Chuck returns

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you for listening. So you being off yesterday and
then I was off all last week. I hadn't seen
you now for almost a week and a half. But uh,
you know, how you doing. How's things going?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
He ain't dead, mold Adoji. He wasn't bad.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
I walked into studio and I go, all right, one, two, Okay,
got both legs.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
You're good. They're both here.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
You're both yeah, we're both here. Uh yeah, So if
do you want to get well? You did an update
basically on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, it was just a weird day. I mean, I
keep having these vascular things done on my legs, so
they're opening up the arteries and they've done the left
leg three times. Everything fine, I'm up. I'm going no
reason to expect anything different yesterday, but it was different,
and they encountered some sort of problem. I still quite frankly,
I was so out of it when I left that place.
I was drugged a bad I still don't know what.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Man, You're lucky.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I just I did. I'm not because it was off
the good kind of drug. I missed you and I
was like almost you know, halfway through your show before
I was coherent. They I'm usually done and out of
there between noon and one and yesterday it's like headed
for four o'clock and I just opened my eyes from

(01:12):
this anesthesia, and I still need to talk to the
doctor and find out, Okay, where did we take the
left turn? Because something obviously was not like the other times.
I don't even know what happened to me.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
See, That's what I find almost kind of I don't
know if the words fascinating about this situation, but you know,
I you know, when I was talking to you earlier
today and I said, you know, so what was different
this time as opposed to the other times when you've
had this done and you'll have it done in the
morning and then you end up here in the afternoon
on the air and everything's and then yesterday clearly was

(01:43):
much much different. And I was like, so what's different?
And You're like, you know, I'm not even sure. I
find that absolutely shocking that there has not been an
explanation for you, and you and you then you are, well,
maybe they did give me one. I'm so out of.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
It, you know, I asked the Queen today. I'm like, okay,
so what did they tell you? Nothing? They kept me
waiting in the waiting room for an hour and a half,
said they were still working on you, and I was
getting very nervous, and finally they led her back there.
It was ten minutes still two when they finally let
her come back to the recovery room, and she said, I,
you know, they didn't tell me what was going on

(02:19):
except they were still working on you. And honestly, I
just wanted to get you the hell out of there,
so I wouldn't have listened anyway. I just wanted you
out at home. And that's that's what she accomplished. Of course,
I was still I was loopy and on the way home,
and I'm telling her, because you had an hour of
your show left. I'm like, I could still get in
there with Mark for an hour. She's like, no, you're not.

(02:42):
You're going home. But hey, man, dedication, I want I
missed you. I wanted to see if and I.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Mean, that's that that makes me laugh. But at the
same time, I'm going probably serious, Probably actually did I did.
I can believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Actually I did. I was ready willing and able to
stagger in here and mumble something I wanted to be
here with you.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
That actually may have been incredibly entertained.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
It could admit. Yeah, for the decades to come, that
would have been on tape somewhere forever.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
You may have had a bunch of stuff incriminating that
would have come out, like because you know, when you're
like that, clearly it's like true sarum or oh yeah,
and ambitions are low.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
We're going around social media, people on laughing gas h
dentnist and the kid is like sitting in the backseat
talking to mom and they're recording it. Those children had
to grow up to hate their parents for doing it
to them, probably because that was some hilarious stuff.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
See what's funny? And Josie's getting ready to get her
wisdom teeth out here soon and typically you'll see those
those videos end up making it on you know, America's
Funniest Videos with Alfonso Robero, who is I don't know
what is. He might be the third or fourth host
of that.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, I think he's a fourth for me.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
It kind of lost Just as a side note, it
lost for me when once Bob Saget was done with yeah,
which is a million years ago.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
And the thing of it was is he so hokey?
But it worked with the concept of America's Home videos. Yes,
so Hokey worked for that.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
But those videos, you see a ton of the people
coming from the dentist and you know they're like and
they just start you know, they'll start crying for no reason,
or they'll talk about something that's just totally loopy. But
you're right, those those could end up winning you a
bunch of money, especially if you send them to something
like America's Funniest Videos.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm so used to people though, I don't even really
laugh at people videos anymore. Last week you saw I
was cracking up over cats and cucumbers because I found
that hilarious that.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
They're scared of cucumb I've.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Never known that until now. The cat's put a cucumber
behind your cat when they're eating, they'll turn around, see
that thing and jump up the walls.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Man, it's the weirdest thing. I I wonder it must
be every cat that is like that.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, I guess, because they're just you know, they're always
on the prow. They're always looking for prey or waiting
for a predator. And you lay something like a cucumber
next to them, it gets their attentions, like a snake
or something I guess, yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah. Are you shocked that the Ohio State Fair and
you didn't go this year?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Nope?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
No, I didn't go either, Zach. Did you go to
the fair by chance? Or did you? I think you
would have you been? Do you like going to the
fair or do you like going to the fair typically?
Or no? Honestly, I think I've went once at the
Higo station here. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's been really hot, right,

(05:26):
and I don't even remember the last time I've been.
I don't know. Can you think I typically? You're better
remembering I was way young.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I know that. I remember I discovered frozen bananas on
a stick covered in chocolate that year, but I don't
know what year it was I was. It's probably been
twenty five years.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh my gosh. Wow. So there was a Best Reader's
Choice Awards ranking the Ohio State Fair is some of
the best state fairs in the nation. We received this
This is from USA Today. It is tenth on the
list of best state Fairs, along with the state fairs
of Minnesota, Iowa, Texas, and Wisconsin. I love how they

(06:08):
have to explain in this article. State fairs are an
iconic American tradition oh, shut up with that way.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Our state Fair is a great state fair.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
But the wide appeal that draws nearly one million guests
to the fair grounds each year was one of the
things that was praised about the Ohio State Fair. And
it's come a long way since it start in eighteen fifty. Yeah,
eighteen fifty. Was the word fair even invented in eighteen fifty?

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh yeah, Oka the world's fairs back then, and I
guess yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Was on about ten acres of grass with cattle tied
to a railing.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Them all. Let's go down look at the cows on
a post. Yeah, beef on a stick. That's what it
was admitted right there.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Right, there's a tattoo competition. They're talking about Lego train
display camel ride for kids, because.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
When you think Ohio, you think camels.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
That's and then also they have that, you know, the
helicopter there that they're always like helicopter rides. And I
always used to think to myself, how.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Much do they charge for those? Now I'm they were
thirty five dollars. I remember, I do remember that last
time I was at the fair, thirty five bucks for
the helicopter.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
And you said that was like twenty five years. Yeah,
it's probably way more than that now.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Man. Basically, all they did is take you, you know,
a loop around seventy one to seventeenth Avenue and Vaccoi.
It wasn't a big ride at all for thirty five bucks.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Did it ever occur to you when you're standing there,
You're like, oh, what could possibly go wrong? Here? A
helicopter at the Ohio State Fair? And listen, if you're
some of the you know, the powers that be for
the Ohio State Fair, I'm just I'm just saying what
a lot of people are thinking. Yeah, And what's beautiful
is nothing has ever come of it. Yeah, that's a
beautiful thing.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I worry about the Merry Go Round much less a
helicopter ride. Man. Yeah, I just you know, the mechanical stuff.
Even when you've got a maintenance crew cedar Point for example.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Well they put these up and down up downs crew
twenty four to seven on them, you can still have
problems when they're being put up, taken down, throwing on
a truck and taken to the next fair.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
That. Yeah, it's a little nerve wracking for me to
think about getting on those.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Did you see recently it's the uh, the circle that
has imagined all the people sitting on the Did you
see that, yes, where it comes down like cracks. This
was where Japan. Where was the camera?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
It was overseas somewhere. Did Yeah, that was terrible.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
The white the big spinny thing.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, yeah, Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Actually, and it like is on an arm that holds
it up and the arm likes broke.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
I'm surprised not more people were maimed seriously or killed
because that. I mean that thing hit hard and that
it was spinning around and turned and banged into its
pedestal and hit the ground. I'm think, oh my gosh,
that's terrible.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
And then it landed the way it landed, it was
upright and didn't look like it landed on any of
the people that would have been on whatever edge. It's
almost like it was weighted correctly and it almost dropped
almost flat. But everyone on there had to have tailbone
injuries or something. I mean, you know, backprop, I mean,

(09:24):
you're gonna be jammed up in this situation.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
You imagine being in the injury attorney business in Saudi
Arabia with all that money out there.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, but you wonder as it rigged? Is that? I mean,
you think that in somewhere like the US, where you
know it should be on the up and up. You
wonder if a situation like that where you know, who
knows who's investing in whatever, and it's like, yeah, we're
here to sue and like no you're not, Like okay,
no we're not. You know, I just wonder if that

(09:53):
that's that kind of a thing. But also the recreational marijuana,
say I stopping seven hundred and two million dollars one
year after sales actually began. Raise your hand. And it's,
by the way, if you combined that's for recreational, If
you combine the what is it medical with it, it's

(10:17):
two point nine billion in sales.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Is there anything in what you're reading there? It says
what the tax revenue for the state of Ohio is
at the moment before they probably raise it again. Uh No,
because I know it was pretty confiscatory to begin with.
And I just when I heard that number, you start
talking billions this early into the game, I'm thinking, how
are we cutting any medical or social programs in the

(10:41):
state of Ohio with that kind of money coming in?
It just seems crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, the revenue they're talking about the way it's going
to be distributed, And I told you that's really what
jumped out, like for this article. What jumped out at
me was they break down the revenue the way it's
going to be distributed. Thirty six percent to Cannabis Social
Equity and Jobs Fund, five percent to Substance Abuse and
Addiction Fund, three percent to the Division of Cannabis Control
and Tax Commissioner Fund, thirty six percent to the Host

(11:07):
Community Cannabis Fund Recreational marijuana Sales UH with the seven
hundred and two million dollars, but local municipalities have not
received money.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yes see that makes again you heard nothing in there
that serves the public good. It's all cannabis industry related stuff.
That's bothersome to me.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Then they go on the rest of that sentence, the
delay is due to bills being tied up at the
Ohio State House.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Well, they're busy working on the official state fish.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah. You were saying you'd like het on that last
week or whatever, Yeah, or yeah, earlier this week. Yeah, exactly.
It's like what and the other part when I saw this,
I'm like the fact that it's being delayed or tied
up or the way that they're putting Why why is
it being why? Why is there all always something goofy

(12:02):
going on with our government? And I'm talking obviously at
the federal level, it's obviously much larger, but something at
a state level like this, when you see that it's
you know, being tied up due to you know, the
delays due to the you know, everything being tied up
at the state house. Why why is this being Why

(12:22):
is it being held up?

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Government at all levels sucks? Think about this. Remember all
the Hubbubba with a chips Act had to pass. The
Chipsack got the Chipsack pack billions of dollars in the
chips Ack. If the government would not have drugged their
feet getting that money to Intel, would we be looking
at Intel pulling out of the Looking County development now.
If they would have funded that when it happened instead

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of making them wait a year and a half two
years to get a dollar, would they have been so
far along that they had no choice but to continue forward.
Some people want it, some people don't. That's neither here
nor there. But the government dragging their feet slowed progress,
which very well could have resulted in the current situation.
Get it done. You'll prove it that people vote for it. However,

(13:06):
get it done.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
By the way, lawmakers are having their summer break now,
and I'm not trying to take that away from them,
but they left the state House for their summer break
and they didn't come to a compromise on this, and
so these tax distributions they can wait. They're not going
to be distributed now. And while it's sitting there is

(13:28):
the state making money on that. Whatever they're using. Are
they pulling interest? Are they? I mean, there's maybe something
along those lines happening with that. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Wouldn't be surprised our legislators are making less and less
sense to me. That's another While you were going thing
the eliminating sugary drinks from SNAPPYBT users. If you get
the food stamps, they don't want you to be able
to buy the sugary drinks. However, the tax for you
holiday to help with back to school shopping. You can
get set go up to LPD and get a gun
from Eric tax free. How does that make sense? How

(14:00):
can you go out dining, dine in during the two
weeks sales tax free? What is that? About helping families
and schools. We're not making sense anymore. We're just doing
stuff for the sake of doing it.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
It does feel kind of like that, and at the
risk of sounding I guess the farthest dots to try
to connect there is like, well, if you're spending a
little less money on dinner as you're out to eat,
maybe you can use it to buy something school related
for them. But boy, that's a stretch, you know.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
So the waiter comes up, so I need a forty
five percent tip because it's a tax free meal. You
probably you'll never win.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
I know, there's probably you're probably not far off. I'm
sure that those words have been uttered.