The Blazor Show Monday 02/02/2024

News, Politics, Sports

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bleezer Show.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Man, it's springtime again instantly.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
But don't get used to it because the bottom drops
out tomorrow like it always does in Ohio.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I mean what, that's how it always works.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Congressman Troy Balterson is joining us in studio and TV.
How are you, brother?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Fantastic? Couldn't think of a better way to spend my
Monday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, here it is, you know, sixty three degrees, I know.
And then you know Chuck is with us, and so
you were like, 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 kinda like we don't
know if he's gonna be here for sure, because there's
all kinds of other types of things going on.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
But here we all are in the same room.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
So this is fun.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Love being here at Chack.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
I don't let me turn this thing on. I don't
believe either one of you right now. I'm just saying
it's like, yeah, I love.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Not true.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
No, Yeah, good good guys.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah Bucks, I.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
First star a radio show with you up at the
gun Chop. Yes, the first time that we did something together.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Delbert's target shows. Yeah, even before you and I did
some stuff with.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
The Oh no, no, you and I had been doing.
That's kind of where Chuck had heard of May and
I gotcha. Clark is good friends with mister Delbert. Yes,
so their bodies they are. They do bitness together.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Okay, I got youa funny business. No, no, the of
the gun variety and the gun Variety. Yeah, we get well,
we can admit that now because of who's in office,
It's okay.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'll know David Hoggs with the d n C. Now, man,
Oh good lord, yeah, yeah, I'm the brain trust is enormous.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
I gotta so all right.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
He's vice shared of the d n C.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I I did not know that.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
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

(02:45):
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 uh, there was Howie Mandell and
our Senio Hall. We're doing their touring together, right, wow,
So they were performing there. So we had set this

(03:08):
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 the facets of the story. But before we
were on the way back, we get up in the
morning and we go to have breakfast and there's a guy.

(03:28):
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.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I mean he's wearing it just proudly.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I'm not used to seeing this all beyondes well, especially
in Detroit Detroit. I was just like, wow, we're in
Wittenberg 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 to strike up a conversation brother, right,

(04:06):
because then and then Jenny, you know, is just like no, don't,
don't do you know, because I'm like, I kept staring
at him. I'm like, yeah, 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

(04:29):
to his wife about and he's talking about all this stuff.
He's like, oh, he's tariff talking. People don't understand what's
going on. I mean, he's 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.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
To be a little more bold, if you will.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
I don't know if that's the word I've spoken, that
they feel like they could talk again.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
I mean, they can have conversations. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah. So then we're going back home and we have
to stop for gas and there is a Sheets up there.
It's near Findlay 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

(05:19):
all up through there is two dollars and fifty five
cents full price. 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 side.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Oh okay, so that's up a little bit to sixty
five down the skim count.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Okay. 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
thisen litill pop up. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
So but look it's gonna be lower than it was,
that's all that matters. As high as it ever was,
it won't be down.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
So then yesterday the whole family we get together, we
went out 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. Jenny wanted to get some stuff because
we're leaving for Vegas is coming weekend. We're going out
for Super Bowl weekend and we're going to be there
next week, and so she's.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Like, I want to get some stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well, Josephine comes with us, our daughter, and so she
all of a sudden, she starts by, if you ever
purchased Lululemon stuff, because it is not cheap. I don't
know if you've u like sucking.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Wait a minute to defense And I'm not advocating.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
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.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
And it's one hundred and thirty five bucks.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
But a Petere Malar, which is another classic golf thing
about the same price.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
But so yes, I do have.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
So I know where you're going with this. How expensive
it is.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
I don't know if you know what with Clark.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't Clark, I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
What is your actual title with Troy?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
I know you've been with Troy a long time.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
What is the senior advisor? Senior advisor? Okay, Clark's in
studio with us. He's had a communication too.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
He looks like a guy who knows about maybe Lululemon,
who has learned from me. He's fit, and he looks
like he would he would look good in Lulula.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
I would not look good in Lululemon.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
I know, there's not it's not yourself there, No, no,
it's not.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
I mean Na Pelosi may call you out, by the way.
I've never seen her again since you've been the only
times I've ever encountered Nancy Pelosi is when Mark Blazer.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
I'm sorry the cat, I'm sorry, I'm sorry about that.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think Greg Brady hung around his neck when he
went in the waves and never came out.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Oh yeah, the little teaky thing. Yeah, it was like
where a Blazer.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
TC Pelosi's next, You're gonna get bit by a tarantula
or close to it. If we're talking about the Jesus story. 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 places. They cook at
your table, you know, it's about you. So we walk

(08:22):
in there and they start to seat 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.
They put you with other people. We had four, well
there were three already sitting there. Well, we're walking up
and the guy's got a mega hat on, I swear
to you. So I was like, this is the greatest

(08:43):
thing ever. So we sit down and you know, Jenny's
looking at me. I'm like, I'm talking to it. I
don't care what this is.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
My god.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
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

(09:11):
they're they're all conservative.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
He is eighty eight years old. He's retired marine.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
He is his name is Tom Elwood, and he is
one of the sweetest people on this planet.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
And we sat there.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
I started showing him all the stuff I had, 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 American and thank you very much

(09:45):
for your service. And I said that to him when
we were leaving. 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. All of us
were there before. 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

(10:06):
going on here on the air and stuff. But they
are conservatives, and he's like, I'm gonna have it on tomorrow.
I was like, well, make sure you do, because I'm
going to talk about you, you know.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
So it was great ticket around with you all the time,
just so you can show complete streets the same thing.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
It was on my phone.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Was driving through Detroit and I saw this.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Guy wearing O Mega hat.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
So I'm waving it out the window.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
That was.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
I did.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Actually I do have it on my phone and that's
what I was showing.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh okay, yeah, I mean I I took a picture
of it and uh oh, I was just trying to uh,
where did it go? It's right before the US.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
From Central Ohio. Mark, he is, where do they live?

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh? Man, you got me?

Speaker 3 (10:49):
I saw.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
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
pictures that I have and so on. But I said, man,
I was standing there, watch have to certify the election.
That Trump whooped that ass. I was like, it was
amazing to be sitting there watching that.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
So anyway, it was really really cool. So good for you.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
I was like, I got to tell Troy's story. So yeah,
but what do you know, Mexico is playing ball. It
looks like Trump got their attention and so yeah, and
now what I don't know what's gonna happen with Canada.
I don't know if this is going to be as
easy of a play. I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I don't know if you have thoughts you guys on that.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I'm not sure how this is going to go.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
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.
We can whatever they've got, whatever they create, bill grow,

(11:51):
we can 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

(12:12):
American dollars, 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.
It'll work out.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
I see a people post like I'm never drinking Crome
Royal again, and people are like, 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.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
Now ye.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
At these at the you.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Know, the Thedian hockey games.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, the hockey games. I guess there was a they
were Toronto Raptors game. They were in Toronto and they
start singing the national anthem and people start booing.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
So I was like, okay, we're doing this.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Are we?

Speaker 7 (12:54):
You know?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's like, man, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
I guess we wouldn't you something like that, I guess
because we just don't. 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 1 (13:12):
Why am I gonna boo that.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
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.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
After it exactly we do.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
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 anthem. Right,
It's again, human nature is human nature. People have to

(13:45):
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 2 (13:53):
I'm going to tell you that I got a text
from Kerrie Masterson and she said no, no, And we
were talking about Lululemon and Lark and she goes, no, no,
Clark is a car heart and Camo guy. Clark's doing
the fist pomp. Yes, yes she does, Yes she does.
It's too funny. Yeah, I will say that three pair

(14:16):
of pants almost called them slacks man ages coming through.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, there's slacks. If there's slacks, if they're between fifty
and one fifty. If they're over one fifty, they become trousers.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Oh, doctors is in the fifty dollars. Okay, were they
even around anymore?

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, ok yeah, anyway, those there was the
three of them were purchased and we were in the
three twenty range something. They were a little over one
hundred each.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
I'm still going to beat your butt after this show.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
In charge of that.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
I was just like, I was like, Josey's worth every penny.
Oh that's very nice, Uncle Troy. So nice your time.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Blazer Show podcasts on six WTV dot com.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
It's sweet love it, as George Papard said, I love
it when a plan comes together. All right, Chief meteorologist
Marshall McPeek is joining us now. Oh, Marshall's wearing a
Hawaiian shirt and a leg today. Look at you, Marshall.
You are so not surprised. I am not, and with
sixty three current degrees, I am not surprised at all.

(15:28):
We are and well, you don't want to know what
we're wearing. Probably here in the studio. I'm ready to
say it. In flowers.

Speaker 7 (15:36):
I took them down, took my little toes and my
flip flops down to Broadcast Lake and stuck a toe
in and said, oh no, the water yet.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, it's warm. The air is warm. The water, however,
is not.

Speaker 7 (15:47):
We were talking earlier about, Oh well, let's go see
how thick the ice is on Broadcast Lake. I'm like,
as soon as you do that, you're gonna find out
how deep the lake is.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Exactly, man, exactly.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (15:59):
I mean there's like some some ice floating around on
top of Broadcast Lake, but there's some open water and
the geese are back.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
So yeah, Trudeau, Trudeau needs to take them back too.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Sorry, that should be.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Part of the that should be part of the planet.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's part of the tariffs. Like you got to take
those geese back to buddy an.

Speaker 7 (16:21):
These have got to go stop wanting, you know, just
every time they get online and they walk across Dublin
Road and they stop traffic.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
It's like, y'all know you can fly, got wings.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
And then they get noxious where your car is stopped,
they'll stop honking and go I can poop right here
and stop and do it.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yes, yes they don't. Actually they're pretty talented. They continue
walking and do it. They don't even break stride.

Speaker 7 (16:46):
Sometimes it's crazy, and they do that as they walk
across my car and.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Or the greens that I'm getting ready to put on
on a golf course.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
I have that happen all the time.

Speaker 7 (16:57):
Man, it's gonna move, move the obstacles out of the
way to be able to hit your shot.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
So it is melting out there.

Speaker 7 (17:04):
It is very mild, and then tonight we're going to
drop to around thirty three for an overnight low. We
could get a little bit of isolated rain or rain
snow mix during the evening especially, but a little bit
into the overnight hours. Tomorrow's just partly cloudy, high in
your forty degrees. Wednesday cloudy during the day, a high
of thirty seven, and we'll get some freezing rain changing

(17:25):
to rain Wednesday nights into Thursday morning.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
All right, Marshall, thank you.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
It is sixty three right now, say it again. I'm
doctor Field.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Good at sixty three.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
We have forty five days until the spring equinox, and
we only have a few days until we spring forward,
as they say so the the daylight saving time.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
And you've already started the text chain, Troy. Is President
Trump going to get daylight saving Is it going to
be done?

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (17:59):
And I think there's hope you really do in support
for this. There's oh there's absolutely support.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Remember I told Rubio started. Rubio started, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
It passed, the Senate, came to the House, it had
the boat, it had enough co sponsors to get it
on the floor. Pelosi stopped it. Okay, you're you're girl. Yeah,
she stopped the sun from coming up. She definitely did.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Hey, I wanted to ask you.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
And and Pelosi's like, and by the way, we're waiting
at the the elevator.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
I'll just real quick.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
We're waiting at the elevator to go down into the
battles of the tunnels that take us to the Longworth
or the ray Burn or the Cannon. And Troy, you
don't get on that elevator unless you are a member.
You got to be a senator or al or you're
with one of them. We gotta have the pen if
you will. And we're waiting and Steddy Hoyer is like,
could we have the speaker go please? And Troy's like,

(18:52):
what speaker? Oh, Johnson's here, Like I'm like and it's
Pelosi on a roll. Yeah, And I'm just like, man,
and you're like, she busted her hip in Germany or whatever,
and she's like like going by, I'm like, I mean
I could have just Yeah, I told you I was
gonna go.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
They did that.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Day, Lauren, Lauren Bobert was there, Margine Taylor Great, yeah, absolutely,
And then I was gonna I told Troy was gonna go.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Do you think that hammer is gonna end up in
the Smithsonian?

Speaker 2 (19:22):
And he's like, I'm glad you didn't say anything.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Man, can you imagine her face?

Speaker 2 (19:30):
How's Paul doing? Anyway?

Speaker 1 (19:32):
So, uh, what were you gonna Polly Market?

Speaker 4 (19:35):
So I'm having lunch with good buddies mind Rock band
Way was a listener Ted Lemon, and we're at the
Red Oak in Newark on Friday, okay, and Ted's saying
to me, so like Troy, we're gonna get Trump's nominees.
We're gonna get him done. And Rock pulls up this
poly Market. I mean he's all in the following. What
the Betty nods are as far as house stuff going

(19:56):
to get done?

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Poly Market? It's called poly Market. I was going to
ask you about what it is, but it's the Betty Market.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
It has all the odds. Oh, this is a real thing.
This is a real thing. And you can place money bets.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
You can place money bets but it also gives you
the odds.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
So I text, I mean Rock showed it to me,
and I.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Mean it had Tulsi Gabbard at all confirmation confirmation, and
it's it's interesting. So will Trump create a bitcoin reserve
in the first one hundred days? It's a twenty percent chance.
Twenty and a half percent chance right now?

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Now, wait is it?

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Does it get presented or it has to happen in
order for you to get paid on this?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
You understand what I'm asking, like.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Well, no, I know I need to talk to you
about so I'm not sure, but we can go over that,
you know.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
When We'm on the website right now doing a little
research over here.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
So yeah, thanks, Chucks, see what it says. But and
then I texted Rock on Saturday, I said, send me that.
Well yeah, and I downloaded the app.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
So polymarket it's what it's called, Okay, and then Chucks
doing some research on I just figured you'd know.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
I've never heard. I've never heard poly market.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
For for whatever reason, I will tell you this, I'm
not a big like sports better, I'm terrible at it
because I bet with my heart, not my head like
a dummy, like.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
I'll beat the Brownies.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well, that's a smart decision for him, because clearly he's
just wasting his career. I'd like to have a chance
at a super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Absolutely, you ain't never get one in Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Not happenings unless the super Bowl is played in Cleveland.
He'll never get near the super Bowl. But no, I
would say the odds are really good that he's going
to end up leaving there. Why would he stay? I mean,
it's it's ridiculous. Well what a that's where you go
to just get nothing? And you know what, the Steelers
are becoming that too, quite frankly. But I don't know

(21:55):
what are you see in there? I don't, I don't.
I don't know anything about the I'm.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Sorry, I'm trying to find out where they are. I'm
gonna guess this is probably offshore, honestly, because I don't
know that a lot of this stuff is legal in
the United States.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
We are still.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Limited ourselves as sports gambling. Where the Brits man the
Britzi but I bet I could fool off, but it can't,
and they'll log in and bet each other on that.
Brits will bet on anything. But Americans, we just were
just sports basically. But in this you can bet on politics, sports, crypto,

(22:28):
global elections. Let me see here they actually have an
Elon tweets. You can bet on Elon Musk tweets.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
Man.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah see that's like for like, you know, you can
bet on the national anthem, the over under, like how
long it will be. You can bet on what color
the gatorade will be that they'll shower the winning coach with.
You can bet those kinds of those prop bets. You
can bet them. But here's the thing. The ceiling on

(22:57):
those is very low. It's not like you can put
you know, ten thousand dollars on. As a matter of fact,
I want to say it's limited to like fifty bucks,
twenty five bucks, and then you know, depending on what
the odds are there. It's not like you're gonna make
a ton of money. No one's retiring on that. Let's
put it that way. You know why, because it could
be influenced. I mean, think about that for a second.

(23:19):
Anybody who knows whoever's singing the national anthem, they could go, hey,
slow it down a little bit. I'm gonna take the over,
and I want you to take longer than two minutes.
In eighteen seconds and then you know, for obvious reasons,
that's why they do that. But there there are bets
like that out there, but I wasn't aware on any
of the political bets. You could bet on who's going
to win the election. You could have bet that. I

(23:40):
believe you can do that locally, and by locally, I
just mean in the United States. You could have bet
on is Trump could win. And there was one particular
It escapes me right at the second, but there was
one particular dot com that was really following that, and
they had Trump winning exact time because that's where all

(24:01):
the money was going. And that's the thing they kept saying,
you want to follow where all the money is going
because those people are informed, they're not putting money on
a loser.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
Typically, they're saying, it's better to watch this stuff than
it is the polls.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
That's it, and that's why.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
So Joe Kernin is on squawk Box NBC every morning,
and that's what he got hooked on this stuff. So
I started kind of listening to him a little bit
about us fascin but then I actually just downloaded the app.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Chuck's checking out even more. But it is it is.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Overseas, Will Trump is you an executive order? On day eleven?
Will the Fed raise lower or keep the same in March?

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Interesting?

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah, there's all kinds of stuff this, This could get
me in CN.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Well Trump pardoned Eric Adams right now currently there's an
eight point seven percent chance.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
And here here's what it says. You can buy yes
or no. That's not for him.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
Let's say Eric Adams, you can buy yes for nine
cents or buy no for ninety one cents to nine
and a half percent right now.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Interesting, Well, John fetterman lead the Democratic Party before March. Wow, Yeah,
I'm telling it will happen. It's not gonna happen before March. Oh,
it will happen.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
They've they flat out asked him about that. Yeah, and
he was saying, now he's gonna stay at Democrat. He
just said, I'm just a common sense guy. Yeah, I'm
gonna go with you know what's right? Yeah. I think
I think that's pretty much the I mean, certainly he's
definitely had some views.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
You go, what he's what a few political types that
has made me eat my words.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I'll tell you that.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah, because he was he was choked out idiot when
he was elected, and I said, how the hell could
the people of Pennsylvania put this guy in office? He's
got no business he has I don't know. If it's
a medical thing, I don't know. But he has come
back very very well. He's very cognitive, expresses himself well,
and the guy's got the guts to say what he
believes he wants to say instead of following in the

(25:52):
duck lines. I'm fetterman's actually impressing me.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Whatever treatment they're giving him, his maybe brought him up,
which is why he's starting to make sense now and
picking a lot.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
Of the stuff that he came into the inauguration and
short saw that and into the road tun down into
the road tie.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
People are going, what really is anybody surprised at this
point he's going in the chamber like that? Why you
know he's allowed he's got that shumor don't can't they
change that?

Speaker 8 (26:21):
Now?

Speaker 9 (26:22):
I don't?

Speaker 1 (26:22):
I mean he can't. I think they tried, and I
don't think he can change it.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Can he?

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Maybe he can?

Speaker 4 (26:27):
And look, I think if he's going to jump on
board with them and get some of these nominees through
the confirmation process, and he's done that.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Already leading alone trade.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
I don't agree with it, but I mean leading to
thine own self. Be true, He's he's not changing for anybody.
And uh, as much as I would never do that,
one day, Fetterman will also put on a suit and
a tie and everybody's going to go. The man will
always everything he does at this point will get him attention,
and uh, you know, maybe that political change will also

(26:59):
be presentation change.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Maybe he'll end up mayor because he can actually spell Eagles.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
To my god, there's that the Philadelphia echoless.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
You did say, you know, it's better than the Eagles.
The Eagles. So there was that, but that was right
after he got elected, though, So I think some of
the stuff they're.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Doing has been helping the big games coming up this
Sunday with the Angles and and and the Chiefs. Have
the Chiefs beaten him yet? Anybody check?

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yes, the game is over?

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Betting odds yet, betting yet, betting odds.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
I haven't looked at that, but well we'll visit that
a little bit. Congressman Troy Balterson in studio more than
him in just a little bit the Mark Show.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
All right, thank you for listening.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
It's good as the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines. Oh,
Congressman Troy Balterson in studio with us, and let's bring on.
He is the owner of flower Rama and his name
is Steve Osmond. Steve is joining us.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Now.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Now I've known Steve a long time, and so I
reached out to Steve. You know, with all the tariffs
and everything that, you know, that seems to be the
buzzword right now. That's the thing that is happening a
lot that a lot of social media's talk. You know,
you look around and depending on which way they lean,
is the type of you know, narrative they're going to
throw out there. And so we know, just not too

(28:53):
long ago, it looks like the the one with Mexico.
The president there Shinbaum. She said, you know, they're gonna
put ten thousand troops at the border. And I was
telling you this, Congressman when we went on, I was like,
you know, all of a sudden, Wall Street bounces back,
and Wall Street does not like everything going on with tariffs,
and rightly so I understand that. But they bounced back

(29:16):
as soon as all of this information comes They're putting
ten thousand troops Mexican troops at the border. They're going
to stop the flow of fetam. I mean, that is
their job. The fentanyl is the big problem here. That's
the reason Trump was.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Doing this and only reason.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah, and so they were all there was all this
speculation with the twenty five percent, but he's I believe
it's a thirty day hold, basically a pause on this
to let them kind of get this underway. And then
you know, Canada is still I think ready to go
tomorrow from what I understand, they are the twenty five
percent tariffs there, and then there was I believe an

(29:51):
additional ten percent tariffs on.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Energy energy oil and gas oil and gas.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
From Canada as well. So anyway back to Steve who
on now local business owner Flowerama And so, Steve, you
and I talked and I and by the way, welcome
to the show. Brother. How are you?

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Thanks?

Speaker 8 (30:08):
I'm great man. How are you doing well?

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Doing well?

Speaker 8 (30:10):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Roy?

Speaker 1 (30:11):
How you doing Steve?

Speaker 3 (30:12):
I know you?

Speaker 2 (30:14):
And so yeah, So I was like, you know, saying,
talking to you about this going is this going to
affect you? Because there are a lot of local businesses.
Clearly this is going to affect and let's be honest,
Columbia was the thing that it came in a way.
It was very fast. As a matter of fact, they
barely start talking about it and boom that went away.
That was cleared up. They got that figured out. And

(30:35):
there was talk during that time that it's going to
affect flowers, which by the way, is exactly what Steve
does with Flowerama. And as we know, your super Bowl
is coming up here with the with Valentine's Day Steve
and you know, basically, and it was like, oh, it's
going to affect that, and then it went away, and
then it went away. So where are you at now

(30:57):
with this? Do you get stuff from Canon? Do you
get Yeah, we get we.

Speaker 8 (31:03):
Get We get a lot of blooming plants from from Canada.
They grow most of our Valentine's Day product. So any
blooming plant that we get in, it's going to come
with the tariff. It's just part of the Can I
make a comment about the tariffs, Yeah, I look at look.
I know tariffs are considered a tax, but I kind

(31:24):
of look at it more like it's a it's a
behavioral tax. Right, So you know, Donald Trump is trying
to three you know, three hate chess everybody, but the behavior.
He's trying to a tariff designed to modify behavior, either
being you know, you're either going to change your behavior
or you're going to be part of the solution. And
in Mexico's case, so say we're going to be part

(31:46):
of the solution. Therefore the tariff goes away. And I'm
hoping that Canada and whatever Trump's trying to get accomplished
with them, whether whether it's staton Al or any other.
I trust the process, is my point. It's a terriff,
it's a tax. It's likely going to going to go
away as long as we get a you know, modify
the behavior. So you know, for us, you know, I'm

(32:09):
I trust that. You know, he's he's got a long
term play in this. And for for us, we are
you know, we're going to pay a little bit of
a price for it, and you know that's just part
of being an American citizen in my opinion, you know,
we are, we will we will pay a part of
the tariff, or will pay the entire tariff and our thing.
But one thing I know is that I've been in

(32:31):
business in Columbus for thirty some years, thirty five years.
I have a loyal following, I have had loyal customers
for a long time, and loyalty has to go both ways. No,
we we will not pass along the tariff to our customers.
That's my way of being loyal back to my customers
that have been so loyal to me for all these years,
and I appreciate them to death. And we're going to

(32:53):
be working real hard on the next few so wow,
we won't pass it on.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Talking to Steve Osmond, he owns our Rama, you have
a couple of different locations here locally. You just what
what three? What I just heard from you is staggering.
You are not going to pass on the tariffs that
you are going to be having slapped on you. If
you will, you're not passing well.

Speaker 8 (33:20):
It is even if even if they even if something
happens with Columbia and there's a terror put on that
I won't pass that long either. I mean, my customers
have been loyal for a long time. It's just where
I look at it and I think this is a
long term play. You know, We've got to be part
of the solution to get to get the balance sheet
balance back to being fair. This is this is something

(33:40):
that they're doing in my opinion, in order to affect,
you know, an endgame that's going to be beneficial for
everyone involved. And so we got quire a part.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
It's going to cut into your that's cutting into your
profit then, I mean, right, I mean I'm not. I
mean two and two have to equal for okay, I'm
just making sure I'm here, that's right. I'm like, Okay, it's.

Speaker 8 (34:03):
Definitely cutting into our profit. And that's just I mean,
you know, I'm not I'm not gonna stand here and say,
oh gosh, I'm so happy, you know, but I'm not gonna.
I'm not gonna you know, I'm not passing them. I'm
gonna it will not be passed through ferifs will not
be passed through. That's just the way it's going to be.
And if it's you know, if it goes up, if
it bumps up, it will not be passed through. We

(34:24):
will be pay we will stay with them.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
The planting into profit, this is this is essentially a loss.
I mean over the next eleven days between now and
Valentine's Day, who knows what's going to happen. These you're
talking about fresh flowers, you know, forty eight hours from
picking to get what could happen, and that this guy's
willing to be loyal to his customers and take a loss.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
That's pretty awesome.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
That's a sign of a true that's America, and that's
an American small business owner, and that's what they do.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's crazy, absolutely good for you. So the other thing, well,
ship the compliment.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
But yeah, well there are I don't know how many
other small businesses, and I hope a lot of them
are doing this kind of thing. I feel like this
is a unicorn myself. I'll just say it. I don't know.
You were bringing up Troy a lumber.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
Joel As he's in Coshockton, ohioshocked and lumber, and he
and I were talking a little bit about it this
morning on the telephone. You know, it's going to impact him,
and he said, look, Troy, you were a Chrysler dealer.
We're small businesses. We figured out we'll deal with it.
We're going to take care of our customers. They've been
loyal to us, uh and we'll get through this. I'm
going to do it same thing as.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
You, Steve.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
If you're doing it for the greater good of this country,
then he knows what we need.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
To do to get it back on track again.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
And if that means that he has to absorb some
of it, then then he will. And it's a short
term you know, pain for the for the gain of
the long haul here.

Speaker 8 (35:54):
So let me also say something else real quickly. I
want to point out that the the the glower that
we're buying from, has reached out to us, and he
is also telling us, hey, we're going to participate. We're
going to cut your cost a little bit because we
want to make sure that you're successful too. So I'm
going to be eating it, and the grower is going
to be eating And I think it kind of alludes

(36:14):
to the idea that you know, Trump is having an impact,
I mean effectively what he's doing, and he's also lowing
is so you know, on a twenty five percent, you know,
increase in my cost on that on that product, the
grower on his side is going to be participating in
some of that cost so that I don't have to
bear the whole weight of it. So I want to
you know, point out that you know, we're still you know,

(36:35):
we still want to do business with our friends in Canada,
and that loyalty that he's expressed with us. I'll continue
to buy from him from this point forward as a
result of it. So I think I think everybody's trying
to figure out a way to get it done. Sorry
to interrupt, De Troy.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
No, you know what, here's here's what I would like
to do. Also, I'll throw this out if you're within
the sound of my voice right now, if you own
a business, or you are part of a business, or
you are buying from a business where you happen to
know like small business and they're doing this, I what
I want to do is get all of these people
on the air and here's why, just to give them

(37:11):
a bush, a push, a spiff, if you will, because
I feel like that's unbelievable that people are doing this
right now. That is unbelievable, Steve, and I know that
there's probably other small business owners, and I'm sure you
participate in all kinds of small business type stuff where
you have maybe no other owners who could be doing this,

(37:32):
and not that you do off the maybe off the
top of your head, but that's incredible. And your friend
in Kashoktan who owns a lumber yeah, that's participating in this.
I feel like there needs to be a reward there,
you know, I mean it's and I know, Steve, you
might be going no, no, no, that's not because I
know you man, I know, and I don't know that

(37:52):
your friend Troy, it feels that way as well. But
that's incredible that you guys are will you guys have
you know Steve and then you Troy that you know
people that are doing this for the really because you know,
you get it, you understand the long game part of this.
And and by the way, it's not going to probast
very long either.

Speaker 8 (38:13):
It shouldn't and if it, if it does, it does,
and we will, you know, we will, you know, have
to figure it out from there. But the goal here
is to modify behavior to get people to be partners
and and and economies on both sides of the border,
on both borders and everywhere else. It's finest solution to
the federal let's not find some of these other solutions
and work together to get there. And and uh, you

(38:36):
know it should cost company or countries or you know,
businesses to some some form of you know, we're the
largest economy in the world. People want to do business
with us. There should be some sort of a you know,
I'm not advocating for for terrorists, don't get but having
said that, I'll do my part. I'll do my part

(38:56):
and are important to me, and they been loyal and
I'm just not gonna I'm not going to pass it through.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Just not putting your money where your wallet is.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
I told Blazer Steve.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
When I got in, I ran into I stopped at
Kroger to pick up some supplies to take back with
me to DC, and I ran into a farmer. Same
thing that you said to I mean, just look, I
support the president one hundred and twenty percent. It makes
me a little nervous, but I'm gonna do it for
the good of the country. So tooche to all of you,
thank you for what you're doing. You know, Greg Ress,

(39:30):
he's flower ran my guy up in Tuscars Well, he's
got him an acron canton too, so goodt Yeah, so
he's a he's a tut Gross County commissioner also.

Speaker 8 (39:40):
So well, he's a good dude.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
I like him.

Speaker 8 (39:42):
I've known him for a minute. There's a lot of
great flower shops in the Columbus market too. I mean,
I appreciate the play we're getting, but there's a lot
of hard working floors in our backyards that have vans
that have coolers. I want everybody to shop with me.
I know that's not realistic. I encourage anybody, you know,
shop Valentine's Day, shop local. Make sure they've got a
six one four number, make sure they've got an address

(40:04):
that's that's local. These people are, you know, working their
tails off to get ready for Valentine's Day.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
There's a lot of.

Speaker 8 (40:10):
Pressure on all of them. And you know, there's a
number of times where each of us floorists reach out
to each other. We're out of something or we're low
on something, and you know, it seems like they're all
willing to let a hand. Hey you need white roses,
you need this. It's it's a good community. And you know,
I appreciate the plug, you know.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
And they sell it to you. They sell it to
you for fifty percent tariff on there. Just kidding.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Take take Blazer up on his offer because he means
what he says. Now, that's really cool. He wants you
to make sure.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
That the small business people communicate with him. I mean,
I'm not on Blazer now for eight years. And there's
one thing about it. His word's gold. So when he
ties you to have small business people reach out and
let's go, he'll get the message out.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah. That's really cool, very very cool. And I'm glad
that you didn't bring up because I asked it. I'm like,
please don't bring up that time when I was I
wanted a sexy Valentine for my wife and I said,
can you put this certain thing in the in the
flower And he was just like, I don't know if
I can do that, man, what what is it? And
I showed him and he went, what what what is

(41:17):
going on with Lemon gift card?

Speaker 3 (41:19):
Wasn't it?

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (41:20):
Right?

Speaker 2 (41:21):
It was a Lululemon gift card? Sure? Sure, yeah you
you asked for those.

Speaker 8 (41:24):
Things and truck he asked for the Very White album.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (41:33):
We don't get those requests very often, but I think
the last time we got a request for that was you.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Oh gosh, man, he's putting everything out there on all
my business. Uh yeah, it's Steve with Flower Rama. You
said you had three locations here in the Columbus area, right,
you're in Uh where are you?

Speaker 8 (41:53):
I'm sorry, Whitehall Renoldsberg And we've got a location in Columbus.
And then we've got a real good website. You know,
you can shop on their twenty four hours a day,
and we service all of Columbus, so yeah, we're everywhere.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Yeah, gorgeous, gorgeous stuff with Flowerama, no question about that.
Steve Osman, who owns Flowerama, thank you for jumping on.
Thank you for being a great American and and this
is amazing man, what you're doing. I think, like I
said there, I got a sneak in suspicion that there
are a lot of local businesses that are are on

(42:32):
board with something like this because they know it's long
money we're talking about, and it's really gonna benefit overall
at some point. But Steve, thanks for jumping on. Appreciate
your Hey, thank.

Speaker 8 (42:42):
You, Mark, great show, you do a great job.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Thanks man, I appreciate you. And the Mark Blazer Show
on six WTVN.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Remember this from Tommy Boys like it's John Hancot.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Oh my.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
Here me and this that that music was actually written
just to shut up his kid?

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Yep, Herbie, his daughter, I guess it was, was talking
about how great this was. He goes, I can go
to the basement, do that in ten minutes. And that's
where Rocket came.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
From no kidding, wow one of the did he even
have another song hit if.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
You Will Dying nothing? Top forty? He was he was
a jazz guy.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah, I wasn't kidding about the bourbon. It's uh, what
do we got? Ten cup? I got this is okay,
But I was just saying we probably need a different,
a different one for next time. But I like doing
this every time. I'll tell you buy one, I'll buy one.
How about that?

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Okay, you can keep here's the here we go. Oh,
I didn't do the You did a very good job though.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Yeah, I'm d decent sound effects with that, all right,
Chief Mediorologist Marshall McPeak.

Speaker 7 (43:54):
By the time it goes Gililo, that's more than a
two ounce.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Poor, Yeah, this is u. Yeah you a bourbon guy, Marshall,
I can't remember. Please short out.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
What do you think of ten cup?

Speaker 2 (44:10):
This is I'll be honest.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
I haven't tried that one, not the movie.

Speaker 7 (44:15):
This did get my hands on some Sasarak ride last week,
and that is nice.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Yeah I like that. Okay.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
You could almost hear Marshall whipping out his beverage badge.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
So that's the baby. Yeah, yeah, come on out, everyone
take it easy for the record Congressman, is not.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
He just thank thank you very much, Marshall.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
Sian Melanie as educating our kids up at Westville, said
that thank you very much for the sixty four degree weather.
She's going to run outside, so she wanted me to
give you a shout out.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
His shorts, t shirts and flip flops. Here we go.

Speaker 7 (44:50):
So that sixty four is actually a record for today.
We hit that at four o'clock and so that breaks
the record from twenty twenty of sixty three. So we'll
get the eventual result at midnight what the official number
is for the day. But so far we've hit sixty four,
so that is a new record for today. And we've

(45:11):
set records today in Columbus, Cincinnati, and Dayton.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
So it's warm all over the region.

Speaker 7 (45:16):
Tonight we'll drop to thirty three, will be mainly cloudy,
not gonna rule out a shower or two, but they're
not gonna be widespread, just a little bit here and there. Tuesday,
partly cloudy during the day, it's breezy, mile forty feels
like February. Imagine that thirty seven on Wednesday with a
chance for some freezing rain.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Wednesday night. All right, Marshall, tank you it is sixty
sixty five right now.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
I'm not kidding it.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
I just looked up and went, what what sixty five out? Man?

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Man, it's calls for a drink.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
Sixty five You know how close that is to seventy.
I'm just I think five away of by Westernville, North.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Matt It serves me correctly.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
I'm gonna go home do a face pit in my
frontyard just so I can smell Waltz.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
With these temperatures. This is great anyway, you guys to
uh what I think is going to be a really
good four years, and we were if we will. Oh man, okay,
that's not bad. I haven't had any ten couple a while.
That's actually pretty smooth.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
I was just wondering when you were talking about I
need to get something better.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
I really like this. I feel bad because I'm.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Like, man, I could go down to the carry out
and got some Richard's Wild Irish Rose, and I'm feeling
bad that I like it because you were talking about
I need something better.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
I like this. What is wild Irish rose?

Speaker 3 (46:35):
By the way, It's like I don't know fermnuted kool aid.
I think I don't know. I just know that people
who people who drink it, they they gott avoid though
him like that.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Got get another couple of idea. You got some change
on you in.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
You got smoke, I can have to clean air you.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
Obviously I need some smoke money.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Congressman Troy balters in in studio, I'm drinking. It's not drinking.
Maga McCoy has stopped by as well, and uh, yeah,
I don't know this what we are witnessing right now.
And and Troy, you would have probably maybe a take
on this. But what what Trump seems to be, it's
like his playbook is it creates this whack a mole

(47:21):
situation for a lot of the Dems who are their
heads exploding and he's living rent free and a lot
of their heads in the legacy media and we're witnessing this.
But he's just like, let me sign this order. I'll
sign this order. I'll sign this order. Twenty five percent
tariffs on twenty five percent tariffs all ten percent there. Yeah,
And he's just like and then I'll uh and then
he's just like, okay, I is we worre up to

(47:43):
almost seventy five hundred apprehensions now, and it's just like
they're all like, hey, what's it? What? I stopped it?
Hey over here, they stopped that.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
That's what.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
It's kind of like his thing to kind of get
this going because this first hundred days we talked about this.
It's incredibly important that he gets so many things done
in this first hundred days.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
Two weeks, weeks, for first hundred hours, I mean last
week just kicked it off.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
So and you knew, I mean the inauguration day and
I was sending you pictures from the inauguration believer, I
mean he was.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
I had a Democrat that was sitting right beside me,
a good guy.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
Uh, he represents Manhattan, New York, and he's pretty modern Democrat.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
And you know he's he doesn't like the illegals coming
into New York.

Speaker 4 (48:31):
I mean he's he's one of those guys. So I say,
he's very rational and very normal. I won't say his
name on ways and means committee. So Trump starts off
after he raised his right hand and we're not even
thirty seconds into it, and he turns to me and
whispers him when he says Jesus, and I won't say
that words.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
And he said, Jamie Christmas.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
Can you guys at least give us a day to
get through this. I mean it wasn't even three minutes,
and he's just raking.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Us through that stuff. So that's exactly how they feel.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Yeah, this is this is incredible to watch, and even
though we went through it as somewhat now.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Uh. And by through it, I mean a presidency with
him his first term, but.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Him didn't count because it was so different, It was
so much under the controversy.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
The all I did was all the he was. He
was shooting battles every time he turned around.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
It was and he didn't know what to expect, and
he didn't have the right people in place at the time.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
I mean, he thought he did, and he had to
get rid of some of them. But it's it's common.

Speaker 6 (49:34):
I was talking to Zach earlier and he said he
had a great analogy. He says, it's like the first
term with Trump, they were building the boat as they
were trying to sail it, and now they just backed
it into the water on the twentieth and here we go.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Yeah, it was already built and almost impervious to the
fact that they're trying to drill holes in it and
everything else to think him what we're witnessing, and it
feels like, you know, with the confirmations that we're waiting on,
they're dragging their feet. Your honest take on you know,

(50:07):
Bobby Kennedy. People are like, I'm not sure if because
I think I and Congressman Jordan is going to join us.
By the way, just after that of the Hour, Well,
I asked him last week, I go, we're going to
get any Democrats to vote yes? You know? Up on that?
He goes, I don't know, I'm Kennedy. Yeah, he said,
he said he didn't know. And then you know, I

(50:28):
know Tulsie Gabbard and then of course you know Cash Mattel.
Those are the three, if you will, big ones left
at this point, and so your thoughts on them as
we go through this process.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
And I'm not saying, Troy, look into your crystal ball
and tell us exactly what's going.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
To look at that the Polly that Betton side. Yeah, oh,
that's probably a good way to kind.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Of game up.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
I did, but not gauge it that way. But it's
from what you hear on the hill and conversations. Uh,
you know that our two senators are are going to
vote yes for every one of them. So I'm sure
most your listeners already know that. Zim Bernie and jd
YEA Bernie jd the Ohio senator jd Yes, excuse me, John, Yes.
Houstay's our new new senator appointed appointed actually got one

(51:14):
of my staffers, so uh we loaned him, uh for
a little bit, but uh he's off to a running start.
And and Bernie has just been a rock star right
out of the gate and uh, super enthusiastic.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
So they're on board, uh for the not for the nominees,
and they'll be doing it.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
I think tall Ci probably has the hardest shot she'll
get there, that she's got the most work cut out for.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
I mean, we had it. I don't know, Zach will
give you a second to try to locate that from
last week when Bobby was up there Kennedy and it
was Bernie Sanders.

Speaker 9 (51:47):
Do we have that?

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Okay? Uh, try to try to grab that.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Oh you know what, I remember you had that from.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Yeah, it was something. I don't know if we isolated that,
but we were planning on Friday when comedian Michael Loftus
was here. We were talking talking about all this, but man,
that was such a fiery exchange and you know what
I'm talking about McCoy. I mean, it was like to
watch that all take place in him. He just called
people out.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
I was like, wow, look at him and Bernie's center.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
No, it wasn't me.

Speaker 6 (52:16):
And Bernie's at the top of the list at one
point nine million plus five dollars from Big Pharma.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Yeah, you know, And so he had to back off
of that to some degree. My favorite conversation was about
the onesie. That was my favorite.

Speaker 6 (52:28):
I mean, let's have has there ever been an argument
about a onesie at a confirmation hearing?

Speaker 2 (52:34):
I missed it is wearing?

Speaker 6 (52:36):
No, they had, well, he had a onesie on a
website Robert Kennedy did of the group that he started
and said unvaxxed and unafraid or something like that on
the onesie, and Bernie was like, do.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
You support this?

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Do you support this onesie? Is this onesie something you
will support?

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Which, you know, Bernie sounds like the ardvar from Pink Panther,
who did the voice for that.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
That's who that, you know what I'm remember the Ardvark
having a voice.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Yeah, oh yeah, he spoke absolutely on Pink Panther. Absolutely. Anyway,
here is I was hoping you'd be like Chuck usually
has that useless information, but in Pink Panther was silent.
I really did. Maybe it was the art varc in
the in the ant part of Pink Panther and that

(53:27):
was Maybe it was a different part of the Pink
Panther show. But anyway, here is that exchange while we
sort this out. Here's that exchange between Bobby Kennedy Junior
and UH and Bernie where he just calls him out.
This is the this is the clip that we played
that I thought was just absolutely it's just just shoot
shot him down and shut it down if you will.

Speaker 9 (53:49):
By the way, Bernie, you know, the problem of corruption
is not just in the federal agents, is in Congress too.
Almost all the members of this panel are, including yourself,
or accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Interest.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Oh I thought that that would No. I ran for
president like you.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
I got millions, millions of contributions. They did not come
from the executives, not one nickel of pack money from
the pharmaceuticals that they came to twenty twenty.

Speaker 9 (54:25):
In twenty twenty, you were the single largest, because I
receive pharmacist.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
He's got the receipts.

Speaker 9 (54:34):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
And he's just talking over him because, let's face it,
his voice, that spasmodic dysphonia thing that he has, it's
easy to talk over him.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
And these it was it was mind numbing watching them.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
It was more like, bring him on, I only have
five minutes, and I'm gonna drone on and I'm just
gonna browbeat you for five minutes. And at one point
he goes, you just asked me five different things and
I can't even respond to any of them. It's crazy
what we're witnessing with it, and all they're trying to
do is drag this out. Do you feel like they're
all three gonna make it to because that would be amazing.

(55:06):
I think it would be amazing.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
I love to know what order it happens in, because
if RFK goes first, the other two are shoe ins,
and it's got nothing to do with his allegedly crazy
ideas about healthcare and so forth, his his delivery. I mean,
he sounds like Catherine Hepburn that that sickly you know,
my night in Shining Ama, that type.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Of thing, and so it's uh.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
If he can get through with that delivery, I think
I think the rest are a shoe in because that
this is all It's all a show. This is all
about convincing people that you have the knowledge, the authority
and the drive that you need to do the job.
If he, if he makes it, everybody makes it.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Well pretty much. The prediction was Taulsi was going to
be the bumpiest of the three, but at this point,
I feel like it's a tall sub. Do we really
even know who's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
I think she's still the bumpiest, but she gets across
the finish lawn.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
She was a big butt kicker last week.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
She's strong.

Speaker 6 (56:01):
She had some problems with the Edwards snowed and stuff,
but outside of that, she's pretty strong.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Yeah. I love how she comes on. She's like nobody's puppet,
and you know.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
I go selfie with her.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Yeah, And you know what. What's also interesting is the
comedian Michael Loftis who was on with us. He was
on Gutfeld with her, so they were literally sitting next
to each other because I'm like, dude, when it first happened,
I was like, Amen, you're next to tall. See that
one and he was like, yeah, man, that is a

(56:31):
that's a lot of woman.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
But he works out in the gym. Oh yeah, and
I showed you.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Yeah, I'd still be more afraid of MTG that she
That woman looks like she could binge press up you
with if she wanted.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
But though she's teeny, she's tiny.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
I watched that workout in her garage and she just
scares her and Norris God, the two people I would
run from.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
I'm taller than her, and so if that puts it
in perspective, you're taller than her, watch it now. But yes,
and she had on a heel, and I towered over
Lauren Bobert like she and she's like teen and she
had on these heels. Even I was like, wow, the
by she's dying for. These girls evolved. These girls were teeny,
but you're right, man, they are. They're spot on, and

(57:13):
they're firing fantastic drink a bourbon, yes, Oh, give me
a drink. I need a drink.