate, well,
they can't get the same house, especially if it's already

(53:05):
existing for probably less than six or six and a half.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
That drives the payment.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
What and as far as so kind of to your
point with the comfortabil like being comfortable with that payment,
they can't and they're getting a lot less house.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Some people will go, all right, you know what, I
know that the interest.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Rates are going to go back down, I'll bite the
bullet and maybe they do a new build at four
point nine, and they're going, well, we got this guy
in office. We got hopefully he'll be controlling what the
Fed's doing. We'll get the rate down and I'll just
refine twelve months or eighteen months or whatever, and I'll
get it now. Knowing that, you know, because the inventory
might be there for new builds where you go.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Well, you check in eighteen months, that neighborhood may be full.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
It very well could be. And we're seeing more established homes,
older homes coming on the market. People are getting even
though the rates are not as low as they want,
they are at least stable. Now we're not hearing it's up,
it's up, it's up, it's already. So that's helping to
get inventory a little higher, which is good. And you know, ultimately,
what the government can't do anything, we the people are

(54:06):
going to do. We're either gonna be inspired and we're
gonna take some chances, or we're not those people that
have You know, I've got three and a half percent
our way. You bought your house for two hundred, you
can sell it today for four hundred. That three and
a half. If you can go take that money put
it into the next house, you might end up financing
less money on the next house because you got such

(54:27):
a nice down payment for what you're selling that the
higher interest rate still doesn't give you a higher payment.
You got to look at all, put the whole thing
in there and mix it up and see what you got.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
I mean, that's something that yeah, not a lot of
people will probably process. But that's interesting. I hadn't thought
about it that way. Hey, don welcome to the show.
You got a funny birthday story, do you?

Speaker 7 (54:47):
Yes, you were talking at birthdays. You remind me I
was in the Navy and we were coming home I
believe this Westpac and we crossed the Internagra dateline.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
We skipped the whole day. It was my birthday. You're like, hey,
that's not fair. So did you count that year and
you just stayed the same age.

Speaker 7 (55:09):
No, it was a fun thing.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
We all laughed at.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Man, that's funny, like that short song around happy never mind.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
That's great, man, that's great, DoD Thanks brother, that's a
funny story.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
That's hilarious. You're like, I'm not, I'm not. I'm not
taking the year.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Then if I don't get to celebrate, I'm staying the
same age.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
I'm staying the same.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
I wanted one of the girls, salesgirls that works here back.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
It was in the kitchen yesterday. She goes, is he
your Blazer's your birthday today?

Speaker 2 (55:40):
She saw it on Facebook, right, and I go, yes,
I just turned fifty six. She thought, I said sixty six,
and she goes.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
You're sixty six.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
You look amazing for I go, no, fifty six, and
she goes, oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
And I'm like, waiting on, well you still look good.
You'd say nothing. I'm like, hey, come on.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Don't know. Hey, how old are you now? I'd be like,
seventy seven. You always got just a mess. And I'm
completely straight faced with it. Wow, you look great for
seventy seven. Good. You keep thinking that, you go think