Free To Fart and Football Friday - The Morning Blitz 9-11-26 - The Morning Blitz

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
That looks like a second plane.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I didn't actually see a plane go in. That just exploded.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You just saw another plane coming in from the side.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
You did.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yes, and that's the second explosion. You could see the
plane come in just from the right-hand side.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Of the screen.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
So this looks like it is some sort of a
concerted effort to attack the World Trade Center that is underway.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hard to believe 25 years. You know, the thing I
think about a lot is.
The 3,000 plus people who woke up to start their
normal day and I'll admit about once a month or
so and although it's a morbid thought but you know

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life is filled with morbid morbid morbid morbid stuff I
have had the thought many a times like what if
like today's the day.

Speaker 6 (01:01):
Yeah, I've thought that before, too.

Speaker 7 (01:03):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Because you just, you never, no, and of course, you've
got things like September 11th that happened, but also, you know,
the semi-truck that loses a tire on the highway and
comes bouncing across the median right into the windshield of some, like.

Speaker 6 (01:19):
Yeah, you just don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Try and be grateful every single day. 30 of the
days of the month I wake up and I'm thankful
for what I have and how lucky it is that
I get to do this job and work with people
like you and have a wife like Nora. But yeah,
once a month it's like, what if today's the day?
But I think that's also, I guess, kind of important
because it makes you.

(01:43):
Makes you happy and sort.

Speaker 6 (01:45):
Of aware and engaged in the fact that life is short.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
It helps you give gratification to the other things that
you have in your life and to be just happy.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Grateful for the day.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Grateful for the day because you never know what's going
to happen.

Speaker 6 (02:01):
How about you've been married for a solid week?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I got a happy anniversary when I was leaving the
house this morning.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Oh, you did?

Speaker 6 (02:08):
Is that what you call it? A happy anniversary?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
That's what she told me.

Speaker 6 (02:12):
I thought we were getting intimate here.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
No, I was giving her a kiss goodbye as I
normally do. And she was like, happy anniversary.

Speaker 8 (02:26):
Kelly thought you got a happy beginning.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Happy beginning, yeah. So yeah, one week again. It just
flies by. It's been a week already.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
That is unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
You'll blink.

Speaker 9 (02:37):
It'll be 10 years.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yes, absolutely. It will be.

Speaker 6 (02:40):
We had a week of trying to get Michigan off
us today.

Speaker 8 (02:44):
I tell you what. Goose, you will love this. So
my wife had to get on the freeway during rush
hour yesterday on 270, which she never has to get
on the freeway during rush hour. So she's not used
to it. And she said these cars... The way they
were merging was insane. She said they needed to take
lessons from Detroit people.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
How about that?

Speaker 5 (03:05):
What?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I've said it before and I'll say it again. They
drive like complete a-holes in Detroit, but they know how
to drive like a-hole. Everyone knows how to drive like
an a-hole, so it works. You're merging at 95 smoothly.

Speaker 10 (03:20):
Right.

Speaker 8 (03:20):
And the thing is, you never see brake lights. And
that was the thing that was driving Heather. Everybody's brakes here,
brakes here, brakes here. And they're just merging in Michigan
and Detroit and no brake lights.

Speaker 6 (03:30):
Keep it moving.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
10 feet apart.

Speaker 6 (03:34):
If we could combine our road conditions, Michigan's ability to drive.
I think we've got a perfect thing going on.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
We do have a very busy Friday ahead of us.
Of course, Buckeye Hall of Fame legend Jeff Logan will
be joining us coming up at about 740 this morning.
as there is a huge game tomorrow night at 7.30. Oh,
it's just a little game. Just a little game? Nothing special?
All right. We'll talk about that.

Speaker 9 (03:57):
Another day at the office.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
I also want to talk about... I saw an interesting article,
an interesting conversation about shopping at the grocery store, and
a particular... I don't want to call it etiquette, but
someone did something. And I want to know if you
would stand for this or not that we'll get into
coming up a little bit later at about 6.50 this morning.
And yes, every hour we'll be talking about and of

(04:18):
course honoring the 25th anniversary of 9-11 this morning as well.
Let's go with Blitz Morning Trivia, Thick.

Speaker 8 (04:25):
All right, $ 25 up for grabs to waterbeds and stuff.
If you're the first one to text in the correct answer,
weekends here, you might have a beer. Maybe while you're
watching football, whatever. What is your favorite beer? Well, that's
up to you. But what is the number one beer
in America? A new report came out with the most
popular beer.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (04:42):
First one to text in at 800-821-9970, you will win
the gift card.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
All right, let's get that answer for Blitz Morning Trivia.

Speaker 8 (04:51):
All right, the question was, according to a new report,
what is the most popular beer in America? And it
is Michelob Ultra.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (05:02):
What was it? It was Bud Light, and then what
took that? Something took over number one.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Modelo. Sure. I'm not a beer drinker, so I don't know.
I'm not a big beer drinker either.

Speaker 8 (05:14):
Michelob Ultra is all right. I like Blue Moon.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Blue Moon's the only beer that I'll have if I
have one.

Speaker 8 (05:21):
That's usually what I order if they've got it.

Speaker 6 (05:23):
My dad used to give me sips of his Budweiser
when I was like nine. Pretty sweet. Are you serious?
And then we used to steal the Mad Dog a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Right, yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
Little sips.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Not good.

Speaker 8 (05:36):
Bud Light was second.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, again, see, they literally walked into.

Speaker 6 (05:40):
You choose this light beer as the best beer.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, they walked into a little corner store that had
a very limited selection, and they're like, all right, these
are your choices for best beer in America.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
I've never tried.

Speaker 8 (05:50):
Is it Stella Artois?

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Stella, yeah.

Speaker 8 (05:52):
Yeah, that's the third, followed by Budweiser and Guinness. What's
the one.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
You stick the lime in?

Speaker 10 (05:56):
Corona.

Speaker 8 (05:57):
Corona. Is that any good? That was 10th.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
A lot of people like it?

Speaker 6 (06:00):
I like a plain... I like Michelob Light. I know
I'm crapping on light beers. I do like Michelob Light.
That's a good beer.

Speaker 11 (06:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
If you're just looking for something a little bit, some
kind of like watery.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Sort of beer flavored. That's about it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
If you want a water truck that drove by a
hops plant.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
Yes, that is.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
At 75 on the highway.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
And picked up a little bit. Yeah, a little something.

Speaker 8 (06:28):
The least favorite beer is Milwaukee's Best Ice.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I can see that.

Speaker 8 (06:32):
And I thought Sam Adams was really popular. It was
the third least favorite beer.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Probably had a fall off.

Speaker 6 (06:38):
Somebody said Little Kings. That's pretty funny.

Speaker 8 (06:40):
Little Kings.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
That was high school beer. Little Kings beer. I've never
even heard of it.

Speaker 8 (06:43):
Yeah, they were these little green bottles.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, Cream Ale.

Speaker 12 (06:47):
That's right.

Speaker 8 (06:48):
And the state that drinks the most beer is Wisconsin,
and I can understand that.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yep, no shocker there.

Speaker 8 (06:53):
Chuck Bolt from Chillicothe, first one to text in the
correct answer.

Speaker 9 (06:56):
He's got the 25 bucks to water beds and stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
You know, we've told a lot of stories of bad
marketing ideas, products, or... things that have happened where we
know that it has either been passed through or talked
about with many people, and no one raised their hand
to say, that's probably not a good idea. And then

(07:20):
it'll come to light, and then people jump all over it,
and they're like, yeah, we made a mistake. Well, that
has just happened overseas in the UK. There is a...
Burnmouth is an area of the UK, and there's a
Bournemouth Cafe. And they had an idea that they wanted
to throw out there. They were hoping to get some

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business and have people come in. You know, if you're
a restaurant or a cafe, you do everything you can
to provide great service, provide a great product in hopes
that people will come back. And then every so often,
you may have yourself like a little themed party. You
ever been to like a nightclub or something that has
like a theme night?

Speaker 6 (07:59):
Yeah, like an 80s night.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Right, exactly.

Speaker 7 (08:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well, this Bournemouth Cafe decided to do a 9-11 watch party.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Today, they were going to open their doors with all
of their TVs showing... Actual, basically they were going to
rebroadcast everything.

Speaker 6 (08:20):
Was this thing owned by Al-Qaeda?

Speaker 2 (08:21):
It was not. It was not.

Speaker 8 (08:23):
Just like CNN all day from that day kind of thing?

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, different TVs with different news stations, either UK BBC
or stations from here or whatever.

Speaker 9 (08:32):
Yeah, I don't need that.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, and they literally said, they literally said in the
press conference that they were not trying to turn a
tragedy into a spectacle. or trivialize what was going on
but more of like education purposes maybe for the younger
crowd that is now you know between the ages of

(08:55):
21 and 30 that might have either not been born
or too young to kind of remember so it was
more about kind of an educational angle but that just
seems a little weird to me if I were to
go to let's say and I have been to like
the 9-11 site, you know, ground zero, where they now

(09:17):
have a museum and things, and you can actually see old,
you know, if I'm going for an educational purpose, but
to go to a cafe or a restaurant that is
just showing it on the TVs, thankfully, the public got
a hold and heard what was going on, and the
public stepped up, and they said, no, no, no, that's
not what we were doing, okay, bad, sorry, bad idea,

(09:39):
and they cut the whole thing out. I just can't, again,
it's one of those things where you're like, First of all,
who thought this was a good idea? And second of all,
there had to be an employee or two that were like,
pulling on the collar.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
A little bit.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
You need more advisors in your life if you're moving
forward with an idea like that. You've got to have
more people involved.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
The 9-11 Watch Party rebroadcasts the response to the mainstream media,
twinning them with commentators in an installation of overwhelming scale.
By the end of the evening, you have been taken back.
into the seductive power of conspiracy theories. So they're also
looking at all the angles that people were taking when
the stories came out. Yeah, this whole thing is just

(10:25):
not a good idea. Thank you, public, for stepping forward
and making it be known that this is not a
good idea.

Speaker 8 (10:32):
Where was this at again?

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Uh, behemoth... Bournemouth Cafe, somewhere in the UK. Thank you
again for not doing this.

Speaker 13 (10:47):
Not so breaking news. The news already broke. We're trying
to put it back together.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Kelly, ever been to the HomeGoods store?

Speaker 6 (10:56):
I have.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh, nice. Do you like it? What do you find
at the Home Goods store?

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Nothing.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
That's a browsing place for me. It's kind of like Target.
I can never find anything to buy in Target. Same
thing with the Home Goods store. I like a lot
of stuff, but it's never anything I need.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay. All right. Same. Well, our first story takes us
down south. We have ourselves a WTF. What the Florida?
A 43-year-old man by the name of Billy Thomas went
to the Home Goods store because he wasn't looking to
buy some goods. He wanted to show off the goods.
A woman was inside the store at the time and
told police officers that she saw a guy enter the store,

(11:30):
walk into the aisle where she was standing, and said,
I'm sorry, I have to do this. And then he
stripped naked inside the HomeGoods store and exposed himself to
the shopper.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
He's nuts.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
He dropped himself, dropped his pants, and the store employees
backed up the story, but they didn't need to because
his underwear and shoes were still lying on the ground
when they got there, and he admitted, yeah, those are
my underwear and shoes.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
He took everything off.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
He did. He took it all off.

Speaker 6 (11:57):
It wasn't like he just pulled your pants down.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
No, he didn't. It wasn't like he was at the
urinal just poking through the glory hole. No, he was out.
He was straight up Winnie the Pooh in it.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
He did apologize straight out.

Speaker 14 (12:13):
He did.

Speaker 8 (12:13):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
He pre-apologized.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
Pre-apologized.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Which, as a pre-apologizer, I know the power of the pre-apology.
It's zero, but you still try it every time. You're like,
I'm just going to apologize now for what's about to happen.
I have done that many, many times. And I've been
yelled at many times. You can't pre-apologize. If I don't

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know what's going on, you can't pre-apologize. But no, I
knew that something was going to go on.

Speaker 6 (12:42):
I'm going to do something wrong.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
And you're probably not going to be happy about it.
So I'm going to pre-apologize.

Speaker 9 (12:48):
What is that, though?

Speaker 8 (12:48):
You wake up in the morning, where am I going
to go get naked today?

Speaker 9 (12:51):
How about, let's do home goods.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
I mean, obviously.

Speaker 6 (12:56):
The smell of wicker really does it for you.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
It really does it for me.

Speaker 9 (12:58):
I said it.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yep. It's called the old wicker whack. It's just you
smell the wicker, sends you over the edge. When asked
why he did it, he told the officers that his
clothes had started smoking... and that the bicycle he was
riding was smoking as well. Well, they did a little investigation.

(13:20):
They never found a bike. He didn't have one. He
was charged with indecent exposure.

Speaker 6 (13:25):
Where did a bike come in?

Speaker 8 (13:27):
Do we have some mental health issue going on here?

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, probably, probably. Story number two takes us overseas to
Gatwick Airport. And there's a gentleman by the name of
Curtis Toy. He's a 36-year-old man. And EasyJet, was left
there in Gatwick with a huge issue. They were having
some sort of technological issue, and basically they had to

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cancel almost all their flights. People were already on their planes.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
They had to get off.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
The terminal, the Ryanair terminal, is now overcome with people.
Most of these people are not in a very good
mood as they're not getting very much information as to
what went wrong, why they were deboarded, And no answers
as to when the next flights are. Are we being transferred?
Are we going back home? What's going on? So Curtis

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saw a couple of EasyJet employees that were literally kind
of just cornered. They were in their little kiosk area
with people yelling at them all over the place. And
that's when Curtis stepped up and said, No, no, we're
not going to have any of this. He is a
cybersecurity expert from London who does a lot of public
speaking and talking about the industry. And so he decided

(14:45):
to step up and let everyone know what was going on.
And he basically took over. Everyone listen up for a
second again, please.

Speaker 15 (14:53):
So if your flight currently says cancelled, and it's not
one of the ones that I've read out, we don't
know which.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Gate to go to for you to get your luggage back.

Speaker 15 (15:01):
The problem is, obviously, for security reasons, you need to
be escorted out of an airport. But they're trying to
organise it, obviously, for everyone to be cancelled or not.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
So there's a list.

Speaker 15 (15:09):
Coming in very, very slowly of where to go for
which cancellation.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Excuse the horrible music that some news station put on
their video. But, yeah, Curtis... A not-employee for EasyJet stepped
up to save these two women that were working the
counter and was like, everybody just calm the F down.
We're all in the same scenario here. It sucks. I
get it. But berating these two women is not going

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to solve your problem. It's not going to make the
plane take off any faster. It's not going to solve
the computer problem. They're just doing what they can. So
good on Curtis for stepping up. I'm trying to remember.
It definitely wasn't an airport, but I did this. years ago.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
Really?

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah. Some, someone had, something was going wrong and this
poor woman couldn't get the word out. And I was like,
do you need a little help? And I gave a
good old, Hey, like I got everyone's attention real quick
to get the word out. So yeah, I know it sucks.
It's frustrating, but these two women just trying to do

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their job had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 11 (16:15):
I do.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
I don't know if you've ever done this before too.
I've been in the mood. Or just fed up with
some sort of product or service or something. And I've
called customer service. And the very first thing I'll say
when I get a live person, I know it's not
your fault. You didn't do it. But you need to
know what's going on. And I am very frustrated right now. Again,

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I pre-apologize to the customer service woman about what's about
to happen. Because I know it's not your fault. And
I know it's wrong to take it out on you.
but I need to let somebody at this company know
what's going on.

Speaker 6 (16:50):
Somebody's catching this heat.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, and you're standing in the way of the haymaker.

Speaker 8 (16:55):
Could you please tell the higher-ups?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
That punch was already coming, and you just unfortunately were
the one who stepped in front of it. I'm very sorry.
That's your Not So Breaking News, 99.7 The Blitz. I
caught up with a friend yesterday on the phone who
I haven't spoken to in a couple weeks, and he
actually said, dude, you've got to talk about this on
your show, because I want to know how people would
feel about this and I had to think about how

(17:20):
I would feel about it if I would say anything
because last Saturday he was at the grocery store he
was getting some stuff for Sunday you know obviously the
holiday weekend having some friends over they were doing the
grilling thing like a whole bunch of people and obviously
a whole bunch of people had the same idea because
he said the grocery store was packed much busier than
normal and so they had you know like grocery stores

(17:43):
nowadays they only had a few lines open The self-checkouts
were there, but the actual lines were pretty long. And
this woman got in line right in front of him
as he was coming up. This woman got in line
with a shopping cart, and she only had like, I
don't know, she said he said like six or seven
items on the cart, which he thought was weird because
this was a normal line, and you're looking at people

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with half-full or completely full shopping carts.

Speaker 6 (18:07):
Six or seven items is self-checkout.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Right, absolutely. And so they're there in line, and she says...
I'm sorry. Can you watch this? I forgot one thing.
Can you watch this one thing? And she came back
with like four items and put them in her cart.
And a couple minutes later, she goes, darn it.

Speaker 6 (18:25):
No.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Can you watch this for a second? And she left
and she came back with like five more items. She
did this four times.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
So she got in line knowing she had more shopping
to do.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
And literally got in line just to shop knowing that
by the time she got everything... that she would finally be,
you know, somewhere close to the front of the line.
And so my buddy was like, at one point, the line,
the next person had moved up, so he had to
kind of nudge her cart forward and just be like,

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all right, well, I guess you're next, you know, got
to keep the line moving, basically. And I was like, man,
I don't know if I would say anything Would you
say something to that woman, Kelly?

Speaker 6 (19:09):
No, I wouldn't, but I would have thoughts about it.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
I would think about saying something.

Speaker 6 (19:14):
I've forgotten something before at the register where I self-check
out and I ask, is it okay if I run
and grab something? I've not ever done it more than once.
And when you're leaving four times to go get more items,
but you're having somebody else hold your place in line,
a stranger that you're in front of.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yep. I absolutely have left lines. You know, on occasion
because I forgot one thing.

Speaker 8 (19:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
But I've never come back with four or five items.
I've definitely never done it three or four times.

Speaker 6 (19:42):
No, you've got to shop like the rest of us
and get in line when you're ready to check out.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
You ever seen this thing or done this?

Speaker 8 (19:49):
I've run. and grabbed something. I would only do it
if I knew I could run and grab it and
come back before I.

Speaker 9 (19:56):
Was going to be putting my.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
On the belt. On the belt.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
Plus, it was a legitimate thing you forgot. It wasn't
like you're like, I'm going to get in line and
then I'm going to do the rest of my shopping.

Speaker 8 (20:05):
If I do that, I'm going to ring out and
then I always ask, can I leave my cart here
with my groceries?

Speaker 9 (20:12):
I forgot something. I'm going to go get it and
go through line and pay for it again.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, absolutely. Let's see. Eric says that, now that's a
smart shopper.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
It's a move, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
It is a move. Jeffrey says, oh, I was the
line bitch for my wife on Black Friday. Leave us
the one card and everything. Nope, nope, not doing it.
How likely are you? Here's another question for you now
that I think about it. What is the limit? How
many items is the limit of the, would you mind,
can I just, can I cut in front of you?

(20:48):
Like if you have a full cart and someone walks up.
I know self-checkout makes it a little different now from
it was back in the day. But you see like
a mom walk up with a two-year-old. She's got like
six items in her cart. I'm going to be like,
go ahead.

Speaker 8 (21:01):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
I'll let that person go.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Please. You've got a lot more going on than I do.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
I prefer it.

Speaker 6 (21:06):
If I'm the one who notices that the person behind
me only has a few items. And I say, hey,
why don't you go ahead?

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
I prefer that scenario.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Joe says, I would have switched places with her. I
would have been next in line. You're like, fine. I'm
going to watch your cart. But I'm going ahead of you.
I like that move, Joe. And then I guess that
kind of silently, passive, aggressively breaks the ice in terms
of you shouldn't be doing this.

Speaker 6 (21:34):
I see what you're doing.

Speaker 7 (21:35):
Right.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
So I'm going to step in front of you and
if you say something, I'll be like, I'm not here
to watch your cart, lady. This is your third trip
down the aisle.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
This is a society and you're flaunting the rules.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yes. There are unwritten rules. And you are a towing
over them, if not stepping over the line of the
acceptable society rules. You can't just go shopping with your
cart in line.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
There's no cheat code here, all right? You have to
follow the rules.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Right.

Speaker 8 (22:02):
By the way, letting somebody jump in front of you,
Eric Blanton said, one or two items max.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Okay. That seems a little strict. I'm a little more
lenient than one or two items. But if you get to...
If you are over the express lane limit... More than
12 items, no, you don't get to cut. But if
you're 12 items or less, I'll let you express lane it.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
If I have a full cart, if we're around about
the same number of items, we can just.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Oh, absolutely, yes.

Speaker 8 (22:33):
Eric said if they have children, then he'll give more leeway.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Okay, there you go. Yep. Let's see. Jeff Smith says,
one time is one thing. Four times, I'm pushing the
crap out of the way. Go ahead and check out
my stuff. Yep, I agree.

Speaker 10 (22:52):
800-821-9970.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
You ever been in this scenario before? You got one, Kelly?

Speaker 6 (22:55):
Well, I was just saying, you had read Jeffrey's that
he said that he stood in line for his wife
at Black Friday. She went shopping. What about that? You
have somebody holding your place in line. We used to
do that when you had to actually go to Buzzard's
Nest to buy concert tickets.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:11):
And you were standing in line for eight, ten hours
waiting to get tickets. We would have a couple, at
least two of us, who would take shifts.

Speaker 9 (23:21):
Yes, but we were all getting tickets.

Speaker 14 (23:23):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (23:24):
So we're all the customer, and we only need one transaction.
We're not taking up any more time.

Speaker 6 (23:32):
The thing is, in a grocery line or a Black
Friday line, as a shopper, you're estimating how much time
it's going to take you to get to the front
of the line. And when somebody's just standing there and
then their person comes with a hundred things, you're like,
you've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Okay, but if you and six friends... are buying tickets.

Speaker 16 (23:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
And you're the only one waiting in line.

Speaker 17 (23:56):
Right.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
And then the five others show up. I hear you.
And you're buying better seats than you bought the last
four or five seats that I could have gotten.

Speaker 10 (24:05):
Right.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
No, I don't know about that.

Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I don't know about that. Same thing happened at the
wave pool. Remember, Nora and I were at the Zumbisi Bay,
and those kids came up the express lane and jumped
in line with their friends for this water slide.

Speaker 10 (24:20):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And I was like, wait a minute.

Speaker 8 (24:21):
Well, now that's different because they're all going to take
up more time.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
You're taking up concert tickets. You're taking up seats.

Speaker 8 (24:27):
No, if there's four of us and we're getting a
four-pack of tickets, it only takes one of us to
buy that four-pack. It's one transaction. If we're in line
all night long, camped out, and two people want to
go take a nap in the car, what's the big deal?

Speaker 6 (24:40):
What he's saying is four people each buying a four-pack,
and you're the only one. Oh, that's different.

Speaker 8 (24:45):
Yes, that's different.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
If you're buying a four-pack.

Speaker 8 (24:47):
I'm talking about one transaction.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Okay, good. Yeah, all right. One transaction, I guess. You
were going to buy four tickets anyway.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Okay, that's a little different.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
That's different. Yeah, yeah, that's acceptable.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
That's acceptable. I won't kick you in the sack for
that one. 99.7 The Blitz.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
And now, the three things you need to know before
you go.

Speaker 6 (25:08):
We're going to spend most of our time here on 9-11,
but let me first let you know this in case
it applies to you. President Trump has announced that almost
a million people will be getting $ 500 Obamacare refunds starting
in October. The money will go to people in 30
states that use the federally operated exchange to buy insurance
plans under the Affordable Care Act. That includes Ohio. The

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money comes after enrollees were hit with massive insurance premiums
after Congress let subsidies expire at the end of 2025.
So they're going to start sending out those Solemn remembrances
across the nation today on September 11, 2001. The morning
started out as any other here on the Blitz. And
at the time, we were running the Howard Stern Show.

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And just after the first plane hit the World Trade
Center at 8.46 a.m., well, let's listen to what happened.

Speaker 12 (25:56):
This is a breaking news story, a serious news story.
A plane has crashed, called it, into the World Trade Center.
The World Trade Center is on fire. What is going on?

Speaker 5 (26:09):
Really?

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Let me look out my window.

Speaker 16 (26:11):
It's the tallest.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
I just heard you say that John made out with
Pamela Lake.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Look out the window. You can see it or you can.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
The whole thing is on fire.

Speaker 12 (26:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
You're right.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
I mean, not a little fire.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
No, it's huge. Oh, it's huge.

Speaker 14 (26:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
What if a plane hits a building?

Speaker 3 (26:23):
But what kind of plane?

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Was it a private.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
I.

Speaker 18 (26:26):
Don't have any more details. I'm following this story. I
hope this wasn't one of those terrorist kamikaze attacks.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Unfortunately, it's early in the morning. Maybe not too many
people are in the building. Yeah, I hope not.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Just a rumor.

Speaker 18 (26:35):
Somebody just called and said that on CNN, a second
plane just crashed into it.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Stop it! A second plane? Wait a minute!

Speaker 2 (26:42):
There are two buildings, and that is lower!

Speaker 3 (26:44):
So it's a terrorist attack, isn't it?

Speaker 9 (26:46):
That's what they're saying.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
It's gotta be. It's gotta be.

Speaker 14 (26:49):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
All right, so then here's a little piece of the
Howard Stern show when they found out that the Pentagon
was hit.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
This is crazy. We're under attack. We're going into buildings.
We're under attack.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
That's, oh my God. It's war.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Pentagon.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
The Pentagon, what?

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Stop it.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
What, is there another explosion? Wait, what's going on? Is
there another explosion?

Speaker 8 (27:10):
Attack the Pentagon.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
They just attacked the Pentagon.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
And then, of course, when the South Tower fell down,
That was quite an emotional segment on The Howard Stern Show.

Speaker 10 (27:19):
Oh, no.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Wait a second.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
What happened? Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
What just happened?

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
What just happened?

Speaker 8 (27:25):
Look at that.

Speaker 16 (27:25):
Oh, the whole World Trade Center just collapsed.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, I'm looking at it on Channel 7.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 16 (27:30):
The whole thing just completely dropped.

Speaker 8 (27:32):
It actually collapsed.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
That's it. Oh, my God. Anybody who had a chance
of getting out of there.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
It collapsed.

Speaker 8 (27:38):
It's gone.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Doesn't have a chance now.

Speaker 8 (27:40):
Are you watching the footage?

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Oh, it's hard.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
The whole thing just collapsed. What?

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Everything around there is in danger.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
The whole building is gone.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
It's just gone.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
It's gone and people are in there.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
So none of us had any idea yet what was
going on or what more was to come or the
magnitude of the situation here in Columbus. Then Mayor Mike
Coleman spoke at City Hall trying to reassure us that
we were okay.

Speaker 14 (28:03):
Let me emphasize that the city of Columbus, there is
no indication.

Speaker 19 (28:09):
Of any threat against our city or our citizens at
this time. And we have been in constant minute by
minute communications with the appropriate federal and state authorities to
monitor the national situation.

Speaker 6 (28:26):
And then Governor Bob Taft addressed Ohioans by echoing FDR,
calling 9-11 a day that would live in infamy.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
But we will not be terrorized. We will not submit
to fear. We will not forego our freedom.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
And you remember that numb feeling? It was like a numbness.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Oh, absolutely. Well, just listening back, it's like, one, absolute chills.
And two, you know, having the city and living in
a city... Every metropolitan area had to have the same fears.
People had to come out and say, look, we're good here.

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We know what's going on, but we're good here.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
Right, exactly. But we didn't know. So we were looking
for that reassurance from somebody in charge. This was all
before we knew that there were 2,977 dead. And by
the evening, we all sat down and watched. as President
George W. Bush addressed the nation.

Speaker 7 (29:25):
This is a day when all Americans from every walk
of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace.
None of us will ever forget this day. Yet we
go forward to defend freedom and all that is good
and just.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
In our world.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
Oh, gives you chills. Wild day. President Trump is at
the Pentagon today for a 9-11 ceremony. Former presidents Biden, Obama,
George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are attending the 9-11
commemoration at Ground Zero in New York City. So we'll
do some more of this throughout the morning here during
these three things you know, three things you need. What's
the segment called? Three things you need to know.

Speaker 9 (30:04):
Three things you need to know.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
During that segment all morning, we'll be doing just some
flashbacks and memories of that day.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Like the mantra says, never forget. It's hard to talk about, but.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
It is.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
I haven't really delved into it much over the years
because it does bring back such a sick feeling even
today to hear this stuff. It's just, it is worth remembering,
that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
I'm curious, and I don't know if Nora's doing this
this morning, I'm curious if I'm going to do this
later today, but having two step-sons at 17 and 14,
who obviously were not alive when it happened, but have
obviously seen or learned stuff about it, I'm very curious
as to their kind of take on it It is interesting.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
A third of the U.S. population right now was not
born during 9-11. That's 100 million Americans walking the earth.
And even more who were.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Too young to remember. What if you're under five or something?
You're probably not going to remember anything or almost anything
from that day.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
A lot changed, that's for sure. All right, those are
your three things.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
You know, we've had many discussions about... that happen from
generation to generation. We have definitely seen a different parenting
style nowadays from when we were growing up. We have
seen different entertainment styles in terms of how we take

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in information. And now, apparently, Gen Alpha is being a
bit more open-minded And loose, if you will. Because one
teacher has just stepped forward to talk about something that
the younger generation is doing that we didn't do a
lot when we were younger. Take a listen.

Speaker 20 (31:56):
Gen Alpha's biggest accomplishment has been that they normalize farting.
It's not embarrassing to fart anymore. I teach dance to
elementary age kids through seniors in high school. And they
just rip so much to the point that they know
what each other's farts smell like.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
They're just like, oh, ha, ha, ha.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
When we were growing up, it was.

Speaker 20 (32:11):
Traumatizing if you accidentally farted. Everyone would remember who ripped.
by accident in class and you'd be sent to therapy
for like 15 years because of how embarrassing it was.
So good job to Gen Alpha because nothing's ever that deep.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
Everybody farts. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
And she's not wrong. Fourth grade gym class sitting on
the hardwood gym floor in your specific, you know, because
everyone was evened out or was sitting in straight line.
There were like six straight lines and you all had
your dot on the floor that you sat on. And
I was kind of middle back, right in the thick

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of it.

Speaker 14 (32:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
And I thought I could slip one out. And right
on that hardwood floor, that thing had some reverb. And
not only that, but the empty gym. Oh. Just the
cavernous echo of the gym. Oh, man. I did not

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live that down.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
For a very, very long time. I feel like.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
Gym class in elementary was just a constant prop dust.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
A hundred percent.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
It's just dodgeball, basketball, whatever, square dancing.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
The parachute.

Speaker 6 (33:26):
Square dancing through a cloud of farts.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yeah, then you're.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
Parachute.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
That giant parachute.

Speaker 8 (33:32):
Remember you'd get in it and everybody would sit on
the parachute to hold it and you're like in a dome.
In a dome of farts.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Oh, the dome of farts that you were stuck under
a gym class. And then you made it to fifth
or sixth grade when puberty starts kicking in, and you
have those 12- and 13-year-old boys that smell like rotting onions,
and you're like, what is happening? Oh, school was fun.
So good on you, Gen Alpha, for, you know. De-stigmatizing. De-stigmatizing,

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being all loosey-goosey with it, and, you know, not caring.
That you're over there. Well, it was only a week
and a half ago we had the teacher who had
the fart corner in her class.

Speaker 6 (34:13):
Yes, the gas station.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes. You actually were allowed to go over, stand in
the corner. She had her little spray. You know how
embarrassed I would be to bust out the spray in class?
Hell no.

Speaker 6 (34:26):
I'm still trying to get away with it silently.

Speaker 21 (34:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (34:29):
Still.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
And I'm 100% blaming it on Kelly. I'm like, oh, yeah,
I know. It was definitely her. Oh, Kelly. Oh, why
would you do that?

Speaker 21 (34:40):
Do it.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Kelly needs to wipe. Kelly needs to wipe.

Speaker 6 (34:47):
Bully me for your own fart.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Oh, Kelly, that's going to really itch later when it dries.
Don't take care of that. Good God. All right, I
have a couple of stories I have to share with you,
all dealing with lawsuits and such. The first, dealing with
Nippon Dynawave, a company that operated a plant in... I'm

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trying to find out where this story is. It doesn't say.
It's K-I-R-O, so you know it's west of the Mississippi.
I can tell you that much in terms of call
letters for a TV station.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
I think it's in Washington.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Is it in Washington?

Speaker 6 (35:27):
The Nippon Dino Wave Packaging Company.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (35:30):
Washington State.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Thank you.

Speaker 14 (35:32):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
I appreciate that. Well, they have filed suit as they
had a terrible disaster there at this plant where they
were storing, well, materials, including this very hot liquid that

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was stored in these containers. containers if you will these
silos here's the problem as they've looked into it there
were letters sent to the nip and dina wave company
and a technician that was set out to inspect these
containers and they warned in july of 2025 october of
2025 in february 2025 that these holding takes were in
complete disaster And they had a good chance of eroding.

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And they are now past the point of minimum safety
and had a high likelihood of failure. And that's exactly
what happened. The tank failed. Stuff spilled everywhere. People were killed. Well,
in their investigation, they have found out that this company
has a regular practice of operating until failure. Basically, any

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piece of material or system, they would run until failure.
It fell apart.

Speaker 6 (36:48):
It's like how I'm handling my iPhone 11 right now.
I am holding on to this thing until it absolutely
craps the bed. I'm not buying a new one.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
And that's exactly what they did. The only problem is
you're holding toxic materials. That's the difference.

Speaker 6 (37:02):
A little more at stake there.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
It's not missing a text message from your friend.

Speaker 6 (37:06):
Which I would hate.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Right. But it's people dying. So they had a regular
practice of RTF, as they call it. Run to failure. Yeah,
you can't do that when handling hazardous materials, so we'll
see what happened there. Story number two, JonBenet Ramsey. Did
that name ring a bell at all?

Speaker 6 (37:26):
It does, yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Still no answer in that case as to what happened. Well,
listen to this. A former DNA analyst for the Colorado
Bureau of Investigations who was employed during the JonBenet Ramsey
case was just sentenced to 10 years in prison because...
It has been found out that she violated lab policies

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in more than 1,000 cases. Oh, my gosh. Dealing with
DNA evidence.

Speaker 6 (37:56):
Was she just lazy or was she.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
So, apparently.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
Was it criminal intent?

Speaker 2 (38:01):
They're not saying. It's just... Yeah. Whether or not this
was just being lazy, they don't think that there was
criminal intent involved. But she did violate a whole bunch
of lab policies.

Speaker 6 (38:17):
Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Cybercrime, perjury, attempt to influence a public servant, and forgery
in a deal in which 100 other charges were dropped.
You're talking about just what she was charged with in
these over 1,000 cases. But now, because she pled guilty
to some.

Speaker 6 (38:34):
Everything's in question now. Everything she touched.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Absolutely. And how many cases could have been solved... If
it wasn't for her negligence or laziness.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
What about the JonBenet case?

Speaker 2 (38:46):
What about, yes.

Speaker 8 (38:47):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
And I'm sure members of the JonBenet family are upset
about this, but the other 999 families are like, hey,
JonBenet is not the only one.

Speaker 20 (38:58):
Right.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Like.

Speaker 6 (38:59):
I've been in prison since this woman handled my DNA.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
And there's also that. How many, yeah. Do you have
to go back and look at all those cases now?

Speaker 6 (39:06):
Yes, you have to.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
How many people were found guilty or not guilty?

Speaker 10 (39:08):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (39:08):
I'm starting to collect cases right now.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
You have to. Absolutely. Absolutely. And story number three, headed
to the court, Ryanair. It wasn't that long ago we
told you a story about a Ryanair flight, a Boeing 737,
where there was a sudden decompression and a window blew out.
And there was a man who is suing because he
was sucked out of the window of the Ryanair as

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this decompression took place and had to be pulled in
as his head and arm were flailing outside the broken
window of this plane now I don't know if this
is the best move by Ryanair but they have decided
to step forward and And they are countersuing, not countersuing,
but they are disputing what actually happened. They're saying, okay, look,

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you weren't actually outside the plane. Sure, it was loud.
There was stuff happening. The window that you were sitting
next to did blow out.

Speaker 6 (40:08):
But it wasn't like somebody was holding on to his
ankle and the rest of them was outside the plane.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Exactly.

Speaker 8 (40:12):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
So they are stepping up and disputing. Now, at this point,
do you just... pay the man and be like, sorry
for the traumatic experience you just went through? Or are
you trying to save dollars and you'll pay out a mil,
but you're not going to pay out 10 mil?

Speaker 9 (40:30):
Was he hurt?

Speaker 2 (40:32):
You know, he did have some lacerations, but nothing.

Speaker 6 (40:36):
Probably some trauma. Some trauma. Even if he didn't go
out the window at all, it still would be really scary.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yes. Absolutely. It's going to be scary.

Speaker 8 (40:44):
One million dollars will take care of your fear.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
I would think so.

Speaker 6 (40:47):
But if the guy's suing for 10, do you fight
back a little?

Speaker 2 (40:50):
I don't know. Or does this make you look bad?

Speaker 6 (40:52):
Yeah, right.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Because a million dollars ain't going that far nowadays.

Speaker 8 (40:56):
Yeah, but it's not like he deserves to be set
up for the rest of his life for a couple cuts.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Well, but if you're flailing outside of a plane window. Oh,
I thought he.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
I need video.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
I've got to see how far outside. That's his argument.

Speaker 10 (41:09):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
They're disputing it.

Speaker 8 (41:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
That he was flailing outside the window.

Speaker 8 (41:13):
Now, if that's the case, I mean, you're flying through
the air and you're hanging outside a window.

Speaker 9 (41:17):
Give me 20 million.

Speaker 8 (41:18):
Right.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
So this is the big argument now. Are they going
to get a hold of witnesses that say, yeah, I
wasn't holding on to his waistband while half his body
was outside the window.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
Somebody had to have taken video of this. I can't
imagine there's no video from inside the plane.

Speaker 8 (41:34):
There's no way I would fit through an airplane window.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Now, one of the witnesses say that she watched as
her husband was half in and half out of the plane.
So apparently they've got witnesses saying, yeah, he was kind
of flailing outside there.

Speaker 6 (41:49):
If I'm even an inch outside that window, you are
paying through the nose.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
So we'll have to see what happens with this case
and whether or not... this person gets the money that
he deserves, or if Ryanair is going to say, no, no,
we're not doing that.

Speaker 8 (42:06):
My fat ass would bring the cabin pressure back to normal.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
You would absolutely just seal the hole as your waste area.

Speaker 8 (42:15):
Then everybody's fine. I'll just stay here.

Speaker 9 (42:17):
I'm good until we land.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
The lights go off in the cockpit. All of a sudden,
the lights stop, and the pilots are like, oh, I
guess we got nothing. Everything's fine.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
No problem.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
So we've got a person hanging halfway out the play. Yeah,
but we're pressurized. Like all the masks go back up
into the ceiling. We can retract those. We don't need
those now. Everything's fine. So we'll keep an eye on
the old Ryanair for you. Make sure they understand they're
playing somebody different tonight.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
They're playing the Buckeyes.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
They're playing the Ohio State Buckeyes. And now, it's Football
Friday with Buckeye Hall of Fame legend Jeff Logan on
the Morning Blitz. That's right. One of the biggest games
of the season. One of the preseason games that all
the experts were talking about to keep an eye on.
Not that, you know, it necessarily is a deciding factor

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in the season, but definitely has implications for football. CFP
and playoff standings and all that kind of stuff. And
so early in the season, it's going to be a
big one. Tomorrow night, 730 ABC. We've got Ohio State, Texas. Now,
right now, Texas is favored by one and a half points.

Speaker 10 (43:25):
Mr.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Jeff Logan, how are you, sir?

Speaker 22 (43:27):
I'm great this morning and doesn't surprise me. I mean,
that home field advantage for the Texas Longhorns, both teams returning.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
Experienced quarterbacks.

Speaker 22 (43:37):
This should be, I think, what will be the kickoff
to the college football season. Everybody thought it might be
Clemson-LSU last week.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
That never happened.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
No, that was good.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
There was nothing.

Speaker 22 (43:47):
So this ends up being really the first premier game
in college football in 2026.

Speaker 8 (43:55):
By the way, first time we've been an underdog since
November of 2023.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Against Michigan.

Speaker 11 (44:00):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 8 (44:00):
They were favored at home by three and a half.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
That's interesting. Now, I have to assume that, you know,
of course, you can break down, and every expert will,
you can break down all the skilled positions and the
O-line and the D-line, but it really does come down
to the quarterbacks and these two big names. It really does.

Speaker 22 (44:17):
I mean, from a standpoint of these guys have to
play clean games, and they don't have to go win
the game from the quarterback position, but they can't put
their team in a bad position and with turning the
ball over, making bad decisions at that point. I think
in this game, though, while the quarterbacks are going to
be the one that you're going to pay attention to,
the game in the trenches is huge. And that's where

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I think, if there's any concern as an Ohio State fan,
last week in the game against Ball State, we were
not as dominant in the offensive line as I thought
we would be with all of the.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Returning starters we have.

Speaker 22 (44:53):
And on the defensive side, there's a lot of new
faces over there, and I don't think they performed at
a level that would concern you at all. But the
one thing that's going to come into play during this
game is going to be weather. Weather not being rain
or lightning or anything else, but 100 degrees at kickoff.
But it's a dry heat, right? I mean, it is

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going to be nasty. And I will tell you what,
at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center this entire week, They
turned off the air conditioning.

Speaker 13 (45:23):
Oh, right.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Did they really? Turned it off.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
Good.

Speaker 22 (45:27):
Coaches' offices, in the building, in the bathrooms, you couldn't
go anywhere.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
Where it wasn't steamy hot.

Speaker 8 (45:34):
It's not like they haven't been practicing all summer.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
No.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
But they wanted to acclimate their bodies.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
What a great idea.

Speaker 22 (45:41):
And make sure that you're hydrating throughout the time.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
And were you there this week at all?

Speaker 14 (45:47):
No.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
Okay. I was going to say, I wonder how it
felt walking into that place if there was a noticeable difference.
Which there had to be. I saw Holly Rowe, who
is the sideline reporter.

Speaker 22 (45:56):
And she came out of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.
And God bless her, because as a woman, you wouldn't
necessarily want to show your face like this.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
Her makeup was just.

Speaker 8 (46:08):
Awful.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
God bless her.

Speaker 22 (46:11):
But she said, you cannot believe how warm it is
inside this building.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
That's crazy.

Speaker 22 (46:18):
Woody Hayes used to tell us, if you're going to
play in the North Atlantic, you're going to practice in
the North Atlantic. And that's exactly what they did in
preparation for this game.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Good idea. Now, speaking of quarterbacks, both of them, coming
off of not the greatest end to the seasons. Obviously,
Manning did not have a great game against the Buckeyes
last year. And then, saying himself, had a little bit
of an issue at the end of the season between
the Big Ten Championship and then, of course, the loss
in the quarterfinals. Wasn't looking his best. So, both of

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them coming into this game looking for a little redemption.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
Absolutely.

Speaker 22 (46:54):
And don't think that they don't each... compare themselves against
one another I mean there's a handful of quarterbacks in
this class that are going to be considered you know
top five or six draft picks come next season and
Julian Sane and and Arch Manning are certainly in that
mix you know Julian Sane was a finalist for the
Heisman Trophy a year ago was in New York City

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Arch Manning was not there And Arch Manning, if you
go back all the way to the very beginning through
his recruitment and where is he going to end up
and how many Heismans is he going to win, not
will he win. And there was no way for that
kid to be able to live up to the expectations
that were set for him. But this is a game that,
you know, from a standpoint of your judgment and they

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look at tape about how you did in NFL-type games,
because Ohio State and Texas have NFL... talent on both
sides of the ball so this is where those scouts
those coaches those general managers are going to make a
lot of their draft decisions in games like this.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Now, as a fan, and obviously we're more talking about
Ohio State, but just to stay on Texas for one
second and your expertise, as a fan of a team
who is quickly losing faith in what was supposed to
be the savior quarterback that we have at Michigan, who
I'm quickly losing faith in, I have to assume there

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are people in Texas. Manning hasn't been. But on the
flip side of that coin, like you just said, there
is no way Manning was ever going to live up
to any level of what people thought he was going
to be. They put him on a pedestal that is
not achievable.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
It was unfair.

Speaker 22 (48:36):
And it would have happened had he gone to Tennessee
or Mississippi or anywhere else. It would have happened anywhere.
I don't know that anybody went into... with as many expectations.
The kid at Michigan, though, that is a very good
example of somebody that is exactly the same. The expectations

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were unrealistic. And he never got any development.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Right.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
Because he hasn't improved one bit.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Not a bit. And for some reason, and granted, first year,
first game with a new coach who is much more
of a quarterback coach than Jerome Moore ever was. So
we'll see what happens. He better do something quick. But
I worked in Ann Arbor a year. and a half
ago when he was coming in. Amazing young kid. But
it was basically like he was going to come in

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and the mentality of, he doesn't need a coach. He's
just going to come in. No, that's not how that works.

Speaker 22 (49:33):
It does not work. I don't care who you are,
what position you play, or anything else. The work that
goes into it and the... The reason there are 11
guys on the team, you've got 10 others that have
to help you along the way. But the quarterback's got
to be that leader over there, and he's got to
have some improvement. It's real interesting the way college football

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is going, and I think that this is going to
be a season that a lot of people are going
to remember. for the plays in games just like this,
Ohio State versus Texas?

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Right now, like you said, or like we said, Texas
favored by 1.5. 49.5 points for the over-under. That seems
a little low to me for these two offenses. Maybe
I'm crazy, but I would take the over on that.

Speaker 22 (50:14):
Go back to the last two times that these two
teams have played, January 10, 2025. Ohio State wins 28-14.
Last year in that game, Ohio State wins 14-7. So
they have been low-scoring games in most of those games
with Ohio State and Texas. And part of it is
the defenses are so very good. And from a quarterbacking standpoint,

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we talk so much about those guys. They want to
make sure they put them in positions where they're not
having to go down. Win the game. Be safe out there.
Do the things that you're comfortable with.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Okay, so that was my next question. Do you think
that when it comes to games like this, they're a
little bit more lower scoring? Because even though you have
these high-powered offenses, the best receiver, if not the overall
skill player in all of college football, You're still being
more conservative just because of the team you're playing.

Speaker 22 (51:05):
Yeah, I think there's a lot that goes into that,
but I think it's also because of the talent equality.
It's hard to get explosive plays, all right? You go
up against Ball State or you're going up against Purdue
or Michigan State or somebody like that, you're going to
hit some home runs against them just because of your
superior athletic ability. You know, in talent equal games like this,

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it is really hard to get those explosive plays.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
And you hear coaches say that all the time pregame.
What do you have to do? What do you have
to do? What's the key to winning? Eliminate the explosive plays.
Because you get one or two, and then you've got
10 or 14 extra points on the board, which is
very hard to, you know, cut into.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
You know, it's really interesting.

Speaker 22 (51:43):
When you look at the total number of offensive plays
that each team will run, it averages about 70 offensive plays.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
Per team, you know, during a normal game.

Speaker 22 (51:54):
One or two of those 70 end up making the
difference in the entire football game, good or bad.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
Could be a pick, could be a fumble, could be
an explosive play for a touchdown.

Speaker 22 (52:06):
You know, all of the other plays are important, but
there are always one or two plays that will end
up determining the outcome of the game.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Now, Fig, you grabbed a quote here, a clip from
Ryan Day. And I want to see if you agree
with this clip or not. Go ahead and play it.

Speaker 21 (52:20):
This is going to be an unbelievable atmosphere down there
against a great opponent. Everybody in the country will be watching. So,
I mean, this is why you come to Ohio State.
This is why you go to Texas to playing games
like this. So, you know, good thing is it'll give
us a great data point on where we are and
early feedback on things. But more importantly, just the experience
of playing in a game like this early in the
season is, you know, again, one of the reasons why

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you recruit great players to come here.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
These are the types of games. And this is why
we're here. Do you look at that and as a
player go, I've known about this game on the schedule
for a while. I'm looking forward to this one.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
Yeah, you look at it. There's games ahead.

Speaker 22 (52:56):
Some kids are playing high school football tonight, and they're
looking at Ohio State's schedule. They're committed there, and they
realize they have Alabama and Georgia ahead. on the regular schedule.
Is that something you look forward to? Absolutely. I mean,
you want to be on that big stage. And so
these are games that they most certainly want to become
a part of. You talk about guys from an impact

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standpoint that's really important. Jeremiah Smith is a guy that
has been kept somewhat under wraps in these two games
most recently with Ohio State and Texas. He has not
been able to be as explosive as as he has
been in most other games. But, guys, you talk about
Bryce Underwood making the transition from high school into college football.

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You talk about Manning making that transition. And did they
really deliver? Look at Ohio State with Jeremiah Smith. When
he came on board, I would suggest to you that
he came on board with as much expectation as a
Bryce Underwood. He was kind of Ohio State's future. He
was going to be the guy. Has he disappointed in

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any way, shape, or form? Since entering college football in 2024,
Jeremiah Smith leads all players in the country in receptions,
receiving yards, and touchdowns in receiving.

Speaker 14 (54:11):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
All right?

Speaker 22 (54:13):
All three of those categories. Nobody in the country. And
there's some good receivers out there.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
All right?

Speaker 22 (54:19):
But nobody has delivered at the high level that Jeremiah
Smith has.

Speaker 9 (54:24):
I think Chris Henry might.

Speaker 8 (54:26):
Two years from now, you might be saying the same
thing about him.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
You know, he's got one game in, and he had
a big drop in that game.

Speaker 22 (54:34):
Now, what I want to remind you of, Jeremiah's very
first play as a Buckeye.

Speaker 8 (54:38):
Quick out, out pass, drops it.

Speaker 9 (54:41):
Yep, same thing.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
Archie Griffin, first game he got into, fumbles.

Speaker 7 (54:44):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
And you know what? I guarantee last week when that happened,
there were a large group of Ohio State fans that
were like, This guy sucks.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Why did we resume him?

Speaker 8 (54:56):
Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 4 (54:57):
This is what we did?

Speaker 8 (54:59):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Like, come on.

Speaker 22 (55:01):
But Jeremiah, I just wanted to bring up that point
because Jeremiah Smith, in a time when people have so
much difficulty living up to expectations, he is one guy,
in my opinion, that maybe either met or exceeded the expectations, right?

Speaker 14 (55:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (55:19):
Oh, he could be playing on Sundays this weekend.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
Two years ago, he could have been playing on Sunday.

Speaker 9 (55:23):
Yeah, it's funny.

Speaker 8 (55:24):
I have a keeper fantasy league, and somebody said, can
I draft Jeremiah Smith now?

Speaker 2 (55:27):
For next year. Since I could keep him.

Speaker 8 (55:30):
I'm like, no, you cannot.

Speaker 9 (55:31):
But I love the idea.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Yeah, I mean, he's going to go. I mean, obviously,
we don't know how the NFL season is going to
turn out. If you look at the teams that are
predicted not to do well, he's got to go top five.

Speaker 8 (55:42):
Oh, he might go number one. It depends on the
quarterback available at number one and who's drafting number one.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
But you can't. not pick a skilled player of that level.
Like you said, who's been NFL Sunday ready for a while. Crazy.

Speaker 22 (55:56):
You start looking through some of those receivers that have
come before him. It's not like he's the first guy
to catch passes at Ohio State. Emeka Egbuka, who was
the offensive player, you know, Top guy in the league
last year.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Marvin.

Speaker 22 (56:08):
Marvin Harrison Jr. Michael Jenkins. Chris Olave. I mean, the
number goes on. Santonio Holmes, who we all know about.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Garrett Wilson. Garrett Wilson.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
That's how it's going to go.

Speaker 4 (56:19):
I mean, it's amazing the talent that is out there.

Speaker 22 (56:23):
At wide receiver university and who would have ever thought
that three yards in a cloud of dust ohio state
would be talked about as being wide receiver university do
they have obviously you have your offensive coordinator and most
teams at some point have a running back coach or
they've got a wide receiver coach oh absolutely.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
And and here's the thing do you do you do
you stay in your position do you stay in your
lane because of what you've turned ohio state into wide
receiver you and you've got these players Or do you
take that next step to offensive coordinator?

Speaker 9 (56:51):
He went and became a head coach.

Speaker 22 (56:53):
So Brian Hartline was that guy. He was also the
offensive coordinator, but he was the wide receiver coach. And
more importantly, he was the wide receiver whisperer in terms
of being able to.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Get the recruits in here and built that.

Speaker 22 (57:07):
And so the guy they hired from LSU, Hankins, is
the new wide receiver coach. The challenge with him will
not only be development, but can he recruit at the
same level?

Speaker 4 (57:18):
And Chris Henry Jr., his first.

Speaker 22 (57:20):
Real recruit, would be a pretty good example of him
being able to maybe continue that tradition that Brian Hartline
got started.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
Well, it is a big game. Texas favored by 1.5,
and we've got 100 degrees at kickoff at 7.30 tomorrow night.
Let's get into some score predictions. How did we do
last week first? Oh, yes.

Speaker 4 (57:43):
Come on now.

Speaker 8 (57:43):
Well, the final score was 56-3. And with a prediction
of 56-6. Kelly Quinn killed it.

Speaker 22 (57:52):
What did I say?

Speaker 2 (57:56):
52-10, I think I said. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (58:04):
Jeff, you had 63-10. I had 63-0. I just needed.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
One more touchdown.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
I know.

Speaker 8 (58:08):
That second drive that sputtered out.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
That was the one.

Speaker 4 (58:11):
Queen Kelly, you get to start. All right.

Speaker 6 (58:13):
I'll start. I predict Ohio State will win 20-17.

Speaker 15 (58:17):
20-17?

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (58:19):
All right.

Speaker 22 (58:21):
I've got the Buckeyes winning this game as well. I
think it would be easy to take Texas. But, guys,
I still believe in this team. I believe in Julian Sand.

Speaker 14 (58:29):
24-19.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
24-19 in this game. I love goofy numbers.

Speaker 9 (58:37):
You're going to do it. I know you're going to
do it.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
I am. I'm sorry. It's okay. And it's literally, and
it comes, this is no offense to anyone, this is
home field advantage. You have two amazing teams, and I
think it's going to come down to home field advantage. 21-17,
Texas is going to squeak it out.

Speaker 6 (58:55):
Yeah, it's the smart pick because we are all picking
the Buckeyes. The smart pick is to pick Texas.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
It is not a hater move.

Speaker 14 (59:02):
No.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
A little bit of a hater move, but not a.

Speaker 8 (59:05):
Full-blown hater move.

Speaker 9 (59:06):
I think this guy, after this past weekend, he's hating
his own team more.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
Than the Buckeyes do.

Speaker 9 (59:10):
I understand.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
Not much to like up there.

Speaker 9 (59:12):
I got the Buckeyes winning 34-24. All right.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Hey, by the way, I want you to go on
the record here.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (59:18):
Because your guys, team up north, playing Oklahoma.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
Uh-huh.

Speaker 22 (59:22):
Now, two weeks ago, Michigan... was a 7.5-point favorite in
this game. Now they are a 5.5-point underdog.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
Oh, really?

Speaker 22 (59:32):
After their game against Western Michigan, which may still be
going on. There may still be time on the clock
left over.

Speaker 4 (59:39):
They may still be playing.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
An extra moment.

Speaker 22 (59:42):
But anyway, give me your pick in that game. Oklahoma
at the big house.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Oh, they're getting their asses handed to them.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
Oklahoma is?

Speaker 12 (59:50):
No.

Speaker 14 (59:51):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
I told you.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
I told you.

Speaker 8 (59:54):
Is there any chance the MAAC wins this appeal and
they get the win for Western Michigan?

Speaker 15 (59:59):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
They're not going to overturn a win.

Speaker 8 (01:00:01):
I didn't think so.

Speaker 22 (01:00:02):
But people that are realistic expectations, and obviously Vegas recognized it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
This is a team that lost to Western Michigan.

Speaker 22 (01:00:12):
The spread doesn't change with that kind of a performance.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
It's unfortunate.

Speaker 22 (01:00:18):
I go back, and just real quickly, guys, I know
we're up against it. Go back to two years ago when...
When Howard, our quarterback, slid at the end of the
Oregon game.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:00:31):
When we could have kicked a field goal to win
the game. Was there one tenth left on some secret
clock that some guy's got in his pocket?

Speaker 14 (01:00:38):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
To be able to rely upon. No one knew about
the secret clock.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Yeah, here's the thing. Obviously, I'm not mad at the
players or coaches. They had nothing to do with it.
They followed what the referees did. They followed whatever New
York did. The conspiracy that Michigan cheated, that's a bunch
of BS. All they had to do was defend a
Hail Mary. They didn't do it. The one thing that
I am absolutely livid and embarrassed to my core about
is them storming the field. What a bunch of jackasses.

Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
No kidding, man. Oh, my God.

Speaker 22 (01:01:08):
But if you take a bunch of freshman students that
are there that are taking every one of their classes
pass-fail in the first year.

Speaker 10 (01:01:16):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
You know about this, right?

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
That doesn't start until next year.

Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
I don't care when it starts.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
I agree with you.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
You're going to a school that doesn't know.

Speaker 22 (01:01:23):
Well, we want your mental health to be perfect, so
we're going to give you pass-fail when you come here
as a freshman.

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
Give me a break.

Speaker 22 (01:01:30):
You are an extraordinary institution with high levels of academic requirements.

Speaker 10 (01:01:35):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:36):
And you're going to, let's go pass-fail.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
And the only other thing is it's the remedial courses.
You know, kind of the math 101 is a pass-fail.
I completely agree with you. But anyways, yes. The only
thing I will say is if there's a coach... to
kind of kick you in the ass. Kyle's one of
those guys. You're not going to change everything, and Bryce

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better be a million times better. The offensive line better
be a million times better. The running game, everything better
be a million times better. But Kyle's the guy, and
we're still going to get our asses kicked.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
But you're right.

Speaker 22 (01:02:06):
Every one of those students that stormed that field, losers.
I mean, just an embarrassment at all levels. Great to
be with you guys.

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
And Kelly, 1-0 to start the season. That a girl.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Go Bucs.

Speaker 8 (01:02:18):
Go Bucs.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
you go.

Speaker 6 (01:02:24):
Well, you think you're paying a lot more at the
grocery store. How about this? Government inspectors have found that
more than one of the Kroger stores in multiple Ohio,
one in three, rather, Kroger stores in multiple Ohio jurisdictions
have overcharged their customers.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Knew it!

Speaker 6 (01:02:39):
A third of the Kroger stores are overcharging, according to
this report. The Center for Responsible Food Business says pricing
errors favored Kroger three times as often as they favored shoppers,
of course. According to the report, customers, employees, and suppliers
have encountered pricing problems ranging from repeated overcharges to misleading sales.

(01:03:02):
The overcharges average more than 20% above shelf prices. This
includes Kroger stores in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, and Georgia.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Wait, you go grab your box of cereal for $ 4. 59
and you get to the register and it rings up
as $ 4.

Speaker 10 (01:03:16):
99?

Speaker 14 (01:03:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:03:17):
So if you're not paying attention... No.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
One pays attention to every price on the shelf versus
what rung up at the.

Speaker 6 (01:03:23):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Is this a class action?

Speaker 6 (01:03:26):
I don't know what'll come of it, but it's pretty interesting,
isn't it? You've got to pay close attention, especially when
we've got tighter budgets.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
That's crazy.

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
Yeah. Well, we are marking the 25th anniversary of the
9-11 terror attacks. Last hour, we heard a lot of
the Howard Stern show from that morning, which is what
we were airing here on The Blitz. Four jets were hijacked.
We'll play that again next hour for you, too, if
you missed it. Four jets were hijacked. And after the
North and South Towers of the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon were hit, a plane went down near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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The FAA ordered all civilian aircraft in U.S. airspace to
land at the nearest suitable airport. At the time, the
Columbus crew was on a flight from Tampa to Denver.
The pilot announced to the team there had been a
terrorist attack and they had to make an emergency landing
in Alabama. Here at the radio station, it was all
hands on deck. Our news director sent Ronnie Hunter to

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the airport to see what was going on there. It
was described as eerily quiet. By the time she got there,
no flights taking off, just these empty airplanes all lined up,
nothing moving. Surrounded passengers trying to figure out what to do.

Speaker 10 (01:04:33):
Spoke with Randy Bush in charge of ground transportation here
at the airport. He says that the airport is supplying
free shuttles to hotels or any other location that passengers
and customers may want to get to right now. Many
airlines have paid for hotels for their customers or at
least offered vouchers to pay for portions of hotels, and

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many local hotels have also offered lower costs and complimentary
rooms too. The airport is offering free transportation to hotels.

Speaker 6 (01:05:01):
So already you're seeing people sort of starting to be generous.
You know, it is like our first instinct, I think,
is to try to help people and businesses across central
Ohio immediately began coming together to help. We donated blood.
We gave money, food, supplies. People started enlisting in the
military and marching straight into the heart of disaster. Ohio

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Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue Team. The evening
of 9-11, this team assembled at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
loaded up their equipment, and drove all night into Manhattan.
They reached Manhattan in the morning. The team worked for
roughly 10 days helping search for survivors. and eventually working
through the massive debris field. Rescue team manager Mike Mull

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spoke to NPR.

Speaker 16 (01:05:48):
The work was extremely difficult. It was difficult physically.

Speaker 11 (01:05:52):
It was mentally challenging, especially as we were engaged for
the first 24 to 48 hours, and it became a
little more apparent that survivors were going to be very
scarce and that we were dealing with a much different
type of incident in the form of recovery versus rescue.

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It was very challenging for everybody to wrap their head
around that.

Speaker 6 (01:06:16):
Just that massive piles of debris that we saw over
the news. And it was, to this day, the longest
continuing news coverage of any single event.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
I believe that. Absolutely. I was there. I was in
New York City in March of 2022. And I went
down there. And even in March, it was still just...
An absolute disaster zone down there in terms of cleanup continuing,
the fencing, walking by the fencing with the pictures and

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the letters that were written to not only the firefighters,
but all the victims.

Speaker 6 (01:06:54):
You were there six months after.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Right. Exactly. It was six months after. And not only that,
but just the other blocks around, not only, of course,
the hole left in the ground from the two towers, but...
In about a three block radius, walking those streets, looking
up to the seventh floor and seeing nothing but plywood.

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Because you're talking three blocks away, the windows that were
blown out of businesses, apartment buildings. I mean, the whole area,
you know, of course we talk about the ground zero area,
but that entire surrounding area was just a disaster. Yeah.
It's like stuff you see on the news when they're
talking about war in third world countries and things like that.

Speaker 8 (01:07:36):
That's what it looked like.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
That's what it looked like. It was unbelievable.

Speaker 8 (01:07:39):
I told Kelly one thing that I still, like, I
remember it like it was yesterday was her walking into
the studio and me potting her up to do the
news and her saying the World Trade Center is no more.

Speaker 9 (01:07:49):
Those were exact words. I'll never forget it.

Speaker 12 (01:07:50):
Yeah. Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:07:52):
I don't even remember saying that. So that's interesting. Of course,
one of the most horrific things was watching people leap.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:07:59):
That was just absolutely horrifying.

Speaker 5 (01:08:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
I forgot. I forgot what name they gave him. But
the gentleman who was still picture of him. I mean,
just it's you.

Speaker 6 (01:08:10):
Can't imagine what went through. Well, within days, also at
ground zero, President Bush and he delivered and he was
there with the emergency workers and then delivered an impromptu
bullhorn speech.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
As we mourn the loss.

Speaker 7 (01:08:23):
Of thousands of our citizens.

Speaker 8 (01:08:28):
I can hear you.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
I can hear you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
The rest of the world hears you.

Speaker 7 (01:08:44):
And the people who knocked these buildings down will.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
Hear all of us soon. He missed a golden opportunity
by ending that speech with, today we celebrate our Independence Day.
I mean, he had to. the megaphone ready to go.
Here's the thing. We are not political on the show.
I'm not getting political. But I want everyone to spend

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10 seconds thinking about those, let's call it 90 days,
even six months. Do you remember the feeling we all
had that 90 days, six months after that happened? Boy,
that would be really nice to get back to.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
It really would.

Speaker 6 (01:09:30):
We're all one.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
We're all Americans.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
Period. That would be really great to get back to.

Speaker 10 (01:09:34):
I agree.

Speaker 6 (01:09:35):
All right. Those are your three things.

Speaker 13 (01:09:38):
Not so breaking news. The news already broke. We're trying
to put it back together.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
Our first story takes us over to San Francisco, where
a gentleman was walking his dog. James Hildigo was out
on the beach walking his dog. And, you know, if
you're in a major metropolitan area, there's a chance that
you might come across someone who... Either is not all there,
might be abusing the substances, might have had a little

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too much to drink. You don't know. I've been in
plenty of places where you're like, oh, we're just going
to kind of take the long way around that person.
You know, I've had confrontations. I've been on High Street
with people yelling at me, you know, as Nora and
I have gone to date night, because you know that, well,
that person probably partook. And that's exactly what happened to
James Hildegard. He was walking his dog along the beach.

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And that's when another man... came up to him and said,
Are you calling me a dog? James was like, I'm
walking my dog. And I don't know what set the
man off, but that man decided to attack James. Here's
the problem. James is the owner and founder of Infinite

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Martial Arts in San Francisco. where he trains Taekwondo. And
not only that, he has participated in martial arts for
about two decades. And not only that, he serves as
a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Not the
guy you want to attack on the beach. Sure enough,

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James easily got the guy down into the sand and
held him there while onlookers called 911. What's really interesting is...
that Channel 4 out there in San Francisco was at
the beach covering another story. So they actually have video
evidence of the whole thing going down. So James was
arrested with the other man, but once they cleared everything up,

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I shouldn't say arrested, he was detained while they figured
out what was going on and James was instantly released
and this other man was taken into custody and will
be spending a little time behind bars. Story number two.
Let me preface this with I am not condoning any
sort of activity. However, I will say one of my
biggest fears in life is as I get older, in

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some way, shape, or form, losing my brain power. Whether
it be something like Alzheimer's, dementia, or even something like
Parkinson's where you kind of lose physical control of your body.
That is probably the scariest thing in the world to me.
Can't imagine. Which is why I might take up smoking again.

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Because it has been found after a study of more
than half a million adults, smoking is a huge deterrent
to Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions.

Speaker 7 (01:12:38):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
There is something about the carbon monoxide.

Speaker 9 (01:12:43):
Oh, it's not the nicotine.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
It's not the nicotine.

Speaker 9 (01:12:45):
It's the bad part.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
Yes. There's something about the carbon monoxide. that protects the
brain from developing neurodegenerative conditions. Parkinson's being the biggest one
they have found.

Speaker 9 (01:12:57):
You might die a little younger, but you'll still know
your name.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Yeah, that's about it.

Speaker 8 (01:13:01):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
That's about it.

Speaker 6 (01:13:02):
Best case scenario.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
Right. So if you want to avoid the tremors, the mesorigity,
problems with balance, and all the things that come with Parkinson's,
then either pick the pack back up or don't put
it down. But again, I'm not condoning any such activity.

Speaker 8 (01:13:20):
ALS is the one that freaks me out.

Speaker 9 (01:13:23):
That, to me, is the worst. You just lose everything.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Yeah. I can't even imagine. So, yeah, take that for
what it's worth. But if you are a smoker or
want to start smoking, it has shown to make Parkinson's
significantly less common in people who smoke.

Speaker 16 (01:13:45):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
Here's something that I'm sure will get some people stirred up.
April Spiller has plenty of experience with kids. She's been
a teacher for the past 11 years. She has nieces
and nephews, has multiple friends with kids. And she says
as a childless adult who's been around and helped raise
over 2000 other people's kids. So I'm giving you advice

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because I've either been there or I've seen others going
through it. And it's kind of blown up online. Because
the one thing that people are taking away from this,
not being a teacher for 11 years, not having nieces
and nephews, and not having multiple friends with kids, it's
her saying as a childless adult. And right off the bat,

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people are like, yeah, you can shut up. Yep. That's
how you feel, Vic?

Speaker 9 (01:14:33):
Yeah, they don't really get it.

Speaker 10 (01:14:37):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (01:14:37):
You can't. You just can't. I don't blame them for it.
You know, you don't know unless you're a parent. You
really don't.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
What about if you're responsible for the kids for eight
hours a day, but then they go home to the parents?

Speaker 8 (01:14:51):
Like a teacher, you've... You can't have that feeling for
a kid if you don't have the kid.

Speaker 9 (01:14:58):
You don't understand.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
I don't think it has to do with feelings. They're
talking about raising a child and how to raise a child.
So they're talking about rules in place, how to handle
a tantrum, how to handle this scenario, how to handle
that scenario. It's not about can you love a child.
It's about raising a child.

Speaker 4 (01:15:17):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
So are you taking advice on how to raise a
child from... a childless adult?

Speaker 8 (01:15:22):
Well, I guess that depends on the advice because they
may give me advice and I'm like, well, yeah, but
he does this and what about this? And they might
not know that.

Speaker 9 (01:15:32):
So I guess it depends on the advice.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:15:34):
I feel like the answer is no, you're not taking
their advice. And I don't know if I would either
if I were a parent.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
You seem like the type that wouldn't.

Speaker 8 (01:15:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:15:41):
I love to give advice.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
You seem like the type that wants to give it,
but you wouldn't take it.

Speaker 6 (01:15:45):
I will tell you what to do all day, but
I don't take advice. No, I mean, I know people
who've had kids. I don't have kids. Boy, somebody can
correct me if I've ever tried to offer advice on
child rearing. I don't think I have. I know my lane,
and that's not my lane. But I've never been a teacher.
I've never really had any hands-on experience in raising a

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child for any portion of any day outside of babysitting.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
800-821-9970. Both parents and non-parents alike. As a non-parent, would
you give advice? Have you given advice? As a parent,
would you take it? Or would you say you have
no idea what you're talking about? Here's what I'll say
to the flip side of that. About Thick saying, you know,
you just can't know. You have no idea what it's

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like if you've never had a child in your house
or whatever.

Speaker 9 (01:16:34):
Yeah, you've got them 24-7, man.

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
But the thing I'll say to that, though, is that
even getting advice from other parents... You should probably ignore
as well because no two kids are the same. And
so the way that one child handles something or the
way you should, you know, handle this particular situation may
work for that child and won't work for another child.

Speaker 13 (01:16:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:16:58):
There's not always a blanket statement. Not a chance.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
No, there is zero blanket statements, I would have to assume, because, again,
now stepping into a step parent role. One of the
main reasons Nora and I are together is because we
have the same mentality. And I watched how she parented.
I'm like, oh, that's how I would parent. That's one
of the main reasons my first marriage didn't work out.
Because that was not the household that I, that's not

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how I would run my household. And that's a pretty
big deal. I had my ideas about how to parent.
But again, I came into it with no kids. Doesn't
mean I don't have opinions. Doesn't mean I haven't seen
kids act a certain way before. So I've got opinions
on how that should be handled. Blair, Ty, who's this? Hello, Blitz. Hi,
who's this?

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
It's Mandy.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Hi, Mandy. Are you a parent or a non-parent?

Speaker 5 (01:17:45):
Oh, I'm a parent.

Speaker 10 (01:17:46):
I'm a parent of four kids.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Four kids. Okay, so you've been through it. You know,
you've seen the different scenarios.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
I absolutely do.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
Would you take advice?

Speaker 6 (01:17:54):
I had to call so quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Would you take advice from someone who's not a parent? No,
absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 8 (01:18:00):
You have to have that bond.

Speaker 6 (01:18:01):
I agree with Dick and Kelly. You have to have
that bond.

Speaker 4 (01:18:05):
Even to be around them, to raise them, you do
not know unless you are a.

Speaker 10 (01:18:08):
Parent, period.

Speaker 4 (01:18:10):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Are you the type of parent who's been through it
with four kids that has given advice to other parents
or you just kind of keep to your own?

Speaker 4 (01:18:18):
I mean, if they ask. Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:18:19):
But I mean, you know, if they ask, of course.

Speaker 6 (01:18:22):
Unless, you know, I'm going down an aisle in a
grocery store and I see a kid throwing themselves on
the floor and the parents don't do anything, then yeah,
I have to tell somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
So then you pull a Kelly and be like, you
know how I would handle this situation, what you should
be doing. Well, I appreciate the call, Mandy. Thank you
so much. Have a great weekend. Belinda, Ty, who's this?

Speaker 3 (01:18:43):
Karina.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
Karina. Are you a parent or non-parent?

Speaker 4 (01:18:47):
I am a parent.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
You are a parent. Would you take advice? from someone
who is a non-parent?

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
No, because back when I was a kid, I helped
raise my nieces and nephews, and having my own kid now,
it's completely different.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Interesting. Okay. So you did go through it before you
had kids. You helped out, but having your own is
something completely different. Yes. Okay. Well, I appreciate the call.
Thank you so much. Have a great weekend. Think. Keith
texted in and said, that's a bunch of BS, Rick.
I have 27 nieces and nephews and raised at least half.
I know more about parenting than most parents.

Speaker 8 (01:19:22):
Well, you've raised kids.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
If you've raised kids, right.

Speaker 8 (01:19:25):
Whether they're yours, but if you've raised them and lived
with them, you know how different each one of them is.

Speaker 10 (01:19:31):
True.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
True. True, not just some rando giving you advice. Blitz, hi,
who's this?

Speaker 4 (01:19:37):
Donnie.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Donnie, are you a parent or non-parent?

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
I am a parent.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
Okay, and would you take advice from a non-parent or
have you given advice to other people?

Speaker 17 (01:19:48):
I have taken advice from non-parents and I have given advice.

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
I think good advice.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
Okay, did the advice from the non-parent work out? Was
it good advice?

Speaker 17 (01:20:00):
It was great advice.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
What was the advice? Stop kicking your kid.

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
It was to stop beating.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
No, I'm just.

Speaker 13 (01:20:14):
Kidding.

Speaker 17 (01:20:15):
It was good advice. It was how to handle different situations.

Speaker 4 (01:20:20):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
All right. But it came through and worked. I appreciate it.
Thank you so much for the call. Thanks, Goose. Have
a good one. Kelly, now you have nieces and nephews.

Speaker 18 (01:20:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
And you're involved.

Speaker 6 (01:20:31):
Well, the funny thing is, is that, yes, very involved
when they were kids. I loved spending time with them.
I would go over every Friday morning for a couple
hours so my sister, who had seven children, could get
out and have some time to herself. And I got
to spend time with the kids. However, I'm very permissive
with children. Do whatever you want. Let's have a good time.
We're together two hours.

Speaker 11 (01:20:51):
What do I care?

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
I'm a fun girl.

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
I'm a fun girl.

Speaker 6 (01:20:53):
And the oldest daughter, it stressed her out when I
came over because she was a child of rules. Rules
must be followed.

Speaker 10 (01:21:02):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:21:02):
And things must be done the way my mom does them.
So we had to work that out between me and
the nine-year-old.

Speaker 8 (01:21:08):
Aunt Kelly's a rebel rouser.

Speaker 6 (01:21:09):
Had to work that out.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
Really? Like, look, it's fine.

Speaker 6 (01:21:13):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
I'm going to protect you, but we're going to have
a good time.

Speaker 6 (01:21:15):
We're going to have a good time. And it was
just so stressful for her. So, yeah, I can't even
help out a nine-year-old with her emotions. So I don't
think I can give parenting advice.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
Did you ever give your sister advice on the kids?

Speaker 7 (01:21:25):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:21:26):
I've given her advice on her marriage.

Speaker 9 (01:21:30):
Well, you had a successful one.

Speaker 4 (01:21:32):
Right. Exactly.

Speaker 8 (01:21:33):
Now, Goose, you have said, you know, for many, many years,
you never saw yourself As being a parent.

Speaker 4 (01:21:39):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:21:40):
And now you have two step-sons. And so what have
you found that you didn't expect? Because I know you
love it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
Yeah, well, here's the thing, though. I love it because
it is the easiest thing in the world. Again, that's
one of the reasons Nora and I are together. Because
they are the two most perfect boys ever. They are great. Yeah,
so it's like I've got nothing to worry about. Like
the biggest thing I have to worry about is a
very inquisitive want to be with you 14-year-old. Question, question, question.

Speaker 9 (01:22:10):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
Question, question, question. What about this? What about this?

Speaker 8 (01:22:13):
That's great, though.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
No, I get it. But it's also like.

Speaker 6 (01:22:16):
You're a single dude coming into this.

Speaker 21 (01:22:18):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:22:19):
There's a lot of togetherness.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
A lot of togetherness. Yeah. I mean, sure. The inquisitiveness
can get a bit overbearing. Like, I can't show Nora anything. Like, ha,
look at this, Nora. Can I see?

Speaker 10 (01:22:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:22:30):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
Wants to be a part of everything, which, again, is great.

Speaker 6 (01:22:33):
It's sweet, yes.

Speaker 8 (01:22:34):
I'd rather that than him not talking to anybody. I
hate that. How was school today?

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
Fine.

Speaker 9 (01:22:39):
And that's the only thing you hear? And then off
to their room.

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
No, we do get that. Not anything? Not really. Okay. Blitz,
who's this? Hey, good morning. Who's Tony? Hey, Tony. How
are you on a Friday? Weekend kicking off, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
Hey, dude, I'm having a great morning.

Speaker 16 (01:22:56):
I got to talk to you two days in a row.

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
My dude, my favorite DJ.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
Hey, we love it, Tony. Thank you so much, man.
That's the energy you need rolling into the weekend, man.

Speaker 6 (01:23:05):
That's the guy you need good parenting advice from. He's
going to pump you up.

Speaker 7 (01:23:09):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
We're going to do this, kids. You're the best. You
got this.

Speaker 6 (01:23:12):
Love that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
Thank you so much, Tony. Absolutely. I hope you have
a great weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
you go.

Speaker 6 (01:23:21):
Hey, you may be getting a $ 500 check from the U.S.

Speaker 4 (01:23:24):
Government.

Speaker 6 (01:23:25):
Starting in October, about a million people will be getting
these checks in 30 states, including Ohio. Anybody who used
the federally operated exchange to buy insurance plans under the
Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, the money is
coming after enrollees were hit with massive insurance premiums after
Congress let subsidies expire at the end of 2025. So

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you will be getting a $ 500 check in the mail
next month. solemn remembrances across the nation today as we
mark the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks on
September 11, 2001. The morning started out as any other
here on The Blitz. At the time, we ran the
Howard Stern Show. And just after the first plane hit

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the World Trade Center at 8.46 a.m., well, let's listen
to what happened.

Speaker 12 (01:24:12):
This is a breaking news story, a serious news story.
A plane has crashed into the world. Trade Center is
on fire, which is the.

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
What is going on?

Speaker 5 (01:24:25):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
Let me look out my window.

Speaker 3 (01:24:27):
It's the tallest.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
I just heard you say that John made out with
Pamela Lake.

Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
Look out the window. You can see it or you can.

Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
The whole thing is on fire.

Speaker 15 (01:24:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:24:34):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
I mean, not a little fire.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
No, it's huge. Oh, it's huge.

Speaker 14 (01:24:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:24:38):
What if a plane hits a building?

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
But what kind of plane?

Speaker 8 (01:24:40):
Was it a private.

Speaker 4 (01:24:42):
I.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
Don't have any more details. I'm following this story.

Speaker 18 (01:24:44):
I hope this wasn't one of those terrorist kamikaze attacks. Unfortunately,
it's early in the morning. Maybe not too many people
are in the building.

Speaker 6 (01:24:50):
Yeah, I hope not.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
There's a rumor.

Speaker 18 (01:24:51):
Somebody just called and said on CNN, a second plane
just crashed into it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
Stop it! Wait a minute! There are two buildings, and
that is lower! So it's a terrorist attack, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
That's what they're saying.

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
It's got to be.

Speaker 6 (01:25:05):
You can hear them moving from talking about Pamela Anderson.

Speaker 14 (01:25:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:25:10):
Sort of still in the joking mood.

Speaker 21 (01:25:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:25:12):
How quickly it got serious. In this next clip here
is during the time when the plane hit the Pentagon.

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
This is crazy. We're under attack. We're going into buildings.
We're under attack.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:24):
That's, oh my God.

Speaker 4 (01:25:27):
It's war.

Speaker 8 (01:25:28):
Pentagon.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
The Pentagon, what? Stop it. What, is there another explosion? Wait,
what's going on? Is there another explosion?

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
Attack the Pentagon.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
They just attacked the Pentagon.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
Man.

Speaker 14 (01:25:36):
Ugh.

Speaker 6 (01:25:36):
And then things got emotional. In fact, some of the
people that Howard was talking to that morning got emotional.
This next clip is when the South Tower fell.

Speaker 13 (01:25:45):
Oh, no.

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
Wait a second. What happened? What just happened?

Speaker 8 (01:25:49):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
What just happened?

Speaker 8 (01:25:50):
Look at that.

Speaker 16 (01:25:51):
Oh, the whole World Trade Center just collapsed. Oh, my God.
The whole thing just completely dropped. It actually collapsed.

Speaker 6 (01:25:59):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
Oh, my God. Anybody who had a chance of getting
out of there.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
It collapsed. Doesn't have a chance now.

Speaker 4 (01:26:06):
Are you watching the footage?

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:26:07):
Oh, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
Horrific.

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
The whole thing just collapsed.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
What?

Speaker 6 (01:26:11):
Everything around there is in danger.

Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
The whole building is gone. It's just gone.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
It's gone and people are in there.

Speaker 8 (01:26:16):
You know, I was running stern that day and that's
how I found out.

Speaker 9 (01:26:20):
Man, I'm listening. I remember it like it was yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
I was working nights and I was at home watching
the TV when it happened. And I was working at
a radio station in Detroit. And my brother had lived
in New York for many years at that time. And
so trying to do.

Speaker 4 (01:26:35):
Oh, he already lived there. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
He moved there the day after he graduated college.

Speaker 10 (01:26:39):
Oh, wow.

Speaker 8 (01:26:39):
He was there.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Oh, yeah. And not only was he there, but I
remember trying to call him and get him on the phone. One,
you couldn't get through.

Speaker 4 (01:26:45):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
I finally did get through because I was trying to
do the right radio thing. And as a media person,
you're always looking for information or an in. And I
was like, well... Talk to someone who lives in Manhattan.
Not only was he in Manhattan, he was down towards
the financial district down there at the post office on
his bike. He said he could read the tail numbers

(01:27:08):
on the second plane. It flew right over before it hit.
And he says he could not talk about it. There
was no way he was going to go on the
air or anything. He was so... You're just overcome.

Speaker 3 (01:27:20):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:27:20):
With emotion and confusion. Of course, none of us had
any idea yet what was going on or what more
was to come or the magnitude of the situation. In fact,
we were all wondering, are they targeting government buildings? Like,
are we next? That's sort of the idea.

Speaker 21 (01:27:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:27:36):
Here in Columbus, Mayor Mike Coleman spoke at City Hall
trying to reassure us in Columbus that we were okay.

Speaker 14 (01:27:42):
Let me emphasize that the city of Columbus, there is
no indication of any threat against our city or our
citizens at this time. And we have been in constant
minute-by-minute communications with the appropriate federal and state authorities to

(01:28:02):
monitor the national situation.

Speaker 6 (01:28:06):
Governor Bob Taft then addressed Ohioans by echoing FDR, calling
9-11 a day that would live in infamy.

Speaker 5 (01:28:12):
But we will not be terrorized. We will not submit
to fear. We will not forego our freedom.

Speaker 6 (01:28:21):
You know, an interesting thing, too, for those who were
like in school, elementary school. I remember in Columbus, they
were not letting kids out for recess because we were
so afraid that we were next.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
No idea what was happening. What's really interesting is. As
I listen back to these clips, I don't know if
there is... a certain study when you get into politics
and you start looking at other politicians. I don't know
if there's a certain delivery or if there's literally a
certain setting on a microphone. But when you listen to big,

(01:28:53):
huge news stories like this and others, they all kind
of sound the same. They have this eerie tone. They
have this eerie echo, this eerie delivery. It's strange. You
go back and you listen to reports of D-Day or
the JFK assassination or just these major news stories. They

(01:29:16):
all have this same... Let.

Speaker 14 (01:29:19):
Me emphasize that the city of Columbus, there is no indication.

Speaker 6 (01:29:24):
Yeah, and you're hearing it with like a layer of
the fear that was there.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
Yes, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 6 (01:29:30):
We were all, it was just such a numb feeling.
And this is all before we knew the magnitude of
the dead, 2,977 people dead. And by evening, all of
us on 9-11 watched as President George W. Bush addressed
the nation.

Speaker 7 (01:29:45):
This is a day when all Americans from every walk
of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace.
None of us will ever forget this day. Yet we
go forward to defend freedom and all that is good
and just in our world.

Speaker 6 (01:30:03):
Yeah, it's a little overwhelming to re-listen to all this
stuff again. I sort of avoid it because it does
drum up such deep, sad emotions.

Speaker 4 (01:30:11):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:30:12):
Terrible day. Yeah, I said it last hour and I'll
say it again for the people that weren't listening. For
10 seconds, close your eyes or just remember Those three
to six months after 9-11 and the way we all
felt and every story after that was some sort of fundraiser, unification,

(01:30:32):
holding hands, standing next to each other, support for your neighbor.
There was just this overall unification that we all circled
around one thing. And boy, would it be really nice
to have that feeling again.

Speaker 8 (01:30:47):
Wouldn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
Without, without the disaster, obviously. Yes, please.

Speaker 6 (01:30:51):
And without the, uh, eventual turning on each other, which
does seem to happen now even more quickly than it did.

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
A hundred percent. Just to have that feeling of unification
one more time, like we did on, you know, November
12th of 2021. Right.

Speaker 6 (01:31:06):
We're for each other. We want to help each other.

Speaker 14 (01:31:10):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (01:31:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:31:11):
That was, uh, one thing, one result that was actually, uh,
I don't know, heartwarming, I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:31:17):
Out of this whole disaster. All right, those are your
three things.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
99.7 The Blitz. Now, let's see if we can learn
you something. Sit up and pay attention. Yeah, let's learn
you some stuff on Friday morning. Send you into the
weekend with a bigger brain than you had when you
woke up this morning. Like, did you know Steve Jobs
has received more than 140 patents since his death? They

(01:31:41):
were all pending when he died and since then have
been approved.

Speaker 10 (01:31:44):
What?

Speaker 8 (01:31:45):
What do you do with those?

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
Well, I'm assuming they stick with the Apple Company, whatever
patents they may be. Okay. Did you know that construction
on the Pentagon began on September 11, 1941? For real?
I did not know.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
That.

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
You can't make that up. 60 years before 9-11, obviously. Wow. Yeah.
That's crazy. What a weird coincidence. Did you know Joan
of Arc wasn't from a place called Ark? She grew
up in a village in France called Domremy. Her name
in French is Joan d'Arc, because d'Arc was her father's

(01:32:22):
last name. Joan of Arc. Right. Did you know that
the inventor of cruise control was blind?

Speaker 5 (01:32:32):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:32:32):
That seems a little interesting. Never drove a car, but
figured out a way to make it maintain 75 miles
an hour. Good for you. All right. And finally, did
you know that Google searches for why is my poop
green peak between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. and then
again between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.? So it's either

(01:32:57):
the people that are starting their day with a trip
to the porcelain throne or people who have just finished
dinner and relaxing on the couch and then you have
a poop and you're like, That's really green. Why is that?

Speaker 8 (01:33:10):
Did you happen to see what Google says to that question?

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
Did not.

Speaker 16 (01:33:14):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
I'm sure there's multiple reasons.

Speaker 8 (01:33:15):
When you said they peak, I thought you were going
to say on March 17th.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
No. No, every day about the time. But yeah, green beer.

Speaker 8 (01:33:24):
I got to believe that does something.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
Absolutely. The food coloring does something for sure. Yeah. You
got to know. It also happens in case you're a
fan like I am of Buffalo Wild Wings Thai curry sauce.

Speaker 8 (01:33:34):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
That'll give you a special little coloring where you're like...
You got it that first time. You're like, hey, hey, hey, hey. Oh, okay.
It makes sense now.

Speaker 20 (01:33:45):
Now I remember.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
There you go. Learning some stuff on a Friday morning, 99.7
The Blitz.

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