The Blazor Show Monday 03/17/2025

News, Politics, Sports

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hey, Zach.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Wow Wow.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
She didn't wow wow. At the beginning, he just throws
everything off time for the Blazer showing six Dad and
I'm chundunas Mark. We'll be back with you tomorrow. I
think he's in travel mode today, coming home mode, getting
back mode, going to sleep mode, getting some rest mode,
and waking up mode, and coming to work mode. So
that's how you go on vacation in blazer Land.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
I got weird stuff in front of me today that
I and I gotta start with this because not only
was the story just just repulsive, but it was also
drawing me in at the same time. And then I
found myself getting upset about the way it was covered.
I speak of this this thing. It's making the rounds
now New York City man caught in viral video calmly

(00:51):
eating raw dead rat busy sidewalk broad daylight. This is
how zombie movies start. The story headline continues in this
is from the media Ie webbed page. Here. Look, they've
got a guy here. He's sitting down on a stoop
and uh and the rats the rats there, and he
picked it up and started eating it. And at first

(01:13):
I'm thinking, oh my gosh, there's no I just I
know I could never. I don't think I could be
that hungry to where I could just pick up a rat,
a rodent off the sidewalk and just bite it. No,
And then and then I read the comments and stuff,
and I'm thinking, all these people, you're all sick, you're
all worried about getting yourself out of the bronx, and

(01:34):
not worried about this guy right here. And then bing
ming bing went off into my head. Why is nobody
asking about the guy? Who is this guy? Is he
a homeless vet, is he a mentally ill vet? Why
is he on the street eating a rat? Did that
occur to you at all? Zach when you were reading
over this, I mean, did you care who this guy was?
Or were you just so repulsed by the fact he

(01:55):
was eating a rat that you didn't care?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Now what bothered I don't know if it bothered me.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
The idea of.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Is this guy, like, why did nobody go up and
say anything to him? And then I'm like, if I
was there, I don't know if I would either, because
he could have severe mental problems. You don't know, so
I don't know what to do it not situation.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, that's what I'm saying. We don't know his story
at all. And if he is so twisted that he's
doing that, it's a pretty good bet he does not
belong out on the in the streets with people. And
if he's so desperate that he's doing that, man suggests
somebody buy him a sandwich. This is just nuts. I'm
so I can't. I cannot. This is twenty twenty five

(02:35):
in the United States of America. I cannot believe that
I watched this guy do this today. This I've never
seen anybody do that.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I've seen people. I've seen people get you know, food
out of dumpsters and things like that where a lot
of times, and I guess the stores and the restaurants
and stuff patrol it more now because the government. The
government has rules, and so that's why you got those
rescue operations that go in and rescue food because they
don't care about getting arrested. But I guess the government,
into these boards of health and so forth, started saying, well,

(03:06):
you can't throw it out, or you can't give it
to people. You can't give it away, you have to
throw it out, and so people will go in the
dumpsters and get the food that you know, it expired
that day on the shelf at the grocery store. At
the grocery store, I had to throw it out. Or
the restaurant made too much and couldn't serve it all
and they had to throw it out. And so these

(03:27):
organizations and some individuals would go to the dumpsters at
these places and get the food out, and many times
it was still like wrapped in the area. But hey,
they were desperate, they needed food. I can see people
being desperate to the point of doing stuff like that.
That's that's believable. That's uh, that's understandable. If you have
to do that, if you've got to put something in
your body, I get that. But picking up a rat

(03:49):
off the street, no, no, am I overreacting? I may be.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
No.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
He bites into it and the blood and stuff gets
on his hands and then he just walks into a
turnstyle and then that's it. Then the next person touches it,
they touch their nose, and then they blow their their boom.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
The only bad things can come of this, right.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
There's no there's no good out outlook in this situation.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
I can't and I can't believe that you know, media
has covered this and and the story is uh, the
story's all over the place that I have yet to
see anybody say this. You know, this guy is a
uh he suffered brain damage in Iraq and uh and
it's homeless and so forth. Somebody, somebody needs to find
out who this guy is and uh and do something
to help.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
He doesn't look like an older guy.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
He really does it. Yeah, it's hard to tell in
this video, but he he moves, He's built like someone
who's probably around forty ish. But I just I don't know.
I just I know people always stand back and go
somebody out to do something. Well, really, somebody had to
do something. I'm not in the bronx. Or I would
buy him a sandwich and maybe give him a gift

(04:58):
card for some additional sandwich so he does not have
to eat rodents anymore. That's just that's show that is unbelievable.
And then when I see stuff like that and I
realize that we pay farmers not to grow crops, that
just infuriates me. The government will actually pay for it.
Don't grow crops. Don't or they'll go in and kill

(05:20):
one hundred and sixty million chickens then we can complain
about the price of eggs and all this kind of stuff. This, this, uh, this,
this is just nuts that somebody ate a rat in
New York, New York, New York. This is everything you
could possibly want on oif is available to you in
New York City, including non rat food.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
There's got to be food banks, you know what I mean,
there's New York City. It's it's got it. There's got
to be.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Souper kitchens missions, There's got to be somewhere where this
guy could go get some food. But nobody in their
coverage has said, here's who he is, and here's why this,
here's why this situation exists. And that's kind of bothering
me because that means we are so turned off to
the to the real nature of our fellow man that

(06:12):
we're only looking for the spectacular, the stuff that's going
to get people to click. We don't care about the suffering.
It's who was that I saw? Was it Jim Carrey?
It might have been Jim Carrey that I saw something
from over the weekend that I rarely like anything he
has to say unless he's being funny, but he's It

(06:34):
was something about if you're going to take food two
hungry people. Don't do it with a sandwich in one
hand and a camera in another. And he's right, he's don't.
Don't go out there to you know, glorify Look what
I'm doing. I'm so wonderful, I'm so marvelous. Just do it. Man.
If you're on my Facebook page, you will see me

(06:55):
posting on Fridays, usually for the free food Fridays down
there Crossroads Church in Franklinton. Need food, get food, I
don't care who. You don't have to respond to it.
You don't have to say I'm on my way to
get not to just go. They've got it, you need it,
go get it. That's what it's supposed to be like.

(07:17):
When you are helping your fellow man, and you are
supposed to help your fellow man, not turn them into
a viral news story so people can can joke and
make fun and say this was all the zombie thing began.
That's heartless, and I hate to see us becoming so heartless.
But we are some little old lady getting beat up

(07:37):
on a street corner. Instead of jumping in and helping her,
what do you do? Take out your phone and record it?
So you can put it on TikTok. How many times
have you seen that? Or some kid in school getting
the tar beat out of them by twenty other kids.
And instead of anybody jumping in and doing anything or
at the very least going to get a security guard

(07:58):
or the principal or something, they whip out their phones
and they start recording traffic accident, body in the street.
What do you do? Do you do? You do you
put your hand over your heart and say a little
prayer for the disease. No, you take out your phone
and start recording what is wrong with us? What is
wrong with us? Man that we have? We're just We're twisted.
We are freaks, absolute freaks. And that's I just. Oh

(08:25):
sometimes you people make me sad or maybe that's just me.
A two one ninety eighty six the number, by the way,
A two one double UTV AT or eight hundred six
to ten double UTV. And if I like your fuse,
you want to jump in, feel free, That's what I'm
here for. Also, if you have that audio standing by,
I must come and see they made fun of her.
Caroline Levitt, the uh the White House spokesperson media spokesperson

(08:48):
in the holds press car. She's the new KJP. She
hasn't circled back like Jinsaki. Her answers actually make sense
unlike KJP. And and she's she'll dive right in. And
Peter Doocey, who used to give a KJP all kinds
of grief, he kind of set this up. He pitched
her a ball today that was a pretty easy swing

(09:09):
and hit where I guess somebody, some uh, some not
very prominent politician in France has alluded to France taking
back the Statue of Liberty. You know, that was a
gift from France, but alluded to France and asked, you think, uh,

(09:29):
you know, President Trump would would uh would entertain the
idea of returning the Statue of Liberty. I just this
was a classic answer. Good for her.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
Is President Trump going to send the Statute of Liberty
back to France?

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
And my advice to that unnamed, low level French politician
would be to remind them that it's only because of
the United States of America that the French are not
speaking German.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Right now, boom, sam Zali Amen. And she's right, you know,
for twenty seven years old, she is not afraid to
get right up, yeah, right up into it. People called
into question her ability because of being relatively young, but
she has handled herself so very well. And what she

(10:16):
said there again, nothing but truth, Nothing but truth. Hitler
and the Nazis would have overrun France and they would
be speaking German had the United States not become involved
in World War two and bail their butts out. It's
not even like we wanted to get involved. Remember, we

(10:37):
were standing around minding our own international business. Think about
what we were gonna put on the grill that night.
We had nothing to do with that was over there.
We were watching and we're going, Yah, it's a good thing.
It's over here, over there. Don't want that crazy stuff
over here. Then one beautiful morning, the Japanese decided, Hey,

(11:01):
let's invite a man. We weren't in it until we
were brought into it, and the French should be very
happy that we were brought into it. Now they can
still be French, still keep their noses in the air,
have their fancy wine, their rich sauces, and go ah
at everything that's said to him because of us. You're
welcome A twine eight eight six A two y WTV

(11:21):
and Chris, you're on the Legacy Retirement group dot com
flo line.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Hy Hey, Chuck, how are you?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I am? Okay? At least that's what they tell me.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Well, I'll tell you France. Have you ever seen the
gun laws in France or in Paris?

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I have not looked at their laws.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
No, you basically no one can own a gun in Paris.
You have you if you looked at their laws, only
the politicians who the government has issued permits for can
actually own and carry a gun in France. It is
that should scare everybody.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Now, now you're saying own period, not people who necessarily
want to carry a weapon. But you can't even have
ownership of a gun.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
You're not allowed to own a gun. You have to
petition the French government and then the only issue permits
to own a firearm or you know, carry a gun.
They limit it to fifty rounds and it's just basically
for elected officials.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Look it up. Wow, you would think, honestly, you would
think that after going through what they went through in
their history, they might want their citizens armed and prepared.
I mean, hey, you know, look at what's going on
in Ukraine. Maybe things that have been a little bit different.
Have the people of Ukraine been a little more prepared

(12:45):
to fight instead of waiting to be armed to fight?

Speaker 7 (12:49):
Well?

Speaker 5 (12:49):
Hang on, now, I love the French people. I mean
that's what I've visited there. And the French people I
call them the French deplorables. Really, I mean they are
lovely people, but their government is just it's it's it's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
What do you know, Yeah, well, I guess that explains
why I haven't been to France. I would I took
five years of French in high school. It would have
been nice to go and actually use it. But uh, yeah,
I don't know that. I feel real secure anywhere in
Europe right now. I got a roll, man. I appreciate
the call, Chris, thanks very much. Six ten WTV dot com.
We are at three thirty seven. Check Douglas and from

(13:25):
Mark Blazer. He'll be back with you tomorrow. I've been
everybody lately. Man. I was Mike doing Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
during the morning show last week, and it's still me
in the evening after a Blazer show and then and
then I'm Blazer today and I'm just I'm schizophrenic on
the radio, is what I.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Meant you did you did a Saturday show, you did
Coast to Coast A, Yeah did?

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I I don't even remember doing those things.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah Friday.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh my gosh. And I tell you over this weekend,
I social media is getting more and more on my nerves.
I'll explain that to you in the next hour. But
I I love you, guys, I love I love you.
I do, I seriously do. But and you know where
that's going. Also, there is a Democrat in town, and
I've been, uh, I've been very open to them, very

(14:08):
supportive of them, giving them encouragement and accolades where they
were due. And and honestly, from a social media perspective,
they kind of disappointed me today because they're they were
posting on their page encouraging people to get on out
there to the the the Democratic Socialist of America meeting
this weekend. Okay, see that you're jumping the shark. You

(14:31):
just you lost me right there. Man. Why you want
to be a Democrat? Be a Democrat? But now the
Democratic Socialist of America you're encouraging. That's that's a little
that's a little too far. I'm afraid I can't Yeah,
I can't stomach that one. I am sorry. There's a
limit to everything. That is my limit. But if you

(14:54):
want to go on down, Zach, because you already look
like a socialist going down. You got the facial here
about people, you don't I care about I care about people,
and now you don't. Yes I do? We care because
why you have facial hair. Yes, we have facial hair.
Therefore we care.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Is that your slogan, more facial hair, the more I care.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Little sasquatch logan the son of a good your ABC
six First Warning weather meteorologist Sarah Conversus standing by, uh,
this is one of those good news bad news to
deal with it because it's not yet spring tight forecast
hair Well, I.

Speaker 8 (15:30):
Mean officially, we're gonna get into spring on Thursday today. Yes,
it is a bit chilly out there, but we are
warming things up as we head into the next couple
of days. So tonight we're gonna fall into the mid thirties,
clear skies, more sunshine on top. Tomorrow Tuesday highs will
be in the upper sixties, right around sixty eight for
Columbus and then seventies on Wednesday, but clouds will be

(15:51):
increasing as our next weather maker moves in rain showers
will be likely by the time we get into Thursday morning,
which is the official start of spring, though temperatures are
going to take a bit of a tumble. They'll be
in the upper forties for the highs, and then we'll
be more seasonable as we head into Friday and for
the weekend.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Now, what time does spring actually start? Is it like
one oh seven am or something like that? Again, something
goofy like that.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Usually it's always like around two ish.

Speaker 8 (16:17):
But let actually I should have chucked this out.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh no, actually it is that five oh one, all right,
So that's the least reasonable I might get up and
do something. Back when the first time I noticed this
ninety one maybe ninety two, I was doing overnight radio.
I was doing a late night request show, and so
that was the big thing that night. We all, I
had everybody who's listening, let's put an egg on its
tip and get it to stand up, because you're supposed

(16:40):
to be able to do that. And then I've been
told over the years, yeah, you can do that pretty
much anytime if you know how to balance an egg.
So now I felt really stupid because I was like,
this is a big deal, man, This was a big deal.
I had people calling up and requesting songs and they
I'd play their song if they could tell me that
they balanced an egg and without lying. And yeah, it
was a whole night. We made a big deal of it.

(17:02):
Oh lord, I'm not getting up if I get up
at five o'clock to do anything of the eggs, it's
to fry.

Speaker 8 (17:06):
And well it's going to be wet too as well,
so that's when the rain's going to be moving in
in the morning hours. So it's going to be a
bit of a gloomy start to the rushill start a spring.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
We're having a toast balancing contest tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
So shut up toasting contest. We'll talk to you about
an hour Sarah, thanks very much. We are at forty
six right now at your severe weather station, news radio
six ten, doble g TV. And that's crazy. You can't
balance toast. Well, if you get that sandwich bread, you
might be able to the guy that doesn't have the
little thing at the top. It's a perfect square loaf.
Have you ever got that before?

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yeah, I know what you're talking.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
I like that bread. Actually there's not a lot of
crust wasted, and it's a uniform square as opposed to
I don't know what that little I guess it's because
you know, the puffiness over the edge of the bread
thing when they bake the bread, So that's why you've
got that rounded part on.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
The heel of it.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
No, I mean like at the top of the piece
of bread. You know it's it's kind of mushroom up there.
It's because the bread comes out over the bread thing
when it's being baked. So I don't know how they
break the bake the sandwich bread to keep it completely square,
but it works. I like it a lot. On the
other hand, I'd never eat a square watermelon. Have you
seen those? Not happening? They can find the watermelon when

(18:22):
it's it's growing so that it grows square as opposed
that way, they can stack them easier for shipment at
the store. Okay, it's a thing, it really is. Square
watermelon is a thing.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
I've never seen it they make. Should they should just
do that with apples and everything?

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Or rats? In New York if you if might be
easyater stack them. I'm just saying rats, yuck. Im Still,
I've tried to get away from that story, but I
cannot get it out of my head, it's gonna stay
there all day and uh um yuck picked up the

(18:58):
rat off the side walk eight two one nine and
eight six e two one WTV. And what did I
say I want to tell you about when I got
back school bus? Oh? Yes, the school but thank you
very much. I appreciate this again. Let me stress, no
children on board. Okay, Columbus City school bus two seventy

(19:18):
Monday morning driver and the driver's aid were the only
two people on the bus at the time. One of
them was taken to Saint Anne's Hospital. Was listed as
being in stable condition. Not clear what caused the bus
to flip on its side. No other details immediately available.
That's the WSYX six website report. If if no other

(19:41):
no students were on the bus. You see so very often,
I am, and this is just an observation, So very
often when something goes wrong with the school bus, the
first thing you hear is, well, it's so chaotic, all
the children are misbehaving and screaming, and there were no
students on the bus. I will wait anxiously to see
what this is blamed on, because we all know, you know,

(20:04):
school bus would never be speeding, never be recklessly operated.
I want to know what they're going to blame this on.
There were no students on the bus. I also, I
was kind of Usually they tell you like it happened
around seven oh two am. There's no time in this story,

(20:26):
so I don't know if it was, you know, on
its way to pick up kids, or had finished picking
up kids for the day, or what the deal was.
But when when stories are are left open like that
on so many levels, and it always makes me think, Okay, there's, uh,
there's something going on.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
I found on another it was red. No kids were
on the bus. It crashed just before nine am.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
No injuries, just before, so it would have dropped off
all of the children at that hole at that time. Yeah,
I guess. So then what headed back to seventeenth Avenue
to drop the bus off? Is that where they still
keep them?

Speaker 3 (21:05):
I don't know the beer Okay, the bus veered off
the right side of the road and fell on its side.
On I to seventy south, just past Moore's Road.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Hang on out two seventy south just past more. See.
I need to picture this because that's very complicated up there.
I want to see in my head where that was. Oh, yeah,
I have no idea. I was just reading it.

Speaker 9 (21:31):
Well.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
I mean, I'm just I wanted to anything past Hilliard.
I'm lost, gone towards Columbus. I have nothing really, Yes,
I have to use my GPS forever.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
That's see. When I first started driving, those one of
the things I did. I would drive around until I
got lost and then find my way back.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
But that was fun if you were a kid doing that.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
It's how I learned my way around. I can get anywhere.
I don't need a GPS. I can get anywhere in
central Ohio without the aid of a GPS because that,
of course, gasoline wasn't wasn't as much of a consideration
price wise back then, but it, you know, still from
a kid's pocket, even eighty nine cents a gallon. If

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you were out there driving all the time the way
I was, that could run into some multiple digits. But
I can't get lost. And then in working when I
was sixteen, this is so cooled, Okay, back when they
still had paper boys, I'm reminiscent you got any reminiscent
harmonica music or something there? Back when they still had
paper boys, kids that delivered the newspapers. I was one

(22:31):
of them during the late mid to eight seventies, and
actually got a recognition in the paper for being one
of the few carriers to complete my route during the
blizzard of seventy eight. But when I was young like that,

(22:54):
relatively fearless, I didn't care. I wasn't scared of it.
But when I turned sixteen, I was still carrying newspapers.
In fact, I had I think I was carrying four
routes at that time. And my district manager, Bill shows
up at the house, and he was like a little Colombo.
That's Bill. He would always put his hand up on

(23:15):
his head when he tells you, you know, excuse me, Chucky.
You know you're gonna turn sixteen years old, Yessterdasia birthday, right, yeah, Bill?
And I'm thinking I'm about to get fired for my birthday.
And he said, tomorrow, here's what I want you to do.
After school. You go down to thirty four South third Street.

(23:36):
You go up on the fourth floor. You ask for
this guy right here. You tell him I sense you
you've got a job in the circulation office. I'm like wow,
because I bothered to be a paper boy when I
was actually eleven, But I was a big eleven you
were supposed to be twelve for eleven to sixteen. My
first job was working at the dispatch in the circulation

(23:56):
office at sixteen, and I knew every zip code in
central Ohio because working in that office you had to.
So I knew my way around on the ground because
of driving, and I knew my way U you know,
as far as zip codes and stuff went because of
working at that job. It was pretty cool. And I

(24:17):
just always held onto that because it comes in handy.
Somebody says, you know I live in UH, I live
in four three two two eight, Well you know where
they is? Yeah, just automatically you know where it is.
And it's a nice way to not need GPS and
all that crap to UH to get you around. Jerry
standing by here on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
phone lines you could be too A two one nine

(24:37):
eight eighty six eight two one double UTVN or eight
hundred and sixty ten WTV and Jerry, what's up?

Speaker 7 (24:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Did you hear that bus was on two seventy at
Morris just south of Morris, that would be Easton, right
by Easton.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, that's what that's what Zach. But I I just
I need to see it in my head to figure
out if it was is Was it a merging situation?
Was it because it's emerging there as stupid? The way
people drive? Were they on or off of a ramp?
Was it a curve? I just it's hard for me
to think of anywhere up there that would justify a
bus flipping over on the side of the road. It
just it's not come into my mind immediately. Why that

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would have happened?

Speaker 7 (25:16):
Quiz where is four?

Speaker 1 (25:19):
One two five would be growpored, wouldn't it?

Speaker 7 (25:22):
You got it?

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, good job, Thank you very much, Jeri. I appreciate that.
I'm telling you. One two five is grow for it?
One two three is Grove City? One four seven is
uh what? Uh uh? What do you call it?

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Oh my gosh, stop chick?

Speaker 1 (25:37):
One four seven No, I stopped myself, Oh my god,
I Grove City, orient Mine. I saw it in my head.
I just couldn't say it out loud. Who doesn't know, Well,
you're not supposed to say orient anymore, are you. Well?
Isn't that racist?

Speaker 3 (25:53):
I don't think that applies to this.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Why orient and that comes from oriental and oriental is bad.
You're not supposed to say Oriental anymore, although I saw
a restaurant the other day that said Oriental on the front.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Is Oriented Town or is it just like Oriented Town?

Speaker 1 (26:07):
It's just south south of Grove City. It's a nice
little area orient in Harrisburg. We've got a lot of
really charming central Ohio communities that are, you know, relatively
unknown to a lot of people. But I love going
down especially I don't know, just driving down sixty two
and I would go down to Courthouse a lot and

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taking that cut off and heading heading toward Courthouse after
driving down sixty two was just a pleasurable experience. And
all the little burgs and so forth along the way.
I love small town America. I love small town Ohio,
and when the weather is nice, I love nothing more.
Somebody wants me to come show them a house that's,

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you know, one hundred miles away, as long as they're
going to buy something eventually, I don't mind, because it's
probably some area that I have not visited yet, don't
know anything about, and I'd love to stop in a
local diner and have lunch and see what it's all about.
You have to experience. Wasn't that used to be a slogan.
Wasn't it an experience? Ohio? I love my home state.

(27:15):
I like getting around it to show Furrow week Chuck
Douglass and it's warm, Blazer's good afternoons. You. I hope
you're enjoying this gorgeous day. It is gorgeous. I don't
care where the te material is still good to look
at forty seven right now, George, severe weather state you.
But for me, a sunshine and spring is all the
way officially that you know. We're already and what they

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call the meteorological spring, which is basically the second quarter
of the year, but we will be in actual spring
come once you say five oh one. I think it
is Thursday morning, which means another few weeks before we
can plant anything. I think most people still use the
overall of waiting until Mother's Day this year, I don't know,

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because we're getting so many warm temperatures so early. I think,
you know, folks may jump the gun and end up
wasting money on stuff that gets frosted on and dies
the week afore they plan it. I hate to see
that happen, but I've done it myself. A two one
nine eighty six my number eight two one WTV, and
they've been hanging on since before the break. So let's
get airing in here. You're on six to ten.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
WTV in Hey, Chuck, what's going on? Man? I just
wanted to chime in a little bit about them paper
out there. I'll tell you that's something that today's kids
will just never be able to experience. It. It's a
shame because delivering papers, man, when we were kids, it
was I thought it was cool because well because of

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the money, mostly because everybody knew that you were at
least making some money, especially the girls.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
I don't know if I worried about all that. I
just I liked being able to take care of myself.
I'd go to the store and buy whatever clothes I wanted,
didn't have to ask my dad to find a way to,
you know, buy stuff. It just I I like that
feeling of contributing to my own my own keep.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
If you will, well, I'll tell you I really miss
reading a paper that doesn't smell like rubber band, because
that that had a particular smell that I kind of
grew to enjoy. Yeah, my parents were in the military,
and I moved all over the country my whole life
but one of the things that my dad would always
make sure of when we landed somewhere was that I

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had usually a paper out. Sometimes sometimes it'd be other
things like mowing people's lungs and stuff like that. But
he always made sure I had something to do and
somewhere to be, because you know, that's just how he
raised me.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Well, I did that. Afterwards I delivered the paper. Was
an afternoon paper, So I delivered the paper, and then
I'd go back and cut lawns for especially the older
folks on my route that couldn't do it themselves. So
I had two income streams for the same piece of work.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Well, and then what I was going to ask you
was did you have to collect?

Speaker 7 (29:47):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, every two weeks.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what I remember. I had
this one customer that would always I would go to
collect from her and she would never answer a door.
So my mom would always say, well, I see in
the grocery store every Saturday. Just go to the grocery
store with me. From so from then on, from like
the next I don't know the next uh what was

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it every quarter you had to collect? So I'd say
about the next two years, about six different times. That's
where I would get her money from her was at
the grocery store, because you know, you go to the
grocery store on Saturday, a lot of people would cash,
would write a check for twenty dollars or whatever over
what their grocery bill was, so they'd have a little cash.

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And that was how I got that lady's money was
at the grocery store. Sometimes I'd sneak up on her
in an aisle. I'd say, hey, hey, Mary, and you
got my I think, man, I do? I think it
was like two ninety five or something like that. That was
my money, my money that she was keeping.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yep, those were the days and air and the worst
part about the losing paper routes. As we keep taking
way more and more legitimate ways for young people to
make money, we keep coming up with more and more
things for young people to spend money on. And that's
that creates a society that is I are dependent on
parents that can't provide it, or turns the kids to
doing things that they shouldn't be doing in order to

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make money in order to get the stuff they want,
because there's no legitimate way for them to go out
there and do it now, which.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Is exactly why my parents. I mean, we would move
and she would My mom would always make sure my
bike was the last thing on the truck, first thing off.
So when we got to the new neighborhood, that's what
she would do. She would say, just go this way
until you get lost.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Good for her.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Get lost and you can't find your way home, just
go to somebody's house. Because it was always on a
military base, so it was fairly safe. She'd just say,
just knock on somebody's door until they let you use
your phone, and here's our phone number.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
See well, my mom would have said, go go that
way till you get lost, and then go farther till
you get lost some more so different different mobs here.
I got a right buddy. Thanks for the call, ATOI
nine at eighty six ATYWTV and Jim the Legacy Retirement
Group dot com phone line.

Speaker 10 (32:01):
Ty Hi Chuck, how are you.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Doing, Spizer? How are you good?

Speaker 10 (32:06):
I just wanted to fill you in a couple pieces
of information. One thing you were questioning about the school
bus is slipped over. Yeah, you were wondering if you
might have been going to the school bus barn up
on seventeenth and I seventy one that's been closed down.
That's another building.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Now, yeah, where are they keeping the buses down?

Speaker 10 (32:20):
They got two locations that I know of, and the
one it was right there by the accident. One of
them is at Morris Road and the two seventy North
entrance ramp. If you going north from on two seventy
from Morris Road, you look off to the right side
just as you're going up the entrance ramp. There's a
huge parking lot down there full of school buses, and
he might have been going to or from that location

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the accident happened. Because the other one is down in
the south end off of Freebus Avenue between Freebus and
Moler just east of or west of the railroad tracks.
They're off of Allenkirk Drive with parallels railroad tracks. It's
the old Shottenstein's furniture warehouse that they tore down.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
All right, Well, I hope they owned that property and
didn't go out and acquire the property to do this,
considering the dire streets they seemed to be in with
money all the time.

Speaker 10 (33:09):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know what, but those are the
two locations I know where they got the school buses
parked that they're currently all right.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
I appreciate it, Jim, go get your Hello Moto there
before it goes crazy on you remember when that commercial
first started and on Mata, none of us knew what
that was. We're all like, why do they keep doing it?
And it turned out to be for cell phones? Good
marketing because you can't forget it A two one nine
eight six eight two one UTV and gym number two.
You're on sixth NA.

Speaker 11 (33:35):
UTVN Hello, good afternoon, Hello Jim. I actually went by
that bus accident earlier today, so I might be able
to shed a little bit of light on what could
have possibly happened. I don't know if you're familiar. Were
two seventies going south by Morris Road. We actually have

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free center express lanes branch off from the three far
west lanes and this was past the Morse Road bridges
and this bus had to be in the center lanes
went off the right side of the road. I did
not see it happen, but there's a big gully, so
it probably went down on that gully and up the

(34:18):
other side. When it hit that hill, it flipped over
on its left side when I went by there shortly
after nine am this morning. The first responders there were
only police and State Highway patrol. But that was the
first thing I noticed that there were no children on
the bus. How it went off the side of the road,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Well, I'm guessing now that I hear that they've got
a parking lodge up there for the buses. If that
was before the before the Morse Road exit, I'm just
I'm just guessing here. But the bus was left, needed
to get right, tried to transition those lanes and unfortunately
didn't do it well and ended up flipping into the

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median there the ditch.

Speaker 11 (35:01):
Well, this would have been pasted the exits, and then
he was in the center lanes, so the accent for
Morris Road would have been at least a half mile
before where he went off side.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Okay, so you saw it pasted it all right, Well,
we'll just have to wait to get the full accounting. Jim,
appreciate you, Thank you very much for calling with that.
I don't I don't know till they they say the
story is very sparse so far, which is I said
in the beginning. Always leads me to go hmmm, hmmm,
a lot of paper boys out there. You weren't a
paper boy where he's at.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
There's not really where I grew up a place.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
They didn't have people that could read papers. Is that
what you're gonna say?

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Got our first dental office. And I was a senior
in high school too. Really, No, I'm kidding. There was
no place to put to be a paper boy where
I lived.

Speaker 7 (35:48):
Why.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
There was two roads in the neighborhood where I lived, Yeah,
and those were already taken, like there was no way.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
But even Opie and Johnny Paul had paper routes. I'm
a lawns to be honest, and now you fix them
machinery yep A two eight six a two y W
t V and Robbie on paper routes, you're on six
ten WTV.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
At high Yes, I had a paper route on the
west side and every week, every Saturday, when I would collect,
I would have to go to these one people's house.
There was two elderly ladies there and they would invite
me up to eat pudding. And I'd go up there
to eat their pudding. And it was horrible pudding, but
I would act like I liked it, and I would

(36:27):
eat it every time and then I would leave, So
I just thought I would toss that in there.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
That's nasty. What what was it a dispatch or a
journal route?

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Well, it was a dispatch on the town Street by
old by Mountcarmer West, the old Mount Carmer West, Okay
Town Street, Davis Avenue, Solder Avenue.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
All that back to see back then, I was a
dispatch carrier too, and we used to make fun of
the journal kids, like, yeah, well we deliver real papers
because we have some weight to ours. That The journal
was always like thirty four pages.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
And you remember the shove.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Oh yeah on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Sunday you'd have to get up Sunday and put three
different sections together. And I mean it was like three
thousand pounds on your back as you went out. Oh
my gosh. Yes, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
During the week I could use my bike, but I'm
on Sundays I'd use a wagon.

Speaker 7 (37:14):
Then.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah. Well but hey, it made us better people when
we grew up. We had we had some responsibility about us,
and I think kids could use that again today.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yeah, thanks a lot.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
All right, I appreciate you. Thanks for the call. A
two one nine and eighty six A two one WTV
and it's just one of those. My grandson went to
went with some people this weekend and he wanted to
take some money to buy lunch. And he it was
his own money. I mean, he went out raking some
leaves last weekend made himself thirty dollars. But here's the thing.

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He took the ten instead of taking the twenty because
he was worried that if he took the twenty and
he used that to pay for lunch, he might not
get the right change back. Now, it was at his
age that I was delivering newspapers and that's one of
the first things my dad did with me. He said,
here's how you count back change. Here's how we didn't.

(38:09):
You didn't go to the restaurant and they pushed the
button with the picture of the burger you wanted. They actually,
you know, had to put in numbers and stuff, and
kids can't do that today, and I think that is
to their detriment. Learning those basic skills. When you're eleven
years old, you shouldn't have to worry about whether or
not the person giving back the change will give you
the right change. You should know how to count your change,

(38:31):
and that uh, there's no practical reason for them to
learn because everything is all, you know, computerized and push buttoned.
Makes me kind of sad, it really does. A two
one nine eight eighty six A two one WTV and John,
were you a carry or two?

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Okay, Judd, tell me something about it? I guess not. Okay,
so Jo.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Anybody missed that out there? John was a carrier.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
That's one of the strangest.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yes, okay, Well, he just wanted to tell you.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
I guess. I guess. I came across a piece of
entertainment today that I enjoyed, and I feel guilty. Actually,
I feel kind of dirty for enjoying it. I'm going
to share that with you here in just a couple
of minutes. When you hear it, you will understand why
I feel dirty for I mean, it's not dirty, but
I I You'll get it, Oh, it's dirty.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
Recruiter news, traffic, weather scores, and the Mark Blazer Show
of sixteen.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
My cord is all tangled up. Help great age checked
down to sit for plays in this afternoon six ten
double u TV and the number eight two one nine
eight eighty six A two one double UTV and I'm I'm,
I'm hideously embarrassed that I'm enjoying this piece of entertainment
so much. It's coming up in just a moment. First though,
I got into your your ABC six first Warning weather
meteorites Sarah convers is standing by Sarah. When you get

(40:08):
down with the weather here, I'll keep your headphones on
so you can hear what is Harry's hideously embarrassing to me.
You'll get a chance to laugh at me for once.
Don't do it, because I know people do that.

Speaker 8 (40:19):
Well, I might have a little bit of time, but
our show's going to be coming up here at five,
so you.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Don't need that much time to laugh after For bitness sake,
why do I even like you? Oh my gosh.

Speaker 8 (40:31):
Oh well, at least I have some decent news for you,
since you love the warmer air.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
We are going to see some warmer.

Speaker 8 (40:39):
Temperatures on the way, since today was a little bit
chilly outside, but we had lots of sun and we'll
hang on to that sun before that sun sets tonight,
clear skies. Temperatures will be in the mid thirties. Tomorrow,
We're going to warm up in the afternoon in the
upper sixties. More sunshine. Clouds roll in on Wednesday, but
temperature is very pleasant, will warm up into the seventies.

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The exception though, is Thursday, where we will be below average. Again,
we're a cool for all be passing through Wednesday night.
Late Wednesday night, mainly after eleven pm, we'll have rain
showers filter in, not rolling out, a couple rumbles of thunder.
So for Thursday, looking at what conditions, breezy temperatures only
topping off in the upper forties before eventually returning to

(41:23):
the fifties as we head into the weekend.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
See, I'm good with what it is right now. This
is what very early spring or very early on it
should feel like I got the crew neck over the flannel.
It's this is this is perfect. I love this good.
So I'll give you credit for this one, but don't
don't don't enjoy that for too long. Weather's powered by
the basement Doctor forty eight. Right now, it's your severe
weather station News Radio six n WT. Et of Sarah's

(41:48):
keeping her headphones on. She'll get a chance to hear
this because it's it's it's atrocious. It's a tro it's
did I even like it makes me? It makes me
kind of ill. Don't say anything about it, don't say
who it is. Don't just play Zach if you would.
This thing that is sickening me. So see to hold
the watch the best step Well then that.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
He had to sid side tail and lie half with
those America ticket stamp.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Up. But I was.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
The wall.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Well second, he had the old desk and he did
do it stay playing the drums and singing, sounding pretty
much just like he did thirty five forty years ago
when I couldn't understand his appo. That's Rick Astley doing
an ac DC. So I I give him bonus points

(42:46):
just for having the cohones to even try to sing
an ac DC song. But he really didn't do a
bad job, especially drumming and singing at the same time.
That's I actually like that. I'm sorry, I'll go home now.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Did you see the guitarists looked exactly like Angus Jellan.
He did look a little bit like him, didn't he
except for as a black woman.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah, well yeah, I'll aside from that anyway. I wanted
to share that way. It's just that's one of those
things that happens and you go out, why do I
like this? And and you really don't ever want your
friends or family to know about it. But there it
is an eight eighty six eight two We WTV and
got a couple of paper boys stories standing by here, John,
you've been on hold the longest year on six TNATVN.

Speaker 7 (43:32):
Yeah, I'm calling you back, Chuck on the yep that
got disconnected. So here I am.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Okay, Well there you are. What do you want to
tell me?

Speaker 7 (43:42):
I did the CD and in Grove City and it
was the most fabulous job I ever had. I made
sure the paper, you know, had to go like I
don't know, I think it was two or three in
the morning and love or band them and take them
out throw them on the but like every thirty days.

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And it really paid off because if you do your
job right, the tips alone will get you going.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
And you know, wasn't it nice back then? At Christmas?
You know that you'd always get the people would generally
tip me like either five or ten dollars, depending upon
whether they were like daily only or daily and Sunday
dispatch customers. But if you carried seven days a week
and brought that big heavy paper, generally at Christmas I'd
get like ten bucks even back then, And so by
the time you get done collecting your route, you might have,

(44:33):
you know, two hundred and fifty three hundred dollars just
in Christmas tips, which was really nice.

Speaker 7 (44:38):
Yeah, it was fantastic and we've lost that. That That
taught the kids a lot how to manage money and
how to make money and be responsible. And I enjoyed
it and just wanted to call back in and say,
I'm your mysterious yep.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
All right, John Well, I appreciate you calling back to
clarify that, and bless your heart for carrying the Journal
and considering it a paper out. Even though they were
wimpy little papers, they were much easier to read. And
I'll be honest with you, I loved reading the Citizen Journal.
Even back then. I appreciated a well written newspaper. I

(45:17):
liked having I liked having the paper come to the
house in the morning because generally you'd get them if
you were a carrier, you would get them between four
and four thirty am, and they were supposed to hit
the front porches no later than six am. And I
liked that. But here's the oddity. When the Dispatch became
a morning paper, I didn't like it as a morning paper.

(45:42):
I just I don't know. Maybe it's because I grew
up with the Dispatch being an afternoon paper and the
Citizen Journal being a morning paper, but it just didn't
read the same it. I too often I felt like,
you know, whatever I watched on the news before I
went to bed was pretty much all that was in
the paper the next morning. It was really odd. So

(46:05):
as a morning paper, I didn't I just didn't care
for it as a reader. Now I worked there, I mean,
I still I enjoyed working there and many of the
people that I worked with and uh and as a
matter of fact, a couple of them just kind of
popped out of the woodwork after forty years, just a
few weeks ago, and it was wonderful to hear from

(46:26):
them again.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Man, not agree with stuff, but then like kind of
enjoying where you work. I totally get that.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yeah, right now, up, shut up. You agree with everything here.
That's what I was told. Just agree with that. I agree.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
If anybody's listening upstairs, I agree.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Blink your eyes twice if you're being forced nine eighty
six A two a WTV and back to him their
paper boys, Mike, you're on six DN WTV at I.

Speaker 9 (46:56):
Good afternoon, fellas. I live out in Plain City, and
I had a succession of three different papers that I delivered.
I started with the Marysville Journal Tribune, which was a
weekday afternoon paper, and then graduated to the Citizen Journal,
and then from that I went to the Dispatch. And
I have to say I appreciated the Citizen Journal the

(47:17):
most because it taught me to get up early, and
I established that habit and have carried it through even
the end of my retirement. But the funny thing is
I went on and had a career as a rural
letter carrier with a postal service.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Well you just kind of, yeah, you changed what you
were delivering, but kept the same job, didn't you.

Speaker 9 (47:36):
Yep, yep. But I sure enjoyed it. It was like
everybody has said, it was a life experience that taught
you lessons and it kept you healthy.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Are you Are you still at the postal service or
have you retired?

Speaker 9 (47:48):
I just retired about a year and a half ago.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
And how many years did you do before calling it quits?

Speaker 9 (47:53):
I had completed forty five years. I was in your
forty six.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Wow, bless your heart, buddy. I mean, they got people
out there Today they can't keep for forty six days
because there's too many hours, and they don't want to
do the walk and they don't want to do the work,
and they bail almost immediately.

Speaker 9 (48:09):
That's so true.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
It is sad.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
It is very sad because when I was a youngster,
the post office is one of those coveted jobs. You
wanted to work at the post office, or you wanted
to work at when Honda opened up in Marysville, or
you wanted to work at Anheuser Busch, all the Shock Road,
all those places where people wanted to work. And now
even they are clamoring trying to get good employees, they'll
stay at work and keep coming.

Speaker 9 (48:31):
Well. It was mentioned earlier in the day one of
the news programs. It was a desirable occupation to have.
But like you've just indicated, times have change. It's not
as desirable as it used to be. They talked about
the retirements at the post office. Yeah, it used to
be really good, but now it's just a four oh
one K with Social Security and a very very small pension.

(48:56):
You know, it's not bad, but it's not as great
as it was when it was just a service retirement.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
I guess yeah it was.

Speaker 9 (49:03):
It was really good.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Will bless you make those years Mike you everyone, Wow,
excuse me you too. I appreciate that I coughed right
into the mic that hurt. It came out of nowhere.
Forty six years is impressive. Maybe I was just choked
up over the fact he made it that long.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
I wasn't listening.

Speaker 11 (49:23):
What do he do?

Speaker 1 (49:23):
Does any forty six years into the post office? I
don't think anybody really if you started a job since
since two thousand, I doubt seriously if you started that
job thinking I'm going to retire from here in forty years.
People just don't think that way anymore. They have multiple jobs,

(49:45):
they invest on their own, They either plan for retirement
or they don't. You don't walk in the door, get
a full time job with you know, blue Cross, blue Shield,
your birthday off and that kind of thing. That's just
not the way the world works anymore. So when you
hear somebody who it was completed forty six years on
the job before retiring, that's that is an archaic statement

(50:07):
by twenty twenty five standards. And again, I don't know
that we're better off because of that. There was something
too that you know that that that solid feeling. You've
got a job, good job, good paying job, maybe a
good union job, and you had these benefits and you
knew you'd be able to, you know, take care of

(50:30):
the family and do that. Then people throw that at
the feet of government. Now, well, the government needs to
be sure you make a living way as government. That's
not the government's job. That's not the government's job. The
workplace has changed. You are no longer guaranteed this amount
of money. You were no longer guaranteed these benefits. You've
got to go in there and basically sell yourself to

(50:54):
an employer, just like freelancers and contract people have done forever.
So do many of the you know, the desk work
positions these days, because they want to know why why
should I bring you in? What are you giving me?
I'm giving you a job, I'm giving you this paycheck.
It's going to be in writing. Here's how much you're

(51:14):
gonna make. What are you giving me in return? And
so many people have no clue. They just figure, oll,
if I show up, I should get a check. No,
not anymore. That is not the way it works in
twenty twenty five, and what it is now is probably
what it won't be in twenty fifty. The world keeps
changing Man