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Local Music and Your Calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: 23 away from the top of the hour. Chuck Douglas
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  Speaker 1: in the Power Hour on 610 WTVN. The number's 821-WTVN.
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  Speaker 2: 821-9886.
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  Speaker 1: 1-800-610-WTVN. Listening to her voice all these years later, it
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  Speaker 1: occurs to me Julie Ivory sounded somewhat like Cyndi Lauper. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. I met her out at a place
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  Speaker 1: on Hamilton Road called East Dallas. I was in a
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  Speaker 1: band at the time, and they used to have what
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  Speaker 1: they called a rock wars out there. And we were
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  Speaker 1: pretty weak, man. We were just starting out, but we
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  Speaker 1: had to do it. And we were playing, and then
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  Speaker 1: Snapshot was coming in after us. And the dressing room
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  Speaker 1: was like 10 by 10. It wasn't big at all.
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  Speaker 1: but me and the rest of the guys are back there. And, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sitting on this like little nationwide warehouse, low seat thing.
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  Speaker 1: And Julie comes in and plops down next to me
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  Speaker 1: and puts her head on my shoulder and said, it's
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  Speaker 1: been such a long day. And all I'm thinking, cause
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  Speaker 1: I'm like 20 at the time. I'm thinking, do you
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  Speaker 1: understand how cute you are? Cause she just put really cute.
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  Speaker 1: She was, she was a cute lady. Yeah. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'm going to stay very calm. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to stay very calm, but Julie has her head on
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  Speaker 1: my shoulder right now. And she was just the sweetest person.
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  Speaker 1: We just sat backstage and talked, and she was just very,
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  Speaker 1: very sweet. It was nice to see that. She hosted
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  Speaker 1: a music video show over at Channel 10 for a while, too.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that. And then, Julia Arian Snapshot. Poof. Like
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  Speaker 1: so many others. I would do, seriously, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: how old you are. If you are still jammable and
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  Speaker 1: I had the lottery win, I would rent a big
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  Speaker 1: hall out and just do like a bar band reunion
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  Speaker 1: for Central Ohio. I think that would be awesome. But
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  Speaker 1: then again, I'm twisted and I need help. 821-9886 and Dipper,
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  Speaker 1: you're on 610 WTVN.
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  Speaker 2: Hi. How's it going? Yeah, the lady just mentioned the
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  Speaker 2: Black Forest Inn. Mine was always the Beer Stube, and
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  Speaker 2: that just closed two years ago, so that was kind
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  Speaker 2: of sad in my day.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So the one I want to know about, whatever happened
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  Speaker 2: to the urban legend Willie Phoenix?
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  Speaker 1: Willie was– I don't want to say he passed away,
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  Speaker 1: but I almost feel like he did about a year
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  Speaker 1: and a half, two years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I remember he was popping up on my social media
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  Speaker 1: stuff quite a bit. But I don't know for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to check into it because I
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  Speaker 1: don't know for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Did he just cover music or did he have any
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  Speaker 2: of his own?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he had songs of his own. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I ever heard them do anything but cover stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want to keep the audience happy, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you had to do because people came to
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  Speaker 1: hear stuff that they knew. They wanted to sing along
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  Speaker 1: with you and and that kind of thing. So original rock,
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  Speaker 1: it was a little hard to develop an audience unless
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  Speaker 1: you were just really, really good and put on a
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  Speaker 1: great show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember a band. It was 11-11. They did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the Genesis stuff, and it sounded pretty good,
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  Speaker 2: but then again, did they have anything original? I don't
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  Speaker 2: think they did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'll see what I can find out about Willie Phoenix.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question, Dipper. Thank you. I The band
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  Speaker 1: that I was in when I was out there at
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  Speaker 1: East Dallas, it was called Stormbringer after a Queen song.
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  Speaker 1: And I was down in Newport, Richie, outside of Tampa, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: And we ate at this place called Shepherds, which is
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  Speaker 1: on the beach on the Gulf Coast. And the band
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  Speaker 1: that was coming in that weekend, I really wanted to
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  Speaker 1: stay and see. The band was called Stormbringer. I'm like, really?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: That's us, man. You can't be using our name. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they did. And at the time, they looked
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  Speaker 1: like they were kind of a lounge act. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: look very. So it was kind of an odd name for,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for the picture, if you will. Man, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just I've got all kinds of stuff from like 1980
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  Speaker 1: running through my head right now. Elizabeth, you are on
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  Speaker 1: 610 WTV and hi. Hi, Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: Great to talk to you because I listen to you
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  Speaker 3: and Mark Blazer about every day.
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  Speaker 1: Bless your heart. Thank you. I do.
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  Speaker 3: And actually, I have something I want to touch base
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  Speaker 3: on about a company. But you threw me into a
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  Speaker 3: different conversation about Julie Ivory. I actually, when I was
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  Speaker 3: a teenager, I went over to a club and they
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  Speaker 3: had a teen night on Sunday night along the side
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  Speaker 3: off Bryce Road. And Julie Ivory did this TV show
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  Speaker 3: called National Bandstand.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. I lost you there. What was it called?
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like you're out in the wind or something.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I am.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on. Hold on.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay.
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  Speaker 3: It was called National Bandstand.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It was a TV show that she hosted. And it
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  Speaker 3: was like American Bandstand for teenagers in Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Very cool.
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  Speaker 3: So I got to work with her every, yeah, every
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  Speaker 3: Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: And was she as nice for you as she seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be to me? Because I was very impressed with
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  Speaker 1: how she just, I mean, she was wearing the high
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  Speaker 1: heel boots and had all the makeup on and all
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  Speaker 1: the sparkly crap. And she still just seemed like my
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  Speaker 1: next door neighbor. I mean, she was just real normal.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 5: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: She was great. Everyone was super nice. So yeah, that was,
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  Speaker 3: crazy when I called in. You started talking about Julie Ivory,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, wow, blast from the past.
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  Speaker 1: Were you also a Spittin' Image fan?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I didn't know them that well because I was young,
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  Speaker 3: so I wasn't really out clubbing at the time to
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  Speaker 3: know the Columbus bands, though I knew McGuffey Lane since
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  Speaker 3: I was really young. But those bands I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: So then the reason I was actually calling in was
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  Speaker 3: that no one has brought up the latest news. And
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you, I'm a staunch Republican, worked a
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  Speaker 3: lot for the Republican Party. But this is something that
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  Speaker 3: no one has spoken about or asked questions. It came
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  Speaker 3: out in Bloomberg and Reuters like about six days ago,
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  Speaker 3: last week. There's a company that Vivek just started called
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  Speaker 3: He's raised $ 400 million for. He's a co-founder, and it's
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  Speaker 3: called Atlas Atomic. It's a nuclear energy company. And I
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  Speaker 3: would love someone to ask him about it.
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  Speaker 1: I have not heard a thing about it, but as
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  Speaker 1: of tonight, I will know more than I ever wanted
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  Speaker 1: to know. And yes, I will ask him about it.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you. I figured you guys didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: No, I hadn't heard a thing about it. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what? That tells me that perhaps he's got his
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  Speaker 1: eye on nuclear energy in the state of Ohio if
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  Speaker 1: he can get it past the federal level because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to manage everything. And I've talked about nuclear energy.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's so stuck in Three Mile Island. That was a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. The technology in everything is different. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have meltdowns now. We know what we're doing. And
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  Speaker 1: nuclear energy, the efficiency, the ability to power so much
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  Speaker 1: with such a little space, I don't see how we
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  Speaker 1: look past it at this point.
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  Speaker 3: True. And also, this technology, so I don't know that
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  Speaker 3: the technology actually exists. But what they're trying to come
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  Speaker 3: up with is it's a heavy water nuclear reactor that
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  Speaker 3: does not use uranium. So... Wow. For what it's worth.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it actually exists, but they've raised
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  Speaker 3: $ 400 million.
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  Speaker 1: What do they use, like Taco Bell? What's their power source?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Put a Chalupa in there, maybe? I will check into it, Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you very much for putting it on my
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  Speaker 1: plate because I've heard nothing about it. Let's get Rick
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  Speaker 1: on the LegacyRetirementGroup.com phone lines.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Rick. Hey, how you doing?
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  Speaker 6: And why did she have to do that? She completely
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  Speaker 6: derailed what I was thinking about. That's awesome, him and
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  Speaker 6: atomic energy possibilities. And, you know, thinking back to the
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  Speaker 6: ex-president of OSU, his background was nuclear. I'm surprised that,
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  Speaker 6: you know, a little bit more, you know, that's what
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  Speaker 6: he was, that he was a nuclear engineer of some
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  Speaker 6: sort in the Navy. Ted Warner was his name?
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: That was it, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know he had a background in nuclear energy.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool, too.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he was nuclear all the way. Oh, but back
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  Speaker 6: to 3-2 Beer Days, back before it was Zacharias, my
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  Speaker 6: stomping ground was a castle.
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  Speaker 2: Three floors?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if you remember that.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 6: That was probably before your time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. Now, did that eventually become Trilogy?
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  Speaker 6: I don't have no idea. I haven't been down there
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  Speaker 6: in decades.
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  Speaker 1: I used to go to a place called Trilogy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Could be, but also, like, McGlassy Lane, I think I
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  Speaker 6: used to listen to them on a little hole-in-the-wall bar
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  Speaker 6: on North 4th Street, almost towards Hudson. I think it was, uh,
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  Speaker 6: Ruby Tuesdays. It was originally Ruby Tuesdays.
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  Speaker 1: I loved Ruby Tuesdays. That was on Summit. Oh, well, okay, Summit. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: I saw, uh, a band out of Michigan once called
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  Speaker 1: Orange Lake Drive. I went to Ruby Tuesdays to see them,
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  Speaker 1: and they, that was an amazing show, and, and I
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  Speaker 1: love the atmosphere of that place.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and Julie Ivory, I loved when she did, uh,
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  Speaker 6: Heat Wave.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. I, I, I, uh, I miss those days, Rick.
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  Speaker 1: I really do.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: When she covered Linda Ronstadt and stuff, it was, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you couldn't beat it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And Linda Ronstadt, oh, that's another one where we are, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: she's been silenced now, but I'll tell you what, it's,
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  Speaker 1: she left a lot of good memories. Mike Love, did
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  Speaker 1: you see the video of Mike Love performing? And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people were saying, he looks like he needs
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  Speaker 1: to just retire. He's laid out there on the stage
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  Speaker 1: and he's, you know what? He, They sounded great. He's
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  Speaker 1: doing what he loves. God bless him. Leave the man alone.
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  Speaker 1: Leave him alone. And John Stamos penned a particularly heart-wrenching
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  Speaker 1: post about him that I put on my Facebook page.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't seen that, you ought to read that. Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: you are on 610 WTVN.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, how's everybody doing?
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  Speaker 1: We're fine, sir. What's up?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember or it's been mentioned
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  Speaker 4: that a band called Strongbow out of Columbus. They used
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  Speaker 4: to open for Ted Nugent and Elvin Bishop.
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  Speaker 2: And a few others.
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  Speaker 1: Elvin Bishop. Oh, my gosh. There's a name, too. No,
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  Speaker 1: I do not remember Strongbow, though.
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  Speaker 4: It was Bill Bendler and John Durso and a few others,
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  Speaker 4: but Bill was a fellow trombone player and used an
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  Speaker 4: electronic octaviter, and they played progressive rock. Their claim to
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  Speaker 4: fame song was Move Over Blue. And back in the day,
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  Speaker 4: used to go to the biggest pickup bar in Columbus,
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  Speaker 4: which was Sugar Shack.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that was ever on the front
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  Speaker 1: door when you walked in, but that is the reputation, Bruce.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Thank you. Bob, you're on 610 WTVN.
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  Speaker 5: My buddy used to live above the sugar shack. But anyway,
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  Speaker 5: I called about a couple of things, but then you
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  Speaker 5: brought up Willie Phoenix. Willie Phoenix is alive and well.
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  Speaker 1: I am glad to hear that.
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  Speaker 5: He plays up at the El Dorado all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I am glad to hear that. There was something going
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  Speaker 1: on with him a couple of years ago, but I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember what it was. He was just on my
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  Speaker 1: social media all the time for a while.
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  Speaker 5: Every once in a while, somebody will pick him up,
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  Speaker 5: and it'll catch on like wildfire, and then it'll just
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  Speaker 5: go away. But, yeah, he played at the community festival
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  Speaker 5: a couple months ago.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to get a hold of him
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  Speaker 1: and see if I can get him to come in
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  Speaker 1: and do the show.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, he'd love that. He's prima donna, but he's a
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  Speaker 5: good guy. But I used to work across the street
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  Speaker 5: at Stash's at the Isle of Carte, and I'd go there.
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  Speaker 5: on my after work for happy hour, and I'd see
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  Speaker 5: bands like the Circle Jerks and the Pixies and the
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  Speaker 5: Breeders and 10,000 Maniacs and Soundgarden and the Smashing Pumpkins.
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  Speaker 1: They were great days, Bob.
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  Speaker 5: And if I liked what I heard.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, buddy, I got to run because the music's playing.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for me to fly. I'm back in with
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  Speaker 1: Blazer at 3 tomorrow on 610 WTVN.