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Crooked River Cast Show 26
2 Playsin 1 day
- Charlie Kirk…
- The only way to trim your trees. The Aerial Saw.
- Cleveland State dip in enrollment due in part from less “international students”
- Cleveland Police can’t count or are they playing with the numbers?
- What is considered a “Mass Shooting” and how did they count this one?
- Does Cloverleaf School System really want to give money back to the community?
- Nuke Plants on the moon but not on earth.
Good Things:
- A fluffy surprise at the Cleveland Zoo . A baby Red Panda!
- Chris Pine filming the movie “Carousel" in NEO.
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Transcript
Introduction and Resilience
00:00:02
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Crooked Rivercast. I'm your host Robert and joining me every week is my friend Tom as we attempt to stay in front of some of what is going on in Northeast Ohio. This is show 26 recorded on September 13th, 2025.
00:00:16
Speaker
Definitely not just another week, but the show must go on. In the morning,
Winning Debates and Satire
00:00:24
Speaker
Tom. Good morning, Rob. A hell of a week.
00:00:27
Speaker
Hell of a week. Yeah, no no no funny banter this week. No funny banter. I do have a question of the day. What's that? How can you tell when you're winning the debate of ideas?
00:00:41
Speaker
When you get shot for debating. When your opponent starts shooting. Yes, absolutely. And I think we could say Charlie Kirk won his debate. Yeah. Yeah, not even close.
00:00:53
Speaker
Not even close. I wasn't sure I was going start the show. But I figured, you know, in a tragedy such as this, who else do you look to except the Babylon Bee?
00:01:09
Speaker
Now, even the Babylon Bee couldn't find anything humorous, really. But the headline is, World Deemed Unworthy of Charlie Kirk.
00:01:24
Speaker
Yeah, I'm even sure if I can get through it. ah Dateline Heaven. Charlie Kirk, faithfully follower and witness of Jesus Christ, has been welcomed home to enter into the joy of his Lord.
00:01:36
Speaker
Heavenly
Politics and Charlie Kirk
00:01:37
Speaker
sources confirmed that after 31 years of graciously allowing everyone on earth to benefit from his life, God deemed the world unworthy of Charlie Kirk and brought him home into eternal glory.
00:01:51
Speaker
That's about all. yeah It goes on about how evil spirits were celebrating and saying that they took out, you know, a formidable warrior has been taken out of fight.
00:02:03
Speaker
So that's yeah spot is except about as good as Babylon Bee could have done in this case. I commend them for even trying. I think you created another thousand of him.
00:02:14
Speaker
Yeah, that's, I was talking to lot of people and...
00:02:19
Speaker
i think I think Charlie would have said something the effect of, sometimes God uses evil for good.
00:02:27
Speaker
We don't know why, maybe, but he does. Yeah, it's a sad story. So I was going to touch, we were going to originally start on the stabbing. I was going to touch on the stabbing in North Carolina of Irina.
00:02:44
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I thought we were going to talk about earlier this week. and how it tied into you know what we were talking about last week with crime stats and violence and all this other stuff. Well, I guess we can still kind of touch on that because it was the topic of Charlie's last post on X. So it says, if we want things to change, it's 100% necessary to politicize the senseless murder of Irina, how you pronounce her last name?
00:03:12
Speaker
I'll leave it to the professionals. The murder of Irina, because it was political it was politics that allowed a savage monster with 14 priors to be free on the streets to kill her.
00:03:26
Speaker
Thank you, Charlie. That's why ah hated him. Well, he just spoke truth. did and he was He was very good at, I guess, bringing people to the table.
00:03:41
Speaker
is He did something i could never do. Yeah. Sit there and actually talk to them without um ah me personally. You know, I'll say this. I wasn't a big fan of Charlie Kirk until recently.
00:03:56
Speaker
I guess last... We talked about him years ago, i remember. Yeah. ah Maybe the last six months. like ah i More of his stuff started coming up on my YouTube feed.
00:04:08
Speaker
and i was I admired his the way he spoke to people, argued with people, never losing control. Even with lunatics, he wasn't wouldn't lose control. It was it was really something special.
00:04:25
Speaker
Yeah. but That's what I admired him for.
00:04:31
Speaker
I can't do that. ah try I try. can to a certain extent. but i saw
Kirk's Influence and Controversy
00:04:36
Speaker
moments videos For For moments, but I've seen some of the, I mean, I watched the one the other day. guy dressed as basically the devil. I mean, all red, got this hood or mask of like some, like the four horse, there you know, what a head of the horse's head or dead horse's head or something like that. ah Chanting satanic stuff into the mic and he,
00:04:56
Speaker
He just went, I mean, he he, you know, he didn't tell him to get out of here. He said, what's what's your question? What's your question? You know, give me a question. Was that a question? I don't hear a question. And with a smile on his face. laugh I mean, laughing along. I mean, laughing along with a lot of the people that were there.
00:05:11
Speaker
He had this ability to ease the tension between yeah everybody. Yeah. So, you know, yeah. what What keeps coming to my mind is speech is violence.
00:05:25
Speaker
That's what I'm told. I'm told it's a war on trans. There's a war on a threat to trans. when you when you speak that When you speak what you believe, when Charlie spoke what he believed about, they said he was a threat to trans.
00:05:39
Speaker
He was a threat to democracy. It was a threat to gays. Well, can we hear what Charlie had to say about that? Here's a clip from, don't know what school this was, but probably couple years ago, and trans girl came up and asked him a question.
00:05:55
Speaker
Like, what am I supposed to do? And here was Charlie's response.
00:06:01
Speaker
I just want say I'm a transgender male. What at age should kids be able to get things like hormone therapy? Because I don't know what's true, what's not. Tell me, are you comfortable telling me your story?
00:06:12
Speaker
I've known that since like third grade and I'm currently 19, almost 20. I've known basically since then, i didn't start going by like a different name until seventh and eighth grade. i just...
Aftermath of Kirk's Assassination
00:06:27
Speaker
Don't know, like, with the whole medical stuff, like what's true, what's not, what's helpful, because I've heard so many different opinions. first of all, thank you so much for that. Yeah, of course. So I'm going to have an opinion that very few people will ever tell you, which is I want you to be very cautious putting drugs into your system in the pursuit of changing your body.
00:06:47
Speaker
Mm-hmm. I instead encourage you to work on what's going on in your brain first. I think what you need first and foremost is just a diagnosis, just someone that is going to listen to what you've gone through, listen to what else is going on My prayer for you, and again, very few people will say this, I actually want to see you be comfortable in how you were born. yeah I know that you might not feel that way, but I think that is something that you can achieve.
00:07:11
Speaker
I think that... with the right team and the right people, you don't have to wage war on your body. You can learn to love your body.
00:07:20
Speaker
Yep. Such hate. Such hate towards trans. Yeah, that was evil. Such evil. War on women, Tom. War on women. He hates women. he just wants women barefoot pregnant in the kitchen.
00:07:36
Speaker
That's all he wants. Hey, there's nothing No, if that's what she wants, sure. If that's what you guys... But when you speak about something like that or how how important the mother is in the home and the mother is in raising children, it's a war on women.
00:07:51
Speaker
Mm-hmm. right. Let's hear what Charlie had to say about marriage and men and women. and
00:08:00
Speaker
Here go. There's a reason why dress for the man is the same at a wedding and a funeral, because you're saying goodbye to your previous self.
00:08:10
Speaker
The woman is the icon, the symbol of beauty, almost always in all white, right? Ascendant. The man is usually in black and white, like he's attending somebody's death, because it is his death.
00:08:30
Speaker
No, but think about it. It's the death of the bachelor mindset. It's the death of promiscuity. It's the death of the wandering eye. It's the death of immoral behavior. It's the death of texting girls casually. It's the death of I get to do what I want to do It's the death of just going to the bar with friends. It's the death of acting like an infant. It's the death of playing video games till
Backlash and Public Dialogue
00:08:53
Speaker
1 a.m.
00:08:59
Speaker
And it's the birth. I think he goes on to say it's the birth of a new life. Pretty sure I've heard that the full context.
00:09:11
Speaker
That was awful. Yeah, that was horrible. I mean, such a war on women.
00:09:19
Speaker
Well, I think, I think we, so these are some of the reasons why they hated him because he was very effective. you can hear it in his voice that the kindness yet towards people who hated him.
00:09:35
Speaker
And, and to me, like I said, I looked up to him because he did shit I couldn't do.
00:09:53
Speaker
And
00:09:56
Speaker
think he was a kind of a, you know, so some are saying he's a hero. He's a martyr. All that stuff's true, I think. um But to me, he was becoming a spiritual leader.
00:10:07
Speaker
And I would listen to him speak. Yeah. And a lot of what he said. And here's here's what kind of, I don't know how old this is, but I've seen this a few times.
00:10:20
Speaker
And I'll just get right into it. this is This is, again, speaking truth. spiritual battle is coming to the West. And the enemies are wokeism or Marxism, combining with Islamism to go after what we call the American way of life.
00:10:36
Speaker
And the American way of life is very simple. ah want to be able to get married, buy a home, have kids, allow them to ride their bike till the sun goes down, send them to a good school, have a low crime neighborhood, not to have my kid be taught the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school.
00:10:53
Speaker
While also, while also, not having them have to hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day. That's important. We want the American way of life, which is, by the way, Christendom.
00:11:07
Speaker
Christians, our sacrifice, our toil, our vision, the outgrowth of the scriptures gave us Western civilization. And this is where I think is a great rallying cry. Doesn't matter if you're Hispanic, doesn't matter if you're Asian, doesn't matter you're black or white.
00:11:21
Speaker
Everybody, if you are Christian and Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, these two threats are combining forces come after us and it's time that the church stands and rises up against it yeah so that's charlie kirk as as i see them yeah So yesterday they had his crew from his radio and podcast show.
00:11:47
Speaker
they did ah They did their first show since his assassination. So it was four of them on the panel. ah Jack Posobiec was one of them that I recognized. ah I recognized a couple other ones. I can't remember their names because I've seen them on a show before.
00:12:00
Speaker
And they were just you know kind of going through stories. And they ah had mentioned that you know Charlie had always been obviously a very religious person, but really didn't talk much about it until he met Erica, his wife.
00:12:12
Speaker
But they also mentioned how Charlie used to dress before Erica.
00:12:17
Speaker
And we've we've all had maybe a lot of us have had this experience when you get a good woman in your life who goes, what? Have you ever looked in the mirror? And they they they posted two pictures before and after he had.
00:12:31
Speaker
Oh, ah you know, he was off the shelf, off the rack suits, baggy, way too big on him. He was young and post. Yes. But he was. Yeah, he was. Yeah, he was young.
00:12:43
Speaker
And then when she came along, she straightened them out. they this They mentioned, yeah, they mentioned, you know, like come on, you got it. I think that happens to most of us. That's what I meant. That's what they were saying. You can't, you can't change. It's not, so not not good to go out to try to change some, but ah especially men.
00:12:58
Speaker
But one the guys said, but definitely you can look for things that you can polish.
00:13:03
Speaker
That was one of those things. But, and then they even mentioned, um, I think one of the Trump kids had given him a credit to one of their tailors. They're like, look, like you're hanging around with us.
00:13:15
Speaker
you know We've got and we got a level of you have to keep up. You've got to look the part, man. Get some new threads. You like you look ridiculous. yeah That was good. that they They did a pretty damn good job.
00:13:27
Speaker
um They've got some merch that they just came out with. And they're like, they they actually didn't even want to announce it, but they've gotten, they said they've gotten such huge demand.
00:13:38
Speaker
Cause
Local Issues and Crime Statistics
00:13:39
Speaker
I, I've seen this starting to go around, but the one shirt they do have, well, The one shirt they put up is the shirt he was wearing. The white shirt said freedom.
00:13:50
Speaker
And I think they're going to put, you know, the years. I took a look at all that stuff yesterday. Yeah. And the other one is which I've seen starting to percolate a little bit, at least is I am Charlie Kirk.
00:14:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:14:06
Speaker
And i I attempted to watch some of Erica Kirk's, I don't think, I think she took his last name, did she? Yeah, I think Yeah, she did. Okay. I thought I'd seen some that maybe they used her maiden name, but I attempted to watch, I watched some of her comments last night, but I really, I had to keep turning it off and going back in. It was just, yeah, I mean, she's amazing to even be able to do that.
00:14:30
Speaker
Uh-huh. She has some strong words. Strong words. and I didn't clip anything. So if anybody's curious, you could easily find what she said. Basically, look out.
00:14:43
Speaker
Because if you thought Turning Point USA was was strong, was big, then just wait. it's It's not going. It's going to be bigger than ever. And looking into her eyes, yeah, there was no doubt in that. That's for sure.
00:15:00
Speaker
So I think a couple things before we head to our the next part of this Charlie Kirk saga. And I just thought, have you heard the comments from the guy who was asking him the question when he was shot?
00:15:17
Speaker
I read a couple of ah quotes. i didn't I didn't listen to his. he He did a post on social media. Yeah. he's He's a social media. He has posts.
00:15:29
Speaker
He does TikToks or something, I think. Right, right. He's had a few on Charlie. So he was the one asking the question about trans violence and so on when um Charlie was shot.
00:15:42
Speaker
Well, he has one more question for everybody. So I figured I'd pull, I clipped it and his name's Hunter Kozak. And I, I mean, no district, no, i mean, no shade on this. I mean, he just, he was just asking a question. If you see the video of him while he's asking the question,
00:16:02
Speaker
I mean, he, this, this kid's like freaking, you could see, I'm like, so I'm not like trying to get, you know, he's, he's, he's, he's fine. He just, he just disagreed with Charlie
Mass Shootings and Media Role
00:16:12
Speaker
and he was asking him a question and what was his point of his question?
00:16:15
Speaker
And then he has, he has another question that I, I want to make sure we finish for him. The answer it for him. Here you And people have obviously pointed to the irony that,
00:16:28
Speaker
I was the point that I was trying to make is how peaceful left was right before he got shot. And that that only makes sense if we stay peaceful.
00:16:41
Speaker
As much as I disagree with Charlie Kirk, i I'm on the record for how much I disagree with Charlie Kirk, but like, man, dude, he is still a human being. Have we forgotten that? Are we crazy?
00:16:53
Speaker
like Wait, what was that last part? me make sure hear it. Human being. Have we forgotten that? Are we crazy? Yes. To answer your question, Hunter, yes.
00:17:05
Speaker
Some of you are crazy. Some of all of us are crazy, and this guy was definitely one of them. so um yeah What was with the laugh? You missed the point. Yeah.
00:17:15
Speaker
and uncomfortable laugh don't know yeah guess so I'm give him the benefit of doubt I don't I don't think he meant any any disrespect to it other than yes yes crazy yes the left is not peaceful your point is not valid any longer I don't think and as you said it only makes sense if we stay too late too late
00:17:40
Speaker
so I will move on to the aftermath I guess Would you like to talk about some ghouls, Tom? Sure.
00:17:52
Speaker
Yeah, there was a lot of them. And a lot of them lost their jobs, too. Yeah, so it's inevitable to have, for some reason, we can't can't be civil in these. in these And there's some people that have made some pretty stupid statements, and some of them are still sticking to them.
00:18:09
Speaker
where Where would you like to go with this? where where Where's the first first one you'd like to see, Tom?
00:18:14
Speaker
I, how about the guy in, was it Fairview Park? Fairview Park. I think he was a, was he a council president? He's council president. And Kilbane. Yep.
00:18:27
Speaker
Kilbane comments. Let's see. This is May Lockett from News Channel 5. I got two clips on this actually, because there's a, well, you'll see in the second one, but here's a, here's a synopsis to what happened.
00:18:42
Speaker
I said how I honestly felt about something. Fairview Park residents are upset with their city council president, Michael Kilbane, after a comment he made under a social media post regarding Charlie Kirk's death.
00:18:53
Speaker
Hours after Kirk was shot in the neck at an event at Utah Valley University Wednesday, Kilbane commented a lot of good people died today. Charlie Kirk wasn't one of them.
00:19:04
Speaker
Since that comment, he says he's received multiple threats, but he does not regret any of his comments. I believe he's not a good person. So, I mean, i I stand by what I said. In response to Kilblane's comment, community members took their frustrations to social media, and they're planning a protest for Monday night at the next City Hall meeting in Fairview Park.
00:19:25
Speaker
They're asking the city to remove Kilblane from his role as city council president. He needs to get out of office.
00:19:34
Speaker
And I think that's probably going to happen um because I can only imagine. i don't think he's going to show up for Monday's meeting.
00:19:46
Speaker
that's the and the I don't know. guy This guy is another level of goal. And it's not the first time. not the first time. Yeah, I guess I don't know much about his first time.
00:20:01
Speaker
Yeah. So here's a clip from 19 News. it goes in a little further and has some comments. I kind of cut out the part. They go through the whole explanation of his post and stuff like that. So I did clip some of that out, all of that out.
00:20:14
Speaker
But um i think I think he's going to have an opponent in the next election. Here you go. Disagreeing is different than saying something so incredibly awful about a man that was killed. Jimmy Jack has lived in Fairview Park for decades, but couldn't believe what Council President Michael Kilbane said yesterday on Facebook after the death of Charlie Kirk.
00:20:37
Speaker
but I just thought, what who is this person? And to find out he's the president of our city council, I can't have that. He's in my district, Ward 5, which absolutely hurt horrified me. I couldn't believe it.
00:20:50
Speaker
The comment has sparked outrage both online and in person. After followers of the Fairview Park community page learned 19 News was looking for interviews, Jack made his way to City Hall as fast as he could to share his strong reaction.
00:21:04
Speaker
It went just one step too far. many, many steps too far. Now, this isn't the first time the council president has faced criticism for social media posts. Back in 2023, the city released a statement after Kilbane faced criticism for comments directed toward law enforcement.
00:21:21
Speaker
The statement said in part that his speech is protected by the First Amendment, but don't reflect the views of the city as a whole. So what was the city's response today? We reached out to every single member of city council, including Kilbane, as well as the Fairview Park mayor's office.
00:21:36
Speaker
So far, no one has made themselves available for a statement. The next Fairview Park city council meeting is set for next Monday at 7 p.m. Jack, alongside many others, plan to be there.
00:21:48
Speaker
I'm going to make sure that Matt Kilbane is not reelected. Whether I run, whether I support someone who runs. In Fairview Park, Stephen Hernandez, 90 News.
00:22:01
Speaker
Shocker. No comment. Shocker.
00:22:06
Speaker
So I think that guy's going to be done. i think I think, yeah. ah Jimmy Jack is pretty fired up, and he's going pour some money into it or ah run himself, sounds like.
00:22:18
Speaker
and's It's what said in the report. when ah when ah When he heard we'd be up at the city council or up at city hall waiting for comments, he ran up there. Good for him. ah It's this...
00:22:32
Speaker
As ah ironically and as everybody keeps bringing up, this really feels like another turning point in our country. No pun intended.
00:22:44
Speaker
And hopefully it's waking more people up to the fact that you you have to be involved. And ah can't if if we have a million Charlie Kirks, they can't shoot all shoot all of us.
00:22:59
Speaker
Get more involved. What's next one we've got? Take your pick, Tom. look i don't see I don't see anything in your notes. No, I was going off yours. I just pulled a whole couple of clips.
00:23:11
Speaker
I pulled those two clips, and then ah I figure we just talk about the other two, because there's one ah city council, or not city council, but... um University Heights. University Heights.
00:23:23
Speaker
Yeah. ah She was an intervention specialist. She's teacher. Her name was Joanna Schwetter. Schwetter. S-H-S-C-H-V-E-D-E-R.
00:23:38
Speaker
but Yeah, you could only you could find her on Facebook. she probably She's probably locked it by now. but yeah Oh, but the screen grabs are there. ah The other one was... Oh, yeah, she wrote, may you never find rust and always suffer in eternity.
00:23:53
Speaker
Charlie Kirk, that's karma.
00:23:57
Speaker
Good. Is she teaching your kids? Yes. Teaching them to, right now, teaching them to stay off social media because it could come back and bite you.
00:24:10
Speaker
Her email is jay underscore S-C-H-V-E-D-E-R at C-H-U-H dot org.
00:24:24
Speaker
Yes, and the no, this is not doxing because this is public information they put up on on social media. Yeah, yeah. She was preaching it. We did not go out and search for their names.
00:24:36
Speaker
They volunteered the information. um So, you know, again, there's a lesson.
00:24:45
Speaker
This stuff never goes away. We have another one, I think. ah Yeah, Juliet Cartier. <unk> No, not her. She was talking about Aaron Sharp.
00:24:57
Speaker
Aaron Sharp. He was he was the one of the owners of Lucious Q Barbecue in Cincinnati. it was It's a pretty popular restaurant down in cinci Cincinnati, I guess. yeah And he's he's been kicked out.
00:25:10
Speaker
Yes. So, um, somebody said, somebody posted praying for Charlie Kirk and he posted good riddance. What a piece of shit. Another good guy there. almost Yeah. Uh, and then, uh, yeah, the bar, the barbecue, uh, Facebook post is, says that Aaron Sharp is no longer associated with, uh,
00:25:33
Speaker
Lucius Q. Yeah, no, he's just Q. There was another thing that Lucius Q was, oh, they, they, um, they got kicked out of the stadium, I think too, because I think they had a, uh, uh, you know, uh, a spot in the stadium to, to serve food there. So I think they were kicked out.
00:25:51
Speaker
Yeah. So as they've terminated the relationship with him, a Lucius Q and Q also operates by the way inside factory 52.
00:26:02
Speaker
In the Norwood area, Factory 52 is saying it's aware of the comments made by an individual, business owner, and it does not condone violence or threaten speech in any kind, threatening speech of any kind.
00:26:15
Speaker
So yeah, they're backpedaling. They booted his butt out the door. So it sounds like they did what needed to be done ah to save your business, basically.
00:26:27
Speaker
um But you know it's not just locally. So they the um MSNBC got rid of Matt Dowd, Matthew Dowd. Yep. um Lost his job the next day.
00:26:39
Speaker
Yep. So he was saying, well, this could be a, you know, it could be a celebration. I mean, it could be somebody like shooting their gun in the air in celebration. What?
00:26:52
Speaker
But he also said, me He said he's been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this who is han consistently sort of pushing this sort of hate speech.
00:27:08
Speaker
mean, we just heard it. I mean, geez, could you imagine ah telling ah telling like a trans person that you shouldn't be at war with your body? What hate speech? ah ah sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups that was said and I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions like threat to democracy Nazi yeah those hateful words you can't mean we don't need to go anymore into what he said so it's it's
00:27:46
Speaker
Maybe just a convenient way for MSNBC to get rid of Matthew Dowd. I don't know. He's probably a big guy ah big salary in there. They're not making a bunch of money. I've never heard of him, so I don't know.
00:27:57
Speaker
i I have. I've heard of Matthew Dowd before. yeah um Yeah, it could but it could have been a convenient yeah convenient firing for and MSNBC. Then we had one that you posted this morning ah from Mineral Falls.
00:28:13
Speaker
Right, wasn't it? Monroe Falls. I don't know too much about it. That's in your notes. Oh, yeah. it is Yeah, I pulled, whoops, I pulled the, where did it go?
00:28:27
Speaker
There it is. I pulled the statement from Monroe Falls, the city of Monroe Falls, which um states that, you know, they're responding to calls and emails from residents and individuals nationwide concerning with concerned with social media comments made by a council member regarding The passing of Charlie Kirk, these remarks were made through personal social media account.
00:28:51
Speaker
They were not made through on official city social media. They were done alone. They do not reflect the views of the city. ah You know, extended their condolences to Kirk family and friends about the horrible events in Utah.
00:29:07
Speaker
Now, I got to find out what the guy's name was because I apparently didn't grab the have the ah post. I thought I had it in my... ah Oh, I know where it's at. Hold on.
00:29:21
Speaker
Live radio. I think I bookmarked it. Yeah, here it is. Oh, Max Miller posted this. Yep. I got... It's a TikTok also. Monroe Falls, Ohio City Council Vice President...
00:29:35
Speaker
Says, to all you right-wingers out there, I have two things to say to you. Second Amendment and thoughts and prayers. yeah all The world is a better place now that he's gone.
00:29:48
Speaker
What a douche, man. He needs to resign, and we need to make him as famous as they as they were hoping they were going to be. What was his name and again? It is John, oh my goodness.
00:30:02
Speaker
You got to ask me. as but I can't. I and i can't it. It's John It's I-M-P-E-L-L-I-Z-Z-E-R-I. i m p b l l i z z e r i
00:30:17
Speaker
Zempeliziri? Zempeliziri. Oh, Impelliziri. Impelliziri. There we go. Yeah. Impelliziri. John Impelliziri. Yep. Oh, even his picture is creepy, dude.
00:30:30
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Oh, yeah. ah see Yeah. Yeah. Here's his phone number. 216-965-8619. Email is, oh, boy, I click on it. eight six one nine email is oh boy i got a click on it
00:30:45
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And i got nothing. What the heck? Oh, there it is.
00:30:59
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at gmail.com. Yeah, it's basically John, his first and last name at Gmail, right? Oh, he's got a middle initial in there. a Okay. John A. Okay. Yep. And... um yeah Send him a note.
00:31:14
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A nice note. Peaceful note. What a note, nevertheless. Give them sure peace of your mind. Yeah, but peacefully, please. And think um
00:31:29
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I've seen way, way too many. i have ah i had a couple with this that I posted on X.
00:31:37
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And, you know, oh, how hot you know, because there's clips of Charlie out there saying, well, you know, in order to have a Second Amendment, there is some sort of, but there is a level of, I mean, there are going to be people who get shot.
00:31:51
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And there's a certain level that we need to accept because, you know, where look at it is with great freedom comes great responsibility. And, you know, you know In order to to be you know and in order have free speech, you're going to have to listen to things that you don't like.
00:32:07
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I think this goes along, that's and that's kind of what his thing was. Yes, there is a level of of death that you have to accept with having a free society. like With complete government control, you could be a lot safer.
00:32:20
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Could be, but um you can't you're not free. So you have a choice, I think, was was kind of his point to a lot of this. I'm sure I completely butchered it, but that's fine. And i think this is when I kind of flipped from anger to acceptance, maybe whatever, whatever the steps are.
00:32:39
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Cause my response was, I did this numerous times. My response was um yes. You know, Charlie, is it worth it? Was the question I heard. I saw a lot. And my, my response is yes. I think Charlie, i think Charlie would smile down upon you and say, yes, even more so now, even more so now.
00:33:02
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Okay. So I think we can fight we can wrap this up, right? We're good. We can start wrapping this up. I think yeah a good way to wrap it up is, i don't know if you saw ah the Utah governor's press conference announcing the apprehension of the killer. Pardon me?
00:33:22
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Yeah. would Say that again. The press conference from the Utah governor when they apprehended the killer. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you see but part of that or all of that or any of that? ah Parts of it. I don't know. i so I don't think I heard everything the mayor said.
00:33:36
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Sure. Yeah. And that i so I wanted to wrap with something.
00:33:42
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um something, and well, you'll see what I'm saying, but this is the end of his conference. i I pulled this part because I'm sure most people didn't follow this, go this far through it. ah this He has some final kind of closing words, and I think it's pretty touching since we're all pretty angry, upset, sad.
00:34:01
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And this guy did a hell of a job. I don't know anything about this guy, but he did a hell of a job through this whole thing and still continues to.
00:34:10
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leadership through crisis is what i saw so here we go this is uh governor spencer cox ah from utah and this was part of his closing remarks from yesterday
00:34:21
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over the last 48 hours i have been as angry as i have ever been as sad as i have ever been and um It was, as as as anger pushed me to the brink, it was actually Charlie's words that pulled me back.
00:34:44
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I'd like to share some of those. And specifically right now, if I could, I need to talk to the young people in our state, in my state, and and all across the country.
00:34:56
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As President Trump reminded me, he said, you you know who who really loved Charlie? The youths. He's right. um Young people love Charlie and young people hated Charlie.
00:35:10
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And Charlie went into those places anyway. And these are the words that have helped me. Charlie said, when people stop talking, that's when you get violence.
00:35:27
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He said, the weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. Welcome without judgment, love without condition, forgive without limit.
00:35:44
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He said, always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. A few months ago, I referenced this last night, Charlie posted to social media, when things are moving very fast and people are losing their minds, it's important to stay grounded.
00:36:00
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Turn off your phone, read scripture, spend time with friends, and remember, internet fury is not real life. It's going to be okay. He again said, when you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to commit violence.
00:36:20
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He said, what we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable agreement, being able to have reasonable agreement where violence is not an option.
00:36:32
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i I think we need more moral clarity right now. I hear all the time that words are violence. Words are not violence. Violence is violence. And there is one person responsible for what happened here.
00:36:49
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And that person is now in custody and will be charged soon and will be held accountable. and And yet all of us have an opportunity right now to do something different.
00:37:04
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Yeah. Do something different. Don't become them. We cannot become them. We must fight, but we cannot become them.
00:37:15
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So what do you think? Do think this is the start of something or the end of something? As far as the discord,
00:37:29
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I really hope it's a start of something, but you want more or like, do you think this assassination will cause more lunatics to get out there and try something similar?
00:37:45
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Or do you think this woke up too many people or woke up too many people to reach that point, I should say?
00:37:56
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i think i think it woke up the youth. Yeah. To a certain extent. But what about the lunatics? I think there's lunatics on both sides and I, and I am, I'm pretty, pretty worried.
00:38:09
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Yeah. I, I, if, I think if you wanted to incite violence and chaos in our society from the right, this was one of the most, um this was the guy.
00:38:23
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if If it's not going to be Trump, well, by the way, they tried three times on Trump. And, and for me, from what I can see, If you exclude the cabinet members and family, I think Charlie Kirk was probably the closest advisor to the president.
00:38:39
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Perhaps. One of the closest. At least one of them, besides his family and any cabinet members. I think the scariest part of this was that he wasn't really, this wasn't a politician.
00:38:51
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You know, like ah Trump, the the attempt on Trump's life, i was I wouldn't say I was expecting it, kind of. But... That one didn't really shock me to the core like this one did. Yeah, I haven't i haven't felt this way since 9-11.
00:39:12
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Yeah, kind kind of. Like the days after 9-11. yeah It was ah kind of, yeah, it was just shocking because he really didn't say anything. yeah his but and He was about a middle as middle of of the road as you can get Like, really? i mean, he's just your typical middle-of-the-road conservative.
00:39:33
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maybe Maybe a little on the right, you know, a little bit more on the right but as far as centrist goes, but not far, right? Nowhere near it. For sure. I...
00:39:45
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Like I said, to me, but he was becoming a spiritual leader because he was, you know, he was, he was preaching to a lot of these, these kids who are, who are hurting or confused. It seems like he was going toward Catholicism also. but Yeah. it was very Oh yeah. And, and like I, I've heard some say, you know, conservative activists, I'd say civil rights activist.
00:40:07
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Right. Right. Right. Of our day. He may be the the biggest one of our day. and Oh, I think this this is as big as ah Martin MLK, you know, Martin Luther King.
00:40:18
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ah As far as... I agree with you. but though sir yeah No, I know, but this is as big of a... A story. ah story or a bell rung.
00:40:32
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Yes, because remember, if people don't remember, because I always got to remind myself, and history flies past this, but in order to be in Martin Luther King's movement, you had to sign ah you know, whatever you call it, a pledge, that's it, of nonviolence.
00:40:51
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Right. And that's what won them, that's what won the civil rights is the videos of of black people getting hosed by cops and not doing a damn thing about it.
00:41:04
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If they would have fought back, they would have lost. That's what we need to do. We need to fight back but not with our fists or anything else. We need to fight back the way Charlie fought back.
00:41:19
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With
00:41:22
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kindness.
00:41:25
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Yeah, it really sucks. Sucks to freaking say that. How the hell three days after they just shot him in front of his family?
00:41:41
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We got to stop. Do we want to tear the country apart? I think that's what a lot of people want, whether it's a foreign or domestic. They want us to tear each other apart.
00:41:53
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We can't let them win.
00:41:57
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Oh, that's, that's, that's, you asked me the question. I, I ah really hope, but I have a feeling we're going to see. We're probably, is it our darkest hour?
00:42:08
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i hope so. I'm ah not sure I'm really that confident yet.
00:42:16
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but Especially with social media.
00:42:19
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Yeah. Social media has been good for people. Yeah. So good for people. What do you, uh, what's your feeling? You think it's going to get worse or better? I don't think it's going get better.
00:42:34
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I have a friend who I was texting with along with you and a couple other people when this was all going on. I was kind of feeding her the information as she was, as I was getting it, she was feeding me some information. I mean, that she was sitting around with, with her family. Some of her family kids were just out of college.
00:42:53
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I mean, just bawling because, i mean, this this her daughter, just out of college, was she like 25, 26, 27? It was a huge part of college campus for her and for a lot of people at the college she went to.
00:43:09
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So the whole point was that is they decided to, and another daughter who also was pretty upset about, they were, they have a, sorry,
00:43:23
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They're awaiting their first child and they're going to name it Charlie. Wow. I had a similar, like my, a guy I work with, he, he's, he's conservative.
00:43:34
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He's not, he's political, but not, not super crazy political. He has kids 14. I would say as young as his pro, I think around six or seven and oldest around 14, four kids.
00:43:47
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And they were all crying and it shocked me when he told me that.
00:43:53
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um know I think part of it is couldn't, I mean, the videos just popped on my phone. Like we're talking about social media. just popped on my, I almost couldn't stop it if I wanted to. It was so fast sometimes.
00:44:07
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Oh, what's this video? Oh, you know, I saw the video ah from far away. And then, you know, a few minutes later, somebody posted a closeup. i I think that's part of the part, part of my issue is I just can't get that out of my head. No. Yeah. it's um I wish I didn't see it.
00:44:25
Speaker
Yeah. I wish I could have. i That's what I sent. People were saying, well, he's alive. He's alive. And I said, I hope so. But if, if you'd like, I can send you the closeup video and probably would.
00:44:38
Speaker
Put some doubts in your mind because if you know anything about it, it the didn't look good from the start. So anyway. Yeah. I don't think it's going to get better ah in the short term. I think it'll get better in the good good always prevails.
00:44:55
Speaker
And it's always darkest before the dawn, as they say. And i just wanted to say, I think, I do not think yeah President Trump wins. There's a very good chance he does not win last election without Charlie Kirk. Oh, 95%, I would say.
00:45:09
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Almost. um I mean, TPUSA is bigger than the RNC conference. It was taking, it took over the RNC. It was going to be the, that was going to be the,
00:45:22
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next start and see, I guess. and I don't know. and And it will be, I think. Yeah. Yeah. ah they They also said in the pot in the show that Charlie had a a unique, and he had a knack for picking the people who can handle the job that he picked that he, that he had for them.
00:45:40
Speaker
And he, one of the reasons he picked Erica was because he knew she was strong and that she could handle the life that he was building which is on the move sacrifice you know the threats the violence the the attacks that he had on him the you know the negativity he knew she can handle it and and from what i saw last night i think he was spot on that i think the movement the the the program the organization is in is in good hands
00:46:16
Speaker
America Fest will happen in December, she says. Yes, and it will be bigger. Oh, it's going to be big. It's going to be big. If you've got ah your a favorite video, Charlie, a story, shoot us an email.
00:46:30
Speaker
Send us a link on X. ah Where can you find all the information? um CrookedRiverCast.com. can go there, get the ways to contact us, email, X account, and whatever else we end up putting up there.
00:46:45
Speaker
And you could also get ah blog posts for the show. You get links, all the kind of stall the stories we were looking at that are in our notes. You should youd be able to see them shortly following the posting of the show if you want to check that out.
00:46:57
Speaker
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00:47:10
Speaker
I think we need a comedic break here. what do you think, Tom? I think we need to change gears. Change gears. How about, i i got two ways we can go. Should we go?
00:47:22
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00:47:42
Speaker
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00:49:04
Speaker
Everything's going to be okay. I think we're going to do a double back-to-back comedy break for for today's show. And i here's here's what I want from our listeners and and you, Tom. If you could fire up, if you're not driving or riding your bike or doing anything like that, where you if you could look at a screen, ah need everybody to Google search
00:49:28
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ah Ariel Saw.
00:49:32
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but actually i Saw as in S-A-W? Yeah, Ariel S-A-W.
00:49:38
Speaker
Actually, you know what? I'll put it. I'll actually put my, i I should have put this in the notes, but here I put it in the notes, Tom. Yeah. Is that the thing that does the trims, the trees? Check this thing out, man. Check this thing out. This is, this is on the list of something every guy needs.
00:49:53
Speaker
Yes. Let's, let's hear it from first energy on the aerial saw.
00:49:59
Speaker
There's a few reasons we use the aerial saw. It helps trim back the branches that are encroaching our right-of-way. It's a little bit faster than a regular tree crew or bucket crew could do. It gets about 10 to 12 miles a week compared to a bucket or tree crew might get a mile. but is Also, we use it in areas where you can't get men or equipment to. Pilly terrain, ah it's it's too dangerous for people to get in. So we drop the saw in there and they'll continue to trim that that way. But we use a company called Area Solutions. They use a helicopter and suspended from the helicopter is an engine with about 15 to 16, 24 inch blades that are, they're rotary blades.
00:50:34
Speaker
And the helicopters slowly goes down the right away about three or four miles an hour and trims the trees. The area is all very safe. You're not exposing workers to the climbing in the trees, working out of buckets, working with a chainsaw.
00:50:46
Speaker
You're exposing a helicopter pilot that's actually operating the saw unless you're a hiker. So he's not even in contact with the saws, and he's just going down the right way trimming. This thing is the coolest looking thing. So Aristotle...
00:51:01
Speaker
but I saw that thing like ah a few months ago on like Instagram or something. now i was like, Oh my God, I want one. of So everybody can picture it cause you can't see the video, but if you've ever driving driven, driven on the freeway, especially like for me, i always notice it when I'm going to like Virginia and the mountains and stuff.
00:51:19
Speaker
And all of a sudden you see this, like somebody took a pair of clippers and just trimmed all the trees and they put power lines there. Well, they use this is what they use to keep those trees trimmed back. And what they do is they hang this massive chainsaw.
00:51:32
Speaker
It's not even a chainsaw, it's a rotary saw. It has to be like 10 foot of blade. They're 24 inches blades and there's 15 to 20 on them.
00:51:43
Speaker
Okay, I see. All right. i cut limbs up to 10 inches in diameter. and And it's a perfect, listen to this, it's so cool. So the helicopter's rotors push the limbs straight, they push the limbs down to flatten them out, and then it comes in and zips them I was wondering how they get it so clean, because man, it goes down...
00:52:03
Speaker
Next to the power lines. And I'm like, man, that's just such a beautiful cut. Yep. Okay. That makes sense. You know, they should just fly this thing over to California and clean up all those power lines that are going through the mountains there. So there's no more fires.
00:52:18
Speaker
Yeah. And, and that there's, you know, they're saying it's, it's a little quicker, little quicker, a little, it's only 10 times quicker. Yeah. They get 10 times more done or more. Normally, guys will get one mile a week. This guy's like 10 to 11 miles a week. Yeah.
00:52:35
Speaker
And then in some areas, you can't even get to. i mean, there's mountainous areas and stuff like that. um you know and no There was a guy on a bucket in a bucket ah trimming my tree out front with by the power lines and hacked my tree up.
00:52:48
Speaker
Yeah. but Much cooler with, with, with the area. I saw, I would have been, yeah, I would have been out there with my foot's video gear going. Oh my God, this is awesome. Uh, so it says here, ground crews, uh,
00:53:02
Speaker
Ground crews also monitor nearby traffic, flagging and stopping motorists as needed to ensure safety. You don't want the 10-inch branch landing on your car. Well, could you imagine that? Hey, honey, look at this clearing of, whoa!
00:53:16
Speaker
who You know, there comes ah the aerial saw zipping in front of you. ah Yeah, I'm sure that, you know it's not like that, but no, it's not like that. But it's there was I saw that and i was like, oh, this is so cool. ah well What's cool. but What's it's what I from what I saw was if the trees already trimmed, if you're just doing this every couple of years, or that there's not many big branches.
00:53:34
Speaker
it's Right. It's just doing like it's almost like taking your hedge clippers and and just trimming your hedges, you know. Yeah, they actually said, oh yeah, the aircraft is operated by Aerial Solutions that they said in the clip.
00:53:48
Speaker
And, oh, yeah, here it is. The tree trimming efforts effort builds on the company's use of light detection detection and ranging, which is LiDAR technology.
00:53:59
Speaker
which develop which deploys helicopter-mounted lasers to create 3D maps of vegetation among more than 7,000 miles of transmission lines. So they they run a copter down there and takes pictures of everything, and then it tells them where to go.
00:54:14
Speaker
Gotcha. Cool. Technology, man. Yeah. ah So somewhere your electric bill goes to, trimming trees. I could definitely use one in my yard. I've got a tree. It's not even my tree. It's my neighbor's tree.
00:54:27
Speaker
And it's literally, i I would bet if you lined up the power lines that run between our back of our property, the tree is growing directly underneath the power line. don't think you get any more perfect.
00:54:39
Speaker
And i got i got to call them. They got to cut it because it's eventually going to take the power line. no Right. one way or the other. Because I think that's how we started. um the the great power outage of, was it early 2000s? Yeah, that was like 2003, 2004?
00:54:54
Speaker
four Yeah, three yeah three I think it was three. I think you're right And that was because, what I understand it, a power line touched another power line, or a branch touched two power lines, or something like that. Something like that, and it it shorted everything out caused blah, blah, blah. so The whole Northeast.
00:55:08
Speaker
Yeah. From what? From New York to Southern Ohio almost? ah Something like that. and I forget. Basically, i don't know. It was like Kentucky, West Virginia.
00:55:20
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i mean, the whole corner of the United States was out. Yeah, it was. If you look if you remember them what the map looked or the satellite imagery. was crazy. But yeah, i was part of it. There's lack of tree trimming.
00:55:31
Speaker
it was It was kind of neat, though. ah had I had no power. It only lasted. I it i think it lasted three days for me. But my neighbor right next door to me didn't have power for, i think it was seven days.
00:55:47
Speaker
It was weird. Oh, that's right. Okay. Yeah. I was working in the field, um, in construction and yeah, it was, yeah it was weird because i could, I could technically work if I was in the right area because, because if you had enough natural light, I could still work.
00:56:05
Speaker
I remember my boss, I'm like, Oh, we can stop. I'm like, no, too dark. its too It's too dark. Yeah, I definitely I had, I think, three days off. And and makes sense um um it was kind of warm too. So and there was no AC. Yeah. That was kind of like, ah, man, that's the one thing I missed.
00:56:22
Speaker
That was the only bad part. yes no It was a little warm. i remember it going out and driving home. I i was out like out West kind of where it Sandusky and I had to make our way back with no street, line no lights or anything. It was, it was a mess.
00:56:36
Speaker
and Everybody was freaking out, you know, what's going on? But yeah. um So yeah, the, the aerial saw,
00:56:43
Speaker
go get one at your nearest ACE hardware. You probably don't have in stock. You'll have to order it in. All right. Backward for two weeks. Yes, definitely. that Now that we announced it on the Crooked Rivercast, demand is shot through the roof.
00:56:58
Speaker
ah So after that palate cleansing,
00:57:03
Speaker
Let's move on to something, I don't know, something we, again, in a lot of these stories I pulled early in the week. I wasn't even sure if we'd get to them, but like I said, the show must go on and we're going to continue doing what we do.
00:57:17
Speaker
Next story is Cleveland State University has seen a dip in enrollment and it's it's you it's unique because um from um what they're saying,
00:57:32
Speaker
The dip in enrollment is because of a um a sudden loss of international students. they've been getting ah They've been having a dip in enrollment for the last four or five years, haven't they?
00:57:46
Speaker
Yes. But there's a decrease from fall 2024 of 1,400 students, students. ah presenting forty one percent drop from previous year of international students So I would, by looking at this data, I would have to assume to some extent that a large portion of Cleveland State's international student body was illegal to some level.
00:58:19
Speaker
No, right? I would say a portion of them. Yeah. yeah and Not all, not all 41%. Some may have just decided not to come, go change schools, whatever. But a large, I would say more than a quarter possibly could have been illegal to, I mean, we're not talking necessarily people snuck across the border, but we could be talking about people who overstayed their visa.
00:58:40
Speaker
And that's what, yeah, that's what I'm thinking. A lot of it is that way. They overstayed their visa, didn't written didn't renew it. And for for years, I'm sure there's been this way. Cleveland state just ignored it because, well, I'm sure, I'm sure at some level there is some political reason to that, but really it's also a business too.
00:58:57
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It's money. Yeah. It's money. And so they're they're seeing contributing factors. Of course, the story I have, and i like to call them out whenever I can, is cleveland.com. And i there really is no story because they gave me three sentences and they want me to pay for their site, which nope, not going to do.
00:59:14
Speaker
I think that was, you're looking at Cranes. Oh, was it Cranes? Yeah. You're right, it Cranes. It is Cranes. Sorry. Yeah, I never look at them because you need a subscription and it's mostly business-based.
00:59:24
Speaker
but That's good point because it's even less than... what cleveland.com gives you yeah sorry sorry cleveland.com but i no no no they suck too yeah it still it's true because a lot times they most of their big stories are are clipped and And the funny thing about the internet is I just go start searching for it. I can find it elsewhere. So it's kind of, that's kind of the whole problem why I see with it. It's like, yeah, can't, you can't follow this up for the most part I get cranes and those kinds of things that there is a. Cranes should, should be a. There's a monetary thing to that.
00:59:53
Speaker
Yeah. But this story should be some free stuff. This is not a story that you would pay for. don't think. ah it' So contributing factors that I looked up online and on Google and they did a little AI search. ah The rules have led Trump era visa rules.
01:00:08
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One of the main factors are saying these rules have led to longer wait times, higher denial rates and new restrictions for international students impacting CSU's global partners.
01:00:20
Speaker
um um-gloing situation has added ah Global events says ongoing situations have added to the challenge for international students, student requirements. And then to your point, which I think this is a lot to do with their overall flat, flat enrollment or down is broader trends. They're saying university is also facing a dwindling number of high school student graduates.
01:00:46
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a factor that has been impacting enrollment for years. Oh, I think colleges are, I think, yeah, I think colleges are up ah shit a shit creek because the population declined.
01:01:01
Speaker
Yes. And they are calling it a, I thought it was in this, see that changes everyone. They're calling it a um enrollment cliff. They're about to hit. It's going to happen to homes too. It's starting right now. Yes. It's starting right now.
01:01:16
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And it's going to get worse before it gets better. And there's going to be a lot of, i think there's gonna be a lot of colleges that close because we've got a lot of colleges. I mean, there's a lot of colleges.
01:01:27
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One of them just closed was, uh, Notre Dame over in east side of Cleveland. Where are they at? South Euclid or something like that? I'm not sure. Yeah, they closed last year.
01:01:37
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Yeah. The enrollment was way down. They couldn't. And I think they even closed with a bunch of debt, too, or something. i remember reading an article. How the hell is a college in debt? have If your enrollment's under what your basic needs are, I guess, for a certain amount of time, you got you know I guess you're trying to float it to see if you can come back and you start borrowing money. Oh, yeah. Okay. That'd be my guess. I don't know. But yeah.
01:02:01
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There's a trend. I mean, there's i I forget what the exact numbers are, but you had, what, 60 or 80 million boomers and then 60 million Gen Xers and...
01:02:12
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40 million millennials and Gen Zers and ah and and the ah the next generation isn't looking to Gen Alpha isn't looking to um large.
01:02:28
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they they're The Gen Zers really need to get gdo get going. meet Go meet a girl. yeah Make a family. Make babies.
01:02:38
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we need We need people. we need We need bodies. We need babies. We need I won't be here, but your kids will be here, and if there's not enough people, things aren't going to look good.
01:02:49
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No. No, America is not going to be the same ah but if they if things don't change when they're my age. Yeah, looking forward. Yeah, so both Ball and Wallace and Clevis State have now cuts cut that's the staff because they both have, at best, flat enrollment.
01:03:05
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Ball and Wallace is down about 1,000 students. Yeah, this this is just the beginning. yeah Yeah, that's compared to five years ago. Yeah. And I think it's going to be a sharper decline over the next decade.
01:03:21
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Yes. yeah such seeing there I think they say within the next couple of years, they're going to hit that enrollment cliff, and it's just going to fall off. All right. It's just starting to—the sheep are just starting to jump. I keep thinking the sheep jumping off the cliff for some reason.
01:03:33
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There's that, too, and more and more people are realizing that— um college is a waste of money. So yes, uh,
01:03:44
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My work involves me in the trades, and I don't understand the amount of construction
01:03:54
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but of construction just in the Columbus area. And if you look at the um unemployment rates in the in the state, they are the highest around Columbus. And Columbus is booming, like screaming for labor. They can't get it.
01:04:07
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um So the trades are becoming more and more apparent. And more of a choice. And my favorite person on that is Mike Rowe from Mike Rowe Works, 30 Jobs guy. Yeah, yeah.
01:04:20
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he's he's been He's been doing it for 10 or 15 years. and I've been watching more of him, and he's saying it is catching on. It's becoming a bigger, bigger thing. They gave out a record five over $5 million dollars in scholarships last year.
01:04:33
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Cool. And these are small. They don't give out $50,000 scholarships. You get like eight grand to go to a trade school, you know, this kind of stuff. Yeah. And you got, you got to sign a sweat pledge. You can go to, you can go to one of those schools and not have any debt and come out and making six figures.
01:04:47
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Yes. You know? Yes. Maybe not. You're not going to get it right away, but you're going to get it pretty quickly because there's, there's nobody that wants to do it. ah You can get out of trade school.
01:05:00
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What was that? I'm sorry. Oh, no, it's okay. I was you get out of trade school and and and and easily be making $20 an hour plus. Wait, that was $20 an hour, right? Entry level, mean I mean. I meant like to get out of school, first job would be $20 some dollars an hour. Yeah, that easily.
01:05:17
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Just don't become a machinist because that's not realistic. um But as far as like welding, plumbing, carpentry. Electrical, all of it. All that, man.
01:05:28
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Go out and there and I was going to say families, teach your boys to be men. Come on. We've got too many softies out there that all they do is play video games. and get Don't make me go get another Charlie Cook clip because I have one them' on that too. but Stay away from it.
01:05:46
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But yeah, I mean, that they they want to be challenged. Men, they they need, yeah. Lift the heaviest thing in the room and move it. Mm-hmm.
01:05:57
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So we'll keep keep an eye out for that enrollment cliff. Oh, no, enrollment cliff. I wish I had Echo. It have been perfect. It's going to be fascinating to me to see what happens to these colleges, how they how they try to maneuver the... yeah
01:06:16
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Yeah, the lack of students, the lack of children. the... yeah the I can't think of the word right now. I'm still thinking of Charlie Kirk, damn it. Yeah. um
01:06:30
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I think, good. I was just going to say they're they're going to have to navigate the decline of of but people, and it's going to be interesting on how they do that.
01:06:40
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yeah Are colleges going to buy out other colleges? I don't know how this works. you know Are they going to like try to come combine things into one building yeah Yeah, that's what Cleveland State's doing.
01:06:56
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Yeah, I guess so. They're selling buildings. They're trying to sell the Wolstein Center. That thing's old, and theyve they haven't been putting any money into it in the last 10 years. It's got millions and millions of dollars deferred maintenance, so it basically needs to be torn down unless somebody wants to put a huge investment into a 30-year-old building.
01:07:11
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But the... the
01:07:16
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and I just lost my train of thought. Anyway, I guess. Well, that's what I was to say. Hurry up, please. Can we speed this up? Because I really could use a discounted rate on college in the next three years.
01:07:29
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ah When my daughter starts looking, well, starts looking in a couple of years, if not sooner. But yeah, I mean, I could use, ah I mean, because yeah i think you might be right. there There's going to be some acquisitions, for example.
01:07:40
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If anyone wants to get really disgusted at the college our college education system, higher education system, ah do a search for college endowments. And what you'll probably find is a Wikipedia with a spreadsheet of all the public universities and private, but for public universities, say Ohio, think last time I checked was probably more than a year ago.
01:08:01
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Ohio State University had over $5 billion in endowments sitting in investments in the bank. ah average The average one is $1.3 billion.
01:08:13
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Harvard and those in Yale, I think Harvard was over $40 billion. and not And I did not make a mistake and say million. It's billion dollars. Yeah, no I know, I know.
01:08:25
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So this, yeah, this is what is an endowment? So when people donate, either estate or money, and they don't use it all, it goes into an endowment fund. And then they use it to build buildings, and that's why...
01:08:37
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Columbus, that's why Ohio State, is they build something every year, if not more. Why is tuition so high? Yeah, why is it 60 grand to go to you Ohio State? Take a half a billion dollars, and for the next five to 10 years, you can pay for every student's tuition.
01:08:53
Speaker
And it you'd still have money left over, I'm pretty sure. Something like that. Anyway. wow so I think government getting you involved in loans caused... Yeah, it turns out when you can guarantee to get loans, and it really doesn't matter how much they are, they tend to go up like three, four, 500% over a 10-year period.
01:09:11
Speaker
Weird how that works. And you and you can't bankrupt it. Right, and yeah, you you can't. You're stuck. you can they'll They'll forgive you of everything but a student loan.
01:09:23
Speaker
You get that fine arts degree, and you're paying for that for a long time while you're serving coffee at... Your favorite Starbucks. Oh, yeah.
01:09:34
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Your liberal arts degree. All right. ah Moving along. These next story, next two stories are actually kind of the same, kind of linked together.
01:09:46
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Really not about the stories as much as kind of, I don't know, 30,000 foot view, maybe. So Cleveland police are underreporting.
01:09:57
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Homicides in Cleveland. No. In 2024. I know. Shocker. Breaking.
01:10:04
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And it looks like Cleveland.com is one of the ones who found it, which is another shocker. Can't believe it. Actually, that's the breaking news.
01:10:15
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Cleveland.com did some reporting. The department reported, Cleveland, Ohio, ah Cleveland Police Department reported it had 114 homicides.
01:10:27
Speaker
in city data, but listed 110 to the FBI annual crime report. And like, well, it's only four. you know, that's like two or 3%. But however, the article says, a review by cleveland.com and the plain dealer showed 126 homicides in the city, depending on the way the incidents were counted.
01:10:53
Speaker
So they are saying that number excludes a killing in the city that was investigated by ah Cleveland Metro Parks police and three other shootings from prior years where the victim had died in 2024.
01:11:07
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One of those deaths happened 40 years after the victim was shot. So I say that because kind of went, so somebody got shot 40 years ago and they, they die and they, they counted as a,
01:11:21
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in In any way, as a shooting victim, that's um they excluded it, but they're saying it came up in one of their in their results was person that got shot 40 years ago.
01:11:31
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Like, how does that even come up? It made no sense when I read that. That's kind of why i bring up because I bounced around my head for a while and was like, ouch, that hurts. So they're saying basically the Cleveland police aren't reporting it. um So it's kind of what we've talked about in the last couple of shows with, you know, JD Vance was talking about violence and the cities and the, well, crime is down. Crime is down. Why does Trump want to send troops into DC? Why does he want to send them in Chicago? And so on and so forth.
01:12:03
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Uh, it all depends on how you count it. And I don't see why, or i don't even remember, yeah I've read this and they don't really come up with, yeah, even if this is caught, so depends on how you categorize it, how,
01:12:19
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The medical examiner categorizes it and um it doesn't automatically qualify as criminal is what they're saying. That's their excuse.
01:12:29
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So I guess. Oftentimes it's clerical mistakes and I'm putting a quote or around clerical. i i think it's a, I think they do it on purpose.
01:12:43
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Yeah. ah Yeah. They do not indicate a larger pattern or compromise a small amount of overall crimes and homicides. Yeah. Okay. So in the last 10 years, homicides peaked in 2020 when Cleveland saw 190 killings, a 41% increase from the prior year medical examiner data shows um ah ah homicides have been decreasing since then, dropping to pre-COVID levels in 2024, according to the data from medical examiner's office.
01:13:14
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has it. We don't actually know and I don't trust it. and I think it's been declining. I think there was, there was a spike in 2020 2021 because of the situation we were all in.
01:13:28
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And I think it it's back down to pre COVID levels, like they're saying, but I think in the meantime, they've, I think they've changed the definition of a couple of things. So is it totally down?
01:13:41
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I think it's getting closer to what it was before, uh, COVID. And in, in, two in 2013, it was pretty, uh, it was down, we had 55 homicides. I think some, I saw that.
01:13:55
Speaker
So, uh, it was climbing from, from 2013 to, to 2019 and then a big spike in 2020, 21. And now it's starting to kind of come back down, but how much they changed the process of reporting it is.
01:14:14
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It's in question. And even taking the stats at their at face value, going to 2019 levels isn't great. No. it's It's improving. It doesn't mean, oh, crime is great. No, crime is still bad.
01:14:27
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The murders are still up. Yeah, that's that's yeah. Like you said, on the increase. the this theyre Like the mayor spins it. Like it's get it like it's our crime stats are getting much better. And it's like, I don't know, not from a long time ago.
01:14:40
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Not from 2013. It's awful. it's awful Right now, we can if we can continue continue to see a drop and it continues to go down, okay. um But I'm also going to call out BS because playing with the numbers.
01:14:53
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Yeah, yeah.
01:14:56
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Speaking of playing with the numbers, i like I said, i tie these two together because it's kind of how do they categorize this kind of stuff. And this this is a story about from 19 News about Cleveland shuts down, quote, unquote, nuisance bar in the flats.
01:15:11
Speaker
And it was Play Bar and Grill in the flats. And they had a shooting last weekend for the or the weekend of the Browns Home Opener.
01:15:23
Speaker
And they apparently were overcrowded. The fire marshal come by to shut them down. According to the owner, that that's what they wanted. They wanted to get people out because it was just way too crowded. And then as it as people exited, a shooting occurred outside.
01:15:38
Speaker
Just to cover the story real quick. um This is the third shooting in the last couple months. They had one on August 18th, a fight reported inside the bar, not a shooting. ah ah July 5th, there was a report of shooting inside the bar. And on June 6th, reporter in a play bar and girl pulled a gun on valet.
01:15:57
Speaker
So the city boarded it up and and basically is the developers pulled their lease they're shutting it down. But what I took from this story is they they consider this a mass shooting.
01:16:13
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Do you consider this a mass shooting, Tom? When you hear mass shootings are up, what do you think of? Because I know what I think
01:16:21
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It's not this. and No, well, mean, in today's world, I think of a school shooting or like something that happened in Like ah in in Vegas. Vegas, you know, something like that.
01:16:34
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ah But when you look up the definition of mass shooting, the media has a different definition than the FBI. Right. a lot of times you can look at the motive, like, you know, the motive of the Vegas shooter was...
01:16:49
Speaker
Anyway, nevermind. We don't want to bring that up because we don't know. And to me, like you're like, they're categorizing murders, whether they're criminal or not criminal and putting them in a certain category and it affects stats. So does what they consider a mass shooting. So,
01:17:06
Speaker
Let's say hypothetically, you had a somebody on campus debating kids, so are debating students, I shouldn't say kids, students, and somebody walked up and decided to try to shoot at said speaker.
01:17:22
Speaker
And then somebody else pulled their gun to try to shoot that guy. And they got in a fight and three people got shot. That's a mass shooting. Right. Right. But that's a definition by the media.
01:17:33
Speaker
it's It's anybody who gets shot, any any shooting of X amount people or more. like three i think it's three or four people or more considering a mass shooting. Okay, so ah right the media often claims that if there's somebody injured and one dead, that's a mass shooting.
01:17:50
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If there's a number, like ah three or four injured and one dead is a mass shooting. if ah But the definition of a mass shooting is actually... A mass shooting is an incident of targeted violence carried out by one or more shooters at one or more public or populated locations.
01:18:09
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Multiple victims, both injured and fatalities. fatalities are associated with the attack and both the victim and locations are chosen either at random or for their symbolic value. The event occurs within a single 24 hour period, though most ah attacks to police typically only last a few minutes. The motivation of the shooting must not correlate with gang violence or targeted militant or terroristic activity.
01:18:38
Speaker
So, That's like the official, I think FBI adds that one there has to be three people killed.
01:18:48
Speaker
Basically the same definition. this is This is gang violence. This was, yeah, what we saw was gang violence. Yeah. But but the media has ah has their own definition. i right I was going through a couple of websites. I think if you go to Britannica, it kind of explains that.
01:19:03
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I'm on the Rockefeller Institute of Government right now. there's USA facts.org also kind of explain some of this stuff, but it's the media really spends it.
01:19:16
Speaker
Yeah. So you really, I gotta be careful. Um, what, when they say, Oh, there's been 400 mass shootings. It's only June. Like, Yeah, I think they were saying there was only over 500 already or over 400. And it's only, you know, for 2025.
01:19:31
Speaker
And if you go to the Rockefeller Institute of Government mass shooting fact sheet, their last updated September 8th, 2025. Since 1966, there's been 502. Since 1966? Yeah. Same thing with school shootings.
01:19:44
Speaker
and two since nineteen sixty six yeah
01:19:51
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same thing with school shootings For example, this way is to explain to me. It's 1.30 in the morning, and two cop cars are chasing a car full of kids.
01:20:04
Speaker
And they eventually, ah what for whatever reason, get the kids. um ah ah kids they They spin the car out, and the kids go running down the street and go into a school property. There's a shootout between the cops and the kids, and the kids but assailants, whatever you want to call them.
01:20:21
Speaker
There's a shootout in the school parking lot. That would be considered a school shooting. Right. If they had a shooting, and some have told me that in lot cases, if there's a shooting down the street and a bullet hits the school, it's a school shooting.
01:20:34
Speaker
Right, if they find a bullet. Which to me actually makes sense because you actually shot the school, so it's a school shooting. But it's... said You know, this is all kind of, a if you ask me, when it whenever like when when I was finding the definition for mass shooting and that the FBI, the official definition and the media's definition of mass shootings are all different. It it doesn't make sense, but it's convenient for politicians.
01:21:05
Speaker
Yes. Because they'll they'll just use the media's. And it was never like that before. No. yeah I think the media just used the FBI's definition. Right.
01:21:16
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And I would say, you know, ah it wasn't convenient. and It wasn't convenient because there's not a like a crazy amount of him.
01:21:27
Speaker
Right. Now you can now can create all these groups with these crazy, these great, very sophisticated and important looking names. for the media to, you know, pull the, Oh, the study by the blah blah, blah, blah, blah center for prosperity and kindness and love ah says there's 9,000 shootings. You know, it's like great strategy. Great strategy. Actually. It is because people don't look into it. So that's why we're here.
01:21:54
Speaker
Yep. That's why you go past the headlines and dig a little deeper and you're amazing what you can find. one ah That's kind of the thing. So a drive-by is a mass shooting, I guess.
01:22:05
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. Yes. if If more than a couple of people get shot. like According to media. Yeah. And it depends. there' some Some would consider that gang violence, and it won't be, you know, if FBI would, there'd gang violence. so Right. wouldn't ban there Most likely.
01:22:19
Speaker
Or there'd be two stats. Mass shootings, including gang violence, mass shootings without gang violence.
01:22:27
Speaker
right. So, um I mean, since there's like 15 different examples or definitions, tell us your favorite definition of a mass shooting.
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01:23:20
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All right. Enough of the plugs. Next is an interesting story I thought we would talk about, which is the Cloverleaf schools seek to cut taxes.
01:23:34
Speaker
Although Ohio legislature's action could affect that. They got a clip here from the idea stream. Hear it.
01:23:43
Speaker
Here we go.
01:23:46
Speaker
Property values are set to increase in Medina County, but Cloverleaf schools are looking to cut property taxes this fall. However, this all depends on the Ohio legislature. I'm Connor Morris with idea stream public media.
01:23:58
Speaker
The district says it will cut the taxes it's levying by half, the hope of holding taxes flat despite a property reappraisal this year. Superintendent Daryl Kabilis says the district won't be able to cut taxes if the legislature cuts school funding.
01:24:12
Speaker
I share that I want to help. ah with the property tax burden, but some of these are just so draconian. Oh my gosh. This fall, the legislature could override several of Governor DeWine's vetoes in the state budget, which protected schools' ability to levy taxes.
01:24:29
Speaker
Kabilis says despite that, Cloverleaf is in a good position due to revenue from the Nexus gas pipeline and property values increasing recently. Connor Morris, Ideastream Public Media. So you don't need the money or you... So...
01:24:43
Speaker
So if they cap the carry over to 40% or if they allow your county auditor to lower the millage on ah on a levy, that's what you're talking about, draconian measures? Is that what you're talking about?
01:24:57
Speaker
I don't know. I'm still thinking about my testosterone level dropping you after listening to Connor Morris. Connor Morris. Well, yeah, I mean... The idea stream, i you know, what are you going to I think the math doesn't line up for me, though.
01:25:17
Speaker
you're about You want to cut taxes or funding to the school, whatever levy that is, by 50%, by half, because you have so much money.
01:25:29
Speaker
But if you put a few restrictions on, it's just, I mean, it's all it's all over with. You're not going to have enough money. I don't get it. If you've got twice as much money or 50% more, whatever you want to call it, than you need, then i i guess I guess the restrictions they want to put on you are kind of valid, aren't they?
01:25:51
Speaker
Kind of makes sense. Kind of proving the point, aren't you?
01:25:55
Speaker
How many other school districts are like they could cut it by 30%? All of them. Yes. That's the point. is you kind of prove the point of why the state legislature needs to put caps on some of this stuff because a lot of school districts are flush with cash, including Cloverleaf school districts.
01:26:15
Speaker
Cloverleaf is Medina? Is that what it is? Is it? Yeah, i think I think so. That's like one of those really really good school districts. Yeah.
01:26:26
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Early.
01:26:32
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Is.
01:26:39
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Medina County. Yep. Yep. Yep. There it is. Yeah. It's in the county of Medina. And I think the cloverleaf is like one of those. Yeah. That school district, I think, is one of the more, um let's say, yeah pardon me?
01:26:54
Speaker
Affluent? Affluent. more more More of the, people want to move there for for the school system. you know I'm on the Cloverley Schools website right now, and that is a damn fine-looking school.
01:27:06
Speaker
me check that out. Nice and shiny. I mean, they they have a flyover. its That thing's got to be five years. I mean, that's um mean that's what they want to build everywhere, because... Well, of course, you need new schools um because harvard can't you know Harvard always tears their buildings down and builds new ones because you can't learn an old building. Oh, wait, no, they don't do that.
01:27:26
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, this is the one I drive by once in a while. I mean, that this is like a major complex ah yeah it's ah campus for for high school, and I think middle school is in there too. That's been the trend. They've been trying to do like a campus thing where... It's even got elementary. Yeah, all of them on one. Depending on the size of your over your district, you can a lot of times you can do just one or two locations for all the schools in one.
01:27:48
Speaker
It's been there for a while from my from memory, but it it's it just keeps growing. So right it it is... a I think at that area to live in that area that it's not cheap to buy a house because they just go quick. It's a great school district. I think people it's high in demand.
01:28:06
Speaker
Just want to point out again, but lot of the private high schools, you you pay tens of thousands of dollars to send your kid to a ah building that's been there 60 70 years. So,
01:28:16
Speaker
great so don't need a brand new shiny building. Obviously, if you're growing in like this community is, I can see why, but in a lot of communities there, they're trying to tear down, so you know, old schools for like, well, this was, this was, ah this wasn't in, this was like rural. So they had, they had to do something.
01:28:33
Speaker
Yeah. That's not the same. I'm not saying that they did this. I just, in a lot of areas where, you know, up in Cleveland, especially cleat like we talked about before, Cleveland's basically gone through and built all new schools. Yeah. that That was probably not necessary.
01:28:44
Speaker
And I'm thinking, yeah, still hasn't really helped. doesn't really help doesn't make the kid just because the school is new and shiny doesn't make the kids want to go there anymore it's the parents that do that here's a clue shocker parents good teachers good parents yeah yeah good teachers good parents that's true i think uh We'll see what's going happen. We'll see if they end up cutting it.
01:29:08
Speaker
and all do I guess they were saying it all depends on if they can override the vetoes. Again, more propaganda to keep you from signing that petition to eliminate property taxes because we're doing something. Look.
01:29:22
Speaker
All right. We got one more on my list. um my list in couple things on this story. So here's a headline. NASA Glenn picked to help develop nuclear power for the moon.
01:29:39
Speaker
So I thought, well, this is interesting because originally I'm thinking, wow, don't you remember the NASA apocalypse we covered? I think the moon is a nuclear plant already. It's a spaceship. It's hollow.
01:29:52
Speaker
um that would okay that is okay that would be that would That would explain why we haven't actually been there. Just kidding. That's a different show. That'll get us an email, won't it? um ah So i I thought... From the CIA. Yeah.
01:30:09
Speaker
You just put it in. Now it's in the transcript. was's in the Oh my gosh. We're doomed. I mean, they we get lots of downloads from Virginia. So I was curious in who's, who in Virginia listening to Ohio podcast, but I'm hoping it's, uh, I'm actually hoping it's the local Ohio politicians.
01:30:26
Speaker
So am I.
01:30:31
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ah So I originally pulled this story because I saw it and I went, wow, here's here's a sub headline. Experts say billion dollar project could bring new business to Northeast Ohio.
NASA's Lunar Nuclear Power
01:30:41
Speaker
Because remember, during the first 100 days of the Trump administration, when they announced all these cuts and the doge and all this stuff, people were, it was a NASA apocalypse. It was a NASA Glenn apocalypse.
01:30:52
Speaker
They're cutting, they're cutting it. Oh my gosh, they're cutting it. And when we found i was mostly like, oh, what global warming stuff and climate change. And it turns out that they want to invest a bunch money possibly into NASA Glenn to help develop nuclear power on the moon. And then but I heard the report.
01:31:12
Speaker
And think of it in this. and these When you listen to this report, I'm going to play from fox news art and our fox news News Channel 5. And again, it might be the first show. We haven't had Morgan Trowell.
01:31:25
Speaker
I know. It's the second show. We didn't have her last week either. Two shows. Oh, I know. i had i had a story pulled with her, but it it just didn't make the... Yeah, it didn't make the cut this week. Well, I can't imagine why.
01:31:37
Speaker
So this is New Channel 5, and when you're listening to this report, think of what you, Tom, can think of. What is it? Your power conditioner for your amp?
01:31:48
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yeah Think of increased power bills because of increased demand in power and
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Think of that when you hear this. We do have breaking space news now. It's happening in our own backyard. NASA Glenn just landed a major space project. Major is an understatement. News 5's Clay Lepard tells us the research center in northeast Ohio is now set to oversee bringing nuclear energy to the moon and likely the billions of dollars it will take to do that.
01:32:19
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We're seeing more astronauts, more celebrities, more people heading to space. But beyond space, what is it going to take to have humans know you're stay on the moon long term?
01:32:30
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Energy. A crucial task that NASA's new number two, Amit Shathria, says is a major priority for the next steps in space. That's essential. You can't do anything. You can't build infrastructure. You can't build a sustaining presence unless you have power. Earlier this year, NASA's acting administrator announced plans to harness energy, specifically nuclear energy, and find a way to put a reactor on the moon. That is going to help us power our moon base and help us power you know everything we do on the surface. Now we're learning that work to make it happen will be overseen right here in Northeast Ohio at NASA Glenn, beating out other NASA facilities across the country. That program is going to be here, Glenn. That sounds like a billion-dollar priority for NASA Glenn in the next 5, 10 years.
01:33:14
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Massive. Yeah, we have we have we we're going to need it. The way it will work is NASA will work with private companies, in part by clearing the red tape, to help build a system together that makes at least 100 kilowatts of power on the moon. On the moon. That's enough to power around 80 homes in Ohio at once.
01:33:32
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This is a huge deal. Ask Matt Dolan at Team Neo, a regional economic development group, and this kind of project could bring in all sorts of new business and boom to the area. It means that if they want to be part of the nuclear effort to bring power to the moon, to propel to Mars, to communicate, all that happens here. and if To the moon.
01:33:55
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ah yeah Can i have one in my backyard? I'll take one in my backyard. and Can you develop one for my backyard and maybe not the moon first? So I think maybe we we could probably concentrate on maybe some nuclear power for birth
01:34:11
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I mean, just saying. We could probably use a couple in Ohio. Oh, wait. we so We had some, but we shut them think the moon's already a nuclear power plant, and they're just going to take credit for it.
01:34:24
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They've known this for a long time. Can we run an extension cord? was going to say. yeah
01:34:31
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Monoprice has a great deal in a long extension cord. We might need a couple of them, but we could probably make it work. i I saw that. i was like, oh, they're developing. i and So I just want to point out to people that we don't want to build a nuclear power plant in in America because they're dangerous.
01:34:49
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Okay. So what they but they what they want to do is they want to take a nuclear reactor and put it on a rocket ship and then fire it up into the atmosphere and then launch it to the moon. I mean, what could go wrong?
01:35:02
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What could go wrong? I have no idea. Not to say, again, not to say we shouldn't do it. I'm just saying, if you're afraid of the nuclear power plant sitting in a concrete bunker on Earth, are you going to be a little afraid of it as it's shooting to up 25, 30 miles into space?
01:35:17
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yeah Anyway. Good. I mean, great. It's going to new jobs and and and money into the area, which is cool. probably Probably some needed improvements at NASA Glenn, but.
01:35:29
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as we always As we always say, just give it a few minutes when they start freaking out, in um and especially when it has to do with somebody named Trump. Yeah. Because normally when you just, let's let it marinate for a few minutes. and they Oh, I see.
01:35:43
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So they're getting rid of this crap, and they're actually going to put something in here a where that's worth something. Oh, okay. Makes sense. Yeah. But again, i i I would like a reactor in my backyard.
01:35:56
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I'm not afraid. i don't and don't mind a third arm here or there. Use it. Get more work done.
01:36:03
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And on on after that, or on to our next segment. butchered that segue. Have they ever chosen... location in Washington, D.C. was going to move. Did they ever choose a city?
01:36:16
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What was that for? that was Well, they were moving headquarters. Oh, the headquarters. They were trying to move it out of D.C., so Cleveland was bidding for it, to Florida and Texas.
01:36:28
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And I'm trying to um it has NASA headquarters moving shows
01:36:40
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generating No, they haven't chosen it yet. I'm going discussion. It says, uh, well, the building is set to, at least in a building set to expire in 2028. there, yeah but they got to, they still got to choose. so Yeah. Cause they have to build something more.
01:36:56
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Florida, Texas and Ohio are the three they're looking Yeah. Yeah, we we did a story on that a while ago, and yeah it kind of dropped off the map there. Yeah, yeah. know So Florida and Texas both have ah massive presence already for NASA, obviously. They got launch pads in both.
01:37:14
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Well, it's the launch pads, but i think I think there's more scientists here in Cleveland. So I think we're in the running. I just... Yeah, I think it might be good to spread it out, you know? Well, there're I think that's part of the Trump administration trying to get...
01:37:29
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you know, like a lot of the federal stuff out of DC. dc Yeah. Get it out of the swamp. Yeah. FBI is supposed to, weren't they supposed to be moving to like Nebraska or something like that?
01:37:42
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Really? but didn't. don't know if I heard that or not. Well, he he said the building is closing and he wanted to move it. um When I say he, Kash Patel, wanted wanted to move it somewhere central.
01:37:55
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It's actually easier for the FBI to be located centrally somewhere yeah but yeah to get around the country. And then you you're also not infiltrated by a ideology.
01:38:08
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Or influenced by politics. You can get away from a lot of that by not. Being down the street, yeah, it's a little harder to influence them over the phone than it does in person. um Yeah, that's good. I think it would be a boom for ah ah Cleveland, for Northern Ohio. so it would Yeah, it would be great. Yeah, it be great.
01:38:27
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um Those are good jobs. Yeah, if you're going to go to college, go for something cool like that, not Chinese. Yeah. yeah
01:38:39
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right, on to the next, and on to final segment, which I've been
Local Attractions and Events
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waiting for. us It's our it's a Good Things segment. We bring good things to life.
01:38:51
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And there's really only one thing that made it on there this week, and that was from you. That was a fluffy surprise. No, it's not a fox. It's not a raccoon.
01:39:04
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It's a red panda. They got a new red panda at the Cleveland Metropark Zoo. And did they pick a name for him? I thought I saw the video. Yeah, they did. Zane or something. No, the the mom's, the mom picked the name out of how, how mama did that? I don't know. Hang on. They put they put three, three bowls of food out.
01:39:24
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And when mom came out, she, well, just everyone, she ate from first. That's the baby's name, I guess. But I, I remember all that, but remember that. Poppy was the mom and Willie was the dad. Oh, baby's girl name is Leah. Leela. Leela, excuse me. Yeah.
01:39:38
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Leela. And I've seen these. She is so cute. they are so They are very, very, very cute. very It's basically, looks like a fluffy red raccoon. um I'll tell you what, though.
01:39:50
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ah I'm like looking at this picture. Everyone go check it out. and It's on Fox 8. Just type in baby red panda. And actually a few zoos. i saw I saw stories around the country. there were there I think there was two other zoos that had baby pandas this year.
01:40:05
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oh and it must be that time of year. yeah okay they They were were all in the headlines. But man, this thing is adorable. and But you look at its paws, you're like, oh this thing can F me up just the way it is now. Yeah, like here's ah if if you're wondering what a red panda is, I've seen you could look at the picture, but I figure I pull a little ah description. So here's this.
01:40:28
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I think to this guy was recording this at the zoo while he was ah filming it. Yeah. The Red Panda. Despite its name, the Red Panda is not closely related to the Giant Panda, and despite its appearance, it is not related to the Raccoon.
01:40:45
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Instead, it's in a family of its own, a Luridae. But just like with the giant panda, in the wild, the mainstay of its diet is bamboo.
01:40:56
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But it will also eat other things like flowers and eggs. Your face. And red pandas are amazing climbers and mainly live in the trees. The red panda is listed as endangered mainly due to habitat loss and poaching for its fur coat.
01:41:16
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Yeah, I could tell that fur coat. You know, something different. It's red and furry. Yeah. I've seen them at the They're cute.
01:41:26
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The other... They look like a panda, though. No, pandas are... they're They're so cute, but they can... I think they can maul you. I don't think they attack you on the, you know, if you're by their babies, but not like we have pandas running around.
01:41:40
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Yeah. here I think we're safe. Um, there's another, I'll put good in quotes thing happening here in Northeast Ohio. Look for Chris Pine. He's filming carousel here in Northeast Ohio.
01:41:54
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Oh, right now. So people are seeing, have been seeing him around town. Uh, he's been in Star Trek and Wonder Woman. He's filming his next movie called Carousel and he's been reported to be near, um, in the Akron Canton area.
01:42:11
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So look for the, look for that. I think you could, it's, it's kind of fun to watch a studio, uh, do some filming. Yeah, it's probably not, uh,
01:42:23
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what anybody would expect how how films are made. It's amazing. It's boring. It's boring, but it it is, um it's very, ah it's there's a lot of waiting around. A lot of setup time. but Yeah. There's a lot of setup time.
01:42:35
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I mean, the these actors, they say they work, you know, 16, 20 hour days sometimes. And it's true. They need to be there for that time. But a lot of times they're spending that time in the trailer. Katie Segal's in it too, ah which ah isn't, isn't Katie Segal, the girl from Married with Children?
01:42:54
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Which one? Oh, really? The wife. but what is it She was in that biker show, too, I think. Yeah, yeah, Katie Segal. She's here, too. Oh, cool.
01:43:05
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Yeah, she's pretty she's pretty good, too. She was good in that show. Yeah, i forget the name of that show. It was bikers. It was about bikers. It was about a bike club. She was really good in that.
01:43:19
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The Kitties. I'm going to look that up right now. Damn it. Yeah, because I shouldn't. Biker show. It's at the tip my tongue. I'm like totally like. Sons of Anarchy. tos of Yes. And it was something.
01:43:32
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Yeah, the show kind of fell off the rails towards the end, I think. It kind of did, yeah. I did. I did. I'm finishing it, though. Yeah, I finished it also. And I think she was she was great in that show. Yeah.
01:43:44
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Yeah, she was pretty good. right. I guess that was a tough one. That was a tough one. But like I said, the show must go on. and
01:43:55
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and no I know. I think we're going see a turning point in this country, and I really hope it goes for the better. And I just appreciate everybody listening. Share the show with your friends. Tell them where they can get some some sanity in Ohio.
01:44:09
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