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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Blazer Show, well Greed's and salutation it plus Yanchuck
Dole ten for Blazers, six ten do ETV.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
For numbers eighty one nine, eight eighty six, eighty one
WTVN or eight hundred and six ten WTVN.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
We've got so much, so much going on right now,
and I'm just I'm going through the little menu thing way.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, We've got uh, We've got.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Of course, as you just heard in the news, former
Ohio State player dies off campus president in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That's the news.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Jim Trussel is confirmed as your lieutenant governor here in
the state of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Where it is Ryan Day's going to hire Matt? Is
it is? It?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Is it Patricia. I don't want to say it incorrectly.
It looks like Patricia Matt Patricia for the next defensive
coordinator at the Ohio State University. And uh, of course,
as you heard yesterday, just just all kinds of uh
social media posts and so forth, honoring and remembering Jim
Gannall who we lost, or the announcement at least was
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made yesterday of his passing. It's uh, it's central Ohio.
There's always something going on that people are talking about.
Maybe not major, maybe not massive earth shattering news, but
there's always what they used to call water cooler talk.
Always things that we, you know, most of us at least,
seem to be interested in coming up this weekend. Something
(01:30):
that I know Zach is interested in because he's he's
got like eight nine girlfriends. They none of them know
about each other, but he's got so many women in
his life that Valentine's Day is a big thing.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I understand.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
He's he's finalized the second mortgage so he can afford
all the gifts that he wants to buy. And ah,
you know I'm making that up. He has a cat
and he wears crocs. He will admit to the crocs.
He will admit to the cats just in time for
Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
What was that?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Did you just call to just gag? Did you just
to make a phlem sound trying? What was that rude?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
You're being rude.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I'm not. I'm being honest. I'm being truthful, I'm being open,
I'm being transparent. I'm like a government agency in the
Trump administration. That is what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I don't have crocs at all.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yes, you do.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
No, I don't those have a cat.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You just have holes in those shoes, what's wrong with them?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
No, these ones are new.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You buy them with the holes in them, like the
jeans with the ribs in them.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Kind of just depends you have gotten to start shopping
at places that actually have a retail license.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Well see the guy on the street. Yes, I've gotten
sick a couple of times because they put chemicals on
the jeans and stuff. But that guys with the territory.
If you're buying jeans for eleven bucks doorable the last weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
You know shoes the soles are yes, great, but you
know they're cheap.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
So you're arguing with the crocs, but not with the
eight or nine girlfriends that you have to buy presents
for for this week. And I'm glad to see at
least that is not a bone of contention with it.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
No, they don't, they don't.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I am all those budget crocs. Is what you do.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
They don't know, they don't know each other. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Valentine's Day is approaching, ohioan's looking for live and all
the wrong places looking for love being urged. I miss
urban cowboys. Soundtrack. Now that I think about it, that
was a good soundtrack all the wrong places. Watch out
for digital romance scams is the word from the Ohio
Department of Commerce Division of Securities. They've issued a warning now,
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an actual warning from a government agency here in the
Great State of Oha, about scammers using dating apps and
social media to lure people into financial scams.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Have you ever experienced that a financial scam through like
a road.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Well, like you know, the online I actually got a
text message?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
What is today? Wednesday? It might have been Sunday? I
know the Queen was with me. My phone beeps and
I get Hi, how are you? And no, it was Hi,
do you remember me? I didn't recognize the number. I
wasn't gonna answer, but the Queen, being the Queen, said.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Here, get me that phone or got me aunt Jay.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
So she took the phone and she said, I don't
know who this is, and we get back it's Isabella.
I can't believe you don't remember me. And Isabella is
that Ai generated Chinese woman that keeps popping up on
all the social media the same one.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Huh yeah, maybe she just.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Likes you, yeah, me and anybody else with an email
address or a cell phone number. So anyway, anyway, you know,
I blocked the number. But they're coming at you through
your cell phone, through text, They're coming at you on Facebook,
They're coming at you on Twitter. They devise you know,
these these AI generated people or these photo composits of
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eight or nine different people turned into one, and they,
you know, they wait for somebody to bite. It's happening
all over the place. Well, now Valentine's Day, apparently it's
a big enough deal with the State of Ohio is
warning you. According to the Federal Trade Commission, losses linked
to romance scams reached a staggering eight hundred twenty three million.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Dollars last year.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
So people fall for it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
That's better than that Nigerian prince, because the Nigerian prince
didn't even clean up to that. I don't think eight
hundred twenty three million dollars. Similarly, the Federal Bureau of
Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center recorded over seventeen thousand, eight
hundred complaints related to online romance fraud in twenty twenty three,
losses that year exceeding six hundred and fifty two million dollars. Now,
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breaking it down, to just Ohio. The Division of Securities
has investigated eight romance related scams since the start of
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
That's what confuses me. Eight since the start of twenty
twenty three. That's a year and a half, a year
and a quarter ago, with only eight. Considering there were
seventeen thousand, eight hundred complaints filed in twenty twenty three,
only eight of them being here in the state of Ohio,
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I'm rather perplexed that the Department of Commerce Division of
Securities has issued a warning about this. It just doesn't
seem like it's a big enough deal. So I'm wondering
if the numbers are truthful, if they are correct, if
they're being actually transparent with the numbers they are putting
in front of us.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Could it be one of those things where, like, I mean,
not to make fun of somebody, but if somebody falls
for this and it's like they completely, like give up
a lot of money, like a severe situation, and they're going, hey,
this happened to this person, don't do this, you know
what I mean? If one situation is bad enough, not
why not warn everybody. I don't know, but I've seen
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it on doctor Phil.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Before everybody's seen everything on Doctor Phil. Thank you, Oprah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
The idea.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I've never fallen for one of these. Now, in the
early days of the Internet, I did have. Okay, I'm gullible,
I'm naive to some extent about I as a general rule,
my general nature, unless somebody is showing me something right
up front that creates a red flag, my general nature
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is to give people the benefit of the doubt. You know,
don't judge a book by its cover. Do don't presume
things about individuals, so that you know. But in the
early days of the Internet, back when you were still
using a fifty six K modem, and I was in
you know, various forums and chats and things like that,
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and there was one and I don't even know if
it was a female or not. It seemed to be
a female, but I never I never saw them. I
never met them with fifty six K modem, so it
wasn't like you could sip a photo of each other
back and forth. She used to handle daytona girl seven
sixty seven. I do remember that, and you know, we
were just talking about normal stuff. And she would pop
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up on this website where I was constantly and We
were just I'm usually working using the internet to work
to research, you know, get morning show stuff or whatever
I was doing, and she pop up, Hey, how you doing. Yeah,
I've been a day around here too. Oh how's everything going?
Is it warm down there? Yeah, it's freezing up here.
But that kind of stuff. For about two months, that's
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how it was. It was, and I had I didn't
think blah about it because the whole idea of the
Internet was the world wide Web. It connected everyone everywhere,
I thought. And then just out of the blue one
day she said something that I considered very risky. I
just I don't know, it felt like it was.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It was.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Just just way too suggestive for Hey, how you doing.
How's the weather? And I said, you know, I don't
mean to hurt your feelings, not trying to be offensive here,
but I'm gonna have to in the chat have a
nice evening something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I got back.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It was like war in peace in chat box form.
He did three billion words explaining to me what was
wrong with me. We had never had any conversations more
serious than just general stuff, but this person scared me. Actually,
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And see, at that time, you did the whole internet cybersecurity, pinging,
IP addresses, virtual networks, all that kind of SF and
none of that was present. Nobody was thinking about that
kind of well maybe the government, but not some fat
guy in Grove City at the time. So I wasn't
worried about her. Just knowing that she existed scared the
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crap out of me.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, you'd never know if somebody's super lonely and they
glob on to somebody and then it could be something
like it like hey, we can't talk anymore, and then
they're just they're totally invested too quickly. You don't know
how people are going to react.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Sometimes, and people and you know, I'm a male. I'm
hanging on with limit. Okay, I check. Yeah, I'm a
male and I see things from the male perspective. So
I noticed this more in women, I guess, But I'm
quite sure there are psycho men out there that do
crazy stuff like that too. I worked in a bar
at one time where back then, if you presented a
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credit card to pay to get in the door, if
there was a cover charge at night, or to buy
your drinks or whatever, we actually would have to call
an eight hundred number and get the you know, the
card a proved for so much, so somebody comes in it. Yeah,
I'm going to be drinking for a while tonight, so
you call up and get them approved for a hundred
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bucks or whatever because they're they're going to be sitting
at the bar. I always seemed to get the same
operator when I called the eight hundred number to verify
a credit card. That was my gig. I worked the
door and did this and always seemed to get this operator.
Now at that time, I don't even think the bank
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is still around. Society Bank was the banking call center
that did the credit card verifications for central Ohio.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It was up in Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
And after probably a year of calling and verifying credit
cards constantly and constantly getting this operator. When I called
one night, she shows up at the bar. High did
you have any None?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
There's no way you can have any meaningful car.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
None like none.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Our conversations generally lasted about forty five seconds. Here's the
card number, expiration date. There was no such thing as
the security code on the back. Back then, here's the
name on the card. She goes, okay, hold on, let
me process it. Everything going okay tonight. Yeah, it's kind
of slow. We're not getting nearly as many calls as usual.
Now we're just starting to get a few people through
the door down here, so maybe you'll get busy or too. Okay,
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here's your approval code. Thanks very much, talk to you later.
That was pretty much it. That's what we did every
time I called and and and she fell in love
with me on the phone. She had to meet me.
She drove down here one night from Cleveland and just
shows up at the bar.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
How cute was she was?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Not?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That was yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
It was.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, it was bad, it was.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And that was And for Valentine's Day is because this
all started because we're talking about Valentine's Day and the
scams are out there. Uh, my buddy at the time,
my roommate at the time, he met some girl online
except she was local and uh, and they were going
back and forth and chat booths or whatever. And finally
it was Valentine's we get agreed, agreed to go out.
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So so I'm not using as a name so I
could tell you. So she shows up at our apartment
and he's looking out the window. He's in his bedroom
looking out the window which overlooked the parking lot.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I hadn't seen her before.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
And he comes running out into the living room, goes,
tell her, I'm not here, Tell her I moved out
her and he went back in his bedroom and closed
the door, like what is wrong with her? Man? And
I got the knock of the door. I opened the
door and there there before me was the stay Puffed
marshmallow nan.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Oh no, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
She was a rotund young lady.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Did she not describe herself in any orderd she lie?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Apparently she was not accurate in her description, So yeah,
she was. She was a large girl. She was dressed
in white tennis shoes, wearing white sweats, a white hoodie
with a white knit cap, and big giant Jacqueline Smith sunglasses.
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Nice from Ghostbusters to the Staypuffed Marshmallow Man was at
my door. When I said he's not here, she accused
me of being him. That it itself was a whole
new argument. We'll talk Valentine's Day, more horror stories.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Weathers, and the Mark Blazer Show on six ten wtvn E.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I said, for Blazer, how you doing. Hope everything's going well.
I hope you are relatively warm wherever you are. Just
remember spring is right around the corner. I got a message,
by the way. On the message it said loving the
VD talk, And I'm like, what, well, I didn't say
something about VD. That's sick man. And then it's our
good close personal friend Steve up there at the Flower Rama.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
He'sa I love.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Him after meeting him, after talking because when we were
talking about the tariffs and stuff in Columbia and uh
and you know, the possible price of roses going up
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Just in time of Valentine's.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Day, dude got on the air with with Blazer and
I and he said, I won't raise the prices.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'm not passing that on. People shouldn't have to pay that.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I'm like, wow, that right there, that's the heart of
a small businessman. Keep the customer satisfied, keep them coming back.
So Steve, I hope you and Floweramo work your butts
off this weekend.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Keep making money, keep giving people VD all that.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, because that's that's the important part. The VD part's
the important. But you haven't even heard that in a while.
That phrase in a while nobody uses. There used to
be a commercial that ran all the time. It was
a VD commercial. I'll tell you about that later.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
I know we're talking about the Valentine's Day coming up
this weekend, the good, the wonderful Valentine's Days that you
have had, or the terrible Valentine's Days that you have had,
or maybe just what your plans are for this Valentine's Day.
Maybe you're finally going to just just go wild on
Valentine's Day. A lot of that depends on how cold
it's going to be. Your ABC six first morning weather
here are like just Sarah con Versus standing by with
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the I don't know what are you doing anything this weekend?
Anything special? You're gonna send me some strawberries with chocolate ornything.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Well, I'm gonna be true myself to a cinnamon roll.
My favorite bakery in Hilliard is finally opening up for
the season. They usually take off January to kind of
make some new flavors.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
They usually do cupcakes.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
It's Tillyard Station Baking Company, but they have their cinnamon
rolls and their hands down the best cinnamon rolls in Columbus,
and they're opening up Valentine's Day, so you better believe
I will be one of the first few people to
pick up my cinnamon roll from them for Valentine's Day
to treat myself.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Did you hear what Sarah's drop it off for us Friday?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I did.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You know what, I'll share my cinnamon rolls. That's that's
a real like.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
That's when you know you're in the in my friend group.
Is when I actually share the cinnamon roles. Otherwise I
don't share it just with anybody my cinnamon roles.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I feel honored and privileged, even though I'm about to
be very depressed by every other word that comes out
of your mouth.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I know, yes.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
So Unfortunately, if you are a summer lover or spring
lover out there, you're still gonna have to wait for it.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
So we are looking.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
At some sprinkles and light rain showers moving through the area.
But I am concerned for our northwestern counties that will
have the threat for some freezing rain as temperatures are
hovering at the surface right near the freezing mark. So
we'll have icy conditions for places like Marion County up
into Crawford and Wyandot County, which are under winter weather advisories.
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But here in Columbus, we're just gonna stay warm enough
that We're mainly going to be dealing with just rain,
and we'll continue to see wet and childy conditions for
the rest of the evening. Temperatures will eventually fall overnight
into the low thirties, so you'll have to watch out
for any that moisture refreezing overnight. Otherwise, for a Thursday,
the precip will be out just before the morning commute,
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We'll have cloudy skies, temperatures in the mid thirties, a
few flurries possible, and then Valentine's Day finally seeing the
return of some much needed sunshine, though temperatures will be
cold as we wake up into the teens highs in
the low thirties. Definitely make your plans for Friday because
the weekend you'll need those plans inside because Saturday we'll
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start things off as a wintry mix, but then temperatures
sore in the low forties. Will have rain, but then
transition into snow as temperatures fall on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Sarah converse for some odd reason, I'll talk to you
again in an hour.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We are at eighty three in Tampa. Right now, by
the way, in thirty four.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
At your Severe Weather station News Radio six ten WTVN
the fields like temperature by the way in Tampa, there
isn't quite eighty three because they've got a twelve mile
par when it's a little cooler down there, but it's
still better than this. A two one ninet eight eighty
six eight two on WTV and Valentine's Day weekend coming
upstate warning you State of Ohio warning you about online romance
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scams for some reason. I don't know why they're warning you,
quite frankly, and I just I want to know. Do
you have any big plans for this Valentine's Day? Do
you have a a Valentine's Day memory that is so
perfectly wonderful or like like my buddy with his Staypuffed
marshmallow Man story, do you have one that's just just horrid?
A two one WTV And Linda, you're on the Legacy
(18:58):
Retirement Group dot com. Foam, How are you?
Speaker 8 (19:02):
I'm great? How are you?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I am? Okay?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
As far as I know, do you push the button?
She has been on hold? Linda got on hold, let
me check here. Twenty seventeen is when Linda got on
hold to answer that question and then and then dropped off.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Wow, I dropped her?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Did you drop her? I that could be her calling back,
I see, and move her to the top. If it is, seriously,
I'm not ruthless and heartless like that. If she just
happened to click the button. And remember when we used
to have those phones that you laid down on the
counter when you wanted to hang him up, you would
just lay him down on the count. I was constantly
hitting the button on that phone with my chin and
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shutting it off. So I feel for people that mistakenly
do that kind of thing. She is, all right, you're
back on the top there, lend that you're back on
the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone once.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Let's try again.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
I'm gonna try not to cut you off this time.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
I'm not very technic.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I have never had a woman say that to me
in my life, but thank you.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
I'm just honest. No, I'm so honest that you know.
I would really caution people if you're trying to get
involved online with people whose language you do not speak,
I would strongly advise you against that. And remember it's
not just the language you don't understand, it's their whole culture.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Now, are you talking about what I'm legitimately trying to
be because most of the time, honestly, especially with things
like Google Translate, people don't necessarily.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Translate my friend, my friend. Google Translate is a joke.
Google Translate is a joke. I used to speak Russian.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I don't see much anymore, but I mean.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
That's that's what I did. I was a translator first,
and then I became an interpreter, and I was a
freelance escort interpreter, which little one was level granted, but
still it was with the State Department, And so I
do know, like another language. Really well, Google Translate is
a joke.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Well, I mean as far as just just getting communicating
with somebody, Now there's going to be syntax bathroom.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Yeah, like where's the bathroom?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Will give you that.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
But like to like really get to know someone at
deeper levels, what you need to do to like have
a real relationship with him. No, no, Google Translate is
not the way to go. Like, if you really want
to get involved with somebody, learn their language. And even
then it's a cautionary tales. Do you have time for
one quick cautionary tale?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
How much time are we talking about? I got about
forty eight seconds, I like admitted or less.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
I'm quick, I okay quick. He was a friend of mine, okay,
friend of mine, legal secretary. Bright women woman went to Russia,
fell in love and decided this guy was her soulmate.
He was eighteen years younger than her. He was Russian.
I was married to Russian. My friend was too. He
went over to their house to like hang out and
have fun. He's laughing and smiling at her. Why at
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the same time in Russia Russian saying look how old
she is, Look how fat she is, Look how who
she is? And and it was Leyla. And he called
her Leika, which in Russian is like a Russian name.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
That you give to a dog. It means to bark.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
So he was comparing his soulmate supposedly to a dog.
And she was smiling and looking at him and saying, oh,
isn't he's sweet? He's my soulmate. My friend and I,
who are Americans, were like, should we tell us? And
you know what, Chuck, we never did.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Well, see now, I would consider that, especially since you
spoke the language. I would consider that the saddest part
of the story, because if I knew something like that,
I'd have to step up and tell my friend, you're
getting you're getting absolutely used.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
They're calling you a dog.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Yeah, he was calling her a dog. But it's like,
how do we call him out in his presence, in
the presence of like other Russian men, you know what
I mean. And we never got a chance. Later, what
we wanted to do was like to take her aside,
just like the three of us and say, look.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
You know, you need to think twice about this.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
And we never got a chance to.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Like I and have that conversation.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
And I often wonder what happened to her.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Yeah, oh you find out you can. I'm sure get
on that. See there's something Google's good for. Google her
up and find out where she is and make sure
she's doing okay. Yeah, all right, Well Linda, whatever you
do this weekend, I hope you enjoy it and it's uh,
you know, something that puts a smile on your face.
I would never, honestly getting into a real relationship with
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somebody online. I just I couldn't do it. I couldn't
do it. I would much prefer It's just my personality.
I would much prefer to meet So I don't care
where I meet him, because I can talk to anybody, anytime.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Anywhere about anything. It's just me and I have never ever, ever.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
This is gonna sound crazy, I don't look at myself
and go, oh my gosh, you are so gorgeous. I've
never seen an attractive person when I look in the mirror.
It's just I'm just I'm just a guy. You know.
I used to be a fat guy with long hair.
Now I'm a fat guy with no hair, not as
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fat as I used to be. But still I've never
and I've never thought, okay, people are I learned over
the years that I was Seeing yourself through your own
eyes is generally a mistake, and it's not how do
you say this without sounding like really conceited. I garnered
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more attention during my life than I would have thought I.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Might have garnered. It's it.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
That's the nicest way I can say it without sounding
really stupid. But I never understood Half the time, I
didn't even notice I was picking up the attention. I
had to be told, hey, you know, she's she's she's
trying to get your attention. Really, I just my antenna
was not up for that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And so when you see yourself.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
As as you know, mediocre, just not attractive. You don't
even think about it. Sometimes you are subject to people
online and dating stuff and swipe lefts and that kind
of stuff. I was fortunate in that, even though I
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felt that way when I looked in the mirror, I
also liked me, which is something that I, again I
don't understand. There were plenty of reasons for me to go,
oh man, I could have been ere, but I've always
liked me. I've always been very grateful that I am
me of all the people I could have been. I'm
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pretty happy with the human being that I grew into.
So I didn't I wasn't susceptible to people, you know,
coming at me in texting, emails and.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Things like that, and I'm happy about that.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
But I can understand how some people, like the woman
Linda was talking about, I can understand that, especially you
said she described as as being fat or whatever. If
she didn't feel good about herself and somebody said, you know, hey,
I want to talk to you, I want to meet you,
or I can see them responding. Maybe maybe that's just
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the state of loneliness, and the internet connects you with somebody,
even though it's not a real connection. But honestly, if
I were Linda, I would have I don't care if
the Russian guy and his buddies were there or not.
I would have told my friend. I don't think I
could have let somebody basically be laughed at and miss
mistreated used like that. Again, just not in my nature.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
The Mark Blazer show, well to that checks out the
sense of Blazer.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
It's it's it's Blameesday. I don't know if that means.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Anything to you or not. I was never a hump
day guy, you know people use that. I never I never,
I never was a hump day guy.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
But it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
A two nine eighty six, I number a two one
WTV and United Healthcare making a very odd choice, especially
considering their recent uh their recent history. I want to
share that with you. Telsea Gabbard in case you missed it. Confirmed,
so she's in place. Jim Tressel confirmed he is now
the the the Lieutenant governor of the state of Ohio.
Only one dissenting vote. By the way, what's your name death?
(27:23):
I think it is Doctor Beth Liston was the one
dissenting vote on on Jim Trestle, And yes she is
a Democrat, but I I didn't think necessarily this will
be a Republican versus Democrat kind of confirmation, because, as
I said, I think there's a there's a lot of doubt.
You may like him, you may lie.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I liked Michael Jackson. You may like.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Him, but there's always that that little thing over you know,
you're thinking, But am I sure? And uh, I guess
by a one vote margin or one descending vote, they
were sure. And I hope he does well, I really do.
(28:06):
But there's there were a lot of people out there.
I've been all over the social media for the last
couple of days, a lot of people out there that
were upset over the covid era and both he and
urban Meyer apparently being mouthpieces for Governor Dwine and hatchet
acting and acting and encouraging people to get shots and
wear a mask and all that kind of stuff. And
(28:28):
there's a lot of folks out there that weren't willing
to forgive this. And I hope that does not come
back to haunt him. I think he's a good guy,
and even good guys slip up, make mistakes, go the
wrong direction. Now and then, then let's hope that that
that's exactly what the COVID air was a misstep. A
lot of people did things that, you know, they thought
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were the right things, some people out of the goodness
of their heart, others because they were power hungry, controlling
sobs that just wanted to make sure that you did
what they wanted you to do. I don't think that
latter category would describe Jim Tressel. He's you can tell
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the nature of people so very often. I think he's
got a positive nature overall. So whether you were for
him or again him, he's in and since he is
going to be second chair for the State.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Of Ohio government, let's all wish him the best.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Donald Trump, you know, he tried to make it and
they divide administration tried to say, oh, the border is
not an issue, you don't have to worry about the border.
I want to tell you a little story about a guy,
a guy from Ecuador. I'll probably mess up his name,
but frankly, I don't care. I mean, when you hear
the story, you'll understand. According to the US Marshals, his
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name is Luis Nola Callandario. Luis Nola Calandario twenty nine
years of age on.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Ecuador's most wanted list. You know, the border doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Ecuador's most wanted list. He's a murderer, well suspected murderer,
but he you know, he ran to the United States,
so I'm gonna go with murderer Ecador's most wanted list
of violent fugitives. He has been arrested. I know what
you're thinking. Where, well, probably right down there on the
(30:31):
border right Brownsville, Texas, that where he was, or Arizona,
because you know all those illegals they come in there. Now.
He was arrested today in Pitckrington, Ohio. Did I stutter? Pickerington, Ohio?
So before you walk around, fat and happy thing and
(30:51):
it's everybody else's problems. Pickerington, Ohio. He's wanted for allegedly
killing Brenda Alexandra Garcia Paya in Ecuador April of twenty nineteen,
on the country's most wanted list of violent fugitives. US
Marshall's deputies and ICE officers initiated a joint investigation after
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receiving information he was likely living in central Ohio.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
We don't need ICE.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
They need to stay out of here. Oh well, I'm
sure Brenda Alexandra Garcia Poya. Her family doesn't feel that way.
Captured Pickerington, Ohio. Does that surprise you at all? Pickerington.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
I mean that's a really nice area, right, I mean
I've only been I've always liked it.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I mean, obviously he must have family or friends here.
I don't think he'd randomly pick Pickerington. But two more
to your point, it affects everybody, not just the border towns.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, Pickrington.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
I got into Pickerington many years ago, and their their
high school basketball team was just kicking butts and taking names,
and uh, it was like, you know, everybody with Pickerington
was one of the hottest places to live. The real
estate was going through the roof. People were moving here
to Pickerington, I guess to get their kids into the
schools and the athletic programs and so forth. They were
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just they and they spent a few years really up
there on that pedestal, which is when I discovered and
I'd still I like going down two fifty six. I mean,
there's all kinds of places to eat and shop, and
it's just it's very.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Nice out there.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Talking last hour about Valentine's Day and uh, and the
fact that you know it doesn't always go well. And
I was, I was talking about the woman who showed
up from the Cleveland bank after talking to me on
the phone. And so Chris because it's it's because he
just has such a sexy voice. Yeah, whatever, Chris, it's
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the voice. Well, Maria, Maria says that voice would tempt
me to check you out, but I'd be wearing crocs.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
And I would say hello, goodbye.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Oh the crocs just put it over the top. Who
said that?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (33:10):
That was Maria on Facebook? She's sweet? Now you leave
Maria up. Okay, you stay away from Maria. I will
beat you up on her behalf. She's a very nice one.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I try to reach out and make friends because you
told me I need to make friends. And do you
always tell me to stay away from the females.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Yes, well, I mean because I only know nice females.
I don't know any weird females where you'd fit in. Okay, well,
I just I know nice, normal females.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I'm so mean to you sometimes.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
All right, So, United Healthcare, this is something actually, Zach,
you sent this to me earlier. United Healthcare. We all
know their recent uh I'm.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Gonna say tragedy.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I don't know at a corporate level if they consider
it a tragedy or not. It's probably just one of
those everyday things. Stuff happens, you move on. But United Healthcare,
after having their their CEO gun down, you would think
they'd kind of be, I don't know, trying to walk
softly when don't you expect that.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Yeah, that's why I sent this to you because it
was real. It took me by surprise. I think I
sent it to you in a separate email.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, after the first.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
One, because I saw it was like, oh, oh, I
don't think this is the best move ever.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
The United Healthcare Company and hell I might get sued
for this, I don't know, has decided that they are
going to hire a defamation law firm to go after
social media posts that criticized their company. Now Chuck Schumer
did this, by the way, I don't know if you
saw him. They've got a a new website where you
(34:45):
can report stuff to the Democrats like much like with Obama,
they had a tack watch dot com where you can
go and report anybody that spoke badly of the president.
So they're trying that again. Apparently United Healthcare is in
that same mode. It's called because the doctor re claimed
on social media, the United Healthcare called her mid surgery
mid surgery and denied her patient and overnight stay, then
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threatened legal action for her online post about the incident
after the company retained the defamation law firm of Clark
or claire.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Lock mid surgery.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
I don't know what it was, appendectomy, lumpectomy, ingrown toenail.
I have no idea they called mid surgery. That's red
flag number one. Two months after United Healthcare chief executive
Brian Thompson was killed, United Healthcare Group has hired this
(35:47):
defamation law firm to take on the social media posts
that it claims are untrue and reckless. The Virginia Pace,
Virginia based claire Lock claims on its web site to
be dedicated to litigating complex defamation matters and representing clients
facing high profile reputational attacks. You're gonna see more of this,
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by the way. Some companies have already got, like small businesses,
a florist, a restaurant, something like that.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
People get on that Yelp.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Worst food I've ever had, terrible service place was dirty,
smell like Peepe from the moment I walked in the door,
I read those of them. I was like, then, why did
you sit down?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
But still.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
There's lawsuits over those posts. Now you can't just get
on social media and say whatever you want to say.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
That's what the courts are finding.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
January seventh, plastic surgeon named Elizabeth Potter post a video
of herself on Instagram claiming United Healthcare Calder and Mid
Surgery ask her to justify and in patient stay for
a woman who has breast cancer and needed a surgical
procedure to treat it. Potter claimed the insurer denied the
patient and overnight stay threatened her with legal action. For
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her post. She included that what appear to be screen
grabs of a letter from Claire Locke, which was dated
January thirteenth, that said, we are writing to demand you
correct your knowingly false, misleading, and defamatory post regarding United
health Care. The lawyers claim that she made an error
and that's why the insurer reached out and we never
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would have asked or expected her to step out in
mid surgery. Claire Locke asked that the post be public,
post of public apology and retract her accusations. One doctor,
one doctor making one post got this kind of reaction.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Now a lot of people think.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Well, we ought to get together, we had to organize,
we all ought to get on here and post about this.
And do you not think you're just putting a bigger
target on yourself. I've said things about companies that were
not favorable, but I don't exaggerate. I don't go overboard
to try to make it sound worse than it is,
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or to I'm not like that, but I'm honest. Dishonesty
is just not appealing to me. It's not part of
my nature. And if I'm not happy, well, we talked
about a restaurant the other day. I said, you know,
the last two or three times I've been there, it's
just it's been substandard. I used to be a big,
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big fan, but the food was not prepared well. It
took forever to get it. The service was bad, which
wasn't what I was used to from this place, and
it made me sad because I really enjoyed going there.
That's not punitive, that's not vitriolic at all. It's an
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honest assessment of how I felt. I'm not compelled to
go in there. And spend my money. And that's something
I take a lot of pride in because if I'm
sitting on here and I tell you, hey man, this
place is great, you need to try it out.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I mean it.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
No matter how crazy well we were eating up eating
what was it the Skyline ice cream this past week,
you wouldn't believe how many people were hitting.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Me up we chuck. Are you serious? Yes?
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I was.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
It was good. It was good. I couldn't believe it.
It was good.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
When we had the anchovy and pineapple pizza, it was crap.
I don't care where it came from. Don't ever order that.
A little honesty goes a long way. But United Healthcare,
I don't think they care about that because if it's
if it's defamatory, I think they're gonna probably end up
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coming after people. That's what these attorneys are paid for,
to squash you and make you up, sit out and
shut up and take it back. Potter, by the way,
is not the only doctor taking to social media to
vint about United health Care. Since Thompson was murdered, people
glorified as alleged killer. They criticized the insurer online for
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denying claims Bloomberg recently reporting United Healthcare contacted these Securities
and Exchange Commission about a since deleted post by billionaire
Bill Ackman. Wow said, I would not be surprised to
find that the company's profitability is massively overstated due to
its denial of medically necessary procedures and patient care. That's
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what Ackman's social media post said. United Healthcare shares fell
when that post was put up, by four point three
percent the next day. All so they only made like
a billion minus point three percent that next day.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
And the Mark Blazer Show on six ten WTVN.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Good afternoons to you. I'm check Douglass and for Blazer
this week. I'll be back with you on Monday. It's
U plus, it'll be holiday, so it'll be well rested.
You'll receive him well, with a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
I'm sure, right, yeah, I know you people better than that.
But he'll be back back with us Monday at three o'clock.
We're talking about Valentine's Day last hour, and then we
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got into the online romances and the deceptions that people
put out there, the h the phony descriptions of themselves,
the composite pictures, or the the AI generated images, and
I was just I was looking over I was looking
over the Facebook page during the break. What's worse, and
perhaps Zach can can substantiate this from his own experiences.
(41:39):
What's worse than people who are trolling, trying to get dates,
or trying to deceive you, or trying to get money
out of your whatever posting these these artificial pictures is
people that aren't trying to do anything. They're just posting
selfies because they like taking pictures of themselves and putting
it out there, these beautiful, beautiful pictures when you know
them and they look nothing like that. They're filtering all.
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They got pimples and craters, got three strands of hair
in their head, and everything they put out there looks
like is fair of falset or something. Totally.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
Yeah, I know some people who are like that. That
makes me mad.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
Oh yeah, you're talking me, Well he's off today, though,
handsome man, your ABC six.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Verse forty, rather be your eyes just starh converse.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Who would never ever ever use a filter when presenting
yourself on social media?
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Trust me? I don't, But I will say though.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
I don't know what that was.
Speaker 7 (42:38):
I don't know either, but what I will say is
when I say, when I'm out in the wild, so
like on my days off.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
You told me like Dublin or something.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Yeah, Well, just when I'm.
Speaker 7 (42:51):
Out on the town, like when I'm doing my grocery
runs and whatnot, people may not recognize me because one
I'm not worrying makeup and two I'm wearing the glasses.
So I'm like kind of like that like Superman with
just put it on the glasses. I just look someone.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Different and I don't.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Well, other than that, I don't use a filter.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
That is a good thing I have. I have been
recognized in public, and it's kind of odd because radio
used to be a rather anonymous line of work, but
the Internet changed all that, and I've had people recognize me.
And generally it's when I'm shoving food in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Oh no, you know.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
You're at the restaurant. You're showing a piece of pizza
in your mouth, and say, hey you chuck.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Oh no, not right now, man.
Speaker 5 (43:31):
I do like how Sarah described herself as looking different
just by her glasses, mainly like if she has them
on or off, like Clark Kent.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
She takes him off and she's you know wonder meteorologist
and puts them on and she's the lady next door.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
I'm not disagreed.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
I'm just saying, cattle and cinnamon roll in hand. She's
ready to roll.
Speaker 7 (43:52):
Oh yeah, cmon, cinemon roll in hand though. Celene, she
is harness trained, but I don't like take her out
on walks just yeah, because I'm scared she's just gonna
bowl on me.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Yeah. Cats are weird.
Speaker 7 (44:06):
Hey, I'm only a cat lady for Selene. Selene is
my soul animal and she is the best ever.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Any other cats, Yeah, they're cool, but my cat's.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
Better than your.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
I didn't like cats, didn't didn't like and I've had
many cats, and I've always liked them. Even though I
say I don't like cats, I like them.
Speaker 7 (44:25):
Well, cats are gonna be definitely snuggling up tonight because
we are looking at some cool temperatures overnight, with temperatures
falling into the low thirties. Still have some rain showers
on the board and even some freezing.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Rain to the northwest.
Speaker 7 (44:38):
So if you live in places like Marion up into
Crawford County, you're going to be dealing with some icy conditions.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Tonight and then.
Speaker 7 (44:46):
For your Thursday, the bulk of the precipitation out before
the morning commute, hanging on to cloudy skies and a
few flurries here and there, but temperatures will plummet, so
we'll top off mid thirties for the highest Thursday, but
then overnight we'll fall into the tea, so.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Valentine's Day will be a frigid start.
Speaker 7 (45:03):
Temperatures will be in the low thirties for the highs
for Friday, with the return of sunny skies, and definitely
soak up that sunshine because the weekend it's gonna get
active again. We'll start off with the wintry mix early
Saturday morning, then transition into heavy rain, and then ending
the weekend with some snowshowers on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
Frigid Valentine's Day courtesy of meteorologists Sarah Converse.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
It's all on her.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
It's it's eighty one and destined Florida right now, still
thirty four to you're severe Weather Station News Radio six
to ten dou w UCBN.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
I don't know, get you. Frigid is probably a bad.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Way to describe anything on Valentine's Day, even the weather
and Now I'm half wonder google yourself over there is that?
Why is Valentine's Day on February fourteenth. I'm always curious
about little stuff, little minutia like that, but why does
that day? Because we observe other things on days when
you know where they are, not we have no idea Christmas,
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for example, you know, it's just we arbitually made up
Christmas the advertising people on December twenty fifth. It could
very well have been, you know, June third, for all
we know the observance of the Birth of Christ.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
It could. We don't know.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
But I'm just saying we if you're going to pick
a time when people are supposed to be lovey dovey
and doing stuff, it's just odd they would pick a
date in February unless there's a historical need reference of
some sort that makes it Criebruary fourteenth.
Speaker 5 (46:33):
It comes from a Christian folk lore or a folklore
from goodness fifteen hundred years ago. And there's a Christian
martyr named Saint Valentine and he was imprisoned for something
I can't I'm not going to go into all this,
but his final act before he was executed was to
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write a love message to a girl that said, from
your Valentine on February fourteenth. Hmmm, in the year two seventy.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Two seventy so we know we're accurate.
Speaker 5 (47:10):
Oh, there's no factual ambiguity in any of that. That
has to be one hundred percent. It just seems like
the holidays should be in a warmer time of year.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
And you know that's subjective too, because depending upon where
on the globe you are, summer is not the same
time everywhere. So okay, just go February fourteen to leave
it there a two one nine eighty six or eight
two one WUTV and coming up in the next hour,
as I said earlier, Alex Stone from ABC News will
be joining us. This I think I think is good news,
(47:42):
and that is that there is progress what they look
Apparently it's legitimate progress being made toward eliminating the peanut
allergy problem. And it sounds like they may be onto
something here which seems really really practical to me, and it,
frankly science aside, it sounds like something my mom or
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grandma would have come up with. I've always said, if
you if you, if you don't subject yourself to things,
you make yourself vulnerable to them people who live in uh,
you know, I got triple paane windows on the house.
(48:23):
I got air conditioning in the summer. I got a
triple filter furnace for the winter, hermetically sealed. I use
antibacterial everything. And then they go out and they get
a cold, and they can't understand how they caught it
so easily. What it's because you're not you're not out
there in it. You're not getting it. You're not you're
not subjecting. When we were kid, well, when I was
a kid, many of us played in dirt, believe it
(48:46):
or not, actual dirt soil from the ground. Did you
ever play in dirt or the crocs probably got messed
up when you were playing all the time.
Speaker 5 (48:54):
Still do actually with Charlie.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
So it's fun to play with dirt. And my my
buddy Brian Is was doing some construction and had I
had a pile of dirt delivered, like two yards of
top soil in the backyard, which we found was an
excellent place to have dirt ball wars, and so all
the kids, would you know, make dirt balls, mudballs out
of this big dirt pile in the backyard and throw
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them at each other and just it was fun. And
if you you know, if you got it in your mouth,
so be it. And if there was a worm in it,
so be it. We didn't care. But we never caught anything.
We were like immute, nothing, nothing. You could take some
covid and put it on bread with some cheese and
some mayonnaise.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Maybe take the.
Speaker 4 (49:38):
Covid and you know, stop, put a little put a
little bird flu on top of that, some h one
in one h put some post nasal drip on it.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
It doesn't matter. We didn't catch squat. And today it's.
Speaker 4 (49:54):
Like, oh no, oh no, the sun sitting my child.
He has sun allergies, sun allergy. Really he.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
Maybe you should let little Joey out now. And then.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
I'm just saying, man, it's the sun, for goodness sake.
And I think we've done this to ourselves over decades
of uh, you know, continually trying to to hide ourselves
from what's out there.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
Or maybe that's just me.
Speaker 4 (50:21):
Anyway, Alex Stones says on the Peanut Butter front, at
least there is some good news. We will be talking
to him just after five o'clock, A two one nine
eight six number. Let's get Mike in here before we
go break. Mike here on six ten WTV at High Hey.
Speaker 6 (50:34):
Just this is Mike with the.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
Sumb, Mike, Mike with the sun.
Speaker 6 (50:41):
The thumb that I cut my thumb off it.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Yes, it's no thumb.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
Mike, A regular their house, house, things down your way?
Speaker 6 (50:52):
Oh good man. So the allergy thing, I never thought
it would hit me. I didn't realize until I was
twenty or thirty years old that I had a way
protein allergy. I thought it was lactose intolerant, but when
I was eating Way Protein bars and Way drinks, it
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just made me feel like garbage when I was trying
to be healthy. Turned out it's a way protein allergy,
you know, like curds and way like the.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
Little missmuffett on or tough it was eaten exactly. I
always thought that meant cottage cheese.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
I don't know why.
Speaker 6 (51:29):
No mozzarella. Actually I can tolerate mozzarella. That's why I
can eat pizza.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (51:34):
Yeah, lactose intolerance would not go over well with me
because I used to drink milk like water. I'm half
a gallon at a time. I was into my milk
when I was a youngster.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
But I did what I didn't develop it.
Speaker 4 (51:45):
When I was thirty, I developed a grass allergy, you know,
just summertime time. It's nothing severe, but I just hit
the sniffles and the eyes, you know, when the summer
seedlings start coming out.
Speaker 6 (51:57):
Then about five years ago I developed a nut tree
nut protein allergy.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
Tree nuts out of nowhere.
Speaker 6 (52:07):
Tree nuts, walnuts, cashiers, all the stuff that I ate
when I was a kid. Wow, came out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Well, just if you ever have just don't cauterize anything
else because of allergies.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
Please.
Speaker 6 (52:21):
I colorized my throat.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
That's what I do.
Speaker 4 (52:25):
Okay, well that'll that'll protect yourself what you take care of.
Have a wonderful Valentine's weekend. Always good to hear from
you and talk to you before we're going to break here.
I got a shore I told you yesterday. My my,
uh my, my, My princess was in her first sales
job and was doing well and so forth. This is
one of those sentences that a dad gets that he
doesn't know how to take. Because she he's in furniture
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sales now and doing quite well. I'm very proud of her.
I just get a text from her. It says I'm
now mattress certified. See from the dad perspective, that's not
working man.
The Blazer Show, well Greed's and salutation it plus Yanchuck
Dole ten for Blazers, six ten do ETV.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
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WTVN or eight hundred and six ten WTVN.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
We've got so much, so much going on right now,
and I'm just I'm going through the little menu thing way.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, We've got uh, We've got.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Of course, as you just heard in the news, former
Ohio State player dies off campus president in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That's the news.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Jim Trussel is confirmed as your lieutenant governor here in
the state of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Where it is Ryan Day's going to hire Matt? Is
it is? It?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Is it Patricia. I don't want to say it incorrectly.
It looks like Patricia Matt Patricia for the next defensive
coordinator at the Ohio State University. And uh, of course,
as you heard yesterday, just just all kinds of uh
social media posts and so forth, honoring and remembering Jim
Gannall who we lost, or the announcement at least was
(01:09):
made yesterday of his passing. It's uh, it's central Ohio.
There's always something going on that people are talking about.
Maybe not major, maybe not massive earth shattering news, but
there's always what they used to call water cooler talk.
Always things that we, you know, most of us at least,
seem to be interested in coming up this weekend. Something
(01:30):
that I know Zach is interested in because he's he's
got like eight nine girlfriends. They none of them know
about each other, but he's got so many women in
his life that Valentine's Day is a big thing.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I understand.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
He's he's finalized the second mortgage so he can afford
all the gifts that he wants to buy. And ah,
you know I'm making that up. He has a cat
and he wears crocs. He will admit to the crocs.
He will admit to the cats just in time for
Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
What was that?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Did you just call to just gag? Did you just
to make a phlem sound trying? What was that rude?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
You're being rude.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I'm not. I'm being honest. I'm being truthful, I'm being open,
I'm being transparent. I'm like a government agency in the
Trump administration. That is what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I don't have crocs at all.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yes, you do.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
No, I don't those have a cat.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You just have holes in those shoes, what's wrong with them?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
No, these ones are new.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You buy them with the holes in them, like the
jeans with the ribs in them.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Kind of just depends you have gotten to start shopping
at places that actually have a retail license.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Well see the guy on the street. Yes, I've gotten
sick a couple of times because they put chemicals on
the jeans and stuff. But that guys with the territory.
If you're buying jeans for eleven bucks doorable the last weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
You know shoes the soles are yes, great, but you
know they're cheap.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
So you're arguing with the crocs, but not with the
eight or nine girlfriends that you have to buy presents
for for this week. And I'm glad to see at
least that is not a bone of contention with it.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
No, they don't, they don't.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I am all those budget crocs. Is what you do.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
They don't know, they don't know each other. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Valentine's Day is approaching, ohioan's looking for live and all
the wrong places looking for love being urged. I miss
urban cowboys. Soundtrack. Now that I think about it, that
was a good soundtrack all the wrong places. Watch out
for digital romance scams is the word from the Ohio
Department of Commerce Division of Securities. They've issued a warning now,
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an actual warning from a government agency here in the
Great State of Oha, about scammers using dating apps and
social media to lure people into financial scams.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Have you ever experienced that a financial scam through like
a road.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Well, like you know, the online I actually got a
text message?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
What is today? Wednesday? It might have been Sunday? I
know the Queen was with me. My phone beeps and
I get Hi, how are you? And no, it was Hi,
do you remember me? I didn't recognize the number. I
wasn't gonna answer, but the Queen, being the Queen, said.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Here, get me that phone or got me aunt Jay.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
So she took the phone and she said, I don't
know who this is, and we get back it's Isabella.
I can't believe you don't remember me. And Isabella is
that Ai generated Chinese woman that keeps popping up on
all the social media the same one.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Huh yeah, maybe she just.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Likes you, yeah, me and anybody else with an email
address or a cell phone number. So anyway, anyway, you know,
I blocked the number. But they're coming at you through
your cell phone, through text, They're coming at you on Facebook,
They're coming at you on Twitter. They devise you know,
these these AI generated people or these photo composits of
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eight or nine different people turned into one, and they,
you know, they wait for somebody to bite. It's happening
all over the place. Well, now Valentine's Day, apparently it's
a big enough deal with the State of Ohio is
warning you. According to the Federal Trade Commission, losses linked
to romance scams reached a staggering eight hundred twenty three million.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Dollars last year.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
So people fall for it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
That's better than that Nigerian prince, because the Nigerian prince
didn't even clean up to that. I don't think eight
hundred twenty three million dollars. Similarly, the Federal Bureau of
Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center recorded over seventeen thousand, eight
hundred complaints related to online romance fraud in twenty twenty three,
losses that year exceeding six hundred and fifty two million dollars. Now,
(05:31):
breaking it down, to just Ohio. The Division of Securities
has investigated eight romance related scams since the start of
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
That's what confuses me. Eight since the start of twenty
twenty three. That's a year and a half, a year
and a quarter ago, with only eight. Considering there were
seventeen thousand, eight hundred complaints filed in twenty twenty three,
only eight of them being here in the state of Ohio,
(06:02):
I'm rather perplexed that the Department of Commerce Division of
Securities has issued a warning about this. It just doesn't
seem like it's a big enough deal. So I'm wondering
if the numbers are truthful, if they are correct, if
they're being actually transparent with the numbers they are putting
in front of us.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Could it be one of those things where, like, I mean,
not to make fun of somebody, but if somebody falls
for this and it's like they completely, like give up
a lot of money, like a severe situation, and they're going, hey,
this happened to this person, don't do this, you know
what I mean? If one situation is bad enough, not
why not warn everybody. I don't know, but I've seen
(06:39):
it on doctor Phil.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Before everybody's seen everything on Doctor Phil. Thank you, Oprah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
The idea.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I've never fallen for one of these. Now, in the
early days of the Internet, I did have. Okay, I'm gullible,
I'm naive to some extent about I as a general rule,
my general nature, unless somebody is showing me something right
up front that creates a red flag, my general nature
(07:13):
is to give people the benefit of the doubt. You know,
don't judge a book by its cover. Do don't presume
things about individuals, so that you know. But in the
early days of the Internet, back when you were still
using a fifty six K modem, and I was in
you know, various forums and chats and things like that,
(07:34):
and there was one and I don't even know if
it was a female or not. It seemed to be
a female, but I never I never saw them. I
never met them with fifty six K modem, so it
wasn't like you could sip a photo of each other
back and forth. She used to handle daytona girl seven
sixty seven. I do remember that, and you know, we
were just talking about normal stuff. And she would pop
(07:56):
up on this website where I was constantly and We
were just I'm usually working using the internet to work
to research, you know, get morning show stuff or whatever
I was doing, and she pop up, Hey, how you doing. Yeah,
I've been a day around here too. Oh how's everything going?
Is it warm down there? Yeah, it's freezing up here.
But that kind of stuff. For about two months, that's
(08:16):
how it was. It was, and I had I didn't
think blah about it because the whole idea of the
Internet was the world wide Web. It connected everyone everywhere,
I thought. And then just out of the blue one
day she said something that I considered very risky. I
just I don't know, it felt like it was.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It was.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Just just way too suggestive for Hey, how you doing.
How's the weather? And I said, you know, I don't
mean to hurt your feelings, not trying to be offensive here,
but I'm gonna have to in the chat have a
nice evening something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I got back.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It was like war in peace in chat box form.
He did three billion words explaining to me what was
wrong with me. We had never had any conversations more
serious than just general stuff, but this person scared me. Actually,
(09:18):
And see, at that time, you did the whole internet cybersecurity, pinging,
IP addresses, virtual networks, all that kind of SF and
none of that was present. Nobody was thinking about that
kind of well maybe the government, but not some fat
guy in Grove City at the time. So I wasn't
worried about her. Just knowing that she existed scared the
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crap out of me.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, you'd never know if somebody's super lonely and they
glob on to somebody and then it could be something
like it like hey, we can't talk anymore, and then
they're just they're totally invested too quickly. You don't know
how people are going to react.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Sometimes, and people and you know, I'm a male. I'm
hanging on with limit. Okay, I check. Yeah, I'm a
male and I see things from the male perspective. So
I noticed this more in women, I guess, But I'm
quite sure there are psycho men out there that do
crazy stuff like that too. I worked in a bar
at one time where back then, if you presented a
(10:19):
credit card to pay to get in the door, if
there was a cover charge at night, or to buy
your drinks or whatever, we actually would have to call
an eight hundred number and get the you know, the
card a proved for so much, so somebody comes in it. Yeah,
I'm going to be drinking for a while tonight, so
you call up and get them approved for a hundred
(10:39):
bucks or whatever because they're they're going to be sitting
at the bar. I always seemed to get the same
operator when I called the eight hundred number to verify
a credit card. That was my gig. I worked the
door and did this and always seemed to get this operator.
Now at that time, I don't even think the bank
(11:00):
is still around. Society Bank was the banking call center
that did the credit card verifications for central Ohio.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It was up in Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
And after probably a year of calling and verifying credit
cards constantly and constantly getting this operator. When I called
one night, she shows up at the bar. High did
you have any None?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
There's no way you can have any meaningful car.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
None like none.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Our conversations generally lasted about forty five seconds. Here's the
card number, expiration date. There was no such thing as
the security code on the back. Back then, here's the
name on the card. She goes, okay, hold on, let
me process it. Everything going okay tonight. Yeah, it's kind
of slow. We're not getting nearly as many calls as usual.
Now we're just starting to get a few people through
the door down here, so maybe you'll get busy or too. Okay,
(11:58):
here's your approval code. Thanks very much, talk to you later.
That was pretty much it. That's what we did every
time I called and and and she fell in love
with me on the phone. She had to meet me.
She drove down here one night from Cleveland and just
shows up at the bar.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
How cute was she was?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Not?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That was yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
It was.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, it was bad, it was.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And that was And for Valentine's Day is because this
all started because we're talking about Valentine's Day and the
scams are out there. Uh, my buddy at the time,
my roommate at the time, he met some girl online
except she was local and uh, and they were going
back and forth and chat booths or whatever. And finally
it was Valentine's we get agreed, agreed to go out.
(12:51):
So so I'm not using as a name so I
could tell you. So she shows up at our apartment
and he's looking out the window. He's in his bedroom
looking out the window which overlooked the parking lot.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I hadn't seen her before.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
And he comes running out into the living room, goes,
tell her, I'm not here, Tell her I moved out
her and he went back in his bedroom and closed
the door, like what is wrong with her? Man? And
I got the knock of the door. I opened the
door and there there before me was the stay Puffed
marshmallow nan.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Oh no, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
She was a rotund young lady.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Did she not describe herself in any orderd she lie?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Apparently she was not accurate in her description, So yeah,
she was. She was a large girl. She was dressed
in white tennis shoes, wearing white sweats, a white hoodie
with a white knit cap, and big giant Jacqueline Smith sunglasses.
(14:02):
Nice from Ghostbusters to the Staypuffed Marshmallow Man was at
my door. When I said he's not here, she accused
me of being him. That it itself was a whole
new argument. We'll talk Valentine's Day, more horror stories.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Weathers, and the Mark Blazer Show on six ten wtvn E.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I said, for Blazer, how you doing. Hope everything's going well.
I hope you are relatively warm wherever you are. Just
remember spring is right around the corner. I got a message,
by the way. On the message it said loving the
VD talk, And I'm like, what, well, I didn't say
something about VD. That's sick man. And then it's our
good close personal friend Steve up there at the Flower Rama.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
He'sa I love.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Him after meeting him, after talking because when we were
talking about the tariffs and stuff in Columbia and uh
and you know, the possible price of roses going up
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Just in time of Valentine's.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Day, dude got on the air with with Blazer and
I and he said, I won't raise the prices.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'm not passing that on. People shouldn't have to pay that.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I'm like, wow, that right there, that's the heart of
a small businessman. Keep the customer satisfied, keep them coming back.
So Steve, I hope you and Floweramo work your butts
off this weekend.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Keep making money, keep giving people VD all that.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, because that's that's the important part. The VD part's
the important. But you haven't even heard that in a while.
That phrase in a while nobody uses. There used to
be a commercial that ran all the time. It was
a VD commercial. I'll tell you about that later.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
I know we're talking about the Valentine's Day coming up
this weekend, the good, the wonderful Valentine's Days that you
have had, or the terrible Valentine's Days that you have had,
or maybe just what your plans are for this Valentine's Day.
Maybe you're finally going to just just go wild on
Valentine's Day. A lot of that depends on how cold
it's going to be. Your ABC six first morning weather
here are like just Sarah con Versus standing by with
(15:52):
the I don't know what are you doing anything this weekend?
Anything special? You're gonna send me some strawberries with chocolate ornything.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Well, I'm gonna be true myself to a cinnamon roll.
My favorite bakery in Hilliard is finally opening up for
the season. They usually take off January to kind of
make some new flavors.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
They usually do cupcakes.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
It's Tillyard Station Baking Company, but they have their cinnamon
rolls and their hands down the best cinnamon rolls in Columbus,
and they're opening up Valentine's Day, so you better believe
I will be one of the first few people to
pick up my cinnamon roll from them for Valentine's Day
to treat myself.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Did you hear what Sarah's drop it off for us Friday?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I did.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You know what, I'll share my cinnamon rolls. That's that's
a real like.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
That's when you know you're in the in my friend group.
Is when I actually share the cinnamon roles. Otherwise I
don't share it just with anybody my cinnamon roles.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I feel honored and privileged, even though I'm about to
be very depressed by every other word that comes out
of your mouth.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I know, yes.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
So Unfortunately, if you are a summer lover or spring
lover out there, you're still gonna have to wait for it.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
So we are looking.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
At some sprinkles and light rain showers moving through the area.
But I am concerned for our northwestern counties that will
have the threat for some freezing rain as temperatures are
hovering at the surface right near the freezing mark. So
we'll have icy conditions for places like Marion County up
into Crawford and Wyandot County, which are under winter weather advisories.
(17:19):
But here in Columbus, we're just gonna stay warm enough
that We're mainly going to be dealing with just rain,
and we'll continue to see wet and childy conditions for
the rest of the evening. Temperatures will eventually fall overnight
into the low thirties, so you'll have to watch out
for any that moisture refreezing overnight. Otherwise, for a Thursday,
the precip will be out just before the morning commute,
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We'll have cloudy skies, temperatures in the mid thirties, a
few flurries possible, and then Valentine's Day finally seeing the
return of some much needed sunshine, though temperatures will be
cold as we wake up into the teens highs in
the low thirties. Definitely make your plans for Friday because
the weekend you'll need those plans inside because Saturday we'll
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start things off as a wintry mix, but then temperatures
sore in the low forties. Will have rain, but then
transition into snow as temperatures fall on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Sarah converse for some odd reason, I'll talk to you
again in an hour.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We are at eighty three in Tampa. Right now, by
the way, in thirty four.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
At your Severe Weather station News Radio six ten WTVN
the fields like temperature by the way in Tampa, there
isn't quite eighty three because they've got a twelve mile
par when it's a little cooler down there, but it's
still better than this. A two one ninet eight eighty
six eight two on WTV and Valentine's Day weekend coming
upstate warning you State of Ohio warning you about online romance
(18:38):
scams for some reason. I don't know why they're warning you,
quite frankly, and I just I want to know. Do
you have any big plans for this Valentine's Day? Do
you have a a Valentine's Day memory that is so
perfectly wonderful or like like my buddy with his Staypuffed
marshmallow Man story, do you have one that's just just horrid?
A two one WTV And Linda, you're on the Legacy
(18:58):
Retirement Group dot com. Foam, How are you?
Speaker 8 (19:02):
I'm great? How are you?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I am? Okay?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
As far as I know, do you push the button?
She has been on hold? Linda got on hold, let
me check here. Twenty seventeen is when Linda got on
hold to answer that question and then and then dropped off.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Wow, I dropped her?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Did you drop her? I that could be her calling back,
I see, and move her to the top. If it is, seriously,
I'm not ruthless and heartless like that. If she just
happened to click the button. And remember when we used
to have those phones that you laid down on the
counter when you wanted to hang him up, you would
just lay him down on the count. I was constantly
hitting the button on that phone with my chin and
(19:46):
shutting it off. So I feel for people that mistakenly
do that kind of thing. She is, all right, you're
back on the top there, lend that you're back on
the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone once.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Let's try again.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
I'm gonna try not to cut you off this time.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
I'm not very technic.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I have never had a woman say that to me
in my life, but thank you.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
I'm just honest. No, I'm so honest that you know.
I would really caution people if you're trying to get
involved online with people whose language you do not speak,
I would strongly advise you against that. And remember it's
not just the language you don't understand, it's their whole culture.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Now, are you talking about what I'm legitimately trying to
be because most of the time, honestly, especially with things
like Google Translate, people don't necessarily.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Translate my friend, my friend. Google Translate is a joke.
Google Translate is a joke. I used to speak Russian.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I don't see much anymore, but I mean.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
That's that's what I did. I was a translator first,
and then I became an interpreter, and I was a
freelance escort interpreter, which little one was level granted, but
still it was with the State Department, And so I
do know, like another language. Really well, Google Translate is
a joke.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Well, I mean as far as just just getting communicating
with somebody, Now there's going to be syntax bathroom.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Yeah, like where's the bathroom?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Will give you that.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
But like to like really get to know someone at
deeper levels, what you need to do to like have
a real relationship with him. No, no, Google Translate is
not the way to go. Like, if you really want
to get involved with somebody, learn their language. And even
then it's a cautionary tales. Do you have time for
one quick cautionary tale?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
How much time are we talking about? I got about
forty eight seconds, I like admitted or less.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
I'm quick, I okay quick. He was a friend of mine, okay,
friend of mine, legal secretary. Bright women woman went to Russia,
fell in love and decided this guy was her soulmate.
He was eighteen years younger than her. He was Russian.
I was married to Russian. My friend was too. He
went over to their house to like hang out and
have fun. He's laughing and smiling at her. Why at
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the same time in Russia Russian saying look how old
she is, Look how fat she is, Look how who
she is? And and it was Leyla. And he called
her Leika, which in Russian is like a Russian name.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
That you give to a dog. It means to bark.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
So he was comparing his soulmate supposedly to a dog.
And she was smiling and looking at him and saying, oh,
isn't he's sweet? He's my soulmate. My friend and I,
who are Americans, were like, should we tell us? And
you know what, Chuck, we never did.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Well, see now, I would consider that, especially since you
spoke the language. I would consider that the saddest part
of the story, because if I knew something like that,
I'd have to step up and tell my friend, you're
getting you're getting absolutely used.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
They're calling you a dog.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Yeah, he was calling her a dog. But it's like,
how do we call him out in his presence, in
the presence of like other Russian men, you know what
I mean. And we never got a chance. Later, what
we wanted to do was like to take her aside,
just like the three of us and say, look.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
You know, you need to think twice about this.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
And we never got a chance to.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Like I and have that conversation.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
And I often wonder what happened to her.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Yeah, oh you find out you can. I'm sure get
on that. See there's something Google's good for. Google her
up and find out where she is and make sure
she's doing okay. Yeah, all right, Well Linda, whatever you
do this weekend, I hope you enjoy it and it's uh,
you know, something that puts a smile on your face.
I would never, honestly getting into a real relationship with
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somebody online. I just I couldn't do it. I couldn't
do it. I would much prefer It's just my personality.
I would much prefer to meet So I don't care
where I meet him, because I can talk to anybody, anytime.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Anywhere about anything. It's just me and I have never ever, ever.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
This is gonna sound crazy, I don't look at myself
and go, oh my gosh, you are so gorgeous. I've
never seen an attractive person when I look in the mirror.
It's just I'm just I'm just a guy. You know.
I used to be a fat guy with long hair.
Now I'm a fat guy with no hair, not as
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fat as I used to be. But still I've never
and I've never thought, okay, people are I learned over
the years that I was Seeing yourself through your own
eyes is generally a mistake, and it's not how do
you say this without sounding like really conceited. I garnered
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more attention during my life than I would have thought I.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Might have garnered. It's it.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
That's the nicest way I can say it without sounding
really stupid. But I never understood Half the time, I
didn't even notice I was picking up the attention. I
had to be told, hey, you know, she's she's she's
trying to get your attention. Really, I just my antenna
was not up for that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And so when you see yourself.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
As as you know, mediocre, just not attractive. You don't
even think about it. Sometimes you are subject to people
online and dating stuff and swipe lefts and that kind
of stuff. I was fortunate in that, even though I
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felt that way when I looked in the mirror, I
also liked me, which is something that I, again I
don't understand. There were plenty of reasons for me to go,
oh man, I could have been ere, but I've always
liked me. I've always been very grateful that I am
me of all the people I could have been. I'm
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pretty happy with the human being that I grew into.
So I didn't I wasn't susceptible to people, you know,
coming at me in texting, emails and.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Things like that, and I'm happy about that.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
But I can understand how some people, like the woman
Linda was talking about, I can understand that, especially you
said she described as as being fat or whatever. If
she didn't feel good about herself and somebody said, you know, hey,
I want to talk to you, I want to meet you,
or I can see them responding. Maybe maybe that's just
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the state of loneliness, and the internet connects you with somebody,
even though it's not a real connection. But honestly, if
I were Linda, I would have I don't care if
the Russian guy and his buddies were there or not.
I would have told my friend. I don't think I
could have let somebody basically be laughed at and miss
mistreated used like that. Again, just not in my nature.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
The Mark Blazer show, well to that checks out the
sense of Blazer.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
It's it's it's Blameesday. I don't know if that means.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Anything to you or not. I was never a hump
day guy, you know people use that. I never I never,
I never was a hump day guy.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
But it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
A two nine eighty six, I number a two one
WTV and United Healthcare making a very odd choice, especially
considering their recent uh their recent history. I want to
share that with you. Telsea Gabbard in case you missed it. Confirmed,
so she's in place. Jim Tressel confirmed he is now
the the the Lieutenant governor of the state of Ohio.
Only one dissenting vote. By the way, what's your name death?
(27:23):
I think it is Doctor Beth Liston was the one
dissenting vote on on Jim Trestle, And yes she is
a Democrat, but I I didn't think necessarily this will
be a Republican versus Democrat kind of confirmation, because, as
I said, I think there's a there's a lot of doubt.
You may like him, you may lie.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I liked Michael Jackson. You may like.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Him, but there's always that that little thing over you know,
you're thinking, But am I sure? And uh, I guess
by a one vote margin or one descending vote, they
were sure. And I hope he does well, I really do.
(28:06):
But there's there were a lot of people out there.
I've been all over the social media for the last
couple of days, a lot of people out there that
were upset over the covid era and both he and
urban Meyer apparently being mouthpieces for Governor Dwine and hatchet
acting and acting and encouraging people to get shots and
wear a mask and all that kind of stuff. And
(28:28):
there's a lot of folks out there that weren't willing
to forgive this. And I hope that does not come
back to haunt him. I think he's a good guy,
and even good guys slip up, make mistakes, go the
wrong direction. Now and then, then let's hope that that
that's exactly what the COVID air was a misstep. A
lot of people did things that, you know, they thought
(28:51):
were the right things, some people out of the goodness
of their heart, others because they were power hungry, controlling
sobs that just wanted to make sure that you did
what they wanted you to do. I don't think that
latter category would describe Jim Tressel. He's you can tell
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the nature of people so very often. I think he's
got a positive nature overall. So whether you were for
him or again him, he's in and since he is
going to be second chair for the State.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Of Ohio government, let's all wish him the best.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Donald Trump, you know, he tried to make it and
they divide administration tried to say, oh, the border is
not an issue, you don't have to worry about the border.
I want to tell you a little story about a guy,
a guy from Ecuador. I'll probably mess up his name,
but frankly, I don't care. I mean, when you hear
the story, you'll understand. According to the US Marshals, his
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name is Luis Nola Callandario. Luis Nola Calandario twenty nine
years of age on.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Ecuador's most wanted list. You know, the border doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Ecuador's most wanted list. He's a murderer, well suspected murderer,
but he you know, he ran to the United States,
so I'm gonna go with murderer Ecador's most wanted list
of violent fugitives. He has been arrested. I know what
you're thinking. Where, well, probably right down there on the
(30:31):
border right Brownsville, Texas, that where he was, or Arizona,
because you know all those illegals they come in there. Now.
He was arrested today in Pitckrington, Ohio. Did I stutter? Pickerington, Ohio?
So before you walk around, fat and happy thing and
(30:51):
it's everybody else's problems. Pickerington, Ohio. He's wanted for allegedly
killing Brenda Alexandra Garcia Paya in Ecuador April of twenty nineteen,
on the country's most wanted list of violent fugitives. US
Marshall's deputies and ICE officers initiated a joint investigation after
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receiving information he was likely living in central Ohio.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
We don't need ICE.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
They need to stay out of here. Oh well, I'm
sure Brenda Alexandra Garcia Poya. Her family doesn't feel that way.
Captured Pickerington, Ohio. Does that surprise you at all? Pickerington.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
I mean that's a really nice area, right, I mean
I've only been I've always liked it.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I mean, obviously he must have family or friends here.
I don't think he'd randomly pick Pickerington. But two more
to your point, it affects everybody, not just the border towns.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, Pickrington.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
I got into Pickerington many years ago, and their their
high school basketball team was just kicking butts and taking names,
and uh, it was like, you know, everybody with Pickerington
was one of the hottest places to live. The real
estate was going through the roof. People were moving here
to Pickerington, I guess to get their kids into the
schools and the athletic programs and so forth. They were
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just they and they spent a few years really up
there on that pedestal, which is when I discovered and
I'd still I like going down two fifty six. I mean,
there's all kinds of places to eat and shop, and
it's just it's very.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Nice out there.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Talking last hour about Valentine's Day and uh, and the
fact that you know it doesn't always go well. And
I was, I was talking about the woman who showed
up from the Cleveland bank after talking to me on
the phone. And so Chris because it's it's because he
just has such a sexy voice. Yeah, whatever, Chris, it's
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the voice. Well, Maria, Maria says that voice would tempt
me to check you out, but I'd be wearing crocs.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
And I would say hello, goodbye.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Oh the crocs just put it over the top. Who
said that?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (33:10):
That was Maria on Facebook? She's sweet? Now you leave
Maria up. Okay, you stay away from Maria. I will
beat you up on her behalf. She's a very nice one.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I try to reach out and make friends because you
told me I need to make friends. And do you
always tell me to stay away from the females.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Yes, well, I mean because I only know nice females.
I don't know any weird females where you'd fit in. Okay, well,
I just I know nice, normal females.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I'm so mean to you sometimes.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
All right, So, United Healthcare, this is something actually, Zach,
you sent this to me earlier. United Healthcare. We all
know their recent uh I'm.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Gonna say tragedy.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I don't know at a corporate level if they consider
it a tragedy or not. It's probably just one of
those everyday things. Stuff happens, you move on. But United Healthcare,
after having their their CEO gun down, you would think
they'd kind of be, I don't know, trying to walk
softly when don't you expect that.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Yeah, that's why I sent this to you because it
was real. It took me by surprise. I think I
sent it to you in a separate email.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, after the first.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
One, because I saw it was like, oh, oh, I
don't think this is the best move ever.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
The United Healthcare Company and hell I might get sued
for this, I don't know, has decided that they are
going to hire a defamation law firm to go after
social media posts that criticized their company. Now Chuck Schumer
did this, by the way, I don't know if you
saw him. They've got a a new website where you
(34:45):
can report stuff to the Democrats like much like with Obama,
they had a tack watch dot com where you can
go and report anybody that spoke badly of the president.
So they're trying that again. Apparently United Healthcare is in
that same mode. It's called because the doctor re claimed
on social media, the United Healthcare called her mid surgery
mid surgery and denied her patient and overnight stay, then
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threatened legal action for her online post about the incident
after the company retained the defamation law firm of Clark
or claire.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Lock mid surgery.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
I don't know what it was, appendectomy, lumpectomy, ingrown toenail.
I have no idea they called mid surgery. That's red
flag number one. Two months after United Healthcare chief executive
Brian Thompson was killed, United Healthcare Group has hired this
(35:47):
defamation law firm to take on the social media posts
that it claims are untrue and reckless. The Virginia Pace,
Virginia based claire Lock claims on its web site to
be dedicated to litigating complex defamation matters and representing clients
facing high profile reputational attacks. You're gonna see more of this,
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by the way. Some companies have already got, like small businesses,
a florist, a restaurant, something like that.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
People get on that Yelp.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Worst food I've ever had, terrible service place was dirty,
smell like Peepe from the moment I walked in the door,
I read those of them. I was like, then, why did
you sit down?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
But still.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
There's lawsuits over those posts. Now you can't just get
on social media and say whatever you want to say.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
That's what the courts are finding.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
January seventh, plastic surgeon named Elizabeth Potter post a video
of herself on Instagram claiming United Healthcare Calder and Mid
Surgery ask her to justify and in patient stay for
a woman who has breast cancer and needed a surgical
procedure to treat it. Potter claimed the insurer denied the
patient and overnight stay threatened her with legal action. For
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her post. She included that what appear to be screen
grabs of a letter from Claire Locke, which was dated
January thirteenth, that said, we are writing to demand you
correct your knowingly false, misleading, and defamatory post regarding United
health Care. The lawyers claim that she made an error
and that's why the insurer reached out and we never
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would have asked or expected her to step out in
mid surgery. Claire Locke asked that the post be public,
post of public apology and retract her accusations. One doctor,
one doctor making one post got this kind of reaction.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Now a lot of people think.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Well, we ought to get together, we had to organize,
we all ought to get on here and post about this.
And do you not think you're just putting a bigger
target on yourself. I've said things about companies that were
not favorable, but I don't exaggerate. I don't go overboard
to try to make it sound worse than it is,
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or to I'm not like that, but I'm honest. Dishonesty
is just not appealing to me. It's not part of
my nature. And if I'm not happy, well, we talked
about a restaurant the other day. I said, you know,
the last two or three times I've been there, it's
just it's been substandard. I used to be a big,
(38:38):
big fan, but the food was not prepared well. It
took forever to get it. The service was bad, which
wasn't what I was used to from this place, and
it made me sad because I really enjoyed going there.
That's not punitive, that's not vitriolic at all. It's an
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honest assessment of how I felt. I'm not compelled to
go in there. And spend my money. And that's something
I take a lot of pride in because if I'm
sitting on here and I tell you, hey man, this
place is great, you need to try it out.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I mean it.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
No matter how crazy well we were eating up eating
what was it the Skyline ice cream this past week,
you wouldn't believe how many people were hitting.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Me up we chuck. Are you serious? Yes?
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I was.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
It was good. It was good. I couldn't believe it.
It was good.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
When we had the anchovy and pineapple pizza, it was crap.
I don't care where it came from. Don't ever order that.
A little honesty goes a long way. But United Healthcare,
I don't think they care about that because if it's
if it's defamatory, I think they're gonna probably end up
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coming after people. That's what these attorneys are paid for,
to squash you and make you up, sit out and
shut up and take it back. Potter, by the way,
is not the only doctor taking to social media to
vint about United health Care. Since Thompson was murdered, people
glorified as alleged killer. They criticized the insurer online for
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denying claims Bloomberg recently reporting United Healthcare contacted these Securities
and Exchange Commission about a since deleted post by billionaire
Bill Ackman. Wow said, I would not be surprised to
find that the company's profitability is massively overstated due to
its denial of medically necessary procedures and patient care. That's
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what Ackman's social media post said. United Healthcare shares fell
when that post was put up, by four point three
percent the next day. All so they only made like
a billion minus point three percent that next day.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
And the Mark Blazer Show on six ten WTVN.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Good afternoons to you. I'm check Douglass and for Blazer
this week. I'll be back with you on Monday. It's
U plus, it'll be holiday, so it'll be well rested.
You'll receive him well, with a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
I'm sure, right, yeah, I know you people better than that.
But he'll be back back with us Monday at three o'clock.
We're talking about Valentine's Day last hour, and then we
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got into the online romances and the deceptions that people
put out there, the h the phony descriptions of themselves,
the composite pictures, or the the AI generated images, and
I was just I was looking over I was looking
over the Facebook page during the break. What's worse, and
perhaps Zach can can substantiate this from his own experiences.
(41:39):
What's worse than people who are trolling, trying to get dates,
or trying to deceive you, or trying to get money
out of your whatever posting these these artificial pictures is
people that aren't trying to do anything. They're just posting
selfies because they like taking pictures of themselves and putting
it out there, these beautiful, beautiful pictures when you know
them and they look nothing like that. They're filtering all.
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They got pimples and craters, got three strands of hair
in their head, and everything they put out there looks
like is fair of falset or something. Totally.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
Yeah, I know some people who are like that. That
makes me mad.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
Oh yeah, you're talking me, Well he's off today, though,
handsome man, your ABC six.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Verse forty, rather be your eyes just starh converse.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Who would never ever ever use a filter when presenting
yourself on social media?
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Trust me? I don't, But I will say though.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
I don't know what that was.
Speaker 7 (42:38):
I don't know either, but what I will say is
when I say, when I'm out in the wild, so
like on my days off.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
You told me like Dublin or something.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Yeah, Well, just when I'm.
Speaker 7 (42:51):
Out on the town, like when I'm doing my grocery
runs and whatnot, people may not recognize me because one
I'm not worrying makeup and two I'm wearing the glasses.
So I'm like kind of like that like Superman with
just put it on the glasses. I just look someone.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Different and I don't.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Well, other than that, I don't use a filter.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
That is a good thing I have. I have been
recognized in public, and it's kind of odd because radio
used to be a rather anonymous line of work, but
the Internet changed all that, and I've had people recognize me.
And generally it's when I'm shoving food in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Oh no, you know.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
You're at the restaurant. You're showing a piece of pizza
in your mouth, and say, hey you chuck.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Oh no, not right now, man.
Speaker 5 (43:31):
I do like how Sarah described herself as looking different
just by her glasses, mainly like if she has them
on or off, like Clark Kent.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
She takes him off and she's you know wonder meteorologist
and puts them on and she's the lady next door.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
I'm not disagreed.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
I'm just saying, cattle and cinnamon roll in hand. She's
ready to roll.
Speaker 7 (43:52):
Oh yeah, cmon, cinemon roll in hand though. Celene, she
is harness trained, but I don't like take her out
on walks just yeah, because I'm scared she's just gonna
bowl on me.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Yeah. Cats are weird.
Speaker 7 (44:06):
Hey, I'm only a cat lady for Selene. Selene is
my soul animal and she is the best ever.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Any other cats, Yeah, they're cool, but my cat's.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
Better than your.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
I didn't like cats, didn't didn't like and I've had
many cats, and I've always liked them. Even though I
say I don't like cats, I like them.
Speaker 7 (44:25):
Well, cats are gonna be definitely snuggling up tonight because
we are looking at some cool temperatures overnight, with temperatures
falling into the low thirties. Still have some rain showers
on the board and even some freezing.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Rain to the northwest.
Speaker 7 (44:38):
So if you live in places like Marion up into
Crawford County, you're going to be dealing with some icy conditions.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Tonight and then.
Speaker 7 (44:46):
For your Thursday, the bulk of the precipitation out before
the morning commute, hanging on to cloudy skies and a
few flurries here and there, but temperatures will plummet, so
we'll top off mid thirties for the highest Thursday, but
then overnight we'll fall into the tea, so.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Valentine's Day will be a frigid start.
Speaker 7 (45:03):
Temperatures will be in the low thirties for the highs
for Friday, with the return of sunny skies, and definitely
soak up that sunshine because the weekend it's gonna get
active again. We'll start off with the wintry mix early
Saturday morning, then transition into heavy rain, and then ending
the weekend with some snowshowers on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
Frigid Valentine's Day courtesy of meteorologists Sarah Converse.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
It's all on her.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
It's it's eighty one and destined Florida right now, still
thirty four to you're severe Weather Station News Radio six
to ten dou w UCBN.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
I don't know, get you. Frigid is probably a bad.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Way to describe anything on Valentine's Day, even the weather
and Now I'm half wonder google yourself over there is that?
Why is Valentine's Day on February fourteenth. I'm always curious
about little stuff, little minutia like that, but why does
that day? Because we observe other things on days when
you know where they are, not we have no idea Christmas,
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for example, you know, it's just we arbitually made up
Christmas the advertising people on December twenty fifth. It could
very well have been, you know, June third, for all
we know the observance of the Birth of Christ.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
It could. We don't know.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
But I'm just saying we if you're going to pick
a time when people are supposed to be lovey dovey
and doing stuff, it's just odd they would pick a
date in February unless there's a historical need reference of
some sort that makes it Criebruary fourteenth.
Speaker 5 (46:33):
It comes from a Christian folk lore or a folklore
from goodness fifteen hundred years ago. And there's a Christian
martyr named Saint Valentine and he was imprisoned for something
I can't I'm not going to go into all this,
but his final act before he was executed was to
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write a love message to a girl that said, from
your Valentine on February fourteenth. Hmmm, in the year two seventy.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Two seventy so we know we're accurate.
Speaker 5 (47:10):
Oh, there's no factual ambiguity in any of that. That
has to be one hundred percent. It just seems like
the holidays should be in a warmer time of year.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
And you know that's subjective too, because depending upon where
on the globe you are, summer is not the same
time everywhere. So okay, just go February fourteen to leave
it there a two one nine eighty six or eight
two one WUTV and coming up in the next hour,
as I said earlier, Alex Stone from ABC News will
be joining us. This I think I think is good news,
(47:42):
and that is that there is progress what they look
Apparently it's legitimate progress being made toward eliminating the peanut
allergy problem. And it sounds like they may be onto
something here which seems really really practical to me, and it,
frankly science aside, it sounds like something my mom or
(48:02):
grandma would have come up with. I've always said, if
you if you, if you don't subject yourself to things,
you make yourself vulnerable to them people who live in uh,
you know, I got triple paane windows on the house.
(48:23):
I got air conditioning in the summer. I got a
triple filter furnace for the winter, hermetically sealed. I use
antibacterial everything. And then they go out and they get
a cold, and they can't understand how they caught it
so easily. What it's because you're not you're not out
there in it. You're not getting it. You're not you're
not subjecting. When we were kid, well, when I was
a kid, many of us played in dirt, believe it
(48:46):
or not, actual dirt soil from the ground. Did you
ever play in dirt or the crocs probably got messed
up when you were playing all the time.
Speaker 5 (48:54):
Still do actually with Charlie.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
So it's fun to play with dirt. And my my
buddy Brian Is was doing some construction and had I
had a pile of dirt delivered, like two yards of
top soil in the backyard, which we found was an
excellent place to have dirt ball wars, and so all
the kids, would you know, make dirt balls, mudballs out
of this big dirt pile in the backyard and throw
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them at each other and just it was fun. And
if you you know, if you got it in your mouth,
so be it. And if there was a worm in it,
so be it. We didn't care. But we never caught anything.
We were like immute, nothing, nothing. You could take some
covid and put it on bread with some cheese and
some mayonnaise.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Maybe take the.
Speaker 4 (49:38):
Covid and you know, stop, put a little put a
little bird flu on top of that, some h one
in one h put some post nasal drip on it.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
It doesn't matter. We didn't catch squat. And today it's.
Speaker 4 (49:54):
Like, oh no, oh no, the sun sitting my child.
He has sun allergies, sun allergy. Really he.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
Maybe you should let little Joey out now. And then.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
I'm just saying, man, it's the sun, for goodness sake.
And I think we've done this to ourselves over decades
of uh, you know, continually trying to to hide ourselves
from what's out there.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
Or maybe that's just me.
Speaker 4 (50:21):
Anyway, Alex Stones says on the Peanut Butter front, at
least there is some good news. We will be talking
to him just after five o'clock, A two one nine
eight six number. Let's get Mike in here before we
go break. Mike here on six ten WTV at High Hey.
Speaker 6 (50:34):
Just this is Mike with the.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
Sumb, Mike, Mike with the sun.
Speaker 6 (50:41):
The thumb that I cut my thumb off it.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Yes, it's no thumb.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
Mike, A regular their house, house, things down your way?
Speaker 6 (50:52):
Oh good man. So the allergy thing, I never thought
it would hit me. I didn't realize until I was
twenty or thirty years old that I had a way
protein allergy. I thought it was lactose intolerant, but when
I was eating Way Protein bars and Way drinks, it
(51:13):
just made me feel like garbage when I was trying
to be healthy. Turned out it's a way protein allergy,
you know, like curds and way like the.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
Little missmuffett on or tough it was eaten exactly. I
always thought that meant cottage cheese.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
I don't know why.
Speaker 6 (51:29):
No mozzarella. Actually I can tolerate mozzarella. That's why I
can eat pizza.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (51:34):
Yeah, lactose intolerance would not go over well with me
because I used to drink milk like water. I'm half
a gallon at a time. I was into my milk
when I was a youngster.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
But I did what I didn't develop it.
Speaker 4 (51:45):
When I was thirty, I developed a grass allergy, you know,
just summertime time. It's nothing severe, but I just hit
the sniffles and the eyes, you know, when the summer
seedlings start coming out.
Speaker 6 (51:57):
Then about five years ago I developed a nut tree
nut protein allergy.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
Tree nuts out of nowhere.
Speaker 6 (52:07):
Tree nuts, walnuts, cashiers, all the stuff that I ate
when I was a kid. Wow, came out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Well, just if you ever have just don't cauterize anything
else because of allergies.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
Please.
Speaker 6 (52:21):
I colorized my throat.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
That's what I do.
Speaker 4 (52:25):
Okay, well that'll that'll protect yourself what you take care of.
Have a wonderful Valentine's weekend. Always good to hear from
you and talk to you before we're going to break here.
I got a shore I told you yesterday. My my,
uh my, my, My princess was in her first sales
job and was doing well and so forth. This is
one of those sentences that a dad gets that he
doesn't know how to take. Because she he's in furniture
(52:46):
sales now and doing quite well. I'm very proud of her.
I just get a text from her. It says I'm
now mattress certified. See from the dad perspective, that's not
working man.
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