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Crooked River Cast Show 21
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- Where’s the chip’s!? Intel chip plant debacle. Trump, Husted and Merano chime in. What about the Gov?
- Indictments in Cincinnati “Jazz Fest Attack”. Thugs and Russian don’t mix.
- Separate ballots issues for the “anti-discrimination” amendments. What’s really goin on here?
- Student mental health days? Come on man!
- Browns and the sin tax scam.
- Prop bets discussion. Why is big government concerned what you bet on?
- Message Parlor busts end in not so happy endings?
Columbus Critters Club:
- SB 236 Suicide Self-Defense Act
- Ohio Innocence Act takes effect Sept 29th
Good Things:
- The Office spin off about an Ohio newspaper called The Paper coming to Peacock this fall.
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Transcript
Introduction and Ohio News Overview
00:00:02
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Crooked Rivercast. I'm your host, Robert, and joining me every week is my friend, Tom, to help us keep track of what is going on in Northeast Ohio. This is show 21, recorded August 9th, 2025.
00:00:16
Speaker
Another show, another week. Let's see what's going on. Tom, you doing? What's up? Another week and we got more stories, ah you know, more stuff going on in Ohio. It never stops, it seems. I mean, I guess but if it did, we'd have bigger problems. But don't know, I had ah had a busy week.
00:00:36
Speaker
How about you? It was a good week.
Concert Experience and Technology Challenges
00:00:38
Speaker
I went to see the Struts concert it at the House of Blues. Oh yeah, I at the House of Blues nowadays.
00:00:48
Speaker
I don't know. i've been there in a while. We had general admission, and where where we were standing, I thought it sounded like crap. Oh. Yeah, it wasn't I wasn't ah wasn't happy. The band song the but band played great.
00:01:01
Speaker
yeah The Struts are kind of like a straight-up rock and roll band from Britain. Oh, um ah this they yeah I want to say they sounded good. They played well, a lot of energy, but man, the sound just sucked where we were. And you know what? We were standing right next to the VIP section.
00:01:20
Speaker
And I thought it would have sounded decent there, but it just didn't. When we moved around a little bit, I could hear the differences in the different parts of the venue that it sounded better. But then you can't see anything. wonder whose fault that is. Whose fault is that? that the sound guy from the fan? No, think it's just... No, no. The sound, if you were up front, or bet if you were in the balcony, it probably sounded great.
00:01:47
Speaker
um It was just...
00:01:51
Speaker
I don't know, like the ceiling drops like right where we were standing. And it seems like oh you only get half the half the PA and the speakers that are there to supplement the PA system for that part of the venue are we're like right behind us and facing, ah you know, facing away from us.
00:02:14
Speaker
It was... I know yeah i saw i've seen i saw Van Halen at the arena downtown, and it sounded like garbage, but I was in an arena, so I'm not in an arena made for... Yeah, yeah i mean, I've been there before, you know, in the balcony section, and it's always... It's been good.
00:02:32
Speaker
You know, I just... I was bummed out because I... It just sounded muffled to me. But anyways, yeah, that's how it goes. The band sounded good, though, as far as how they played...
00:02:44
Speaker
I spent most of my week driving around Ohio and Kentucky, Indiana, and and what is always ah glorious experience in ah rental car.
00:02:57
Speaker
And it's always a, every every time I run a car, cry I do it usually a couple times a month, but it's always an adventure getting in a new rental car because you you never know what you're going to get. So a lot of times you get repeat brands and models, but it's a my wife I'll be in the driveway figuring out the car because there's so much stuff that you got to turn on, turn off, adjust, turn this, lower that, don't have the steering wheel vibrate and all this stuff. What did you have?
00:03:28
Speaker
I had an Audi A3. Oh, okay. Well, but a duh, you're not German. but that's Yes. it so' my My coworker said, hey, how's the Volkswagen? I go, well, whatever.
00:03:41
Speaker
basically the same thing but it was i was also a cheap Audi too which is not but but this thing had so many sensors on it when I went through the drive-through it just started going crazy I want to get close to anything like I'm like what am I going to hit what I'm like oh oh it's the wall but I'm not pointed at and then there's always the adaptive cruise control that you got to mess around with does it have adaptive cruise control does it have regular cruise control how do I adjust it Because that, to me, is one of the most dangerous things um I've ever seen. don't know if you've ever used it or had the opportunity.
00:04:16
Speaker
the but The adaptive cruise control? i've Yeah, my wife has it in her car. I've used it. my My truck doesn't have it. So that's the where it'll it'll slow you down if it senses a car in front?
00:04:28
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. It keeps you a certain distance from a car in front of you. So I've had couple occasions where about on the freeway in traffic. And I, you know, the, the car slowed me down because I'm, you know, three car lengths away from the person in front of me.
00:04:43
Speaker
I'm looking at my rear view mirror. This is one particular instance. I look at my rear view mirror. I see this semi coming and I'm like, man, he's, he's barreling down. He doesn't, does he see the traffic is slowing down? And then somebody gets in front of me and what does the car do? Slams on the brakes. Wow. Wow.
00:05:00
Speaker
No, I would have let off the gas and coasted my you know and maybe tapped the brake. and tap No, it slammed on the brake. like It moved me forward in the seat, and I'm going, I'm about to die.
00:05:13
Speaker
Yeah, I don't like any of those things. tell you I'll be honest, man. i I don't like any of that. I don't like the sensors on the side mirrors. I don't like the... um I don't like the, the only thing i I don't mind is like the backup camera ah for, it's nice on a truck.
00:05:31
Speaker
um I like the front bumper sensor or the ah rear bumper sensors when you're getting close to something. Yeah, those are good. Those are nice. But everything else, man, like the lane changing and all that, where we're trying to keep you in in in in the lane.
00:05:47
Speaker
i don't I don't even know what that stuff's called, but anyway. Lane Centering, Lane Assist, those all different names. That's the other thing you got to check for. what What kind does it have? How aggressive is it? Yeah, it's it's all garbage. It's it's just it's just stupid.
00:06:01
Speaker
It'd be nice to be easily to easily turn all that stuff off. There should just be one button to turn it all off. Maybe if you're driving late night and you know you got a long ah long drive ahead of you at night and you want to turn on the lane assist just in case you start to... you know Yeah, it goes off.
00:06:23
Speaker
Yeah. I could tell you when I use it, when ah when I know I'm go to be distracted. You mean with a phone call or something? or With a phone call, with whether or whatever.
00:06:36
Speaker
ah And then I'm like, wait, wait, is this really safer? Yeah, no, it's not. Yeah. so i like I like the emergency braking. That's literally saved me from running over a mailbox in my truck.
00:06:49
Speaker
Emergency braking? Yeah, it'll it'll stop you. It'll apply the brake if it looks like you're about to run into something. Oh. Yeah, don't know.
00:07:01
Speaker
Now, I've come across the opposite again when you when we're going. It's a country road, a hilly country road, and then there was a sharp bend to the right as we're coming down the road.
00:07:12
Speaker
And as we're about to enter the corner, another car is coming around the up um from the opposite direction. And the emergency braking system, now it doesn't always brake. It'll alert you and make a loud noise if it thinks that, what they say? Like you're on the gas and the you're closing in on a car and this and that has all these parameters, right?
00:07:32
Speaker
It thought out there was a car and all of a sudden in front of me because the turn was so sharp and there was a car coming the other way. It was all of a sudden started screaming at me and I'm like, what the heck? So the whole point of this is some of it is good.
00:07:45
Speaker
i have coworkers that say, oh, yeah, I love the self-driving cars. I can i can open my laptop up while I'm driving on the free. I'm like, oh. Yeah, that's not the point. no No, you can't. It's not that good. It is nowhere near that good.
00:07:57
Speaker
I do like it in some ways, ah but I think think most of it just gets in your way because it's it's either you're going to go all the way or don't do it at all. Well, I don't like the like the de mirror like the lights on the mirror on the you know mirrors on the side, your side mirrors. line that Blind side.
00:08:14
Speaker
Yeah, but you know what? It gets people used to looking for a light and not actually looking at their mirror. And i don't all of a sudden, people don't know how to drive. They don't know how to freaking back up. They don't know how to change lanes.
00:08:31
Speaker
Not that they ever did anyways, but... Just like GPS. They don't know where they're going. no yeah i have ah I had a great sense of direction. I no longer do. ah Same. Same here. i used to have to look up the the red maps and find my places where I had to go work at people's houses and construction and stuff. Right.
00:08:47
Speaker
Right. And i had his you had a stack of them in your car or truck you know it's for all the different counties and stuff. And you you you learned. and you you And a lot of a lot of times, you didn't even have to look at them. You know how to get you in the right area and then fine-tune from there. And now it's just like...
00:09:03
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. and It makes you lazy, just like most technology does. The dumbification. And speaking of technology. What?
00:09:14
Speaker
Look at that. What? Look at that. Speaking of technology, let's talk about the Intel plant. This is our first story of the day. Excellent.
Intel Plant and Ohio's Tech Development
00:09:22
Speaker
The Intel plant. Yes, the Intel plant. i if People are probably going, what what what's what's what's the Intel plant have to do with anything? Well, ah if not a lot of people know, I'm sure a lot of people do know, but if you don't, they they ah five three years ago, they broke ground on a massive chip plant outside of Columbus in New Albany, Ohio.
00:09:43
Speaker
It is east of Columbus by about 45 minutes or so. And they were touted. Oh, it was, man, the promises that were made. $28 billion dollars chip plant was promised.
00:09:56
Speaker
Well, this was a huge Biden thing, right? Huge Biden thing. And that's one of the reasons that pulled me in last week, because I was reading this article on the Ohio Press Network. This is from a ah lad, Dilard, Dilgard, Dilgard. I'm so horrible with names.
00:10:11
Speaker
Lad, that's an even easy name, and I still botched it. Dilgard. He is, he's writing for an op-ed, it sounds like for the Ohio Press Network.
00:10:22
Speaker
yeah He kind of goes through some of the, you know, the promises that were made and kind of breaks down the fact that we could have seen this coming, that the signs were there, that Intel was not healthy at the time this deal was done, but yet it was done anyway.
00:10:40
Speaker
So I'm reading this article. don't know if you looked into any of it. Yeah, I read it. it Intel at the time of this agreement was already falling behind its competitors.
00:10:51
Speaker
The signs were already there. We know one the big signs that was there that happened a few years earlier was Apple left Intel. Yeah, yeah. and started I mean, they this was a process Apple has been doing for years, but finally got bad enough.
00:11:04
Speaker
They pulled the plug. um Intel was just not hitting their marks. Their their performance was lagging and compared to, I think performance compared to power and all this other stuff. and then And then AI hit, and they were completely caught on their back foot.
00:11:19
Speaker
None of this matters, though. This was all just ah from the Biden administration, just a ah look at what we're doing. Yes. and and what i do yeah And i you know what? I thought it was pretty good. I was like, oh if there's, instead of giving a Biden oh failing grade, maybe I'll give him a D minus because of this.
00:11:40
Speaker
But and what else was happening at the time, too? There was uh, in 2022, which is when the groundbreaking was happening, governor DeWine was trying to divert attention from like not a great economy at the time. COVID lockdowns, uh, what is he saying here?
00:11:57
Speaker
The never ending emergencies and mask mandates, his own party voted to strip his emergency powers, which has never ever really happened before. I've, I've, uh, I forgot about that. That was, that was something else when it happened. I, I, uh, that brought back some memories of,
00:12:11
Speaker
Of that. but This was a great distraction. I went back in the time machine and I pulled part of the speech. And just so we can we can be clear on who was responsible for this this deal.
00:12:25
Speaker
This deal that ah gave Intel, this is federal money mostly, but gave Intel almost $8 billion. dollars One of the largest acts ever created. And let's see what let's see what what's see joe Biden had to say. And this is, again, probably one of the most coherent and coherent speeches I've ever heard from Biden.
00:12:47
Speaker
And that's not saying a lot.
00:12:52
Speaker
Thank you, Pat, for that
00:12:56
Speaker
And pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. It was just back in January we were together at the White House, Senator Brown and Senator Portman, announcing this historic investment.
00:13:08
Speaker
In March, I shared a story in my State of the Union address, the story of the Field of Dreams in the middle of Ohio, where America's future will be built.
00:13:20
Speaker
In August, we were back at the White House as I signed the Chips and Science Act, one most significant science and technology investments in our history. And now, September, Gov, we're here breaking ground. And thanks for the passport to get to the state, Gov.
00:13:36
Speaker
Appreciate Gov.
00:13:41
Speaker
All of nine months in America. is all got. want to thank Sherrod Brown for his relentless work, especially making sure that Labor is in on this deal. Pat just mentioned what Sherwood makes clear. It's time to bury the label Rust Belt. Okay.
00:13:57
Speaker
And call it as Pat said in Silicon Heartland. Wait, what? That's what's happening in these 1,000. And call it as Pat said to Silicon Heartland. Oh, oh yeah. That's what's happening in these 1,000 acres.
00:14:10
Speaker
Let's hear that again. i want to thank Rob Wait, is it bad at calf care? And call it as Pat said. Bury the label Rust Belt. And call it as bad said the Silicon Heartland.
00:14:21
Speaker
think I can figure that out. That's what's happening in these 1,000 acres. I want to thank Rob Portman. Oh, Rob Portman. For being the gentleman and decent man that he is and for showing that Democrats and Republicans can work together to get big things done for our country.
00:14:36
Speaker
I really mean it. trying to find where he's sitting, but he's a good man. He's a front row, Joe. Thank you. You're leaving a hell of a legacy as you leave. What you're doing is a consequence of you large part. part uh oh my gosh what a so i mean four years yeah we had four years of that sharp as a tack tom oh yeah sharp as a tack so there we had it we had that uh you know so rob portman got uh you got the gov all that and all i got was thanks gov thanks
00:15:16
Speaker
brother Yeah. Yeah. So then the next, then the next story. So this is, this is, I'm, I'm reading this last week and I'm going, yeah, let's talk about this because this is, this is BS. They were, they were scheduled to be producing chips by now.
00:15:36
Speaker
ah two um by a couple months from now. It was ah it was on the fast track, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. they were This is the fast tracker, right? yeah um i think Yeah. I think the line that he has in here, and I want to find i want to find out, because he goes through a lot of stuff.
00:15:55
Speaker
and do what What are we going to do about Intel? What's going to happen? we push back at all?
00:16:04
Speaker
So he says, I think it's his final paragraph. Let it be a reminder that government handouts and partnerships between government and big, big, big business can come with a huge downside.
00:16:17
Speaker
This is a, this was the ah quote unquote private public partnership. But as usual, Democrats, and in in this case, we'll we'll put DeWine in there in the mix because that's where he really belongs.
00:16:30
Speaker
We can never pick a winner. They don't know anything about business. it it or or Or not. Maybe they do know about business. And we'll bring in the next story, which is now so Senator Marino and President Trump are putting pressure to get Intel CEO out.
00:16:50
Speaker
Because maybe... maybe some of this $8 billion, dollars maybe it didn't go it's supposed to go. That's what I'm thinking. Where did it go? maybe went to some investments in the communist Chinese party and military i'm art from the new CEO has ties with plenty apparently. China.
00:17:09
Speaker
China. So the president is saying, no, the the only solution is to get rid of this guy and somebody in here with, with, with, with better vision because they're, they're investing in Chinese companies, but what are they doing with their plant in Ohio?
00:17:26
Speaker
Nothing. they're They're sitting here waiting to see what's going to happen. So let's see what I got. ABC six has a, let's get some, some background I believe. And what is, what's going on so far? See what they had to say.
00:17:41
Speaker
President Trump and Senator Bernie Marino both calling on Intel CEO to resign. Senator John Husted echoing that sentiment, saying that he wants answers specifically towards the potential conflicts of interest related to their ties to the Chinese communist government.
00:18:00
Speaker
In fact, a lot of people want answers just as much as they want this construction behind me to be completed. Nothing's easy, especially in a changing industry like the one they're in.
00:18:11
Speaker
But they've already made a lot of investment, and they're still working on it, and but we still believe in it, and and i and know we're rooting for them. Lieutenant Governor Jim Trestle saying he's taking it day by day as Intel takes another hit in developments here in Ohio.
00:18:27
Speaker
Now calls for the company's new CEO, Lip Boutan, to resign. He took the job in March. Now some of his investments in Chinese companies have been linked to the country's military and communist party.
00:18:39
Speaker
President Trump writing on Truth Social, there is no other solution but for him to resign. You are who you associate with and and you know I believe in intel. If someone's a part of the CCP and and it's a problem in my mind,
00:18:57
Speaker
Senator John Husted wrote on X that Ohioans deserve answers, adding that producing high-tech chips in the United States is not just economic policy, but a national security imperative.
00:19:07
Speaker
Now, it's important to note that Intel was granted nearly $8 billion dollars from the Chips and Sciences Act, which is the largest act given to a single company.
00:19:18
Speaker
Now, there are some specific questions that Senator John Husted, as well as Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas, want answers to, such as if Tan had to divest from his positions in these Chinese companies as they may pose a conflict of interest for Intel.
00:19:37
Speaker
We are hearing right now that Intel is not up for responding, but those senators want those answers by next Friday. On your side in Johnstown, Kirsten Lindquist, ABC 6 News.
00:19:50
Speaker
So yeah, we'd like to like to like some answers because people were voluntold basically a lot of those people and that 1000 acre plot of land in Licking County.
00:20:02
Speaker
The buying process has been described as voluntary but pressurized. Yeah, yeah. They took people's farms. A lot of them they did. lot of lot of eminent domain. And yeah, now but now they're just parking lots for nothing.
00:20:16
Speaker
It's not even a parking lot. It's just an empty dirt field. They do have a lot of construction going on. They have some foundational work. I've actually been around the site a couple of times. It's been a little while. And recently they put up a fence that you really can't see. But they're doing infrastructure stuff.
00:20:32
Speaker
power, I think, transforming stations, stuff like that. Water towers. like Water towers, some of the yeah basic, you know, just some foundational work there. and And this is all delayed till 2030 now, and they don't even know if it's going to happen then.
00:20:46
Speaker
Wait, wait. Yeah, let's be clear. The is what they said. They didn't give you, they didn't say by 2030. They said by the 2030s, like sometime between 2030 2039. That's I heard. They've, between twenty thirty and twenty thirty nine that's what i heard they And some of the reports, they say maybe as soon as 2031.
00:21:03
Speaker
But Intel has said the 2030s. Oh, the the Ohio plant is put on hold until 2030. That's the first article. Yes.
Data Centers and Infrastructure Growth
00:21:12
Speaker
So, okay. Well, a lot of reports I've heard is that they they literally say the twenty thirty s because there's no definite date.
00:21:18
Speaker
So that's concerning because when you're investing you know tens of billions of dollars and you don't have a date that when you're getting paid back, that's not a normal thing in business. like I mean, I've never dealt with $28 billion. dollars But would imagine if your investors and your shareholders would like to know when they're going to repaid on that money that you're putting in this this this capital project.
00:21:41
Speaker
And there's 10 miles of roads, what did you say, 200,000 cubic feet of concrete poured, 497,000 feet of underground conduit, 24,500 tons of rebar, 10 miles of roads. That was paid for by the county.
00:21:56
Speaker
and Cool, because it's going to be time to redo those by the time they're ready to yeah start start. Yeah, exactly. I talked to some of these guys down there that live over that area or have lived around that area. They said, to have roads this big, we never thought we'd ever see this in this area.
00:22:15
Speaker
And they they said it's completely changed the landscape because what's happened is now, again, there's a big dirt field with some work being done, thousand acres in that, in this, in this area off this exit.
00:22:29
Speaker
But what's happened around there, dozens and dozens and dozens of huge, massive buildings full of computers. There's an Amazon distributing center over there. There's Amazon services.
00:22:41
Speaker
There's a bunch of Facebook stuff over there. And what is happening is there's ah hundred and over 100 data centers projected for Ohio right now. Probably three quarters of them are around this area.
00:22:55
Speaker
Well, because of what was going on, right? Right, because the Intel announced it and everybody flooded in because you're going to have resources, you're going to have workers, you know, the the cities have all invested in STEM education, and and the school boards went crazy. Oh, we need new teachers, we need new buildings, and they started passing levies. They already hired, they hired, yeah, they passed levies, they hired people, and now that's all for naught.
00:23:18
Speaker
Yeah, there they're just in standby mode now. So what, you know, Nothing had happened yet, but of course, they they sure did pass the levies and get the money. Well, leave it to the government to waste money, huh?
00:23:30
Speaker
Right. So leave it leave it to Democrats to pick the the the wrong guy. This is this is his his article, but what he's saying is, you know, typical Democrats who can't can't pick a business, don't know anything about business mostly.
00:23:43
Speaker
But then I read this art start read this article on what Trump and Marino and Houston are saying. Maybe, it you know, do we have to remind everybody?
00:23:55
Speaker
Hunter Biden's relationship with the Chinese government.
00:24:00
Speaker
Him and, I remember, it was, it was him and ah John Kerry's stepson who had a consulting business. Was it a consulting business? Investment firm.
00:24:13
Speaker
Hunter Biden went to China on Air Force Two with dad. And within three months, had the him and him and um John Kerry's stepson had the largest private equity deal ever from China, like $1 billion that they were going to be giving given from the Chinese government to invest in Chinese companies.
00:24:32
Speaker
All they had to do was sign some checks to the big guy. Yeah, 10% to the big guy, baby. it it got so It got so, in my opinion, it got so weird that even John Kerry's stepson was like, yeah, this is too dirty for me.
00:24:46
Speaker
He backed out. That's saying something that's saying a lot. I think, think that's a Heinz carries a son. It's his stepson. can't remember his name, but anyway, there, there are, there are some ties there. It's like, you don't go over on your dad's plane, air force one, and then come back and a few months later and get a $1 billion dollar investment promise from the Chinese government from a firm a firm that had just started couple of years.
00:25:11
Speaker
So now we look at it from completely different set of eyes is maybe this is, you know, Just maybe they get a plant built. Maybe we don't. But what we do get is $8 billion dollars from the CHIPs Act.
00:25:24
Speaker
And we need some answers. And let's hear, would you like to hear from um our beloved beloved leader, DeWine? Okay. I think so.
00:25:34
Speaker
Let's see what has to say.
00:25:37
Speaker
Governor Mike DeWine was in Dayton today. He spoke for a couple of minutes about the president's demand for Intel CEO to step down. In short, he says it's important not to jump to conclusions. We've got some initial indication of what the facts are.
00:25:52
Speaker
We've not heard any statement from from Intel. We've not heard anything from the CEO. So i think we wait ah and yeah wait and see what you know what the facts are. As for those jobs that Intel promised, the governor says the state cannot make any determinations until January 1st of 2029. And as a reminder, the plan's opening was pushed back from next month to 2031 at the earliest.
00:26:16
Speaker
At the earliest. I got to say, I still don't understand how that guy ever got into politics. I don't either. um I just know he he goes under these, he's the do-nothing Republican because he literally wants to just, we'll just sit and wait.
00:26:31
Speaker
Republican. Let's see what happens. Let's see what happens. We have no, what can we do? What can we do in the meantime? Hey, Mike, we gave him $8 billion. dollars We can do a lot. We you we forced a bunch of people of their houses to build roads in this in this plant. That's nothing.
00:26:49
Speaker
You know, it's one thing to have to move from your family home for for a couple of generations, farm farmhouse or whatever, for for something like a chip plant or something. but now they've moved away for what? For an empty field. Had to feel real good. and So we need some answers, man.
00:27:03
Speaker
We need some answers.
00:27:06
Speaker
we i don't think I don't think we're going to get any. No. and so um But for example, the CEO in March is under scrutiny for his investments in Chinese companies, some of which are linked to the country's military.
00:27:19
Speaker
Despite beating earnings expectations in the second quarter, of Intel has announced several spending cuts. including the cancellation of planned projects in Germany, Poland, and the consolidation of operations in Vietnam and Malaysia.
00:27:33
Speaker
But they're pouring money into Chinese investments. I mean, it's business. I'm not saying I know what's going on. It's just asking questions. seems Seems weird. You've got a plant being built.
00:27:45
Speaker
And what they're saying is if they don't get enough, if they don't get more customers,
00:27:52
Speaker
don't know if people, part of the problem is the the switch to AI, they their chips are not meant, they're not, they don't run well with AI models, blah, blah, blah, I don't know. And they've mainly gone toward, they were really focusing on selling chips to to Apple, to Microsoft.
00:28:09
Speaker
Cars and, you know, computer manufacturers. Yeah, yeah. That's what they should focus on. You're not going to catch up in AI unless you buy out some company that's ahead.
00:28:22
Speaker
So that they got rid of one CEO a few months ago and put this guy in there. he was supposed to change the course of the company, go more towards whatever AMD or whoever else is kicking their butt.
00:28:33
Speaker
um AMD still around? I believe so. what What is, there is, in no, it's NVIDIA. That's the i that's in NVIDIA is ah is the chip company that is the is being really, is what everybody wants. Those are the chips that everybody wants for their server farms and stuff like that.
00:28:49
Speaker
And Intel is just behind and they, it doesn't sound like, they've announced fifteen another 15% layoffs a couple of months ago. 15% they're going to lay off. I know this is after think they did 10% earlier, about a year before or something like that.
00:29:06
Speaker
So it's not looking good. And then, and then now the president's on them. So it's probably not helping their stock price at all, but Hey, no, neither, neither is a failing company. So do something about it.
00:29:22
Speaker
And there was their stock prices like down to like, yes. Under 20? Yes. Wow. Yeah, it's taken a huge hit over the last year or two. Huge hit.
00:29:35
Speaker
Yeah, they're not not a healthy company at all. And we gave them $8 billion? eight Almost $8 billion. dollars Tax dollars. From the Chips Act. Yeah, nice.
00:29:45
Speaker
That was a great investment, Biden. Yes. Great investment, the Rhino. yeah
00:29:54
Speaker
right yeah They went from... so they went from so I'm sorry. no you find I just wanted ah just wanted to see their ah stock price where it went from. It went from ah back in 2021, probably when this was ah in the works.
00:30:08
Speaker
It went from $70, $68, down to... sixty eight down to It went all the way down to 25, and now they're at 1995. Yeah, I just want to – I think about it says another 4% in this article since the comments from – Yeah, but even – 4%, but it was – Yeah, just just because of the controversy.
00:30:30
Speaker
Yeah, but it's – was already way down. Yeah, it was – it's been been terrible. Yeah. they they They miss some earnings. They miss they missed some, um you know, they have they have to hit certain criteria when they're building their chips.
00:30:50
Speaker
And if you don't hit those numbers, and you know, that means you're not progressing. Chips aren't getting faster. And and honestly, their chips have been getting crappier and crappier over the years. Well, yeah. Go back to Apple.
00:31:01
Speaker
Yeah. Apple. Apple's M1 was kicking, kicking its ass. Still is. it It's, it's what everybody's shooting for in the computer market. Right. High power with very low energy and that, and Intel could never get that down.
00:31:14
Speaker
It's what Apple left mobile or, um, Oh, crap. Who made their chips before them? I can't remember now. us Apple?
00:31:25
Speaker
Apple, yeah. Before they went to Intel, they had the same chip they use in like the PlayStation 1. I can't remember the name of the company. But ah they left theirs for the same reason. The G4 process, G5 process. They couldn't get the heat and power to match you know with enough power.
00:31:42
Speaker
Right. So they went to Intel. And and when when they switched to Intel, they started developing their own chips. It took them about 10 years. Mm-hmm.
00:31:51
Speaker
All right, next, next, next s next, next story we have. i started with a story just to touch on this Cincinnati fight, riot, mob, whatever it was, this attack.
00:32:07
Speaker
And i read the story a little bit and it was interesting. There's some but been in some indictments. thered be There'd be some grand jury indictments coming up. Or right now, I think they're up to six people. They're looking for a seventh.
00:32:20
Speaker
Oh, they are looking for another? Yeah. So they're looking for a seventh because apparently there's one person on video. It's not in this article, but it was another one that I think kick somebody while they're on the ground, kick one of the guys ah like while he on the, on the ground and stole his, his chain. So now they're trying to get get him for theft.
00:32:39
Speaker
So they got, they got his picture in there, but, Somehow, ah so they got six somehow they got six of these people already indicted. four I think them are going to grand jury, and the other two have not yet.
00:32:52
Speaker
um And each face up to nearly 30 years in prison if convicted on all charges. So they're not necessarily laying down on these people. I i would imagine the you know the news coverage probably is a reason for that.
00:33:07
Speaker
I don't know. I think they're going to let him off. If people don't pay attention, yes, they might. They might get him off. um I think they'll get off with the slap on the wrist.
00:33:19
Speaker
There's a good possibility. I mean, it's it is Cincinnati. Hamilton County. You got a police chief that's awful. I don't know anything about their prosecutor down there, but...
00:33:30
Speaker
No, but if they're saying something like the police chief, yeah who what were you talking about? They, their police chief is currently getting sued because there's there's some officers, some white officers that are saying they were discriminated against for promotions and preferred jobs.
00:33:47
Speaker
So there's all that going on down there too. Why is she, what, what everybody's looking into kind of her qualifications to be a police chief. Yeah. T-E-I hire. It looks that way to me. I don't know. i don't Maybe.
00:34:01
Speaker
Maybe not. There's no maybe to that. I know, but you know I got it i gotta to give them... No, no, no. Chances are zero. Chances are zero. it's It's very low that it's not, but it's not zero. Okay. She looks like a mom. She looks like a mom that just did dust test. And we we could talk about the Cleveland's police chief, Cincinnati's, who who knows what...
00:34:23
Speaker
Yeah, they're all a joke. kind County sheriff. Yeah.
00:34:30
Speaker
You know. Give him a benefit. No, we shouldn't. youre right. No. She's she's she's pretty pretty horrible. And it initially came out and blamed... the people filming this and not, not the people. So again, I was just going to touch on this real quick. And then I ran into a, uh, Oh yeah, this isn't in this article since he's searching for a suspect who says that, uh, is accused of robbery.
00:34:53
Speaker
They got a picture of the guy and, uh, we, he finally attacked somebody and took his gold chain. So I run across this, this YouTube channel. Uh, it's called approved rating approval ratings by AJ.
00:35:06
Speaker
And I was like, oh, he's got something on the Cincinnati. Sorry, sorry. Let's just be interesting. What does he have to say? I can only imagine what he'd be saying. Who's at fault here? And where's the... It kind of surprised me. So he's going through and breaking down some of the coverage of of of this attack and fight.
00:35:24
Speaker
And what stirred my attention was some of the family members that they started interviewing. Mm-hmm. Let's hear what AJ has to say here. So he's he he's going through and there's some news reports and he's coming on news reports and then the news is interviewing mom and then there's a couple cousins and start going over some of these people.
00:35:46
Speaker
Well, we'll just, because it starts off, good get right to the point. Here's what Montana's Merriweather's mother had to say outside of court. Okay. These Russians was walking down the street. And on the video, he said, you want to mess with these Russians?
00:36:02
Speaker
And he smacked the first guy, you know. But it wasn't like they thugs. My child is in school. He had five kids. He's on the B honor roll in school. What? And he's not but the thug that they put out in there to be.
00:36:17
Speaker
What honor roll? Guilty. What honor roll? Did did you hear what what honor roll she said? B honor roll? Yeah, the B honor roll. but He's not he's not not a thug, Tom.
00:36:29
Speaker
I'm not on the A ro honor a roll. I'm on the B honor roll. well He had five kids. He's on the B honor roll in school. The B honor roll.
00:36:40
Speaker
And he he's not the thug that they put out in there to be. Wait, no, no. holla Hold on, hold on. Here's AJ. No, no. Let's rewind it back and we're going to see what the reporter just said about this person's son. Just said.
00:36:55
Speaker
Prosecutors say Merriweather was the catalyst in what they call coordinated attack. He was seen on video whispering to the victim just before the violence began. He was already out on bond for a separate gun and stolen property case. oh So this cat was already out on bond for guns and stealing stuff.
00:37:13
Speaker
And you heard the prosecutor just said that he he's the catalyst for the whole situation. now i don't know if that means that he was a catalyst for the whole beatdown situation or he was a catalyst for the entire the entire incident.
00:37:28
Speaker
Like he started it from the beginning. You know, I know that I know that the Russian did what he did. If the person's Russian, I don't know if the person's Russian, but we're going to call him Russian for now because everybody's saying that he's Russian.
00:37:39
Speaker
I know that he's the one that, you know, first put his hands on somebody, um...
00:37:45
Speaker
It's still unclear who started the entire thing, how this thing, you know, materialized. You know, and that the mother said that these Russians were, you know, walking down the street, um you know, saying, you know, I'm Russian. Do you want to mess with a Russian? I don't know if that's true or not. I know a lot of people saying that I haven't seen on video yet.
00:38:04
Speaker
You know, let me know in the comments if you've seen that on video where, you know, these guys were walking around saying, I'm Russian, I'm Russian. It looked like one other dude, was trying to break up the whole thing.
00:38:16
Speaker
You know, the guy that was with him. it I don't know if he was with him or not, but I'm going to assume that he was with because he got beat with him, right? um With him now. But to say that your son is not a thug and a be on a roll, is that is that a thing now? Be on a roll? You know, back in my day,
00:38:35
Speaker
You know, honor roll was was A. It's honor. You know, a a a plus, right? You know, a A to A plus. um I don't know. That must be like some of those new age things.
00:38:48
Speaker
Is the guy in high school? So he, ah if say he is in high school. He has five kids. He yeah looks like he's 40. Oh, yeah. Gun charges, stealing stuff, and the catalyst for this incident.
00:39:02
Speaker
And you said that your son is not the dog. want to take up for your kids, but i mean, in this situation, no like your son did some stuff wrong, you know, in the past and now.
00:39:16
Speaker
And where where's the accountability, right? Praise the Lord. Where is accountability? Yeah. One person saying this isn't there enough. He's a, that Meriwether guys, 34, five kids. He's on the B on a roll.
00:39:31
Speaker
B on a roll. Like you B on the honor roll. Central business. Just notice. I'm trying to figure out. I thought it said where he was. He was at sex. Some trade school or something. So he's not in high school college. I mean... Yeah, yeah.
00:39:43
Speaker
He shows up once in a while. He's probably forced to go on there ah through some... some ah Well, he's already... Court thing. He's already under indictment, or he's he's got charges against him for stealing and concealed weapon carry when he's not supposed to have concealed weapon.
00:40:00
Speaker
um so he was already on bond. That's why they... And his bond was the highest. And... Yeah, it's, so let's keep going with AJ here.
00:40:11
Speaker
A little bit more, AJ gets a little deeper into it, more but more more from the family, a little bit more of who else was involved, I think, in this It was terrible that this had to happen this way, I feel like things have went a different way. Investigators say video shows Merriweather coordinated an attack with Jermaine Matthews by whispering in his ear before going behind a man and punching him. They say the pair proceeded to kick and punch the man even when he was trying to retreat. All right, well, I don't believe that this was a coordinated attack like
00:40:43
Speaker
Merriweather went around to everybody and conspired about how they were going to attack this person. I do believe that after that first punch was thrown, a bunch of angry black people saw a white man at his weakness and decided to take advantage of the situation and get their licks in for the simple fact that he was white and vulnerable at the moment.
00:41:03
Speaker
But you probably won't hear them say that. Nope. Where's the guy that started the fight that he should be locked up? He should be down here. This man almost got beaten to death by a mob of angry and violent men and women over a slap.
00:41:16
Speaker
You know, and like I said in my last video, he was wrong for slapping Mary. Good point here. Right. brings up You don't go around putting your hands on people because here's here's what happened. I want you guys to learn this. When you put your hands on somebody, you open Pandora's box.
00:41:32
Speaker
because there's no limit to what that person can do to you. There's no unwritten rule that says, hey, if you slap this person, they're only allowed to slap you back once. No, you're going to slap, going to put your hands on the wrong person and they might kill you for it.
00:41:47
Speaker
So unless someone stop it is presenting a direct and and an immediate threat to you, yeah No, he's he's totally right. I mean, you go around slapping somebody, and I'm going to take that for what happened. He he just slapped somebody. If you slap somebody, expect the beat down from the person you slapped, or maybe somebody he's with also.
00:42:12
Speaker
But you don't expect the beat down from five others. No. No, yeah. he yeah ah very ballot Fair point. I don't think he's excusing it. I think he's just saying you kind of open yourself up to this when you put hands on it.
00:42:26
Speaker
I'm agreeing with him. I'm just saying, you know, he's totally right on that. Yeah. I just, you don't, well first of all, just don't, just just walk away. You're an idiot if you, if you slap.
00:42:39
Speaker
Well, he gets to that. But a yeah, I mean, it's it's still these people are you you slap somebody, you don't expect the beat down until you almost dead.
00:42:51
Speaker
Yeah. But if you slap the wrong person, as he I think it brings up shortly here. So unless someone is presenting a direct and an immediate threat to you or one of your loved ones, it should be hands off.
00:43:07
Speaker
Let's continue.
00:43:10
Speaker
Investigators confirmed they are looking into that as well, but remain adamant. don't think it was necessary for someone kicking your car. I don't think this level of violence can just be talked away or dismissed because someone hit my car or someone kicked my car or over an argument.
00:43:29
Speaker
He's exactly right. You know, in my lifetime, I've seen two kinds of people that react that way. People with nothing to lose and people that don't appreciate what they already have.
00:43:42
Speaker
Because people with something to lose, whether it be a house, a car, you know, a career, a reputation, of family, an aspiration. They consider the consequences of their actions and how it will affect their life.
00:43:59
Speaker
You know, um as a matter of fact, they don't even put themselves in situations where they have to react that way. They don't put themselves in in dangerous situations like that. You know, as soon as they see something is awry, they get out of there.
00:44:15
Speaker
That's normal. That's what you're supposed to do if you have something. You have five children, sir. Kids need their fathers. you know And while you're fighting people that ah at jazz festivals, somebody else is raising your kid.
00:44:30
Speaker
He don't know knowah his kids. And they're wondering what happened to daddy. And someone's going to have to sit them down and explain to them that daddy did something bad and now he's going away. And the child's going to be like, well, didn't daddy love me enough to stay? okay Yeah, no.
00:44:48
Speaker
No, because he's probably got five kids and three different baby mamas. At least. Yeah. And we'll assume last one we'll just hit the last one. back and And by the way, if if those guys are Russian, I've never met a Russian that I liked before.
00:45:07
Speaker
eat well i mean but Each one's been a little too arrogant yes and a little too um ah machismo, I guess you could say. Especially with a little alcohol.
00:45:19
Speaker
Oh, yeah. That's exactly what – that's a great point because that's what I was going to bring in a minute. That's what I felt like happened here. These two, whatever they were, Russian, Eastern European, whatever – you know Ukrainian, Polish, you know very similar and a lot of times. But Russians have ah have a certain... No, Russians have ah a little bit of extra ah like machoism to them. when And usually they're not that.
00:45:41
Speaker
Yes. And then when they when they get a little little vodka in there, ah and they they thought they they were... They did not expect what happened, right? they Right. you know they They got a little too...
00:45:56
Speaker
little too big. The cojones got little too swollen while they were drinking. but let's finally finish up this. I got a few more, another 30 seconds here from AJ who points out what happened with the, because there's six people, four of them are men, two of them are women.
00:46:11
Speaker
And he he brings up the woman here and see what happened with her. Now, investigators say Vernon was not involved in any of the arguments. They say she was simply a bystander who was watching the brawl unfold when she inserted herself into the chaos by punching a woman who was trying to help someone on the floor. All right, so you heard that, right?
00:46:31
Speaker
She wasn't even part of the argument, but she inserted herself into the situation. And I'm to tell you why, probably because they were white and outnumbered. And she decided to take advantage of the situation and express her hate for white people by hitting them, by attacking them.
00:46:50
Speaker
And to attack somebody that was helping another person on the ground injured, you know, I mean, there's, that's such a ah cowardly act. And, and this woman that got punched and knocked out was waiting for an Uber.
00:47:07
Speaker
And decided to come, which i'm like scratching my head going, what? No, I need to talk to my wife. If you're waiting for an Uber and you see somebody get knocked out, run the other direction.
00:47:18
Speaker
I'm sorry. but Yeah, yeah. and but You know, I don't know anything about her. I heard her talk after, you know, um she did a like a press conference, I guess. But ah she seems like a very down-to-earth person. which Is she like a nurse or something? Was she trying to be like a... um oh I don't know. okay Yeah.
00:47:39
Speaker
ah you know because i don't know I don't think the average woman that isn't in that field yeah good point would do that because that's that's a pretty scary situation. Yeah.
00:47:51
Speaker
Yeah, that's good point because most people in general, women or not, were probably not, and that seemed like a knee-jerk reaction. They'd just come over. i mean, they're wailing on people all over the place while this while she goes over there, if I remember correctly. I haven't watched the whole video in and a while, but you know, that yeah you might might be somebody who's a little more used to the chaos and kind of yeah just reacted instinctually, you know, which is what a nurse or somebody in the medical field probably would do in a lot of cases.
00:48:18
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Go over and help somebody. Cause that's what you do. And, but still, and I don't know. You gotta, you gotta read the room, man. Read the room. That's not the time. Unfortunately. Yeah.
00:48:28
Speaker
That, that was stuff was still popping off. I think when that was happening. Yeah. You know, you just call 911 and mean maybe hang out to see to make sure everything's okay. but Hang out because what good did she do help this person after she's laying there on the on the ground?
00:48:43
Speaker
No, nothing. she got it I don't know if she's ever going to be okay again. i think she's got some pretty serious ah injuries. very very Very possible, but... You, if you lay back for a minute, let everything die down, then you can help the person.
00:48:56
Speaker
But now nobody's helping them because you're laid out. So again, I'm not, not trying to knock her. I'm just, um, situational awareness is probably the biggest thing that people can do to keep themselves out of trouble and and learning how to read the situation correctly.
00:49:12
Speaker
And it's hard when you're never in those situations, but it's vital and a lot of times to keep yourself out of trouble. It's horrible thing, but yeah, So this lot you know this guy already had a ah record, um so he's he doesn't seem like a very very good person. and And she's not very smart because she's just sitting around there um waiting for an opportunity to go punch somebody, which is all, all, but um um all, all not smart things to do people. So, but as you heard mom and cousins, nothing's his fault.
00:49:46
Speaker
He's a good, he's a good person. Can't figure out how we got in this situation by having a family that doesn't hold each other accountable for anything. Maybe. don't know. Well, a lot of times. but My favorite was I, I, I, somebody went and stuck up a, um you know, robbed a convenience store in the,
00:50:05
Speaker
and the person working in convenience store shot him. and the And the parents started blaming the person that shot their son. Oh, yes, I did hear. That was a couple years ago. I'd have to look it up again. But it was like, really? Come on. yeah you're like At gunpoint.
00:50:22
Speaker
Oh, wait it wasn't it wasn't the convenience store owner. It was a customer. Customer, okay. They put, ah the the guy was robbing the store. And he shot, uh, pointing a gun at the, um, person behind the counter and somebody in the store, you know, uh, a good citizen shot him.
00:50:44
Speaker
and put him down. and The mother was trying to say what a good son she had. I'm blaming the plumbing. Yeah. It was just crazy.
00:50:58
Speaker
You see that more and more. There's i again, when you, I don't know, I, you, I always, I tend to dig maybe too deep into some of these things, but when, if you've been brought up your whole life with, with almost no consequences,
00:51:09
Speaker
When you get in these situations, like he's saying, you don't think there's anything to lose, let alone if you have it or not, because you yeah everything's going to be fine. They're always playing victim. I'm going on their wrisistst You know, that that ah community ah always, I think it's just maybe instinctual just to play, to blame the other, play victim. I don't know if that's.
00:51:33
Speaker
Yes, you've also been told for generations that nothing's your fault, everything's everybody else's fault. Mostly everything's the white people's fault. So maybe that's where she got some of her anger, was from constantly being told over and over again that you can't amount to anything because somebody's holding you back.
00:51:50
Speaker
I don't know. Could be. Could be. um So hope everybody gets what they deserve. And I mean, even these Russian guys or whatever they are.
00:52:02
Speaker
I mean, you could see, I could see them getting ah a slap on the wrist at least. Well, I, I, they, they didn't deserve that beat down, but they, they, um,
00:52:15
Speaker
They're idiots. Yeah, they're idiots. and it's Yeah, and it's valid point to this. but he's What he's been saying is like, yeah I don't know. These these guys aren't no therere there're no saints or anything, but this is ridiculous.
00:52:27
Speaker
Especially the woman knocking out the other woman. who
00:52:32
Speaker
So we'll keep an eye on that. I don't know how much more there will be of that, but I'm sure if we get any good clips like that, we can always bring them up. And like you said, this is Cincinnati. got a clip i bring up the next next week. Yeah.
00:52:43
Speaker
I got to find that again. This is Cincinnati, but take this to any, take this to Columbus, take this to Akron, take this to Cleveland and so on. And you're going to get similar, similar situation, probably a similar thing that happened because all these cities are run the same way.
Legislative Changes and Social Issues
00:53:01
Speaker
Onto the next story, I guess, is the backers for the Ohio anti-discrimination amendment have decided to go ahead and split it into two bills.
00:53:13
Speaker
I mean, they decided because they were told this is the only way it's going to get through, and they decided not to fight it. there is ah There is a way they can appeal it and and move it up the chain, probably something to do with legislature and this and that. but Can you remind me of what the bills are? Yeah, so the bill...
00:53:32
Speaker
um
00:53:34
Speaker
I mean, what what what they say they are, what I say they are. but So they they they the first thing they want to do is they wanted to codify, or they wanted to get rid of, excuse me, the pro, I think there was amendment in 2004 for the Defense of Marriage Act. It was approved in 2004. And they, with the recent sub Supreme Court decisions,
00:54:00
Speaker
so they in in the twenty fifty s So they had the Defense of Marriage Act. Let's go back to that. In 2004, that Ohio passed as ah as a constitutional amendment, a marriage between man and a woman. And then the Supreme Court ah this decision legalizing same-sex marriages, which is weird how a court can legalize something, but okay.
00:54:18
Speaker
ah In 2015, the Supreme Court said, yes, you can. ah These are not constitutional. So that amendment has just been sitting there dormant. And what they're worried about is with the recent Supreme Court decisions under the Trump administration, they are worried about the Supreme Court revisiting that and stripping that away, reversing their 2015 decision, which would then put in the Defense of Marriage Act in Ohio would then go back into as law.
00:54:46
Speaker
Right. I think they're mostly worried but about because of the Roe versus Wade, right? Yeah, that's one of the ones they bring up, but they also a lot of times will bring up just a bunch of decisions that they don't think were correct and that the court is politicized and this and that other thing.
00:55:02
Speaker
so But I don't think that's even really why they're doing it. I think they're trying this to me. I started looking at this because it seems like they were trying to use that particular part of the bill to shoehorn in everything else.
00:55:15
Speaker
which is LGBTQ.
00:55:19
Speaker
So the other part would prevent, so this what they say. The other part would prevent local and state governments from discriminating against LGBTQ Ohioans and women and several other protected groups.
00:55:33
Speaker
Okay, several was is the key word there, several. ah It would ban discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, expression regardless of sex assigned at birth.
00:55:52
Speaker
But I don't, is that the same thing? um disable Disability,
00:55:59
Speaker
ah no, i sorry, ah pregnancy status, genetic information, disease status, age, disability, recovery status, familial status, ancestry, national origin, or military and veteran status.
00:56:13
Speaker
So could they just say you cannot discriminate against anybody for anything? when that I thought that's what we already had. And I was going to say, can they now discriminate against these, with these things? Can, can the state government say you've been in the military? You cannot, we don't want you here.
00:56:30
Speaker
I don't think so. So what's the point of this? So it can, if a government, let's say a school wanted to hire ah six foot four a bearded man who called himself Sally and wore a dress.
00:56:49
Speaker
If that person applied for a teacher's position for a school, could the school say, sorry, but but we we can't hire you because you're six foot four bearded man who wears a dress. Yeah.
00:57:02
Speaker
and you're about to teach 10-year-olds. Can they do you exactly but that? that would make you couldn't discriminate against that.
00:57:16
Speaker
Is that discriminating against, or is that just going, hey, ah maybe a 6'4 bearded guy wearing a dress should not be teaching 10-year-olds?
00:57:26
Speaker
So I think that them splitting this up is probably a good thing for the state. I don't think either of them should really be passed, but I definitely believe that they were trying to sneak in all this other stuff with the Defense of Marriage Act part of it.
00:57:40
Speaker
Yeah, think I think the marriage... I'll get your heartstrings. ah The marriage thing is going to pass because most people don't really care. And the second part but will not pass.
00:57:51
Speaker
So the important thing is they have to get 413,000 signatures for each ah amendment, for each ballot initiative, but for to get it on the November 26 ballot.
00:58:04
Speaker
but she They might have trouble with that. I think they might too. Yeah. even with Even with the marriage part. Yeah, well, I don't know.
00:58:14
Speaker
Well, yeah, i think I think they will. Because you're really trying. They're going to have trouble with that. They might not with the marriage thing just because, ah ah you know, what here's the thing. I think you have a lot of gay individuals or couples that really don't like the other stuff.
00:58:37
Speaker
Yeah. they They want the marriage, but they don't like the other ah crap that the... They don't like being associated with all this. Right. With the all the trans stuff and all that. Puberty blockers for kids and all this other stuff. So I think i think the um ah marriage thing, they can get the signatures, but the rest of it, they're not going to... They're going to have trouble, and if they do get the signatures, it's not going to pass unless it's worded ah strangely.
00:59:05
Speaker
But I really don't think it's going to pass because you got the you have you're going to have, if you think about it, you're going to probably have Vivek running.
00:59:18
Speaker
With no ah real Democratic competitor. And you're going to have the the um property tax amendment going too.
00:59:31
Speaker
yeah Which is going to really pull out most of the, I would say, right-leaning people. So they're going to have trouble. Yeah. trying to pass either. Yeah, you're right. Either of these, i think they're going to have trouble.
00:59:46
Speaker
Yeah, I think on the marriage part, you may also have problems going, if people actually think about it, like, why are you worried about, like, what's what are you worried about? Worried about a possible case that possibly could go the Supreme Court and they could possibly overturn something?
01:00:02
Speaker
Is there anything there? Is there anything in the works? It doesn't really say... in the in the article that there's already a case there that they're worried about. So what do you you, that's what I looked at and said, yeah, there's nothing to worry about here with the marriage part.
01:00:17
Speaker
So you're just using that as a front to get all the LGBTQ stuff in there. So if you were if you were an educated voter and you were going to go sign this and say, oh yeah, well, Defense of Marriage Act seems, but what what are you worried about?
01:00:30
Speaker
Seems a lot to do about nothing. Or that part of it. Yeah, I don't think... What's the threat? there's no Is there a threat there that's going to be taken away from you? Yeah, they're going to have trouble pulling out all the um blue and purple haired middle-aged women.
01:00:45
Speaker
And I can't ah can't help but say, i can't I have to say, this is what happens when we have an out-of-control government. Because it should never be up to the government who you marry. It shouldn't.
01:01:01
Speaker
So we keep an eye on that. That's going to, it's, so they have to send this to the, uh, secretary of state. I can't remember somebody who, uh, who has to approve the ballot. They still have to approve the wording of the ballot, making sure it's not confusing and all this other stuff. So once that gets it done, they will, uh, they'll have, they'll have to go out and get signatures.
01:01:21
Speaker
And, I'm sure they won't they will not be tagging along with the no property tax people for signing. Probably not the same demographic, I'm thinking. No.
01:01:34
Speaker
But you know what? Those people would probably vote for no property tax also. it's it's A lot of them, yeah. It's going to be a strange cycle. Yeah, I can't wait to start covering that.
01:01:45
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:49
Speaker
So that's that's coming down the pike, so we keep an eye on that. Next is a little story that I saw that made me laugh a little bit, and then i went, oh, i mean mean they're actually serious. So this is an Ohio lawmaker,
01:02:06
Speaker
um a Senator Willis Blackshear Jr., would like every student to have three mental health days a year. Democrat from Dayton. Democrat from Dayton, thank you.
01:02:18
Speaker
I mean, of implied with the... Hey. It's kind of implied. He's a Democrat because Republicans are stupid, but not this stupid.
01:02:30
Speaker
Yeah, this is hilarious. So I i thought we could we can listen WKYC and have their explanation of it because it's only a minute or so. So I thought it was up because he has Willis in here and
01:02:44
Speaker
ah thought there was some interesting little quotes. People like, yeah, this is good. There you We are just about a week away from the start of the new school year here in central Ohio. And while some kids need books and pens for, of course, the homework, they also need tools to help them with their mental health.
01:02:59
Speaker
An Ohio lawmaker says he's determined to introduce a bill this year that would give every student three mental health days. 10 TV reporter Kevin Landers is live in the studio to explain. Kevin. Well, under the proposal, schools would not be mandated to provide mental health days.
01:03:15
Speaker
It would be an option. The reason is not every school has mental health counselors. The idea was introduced last year but never got a vote. It faced opposition by those who felt the move would add to the problem of chronic absenteeism.
01:03:28
Speaker
State Senator will Willis Blackshear Jr. says his bill solves that problem by making mental health days excused absences. Oh, solves it. says kids need to know that it's okay not to be okay.
01:03:40
Speaker
Besides being reactive, this is something that we need to be proactive on and address head on, because what we don't want to see happen is, is that kids continue to go through some of their struggles and they're not being addressed.
01:03:53
Speaker
But then we see in test scores. We see it in their attitudes. We see it in different ways. And then we're wondering why they're acting like this or why they're performing like this. Such an interesting message, Kevin. It's okay to not be okay. So what will guarantee that a child who elects to take a mental health day will actually get that help they need? Yeah, that ultimately will decide, a belt will be up to the parent.
01:04:18
Speaker
And the senator says if a child decides they want to take a mental health day, they now put school counselors on notice to pay closer attention to that student so they can intervene quickly in the future. There are guardrails to this bill. A child could not use a mental health day, for example, to avoid a test. Absolutely. Why not? Definitely a topic to discuss further. It sounds like for sure. Yeah. I think this is a question. I think a lot of parents want to make sure that their kid is taken care of at school.
01:04:42
Speaker
All right, Kevin, thank you so much. I actually are worried of my kids getting educated at school. I can take care of them. And wait a minute. What what do you mean? i can't use this to what is worse for a kid's mental health than test day?
01:04:58
Speaker
So the bill defines a mental health day as a school day during which a student attends to the student's emotional and physical physically physiological well-being in lieu of attending school.
01:05:13
Speaker
Raising pussies. 101. one oh one So I get under, I get paying attention to your kids' mental health. That makes sense. It's something that's not, it's little foreign to us, you and i but it is something, i mean, why not? Right. I mean, you're paying attention to everything else.
01:05:30
Speaker
We should, at least you should have a good idea of what your kids' mental health, right? You want to make sure. but that's something in the home. Exactly. Exactly. You know, and my my point. Yes. So if I feel my kid is having some issues mentally, I will excuse him from school.
01:05:44
Speaker
You don't need to know about it. and If I want to tell you about it, I will so that the counselor can watch them while they're at school. But,
01:05:53
Speaker
No, no, no, no. this this is This is lame. This is just raising pussies. so This is just going to raise that person that can't make it to work because, i don't know, he slept in too late. don't know. ah to It makes any excuse to take a day off from work.
01:06:10
Speaker
Creating awful employees. Sorry. Sorry. What? Well, just creating awful employees that that'll think of an excuse to, for anything to take a day off from work.
01:06:22
Speaker
You know, I, I don't know. Yeah. But Tom, what you don't understand is in Ohio, one in three students report challenges with anxiety. Oh, okay. I had no anxiety in high school or junior high. None at all.
01:06:38
Speaker
None of us Or right now. Or five minutes ago. but Yeah, you know, that it it it kind of takes me, it makes me think of like the, you know, everyone gets a trophy.
01:06:52
Speaker
Yes. thing yeah So here's here's here's a good one. Let's see if we can maybe figure this one out. The number of high school-aged kids with major depressive episodes has nearly doubled over the past decade.
01:07:06
Speaker
What happened about halfway through that decade?
01:07:10
Speaker
Can you say COVID? Yeah. yeah they forget about that sometimes because like ah yeah
01:07:24
Speaker
i Sometimes if I'm talking to like a teenager, and you know by by the time you're a teenager, you can have a conversation. But when they're not able to, you it makes me think back to 2020 when they were dealing with masking and not being able to read people's...
01:07:46
Speaker
you need your You need facial expressions to understand what somebody's saying sometimes. Yes, it definitely helps when you, it does help with context and all kinds of stuff. And, you know,
01:07:58
Speaker
Breathing in re-breathing all the crap that you breathe out was was always good for the kids. um low Low oxygen levels, not interacting with their peers, sitting at home over an iPad, all this other stuff. I mean, you know, there's all these things. I get i get the, i'm I'm all for paying attention to your kid's mental health. It makes perfect sense. i just, you don't need another day.
01:08:22
Speaker
All you got to do is tell you, my kid's not feeling well and you get an excuse day off. Why do you need a special day? Yeah, that's just silly. What is it? Like at work, you get, you know, personal days off because. Yeah. Are they going to get PTO and sick days now?
01:08:39
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:43
Speaker
ah So, yeah, like you said, just the pacification.
01:08:48
Speaker
But, you know, that is the world nowadays. itdays And it's it's turning again. I think people are getting sick of it. I think so. This is not going to pass. I hope not.
01:08:58
Speaker
I don't think it's going to pass. I hope not. ah Yeah, because right now, weak men are creating hard times. Yeah. So and time hopefully it stops before i get too bad.
01:09:11
Speaker
buy and i I don't think that's going to go anywhere, but they're trying again. They did last year, and it fails. It'll probably fail again. They tried last year. Yeah, that's what I said. there this is This is something they tried to a year earlier, I think they said, or something to that effect. I don't think it ever got past committee or something like that. oh Senator Willis Blackshear has nothing better to do. Well, we'll yeah ah we'll get to that, yes, about our our Congress creators in Columbus.
01:09:34
Speaker
take on that real quick. But well so next, we're going to stop at little update on the Browns Stadium. So ah all this is going through the Browns. They're, they're designing it. They're going to build They're going to break ground soon. I have a feeling they're like, everything's getting ready.
01:09:49
Speaker
So now they're asking the questions. Whose stadium is this going to be? And some of the answers. What do you mean by that? Well, who's going to own the stadium?
01:10:02
Speaker
Oh, okay. Who do you think is going to stadium? Who would you think would own the stadium?
01:10:11
Speaker
Who's building Well, the Haslam group. So you would think that they would own it, right? Yeah, pretty much. No. They're going to build it. They're going to pay for it.
01:10:23
Speaker
They're going to pay for it. No, the county's, I think, keeping their hands off of it as as e as of right now, at least. So the Haslam's and their investors, with help from the state, will pay for the construction of the stadium and then immediately hand it over to the city of Brook Park.
01:10:43
Speaker
And it's kind of how that happens downtown, but downtown was different. The Gateway and the Brown Stadium were different. They were built and financed.
Stadium Funding and Economic Debates
01:10:51
Speaker
I mean, don't think the Cavs or the Indians financed any of the ballparks.
01:10:58
Speaker
If they did, it wasn't $1 billion. and it was a very small part. It was mostly financed by our syntax. Yeah, yeah. Same thing with the new Brown Stadium. And that's that is the question.
01:11:10
Speaker
who so who's going own it? So there's a group... a group a nonprofit that takes care of the gateway and the Brown stadium, as far as the lease and the maintenance and all stuff.
01:11:21
Speaker
So they're the ones who come to come to the city and the County and say, we need more money because we need to do this, that, things, this group. So they want to do, and they want to make another one for the Browns complex with brookook Park being the main people who pick who's on it because it's their city and this County may get involved, but right now they're not.
01:11:40
Speaker
And now the argument now isn't really that. So that that alone is to me like, okay, wait, you're building it and then you're going to give it to the city? Well, yes, because then the city has to pay for all the maintenance.
01:11:53
Speaker
Right. So right now our syntax, our tax on beer, liquor, wine, pays for, you know, for years I thought that we were just still paying off the stadiums.
01:12:07
Speaker
But no, we've paid those off a long time ago. Right now we're paying for the maintenance with this syntax. And it doesn't mean it's not covering at all. It's not?
01:12:19
Speaker
No, and we just had an increase not too long ago. You know what? I think ah people are smoking and drinking less. They are. Yeah. They are definitely smoking and drinking less. And they, so now they're they're like, so the Cavs and the Indians have sent letters to the county, to the to the the owner's group at this, and saying, look, we got do something about this because...
01:12:45
Speaker
but this doesn't add up. We need more money. So they want to triple the syntax or at least double it. They want, they want to increase the syntax to help pay. So here here's, here's this, here's a scam in my opinion.
01:12:57
Speaker
The Haslams build this thing, they give it to the city, and then for the next 30 or 50 years, the city has to now pay for maintenance on it. Now, there are, depending on the lease, for example, I think Gateway Lease is they pay for annual rent payments and fund capital repairs and maintenance expenditures, anything under $500,000 the sports teams take care of.
01:13:18
Speaker
Now, what the lease would be for the Browns, we don't know. It's still up in the air, but it'll be something similar.
01:13:24
Speaker
But why should everybody in the county pay for the maintenance on a building that only a very small portion of the people pay? Yeah, probably not going to there.
01:13:35
Speaker
Why do billionaire companies, billionaire owners, get out of, maintain your own building? You're making all the money there. Tax the people. you know Have a $4 tax on every beer sold at the stadium. How's that?
01:13:47
Speaker
Because then the people, A, they're going to see the tax. B, people who are using the facility are going to pay for the facility. This is where they hang up. i'm I'm all for the stadium, but up until now, and now like, no, this is this has gone little too far for me.
01:14:01
Speaker
I already feel like they have a $4 tax on the beer at the stadium. That's not a tax. That's just, you know, that's just extreme profits. yeah Yeah. Profits. That's what that is. Hey, you're there. you're You're captive and you agree to go in there. You actually pay to go in and pay for those tickets. Those high beer prices.
01:14:18
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
01:14:21
Speaker
So I think this is, I mean, I don't um i don't think anything's going to happen. It's not it's not like they're to stop building the stadium because of this, but this is the scam to me. Now for, mean, how many millions of dollars you got to put in this these complexes every year? And then I think, well, wait, so the Haslam's build this building as cheap as possible and then pass it off to the city?
01:14:39
Speaker
Now you have this piece, I'm not saying that would be, but you possibly have a piece of crap on your hands that now you have to maintain for the next 50 years. Because what what do you, let's cut corners here because we don't have to worry about maintenance.
01:14:52
Speaker
I don't know. Well, that's legitimate concern. It's a possibility. it's So they they collected $13 million, dollars just over $13 million dollars from 2024 Syntax.
01:15:04
Speaker
One-third of that went to the city of Cleveland to benefit the Browns. The other two-thirds went to the Gateway Facilities, Press-A-Field and Rocket Arena. ah Per the Ohio Revive Ice Code, the Syntax can only be used to fund capital-related items.
01:15:17
Speaker
All payments are made on behalf of the capital repair expenditures or debt services related to those expenditures. So what are we, what is this article? guess.
01:15:28
Speaker
Well, the Cavs. They're concerned. yeah They're concerned about ah how much they'll be getting. There's not enough money currently to take care of the maintenance from the center. Right.
01:15:40
Speaker
I see. And they're using this opportunity because it's coming to light because of the new stadium, I think to push the issue that they need more money. I'm saying, and the other saying, Oh, we've $1990 for 2025 expenses.
01:15:54
Speaker
Yeah, I get it. Pony up. Have you looked at the Dolan's bank account lately?
01:16:01
Speaker
or or they're going to have to find a, uh, something else to tax. I think like young people aren't drinking or smoking like they used to like what, like we did when we were younger.
01:16:12
Speaker
Right. Dumb, dumb asses. And, um, Wait, who's a dumbass? Well, we were. We were. That's what's the one that. I could go either way because, you know. there A lot of tar went through my lungs when in in my young days. so yeah Beautiful stadiums to so pay for. so Yeah, yeah i wonder.
01:16:35
Speaker
Vapes are taxed, right? Oh, yeah, it's taxed. They're going to have to find something else, I think, Yeah. Or how can they just raise it if people aren't using it like they used to, at least?
01:16:47
Speaker
I know people still drink beer and wine and whatever, but it's it's not like it used to be. You know, I think it's like a $3 tax for every bottle of liquor.
01:17:00
Speaker
$1.50 per bottle of beer. Or no, 50 cents or something. They had it in the report night. Okay. Yeah. It's considerable. It's not, you know, you're talking, ah you got a $35 bottle of liquor and you're paying 10% tax on that roughly, you know.
01:17:16
Speaker
This is going to be tough.
01:17:19
Speaker
No, it's hard. i and And I think it needs to be revamped because it needs to be spread out. This is ah especially for the Brown Stadium. This is a regional complex. This is going be used from all over the all of the state. So it really should be spread out a little more. And it's going to more than just the the football games. Right. That's what i mean. It's going to be a regional facility that everybody from the region can use and and and and have people come from. So I think i think something needs to be...
01:17:43
Speaker
revamped and they get they got to think of something different than it, like you maybe tax something else. Or again, maybe the people making all the money from these facilities should maybe put in a little bit more. Maybe we split the difference. How's that?
01:17:55
Speaker
They don't even spend the money on the teams, let alone. There you go. that's what i I get people complaining all the time about the Dolans and how much how little they spend on on the team, on the payroll, comparatively speaking.
01:18:07
Speaker
And like we talked through the when they're talking about the name change and all this stuff when Trump was talking about it. um The increase, they've had an increase in ticket sales since that's happened. So it's not like it's going down. It's either staying where it's at or going up.
01:18:21
Speaker
ah Yeah, but I still think it's a lot to do with what type of tickets they're selling. Yeah. What do you mean? yeah Well, I mean, you got a lot more cheaper tickets now with the Indians.
01:18:32
Speaker
I mean, there's just, there's, it's not like people aren't going into into games. I'm just, I'm saying. So they, I think they're making plenty of money ah and they can pony up a little bit more because.
01:18:45
Speaker
It's their, it's their, it's their choice. You're the main reason. Yes. Are you the main reason? that we have this building. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. But that won't happen.
01:18:56
Speaker
No, I don't think so. I would just, they're just going to increase. They're going triple the syntax. I have a feeling. ah but Let's start going to Lake County for, for my liquor. I got to start brewing my own.
01:19:08
Speaker
Yeah. i think Yeah. There are laws against that. I heard.
01:19:15
Speaker
All right. Let's, uh, well, we're running. and Running long today. That's okay. I wanted to get to this because I wanted to just, as we talked about, you know, mental health and more government and syntax and they went this and and that. And then I, I, I was, I was, I was hate listening, Tom.
01:19:32
Speaker
I admit it. I was hate listening. And yeah, I thought we can maybe cover a little bit of our friends at today in Ohio. We're talking about the prop bets. Oh.
01:19:45
Speaker
And how concerned they were about the prop bits. That's why I was like, really? Like, this is a story? there They're not concerned. Oh, they are. Listen, like you but you'll be see what they're concerned about, Tom.
Sports Betting and Its Implications
01:20:01
Speaker
We are starting with a true head scratcher on Wednesday on Today in Ohio, the news podcast discussion from Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer. I'm Chris Quinn here with Courtney Astolfi, Laura Johnston and Lisa Garvin. And Lisa gets the head scratcher.
01:20:18
Speaker
Almost everyone who cares about the integrity of professional sports is worried about how prop bets. The ability to gamble on such minor things like single pitches might destroy the games. We're seeing evidence of that going on. Two Guardians pitchers are under investigation.
01:20:35
Speaker
Mike DeWine wants to ban those prop bets because he's worried about the integrity of sports. Lisa, who is the legislator fighting to keep them and why?
01:20:47
Speaker
Why? Yeah, this is a story of a representative who's in bed with the gambling industry, but isn't saying that he is, but his actions seem to prove otherwise. Lefto. This is pick-away. To keep them.
01:20:58
Speaker
And why? Yeah, this is a story of a representative who's in bed with the gambling industry, but isn't saying that he is, but his actions seem to prove otherwise. seems This is Pickaway County Republican Brian Stewart. He's also the chair of the House Finance Committee.
01:21:14
Speaker
He says he's going to work to oppose Mike DeWine's proposed ban on prop bets. And he says he may even introduce legislation to protect it. He says this is something that a lot of Ohioans have come to enjoy and we shouldn't eliminate it.
01:21:28
Speaker
And he even says the fact that Guardians pitchers Luis Ortiz and Emmanuel Classe being suspended and under investigation shows that the regulatory system works. He says that sports betting officials told him that up to half of all bets are prop bets.
01:21:43
Speaker
And he says it doesn't make sense to pull the rug out from from the bettors. And if a bill is introduced, of course, DeWine will probably veto it. and They need a 60 percent vote to override his veto.
01:21:55
Speaker
Stewart says he hasn't really taken a poll of his colleagues. He doesn't really know how many will support him trying to save prop bets. i I'm so just shocked at this because everybody else is looking at what's going on Anybody who cares about sports is worried.
01:22:12
Speaker
The ability of a single player to spin the whole bet is dangerous. It'll cause fans to say, well, i can't believe the results. And they're going to lose fans. Too late.
01:22:23
Speaker
the The sports business is under threat. And you've seen one person after another say, look, just get rid of them. They can bet on the winners. They can bet on the losers. There's all sorts of things you can bet on that doesn't involve a single player doing a single thing.
01:22:38
Speaker
So and like when this came up, it just made no sense to me. And his explanation that people enjoy them. Yeah. OK, but people enjoy lots of different gambling. This has is having very serious, ugly effects.
01:22:51
Speaker
yeah and Ugly. And didn't even mention the threats to players, right? you know It's just so bad. i don't get it. And I can't wait to hear what his colleagues say. It seems like you're right.
01:23:03
Speaker
The sports betting industry needs a champion to protect the gigantic profits. This is a legislature that will not tax them appropriately, despite Mike DeWine pushing for it. So i just I cannot see any argument in favor of this. This will not cripple sports betting in Ohio.
01:23:20
Speaker
you can't have not in the least. Not only half the best. Ted died and wrote a great column about how dangerous this is and how baseball in particular is on the brink. On the brink. If they don't get it under control like they did a century ago.
01:23:34
Speaker
And then you heard people like this. ha Let's keep the risks. More government. let sports collapse under the weight of sleaze. And the only explanation is that, you know, he's being paid by the gambling industry to, you know, to champion these sports bets. It's outrageous.
01:23:51
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I we the only explanation to would have to look in his campaign donations to see if cash is coming into him that way. Whereas dark money could always get involved. Dark money. Dark gambling. We'll have to watch. This is a bizarre one. You are listening to Today in Ohio. um yeah It's the only explanation, Tom.
01:24:09
Speaker
The only explanation is he's on the take from the gambling industry. Could not any be any other possibility other than, you know, maybe like, I don't know, freedom. maybe it's none of your damn business. What I bet on who cares what happens to the team? Let the major league baseball fix that.
01:24:29
Speaker
Yeah, it sounds like they're taking care of it. A couple guys in trouble, right? Exactly. Make an example out of them, and that'll most of it will just go away. And it's not your responsibility to make sure the Indians or the Yankees or whoever is is is good. is is that It's not the state's responsibility to make sure Major League Baseball stays healthy. It's Major League Baseball's responsibility.
01:24:56
Speaker
You're always going to have gambling. Always on sports, on everything. and then oh well, take all these profits away. It won't hurt gambling. They literally just said nearly half of the bets are profits. So it it will, and it'll take away some of your tax precious tax revenue. You want it at 40% or something like that. Well, there's that. And just opens up a bookie gambling.
01:25:17
Speaker
well And one pitcher, one player can always affect the outcome of game in some way, or at least have the possibility to. So what are you talking about?
01:25:28
Speaker
More government. That's what we need. More government. More government. But, and i and and and one of the other, so remember, this is a 30-minute daily podcast. It takes like four people to do.
01:25:39
Speaker
And it's it's all, I can't, I can't bear to listen to it. I know. and I know. It's short, so short little, But I did listen to another one. They were talking about the Browns thing.
01:25:51
Speaker
And they were all for the Browns not having to pay for maintenance on the facility. I mean, that's that's what we have to do. Yeah. Well, more taxes. more More taxes. ah But I thought the left was against coddling billionaires. But just depends I guess it just depends on who the billionaire is and what they but you have to gain from.
01:26:14
Speaker
And we'll touch on one quick one real quick, because this was a laugh-out-loud story for me. But ah they apparently... They caught four massage parlors in Northern Ohio and busted them for human trafficking, sex trafficking mainly.
01:26:34
Speaker
Did you see where they are, Tom? Yeah, I was kind of surprised. I was waiting to see. Remember back in the day you always used to see in the scene magazine, ah massage parlors advertising in war I think it was always Youngstown or Warren, Ohio. Yeah.
01:26:50
Speaker
Yeah, these were North Olmsted, Strongsville, and a Lorraine. Yes. Yes. All the places where you get lots of disposable income, I think. yeah Yeah. Easy access.
01:27:02
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. It's not – yeah. My thought was, really? They still do these things? Like, I guess, I mean – It's never going to go away.
Human Trafficking and Law Enforcement
01:27:12
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I said. it's It's like a natural progression, I'm sure.
01:27:16
Speaker
Well, it's been around for decades. that You know, this this whole, the massage parlors thing, the happy ending thing. Yes, exactly. on. It's been around for, I mean, that's, this is the oldest profession ever. They're just doing it in plain sight, which is, it's always been around.
01:27:34
Speaker
And they're they're they're saying human trafficking. And when I first read it, I saw you save the story and I was, um, I was like, oh, man, did they have some ah underage ah girls there? you know i was Yeah, they don't really go into much detail. They don't say anything. This is a virtue signal. This is a a complete BS thing. It's just for Yost to say they're doing something.
01:28:00
Speaker
I mean... Okay, so this is just, now now those people going to out of home. Come on. It's silly. Yeah, they don't have any, like... I'm not saying it's good. I'm just saying it's just a stupid, ah lot of tax dollars going to something that you're not going to get rid of. they have a task force, Tom, so they got to do something. You know, go find go find the kids that have been smuggled into the country and going through Ohio. that's This is just like ah this is a low-hanging fruit right here.
01:28:31
Speaker
But it made a good headline. Yeah. It made me chuckle. It made the list. but Whoa, whoa. Whoa, Tom. Easy. Hang on. My massage is almost over.
01:28:43
Speaker
Easy. Easy. Can you wait a few minutes? I mean, come on, man. This is, uh, yeah, we'll check that, check that box right off. I mean, um, I want to touch real quick on, I'm moving quick, quite quickly past that.
01:28:58
Speaker
ah Uh, thanks. I want to touch on, I have to break it up sometimes. Yes. Thank you. I appreciate it Oh, you know what?
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01:29:05
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No, I had to talk about the struts and how the, how the, yeah how the, how the blues had a terrible sound system.
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01:31:09
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right, let's touch on this real quick. the The Columbus creator corner. Oh, I forgot my sound effects again. There they are. There they are. There they are. ah So I decided to pull up a LegiScan. Again, I haven't been there in a little while.
01:31:26
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And i pulled a couple quick...
01:31:30
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ah
01:31:32
Speaker
bills, the bills. And one of them, it's already taking effect. We'll talk, we'll talk on. But what I wanted to say bring up was kind of what kind of shocked me. I went to the bottom of the first page for Ohio where has, has all these bills. Here's what's, what's the most popular bills? What's the most ah monitored bills?
01:31:53
Speaker
So and so forth. And then, and below that they have a ah chart with all of the bills. So currently, for the 25th, 26th, 136th General Assembly Ohio, have introduced 1,086 bills into the legislature and completed 412 already.
Recent Legislative Actions in Ohio
01:32:05
Speaker
have introduced one thousand eight hundred and for of one thousand eighty six bills into the legislature and completed four hundred and twelve already
01:32:18
Speaker
What are these bills? You say you're saying that ah this we talk about the health health days. Oh, this guy has nothing better to do. Well, here's some of the bills. um We're going start right here.
01:32:33
Speaker
there's There's mostly stuff like ah they want to change the name of this highway. They want to um prohibit members from a General Assembly from receiving free or discounted tickets to sporting events, ah but you know which is not a bad thing. Revised code will allow village to contact ah contract with the county prosecutor for legal services.
01:32:54
Speaker
um What I saw was a lot of like, we're changing the name of this, we're changing the name of that. But 1,000 bills already introduced in legislature and 412 of them. Yeah. 1,000 bills. That's what 2025, 2026, they've already introduced one thousand eighty six bills and passed four hundred and twelve
01:33:15
Speaker
one of them that was passed was the, well, my, uh, I don't have any links here. i don't have a link for my Ohio. Oh, so, so they have the Ohio innocence act takes effect on September 29. we're going to do some live, live Googling here, Ohio.
01:33:39
Speaker
Ohio.
01:33:42
Speaker
let's see what they say. So this is, this is the, um Verification bill.
01:33:52
Speaker
So starting on September 29th, speaking of happy endings, Tom, you will now have to prove your age to get onto to an adult website.
01:34:02
Speaker
Oh, okay. That takes effect. That takes effect on the 29th. And um all the VPNs in the market just cheered. Because, yeah yeah you know, this there's there are easy easy ways around this. I get what they're trying to do.
01:34:21
Speaker
But the one clip I didn't pull, which I ah wish I would have, was ah one of the kind of one of the people sponsoring this said, ah well, if you have if you're if you're worried about your your privacy, just don't go there.
01:34:34
Speaker
ah That burns me for some reason. Well, this this this is like a, it' I understand what they're trying to do. I think i think what they're trying to do is in in good faith, but yeah but um and this is just a yeah slippery slope to more bigger government because now other countries are actually banning VPNs.
01:34:55
Speaker
Mm-hmm. You know, similar, similar reasons, similar reasons. Yeah. I just, when I heard that, it kind of, that's kind of like, well, if you don't like what it always, you don't like the Patriot Act, just don't do anything wrong.
01:35:06
Speaker
Oh, thanks. Thanks for letting know that. Like at what point does, what constitutes an adult website? so That was the first thing that popped in my head. Yeah. Yeah. I guess so.
01:35:19
Speaker
But that is enacting. So you will see if you were, if you didn't get to the massage parlor because they closed them down and you still needed a happy ending, you may have, may be delayed. So give yourself some time. You have to like upload your driver's license.
01:35:33
Speaker
But they're going to delete it, don't worry, right away. Yeah, okay. Because, you know, when you're the most trustworthy sites are the adult sites. I've heard some states are actually doing, like, you could send a picture of yourself right away instead of a driver's license.
01:35:46
Speaker
Yeah. And that that's just going to be an easy way for anybody to get around that. i mean, just, hey did can I take a picture of you real quick? Exactly. that's that's that's not or ai i can i here's a picture of me draw me uh 10 years older true yeah yeah and nowadays their drawings are getting pretty realistic so i got 12 more states have adopted similar legislation yeah like i don't want it's so more government i guess more government uh the other one um which i again won't go anywhere
01:36:25
Speaker
But it is Bill 236, is that what we have down there? Mm-hmm. Because it is basically a Suicide Self-Defense Act.
01:36:38
Speaker
What? Yes, Suicide Self-Defense Act. Let me pull up.
01:36:45
Speaker
What do you slap yourself? Yes, so it creates a registry, ah volunteer registry for guns. Oh, God. Again, this is not going anywhere. it's It's like six Democrats sponsoring it, not one Republican. Oh, okay. Never mind. It's like not going anywhere, and it's not a big deal other other than this is what this is why elections matter.
01:37:08
Speaker
Republicans suck, but Republicans aren't trying to take away your guns yet. They just slow it down. They slow it down. i don't know how much they you actually do.
01:37:20
Speaker
So this would actually, what this and what't would do is... if you If you thought you were mentally ill, you could call the county and say, put me on a red flag list so that I cannot buy a firearm.
01:37:34
Speaker
Do you just put every Democrat on the list automatically? I don't know. I don't know. That's the other thing that's unclear of me and I couldn't really get on it. Just kidding. Because can we put all that? I don't think we could. Maybe some of them.
01:37:45
Speaker
But I think actually have to do it yourself. You're a Democrat and you have blue hair and you're 50 years old female. Do you think any of the Democrats who are anti-gun would put themselves on that list? Probably not.
01:37:58
Speaker
So this is, again, not it's not going anywhere, but this is what would come into play or way worse. I think this is just their virtue signaling. But um elections matter. And protecting your rights and keeping the bright people in office is where this comes into play. This is just a virtue signal from from those six.
01:38:17
Speaker
But it tells you where their mind is at. Like they want any way they can to try to shoehorn in gun registry. Yep. yep They're going to do it.
01:38:27
Speaker
right, on to our last segment. And we have we only got one good thing, but we We bring good things to life.
Entertainment and Media Developments
01:38:36
Speaker
This one I saw, pulled a clip and the article, which is The Office has a spinoff.
01:38:45
Speaker
So they're starting a new show. unprepared as does it as usual does it say You know what? I see one September 4th that starts on ah on ah the Peacock Channel. I was going to say this this looks funny, probably mainly because it's out of Ohio. so So they have the makers of The Office are now having a spinoff.
01:39:12
Speaker
And the there so the the idea is the same film crew that filmed The Office has now found a new subject, and it it is it is a newspaper out of Toledo, Ohio. called the Toledo Truth Teller. but there should be but The show is called The Paper.
01:39:27
Speaker
The Paper, yes. But the this sounds interesting. The only problem is it's doomed to fail because it's on Peacock and no one's going to watch it because you subscribe to Peacock to get it Maybe ah Netflix will pick it up or something.
01:39:41
Speaker
Maybe. but You know what's blowing my mind is I can't believe The Office ended 2013. Mm-hmm.
01:39:48
Speaker
just I just rewatched it not too long ago. It's yeah still so good. It's a great show. I think yesterday I was watching, it was all the hard openers they had until we had put them together on YouTube.
01:40:00
Speaker
Like those ones before the music. Yeah, yeah. And the one I saw. was Michael Scott's 15 year anniversary and they're in the room trying to plan the party.
01:40:10
Speaker
I if you remember, this is the one where, um, uh, Jim comes in a tuxedo because Dwight put a new, uh, company power office policy in for dress code. So we have everything's classy. He's in a tux.
01:40:24
Speaker
so Um, but one my, one of my favorites is when Jim showed up dressed as Dwight. Oh my gosh. Michael. Yeah.
01:40:35
Speaker
ah So I pulled a little clip because it it was kind of funny, but they go through. So you'll see there's a new editor it comes into the office and stuff like that. There you go. My name is Ned Sampson. I am your new editor-in-chief. Have you read this paper? Uh-huh. How do you think it compares to any other paper?
01:40:54
Speaker
It sucks. But we are going to make it better. I hope it's not too disruptive to have me come in and sort of shake everything up. Oh, no, no. Don't be so self-defecating.
01:41:07
Speaker
Welcome, volunteers, your first staff meeting as reporters for the Toledo Truth Teller. How many of you have actually written for a paper before?
01:41:17
Speaker
I wrote a paper in junior high. Not quite the same thing. I've tweeted. You've tweeted? I'm in a group text. This is terrific. Let's show them how it's done. Seven highly motivated, tenacious Buckeyes are out there hunting for news.
01:41:32
Speaker
You'd be a fool to bet against that.
01:41:37
Speaker
I tweet. I tweet. I'm in a group text. oh You know what? I really hope they poke fun at all of news reporting at this. You know, like, the I hope they kind of pull out it's ah the BS that's going on.
01:41:55
Speaker
It's an easy, it is low-hanging fruit. I mean, that is, because there's some, everybody can relate to something like that, you know. But I think, yeah. I think it's perfect because it's similar to the office where you know the they're a paper company.
01:42:09
Speaker
And you used to be able to buy the Dunder Mifflin paper. I think you still can from Staples or something like that. And the the phrase on the package endless paper in a paperless world. um Very similar. You know, it's a newspaper industry that's dying.
01:42:24
Speaker
It's like the the paper industry. And it could be pretty funny. We'll see. It has potential. It has potential. And we are a little little more connected to it, considering it's Ohio.
01:42:37
Speaker
<unk> Yeah, well see well we'll see if they come into Cleveland and stuff. i Where are they ah taping this? It does not say. Definitely probably not in Ohio. probably Probably not. Yeah, you know what tax breaks are.
01:42:50
Speaker
ah So far, does not say where. No, it doesn't say where. No, it doesn't. Yeah, i doubt it's anywhere in Ohio.
01:43:01
Speaker
But you never know. I mean, they filmed Superman here, some of it. Well, Cleveland has good, ah I think, I don't know if it's Ohio or if it's Cleveland that has pretty good ah tax breaks for that stuff, but they, people don't want to move here for a long term.
01:43:14
Speaker
Yeah. And i I thought they were looking at pulling some of those in the last budget in Ohio. but They were.
01:43:21
Speaker
So there's that. So catch that if you got Peacock. and If you don't,
01:43:27
Speaker
ab Maybe it's worth getting. don't might be. I don't know. I haven't really delved into any of the Peacock stuff yet. There's too many other damn services. Well, I think a lot of the stuff from Peacock, doesn't it end up on Netflix after the first season?
01:43:41
Speaker
it could. it's It's like a year delayed type of thing. so Well, we'll see. yeah We'll see. We'll see how far it goes. And if you guys see anything like this, again, any good stuff, any bad stuff, any creative stuff, send it our way.
01:43:56
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01:44:08
Speaker
On that happy, happy note, thank everybody for listening. We'll talk to you next week. Peace.