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Transcript
Introduction and Ohio Special Week
00:00:12
Speaker
This is the Crooked Rivercast. And who are we? We're Rob and Tom. Two guys just trying to keep track what's going on in the great state of Ohio.
00:00:22
Speaker
This is show 59 for the week of May 4th. Another week, a special week. And one has gone by. Let's do it.
May 4th and Star Wars Humor
00:00:40
Speaker
In the morning. In the morning, Rob. In the morning. Well, a pre May the 4th be with you, Tom.
00:00:52
Speaker
May the 4th be with you. Special week. It is? Yeah. What's that? Monday's May 4th. Oh, okay. It's May 4th day. That's where all the Star Wars geeks tell everybody, May the 4th be with you, including myself.
00:01:07
Speaker
Okay. I will not partake. Okay.
Back Pain and Aging Jokes
00:01:13
Speaker
We almost had an issue with the show. We almost had a podcaster down, Tom.
00:01:19
Speaker
What? Yeah, we almost had a podcaster down. How so? I'm in in bad shape today. Not better than I was. but ah yeah Something to my back.
00:01:31
Speaker
You're old. I think on Sunday. Well, yes, but that is, i don't i don't know if that's relevant in this case because this started when I was like 32. But ah yeah, i get I get back spasms because I'm a spaz in most cases. So my back would naturally have spasms. But yeah.
00:01:47
Speaker
but Yeah, it's going to be a tough one. It's going to be, I might be a little cranky because I'm in pain. And I'm fine until I, you know, until you sit in a chair. It's like what about to do for like... You got to lay down?
00:02:01
Speaker
Well, it's ah sitting in any one spot for any long time. it Everything kind of stiffens up. a So pain is way worse, way less than it was Monday when I couldn't straighten my back. but Did you just get out of bed funny or...
00:02:16
Speaker
I think I overdid something over the weekend. And then Monday morning was maybe it was combination of that. And I slept weird. Um, I don't remember anything happening. Like, I don't remember going, Ooh, that hurts. But yeah. Well, a of times that's not how happens. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes, you know, sometimes I meant the first time it happened 20 years ago or more.
00:02:40
Speaker
And, uh, yeah, you know it the first time I did it, putting on my pants, It's all it took. It's putting on my pants. I knew a guy. i worked for A work guy worked for me as a driver at one of the places I worked at.
00:02:55
Speaker
here He threw his back out by farting.
00:03:00
Speaker
It's been a while since I've done it. He had to call in, call off work and tell me that. Rob, sorry. I try not to do anything because my back, but all he did was fart.
Fiber Internet Installation Saga
00:03:10
Speaker
Damn it.
00:03:13
Speaker
Mandy, can you hear that? What's that? Listen to that fiber. Oh, okay. I sound extra smooth and sultry today because we're on fiber. i resultsly amount The dulcic tones of Robert.
00:03:28
Speaker
Yes. Which has nothing to do with my internet connection. But I am on fiber. but so Hopefully it but adds a little something to the show. Probably not.
00:03:41
Speaker
ah Yeah. Quick anecdote. So I went out to check the guy putting in the fiber line and was like, that's weird. What? I look into my outside and he's on the ladder the side of my house. I said, that's weird.
00:03:52
Speaker
Why has he done this? Why is he on the top of my house? Like, why is he going to the, you know, to the gutter whatever level of my house? was because he's hanging the the the fiber line. And I was like, well, that's weird. just I don't have one electrical cable or phone line that's in the air to my house. Everything's buried.
00:04:09
Speaker
Right. Well, this dude, douche, whatever, wanted to hang them. I'm like, I go outside. I was like, is that how you you have to do it? He's like, yeah, yeah. yeah Yeah. I almost, I almost stopped. And and I'm like, no, I said, but wait, is that the only way you have to do it? He's yeah, it's already up. You can't see it.
00:04:30
Speaker
Yeah. And that's when I snapped and then snapped. That's what triggered me. And I was like, oh, you're telling me I can't see it. So the line I see in the air is the one I can't see?
00:04:44
Speaker
What kind of salesperson are you? Needless to say, he they buried the line.
00:04:51
Speaker
You're literally going to sit here and tell me, don't worry, you can't see it.
00:04:57
Speaker
Where do they got to go in from the behind the house? Behind the house. Yeah. all All of our lines in the back and then everything's buried. Cable, phone. Not that I use a phone, but there is a phone line buried somewhere. And then, you know, electrical and everything's buried. And here he goes, hangs this, man, these, these, these fiber lines are super thin.
00:05:14
Speaker
It's a fifth of what, like a coax cable line is thickness. So thin. So he got this little thin black line. It's the only line that in my yard that would go from the pole to my house.
00:05:26
Speaker
Right in the corner of my yard, right I probably get three or four limbs down a year. Right. neighbors From the neighbor's street. I'm like, you're just going to come back out and bury anyway. it's goingnna You're just going to be torn down and I'm going to be pissed. So i was I was literally going to go, I just walked in. i was like, all right.
00:05:41
Speaker
I was like, literally, I'm going to walk in and and call and be like, okay, can you send somebody out to bury the line after he he just... Yeah. But he, he, he listened. He was not happy. He didn't look at me the rest of the day.
00:05:52
Speaker
rest of time he was here He wanted to get to the next job and get done for the day. Yeah. I'm not sure how, why that took him longer. Cause he didn't actually bury it. They sent somebody out a week later, know, yesterday and buried it. So I don't understand why I think they tell them to bury it or not to bury it. Cause it costs them more money at install.
00:06:09
Speaker
Oh, cause then they got to send somebody else out to bury it. So he runs the line and then somebody comes in and buries it. Yeah. Cox did the same thing for. not like How do they bury it? Do they run it through ah some type of conduit?
00:06:25
Speaker
No. And that may be the other thing. He had to actually call somebody else to bring the buried ground, the buried cable because it's orange. So that's, it's no, they just, they, they shove ah a spade or shovel in the yard and line along a line and kind of peel it back and shove it in there about six, eight inches.
00:06:41
Speaker
Oh, okay. Yeah. I mean, what could go wrong? Just don't dig back there, I guess. Anywhere in my backyard could be all kinds of lines back there. So yeah, we'll see how this, now I need new new network equipment because my internet line is faster than my network.
00:06:58
Speaker
I have to figure that problem out, but buy new stuff. What type of ah upload speed are you getting? Uh, if you, well, if you go from the router, it's just maxes out at like nine 50, nine 40. Okay. megabytes.
00:07:13
Speaker
Um, but if you, if you test it from the box, from the gateway, whether it's not a modem, if they call it a gateway, it's 1.3. Okay. thanks So if I, I'm assuming if I upgrade to a two net, I think you go to 2.5 gigabit routers, I'll get close to that 1.2.
00:07:29
Speaker
Cool. Might be worth it. ah Definitely snappier. As we were talking about last week, it's not just the size of the pipe.
00:07:43
Speaker
It's how fast the pipe is. Where's my... I don't have a giggity giggity. I need a giggity giggity. I definitely need one of those sound effects. um Ping times, like 40 down to like 6.
00:07:57
Speaker
Nice. That's the biggest key. but So when I'm surfing YouTube, man, those videos pop right up now. Yeah, I get to watch another one that sends me down a rabbit hole. yeah Well, speaking of watching YouTube and sending me down a rabbit hole, we had quite a week.
Media Bias and Trump Assassination Attempt
00:08:15
Speaker
Did we? Quite a week, yeah. I mean, my back is bothering me, so that was, you know. But they missed again, Tom. Right about the time um I was watching fireworks on Saturday. today and celebrating the 250th anniversary of the country, they were, they were trying to kill the president again.
00:08:36
Speaker
And at this point, it's just laughable because why does Trump keep trying take his own death? It was staged, Rob. Yes. Why does he keep taking own was false flag.
00:08:48
Speaker
His favorability is down. He's trying to save No, no. He needs a ballroom. Yes, there you go. It's ballroom time. That's the whole reason for this whole thing. He's a time traveler.
00:09:00
Speaker
Oh, that's, I did see that, that video.
00:09:06
Speaker
Time travel, I did see. i think Was that Tim Pool had a video on it? I think so, yeah. He's a time traveler. um Yeah, he so he called this this leftist teacher in California and said, hey, not him, I'm sure not him, but somebody from his team and said, hey,
00:09:22
Speaker
we we got something for you to do. And he was all for making Trump look better. Sure he was. So as most people know, if you haven't, then you should probably get out more, but um
00:09:36
Speaker
president Trump has a lot more in common with the media than he did before last weekend.
00:09:44
Speaker
ah What was, what's your take on this? You obviously, obviously it was, I think I texted you and you didn't even, you didn't even respond. You're like, yeah, whatever. It's a no. I think by the time i didn't you know about it till the next day I went to, I was in bed by that time.
00:09:58
Speaker
Uh, what sort thing about it? I mean, another day in the life of president Trump. I think that's my takeaways. I i went to work Monday.
00:10:09
Speaker
And by, I mean, I ran into three or four people and nobody said a word. Yeah. i didn't hear anything from anybody. Nobody mentioned it. it was just like, yeah. Okay.
00:10:20
Speaker
Next. Which is sad.
00:10:29
Speaker
We're being de desensitized to people trying to kill the president United States.
00:10:36
Speaker
Well, I think there's there's been um and some, it was a kumbaya moment with Trump in the press. Tell you the truth, though, even when he was campaigning and his ear got shot, nobody said anything then either. so ah you know, I didn't hear anything from anybody.
00:10:58
Speaker
I think I'm looking more like the people I normally talk to about these things. um People who I talk about, hey, did you see what Trump did? Or, hey, did you see this post? And Monday morning was just like, yeah, they didn't even come up. i had I had to bring it up. And that's why I said, hey, by the way, we've been talking to each other for an hour and a half and neither of us have brought up the fact that they tried to kill the president again.
00:11:20
Speaker
And then we all go, oh, yeah, yeah, it's just because it's what what's what what's there to talk about? youre said but I think the difference here in this specific one is is the media all being in the room together.
00:11:32
Speaker
and and And then there's also the, oh oh the security was so lax. why were and Like the the the armchair quarterbacks.
00:11:43
Speaker
ah No, they just released the 4K video, supposedly. Supposedly, they... know you so Yeah, what was up with that video? What was up with that video? And what was up, did they have another video from the exact same angle that is color and basically 4K in quotes? No, no, they blurred the original video when they put it out to the public first. the In court, they played the the good one.
00:12:06
Speaker
So how did we get it? Because of the court filings? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. What reason was that done for? i don't know. I have no idea. It's bizarre. What you can see in the new video, I don't know if, i guess you could probably see this in the old video, in the original one, but...
00:12:22
Speaker
He walks up, they got him walking all around the day before, checking things out, you know, and then they got him walking up to the event. He walks up to the event, they got him one camera, and then they switched to the camera of angle that we everybody's seen.
00:12:37
Speaker
And you could see him back there. He walks into a room right before the metal detectors, and a cop and a dog go over and talk to him. Yeah. And then they walk away, and then he runs out and starts running.
00:12:47
Speaker
And everybody everybody's like, what is it? What is a cop? Oh my gosh. What can he? I'm like, yeah, he's talking to that guy. He asked him a couple of questions. He answered them correctly and he moved on. And now the next, his next phase is he has to go through the metal detectors.
00:12:59
Speaker
Well, that's when he figured probably figured out I better do something now Otherwise, then he started running. I'm not sure how much better most of us would do as somebody running full speed past them.
00:13:11
Speaker
He just didn't have a plan. He just, he just did the retard thing to do. i mean, if he's going to go for it. I think the criticism here is tactically, they were set up in the bad spots, the secret service there. And there was only a couple secret service people there.
00:13:28
Speaker
One or two, the rest of them were TSA agents sitting, sitting on the wall unarmed. They were doing the bag check and everything. And then they had some police there and stuff that were taken down the metal detectors and But tactically, they're standing across from each other.
00:13:45
Speaker
Like, that's not a great, you know like, that's kind of, isn't that like something they train to like, make sure if you're going to be, so you know, guarding an area, maybe you shouldn't be directly across from person. I think it's because people were moving around. Did you see, like, I didn't see what it looked like at 20 minutes before.
00:14:00
Speaker
They were taking down the metal detector at that point. that point, they were like, oh, it's just another day. We're going to go through the normal process. And kind of, I guess the criticism we could say is they they kind of took, took,
00:14:13
Speaker
took it for granted that nothing would happen. You know, kind of like they kind of get mundane. You get into the event after event, after event, a routine, you know, you just you kind of, nothing's going to happen. You get a confirmation by our normalcy bias and kind of kind of thing. So, yeah, but ah even i don't, I mean, this guy just kind of ran past that one guard and then ran. I mean, yeah even if they were tactically set up correctly, they, he would have done, got,
00:14:41
Speaker
About as far. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not saying he's going I just think that's the only criticism I really see is they could have been set up differently. So they weren't, there was no crossfire. right yeah I'm not a a security expert, so I can't criticize.
00:14:53
Speaker
no but the one, the one cop is standing across from the other one. He raises gun and shoots. If you saw the slow motion, he's like he's literally firing in the direction of the guy standing across from him. So probably not the greatest spot. But again, they were just cleaning up.
00:15:07
Speaker
And um the the the whole room was completely sealed with like 100 agents the inside. did that wasn' it like Did that teacher, what's his name, Cole Tomas, something like that? yeah I think so.
00:15:22
Speaker
Did he get shot? He didn't get shot, right? So what ah what the hell did did they hit? Because they fired like five or six times, right? Yeah. I originally thought he he shot and then they shot.
00:15:34
Speaker
Yeah. yeah And then nobody, but nobody got hurt, which is why everybody's like, it was staged. Like, no, if it was staged, he'd be dead. you know You don't want to leave any of it. If they're trying to fake this, killed. If it was staged, they wouldn't find a guy to do it that that's been criticizing Trump for the last decade. True. Yeah. There would be some other...
00:15:51
Speaker
yeah oh Yeah, sure. A lefty teacher from California. That's...
00:15:57
Speaker
So that's the article we have, at least in the in the show notes, is kind of a recent couple days ago from Channel 3. And they released more of the color images, the videos from his first this first day in court.
00:16:10
Speaker
And basically he's taking a selfie. I mean, it's got LARPer just screaming. he's he's oh yeah He's in black pants, black shirt, red tie. He's got knives and stuff. And he put a trench coat on. He's
Trump's Response and Media Reactions
00:16:23
Speaker
got a shotgun. I mean, his kind of mistake was, it I mean, come on, man.
00:16:27
Speaker
I get, well, he got a pump action shotgun bought in California. Well, yeah. What was he doing with the knives? Well, just i mean weird. That's a, that's like a world war two knife kind of replica. I'm sure, you know, I can't remember the name, but I have one.
00:16:42
Speaker
And, so he's just trying to play the part. So that's what it looks like to me. Uh, yeah. So yeah, 31, Cole Allen is his name. 31 from Torrance, California.
00:16:54
Speaker
Uh, here's the line that in this article, this channel three article, and I got a couple of clips from interesting leaked calls that came out from Trump, but here's the line I understood. So going through the article, you know, Alan torn California captured, blah, blah, blah, service agents tasked with saving and blah, blah, blah. And then the next line is Trump, a Republican was not hurt during it. Like what, um,
00:17:20
Speaker
Really? Was that relevant in any way? ah and A small thing, but I did notice it. yeah All they needed to say was the president was not hurt. Yes. that's Trump, a Republican. That's how you report. Not Trump. A Republican was not hurt and was rushed off the stage by his security team.
00:17:39
Speaker
Everybody knows what party he's with. and And even if it doesn't matter if they do know or But of course, that evil... Evil Nazi bastard Trump.
00:17:51
Speaker
What do you think he did after, after all this, after just getting shot at, you know, attempt on his life number four, I think this is shot, you know, three. Well, three that are actually, yeah.
00:18:03
Speaker
Like the other one was only a couple of days away from him being shot at. I think that was the one in Florida where they, they found some hunting. the one with the hunting blinds in, uh, Mar-a-Lago? and In between the highway or something like that? Something like that, yeah. Because, you know, ah South Palm Beach is generally the place you go hunting.
00:18:21
Speaker
I'm sure that you can, but it's generally not around golf courses. They don't usually a lot hunting around major. So, yeah, I think. So, third time, somebody actually pointed a gun at them. And so what does he do? Well, there's some, some calls got leaked out and some, some of the press were kind of surprised. I got a of clips here from this channel called, speaking of a quick YouTube and getting sucked in the algorithm, the algorithm, I mean the faster state of Daniel. He is a, he's a guy just kind of pops up every now and again on my YouTube channel and goes over.
00:18:50
Speaker
And again, thanks to him because he clipped it and I didn't have to. So here's a, Here is State of Daniel on ABC News in the phone calls Trump was making after after the assassination attempt.
00:19:01
Speaker
Think of the children. Won't somebody please think of the children? Got to have at least one a show, Tom. At least one a show. Well, obviously, this would be a traumatic experience for everyone. This is not the first attempt on President Trump's life. And despite all of that, President Trump's focus wasn't on him. One of his first calls actually went to Jonathan Karl of ABC. Yeah, this is really unexpected. So let's tune in. John, your phone rang early this morning.
00:19:28
Speaker
Yeah, my my phone rang short shortly after 7 My landline, George, actually a number that few people ah call and it was President Trump ah calling. He was he said at first he was calling to see if I was OK with what happened last night. Are you OK?
00:19:43
Speaker
And then he he. reiterated many of the things he said in his press conference last night, emphasizing ah the unity that he felt in that moment, ah that that he felt at the dinner before ah the shooting and certainly after with the people who reached out to him. And he said absolutely, and he was quite firm about this, that dinner must be rescheduled. It must be rescheduled. He knows that I was a former president of the White House Correspondents Association and had worked with him on a dinner that never actually happened back during ah COVID. And he he was saying, we've got to get this dinner back on. It has to happen.
00:20:21
Speaker
That really is amazing if you stop and think about it, because it's not as if this is coming from someone at Newsmax, Fox News or any of the stations that a Democrat would say, oh, they're only trying to prop up President Trump. Oh, they're only trying to make him look good. Right. Jonathan Karl has been a longtime critic of President Trump. He has been a staunch reporter on ABC. And so for him to actually make public this private phone call between him and President Trump and admit, hey, President Trump called me personally to personally check in on me and how I'm doing. I mean, that just cuts against the narrative that the mainstream media, that the Democrats have tried to ah paint on President Trump.
00:21:02
Speaker
Ooh, shocking. He actually is a human and not Hitler. Huh. Weird. And then it got even even um even crazier because b Brian Stelzer got involved here. is Here's another clip. ah he he ah He had some interesting ah comments, I think, that I can pull out of this.
00:21:23
Speaker
I think he might be a little too little worried about being...
00:21:30
Speaker
wrapped up with the president in this and. Well, you'll see what he says. And of course, the mainstream media is likely to go back to their usual shenanigans, but at least for a moment they are humanizing President Trump. I mean, even Brian Stelter. Yes, Brian Stelter on CNN said this.
00:21:49
Speaker
you know A couple of minutes before this happened, I was with House Speaker Mike Johnson. I shook Johnson's hand. I was talking to him. And then I was walking across the ballroom, Victor, kind of taking the long way toward the CNN tables because I wanted to see some of my friends and some of my sources.
00:22:03
Speaker
And so I ended up on the ground next to ah an executive from Comcast, some people from NBC. And in that moment, you know there was a lot of unity. And I'm thankful that President Trump talked about that unity last night and did not try to heighten the tensions or escalate the situation. He could have very easily gone out there and bashed the press last night and blamed the media for attracting this suspect to the ballroom. how he yeah He basically said, we're all in this together. and And that's certainly true. And that's how it feels this morning as well.
00:22:33
Speaker
b Brian Stelter also revealed that that Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, personally checked him on, checked in on him after the shooting. They've painted Brendan Carr as some big boogeyman. And yet he was human enough to actually check in on Brian Stelter.
00:22:48
Speaker
One of the first people who checked on me inside the ballroom was Brennan Carr, who is the Trump SEC chairman. And some of you might know I've been rather critical of some of our actions in the last year. yes u s ah But we were talking a couple couple of times right afterwards. And then that's the point, Scott, right? Is that this was for everybody in the room and who was there, a moment of unity, ah a shared traumatic experience. and and And that raises the concern you we brought Van, about...
00:23:11
Speaker
Well, people who are on the outside who will view the press and the president as all part of the problem together on a night like this, all getting together for a grand old time. Oh, now youre worried about people looking at you like you're with the president because you're in the same room. Oh, no, heaven forbid.
00:23:27
Speaker
You might get targeted, too, Brian. Oh, wait, we you were. That's right. You were.
00:23:34
Speaker
ah He's, uh, how easily he could have come out. Yes, Brian. Easily could have come out and said, um, thanks guys. I owe this one to you. Yeah, but he didn't.
00:23:49
Speaker
There's another side of, uh, I think a side of Trump that most people don't see. And it's kind of one that I kept hearing about after he got elected and in sixteen you people that had no reason, no motive to say nice things about him.
00:24:06
Speaker
They were they werere like, yeah, he did this and he did that, you know. well
00:24:12
Speaker
You know what? Like Bill, Bill Maher came out, you know, he, he saw it. He saw it after he had dinner with them. so What did Trump do? He signed. oh um, Oh, he came with the printout of all the tweets and stuff.
00:24:25
Speaker
All the things that Bill Maher said are that Trump said about Bill Maher and he autographed it for Bill Maher. ah Bill said he's never going to get rid of that or something. That was like something he's going to cherish. He's like, I'm like, yeah.
00:24:38
Speaker
And you could see a difference in Bill after that after that meeting. Well, he's actually paying attention to the news. He sees things in a different light because he doesn't look at Trump as a monster because he's met him. You've actually been in one-on-one. And the problem with this topic or with Bill Maher saying these things is most of people in Washington, most people in Congress have met him.
00:25:03
Speaker
And dealt with him for years before he was a politician. They know exactly who he is. I think Chuck Schumer used to like try to get money out of Trump. So when he used to give the both. He used to always give the both sides yeah as a, as a businessman, especially in in, in the city of New York.
00:25:18
Speaker
Right. um But internationally, you know, he'd do international deals and you need, yeah, that's what you do as a smart businessman. You cover both your angles. All of them do it. The Haslams do it.
00:25:29
Speaker
And we'll, you know, they did it to get, I mean, mostly Republican in Ohio because it's, it's run by Republicans. If it was run by Democrats, he'd they'd be doing the same thing. And that's the that's the kicker of all this. Is is this what I've always said?
00:25:44
Speaker
He would have been easily, he easily would have worked with Democrats on a lot of issues. A lot of issues I would have hated. oh yeah. But because they're such babies, and I don't know what else to put it. He was just like, oh, scorched earth, screw you. You're not getting anything. They can't get past the identity politics.
00:26:01
Speaker
He's nothing more than, Trump's nothing more than like a 1990s Democrat. Yeah. business business ah Business Democrat, I guess you could call Blue dog Democrat, he would be.
00:26:12
Speaker
So pro-business, but socially progressive. yeah yeah yeah Yeah, it's socially progressive, but not a little not so far you know, left. Right.
00:26:22
Speaker
But it's, it's, uh, yeah, they, they could have, they could have easily worked with them, but they chose a different path and it really kind of blew up in their face.
00:26:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. They, they chose to go to side with the extreme of their party. Cause it was growing. Yes. But of course, in typical fashion,
00:26:49
Speaker
Our friends at the Babylon Bee have put up, put out an article. i I got to put it because there's a clip we're going to talk to you next. of i'll talk or listen to and talk about next, but this is the Babylon Bee.
00:27:01
Speaker
Here's the headline. No, bear with me. This is quite, quite a headline. Headline is, this is a both sides issue. Says side that shot president Trump, assassinated Charlie Kirk, tried to assassinate Kavanaugh, tried to shoot Trump again, shot Steve
Satirical Takes on Violence and Media
00:27:18
Speaker
Scalise,
00:27:19
Speaker
Firebombed Governor Shapiro. Tried to shoot Trump a third time. Continued. Hold on, I gotta scroll down. Continued. Murdered school kids in Minnesota. Murdered school kids in Nashville.
00:27:29
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Murdered an elderly Jewish woman in to death in Colorado. Burned, excuse me, not murdered. In Colorado. Murdered a couple at a Jewish embassy in D.C.
00:27:41
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Seized campus buildings and held a janitors hostage. Assaulted students on campus who appeared Jewish. ambushed ICE officers in Dallas and shot an officer in the neck, assassinated FBI officer David Underwood, assassinated the United Healthcare care CEO, cheered the murder of over 1,200 civilians on October 7th, murdered school kids in Colorado in 2019, injured over 700 police officers in 2020 riots, murdered retired police captain David Dorn, murdered a 16-year-old boy in in Chaz,
00:28:13
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Burned down Minnesota. Firebombed a Washington ice center. Murdered six people in Waukesha. ah se Assassinated five Dallas officers in 2016.
00:28:25
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Assassinated three police officers in Baton Rouge in 2016. You know what? We're going to stop here. Now, this is just getting sad. They left... That the article. Yeah.
00:28:35
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They left the yeah May 2020 out. Yeah, mean... twenty out yeah i mean That was a big one. They they ran out of ink. They ran out of ink. Yeah, guess so. Just for anybody that doesn't remember, they tore down the barricades to the White House and set the what that church on fire. Set the church on fire, down the barricades, breached the outer perimeter of the White House, burned the guard shack and injured like 10 officers.
00:29:01
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Yeah, and sent the president into the bunker. Yeah, they made fun of him because they breached the outer perimeter, and protocol is to put ah the president in the bunker when there's a breach of the White House perimeter.
00:29:14
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And then they and then they they complained because he wanted to walk across the street and see the damage a day later of the church. So the only way to do it, because they wouldn't peacefully like disperse,
00:29:27
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they tear gassed him.
00:29:31
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And I bet he smiled from ear. ear So it's both sides, right? That's what I keep hearing. I hear. I don't hear. I don't. There's nothing really on the other side. They try to lump the, ah I guess, the white supremacist as far right. But it's not really far right.
00:29:48
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And it's not. It's usually not political. Let's listen. This is a clip from News Nation. I don't know who the two women are. I think they do say the name of the woman who's going speak. But go through these so many stats. But they're they're both talking to Geraldo Rivera.
00:30:03
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And they they're having a conversation about both sides, both sides. So let's listen to her breakdown. This is again a News Nation clip. Both sides. Geraldo brought up this idea that the left and the right are equal when it comes to calls for violence or acts of violence. You have done an amazing job of digging through the data. And what did you find? All right, so Geraldo, see if you find this compelling. Okay. So it seems to me that there are three main sources that you hear a lot from the mainstream media that allegedly prove that the problem we have right now of political violence is a both sides problem. There's the Cato Institute, there's the Prosecution Project out of the University of Cincinnati, and then there's the Center for Strategic and International Studies. And these are all always shared by the likes of The Economist, to the Wall Street Journal today shared Center to for Strategic and International Studies. The problem is, is when you dig down into that data, it is so deeply flawed. Let me just give you a few examples, okay? The Prosecution Project's supposed to list all of the acts of political violence in America.
00:31:08
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does not list Charlie Kirk's assassination, oh does not list Trump's assassination attempts, does not list any George Floyd violence. 24 Americans lost their lives during those riots, not listed. But every white nationalist who's a drug dealer, that gets listed. So they list 33 white Aryans, ah Aryan nation people who had ah a meth lab. This is political violence because they happen to be white nationalists. All right, Cato does not list the 9-11 victims.
00:31:43
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does not list any George Floyd violence. Center for Strategic and International Studies, where does it get its data from? The ADL, highly partisan, and the Southern, which just was revealed to have allegedly been funding the very racist that they were supposed to be fighting. And finally, I just have to mention this, the Center for Strategic and International Studies has in its methodology section, it says all antisemitism right wing. any attacks on Jews or Jewish institutions, they reclassified it. If it was in the name of Palestinians, they reclassified it as ethno-nationalist. So by their definition, there's no such thing as left-wing antisemitism, which we all know is just nonsense. This is the data. It is flawed. Shame on the Wall Street Journal and shame on The Economist because they're giving a flawed view. And I totally agree with Katie. We can't, It would be so nice to say, kumbaya, we all share the problem. You cannot fix a problem if you are lying about what it is.
00:32:49
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Yeah, I think that would be... That was one of the better explanations I've heard. Yeah? Sorry, I cut you off. What you're saying? No, that was just one of the better explanations I've heard.
00:33:02
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Usually they kind of miss a lot of that stuff. Oh, yeah. Well, it's, I mean, her all looked very concerned and irritated. And... When's that guy gonna just leave? when Not soon enough.
00:33:17
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But as i was, I'm also finished playing it. The
00:33:22
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know, Tom. The more you know. don't know what that is. Okay. you You never saw that from the PSAs they used to have in the eighty s or ninety s ah Yeah, I don't remember that.
00:33:37
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It had the more you know behind it.
00:33:41
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Dead. Killing that one. All right. So, yeah, like she's saying, any any any white nationalist is automatically considered right wing.
00:33:53
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Yeah, but it's not even political, usually.
00:33:57
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True. I would just say, those so the white nationalists tend to be, I should say, kind of those, those are the Nazis, skinheads, that kind of stuff, right?
00:34:10
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Do you recall the difference between communism and Nazism?
00:34:18
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Is it because, because in America we think one's on the right, left, that's communism and Nazism's on the right.
00:34:26
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Yeah, it's not really. though It's not. There is, to me, i see it differently in America. I see that it's not right or left. It's not ah communism or Nazism. It's total control and anarchy.
00:34:39
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So on the right is anarchy. On the left is total control. That's how I see it. Okay. and then then And then the left and right is kind of up and down on on the graph, if you could picture it. So i got a line graph left and right. And because...
00:34:53
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The only difference between communism and the Nazi party, because the Nazi party is what, if you remember the national socialist party, right? Communism is socialism.
00:35:08
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for the whole world, Nazism was socialism in Germany's way. Like there was, it was a, it was nationalistic, nationalistic. Yeah. It was nationalistic or internationalistic was basically the difference, if that makes sense. So communists would say workers of the world unite.
00:35:25
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The Nazis would say workers of, workers of Germany unite kind of difference. They're the same party. They're the same people. They're just have a different way to go at it. So one is not on the right and one is not on the left.
00:35:36
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They are both on the left. That's one thing I go, but she, as she's saying, so anybody who's pro Palestinian is not a hate group. They're, they're just, um, I forget what she called it.
00:35:49
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But if you, anybody who criticizes Israel is on the right, is a right wing hate. Uh, hello. So it is not both sides.
00:36:01
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It is not both sides. It never has been on both sides. And I, it, it, it drives me nuts when people say that because. Boy, the media does a good job though, promoting that. Oh yeah. And I just, I asked people, okay, when was the last time you saw right ring pundits?
00:36:16
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When was the last time Fox news called Joe Biden, Stalin?
00:36:24
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They never have probably. And if they have, it was one time, it wasn't every day, every person on every news, every news station.
00:36:33
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They are part of the problem. And I think I'm hoping to some extent, I mean, this is highly optimistic. I'm hoping maybe some of them at least kind of saw that.
00:36:44
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ah What they do and what they say has actual repercussions on life and way people see. Because if you say somebody, because literally if somebody was, if we had Hitler in the White House,
00:36:58
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you could see how a crazy person would come to the conclusion of, well, i got to do something. but you Yeah, i you know, the thing is, I think most people have. it's But you're never you're never going to break through that,
00:37:11
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ah that i guess, you know, the that that lefty wall of ignorance of the people calling him. they're They're never going to change their mind. is what they're They're projecting, so how like how can you change that?
00:37:34
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They're they the actual Nazis. Well, right. But I mean, they don't see it that way. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. ah Yeah. there Yeah. I think the ones pushing it i know what they're doing. It's the crazy people that are online saying, well, somebody's got to do it.
00:37:48
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When is somebody going to do it? They'll just leave a comment on a story. when is Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and And the thing is nobody, nobody in the media defends, um,
00:38:02
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I guess that doesn't like push back on that type of rhetoric. Oh, no. you would You would lose half your audience if you did. Why would they would do that? Would you? Or would you start gaining? Yeah, that's true.
00:38:14
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That's true. I mean, they don't that MSNBC would lose half their audience. cnn you know, they they might actually start gaining audience if they're being truthful.
00:38:26
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Yeah, you might get some of your credibility back, but ah that's the that's the hard road. Who's going to do that? Let's just keep. Well, when you hire, when all you did was hire a bunch of lefty college graduates, it's kind of hard to overcome that.
00:38:44
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Yes. I mean, that's, that's a huge problem. Yeah. it's in the bubble, in the bubble. You don't need a college degree to be a journalist, by the way. You just need to be, you need to be interested in a lot of things and have a curious mind.
00:38:58
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Yeah, no, the a journalist was a blue-collar job for the longest time. Now now now these ah prima donna students are getting their degree in journalism and paying so much for their diploma, and then they're getting jobs that are paying not paying it back.
00:39:16
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But it's a status thing. The good news is most of the journalism degrees get it used up at Starbucks. Yeah, well, of course. Um, speaking of, you know, net white nationalists and racism and stuff, the Supreme court came down with another ruling. Uh, they've gotten a couple of them.
00:39:35
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One we probably talk about a couple from last week. One is the civil rights act or the voting rights act. ah just act So SCOTUS came out with a ruling on gerrymandering.
00:39:47
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And it's interesting to me. Did you know, do you hear how this case come up, came about like why, why they're at the Supreme court and where it started? Uh, wasn't it because of Texas?
00:39:59
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No, Louisiana. Yeah. oh Right. But I mean, okay, go ahead. Well, this case specifically started in Louisiana because Louisiana Democrats tried to gerrymander some districts so they can go from a five, one state. So they have five Republicans, one Democrat representative in the house to a four, two by moving around the gerrymandering it to the, where they could,
00:40:27
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you know, so basically if people don't understand, i was trying to explain this to my daughter actually. And she, and basically if you can, If you have some people you know are going to vote a certain way in a district that they're being overwhelmed by people voting the opposite way, if you take them out and and start collecting them into a another district, you can you can make that district, you could change the way that district votes.
00:40:52
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So if you get enough people, and if you know that a certain kind of people, a certain certain type of people, certain certain cultural people in America vote like, don't know, 90, 95% one way,
00:41:05
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You could put them in, group them together by race. and Of course, definitely not racist at all. And you could treat them differently and put them in in their own category and they can start getting districts voting a certain way.
00:41:20
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And that's why I think if you look at, if you look at a county map of of a national presidential election, most of the the country is red, except for around all the cities.
00:41:32
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Right. Where they've gerrymandered it to, it like Chicago is one of the worst cities. So Supreme Court, this case, so the Democrats brought this case up because they were trying to gerrymander it so they can get an extra seat in Louisiana. And what it's actually ended up happening, they're going to lose that seat and maybe the other seat too.
00:41:49
Speaker
I think they're going to lose like about three seats in Louisiana, right? Well, they only had one to, they only gained one. They went from, I think Louisiana has six representatives, I think they're saying. Oh, okay. And they had one that the Democrats tried to gerrymandered to get a four, from a five, one to four, two state for Republicans, two Democrats. And then when the state said no, they sued and went to the Supreme court and they lost.
00:42:17
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Let's listen to a little bit of the hyperbolic nature of this case from, course, this is IdeaStream article, but it's an NPR report. So bear with us on
Supreme Court and Redistricting Ruling
00:42:29
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that. Voting rights, IdeaStream, and oh my gosh.
00:42:34
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And it kind of is good because you care take take a listen. They do come up with couple minutes. They do come up with, ah they do talk about one of the reasons why this was enacted. don't understand maybe why they started doing it at first, but A Supreme Court ruling could alter election maps across this country. On Wednesday, the court's conservative Republican supermajority made it much harder to apply the Voting Rights Act. Voting rights advocates have long considered the law the crown jewel of the civil rights movement. NPR's Hansi Lo Wong. Hansi Lo Wong. Hansi Lo Wong covers voting rights and is with us. Hansi, good morning.
00:43:08
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Good morning, Steve. Okay, so this is a ruling concerning a specific congressional district, just one in Louisiana. But what is the most important thing to think about as this is applied elsewhere?
00:43:19
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This ruling reinterprets longstanding protections against racial discrimination and redistricting, and it's going to make it much, much harder to challenge voting maps, not just for Congress, but at all levels of government with claims that the maps unfairly weakened the collective voting power of racial minorities in places where white majority voters and minority voters of color tend to prefer different candidates. Yeah. OK, so the the idea of the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s was if black voters had their voting power diluted by gerrymandering, you could draw new black majority districts to correct that. That was the operation before. What's the rule after the Supreme Court opinion?
00:43:59
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Well, the conservative justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion for the court and Alito said the focus of section two of the Voting Rights Act, which is the section at the heart of this Louisiana case, Alito said the focus of it should be intentional racial discrimination. Intentional racial discrimination. That's the change?
00:44:17
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Yes. Congress amended the Voting Rights Act decades ago to say that Section 2 should focus on any discriminatory effects of a redistricting plan. And, you know, one legal expert I talked to yesterday was Lativa Ellis at Case Western Reserve University. And Ellis said that proving intentional discrimination, this new standard, is notoriously difficult.
00:44:36
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We, in essence, are asking plaintiffs now to find a smoking gun. The proof of the racist intent that is sort of objectively and consciously articulated in order to prove their case.
00:44:50
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The problem with discrimination cases is that most legislators in this context know better than to say that. So in practice, Sativeh Ellis and other legal experts say these Section 2 protections may now end up being basically impossible to enforce. So you could have a discriminatory effect, but still struggle to prove that it was a discriminatory intent. Is there an immediate effect ahead of the midterm elections we have this year?
00:45:17
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Well, Republican-controlled states, especially in the South, could try to eliminate some Democratic-represented House districts that the Voting Rights Act was likely protecting. But it is late April, and we are past most state candidate filing deadlines for this year's midterm election. Now, that hasn't stopped Republicans in places like Louisiana, Georgia, and Tennessee from urging their state's maps to be redrawn as soon as possible. I should note There's a request in for the Supreme Court to speed up certifying its ruling so that Louisiana can try to redistrict. But again, the timing makes this tricky to do this year. This could be a multi-year redraw in the end.
00:45:52
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And whenever this redistricting happens, part of the bottom line here is that with the further weekend Voting Rights Act, the United States may be headed towards seeing the largest ever decline in representation by black members of Congress. This ruling comes just as Florida is the latest state to redraw its or try to redraw its maps.
00:46:11
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That's right. And this is a map that the governor's office in Florida has cited the ruling to make a case for it. It was availed early this week and we'll see how it plays out. Hansi, thanks so much.
00:46:21
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You're welcome. That's NPR's Hansi Lo Wong. think Hansi's ever gotten handsy with anybody.
00:46:29
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Hansi, Hansi, Hansi. Yeah. So so crazy, a crazy, crazy standard to be put in. You actually have to prove that the redistricting is racist or you before it's approved or before you have you can change it or redistrict it. That's crazy.
00:46:48
Speaker
So this was meant to prevent or reverse a lot of redlining that went on you know in in the early nineteen hundreds Like, you know, in that progressive heaven, Chicago.
00:47:05
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Yeah. I don't think that really happens too much anymore, do you?
00:47:12
Speaker
What do you mean? Do they redline anymore? are are Are they, I mean, because I guess. It's already redlined. I guess, I guess. What What do you mean? I, I, I just.
00:47:23
Speaker
So this, this, this was put in the voting rights act to reverse or prevent redistricting on racial lines. So they were at at the time they were doing the reverse. They were putting black people in districts where they would have no voting power. And this was meant to reverse that and prevent it in the future.
00:47:43
Speaker
I think it's gone too far and it's now been flipped. Right. So they are still redlining. It's just now they're redlining in favor of black people. Hispanics whoever. In favor of Democrats.
00:47:56
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Democrats, sure. But it's it's specific to the black community, the Hispanic community, because they tend to vote Democrat in very high. You're not going to this with the white community because it's 50-50 in a lot of cases.
00:48:08
Speaker
Not necessarily always, but even 60-40 is not worth it. But if you know a certain culture or certain group of people will vote 80, 90% one way, that's the only way it really works.
00:48:20
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Mm-hmm.
00:48:23
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But they need a voice, Rob. Yes, I think I'd be interested because they're talking about a huge, huge drop in minority representation.
00:48:35
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Do we know what is the...
00:48:40
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Makeup of the Congress? Yeah, I know if I want to spend the show Googling things, but no no I'm wondering what the what the makeup of of the House Representatives is. Because if it's more than 13% of it, maybe we should, because, our you know, i don't think you can just go, hey, this population has this many people. They need to have this much representation. I'm thinking the solution I mean, I know it's crazy, but maybe they should try to present candidates that people like and are good for everybody, not just people who look like you and your community.
00:49:12
Speaker
Right now, I just Googled that there's 13%. Oh, it's perfect then. But I mean, does it, just because you have 13% of the population does not mean you automatically have to have 13% of the representation.
00:49:25
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No, no, because, uh,
00:49:30
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zero. What was that? You shouldn't have zero, but it doesn't mean you you have to hit a certain number. It's not like, it's like they do at the workplace. They well they want engineers to be 50% women and 50% men. It's like, no.
00:49:47
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I'm saying, I think we're good. I think, I think if they put in candidates that people like and, and fight for the things that most people fight for, they'll win.
00:49:58
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Black or white. I mean, we have a black president, right?
00:50:04
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Kind of. Well, people get really mad when you mention his other side.
00:50:12
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i don't know. i
Ohio Primary Elections and Voting Changes
00:50:13
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think I think it should be pretty hard to prove this. I think this just puts a little ah more guardrails. It doesn't cut it. It doesn't remove it. It just puts a little, it puts some fairies on it.
00:50:24
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You have to actually prove that you're being harmed.
00:50:30
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I think you think there'll be some cases you can prove that they were racist any other way. Oh, yeah. Moving along. Speaking of voting rights ruling, we have election tomorrow. As this show drops, the election is tomorrow the primary. And here's a nice article from
00:50:52
Speaker
Channel 5. Got a clip here from it, too. But Morgan has a pretty extensive article about the 2026 primary, and she kind of breaks down a lot of Senate races, the House races, lot of the issues that are being put up in different communities.
00:51:14
Speaker
I mean, she's got Attorney General, Secretary of State. State auditor all the way down. And there's one that stuck it stood out to me, but you know what? Let's listen to the clip first because again, with the voting rights, fresh on your mind ruling, there's some, there's some fear of this election. So channel five would like to help you understand.
00:51:41
Speaker
What did I do with my, oh boy. What if I didn't pull that clip? Oh darn. I guess I, we won't.
00:51:51
Speaker
But anyway, there the the clip basically talked about all the changes and all the IDs going to need now, which are the same IDs you needed before.
00:52:02
Speaker
If you haven't mailed in your ballot yet, then, oh here it is. I got it right here. Then you're you're you're kind of screwed. let's Let's listen real quick.
00:52:13
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Primary election day is less than a week away, so if you want to make sure that your vote is counted, there are some recent changes that you'll want to keep in mind here. If you were hoping to vote absentee, your deadline to request a ballot has passed, so you will have to go to the polls to cast that ballot. You have three more days to vote early at your county board of elections if you don't want to go to your polling site on Election Day. Now, if you did request an absentee ballot on time, it needs to arrive at your county board of elections by the time the polls close on Tuesday, even by mail.
00:52:46
Speaker
Also, remember that you need ID to vote as well. and Unexpired state ID, passport or U.S. military ID will do. The SAVE Act that people may have heard about at the federal level is not active law. It is not in play in Ohio. And we don't want individual individuals to get confused with that, thinking that they need to bring additional documentation above and beyond what the standard um forms of ID that individual needs to bring when they go to vote.
00:53:19
Speaker
And as always, polls will be open on primary election day, Tuesday, May the 5th from 630 in the morning until 730 at night. And you know, voting on election day, crazy thought, isn't it?
00:53:33
Speaker
I don't think the save act, this guy's talking about the save act and don't worry about that. don't think the save act would have changed anything on election day. No. What the heck? You still need, uh, you still need your valid driver's license, passport, that kind of stuff. You can't, you know, you can't give them a, um,
00:53:50
Speaker
Can't give him an EBT card. You can't give them a phone bill, anything like that. It has to be something with your picture on it. I know. I know. I know. I know it's hard. I know some there's some groups out there that have a problem getting IDs, we were told.
00:54:04
Speaker
So you you may have a problem with that. There's people out there that can help. So yeah, check out this article. it's got lot stuff. If wondering who's running in your area, very good chance she has it on here.
00:54:14
Speaker
And one question I have
00:54:22
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is there's, where is it? There there was a district for judges. Man, this thing's long. This thing is, oh, here it is. but You can just skip to your district.
00:54:33
Speaker
Yeah, 8th District Court of Appeals, Cuyahoga. Judge 1, there's a Democrat, no Republican, no Libertarian. Judge 2, Democrat, no Republican, no Libertarian. Judge 3, Democrat, so on. Oh, now Judge 4, there's a Republican.
00:54:51
Speaker
That's because it's Cleveland. I'm sure that. Yeah, it is Cleveland. It's kind of, yeah, it was Cuyahoga. So judges for a Cuyahoga appeals court. So there's out of five judges, there's one Republican.
00:55:02
Speaker
And he won't win. Oh, no, she actually. Oh, no, it's Anthony. ah Yeah, no, probably not. Probably, probably fat chance. Yeah, they're all incumbents, all except for one.
00:55:15
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Yeah, they're all incumbents. Now, most other districts have, okay, 10th district, this is Franklin. that is I believe that's Columbus, or right around Columbus. Yep. No Republicans.
00:55:27
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and Now, we have to reverse. 8th District Court of Appeals, Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, and Portage, and Trumbull. no No Democrats or Libertarians, just two Republicans.
00:55:38
Speaker
Ooh, that happened again the 12th. This is very interesting. So check it out. i This is kind of what happens when I go a vote. I'm like, why why am I voting when there's one person up for up for the spot? i mean It's a primary.
00:55:51
Speaker
No, it all happened in the um general as well. Well, you got to vote. Or some, you know, they got to get a vote. Right. I know. I was like, well, why am I, so I guess, here's why should I vote for that person? They've already won.
00:56:04
Speaker
Yeah, usually I skip over them. They voted for themselves, I'm skip over them. Yeah, I generally don't vote.
00:56:10
Speaker
So yeah, check it out. this' this It's a quite lengthy and detailed article. Got a lot of stuff in it. And then what, is there any, anything out there that Tom that you use to find out like what's, what what to vote? Cause you know, on election day or anything I use. Yeah.
00:56:26
Speaker
You're getting tips. Cause no, you know, there was a, ah it was Marshall something. It was a Marshall law, Marshall. I forget exactly. But there was,
00:56:40
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Marshall Project, that's it. they did They do a nice review on ah judges running. they They interview them and you kind of get a good sense of their values.
00:56:51
Speaker
That's good. But besides that, I and just kind of pay attention to their campaign and try to hear as much. Like this time, and there's nothing I'm really...
00:57:04
Speaker
ah That Marcel Stribich running for a second. Is he running for secretary of state? I believe. Yeah. Yeah. He's the only one that I would vote over Sprague. It's he's running against Sprague, right? Yeah.
00:57:17
Speaker
Yes. Yes. Secretary state, Russo, Brian. Democrat is Robert Sprague and Marcel Stribich.
00:57:29
Speaker
And then yeah there's two Democrats. Now, the other interesting thing is. But you're going to. and See, i i forget I always forget. You don't. You don't. You just get the Republican card, right? yeah They ask you whether you want the Republican card or the yeah Democrat card. believe they do. yeah Yeah. Yeah. ah Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
00:57:53
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ah The Democrats only have one choice. Yeah. Almost like they have nobody in there. But yeah, check out. I think the, I think it's pretty, pretty good kind of a lot of stuff in the article, but yeah, check it out. Trying to think of anything else.
00:58:12
Speaker
It was a bipartisan helpline. If you see any shenanigans, you can always write that down and give them a call and say, Hey, ask them questions. All that kind stuff. Check it out. Tomorrow's voting day. Get out and vote.
00:58:23
Speaker
Lots of levies. Most levies since 2020. I don't have one at all. Yeah. By me. My city is kind of boring this time around. not that I'm not that tuned in. We've got income tax instead of school instead of levy for schools. I'm still debating on voting for it or not.
00:58:46
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I think I might.
00:58:49
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Uh, cause you know, going to complain and bitch and complain about nothing changing, they come up with something different. I mean, it might be worth a shot. That's a game time decision. I'm make it walk into the voting booth.
00:59:03
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Flip of the coin. Flip of the coin. Yeah. Let's see how I'm feeling that day. It doesn't look good for the state, for the city, but we'll give them a little, there might be some, there's a, there's a, you're saying there's a chance. Yes, there's a chance.
00:59:16
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Next, we have a we got a bill running a couple of bills. Maybe could have, we could have done a, I've got mini-threader corner here.
Bipartisan Family Leave Bill in Ohio
00:59:26
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Let them out. They haven't been out in while.
00:59:29
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We've got stretch their legs. Got a couple here. SB 396. Now running, introduced as a state-run family leave bill. And i got some questions on it.
00:59:43
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And we'll listen to IdeaStream's take on this story. More than three quarters of Ohio workers don't have paid leave. They could get up to 14 weeks of state-funded paid leave to help them deal with newborns, medical emergencies, or elderly or ill family members under a bipartisan bill in the Ohio Senate and a similar Republican-sponsored bill in the House.
01:00:07
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When her twins were born at just 28 weeks, Madison Greenspan of Cleveland says she and her husband struggled to keep their jobs and spend time with their babies in neonatal intensive care. She ended up not returning to work.
01:00:20
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I do believe that if paid family leave existed then, I would have had a fighting chance of being able to keep my job and care for my daughters. We were fortunate we were able to survive on one income for a short time, but other families aren't able to.
01:00:34
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Greenspan is now advocating for the bill to create a family and medical leave insurance program administered by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and funded by workers and employers, each kicking in payroll contributions of 0.4%. Republican sponsor Senator Bill Blessing says 14 states guarantee paid leave, so he says this is a pro-business idea.
01:00:55
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Karen Kassler at the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau.
01:01:01
Speaker
So they it's they say it's state funded, but it doesn't sound like it's state funded. No. What the heck? The state would control it. Yeah, it's run by the state. Because it would be done. It's very similar. It's basically another level of unemployment.
01:01:16
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Yeah. Because that's what you do with unemployment. You and your employer pitch in a fraction of a percent.
01:01:25
Speaker
I mean, unless... unless The federal government gets involved and then you can go on like forever on it. But that's only if just if the federal government gives the state the money and then it's just welfare. But right now, as as of right now, I don't, do you see a problem with this?
01:01:44
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Well, ideally, I would like women to have more time off after birth. And men. No, I don't know. Yeah. I think they can use a couple of weeks. That's it. Yeah, sure. Right. Whatever. But I think that that would help as well.
01:01:59
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Yeah. Okay. I'll give you that. I just don't want the government handling it.
01:02:08
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Well, I mean, yeah, I get it. I get it. I don't like it either. I'm just not sure how else you do it. You're either going to have a law that forces companies to include it, or you're going to have a law that forces companies and employers to pitch into a fund. you know, it's kind of. I didn't read the, but I didn't read the bill.
01:02:22
Speaker
So like does some 16 year old that works at McDonald's and gets knocked up, is she going to be able to collect? And she's living it with her parents. Hmm.
01:02:32
Speaker
I guess I just want to see more. I think it's okay. I'm all right with it. It just needs need some guardrails. Sure. Always. Always.
01:02:45
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Yeah, it doesn't give a whole lot of details on that kind of stuff. I would say yes, because that's what it usually is. I looked at the, what did they say, 12 states that have it or 13 states yeah have it?
01:03:00
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when they do that Yeah, they said 13, and I looked which 13, and they're all pretty far left. It's like California, Maine, Colorado. mean, just every lefty state. But it's bipartisan built on.
01:03:15
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Oh, yeah, okay.
01:03:19
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Let's see here. i I like the idea of, it it to me, it it makes it easier to have a family. you know i think I think young people have a hard time.
01:03:31
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having a family. Now that's, you know, and there's a lot of reasons people are starting later trying to start a family, but I think this would make it a little easier. I just don't, I just don't want it being abused and taken advantage of. Yeah. Yeah.
01:03:48
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Unfortunately, That's usually problem everything. Is that girl serving your Rally's burger that has like five kids at home going to get this? Sounds like it. Yeah, see, that's that's where it gets.
01:04:00
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Yeah, but she paid into it, so did the employer. So what why does it bother me? Yeah, but so did i You did? Right? Well, yeah you paid into your part. I mean, you ideally, you're paying for your part along with the company, just like unemployment.
01:04:12
Speaker
Yeah, but does is everyone pitching in on this?
01:04:17
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According to, a because of lack of evidence, I'm assuming yes, that would be on everybody's, almost everybody just, again, it I think it's health and family services or whatever it's called.
01:04:28
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That's who and administers unemployment. I think it would, if you think of unemployment, I think there's, that's what they're looking at. Same kind of deal. I would think most everybody would pitch into it automatically. Right. Part of your. So I would be pitching in on it.
01:04:41
Speaker
Sure. Yeah. But for you though.
01:04:45
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Right, but I'll never need need it. Again, i true, I'm not, but you do that now with unemployment.
01:04:54
Speaker
But that's a security blanket for me. So is this. course, when you're 75 years old, obviously you're not goingnna be using it, sure. Maybe not, but you could be using it for health reasons. What if you get sick?
01:05:11
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Right, doesn't it say that in here for yeah for family and for health?
01:05:17
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Yeah. Funded for workers, employers, each kicking the payroll, allow workers to take 14 weeks for paid leave, 12-month period conditions and situations that qualify for job protection time off under the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act.
01:05:32
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So yeah, even medical leave. So you'd be pitching in, but yeah, you would you you could use it.
01:05:39
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not necessari I'm a big fan of it because the government and unemployment is is is abused all the time.
01:05:47
Speaker
How so? but People who can work are on it. But I mean, there's people who are on it that don't look for jobs and don't even plan to work. for That to me. Yeah, but it's six months. So you have to work a certain amount of time in the year to collect it on unemployment.
01:06:02
Speaker
Welfare, on the other hand, is a different story. Right. I think this would be a same thing. You have to work. a certain amount of time to build up some credit and then the bill will allow workers to take 14 weeks of paid leave in a 12 month period.
01:06:18
Speaker
So you can only do 14 weeks every year. i like, I don't see unemployment being abused as much as like welfare. I'm sure there's people that do it. Oh, for sure.
01:06:30
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i just, to me, if you're sitting at home collecting unemployment and not looking for a job, ah to me, that's abusing unemployment. Well, yeah, but I don't know if they're looking for a job. Yeah, you're right. I mean, plenty of jobs out there. That's how I know they're not looking for, you know that's how I see it. i don't know. yeah My wife's been, was laid off. She, it's been three months and she's looking for a job every day.
01:06:50
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ah She's not abusing it. No. Right. Of course not. She's looking for a job, but I'm saying if you're, if you're the person in inner city who is unemployed, there's plenty of jobs. Are they unemployed are they on welfare? Yeah.
01:07:06
Speaker
Well, at one point, they were unemployed on on on unemployment for... Imagine. you got um i mean, this is... You got like 25 weeks of unemployment. Yeah, 22. You have to work 22 weeks to get unemployment or something like that. Something like that. And you get 20... And you get like... 25 weeks.
01:07:24
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Smitten of what you made. Yeah. It basically gets you by... Basically. Yeah. Kind of. Kind of, sort of, depends.
01:07:36
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ah And, ah and also speaking of Ohio jobs, department of jobs and family services, that's a large encompassing thing too. It's not just an employment.
01:07:49
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but They do WIC and all that stuff. That's how, I think that's where you get administered from that, isn't it? I don't know. I never, never needed it. So how else do you, how else do you get people family leave if, you don't do it, if you don't force the companies to, they're not gonna do it by themselves.
01:08:05
Speaker
Companies offer it, don't they? Oh, no. Maternity leave? I would say no. Maternity leave, yeah. You could take maternity leave, but you're not getting paid. Okay.
01:08:16
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it's I think it's rare for a head to have a company voluntarily pay you maternity leave. Like California forces companies to give you 12 months, I think, or something crazy like that, maternity leave. Praternity or maternity leave.
01:08:28
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I'm okay with it, actually. I don't know. I do like it because it's not just out of my tax dollars, but yeah more it's just it it just makes a government agency even bigger. yeah Yeah, that's the part that sucks, but this is, in a way, it's in a way I think it's a good thing for young families.
01:08:48
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It may be better if was opting. Does it promote starting a family?
01:08:54
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but like I think, you know, population's in decline. we need we We need people making babies. And if it's, if the fact that they need to take time off from work is stopping them, then maybe this is a good thing.
01:09:06
Speaker
Yeah. And i I'm sure it is. It was, it was something we considered. I mean, we didn't, it didn't stop us. We were having kids, but it was, it was, you have to budget for it. Yeah. Yeah. No, right. I mean, a vacation and all that stuff. So it would make it, would have made it easier. yeah I think a lot of people try to,
01:09:23
Speaker
I mean, you guys started a little older. um I'm talking about like the, you know, the 20 year olds or let's say the 22 year olds that just got married. mean, you know, this could be, this is a big help.
01:09:35
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Yeah. Especially at that age. 22, 24. That's when they should be doing it. Right. And it's, and it's when it's the hardest to make money and, you know, have all, any you don't have a lot of, ah you don't have a career maybe yet. And so you don't have all this established stuff.
01:09:50
Speaker
But that's when they keep saying, well, I'm going to wait until I get going. And then by the time you get going, it's a little too late sometimes. Yeah. so All in all. I think i think it's okay. All in all is a good thing.
01:10:02
Speaker
Not perfect, but it's a good thing. Next is, well, the opposite of the the opposite of this story, which is there's a bill. In the state, well, says the Democrats introduced bill that would legalize a medically assisted deaths for terminally ill patients.
01:10:20
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So quite different than then encouraging urging more families. Let's listen to, this is Morgan Trowell, News Channel 5. A new bill is described as trying to give terminally ill patients death with dignity. At the Statehouse today, a group of lawmakers introduced legislation to allow physician-assisted suicide. Your Columbus Bureau reporter, Morkin Trout, breaks down what the bill would do and the praise and the concern it's been receiving.
01:10:49
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turn I love my life. Six months. This is not about giving up. That's how much time Michael Oser's doctor told him he has left. I have terminal cancer.
01:10:59
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He says he isn't worried about when he dies, but how? I don't want the pain and suffering, but not necessarily for me. He doesn't want his family to go through the pain that Jim O'Neill did when he and his daughter Rochelle lost their wife and mother, Addie, to
Assisted Suicide Legislation Debate
01:11:14
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cancer. She wished for a way to end her suffering on her terms, sparing herself the pain and her family, the trauma of watching her slowly fade away. She did not have that option. They're supporting a newly introduced bill that would allow for medical aid in dying or physician-assisted suicide. It is a decision shared between them, their faith, their loved ones, and their medical providers. Beachwood Democrat Eric Sinnenberg's bill authorizes terminally ill patients who live in Ohio and are at least 18, given a prognosis of six months to live by two separate doctors, and have mental health evaluations and are competent to make decisions to take medication to end their life.
01:11:55
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No individual provider or facility is required to participate. Social worker Jessica Rogers is fighting against the bill, saying it's coercive to vulnerable groups as the medication needed in assisted suicides is cheaper than full hospice care. We want them to have the full range of appropriate end of life care, and and it is not appropriate end of life care to abandon a patient with lethal drugs to overdose on. She and groups like Ohio Right to Life and the Catholic Conference of Ohio argue that this lacks guardrails. Rogers points out that it's been used in cases of severe anorexia, an eating disorder that can be reversible in Colorado. but know This is legitimizing the idea that some people have a life not worth living, and when that's the case, it's perfectly acceptable societally for them to take their own life. I have lived with dignity in Ohio.
01:12:48
Speaker
When my time comes, I should be able to die here with dignity. This bill may be a hard sell in the Republican-controlled legislature, but the advocates in favor say it's worth a conversation. At the Ohio State House, I'm Columbus Bureau reporter Morgan Trow. They didn't tell us how many more states do it now.
01:13:07
Speaker
but How am I supposed to compare? and then And of course, Morgan, again, another article with a bill introduced and no bill number.
01:13:16
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That's a Morgan.
01:13:19
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ah What's your take on this, Tom? I'm wondering. I... Boy. ah Yeah. I'm okay with it. it's The problem I have is when the if if the state's getting involved, is Medicare sitting there going, hmm, yeah, you know. ah It's a little cheaper to give you this one prescription than in the next 50.
01:13:42
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Right.
01:13:45
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Yeah. That's to me, that this is a hard sell. If it's the patient making the decision with their family and let's, you know, let's say they got like, okay, six months to live, but look but you know, you you can, you might live those six months pretty, pretty good until the last maybe three.
01:14:07
Speaker
month or so. Not even that. I knew you i know of a couple of people, at least one recent one that came to mind, six months to live and lived three years. Well, yes, yes. Of good good three years. not but They weren't sick for those three years. But if you're asking me, the person that is given that prognosis that he's going to die in six months, he's not going to choose to do this until there's like, he he's really in bad decline.
01:14:39
Speaker
You know what I mean? Yeah, like i don't know if there's any any guarantee that that's actually... mean, they do cite an example of Colorado. Somebody who was anorexic wanted to kill themselves because they're anorexic. All they got to do eat.
01:14:53
Speaker
Yeah. Well, right, dead but if this says you had you have to be given a prognosis of... ah six months to live by two different doctors and a mental health evaluation. It all depends on who's doing those evaluations. there Yes.
01:15:09
Speaker
Yes. And so, so I trust those people at all. I do think people should be able to do this. It's, it's up like I, you know, they mentioned it's up to your family and your faith and, uh, you know,
01:15:26
Speaker
I think they should be able to do it if they want to. I just don't want, it just depends on who's all who was deciding this. Yeah. I think it opens the door for massive
01:15:40
Speaker
people take advantage of this. I get it. it's It's a personal choice kind of thing. It's what, how much control does a government have over you? So here's here's Canada. You know, Canada is doing this, right? And it's pretty bad. Yeah, they got it's pretty loose.
01:15:57
Speaker
It's pretty loose. I mean, you could you could be depressed and choose to to do this. So roughly one in every 20 deaths in Canada right now is assisted, medically assisted.
01:16:11
Speaker
Wow. One in 20, 5%.
01:16:16
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of all deaths in Canada. This is in 2024. So since 2016, and I think it really picked up here the last couple of years, there's been 76,000 of these.
01:16:30
Speaker
And, and it's growing right now. So it it grew six or almost So in it made up all So,
01:16:46
Speaker
They don't, I don't have all the numbers here, so I can't figure out how many more, but it grew almost 7%. So if it keeps going that way, people are just going to be like, yeah, I'm not feeling good today. Let me knock off.
01:16:58
Speaker
Yeah. So questions. What if, do you remember the name Terry Shivo? Yeah. So she was Florida resident. I think there was a big lawsuit for years. Her family wanted to keep her on life support. Her husband wanted to pull the plug.
01:17:15
Speaker
how does yeah i mean you How does this react? and How does this help or not help in that situation? It doesn't give do anything for that situation. Well, if you have power of attorney and you were making medical decisions for that person, that you don't have the right to make that decision for them. I don't know. I'm not.
01:17:30
Speaker
That's the question I have. Yeah, but you're on. She was on a machine. It wasn't like she was. it That's a different. Well, not really, is it?
01:17:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. If you're living on a machine, that's not the same thing as suicide. But who gets to choose? the Does the husband who has the power of attorney get to choose that this person no longer wants to live and wants to commit suicide? Yeah, because she she loves him. guess they're not if they're not terminally ill, yeah. Yeah. yeah That's the key. It's not it's not the same thing.
01:17:59
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Gotcha. um I don't know. I ah really struggle with this one. I'm not sure. I don't like it in general. Well, I don't think somebody should, but I think if somebody's going through like, if they're rotting away and and in suffering, then I'm kind of like, oh, okay, if they wanted to, who am I to say no?
01:18:25
Speaker
So if you, if, if this guy is in the, in the clip, he's given six months to live and he goes to two doctors, can you just do it right now? That's yeah. That's, that's where to me it's strange. Yeah.
01:18:38
Speaker
Like for me, it would be almost like if it's gotten to the point where he's going into hospice and he wants to do this, then it'd be like, okay. Yeah. But this is like, okay. You know, he could still take a world tour.
01:18:52
Speaker
for the next couple months. could live for a few more years easily. He might be able to. I'm just saying I'm okay with it when it's like when you're to the point where you're suffering.
01:19:04
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Yeah. Yeah.
01:19:08
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don't know. Let us know. Let us know. oh that's next. But hey, we'll just move it up. Let us know what you think. What's your opinion on Medically assisted suicide.
01:19:19
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Good, not good, in between, let us know. I mean, if you're Catholic, you're going to say this is not good. CrookedRiverCast at gmail.com. Yes. well Most would. I can't. Just something.
01:19:33
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I just, my reaction is no. Because everything gets taken advantage of. Everything so everything that happens, everything we've had in our so we have in our society that started with good intentions always gets taken advantage of. Now, and if we haven't mentioned this one either.
01:19:46
Speaker
If we had government funded Medicare, I mean, like for all type of thing, I'd be like, definitely not.
01:19:56
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And if this guy in this article or in this clip, you think he's on Medicare or Medicaid? I don't know. I don't know. Good chance he is or, you know, he's ah up there. in So, yeah, he could have his own insurance plus Medicaid. Yeah, usually you do.
01:20:13
Speaker
My dad does. And as long as it's not like somebody sitting here going, I, you know, I'm depressed. You want to die. and if you want, if that's you, then, then take some pills and leave the government out of it.
01:20:30
Speaker
Yeah, that's the other thing. You technically can't do this now. It's just there's there might be some repercussions afterwards and you may not have the proper guidance from a medical physician to do it correctly, I guess. I don't know. Man, that's a really hard one for me.
01:20:46
Speaker
Again, just an email. What do you think? Let us know. This is a tough one.
Home Distilling Ban Legal Challenge
01:20:49
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I i manually, if if I'm at this torn on it, I i usually just decide on
01:20:55
Speaker
um Moving along on something a little lighter than medically assisted suicide is ah another Supreme Court ruling that started in Ohio. This case started in Ohio.
01:21:08
Speaker
And the Supreme Court could hear challenge to home distilling ban involving licking county residents. So bottom line is Supreme Court could, they haven't accepted it yet, they could take the next step In the case, they're challenging the 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling involving a Licking County resident, John Ream.
01:21:30
Speaker
So the Buckeye Institute is representing the plaintiff and said it will ask the Supreme Court to hear Ream versus Department of Treasury after a federal appeals court upheld the ban and contradicted a previous ruling.
01:21:44
Speaker
Apparently, you're not allowed to distill at home. I didn't even know. I feel like you can do beer or you can, you can brew beer, but you can't distill wine or distill liquor. You can make wine. You can make beer. You can't do the liquor.
01:21:59
Speaker
I thought they had said banning ah the ban on distilling was originally passed in 1868 as a part of legislation that was intended to prevent home distillers from evading federal excise tax.
01:22:11
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According to the sixth circuit court.
01:22:15
Speaker
Okay. Reem is the owner of Trek Brewing Company in Newark, Ohio, and has practiced home brewing as a hobby for years. Could face a felony conviction, $10,000 in fines, and five years in prison if he took up whiskey making as a hobby.
01:22:34
Speaker
All right. ah i I'd ask what your take on this, Tom, but I'm pretty sure on it. To hell with the government. Yeah.
01:22:44
Speaker
Yeah. Just go all you want. It's an outdated law, I think, right? Yeah, it's very much outdated. i don't, I guess theyre they put it in to try to keep people from evading a tax.
01:22:57
Speaker
I think we could probably handle that now. We could probably, I mean, do beer. They don't do evade tax on beers. are a lot of people, all these people making beers are evade tax. I doubt it. No, you're doing it because you're having fun doing it. Yeah. I've i've made wine a couple of times and it's just, it's cool.
01:23:16
Speaker
Yeah, I think i think Stone Cold will give us some. Give me a hell yeah! Yep, he approves. I have a feeling if this goes to the Supreme Court, it'll be... They'll overturn it, or whatever you want to call it. yeah Yeah, overturn it.
01:23:33
Speaker
I think so, too. it might I mean, will they take it? Maybe. How many courts has this gone through? I mean, they might have to take it. Two? Two. So he it looks like... He's won one and he's lost one, right? Yeah. And that's why they're saying we'll go the Supreme Court because a... kind of Because the original court, Sixth Circuit Court, it says...
01:23:53
Speaker
Oh yeah. Appeals court ruled the six, uh, for the sixth circuit court that the ban could continue to be enforced on April 21st. Um, after the U S court of appeals, fifth circuit ruled that the ban was unconstitutional. So the fifth circuit court of appeals says unconstitutional and the sixth circuit appeals says they're going hold the ban. They're going to continue the ban.
01:24:15
Speaker
To hell with the sixth circuit. Yeah. I say, To sell all you want, I want more bourbon choices. As you know, the whole choice the whole point is that I think they didn't want people selling it on the black market, right? Not taking tax and not paying the tax, the excise tax. Yeah, I don't think you can make enough in in your home nowadays to to be selling it anywhere.
01:24:44
Speaker
Yeah, and... a couple of buddies maybe, you know? It's a little easier to find these people out. yeah I mean, just like beer. If someone starts selling massive amounts of beer of their house and not paying tax, eventually somebody's going to find out. The government's going to find out.
01:24:59
Speaker
Everyone in the on your street is drunk. Yeah, everybody's drunk and don't show enough for work is the first. Now, this this bill if it does, it'll be overturned and well I'll be making, distilling some whiskey.
01:25:14
Speaker
Yeah, I'm sure I won't. Seems like a hold it's a whole lot of work. I never looked into distilling. I i would give it a try. just I enjoy the winemaking part. Yeah. I want to do the beer. I want do the beer one these days.
01:25:29
Speaker
Yeah, that doesn't seem too bad either. Yeah. I had some family members done it, said it was really fun. They actually tasted some way. It was pretty good, surprisingly. but It was pretty good. I think yeah we can go here locally in Strongsville.
01:25:41
Speaker
I think they do it there. Many of them. There's places all down in West 25th. Oh, okay. yeah What was the one that... There's a couple of them. I know family, uh, one market garden, maybe might be one of them. Something like that. I didn't know they did it.
01:25:57
Speaker
They may not. I'm just saying it was one of those then in that area that I know had a brewing section or a, uh, a little section that you saw they had set outside in the restaurant. boom here That one I was going down there years ago, but let us know what you think.
01:26:13
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Do you think we should be able to, you know, distill?
01:26:17
Speaker
ah don't You know, it's know the answer. So like the brew kettle I was talking about here in Strongsville. Oh, right. Yeah. Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. They have a whole brewing section and they also have a just a distilling section too, where you can, they do, ah you can distill some whiskey.
01:26:37
Speaker
Interesting. Cotterman. That's probably the one I'm thinking of. That's probably the place I'm thinking of. Yeah.
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Elderly Abandonment Issues in Ohio
01:27:44
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on. I know I got shit to do. ah Elderly being dumped at shelters.
01:27:49
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Yeah, elderly being dumped at shelters. Is this an actual thing, Tom? Like, I opened this up and I was like, get the heck of There's no way... I guess it's it's rare. It happens, but it's rare.
01:28:01
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It happens. So they're saying this is a Signal report from SignalOhio.org, the website. The scene was concerning enough to prompt the homeless shelter staff to call the fire department.
01:28:13
Speaker
What happened? Well, a woman using a walker showed up incontinent. We know what incon incontinent means, right? She shit herself. Yeah, she she couldn't control her bowel. And carrying a large bag of medicine medication.
01:28:28
Speaker
She was a diabetic, managing a tibia fracture.
01:28:33
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And a walker. She was i walker. Yeah, get out of yeah and And alcohol-related dementia. And she was dumped, quote-unquote, at the shelter, according to federal inspectors.
01:28:45
Speaker
what's alco What's alcohol-related dementia? Is that like you're drunk all the time? Or where she drinks so much that shes now she's got dementia? It's weird.
01:28:57
Speaker
Yeah, I think you're correct in the latter. the latter that You drink so much you actually get dementia because you may already have dementia and it triggers it. I originally thought it was because of lack of alcohol. But i don't think I don't think that's... I think you're right. Alcohol-related dementia. I think you're probably right on that.
01:29:14
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Yeah. Staff members said resident 83 was unclear of what was going on, scared and not sure who dropped her off there. Inspectors of the center for Medicare and Medicaid services, which funds most nursing homes, United States wrote after an August 3rd, 2023 inspection.
01:29:32
Speaker
What?
01:29:34
Speaker
Okay. This is 2026 article. Okay. um It's described as rare but increasingly common instance of nursing homes in Ohio transferring its patients who are often older, poorer, and medically fragile to a homeless shelter. So apparently this woman has an alcohol problem.
01:29:53
Speaker
She refuses to go to rehab. So they kicked her out of their nursing home.
01:30:00
Speaker
woman was caught drinking beer at her residence in Eastland in Columbus, prompting an involuntary discharge. Staff tried to get her into a rehab so for substance use, but no beds were immediately available.
01:30:15
Speaker
Well, there's a key. There's there's one of these. I mean, if there's no beds, I guess you can't transfer her, can you? guess you're going to have to deal with her for a minute until there's a bed available. What the hell? Seemed kind of cruel, right? Yeah. i guess well.
01:30:32
Speaker
I guess that's nursing home should be, yeah should be yeah looked into, right? Yeah. And I bet they are. Yeah. Eastland staff never called the county's psychiatric bed board to find out, to find a spot.
01:30:47
Speaker
Oh, so they're saying the Eastland staff never called the county's psychiatric bed board to find a spot for the woman, according to the inspectors. Instead, they took her to the shelter.
01:31:00
Speaker
There are about 100 people sat ahead of her on a waiting list. so
01:31:07
Speaker
Shelter declined to admit her, to first admit the woman, leaving her outside the late summer heat. This last year. Maybe, maybe it was, it had to be late summer heat.
01:31:19
Speaker
So increasingly common occurrence going on. Wow. I didn't even know that was an option. Like how are they allowed to just dump somebody at ah at a homeless shelter?
01:31:30
Speaker
I don't know, man. This is wild. I'm just scrubbing through it, making sure there's nothing else. Most, most of the patients in the situation are older, homeless, unemployed, and lack, lack support networks of family or friends that might be checking in on them.
01:31:46
Speaker
So that's another question. Where's family? Well, some people just don't have family. Some people don't have family. Some families move away and yeah they're out of state, so they don't see them very often. And oh it's terrible.
01:31:58
Speaker
Yeah. It's horrific, man. This is crazy. ah We are starting to deal with it more and more. The facilities are so closely monitored and on discharges, but yet they still try to send them to hospitals and not take them back.
01:32:13
Speaker
Probably why we need mental facilities.
01:32:18
Speaker
Yeah, more more substance abuse beds. As cruel as it sounds. It is as cruel as it sounds. Check this article out. It's it's pretty lengthy. There's a lot of details in it. We're going through all of it, but it's as horrifying as it sounds, and it's it's pretty bad.
01:32:34
Speaker
What sanctions will be put on this nursing home? Like, I think they're, they're, they should be looking at Medicaid funding being cut. i mean, it would, it might shut the whole place down though. Then what do you do with everybody? She was caught drinking beer at her residence. She's an alcoholic, I think.
01:32:49
Speaker
Oh, of course. But like, that's what prompted this and it's, boy, it just seems, it seems wrong. It does. it So she gets caught. She's an alcoholic. She gets caught drinking. So their initial thought, which is correct, let's get in a rehab facility.
01:33:04
Speaker
Maybe you should look into how to how that got in. How did she get beer? Good point. Maybe it's maybe it's the ah the resident, the homeless, they not the homeless place, that this ah this nursing home's fault. how did How did she get that in? not Good point. Very good point.
01:33:22
Speaker
Huh. Yeah. I wonder, do they sell beer at nursing homes assisted living facilities? I wonder. They got vending machines. Oh, yeah. Beer and vending machines. That'd be dangerous. No, I, I, I'm, I'm serious about that. No, yeah. How did she get that in? Yeah. How did she, how did she get that? How did it get in? and That's my question. Is it, are there some of these facilities that actually have a bar in them? Because, you because they have a lot of facilities that have different levels.
01:33:46
Speaker
Oh, I would, I would think this is not the kind place. Probably not. Yeah. Yeah, this is where the Richies spend their time. i need ah I need a Dortmunder Yeah, that's what she said.
01:34:00
Speaker
She's probably drinking Labatt. I mean, Bud Light. That'd be too good for her. Pabst. Ooh, Pabst Blue Ribbon. i mean it's got America on it. Yeah, Pabst used to be cool.
01:34:12
Speaker
Yeah. I bet Pabst tastes better than Bud Light. don't um Oh, old style. It's like, it's like the coming out of the urinals of Wrigley Park, Wrigley Field. Man.
01:34:24
Speaker
Crack me a beer. All right. Moving along. ah Take care. Go, go visit your parents. Go give your mom and dad a call they're still around. That's what this makes me want to Next on the horrific train of stories that we just had. So elderly, um that that was horrific. Now this semi-driver that I've pushed off a couple of weeks.
01:34:46
Speaker
I wasn't sure how much I was going to cover it, but there is a there is a line and there is a ah story inside this story here. So here's what happened. I'm not, I don't know if anyone's heard of this, but recently in the last couple of months, there's been a story popping around about semi driver in Columbus area accused of,
Tragic Semi-truck Accident and Legal Fallout
01:35:06
Speaker
Fraudulent ID. Well, he's accused of, well, killing a family of three. Let's listen to the report. Moe Du Ingham. Yes. Let's listen to the report from Channel 10, 10 TV News out Columbus. year This morning, we are learning more about the driver charged in a crash that killed a family of three earlier this month. Linnea Saposky, her husband Luke, and their one-year-old son all died.
01:35:31
Speaker
Troopers with the Ohio State Highway Patrol say the driver accusing that crash fraudulently obtained a licenses under multiple identities. 10TV News reporter Amy Staggerwell joins us live this morning with the latest details on this case. Amy, what are we learning about those licenses yeah and his history? Yes, Amy, tell us.
01:35:48
Speaker
but we know that that driver initially entered the United States back in the 90s and over the years had a number of different IDs. And now lawmakers are really calling for a deeper investigation given the circumstances of this crash and changes moving forward.
01:36:07
Speaker
Investigators with Ohio State Highway Patrol releasing a detailed timeline surrounding 50-year-old Madhu Nagam's history. According to State Patrol, Nagam may have entered the United States in the 1990s using different names and birth dates to obtain identification. why don't They say he fraudulently secured an Ohio driver's license around 2003 and a commercial license in 2007 under an alternate identity.
01:36:33
Speaker
He then changed his name back in 2015. The deadly crash earlier this month shut down I-71 in Delaware County for hours. We spoke with witnesses who saw the tragedy unfold. We saw no indication of him trying to stop or slowing down.
01:36:49
Speaker
A couple extra minutes out of your day is not going to ruin your day. Federal authorities are now leading the investigation and lawmakers are responding, including Senators John Husted and Bernie Moreno. Husted tells 10TV he supports requiring driver exams to be conducted in English only, a bill introduced in the Ohio House last month.
01:37:12
Speaker
Nationally, Husted also joined on to a bill in March requiring drivers to hold a standard license for at least one year before applying for a CDL.
01:37:25
Speaker
And at this point, all findings in this investigation have been turned over to federal authorities. That includes Homeland Security and includes the U.S. Attorney's Office as well. We'll be following this as it unfolds. For now, live in Columbus, Amy Stuggerwald for 10TV News.
01:37:44
Speaker
Now, you read the article, there's a um very... Interesting detail that and Amy left out. I know how excited she was to talk about this story.
01:37:56
Speaker
She was almost hyperventilating at one point. What they leave out, first of all, they think he came here around 1990-something, I think they said.
01:38:07
Speaker
and in the In the 90s. yeah well Why don't they know? Hasn't he changed his name like three times, four times? Because he came here legally. That's why they don't know.
01:38:18
Speaker
That's why they don't know. But ah the what other key part they left out
01:38:26
Speaker
He, okay, so authorities uncovered a conflicting information related to Nagom's identity in state and federal records. The state says, according to the investigation, Nagom appeared to have entered the United States in the nineties and then use multiple names and date dates of birth to obtain state and federal identification.
01:38:52
Speaker
DPS says evidence indicates Ngoem fraudulently obtained a new Ohio driver's license around 2003. Okay. And later a commercial driver's license around 2007. So whatever legislation they want you to do to, you know, that you have to hold a regular driver's license a year, that wouldn't have helped here.
01:39:10
Speaker
Under an alternative identity. So he got these two, a regular license and ah in is in a CDL under a false alternate identity. He was later naturalized as a U.S. citizen in the mid-2010s under the same alternative name.
01:39:24
Speaker
Right. Then he changed his name back in 2015. How the hell did a guy with a fake name and a fake social security number get through naturalization?
01:39:40
Speaker
Seems like there's a hole here somewhere.
01:39:44
Speaker
I think you guys some experience in that, right? What do mean? You know people who've gotten naturalized?
01:39:52
Speaker
They've gone through the process to get to become a citizen, right? ah To become a citizen, yeah. Yeah, it's same. I don't know. Is that the same thing as being naturalized? Naturalized as U.S. citizen. I thought that was the same.
01:40:05
Speaker
don't know. be I think it is. But yeah, my my wife became a U.S. citizen. Okay. kind of i I think that's, I mean, I think it's crazy that he got all the way through that process on a fake social security number.
01:40:19
Speaker
Is it really out of that crazy? I mean, if I give the, I forget how far could I get with the IRS with a fake social security number? Not far, i would think.
01:40:31
Speaker
That's the IRS. They're looking for money. I'm thinking that it's so lax that they don't even care. Mm-hmm. The policies at this level, especially 15, 20 years ago, were, ah, whatever. It's okay. Just let it go.
01:40:46
Speaker
I don't know.
01:40:50
Speaker
That's the story for me is this guy, none of the bills that they're representing or presenting here would have stopped this from happening. i't He didn't ram into the back of him because he was in a hurry or because he couldn't read the road signs. He was either sleeping or on his phone.
01:41:03
Speaker
Yeah, he was probably on his phone. If you watch the video of the accident, because they have it on camera from the traffic cameras, he never slowed down. And the the car with the family in it, I don't think there was anything left of it when they were done.
01:41:19
Speaker
It was literally in pieces. It swallowed the car up. It was horrific. What was he driving? full-size semi? Semi-truck. yeah Yeah. Fully loaded or whatever. Semi-truck. Yeah. He never even slowed down. and chris I mean, just basically rolled over the the car with the family and it
01:41:38
Speaker
Yeah, i think I think you're not looking far, you're not looking deep enough into this problem, guys, as far as, was it Houston or Yost or whoever it was? I think we need to dig a little deeper in how he got these IDs and how he got naturalized.
01:41:53
Speaker
That's what would stopped this from Yeah, naturalized the same. I just, ah I thought it was meant something else, but naturalized means you were born in another country and got your citizenship here.
01:42:04
Speaker
It's different one step over a green card, right? Green card is just, you're just legally here as a, as a resident. Resident, yeah. Lawful permanent resident. ye That's, I don't know. I thought it would be, so thought there'd be something, you know, pretty hard to get fake, but I guess not.
01:42:22
Speaker
Check out the story. It's pretty, ah so they're suing him now. He's he's in jail. He's going to be deported. I mean, they're going throw out here. I mean, after he does time, he's probably going to be gone. Although, who knows him window knows in 10 years when. Send him back to West Africa. He'll be back here in a few months.
01:42:38
Speaker
Well, actually, not now. Yeah, not now. but But if he does time, and who knows what the policy is going to be in 10 years from now. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking we send them to Haiti where everybody says you can't send anybody cause it's so bad. I think we send him or maybe, I don't know.
01:42:54
Speaker
What other, what other country could we send them to? That would be better. Syria? Let's go to Syria. How's Syria? No, he's from West Africa. oh I know. I'm not, I'm not saying, I say we don't send them back. We send them back someplace worse than West Africa.
01:43:08
Speaker
Oh, let's send him yeah. Let's send him to Haiti. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, because nobody can go back to Haiti, apparently. Yeah. bad We'll get to that. Maybe that that's the next one to come out on down the Supreme Court.
01:43:21
Speaker
They're going to looking at this temporary status thing. There's some news coming out of that next week or two. And then there was one on, there's a story I want to talk about next week, maybe on gun rights too. same come Came across.
01:43:33
Speaker
Almost like they're like they're they're laying a trail for the midterms. There's a pretty good... ah thing that just happened for the two way.
01:43:46
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That was through, um, ATF just dropped a bunch of like 34 rolls or something. it was It was pretty darn good. It's in my save for next week. ah Cool.
01:43:58
Speaker
I just want to read through it. Cause a bunch of stuff, uh, moving along. Cause someone said we got to move along. So I'm moving along.
Ohio's Senate Bill 1 and Education Compliance
01:44:04
Speaker
Next on the story is, uh, Serino. Oh yes. Good old Senator Serino. He's pleased with Senate bill one.
01:44:12
Speaker
So far, Senate Bill 1, if you don't remember, it was brought into the budget, which is House Bill 96, I think it was, and it ended up being. Architecture of Senate Bill 1 said he's pleased with compliance with the measures mandated so far, or the measure that that it measures that mandates so far, but said there is more work to do on the diversity, equity, and inclusion front, ah which the bill prohibits.
01:44:37
Speaker
And this is Ohio.News story and they have in it video. aa video of kind of what they're talking about because there's, oh yeah. So Ohio.News has highlighted several undercover videos released by Accuracy in Media showing higher education officials, including those at the University of Toledo, Kent State University, and new year's University of Cincinnati, flaunting the anti-DEI provisions in SB1, also known as the Advanced Ohio Education Act. And let's hear here a little bit from that.
01:45:11
Speaker
undercover guy. I think we played this on his show a while back. It's the same guy going in. and Now he's going into Bowling Green and you would think eventually these people would understand the terminology and the questions that would trigger them. And, but no, they're so excited to have somebody of a different race in front of them. Oh my gosh.
01:45:33
Speaker
I got to be virtuous. There you go. I just want make sure his education would not be hindered by political interests, right? When political interests, it'll sort of like quell of the very important issues related to diversity, equity, inclusion, intersectionality, the things that he'll need in the field, you know what mean? So just want to like, what does that look like? Should he stay in New York with his mother and just go to NYU or join me? That's a great question.
01:46:02
Speaker
Yeah, as you're probably aware, there have things that have occurred at the state level that, to be frank, have impacted us and the social work program to a degree. yeah I don't think it has compromised the academic integrity or the substance of the social work program.
01:46:26
Speaker
They have had to rename courses to align with certain expectations set by the state. However, social work program does have an accrediting body specific to their discipline that requires in order for them to maintain accreditation that they still include components in the curriculum that align with some the things that you just mentioned.
01:46:57
Speaker
while we have been impacted to extend by some of the political dynamics at the state level uh i think the impact has been relatively minimal moving it forward um that's something i i want to believe that some of the political interests in regulating Higher Ed has weight, so whatever political points have been won through that process are just not as strong as ah that they're moving on something else. And in some ways, say relative to a place like NYU, I think just because of our geographical location and this our more homogenous student group that Maybe in some ways we place more emphasis on it because we feel more compelled to try to prepare our students for environments. that More emphasis on like... Yeah, inclusivity and those elements because our students through the political experience have not they have been exposed. yeah
01:47:56
Speaker
from but We're so racist in Ohio. ah You'd probably be even better here than NYU is how we've shown it. But he just basically came out and said, well, we're we're just hoping everybody forgets about this. Like the bill was passed. Everybody made their speeches.
01:48:10
Speaker
And now everything as everything settles, you can go back to, know, how it was. Change a few names.
01:48:20
Speaker
ah So mr Mr. Senate Bill 1, Serino, Don't be too pleased. i think I think you need to, you got some more work to do because you put ah you passed a bill with no teeth, it sounds like to me. Actually, they put teeth in it. they They threatened to pull funding from these schools if they continue to do it.
01:48:40
Speaker
Have they pulled any funding? Hell no. No. The article says, in recent weeks, headlines about the bill have four ah focused on colleges and universities eliminating degrees with insufficient enrollment.
01:48:55
Speaker
Under the measures, schools with schools must nix undergraduate degree programs that bestow fewer than five degrees annually over three years. And schools across the Buckeye State have eliminated 90 undergraduate degrees to comply with this mandate.
01:49:14
Speaker
What about the rest of it?
01:49:19
Speaker
Don't be too, hes you know, he's very, very, ah very pleased with himself, but I don't think he did a whole lot of anything. They're still doing it and just making a change in the name and just doing it under the radar and hoping everybody forgets about it.
01:49:30
Speaker
Don't let them forget about it, people.
01:49:35
Speaker
Anything on that, Tom? No, I think we predicted this, right? Yeah. Yeah. We predicted we're just going to change the name and then, and ah and once, once the bill is passed, everybody was going to have their virtue signaling moment and then move on We'll see if we can hold them to it. More of these stories would help.
01:49:51
Speaker
And more of these accuracy in media people, you know, sounds kind of like they're taking a feather out cap of what's his name? Oh, Jesus. just Flew out of my head.
01:50:05
Speaker
ah Veritas. Project Veritas. Yeah. James O'Keefe. The most important thing is ah parents need to be paying attention to where their kids are going to college. Yeah. Yeah.
01:50:16
Speaker
I give them good roots. so Otherwise they'll, these colleges will pull them right out and replant them in their own ideology. That was awesome. It's all right. Yeah. I mean, for me it was fabulous, but for most people just average.
01:50:30
Speaker
Moving on. We're just going to touch on this story real
Cuyahoga County Jail Project Controversy
01:50:32
Speaker
quick. Cause I pulled it. You know, when you hear Lorain County Sheriff raids the 911 call center, I'm thinking, well, this is going to be a story here.
01:50:41
Speaker
ah They also raided the administrative building for Lorain County or on corruption. ah But in the last three days, they've really released nothing at all. They're still in the evidence gathering stage.
01:50:55
Speaker
So we're just going to keep an eye on this. But they do have a little tidbit in here, which. Yes. Yes. The one, ah this one will,
01:51:12
Speaker
they have a, I think that started related to a, I thought I pulled the right quote and I didn't, so apologize. This is no, pun there is a, there was an investigation out of a 911 or somebody in this, in the and administration using court police records to look up, to do like a background check.
01:51:34
Speaker
And this person was caught and got fired. They're saying this has something to do with that. ah Some somewhat fraud with contracts. Yeah, it was just an odd ah article. They don't really tell you what what's going on.
01:51:49
Speaker
Yeah, it's like they had to come out have press conference because of all this 911 call center gets raided, plus administrative building gets raided. A press conference that said nothing. Yeah. Hall stated the search warrant in, are in part related to a previous case involving former Lorain County 911 dispatch, Gregory D. Byrd, who was charged with unauthorized use of the Ohio law enforcement automated database system.
01:52:18
Speaker
Database. He did something, it's like one of those, hey, can you can you look up my my boyfriend, of my my daughter's boyfriend, and see if you've got priors? Maybe that's what he did. I don't know. Couldn't you call a cop to do that, too? Like, if he had a buddy? Yeah. And 911 guy's probably not the guy to do it.
01:52:35
Speaker
Yeah, I guess so.
01:52:38
Speaker
Next, moving along, they are moving forward with... The jail. We talked a few times about this. One of our first shows, we talked about this jail going up and the shenanigans involved in it. The county prosecutor, think we talked about a couple of weeks ago, I put a halt on the construction because he wanted he wanted to know more about the almost $900 million dollar project.
01:53:03
Speaker
And he put a stop to it He said, no, we we need to have a hearing. So they had this hearing and let's go over it real quick. Last clip of the day, I guess. County jail, News Channel 5. This may be the first time this particular committee with representatives of the Cuyahoga County court system along with the Sheriff's Department has met. But this special meeting to sign off on the county's new nearly $900 million dollars jail was needed in order to proceed with the work on the project. That's according to the county prosecutor who recently called on work there to stop until they did.
01:53:32
Speaker
Certainly this project is the largest construction project cost-wise in the history of Cuyahoga County. And I think it's critical that due diligence is given to every aspect of this project. While the Ronan administration disagreed with that assessment, they did put together the meeting, allowing members to hear the details of the project on the 72-acre site just off of the Interstate 480 in Garfield Heights. They heard about the timeline and the cost that is now listed today at no more than $894 million. dollars But that's a figure, they argue, that literally comes with an expiration date. This goes away. if we can't get this started now, we don't have this guarantee anymore. That's why this is so time sensitive. The committee had a few questions related to the site, as well as the concerns raised by the state auditor last week that officials could be held personally liable if the state found money was being spent in violation of the law concern that caused the sheriff to abstain. County attorneys assured the members that dealt with expenses in the past, not the ones going forward.
01:54:28
Speaker
In the end, by a three nothing vote. So the motion carries and the motion passes. Prosecutor O'Malley labeled the meeting and vote a victory for transparency. This is what the law requires. It's what we saw in action today. And so i'm very happy that they got an opportunity to review the plans. The public got a good opportunity today to see what's going on.
01:54:48
Speaker
And I think that's a good step forward. It also allows the county to sign a deal that sets a guaranteed maximum price of $894 million on the project before it goes up. How much money do you think was saved by today's vote?
01:55:00
Speaker
ah It depended on the outcome, but this could have been catastrophic. Now, Ronain says the path is clear for County Council Tuesday to begin the process of issuing close to a billion dollars in bonds for the overall project. and for The first pilings at the site to go in. The 72-acre site in the city of Garfield Heights is ready now to receive this work and to move forward on something that has been a seven-year process. In Cleveland, John Kasek, News 5. Yeah, you got to move.
01:55:27
Speaker
Move fast. Prices are going up.
01:55:30
Speaker
They wait too much longer. The price is going to go up. And... Let's remember that it was guaranteed not to go over $894 million dollars because in a year, we're talking about Cuyahoga County approving budget overruns for the new jail.
01:55:48
Speaker
Well, remember this, they, they, they rushed this through so they can get a contract signed and they're still going go over it. Guarantee it. Oh, 1.2 billion. Yeah, probably.
01:55:58
Speaker
It's not a bad. And I, and I thought, I saw that, well, this is the largest construction, almost expensive construction project in Cuyahoga County. And I was like Brown stadium. The original, the new, the Huntington bank field that's up there now is about to tear down.
01:56:13
Speaker
I was like, Oh, well that's gotta be close to that. Right. That's 25
Cleveland Stadium Plans and NFL Super Bowl
01:56:17
Speaker
years ago. That was like 300, right? Yeah. $286 million. dollars Yeah. Yeah. For a huge stadium. And 25 years later, we're building a jail for three times that.
01:56:29
Speaker
But yeah, construction materials are, you know, increasing. So they're, they're trying to, they were trying to jump on it. I think they're just trying to run it through so that people don't, don't look too far too much into it.
01:56:41
Speaker
Does that include all the security stuff? Like as part of the price? Apparently. that Yeah. Total project. I would assume. Yes. Okay. I mean, I would assume some of that stuff gets pretty crazy.
01:56:54
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. For sure. Remember, they started this by spending 42 million of COVID money to buy the land. Nothing to see here, people.
01:57:06
Speaker
Next is, well, just a quick one because the Browns are, you know, I guess they consider it they broke ground on a new stadium. And the story here is the question was asked.
01:57:20
Speaker
to Guy Dell, the NFL commissioner.
01:57:28
Speaker
wolf Will Cleveland have a Super Bowl? Well, first of all, Cleveland won't have a Super Bowl because it's in Brook Park. But Cleveland area, well, the Cleveland area have a Super Bowl. And he thankfully didn't laugh too hard.
01:57:41
Speaker
at them? he said basically no because they require about 60 to 75,000 hotel rooms in the area for the Super Bowl. Probably, yeah. And apparently Cleveland the area has 22,000 so we're not even close.
01:57:56
Speaker
But DeWine's plan B is he's pretty sure we're going to get NFL draft here in Cleveland. I think we've had one before.
01:58:07
Speaker
And that's basically it. They're breaking ground. There's still a lawsuit about the $600 million coming out, being borrowed out of the unclaims fund. fund and But that's they're going to go ahead with it.
01:58:19
Speaker
i'm I'm seeing articles all over the place. there They got $35 million dollars in state money going for to redo the interchange over there in 71. a lot of work that has to be done over there.
01:58:31
Speaker
And you know I imagine property values in that area have gone up considerably. So good for those people. an eye on it. New stadium is going up.
Seasonal Changes and Daylight Savings
01:58:44
Speaker
And on the final segment of the day, which of course, course has to be. bring good things to life. First, we're going to start with a good, good little tweet, little X post from Fox eight, which says, gives you a little graph, your little picture We will gain 57 minutes of daylight in May.
01:59:15
Speaker
That's a good thing story to start out with. Yay. and And if you live in Florida, it's only 30 minutes. Isn't that crazy?
01:59:23
Speaker
They're closer to the coast. Closer to the equator, yeah. I know we went, one time we went to Florida and it was a half hour difference between sunset and Cleveland.
01:59:35
Speaker
It was less, half hour less in Florida. something like that or longer yeah yeah well it's a it feels like it's longer because you got less when like because you when you're on the ocean it feels like the sunset less longer yeah the less yeah less yeah true that's tough to get but way my favorite was my favorite was when i when we went to hawaii was just that waking up as the sunlight comes up at six o'clock it sets in at seven o'clock and to me that's perfect Yeah, that was quite the adjustment. like all all yeah
02:00:08
Speaker
Yeah, all year long. That's how it is. It's just... don't See, I don't like the days going to like 9 o'clock, 9.30.
02:00:19
Speaker
Too long? Yeah. ah I like standard time. Yeah? Yeah, I get up early, so I want to get to bed early. i don't like going to bed when it's still daylight.
02:00:31
Speaker
It feels weird. Feels weird. So check it out. we're going to get more daylight as we go through the month of May. Yeah. So the first day of summer, which usually is what the June 20th area.
02:00:46
Speaker
Pardon me? What's the first day of summer? Yeah, June 20th. June 20th area. And so that'll be the longest day of the year, right? Yep. Fall is the shortest the year. Trying to keep track of it all. Winter solace.
02:01:00
Speaker
Yep. Yep. Summer solace. That's apparently when you can, you can stand an egg on it, on an end on those two days. Okay. Never tried it. Just cook them.
Ohio Festivals and 250th Anniversary Events
02:01:13
Speaker
All right. Moving on to our next quick, good thing story. Check these next two out. If you're looking for things to do, speaking summertime, we've got a couple stories here. One is not a story. It's just a website, Ohio festival.com.
02:01:25
Speaker
website is Ohio festival.org. Schedule. Oh, Oh, F E A.org. Yeah. It's got, yeah. It's kind of an organization that helps get all the festivals together. and I've never heard of this before, but you can go there, become a member. You can donate and they have a a calendar dates of all the different festivals that they take care of. And there is a ton of them all the way throughout the summer, all the way going through December.
02:01:47
Speaker
Cool. And, and there's a lot of different stuff all over the state of Ohio. Let's check it out. It's very cool. I'm definitely going to use it. When your wife's craving about doing something, this is a perfect website to get to and say, surprise your wife and tell her, Hey, we're going to go to art on the hill in Manoway.
02:02:04
Speaker
Yeah. Going to London strawberry festival. Ask you be able to pride. Oh, wait, no. Say young days festival. not sure about the as to be a pride festival.
02:02:16
Speaker
You may, you may, you may want to check that one out before you go, but you know, Yeah, what kind of flag? It is it is June. is It's in June, so that would tell me. probably not Probably not a family-friendly event, but who knows? I don't know about that. I think i think it's... ah Could be about Pride of Astribula.
02:02:32
Speaker
but Yes, that's what I think Could Pride of something else. I'm going to look that up right now because that's going to drive me crazy. It would be weird Astribula is doing it because kind of out in the middle nowhere.
02:02:45
Speaker
but i don't know. You got all those winos out there. Oh, that's true. That is very true.
02:02:52
Speaker
Look that up. Next on the list. I am looking that up. is quick one again, another website to check out a bunch of events. This is America250-Ohio.org. dot org This is a website strictly for the 2050th anniversary of the country signing of Decker Institute Independence this year is 250 and they've got a whole bunch of a list of all kinds of celebrations specifically specifically about 250th anniversary of our country.
02:03:23
Speaker
Ohio Civil War show, walk in our boots, the 5k you know, Cincinnati flying pig marathon. Not sure how that's, 250 anniversary. Okay.
02:03:35
Speaker
By the way, Eshtabula Pride was a gay freaking LGBTQ thing. It's been canceled, though. oh Oh, they're not allowed to do that anymore. probably Probably not. Those bills and stuff that we're talking about. Maybe. Yeah.
02:03:49
Speaker
So check check this these out before you go, because yeah you never know what they may be or if they're still going on. But yeah, this America250-ohio.org.
02:04:01
Speaker
If you're looking for patriotic stuff to do this summer, there's going plenty of it. And the fireworks this year, they're going to be outstanding. I'm upgrading them this year, Tom. I think I'm going to upgrade them this year.
02:04:14
Speaker
Cool. At least for this year.
Show Conclusion and Online Engagement
02:04:17
Speaker
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02:04:29
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02:04:42
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