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Pro Bowling coming back to Columbus · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I was just noticing here as I'm reading through. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to keep your mind on your what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in Cincer' Ohio and food especially. We're always talking
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  Speaker 1: about food around here. And I just saw White Castle
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  Speaker 1: because they're celebrating their birthday essentially one hundred five years
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  Speaker 1: since White Castle was founded, and they are of course
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  Speaker 1: at a Columbus, Ohio company, but they got a couple of
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  Speaker 1: specials going on. I saw now through the fifteenth you
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  Speaker 1: can go to White Castle and get a gift card,
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  Speaker 1: a twenty five dollars gift card. Are you a big
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  Speaker 1: White Castle person?
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  Speaker 2: I have to be in the mood for it.
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  Speaker 1: Is Charlie like him, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he's ever had it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see now you got to expose him to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. No, when I'm in the mood for it, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but it just it's just completely random.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I like their founding year nineteen twenty one. So
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  Speaker 1: you can buy a twenty five dollars gift card for
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty one. That's a nice little savings there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: six bucks and if you're buying for you and Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty five bucks.
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  Speaker 3: Out of it.
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  Speaker 1: I would hope take care of both of you. Also,
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  Speaker 1: around Saint Patrick's, say the fourteenth through the seventeenth, they're
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  Speaker 1: doing a combo meal thing, buy one, get one free,
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  Speaker 1: combo meal thing fourteenth and seventy. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a White Castle guy, there's there's hope for
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  Speaker 1: your wallet. Also bowling. Have you ever been bowling in
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  Speaker 1: your life? Yes? Really? Are you a bowler?
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  Speaker 2: Not a bowler bowler, but I enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: When I was a youngster, we used to have lots
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  Speaker 1: of bowling bowl Like a Saturday afternoon at one o'clock
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  Speaker 1: there was bowling on television and then we had bowling
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  Speaker 1: for dollars. Channel six did bowling for dollars in the evening.
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  Speaker 1: I think that was at seven thirty and uh, somebody
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  Speaker 1: would get on there as a bowler and they'd pick
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  Speaker 1: a postcard. You'd send in a postcard kids. Postcard is
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  Speaker 1: something that used to be called mail. We had, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and they'd pick out a postcard and at home person
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  Speaker 1: could play too. And so the bowler bowled and I think, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was. I think it was frames if
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, And you got up for you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you knock down, number of pins you knocked down
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  Speaker 1: in those ten frames, you got the dollars. So if
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  Speaker 1: you got ten strikes, you get one hundred bucks. This
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  Speaker 1: was the early seventies. That's how we were. And and
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  Speaker 1: then your person at home also got whatever you did.
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  Speaker 1: And then bowling for dollars went by the wayside. The
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  Speaker 1: PGA Pro Bowl PBA Pro Bowlers Association used to have
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  Speaker 1: bowling on TV all the time, and the announcers. The
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  Speaker 1: announcers were like golf announcers. Okay, he's stepping up to
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  Speaker 1: the line and looks like he's using one of those
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  Speaker 1: new polyurthane balls. Crowds quiet as he see he looks
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  Speaker 1: down the alley. It's really you know, they.
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  Speaker 2: Very much remember that. I can't remember one bowler, but
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  Speaker 2: I remember watching it.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of guys in polyester pants with high waist bands,
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  Speaker 1: and those were the days. Guess what it's coming back, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's coming back. Bowling returning to Central Ohio, according to WSYX,
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  Speaker 1: the first time in six years, as the world's top
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  Speaker 1: athletes prepared to compete in the twenty twenty six Pilgrims
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  Speaker 1: PBA Ohio Classic Professional Bowlers Association announced the week long
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  Speaker 1: tournament will be hosted at the Columbus Square Bowling Palace.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anywhere else left to bowl?
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  Speaker 2: There's ten Penn Alley in Hilliard.
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  Speaker 1: Is that really a bowling alley? Yeah? I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: they had bowling there. I thought it was just the
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  Speaker 1: name of the place. It does. I've never been in there.
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  Speaker 1: Super expensive, I mean, the Columbus Bowling Palace has been
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  Speaker 1: around for a long time. I worked when I was
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  Speaker 1: a youngster out at Lincoln Village Lanes, which was nice.
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  Speaker 1: It was fifty lanes and automated scoring and stuff. We
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  Speaker 1: had wink O lanes, we had Hillcrest Lanes, we had
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  Speaker 1: three Sea lanes. There were bowling alleys all over Columbus
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  Speaker 1: and now not so much. Anyway. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: hosted at the Palace later this month. The event marks
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  Speaker 1: a significant return for the Zoo, which has not made
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  Speaker 1: a stop in Columbus since the twenty twenty It will
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  Speaker 1: feature a global field of professional bowlers competing for a
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  Speaker 1: title in one of the tour's premier stops. Highlighting the
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  Speaker 1: week's festivities is the USA versus the World event schedule
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  Speaker 1: for Saturday, follow by the championship finals on Sunday, and
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  Speaker 1: local organizers at the Bowling Palace say that the event
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  Speaker 1: will bring international attention to the city's bowling house.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty exciting. I like it when they said professional bowlers,
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  Speaker 2: When they said professional the world's professional athletes, I was like, eh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know, but I get it. It's all marketing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a yeah. You know. They're those who will say
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  Speaker 1: it's absolutely a sport, and I'll just say it's it's recreation.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever it's it's it's Americana. It is Americana. And
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  Speaker 1: I you know, even though I worked at a bowling alley,
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  Speaker 1: I actually worked more in the bar than I did
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  Speaker 1: the bowling alley. It was a nice bar. It was
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  Speaker 1: a nice If you ever went to the bar in
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Village Lanes, it was called the Strike Zone. It
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  Speaker 1: was a nice bar. I couldn't believe when I am,
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  Speaker 1: this is a bowling allait. Really I bowled only a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times. It just wasn't for me. But I
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  Speaker 1: like I like the uh, the tradition, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: of the sport. What was it last year or two
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  Speaker 1: years ago they actually tried a television show about a
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  Speaker 1: professional bowler or a guy who was he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: become a professional bowler. It had to be a comedy,
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  Speaker 1: right it was. It pricked the guy who was Grover
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  Speaker 1: in Hawaii five Oh, he was the like the coach
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  Speaker 1: for this guy. Anyway, the show didn't I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't even make it through a season. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think nobody got into it. Bowling is just such an
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  Speaker 1: alien It's like doop music. It's an era gone by
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  Speaker 1: and people just did not take to the show. This,
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  Speaker 1: as silly as it sounds, this news today makes me
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  Speaker 1: happy with the Bowlings who were returning to Columbus after
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  Speaker 1: a six year absence, and hopefully it's just the start.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we can more. The more traditional stuff we can
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  Speaker 1: get going, the better off we are as far as
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  Speaker 1: I'm concerned. I've got a couple of people standing by already. Wow, okay,
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  Speaker 1: A two one nine eight eight six number. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: to a merry. You're on six ten double U TV
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  Speaker 1: at high Hi, Chuck.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to let us know that the a
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  Speaker 4: MC Star Dust Lanes and.
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  Speaker 1: Grove Star Dust are they still there right down there?
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  Speaker 3: Who?
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  Speaker 4: Actually? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? And what was what was the little bowling Alley right,
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  Speaker 1: that used to be right there in the downtown, right
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  Speaker 1: up there on the heret Well three seat Broadway, whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want to call it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know the name of it, but that's yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I know what you're talking about. But that's not that's
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  Speaker 4: no longer there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just I it might have been just Grove City Lanes.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was just like a little maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little ten lane place at best.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're you're correct. It might have been
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  Speaker 4: Grove City Lanes. But it's just gotten too expensive to
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  Speaker 4: bowl anymore.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I love bowling, and my mom gave me her ball
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  Speaker 4: and her shoes and you know, so I just love
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  Speaker 4: to go bowling, but it's just too expensive. I actually
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  Speaker 4: was up to Grove City to Stardust Lanes just last
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  Speaker 4: weekend from my granddaughter or great niece's birthday party, so
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  Speaker 4: the kids got to kick out of bowling.
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  Speaker 1: And what's a game cost these days?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? Last time I checked, it was like it would
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  Speaker 4: cost me for two games of like sixty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, wow, yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That would that includes the ball and well there's and
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  Speaker 4: the shoes, you know, but yeah, it got it's gotten.
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  Speaker 1: So expensive they're charging.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't think so, it's just accused, you know,
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  Speaker 4: but it's her, you know, per game, of course, you know,
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  Speaker 4: but it's just it's just ridiculous, don't don't. I can't
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  Speaker 4: tell you exactly that, but it's gotten expensive to where
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  Speaker 4: I can't afford. Yeah, and bowl a couple of games,
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  Speaker 4: you know. But I love bowling, and I remember watching
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  Speaker 4: seeing it on TV. I thought it was boring, though,
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  Speaker 4: so watch it very long.
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  Speaker 1: Watching it on television was a lot like watching it
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  Speaker 1: watching golf on television. It seems very boring unless it
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  Speaker 1: was bowling for dollars and you had a postcard in
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  Speaker 1: there and you were hoping they pick yours.
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  Speaker 4: True. True, but I've never had a postcard, so unfortunately, as.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it, Mary, thank you for the laughing, the information,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear. Stardust is still up and going.
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  Speaker 1: We had again working at Lincoln Lanes. We had Dick Shore,
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  Speaker 1: who was like the Columbus bowling guy. He came in
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  Speaker 1: one night after we closed. It was one am, one
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  Speaker 1: thirty am something like that, and they actually taped a
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  Speaker 1: bowling tournament in Lincoln Lanes that night from like one
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  Speaker 1: to four am. They were there and it was. It
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  Speaker 1: was really odd because you watch it during the you
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  Speaker 1: don't think this is being done in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night, but yes, it was actually being done in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night. Charlie, you're on sixth WTV
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  Speaker 1: at height.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I worked in the bowling business for many years.
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  Speaker 3: I published Ohile Bowlard for thirty years, and when I
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  Speaker 3: started the publication there were forty seven bowling centers in
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  Speaker 3: the area. Yeah, and today there's like maybe ten or eleven.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe there's even that many. I can't even
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  Speaker 1: think aside from the Palace, and Mary just reminded me
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  Speaker 1: that Stardust is still out there. I didn't know this
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  Speaker 1: ten pin alley was a bowling alley.
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  Speaker 3: Did one your gentleman mention that bowling is not a sport.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's what Zach was saying when at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: they said it was the trays they used was athletes,
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  Speaker 1: and he said he chuckled at athletes. But I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: some people consider it more of a game than a sport,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a sport overall.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. I also, both professionally and so forth, I
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  Speaker 3: was heavily involved in a sport. I worked with Dick
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  Speaker 3: Shore as a color analysts on the on the TV.
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  Speaker 1: Show Oh did okay? I don't know if you heard
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  Speaker 1: what I was saying there. We had didn't come in
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  Speaker 1: one night in the middle of the night to record
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  Speaker 1: a show. And I don't know you remember remember straw
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  Speaker 1: Me Stromfeld?
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  Speaker 3: Oh Ron Stromfeld guy?
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  Speaker 1: He was he was our he was our pro out
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  Speaker 1: there at Lincoln Lanes.
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  Speaker 3: And uh yeah, he was. He was a good guy.
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  Speaker 1: Bowling. Bowling used to just be kind of a universal
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  Speaker 1: thing that people, uh people did. It wasn't it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: so alien, and nowadays it's I mean, it's almost an
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  Speaker 1: unknown in a lot of corners, and that's sad.
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  Speaker 3: And another good friend of mine was Chris Shinkle, who
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  Speaker 3: did the ABC Sports.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, he did the network level stuff. That's right, man,
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  Speaker 1: you're bringing back all kinds of memories to Charlie. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot of them.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, bowling is a sport and unless you bowled
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  Speaker 3: fifty some games in three days, you wouldn't understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what Mary was saying there, She threw a couple
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  Speaker 1: of games and it was a sixty dollars tab. Is
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  Speaker 1: that normal these days.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, because I I'm I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: guess four or five dollars a game.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now I can see that because I think it
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  Speaker 1: was a buck and a half back in my day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but not not no sixty dollars. There's no way.
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna go up? Are you gonna go to
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  Speaker 1: be in the audience at least for this this PBA
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  Speaker 1: event at the Columbus Square Bowling Palace.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably will. I was. I was heavily involved
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  Speaker 3: when they were here before. I actually bought the Ladies
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  Speaker 3: Pro Tour and a Senior Pro tour to Columbus well
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  Speaker 3: back back in the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie, get on it again, man, we need this kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So anyway, I'll probably try to get over a
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  Speaker 3: little bit and visiting. Most of the guys anymore wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: know me, but the older players would of course.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, that's okay. You can go out there and
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  Speaker 1: be mister Miagi to a lot of youngsters coming up,
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  Speaker 1: introduce them to the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. One final thing, I did bowl a perfect game
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  Speaker 3: in a pro tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And and you want to see the ring they gave me.
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  Speaker 3: It's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It was it as big as the ball.
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  Speaker 3: No, but I'll tell you what, it's not much smaller
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  Speaker 3: than the Super Bowl ring. That is, and I've seen
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  Speaker 3: I've seen. I've seen super Bowl rings too.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know you got a ring for doing well
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  Speaker 2: in a game.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it stopping. Zach's just trying to light your fire.
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  Speaker 3: And the Well, it's different bowling in the PBA than
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  Speaker 3: it is bowling in the league.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Today guys have three hundreds right and left the equipment,
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  Speaker 3: so the game is so much easier today. But I
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  Speaker 3: the three hundred eye bowled was up at the Bowl
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  Speaker 3: at the Bridge and portray On, Michigan. It was only
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  Speaker 3: the fourth three hundred game ever bowled in that bowling center.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that that was a wonderful record to have. I
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  Speaker 1: got here, buddy. I appreciate the call very much. You
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  Speaker 1: take care of yourself and maybe I I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll see at the Bowling Palace. I'd love to see.
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  Speaker 1: He mentioned league play, by the way, that's something else
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  Speaker 1: you know. That was kind of the socializing for those
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  Speaker 1: of you that aren't members of clubs or lodges or
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  Speaker 1: whatever bowling leagues. That was a big social thing back
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  Speaker 1: when I was a youngster.
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  Speaker 2: She said, an iHeart bowling league going.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, we can give it a shot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to participate. I'm just saying that, well
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  Speaker 2: might be interested.
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  Speaker 1: This is again, I'm a child of the eighties, the
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  Speaker 1: softball teams. Everybody had a softball team. Everybody had a
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  Speaker 1: bowling team. And you'd get in on league play and
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  Speaker 1: you go to the bowling house and there there might
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  Speaker 1: be you know, forty lanes going with one league sometimes
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  Speaker 1: depending upon what the what league it was, and it
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  Speaker 1: was just that camaraderie and people getting out and not
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've got a whole generation of people that
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  Speaker 1: are living in their parents' basements, playing video games against
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  Speaker 1: somebody in who cares a stand, and you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: out and actually meeting people.
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  Speaker 2: You're one of my friends, just as important as real whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Man, you you need to increase your medication. You