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- 0:00Speaker 1: We are back, part two of the Power Hour this
- 0:02Speaker 1: Monday evening on 610 WTVN. 821-9886 is my number. Ray
- 0:07Speaker 1: dropped off there. We were talking about the self-checkout crap
- 0:10Speaker 1: that I just won't do it. I refuse to do it.
- 0:11Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it until I get an
- 0:14Speaker 1: employee discount. I will either wait for a cashier to
- 0:17Speaker 1: be available, or I'll go elsewhere where a cashier is available.
- 0:22Speaker 1: I was joking with Zach during the news there because
- 0:26Speaker 1: was she a candidate or is she elected politician? Who
- 0:30Speaker 1: was that woman?
- 0:31Speaker 2: I was playing around on the computer. I was listening,
- 0:34Speaker 2: but I heard it.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 0:35Speaker 2: And that's all I heard. Was Anderson the last name?
- 0:39Speaker 1: I don't recall the first name. I couldn't get past
- 0:41Speaker 1: it because I swear they said her name was Urethra.
- 0:44Speaker 1: I heard it, too. And I, you know, you don't
- 0:47Speaker 1: even hear it unless you're watching King of the Hill.
- 0:49Speaker 1: I have a neural urethra. You don't hear that word.
- 0:54Speaker 1: But they were somebody in the news story and it
- 0:56Speaker 1: just everything stopped. When I heard the name. And so
- 1:00Speaker 1: I'm thinking, you know, what are the crazy names out there?
- 1:04Speaker 1: We've had some politics. Remember when everybody went Barack Hussein, Obama. Oh,
- 1:07Speaker 1: my gosh. Yeah. That seems relatively normal at this point.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Now we got Zoran Mamdami. who sounds like he's like
- 1:17Speaker 1: the bad guy in a sci-fi movie. Really, I am
- 1:21Speaker 1: Zoran of Mondomni. It doesn't sound like a real name.
- 1:26Speaker 1: And if we're going to add urethra to that list, man,
- 1:28Speaker 1: we're just messed up. But I googled some actual politician names.
- 1:35Speaker 1: And before I get into the politician that I said
- 1:37Speaker 1: I was going to get into this half hour, I
- 1:39Speaker 1: got to share this with you. The first, well, actually
- 1:42Speaker 1: here in the state of Ohio, the great state of Ohio,
- 1:45Speaker 1: We did have the oddest name that I can find
- 1:47Speaker 1: is Salmon Chase.
- 1:48Speaker 2: That's a little, that's different.
- 1:50Speaker 1: He's a governor of Ohio and a U.S. secretary or
- 1:55Speaker 1: a treasury secretary. And yeah, that's the craziest I was
- 2:00Speaker 1: able to find here in the state of Ohio. The
- 2:03Speaker 1: first guy was the mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana. His
- 2:05Speaker 1: name's Harry. I'm not going to say his last name.
- 2:07Speaker 1: I just can't bring myself to do it. But it
- 2:10Speaker 1: could be Baskets or Foot.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:14Speaker 1: That's an actual name. Of a mayor of Fort Wayne, India.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Young Boozer III.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Okay.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Young Boozer. State treasurer in Alabama, famous for the campaign motto,
- 2:27Speaker 1: funny name, serious leadership. I like it. Crystal Ball. Democrat
- 2:36Speaker 1: candidate who ran for Congress in the state of Virginia.
- 2:41Speaker 1: I can't say this one either.
- 2:42Speaker 3: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Hang on, I'm going to talk to Zach off the air.
- 2:49Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, I can't get away with that one,
- 2:53Speaker 1: I don't think, even though it's his name. It's not
- 2:56Speaker 1: worth it. Yeah, I like this job. Speedy O'Long. What?
- 3:04Speaker 1: Speedy O'Long.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Was that somebody who was older or who has passed now?
- 3:09Speaker 1: He was a U.S. representative from Louisiana, and judging from
- 3:12Speaker 1: this odd picture– It's rather dated. It looks like it
- 3:16Speaker 1: came from around 1970. Let's see. He served from 1965
- 3:21Speaker 1: until 1973. Speedy O. Long. His middle name was actually Oteria. O-T-E-R-I-A. Oteria. Wow. J.J. Pickle.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Long-serving U.S. representative from Texas. Epigene Wingo.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Effigy and Wingo.
- 3:47Speaker 1: Effigy and Wingo, U.S. representative from the state of Arkansas.
- 3:53Speaker 1: And apparently this is a topic of conversation that's been
- 3:55Speaker 1: had before. I found a couple of articles and some
- 3:57Speaker 1: broadcast material. Even NPR did a show, one of their
- 4:02Speaker 1: hour-long things that they do on NPR, about political odd names.
- 4:10Speaker 1: But those are just a few that I managed to
- 4:12Speaker 1: find during the break. actually this guy has kind of
- 4:16Speaker 1: a strange name it's not a bad name or anything
- 4:20Speaker 1: but Sherrod or Sherrod if you're a national correspondent Sherrod
- 4:24Speaker 1: Brown during the I think it was the 4 o'clock
- 4:27Speaker 1: hour Columbus Dispatch headline pops up on my screen over
- 4:30Speaker 1: there as I'm in here with Blazer that says Sherrod
- 4:32Speaker 1: Brown says he would not vote for impeachment of Donald
- 4:36Speaker 1: Trump if elected to the Senate well first of all
- 4:40Speaker 1: the House is going to start that it will go
- 4:43Speaker 1: to the Senate for the, you know, prosecution, but the
- 4:46Speaker 1: house was started. However, putting that technicality aside, does anybody
- 4:56Speaker 1: believe that? Seriously? Does it? Cause I would like to 821-9886.
- 5:03Speaker 1: If you really believe that I would like for you
- 5:05Speaker 1: to call and convince me because if Sherrod Brown had
- 5:11Speaker 1: the opportunity as a United States Senator to To vote
- 5:15Speaker 1: to prosecute Donald Trump after the House impeachment. I absolutely
- 5:20Speaker 1: believe he would. And the only reason I can figure
- 5:23Speaker 1: that he would even say that at this point and
- 5:26Speaker 1: suddenly that's hitting the news cycle. Is because he's trying
- 5:31Speaker 1: to bring some crossover votes. And maybe just maybe he
- 5:37Speaker 1: thinks he's going to appeal. To some Republicans that are
- 5:41Speaker 1: tired of Republicans. That's the only thing I can figure.
- 5:46Speaker 1: I just. What is that thing where you can bet
- 5:49Speaker 1: on anything?
- 5:51Speaker 2: Couchy or poly.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Yeah, I need to pull one of those up and
- 5:53Speaker 1: see if this is a thing I can bet on.
- 5:56Speaker 1: Because if the world turns upside down and he actually
- 6:02Speaker 1: gets elected to the Senate again. Yes, of course, he
- 6:07Speaker 1: would vote in favor of prosecuting Donald Trump after impeachment.
- 6:11Speaker 2: I mean, somebody had to have told him that for sure.
- 6:14Speaker 2: Strategic reasons, I just don't know who was not going
- 6:18Speaker 2: to vote for him that hears that goes, you know,
- 6:20Speaker 2: I might vote for him now.
- 6:23Speaker 1: I have to wonder to one person, I would imagine, but.
- 6:27Speaker 1: I have to wonder, too. I mean, there had to
- 6:28Speaker 1: be some advice given there that said, here, you need
- 6:31Speaker 1: to do this. But when that popped up on my
- 6:34Speaker 1: screen this afternoon, I just I'm sorry.
- 6:36Speaker 2: I know.
- 6:36Speaker 1: And, you know, here's here's my big this. This isn't
- 6:39Speaker 1: even anti really Sherrod Brown. I support Senator Husted. I
- 6:43Speaker 1: support voting for him and I will be doing so.
- 6:47Speaker 1: We we I think we have a good relationship and
- 6:50Speaker 1: he is always open to listening and and talking things out.
- 6:54Speaker 1: I like that about him. But but basically, here's what
- 6:57Speaker 1: it comes down to, because I can't say he's he
- 6:59Speaker 1: won't be the best senator ever in the state. I
- 7:01Speaker 1: don't know. I know he's the kind of guy who
- 7:04Speaker 1: will try to be our best. I know that he
- 7:08Speaker 1: will do his best to be his best as a
- 7:10Speaker 1: representative of Ohio. I get that. But here's the logic
- 7:16Speaker 1: that I don't think anybody, even from a party aspect,
- 7:21Speaker 1: it's a valid point. He's had two years. It takes
- 7:28Speaker 1: two years just to learn where the bathrooms are. He's
- 7:32Speaker 1: had two years. Sherrod Brown had 32 years. And the
- 7:37Speaker 1: people of the state of Ohio said, you know what, bye-bye.
- 7:43Speaker 1: And they elected Bernie Marino. After 32 years, bye-bye. And
- 7:50Speaker 1: I would think, quite frankly, after going to the same
- 7:52Speaker 1: job for 32 years, he might want to do something
- 7:55Speaker 1: different too. But if you were willing to give this
- 7:57Speaker 1: guy 32 years before saying bye-bye, Doesn't the incumbent senator
- 8:04Speaker 1: who's learning the ropes after his first two years down
- 8:07Speaker 1: there deserve at least one full term to see what
- 8:11Speaker 1: he brings to the table, what he can do for
- 8:14Speaker 1: the state of Ohio, how he will respond to the
- 8:16Speaker 1: voters concerned, how we represent us in the halls of
- 8:19Speaker 1: the Senate? I think so. And I'm just I'm being logical.
- 8:24Speaker 1: I'm not being partisan. When you've done something for 32
- 8:28Speaker 1: years and you got away from it. Why on oif
- 8:32Speaker 1: would you go back before you even get the next
- 8:36Speaker 1: thing going? And I just I feel like that is
- 8:39Speaker 1: the kind of logic I maybe I have too much
- 8:41Speaker 1: faith in my fellow man. But I'm hoping that's the
- 8:44Speaker 1: kind of logic that prevails as people do their early
- 8:48Speaker 1: voting or go to the polls. And it's that's again,
- 8:52Speaker 1: that is not I'm not sitting here putting the bad
- 8:54Speaker 1: mouth on Sherbert. I make fun of his hair. Yes.
- 8:57Speaker 1: And the way he talks, I think that's kind of funny, too.
- 9:00Speaker 1: But I'm just goofing. This isn't being mean to him
- 9:05Speaker 1: or anything else. In fact, I've said nice things about
- 9:07Speaker 1: him in the past. He sent me a letter once
- 9:10Speaker 1: when nobody else that I wrote to did. And I
- 9:13Speaker 1: was impressed by that. And I stood up for him
- 9:17Speaker 1: when he used a word that sounded bad but really wasn't.
- 9:21Speaker 1: It was just the ignorance of the listeners and of
- 9:23Speaker 1: the people who wanted to get you to click here
- 9:25Speaker 1: and watch at 11. They made a big deal out
- 9:27Speaker 1: of it. But it's two completely different words. They just
- 9:34Speaker 1: happen to sound alike. And he used it properly. And, yeah,
- 9:40Speaker 1: I defended that. I'm not, you know, I'm not out
- 9:47Speaker 1: to get anybody. I try to be very fair, even
- 9:51Speaker 1: with people, you know, with whom I have a disagreement.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Defended Michelle Obama when she got flack for saying she
- 9:58Speaker 1: felt gypped. That's racist. You can't say gypped. Really? Yeah.
- 10:06Speaker 1: Right is right. Wrong is wrong. Truth is truth. And
- 10:09Speaker 1: lies are lies. And Sherrod Brown would vote to get
- 10:13Speaker 1: rid of Donald Trump. If he could vote, if they
- 10:17Speaker 1: sent it over from the House and said, we filed
- 10:18Speaker 1: articles of impeachment. Sherrod Brown will be an affirmative. Or again,
- 10:23Speaker 1: maybe that's just me. 821-9886, my number, 821-WTVN. Mark, you're
- 10:27Speaker 1: on 610-WTVN.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Good evening.
- 10:29Speaker 3: Thank you very much for taking my call.
- 10:31Speaker 1: You are very welcome. Thanks for making the call.
- 10:34Speaker 2: Always.
- 10:34Speaker 3: I just wanted to say that it's interesting with all
- 10:36Speaker 3: these campaign commercials with Sherrod Brown, however you pronounce it.
- 10:42Speaker 1: Wow, the network is on the phone offering you a
- 10:44Speaker 1: job right now.
- 10:48Speaker 3: All of these campaign ads, he doesn't want to say,
- 10:51Speaker 3: this is what I did in the last 50 years
- 10:53Speaker 3: in elected office. You think he'd have a long list?
- 10:57Speaker 3: Even John Husted voted to put more money in our
- 11:02Speaker 3: pockets by no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security,
- 11:06Speaker 3: no tax on overtime. And he's only been there just
- 11:08Speaker 3: a short time. So I just hope the Republicans.
- 11:12Speaker 1: The stick that they are using to beat Husted is
- 11:14Speaker 1: the whole data center thing and the... The Epstein contributions. John,
- 11:19Speaker 1: you're taking more money from Epstein affiliates or associates or
- 11:22Speaker 1: whatever the hell word they're using. It's from Les Wexner.
- 11:26Speaker 1: Just say it out loud, for gosh sakes. He took
- 11:28Speaker 1: money from Les Wexner, as did everybody else running for
- 11:32Speaker 1: office in the state of Ohio at some point. That's
- 11:35Speaker 1: what the guy does.
- 11:37Speaker 3: And when all this came out, John donated it to
- 11:40Speaker 3: an agency, to a nonprofit.
- 11:42Speaker 1: Yeah, and when the concerns about the data centers, because
- 11:45Speaker 1: we're bringing jobs to Ohio, construction jobs, data centers, and yes,
- 11:49Speaker 1: he was heavily in support of data centers. Absolutely. Did
- 11:52Speaker 1: they contribute to his campaign? Most likely. But he also,
- 11:56Speaker 1: when people said, hey, Senator Hustedt, We don't want to
- 11:59Speaker 1: be paying for the electric and the water. He introduced
- 12:02Speaker 1: the legislation that would force the data centers to provide
- 12:06Speaker 1: their own fuel, their own electricity, their own water, and
- 12:10Speaker 1: to pay for anything that comes from the public sources
- 12:12Speaker 1: that they use, so our rates wouldn't go up. But
- 12:16Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer refused to even bring it to the floor
- 12:19Speaker 1: for a vote. But now they say, well, John, you
- 12:22Speaker 1: still did that. And when he heard from his constituents,
- 12:26Speaker 1: he tried to be responsive. And the Senate president would
- 12:30Speaker 1: not allow that, or not the president, the speaker, would
- 12:32Speaker 1: not allow that to happen because we can't make a
- 12:35Speaker 1: Republican look good.
- 12:38Speaker 3: But we have communities like New Albany that has 40-some
- 12:40Speaker 3: data centers, but they're getting all the tax revenue and
- 12:43Speaker 3: all the money from them and able to benefit the
- 12:46Speaker 3: police and the fire and have the best of the
- 12:49Speaker 3: best there. So you've got a lot of communities that
- 12:51Speaker 3: want data centers. Yeah.
- 12:53Speaker 1: As long as our fish don't start glowing and the
- 12:55Speaker 1: sky doesn't start falling, those data centers are going somewhere.
- 12:58Speaker 1: And if we can make sure that they are taking
- 13:04Speaker 1: care of their own electric, providing their own electricity... providing
- 13:07Speaker 1: their own water, talking about recirculating water now, which is
- 13:10Speaker 1: going to be a big help, then you know what?
- 13:13Speaker 1: I'd rather have them here than to have them in Butte,
- 13:15Speaker 1: Montana or something like that, Mark. And I just, I
- 13:21Speaker 1: worry about data centers. I worry about AI. I worry
- 13:23Speaker 1: about all that crap because I'm convinced the Terminator is
- 13:26Speaker 1: in the parking lot waiting for me to get to
- 13:27Speaker 1: my car. I'm a little paranoid about those things, but
- 13:32Speaker 1: I think in a realistic way. Anyway, Senator Euston will
- 13:36Speaker 1: be joining me, by the way, in campaign mode, not
- 13:39Speaker 1: in servant mode. The power hour on October 16th. Go
- 13:43Speaker 1: put that on your calendar right now. First half of
- 13:45Speaker 1: the show will be all all John. And I'm looking
- 13:48Speaker 1: forward to it because he's a nice guy. But maybe
- 13:51Speaker 1: we're getting close enough to the vote time that it's
- 13:53Speaker 1: time to not be so nice.