Columbus

The divorce became official in January twenty twenty-three, and by March, the reality of my situation hit me hard.

I was thirty-two years old, living in a tiny apartment outside Columbus, Ohio, and barely surviving on what I earned at the auto repair shop where I had worked for eight years.

Child support for my daughter, Kayla, consumed half of every paycheck.

Whatever remained quickly vanished into rent, groceries, and the enormous credit card debt Jennifer and I had accumulated back when we were still pretending our marriage wasn't falling apart.

"Nice performance last night.

Send five thousand dollars to the Bitcoin wallet below before noon on Monday, or these pictures will be sent to Jennifer." The email included my ex-wife's address.

It also listed Brennan Auto Repair, along with my boss's personal email address, the Columbus City Schools administration, where Kayla attended school, and every person on my Facebook friends list.

Somehow, they had obtained all eight hundred forty-seven names.

And, and, and this isn't crying over spilled milk.

I don't think we got rewarded for going to Columbus last year in week one.

Hopefully this year they reward Ohio State for coming and playing in this game with us this year, um, that I don't know how their season goes.

They may go 11 and one, it's a moot point.

Time will tell, you know? And, and, and this isn't crying over spilled milk.

I don't think we got rewarded for going to Columbus last year in week one.

Hopefully this year they reward Ohio State for coming and playing in this game with us this year, um, that I don't know how their season goes.

They may go 11 and 1.

I, I hate to say it, but like, I feel like I love some of the meetings that I am part of in Oregon more than I did in Arkansas.

And then also like there's weird shit, like the best gay NA meeting I've ever been to is in Columbus, Ohio.

Who would have thought that? And I just went to it and there were like 50 fucking queers in that room.

Right.

There are a million drains on our, I'm sitting here during the break wondering how to even cover this Thinking about that pun, cowboys versus Indians.

The ironic, almost like cosmic joke that Columbus thought he would be reaching India called the Native Americans Indians.

Only now, fast forward 500 years, and it's Indians that are replacing white people on this continent.

But it's kind of like, hey, guys, you know, the Native Americans, do you want to end up like them? I mean, that would be the best case scenario.

We are going to have some competition getting ready to go.

for the playoffs so we heard from both the head coaches Steve Sarkeesian spoke today Ryan Day did his roundtable show on 97 won the fan in Columbus they both recapped spoke on the game we'll get to the coaches thoughts we're happy to have you along here on locked on Buckeyes if you're on the audio side we very much ask turn those automatic downloads on Apple on Spotify Amazon wherever you get your podcasts we are there turn those notifications on Automatic downloads on the video side.

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Ryan Day also spoke.

He had his roundtable on 97-1.

The fan out of Columbus will read some of the things that Ryan had to say about his team as they do move on.

They do have Kent State coming up.

um, through this, I met an animal communicator who, she was the one that just opened up my eyes and my heart.

And, um, I became very close friends with her, even though we were not, she was in Columbus, Ohio.

I was here in Pennsylvania, but again, it's just like, we were like this, we were so connected, but the alignment took place because, um, A few years later, and I actually followed her.

I kind of shadowed her and just watched her in amazement.

And when she did, she had cancer.

So it was sort of a long thing.

But the day that she passed away, her husband from Columbus called me.

And when I saw the, you know, caller ID, I said, This is it.

My name is Michelle Ford.

My address is 1838 Northwest Court in Columbus, Ohio.

I'm here on behalf of Minnick Smith Group.

That is the civil engineering firm contracted by Culver's.

This poor woman's got

to go back

to Columbus.

When I'm just being given the opportunity Not to grant the variance, but something could be potentially easily done.

Well, you're going to have to win at Ohio State and then.

If you lose at USC, you're going to have to win in Columbus.

Yes.

I mean, you can do that.

So this really is a huge one next week at USC.

You win that.

You're back on track, and you can even stumble in Columbus as long as you don't get upset again.

Yep.