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Crooked River Cast Show 52
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- Short Iran update.
- Some people did something in NY.
- Trump Says no bills till SAVE Act is passed.
- Mike Dewine’s latest State of the State.
Critter Corner:
- Ohio bail reform bill.
- SB 63 bans ranked choice voting.
- SB 323 Dust to dust or natural organic reduction?
- HB 182 would ban Fluoride a in Ohio water supply.
- Could H2Ohio get on the ballot?
- Judge dismisses some charges in FE bribery case.
- Ohio abortions increased in 2025.
- Planned Parenthood adds Telehealth!
- Cleveland nonprofit to fight Ohio’s high infant mortality rates.
- Akron trims the budget.
Good Stuff:
- Vietnam traveling memorial coming to Ohio.
- Cleveland beers on 2026 top ten list.
- Cleveland St. Patricks Day Parade route set
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Transcript
Introduction & Ohio Power Outage
00:00:12
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Cricket Rivercast. I'm Robert and the other voice you will hear is Tom and we are two guys just trying to keep track what's going on in the great state of Ohio. This is show 52, holy cow, 52 for the week of March 16th and cut way too much. I'll just stop battling.
00:00:32
Speaker
Let's go.
00:00:42
Speaker
In the morning. In the morning, Rob.
00:00:47
Speaker
How's the morning for you?
00:00:50
Speaker
It's good. It's good morning. I'm pretty pissed, actually. Why are you pissed? Well, I mean, i I'm pretty disappointed, I guess. Maybe I'm not pissed. I'm just disappointed. I was really hoping to to podcast on Generator Power.
00:01:04
Speaker
Well, I don't know if we won't really wanted that. I mean, imagine the prep the prepper credit i could have had. I mean, podcasting on generator power. Yeah, that was quite a shock. A little windy yesterday and we lost ah we lost our power. Probably about six hours. So just about a couple hours after had everything all set up with the generator and extension cords and everything, the power came back on.
00:01:29
Speaker
You know, I put my hopes in the worst run company in Ohio and I got what I, you know, kind of, it was up it's my fault really. It's my fault.
00:01:39
Speaker
So yeah, a lot of people out yesterday, over 20, 50,000 at one point. Yeah. Is that a lot? I don't know. I've seen i've seen more. i Of course. yeah it's Yeah. No, I know it's a lot of people, but i so when I was coming home from work, i the neighborhood, in my shop is in didn't have power.
00:02:00
Speaker
I think there was a lot of people along the lake that didn't have any power. it it was pretty widespread. We were keeping track of the map on the first energy site. And it was ah but a lot of little outages here and there. So that's, I guess that makes it harder for them.
00:02:14
Speaker
don't know. yeah um But wow, what a week. You know, speaking a wind, driving driving to driving to Columbus Friday with 70 mile an hour winds, quite interesting.
00:02:29
Speaker
I'm whining because I went down to... What is that? a Midvale? Oh, yeah. I went to the gun range, you know. Yeah. On ah Monday. And I'm kind of, I was crabby because I wasn't getting the gas mileage I should be getting. Holy cow. I felt the wind bumping me around on even on that day. I think it knocked me down about five miles per gallon.
00:02:51
Speaker
I bet. I was also doing, once you start getting over 75, it kind of kills your gas mileage anyway. but i I see that after like about 70. Oh, yeah, it starts to So doing 77 and well, well ah at one point, I think I was either, ah it might have been even going downhill. it was definitely level ground on the freeway. And the wind was kicking so hard for so long, it actually slowed the truck down enough to kick it out of overdrive.
00:03:18
Speaker
Get out, really? Yes. take that over that's when you thats That's when you turn it around and go, I'm going to make 40 miles to the gallon. I know. I'm going to put a sail on this thing and see how many miles a gallon I can get. it was a And then on the way back, I went down there for a quick emergency run for a customer and did a quick turnaround came back. And within, i don't know, 15 minutes going north, was a tipped over semi on 71 southbound. I was going northbound and it it blocked all three lanes.
00:03:46
Speaker
All three lanes. go that and there There's a lot of people that weren't going to be there. they weren't going to be going anywhere for a long time because you can't cross. There's a fence there at some point and it was muddy there anyway. And I'm just looking i going, damn, I think I just I left just early enough to not get caught in that crap. No, it sucked.
00:04:03
Speaker
You're pretty much just waiting for him to move the truck out the way. That could be couple hours. Horrible. yeah was a lot of trucks tipping over. They actually pulled our ours off the road because it was getting so bad. Especially head out west. start saying They had the turnpike shut down for a minute because it was so windy, cause especially out off by Sandusky. It gets flat out there and the wind really lifts up.
00:04:23
Speaker
But yeah, what a week, busy week. Not only that, I mean, added to the, would have been cool to, you know, to have the cred of podcasting on Generator Power. It would have been, it's show 52.
Podcast Anniversary & Military Updates
00:04:34
Speaker
It's one year. It's one year. One year.
00:04:38
Speaker
There, you know, we have, I mean, it is the show of birthday, right? I mean, today's one year's birthday of the show. I mean, the show was birthed a year ago today. So we we have to at least sing happy birthday. mean, we're not going to sing it because that would be horrible. But I figured...
00:04:53
Speaker
What about Steel Panther? Yeah, let's
00:04:59
Speaker
do it. It's God! Happy birthday! Happy birthday!
00:05:10
Speaker
Go out screw some girls and eat your kids! Eat your kids! It's your birthday! It's your birthday!
00:05:22
Speaker
happy Happy birthday, bro. So the show has permission to go out and meet some young ladies and eat some cake.
00:05:33
Speaker
So yeah, one one year ago today, we we started the show and it's still going. And and we thank you everybody for listening and giving us a year of your time or whatever, however long you've been listening, I guess.
00:05:47
Speaker
um Let's see here. I guess we'll get right into it. um Unfortunately, not too much celebrating because the first story is a little little bit of a downer. So the Iranian update kind of got kind of updated this morning because what we found out was the one of the updates was we did have some deaths, some U.S. soldiers, U.S. military soldiers.
00:06:11
Speaker
ah That's one of them. They have four of them or six, I think at this point they're at now. Um, six airmen in refueling tanker crashed over Iraq.
00:06:24
Speaker
And i think it was like a midair collision or something. That's quite kind of the initial story I read. Really? Because there were two planes involved I heard. Right. Initially, but I haven't really heard any updates since then.
00:06:35
Speaker
And this story doesn't really say. Basically, three out of the six who died were from Ohio. The the plane was from the Ohio National national Air National Guard, Air Refueling Wing.
00:06:51
Speaker
air refueling wing at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus being deployed out at there, crashed following an unspecified incident involving KC-135 refilling aircraft and another plane in a friendly airspace.
00:07:10
Speaker
The other plane landed safely, apparently. They were missing for a while, and I think they're pretty much confirmed all of them. ah are are dead, unfortunately. And thoughts and prayers are families.
00:07:22
Speaker
It's freaking horrible. But when you put this many assets in the air and in play, this is kind of... Unfortunately, the accidents that happen. And so that's that's the one update.
00:07:33
Speaker
A couple other ones, I guess we get into... i don't know if you've heard much, been paying much attention to this. Tom? Yeah. Yeah. What?
00:07:45
Speaker
Iran. The whole Iran. That thing we're doing over there in Iran. Not really.
00:07:52
Speaker
Tankers being attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. So that's going to be an issue. This is as of last night. I did a couple of ah military military channels that I've been starting to follow a little bit to get some quick updates. One of them is called... What it called? Yeah.
00:08:10
Speaker
The enforcer is the two or three guys that do a live live stream every day except for one day a week, I think. ah Tankers kind of not taking the warning from, I guess Iran's a warning everybody it's closed. Don't come through or bomb you. And a couple tankers went through and a couple of them got hit by, we everybody's guessing suicide boats, I think.
00:08:31
Speaker
um two or three tankers. One of them, the video from one of them, it's, I mean, was the whole thing's ablaze and spilling oil everywhere and it's ablaze and all that stuff. So that's going to be fun. um Next, I think I heard there's a movement of an amphibious, an ARG, an amphibious ready group from, from the Asian,
00:08:51
Speaker
base somewhere in Asia kind of Pacific area over to the Middle East. Uh, some are speculating possible Marine forces, to secure the straight, but may, may land to secure that area. And I have ground troops.
00:09:07
Speaker
Um, and,
00:09:11
Speaker
U.S. has started hitting, oh, this is kind of a big, they started hitting a, a it's a ah an island outside of, I think it's off the shores of Iran called Kark, Kark Island, which is, um I guess, one of their big, big areas where they export about 90% of their oil.
00:09:31
Speaker
and they started hitting that island. Not the oil part, just the defenses on the island, the air base and stuff on the island. um Many are saying they might end up seeing them take out some of the oil or oil ports and stuff there, so really take away any any ability of Iran to export oil, which um goes back to China.
00:09:51
Speaker
China. China and in Russia. Lots of oil goes to China. Lots of oil. i Again, videos out of China I've seen ah I don't know how much you believe, but they're showing massive lines at gas stations because they're expecting a huge spike in gas prices and people are trying to fill up before then, that kind of stuff. But again, and those videos didn't look real to me.
00:10:18
Speaker
Yeah, a couple of them looked okay. A couple of them, they, you know, people, the community notes on said it is from China. and by ah But, you know, how much do you know? i don't know. Especially coming out China. The video in itself coming in anywhere is a little bit sus nowadays. but And then lastly, this is interesting.
00:10:34
Speaker
China has sent two over 2,000 fishing boats towards Taiwan in some of the Japanese islands. And they're doing some weird geometrical shapes. And apparently China has a it's almost like a, fisherman's militia with their fisherman boats. They, they, most intel shows that they're kind of a a group that trains together. They do, they do like these kinds of things to act as like a,
00:11:06
Speaker
Well, in an invasion of Taiwan, two or 3000 boats flooding the area would be helpful for them, I guess, as some of the military experts are saying. So they've done this before and they're doing it again now, which is, we'll see what that means. and Most people are saying China is just saber rattling.
00:11:20
Speaker
It's all they can do. Yeah, it's all they can do. probably Pretty much right now, they's I think they're kind of, just you know, a little more trouble in China with Xi, and I'm not sure how much longer he lasts.
00:11:32
Speaker
Got keep to keep the people happy, otherwise communism fails. Or at least the appearance of happiness. um And then um we want to get into the fact that Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting too. So we won't even and get into that part.
00:11:46
Speaker
That's all popping off um as we as we get
Middle East Tensions & Media Coverage
00:11:50
Speaker
through it. I don't know. It's a sticky situation, as one would say. um Anything to add to that?
00:11:58
Speaker
No, I haven't haven't paid attention. There's too much fog of war. You don't know what's going on. You just hope for the best. Yeah, definitely true. It's hard hard to get news out of there. And, you know, it's who the hell knows who's bombing what.
00:12:16
Speaker
They're accusing Israel and America of bombing water filtration, water, um where they take the salt water and convert it to what they call it now.
00:12:29
Speaker
Anyway, or they're claiming, you know I've heard some people claiming the United States and Israel is bombing them. It's like, hmm, or is is Iran bombing them? and You know, it's like, how do you know? Does it Iran have anything left?
00:12:41
Speaker
As far as, what, bombs? Yeah. Yeah, they're still shooting missiles and drones, shooting them down every day. But they don't have any air or anything like that. Oh, no, they never did. Okay.
00:12:51
Speaker
they Never really did. Actually, interesting fact that I found out during this was, We had sold them right before the Shaw got overthrown in the 70s. We'd sold them a bunch of F-14 Tomcats.
00:13:04
Speaker
o And when they retired the Tomcat, it was one of the few planes that they shredded every single one of them because they don't want any parts to get out there for Iran to get. It was pretty interesting because that that plane was like iconic. That's the Top Gun plane.
00:13:17
Speaker
Oh, okay. The top cat with the swept wings. That's that's the plan. They sold them like 50 of them or something. And yeah, so they had to shred all of them. So no parts got out there. um Yeah, they're um they're shooting ah missiles and drones every day. It's way less than it was, but they're still shooting some of them out there. I think really the biggest problem is this straight. and nobody's it's hard to It's so narrow, it's hard to secure.
00:13:43
Speaker
you're You're going to have to have somebody... on the ground there. Now, did they put, up did they really put mines there? Nobody knows. Nobody thinks as of yet, but just the threat of them, just the threat of mines is enough to keep most ships out.
00:13:58
Speaker
Yeah. I think what they're more mostly waiting for is they've got speed. They've had this, they've shown this as propaganda too, but they've got, you know, hundreds and hundreds of speed boats that basically just packing them with explosives. Now, the thing is you may have hundreds and hundreds, a thousand speed boats, but how many, how many guys are you going to get to go on that suicide mission?
00:14:17
Speaker
They're all going to talk big game until until they say, hey, get on the boat. You're ah, you know, I can't swim. How do you drive this thing again?
00:14:26
Speaker
so i don't know. Out there, isn't that isn't that kind of like expected of you? oh Yeah, but then's it's all fun and games until someone says strap on the vest. i don't know. They seem to not mind.
00:14:38
Speaker
Well, there's plenty of them, I'm sure, yeah. But it's never as many as they initially think because there's always some, I mean, come on really?
00:14:47
Speaker
70 virgins. Yes. Yeah, man, those virgins really disappointed when the Aitola showed up there at 90 years old. Like, oh, man. um So, yeah, that's, you know, making things a little interesting in the world, I guess.
00:15:05
Speaker
ah You know, speaking of interesting things,
00:15:10
Speaker
ah I'm hearing some people did some things in New York. Have you heard? Oh, no, no, no No. What? Wasn't it like two Pennsylvania teenagers? Well...
00:15:23
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. so Wasn't it a white supremacist? Well, we'll find out because. Jake Lang. Yes. Yes. The guy, the the anti-pro anti-Muslim protester who got attacked by pro-Muslim protesters, I guess. I don't know what else.
00:15:39
Speaker
So protest at New York's mayor's mansion gets get a little out of hand, I guess is story. don't know. It's really the story here. I don't know. Zoran didn't say any of that. he just He just said, yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism.
00:15:59
Speaker
Such hate has no place in New York City. It is an affront to our city's values and the unity that defines who we are. And then he then he went on and said that a couple people ah did some things.
00:16:14
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. ah Made it sound like the white supremacists did something. Yes. And the story to me, I mean, the story really, again, isn't really the protest or anything else. I mean, even it's all fun and games until someone throws suspicious device.
00:16:34
Speaker
So to me, the story really is the headlines. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And how it was played and and how the media literally tripped over themselves. Not even a metaphor. They literally were tripping over themselves to sugarcoat this. And the only, i think the best way to kind of wrap this all up is go to our friends at the Babylon Bee. First go to CNN.
00:16:56
Speaker
You want to do the CNN first? No, no, no. I was going talk about that. was going to talk about that, yeah, after I played the clip. ah Were you going to talk about what they what they actually reported?
00:17:07
Speaker
What they, yeah, what they tweeted, what they removed. Oh, okay. I had an idea. Yeah. So let's hear what, what the B, the way the B explains the headlines and how they do it in their own fashion. And then we'll say the worst for last, which is CNN.
00:17:21
Speaker
Cause they don't bring the CNN one up. I don't think in the, uh, in this. So what the the skit is, the president the United States is in a meeting and the secret service gets a thing on the, it's little notes on this radio in his ear.
00:17:32
Speaker
And he's trying to explain what is going on in New York city. with headlines from mass media. M5M as they say. So let's hear what they say. This is pretty good.
00:17:46
Speaker
um mr president we have a problem u authorities are investigating device thrown near gracie mansion what kind of device like an explosive ah Two in custody after suspicious device lit outside Grazie Mansion amid anti-Islam protest.
00:18:02
Speaker
So the anti-Islam protesters lit a bomb? I'm just conveying the news. These are actual news headlines, and they're quite clear, Mr. President. I still don't know what the device is. Quite clear.
00:18:14
Speaker
Who did it or what? Let me clarify, sir. Explosive at NYC protest near Gracie Mansion posed serious risk. Police say.
00:18:24
Speaker
OK, now we're getting somewhere. Exactly. Homemade bomb thrown at protest near and NYC mayor's house, police say. So the protesters threw the bomb? Device hurled near and NYC mayor's mansion was an IED that could have caused serious injury or death. You're all headlines. That's terrible, but you basically already said that.
00:18:41
Speaker
Who perpetrated the attack? Well, police arrested several people after a smoke-generating suspicious device was thrown during a protest at Gracie Mansion. what So it wasn't a bomb?
00:18:52
Speaker
but Never mind. Who who did it? One of the articles said they were Pennsylvania men, sir. And? They're from Bucks County. I don't care where they live. Who are they? Their names are... Rayburn.
00:19:08
Speaker
What? Speak up, son. I'm the President of the United States of America. Speak son. I said... Amir and Ibrahim. Oh, you could just live with that. Explains everything.
00:19:22
Speaker
Honestly, I should have known it was Muslims. It's my fault, really. Now, this is not the beat. Is that an update? What does it say?
00:19:33
Speaker
ah Media forgets to mention that NYC bombers were Muslims inspired by ISIS. Politicians blame white supremacy. Well, next time just remain news from that site.
00:19:45
Speaker
They're fake news, sir. so the
00:19:50
Speaker
Those are all headlines. Basically all that the secret service guy was saying was all headlines. And that last one was because the the Babylon Bee sister site, which is not the bee, which actually report.
00:20:02
Speaker
Not parody, right? Not parody news. It's actual news. um But of course, like we said, not surprising. The worst of the worst was CNN.
00:20:13
Speaker
Who did they issue an apology? Did I hear? Uh, kind of. So, so this is from a post that was clipped, screenshotted on lips of TikTok on X. And the post is, is a screenshot of CNN X post of the article.
00:20:31
Speaker
And the post reads, Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormal warm weather, abnormally warm weather.
00:20:44
Speaker
But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of the of Mayor Zoran Mandami's home.
00:20:58
Speaker
Here's what we know so far.
00:21:03
Speaker
So Libs at TikTok said, she posted above it, she posted, Mohammed Atta boarded a plane on a September 11th, 2001 for what could have been a normal flight, enjoyed with his friends friendly skies.
00:21:20
Speaker
But his life would drastically change when he founded himself found himself in the cockpit of the plane right outside an NYC skyscraper. And then, of course, we have the B.
00:21:32
Speaker
a Babylon Bee who posts in their fashion. CNN reports on Japanese teenager who came to Hawaii for what could have been a beautiful day at the beach.
00:21:46
Speaker
Pearl Harbor. i So check that out. It's a great, great, great read article. ah
00:21:55
Speaker
Thousands of heavily, heavily armed Japanophobic Americans had gathered in Hawaii. with CNN correspondent Brian Stellar reports, Delta reports.
00:22:06
Speaker
That's a good one. love to be. So yeah, CNN, they took this down. They took this, this tweet down and they, they, they took the article down, something like that. You know, it's like so much going on. I don't know what to even look at anymore half the time, but oh yeah, they're, I mean, not really surprising.
00:22:26
Speaker
Not too surprising. No. It was so blatant though. And people fall for this. Yeah, I did watch a, forget his name. He is, a i was going to clip him, but I already have too many clips.
00:22:42
Speaker
He is a, I watched kind of one of those stories where you see somebody who is young, college educated, and then kind of gets in the real world and starts to realize, wait, but wait, this doesn't make sense.
00:22:55
Speaker
And he's he's a young black, he's so I mean, I'm assuming he's gay because he really sounds like he's gay and that maybe that's, horrible of me to assume, but ah he's pretty interesting. He's like, he was talking about all all kinds of stuff like this in the media. He goes on, he he did touch a little bit on this, but he actually touched a little bit on the next story, which is the SAVE Act.
00:23:14
Speaker
um But when you start losing the gay black vote, you may want to look in the mirror a little bit. I don't know. For the Democrats, that is. Yeah, they're never going to lose the white woman vote, liberal woman on vote.
00:23:33
Speaker
No, they will not. Well, not for, a no, they probably won't be right. So yeah, there was ah shenanigans and there's still, and i don't, I and don't know. They're still looking into what these devices were. They can't tell, ah they can't tell if they're actually ever going to explode or not, but don't think it really matters.
00:23:56
Speaker
they They put what, I think they went because fireworks are pretty easy to get in Pennsylvania, and I think they went to a firework store and bought some stuff that you could make a bomb out of it, I guess. But whether they they made it, they did it successfully or not. But it doesn't really matter because what they did, they took a jar and filled it with an explosive of some sort and some nuts and bolts and screws, and ah that's the bomb, regardless of whether you screwed it up or not. It's still a bomb, or your intention was a bomb.
00:24:23
Speaker
uh two of them threw one over the head of and there's some great ai videos oh it's so great um of this of this kind of stuff but he literally think there's a report somebody's got a video of one of the protesters talking about violence and and and sticking up for their side i guess while he literally chucks the bomb over her head as they're filming her it's so And then the next one, he grabs it from the ah next one. He literally, as the cops ran at him, he literally dropped it like a grenade in front at the foot of the, of the cops.
00:24:55
Speaker
And, uh, to the New York police, they, uh, they handled it. And you see a, a very large policeman hurtling a barricade. It was quite, quite interesting shot. I saw.
00:25:06
Speaker
don't know if you saw that. Yeah. Yeah. He was like, well, i didn't know they can move that fast. So, All right. Next, I guess we'll get into the meat of it because Trump says no more bills will be signed until the SAVE Act is passed.
U.S. Politics & Ohio Legislation
00:25:28
Speaker
Yeah, then that's pretty pretty much simple. that's So who's going to blink first? Trump. Yeah. Yeah. They're not going to pass that.
00:25:39
Speaker
No, I don't think they're ever it's ever going to pass. ah but why what's a problem Stabbing the American public in the back. what's the problem why what's what what's their What's their big problem with the bill?
00:25:50
Speaker
What's the big problem with the bill? Federal overreach, is it? i'm I'm not sure. Racism?
00:25:59
Speaker
Sexism? Well, who are you talking about? Well, that what the Democrats mainly who's blocking it. Well, i'm i'm I'm talking about the Republicans. What's their problem
00:26:10
Speaker
with the bill? Yeah, and a good question. But ah for i was you know ah but i think the big obstacle is why doesn't ever why isn't aren't the Democrats pushing their team, their side, their team literally, at at when they're at in the 75% of Democrats what want this passed? They don't have to do anything.
00:26:31
Speaker
they don't They have a constituents that don't pay attention. The zombie class. Yeah, pretty much. The zombie class. Yeah. Well, Chuck Schumer says it's racist. so Well, we we all know what the Democrats are think or what they're going to say.
00:26:48
Speaker
I want to know why the Republicans aren't doing it. Rand Paul's saying it's government overreach. And I'm like, how? We're not forcing anything. We're not telling you how to run your thing. We're just saying we want IDs.
00:27:04
Speaker
Right, because in some states... you if Some states will arrest if you show your ID. Right. And that's not, I mean, at the, we're not even talking about the voting booths. We're talking about registration, right?
00:27:17
Speaker
Like you need to show proof of, of citizenship at registration. Is that one of them on the save act? Isn't that, yeah. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I get, there's one in Ohio too, that they're trying to get through and I get them confused or very similar, but I think slightly different in some ways. Um,
00:27:33
Speaker
Well, i I don't know why the Republicans aren't doing it. I mean, other than, like I said, the Republicans are at times as bad or worse than Democrats, in my opinion. Well, they're worse.
00:27:43
Speaker
Yeah, because they they tell you... They tell you they're going to do all this stuff and then and then they never do it. Democrats actually get it done. It's just, it scares the crap out of me when they tell me what they're going to do because they usually get it done. Well, I don't know if they usually get it done, but they they're they're willing to ah throw their power around yeah where the where the Republicans always kind of are, no, new no, no, let's slow down.
00:28:05
Speaker
Obama said was going to fix healthcare. care And oh, he fixed it. All right. And the Republicans said, we're going we're going to change it. And, and basically all we have is
00:28:19
Speaker
that's the Republican party, in my opinion. And then Rand Paul's no, I mean, what do you mean government? Yeah. what do you mean government overreach? Well, he doesn't think the Fed should get involved with it. That's that's his issue. That's his issue for everything.
00:28:32
Speaker
Sure. so i I understand that that that issue. I don't i don't want ah big federal government either. well The issue I see is when you have states, it's similar to the lawsuit they had for the 2020 election. Texas had lawsuit saying, we're suing because your your crappy laws are affecting us.
00:28:51
Speaker
No, there they were actually suing that they didn't follow their laws. Right. Pennsylvania and Georgia, was it, they were suing? Pennsylvania was one, was a big one.
00:29:02
Speaker
Right. Because of their like the way their statute is, they completely went around the legend are the ah the people. They're saying your decisions or your...
00:29:13
Speaker
skirting the law is affecting us because it's cheating in a sense. And that's kind of where we, I get, I don't want, I don't want the government, I don't want one big federal election. No.
00:29:27
Speaker
And thats that's not what this is. Right. all actually I don't think so. not at all. But Grant Hall can't get that through his thick skull. It's because of, it's it's guidelines. to say Everybody needs to show it. you have to you have to You have to prove you're a citizen in order to vote in the country you're in. what how It's so horrible.
00:29:49
Speaker
What are we, the only country that doesn't do it? Yeah. one of the yeah Well, only developed country, I think. Yeah, I don't think so. Western country, or whatever you want to call it. I get the Republican part, but my part is you you can't get a few.
00:30:04
Speaker
You can't get 20, 30% of the Democrats. there's not even i i Get rid of the filibuster. that That thing's a waste, too. Yeah, I was always kind of iffy about that. and so you If you want to filibuster, do it the real way. Stand there and actually debate for hours on end and show the people what you're actually thinking. This is bullshit, filibuster. This this is just, oh no, we don't have 60 votes. Okay.
00:30:32
Speaker
We're done. there's There's no discussion. There's nothing. Yeah. Do you know the filibuster as it is now is just, is just a an agreement that they've made because they make their own rules. Yeah, because they're lazy. So it used to be you couldn't, as if somebody was speaking, you couldn't stop them.
00:30:48
Speaker
Right. That would be called. So you just keep speaking, speaking, speaking, delay the vote as much as you can and try to do something to change it. And then they said, well, we don't really want to do that. This was like 20, 30 years ago, maybe it wasn't even that long ago. We don't really want to do that. And we're just going to be a fil- you just have to have 60 votes to get it through to to a vote, a super majority, whatever you want to call it. We're just, we're going to make that the filibuster.
00:31:11
Speaker
Right. But I've always kind of like looked at it like, oh, do I want to, do you really want to get rid of that check and balance of the filibuster? You know, for big legislation, do you want a, you know, do you want a super majority and all that stuff? And then i started looking into it this time. i' like, oh, this is something they just came up with not too long ago. It's not like this is- or part of the constitution. It's just, it's just BS rules that they put in place.
00:31:30
Speaker
Well, that they can still filibuster. If the Democrats really want to fight it, they can get up there and talk about it. But you know what? In my opinion, I think every, uh, Congressman is afraid to do that because it's going to put him out in public's eye.
00:31:46
Speaker
Oh yeah. They, they they do they, they do. They go through great lengths to, deflect all their power in any criticism to any, that's why, that's why the president has so much, there's so many things that land on the president's desk as far as ah executive orders and stuff. Cause they're like, ah or, or here, here we'll pass the law that the EPA can make the rules for.
00:32:08
Speaker
Because we don't actually want to be get get our hands dirty. But they do that all the time. Give it to the administrative part of the state let them figure it out. And and this is why we have omnibus bills, too. yeah Because nobody wants to put their name on anything. And with a fill with a true like you know filibuster where you got to get up there and debate and talk about it.
00:32:28
Speaker
You're putting your name on that. So now every constituent, ah when ah when I'm just going to, you know, when Pelosi, or it doesn't matter, I'm just using a name. Schumer gets up there and talks.
00:32:42
Speaker
Everybody's going to know exactly what he's talking about. They're going to hear it. And now your constituents that actually want, 80% of your constituents want this and you're fighting against it. You're going to look like a retard.
00:32:54
Speaker
And they can't they can't have that.
00:32:58
Speaker
And that's where I go with the narrative is because if you had a small majority, a small portion of the Democrat voting, we would pass. We don't need that many.
00:33:09
Speaker
Right. Right. You probably only need five or six. Yeah. So, and the narrative is, and nobody's going to pressure the Democrats. Nobody, nobody, in my opinion, an honest Democrat, a a blue dog Democrat or whoever, if there's any of those left still voting Democrat, which I can't imagine there is, but.
00:33:27
Speaker
they're They're not going to pressure because what they're hearing is it's it's it's racist. It's sexist. It's all this other stuff. um And i mean, it's complete and utter crap because actually it is racist to think that black people can't get IDs.
00:33:44
Speaker
I don't know if anybody actually thinks that anymore. no ah Do they? No. Well, mean, if they do, then like i I need to have a conversation with this retard.
00:33:54
Speaker
As a matter of fact, let's listen. I have a, and this is actually not very recent. This is ah a clip from Ami Horowitz. Ami on the street talking to about voter ID. I think this is like five, six years ago.
00:34:08
Speaker
And oh check check it out. But I mean, still it's, but, and he, he asks and he starts off in Berkeley. You may, may see a theme of, of who he's, who, and who he actually gets to interview. And i would say most of them are women. And the ones that aren't women are pretty close to women.
00:34:26
Speaker
I'm Ami Horowitz and I'm here in Berkeley, California to find out if voter ID laws suppress the black vote. Do you have an opinion on voter ID laws? Yeah, they're usually pretty racist and they're bad. I think voter ID laws are a way to perpetuate racism. and you say they're Would you go as far as to say that those laws are racist? For sure.
00:34:45
Speaker
do you think it suppresses the African American vote? Definitely. um ah Because they're less likely to have state IDs. Minority voters are less likely to have the kinds of IDs that have been described or required. These type of people don't live in areas with easy access to DMVs or other places where get identification. you can always get IDs over the internet.
00:35:09
Speaker
Does that also ah ah make it difficult for for black people in particular? Yeah, you have to have access to the internet. You have to be able to pay an internet service provider for certain fees. do you think that's harder for black people to go online? Well, I feel like you don't have the knowledge of how of like how it works. A lot of people have smartphones, they might not have data.
00:35:25
Speaker
For most of the communities, they don't really know if what is out there just because they're not aware or like they're not informed. I also think there's a repression of like black voting with um how they how if you're a convicted felon, like you're not allowed to vote and everything. And when you look at swing states like Florida, that's a huge population of the of the like African Americans.
00:35:45
Speaker
Wait. o Wait, what'd you say? You say that the bulk of the... community black come community in florida are convicted felons is that is that what she said you just ladies and gentlemen you just heard the most racist people yes yes so there's there's army on the street talking in in uh in berkeley california and you get it's not a surprise what you would get in berkeley california Notice who they spoke to mostly.
00:36:18
Speaker
Yeah. Mostly white women are very close to white women. I would say this is very heavily edited. Well, they always are. Yeah, of course. um I mean, this, I don't, you know, videos like that are, they're fun to watch, but they're not real.
00:36:34
Speaker
I mean, I'm sure he had some people that didn't think it was it was that way, but why why put those in there? But he does talk to other people. Okay. He goes to New York. and And he asked black people in New York. Yeah. Okay. howll they get it's the same It's the same thing, but hey. yeah Yeah.
00:36:51
Speaker
Now I'm here in East Harlem to ask black people their thoughts on what you just heard. do you have ID normally? You carry ID around? Yes, have state ID. Do you carry ID? Yes, I do.
00:37:02
Speaker
Do you know anybody who, any black person who doesn't carry ID? No. Everyone that I know has ID. Why would they think we don't have ID? ah That's a lie. Why would they say that? do you have ID? Yes.
00:37:13
Speaker
Because I have my ID and my friends have their ID, so like we know what we need to carry around. the Everybody that know have ID. Like, that's one of the things you need to walk around with New York. In New York. i do Do you know any black adult who does not have ID? No, I don't. Is it a weird thing to even say that? Yes, it is.
00:37:31
Speaker
What is this, some such some type of ah trick candy camera? I know, right? Hmm. That's the only thing I brought with me. Those are legit IDs. I heard a lot also that ah black people can't figure out how to get to the DMV.
00:37:44
Speaker
What does that say to you? I know where it's at, but on 25th Street. Do you know where the DMV is, Ryan? It's on 125th Street and Avenue, I believe. You know how to get there? Yeah. you have a problem getting there if you have to get there? No. I know these sound like silly questions. You know how get the A.V.? Of course. You know where it is? Yes. can get there? No problem. No problem. Just checking. Okay. And I also heard a lot that black people, especially poor black people, have no access to the internet, can't figure out how to use the internet. I don't know how to use it. That's just stupidity, honestly. Everybody has access to the internet. Even a little kid could figure how to work the internet. I had access the internet for years. You know how to use it properly? Exactly. do it at work. So, of course, I know how use it. My kids know how to use it. They all have iPads, iPods, whatever. Your phone has data?
00:38:32
Speaker
Unlimited. Unlimited, baby, she says. I use my phone as a hotspot. What does that say to you for the people who have this perception of life? Um, they're pretty much ignorant. That's what my thought process is. I just think that's ignorant.
Voter ID Perceptions & Education Reform
00:38:45
Speaker
Ignorant. agree That's the word. That's enough. Uh, you notice none of them said, well, that's racist.
00:38:57
Speaker
Now, I mean, later on in the video, I mean, does, a do you think it's racist? And most of them are like, well, I guess maybe a little bit, mostly just ignorant. I'm like, no, it's, it's totally fricking racist. It's completely, and totally racist.
00:39:10
Speaker
oh And that's who the Democratic Party panders to. And and that's what you're hearing. Yes, exactly. and And no one's going to call them on their their BS. and and Because nobody, I don't know.
00:39:22
Speaker
like how how How do you not see that your politicians come out and say, well, black people, while you're going to the DMV getting your ID or something like that? It's like. Anywho, so there's that. So no more bills across ah President Trump's desk and until the SAVE Act has passed. We'll see how far that goes.
00:39:41
Speaker
I hope they challenge him on it. I hope hope update they put some bill there as so good he has to pass it. i don I doubt that's going to happen.
00:39:53
Speaker
Moving on. Moving on to maybe it's ah the last state of the state from Mike DeWine.
00:40:05
Speaker
Mike DeWine has last state of the state the other day. And let's listen to a little bit from News Channel 3 on it and just get through it so we can get over, get him out of here.
00:40:16
Speaker
ah But here's some interesting things in there of what he wants to work on and what he what he did and what he wants to see happen after he leaves. couple interesting things.
00:40:29
Speaker
Examples, I guess, he has in here. One of them, he he compared, he's's he's looking at East Cleveland as a model example of education reform, which, okay, we'll see what has to say about it. Today, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine delivered his final State of the State address with a big focus on Ohio's kids and education. He highlighted the importance of reading and talked about new efforts to improve student health and attendance. thanks Our Danielle Wiggins reports.
00:40:55
Speaker
Ladies and gentlemen, Governor Mike DeWine. In his final State of the State address as governor of Ohio. I think every school learn from East Cleveland. Mike DeWine gave a major shout out to East Cleveland schools. East Cleveland reduced chronic absenteeism by over 10% last year.
00:41:15
Speaker
At the same time, reading proficiency among the third graders went up by more than 10%. Using East Cleveland as an example, DeWine announced new steps to fight chronic absenteeism defined as a student missing 10% or more of the school year.
00:41:31
Speaker
Starting April 15th, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce will launch a statewide dashboard tracking weekly attendance in every district. Let's pause this for a second. Just so you know, just in context, yes, it did go about down by 10%.
00:41:48
Speaker
So East Cleveland, according to cleveland.com, East Cleveland City School district District reduced chronic absenteeism, which is any student that misses more than 10% of their ah school days.
00:42:00
Speaker
ah In a single year, according to Cranes, Cleveland, and cleveland.com, this significant decrease from... That's what I said. what 10% of what? what's What does that mean? that you you know yes they did lower it by 10% by 10 points, 10 percentage points, and they from 63.5% 53.2%.
00:42:20
Speaker
yes, they... They did go down 10%. There's still over 50% of the kids in the East Cleveland School District are chronic with what they consider chronically absent.
00:42:34
Speaker
So great, great work, but holy crap. sixty Long way to go. Long freaking way to go. Long way to go. So we'll continue. Is also taking on big tech.
00:42:46
Speaker
Big tech. Accessive screen time is really a thief. Social media is a thief. All stealing from our children, the most precious thing in life. Oh, That is their time. ah The governor asking lawmakers to enact legislation to help parents protect their kids.
00:43:03
Speaker
First, he wants new laws passed targeting child pornography created with artificial intelligence. He also wants tech companies held accountable for allowing AI to encourage or instruct people to harm themselves or others.
00:43:18
Speaker
The Ohio Attorney General... and county prosecutors must have clear legal tools to hold these tech companies criminally and civilly accountable. DeWine wants cell phone and tech companies to add automatic parental controls, giving parents an easy way to monitor what their children are seeing and using online. And as he wrapped up his address. May God bless America.
00:43:43
Speaker
God bless Ohio. oh H. The governor offering hope, saying Ohio's greatest days are ahead.
00:43:55
Speaker
Hope. Hope he offers hope. So he wants laws to help parents protect their kids from social media or the effects of tech whatever. don't know.
00:44:11
Speaker
what What had they have ever have they done that ever has worked on that? Do you know of anything that they've ever enacted that's actually made an impact? And it doesn't have to be tech. It's just like anything else. It's like if if you're if the parent doesn't care, doesn't it really matter.
00:44:28
Speaker
If you have parents who pay attention, you don't need loss.
00:44:35
Speaker
yeah What was the other thing? AI model. So... one of the things I can say is he talked that they talk about holding tech companies accountable for the AI models that they have. So do you, should some, who should be responsible if a kid or even ah ah an adult
00:44:54
Speaker
kills himself because of the advice of an AI? Is there anybody liable other than the person who killed themselves? At the moment, no.
00:45:06
Speaker
Do you think there should be any? I'm trying to figure it out myself. I don't know. feel like maybe, but also most of it should be on the person. you know like Just because a computer says to do it, I mean, it shouldn't get, you know, but.
00:45:20
Speaker
I think it would be, yeah, i don't know, man. yeah there's some weird it's weird There's some weird stuff. Yeah, it's tough. That crosses so many gray areas, I'm not sure.
00:45:31
Speaker
And then how do you How do you stop it? It's going to be... If the if if the AI is is convincing the person to kill themselves, i don't know.
00:45:47
Speaker
Shouldn't there be something? Yeah, there should be some guardrails, but I'm sure there is. i'm sure there is. I don't know. but companies aren't just't has Hasn't some teenager already yeah yes committed suicide because of AI telling them to?
00:46:04
Speaker
I believe so. Yeah. Pretty sure. Yes. In Ohio, I'm pretty sure. Actually, I don't think it. thought we talked about a story a while back, but it's been 52 episodes. I can't remember them all. Yeah. i don't remember talking about that, but i remember reading about that. I just don't remember if it was in Ohio. Could be that too. That's the other that's that's the other side effect.
00:46:20
Speaker
I read a lot of stories that we don't talk about, so I overlap, get them mixed together. But yes, I ah yes i just, um ah yeah, I think there should be something on there. I just don't know ah how much liability and a tech company has.
00:46:35
Speaker
I don't know. To somebody manipulating the AI to, you know, cause you're, you know, it's learning off of you. So it's kind of going to give you what you want. It's learning off of everything. Yeah. It's going to, it wants to give you what you want. And if that's where you're pushing it. I don't know about that always.
00:46:47
Speaker
I guess I'm, I maybe not, but don't know how much control they can actually have. I think alerting somebody, you know, some kind of, I don't know, but just then when then then where's the criteria and yeah, yeah. It could be so screwed, uh, misconstrued for,
00:47:06
Speaker
we're We are entering a new frontier. Yes. Is it Star Trek already? i don't think we're quite there yet, but, um but like AI porn, you want, he wants to, he wants to put well controls on regulations on tech companies and their AI making child porn. It's like, what?
00:47:26
Speaker
Again, I mean, they're trying they tried to block ah child porn sites or have IDs for child porn sites in Ohio. And they're you know they're like, well, the the porn companies no aren't listening. No, just just ah porn sites, not child porn sites. I mean, porn sites. would because Child porn sites are illegal already.
00:47:45
Speaker
Well, most porn sites do have child porn on them, but that's kind of one the things. ah And so how do you control that? You almost can't. and Because there have there's I've seen articles out there as I'm reading that we don't talk about on the show. It's like, oh, the companies don't listen.
00:48:01
Speaker
They're not putting up the, no kidding, really. ah so it's like when it when it can be out of the country and out of the state, how much control do you actually have? That's kind of what I was like. It feels like just a lot of talk. But of course it is DeWine. So why should i be surprised?
00:48:16
Speaker
And then automatic parental controls on phones and stuff.
00:48:22
Speaker
Whatever. Don't they sell phones? Like if you have a child in, let's say, grade school and you want them to have a phone, don't they sell phones that are just kind of a phone? Not much more. They do.
00:48:35
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, like it sounds like instead of making laws, just let the market figure it out. mean, unfortunately, lot of that relies on the parents. And if you have crappy parents, and now you need bigger government, I guess.
00:48:50
Speaker
I don't know if they're always crappy parents. It's just parents may be unaware of certain things. Sure. Yeah. i'm not there But at at some level, that's where, to me, where it falls onto.
00:49:03
Speaker
The other thing is, yeah, of course, I agree. But the other thing is that's it's like kids are always going to find a way to do something that they're probably not supposed to do. Exactly. my kind of Thank you for flushing that out because I never got to. It's like you can put all these guardrails in, but the kids will find a way. They always do. And they're usually smarter than you at at some level, with especially with technology.
00:49:27
Speaker
very hard. I'm sure it can be done, but it's extremely hard to do. And probably while you're doing it, you're going to, you're going to screw up a whole bunch of other stuff for a bunch of other people. Raise good kids and they hopefully they'll avoid some of that stuff.
00:49:40
Speaker
If you hold your kids accountable and teach them right from wrong. That's true. So there's the, that's where i get to the yeah crappy parents. Don't be their friend, be their parent. Thank you.
00:49:54
Speaker
Thank you. I see way too many friends. Oh, I see that all the time. Wait, I see them all the time. Yeah, it's kind of weird. I have one I know and I talk to on a regular and I just have to go, okay, fine. um So yeah, DeWine's out. That's the last state of the state. He's been term limited. So think, think see see how good term limits are, people. We need to put him in in Congress in Washington too, not just the president.
00:50:20
Speaker
think that's all. Yep. Okay. That's all. We'll go on to the next. Next we have a little bit of the good old corner again this week.
Ohio's Legal and Environmental Debates
00:50:30
Speaker
Scurry out, you little bastards.
00:50:36
Speaker
This week on the Critter Corner, we've got a few things. We've got number one, we have the Ohio Bail Reform Bill. This is kind of a good one. So they want to make some changes to the bail the laws in Ohio for as far as bail goes. Because we've seen some interesting events over the last year or so.
00:50:58
Speaker
This is a story from News Channel 5. It's our favorite Morgan. Morgan Chow. in the So our Republicans introducing a bill to, don't know, i I remember looking through it. did not have a bill number yet to change some of the bail laws. Basically, let's hear what Morgan has to say. Right here.
00:51:20
Speaker
Just five days after posting bail, Donnie Allen was arrested for allegedly shooting and killing a man at a Cleveland RTA stop. A woman named Holly, who spoke at the Ohio State House, was assaulted in the Cincinnati brawl that garnered nationwide attention last summer. She says the man arrested for punching her had been out on bail.
00:51:41
Speaker
Injuries, the hospital visits, the fear, what makes this really hard to accept as This was preventable. Here on Republican D.J. Swearingen agrees, saying both of those crimes shouldn't have happened. These low bail amounts or just bail in general can fail, and they fail because they don't adequately address that the individual receiving the bail shouldn't even be out in the first place. He and Central Ohio Republican Jeff Luray introduced a bill to change the bail system. The legislation prohibits charitable bail organizations from posting bail for serious and violent offenses. Under the bill, nonprofits like the Bail Project would be forbidden from paying bail over $5,000. The original bond for Allen, accused of the ah RTA shooting, was set at $15,000, but the judge reduced it to $5,000. The Bail Project paid 10% for his release.
00:52:33
Speaker
The organization's Jeremy Cherson wouldn't comment on that case, but says the vast majority of people they've helped follow the law. Anytime there's an an unfortunate event, we're going to to make sure that we understand what had taken place and and take stock of of what happened. But I would just point out that these are rare events. We shouldn't be legislating from the fringes. Shearson says cash bail can be discriminatory, where a wealthy defendant can pay their way out of jail versus someone with less money that can remain locked up waiting for trial. It is not equal justice for all.
00:53:07
Speaker
It's only justice for the wealthy. But the lawmakers argue that this would be select violent cases, ones that typically involve repeat offenders. How much vetting do you do before you decide to pay somebody's bail?
00:53:20
Speaker
Well, I would first point out that the judge is the person that has the greatest information about a case, about a person's history, and they make a decision to set bail. And then we do do a careful assessment. But more than just taking away the ability to pay, the bill also allows the attorney general to appeal judges decisions on bail if the state deems them too low. The goal here is to allow the judges to identify key components to defendants that make them a threat to public safety. We're not trying to overreach or you know micromanage them in any way.
00:53:56
Speaker
At the Ohio State House, I'm Morgan Trout reporting.
00:54:01
Speaker
So this bail project bails this guy out, and then five days later he goes and, I think, murders somebody at the RTA stop.
00:54:11
Speaker
It's an unfortunate event, he says. Yeah. Unfortunate event. Hey, you know what? At least he's taking stock and not responsibility. Taking stock but not responsibility. Oh, we take stock in these things. Oh, great. You know, someone's dead. I'm glad you're taking stock in it because you let them out.
00:54:27
Speaker
And the same thing with the chick in Cincinnati. That was the one that J.D. Vance was commenting on. And, oh, what, six months ago or so? And yeah that guy i got that guy was out on bail. I bashed her face in. Jeez. Yeah.
00:54:38
Speaker
Um, so there is something to be said about these groups, these nonprofits. and And where's this money coming from?
00:54:48
Speaker
I don't know. of interesting. where Where's this ah bail, the bail, Ohio bail project where they get their money from? Soros? Maybe, but. No, I'm just kind of being hyperbolic. I mean, ah it's sometimes, yes, but I'd like to see who's funding these. Because, I mean, at one point out west in in ah Seattle, it was Kamala Harris.
00:55:09
Speaker
Yeah. She was donating and promoting. She was raising money and donating. She was promoting. i don't know if she actually donated, but she was promoting. This is a good bill. ah As far as I can tell, it it is. I mean, hopefully they don't screw it up.
00:55:25
Speaker
Because other states are like really kind of lost the lost their way. How many people have ah been killed after somebody's been let out? How many times without bail in New York?
00:55:40
Speaker
I mean, yeah. ah North Carolina. Is it in North Carolina too? well what was that Where did the the Ukrainian chick get stabbed? Oh, yeah, that was North Carolina. I was thinking it was New York. There was another one. There was probably one. I'm i'm sure there's plenty in New York.
00:55:56
Speaker
Oh, yeah. there No, there's a ton in New York. there I think there was a story and about one in New York, too, that was recent. But I think that guy for Irena was, I mean, he had been out on bail and he had been arrested and let go many times. i don't know if it was necessarily a bail thing, but definitely ah you know light sentences. But it's even that...
00:56:13
Speaker
And the rest, some of the rest of the bill, you know, more of the meat of it is they're going, they want to give, you know, the state attorney general ability to kind of peek their head and say, Hey, are you sure you want to lower this bill? You want to lower this? Cause the guy that, one of the examples is he had a $15,000 bond.
00:56:28
Speaker
They lowered it to 5,000 and then this bail project put in a 10%, which is 500 bucks. Right. Is it because they didn't have $1,500? You know, is there something, is does the judge know this is going to happen? Is that why he's lowering the bail, and that kind of stuff, you know? That's the other thing. You know, we have activist judges right in place that are doing... Well, I don't know.
00:56:53
Speaker
Was this guy... Well, I don't know enough, but I mean, like, it you know, it's not the... This isn't going to solve everything, but it's a step in the right direction. Yeah. We don't know in this case if that was the reason, but there, I'm sure with know some of the other decisions we've heard over the years from all from judges, there was activist judges. It's just, that's a thing, unfortunately. So I don't know. i definitely think there's some, some, some problems with it. I,
00:57:21
Speaker
I get what he's saying, though. I mean, he he makes a valid, the guy from the bail party makes a good point on on the, it's it's a class thing. It's, you know, the rich have plenty of money to post for bail, but a lot of people don't. haven't but I don't have an issue if somebody doesn't have prior. Right.
00:57:35
Speaker
You know, but if if somebody's kind of been in and out of the system and you're letting them off with like a real low bail or yeah or through this this organization,
00:57:46
Speaker
putting up the bail that's kind of messed up man so this donny allen guy do you see the picture of him you ah he's in the article he's just scroll down he's and he's a screenshot of one of the things i i i don't know don't judge a book by its cover and all that but He gives me the chills, you know?
00:58:05
Speaker
He gives me the chills. He looks like he's just a little, you know? he's got He's got a chip on his shoulder for the world and he, you know, I don't know. How much how much vetting do they do? i don't i can't I don't trust they do enough.
00:58:18
Speaker
doesn't know but There's no way. um So, yeah, five days after they posted bail, he's now alleged of shooting and killing a man at the Cleveland RTA in December.
00:58:30
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And they're like, well, you know, we agree that neither of these things should have happened. That's, that's what Swearengin said. Yeah. I see the guy's picture. I'm not going to judge a book by its cover.
00:58:41
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No, but I'll say guilty. But i I mean, I look, I guess it gives me a ah ah ah pause to say, you look in someone's eyes and you look in someone's eyes. You can see a lot. Sorry.
00:58:53
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You can see a lot. Swearengin. I get that name. That's, that's from a show. ah
00:59:01
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Deadwood. One the characters in Deadwood, Swearingen. don't know if it's spelled the same, but that's what it sounds like. So yeah, he agrees that both of these crimes should not have happened.
00:59:12
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um Or is that maybe Maybe I'm getting the guys mixed up. Whatever. Swearingen. It got me all messed up. Anyway, so yeah, we got bail reform. Let's see. They don't have a bill number yet, so I don't think, at least not in the article, there's no bail.
00:59:27
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No, I don't see it. And I didn't have time to poke any farther into it, but we'll keep an eye on it.
00:59:35
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which might mean they they were just talking about it haven't really put anything forward. It says says there's a bill introduced by Ohio. So that there has to be a number. So, hey, great reporting, Morgan. Thanks.
00:59:46
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Appreciate that. like Slight details that would be helpful. Yeah. what i'm I'm sorry. Am I expecting too much? Uh, next is uh, I'll give something up to Morgan on, on X. She, uh, I just saw it this morning. Somebody took one of her stories and was kind of put their own logo on it. Yes.
01:00:09
Speaker
And did you see that? Yes. Okay. And, and they were good story. yeah yeah and uh she called them out on it and because they were they were trying to railroad uh houston and she called them out on that so they blurred out the w they blurred out the abc you could still see it was five but they blurred out the whole lower chiron or where they call it the lower third or whatever and uh yeah she she called them out on it's pretty funny i mean other than the
01:00:39
Speaker
uh, quickly devolved into, uh, a complete and utter trash in the comments quickly. don't noticed that, but I didn't see that. No. Um, against her. Well, not against, no, against Houston. And and of course Trump came in Epstein and, and, you know, it's it's course it's like, Oh gosh, click. I'm out. I'm done.
01:01:00
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Um,
01:01:02
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Oh yeah. So next, uh, next would be an actual bill SB six, three, which I hope, I hope this doesn't just put everybody to sleep, but, uh, they're banning. they want to ban rank choice voting.
01:01:14
Speaker
And I had to go, I've heard of it before, but I had to hit a refresher on what rank choice voting is. And it's, it's ranked, but it definitely smells rank to me. It is rank. Yeah.
01:01:26
Speaker
And I did watch a short video again, didn't clip because I didn't want to do that to our listeners and didn't have time. But basically you get to pick your first choice, your second choice, your third choice, and your fourth choice.
01:01:41
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yeah There could be up to eight. yeah isn't I mean, like it doesn't matter how many there are. You can just, you pick them in your order. You rank your choices. Yeah. So it's kind of. And if yourre if your number one doesn't get in More than 50%. Yeah, you have to get by 50%. And then the person that came... how does it work exactly? The lowest the lowest pop the lowest um vote getter gets eliminated. And this here's where ah the problem lies for me. Right. Their votes get distributed throughout the rest of the candidates. Like, what?
01:02:15
Speaker
Right, right, you're right. Well, no, it goes to like it goes to the person... That's where I saw it explained, that they evenly distribute the votes to the people left over. Now, could be wrong. This was a PBS ah video that I was watching this morning, actually. So I could be off on that. But that's way I saw it. It goes, it gets distributed. What did you think? It gets take given to the, I don't know. I thought, well...
01:02:40
Speaker
I thought part of the, I didn't think it goes like that. I thought it's, you're those they're taking, they're still taking the rank votes and redistributing votes.
01:02:51
Speaker
Uh, After somebody got kicked out, they're redistributing the votes, not evenly from the person that got kicked out, but they're taking they're taking their votes. And this this is the problem. This is the hard part where they say yeah part of the problem of ranked choice voting is that it could take too long to count the votes.
01:03:11
Speaker
Yes. So if there's, if there are a lot of candidates and there's, you know, you keep dropping one out and then you have to redistribute the votes according to the ranked, how, how, how they were ranked. So it it's kind of, it it gets really with more than like three people with three or four, more than three or four people are running, it it can get really hairy. i would think.
01:03:35
Speaker
Yes. And I don't, it's like, okay, everybody got their third choice. Yay. Yeah, that's kind that is the, that is the issue. Another issue is you really, really have to be aware of each yes person running and what they stand for, which is part part of the problem, even with regular voting. Right. I mean, ah if you ask me, i think you take the D and the R and the I, I guess, off.
01:04:07
Speaker
And that's how you vote for the candidates. You just take the but a party affli affiliation off. That way, I think the person, you know, whoever's voting he has to really kind of understand what each person stands for.
01:04:21
Speaker
instead of just going in and voting for the D or or the R. Well, they they would at least have to know who the R or the D is before they go into, in there, or the Y, you know what I mean? they mate Well, they would have to, okay, yeah, but they would have. see a yard sign that says, vote for me, I'm a Democrat.
01:04:35
Speaker
You could just go in there and vote, or Republic, whatever. you You know, you could find out that way is my point. They don't necessarily, but I see your, no, it is at least, at least they have to do a little bit of research to figure out who to vote for, not just go in there and go, all R, know. Right, right, right. So you're not just going down the ballot and picking all D's and all R's. This would even be 10 times harder yeah because yeah how are you going to rank people? but People won't look at two candidates. Are they really going to research four or five? Yeah, true. Yeah. No. So then you after you get to one to two, to then what's your third choice? ah
01:05:09
Speaker
I'll just wing it. Shoot from the hip. but the This guy's name looks good. You know, and then the fourth one would be this guy's name looks a little bit less. so i'll put in But again, would would they just be picking the R or the D? You know what I mean? through So, so i don't know. I had, I have issues with, with that too.
01:05:26
Speaker
The party affiliations on the ballot. I'd say take them off the ballot completely. i agree. Yeah. You know, and a lot times i can't remember what, in a lot of cases where don't, when I vote, especially for judges, there's no party affiliation.
01:05:40
Speaker
There's something in there that has no party affiliation. thought it was some some sort of judge judges. yeah Judges. Mostly, i think. yeah Because I had to actually go and do some research on the judges.
01:05:51
Speaker
And it was pretty easy to figure out who, you know, who was a conservative or who was a oh liberal, I guess. But you you had to do research, which is what I think everybody should do on every candidate.
01:06:07
Speaker
And that's what they I get to those and I go, well, I'm not sure. Am I supposed to just guess? No, I just don't. I don't fill in that, ah that oval. Cause how am I going vote for somebody what's more irresponsible, not voting or voting for somebody you don't know who it is. So right that to your point, that would, yes, makes you, makes me want to go next. i'll crap. Next time I got to remember to look online, you know, use that supercomputer in my pocket yeah or on my desk to, uh, to do some research. You do moss, lazy voter. Come on, man. And I, I smacked myself a couple times. Yeah.
01:06:38
Speaker
Ranked choice voting is just a hundred times worse than yeah that. and And it hasn't had good results in, what is it, Alaska? There's 60 jurisdictions, they say, that have it in this clip that I saw, which is nothing because there's a thousand more jurisdictions in and the in the country, I think.
01:06:55
Speaker
Right. Way more than that i think. um So yeah, they're banned that. And it is, wait a minute.
01:07:05
Speaker
Now did it?
01:07:09
Speaker
Where did it go? There it is. ah Yeah, so it is a bill. They're going to pass it. I think it's going to pass. I think the Republicans will vote for it in the majority, so I think it'll go through. And it'll get challenged, and they'll have a court battle, and the lawyers will win.
01:07:25
Speaker
ah Next is a quite you know a little bit more of an interesting bill that I didn't know it was a problem, um and apparently it is. SB 323.
01:07:36
Speaker
would, um, this Ohio Senate bill would authorize natural organic reduction for humans after death. That was a term I've never heard before. Uh, also called human, uh, compost, human composting or terra nation, terra nation, terra nation, terra nation, uh, a process through which human remains are naturally converted into soil.
01:08:06
Speaker
they want to Hey Dave, those tomatoes are great. Oh, thanks. That's Edith's remains compost used as compost. So I think they have, ah there's a bunch of states that do it, that allow it now. i thought they had, they have 14 states. Yeah, there's, yeah, they're. Washington was the first figures, hippies, ah to legalize this in 2019. That's very recent.
01:08:30
Speaker
So it's a very new problem. And it's not. true I don't know if it's a problem. I think it's just ah Just a matter of choice. Yeah. People are just want it. but it's It's not like you're getting permission to bury your grandma in the backyard.
01:08:44
Speaker
There's an actual process where you give the, it's like similar cremation where they put your body in a container with, with some other organic materials. And then a compost bin, compost bin, a human compost bin, basically.
01:08:57
Speaker
And check out the story on the website. You'll see it's, it's quite interesting. And occasionally turn you until you turn into soil. And in a lot of states, they have laws on where you're allowed to put that soil. You can't just put it anywhere.
01:09:08
Speaker
so yeah So, you know, if they bring up in the in the video, and the in the news story, well, you know, because, you know, if if somebody had chemotherapy treatment, somebody was a drug addict and died of drug overdose, that's all all that's in there. And you don't want that.
01:09:23
Speaker
You don't want those radioactive remains to be growing your food. i was like, well, that's quite interesting. i never thought about that. but I'll talk about the whole creepy human remains part, let alone never. If they were all coked up, man, my tomatoes would grow great. Yeah. you'd but You'd have tomatoes by what?
01:09:38
Speaker
End of June.
01:09:41
Speaker
mi Come on. It's ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. Let's go.
01:09:45
Speaker
Tomatoes are scratching themselves. Oh, I need need another bump. Need another bump. So, yeah, that's, um and, you know, of course, people, there's people don't like it because, you know, the Catholic Church says you can only do it two ways. And I'm like, you know, what? oh is is, you know what? I didn't, it was that in the article? It was in the news story that listened to. I thought it was the article, too.
01:10:11
Speaker
Usually, yeah. I missed that. Yeah, but, you know. Catholic Church doesn't want anything. Well, they don't want anything. It is dust to dust, though, right? Yeah, dust to dust. And they they say it's either a burial or cremation. But, I mean, whatever. they it Then you don't have to do it.
01:10:28
Speaker
Well, the church didn't allow cremation for the longest time, right? Catholic Church. I have no idea. I don't know. it I'm sure you're right. Yeah. I don't think they allowed that. i don't even know if they allow it now.
01:10:38
Speaker
Tell the truth. Pretty. I thought it mentioned there that they only support burial or cremation, but it could be wrong. Okay. ah Uh, no, it doesn't say in here.
01:10:52
Speaker
But anyway, moving on, moving on. So dust to dust or natural organic reduction. It's, you know, in a, in a prayer, you got to go with dust dust because it just doesn't, the natural organic reduction does not flow. It's like dust to dust does.
01:11:09
Speaker
Yep. Honey, I'll grow you some great zucchini after death. After I'm dead. Um, Hmm. Yeah. Don't mention this to your dad. I think you would probably be take it on it. Uh, just thinking that like, yes, put me in the garden. I want to be in my garden. Um, next, uh, the critical corner would be, think, we did we mention this before? I think we have HB one eight two, which is a bill proposed that would ban fluoride, uh, in Ohio water. Pretty sure we had talked about this. I guess this bill is moving, it moving forward or they just have another story on it? I didn't, uh,
01:11:49
Speaker
I thought it was that last time, you know, last time we talked about where was that in the process, but, but I thought we can listen to clip from channel Fox eight rather. And, you know, sometimes for me, what sticks out is what's left out.
01:12:06
Speaker
And let's listen to what's left out of this story. So basically going back and forth to fluoride and yeah and good or good or not good. And,
01:12:18
Speaker
It's something most people never think about, their water running from their kitchen faucet. But at the Ohio State House, lawmakers are debating whether a key ingredient should be removed entirely. House Bill 182 would ban public water systems from adding fluoride to drinking water statewide. The bill was introduced by Republican Representative Levi Dean, In an interview with Fox 8 last April, he said the issue comes down to personal freedom. This is not really necessarily about fluoride, in my opinion. It's about people having the the choice to choose what type of things they're ingesting and not being forced on them by the government or by their neighbors.
01:13:01
Speaker
Supporters testified before the Ohio House Natural Resources Committee last week, arguing the decades-old practice raises health concerns and removes individual choice. But many dentists and public health experts strongly disagree. Fluoride was added to water because it produced a tremendous effect in reducing decay in some of our most vulnerable populations. Did it really? Yes.
01:13:29
Speaker
Community water fluoridation is widely known as one of the most successful public health achievements of the 20th century, significantly reducing tooth decay, so especially for people in communities where dental care is not always available.
01:13:44
Speaker
If fluoride were to be removed, then definitely everybody would have to step up their game because fluoride is one of the most effective measures that we have in our toolbox. Organizations like the American Dental Association say fluoridated water significantly reduces tooth decay, reaching millions of people every day, including children and families who may not brush regularly or visit a dentist. They could add it themselves. um Secondly, local governments will still have the leftover reserves. If the bill moves forward, critics warn the state could see more cavities, higher dental costs, and widening health gaps.
01:14:24
Speaker
Jennifer Jordan, Fox 8 News. The sky is falling, Tom, if they take fluoride out of the water. I have a question that nobody brings up. First of all, they, they well, you know, the proponents say there's some health concerns. well Can you can he maybe elaborate on some of what they say the health concerns are? maybe Maybe some of the people in the federal government who are now talking about some of the health effects of fluoride in the water.
01:14:49
Speaker
Some of the studies that have been out there about fluoride in the water. But how many people nowadays actually fill up a glass out their tap and drink it?
01:15:01
Speaker
think it's half, more than half the people still drink water of the tap. I don't know Yeah. Yeah. Easy. I don't. I don't either, but I know a lot of people drink bottle water. Not most people. A lot of people drink bottle water.
01:15:12
Speaker
and I think if, if we, well, I mean, again, that's the community you're in. i don't think most people are though.
01:15:22
Speaker
Every, every office has a filter. Every, and every refrigerator has a filter on it. Are they filtering, filtering fluoride? and Maybe not, but. I don't know. I mean, the the guys I work with, most of them don't drink bottled water.
01:15:37
Speaker
Yeah. they'll They'll, get it out of the tap. Most probably don't drink enough water anyway. So, well, most people don't. most Yeah, I don't at all. Uh, so that's part of that. is was like, well, you know, there's less and less people all the time that drink, I think, water of the tap.
01:15:51
Speaker
That's one thing. And what, what, what is swallowing, swallowing a ah glass full of, Water with fluoride helping you on your stomach. And I always bring up always bring up to people, like, when you go to the dentist and they they put the fluoride treatment on, they don't say rinse and swallow. They say rinse and spit. You have to spit. Make sure you spit it all out. Rinse it very good.
01:16:10
Speaker
I wonder, I can't imagine.
01:16:14
Speaker
Fluoride is a byproduct that they didn't know what to do with until they figured out they can sell it to people. Do we have any studies that show what kind of effect it had on dental, on teeth in America? ah You know what? It probably did lower the cavity thing, but people um you know do a better job at hygiene. you know So it's probably a couple of reasons.
01:16:40
Speaker
I think there's way more in advanced in hygiene than it is fluoride. Right. Well, okay, yes. I agree. Fluoride in your toothpaste. Yeah.
01:16:50
Speaker
Well, it's funny, you can buy you can buy toothpaste without fluoride, isn't it? yeah you You can buy, you can buy ah and it's funny, they sell well I think they sell water for babies with fluoride, which is insane. Yeah.
01:17:06
Speaker
And there's studies also showing that IQ levels in places with higher fluoride You know PPM, what is that? Parts per million in their water with a higher level of fluoride in their water. the IQ levels are lower by average.
01:17:21
Speaker
Yes. And it not necessarily mean it's the cause of the fluoride, but it's the start of, hey, let's look into this a little further maybe. Let's do some studies, but no, we're not going to. And I'd like to see the studies that show that fluoride, they can see that. i don't know how you would point that out, but because I think at the same time they were putting fluoride in the waters when we had a a large increase in the ah and and hygiene for for dental hygiene and dental technology, you know, it's kind of happened at the same time. So it's like, hmm.
01:17:52
Speaker
We'll see. Yeah. I just don't know why it needs to be in our water at all. I mean, if you're, if you're, if your argument is cavities, then, you know, you should, you can just buy a bottle of, you know some kind of fluoride thing and rinse your mouth out and, or, you know, put it, add it added to your own water. Yeah.
01:18:08
Speaker
I mean, you could, you could drop in your water and you know, you could, I'm sure the inside of your stomach is going to enjoy all the fluoride and help really help the cavities in your tummy. Uh, cause I don't think washing it over for a half a second does anything in my opinion, but Hey, I'm not a scientist and I did not stay at a holiday and express last night.
01:18:26
Speaker
Do you think this will pass?
01:18:29
Speaker
Uh, it depends what the feds do, right? true It depends. It depends if Robert kind Kennedy gets it passed. Yeah. I don't think it's going to pass that. I think it's more of a chance to pass Ohio, which I just don't think it would, but I have at least, I think it's even less to pass federal. Yeah.
01:18:45
Speaker
Yeah. Depends what the lobbyists are paying. Yeah. and Oh, you have that. And that youre your you will be pointed to as crazy and a conspiracy theorist and a loon.
01:18:57
Speaker
I don't think, i don't, I don't know, actually. I think a while ago you would have been, but now maybe, at I don't know. Maybe to a lesser degree. Yeah.
01:19:08
Speaker
I think you're probably right. I just don't get the people that really want like to live a clean yes health health lifestyle. that You know how they can sit there and say, this is good.
01:19:21
Speaker
They drink bottled water. Yeah. Yeah. But how could they be for fluoride in the water? I'm sure there's plenty of them are, you know, it was, it always occurred to me that we know some people that were very anti dye and anti that kind of stuff.
01:19:39
Speaker
Um, and I, over to the point where i was like, yeah, whatever, you know, 15 years ago, whatever. was like, yeah, whatever. Yeah. Blah, blah, blah. And, um, Now I'm i'm kind of on board with that. Like, yeah, that's probably a good idea to to point that out.
01:19:52
Speaker
You think those kind of people are okay with Florida in the water?
01:19:56
Speaker
I think they're going to be against whatever the Republicans want. So it doesn't matter. Well, they' they're going to trust the science with it, you know, of course.
01:20:08
Speaker
ah So, you know, whatever. I don't think it'll pass, but we'll see what happens. Hopefully we get some. these have a choice or what don I we have to be forced to have that crap in my water. my dog At least my dog drinks it. Let's see how.
01:20:20
Speaker
She's little stupid, so maybe that's the problem. I got to filter her water, too. Smarter her up a little bit.
Water Quality & Reproductive Rights
01:20:28
Speaker
um Next is staying on water.
01:20:31
Speaker
Here's a story we had talked about, maybe a little bit. H2Ohio.
01:20:38
Speaker
could be on the ballot. One of the things that DeWine talked about, i think in the state of the state was this H2Ohio program that he's put in place. And my only question is what is H2Ohio?
01:20:53
Speaker
And H2Ohio is a comprehensive data-driven initiative launched by Governor Mike DeWine. So automatically
01:21:03
Speaker
I don't like it. So Mike DeWine into in 2019 to improve water quality throughout Ohio. Okay. It addresses threats like harmful algae blooms, pollution, and unsafe drinking water through agricultural nutrient management, wetland restoration, infrastructure improvement, and conservation efforts.
01:21:25
Speaker
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. To the tune of $270 million dollars is what DeWine wants for this program. What does it do? So it's it's a pot of money to give to people to
01:21:40
Speaker
ah improve infrastructure, improve conservation efforts is very vague, of course. um But they he had it in the budget and the Republicans shot it. They cut it half. it to like, cuts total about 40% of the H2O Ohio funds according to the budget data. So he's still got most of it in there.
01:22:01
Speaker
He wants to put it on the ballot to have it as like a permanent thing. Let's listen to maybe a little bit from The idea stream. Governor Mike DeWine says he wants to get a bond issue before voters this November to secure long-term funding for H2O. DeWine says he's not sure to what extent the next governor will back or fund H2O's efforts on Lake Erie and elsewhere. But researchers tell him the full results will continue to take time.
01:22:30
Speaker
House Speaker Matt Huffman, a Republican, threw cold water on the bond issue idea, saying he didn't see it moving in his chamber. Here's DeWine. Well, he hadn't told me that, um so we we will see. You know, H2 Ohio has been very, very successful. DeWine wouldn't set a dollar figure on the issue, but his budget request was for $270 million dollars last year. Lawmakers gutted that, passing cuts of about 40 percent of the program across its agencies. Sarah Donaldson at the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau. The Bureau.
01:23:10
Speaker
Ooh. Yeah, that's what she sounded like. Come on, Sarah. Oh, wow. I was like, ooh, I keep forgetting to pull that ring clip. So that's from the ring. I'm trying to sound smarter. I know. I talked to my wife last night. I said, why do you do that? I think she does because she thinks it makes her sound smarter when she does this.
01:23:35
Speaker
She goes, does it? I go, I don't think it does, but apparently she does. Yeah, so... I don't know. He wants this ballot initiative and i don't know. i I don't like it. smells smells fishy to me. smells just like a slush fund for DeWine when he gets out of office.
01:23:53
Speaker
don't know. have no idea. No idea, I don't know. It's too vague. What are you going to do? What are you going to with the $270 million? What are you going to with the $200 million? its It's kind of it like if it was just for 200, not 270 million, but if it was a build just for wetlands, I'd kind of be like, okay, at least we know what the game plan is here.
01:24:16
Speaker
But this is, yeah, you're right. This is just way too big. Yeah. Another, this, this, this is not the only one. They had this all the time. It's, it's a big chunk of money allocated for a, a um, what this would be, and not a group, but, uh, uh, you know, uh, a program and the people appointed that program get to pick where the money goes.
01:24:38
Speaker
Hmm. What could go wrong? This could probably, probably be like five different bills. If they really wanted to do something. Yeah. let's let's Let's run it through. And no, this is, yeah, it's like an omnibus bill. Just give us this chunk of money. We'll tell you what we did with it later.
01:24:55
Speaker
Yeah. It's kind of like, just give us the money and well, we know better than you. Exactly. Exactly. um So we'll see how far that goes. Dwayne, again, wants to put something on the ballot and get it passed. So I'm sure if he gets it on the ballot,
01:25:15
Speaker
People will go, people will go, I've got to vote for the wetlands. Let's see here. Yeah, exactly. That's what exactly, you know, yeah. yeah Trick them into voting for it.
01:25:28
Speaker
It's about the, it's about the, it's about the environment and heaven. Um, okay. So that's that. I think, uh, let us know what you've heard in these, this critical corner.
01:25:40
Speaker
she us so Shoot us an email, cricketrivercast at gmail.com. Send us your opinion on, uh, on the kind of stories in your area. Maybe there's some boots on the ground reporting. actually got one. i don't know if you saw that email from, you know, Sarah Donaldson's got some huge knockers.
01:25:56
Speaker
Whoa. wonder if, I wonder if when she talks, like this if they like reverberate and bounce around well i think i mean that comes from that comes from the chest i mean mine don't but mine don't reverberate but hers might oh just chest was testing um send the world ah crooked rivercast.com ah go Go check out the blog. at that they monday Every Monday morning when the show drops, the blog drops, and you can follow along to the stories that we're listening or reading, and lot of the videos and clips that we have will be up there.
01:26:35
Speaker
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01:26:48
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01:27:01
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01:27:04
Speaker
All right, next on our ah list of stories this week is, well we're going to touch a little bit on the first energy. There's a little first energy update, and i almost pulled the story from the list, but I figured, ah, it actually mentions it in the clip, so we'll just run it. There has been a update. The judge has dismissed some of the bribery, or the bribery, no, the money laundering charges in the case.
01:27:27
Speaker
And let's listen to, listen to, this is WKYC Channel 3.
01:27:34
Speaker
Some breaking news right now. Three news has learned within the last half hour that money laundering charges have been dropped against two former First Energy executives facing trial in a state bribery case. Summit County Judge Susan Baker Ross issued a ruling today that dropped those money laundering counts each. against Charles Jones and Michael Dowling because of a lack of evidence. That is according to court documents. The two, though, are still facing several other charges, including bribery, conspiracy and aggravated theft. This comes as Senator John Husted is set to testify for the defense in the case tomorrow morning. We'll continue to follow this and we'll bring you updates as soon as we get them.
01:28:22
Speaker
I think we'll touch very quickly on this, just that there's an update. They pulled some of the charges according to judge for lack of evidence and they saw the bribery stuff. And as they mentioned, we think we'll talk.
01:28:34
Speaker
but The story that you mentioned about Morgan was about Houston and this and him testifying on the stand for the defense that happened a couple of days ago. We're going to dig more into it over the week and talk about it next week on the next show.
01:28:47
Speaker
But, um, but right now that's the update that Houston did. He did testify and I didn't see, I mean, I looked a little bit and it wasn't, there was no big story, no big bombshell or anything. No more the same. Um,
01:29:01
Speaker
just I don't know. It doesn't seem like there's a whole lot there for his test value, but we'll look into it further. But right now, that's the update on the first energy trial, I guess. um know Lack of evidence, so they dropped the charges.
01:29:15
Speaker
And moving on to R, you know, just an always lovely topic. Hey, abortions in Ohio increased by over 15% 2025. let the kids say
01:29:28
Speaker
Shut up, kids. Shut up, kids. ah In 2025, including many out-of-state patients. Oh, great. Great. um Let's listen to the idea stream.
01:29:40
Speaker
i mean, such glee. We have such glee for an increase of of baby killings. Ohio's new abortion report shows more than 25,000 abortions were performed last year. That's an increase of more than 3,300 over 2024, a 15% jump. And it's the highest number since voters passed the Reproductive Rights Amendment in 2023.
01:30:06
Speaker
The abortion totals dropped in 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe decision and state laws on the books banned it. But in 2023, Ohioans passed a reproductive rights amendment. Abortion Forward Deputy Director Jamie Miracle says these numbers show women have access.
01:30:26
Speaker
Because this means that people are getting access to the It's a tragedy and and it's almost a historic tragedy. That's Mike Gonadakis, executive director of Ohio Right to Life. He says it's alarming that black women got 49% of the abortions, though they make up about 13% of the state's population. Joe Ingalls at the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau.
01:30:52
Speaker
Finally, something that is actually racist, Planned Parenthood. Finally. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the eugenics program is working. Margaret Sanger, genius.
01:31:04
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Genius. ah Yeah, so that was, I mean, yay, there's been more abortions, 15% increase from 2024. You know, yay.
01:31:15
Speaker
Not much more to say to that, but I... I gotta say, though, I kind of looked up numbers. So in 1980, there were 67,000. In 1981, there were 60,000. and nineteen eighty one there were sixty thousand 82, there was 60,000. I'm just rounding. Abortions?
01:31:32
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. And ah yeah, throughout the 80s, it averaged mostly in the 50,000 range, 50 to range. in the ninety s it went down to five thousand to forty five thousand and then in the early two thousand s it was 25 to 35,000. In 2010, there was around 25 to 30,000 and then started dropping for a few years.
01:32:00
Speaker
And now we're climbing back up mainly because of what legislation has been doing. Yeah, I think you're pointing out, so you're getting some ah oh out of state, 20% of abortion patients were from outside the state in 2025. It's 21% actually almost.
01:32:15
Speaker
So that's the, increase that's that's a big increase. So, yay. Ohio is just a big increase, but it's still about a third of what it used to be in the Yeah, which is good. This is great. yeah That's awesome news. Thanks for pulling me back from the edge. Appreciate it.
01:32:30
Speaker
No, yeah I had to look that up because I was like, good good because I, you know I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. You're not an extremist like me. Well, no, no. I'm kind of like, I'm kind of like a 90s or even 80s. It should be um legal, but rare.
01:32:49
Speaker
Safe, legal, and rare. Isn't that what we kind of grew up with? You know, um, I, I just, we did it should be rare, right? That I'm, I'm, yes I'm not gonna, I don't think it should be banned, but anyways, it's, but it's it's ridiculous when they're doing, uh, get, you know abortion pills over the phone, basically. Oh yeah. and it's Right into our next story.
01:33:12
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, well I'm sorry. that Perfect. yeah they're ah They're kind of connected. There's not much to say about this. the Abortions increase mainly from out of state, we think. And great point bringing up. Thanks for the research because it's a third of what it used to be. so <unk>s Yeah, I think that's mostly education and and better access to contraception. Yeah, could be. a um But now the next tie-in story to this is major abortion provider, which is Planned Parenthood in Ohio, to expand services via telehealth.
01:33:44
Speaker
abortions by phone. What a great concept. I mean, exit strategy, anyone come on. I mean, i think where's the app. is there going to be an app next? Uh, let's see. Let's check this one. You're trying to give them ideas. Yeah. I mean, im come on. They think they haven't already had one.
01:34:00
Speaker
That's already in the works guaranteed. Uh, let's listen to a short little report from about this. And, um, really, I mean, some serious problems here about access to abortions.
01:34:13
Speaker
59% of the more than 25,000 abortions that were provided in Ohio last year were medication-induced. 60%. could be more abortions provided that way in the future with the help of telehealth.
01:34:27
Speaker
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio President and CEO Erica Wilson-Domer says her organization has already been using telehealth to prescribe birth control and other health services. Now, she says they'll start doing medication abortions that way.
01:34:43
Speaker
We understand that people struggle with access, um transportation barriers, child care barriers, people have jobs. And often people want to be able to control when they're able to, you know, receive their abortion care. And so telemedicine access, just it opens up that access for people.
01:35:01
Speaker
A 2021 state law bans abortion medication via telehealth, but a legal challenge to that law has blocked it. Some Republican state lawmakers are sponsoring a similar bill, but there are questions about its constitutionality under the Reproductive Rights Amendment voters approved in 2023. Joe Ingalls at the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau.
01:35:26
Speaker
Oh, is your job getting in the way of you killing your baby? Oh, how about an app?
01:35:34
Speaker
So yeah, they're they're going to do telehealth now. You just call up, say, I'm pregnant. And they say, go pick up the pill. And that's you're done. you know I thought the pill, I thought it was like a morning after pill. Isn't yeah that what it would? It's not really though.
01:35:49
Speaker
It's not though. No, it's not only the morning after. It's up to seven weeks, man. That's messed up, man. Yeah. And messes if you've ever have known a woman to go through a miscarriage, that's basically what they have, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's gross, but this this is terrible.
01:36:07
Speaker
Yep. Yeah, it's terrible that 60%, 60% of the abortions in Ohio are via this moviea medically induced. So the barrier is even low. You don't have to go through a surgery. you don't even have to go through, but you don't see a doctor now. You could do it right from your house.
01:36:21
Speaker
Just get online, say hi. It's like just like getting having a cold and getting penicillin. You just go right to the pharmacy, give her the pill, and then, you know, the baby falls out a couple days later. Got a question. Some bloody clots that fall out.
01:36:36
Speaker
Bloody clot. Yes, what? um Okay, you have a daughter that's so in high school, right? Mm-hmm. When I was in high school, i remember, I think it was like, boy, it was even 11th grade.
01:36:51
Speaker
ah I would think throughout my high school years, I remember seeing about four or five girls that ended up pregnant. you know, yeah carrying their baby in school.
01:37:02
Speaker
And I knew two, at least there might've been one. I'm trying to remember if there was one more that got abortions. Is that, are are kids seeing like, are are girls getting pregnant like they used to? I mean, like, I don't know. I graduated in 89. So I'm just wondering what it's like now.
01:37:24
Speaker
I don't, I don't see any of it. and I'm not sure. Yeah. I know. I don't, my limited view of the, my daughter's school, you know, in mass, I don't, I don't go to large events with the lots of people there. You know, i see her when they walk out. I don't see any pregnant girls walking out of school.
01:37:41
Speaker
When I pick her up, um I don't hear about anybody getting pregnant. Again, this is a Catholic school, so you're going to see even less of that there than you see public school. um I don't know. I don't think i'm the the a good example.
01:37:55
Speaker
You know, not that. Yeah, I'm kind of curious. Yeah. Because like because I know, i don't think, I don't know, but I think kids aren't hooking up like they used to in in my, i think the eighty s was a peak period for that. Right. I think you're, I think you're right. I also think though that it's more extremes than now. Maybe like you have kids who just, they, all they do is hook up and then you have kids are a slut. And yeah.
01:38:22
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Maybe you have, maybe it's more of the extremes and not as much of the middle ground. Maybe that's right. know what it feels like to me, but I don't know where I'm getting that from. Just because I know society alone, like in general, I think.
01:38:32
Speaker
Right, because i in my days, I know everybody wasn't, but it seemed like, man, most kids were kind of hooking up in their 10th, 11th, 12th grade years. And yeah, it was all it was all that rock and roll music, Rob. Definitely. It was all that Satan music you were listening to.
01:38:51
Speaker
It was all that hairband stuff. It was all about partying and stepping and... Happy birthday. Go out and meet some girls and eat some cake. but now what he says Of course he says, screw some girls, eat some cake. But, um, so I don't know. I think, uh, I think you're onto something maybe. Uh, but I think it's like, it's I think there's more extremes. You have the, the, the, I think the growing majority of kids who are getting more conservative and then you, but you have a, maybe even, don't know if it's a shrinking number whatever, but maybe it's just more of it extremes and less, less of the middle. It could be. yeah Just like everything else in the world nowadays. there there is There is a trend that young men are going to the church.
01:39:33
Speaker
Young women are going the opposite way. But I think that's goingnna i think that's going to reverse itself with the young women. If they want meet guy. if they want to if they want to meet a guy
01:39:45
Speaker
All right. Well, before we move on, I think i think I'm going to do an and an impromptu comedy break here because we talked a whole lot of about abortion and stuff. So before we get on to the next one, which is kind of the contrary to the abortion, but let's let's do a little comedy break. Okay. I i think think we need to listen to this.
01:40:03
Speaker
Did you know Freedom Tunes is back? I didn't know it was gone. Me either. But I just see something come across my feed and i went on their site. it looks like in the last couple of months, it looks like you took a hiatus maybe or something. nots going on. That's Seamus is the guy's name.
01:40:17
Speaker
Yeah. Freedom Tunes used be on Temple all the time. oh he You know what he what he did and a short while ago? Probably, maybe he's been gone because of this, but he did a Kickstarter campaign to start funding his own 30 minute type of cartoons instead of like those quick two, three minute cartoons.
01:40:37
Speaker
And he got, he reached his goal, which was, i think a million dollars or something like that. okay And, uh, he might, might've been producing that right at this point. Yeah. To check that out then.
01:40:48
Speaker
Yeah. Now vaguely remember something like that. Well, here's one I thought was fitting to, you know, some of the common themes that we talk about here, some of the problems we have in in this country. And this is ah this is Freedom Tunes skit. This is a short little skit that he does, mostly mostly by himself, and as far as the voices and everything. But this is Freedom Tunes. This is 1950s reacting to 2026, the future of 2026. And i we come in the middle of this, but you'll see where I'm going with it.
01:41:17
Speaker
Here's another wild tale. In the same future, you can travel on an incredible flying machine that soars through the skies, but you have to let them rub you all over your body before you can go on the flying machine.
01:41:34
Speaker
All over your body. Why would you have to let them rub all over your body? Because Mohammedans wish to crash the flying machines into buildings.
01:41:48
Speaker
So they only rub Mohammedans? No, they would get in trouble if they did that. Why would they get in trouble if they rub Mohammedans, but not if they rub me? Because in the future they hate racism. What is racism? It's when you treat someone differently because of their skin color. To avoid it, you're required to treat people with certain skin colors like they're incapable of doing wrong.
01:42:14
Speaker
Lazy writing. Too many plot holes. Yes, see even the most insane despot would never govern with such mad policy. Yes, and the subjects would revolt if they did. Oh no, in this future, every Western nation is a democracy. Wait for it. Huh? Where to believe the people choose this? That lets women vote. Oh. Okay, her makes sense now.
01:42:42
Speaker
ah Yep. Whole team makes sense. I not totally believe it. Yep. Totally believe it. hello that's a Good one. I figured it after a couple of abortion stories, you can use that. A chuckle from freedom tunes.
01:42:55
Speaker
ah Let's see what, what else that come out of comes out of there in the near future. He was always good for a laugh. ah So next story we have is first year Cleveland.
Healthcare and Financial Challenges in Ohio
01:43:09
Speaker
a group nonprofit, i believe, a first year Cleveland will share $1.8 million dollars with local groups to prevent infant deaths.
01:43:18
Speaker
Yeah. thinking, can the two groups work together? I mean, or would that be a bad, would they, you know, i don't know. There's gotta be some kind of correlation here, you know? So first year is nonprofit focused on maternity, on um maternal and children's health.
01:43:34
Speaker
We'll use $1.8 million program.
01:43:37
Speaker
from the Ohio department of children and youth to support families to tackle persistently high infant infant mortality rate in Cuyahoga County.
01:43:47
Speaker
Apparently Cuyahoga County has, um faces alarming infant mortality rates between 2022 and 24, 2024 of roughly eight in every 1000 babies died before the first year.
01:44:03
Speaker
You know what? didn't look up what's the national average. Uh,
01:44:09
Speaker
Let's see. Black infants remain at the highest risk with a death rate of more than three times that of white infants. ah Hispanic infants mortality has recently begun to climb.
01:44:23
Speaker
Yeah. They get here in our culture long enough. and is um According to the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, um poverty and maternal health are majority contributing factors, officials say. so they're going to take some money I guess education, is that going to help?
01:44:42
Speaker
What was the rate? ah Eight in every 1,000 in County. National is 5.6. Wow. yeah That's That's quite a bit more. Yeah. yeah Why? It's like, I don't know. why is it why what's What's so special about Cuyahoga County that makes it higher? I don't know.
01:45:03
Speaker
ah but they're going to spend money to save the infants. And right after Planned Parenthood's going to try to kill, don't know. It's very confusing to me But, um yep, so it's good thing. I mean, why why is it one in eight? Eight in a thousand, rather? One in eight. Oh, no, we don't do that. That's crazy. ah Good question.
01:45:24
Speaker
Doesn't really, does that really even get to it I don't think they even give you a reason in here. Just basically poverty and
01:45:35
Speaker
Lack of education and maternity health. ah well i'm looking I'm looking at here what Grock found. Yeah. ah There's a lot of premature, low birth weight babies, which means I would think that's mainly from poverty or I would say drug use too.
01:45:55
Speaker
Drug use is a big part of it, but even just malnutrition because they're young. They don't know. They don't care. Maybe, you know, there's that whole thing. ah There's so much learned over the years for for pregnant women and what to eat, what they shouldn't eat.
01:46:12
Speaker
ah You know, if you don't have much of that, and you can have maybe a higher rate of this. that's i'm I'm kind of right out of my butt. You know what? I'm going to hang on. What?
01:46:22
Speaker
Hang on. Just like the little kitty in the poster.
01:46:28
Speaker
Go ahead. You could talk. i Let me do a quick search. You can talk. It was coffee time. out i was gonna sip I thought you had some very enthusiastic talk about infant health, but no, apparently not. So initiative comes as Kygo County continues to face alarming infant rate, like we talked about. Yeah.
01:46:47
Speaker
Okay, so we have piece yeah good ahead okay we have basically the same rate as Chicago, which which I think that rate, the national rate going to be a lot lower, mainly, but when you get into a a metropolitan area, it's going to be higher. it's i blame I was getting to blaming Cleveland in a minute.
01:47:07
Speaker
Yeah. Well, it's it's just inner city. Yeah. Yeah. Inner city poverty, you're going to have less of everything and... um I don't know. it The education on food health is horrible in this country. So that makes sense that it would, it would contribute to low birth rates because if you're eating nutmeg crap while you're pregnant, your baby's probably not going be very healthy, I would think.
01:47:31
Speaker
Or I don't know. What do what up what do I know? So there's that. That's good news. We'll see what see what comes up, if if anything. And hopefully we can get that one in eight down a little bit. Kind of be nice.
01:47:43
Speaker
Really good for the for the babies. it's Considering the national birth rate's already tanking. We can check all these off. Yep. Okay. National nonprofit. infinite Okay. Next one.
01:47:53
Speaker
Last one on our main list of stories is Akron. Akron has decided they need to cut their budget, Tom. I saw this. I nearly fell over. Yeah. And some of the reasons why is why i kind of pulled the story because brings some familiarity here to some of the stuff we talked about. But I just want to, they're cutting their budget to $785 million. they're bringing in.
01:48:21
Speaker
but it's still ten million more than they bring it in okay Well, that's what it shows in here. It's moving in the right direction, Rob. Yeah. Yes, it is. I mean, is it it is help. You're helping, but it's like, ah. um So let's see if we can pinpoint, you know, kind of the similarities between Chicago County and Akron.
01:48:39
Speaker
um And really, you know, when i whenever I hear this guy, I think, who voted for this guy? oh The low T just continues to surprise me.
01:48:52
Speaker
Yeah. This guy. ah Here we go. um Akron's budget of cuts. None of us would like to be in a situation where we're forced to make tough decisions. I think, frankly, you know, these are things that we are certainly up to the task of this. Akron Mayor Shalmus Mollick says some city workers could see job cuts in overtime reductions under his administration's proposed 2026 operating budget.
01:49:20
Speaker
He laid out the plan during a meeting on Monday. and We have to be as disciplined as possible. Interesting. Interesting.
01:49:40
Speaker
prioritizing only quote mission-critical vacancies so far thirty five fulltime positions have been eliminated through attrition saving the city an estimated three and a half million dollars a year in wages and benefits This is something that and and we are going to give a little bit more scrutiny to those positions this year than we have in years past.
01:50:03
Speaker
The policy does not apply to sworn police or fire positions. However, overtime in both safety forces have increased dramatically since 2020. The city is also working to reduce overtime in both the police and fire departments. The mayor says early fire department reforms have already saved more than $90,000 in two weeks two weeks, with about $2.5 million dollars dollars in projected annual savings. And the police department is expected to cut roughly $2 million dollars in overtime in 2026. The overtime levels that we're seeing are unsustainable. I think now we really have to control these costs.
01:50:43
Speaker
Oh, now you you know what You know what I noticed was... ah the overtime drastically increased in 2020. And um you know what? They just kept going.
01:50:56
Speaker
like Like it didn't go back. I'm i'm sure some some guys maybe weren't working, so they needed to add overtime. Or are people were sick, maybe. you know You know, back then you had to take the two weeks off or whatever it was if you got COVID.
01:51:11
Speaker
Yep. And ah maybe that ah that's why there was more overtime, but ah it just they just never dropped it, man. And what's happening now, I think, is it that the PPP money, the COVID money running out.
01:51:24
Speaker
don't know. Okay. Yeah. That's what I think. They don't say it in any of these things, but I mean... but A lot of cities just had this sitting in the bank, Cuyahoga County being one of them. Because remember, one of our first stories we covered was the new jail for Cuyahoga County Jail.
01:51:37
Speaker
They spent forty almost $40 million dollars from COVID money to buy the land before right before it was even approved by the city or the county, rather. um I think they they were subsidizing all this overtime with COVID money, and now that's kind of running out. i don't i don't That's just a guess of mine. just feels You would think you would stop after 2020 when you didn't really need the overtime anymore.
01:52:01
Speaker
i mean, i i ah can't say that. I mean, Akron probably could use a few more cops, ah but again, we go back to the same same story as Cogga County and going, more cops are better than the same cops for longer.
01:52:14
Speaker
Well, yeah. You know, I don't mind a you know cop working some overtime, but I mean, if they're working double shifts, i sure I'm not sure if I want that guy to... to come into my house when I need their help.
01:52:28
Speaker
Yeah. After, after hour 73 of his 80 hour a week, they're cranky dealing with all those idiots. Anyways, imagine if you're doing that 16 hours a day instead of eight or 10. Right.
01:52:40
Speaker
Um, so yeah, everybody's kind of, um hit and it's almost like they're all kind of doing the same thing, same shady stuff. I guess I'm not saying the the cops are necessarily doing anything, and I think, but I think they do take advantage of it. I mean, shoot. Of course. Everybody would.
01:52:54
Speaker
Yeah, you're filling your wallet up. I don't, yeah, I don't, I don't, but they' but as long as they're actually working, is a line that's that's where I draw the line, you know, and don't be, but if there's if there's a lack of officers, firefighters,
01:53:07
Speaker
Hey, I get it. you You roll up on a scene and you're three hours away from, from your shift ending, but this is going to take you the rest of the night. You you stay. i'm like, what are you supposed to do? That kind of stuff happens. yeah So, and same thing on the, so, but it has to be reined in and the best way to rein it in is not having enough money. Starve the animals.
01:53:25
Speaker
Starve the beast. um So there's that. um Next, I think we'll keep moving on the last segment.
Honoring Veterans & Celebrating Local Breweries
01:53:40
Speaker
Got a couple of quick ones here. um First, we got Vietnam travel memorials coming to Ohio. It's the only stop in Ohio in 2026. I didn't even know they had this. Did you know they had something like this? I had no idea.
01:53:52
Speaker
So apparently they have a wall, a a replica of the Vietnam Memorial that travels around the country. And this year is going to stop in Ottawa County. And it's set to, in the spring during America's 250th anniversary celebration. That's going to be a big year for or summertime parties and stuff.
01:54:12
Speaker
250 years, lots of things going boom. um Basically, a three-fifths scale replica of the Vietnam Memorial will be displayed at Lakeside at lakeside Chattanooga.
01:54:27
Speaker
and That's not Chattanooga, but alongside the lakefront near the hotel. Chautauqua. Chautauqua, yeah, I was getting there. On March, it clicked on me as soon as I went past it. I'm like, that's Chautauqua, isn't it?
01:54:39
Speaker
ah March 3rd, news releases say,
01:54:44
Speaker
It appears to be the only stop in Ohio, as they said, 300 foot long in length with names of 58,000 US service members who died in the Vietnam police action patched into its service.
01:54:58
Speaker
And they're looking for some volunteers. so if you're interested, check out the story and you can get in touch with them. They got websites and all that information for to help out and to where go to see it and all the information. One of the things I did not go to my one trip to Washington, d c was a Vietnam Memorial.
01:55:16
Speaker
I had limited time, so I went with the founding fathers instead of, I went i went with the beginning set instead of the, you know, stuff that'll make you Vietnam and Hiroshima and those kind of, or Iwo Jima. didn't see any of those yet, but on the next trip, I'll see it.
01:55:33
Speaker
But I hear it's pretty moving when you see the the wall. I've seen full-size one. Check this one out. Want to help? Let them know. Next, we have a but Cleveland or hot. Yeah, Cleveland, basically. Cleveland, I have beers in there, but I think it's more like Cleveland breweries are on a top 10 list. And, you know and then I started reading into it. I'm like, wow, it is ah it is a USA Today top 10 list, which is kind of all they do is top 10 lists, I think.
01:56:02
Speaker
ah But ten they're on the Cleveland Craft Breweries represent represented on USA Today's 10 best list of 2026. Now, none of them got, like, best beer.
01:56:14
Speaker
They're all, ah like, kind of side categories. So... Yeah. Well, actually... ah It's cool that Great Lakes Brewing got Best Brewery. Oh, they just had... Never mind.
01:56:26
Speaker
yeah they got ah They won for Best Brewery Tour. Best Brewery Tour. Yeah, number four. They didn't even win it. They got number four. Or did they win it? They got four.
01:56:37
Speaker
Yeah. And then... Let's see. Best... And then there was one, Port Clinton's Twin Oast Brewing.
01:56:49
Speaker
Landed at number four on the list of the 10 best beer gardens. they Check them out. they I haven't heard that one before on on Lake Erie in Catawba.
01:57:00
Speaker
Well, obviously their beer is not that good. Why would you hear about it? You Cleveland.com, you suck. um And then they i was reading it this morning and now I can't. ah So they had a best brewing tour. And I think the one I wanted to bring up was Fat Heads.
01:57:17
Speaker
They had best best label for Bumbleberry. They got number two. Yeah, number two for Fat Heads Bumbleberry label. That was pretty cool. Good to see little brewery. And I think ah Port Clinton is a stretch for Cleveland breweries. yes with you it's It's kind of far out of Cleveland.
01:57:35
Speaker
ah But hey whatever. Northern Ohio, it's all good. ah So just a reminder, visit your normal brewery your visit your local breweries or not local breweries because they could always use your help consuming some of their product.
01:57:49
Speaker
Next we'll touch because it's that time of year. And then I think a couple next week. Yeah. Next week is a St. Patrick's day and it is the Cleveland St. Patrick's day. 2026 parade route is set.
01:58:04
Speaker
Ooh, this is where you can puke. Mm-hmm. Green beer. If you, if you choose a pure green beer, it's the only time it's, it's the time of the year that, um, everybody's okay with polluting the water in Chicago with green dye. It's okay.
01:58:20
Speaker
I always thought that was weird. Um, so the parade, they get the parade route set and they're celebrating, uh, this, this year's theme is celebrating 250 years of Irish American contributions to the land of the free.
01:58:32
Speaker
And, uh, yes, there's my people, right? Some my people, uh, We celebrate 20, 50 years of just getting drunk and beating each other up in bars. That's what we do. That's what we're best at. And eating potatoes. Eating potatoes.
01:58:48
Speaker
Tasteless, plain potatoes. um If you're planning to drink St. Patrick's Day, the Ohio Liquor Control ahr wants you to celebrate responsibly.
01:58:59
Speaker
Partner with Lyft for a $15 voucher if you're going down to the parade. Yeah, you can only wait like three or four hours for that Lyft. But yeah, check out the parade if you're interested. don't know what the weather's to be like, but. Oh, you know what? Let me take a look real quick here. It doesn't matter. Just if the colder it gets, the more you to drink, you won't feel it. It was always, I mean, I went down there a few times when I was a young man.
01:59:21
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If the weather was nice, it's going to, Ooh. Yeah. I'm sorry, guys. It's going to be 27 that day. 27 and snowing possibly. twenty seven and knowing possibly yeah yeah Only the, maybe those are the days you go to the parade because there's less people there.
01:59:39
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More beer. And more beer. Yeah. So that's that. um I guess ah check out the parade route if you want to go. There's got all the information there and subscribe to the show. Tell your friends, leave a comment, check out the blog post every Monday when the show drops.
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02:00:12
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And anything that you want to say, Tom, to the to listeners besides, you know, listen more, subscribe. Tell everybody no.
02:00:24
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Why did I whisper? I'm not sure. because i was doing a Joe Biden. Oh, come on, man. Oh man. So yeah, but thank you for listening. ahead. You're going to say something. I know. No, no. I just want, just, I want every, thank you for listening.
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