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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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Sports, Football

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Something different on Buckeye Talk, as Doug Lesmerises is joined by Seth Richardson, the senior politics writer for cleveland.com, to talk about the intersection of football and politics. The fact that former Auburn, Texas Tech and Cincinnati coach Tommy Tuberville won the Republican Senate primary in Alabama last week got Doug thinking about the idea of a former Buckeye doing the same kind of thing in Ohio, so Doug and Seth covered these topics: What Jim Tressel's political career in Ohio could have been and the role he still plays in Ohio politics The political future of former OSU receiver Anthony Gonzalez, now a member of the U.S. House of Representatives The way Gov. Mike DeWine and the state government tried to use football and other sports as a rallying cry to get people to wear masks before settling on Thursday's state-wide mask mandate Doug also started the podcast with two text subscriber questions, including one on whether Tressel's forced resignation was the best thing to happen to Ohio State football in the modern era. It's a different type of Buckeye Talk, but a bonus Saturday episode is coming with more hard-core football talk. Thanks for trying this one out. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey, where you've been, Buck I talk is about to begin.
0:17.0	Hey, hey, come on in
0:25.0	back to your Friday talk I talk Doug Lamer
0:26.9	race from Coneycom something different today
0:30.4	wanted to mix it up but we're going to drop a Saturday bonus podcast because that was
0:35.2	gonna originally be Friday's podcast and this thing we're going to do is going to be a little
0:39.9	intro and then the little intro went too long. So the Friday standalone podcast is going to be about sort of the collision of politics
0:47.4	in Ohio State football.
0:48.4	And I'm talking with Seth Richardson, the senior political writer for Cleveland.com,
0:52.4	and this is what we cover. I wrote
0:54.8	about it on Cleveland.com because when Tommy Tuberville won the Republican
0:59.0	Senate primary in Alabama I could not stop thinking about Jim Tressle in politics.
1:04.0	So I talked to Seth about the idea of,
1:07.2	is there a world where Jim Tressle ever could have been
1:09.9	a senator or governor in Ohio? Then we ended up talking about Anthony Gonzales, the Ohio State receiver,
1:16.8	former receiver, 35 years old, now a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, what he might be someday.
1:23.6	And then we talked a little bit about the story I did last week when I talked to Mike
1:26.7	DeWine about the idea of trying to use football as an enticement to get people to wear
1:30.9	masks, and sort of using sports in the political spectrum.
1:34.1	So listen, it's a different kind of conversation, but you know, we're trying to do some different stuff.
1:39.0	But here's the bonus.
1:40.0	Saturday is the slot receiver and tight end position group preview and it's the Garrett Wilson
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