Latest / Chuck Douglas / Evening News

Transcript

Evening News · Chuck Douglas

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Greeting salutations, welcome my friends, do another edition of The
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six tenu WUTV, and I'm Chuck Douglas.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: You know who you are, and we take it from there.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: We get one hour together, which means I talk really
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: fast and you must listen even faster. The numbers eight
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: to one, nine, eight eighty six, eight two one DOUBTV
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: in or one eight hundred and six y ten WTV.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: And first of all, let me just tell you this.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not sure, I'm not positive. I
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: have no clue how I'm functioning right now. It's it's
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: been a long few days filling in for Mike Elliott
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: on Columbus Morning News Thursday and Friday, and then they
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: get on Monday, and I thought that was the end
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: of it, but apparently Tuesday was on the docket too,
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: so Tuesday as well, and yet here we are together
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: again for a Tuesday edition of the Power Hour. Blast
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: my heart, Blast my heart, and get me some til
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: and now. Plus when I fill in on mornings, because
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: you know, I've got a life too that I have
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: to take care of and still got to do real
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: estates and so forth during the day, So generally, when
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: I fill in the morning, I'll get out of here,
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: get off the air at nine. I'm out of here
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: by nine thirty, home by ten, I have a little
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: something to eat, and you know, ten thirty to noon,
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: I'll take a nap, which just that hour and a
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: half gets me through the rest of the day and
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: you know, so I can do what I need to do. However,
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: this week is spring break for the kids, so a
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: house full of loud, obnoxious, banging, screaming, yelling, running children,
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: and you know, it's too chilly for him to go
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: outside and play, so they're in the house, and that
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: means no nap, which further leads me to wonder how
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: I am functioning. So last night, of course, with no nap, yesterday,
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, I am so tired. Got
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: in got in bed about nine, and I was asleep
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: by nine thirty. I was. I fell asleep watching that
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: They did a kind of a tribute and in run
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: tribute to the Neighborhood on CBS, and I love that show.
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: So I fall asleep sometime between nine fifteen and nine thirty. However,
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: there's always however with me, Zach always dude, always However,
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: even falling asleep around nine thirty, I got up at
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: twelve fifty because I don't know, because I just did.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: So I'm up at twelve fifty. I try to go
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: back to sleep, I can't, so I'm just I just
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: stay up the rest of the night, and you know,
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: four am, I come on in here and do my thing.
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: And wow, have I mentioned that I don't know how
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: I'm functioning, Yeah, because that's where I am. Speaking of
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: Late Night. I don't know if you saw yesterday I
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: posted on the Facebook page Stephen Colbert going by the Wayside.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: Now that's finally over as contract is up, CBS not renewing,
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: and CBS had to put something on to replace Colbert
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: and his show. They have decided to go with Comics Unleashed.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: This is perhaps the dumbest possible thing I could have
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: seen them doing a comedy. Now, first, it's not a
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: terrible show, it's just it's not much of a show.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: Byron Allen is amazingly a great businessman. You know, he
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: was one of the hosts of Real People. Byron Allen,
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: Sarah Purcell and Skip. What was Skip's last night? I
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: don't even remember skips last night? Anyway, that was back
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: in the late seventies early eighties, and then he disappeared.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: You really didn't see him. I think he popped up
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: on Entertainment Tonight maybe as a correspondent for a while,
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: but he was never much of a presence. However, behind
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: the scenes, Byron Allen amassed a fortune, a mega empire.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: He's got his own radio and TV stations, I believe,
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: I know he's got some TV stations. I think he's
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: got some radio two. But he really put together up
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: an empire. And the dude's got to be seventy. But
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: he still looks great. Still looks great because he's always
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: had a shaved head. His face isn't aging. He works
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: out obviously just looking at it. So Comics Unleashed is
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: his show. And what he does is he's usually got
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: I think it's four comics and they sit around in
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: a circle and he feeds them an opening and then
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: they all rant for you know, sixty ninety seconds whatever,
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: you know, Like he'll say, oh, so our comics night, Zach, Zach,
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: you're from New York, right, yeah, let me tell you
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: about New York. So you had away and the guy
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: goes on for ninety seconds and people laugh, and then
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: he goes on and introduces the next person. They go
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: through that round and then he suggests, you know something else,
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: So okay, let's get back to Zach. Zach, I understand
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: you're having some issues with your dating life, right, And
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: then Zach goes off for a note. Hey yeah, let
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: me tell you about my dating life anyway, and they
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: all do that and that's pretty much the show. Thanks
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: for joining us, good night. This show has been on
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: for years, I mean lots of years, but most people
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: don't know about it because frankly, it's been relegated to
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: two am three am. It's a filler show. It's something
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: that they put on in the middle of the night
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: to fill time and have something on the air. Now,
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: let me be clear, remember what was that? Was it
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: Deal or No Deal or Weakest Lenk? I think it
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: was Deal or No Deal? That actually started the same way,
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: middle of the night time filler until it built a
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: bit of an audience and they said, okay, let's try
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: this during the day, and it worked during the day.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: Then they said let's try this with an evening edition.
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: It worked well, and then of course they canceled it.
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: But still it went from that overnight filler thing to
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: you know, a primetime game show. So it's not impossible
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: that Comics Unleased could do this too. But like I said,
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: it's been around, man, it just just got to be
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: it's gotta be ten twelve years if that thing's been on.
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: I just I don't get it, don't get it at all. Also,
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: in the world of overnight, when you hear again, whether
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: it's radio or television, you hear PSA's public service announcements,
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: those also are filler. So if a program, let's say
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: it has a commercial break that's supposed to be three
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: minutes and fifteen seconds long, well the fifteen seconds is
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: usually ten seconds station promo, you know, like you're watching
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: XX television blah blah blah and blah blah blah blah blah,
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: serving you and your community. Where XX TV there's your
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: ten seconds, and then at the end there will be
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: some other little you know, station promo or maybe now
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: back to the show on XXTV. Then the three minutes
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: is supposed to be commercials. Well, I noticed the other
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: night as I was watching CBS the overnight news there
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what they call it now, It
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: actually used to be CBS News Overnight back when Charlie
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: Rose was posting it when they first started it. But
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: I watched the commercial break. It was about four and
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: a half minutes long. It was all all listen to me,
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: all PSAs public service announcements, free arable elements that you
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: put in to fill time. If the commercial break was
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: all public service announcements, that means they sold no commercials.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: You see where I'm going here. If you sell no commercials,
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: you make no money. If you make no money, you
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: get canceled. So I'm wondering how much longer CBS will
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: have an overnight news program since they have chosen to
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: put Comics Unleashed on in the late night primetime replacing
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: Colbert What's What's coming for the rest of overnight. I
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: watch a lot of CBS when I watch Broadcast TV,
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: simply because there's really there's nothing I like on the
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: other networks really, as far as you know, programming goes news.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: I don't watch CBS, but I just I'm I'm wondering,
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: and I'm worried because I enjoy the late night and
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: overnight news programs they do extended stories as opposed to
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: having to get in and out in ninety seconds, and uh,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: you know, some some stuff that may be a little
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: off the wall, out of the ordinary, outside the box,
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: that kind of thing, and it just it it's again.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: And going back to the early days when they all
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: started it, CBS was Charlie Rose, got a name, Welcome
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: to CBS Overnight. I'm Charlie Rose. And Lark McCarthy was
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: the news anchor's name. So Charlie did the interviews and
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: then Lark McCarthy did news at the top and bottom
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: of each hour. ABC had their News overnight with oh
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: who was hosting that I can't even recall who did ABC.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: NBC was Lloyd Dobbins and Linda Ellerbe were the anchor
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: team on NBC Overnight, and that was a long time ago,
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: you know, probably eighty five ish when they started doing that,
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: and I was a late night guy. Well that's when
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: I was young. I was a late night guy, so
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: I watched a lot of this stuff. And I guess
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: by seeing things that were so much of part of
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: my younger days, and especially because they are associated with broadcasting,
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: seeing them kind of wane now in favor of podcast
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: and cable and satellite and all the other sources that
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: people have. I mean, you can look at your phone
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: now and get a news update. You don't have to
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: sit down and actually watch a news program. Seeing those
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: things kind of dying off, seeing a commercial break that
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: is entirely public service announcements that that's part of me
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: that's going to that is if they're old and dying off. Man,
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, that's that's that's a bad sign
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: for Oh Chuck. I'm just saying it's it's one of
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: those things that you just you notice. You notice, like
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: when somebody you get on Facebook Marketplace and somebody's trying
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: to sell CDs or DVDs and it's like listed four
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: weeks ago and nobody's buying they're they're seldom for twenty
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: cents of peace, nobody's buying them. Why everybody's streaming everything.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: They're all, you know, listening to Spotify and watching their
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: movies on Netflix and Prime and all that stuff, so
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: they don't buy the DVDs anymore. Blu Ray was a
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: flash in the pan technology. I mean, it came out
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: and almost immediately started to become extinct. Those physical copies
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: that I would rather have, especially when we're talking about movies.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: I would rather have physical copies, DVD copies X me.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: Why Well, I'll tell you why. Because in this politically correct,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: cancel culture world where we find ourselves now, they'll edit
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: stuff before they stream it. Do you know as well
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: as I do, if if any of these platforms were
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: ever develop the h the intestinal fortitude to say stream
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: Blazing Saddles you no dog gone, well, it would be
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: so edited up it wouldn't even look like Blazing Saddles anymore.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: And what's the fun of that. If I'm going to
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: watch an old movie that I really enjoyed, I want
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: to see it as I really enjoyed it, not as
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: it gets cut up to meet the standards of twenty
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: twenty six, Which is why I'd rather have the I'd
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: rather have the solid copies. The DVD copies. I actually
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: found as I was cleaning stuff in the garage over
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: the weekend, actually found the original Star Wars, the first
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: three Star Wars movies on VHS. They've never come out
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: of the package. They're dusty, they've been in the garage,
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: but they've never come out of the package. They've never
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: been played. And I got them right here, right here
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: on such tont back when Cannon was doing his late
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: night not all night radio rampage and he was giving
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: away the Star Wars movies, and I was just a
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: listener back then, so I called up and I won
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: those dog gone things and again VHS which has gone
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: by the wayside, and I wish, seriously I could still
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: go buy a VHS player, because I want to digitize,
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: you know, family movies, Christmas movies, stuff like that that
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: I made when I was carrying around a camera all
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: the time. And finding a VHS player these days not
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: as easy or as cheap as one might hope it
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: would be. But anyway, I just kind of chuckled when
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: I found those in the garage. That garage is a project, man,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be doing that, probably a couple of
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: years after I die. I'll get it done. That's what
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: it looks like.