Congressman Balderson in studio 2-3-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Man, it's springtime again instantly.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
But don't get used to it because the bottom drops
out tomorrow like it always does in Ohio.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
I mean what, that's how it always works.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Congressman Troy Balterson is joining us in studio and TV.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
How are you, brother?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Fantastic? Couldn't think of a better way to spend my
Monday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, here it is, you know, sixty three degrees, I know.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
And then you know Chuck is with us, and so
you were like, uh oh, so Chuck is here today,
you know, like it was like one of them because
we were, well, it was you know, it's like kind
of like we don't know if he's going to be
here for sure, because there's all kinds of other types
of things going on.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
But here we all are in the same room. So
this is fun.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Love being here at Chuck.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
I don't hang on, let me turn this thing on.
I don't believe either one of you right now. I'm
just saying it's like, you know, I love.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Not true.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
No, Yeah, good guess good guys. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
I first did a radio show with you up at
the gun Chop. Yes, the first time that we did
something together.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Delberts the target shows. Yeah, even before you and I
did some stuff with the Oh no, no, you and
I had been doing all.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
That's kind of where Chuck had heard of May and.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
I gotcham Clark is good friends with mister Delbert.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
So their bodies they are they do bittingness together.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Okay, I got you. Funny business. No, no, the of
the gun.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Variety, of the gun variety.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, we get well, we can admit that now because
of who's in office, we're it's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
All know David Hoggs with the d n C. Now man,
good lord, yeah, yeah, the brain trust is enormous. I
gotta so, all right, he's vice chair of the d
n C.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
I may, I did not know that.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Okay, more on that in a little while. We'll get
to more on that a little while. So I had
some interesting things happen over the weekend that I wanted
to get to and you're one of the well, knowing
that Troy you were going to be in studio with us,
I was like, oh, I can't wait to, you know,
tell you some of the things that happened from over
the weekend. First and foremost, and this kind of falls

(02:19):
in that area but I think you'll understand what I'm
talking about when I finally get to it. But so
we Jenny and I head up to MGM Grand in
Detroit on Friday, and there was Howie Mandel and our
Senio Hall were doing their touring together, right wow, So

(02:39):
they were performing there. So we had set this up
a while ago. So we went up there and we
were having a great time. So but on the way back,
well before we I'm getting ahead of myself here because
I'm all over the place with all the different things
that the facets of the story. But before we were
on the way back, we get up in the morning,

(03:00):
we go to have breakfast and there's a guy. We're
in an area called the restaurant's called Tap and it's
inside MGM Grand in Detroit, downtown Detroit. So we go
to sit down for breakfast and we're sat next to
a guy wearing a Maga hat. I mean he's wearing
it just proudly. I'm not used to seeing this, I'll

(03:20):
be honest, Well, especially in Detroit Detroit. I was just like, Wow,
we're in We're in Wittmer country up here, and so
I was just like seeing the guy seeing that I
was like, Wow, that's pretty amazing, and I wanted to
talk to him. I wanted to start strike up a conversation,
right because then and then Jenny, you know, is just like, no, don't,

(03:44):
don't do that, you know, because I'm like, I kept
staring at him. I'm like, you know, She's like, no, no,
don't don't you know. But I never did speak to him,
but I was listening at one point to him and
his wife who were sitting there, and this guy looked
like so this old guy, he looked like he's probably
I don't know, seventy five or so, and he's talking
to his wife about and he's talking about all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
He's like, oh, it's tariff talkies. People don't understand what's
going on. I mean, he's.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Basically it's just hilarious listening to it. And I was
just like, you know, since this all happened with the election,
you got somebody, it feels like people are starting to
be a little more bold, if you will, I don't.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
Know if that's the word well spoken. Now they feel
like they could talk again. I mean, they can have conversations.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
So then we're going back home and we have to
stop for gas, and there is as Sheets up there.
It's near Fendley is up in that area, and we
pull in there and I always get the blue eighty
eight when I go to sheets because that's the cheapest
and it'll work in our car. It was two dollars
and fifteen cents a gallon two fifteen beautiful thing, and

(04:53):
all up.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Through there is two dollars and fifty five cents full price.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
But then I'm here into this morning like, well, you know,
oil is going back up and gas is going and
I'm like, where where is the gas going up? Because
it's to seventy two on my side of town. I
don't know what your beloved West said, Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
So that's up a little bit six five down the
skim County.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
So I'm going, I'm not seeing what they're talking about
with this, and I don't know are we headed that
direction maybe for a little bit possibly, just so this.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
A little pop up.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
So but look it's going to be lower than it was.
That's all that matters. As high as it ever was,
it won't be that.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
So then yesterday the whole family we get together. We
went out for shopping in the oh my gosh, man,
I got the boom lowered on me. By the way,
I'm like, oh, my credit cards are sore today because
we went shopping.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Jenny wanted to get some stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Because we're leaving for Vegas is coming weekend. We're going
up for Super Bowl weekend and we're going to be
there next week, and so she's like, I want to
get some stuff. Well, Josephine comes with us, our daughter,
and so she all of a sudden, she starts by,
if you ever purchased Lulu Limon stuff, because it is
not cheap, I don't know if you've.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
Wait a minute to its defense, And I'm not advocating
here for purchase or for not purchase. Yes, but I
have purchased two pair of pants only because I had
a couple buddies said it is the best pant they've
ever put on, and without a doubt, it is the
best casual slash dress pant that you can get. And
it's one hundred and thirty five bucks. But a Petere Malar,

(06:32):
which is another classic golf thing, I mean about the
same price.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
But so yes, I do have. So I know where
you're going with this. How expensive it is?

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, it's crazy I don't know if you know what
with Clark. I don't Clark, I don't know what. What
is your actual title with Troy? I know you've been
with Troy a long time.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
What is his senior advisor?

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Senior advisor? Okay, clarkson studio.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
With us, he's had a communication.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Still.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
He looks like a guy who knows about.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Baby Lululemon, who he's learned from me. He's fit, and
he looks like he would he would look good in Lululu.
I would not look good in Lululemon. I know, there's
not it's not yourself there, No, no, it's not.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
I mean Pelosi may call you out, by the way.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
I've never seen her again since you've been the only
time I've ever encountered Nancy Pelosi is when Mark Blazer, I'm.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Sorry in the cap, I'm sorry about that.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
I think Greg Brady hung around his neck when he
went in the waves and never came out. Oh yeah,
the little tiki thing. Yeah, it was like, we're the
Blazer Tiki Pelosi.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
It's like, next you're gonna get bit by a tarantula
or close to it.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
If we're talking about the the jestory.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, so anyway, the whole point of all this. Then
we go to Benny Hanna before we got started. Now,
Benny Hannah is one of my favorite blazes. They cook
at your table, you know, it's about you. So we
walk in there and they start to see us, and
I don't know if you've ever been, you know how
there's if you don't have the entire table though, I
don't know how many chairs there are, maybe eight or ten.

(08:06):
They put you with other people. We had four, well
there were three already sitting there.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Well, we're walking up and.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
The guy's got a mega hat on, I swear to you,
So I was like, this is the greatest thing ever.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
So we sit down and you know, Jenny's looking at me.
I'm like, I'm talking to him. I don't care what
this is my guy.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I was like, this is enough with this, and I said,
I said to him, I love your hat man, and
he goes, oh, thank you. And there are a couple
of people sitting with him. I think it was his
granddaughter who was in town. She is a nurse. She's
from she lives in Minnesota, so which is bluer than
as we know blue. But she was super sweet and

(08:45):
they're they're all conservative. He is eighty eight years old,
he's retired marine. He is his name is Tom Elwood,
and he is one of the sweetest people on this planet.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
And we sat there.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I started showing him all the stuff I and I
told him I was there for the certification of the election.
I was in the House Chamber, and I showed him
my ticket, you know, and all this stuff. And I
don't even know if I spoke to my family the
entire meal. I just talked to him and his people
like the whole time. But Tom, you were a hell
of an.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
American and thank you very much for your service. And
I said that to him when we were leaving.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
But one of the nicest people on the planet. And
I said, man, there's more of us now, and I
feel like they were there.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
All of us were there before.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's just people are a little more vocal about it.
So it was great, I said, And I may have
picked up another listener for the show, Chuck, because he was,
you know, halfway aware of what was going on here
on the air and stuff. But they are conservatives, and
he's like, I'm gonna have it on tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
I was like, well, make sure you.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Do, because I'm going to talk about you, you know.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
So it was great ticket around with you all the time,
just so you can show complete strains.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
The same thing. It was on my phone.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
I was driving through Detroit and I saw this guy
wearing O Mecga hat.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
So I'm wait eving it out the window.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
I did. Actually, I do have it on my phone
and that's what I was showing. Oh okay, yeah, I
mean I I took a picture of it and uh oh,
I was just trying.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
To uh, where did it go?

Speaker 3 (10:16):
It's right before the US from Central Ohio.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Mark, he is, where do they live?

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Man, you got me? O?

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Hi? I just I can't remember. But see, I have
a picture of it on my phone and I showed
it and he was just like then I started showing
him the other.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Pictures that I have and so on.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
But I said, man, I was standing there watching her
have to certify the election.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
That Trump whooped that ass.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
I was like, it was amazing to be sitting there
watching that. So anyway, it was really really cool. So
for you, I was like, I got to tell Troy
the story. So yeah, but what do you know, Mexico
is playing ball. It looks like Trump got their attention,
and so, uh yeah, and now what, I don't know
what's going to happen with Canada. I don't know if

(10:58):
this is going to be as easy of a pla.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
I don't know if you have thoughts you guys on that.
I'm not sure how this is gonna go.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
So it's definitely gonna work out, maybe not as quickly
as it did with Mexico. But look the art of
the deal. Read the book. That's all Donald Trump is doing.
He is running a corporation called America right now. He
is crushing competitors. They need us more than we need them.
Whatever they've got, whatever they create, bill grow, we can

(11:26):
do here. But they need the American consumers. And this
definitely includes China too, because people go out and buy
their cheap crap at Walmart. No harm to Walmart, but
wherever they can get it, it's made in China, made
in Taiwan. They know they need those American dollars. They
want those American dollars, and those tariffs are just a
way saying, if you want to continue making those American dollars,

(11:48):
you will give us what we want and they'll fold
Our money is too important to them to challenge us
over something that's stupid. They will fold. We will get
what we want the art of the deal.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
It'll work out. I see people post like I'm never
drinking cron Royal again, and people are like, hope they
don't take Tim Horton's away. I mean there's all these
goofball Canadian comments, you know what I mean with all that,
and then and then they're booing. Now, yeah at.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
These at the you know, the Indian hockey games.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, the hockey games. I guess there was a they
were Toronto Raptors game. They were in Toronto and they
start singing the nationalith.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
And people start booing. So I was like, okay, we're
doing this, are we?

Speaker 4 (12:28):
You know?

Speaker 1 (12:29):
It's like, man, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
I guess we wouldn't do something like that. I guess
because we just it don't.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
I feel like, if I'm at a Jackets game and
you got the Senators there and I'm going, it just
doesn't matter to me.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Why am I going to boo that.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
I'm there for the hockey game. I'm not there for
the other stuff going on outside world. I'm there to
get away from all that other noise outside I'm here
to watch some guys get after it exactly.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
I mean we do it too. We're just we're cool
so we can get away with it. I mean, let's
not forget let's go back to freedom fries. Okay, yeah,
we can be punitive and stupid too. But you know
it's messed up when even NBA players are going damn
because they couldn't believe the booze for the National Anthe right,
it's again, human nature is human nature. People have to

(13:19):
you know, the whole world is their Facebook page now,
and they think they can grape grouse and complain about
everything and get away with it.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
I'm going to tell you that I got a text
from Carrie Masterson and she said no, no, And we
were talking about Lululemon and Clark and she goes, no, no,
Clark is a car heart and Camo guy.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Clark's doing the fist pump.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yes, yes she does, Yes she does. It's too funny. Yeah,
I will say that three pair of pants almost call
them slacks. Man Age is coming through.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, there's slacks.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
If there's slacks, if they're between fifty and one fifty,
if they're over one fifty, they become trousers.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh, doctors is in the fifty dollars?

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Okay, we are they even around anymore?

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. Anyway, those Lulu there was
three of them were purchased and we were in the
three twenty range something. They were a little over one
hundred each.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
I'm still going to beat your butt after this show.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
In charge of that.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
I was just like, I was like, Josie's worth every penny.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Oh, that's very nice, Uncle Troy. It's so nice.