The Blazor Show Monday 04/21/2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Go and away we go. Thank you for listening, and
welcome in.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Chuck was on this morning for Mike Elliott doing Columbus's
morning news. So yeah, he's slack and not doing two
today two shows.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'm just kidding. He's he actually is.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Clearly he's off, and I'm just giving him the business
as far as you know, call him a slacker and stuff.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Man, getting up at three am is no fun.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
But uh, anyway, all of that, uh kind of moving
over because Roy Hall is in studio with me and
uh I was.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
That that's uh, that's enthusiasm. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's terrible.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah yeah, that's actually James Hetfield from Metallica. Okay, yeah,
Metallic I know one of your favorite bands.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
I mean I could write listen.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Beavis used to keep a Metallica shirt on back in
the day, and.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
The ac DC was on the other yeah on butt
heead man. I remember. That's how I got hit to
Metallica and a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Of those rock and roll bands, watching what I wasn't
supposed to be watching when I was younger.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
But that's what I work out to sometimes.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Metallica, yeah, little Nirvana, ac DC.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, yeah, I'm with it.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Is that most of them, or just here and there
when you're feeling crazy, because otherwise, who is it?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Those are usually max out songs, okay, man, if you
writ if you really max out, or even running when
you're running a little bit, anything that you don't necessarily
have to listen to what they're saying specifically, and you
know it was designed to make you feel something.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
So if you got to run.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Some miles or something like that, or you know, hit
a hit a max out or get through a tough workout,
you throw on some some some like I don't know,
is that rock? Is that considered rock?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's two very different styles.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
When you mentioned Metallica, and you know, I did rock
radio basically my entire career until I started doing this,
and still I started doing talk radio, but I did.
I did mornings for a while on rock and yeah,
I mean you got Nirvana, which is yeah, they're rock,
but the Metallica is like metal.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
So so a couple of the like my opening songs,
System of the Down, Oh hey.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
That's those are two.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
That toxicity and uh toxic was a toxic toxic city
toxicity yeah, yeaheah, yeah, yep. I listened to a little
Rage against the Machine too. Yeah, so I dit like
when I'm running angry, that's angry man. That's six and
thirty pound wide receiver running through dvs.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Come on man, Yeah, that always the mentality.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well that that toxicity song, as you know, is pretty busy.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
That drummer is ridiculous. That's not a drum machine.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
That's a real guy playing that man, and they're timing
the way that. So just a little side note, guy,
I used to take drum lessons from uh uh uh
Gaetano Nicolosi is his name?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Uh No, A million dollars you got me? Well, a
million dollars is on the line. I could take you
a couple of minutes to try to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Like I'd be like nick oh lo lo, Yeah exactly,
and I'll split it with them too. But so he uh,
he was my drum teacher, and so he said. The
first time I went and saw him perform, he goes, hey,
you're gonna come out and I said, oh, is this
your band? He said no, I'm sitting in and I
said oh. But he has stressed the importance of reading music.

(03:37):
Reading music was so important to him, and I learned
to read a little bit. Yeah, and he said, you
know the notes you're playing and all that. I come
in and they're starting that song. They're covering that song, Toxicity,
and anybody who knows that song, and if you don't,
don't do it right now because I want you to
keep listening, but look it up and listen to it.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
So he starts playing it.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
They started off in the playing it and he's playing
it and he's flipping off to the side.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Roy, I kid you not.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
There are pages and he's he's playing and he's like
flipping the pages. And when they finished, he comes up
and he and I said, uh, pretty impressive, man, were
you reading that? And he goes all the drum parts
for talking and I said yeah, and he goes, yeah,
I had to.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
I never played it. Come on, that was my teacher.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Man.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
So from then on I was like, well this guy, yeah,
I might as well.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Pretty crazy. That's a man.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
And I didn't take many more lessons after that because
I was so intimidated.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Would you?

Speaker 4 (04:37):
I was like, man, you imagine being a wide receiver
house state and having to back up Jeremiah. He like,
you know, I might as well just transfer. He's gonna
be here for two more years.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
I'm portal.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Let me, let me go ahead and get yeah, yeah,
good easter. Did you eat a lot? Because I know
we always liked to? And do you get a file
of fish in your eastern back? Does your mom put
it like and you're oh, you got my fight my favorite?

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Speaking of though, you know what's interesting, this is two
different I know we're gonna go a lot of different directions.
It don't matter sover in my In our after school
program for the Driven Foundation, right, yeah, we maybe once
every other week. We've we've been in the program for
eight months almost, and one of the days we always go.
The kids love McDonald's. They love the double doubles, so

(05:24):
you know, they love a double cheeseburger and some nice
fries and so obviously it's not the healthiest thing. But
once every couple weeks and once every other week or
whatever it may be. Yea, we make sure the kids
get what they want. You want to have some McDonald's,
we can treat you to McDonald's for the.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
After school meal.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Well, we've acquired and accumulated over one hundred and thirty
five thousand points because of these big orders that we
have to place. It's twenty four to twenty five kids.
So we had one hundred Did you know that in
all these restaurants, say, for example, Big Mac might cost you,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Seven hundred and fifty points. Okay.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
You can only use your points one time on one
item per visit to McDonald's. So even though we have
one hundred and thirty five thousand total points, I would
have to take another one hundred trips to McDonald's because
they can't. Why can't I just take my one hundred
and thirty points and just buy you know, one hundred
filay of fish and then I'm out out the door.

(06:21):
I've already paid for it and accumulated my points. I
can't use them.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
So while you were accumulating them, did they did you
know this along the way?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
No?

Speaker 1 (06:30):
So that's your point. You're like, now what am I
gonna do?

Speaker 4 (06:32):
So like they put you in a position to have
to keep buying filat of fish, man, Yeah, which means
I got like a year's worth of filay of fish
to them about so once a day? Easy. You're not
allowed to use more than once a day, right, unless
maybe you go to different McDonald's. But who wants to
drop around the city doing that. It's only a couple
that served fresh fries every time. Anyway, Oh, I'm not

(06:55):
giving those out. I'm not telling everybody that you suffer.
That's what I was gonna say.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Man, you got to give that up. Now people tell
and you're like, I am not giving up.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
To ask your question.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
My mom, she she made some brunch and she made
which was really awesome. She made French toasts with basically
just biscuits.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
So just home style, regular biscuits.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Does she make the biscuit dough or did she use it?
I think she do both. She can do both.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
I think this time she just opted to go to
Grand Yeah and just pick out some. But you cut
them in half and you make the you just used
the biscuits as the bread. It was awesome because it's
the texture of the biscuit. Yeah, it's just different. I
think it soaks up the egg a little bit different.
So it was awesome. That and some bacon and sausage

(07:44):
and stuff and some strawberries and she had a nice
little spread laid out and so Easter was good. Left
church man was at five fourteen church. It was awesome
and it was a good time.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, the type of bread that you use in French
toast is ultra important. Yeah, very very very important. The
Texas toast is of my favorite. That with that, but
it is very different as far as the texture goes
with the biscuit that little.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Do I mean that in Texas toast is they're kind
of equivalent. They're about the same thickness. I think Texas
toast is a little bit thigger. But you use a
regular piece of bread, you gotta be very careful as
you're gonna get some saug It's like you threw some
socks in the washer and you didn't dry them. It's
come out super water. You're gonna be really disappointed. Like, man,

(08:30):
this is not Frish, this is American toast.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Right, you don't want to use like I don't. It'll
do in a pinch wonderbread or something like that. But
I like a thicker, heartier because for that very reason,
you almost want to be able to pick it up
by the corner and it's like a piece of toast.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Oh yeah, that's crispy, little crispy.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
I like when I could taste the egg a little bit,
you know what I mean, Like, I don't I don't
really like just.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
A little cinnamon.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Some people just put cinnamon like a little slab, like
a little they just took a little ain't brushed like
a kid's paintbrush and just smoothed a little bit of
egg over to talk.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
And that's not it. That's not it.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
No, you gotta get it, like, yeah, there needs to
be vanilla involved. Extract. I think vanilla beating like my wife,
but she does.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
You're like your finger through the middle of it and
kind of hold it. Wait what We're gonna get a
lot of that, just so you know that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
He's in there.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Whatever, he's gonna hit us with that all day. Hey,
you know what's funny, Like if we laugh, because now
it's gonna get worse because exactly like, hey, I got him.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Well, here's the dude, here's the dude there in my
mind right now. The phone lines are blowing up, the
people calling it in right now. People are calling it
in my mind right now to talk to us about
French toes.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Experience. And you talk about your cell phone number.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
People just call in and tell us what they think
about the French toast experience.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Seriously, though, with the with the the Easter and everything.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
The problem that I have.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
And I was having this conversation with Chuck like a
week ago, but and this has been happening.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
It's too late to go back now.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
It started early, and I got got duped, man, because
when the kids are young, I'm like, all right, and
I was like, well, hold on, this isn't Christmas. How
are they getting gifts? Like actual and you know what
I'm talking about. It morphed into this thing and uh,
you know, my kids know exactly what's going on, what
Easter is about and all of that. So and that's

(10:34):
they they recognize that and they're all about that. But
they they it's almost like they don't even really care
much about the candy.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Which I'm okay with that as a dad or whatever.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
But but literally, they're getting gifts. And I'm like, since
when did it turn into that?

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Man, you can't hide money. That's what happens. Man's so successful.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
No, no, no.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
You just giving out gifts.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Now.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
I'll tell you what you do.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
You were to won in the NFL holde years ago,
it doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
So this this is what you do for Easter. Whatever
they value the most. I mean their favorite electronic or
their favorite toy, or their favorite movie, whatever it is,
Wi Fi access, whatever they deem to be the most value.
You take it away for three days. That's the cell
phones for Hey, take it away and fake bury it

(11:27):
and then bring it back three days later. But just
if you talk about it, get it a little stone
in front of.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Think about it, think about what you value most. And
somebody takes it away.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
Man, that's good on a Friday, and then brings it
back on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
And those two days in between.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Talk about appreciating it, and it feels I can give
And then oh, man, I can't believe I went two
days without that. Wow, Man, that is that's that's that's
good stuff right there. That is really And you want
to turn it into an easter selling my No, no,
give me that phone.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
What do you mean I can't have my phone? I
need it.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
They probably were saying the same thing back in the day.
I need You can't leave, Yeah, I know you can.
You'll get by without me.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
You gotta trust you gotta trust me as your parents, man. Man.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
And then when it comes back to I can't wait
till eastern next year.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
Then when it comes back they're like, oh my god, dad,
you got.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
My cell phone.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Then you give them a new case or something, because
you know, the linens are clean now you know what
I mean, give them a new cell phone case, new packaging, you.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Know, yeah, uh, and the new the new cell phone
cover is like the cross with a light from behind, or.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
You just take you take a nail bit and pumped
a hole in the middle of it. And you know,
you say, if you don't believe it's really you got
to look at the hole inside of my phone.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
That's what you do.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
You so good at you? That is good. Holy cow.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's like you you figure out how to you know,
motivationally speak or something.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's weird and man, you know, we're just trying to
get an Eastern message. I'm trying to save you some
money for those gifts. I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
You brother.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
I'm gonna need you to to actually come and talk
to my kids like this to get them to go.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, yeah, they'll, they will.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
They'll respond more to someone of your size.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Maybe as a or just remember me as the ball
black guy that came and took your phones. And that's
a problem.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
We need to.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Call the police, Like no, no, he's a friend of mine.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
What do you do it? Oh?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
More with Roy Hall here, we're going to get into uh,
I want to get your thoughts on the draft coming
up on Thursday. Let's do it and uh, all kinds
of stuff we have coming up with Roy Hall in studio.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Hey, if you have.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
A question eight two one WTV in one eight hundred
six ten WTV no.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Podcasts on six ten WTV dot com.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Well, what was supposed to be?

Speaker 2 (13:51):
I think, you know, uh, I don't know if we
want to call it a wash out. Chief meteorologist Marshall
McPeek is joining us, and I mean, I know we were.
We did get some rain on Saturday, and you know
it's some real Marshall storms on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
So so my wife was like on Saturday, she goes,
there's no rain in the forecast tomorrow being easter, And
I go what there was when I was And she's
like it's gone, And I'm like what. And so it
clearly yesterday ended up beautiful in the central Ohio area.
I don't know about the you know, all the other
I don't want to speak for that, but I just
know that where we were, you know, we were in

(14:27):
Hilliard and then in the central it was it ended
up being great, but yeah, you're right, some storms did
hit on Saturday.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
So yeah, we actually had watches and mornings and there
was some strong storms with some trees, some trees that
came down. There was all kinds of stuff Saturday, and
then on Sunday it kept improving. So the good news
is that by Friday we were down to about a
thirty percent chance for Easter. Sunday there was still a chance,
and then as we got into the next several model runs,

(14:53):
it just kept getting less and last and Sunday turned
into a really beautiful day. So it was nice for Easter.
We were prepared for something worse, but it was you know,
it's better to be prepared and than surprised, so it
was all good. We have some storms out there this afternoon.
Some of these are packing some pretty gusty winds. So

(15:13):
in Ashville right now, coming across twenty three, you're gonna
find that that's going to be a really heavy shower
that is going to roll through the rest of Pickaway County.
There's more behind that that'll get into Circleville out in Patascla.
Right now, some moderate to heavy rain that rolls up
into the middle of Licking County. There's more of that
up near Millersburg and Holmesville. So there is a cold
front out there this afternoon. It's generating some scattered showers

(15:36):
and thunderstorms and those are moving off to the east
at about forty miles per hour, so not going to
be in central Ohio too much longer. And then we'll
do some gradual clearing as we go through the night. Tonight,
we'll drop to forty nine for the eventual low seventy
one for our beautiful day on Tuesday Wednesday up to
eighty feeling like summer.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
All right, Marshall, thank you. It is seventy five right now,
So we're going down there.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Well, this is.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Roy's playlist basically for when he runs, so we've got
system of a down.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Then we got Sandman enter sand Man Italic.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
I like innertond Man. I don't like the fact that
Virginia Tech comes into that. Is that what they Yeah,
the stadium is rocking, but it just kind of sometimes
I think they got cool YouTube videos of their entrance
to that song.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, you know a lot of
these songs.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
It happened in high school, but more so it happened
at Ohio State.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
There was you know, you had alternative days.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
You had to alternate days music wise, so there was
like black days.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
And white days. If I can say it, that's if
I could simplify is what it is. Right.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
No, I'm no, I'm not trying to be politically correct.
I'm just trying to simplify it in a way. So
there's the rap days, so and then you had the
white days, and on the white days, it was a
lot of that. So you just got to us and
listening to all types of music. And you can't say,
because Tupac not playing, I can't max out today.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
So you're gonna learn and max out to Nirvan haa haa.
You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah, and then you start to realize when you when
you watch my late friend Mike Cooler lift five hundred
and fifty pounds to Metallica, you like, let me get some.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Of that juice.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Something's going on, you know what I'm saying. So it
just changed the framework. Like from an athletics standpoint, you
just started listening to so many different types of music
because there's so many different.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Types of people on the squad.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
You gotta, you know, like make sure everybody's good and
so like my playlist is crazy man.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, okay, all right, a little bit into the a little.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Bit of background. I like it.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, let me ask you then did vanilla ice? Where
did vanilla ice end up?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Was ice? No?

Speaker 3 (17:51):
No?

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Black or white?

Speaker 3 (17:52):
It was confusing.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
He was confused. We were confused. So we just left.
We left him off to he left to vanilla know
kicking it, Let's kick it now, let's make a ConA ice.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
We did ConA ice.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
That was after that man, little pink ConA ice man
or something, you know what I mean. But we need
no vanilla ice on the playlist.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
How does hiu working for you?

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Man?

Speaker 3 (18:12):
And man?

Speaker 4 (18:12):
So look shout out to High Choose and I don't
even know who make them. The maron got mare naga.
I'm looking reading off the package right now. Yeah, High
Choose are so you can eat ten high chews? Yes,
it's like two hundred calories and which is awesome.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
You really don't feel like you've eaten anything.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
I know, it's just empty empty man, But boy are
they satisfying while you're eating.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
The satisfaction come from keeping the rappers and building piles
in front of.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
You and then go, wait more than ten Yeah, it's
way more than.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
You got a huge that's a thirteen ounce almost thirteen
ounce back.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
They make it. You're well double with this, thank you.
They make a double this on Amazon.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
I don't really like those because sometimes they come and
they're not as fresh.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
The stale.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah, yeah, there's stale, man.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
So I think they've been sitting on the shlf somewhere
since you know, who knows why eighteen Yeah, the twenty
fourteen national title game. But this, this right here is excellent, man.
I appreciate the gift. What flavor is that? An okay flavor?

Speaker 3 (19:09):
The original Mayo great Green Apples original guy.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Yeah, the only other flavor I like. I like the
dessert pack as a change up. Yes, and then they
have like a tropical one as a change up. Sometimes
I use that during football season coaching on the sidelines.
That's that's what you do, you know, and with you Yeah,
when you got guys on the sideline playing as much,
you want to keep them with a boost, and so
I keep a pocket for the high choosing.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
I just pass them out on the sideline.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
The problem is those guys throw the rappers on the ground,
and I'm the culprit.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
They're blaming me because I'm the high chew guy.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
So then that you got maintenance going hey can you
take your rappers? And you're like I did, and they're
like no, because they're on the ground.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
This is what you do. Go back to the tape.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Nah, you go and give him a back of high
choose and then once he starts eating them, he gets it.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, I get it, man, and then you get away
with it.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, Okay, that's good. Hey you have I may twenty second.
You have something coming up that's very special. It's the
fourth annual. Tell me about that.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, we got the fourth annual Roy Hall Junior Leadership Conference,
and super excited about this year. We're bringing in two
time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin and then also all
NFL everything he was everything here at Ohio State.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
C J. Strouds come in.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
As well, both as keynote speakers for the event, just
speaking on leadership and teamwork. And it's really for anybody
in a position where you work anywhere, right, And so
they're like, do I have to be a leader? Well,
here's a deal. You're a leader by default. You just
don't know it, Jay, even if you're just leading yourself.
But you know, we got all types of people from

(20:40):
different professional backgrounds, entrepreneurs, teachers, principals, you know, people who
lead big time companies, small companies. And this is our
fourth angle. Year one, we had Coach Ryan Day came in.
Year two, Coach Urban Meyer was our keynote, last year
was Lieutenant Governor Tressel, and now we got Archie and
CJ coming in. So I'm excited about this opportunity for us,

(21:01):
for me to speak. I'm speaking as well. We have
about eight speakers on the docket. Gave you two of them.
Joe Kovacs, who's the pastor of five to fourteen Church,
does a great job.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
He'll be speaking.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
We got a mental health session as well, teamwork session.
We'll have probably about fifteen Buckeyes in the building too,
just hanging out. But you can go to Royhal Junior
Leadership dot com for more information Royhal Junior Leadership dot com.
And actually if you use the code serve s E
r ve E ten, you get ten percent off and

(21:31):
that's on me. Serve ten at Royhal Junior Leadership dot
com and so the theme of this year is survival
but spelled s e r VE survival. Probably about five
or six years there was a massive influx of servant
leadership and what that meant to be a servant leader,
and you saw it a lot in these smaller pop

(21:52):
up conferences, and then we got away from Every year
is like a fancy thing. But there's something about sacrifice
and giving your best self to allow someone else to
succeed that makes.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
The best leaders.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Whenever you're thinking about yourself, whenever it's about your goals,
your agenda, your ambition, what you want to accomplish, the
money you want to make. You find yourself on an
island and it's lonely at the top only because you
didn't take anybody with you. It's lonely at the top,
it's because you try and stay there. I've always said
is that when you make it to the top, or
your journey to the top of the mountain, you're doing

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two things. You're creating a path for somebody else to follow.
But that path gets wider when you go back down
the mountain, down the same way that you came, and
make the path wider to bring more people with you.
When you get to the top of the mountain, it
gives you perspective, It allows you to see more people
at the bottom, and it allows you to get see a
little bit further.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
These people need my help.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
These people are climbing to let me go back down
and pull them up with me. And so the whole
goal of survival, you survive when you have people with you.
We're stronger together when you have a person on your
right and a person on your left, and then there's
a person on their right and there left pulling in
the same direction. That's how you win national titles when
everybody's unified. And so God really doesn't bless division. And

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so when it's about getting better and successful in life
across the board, mental health, regular health, just even losing weight,
you are better when you have someone training you, an
accountability partner. And the same goes in corporate America when
you're working. And so this is what the leadership conference
is about, just expressing that golden rule of treating people

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how you want to be treated and treated and giving
up of yourself to make sure that other people are successful.
Those are the best teammates, Those are the best team members.
And that's why we do what we do, so it's
gonna be a blast man.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
On May twenty second, when you seechie, Archie is like,
all it's crazy to me how that guy he never
says no. It seems like and it's a beautiful things.
My point, he's giving back, you know what I mean?
And then CJ is blessed beyond belief. I mean you
think about what he has done in the league already,

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just in his short couple of years. I mean it
is it's really cool. And that's a guy who walks
the walk.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Too, you know. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
One thing about when you say when you say yes
to anyone, when they ask you to do something, you're
really saying yes to their problems, and so you become
a problem solver for them. When you say yes to anything,
can you can you pick this up? Can you do
whatever their problem is? They literally just handed it to
you to be a part of a solution. So just

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saying yes to people let you know where people's hearts are.
I've read a book, short books, probably about fifty pages
learning how to say no without feeling guilty. I don't
know if Archie's ever read that, and I don't say
that I don't know if he's saying if he ever
feels guilty either, he says yes with an open heart,
knowing that we talked about it off air briefly in
one of those breaks where you know you just in life,

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you know you're doing things. You're saying, Yes, you're not
feeling guilty, You're just going through life to make a
difference in trying to figure it out. And I think
he knows that he's a light on this earth. So
he feels like anytime I interact with another human or
can bring and use my gift to make a difference,
like I'm doing my part as a good human here.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
And so I love that about him.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
And like you said, CJ has been doing this thing
in the last two years. Was you know special and
it started here.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
I mean a lot of people talked about the faith
movement on the team this year, but if you really
go look at the tape and go look at the film,
CJ was the one, you know, four or five years ago,
stepping up openly talking about his faith, interrupting interviews.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Hey, before I say anything.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Else, I want to give, you know, a shout out
or I want to say thank you to my.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Lord and Savior.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Like he started that in controlling the interviews, not the
I won an award and I just tossed it in there.
I want to thank God. Oh, by the way, I
want to thank Travis Scott too for this dope walk
in music. Like it wasn't that. It's I'm controlling the
interview and letting you know where I am and doing
it in such a way where I'm not forcing it
on you.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
I'm just let you know who I am.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
And so I love the fact that he's continued from
that standpoint, even acknowledging where he's had small shortcomings. One
of the most interesting things he said over the last
few years and going into last season was he said, Man,
I've been traveling a lot. I've been around a lot
of different people, and all of a sudden, I've picked
up this habit of cussing. I just curse all the time.
Now he's like, I got to dial back on that

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because that's not a part of who I've been. And
what he was acknowledging was wild, like, man, people have
been influencing me more than I've been influencing them. So
here's something that you know some people are like, that's
just it's not that big of a deal. It's fine,
but if it's not a part of what you do now,
all of a sudden, it's an issue.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
If we hang.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Out and all of a sudden you start eating fish
file at but you were vegan before, Like it's a problem, man,
Like that's a bad influence, right.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
So it's good to have those guys come in and
hanging out with us. On May twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
May twenty second, it's Roy Hall Junior Leadership dot com.
You can get tickets and the once again there's a
code that people can use.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Serve ten s E r v E and then one
zero serve ten to get ten percent off.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Very good, All right, more with Roy Hall here in
just a couple of minutes, the Mark Bleazer.

Speaker 6 (27:11):
Shows you got any van Halen on your on your workout?

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Like play, Yeah, you're looking at me like no here you.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Do I know Van Halen? Yes, awesome group? Yeah all timer?

Speaker 4 (27:40):
Right, but that I'm you know, I respect it. If
this came on so say I ran out of my rocket,
I only got like ten to fifteen songs to say
I ran out and this came on next, I wouldn't
like skip it.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Okay, you know what I mean I'm good.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah, all right, that didn't that didn't hit the way
that I entered the Sam man.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
No, no any toxicity, right, and it won't because like
for somebody like me who did rock radio for a
million years, I have so many different points of reference
for all of these bands. And you could probably name
almost any band that is at least at this point
ten to fifteen years old and older. And I probably

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spent time with him, I hung out with him, interviewed them,
all of that.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Just just yes.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
That's why it's all gone. I am so well that
and the two kids.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah yeah, so but but and I've got like, like
it's almost like each band slash song I go. I'll
sit and be like, yeah that was, And I don't
have I got my memory. The joke for me is
like I got a good memory, it's just short and

(28:52):
you know, it's like I have and I don't really
remember a lot, but the rock radio and those kinds
of things they have they hold this special spot and
I have reference for them.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
So I have a different feel as opposed to you.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
And I don't know, did you ever meet any of
the stuff that really any of the people who performed
any of the stuff that you hold near and dear.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
You know what I'm saying, And you may have. Yeah,
I've met a few. I mean you know, it's one
you get drafted to the Indianapolis coach and you walk
in and Marvin Harrison seniors right there, and Peyton Manning.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
What do you do? And Tony Dungee, I mean you.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Go from playing Ohio State, I mean with it's Ohio State,
you know, play with Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith and
the Who's Who that came out and that O who
to O six are coach Jim Trussel's your special coach.
But man, when you go to the NFL, you walk
in the locker room and literally right across is Peyton
Manning and there's Marvin here.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Everybody like you had to be like, man, it.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Took a while to kind of like lock in on.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
I think if every rookie is being honest, everyone goes
through that. Right like if you had, if you've had
you you know, if you if you get in a lot,
you have to okay, I'm in the same space, and
then you have to all of a sudden you start
proving like I belong here, Like you've got to show
what you can do. But there's a couple of days
there when you know, Peyton comes up to you and

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you're like, man, he's testing you, right, He's asking Yeah,
like hey, man, like, I know who you are?

Speaker 3 (30:20):
What's up? Brother? Like you like do I take a picture?
Do I just say? All right? Thanks? Man? Like, nice
to meet you, And I mean you know who you are?
Man like?

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Yeah, Like, I appreciate your Everything that you do showed
me how to do it on my level.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Because Cerebrally, you know, you got him and Tom Brady
as some of the architects at their position. What they
do at that level is unrivaled. I mean, you got
people with a lot of physical talent that do that,
but you got you got those guys who break down
defenses instantly or they have seen every format they've seen.

(30:57):
And that's to me fascinating when you talk about and
unfortunately he kind of almost hobbled out of the NFL.
I hate to use that word because he's one of
the greats. Should have had way more rings, but he
had a guy named Tom Brady that was playing at
the same time.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
But what does it feel like?

Speaker 2 (31:13):
It's a different feel when it hits your hands when
someone like him is throwing it, I would imagine.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Well, i'll tell you this.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
In the NFL my statistics reader one catch nine yards
and it came from Jim Sorgie.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
But you practice though, right.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
My only catch came from a Wisconsin Badger, Jim Sorgie.
Shout out to Jim Sogie, that's my guy. But no, Peyton,
you know what I mean. In practice though, yeah, it was.
It was different, man. Just seeing him call the place,
being in a huddle with him from time to time,
it's just a different It's just dreams coming true. Man.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
And the faster I've learned.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
I learned that the faster you adjust to getting out
of this being starstruck piece and looking at him as
your quarterback and treating it from a per pfessional standpoint,
the more successful you will be. But it's it's you
talk about blessings man, when you five or six or
ten years old, whenever the dream happened, like happened blaze,
like I want to do this, this is what I

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want to do, like there's nothing else in the world
I want to do.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Not knowing how you're going.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
To get there, just knowing at eight or nine, this
is what I want to do, and just life and
going through ups and downs and challenges and injuries and
this and that position switches and this and turmoil and
tragedy and people pass into all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Or then all of a sudden.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
And all of a sudden, you know, the two thousand
and seven NFL Draft. Roger Goodell gets at the podium
and he says, with the one hundred and sixty ninth
pick of the two thousand and seven NFL Draft, the
Indianapolis coach select Roy Hall, wide receiver, Ohio State.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Man, you got to be kidding me, man, those are words.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
This was a fifth round draft pick, and you're like,
you gotta be kidding me, Like that actually happened.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Man. So most people don't hear that.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Listen, man, most people only two hundred and what sixty
or so, it's only a hunt. It's only one hundred
and sixty NFL wide receivers on the squad, on the
active roster every every week, has one hundred and sixty
out of eight point one billion people, one out of
one sixty out of eight point one billion special point.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one zero two.
And it's almost impossible Blaze.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
I what I think.

Speaker 7 (33:36):
Is Tim McGhee, who is A was a receiver with
Boomer and he played with the Bengals and he was
in the which super Bowl versus the forty nine ers
where they lost.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
And I did some radio with Tim, and it's.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Just funny to hear how different you are with regard
to that story, because I was like, we would be
on the air and sometimes I would just be like, man,
you were. We'll be talking about here comes the super
Bowl and he you know, and I'm like, man, you were,
and he's like, but we lost, and he's dead serious. Man,
I stayed at his house. I'm not trying to whatever.

(34:15):
But in Cincinnati, he's a smart guy. He is parlayed,
he's invested, he has done. He's a smart dude.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Really he is.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
I'm sure you might you probably know Tim. I don't know, maybe,
but I'm just saying, and he's very thankful. Don't get
me wrong. He's a he's spiritual, he's a he's a.
But it's just different to hear the way, like you're like,
it was the one hundred and sixty fifth rep. But
you know, I go in, I got one pass for
But you're like Man, it was special.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Thankful.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Yes, it's just weird because he's like, but we lost.
I'm like, you played in the Super Bowl, Man, we.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Lost the two thousand We lost the two thousand and
nine Super Bowl to the Saints.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
Don't matter. I was in the league, man, Like, I
can't even explain to you. It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
The chance is, man, and it's so Think about how
many people you grow up with that envision scoring a
touchdown or doing.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Like a lot of the.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Tip the successful people listening right now, when they were kids,
they were playing on the playground, playing football, had dreams
of playing in the like.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
But to make it to that level, man, it's just
so special. Man.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
To play at Ohio State, special Ohio State. You get
a chance to put on the scarlet and gray for
four or five years. Man, it's an unbelievable experience, whether
you played or didn't play.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Not from the competitive standpoints, you want to get on.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
The field blaze, But at the same time, when you
step back and reflect on what university you played for
one hundred six thousand people screaming every week, and they
live and die by the wins and losses like you
contributed to that. Even if you didn't play, whether it
was just on practice squad or you know, scout team
or whatever. Man, it's just it's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Man.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
So you know, I'll take my one catch for nine
yards and anybody who criticized me how many.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Catches you got in the NFL. That's it right there.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's what I tell That's what I tell kids.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
When they're like, man, you you were trash in college,
like in the in the NFL, you didn't have any stats.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
I'm like, how many of your daddy gout?

Speaker 4 (36:11):
And they're like, oh, that's what it sounds like to me,
like they underwater.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
But man, that is exactly how you and I envision
you processing this whole thing like that, just because of
who you are and what you do.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
Hey, bro, it's pretty blessing. It's pretty amazing.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
He've been doing this for thirty seven years. Come on, man,
some people can't hold the job for two Yeah, brother.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, more with Roy here in just a couple of minutes.

Speaker 7 (36:38):
Man.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
The time is like like live, I'm like, slow down,
I got more stuff and to talk more with with
Roy here in just a second.

Speaker 8 (36:46):
News, Traffic, Weather, Sports, and The Mark Blazer Show on
six ten WTVN.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Man this weather. I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
I know you're ready, Roy to have some warm weather
that is finally getting here. I know you right, I
mean you're you're a warm we you like the warm weather.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
No, you like the cold.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
I mean you know it's I'm Ohio baby, so whatever,
like whether it's warm cold, you don't care, No, I don't.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Wow, it doesn't matter. Wow. I mean I like warm weather,
but it don't matter.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Chief Meteorologists Marshall McPeek joining us now and uh, Marshall,
there's your easiest customer right there.

Speaker 5 (37:25):
I mean, I'm I'm thrilled that that's so easy. I'm
just gonna complain no matter what kind of time year
it is. It's just you know, that's mostly alal, just
what we do. So there are a few showers and
thunderstorms out there at the moment. There are along a
cold front that's headed off to the east. This is
going to keep raining for a little while as it

(37:46):
slides off toward Cambridge and Caldwell. Right now, a little
rain and cashockdun down into Newark Buckeye Lake getting a
pretty good little shower at the moment, but most of
it is already east of Columbus, and it continues to
move to the east at about forty miles an hour,
so forty nine degrees for an overnight load. Tonight, we're
gonna do some clearing as this front moves out. And
your Tuesday looks beautiful with lots of sunshine, blue sky,

(38:10):
a high near seventy one, and by Wednesday eighty degrees,
it's gonna feel like summertime. Might even be a little
bit humid Thursday eighty two with some rain by Thursday nights.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
All right, Marshall, thank you seventy six right now. Nice Yeah,
Roy Hall and studio with me and part of our

(38:43):
best Buckeye coverage. And you have an event coming up
on May twenty second. It is the fourth annual Roy
Hall Junior Leadership Conference. And yeah, I said fourth annual.
So you got some some great guests lined up. People
can get tickets and all that. So tell us about
back the fourth annual Leadership Conference.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
It's awesome is the theme is survival all about sacrificing
for your team members, making and helping and using your
life to make a difference and help other people reach
their goals. Survival s e r V, so the ability
to serve the ability to sacrifice, to be able to
put yourself second so that others can rise to the

(39:24):
top as the best leaders do that constantly and consistently.
We got CJ. Stroud coming in. It's gonna be awesome.
Two time Heisman winning Trophy or Trophy winner Archie Griffin
is gonna be in the building, both sharing their thoughts
on teamwork and how to be better leaders, not only
just personally for leading yourself in the right direction, but
also leading the team members and the people that you're around,

(39:47):
being better leaders in your families. You know a lot
of people don't even consider themselves leaders, but when you
hear from some of the greatest of all time come
and give insight on life and professionalism and business, it
can be very very lucrative. And so part of the
proceeds go towards the Driven Foundation and all of our
outreach efforts around the community, and so every ticket you

(40:08):
purchase is going to help. That's what our initiatives with
the Driven Foundation, the feed families and work with young
people in leadership development and character development.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
So it's absolutely awesome.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
But you can go to Royhal Junior Leadership dot com
look into it royhal Junior Leadership dot com. It's one
of the best leadership events in the city for for
year running. Coach Meyer's been there, Coach Ryan Day's been there,
Lieutenant Governor Trestles was there last year. We had some
awesome Buck guys in the building. We got a VIP
package that allows you to take a picture with some

(40:39):
of the Buck guys, and Archie Griffin's trophy will be
in the building. So that'll be an awesome time.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Man.

Speaker 4 (40:44):
I'm looking forward to it. Just using my platform to
make a difference.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Man.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
Obviously I speak and do that for a living, but
giving other people the opportunity to shine on stage is
what I'm all about. It's just what the whole conference
is about, coming together to make a difference.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
And so it's gonna be great, great time.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
So this year, well the Buckeyes repeat. You know, it's
hard to do.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Here's the deal.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
I don't I don't want to see if if I
say yes, that means I'm jumping over fourteen or fifteen
more games.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
It's just such a long season.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
The goal would be to attack the season the same
way those guys did.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
At the end of the year. Hey, we lose to Michigan.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
All right, let's beat Tennessee, come out with a nine
to two blow to their doors off. Then we go
to just one game like you can when the old
school saying one game at a time. Blaze is like
a real thing, like you cannot say, Oh, let's repeat.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
We open up with Texas.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
We open up with everybody saying Archie Manning is gonna
be the number one pick of the draft next year.
And so we open up with the team that we
arguably the best play in Ohio state history is ever
made against in Texas, and they get to come to
the Shoe, so they're gonna be fired up. Man, were
not opening up with Marshall or Grambling. It's the gate out.

(41:57):
The gate is Texas and are ad he's trying to
get it to be a night game. So if it's
a night game versus Texas in the Shoe, we got
it before we even think about repeating. Let's just get
through that that one first and then get on the row.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Well that's and that's it right there. And I don't
think the guys know better than to start that. I mean,
hopefully there's a you want a little bit of element,
a swagger and all of that. But there's a difference
between cocky and swagger and all that.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
I was thinking about this whole thing too, Man, how
long do we celebrate this national championship because it's everywhere
and it continues to be everywhere. Just came back from
the White House. It's just everywhere. And so were you there?

Speaker 3 (42:36):
No? I wasn't.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
When I say we, I took my party right, No, No,
that's cool. No I could have been. No, I couldn't
have been. I mean I could have just rolled up.
I should have just rolled up and see what they
would have did You should? Yeah, But it's just how long,
Like in the summertime, all the camps were, all the
guys coming in and all the youth coming in, and
national championships everywhere everywhere. At some point in time, man,

(42:57):
like you got to like almost forget that you want it.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
It's harder now than it was even five years ago
to repeat because of nil, because of the portal.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
Because of how many games are in the So if
we did in the mans shoot Is Place, would you
take another national title if we had to lose the
Michigan again, Yes, there it.

Speaker 8 (43:18):
Is, Yes, absolutely. I'm not one of those people that
we repeat, repeat, we repeat, but we lose the Michigan again. Yes,
give it to me. Yes, that is more important to me.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Man.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
Just the one thing I've been thinking about has that
has that stunned the rivalry, Like is it as valuable?
It's still the rivalry, but it's like, all right, we
know it's not, but it's.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Not as valua.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Not well, just to me, it's not simply because of
the look, it's the whole college football landscape. If I mean,
forget about going back to when you played, just in
the last five years, how much has it changed?

Speaker 1 (43:57):
And so it's it is about the.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Super Bowl of college football, the national chairman.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
That's what it is, and the granddaddy of them. All right,
that's what it's for a weekend. Okay, I don't feel.
So that's how I feel.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Now.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Some people go like the and you know, well, you're
probably surrounded by them. You probably will get emails now
because like people go, you can't lose to Michigan. But
there are some unless you fans, who would be like, no,
I don't care about then We've got to.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
Be still it's still we still want to obviously beat
Michigan this year.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
But if you had to trade losing the Michigan but
winning a national title. You gotta take the natty. You
gotta take the natty. I'm with you on that.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
You cannot be like a six and six Ohio State
team and beat Michigan. And everybody's the exact same have
the exact same enthusiasm.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
They will they will fire to coach to beat Michigan
and going six and six, there's no way.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Take me through obviously, the uh the draft starts in
Green Bay on Thursday Day and you just went through whatever,
I don't know, it's about a half an hour ago
or so. You start talking about when you were you
went in the draft. Take me through like the pins
and needles if the like Amecica's is and I was

(45:15):
just looking at something on ESPN today. They have them
around twenty one, sure a mecca. Then they had Travon
around twenty five. They have Josh Simmons around thirty eight,
Donovan Jackson at forty one, quin Shawn Judkins at forty three,
Tyler Williams at forty six, JT. Tomlow at forty nine.

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I mean you start so those guys are they I
mean it's really and you know all of them, I'm sure,
or at least no. I mean, you know, you know, yeah,
so these guys are are they? I mean, it's such
a great time, but at the same time, it's nerve wracking.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
And you just go, man, please, I've done. I've done.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
I work so hard to get to where I am.
Everyone a lot of people trying to play on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
That's just how Let me give you.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
The mindset of the majority of those guys and probably
all those guys you live. They are not walking around
in anxiety and worry right now.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
They are not.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
When they won that national title, I believe it did
something in them from a faith standpoint to where they
don't rely on what they want to happen fully and
they know that God is with them. They know that
their faith is going to carry them no matter what
city they land in, what number their name is picked,
what round they go in, it does not matter. They

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know that when they get to a team, they're going
to impact that team in a positive way. They get
a chance to allow their faith and their football and
their athleticism and development here at how State to carry
into the next level to be productive.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
They're not worried about where they.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
Go they are excited for wherever they go, however it happens,
because it adds to the story and they just really
believe that.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
So coming off of.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
That huge high winning the national title and kind of
seeing the impossible happen and what nobody really thought was
going to happen when it was happening, except that those
people in that locker room when they came together after
losing to Michigan. Now getting ready for the draft, this
is just a cherry on top. They've done everything that
they possibly could do up until this point.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
Nothing else can be done. Now you can drop the
ball and.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
Like say something crazy on social media, but outside of that,
if you just keep your mouth shut and just let
things play out, they don't care whether they go forty two,
twenty two to twenty one, number five overall or in
my case, one hundred and sixty nine overall. When you
get your name called, man, it's it's just no feeling
like it, man, So they don't care.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
What are your thoughts on I hear fifth round, fourth
round for will I mean?

Speaker 1 (47:51):
And just your thoughts on it, because clearly we don't
have a crystal ball.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
Sure, so I think all of those guys that you named.
I mean, I've heard Trevon Henderson going in the second round.
You've heard twenty five. I've heard twenty five. I mean,
no one really knows. All it takes is one team
to fall in love with you.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
I mean, you know, and what they need to right
on top of everything there it is.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
I mean I would imagine Will if you got your
group of friends and they looked at your wife, they
were like, how in the world did you get hurt?

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Like would you do?

Speaker 3 (48:16):
And he's like, now she fell in love with me.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
Just all it takes is one nice little dating I
had it together for one night. You probably had one
good night and it was your perfect night. You got
your wife ever And so it's the same with these teams. Man,
all they got to do is fall in love with
you one time, and they're not going to say nothing.
It's like, oh this person is they're gonna take this.
They're going to take a quarterback, They're going to take
a running back. And next thing you know, Will Howard
sitting there at the end of the second round and

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somebody's like, I've been to every I've been to every
Ohio State game. Or think about Joe Burrow, he gets
hurt every year with if Cincinnati's like, they're right up
the street.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
We've been to every game.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
We just want a good backup quarterback to develop over
the next three years.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
You just never know.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Man well with Will, with Will and his like his ability,
we saw him manage, you know, so the lowest of
lows and then come back right. You see a guy
manage that and then come back the way that he did.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
And I know, one team, one man's not a teammate.
I understand all of that, but it.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Still takes that's such a cerebral position and it's not easy.
But for a lot of us who look at that
scenario and that position, man, it's like he's the face
of a win and he's the face of a loss.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
Unforce it unfortunately. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
But here's the thing with Will, the thing that people
don't he's transferred in. Yeah, he's only with us four years,
but still everyone started a new job and a new
position and it's just awkward and weird and you're trying
to find your way. And he found his way to
a national title, you know. And so the leadership we
talk about my leadership comp the leadership that comes with
being able to command the locker room of one hundred

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and thirty strangers when you first walk in to by
the time the season's end, that you are out in
front and the lead of the whole pack, it says something.
I don't know what the dollar amount of value is
that on that compared to thrown for maybe fifty touchdowns
in the season, but there has to be something that
said about an individual that can go in and change
the locker room and get a national title in his
first year at the university.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Yeah, very special and what he was able to do
in such a short amount of time.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
I got a feeling he's gonna go earlier than that.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
I think so because there are a lot of teams
who are going to see just that quality about it.

Speaker 4 (50:27):
I mean, it's only about seven or so quarterbacks that
people are talking about. You got the first two, cam
Ward Shador Sanders. You got a kid from Louisville that's
like thirty I think, and then you got Quinn Yours,
Kyle McCord who used to be a Buckeye. You got
those guys, and then you got like Will was in
the mix with those, with those characters and so he

(50:48):
I mean, you're talking about seven let's just say ten quarterbacks.
Can ten quarterbacks be picked in the first three rounds? Absolutely? Absolutely?
So I could see him going in the third for sure. Yeah,
I would love that for him.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
That is cool. Roy. I can't thank you enough for
is it open?

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Yeah, I got Congressman Jim Jordan's going to be joining
me here in a little bit out the top of
the hour and so on in the five o'clock and
all of that. But uh, I know you're so busy
and you have so much going on, and during our
breaks you're probably taking.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Care of putting out fires and everything else.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
But I can't thank you enough, man, seriously for coming
and this has been You're amazing man, and all the
stuff you're doing.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
I appreciate you, man.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
It's been a blessing to be on with you man
and giving me some time to hang out with you.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
That's what friends do, man. Yeah, look out for you guys.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
I appreciate it so much. I can't thank you enough.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Yeah, the great Roy Hall and of course part of
our best Buckeye coverage. And I'm not trying to wish
away the summer, but it will be here soon, sooner
than we'll.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
Be like, what a time for Buckeye football, await.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
I know four months away. I know absolutely.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Thank you very much, thank you very very very much.