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Crooked RIver Cast Show 60
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- FBI release some files.
- Insurrection in Tennessee.
- Primary Results.
- Levies Pass and Fail.
- Ohio’s Medicaid fraud. Butlers for Somalians.
- Subscribe and share the show. Leave a comment.
Headlines To pay attention to:
- CDC warning.
- Central Ohio Spends $2M on Flock cameras.
- Dayton Flock camera data used by ICE.
- Ohio Supreme Court side with AEP.
- WKRP is back!
- Parma city school new safety measures.
- NEO Schools threatened.
Good things:
- Ohio man wind $50K
- Metro Parks biking guide
- Cedar Point now open!
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Transcript
Introduction and Ohio Focus
00:00:12
Speaker
This is a Crooked Rivercast. Who are you? Well, Rob and Tom, two guys trying to keep track what is going on in the great state of Ohio.
00:00:22
Speaker
This is show 60. That's 6-0. Wow. The week of May 11th. Yep, you guessed it. Another week. Gone right by. And, you know, we may have some stuff to discuss.
00:00:33
Speaker
Let's do it. Stop messing around. Let's go.
Weekly Recap and Current Affairs
00:00:41
Speaker
In the morning. In the morning. How you doing this morning? I'm all right.
00:00:49
Speaker
You know, we're living the dream. I'm living a very boring.
00:01:01
Speaker
Boring is good a lot of times. I don't know. i was thinking about the last couple of weeks. I'm like, you know what? I got nothing to talk about. I got nothing. Huh. Yeah, not, not, not too much. a little bit travel this week.
00:01:19
Speaker
Too, too much. Hmm. I think after the show, I'm going just completely mess up my kids Saturday and just take the network offline and rebuild it. And the house, you know, okay.
00:01:31
Speaker
If you hear the screams, you know where, where it's coming from. there's no internet. It's down. Oh my God. What's going to happen? Why can't you turn on your, uh, Your phones as a Wi-Fi? I mean, want to give them that. ah How about read a book?
00:01:48
Speaker
I'm just teasing. They actually do read a lot of books. Yeah. Yeah. Well, nothing and much going on. You know, just another during the week. I mean, I guess.
00:02:00
Speaker
Wait, we a whole week went by and no one tried to shoot the president or the vice president. I heard it. Or did they? I heard JD had like ah something with JD.
00:02:10
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. I didn't pull anything, but. It was two in one day. they caught They caught some guy or shot some guy in DC with a gun going around the White House. And then they found somebody with a gun or shooting a gun in the vicinity of the motorcade of the vice president.
00:02:26
Speaker
Yeah. Never mind. Sorry. forgot. i thought that was last week. I get my weeks confused and all the shots. just Just another boring week for the president and vice president. president Yeah. Ceasefire in Ukraine and Russia for couple days. For three days? where i I just saw the headline. Did you...
00:02:45
Speaker
look into that? Yeah, a little bit. ah it's It's for, um yeah they have a celebration this time of year, the end World War II. And that is in because of that, and Trump is hoping that they can continue it.
00:03:02
Speaker
Okay. What I've been following is, i don' you know, I don't know. Maybe I'm just watching the the news that's pro-Ukraine. But like I said, I think I've said this in the last couple weeks.
00:03:13
Speaker
Ukraine makes major hits on the Russian oil infrastructure. Like they've hit a couple of ports, a couple of big refineries. And I'm wondering, is has anything to do with the ceasefire? Like, hey, maybe we should probably...
00:03:29
Speaker
I'm there sending long range drones in. I'm trying to figure out where getting all these drones. All of a sudden Trump doesn't even, there's nothing, no talk about Ukraine and Russia. And then all of a sudden Ukraine starts kicking butt.
00:03:41
Speaker
I wonder.
00:03:44
Speaker
So hopefully that'll end pretty soon, but I'm not holding my breath because I'll be turning blue if I hold my breath on that one. So, but before we go on to the stories, just, I want to keep everybody, just, just a quick reminder at the beginning of the show you can always follow along at quickrivercast.com as we go through these stories.
00:04:02
Speaker
Just keep it, keep you in the loop and check it out. But first time you asked for it.
00:04:10
Speaker
What? You asked for these things. So I, I, I finally found a story that I thought we could bring into the, into the show. you had mentioned we need some more of this.
00:04:22
Speaker
So here we go.
UFO Sightings and Conspiracy Theories
00:04:23
Speaker
This is FBI releases some files. Did you see the files they released some of the, I did not. Oh, well here's of course, thanks to Asmongold.
00:04:34
Speaker
I gotta stop. I gotta like, to it just keeps more. I watch him. The more he shows up on my feet, go figure. And, uh, and he, uh, he's goes through a couple of these files. So the FBI released some files on UFOs and strange four foot tall men. And, uh, oh,
00:04:51
Speaker
Fightings from the moon. Here here we go. FBI files reveals reports of four foot tall beings emerging from UFOs. Allegedly a negative photo of the strange dead being that was found in a UFO crash site in New Mexico. So let me get this straight. This right here was in the files. He's just a little guy.
00:05:14
Speaker
I mean, that's a really little guy, though. A UAP p that they saw from the f***ing moon? Newly released UFO files include phenomena observed by astronauts during the Apollo mission. Apollo 17 crew reported seeing unidentified bright lights spark up sparks that lit up space. Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin described seeing a mysterious brighter object tumbling past their spacecraft onto the moon.
00:05:41
Speaker
Oh my God. The first unusual thing that we saw, I guess, was one day out of something pretty close to the moon. It had a sizable dimension to it, so we put a mono monocular on it. We just look out the window and there it was. Yeah, we weren't sure about what it might be. We called the ground and we were told that the SIVB was 6,000 miles away. we were seeing all kinds of little objects going by at various dumps, and then we happened to see this one brighter object going by. At the time, each one of us had a chance to look at it, and it certainly seemed like it was within our vicinity and a very sizable dimension.
00:06:15
Speaker
I don't know. Like, I mean, you got both of them saying this is what happened, and this is confidential with the guys that went to the moon. So this is audio from 1965 Gemini Mission UFO at 10 o'clock time.
00:06:31
Speaker
This is Houston. Say again, 7? Yeah, let's keep listening. They're past now. They're going to pull it over.
00:06:46
Speaker
a
00:06:51
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you understand they're about three to four miles away
00:06:59
Speaker
Hmm. So were they lying about the UFOs they saw on the moon while not on the moon? Which one do you go? Which is is this is going to pit two conspiracy conspiracy theories against each other.
00:07:15
Speaker
Did you ever see the press conference that the astronauts had after they came back from the moon? Not sure. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody should check that out. I mean, because it is they are acting weird.
00:07:33
Speaker
So were they acting weird because they didn't go or were they acting weird because they saw things? Hmm. sort of things Both of those conspiracies are are out there.
00:07:44
Speaker
Sure. You know? and Yeah, he was reading from the report, the declassified report from, you know, debriefing of the moon landing. Right. And, yeah. He does all this stuff and there's all the the the balls of light. There's more of those being released and...
00:08:00
Speaker
There's actually, if you watch the video in the show notes, there's ah he does a little parody of Trump on somebody did somebody cut Trump on Rogan in a certain way where he's talking about, it makes Trump sound like he was saying there's definitely aliens and all it is. It's pretty freaking funny. Was that cut or was that like ai I think it was just edited. Yeah.
00:08:24
Speaker
like Okay. Cut edited, because there's there's there's a couple of harsh edits and that i that I see. least It could be both. I don't know. I mean, i wow I think you watched the interview, right?
00:08:34
Speaker
Yes. Yeah, it was... I don't remember him ever saying any of those things, but if you could find little bits and pieces here and there and cut it together, then I guess he could do it. He did talk about aliens and UFOs, didn't he, Andy Rogan? He talked about Elon.
00:08:50
Speaker
I don't know if he talked about aliens or he didn't talk about it. If you know what I mean. Like he asked, but like Joe might've asked, but he didn't. Yeah. But a lot of stuff in the, in the cutup is, did you see it? You don't want to talk about. Okay.
00:09:05
Speaker
Uh, it seemed like it was, it wasn't talk about aliens and then they make it sound like it. That's what I, you know, cause he's talking about Harris, Kamala Harris and, yeah. And the reaction of Joe, you know, so maybe it might be I don't know.
00:09:18
Speaker
I just thought it was ah and conveniently edited to make it sound like Trump was releasing, revealing all this stuff about aliens. Yeah. More, more orbs in the sky, making all kinds of crazy moves. And I think they're going to continue releasing things, right?
00:09:33
Speaker
Yeah. it almost feels like they're prepping us. Did you hear about the pastors meeting with the government? Yes. Who was talking about that?
00:09:44
Speaker
Was that Poole? Well, Poole talked about it, but there's a there's actually a pastor from Cleveland from ah from like a large church that is talking.
00:09:57
Speaker
It probably had a local tie to it is too. and Yeah, you know, I should have cut that, but it just seemed like so so much BS that I didn't want to go there. Yeah, it could be. but yeah did they have ah they had a what was it What's the premise of this meeting now? I forget.
00:10:11
Speaker
Oh, ah I guess the speculation is that they're meeting with different pastors to make sure they can, I guess, warn their congregation about the news coming out.
00:10:28
Speaker
And so they don't lose faith, I guess. But others are thinking that they're telling them this because they want to break up the Christians. Yeah. Ooh, look at that. a conspiracy on top of Yeah. Conspiracy. Ooh, this is getting sticky now.
00:10:45
Speaker
I didn't believe both. I can't, i don't know which one they believe. I didn't look into it too much because it just, it was too much like, ah I don't, the pastor was from like one of those mega churches. So I was kind of like, I don't, I don't want any money.
00:11:00
Speaker
Yeah. you You tell me they're from the Cleveland diocese, then I'll. Uh, well, you know, then I'll check it out, but not for, not somebody from a mega church.
00:11:12
Speaker
Interesting. Not that there's anything wrong with them. It's just, I want to hear a Catholic pastor talk about it. no Yeah. Yeah.
Religion and Political Unrest
00:11:22
Speaker
Somebody. Yeah. like Again, I, I, uh,
00:11:26
Speaker
Go ahead and practice your face. It's just, everybody's a little different. I've been a couple of those, well, not mega, mega ones, but they're actually fun compared to my normal Catholic sermon. They're actually quite fun. There's a full band.
00:11:39
Speaker
Church is not supposed to be fun. Why not? I know you're right. That's what the Catholic would say. It's not supposed to fun. he's supposed to be there and be quiet and shut up. My knees are supposed to hurt. I know all they do.
00:11:51
Speaker
No, yeah, they have better bands and... it's just more It's more interaction. It's actually, what I thought of it was i almost cross between a Catholic, a traditional Catholic Protestant, or a Roman Catholic, and the in-between of that, and like a ah Southern black church.
00:12:11
Speaker
Mm-hmm. where they're I mean, they're just singing and screaming and all this. That's kind of in-between. It's not quite as vocal, but not nowhere near what a catholic Roman Catholic mass would be. Right.
00:12:21
Speaker
I'm not sure. I don't know. I do i enjoy going... I'll get on this, but I enjoy going because because of the peacefulness. I'm not sure. would always enjoy the loudness.
00:12:32
Speaker
Anyway. Yeah. so we got Oh, yeah. alien We can talk about this forever. hey Aliens talk took us to Catholic. man Okay. Awesome.
00:12:42
Speaker
Never know where a conversation will lead you. Next on our fabulous list of stories. Well, there's an insurrection in Tennessee. Did you hear? Oh yeah.
00:12:54
Speaker
Did you hear it? Did you, oh my gosh. Insurrection. No, they're just protesting. I was totally, i mean, I'm just going off of what I've learned over, over the last five or six years that this is definitely an insurrection and they should all be put in solitary confinement for three or four years without a trial. Uh, and just for being annoying, maybe here's, you want to hear what happened? Okay. Let's, I guess we should explain.
00:13:21
Speaker
If you didn't know, since the court ah syria Supreme Court ruling and the expediting the ruling and certifying it and everything else, states are now looking back. I think Louisiana itself is halted elections and they're going to even though people have already voted, which, hey, o what's what's what's the problem with really voting? Oh, here's one.
00:13:45
Speaker
People have already voted, but they're they vote that that person may not be there. The the people they voted for and it may not be available because they're now going to redistrict it again. And they're good I would say you'd be lucky to have one Democrat in that state.
00:14:01
Speaker
In Tennessee? No, this is, I'm sorry, Louisiana has stopped, has halted the election to redistrict, and people have already voted, so this is becoming an issue. they're not No, it's not an issue. It's ah the only, Ketanji Brown was the only one making an issue of it, and Alito slapped her down.
00:14:17
Speaker
Right, but if you've already had your vote, yeah but what do they do with it, I guess? What are they going to continue in a legal vote? Right, I understand that. about what What do you have to re-vote now? is mike Yeah, they're going to redo the primary, like do an emergency.
00:14:32
Speaker
Oh my gosh, that's going to be great. But hey, I mean, it's, and remember everybody, this was the the Democrats who put this lawsuit in in place. So careful what you wish for.
00:14:44
Speaker
So the Tennessee state legislature on the eve of this ruling redistricted themselves of their state. and And there is, they got rid of the only Democrat seat in the state.
00:14:58
Speaker
And here, here's the reaction. Hold your ears.
00:15:19
Speaker
there some There was a congress member state congress member on the floor with that horn. Yeah, and and I think another congress member ah lit a Confederate flag, a paper Confederate flag on fire inside also.
00:15:36
Speaker
That's really... Naturally. There's other footage. We just have the, the lips of tick tock, uh, X. oh Yes. That's the whole story is from her, from her ex posts.
00:15:47
Speaker
But there's other footage out there. That's just insane. You know, the, the problem that the Democrats have with this, with this ruling, i guess is okay. The, I guess red States haven't gerrymandered like the blue States have, right?
00:16:08
Speaker
night well Well, I originally thought the same thing, and then I looked it up. No, no, they have, but not to the extent the blue states have. There are more all-Republican representative states than all Democrat representative states, according to Grok.
00:16:24
Speaker
Yes, but... There's 12 states that currently have no Democratic representatives in the state. but think The problem with that the Democrats have is that the states that they have, like,
00:16:37
Speaker
gerrymandered to death like illinois uh maine new hampshire all ah you know all the blue states california they can't gerrymander anymore because they got it yeah yeah and the and and the republicans can if they it and they will i don't think to the extent the democrats have but I think, yeah, I think the issue for this ruling, which doesn't really apply to Tennessee, Tennessee was, I think they were looking to do this anyway.
00:17:10
Speaker
there The issue for the Democrats is they're going to redistrict Illinois by force because a lot of the redistricting is now illegal because they did it by race, solely by race, basically.
00:17:22
Speaker
out there it's If you look at Illinois, it's crazy. oh i mean, but you got like a 50 mile, two foot long wide line. Just attach to areas yeah of of minority citizens or minority areas.
00:17:37
Speaker
Yeah. Not that Illinois going to go blue, but it's probably going to get a couple more Republican seats. You mean go red? I mean, so yeah, it's never going to start it's never going to not it's never going to go red, at least not in my lifetime.
00:17:50
Speaker
I don't think ah now, but you will get a couple more seats, and that's really... If you think about Illinois, I don't i think most of it's actually red. It should be.
00:18:01
Speaker
rural area Yeah, the rural areas are just like Ohio. Yeah. It's red except for Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Akron, and chi Cleveland. Chicago's just so so populated. Yes.
00:18:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:17
Speaker
That's basically that. ah I was kind of shocked that I didn't realize. i knew it would be close, but there are seven states that are that have no Republican representatives in the U.S. House.
00:18:29
Speaker
There are 12 Republican states that have no Democrat.
00:18:35
Speaker
But what's the percentage? ah It's close. It's close. It's, it's kind of all, I mean, I think maybe slightly the the blue states have a ah slightly more, you know, so a lot this, lot of the Democrat states, there's, you know, 40, 40, 38, 42, 45% are Republican and they have no, right no Republican
Ohio Political Landscape and Elections
00:18:59
Speaker
representatives. And for example,
00:19:02
Speaker
Alaska has, Alaska has one seat. So there's a couple of states on both sides that have one seat. So of course it's only going to be one party. I thought Alaska had two.
00:19:13
Speaker
Okay. i me Maybe. bus as i sit According to, according to Grog, which, you know, what could go wrong? Asked Grog. Alaska has one seat, but there are 41% voted for Harris.
00:19:26
Speaker
Yeah, but if there's only one seat. Yeah, so that's kind of that's kind of out of that. And there's a couple of those on the Democrat side. Wyoming. So Wyoming, data of Democrats were tracked. Wyoming's 11% Democrat versus 77% Republican.
00:19:44
Speaker
Yeah, they shouldn't have any. But South Dakota has 34%. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Nebraska has 38% Democrat or voted for Harris at least I think. And it's, it's slightly more egregious on the Democrat side, but not by, not by a tremendous amount.
00:20:01
Speaker
It's not like all these ah ah ah Republican only states have 10%. It's a lot of them do Utah 13 and then West Virginia, South Dakota show similar patterns with Democrats in the 20 to 30% range or lower where we're attracted.
00:20:19
Speaker
but It happens on both sides. I just, I mean, have you ever heard this coming out of Iowa? No.
00:20:31
Speaker
Alaska? No. Montana? No. If the Republicans did that, they would be were arrested. Exactly. with Even though if they just casually walk through peacefully, you get arrested.
00:20:44
Speaker
They wave our American flag and Yeah. America, they get arrested for that.
00:20:52
Speaker
Which, you know, I get maybe to a point you are trespassing in some, to some degree, but I don't think it, I don't think it, it comes to three years of solitary confinement. Not sure.
00:21:03
Speaker
Not even, i think I was watching a poll on this cause there was a, oh yeah. Michael Knowles, I think was baiting somebody and they were trying to pin Michael Knowles on, uh,
00:21:16
Speaker
ah ah you Do you approve Trump pardoning neo-Nazis? Yeah, all the, all the yeah, i I kind of saw that. He didn't pardon them for a crime of being neo-Nazi because they weren't being punished for a crime. They were being punished for whatever they were punished for. Assaulting a cop, okay, fine. Does it give you three years in prison in solitary confinement?
00:21:36
Speaker
don't think so. I mean, just ask ask the cops in Seattle if they're getting that ah about the people who who assault them on daily basis.
00:21:46
Speaker
ah Yeah. Intrudection in Tennessee. Was there arrests? I don't even know. Did you think there were arrests? Democrats doing it. There's no arrests.
00:21:55
Speaker
Good point. And in the meantime, through all that, we had our own primary election last week. Wow. It was so exciting to go vote for half the ballot was just one person and one person to choose from. and i was like, oh I guess you already won.
00:22:11
Speaker
But we do have some election results. in I don't think there was any surprises. Do you? No. Not at all. Good, because surprises sometimes in an election.
00:22:25
Speaker
I don't know what I'm talking about. vik ah Vivek and Amy are officially it. They are the ones that are going to be battling for the governor's seat in Ohio.
00:22:37
Speaker
It is finally official. Some of the primary results, I don't even, so they don't even have, results. What happened to the other Republican candidates? There was a couple other ones, wasn't there? It was Heather Hunt. For what?
00:22:52
Speaker
For governor. They had that, that, that chick. Oh yeah. She got zero. I mean, she got one vote at least. I hope she voted for herself. Yeah. Casey got 17.5%. That's not too shabby for the primary YouTube guy.
00:23:09
Speaker
Yeah. 143,000 votes. That was a lot of, ah you know, people people were like, oh, that was a win for Casey. And it's like, I don't think so.
00:23:21
Speaker
Excuse me. Not a, I don't know if it's a win. definite Well, it's definitely not a win because he technically lost. i It's more than I thought he was going to get. With Deveque being as well-known and with the money he has, i I'm surprised. i i didn't think he'd get 10%. It's a primary. I think it's a lot of people.
00:23:37
Speaker
voting are saying f you to Vivek, but a lot of those will vote for Vivek. It was just a, you know what I mean? Yeah.
00:23:48
Speaker
um I may know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:54
Speaker
I may have actually done that. Exactly. Yeah. That's, I just think that a lot of it's that. And yeah when it comes down to the, to the general election, I, you know,
00:24:08
Speaker
People, i don't know how, like the only thing I worry about, and I don't worry about it. That's the wrong way to put it, I guess. But the only thing that I think is going to, might happen is Vivek won't get people to come out to vote.
00:24:24
Speaker
Not that they would vote for Amy. No, they'll stay home. Yeah. That's the only thing that kind of concerns me, but I don't, I don't think enough would.
00:24:36
Speaker
To make a difference. Looking at this article from channel three, which was like live results from the night or day after it doesn't, it gives me the Republican, but does for governor, but doesn't give me the results from Democrat primary.
00:24:50
Speaker
Well, she got a hundred percent. Oh shoot. That's right. She was on a post. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. ah Let's listen to a little bit from, of course, I mean, we can't talk about Columbus in the election without Let's listen a little bit from channel five and ah some, some details.
00:25:10
Speaker
And I do agree with Amy on this one point pointed out. It is a mixed bag for communities across Northeast Ohio today. Some are making some tough decisions now about what is the what are the next steps after voters rejected a levy, a bond, or an income tax proposal. Good evening, and thank you for being here with us. I'm Katie Youson. And I'm Damon Maloney. We have coverage from all across the region this evening as cities and schools face the aftermath of Tuesday's primary election. And we've also seen some major state and federal races come into focus. Let's be begin and here with your Columbus Bureau reporter, Morgan Trowell.
00:25:43
Speaker
The next chapter. of this journey. That next chapter in Ohio's future will be written over the next six months. Time for change in our state. Republican nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, a Cincinnati businessman and billionaire, celebrated his win with his running mate, Senate President Rob McCauley, a legislative leader and attorney from Northwest Ohio. I'm proudly the most free, pro-free enterprise, pro-liberty, conservative, and pro-capitalist governor this state will have ever seen. Ramaswamy is running on the platform of cutting taxes, reducing government waste, and advocating for more energy independence. So far, he's raised $50 million dollars in this race, half of it coming from himself. put more money in your pocket to bring down those costs. The contrast in this race couldn't be more clear. The Democratic nominee is COVID-era health director Dr. Amy Acton from Youngstown, and she is running with David Pepper, a former party leader and attorney from Cincinnati. Her platform is affordability and house in housing and health care, as well as improving public education and supporting small businesses.
00:26:49
Speaker
Together, we're going make Ohio affordable so that we can pursue our dreams again, so that we can live a good life. She's raised more than $10 million for the race. Ohioans need somebody fighting for them, not the self-funding billionaires and special interests. And while Acton and Ramaswamy both bring up but affordability, they have different ways to accomplish it. Acton wants to fully fund education so that schools don't rely on increasing property taxes, as well as put forward a working families tax cut.
00:27:20
Speaker
She's also proposed a new system to reduce prescription costs. And ensure that everyone in Ohio has access to quality health care, affordable health care. Ramaswamy would limit automatic property tax increases and has suggested shutting down universities that he calls subpar, like Akron, Kent State or CSU, in order to pay for an income tax cut. And he says that expanding natural gas development will also make life more affordable. bringing down your electric bills because we're producing more energy. And for each of them, they say the race is really just beginning. Now, the real destination is in November.
00:27:58
Speaker
And while Ramaswamy and Acton are the two front runners, Libertarian Don Kissick will also be on the ballot. And I left it in there just, you know, by the way, there's a Libertarian candidate in there.
00:28:12
Speaker
Vivek sounds...
00:28:16
Speaker
Well, he, he, him and Mondami have a lot in common. They, they're, they're very slick and i' ah that's about all they have in common as far as I can see. ah Yeah. I saw that kind of concerns me a little bit. You know, he's very, has that, that, I don't know. Is that Obama thing? Yes. He has that yeah type of charisma. Yeah. That's just Mondami is kind of where I was getting. Yeah.
00:28:39
Speaker
He's, he followed along in Obama's footsteps. Sounds like, but Amy, Amy, I can't believe they they couldn't find somebody better to run because if there's a one that they maybe have a chance to win, this would be it.
00:28:56
Speaker
But I think they know. Yeah, I think so. I think they know. Vivek has twice as much money than Amy has just in his own, out of his own pocket alone. So that right there tells you a lot. He's got five times what she has.
00:29:14
Speaker
So that right there, there's there's a big disadvantage on her end, and that's ah that they can only produce Amy. That was it. That's all the Democratic Party could done. I think that tells you a lot about what they think the race is going be like.
00:29:27
Speaker
The one that actually quit. but like Once the pressure got to her, she quit. Yes. So what do you do? Go to the highest position in the state. The highest, just you know, why not?
00:29:41
Speaker
like What could go wrong? I don't know. It is weird. It it is bizarre, man. But, and you you know, it's funny because I do see some of these commentators, but mostly from out of state. Actually, not mostly. All from out of state that don't know Amy Acton and they're saying she's going to win.
00:30:04
Speaker
and that Vivek's not a good i could contender, you know? But it's like they they they have they haven't heard Amy talk enough yet.
00:30:15
Speaker
Like, because you just wait wait till there's like a bit more of her. um like Unless they do the same thing did they did with Biden. Just kind of like hide or hide her the entire time.
00:30:29
Speaker
Is there going to be a debate? that I mean, there has to be. There has to be one. yes I mean, yeah, there has to be, but they could... they could I think there is. i don't know how many people actually watch it.
00:30:41
Speaker
I'll be watching this one. I'm going to try to watch this. Yeah, is going be might be good. This might be good. Yeah, I've talked to just people here and there.
00:30:53
Speaker
On the edges. i so I try to stay on the edges of these kind of topics. Uh-huh. And nobody likes Amy. Yeah. But I talk to. Same here. But they also don't like Vivek very much. yet Same here.
00:31:05
Speaker
but Well, you know well i know, I know much about him, but know going to close down universities. Well, I haven't heard that. I just, ah they don't like him because of, ah from what I've seen, is that he doesn't have a good history here in Ohio.
00:31:23
Speaker
And he's got some shady ah business dealings. Yeah, he had a failed build Alzheimer's drug or something that everybody kind of points at. He kind of, what's that called when you when it goes public?
00:31:37
Speaker
Oh, IPO. Yeah, yeah there it was shady the way it was done.
00:31:44
Speaker
He made a lot of money where he probably shouldn't have. Yeah. ah Yeah. Well, I guess, I mean, Ooh, big surprise. so How about, Hey, can we, I, Hey, let's, let's, let's hold Vivek accountable.
00:31:59
Speaker
But maybe before we do that, let's make a stop at, and at Washington. Just talk to Congress for a minute. But shady deals. um No kidding. Yeah. It's like, I get it, but I hate, I hate how it's selective. Oh, look at him.
00:32:13
Speaker
He did some shady stuff. How much is Mitch McConnell worth? No, I agree. i i just think that's what people are whining about. But when it when it's going to come down to it, it's yeah like, what are you going to do?
00:32:26
Speaker
Yeah. And that's what I brought up to. I said, you know, I was in ah at a lunch and they were like, well, I don't know much about him, but I know he's going to shut down universities or he wants to. I said, well, I don't know. I i was like, are they sustainable?
00:32:42
Speaker
Are they making money? Are they self-sustaining? Are they bringing in enough people or students to keep their doors open without, and they all looked at me and said, don't know.
00:32:53
Speaker
I said, well, we do understand that there are less, less kids every year. i go, these colleges enrollments are down. Well, not all colleges. they go, no. I said, but we do, we are in agreement that we have less kids now than we did like 15, 20 years ago. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. like go So we probably don't need as many colleges as we did.
00:33:13
Speaker
Oh, well.
00:33:16
Speaker
Okay. Let's, can we take a look at At least these are all state funded colleges. Well, it's so surface level thinkers. Yes. Yeah. But they're looking for a reason not to like him. and Yeah, because they've heard, you know, what that the they've heard things, but don't know, like ah kind of like me. I mean, like, I'm not too far off from it, where, like, I haven't looked into him that deeply, but he has said some things that I don't like with the H1, what is H1B? H, yeah, H1B visas.
00:33:48
Speaker
he He said, he actually did say he wanted school to be year-round, not just school. ah and through through a seasonal thing. And there was something else. He did insinuate that Americans are stupid.
00:34:04
Speaker
Yeah, he he has. Which I can agree on. Well, can yeah, but you don't say that if you're running. Well, he didn't say there's, he said that. No, no, he did. He said that you're lazy. Yes. Oh, okay.
00:34:15
Speaker
I mean, when I hear that, I go, yep. Okay. Yeah. But you don't say that to the people you want. The lazy people. Right. Don't say that to the people. Yeah. The most people that need to vote for you are the ones you talk to. Oh, I agree.
00:34:29
Speaker
I just are, I tell people, well, have you talked to the general public lately? Yeah, but it's always... Might be on to something. yeah Yeah, you got to put it, you know, politically correct in some ways.
00:34:41
Speaker
You to do that occasionally. oh Hopefully he's learned his lesson. he His messaging will be a little bit better from now on, but... ah What else was there? Oh, Attorney General.
00:34:53
Speaker
Oh, Secretary of State race. That was the next big one. Yeah. So, High Treasurer Robert Sprague on Tuesday won the Republican primary. for Yeah, was I was hoping for Stribick, but he didn't really have a chance. Yeah.
00:35:03
Speaker
Defeated Air Force veteran Marcel Stribick. He presented himself as an anti-establishment candidate. Sprague will face off against... Rep. Allison Russo, Democrat of Upper Arlington, who defeated Brian Hambly, a Cincinnati doctor. Do you remember, Brian?
00:35:19
Speaker
No. We talked about him. no was that? No, no, that wasn't him. No, that was the next one. That was the Attorney General, I think. Cincinnati doctor in the Democratic Party. The winner of the race will will replace the current Secretary of State, Frank Lou Russo. Now, what's going what's Frank going to do? What's Lou Russo going to do?
00:35:34
Speaker
I know. LaRose, not LaRose. LaRose, excuse me. What's Frank LaRose going to do? he's primary he's Is he out because of term limits? don't even remember. i don't I don't remember. i don't think it says anywhere in the article.
00:35:46
Speaker
I thought he was running for something else. Okay. I forget. forget But what else could he be running for? Because that's the third highest seat in the state. Is the Secretary of State is like underneath the Lieutenant Governor or something like that?
00:36:02
Speaker
But I didn't see him anywhere else. else i don't think I saw him anywhere else. Okay. maybe he's Maybe he's doing something else on a national level. Who knows? Next one.
00:36:14
Speaker
Attorney General. So in Democratic primary for Attorney General, Columbus area attorney John J.
00:36:25
Speaker
I'm not even going to. Tempted clue clue wid clue is clue. Yeah. Cluice. don't know. It's K U L E W I C Z as way out of my league. He defeated a former state rep Elliot forehand.
00:36:41
Speaker
This is the one you remember Elliot who previously said that he would kill president Donald Trump via capital punishment. That's right. I wasn't, I wasn't, what what do you mean? i wasn't, I wasn't doing anything wrong.
00:36:58
Speaker
So they're going to, he's going to face John Jay will face Republican Ohio auditor Keith Faber in November. Was he went unopposed? What else we got? A couple of house seats that maybe of note they brought up in this article from Ohio.news.
00:37:16
Speaker
Cincinnati area Democrat, U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman, fended off a primary challenger, who was Damon Lynch IV, the son and grandson of two Cincinnati civil rights activists and pastors.
00:37:31
Speaker
We may have dodged a bullet on that one. Picked up 68% of the votes. He will face off against Republican Eric Conroy, who won nearly 72% of the vote. And let's see, ah last month they say, it brings up Conway was added to the 2026 MAGA majority program.
00:37:49
Speaker
So he was endorsed by Trump. And it's about all the big ones for us statewide. Just mentioned Frank LaRose. He's ah the secretary of state. He's term limited and he's running for Ohio state auditor.
00:38:07
Speaker
We're trying to replace, what's this, Faber, Keith Faber, who is also term limited. oh yeah, because Faber's attorney general for Republicans.
00:38:19
Speaker
Okay. so He's facing against a Democrat in Columbus. Gotcha. In November. That's good to know. So, yeah, he was term limited. he's going to state auditor. Mm-hmm.
00:38:32
Speaker
Interesting. So those are the big races. I'm not sure anything else that you saw that leaving out. don't think. No, no, it was kind of a no news election. No big surprises. like Yeah.
00:38:47
Speaker
The, well, actually and the only other thing was, Oh, captor. Let's listen to this from idea stream. So there's a next article, which is Republican Derek Marin, a wins primary will face longtime incumbent captor in key rematch. I'm kind of thinking she's done for it. Let's listen.
00:39:10
Speaker
In a rematch that could shape who controls the U.S. House this fall, Republican Derek Maron is set to again square off with longtime incumbent Marcy Kaptur. I'm IdeaStream Public Media's Abby Marshall with more on the race for the 9th District. the rematch has All eyes on Northwest Ohio, where in 2024, Democratic incumbent Marcy Kaptur narrowly defeated Marin by less than 1%.
00:39:34
Speaker
Conservatives have been eyeing Kaptur's seat for years, and now they potentially have the upper hand after the Republican-controlled statehouse redrew the district ahead of the midterm elections. Kaptur has heavily criticized the maps for gerrymandering. It's a race that's gained national attention for its potential to tip which party controls the U.S. House. Former State Rep. Marin held off State Rep. Josh Williams and former ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheehan in the crowded primary. Abby Marshall, Ideastream Public Media. Yeah, hope not. Can she go back to ICE and go finish what she was started at ICE?
00:40:09
Speaker
Sounded she was doing something there. We talked about her couple weeks back. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, they gerrymandered it. And maybe because I'm thinking it's already been gerrymandered in the past because captor has been in the office for like 40 fricking years.
00:40:28
Speaker
It's time for you to go. they redistricted the last time won by 1% less, think it was less than 2000 votes.
00:40:41
Speaker
I think yeah now that's, yeah. She won by 2,300 votes. Okay. it's about two okay And this, now the the district is even redder than it was before. Right. But he's kind of thinking, we have a new seat there.
00:40:55
Speaker
Again, I think it's going to depend on the turnout, how motivated people are. She might keep it just because it's a midterm and Democrats are going to be a little bit more Yeah.
00:41:09
Speaker
Still got to get out and vote. There's no yeah guarantees. Yeah. That's the key. Got to get out and vote.
00:41:16
Speaker
Because the other thing on the ballot really don't, you know, kind of the main reason I go and vote lot of times, you know, it's not like if I skip this vote, they was going to lose.
00:41:30
Speaker
Is the other levies. I had a couple on my on mine this year. Did you have any on yours? Any taxes on yours? i didn't I didn't go vote this time because I had nothing and I didn't think yet my vote was going to make a difference to any of the things I gave a crap about.
00:41:49
Speaker
guaranteed every election I have something to go vote for as far as taxes. I had couple continuing levies for city stuff.
00:41:58
Speaker
So definitely, but you know, good thing about primaries is definitely no line. Just walk right in. And my experience was a little different. I'm used to what I'm used to going in and seeing are a lot of blue hairs.
00:42:13
Speaker
Today, ah this time was she had pink hair.
00:42:18
Speaker
Who's that? The person behind the counter giving me my ballot. Oh, really? Yeah. Some old lady with pink hair instead of, Oh yeah. I was like, Oh yeah.
00:42:29
Speaker
Where's your piercings? Did you take your piercings out? I can't even tell where are they at. That was slightly different. Usually it's, usually it's a bunch blue hair people behind the ah desk, but this time she was, she was pink. Pink hair.
00:42:41
Speaker
So we had, we had some levies pass and some levies fail. Let's start, let's start in the positive. Let's start in the positive. Let's, let's talk about Lorain County, narrowly passed.
00:42:56
Speaker
That's positive? An income tax. Well, I mean, well, it's a positive. Yes, Tom, it's a positive because they might be able to dance again. Let's listen. tianando You've been following closely what's happening in Lorain. Yeah, you know, I cover Lorain County. So Lorain City Schools is also celebrating this morning after voters narrowly approved a new levy. District leaders say the money will stabilize the district and bring back some support services and staff. 51% of voters said yes, while 48% voted against the new tax. While this is a win for the district, there's still financial strain directly affecting got financial strain. We've been telling you for months about the recent cuts to programs and staff at Lorain City Schools. I spoke with two dance students at General Johnny Wilson Middle School who are dealing with the fallout.
00:43:44
Speaker
What has it been like since the cuts were announced, the changes for next year? There was definitely a shift in the mood. feel like the teachers have been more stressed and then it's just been like we are trying to cherish this moment because we don't know if we're going to have it next year. I remember the rehearsal at Lion King and our ah director told us it and we all were very disappointed. now We were all crying.
00:44:11
Speaker
like or Jacob and Peyton Wysocki love dance. It's helped them express themselves, plus more confident and outgoing. Next year, dance will no longer be offered in elementary and middle school.
00:44:24
Speaker
I feel sorry for the upcoming sixth graders the people, because I know there's people that saw how fun dance through, like me and Jacob and the others, and that want to do dance club next year, and they they won't be able to. I just got into middle school, so going to have more opportunities, but if these budget cuts cut some of them, it would ah also be hard to get these opportunities. Yeah.
00:44:47
Speaker
Well, they both hope dance comes back to the district, but it's unclear if or when that could happen. I have an interview set up later this morning with Superintendent Jeff Graham to find out exactly what the passage of this levy means for the district.
00:45:01
Speaker
Oh, I know what it's gonna mean for the district. You know, this kid, there's hope for this kid. If I could, someone could send him this documentary. Here's a little clip from this documentary. You know what's going to come from this? Right here. Let's dance!
00:45:11
Speaker
Yeah! We'll lose, baby! We can dance again!
00:45:21
Speaker
Sorry, I couldn't help myself on that. oh If you follow the documentary, Footloose, and they remade it again because they have to update it, that's what you do. Did they? Yeah, there's a new Footloose, 2000 version. Oh.
00:45:35
Speaker
oh That original was good. Oh, original was so good. I'm not sure why it was so good. Because that, you know, chalk that under something that never happened.
00:45:49
Speaker
Like, school dances are never like that. Oh, there's some small towns, I think, that were like that. Yeah, possibly. yeah But, ah no, it was just a rebellious teen rebellion. Yeah, that's... Where else?
00:46:03
Speaker
What are they going to do? Without dance. That was funny. Without public funds, how can they ever dance?
00:46:12
Speaker
So here's, here's news channel five, right? Is that what i said it was? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Here they are looking for the worst of the worst.
00:46:25
Speaker
What is, what's going to be, and they passed this levy, but they're still going on their financial streets. And what are we going to miss? What is going to be lost? What can we find to really pull and really make our point? Dance class.
00:46:39
Speaker
When I saw this, I was like, boy, they're trying to pull on people's heartstrings, but I'm not sure if this will do it. Yeah. I'm thinking, why do you have, why'd you ever have a dance class that wasn't,
00:46:54
Speaker
funded by the people in, you know what I mean? Yeah, you can have a dance class, but why, why, in a school that's in financial embarrassment, as I like to say, you still have a dance class.
00:47:05
Speaker
Hello.
00:47:08
Speaker
can Can we, can we all see what the problem is here with some of these, some of these schools?
00:47:16
Speaker
ah they They were the minority in this in this election because most of these levies got rejected. Voters across the state rejected, and this is a Ohio.news story, voters across the state rejected income tax levies once again, underscoring the headwinds facing taxes in Ohio.
00:47:38
Speaker
says On Tuesday, voters in Independence, Parma, Amherst, and Clark, Amherst and Clark and Medina counties were among those who rejected the income tax levies, according to reports from cleveland.com and elsewhere.
00:47:53
Speaker
Hmm. Well, I mean, what are they going to do? What are they going to Well, after Wadsworth city schools rejected, or people in Wadsworth school district rejected a 1.5 levy, ah percent levy, they laid off 20 teachers.
00:48:12
Speaker
three administrators, eight classroom aides, and three custodians, eliminating more than $1 million dollars from the supply budget.
00:48:23
Speaker
The news source reported. Okay.
00:48:27
Speaker
Well, then I look up Wadsworth City Schools. let let's Let's just have, can we, can we have an idea of what's been going on in Wadsworth City Schools?
00:48:37
Speaker
So I asked Google, Gemini,
00:48:42
Speaker
what's the Has wadwi'z Wadsworth Ohio schools enrollment increased or decreased?
00:48:50
Speaker
So based on 2024 through 2026 reports, enrollment in Wadsworth city school districts is generally declining.
00:49:06
Speaker
By, let's say, I think they're saying... 10 or 11% in the last 10 years. so So they're averaging about one to 2% loss.
00:49:19
Speaker
Yeah. Historical data enrollment decreased by 1.7% in to school year, reaching students down from four thousand eight hundred and thirty one students nine to ten years earlier or avaging but a one to two percent decrease every year despite that decline in enrollment,
00:49:45
Speaker
they increase staff.
00:49:49
Speaker
There's been an increase in staffing. and to According to this this Google s thing here. Could be wrong. good you know It's from a Facebook Wadsworth community post. Decisions in early 2026 highlighted that staffing numbers have been ah key point of discussion during the budget decisions.
00:50:10
Speaker
Well, if you have less students every year by a couple percentage points, at some point, what are the what are all these teachers doing? They just asked 20 teachers.
00:50:22
Speaker
What have these teachers been doing with no students? 500, 600 less students over the last 10 years.
00:50:31
Speaker
Same thing with the college universities we had i had conversation with.
00:50:40
Speaker
Cleveland city schools.
00:50:43
Speaker
Dozens of, like a couple dozen empty buildings that they're just sitting there, but yet they're still building more.
00:50:50
Speaker
Akron, tearing schools down because a lack of enrollment for two years later to build a new one.
00:50:59
Speaker
Okay. Just so you know, guys, it's a third of the state budget. not Not including the property taxes that you pay. Just the state, the state budget. funded part of ah public schools is a third of the state budget.
00:51:17
Speaker
I can't figure out why people are, and none so a lot of these, they did not even come close to passing. We're talking 70, 30 if they're lucky, 65, 35, maybe. It was kind of, it's actually getting worse. A lot of, them
00:51:40
Speaker
think in November 25, let's say Clark Shawnee local school district, November 25, 68% voted against This year, voted against it this
00:51:51
Speaker
This last year, oh yeah, always it twice last year, voting 73% against November, only the worse 68% in May of 25. So ah the ah primary or the year the early voting, they they had 68% opposed it and it got worse in November. 73% voted against it. I think a lot of people are like, I am at this point when it comes to levies.
00:52:15
Speaker
It's an automatic no. um you like You really have to convince me, and they never do. I think that's kind of where we're at.
00:52:29
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's it's a tough... i I do get... I mean, things are going getting more expensive. I get that, but it's an automatic no. you got to You got to show me you're doing something right, and have they ever so done anything right?
00:52:45
Speaker
Or you know do they... Okay, so i'm i don't have kids, and a lot of people don't have, you know, their kids might be grown already, so they're not paying attention to the schools.
00:52:57
Speaker
I think a lot of those people are like an automatic no at this point because they're not paying attention to what's going on, and all they do is keep asking for more money and telling you how bad things are, but they're not really convincing anybody. Yeah.
00:53:14
Speaker
Like I've never heard anybody, and you know, anybody come out and tell you how, what their budget's like. They just always say not enough, but they're not really explaining anything. Yeah. The only thing I ever hear is most vast majority, 70 plus percent of their budgets. Usually it's usually personnel. It's usually teachers and stuff, which makes sense.
00:53:34
Speaker
But I, that's why I always push on okay, declining enrollment and ballooning budgets.
00:53:43
Speaker
if you're, if you continually have one or 2% decrease every year, after four or five, six, 10, 10 years, you've got too many teachers, don't you? But in some, in a lot of cases, talk about Wadsworth, people are complaining because it's it's increased and the increase. And I did see something. should have forgot to pull it.
00:54:01
Speaker
It was a graph on the increase in Ohio, in the administrative spending in school districts.
00:54:12
Speaker
It is far out. I mean, it's skyrocketing. Not talking about teachers, talking administrators, principals, the addition and the increase in pay in these people. And this, this graph was insane. It's as's skyrocketing as, as teacher salaries, they basically level and, and enrollment dips.
00:54:30
Speaker
The administrators cost for this, each school district is skyrocketing. Right. But here, of course, they're cutting 20 teachers. like yeah I think you do need to cut 20 teachers. I think so many people are feeling the pinch from groceries and gas, you know, and they don't need to be but yeah just just look more burdened on them, you know? Yeah, just look at your um your tax bill.
00:54:53
Speaker
You're paying $4,000, $5,000, $6,000 a year for property taxes. I think I'm paying enough. Figure out a better way to do it. I get it. a lot of those passed or a lot, most of them past ah failed.
00:55:06
Speaker
couple of them passed. So maybe they can dance again. But that was about it for the election, I think. Yep. Levy's passed. Levy's failed. Check this.
00:55:18
Speaker
Yep. I think the next one, we got to move on it because got some clips, man. Kind of been holding off on this topic as it boils, things start to percolate and simmer.
00:55:30
Speaker
And I think it's finally come some of somewhat to light.
Medicaid Fraud in Ohio
00:55:34
Speaker
Got a Daily Wire article. Actually, Ohio.News article is what started me on this, which is... Ohio.News says, reports finds 94 companies billed, billing millions to Medicaid from a single building.
00:55:51
Speaker
Governor says... No fraud alleged. There's no fraud alleged. And what they're referring to is this daily wire report. And what's this guy's name is ah Luke.
00:56:05
Speaker
Luke was there. There it is. Something like that. Yeah. Rosiac. That's Yeah. I'll say it in this clip. And let's just, let's just start rolling with it because most of the information is in here. That'd be good stuff. Oh, basically what they're finding is Medicaid fraud what what they're looking at is possible Medicaid fraud. And here's some of the ah background, the information. Maybe you start to look on the, just on the outside and looking at things that kind of the red flags that kind of thrown. I got quite a few clips of this. So let's get to it.
00:56:34
Speaker
got to have the scary music. Got to have it. Since Donald Trump's inauguration last year, Americans have been besieged with stories of rampant fraud and abuse in government programs.
00:56:46
Speaker
Huge segments of the population, mostly immigrant groups from low-trust societies, have enriched themselves at the expense of American taxpayers. They've stolen hundreds of billions of dollars from COVID relief funds and federal programs like Medicaid. If ripping off taxpayers were a contest, Somali refugees would be getting the gold medal. In Minnesota and Maine, Somalis have been accused of aggressively ripping off autism and early childhood education programs. Much of this has been presented as quid pro quo politics in which Democrat politicians buy votes by turning a blind eye to scams perpetrated by their supporters.
00:57:22
Speaker
But what if I told you it was happening in red states too? My name is Luke Rosiak. I've been investigating fraud and abuse in the federal government for 20 years professionally. And what I'm about to show you is the worst waste and abuse of tax dollars I've ever seen.
00:57:36
Speaker
It's not in New York or California. It's smack in the middle of the country, in Ohio, under a program championed by the state's Republican governor and his hand-picked appointees. We obtained millions of long secret government payment records for Medicaid, the shared state and federal health care program for the poor.
00:57:53
Speaker
What we found shocked us. An endless stream of cookie cutter home health companies collecting millions from taxpayers. For some of these companies, there were red flags hiding in plain sight.
00:58:04
Speaker
Ohio has asked for and received waivers from the federal government allowing it to expand Medicaid to do things it was never intended to do, including very expansive services rendered it in people's houses, services that aren't medical at all, like doing chores, cooking, cleaning, even just providing companionship and conversation. The idea was it was cheaper than putting people in a nursing home.
00:58:27
Speaker
But this homemaking category quickly outpaced every other Medicaid category we have data for. The actual medical stuff, the number of people who suddenly claimed to need these personal servants was just that large.
00:58:39
Speaker
It turns out that when there's a huge incentive to claim... that you're infirm without actually having to move into a nursing home, a lot of people start claiming they're infirm. Over the last several years, federal spending on home health doubled in Ohio from about $500 million dollars a year to $1 billion dollars a year.
00:58:57
Speaker
Columbus has just over 6,000 residents, 75 or older on Medicaid, the kind of folks who might need help doing chores or cooking a meal or getting ready in the morning.
00:59:08
Speaker
Just one landlord alone houses 300 home health care companies that build enough to provide each of those patients 1,000 home health care visits. Before you even step foot in one of these home care businesses, the signs of massive fraud are right in front of you in the numbers.
00:59:26
Speaker
In the numbers. What does what does the spokesperson for the governor's office say? ah This report has has shown us no fraud.
00:59:39
Speaker
Well, 6,000 people in the Columbus area, ah in Columbus it says, that are on Medicaid that could be benefit from this. And there's one company, ah one one company has three buildings or something like that with over three, almost 300 these companies.
01:00:00
Speaker
Okay. Wow, that seems outrageous. So he's saying we got so many people healthcare companies that just this one place alone that has almost 300 could give 1000 visits to all 6,000 people in the Columbus area.
01:00:20
Speaker
Okay. Let's move on. Let's see a little bit more here. Of the five buildings in Columbus with the most Medicaid companies, three are owned by the New Jersey-based Cordoba Real Estate Group, LLC, registered by Israel Izzy Steinberg and Isaac Massar, who lives in a $4.5 million dollars mansion in New Jersey and showed off his sports car and one of his two airplanes online. Hmm. Altogether, Cordoba Real Estate Group owns seven buildings in the area during the time of the Medicaid payments released by the federal government.
01:00:52
Speaker
These seven buildings are filled with nearly 300 Medicaid firms. Almost all the tenants in these buildings are Medicaid businesses who provide low-skilled, usually non-medical care for elderly or disabled people.
01:01:06
Speaker
The front doors are open, but inside, the seven massive complexes are as abandoned as a post-apocalyptic... I'll have something coming. Now we found Horizon Home Healthcare. This received $5 million. dollars Meg Abizzeriri is the owner, $5 million dollars over a couple years. But it's just a closet. There's nobody here.
01:01:24
Speaker
Smoke detectors chirp for new batteries. Office doors have signs suggesting the owner is out to lunch, even though the mail has been piling up. It's as if months ago, the supernatural phenomenon whisked all life away without warning. The United States government is under the impression that all these buildings hold thriving businesses. In all, Cordoba houses 288 businesses registered with Medicaid, which charge taxpayers more than a quarter billion dollars between 2018 and 2024. They made Medicaid claims using billing codes that are essentially unverifiable because the service happens in the privacy of a patient's home.
01:02:01
Speaker
The businesses have been established as if by machine, with some sharing identical signs. As one sign explained, the home Medicaid business... These, hold on, these are not signs. and I think he does bring this up maybe, but later, but they're not signs. Some of them have have actually professional signs, but all the doors have something in common. They've all got a four by eight, eight a half by 11 sheet of paper printed from a computer that has their name on it. And then one next to it basically that says, ah sorry, we'll be back soon.
01:02:27
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Out the break. Yeah, it's crazy. But there are a couple that have ah ah some like... professionally made. yeah You would think they just spend 50 bucks and get a sign. But no, they're not even, I mean, these, the signs he's about to talk about are just like advertising signs. They're not even signs of the company. they're like, Hey, this is what we do. and, and, oh yeah, we, we also, we also, uh, uh, uh, just talking to somebody.
01:02:51
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So my, my father lives in Arizona. His wife, my stepmother has just lost her brother few months, six months ago. So but he was going through hospice. He had he had terminal cancer and stuff like that.
01:03:05
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He was, he was up there in age and, and she was taking care of him. they lived in the same kind of retirement community. And he literally told her, I remember her telling me this last time I visited him. was like, he's trying to get me, he's trying to get me paid for Medicaid, Medicare. And this is the program he's talking, he was talking about because she is taking care of him coming over, cleaning up the house. Make, you know, if he falls, she comes over that kind of stuff.
01:03:29
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She could have charged Medicaid for that. And she's like, he's doing that. She's like, you're my brother. You're my brother. I i want and don't need to get paid to take care of my brother.
01:03:40
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well Yeah, I think there's a right and wrong. there i you you know that That was good of her, but there's people that maybe need to take time off from work and things like that. So i you know I'm okay with the program. It's just the fraud you know the fraud is the crazy part.
01:03:58
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he He finds somebody, I think in this next part of the clip, he finds somebody, i think, behind the door here. is Don't often provide health care at all. They provide, quote, companionship and conversation. Right next to that sign held a piece of paper claiming, of course, we're on break right now. In the Cordoba office building at 1425 East Dublin Granville Road, we finally located a business suite with somebody in it.
01:04:22
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GC Home Healthcare LLC. asked how he recruits employees. He said employees and patients come as a package. 70% of the employees are just being paid to spend time with their own family members. The patients, like they have someone in their family that has the qualifications to be an aide, CBR and everything. So they just come together, they say, yeah, well, I got approval from my doctor. After getting a note from the doctor vouching for the elder's need for personal services, the family member of an elderly person isn't set up to bill Medicaid, so a company stands in the middle. I mean, we're just taking a small cut because they pay us and then we pay them and they're ours. He said the number of hours depends on a doctor's recommendation, but it's often an hour a day. Do you expect them to take time off of work just to take care of girls? mean, there has be some sort of benefit. asked him why people wouldn't simply help their aging parents with basic tasks out of human decency. Well, the government can pay you to do it. I mean, people see that's through projects of, you know, the job. In another Cordoba building at 2700 East Dublin, there are 80 companies which collectively billed $73 million to Medicaid and received $23 million from the state of Ohio. 11 companies billed more than $1 million a piece.
01:05:42
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Two claim Suite A alone, Continental Home Healthcare Incorporated, led by Dequah Mohamed, which billed $15 million, and Dynamic Home Healthcare, care owned by Saeed Ahmed, who billed $10 million. dollars Bernard Kunota's Buckeye Health Agency charged 15 million. All these names, like, hmm, all these, what, what?
01:06:05
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Are they all related? Are they they all Somalians? It seems that way. Mm-hmm. Now, to your point, yes. if If you need to quit or take a sabbatical to take care of your dying family member, I get it.
01:06:18
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But if you're going over there once a day at 7 o'clock after work to talk to them, no. Yeah, yeah. But people take advantage of it. Yeah. i I almost don't mind that. It's it's just the this type of...
01:06:33
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yeah ah Just... Where's the oversight? yeah Yeah, there's like... It's just, gosh, I can't think of the word, but it's just so, um so fraudulent. And it's how how is, ne how is the government not seeing the fraud?
01:06:52
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Good question. Or are they getting paid? are they Good question. We may answer a couple of those in the next one because they this one I pulled out because he digs into one of the companies, Omega Health Care or something like that.
01:07:06
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And then the next one, there's we have a couple more, but there's even the who of it. But let's listen to a little bit from about Omega. He just kind of digs into one of these little companies and kind of surprising. Well, maybe not surprising.
01:07:20
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Down the hall is Omega Home Healthcare care Services, which charge taxpayers $11 million. dollars A flyer says it provides services like hair care and home making like cleaning and bed making.
01:07:31
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Omega was incorporated by Mohammed A. Jama in 2011. Jama founded a newspaper called the Somali Post and runs a trucking company. He apparently found time to do all that and raise nine children while earning millions of dollars in Medicaid payments on the side. The Medicaid money came so easily that when he ran for state Senate as the Democratic nominee in 2024, his multimillion dollar home health care business didn't even get a mention in his biography.
01:08:01
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Jama came to the United States as a refugee seeking a better life. Oh, refugee. Now, just 25 years later, he is part of the true American dream where free opportunity and hard work can give any American a chance to achieve. Dama lost to a Republican.
01:08:16
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He previously ran in the Democrat primaries for the Ohio House of Representatives in 2020 and 2022. His campaigns were funded by the taxpayer via 44 donations from home health care companies or their owners and 24 from learning centers were their owners.
01:08:32
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In August, Omega underwent a routine audit by the Franklin County's independent auditor, which found it impossible that they were providing at least some of the services they claimed. On the same day that Omega said it went to people's houses to take care of them, hospitals also billed Medicaid because those people were receiving inpatient care there. The auditor noted, quote, Omega declined to submit an official response. The auditor simply recommended that Omega refund $1,000 to cover the cases where Medicaid's own data conclusively prove the impossibility of home visits. As for the millions of dollars in other claims, the program would simply keep taking Omega's word for it.
01:09:11
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Perfect.
01:09:15
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Perfect. Well, of course there's no fraud. I mean, how how could there fraud if you don't look for it? That's so bold. Yeah. Yeah, but because if you're championing these these programs, if you're DeWine and his cap his cabinet or whatever, they ask for these waivers from the federal government to get these extra extra treatments. in the middle of the and And during this time, the spending on Medicaid is doubled.
01:09:44
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And it's because of this program. It's because of this kind of thing. So let's follow the money. The big question is, what did we actually get for all these tax dollars? Our investigation suggests not very much in the way of health services. Instead, the likely outcome is that billions of dollars went to enriching mafia boss-like figures and were shipped abroad to African nations for who knows what.
01:10:10
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Foreign remittances, the money immigrants receive in America and send abroad, often back to their home countries in Africa, Asia, and South America, were tracked at $93 billion in the most recent data for 2021.
01:10:22
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When you include both official channels like banks and unofficial channels like the Hawala Network's popular in Muslim communities, U.S. money flowing out is at least $200 billion dollars a year.
01:10:33
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Some of it is earned on job sites. Much of it is received through government welfare programs, both as benefits directly and indirectly through the businesses we've investigated. In previous years, we talked about welfare queens who were the recipients of these government programs. But this is a big change. Now the real welfare queens are actually the providers, and they're cashing in at a much larger scale.
01:10:55
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The Office of First Choice Home Healthcare LLC still has an ah envelope from the Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigations and postmarked five months ago. November 8th, 2025 in front of its door.
01:11:07
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It's just one piece of evidence that nobody actually comes to any of these offices. Vetting such a business would be almost impossible. In Medicaid records, the CEO of that company is a person named Ahmed Ahmed.
01:11:19
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No middle name. It's clear that nobody has been entering this business, JLL Home Healthcare LLC, whose motto for some reason is steaming to assist. Its door doesn't even have a doorknob.
01:11:31
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It was incorporated by Kofi Adoma, who also owns a trucking business called JLL Transportation and Logistics. So they're running multiple businesses at once. With so many companies, all virtually indistinguishable from one another, lacking websites and advertising, and all charging the same Medicaid rates, the question arises, how do they recruit patients? Building paths...
01:11:57
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How do they recruit patients? Well, a lot of times they buy lists from other people, from other companies. All of a sudden they'll have 20, 23 or 20 patients or, you know, a hundred, hundred charges to Medicaid a month. And then the following month they thousand.
01:12:13
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Well, that's a good month of recruiting. The thing is, if you go, if you find the people who are on Medicaid and you, and you say, Hey, you know, we can, your daughter can earn some extra cash. If you just sign up this program with our company, we'll handle all this stuff and you're always, she's just going get a check just for doing the same thing she's been doing.
01:12:30
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Well, yeah. So the, the patient is, it's like, it's all like one package. you know Like you have the patient and the worker all come together into one package.
01:12:43
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Mm-hmm.
01:12:45
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Well, who is doing this? This is the key here. I think this is the biggest one here. who Who's doing this? He kind of gets into a little bit of, you know, who the state of Ohio is approving to be these healthcare care companies.
01:12:59
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Pick a few doors at random and you'll find the industry is a get-rich-quick scheme for people who oftentimes are the last ones you'd want put in charge of health. Let's pick the door that says, True Home Healthcare LLC, out for a quick break.
01:13:13
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The company's owner is listed in Medicaid records as Mamusu Kanu. According to public records, she has a slew of criminal infractions, including theft, assault and malicious wounding, as well as civil judgments and tax liens. True Home Health Care received $100,000 in December 2023 alone, despite having only 15 patients, according to newly released federal data.
01:13:36
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Kami was charged with felony aggravated assault in Virginia and convicted of theft in Columbus in 2004, 2005 2006. In a phone interview, Mamusu Sue Kanu denied that she had a criminal record. Even if I do, it doesn't have anything to do with no better.
01:13:55
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They satisfy you before you do anything. She's suggesting that the government knew and didn't have a problem with her criminal background. And from what we've seen in our investigation, she's probably right.
01:14:07
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Incorporation documents don't list Canu's name, only a man named Alieu Conte. Conte has faced 30 charges in Franklin County Court alone, oh including for endangering children.
01:14:18
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They face foreclosure in Columbus immediately before opening their Medicaid business. What a coincidence. couple have been partners in crime for decades. On December 12, 2004, both Canu and Conte were charged with theft in Columbus. Conte told The Daily Wire. Yes, I do have a lot of records. But the Ohio Department of Medicaid is fine with that, he said. put in my application, the government's Medicaid, Medicare, they check, they see all my records.
01:14:47
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my my east and they approved the business to operate Now, Conte had a roster of fake names that he would give to the police, such as Osman Kanu and Gabise Gabla, leading to multiple fraud convictions. The thing is, the government is not just blind to wrongdoing that should be disqualifying in this field.
01:15:05
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It's going out of its way to provide special help and actually enable these immigrant business owners. In 2012, the Ohio Nursing Board permitted Conte to become a nurse under a probationary agreement that acknowledged his repeated fraud and violent tendencies.
01:15:19
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The probationary licensure was contingent on his meeting certain terms, including being honest, disclosing his employers to the nursing board, and refraining crimes. He did none of those. oh He was convicted of DUIs in September 2014 and November 2014. When he submitted an application to review his nursing license in 2016, he falsely said he hadn't been convicted of any crimes and that he was unemployed, even though he was in fact working as a nurse. His license was suspended in July 2017. Now, in September 2017, Conte told the nursing board he intended to seek alcohol dependency treatment and regretted his actions.
01:15:56
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Just eight days later, he was arrested for DUI yet again.
01:16:01
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Okay, let's so let's just go right into the wrap-up.
01:16:06
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Empty offices, misspelled and likely missing services, criminal records for repeated financial and fraud crimes. It's really like some sort of post-apocalyptic scenario where every business is gone. The stories go on and on and on and on. Medicaid Home Healthcare care seems to be a magic money-making machine in Columbus, Ohio. One thing is crystal clear.
01:16:30
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Your hard-earned tax dollars are being shoveled out the door by the wheelbarrow. And the more you find out about how and to whom, the madder you'll get. There are more questions than answers. Yeah, got that route forwarding all of our investigative files to the Trump Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance, who's from Ohio, and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson.
01:16:50
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You can read our entire investigative series at dailywire.com. Or Crooked Rivercast, where the article be in the show notes. Yeah. You think there's some attention from JD? He's already commented on it. Yeah. They're already commented on it.
01:17:07
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Good. Yeah. So when the spokesperson for DeWine says, well, I mean, well, first I think when they brought this up a few months back, they said, well, you know, fraud's kind of part of the system. It's kind of, you just got to deal with it.
01:17:22
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It's kind of cost of doing business. I think was the quote. There's always going to be some, but this is ridiculous. Yeah. gee The dude's been arrested many times for fraud, him and his woman, for fraud, for theft, for lying.
01:17:37
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But you're going to trust him with millions of dollars with and a program that you can barely even do any oversight on this. How do you know? it's it's ah It's this company with you know an elderly person and they're their grandkid or their child.
01:17:54
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How do you verify that?
01:17:58
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it This has to stop. I'm sorry. you This has to be changed. there's People need to go to prison. For those who want more money for schools,
01:18:12
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guess what the other third of our budget is? a medica Medicaid. The two-thirds of our budget is full of scams, full of corruption and rot.
01:18:26
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Two thirds of our budget. i bet I bet you could cut all those budgets in half with with some um oversight. That's my feeling. Like i said, I think half the federal government budget is is fraud.
01:18:38
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Maybe it's a little less in Ohio. but this This is crazy. This is crazy. here's it you know it' it's ah the What was the post that he had? He was posting a bunch of stuff where he's got a little gif of all the names of these landlords.
01:18:55
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they're They're all like, they're all immigrants. e Come to America. You can rip us off. It is the American way. i mean, yeah, he's working hard.
01:19:06
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Working hard is screwing all of us. Wonderful. So go go watch this. There's more to it. He's got a bunch. He's got three parts to it. He said he's he's been on a couple of interviews. Oh, that's why I wanted to think.
01:19:18
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he keeps He mentions federal data. That he got. That's why he started looking into this. And he's a professional. I guess he's been doing this. Sounds like he's been doing this many times for years. The federal data he's talking about, I saw in another interview, he was on Scott Jennings podcast. i think he was on Glenn Beck too. He's been on a few.
01:19:35
Speaker
The federal data he received was from Doge dump. Doge released a bunch of people who were on Medicaid and med and Medicare. And now you're able to look at it. And he he took the whole...
01:19:48
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all the information sounds like went through it and the information he got pointed him to Ohio.
01:19:58
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So if everybody, I get it. I'm talking to my family members last weekend. Oh, we got to have talking about home health aides or I, you know, I got uncles and stuff in hospice and talking about the quality of care. you know, we got some couple people that really care and some people that just don't give a crap.
01:20:14
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And in these, these places, they're not getting paid all that well. Well, hey, here you go. Cut 10% of the fraud and you could double their pay.
01:20:28
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That'd be my, well, maybe little bit.
01:20:33
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Overdone it, but maybe. but There's a ton of money there. ah A third of our budget, almost, I think it's more than a third of our budget. I think it's 40 some million or 40 some billion
01:20:45
Speaker
over two years. And on to the next story. Anything else, Tom? No.
01:20:52
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Let us know what you think. Tell us, watch this um this this documentary, this this reveal, this investigative reporting. He's going to have a few more drops, I think, on it.
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01:21:43
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We got CDC as a warning. Is it time to freak out, Tom? I think it's time to freak out. Totally time to freak out. CDC has a warning of salmonella outbreak.
01:22:00
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You know, in a bunch of states, I guess. Like 34 people around the whole country got salmonella. I mean, let's talk about salmonella outbreak. What about the Somalian outbreak? Whoa, nice.
01:22:11
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ah Salmonella infections linked to backyard poultry. Yeah. Can't wait to get to that joke. you know that myself but You know, this is a funny article, but ah all they really needed to say was, if you have backyard chickens, probably wash your hands after you.
01:22:34
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Yeah. You know, feed them, pick them up. Whenever you play with your chicken, yeah always wash your hands afterwards. I mean, usually the chicken coop is just full of chicken poop. Yeah, and it's all over. I mean, they got all kinds of stuff. They're outside all the time. It's birds. You always kind of got to worry about birds. They have, mean, they they have their own special flu, Tom.
01:22:56
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Well, you know what? They they ish ah in the same place they eat. So there's going to be issues. So just keep your... Freaking area clean and wash your hands after your time. Moral the story here is after you choke your chicken, wash your hands.
01:23:12
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Central Ohio. Next one. Central Ohio spends $2 million on flock license cameras, license plate cameras. That's the story. And then the following story is be careful what you wish for because Dayton is suspected of sharing their flock data with ICE. oh no But it's actually a little bit more than that it is the fact that these cities can share their this camera data with anybody they want to kind of determine. So a lot of the cities share this data amongst each other.
01:23:48
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They can pick and choose. And there's a problem with these cameras in general, but the problem becomes even more when when you look at the people who are running these and basically
01:24:03
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I think also all photos sharing was allegedly disabled in November in Dayton. However, department officials said they didn't know about the automatic re-enabling according to news sources.
01:24:15
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So the boomers didn't know what the system, how it worked the system and that's why this happened. so Flock cameras, you know, I'm not a big fan of them. Although I thought about them checking license plates for illegals. It kind of softened me a little bit, on but no. If that's all I was doing, but I still wouldn't want that.
01:24:33
Speaker
No. and And when you put in the fact that they don't know how, they don't even know how the system works, it seems like. Are they have missing parts of it, you know? Boomer be Boomer. Yeah. Boomer be Burmers. That's that one. ah Let's see. Next we have, I do have a clip from this one. We can hit it real quick, is Ohio Supreme Court's sides with the Ohio EPA or sides with AEP power company.
01:24:56
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And this was based on, well, let's see if we can get through it. Yeah, we got it. AEP, no refund. The Ohio Supreme Court has sided with the utility provider AEP saying they do not need to refund millions of dollars. In 2018 and 2019, customers paid for two coal plants, part of the House Bill 6 bribery scheme.
01:25:19
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Your Columbus Bureau reporter Morgan Trow explains why you won't get your money back and gets reaction from both sides of the issue. They're so high. Energy bills have continued to climb across Ohio. We're talking about the difference between a couple hundred bucks and $500. And American Electric Power customers like Catherine Turser have been hoping for some relief. $50 would definitely help most of us. And $50 is what she would have received if the Ohio Supreme Court had sided with a utility watchdog group. But the justices ruled that AEP doesn't have to refund nearly $75 million dollars to utility customers after they were accused of overcharging them to pay for two unprofitable coal plants, one not even in Ohio. infuriating The Public Utilities Commission had approved AEP to collect subsidies from consumers to pay for the plants in 2018 and 2019, which then grew into further costs tied to the largest bribery scheme in state history, House Bill 6, when First Energy bribed public officials to give them a billion-dollar bailout. And AEP benefited from this because it codified the coal plant subsidy into state law. It has since been repealed.
01:26:30
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But in a unanimous decision by the court, the justices found that no laws were broken when AEP started charging, since it could have been costly to customers to shut down the plants. And some lawmakers are still supportive of them. Ohioans who work at this plant, generations, their grandfathers worked there. Former Speaker Jason Stevens said that it could cause people to lose jobs if the plants were to shut down. And he argued that the subsidies weren't part of the corrupt aspects of HB6. Attorney Scott Poland said that the Supreme Court made the right decision since those plants help energy diversification. We need a well-balanced energy policy.
01:27:07
Speaker
We need natural gas. We need coal. We need nuclear. But Terser disagreed, saying that the plants were inefficient and corrupt. We deserve to pay bills we owe, not ones we don't. Still, she's glad that she doesn't have to pay for them moving forward. At the Ohio State House, I'm your Columbus Bureau reporter, Morgan Trout.
01:27:28
Speaker
don't know, I guess, the gist. don't know. They didn't... i don't I don't think this part of the bill was what the bribery was even about, so I'm not sure.
01:27:42
Speaker
They got to make make their power plants better. How about you do that? Instead of, you can't shut them down because we need the power, but they caught they're very expensive and don't know. The Supreme Court said, nope, no no reason to refund. They didn't break any laws.
01:27:57
Speaker
They were just accused. Nothing was proven, right? Nothing has been proven. And AEP is just a subsidiary of First Energy. Right. the bribery was really about the nuke plants.
01:28:12
Speaker
And that was the big part of the bill that that they needed to pass to save their stock prices. Mm-hmm. there's still a problem with these plants i mean you gotta do something about them they're they're so old they're so expensive to run that everybody's power that uses is going to be increased or they spread the wealth out they spread the pain out between the whole everybody got like a buck or something on their on their bill i think or something that something like that okay moving on to during this one
01:28:44
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Well, just, it's it's back, Tom. do you remember Do you remember this? Do you remember? remember I think you'll, everybody remember this. Today in the greater Cincinnati area. They're solid plastic, so don't settle for imitation.
01:29:03
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But the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.
01:29:16
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It's back, Totally back, man. Everybody over 50 will remember this. What are we talking about? Well, of course.
01:29:27
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Cincinnati WKRB.
01:29:34
Speaker
I'm almost too young for this show. You didn't watch it, right? I watched reruns, yeah. Yeah, yeah, okay, I did. But most my, I would think anybody under 50 or 45 would not know this one.
01:29:46
Speaker
Lonnie Anderson? Oh, yeah. At her peak. That was the whole reason to watch WKRB. They, going through this real quick, they, watched a couple YouTube videos on it and this show was dead and buried. One of the reasons it was, it was at eight o'clock time slot, it should have been at nine because it was, they talked about some more adult stuff.
01:30:09
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But what what brought them back was they slipped them into the nine o'clock slot three weeks before Thanksgiving and they had ah the turkey episode. Oh, okay. That was the episode they picked and they dropped, they were dropping live turkeys from the WKRP helicopter.
01:30:27
Speaker
And I guess this actually happened in ah ah another, another market was in Ohio, but they, they only dropped them like 20 feet something like that out of an airplane or something. and they,
01:30:39
Speaker
People were complaining, but they said, what do you mean? Most of our turkeys are just fine. Most of our turkeys end up just fine. So what's news here, Rob? The news WKRP is w kp iss back, man.
01:30:50
Speaker
Well, ah really Oasis has bought the call letters, basically. Well, WKRP, there's a real station that's taking on the call letters. Yes. Yeah. and Not the show. The show's not back. No, the show's not back. But the ah the cool part is, guess some non-profit...
01:31:09
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owned it. Some charity owned it and they got it by doing a, giving a donation to,
01:31:15
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ah to the nonprofit. They gave a donation. That's how they got the call letters. Yep. That's how I got the call letters. Oh, cool. And, uh, moving on to Johnny fever. Yes. Oh yeah.
01:31:30
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yep next move And the station's actually going to be playing the same type of music that the at they played on the show. Kind of like 70s, 80s rock, or 70s rock, I guess. Which would be cool. I'll have to have a streaming version. I just want to hear the call letters.
01:31:43
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be kind of funny. they're using one of the guys that was on the show as a as like a ah bumper guy. cool. Yeah. Yeah. yeah
01:31:55
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Check it out. See if you can, and we'll see what happens. i don't know when they're going to start, but check the article out and you find out. It's crookedrivercast.com the blog. Next on our list after the unfortunate incident at Valley Forge High School in Parma, it looks like Parma City Schools has announced a couple of some safety improvements. Go check out the article.
01:32:17
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You know, I don't know. i I read this and said, yeah I mean, these are all good. not Not that they're bad. They're not so intrusive. They're not but doing metal detectors, which don't know. Parents need to kind of think before they want to push for metal detectors because that's a whole other kind of thing for your kids to go through. It might not be a care for what you wish for, I guess, but check out the article they're doing a couple. They're actually, what they're basically doing is just putting in more cops. They're going to have an an extra safety officer ah at the school. Plus going have the city police force to more walkthroughs actually, no, occasionally periodically throughout the day and throughout the weeks.
01:32:55
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Just kind of walk through, see how things going with, uh, in correlation with the local, Check out the article. Next is, um this was a kind of a weird one.
01:33:07
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Northeast Ohio schools threatened. e i think basically, yeah, Alliance City Schools, Amherst City Schools, Cleveland Metropolitan, Lorraine, and Shaker Heights City Schools were all threatened.
01:33:22
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Basically swatted. threaten with bombings Similar to what happened a few weeks ago, right yep All looking a couple days of each other. On top of that, which I didn't pull, was I'd also read another article, which was, um i think last week, all four Three or all four, three or four ah zoos in Ohio or had bomb threats and had to be shut down. Really? Within a week of each other.
01:33:44
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Yep. Toledo, Cleveland, Akron, and Columbus, I believe. Or was it? Might have been Columbus and Cincinnati, those four. But yeah, and related? ah Sounds maybe, I mean, hmm. Somebody's out there playing games. Yep, yep. Trying to get, i don't know, headlines or get somebody shot. don't know what the heck.
01:34:01
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But yeah. Interesting. Very interesting. And we're wrapping things up with our, of course, favorite segment of the of the show. We bring good things to life.
01:34:15
Speaker
First on the good things. Do you see this happening yourself, Tom? okay Oh, hell, man. ah What's the story here? He he goes to convenience store, basically, and he buys a scratch-off ticket.
01:34:32
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Doesn't have a quarter or anything on the scratch it off. He borrows some guy who was there as a lucky scratch off and the guy wins 50 grand.
01:34:40
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And then he calls his wife and she doesn't believe him. He had to send a picture of the ticket for her to believe that he actually won. Yeah. Crazy. And the good Samaritan gave, gave the guy who he borrowed his scratch off. They gave him a hundred bucks. He's like, I gave him a hundred bucks. That's all the only cash I had on me.
01:34:56
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ah I ran out to my, to my wife. I called my wife and she thought I was making it all up. She finally believed me when I sent her a photo of it.
01:35:08
Speaker
That was pretty funny. Good, good for him. He, he won 50 grand and he might get 28 grand out of that. I think he'd get 36,000. That's nice. That's about what you end up getting. Oh, so 64% tax. Something like that. No, that's not, that's be a hundred.
01:35:23
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40 some. Yeah. 38, 42%. yeah thirty eight forty two percent thirty it was like I forget. I think I think you're, yeah. For like max. after
01:35:33
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i' see yeah next one good things summit This article from Metro Parks or yeah, from the Metro Parks site, Summit Metro Parks, give you almost, explore almost 70 miles of trails by bike in Summit Metro Parks.
01:35:49
Speaker
It's not just about Summit, yeah any all the Metro Parks. Again, we talk about these a lot. I added a link to yes all that the Cleveland Metro Parks there for the mountain bike trails. It is a hidden gem that if you go to other states and cities, and they don't have this kind of stuff.
01:36:04
Speaker
They don't have the foresight to do this, but there is a lot of trails. and And according to my doctor, I need to get back on those trails. so Same here. Got to get my bike up and running so I can get some exercise.
01:36:19
Speaker
i was thinking about getting one of those electric mountain bikes. It kind of defeats the purpose, but... I mean, you get, you get vitamin, you get some vitamins from the, from the air and the sun.
01:36:30
Speaker
So there's that. You know, I looked at some of those kids. I'm like, you, oh, kids, these. wait, that looks just like a moped. Oh, okay. Nevermind. What I was, I was wanting a moped when was a kid.
01:36:41
Speaker
I wanted one too, but they're, they look like bikes more now. Oh yeah. they Yeah. They look lot more like bikes, but
01:36:49
Speaker
that'd be actually, Hmm. got thoughts now. Get an electric bike. Shoot. No, no. I need ah i need the exercise. So yeah, check out the Summit Metro Parks and you put the Cleveland Metro Parks with all the maps and stuff in it if you're interested in bikes. Even just go there take a walk on the trails.
01:37:05
Speaker
The mountain bike trails are pretty good hiking trails too. Yeah, and they take really good care of them. They update them all the time. They do. I haven't been on it in a couple of years, but when I was going on it, they they took care of them. so which is And most of those are volunteers, so.
01:37:20
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Yep. That do that. Man wins. got some. Oh, and lastly, but not least, definitely is Cedar Point is now open today as of this recording of the show. Their first day open is today.
01:37:33
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That definitely means, i mean, summertime is here. o And everybody is crying. Oh my gosh, Cedar Point's $100. Cedar Point's $100 now to get haven't heard that.
01:37:45
Speaker
i haven't heard that Yeah. So I heard a couple people say, I'm like, really? Like, yeah, why when the website, yeah, it is a hundred dollars if you go to the gate, but if you buy it online, it's 52. Oh, okay.
01:37:55
Speaker
So who the hell, you know, I take, they want you to buy it ahead of time. So they know, you know, to expect, and they're really incentivizing you. So it's not a hundred bucks. If you're, if you can't sit out in your car and buy a ticket on your phone, then maybe you should pay a hundred dollars.
01:38:09
Speaker
Yeah. But yeah, check out Cedar Point this year. Nothing nothing new. they you know They had the Sirens curse last year, then they revamped Top Thrill and check it out.
01:38:20
Speaker
A lot of 250th anniversary stuff going on this year there, and it's going to be a good year. One the largest fireworks displays for 4th July. It's another gem of Ohio, Cedar Point.
01:38:34
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Unique to us. Not many places have an amusement park like that. And on that note, that's it.
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