September 29, 2024 • 13 mins
Mindy and Mikaela talk about Mikaela recieving and important award.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to a rainy, rainy, soggy Sunday afternoon. But as
bad as it is here, boy, it's worse than so
many other parts of our country right now.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I mean, I was watching before this morning Weather Channel
Christian and I Christian loves the Weather Channel and Ashville Mindy,
and so many people love the Ashville area. It's a
mess in the Carolinas.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, you know, we were watching this Hurricane Helene develop
throughout the week, and you never know how strong it's
going to be when it's going to hit, so much
of it is on timing.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
But the something came out.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Of this from a sheriff in one of the counties
in Florida, And in my lifetime I had never seen
this posted before. And the sheriff said, I forget what
exact county it was from, but he was asking his residence,
if you choose to stay and do not evacuate, please
take a permanent marker and put your name, your social
(01:04):
Security number, your address, whatever, on your arm and your
leg arm or your leg so you can be identified.
What I've never seen that before. Would that make you evacuate?
Like that would make me evacuate? If it could you
imagine writing identifying yourself in permanent marker on your armor
leg thinking this could be it.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I think that would be enough for me to say
I'm out.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, But I don't feel like they were forecasting this right,
And I don't think they talked a lot about the
Carolinas when they forecast it, right, So it was so
sudden to evacuate. You know, my mom and dad live
in southern Georgia. They are going on day three without power.
They're fortunate to have a generator, but gas is hard
(01:47):
to come by, Mindy.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Gas is really.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Hard to come by in the southern part of Georgia, and.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's hot and it's sticky, and they're just they're happy.
They're okay because they have that generator. But this waash
of water that came over the Carolinas, yeah, not expected,
not forecasted. And now it looks like USA today was
calling North Carolina's own hurricane Katrina. That's how bad if
you remember back to Katrina.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I remember Katrina.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Absolutely people moved here to Ohio from down south. So's
that's one thing that we're talking about today. And I
feel like there's so many things that I need to
talk to you about. First of all, congratulations, huge award
for you and the people you work with. I want
you to talk a little bit about that, and also
your family experienced your first homecoming. I saw some pictures.
(02:38):
I think more kids are going stag and I love that.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You are one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Let me start there, because this is what matters, right.
I'm happy to share about the other thing too. It
matters a lot for the grander scheme of things in
our state and country. But let's talk families first. Yes,
all of these kids go in a group without a date.
I mean, there are some boys and girlfriends that go together,
but more often than not, the families who went to
(03:05):
homecoming that I saw this weekend and over the last
few weekends have.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Gone into a group of girls or a group of guys.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
My niece is one of them. My niece, Danny Dreyer.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
In Old Tangie schools, she was asked a boy asked
her to go to homecoming.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I said, no, she wants to go with her friends
because you're gonna have more fun.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I think it's outstanding when you go with groups of people.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I do. I just think that trend is shifting more
and more like that. But why why do you think
that is?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Because I know so is not the case in high
school kids that.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Age anymore, you know, you do. Why do you think
it is?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I think the way they interact with each other and
the way that they date each other is a little
more virtual, and when you're in person with someone, it's
a little more vulnerable because being behind a screen and
texting each other, hey baby, it's a little different than
being in person. That's my personal opinion.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We went with groups of friends, but we had a
date too, even if it was just a friend date, like,
oh my buddy SONSA is gonna take it into the dance.
You know, we went as couples, but not a couple couples.
You just went as friends groups but coupled up. But
that's not even the case anymore. It's just like a
group of guys are going to the dance, a group
of girls are going to dance.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'll just see there and then you take your and
then this trend of taking pictures somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You know how many.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
People took their pictures at the Columbus Metropolitan Library downtown yesterday.
We did not do it, but everyone else left and
right went to the main branch to take their pictures
in that gorgeous building.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's like a side the building because you know what,
what a rainy weekend from Friday today to have those.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Pictures for homecoming and walking in heels.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And that's the one thing I'll always give Kemi credit
for to always were tennis shoes if it was homecoming
or prom or whatever. She just kind of made her
statement and said, I am not walking on on heels.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I want my well.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, so it was a whirlwin weekend because of that.
That is a trend that is out there. You are
absolutely right, but.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You were in New York for thirty six hours.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I think my body, though, isn't.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Back to normal because you know, we were flying home
when the remnants of Hurricane Helene were coming across Ohio.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It was an interesting ride home.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I had a great seat partner, and it's a good
thing because we were all over the place in the sky.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But tell everyone while you were there and congratulations, this
is awesome. You my friend, should be really proud.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So at the Department of Commerce where I work, I'm
the chief communications officer there, we know we do a
lot of different things, but one thing. One of our
divisions is the division of Securities, and we licensed financial
advisors and about two years ago we came up with
a concept based on research that financial advisors are the
first ones to know if a family has someone in
(05:49):
it that's struggling with opioid addiction and mindy, you know,
opioid addiction has retavoc on the state of Ohio and
other places around the country.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So absolutely, I mean yeah, for so many different reasons.
But of course a lot of people, you know, blame
the border for an increase of a lot of drugs
as well.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
It's gotten out of control.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So what do you do when an influx comes in?
But they are not a lot of solutions that are working.
So we identified financial advisors as some of those who
could talk to a family who was attempting to maybe
put a child through rehab, didn't want to go through
their insurance because of the stigma of it. So we
created an online course, a website with a map that
(06:28):
had treatment locations amongst the state of Ohio and people
started to pick up on it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It was a labor of love.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It took time, but we won a global award for.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
The work that we did.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Global Global that's in the world.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Through Reagan Communications their PR Daily Award. So we were
in the room with I haven't even had a chance
to tell you all this yet, like ESPN was winning,
Cisco was winning, PEPSI Coo was winning, like all these
companies that you guys know, And then this was hysterical.
We get to our category, which was multi channel campaign,
so that means a marketing campaign, storytelling on all different
(07:04):
kinds of platforms right website, social, email, campaign videos, PSAs,
and when they announced our name, I mean, I never
thought in a million years we were going to win
this thing. We were up against some also really well
known national names, including the Environmental Defense Fund that was.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
One of the groups that we were up against, and Mindy.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
When they announced us, it was hysterical because I didn't
it didn't like I didn't recognize it at first, they said,
because they said the Ohio Department of Commerce.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So funny, that is hilarious. Somebody was a Buckeye fan.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Somebody was a buck Eye fan or making fun of us,
so it was it was amazing. I nearly cried and
we had the chance to say and this is the
last thing I'll say about it.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We had a chance to give.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
A little talk, and Art's commissioner, who I went to
New York with, Andrea Sites, challenged every other industry in
the room to take a look at what they could
do with the families of their employees or their clients
who are suffering from opioid addiction or opioid use disorder.
And then I had a chance to say this communications
(08:19):
storytelling shows people what's possible and when done really well,
it can connect the dots from research to solutions and
you can do anything. That is the beauty of what
we do in communications in all forms. And that is
a testament to what that campaign did. We were solving
(08:39):
problems based on research.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
But if you look at your career, you've always been
a storyteller. I hope they know how valuable you are,
and I think winning this global award is a testimonial
to your work as their leader. And I hope you
got a big time race so we can do I.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Mean, I work in government, mindy, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Everybody should get a raise every once in a while.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You know, you know what I think about this though.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You think about journalism and the reasons you got into
journalism I got into journalism. I got into journalism personally
because I wanted to make a difference in my community.
And I will say this, working in state government in
a role that allows you to do things like this
makes a difference for our state, makes a difference for
our community.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And I'm so proud.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And the work is so close to that work in
journalism that we did, and I think that's why I
love it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I think that's great and I'm and I'm you deserved it,
and I wish journalism the way it was back when
we were there was a lot different than it is today.
You know now, can you believe how people take sides
for every little thing anymore? It used to be, Mikayla,
when it came to journalism, you're not supposed to have
a dog in the fight.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You're not. But that's just not the way it is anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
So kudos for you being old school and doing a
simple story, a simple job of telling a story the
right way.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Congratulations, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
A coming up today, We have so much coming up today,
great stories, great ways to connect you. Let's talk first
about the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. They're going to come
in so different than the Ohio Department of Commerce, the
Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Matt McLaren's going to be in
this weather. Mindy makes me think about the list of
(10:19):
things that he is going to share with us.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I'm excited and.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Ready Haunted Ohio. Come on, guys, it's almost October. You
know what that means. We want to get scared. And
Matt was actually one of the people who was with
me when we toured the prison in Mansfield, so we're
going to get his take on what he thought of
it as well. But he's got all kinds of attractions
that you'll want to check out in the entire month
of October, some scary and haunted, others very family friendly.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
So we're going to talk to him about that. Kosai
is coming up here shortly too.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, the ticket giveaways go lower today.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
We're going to have a four pack of general admission
tickets plus a four pack speaking of scary things to
Kosai after dark unmapp on Thursday, October tenth. And then
there's some new exhibits coming to town here really soon,
and so we'll catch up with your chief operating officer
on that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And then Melinda Peters Elliott, she is the best interior designer, decorator,
anything that you want in that line, from draybery to
color schemes. She can make your entire house look so
much different and work within your budget. She's gonna be
talking fall trends.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I haven't.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I have an American flag hanging out my front door.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Is still right now.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Good.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well, I mean, i'd given the period of time where
it could be good for me, maybe a year round.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I mean you should never. I would always keep an American.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I have no fall de core up though, and usually
you're really good about your fall decorps.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Have you beaten me out on this?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I haven't done it yet.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I haven't done it yet either, because our weekends have
been a little bit busy. But I was just thinking,
I got to put those boxes of Halloween stuff out
because ours is like fall Halloween things.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, I love your stuff. So Melinda's going to set
us straight, get us on track.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, I'm sure if she would look at myself, she'd say,
oh my gosh, so gaudy.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
But it is fun in a way.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It can be fun, especially during the Halloween scenes.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, So lots to come. Hot topics are next.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
We're gonna throw out our phone number six one four
eight two one nine eight eight six. That's six one
four eight two one WTVN.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I have a hot topic in my own city where
I have grown up forever, in Westerville, and I am
ticked off.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I am ticked.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I actually may know what the hot topic is, but
because sometimes I don't know, but I may know.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
This has to do with something that we've had and
talked about in studio here, I know what it is,
then I'm mad, I really am.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I'd like to know reasons behind it.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Is this life Wise.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
It is life Wise.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Okay, so you guys you know what life Wise Academy is.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You may not know. You don't see I feel like
I don't know people know what life Wise is. But
keep listening.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
We'll go to break and if you are at all
familiar with life Wise, if you know what's going on
in the city of Westerville, the school district, I really
appreciate an explanation, because the district has been using it
and they're getting rid of it. It's now in LifeWise
is in one hundred and seventy different districts around the
state of Ohio, and it's totally valid by the Supreme Court.
(13:11):
So why all of a sudden are you getting rid
of it.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That's our hot topic when we come back.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
This is what matters
Welcome to a rainy, rainy, soggy Sunday afternoon. But as
bad as it is here, boy, it's worse than so
many other parts of our country right now.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I mean, I was watching before this morning Weather Channel
Christian and I Christian loves the Weather Channel and Ashville Mindy,
and so many people love the Ashville area. It's a
mess in the Carolinas.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, you know, we were watching this Hurricane Helene develop
throughout the week, and you never know how strong it's
going to be when it's going to hit, so much
of it is on timing.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
But the something came out.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Of this from a sheriff in one of the counties
in Florida, And in my lifetime I had never seen
this posted before. And the sheriff said, I forget what
exact county it was from, but he was asking his residence,
if you choose to stay and do not evacuate, please
take a permanent marker and put your name, your social
(01:04):
Security number, your address, whatever, on your arm and your
leg arm or your leg so you can be identified.
What I've never seen that before. Would that make you evacuate?
Like that would make me evacuate? If it could you
imagine writing identifying yourself in permanent marker on your armor
leg thinking this could be it.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I think that would be enough for me to say
I'm out.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, But I don't feel like they were forecasting this right,
And I don't think they talked a lot about the
Carolinas when they forecast it, right, So it was so
sudden to evacuate. You know, my mom and dad live
in southern Georgia. They are going on day three without power.
They're fortunate to have a generator, but gas is hard
(01:47):
to come by, Mindy.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Gas is really.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Hard to come by in the southern part of Georgia, and.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's hot and it's sticky, and they're just they're happy.
They're okay because they have that generator. But this waash
of water that came over the Carolinas, yeah, not expected,
not forecasted. And now it looks like USA today was
calling North Carolina's own hurricane Katrina. That's how bad if
you remember back to Katrina.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I remember Katrina.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Absolutely people moved here to Ohio from down south. So's
that's one thing that we're talking about today. And I
feel like there's so many things that I need to
talk to you about. First of all, congratulations, huge award
for you and the people you work with. I want
you to talk a little bit about that, and also
your family experienced your first homecoming. I saw some pictures.
(02:38):
I think more kids are going stag and I love that.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You are one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Let me start there, because this is what matters, right.
I'm happy to share about the other thing too. It
matters a lot for the grander scheme of things in
our state and country. But let's talk families first. Yes,
all of these kids go in a group without a date.
I mean, there are some boys and girlfriends that go together,
but more often than not, the families who went to
(03:05):
homecoming that I saw this weekend and over the last
few weekends have.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Gone into a group of girls or a group of guys.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
My niece is one of them. My niece, Danny Dreyer.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
In Old Tangie schools, she was asked a boy asked
her to go to homecoming.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I said, no, she wants to go with her friends
because you're gonna have more fun.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I think it's outstanding when you go with groups of people.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I do. I just think that trend is shifting more
and more like that. But why why do you think
that is?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Because I know so is not the case in high
school kids that.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Age anymore, you know, you do. Why do you think
it is?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I think the way they interact with each other and
the way that they date each other is a little
more virtual, and when you're in person with someone, it's
a little more vulnerable because being behind a screen and
texting each other, hey baby, it's a little different than
being in person. That's my personal opinion.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We went with groups of friends, but we had a
date too, even if it was just a friend date, like,
oh my buddy SONSA is gonna take it into the dance.
You know, we went as couples, but not a couple couples.
You just went as friends groups but coupled up. But
that's not even the case anymore. It's just like a
group of guys are going to the dance, a group
of girls are going to dance.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'll just see there and then you take your and
then this trend of taking pictures somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You know how many.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
People took their pictures at the Columbus Metropolitan Library downtown yesterday.
We did not do it, but everyone else left and
right went to the main branch to take their pictures
in that gorgeous building.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's like a side the building because you know what,
what a rainy weekend from Friday today to have those.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Pictures for homecoming and walking in heels.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And that's the one thing I'll always give Kemi credit
for to always were tennis shoes if it was homecoming
or prom or whatever. She just kind of made her
statement and said, I am not walking on on heels.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I want my well.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, so it was a whirlwin weekend because of that.
That is a trend that is out there. You are
absolutely right, but.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You were in New York for thirty six hours.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I think my body, though, isn't.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Back to normal because you know, we were flying home
when the remnants of Hurricane Helene were coming across Ohio.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It was an interesting ride home.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I had a great seat partner, and it's a good
thing because we were all over the place in the sky.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But tell everyone while you were there and congratulations, this
is awesome. You my friend, should be really proud.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So at the Department of Commerce where I work, I'm
the chief communications officer there, we know we do a
lot of different things, but one thing. One of our
divisions is the division of Securities, and we licensed financial
advisors and about two years ago we came up with
a concept based on research that financial advisors are the
first ones to know if a family has someone in
(05:49):
it that's struggling with opioid addiction and mindy, you know,
opioid addiction has retavoc on the state of Ohio and
other places around the country.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So absolutely, I mean yeah, for so many different reasons.
But of course a lot of people, you know, blame
the border for an increase of a lot of drugs
as well.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
It's gotten out of control.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So what do you do when an influx comes in?
But they are not a lot of solutions that are working.
So we identified financial advisors as some of those who
could talk to a family who was attempting to maybe
put a child through rehab, didn't want to go through
their insurance because of the stigma of it. So we
created an online course, a website with a map that
(06:28):
had treatment locations amongst the state of Ohio and people
started to pick up on it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It was a labor of love.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It took time, but we won a global award for.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
The work that we did.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Global Global that's in the world.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Through Reagan Communications their PR Daily Award. So we were
in the room with I haven't even had a chance
to tell you all this yet, like ESPN was winning,
Cisco was winning, PEPSI Coo was winning, like all these
companies that you guys know, And then this was hysterical.
We get to our category, which was multi channel campaign,
so that means a marketing campaign, storytelling on all different
(07:04):
kinds of platforms right website, social, email, campaign videos, PSAs,
and when they announced our name, I mean, I never
thought in a million years we were going to win
this thing. We were up against some also really well
known national names, including the Environmental Defense Fund that was.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
One of the groups that we were up against, and Mindy.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
When they announced us, it was hysterical because I didn't
it didn't like I didn't recognize it at first, they said,
because they said the Ohio Department of Commerce.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So funny, that is hilarious. Somebody was a Buckeye fan.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Somebody was a buck Eye fan or making fun of us,
so it was it was amazing. I nearly cried and
we had the chance to say and this is the
last thing I'll say about it.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We had a chance to give.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
A little talk, and Art's commissioner, who I went to
New York with, Andrea Sites, challenged every other industry in
the room to take a look at what they could
do with the families of their employees or their clients
who are suffering from opioid addiction or opioid use disorder.
And then I had a chance to say this communications
(08:19):
storytelling shows people what's possible and when done really well,
it can connect the dots from research to solutions and
you can do anything. That is the beauty of what
we do in communications in all forms. And that is
a testament to what that campaign did. We were solving
(08:39):
problems based on research.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
But if you look at your career, you've always been
a storyteller. I hope they know how valuable you are,
and I think winning this global award is a testimonial
to your work as their leader. And I hope you
got a big time race so we can do I.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Mean, I work in government, mindy, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Everybody should get a raise every once in a while.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You know, you know what I think about this though.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You think about journalism and the reasons you got into
journalism I got into journalism. I got into journalism personally
because I wanted to make a difference in my community.
And I will say this, working in state government in
a role that allows you to do things like this
makes a difference for our state, makes a difference for
our community.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And I'm so proud.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And the work is so close to that work in
journalism that we did, and I think that's why I
love it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I think that's great and I'm and I'm you deserved it,
and I wish journalism the way it was back when
we were there was a lot different than it is today.
You know now, can you believe how people take sides
for every little thing anymore? It used to be, Mikayla,
when it came to journalism, you're not supposed to have
a dog in the fight.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You're not. But that's just not the way it is anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
So kudos for you being old school and doing a
simple story, a simple job of telling a story the
right way.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Congratulations, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
A coming up today, We have so much coming up today,
great stories, great ways to connect you. Let's talk first
about the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. They're going to come
in so different than the Ohio Department of Commerce, the
Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Matt McLaren's going to be in
this weather. Mindy makes me think about the list of
(10:19):
things that he is going to share with us.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I'm excited and.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Ready Haunted Ohio. Come on, guys, it's almost October. You
know what that means. We want to get scared. And
Matt was actually one of the people who was with
me when we toured the prison in Mansfield, so we're
going to get his take on what he thought of
it as well. But he's got all kinds of attractions
that you'll want to check out in the entire month
of October, some scary and haunted, others very family friendly.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
So we're going to talk to him about that. Kosai
is coming up here shortly too.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, the ticket giveaways go lower today.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
We're going to have a four pack of general admission
tickets plus a four pack speaking of scary things to
Kosai after dark unmapp on Thursday, October tenth. And then
there's some new exhibits coming to town here really soon,
and so we'll catch up with your chief operating officer
on that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And then Melinda Peters Elliott, she is the best interior designer, decorator,
anything that you want in that line, from draybery to
color schemes. She can make your entire house look so
much different and work within your budget. She's gonna be
talking fall trends.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I haven't.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I have an American flag hanging out my front door.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Is still right now.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Good.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well, I mean, i'd given the period of time where
it could be good for me, maybe a year round.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I mean you should never. I would always keep an American.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I have no fall de core up though, and usually
you're really good about your fall decorps.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Have you beaten me out on this?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I haven't done it yet.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I haven't done it yet either, because our weekends have
been a little bit busy. But I was just thinking,
I got to put those boxes of Halloween stuff out
because ours is like fall Halloween things.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, I love your stuff. So Melinda's going to set
us straight, get us on track.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, I'm sure if she would look at myself, she'd say,
oh my gosh, so gaudy.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
But it is fun in a way.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It can be fun, especially during the Halloween scenes.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, So lots to come. Hot topics are next.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
We're gonna throw out our phone number six one four
eight two one nine eight eight six. That's six one
four eight two one WTVN.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I have a hot topic in my own city where
I have grown up forever, in Westerville, and I am
ticked off.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I am ticked.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I actually may know what the hot topic is, but
because sometimes I don't know, but I may know.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
This has to do with something that we've had and
talked about in studio here, I know what it is,
then I'm mad, I really am.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I'd like to know reasons behind it.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Is this life Wise.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
It is life Wise.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Okay, so you guys you know what life Wise Academy is.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You may not know. You don't see I feel like
I don't know people know what life Wise is. But
keep listening.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
We'll go to break and if you are at all
familiar with life Wise, if you know what's going on
in the city of Westerville, the school district, I really
appreciate an explanation, because the district has been using it
and they're getting rid of it. It's now in LifeWise
is in one hundred and seventy different districts around the
state of Ohio, and it's totally valid by the Supreme Court.
(13:11):
So why all of a sudden are you getting rid
of it.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That's our hot topic when we come back.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
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