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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I suppose on some level it makes sense, just not
on my level. Bipartisan bill in our legislature to establish
the official state fish in Ohio, Zach, do you care.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't think there's anything else I that this state
could be working on at all.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
The state bird is, of course, come.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
On, come on, I don't know the cardinal.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yes, the cardinal. I knew that the state song is
hang On Sloopy. The state motto is.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Ohio.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
No. No, actually I believe it is still With God,
all things are possible.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, that's what I said.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, the state dessert.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I have know it, franz Pie.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Frans Pie is actually the state official dessert. Yes, no,
I'm just making that up. But there is a by part.
I don't get this. The logic here says by having
an official state fish. I feel stupid just saying that.
I really, that's just a dumb thing. So how is
your weekend? Would you do this week? I can't even
(01:15):
talk about this.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I I I think I sprained my ankle a little bit,
went fishing, skateboarding, Oh okay, my elbow hurts. Yeah, skateboarding, yeah,
I saw my heck cook. Yeah, because I went to
the Republican.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Did you make it up there on the tent?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I went for like an hour, yes, And I was like,
I feel stupid because I don't know anybody, so I
just setting there by myself.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, why didn't you walk around? Go hi, I'm Zach.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't know. That's not that's like a you thing.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
They're politicians, They're used to people glad handed all the time. Man, Hey,
I'm Zach from six to ten WU TV, and good
to meet you. I know, you know they'd ask for
some beard tips my heck, would hip and tie you.
With those eyes, she's that Oh my gosh, I can't
watch her on TV. I have to just listen the
audio because I feel that you are getting sleepy. She's
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got kill her eyes.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah yeah, she's a nice lady upfront in person.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes she is, yeah, yes, but her eyes are so intimidating.
And I'm glad you got up there. I wish I
would have made it up there. I spent I spent
ninety nine percent of the weekend cleaning the garage and
and yuck. But you know, I don't want to wait
until it gets cold. It needed to get done and
it's still not done. But that was That was my weekend.
(02:32):
So you had a lot more fun than did I.
I'm just saying, so, any let me get back to
this stupid story. Now, this is exciting state fish. By
having an official state fish, it allows the state of
Ohio to market that to folks in other states. Hey,
Michigan's Ohio colleague, we got a state fit. Really. I've
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talked to environmentalists, according to Representative Brennan, I've talked to
environmentalists who said that having a state fish can help
them on their grand application. Our government's funding state fish
helped them on their grand applications with the different levels
of government and with other nonprofits that make donations based
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on your fish. They're seven hundred and twenty one million
walleye in Lake Erie. Who counted them?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You don't think that's an estimation. They just someone got
in there and tagged each one.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
We don't know how many illegal aliens are in America,
but we know there's seven hundred and twenty one million
walleye in Lake Erie. Well, yeah, that makes and that's
just counting the ones that are two years or older,
being they're ready to be caught and kept. For comparison,
there are about six hundred thousand white tailed deer in Ohio?
Is the white tail deer the official deer of Ohio?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I would hope.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So look that up for me. Google that. Look that
stuff up. See what we have official stuff up? Can
you see if you can find that? And Chris has
some thoughts on if Chris is calling to say we
need an official state fish. I need Chris's address because
I gotta go have a talk with him after the
show A two one nine eight six number eight two
one WTV. And Chris, what do you think about the
official state fish being the walleye?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Chuck, my brother. We have had the state fish for
decades and it's been the walleye. Go up to Lake Carrie.
There's a huge ass statue of a walleye.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But that doesn't make it the official state fish. It
doesn't have the title fish.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
For decades, it's been the official fish.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I've got Zach, Google and that stuff right now, and
I'm gonna be honest with you. I enjoy I have
not been in so long, but I enjoy, especially just
sitting on a bank in the shade fish in that way.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
But it was just yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's hard for me to tell one fish from another.
I mean, okay, I can tell okay it's a bass,
I see the lips, or it's a blue gill. I
know what a blue gill looks like. But you start
telling a walleye and a crappie and it's a fish. Man.
If it's big, I keep it. If it's not, I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I was just up fishing yesterday up at Indian Lake
and my brand new Pelly phone.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Oh yeah, yep.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I got it from my birthday from my daughter and
son in law. And if you wonder what one is,
google it and you understand. And you can't get any
more close and personal with.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Fishes than is it like Is it like a surfboard
type thing?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Nope, it's a giant ring. It's inflatable. You sit in
it like a little kid and you just have a blast.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And fish from the ring. That sounds extraordinary. I like
the sound of this.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yes, phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Now, if you get a really big, strong fish, you
could pull you around the lake too.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Oh, they do in half. I called a nine pound
bass couple of years ago and he pulled me halfway
across the lake.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
What's the biggest thing you ever caught? Chris, just out
of curiosity.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
That was him?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Was that all right? All right? Well, I've got Zach
check it. I'm gonna go to him now and see
if he's got the Google results of the official state
stuff in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
There is a bun I'm on Ohio dot gov and
there is state everything.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
What is the walleye actually the state fish? Or is
that just a don't have a state fish?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Okay, technically technical.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Becausechris said they got a big statue up there, so I.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Mean like it might be unofficial, but I mean listen
to some of this. What's our official insect.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Lay bedbug? Okay, mammal?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Was the white tealed deer? What's the official Ohio amphibian?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Amphibian? Well, that's a fish.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Isn't it a spotted salamander?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
That's stupid? Is there a spotted salamander grant program we're
trying to appease.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
But there's also the official beverage. Take a guess.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Water.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You could have had a V eight tomato juice V
eight tomato juice.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh my gosh. Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
The official state airplane.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
State airplane, I don't know, seven forty seven.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
The nineteen oh five right fly Right Flyer the third.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Okay I could see that.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Uh, the Ohio official fossil fish, what plock adrm fish?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
This is dumb.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm sad it's literally on Ohio do.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I just got a message here from Sandra and Facebook messengers.
He says we need a state fish because forty seven
states have one and we are one of three that
don't have one yet. That okay, I mean one of
the three remaining states with sins just because forty said
if all of your friends have a state fish, do
you need a state fish too? Really, that's just because
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they have it, doesn't mean we need it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Okay, I got two more than that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I'll shut up. Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
What is our official native fruit?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, Paul Linde has passed away. That's a jokey loved apples,
the Paul. What is a pulp that's not even a fruit?
That's like a isn't that a.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Maybe somebody had a really funny grandpa.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, I mean it's you can eat it, and it's
it's sweet, but they're just like little fruit needs to
be something substantial you can take multiple bites out of.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's fair. And what is Ohio's official state pet?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Kask shelter pet. What is that? What is shelter shelter pet?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I don't know, but that's what it's. That's what our
official state pet is.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I thought kask was like a guard dog. Really he's
he barks at the other politicians. He does. His dad
was a postman. You know that.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I didn't know. Have you Has he said that before?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I think he mentioned it once?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Okay, making making sure.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So so this is legislation people, they are actually and
it's bipartisan legislation, which I'm just I don't know. Shawn Brennan,
a Democrat out of Partma, and DJ Swergeon, a Republican
out of here on Ohio, are the sponsors. They want.
(09:17):
They want Ohio to name the Walleye as our official
state fish. Actually one of them said, was it Brent, No,
it was Swergeon and said, there's a lot of people
that come into the district just to fish on Lake Erie.
The economic impact is pretty large. There's also a lot
of people that come into the district to drink on
(09:38):
Lake Erie. What's the official booze of the state of Ohio.
Do we have one of those?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
No, not officially, maybe unofficially a course light. I don't
I don't have any idea.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't, I mean, really how this just doesn't make sense?
And after seeing did you see the video of the
eagle at falling out of the nest? No, it's not
funny over here in Grandview. No, And they rescue him
and he's being nursed back to health and everything. And
apparently mom fell out of the nest too, so it
must be a pretty crappy nest.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
What is who built that?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
The eagles did well? They didn't do a good job,
not the Philadelphia kind, I mean the bird kind, and
and so I don't know what happened, but anyway, yeah,
they did rescue him, and at last I heard repairing him. Today.
I was out in the in the boondocks, as they say,
showing a house. It was not a house, it wasn't
much of a house, showing a property to a buyer,
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and down in Ross County, and as I'm sitting I'm
sitting there waiting for them to show up, because of course,
you know, I'm on time, and there's no trains down there,
and uh, and and they're they're late, because that's how
my life is. And so I'm sitting there waiting for
them to arrive and just walking calmly up from the
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road in front of the house. There's a peacock. I've
never my wife's seen an up close real peacock. I've
seen him on TV. I've never seen a real peak
and it just calmly, absolutely conscious, cool walking up. I said, hey, peacock,
how you doing? He was like, hey, man, what was that?
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And so, what are you doing nw you know more
in and stro I said, okay, well, it's it's good
to meet you. I've never met a peacock before. He goes, yeah,
we ain't real social, so and then he went back
down to the road. I have no idea whether he
was a pet or you know, being raised. Is there
a peacock farm nearby? Or what if if the peacock
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is here, maybe the cardinals should get worried. Maybe the
peacock should be the official state bird of the state
of I don't I don't understand why we need a
state fish. I'm sorry. Can't we just promote fishing? I
mean the clear waters and multiple lakes and things like that.
Does it have to be fish specific? And how on
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earth are there nonprofits and government agencies that are do
grants based on your state fish man. I just will
throw money at anything.