Music and bussing

Music and bussing

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lot and when he is checking in to let Zach
attack know he's ready to go on the air, he will.
You know, it's kind of like when you used to
do that when you would code from the Stank booth
remember way back, Yes, what Marshall does. Every day you're
in the booth, they will alert Zach to hey, I'm here. Well,

(00:21):
typically they go hey, I'm here Alex. Every day because
of my intro, he'll go Rald. He doesn't even say anything,
he just goes right Ron and then Zach goes right
Rayrold and then they go right Ray rayro and Ray
Rayrold and they do that and it's like, so that's
why I was going rare Rold.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
That moment in your music and your intro music. Yeah,
I get that.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
It is a drill. It's by the pitcups on his
it's called Frankenstein and is his guitar that's got Eddie
Van Halen's guitar's name Frankenstein. And that's how he got
that sound. He was like he had a power drill
by the pickups in the guitar, like, and he was
doing That's how he gets that at the beginning of
that song, it's called pound Cake. Wow, it's like one

(01:06):
of my favorite songs of all time, and Van Allen's one.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Of I I just educated.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean yeah, I guess we kind
of drilled down a little farther there than those people
are like, whoa, I didn't know all of that, or
maybe they did. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Fun.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, it's just it's just something I don't even think
about stuff like that. And then I do that and
I'm like, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Now I got it.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
So if you if this is this basically like your
walk up music, like if you were a ballplayer, this
would be your walk up music.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yes, I love that. I would have pound Cake going,
although I would say this. So I went to work
finally on my yard, which was I swear it was
unbelievably long. I I the lawnmower kept stalling out. I
had to keep flipping the mower over and taking a
long screwdriver and just digging the grass, the cake grass

(01:52):
out of the area, and then and then do a
couple more rows and then same thing because I have
a mulching blade. And listen, I know there are people
who've given me instructions before. Listeners have said spray the
bottom once you get it all the way clean with
WD forty and oh I've heard that I never did it,
and I'm sorry that I haven't. But anyway, I was

(02:12):
out there and today and I set all that to
say I might change my walk up music. I'm starting
to like I can't believe it. I'm starting to like
some country and I've never really liked country music.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Not a country music fan, okay, no, a rock.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Guy, yeah, but I've been. I've been listening to something
I downloaded in Mexico because one of the people with
us were out at the pool and I had my
little jbl bows speaker out there with the Bluetooth speaker
and we're jamming and I go, hey, what Austin is
his name? And I go, hey, dude, what kind of
music do you like? And he's just like, I'm a
country guy, and I got oh, so I just downloaded.

(02:51):
Now that's what I call Country Volume seventeen.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh yes, there we go.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
So and then I started and Luke Comb's version of
Fast Car is on. There need a favor from Jelly Roll,
I'm telling you. And then you go to Chris Stapleton
White Horse and next thing you know from Jordan Davis
and I don't know really, Uh, you know, Morgan Wallin's
on here, Kane Brown and these are newer country artists. Obousy. Yes,

(03:17):
the lyrics will We're giving me chills while I was
mowing the launcheon.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
That's funny.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm not kidding you. It was so powerful listening to
Jelly Rolls Need a Favor. I was just like, Wow,
I look at you. And you know what Austin said
to me during that time, He goes, I said, so
you're a country fan, He goes, I just I love it.
And then I can understand the lyrics. I can actually
understand what they're saying. Yeah, So if you were.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
A country fan, I feel like back in the day
and the classics, for you, that's what real country sounds like.
I feel like the nineties also had like a real
country moment too, And so like my husband, he's a
big country fan. When he listens to country mus he
starts with the nineties. But I feel like there is
a moment right now where country music is kind of

(04:06):
speaking in the same way that maybe maybe the genre
got off from its roots a little bit, changing things
up and maybe kind of we're moving back to some
of those country roots, whereas the lyrics are powerful and
they're telling story.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Those lyrics they tell a story and they're so powerful
when you I just go, whoever wrote that is genius? Yeah,
I mean the way that they tell a story with
it and it all fits so perfect.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
And you don't find that in crazy, do you. I
can't think of any other genre of music that you
find that, where they're telling a story right in that
way that really is kind of unique to country music.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I've never been to a country concert, but some of
these guys I would definitely go see. And we were
talking about jelly Roll earlier in the week. Even I
can't remember what it was, but Josh even you know,
he pointed out and he's right that jelly Roll almost
kind of was it jelly Roll? I think you were
talking about that kind of transcends.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
And top forty stations.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
I've heard him on country stations, I've heard him on
rock stations and once.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Apout a time like a no No, like you weren't
supposed to cross over and reach those other those other channels.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
We were all see what he did.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
Because of his background, you know, he was into the
whole ghetto kind of thug lifestyle, you know, and his
songs will lay out his whole life for you if
you listen to him. But what he did is he
did what Beyonce thought she could do in her brain.
He goes he found soulfulness in playing in country music

(05:38):
and singing and being able to tell a real story,
so that he went from that aggressive kind of hip
hop thing, kept that edge, that smoothness about that transcended
it into country.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
And it's almost like, because that Beyonce song was awful,
I don't know what that song was.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, okay, the one song
is that all you've heard from the Beyonce album? Have
you heard Henry Country album? Yes, Cowboy Carter.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
That's the only song I heard, which I thought it
was the same.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Why I didn't even know she had now country album?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Dude, Yeah, Cowboy Carter. And so I would say on
that tip since she brought it up. Her album in
general has influences of country from classic country that if
you grew up listening to any of those kind of
like really country artists, you would be amazed at some

(06:35):
of the influences that she put into her album. I
don't think she gets enough credit for what she did.
So I hear what you're saying about Jelly roll and
kind of having those influences.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
He's really broken it wide open where the country crowd
has completely thrown their arms, and well a lot of
us have to throw our arms and get around jelly little.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
God blessed and thank you some long arms and get
it all the way around that big body.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
But you know, but have embraced it because just in
not in just the style in what she sings, but
in the way he delivers that story.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
I hear Old.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Hank Williams Senior, So I don't like country is so good?

Speaker 2 (07:14):
You're saying, is that Beyonce album? If you listen to
the album, tell those are the influences within the album. Yes,
I know the one single everybody heard it didn't it
didn't have that.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
I totally get it.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
And so if that's what you were basing on her
her kind of dipping her toe into country music in
this way, that would not have told you the full
story of her album. I would highly recommend you listen
to the full album.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Along the lines of what you were just talking about,
where you're like, oh, that was kind of a oh
you can't play that artist on a rock station. Yeah,
so back when I did rock radio and for a
million years. It was when Jagged Little Pill came out
and our program set, Yeah, Alanis Morrisset and our program director,
he's struggled over this song. You ought to know, the

(08:02):
first single from it, and we played it. We played
it and I you know, I worked, I worked at
the Blitz. It was it's hard, it's it's heavy, you know,
and it was just like, there's enough rock feel to it.
But it was short lived. Really well. He played it
for a while and clearly it was a huge hit
for her and that record was enormous. I mean, she

(08:23):
had so many hits on it, and you could that's
one of those ones you can put on and let
it the whole thing. So to your point, it's interesting
with that Atlantis did. It was a sore thumb in
a rock format and then people were liking it, but
for whatever reason, it fizzled out. It only lasted for
a couple of weeks and then they pulled it.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
In that case because the rest of the album didn't
sound like that. Correct, It really is the one song
that had that kind of tonality to it that would
fit with the Blitz that single that doesn't fit the
rest of the album. To me, I feel like it. Yes,
it was catchy. Yes it was a great song to
do a little dance too on Instagram. But overall her

(09:04):
album is much deeper than that and does tell the
story of you know, she's a Texas girl, So I
think that's really intriguing.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
It was.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
It was funny because it when Hoody and the Blowfish's
Crack Rear View came out, which is one of my
ten favorite albums of all time all the time. That's
another every I can quote the lyrics to every song
from one through ten. Yeah, but when that came out,
I remember there was this crisis of where do we

(09:33):
put it? They because they created their own thing, which
they ended up calling college rock, which is worth that,
but not in the sense of like ari Em. It
was nowhere near Rim, which was considered a college band.
But it was a college rock because all the frat
guys and polo shirts and visors, you know, playing beer pong,

(09:55):
We're cranking.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Hoody, So I got the genre nicknamed.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Collin and he was like wearing a remember he had
on Cowboy hat. I mean he I've seen him in
Cowboy hats, you know. Yeah, yeah, he's throwing passes with
Dan Marino.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Dolphins make him cry, They make him cry.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, he's wearing a football jersey and Dolphins. Yeah, it's unbelievable.
Artists like that, who don't. You can't pigeonhole him. That's
pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, yeah, I really do. There's probably more out there than,
uh than we can actually even begin to scratch the
service with. But I do wanted to I did want
to ask you about I know you guys aired this
story last night Stasia that the Columbus City Schools are
going to bust more than one hundred private charter students
after weeks of not providing transportation. So they wrote in

(10:49):
a letter to charter non public partners that starting on Monday,
one hundred two school students attending private and charter schools
will now be transported. As you know, Dave yost Agost
brought a lawsuit against Columbus City Schools. They asked for it.
I think the last that I had heard they'd asked
for that to be dropped, and clearly it wasn't. But

(11:09):
so I was asking you. I was like, okay, so
there was a ruling and you're going, well, the fact
that they're saying they're going to do this may then
it might might not mistigate the ruling.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
We may not need a ruling because if they are
moving to bust these students for these families, so they're
saying they're going to add five routes, which will adjust
thirty three existing routes to transport one hundred and two students. Now,
I don't know if that's all of the students, if
this squares away everybody, or if this really knocks out

(11:42):
a good chunk of what's involved in this lawsuit.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Do you know a number?

Speaker 2 (11:46):
This is a big This is a big amount for
CCS to move forward with, and hopefully it shows a
good faith effort on the part of everybody involved to
get these kids where they're trying to go. If CCS
is required by law to bust these students, they're saying, hey,
we're going to do it, and so hopefully we can
all just get the kids to school, because at the

(12:06):
end of the day, that's what everybody wants to do,
is just get the kids to school.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yes, in order to in order to bust the students,
there were five new routes at it adjustments to thirty
three current routes. Adjustments could change pickup or drop off
times to more than eleven hundred students according to the district.
And I'm trying to figure out exactly why all of
a sudden they just went, yeah, we're not gonna do
it anymore. Well, you know what I mean, I don't

(12:32):
even know are you privy to anything, because I'm like.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
It was very include to the families that we spoke
to of the charter school students, and so these families
were affected. They were saying, you're supposed to bust my kids,
and they got they received notice really late in the
game as far as they were concerned. CCS says they
notified everybody within the time they were supposed to, but
something fell through the cracks, and these families felt like

(12:56):
they really were kind of left in a lurch. We
had families telling as people were having to quit their
jobs to get their kids to and from school because
now it was suddenly up to them and CCSA wasn't
going to take care of it. So hopefully this alleviates
some of that strain, because that's a real strain for
a lot of families who depend on this transportation. That
CCS by law, is required to provide. So it will

(13:19):
end up affecting more students because they're having to exit
there having to adjust some existing routes already. But we've
had that even in our district in Dublin, where we
had a bus time. The bus was going to show
up at this time, and then the first couple weeks
of school they make some adjustments and now your time's
a little bit different. But so it's going to affect

(13:39):
more students overall, But it sounds like they're going to
get these kids where they need to go, and that's
the goal.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, for them to say, well, we did what we
need to do. We let you know, well wait a minute,
that still doesn't excuse you from your duty, which is
the law by the way, in the state of Ohio.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
They said we will provide. It was basically some amount
of money to help families with those transportation issues, but
they weren't required to give it to these families until
the end of the school year. So you're investing this
money in getting your kid to school, but you're not
going to be paid by the district until the end
of the school year. That's just not money that you
have budgeted all of a sudden that you're having to

(14:17):
pay to get your kid to and from school. Something's
off about that. So hopefully this alleviates a lot of
what we were hearing from these families. But I know
we have some reporters who are really well connected with
the families who've been struggling with this issue, and I
know there's hope that this may be the resolution that
everybody's looking for.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
That's good. Yeah, I mean, clearly that's all that. And
you know what, I love that our top attorney here
in Ohio is the he said no, none to hang
on second right, you know, and he stepped up and
he's forcing it again. A head scratcher for me as
to why they just went, yeah, we're not going to
do it anymore. It's like, wait, the students live in

(14:57):
the district. They're paying the taxes and so on that
fund the school buses, so they're like, no, hold on.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
It's very confusing how they made that decision, because the
families felt blindsided by that call from the district. The
district said they followed the rules and alerted people when
they were supposed to. The families didn't feel like they
had received that information in a timely manner, so hopefully
this will resolve things.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Also, I'll be interested to see if this kind of
if it stays the way that it's supposed to stay,
which is currently where they're taking once we end this
school year, so in other words, we start next year
and they just go, Okay, we'll just keep doing it,
you know, the way we're supposed to try it again.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Right, that's a good question.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
I would imagine if there's no ruling. I don't know.
I mean, they could be like, well, there really wasn't
a ruling, let's try it again. Out of it.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
This has been the last month. I mean, you want
to talk about Mike Tyson uppercut. After Mike Tyson uppercut,
you know, you get this whole board situation.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
The board is all.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
There are people that I have no idea how there
haven't been resignations yet.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
The board, Columbus City School Board is an absolute joke.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
It's a mess, liars, pointers and accusations here there, everywhere.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Everybody turned on each other.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
You've got the report card coming out that shows that
we have thirty percent of third graders that can actually
read on a third grade level. And that's why we
have one of the worst, if not the worst report
card in the state. And then now trying to get
the kids who want to get the hell out of
Columbus City schools to go to charter schools to have
a better opportunity and a better education. You won't take

(16:44):
them there.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
What aims out?

Speaker 3 (16:46):
What a month for Columbus City schools. I mean, none
of it's been

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Good, driving in weather together from day and night, heating
and cooling product