Pickleball Chain taps Hilliard as its first location in Central Ohio!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
He loves that song. We used to talk about the
movie Running Scared Yamo B. There is Michael McDonald and
James F James Ingram, thank you, thank you? Who was that?
I think it was God? Waits? Oh is he still
in there? And yeah, I never understood anything Michael McDonald's saying. Anyway,
it just sounded good. Hey, you know what, I get

(00:24):
that song the other day and Mike was like, it's like,
really that was your pick? And I was like, yeah,
if you talk to him and said, so, Mike, tell
us about this new Doobie Brothers album. He was completely coherent,
but then when he really.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Are you ripping on Michael McDonald, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Ripping, it's I'm just saying I don't understand a word
he says. Really much like Mark Summerson from Columbus Business
Intro there, who always says, I don't know no matter
what you're talking, you can be talking about anything, and
he manages to work pickleball into the conversation. So, yeah, Mark,
how are you this morning?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I'm good. I am not a Michael McDonald f just saying.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
He you know it. The sound was good, but I
never understood most of what he was saying.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
He was talking just about you too. You got to
listen to those lyrics. It'll work its way into your heart.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Pickleball in Hell, you we talked about pickleball. I forget
where the other place was, but not too long ago
you and we had this deep conversation about pickleball and
your love for this. And it's expanding, getting bigger now
in Hillyard, we've got a new location.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Huh yeah. At the same time, the city just opened
up new pickleball courts too outside over off of Olan
Tangi near Bethel Road at one of their athletic facilities. Uh,
those are brand new. But then we heard this week
that a new place is coming to town. They had
said they were going to come. This is the franchise's
third location in Ohio first and Central Ohio, and it's

(01:54):
called Pickleball Kingdom, where you can be royalty on the
pickleball courts.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yes, get like a pickle crown or something. How does
this work?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
You could be crowned the Pickleball king Thirty six thousand
square feet, state of the art is what they're calling
a facility on Britain Parkway and Hilliard. It'll have fifteen
indoor courts, of course, all the amenities. It's a social sports,
so they're going to offer year round facilities. Pickleball Kingdom
foster's opportunities for social interaction and physical activity. According to them,

(02:23):
it's pickleball. People love pickleball. We have a lot of
pickleball courts in central Ohio. And I don't know what's
going to happen to all these pickleball courts when this
goes out of flavor. But who knows. Pickleball may stay
king forever.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, well, I mean it's everything is trendy, everything is fatty.
Pickleball is not going to be around forever, but we
are going to have more locations. Yes, yeah, they'll turn
them into something. I never even heard the word isla,
well until Madonna had Lailo bonita.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
But it's let me let me correct you there, Chuck,
it's isla.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
It's isla. Wait a minute, so Madonna said the Madonna
said isla, But it's isla when it comes to Columbus.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, that's what they're telling us. It's islave because we
were mispronouncing it as well. I called it isla, but
it's isla. It's it's I believe Spanish for island.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Huh okay, well what is it in Columbus.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I think it's It's Isla And it's a brand new
restaurant in Marion Village, open last weekend. This is from
chef Andrew Smith and his wife Devoni Mills. They've been
working in the food industry for years. They got burned out,
they left it. Then they started a supper club called
Roy's Avenue supper Club. Three times a month at their
west Side house. They'd serve multi course, fixed price meals

(03:40):
to guests. This is similar to that, but they'll have
its own space for it. Basically, it's it's like a
supper club on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. There'll be two
seatings fourteen people each in each seating at six pm
and seven thirty pm. You're all served at the exact
same time because they're getting the same meal. And it's

(04:02):
super exciting to see that. I would love to try this. So, yeah,
they're going from their own supper club in their house
to basically a supper club in Marion Village. It's seventeen
hundred square feet can be booked for private events as well,
and yeah, it's really cool and I love this idea
that it's basically a cool supper club where they will

(04:24):
serve you what they're making and you go in there
and try it out.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
This one sixteen East Molar, that's right off. I love
that area. I've been spending a lot of time down
to Marion Village lately, and the housing side it is
so traditional Americana, much like Old Clintonville. The architecture and
so forth, and so many of those homes are just
so well kept. And I hope that they do well.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
I really do that think they will.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
That whole community deserves to be something more than the
German village. Step sister, quite honestly.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh, I agree. It's a little more affordable than German Village.
Of course, it's closer to Children's Hospital and all that,
and it's just a neat little spot and I wish
them luck. I think Ila can be a really cool
experience for those who would love to go to that
kind of thing where you get to eat at the
same time as everybody. And I just think it sounds interesting.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Healthcare, healthcare cost budgets cutting and all this kind of stuff,
and I suppose it's an appropriate time for Columbus Health
systems CEO pay to be put out there.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, it takes a while to get this information, but
we got twenty twenty three information. So not all the
same characters in the area in there. Mount Carmel change
CEOs recently, but I can give you the breakdown of
what each of these CEOs was paid in twenty twenty
three with their bonuses and base were leading the pack
is Steve Markovich over at Ohio Health. However, because he

(05:53):
turned sixty five, they had to do a pretty big
payout based on all sorts of stuff. He got the
most at eleven point eight million dollars in twenty twenty three.
That included salary and bonus of five point five million dollars,
but he had to take his deferred compensation built up
over three decades because he turned sixty five, So his
pay was huge in twenty twenty three. It's more normal

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probably in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. Over
at the Westerner Medical Center, John Warner, who's their chief,
two point seventy four million dollars with an eleven percent raise.
Nationwide Children's Hospital, Tim Robinson one point eight three million
dollars that was represented an eighteen percent raise, and then
Lauren Lutton, she has now since retired. This was paid

(06:38):
by Trinity Health to Mount Carmel Health's system over at
one point four two million dollars, a thirty one percent increase,
So yeah, they do just fine. The CEOs of these
nonprofit hospital systems. We looked nationwide to see what the
average pay for CEOs of nonprofits with the revenue of
one billion to three billion dollar, the median was one

(07:01):
point six million, So these guys are right around that
same area, which makes sense for Columbus and it makes
sense for the country. So yeah, you make of it
what you want, if it's too much money or if
it's the right amount, but yeah, that's what the CEOs
are making. And all of them are doing very well financially.
All of them are expanding right now in buildings, so yeah,

(07:22):
it's it's a good time to be a CEO of
a hospitals.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Well, yeah, the hospital systems, I mean Ohio Health, Trinity, everybody,
and new campuses, new hospitals, new locations. You know, Columbus
for the longest time was the fast food capital of
the United States. I seriously wonder if we're not becoming
the healthcare capital, because I'm seeing that much healthcare development,
even urgent cares and yeah and things like that that

(07:48):
are just they're popping up all over the place lately,
and it it all. It's kind of an anomaly considering
the constant worry about a lack of available healthcare, and
yet they're everywhere.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Well, there's a definitely a lack of available healthcare in
smaller counties and more rural areas of Ohio. A lot
of hospital systems that are also nonprofits are not doing well.
There's all sorts of of course, with the federal government
and all sorts of other things with the state of
Ohio and how hospitals are compensated, what they can charge,
and who your clients are. So Central Ohio is growing,

(08:21):
so the hospital systems are growing. It makes sense. You're
not going to see this kind of pay down in
the rural areas, and you're going to see a lot
of hospitals closing around the country, but not in Central Ohio.
They're all expanding and growing. And that has to do
with the health of Central Ohio and certainly the number
of people who live here.