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Crooked River Cast Show 66
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- Tulsi’s Says Oh and one more thing.
- Trump signs “peace deal” with Iran.
- US strikes Cartel leader in Venezuela.
- You just pissed me off.
- Ohio man turned in by his roommate/Mom.
- Dewine signs $4B “Capital Budget” WTF is that?
- Dewine want to abolish the death penalty in Ohio. CLIP
- Cleveland say no more FLOCK cameras.
- North Olmsted police use FLOCK to track down suspect.
- RTA wants tax hike to save itself.
Good Things:
- Gas prices drop just on time.
- 4th of July events.
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Transcript
Introduction and Ohio News with Rob and Tom
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This is the Crooked River cast. And who's that? Well, that's Rob and Tom, guys trying keep track of what is going on in the great state of Ohio. This show 66 for the week
Rob's Ampeg Gear Adventure
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of June 22nd, 2026.
00:00:25
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Another week has gone Let's see what we got going on.
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the morning this morning in the morning there go now just screwed up this week all right so um the morning in the morning let's go this morning another another week another show this week might be well i think i may have done something
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some some may call stupid Others may call nostalgic or I don't know what they would call it, but I, I, I've been, I've saving up a little bit and on the lookout for amp.
00:01:15
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Oh no. You did it. Kind of, sort of. Okay. So I'd be, I'm like, look, I want to find something nice. I want to, I want something old, oldish.
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I want the old Ampex stuff. We talked about this. Oh yeah yeah. Yeah. That's a good stuff. Good stuff. So I, um, I found, um you know, I've got, I'm just taking my time. I want to find something.
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So all of a sudden one day I'm like, what about Facebook marketplace? ah Facebook marketplace is a pretty good place. Yeah. Yeah. For, uh, if you know what you're looking for.
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Yeah. Yeah. So i'm looking around there and I see this, somebody's got two Ampeg cabs on, on for, for sale. Like 50, 40 minutes from my house.
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I started looking at them. I started looking at looking up online. was a really good deal. Good. Good. Yeah. It was a really good deal. There's two. So it was two. It's a one four 10 cab. Nice.
00:02:16
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I mean, like, I, you know, the classic is the eight tens, but yes. And then it was paired with a one 15. That's a good, that's a good combination. That's what I started reading. I'm like, why would it, you know, so a lot of guys on the forums were saying, well, four 10 can be a little thin. So if you marry it with a one 15, then you, it fills in and you got lots of, was like, Oh, perfect.
00:02:38
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So basically I think I paid about $1. half as much as I should have because they were about, for both of them, you can go online. depends, but they're definitely real.
00:02:50
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Yeah. Oh yeah. I just show numbers and everything. yeah I got them here. Yeah. Yeah. They're made 2002 and that was sold to Yamaha.
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Oh, good. So these are pre-Ama, these are the ah quasi, original I mean, it's not the original, original, original, original Ampeg only, they only had the company for like four or five years before they sold it. Oh, I didn't know that. The original two guys who started it. Yeah.
00:03:14
Speaker
I watched the five amp world couple of times on Ampeg. That guy's got a great channel. Um, but I mean, up until like, you know, late seventies up until 2000, it was basically owned by the same, same company. So,
00:03:28
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It's all fun and games until you try to take them put these cabs in your basement. and Oh, I remember carrying those around. That 410 cab is in like pounds. Yeah, yeah I was like, wait, what did I just do? Oh, I played with the bass player that had the eight tens and the eight tens. If we had a second floor gig, man, he would just over top, you know, top over. And if you want to call it, we'd just kind of roll it up the stairs. Those are, I think they said in the, in the five watt world shows like 150 pounds.
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Yeah, they were crazy. yes Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he was able to do it, but it it you know I don't know why he didn't ask for help. That's why they're always so beat up, too. Yep. yeah his but his His looked like it went through a war.
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but Yeah. sounding. got sitting over here stacked up. so That's awesome. Did you get ahead yet? No. No? Okay. So you're just building something. i did buy a head though.
00:04:27
Speaker
Oh, you did? I went with a um one of their newer venture series. Is there solid state amp? oh Oh, don't owe me because it's not a tube amp.
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Speaker
I'm looking for one, but here's my, here's and this is kind of why that I brought it up. Here's my my issue with the two BAM. Okay. First of all, the one the ones you want, either you're going to get a new one. Yeah. three The Heritage one. Because the Heritage one has two inputs, one for like an early 70s, one for like a late 80s or something. Oh, okay. Because it kind of changed a little bit. Sure.
00:04:59
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You know, four grand. um Right, right. But I used one, so if I want to get one from the 70s, you're talking $2,500, which, again, is not the biggest issue because I'll just wait and save up for it. But if i i'm not I'm not buying a 40-plus-year-old piece of equipment sight unseen from across the country as they ship it.
00:05:19
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I feel that's buying an amp is tough. I can't hear it, play with it, touch it. i don't i think and don't think I'm going to buy it.
00:05:28
Speaker
It depends what you're buying it for. you collecting? or I mean, like, i don't know, you know? It's no, I have no reason for it. As as you obviously know, I have no reason to have that.
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And what I want, I want the, i want the 300 watt, you know, cause they make a 50, they make a 25, they make a hundred. No, I want the original. i want the OG 300 watt. Mm-hmm.
00:05:50
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Just keep an eye on... For no reason at all. Keep an eye on Facebook Marketplace. yeah I don't... Yeah, you could actually... i think you can save a search on there. Yeah, Yeah. And just have it... You know, it'll come up when when it happens.
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there's There's a couple of vintage guys around in Northeast Ohio that ah put stuff up ah almost every day. so Sometimes it's, you know, nothing I'm... you know, that's... i I wouldn't consider, like, worthy of collecting.
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but there are good stuff. Uh, there are good things. I mean,
COVID-19 Controversies and Fauci's Role
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they just posted something I wish I had the cash for right now. was just a little bit more than I want spend on something right now, but, uh, it was, uh, gosh, darn it. There was a couple, there was a, it was an amp. It was a, it was a vintage amp in 1963 Princeton that I was like, Oh, I want one of those.
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Anything from back then has got to be good. Uh, Yeah. I wasn't really even looking to buy. I just, it popped up and I'm like, shoot. I mean, I looked online and started looking at what each one of the, each of these caps costs. And it's about as much as what I paid for both of them. i'm like, well, I'm also just, you know, yeah. yeah And I was going back and forth. Do I want a four 10? Do I want a one 15? I know I have both. and so That's the one cool thing about marketplaces that you could find a lot of good deals on stuff like that. If you,
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If you know what to look for, because there are a lot of scammers too. Yeah. So you got you have to be careful, especially with guitars, because you it's it's easy to find a ah duplicate and call it, you know, like let's say you're looking for a Gibson Les Paul.
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There's a lot of copies out there that you don't know what they to look for, you're you're really good. Yeah. Really good. Yeah, he had pictures of the back serial numbers and everything on it. So I was able to actually look it up and see, you know, when they were made, what kind of, all that kind of stuff. So he's selling his dad's, a lot of his dad's equipment. He's starting to play bass, this guy. And his dad passed away a couple years ago.
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So it was it was cool. He's got a lot. he had ah He had the ah ah setup I wanted. He had the 8, not the, I want the 810, but um he had that whole setup. yeah I'm like, ah they didn't ask him how much he wanted for.
00:07:58
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Oh, he had the 8-ton? Yeah, he showed me a picture of what he had left in a room, and it's just a room pack. He's got like 30 bases in there, plus a bunch of amps and stuff and cabs. Somebody's going to be doing that with my stuff someday. Yeah, yeah.
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yeah it was pretty cool. I was stunned. Now I can't wait to... So yeah, then I found a Venture 300 water head. and that's an Ampeg Ampeg Venture Series yeah they came out there a few years ago okay yeah so I figured I'd just get me going you know that'll that'll be good plus but you know those big ones they have fans on them they're kind of they're loud I mean not loud because on the stage because you have an 810 yeah yeah but you don't usually hear it anyway no yeah that's true actually but for a studio for in your house people complain that you just hear a fan yeah okay loud fan your studio's not right either then
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Well, mean, home. If you're at home, them they were saying. In the studio, you won't notice it because you could put it in a different room. Right? Right. what you're saying? Yeah. But for a home, they're saying that you... Especially, and that's what started that. I was good looking at that little stack that they that micro. Mm-hmm. And everybody's complaining great app except for the fan.
00:09:07
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Oh, that's got a fan? Yeah. That's why it's like a solid state. It's got a fan? What the heck? Where they just try to be nostalgic and put a fan in it to make it... Yeah, that is weird. I wouldn't have ah ever dreamt of that. gee Yeah, that's why it deterred me from getting it.
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So anyway, I could go on, but let's get to the news. Let's get to the news because, you know, it's the news. I said, because, you know, it's the news and there's always great stuff happening. And I guess we found out when Tulsi's last day is.
00:09:37
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Yeah. and that was It already happened. It was last last last Friday. Yeah. ah Because she she dropped one last video. she She was like Steve Jobs. She said, oh, one more thing.
00:09:51
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and I was hoping for more, but this is a good one. This is pretty good. This is um it's my work. It's everything we suspected. Yeah. Yeah. Let's hear got a couple. ah i cut it up a little bit because it's it's a five-minute video. I got a couple minutes from each or ah from it.
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Let's hear what what she has to say. This is ah Tulsi on Fauci.
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Or not. Oh, that's why. Before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Fauci, as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, provided millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain of function research on bat corona coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, work which is now widely viewed as the so source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic.
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Now in support of President Trump's maximum transparency mandate, today on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I'm releasing never before seen communications and documents that expose exactly how Fauci worked with politicized career leadership in the intelligence community to suppress the truth about his actions, the virus's lab leak origins, and his role in directing US funding for this dangerous research that caused immeasurable harm and countless lost lives.
00:11:17
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Now these documents expose Fauci's direct role in influencing and manipulating IC assessments on COVID-19 and how Fauci lied to Congress in 2024 when under oath, he denied knowledge of or participation in discussions with intelligence officials about viral research.
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We also received testimony from multiple intelligence community whistleblowers who reported retaliation for challenging the intelligence community's manipulation of intelligence on the virus's origins. Once again, revealing a clear pattern of suppressing dissent, silencing critics, and burying the truth.
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Yes, bearing the truth. And I'm just realizing that I not pull over a clip from I'm Fauci. Uh-oh. Yeah, so Tulsi is saying, there here it is.
00:12:13
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See if I can still sneak it in here. um So Tulsi is saying, I mean, all the like you said, all the things that that we were saying yeah early on in twenty and into like late 2020, I think, was it?
00:12:30
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Yeah. That we were talking about this? This one stuff started coming out? Once the first couple of months started, Once he started getting into the media more and saying saying stupid stuff like two masks are good.
00:12:43
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or i think Or no, we don't need a mask. And then a week later, need masks. And then a few weeks later, two masks. There was too many flip-flopping things. It was almost like he would say the truth and then he'd get.
00:12:57
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I guess maybe the left started slapping him back and then he would come and kind of change his comments. If if I remember right. I mean, it's been a while now. I do have another clip from Tulsi, but here, let's hear from, it's a little montage of Fauci in front of Congress. Let's see what he had to say. Cause he was, he was quite clear, quite clear.
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The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute. We now know that a bat coronavirus and was enhanced in a lab. The National Institutes of Health acknowledged that it funded research of a virus that was studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The experiment, unexpectedly, we're told, made a bat coronavirus more contagious than the original naturally- You pick an animal virus and you increase its transibility to humans. right You're saying that's not gain of function. yeah That is correct. And and Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. And I want to say that officially.
00:13:59
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You do not know what you are talking about. They took animal viruses that only occur in animals and they increased their transmissibility to humans. How you can say that is not gain of function? It is not.
00:14:12
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What we're talking about now is the gain of function research in studies that increase predominantly the transmissibility as well as pathogenesis and alteration of host range of the virus. It could have been lying here, Senator. It is you.
00:14:30
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I'd have to laugh at that. I should be prosecuted.
00:14:38
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Oh, he was, he was dodging that so badly. So i I asked Google define gain of function research. Gain of function research refers to medical and biological studies that genetically alter an organism, often a virus or bacteria to give it new or enhanced abilities.
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While it can encompass
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artificial or cellular modification in vi ah virology, it typically involves enhancing a pathogen's transmissibility, virulence, or host range.
00:15:23
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pretty Pretty simple. arrogant Yeah. You know what? Pool boy did a pretty good job on describing what Fauci was doing ah when Rand Paul was questioning him.
00:15:35
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Yeah. He would. so that Oh, you know, Tim Pool would always say, yeah. He would say, no, we're not doing gain of function and then give a definition of what they're doing.
00:15:48
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But basically it was kind of like, do you have a door on your house? oh No, I don't have a door on my house. I have a wooden plank that hangs on hinges has enough with a mechanism that you turn to open and close.
00:16:05
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It's not a door. So he he would say, we're not doing gain-of-functional research. What we're doing is we're enhancing the architectural and cellular modifications in biology. It typically involves enhancing. Basically, that's what he was doing. And it's like the news just was not, ah I guess, reporters, i you know, the...
00:16:26
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the fake news just was not reporting it that way. And, uh, so we'll go on to how he did this. This is what Tulsi is saying and in this clip here.
00:16:37
Speaker
Dr. Fauci's close relationships with the intelligence community enabled him to assume three key roles that shield him from 40 years scrutiny in government. First, Dr. Fauci funded dangerous gain of function coronavirus research linked to big pharma and their pursuit of universal vaccines worth trillions of dollars. Second, Dr. Fauci was the behind the scenes advisor who alongside his handpicked so-called experts pushed the intelligence community to endorse a natural animal origin to hide his dangerous gain of function research that he funded using taxpayer dollars. All of this in a deliberate attempt to cover up the truth and shift the blame and attention away from Fauci's own actions.
00:17:24
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Third, Dr. Fauci became the nation's pandemic pundit, and he publicly pushed lies, disinformation, and censorship using every platform available.
00:17:36
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Now, according to hundreds of reviewed emails, which are included in this release, the intelligence community almost always incorporated Fauci's recommendations.
00:17:48
Speaker
Huh. Yeah, that was when was getting on TV saying, you don't need a mask. Now you need a mask. Yeah. Yeah. Know what three mask is is better. He'd laugh and say, no, you know, you only need one mask. And then like a day later, not two masks makes sense. Why not?
00:18:07
Speaker
Just stupid. shot and b You know what? I got it. You know, I went to a concert this past. ah a couple of nights ago. okay And I and it was at Kane Park, which is in Cleveland Heights.
00:18:23
Speaker
which is a great place to see a show. Yeah. I heard they're bringing a lot of shows back there. ah Good. i haven't been there and it's been probably 25 years since the last time i was there. And It's in Cleveland Heights. So after I drove past a couple of ah rainbow intersections.
00:18:41
Speaker
Oh, that's right. yeah I found i found the the park and it's kind of cool because it's kind of set in the neighborhood. And there's a lot of locals apparently that work there.
00:18:53
Speaker
And you know, I saw a girl there working at the bar that was wearing a mask. A young girl who's probably, probably when that all started, All she's been hearing is that Trump is Hitler and, you know, ah Republicans are evil or something.
00:19:13
Speaker
Still wearing a mask. Perfectly healthy young lady. Yeah, the closest liquor store to my house. The chicken. I mean, she's younger than me. She's probably in her 30s, early 30s, maybe late 20s, early 30s. She wears a mask and has not taken.
00:19:31
Speaker
Every time I've gone in there in the last five years. Yeah. Yeah. I see, I see one at Home Depot in my neighborhood too. It's crazy, man. This guy has ruined lives. Yes. Yes. I have PTSD from, from masks. have a buddy, have a buddy at work that he came in wearing one the other day, which was like, what? But he's, he's kind of going through little thing right now called cancer.
00:19:56
Speaker
So I said, I did, even questioned me about the lunch. I said, I said, hey, why, why you wearing that? He goes, well, the doctors are saying anything will help. i was like, okay. I go, he goes, yeah, I know. He's like, he's like, but you know, large droplets, that kind of stuff. He's like, I'm immunally compromised now. So they're saying, you know, try, try to do anything you can to. That makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:16
Speaker
He goes, yeah, it's not going to catch everything, but it it will catch like large stuff. Something spitting in my face and stuff like that. He's like, anything will help right now at at this point. So i was like, yeah, there's, there's a reason to wear one. Yeah.
00:20:28
Speaker
So, but, but it's not when you're not a perfectly healthy young adult.
00:20:35
Speaker
there's it's It's like some kind of signaling. It's like, I am not Republican or MAGA or whatever. It's just a weird thing, man. Yeah. yeah It's a virtue signal. Look at me. I'm being safe.
00:20:47
Speaker
I care about you. We're literally five years past the pandemic. you know, the, probably the worst part of the pandemic, if you want to call it that.
00:20:59
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Yeah. I don't know, man. So hopefully all I want for Christmas is Fauci in chains. Let me start a song like that. All I want for Christmas is Fauci in a jail cell.
00:21:13
Speaker
I want him perp walked in an orange suit. Somewhere in America, please. This guy needs to be hung up. I think the quote, what was the post I put up? He should be hung up by his very small and insignificant scrotum.
00:21:29
Speaker
I'd like to see i like to see him as ah some of the beagles that he tortured. Yeah, so let's put his head in. but would they do? Put their heads into a box full of like fleas or something?
00:21:41
Speaker
I forget what kind of ah insect it was, but it just ate the... Mosquitoes or something? yeah It could have been mosquitoes. it it would um Basically, it ate the you know dog's face.
00:21:52
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. And then nobody seemed to care. Alton Peta didn't seem to have an outrage about that. don't I don't remember. I don't recall seeing them protesting,
00:22:03
Speaker
but you but if we want to eat beef, definitely going to protest. So let's see what this comes up of it. I, I'm not going to hold my breath to be honest with you. I'm not because just the way things go, he's got, he's, he was in, in government for 40 plus years. He's got friends in high places.
00:22:22
Speaker
The first thing he need they need to do is actually remove the pardon. It was a blank blanket pardon for the last 10 years. It was an auto pen pardon. Yes. So they they need they need to take that to court and remove that, and then they can go after and But will they? Hell no.
00:22:42
Speaker
No, probably not. I don't know if you'll be able to get anybody to... I don't know. He he was in there for 50 years. There's no way. legal aspects to the the pardon thing. I'm not sure but what they can actually do.
00:22:57
Speaker
No, I think they can because it was um Rand Paul posted something. He's like, this was unconstitutional because they didn't specify what crimes. It was just kind of like a blanket pardon for the last 10 years. So it doesn't specify any crimes.
Middle East Politics and US Interventions
00:23:12
Speaker
And ah it was signed by AutoPen. So did Biden even know about it? It could have just been the administration doing that. I mean, i think we know the answer to that.
00:23:25
Speaker
Yeah, no, we do. But I'm just saying there's a way, I think if they really wanted to, they could go after that. How do you pardon somebody who hasn't committed a crime in your opinion? And, you know, like how does Biden, a president, anybody pardon somebody who has, how do you, how can you, but I mean, the definition of pardoning is like, you know, abolishing or expunging their, their crime.
00:23:48
Speaker
but I would have respected them more if, if they said, yeah, we pardon him for lying to Congress than just a blanket. Yeah. It's like, uh, to me legally, that's, that's crazy because i don't know. Maybe it's not, I mean, I'm like making sense of it, but he's like, um, but like you said, it's not a door. It's like, I didn't, we're pardoning you for doing nothing. It's okay. Okay.
00:24:12
Speaker
Okay. Well, just just in case. It's just crazy. Anyway. Forget it. So we'll see. hey Sure. We'll see what what comes of it. But again, don't hold your breath. That one, considering it was signed by Autopen, just sounds like Fauci called somebody up and said, hey, can you do this?
00:24:26
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think before we're finding out most of the pardons were Autopen pardons, except for, you know, con conveniently, Hunters apparently wasn't. Well, that's probably the only one he knew about.
00:24:38
Speaker
Probably. right, so we'll keep an eye on it again. See who takes over for Tulsi and see how they run with this. Oh, yeah. Did they ever say who will be?
00:24:50
Speaker
Oh, yeah, they did. they were They're trying to get that... ah ah ah ah they they just kicked him They just kicked him out of it, and now he put him back in Yeah. pop It starts with a P, right? Oh, I forget. Anyway. New director...
00:25:11
Speaker
is Bill Palt. Yeah. Assume the acting, he's, he's acting director. Right. Congress. Jay Clayton.
00:25:22
Speaker
President Trump has selected Jay Clayton as his nominee for permanent position. Clayton's. And I think he went back to Palt because of, ah well, well, maybe we should bring that up some other time. Cause I don't have all the details here. Yeah. They didn't like it cause they, they say he doesn't have any experience or whatever. Okay.
00:25:43
Speaker
Keep moving. So next we have ah next, ah the next national story, I guess would be that everybody's probably chewing on is we've we've got an agreement signed.
00:25:54
Speaker
The peace deal in quotes, because it's really not a peace deal yet. It's, it's a memorandum. um yeah Yeah. Memorandum of what they call it. Memorandum of understanding, which is the first steps of a peace deal.
00:26:06
Speaker
It's already on the skids. Something happened this morning or yesterday that I didn't see. Yesterday. yesterday Well, okay, let me, uh, let's go through this. A 14 point text of the Islamabad memorandum of understanding.
00:26:22
Speaker
And it was read to reporters, senior administration by a senior administration official has got 14 points. Obviously we're not gonna go through all of them. couple of big ones are, they're going to remove sanctions.
00:26:34
Speaker
and well you know obviously sign is immediately in permanent termination of military operations and on all fronts including lebanon which is a big sticking point for israel i think everybody's going you can't tell israel what to do actually we can and we do That's, that's why we give them so much money so we can control them. Sovereignty, ah bunch of stuff about Lebanon to basically Israel and Israel Lebanon need stop fighting. But I, hopefully without the support from Iran, the Lebanon won't be able to attack. That's kind of the whole point is their proxies need to stop too as well, I guess, as well as ours do, which is Israel.
00:27:11
Speaker
A bunch of stuff here. I mean, just go through it if you really want to know. it's it's got We got an Ohio Press Network story. There's a couple different ones out there. We kind of actually go through point by point.
00:27:22
Speaker
think one of the biggest sticky points is people are are pissed because Trump's giving him $300 billion. He just, oh my God, that's worse than Obama. Yes. like Well, speaking of pool boy.
00:27:35
Speaker
he broke it down pretty simply. Like, yeah, this is what we do. It's called liberal world order whatever. was it called? The, ah forgot. New world, new world order or whatever this we, we, we, we we give you money. now Now we have your, our boot on your neck and it's not, it's not gonna America's money. It's, it's the entertain in international monetary funds going to give them money.
00:27:57
Speaker
That way the, the UN n is boot is on their head, on their neck. That's just what we do. i don't know if people have noticed this is kind of the, You either take our our foreign aid or we ah throw you out of office or kill you. That's just kind works.
00:28:12
Speaker
Well, I think we got what we wanted. We killed the entire leadership. What, 40, 50 people? So now, ah yeah, no, it makes sense.
00:28:23
Speaker
Anyways, yesterday, he it's actually about 23 hours ago. We didn't meet out of desperation. Iran did. They are finished. We'll play out the 60 days. They get no money, not 10 cents.
00:28:37
Speaker
So I guess there was some scuttle about something or other. And that's what he, so I think, uh, hopefully the oil prices keep coming down.
00:28:49
Speaker
They have been as that. i saw yesterday, and ship yesterday they ticked up just a little bit, just a, just a tiny bit. So if you're interested in what else there is in there, check out the article because there's a bunch of stuff in there. I'm just trying to make sure there's no, nothing else. I think the biggest consider our biggest complaint everybody has is the money.
00:29:13
Speaker
And I'm i'm like $300 billion dollars for Greek construction, economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran. ah finalized part of the deal within 60 days, all required licenses, waivers, and permissions needed.
00:29:28
Speaker
would be granted by the United States of America. yeah So it's under negotiation. Let's see how this plays out. I guess more there is to say about it.
00:29:40
Speaker
We signed a deal with terrorists. It'll work out great. Yeah, I guess we'll just keep killing them until someone agree until someone agrees to the deal. I mean. Exactly.
00:29:51
Speaker
it is It is regime change. It's not even regime change. That's the thing. It's still the same regime. It's just, yeah, yeah we took out 50 of their top people.
00:30:04
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not sure what else. I mean, besides troops on the ground, that's about all you can do. Yep. And let's it's keep bombing. Let's not do that. What? Troops on the ground. No, no. yeah I don't think that's even in the cards. I think i think the the the next step was taking the Karg Island to their port.
00:30:25
Speaker
Right. that would have been That would have been, I think, troops, obviously troops on the ground. That would have been probably not great, but I guess we shall see. Hopefully they can get this deal signed and don't have, again, not holding my breath. Let's see.
00:30:45
Speaker
Oh, and on the, did I, I skipped, I didn't even put that, um, such a bonehead. Well, and I'll pull it over now. So i was going to put in an article on it, but you have it in your notes. Here it is.
00:30:57
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Tom's notes. And that is, oh yeah. So thought we'd mention this, but of course i didn't put it in the, uh, put in the show notes, but.
00:31:08
Speaker
United States, as through all this commotion, what's going on with Tulsi and Iran and, you know, um I don't know, the the reflecting pole in D.C., which is extremely important, apparently.
00:31:21
Speaker
um we We bombed a cartel member in Venezuela. that Is that right? Yeah, Venezuela. Yeah, yeah. Stop the guy. Apparently, the infamous leader of Tren de Aragua.
00:31:35
Speaker
What was his name? they say his name in here? It doesn't matter because he's dead. ah Yeah, we bombed his house. Supposedly killed him. ah with you know Strangely enough, Venezuela didn't have a problem with it.
00:31:50
Speaker
Nino Guerrero. There it is. Oh, was right before you. Yeah. Nino Guerrero, the infamous leader. So just thought we'd throw that out there because I don't think anybody, I think most people miss that because I did. I so i saw a little bit of it and then I saw your post that you had shared with that. So that's, you know, kind of a message to Mexico.
00:32:15
Speaker
Oh, i yeah. That's what a lot of people are saying. Hey, i guess so yeah this is this is what you have to deal with.
Local Ohio Crime and Law Enforcement Updates
00:32:20
Speaker
Let's, ah you know, work with us or you can work against us. And this is not the guy that you should be working against.
00:32:29
Speaker
This is the biggest thing because he's very transactional, if anyone's have noticed. um Anything else about that? I guess that's. No, it was just funny because nobody even mentioned it. No, there was even barely even covered.
00:32:44
Speaker
Oh, you just pulled it in and I just pulled it into notes. Oh, good. We have a double, double noted. but definitely can't miss it. All right. Moving on. Let's hit some, ah well, before we hit some Ohio stuff here, it's funny because I flagged this too. and Before I can get into the notes, you had it in your notes. Oh, no i'm kidding. Okay. Yeah, it's funny. So this is, let's see, let me pull this up here make sure. Yeah, here it is Who is this guy? It says Marin County Sheriff Billy Woods.
00:33:12
Speaker
He explodes on reporters. And man, it this happens all the time. And I'm so glad. I wish I want this guy to be my sheriff. Most mostly. This is this is like a real sheriff.
00:33:24
Speaker
Yes. The kind you would vote for the kind I would vote for, for sure. Which is what they do in Florida, I believe, which is probably why he's there. Yeah. Well, they do here in Ohio, except for Cuyahoga. Cuyahoga County.
00:33:35
Speaker
Cahaga County. Now compare, i wish ah you know, I should have contrasted the Cahaga County Sheriff to this guy, but let's, let's see what he has to say. Yeah. would have been a great. So they're at a press conference. Apparently they found some, some sex offenders.
00:33:49
Speaker
Yeah. They're having a press conference on busting some sex offenders. And as usual, the, the media gets bored with questioning and wants to talk about something else. And, uh, and here's, here's the exchange.
00:34:01
Speaker
for For the Attorney General and Colonel Howes, if we're able to ask a couple off topic questions specifically about the wrongful arrest of Lindsey Isaacs in Volusia County. I understand that she and her criminal attorney met with your office, Ms. Rothmeier, just a couple days ago. How did that meeting go? And do you think that Lindsey Isaacs deserves an apology? And what's the status of those two FHB troopers that are named in the civil rights?
00:34:24
Speaker
All right, so you just pissed me off. Now, I'll let him decide if he's going to answer your question. But ah all this shit, you want to ask him about some other case? We're talking about children. Now, if you're getting that from one of your people that are typically is behind the phones that you all have, want you to ask that question, tell them to have the gonads to come here and ask me that question.
00:34:45
Speaker
That is what you need to be focused on. To be fair, we did ask about that. where It doesn't make a difference. I'm not here to talk about what FHP did. I'm here to talk about what they did. Nothing else. Let's get that abundantly clear because it happens. It happens to this poor man all the time.
00:35:01
Speaker
You want to go off on a tangent. This press conference is solely for those pieces of shit that are right there. Yeah. Are we clear?
00:35:16
Speaker
We're totally clear. We're so clear. ah handled it. And that's the bottom line. stone cold so Yes.
00:35:29
Speaker
Yes. Yes, and then you have a comment here. is equal the key This press conference is solely for these pieces of shit, right? It says they were announced 58 arrests from Operation Bad Habits, a week-long sting where detectives posed as children aged 7 to 15 to catch online predators, including teachers, coaches, and parents.
00:35:52
Speaker
And that guy's trying to pull that. yeah Even talking about the wrongful rant. Yeah.
00:35:59
Speaker
Shut it. Shut it. They should quietly put his name on the list. Yes. that was worth the That was worth it. ah like o I got to put this in the show. And then like, oh, Tom already has it. Cool. All right. So I got my, ah
00:36:21
Speaker
oh, my stuff's all messed up now. Here we go. Okay. So next we have, well,
00:36:27
Speaker
We had a fight, Tom. A fight? Yeah, we had a usv UFC fight over the weekend. Yeah. Yeah, we talked about it a little bit last week and all the hoopla over it. well i thought yeah I thought first, before we got into the Ohio, how Ohio it it was involved, how Ohio got itself involved in the UFC fight, I thought we would play a highlight from that.
00:36:51
Speaker
here's Here's what I thought was the highlight of the show, of the event. Okay. And here we got Joss, I think Hakik is his name. Let's hear what he has to say after after the concert. or after Lastly, Michelle Obama is a man.
00:37:10
Speaker
Am I right, America? I thought that was hilarious. So we did too. I think he posted somewhere I saw like, oh, it's okay to call this person a Nazi and this person's a racist and this person's a homophobe, but don but don't call them don't call him a man. that's just He actually responded you know because people were calling him Melania and an escort. and Oh, that was the thing. Yeah, Melania's an escort.
00:37:36
Speaker
Yeah, so it's kind of, ozy yeah, just shut up. Yeah. I mean, it was tacky, but you sometimes tacky is just fun. It was funny, and... I don't know. The the reaction is, um, is telling. Let's put it that way. doing Um, anyway, so, uh, there's still no pictures of her pregnant.
Conspiracy Theories and Public Figures
00:37:59
Speaker
Hmm. Good point. It's weird, right? Very weird. What do you think? Do you think, go ahead. Oh, I, I, I, you know, like those videos of her that make it look like she has something dangling.
00:38:12
Speaker
I, I don't really, because that could be whatever. Like, I don't know. But it is weird that there's no pictures of her ever pregnant.
00:38:23
Speaker
I don't need any of that stuff. I just need to, I think there's a video or picture of them kayaking or something. And she's in the front. She's in the front. Which is where the person, the strongest person should go. Well, she's definitely stronger than him.
00:38:37
Speaker
Oh my God, her arms. And i mean, she, I'm sorry if you put her in the right light.
00:38:45
Speaker
she does not look very female to me. That doesn't mean she's not. I'm just saying, like, she's taller than Barack. She's bigger than Barack. Yeah, yeah. You know, I don't know. what's But i just decided i just I just love the troll. i don't I don't really care if she is or if she isn't, but I think it's hilarious that everybody feels like. Well, I care if she is a guy.
00:39:07
Speaker
there and this Because we got, I mean, my goodness, we got the wool pulled over our eyes for a hundred years. Yeah. we along Or did we? I mean, if that's, yes, I see what you're saying, but I guess on the grand scheme of things, and the wool putting full of her eyes on that is is minor compared to whatever.
00:39:28
Speaker
I mean, we just talked about Fauci, right? so Did Joan Rivers know something? Oh, that's right. How about that? Yeah, no I know. I should have pulled the clip. Should have pulled that clip. Yeah. yeah she She told news that and she was, i I don't know where she was going, but kind of stopped in the street and she said, yeah,
00:39:46
Speaker
She said Michelle Obama's a man. was getting out of her car. Yeah. remember video. It's in my head. And then she's dead like three days later. Yeah. Convenient. Five days.
00:39:57
Speaker
Something like that. Let us know what you think about Michelle Obama's gender. Send us an email, crookedrivercast at gmail.com. Check out the website, crookedrivercast.com. We've got the blog there.
00:40:11
Speaker
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00:40:26
Speaker
know things that we miss, very local stuff, which is very cool. So keep it coming. We will ah sometimes just hold on to those and compile them for a bigger story. So don't be discouraged. But yes, shoot us your emails, shoot us your feedback. Let us know how we're doing and share the show. Leave a comment if you don't mind.
00:40:42
Speaker
Tell your friends. We really would appreciate it. Moving along. UFC. What's Ohio's connection? Well, there was a terror plot. I know if anybody heard. And ah you know what? It's funny. Like, I didn't I don't know.
00:40:59
Speaker
What they did on regular news on mainstream news, what they said about it. Even my mom knew about it. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. well I was sitting down with them for dinner and she brought it up and I was like, oh they must've talked about it on, um, you know, local news.
00:41:17
Speaker
Yeah. I have a clip here. Let's check it out. This is actually Fox, Fox eight, uh, Cleveland, but i think, Oh, okay. I don't know if it's their local or they're pulling it through the networks. I don't recognize the guy. Um, but it could be a weekend, you know?
00:41:31
Speaker
So here is Fox eight, the connection, the Ohio connection. Cause we're number one. Yes. It's start Everything started in Ohio. The FBI is expecting to make more arrests in connection with an alleged terror plot at the UFC fight on the White House lawn over the weekend. And now we're learning that the whole case started in Ohio. 19-year-old Tyson Proper of Franklin County was the first person arrested. Police say they were contacted by his parents who were concerned that he was planning to go to D.C. and meet up with people he met online for what he called a mission. and that he recently spent $3,000 on a new shotgun, a rifle, lots of ammunition, along with other items.
00:42:10
Speaker
Proper has agreed to stay in jail while his case plays out. Yeah, he doesn't want to get spanked by his mommy ah slash roommate. so he He did blab to his mom a little bit too much.
00:42:21
Speaker
I mean, if you're planning something like this. ah I mean, what what are the other items that he purchased? I'd like to know what those are. ah But they did arrest more. It looked like, i I'm sorry, I missed it out on the audio there, but he bought two guns, so a rifle and a shotgun and a lot of ammo.
00:42:40
Speaker
ammo, extra magazines, ballistic plates, and camping gear. There you go That was the other items he was talking about. Because he says, and other items. I'm like, well, what's that? okay. Yeah. Vests and armor body armor and stuff like that.
00:42:53
Speaker
So this was early in the week. We found this. This is early last week and they have arrested more. i think they got four people so far. And let's hear. This is a Fox eight or Fox news. Excuse me. Fox news on the the UFC terror ringleader. And well, there's a convenient little tidbit about his guy. Let's hear Here's the file folder that we have on him charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit violence on White white House grounds and an illegal alien from Mexico. He was granted DACA, which is the dreamer. guy
00:43:28
Speaker
That was in 2014 under the Obama administration. He's quite smiley there in his mugshot. What else do you know? Well, thanks, Dana. You know, I know that I'm very proud of our Douglas County Sheriff's Office investigators that work collaboratively with our partners in the Omaha Police Department, State Patrol, to help assist this FBI-led investigation against Abram Alvarez. I mean, this this terrorist plot could have endangered the lives of multiple people at the UFC 250 event at the White House that day, and it could have even endangered the life of the president.
00:44:02
Speaker
And what's frustrating for me as sheriff, Dana, as someone who has a statutory obligation to keep my community safe, is that, you know, Alvarez never should have been here to begin with. He shouldn't have been in Omaha or in Nebraska. He was an illegal immigrant who overstayed a visa in 2001. Unfortunately, he was granted DACA status by the Obama administration in 2014. And I think we're seeing now how that policy ultimately placed our nation and our my community at risk. So he's been here since he was a little kid.
00:44:33
Speaker
Another sheriff I'd vote for.
00:44:36
Speaker
so I don't know. Do you you you see the, he is his, his, his mugshot is. If, if you painted his hair red. yeah. He would look like a clown.
00:44:47
Speaker
Carrot top. Yeah. ah No, no. Like, ah yeah, kind of. But, uh, it's almost like he, like, uh, I forget which clown it was that hair had hair like that. That was red.
00:44:58
Speaker
Yeah. Whatever. He's, he's a creep. Rusty. Yeah, Krusty the Clown. And this guy from Ohio, if you think about it, he's only 19, Tyson proper.
00:45:11
Speaker
four seventy So when when Trump came down the escalator, he was, what, nine years old? Mm-hmm. So the news has been telling him, the media has been telling him that... ah He's the devil, basically.
00:45:26
Speaker
Yes. Yes. All that time. That's why I just don't get why people can't see this more clearly. When, if yeah if Hitler was literally in the White House, shouldn't somebody do something? Like, if if you say it enough times, the crazy people will actually believe it.
00:45:46
Speaker
Well, yeah, this is, well, we're on our third or fourth, fifth time that we know it. Fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, eighth, whatever. I don't think these guys were ever going to get close to it. I think they're, they're basically just LARPers.
00:45:59
Speaker
Um, but I mean, he was blabbing to his mom. He's going to go on a mission to DC. Like, well, if you look at it his mugshot, he kind of, he he looked like, he looks like he got, uh, nicked by the retard gene. Yeah. He got dropped on his head a little bit. Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:15
Speaker
But the ringleader, he's very happy to be arrested apparently. So i think they got four guys on this plot. All started with a guy from Ohio because he's running his mouth. Almost like he wanted to get caught.
00:46:27
Speaker
And we'll see what these guys, these guys are going probably go away for quite some time.
Ohio's Death Penalty Debate and Governor's Stance
00:46:32
Speaker
I'd imagine. I would think so. Yeah, for life. Yeah. It could. So I think, I think i was talking, when i was listening to Tim Pool, they said ah their plan was to think like Oh, it was to explode some drones over the crowd, which would cause them to disperse, scare a bunch of people into running.
00:46:57
Speaker
And then they were going to have snipers on rooftops, which I don't know how they would have got onto to rooftops. But ah they would have snipers on rooftops shooting at the crowd.
00:47:07
Speaker
we We do know that FBI doesn't, and the Secret Service, they don't worry about rooftops. Apparently, yeah. Or, that you know, who knows? it I guess you could go out out of a hotel window or something, but those windows probably around there don't open up.
00:47:25
Speaker
Who knows? I don't think there's any hotels around there. That's true, too. Yeah. Yeah, they would they would have to go on the roof of some government building because basically surrounding the entire White House is like almost all government buildings are close to it. You know, there's there are some other things there, but...
00:47:40
Speaker
ah yeah They didn't really have a plan, but, but yeah, it doesn't matter. you're You're going down. It's, they had a plan that wasn't executable, I guess. I don't think it was. Yeah.
00:47:52
Speaker
don't think it was, but still, I mean, yeah, but you know what? They could pull something like that off somewhere else. Yeah, but even even a failed plot is going to, you could hurt, you know. Yeah, yeah, that's true. They're going to explode drones over 4,000 people. Plus there there was, what, 80,000 or 90,000 people just outside that that were watching on the screen.
00:48:11
Speaker
Right. Actually heard Rogan describe in one his latest it pretty awesome. Oh, my gosh. He was, yeah, talk about being pumped. I can imagine that was the first time in UFC history that all seven matches ended in knockout.
00:48:25
Speaker
And a storm that was coming split into two and went right around DC. awesome What the hell was that? And gave it some of the greatest imagery you've seen with sun setting and storm clouds and lightning strikes. Lightning strike. It was, it was was pretty cool. Pretty awesome. Yeah. Um,
00:48:47
Speaker
There's that. I guess we'll follow up there's any new news on that, but I can't imagine there's anything for while. think he's scheduled for like the end preliminary hearing on June 29th.
00:48:59
Speaker
Which will be nothing. So it'll be a few months before you hear anything, probably. Yeah. All right. Let's go down to some more Ohio, Ohio stuff. ah We just, we touched on this last week. The wine signs $4 billion dollars capital budget.
00:49:14
Speaker
What the hell is that? yeah So here's the story. It is, I think it's an Ohio. No, how that news story.
00:49:25
Speaker
So how Republican, Ohio Republican governor, Mike DeWine on Monday signed the capital budget bill for fiscal years, 2027, 2028, a nearly multi billion dollar spending plan that funds projects all over 80 in all 88 Ohio counties.
00:49:41
Speaker
And so I looked up what does the Ohio capital budget cover? And it says Ohio's two-year capital budget funds the construction, repair, and renovation of physical, long-term state and community assets.
00:49:59
Speaker
Finance primarily through the ah instead <unk> the issuance excuse me of state bonds the budget explicitly covers. um Okay.
00:50:12
Speaker
My question here is why wasn't this in the state budget that we did last year? i don't understand. Yeah, I don't get it. So they're going to borrow basically three and a half billion dollars in bonds to pay for public education. This is ah again from Google, ah renovations and modifications for K through 12 public schools.
00:50:34
Speaker
But I thought we were underfunding schools. Let's see, health and and disabilities, the construction of state Well, here's a good one. Can we have more of these? The construction of state mental health hospitals.
00:50:46
Speaker
Yeah, we need more of those. ah Development mental disability centers and facilities promoting independent living for individuals and disabilities. A couple more things. Local infrastructure, grants for roads, bridges, water supply. Again, we don't have that in the budget.
00:51:03
Speaker
State facilities and parks maintain maintenance and upgrade over 76 parks the country and community projects. Hundreds of localized grants supporting regional entities like museums, theaters and local parks across Ohio. Okay. 560 million for a department of higher education. Yeah.
00:51:26
Speaker
Yeah, that's what, uh, largest items are nearly $353 million dollars for the Ohio facilities construction commission, $720 million dollars for the Ohio public works commission, $560 million dollars for the department of higher education and $400 million dollars for the department of behavioral health.
00:51:46
Speaker
um Someone needs to explain to me why this is a separate thing.
00:51:52
Speaker
it's really weird that it would it would be separate. I thought we covered all this stuff under in the budget, but yeah I guess not. We have another $4 billion. dollars Borrow $4 billion. dollars Weird.
00:52:03
Speaker
Yeah. Feels like a one of them there one them theres slush funds for all these groups. Kind of, right. I mean, some of it I could see. i health Mental health and parks and rec and all that stuff is great, but again, we just passed like a $60 billion dollars budget for two years.
00:52:22
Speaker
I think totaling over 90 billion when it when it covers federal federal money. Anyway. So, you know, more money.
00:52:33
Speaker
Only if Ron Swanson is working for the Parks and Rec do I say this is okay. Oh, now i remember. Good show. All right. This one, I don't know. This one, I'm on the fence on, kind of. So here's the story.
00:52:52
Speaker
DeWine is pushing to abolish the death penalty in Ohio.
00:53:02
Speaker
let's ah Let's just go right to News Channel 5. This is, is ah of course, Morgan Trowell. She has a report here. Let's listen to a few minutes from her. A new right to life debate in Ohio. For the state to take human life, there must be evidence that in doing so, it will help protect the public. As Ohio's governor switches his stance on capital punishment. I no longer believe the death penalty is the deterrent to murder. And calls on state lawmakers or Ohio voters to abolish it. um um
00:53:33
Speaker
More than 100 people sit on death row in our state after Governor DeWine first pressed pause on execution seven years ago, citing concerns surrounding the drugs that are used. Now the governor's new stand on capital punishment is stirring up more controversy. So Columbus Bureau reporter Morgan Trow is talking with people on all sides, from victims' families to statehouse leaders and activists.
00:53:56
Speaker
You wake up every morning and the person's not there. Rhonda Whitelock says that she gets through the day through hope alone. I thought, okay, well, there's going to be justice one day, right? But that justice has not come. For nine years, Whitelock has been telling us the story of the brutal murder of her lifelong friend, Suzanne Taylor, who was more like a sister. Yes, she's said that you will not feel relief until he stops breathing.
00:54:21
Speaker
Does that still ring true? Yes. Why does this man still breathe on this earth after what he did? George Brinkman pleaded guilty to killing Taylor and her two daughters in North Royalton in 2017, as well as murdering an elderly couple soon after. He gets to live. He gets to breathe.
00:54:42
Speaker
My friend's not here. She doesn't get to breathe. Her children are not here anymore She started writing Ohio Governor Mike DeWine years ago after he had put an unofficial pause on the death penalty. He never responded. And this week, she says she found out why. I believe Ohio should abolish the death penalty. In 1981, DeWine was the architect of the current capital punishment law in the state. But he says it's a broken system, one that has cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars, despite not having executed anyone since 2018. He adds that research shows that the death penalty isn't a deterrent to crime, and the punishment draws out the legal process for victims' families. right Our money and our energies are much better spent focusing on keeping these repeat violent offenders out of society.
00:55:28
Speaker
than focusing on the death penalty. But the governor, who has six more months in office, really has no power to extend his moratorium. The legislature can take this action. Ohio Republican leaders have reacted strongly, disagreeing with DeWine. I will vigorously oppose getting rid of the death penalty. But the governor brought up another option, putting the idea on the but ballot, which some advocates tell us is welcome news. But others, like Kevin Werner with the coalition Ohio Wants to Stop Executions, are against. I don't think that's the right approach, and it's an astronomical, ah you know, feat to try to try to achieve. It's not because he doesn't think there isn't enough support, but because of how expensive it would be to get the idea on the ballot. But Whitelock doesn't think asking voters about the death penalty will go in DeWine's favor. The people of Ohio will do the right thing.
00:56:20
Speaker
Brinkman's execution is scheduled for later this fall, but it will likely be pushed back once again. And Morgan, we know the governor has cited the inability to get these lethal injection drugs as to why there haven't been executions in our state. Other states have made that similar argument. Is that still the case when it comes to these drugs?
00:56:41
Speaker
Yeah, the governor has a point to an extent. Major pharmaceutical companies do not want their drugs being used to kill inmates. But some other states have gotten around that by using local pharmacies, by putting provisions into their laws that protect the seller's identities. Lawmakers tell me that if we can't get these drugs, then maybe we switch to using nitrogen gas like Alabama does.
00:57:05
Speaker
Morgan Trowell, live with us tonight from the Capitol. Appreciate it. Thank you, Morgan. I'm sure this lady that they're interviewing would happily buy you a box of bullets. Yeah. ah Yeah, I know. I don't know.
00:57:18
Speaker
i go back and forth. I don't want the state being the.
00:57:23
Speaker
The arbiter of who dies and who lives, basically. Yeah, well, because you you you have corrupt ah attorneys and prosecutors and stuff, you know. Yeah, but even take take that out of it just for a second. Just just eyewitnesses. know If you look at the history or the the the science of eyewitness, it's horrible.
00:57:41
Speaker
People do not remember. Yeah, I understand. I mean, there are cases that are you know open and shut, but... but This example is one of those things where I'm no, I don't want it. But this guy admitted to it. no He admitted to it and it was obvious that he did it. and if you saw I remember this one because it was right up the street from me, basically. and if you If you watch the video in the report, again, quickerrivercast.com.
00:58:04
Speaker
They show a clip of this guy and he looks like he did. I mean, he looks evil. You look in you're like, Ooh. Now that you know, there's, there's plenty of people that are, you know, you know, a hundred percent, but there's been too many, uh,
00:58:19
Speaker
If, if only, if one, one's too much, you know, there yeah has to have been many dozens, if not more of people in the system around the country who've, who've been wrongfully executed. just i'd I'd rather have, I had, I'd rather have all of them go free than one person dying for something they didn't do.
00:58:35
Speaker
Right. Right. the only the only i guess caveat to that is depending on where you're at i guess if you're in a ah ah blue state you're not you don't have death penalty anyway so but when you have all when you have continuously hear all these stories of you know guy kills oh let's see see guy kills a ukrainian immigrant on the bus let's say north carolina well that was you know on videos so i'd be like yeah No, I meant I was going towards when you have a, a DA or a system that continue to let these people out.
00:59:10
Speaker
Right. That's where, but I guess if you had that kind of state, it doesn't matter anyway, cause they're not going be put to death anyway. So yeah. Yeah. It doesn't really matter, but there is that like, well, can we keep, they keep letting these final defenders out and then they keep making more and they're like 20, 30 times they, they arrest these people. And I guess I would rather put the judges that let them out on the chair.
00:59:31
Speaker
Yeah. Right. there you go I mean, maybe that's how you cure this. Yeah. i I do agree. I don't think it is a deterrent because if you're, if you're crazy enough to kill somebody, then I don't think you're going, you're not going, Oh wait, I shouldn't do this. Cause I might be put to death. No, you are not, you know, i guess there's plenty of people that plan something and you know, those are people that,
01:00:00
Speaker
are still crazy. i mean, they're planning to do it. They think they're going to get away, but, and so the death penalty hasn't stopped them from even planning it or hiring somebody even. It's, uh, I'm not, yeah, I don't think it's much of a deterrent.
01:00:15
Speaker
Yeah. And, you know, especially a crime of passion or, know, where somebody just, you know, I mean, you're not thinking at all. Yeah. It's just reacting. Um, and this guy here, there's no way this guy will, Oh, I'm not going to, you know, he was just an evil. He just looked like an evil.
01:00:29
Speaker
yeah i forget what the i forget his story. i do remember it happening. yeah because It was so local. So that's, and be honest with you, at this point, no one's getting put to death, but I also want to know why is it costing us hundreds of millions of dollars to not put these people to death?
Cleveland's Public Policy and Infrastructure Changes
01:00:48
Speaker
because were That makes no sense. I can understand the prison costs, but hundreds millions? they're going to be that way anyway. It's going to be prison costs where they put them, I mean... Right, right. and It's just weird.
01:01:00
Speaker
I mean, if you put them to death quickly, it would save money. but is it Is there that much paperwork that it costs bureaucracy? So much does it cost to go through all that? Yeah, good question. Like, what the hell costs so much money?
01:01:13
Speaker
Um, because there was like, well, even though we haven't executed anybody, it's still costing us like, no, I think it would cost it anyway. i don't know. Anyway, I think it was a bogus point, but I think so. Moving along. let's get these next few of here.
01:01:26
Speaker
ah well, conveniently, News Channel 5 again puts up a story here. This is Cleveland Flock license plate reader contract expiresing expiring at the end of the month and Cleveland is not renewing it.
01:01:41
Speaker
That's the big story here. They're not going to renew it. of ozi Committee vote three to one against renewing the contract. I'm shocked. i'm I'm actually shocked that Cleveland decided not to do this. I don't know why, but I just feel like they would be
01:01:55
Speaker
It would be the city that would just say, yeah, we need more, more policing, more, we need more government overreach. Well, I think the politicians want that, but I don't think the residents want that. Right.
01:02:07
Speaker
Well, I guess, but since, since when does a committee members start listening to their constituents? I guess. Well, when they're protesting, it's giving them a bad look. oh You know, if you got Democrats protesting against Democrats, it's not a good look.
01:02:22
Speaker
And there is the key, because I'm looking at this picture, and it looks like very white Democrats, old blue hairs mostly. But I could give them credit, because Flockno is a great great group name.
01:02:34
Speaker
Sure, yeah. Flockno is a group name. it's Orwellian, man. Oh, yeah. I understand, and there's good things out it, there's good things that come ah out of it but ah Yes, and by the same time, news Channel 5 came out with the next story, which is Flock Cameras Helped North Olmstead Police Track Down Suspect.
01:02:52
Speaker
Right, right. i'm I'm sure, I wonder how much Flock paid News Channel 5 to do this story. Yeah, the advertising somehow on News Channel 5. Well, hey, you got a bad one. We need a good one in there.
01:03:03
Speaker
Yeah. Because would it would have this been a story without the without the other one? I don't think so, because it's literally a story about them catching somebody who stole a car.
01:03:15
Speaker
Yeah. And I don't think normally that we would even make the news. um the the The part of this story that I kind of stuck out to me was they literally found this guy within minutes of him stealing the car or something like that. It's the way the story was written. It they they they they flagged them. It flagged that the flock camera flag that it was a stolen car. Within minutes, they found him and and arrested him.
01:03:43
Speaker
Okay. That's what I think. Like, not that he stole it in three minutes later, they caught him. You're right. Right. The saying they they've they the camera got caught. there This was stolen vehicle. they They radioed the police and then they they they caught him in, what's it called? Going, going, gone parking lot, which whatever that is, somewhere in Great great Northern Boulevard.
01:03:59
Speaker
He wasn't going, going gone. No, he definitely wasn't. um And the port, whoever they stole, they I saw the video. If you watch the article, KrugerRiverCast.com, the blog, they are they like ran the car like twice.
01:04:14
Speaker
Did the know well they? Well, the guy's in the parking lot. He tries to escape. And the one cop gets in front of him. And the guy tries to open his doors to another cop. They bumped the car a couple of times. Oh, okay. i didn't, because, I mean, you know, they they didn't say that in the article. but They're doing what they can to to keep the guy there. I get it. But and i'd be I'd be like, damn, what'd you do to my car?
01:04:34
Speaker
Anyway, check it out. Yeah, the the guy who had his car stolen probably without the Flock camera would have just found the car a couple days later and it would have been fine. Yeah, he'd probably got a new car because would have been insured. Either that or, you know, a lot of times they recover the car. It's just a joy ride for her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:04:52
Speaker
yeah So, I don't know. i is I don't like them. Don't like them at all. I don't think we need take a picture of every license plate that goes past a certain time just to try to catch some guy who was stole a car.
01:05:05
Speaker
Just not. It can lead to much worse things than good things. Yes. yeah That's the problem. According to Cleveland Police article story for Cleveland City, Cleveland, they've never had any complaints.
01:05:20
Speaker
Oh, okay. Well, i guess, i guess we're good. then Yeah. Okay. Um, so moving along next, our final, wait, okay, we got the flocks out of the way, this flocking thing out of the way. Oh yes. Uh, RTA would like to, would you be willing to pay more for RTA in your taxes?
01:05:44
Speaker
I'm not willing to pay any taxes. and why I guess I do, but. Yeah. no No, no, no, But did you know?
01:05:56
Speaker
and do think public transportation is good, though. Here, let's hear what New Channel 5 has to say, the RTA. ah There might be something I learned. There's something I learned out of this clip here. Maybe you'll learn, too. I did not know.
01:06:12
Speaker
tidbit For months, we've been telling you about the Greater Cleveland RTA's plans to address a budget deficit plans that include cuts to services. And now the board is considering a solution that impacts everyone in Cuyahoga County, whether they use RTA or not. Tonight, as News 5's John Kosick explains, that they're looking here at asking voters to up the county sales tax.
01:06:35
Speaker
When the RTA was first created more than a half century ago, they went to the voters at the time and asked for a 1% sales tax that to this day provides more than 75% of their funding. Voters in 1975 not only approved it, they did so with 71% of the vote.
01:06:50
Speaker
It was the last time they asked voters for money. Being 51, 52 years old with 1970s funding and being expected, which makes sense to provide 2026 mobility, is a little tough. Highlighted over the last year is the RTA looked to close a $78 million dollars budget deficit, first proposing a 12% cut to services. now
01:07:12
Speaker
Later reduced to a 3% cut after pushback from riders. But to be clear, if the RTA does nothing, more cuts are on the table in the coming months. That's why The RTA board is being asked to consider going back to voters for the first time in a half century, asking for an either quarter percent or half percent increase in the Cuyahoga County sales tax that would raise $70 to $140 million dollars a year for the agency. Our hope is that we would be able to get to a place that's comfortable and also provide stability financially for the company and also ah allows us to expand.
01:07:42
Speaker
The board heard research on both the headwinds and tailwinds that faces the ballot box, some impacted by the perception of public transit, others by who else might be asking voters for additional funds, and the time needed to make the case to voters, which might be difficult if looking at this November. We're about to enter the most expensive gubernatorial and Senate race in Ohio's history, and that's going to eat up a lot of oxygen.
01:08:04
Speaker
When voters approved that 1% tax in 1975, Cuyahoga County sales tax was only 4%. Today, it stands at a state high 8%, which makes it a tougher sell, though not to a handful of voters we spoke with. I think that the RTA doesn't ask for much. I think they do a great job. And if this is going help them do a better job, then there's nothing wrong with that. I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
01:08:24
Speaker
A little increase isn't going to do anything. RTA is pretty important. People depend on it. A message the board knows they will have to get out as they decide whether to go forward with the ask of voters, be it this year or next. We need to be part of that conversation and tell that story about what it means for our economy to grow.
01:08:42
Speaker
Our economy can't grow if RTA doesn't grow. include Really? Really? That's your... Really? that's your really Did you know that 1% of our sales tax pays for the RTA in Cuyahoga County?
01:08:55
Speaker
I had no idea. Why do we pay anything to get on the thing then?
01:09:01
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, i think RTA is good. I don't know if they do a good job or not. It's good have I know people that use it. Yes. It is good to have. It is part of a city. you got You got to have some way to get around. I mean, when I went to Cincinnati, it was kind of cool because they had that free connector that kind of went through the city.
01:09:18
Speaker
in It's a great idea. and it was clean and nice. I mean, I took it during the day, of course, because I'm not stupid. But she said, well, we we got 1970s funding. No, you don't.
01:09:33
Speaker
You get 1% on a sales tax. Yeah, yeah. That's not 70s funding. That's current funding. but the Yeah, yeah. That's stupid. Crap.
01:09:44
Speaker
um i'm trying I'm thinking you need to raise how much you charge. Yeah, yeah. You're saying it's a company. or It's a company, right? Yeah. Well, that's what they called it.
01:09:57
Speaker
Companies aren't supposed to buts rate ah put their hand out to people that want to buy it, not the state. Yeah. Not to the vast majority of people who don't use it.
01:10:10
Speaker
We're already paying 1% sales tax on sales tax on it
01:10:16
Speaker
Yeah. ah I was already kind of against it to begin with as far as raising it or at the point I thought they were going to add to the sales tax until I i heard that. i was like, oh, we already given 1%. No, sorry.
01:10:27
Speaker
Cut, raise rates.
01:10:33
Speaker
um So there's that.
01:10:36
Speaker
I don't think they'll get it, but they even got the people in the interview. That's part of the problem. If people are going to be voting for this, Cuyahoga is going to pass it. Oh, yeah, a pass. Yeah, that sucks. Yeah, that's a good thing. We got to have more taxes.
01:10:50
Speaker
We are at 8% sales tax. And thought we were what was that? The highest in the state. No, I know that. But were we 8.5% and it did like a half percent drop off of it?
01:11:02
Speaker
Yeah, they had a but temporary increase to sales tax. And I can't remember why. It was a quarter or a half percent, something like that. i can Something like that. Yeah. cause yeah Boy, remember when it was like seven. i thought that was crazy.
01:11:15
Speaker
Yeah, but I think we were over eight for a eight and a quarter from for a little bit. ah to Right, right. Yeah, no, this is BS. Yeah, I mean, sustain. Charge more to the riders and maybe maybe yeah hire somebody that can ah make it more efficient.
01:11:37
Speaker
How about we look at how much your board of directors is making, make some cuts there. Well, there's that, but that's probably peanuts. yeah I think it's the efficiency. I see too many buses riding around with nobody on there. Yeah.
01:11:48
Speaker
um Can we have smaller buses since not that many people use them? Yeah. It's kind of a catch-22, I can see, because if they cut buses, then less chance people are going to use because you have less choice on when to get on and stuff like that. I get it. It's a tough call. I don't think taxes is the answer. No, I think the answer is charge more.
01:12:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, i guess so. You're getting, as tech as inflation goes up and as people buy more stuff, and you're getting a raise too, but you're just not you're not increasing it to the people who use it. That's who needs to pay more is I'm sure they can look into the business side of things and make it more efficient too. Yes.
01:12:24
Speaker
Definitely. Definitely could, I'm sure. It would not be surprising. Government's not known to be efficient. No. Well, it's a company, Tom. sun Yeah, okay. Well, I mean, it's funded. Whatever. Yeah. I mean, it's funded 75% by the government.
01:12:38
Speaker
Right. By us, the people. Anywho, check it out. ah You know, more shenanigans, I guess. ah Moving along to our final question. Part of the show.
Economic Factors: Gas Prices and Oil Strategies
01:12:50
Speaker
bring good things to life. Good things segment, Tom. It's the good things segment. And hopefully this this trend continues. But first story is, thank goodness local drivers react to dropping gas prices amid U.S. and Iran deal.
01:13:07
Speaker
And so they're looking at national average for a gallon of gas has dropped to $3.99 per gallon. And locally in Warrensville Heights, Fox 8 found $3.42 a gallon at the get-go on Miles Road.
01:13:20
Speaker
Damn. Nice. Yeah, a couple weeks ago when I was in Cincinnati, it was under $4. It was like $3.85, $3.78. Yeah, right right around ah me here. It's still it's like $3.89, I think, is the best price I see.
01:13:33
Speaker
Yeah, let's hope they can keep that price down. It'll be great for ah for summertime. oh Oil barrels have you know plummeted in cost, but it still needs to go down on another $10.15 probably.
01:13:45
Speaker
Yeah, it's at 76. It should go down on another. It would be nice to get it down too. Under 70. What was that? Under 70. Yeah, i think I think it would, ideally it would be like low 60s or upper 50s, but.
01:14:01
Speaker
but it Depends on who you ask. Well, yeah. The guys will say no. but they're going to drag it out. I also um saw that some of the biggest companies that carry oil, ah the tankers, you know.
01:14:14
Speaker
they're not They're not sending their biggest ships yet for the next month or so. They're they're waiting it out probably to see what happens with the... Probably probably a good idea. Probably a good idea with recent news.
01:14:27
Speaker
And so check that out. for i mean i mean, you could check it out when you go to the and you go fill up your car, I guess. Yeah, tell us what you're paying. Yeah, there you go. Tell us what your lowest gas price around
Community Events and Listener Engagement
01:14:37
Speaker
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01:14:41
Speaker
And finally on the list, our story list is we got the of July coming up, rapidly coming up. It's fast, man. Another couple of weeks we'll be celebrating 250 years. And here's an article from Cleveland Magazine, the 4th of July, Greater Cleveland, your 2026 Independence Day Parade Guide.
01:14:59
Speaker
This will give you a good ah good look at Avon Lake, Cleveland, California. Mentor. Yeah, Mentor. music Was it a Music Box Fireworks Party? yeah. yeah There's some cool stuff.
01:15:11
Speaker
Yeah. Westlake, Akron, All Burgers. Oh, wait. Akron All-American Burger and Barbecue Festival. Damn. That sounds good. What time three dinner crews are going to do?
01:15:24
Speaker
course, you got Cedar Point. Oh, this is a great name. Freedom Festival at Victory Park. Damn. Where is, where is Victory Park? i Uh, let me see here. It's in North Bridgeville. Cool.
01:15:40
Speaker
Yeah, a bunch of, I mean, there's ah there's a ton. So check it out. it's gotta be so There'll be something in your area, most likely. If not, let us know what you're going doing for of July. You got ah traditions you use or you got something special going on in your community. Be cool to hear you about what all the people are doing. I've got way too many fireworks, so we're going to have a good old time. Really going to piss off the neighbors, um but that's okay. I mean, you only turned 250 once, so screw it.
01:16:04
Speaker
Yeah. two fifty 250. 250. And on that happy note, I think that ends the show, Tom. so Tell us what you, uh, tell us what's going on in your area.
01:16:17
Speaker
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01:16:31
Speaker
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