Roy Hall Jr 10-3-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm running a little bit late today. I was.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I was up late because I was waiting on the
Taylor Swift album at midnight. Oh my gosh, And I
was like, man, I've been waiting so long for this.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Wearing the sequence in today is a little overkill when
it comes to your enthusiasm, though, I don't know what
that's all about, but go change. My gosh, all sparkly
is silver? Are those heels seriously?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
You know, I'm sure it anyway, So I thought, well,
why not, I can Actually I can make myself a
little taller.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
They're they're doing something for your calves. I'll say that,
Oh thank you, You're welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, I guess they kind of I mean yeah, I
guess they kind of stay flexed.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
A little, don't they. Is that what they're supposed to do?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
That?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I think.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Said the lee I Am Pippy lip you you sequence.
It's a fifth gear Friday, Baby.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
It's a that is Ah, that's a true story.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
The album came out at midnight, and I'm like, gosh,
I it's like you did you know that? I?

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yes, I was gonna thank you for saying it came
out because I am so sick of all these middle
aged and old people trying to sound cool by saying
it dropped last night. Just stop it. Stop it be old,
you're old. No, wait a minute, I didn't drop it
was released.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I used that all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
We'll stop it year old.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh come on now, it's hot. No no, no, no
no no, it doesn't doesn't drop if I do that.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
If I say, you know, if I'm singing drop it
like it's hot, it's because I like snoop.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
But but I'm not doing it like to kids, uh,
just to mess with them.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
But I use that term like it drops. Dut da da,
dut da dat.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's dude, that's been out for a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
It's over with. Stop it now, go back to English.
Oh my god, the album was released last night. You
get bothered by album?

Speaker 1 (01:56):
It makes we don't have hold on it.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It makes me laugh, like you get bothered the funniest stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I know.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
I'm crazy like that.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
You are like you. It's it's like if somebody doesn't
speak how you need them to speak, You're like, really
need to stop that wrong.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
If they don't speak the way I want them to speak,
they are wrong, man, just absolutely wrong.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
That is so closed mind, I know, I love it. Yeah,
oh my gosh, lol.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah you get I never do, like when I know
when people I don't know, man, it's that is a
big source of contention though for a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
So yeah, well, you know, real life is going to
be internet chat room. And I just when I hear
people talking like that, I just always cringe.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, the other part, as long as they know what
should be or the way that it should be spoken,
that counts.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Or something for something. But however, with the younger kids,
I worry that they won't because they're so acclimated at
this point to conversing in this strange shorthand we've created
right that I worry that they will not know the
proper words with the you know, what's lol mean? It
means lol? What's that means? It's just lol, like when
something's funny or something.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Man, When old people and I'm talking older as in
older than like seventy know what that means? Is it
really considered not cool to use lol anymore because they
know what it means, Like you're not getting away or
using like in other words, since they know what that means,

(03:33):
it doesn't really doesn't really count. As you shouldn't be
using that anymore if everybody knows what it means.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
We'll see when that when the seventy and plus crowd
starts using it, the kids stop exactly. They do that
with everything. Facebook was their domain. Old people got on there.
They all went to Instagram. We get on Instagram, they
all go to They don't want to be around us all.
And I know a lot of adults, and I don't
really blame the kids.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, you're right, You're right.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I just don't think there are there are anybody nobody
under the age of let's say, twenty, when I could be,
could even be younger. They do not use lol anymore.
They stopped using that a long time ago. Yeah, it
seems like good, But I put that on stuff still.
I know, you know, but when you and I text you,

(04:24):
I'm trying to think, well, I guess pretty much you
don't really do stuff put stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
No, I really don't. I don't use any shorthands. I
very rarely put an emoji in anything. I just I don't. Uh,
I don't communicate that way. Yeah, I'm old. I use
real word. When I hear sea bus, sea bus makes
me mad. I don't like Sea bus. I didn't like
the coop It's Cooper Stadium. Are we so dag gone
busy with our lives that we can't say Cooper Stadium?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Really, Chuck's like, you're legitimately pissed off about that. We
get we're so lazy, you know when it comes to communicating,
I have to I have to say this too. It
really blows me away. How worked up you get about
knowing like you're really one of the most you remember,
one of the most level headed people that I know,
and then when to watch you like go crazy when
something like this, I'm like, it is not like you.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Language is a big deal to me. Well, when I
was a little kid and my dad gave me a
smack in the mouth, he didn't kno out any teeth.
It wasn't abusive. He gave me a little smack in
the mouth though, to remind me, there is no such
word as ain't. That's that is how I I just
I've always respected the language and I try to use
it the right way. And when I hear people butchering it, it, uh,
it bugs me. Just to tend you there's something you do.

(05:35):
How do you watch the five? How you're on the
air when the five's on in here? Yeah, what do
you mean? But how do you watch it when you
want to know what he said or whatever?

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (05:44):
The the close capt No, Oh.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
You always talk about the fact that you roll tape
on it. Oh, see, there's no tape. There's no tape.
We are old. We communicate in old people language. I
understand what you mean when you say roll tape and
they're thinking, like a present wrapping or something, what's he doing?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, I'll say to them, like, you need to figure
out what that means because you're young and you have
no idea, So I can go at them.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Up to you to learn what I'm saying. It's not
up to me to communicate on your level. And by
the way, get off of my lawn.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I think that goes hand in hand with it too.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Again, it blows me away knowing how relaxed you are
about and then some things man get you.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
But you know what, we're all. I think we're all.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's a possibility with all of us, no matter how
level headed or calm you are, something will still.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Get your goat.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I get a little animated now, Yeah, I know absolutely.
I still like your caves in those heels.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
He's part of our best Buckeye coverage. Roy Hall is
joining us now and Roy Happy Friday.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Welcome in.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
How are you Happy Friday? I'm sitting up here listening
to that elongated conversation about Chuck getting angry and raging
out on people and emojis. It's been an awesome listen.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Man, did we take enough time for you to finish?

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Well?

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yes and no. But I'm thinking to myself about this
LOL thing and emojis. It's interesting, right, like if you
say lo, if you type out LOL, or if you're
use an emoji, the question is if, like when you
say lol, it's like I see it. That was supposed
to be funny, but I really didn't laugh. Because usually
when people laugh out loud, they actually now text you like, man,

(07:27):
I'm actually laughing out loud. But when they put LOL,
it's more like I respect your attempt to like say
something funny, or it's it's more condescending, like oh l
O L, but you really meant what you said.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
I guess I agree.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
When I'm on Facebook, Blazer man, like your show was
terrible today, laugh out loud and it's like they're really
trying to tell you that it was terrible, but they're
putting laugh out loud, like to take a little bit
of sting out of it. It's really were being truthful.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
It is the equivalent of when people go, man, you
smell all terrible, no offense.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yeah, yeah, it can't be used in that context. But
then there's sometimes if you're like, man, I slipped and
fell and like it was awful, man, but you know,
like I kind of hurt my ankle and it was like, man,
you are clumsy. Lol. It's really like again like I'm
being serious but trying to take a little bit of
sting out of it.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
There's a term for that.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
I think it's called a It's like a compliment sandwich
or something like that. I heard somebody use it where
they say something nice in the middle, but they start
with something mean, end or end with something mean, so
they say something or the reverse could be true as well.
They say something mean and then they end with something
nice or something along those lines. But it's similar to

(08:46):
what you were talking about, a compliment sandwich or something.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Yeah, you're supposed to like start with something specifically when
you're criticizing people, Yeah, start with something kind, like hey, man,
you know what. I just want to let you know
that your colonneist like it smells really good, Like you
spent some money on your cologne. Here's the deal.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Don't wear so much of it.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah, but you but you knew you do need to
wear a shirt to work.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Here's that right, right, you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (09:11):
And then follow it up, But you've been you've been
doing really you hit your numbers for the quarter, but
you probably should wear a shirt to work from now on.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
There's also probably one that like you may have heard,
which is, uh, that was a really that was a
really great play that you were involved in.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Just you shouldn't have.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Fumbled, right exactly. So that was like Brandon in is like,
hey man, that was like a great punt return, but
then you fumble. So but you know, so next time,
just make sure you do what you're supposed to do
or we will find somebody else to replace you.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
All right.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
So take me back to the Huskies last week. What
how do you how do you assess the twenty four
to six win from the buck Eyes. I know a
win is a win is a win, but your thoughts
on that game last week?

Speaker 4 (09:53):
So I feel specifically from an offensive standpoint. Our offense
at this point, and it's gonna sound weird, but it's
operating like like the very best crossing guard that you've
ever seen in the school zone where the cars want
to go by fast, but we got to get these
kids across the street. So you got to be able

(10:15):
to communicate both sides and keep both sides happy and
be efficient enough to not get kids, you know, in
any type of accident, but still get the people to
work on time. Brian Hartline is operating that fine line
between not turning the ball over being efficient, keeping Jeremiah
Smith happy, making sure the quarterback Julian sam who's on

(10:36):
a road trip for the first time they playing in
hosted territory, where as loud as Heck in Washington, make
sure he's under control, make sure the offensive line is good,
but then take care of Cardinal Tate at the same time.
And that's what you saw in that game. Efficiency and
everybody's safe and sound and doing their job and getting
to where they're supposed to be. Jeremiah Smith gets a

(10:57):
touchdown catch at the end of the first half, start
the first half with three catches to keep that guy happy,
and then at the same time not turning the football
over and making up for the fact that Brandon and
did have a fumble in the special teams area, but
then also feeding the running game and getting bo Jackson going,
the offensive line doing their job. We haven't put it

(11:17):
but one time in the last two football games.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Pretty amazing.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Yeah, Brian Harline is being very efficient and utilizing both
sides of the offense and just taking what the defense
gives them, but then also recognizing that our defense is
going to stop them. So even when we have negative plays,
we have a way to make up for it.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
And be honest, when you saw you know, three it
was three nothing for a while, and at the beginning
of that, you know, that's the that's the slow start
Buckeyes that we have seen all too much, not albeit
not this year, but in the past. Or what have
you When you saw that happening, were you saying to yourself, oh,
here we go again, or were you not worried?

Speaker 4 (11:59):
I feel like I'm not worried at all. I feel
like coach Hartline and that offense they're really taking notes,
They're really observing and paying attention to what's going on.
What can we do, what won't work, what will work,
and as you can see, they set them up. At
the end of that first half, knew that they were
gonna get an all out hero blitz, and we had
a perfect play call. Like that's from studying and understanding

(12:21):
your opponent and or as coach Connley would say, no
one dying enemy. And so in that particular case, like
they're setting it now, it's a slow playing game, because
everybody wants to see us put up fifty points a game.
But when you go into hostile territory, you don't just
show up in somebody else's neighborhood with you, you know,
with your music loud and driving fast up and down

(12:42):
the street. Like you got to make sure you pay
attention to the laws in the area that you're in.
You want to make sure you blend in and not
really stand out from that standpoint. So what I felt
like Heartline was doing was paying attention and taking notes.
And by the end of the game, when you see
the score, you're like, man, we were pretty dominant.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's uh that. I'll be honest.
When I saw I was even saying because I was
at my son's baseball game and my daughter's there, and
you know, and they were like, you know, it's three
nothing the Buckeyes.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
I haven't scored. I go, I'm not worried, and I'll
be honest. I said that. I go, I'm not worried.
We'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
We've got this team is really really good, really special. Again,
how is it that we keep coming up with these
special teams? I'll tell you how because of recruiting. And
that's a long answer, but I just said, we're going
to be fine, trust me. Well, clearly the dominance wasn't there,
as in, you know, the score reflecting that. But you
got a really good Washington team there. I mean, the

(13:41):
Huskies are, They're a good team and so on. So
we move now to tomorrow night. It's a seven thirty game.
It's gonna be perfect weather. You know, we're under the
lights at the Horseshoe. We got the Golden Gophers coming in.
So how are you feeling about? The Buckeyes are a
twenty three and a half point favorite right now. Las
Vegas has them going off at so they're a twenty

(14:01):
three and a half point favorite. The Golden govers in
Minnesota tomorrow night. How do you see this one?

Speaker 1 (14:06):
You know? How are you feeling about it.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
I'm feeling great about the game. I'm actually feeling great
about the weekend because my very favorite and best bakery
in Columbus, Ohio, Russa's Bakery, just moved from Livingston to Gehannah.
And you know, I'm in Gehannah, brother So like, I'm
gonna be there three four times a week. Now, what

(14:28):
does that have to do with Minnesota. I'm gonna be
there tomorrow before I'm you know, talking through the pregame
show with Matt and all those guys. I'm gonna have
some donuts before that. And they're right up the street
now versus it's taking me seventeen minutes to get to
Livingston to get these tang on donuts. And so listen,
Russia's has been open for over one hundred years. They've
been at the location on Livingston for sixty plus years.

(14:50):
That neighborhood is pissed, but I'm excited. So you know,
I'm you know, I feel bad for some of the
people that got to make that trip, but I've been
making that trip for six or seven year years now,
So I'm gonna have some doughnuts. Excited about the Minnesota
game with your with.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Your belly full of the donuts? Does that?

Speaker 2 (15:07):
I mean, how will you feel as you're thinking about
the game with your belly full of donuts?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Obviously you'll be very satisfied for one with the home.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
Here's the deal with being a twenty three point favorite.
This is one of those games where you want to
see the offense going up and down the field and
making some big plays. They don't have anyone that can
cover our receivers on the outside. This is gonna be
hard for them to stop the run. Our defense is
gonna be dominant, and that's primarily while you'll see us
put up or at least cover the spread. From that standpoint,

(15:35):
the most entertaining part about the Minnesota Golden Gophers is
their coaching. PJ. Fleck. He actually used to be a
grad assistant at Ohio State when I was there, and
he worked with the wide receivers. He was the receivers
GA and also a receiver as a professional for the
North for Northern Illinois and also the San Francisco forty
nine ers, And so I just love seeing PJ because

(15:55):
he's a good dude and a friend, and him running
up and down the sidelines and all all that stuff
that he does. He brings a lot of passions, but
the team doesn't stand a chance to get us tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh I thought you.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
I'm sorry, No, I'm actually I'm visiting. How many more
miles he's going to have to run every week with
that bakery so close.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Oh, I'm not gonna have to run too much anything.
You just looped us into the calories. You know that
there are three to four hundred calories a piece, and
so I'm just gonna have to give up my breakfast
full meal, and his breakfast is going to be donuts.
That's it. It's really simple, big guys.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, as they say, there's no trick to it, right,
it's calorie is a calorie is a calorie.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
And here's the deal. A donut is not a donut,
is not a donut because I'm not going anywhere else
other than rest is. Man, My goodness, they are so good.
I don't know why I'm talking. They need to give
me some free like an nil deal.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
You don't need that. You don't want that, you Roy,
you do not want that.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I mean, why would you want to have like just
free rome access to all those donuts?

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Could you control yourself?

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Here's the deal, man, I got the donuts. Man, that
means all of us eat. You see what I'm saying, Like,
if I get the deal, then you and Chuck everybody's
getting donuts.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Brother, Oh, I like, what are you? I like what
he's laying down for a buckeye.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Roy Hall Junior found in sugar or Coma on sidewalk today,
mumbling for milk.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Hey, man, don't hey, don't don't send them negative vise
my way. I'm going to hide right now.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Man.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
What I'm saying today is the first day they opened
up too. Man, but it was like a thousand people
in there. I'm not going in there today, but tomorrow
morning at eight am, I'm their baby.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Well, the fact that you're talking about it on the
air and we reach all eighty eight counties in Ohio,
now you got people coming in from two hours away,
Roy to probably get in on the thousand today, will
be five thousand in line tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
Hey, listen, you gotta do what you gotta do, man,
take care of the local businesses. You see what I'm saying.
Anything over one hundred years or so and nothing, it's
been about that long since Minnesota beat us is at
least twenty some years since they beat us. I think
Glenn Mason was the coach there. Then I'm again, man,
I'm looking forward to the game. I just want to
spice it up a little bit and have some mid

(18:02):
day donuts, the midday snack while I'm watching the buck
Eyes beat up on the Golden Gophers. Man. But we
have nothing to worry about tomorrow. What I would love
to see is to come out swinging a little bit faster.
It's just again getting back to the offense. The heartline.
You got tight ends. You got four tight ends in
at once. You got two three running backs rotating in.

(18:23):
You got all these receivers going in. He's just doing
a good job trying to again feed everyone. But tomorrow,
I think we're gonna light up that scoreboard.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
All right, very good.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
You like the Buckeyes to cover. Then tomorrow the twenty
three and a half, yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Oh yeah, man, we probably gonna win by at least
twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
All right, very good, Roy Hall, part of our best
buck Eye coverage. Of course, you can hear them pre
game tomorrow and all day every day.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
You can hear and you can see him. Now one
more time. The name of that bakery lushes, lushes, rushes, bakers, oh, rushes.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Okay, all right, very good Roy, thanks for jumping on
with us. Appreciate you, brother, all right, brother, all right, man.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
He's probably eating and a clear while he's talking to.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Probably was that that explained why at the beginning or whatever,