Former Ohio State College President Ted Carter was a self-described “frequent flyer” of a failing podcast hosted by the Columbus lady he’s accused of getting an “inappropriate relationship” with, The Put up has discovered.
Carter’s resignation from the soft, $1.5 million-per-year job – which got here after he confessed to giving “inappropriate entry to Ohio State management” to a lady who needed assist along with her enterprise – was linked to Krisanthe Vlachos, host of “The Callout Podcast,” by a present sponsor simply hours after information broke of his departure Monday.
The disgraced OSU president had even traveled for and sponsored occasions hosted by Vlachos, social media posts reveal.
Carter, 66 – who has been married to Lynda Carter for almost 45 years – final appeared on the veterans-focused podcast on Jan. 7, when Vlachos gave him a heat introduction.
“President Carter, you might have fairly the historical past and also you’ve been so gracious to come back and help and co-host greater than a few podcasts, however your story is at all times enjoyable and attention-grabbing. Would you thoughts telling it once more,” Vlachos gushed, in line with the podcast clip.
“Yeah, I’ve been a frequent flyer on the Callout Podcast, so I’m a veteran of the veterans right here in that approach,” Carter replied, which was met with amusing and grin from Vlachos.
“However congratulations to you, Krisanthe, on bringing collectively what I might contemplate among the best, all-star casts you’ve had in your podcast,” he gushed, earlier than re-introducing the panel’s three different company: JobsOhio CEO and AirForce vet JP Nauseef, President of the Nationwide Veterans Memorial and Museum and Military veteran William J. Butler and Military Nationwide Guard vet John Harris.
Carter, who served as a High Gun pilot and teacher throughout 38 years within the Navy following his commencement from the US Naval Academy in 1981, sat reverse Vlachos for the podcast’s filming — a far cry from a comfy image she posted of them at an occasion simply days later.
The picture, taken on the Scholar Veterans of America 2026 nationwide convention in Colorado Springs in January, reveals the previous college president smiling alongside Vlachos, who’s clad in an all-black leather-based get-up.
In a caption alongside the picture, Vlachos refers to Carter as her “expensive buddy and mentor.”
To this point this 12 months, Carter has appeared in 9 of the 14 movies posted by the podcast founder, in line with her social media profiles — which additionally promote the duo’s co-sponsoring and help of one another’s occasions.
In January 2025, Vlachos’ podcast reportedly co-sponsored a efficiency by veterans and army members of the family at Ohio State, “Final Out: Elegy of a Inexperienced Beret,” in partnership with the college, JobsOhio, AEP and the Columbus Area.
A couple of months later, Carter supposedly returned the favor — utilizing Ohio State as a sponsor for Vlachos’ weekend-long occasion titled “Gaff-N-Go Rodeo,” aimed toward connecting army veterans to energy linemen, in Richmond, Virginia, in line with an Instagram submit.
A video of Carter talking through the occasion’s opening ceremony is captioned, “There’s an intersection between Veterans and Energy Linemen I discover so particular. Walter ‘Ted’ Carter.”
Regardless of his stature as one of the vital highly effective public staff in Ohio, Vlachos’ podcast episodes have pulled pitiful numbers – with just some hundred views every.
“Callout” sponsor JobsOhio mentioned Vlachos and Carter’s relationship could also be “presumably related” to his resignation in a press release to NBC 4 Monday.
“JobsOhio is conscious Ted Carter resigned this morning as President of The Ohio State College and that this case is presumably related to a relationship between him and the host of a podcast for veterans, which we sponsored,” the financial growth group mentioned.
Carter didn’t elaborate on the circumstances surrounding the connection that led him to step down, however mentioned he was leaving OSU along with his spouse.
He and Vlachos haven’t responded publicly to the connection allegations.
