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December 23, 2025 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ho ho ho.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
You do that?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Shoot your eye out, kid, Don't do that in here.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Oh, we're too close to the west side.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
People may start knocking on the door.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Hey, thank you for listening. Mark Blazer, Chuck Douglas, Zach Attack,
and Congressman Troy Balterson joining us today. Marry Christmas, Sir, Mary, Chris,
Christmas to all of you. Also, I got that ho
ho ho in the parking lot, thought Dad going, he's.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Landing right here right now.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
He's like, oh, man, I gotta hopefully he's got something
for me.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I gotta I gotta get a present from Santa. He
gave me a present. Nanty Pelosi's retiring. Hey all right, yeah, yeah,
all right.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Let me start with I gotta start with the story
that comes with what Chuck, what you just opened, So
you're not gonna believe what happened to me. So I
come in and I just put this on Facebook. I
come in today, still have my coat on, you know,
my bag and everything, and I go.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
The first stop was to the bathroom. So I go
into the bathroom.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
And I come out, and I come back and I'm
talking to Zach because I come back towards the studio
and I get back to the studios and.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I'm talking to Zach standing in there.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
I come in here where we're at in the main studio,
and I start unpacking everything. I'm like, all right, let
me stick Chuck's card over, and I'm like, where is
Chuck's card.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'm like, I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm going through, and I remember that I had put
it in my pocket of my coat when I was
going into the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
So I'm looking around and I'm like, where in the
hell is this card? Jackie, help me, Jackie, Jackie.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
So I start retracing my steps because I go, oh,
probably just fell out when I was walking. So I
walk back and I go through in this whole area
is construction, and I'm walking back and i'm i'm walking back,
I don't see it laying on the floor anywhere.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I don't see it laying on the floor.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm now getting close to the bathroom door, and I
still don't see it. And so I walked into the
bathroom and I look around on the floor and.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I don't see it.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Thank goodness for that.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
So then I go into I opened the door to
the stall, and I looked down and it's in the toilet.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh man, I don't want this.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's in the toilet.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I got a toilet present.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
It is laying really, it is laying in the toilet.
I looked down and was mortified. I said, are you
freaking kidding me?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Can you have.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
On its way?

Speaker 4 (02:48):
I look down, Zach, I had to sit on this,
by the way the whole time since I've been here,
and I saw you.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I wanted to tell you this story, but I couldn't.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
So I'm saying to myself, there's so I got Chuck
Bob Evans gift card and I start looking at it
and I'm like, I, by now five six, seven minutes.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Has gone by, the rule has broken.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
And I was just staring at it in the toilet,
and I'm like, I don't understand what happened.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
And I fished it out and I opened it.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Up, and I'm cautiously optimistic that the it's you can
see on the edges.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Where you can see where like it's kind of it's kind.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Of frayed a little bit from where for the most
part it was inside an envelope, inside a card.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
And so I get all of that open and I.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Fish it out and mostly just the edges got a
little bit wet, and so I'm letting get dry.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
I think it's pretty much dry now.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
I left and went to Kroger and got you another
card and a couple of more gift cards, because the
ones there they for the total of the I had
a single card gift card, as you can see in
the original. But I said, you have got to be

(04:23):
kidding me. This has never in the history of I
could not believe that. I was staring at your card
in the toilet. I said, Mary Flush, miss, are you
kidding me?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
I hope this is not like a prelude of things
to come. It's just it's for Chuck, and it's in
the toilet. That's a good side.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I just was like. And so I sent a text
to my wife.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
I get back from the store and I'm sitting in
the parking lot and I sent her a text and
I go, you're not going to believe what your stupid
husband did. So I sent her that picture and she goes, oh,
my god, that's the car that you were giving Chuck,
and I go, yes, it was. And so she was
just like, oh my god, did you salvage the gift card?

(05:08):
And I go, oh, I'm going to give it a
college effort. When I take it to Bob Evans hopefully
it'll still scan, and have to take it to night
because I got well and I said, well, you know,
I got a chance still with this. I'm hoping that it,
you know, somehow that stripe didn't get, you know, to
where it's goofy or they should be able to scan.
There's like a barcode on the back of it. I

(05:29):
couldn't believe it.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
It'll be good, they'll take it. It's like Bob Evans card.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
I just hope that when they scan it it pops up,
you know, fifty dollars yea, yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
So anyway, I just posted that on Facebook, but I've
been sitting on it all afternoon.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
I go, I don't believe it.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
I said, man, and my wife goes, man, that is
one of the funniest stories I've ever heard. And I go, yeah,
and she goes, well, at least it'll be a good
radio when you talk about it.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I go, right, hopefully fifty dollars worth.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
At least you remember to bring yours, yeah, which I
feel even worse about it. There are two things that
actually I have wrapped out of everything. Two things that
I have one is for you, one is for Zach,
and they're in the trailblazer and.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
You forgot them and I'm in the van. Yeah yeah,
so iwem Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Also, thank you Zach, by the way for your gift.
That was very nice. Thank you. I appreciate that. And
I'll be stuff in my face with what you got me,
so thank you.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Guess what.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
It's also toilet free. Yes you did not.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yours was dry and it didn't look like it had
been you know, anything had happened to it as far
as sitting in toilet water or something. The beautiful The
best part of the whole thing was, I said to myself.
I was walking away because I was like, man, I
gotta be glasses half full guy, because.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
We're going into the holidays and you just got to
be positive.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
I go, least it was after I flushed, and it
wasn't there in the toilet water with what I went
in there for, so I.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Was like, there's always a positive. I was like, at
least it was gone.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Remember that episode of Seinfeld where George took a book
in the bathroom and he couldn't return it. Yep, I'm
just picturing you try to use that gift card. Now,
I'm sorry, sorry, this has been in a bathroom.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
We can't.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
This has been in a toilet, sir, we can't to
the bookstore.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
Yes, I took it off the rack stick go and
read it.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
So Mary flush miss everyone. Yes, anyway, that's.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Thank you for replacing my card. Welcome toilet card. I
appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
So I thought, when I fished this out and I
open up the card, if the gift card is completely
dry somehow someway and all that.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Then I yeah, I would have just put it in
the other card.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
But I go, I'm standing there staring at him like,
can't do it, man, I can't do it. I can't
give it to him like this because well two things.
I guess I would have given it to you had
I not had to bring this on the.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Air Christmas, Chuck, and you'd have been like this is
so nice.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Hey, and then like I could see it once we
get back next year. You're like, you know what was weird?
I tried to use that card and it was like
they kept saying, yeah, it's it's no good, like there's
nothing on this.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
I would have been like, yeah, you're kidding me.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Really, that's weird, anyway, I did put the it posted
the picture and the a little bit an abbreviated version
of that story on my Facebook page.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
I'm dumbfounded.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
I do the dumbest stuff, and that may be one
of the dumbest things I've.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Ever done, But it works out. It did work out.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
It's merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
And Chuck, I mean when you first started this conversation,
I'm thinking Chuck's over there, ravaging through this envelope.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yes, yeah, he's going yeah man, yeah, you know what.
I gotta be honest, I don't know if that like,
if if it would have been a number two before
I did, then I probably would have just I literally
would have fished it out with just the edges and

(09:10):
just thrown it away.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
I wouldn't have even messed with it then, right.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Mat team is still number three? Yeah, Tweezers, please Tweezers.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
I was like, you know, you gotta be kidding me.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Come home, man, So uh, anyway, you already for Christmas? Troy?

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Absolutely, Congressman, you're you're ready.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
I'm ready?

Speaker 5 (09:31):
Yeah, okay, I'm ready, good, excited.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, Arla is going to be three.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
It's it's Arla's starting to figure it out.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Here.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
We got tomorrow's you know, Thursday's a big day. He's
starting to figure it out.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
Then my grandson.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, ripping presents open. He's like, he's like, oh these
are what's popping?

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Braking?

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Mane oh man?

Speaker 4 (09:53):
That is exciting. What an exciting. And what it does
is it takes you back to when your son.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Was that age. And I mean it just it takes
you all the way back.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
So and by the way, uh, both my kids said hi,
hi Uncle Troy, and uh and Merry Christmas and so
on and uh and as well as Jenny.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
So I just wanted to tell you that.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Thank Tom Chuck.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
You're ready to go. It seems like, except for if
you can remember the gifts Christmas.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Morning, I'm going to bring him in here tomorrow. Whether
you I don't know if you guys will be here
anytime just to grab something during or not.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
But don't do that. Don't come back up here.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Just be here just in case you come by.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
No, because you're gonna have to leave them. Then what
if somebody takes.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's true, they do like make creamers and cookies disappear.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Don't they yeah, all kinds of stuff. Listen, you know
Boots has access to this building, so he he'll come
in and take everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what time you
want me here?

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Chuck?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I want my present? Okay.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Zach's like, I was going to leave in the morning
to go south to Kentucky.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
But guess what, I'll postpum that to come up here
and get my gift.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Do you know what Zach was?

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Probably he's on my top two list of difficult people
when it came to a Christmas present because he's so
flipping weird. Yeh, it's hard to you know, go what
can I get him that would make sense? And I
think I nailed it.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
I think I put a lot of work into giving presents.
I don't just scrab stuff I put. I try to
put some thought into it. It gives me some headaches sometime,
but I really really worked on him.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Well was that can just meet him on the way
down south. He can just pull off her There.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Are you going? Are you head down? Yeah, you're not
too far. You can come by if you want to.
He took me home when the Trailblazer died, so he
knows where I live.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
You know where you are.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
That's okay, I wouldn't say something tu and you did too,
but I didn't, I bet my tongue. I just I
gave him cash. I mean, you know, because that's the easiest,
easiest gif. Yeah. And it was a.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Combination, by the way, for because his birthday was the
twenty ninth of November, same day as Stony's birthday. Literally
he shares that Stony's, byeah, exact birthday is the same day,
and so I gave him that.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
And it was Christmas at the same time too.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
So but that's because just because of that, you think,
And I even told you the other day when you
brought it up, I was like, anything.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Horror horror, not horror horror.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Man, I misunderstood.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Oh no, no, it don't work out.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Let go with it.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Two syllables, not one. I'm sorry, man, Yes, there's two exactly.
This is embarrassing, right,
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