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Crooked River Cast Show 64
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- What is going on in Cali?
- NIH researchers caught smuggling in Monkeypox.
- Ohio and Feds announce indictments in Medicaid fraud.
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- Ohio is #1 in student loan debt.
- No fentanyl strips without the feds.
- Gratis Village Police Chief fired for working with ICE.
- Climate activist march.
- Man accused of depantsing guest at Cedar Point.
- Twinsburg moves to curb E-Bike’s.
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Transcript
Introduction of Hosts and Episode
00:00:12
Speaker
This is Crooked Rivercast. And who's that? Well, of course, that's Rob and Tom. two guys from Northeast Ohio just trying to keep track of this great state.
00:00:23
Speaker
This is show 64 for the week of June 8th, 2026. Oh, boy, this is going to a good one. Let's see if we can make it through. Let's go.
00:00:42
Speaker
This could go two ways, one of two ways. As you may, as people may notice, I'm little under the weather.
00:00:50
Speaker
I figured it could be a total disaster. May have already been. and Or it could be my my flu game. flu game yeah why michael jordan flu game the game five i think game five of the finals michael jordan had a flu and he oh yeah decided to play and he hit that last second shot right he dropped 38 points okay that's about right that's yeah jordan on a on a flu day
00:01:21
Speaker
I've already had my first fall and it was only the first three seconds of the
Rob's Illness and Cincinnati Experience
00:01:24
Speaker
show. So I'm not sure if I'm on the Michael Jordan path just yet, but Hey, we're going to push through. So yeah, some scumbag and it's King's Island. Got me, got me sick. I'm convinced.
00:01:37
Speaker
Yeah. Little germs. I think, i don't know. I'm, I'm, I'm kind of looking at the Hantavirus symptoms and thinking, yeah, I could check a few of those off. oh Where'd those people go? Did they, are they checking those? Did anyone go to the Cincinnati area in the last week?
00:01:53
Speaker
I'm blaming Cincinnati. I think we should all blame Cincinnati. It's close to Canada for everything.
00:02:02
Speaker
Uh, but I mean, it was nice. It's, you know what, you know what the best thing is? we actually should come back from vacation. What's that? Getting sick. Getting sick. Yeah. It's the best thing in the world. Um, but yeah, Cincinnati was nice though.
00:02:16
Speaker
That's cool. I was, uh, a little bit shocked actually. Yeah. You didn't see any stabbings or anything like that? No, I did not see any stabbings. Uh, I did see some racial fights.
00:02:28
Speaker
I did see some, no, I was not down and in this downtown. It's dark. Okay. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not that stupid, but I did see quite a few homeless people as we did our food tour through Cincinnati. Um,
00:02:43
Speaker
did a food tour through a homeless section. No, actually, not the homeless section. Just the middle of Cincinnati, in the nice section of Cincinnati. No, wasn't as bad as I was expecting, because I was expecting to see encampments and tents. It wasn't that.
00:02:57
Speaker
It was just your normal, to me, it was just your normal city homeless dude. Got a sign, some guy on the ah down in the median down the block from the intersection, ranting and raving, going back and forth. I'm thinking, okay, I'm just going to keep an eye on that guy. You know, that kind of typical stuff. You know, signs like...
00:03:15
Speaker
Signs like, I don't need money. I don't need food. I need drugs. No, no, no. don't do when i lived at honest hollywood When I lived in Hollywood, there was a ah a street guy that had a sign like that.
00:03:29
Speaker
it I mean, at least he's honest. Yeah. He was honest. we give him You give him a fiver just for that. ah But here's what I did notice about Cincinnati.
00:03:41
Speaker
They've got that little little slice of the Ohio River. They've got a waterfront. Yes, they've got a waterfront. They can't even, like, they can't even go in the water. Like, they can't, you really can't even go in the, I mean, you'll go, I don't think they go swimming in the river.
00:03:58
Speaker
ah And they've developed that riverfront. So we walked down, this food tour, and, you know, Cincinnati's got a huge German population, had one, still does. Huge section. Compared to Columbus, Cincinnati's way nicer as far as architecture and stuff. It's just, well, it's actually quite nice. I was, again, shocked and surprised, pleasantly.
00:04:22
Speaker
So we go we go on the food tour, we start up in the German town, we go down to the river. on One side of us is Pacor Stadium, whatever, where the Bengals play, and then the other side of us Great American Ballpark, where the the Reds play.
00:04:36
Speaker
In between there's almost a couple of miles of riverfront. It's grassy hills. There's people sitting under trees, reading books. There's kids playing. There's, there's, there's all these, these huge stainless steel swings, like bench swings lined up. There's like 10 of them.
00:04:53
Speaker
I'm like, it's like a portrait. I literally, I'm going, holy crap. This, what, what have they done with very little? Look at what they've done with very little. And look what we can do with the slick. And look what Cleveland can do.
00:05:08
Speaker
Nothing. 50 years of nothing. That's why i give Cincinnati some credit. Through all their corruption, they've found a way to do something at least.
00:05:21
Speaker
Do something least. I mean, why their ballpark? Because they had a game going on while we're doing the food tour. It just, it started like halfway through our tour. and we We kind of got down that res that started and going in by the a ballpark and the way they have it laid out with a, I mean, there's this big alleyway. It's um like, we look, you go down to Cleveland and you see the courtyard between the ballpark and the arena and it's just empty.
00:05:46
Speaker
You have this area where people can gather before the game And they don't have that, but they have a street that they've turned into ah just ah ah a pedestrian street. It's like directly across from the entranceway. And it's like, this is really cool.
00:06:01
Speaker
And it's packed before the games. And so it's like, I don't know. I was surprised. What type of food tour is there in Cincinnati? Cincinnati.
00:06:12
Speaker
Oh, kind of, they had, I mean, six different places. We had like, she kept going back and forth. I mean, was it like an actual tour? Oh yeah. We did this in Phoenix too.
00:06:25
Speaker
Oh, okay. It was a really cool way. Actually, thanks for bringing that up. cause' know There's a really cool way of seeing a city, especially if you have a good tour guide. And we've we've did this company twice called Secret Food Tours.
00:06:36
Speaker
And they're not in every city, but they take local people who've been there a while. And they take you on a walking tour of the city. And we did this in Phoenix. And hey, did you know there's miles of tunnel underneath Phoenix that Al Capone made?
00:06:50
Speaker
when he was running. Yeah, when he was running and the University of Phoenix used them for decades. think they had a collapse so they don't use them like they you can still go down there but not just anybody. they I think the students used to use them or maybe they still do like that.
00:07:02
Speaker
To get between like class, you know like. Yeah, like something like something storage and yeah, there's a couple. But so that's how we know there's a big German population and in and Cincinnati because she started, we started out in this this ah Open market and it was ah a Sunday. So there was all these, you know, they had outside vendors. It was a beautiful day. So there's, they they make getta, which is very local, she said, and it's a breakfast sausage, but they mix like steel cut oats or something in it.
00:07:32
Speaker
Okay. It's just bratwurst with something else. I don't know, but no it's it's always actually really good. that The crispy because of the oats that gets crisp. on I'll just say bacon, egg and cheese sandwich like that. was pretty cool. Hey, my picky 11 year old liked it.
00:07:46
Speaker
I thought it was pretty good. Um, see what else? Uh, Grater's ice cream is Cincinnati. And I actually worked for grandson of the founders of Grater's ice cream when I was, when I was like 20.
00:07:59
Speaker
Um, but that place is really good. Homemade ice cream. They still make them in like two gallon pots. and I've never had it. Yeah. Yeah. Kroger's you can get there. They're distributed by Kroger's. Kroger's is a Cincinnati place. It's the like world country's largest grocery distributor. Holy cow. Stop me.
00:08:15
Speaker
The cold medicine is getting to me, Tom. Anyway, so it's pretty cool for all the crap that I give it. We give it. ah i thought it was pretty cool. Again, i wasn't there after dark because I'm not, I'm not an idiot.
Pride Month and Political Commentary
00:08:29
Speaker
I need it. So I think we'll start the show off kind of similarly like what we did last week, Tom, because it's a big month. Gay Pride Month. yeah and And again, I think, we' yeah, we'll start it off with a ah a warning.
00:08:42
Speaker
You know, it's a warning. So if you've gone downtown this weekend, and this is coming off, it's Monday, but if you go into downtown, when I mean downtown, I mean any downtown around the country, you may have been surprised.
00:08:54
Speaker
But if if you throw out the this month, if you see an ah overabundance of rainbow flags, you may i want to steer clear.
00:09:03
Speaker
Close to steer queer. But ah let's hear let's hear from our buddy, here Mr. Schneider on Gay Pride Month. Maybe, i don't know, he thinks this may be a little greedy. I'm all for gay pride, gay weekend, parade.
00:09:15
Speaker
I will say Gay Pride Month seems a little greedy. It's a month. We only get 12.
00:09:25
Speaker
basically 11 because then it's gay pride month again. Four weeks in ah in ah four weeks in a row. They didn't even try to break that shit up. You know, have a week in January, come back in April, have to heal up, you know, and then August, who gives a shit?
00:09:40
Speaker
August, who cares? You know, and then New Year's, you know, New Year's, who has a subject on New Year's, frankly? Come on, don't know. Live your life. Don't cheat yourself.
00:09:52
Speaker
Four weeks in a row. We get Veterans Day. You fight for the country, you get a day. Thank you for fighting for the country. Oh, sorry, day's over. Take the meat off the barbecue. That's it. You get a day. That's it. Day.
00:10:05
Speaker
Thank you for fighting for the country. Memorial weekend. You die for the country to give you a weekend. Thank you for dying for the country. Take the boat out of the lake and put it on. Take the boat out of lake and put it on the truck. You get a weekend. Memorial weekend.
00:10:18
Speaker
Thank you for dying for the country. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, kept the union together, gets a day. Not even his own day.
00:10:31
Speaker
He's got to share it George Washington, who founded the whole fucking country. He doesn't get a day either. He's got to share it with Lincoln. But if they would have sucked each other's dicks, they would have got a whole month.
00:10:44
Speaker
That's all I'm saying.
00:10:52
Speaker
I know it's not possible because Lincoln was so tall. he
00:10:58
Speaker
i Sorry, Rob. i don't know if Rob knows this. Do I take issue? George Washington, very tall. Yes.
00:11:09
Speaker
May not have made a difference. ah So, yes, Cape Pride Month is officially fully in swing. There's stories all over the place that I passed on.
00:11:20
Speaker
You know. What are you going do? so but Tom, what is going on in California? Probably what Rob was just talking about. ah No?
00:11:37
Speaker
No. when you would no Okay. you What's going on? Have you ever been following what's going on in California? i don't mind I've been a little sick. i haven't seen I've seen a little headlines, but I wasn't sure if you had looked into it at at all Oh, the, year oh, I didn't see any links here. LA, not cut yeah at walt California. Oh, they're just rigging the election.
00:11:57
Speaker
They're just finding votes here and there.
00:12:02
Speaker
Well, I mean, we like to consider can both sides of it, all the sides of it, many sides of argument. And in this case, let's hear from our, love let's hear from a quote from our lovely Andrew Ocasio-Cortez, who says, this was posted by T. Rickey.
00:12:20
Speaker
ah She has a quote, I guess. like I was trying to find a clip of it, but I couldn't, of course. is She says, Republicans are trying to rig elections by only letting U.S. citizens vote.
00:12:34
Speaker
I don't think that's a real vote. I think it's just, a it's kind of like a ah ah paraphrase. Yeah, yeah. It's what she said, but she didn't say it that way. She didn't say it.
00:12:47
Speaker
Well, here's the little bit that I saw.
00:12:52
Speaker
i mean, it's oddly familiar, and I can't quite place where I've heard this before. But for a candidate that's been averaging 30% vote, It's not possible for for that candidate to then get 0% out of a ballot drop of 24,000 votes. Yeah, yeah.
00:13:10
Speaker
Where did I ever heard that? Not even 0%. I mean, he got 0 votes out of it. 0 votes, yeah. I mean, 0%. It wasn't even like rounded down. He got 0 votes. Where have I heard that before? I can't.
00:13:22
Speaker
Man, I can't. It's not the tip of my tongue. Hmm.
00:13:27
Speaker
Election deniers. and denier So yeah, I guess they're having issues. it it may take weeks to count the Los Angeles mayoral vote. Weeks.
00:13:40
Speaker
That's what I heard. ah there's They're still picking up the ballots. They're still dropping them off by helicopter. there's ah There's a clip of somebody filming their TV of of a news broadcast. the you know The guy on the scene is like, yeah we're waiting for a chopper to come down and drop another ballot. So once it gets in that ballot, once those ballots off the all of a sudden they go back to the studio and say oh, sorry, we've had technical difficulties.
00:14:07
Speaker
Maybe they did have technical difference But they were explaining how they were going to deliver ballots by helicopter so they can go into a van to go count them.
00:14:19
Speaker
helicopter. It's, it's LA. It's just, I know LA is a big city, but why helicopter? It's a large County. Yeah.
00:14:31
Speaker
Come on. Weeks. You got to use helicopters.
00:14:37
Speaker
I mean, how far is it away from them? I mean, you could probably get, You could probably get a helicopter from the Mexican, some somewhere in Mexico to get get people to vote. Anywho, there's that.
00:14:52
Speaker
um So keep an eye on what is a prelude to what's coming up in November. And maybe maybe they're showing their cards don't know. So they're going to be investigations or something? i don't know. Check it out.
00:15:04
Speaker
I heard heard Trump's all over it. i was going to look up Trump ah quotes, but I never did. blame the cold medicine. Speaking of colds, it appears that On this story from Fox 8, NIH, National Institute of Health, is that NIH? Yeah.
00:15:27
Speaker
ah Researchers from that organization have been charged with trying to smuggle in monkeypox. And um holy crap, Tom, i got I can check two out of the three symptoms.
00:15:39
Speaker
Yeah? Yeah. Yeah, spread through close contact. Symptoms glu include fever, headaches. I've had both of those in the last two days. I haven't had any rashes yet. You know, dude, I thought it was something else.
00:15:51
Speaker
I was starting to get worried because I've been having your urges of throwing fecal matter at kids and jerking off in front of their grandmothers. You have? Yeah.
00:16:02
Speaker
I thought I had monkeypox. Wow. I got to watch out for thats that. Those are the signs I... I thought they were, but apparently not. Now I'm really worried. Apparently not.
00:16:15
Speaker
ah So yeah, ah very very strange that members of the National Institute of Health would be smuggling in monkeypox. What possibly could they be doing that for?
00:16:25
Speaker
Obviously for money. To be honest with you, I don't know much about this story.
00:16:34
Speaker
Cause it kind of, I was like, yeah, why? ah got at least, they tested 20 of the 113 vials and found 17 contained, uh, inactive monkeypox virus. Inactivated. So I don't know what that means.
00:16:48
Speaker
And one contained in inactivated chickenpox virus. So does that mean like you can activate it?
00:16:57
Speaker
I don't know. That's good question. I'm not a doctor. Um,
00:17:05
Speaker
Yeah, that's really all the story is. There haven't gone much other than that. I have a feeling this stuff goes on all the time. Yeah, but what they selling it who are they selling it to? That seems to be the only op. Why would they smuggle it in to risk you know your career at NIH?
00:17:23
Speaker
Money would be, i don't know. i don't know.
00:17:29
Speaker
Check it out. but Didn't like monkeypox, didn't some monkeys escape from an accident a few years ago? This was like during, I forget if this was during trump for Trump's first or something. i I remember like video of them running out of a truck that like overturned or something. Yeah. Yeah. And they, didn't they have monkeypox?
00:17:49
Speaker
Something like that. Yeah. I don't, I'm guessing, yeah, that was it. Or or they had been involved in monkeypox text, monkeypox testing. Say that 10 times fast. Something to that effect. But yeah, I mean, I mean, really.
00:18:08
Speaker
that's That's the moral of the story. Please disperse.
00:18:14
Speaker
All right. That's that. Next, we're going continue on. Apparently, Ohio and the feds are announcing indictments on the Medicaid fraud.
00:18:27
Speaker
Now, this is awfully fast, if you ask me. But let's hear from, well, our friend Morgan. Morgan at the, yeah yes, our friend Morgan, who, I mean, they're unproven, and ah apparently they still are. So let's hear what she says.
00:18:44
Speaker
ah Major Medicaid fraud bust announced here in Ohio. Good evening, I'm Katie Youson. And I'm Damon Maloney. State and federal officials, they stood side by side today to announce charges against people accused of billing Medicaid, but not providing services. Your Columbus Bureau reporter, Morgan Trout, was there. So Morgan, this comes after a month of scrutiny on the system from many state house Republicans.
00:19:07
Speaker
Damon and Katie, yeah, that's right. Ohio Republicans have been alleging that there is rampant fraud yeah in the Medicaid system. And right now we have these federal officials fly in to announce some indictments, but also to offer other help.
Medicaid Fraud in Ohio
00:19:23
Speaker
Ohio is facing some of the most significant fraud schemes in the country. Federal and state officials are joining together in a new effort to combat fraud of all kinds. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and other senior law enforcement officials shared plans about a new data sharing agreement. I want to emphasize something um about what the cases that we're bringing represent. A unified statewide fraud fighting effort that's firing on all cylinders. And the officials also announced several major indictments, federal and state charges against nine defendants for allegedly defrauding the government of $42 million dollars through Medicaid billing or COVID programs. In both cases, the defendants, who we allege, were exploiting families, supposedly providing kids with benefits.
00:20:13
Speaker
particularly behavioral self, behavioral services, enrolled in community programs. The state also says that it's suspending 49 healthcare providers for what it calls potential red flags in their billing patterns and stopping government checks until it finishes the investigation. And while the feds praise Ohio. Ohio's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is one of the gold standard control units for fighting fraud in the United States. State politicians have been sharing a different story and have been calling out Governor Mike DeWine for allegedly failing to oversee Medicaid crimes.
00:20:47
Speaker
It's a system that's broken that we need to address in the very near term. It's something that we need leadership in place to make sure that we are we're taking this issue seriously. to cover I reported on Republicans' Medicaid concerns back in May and how those surfaced after conservative outlet The Daily Wire published a story alleging rampant yet unproven claims of fraud. We have some legislative leaders who have said that Governor Mike DeWine, who is notably absent from this event, and Attorney General Dave Yost have been asleep at the wheel when it comes to fighting Medicaid fraud. Where is the disconnect between the federal officials and state officials?
00:21:23
Speaker
Well, im not going to speak to to what state officials here have said. i guess a local politician can talk, but then we can have people that actually do and act. And I'll take the do and act over just somebody talking any day.
00:21:38
Speaker
Hey, I kind of liked that last comment. Mm-hmm. He was not there protecting DeWine. He was there. But divine divine DeWine wasn't even invited to this.
00:21:52
Speaker
No. but No. Is he one of the nine indicted? um No, he's not. Oh, damn it. I know. They have not yet. They've not released those names. And I can't, I can't believe they've already arrested some of these people. That's very quick.
00:22:10
Speaker
I'm thinking these are some things that are already in place. It could be. And if I think there's, I think this is the tip of the iceberg. I think we've said that before. If the feds are coming after you, ah you you're, you're, you're,
00:22:25
Speaker
They're not going to indict people that they don't think they can. Yeah. U.S. attorneys, generals have very high conviction rates, so they don't mess around and they like those high conviction rates. Most attorney generals do.
00:22:37
Speaker
And it actually, a lot of times comes into a lot of corruption in a lot of cases where they they want, they'll they'll do BS to keep their, when they get involved in a case, they may lose so so on and so forth. But yes,
00:22:50
Speaker
And what I've noticed though, is i as i as I didn't do a whole lot of searching throughout the week because, you know, my schedule and then the Hantavirus that I have, the the media is, where's the media? There's one story. There's, okay, News 5 has a story.
00:23:07
Speaker
There's probably a couple other ones on some other sites.
00:23:11
Speaker
But it's not just this story. I can think of as this three or four different sets of fraud allegations in Ohio. there' There's says Medicaid.
00:23:22
Speaker
There's ah daycare fraud. There's transportation fraud. Autism. but Well, yeah. had art Yes. part of yeah's Part of it. Yeah. Autism. Split that one off. Also like... um There's a Medicaid fraud as far as a home healthcare aides. There's Medicaid fraud as far as eligibility to be on Medicaid, which was the original one we talked about with Duvalla, Duvilla, whatever. it was from From like earlier in the year, when he was saying there could be $6 billion dollars of this fraud. yeah Probably not, I would say, but couple billion.
00:23:59
Speaker
Where are the stories? ah yeah Well... there's a There's a story by Morgan Trout trying to say it's unproven. yeah i mean, have you noticed? I just noticed it this week.
00:24:13
Speaker
But whenever she says alleged but yet unproven, she's talking about the Daily Wire report. I think i think im keepy on that i i think she has a thing about like the Daily Wire breaking this.
00:24:29
Speaker
Like it's not real. I don't know, is she jealous of it, of them? Or is she just upset because somebody from out of state uncovered it?
00:24:40
Speaker
Oh, to me, one and the same. She's she jealous because another reporter, what she wouldn't even consider to be a reporter, probably, because they're not part of a eight they're not part of ABC, CBS. Right, right.
00:24:51
Speaker
They're just this online thing. Yeah, the online thing that's kicking your ass. The online thing that's having ah as more viewers and... More viewers and more money and more, more reach and more power. Yeah. That's it.
00:25:03
Speaker
Go look at their, go look at their social media accounts and see how much feedback compared. I know, I know that's one, one, bit one of the large things I've noticed doing this show is like the locals.
00:25:14
Speaker
There's many stories that get put on like X or something like that, that nobody comments. Nobody comments on and it. And even the, um and even like the,
00:25:28
Speaker
ah Okay, let's see you here. Fox News put something up here about an hour ago. There's only 200 views. And that just means somebody's scrolling by. It doesn't even mean somebody clicked on it. Yeah, yeah.
00:25:44
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's pretty sad, actually. I mean, you would think, I'm not going to have a ton, but if they had 20,000 viewers, 50,000 viewers, that really, what there a lot of that tells you is that the demographic of their viewers is very skewed to boomer, older people who not on social media as much.
00:26:03
Speaker
Yeah, morgan Morgan talks to 70 plus. Yes. Mostly. the most part. and And she probably lays down in bed and cries herself to sleep.
00:26:14
Speaker
um In this video, she actually, she looked really good in this video. I mean, I think she's hot. I don't know. ah too good I mean, she got a little too much and in the grill for me, but other than that, mean, don't She's got large teeth.
00:26:27
Speaker
Yeah, she got something about her smile is weird, but she's pretty good looking. got large teeth or two large for your mouth. It happens. Yeah, like a horse. but But sometimes she has this wet look. that's She's doing this, you know, like. With her hair? She's out of the shower. It's like, can you dry your hair before you get out on camera, please?
00:26:45
Speaker
ah Yeah. I know she's not. since That's like a look she's doing, but it's like, ugh. Anyway. Yeah. ah Yeah, she's, you know. She's. i i'm I think I've said this before. I'm shocked that she doesn't try to do a little bit more like instead of, I guess, be a little bit more of an influencer type reporter instead of just straight reporter from I don't know how much she can i don't how much she can do.
00:27:13
Speaker
Contractors. but that's true That's true. But what wouldn't you want her to have more of a following? Yeah. if Like if I was ABC, yeah I'd be like, hey, get on Instagram and start start um showing us, you know, sharing what you're up to instead of just kind of like lame reporting.
00:27:30
Speaker
Maybe they don't want to encourage another Tucker. Oh, she's she's not no Tucker. Well, yes, in many ways, in many, many ways. I'm just saying that he got big enough that when they got rid of him, he kind of didn't. He just kept going. But it took him how many decades? yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. um Let's see here. Let's continue on.
00:27:53
Speaker
So Yost was at this press conference they had. So the Dr. Oz, there's a couple other people there. And oddly enough, not Mike DeWine. And Yost has said, well, I mean, hey, thanks for paying attention. This has never happened before. Let's listen to him from the press conference. Oh, yeah, just so you know, this clip has not been edited or slowed down in any way. This is 100% the way it sounded.
00:28:17
Speaker
I've been engaged in this fight since I was the elected auditor of state back in 2011.
00:28:26
Speaker
Through my eight years as auditor of state and almost eight years now as attorney general, I have been doing Medicaid investigations, prosecutions.
00:28:39
Speaker
I have never had the level of interest and support from the federal government under any administration that you're witnessing here today.
00:28:51
Speaker
It's been a sometimes lonely fight against fraud. But it's no no longer a lonely fight. And what's the difference? President Trump, Vice President Vance, and this team that you see arrayed here today, these senior federal officials who could be anywhere else, who have serious duties, are saying, this is the most important thing.
00:29:17
Speaker
I'm going to be here. We're putting everything on the field. I'm grateful for your commitment, And I look forward continued partnership as we work together for the people of this state. So thanks, Luke.
00:29:38
Speaker
Thank Luke. Thank Luke. He did a good job. Even when other people tried whatever he did, Daily Wire. that's what That's what did it, was their exposure of this. things like yeah And we had a couple different people trying to do this after Nick Shirley.
00:29:52
Speaker
exposed, oh crap. That was one of the things I even put it well there in the show notes. When you go to the, if you go to the website and check out the blog and the show notes, you'll see clip of Luke, um, Rose,
00:30:09
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Rose, Rose, Oh my gosh. So anyway, sorry, Luke. Uh, he was in front of the state, uh, federal, chairman or a federal, uh, fraud investigation committee. Uh, God, what's the guy's name?
00:30:27
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Jeremy Gill, is it Matt Gill or what's his fricking name? I forgot now. Anyway, we've talked about him last week. so Brandon Gill. Brandon Gill. Thank you. There's a I forgot to pull the clip, but there's a video clip of him up up on the blog.
00:30:40
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Yeah. Brandon Gill's page, but Luke's in front of Congress in front of the committee of this fraud committee stating, you know, he's been questioned. you And, you know, Brandon Gill's like, Hey, is there any, is there any connection between this and Minnesota? He's like, Oh yeah.
00:30:56
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Yeah. ah There's relatives that go back and forth between here in Columbus and and Minnesota. Then he remember reminds us of the $130 million dollars that they tracked going from columbus to somalia to Columbus to Minnesota and then out of the country in briefcases of cash.
00:31:11
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Right. In the one example, he says there's a Somali-born person in Columbus who has got a health care place who hasn't been paying his taxes.
00:31:23
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Oh, he gets owed over $30,000, $30,000 in taxes. So A's, he's probably defrauding the government and he's not paying his taxes. So no, you, did you hear what he did? Yeah. And then he went to Minnesota. Go ahead. Right. Opened up a, a healthcare place or whatever. Right.
00:31:42
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Charged over $40,000. Yeah. And dissolved the company and flew back to Columbus. Probably paid his tax debt and kept on going. Went, oops, yeah, forgot I got to pay taxes.
00:31:53
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it's cut Yeah. When you're defrauding government, you probably should pay your taxes. Probably probably ah will flag you if you don't. That they'll flag you for. Yeah, that's true. That's probably how he got caught, right?
00:32:04
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That they'll flag you for. paying Not paying taxes your flag or flaggers. Stealing the tax money. Don't worry about it. Yeah.
00:32:12
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uh they're stealing it too so ah yeah oh yeah well yeah uh and there's and then du our uh yost was on fox news going over ah little uh clip here from lig or not a ah post here from libs up tiktok and he's talking about oh yeah there's mercedes for like they had all this money they impounded in cash hundreds of thousands of dollars in bank account and like 20 different cars mercedes There's a Southern District of Ohio fraud task force confiscated $470,000 14 luxury cars. a seat seized, i should say. you got money. You know, I don't trust lives of TikTok.
00:32:53
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I don't know. She gets a lot of things wrong. Yeah, this was, Yost mentioned this in his oh did he and in his interview on Fox too. Yeah, he mentioned that they're just brazen and they're they're just, there's Mercedes and and Teslas and Vets and all this kind of stuff that they're buying and they're just, they're just flaunting it. see a Ferrari in there or Lamborghini. No, it's a Ferrari.
00:33:14
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Yeah, some big dollar cars there. Yeah, you be careful. Vets look like Lamborghinis now.
00:33:21
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That's what happens when you hire somebody from Lamborghini. you know what? That could be a vet. You're right. emily Damn. Damn it. I see them all the time. I'm like, oh, they're they're great looking, man. Yeah.
00:33:32
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I think that's the best buy. i think it's the best buy and automotive performance right now. It's the best vet that they've had out in quite some time as far as like performance and stuff, even looks and everything.
00:33:45
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Ever, actually, as far as performance goes. I don't know if I'd buy one. I'm going to spend that kind of money. I might, I'd probably go for some kind of use a European sports car, but. No, i'd I'd get the vet. I think that's the best bang for your buck out of the box.
00:33:59
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Yeah, for a new one, I guess. Yeah, I guess i guess for new. Because you can't really get something like that for under $100,000. Right. Exactly. That's what I mean. and You can, you could probably get now, you can probably get a really nice one anyway. Uh, it's not vet talk. So, uh, let's see here.
00:34:14
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So yeah, Ohio fraud. I got anything else on that? I think that's it. And you know, did I press record? Yeah, I did press record. Oh, that's good. Okay. Uh, next check, check out the blog, uh, CrookerRiverCast at CrookerRiverCast.com. Check out the blog every Monday.
00:34:32
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00:34:46
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00:34:59
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00:35:06
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Moving along. And of course, Ohio is number one. Yay. But they're number one in student loan debt.
00:35:17
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So not Ohio. Is it Ohio? Just ah this is the oh highest nationwide. Oh, okay. It's just, it's the city though.
00:35:28
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Well, yeah, a city in Northeast Ohio. Yes. Yes. Let's get to. Worst in America for student loan debt. Well, for one, you'll see how they split it up. But I mean, i mean but it's not like, it's not a stretch, but they're saying like median income compared to average debt. That's what I figured. Yeah. Yeah. Let's hear ah hear from Ohio or from, fuck, their News Channel 5. Jesus.
00:35:54
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When it comes to financial pressure, many college grads are feeling crushed by the weight of student loan debt. The dollar amount is staggering, almost 1.7 trillion and counting. it is now the second largest type of household debt after mortgages, even soaring past medical expenses and car payments.
00:36:11
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And one North East Ohio City takes the top spot where people are facing the biggest burden, according to WalletHub. Out more than 2,500 U.S. cities, Ashtabula is number one for having the most student loan debt relative to its residents' incomes. Now, here's the breakdown.
00:36:26
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Adults 25 and older are carrying about $22,500 in student loan debt, which isn't very high. But the median annual income in Ashtabula is low, coming in at just about $29,000. leading to a student loan debt to income ratio of about 78%. That means for every dollar earned, 80 cents is going to student loan debt. I spoke with Chip Lupo WalletHub about their findings and why it's so concerning.
00:36:50
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When you have mortgages, you have car payments, you have daily expenses, student loan debt kind of gets set off to the side. And then, of course, late fees, interest interest charges, not to mention damage to your credit report by letting those loans go unpaid.
00:37:06
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Lupo told me one of the goals with this new report is to encourage counties, cities, and civic organizations to find ways to reduce tuition rates and create scholarship opportunities to make college more affordable and keep graduates in communities like Ashtabula.
00:37:22
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Here's an idea. Stop guaranteeing the loans.
00:37:26
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Did you see um Rogan had Caleb Hammer on? I didn't listen to that. He goes into a lot of this on there.
00:37:36
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Caleb Hammer, nobody knows. He's a, but he he called himself like almost like a financial roast. Yeah, I don't know. I saw the name and I i didn't know who he was and I didn't pay attention. Yeah, he's, a so he brings on people who he goes over their finance and, I
Student Loan Burden Discussion
00:37:52
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mean, just rips into them. Like, you're just, you're lazy. all you're Oh, yeah, he ri hes he calls it, ah and they they agree to do this.
00:37:58
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, he he even says in there, we have like a no-go zone. and we we can We talk about where they want, you know, there's things they don't want to talk about. You know, it's fine and stuff like that. But, um you know, he's like, yeah.
00:38:12
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call fat bitch a fat bitch. He goes, that's what I do. Well, he's talking about student loans as one of the, you know, car loans, student loans are two of the top things that were in debt.
00:38:24
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And so Rogan's like, yeah, I've heard stories of people on social security having to pay for the student loans. That's a new thing though.
00:38:36
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That's what, yeah. Yeah.
00:38:41
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So, you know, it's how about, I don't know.
00:38:46
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Again, you what do you say? set They looked up Harvard. So Harvard for tuition is like $70,000, $67,000. But when you include housing and all the other stuff and fees, it's basically $95,000 $110,000 year.
00:39:03
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And i think a lot of students are if using the loans for like dumb shit like that, like the living expense. Yeah. You can. And what Caleb brought up was, yeah, and they're being proved for loans that if they were trying to buy a $100,000 car, the bank wouldn't let them.
00:39:21
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If they're trying to buy a $120,000 house, the bank wouldn't let them. But they're letting them and they're sign up for this. They're gambling with their future. That's what they're doing. Well, yeah, but the banks are but banks aren't gambling. The banks are guaranteed to get their money back. Well, right, right. So there's no risk for the banks, so that means there's no market.
00:39:39
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there's no just's no There's no checks or balances. You just give it to everybody. And is it a coincidence that we had ah ah a story last week about a bill that they want to pass to make tuition free after but free after they steal it from the wealthy? I don't know. Maybe just maybe just a coincidence. i don't know.
00:39:56
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I don't know. How about holding the students the schools responsible for continually increasing the rate? Oh, when they increase the, that's what Caleb's also brought. it's amazing how when they increase the amount you can borrow, all the schools raise their prices.
00:40:09
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Gee, that's coincidence. Yeah. Crazy. but Yeah. I thought that was funny. Yeah. You're on social security and you got to figure out how to pay for your, i mean, I'm sure that's somebody older who went to school, but still.
00:40:21
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Because he saying after 40 years, they're talking about it'll be forgiven. I'm like, well, in that case, so for 40 years, you won't be able to do anything because your credit's going all screwed up. It's your entire ah working career, right? Yeah. Of 40 years. Yeah.
00:40:36
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I know people that struggle to pay 20 grand off. They're in their 40s. It's hard to do that. You know, i mean I mean, if you don't tighten everything up, it's hard to pay stuff off.
00:40:48
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I mean, it depends on what you make and stuff. And that's what I took from that interview. watch it was when I listened to Amy Acton say, Ohioans are doing everything. nick They're doing everything correctly. Bullshit.
00:41:02
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Bull, complete and total crap. You know why? Cause he's like, you know, he sits these people down and you're like, you're spending a thousand dollars a month on going out to eat. You're, you're at between two people that got like four or $5,000 a month in in income. They're spending a thousand dollars a month on fast food.
00:41:18
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Well, that's, that's, you know, it's hard to pay off 20 grand, but those are the things you need to cut out and you'll, yeah you'll get through it. $28 a day, three days a week would be able to, and one thing he brought up was, um,
00:41:34
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In the 90s, 1990, I think they brought up, well the average median income was $21,000.
00:41:41
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And he said, you put five, five, two to 5% or five to 10% away every year. They looked it up. They would be, they average estimate between two and $5 million dollars you would have had.
00:41:52
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And just ah a general S and P fund. Cause it, cause the stock market kind of went on boom. You got really watch. It's actually really, he went on boom. He's like, I don't have much sympathy empathy for boomers. They had the best job market, best tech. And they did it. They squandered it all and spent it all.
00:42:05
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Um, you know and you know he he kind of laid laid it on his parents no not everyone but he's like i don't have a lot of sympathy for when you had that you all you had to do was put this little bit away but you're not disciplined if you're not disciplined you're not gonna it if you're spending discipline and it's also like nobody really explains that like people don't know education compounded interest is or anything like that yeah And they kind of went off on the schools, which I do agree on point, but I also, what they never brought up the parents. He actually did he ah He said, so Caleb started with the same other thing, student loan debt.
00:42:37
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He said, a oh yeah, he's like, I went with a completely BS degree in music composition. And what was the advice from his parents? Yes, max out that credit card to buy that piano that you want.
00:42:52
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So he said, ah you know, and Joe Warren's like, well, how do you educate yourself? He's like, yeah, I watched a couple YouTube channels, YouTube videos and read a book. He goes, it's not hard. It's not a complicated thing to do.
00:43:05
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just have to do it. So I think it shows great. It's it's get a little repetitive after a while, but I mean, he did brought up his last fire video, which was a tranny who used state money in Colorado to get, to get his boob job.
00:43:18
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i need tits. Yes. He said, he said, ah he said, I thought was funny that when he asked why it said, ah well, my, my body's priceless.
00:43:31
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Well, how much did it cost you? It was free. I guess not that priceless, huh? um But, and they even, they both said, see, this is what I don't like. They both said, well, I mean, if the program's there, I mean, I would use it too. Like, no, that's the point. That's part of the issue is you have to be, you have just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.
00:43:51
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So no. um But yeah, she's like, unfortunately for it, Caleb had just written, he'd just written a $4 million dollars tax check.
00:44:05
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So they went on, I'd love to pay more taxes, but when you start looking at where it's going, and Joe goes, yeah, it's going for tits.
00:44:14
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ah It's quite good, actually. But yeah, so I get to, I mean, my yeah my goal for my kids is to get out of any school, then what on what they want to do, know, of the options I give them, ah is to leave school with no debt.
00:44:30
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I'd rather them leave school with a ah degree at a much lesser university and no debt than $50,000 after leaving Ohio State. Yeah, I would never let them do that. No, it cripples them.
00:44:42
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Because nowadays, that that stupid piece of paper gets you on the list of interviews. That's all it does. Because everybody else on that list has the same or better than you.
00:44:53
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What gets you the job is your personality. And your, you know, your attitude. Well, it's important to be able to get in the running, but yeah I don't, I don't think you have to have a prestigious school unless you're, unless it's a, I guess if you're looking to be a doctor and stuff. them Yeah.
00:45:14
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STEM stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, you' if you're going to be the world-class brain surgeon, you're probably not going, hey sorry, but probably not going to case. you're probably going to be at one of the big schools. You know, if you're going to be that top surgeon or something like that, it'll probably, you're probably be from India too. It's not America.
00:45:32
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Well, I, there was an American that we, uh, my wife and I shot their wedding. I think you might've been there assisting us, but it was, uh, the guy was a brain surgeon. He was going to be a brain surgeon. He was like, he was, I don't know what you call that after you're out of school and you're just doing residency.
00:45:50
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Yeah. And, uh, but yeah, had, I think it was like over $400,000
00:45:55
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student debt, something like that. If you're going to make him go ahead. I think he had, I think he, he was like on a reality show that geek and that, that, um, was it something geek in that the hottie and the geek or something like that. And he won like 250 grand and he still had a ton of, still had a ton of, uh,
00:46:21
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Yeah, because eight years of school too. Like eight years or more, you know, you're like, because you're talking specialties and all. So, hey, if you're going to be making, if your potential is to start in the multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:46:33
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Oh, yeah. then Then being a half a million dollars in debt. God, that sounds like crazy. But I mean, if you're to, in a couple of years, going make a half million dollars a year. You would think you should be able to pay it off relatively quickly. he He was going to eventually be, I should look him up, but he was going to be top top of in the nation, you know? I mean, it's still a risk because, you know, shit happens, but.
00:46:54
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He could have an accident. Yeah, he could have an accident. He could be a really crummy surgeon. and He could graduate to bottom in his class and only make $250. Went to breakfast with him. I saw him slicing up a sauce breakfast sausage. I was like, damn, this guy's weird. The way he was cutting it up.
00:47:12
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And i did that was before I knew he was alert you know being a going to be a brain surgeon, basically. yeah Just thought it was so bizarre. um i have a feeling I have a feeling he's going to be a pretty good surgeon, just the way he was handling.
00:47:25
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He was cutting a sausage like a brain. Yeah, kind of. It was just bizarre. I was like, what's up with this guy? was weird to watch. He was a strange guy anyways.
00:47:37
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I mean, yeah. A nice guy, but just, just odd. I think you have to be though. ah That's kind of where I'm. Yeah. I mean, I think you have to be a certain something. and I mean, to be a surgeon, there's, that's a lot of dedication, lot of work and stuff.
00:47:50
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A lot of knowledge and you have to be really smart and, you know. Um, so next, I guess we're going, oh yes, moving on to this one. so this, this next one really isn't about the story about the, so the story is North East Ohio.
00:48:10
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federal funds end for fentanyl test strips as Ohio public health agencies supply run low.
00:48:20
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So this isn't really about the health strips, but hey, let's listen to the news story from IdeaStream and discuss.
Concerns on Fentanyl Test Strip Funding Cuts
00:48:28
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The Trump administration stripped funding last month for drug tests that determine whether or not fentanyl or other dangerous substances are in the illegal drug supply. Columbus public health says they might run out risking more overdose deaths.
00:48:42
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Overdose deaths are dropping in Ohio and around the country, but Columbus public health and physicians like Dr. Beth Weinstock with Equitas health say this decision puts that trend at risk.
00:48:53
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Weinstock says the federal government backtracking support of harm reduction methods is a tragedy in the making. Her own son, Eli, died after accidentally ingesting fentanyl in 2021. I feel like it's just going to hinder health departments who are there essentially to help their community, you know, with life or death measures and it's i mean It's sad. Columbus Public Health says that once its current stock runs dry, other sources of public health funding will have to be used, which is already being stretched by budget cuts. The agency says it's concerned people will needlessly die.
00:49:27
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George Shulcock, WOSU News. He died of fentanyl accidentally while he was on a coke bender. Yeah. So if you you didn't catch that, these are strips they hand out to to drug addicts so they can test their drugs and make sure they don't have fentanyl on it.
00:49:43
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Yeah.
00:49:45
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Just don't do the drugs. I'm thinking if you if you got contact with the druggie, maybe you try to get them off the drugs, not just on safer drugs like heroin and coke.
00:49:59
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so So basically,
00:50:05
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they're going to, it's okay to check their drugs for other drugs. So your your tax dollars are paying for drug addicts to check their drugs for other drugs. So when they overdose, at least they know what they're getting into.
00:50:22
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Moving along, what a great, great, great efficient use of our tax dollars. but i'm I'm all for legalizing drugs only if you're willing to step over the drug addict in the alley.
00:50:38
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And, oh, this next one is good. Kind of. It was good. I thought it was good. So next one is police chief fired after controversial ice related visit to Cincinnati schools. So the first, first I'm thinking, wow, somebody's going to Cincinnati schools to check to see if the kids going there are like their parents or citizens.
00:51:03
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And then I'm really working that, that, that cough button today. And then, ah And then I started looking into it a little bit and I'm like, oh, wait, because did you read this much into this time?
00:51:18
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Not much, but there's not much to it really. There's not, but there, there may be a little bit more than, than what, I mean, not that what they're not hiding it or anything, but it's, it's kind of, I don't know. There was a news report, it doesn't really get into it. So I didn't even pull it. so at first, like I said, at first I was like yay, but after looking at it, not so much. Cause here's, here's some details on April fifteenth
00:51:40
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Lamanna and Baylor drove more than an hour outside of their jurisdiction to three different Cincinnati public school buildings for wellness checks on students.
00:51:51
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Superintendent Shawna Murphy has said. um So they, these officers are claiming they were acting on ice authority, according to Murphy. wow So then I was like, well, wait a minute.
00:52:04
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So you drove like an hour, hour and a half So there's that's a there's a lot of things here. That means ICE probably tried and and looked at the locals and worked their way, or I'm assuming they didn't start from, you know, I don't know, 40 miles away or 50 miles away.
00:52:21
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ah That's how far away from the city of Cincinnati they had to get before they had somebody had said, oh, yeah, I'll check this out. But then again, if I'm the school and some police, probably from a place we maybe never heard of before, Gratis Village.
00:52:37
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Uh-huh. But the officers were not allowed to see any students. The village put both administrators on leave. ah The one officer resigned and the other one was fired by the city council. I wonder if they were like out drinking and just like, hey, you know what? We need to hit the schools, man. That's where all the legals are.
00:52:59
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They were out with ice. What made him decide to do this? Yeah, that's what I mean. Like, it's not that big of a story until you start. It seems like at first i was like, oh well, at least somebody's tracking on them. i You know, maybe not the greatest way to do it, but, you know, not a bad. I mean, if you're, if you're, you're legal and you're rolling enrolling your kids in the school, first of all, I mean, there's a whole bunch of things on, you know, my tax dollars and all that stuff. But ah maybe that's one way that one angle or one way to find these people. But you got to work with the school, I think. And if the school's not one to work with you, then I'm sorry, I guess.
00:53:32
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because as a parent i'm like i'm you're not just gonna let any anybody with a badge in school are you no no you need like warrants and stuff unfortunately so maybe they were maybe ice is a little it's kind of a little shady there ice i don't think you need to be looking i'm telling you man they were out drinking talking about this yeah i think the ice the ice guy took him out for drinks got him drunk No
Ohio Climate Activism
00:53:56
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idea.
00:53:56
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So that was a weird one. So I figured we'd keep that one in there. ah Next, I really just, is is climate activists. Climate activists, Tom. Oh my gosh. They marched.
00:54:07
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They marched? They marched. I just want to, before I forget, got to have a warning. ah Sarah Donaldson warning. Oh.
00:54:20
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Sarah Donaldson. war Yeah. This is really just to make fun of Sarah Donaldson. um Vocal fry going on. Yeah, there's a bunch of vocal fry. So I did warn you. So you have been warned. Let's listen to climate activists from Sarah.
00:54:34
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and you may We may notice what's obvious when we talk about climate protests, any protests from the left. About two dozen hikers trekked 104 miles from southeast Ohio to central Ohio the last two weeks. Under the sun and through bouts of rain, the Great Ohio Climate March journeyed from Athens to Salt Fork State Park in Cambridge to Ohio's state house in downtown Columbus. Third act, which organizes mostly older environmentalists, led the march. The legislation is not so friendly right now in the state of Ohio io or federally, but we wanted to look at what we could actually do. That was Mary Beth Naim, third act Ohio co-facilitator. Naim says the route was determined some by the location of oil and gas wells, including those understate lands. The activists met with scientists and naturalists along the route and finished with lawmakers. Sarah Donaldson at the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau.
00:55:33
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o a Oof, that was rough at the end. Hero. Yeah. so So we we had to, you know, it's not very favorable for us. So we you know we had to figure out what we could do. So we hiked for a little while.
00:55:50
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For the older. they They mainly organize older people. Yeah, that's because that's all you can really organize. That older lady had natural vocal fry. Yes, she did.
00:56:03
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ah This next one, man. i'm glad i got I guess I picked the right park to go to um last week because... Well, man accused of de-pantsing Cedar Point guests entering park and entered park illegally, police say. Let's listen to, ah but there's a twist. o That's ah maybe i not the best way to put it, but there's a twist. Let's listen to Fox 8. This is the Gaelic duo on Cedar Point de-pantsing.
00:56:32
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And man, I bet this kid's pretty pissed that he did this. Pretty kind of, yeah, his parents are probably, mm-hmm, listen.
Public Indecency Incident at Cedar Point
00:56:40
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The world of hurt.
00:56:45
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Sandusky police hurry to the parking lot of Cedar Point. Security had been chasing a man after getting a report from a transgender female. The report said a man had come up from behind and pulled down the victim's skirt. We just had a guest get tased by one of the SPD officers in reference to an assault. They are in the very front of the lot. and We observed the suspect running across the parking lot where he was ah resisted as arrested. Sandusky police tell us the incident happened last Tuesday. And a report shows the victim believes the suspect did what he did because of sexual orientation. We don't know his intent.
00:57:22
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um Again, we just responded. did We had to do. We treat everyone with dignity and respect no matter what. um If you break the law, we respond and do what we have to as part of our job. The police report shows that the incident was captured on video and that the incident happened around a large group, which included children. Now the suspect faces a charge of public indecency for pulling down the victim's clothing, plus more charges for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and obstructing official business. resisted his arrest, enlisted the commands, and was taken out into custody for what he did. Marquez Williams, taken to be checked out at the hospital, then taken to the Erie County Jail.
00:58:02
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The case just starting to move through court. Williams released from jail after posting a $250 bond. In Sandusky, Peggy Gallick. Ed Gallick, Fox 8, I-Team.
00:58:14
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ah I guess I picked the right park to go to this last week. I think that would have been funny. Everybody starts pointing at them and saying, cock and balls, cock and balls, cock and balls.
00:58:27
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My question is, would this have would this have made the news if if it wasn't a tranny?
00:58:33
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I don't know. I mean, they did tase the dude. Yeah, but they he would have never done it if it wasn't a training. True, but is that I mean, that pantsing is... I have a feeling it wasn't a random pantsing. Oh, no, it what definitely wasn't random because he's a dude you know trying to be a chick.
00:58:49
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e Where does he go to the bathroom in school? Ah, where does he go the bathroom in Cedar Point? Ah, even better point. Hmm.
00:59:03
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Yeah, I'm actually, that's a serious question. Do they have, like, um... That's kind of... My blood pressure just went up about four or five points. Yeah. or That's one of my fears.
00:59:16
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Do they have separate bathrooms for them there? No. Yeah, okay. I mean, unless you go in the family bathroom. theres maybe I think some of them have a family bathroom, but not everyone. And I'm not even sure how much that's prevalent in Cedar Point. I saw i think I saw them Kings Island a couple of times, but um that's only that's one of my... I'm not sure what I would do if I'm standing there Cedar Yeah, now that I think of it, man, I just... We just... My wife and I, for the first time in, I don't know, a decade, probably went to the local mall here.
00:59:51
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And I... counted three of these walking around the mall and it wasn't a busy day. so where do they go to the bathroom?
01:00:06
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So as a father and I see my daughter go in the bathroom and then some dude in a dress going after her. What am I supposed to do? Pants them.
01:00:19
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D pants them. D pants them. Yes. Pancing. It's not, it's yeah. that's the deep It's pants. They got pants. that's Come on. Um, yeah. So do I do? And that was one of the things I remember my daughter years ago was, she was like, well, wait, why? What's the, you know, people got, you know, because she's, well, she was 12 or something like that.
01:00:42
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11. She's like well, people are going to do, I'm like, okay, so what happens if we're a target and you go to the bathroom and then guy, guy dress with a beard follows you. And afterwards, what am I supposed to do? She goes, Oh, yeah I was like, yeah, that kind of solidified it for her. Like, yeah, I get it. But geez, that's,
01:01:00
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So, yeah, I'm not going to keep an eye out for that. Do I go in the women's bathroom? I mean, if he can, why the hell can't I? Man, that's a good question.
01:01:12
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All right. Move along. Be careful. Be careful who you do pants. Damn it. See, they got me already. Be careful who you pants. I think pantsing is different.
01:01:24
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Is it? I'm trying to think of when I was in school. What do they call it when you they pants? Pants them. I thought I called it pants. ah pan You got pants. Okay. I don't and i don't remember calling it de-pancing. Technically correct. De-pancing.
01:01:40
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De-pancing. Click that one. Okay. don't know where was going. Next one, we'll find we'll wrap up the main segment with this one.
E-bike Regulations in Twinsburg
01:01:52
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Have you been noticing the increase in e-bikes?
01:01:55
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Yes. What is your opinion on the increase in e-bikes? I think fatties should just ride a bike. Well, that is, yes, yes, yes. But do they remind you of anything that was similar than when we were kids?
01:02:11
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Mopeds. Yes. A little bit. Yeah, theyre I mean. Moped wasn't as, ah I guess a moped wasn't as nimble. as a e-bike is.
01:02:23
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, acceleration and all stuff that stuff. These will go faster than moped. I could jump a curb with an e-bike. I can't do that with a moped. Yeah. The weight of the, yeah, they're lighter. and Yeah. True. So they're, they're actually more good.
01:02:38
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Yeah. I think they're more like, I mean, they're more like a bike than a moped. Bicycle. Oh, I, I, I see them as,
01:02:49
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want worse is not the right way, but, my My point here. So here's the story, people. Twinsburg moves to curb fast riding e-bikes. They're coming for our bikes. With new safety measures, Tom. Well, we're going to listen to the safety measures. But first, I want to know, as you listen to this, this this clip here, see if you can figure out who this this woman in the interview, who she probably voted for.
01:03:12
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So here you go. Twinsburg e-bikes. The city of Twinsburg is making some big safety changes when it comes to e-bikes. News 5's Remy Murray explains what you can expect and how it could affect everybody.
01:03:25
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If you're thinking about riding an electric bike around Twinsburg, there are some new rules you may want to keep in mind before you head out. As summer approaches, Claudia Lillibridge says she's ready to get outside and explore her community.
01:03:39
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But Lillibridge worries some e-bikers could make her experience less enjoyable. We had a relatively bad ac on the right up the street here. And i'm just concerned the kids are going a little b can accommodate them b people like Lill Bridge Twinsburg City council but you rules in place on Tuesday riders and everyone around them According to the city's website, the regulations will require all bike and e-bike riders to register for free at the Twinsburg Police Department so any recovered bikes can be returned to their owners if stolen. Other changes will put more responsibility on parents and guardians, make helmets mandatory for e-bike users under 18, and call for riders to lock their bikes or e-bikes when parked in a public place. There also penalties for anyone who tries to register an entered stolen bike, along with new guidelines for how officers can impound a bike or e-bike and release it to the owner, parent, or guardian. If a bike or e-bike is not claimed, Twinsburg Police Department is allowed to put it up for auction.
01:04:46
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Twinsburg has always been proactive in making sure that they protect its citizens, which I find reassuring as a citizen myself. While Twinsburg leaders work to make the city safer, a federal bill called the Safe Speeds Act is moving through the United States Congress, which we first told you about earlier this year. If passed, experts told us it would help set apart the three e-bike classes. at But the federal level, there is no comprehensive standard right now. So this is something that's really important. For Twinsburg's breakdown on e-bikes, head to News5Cleveland.com. In Twinsburg, I'm your Summit County reporter, Remy Murray.
01:05:21
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This is not a federal issue, so I'm not sure. I think treating them, categorizing them, I could see as an option. Because if you're doing if you can go 25 miles an hour, i don't think you should be on the sidewalk.
01:05:35
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What was the accident? They never say. I know she never. It was a, you know, somewhat kind of serious sort of accident. So I'd imagine somebody bumped into somebody else. said Just listening to her, I'm thinking, oh yeah.
01:05:49
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ah yeah Any accident would have been a serious accident for her. I guess like like around here, if some kid is riding that on the sidewalk, that's fine. Because we you don't have many people walking.
01:06:02
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But if you're in, like, I'm not familiar with downtown, like, Twinsburg, but I imagine it's like a little bit, would it be a like a little bit like downtown Medina where there's a lot of people walking? Yeah. Then, yeah, yeah um dev definitely the bike shouldn't be on the sidewalk there.
01:06:21
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Yeah, I don't know. i think you just treat them as mopeds and we used to have to put license on, right? I don't know. Why not? Moped, it's just almost the exact same thing. Some one's electric, one's not. don't think so?
01:06:32
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No. No, because you can use it different ways. i mean, you could take a, if you have a mountain bike that has a little electric, you know, assist. That's Yeah, but categorizing them would be the important part.
01:06:44
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Because got that little thing that just you up at home. Yeah, but if bought to mountain biking, then I don't want to get plates for it. That's silly. No, I'm just saying if it hits a certain category, then you need a plate for it. Because again, if you could do 25 or 30 miles an hour, you shouldn't be on the sidewalk.
01:06:58
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And technically, I don't even think you're supposed to bike on the sidewalk. be honest with you. Yeah, you're you're allowed to, but you're, yeah I mean, if you, like I do, like. I do. I go for bike ride during lunch, and I'll ride on the sidewalk just because the bus is going by on a narrow road. Yeah, lot of people do, but you're not, again, it seems a motorized bike with pedals seems the same as a moped.
01:07:23
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Yeah, I don't i don't know. i don't I don't know enough about it, but. Yeah. I just see them on the streets and they're flying along. I mean, sometimes I'm like, oh, I'm doing 25. It's a 25 and I got to push the speed limit to pass them.
01:07:35
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You know, so they're closer to a motorcycle than a bicycle, in my opinion. I guess. Electric bike in a lot of ways. I see them, a recent visit to Amish country and there was quite a few of them.
01:07:49
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Amish on the e-bike? Mm-hmm. Sweet. Yeah, there was a lot of them. We've got them now. What was it? Oh, they probably plug them into ah some city outlet or some solar panel thing or gen japan or generator or something. Yeah. yeah And instead of walking or taking a horse carriage or whatever, or you know, for a while I was seeing them use the, those, those scooters, those like electric scooters. And now, now I see them on the e-bikes that was in sugar Creek. I was seeing them or somewhere out there.
01:08:23
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We had a couple of these at one of the Airbnbs we did a couple of years ago, North Carolina. Yeah. And man, I always kept it in the low gears and a that thing get up and go. Yeah, it's cool.
01:08:35
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yeah they're fun. Oh yeah. insult them It's instant torque. I mean, it's just like a car. there's There's no, you rev it up, it just goes. it if If I didn't have owner of it if it didn't have a reasonably expensive bike in the garage, I probably we wouldn't look at getting one.
01:08:49
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And then I feel like a even more of a fat ass riding it. yeah you No, the thing is, if I'm going mountain biking, I don't... I was, like, considering it just for, like, some of the steep hills, but I'm like, if I can't make it up the hill, then what am I doing?
01:09:01
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Exactly. That's the whole point is the exercise, yeah. Yeah, a little button to get you up the hill, but... If I can't make it up, I can push it up for, for you know, a tenth of a mile or something. It's not a big deal. Find a different trail, too. That's why yeah when I first started, you find the flat trails and in in condition yourself. But, yeah, I don't know. i just see I'm seeing a lot more of them. They're really cool. I just worry. They are neat. It's a safety issue, Tom. It's all about the safety. So you got to register it.
01:09:25
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Yeah, they're coming for your bikes. so You got to register it. Pretty soon there's going like a buyback system. so Well, no, no, no, no. no no no no no if they If they find it and impound it after a certain amount of time, they can sell it.
01:09:39
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And the city can make some money. I'm sure they're not making a mint off of selling e-bikes. but Might be a nice way to get an e-bike. Yeah. Well, yeah, and that's what I'm thinking. it's It's one of them impound things that they're, that's one them impound deals. Yeah. ah So that was their safety measures. um Helmet.
01:09:56
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Okay. um Register. And then they could impound it. And then they gave the city instructions on how they can sell them. And they're going to hold parents and guardians more responsible.
01:10:08
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But they didn't say how. how are you going to do that?
01:10:13
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So there's that. It's enough. Yeah. Moving along. And oh yeah, I guess we're into this, to the good thing.
01:10:28
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Very unfortunate coincidence that I inserted this story in this morning because Cedar Point, a new festival and comedy shows, Cedar Point's Barrels and Bites.
01:10:42
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They have a deep pantsing feature also. Yes, they do. So the comedy show, you know, maybe just in the middle of the fairway sometimes. You just see some, you know, Franks and Beans.
01:10:58
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um Yeah, they got the Barrels and Bites Festival at Cedar Point. Go check it out. oh They have their or generally crappy food at at the amusement park. Gets a slight bump up to less crappy food.
01:11:13
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But it's it cool. Sometimes they have some good stuff. I've been there The good thing is they probably have some different kinds of beer. That's more important thing. Nothing like getting all drunk and going on, you know, the Raptor or something.
01:11:27
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Nice. Or, you know, oddly enough, uh, at, at, at Six Flags or at the, uh, kings Kings Island, that's where I was at. it was I've never seen my daughter laugh so hard than after we got off the Beast.
01:11:42
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And then I realized why she was laughing so hard.
Kings Island and Local Attractions
01:11:45
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It's because all the pain I was going through on the Beast, because that's a wooden coaster. That's where she was laughing. Great coaster, but a little bit rough. Anyway, so go check out Kings Island or a Kings Island has one too actually going on same time.
01:12:00
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So the weekends, I think there's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, they have these things. We have a little section of food and stuff and check it out. Different brewers, different bites and watch out for the Franks and beans.
01:12:11
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Moving along. um The good things is check out the yellow. We got a little link here for Cleveland Zoology Society has a membership benefits for Cleveland or Cleveland Metro Park Zoo seasons passes.
01:12:28
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If you're going, if you've got you and a couple of kids, you're going to to the zoo, of course, not on Mondays because never go on Mondays. That's free day. ah You're doing you and a couple of kids a couple of times a year, spending 250 bucks on a family family pass probably, probably worth it. No, I can't remember how much it is. It gets 20 bucks. You get two adults, six children and two guests. Two guests. Yeah. So you can bring couple your friends, kids, friends, or just pretend that they're your kids.
01:12:57
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And you can bring the grand grandparents. Yeah. Grandparents too. Good point. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Yeah. So that's pretty cool. Check it out. The zoo is a great gem. Everybody's asking, did you go to Cincinnati Zoo? No, I didn't. The zoo wasn't on my top 10 list to see things when I go to Cincinnati. But because we have such a great zoo here, so I can't imagine would be all that much better. But
Show Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:13:20
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it might be nice. But check it out.
01:13:22
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Cleveland Metro Park Zoo. I'll stop rambling. Because we're going to end on that note.
01:13:30
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I don't think that's it on that. Yes. We'll end the show. I'll stop talking, go back to bed and heal up for next week. We appreciate listening. Share the show. Quick at river cast at gmail.com. Send us your shenanigans. Send us your feedback.
01:13:42
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01:13:54
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Peace.