Chuck Douglas Returns

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, and there you are. Come over here, give me
a kiss.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Wow. Oh what'd you have for lunch?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Subway? Sorry about oh.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
No onions next time please.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
You're like, don't smell like you were eating fresh You're
back man, there you are?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, then my key worked.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Okay, that's good. Always it's always a positive day in
radio when your fob worked. You're like, Okay, door opened.
I guess I'm still on.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I've actually worked in places like that before. And guy
showed up from vacation, comes back. Our studios are right
at the front of the building. You can see the
entrance to the building. And this guy comes back and
he's like, beep beep, then the key. They fired him
while he was on vacation.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
So you were in the studio.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I was on the air at the time.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Did you make eye contact with him?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, he could see me, and I'm like giving him
the face. I can't do anything. Memo came out. Yeah,
that is.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Bizarre that you had to be the right there staring
at him when it finds out and he didn't look
at email. It might have been a time when you
didn't really have access outside of Orkil.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
At that point, the internet was very, very young. Yeah.
We actually got to remember a paper memo saying that
this guy had been let go.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
And it's funny. The place I've worked for a million
years across the street was an actual key that opened
the door. So you can't turn off someone's key. You
gotta wait till either you're standing out there when they
roll up or when you come in they go yeah,
we you know, someone's around the corner going hi, we
need to talk to you, and this this way please,

(01:38):
which is a much I don't know. Is that a
more dangerous thing when they can get into the.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Building these days? Yeah, these days it could be.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah. I mean when you're going fob doesn't work and
you're pulling on the door, I mean, how much more
pissed off are you? And I don't know, just depends
on the person, right.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I've never actually been fired myself. I've been laid off,
you know, but we don't like what you're doing here.
You need to go.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
I got fired in Cincinnati. They walked me out of
the building. Security did really yeah wow, And I was
just like, what's going like? And it's funny, I'm the
last person. Look if you tell me I'm going I'm
by I'm leaving. I'm not gonna go what why. I'm
just not that person, you know. I don't know, and
I'm not trying to not trying to whatever position or

(02:24):
whatever right now. But when that happened and that, but
they were later on and it was I by the way,
it was iHeart and so I'll let you. Oh yeah,
what they said, they said, you're can you can be rehired.
And it was on EBN and Cincinnati. We got walked
out of there. We were only there eight months doing
the morning show and then boom, that was it. The

(02:44):
guy who replaced us is still on the air down there.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
So there it is kid Chris, who a nice enough guy.
But what happens in this business, unfortunately, is like a
new boss comes in, they bring their quarterback with them
from Atlanta. Yeah, and then that was that.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's nice that you can say that nice enough guy.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
He really was. Kids, He's a really good dude. He's
really super nice. I never met him right then, but
later on I met him at an event, and.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
I know me better than that. I couldn't do that.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh see, it's not on him.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
I don't want you would replace somebody.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I mean, I I just I wouldn't even want to
know my last go round before I came back here,
I've never listened to the person who came in after me. Yeah,
I just I don't want. I don't I have no interest.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
You know, I'm so surprised by that, because I know you,
I've known you, We've known each other our entire careers.
We went to broadcasting school together, all of that. And
as confident as you are and I and as confident
as I am, it's just I'm surprised to hear you
say that because I don't have a pro I would
be like, that's whoever's on after me.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
There's only one or two ways you could feel though.
You're either going, well, you know this guy is better
than I ever was, or he sucks? Why am I gone?
Those are your only two ways?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's always they suck? Why are you gone? What are
you talking about? Nobody's ever better than you.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I wish good things on everybody, even people that you know,
even people that replace me. But I just don't want
to stand there.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
And I gotcha, I got I understand. I understand what
you're talking about. Where were we? Oh?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
You were missing me? A lot.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I was.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I remember I was man and man still taste those onions?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, sorry about that. Uh. The you you told me
a real quick story right before we were going on,
which I think is funny. Where you come out and
you yelled something, but you were talking to a radio
maybe yes, right, and and and you had somebody next door,
and and it'll make sense to you in a second,
but I just thought it was funny what you said.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
My neighbor is having some work done. They're doing like
siding work or gut or work or something. But there's
guys up on on ladders and as you as you
might imagine, they they probably didn't grow up here. I
didn't hear them speaking anything remotely resembling English, so their
their language skills are probably not what they could be.
But I I I was working on the lawn, cutting

(05:01):
the grass and everything today and I had the ear
buds in in this wonderful radio station. I love you,
I love you, I do, I seriously do has one
particular element that every time I hear it, I cringe. Yeah,
And I heard it as I was walking out the door.
This guy is up on a ladder balancing himself. Try
to I walk out the door with the earbuds in,

(05:22):
not even thinking about shut up, will you? And he goes,
oh what? And I almost scared that poor man off
the ladder, and I felt so terrible. I wish I
knew his address. I'd send him flowers. It was. It
made me feel bad because he was like, legitimately scared.
He's up there balancing on a ladder for goodness sake.
But with earbuds in, you don't hear yourself well.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
And yeah, you're louder than you Yeah, voicemade per appear
louder than in rear view mirror. I So the reason
that I thought that was funny is we have painters
at the house. They're doing the exterior of the house
and they shut up yesterday to powerwash. They powerwashed first,
then let it dry, and they're doing most of I

(06:05):
think probably most of it today. I mean, what a
great day to paint and get it to dry and
all this with the nice it's not really humid, it's
warm out and so on and so forth. The brain's
not supposed to come into I don't see them finishing today,
but I'd be shocked if they did. Let's just put
it that way. Anyway, it's a couple guys who I don't.
I don't. I heard them speaking to each other, not English.

(06:28):
There's a couple of them, and dude, they have these huge,
these huge ladders that are going you know, thirty feet
into the air or whatever. And so I when I
came outside, I walked around the side, and I think
he might have had like earbuds in or whatever. And
this guy is add about a hondo to you. And

(06:51):
he's up on this ladder. Really, I'm not kidding. You
got maybe sixty pounds somewhere around there. It's he's he
is a big deal. He's a big boy up on
that ladder. And I'm talking, dude, he's up to he's
twenty eight feet in the airsh somewhere twenty five feet.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's a good ladder. That's all.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
That ladders liked to keep from collapsing because it's the
two the two parter. It's not one big over there.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Oh yeah, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
And so Jack, oh my gosh. I almost said, Jasmine,
Holy col I'm so sorry, Jasmine, rest your soul esther
is losing her mind. Like I mean, dude, where if
I let her out? It was it was all over.
She was gonna eat him, you know what I mean,
It's all over. She's gonna eat him. That's it.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
She starts eating on him. Hey Dad, I'm gonna need
some help.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Can we put some of this in the fridge for later.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm just picturing those aluminum rungs on the ladder going
count me you're doing.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
So I'm like, you know, I'm like, you know, yelling
at her. And when I yell, he saw me. And
there's no stabilizer on the top of this ladder. It's
just leaning against the house. Oh dude, it didn't nothing,
but it like it was. It like rocked a little bit,
and I'm like, oh my god. Like I just was

(08:14):
like I I got her and went back in the house.
I'm like, oh my god, Like, oh, if that's it
probably is over. If you fall from that far, yeah,
twenty five feet. I mean if you even if you
land on your you're gonna be probably six or eight
inches shorter if you land on your feet.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
From that huh, twenty of your parents was a cat.
You might be okay, but that's about it.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Oh. Anyway, that was like the close call, and the
other one was you know how they they're taping off
the windows and putting the plastic over him. So when
they paint, and that same guy was up and it
was belly was coming out of at the bottom of
his shirt was like pressed against the window. And I'm
sitting there looking at TV this morning, trying to get
you look at different stuff for the show. And I

(08:57):
look over, I'm like, come on, man, what I gotta
I'm I wasn't having breakfast.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
You should tip him with a DVD copy of The Blob.
That would be cool.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Jane Fonda workout, like, remember that.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
I may still have that on VHS somewhere. I watched
it for about three minutes. I went, Jane is crazy,
and I never watched it again. I was done.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
That's it. That is it.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Remember a twenty minute workout used to come on at
six o'clock in the morning. Usually had three girls, one
of which was always very, very sweaty, and they would
just do like aerobic stuff for twenty minutes in the morning.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
I don't remember that, but I'd like to have remembered that.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
I tried doing that once too. The word once is
very pertinent there.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
How about this, doesn't Ohio University president signing the letter
against Trump's political interference. As they're calling it, the price
of a bridging the defining freedoms of American higher education
will be paid by our students in our society. This
is the letter. Did Kamala write this?

Speaker 2 (09:59):
It doesn't it sound like it came straight out of
a playbook? It really does.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, or out of her empty head. Just let's just
put a bunch of words in this and that basically
mean you're not playing fair. We want our money.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
We have betsies. By the way, the.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Letter also states that American institutions of higher learning are
essential to American prosperity and serve as productive partners with
government in promoting the common good. They're in life. What's
the definition of common good? That's the problem with the
end of that statement. I mean common good that is

(10:38):
so different for so many people. Why do you automatically
assume everybody that is going to college is on your side,
mister indoctrinating professor or head of said establishment learning, when we.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Don't have universities on the other end of the spectrum
that you know, we've had liberal arts degrees, Why are
there no conservative arts degrees? Why not just put it
out there and say yeah, we don't believe in that
yeah bs that they're pumping out there today. We are
a conservative leading school. Like a Hills Deal. There's got
to be more than one Hills Deal out there.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
That goes on to state we're open to constructive reform
and do not oppose legitimate government oversight. Therein lies the
term again legitimate. However, we must oppose undue government intrusion
in the lives of those who learn, live and work
on our campuses. Then they go on to say da
da da da da. Here. I feel like the easiest

(11:32):
answer to this is if you don't want government input,
then don't take the money. It's that simple. If you
can do whatever you want, then right you can teach
that you know, purple dragons inhabit caves, that you know,
we can take you there and show you about whatever
you want. Just you don't have to abide by anything. Now,
will you get people that go, let's see, I mean,

(11:54):
do it the way, go as far left as you
really want to go, and let's see if anybody is.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Attending open mar be as left as you want to
be or as right as you want to be. I
say this about everything where America we're supposed to be
about freedom. Be what you are. They will either come
or they will not. You will either survive and thrive
or you will not. But it's America. Take your shot,
and what happens happens.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
So here's some of the leaders that sign this petition.
Oberlin College, Auduvine University, Columbus CCAD, Columbus College of Art
and Design, Antioch College, Wittenberg, Heidelberg Capital, Kenyon, the College
of Wooster, University of Dayton, Ohio, Westland, and Dennison are

(12:37):
on this list.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
I would like to thank Ohio Dominican University for not
being on that list.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Well, give them time. Maybe they end up on it,
but let's hope you're right.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, but I don't want to have a bad attitude today.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
I understand. Also, I did a little bit of research.
Ohio is home to a range of colleges and universities,
a total of eighty eight higher education institutions. And so
then they break down on all of that, and so
I go, all right, so twelve schools a dozen, that's twelve, right,
A dozen is twelve twelve schools out of eighty eight
in Ohio, so about thirteen percent. So thirteen percent get

(13:11):
to decide the direction of everybody.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
That's the typic about right. Democrat, Yeah, New York and California,
you should decide who are president's going to be. That's
how they think.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Unbelievable, right, and that is the big headline in the
dish rag. They're acting like, you know, a dozen university
presidents signed letter against Okay, that's thirteen percent, right around,
just below fourteen percent. We're going to get exact out
of the eighty eight higher education institutions. Yet you're trying
to tell us they get to decide everything with regard

(13:43):
to Trump and the quote unquote political interference that's going.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
That the subjective nature of where it's like appropriate and
so forth. Who makes that determination? If the majority of
the people don't, then we're not talking about a democracy,
are we?

Speaker 1 (13:59):
No? Or not? There's that word again. There's that word again.