December 8, 2025 • 12 mins
An inspirational story from a Harlem Globetrotter who's from central Ohio and other upcoming December events.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, December seventh, this is really when we start rocking
around the Christmas Tree because there's so many events and
things that are going on in Columbus, in Cleveland and
in Cincinnati, all around the state of Ohio. It's just
a fun time of the year. But don't stay home,
you guys, get out and about and do things. Mikayla,
(00:23):
the girl sitting to the right of me, is so
good at doing that. You get your boys involved and
out there. You even volunteer time. I mean you do
a lot, I think to get the kids in the
holiday spirit.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Try. This is our version is we're going to land
grant On for the bumper Cars, the gue bumper Cars
Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We have a reservation at nine fifteen. You gotta change
up what you do is these kids get older.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
It's always something with Mikayla. She is changing it up
for sure. But we want you guys to do that too.
In fact, we are giving away and we love to
give things away. The Valley Dale, the Valleydale Ballroom has
a Christmas Dance and it is spectacular. It is live
band music, it's a DJ. It's full of so much
fun and it's for you we're giving away tickets right now.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So how many are we giving away today?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I think it's two.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Tickets for next week, for next week, right, Like, who
doesn't love a Christmas dance? Do you remember growing up
and going to the Christmas dance you had at your
junior high school, your high school? Like it evokes you know,
this nostalgia in us to think? I mean I even remember,
like the outfit I wore to my eighth grade Christmas dance.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I was so proud of that dang outfit. Sure, like
it just you know, you have memories associated with it.
And Valley Deale makes it happy for us as adults.
Make it, make it happy, make it happen. That's it.
Both work interchangeably.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So call in you guys, and you can win tickets.
Just tell us your favorite Christmas show of all time?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
There's so many? Is it elf?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh, that's a great one.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Is it White Christmas?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's also another good one. There's so many to choose from.
It's a wonderful life.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Wonderful life. Do you think wonderful life got so popular?
I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
No, no, no, no, no, not that one. I'm not thinking.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That's very obvious, that wonderful life. What's the one that
was filmed in Cleveland?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Christmas? Christmas Story and that one always.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I never understood why that got so popular and is
one of them all time favorite.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's a great question.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
And I toured the house they have the lamp with
the leg lamp.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
It's it's a super unique Christmas movie, right, Like, was
it just in the seventies? People really like identified with
what the family was doing and what the kids were doing.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean maybe that was it.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I don't know, because it's no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's like Home Alone sort of way before Home Alone happened.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But it has that same kind of fun feeling to it.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And it's kind of you know, the whole movie is
narrated by the boy. You know, you're looking at this
movie and everything that happens through his own eyes and ears.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
But anyway, what's your favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Call us up and you will win tickets to this
year's the legendary venue events, including the famed and Fabulous
Fridays for Dancing and It's Christmas Style on.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
December twelfth.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
December twelfth is one of them.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That's next Friday, so they do it every Friday, the
next one coming.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Up, but I think the Christmas one's the nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
The Christmas one is the nineteenth.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Anyway you could take it.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, six one four a two one nine eight eight
sixty six one four eight two one WTV And I.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Say that, but Jody, let's get her on the air,
is on the air. And is this the same Jody
who called us earlier? Did you nab these tickets?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Jody? Are you with.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Us the Christmas part of So it is on the nineteenth, Yes,
it is on the nineteenth. But they have things all
the time. I mean every Friday night, almost every Friday
night they have you know, the Renetta's Big Band just
plays and it's just always a good time there. You
never know who's going to be there. They're always surprised
(03:54):
sometimes and Landa goes live on Facebook if I can't
go sometimes I and I was watching the last Friday
and there were so many young people. There's good. I
just love to keep you know, the old standards going
and the big band sound. But they do all kinds
(04:15):
of things there. So sorry, I'm going on.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well, Validale is growing for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Are you already going on the nineteenth because you are
the first caller, if you want those tickets, they're yours.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Oh w to stated, yes, that would be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Thanks you so, mat Am Gifts, who already appreciates the
Valley Deal. It is one of five ballrooms of its
kind still open in the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Jody, it sounds like you are a lover of all
things Valley Dale. So we're so excited that you did
get those tickets.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Oh my, thank you so much. Listen, We're glad.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, great to talk to you, Jody. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So another event that's coming to town on December twenty
seventh is the Harlem Globetrotters. They have been around for
one hundred years. Have you ever seen them in person?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I've not.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
My sister has in Chicago, but I've not seen them
in person.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I think I remember back as a kid. I think
they were more on television than than they are now.
But we were just always in awe of everything that
the Harlem Globe Trotters could do with a basketball and
how tall these guys were.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
An athletic and strong and just fun. So many tricks.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, I work at Spectrum News one on Tuesdays, Wednesdays
and Thursdays doing the new news, and I had the
great pleasure and opportunity to interview a Harlem Globe trotter
who our station received a news release said he had
been there for twelve years. He's actually been there longer
and he's from Columbus.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
He's from Columbus, played.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Basketball at Independence.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
But you have to hear this story such an inspiration
to people who don't make a team. So I'm going
to play a little bit of the interview, the segment
that we had on Spectrum News one.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
This is with Zeus McClurkin.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Go ahead, Chris, and play this little bit of sound
from this interview I did with him.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
A big reason for it. A lot of people said
I was too nice. They said all you do is
smile and dunk, And today I get pay you to
smile and dunk. So it worked out for me. I
tell kids out there, you know, be yourself when it
comes to this game of basketball. Don't take it too serious.
Just have fun with it and you'll find your place.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But to keep going after hearing no you could cut, no,
you could cut, and for you to still smile and
dunky dunk, and how old were you when you first dunk?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
First dunk was actually that junior year when I finally
made the team and.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
The coach was like, yeah, so you've been on the
gloun Trowders for twelve years?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Yeah, actually sixteen now sixteen yep, yep, And we've been
around for the last one hundred years. So I feel
like I've really been able to submit my stamp on
the team in their one hundred year history, which is
really a huge honor.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Are you one of the oldest guys on the team?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Not?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Actually, I'm not really.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Yeah, there's somebody else that's like three years older than me.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's kind of up there, I think with the game
of basketball, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
One of the base yeh, yeah, I know you're one
of the best.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Sixteen years here, we thought it was just twelve. The
other thing I read about you and I absolutely love
you begin each day with prayer and what are the tricks.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
You do with that ball?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Ho I would love to see you do this.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm sure everybody watching with two is you do a
prayer with it, and he does a prayer with this basketball,
and it was really cool to see and have him
hear that. And he went on to say he's a
minister of a church in towns anister and the very
beginning of that. He is an inspiration because he tried
out for the middle school basketball team in seventh grade,
(07:25):
got cut, eighth grade got cut, ninth grade got cut,
tenth grade, got cut. He finally made the team his
junior year and senior year.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I think those guys, I mean, what a good good
man a for all that he's done and done with
his mindset and his pastoring work. But like, at the
same time, I think those guys are so hugely talented.
I mean, I enjoy basketball, but Harlan Glowtrotter's the tricks
they do and what they do another level.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So they will be in town December twenty seventh, and
you guys can look it up. There's two different I
guess you call them shows.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Games. Yeah, games, letter.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You're right, because it is a game, but it's a show.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
It is both.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
That's I don't even know this. Who do the Globetrotters play?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Is it like the Savannah Bananas where they play another
team of its kind?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Who do the Globe Trotters play, Christina?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The answer to this question, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Do they just play each other or each other just
run up and down the court doing all those tricks.
You know what I remember about the Harlem Globetrotters. They
used to be on the Scooby Doo cartoons. They had
an episode once with the Harlem Gay Absolutely do.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
You remember that?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, I remember that for being a kid. They do
not play real teams in competitive sense. They are an
exhibition team that plays against a team specifically designed to lose,
like the Washington Generals.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Okay, so so kind of like the Savannah Bananas, but
they have the part Savannah Bananas and baseball plays the
party animals and they go to different venues across the country.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Washington Generals founded in nineteen fifty two, an American basketball
team who are the rivals of the Harblem Globetrotters.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Have you decorate yet? No, you're looking at me like
not even closed.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
We got the we got the tree. We got a
twelve foot tree the other day and live.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah again, you've never done artificially.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We have one other tree in the house that the
people who lived in our house left behind, and I.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Was like, really I might use that. So did it
still have the ornaments on it or no?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But it had lights with it, like big thick like
old school lights came with it. And so we're also
in the box up in the attic. So I was like, yes, please.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You know your boys will probably always have a real
tree really sat down. We've never had a real tree
where a fake as fake can get official tree.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It makes it easier to get it up earlier like
this one. You know, you're you're always worried, how is
it going to like dry out? Am I going to
have a fire hazard?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And you know what, every year and we put this
artificial tree up, so many fake needles fall from it.
I'm like, how is this thing still have any needles
at all?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's still look pretty good.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
It does.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And the significance of that is Randy and I got
that for a wedding gift. Oh wow, So it has
been very since we've been married. You know, I will
be sad if we ever kicked that thing to the curb.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It must be a fairly nice tree.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It is pretty good, I mean yeah, because and.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Those trees they cost a lot. Now I looked into
it and Marcus is like, we're not doing that. I mean,
like the fake tree, like really good.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Fake Christmas tree.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
You're talking how much money?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Seventeen hundred dollars, seventeen hundred dollars for a twelve footer,
it's like twenty five dollars seven old. Yeah, no, that's
the best trees out there. Balsam Hill is one of
those best brands, and that is how much they charge tree.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Even imagine paying seventeen hundred dollars for a fake tree
and you found one for free.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I want to see a picture of your tree, because
like matt Back.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Brand, you can find one.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Let me ask you this, when you decorate your thing,
are you white lights or colored lights?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Colored you see?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I would have guessed you white. I'm color all the way.
Yeah my tree, Oh it looks wow. All of our ornaments,
yeah it's fake. It's really fake.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I mean it's real thick though and dense with all those.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Needles that fall off.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Do you guys do that when you're decorating as fall off?
But so many of those ornaments have significant, awesome meaning
behind it. Either Kylon and Cameron made that, or they're dated,
or they're just some type of a story behind it.
You know a lot of people in theme trees are
making all gold tree or a red scarlet and gray.
Mine are all ornaments that I've had since I've been married,
(11:32):
or that have been passed down through my mom's dead
the same.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I had a nanny when I was a baby that
made me like a little house, like knit a house together.
That's the best way for me to put it. And
that ornament my mom gave to me to have on
my tree. I have a bunch of those from when
I was a kid and when I was a baby.
Oh that's a cute one.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We made things with our names, Randy, Mindy, the quarter Cracks,
is kyl and Cameron.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
They're just fun. Christmas is fun. Get your stuff out
when we talk next weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Now you're gonna say everything's up and decorated, You're ready
to go.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Do you think I'm just tired from like a lot
of moving around this fall, Like I think I'm italy
lazy about Christmas.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Actually, I just want like a lot of experiences and
I just want to take it easy.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, guess what what, We're not gonna let you take
it easy, because we're gonna want you to go around
the state of Ohio and figure out where the best
events are and the things to see. The sights and
sounds of Christmas. We have our next guest who's perfect for.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
This ah the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Matt McLaren's in and maybe he will get me into
the mode of doing a little bit more. So stay
tuned like me and get your calendar move in. This
is what Matters on six ten WTV in
Okay, December seventh, this is really when we start rocking
around the Christmas Tree because there's so many events and
things that are going on in Columbus, in Cleveland and
in Cincinnati, all around the state of Ohio. It's just
a fun time of the year. But don't stay home,
you guys, get out and about and do things. Mikayla,
(00:23):
the girl sitting to the right of me, is so
good at doing that. You get your boys involved and
out there. You even volunteer time. I mean you do
a lot, I think to get the kids in the
holiday spirit.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Try. This is our version is we're going to land
grant On for the bumper Cars, the gue bumper Cars
Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We have a reservation at nine fifteen. You gotta change
up what you do is these kids get older.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
It's always something with Mikayla. She is changing it up
for sure. But we want you guys to do that too.
In fact, we are giving away and we love to
give things away. The Valley Dale, the Valleydale Ballroom has
a Christmas Dance and it is spectacular. It is live
band music, it's a DJ. It's full of so much
fun and it's for you we're giving away tickets right now.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So how many are we giving away today?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I think it's two.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Tickets for next week, for next week, right, Like, who
doesn't love a Christmas dance? Do you remember growing up
and going to the Christmas dance you had at your
junior high school, your high school? Like it evokes you know,
this nostalgia in us to think? I mean I even remember,
like the outfit I wore to my eighth grade Christmas dance.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I was so proud of that dang outfit. Sure, like
it just you know, you have memories associated with it.
And Valley Deale makes it happy for us as adults.
Make it, make it happy, make it happen. That's it.
Both work interchangeably.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So call in you guys, and you can win tickets.
Just tell us your favorite Christmas show of all time?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
There's so many? Is it elf?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh, that's a great one.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Is it White Christmas?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's also another good one. There's so many to choose from.
It's a wonderful life.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Wonderful life. Do you think wonderful life got so popular?
I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
No, no, no, no, no, not that one. I'm not thinking.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That's very obvious, that wonderful life. What's the one that
was filmed in Cleveland?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Christmas? Christmas Story and that one always.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I never understood why that got so popular and is
one of them all time favorite.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's a great question.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
And I toured the house they have the lamp with
the leg lamp.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
It's it's a super unique Christmas movie, right, Like, was
it just in the seventies? People really like identified with
what the family was doing and what the kids were doing.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean maybe that was it.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I don't know, because it's no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's like Home Alone sort of way before Home Alone happened.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But it has that same kind of fun feeling to it.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And it's kind of you know, the whole movie is
narrated by the boy. You know, you're looking at this
movie and everything that happens through his own eyes and ears.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
But anyway, what's your favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Call us up and you will win tickets to this
year's the legendary venue events, including the famed and Fabulous
Fridays for Dancing and It's Christmas Style on.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
December twelfth.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
December twelfth is one of them.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That's next Friday, so they do it every Friday, the
next one coming.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Up, but I think the Christmas one's the nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
The Christmas one is the nineteenth.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Anyway you could take it.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, six one four a two one nine eight eight
sixty six one four eight two one WTV And I.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Say that, but Jody, let's get her on the air,
is on the air. And is this the same Jody
who called us earlier? Did you nab these tickets?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Jody? Are you with.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Us the Christmas part of So it is on the nineteenth, Yes,
it is on the nineteenth. But they have things all
the time. I mean every Friday night, almost every Friday
night they have you know, the Renetta's Big Band just
plays and it's just always a good time there. You
never know who's going to be there. They're always surprised
(03:54):
sometimes and Landa goes live on Facebook if I can't
go sometimes I and I was watching the last Friday
and there were so many young people. There's good. I
just love to keep you know, the old standards going
and the big band sound. But they do all kinds
(04:15):
of things there. So sorry, I'm going on.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well, Validale is growing for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Are you already going on the nineteenth because you are
the first caller, if you want those tickets, they're yours.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Oh w to stated, yes, that would be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Thanks you so, mat Am Gifts, who already appreciates the
Valley Deal. It is one of five ballrooms of its
kind still open in the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Jody, it sounds like you are a lover of all
things Valley Dale. So we're so excited that you did
get those tickets.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Oh my, thank you so much. Listen, We're glad.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, great to talk to you, Jody. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So another event that's coming to town on December twenty
seventh is the Harlem Globetrotters. They have been around for
one hundred years. Have you ever seen them in person?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I've not.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
My sister has in Chicago, but I've not seen them
in person.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I think I remember back as a kid. I think
they were more on television than than they are now.
But we were just always in awe of everything that
the Harlem Globe Trotters could do with a basketball and
how tall these guys were.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
An athletic and strong and just fun. So many tricks.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, I work at Spectrum News one on Tuesdays, Wednesdays
and Thursdays doing the new news, and I had the
great pleasure and opportunity to interview a Harlem Globe trotter
who our station received a news release said he had
been there for twelve years. He's actually been there longer
and he's from Columbus.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
He's from Columbus, played.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Basketball at Independence.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
But you have to hear this story such an inspiration
to people who don't make a team. So I'm going
to play a little bit of the interview, the segment
that we had on Spectrum News one.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
This is with Zeus McClurkin.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Go ahead, Chris, and play this little bit of sound
from this interview I did with him.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
A big reason for it. A lot of people said
I was too nice. They said all you do is
smile and dunk, And today I get pay you to
smile and dunk. So it worked out for me. I
tell kids out there, you know, be yourself when it
comes to this game of basketball. Don't take it too serious.
Just have fun with it and you'll find your place.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But to keep going after hearing no you could cut, no,
you could cut, and for you to still smile and
dunky dunk, and how old were you when you first dunk?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
First dunk was actually that junior year when I finally
made the team and.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
The coach was like, yeah, so you've been on the
gloun Trowders for twelve years?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Yeah, actually sixteen now sixteen yep, yep, And we've been
around for the last one hundred years. So I feel
like I've really been able to submit my stamp on
the team in their one hundred year history, which is
really a huge honor.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Are you one of the oldest guys on the team?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Not?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Actually, I'm not really.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Yeah, there's somebody else that's like three years older than me.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's kind of up there, I think with the game
of basketball, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
One of the base yeh, yeah, I know you're one
of the best.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Sixteen years here, we thought it was just twelve. The
other thing I read about you and I absolutely love
you begin each day with prayer and what are the tricks.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
You do with that ball?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Ho I would love to see you do this.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm sure everybody watching with two is you do a
prayer with it, and he does a prayer with this basketball,
and it was really cool to see and have him
hear that. And he went on to say he's a
minister of a church in towns anister and the very
beginning of that. He is an inspiration because he tried
out for the middle school basketball team in seventh grade,
(07:25):
got cut, eighth grade got cut, ninth grade got cut,
tenth grade, got cut. He finally made the team his
junior year and senior year.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I think those guys, I mean, what a good good
man a for all that he's done and done with
his mindset and his pastoring work. But like, at the
same time, I think those guys are so hugely talented.
I mean, I enjoy basketball, but Harlan Glowtrotter's the tricks
they do and what they do another level.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So they will be in town December twenty seventh, and
you guys can look it up. There's two different I
guess you call them shows.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Games. Yeah, games, letter.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You're right, because it is a game, but it's a show.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
It is both.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
That's I don't even know this. Who do the Globetrotters play?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Is it like the Savannah Bananas where they play another
team of its kind?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Who do the Globe Trotters play, Christina?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The answer to this question, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Do they just play each other or each other just
run up and down the court doing all those tricks.
You know what I remember about the Harlem Globetrotters. They
used to be on the Scooby Doo cartoons. They had
an episode once with the Harlem Gay Absolutely do.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
You remember that?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, I remember that for being a kid. They do
not play real teams in competitive sense. They are an
exhibition team that plays against a team specifically designed to lose,
like the Washington Generals.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Okay, so so kind of like the Savannah Bananas, but
they have the part Savannah Bananas and baseball plays the
party animals and they go to different venues across the country.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Washington Generals founded in nineteen fifty two, an American basketball
team who are the rivals of the Harblem Globetrotters.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Have you decorate yet? No, you're looking at me like
not even closed.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
We got the we got the tree. We got a
twelve foot tree the other day and live.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah again, you've never done artificially.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We have one other tree in the house that the
people who lived in our house left behind, and I.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Was like, really I might use that. So did it
still have the ornaments on it or no?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But it had lights with it, like big thick like
old school lights came with it. And so we're also
in the box up in the attic. So I was like, yes, please.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You know your boys will probably always have a real
tree really sat down. We've never had a real tree
where a fake as fake can get official tree.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It makes it easier to get it up earlier like
this one. You know, you're you're always worried, how is
it going to like dry out? Am I going to
have a fire hazard?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And you know what, every year and we put this
artificial tree up, so many fake needles fall from it.
I'm like, how is this thing still have any needles
at all?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's still look pretty good.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
It does.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And the significance of that is Randy and I got
that for a wedding gift. Oh wow, So it has
been very since we've been married. You know, I will
be sad if we ever kicked that thing to the curb.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It must be a fairly nice tree.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It is pretty good, I mean yeah, because and.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Those trees they cost a lot. Now I looked into
it and Marcus is like, we're not doing that. I mean,
like the fake tree, like really good.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Fake Christmas tree.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
You're talking how much money?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Seventeen hundred dollars, seventeen hundred dollars for a twelve footer,
it's like twenty five dollars seven old. Yeah, no, that's
the best trees out there. Balsam Hill is one of
those best brands, and that is how much they charge tree.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Even imagine paying seventeen hundred dollars for a fake tree
and you found one for free.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I want to see a picture of your tree, because
like matt Back.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Brand, you can find one.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Let me ask you this, when you decorate your thing,
are you white lights or colored lights?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Colored you see?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I would have guessed you white. I'm color all the way.
Yeah my tree, Oh it looks wow. All of our ornaments,
yeah it's fake. It's really fake.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I mean it's real thick though and dense with all those.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Needles that fall off.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Do you guys do that when you're decorating as fall off?
But so many of those ornaments have significant, awesome meaning
behind it. Either Kylon and Cameron made that, or they're dated,
or they're just some type of a story behind it.
You know a lot of people in theme trees are
making all gold tree or a red scarlet and gray.
Mine are all ornaments that I've had since I've been married,
(11:32):
or that have been passed down through my mom's dead
the same.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I had a nanny when I was a baby that
made me like a little house, like knit a house together.
That's the best way for me to put it. And
that ornament my mom gave to me to have on
my tree. I have a bunch of those from when
I was a kid and when I was a baby.
Oh that's a cute one.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We made things with our names, Randy, Mindy, the quarter Cracks,
is kyl and Cameron.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
They're just fun. Christmas is fun. Get your stuff out
when we talk next weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Now you're gonna say everything's up and decorated, You're ready
to go.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Do you think I'm just tired from like a lot
of moving around this fall, Like I think I'm italy
lazy about Christmas.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Actually, I just want like a lot of experiences and
I just want to take it easy.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, guess what what, We're not gonna let you take
it easy, because we're gonna want you to go around
the state of Ohio and figure out where the best
events are and the things to see. The sights and
sounds of Christmas. We have our next guest who's perfect for.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
This ah the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Matt McLaren's in and maybe he will get me into
the mode of doing a little bit more. So stay
tuned like me and get your calendar move in. This
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