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Crooked River Cast Show 65
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- Tulsi say goodbye with a bang.
- Pentagon release third batch of “files”.
- Shock poll shows Democrats leading in Ohio.
- What have they passed in hurry before break?
- Voter ID amendment will be on November ballot.
- Ohio adds voter ID for mail in ballots to bill.
- Ohio voting right group raided by FBI.
- DOJ settles with Cleveland Clinic.
- Abolish proper tax petition will not be on the ballot this November.
- Fix the potholes or we shut it down.
Good Things:
- TikTok video gives back big.
- Cleveland Metroparks unveils sailing center.
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Transcript
Introduction and Banter
00:00:12
Speaker
This is the Crooked Rivercast. And who's that? Well, that's Rob and Tom. Two guys trying to keep track of what's going on in the great state of Ohio.
00:00:22
Speaker
This is show 65 for the week of June 15th. We'll see what's going on this week in the great state of Ohio. Let's go.
00:00:37
Speaker
Good morning this morning. In the morning. In the morning.
00:00:44
Speaker
are you doing this fine, fine Saturday? I'm doing good. Beautiful day. It made beautiful day today. I'm doing good. I scored a 96 on my sleep. 96? Uh-oh.
00:00:57
Speaker
Did you get something? Did you get a new toy? oh Yeah, got that much. Oh, you did find it. Yeah. Well, as soon they come out with a round one, I'm in. Pardon me? As soon as they come out with a round one.
00:01:09
Speaker
Yeah, I don't get it for the fashion thing. I just want to keep track of health. Yeah. I have thought about that since we talked about that, but I haven't, haven't done anything about it. mean, if I was going to, if I was going to go out and I was dressed up, I wouldn't, I wouldn't wear it.
00:01:24
Speaker
Yeah. Even though got some pretty cool, uh, watch faces. Yeah. Like some nice, elegant ones, but it still looks like a black slab on your wrist.
SpaceX's Impact and Criticism
00:01:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:01:36
Speaker
Um, real quick, I think before we go any further, you I mean, let's, let's hear it for the, uh,
00:01:43
Speaker
The first trillionaire, Tom. Oh. trillionaire. Oh, yeah, that's right, man. And you know what? He also made 4,400 millionaires.
00:01:54
Speaker
o And 400 of those 4,400 are over worth over 100 million. Yeah, everybody at SpaceX is rich. Yeah.
00:02:05
Speaker
Up to the, I mean, even the janitors and the cafeteria people and all that. Pretty awesome. Capitalism sucks. Yeah, I think um i i i I took a little piece of that yesterday. Did you?
00:02:20
Speaker
Yeah. good Good for you. Yeah. I didn't kept thinking, i'm like yeah, I know it's coming up, but when, in a when but i you know, should I get something? Should not get something? And I actually forgot about it.
00:02:33
Speaker
until I got a text from my nephew asking me if I was buying any SpaceX stock and I was like, oh shoot, that's right. It's this week. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so yeah, that was, I was watched that a little bit yesterday.
00:02:46
Speaker
And then, and know, as we talked about it, like, yeah, I'll get a little bit, you know, just as a part of the, that's a big, I mean, I think SpaceX is pretty, pretty cool as far as, know, they, they told him it couldn't be done. They said only government can do that stuff. And, and now where does the government go to get in the space?
00:03:01
Speaker
They go to Elon. I think it's going to be one of the most important companies in history. Yes. He did send me a text. That was kind of interesting after, of course, after I bought the stock.
00:03:13
Speaker
Thanks. ah Just kidding. Let's see here. Something about the valuation. So could be, let's see, they're saying this, at least this was Instagram or something. SpaceX valued at 1.8 trillion. Walmart valued at 920 billion. revenue, Walmart's revenue 713 billion.
00:03:30
Speaker
eighteen billion and walmarts revenue is seven hundred and thirteen billion Yeah, but that's not how ah yeah that's not how the stock stock market works. that's The promise of what's coming.
00:03:41
Speaker
Yeah, the promise of what's coming. He's the only one. How people view it, and it's got a lot of... He's the only one getting them into space right now. There's that, and he could be the only one crashing ships, too.
00:03:55
Speaker
Right. Right now he's the only one, he's the one rescuing the ships as they, because he, did did he go up and rescue the people from the other, it was this, um, Bezos station.
00:04:06
Speaker
Yeah. The Bezos. Was that the Bezos or somebody else? and mostph forneos Oh, I don't know about the Bezos thing, but the space station. Yeah, but they couldn't get down. they They had to send a rocket up there, and then that's they determined, I guess, the craft wasn't worthy of getting, you know, couldn't wouldn't get them back safely, so they had I don't know, were talking about no agenda for a couple weeks, I remember.
00:04:26
Speaker
I thought that was, the okay, I thought it was the space station. Yeah, no, they were at the space station, but getting back from, they was only supposed to be up there for a couple weeks. and the Yeah, yeah, that was the space station. But who got in there? Bezos.
00:04:37
Speaker
Oh, who got him there? Yeah, it wasn't, maybe not, it may not have been Bezos. That was NASA. No, it was like Blue Origin, which is like a private. Oh, okay. I thought Blue Origin was. The United States government is not making rockets. They are not sending anything. Before Elon, they were we were going to Russia to get into space.
00:04:55
Speaker
Gotcha. Wait, wait a minute. I mean, I did say Russia, so of course we got to get.
00:05:05
Speaker
Russia.
Political Satire and Bio Labs Controversy
00:05:06
Speaker
Okay. um And then I think the next, well, I guess I was to talk about USC. Are you goingnna watch the UFC fight tomorrow? ah No, because I don't think I'll be able to.
00:05:18
Speaker
yeah Is it on Paramount Plus? It's on Paramount Plus, and that's only Paramount Plus. I thought about i was like, yeah, I actually do want to check it out. I would if I could watch it. What do have to do? Do I have to sign up? like Can I sign up for a free week of Paramount Plus?
00:05:32
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not going to do that.
00:05:35
Speaker
I might just to watch it. and No, does you ever respect the no i don't I don't sign up for any of those free things. Oh, you're not not disciplined enough like me to. i No, I do. It's just a pain in the ass. I don't like to do that.
00:05:50
Speaker
There's too many of them. I can live without it. Yeah, it's true. But I'd like, I'd like, I don't know. I think it might be something, something to to see, but I guess, you know what? That's what YouTube's for.
00:06:01
Speaker
Yeah, there's that. I did hear one. ah and a good And it can be rained out. um Can it be? I don't know. So I watched a quick clip of Rogan.
00:06:14
Speaker
They have a, what Rogan call it? A lightning shield? That's what he called it he he he said, so he his take was interesting to me because he's big UFC guy announcing all that stuff. He's been doing it since the beginning.
00:06:26
Speaker
And he said, I'm not against it or for it necessarily. He goes, but what I don't like about it is he thinks all all fights should be indoors. Right, all right. And he thinks it's, you know, with the humidity and the sweat, it's going to change the game and you could, you know, it could be a completely different fight, which in some ways could be good, as he said. um But of course, let's listen to friends at the Babylon Bee who've got a little breakdown on what's, what what the, all the hoopla over all the Democrats. They're so upset about a tent on the front lawn of the White House.
00:07:00
Speaker
Let's hear what the Babylon has to say. Democrats are in full meltdown this week after President Trump announced he's hosting a massive UFC MMA event right on the White House lawn. The same sacred ground where President Biden once hosted a pride celebration featuring topless trans activists. The event dubbed UFC Freedom 250 is scheduled for June 14th and will feature a main event between Ilya Tepuria and Justin Gaethje.
00:07:24
Speaker
Democrats say the fight represents a disgusting desecration of the hallowed ground once reserved for gender expression and exposed nipples. Critics are calling it everything from disgraceful to literally violence. We've obtained exclusive reactions from top Democrats. President Biden respected the American people when he paraded topless trans women on the South Lawn. But now Trump wants to put two shirtless men in a cage beating each other up. This is a step backward for our democracy. Groceries are higher than ever. And Trump wants to play with life-size action figures in his backyard.
00:07:53
Speaker
He should be playing with life-size dolls like President Biden did. This is not who we are. I just can't believe the president would be so irresponsible to host m MMA here. It's an insult to everything Joe stood for. Wait for it. Put me down for 10 grand on Zahabi.
00:08:07
Speaker
President Trump fired back at Democrats saying the UFC fights would be the only way topless men would be allowed on the White House lawn from now on. Coming up next, President Donald Trump has taken the official step of recognizing Pride Month this year by hosting a soccer match right on the White House lawn.
00:08:23
Speaker
Because soccer is gay.
00:08:29
Speaker
Yeah, so UFC and everybody's melting down because there's a big stage and stuff on the front lawn of the White House. As opposed to, you know, like gay Easter bunnies and stuff.
00:08:43
Speaker
Yeah, I haven't heard much, but. Yeah. You haven't heard much about it, really? Good Lord. It's all over. I've seen it, at least on my feeds. It's like, shut up already. i mean, we did elect a promoter to the White House, so it's basically, you know, like an old school fight promoter at times.
00:09:03
Speaker
I think it's going spectacle. And that's what Joe's saying. Well, if it rains, it'll be, you know, it'll be even more interesting or something like that So he didn't mean even mention that it would be canceled if it rained.
00:09:15
Speaker
He's worried about lightning and stuff. Yeah. I think he was worried about security too. Well, security, yeah. And that's why people in, you know, in the real world, as as they say, people who don't pay attention like we do, are like, well, you know, as long as it doesn't cost us any taxpayer money, i don't, I think it's okay.
00:09:34
Speaker
So are you worried as much about like how much the white house is spending on security for an event or how much you're getting screwed on Medicaid fraud every freaking year?
00:09:44
Speaker
Nobody cares about that, but they care about what Trump's doing on the front lawn of the white house. Well, they're just talking points that media gives them. Cause it's all you see, all people see anymore is headlines. Yeah.
00:09:55
Speaker
Well, that's true too. Yeah. They don't go any further than that. But speaking ah I mean, somebody Tulsi start, let's start with the news of the day here. Tulsi, Tulsi's going out with a bang.
00:10:06
Speaker
I don't think this is going to be the only one she releases. I'll tell everybody what it is. Yeah. I don't. Yeah. i was going to say how much longer does she have before she's out? So Tulsi, Tulsi Gabbard drops bombshell intelligence on us funded bio labs around the world. Oh, you know, those things that certain people testified saying,
00:10:28
Speaker
There weren't any. We don't do any gain of function. Yeah. This is what I'm wondering. is this, is this the next step in holding some people accountable? And let's listen to a couple minutes from Tulsi.
00:10:42
Speaker
After months of searching through intelligence community holdings and files, today I'm releasing new evidence of longstanding U.S. government funding of more than 120 bio labs in over 30 countries.
00:10:55
Speaker
Now, these bio labs include labs in places like Ukraine, which could be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. In fact, the intelligence community had previously warned that a U.S.-funded biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to longstanding threats of Russian attack, seizure, or damage.
00:11:17
Speaker
Now, until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from you, the American people. Many of these us government funded bio labs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens. And in some cases included dangerous gain of function research with very little visibility or oversight.
00:11:42
Speaker
Now, President Trump clearly understands the serious threat dangerous gain of function research poses to the American people. And this is why he took decisive action over a year ago. On May 25th, 2025, he signed an executive order to end federal funding of gain-of-function research around the world.
00:12:01
Speaker
Here at ODNI, I issued new guidance to the intelligence community directing increased collection on these laboratories and facilities overseas. collection And we're already seeing the results of this increased collection.
00:12:15
Speaker
We're learning new details, for example, collection on clinical trials that are underway at these facilities and that are raising significant ethical, financial and security concerns regarding the supposed public health initiatives and US national security. Now, despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact that research on dangerous pathogens and bio labs can have,
00:12:40
Speaker
Politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, as well as entities within the Biden administration's national security team, lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported bio labs.
00:12:56
Speaker
Not only did they lie, they threatened those who attempted to expose the truth. So this release today breaks new ground as the information surrounding the existence, history, locations, and funding of these US-funded bio labs has been intentionally covered up by very powerful people who falsely claimed that these bio labs didn't exist.
00:13:19
Speaker
Now they accuse anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America. Now, Odie and I will continue working closely with partners across the U.S. government to identify exactly where these labs are and what pathogens they contain to end dangerous gain-of-function research that threatens the health and well-being of the American people and people around the world.
00:13:49
Speaker
Hmm. Interesting. Interesting. let's let's Let's think way back when when COVID first came out and China came out and said, no, this is not a Chinese virus. This is an American virus. And everybody, including myself, laughed at them and said, yeah, whatever.
00:14:03
Speaker
It's from your lab. And then we find out, well, that's a lab funded by us. One of the many many labs around the country, around the world, as we're finding out. 120 of them. Jesus. Over 120, she's saying. And they don't even know where all of them are.
00:14:17
Speaker
She just said in the last clip, last second, yeah we got to go find where exactly where all these places are at. And in the meantime, you know, I hope they've already looked at a lot of these places because at this point, ah they're destroying everything they can.
00:14:30
Speaker
That would be my opinion. Oh, I would think so. Yeah. If it's not already done. ah I mean, i I've said from the beginning, i'm like, this Ukraine thing seems if oddly... Convenience since we've,
Tulsi Gabbard's Politics and Speculations
00:14:41
Speaker
reports were saying we've had dozens, a dozen or something labs or five, six, eight, 10 labs in, in Ukraine, you know, the most corrupt country, one of the most top five, at least if not top two, most corrupt countries in the world, Ukraine. And what could go wrong?
00:15:00
Speaker
What could go wrong? I always thought this was a good, good excuse to destroy all of them. They have a war in Ukraine. Yeah.
00:15:08
Speaker
So that's something new. So you don't think this is her last, when did she go out of office? I thought it was ah ah the last day of June. Okay. So I think she's going to really be releasing a lot more. And you know what I realized, which I already realized, but the Democrats were really dumb for kicking her out.
00:15:30
Speaker
yeah She's the only woman I've ever seen get in front of a camera and look presidential. And sound it too. And sound presidential. ah feel like, feel ah like there's, so that's good. That's a great fricking point. I never, I, what, there's something about her and that's part of it is, well, first of all, she's, she's, she's very pretty.
00:15:51
Speaker
She's attractive, but it's not that it's, there's, there's a certain confidence and ah charisma behind her that, provides calm. Yes. There you go. And that's what i was gonna Yeah. Besides the fact that she's attractive, that's that's a sliver of it.
00:16:06
Speaker
But that's, that I was like, no, there's something more. It's not that she's just a pretty face. When she talks, she has authority behind it. She, she speaks articulately and calmly. Like, yeah, that's great way. She doesn't screech.
00:16:19
Speaker
Yep. Yes. You know, most women screech when they talk. I mean, like you could take their voice for like 30 seconds and then you're just like, Oh God, that's enough. i can't, I can't listen to a whole speech.
00:16:30
Speaker
Yeah, especially when they're trying to speak and project and it seems to go up higher. and she's Yeah, because all they can do is yell. she's She's actually talking a little bit more from the diaphragm, which i most women don't talk. She carries herself so well. Not that I cannot would vote for her.
00:16:47
Speaker
That stripe, that gray stripe, that's just convenient there. she you know It's crazy how she just get you get one stripe going down. I always thought that was a little extra hot in some ways. but How do you get it to just stripe right there?
00:17:00
Speaker
I've seen that before. Yeah. Oh yeah. It does happen to people. It's like, I've seen guys have gray hair on the side, on the beard and, you know, brown hair in the center, you know, by their, yeah this um this is just definitely a streak. I've seen that before, but, uh, there's women that pay good money to get a streak like that.
00:17:18
Speaker
So go Tulsi. I mean, I hope this is the, some of the first steps of holding these people accountable. And I'm wondering the timing. wouldn't be convenient if we started seeing indictments in the late September, early October.
00:17:32
Speaker
Well, I think we're going to start seeing some things happening. Like how would that drum your base up if you got Fauci and as an indictment? you in front of a I don't think you need to worry about the base as much as the, I guess, the... Well, independent, yeah. Independent, because i mean, I think the only thing that's going to get the independent is ah prices.
00:17:54
Speaker
I'm tight. I mean, I i saw a drop below $4 here. Yeah. $3.99 for gas. And I'm like, oh God, okay, that feels so good. But meanwhile, I would have been screaming about that a year ago. Yep.
00:18:06
Speaker
And we'll get to a little bit of that in next coming story on and on on the races. I can talk this morning. um, let's see. Okay. So Tulsi's good. that you think she's going have more? I don't disagree. I just, I think there's going to be a lot more action. I hope so.
00:18:24
Speaker
but becoming Keep it coming. Keep it coming because, because the next story, what the Pentagon did, i they pen Pentagon released a third batch of declassified things. Every Friday, right?
00:18:37
Speaker
Things. they're they're They're files of some sorts. And um'm now I'm at this point, we're going, what are they even giving us anymore? So I pulled this clip from NBC News. And they're going to tell us, like, why these are, like, what's the big thing in these?
00:18:53
Speaker
What do they see so far that's, like, you know, most revealing? Let's listen to NBC. Joining us now now is NBC News senior national security correspondent Courtney Kuby. Courtney, what do these newly released videos, what do they show us? I know you're just going through them all, but what do we see?
00:19:12
Speaker
one thing that I've been struck by in going through these, Kate, is what you just showed there. The video of those two red orbs, more and more of the videos in this release or this batch of documents and videos show red orbs than the previous two releases. Another thing that was really striking is more of the videos in this one are taken on iPhones. There's a lot more recent video than we've seen in the previous two, which included a lot more video from U.S. military aircraft. So it's just grainier and darker. Whereas you can see here, you can make out colors in some cases. Of these more recent ones. There you go again. Some more of these red orbs that we're that we've seen in these videos. There also includes more eyewitness interviews and testimony that are provided by the CIA and the FBI in these. And what's striking about that is, as opposed to the ones that we've seen in the past releases, but that include U.S. military documents, they they. Oh, At times, they identify the individuals who are giving these testimonies as being highly credible in their testimony. So again, it's very similar to the past releases, but we are seeing nuances and slight differences here that are just interesting to go through.
00:20:26
Speaker
Yeah, I'm sure it is. Let us know what else you find. Okay, Courtney Kuby, thank you.
UFO Evidence and Public Skepticism
00:20:33
Speaker
So nothing really. so I saw, I've seen those red orbs before. Well, I like, Oh, this isn't new here. Here's the difference. Their orbs are red. And the last one, they weren't red.
00:20:44
Speaker
Well, I've seen those red ones before. Yeah. I get it. But her difference was, well, this time they're red and video is crappier. but know she said it was better from the iPhones, but then she said it was dark and grainy.
00:20:56
Speaker
that's that was those. She was talking about the ones that come off the jet. Oh, because they they, if you were, what I don't know if you were watching it the same yeah at the same time, but ah they were,
00:21:07
Speaker
then Then they showed grainy video that came off of a jet. Yeah. So whatever. it done so but no I know. I was just saying that her big reveal was the orbs are now red, according her, and there's some iPhone video, and then there's some grainy video.
00:21:23
Speaker
Yeah. i was like, oh, so nothing. So they didn't really release anything. don I mean, there's nothing. I want a picture of, the of like I don't know, Kennedy or Johnson or Nixon or somebody with his arm around an alien. Nixon and ah Jackie Gleason having a shot with them. Shot with an alien, yes. That's what I want to see. I want to see Jackie Gleason getting anally probed by a... No, I don't want to see that. Why she don't?
00:21:49
Speaker
Well, like to... Well, no, I don't want to see that. Okay, never mind. It was Jackie Gleason with that said he had ah that Nixon. took um Yeah. Yeah. So I think I think it was. Oh my gosh. I haven't heard about that a long time.
00:22:01
Speaker
Yeah. You built a house that looks like a UFO. It's awesome. Yeah. So, so they're releasing more stuff and it seems like they're running out of things to release because a, we're getting the iPhone video and nothing. It's all the same stuff.
00:22:14
Speaker
Just lights in the sky, little orbs on, you know, military video of, white dots moving around and like, I'm not saying like, Oh, poo poo at all, but it's just like, okay, show me something that actually, that I, you know, that actually makes me, makes a difference because none of this, this is all stuff we've seen over the years.
00:22:35
Speaker
But the question is why, why are they showing it to us, Tom? Oh, I don't know. Is Trump going to walk out at USC fight tomorrow with an alien aliens going to be a guy would be their ring chick is going to be an alien.
00:22:47
Speaker
Oh, no, no, no. Unless it's a hot alien. I mean, who knows? I mean, they're talking about hybrids. Hybrid aliens. Oh, okay. I mean, I watched the i watched V. There were some hot aliens. I mean, underneath the skin, there were lizards, but they looked hot to me. Wow.
00:23:04
Speaker
haven't thought about that show in a while. I never watched that. Yeah, that's true. hotness Hot in the sun, but cold. Did you ever watch that show, V? No, no. I love that one. like late eighties, early nineties.
00:23:17
Speaker
Uh, any who, so there's that, the me more Pentagon files, whatever. Um, next we have, we're speaking of, ah polls and polling and our elections. We have shock poll shows Democrats leading Ohio governor Senate races.
00:23:41
Speaker
What's a shock poll? That's what I was going to say. Is it like, is it the poll shocking or is it like, here's a poll? Yeah. we went Oh, Democrats. i don't know. Yeah. This is just a. So how about that news story? It's a Fox news poll, which to me is significant to some point to some, at some level, because it's not a CNN poll or MSN poll.
00:24:05
Speaker
Yeah. But Fox polls aren't exactly. No. I would say that they always skew towards Democrats, which is fine because this is this might make some people get out of their chairs.
00:24:16
Speaker
Yeah. and Just because Fox is not to be trusted either, but they're just not as blatant about it, maybe. Yeah. as cnns so So Fox News, Democrat candidates holding leads in Ohio, U.S. Senate, and gubernatorial races despite the state's recent Republican dominance.
00:24:32
Speaker
Wait, hang on a second. Because a Fox just, mean... they're just pulling boomers. It's always going to skew anti-Trump. Good point.
00:24:44
Speaker
Yeah. Cause if they're, how are they pulling? Yeah. don't I don't know if they're calling or is it, I don't know if it's a push poll or it's a shock poll. Tom. Oh, okay. It's a shock poll.
00:24:56
Speaker
That's what you do. And people go, Oh, I'm shocked. The survey released Wednesday found former U.S. Senate, former U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, leading incumbent Senator John Husted, 53 to 45, which, I mean, that's considerable. That's not, that's not a um'm rounding error.
00:25:15
Speaker
While Democrat gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton held a narrow 50 to 49 advantage, which basically. I'll tell you why though. the The Sherrod Brown, I've hardly seen, i don't think I've ever seen a commercial for Houston, but I've seen a ton for Sherrod Brown at this point.
00:25:35
Speaker
Okay, that's interesting. Where are you seeing commercials? on yeah On YouTube. Oh, okay. Like, ah you know, before before a clip or whatever. but All I'm seeing is Houston.
00:25:46
Speaker
I mean, Sherrod Brown, no Houston ones. I did early on, you know, saying, know, do we want Sherrod Brown back in office? You know, he's been there so long.
00:25:57
Speaker
but um Yeah, but that probably wasn't Houston. That was probably a pack or something.
00:26:02
Speaker
Right, right, right. that it But if it's pro-Houston. but Anyways, now I'm not seeing any. All I see is Sherrod Brown. And tell you the truth, I'm probably seeing 75 25 Amy on the plus side.
00:26:23
Speaker
I'm not seeing any pro-Vivec. I'm seeing anti-actin.
00:26:29
Speaker
And even i when I'm on X, and this is algorithm-based, but I don't see very much of Vivek at all. I see a lot of Amy, but again, this is algorithm this the algorithmre probably talking. Yeah.
00:26:44
Speaker
Um, there seems, I think I would say I'm five, follow the Vic. I don't follow Amy. So if there's, if a Vic's gonna post something, then I think I should, I'll probably see a lot of it. I don't see.
00:26:55
Speaker
I do follow, ah Acton and I don't see much there either. It's not, I think every day I see something. She's got some posts where she's shaking hands with some old people and,
00:27:06
Speaker
Well, yeah. And talking about affordability and stuff. But my thing is I don't, I'm not seeing it from, and you know again, it's not, I'm not, it's that the internet. What are you going
Ohio Political Landscape and Economic Influences
00:27:15
Speaker
to do? but um my ex-feed is so screwed up at this point. It doesn't know what I am.
00:27:22
Speaker
Yeah, mine's all over the place too. and ah So that's a, you know, 59 to 49, 50 to 49 not a big deal. 53 to 45, I think is a pretty big deal. I i just, I do think it's just ah oh of ah people seeing more stuff on Sherrod Brown, like positive commercials.
00:27:45
Speaker
I bet you, you know what? I don't watch, I need to start watching some regular television because I don't see what's going on. I don't need to start watching it, but I don't know what people are seeing besides what I'm seeing on YouTube.
00:28:00
Speaker
It's interesting. I don't believe any of that, but, um you know, it doesn't mean much, but it's just what's going on now. It's just but it's a little too early. And ah
00:28:13
Speaker
I don't want to say i'd worry because it doesn't matter to me, but I would take that more seriously closer to the election day. And if prices are still high, then that's going to tough for the Republicans to.
00:28:31
Speaker
Prices aren't going anywhere other than maybe gas prices might go. Oh, the gas prices are big though. Cause that's what you see every day on the way to work. Yeah. Yeah. But grocery prices and all that stuff aren't going anywhere at least anytime soon.
00:28:43
Speaker
No, i I understand that. it's It's the gas prices to me make a huge difference in people's attitudes. I i get i get angry every time every day I drive by
00:28:57
Speaker
So how does Vivek handle this? Because it sounds to me when I see Amy talking, she's talking about affordability and the Republicans 10 years of this and they make everything unaffordable and all they want to do is hurt the working people.
00:29:13
Speaker
Yeah, but they're they're not providing any solutions. so Yes, Tom, they are. It's called more government. Have a handout or two. that's You know, there's going to be a lot of things happening. i mean, if there's people being busted for ah ah fraud and it's all leaning towards Democrats, then Amy Acton's got no chance.
00:29:33
Speaker
She's got zero chance. Brown does have a chance. I think he has a pretty good chance because because of name or recognition. Yeah. And and the i think amy is a chance the whole Houston thing with the yeah ah first energy and all that.
00:29:50
Speaker
Democrats are good at voting against somebody. Yeah, but it it it it also, you need to get people out. Like, I don't think you have that. I think they are motivated, though. I think they're motivated to get out because Not like in not like 2018. Not even close.
00:30:05
Speaker
not even close Maybe not. I don't know. I don't know how you gauge that, but it feels like there's much more, feels like there's a lot less of the negative towards the left as far as there's there's less of the trans stuff and the gay stuff. Exactly. you know, there's less of that in the news now.
00:30:24
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Does that make them look more favorable because people aren't railing on that anymore? And everybody's looking at the price of their of bread and the price increases we've we've had at work this year Rival COVID, rival late 2020, 2021 as far as multiple, multiple from the same, you know, manufacturers, multiple in a year, like three prices, prices in a year. We normally have one any of the year.
00:30:53
Speaker
So yeah, I don't know. I think, I think the the strategy is, yeah, things are expensive. That's why we need Ohio to be better and to make, make our people more money. We can worry about the affordability. Yes. But the, I think the best bet is to, is to, is to make,
00:31:07
Speaker
make the people of Ohio richer as far as the economy and all that stuff. That's to me the out there he has, but we'll see how he hands. i I do think it's early as far as the advertising stuff. I think probably July, late July, we'll start seeing a impound.
00:31:21
Speaker
Right now people summertime starting, nobody's watching TV, ratings are down. It's that kind of the year. I think that it could start happening after the 4th of July and all that. Yeah. Late July, early Yeah, September. August, rather.
00:31:34
Speaker
Yeah, August. We shall see. We'll keep an eye on it. ah And let's see. Next one we have. News Channel 5 story. Here's what passed before lawmakers went on summer recess. Like, hurry, hurry, let's get this passed. Come on. Let's see what you know what could go wrong. This is almost actually.
00:31:53
Speaker
I think we almost have to get a corner here.
00:31:58
Speaker
Come on, you little bastards. come on out of there. Target practice time. All right. So what do we have here? We got a News Channel 5 article for Morgan Trowell, which is an odd one for Morgan because it doesn't have any video clips to it.
00:32:13
Speaker
Almost everything she does has he report to it. So how lawmakers worked for two days to pass as many bills as they could because yay for that. ah Here's what passed and failed.
00:32:24
Speaker
ah Well, we'll skip this first part here, voter ID, because we'll talk about that in the next two stories. Okay. um But basically, they did ah SB 450. It's nearly $4 billion dollars budget. $4 billion dollar budget dedicated to capital infrastructure and community projects.
00:32:47
Speaker
Capital? What does that mean? Capital infrastructure, meaning roads and bridges, I would. Okay. i um'm i thought I was thinking it was like around the capital. Oh, maybe, maybe, well, it's lowercase. Oh yeah, maybe.
00:33:00
Speaker
But don't we already have that in like the budget? like That's what I thought we, I thought we had $11 billion dollars set aside for that. Maybe this is, maybe right. Maybe it is capital, infrastructure for the capital, but they had up tons of money for Columbus and the infrastructure they're doing a major highway renovation for the next, I think it's on year two or three of 10 year project.
00:33:17
Speaker
Well, maybe this is just for the stuff around the capital. Yeah. It's, In addition to, or is it just, is it some, something out of the, you know, are we adding 4 billion to the budget? Basically? I don't know.
00:33:30
Speaker
I should probably read the bill. How are you supposed to read the bill before you pass the bill?
00:33:37
Speaker
Nancy, uh, encouraging lockbox storage for guns. Cause this was, this is a bill that needs to be passed. Huh? Well, I thought it was funny because it says allow law enforce excuse me allows law enforcement agencies to voluntarily store firearms for gun owners struggling with mental health issues. Now, is the person giving the law enforcement agency the gun to store?
00:34:06
Speaker
Voluntarily? From no the way the sentence is sentenced is constructed, it says law enforcement agencies to voluntary. i mean, it's voluntary if the law enforcement agencies want to do it.
00:34:18
Speaker
That's the way do it. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. That's how it is. Because I was thinking they're voluntarily giving you their gun, then they are mentally ill. And they're definitely mentally ill. By definition, they're mentally
00:34:32
Speaker
ill. This will be going to the governor's ah desk. And of course, he's going pass it because... look at, I signed some gun safety bill. Very odd. i don't even understand that.
00:34:43
Speaker
Yeah. it ah It allows law enforcement agencies to store guns for owners struggling with mentally. It's, man, that's, that feels like a- Who's taking the gun? Who's giving the gun? Like, it makes no sense.
00:35:00
Speaker
It feels like a very, very small incremental step towards red flag laws, in my opinion. but I mean, Republicans are doing it. So this this this is something Republicans passed.
00:35:14
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Well, everything's passed by Republicans. Yeah. Everything is. yeah Because we're majority. Yeah. Supermajority, actually, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Um, next one, driving permit. This is interesting one. Cause I'm currently going through this now. SB one, uh, 419 lowers the age at which a teen gets a ah probationary or temporary driver's license from 15 and a half to
Ohio's Legislative Actions and Social Issues
00:35:37
Speaker
15.
00:35:37
Speaker
However, driver must still be 16 to get a true driver's license. I thought this was okay. It gives more time behind the wheel before they get their license. Yes, because I think they're what i'm what we're finding is six months is, it seems like a long time, but it's a kind of a tight window. You've got to get 50 hours.
00:35:56
Speaker
Yeah, but you don't have you don't have to get your license on your 16th birthday. I know, but your temps only last six months. Oh, okay. Yeah. oh That's right. It's been a long time, Rob.
00:36:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's correct. Yeah. We've just talked about this and we're trying to figure out how much time do we have? Um, but I think, no, I think, you know what? I think she has a year.
00:36:19
Speaker
I'm sorry. I think so. Because i remember going through this, I got mine like worried after my birthday, but I don't remember being, ah like pinched for time.
00:36:32
Speaker
Yeah. But you didn't have to, you weren't required to do 50 hours. think it was like 40 hours something like that. You weren't required to do anything back then. I mean, you didn't have to log before 16, you had Yeah, you didn't have to do anything before a or after 18.
00:36:49
Speaker
They didn't have a... they they had This system's new, though. Yeah, but it's new, but the same. No, it's not. Okay. Well, they have it. First of all, you have to log and sign an affidavit for every time you go out.
00:37:04
Speaker
Right, right. i didn't I didn't have to do that. Right. So you have to do on a piece of paper or you can do it with the app. where you You start the app, you set the phone down, and it logs your time, and it gives you a score of how you did.
00:37:15
Speaker
In years previous, all you did was sign that your kid did X amount of hours. Boom. Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah. so But yeah, we were supposed to. Yes. And now you have to actually log in. stuff So it's, it's different than that aspect alone. And I think that's because I'm looking going, okay, how much longer do we have? we you know, you get an hour a day of driving.
00:37:36
Speaker
a lot. you need, you need 50 days of driving. Actually not because she she does a two hour course four times. So there's 16 hours, but you know, so I'm thinking maybe that's one of the reasons they're trying to get get you a little headstart on your driving time, which is, you know.
00:37:50
Speaker
I think it's, I think it's great because it yes gives them more time. Absolutely. Ooh, is that that's a hell of a, it's been fun, Tom. It's been fun.
00:38:01
Speaker
um Let's see, what did we do the other day? um i was messing around with the air air conditioning in her car because it's not working. And I heard this noise. driving down side streets and I heard this noise and I said, I looked said, what was that? Oh, that was the garbage, garbage bag.
00:38:18
Speaker
said, what? I looked around, she ran over a garbage bag. Like a full, like black garbage bag. She just ran it over purpose? didn't run over with the tires. She tried to ride ride over it.
00:38:29
Speaker
But it's like two foot wide. Like you i just I just went, you did what? She goes, yeah, I just, I just i was like, like i was I was half laughing and half infuriated at the same time because I'm like, what would make you think that going over the large bag in the middle of the street is better than going around it?
00:38:49
Speaker
But I mean, you know, talking to her later, she's like, well, was I supposed to do? I'm like, we'll go around it. She's like, well, if there's a car coming, I go, wait for the car to pass and then go around it. he was this This is oh yeah obviously a side street.
00:39:03
Speaker
Yes. That's even makes it even funnier. Yeah. Because there was like no ah other traffic. Right. Right. All I hear is, lu plum but I'm like, what was that noise? I thought something like moves in the back. And I think there's nothing back there. and she's like oh It's a garbage bag. And I was like, what? What were you looking at too?
00:39:19
Speaker
What was I looking? I was trying to figure out the air conditioning. Oh, okay. Like to make sure we went to your dad's house and he was looking at it and he, he gets confused with the, the climate controls.
00:39:30
Speaker
yeah Yeah. So he's like are you sure it's on? I go, yes. And we and were, we're like on their way to driving. So i'm like, yeah, we just wanted, i just wanted him to check it out. Cause he wanted to see what's wrong with it I said, yeah, it's on, it's supposed to be blowing cold, but he i don't think he thought it was on.
00:39:44
Speaker
So as we left, I'm like, you know, let's just make sure I had it on. And then, Yeah. It does take a, it seems like it takes a minute. It takes longer for the, when it's climate control, it takes longer for the compressor to kick on.
00:40:01
Speaker
I think. Yeah. I think it takes, it holds off to soak and start blowing cold air. And so just warm air. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. But that's, yeah, that's the compressor isn't even running. So it could be not engaging.
00:40:15
Speaker
It could just be a no pressure. It has but there' gas in it everything. Does it? I check the fuse and the relay, the clutch relay. So it's either a bad clutch or compressor, which in a sense is the same thing.
00:40:28
Speaker
Anyway. oh Your daughter's going to be sweating. That's what I told her. Your dad's all worried about said, it's fine. We'll get it fixed. that She just has to sweat a little bit. She'll be all right. ah Okay. Anyway, next on, moving on.
00:40:40
Speaker
So SB, what was that? 419 to do that. That's past the Senate and then is being sent to the House. It was couple of days ago. um There's a bunch of stuff on here.
00:40:53
Speaker
sex offense statute of limitations. Uh, SP 421 would raise the statute of limitations from one year to five years for a civil case for victims of sexual offenses.
00:41:05
Speaker
Pass the Senate headed to the house, uh, Senate, Senate offender location, uh, prohibition. Okay. Would prohibit sex offenders from knowingly entering a school, preschool, or childcare center or attending their sanctionary sanctioned activities.
00:41:24
Speaker
How would they unknowingly do that? Well, yes, that's true. And the only way would be if therere if it's a sanctioned event or a activity like outside of a school. You walked in oh, this is a school event. I didn't know. Right. It's still far-fetched.
00:41:38
Speaker
Right. but Under current law, only living within a thousand feet of any school or childcare premises is illegal. ah ah Regulate ticket sales. House bill 563 would require the total price of tickets to be included upfront.
00:41:56
Speaker
Mandate the seller disclose if it's, if it isn't affiliated with the official platform, allowing the state to go after scammers and more. Okay. Okay. I thought we, I thought federally we did something.
00:42:09
Speaker
Can we just get rid of the monopoly of Ticketmaster? Let me just help everything in one fell swoop. I mean, guys, we don't know how to go through all these because there's quite a few of them. Childcare regulations, there's another one, control.
00:42:28
Speaker
HB 667 is a bill in honor of murder victim Reagan Toks.
00:42:35
Speaker
Uh, acquired reported law enforcement, uh, automated database includes increased sense repeat. and Okay. good You know, go back, go check these out. There's like 20 of them in here. Like they were busy.
00:42:46
Speaker
They were busy. Uh, what didn't pass, of course the data center regulations that didn't pass. They want to create new rules and standards for data centers, but lawmakers were unable to pass it. Um, that's some of the corruption that we're supposed to be following.
00:43:02
Speaker
I don't know. i don't know if they didn't pass it because they didn't think it was strong enough or they didn't pass it because... i think the Republicans are split on that. Yeah, there is a little bit of divide there. the tax breaks, the the sales tax breaks.
00:43:16
Speaker
Right. they would They want to take a 100% tax break or bring down to a 50% tax break, which seems reasonable. i mean you were still They also wanted to require facilities to utilize a closed-loop water system.
00:43:32
Speaker
Okay. They wanted to force them into that. I think i think there's like a little pushback on that. Yep. Yep. Requires a real closed loop.
00:43:43
Speaker
Foundation is required to report any anomalies detected through their water quality monitoring system. Hmm. No, we can't report the anonymity. No, heaven forbid. ah Yeah, but also, let's not forget that just because it's a closed-loop system, they eventually have to switch that water out, and they still need a place to dump it. Yeah, I understand that, but I think it's more like people don't want their water to be used up.
00:44:10
Speaker
You know, you don't want wells going dry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely better. I just don't be like, oh, because they got a closed-loop now, it's all good. no. They've been ah lobbying the Ohio EPA to release or loosen the standards or give them a different permit so they can basically dump anywhere for a five-year period.
00:44:27
Speaker
but Why don't they just go take all these data centers and put them in Antarctica? Because the latency would be way too long for your your AI quest, Tom. yeah It's really cold out there.
00:44:40
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. They won't need the water. Yeah. So a lot of things that's true. he just put them outside. You don't have to worry about it. Transparency asking public officials to sign. Yeah. Another big topic is transparency and companies asking public officials to sign non-disclosure agreements.
00:44:58
Speaker
Did not do any, anything major to tackle that because I wouldn't want that to happen. And the last one that says on the list that did not pass was this child marriage ban.
00:45:09
Speaker
SB 31 would ban child marriage in Ohio after months of being stagnant. It passed out of committee unanimously. So before I silly yeah oh how it had no minimum age to get married, although the state had promoted 16 for girls to be able to be wed.
00:45:28
Speaker
What about boys? Boys can get wedded like 12. Why is it only girls? There were exceptions for any age of the child received parental or judicial consent. Still 17 year olds were able to marry someone up to four years older than them.
00:45:42
Speaker
long as the juvenile court signed off on it. I mean, don't, we talked about this before. Yes. Yeah, we did. They're still trying to, well, it was dead and all of a sudden so,
00:45:55
Speaker
It didn't pass. No, but we, we said it was dead. That it wasn't going to go anywhere, but I think I'm pretty sure that's what we said. Yeah. It's just a pointless law here.
00:46:06
Speaker
After being stagnant for months, it passed out of committee unanimously. Oh, interesting. Who got promises? Who got promises? That's what I want to know. and No, I don't. I think they just got it out of committee to get it out of committee.
00:46:19
Speaker
Well, no, I think if you're going to get out, I mean, yes, maybe, but I also, here, look, we're doing something. Uh, maybe I don't know. I just think that some some people are holding out for favors. That's usually that's kind of favor are you going to get for this?
00:46:34
Speaker
i don't know. get You get a something else passed that you want. You know I mean? You get a bill that, you what I mean? This isn't that strong of a bill. Enough to do that. Yeah, good point.
00:46:45
Speaker
But, you know, hey, what else they have to do in Columbus? That's what I mean. they just They just did. They just passed it just to get it there to say they voted on something.
00:46:56
Speaker
but definitely not going after Medicaid fraud because that's not happening. Oh, they signed a bipartisan bill that changes to the Medicaid system. Wait, it makes changes to the Medicaid system in order to better catch and prosecute fraud, whatever that means.
00:47:12
Speaker
Yep. Let's see. Let's see how see what that does. that's It's putting a chip in the EBT cards. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. And then ah forcing making GPS confirmation for home health aides requirement, not a voluntary.
00:47:28
Speaker
That was the other big thing. Oh, they'll just put it on some cat. Yeah, right. um Let's see. So we did it did skip the first two in the story, which are...
00:47:40
Speaker
Voter ID, voter photo ID. So there's two things going on actually, and I'm wondering if they're goingnna make this all one. So the first one we have, Ohio Senate has passed a resolution to put voter photo ID amendment on a November ballot.
00:47:56
Speaker
and And let's listen to, listen to Morgan, because this is new channel five article. Let's listen to what Morgan has to say, because I mean,
00:48:07
Speaker
but why do we need more security? In November, you may have a chance to vote about voting. State lawmakers want to make it part of the state constitution that you need to show a photo ID before you cast that ballot. Thing is, you already do. Your Columbus Bureau reporter, Morgan Trout, has been following this debate. Tonight, she looks at what happened at the statehouse today.
00:48:28
Speaker
You already need to show an ID to vote, but lawmakers got one step closer to putting this issue on the November ballot. This will be, if not the strongest, one of the strongest election integrity, voter identification, photo identification measures. State House Republicans are taking photo ID a step further. The Senate passed a resolution to put a question on the November ballot, trying to enshrine the voter ID law into the state constitution. provide for the long-term security of our elections while maintaining access to the ballot box. The GOP argues that a future General Assembly could reverse the law unless it's in the Constitution. But Democrats say that this is an effort to increase Republican turnout in the midterms. This is a purely political, poorly written resolution. They think this is going to get their voters out to vote.
00:49:15
Speaker
I think that they're wrong. And other Republicans are frustrated by it too, saying it doesn't do anything for actual election integrity, which to them is requiring photo ID for absentee ballots. To be clear, there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Ohio, even when photo ID wasn't law. And thousands of audits have proven that.
00:49:36
Speaker
The amendment's fatal flaw is that it fails to provide comparable safeguards to the 20% who vote by mail. the House is said to pass the resolution next week. At the Ohio State House, I'm your Columbus Bureau reporter, Morgan Trout.
Voter ID Laws and Alleged Fraud
00:49:50
Speaker
20% vote by mail.
00:49:51
Speaker
That needs ah that needs to go down, way down. um You know, I've never had an accident that I needed to deploy my airbag, so I don't need one.
00:50:06
Speaker
That's what I heard from Morgan. Well, we've never had voter fraud, so why do we need protection? We have to wait until we have voter fraud before it gets we better. Morgan's such a skink. She's an activist skink. Oh, yes. You know, i always forget to play this. What?
00:50:19
Speaker
She's talking. ah so She's a fine example of like a woman that can't be presidential. that Yes. Yes. But in that red dress in this video, she looked really good.
00:50:31
Speaker
I bet she did. looked really good in the red dress. She's got a nice figure. Yes. and ah what she had brought up well i mean ah they don't uh doesn't even help because this doesn't uh doesn't stop voter id well ohio adds a new photo id requirement for mail-in voting for 2027 election unfortunately it's not this year and the big news what good that's okay yeah the big news is they want you to photocopy your license and put that copy
00:51:04
Speaker
in the envelope when you send in your mail-in ballot. To that I say, and people online are flipping out.
00:51:16
Speaker
Well, you know, figuratively speaking, of course, but how am I supposed to do it? How's my 75-year-old mother supposed to scan? She's got to buy a scanner now and a printer, and I'm like, okay.
00:51:31
Speaker
Every phone has a camera, and it scans. And um if you're, if it's too, if it's too much trouble for you to print something out and then mail it in, You know, I'm thinking maybe voting is just too hard for you. Yeah, you probably shouldn't be voting or you should just go to the voting polls.
00:51:49
Speaker
Yes, or get off your butt, take your mail-in ballot, and when you turn it in, because you don't you don't have to mail it in, you can turn it into the that's true department of of ah whatever it's called, ah the voter place, ah and and they they can check your ID, and then they'll they'll put it in, and they'll scan it, and they'll count it.
00:52:10
Speaker
Also, they're considering a online portal because as I mentioned, you could buy stocks online and I just went through the process again because I've done it in the past, but you know what i had to do? Take a picture of my ID and upload it to them so they know it's me.
00:52:27
Speaker
There's been a plenty of things. i've I've gotten prescriptions over online that I have to just, I just take a picture with my phone and email it to them. So they want to put this in the, uh, in the bill that ah puts the amendment on the November ballot. Oh, SJR 10 puts the amendment on the ballot.
00:52:46
Speaker
We're requiring voter ID, voter approved to take effect. The measure would go get an official name. Excuse me. And, uh, So they have a bill going through, that's what i'm trying to out. thought the bill going through to help pay for elderly or homeless or something that they don't have IDs so they can vote. I'm thinking, i don't know. I'm thinking if you're homeless, I think voting is probably on your, very low on your priority list, but okay.
00:53:16
Speaker
I think they want to add this to that, to that legislation is what I remember reading somewhere. So check it out. Yeah. I think this is, I'm all for this. ah Yes. Does it make it a little harder? Yeah.
00:53:28
Speaker
Yeah. But who says it has to be so easy? It's voting. You got to put some, you got some skin in the game. You got to get off or your butt and actually do something. Heaven forbid. Now this would exempt military and government officials who are out of the country.
00:53:42
Speaker
wouldn't have to do this to that. So yeah. So let's go back to the old mail-in ballot, mail-in votes, which was absentee only. And you had to go through a much more, was much more It's controlled. There's way fewer people that were doing it. Yeah. At least we have, at least you have to request it.
00:53:59
Speaker
Some states, you don't even have to request it. California. Like California. Yeah. That's going that's going to be done. ah Marcel Stribich is saying deineine should veto this bill.
00:54:12
Speaker
This one or the other one or both? This one, this one. Or the the one that's, that's the one that's, we just talked about with the. Amendment. Yeah.
00:54:22
Speaker
yeah Yeah. He's saying there's no teeth. There's nothing to it. There's... Well, it's also foreigners who were never born in the U.S. and cannot prove any prior residency should not be allowed to vote. And I guess it's still kind of... Oh.
00:54:35
Speaker
It's still got some weird word and wording in there. So he thinks it should be... we we had We had him a clip on him and when he was being interviewed. And he was saying, yeah, that we've we've got something we passed. We tried to pass a couple of times a few years ago, but they took all the teeth out of it. So really you really can't enforce anything. and He said, this is just...
00:54:52
Speaker
He even thought, Stribich thought this was just like the guy in the clip says today, that this is just to try to drum up the bass to go out and vote yeah in November. And I don't disagree with that. He's saying that also with, because he his biggest thing was trying to get the, ah for, you know, requesting a absentee ballot that you need to show.
00:55:11
Speaker
Yeah. Proof of when you register. Yeah. When you're, when he wanted that the most and it's in there now, but it's still, it's got some wording in there. He doesn't like. I guess I didn't have, he just, he just put it out yesterday. i didn't have time to go through it. He thinks it's virtue signaling basically.
00:55:28
Speaker
Yeah. just Just for them to say, Hey, look what we did. um So let's keep, ah let's keep that going. I mean, I get what he's saying. I'll take what I can get, but if you can't really, if you can't back it up, if you can't,
00:55:44
Speaker
hold people accountable. I guess it's kind of pointless to a way and and in a way next on voting, we've got something that just came up in my feed yesterday. This is Ohio voting rights group. Let's put that, they should really be in air quotes, but it's idea stream. So cheaters, Ohio voting rights group says it was rated by the FBI. Let's listen to a little idea stream here.
00:56:07
Speaker
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a group that organizes political activities for democratic and progressive causes, has been raided by the FBI. Ohio Organizing Collaborative board member Prentiss Haney says ah FBI agents have searched premises and, in some cases, taken laptops and electronic devices, as well as interviewed people who work with the organization. This is not normal business. I mean,
00:56:33
Speaker
There's no reason for over 100 agents to be knocking on the doors of everyday Ohioans. demanding and accusing people of voter fraud as if it was a witch hunt and and scaring them with their children following them in their cars to school and to work i mean this was a full-out assault i mean we haven't seen anything like this in selma so so this was completely um politically motivated haney said the people who were contacted by the fbi were told it was related to a case of voter fraud the fbi has been contacted for comment
00:57:08
Speaker
Joe Ingalls at the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau.
00:57:14
Speaker
All right. So he's saying it's just like Selma. In 1965, Selma, Selma, Alabama became a focal point of a civil rights movement when activist organizations organized a series of historic marches to protest voter suppression and demand equal rights. The protests culminated in violence and a massive shift in national policy.
00:57:36
Speaker
So he's saying this is just like 1960s. Perfect. It's just like it. Just like it. and So why, why are they, how is this intimidating the voters?
00:57:48
Speaker
Because they are not able to organize them because they're trying to scare them. So who is, I put, I did put an article in this morning from a signal Akron. And just as a background or just if everyone wants to go through it it'll be in the show notes. um Check out the blog, cricketrivercast.gmail.com or cricketrivercast.com and send us an email at cricketrivercast.gmail.com.
00:58:10
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But it it kind of goes through a little bit of the history of this group. Founded in 2007, is a political arm of the Ohio organization or organizing campaign. together so o o c and its political arm, Ohio Organizing Campaign, together received nearly $55 million dollars from 2020 to 2024, according to public tax filings.
00:58:32
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Can't really tell who because it's it's a nonprofit. so
00:58:38
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And they spent $42.9 million dollars between 2020 and 2024. On what? Well, I mean, FBI described the investigation as related to voter fraud.
00:58:52
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But what doesn't bring up is they've already had members. they had In 2017, they had a member busted for trying to vote signatures that weren't valid.
00:59:04
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Yeah, yeah. Here, I got, um i think we need time. well We'll talk about it maybe next week. I just put it in my notes. There's a sub stack by Ken McKenty that Marcel Stribich wrote.
00:59:18
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shared And it's basically a suspicious voter registration card submitted by Black Fork to La Rosa's Public interior and Integrity Division. They might just be some BS...
00:59:35
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registrations. Yeah. I mean, it's ballot harvesting. Yeah. yeah That's what this, this is, this is the community organizer. When you, this is a community or community organizing groups that we heard from the nineties when Obama, like you didn't hear about community organizing until Obama came in.
00:59:51
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This isn't really ballot harvesting. This is more like,
00:59:57
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harvesting is going and picking up ballots, right? Yeah, that's what the um person was busted for because they picked up a bunch of ballots. That's the one, but they're they're finding actual registrations that are BS. Oh, yeah, okay. So they they probably got a lot more evidence than we know of that the FBI actually raided them.
01:00:15
Speaker
Yeah, don't know. I've never, ever I think we've seen Signal Akron before. I always i assume they were a left-wing publication, but I don't know, by this article, it doesn't seem that they, they're being pretty, ah yeah. they even used They even used dark money groups and as as ri referring to a progressive group, which I thought was, yeah, was interesting. So check out the article. It's pretty interesting. Maybe we should get into this more later on, but.
01:00:37
Speaker
Yeah, no, I think we need to dig into this a little bit because ah this is a pretty, ah this this article i'm I'm just kind of going through is pretty in depth. Yeah, so I mean, but of course, this is these are all allegations without evidence, of course.
01:00:52
Speaker
Because that's the new thing. Unproven allegations. Unproven allegations. Yes. Unproven allegations. Unproven claims. Okay. So let's, let's put a bookmark in that. because that's pretty interesting. You start looking at it.
01:01:05
Speaker
It seemed like at first just a little bit of complaining. and Then as I started looking at the group, I'm like, huh, interesting. It's one of those deals. It's one of them. They're, uh, or community organizing deals. yeah um Let's move on to this next one because this is going to be and be interesting. So I've got two articles here. i'm not sure why i because I was going to two clips, but you don't need to do two clips.
01:01:26
Speaker
I got time for two clips today. So let's go with Cleveland Clinic. Well, they got caught. They got caught. and Let's listen to News Channel 3 on what the Cleveland Clinic has agreed to the DOJ. They've they've settled on, I don't know, something interesting here.
Ohio's Infrastructure Challenges
01:01:44
Speaker
Hunter Bertram joins us now live at the clinic to explain. Hunter. hunter Yeah, Lena, the agreement covers gender-affirming care for minors, including puberty blockers and different hormone therapies. And while already state law prohibits hospitals from providing this type of care to minors, what this settlement effectively does is lock in that policy at the Cleveland Clinic for the next two decades, despite any future changes to the law.
01:02:12
Speaker
You're completely restricting that. the ability for young people to get the health care that they deserve. A major blow, some say, to Ohio's transgender youth. Our focus right now is on the youth and the families that woke up this morning, received this news, and now are wondering what does this mean for them. This settlement stems from allegations that Cleveland Clinic submitted questioned Medicaid billing codes for some minors receiving cases related to gender dysphoria. Federal officials say incorrect diagnosis codes were used. The clinic told 3 News Tuesday afternoon it was an unintentional coding issue involving a small number of patients that does not em admit liability.
01:02:52
Speaker
I received gender affirming care as a minor. It started at about 15 years old. Aaron Sawyer, Kenton trans man, 22, says he began gender affirming care at Akron Children's, later continuing care at Cleveland Clinic. What a lot of people don't realize is that without um proper access to gender affirming care is that it really is life saving for um youth and adults alike. In announcing the settlement, the Department of Justice said it is, quote, steadfastly committed to protecting America's children, end quote, said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward. I really feel like the further they push restricting minor affirming care, um the closer we get to them restricting adult care. The agreement also prohibits Cleveland Clinic from referring minors for those services, coordinating care through third parties or operating facilities that provide the treatments. In Ohio, House Bill 68 already bans gender affirming care for minors, making the settlement in practice a long-term extension of that restriction at Cleveland Clinic
01:03:59
Speaker
staying in effect even if laws change. Just because you restrict people from being able to access care, that doesn't eliminate the need for care, right?
01:04:13
Speaker
And Cleveland Clinic will pay $308,000 to resolve those false billing allegations. And it's committing an additional $2 million dollars for restorative care for people who have detransitioned. All right. Hunter Bertram reporting live from the clinic tonight. Thank you. That might cover one detransition.
01:04:34
Speaker
a couple maybe It's just, you know, this is, uh, this is very concerning to me because it's, it's really going to hit Cleveland clinics bottom line. I mean, their profitability is going to go way down because of this.
01:04:46
Speaker
What did they do?
01:04:49
Speaker
What did they do to get this ruling to, to, to, to take this deal with the DOJ? This is they're giving up a couple, they're sending out a couple million dollars and promising never to touch this stuff for 20 years.
01:05:03
Speaker
Like what did they have to get caught with for them to agree to something like this? because I don't think they would do this unless they had some serious, you know, repercussions are coming from misbilling
01:05:16
Speaker
I don't know. That just seemed to me like a, like a very, very heavy hammer to hit the Cleveland clinic with for just some misbilled for $300,000. I think it's I think it's a rogue doctor. That'd be my first opinion. It wasn't a Cleveland clinic saying built this way. I think a rogue doctor wanted to get it through and they built it and mistakenly built it.
01:05:35
Speaker
Yeah. Could have been a, ah I don't know what, what they would be called, but like the person that oversees a division. Yeah. Administrator, somebody. Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:50
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Yeah. What's going to happen if they, well, you see what's goingnna happen is the, the kid's going to keep, keep their PP and their, and their TTs on and they will not grow a PP or grow any TTs if this happens. So yeah, that's, so basically what will happen if you take the child ah ah care away is eventually they'll grow out of it and turn into a normal person.
01:06:13
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Unlike the dude, cause I think it was a dude.
01:06:18
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The guy who was talking about transitioning. Yeah. I had, tre I'm like, I couldn't, I did it work. don't know if you saw the video on this one, but I didn't see the video. No. And and did did the gender affirming care include all the studs and crap you put in your face?
01:06:33
Speaker
Why did those two things go handin hand in hand?
01:06:36
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I don't know. ah So yeah, that's pretty interesting. I did, i was going play a second one, but that we can just move on. I just wanted to, i also want go into, go into quickerrivercast.com, check out these articles, listen to both of these news broadcasts because the second one actually says, well we're go to listen to both sides. Yeah. They don't say anything.
01:06:56
Speaker
Nobody, neither one of these ah channel three or channel eight, Fox eight or WKYC, neither of them had the other side. Like they couldn't find ah somebody who's detransitioned, someone who decided not to transition, parents that that have struggled with this. They couldn't find anybody to talk to on the on the opposite? No. so those Those people are hard to find, not find, but they're hard to get them to talk because they're afraid.
01:07:20
Speaker
They're going to get attacked by the pro- Yeah. ah Trans groups. I got to say, there's got be, a it's got to be somebody, a doctor, somebody who's already, you know, has already been speaking out. Well, there's a handful out there nationally, but, but it, I mean, first of all, you're talking about local news. yeah So they're they're not putting any legwork in.
01:07:40
Speaker
I know it's a high bar. I understand, but. It's just hard to find those people just because they're, they're afraid to speak out. True. It's good point.
01:07:50
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because yeah, it'll be, it'll be doxxed there'll be protests outside your door and all that other fun stuff. I think it's getting better, but it's still, I think there's that threat out there. right. Next we're going to hit real quick.
01:08:05
Speaker
Well, the end property tax in Ohio will not be on the November ballot and probably a good chance it's dead.
01:08:18
Speaker
let's They're going to go for 2027. Yeah. And it it was brought up in one, I think it was this article or the news report that the longer you, the longer these, longer you have this petition out, the more signatures you need because the more people die and move.
01:08:35
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So I think they're having struggle getting halfway where they're at. They got 305. At the last count. And they're not, um, Massey's said in this, in this interview here on this article that they're not no longer going to give numbers anymore.
01:08:53
Speaker
Yeah. don't think they should have been to begin with, but I think they were trying to show people, Hey, we, we almost there. we just need a little bit more. uh, yeah. Cause they weren't giving numbers until about two months ago and it didn't seem to bump up anything.
01:09:06
Speaker
I mean, People want change, but they don't want to do the hard work to to do the change. ah Yeah, they want change. ah the They just, nobody really knows how to do it.
01:09:19
Speaker
What, like how to change? I think there's, well, yeah, I think it's, people are scared. They, they oh, well no taxes. What's going happen to schools? Yeah, there's that. But you're also, if you, if you, the way I think a lot of people would be scared if they if they actually give it any thought.
01:09:39
Speaker
Okay, so we we we ban property taxes, which is what I think should happen. Now you're leaving these dipshits to figure out something new. Yeah.
01:09:49
Speaker
And they're not smart enough to do that. Yeah. That's even, that but that could be even worse. That scares me. That scares me. Yeah. Good point. I like that. That's right. Let's hit our last one for the, ah for the main stories of this one. We kind of hold over from last week. I almost put this in the, in the good things, the good things.
01:10:07
Speaker
Yeah. Except I think he's looking in the wrong direction. So let's take, this is a business owner to government. Discuss fixes for Euclid Avenue. Oh, we'll shut it down with demonstrators.
01:10:20
Speaker
Let's listen to the, this is a News Channel 5. You could shut down. In a city known for its bad roads, the crumbling condition of Euclid Avenue through East Cleveland stands out. It's a reality barbershop owner Art McCoy's lived with for decades. Our streets look like they've been bombed. They look like they've been torn up, bored, you name it, and no one comes to fix it. City leaders admit in cash-strapped East Cleveland, they don't have the money in the budget to fix many of the roads, but McCoy says something has to be done. As long as the people just ah just wait and hope and pray,
01:10:58
Speaker
Things stay the same. It's time for action. So he wrote a letter to Governor Mike DeWine. I have a very serious complaint about the stretch of Euclid Avenue between Lakeview and Ivanhoe Road. The state helps maintain Euclid Avenue, so McCoy has given the governor an ultimatum. Tell business owners when the state will fix Euclid, or he's threatening to shut it down with demonstrators. If we have to feel the pain,
01:11:24
Speaker
they gonna have to feel the pain, shut it down. And we don't wanna do that. That's the last thing we wanna do, but we can't take it anymore. What about your mayor? He the condition of the road outside his shop cost him customers thousands of dollars he estimates. What about the people you elected? Every coming down Euclid Avenue is is is a pain. It's suffering. But that could be changing. The people of East Cleveland deserve better. As we told you earlier this week a proposed state budget calls for 10 million dollars for East Cleveland. Money the mayor says will go to fix one mile stretch of Euclid between Superior and Shaw. it It'll be transformational for Euclid Avenue
01:12:02
Speaker
you know we resurfaced euclid avenue some time ago and then they had to rip up portions of it in order to fix pipes this time were okay so that's interesting i just want to pause this real quick so you guys suck so bad that you repaved it before you did any research to figure out so
01:12:21
Speaker
so they took a shower before they pooped basically is what happened yeah they they tore their so and then they went oh we gotta replace the pipes we gotta tear it up again ah so She's a terrible mirror. she I think she's the one that just wouldn't leave. Remember when they were, yeah, she's the one who refused to leave, but ended up getting elected.
01:12:40
Speaker
Yeah, i think I think at the time, in that yeah, well let's finish this. That's a part of my reason it didn't go into good things. Let's just finish this couple less 30 seconds. Intentional, it will mean infrastructure work both above and below ground. The mayor says work could begin next spring. but McCoy says he wants to hear it from the governor himself.
01:13:00
Speaker
Worried until he does, businesses like his will continue paying the price. You think Euclid Avenue is preventing people from investing money in East Cleveland? You're darn right. Yeah, it's definitely right. I used to have customers that come all the way from Elyria, Twinsburg, ah ah to the shop. They love the area. They But they're not going to deal with these damn streets. In East Cleveland, I'm News Live investigator Scott Knoll.
01:13:27
Speaker
they They may have loved your haircut. I'm not sure they love the area. Yeah, they didn't love the area. They probably moved out of the area in this you know yeah because they liked him. They kept coming back, and then eventually they probably died or went bald.
01:13:42
Speaker
so is it is it so much the Is it really the the roads or more of the crime?
01:13:48
Speaker
It's pretty rough good going through there. um The roads are pretty bad, but I don't think they would keep anybody from going to that barbershop. No, i don't think so.
01:13:59
Speaker
I think that, I think driving from Elyria is part of the problem. You don't want to drive from Elyria anymore. Yeah, it's a long drive. Although there are parts of Euclid, parts you Euclid by a university circle are perfect. Well, yeah.
01:14:11
Speaker
There's lot more tax money either there. Uh, but we did Cleveland Heights or East Cleveland was one of the, of the first, we talked about them early on in the show year or so ago.
01:14:22
Speaker
And they had, the i think it was their first mayor they've ever had. He went to jail for fraud. Right. And then they had an argument because this, the current mayor now was like head of city council or something like that. So she was like inter interim mayor. Yeah.
01:14:37
Speaker
Right? For a while? there I can't remember which way. They had two people. one there was a guy and this this woman, ah this mayor, who's currently mayor, and they were arguing over it. So during, while he was under trial, there was there was a statute saying one person, you know, this this position would take over, but as soon as he gets convicted, then it gets defaulted to somebody else. Right. From that effect.
01:14:57
Speaker
And they were both arguing. after After he got convicted, they argued over it, and then that she ended up winning an election or something like that. But... Why aren't you camped out your mayor's, ah the mayor's mansion? Wait, it's he's Cleveland. I'm sorry. The mayor's house.
01:15:10
Speaker
Why are I mean, i I get the state does put funding in for Euclid, to this part of Euclid. well Why isn't your mayor fighting for you? Why are you sending, you know, because she sucks. Yeah, she's terrible. but i says She's scary to look at. too She's got the wildest glasses.
01:15:27
Speaker
And i think that's where, that's where you should start. Cause that's the person that should be fighting for you. The people you elected to represent you. And she ain't doing diddly. don't even think he, I don't think he knows he should be doing just automatically went to the mayor or to the governor.
01:15:43
Speaker
So I, I, I do like his, where he's going with it. Like, Hey, fix this. going we're just going to shut the whole road down. Um, but yeah, I think he's pointing in the wrong direction, but I give him credit.
01:15:56
Speaker
Yeah. I like the guy
Mary Aaron's Viral Story and Social Media Impact
01:15:57
Speaker
just yeah going about it the wrong way. Yeah. Yeah. He's, you know, he's trying it's, it's something I guess. He's a business owner. He's an entrepreneur. I like, absolutely. He's been there for a long time. I bet he cuts some crazy hair.
01:16:09
Speaker
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, good haircuts. I should say next on our, Oh wait, we got the, the thing, the thing, the thing.
01:16:20
Speaker
All First one on a good things list. End of our show. I'd like to and ah end it with a couple of non-infuriating stories if we can help it. So this one, yeah, yeah this one you put up.
01:16:32
Speaker
This is a TikTok video of 85-year-old movie theater employee sparks $146,000 in donations from a stranger. but's Let's let's do listen real quick from WKYC.
01:16:47
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TikTok kindness. Democrats are in full meltdown this week after president. This one. You know, the old saying a little kindness can go a long way. Well, how far could 7,500 small and large acts of kindness go?
01:17:02
Speaker
Well, you can ask 85 year old Mary Aaron. Well, it's overwhelming to say the very least. Mary has lived in East Tennessee since 1958. She began working at movie theaters in the area right after high school. well i have a forty five year pen Mary works five days a week at her current theater.
01:17:19
Speaker
And this past weekend, it was the usual Saturday for Mary and for 21-year-old Brooklyn Green, the kind of day that comes and goes without much notice. But inside the movie theater in Maryville, Tennessee, a story not on the big screen was unfolding. Brooklyn noticed Mary pushing a janitorial cart and hauling a bag of trash. She did not know Mary's name or story, but she decided to see if anyone out there might want to help make a difference in this stranger's life. I saw Mary and i was like, this lady should not be working. She decided that I looked like I was old enough to be retired. I think something like that. So she took it out.
01:18:02
Speaker
The Lord inspired her to put me on GoFundMe. She posted this video on TikTok to see if anyone might want to donate to help Mary retire. And the kindness from strangers came calling.
01:18:14
Speaker
Realistically, I thought maybe we could donate. We could get $500 and I could go and just give her a little tip and say, I hope this goes towards your retirement. On Tuesday, Brooklyn stopped by the movie theater to meet Mary and tell her the good news. People across the world who had also never met Mary donated more than $146,000. Really overwhelmed is about all I can say. And she told me that thousands of people have logged in to social media. As a matter of fact, I must be getting my 15 minutes of fame all over the place. so She says she will use some of the money to repair a couple of things around her house and pay off some bills. I've been helping people a long time, so I have gotten myself in a few pieces of debt, but it's okay. And true to her nature, of course, she says she will also keep helping others too, because that's the great thing about kindness. It rarely stops with the person who receives it
01:19:12
Speaker
Well, everybody should be kind to everybody and be ah merciful to everybody. We're all human beings on the one face of Earth. And so we just need to help if we have the opportunity.
01:19:24
Speaker
Wise words. But I don't think she's retiring. I don't think so. I think she's doing this because she wants something to do. Yeah, she's been doing it for 40 some years. She's been working at ah that's what she likes to do. Keep her young, I imagine.
01:19:37
Speaker
That video that she shared, I mean, the yeah she's, she's ah you know, there's 85 year olds and then there's 85 year olds. Which one is she? eighty five she's the she's she ah She's really hunched over. She can be, yeah. She looks very fragile. Yes.
01:19:55
Speaker
she looks um very fragile yes she has a whatever condition where you've got a little hunch and a lot of times you spend looking down.
01:20:07
Speaker
So that looked worse than it was. Yeah. um I think hey she's still got her wit about her. Oh, my gosh. She she knew. i mean, she said GoFundMe like she knew what it was. Yeah. So props to her. You know, she's...
01:20:20
Speaker
um But that's probably keeping her going. I mean, a lot of times you got to gotta get something to do. you can't just sit around all day. if you know if That could be your hobby. I don't. it brings you her a little money When I see an old person working, I never really feel sorry for them.
01:20:32
Speaker
I would like to sometimes know the reason they're working because I don't understand that. Like, I got plenty of things I enjoy that I don't need to have a daily thing to do.
01:20:47
Speaker
ah the working for somebody else, I should say. I don't have that. so so But some people just need to get out of the house. I mean, working a movie theater, you talk to people, or so you know, that's kind of kind of interacting with people is is probably always good for you.
01:21:00
Speaker
Sure. And if if you don't, it working when you don't really need to work is different than, I guess, working. If you have to be. If you have to work. Yeah. I feel bad for those people. But then again, i don't think there's many of those out there.
01:21:13
Speaker
Gosh, the emails are coming in. I can feel them. hey Maybe. you know, maybe I could be wrong. i don't know. When I go through the McDonald's drive-thru at breakfast and there's some 80-year-old woman, I'm thinking, i don't know. She's smiling saying good morning. I think she just wants to be there.
01:21:30
Speaker
Yeah, something to do, I think, a lot of times. and need little extra cat I mean, look look and look and look inward. I mean, how many years did did your mom work? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. a little extra cash, but she just wanted to do it. and It wasn't for COVID. She would have worked longer. It gave her something to do. Yeah. She's bored. Kept her mind going. I mean, she they had actually i mean she actually had to figure out a computer every day. It was probably good for her.
01:21:51
Speaker
Well, she had to keep, yeah. and i Phone systems and all I visited her a couple times at work, and was nice to see she's actually helping people. Yeah, and COVID killed that. They were trying to get her to the vax up, and she wouldn't do it.
01:22:03
Speaker
Yeah. <unk> Yeah. So check it out. That's a good video. It's good. A good kind story. Hey, social media can have good results. It's not
Cleveland's Recreational Developments and Future Outlook
01:22:14
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always bad.
01:22:15
Speaker
And a, and, um, what does she, 21 what? Gen or 21 is Gen X, right? What do you mean? 21, 21 years old. This girl was 21 years old who posted it. twenty one years old this girl was twenty one years old who posted it Gen X? No, that's a, that's a, that's no, that's a, that's a, um, no, the, what's Gen Alpha. Yeah.
01:22:37
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. No, uh, Gen Z. Oh, Z. Yeah. Yeah. x is z i It's either Alpha or Gen Z. I think it's Gen Z. I think it's Z. Cause then, yeah, like, yeah, it's Gen Z. I forgot about it. forgot a letter. Gen X. My alphabet. That's me. You're talking 50 year olds. Yeah. Yeah. That's me.
01:22:51
Speaker
Um, all right. So check that out. a good video. And it's good kind of video. Next we have, uh, let's see. Yep. That's. Get this folks. Cleveland Metro parks unveils new sailing center okay and waterfront restaurant at 55th and 55th street Marina.
01:23:08
Speaker
oh it's only taken, you know, 50 or 60 years, but they finally got a sale place on a lake. I'm going to sail around the world. The, uh, Yeah, the Cleveland Metro Parks is officially opening a first-of-its-kind destination long along Lake Erie, bringing sailing, education, recreation, and waterfront dining all together under one roof.
01:23:33
Speaker
So it's a new Patrick S. patrick s Parker Community Sailing Center. It's now open at East 55th. It is a... Metro Parks leaders say that an $18.5 million dollars project...
01:23:46
Speaker
A facility was designed to expand public access to the lakefront while creating new opportunities for residents to learn, explore, and enjoy Lake Erie. Imagine that.
01:23:58
Speaker
Enjoying this great lake that we have. Crazy idea. Crazy idea. Let's put a highway on it. Yeah, exactly. ah it's It is the home, it has already been the home of the Charlie Britton Sailing School, which aims to make sailing more accessible to residents who may have forced or may have faced economic barriers to participation.
01:24:19
Speaker
um Cool. i may have a little sailboat. have little dock there. and go out and learn how to sail. That way you can go after those sailboat drones that we got out there now. And you can fight those sailboat drones with your sailboat.
01:24:32
Speaker
Who wins? ah Yeah, cool. I think anything they do with the lake at this point, I'm i'm applauding. it's it's It's very late to the game. but But hey, we got to something with this this great resource that we have that They might have something there by the time I'm dead. I'm thinking by the time my kids are my age, they might have something there.
01:24:54
Speaker
Yeah, maybe your grandkids will have something. And that, I think that is the wrap of the show. That is it. I say thank you for listening. Please check out the blog, crookedrivercast.com.
01:25:10
Speaker
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01:25:27
Speaker
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