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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Well, greedies. Hello, how are you BLUs? I Jeff Duffers
in a floor Mark blaze. They're welcome Thursday. Yeah, just
one more stands between you and the weekend. My number
eight two one nine eight eight six A two one wtv.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
M.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm a little high spirited today. I admit that. I
admit that I'm a little high spirited today. I'm not
over the top high spirited, just just you what do
you mean there's no coffee left high spirited, that kind
of high spirited. Plus when I came in, there was
some some food left over. I don't know if it
came to one of the stations here in the iHeart
google Plex or if it was the sales department. It
was probably the sales department because those people over there
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they're always eating always, But there was They're chicken sandwiches, right.
I don't even know where they're from. I'm not even short,
but oh wow, wow, was that a taste the piece
of sandwich art right there? That was that was some something.
So I need to find out, you know, where that
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was from. That's going to have to go on the Uh,
those those moments when I go out and eat food
that I probably should not be eating, but will enjoy
eating very much. That is going to go on the
list of those foods. And you didn't go down. You
didn't even notice. You had to go out the door.
You had to walk past the food. How did you
not notice it?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I don't pay attention that's in the kitchen. I don't ever.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I just playing on my phone. Wasn't paying attention. Really,
I'm not going to eat something that like. It's not
that I don't trust anybody eat here. I can't eat
food that's just like left out.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's restaurant food. It's in foil things. You had to
take the lid off the foil things to get to it.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, somebody could have done something.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Really yeah, I don't trust Now.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
If you just let me ask you this. If you
just went to a fast food place or whatever and
got food right now handed out the window to to
would you be okay eating that?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, So nobody could have done any food there. That's fuck.
I'm not here the place where you work, your coworkers,
your iHeartMedia family. You're paranoid. Somebody did something to the food.
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I'm not saying it's a good thing or that it
makes sense.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It makes no sense.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
iHeart media family.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
What you would do to me? Oh, well, we don't
like you either, but we don't let you know that.
I mean, we keep it a secret. We talk behind
your back and stuff. It's not like it's out in
the open.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I can I can get I know, I can feel
it when I walk through the hallways.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I would encourage you to get past whatever paranoia you
have and uh and indulge in one of them sandwiches.
Just put it, put it in the refrigerator and take
it home and have it for dinner or something tonight,
because it really seriously the I don't even it was
like maybe it was like a big pickle in the middle.
I'm not sure, because it wasn't the chicken. There was
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something in the middle of the sandwich that was really good,
but was it was It was almost more cucumbery than
it was pickley, But it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
This is it a chicken?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It was amazing. I'm not joking, you know. I like
I generally, as long as food is acceptable, I am
happy with it. But I rarely rant or rave about
any food, even if it's you know, real expensive. A
big you know, expensive steakhouse or something like that. When
I get up, seems to be a fast food product,
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a quick serve product, and it strikes me like that, Yeah,
that gets my attention. Man. That is uh, that was
some really good stuff. See. See, if I don't know
Kate or one of the uh, one of the big
wigs over there on that side of the building, maybe
they can tell us where that came from. Because seriously,
that needs to go on the uh that needs to
go on the Chuck Future Endeavor's list.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I will check her out.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I would I would love that. Ohio Senator Bertie Moreno,
did you read the story what he's trying to get
get the Trump administration to do on behalf of the
folks here in the great state of Ohio. He has
sent a letter to the newly appointed DHS Secretary Christinome
and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, asking their departments to investigate
recent drone sightings here in the state of Ohhow I
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haven't even heard have you heard about him? No?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I remember the ones over Jersey, right, That's where they were,
Jersey in New York.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, I haven't even heard about drones in the state of.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Why neither have I So, if they were flying over
my house, they could have just done anything.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I mean, I've seen some of the road construction people
that hold the sign that goes slow. Maybe that's who.
I'm not sure. I'm only saying that because I got
a friend that actually does that. In his letter, he
specifically cites Drake County, Mercer County, and Van Wert Counties
reports of mysterious drones circulating in central Ohio. Marino's full
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letter is included here on the WSYX six website if
you want to read it. I'm just I'm intrigued by this.
I why would you go straight to the president for
something like that or the president's administration? I don't know
if isn't this more of a state issue unless they're
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flying into you know, controlled airspace FAA airspace or something. Anyway,
he asked it his letter, how can your agencies assist
state in local law enforcement with identifying whether a drone
is approved to fly over airspace and by which federal agency? Well,
if it's flying, it's FAA, isn't it? Will you commit
it continues to informing state and local law enforcement when
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your agencies authorize the presence of drones in their airspace
prior to the entry into their airspace. See, this is
getting complicated because how many people get like drones for
Christmas and just hobby drove. I have a drone. Actually,
it's still in the box. It's like two years old,
and it's nice. I mean, it looks nice. It's fairly large,
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it's got a vividar camera on it. But just reading
the instructions, I went, oh, man, this is way too much.
So I've never even bothered.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
It sounds like the more people that get them, the
more shenanigans you can cause.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But here's the problem, man, It's like this is replace
the word drones with bicycles.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Now, I can't spy in my neighbor's bedroom window with
a bike.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
If it's really tall, you can one of those twenty
seven inch boys or something.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm just saying it's spying in your neighbor's bedroom can
be done in all kinds of ways. It could be
done with a telescope from your bedroom window for all
I know. So this just to specifically get paranoid about drones.
I just I'm not sure I like this. Number three,
what federal grants exist in your agencies. Oh, here comes
somebody to assist state and local law enforcement to procure
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a new technology to identify, monitor, and combat unauthorized drones.
Are your agencies formally tracking the number of unauthorized drone
sightings across the country? If not, will you do so? Again?
Who authorizes drones? You go on Amazon, you buy a drone.
It's all kinds of people. There are eight year olds
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out here with drones. For goodness sake. I don't know.
I'm not trying to put the bad in mouth on
Senata moreno at all, but I don't know where this
is coming from. Number five, will you commit to transparent
communicating between the airline, the American public, and the number
and location of unauthorized drone sightings reported to and known
by your agencies? Again, authorized by whom? Finally? Number six
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point is do you believe we need legislation to provide
clarity on the rights of homeowners when a drone has
flown over their property? Okay, that part maybe so if
it's you know, much like the legislation that says whether
or not Google can collect certain information about you, or
you know websites can share certain information about you? If
you want to come up with some sort of safety
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for the consumer when it comes to DROW. That's fine,
I'm good with that. But the whole registering thing. I
just the reason I got my drone actually a couple
of years ago was real estate stuff. I had a
listing coming up that was it was on some eight
grade it was it was down in southern Ohio and
some rolling hills and so forth, and I wanted to
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do a nice drone shot coming in from the road
into this property because it was kind of like if
you remember the intro or the beginning of the old
TV show Dallas, how it used to kind of fly
over the Dallas skyline and then up to South Fork.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
They didn't need a drone for that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
No, that was a helicopter shot like that. But I'm
just saying I wanted to do that for this listing.
And then the Goofy people didn't list the house after
I made like five trips down there, wasted four hundred
gallons of gas. Uh well, we just wanted to keep it.
Oh yes, serious anyway, So that's why that's why I
bought the drone in the first place. Then I found
out if I were to use it for that I'd
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have to get a license. Guess why. Guess why, Zach
tell me, tell me guess why.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Why would because I was using it to gather information
for a listing of a real estate property, which would
have generated income for me. And if I'm going to
make money with it, I have to have a license. Wow,
I'm how ridiculous. How ridiculous. So now there are people
out there who you know they do it for you?
Is yeah, I got the license, I'll I'll give me
(09:10):
one hundred and fifty bucks and I'll go do the
drone shots for you. Uh so, yeah, you have to
you have to get a license, go through a process
and get a license if the use of your drone
is going to result in money, some sort of income generation,
which I just I just found that ridiculous. I mean,
why don't we why don't we have you know, a
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licensing fee for digital cameras? Then well, if you're going
to take pictures that are going to be used in
an NLS situation, you know, text my vocabulary, if you're
going to use words to describe the listing to people,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I mean, so really you could. It's the same concept how.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Far do you want to go with? Yeah, but I
mean we have those Manutia rules out there, and look, hey,
we just got done with the Super Bowl. Oops, I'm
supposed to pay somebody because I said that the Big
we just got done with the Big Game. But you'll
notice any any depictions or whatever of this program without
the express written consent of the NFL is strictly prohibited. Seriously,
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do you think every radio and television person in America
was getting the express written permission of the NFL to
talk about Philadelphia beating the crap out of Kansas City?
Do you think that, I mean, we did No, we
did not. I guarantee you we did not. We just
we you know, uh yeah, yeah, we just we just
we We just tell them what we're gonna do. When
they just sit down, shut up, is what happens. So
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the idea that that we, uh, we have drones is
I don't think a big deal. There are people out there.
If the drones are being used for nefarious purposes, that's
a different matter. If someone wants to file charges for
you know, we've got voyeurs and charges peeping Tom's if
you will, you're peeping Tom, whether you're standing on a
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ladder or using a drone or using look a remote
control helicopter, while well not as maneuverable, perhaps maybe not
as quiet, but can accomplish the same thing when it
comes to hovering and putting the camera on your bedroom
window as a drone can. Why specifically drones. Why because
it's a buzzword. I don't like buzz and to see
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this is not partisan. This I do it if it
was a Democrat republic, it doesn't matter. I don't like
buzzword legislation. I don't like people that want to create laws,
create rules, put new standards on anything, including me, based
on whatever the hot button issue is that day. And
the word drones is a hot thing because of New Jersey,
and I just I don't want to. Uh yeah, I
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don't think I'm good with this. I'm just I'm being
honest with you. I always am. I don't know, do
you think I'm wrong? I always give you the opportunities
actively because when I take a stand, I give you
the opportunity to tell me whether I'm a wing nut
or not. No, no, no, I agree with it.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I've put zero thought into it whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, that's how I like it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I agree. It's do you have a drone? I didn't
even ask you that. No, have you bought one for
a little man?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
He had one, but it was like a kind of
a kid one, you know. I didn't even have a camera.
You would just watch it go up and down. Yeah,
and then he was like like hit something and it
flew way high and then hit my neighbor's roof and
it died. And I was like, all right, we haven't
got one since. So it lasted a good forty fifty seconds.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
See, I'm not a technical person, which is why mine
is still in the box. How much do you want
for it? I'm not gonna sell it. I'm going to
keep it in the box. One day my grandkids can
sell it for money and go look what ball Paul
never opened?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah I had a date by that probably well, yeah,
but it's.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
A collector's item at that point. I've got all kinds
of stuff like that. I bought some plugs. I bought
these plugs where it's got like a one controller that
looks kind of like a wall thermostat for your your
air conditioning, and with that and then it's got outlets
and you plug these like plug the lamp into the
plug and that goes into the outlet. Plug the TV
into the plug again, and then you can program when
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those outlets come on and off throughout the house. It's
completely wireless. You don't have to go in and you know,
crawl under a table to reset a time or anything
like that. And uh, they can be changed, updated, whatever
from this one little keypad.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Do you own a lot of beanie babies?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
No, I don't own a lot of babies, but I
got kids in the house, so I want to be
able to turn stuff off because they'll go upstairs and
turn on the lamps and go to sleep and leave
everything that said led bulbs or not. I ain't made
a money, so it was just it was a press.
But I can't get them. I can't figure them out.
I can't figure out how to program the blasted plugs.
So they're all sitting on my dresser right now, just
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waiting for me to to one day figure it out.
I've got so many things like that that I just
I can't do. I got a laptop I'm trying to
get into again. I keep forgetting the password. It's an
old laptop. It's Windows ten. It said insert your rescue disc,
I inserted, and then it said, well, that's not a
password recovery disc. I said, no, it's a rescue disc.
That doesn't help me. So so I don't. I'm just
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not a tech guy. But I do have a drum
in a box. Orus and the Mark Blazer Show on
six ten WTV. We're a three thirty eight. I'm Jock
Douglass in for Blazer. I wish you a good afternoon.
Although it's a chilly afternoon. It's a very chilly. No,
it's cold, is what it is. It is just cold.
ABC six First Warning Weather meteorolizes Jennifer Herbert is on. Dude,
(14:18):
that correct, That's what I'm being told. That's the sign
Zach is holding up. So Jennifer, do something about this crap.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
I don't mean that you're gonna like what's coming.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
No, see, see, you people are in this together, all
of you over there. Do you all do this to me?
I need to hear the words seventy degrees, and I
need to hear them soon, don't.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I don't think we're going to see a seventy three
day this February.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Fine, we're breaking up right now, right now, it's over
we're done. She's like, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
I don't I don't know what to tell you. It's
actually going to get colder. Oh my gosh, so brace yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Are we talking single digit stuff again?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Possibly it's possible overnight, not during the day, so that's something.
But yeah, we are going into a much colder or
colder air mass coming down tomorrow, though not too bad.
On the colder side of things, we'll see temperatures in
the mid thirties. We'll see some sunshine in the morning,
some clouds building in, and although Saturday is going to
(15:23):
be in the low forties, we are going to see
a system start moving in and we're looking at some
excessive rainfall chances as we go into the evening Saturday.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You're killing Zach's lawnmower business. I want you to know
that too. It don't pick up in the summer. It
takes a lot of money to feed his beard, and
you're killing business.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I don't think Jennifer's ever seen my beer.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh that's why she still sounds like she's smiling. Yeah,
that's fair, Jennifer. We'll talk to you about an hour.
We're at the thirty one right now. At your severe
weather station, news radio six tenB TV at hey four girls.
She's like, I think he's sorry.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I don't think she's coming back on.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
She probably won't, probably won't say now as long as
he's there, I'm not going back on that station. And
I'm just I can't do it. I can't. He scares
me and the guy with the beard and everything bad
advice or good advice for that matter, Most people, especially
in this age of social media, have no problem telling
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you what you should do, even though they've never done
it themselves. Never would do it, never could do it,
wouldn't have thought about it, maybe were advised to do
it and didn't bother doing it, But they'll tell you
to do it because it's social media where everyone is
an expert. I just you know, I have long said
that one of the things that you want me to
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cut you off real quick when people you have any ideas,
act before I even say something. If I get in,
if I get into any sort of back and forth
on social media, any disagreement topic, or the one way
to end any discushion with me immediately is to say
what I think I've told you this before you're blank
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faced on me too. I have no idea anybody who
ever said, chuck, you know better, We're done.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh dude, I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah exactly, We're done. So that's what. But if you're
giving advice, and it's terrible, horrendous advice, I don't know.
Last night, I'm watching this this, and I don't know
why people live their lives on social media. I don't
get it. You know that you can make a phone call,
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you can go over and sit and talk to somebody.
People actually have exchanges, not on messenger, but on like
the Facebook page where everybody can see it. And this
this younger person was getting counseled by an older person
about the way they should handle a family. Is you uh?
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And I couldn't take my eyes off of it. It
was like a slow motion train wreck. I could not
stop watching this exchange. And and and the advice that
this young woman was getting from this older woman was really, really,
really bad.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Was it advice?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
That?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Was the older woman not part of the family, No,
she was.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
She was somehow connected to this person, the girl. The
girl had posted this thing on Facebook, and this woman
responded to the post, and and and they start going
back and forth in this open forum on Facebook, and
you know, the older woman's asking questions, the young girls
answering questions, and then she starts giving her just horrendous advice.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
It wasn't my mom, was it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It was not your mom. Okay, she gives only good advice.
She does. She told me to dump you. So the
idea that, the idea that I'm watching this was bad enough.
We were talking earlier about drones and voyeurism, and so
I was like a peeping tom on this, except there
was nothing hidden. It was all out there. And I
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have felt bad ever since that exchange because there is
this part of me that says, dude, you should have
jumped in there. You should have said something, you you
really you should have interjected. Now the person, the young
lady in question, I mean, she doesn't know she's on
my friend's list, probably because you know, somebody she knows says,
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oh you should be on this Facebook page. Oh it's
it's not like I know her. We've not met, we've
never you know, had dinner to get I don't if
she was standing in the room right now, I couldn't
tell you it was her. She's just somebody who was
on the page. And I've you know, I've seen her
name for quite a while, so I don't have that
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closeness to her where I can say, hey, this is
this is your uncle Chuck talking. But I felt that
I was fighting the urge. I was fighting the urge
because I felt like I should say something, but I didn't.
And do you think less of me? No, because I
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if it wasn't in person thing like if we were
like sitting here in you know, in the building, sitting
in the lobby or whatever, and I heard that, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't do it there if I didn't know who
these people were. That's their conversation and that's their business.
Sitting in the doctor's office waiting room here the guy,
I wouldn't say anything there because that's their business and
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their conversation, so I should not. This is how I think.
If I wouldn't do it in those situations, I should
not do it on the social media page. Does this
make sense to you or am I wrong?
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
It makes sense. But at the same flip of a coin,
that woman might not give that advice in person.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
It just feels comfortable saying it online, even though it
might be you know, horrendous advice.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Terrible, terrible, purble purble, terrible. It was it was really bad.
It was bad. This oh, this girl's life is going
to go so wrong. It's it's uh yeah, So I
have felt bad ever since then. And then I got
to think it. You know, back in the days before
the Internet, people often gave advice well intentioned perhaps, but
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nosy generally.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And I got to thinking about bad advice that I
had been given over the years. And then I found
it ironic as I was scrolling through the Twitter last night,
and I sent the link over to Zach. Scrolling through
the Twitter last night, I came across somebody else who's
a little maybe a little bit more notable than Zach
or I that Jimmy Fallon had talked to and and
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he also had a story of bad advice. Could you
hit that for me if it's not then when I
was young till he gave me like bad advice. He
was so so so sweet to me. How about Rodney Dangerfield.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Rodney Dangerfield, I meant, when I was young tall, he
gave me bad advice. I got into when I was
like seventeen, I was seventeen.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I played the comic strip down in Fort Lauderdale and.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Uh riddy, Dangerfield came in and bumped everybody was like,
Dangerfield's going up in all the comics of Dan.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Went up into I know all that stuff he was doing. Now.
I was like, mister.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Dangerfield, please after he came off he killed us, and
please watch my show. I want to go up after him,
right because I thought I was a hot shot. I
went up there and I crushed it and I came
off and Dangerfield was like, hell, you know, yeah, there's
a lot of the Fall language.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
And you said you use those languages. We ain't gonna
go talking that kind of stuff. You gave me all
this stuff, and I like my all the wind came
out of my sales. I was like, oh, Dangerfield. Then
you know, three years went by.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
I get on Saturday Night Live, and uh three years
go by and I'm I'm at Caesar's Palace in Las
Vegas and I'm at a urine him and Dangerfield walks
in and he comes into urine right next to me,
and I look over and he looks over at me
and says, hey, who knew.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You wish? Don't you wish it was that? That's simple
for everybody who gave bad if I who knew, but
that made me think, you know what, No matter how
how wealthy you are, how broke you are, what color
you are, where you live, or anything else, this is
a universal people will. People will give you advice at
the drop of a hat, and more often than not,
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it is bad Eddie Murphy being told, hey, you know
you get up to foul language and stuff. What's that
going to do for you? And and look what it did.
I loved Edie Murphy simply because he was the heir
apparent to the Richard Pryor throne. And Richard Pryor was
Richard Pryor was was something unique unto himself. Everyone who's
come after him has attempted to impersonate him. It doesn't work,
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It's not the same. The language was part of a
caricature of personality, a storytelling persona that he had, and
Lily Tomlin once said he turned it into an art
for him, and she was right. Eddie Murphy is the
only one who ever came up behind him that was close.
But in his youth, not even the great Rodney Dangerfield
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at that time gave him credit for knowing what he
was doing and being any good at it. Yeah, don't
do that good. I also heard Edgye Murphrey once say
Bill Cosby told him to, you know, don't don't use
the foul language and stay away from Richard Pryor.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Cosby gave a lot of that kind of That was.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Only advice Bill Cosby needed to give was don't drink that.
That was you know, he probably should have stopped.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Didn't he get out of jail yet? Out of jail.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
He's out of jail, yeah, yeah, and laying low and
allegedly he is. He's blind and in in you know,
not not so great health, which is yeah, I choose
to remember him. See this is like say, with Michael Jackson,
I choose to remember them as as the entertainers that
they were. I'm sorry about anything else, but I never
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bought a ticket for any of that. I never went
to see a movie for any of that. I never
bought a CD for any of that. It's it's everybody
is who they are. Some people have very dark sides
to them. Some I don't know, you know, Michael Jackson's kid,
alleged kid, I don't think that's his kid. But anyway, yeah, prince, yes,
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I find it odd as much as they disliked each
other that he would name his son prince anyway. They
he's worked hard to, you know, try to make sure
that nobody gets away with besmirching his dad and saying
things about it. And he said, he's my dad. I
know better. I saw him, I know better than those stories.
And that's, you know, a son for what he knows
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to be his father. And that's understandable. I that was
a complicated era. I mean when he had to go
sit down with Oprah to defend himself and they were
taking pictures of him in crazy ways to present his evidence.
(25:57):
That have you known anybody else that's go that just
that was a freaky time for all of us. But somebody,
you know, once gave him advice.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Too well, go towards there.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, And the one piece of advice somebody should have
given him was stop with the surgeries. You're right there, thriller,
that's it. You are still discernibly male and discernibly humans.
Stop right there. But you know, he just he kept going.
Nobody had the guts to say it because there's way
too much money involved in saying yes, and so they
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took it. Advice good or bad taken or given, if if,
if you got anything feel free A two one ninety
six A two one WU TV And I was since
to my mom, gave my dad some advice once, don't
don't spend money investing in something like that. Nobody's gonna
pay to watch television, Good old mom Bleazer Show. Here
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we go, Yeah, judge out the side from Mark Glazier
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eh and I'm gonna get through you. I'm gonna get
into the Joy and Fabric store here in a moment.
I because I'm sorry, but I think I could explain
it in a way that's probably very practical. Most people
are gonna go, I can't believe he said that, but
I am. It's not politics. It's not politicians, it's not
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the economy, it's not interest rates. That's not what it is.
I'll explain. It's just stand by. I've got to tear
down something green. First, Are you you're not a greenye?
Are you you like gas powered things that make exhaust fumes?
And so for don't you oh you mean like green environment? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yeah, I mean it's important, but it's not there's too
much exaggeration from one side over the.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Other, an alien like field of mirrors in the desert,
once called the future of solar energy. This is out
on the Nevada, California desert. From the distance, the Ivanpa
solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mohave Desert.
Up close, it's a passed, alien like installation of hundreds
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of thousands of mirrors pointed at three towers, each taller
than the Statue of Liberty. When this plant opened near
the California Nevada border in twenty fourteen, it was pitched
as the future of solar power plants. CONE or NRG
Energy announced in January that it was it was. It
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was getting out of its contract with power companies subject
to regulatory approval, and began closing the plant in early
twenty twenty six. Really, we got eleven years out of it,
eleven years for the future of solar power. When it
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was conceived as technology called concentrated solar or thermal solar,
was considered a potential breakthrough. It works like this, now,
tell me listen, here's how this thing works. Hundreds of
thousands of men collecting the sun pointed at these three
big towers. Tell me if this description doesn't sound familiar,
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The hundreds of thousands of computer controlled mirrors called hlose
stats track the Sun and concentrate its rays onto three towers,
each around four hundred and fifty feet tall, then topped
with water filled boilers. The Sun's hyper concentrated energy turns
this water to steam, which drives a turbine to create electricity.
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What does that sound like to you? That sounds like
that that atmosphere making thing in the Schwarzenegger you know,
the one get your ass to Mars? What was the
one where they had the machine was on Mars and
you pushed out the planet and all of a sudden
the vapor hit and the atmosphere was That's what that
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sounds like. Anyway. The project got buy in from the
government with one point six billion dollars in Department of
Energy loan guarantees and from utility specific Gas and Electric
Company and Southern California Edison, which both entered long term
agreements to buy the power generated. In twenty fourteen, it
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started commercial operations as the world's largest solar thermal plant,
was spread across five acres I'm sorry, five miles of
federal desert five square miles of federal desert. They said.
Then it was a project that was exciting progress they're
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seeing across the industry, and it went all wrong. The
technology proved finicky, never quite worked as it was intended.
Imagine that difficult to operate. And now it's cheap. You
can go to the store and buy solar panels for nothing,
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and you know by the battery. You can have solar
panels in your backyard, on the roof of your car,
doesn't matter, take them camping with you. The technology is very,
very cheap. Now with all the money your tax dollars
invested in this, they can't make it back because energy
can be found elsewhere otherwise cheaper. One point six billion
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dollars in loan guarantees, guaranteed by who you After eleven years,
it's closing down. We need something called doze is what
we need. That's something. Did you see the military expenditures
They were citing the military expenditures. I'm taking you back
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to taking you back to I don't know, nineteen seventy five,
maybe when we had the stories from the military, the Pentagon,
of the five hundred dollars, the toilet seats, I think
they were one thousand dollars, screwdrivers, that kind of thing
that was back in the seventies. Now they're just seriously
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going on as some reporter accidentally came across that this
is a serious, pointed investigation into where money's going and
how it's getting there. And they're finding it all again
as they begin now looking at the Department of Defense,
stuff like this, expenditures like this six month contracts that
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are being paid for ten years. Yeah, I want somebody,
I want somebody finding that kind of stuff. Now, I
got to talk about Joeyne Fabrics. I've been in there
a few times, not often and not for you know.
I went in there once looking for something that doesn't
exist anymore, which was the iron on patches. Yeah, again,
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this is going back to my heyday. We used to
have like fun iron on patches, a seventies and eighties
thing where if you got a hole in the back
of you jeans or something, you could you know, iron
on happy face or rainbows or cartoon characters and stuff like.
You can't find those anymore. But I had gone into
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joe an Wants to try to see if they had those.
I've also gone in there to buy cord for sweats
where because the sweats are still good, you can say,
but the chord breaks. So I've gone in there before
to buy that, but I'm not a regular. I contend
that this is the reason that all these stores are closing. Now,
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stay with me here, stay with me. Everybody wants to
blame somebody. Everybody wants to point a finger and say
it was the Biden administration at worst COVID it's this
damn Trump and Elon Musk. Here's what I say. It's
twenty twenty five. That's the reason. That's the reason. Look,
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the whole sewing thing is aunt Bee's gone. The world's
a busy place. There aren't many women out there now.
I'm not saying none. I'm saying there aren't many women
out there now who who's you know, sew their own
curtains or or make their own clothes or whatever. They're
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few and far between, and they're just is not the
market to justify a Joeanne store everywhere. Frankly, I think
they would probably be better off maybe combining efforts and
doing something like an Amazon online retail store. That way
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they could have you know, one massive location and and
just send everything out. It would probably cost them less
money to not have all the brick and mortars to
worry about. They could still pay for delivery and not
have to not have to lose money. But that age,
that time, that era when people sewed their own clothes,
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made their own curtains. You know, up, we don't even
fix stuff anymore. You rip the seam in the pants, kid,
throw the pants away, Go buy some new pants. We
don't do it. We just we don't treat stuff like
we wanted to last. And and in exchange, stuff is
not made to last, so we just throw it away.
We replace it, whether that's a pair of jeans for
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the kid or a television. Nobody fixes televisions. You just
throw them away and get another one. That is the
way of our world today. And Joanne was, uh, you know,
it was a store that was it catered largely too
an era and there just aren't many people left who
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are still doing the kind of thing that that they're
product line supports. That I believe is the reason they
have to say, you know what, we just we can't
stay in business anymore. It's not an economic thing, it's
a market thing. There's just there's there's no audience for it.
So it's on. You'll notice, you know, in Columbus there
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are not all polka stations playing polka music all the time,
all Bobby Vinton all the time. No, it's not there
because the market for that is not here. And if
there are people who want to listen to all polka
music all the time, there's the internet. It was a
wonderful part of a time, but I think that time
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has passed, and it's unfortunate. I hate to see all things,
all things Americana go by the wayside that I do,
at least I understand it. Don't like it, but understand it.
I got a couple of calls standing by here. Let's
let's grab them before the break. Why not A two
one nine eight eight six eight two one WTV and Dave,
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you're on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line. Tie.
Speaker 10 (36:49):
I like what the Doge is doing by trying to
gun cover like miscellaneous spending that doesn't need to be done.
But who's gonna be like checking like Musk because we
just I just saw that he's got like a five
hundred million dollar contract with the government, like just to
make sure that he's not, you know, skipping over his own.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Stuff, and you know he has that contract, right Yeah,
there you go. It's nobody's hiding it from you. There
it is, it's right there. And I think that that's
exactly we're gonna check on Elon Musk. The moment he
says no, you can't know about this, then I'm gonna
start having some doubts. But so far anything he's doing
with Tesla, with SpaceX that he's he's not hiding anything,
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and I'm I'm pretty good with that. I'm I'm laughing
at all the people. In fact, there was a quote
Maxine Waters last night. Who was it? Was it Dobacaro?
Somebody shared it on Twitter? No, it was Elon Musk.
I think that shared it on Twitter. A bite for
Maxine Waters say, they're invading Americans privacy. We don't know
what he has on us. And I had to laugh
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at that. We don't know what he has on us,
That's a heck of a phrase. But the moment he
starts trying to hide, you know, whatever dealings he's got,
whatever profits he's got, then I'll worry about it. But
much like Trump, he said, yeah, I own all this.
I'm going to continue to own all this. And the
books are open. You can see him. But I get
what you're saying, Dave. You know you want to watch
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the Watchers if you will a two WTV at A
two one nine eight eighty six. Sherry, you're on six
ten WTVN Hi.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Yeah, I wanted to argue with you on the JOm
fabric thing.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
All right, roll up your sleeves, roll up the sleeves.
Let's go all right.
Speaker 9 (38:32):
All right.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Yeah, I'm in there a lot, and through the years,
I'm like pushing knock it on sixty. So I've been
doing this for a long time. But every time i'm
in there, there's a line of people getting fabric cut,
and there's always you know, there's always people in there
a lot. But over the years, and having shopped in
there for twenty five or thirty years, I can tell
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you their fabric and their yarn and all that stuff.
In fact, I think there's a lot of younger people
who are starting to sew and knit and crochet, but
the quality. They keep jacking up prices and the quality
goes down instead of going up.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
It seems to be the story with everything, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
Yeah, And they they the chunk that they just felt
they should have stuck with fabric and crafts and yarn
and not gone into junk. Like you know, they have
all the holiday junk and you know, and just nonsense
that they spend a lot of money on and then
they end up marking it down eighty or ninety percent.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
You know, they would have enough to remember Curtis Mathis,
aren't you? Oh yeah, remember their their commercials, the Curtis
Massive television, the only television made in America. It's the
most expensive television made in America.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
And are well worth it, That's right, you know, honestly
like people you know, the people I know that do so.
And like I said, there's a lot of chis. My
eighteen year old daughter, you know, is over the summer
we were in there a lot, you know, buying things.
She wants to make pillows and she makes bags and
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you know, sweater vests and all sorts of stuff, and
but yeah, it's just you know, just they just turned
into a junk store.
Speaker 11 (40:21):
And you know, people who.
Speaker 6 (40:23):
Want to make something for themselves aren't putting up with it.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Real quick, Sherry, before before Johnny gets mad at me,
which which location did you frequent frequented?
Speaker 6 (40:32):
Saw no Road and polarious, and I think they're both closing.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Yeah, there's only one staying open in in the Ohio,
I think, and the one up on the west side
is going to close as well. That's where I go.
And while I would see younger people in there, the
majority were older, and the younger people I saw, quite frankly,
look to be minnon night Amish. Yeah, you know, it
wasn't the kids down the street.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Yeah, And you know, I was thinking about what I
was gonna do. I don't so like I have friends
that quilt a lot and do stuff like that. I'm
not that kind of If somebody has a request, I'll
make something for them, but I'm not like making quilts
right now. But I was thinking about it. And there's
a huge fabric store in Berlin, like you know, an
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Amish country. Yeah, and I'm gonna have to like plan
a weekend go tabric shopping, you know, in the future.
Speaker 11 (41:23):
It's not like something I'm going to be like, you know,
oh my daughter.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Wants a pillow with snoopy on it, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
You know, Well, when you do that, plan, make yourself
a note, send me a full report, because if there's
a place nearby that people can go after this all happens.
I'd love to be the guy that passes on the word.
I appreciate you sharing. Listen on your time Blazer Show
podcasts on six ' ten WTVN dot com. It is
four thirty eight on show Douglason from Mark Glazer. You
know who you are, don't you? Don't you take your pills,
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take your pills. You'd be for a two to one
nine eight eighty six, My number a two one WTV.
And I don't even know what I've been talking about.
Talk about Joanne Fabric. We'm talking about the the ridiculous
soular for which I'm telling you Zach wasn't in his
room over there? You were to Zach. Did you hear
the description of the solar farm that I was talking
about out the Nevada California border.
Speaker 6 (42:07):
No, I was not.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
After one point six billion dollars in taxpayer money is
spent guaranteeing loans for NRG or whatever the eleven years
and they're shutting it down. There's and the way they
described how it works sounds a hell of a lot
like that that atmosphere building thing in the Schwarzenegger movie
when he went to Mars. You remember how you put
the hand and the thing went and then the steam
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released in an atmosphere came to Mars.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Is that Total Recall?
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Total Recall? Thank you very much. Yeah, I could not remember.
I just remember to get your Austin Moas. That's all
I could remember about that movie. Total Recall is the
name of it. So anyway, those are the two things
I talked about. These guys could be called about either
I guess a two to one w TV and and Mike,
you're on Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines. Oh wait, heck, don't, Mike,
don't go anywhere because I forgot Jennifer standing by, isn't she?
(42:53):
What's the weather like there? I don't know. Build an
atmosphere thing. Jennifer Herberfer a ABC with the bad news
about our atmosphere thing. I know I scare you. I
know I do, I can tell, but I want you
to know I'm not going to bother you during your
forecast this time. Just break it to me gently and
get it over with. Okay.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Well, some good news tonight is we'll see some clearing
in the clouds. The bad news is that's going to
lead to really cold overnight temperatures and the teens. There's
more good news, though, we'll see some sunshine to start
your Friday. More bad news is that it's going to
be a bit chilly tomorrow. High's in the mid thirties.
We warm up for Saturday into the little forties. However,
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we have this massive system coming in that's going to
bring a mix of snow, rain and freezing rain into
the area. And this lasts into Sunday as well, so
it's going to most likely be a lazy weekend for
most of us.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
I didn't scare you that time, did I know? Oh
but the weather's like an old sixties comedy. But I
got good news, get bad news, and then I got
some good news again. When when you have all good news,
I will let you do like a fifty minute weather forecast,
I promise, okay, And meantime see you must see the
next time that happened thirty right now. Josevere Weather stays
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or news radio six WTV. And she's so normal and
I'm so abnormal, and I know I can tell just
by her voice. Sometimes you go, you hear inhale and
then like not exhale because I'm so weird sometimes. Okay,
now we got that out of the way. Mike is
standing by Mike. It's your turn now, trust me, promise,
I mean it. I mean it.
Speaker 11 (44:32):
Go Hey, thanks for taking the call. A couple of
things real quick. You know, we're seeing these displays of
outrage by the left because of what Musk and Trump
are doing. You know what occurred to me, I'm not
hearing anybody really give us an idea how how large
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the size of the crowd is. So you get the
impression looking at it that it looks like hundreds of
thousands of people, and I wonder how many you're really there,
And then I wonder how many are being paid to
be there.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
That's a good question, you know. The whole payroll thing always,
it always slips into the back of my mind. I
just I don't want to be tarnished. But if anything
of significance is done, I'm assuming somebody's compensated somehow, some
way by someone.
Speaker 11 (45:25):
Amen. And then on another point you were talking about, Joanne,
Fabric is just you know, the changing of the times
and how things, how things happened. I remember many years
ago hearing that as computers at a home level and
a personal level were really picking up steam and the
sales and the search or research and development on that.
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And there's Smith Corona going out of business, and while
they were going out of business, they were still spending
money on trying to develop a better typewriter. And I
just thought, you know, it's kind of what's going on,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
It is times changed very very quickly, sometimes faster than
I want him to. But you know what, you either
have to keep up or enjoy the time while you
have it and then fade away quietly. I appreciate you, Mike.
You have a great afternoon, trying to stay try to
stay relatively warm. A two n W t V. And Billy,
you're on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines. Hello, Billy, Billy,
(46:28):
there's Billy. How you don Belly Denny Well he put
while you talk, I'm gonna go over the room and
hit him in their head. Go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 11 (46:44):
I know the fabric story is going on.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
I heard that woman saying she's going to Ammi Carria,
a shop by Maysville, Ohia.
Speaker 6 (46:52):
If she googles that May's pll Ohia.
Speaker 12 (46:55):
There's a little fabric shop in their own body.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
Oby.
Speaker 6 (46:59):
They just open the second one.
Speaker 7 (47:01):
It's brand new, and I think she can find almost
anything she wants up there.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
My wife does. So where is uh? Where is? Maysville
is a north northeast Ohio.
Speaker 12 (47:12):
It's over by east of Worster.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
No, okay, somewhere Apple Creek somewhere. I am okay.
Speaker 11 (47:21):
So the other thing, the Democrats are.
Speaker 7 (47:23):
Just worried that they're gonna get caught with their pockets.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
So man, that's that's my opinion.
Speaker 11 (47:29):
I'm pretty sure of.
Speaker 12 (47:30):
It because I'm older than you, truck, and you do
a great job, Chuck.
Speaker 7 (47:33):
I just want you to know that you took over
from six to seven.
Speaker 12 (47:38):
It's enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
For thirty years. Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate
that very much. You uh, be careful. We'll see if
Maysville maybe we'll do something. Somebody I'm a I'm a
big Amish person or amige country fan. When it's we're
talking about Sugar Creek. I love the little community called
Sugar Creek. It's up seventy seven north from here and
(48:02):
it's I don't know, it's it's not too far from
Roscoe Village. If you're familiar with that little tourist. That's
in eighteen hundred's little town, and I just I've always
called that my fortress of solitude. It is a place
where if I ever disappear, chances are you can probably
find me hiding up there. Amige cheese shops and wineries,
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and it's just so peaceful and placid, and it's kind
of it's kind of difficult not to like that area
if you like, if you like peace and quiet A
two one WTVN is my number, and Joan, you're on
six ten WTVN.
Speaker 12 (48:37):
Hi, Hey, I just wanted to comment about, you know,
the protests. Why aren't people protesting that these politicians have
ripped us all off for so many years and they
should be held accountable. And you know, I don't know
why we aren't protesting. It just doesn't make sense. I
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get more and more angry of how much money has
been stolen from us.
Speaker 6 (49:05):
The more they find out.
Speaker 12 (49:07):
It's like the more they we have been taken advantage
of and stolen from. That really makes me angry.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
You know, the justification for raising your fees and taxes
is always because the government has to handle business for
the people. When this is all done and we find
out We're not nearly in the financial dire straits we've
been told we were in because we've been shelling out
a lot of money. Nobody knew we were shelling out
the places we've never heard of, and those taxes don't
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have to be as high, and those fees don't have
to be as high. Suddenly people will realize, wait a minute,
we've been shelling out billions of dollars into black holes
every year. This is why we've been in such bad shape.
And I think that's when the mentality is going to
turn around, I hope.
Speaker 12 (49:52):
So I'm tired of hearing them complain about, you know,
Elon Musk and the other people that are fin and
you know, I'm getting to the point where I don't
want to hear it anymore. I want to find out
what else are they spending money on. Did we didn't
vote for We didn't vote to send money to Afghanistan
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and all these other places. You know, they complained that
we didn't vote for Elon Musk, but we didn't vote
to spend money on the ridiculous things that they were
spending money on.
Speaker 1 (50:23):
Hell and he you know, Elon Musk isn't doing anything
that's something else that you're being sold to bill of goods.
Elon Musk is nothing, but he's an auditor. He's going
in on behalf of the president saying, miss President, here's
what we found, and Donald Trump is saying, get rid
of that. So so it's not like Elon Musk has
the power to make anything happen. Donald Trump is running
the show. Yep.
Speaker 12 (50:44):
Yeah, well thank you.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
I appreciate you. Don't take care of yourself. Matt you're
on sixth n w ETVN.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
HI got anything, mister Douglas, how are you?
Speaker 1 (50:53):
I am fine, sir?
Speaker 2 (50:54):
How are you not too bad?
Speaker 11 (50:58):
Just one?
Speaker 2 (50:58):
Let's thereby no, because a couple of people call saying
about Amish country to go get fabric and everything. The
only reason I know this is because my daughter works
at this particular store. But you can go to Hobby
Lobby and they sell fabric, yarn, pretty much everything that
Joanne sells.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Yes, I'm kind of surprised by that. I guess you
could consider sewing and knitting no hobby, So yeah, I
guess that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
Yeah, I mean they even sell toasters and stuff like that,
like novelty toasters like ones that you know will put
like a Star Wars face on your toast and everything
like that. So any I know it's crazy, but yeah, literally,
almost everything that Joeanne sells you can get a hobby lobby.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
I appreciate it. Thank you, Matt. I've I've never I
have to admit, I've never been in a hobby lobby store.
I'm sorry, I'd never been really a hobby guy. I
don't really have time for anything like that. I wish
I did, but I don't. Eight two one nine eight
eight six and Mark, you're on six t N WUTVN.
Speaker 7 (52:13):
Yeah, I was calling about the fabric store situation too.
There are several nice fabric stores around town. There's Red
Rooster in Dublin, there's Quilt Beginnings off Sawmill Road up north,
and there's a Calico Covered out in Patascla. All have
wide ries of fabric, and they're here local, and they're
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usually a little bit better grade of fabric than what
you would get at joey Ann's.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Now, Mark, you have to understand, I must ask the question,
do you do a lot of sewing?
Speaker 7 (52:45):
I do not, but my wife does make a lot
of quilts, and a lot of her friends make a
lot of quilts. So there's there's fabric stores around town.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
You just got to look for.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
I'm glad. I was just wondering how you had that
kind of knowledge, because you I just I don't expect
guys to I guess this is my stereotype in my mind.
When a guy calls up, he is now, this is
a good store, and this is a good store, and
I'm like, really, how do you know?
Speaker 11 (53:11):
I've been drugged?
Speaker 7 (53:13):
The fabric stores all over the stateable heart, Ah.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
I know where they are.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
Somebody has to carry the bags, mark, that's our job.
Just small. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate you being out there. Yeah,
it's you know, and I know that's that by today's standards,
that's sexist, but hey, in my world, that sewing just
wasn't a big guy thing. I remember when it was
revealed that that NFL monster Rosie Greer, used to enjoy
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knitting in the locker room. That was, oh my gosh.
Everybody in America was taught Rosie Greer knits because Rosie
was a big boy, and that was an amazing thing.
It was such an anomaly that nobody could believe it
Well, greedies. Hello, how are you BLUs? I Jeff Duffers
in a floor Mark blaze. They're welcome Thursday. Yeah, just
one more stands between you and the weekend. My number
eight two one nine eight eight six A two one wtv.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
M.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm a little high spirited today. I admit that. I
admit that I'm a little high spirited today. I'm not
over the top high spirited, just just you what do
you mean there's no coffee left high spirited, that kind
of high spirited. Plus when I came in, there was
some some food left over. I don't know if it
came to one of the stations here in the iHeart
google Plex or if it was the sales department. It
was probably the sales department because those people over there
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they're always eating always, But there was They're chicken sandwiches, right.
I don't even know where they're from. I'm not even short,
but oh wow, wow, was that a taste the piece
of sandwich art right there? That was that was some something.
So I need to find out, you know, where that
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was from. That's going to have to go on the Uh,
those those moments when I go out and eat food
that I probably should not be eating, but will enjoy
eating very much. That is going to go on the
list of those foods. And you didn't go down. You
didn't even notice. You had to go out the door.
You had to walk past the food. How did you
not notice it?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I don't pay attention that's in the kitchen. I don't ever.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I just playing on my phone. Wasn't paying attention. Really,
I'm not going to eat something that like. It's not
that I don't trust anybody eat here. I can't eat
food that's just like left out.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's restaurant food. It's in foil things. You had to
take the lid off the foil things to get to it.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, somebody could have done something.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Really yeah, I don't trust Now.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
If you just let me ask you this. If you
just went to a fast food place or whatever and
got food right now handed out the window to to
would you be okay eating that?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, So nobody could have done any food there. That's fuck.
I'm not here the place where you work, your coworkers,
your iHeartMedia family. You're paranoid. Somebody did something to the food.
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I'm not saying it's a good thing or that it
makes sense.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It makes no sense.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
iHeart media family.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
What you would do to me? Oh, well, we don't
like you either, but we don't let you know that.
I mean, we keep it a secret. We talk behind
your back and stuff. It's not like it's out in
the open.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I can I can get I know, I can feel
it when I walk through the hallways.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I would encourage you to get past whatever paranoia you
have and uh and indulge in one of them sandwiches.
Just put it, put it in the refrigerator and take
it home and have it for dinner or something tonight,
because it really seriously the I don't even it was
like maybe it was like a big pickle in the middle.
I'm not sure, because it wasn't the chicken. There was
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something in the middle of the sandwich that was really good,
but was it was It was almost more cucumbery than
it was pickley, But it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
This is it a chicken?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It was amazing. I'm not joking, you know. I like
I generally, as long as food is acceptable, I am
happy with it. But I rarely rant or rave about
any food, even if it's you know, real expensive. A
big you know, expensive steakhouse or something like that. When
I get up, seems to be a fast food product,
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a quick serve product, and it strikes me like that, Yeah,
that gets my attention. Man. That is uh, that was
some really good stuff. See. See, if I don't know
Kate or one of the uh, one of the big
wigs over there on that side of the building, maybe
they can tell us where that came from. Because seriously,
that needs to go on the uh that needs to
go on the Chuck Future Endeavor's list.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I will check her out.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I would I would love that. Ohio Senator Bertie Moreno,
did you read the story what he's trying to get
get the Trump administration to do on behalf of the
folks here in the great state of Ohio. He has
sent a letter to the newly appointed DHS Secretary Christinome
and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, asking their departments to investigate
recent drone sightings here in the state of Ohhow I
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haven't even heard have you heard about him? No?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I remember the ones over Jersey, right, That's where they were,
Jersey in New York.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, I haven't even heard about drones in the state of.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Why neither have I So, if they were flying over
my house, they could have just done anything.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I mean, I've seen some of the road construction people
that hold the sign that goes slow. Maybe that's who.
I'm not sure. I'm only saying that because I got
a friend that actually does that. In his letter, he
specifically cites Drake County, Mercer County, and Van Wert Counties
reports of mysterious drones circulating in central Ohio. Marino's full
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letter is included here on the WSYX six website if
you want to read it. I'm just I'm intrigued by this.
I why would you go straight to the president for
something like that or the president's administration? I don't know
if isn't this more of a state issue unless they're
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flying into you know, controlled airspace FAA airspace or something. Anyway,
he asked it his letter, how can your agencies assist
state in local law enforcement with identifying whether a drone
is approved to fly over airspace and by which federal agency? Well,
if it's flying, it's FAA, isn't it? Will you commit
it continues to informing state and local law enforcement when
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your agencies authorize the presence of drones in their airspace
prior to the entry into their airspace. See, this is
getting complicated because how many people get like drones for
Christmas and just hobby drove. I have a drone. Actually,
it's still in the box. It's like two years old,
and it's nice. I mean, it looks nice. It's fairly large,
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it's got a vividar camera on it. But just reading
the instructions, I went, oh, man, this is way too much.
So I've never even bothered.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
It sounds like the more people that get them, the
more shenanigans you can cause.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But here's the problem, man, It's like this is replace
the word drones with bicycles.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Now, I can't spy in my neighbor's bedroom window with
a bike.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
If it's really tall, you can one of those twenty
seven inch boys or something.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm just saying it's spying in your neighbor's bedroom can
be done in all kinds of ways. It could be
done with a telescope from your bedroom window for all
I know. So this just to specifically get paranoid about drones.
I just I'm not sure I like this. Number three,
what federal grants exist in your agencies. Oh, here comes
somebody to assist state and local law enforcement to procure
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a new technology to identify, monitor, and combat unauthorized drones.
Are your agencies formally tracking the number of unauthorized drone
sightings across the country? If not, will you do so? Again?
Who authorizes drones? You go on Amazon, you buy a drone.
It's all kinds of people. There are eight year olds
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out here with drones. For goodness sake. I don't know.
I'm not trying to put the bad in mouth on
Senata moreno at all, but I don't know where this
is coming from. Number five, will you commit to transparent
communicating between the airline, the American public, and the number
and location of unauthorized drone sightings reported to and known
by your agencies? Again, authorized by whom? Finally? Number six
(07:23):
point is do you believe we need legislation to provide
clarity on the rights of homeowners when a drone has
flown over their property? Okay, that part maybe so if
it's you know, much like the legislation that says whether
or not Google can collect certain information about you, or
you know websites can share certain information about you? If
you want to come up with some sort of safety
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for the consumer when it comes to DROW. That's fine,
I'm good with that. But the whole registering thing. I
just the reason I got my drone actually a couple
of years ago was real estate stuff. I had a
listing coming up that was it was on some eight
grade it was it was down in southern Ohio and
some rolling hills and so forth, and I wanted to
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do a nice drone shot coming in from the road
into this property because it was kind of like if
you remember the intro or the beginning of the old
TV show Dallas, how it used to kind of fly
over the Dallas skyline and then up to South Fork.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
They didn't need a drone for that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
No, that was a helicopter shot like that. But I'm
just saying I wanted to do that for this listing.
And then the Goofy people didn't list the house after
I made like five trips down there, wasted four hundred
gallons of gas. Uh well, we just wanted to keep it.
Oh yes, serious anyway, So that's why that's why I
bought the drone in the first place. Then I found
out if I were to use it for that I'd
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have to get a license. Guess why. Guess why, Zach
tell me, tell me guess why.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Why would because I was using it to gather information
for a listing of a real estate property, which would
have generated income for me. And if I'm going to
make money with it, I have to have a license. Wow,
I'm how ridiculous. How ridiculous. So now there are people
out there who you know they do it for you?
Is yeah, I got the license, I'll I'll give me
(09:10):
one hundred and fifty bucks and I'll go do the
drone shots for you. Uh so, yeah, you have to
you have to get a license, go through a process
and get a license if the use of your drone
is going to result in money, some sort of income generation,
which I just I just found that ridiculous. I mean,
why don't we why don't we have you know, a
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licensing fee for digital cameras? Then well, if you're going
to take pictures that are going to be used in
an NLS situation, you know, text my vocabulary, if you're
going to use words to describe the listing to people,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I mean, so really you could. It's the same concept how.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Far do you want to go with? Yeah, but I
mean we have those Manutia rules out there, and look, hey,
we just got done with the Super Bowl. Oops, I'm
supposed to pay somebody because I said that the Big
we just got done with the Big Game. But you'll
notice any any depictions or whatever of this program without
the express written consent of the NFL is strictly prohibited. Seriously,
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do you think every radio and television person in America
was getting the express written permission of the NFL to
talk about Philadelphia beating the crap out of Kansas City?
Do you think that, I mean, we did No, we
did not. I guarantee you we did not. We just
we you know, uh yeah, yeah, we just we just
we We just tell them what we're gonna do. When
they just sit down, shut up, is what happens. So
(10:32):
the idea that that we, uh, we have drones is
I don't think a big deal. There are people out there.
If the drones are being used for nefarious purposes, that's
a different matter. If someone wants to file charges for
you know, we've got voyeurs and charges peeping Tom's if
you will, you're peeping Tom, whether you're standing on a
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ladder or using a drone or using look a remote
control helicopter, while well not as maneuverable, perhaps maybe not
as quiet, but can accomplish the same thing when it
comes to hovering and putting the camera on your bedroom
window as a drone can. Why specifically drones. Why because
it's a buzzword. I don't like buzz and to see
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this is not partisan. This I do it if it
was a Democrat republic, it doesn't matter. I don't like
buzzword legislation. I don't like people that want to create laws,
create rules, put new standards on anything, including me, based
on whatever the hot button issue is that day. And
the word drones is a hot thing because of New Jersey,
and I just I don't want to. Uh yeah, I
(11:39):
don't think I'm good with this. I'm just I'm being
honest with you. I always am. I don't know, do
you think I'm wrong? I always give you the opportunities
actively because when I take a stand, I give you
the opportunity to tell me whether I'm a wing nut
or not. No, no, no, I agree with it.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I've put zero thought into it whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, that's how I like it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I agree. It's do you have a drone? I didn't
even ask you that. No, have you bought one for
a little man?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
He had one, but it was like a kind of
a kid one, you know. I didn't even have a camera.
You would just watch it go up and down. Yeah,
and then he was like like hit something and it
flew way high and then hit my neighbor's roof and
it died. And I was like, all right, we haven't
got one since. So it lasted a good forty fifty seconds.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
See, I'm not a technical person, which is why mine
is still in the box. How much do you want
for it? I'm not gonna sell it. I'm going to
keep it in the box. One day my grandkids can
sell it for money and go look what ball Paul
never opened?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah I had a date by that probably well, yeah,
but it's.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
A collector's item at that point. I've got all kinds
of stuff like that. I bought some plugs. I bought
these plugs where it's got like a one controller that
looks kind of like a wall thermostat for your your
air conditioning, and with that and then it's got outlets
and you plug these like plug the lamp into the
plug and that goes into the outlet. Plug the TV
into the plug again, and then you can program when
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those outlets come on and off throughout the house. It's
completely wireless. You don't have to go in and you know,
crawl under a table to reset a time or anything
like that. And uh, they can be changed, updated, whatever
from this one little keypad.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Do you own a lot of beanie babies?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
No, I don't own a lot of babies, but I
got kids in the house, so I want to be
able to turn stuff off because they'll go upstairs and
turn on the lamps and go to sleep and leave
everything that said led bulbs or not. I ain't made
a money, so it was just it was a press.
But I can't get them. I can't figure them out.
I can't figure out how to program the blasted plugs.
So they're all sitting on my dresser right now, just
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waiting for me to to one day figure it out.
I've got so many things like that that I just
I can't do. I got a laptop I'm trying to
get into again. I keep forgetting the password. It's an
old laptop. It's Windows ten. It said insert your rescue disc,
I inserted, and then it said, well, that's not a
password recovery disc. I said, no, it's a rescue disc.
That doesn't help me. So so I don't. I'm just
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not a tech guy. But I do have a drum
in a box. Orus and the Mark Blazer Show on
six ten WTV. We're a three thirty eight. I'm Jock
Douglass in for Blazer. I wish you a good afternoon.
Although it's a chilly afternoon. It's a very chilly. No,
it's cold, is what it is. It is just cold.
ABC six First Warning Weather meteorolizes Jennifer Herbert is on. Dude,
(14:18):
that correct, That's what I'm being told. That's the sign
Zach is holding up. So Jennifer, do something about this crap.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
I don't mean that you're gonna like what's coming.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
No, see, see, you people are in this together, all
of you over there. Do you all do this to me?
I need to hear the words seventy degrees, and I
need to hear them soon, don't.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I don't think we're going to see a seventy three
day this February.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Fine, we're breaking up right now, right now, it's over
we're done. She's like, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
I don't I don't know what to tell you. It's
actually going to get colder. Oh my gosh, so brace yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Are we talking single digit stuff again?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Possibly it's possible overnight, not during the day, so that's something.
But yeah, we are going into a much colder or
colder air mass coming down tomorrow, though not too bad.
On the colder side of things, we'll see temperatures in
the mid thirties. We'll see some sunshine in the morning,
some clouds building in, and although Saturday is going to
(15:23):
be in the low forties, we are going to see
a system start moving in and we're looking at some
excessive rainfall chances as we go into the evening Saturday.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You're killing Zach's lawnmower business. I want you to know
that too. It don't pick up in the summer. It
takes a lot of money to feed his beard, and
you're killing business.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I don't think Jennifer's ever seen my beer.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh that's why she still sounds like she's smiling. Yeah,
that's fair, Jennifer. We'll talk to you about an hour.
We're at the thirty one right now. At your severe
weather station, news radio six tenB TV at hey four girls.
She's like, I think he's sorry.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I don't think she's coming back on.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
She probably won't, probably won't say now as long as
he's there, I'm not going back on that station. And
I'm just I can't do it. I can't. He scares
me and the guy with the beard and everything bad
advice or good advice for that matter, Most people, especially
in this age of social media, have no problem telling
(16:24):
you what you should do, even though they've never done
it themselves. Never would do it, never could do it,
wouldn't have thought about it, maybe were advised to do
it and didn't bother doing it, But they'll tell you
to do it because it's social media where everyone is
an expert. I just you know, I have long said
that one of the things that you want me to
(16:44):
cut you off real quick when people you have any ideas,
act before I even say something. If I get in,
if I get into any sort of back and forth
on social media, any disagreement topic, or the one way
to end any discushion with me immediately is to say
what I think I've told you this before you're blank
(17:08):
faced on me too. I have no idea anybody who
ever said, chuck, you know better, We're done.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh dude, I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah exactly, We're done. So that's what. But if you're
giving advice, and it's terrible, horrendous advice, I don't know.
Last night, I'm watching this this, and I don't know
why people live their lives on social media. I don't
get it. You know that you can make a phone call,
(17:40):
you can go over and sit and talk to somebody.
People actually have exchanges, not on messenger, but on like
the Facebook page where everybody can see it. And this
this younger person was getting counseled by an older person
about the way they should handle a family. Is you uh?
(18:01):
And I couldn't take my eyes off of it. It
was like a slow motion train wreck. I could not
stop watching this exchange. And and and the advice that
this young woman was getting from this older woman was really, really,
really bad.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Was it advice?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
That?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Was the older woman not part of the family, No,
she was.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
She was somehow connected to this person, the girl. The
girl had posted this thing on Facebook, and this woman
responded to the post, and and and they start going
back and forth in this open forum on Facebook, and
you know, the older woman's asking questions, the young girls
answering questions, and then she starts giving her just horrendous advice.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
It wasn't my mom, was it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It was not your mom. Okay, she gives only good advice.
She does. She told me to dump you. So the
idea that, the idea that I'm watching this was bad enough.
We were talking earlier about drones and voyeurism, and so
I was like a peeping tom on this, except there
was nothing hidden. It was all out there. And I
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have felt bad ever since that exchange because there is
this part of me that says, dude, you should have
jumped in there. You should have said something, you you
really you should have interjected. Now the person, the young
lady in question, I mean, she doesn't know she's on
my friend's list, probably because you know, somebody she knows says,
(19:26):
oh you should be on this Facebook page. Oh it's
it's not like I know her. We've not met, we've
never you know, had dinner to get I don't if
she was standing in the room right now, I couldn't
tell you it was her. She's just somebody who was
on the page. And I've you know, I've seen her
name for quite a while, so I don't have that
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closeness to her where I can say, hey, this is
this is your uncle Chuck talking. But I felt that
I was fighting the urge. I was fighting the urge
because I felt like I should say something, but I didn't.
And do you think less of me? No, because I
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if it wasn't in person thing like if we were
like sitting here in you know, in the building, sitting
in the lobby or whatever, and I heard that, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't do it there if I didn't know who
these people were. That's their conversation and that's their business.
Sitting in the doctor's office waiting room here the guy,
I wouldn't say anything there because that's their business and
(20:29):
their conversation, so I should not. This is how I think.
If I wouldn't do it in those situations, I should
not do it on the social media page. Does this
make sense to you or am I wrong?
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
It makes sense. But at the same flip of a coin,
that woman might not give that advice in person.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
It just feels comfortable saying it online, even though it
might be you know, horrendous advice.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Terrible, terrible, purble purble, terrible. It was it was really bad.
It was bad. This oh, this girl's life is going
to go so wrong. It's it's uh yeah, So I
have felt bad ever since then. And then I got
to think it. You know, back in the days before
the Internet, people often gave advice well intentioned perhaps, but
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nosy generally.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And I got to thinking about bad advice that I
had been given over the years. And then I found
it ironic as I was scrolling through the Twitter last night,
and I sent the link over to Zach. Scrolling through
the Twitter last night, I came across somebody else who's
a little maybe a little bit more notable than Zach
or I that Jimmy Fallon had talked to and and
(21:41):
he also had a story of bad advice. Could you
hit that for me if it's not then when I
was young till he gave me like bad advice. He
was so so so sweet to me. How about Rodney Dangerfield.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Rodney Dangerfield, I meant, when I was young tall, he
gave me bad advice. I got into when I was
like seventeen, I was seventeen.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I played the comic strip down in Fort Lauderdale and.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Uh riddy, Dangerfield came in and bumped everybody was like,
Dangerfield's going up in all the comics of Dan.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Went up into I know all that stuff he was doing. Now.
I was like, mister.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Dangerfield, please after he came off he killed us, and
please watch my show. I want to go up after him,
right because I thought I was a hot shot. I
went up there and I crushed it and I came
off and Dangerfield was like, hell, you know, yeah, there's
a lot of the Fall language.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
And you said you use those languages. We ain't gonna
go talking that kind of stuff. You gave me all
this stuff, and I like my all the wind came
out of my sales. I was like, oh, Dangerfield. Then
you know, three years went by.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
I get on Saturday Night Live, and uh three years
go by and I'm I'm at Caesar's Palace in Las
Vegas and I'm at a urine him and Dangerfield walks
in and he comes into urine right next to me,
and I look over and he looks over at me
and says, hey, who knew.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You wish? Don't you wish it was that? That's simple
for everybody who gave bad if I who knew, but
that made me think, you know what, No matter how
how wealthy you are, how broke you are, what color
you are, where you live, or anything else, this is
a universal people will. People will give you advice at
the drop of a hat, and more often than not,
(23:18):
it is bad Eddie Murphy being told, hey, you know
you get up to foul language and stuff. What's that
going to do for you? And and look what it did.
I loved Edie Murphy simply because he was the heir
apparent to the Richard Pryor throne. And Richard Pryor was
Richard Pryor was was something unique unto himself. Everyone who's
come after him has attempted to impersonate him. It doesn't work,
(23:40):
It's not the same. The language was part of a
caricature of personality, a storytelling persona that he had, and
Lily Tomlin once said he turned it into an art
for him, and she was right. Eddie Murphy is the
only one who ever came up behind him that was close.
But in his youth, not even the great Rodney Dangerfield
(24:05):
at that time gave him credit for knowing what he
was doing and being any good at it. Yeah, don't
do that good. I also heard Edgye Murphrey once say
Bill Cosby told him to, you know, don't don't use
the foul language and stay away from Richard Pryor.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Cosby gave a lot of that kind of That was.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Only advice Bill Cosby needed to give was don't drink that.
That was you know, he probably should have stopped.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Didn't he get out of jail yet? Out of jail.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
He's out of jail, yeah, yeah, and laying low and
allegedly he is. He's blind and in in you know,
not not so great health, which is yeah, I choose
to remember him. See this is like say, with Michael Jackson,
I choose to remember them as as the entertainers that
they were. I'm sorry about anything else, but I never
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bought a ticket for any of that. I never went
to see a movie for any of that. I never
bought a CD for any of that. It's it's everybody
is who they are. Some people have very dark sides
to them. Some I don't know, you know, Michael Jackson's kid,
alleged kid, I don't think that's his kid. But anyway, yeah, prince, yes,
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I find it odd as much as they disliked each
other that he would name his son prince anyway. They
he's worked hard to, you know, try to make sure
that nobody gets away with besmirching his dad and saying
things about it. And he said, he's my dad. I
know better. I saw him, I know better than those stories.
And that's, you know, a son for what he knows
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to be his father. And that's understandable. I that was
a complicated era. I mean when he had to go
sit down with Oprah to defend himself and they were
taking pictures of him in crazy ways to present his evidence.
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That have you known anybody else that's go that just
that was a freaky time for all of us. But somebody,
you know, once gave him advice.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Too well, go towards there.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, And the one piece of advice somebody should have
given him was stop with the surgeries. You're right there, thriller,
that's it. You are still discernibly male and discernibly humans.
Stop right there. But you know, he just he kept going.
Nobody had the guts to say it because there's way
too much money involved in saying yes, and so they
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took it. Advice good or bad taken or given, if if,
if you got anything feel free A two one ninety
six A two one WU TV And I was since
to my mom, gave my dad some advice once, don't
don't spend money investing in something like that. Nobody's gonna
pay to watch television, Good old mom Bleazer Show. Here
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we go, Yeah, judge out the side from Mark Glazier
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eh and I'm gonna get through you. I'm gonna get
into the Joy and Fabric store here in a moment.
I because I'm sorry, but I think I could explain
it in a way that's probably very practical. Most people
are gonna go, I can't believe he said that, but
I am. It's not politics. It's not politicians, it's not
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the economy, it's not interest rates. That's not what it is.
I'll explain. It's just stand by. I've got to tear
down something green. First, Are you you're not a greenye?
Are you you like gas powered things that make exhaust fumes?
And so for don't you oh you mean like green environment? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yeah, I mean it's important, but it's not there's too
much exaggeration from one side over the.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Other, an alien like field of mirrors in the desert,
once called the future of solar energy. This is out
on the Nevada, California desert. From the distance, the Ivanpa
solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mohave Desert.
Up close, it's a passed, alien like installation of hundreds
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of thousands of mirrors pointed at three towers, each taller
than the Statue of Liberty. When this plant opened near
the California Nevada border in twenty fourteen, it was pitched
as the future of solar power plants. CONE or NRG
Energy announced in January that it was it was. It
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was getting out of its contract with power companies subject
to regulatory approval, and began closing the plant in early
twenty twenty six. Really, we got eleven years out of it,
eleven years for the future of solar power. When it
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was conceived as technology called concentrated solar or thermal solar,
was considered a potential breakthrough. It works like this, now,
tell me listen, here's how this thing works. Hundreds of
thousands of men collecting the sun pointed at these three
big towers. Tell me if this description doesn't sound familiar,
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The hundreds of thousands of computer controlled mirrors called hlose
stats track the Sun and concentrate its rays onto three towers,
each around four hundred and fifty feet tall, then topped
with water filled boilers. The Sun's hyper concentrated energy turns
this water to steam, which drives a turbine to create electricity.
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What does that sound like to you? That sounds like
that that atmosphere making thing in the Schwarzenegger you know,
the one get your ass to Mars? What was the
one where they had the machine was on Mars and
you pushed out the planet and all of a sudden
the vapor hit and the atmosphere was That's what that
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sounds like. Anyway. The project got buy in from the
government with one point six billion dollars in Department of
Energy loan guarantees and from utility specific Gas and Electric
Company and Southern California Edison, which both entered long term
agreements to buy the power generated. In twenty fourteen, it
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started commercial operations as the world's largest solar thermal plant,
was spread across five acres I'm sorry, five miles of
federal desert five square miles of federal desert. They said.
Then it was a project that was exciting progress they're
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seeing across the industry, and it went all wrong. The
technology proved finicky, never quite worked as it was intended.
Imagine that difficult to operate. And now it's cheap. You
can go to the store and buy solar panels for nothing,
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and you know by the battery. You can have solar
panels in your backyard, on the roof of your car,
doesn't matter, take them camping with you. The technology is very,
very cheap. Now with all the money your tax dollars
invested in this, they can't make it back because energy
can be found elsewhere otherwise cheaper. One point six billion
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dollars in loan guarantees, guaranteed by who you After eleven years,
it's closing down. We need something called doze is what
we need. That's something. Did you see the military expenditures
They were citing the military expenditures. I'm taking you back
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to taking you back to I don't know, nineteen seventy five,
maybe when we had the stories from the military, the Pentagon,
of the five hundred dollars, the toilet seats, I think
they were one thousand dollars, screwdrivers, that kind of thing
that was back in the seventies. Now they're just seriously
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going on as some reporter accidentally came across that this
is a serious, pointed investigation into where money's going and
how it's getting there. And they're finding it all again
as they begin now looking at the Department of Defense,
stuff like this, expenditures like this six month contracts that
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are being paid for ten years. Yeah, I want somebody,
I want somebody finding that kind of stuff. Now, I
got to talk about Joeyne Fabrics. I've been in there
a few times, not often and not for you know.
I went in there once looking for something that doesn't
exist anymore, which was the iron on patches. Yeah, again,
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this is going back to my heyday. We used to
have like fun iron on patches, a seventies and eighties
thing where if you got a hole in the back
of you jeans or something, you could you know, iron
on happy face or rainbows or cartoon characters and stuff like.
You can't find those anymore. But I had gone into
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joe an Wants to try to see if they had those.
I've also gone in there to buy cord for sweats
where because the sweats are still good, you can say,
but the chord breaks. So I've gone in there before
to buy that, but I'm not a regular. I contend
that this is the reason that all these stores are closing. Now,
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stay with me here, stay with me. Everybody wants to
blame somebody. Everybody wants to point a finger and say
it was the Biden administration at worst COVID it's this
damn Trump and Elon Musk. Here's what I say. It's
twenty twenty five. That's the reason. That's the reason. Look,
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the whole sewing thing is aunt Bee's gone. The world's
a busy place. There aren't many women out there now.
I'm not saying none. I'm saying there aren't many women
out there now who who's you know, sew their own
curtains or or make their own clothes or whatever. They're
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few and far between, and they're just is not the
market to justify a Joeanne store everywhere. Frankly, I think
they would probably be better off maybe combining efforts and
doing something like an Amazon online retail store. That way
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they could have you know, one massive location and and
just send everything out. It would probably cost them less
money to not have all the brick and mortars to
worry about. They could still pay for delivery and not
have to not have to lose money. But that age,
that time, that era when people sewed their own clothes,
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made their own curtains. You know, up, we don't even
fix stuff anymore. You rip the seam in the pants, kid,
throw the pants away, Go buy some new pants. We
don't do it. We just we don't treat stuff like
we wanted to last. And and in exchange, stuff is
not made to last, so we just throw it away.
We replace it, whether that's a pair of jeans for
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the kid or a television. Nobody fixes televisions. You just
throw them away and get another one. That is the
way of our world today. And Joanne was, uh, you know,
it was a store that was it catered largely too
an era and there just aren't many people left who
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are still doing the kind of thing that that they're
product line supports. That I believe is the reason they
have to say, you know what, we just we can't
stay in business anymore. It's not an economic thing, it's
a market thing. There's just there's there's no audience for it.
So it's on. You'll notice, you know, in Columbus there
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are not all polka stations playing polka music all the time,
all Bobby Vinton all the time. No, it's not there
because the market for that is not here. And if
there are people who want to listen to all polka
music all the time, there's the internet. It was a
wonderful part of a time, but I think that time
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has passed, and it's unfortunate. I hate to see all things,
all things Americana go by the wayside that I do,
at least I understand it. Don't like it, but understand it.
I got a couple of calls standing by here. Let's
let's grab them before the break. Why not A two
one nine eight eight six eight two one WTV and Dave,
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you're on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line. Tie.
Speaker 10 (36:49):
I like what the Doge is doing by trying to
gun cover like miscellaneous spending that doesn't need to be done.
But who's gonna be like checking like Musk because we
just I just saw that he's got like a five
hundred million dollar contract with the government, like just to
make sure that he's not, you know, skipping over his own.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Stuff, and you know he has that contract, right Yeah,
there you go. It's nobody's hiding it from you. There
it is, it's right there. And I think that that's
exactly we're gonna check on Elon Musk. The moment he
says no, you can't know about this, then I'm gonna
start having some doubts. But so far anything he's doing
with Tesla, with SpaceX that he's he's not hiding anything,
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and I'm I'm pretty good with that. I'm I'm laughing
at all the people. In fact, there was a quote
Maxine Waters last night. Who was it? Was it Dobacaro?
Somebody shared it on Twitter? No, it was Elon Musk.
I think that shared it on Twitter. A bite for
Maxine Waters say, they're invading Americans privacy. We don't know
what he has on us. And I had to laugh
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at that. We don't know what he has on us,
That's a heck of a phrase. But the moment he
starts trying to hide, you know, whatever dealings he's got,
whatever profits he's got, then I'll worry about it. But
much like Trump, he said, yeah, I own all this.
I'm going to continue to own all this. And the
books are open. You can see him. But I get
what you're saying, Dave. You know you want to watch
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the Watchers if you will a two WTV at A
two one nine eight eighty six. Sherry, you're on six
ten WTVN Hi.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Yeah, I wanted to argue with you on the JOm
fabric thing.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
All right, roll up your sleeves, roll up the sleeves.
Let's go all right.
Speaker 9 (38:32):
All right.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Yeah, I'm in there a lot, and through the years,
I'm like pushing knock it on sixty. So I've been
doing this for a long time. But every time i'm
in there, there's a line of people getting fabric cut,
and there's always you know, there's always people in there
a lot. But over the years, and having shopped in
there for twenty five or thirty years, I can tell
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you their fabric and their yarn and all that stuff.
In fact, I think there's a lot of younger people
who are starting to sew and knit and crochet, but
the quality. They keep jacking up prices and the quality
goes down instead of going up.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
It seems to be the story with everything, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
Yeah, And they they the chunk that they just felt
they should have stuck with fabric and crafts and yarn
and not gone into junk. Like you know, they have
all the holiday junk and you know, and just nonsense
that they spend a lot of money on and then
they end up marking it down eighty or ninety percent.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
You know, they would have enough to remember Curtis Mathis,
aren't you? Oh yeah, remember their their commercials, the Curtis
Massive television, the only television made in America. It's the
most expensive television made in America.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
And are well worth it, That's right, you know, honestly
like people you know, the people I know that do so.
And like I said, there's a lot of chis. My
eighteen year old daughter, you know, is over the summer
we were in there a lot, you know, buying things.
She wants to make pillows and she makes bags and
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you know, sweater vests and all sorts of stuff, and
but yeah, it's just you know, just they just turned
into a junk store.
Speaker 11 (40:21):
And you know, people who.
Speaker 6 (40:23):
Want to make something for themselves aren't putting up with it.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Real quick, Sherry, before before Johnny gets mad at me,
which which location did you frequent frequented?
Speaker 6 (40:32):
Saw no Road and polarious, and I think they're both closing.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Yeah, there's only one staying open in in the Ohio,
I think, and the one up on the west side
is going to close as well. That's where I go.
And while I would see younger people in there, the
majority were older, and the younger people I saw, quite frankly,
look to be minnon night Amish. Yeah, you know, it
wasn't the kids down the street.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Yeah, And you know, I was thinking about what I
was gonna do. I don't so like I have friends
that quilt a lot and do stuff like that. I'm
not that kind of If somebody has a request, I'll
make something for them, but I'm not like making quilts
right now. But I was thinking about it. And there's
a huge fabric store in Berlin, like you know, an
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Amish country. Yeah, and I'm gonna have to like plan
a weekend go tabric shopping, you know, in the future.
Speaker 11 (41:23):
It's not like something I'm going to be like, you know,
oh my daughter.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Wants a pillow with snoopy on it, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
You know, Well, when you do that, plan, make yourself
a note, send me a full report, because if there's
a place nearby that people can go after this all happens.
I'd love to be the guy that passes on the word.
I appreciate you sharing. Listen on your time Blazer Show
podcasts on six ' ten WTVN dot com. It is
four thirty eight on show Douglason from Mark Glazer. You
know who you are, don't you? Don't you take your pills,
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take your pills. You'd be for a two to one
nine eight eighty six, My number a two one WTV.
And I don't even know what I've been talking about.
Talk about Joanne Fabric. We'm talking about the the ridiculous
soular for which I'm telling you Zach wasn't in his
room over there? You were to Zach. Did you hear
the description of the solar farm that I was talking
about out the Nevada California border.
Speaker 6 (42:07):
No, I was not.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
After one point six billion dollars in taxpayer money is
spent guaranteeing loans for NRG or whatever the eleven years
and they're shutting it down. There's and the way they
described how it works sounds a hell of a lot
like that that atmosphere building thing in the Schwarzenegger movie
when he went to Mars. You remember how you put
the hand and the thing went and then the steam
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released in an atmosphere came to Mars.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Is that Total Recall?
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Total Recall? Thank you very much. Yeah, I could not remember.
I just remember to get your Austin Moas. That's all
I could remember about that movie. Total Recall is the
name of it. So anyway, those are the two things
I talked about. These guys could be called about either
I guess a two to one w TV and and Mike,
you're on Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines. Oh wait, heck, don't, Mike,
don't go anywhere because I forgot Jennifer standing by, isn't she?
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What's the weather like there? I don't know. Build an
atmosphere thing. Jennifer Herberfer a ABC with the bad news
about our atmosphere thing. I know I scare you. I
know I do, I can tell, but I want you
to know I'm not going to bother you during your
forecast this time. Just break it to me gently and
get it over with. Okay.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Well, some good news tonight is we'll see some clearing
in the clouds. The bad news is that's going to
lead to really cold overnight temperatures and the teens. There's
more good news, though, we'll see some sunshine to start
your Friday. More bad news is that it's going to
be a bit chilly tomorrow. High's in the mid thirties.
We warm up for Saturday into the little forties. However,
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we have this massive system coming in that's going to
bring a mix of snow, rain and freezing rain into
the area. And this lasts into Sunday as well, so
it's going to most likely be a lazy weekend for
most of us.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
I didn't scare you that time, did I know? Oh
but the weather's like an old sixties comedy. But I
got good news, get bad news, and then I got
some good news again. When when you have all good news,
I will let you do like a fifty minute weather forecast,
I promise, okay, And meantime see you must see the
next time that happened thirty right now. Josevere Weather stays
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or news radio six WTV. And she's so normal and
I'm so abnormal, and I know I can tell just
by her voice. Sometimes you go, you hear inhale and
then like not exhale because I'm so weird sometimes. Okay,
now we got that out of the way. Mike is
standing by Mike. It's your turn now, trust me, promise,
I mean it. I mean it.
Speaker 11 (44:32):
Go Hey, thanks for taking the call. A couple of
things real quick. You know, we're seeing these displays of
outrage by the left because of what Musk and Trump
are doing. You know what occurred to me, I'm not
hearing anybody really give us an idea how how large
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the size of the crowd is. So you get the
impression looking at it that it looks like hundreds of
thousands of people, and I wonder how many you're really there,
And then I wonder how many are being paid to
be there.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
That's a good question, you know. The whole payroll thing always,
it always slips into the back of my mind. I
just I don't want to be tarnished. But if anything
of significance is done, I'm assuming somebody's compensated somehow, some
way by someone.
Speaker 11 (45:25):
Amen. And then on another point you were talking about, Joanne,
Fabric is just you know, the changing of the times
and how things, how things happened. I remember many years
ago hearing that as computers at a home level and
a personal level were really picking up steam and the
sales and the search or research and development on that.
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And there's Smith Corona going out of business, and while
they were going out of business, they were still spending
money on trying to develop a better typewriter. And I
just thought, you know, it's kind of what's going on,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
It is times changed very very quickly, sometimes faster than
I want him to. But you know what, you either
have to keep up or enjoy the time while you
have it and then fade away quietly. I appreciate you, Mike.
You have a great afternoon, trying to stay try to
stay relatively warm. A two n W t V. And Billy,
you're on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines. Hello, Billy, Billy,
(46:28):
there's Billy. How you don Belly Denny Well he put
while you talk, I'm gonna go over the room and
hit him in their head. Go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 11 (46:44):
I know the fabric story is going on.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
I heard that woman saying she's going to Ammi Carria,
a shop by Maysville, Ohia.
Speaker 6 (46:52):
If she googles that May's pll Ohia.
Speaker 12 (46:55):
There's a little fabric shop in their own body.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
Oby.
Speaker 6 (46:59):
They just open the second one.
Speaker 7 (47:01):
It's brand new, and I think she can find almost
anything she wants up there.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
My wife does. So where is uh? Where is? Maysville
is a north northeast Ohio.
Speaker 12 (47:12):
It's over by east of Worster.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
No, okay, somewhere Apple Creek somewhere. I am okay.
Speaker 11 (47:21):
So the other thing, the Democrats are.
Speaker 7 (47:23):
Just worried that they're gonna get caught with their pockets.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
So man, that's that's my opinion.
Speaker 11 (47:29):
I'm pretty sure of.
Speaker 12 (47:30):
It because I'm older than you, truck, and you do
a great job, Chuck.
Speaker 7 (47:33):
I just want you to know that you took over
from six to seven.
Speaker 12 (47:38):
It's enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
For thirty years. Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate
that very much. You uh, be careful. We'll see if
Maysville maybe we'll do something. Somebody I'm a I'm a
big Amish person or amige country fan. When it's we're
talking about Sugar Creek. I love the little community called
Sugar Creek. It's up seventy seven north from here and
(48:02):
it's I don't know, it's it's not too far from
Roscoe Village. If you're familiar with that little tourist. That's
in eighteen hundred's little town, and I just I've always
called that my fortress of solitude. It is a place
where if I ever disappear, chances are you can probably
find me hiding up there. Amige cheese shops and wineries,
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and it's just so peaceful and placid, and it's kind
of it's kind of difficult not to like that area
if you like, if you like peace and quiet A
two one WTVN is my number, and Joan, you're on
six ten WTVN.
Speaker 12 (48:37):
Hi, Hey, I just wanted to comment about, you know,
the protests. Why aren't people protesting that these politicians have
ripped us all off for so many years and they
should be held accountable. And you know, I don't know
why we aren't protesting. It just doesn't make sense. I
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get more and more angry of how much money has
been stolen from us.
Speaker 6 (49:05):
The more they find out.
Speaker 12 (49:07):
It's like the more they we have been taken advantage
of and stolen from. That really makes me angry.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
You know, the justification for raising your fees and taxes
is always because the government has to handle business for
the people. When this is all done and we find
out We're not nearly in the financial dire straits we've
been told we were in because we've been shelling out
a lot of money. Nobody knew we were shelling out
the places we've never heard of, and those taxes don't
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have to be as high, and those fees don't have
to be as high. Suddenly people will realize, wait a minute,
we've been shelling out billions of dollars into black holes
every year. This is why we've been in such bad shape.
And I think that's when the mentality is going to
turn around, I hope.
Speaker 12 (49:52):
So I'm tired of hearing them complain about, you know,
Elon Musk and the other people that are fin and
you know, I'm getting to the point where I don't
want to hear it anymore. I want to find out
what else are they spending money on. Did we didn't
vote for We didn't vote to send money to Afghanistan
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and all these other places. You know, they complained that
we didn't vote for Elon Musk, but we didn't vote
to spend money on the ridiculous things that they were
spending money on.
Speaker 1 (50:23):
Hell and he you know, Elon Musk isn't doing anything
that's something else that you're being sold to bill of goods.
Elon Musk is nothing, but he's an auditor. He's going
in on behalf of the president saying, miss President, here's
what we found, and Donald Trump is saying, get rid
of that. So so it's not like Elon Musk has
the power to make anything happen. Donald Trump is running
the show. Yep.
Speaker 12 (50:44):
Yeah, well thank you.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
I appreciate you. Don't take care of yourself. Matt you're
on sixth n w ETVN.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
HI got anything, mister Douglas, how are you?
Speaker 1 (50:53):
I am fine, sir?
Speaker 2 (50:54):
How are you not too bad?
Speaker 11 (50:58):
Just one?
Speaker 2 (50:58):
Let's thereby no, because a couple of people call saying
about Amish country to go get fabric and everything. The
only reason I know this is because my daughter works
at this particular store. But you can go to Hobby
Lobby and they sell fabric, yarn, pretty much everything that
Joanne sells.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Yes, I'm kind of surprised by that. I guess you
could consider sewing and knitting no hobby, So yeah, I
guess that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
Yeah, I mean they even sell toasters and stuff like that,
like novelty toasters like ones that you know will put
like a Star Wars face on your toast and everything
like that. So any I know it's crazy, but yeah, literally,
almost everything that Joeanne sells you can get a hobby lobby.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
I appreciate it. Thank you, Matt. I've I've never I
have to admit, I've never been in a hobby lobby store.
I'm sorry, I'd never been really a hobby guy. I
don't really have time for anything like that. I wish
I did, but I don't. Eight two one nine eight
eight six and Mark, you're on six t N WUTVN.
Speaker 7 (52:13):
Yeah, I was calling about the fabric store situation too.
There are several nice fabric stores around town. There's Red
Rooster in Dublin, there's Quilt Beginnings off Sawmill Road up north,
and there's a Calico Covered out in Patascla. All have
wide ries of fabric, and they're here local, and they're
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usually a little bit better grade of fabric than what
you would get at joey Ann's.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Now, Mark, you have to understand, I must ask the question,
do you do a lot of sewing?
Speaker 7 (52:45):
I do not, but my wife does make a lot
of quilts, and a lot of her friends make a
lot of quilts. So there's there's fabric stores around town.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
You just got to look for.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
I'm glad. I was just wondering how you had that
kind of knowledge, because you I just I don't expect
guys to I guess this is my stereotype in my mind.
When a guy calls up, he is now, this is
a good store, and this is a good store, and
I'm like, really, how do you know?
Speaker 11 (53:11):
I've been drugged?
Speaker 7 (53:13):
The fabric stores all over the stateable heart, Ah.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
I know where they are.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
Somebody has to carry the bags, mark, that's our job.
Just small. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate you being out there. Yeah,
it's you know, and I know that's that by today's standards,
that's sexist, but hey, in my world, that sewing just
wasn't a big guy thing. I remember when it was
revealed that that NFL monster Rosie Greer, used to enjoy
(53:38):
knitting in the locker room. That was, oh my gosh.
Everybody in America was taught Rosie Greer knits because Rosie
was a big boy, and that was an amazing thing.
It was such an anomaly that nobody could believe it
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