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Crooked River Cast Show 45
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- Trump at Davos?
- How “Great” is Trump’s healthcare plan?
- Lucas County Commissioner considers DHS/ICE a terrorist group.
- Salt shortage how could that be?
Critter Corner:
- Election Day Holiday.
- New daycare fraud prevention includes camera’s in the classroom?
- Husted pushed for more abortion pill restrictions.
- The Drones are coming to a city near you!
- Willoughby Hills photo enforcement program show real “results” $$$.
- Judge Celebrezze follow up.
Good things:
- Cleveland Supper Club.
- A Fisher in the parks.
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Transcript
Birthday Stories and Driving Lessons
00:00:12
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Crooked Rivercast. This is Robert and joining me from his musical lair is Tom and we are just two guys from Northeast Ohio just asking, has anyone even picked up the art of the deal? This is show 45 on January 2026.
00:00:28
Speaker
Wow, so much has happened this last week. Let's discuss.
00:00:39
Speaker
In the morning, sir. In the morning, How are you doing in this fine, fine, crispy morning we have here? My feet are cold. I got bold man slippers on today. Do you? yes Yes. As my kids call bold man slippers.
00:00:57
Speaker
i Accurate. Oh, you are an old man, by the way. Happy birthday. Oh, thank you. thank i can I can play this, too, because this is actually fitting, because when I played this last week... It's almost my birthday, too.
00:01:20
Speaker
It's almost my birthday, too. Yes, folks, our birthdays are like five days apart, think. Is it five days? Yeah, five days. Yeah, today would be a few days after, right? Yes. Yeah, recording here a couple days after, so I'm officially...
00:01:36
Speaker
As my lovely daughter gave me made a card for me, my 15-year-old, who is currently, that's that's what we had to, we had I had to step away from the mic before we started to get something for my wife, which is the birth certificate and social security cards so that she can go take her temp test.
00:01:55
Speaker
Nice. So she wrote me a card, drew me a card, made me a card with a speedometer on it at 51 and said, wow, that was fast.
00:02:06
Speaker
You're old. And then she gave you old man slippers. I have had these. Oh, since last year. Yeah, that's about right. Because my wife had told me they were old man slippers. I you know what? They're warm. And I went, crap. I just did that, didn't I?
00:02:23
Speaker
So, yeah, that's ah that's our next and next little ah adventures driving. She'll be all right. Yeah, so we you could do finding out a little bit, boots on the ground, as they say, for the show.
00:02:38
Speaker
Case Angles hasn't done this a while, which I, of course, haven't. You can take it online. You take the temp test online from your computer. Oh gosh. Okay.
00:02:48
Speaker
With certain restrictions. All right. So you can, you get on and it take, it has to have a webcam on it because it take your picture.
00:02:59
Speaker
And then periodically through the test, it it may or may not take additional pictures to make sure you're actually the one filling out temp tests, which. How do they know what you look like?
00:03:11
Speaker
I guess if you got a 51-year-old man doing the test, they probably could figure out, you know, it's not ah it's not a 15-year-old girl. Okay. i So in one way, I'm like, oh okay, I get it. Because I was thinking, well, how did it how do they know it's not just the parents filling out the temp test?
00:03:25
Speaker
is I mean, right I know it sounds crazy to some people, but oh, yeah, the parents would do it for sure. Especially nowadays. Oh, poor little Johnny. I'll take the test for him. What could go wrong?
00:03:36
Speaker
Uh, but as my daughter found out. I wish I had a screeching car moment. Yeah, I know. when a effect Crash. So she failed the first time.
00:03:49
Speaker
Oh yeah. And i was like, well how'd you fit? She goes, it was questions like, how many points is a speeding ticket on your license? Well, we had those same questions.
00:04:00
Speaker
Yeah, I know. and But everybody I've told us says, why the hell is that on the contempt test? And I was like, ah I guess they want to scare you and let you know that you you know you could get your license taken away. I think they need to make you aware of what yeah things are. Yeah. So she's like i didn't even think about like studying for that part of it. i was like, you're supposed to study for all of it.
00:04:17
Speaker
ah But hey, okay, I'm starting to find secrets to her ah her madness, I guess. um So that's that's been fun. So, and then you can only take it twice online every six months. You could take it every day in person as long as many times as you want. Right. Okay. So you can only take it twice online. So then she goes back in a couple days later to take it again. then Something gets screwed up and it's saying it thinks she already took the test twice. So now she's very frustrated because now you got to drive all the way to your motor vehicles and deal with that. why yeah I mean, I don't, of course, because I've got a show to do.
00:04:54
Speaker
Oh, there' they're going they're going there today, huh? Yeah, that's why she stopped in before we started recording and asked me for all that stuff. They got it locked away, you know? And I said, okay. Wow, it's a great time to get a temp.
00:05:06
Speaker
well No salt on the roads. no Salt to an inch. Oh, yeah, we'll get to that. Then, yes, I yeah don't think she's going driving anytime soon, least until the roads, or at least warms up a little bit. At least, like, in a parking lot that's clean. up i like that I think I want to take her to, like, a mall, like a larger mall.
00:05:25
Speaker
Yeah, you know which... Like on a Sunday. that the odd The high school on... PV there you can do also during off hours because it's a pretty good parking lot to set up. That's good idea. Cones on and stuff if if you have them.
00:05:40
Speaker
Yeah, that's good idea. the The mall, because I was driving through one while back and I said, this would be good. and Like on a Sunday, not now because it gets dark too early, but on a Sunday at like 6 after the mall closes,
00:05:51
Speaker
Yeah. almost They have like, road i mean, there's actual roads and stop signs and all that stuff. And it it is private property. So you could, you could, you could even do it without a temp tag. would imagine. Probably. Yeah. because it I mean, you probably have cops saw, you might give you some headaches, but it is, think it is private property. So, but I think I saw that as like, ah, that's a good way to like get some road time and not actually being on the road.
00:06:11
Speaker
So maybe we'll do that. That's not a bad idea.
Analyzing Trump's Policies and Impact
00:06:15
Speaker
i mean, you know, I did donuts on mall parking lots, but you You can do what you want it to.
00:06:23
Speaker
Yes. Remember the good old days with rear wheel drive cars? Yes. It could do with my truck. Yeah. Yeah. I could do it. dr We could show it how to do it with front wheel drive car. I mean, just put it in reverse, right? Yeah. Yeah. But for some reason, for some reason, those light poles stand out a little bit more to me nowadays.
00:06:41
Speaker
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Definitely do. Yeah.
00:06:47
Speaker
Back then, I was like, hi I'm not going to hit that. what You know, I forgot. I just this is i just this clicked in my head. we've our Our latest um binge for her and on movies series is, um and like i said, I just clicked in my head. all comes together now. ah Fast and Furious.
00:07:07
Speaker
But we've been watching. Okay, cool. Fast and Furious. i kind of I've only seen a couple of them. i now have to I now have to probably go tell her, and that this is not how you normally drive on the road.
00:07:22
Speaker
Oh, no, no. Drifting is the way you do it. That's that's how you normally take a corner in the in the middle of the city in rush hour is at 98 miles an hour with all four tires screeching. She needs about 600 horsepower in her rear-wheel drive car so she can steer with her what's their gas pedal. Yes, gas pedal in the clutch.
00:07:41
Speaker
Yep. Her car that she's falling in love with is a Nissan GTR. Oh, yeah, those are nice. A lot lot of it's because of the movie. Yeah. I've loved that car since I saw it. The first time I saw it on Top Gear 10 years ago. i mean, this this car's 10, 15 years old.
00:08:00
Speaker
it is it's ah It is an unbelievable car. Apparently, they each engine and transmission are built in synchronous together. You cannot take one out and swap it to another one without...
00:08:14
Speaker
They're like made together. They're like married. And it's like this crazy. They're like, they put the suspension on when it's already under load to make sure it's all. And it's like, at the time it was a car that was well under a hundred thousand, which was, Oh yeah. They were 60, 80,000. They were, they were double what a Evo Subaru Evo was. And at the time, I think that was around 40,000. Okay. This is years ago. Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:40
Speaker
So at the time it was like, wow, you get a bang for your buck on that thing. But man, some of them are oh so good. um So that's that's what we've been going through besides the snow apocalypse, of course. but you know We'll see. We'll see what happens. Well, I'm just waiting for the, for a dud to come rolling through when you get like a half inch of snow.
00:09:02
Speaker
I don't think so. But man, a lot of times when they push this hard on stuff, it's like all of a sudden just it just rolls through with nothing. But I think this might be a exception. I think they're pushing hard because of other areas, not Northeast Ohio as much. Yeah.
00:09:16
Speaker
It's for Atlanta and all those yeah places where yeah they're going to, they may get horrible amounts of ice, which is really going to be life-threatening to some. It takes down power lines.
00:09:27
Speaker
I drove through Atlanta one time with, ah yeah, it wasn't, it was like a freezing rain. I was coming home from Florida, it was a freezing rain. And yeah yeah, people just can't drive.
00:09:39
Speaker
They don't know how to handle that. Yeah, it happens once every 10 years, so. Yeah, maybe less, but. Or when time comes through. Or when time comes through, yeah. I don't know. I'm just, uh.
00:09:52
Speaker
waiting for the climate change. That's all. Thinking about just running my truck outside just to see if I can help speed up the climate change a little bit. Do my part, you know, do my part. I wouldn't mind a degree or two more.
00:10:04
Speaker
Yeah, it could help. It could help. So as we, uh, wouldn't want to go the other way. What a week. Oh, no. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. So everybody's global warming is better than global cooling.
00:10:16
Speaker
Uh, cause yeah. So this week, man, I have quite the clips this week. um I couldn't help it. I really can't. I really couldn't.
00:10:28
Speaker
President Trump gave me a birthday present. don't know about you, but his speech in Davos was, oh my gosh. You know, I- The porn music was rolling. Shoot, I forgot to pull porn music. I'm going to do that this week. Yeah.
00:10:44
Speaker
Perfect. I heard his first one from ah his first, you know, his first term. And he that was awesome. and This one did not disappoint either. Yeah, I haven't heard it. Okay, well, we're going to go through some of them. Some of these are just, like i said, just a, I'm listening, I'm going, wow, this is the best birthday gift a guy could ask for.
00:11:02
Speaker
Guy who's got everything. What could you get the guy who has everything? They always ask. how about How about this? Instead of closing down energy plants, we're opening them up. Instead of building ineffective money-losing windmills, we're taking them down and not approving any.
00:11:19
Speaker
The United States avoided the catastrophic energy collapse which befell every European nation that pursued the Green News scam. Perhaps the greatest hoax in history.
00:11:32
Speaker
The green news scam, windmills all over the place, destroy your land, destroy your land. Every time that goes around, you lose $1,000. $1,000. You're supposed to make money with energy, not lose money.
00:11:46
Speaker
There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place. And they are losers. China makes almost all of the windmills.
00:11:58
Speaker
China. And yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China. Did you ever think of that? It's a good way of looking at They're smart. China's very smart. They make them. They sell them for a fortune.
00:12:09
Speaker
To who? They sell them to the stupid people that buy them. But they don't use them themselves. In front of the stupid people. They put up couple of... the Big wind farms, but they don't use them. They just put them up to show people what they could look like. They don't spin. They don't do anything.
00:12:25
Speaker
They use the thing called coal mostly. They're shocked that people continue to buy those damn things. They killed the birds. They ruin your landscapes. Other than that, I think they're fabulous, by the way.
00:12:37
Speaker
ah Stupid people buy them.
00:12:41
Speaker
In front of all the stupid people. Yeah, like that. Oh, it was so good. Oh, so good. I i think I watched the entire speech. and it was a well over, I mean, hour and a half. so and It was crazy. I bet, because I remember the first his first time he did a speech. it wasn't He wasn't attacking them as much. It it was more like, hey you you got to look out for America now.
00:13:04
Speaker
yeah um and And I remember why I watched it and I was like, man, this guy hasn't looked at a note his entire speech and that that impressed me a lot because usually he's ah and he and he didn't ramble I guess I should add because a lot of times he he likes to well he has a teleprompter in front of him right most of the time they gott a piece of glass you can almost tell when he's on and off can't usually I didn't think he had one on on that one. He might have this time. This time he did, because they the two pieces if you see the two pieces of glass on either side of his podium, that's his teleprompter. Oh, he didn't have that last time. Okay. It was a little different. He didn't even have a podium.
00:13:44
Speaker
maybe You know maybe maybe it wasn't Davo. it It might have been like the World Economic Forum. Oh, could have been. Yeah, yeah. yeah it was But he was talking to basically the same people, I think.
00:13:57
Speaker
I can usually pick and when he's on, he when he's reading his teleprompter, he's very mono much, not he's much more monotone. Right. And when he's when he's weaving, because I tell you what, well he's he's tough to clip. but we talk They talk about no agenda. He's tough to clip because he weaves in and out. You don't know what to clip. There's always good stuff here.
00:14:15
Speaker
Well, that's why they can also attack him. Yeah. That's there's, there's problems there with that too. Cause he weaves a little too much sometimes. and Yeah. Sometimes it almost feels like he gets himself, he backs himself into a corner what when he, when he rambles on. Oh, no kidding. Yeah.
00:14:32
Speaker
But, um, speaking of stupid people, I think, i think, I think the president disagrees with your assessment of what's going on in Minnesota, Tom, because here's a clip. Here's another clip.
00:14:42
Speaker
What was my assessment? Well, you'll see what I'm talking about. yeah Well, of the Somali people, what's what's going on with Somali people. ah And ah these first three clips are just basically my birthday present to myself um about from Trump's speech. So this was the there's three of them that stood out to me.
00:14:59
Speaker
And this one, I said, well, Tom's to like this because Trump says, I don't, you're wrong. But equally importantly, we're cracking down on more than $19 billion dollars in fraud that was stolen by Somalian bandits. Can you believe that Somalia, they turned out to be higher IQ than we thought?
00:15:18
Speaker
I always say these are low IQ people. How do they go into Minnesota and steal all that money? And we have, you know, they're pirates. They're good pirates, right? But we shoot them out of the water just like we shoot the drone boats out. They're not pirating too many boats lately, do you notice? No, they're not. The situation in Minnesota.
00:15:35
Speaker
Reminds us that the West cannot mass import foreign cultures which have failed to ever build a successful society of their own. I mean, we're taking people from Somalia and Somalia is a failed. It's not a nation.
00:15:51
Speaker
Got no government, got no police, got no military, got no nothing. yeah No, nothing. And then we have this fake congressperson who they just reported is worth $30 million. dollars You believe this? Ilan Omar talking about the Constitution provides me. She comes from a country that's not a country and she's telling us how to run America. Not going to get away with it much longer. Let me tell you.
00:16:16
Speaker
What did that mean? Interesting. i was lo like, little IQ. I said, oh, Tom's got to hear this. Tom's got to hear this.
00:16:27
Speaker
and ill I'll push back on that.
00:16:31
Speaker
the The three i high IQ Somalians you do have have an IQ of 101 and they can figure out how to do this.
00:16:40
Speaker
It's not that hard. and And then it's easy to convince all the millions with an IQ of 60. sixty It's easy to do it when you've got help on the inside.
00:16:53
Speaker
oh yeah. If you have politicians. They're not high IQ. They're just, they've got help. So it's pretty easy when everybody's turning a blind eye to it. You don't have to, you really don't have to be that smart or good at it. You just have to have somebody on the inside, either telling you how to do it and turn it the other way.
00:17:08
Speaker
Yep. But to your point, His next, my my next clip I have of this is actually there's a, there's a, there's one short one right after that too, but this one to your point, why don't more presidents say this? Why can't, I don't think these people know how to handle somebody this aggressive from the United States.
00:17:33
Speaker
No kidding. They've never, they haven't had one like this in 30 or 40 years. I think the last, I think the last one might've been Reagan. I don't think he was anywhere near as aggressive as this. Yes, good point.
00:17:45
Speaker
I don't think Reagan was anywhere near aggressive. He was just the most aggressive we've had maybe in my lifetime. How's that? the Yeah, no, I agree. i just, ah i going back into history, I don't know though personalities of what, you know which presidents would have been this aggressive.
00:18:05
Speaker
Yeah. I think of, Reagan with Gorbachev and the, you know, ah you know, years later we heard, you know, how, you know, here's, here's the ultimatum. We're going to walk away from the table. You know, Reagan walking away from the table during negotiations but Gorbachev was pretty, yeah yeah you know, it's pretty based. So,
00:18:24
Speaker
I don't think and he was as aggressive as Trump is in public, but we're also in a different time. Yeah. Yeah. And I think this kind of stuff needs to be said way more often then it than it has been. And we need to continue to say it. And I'm hoping our next president will be continue it because ah this is this is my favorite one. Hear, hear.
00:18:44
Speaker
But I realized that without us, It's not Switzerland anymore. Without us, it's not any of the countries that are represented here.
00:18:54
Speaker
And we want to work with the countries. We want to work with them. We're not looking to destroy them. I could have said 39, 40 percent. I could have I could have said I want a 70 percent tariff. Then we make money with Switzerland.
00:19:05
Speaker
But Switzerland would have been probably destroyed, financially destroyed. I don't want to do that. But we should be paying the lowest interest rate of everybody. I hope Scott's listening to this because we should be paying the lowest interest rate of everybody without us.
00:19:21
Speaker
Without us, most of the countries don't even work. And then you have the protection factor. Without our military, which is the greatest in the world by far, without our military, you have threats that you would never, you wouldn't believe, you wouldn't believe. You don't have threats because of us.
00:19:41
Speaker
Because of us. Without us. At one point in the speech, it says, without us, you know, you're speaking German and a little bit of Japanese.
00:19:54
Speaker
Nice. And then lastly, real quick, this is a very quick one, but he had a little message for his Canadian counterpart. Here, let's just run through this one real quick. It's like 10 seconds. Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful also, but they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful.
00:20:13
Speaker
They should be grateful to us. canada Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements?
00:20:25
Speaker
That was a not very happy President Trump in that clip. I could tell he was not. Hey, watch your mouth, buddy. Without us, you're basically China's bitch.
00:20:40
Speaker
So that was, oh man, that was so good. So good. Got me, got kind of got me pumped to watching it. yeah i don't know. I just, ah if you don't, if you got the biggest thing on thing around, if you don't swing it,
00:20:55
Speaker
then what's the point of having it? I mean, we could do it with with respect to our allies, but so eventually, they every once in a while, they need to be told who's actually in charge here. yeah Yeah. And for years, we've had globalists when and when America's not the most important thing to these to most presidents, Bush, Clinton, Obama.
00:21:19
Speaker
And it's just very refreshing. And hell yes, this is what I voted for. Yep. Exactly what I voted for. People say they want, you know, ah time and time again, I've heard over the years, we just want a leader to tell us how it is.
00:21:36
Speaker
Tell us the truth. Don't focus group test it. focus group test it don't Don't, you know, soften it up for our feelings. Tell us how it is. And when we get a president that tells us how it is,
00:21:51
Speaker
All I hear is pearl clutching. Not all I hear. my gosh, why do you have to say that about this, that, the other thing? It's like, give me a break, people. Come on.
00:22:02
Speaker
you What do you want? Do you want to you want to be respected around the world? Well, guess what's happening? We're way more respected around the world.
00:22:12
Speaker
On that. Where did downfall start? downfalls start Well, let we can go way back, I guess. I would say after the fall of Soviet Union.
00:22:24
Speaker
We could start there in the early ninety s Because that's when it seems like, I don't know, I'm sure it was before then. But I think maybe Reagan was a blip in the... Because yeah because the Cold War was good for a lot of people.
00:22:41
Speaker
Governments, a lot of governments, I should say, because there' was a lot of spending, a lot of, lot of wedge division between nations and people and stuff like that. It was really good. So the fall of Soviet Union was kind of, I would think that for their the, for the military industrial complex, probably a pretty, uh, it's not what they wanted.
00:22:58
Speaker
Of course not. So what do we do now? We have, we have no reason for all these ships and nukes and stuff. Well, then we have to go into Iraq. Oh yeah. And various other yeah places. Middle East, any you know? Yeah. so where you Where you know you can't solve anything, so it's ah it's a forever thing. Well, when you do it the way we do it, you got to make it that way, right? That's the only way you can make money. Well, Trump's found a different way to make money.
00:23:24
Speaker
Make Europe, buy everything. Make Europe, defend themselves. What a thought. What a thought. How about you take care of your own crap? You guys are big boys, aren't you? No.
00:23:37
Speaker
No, I mean, if you look at what's going on in ah in most of the Europe nations, you're you're i got to you have to wonder what's happening to the population there.
00:23:50
Speaker
As in strength, you know what I mean? like
00:23:54
Speaker
there's There's this just meek male coming out of there. Not all, I'm not saying all. Not all, but that seems the prominent... message coming out of Europe, most of Europe. Yeah. And anybody who's against that, well, they're racist.
00:24:12
Speaker
Exactly. and they're And they're letting them do it. That's the scary. Like nobody's pushing back. and And now if you push back, Jesus, you're in you're in jail. Yeah. I mean, they're doing the same stuff over here, over there. They're they're importing masses of, molight as Trump said, massive amount of people from cultures that are they don't have successful countries.
00:24:33
Speaker
We're importing massive amounts of people from countries that They're not even countries. They're just, you know, they're not an an organized unit. So what do you expect? I think the the proper term is shitholes. Shitholes. Yes. Shitholes. Crap countries. But what do you expect them to come over and do over here? Excel?
00:24:51
Speaker
are we Are we picking and choosing the best out of those populations or bringing them over here? No, we're just bringing in massive amounts of the poorest of the poor. Yeah.
00:25:03
Speaker
I could get into, yeah, well, if... Yeah, we'll keep we'll keep moving for for the show. Anyway, so that was Davos. That was quite, I got, we got another, i think i have another clip that we'll go into but our next topic. Yes. So we had mentioned last week that President Trump had, in the White House, had released their health care plan.
00:25:28
Speaker
So we'll figure we can go over that a little bit. it's pretty interesting. I like some of it. i i I like a lot of it. I like all of it, I guess. I just, I'm not convinced. A lot of it will get done.
00:25:41
Speaker
So what's the plan? It's basically a four-part plan, it looks like. i got We put a PDF in the show notes. You guys can check it out. It'll be in the on the blog post. And here's the four basic points. Lower drug prices.
00:25:53
Speaker
Lower insurance premiums. Okay, no-brainer. Hold big insurance companies accountable. Okay, that's i can I can get on board with that. And maximize price transparency.
00:26:06
Speaker
I think the first one, first two really, but the lowering drug prices is going to be pretty interesting coming later this year. If, if, if this if we could see results
00:26:19
Speaker
before the midterms. We've lowered a lot of the drug prices already, right? ah Some of them. Yes. I think during his first term, he did a lot with insulin. and and slash the price of insulin. i think that was his first term. Yeah, and then we got the the the fatty drug lowered. Oh, he just got that lower, the LP1, the fat pill. GPL or g gpo or what GLP, whatever it is. Yeah, the fat pills.
00:26:48
Speaker
Or Govy or... Yeah, I forget. Yeah, got those cut down. i mean... you should get all the fatties votes. Yeah. it did You're right. what Blue hair or not. Come on. Oprah better be pumped because she's making tons off this. Well, yeah of course she's not. I mean, she's devised it all over.
00:27:08
Speaker
<unk> um And speaking of that, funny because Weight Watchers knew. I heard Weight Watchers new ad. and Yeah. aren't they aren Aren't they selling the GLP or GPL now? They've gotten rid of basically, as far as I can tell, all...
00:27:23
Speaker
Cause I've known people that were on this. It was a pretty regiment thing. Oh yeah. Yeah. And many people on it, it's about points and this and that and the kind of, you know, and they, they push their food. They had their weight watchers kind of stuff that they would sell you to help you along the way, but you didn't have to, but you just go by calories count and all that kind of stuff. And you had points every week or month. And that's as far as I can see, that's all gone. And they're strictly basically selling you pills because it's no longer your fault.
00:27:51
Speaker
Right, right. It's a disease. It's a disease. It's such a disease. I think, yeah. I mean, being fat is not the disease. Not being able to stop eating is the disease, I'm told.
00:28:03
Speaker
e Yeah. So that's that's lowering drug prices. So ed at Davos... In his speech, he kind opened the, peeled the curtain back so he could see behind it how he kind of negotiated some of this. And it's it's pretty good. So here's ah here's what he had to say about drug prices at Davos. And um talked to i mean and and speaking to his friend, apparently, ah Emmanuel Macron.
00:28:32
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We have a favored nations. Policy that every president wanted, no president was able to get. I got it. And other nations approved it. And I had to use tariffs in order to get it because they said no way.
00:28:45
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In other words, a pill that costs 10 percent in London costs one hundred and thirty dollars. Think it costs ten dollars. In London costs one hundred and thirty dollars.
00:28:58
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In New York or in Los Angeles. And I'd say, boy, that's bad. Friends of mine would say, you know, we go to London, you can buy this stuff for nothing. We go all over the world, we can buy it for nothing.
00:29:10
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Because basically America was subsidizing every nation in the world. yep Because presidents allowed them to get away with it. It became very tough. So when I called up Emmanuel Macron, I watched him yesterday with those beautiful sunglasses.
00:29:27
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what the hell happened <unk>s
00:29:33
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But I watched him sort of be tough. But he was at $10 for a pill. And I said, Emmanuel, and I have the all the big pharmaceutical companies are in total agreement. It wasn't easy, by the way. They're tough, smart. They've been getting away with this scam for a long time.
00:29:53
Speaker
But they they gave it up. But they said, you'll never get the countries to approve it. I said, why is that? Because they won't. They always said, we're not paying any more. Get the rest for the United States. So over the years, they stayed the same. We just went up, up, up.
00:30:06
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And I mean, we would pay 13, 14, 15 times more than so certain countries would. So I said, no, they'll approve it 100%. Sir, you'll never get them to approve it. I said, I guarantee you. But I actually started with Emmanuel, who probably is in the room, too.
00:30:20
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And I like him. I actually like him. Hard to believe, isn't it? Hard to believe, isn't it? So here he's telling us about his negotiation strategy, basically how he's gotten these drug companies, you know, he's he's pushing the drug companies to lower the prices to the United States. And I've said this for years, people would complain about drug drug prices. I say, well, yeah, we're, as all the other countries get socialized medicine and regulate the drug prices, the only one left is America.
00:30:48
Speaker
The only place they can make up whatever profit they want to make on it is America. Cause every other place has, has the price capped. And when he goes to the insurance company, they're like, nah, you're never gonna, I mean, we'd love to do it.
00:31:02
Speaker
But yeah, other countries won't because over the years they've said, no, we're not, we're not, we're not budging, get the rest from the United States. And we've been subsidizing the rest of the world's drug prices for decades.
00:31:15
Speaker
That's why we're paying, you know, I don't know what the numbers are, $1,000 for a Tylenol in a hospital. um That may be a different story.
00:31:25
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But to his point, it's it's been a scam for for decades. And why would presidents not, I can't imagine why presidents and Congress wouldn't make this up talking point for any of the last elections in the last, you know, 25 years, 30 years. I can't imagine.
00:31:48
Speaker
Why do you think? There's a lot of money. Lots of, lots of, lots of, whatever I have in it. Lots of donor money. Lots of money. Just like the, just like the news organizations, just like the cable news, just like the CNNs and the Foxes.
00:32:04
Speaker
Actually, that's the thing I want to see most. is Washington is the same. Yeah, yeah. but i want Right. As far as money goes. Yeah. But that the thing I want to see is the ah banning of advertising. Ads. Yeah.
00:32:22
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I think, man, that would be.
00:32:27
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How many news organizations would go out of business? I think a lot of them would, and and all of them would shrink tremendously without that money. I mean, it's 75% of their revenues.
00:32:38
Speaker
That's okay. That's good. on Yeah, it's good. We have way too many as it is. We need to put, we really need to, um, I don't know focus our media.
00:32:49
Speaker
We've got it it's very, it's very diluted. There's a there's a whole lot of reporters that shouldn't be reporters because they're not qualified. Well, they're the activists. but Exactly. So that would put a um ah pretty premium, a pretty good premium on good journalism that if you had lot less.
00:33:05
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ah They're starting to do it at CBS. And it's not like, I mean, if, if the market bears it fine, but apparently the market doesn't cause all their money comes from drug companies. So from advertisement.
00:33:20
Speaker
So let's finish off here. Yeah. But why does a talking head need to make, you know, $8 million year or, $200,000 a year?
00:33:29
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two hundred thousand dollars a year I mean, I don't mind if they make good good money, but they you know sometimes it's like, only like really? yeah You're making that much? Come on. but you know like In some cases, if they're getting 5 million people a night, you could you could maybe justify it, but not at not all CNN. not getting that ever. Exactly. That's one thing. But even even the ones that are getting that, then now it's your...
00:33:56
Speaker
yeah o are they really authentic at that point? when you're paying them that much and they're just going to do what you asked them to do. Well, they're going to do whatever keeps the people tuning in.
00:34:08
Speaker
Yeah. Or, or whatever the drug companies want you to do. It does easily it doesn't matter. It's, it's, they're bought and sold and if they're not true journalists at that point. I'm hoping that's, I'm hoping that's the next, um, the next pain point that they push on. Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:30
Speaker
Next real one, quick one here a little bit from ah um ah how he got this done, I guess. We'll just finish this off. Drug prices, Davos. I said, Emmanuel, you're going to be doubling or tripling? No, no, no. I said, here's the story, Emmanuel.
00:34:46
Speaker
The answer is you're going to do it you're going to do it fast. Then if you don't, I'm putting a 25% tariff on everything that you sell into the United States and 100% tariff on your wines and champagnes.
00:34:58
Speaker
yeah And that's about 10 times more than what I'm requesting. And you're going to do it. I don't want to go public with it, but you may make me do that. No, no, Donald, I will do it.
00:35:09
Speaker
I will do it. It took me on average three minutes a country saying the same thing. You will do it. They all said, no, no, no, I will not do it.
00:35:21
Speaker
You're asking me to double the cost of prescription. I said, that's right, because you've been screwing us. Yeah. For 30 years.
00:35:33
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And they said, we will not do it. I said, that's all right. On Monday morning, we're putting a 25, 30, 50. I gave different numbers for different countries.
00:35:45
Speaker
This is also national security we're talking about. Can't not fail. We're not going to subsidize the whole world. And every one of those countries have agreed to do it. Everyone.
00:35:58
Speaker
Everyone. That's why I said, it has anyone even picked up and looked at the cover of the art of the deal?
00:36:09
Speaker
I have never even read it, but... I haven't. But obviously nobody else has because he just keeps doing it over and over again. Yeah. it's in it's Greenland.
00:36:21
Speaker
It's not... And it's not even... It's not even like a very strategic. It's called just basic negotiating. When you go into your boss's office, hey, here's a tip case anyone doesn't know. When you go into your boss's office and you want to you want a 10% increase on your salary, you don't start at 10.
00:36:40
Speaker
You probably should start at 30 or 40 or go crazy, go 50%. Really wow them. I think one of the keys also is thell um you need to be willing to walk away from that. There you go. Deal.
00:36:53
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. You need to have a number. What's what, you know, what, what do you want and what, where are you going to walk away if you don't get it? You know, that's kind of, what's the final thing. Yeah. Just like going to a car dealership.
00:37:05
Speaker
If you're not willing to get up, you should never go in and expect it to buy. You should always go in waiting to walk out kind of thing, you know, and, and, and that's how they get you. And it's the same kind of thing. Like I said, it's not, it's not rocket science people. It's just plain old negotiation. And if they can't see that,
00:37:22
Speaker
Well, I don't know. Maybe they're just low IQ. I don't know. ah And the Greenland. Oh, that's good. I wasn't sure if we get the Greenland, but... Uh, that, that's the, ah I want to own it. It's going to be mine. I want to own it. And all I hear in the reports is, Oh, Trump backed down on his, he backs down on his Greenland, backs down on Greenland, back down on Greenland.
00:37:43
Speaker
Um, so when I hear back down, I hear one, he won yeah because he never wanted to buy it. I mean, he, he would have. Oh, I think he would have been happy if that would have been America. yeah he Yeah, that would have been fine.
00:37:54
Speaker
but he He would have been, I think he's disappointed, but he ultimately got what he wanted. Sure. I think personally he was disappointed. Sure. I would love a 50% increase in my salary, but a 25% is good too. Yeah. I'll take that, you know, and if they offer me four, I'm going to walk out.
00:38:12
Speaker
right there it is very simple i i think his ego was disappointed like i think he would have liked to make that uh uh you know uh uh united states territory for historical reasons but he got what he wanted he got the mineral rights and all that i mean he's and if he goes through the history during his speech and he talks about how if it wasn't i mean during uh war ii we had to go in and and secure Greenland because the Germans were going to, you know, we were afraid the Germans going to make a U-boat base in Greenland.
00:38:47
Speaker
So we had to go in and secure it. And some reason we gave it back. Even like he said, very stupidly, we gave it back. Why why did we give it back? We don't know why we gave it back. We should never give it back. And so we've we've already been there. We've already had to do this once.
00:39:03
Speaker
And to me, this is very... There's something here, I don't know, i i keep I keep going back to Ukraine, Russia, all this negotiations going on, and then it feels like to me, I'm sure it's not, but it feels like to me all of a sudden it kind of went away, and then Trump wants Greenland again. Not again, but so he push starts pushing again on it.
00:39:26
Speaker
And it's it almost feels like we're not getting the truth about these negotiations and how well or how they've been going. Maybe they haven't been going that well. And all of a sudden, Greenland became a lot more important, a lot quicker than we thought. Because of Russia?
00:39:43
Speaker
I don't know.
00:39:46
Speaker
But that's just my tinfoil hat. You follow what I'm saying? Yeah. Does it make sense when I said that? Kind of. Like, maybe the negotiations didn't go very well when they were a little more hostile than we that were being told. And that's why Greenland became a priority quicker than we originally thought. don't Maybe Russia's going to attack us, but I doubt it.
00:40:09
Speaker
I doubt it. First, they have to roll through Europe, like everybody says they're going to do. But they're running out of troops and weapons. so They can't even take over Ukraine. Yeah, my argument is if they wanted to, they would have.
00:40:24
Speaker
I think with a massive ah push to take over, they could do it easily, but... they're they're it'st They're not having an easy time. Generally speaking, in the terms of war, from what my limited brain knows, if you want to take over landing, don't really give a crap about it. You start with massive bombing and just put it into the Stone Age.
00:40:45
Speaker
Right. And then you roll through with tanks and there's there's but very little left. That's my my theory. is if If Russia wanted to, let they could level... Without even nukes, when we talk about nuclear, just werere just with dumb bombs, they could level even in all the other major cities and just roll through and take it. But I don't know. Not not give not to give make sure that not to make it look like Putin's just, you know, he's just a nice guy. He's just, no, I just think there's some other strategy there. They don't want to, maybe they actually don't want Ukraine.
00:41:19
Speaker
ah Could be. Could be. Anyway, so um Greenland. I did have a clip from Greenland because i was, as I'm looking up Greenland, our friend Nick Shirley was in Greenland not too long ago.
00:41:31
Speaker
Mr. Minnesota, he was in Greenland back when Trump, I think this is a year ago these clips are from. And I ah had to at least get this one because this kind of settles or just kind of puts it all in little bit of perspective. So he's going around asking people a year ago if, you know, so if should America buy Greenland? And you get some mixed, mostly no.
00:41:54
Speaker
No, no, no. don't. And I get that. I'm like, you know, I wouldn't want anybody to buy my country either, but it actually came down to this right here. So here's the, he's talking to, they look 20 somethings, maybe 20, 22, someone in that age, a local, um, Greenlanders.
00:42:13
Speaker
and it, something kind of pointed out to me, speaking of Greenland, there's a good mix. So there's, there's some Greenlanders that look like your typical Greenlander, like very white, blonde hair, kind of, uh, what is that? The Norwegian kind of like looking, but then the, the almost, there's almost like a native American Filipino kind of class of people. I think those are like
00:42:39
Speaker
the natives to the area i don't know anything it was a good it was interesting because they looked asian they look filipino but almost eskimo but kind of you know i'm not sure that's these these are some of the original people that that went over there when it was right super cold and whatever so anyway but that's what these guys are these are guys they're like they look like kind of filipino guys and they've got a thick accent but he kind of so he kind of puts it all in perspective with this Is Greenland for sale?
00:43:04
Speaker
No. No. No. See, we live here. Trump cannot buy
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00:43:12
Speaker
Greenland. What would you do if he does buy Greenland? I will ask Trump if he can kayak on his own without help. If he can, he can buy.
00:43:21
Speaker
If he can't, he don't buy. So if the United States were to buy Greenland and you were able to get $20,000, would you do it? I will not say yes for money. no and For Greenland or money. I will just Greenland. We live in Greenland. He cannot fight us.
00:43:37
Speaker
For $100,000, would you guys sell Greenland? If each citizen of Greenland got $100,000, would you sell your country? Yes. But you said Greenland is not for sale, but you'd sell it for $100,000. Money is money. The world will understand.
00:43:53
Speaker
That's what i had to leave. That's kind of sells it. no not for 20, a hundred grand. Yeah, actually i would. Yeah. Bye. Bye. See later. When's my check coming? I can go somewhere warm.
00:44:06
Speaker
So next is ah on this, let's wrap up this healthcare care plan thing. So go check it out. It's interesting. It's kind of the push they've been going through now with this, these subsidies, these, for the Obamacare Act expiring. Now it's in the Senate side and the Senate wants to do some, they want to try to force the House to do kind of what their plan is, which is ah better, but still sucks in my opinion.
00:44:31
Speaker
um Lower insures premiums. This is one of the things he brought up, I think a couple of weeks ago, I think we talked last week. forget. we' Oh, yes. He was telling the GOP to a ge ah group of GOP people, you need to own this. And lowering insurance premiums, one of the ways he feels you can lower insurance premiums is give money to the people, not the damn insurance companies.
00:44:53
Speaker
Talked about that last week. Yeah. Tied it in with ah college tuition. It's like when the money's guaranteed, why not raise it? I mean, the federal government's got endless funds.
00:45:04
Speaker
So putting that in the hands of people will create an actual competitive marketplace and you'll actually have something a little more fair in my opinion. Holding big insurance companies accountable is this next point. um So creating plain English insurance standards they're saying.
00:45:22
Speaker
ah Require healthcare care insurance companies to publish rate and coverage comparisons up front on their websites in plain English, not industry jargon ah so consumers can make a better insurance purchase decisions.
00:45:40
Speaker
That's, you know, okay. And then maximizing transparency. Post prices on the wall ah requiring healthcare care providers and insurers who accept either Medicaid or Medicare.
00:45:52
Speaker
to publicly and prominently post their prices and fees to avoid surprises surprise medical bills. they want They want you to have a menu.
00:46:03
Speaker
i Good, I guess, because you go into a doctor's office, you have no idea what anything is going to cost until you get the freaking bill. And I think one of our biggest problems is we don't shop around.
00:46:15
Speaker
It's one of the only things that we purchase that nobody ever shops around is not even the insurance. It's the healthcare, which hospital is cheapest, all the other stuff. Yeah. I think because everyone just figures they're getting bent over anyways.
00:46:29
Speaker
Yeah. It's, it's, I mean, a lot of times you're in situations where it's not convenient to shop around go to different hospitals and stuff like that. But if you're making a knee surgery, you know, if you have an insurance, then you're not,
00:46:42
Speaker
You're also not shopping your own. And I think at this point, I don't know how much good it would do you because everything's so controlled by the insurance companies. i mean, you can go to three different doctors. I bet if they're all in the same network, the price is going to be the same.
00:46:56
Speaker
Yeah. They make deals. That's why they give you, oh, would have cost you this, but we've made a deal with the insurance companies that only charge you this, so you don't know it was that. It's like, oh, thanks. Right. Appreciate you.
00:47:09
Speaker
You're doing such a great job.
00:47:12
Speaker
Um, so hope, I mean, again, this is, uh, I don't see, uh, get rid of advertising on, but I don't know if that would really be part of the healthcare plan. That would have to go through the, no, that can't be part of the healthcare care plan.
00:47:26
Speaker
Getting rid of that would have to go to the Supreme court, uh, the advertising on the U S cause that's a, that's a free speech thing. That's what I think that's one of the reasons we, uh, I, that have initially started.
00:47:40
Speaker
What did, ah what are they talking about? us Somewhere i was listening to that maybe one of the ways is to require all all side effects to be put into the ad. Yes. And then it would make the ads, there's probably no agenda.
00:47:53
Speaker
um It would make the ads too long and too expensive. Right. I bet they find their way around that, but that's a good start. Of course. So check out um President's Healthcare Plan.
00:48:08
Speaker
It's simple. Probably, you know, like, why can't they just advertise, like, stuff that you can buy over the counter? mean, why are you advertising things that your doctor makes a choice?
00:48:20
Speaker
Because without that ad, you'd never know about it because there's not even any shelf. You can't even put a sign. You know what I mean? It's not like it's on a shelf. You can see it. why do I need to know about it? Oh, yeah. I go to the doctor. The doctor needs to know about it.
00:48:33
Speaker
But the doctor needs to know about it. No, you what what they need to do is is give you this obscure drug. I get it. and I see what you're saying, but, but I'm just saying from reality, in reality, do I really need to know oh but any of these drugs? You know, only the hypochondriacs do.
00:48:49
Speaker
than Yeah, I guess it's making a, ah it's making a lot of people kind of like that. It's, it's, Oh, I have one of those symptoms. I must, I need this.
00:49:00
Speaker
I don't know if it's even that good. I think it's, Hey, what's this drug? Can I use it? Is it, would it be good for me? Is kind of what you're getting now. It's like, what say it? So-and-so drug name. Can I use it? Is it, you think it'd help me?
00:49:12
Speaker
No. Yeah. I don't know anybody like that, but I'm sure there are people. i'm sure there are. I've heard that's, you hearsay, but so check it out. We'll be in the blog. Um, next, uh, on our fantastic list of stories is, is this one, which is ohio Lucas County County.
00:49:33
Speaker
This doofus. this two fifth lucas county commissioner pete je je kick her ken gukin thatby kikin i'm horrible at names good enough be sure he doesn't just he doesn't deserve a a pete douchebag we call him has not responded to questions from ohio press network about his comments labeling the apartment ah labeling the apartment of u s department of homeland security immigration and customs enforcement and the border of patrol terrorist groups.
00:50:06
Speaker
What a good idea, you douche. ah hiss Here's his quote. On X, well, no, this was shared on X by Republican, or Representative Josh Williams.
00:50:21
Speaker
Lucas County Commissioner says, I think ICE, i think DHS, ICE, and Border Patrol have gone from legitimate, in the past, law enforcement agency to a terrorist group.
00:50:32
Speaker
He said this during a meeting as it was captured on a video clip. um Yeah. So recently, Lucas County commissioners voted two to one on January 13th to reject the Department of Homeland Security's Operation Stone Guard grant.
00:50:49
Speaker
So what they turned down was $70,000 intended to increase patrols in the Jerusalem township along Lake Erie. Because they get, it's it's the border. The lake's the border with Canada.
00:51:03
Speaker
So they would get these funds and they turned it down. The board had unanimously approved the funding in December, but Douchebag and Commissioner, sub-Douchebag Lopez, a reversed course, citing concerns over federal and um immigration agencies.
00:51:24
Speaker
So ice is, ice, ice is too mean. We don't like mean ice or mean DHS. We only like really nice DHS. And we're going to, we're going to screw our our citizens by turning down free money to help secure them.
00:51:39
Speaker
That's what I got. Everybody in Toledo should be writing this guy and telling him to get the hell out to resign. Yeah, Northern Ohio is pretty important in the and border protection. There's a lot of shenanigans that go along, a lot of BS. There's a lot of child child trafficking.
00:51:57
Speaker
So apparently he doesn't, let me just, let me put my nose ring in for a second. they I guess they don't like ah they don't they don't want to fight child trafficking if he turned down the $70,000.
00:52:09
Speaker
got my nose ring that was me imitating somebody who they you know i i doubt that's why but um i'm sure he does he i'm sure he does care about child children maybe in ways that we don't want to know about but tearing down 70 grand and um on a border state it's pretty stupid in my opinion pretty stupid in my opinion. so they want to, let's see, I'm trying to see if there's anything else here.
00:52:36
Speaker
uh, yeah. Republican Josh Williams says, uh, this was a, ah he called his rhetoric unhinged and said it contributes to increased threats against ice. Uh, I just had the guy,
00:52:50
Speaker
i was, i had a guy talking to a guy, former Vietnam vet. No, he got into service right after Vietnam, I should say. So he's not quite that old.
00:53:01
Speaker
And he he kind of compared what's happening with ICE now to what happened to a lot of the vets that came back from Vietnam. And he says they're kind of being treated in the same way.
00:53:12
Speaker
Baby killers and you're arresting citizens and all other stuff. And this just adds to it. Oh, yeah. they're They're stoking the fire, man. So they'd never change.
00:53:25
Speaker
yeah He's a longtime labor activist and progressive leader who has served the commission as commissioner since 2005. He's been in there 20 some years. has faced other scrutiny in December. The Ohio board of tax appeals rejected his appeal to lower the valuation of his river road home in Toledo from foreign 18,000 to 300,000. The decision upheld the Lucas County auditors assessment amid questions about potential ethics, ethical issues, given douchebags position in government, and county government. So he,
00:53:58
Speaker
So he was just in the news not too long ago trying to convince, that's you hear the air quotes, convince the tax the commission of taxation in the area to lower his valuation to his house by $118,000. What about neighbors? Douchebag. Yeah.
00:54:16
Speaker
what about your neighbors douche bag um
00:54:25
Speaker
Highlights his background in social justice. Well, that's a red flag if you ever heard one. Including anti-Vietnam War activism. Wow, I didn't even plan that. I did not even plan that. He's a union ah union leadership with United Auto Workers and progressive policies like Ohio's first domestic partnership.
00:54:46
Speaker
Well, never mind. I'm done reading about this guy. So check out the check out the article on Windsor Report. And if you're in the Toledo area, send them a note. i mean A handwritten note, maybe even. they They don't get many of those nowadays.
00:54:59
Speaker
I got one of those the other day for a thank you. Christmas thank you card was handwritten. That's nice. Mailed with a stamp. Pretty cool.
00:55:08
Speaker
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00:55:22
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00:55:34
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00:55:46
Speaker
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00:55:54
Speaker
You know, i was thinking the other day when listening about this salt shortage, if we only had a reliable source for road salt around here.
00:56:05
Speaker
and anybody Anybody know where can get some road salt? so apparently apparently there is a ah the road salt shortage.
00:56:18
Speaker
And cities are having to know like borrow from Peter to pay Paul and borrow this 150 tons here and 200 tons there. And as a as as we've noticed, there's a list of all these, you know, we've got Avon Lake, Elyria, Lakewood, Middleburg Heights or Newburgh Heights, Strongsville, Twinsburg, a bunch of them. They're all got a huge salt shortage.
00:56:45
Speaker
But when they called Cargill, his Cargill said, yeah, got to wait. My feeling is they just didn't order enough. Yeah, yeah. and most people, because they're, you know.
00:56:58
Speaker
yeah yeah We've been having lighter winters, so they probably just mismanaged that. Yes. and we need to I don't understand why that they don't always just have more. is it Is it? I mean, okay, financially, i get it. But why don't you have like an oversupply?
00:57:16
Speaker
As far as I understand, it salt actually, over if you leave it over summer, it it evaporates. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I guess ah from the humidity and everything, yeah. Moisture in the air. Because if you you know put salt dissolves, it actually... So yeah he from what I understand...
00:57:36
Speaker
We look at those salt domes, they're shaped that way for a reason. It's because it's the most efficient, like least amount of evaporation or whatever it does. It keeps less air. Yeah. But you you do lose, you will lose a bunch of it over what the percentage is. of no idea.
00:57:51
Speaker
That may be one of the reasons that they don't have a large amount. But I think if you're starting out in the winter, I mean, you buy a bunch of it because you know you're go to eat I just think they got caught off i think, yeah, you're you're looking at where can I save a buck if I don't have, if I have to buy one less, two less trucks of salt for my city and save $10,000, whatever it is, you know, you're going to save $10,000 because in the last years we haven't, we've been canceling salt later in the years, all but but you know, all this other this stuff.
00:58:20
Speaker
Uh, and, and then with, I think a little bit heavier winter, especially in places farther South than us over the last couple months, you know, maybe. So cargo is a little bit backed up.
00:58:31
Speaker
I get it. But couldn't you have it ah on like, it's the wrong word. Uh, but I'm going to use the word retainer. Can't you like purchase it, but not have it, you know, like physically have it.
00:58:43
Speaker
Couldn't you pre-purchase it? And just say, hey, we have it. This is ours. So you can't sell this to anybody else. i yeah I don't know how.
00:58:55
Speaker
but yeah ah ah Depends on how cargo works. I don't know if they have a lot of sit stuff sitting there. What they probably do, I would think maybe they say, okay, on this date, give us two trucks. ah You know, six weeks later, bring us two more trucks. Yeah.
00:59:09
Speaker
Maybe they buy, you know, they give them as kind of a schedule, kind of what the normal usage is. Pure guess on my part. This is how I would do it. but Why can't they just buy the farmer's almanac and figure out what the winter is going to be like? They were saying we were going to have a a heavier moisture or ah precipitation wise, a heavier winter than normal. so See? Yeah.
00:59:27
Speaker
yeah So, so then when they, and this is giving them a huge benefit of doubt that they're actually thinking this far ahead, but this is how I would probably would do it. So it's probably not how they do it, but yeah, ah Then, then when you start running short and you call Cargill and say, hey, can you move that up already? They can't because they've got other people have already, you know first come first serve kind of thing.
00:59:45
Speaker
um Yeah. there's There's, I guess giving a large benefit of the doubt because they really should, you should have, I mean, Tom, they're smart enough to carry 40 or 50% of their school budget to the next year.
00:59:59
Speaker
You can't carry a little extra salt. Oh, no. Or maybe offer a little something to Cargill to put you, i mean, for Christ's sake, thing it's our, it's the city's salt mine.
01:00:14
Speaker
Like, offer them something just a little bit so we're basically number one, you know? Well, I got a clip from a Channel 5, and it might might lead us into some the some of the other reasons other than poor planning.
01:00:27
Speaker
And I just want to... I think it all boils down to poor planning. Yeah. And usually there's, you know, they'll say in this clip, well, I think we've had an unusual, unusually heavy winter this year over the past years.
01:00:41
Speaker
Well, yeah, like you to your point, when you only look three or four years back, yeah. But if you look back 20 years, it's not, i don't think it's, it's not unusually heavy. No, no. I mean, it seems heavier because we've had lighter winters over the past five, 10 years. That's fine.
01:00:54
Speaker
Yeah. um ah So there's a couple of things in it that they point out that, that they're, that Cargill is saying is a problem. And ah one of them I'd like to, um dig a little bit into pun intended but also like to point out the worst pun delivery um of the year so far it may hold throughout the whole year but here's I mean you got to put something yeah you got to put some feeling into a woman here you go here's channel ah channel five on the salt shortage
01:01:26
Speaker
In many cases, it's the side streets that could noticeably suffer. This full-time Lyft driver says she's not salty about it, but tells me it has made navigating the roads difficult. It was actually harder for me to even maneuver to get out of people's driveways because the roads were just so packed. We haven't had as bad of a winter in years in Cleveland, so that might have been a reason too. One road salt supplier out of New York says along with high demand for the de-icing salt, there are supply chain issues, labor issues, and line production problems like flooding. Do you get a lot of calls about residential streets, people up?
01:02:02
Speaker
So here's the plow guy from, I think, University Heights or something like that. Yeah, he's he's funny. so You will, yeah. Get both planes. Nothing you can do Snowplow drivers just asking one thing of their customers. Don't get frosty, but instead... Be patient. it's all That's all you can do. Reporting in University Heights and Cleveland Heights, Michelle Nix, 19 News.
01:02:28
Speaker
Um...
01:02:32
Speaker
If there's flooding in the salt mine that's under the lake, do you think we could have a story about that? Like, can you expand a little bit on the flooding on the mine under the lake, please? What the hell they talking?
01:02:45
Speaker
Are they digging too far upwards? Is that the problem? I think they're a mile underneath, aren't they? I know. I know. i'm I'm sure it's not because of that. Oh, I know it's not because of that because ah the mine wouldn't be there anymore. But right it was it was funny that well they got flooding on the mine under the lake ah and labor issues.
01:03:03
Speaker
So cargo can't get out enough like they normally can. Cities are poor planned and there's flooding apparently in the wintertime. Okay. All these questions I have. I heard about those third shift cargo guys. They're they're in the mine sleeping instead of drilling. So maybe they need a little supervision down there. That a nasty place down there here. Oh, it it is. I'm sure it is. but but you know Amazing. but I think those third shifters kind of take advantage of no supervision. you know do Do they have three shifts? I hope so. They used to. yeah They used to.
01:03:36
Speaker
Yeah, 30 years ago. I'm sure they still do. So what are they going to do? Well, they're going to start salting intersections just and limiting salting to the main roads. And I think we'll be okay.
01:03:51
Speaker
We'll be okay. I guess it depends on how much ice we get next storm. And as you listen to this, you'll be finding out because it'll be hitting us probably about the time this show drops. All right. um What else? got anything else about salt shortage or you're not salty on that? I see that like... Oh, you're going to do it too.
01:04:08
Speaker
Could you at least... Yes. because Because... Only because of the horrible delivery on those puns. Could you at least put a little... a little A little bit into it, I guess. I don't know why our local news, every I think it's every station has to put puns in it. it's They're awful.
01:04:30
Speaker
They're awful, but. And the delivery is awful too. Yeah. that's what An awful pun is expected. Like puns are usually awful, right? Yeah. i mean just but She just said it like it was wasn't a pun. but If you make it funny, it's okay. but Yes, and if you like exact like that's what I'm saying. she just kind of she just She said it so straight that I wonder if she knew it was a pun.
01:04:50
Speaker
I don't know what she looks like, but she sounded like she was 80, so that might be yeah your clue to why. I'm trying to wonder if that was that was Channel 3.
01:05:01
Speaker
I don't know which, because it wasn't the article you had pulled. No, it wasn't. You're right, because had a clip. Here it goes. That was Channel... Oh, it's probably my clip. Yeah. Don't worry about it.
01:05:12
Speaker
That's ah channel 19. I want to give them the credit because it wasn't, uh, or channel. yeah saying I know who that is too. And yeah, she's not 80. Oh, okay. She is low IQ, I think.
01:05:23
Speaker
Anyway, anyway, we are going to move on and check. We're going to do a little, little peek into see what our, uh, what our critters. Columbus.
01:05:37
Speaker
Right now, what we've got on the agenda for today. full yes. Can you say election holiday, Tom?
01:05:51
Speaker
Is this a bunch of BS or what? Is this a bunch of BS or what? I first i first saw this and went, oh, you know, we've talked about, but I've talked about, like, you know, making it easier for people to get to the polls and to vote and all this other this stuff.
01:06:09
Speaker
And as I started looking into this and listening to the to the to the report, it's Morgan Trau. Trau. fahu and i I'm thinking I'm thinking no here uh here's let's go let's just hit the clip right and then we'll can talk about it afterwards Democracy works better when we all participate. Which is why voting rights advocate Catherine Turser says it is so important that every vote counts. We can all participate if we don't have good access. Research from Tufts University found that of people who didn't vote in the 2024 presidential, about 25% said they had conflicting work or school schedules. did they If elected officials in Ohio really respect voters,
01:06:54
Speaker
we should respect them enough to allow them to get to the ballot on election day. Euclid Democrat Ken Smith has proposed a solution. Make election day a state holiday.
01:07:06
Speaker
Yes. that Yes. On election day. But you say 25% of the people say work, work or school prevents them from going to the polls.
01:07:19
Speaker
So in the four weeks leading up to The election in Ohio, you can vote. Isn't it four weeks? Three to four weeks, right? It's like a month. 28 days or something. 28 days.
01:07:32
Speaker
So in all that time, you couldn't find an hour. So instead, you need to make it a holiday. And I think the point of of some of this is they would like to make it a paid holiday, a state-mandated paid holiday.
01:07:51
Speaker
Yeah, that won't happen. It's not going happen. this now this This bill isn't going anywhere because it's it's ridiculous. i i Like I said, when I see the article, the headline, I'm like, oh, that's not a bad idea. ah Actually, it is because here's my point. We can do this. If the feds did it, i wouldn't it wouldn't bother me. you know i mean, you know, ah a far national vote, like the presidential election.
01:08:15
Speaker
Yes. ah That I wouldn't, I'd be like, ah okay, maybe once every four years. um But local, general elections, like, why do you need a day off for that?
01:08:28
Speaker
Why do you need a day off when you've got 28 days before then to go and vote? Yeah, and plus you got mail-in voting. And you got mail-in voting. So, um okay, you want to have a holiday? Fine. And they even say this in report. One of the one of the things they worry about is if if they pass this holiday, theyre the the Republicans are going to use it to force only...
01:08:50
Speaker
in-person voting on election day. And I say to that, hell yes. Yeah, that would be great. But I think, so in the in the report, if you listen to it,
01:09:05
Speaker
Morgan says, well, but, you know, just past this year, the evil GOP says that they don't want you to, they've made it harder for you to vote because it took away the four-day grace period.
01:09:19
Speaker
right Because the four weeks beforehand that you had to send your ballot in shouldn't matter. But and that that make doing sending it four days ahead of time is harder.
01:09:30
Speaker
Democrats being Democrats. So they're talking about, well, we had to access. democracy. You got mail-in ballots, you got four weeks to freaking vote. o Four weeks to vote.
01:09:42
Speaker
You've got plenty of freaking access, okay? Shut it. Shut it.
01:09:49
Speaker
And ah they go on, you know, 14 states have election day holidays. Yeah.
01:09:55
Speaker
And there's even states that do mandate paid paid holidays. Right. Other than that, this really... You know what? I would like to see the list of those states.
01:10:07
Speaker
Yeah. I'm going to... ahead. Keep going. I would bet you're you're thinking the same thing I'm thinking. So she, Tertier has said, we we should think about... ensuring that we have better access to a diversity of ways to vote. Okay. So you got mail in, you've got, uh, four weeks beforehand and you have the day of how much more do you want?
01:10:31
Speaker
but Do you think, uh, Oh, how about online voting? What's that next? Oh my gosh. What a nightmare that would be. Um, and they are, let's see here. Secretary of state, um,
01:10:47
Speaker
Yeah. It doesn't really say much about secretary of state. Yeah. Voting should be engaged rewarding experience, celebrating our democracy and citizenship.
01:10:56
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I don't, I don't think, uh, don't think this is going anywhere. Would you find anything? Yeah. I tried Google. I couldn't, there was too many articles to go through and then I'm going to try Grok here. So yeah, thinking in-person voting. This is the, uh,
01:11:11
Speaker
A quote from spokesperson to Sprague spokesperson Dalton. And he says in-person voting on election day where IDs are checked and eligibility is easily verified is the most secure form of voting.
01:11:27
Speaker
And it should be both a federal and state holiday at the same time. We should look closely at no-fault absentee voting as voting by mail is significantly more vulnerable to fraud, chain of custody lapses, and postal errors.
01:11:43
Speaker
How about we just show up on the day? could really simplify this and just show up on the day and put your put your vote in like we used to do. And if you really, if you really, um it's really important to you, you'll get there.
01:12:01
Speaker
Really important to you. You'll find a way to get there.
01:12:04
Speaker
All right. That's about all stalling I got, Tom. Well, I found the, ah there's 11 states that have made it a public or civic holiday, but they don't mandate the paid, you know, the day off, um which is Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia.
01:12:28
Speaker
And then I typed in which ones mandate a day off. Yeah. That's Illinois and New York. yeah That makes sense. Yeah. Those are the only two, though, where they mandate. well you it doesn't say ah you don't get the day off, but if you leave for couple hours to go vote, you get paid.
01:12:49
Speaker
Yeah, and in Ohio, your employer has to give you time to vote. it doesn't Yeah, yeah i think most states do, but we wec declared it a public and civic holiday. there' there' you know no No employer can say, oh you know fire you for coming in late because you want to vote. Yeah, it's conveniently used for a lot of people to be late on election day.
01:13:12
Speaker
Yeah. The smart ones, at least. Well, I, I, yeah. I mean, I, I try to go in the morning. Yeah. as you typemer sorry First thing in the morning.
01:13:22
Speaker
Uh, yeah. So I don't know. 25% say they're conflicted from school and work. That's my biggest point. And, uh, that's BS because you've got plenty time to vote. So shut it. right. that's election day, holiday BS. Next is Ohio GOP. Some of the GOP in Ohio, apparently, are putting in a some bills in legislature to put stricter standards for dayca fraud or publicly funded daycares.
01:13:55
Speaker
And there's some pushback.
01:13:58
Speaker
And ah so this, this person from owner of my kids, child daycare says, I feel like an isolated, an isolated situation has put a spotlight in a negative way on childcare centers.
01:14:10
Speaker
And now it's questioning our integrity. Um, you know, um I'm sorry. really, I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry. It's making your day a little harder.
01:14:21
Speaker
um I don't know if you've noticed or heard, but hundreds of millions of dollars are flowing out of Ohio of taxpayer money money into Minnesota and then going somewhere else in the world. So I'm sorry it's making your day a little harder, but we need to check this crap.
01:14:36
Speaker
Um, basically this, check out this article because Morgan is, uh, Morgan's at her best talking about Nick Shirley and these unsubstantiated claims apparently. onage ah Yeah.
01:14:49
Speaker
That's claims with no proof is what she says. And there's, there's a little bit of back and forth with her and, uh, rep Williams. Um, he is, i forget where he's from. So he's pointing out that, uh, Williams is saying, Oh, well, look, I'm I think you might try to pull a fast one. Williams is saying, look, we're we're proven right because after this was all brought to light, we've got 12 daycares that are under investigation. And Morgan was like, well, those are actually already under investigation.
01:15:18
Speaker
And to to her point, maybe true, but you think there's only 12? If there's 12, there's probably more. yeah And the fact that
01:15:29
Speaker
I just, I don't, they just don't believe they that any of this is true. Like, oh, there's unsanited claims. Have you looked into them, Morgan? Have you tried to maybe substantiate some of the club that wouldn't be the activist thing to do. Right. So, I mean, so they want to put in, what my but I think, like, I'm i'm all for maybe a little bit more um oversight, but I think it goes a little too far. They want to put cameras in daycares and almost all rooms in daycares except bathrooms.
01:15:57
Speaker
Hmm. I'm not sure. I'm not sure that's a selling point for me. yeah that's kind of weird. Yeah. I think we could find a middle ground on this. We don't need cameras. Can the can the parents log in?
01:16:13
Speaker
yeahp but That's up for, you know, just introduced, so details are probably... Yeah. Does not say, well, that's the thing. They're kind of just some the proponents are saying, eh, it's, it's kind of, um, um, little creepy depending on who has access to it.
01:16:30
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. It's weird. Does the parent get a password? Like, i don't know. I'd have I'd have to know more about it. And if they do get a password, does that make it any better or worse? Yeah.
01:16:44
Speaker
What do you mean? Well, just because you give parents password doesn't make it less creepy. Some of those parents are creepy. You know what Well, that's true. they can They can, yeah, that's true. That doesn't solve the problem for me. I don't think, I think you put a camera at the front door, in the lobby, something to that effect to see who's going in and out. but Yeah, when i when I saw this at first, that's what I thought they wanted. I was like, well, that's not so bad. You know, at the counter or something, you just see people actually there. Yeah.
01:17:11
Speaker
But yeah, in every room, that's kind of. I don't know. I don't like it. Yeah.
01:17:21
Speaker
Yep. Just check and make sure not missing anything here. Yeah, that's basically it. I think the biggest pushback is the cameras part. And then, you know, kind of like, well, what do we need? DeWine's like, fraud's good. We're good.
01:17:35
Speaker
We're good. And then we just you know, listen to clip last week from John Solomon saying that they've got evidence of $130 million dollars going from Columbus to Minnesota, Minneapolis, and then flying out of the country.
01:17:48
Speaker
Like, um is that just the cost of doing business, Mr. DeWine? um I get it. You're trying to cover your ass, but that's, but and we, I think most of us would understand there's probably going to be some fraud no matter how much, how much you try to clamp down on it's it. There's some gets through. It always does. But to come out and say, well, it's, you it's a cost of doing business. Yeah.
01:18:11
Speaker
You hundreds of millions of dollars just get, tucked out of the system. um So there's that. Check that out. Let us know. us know what you think about that. What do you think about cameras in the and daycares? I don't know.
01:18:23
Speaker
don't like it. I don't like it. All right. Next on our list
01:18:37
Speaker
is, oh, everybody's favorite subject, Abortion. Abortion care. Everybody's favorite. No, not really. Health care. health I'm sorry, it's health care.
01:18:49
Speaker
It's not ending health care. It's health care. We got a couple articles here. One from Scene, which basically goes through the fight that's going on right now in Ohio legislature between the Democrats and Republicans. Basically, they passed the amendment codifying legal abortion.
01:19:12
Speaker
in Ohio, which every time I say it, this makes me want to move. Um, and that the fight that the GOP has been doing, they're trying to put limits on it. Uh, they're trying to, um, just, just do what they can to at least prevent as much as possible.
01:19:30
Speaker
One of them is, uh, Senator Houston, which he's got, he's pushing for legislation to put more restrictions on the abortion pill, the morning after pill, I think it is.
01:19:43
Speaker
Right. So the scene article is pretty interesting because,
01:19:49
Speaker
what where'd go? What I'm looking at is, um, counted one, two, three, four, five.
01:20:01
Speaker
Currently in this article alone, it states six different abortion bills in the state legislature. I think most of them are, pro-life and there's I think one that's pro-abortion.
01:20:14
Speaker
So Democrats introduced House Bill 128 in February furthering further to further drive home the amendment, including appealing, attempting to repeal laws that don't align with it. Republicans then introduced House Bill 370 called the Personhood Bill because attempts to apply 14th Amendment rights to pre-born persons.
01:20:39
Speaker
It puts in quotes. that This is something that they're hoping the Supreme Court will get. ah So they're kind of, they're pushing it here too. So yes. And the, what was it?
01:20:53
Speaker
Democrats also put put in bill, I'm trying to remember her name. Oh, Dublin representative.
01:21:02
Speaker
OBGYN. Antony Anita. I think I got that right. Guilty. Yeah. She, ah then she put in bill 245 house bill 245, pushing, pushing forwarded forward the attempts to further change language and state law with another bill, which is two, 245.
01:21:24
Speaker
two forty five And can't figure out how they get to thousands of bill bills every year. how House Bill 410 has three hearings in the House Medicaid Committee since being sent there in September. Doesn't really expand on what for Bill 410 is, but i think I think that's going to take away Medicaid funding for abortions. I'm pretty sure that's what that was.
01:21:58
Speaker
And yep, sign language in one beautiful bill about abortions. And then we got House bill, Ohio Senate has bill 309. a Senate healthcare committee in October, a bill that would require doctors to provide patients with a written statement to sign on the risks of abortion services expected in a medical emergency, except in a medical emergency. Next one is House bill 347, referring to House bill committee in June.
01:22:28
Speaker
Oh my goodness. So check out what these, all these are. Cause I just lost half the audience. Uh, and there's a ton of them. So Houston wants to, but Houston wants to do a little different. He wants to put in, um some restrictions on the morning after pill for yeah lack of a better long, long medical name.
01:22:49
Speaker
And I, my question on this um,
01:22:56
Speaker
if there were any other drug, if it were drug for any other purpose, it would not be allowed by mail as far as I could see. Like the drugs allowed by mail are pretty.
01:23:09
Speaker
You can get anything by mail. You can't get like, you can't get um pain pills by mail. Well, pain, no pain pills. You can't. You're not going to get, let's say chemotherapy by mail.
01:23:22
Speaker
No. And that a lot of times is a pill. but Okay. Yeah. So why would you be able to kill your baby with a pill or by the mail? Good point.
01:23:33
Speaker
seems Seems very lined up with an, it's an extreme, whether you like it or not, you could, could be all for it, but if you can't, you know, so I think it's. yeah I agree. I, I, it makes it a little too easy are Or, you know, i think, you know, I'm not going to argue the abortion topic. Right.
01:23:53
Speaker
But if, you know, if you're going to have it, if it's going to be legal, then it should be uncomfortable. It should be an uncomfortable choice. So yes getting it through the mail is kind of defeats that purpose. So Houston's got a little, ah he's got an interesting, i guess, perspective.
01:24:14
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Because here's his quote. he I started out in farster foster care, was adopted, and know that my birth mother was under a lot of pressure to have an abortion. And thankfully thankfully for me, she didn't.
01:24:28
Speaker
Republican senator says, I know that my biological father had pressured her to do so and she chose an adoption. And what he's saying, he he he's not sure what the outcome would have been if it was would have been that easy.
01:24:42
Speaker
And he goes, ah I would like to think that my mother would have still chosen to have an adoption. But I've seen, here's, this is some sick, twisted crap here.
01:24:55
Speaker
But I've seen some of the horrors of men who are trying to use the drug to end pregnancies against the will of the mom that they they'd give the drug to. So he's saying he's seen cases of guys slipping the pill to the chick that got pregnant. Right, right. Which is, holy cow, so many levels of hell you belong.
01:25:17
Speaker
I think a doctor in Cincinnati did it to his girlfriend or something. Oh, I remember that, yes. Yeah. Yeah, he's a still going. The case is still happening.
01:25:30
Speaker
Oh, toledo in Toledo. Hassan James Abbas. Guilty.
01:25:37
Speaker
Wow.
01:25:41
Speaker
I'm kind of speechless on that. That's, I forgot about that. And just more than I think about that, it's good Lord. Yeah. yeah There's a special place in hell for people like you. But here's ah here again, here's, here's this pill that can do this.
01:25:56
Speaker
I mean, pretty significant thing, like end of life probably should be, you know, you you probably need to see somebody in person to get it. So I, I, I, I don't know. what I don't know if it's going to get passed or not, but.
01:26:10
Speaker
Well, I think will. No, sure I think it will because we we have the super majority here. Yeah, there's some squeaky Republicans, though. And there's DeWine. That's an understatement. Well, deine DeWine can ah veto it if there's a a strong support. He can override it.
01:26:26
Speaker
that and that's what I would worry about. they would I think they'd have enough to pass it. Would they have enough to secure a veto? I don't know. with with this I don't think DeWine would veto this. I really don't. a Good point. You might not. Because you're not really, um you're not like banning abortion. You're you're not really, you're just making it a little, yeah a difficult, a little bit more difficult, which it should be. Yeah.
01:26:52
Speaker
Okay. I'm not going to argue it should be harder because I'm going to argue it should be impossible to to most. But, you know, I get what you're saying. You're right. ah at least, can we get this win? You know, can we can at least try to eliminate guys giving an unwanted abortion to their girlfriend? Can we at least do that, can't we?
01:27:14
Speaker
And Houston's pushing forward with that. I'm not a huge fan of Houston, but this in this case, think he's on the
Technology and Law Enforcement in Ohio
01:27:22
Speaker
right track. Yeah. Next on the list, we talked about this in our year-end show, is one of the things that um that i talked that I thought was going to be a bigger story this year. And um i'm I'm making my own prophecy come to light by picking these stories. So there you go. No, but there's a couple stories. One of them I think I saved from even, this may have been before the new year. But more and more cities are getting drones.
01:27:46
Speaker
Yeah, we talked about it a couple weeks ago, right? Yep. Yeah. And couple stories, Stark County, you know, we we actually we had talked about, like, why? Like, what's the advantage? And, you know, this story from Stark County from Channel 3 goes into it far as, you know, what they're using it for, what this...
01:28:09
Speaker
You know, in this case, what happened? Car crash. Some hits another truck, plows into him, does all a bunch of damage, totals his car, gets out of his car and runs.
01:28:23
Speaker
ah They call the cops, call 911, and the first thing did was dispatch a drone. And they've got video. Go check it out. They got video. I think it's in this because I got two. Got this story and a YouTube clip from ah from Channel 19.
01:28:36
Speaker
But in one case, the drone's overhead with infrared. The guy's in the woods and the patrol car is driving right past him because you can't see him. He's in the woods. And these are the kind of things that they're using to push the drone technology, which I get it. I mean, yeah, you know, seems like a good use to it.
01:28:54
Speaker
But to what extent? Where does it go from here? That's what I want. Right. My question was, when i I'm reading these articles, listening to this stuff, is how long how long before we get tasers on drones? Non-lethal. No, those are going on the robot dogs.
01:29:16
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Now, I don't know if you caught it, but the the funniest thing about this guy who hit a truck and ran into the woods and the drones found him, right? Yeah.
01:29:26
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And basically... Oh, they got him. they They would have found him because they just called the plate number, right? They would have found him. He has to go home. he's register He's got registered plates and all that.
01:29:40
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The funniest thing about this, he's had a warrant for his arrest since nineteen in the 90s. Yes, I saw that. 1991, I thought. was Something like that, right? Yep. And I'm like, well, really? You needed a drone,
01:29:54
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And you're happy you got a guy who who had a warrant for his arrest since 1991. You could have just driven to his house. The guy's registered. is He's got a driver's license. He's registered his car.
01:30:05
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mean, come on. It was a dumb presentation of this thing. Good point, actually. I could have yeah and they got you know You know what? That drone just made him a couple of grand because he got you all he did was get an ah ah ah a DUI or OVI, whatever they call it.
01:30:23
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Oh, yeah he's yeah, he's on like four or five charges now. Yeah, yeah, he's got yeah he's got enough charges, but it's like... Oh, I made him a few grand at least. I think he was he ran. ah he panicked. he ran and because he didn't want to get a DUI, and they could have easily found him the next day. You don't see any...
01:30:42
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good No, no, though this was good because, you you know, I just think this, you know, who knows? He he could have hit a ah a family in their minivan or something. you know or To your point is good. Like, why haven't they caught this guy in the past 35 years?
01:30:56
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ah um But they had nonviolent warrant. You know, how much do they go after that kind of stuff? But you as far as drones in general, what do you feel there's any upside to them?
01:31:07
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Yeah, yeah. I just don't You can see how they can... No, when we talked about it last, I was fascinated by the story that somebody... What was it? They were holding people hostage, and the yeah drone went into the building, which I was... Oh, that's pretty... That's interesting there. Yes, that was one of the things I pulled out the notes. They even have inside drones. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so there's that. i mean, I think there's good things, but you know where does it...
01:31:33
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you know ah When does it become overreach? Yes. Yeah. And the, the, uh, the story we have, I i have, uh, well, there's a channel three story, WKYC article. And then I have, and the notes will be also a YouTube from channel 19 YouTube clip.
01:31:53
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And this is about Akron. And this, I think it's one I've had for a minute, but here's the, um, here's the drone.
01:32:03
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Drone story I have. I've got to find my clip. What did i do with it?
01:32:08
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Oh, it's right here. Akron police hope to roll out at least three docs for the next step in their drones as first responder program this year. They tell me they already have the FAA waivers in place and they're looking for grants to help fund this. Sarah Goldenberg, 19 News. Grants?
01:32:27
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They need cash. Six law enforcement agencies in Ohio use Skydio drones, including Cleveland Police. CPD tells us they have nine Skydio drones and seven pilots with their FAA certification. They are considering getting these docks in the future. Cincinnati Police right now, the only agency in Ohio using the dock-based drones right now, according to Skydio.
01:32:52
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So many police agencies using drones have set up what they are calling transparency dashboards where they can post all of their flight information so the community can see where they are actually flying these drones and why they are flying the drones. Cleveland police has one. Akron police do not, but they say they have plans to get one in very soon. We have a link to CPD's transparency dashboard on cleveland19.com.
01:33:22
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forgot I left that in there. ah Yeah, there's um there's that's kind of the story on this Channel 3 are these docks.
01:33:31
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Or is it my video clip? Whatever, same thing. part of but The new thing now is they've they've introduced drones into some cities and now they want drone docks so they can put remote docking stations around the city.
01:33:43
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You know, like when we talked about this at first, you know how I wasn't really for it, right? I was kind of pushing back on it. Yeah. And this is probably probably the reason I, know, the most, the thing I was scared of most was a lot of wasted cash.
01:34:02
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i think I think they're just going to go overboard with it.
01:34:07
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I could, oh yes, I could see that, especially if they're getting federal funding and grants. I mean, I think, I think this could be, could have easily been part of this could have been seen as a, as a native ad because they're, they literally sit there. Dude, we need some grants.
01:34:22
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Yeah. Anybody, anyone give us some cash. We'll take it. Well, you could, you could make an argument, I think. Um, that it could save money if they do it correctly, which of course they never do.
01:34:35
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um but you could, instead of saying it's probably cheaper to have some two or three guys in an office running a few drones than it is to send out a, a squad car in a lot of situations. A lot of times you could send, you could send a drone to take some video footage and, and, I think,
01:34:58
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ah you Utilize your services or utilize your resources better. You know, you could send the exactly who you need to us to ah an accident instead of sending everybody. Yeah, I think i think we just thought it we just have to keep a an eye on this. Yeah, and then that's kind of what left that second part in. sorry Because I'm like, but do we really need seven pilots are at this moment? You know, I like i don't know. just It's just...
01:35:19
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And adding more, it's just bizarre to me. And to your point, adding more to departments that are already strapped for cash. Well, there's They're always complaining about not having enough cash and they're spending money on drones.
01:35:32
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Is this the, why like, okay, going to make things, some things more efficient, but in the end, wouldn't, might it not be better to have a couple extra officers on the streets?
01:35:47
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Yep. That's a good point. You know, i mean we, in Cleveland, at least, and i would think most urban metros, uh, the, uh, are lacking in police force.
01:36:03
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I, yes, I, I would make, I i could see that. I have heard them make the argument. You could cover a lot more ground with one officer and in two drones than you can. So I could see there there is a balance. Like you said, I'm not, you know, trying to be argumentative, but kind of, but I could see, I could see them say, well, we could save money by doing this. It's the point is, i think your point is let's do babies. They just want to dump all this money in it before they really know. Yeah. Okay. what what i mean I'm good with that. Is that what you're saying? Like, let's, let's make sure we do this right. And not just buy 50 drones. And then two, three years from now, we're not using any of them. Not using them or how are using them? We have to keep an eye on how they're going to use them. Yeah. And that's still, I are they going to be flying over my backyard to make sure I'm not, uh, you know, building a, building a little shed or something, you know, like where, where you know, where does it, where does it end? So in this report, the representative from this company, because what they're saying in this clip is nine cities are are using this company's drones and their technology.
01:37:06
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And then they want to expand with docs. You know, it's it's Cleveland, it's Akron, it's the major cities. i don't know. It doesn't sound like Columbus, but maybe. And the other thing is drones don't have a presence.
01:37:17
Speaker
but you know When you have more cops, there's a presence in it, which will detour more crime. this is This is kind of cool. I kind of like the idea of sending out a drone to ah um a crime scene or an accident scene. Yeah, like fight or brawl or something like yeah but ah Yeah, a riot. you know In the meantime, as the cops are on their way there, you can you could send the drone quicker, especially with these docks, get some video footage, maybe catch a few more people because they're going to run away before...
01:37:47
Speaker
Well, there's that. I mean, just to get the an idea of what's going on, then you can assess it more accurately and and send the the the troops in. Proper amount of resources. Yeah, right. Which could save money, yeah. Which is great.
01:38:01
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ah that That indoor thing where you, you know, hostage thing, that was kind of cool. it's Yes, I could see where it could come in handy again. But, but ah you know, but spending your resources for this rather than adding officers, I don't i don't know.
01:38:18
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It's not a replacement. it's an it's an aug It's to augment physical human officers, not to replace them. I think that's maybe where we're getting at. Yeah, okay. here's here's Here's kind of one of the things i kind of, they they mentioned they've already got the FAA clearance.
01:38:38
Speaker
for these drones. Can I get FAA clearance for, to protect my land with a drone or is it just the cops? You don't really need it. Depends on how, where you're flying it. If you're protecting your property, you don't, unless you're in the city with a, yeah within a certain, i think you have to be, when I got my drone, I kind of looked at that.
01:38:58
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ah there's just restrictions on like where you are to the airport, ah things like that. And now, you know, how high can go and stuff.
01:39:09
Speaker
Right. You're supposed to get one regardless, but ah you're, you know, flying it over your, let's say you have like, i like if I had 20 acres, I would want a drone just to, you know, so I don't have to.
01:39:22
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I would like to be able to fly my drone wherever the cops fly their drones. Right. Well, that's not going to happen. Right. that's that's where I have a problem with it because i i would like to have a drone to watch the cops' drones. How's that?
01:39:34
Speaker
kind of To me, it's similar to a gun. i mean like are the dr Are the drones ah patrolling or the drones ah reacting to ah a scene? So that that's where I was going. I think I ah went off track. But the representative from the company that they mentioned later in the clip says most ah departments, most departments are using this as when people call them for something is when they send a drone. They're not sending it for surveillance. They're sending it for a citizen request of a something going on. Well, the word that scared me the most there was most.
01:40:06
Speaker
Most. Yes. So that's a lot of where they're using them. And in situations, like you said, you know, someone's hiding. I mean, the infrared stuff's pretty cool. If your someone's hiding, you know, you got to easily find them. It it makes sense. it just ah it To me, it's similar to firearms. i The point of of the the Second Amendment is so that we have this, you know, we have similar weapons than a tyrannical government would have.
01:40:30
Speaker
So why... Well, i don't mean I don't consider them weapons. No, I know. But I mean, far why should they be able to do this kind of stuff without if they can get FAA clearance, I should be able to get FAA clearance.
01:40:42
Speaker
i guess you If you took the F-8, if you got your license, I think you would get your clearance. Would I get the same clearance that cops do? Oh, you probably wouldn't. You still probably wouldn't be able to fly it over the airport. You'd like to near the airport and stuff like that. yeah That I get. That I get.
01:40:57
Speaker
Yeah. yeah just want to make sure it's even. That's why I guess even like we, you know, citizens can watch over the cops as much as, you know, humanly possible. Obviously, I'm not going to fly my drone around the airport. That would be highly stupid. I wouldn't want anybody have to do it when I'm on the plane. That's for sure. Yeah, that, you know, i i think You could pretty much fly it almost anywhere. I mean, yeah i I guess, ah you know. A lot of national parks, they don't allow you to do it.
01:41:23
Speaker
I've heard there's some restrictions ah for, for certain reasons. I mean, like, I think like, let's say the old faithful, they probably don't want you to put a drone over the top of it. yeah they they probably don't Okay. Well, that makes sense. yeah that mean that's i You could, you could probably do it if you got ah permission from the park, like, Hey, i'm I'm doing a documentary or something like that.
01:41:45
Speaker
But yeah, they don't want a bunch of yahoos out there. Yeah, and and if you're... Let me see what happens when it goes right through the the gush, gusher. Right, not only that, but think about this though. Here you are National Park, it's beautiful. can't imagine how many clicks I'll get on this.
01:42:00
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How many drones would be in the air if you're allowed to go the Smoky Mountains to a scenic spot? Yeah. i think that's where you get a lot of, because you could have four drones going zzzz.
01:42:10
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's annoying. how Target practice, target practice.
01:42:16
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So I don't know. Technology is good. Again, it's just like anything else. We have to be more vigilant. So they have this dashboard. just want to make sure get to that. Go on the link. It's links in the article. Check out the dashboard.
01:42:27
Speaker
Because they're going to supposedly be transparent and tell you why, where, and when they're using drones. So that's that's at least something there. I kind of like it. Moving on to this next story, which is kind of tied in the same thing. And reason I kind of keep it in there is...
01:42:45
Speaker
How fast, how fast we forget. It'll just go right into this clip here. This is from channel five. This is about Willoughby Hills photo enforcement program shows dramatic reduction in speed.
01:42:59
Speaker
Reduction. Speeding, reduction and speeding. um And couple questions I had after play it. Willoughby Hills Police started the photo enforcement program in January of 2024. Now, two years later, they have statistics. The Willoughby Hills Police Chief told me, according to information from the Ohio Department of Public Safety Traffic Monitoring System, vehicles traveling between 75 and 80 miles per hour decreased by 24 percent. Speeds between 80 and 85 were reduced by 37 percent. Drivers moving at 85 to 90 miles per hour declined 36%. And drivers traveling between 95 and 100 miles per hour dropped 26%. So just having the awareness that cameras are there are making people drive safer. So, I mean, I i support that. Not too familiar with it, to be honest. um But yeah, I guess I wouldn't say I'm a fan of it. Not a fan. So if I told you that speeds have dropped significantly after two years up on the highway, what would you think?
01:44:03
Speaker
um yeah that That certainly sounds like it'd be a good thing. In terms of monitoring and compliance, I'm okay if there's a pattern of offenses in a certain area. But when it comes down to making sure that there's governance and proper use, yeah that's my real concern. ye So what if I told you it's been two years and rates have dropped by like 25% of people speeding on the highway? That's amazing. That's great for safety and good for us all. Chief Matt Nagley told me the tickets grossed about $10 million dollars money earmarked for the city's safety forces fund. So as, you know, things come up, capital needs come up, equipment needs, training needs for police, fire, and roads, the city has the ability to use those funds for that. Yeah, they have the ability, do they?
01:44:50
Speaker
So question comes in my head couple questions.
01:44:54
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um How does the Ohio Department of Transportation get those stats? How do they know how fast people are going through Willoughby? what What system do they have? i don't And it was never explained. doesn't say. they just well they they They have told Willoughby Hills that they have a high-risk or high-speed area.
01:45:14
Speaker
But how do they find this out? like what Well, I would think that the cameras are getting less of the speeders. What you mean? There's less tickets being given out. but how So they they had breached out to Willoughby Hills and told them that you guys are have an excessive high amount of speeders going through. This is like 90 and 271. Mm-hmm.
01:45:36
Speaker
um And then they come back and later in art, which we heard, they say they've Ohio department transportation's traffic monitoring system has stated that 25% less than this and 28% less than that. What system is it? How do they know this?
01:45:52
Speaker
And so they're watching all of us all the time and monitoring our speeds. And I know there's cameras, but there's also, and a lot of people, they've got c sensors all over the roads nowadays. They can see see like road conditions as far as the temperature of the roads, whether going to be iced over, that kind of stuff. So they they put all kinds of stuff in the roads that nobody knows about.
01:46:14
Speaker
That's kind of what I I said, well, um how do they know all this? Second, $10 million dollars in two years.
01:46:26
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In traffic tickets. $10 million dollars in two years. okay Not tickets, taxes. Yes. Speeding penalties, speeding taxes.
01:46:38
Speaker
So what is the, what's the operating budget for Willoughby Hills? Far as I can tell, they are about $15 million dollars a year in budget and proposed expenditures.
01:46:51
Speaker
What are they doing with this? So in the past two years, they've they've collected $10 million, dollars a third of the yearly budget.
01:47:02
Speaker
Well, no, two thirds of their yearly budget in two years. The operating budget for safety safety forces in streets, um well, it's the combined safety and street funds are projected to be an expenditures of over $7 million. dollars Their general fund is $8 million dollars and they have a um they have projected unclaimed balances for the general fund is estimated at $4 million dollars of January 1st, 2025.
01:47:33
Speaker
$10 million. dollars Holy cow. No wonder why they're doing it. has nothing to do with safety, folks. No, they don't care that. Nothing to with safety. And how, let let me just, let's just throw this out there.
01:47:46
Speaker
Those who will trade liberty for safety deserve neither. And you listen to two two people in that clip say, wow, yeah I'm not a big fan of it. This doesn't seem very good.
01:48:01
Speaker
But it's reduced speed. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But that they're also clipping it, too. ah so Yeah, because he because I would have yeah, that's good, too, I guess. But what are they doing with the money?
01:48:13
Speaker
Well, they may have clipped it afterwards. Yeah. But you know what I mean? Like you don't know what they said. So they're there. It's like the newscast is trying to sell it also.
01:48:24
Speaker
So, and that that's kind of ties into the whole drone thing for me. It's just, it's, this is, so this is a cop sitting in a car. We've talked about this, uh, 77 and 77, I Cleveland and fleet has, um, Newberg, Newberg Heights. that it is? Yeah. That's Newberg. Yeah.
01:48:42
Speaker
Similar, similar deal. This is a guy yeah in a car. In Willoughby Hills, Newberg Heights, he's actually standing on the ramp to fleet and shooting down 77. Right. He's got a camera and a laptop. He's also been on the overpass there too. Oh yeah. That goes on the other side. Yep. Yeah.
01:49:00
Speaker
It, it, if you figure out what this is, it is a portable traffic camera. Yeah. Yeah. Speed camera is all it is. He's sitting in his car with a camera, holding it up to his face with, you know, almost like binoculars to hit the trigger, getting a picture, and then you get a letter in the mail.
01:49:15
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Yep.
01:49:17
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$10 million, $5 million dollars a year. Wow. That's a third of their operating budget. Almost a third of their operating budget yearly just from this one. i I just, I'm always amazed at the guy who does that.
01:49:31
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You know, but he yeah it's like, I mean, I wanted to be a cop all my life. And now you're just taking pictures of cars. Please Tom, did I just skip by a whole bunch of stories?
01:49:43
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What? Did I just skip past a whole bunch of stories? I did. You did? Well, I once again re reordered the ah our list of stories, not according to the clips. So never mind. We'll keep going.
01:49:58
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No, I did. Yeah, I did. No, you didn't. yeah Actually, look at the list.
01:50:04
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Look at the checklist.
01:50:07
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Drones and Willoughby Hills is way down the list. i passed Oh, how did that happen? Because the clips are in... I have these stories. Oh, you got to fix that, man. Oh, my... yeah I'm going to get yelled at by their webmaster. Oh crap. Okay. I'll fix that. Just don't take it before. We'll, we'll talk after the show. Okay. So moving on. Cause we got to move on.
01:50:24
Speaker
Uh, drones and Willoughby Hills. We move on to that. Um, we just push the other two till next week. We're almost at. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we'll push those next week. we' we've got ah We'll do a little expose next week on some some of the gubernatorial candidates and ah some lower offices too.
01:50:42
Speaker
We've got some higher profile people coming up. And I want to talk about Casey Pooch too a little bit more. I want to give him enough time. So we'll wrap it up on the regular list with the ah a little follow-up for our our favorite judge.
01:50:58
Speaker
Judge Celebrese. Leslie Celebrese. We talked about her many times on the show. One of our first shows, I think we talked about her and her story. So she's Cuyahoga County domestic relations judge, is facing charges in and in a record tampering case.
01:51:19
Speaker
And is she's had her law license suspended by the Ohio Supreme Court. And what she was doing, apparently, allegedly, guess she's convicted, so maybe it's not allegedly anymore.
01:51:30
Speaker
yeah She hasn't been convicted yet. Oh, they're just, they're just, they just suspended her ah law license for two years. Yeah. Okay. So allegedly what they're, what they're saying is she in a family court for a divorce court, let's say, or something like that, they, if you've got an estate with lots of money and going through a divorce, a, the judge will appoint a, a third party to oversee the assets while you're going through arbitration, divorce, all that stuff.
01:51:56
Speaker
And she was apparently allegedly picking, somebody she knew and giving this person's company a lot of the, a lot of the cases so that he can, you know, obviously get the work and it's just, it's favoritism. It's, it's, and apparently comes out later. i allegedly i was having an affair.
01:52:17
Speaker
Seems like that according to the reports. So they kind of, they kind of found her out. She got, she got charged. I think she's currently,
01:52:27
Speaker
is she currently on trial? No, what what happened was there's no trial yet. it's they're ah They're in pretrial. ah okay. or It's about to take place. they ah They had it scheduled, and a bunch of judges recused themselves from the case because, ah you know, they all know her. Oh, yeah. So the the Ohio Supreme Court needs to appoint an out-of-town judge to oversee the case.
01:52:54
Speaker
Good, I guess. that's That's how the system's supposed to work, it seems. Yeah, yeah. So they've rejected her law license. I know one the one story we talked about is they were they were trying to extend or strengthen the suspension because it usually gets cut in half or something like that. Well, her suspension is two years, but it gets... um if ah She can go back to being a lawyer. You get her license back after a year, and that for that year, she's basically on but parole. Yeah, for good behavior. She doesn't mess up in a year to get it back. So originally, they were going to give her a year suspension, which would be only six months. Right. But ah she has resigned as a judge, so she she'll she just probably wants to be a lawyer again, i guess. It is her.
01:53:41
Speaker
ah She makes income, but. Yeah. Where they should have thought about that before you gave your boyfriend a bunch of work. It makes me it makes me wonder about the whole Celebrities family and how corrupt that could be.
01:53:58
Speaker
It does. It does. So she's, uh, she's out, uh, guess, uh, follow if anything comes happens with the, you know, it's kind of one of the things that to me, this is a perfect story of, of why I wanted to do
Legal Controversies and Community Revival
01:54:10
Speaker
the show. Cause no one ever reads this crap.
01:54:12
Speaker
I mean, it's not very exciting, but it is good to at least have some common knowledge of, oh yeah. So then the corrupt judge here and then, you know, and actually for me, it's good to see somebody's actually being punished for their shenanigans.
01:54:26
Speaker
Yeah. It's good for my blood pressure at least. And. Accountability. Accountability. Yeah. The one thing we lack in politics and Life in general. Yeah.
01:54:40
Speaker
I think, I think. It's getting better. I think the normal person gets, is accountable, but. Well, at some point, yeah, they're forced to be, if they're not. But in not not in a not not in Columbus or Washington, no. Yeah, exactly. That's why I'm glad I see things happening. But at the same time, a word do they is are they being really accountable? Yeah. Because I think a lot of the fraud stuff is going to, I think a few, I think they'll catch it, they'll stop it, and which is great. But I don't think anybody's going to get busted.
01:55:19
Speaker
Which is a shame. Yeah. Yeah. Good old boys club. but Yeah. Good old boys club there. And and also even the the little guys who are doing the actual fraud, like let's say the healthcare, you know, those Somalis, I don't think they're going to get any type of prison time or anything like that.
01:55:40
Speaker
Some already have, but I think you're, I mean, there are some that were convicted, and I guess. But I mean, to to your point, you're you're mostly right. I think, yeah, it's, I think definitely anybody who's turning their blind eye to it probably isn't going to. At least you're not, you're not going to get the money back. Oh, you know no, the money's gone. Money's yeah totally gone.
01:55:58
Speaker
It's in Somali somewhere. Yeah, it's somewhere. It's in Somali and in a whole bunch of ActBlue accounts. There you go. And ah wrapping that up, let's wrap up the show with our a good things segment.
01:56:11
Speaker
I don't know. I feel like this is a so stretch at best for good things. Please help us ah with your good things.
01:56:22
Speaker
Actually, it's a good thing, but it's a sad thing too. It is a sad thing. i I didn't know about this. I didn't know there was a a ah so a Cleveland Supper Club, but Scene Magazine article, as solo dining becomes commonplace, Cleveland Supper Clubs are bucking the trend.
01:56:40
Speaker
So this article basically goes into, i don't know, kind of how we used to to have, there was much much more community dinners, much more I don't know, neighborhoods getting together, you know, to talk about people having. People dating, like actual dating. So like if you're going, you know, a dinner date was kind of normal.
01:57:03
Speaker
And now, now couples are just hooking up basically online. So they they need places to meet people. This is kind of this is one way, I guess. Here's the one, ah one little paragraph. My grandfather, grandmother had the best What is that called? Barcoli?
01:57:21
Speaker
Brashoel. Brashoel. Gosh, I'm horrible. i i Sorry, folks. I spent most of the time in English class sleeping. um on so on the west On West 28th Street, everyone knew because everyone was invited on Sundays. Her neighbors, her five children, priests, judges, uncles, or Uncle uncle Mario, so on and so on.
01:57:42
Speaker
ah So that's kind of what, and then, yeah, yeah and people actually used to go on dates. It's crazy. And this kind of just pushes there, there is uh, what they're calling a sorta secret supper club.
01:57:54
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they start, they start out with a darkened church during Halloween is a good place as any to enjoy braised lamb head. That's actually pretty cool for Halloween.
01:58:05
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Uh, this is the sorta secret supper club, the culinary grandchild of co-bar owner, uh, co-bar owner. Gerard Gerard.
01:58:18
Speaker
Yeah. Go figure out what his name is. Gu. Gu. Gu. Man, I'm so bad. I should probably take a class on that. Um, looking for his name. I can't, I don't see. Oh, I see it. Yeah. G-U-H-D-E.
01:58:35
Speaker
Yeah. Just keep going. Let's keep going. Yeah. Uh, so he's a partner with a veteran chef to craft six course meals prepared and served, uh, at,
01:58:49
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his restaurant Midtown where I had lost my place. Oh, con convenient convivium 33 in Midtown. So supper clubs, and there's a Santa, a Santa supper club.
01:59:02
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Um, check it out. If you're interested in it I think this is, they're getting groups of people together to have dinner, right? Yeah. extended basic like Basically, you can go have, you know, ah a dinner. I think they're charging $150. It's not cheap.
01:59:18
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But ah so you'll you'll meet 12 new people around a table. And it it sounds like, you know, it's expensive. But it's a so it sounds like a nice way, and you know, if there's singles there. I don't know if they do so like specific singles type of dinners You know, I don't know, but it might be a nice way to meet people. There's quite a few in here. chuck i feel i feel really bad for the younger generation of as far as dating goes, because it's, ah especially for the men, just because all the girls are doing are, not all, not every, when I say that, it doesn't mean everyone, but yeah broad a lot of a lot of them are just swiping left or right.
01:59:59
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And so they're just going by looks or by, what, how much you make, yep you know, and it's like, why would I say by looking at you, how much they think you make?
02:00:12
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Well, there's that, you know, and then like, why would a 22 year old go out with a 22 year old man? She'll just go out with the 30 year old who's already got a good job probably. And, and, uh, there, you know, there you had that 22 being an incel and it's not his fault. It's just the way society's become. It's terrible.
02:00:32
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Yes. Well, hopefully, the next current upcoming generation will start bucking that trend. so I hope so. I hope so. Yeah. But you know, the whole...
02:00:44
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They're not going out like they used to. Like, I mean, we, you know, we went to bars to meet people. um You strike out a million times, they'll get one lucky one girl. phone number, maybe. know What?
02:00:56
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Maybe one phone number. Yeah, you may maybe you'll get 10 phone numbers and one of them will be real. yeah ah And, you know, it's... ah Yeah, it's just not like that anymore. It's it's really bad for the younger man men. i don't know. Yeah. pudy You know what?
02:01:15
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Yeah, I agree. I'm about to live through it current currently on the edge of it. and better I don't think the women have it as bad, obviously. They have their pick, you know. Yeah. i mean it's not it It's not good. i still think the whole law you know ah courting and all that should still happen, meeting people.
02:01:36
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ah how how how How would you say it? Like in... um I guess like in a real way where you're not just looking at dating apps, like, yeah, you know, something that's a little bit more real. i don't know.
02:01:50
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Yeah. I don't, I don't think a 22 year old woman and a 35 year old man usually had the same things in common. I should say this. If you're a 22 year old woman looking for a 35 year old man, you're,
02:02:04
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I don't think they're looking for it. They're just taking their best options. Right. I think that guy's that guy may be looking to have a family and you're a 22 and not looking to have a family. you know kind of or Or you might. Your lives are not a life. He's looking for a piece of ass.
02:02:17
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i not you know I don't think so. I really don't think so. I mean, yeah yes, a lot of the a lot of the online dating thing is just all about hooking up. But ah think about this. If you're a 30-year-old guy who's who's focused on his career and and now he's ready to find a wife, you're not going to look for a 30-year-old wife.
02:02:38
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You're just not. You're going to ones, you know, the girls who the ones you know the girls who are
02:02:47
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ah especially if you're doing really well, you're going to try to find that, I don't know, 22 might be a little young, but 24, 25, 26. twenty six now although ah Now all the guys that are 24, 25, 26 still are trying to find their way. They're not making any money yet.
02:03:01
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And they're stuck. They're stuck because these guys that are 30, 35 are getting are getting all the girls because that's how it goes man But before, there was no way for that guy, except at a bar or or an event maybe, before there was really no way for those guys to meet these girls. So they ended up hooking up, yep but not hooking up, but um maybe finding a relationship a little sooner. now Now they can postpone that because they got their pick of the litter there.
02:03:36
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Yeah. I just don't think it's going to work out like they think. i don't know. I just, I just think they're too far. They, may whatever. doesn't matter. It's, it's hard. It's regard. It's hard. And, and we forgot to include the me culture. It's the me. Everything's about me. I want six figures, six, ah you know, six. there is and There is that, that I think that's mainly because of social media. yeah I'm just saying the dating situation is, is not the same ah as when we were younger.
02:04:05
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I would say probably for the last 15 years, it's been kind of messed up. Social media, not even social media, just ah the whole dating apps, you know, whatever whatever the Tinder, I don't know yeah which ones there are, but ah so those things have really messed up real dating. It's not helping the birth rate. Right, right, right. birth rate at all Yeah. Go out and date, see people, touch grass. Come on.
02:04:33
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ah Lastly, i wrap it up with a a a rare spotting of a ah fisher. not not Not a fisherman, but a fisher. It's an animal in the weasel family.
02:04:44
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Weasel, mink, martins, and others. First time in more than a century. Yeah, first time in more than a century. They've seen dozens of reports, sightings around Ohio.
02:04:54
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And why did it disappear? Does it even say? Yeah, they... they were They were hunted. they were They call it harvested, but they were yeah i i bet they were um they liked the fur. Oh, yeah. it would that that it looked It looks so soft and cuddly that I think a nice coat would be pretty awesome. Yeah, same family as weasels, minks, yeah mink yeah coat. you know you You hear that all the time. so Okay, so how did it get back here? I wonder, did we...
02:05:24
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Well, conservation that the metro parks are doing, god they they saw them in Southern Ohio 2013 for the first time in 100 years, or since the 1800s, I should say.
02:05:36
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And then they just this year, I think, is ah first time in Cuyahoga. And I would just think that conservation is helping this. And it's also brought back the otters, bobcats, bobcats.
02:05:49
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And trumpeter swans, which I'm not familiar, but the bobcats, we started seeing them a few years ago in Southern Ohio. Now we're starting to see here. Like, I think Geauga is getting them.
02:06:00
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Yeah. Move to where the food is. so Yeah. Well, yeah, they're going to move where the food is. But I mean, even if they're if there's a lot of conservation going on as far as like the land. It helps all that stuff. Yeah. So it's it's really, real good. Then we're starting to see bears again. You know, like in Hinkley. Natural selection is back. Yay. Yeah, kind of. And ah not really. But if you want natural selection or natural, you're going bring the wolves back too. And i hope they don't do that. But.
02:06:29
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I was going to say, like, lot of these animals disappeared in the when they were built, you know, farms because of, like, wolves and bears and stuff were just, ah they just...
02:06:41
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Here in Hinkley, what they did was form a line of people from the community and just killed everything their walk. just did walk. think they did a walk. Yeah, because they're going after cattle and sheep and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:06:54
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It was different back then. Yeah, a little bit different. oh'm A little bit different. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But yeah good news. Good news. That's why we bring good things to life. It's the, the, the Fisher's back. i Yeah. It's, it's kind of a like a, it's a animal. It looks like a ferret basically. It looks like a ferret. It's cute.
02:07:13
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It's a big claws. Yeah. I was going to say, it's like, uh, it's nice to see that this is happening. Yeah. It's good news. It's good stuff. like it. Like now I'm going to go trap some and make a coat.
02:07:26
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Yeah. Cause they do look furry and cuddly. Okay. Okay. Funny, funny. And that's, that wraps up our day, our show, our week. I'm just trying to get PETA to write me a letter.
02:07:37
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is that what you're trying to get? Trying to get some exposure for the, for the show. I appreciate that I really do. it Thank you. PETA, crookedrivercast.com, crookedrivercast.gmail.com. Send all your PETA letters there. We like Fisher coats. We love Fisher coats. We like fish. We like coats. I mean, ah what, what, this is the perfect match.
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