August 4, 2025 • 30 mins
Cincinnati reminds us of what we have allowed ourselves to become capable of
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
your day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Monday morning, fourth day of August. I'm Wes, thanks for
joining me talk about climate change. I don't know about
where you are. I can just speak for where I live,
where a large chunk of our listeners live. We're based
out of the Chattahoochee Valley area. It's where this show
(00:30):
started on radio and worked its way into this format
as well. It went from you know, you could just
take you could just take shrimp, put them outside and
they would have steam cooked or boiled, just sitting outside
in the humidity and in the heat. That's what we
were dealing with. And then suddenly it just all of
(00:53):
a sudden, we had this weather come through, this severe weather.
We had some heavy rain and we started our Sunday
with a lot of humidity, but the temperatures were down
and it was very deceptive because you thought, wow, we're
in the seven mid seventies to low seventies. Seems like
(01:14):
it's gonna be nice. And before church yesterday, Jelle and
I went for a walk with the dog and we thought,
let's get out there in this and enjoy it. And
as soon as we stepped outside, it was like walking
just into a steam room. It was very, very humid.
And we did our walk and thought, well, okay, well
(01:36):
this is what we're dealing with, okay, And then by
you know, mid afternoon yesterday, it started to feel really nice.
And it's been a nice break. Obviously it's not gonna last,
but we got a little bit of a break from
all of the heat and the nastiness. Now. I know
(01:57):
you may be saying to yourself, you know, shut up, Wes.
You were in Australia in wintertime, just like weeks ago. True,
and I can't say that I don't deserve to have
come back to boiling hot weather in the southeast US
and had to just endure it. Because we did. We
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got quite a bit of a break from it. However,
I'm looking at it more like this, Hey, I brought
some cooler weather for everybody to enjoy. That's how I'm
looking at it. I like to think that that's what's happened.
It's not that I'm catching another break. That's not what
it is. I'm just trying to share what we were
enjoying while we were on our trip. That's all. It's simple,
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not overly complicated. I just want to be able to
pass along what we were getting in some of our
nicer weather days, and we still had some heat and humidity,
not so much humidity, we had quite a bit of
heat at times. Relatively speaking, nothing what was going on here,
but for wintertime it was certainly warmer. But it's been nice.
One of those things where you just go sit outside
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and enjoy just being outside. Just go outside. We have
a nice screened in deck. We just sit out there.
We haven't been able to do that since we've been
home from our trip because it's just been awful, you know,
like sitting on the surface of Venus. Awful. That's what
we've been. But you guys dealt with that while I
was gone, So I can't sit here and act like,
(03:30):
you know, boohoo cried too much about it. I just
know that it was nice to be able to sit
outside last night. A lot going on today. We got
back to school for many in our area. Some started
late last week, some starting later this week, depending on
where you are. I know, if you're outside of this
part of the southeast. I've got one friend his kid
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doesn't go back until like after Labor Day, and that's
just all regional depending on where you live.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But for many in our listening area, back to school today.
So in just a short while from when I'm recording,
people will be doing that first day of school drop off,
which it's hectic, it's crazy, it's confusing, especially if it's
your first day at a new school and then comes
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the afternoon hallacious first day. Really the whole first week
of after school pickup, it's pretty nasty. It's not fun,
it's not good. We have to all work together to
get through it.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
We can do this.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We can all do this together. We have to work
to make it work. We have to be considerate of others.
I know it's a tall order, but we can do it.
We have to take the opportunity that we have presented
to us to go. If your child gets in the
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car and you've got a clear path in front of
you and there are no kids, no other cars, no
other adults, no humans, no animals, just go. Paul Riser
had a great bit from his book and his stand
up from back in the Day, back before he did
Mad About You. I guess where He just said, look
there'd be no traffic if everybody would just go. It's wise,
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it's funny, it's observational, it's true, there would be none
if you would just go. So keep that in mind.
Be aware that the speed zone cameras that none of
us are especially happy about. There's some people who say
that they are, but they're not going to be happy
when they get popped because the camera. You know, there's
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all these stories of people saying, I was driving through
that area and it was it was Sunday, and I
still got a ticket and I just paid it, and
I thought, well's you probably shouldn't have paid that. Those
are only supposed.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
To be getting you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And again, you gotta be going, they said, according to
our mayor, according to skip you know, eleven miles over
the speed limit. I think you said eleven, but all right,
shouldn't be getting you for doing up to ten or
eleven over the school zone speed limit on a Sunday.
So if you were doing eleven twelve over on the weekend,
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that's on you. But I know there's a lot of
people are that aren't happy with it, just because of
the fact that this has got a private company that's
put these things in and you know, a portion of
it goes to the city, which schools became the main
focus for it. All those sorts of things. I get it.
I understand. You just need to be aware of the fact.
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Probably shouldn't drive on those roads unless you have to.
I don't like it because one of the roads in
particular that has those cameras now one that I regularly
drive on. Not happy about it. I get it, it's inconvenient,
but I kind of have to go around it if
I can help it, especially on the first week of school.
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That's the other thing I got to tell you. Look,
today you don't have a kid in school, there's going
to be that window of time when schools are getting out.
Just don't go near a school. You gotta remember you
got to put a you know, put a rubber band
on your wrist or something today and if you start
to head out and you're driving and you see the
rubber band, go oh, it's three o'clock. I don't want
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to go anywhere near school. It's all you can do.
Stay away from the school best you can. All right,
this is the part where I got to talk about
Dragon on pregame show. But there's a reason I'm talking
about it today more so than just to mention our
sponsor at Columbus State University's co Cola Space Scienset. I've
done that. I appreciate their sponsorship of the show. I
(07:44):
have to talk about a past edition of it back
in twenty eleven available on the podcast for the show.
You can listen to it now. My interview with Lonnie
Anderson back in twenty eleven. The pregame show featured Lonnie
Anderson and a TV icon okay, Elvira an icon period
(08:10):
and the great Ernest borgnine Ernie film and TV icon
as well Oscar winner Ernest borgnine. That was the pregame
show then. I mean three of these legends for this
show back in twenty eleven. But Lonnie Anderson, who and
Ernest borgnin of course has passed away years ago, and
(08:33):
he was a sweet man. Loved my conversation with him,
loved talking with Elvira, getting to know her a little bit.
She was a lot of fun, great with her fans
at Dragon Con. But Lonnie Anderson I talked with her
before obviously before Dragon Con that year for the pregame
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show and spent some time with her at the convention.
And we talked about Bert Reynolds, We talked about her career,
We talked about her work as a voice actor. She
was Blondie on the TV series The Cartoon for you know,
bringing Dagwood and Blondie to life, and her just multiple
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roles on TV, but obviously the one that most people
knew her for was for WKRP in Cincinnati. A lot
of radio people is the reason they got into radio
in some way, that show had an influence. There probably
was some influence there. For me, it wasn't a lot.
It wasn't one of those things. For me, it was like, man,
(09:36):
this is why I have to get into radio, just
being honest. Show was fun. I liked it. It was funny.
There were a lot of things about it that I liked.
I can't say that, you know, WKRP made me not
want to be in radio, but I can't specifically like
many people say, boy, I just had to do it.
I'm sure there was something to it there. I'm sure
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that there was. And when I interviewed Lonnie, I probably
at the time may have even felt more so like
it was an influence. But anyway, so I chatted with her,
got to spend some time with her at dragon Con.
She was such a nice lady. She was so sweet
and I really appreciated every bit of time that I
(10:18):
had with her talking with her and in person and
on the phone for the interview. And you can check
that out on the Dragon Con pregame show podcast twenty
eleven show Lonnie Anderson. I also recommend listening to the
others on there, the Ernest borgnine and Elvira. I had
fun with him as well. But I had a chance
(10:40):
to talk to Ernest borgnine about a movie that was
important in my childhood but not really a popular movie
by any stretch of the imagination. It was a movie
he did called super Fuzz. It wasn't a good movie
at all, but I enjoyed it. I forced one of
my kids to watch it. Forced the other one yet,
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but it's coming. His day's coming. Sometimes you have to
be able to appreciate bad movies. So check it out.
And again our sponsor for this year's coverage, and we
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Diana on Friday. That interview was in the can as
they say, I've got to do some editing on it,
but had a great talk with her. They'll both be
part of the pregame show. I got two more interviews
that I'm waiting to get booked, and I hope to
have those announcements soon. All right, So, speaking of Cincinnati,
thought it was worth taking a little time to talk
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about this. Look, this beating that took place in Cincinnati.
Two people who got jumped and just absolutely pummeled in
the streets. And there's not a lot to say about
this other than I get scared when I think of
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what we have become as a society, what we've become
capable of. I think that's probably the better way to
put it, more so than what we've become, but what
we've become capable of. I know there's more things that
are coming out about the reason, the cause for this,
and what it was we've had this now. I guess
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there's you can hear someone yelling a racial slur out
right before everything happens, and that's been one of the
things people have said, Oh, these people said something racist,
that it was race related, and I know the mayor
basically has said there is it's a racial issue, but
he's vowing charges for everyone involved. And I guess this
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comes after the pastor was calling it a racial issue.
But the mayor, they're saying there's going to be charges,
and I know they've arrested I think four people or
five people, whatever it is. What concerns me other than
just how graphic this beating was. And now the images
we've seen of the woman who was sucker punched and beaten,
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and now she's saying or that her people are saying,
it's severe brain trauma and it's not acceptable. And I'm
not going to defend someone calling out racial slurs. That's
not what I'm doing. But we have to remind ourselves
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that if we're going to say that we have free speech,
if we're going to say that we defend free speech,
we have to understand that free speech sometimes involves people
saying things that we don't like. Imagine if every time
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someone yelled out, you know, from the river to the sea,
or you know, kill the Jews. Are all these things
that are going on in this what people are calling
we just want the rights for Palestine. We're gays for Palestine,
and these things, And imagine if some of the really
hateful rhetoric that's been said was taken this seriously by
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the Jewish people who've been you know, called to be exterminated,
and you would think that we've calls that serious. It's
kind of surprising we haven't had more fights or conflict there,
but good for people involved that haven't, because if we're
going to say that people have free speech, if we're
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going to say that people can say whatever they want
to in the context of these protests, or if we
want to say that people have the right to say
whatever it is that they want to say in public
short of you know, the things that could specifically cause
I don't know, I think about how we've had people
calling or Trump's assassination or you know, haha, I'm glad
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they tried to shoot him. They just missed. They need
to sight in their scope better in those things. I mean,
I saw all of that, and those people weren't dragged
out in the street and beaten by people in red hats.
That's not what happened. Again, I'm not defending anybody throwing
out racial slurs, That's not what I'm doing. But someone
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throwing out racial slurs doesn't constitute them being beaten within
an inch of their life. That's not who we are,
that's not our justice system. That's not what we're supposed
to be about. We're supposed to be better than that.
We're all the people that were there that could have
stepped in and tried to help. Were they just scared?
(15:47):
Do they see this mob and they think and I
know at the very end, I guess someone stepped in
and helped. But do they just see the mob and
they just think, I can't get involved. I started thinking
about it, and I thought, Man, what what do you
do if you're witnessing this and you're the only person
that seems willing to step up and defend them?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Do you do it?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And then you hope that other people will step up.
The finale of the show, Seinfeld featured this ridiculous premise.
They called it the Samaritan law. They were seeing someone
getting mugged and they didn't do anything to help, and
that's what they got charged with. And that's what brought
about the ridiculous ending for that show, unless you count
(16:31):
the Kurby your Enthusiasm kind of correction that they kind
of did, because they kind of did fix it in
the last episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, But but it
does you think that it's ridiculous to think of a
Samaritan law. But I'm not pro any new laws that
basically tell people what to do. But sometimes you think,
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if only there was a way to charge. I mean,
they're having a hard time charging the people involved, so
they can't really charge the people who didn't help. But
you think about it and you go, well, if people
were just standing around recording it, which is what they
were doing on the Seinfeld episode. Interestingly, it wasn't cell phones,
it was an actual camcorder I think the Kramer had.
(17:16):
But it is an interesting thought. Would we do anything
any differently or would people just saying, ah, I gom,
I right to record it. I got to do that. Again.
I'm not advocating for that law. It's not what I'm doing,
and I'm not defending anybody throwing out racial slurs. That's
not what I'm doing at all. But it scares me
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what we've become capable of. They were able to just
be an angry mob of people and attack somebody because
of something that they said, and that no one seems
willing to try to stop it. They're only worried about
getting the video so that they can get whatever the
five minutes or fifteen minutes or whatever you get out
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of having that video shared on the news. And that's
all that they want. They don't care about the human
there's no humanity. I mean, looking at the images of
this woman, her face, and you can tell just beaten
to within an inch of her life. I don't even
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know that we know who said the racial slur. I
don't know that it should matter. This is what we've
become capable of. It's pretty scary. Today's show brought to
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dccolumbus dot com more West Carol Morning Show. Right after
the break, well, do you have August blues? Now that
(22:09):
the month of August is upon us, it can be
a downer for a lot of people. Basically summer's winding down.
For some that means all the fun that comes with
summer and warm weather goes away. Some it just makes
them aware of the fact that maybe they didn't do
(22:30):
a lot for their summer break, if they had a
summer break or their family had a summer break, didn't
do the things they hoped to do or plan to do.
Others get overwhelmed by back to school, back to work,
or scheduling starts to become a thing, especially if there's
someone going back to school in your life, and then
I suppose it's the thing that I talk about a lot,
(22:52):
and it's not so much that I dread it. I
just the thing that I have dread and issues with
myself is how quickly time goes by, especially that I'm
now a parent of two teenagers and one is now
a junior in high school. The other is in eighth
grade taking a tenth grade class in high school. So
(23:16):
that's where my reality is right now, and I'm feeling
all of those things going by so quickly, and we're
coming up on that time of year where it all
starts to go. It seems so much faster, So I
get it. I don't really have so much blues about August,
but I do have that dread of where it just
(23:37):
feels like someone is slamming their foot on the gas
and we're going to be full throttle, and it'll be
January before we know it, and we're going to be
going what just happened? So, when it comes to dating,
gen Z started doing it on a budget. A new
survey by Bank of America says that fifty percent of
gen Z respondents said that they spent no money at
(23:59):
all on dating none. How does that work? Those who
did spend money on dates spent next to nothing. Twenty
five percent of men thirty percent of women say they
shelled out less than one hundred dollars a month. Instead
of spending money on nights out, they focused on their
financial future. More than half said they were putting more
money into savings, twenty four percent said they were paying
(24:23):
down debt. It's interesting that we have a generation that
is very focused on that apparently, and it's great. I
think that's one of those things that we should be
focused on. But I think it's also interesting that we're
hitting this time where some say that we're in danger
based on our birth rate of going extinct as a population.
(24:48):
There are people who say that one of them is
Elon Musk with concerns about low birth rates. It's something
that's been addressed even in this current administration at one point.
So interesting that folks are apparently not dating in a
certain age group, or they're doing very minimal with dates. Now,
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I would like to hear this story with a follow
up on their finding thrifty or economical ways to go
on dates, rather than just that they're not going on dates.
At all. That's a little bit concerning speaking of dates.
When it comes to dating advice, it seems people would
rather turn to a bot than a friend. A survey
(25:32):
found that fifty seven percent of respondents said that they
trust AI more than the people they know when it
comes to dating advice, and the reason they see AI's
neutral and non judgmental advice is more useful than the
more biased opinions of family and friends. Fifty six percent
say AI is a helpful tool for dating, helping with
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everything from generating first date topics of conversation to analyzing
text messages for red flags. I can get that. I
just think we got to be careful of how much
for trusting it, that's all. We have had this break
in hot temperatures, obviously, but a lot of the country
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has been dealing with hot weather for a really long
time in the sense that it is summer. Everybody acts
so shocked that it gets so hot. But you know
the term when people talk about the dog days of summer.
Don't worry, we're going to get hot again. So we've
heard the term before and you just go, okay, well,
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it means long hot days in the middle of summer.
But there's actually an ancient astrological origin to the term.
It dates back about five thousand years. The dog Days
were named after the dog star, serious which rises and
sets with the sun during that time of year. Ancient
Romans believe that the star's presence added extra heat to
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the season, hence the name. They also believe that the
dog days were responsible for fevers, drought, bad luck, and
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this Monday edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors
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and the Carolinas that'll have a chance to hear it,
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Sean Cruisin and I often like to discuss the science
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behind the science fiction and the connections between where science
fiction sometimes leads to science science sometimes leads to science fiction.
It's just a weird connection that's already there. It's built
into it, and I say it's weird, but it's really not.
It makes perfect sense. The two go together very well.
Learn more about the Coca Cola Space Science Center at
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CCSSC dot org. Learn more about this year's dragon Con
the website, which is DragonCon dot org
The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
your day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Monday morning, fourth day of August. I'm Wes, thanks for
joining me talk about climate change. I don't know about
where you are. I can just speak for where I live,
where a large chunk of our listeners live. We're based
out of the Chattahoochee Valley area. It's where this show
(00:30):
started on radio and worked its way into this format
as well. It went from you know, you could just
take you could just take shrimp, put them outside and
they would have steam cooked or boiled, just sitting outside
in the humidity and in the heat. That's what we
were dealing with. And then suddenly it just all of
(00:53):
a sudden, we had this weather come through, this severe weather.
We had some heavy rain and we started our Sunday
with a lot of humidity, but the temperatures were down
and it was very deceptive because you thought, wow, we're
in the seven mid seventies to low seventies. Seems like
(01:14):
it's gonna be nice. And before church yesterday, Jelle and
I went for a walk with the dog and we thought,
let's get out there in this and enjoy it. And
as soon as we stepped outside, it was like walking
just into a steam room. It was very, very humid.
And we did our walk and thought, well, okay, well
(01:36):
this is what we're dealing with, okay, And then by
you know, mid afternoon yesterday, it started to feel really nice.
And it's been a nice break. Obviously it's not gonna last,
but we got a little bit of a break from
all of the heat and the nastiness. Now. I know
(01:57):
you may be saying to yourself, you know, shut up, Wes.
You were in Australia in wintertime, just like weeks ago. True,
and I can't say that I don't deserve to have
come back to boiling hot weather in the southeast US
and had to just endure it. Because we did. We
(02:20):
got quite a bit of a break from it. However,
I'm looking at it more like this, Hey, I brought
some cooler weather for everybody to enjoy. That's how I'm
looking at it. I like to think that that's what's happened.
It's not that I'm catching another break. That's not what
it is. I'm just trying to share what we were
enjoying while we were on our trip. That's all. It's simple,
(02:46):
not overly complicated. I just want to be able to
pass along what we were getting in some of our
nicer weather days, and we still had some heat and humidity,
not so much humidity, we had quite a bit of
heat at times. Relatively speaking, nothing what was going on here,
but for wintertime it was certainly warmer. But it's been nice.
One of those things where you just go sit outside
(03:08):
and enjoy just being outside. Just go outside. We have
a nice screened in deck. We just sit out there.
We haven't been able to do that since we've been
home from our trip because it's just been awful, you know,
like sitting on the surface of Venus. Awful. That's what
we've been. But you guys dealt with that while I
was gone, So I can't sit here and act like,
(03:30):
you know, boohoo cried too much about it. I just
know that it was nice to be able to sit
outside last night. A lot going on today. We got
back to school for many in our area. Some started
late last week, some starting later this week, depending on
where you are. I know, if you're outside of this
part of the southeast. I've got one friend his kid
(03:51):
doesn't go back until like after Labor Day, and that's
just all regional depending on where you live.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But for many in our listening area, back to school today.
So in just a short while from when I'm recording,
people will be doing that first day of school drop off,
which it's hectic, it's crazy, it's confusing, especially if it's
your first day at a new school and then comes
(04:18):
the afternoon hallacious first day. Really the whole first week
of after school pickup, it's pretty nasty. It's not fun,
it's not good. We have to all work together to
get through it.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
We can do this.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We can all do this together. We have to work
to make it work. We have to be considerate of others.
I know it's a tall order, but we can do it.
We have to take the opportunity that we have presented
to us to go. If your child gets in the
(04:55):
car and you've got a clear path in front of
you and there are no kids, no other cars, no
other adults, no humans, no animals, just go. Paul Riser
had a great bit from his book and his stand
up from back in the Day, back before he did
Mad About You. I guess where He just said, look
there'd be no traffic if everybody would just go. It's wise,
(05:20):
it's funny, it's observational, it's true, there would be none
if you would just go. So keep that in mind.
Be aware that the speed zone cameras that none of
us are especially happy about. There's some people who say
that they are, but they're not going to be happy
when they get popped because the camera. You know, there's
(05:40):
all these stories of people saying, I was driving through
that area and it was it was Sunday, and I
still got a ticket and I just paid it, and
I thought, well's you probably shouldn't have paid that. Those
are only supposed.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
To be getting you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And again, you gotta be going, they said, according to
our mayor, according to skip you know, eleven miles over
the speed limit. I think you said eleven, but all right,
shouldn't be getting you for doing up to ten or
eleven over the school zone speed limit on a Sunday.
So if you were doing eleven twelve over on the weekend,
(06:18):
that's on you. But I know there's a lot of
people are that aren't happy with it, just because of
the fact that this has got a private company that's
put these things in and you know, a portion of
it goes to the city, which schools became the main
focus for it. All those sorts of things. I get it.
I understand. You just need to be aware of the fact.
(06:39):
Probably shouldn't drive on those roads unless you have to.
I don't like it because one of the roads in
particular that has those cameras now one that I regularly
drive on. Not happy about it. I get it, it's inconvenient,
but I kind of have to go around it if
I can help it, especially on the first week of school.
(07:01):
That's the other thing I got to tell you. Look,
today you don't have a kid in school, there's going
to be that window of time when schools are getting out.
Just don't go near a school. You gotta remember you
got to put a you know, put a rubber band
on your wrist or something today and if you start
to head out and you're driving and you see the
rubber band, go oh, it's three o'clock. I don't want
(07:23):
to go anywhere near school. It's all you can do.
Stay away from the school best you can. All right,
this is the part where I got to talk about
Dragon on pregame show. But there's a reason I'm talking
about it today more so than just to mention our
sponsor at Columbus State University's co Cola Space Scienset. I've
done that. I appreciate their sponsorship of the show. I
(07:44):
have to talk about a past edition of it back
in twenty eleven available on the podcast for the show.
You can listen to it now. My interview with Lonnie
Anderson back in twenty eleven. The pregame show featured Lonnie
Anderson and a TV icon okay, Elvira an icon period
(08:10):
and the great Ernest borgnine Ernie film and TV icon
as well Oscar winner Ernest borgnine. That was the pregame
show then. I mean three of these legends for this
show back in twenty eleven. But Lonnie Anderson, who and
Ernest borgnin of course has passed away years ago, and
(08:33):
he was a sweet man. Loved my conversation with him,
loved talking with Elvira, getting to know her a little bit.
She was a lot of fun, great with her fans
at Dragon Con. But Lonnie Anderson I talked with her
before obviously before Dragon Con that year for the pregame
(08:53):
show and spent some time with her at the convention.
And we talked about Bert Reynolds, We talked about her career,
We talked about her work as a voice actor. She
was Blondie on the TV series The Cartoon for you know,
bringing Dagwood and Blondie to life, and her just multiple
(09:16):
roles on TV, but obviously the one that most people
knew her for was for WKRP in Cincinnati. A lot
of radio people is the reason they got into radio
in some way, that show had an influence. There probably
was some influence there. For me, it wasn't a lot.
It wasn't one of those things. For me, it was like, man,
(09:36):
this is why I have to get into radio, just
being honest. Show was fun. I liked it. It was funny.
There were a lot of things about it that I liked.
I can't say that, you know, WKRP made me not
want to be in radio, but I can't specifically like
many people say, boy, I just had to do it.
I'm sure there was something to it there. I'm sure
(09:58):
that there was. And when I interviewed Lonnie, I probably
at the time may have even felt more so like
it was an influence. But anyway, so I chatted with her,
got to spend some time with her at dragon Con.
She was such a nice lady. She was so sweet
and I really appreciated every bit of time that I
(10:18):
had with her talking with her and in person and
on the phone for the interview. And you can check
that out on the Dragon Con pregame show podcast twenty
eleven show Lonnie Anderson. I also recommend listening to the
others on there, the Ernest borgnine and Elvira. I had
fun with him as well. But I had a chance
(10:40):
to talk to Ernest borgnine about a movie that was
important in my childhood but not really a popular movie
by any stretch of the imagination. It was a movie
he did called super Fuzz. It wasn't a good movie
at all, but I enjoyed it. I forced one of
my kids to watch it. Forced the other one yet,
(11:01):
but it's coming. His day's coming. Sometimes you have to
be able to appreciate bad movies. So check it out.
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Diana on Friday. That interview was in the can as
they say, I've got to do some editing on it,
but had a great talk with her. They'll both be
part of the pregame show. I got two more interviews
that I'm waiting to get booked, and I hope to
have those announcements soon. All right, So, speaking of Cincinnati,
thought it was worth taking a little time to talk
(11:44):
about this. Look, this beating that took place in Cincinnati.
Two people who got jumped and just absolutely pummeled in
the streets. And there's not a lot to say about
this other than I get scared when I think of
(12:07):
what we have become as a society, what we've become
capable of. I think that's probably the better way to
put it, more so than what we've become, but what
we've become capable of. I know there's more things that
are coming out about the reason, the cause for this,
and what it was we've had this now. I guess
(12:28):
there's you can hear someone yelling a racial slur out
right before everything happens, and that's been one of the
things people have said, Oh, these people said something racist,
that it was race related, and I know the mayor
basically has said there is it's a racial issue, but
he's vowing charges for everyone involved. And I guess this
(12:51):
comes after the pastor was calling it a racial issue.
But the mayor, they're saying there's going to be charges,
and I know they've arrested I think four people or
five people, whatever it is. What concerns me other than
just how graphic this beating was. And now the images
we've seen of the woman who was sucker punched and beaten,
(13:13):
and now she's saying or that her people are saying,
it's severe brain trauma and it's not acceptable. And I'm
not going to defend someone calling out racial slurs. That's
not what I'm doing. But we have to remind ourselves
(13:35):
that if we're going to say that we have free speech,
if we're going to say that we defend free speech,
we have to understand that free speech sometimes involves people
saying things that we don't like. Imagine if every time
(13:56):
someone yelled out, you know, from the river to the sea,
or you know, kill the Jews. Are all these things
that are going on in this what people are calling
we just want the rights for Palestine. We're gays for Palestine,
and these things, And imagine if some of the really
hateful rhetoric that's been said was taken this seriously by
(14:20):
the Jewish people who've been you know, called to be exterminated,
and you would think that we've calls that serious. It's
kind of surprising we haven't had more fights or conflict there,
but good for people involved that haven't, because if we're
going to say that people have free speech, if we're
(14:42):
going to say that people can say whatever they want
to in the context of these protests, or if we
want to say that people have the right to say
whatever it is that they want to say in public
short of you know, the things that could specifically cause
I don't know, I think about how we've had people
calling or Trump's assassination or you know, haha, I'm glad
(15:04):
they tried to shoot him. They just missed. They need
to sight in their scope better in those things. I mean,
I saw all of that, and those people weren't dragged
out in the street and beaten by people in red hats.
That's not what happened. Again, I'm not defending anybody throwing
out racial slurs, That's not what I'm doing. But someone
(15:27):
throwing out racial slurs doesn't constitute them being beaten within
an inch of their life. That's not who we are,
that's not our justice system. That's not what we're supposed
to be about. We're supposed to be better than that.
We're all the people that were there that could have
stepped in and tried to help. Were they just scared?
(15:47):
Do they see this mob and they think and I
know at the very end, I guess someone stepped in
and helped. But do they just see the mob and
they just think, I can't get involved. I started thinking
about it, and I thought, Man, what what do you
do if you're witnessing this and you're the only person
that seems willing to step up and defend them?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Do you do it?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And then you hope that other people will step up.
The finale of the show, Seinfeld featured this ridiculous premise.
They called it the Samaritan law. They were seeing someone
getting mugged and they didn't do anything to help, and
that's what they got charged with. And that's what brought
about the ridiculous ending for that show, unless you count
(16:31):
the Kurby your Enthusiasm kind of correction that they kind
of did, because they kind of did fix it in
the last episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, But but it
does you think that it's ridiculous to think of a
Samaritan law. But I'm not pro any new laws that
basically tell people what to do. But sometimes you think,
(16:53):
if only there was a way to charge. I mean,
they're having a hard time charging the people involved, so
they can't really charge the people who didn't help. But
you think about it and you go, well, if people
were just standing around recording it, which is what they
were doing on the Seinfeld episode. Interestingly, it wasn't cell phones,
it was an actual camcorder I think the Kramer had.
(17:16):
But it is an interesting thought. Would we do anything
any differently or would people just saying, ah, I gom,
I right to record it. I got to do that. Again.
I'm not advocating for that law. It's not what I'm doing,
and I'm not defending anybody throwing out racial slurs. That's
not what I'm doing at all. But it scares me
(17:37):
what we've become capable of. They were able to just
be an angry mob of people and attack somebody because
of something that they said, and that no one seems
willing to try to stop it. They're only worried about
getting the video so that they can get whatever the
five minutes or fifteen minutes or whatever you get out
(17:57):
of having that video shared on the news. And that's
all that they want. They don't care about the human
there's no humanity. I mean, looking at the images of
this woman, her face, and you can tell just beaten
to within an inch of her life. I don't even
(18:19):
know that we know who said the racial slur. I
don't know that it should matter. This is what we've
become capable of. It's pretty scary. Today's show brought to
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the break, well, do you have August blues? Now that
(22:09):
the month of August is upon us, it can be
a downer for a lot of people. Basically summer's winding down.
For some that means all the fun that comes with
summer and warm weather goes away. Some it just makes
them aware of the fact that maybe they didn't do
(22:30):
a lot for their summer break, if they had a
summer break or their family had a summer break, didn't
do the things they hoped to do or plan to do.
Others get overwhelmed by back to school, back to work,
or scheduling starts to become a thing, especially if there's
someone going back to school in your life, and then
I suppose it's the thing that I talk about a lot,
(22:52):
and it's not so much that I dread it. I
just the thing that I have dread and issues with
myself is how quickly time goes by, especially that I'm
now a parent of two teenagers and one is now
a junior in high school. The other is in eighth
grade taking a tenth grade class in high school. So
(23:16):
that's where my reality is right now, and I'm feeling
all of those things going by so quickly, and we're
coming up on that time of year where it all
starts to go. It seems so much faster, So I
get it. I don't really have so much blues about August,
but I do have that dread of where it just
(23:37):
feels like someone is slamming their foot on the gas
and we're going to be full throttle, and it'll be
January before we know it, and we're going to be
going what just happened? So, when it comes to dating,
gen Z started doing it on a budget. A new
survey by Bank of America says that fifty percent of
gen Z respondents said that they spent no money at
(23:59):
all on dating none. How does that work? Those who
did spend money on dates spent next to nothing. Twenty
five percent of men thirty percent of women say they
shelled out less than one hundred dollars a month. Instead
of spending money on nights out, they focused on their
financial future. More than half said they were putting more
money into savings, twenty four percent said they were paying
(24:23):
down debt. It's interesting that we have a generation that
is very focused on that apparently, and it's great. I
think that's one of those things that we should be
focused on. But I think it's also interesting that we're
hitting this time where some say that we're in danger
based on our birth rate of going extinct as a population.
(24:48):
There are people who say that one of them is
Elon Musk with concerns about low birth rates. It's something
that's been addressed even in this current administration at one point.
So interesting that folks are apparently not dating in a
certain age group, or they're doing very minimal with dates. Now,
(25:08):
I would like to hear this story with a follow
up on their finding thrifty or economical ways to go
on dates, rather than just that they're not going on dates.
At all. That's a little bit concerning speaking of dates.
When it comes to dating advice, it seems people would
rather turn to a bot than a friend. A survey
(25:32):
found that fifty seven percent of respondents said that they
trust AI more than the people they know when it
comes to dating advice, and the reason they see AI's
neutral and non judgmental advice is more useful than the
more biased opinions of family and friends. Fifty six percent
say AI is a helpful tool for dating, helping with
(25:55):
everything from generating first date topics of conversation to analyzing
text messages for red flags. I can get that. I
just think we got to be careful of how much
for trusting it, that's all. We have had this break
in hot temperatures, obviously, but a lot of the country
(26:18):
has been dealing with hot weather for a really long
time in the sense that it is summer. Everybody acts
so shocked that it gets so hot. But you know
the term when people talk about the dog days of summer.
Don't worry, we're going to get hot again. So we've
heard the term before and you just go, okay, well,
(26:38):
it means long hot days in the middle of summer.
But there's actually an ancient astrological origin to the term.
It dates back about five thousand years. The dog Days
were named after the dog star, serious which rises and
sets with the sun during that time of year. Ancient
Romans believe that the star's presence added extra heat to
(27:01):
the season, hence the name. They also believe that the
dog days were responsible for fevers, drought, bad luck, and
even madness. So there you go, snack lovers, the collaboration
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these items, both of them on shelves sometime in September.
I'm in sounds good to me. That'll do it for
this Monday edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors
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if you live in the State of Georgia or one
of the states near enough to the State of Georgia
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the show, and there are many in Alabama and Tennessee
and the Carolinas that'll have a chance to hear it,
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your podcast, yes, where you're listening to this podcast. You
can also find past editions of the dragon Con Pregame
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animated stars, some of your favorite Disney stars chances to
hear interviews with them, and this year's dragon Con Pregame
Show will drop to the podcast on August twenty third,
and you can hear this year's interviews. It's sponsored by
Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center, where doctor
Sean Cruisin and I often like to discuss the science
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behind the science fiction and the connections between where science
fiction sometimes leads to science science sometimes leads to science fiction.
It's just a weird connection that's already there. It's built
into it, and I say it's weird, but it's really not.
It makes perfect sense. The two go together very well.
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