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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a Mark Blazer show. Well look you look you
look at there, we're back again. Greetings and welcome to
the Mark Blazer Show. I'm shocked that was the same
her placuer this week. Remember eight two one nine eight
eight six A two one DOUBLETVN or eight hundred six
' ten double UTV. And so I was just getting, ah,
(00:21):
just getting an update there from from the princess who
got she's got to Zach. Did you ever do any sales?
Is what? Any of your job's sales? Because you've done
all kinds of that. You've lived everywhere, man, You've done
all kinds of stuff for a living. You ever do sales? No?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Not really, not like no, no, not for any sales,
like type of job if you call Wendy's Well sales.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
But no, you would you like mugs with that?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
See it's called upselling.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
My princess, you know, at nineteen years old. I was
so proud of her. I was all over the social
media back during election time because she voted for the
first time and she got politically active and did her
research and and she was just all fired up. And
she gets her first real job. I mean, she's worked
fast food, but this is her first real job, and
she's selling stuff. She's selling furniture, and I tried to,
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you know, coach her a little bit and tell her,
you know, here's here's what I would do. Here's because
I've been selling crap most of my life, and clear
back to the eighties, clear back to when I was
getting twenty eight hundred dollars for a monochrome of AT
and T computer because personal computers were just kind of out.
I was getting thirty five hundred dollars for a phone
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that you carried in a bag on your and people
were paying for this. The battery life was like thirty
minutes and you had to pay. I think it was
seventy five cents a minute peak, twenty five cent some
minute off peak, which meant after seven pm. And it
had half a lot, half a lot of power. Compared
to today's phones. It was nothing, but people were paying
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through the nose for it. So just before I came
on there, I get a little update from the Princess
on her new sales career, and she said her her
numbers for this month, for the month of February, higher
than everybody, oh my goodness, higher than the store's average,
and managers really happy and and that she's just doing well.
So for her, I'm so proud of her. Yeah, that's also,
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that's great. You have to have a personality somewhat to
do that. Also, I couldn't do that. She well, see,
and like most young people, she had a personality, she
just wasn't aware of it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They're so busy walking around with their heads hanging down,
their arms hanging down like orangutans when they walk. They're
just droopy attitude, droopy everything. I'm like seeing her. Here's
something you need to understand. You are charming, you are beautiful,
you are talented, you are outgoing. Look in the mirror
and see that. And instead of whatever you're seeing when
you look in the mirror, it's like you're seeing Maxine Waters.
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Cheer up, cheer up. You are just a vibrant person
with all kinds of energy to offer. Go get it.
And she has certainly gone and got it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
So I just congratulated.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I'm just yeah, I'm really i'mulated that she He's doing
well and enjoying it too, which is great because that
is not a line of work that is for everybody.
Selling stuff is not something that comes naturally to a
lot of people. And it's even more difficult when you
got a little integrity, when you don't want to you
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don't lie to people, and that, unfortunately is the image
of so many people in sales. Stick your foot in
the door, don't let them close the door, and you know,
tell them anything in order to get the yes, get
the sale, get him to sign here, get them, put
down a deposit, whatever. And if you don't have that nature,
it's Yeah, I think it is probably a little more
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difficult and as crazy as it sounds. As much as
people seemingly hate that about salespeople, oft times they seem
to also expect it, and if they don't get it,
then that throws them off. They go find somebody who
will be smarmy or or you know, just just slither
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up to them and they walk in the joint and
people expect it, and so they don't respond to it
unless that's what they're getting.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, it's a owin situation sometimes.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So, yeah, you're not.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Trying to sell me something, then what do you even
believe in your own prod? Like, are you selling something
that's junk? I don't want to buy anything if you're
not excited about that. There's a fine line.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So yeah, and I've actually I quit a sales job
once because I was not being dishonest. However, if the
truth be told, I was selling people stuff they really
did not need. And I was young. I was like
twenty twenty one years old. They didn't need it, and
I was. I was basically taking the confusion that people
are experiencing over their billing and so forth back then
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and turning it into profit. And I was really good
at it. And I just couldn't look at myself. So
I'm done and I left the job. I could have
been retired from there by.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Now there's a lot of people I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, well I'm kind of an idiot, I know, but
still that's what you have. U. You sent me a story.
You sent me a story that just kind of freaked
me out because anybody who knows me knows me and
snakes do not go together, right, And fortunately this story
comes out of Australia, which is a beautiful place. I
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would love, seriously, I'd love to have the money to
take the family to Sydney on a vacation. What a gorgeous,
gorgeous city. Sydney, Australia is at least from the pictures
that I've seen. I've not been there, but it just
from what I've seen, it looks beautiful. So Australia is
also largely you know, there's a lot of jungle, a
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lot of wildlife, and started I believe as a prison colony,
if I'm not mistaken, because it was completely surrounded by
that was like the Britz version of Alcatraz. And it's
had a storied history. But one of the things they've
got there, aside from the giant spiders that will eat
your pit bull, is snakes. And Zach sends me this
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story about this guy, David Stein, who called reptile relocation
in Sydney after watching around six snakes slither into some
mulch on his property. Now see, if I'm on my
p and I see it, they could be garter snakes.
I don't care. I'm freaking. I'm not calling reptile relocation.
I'm calling Eric Dilbert and saying I'm gonna need some AMMO.
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I am not. I'm not a snake guy. He learned
from an Internet search that pregnant known as gravid red
belly snakes or red belly blacks pile on top of
each other before they give birth, So I guess that's
why they were traveling impacts. The snake catcher was named Dylan.
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Cooper showed up that afternoon. Stein helped him rake away
as much as one hundred to two pregnant and newborn snakes.
Just seeing that amount of one group, it gives you
a bit of the Shutters, Stein said on Friday, A
bit a bit of the.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Shutters, creepy crawley things over there. I think he's just like, Yeah,
that's a bit of the Shutters, mate.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
A bit of that. See that's way too. That's that's
that's not a knife. This is a knife. That's way
too Paul Hogan for mens, oh, I know, oh my
gosh from Indiana Jones. Remember the first Indiana Jones snakes?
Why they have to be snakes? I hate snakes. That
was like my mantra Repti Relocation Sydney owner Corey Carwera. Yeah.
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Corey said two of the captured adults gave birth to
a total of twenty nine snakes in the bag, while
Cooper was still going through malts and catching more. Final
tally was five adults ninety seven offspring that they got.
Experts don't know why so many stakes, stakes, why so
many snakes give birth in such a short timeframe at
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the one point five elector, which is about three and
a half acres of property in suburban Horsley Park on
Sydney's western outskirts the suburbs, the Suburbs. Oh the snake
catcher owner said the largest hall he had heard of
in a similar snake removal job was thirty non venomous
carpet pythons. And again, okay it's a python, non venomous
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or not, get it away from me. Pythons hatch from
eggs while the red belly blacks give birth to live snakes.
Oh Man Scott Aper I think this is who has
written several books about Australian snakes and Dangerous while Life
said the red belly blacks might congregate for safety reasons
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or sortage of suitable habitat in which to give birth.
So again, as much as I would love to see
Australia stories like this keep me away, back in the eighties,
I was, I'm sorry. Back in the nineties early nineties,
I was, you know, relatively new in my radio career.
And like the WKR song says town to town, up
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and down the dial, that this kind of the nature
of the beast for most people. I've been fortunate. I've
been here my whole career, but moving around was definitely
on my radar. And I was entertaining the idea of
taking a job at a radio station that served largely
up largely US troops. It was on the island of Guam.
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And as I'm considering this opportunity, twenty twenty, back when
you downs was still with us, twenty twenty did a
story on the brown tree snakes of Guam that apparently
were coming up out of toilets and falling out of trees.
They were all over place. Instantly, that job went off
my radar. I don't care how much they would offer
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me the idea of a snake coming up out of
my toilet, just no, nope, we're done. Pythons I've seen
do that a lot too. I saw a video years
ago about a guy who's a He's one of those
guys walked around as a snake. Yet you got any
friends that do that walk around with the snake on
their neck? No, Well of those guys walked around with
the snake around his neck all the time. And he's
at like a birthday party at the VFW Hall or something,
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and everybody's going, oh, the snake, Ah, the snake. It's okay,
the snake's not venomous. He won't buy here. And the
snake just lunged off of his shoulders and latched onto
this girl's face. And again, No, I would not own
a snake ever.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Why they do it?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
That's a wild animal. Well, yeah you can't, so you
can't train them. It's not like they're you can you can.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I just don't. I don't get I don't get people
who own snakes. I don't get people who like snakes.
I just I don't want to be anywhere, anywhere near
a snake. One of my former jobs in radio, working
at music station and everywhere, we used to do a
lot of stuff on the streets. We were always out there, concerts, festivals,
especially in the summertime, always out there in the streets,
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and I loved it. I loved going out amongst the people.
But I had this weirdo that used to show up
with a snake all the time, and he knew how
much I hated snakes because I've never made any bones
about it. I hate snakes. This guy would always want
to show up, Like when I'm on the mic talking
to people doing a break from the place, say hey,
come on down, we're down here doing this, that and
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the other, and he want to come up and stand
next to me with the snake around his neck because
he thought it was funny. But it never ever.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
What kind of snake was it?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
There' another python? Another pie? Yeah, I just I don't.
I don't get it. Those the boa constrictors. Why do
they call them constrictors because they will squeeze the juice
out of you. That's why they don't care how big
you are, and they will squeeze the juice out of you.
I just I hate snakes, and I don't understand people
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who like him. I think you're sick. Want to tell
you about this too. This is I'm getting like a
little girl over there. Most people won't even recognize the name,
but I recognized the name A couple of nights ago.
Last week, Blazer and I were talking about television shows,
and I brought up do you remember the show I
brought up there, Zach, do you remember the name of it?
(12:15):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Person?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
There you go, very good. The Person of Interest, which
which is I said that day way ahead of its time,
a show all about all of the cameras that are
everywhere watching every little bitty thing you do. Every little
thing you do is on camera. Everything you do is
on camera. And uh, I can never remember the the
guy's name that played mister Finch, but I love him.
(12:39):
He's he's pretty awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, he was in Loss to whether you liked that
hurt he's a fit.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, he was in Loss. He was in Good and Evil,
which not many people watched, but he played evil and
he was very good at that too. But Finch and then, uh,
then he had an accomplice, a helper of a wingman
who was a former CIA guy who went out and
got involved in things that the cameras and the machine
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as they referred to it, would tell them they needed
to get involved in. His helper was a guy named
Jim covisl who you know some people in my here
and go Jesus Christ. Yes, you're right, he played Jesus.
He was also what was that movie about the human
trafficking about a year ago? Oh, my goodness, help me,
(13:26):
everybody was talking about it. It was all over. I
think it was a stream only thing, but it was
cry freedom.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Is that sound of freedom?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Sound of freedom? Yes? So he was also the lead
in that coviasl as. Somebody asked me on Twitter said hey, Chuck,
what was that show you were talking about? I answered
them said, person of interest television show that was way
ahead of its tide. Covisl liked my tweet. I was like,
for at least not that I know it's a Christmas song.
I didn't care. I needed to sing something. I'm bouncing
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up and down like a giddy school girl. Jim Covisl
liked my tweet, and I feel compelled to thank Elon
Musk for allowing me on Twitter. Now I was that
was that was just really cool. Have you ever had
any famous people, any celebrities, any sports figures or anything like
that like one of your social media posts?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Uh no, yeah, I can believe that way too sarcastic.
I can believe that I've had Kentucky basketball players like
my Well, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
It's like people who went to play college there.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But nobody likes serious because that's I think.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Jim Norton liked one of my tweets too, but it
was like some joke that was incredibly sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I've had I've had too so far Bo Duke and
now Jim Caviezel, So I'm I know.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
We got to go.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But yeah, you know, Jim Caviezel was in a movie
called The Highwaymen at two thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
If you haven't seen it, seen extremely underrated. I don't
know why people are.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The Highway man or men men men men so that
they use the Willie Nelson songs.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Now just watch it.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It's good, Okay, the Highway I will make it a
point to watch.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
That sports and the Mark Blazer Show WTVN.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I thought that he he was there. I wanted to
wait for the he he, but the he he was
not where I thought it would be. Man okay, without
a he he, I don't know what to do. Chuck
Douglas said for Blazer, welcome to uh. I'm gonna call
it a cloudy afternoon. Tom Holman, the the border guy
working on behalfing President Trump, did you see this about
two hours ago the story came out. You see this
(15:24):
accusation he made.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Zach No, it was busy two hours ago.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Because he said, you know, when they went into Colorado,
he said, somebody leaked that we were coming and what
we were doing, and we're gonna find out who and
uh and I'm going after well. A couple hours ago,
the story breaks borders are Tom Holman accuses FBI of
leaking information about ice raids.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
We have to see what shakes out with that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
That's gonna be interesting. Well, hey, the FBI is uh,
you know, it's not a single person, and it's uh, yeah,
I don't know how this is gonna work. We'll see,
we'll see, but that takes uh brass, as they say, Brass,
by the way, gets very very cold when the weather's
over seventy degrees, which which it always is, because that's
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that's how Sarah likes it. ABC six first time First
Warning weather meteorologist Sarah convers on the line and Sarah,
it's it's I'm sorry. I sent you an email I
specifically asked for seventy degrees again today.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I it's it's it's on back order. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Our relationship is on the rocks right now. You need
to know that. I.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Hey, I can't I can't control these different systems that
are moving through the area because it's a really active forecast.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
So buckle up everyone.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, we're done one after another here. What's it all about.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
We just can't get a break, and we're gonna be
very active here in the weather center. So first system
that's still going through the areas impacting Southern Ohio places
like Athens, Waverley, still dealing with some of those snow showers,
while here in Columbus it's just cold and dreary. We'll
see these snow showers end though for those southern counties
leader tonight and the clouds will continue into the night hours,
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temperatures in the upper twenties.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
But another system is on the way so for.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Wednesday afternoon, before temperatures warm up, not rolling out some
spotty freezing rain, but as temperatures begin to climb into
the upper thirties to near forty degrees, we will transition
into rain showers for the remainder of Wednesday, and the
rest of that precipitation will be out of the region
just before the Thursday morning commutes, so I'm not looking
at any issues for the rush hour. Temperatures though will
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be colder in the mid thirties for the highs Valentine's
Day looking great. Just cold temperatures as you wake up
Friday morning, we'll be in the teens highs only in
the low thirties. And while it is cold, take advantage
of that because the weekend it's looking messy, starting off
with a brief wintry mix, then rain with temperatures in
the low forties on Saturday, but then ending Sunday on
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a snowy note.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I don't know that you're allowed to say as temperatures
climb and then follow that with thirties and forties. I
just I'm sorry, that's wrong. But Friday's Valentine's so that's good.
Cuddle weather, Sarah, I appreciate you. We are at thirty
four right now at youer severe weather station, News Radio
six ten WUTVNA. You gotta cuddle on Friday. Did you
get the cat washed and everything?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, she's fine, she washes herself, We hang out, we
got a whole day plan.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Good.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I'm great. Did you buy some little heart shaped cat
food things or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, it's a surprise though.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So yeah, I was reading an article in h A
six one four magazine about all the various things I
can't make was it. McNaughton was the author Cara Call anyway,
some of the little quaint, lighthearted, strange things that you
could do here in Central Ohio for Valentine's Day, none
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of which really seemed like they were up my alley.
If if I am to celebrate a hallmark holiday, and
I honestly most of my life I have not been
one to do so. However, you know, my perspective is
slightly different this year than it has been in years past.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Oh, I would want to do it, you know, well,
well big gaudy, some might say, but why not?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And all the cute little stuff, the you know, chicken
nugget bouquets and stuff. I guess that's cute, see, but
it could only be part of it for me if
I was going to do something. Now. The world has
been different the last few years, I know, economically, perhaps
not as encouraging for many people as they would like
it to be. So I'm giving everybody a pass on
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extravagance for Valentine's Day twenty twenty five. You have my
official pass. You don't have to do anything outrageous, don't
have to do anything crazy, You don't have to go
over there now just you're okay a pass. But for
Valentine's Day twenty twenty six, if you got somebody in
your life where you got a little loving, go all out,
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go all out, maybe by that time, you know, I'll
be I'll be a big important entity and we'll do
a Valentine's party or something. I don't know, but we
should do something. If I if I did a Valentine's
party next year, Zach, would you bring the cat? Yeah?
Does she have a nice dress?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
No, she likes to kind of go. She doesn't really
need to wear anything.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It's yeah, yeah, I'm it's not that kind of party.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
She's fine.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
No, No, the say the didty party. The cat's gonna
have to wear something that's weird. No neked cats at
my parties weird. I just I won't do it that way.
But when is Sweetest Day? Isn't that like fifteen minutes
after Valentine's Day? Yeah, another hallmark holiday.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
No, it's an I've never understood the concept of Sweetest
Day and Valentine's Day both existing and since Valentine's Day
is actually at least named for, uh, you know, some
historical event or character where and Sweetest Day was just
something they came up with because we needed to sell
some extra card stock.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I would go with Valentine's Day over Sweetest Day. Oh
it's a October is it October? Yeah? Okay, so that
so they get you coming and going February and October
both you're gonna you're gonna pay. And then of course
it's Christmas time. So as soon as you get there
with Sweetest Day, then you gotta start planning on the
Christmas extravagance. And we only have what do we have now,
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three hundred and forty one days till Christmas or something
like that, So you might as well start planning now
because with all the terifs and stuff, you may not
be able to buy anything. I don't know if you
have heard about. That was yesterday. Hamas and Israel had
a essentially a broken agreement, and I will I will
give credit to the former administration. This This began during
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the UH the final days of Joe Biden's presidency. I
will not say that the incoming president did not have
something to do with it, but credit words due. And
the agreement was that there would be a release of
hostages held by Hamas and the next scheduled release was
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this Saturday. Well here's the problem. Hamas is now saying, yeah,
we're not going to do that. Donald Trump immediately responded with,
you know, though, either conform and go by the rules
that we have set up and agreed to, or all
hell breaks loose. So pick one today. Net and Yahoo
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Benjamin Netan Yahoo current and former Prime Minister in Israel
said essentially the same thing, Hamas will release the hostages
as scheduled on Saturday, or we're coming back at you.
The thing of it is is he's saying that now
with a different president in the White House, and I
think with a different with a different understanding of the
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relationship between Israel and the United States. And to some extent,
I worried for us, not because of anything that might
happen there, but because of anything that my happened here,
because people are so so quick to radicalize themselves anymore.
And I want to put it, who wasn't at the
end of the halftime show was a Soudan flag and
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uh something like that?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Oh that guy was a protester.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, but and wasn't he part of the the like
the dancers or something. Wasn't he on stage? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, he got up there, but he wasn't part of
the show.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Also, he was just one of those people that happened
to make his way through the four thousand security guards
and get up on the stage. Right.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Well, he's banned for life from there.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, banned for life. But you see see that that
you know right there at the All American event, an
American gets up on stage waiting needs these uh these
flags and gets himself banned for life from the NFL Games. Well, uh,
he's just won. There are plenty of people out there
who they hear this stuff and I don't understand it.
(23:51):
Trust me, if I understood it, I would create a
pill to fix it. Somebody's sitting in a nice little
suburban home, drinking their suburban beverage, eating their suburban food,
getting on the dub dub. You'd be did and deciding
they need to be a member of ISIS. And it happens,
especially with young, impressionable, somewhat stupid minds. It happens. So
if Hamas does not release the hostages as agreed on Saturday,
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if that does not happen, and if Israel does as promise,
begins the aggression again, and if the United States boldly
and openly supports Israel and supplies them as needed. Yes, frankly,
I'm worried there may be repercussions here because of all
those young, impressionable, stupid people drinking their suburban beverages, living
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in their mother's basement.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I'm confused though, because Hamas said that they're accused in
Israel violating a ceasefire, but I can't see anywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, I saw that remark too, And again.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yan, I can't find what happened to make them say that.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And you don't think that there are plenty of people
out there in you know, the media and in the
intelligence services that would love to point a finger at
Israel if they could. If the story had any merit,
we'd be hearing about it. It's just it's one of
those things where if you say stuff, it's true even
if it's not true. And we got a whole generation
of people that seem to believe that. Just keep repeating
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it and it'll be true. That scares me, that worries me,
that bothers me, that annoys me, because man, we used
to be better than that. We used to be so
much more unified, and granted, our our country has stepped
on its own toes enough that it put doubt in
many minds about our purity, if you will, in so
(25:37):
many international situations. But I just I'm concerned. So we
will keep an eye on that. And Jordana Miller is
over in Jerusalem with ABC News. I'm assuming she got
caught up on something else. She was going to join
us here for a couple of minutes just to update
us on what was happening, but she got tied up.
No worries, though, She'll stay on the story and as
things develop. If anything develops that you need to know
(25:58):
about it, you will hear about it here on six
' ten WTV in Blazer Show, borrow a check Douglas
in for Blazers. This we've been ubery two one nine
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give you plenty of reasons to call in so you
can know because I know how you are. Yeah, we've
been together long enough. I've reduced that. Uh well, you know,
(26:19):
the elon Musk News has been almost excluded. Tesla's like
not even talked about anymore. It's all been Doe stuff,
DC stuff, what he's doing, what Trump's doing, blah, blah
blah blah blah, and and it was kind of nice
to see that he still had an interest in things
technology apparently offering to buy open ai. And uh and
well he put quite the number forward. Mike Dubuski, ABC
(26:42):
Technology Reporter is with us right now on the on
the line, and Mike that this this was a heck
of a check. I mean, was he going to gather
some friends where they chipping in. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Yeah, it certainly has. Ninety seven point four billion dollars
is the number in particular that Elon Musk put on
the table to acquire open ai. It was not him
alone putting forth that money. It was him with a
sort of collection of other investors that he's friends with
in Silicon Valley, among them Ari Emmanuel, who is the
major Hollywood figure Pallanteer co founder Joe Lonsdale. He runs
(27:14):
a venture capital firm called eight VC. So it's several
people who are kind of in part of this effort
to buy open Ai. Open Ai is the basically leader
of the open ai space here in the United States.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
They're the maker of chat GPT.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
They're run by Sam Altman, and the history here is important, guys.
Because open ai was co founded by both Sam Altman
and Elon Musk back in twenty fifteen. Not a lot
of people know that Elon Musk was involved in the
creation of this very prominent artificial intelligence company. He founded
this company as a nonprofit and the idea was to
(27:50):
create artificial intelligence for the good of all humanity. However,
that does require a lot of cash outlay. It's expensive
to build large language models and build this technology.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That's why they have a.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
For profit wing that operates under the non profit umbrella
at OpenAI. It's a very unconventional business. Elon Musk eventually
left the company for fear that Sam Altman was getting
a little too friendly with the for profit business at
the expense of the non profit goal of open Ai,
and he started his own company called x Ai, And now,
as we've most recently seen, he's trying to buy that
(28:24):
company he co founded.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Elon Musk is not I don't know. He's credited so often,
and I've never really thought of him as a creator
or an inventor. So when I hear you say he was,
you know, one of the founders here, I always wonder
about the contribution. Is he the idea man, the marketing man,
the vision man, the money man, or does he actually
have that technological background. He was the money man.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
I think it's fair to say he was not kind
of involved in the engineering of you know, chat GPT
or one of their original models. You know, this was
of course, years before we saw chat GPT hit the scene,
as he was with many of his companies. He did
not found Tesla. He was a guy who came on
a little bit later, invested heavily in that company and
eventually took it over entirely, and the original founders of
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that company were ousted. This is a playbook that he
has run before. He saw open ai as a company
that was kind of on an upward track back in
twenty fifteen and wanted to kind of support it with
some money. But again that division over where the company
should go. Should it be a for profit enterprise, should
it be a nonprofit that just makes good technology that
(29:31):
elevates everyone. That seems to be the division here, and
that's why he ultimately left that company. Now it seems
like he wants back in. He's also suing open Ai
at the moment. It's worth mentioning over what he says
is a breach of contract. The fact that open ai
seems to be moving more in a for profit, you
know direction, seems to violate the original founding contract that
(29:55):
he did when he was kind of at the origins
of this company. So it's a very thorough complicated issue.
But at the end of the day, I think there's
a there's a business case to be made here, because
of course Elon Musk has his own artificial intelligence company XAI.
There is also a personal sort of piece to this, right.
Sam Altman has completely out of hand rejected this offer.
(30:16):
He tweeted after this story broke yesterday that no, thank you,
but we will buy Twitter for nine point seven four
billion dollars if you want. Seemingly kind of poking back
at Elon Musk, they are calling his platform x by
its old name and offering one tenth exactly of the
number that Elon Musk threw on the table for open ai.
This is all part of it. It's kind of a
(30:39):
soap opera, if you want to call it that. It's
a bit of a you know, some business maneuverings. It's
fascinating to pay attention to.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
So the possibility, the probability the hope ability for some
people that Elon Musk is interested in TikTok is completely
off the table, and this is the new adventure for him.
He's he's going after this.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I don't know how real the TikTok thing ever really
was at the end of the day, and it's worth
mentioning that this is also, you know, probably not going
to happen. Most experts that I've talked to say that
this is kind of just a stunt. It's it's a
means by which to put the pressure on open Ai.
The expectation is that that company will completely shed its
nonprofit status this year at some point. Sam Altman has
(31:16):
been trying to make this into a for profit business
and Elon Musk wants.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
To stop that.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
And the given the sort of complicated way that open
Ai has structured, sam Altman sits on the board of
the nonprofit and he also runs the for profit open
Ai company, So in some ways he has to sell
this company to himself. And what the price of that
will be remains to be seen.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That has to be.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Litigated by a court in Delaware. But certainly Elon Musk
putting in this almost one hundred billion dollar bid for
open Ai is going to jack up that price, and
even if it doesn't, it's going to prolong this process
and be a headache for Sam Altman. Maybe at the
end of the day, that was what Elon Musk was
just trying to do.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
This is very confusing, it really is. I mean, it
sounds more like it's a philosophical thing. I don't want
you to be a for profit so well, so what
you've got your own AI company. Let let I don't
understand why this is why Elon Musk has set his
sights on this. He could do so much else with
that kind of money that if you have your own car,
(32:22):
why do you care what somebody does with their car?
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Well, I think there's two answers to that question. One, right,
is that he was involved in the founding of open Ai. Right,
and the lawsuit that he is currently waging against open
Ai has to do with breach of contract. Right saying
that I am owed because this company that I co
founded renagged on its original promise to me. Most legal
(32:45):
experts that you talk to you say that this is
not a lawsuit that's going to go anywhere. Right, there's
not a ton of signed documents that say that there
was any sort of contract that was breached by this
movement by open AI. It's it's kind of again seen
as a little bit of a stunt, but that is
part of this as well. In addition, I think that
both Elon Musk and Sam Altman see artificial intelligence, this
(33:07):
type of artificial intelligence as a super technology, right, a
super intelligence, maybe a super weapon in the wrong hands,
and they want to make sure that it is controlled
ideally by them, right. Elon Musk wants to control the future.
So does Sam Altman, at least in this particular space
(33:27):
of the technology world. So I think there's a little
bit of, you know, making sure that they're tamping down
on competition. There's a little bit of making sure that
the company, you know, is executing on its original mission.
And there's a little bit of like the existential world questions, right,
like are we going to create a technology that is
completely unregulated and something that it gets away from us?
(33:49):
And you know, if we had done this slightly differently
with regards to for profit or nonprofit, maybe things would
have been different. I think those are all questions at
play in this debate.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Speaking from the consumer angle, I have to be honest
with you, Mike go. I think I would rather see
them not have anything to do with each other and
watch the grudge match between the two AI companies, see
which one which one serves us as you know, as often,
as freely, as inexpensively as possible, and become something in
our lives that we want.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
And that's exactly what Sam Altman has said. He did
an interview with Bloomberg this morning. He's in Paris for
an artificial intelligence summit, and he said that he wishes
that Elon Musk would just compete, right. He wishes that
they could settle this in the markets, and in doing so,
he also called Elon Musk a profoundly unhappy man who's
kind of insecure. So it's getting into a little bit
(34:36):
of a sort of name calling match.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
At this point. You're a small little man.
Speaker 8 (34:41):
And it was not so long ago. Let's not forget
that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, we're.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Going to engage in a physical fight. So this is
this is.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
Not unusual in Silicon Valley. That's sort of you know
back and forth that we've seen. So yeah, I think
that's that's all part of it. Guys, is that it's
it's both a business question and a bit of a
personal question.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
You get to cover the fun stories. I'll give you that.
Mike Dubuski, ABC News Technology reporter out of New York City,
thank you for making some time for me this afternoon, Budy.
I appreciate you, of course.
Speaker 8 (35:10):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Take care. We are at seventeen minutes past four o'clock now,
I just I'm sorry. It makes more sense from the
consumer aspect for Elon Musk, with all of his resources,
to just go after Altman and open ai and compete
and give us more so that the same thing you
did with Twitter. Make it something people want, and they
will flock to you, and they will use it and
(35:31):
they will pay for it at some point, because that's
how everything works. And just you know, make it so
the next time you offer Altman any money, it's like,
you know, twenty five cents and a bag of chips
and I'll and I'll buy your company. Crush the competition,
don't swallow them up, don't be afraid of the competition.
Be be better than the I'm sorry, I'm probably talking crazy.
(35:53):
It's twenty twenty five right, No, it makes a lot
of sense.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
But I'm sticking with deep seek the Chinese AIS, So I'm.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Still not convinced that that's not. Now the name of
that bothers me is that sounds really stupid? I know,
but I'm a firm believer that people put things in
front of you. And well, we'll go back to the
eighties and look when the HIV virus first came about,
(36:22):
and we lost celebrities, notables and so forth, rock huts,
and we watched him basically just deteriorate in front of
our eyes. He was, you know, the big, broad shouldered
fifties sixties movie star with Doris Day and so forth.
Then he popped up on the television show Dynasty, and
he was just a remnant of his former self. That's
(36:42):
when we began to see what HIV was doing. Then
suddenly Freddie Mercury said he would no longer perform, he
needed to save his voice. I forget what he said
he had, but he wasn't. He wasn't really forthcoming with
anything concerning HIV in eight and then he died, and
the number of people because again, you know, we were
(37:02):
still evolving. The whole LGB two whatever it is movement
was not what it is today. Okay, so they said,
oh yeah, Freddie Mercury passed away. He had HIV AIDS.
Mercury was gay, and the number of people walking around America,
I had no idea he was gay. And I'm thinking
the name of the band was Queen. They were telling you,
(37:26):
they put it right in front of you, but you
didn't pay attention. And that has stuck with me for
forty years now because I see these things, these stories
like this, you know, deep seek stuff. I just figured
they're telling us, Look, we are going to invade your
hard drives. We're going to get into your cloud based storage.
We are going to know every single thing about you
(37:48):
before you even know it. Ten seconds from now, you
are going to pass gas. Just watch. Do you want
a computer doing that?
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Are you accusing the CCP of Lyne silation or.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Do you remember the artificial Olympics and all the stuff
that really wasn't there that we were seeing for the
opening ceremonies and so forth.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Yes, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Absolutely, Oh please. They the Chinese government is uh, you know,
they're all about the show and making you think you're
seeing what you're not and making you think they're doing
what they're not, and if you can, you know. It's
like somebody who has a recording of a pit bull
in their apartment and they hear something in the hallway
(38:31):
and they hit you think there's a pit bull behind
and there's not. There's a cat. The cat's name is Mittens.
There's no pit bull, but they play that recording when
they hear you in the hallway. Same thing with the
Chinese government. They love to put on the show. We
don't know what's real what's not.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Sometimes the power is the perception of power.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, which works for us too. People are
all the Americans, They've got all the technology and the
bombs and all that, not like we're going to really use.
If it comes to the point where we have to
unleash the crap we actually probably have. We're done anyway.
And the mystery about what we have and what we
(39:11):
don't have is also something that is that's a point
of strength because they don't know. They don't know, but
sometimes they put it right in front of your face
and assume you're going to pay no attention to it.
And I think I think Deep Seek or whatever it is,
is probably an example of that. I hope I'm wrong.
We shall see news.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Traffic, weather, sports, and the Mark Blazer Show on six
' ten wtvotyles for.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Blazer this week of meetings to you, glad. I'm a
little annoyed at Zach right now because this song once
it goes into the urge and the course, it's it's
getting hot in here? Is that? Is that your point?
You're just trying You're trying to annoy me with the
word hot? Is it? Because you know what I'm about
to do here, and you know how much it hurts
me to hear the words about to come into my ears.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah, but you're hearing it from a really good source.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Yeah, I know, I understand. It's you know, it's a
good source and everything. But that, by the way, very
summary dress. Did you notice the dress she was wearing
this morning? It looked very summary. It's like it was
like a Lacey Burgundy and it just it was so
I woke up, I flipped on the TV and like, oh,
Sarah looks like just so just so summertimey. And then
(40:23):
there was the forecast. I'm like, well, that's a lie.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
I've never noticed what.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
She should start doing? That movie the TV news she
should do in a parka. She's gonna accurately. ABC six
first warning Weather me, you're like Sarah Coppers. I gotta
play with you because I gotta find a reason to
smile when we're talking about the weather forecast.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Hey, the purpose of these dresses I've been wearing. I've
been wearing a lot of spring like colors this weekend.
Our moreteel what was the other color that I wore?
I feel like these days have been a blur, a blur.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Yesterday it was like red wasn't yes, yesterday was the maroon?
Yeah yeah, and then.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
There was an ivory. You had an ivory that was
that was Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
So I've been trying to manifest.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I'm trying my best, y'all.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Okay, I'm trying to manifest the warm thoughts. But unfortunately
winter is still I know, well we're gonna be We're
gonna be dealing with some wintry weather for going forward
to some weather makers on the way that's going to
bring us some active conditions. So southern Ohio is still
dealing with some snow though. Last I checked radar trying
(41:35):
to get a couple of snow showers pushing their way
closer to the I seventy corridor, so I'm not ruling
out a few snowflakes flying here in Columbus, but again
accumulations are going to stay in places like Athens and Waverley.
And then for tonight we'll dry things out, cloudy skies,
temperatures in the upper twenties and low thirties, and then
tomorrow is when our next system moves in before temperatures
(41:56):
warm up, a brief wintry mix, but then rain shower
for the remainder of the event through Wednesday afternoon and
Wednesday evening could end out with a little bit of
winterry mixes, temperatures full, but the bulk of the precipitation
will quickly move out of the area by the time
you get into before sunrise, so by the time for
the rush hour, it's going to be dry. Valentine's Day
(42:19):
looking dry, just cold, with a mix of sun and
clouds waking up, the temperatures in the teens, highs in
the low thirties. And then for the weekend, we'll start
things off with the umbrellas rain boots, but then ending
the weekend with the snow boots and needing the snow
gear as we'll be ending out the weekend with some snow.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
As is becoming my tradition. Right now, I must tell you,
Sarah that it is eighty degrees in Tampa at this
moment in time. Oh man, but I love you anyway.
Thirty four interer Severe Weather Station News Radio six to
ten WTV and oh damn, oh damn, oh damn, oh damn,
old damn. Coming out of the weather forecast and uh,
(43:07):
jumping over to the ws y X six website and uh, oh,
I did not want to see this from h from
the ws YX website. Jim Goodall has passed away. I'm uh,
I'm very sorry to see that. He's been sick for
a while. He's been uh, he's been fighting and struggling
(43:31):
for a while and taking medication for a while. And
all those idiot people out there that were commenting on
his weight and so forth as part of the medication
it made him swell up. He's had congestive heart failure.
And wow, I'm just I'm sorry. This This caught me
completely off guard. As I was saying goodbye to Sarah.
I I was just pulling up the website and and
(43:52):
I was not expecting that headline did you already know
about this?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Or is no I've heard about it? Obviously. I came
in kind of towards his end before he retired. I
got to talk to him a few times. Nothing but
a sweet, nice man and apparently had an encyclopedia of
a mind when it came to weather and history and
things like that.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
So he really sorry that he passed.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
He was a freak about winter weather he loved, which
was kind of I think the basis of our first
ever conversation many years ago. And Jim in his younger,
healthier days, in the wintertime would put a skating rink
in his backyard and that was a thing with him.
He loved snow, He loved winter and cold weather, and
(44:39):
he did forty years over there at Channel four WMH.
They blew him out after forty years. Well he retired,
but they said my vie real quickly, I think. But
he couldn't stay retired. So then Channel six picked him
up and he was kind of like the part time
filling meteorologist over there and then started doing the noon
(45:02):
show with Terry Sullivan, and people were just so glad
to see him back at his personality and I'll tell
you he was a really genuine guy. Between the times.
When he left Channel four, I actually had him in
the studio. We spent probably an hour and a half
on the air just talking, reminiscing about his career, is
(45:25):
growing up and off the air, I learned a lot
about him, his charitable nature, the things he would do
for people that some of which he didn't even know,
but he was just he was that kind of guy.
And well, God bless his memory. I'm glad that I
(45:46):
had a chance to meet him and to know him
a little bit. And if him leaving this rock means
that the pain and the suffering are over, then I'm
glad of that too. He did his time, he did
it well. And Jim Gannall has passed away, all right.
(46:12):
It's you know, things creep up on you sometime you're
not expecting, and this was one of those times I
had many years ago when I was working an FM.
I was still a young broadcaster at the time, and
there was a news guy who was uh. I mean,
he'd been around for a long time. In fact, when
(46:32):
this here radio station six ten WUTV, and back in
the olden days, I used to play music and as
they begin began making the transition from music to talk.
They started with there was a show called night Talk.
That's what they did. I think it was seven to
(46:54):
ten PM, if I'm not mistaken. And the guy who
first did it turned out to be my news guy
at this FM station, and he rode me like a
horse about losing weight and not smoking, and he was
just he was a caring guy. He was just always
on me, and I'll be dog gone. Fee didn't pass
(47:17):
away playing golf. He was fairly young and in good
shape and everything else, and he was always so worried
about me. And he goes out for a round of
golf and doesn't come home that day.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
You just never know.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Sometimes, no you don't, just don't. But I'll tell you
it was painful going into work that night because my
phones after hours, they couldn't get through to the business office.
So the studio lines were all lighting up. And it
wasn't because I was doing a request show. It was
other media people from around the state calling to confirm
(47:51):
his death, which you know, I wasn't gonna do. I
was twenty six years old or so. But even at
that point I was wise enough to know, you know,
what I'd don't know his his family was out of town,
his wife had to travel back in. I'm not going
to confirm squat for you, folks, but I was getting
calls from radio stations, TV stations, newspapers, yes we had
(48:12):
newspapers back then that all wanted me to make a
statement of from the radio station confirming that he had
passed away. And this you know, he didn't. He didn't
act like somebody who would have all that attention. He
was just a nice just a nice, normal guy. And
(48:33):
the response to his passing away, even at that young
stage of my life, really, uh really touched me. And
his funeral was over and grow City and the procession
of people who turned out to say goodbye to him,
(48:57):
it was phenomenal. Just a line coming out of that
funeral home that you would not believe. And I say
that to say, I don't know what arrangements might have
been made for or by Jim, but if there is
(49:19):
a memorial service, a funeral, whatever, just don't plan on
going in that area if you're in a hurry, because
I have a feeling, I have a feeling there will
be a whole bunch of people they want to go
and pay their last respects and say goodbye any of us, anytime, anyway,
(49:41):
for any reason. This is why you have to be
good to each other, and you have to leave behind
that last memory that somebody could have of you as
something you want them to have. You leave the house,
you tell them you love them. You leave with a hug.
(50:01):
I don't care if you just had a fight, a hug,
I love you. I'll be back soon. Don't leave with
wicked words and nastiness, because you never know which minute
on this earth will be your last. Goodbye, Jim, God
bless
It's a Mark Blazer show. Well look you look you
look at there, we're back again. Greetings and welcome to
the Mark Blazer Show. I'm shocked that was the same
her placuer this week. Remember eight two one nine eight
eight six A two one DOUBLETVN or eight hundred six
' ten double UTV. And so I was just getting, ah,
(00:21):
just getting an update there from from the princess who
got she's got to Zach. Did you ever do any sales?
Is what? Any of your job's sales? Because you've done
all kinds of that. You've lived everywhere, man, You've done
all kinds of stuff for a living. You ever do sales? No?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Not really, not like no, no, not for any sales,
like type of job if you call Wendy's Well sales.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
But no, you would you like mugs with that?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
See it's called upselling.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
My princess, you know, at nineteen years old. I was
so proud of her. I was all over the social
media back during election time because she voted for the
first time and she got politically active and did her
research and and she was just all fired up. And
she gets her first real job. I mean, she's worked
fast food, but this is her first real job, and
she's selling stuff. She's selling furniture, and I tried to,
(01:10):
you know, coach her a little bit and tell her,
you know, here's here's what I would do. Here's because
I've been selling crap most of my life, and clear
back to the eighties, clear back to when I was
getting twenty eight hundred dollars for a monochrome of AT
and T computer because personal computers were just kind of out.
I was getting thirty five hundred dollars for a phone
(01:30):
that you carried in a bag on your and people
were paying for this. The battery life was like thirty
minutes and you had to pay. I think it was
seventy five cents a minute peak, twenty five cent some
minute off peak, which meant after seven pm. And it
had half a lot, half a lot of power. Compared
to today's phones. It was nothing, but people were paying
(01:53):
through the nose for it. So just before I came
on there, I get a little update from the Princess
on her new sales career, and she said her her
numbers for this month, for the month of February, higher
than everybody, oh my goodness, higher than the store's average,
and managers really happy and and that she's just doing well.
So for her, I'm so proud of her. Yeah, that's also,
(02:14):
that's great. You have to have a personality somewhat to
do that. Also, I couldn't do that. She well, see,
and like most young people, she had a personality, she
just wasn't aware of it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They're so busy walking around with their heads hanging down,
their arms hanging down like orangutans when they walk. They're
just droopy attitude, droopy everything. I'm like seeing her. Here's
something you need to understand. You are charming, you are beautiful,
you are talented, you are outgoing. Look in the mirror
and see that. And instead of whatever you're seeing when
you look in the mirror, it's like you're seeing Maxine Waters.
(02:45):
Cheer up, cheer up. You are just a vibrant person
with all kinds of energy to offer. Go get it.
And she has certainly gone and got it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
So I just congratulated.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I'm just yeah, I'm really i'mulated that she He's doing
well and enjoying it too, which is great because that
is not a line of work that is for everybody.
Selling stuff is not something that comes naturally to a
lot of people. And it's even more difficult when you
got a little integrity, when you don't want to you
(03:17):
don't lie to people, and that, unfortunately is the image
of so many people in sales. Stick your foot in
the door, don't let them close the door, and you know,
tell them anything in order to get the yes, get
the sale, get him to sign here, get them, put
down a deposit, whatever. And if you don't have that nature,
it's Yeah, I think it is probably a little more
(03:38):
difficult and as crazy as it sounds. As much as
people seemingly hate that about salespeople, oft times they seem
to also expect it, and if they don't get it,
then that throws them off. They go find somebody who
will be smarmy or or you know, just just slither
(03:59):
up to them and they walk in the joint and
people expect it, and so they don't respond to it
unless that's what they're getting.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, it's a owin situation sometimes.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So, yeah, you're not.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Trying to sell me something, then what do you even
believe in your own prod? Like, are you selling something
that's junk? I don't want to buy anything if you're
not excited about that. There's a fine line.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So yeah, and I've actually I quit a sales job
once because I was not being dishonest. However, if the
truth be told, I was selling people stuff they really
did not need. And I was young. I was like
twenty twenty one years old. They didn't need it, and
I was. I was basically taking the confusion that people
are experiencing over their billing and so forth back then
(04:42):
and turning it into profit. And I was really good
at it. And I just couldn't look at myself. So
I'm done and I left the job. I could have
been retired from there by.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Now there's a lot of people I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, well I'm kind of an idiot, I know, but
still that's what you have. U. You sent me a story.
You sent me a story that just kind of freaked
me out because anybody who knows me knows me and
snakes do not go together, right, And fortunately this story
comes out of Australia, which is a beautiful place. I
(05:16):
would love, seriously, I'd love to have the money to
take the family to Sydney on a vacation. What a gorgeous,
gorgeous city. Sydney, Australia is at least from the pictures
that I've seen. I've not been there, but it just
from what I've seen, it looks beautiful. So Australia is
also largely you know, there's a lot of jungle, a
(05:37):
lot of wildlife, and started I believe as a prison colony,
if I'm not mistaken, because it was completely surrounded by
that was like the Britz version of Alcatraz. And it's
had a storied history. But one of the things they've
got there, aside from the giant spiders that will eat
your pit bull, is snakes. And Zach sends me this
(05:59):
story about this guy, David Stein, who called reptile relocation
in Sydney after watching around six snakes slither into some
mulch on his property. Now see, if I'm on my
p and I see it, they could be garter snakes.
I don't care. I'm freaking. I'm not calling reptile relocation.
I'm calling Eric Dilbert and saying I'm gonna need some AMMO.
(06:22):
I am not. I'm not a snake guy. He learned
from an Internet search that pregnant known as gravid red
belly snakes or red belly blacks pile on top of
each other before they give birth, So I guess that's
why they were traveling impacts. The snake catcher was named Dylan.
(06:42):
Cooper showed up that afternoon. Stein helped him rake away
as much as one hundred to two pregnant and newborn snakes.
Just seeing that amount of one group, it gives you
a bit of the Shutters, Stein said on Friday, A
bit a bit of the.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Shutters, creepy crawley things over there. I think he's just like, Yeah,
that's a bit of the Shutters, mate.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
A bit of that. See that's way too. That's that's
that's not a knife. This is a knife. That's way
too Paul Hogan for mens, oh, I know, oh my
gosh from Indiana Jones. Remember the first Indiana Jones snakes?
Why they have to be snakes? I hate snakes. That
was like my mantra Repti Relocation Sydney owner Corey Carwera. Yeah.
(07:30):
Corey said two of the captured adults gave birth to
a total of twenty nine snakes in the bag, while
Cooper was still going through malts and catching more. Final
tally was five adults ninety seven offspring that they got.
Experts don't know why so many stakes, stakes, why so
many snakes give birth in such a short timeframe at
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the one point five elector, which is about three and
a half acres of property in suburban Horsley Park on
Sydney's western outskirts the suburbs, the Suburbs. Oh the snake
catcher owner said the largest hall he had heard of
in a similar snake removal job was thirty non venomous
carpet pythons. And again, okay it's a python, non venomous
(08:17):
or not, get it away from me. Pythons hatch from
eggs while the red belly blacks give birth to live snakes.
Oh Man Scott Aper I think this is who has
written several books about Australian snakes and Dangerous while Life
said the red belly blacks might congregate for safety reasons
(08:39):
or sortage of suitable habitat in which to give birth.
So again, as much as I would love to see
Australia stories like this keep me away, back in the eighties,
I was, I'm sorry. Back in the nineties early nineties,
I was, you know, relatively new in my radio career.
And like the WKR song says town to town, up
(09:01):
and down the dial, that this kind of the nature
of the beast for most people. I've been fortunate. I've
been here my whole career, but moving around was definitely
on my radar. And I was entertaining the idea of
taking a job at a radio station that served largely
up largely US troops. It was on the island of Guam.
(09:25):
And as I'm considering this opportunity, twenty twenty, back when
you downs was still with us, twenty twenty did a
story on the brown tree snakes of Guam that apparently
were coming up out of toilets and falling out of trees.
They were all over place. Instantly, that job went off
my radar. I don't care how much they would offer
(09:49):
me the idea of a snake coming up out of
my toilet, just no, nope, we're done. Pythons I've seen
do that a lot too. I saw a video years
ago about a guy who's a He's one of those
guys walked around as a snake. Yet you got any
friends that do that walk around with the snake on
their neck? No, Well of those guys walked around with
the snake around his neck all the time. And he's
at like a birthday party at the VFW Hall or something,
(10:10):
and everybody's going, oh, the snake, Ah, the snake. It's okay,
the snake's not venomous. He won't buy here. And the
snake just lunged off of his shoulders and latched onto
this girl's face. And again, No, I would not own
a snake ever.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Why they do it?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
That's a wild animal. Well, yeah you can't, so you
can't train them. It's not like they're you can you can.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I just don't. I don't get I don't get people
who own snakes. I don't get people who like snakes.
I just I don't want to be anywhere, anywhere near
a snake. One of my former jobs in radio, working
at music station and everywhere, we used to do a
lot of stuff on the streets. We were always out there, concerts, festivals,
especially in the summertime, always out there in the streets,
(10:56):
and I loved it. I loved going out amongst the people.
But I had this weirdo that used to show up
with a snake all the time, and he knew how
much I hated snakes because I've never made any bones
about it. I hate snakes. This guy would always want
to show up, Like when I'm on the mic talking
to people doing a break from the place, say hey,
come on down, we're down here doing this, that and
(11:17):
the other, and he want to come up and stand
next to me with the snake around his neck because
he thought it was funny. But it never ever.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
What kind of snake was it?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
There' another python? Another pie? Yeah, I just I don't.
I don't get it. Those the boa constrictors. Why do
they call them constrictors because they will squeeze the juice
out of you. That's why they don't care how big
you are, and they will squeeze the juice out of you.
I just I hate snakes, and I don't understand people
(11:53):
who like him. I think you're sick. Want to tell
you about this too. This is I'm getting like a
little girl over there. Most people won't even recognize the name,
but I recognized the name A couple of nights ago.
Last week, Blazer and I were talking about television shows,
and I brought up do you remember the show I
brought up there, Zach, do you remember the name of it?
(12:15):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Person?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
There you go, very good. The Person of Interest, which
which is I said that day way ahead of its time,
a show all about all of the cameras that are
everywhere watching every little bitty thing you do. Every little
thing you do is on camera. Everything you do is
on camera. And uh, I can never remember the the
guy's name that played mister Finch, but I love him.
(12:39):
He's he's pretty awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, he was in Loss to whether you liked that
hurt he's a fit.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, he was in Loss. He was in Good and Evil,
which not many people watched, but he played evil and
he was very good at that too. But Finch and then, uh,
then he had an accomplice, a helper of a wingman
who was a former CIA guy who went out and
got involved in things that the cameras and the machine
(13:06):
as they referred to it, would tell them they needed
to get involved in. His helper was a guy named
Jim covisl who you know some people in my here
and go Jesus Christ. Yes, you're right, he played Jesus.
He was also what was that movie about the human
trafficking about a year ago? Oh, my goodness, help me,
(13:26):
everybody was talking about it. It was all over. I
think it was a stream only thing, but it was
cry freedom.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Is that sound of freedom?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Sound of freedom? Yes? So he was also the lead
in that coviasl as. Somebody asked me on Twitter said hey, Chuck,
what was that show you were talking about? I answered
them said, person of interest television show that was way
ahead of its tide. Covisl liked my tweet. I was like,
for at least not that I know it's a Christmas song.
I didn't care. I needed to sing something. I'm bouncing
(13:55):
up and down like a giddy school girl. Jim Covisl
liked my tweet, and I feel compelled to thank Elon
Musk for allowing me on Twitter. Now I was that
was that was just really cool. Have you ever had
any famous people, any celebrities, any sports figures or anything like
that like one of your social media posts?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Uh no, yeah, I can believe that way too sarcastic.
I can believe that I've had Kentucky basketball players like
my Well, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
It's like people who went to play college there.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But nobody likes serious because that's I think.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Jim Norton liked one of my tweets too, but it
was like some joke that was incredibly sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I've had I've had too so far Bo Duke and
now Jim Caviezel, So I'm I know.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
We got to go.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But yeah, you know, Jim Caviezel was in a movie
called The Highwaymen at two thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
If you haven't seen it, seen extremely underrated. I don't
know why people are.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The Highway man or men men men men so that
they use the Willie Nelson songs.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Now just watch it.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It's good, Okay, the Highway I will make it a
point to watch.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
That sports and the Mark Blazer Show WTVN.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I thought that he he was there. I wanted to
wait for the he he, but the he he was
not where I thought it would be. Man okay, without
a he he, I don't know what to do. Chuck
Douglas said for Blazer, welcome to uh. I'm gonna call
it a cloudy afternoon. Tom Holman, the the border guy
working on behalfing President Trump, did you see this about
two hours ago the story came out. You see this
(15:24):
accusation he made.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Zach No, it was busy two hours ago.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Because he said, you know, when they went into Colorado,
he said, somebody leaked that we were coming and what
we were doing, and we're gonna find out who and
uh and I'm going after well. A couple hours ago,
the story breaks borders are Tom Holman accuses FBI of
leaking information about ice raids.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
We have to see what shakes out with that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
That's gonna be interesting. Well, hey, the FBI is uh,
you know, it's not a single person, and it's uh, yeah,
I don't know how this is gonna work. We'll see,
we'll see, but that takes uh brass, as they say, Brass,
by the way, gets very very cold when the weather's
over seventy degrees, which which it always is, because that's
(16:08):
that's how Sarah likes it. ABC six first time First
Warning weather meteorologist Sarah convers on the line and Sarah,
it's it's I'm sorry. I sent you an email I
specifically asked for seventy degrees again today.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I it's it's it's on back order. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Our relationship is on the rocks right now. You need
to know that. I.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Hey, I can't I can't control these different systems that
are moving through the area because it's a really active forecast.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
So buckle up everyone.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, we're done one after another here. What's it all about.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
We just can't get a break, and we're gonna be
very active here in the weather center. So first system
that's still going through the areas impacting Southern Ohio places
like Athens, Waverley, still dealing with some of those snow showers,
while here in Columbus it's just cold and dreary. We'll
see these snow showers end though for those southern counties
leader tonight and the clouds will continue into the night hours,
(17:00):
temperatures in the upper twenties.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
But another system is on the way so for.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Wednesday afternoon, before temperatures warm up, not rolling out some
spotty freezing rain, but as temperatures begin to climb into
the upper thirties to near forty degrees, we will transition
into rain showers for the remainder of Wednesday, and the
rest of that precipitation will be out of the region
just before the Thursday morning commutes, so I'm not looking
at any issues for the rush hour. Temperatures though will
(17:27):
be colder in the mid thirties for the highs Valentine's
Day looking great. Just cold temperatures as you wake up
Friday morning, we'll be in the teens highs only in
the low thirties. And while it is cold, take advantage
of that because the weekend it's looking messy, starting off
with a brief wintry mix, then rain with temperatures in
the low forties on Saturday, but then ending Sunday on
(17:50):
a snowy note.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I don't know that you're allowed to say as temperatures
climb and then follow that with thirties and forties. I
just I'm sorry, that's wrong. But Friday's Valentine's so that's good.
Cuddle weather, Sarah, I appreciate you. We are at thirty
four right now at youer severe weather station, News Radio
six ten WUTVNA. You gotta cuddle on Friday. Did you
get the cat washed and everything?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, she's fine, she washes herself, We hang out, we
got a whole day plan.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Good.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I'm great. Did you buy some little heart shaped cat
food things or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, it's a surprise though.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So yeah, I was reading an article in h A
six one four magazine about all the various things I
can't make was it. McNaughton was the author Cara Call anyway,
some of the little quaint, lighthearted, strange things that you
could do here in Central Ohio for Valentine's Day, none
(18:41):
of which really seemed like they were up my alley.
If if I am to celebrate a hallmark holiday, and
I honestly most of my life I have not been
one to do so. However, you know, my perspective is
slightly different this year than it has been in years past.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Oh, I would want to do it, you know, well,
well big gaudy, some might say, but why not?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And all the cute little stuff, the you know, chicken
nugget bouquets and stuff. I guess that's cute, see, but
it could only be part of it for me if
I was going to do something. Now. The world has
been different the last few years, I know, economically, perhaps
not as encouraging for many people as they would like
it to be. So I'm giving everybody a pass on
(19:33):
extravagance for Valentine's Day twenty twenty five. You have my
official pass. You don't have to do anything outrageous, don't
have to do anything crazy, You don't have to go
over there now just you're okay a pass. But for
Valentine's Day twenty twenty six, if you got somebody in
your life where you got a little loving, go all out,
(19:57):
go all out, maybe by that time, you know, I'll
be I'll be a big important entity and we'll do
a Valentine's party or something. I don't know, but we
should do something. If I if I did a Valentine's
party next year, Zach, would you bring the cat? Yeah?
Does she have a nice dress?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
No, she likes to kind of go. She doesn't really
need to wear anything.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It's yeah, yeah, I'm it's not that kind of party.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
She's fine.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
No, No, the say the didty party. The cat's gonna
have to wear something that's weird. No neked cats at
my parties weird. I just I won't do it that way.
But when is Sweetest Day? Isn't that like fifteen minutes
after Valentine's Day? Yeah, another hallmark holiday.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
No, it's an I've never understood the concept of Sweetest
Day and Valentine's Day both existing and since Valentine's Day
is actually at least named for, uh, you know, some
historical event or character where and Sweetest Day was just
something they came up with because we needed to sell
some extra card stock.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I would go with Valentine's Day over Sweetest Day. Oh
it's a October is it October? Yeah? Okay, so that
so they get you coming and going February and October
both you're gonna you're gonna pay. And then of course
it's Christmas time. So as soon as you get there
with Sweetest Day, then you gotta start planning on the
Christmas extravagance. And we only have what do we have now,
(21:18):
three hundred and forty one days till Christmas or something
like that, So you might as well start planning now
because with all the terifs and stuff, you may not
be able to buy anything. I don't know if you
have heard about. That was yesterday. Hamas and Israel had
a essentially a broken agreement, and I will I will
give credit to the former administration. This This began during
(21:42):
the UH the final days of Joe Biden's presidency. I
will not say that the incoming president did not have
something to do with it, but credit words due. And
the agreement was that there would be a release of
hostages held by Hamas and the next scheduled release was
(22:02):
this Saturday. Well here's the problem. Hamas is now saying, yeah,
we're not going to do that. Donald Trump immediately responded with,
you know, though, either conform and go by the rules
that we have set up and agreed to, or all
hell breaks loose. So pick one today. Net and Yahoo
(22:24):
Benjamin Netan Yahoo current and former Prime Minister in Israel
said essentially the same thing, Hamas will release the hostages
as scheduled on Saturday, or we're coming back at you.
The thing of it is is he's saying that now
with a different president in the White House, and I
think with a different with a different understanding of the
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relationship between Israel and the United States. And to some extent,
I worried for us, not because of anything that might
happen there, but because of anything that my happened here,
because people are so so quick to radicalize themselves anymore.
And I want to put it, who wasn't at the
end of the halftime show was a Soudan flag and
(23:12):
uh something like that?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Oh that guy was a protester.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, but and wasn't he part of the the like
the dancers or something. Wasn't he on stage? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, he got up there, but he wasn't part of
the show.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Also, he was just one of those people that happened
to make his way through the four thousand security guards
and get up on the stage. Right.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Well, he's banned for life from there.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, banned for life. But you see see that that
you know right there at the All American event, an
American gets up on stage waiting needs these uh these
flags and gets himself banned for life from the NFL Games. Well, uh,
he's just won. There are plenty of people out there
who they hear this stuff and I don't understand it.
(23:51):
Trust me, if I understood it, I would create a
pill to fix it. Somebody's sitting in a nice little
suburban home, drinking their suburban beverage, eating their suburban food,
getting on the dub dub. You'd be did and deciding
they need to be a member of ISIS. And it happens,
especially with young, impressionable, somewhat stupid minds. It happens. So
if Hamas does not release the hostages as agreed on Saturday,
(24:14):
if that does not happen, and if Israel does as promise,
begins the aggression again, and if the United States boldly
and openly supports Israel and supplies them as needed. Yes, frankly,
I'm worried there may be repercussions here because of all
those young, impressionable, stupid people drinking their suburban beverages, living
(24:35):
in their mother's basement.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I'm confused though, because Hamas said that they're accused in
Israel violating a ceasefire, but I can't see anywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, I saw that remark too, And again.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yan, I can't find what happened to make them say that.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And you don't think that there are plenty of people
out there in you know, the media and in the
intelligence services that would love to point a finger at
Israel if they could. If the story had any merit,
we'd be hearing about it. It's just it's one of
those things where if you say stuff, it's true even
if it's not true. And we got a whole generation
of people that seem to believe that. Just keep repeating
(25:14):
it and it'll be true. That scares me, that worries me,
that bothers me, that annoys me, because man, we used
to be better than that. We used to be so
much more unified, and granted, our our country has stepped
on its own toes enough that it put doubt in
many minds about our purity, if you will, in so
(25:37):
many international situations. But I just I'm concerned. So we
will keep an eye on that. And Jordana Miller is
over in Jerusalem with ABC News. I'm assuming she got
caught up on something else. She was going to join
us here for a couple of minutes just to update
us on what was happening, but she got tied up.
No worries, though, She'll stay on the story and as
things develop. If anything develops that you need to know
(25:58):
about it, you will hear about it here on six
' ten WTV in Blazer Show, borrow a check Douglas
in for Blazers. This we've been ubery two one nine
eight inches A two one WUTV. And don't worry. I'll
give you plenty of reasons to call in so you
can know because I know how you are. Yeah, we've
been together long enough. I've reduced that. Uh well, you know,
(26:19):
the elon Musk News has been almost excluded. Tesla's like
not even talked about anymore. It's all been Doe stuff,
DC stuff, what he's doing, what Trump's doing, blah, blah
blah blah blah, and and it was kind of nice
to see that he still had an interest in things
technology apparently offering to buy open ai. And uh and
well he put quite the number forward. Mike Dubuski, ABC
(26:42):
Technology Reporter is with us right now on the on
the line, and Mike that this this was a heck
of a check. I mean, was he going to gather
some friends where they chipping in. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Yeah, it certainly has. Ninety seven point four billion dollars
is the number in particular that Elon Musk put on
the table to acquire open ai. It was not him
alone putting forth that money. It was him with a
sort of collection of other investors that he's friends with
in Silicon Valley, among them Ari Emmanuel, who is the
major Hollywood figure Pallanteer co founder Joe Lonsdale. He runs
(27:14):
a venture capital firm called eight VC. So it's several
people who are kind of in part of this effort
to buy open Ai. Open Ai is the basically leader
of the open ai space here in the United States.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
They're the maker of chat GPT.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
They're run by Sam Altman, and the history here is important, guys.
Because open ai was co founded by both Sam Altman
and Elon Musk back in twenty fifteen. Not a lot
of people know that Elon Musk was involved in the
creation of this very prominent artificial intelligence company. He founded
this company as a nonprofit and the idea was to
(27:50):
create artificial intelligence for the good of all humanity. However,
that does require a lot of cash outlay. It's expensive
to build large language models and build this technology.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That's why they have a.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
For profit wing that operates under the non profit umbrella
at OpenAI. It's a very unconventional business. Elon Musk eventually
left the company for fear that Sam Altman was getting
a little too friendly with the for profit business at
the expense of the non profit goal of open Ai,
and he started his own company called x Ai, And now,
as we've most recently seen, he's trying to buy that
(28:24):
company he co founded.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Elon Musk is not I don't know. He's credited so often,
and I've never really thought of him as a creator
or an inventor. So when I hear you say he was,
you know, one of the founders here, I always wonder
about the contribution. Is he the idea man, the marketing man,
the vision man, the money man, or does he actually
have that technological background. He was the money man.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
I think it's fair to say he was not kind
of involved in the engineering of you know, chat GPT
or one of their original models. You know, this was
of course, years before we saw chat GPT hit the scene,
as he was with many of his companies. He did
not found Tesla. He was a guy who came on
a little bit later, invested heavily in that company and
eventually took it over entirely, and the original founders of
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that company were ousted. This is a playbook that he
has run before. He saw open ai as a company
that was kind of on an upward track back in
twenty fifteen and wanted to kind of support it with
some money. But again that division over where the company
should go. Should it be a for profit enterprise, should
it be a nonprofit that just makes good technology that
(29:31):
elevates everyone. That seems to be the division here, and
that's why he ultimately left that company. Now it seems
like he wants back in. He's also suing open Ai
at the moment. It's worth mentioning over what he says
is a breach of contract. The fact that open ai
seems to be moving more in a for profit, you
know direction, seems to violate the original founding contract that
(29:55):
he did when he was kind of at the origins
of this company. So it's a very thorough complicated issue.
But at the end of the day, I think there's
a there's a business case to be made here, because
of course Elon Musk has his own artificial intelligence company XAI.
There is also a personal sort of piece to this, right.
Sam Altman has completely out of hand rejected this offer.
(30:16):
He tweeted after this story broke yesterday that no, thank you,
but we will buy Twitter for nine point seven four
billion dollars if you want. Seemingly kind of poking back
at Elon Musk, they are calling his platform x by
its old name and offering one tenth exactly of the
number that Elon Musk threw on the table for open ai.
This is all part of it. It's kind of a
(30:39):
soap opera, if you want to call it that. It's
a bit of a you know, some business maneuverings. It's
fascinating to pay attention to.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
So the possibility, the probability the hope ability for some
people that Elon Musk is interested in TikTok is completely
off the table, and this is the new adventure for him.
He's he's going after this.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I don't know how real the TikTok thing ever really
was at the end of the day, and it's worth
mentioning that this is also, you know, probably not going
to happen. Most experts that I've talked to say that
this is kind of just a stunt. It's it's a
means by which to put the pressure on open Ai.
The expectation is that that company will completely shed its
nonprofit status this year at some point. Sam Altman has
(31:16):
been trying to make this into a for profit business
and Elon Musk wants.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
To stop that.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
And the given the sort of complicated way that open
Ai has structured, sam Altman sits on the board of
the nonprofit and he also runs the for profit open
Ai company, So in some ways he has to sell
this company to himself. And what the price of that
will be remains to be seen.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That has to be.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Litigated by a court in Delaware. But certainly Elon Musk
putting in this almost one hundred billion dollar bid for
open Ai is going to jack up that price, and
even if it doesn't, it's going to prolong this process
and be a headache for Sam Altman. Maybe at the
end of the day, that was what Elon Musk was
just trying to do.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
This is very confusing, it really is. I mean, it
sounds more like it's a philosophical thing. I don't want
you to be a for profit so well, so what
you've got your own AI company. Let let I don't
understand why this is why Elon Musk has set his
sights on this. He could do so much else with
that kind of money that if you have your own car,
(32:22):
why do you care what somebody does with their car?
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Well, I think there's two answers to that question. One, right,
is that he was involved in the founding of open Ai. Right,
and the lawsuit that he is currently waging against open
Ai has to do with breach of contract. Right saying
that I am owed because this company that I co
founded renagged on its original promise to me. Most legal
(32:45):
experts that you talk to you say that this is
not a lawsuit that's going to go anywhere. Right, there's
not a ton of signed documents that say that there
was any sort of contract that was breached by this
movement by open AI. It's it's kind of again seen
as a little bit of a stunt, but that is
part of this as well. In addition, I think that
both Elon Musk and Sam Altman see artificial intelligence, this
(33:07):
type of artificial intelligence as a super technology, right, a
super intelligence, maybe a super weapon in the wrong hands,
and they want to make sure that it is controlled
ideally by them, right. Elon Musk wants to control the future.
So does Sam Altman, at least in this particular space
(33:27):
of the technology world. So I think there's a little
bit of, you know, making sure that they're tamping down
on competition. There's a little bit of making sure that
the company, you know, is executing on its original mission.
And there's a little bit of like the existential world questions, right,
like are we going to create a technology that is
completely unregulated and something that it gets away from us?
(33:49):
And you know, if we had done this slightly differently
with regards to for profit or nonprofit, maybe things would
have been different. I think those are all questions at
play in this debate.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Speaking from the consumer angle, I have to be honest
with you, Mike go. I think I would rather see
them not have anything to do with each other and
watch the grudge match between the two AI companies, see
which one which one serves us as you know, as often,
as freely, as inexpensively as possible, and become something in
our lives that we want.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
And that's exactly what Sam Altman has said. He did
an interview with Bloomberg this morning. He's in Paris for
an artificial intelligence summit, and he said that he wishes
that Elon Musk would just compete, right. He wishes that
they could settle this in the markets, and in doing so,
he also called Elon Musk a profoundly unhappy man who's
kind of insecure. So it's getting into a little bit
(34:36):
of a sort of name calling match.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
At this point. You're a small little man.
Speaker 8 (34:41):
And it was not so long ago. Let's not forget
that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, we're.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Going to engage in a physical fight. So this is
this is.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
Not unusual in Silicon Valley. That's sort of you know
back and forth that we've seen. So yeah, I think
that's that's all part of it. Guys, is that it's
it's both a business question and a bit of a
personal question.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
You get to cover the fun stories. I'll give you that.
Mike Dubuski, ABC News Technology reporter out of New York City,
thank you for making some time for me this afternoon, Budy.
I appreciate you, of course.
Speaker 8 (35:10):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Take care. We are at seventeen minutes past four o'clock now,
I just I'm sorry. It makes more sense from the
consumer aspect for Elon Musk, with all of his resources,
to just go after Altman and open ai and compete
and give us more so that the same thing you
did with Twitter. Make it something people want, and they
will flock to you, and they will use it and
(35:31):
they will pay for it at some point, because that's
how everything works. And just you know, make it so
the next time you offer Altman any money, it's like,
you know, twenty five cents and a bag of chips
and I'll and I'll buy your company. Crush the competition,
don't swallow them up, don't be afraid of the competition.
Be be better than the I'm sorry, I'm probably talking crazy.
(35:53):
It's twenty twenty five right, No, it makes a lot
of sense.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
But I'm sticking with deep seek the Chinese AIS, So I'm.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Still not convinced that that's not. Now the name of
that bothers me is that sounds really stupid? I know,
but I'm a firm believer that people put things in
front of you. And well, we'll go back to the
eighties and look when the HIV virus first came about,
(36:22):
and we lost celebrities, notables and so forth, rock huts,
and we watched him basically just deteriorate in front of
our eyes. He was, you know, the big, broad shouldered
fifties sixties movie star with Doris Day and so forth.
Then he popped up on the television show Dynasty, and
he was just a remnant of his former self. That's
(36:42):
when we began to see what HIV was doing. Then
suddenly Freddie Mercury said he would no longer perform, he
needed to save his voice. I forget what he said
he had, but he wasn't. He wasn't really forthcoming with
anything concerning HIV in eight and then he died, and
the number of people because again, you know, we were
(37:02):
still evolving. The whole LGB two whatever it is movement
was not what it is today. Okay, so they said,
oh yeah, Freddie Mercury passed away. He had HIV AIDS.
Mercury was gay, and the number of people walking around America,
I had no idea he was gay. And I'm thinking
the name of the band was Queen. They were telling you,
(37:26):
they put it right in front of you, but you
didn't pay attention. And that has stuck with me for
forty years now because I see these things, these stories
like this, you know, deep seek stuff. I just figured
they're telling us, Look, we are going to invade your
hard drives. We're going to get into your cloud based storage.
We are going to know every single thing about you
(37:48):
before you even know it. Ten seconds from now, you
are going to pass gas. Just watch. Do you want
a computer doing that?
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Are you accusing the CCP of Lyne silation or.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Do you remember the artificial Olympics and all the stuff
that really wasn't there that we were seeing for the
opening ceremonies and so forth.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Yes, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Absolutely, Oh please. They the Chinese government is uh, you know,
they're all about the show and making you think you're
seeing what you're not and making you think they're doing
what they're not, and if you can, you know. It's
like somebody who has a recording of a pit bull
in their apartment and they hear something in the hallway
(38:31):
and they hit you think there's a pit bull behind
and there's not. There's a cat. The cat's name is Mittens.
There's no pit bull, but they play that recording when
they hear you in the hallway. Same thing with the
Chinese government. They love to put on the show. We
don't know what's real what's not.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Sometimes the power is the perception of power.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, which works for us too. People are
all the Americans, They've got all the technology and the
bombs and all that, not like we're going to really use.
If it comes to the point where we have to
unleash the crap we actually probably have. We're done anyway.
And the mystery about what we have and what we
(39:11):
don't have is also something that is that's a point
of strength because they don't know. They don't know, but
sometimes they put it right in front of your face
and assume you're going to pay no attention to it.
And I think I think Deep Seek or whatever it is,
is probably an example of that. I hope I'm wrong.
We shall see news.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Traffic, weather, sports, and the Mark Blazer Show on six
' ten wtvotyles for.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Blazer this week of meetings to you, glad. I'm a
little annoyed at Zach right now because this song once
it goes into the urge and the course, it's it's
getting hot in here? Is that? Is that your point?
You're just trying You're trying to annoy me with the
word hot? Is it? Because you know what I'm about
to do here, and you know how much it hurts
me to hear the words about to come into my ears.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah, but you're hearing it from a really good source.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Yeah, I know, I understand. It's you know, it's a
good source and everything. But that, by the way, very
summary dress. Did you notice the dress she was wearing
this morning? It looked very summary. It's like it was
like a Lacey Burgundy and it just it was so
I woke up, I flipped on the TV and like, oh,
Sarah looks like just so just so summertimey. And then
(40:23):
there was the forecast. I'm like, well, that's a lie.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
I've never noticed what.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
She should start doing? That movie the TV news she
should do in a parka. She's gonna accurately. ABC six
first warning Weather me, you're like Sarah Coppers. I gotta
play with you because I gotta find a reason to
smile when we're talking about the weather forecast.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Hey, the purpose of these dresses I've been wearing. I've
been wearing a lot of spring like colors this weekend.
Our moreteel what was the other color that I wore?
I feel like these days have been a blur, a blur.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Yesterday it was like red wasn't yes, yesterday was the maroon?
Yeah yeah, and then.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
There was an ivory. You had an ivory that was
that was Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
So I've been trying to manifest.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I'm trying my best, y'all.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Okay, I'm trying to manifest the warm thoughts. But unfortunately
winter is still I know, well we're gonna be We're
gonna be dealing with some wintry weather for going forward
to some weather makers on the way that's going to
bring us some active conditions. So southern Ohio is still
dealing with some snow though. Last I checked radar trying
(41:35):
to get a couple of snow showers pushing their way
closer to the I seventy corridor, so I'm not ruling
out a few snowflakes flying here in Columbus, but again
accumulations are going to stay in places like Athens and Waverley.
And then for tonight we'll dry things out, cloudy skies,
temperatures in the upper twenties and low thirties, and then
tomorrow is when our next system moves in before temperatures
(41:56):
warm up, a brief wintry mix, but then rain shower
for the remainder of the event through Wednesday afternoon and
Wednesday evening could end out with a little bit of
winterry mixes, temperatures full, but the bulk of the precipitation
will quickly move out of the area by the time
you get into before sunrise, so by the time for
the rush hour, it's going to be dry. Valentine's Day
(42:19):
looking dry, just cold, with a mix of sun and
clouds waking up, the temperatures in the teens, highs in
the low thirties. And then for the weekend, we'll start
things off with the umbrellas rain boots, but then ending
the weekend with the snow boots and needing the snow
gear as we'll be ending out the weekend with some snow.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
As is becoming my tradition. Right now, I must tell you,
Sarah that it is eighty degrees in Tampa at this
moment in time. Oh man, but I love you anyway.
Thirty four interer Severe Weather Station News Radio six to
ten WTV and oh damn, oh damn, oh damn, oh damn,
old damn. Coming out of the weather forecast and uh,
(43:07):
jumping over to the ws y X six website and uh, oh,
I did not want to see this from h from
the ws YX website. Jim Goodall has passed away. I'm uh,
I'm very sorry to see that. He's been sick for
a while. He's been uh, he's been fighting and struggling
(43:31):
for a while and taking medication for a while. And
all those idiot people out there that were commenting on
his weight and so forth as part of the medication
it made him swell up. He's had congestive heart failure.
And wow, I'm just I'm sorry. This This caught me
completely off guard. As I was saying goodbye to Sarah.
I I was just pulling up the website and and
(43:52):
I was not expecting that headline did you already know
about this?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Or is no I've heard about it? Obviously. I came
in kind of towards his end before he retired. I
got to talk to him a few times. Nothing but
a sweet, nice man and apparently had an encyclopedia of
a mind when it came to weather and history and
things like that.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
So he really sorry that he passed.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
He was a freak about winter weather he loved, which
was kind of I think the basis of our first
ever conversation many years ago. And Jim in his younger,
healthier days, in the wintertime would put a skating rink
in his backyard and that was a thing with him.
He loved snow, He loved winter and cold weather, and
(44:39):
he did forty years over there at Channel four WMH.
They blew him out after forty years. Well he retired,
but they said my vie real quickly, I think. But
he couldn't stay retired. So then Channel six picked him
up and he was kind of like the part time
filling meteorologist over there and then started doing the noon
(45:02):
show with Terry Sullivan, and people were just so glad
to see him back at his personality and I'll tell
you he was a really genuine guy. Between the times.
When he left Channel four, I actually had him in
the studio. We spent probably an hour and a half
on the air just talking, reminiscing about his career, is
(45:25):
growing up and off the air, I learned a lot
about him, his charitable nature, the things he would do
for people that some of which he didn't even know,
but he was just he was that kind of guy.
And well, God bless his memory. I'm glad that I
(45:46):
had a chance to meet him and to know him
a little bit. And if him leaving this rock means
that the pain and the suffering are over, then I'm
glad of that too. He did his time, he did
it well. And Jim Gannall has passed away, all right.
(46:12):
It's you know, things creep up on you sometime you're
not expecting, and this was one of those times I
had many years ago when I was working an FM.
I was still a young broadcaster at the time, and
there was a news guy who was uh. I mean,
he'd been around for a long time. In fact, when
(46:32):
this here radio station six ten WUTV, and back in
the olden days, I used to play music and as
they begin began making the transition from music to talk.
They started with there was a show called night Talk.
That's what they did. I think it was seven to
(46:54):
ten PM, if I'm not mistaken. And the guy who
first did it turned out to be my news guy
at this FM station, and he rode me like a
horse about losing weight and not smoking, and he was
just he was a caring guy. He was just always
on me, and I'll be dog gone. Fee didn't pass
(47:17):
away playing golf. He was fairly young and in good
shape and everything else, and he was always so worried
about me. And he goes out for a round of
golf and doesn't come home that day.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
You just never know.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Sometimes, no you don't, just don't. But I'll tell you
it was painful going into work that night because my
phones after hours, they couldn't get through to the business office.
So the studio lines were all lighting up. And it
wasn't because I was doing a request show. It was
other media people from around the state calling to confirm
(47:51):
his death, which you know, I wasn't gonna do. I
was twenty six years old or so. But even at
that point I was wise enough to know, you know,
what I'd don't know his his family was out of town,
his wife had to travel back in. I'm not going
to confirm squat for you, folks, but I was getting
calls from radio stations, TV stations, newspapers, yes we had
(48:12):
newspapers back then that all wanted me to make a
statement of from the radio station confirming that he had
passed away. And this you know, he didn't. He didn't
act like somebody who would have all that attention. He
was just a nice just a nice, normal guy. And
(48:33):
the response to his passing away, even at that young
stage of my life, really, uh really touched me. And
his funeral was over and grow City and the procession
of people who turned out to say goodbye to him,
(48:57):
it was phenomenal. Just a line coming out of that
funeral home that you would not believe. And I say
that to say, I don't know what arrangements might have
been made for or by Jim, but if there is
(49:19):
a memorial service, a funeral, whatever, just don't plan on
going in that area if you're in a hurry, because
I have a feeling, I have a feeling there will
be a whole bunch of people they want to go
and pay their last respects and say goodbye any of us, anytime, anyway,
(49:41):
for any reason. This is why you have to be
good to each other, and you have to leave behind
that last memory that somebody could have of you as
something you want them to have. You leave the house,
you tell them you love them. You leave with a hug.
(50:01):
I don't care if you just had a fight, a hug,
I love you. I'll be back soon. Don't leave with
wicked words and nastiness, because you never know which minute
on this earth will be your last. Goodbye, Jim, God
bless
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