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Crooked River Cast Show 31
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- Shut down week three.
- Could there be peace in the Middle East?
- Ohio lacks the money to pay its bills.
- Ohio approves more tax credits for business.
- JobsOhio funding increases while job creation declines.
- Spot light Ohio - Old Mansfield Prison Tours.
- Second amendment update: Guns in bars.
- SNAP restrictions and additions.
- Franklin county judge pauses Dewine Delta 8 ban.
- Sen. Moreno is “asking” Intel to reassign electricity to Meta?
- Ohio House approves bill to “allow” parents to access THIER child’s medical records. CLIP
- Ohio House passes bill giving state control of carbon capture.
- We answer the tough questions. Is it Daylight saving or savings time?
Good things:
- Summit county animal shelter.
- Central Ohio VA honors it’s centenarian veterans.
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Transcript
Introduction to Crooked Rivercast
00:00:01
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Crooked Rivercast. I am Rob and joining me every week is Tom and we are two guys from Northeast Ohio just trying to stay informed about the news in our state. This is show 31 recorded on October 18th, 2025.
Cincinnati Shooting and Police Leadership
00:00:15
Speaker
Another week has just flown right by and man, we've got some stuff to discuss. Let's go. Robert. Hello. In the morning, sir. How are you? In the morning. I'm doing all right.
00:00:27
Speaker
I was flipping through the news on X this morning and ah power I got some harsh words from the police chief in Cincinnati. I guess a shooting took place downtown and I think everybody needs to hear this.
00:00:46
Speaker
And so my message to everybody Learn how to behave in our city, but especially learn how to behave in our downtown, in our Fountain Square. and our officers will approach you if you start to behave disorderly on Fountain Square.
00:01:03
Speaker
Because these things sometimes start as a minor altercation and then evolve into something bigger. So do not come downtown, especially on Fountain Square, if you don't know how to behave.
00:01:19
Speaker
Those harsh words from a strong police chief of Cincinnati. I'm personally, I can't believe she used such language. Wait, can you know what can you play that one more time quick real quick as part of it? I just want to see if something works with that.
00:01:32
Speaker
Start it out real quick. And so my message to everybody Learn how to behave in our city, but especially learn how to behave in our downtown and our fountain square. And our offices will approach you. I just want to make sure that worked.
00:01:48
Speaker
I think it does. Yeah. Police Chief Teresa. Oh, geez, I don't even know how to pronounce that last name. the That's how you pronounce it. Yeah.
00:02:02
Speaker
Good timing. What the heck? I feel like, I feel like, feel like there was, I almost feel like A helicopter mom is is trying to take over a situation that she has absolutely no control over.
00:02:15
Speaker
It's so funny, man. Do all three major metropolitan areas now have a, like, I'm not much metropolitan areas, but cities like Columbus and Cincinnati and Cleveland have all women now?
00:02:30
Speaker
Let's see. Who is? Can we see, can we say D E I? Would it be police chief? Police chief. Yeah. Yeah. police chief or I guess police chief or commissioner
00:02:45
Speaker
as of October 2025 Elaine Bryant is the chief of police for Columbus. of is Crazy. It's crazy. Isn't it funny man? Oh, I can't believe we didn't notice that before. That's pretty that's pretty amazing. Well, I noticed more and more of them showing up. I just didn't know which cities in Cleveland or in Ohio.
00:03:08
Speaker
but lets try Let's try Akron. Yeah, I don't think so, but... Nope. It's Brian Harding. So no, he's got to go though. Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:18
Speaker
He's got to go. ah Jeez, old man. So the three major cities in Ohio, Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, they all have female. Worthless female police chiefs. Well, there's there's a key to that. It's not just because they're female. they're also They're also worthless, as we heard. It's not because they're female.
00:03:35
Speaker
Kind of it is. Sorry. Sorry, ladies. Well, I mean.
Leaf Management Debate
00:03:39
Speaker
She can't be ah women. I'm sorry. You need a strong man in there. Or strong woman. It's just women aren't, that's not their strength usually.
00:03:48
Speaker
Well, okay. Hunter gatherers and nurturers. So there's, you know, there's two. I guess there are, there would be an exception, but doubtful that all three would have that exception. Yes.
00:04:00
Speaker
And but and we as we are kind of finding out that none of them actually have it. So. Right. I don't think that would qualify them to be the police chief. No, no, it's a DEI hiring.
00:04:12
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. And that's the thing. Well, how can you say that? Well, if you interview somebody and you could tell, how'd they even become cops? Were they ever beat cops? Did they ever do anything but sit behind a desk? I don't know.
00:04:24
Speaker
Well, I i want to, yeah, well, we we can go on a rant about this. yes But yeah, no, didn' when I heard that, I was just like, oh my goodness, what is going on here?
00:04:37
Speaker
Well, we can see why it's out of hand in Cincinnati. Probably a few other things happening down there, too. Yes. And in Cleveland and in every major Ohio city.
00:04:52
Speaker
This is true. Other than that, though, you know, there was a question from a listener that I've been ruminating on for few days here. I think I know which one you're talking about.
00:05:06
Speaker
this is a this is this is This is what people want to know. Is it better to rake, mulch, or just let the leaves blow around the neighborhood?
00:05:21
Speaker
I still don't know. I've done all three.
00:05:26
Speaker
I know which one I like. I know which one I like, but my neighbors don't like it. Yes. um my My theory is get the grass cut as short as possible before it stops growing, and that way the leaves are never in your yard.
00:05:39
Speaker
Yep. That's a good way to go. Problem is I got like two large oak trees on my yard, and yesterday i actually took the mulching method. I went through there mulched everything up.
00:05:54
Speaker
Yard looked great. Woke up this morning And it doesn't look like I did a damn thing. See? See? I feel your pain because remember the house previous to what I live in now?
00:06:07
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You had we had a fence on the property. We were a house from the corner. We had a fence on the property line and the wind would blow into the fence. And then we had five or six humongous like maple oak tree. i don't know what they were.
00:06:20
Speaker
So all the leaves would blow to my yard and and get caught on my fence. So the funny, always had funny pictures because, or we I think it would make a funny picture, I think is more like it because nobody on my street, it's just a little suburban, you know, postage stamp house. Nobody on my street, on my block would have one pile of leaves except for me.
00:06:39
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And mine would be the entire tree lawn about five foot high.
00:06:45
Speaker
i was I hated that fence. one Because it would have gone into my neighbor's yard who had a fence there, too. I'm like, yeah. so you know what ends up usually doing? Every year is a little bit different.
00:06:56
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yeah And ah for me, I'm going to mulch as much as I can. For as long as I can, because those oak leaves don't come down all at one time. They usually you come down sometimes really late. Yeah. And if I can't, you know, it all depends on the weather.
00:07:12
Speaker
If I can't, then I kind of, ah what I can do, most people probably can't do, is I i ah get the leaf blower and I make a couple of large piles and then I put it on a tarp and drag it in to my backyard where I have some, ah yeah I guess all the neighbor's yards here are kind of lined with like some brush and just some natural wooded area. So I just drag it in there.
00:07:39
Speaker
Sucks though when you're doing in the middle of November. Yes, because those oak trees do. I figured I thought you were going finish that story with you jump into them and frolic like a little kid. Well, I do that, and then I drag them.
00:07:51
Speaker
Oh, okay. I went the proactive route when we moved. I found a house that didn't have any leaves in the yard in the fall. so Yeah. But there are some trees growing, and I get a couple, but I i generally just chop them up.
00:08:05
Speaker
Yeah. I don't have too much, but if you have too much, i mean, you got to let the neighbors deal with it. That's what i'm saying. Well, most of my, the oak tree in the front yard, most of that gets blown down the street. But ah the one in the backyard kind of sits there because it's surrounded.
00:08:19
Speaker
It's, there's no, not enough wind back there. So I mulch that up and all the other trees that I have there, those leaves kind of just dry up and crumble.
00:08:31
Speaker
So they're not so bad.
00:08:35
Speaker
This is the news that you tuned in for. Yes. Thank you very much. We really appreciate it. That's the show.
Innovations in Toilet Technology
00:08:41
Speaker
We're going. No, I'm just kidding. um Well, I have, we can move on or, you know, I have a small, I have a very quick review of a product review. I want to, i want to get in because I know it's important. It's important for our listeners because we've all dealt with this problem.
00:08:56
Speaker
When you buy a new toilet,
00:08:59
Speaker
not enough water not enough water these these toilets so we we're doing our bathroom we got the new toilet i'm doing research like what can i do how do i increase the the gallons per hour or whatever gee and there isn't really a way i mean there's no way we can buy one that's more than 1.6 gallons and i'm like what the heck but thank you government yes thank you government but also thank you the free market because i think i may have found a solution to the problem It doing a toilet review, Tom.
00:09:30
Speaker
There is a company called Toto, T-O-T-O. And they've got what they call the tornado flush. What happened to that band?
00:09:43
Speaker
They became a toilet manufacturer. Wow. I mean, I go where the money's at. And you know what? they i you know I read this book to my kids. Maybe you should read it too, Tom. Everybody poops.
00:09:54
Speaker
um So what what they did was in lieu of the crappy regulations we have on water, they redesigned the toilet. A little bit. So you know when you you get the little holes in the rim that kind of spit a little water out?
00:10:08
Speaker
Yeah. They got two big holes pointed like, maybe horizontally, and ah and it shoots two huge streams of water around the whole bowl. It is quite interesting. This is quite like an attachment?
00:10:21
Speaker
No, it's a toilet. It's a toilet. It's Tornado Flush by Toto. I would look it up. It's quite amazing. And so far, so good. Nice. far, so good. That's all going to say. is So far, so good.
00:10:34
Speaker
um But yeah, it definitely takes care of the problem. And it's 1.6 gallons. um There is one problem.
00:10:42
Speaker
It's not a cheap toilet. It's like twice as much as a, you know, and i think you get a toilet 150, 200, but this was approaching $400 for the toilet. And it's not so bad. No, I was like, eh, it's one one of those things you just, uh. Yeah, right I would say that's probably cheaper than one of those that like, you know, cleans your butt and dries it and all that.
00:11:04
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Like those are like, uh. I forget what they're called. $900. Yeah, yeah. They're like about $8 and $1,200, I think. I think just to see, if you can buy this just to see the loan, it's $400 or $500 just for the seat.
00:11:16
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Does it include the the electrician you have to call to put an outlet next to your toilet? Oh, that's right. Yeah, you have to do that. Yeah. yeah The electrician? Well, yeah, you got to put an outlet there, right?
00:11:29
Speaker
Yeah. has to plug into something. You probably have to... The plumbing is different, too, wouldn't it be? You have to add, a I think, a separate line for the thing sprays your bottom. Yeah.
00:11:40
Speaker
yeah Toilet talk. That's how everybody expects us to start, I think. um Leaves and toilet talk. i I mean, I thought it was great because this is a... Man, I was like struggling on was like, I'm not just getting this plain old crappy...
00:11:55
Speaker
Pun intended. Pun totally intended. Toilet that is just going to be worse than what I had. So I think think we may have solved the problem. Excellent. Check them out if you're in in the mood for a new toilet.
00:12:08
Speaker
um In the mood. In the mood.
00:12:14
Speaker
Good one. Hey, if you if you got boys, I mean, I have girls. That's that's part of a problem. But you got to have a good toilet. I mean, teenagers eat like crazy. So enough toilet talk, Tom. Enough toilet talk. Enough of that.
Government Shutdown and Healthcare Costs
00:12:28
Speaker
Speaking of toilets, we are in week three of a shutdown.
00:12:37
Speaker
So I thought we'd just bring it up. Hey, I think we're in week three of our shutdown, isn't it? I think we're starting week three or something like that. I think it's starting three. Starting week three. And I thought, you know, we never really talked about why we shut down.
00:12:51
Speaker
Don't care. Do you know why we're shut down? Do you know what the Democrats are complaining about? We're all going to lose our health care, right? So part of it, I think the Republicans are saying they that they want to keep health care for illegal immigrants, which I'm sure is the case.
00:13:08
Speaker
Yeah, that's the... They're trying to call, not call them illegal immigrants. I mean, not that they ever do. Because they're asylum seekers. Right, they're asylum seekers. So they got maybe some um temporary...
00:13:21
Speaker
a temporary past to be here, basically. I think that's a little cannon fodder maybe, but I, cause what seems to be the problem is yes. What you said, the Democrats are saying healthcare costs for the Obamacare stuff are going to skyrocket. If you, if you don't do something about it, you go, well, Hey, Obamacare is supposed to make it all better. Right.
00:13:44
Speaker
But B, well,
00:13:49
Speaker
what What are you talking about? Why are they skyrocketing? Why are we going to have such a huge jump? Well, what expires... Now, they could pass the budget and then negotiate. This is what the Republicans want. They want to pass the budget and then negotiate this point, which is COVID subsidies for Obamacare are expiring at the end of the year.
00:14:09
Speaker
So everybody on who has a... um I keep calling Obamacare because I don't know really... I don't remember what it's really called, but they are... um During COVID, they the government gave them an extra discount on healthcare costs because COVID.
00:14:26
Speaker
um And that's expiring at the end of the year. Five years later, Five years later, they're still getting an an extra discount on the Obamacare that was supposed to fix the problem of high health care costs.
00:14:39
Speaker
So that's what they're that's what they're worried about. The Republicans said pass the budget or continue resolution because it's not actually a budget. Continue resolution. Yeah. and And we'll negotiate it.
00:14:51
Speaker
But the Democrats know that this is their only bargaining chip.
00:14:58
Speaker
So we are shut down because Democrats don't want to remove subsidies from an already subsidized healthcare care program. So that's, that's really why I think, I mean that's not, that is really why the illegal aliens things is also an issue, but.
00:15:14
Speaker
I think they want to get some of the money for that they've lost through USAID. Yes, the media organizations are, or and just pure coincidence, the media organizations are hemorrhaging money now. Oh, yeah. i forgot why.
00:15:29
Speaker
Next, on the on the good side of it, maybe we should saved this for the Good News segment or Good Things segment, but could there be peace in the Middle East, Tom? Could there actually be peace in the Middle East now? Long shot, but it's the best shot we've had in a long time.
00:15:43
Speaker
It's a long shot. Ever, actually. Yeah, it might be. It might be because of a couple reasons. um I think
00:15:53
Speaker
this there's there's this narrative in the media that we're we're because because of the way Trump is, that we are looked down upon, we're laughed at in the media. The media kind of tells us so the world's laughing at us because of our leader.
00:16:08
Speaker
I mean, I'm always going, really? Because look what's happening. Like, he goes there and he gets things. I mean, ah you know, Ukraine has been ah problem. um But I think a lot of that's both sides. It's Ukraine and Russia.
00:16:21
Speaker
and Neither of them are are honest brokers right now. But then I run across this clip here.
00:16:29
Speaker
And it really kind of proves the point that I don't think we are laughed at. And here's here's here's why. This is a Glenn Beck show. saw a little clip he was talking about. Actually, this ist ah from a clip.
00:16:40
Speaker
He was talking about the Charlie Kirk honoring of Charlie Kirk with the Medal of Honor at the White House and kind of the story behind it and how because it was Kirk's birthday. Instead of postponing it like he probably would have because everything dragged so long in Egypt, he flew straight back um on virtually no sleep to get this done.
00:17:00
Speaker
And, you know Beck was commenting on, i can't believe how he's like, his staff is zombies they're and they're 40 years younger than him. And he's just, he's just going. and So then he brings up this little point, which I didn't know because of course we don't hear this in the media. So here's what he noticed.
00:17:15
Speaker
That's a little different this time around.
00:17:19
Speaker
You know how they always, when the world leaders get together, they always stand on a stage. yeah They get one shot. and And once in a while, they'll stand on stage as they're assembling and they'll talk amongst themselves. But I've never seen a a photo line with world leaders to take a picture one-on-one with the president.
00:17:39
Speaker
hey Never seen that in my life. hey That's what was happening on Monday in Egypt. He was two hours late.
00:17:49
Speaker
OK, and apparently and I'm not going to divulge who, but apparently one person was upset and it was like, I'm not waiting around for this. And yet they waited around for it.
00:18:00
Speaker
um And ah they lined up. Even the king of Saudi Arabia was in the line waiting in the line for 30 minutes. while he took photos with all of the leaders around the world. They are treating him.
00:18:16
Speaker
i mean, he's changed the world. The guy knows how to use power.
00:18:23
Speaker
Amazing. why why Why don't we see that? ah wonder I wonder, mean, I mean, I know why we don't see that. It's because it would put Trump in a good light. And, you know, those those people over there really only...
00:18:37
Speaker
react to one thing and that's power or the threat of power. And I think they're, I think they're kind of afraid of him a little bit, maybe take them seriously, at least. He's a king.
00:18:51
Speaker
No Kings. It's perfect. Segway. I was just about to mention that.
00:18:57
Speaker
by time this air, or this that you gotta hear this, you you've probably already heard to hear the stories. if you If you have any good stories about No Kings, any good clips or anything, send it, shoot us an email, crookedrivercast.gmail.com, because there's going to be some good ones. And I hope everybody's safe while out and about, because there's going to be shenanigans afoot, I guarantee you. But i hope I really hope you get some good clips. And if you see anything, let us know.
00:19:25
Speaker
um But while you're at it, Share the show.
Ohio's Financial Health
00:19:29
Speaker
Share it with your friends. Send them a link. Follow us on X. Leave us review on your favorite podcast app. And I really appreciate you listening.
00:19:39
Speaker
All right, get to Ohio already. Let's go. i mean, it's been 15 minutes and we're already yapping about all this and yapping about all that. And what we really need to be talking about is how Ohio is running out of money.
00:19:55
Speaker
What? What?
00:19:58
Speaker
Say, what? How could that be? Well, according to Ohio.news,
00:20:05
Speaker
they're saying, while our fiscal situation is our so physicalcal situation is significantly lacking in funds to cover its bills, and every Ohio taxpayer will have to contribute $1,300 to help pay off the state's $5.3 billion dollar debt.
00:20:22
Speaker
I didn't know we even had any debt. Why would we have any debt? That's weird to me. So revenue keeps decreasing. They're saying and while spending is increasing.
00:20:36
Speaker
And they're saying that because 2023 primary government took $8.2 billion more than it spent. took in eight point two billion dollars more than it spent But in 2024, that excess dropped to 2.6 billion.
00:20:49
Speaker
Revenue is not decreasing. It's just not going up. It increased by 1.1 billion. Spending is going up more than our increase our our revenue increase. that That's actually the accurate point.
00:21:01
Speaker
So revenues increased by 1.1 billion while spending has rose by 6.7 billion.
00:21:07
Speaker
Whoa, holy cow. um So it's mainly due to higher costs in
00:21:17
Speaker
education and Medicaid and public assistance and transportation and the lottery commission.
00:21:28
Speaker
The lottery commission? Yep. The lottery commission. How does that work? Why are we, why do we have to give any funds to the lottery commission? I think kind of self-sufficient.
00:21:40
Speaker
I would think so. So I'd like to know what the heck that even means, but it doesn't really elaborate anywhere in the article that I remember. um So part of the problem is state is but is expected to have a reduction in funds that from guess what the federal government from, can you guess Tom?
00:22:06
Speaker
Well, reduction on ah from the COVID yeah stuff, right? yeah oh COVID COVID-19 pandemic funds are running out this year are are are planned on it. They, they planned, they could lose $8.6 billion dollars in federal funding and 9% excess 9% its excess.
00:22:19
Speaker
Oh yeah. Okay. So anyway, so should I, nine percent of his excess that even oh yeah okay so anyway so should to allocate, sorry, going through, stumbling through the article as I usually do.
00:22:32
Speaker
So they're going to lose about $8 to $9 billion, dollars ah possibly of federal funds that were COVID funds.
00:22:41
Speaker
Now, the good news, Ohio is far better than its neighbors, which is, you know, I mean, guess it's something, but Michigan. We're a little less broke.
00:22:54
Speaker
Yeah, we're just slightly less broke. Oh, I like to see this. um This is a quote ah from the Julia Weinberg, former CEO of Truth in Accounting, told Ohio.News, I would go ahead and make sure that the public is aware that even though we calculate our budget using what I call political math,
00:23:20
Speaker
They need to be aware that they're five billion in the hole and plan revenue and x expenses according to according to that.
00:23:30
Speaker
Not according to their short-sighted budget calculations, she says. So it's it's ah they're playing with the numbers, which is good for, political you know, it's pretty much what politicians do.
00:23:42
Speaker
but but there But in the article, does say Michigan is way worse. they they um Each taxpayer in Michigan is a burden has a burden of $4,100. ah Kentucky, for the debt that's that's currently there, Kentucky has a D grade with $11,500 burden, and Pennsylvania is just a little bit less than, ninety with $9,400.
00:24:03
Speaker
So, hey, overall, Ohio ranks 28th with taxpayer burden. That's just a drop in the bucket compared to the...
00:24:14
Speaker
Federal. Well, yes. Yes, but I thought we had to have a balanced budget. I didn't i thought there was something like that in our, guess it could be probably wrong. I should say it could be wrong, probably wrong. But it just feels like they they keep going, it's bad, but it could be this bad.
00:24:32
Speaker
ah Overall ranked 28th, North Dakota topped the list with taxpayers surplus of six, a surplus of $63,300. I'd be going, where's check? Can get half i' be going where's my check can i get half of that And New Jersey with ranked at the bottom with a taxpayer burden of $44,500. Wow. I mean,
00:24:52
Speaker
wow let mean you could probably look at those two states. Without even looking at those two states, you could probably figure out what the problem is. probably been how How is ah North Dakota in such a surplus? I mean, well, low population, right?
00:25:14
Speaker
Well, they low population, yeah. So that 63,000 is amplified. That could go against them, too, because they have a lot taxpayers. But i think I think there's a lot of oil and gas coming through there, maybe, or something.
00:25:25
Speaker
Used to be. I don't know if it still is.
00:25:29
Speaker
After Biden, I don't know. But most likely just lot less services, so you get less spending. Yeah. But then I would also ask, why they getting taxed so high?
00:25:40
Speaker
Something. Because it's $63,000 surplus. It's quite a bit. Per person. Per person. Yeah. Is it per person, per taxpayer? a Taxpayer burden. Yeah. So that would be per taxpayer.
00:25:53
Speaker
Yeah. A taxpayer surplus is what they're saying. So yeah.
00:25:59
Speaker
So yeah. Then they're saying pensions are a problem because they're, you know, they're underfunded. um But that's typical for, from what I see when you want to hear these kinds of things. Yeah.
00:26:10
Speaker
Well, yeah, so why would Ohio would ohio be in such a bad shape financially? um Maybe because they keep giving businesses tax abatements.
00:26:24
Speaker
Got another Ohio.news story here. these These are just kind of all three to me.
00:26:30
Speaker
related because it's spending. So there, here's a story of more tax, more tax cuts, tax credits, they call them. They call them, yeah, tax credits to private businesses.
00:26:44
Speaker
And, I'm reading the story and they go all these, you know, they're going through all these different projects that are made, you know, theyre trying to retain nearly 1,165 jobs. And they go through tax credit authority has approved a 1.23% eight year job creation tax credit for Axiom packaging.
00:27:04
Speaker
They're going to create 70 jobs. And then a 50% 10 year data center tax exemption for Vantage data centers management company. They're going to, they're going create 37 jobs.
00:27:17
Speaker
And $2.1 billion dollars fixed ah ah ah assessment interest include fixed assessment investments, not interest, is also included in the project and on and on and on. They go through four or five of these things that they're giving business to. what it doesn't say is what tax are they crediting?
00:27:37
Speaker
I can only come up with one thing. I i imagine it's property tax, no? Yeah. Isn't this part of the problem? that yeah Isn't this what we've been talking about? Right, yeah. pay Payroll tax too, probably.
00:27:52
Speaker
and Income tax, state income tax yeah credits, maybe? Yeah. That's possible. But I mean, that go falls in the same thing. But I don't know. I mean, I think a lot of it... And it doesn't, it just doesn't say. It just leaves me to believe that it's got to be, it's got be property taxes. I would think so. oh Yeah.
00:28:12
Speaker
I've read this a couple times and it didn't and say, I just keep going through it again. You know what? Ohio news, Ohio dot news has to use a larger font. Yes.
00:28:23
Speaker
Good question. Or maybe, yeah, larger. would just go larger. Yeah. I would say maybe a different one might help. If I put it reader, it looks better, but.
00:28:33
Speaker
Oh yeah, me see that. Oh yeah, you're right. You you can actually read it. oh yeah, it's thicker. it's It's just, well, it's also a different font. It's actually just they they try to get a little fancy with their fonts. So I would like to know exactly what taxes are being credited.
00:28:48
Speaker
But regardless, we're out of money. Our spending is increasing. Our surplus is decreasing. And it looks like an an between now and the next budget, may turn to zero or negative.
00:29:00
Speaker
us A burden, and not a surplus. And I will go into our third story on this, which is JobsOhio funding. Now, again, these are three Ohio.news stories all in a row.
00:29:14
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um there like I'm using them more and more. They seem they seem pretty on top of things and it kind of on on things that most of the mainstream don't cover or aren't covering. and They're doing more in-depth reporting. Yeah, and this is a perfect example.
00:29:31
Speaker
This is Jobs Ohio funding increases as job creation declines, part one of so far three parts yeah that that we're going to try to tackle maybe here and there, but this kind of fits in to this whole thing.
00:29:48
Speaker
So they're going to lose $8 billion dollars from federal government. And where are we going to find that money? Well, Jobs Ohio is a jobs program. They're basically, it's a state funded program to help for jobs programs to get people off into work and so on and so forth. Stop it.
00:30:07
Speaker
What? It's a slush fund.
00:30:10
Speaker
You're right. You know, i was getting there. i was getting there when I was going to go. the where we mentioned last week, the ah executives, meanwhile, enjoy salaries averaging $330,000.
00:30:21
Speaker
three hundred and thirty thousand dollars There's the part of the slush fund right there. ah The CEO making over five, I think. Yes. And yeah, but on average, it's even, yeah. So there's some little lower, but some a lot lower, a lot higher.
00:30:34
Speaker
What that turns out to be is a, in 2024, Jobs Ohio spent $1.9 billion, enough to pay 235 unemployed, the 235 unemployed workers in Ohio, $8,000 each. unemployed the two hundred and thirty five unemployed workers in ohio eight thousand dollars each
00:30:50
Speaker
Instead, they created 14,000 jobs, um which is not nothing, but it's for $1.9 billion, dollars it's 25% of the state's total job growth. Each job is costing $126,000 right now, plus. little bit more than that, actually.
00:31:09
Speaker
And couple couple of things going on that kind of piqued my interest in this, and we'll we'll continue to go through it in other parts in the coming weeks. um Besides the lack of performance, it was it's brought up in this article that the Bureau, oh no, this is they they get their funding from a cut of the liquor tax.
00:31:33
Speaker
It seems like an odd way, like how do they shoehorn that crap in there?
00:31:38
Speaker
And with these poor performing numbers for creating jobs, they extended their contract. Again, which, okay, um maybe that's not so weird, but it is, and here I am looking through the article trying to find it.
00:31:58
Speaker
It wasn't scheduled to expire for like four more years. So they just extended it like, oh yeah, it was it was set to expire four more years. No, way more than that. Despite lackluster results and chronically unanswered questions from critics about transparency and accountability, the Ohio Control Board, which is the liquor license and taxing, voted in February to renew Jobs Liquor Profit Lease, which is set to expire in 2038. They extended it by another years.
00:32:33
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now It now continues through 2053.
00:32:38
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Does not require any additional payments to the state for these rights. um This is remarkable considering the abject inability of Jobs Ohio to show how it's benefited the Ohio workforce, overseeing period of net job losses and unprecedented expenditures.
00:33:00
Speaker
Okay. So the contract, which provided Ohio jobs funding model by allowing the nonprofit to control the state's liquor finances or franchises, excuse me, generated $1.78 billion dollars in liquor sales in 2023. The organization's operating expenses, however, totals $1.9 billion, leaving an operating income loss of $121 million. Okay.
00:33:25
Speaker
million dollars So even though they get $1.7, $1.8 billion dollars from state liquor tax license, franchises, whatever, they still spend $121 million dollars more.
00:33:42
Speaker
Unbelievable. So, hey, so we may lose $8 billion dollars of COVID funding. I just found $2 billion.
00:33:50
Speaker
But long wait, in 2053 when it expires. it so It sounds like they were trying to protect their slush fund, Tom. You think? Yeah. So I think we'll continue on to this, but i think think there might be a little corruption here.
00:34:06
Speaker
Might be a little bit of corruption. Good job, Ohio News. Ohio.News is doing good job. Ohio.News, yeah, kicking butt on that. but we're goingnna There's two more parts they have. I think it's going to be, i don't know if there's going four parts, but let's keep it at three.
00:34:23
Speaker
These are pretty, I mean, this is a pretty long article, so it'll be in the show notes ah if anyone wants to check it out. And we're going to do a, got a new segment, Tom.
00:34:34
Speaker
New segment.
00:34:39
Speaker
We're going to do, as we talked in our or last high-level podcast meeting, that ah we we're trying to do little some spotlight on something.
Spotlight on Old Mansfield Prison
00:34:48
Speaker
Yeah, we have the good things. It's like good good news stories, you know, good upbeat stuff. But how about something about Ohio? Something you can do, something we like, something we've done or we've heard about.
00:34:59
Speaker
Just kind of spotlight the good things in Ohio and how great of a state we have. And listeners should probably send us a... yeah You know, info on things they like, too. Suggestions are always welcome and that kind of stuff.
00:35:14
Speaker
and This week, we have... We have Spotlight...
00:35:21
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Old Mansfield Prison. Spotlight, Ohio. Old Mansfield Prison. ever you ever You ever been by there? By there, Mansfield? The old... reform I've never gone there, no. I've wanted to. i did...
00:35:35
Speaker
ah I mean, it's probably 15 years. And they have tours there. You can take tours of the old Mansfield Reformator. It's right next to the newer one, the more modern one that they rebuilt, you know, many, many years back.
00:35:49
Speaker
And it is is quite it's quite a ah quite a building. I mean, it's old and just huge. It's an amazing. Architecture is amazing and all that kind of stuff.
00:36:01
Speaker
Particularly right now, if you go there, they they have it it turned into a haunted house, which I heard is pretty intense but as far as haunted houses go. Very cool. But generally throughout the year, they've got events.
00:36:13
Speaker
I mean, they they're showing off, you know they they'll have concerts there. Now remember, this is a, there's probably, I think therere but when we were there, they told us, I think at least a dozen films have been shot there.
00:36:26
Speaker
And the most, one of the most popular ones is Shawshank Redemption was filmed. One of the greatest films ever. Yeah. A lot of the parts were filmed there. And actually the time I was there, they still had the remnants from the wall from the final scene when he walks out. i think that's the final scene, something like that, where there's a big scene where he walks out of the prison. And i don't know if it's still there. It may not. be It was, it was kind of in bad shape because it's been there for a long time, but yeah,
00:36:50
Speaker
i went they have they have halloween now so they've got a bunch of stuff going on there but ah normally you can go on regular daytime tours But also you can go on a overnight tour, which is what I went on. It was, it was Friday the 13th with a full moon.
00:37:07
Speaker
Nice. Which was awesome, except there was a lot of people there. So it's kind of, because it was you know, that's like a rarity. So a lot of people went and you go ghost hunting. That's, that's the tour. It's ghost hunting tour. And here's the tour. They show you around the the office area. And then they say, go on, here's the areas you can't go.
00:37:23
Speaker
Go on. That's it. And you just walk around, you roam around the, hundred and some year old prison with no electricity. no electricity There's no lights on. So that was pretty cool, actually. And we we actually may have gone into some places we weren't supposed to go.
00:37:39
Speaker
um But it's one of I think it's one of those hidden hidden treasures of Ohio. If you if you're into history and architecture, spooky stuff, you're into ghosts, you know, it's a good place to go ghost hunting.
00:37:50
Speaker
You know, they have they have escape rooms there. They have, ah yeah, they have, all I mean... Murder mystery generators. Yeah. It's pretty cool. Yeah. Here's a little, and here's a little trailer that had, there's a paranormal YouTube channel that has done some stuff on it. I just thought I'd give you guys a little clip of what, what they think of it. So this is a little trailer of their documentary or whatever they did in Mansfield.
00:38:15
Speaker
We are in one of the most haunted prisons in the United States of America. But people do claim that you'll hear voices, you may be touched. I'm talking about people getting physically attacked, scratched, bruised.
00:38:28
Speaker
There's gonna be a lady coming into your cell. that all right? Oh yeah, that was a clear whistle. Yeah. Yeah, there's a whistle. Did you hear that? Yeah. And she turns and looks and there's a figure standing behind her. Oh, the candle.
00:38:42
Speaker
candle already went off who's walking over on the other side can you whistle again yeah people i don't want to be here long really wow yeah so that's are weird we've had people severely scratched up here we've had people thrown down to the ground that was very creepy would love the music
00:39:09
Speaker
Yeah, let that music in.
00:39:12
Speaker
So, yeah, and then we were there, and they were there were people there, like, with with the rods going, oh, it's over there. I was like, okay, maybe, but it's cool. And they still have some of the old, at least at the time, they had some of the old um cells from the ship from some of the movies still sitting there, and they got little memorabilia and stuff.
00:39:29
Speaker
So check it out. Oh, hey. It's the Performatory. It's pretty cool. Yeah. July 17th through the 19th, there's Incarnation. It's a music and tattoo festival.
00:39:41
Speaker
That's in 2026. Oh, yeah, it's kind of cool. Yeah. i mean I mean, I'm sure if you wanted to like get married there, they'd probably facilitate that. I'm sure they have already. Here's some past lineups, man.
00:39:53
Speaker
ah Breaking Benjamins, Godsmack, Shinedown, ah Bad something freaking, God, people got to work on their freaking fonts.
00:40:06
Speaker
Limp Bizkit. Limp Bizkit. Limp Bizkit right there, huh? Yeah. All kinds of stuff. not Nice. Seven Dust. Oh, Seven Dust. One of my favorites. Yeah. Dropkick Murphys.
00:40:19
Speaker
Wow, some good stuff here. Tons of it. Yeah, good for them. It's historical place. you know Not necessarily always for good reasons, but it was it's a historical place. um But yeah, like we said, if you ah if you got any suggestions like that for someplace, you know a hidden treasure in Ohio that we can we can spread to the but listeners, let us know.
00:40:41
Speaker
Send us an email, crookedrivercast at gmail.com. Go to crookedrivercast.com. Listen to the show. Get the show notes. Get the links that we're looking at and the and the articles that were um we're looking at and talking talking to you about.
00:40:56
Speaker
And share it with your friends. We really appreciate you listening. It's is quite rewarding to see the show grow, Tom. It's growing, and we're very grateful for everybody listening.
Guns in Bars: Ohio Supreme Court Review
00:41:09
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i have I have another Second Amendment update, Tom. Ready? Yep. I even got a sound effect for you.
00:41:19
Speaker
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00:41:23
Speaker
That is Yosemite Sam, baby. So the House Supreme Court is ah currently deciding, a I guess, an appeal from lower courts in Ohio on a on whether or not you can carry a gun in a bar while drinking.
00:41:41
Speaker
This all comes down to a I guess, a shoot or incident that happened a few years ago or just over a year ago. Elijah Striblin, right?
00:41:52
Speaker
He's arguing the laws on constitutionally. He got an argument in and in a bar. and According to court documents, he ordered five drinks. This is interesting. He ordered five drinks and took at least one sip from one of them.
00:42:05
Speaker
It sounds like a, you know, one of those. Well, you can't say you didn't drink any of the five drinks. He got an argument with a guy, ah shot him in the neck. The guy did not die. He lived.
00:42:17
Speaker
Elijah was sentenced and convicted to, i think, 30 days in jail and three years probation. And he fought it. And two lower courts have stated, basically, that this is unconstitutional ah per the Bruin decision. Yeah, I guess we should tell people what the law is right now. if yeah maybe they Maybe they don't carry or maybe they're considering carrying a gun.
00:42:44
Speaker
Right. So if you have a concealed carry permit in Ohio, you can go into a bar that sells alcohol and and you're fine, but you can't drink. Which is relevant kind of new too, because you weren't even able to do that a couple of years ago.
00:43:00
Speaker
Yes. Well, i don't know. Five years ago. Yeah, probably. Probably. yeah Yeah. It kind of changed that. You weren't allowed in the bar with a gun, regardless if you're drinking or not. And they kind of loosened it a little bit. Right. So...
00:43:11
Speaker
um My question here has always been what constitutes a bar? Like what what constitutes the bar? So if I go into a restaurant that has a bar and I'm sitting in a booth, does that, I guess that includes, I can't do it there either.
00:43:25
Speaker
I'm not technically at a bar. I'm at a restaurant that has a bar. So that's seems to me a little bit, Biggest question to me is like, it's it's the family that goes into a ah a pub, you know, like a restaurant bar type of place. Right. Yes, yeah exactly. You know, and the father's there and he he carries.
00:43:45
Speaker
Is he allowed to have a beer? Personally, I think he should should be a allowed to have a ah beer. Yeah. And still protect his family? Yes. and then Or or do you have to if you decide to have a beard, then you have to go out to your car, put your gun in your car, lock it away, and then come back in?
00:44:02
Speaker
Right. um Well, here is... This is from News Channel 21. think they're out of Youngstown. WFMJ. And I figured...
00:44:14
Speaker
<unk>s we're We're saying, yeah, this is duh. This makes sense. um Just like any other any other thing that when you're carrying a gun, you have extra responsibilities. Just like when you're driving a car.
00:44:28
Speaker
You have extra responsibilities when you're driving a you know two-ton missile. There there's to me, more on the person carrying to be to be responsible. So that's where I'm lying. I'm like, yes, I get it.
00:44:40
Speaker
I get what they're saying because it's, you don't want to be drunk and with a gun on you. well I understand. but You know what? It's kind of the same... ah BS argument. And I felt this way too when you know when I was a young man and they passed the... yeah I think I was still in high school when they passed the carry concealed carry.
00:45:00
Speaker
yeah And everyone was arguing, oh if if road rage happens, people are just going to start shooting each other. That was the big... That was the big argument. It's kind of just all BS.
00:45:13
Speaker
Yes. I would have to say, I even questioned that. I questioned myself at the time, whether I was responsible enough. Yeah. You're saying this is a while ago. So yeah, for a long time, I'm like, yeah, i don't think so. I don't, you know, but,
00:45:25
Speaker
when you When you put that gun on, it changes things. So a lot of people don't understand that until it actually happens. There is a ah burden of responsibility on you, just like I said, just like driving. So here's here's what some law enforcement ah from this report from News 21 out Youngstown.
00:45:43
Speaker
And, you know, well, listen we'll listen in little comments. Mahoning County Sheriff Jerry Green says he understands the argument from a Second Amendment point of view.
00:45:54
Speaker
But when it comes to law enforcement and when it mixing alcohol with the use of firearms, that just creates such an increased risk or an increased danger of accidents happening.
00:46:07
Speaker
adding that people change personalities under the influence of alcohol. Wait, what? It changed? Recreation often caused problems for you know the participants and for the police and everybody else. ah So I don't think adding a deadly weapon on top of that is probably a smart plan.
00:46:23
Speaker
Captain John Marshall at the Niles Police Department says he's seen firsthand what the combination of the two can do. So we actually had a homicide that occurred outside of one of the bars in the city a few years ago. No, actually, had two, probably two-year period.
00:46:39
Speaker
The longtime detective compared it to getting behind the wheel while under the influence. One drink might not seem like a bad idea, but if it impairs your judgment even slightly, driving or carrying a gun might not be the best plan.
00:46:54
Speaker
it You change, Thomas. You know that when you drink, your personality changes? Well, again, it's it's people think you... I think you assume that people don't have self-control if they're carrying a gun.
00:47:07
Speaker
And by the way, I made a mistake. It's 2004 was when ohio got Yeah. Concealed carry. So, but um i remember the arguments back then. It was just kind of like, oh, and you know, people are just going to start shooting each other when they get in argument. None of that's happened at all.
00:47:25
Speaker
No. But you don't change when you drink. your Your actual real personality actually comes out. That's why I like to say, I don't think you change. You just, you get loose and your inhibitions go away. Yeah.
00:47:36
Speaker
I used to deal with friends all the time like this. Well, you can't blame me. I was drunk. I go, no, no. you're just You just told me the truth because you were drunk. Well, I mean, I don't know if the personality part is the argument. Like, for me, like, this law like i I do think somebody should be able to go into an establishment that serves liquor and have a...
00:48:03
Speaker
have a drink with their meal and and they should be able to carry, I think. But I guess the the dangerous part, in my opinion, is if somebody does have too many drinks, then, and not out of rage, but let's say they do feel threatened or like this guy got in a fight.
00:48:25
Speaker
I don't, you know, I don't know. Yeah. But, um,
00:48:30
Speaker
um'm I'm trying to think of a scenario. Would you be more likely to pull your gun because you're buzzed? no Well, and not that so much. No. Let's say you do pull your gun. Let's say you rightfully have the right to do it.
00:48:44
Speaker
ah Do you have the capacity to...
00:48:50
Speaker
and Send them down rage in an accurate manner. Yes. Yeah. see you're going. Yeah? No, and it that's... is Yes. But again... With great power comes great responsibility. Yeah. as Spider-Man said, or or was it was his uncle?
00:49:07
Speaker
And so you have to know where your limits are, just like driving. I think it should be similar to driving. Like something happens and there's an altercation.
00:49:19
Speaker
And I don't mean like the DUI thing. I can, we can rant for an hour on the DUI thing and how to me it's unconstitutional, but there has to be a, considering it's alcohol and everybody's different and everybody's metabolism is different. There has to be a ah great, I mean, there has to be a ah range.
00:49:38
Speaker
right that's the i look at it so yes because they i mean so then you something happens all the occasion then you know you you check them for alcohol and if they have over some certain limit then there may be an issue well what if they did it right though Let's say they stopped somebody from robbing the joint.
00:49:57
Speaker
Yeah. And were hammered. And they were hammered, but they were able to stop the person. don't even want to say hammered. Let's say they had. No. Let's say they were over which is DUI level, right? suppose it's there. Now, like you know, sending the lead downrange. Yeah.
00:50:12
Speaker
now like my yeah you know sending sending the sending the lead down rain know in an accurate manner is not the easiest thing under pressure. And what are they as, ah are you as aware as you should be of what's behind ah target? What's around you?
00:50:35
Speaker
you know, and let's say they do it in a perfect, and let's say they do it perfectly. Should they be in trouble if they were 0.1? Yeah.
00:50:46
Speaker
point one No, that's a good point. You know, i don't know. I'm, I'm.
00:50:54
Speaker
Well, and and frankly, this is, this is a, this would be a extreme case. Like, I can't see this being like a thing that happens. Like at a, yeah, I think you see more, you would see more.
00:51:07
Speaker
I think you do see more people maybe breaking up a robbery at a 7-Eleven type of thing than at a bar. Right. When I get to these conundrums, I usually lean towards the side of freedom.
00:51:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. and but Because if you can't decide then if, if what you're going to implement will take people's rights away, then you you just can't, you can't do it. I mean, to a certain extent, at least that's, that's kind of how, when when you're unsure, you lean towards freedom, I guess. Freedom over safety always.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yeah, because those who want to trade safety for a little bit freedom for a little bit of safety deserve neither. believe that was some old guy from way back when named Franklin, I think. Yeah, I think so.
00:51:53
Speaker
So there's that. there's um They're going to basically decide and when I think the final arguments were the 8th, which was last week or a week before, they said it could take quite a while, i don't know months, I think they said before.
00:52:10
Speaker
But there's a couple things going on. you know They think the Ohio Supreme Court's like, I think there's seven judges. I think it's six to one conservative to liberal. And the two courts in Ohio have already, the original court and the appeals court, I think have already ruled, yes, per Bruin, because of the Bruin 2022, think it was 2022. Yeah, something like that.
00:52:30
Speaker
yeah something like that um which basically says state issued gun laws are unconstitutional unless they follow the historical tradition of gun rights in um in America, something to that extent.
00:52:45
Speaker
um Oh yes, and the um they are unconstitutional unless they are consistent with the nation nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.
00:52:59
Speaker
So Muskegon County prosecutor has appealed. Decision is House Supreme Court. so they figure it will be ah be probably a few months before um you get a decision. So we're going to see. They may may have a change in the law.
00:53:13
Speaker
All
00:53:17
Speaker
right. Next on our list, there is, boy, there's going some mad people out there.
SNAP Purchase Restrictions
00:53:23
Speaker
there They are are proposing new restrictions on SNAP.
00:53:32
Speaker
but But also, they're also going to um restrict some things, sugary drinks to be to be exact, but also kind of extend it. Because right now you can't, like if you go to a grocery store and you're on welfare, which is what stamp is, it's food stamps, and you can't buy like rotisserie turkey. That's their biggest thing.
00:53:51
Speaker
example here. So they're saying, the kind of the the point to all this really, or the interesting part for me is we can't just do this in our state.
00:54:03
Speaker
We have to ask the federal government for a reprieve because the federal government says it's okay to give food stamps and SNAP, stuff like that, and to use it for pop and soda and and sugary drinks.
00:54:16
Speaker
But we have to ask the f or the we have to ask the federal government for a reprieve or waiver on that. And the interesting, well, the others other interesting thing is it only covers sugary drinks with, I think, corn syrup or sugar as the first ingredient, or if it's carbonated water and then sugar or corn syrup as a second ingredient, this would not, you would not allowed be allowed to purchase with the SNAP benefits.
00:54:44
Speaker
But it doesn't cover diet drinks.
00:54:48
Speaker
So you can't have corn syrup or sugar, but you can have all the chemicals you want. Because that's basically what they replace sugar with in a diet drink is chemicals that trick you into tasting sweet.
00:55:03
Speaker
um But on the other hand, they're going to try to um ask if they can put some prepared foods in there.
00:55:13
Speaker
Chickens or bakery, I would imagine something something there where we you can take home and eat, which seems reasonable, I guess. Now, you're going McDonald's, maybe not.
00:55:24
Speaker
and Yeah, I heard people mentioning fast food and that you can't do that. i mean, what's the difference at that point? Right. Yeah. They did say, but I think it's really grocery stores, prepared foods.
00:55:38
Speaker
Yeah. more of them, these stores have, will have hot food there. you know, a lot of them have a big, big areas of. Are they saying, are they saying a rotisserie chicken? Cause that's probably the the only healthy thing that they offer.
00:55:50
Speaker
It might, it might be. that I mean, kind of healthy thing actually. does it cover I mean, were you allowed to buy sushi before? because that's technically something they prepare in store. don't know. So-called sushi.
00:56:02
Speaker
yeah Well, yeah, i it's sushi-ish. um And then, they you know, you go into Giant Eagles or those Heinen's and they've got just a salad bar. i I assume most people aren't going from a sugary drink to a salad bar, but, you know, can can they buy all that kind of stuff?
00:56:20
Speaker
and And they're going to try to
00:56:24
Speaker
Try to ask the governor or asked the federal government if we maybe please be able to do what we want to do with our own money and see what they say. I don't think there's going to be a problem. We're one of many states doing this right now.
00:56:36
Speaker
Yeah. well it's It's the whole Maha movement. Yeah. Yeah. And it's bits and more power to them. Yeah. yeah I think it's good. Personally, I think SNAP should only be able to buy Whole Foods. Yeah.
00:56:50
Speaker
Yeah, like basically eliminate anything in the middle of the store. You can only buy stuff from the edges. Yeah, well, ah produce and meats and dairy and, you know, that's it. Salt and pepper, that's it. Well, yeah, I mean, sure. but joking, but I'm serious. I mean, they should be heavily restricted.
00:57:11
Speaker
As we had talked in previous shows, i think the last show about these you know these safety nets, you know, the my problem is people get comfortable in their safety net.
00:57:22
Speaker
And my feeling is um i could so I could be on board with safety nets, but my theory is to make them, un my theory is, I think it's Benjamin Franklin again, um make them uncomfortable in poverty.
00:57:36
Speaker
Because if they're comfortable, they're going to stay there. But if you give them more than they need to survive, why would you go anywhere else? and And as I'm running through this ah story, I've seen other stories pop up Hey, here's how you get $1,000 a month of government benefits.
00:57:54
Speaker
People out there trying to tell you how to scam the system. $1,000 month. Hey, instead of going to the freezer section and getting yourself a bag of fries, buy a potato, cut it up yourself and figure it out.
00:58:07
Speaker
Gosh, Tom. Can't do that. notes People have arthritis, you know. Yeah, okay. um No, i just i just think, you know, if you want to keep them healthy and keep them...
00:58:19
Speaker
Keep them, oh, if you want to add a little discomfort, make them cook everything, you know? a Yeah. We try to, my wife and try to cook everything. We don't, we try not to buy any any type of canned boxed stuff.
00:58:33
Speaker
Yeah. We do a, we do a pretty good job. It's, it's tough. It's tough. You know, with kids and everyone working, it's hard, but.
00:58:44
Speaker
And we do a pretty good job, but and he's still like, oh, we're we're cooking food, but I look at him, we're cooking, you know, something out of a bag. chicken Chicken. Yeah, yeah. I try to i try to avoid all that. Yeah.
00:58:56
Speaker
hard but i think i mean hey you're unemployed most a lot of the times right not all the time i guess i guess not all the time i shouldn't say that now it's snap now it's snap yeah but and teach your kids the right way to eat and maybe they won't have double chins at 14 there's that too and know they're pre-diabetic And that just reminds me, this is a little off subject, but you know what? Yeah.
00:59:21
Speaker
Pre-diabetic. I'm sure these kids were, I would say they were two boys. I would say they were in their 14, 15 year old range and ah they were riding their bike down the road.
00:59:36
Speaker
And I saw them from a far away cause they were a rather large. or Was it an actual bike? It was an e-bike and I'm like sitting here going, son of a bitch.
00:59:49
Speaker
I mean, these these were like, ah did they they were they would classify as obese. You know, it's like, man, be a parent. Get them some freaking bicycles that you have to pedal and burn few calories.
01:00:03
Speaker
It's like, what the hell, man? Yeah, a lot of this has to do with what my, trying to say this without, in my view, especially with children, it seems like
01:00:19
Speaker
parents don't want to say no. So they just let them eat anything they want. I'm if the, I'm wondering if the parents eating everything too. That too. For and a lot of cases you can look at the kid and see, Oh, that makes sense. But if I've, I've noticed a correlation between that and just bad behavior in general, like,
01:00:39
Speaker
ah Not bad behavior, but um a lack of respect of your peers, like teachers and coaches and stuff like that. And not like ah i'm I'm cussing you out at 12 years old, 11 years old, but like just not listening.
01:00:54
Speaker
And when someone calls you out on something you did wrong, They're shocked. No, because they've never been told anything but, yeah oh, honey, you're doing a great job.
01:01:05
Speaker
Everything you do is perfect. Yes. Oh, no, honey. If it makes you happy, go ahead and eat it. And when... 10-year-old girls have a bigger gut than me could be a problem. and this is This is not even SNAP thing.
01:01:20
Speaker
Well, yeah some of it could be. You know, the thing is, I was just going to say with SNAP, it's like if they want to collect these benefits, they should have a ah course that they have to take on what's healthy and what's not healthy and how to eat right.
01:01:37
Speaker
I mean, I'm all for that kind stuff. I said, you know, I'm all for welfare. If if you can if you can pass the ah financial tests that we will put you through, like how much do you pay every month for a phone?
01:01:51
Speaker
How much do you pay for for streaming services? You know what Before it was cable, but now it's, you know, I feel there's a lot of people that take these benefits and could easily trim their budget down where they may not even need them.
01:02:03
Speaker
Right. there We have so much excess of all these things that we say we need. um That's always my, i you know, I say, oh, I got no money, but you you got a a thousand dollar phone in your hand.
01:02:14
Speaker
Anything else on that? no just No, I'm just getting little... Getting cranky. Yeah. All right. Well, we'll move on to something that would probably definitely not help out in that way.
01:02:28
Speaker
So we talked last week about DeWine's ban on the hemp, intoxicating hemp products, the Delta 8 products that have been around here for the last few years.
Delta 8 THC Regulation
01:02:37
Speaker
Well, a Franklin County judge put a pause on that from taking an effect, and they going to, I guess, look into it more. So that's kind of the update, but What's happened in the meantime is they're they're starting to put in some legislation and the Republicans are trying to, I guess, add to...
01:03:03
Speaker
ah they want to make some regulation to at least get some of this passed. And I think there's, there's, there's a large lobby of breweries in Ohio that are kind of pissed about this, that it just went for a ban. And this is a two year thing.
01:03:16
Speaker
This is DeWine has been saying this is a problem since January 24. So it's almost two years. And this, this is kind of why he just put the ban on it. I think he put it the ban on it as as much as we've made fun of him for it, but ah is, is to make, is to force the legislature to do something, which is kind of what's happening here.
01:03:33
Speaker
So they've they've proposed a bill to to regulate it, to regulate the advertising as far as to kids and to um and maybe do a couple other things. So let's hear from News Channel 5.
01:03:47
Speaker
This is our favorite Morgan Trowell. Why is it so difficult to get your caucus to agree on something? Well, I think it's difficult because there are three groups, the folks who believe that, well, you know, sorry, i totally forgot to set this up.
01:04:05
Speaker
I pulled this clip because why why why can't the Republicans get this taken care of? It seems to be they've hem and ha on um on on marijuana laws for for a decade. And what's the problem?
01:04:16
Speaker
but Why can't this get and this is what Morgan asked. um So sorry, I forgot to set that up, but. Bans don't work, so why can't you guys figure this out? and it's It's generally ah problem with Republicans, which is a problem. But if you think about it,
01:04:32
Speaker
kind of a good thing in a way, but here's what she says. Here's what he says. I'll play it again. Why is it so difficult to get your caucus to agree on something? Well, I think it's difficult because there are three groups. The folks who believe that marijuana should be legalized and regulated. And then there are other folks who believe that the hemp products should be on equal standing. And then you have folks like me who are prohibitionists um who don't think it should be legalized at all. It's Speaker Matt Huffman has been trying to wrangle 64 other House Republicans to agree on THC regulations.
01:05:09
Speaker
Finally, deal was crafted between the two chambers this summer, but the Senate pulled out at the last minute. Now the House is ready to try again. Thoughtful and targeted bill.
01:05:19
Speaker
Rep. Jamie Callender says that this new proposal still allows stores to sell THC drinks. It regulates the advertisements so they don't appeal to kids and... On the marijuana side, making sure the tax dollars get to the local governments.
01:05:33
Speaker
Right now, cities with dispensaries aren't getting tax revenue from sales. The House has been trying to get them their money, but Senate President Rob McCauley wants to change where the money goes.
01:05:44
Speaker
and The Senate's already spoken. At this point, we just got to see what the House is going to do. Why not just have a clean bill that just deals with hemp instead of adding in some kind of ideas that the Senate might see as controversial about marijuana?
01:05:56
Speaker
Well, I think if we may still end up going there if it if we have to. if we put it all together, it may be harder for the Senate to say no to some of the marijuana things that we feel strongly about. Calendar says the House will propose the new policy next week.
01:06:12
Speaker
At the Ohio State House, I'm Morgan Trout reporting. It's the American way. That's why. Instead of debating every single, we just kind of cram everything in and and blackmail people to vote for it. That's what he kind of said in the back.
01:06:25
Speaker
I'm like, that's the problem. i I mean, I agree with them. They're trying to get this um straightened out. But I like the fact that they're ah trying to get this whole local municipalities, their money that they were supposed to get from the original, um throw that in there. And that's I think that's why the Senate pulled out.
01:06:42
Speaker
Sounds like maybe. don't could be wrong. But that was a year ago. So that's the problem with Republicans is they actually have different opinions and they're not like a cult and they just don't follow what their leader says.
01:06:54
Speaker
And that's not necessarily a great way to do – I mean, it sometimes takes longer. It would be great if the Democrats were like we're the same except, you know – and there were on their side you know if if they were like that then this would all work out work itself out but they're like a machine and republicans are kind of individualist and a good example of that would be um fetterman actually just recently in the news he i can't believe he's still walking ah ah last i saw i don't know the details or how true it is but they're considering considering kicking them out aren't they
01:07:31
Speaker
Oh, I don't know about that. I got the clip of him talking. You want to hear it? Yeah. I mean, it's a little, I guess it's little off subject here. I mean, little off subject, but Fetterman is a common sense. He's a blue dog Democrat, basically. that Yeah, who would have thought? Who would have thought? yeah i was i was I couldn't believe they voted for this guy.
01:07:49
Speaker
He had just got over a stroke. And you couldn't even barely understand him. And um honestly, today, you still have it sometimes. The way his word his choice of words are ah weird because of his stroke. But yeah yeah the fact that he came back from that severe of a stroke, I just was miraculous i wish he'd get another outfit maybe with a snushtout of hoodie and a pair of
Reducing Political Tensions
01:08:07
Speaker
shorts. you Yeah, that's like his thing.
01:08:09
Speaker
again,
01:08:11
Speaker
people complain about what what Trump tweets and the stuff he has is similar, similar thing. You know, it's like, okay, I'll take that. I'll take the hoodie and the shorts. If you're going to govern with common sense, he's still lefty.
01:08:22
Speaker
Yes. But, but he's at least got some common sense. And this I can't believe go after, after saying this, I'm the only Democrat in my family. I grew up in a conservative part of Pennsylvania, and now I grew up and i i knew I know and I love people that voted for President Trump.
01:08:40
Speaker
But they are not fascists. They're not Nazis. They're not trying to destroy her the Constitution and those things. And that's part of another thing. I refuse to call people Nazis or fascists, or I would never compare anybody anybody to hitler and those things and now that kinds of extreme rhetoric is going to continue we're going to be more likely in resulting in extreme kind of outcomes and political violence and doing all these kinds of things like charlie kirk for me all i could say is is like let people grieve
01:09:15
Speaker
Give people the space. I'm not going to use that terrible thing and that Pasek assassination to make my argument and try to put out my views. It's like, my God, you know, he's a father that had his neck blown out by a bullet.
01:09:28
Speaker
um And now people have forgotten. President Trump was in my state, was shot in the head. And if that would have, could you imagine where our nation would have be if he was hit in the same way with Kirk?
01:09:39
Speaker
ah we We really got to turn the temperature down. You think? Thank you. Thank you, Fetterman. Thank you. ah You're here're' the only one I can hear from.
01:09:50
Speaker
Maybe somebody like Rokan. Rokana? Rokan? Yeah, Rokana's kind of the same. Similar, but not quite as common sense, in my opinion. He makes me feel... I feel like he's a used car salesman sometimes. Oh yes, that's for sure. Yes, yes. Very good point. Very like, ugh. But, you know, I give him credit where credit's due, I guess. but yeah And and what so to get it back to what we were talking about with with the Republicans,
01:10:16
Speaker
they're they're kicking They want to kick him out, or that's the rumors. Maybe that's just a rumor. i don't know. I thought I saw something come across it. But lot of people are saying in the next Congress he'll be a Republican or next election or I don't want him to be a Republican. I want him to be a Democrat. That's the freaking problem. that Yes, that's the point, is to have some kind of common sense on both sides.
01:10:36
Speaker
and And part of the problem with Republicans in in this in the federal is the same way. It's that they they are, there's there are factions and where they're not, they don't all go in lockstep like the Democrats do. So that is, it's a good thing and a bad thing.
01:10:51
Speaker
um But at least i I like that they're brought up this revenue sharing thing because it's bunch of crap, to be honest with you. um And that's that on that one. So there're they're going to they're goingnna work something out. it's There's going to be regulation and they want to tax it.
01:11:08
Speaker
So that's there is a big thing. There's a big thing. They want to tax it. And the the lobbying from the hemp stores and ah breweries are going to push that forward. So we're going to see something get put through.
01:11:22
Speaker
um
01:11:24
Speaker
i know now I want to go see where i want to try one of these drinks, see they're all about now.
01:11:31
Speaker
i seen there's like cans of like hemp liquor or hemp drinks and stuff. I mean, I got a test for the ah the show. Yes.
01:11:43
Speaker
Research. Research for the show. Thank you. ah this is Here's just a little story you had brought up. um And I thought it was interesting that Ohio Senator Bernie Marino is asking Intel,
01:11:57
Speaker
we have some power, please?
Intel, Meta, and Ohio's Energy Sharing
01:11:59
Speaker
Just a little bit more power, please. And um i thought it was funny that he's asking for more power. I mean, not for his constituents, but to give to Facebook and Meadow.
01:12:10
Speaker
yeah Yeah. Here's the idea of Stream's report on It's only a little bit, a minute. U.S. Senator Bernie Marino, Republican, has sent Intel's chief executive a letter.
01:12:22
Speaker
In it, he makes several asks of the semiconductor, designer, and manufacturer, including that it transfers some of its electricity toward likely construction of a data center in central Ohio by another big tech giant.
01:12:35
Speaker
Moreno wants Intel to share the status and timeline of its Ohio Semiconductor Fabrication Project, how its delays have affected the state's economy and its residents, and its plans to route power to Mehta within 30 days.
01:12:49
Speaker
He writes that state and local officials, quote, moved mountains to assist Intel. adding that Intel is not using excess power efficiently. Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chair Jennifer French says that's why utilities like AEP sought tariffs on high-demand consumers, namely data centers.
01:13:08
Speaker
AEP said, hey, we're not sure what is real and what is not. But AEP built an electric substation just for Intel. Sarah Donaldson at the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau.
01:13:22
Speaker
I don't know how this power works, but what are they doing with excess power now?
01:13:29
Speaker
They have excess power. It doesn't even make sense to me. I think is there not, because if you have a substation, this is my very, this is my YouTube education on electricity, but they, they have a substation. So they're, you know, power goes through lines and you it, it, it depletes.
01:13:46
Speaker
So you run it through a substation to boost it back up. So they're just not running their substation to a hundred percent, but they could be maybe, i don't know. And I'm going to let's, can we give it back to the citizens possibly?
01:13:58
Speaker
Why does Meta got to have it? And can they pay a premium for it, please? No. They seem to have lots of money, meta because they're building they spending billions of dollars every year on big server farms. So I thought that was kind of interesting.
01:14:13
Speaker
And think we got a couple of more stories on similar that we'll probably touch on next week with energy and data centers and stuff. ah So it's just an ongoing thing, especially in Columbus and what's it called? um
01:14:31
Speaker
Oh, I forgot the name of the city. um Well, Licking County, but there's a new Albany. um with With the power and the lack of, and they just keep building more but data centers.
01:14:46
Speaker
So let's see. And yes, they did move mountains. They they literally pushed a pile of $8 billion dollars of money to Intel to get this chip plant done, which we talked about in the previous shows. And it was complete and total debacle because corruption, in my opinion. So this is just continuing. There's just a big dirt hole in the ground, basically. there they've They've done some foundational work, but they don't plan to have a chip being made there until possibly the Right.
01:15:11
Speaker
so right We've got some time and if there's a lack of power and they can do something about it, let's do about it. I think they could do so a little bit more than just ask.
01:15:27
Speaker
It kind of sounded like maybe they used the Cincinnati police chief to write a letter to Intel.
01:15:35
Speaker
That's about right. Yeah, sounded like, can you please have some power? you mind giving Meta some power? um How about giving us some power in the middle of August when it's 90 degrees and our electricity is turning off?
01:15:46
Speaker
ah but if you're going to use power, you have to behave in Ohio and share. Yeah. Intel, you must behave, or I'm going spank you if you don't give enough power to me. You and Meta need to get along.
01:15:59
Speaker
Or else, don't make me come back there. But if you come back here, who's going to drive? Oh, that's it. Backtalk.
Parental Consent and HIPAA Laws Debate
01:16:07
Speaker
All right. um Next.
01:16:12
Speaker
Next. Next. Next is, this is a good one for me at least. ah How Republican lawmakers push for parental consent in minors. Mental health care.
01:16:24
Speaker
in minors mental health care. And I piqued my interest because because I have kids. And it's now progressed into an actual bill that passed the House.
01:16:37
Speaker
And let's well get a background here from IdeaStream, another IdeaStream article. And I got a little clip from it. See what they got to say. overwhelmingly passed a bill that would require health care providers to give parents access to a minor's health records to the fullest extent allowed by law.
01:16:58
Speaker
There are some things children can do without parental okay, including donating blood, get a rape kit, or get certain medical tests. Why? How? The sponsor of the My Child, My Chart Act, Republican Representative Gary Click, says it will require primary doctors to make medical records available to patients, even though federal law has limits.
01:17:19
Speaker
We had to thread the needle on this bill because much of it applies to HIPAA. And of course, HIPAA is federal law, and we don't have any control over federal law. Democratic Representative Anita Samani, who's a doctor, says she wants parents involved in the decision making, but she has questions.
01:17:35
Speaker
I'm concerned that parts of this bill may unintentionally be asking providers to put themselves in danger of violating HIPAA privacy rules. Samani and five other Democrats voted against the bill, which now goes on to the Senate.
01:17:49
Speaker
Joe Ingalls at the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau. So my first reaction is, huh? we We don't already have this? I mean, there's there's things my kids could go to the doctor and i they they're not allowed to tell me about it?
01:18:04
Speaker
Yeah. When I first saw this, I was confused. Flabbing cast. Yeah, a little bit confused because i I didn't even think we needed this law.
01:18:16
Speaker
Right. It's a little weird, but yeah, okay. So i could I could possibly see a couple of situations where... Maybe you don't want the parents to know, but they're very rare.
01:18:30
Speaker
i can only see, it's really, ah ah really would surround abuse. If there's abuse in the household, then maybe you don't want youre you don't want the doctor calling the household knowing that your kid is reporting, you know, whatever.
01:18:44
Speaker
Barring that, I don't know what else there, what, okay, so if you're worried that doctors, by telling parents about procedures that their kids are asking for or that have been done on them,
01:18:56
Speaker
um violates HIPAA laws, then he needed to also change the HIPAA laws. Because, I mean, if my daughter needs a rape kit, I should know about it.
01:19:09
Speaker
Maybe I shouldn't, actually. But, because ah who knows what I might do. But, what, how is that not, duh, I don't get it. Yeah, I don't get it either.
01:19:21
Speaker
Wasn't there a law passed that like ah a girl, if she gets pregnant, pregnant she can go get an abortion without parental consent? Is that in Ohio? I'm not sure. I think so, but forget. That might have been one of them, yeah.
01:19:32
Speaker
It might have been like 16. I forget what the age was, but... A lot of this is going to revolve around the trans debate. I think that's probably where may have pushed this is because ah mental health is one of the things on there that you can get away with telling the parents, I think six six sessions or something like that, you can your kid could have without telling the parents.
01:19:57
Speaker
Right. There's a certain number, may not be six, but it should be zero. Right. Yeah. yeah um And, and that's what was happening in a lot of these schools is the kids were, you know, young kids were saying that, you know, like eight, seven saying, I'm a girl now. And they weren't, they're not telling the parents because they're afraid the parents might not agree and pull them out of school. And it's like, Ooh, Ooh, I want to get something that gives my blood boiling.
01:20:25
Speaker
Ooh, man. I'm just thinking about that. Just, yeah, it's gross. Yeah. Yeah. Infuriating. Infuriating. So they're going to pass that. I think that's just going going to go right through. Um, and like I, like said, I think we may even take a look at the HIPAA laws too.
01:20:39
Speaker
Cause if, if there's a HIPAA law that restricts me knowing about what my kids are doing, it should be changed. Correct. So keep an eye on it. We'll see if it gets through the, uh, the Senate.
01:20:51
Speaker
Maybe hopefully doesn't end up like the hemp laws. All right. What are we on to next time? Oh yeah. We got, uh,
Ohio's Carbon Capture Regulation
01:21:01
Speaker
I got this one right here. this is ah This is a good one. So Ohio, Iowa House has passed a bill giving the power to Ohio to regulate carbon capture.
01:21:16
Speaker
And we we capture carbon in here in Ohio? I didn't even know that. I mean, why would I? But... Do you know they actually store, they're taking carbon.
01:21:29
Speaker
They said the the carbon capture and storage process captures carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources. It is then kept underground in naturally occurring rock formations.
01:21:42
Speaker
And We're paying for that in our electric bills, I'd imagine, in some way or form, right? ah guess I guess. don't know. They should be making graphene. as Has anyone studied the effects of putting carbon dioxide into natural forming rock formations to see what might happen?
01:22:02
Speaker
don't know. I don't know. It's like, hey, you know what? we We're going to fix this problem by just pumping it into the ground. What could go wrong? Okay, we'll figure it out when it goes wrong.
01:22:13
Speaker
um So basically, they're passing a bill to so that Ohio can be in charge of its own scam.
01:22:23
Speaker
Well, I think it's more like instead of having to wait for the federal government to regulate it, if they want businesses to move in, they oh they want this bill.
01:22:35
Speaker
Yeah, they this bill lets Ohio regulate it I think make quicker moves, right? Yeah. They
Accelerating Power Plant Approvals
01:22:42
Speaker
mentioned, um lack of ah investment or innovation because of the federal, because how slow the federal government is, which I get, I'm just, I'm just not sure how much money we need to spend on investments and,
01:22:56
Speaker
ah new technology and carbon capture. It just seems like a complete and total waste of... oh Remember, we're we' about to go in the hole for Ohio. but Yeah, but I mean, if you waste fin if it draws business into industry, into Ohio, and it you have to have that, then maybe it's a pretty good investment.
01:23:16
Speaker
Well, we can... i mean, we can argue about the... We can argue about it, yeah about the process, but... But if it's getting business into Ohio, I don't, this is a good move, I think.
01:23:28
Speaker
Oh yeah, I get it. But there, we're going to have control over it so we can regulate it in a certain way to make it more business friendly, which is good. Right. Uh, I just, again, yeah, the whole thing needs to be just canceled, but yeah.
01:23:43
Speaker
In the, in the meantime, um, there's a lot of things going on in fellow government. I'm sure this is not ah anywhere close to the top 50 on the list. So it's going to be here for a minute. So that's, i guess, best of, uh,
01:23:55
Speaker
best of what we can actually get out of it is this is at least we can control it. And this also may help with, you know, we talked about the energy and the lack of energy with data centers and stuff. They're really trying to boost power generation in Ohio. And this could help
Daylight Saving Time Debate
01:24:12
Speaker
that too.
01:24:13
Speaker
Yeah. Get, get the, approval process streamlined, which is what they've been trying to do. You know, instead of set of two years for a power plant, maybe 45 to 90 days for approval.
01:24:24
Speaker
So we can get, you can get working on it fast because, you know, up the creek without a paddle if you don't start moving on things. So there's that. So that could help. All right. What do we got next?
01:24:36
Speaker
So we get control of carbon capture and, oh, yes. I answered the tough questions that, again, I know we started with the leaf thing, but this maybe is something that really people want to know.
01:24:48
Speaker
Tom, is it daylight saving or daylight savings time? Hmm. I always called it daylight savings time. it It is daylight saving time.
01:25:02
Speaker
Okay. Pretty sure. Yeah, that was...
01:25:06
Speaker
That was the article. No, that was important. but Really, the the the reason I pulled it up was because it's coming up in a couple weeks. We're going to fall back. And what the important part of the article for me is we are falling back.
01:25:22
Speaker
to an hour when daylight saving time comes to an end. So I'm always confused on like, are we is daylight saving time or savings time? Is that normal time or what's normal time? No, no, no, no. The normal time is what we're going to be changing Falling back to. Yeah, I always get confused. So that I know.
01:25:38
Speaker
And hopefully of these- That's where it should stay. was just going say that. One of these, can we just stop with the nonsense already? I mean,
01:25:46
Speaker
I, I, you know what? I don't know what it is, but I, I feel so much ah more rested and healthy when it's in standard time rather than a daylight saving time.
01:25:58
Speaker
I used to love Dave daylight saving time just because you had the long, you know, longer late at in the evening. But yeah ah now that I'm older, I don't care. And, uh,
01:26:10
Speaker
I just feel better when it's on standard time. I know. You know, this was originally for like power savings or something, wasn't it? Oil on the gas shortage. You know, I tried looking this up years ago and there's a few different stories. It was about, for farming and, uh, for kids walking to school, you know, back in the day when they used to walk to school and, uh, you know, it was, there's a number of things and I don't know which one's Yeah.
01:26:40
Speaker
um but I think it was during the Nixon era, right? Daylight savings started in 1970. Yep, established schedule.
01:26:53
Speaker
there's a couple states that don't, like Arizona doesn't do it. Right. And Hawaii doesn't do it. Hawaii can't do it, really. Yeah. They're too close to a equator. Yeah. It's 12 hours of light, 12 hours of night.
01:27:07
Speaker
It's perfect. The experiment was quickly reversed in 1974 after a widespread public disapproval due to dark winter mornings, which led to safety concerns for children walking to school.
01:27:22
Speaker
1973, yeah, in the 1973 energy crisis, the first nationwide oil embargo, blah, bla blah, blah. We all know about that. So yeah that was kind of public support dropped significantly.
01:27:35
Speaker
ah if it dropped, why didn't get rid of it? Why didn't we just keep it? So hopefully...
01:27:40
Speaker
You know, what was funny was to be years before this goes away. it's It'll never go away. Trump wants to get rid of it, right? But he doesn't know whether to keep it on standard or keep it on savings time.
01:27:56
Speaker
Saving time. And he did he took a poll and it was 50-50. So he he refuses to change it.
01:28:05
Speaker
I got a way to to ah change that. Just pick a side, decide you don't want, decide the opposite side that you want.
01:28:16
Speaker
That's what Trump should come out and and pitch it. And then all the Democrats will. Yeah, but I bet you Democrats, that's like the one thing they're probably split on. but Does it really matter? Yeah, it's probably true.
01:28:31
Speaker
Good one. Yeah. But yeah, I think it's going to be, it's going to be years,
Barktober Dog Adoption Event
01:28:34
Speaker
if not forever. Yeah, they've been talking about getting rid of that since I was a kid. I hate it. I hate it, too. The dog hates it. The dog hates it, too.
01:28:44
Speaker
I bet. ah Look at that. i just made my own segue. um Yeah, the dog is, like, asking me to go out, like, an hour before it should normally go out. It's like, don't you know? don't you Can't you read clock?
01:28:55
Speaker
Oh, wait. The kids can't even read clock. How do expect the dog to read clock? All right. On to our Good Things segment.
01:29:11
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And on this week's Good Things segment, what do we got here? We got yeah Summit County Animal Control has got a sale on dogs. Got sale on dogs, calling it Barktober.
01:29:27
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I see what you did there, Marktober. Okay. And, ah you know, just ah just a good little reminder that if you're looking for a furry friend, pound the animal shelters, pounds, whatever you want to call them, are usually chock full of good dogs looking for a home.
01:29:44
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And that's where I usually go for our family dog. and We've gone there twice, well, twice in the last 15 or so years, and we've gotten some, you know, some good dogs. There's there's some some good furry pets there.
01:29:56
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So they've got a sale, only $28. And to adopt a dog, which is, I think, that's quite a bit. Yeah, normally, regularly the fee is $94. get They get microchips. They get a full vet a scam or a scan.
01:30:11
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there it Scam, too. It's a vet scam. It's totally a scam. No, just kidding. Flea treatments, um deworming treatments, most ah most of all the vaccines, a license and a lifetime of love.
01:30:24
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Lifetime of love.
01:30:27
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I don't have that sound effect, but I should. um So check it out. Like i say, if you're in and and and the market for a furry friend, don't forget about your local shelter.
01:30:39
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Some of those dogs don't make it of there alive. They're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating pets.
01:30:51
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they're eating the pets
01:30:55
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uh, strangely enough, Springfield, Ohio, no problem in the pet shelter. They've, they they're looking for dogs. They're looking for dogs. Nice. Very nice. I didn't even think about that one. That was good. Um, but yeah, that's, that's a good, you know, just a reminder of, uh,
01:31:10
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Your furry friends in the pet shelter. ah we We go to one in Cuyahoga County, I think it is. think it's a Cuyahoga County shelter. And it's a no-kill shelter. But it' it's only dog catcher.
01:31:22
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So you can't bring your dog to this one and drop like the APL. And they only take
Honoring Veterans Over 100 Years Old
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dogs and pets from, mainly dogs, but dogs and pets from the dog catcher.
01:31:33
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And on to our next, our last little story of the good things segment and for the show, just a little reminder, the VA honors centenarians, centurions, centurions.
01:31:47
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Centurions. Centurions. Yeah. Centurions. You know, that sounds even cooler than I thought. ah VA honors centurion veterans in a special ceremony. Centenarian. Centenarians. I thought that, you know, before the show, I got it right.
01:32:01
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Because originally was calling it cent so um centurion centurions, but centenarians. Yeah. so they honored ah veterans of over 100 years in a special ceremony and brought their friends and family down and did a little, you know, little to do, gave them some awards. And, you know, these these guys are but they're over 100. So they're probably some of our last World War II vets.
01:32:23
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Yeah. I imagine. Definitely. For sure. They're over 100. Yeah. um brought their family with them. There was one quote from um um David Rausch. I wonder if there's any and he um relation to the Rausch family and Rausch Racing, but I doubt it.
01:32:41
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He said about his grandfather, he said, he showed me it was possible that I could be more than what I had. what i had that I could do more.
01:32:52
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And the more I've proven to myself that I can accomplish any goals I set my mind to, the more I realize ah was becoming more like him. Oh, that's cool. Roush followed in his grandfather's footsteps.
01:33:10
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The Lloyds. and became a pilot in the Marine Corps just like he did. That's kind of cool. A cool little story. Very cool. Always good to honor those vets, especially the ones that are that old, man. Jeez.
01:33:27
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Good for you. Surviving all that and 100
Episode Wrap-Up
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years and ah the of this world. My goodness. Should get more than just an award. But... That wraps us up for the day. You anything else, Tom? You good?
01:33:39
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I'm good. think we hit i hit all the all the stories in that list. I didn't i wasn't sure if we'd get to all of them, but we did. One last thing is subscribe to the podcast. Share it with your friends.
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