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Crooked River Cast Show 1
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Cleveland city courts hack
DEI Protests
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Introduction and Personal Updates
00:00:01
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Hello and welcome to another episode of whatever we're going to call this podcast, where we cover what's going on in Northeast Ohio or Northern Ohio and what we think you need to know.
00:00:13
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ah Good morning. are doing, Tom? I'm doing good. How are you? Good. ah I'm mainly just obsessing with mic placement currently.
00:00:24
Speaker
Yeah, same here. I got it directly in front of my face right now. Okay. Sounds good. I, uh, I've been messing with it. It's, uh, I think, i think I got a new OCD thing. So, um, what else is going on? How was, how was your week?
00:00:42
Speaker
it was good. Celebrated my mom's, uh, 79th trip around the sun. And then the next day we, uh, had um we We had dinner. We cooked dinner for my in-laws for their 64th wedding anniversary.
00:00:59
Speaker
And then a few days later, I went over there because I volunteered to help. And he's old school, 92
00:01:09
Speaker
Still gardens, still does things. and But he you know he asked me for help because he needed to cut some branches off some trees for his garden.
00:01:20
Speaker
you He take cuts the branches, and he uses them for bean poles. Okay. But he asked me to bring my pole saw, and I was like, okay, not a problem. Got there after work.
00:01:31
Speaker
20 minutes later, I'm up in a tree with my pole saw, pants half falling down. Ugh. it was ah It was an adventure, and I'm still sore.
00:01:43
Speaker
so So it was a good week. You need a longer pole saw. yeah Actually, the pole saw extends to 12 feet, but I couldn't. Okay, so he's got this tree. It's a gnarly tree. It's totally gnarly.
00:01:57
Speaker
He's cut it so many times, so it's all suckers. Oh, my But these suckers turn into great pieces. sticks for beans. Oh. But I couldn't get my pole saw through this brushy tree.
00:02:14
Speaker
That should have been cut down probably 30 years ago. But I got it done. So i i got them I got them out of the tree and he's goingnna he's going to slowly cut them apart and make bean posts.
00:02:31
Speaker
For bean plants. Growing beans. Yeah. Okay. The vine. They grow up the vine and, you know. Yeah. he He still does it like he did it in Italy probably 70 years ago. Nice.
00:02:47
Speaker
Good for him. Yeah. No, it's it's awesome. 92 years old and he's still doing it. And that's why he's 92 because he's doing that. Yeah. Well, we were spot on back from we were walking back to the house from,
00:02:58
Speaker
doing that. And he's like, I don't know how much I can do this year.
00:03:04
Speaker
He would do more than I would do. Yeah, exactly. He's got two gardens and he only asked me because he just came from the hospital. So he's feeling a little, um, he's, he's a little slower right now. Cause he uh, he was in the hospital for a few days and, uh,
00:03:19
Speaker
He didn't want to get climb a ladder. That's the only reason he asked me to do this. Well, i and otherwise look' at got his head. That's smart. Yeah, yeah. That's why he's 92 because he calls his son a lot to go up on a ladder.
00:03:33
Speaker
No, no, no bean polls for me this week. yeah How was your week? What was good? Busy, busy, busy with the, with the real job. um Columbus is a crazy market. So was back and forth of there and you know, got kids and what do we
Protest Season and Education Cuts
00:03:53
Speaker
have? Oh, first orchestra recital.
00:03:56
Speaker
Oh, I heard about that. Informants, they call them. Because they as they go through, ah they they explain to us, the audience, what they do to learn A, B, and and all this. So the in between the little um musical performances they have, they go, this is what we do. We learn the A string and this and blah, blah. So my daughter's on the violin, which there was, oh gosh, 50 violins there and few cellos and basses. And then they had the band. They had band and orchestra.
00:04:27
Speaker
They combined. So the brokerage went first. Yeah. They were good. they You know, when you when you need the thought of like 25 or 40 violins in the hands of youngins going off at one time, you think, ouch.
00:04:42
Speaker
But actually, they were pretty good. They were pretty good. Um, awesome and then I thought that was bad. And then the band started playing and I went, Ooh, cause you know, playing a clarinet or a saxophone playing a violin, you can hit, you can hit some bad notes, either one of those, but they did it really good. It was.
00:05:01
Speaker
And the key I think was they kept it short. We all love seeing our kids, but an hour and 45 minutes of ah choir or is sometimes it's a little much. So they kept it under an hour. was really nice.
00:05:18
Speaker
Oh, that's it. That's perfect. Yeah. And sometimes it just goes on. and You look, you look at the program, like um how long is this thing? And you're, so they're they're learning. You're the, you're the dad looking at his watch.
00:05:31
Speaker
not tough but I'm, my back starts to hurt. I'm, you know I'm old. So I'm getting old. I should say I'm not old. Cause we just talked about 92. So I should shut up, but yeah, you know,
00:05:44
Speaker
it um I've sat at dance recitals where my daughter has danced for two minutes and the the other hour and 45 minutes was I gotta stay there and watch it yeah it's nice after a while but It's nice, but after a while, it's a little much. but where is i ah hear yeah I I love it, but after a while, you know.
00:06:07
Speaker
um They're cute, but they're you know they're not musicians just yet. um So ah we're looking at each other's stories, and what I've seen in the news that really piqued my attention was cuts, cuts, cuts, and cuts.
00:06:24
Speaker
People are screaming about it. What what have you seen? Same thing. And I'm just thinking it's protest season. It's going to warm up and protests are going to get a little bit more little bit more out there ah busier. So I just kind of, i got I got a few stories, but I think you should, I think we got pretty much the same thing. so Yeah, I mean, that's a good point. Actually, protests, we'll get back to that because...
00:06:53
Speaker
wrote that down because I want to remember that. So, you know, from the VA cuts, you've department education cuts that are being announced. um I don't think anyone really knows what's going to be cut yet or what's going to be affected.
00:07:07
Speaker
um But what i what what but I wanted to know was, well, how much does the department education actually affect Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Northern Ohio, whatever you want to look at? What I found is state of Ohio receives $1.5 billion dollars from the Department Education annually.
00:07:25
Speaker
$1.5 billion? Billion. from This is for Cuyahoga or for This is for Ohio total. um And most of that is grants that is spread out for college.
00:07:40
Speaker
And most of that's for probably for DEI? Well, it's...
00:07:47
Speaker
It was probably one point. I don't believe that is – nope, doesn't say it doesn't even mention anything about that. It's just basically most of what come most of the money coming out of Department Education for Ohio in total ah is for grants for underprivileged kids to go to college or school. Okay. Okay.
00:08:10
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and And up until recently, yes, I think affirmative action was a part of that. i It has to have been, right? That was part of the federal government up until recently. um So I'm sure that um the diversity, equity, inclusion was included in that as well.
00:08:27
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um You know, up until now, I guess. Yeah.
00:08:32
Speaker
What really, know it I think think what what I've gathered is nobody knows what's going to be cut or what's going to be affected. The money is still going to be there. it's The federal government is still going to send Ohio money.
00:08:46
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It's just a matter of how much and what we're going to do with it.
00:08:50
Speaker
So people are complaining about things that I'm not sure they even know. Well, i think I think these are the protests and the people complaining are actually, um I think there's people funding this. I don't think it's ah and don't think it's too um organic.
00:09:09
Speaker
i I would say maybe right now it is because ah you're getting 50 100 people. And from some of the interviews I've seen or clips I've seen, they don't seem that to to be the typical hired guns. but And usually, if you got hired guns, you've got a lot more than 100 people there, right?
00:09:33
Speaker
and Right. But in the signs that aren aren't are aren't professionally printed. So, i okay, maybe not. But these are like...
00:09:44
Speaker
um anti-Trump organizers however North those Ohio anti-Trump organizers and political ah experts say there are differences between two today's protests and from 8 years ago it just seems they're saying it's stronger this time around probably because of the cuts because the cuts yeah go ahead good And um I think it's going to just build through and it's still winter.
00:10:10
Speaker
So I think it's going to just get i'm bigger and bigger. And um nobody really, they know, they know, they think they know what they're protesting, but they really don't know anything because nothing that's happened yet has affected damn I do have a clip to actually kind of prove that they don't actually know but what they're talking about. but So there's there's um New Channel 5. I think it was New Channel 5 I pulled this clip from.
00:10:41
Speaker
um ah Interviewed a ah mother, and according to the clip, was has been generations involved in education in Cleveland, which is pretty vague. I don't know i mean, you went to school, so you're involved...
00:10:56
Speaker
When she was a kid, she went to Cleveland school. That means she's involved in education. i don't know what that meant, but here's some of the quotes from her. um So she says, ah so the interviewer asked, do you trust the lawmakers to give money to public schools?
00:11:11
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I asked Woodward. Woodward's the mother. And she answered, i would say, no, I don't trust that they'll be fair with the pot of money. So you don't trust lawmakers to pass out this money that lawmakers have been passing out for years.
00:11:31
Speaker
Is that, I don't understand. That makes no sense. Right. So here, let me see if I can get this, uh, where, here it is. Let's listen to her. you something like maybe something stands out for you?
00:11:45
Speaker
Oh, by the way, one thing Trump says Pell grants will stay, will still be available to students, but Woodward, this, this woman doesn't believe him. There's your TDS. So here's a clip.
00:11:56
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Trump says Pell Grants will still be available to students, but Woodward doesn't believe him. Every parent wants the next generation to do better and have a better time than than they had.
00:12:07
Speaker
And I feel like I've let her down somehow in my generation. Sorry, now I'm getting very emotional. Through tears, the mother says her only hope is that the next four years go
Veterans Affairs and Military Healthcare
00:12:16
Speaker
quickly. At the Ohio State House, I'm Morgan Trout reporting.
00:12:22
Speaker
Her only hope is... is that the four years will go quickly. Okay. ah To me, I felt very sad when I heard that because if you're only if you think your only hope is to wait for the next the next election,
00:12:40
Speaker
you don't have any hope. I mean, yeah how did that? Well, it's typical. It's it's all, it's all yeah you know, it's, we can, we can, we can go off on a tangent here about these type of protesters or TDS sufferers and because it's, it's all based on emotion. There's no rationality.
00:13:05
Speaker
ye They don't even know what they're protesting or what they're angry about, really. They're just orange man bad. Orange man bad. and i can't see it and nowhere in any of these first couple stories we're going to talk about because the VA cuts is a similar thing.
00:13:23
Speaker
But also to tag onto that real quick before we move to the VA, but ah also wanted to put i put this clip in my notes. of The Trump administration is also halting all income-based loan repayments that put it but were put in place by the Biden administration.
00:13:38
Speaker
um I believe it was an executive order that was role was ruled against by the Supreme Court, or at least part of it was. right And that where they would take how much money you make and then adjust your loan payments, and then the government would fill them.
00:13:51
Speaker
It sounded like the government would fill the hole that you would leave by not being able to afford all your payments. And this was an executive order by Biden that they're now going to stop.
00:14:03
Speaker
So that's also included in all this. which they were complaining about. but and and Oh, by the way, I think the um the other thing that Department of Education handled loans, government loans, right?
00:14:16
Speaker
Yep. The grants. I think that's a lot of the grants that we were talking about. I think a lot of that's going to be handled like... I think there's still going to be all that stuff, but it's going to be handled by the um SBA, small business.
00:14:32
Speaker
um ah Where was it? The um Department of Commerce, maybe one of those? Because originally that's where the Department Education came from. It was ah it was a side, it was part of another department. Yeah, so they're they're basically ah shrinking Department of Education, but they're they're not cutting everything. It's just going to other departments, which is which is the way it should be. Yeah, the funding's probably going to stay similar or the same, because that would be political suicide to cut the funding, first of all.
00:14:59
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Um, but it may it be putting in different areas, but the key I think is it goes to the, it's going to go to the state and the state, your state gets to divvy it up.
00:15:13
Speaker
So it's getting closer to you. So you, you have the money, but you, you can, um, you can do what you want with it, which is the way it should be. And that's what DeWine is saying. As of right now, they're saying, well, look, we're, we're not, we're going to wait and see what money we do get and then make decisions from there. Cause right now we can't, I can't even comment on it cause I don't know what's, what's going to change yet.
00:15:36
Speaker
Um, but the Trump administration is saying basically the money's not going to be turned off. Um, and that's, and that's the key that everybody needs to understand is it's actually a great thing because then you get to, you actually have more say in where your money goes.
00:15:51
Speaker
yeah Right. Well, I mean, but people don't look at it that way. Her only hope, Tom, but only hope not talk to your lawmakers, not, not, not going on the steakhouse or go to your, so your county officials and no, just sit there and wait for a Democrat.
00:16:11
Speaker
Cause how's it worked for us so far? Department education. Well, our scores have gone down. Nothing but down since the end. What is the United States now, like ranked 28th?
00:16:24
Speaker
If that. That's a good question. I forget. I think it's like 28th in the world. where you know Before the Department of Education, we were number one. Which, i you know, I don't know how.
00:16:36
Speaker
There's a lot of factors that go with that. so Globally, does it have universal... United States boasts some of the world's top universities.
00:16:51
Speaker
and
00:16:54
Speaker
Yeah, but you're talking universities. I'm i'm thinking more about K-12. K-12 STEM education, math performance, U.S. students ranked 28th out of 37. Yeah, that's what I thought. Memor countries out of the OECD.
00:17:08
Speaker
That's sad, and that that also reflects on our industries here, too. you know Our engineers are retarded. I work with a lot of them. Yeah, they and i see why it's being brutal there. They're not they're not um retarded, but there I've actually talked an engineer that said, a so-called engineer, that said he can't stand math.
00:17:32
Speaker
And I'm like, isn't that what you do all math? And, you know, that's just...
00:17:41
Speaker
It does go back to some of the reasons why you see tech tech industry pull from outside of the country and get those student visas and stuff. There's that. and I think some kids, I do think, you know, kids kind of, they don't go with their strengths because our schools suck.
00:17:57
Speaker
that They don't know what their strengths are. They're just kind of guided in a way. Follow your passion. Yeah. Well, I don't even know if it's that. Like, is this guy who didn't like math, is his passion really engineering?
00:18:09
Speaker
and And developing new you know new things. I don't think that was a passion. I think that was just, oh you know you know what? You should look into engineering some freaking retarded ah um school counselor. you know These are the good jobs here. Take one.
00:18:25
Speaker
take one You like that r word, don't you? Yeah, it's coming back. It's coming back in the style it is. think it's gay and retarded is coming back. It's back in vogue.
00:18:38
Speaker
Yeah, and yeah i I think it there's probably plenty of qualified engineers. I would just say as a company, it might be easier just to go to India because you don't have to sift through all the crap. But um i added on to that, go I think there's great engineers. i'm I just, because that's from my personal experience of yeah and working in the few that I, I kind of just shook my head and didn't understand why they were engineers.
00:19:09
Speaker
And actually one, actually one of them, you know, when he left my car, the company I work for, when he left, he became a realtor. Oh, well that degree went to flush that down the toilet. Um,
00:19:24
Speaker
Well, I had something else to but I know it's gone. um So I guess then the added on to that is VA cuts that people are freaking out on. That's super emotional. I mean, maybe if you can compare the two, I'm not sure which is more emotional ah cuts on veterans or cuts to your children.
00:19:41
Speaker
are there any ah Are there any real cuts to the veterans thing? They are not cutting staff. They're not cutting funding as of now. They're cutting staff. They want to cut 80,000 staff. But as far as I can see, um nobody really knows what the cuts, but they're saying no cuts to nurses or doctors.
00:20:02
Speaker
um But again, how's it working for you so far? We should ask that question more and more. like We just asked it about the Department of Education. um Well, how's it working for us so far? Biden administration grew the department's budget and number of employees.
00:20:17
Speaker
And by, let's see, 52,000 extra employees since 21 to 24, they hired, and increased the budget by $89 billion. dollars what were the main ah is there a stat on like what were the ah most ah like what were most of the employees that they hired?
00:20:36
Speaker
Because I just have to guess. It was just um ah extra bureaucrats that, you know, adding steps to filing things. Yeah.
00:20:50
Speaker
yeah i just sometimes like i don't I don't have any experience with the VA, but I would think it's a lot like some hospitals that you just kind of talk to one person, then go to another person, then go to another person where that first person could have handled everything.
00:21:09
Speaker
So I would only have to say if, from what I hear from my father, going to the hospital, Medicare, Medicaid, and just going to private hospitals or, you know, whatever they are, not VA, it is like that and at the at the private hospitals, at the regular hospitals, when you're paying out the wazoo for it. You know, the insurance is crazy.
00:21:31
Speaker
just say about the wazoo. That's weird. um But so you can only imagine maybe that the VA might be worse than that. Because it's the VA, government run is way more bureaucracy.
00:21:42
Speaker
I've never been to VA, but I've, I know people like interviewed there and work there and they say, yeah, it's, it's a red tape nightmare. Right. Right. That's what we can, we can look at the stats because with hiring 52,000 employees and increasing the budget about $89 billion, dollars the wait times at the and the backlog increased over that time, uh, times for, this is a, this is a, Oh, some, well, he's a Casper Winsky. Oh, some, he's a spokesperson for, um, for VA, um, between 21 24.
00:22:23
Speaker
wait times for primary care increased by 8.6 days over that same period. For mental health care, they increased by 5.7 days. And for so specialty care, the increase was 14 days. Okay. so it So it basically it just, it was what I'm thinking. It just added extra steps, extra employees that they didn't need.
00:22:47
Speaker
And it just um made a bottleneck there. yeah Did they hire 52,000 new nurses and doctors? No, they probably hired a secretary, you know, who people answer the phone and wash the floor and all that stuff, which, you know, maybe needed, but it didn't really help with wait times.
00:23:08
Speaker
Well, yeah I guess i I just hope that I guess I just what I'm what I'm concluding is they hired too many you know people that weren't really needed because if your wait times are going up, that yeah they didn't improve anything.
00:23:24
Speaker
So I hope they're cutting the right people. And I hope they're looking at everybody. i I guess that's a lot of these cuts. If there's one thing, it's not not the cuts that I worry about. It's the the um ah selection of who's getting cut.
00:23:41
Speaker
Because is it is it seniority? you know, is it... um I hope it's based on merit. You know, there's, there's some lazy, lazy guy, yes woman working there.
00:23:54
Speaker
I hope they get rid of them. and not i did see a quote saying that they're not, like I said, they're not planning on cutting nurses or doctors or anybody who has direct, you know, so which would help. But I mean, so it sounds like a lot of what they cut, what they hired knew was, um you know, back, backroom staff, you know, not the, not the people on the floor, but people doing the processing of this and that and the other thing.
00:24:16
Speaker
I mean, the bottom line is VA is a mess. It's been a mess for a while. They increased the staff and the budget wait times went up. um So something's got to be done. It's got serious problems. um So apparently throwing people and money on it is not working.
00:24:31
Speaker
um therere By the way, there's they care the VA cares for more than 9 million veterans, which that just seems like way too much in my
Protest Dynamics and Student Activism
00:24:40
Speaker
opinion. um We shouldn't have that many veterans.
00:24:42
Speaker
How many veterans? Nine million veterans i did it take care of over 9 million veterans. I, you know, less wars makes less veterans. Um, nobody really knows.
00:24:53
Speaker
It's taking care of people that just, uh, you know, maybe weren't in war. I don't think that's that many, is it? Well, I guess it's anybody who was in the military for a certain amount of time, right?
00:25:05
Speaker
Yeah, because if you're in there four years, you're i mean you maybe you know maybe when you came out, you you have your own... i guess as I guess the number is high because maybe maybe some of these people didn't didn't get good jobs afterwards and they didn't have their own health care. i don I don't know. true I don't know how that works. i know i know one guy you know that I worked with for a while who was a veteran...
00:25:31
Speaker
he didn't He said the veteran ah the hospital was it was good to him. He said it didn't take you know things took a little longer than they should, but they were good to him. But he never got a you know he was kind of like a guy who just worked odd jobs his whole life. So he never had... It was a fallback for him.
00:25:49
Speaker
Yeah. yeah i don't I don't know. i can't i Nine million actually doesn't sound like that much, but... Maybe it is. like i mean, it may may not be a lot, but be nice if it wasn't as, if it was, we could make it lower because that would mean hopefully less bad things around the world. But yeah, I get you. you It does encompass everybody. So maybe it isn't that much, but um no nobody really knows what's being cut yet again. So you're listening to all these people. their're protests They're protesting cuts that haven't been announced yet.
00:26:23
Speaker
So again, there's a problem and something needs to be done. But anyone who's protesting is all hearsay right now. and They don't know what they're talking about. And i do agree that these will, if they're not already, will become organized protests.
00:26:41
Speaker
And I think you and I maybe differ a little bit on this one, but I think this year, this this season is going to be worse than the last season. And I think... What last season? What's the last season? The last season was the last time Trump was in office.
00:26:54
Speaker
So 2020. Yeah, I don't think they're going to be worse only only because we had ah covid and people aren't working so yeah A fair point.
00:27:06
Speaker
um I just see this as but they protested that much from the last administration. And and comparatively speaking, he didn't do Jack, the last administration, his last term compared to what he's already done now.
00:27:20
Speaker
So what they freaked out over was nothing. And he's actually cutting things now. And they are, they're personally threatened. I think there's actual real threat here to them. They think there's a real threat to them as opposed ah it was more acting last time.
00:27:35
Speaker
I guess maybe it was my point. So that's the only reason I see it maybe being a little, little worse. Yeah. Okay. I can. Maybe you actually get real people out there that are scared because they're believing the the BS. Yeah.
00:27:49
Speaker
Yeah, but I think that we had that in 2016 or 17 probably, didn't we? yeah like After the inauguration? Yeah.
00:28:00
Speaker
Worse? i don't know what worse what would make it worse, right? I mean, I just think people are maybe more on edge because he's actually making real cuts. Yeah.
00:28:12
Speaker
where last administration, he he talked about a lot of stuff and people freaked out, but wasn't like he wasn't able. He got blocked by a lot of the stuff. So i don't know. Maybe I'm not explaining myself right. But I think it's a little different for that reason.
00:28:26
Speaker
people Maybe people really i made people actually think they would be infected and ah will be instead of just We'll find out. Yeah. Yeah. You know, we'll find out. I think there's going to be, um yeah, I think there's going a ah push for for a lot of protests. I don't know how bad it's going to get.
00:28:45
Speaker
Mainly because if if they kind of start really hammering down on these, um like, how, um like How much of this funding how much of this these protest funding came from USDA?
00:29:01
Speaker
and What was it? USAID. How much of that came from that? you know A lot of it. Yeah. So like now it's going to be have to come directly from the from people, not I mean, like from the people that fund it, not from an organization that funds it.
00:29:20
Speaker
Good point. and they might Maybe that'll tamp it down a little bit because they don't have the funds to move people around. Yeah. We might see more, um ah like, larger protests that make it to to television, you know, make it make it in the news, but maybe we won't see as many.
00:29:39
Speaker
Maybe they'll just be larger. So they're going to, you know, you that use that scare tactic of of, oh, my God, so bad. But in reality, it's maybe not so bad. um Boots on the ground?
00:29:51
Speaker
i
00:29:54
Speaker
i think we're going to find... everybody's Everybody's all for small government until it affects what they really care about. And then we're really going to see what people you but people really feel.
00:30:08
Speaker
Because no one can argue that these toal departments are not bloated. um And we would like more say in our communities. what where this if we're gonna if we're going to put our tax dollars to the federal government and then they're going to give it back to us, we would like to say where it goes, in not Washington.
00:30:24
Speaker
So we'll see what people, they can really back up what they but they feel. What else? Good? Yeah, no. I just have more protests.
00:30:35
Speaker
Yeah, mean I mean, I got a couple of cool clips from the Kent protests they're doing over the... I was just about to play one, so go ahead. You probably have something little better. I have one from Fox 8. What do you have?
00:30:46
Speaker
um Well, I mean, you know what? Where is mine from? Hold on right here. Kent State. It's Channel 3. um But just, again, Senate 1 is basically to get rid of – ah basically to get rid of
00:31:06
Speaker
Pronouns, right? DEI. You don't have to. it's It's from, it's DEI. Diversity, equity, inclusion for, whatever let's see.
00:31:20
Speaker
Yeah, it's just, they whatever departments, the schools, and this is for colleges, SB1 is for colleges. It probably, yeah. I think it bans. No, it doesn't.
00:31:31
Speaker
No, it's just it's just on how they hire and how they ah you grant grants and stuff like that. I don't know.
00:31:43
Speaker
So they're talking about free speech, and I think...
00:31:48
Speaker
um I could have sworn I had something do with, oh yeah. So it will erase history and limit diversity. So here's this bill that's going through the state legislature. It's going back to the Senate for review. No, it's it's it's it's at the governor's desk right now. Oh, that's okay. So as of the 20th, well, a couple of days ago said it was on Wednesday, the bill passed the house.
00:32:14
Speaker
Yeah, already passed the Senate and the House. so no Yeah, okay, so you're right. Yeah, yeah. Restore free speech on campus and ban all diversity, equity, inclusion programs, programs courses, and mandating mandatory training.
00:32:27
Speaker
It must go back to the Ohio Senate before he heads back to the desk of Mike. um Mike White does say that, but this was the 20th. That's couple days ago, so you're right. It's probably already there. um ah My bill will return our public universities and colleges to the rightful mission of education educating rather than indoctrination. That is a Ohio Senator ah Jerry Serino.
00:32:52
Speaker
Serino, yeah. Yeah. Kirtland, I guess that is. So, so So to that, they're protesting. Back to the same point.
00:33:03
Speaker
What are they protesting? So what's going to happen with these cuts? Why why are you so angry? Let's ask student number one what she says. What I feel most problematic about SB1 is the fact that they're trying to erase history.
00:33:19
Speaker
Oh, brother.
00:33:22
Speaker
Okay. All right. So they are taking away public funding. People are embracing history. Yeah. So you can still do what you want to do.
Legal Battles and Political Sentiments
00:33:33
Speaker
It's just not allowed to be supported by a state funded school because it's, um, I think exclusionary for a lot.
00:33:42
Speaker
So, okay, there's gotta be something else, right? So student number two, what's, buts what's What's the big deal here? I think one of the things is the removal of the identity centers. um Here on campus, we have a lot of those. Each of those would just either have to be taken off campus or just be funded entirely by something different, which is hard. like It's hard to find funding already for these programs. It's hard.
00:34:02
Speaker
It's hard to find. Yes, it's hard to make money. The scariest part was when, I don't know, was that a he? I was going to say something beforehand, but i want yes, it was a he. The first one was a she. Yeah. what The scariest part was we have a lot of them.
00:34:16
Speaker
yeah So what is that though, right? do ah did pull up.
00:34:24
Speaker
what what What is an Equity Identity Center? what is What is Identity Center is what he said, right? Right. So it's just all these centers that they have.
00:34:35
Speaker
Student Multicultural Center, the LGBTQ Center, plus, oh, don't forget about the plus, Kent State Women's Center. um They actually have an identity project, a student-led Bible study.
00:34:48
Speaker
aiming to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to KSU. um They have the multicultural center, which is the center called cultivates a sense of belonging and cultural affirm affirmation for students, valuing individual growth and connecting communities to encourage.
00:35:07
Speaker
Nevermind. I can't even finish it. um So, I love it. I love it when these higher education universities have ah ah a lot of things that don't deal with education.
00:35:21
Speaker
And it's not, they're not banning it. They're just not going to let a state funded school fund it. Well, they're not going to fund, like, I think the state can fund it itself, right?
00:35:33
Speaker
or Or no, actually. can fund it themselves. They can fund it. And that's what he said. We have to have this because it's hard. It's very hard. Yes, making money is hard. So me giving it up is much harder for me to give it to you.
00:35:48
Speaker
That's why I'm complaining about you using it the way you're using it. Because i you have yet to know what it feels like to have to make money. You're still in school.
00:35:59
Speaker
So, um yeah. Any more students there? ah No, I do. No, just one professor who said that they're just trying to, you know, censor professors.
00:36:12
Speaker
We don't need to listen to her. um Yeah, that's what do you got? Anything better? was That was about the same thing. Yours was better than what I had. What else? um what else What do you got today? I'm looking on your list here.
00:36:29
Speaker
um what's What's going on with NASA? NASA. Well, the the one thing I wanted to hit is that appeals court rolled back the gender affirming care law that would pass last year.
00:36:39
Speaker
There's going to be protests about that too. So another thing that to protest. And i guess i guess ah appeals court, you know um you know, we we're not allowed to Ohio ban gender affirming care for youths in appeals court.
00:36:59
Speaker
you know, put a stop to that. So, um, Yost is saying he's going to fight that. And that might actually go to the, to the Supreme court.
00:37:12
Speaker
The only thing, the the appeals court stopped that, um, that law. So what they're going to, but, But they didn't stop the part where, um you you know, transgenders can compete in sports.
00:37:25
Speaker
So they they can't compete in sports. They can't compete in sports. but And they loved that they left that like that. Because there was really no argument. I mean, there's no argument for either of them. but Well, I hear people trying to argue it, but...
00:37:41
Speaker
But anyways, the basically why they stopped is because it takes away rights from parents. So um I guess that's the main argument.
00:37:53
Speaker
Okay. what do you How do you feel about that? um I get their argument about taking away rights, but I don't think you have that right. So I don't think you have the right to make a decision on ah a voluntary decision or a cosmetic decision.
00:38:12
Speaker
so it It's not only cosmetic. They wouldn't be able to take... ah um, puberty blockers. And I think there's another, like some type of hormone. right So they wouldn't be able to do that unless they're already on it. And the doctor says that it would be and dangerous to stop it, which I don't think there is a case like that, but. So I try to take the motion out of it.
00:38:36
Speaker
Let's try to take the motion on it. If I wanted to take my daughter or son to the doctor and say, my daughter or son, i don't think they should have their left arm.
00:38:46
Speaker
Would it be okay for the doctor to to lop it off because I said so? No, that's that's actually illegal. Right. Yeah. No, I agree. If I wanted to go in, if I went to the doctor and said, Doc, my 12-year-old has cancer.
00:39:00
Speaker
Well, I don't see that. and I know he has cancer because he told me he has cancer. Give him chemo.
00:39:08
Speaker
Would he be allowed to do that? I don't think so because chemo is poison. Yeah, but I think the problem here is when you get doctors, and when I say doctors, I'm saying ah they're therapists, like you know psychologists, or psychiatrists, probably saying yes they have that they're um whatever you know they got dysmorphia in there identity Um, yes. So my point is really, they're not taking rights away from parents.
00:39:42
Speaker
These are not, you never had a right to mutilate your kid or give them poison. Right. Because hormone blockers are permanent. They don't, you cannot, crump you once you stop puberty, it doesn't start up again.
00:39:54
Speaker
And so I don't think there's any rights that are be taken away. I think you're protecting children. Now there is a, there is a fine line there. um If I am, what's it? born ah no it's ah what's There's a religion that Jehovah's Witness.
00:40:12
Speaker
I've known somebody whose grandmother was Jehovah's Witness. And they wouldn't go to doctor, no blood transfusions, all this other stuff. Now, there's a fine line there.
00:40:23
Speaker
If you're that or you have that feeling that you don't want to use any of modern medicine because it's your religious. Now, do you have the right to not give your kid the proper treatment when you know it's going to work?
00:40:35
Speaker
There's a fine. There's a gray area there.
00:40:39
Speaker
you know so But in this case, that's not it. This is not... It's no gray area. there's None of this medical procedure makes them any better. All the studies show it makes them worse. and and And cutting off... Sorry, everybody.
00:40:52
Speaker
But cutting off their tits or their dicks is not going help them.
00:40:57
Speaker
That's my feeling. I have very strong feelings, as as most people do. Oh, i I think most people do. I think it's... and I'm surprised that a ah court actually took this on because i think it's going to lose in the long run.
00:41:09
Speaker
And I'm i'm surprised they they're still kind of pushing for this because in in even, you know, his lefty, as open-minded as Europe gets sorry England, you know, London, gets.
00:41:26
Speaker
They pulled back years ago. They've banned it. A couple years ago at least. Yeah, I think it's been a couple of years, and I'm surprised it hasn't really noticed. They don't talk about it. They never bring it up. So I'm kind of surprised this was even um appealed.
00:41:40
Speaker
I think it's a last gasp. Yeah, I guess so. I hope. Yeah. Yeah, we'll see. we's We'll see what's going on with that.
00:41:51
Speaker
So i thinkll I think it'll... I think they'll overturn the appeal. i don't know how that works, but I think you'll still win that. And I think he's going to really try to ah win this because if he runs for governor, it's going to be ah a nice... A talking point for sure.
00:42:09
Speaker
Yeah. what's his past? Either that he can take his time with it and make it a talking point. What's he said in the past, though? that would be i would like to see if he's changed his tune or something. Was he a little more virtuous?
00:42:21
Speaker
Virtue signalist? I don't know. I don't think so. i know he's but The only thing I know about is he kind of said some things about you know the Second Amendment that I didn't didn't like care for. I don't remember them now, but I remember. And then he changed his tune pretty quick.
00:42:38
Speaker
I mean, specifically on transgender issues. was he Yeah, I don't know. Was he on the fence two years ago when it was three years ago, whatever, it when it was shoved on our throat? It past two years ago, so and I think he was behind it. But what was what was he and 2018. I don't know.
00:42:55
Speaker
Right. Yeah. um So we're going to see protests about that too coming up, I think. And then the final thing, which ah driving home from work yesterday or the day, you know, Thursday, i actually um saw a Tesla with a sticker that said, you know, don't blame me. I bought this Tesla before I knew Elon was crazy, something something to that effect. So people are getting scared about what's happening with the Tesla right now and all the vandalism that's going on with that. I think i think the federal government's going to hit those pete people hard.
00:43:32
Speaker
But there might be protests about that here. Or you know if you see, um if your car gets vandalized, and this is kind of cool, this is... um I was going to bring that up, yeah. Idiots.
00:43:43
Speaker
ah ya but you could Yeah, you but you keep that in mind. But if your car if you have a Tesla and it gets vandalized, there is a an attorney in Ohio um We'll put it in the show notes. ah David V. Sugini Esquire, who is offering his services for free.
00:44:05
Speaker
He'll represent you for free. so I thought it was the eyebrow guy you were going to say. Misny, whatever that guy's name is. Now, this guy's in, um I don't know what city he's in. I think he's somewhere in mid-Ohio. It's good to know, yeah.
00:44:20
Speaker
But um he is offering, um he said, here's his tweet. If anyone in Ohio has a test line and it gets vandalized, call me. I'll represent you for free. So wow then he put out, he's in Columbus.
00:44:33
Speaker
But yes, Sujini Law, C-U-G-I-N-I Law. you can We'll put in the show notes if we ever get any show notes.
00:44:44
Speaker
Yeah, the idiots. just wanted to mention that because we haven't seen anything in Ohio yet, but just by the... So, virtue of seeing that sticker, bumper sticker, I imagine ah people that own Teslas are getting a little ah nervous.
00:45:01
Speaker
Actually, I didn't know it was going to happen. heard a clip from one of the late night shows. was pretty disturbing. Oh, they're scary. They're cheering. They're cheering, yeah shooting at Teslas. It's crazy.
00:45:12
Speaker
I guess the craziest thing and that I'm hearing, like people cheering it on and comparing it to the Budweiser ah shooting up beer cans, you know, the Budweiser, you know, protester. Kid Rock shooting up in his yeah and his backyard. because Yeah. Burning a dealership down. it's It's the same thing.
00:45:31
Speaker
Yeah, but I don't understand. Vandalizing people's um you know own a property versus buying. you know If you buy a Tesla and do that,
00:45:43
Speaker
Good on you, man. That would be the comparison. so But nobody would do that because a couple cases of Bud Light is not a $90,000 car. And I think I've seen some actress somewhere who posted something. She got busted. and She posted something on whatever, Twitter, Instagram, of her Tesla being taken away on a flatbed saying that she sold her Tesla. And then I think it was x because then the community note said, ah no this this was two years ago.
00:46:13
Speaker
That was Sheryl Crow. Was that Sheryl Crow? I think that was Sheryl Crow. A couple of famous people have done something like that. But did see one where Sheryl Crow was waving bye to her Tesla.
00:46:28
Speaker
And it was... Well, no. Yeah, that's what it... Because the foliage was not... the It wasn't the right season or something. It wasn't the right season. I am surprised that you know people...
00:46:40
Speaker
because that happens a lot people will put a video up claiming something and it's easy to tell that it's from a different time or different time of year yeah and it's a different location even sometimes like you can tell it's not i got a fake one from my dad about the ukrainian war oh yeah it was clearly a video game but again He's not 92, but he is 78 or 79.
00:47:06
Speaker
And I just dad, that's fake. He goes, how do you tell? I go, I go look at the background. It looks like a painting, doesn't it? Yeah. yeah You can tell by the grass. It's, it has that. I mean, it looks really good. Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:20
Speaker
For him, for who doesn't play video games, you could see how they would fall for it. But, Yeah, no, I definitely see that. You know, this is a completely different discussion, but it's hilarious. I hooked my dad up with YouTube, you know, over the like a couple of months ago, where and he's watching it more and more.
Ohio's Ambitions and Cybersecurity Issues
00:47:36
Speaker
But being being almost 80 years old, um you know, ah ah an um immigrant with broken English. And not an understanding of how YouTube works, like clickbait and things like that. I don't under so like i don't know how to explain to him like a lot of this stuff is just clickbait. How do you explain clickbait? with Because they actually called me up.
00:48:02
Speaker
and not they text My mom texted me. She's like, is it true so Sylvester Stallone died? I had to look it up because I was like, I don't know. Maybe. i mean, he is young Yeah, he's he's like around 80. He's like around my dad's age. Yeah, that's right. he is kid.
00:48:18
Speaker
He's late 70s or 80 and ah still still in good shape. So that kind of surprised me when I got that text. And then I looked it up and I was like no. I texted him back, no, he's alive.
00:48:29
Speaker
Then when I went over there, I looked at what video they were watching. And I guess there have been videos produced like this over the years about different celebrities dying and they haven't really died.
00:48:39
Speaker
But it's just clickbait. And I don't know how to. Explain that to them. Like my mom is onto it a little quicker. That's tough. Yeah.
00:48:52
Speaker
well So sorry tangent. Yeah. Let's um just that in this, I want to keep getting back to this NASA story. Cause it's been in your. Yeah. and For a couple of weeks. I'm curious. because I want to pull it, try to pull it back to Northern Ohio a little bit. We've been talking a lot about general Ohio in general.
00:49:07
Speaker
Um, what's going on? I'll play a clip here. It's a couple minutes long, if you don't mind. No, do it. I'll explain what's going on. if it would As the NASA astronauts return to Earth Tuesday, local leaders are even more determined in their quest to get NASA to move its headquarters from Washington, D.C.
00:49:27
Speaker
to the Glenn Research Center. It's natural that would come here because NASA Glenn is involved in every mission directorate of the space program.
00:49:40
Speaker
Matt Dolan with Team Neo is among a group of 26 business leaders who co-signed a letter urging the White House and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to relocate NASA headquarters from the DC Beltway to the Buckeye State, the heart of the American Midwest and the birthplace of aviation. we are compiling a number of respective sites, whether they be building sites for building a new headquarters, whether it be a renovating existing building. The lease for NASA's headquarters in D.C. is up in 2028. Okay, i think that's enough.
00:50:16
Speaker
yeah So NASA's – Cool. Ohio's trying to get an NASA to move to Ohio. What a great fit since we already have – We have one research center, and they do they are involved with most of everything.
00:50:30
Speaker
And plenty of room to expand once they buy IX Center and finally give it – or use it. Obviously, they're using it for something else. Yeah, that is one thing. There's a lot of room for improvement over there too. I mean, right by an airport – Hmm.
00:50:44
Speaker
What a good fit. Actually, awesome no, I didn't even think of that. That is a really good fit. And it's close to, ah it's right there Glenn Research. Yeah. and That'd be something. I don't have too much, you know, they haven't put out any numbers on how much it would help the state or anything like that.
00:51:00
Speaker
um But it would be really cool if it did come here and the lease is up in 2028, I think they said, in Washington, D.C. and decentralize the Washington, know, decentralize it. Decentralize it. And geez, what a – we'll talk a little bit about this in a minute, but what a future Brook Park has because you start bringing more there and – and ah Maybe possibly a new development with the stadium.
00:51:32
Speaker
i think it would be cool if they hit did a whole thing. If they do that with the stadium and they have events there. The park is the place. Think about this. You bring NASA there and you could actually have a really cool... um oh you know but Like a space museum, like ah not the science museum, but maybe something that's really based around space flight. Part of the Smithsonian, they they are running out of room there as it is anyway, and especially when they have a whole other building that's just for aerospace.
00:52:00
Speaker
you know It's huge. yes and virginia This could be really cool. I don't have too much to add to it. Yeah, birthplace of aviation. um but ah But Florida and Texas are going for it, too. Probably because of the launch sites, which makes sense, too.
00:52:19
Speaker
yeah They get the launches. Come on. yeah But one name did pop out. Matt Dolan. Matt Dolan. Yeah, saw that. He's the owner of the team formerly known as the Indians.
00:52:31
Speaker
The team formerly known as the Indians, yes. so and there was they didn't they didn' um'm Which I'm surprised. They didn't mention who the other 20-something business. the He's the big name.
00:52:42
Speaker
Yeah, he's the big one. but but That's cool. i'm like that. I think that would be awesome for the area. Yeah, totally. That would there would there be they' be bragging rights, I think, ah for ah northern Northeast Ohio. Yeah.
00:52:57
Speaker
you could You could take your rock haul yeah this would be this would be a lot bigger. All right. um Let's try moving on to a follow-up from last week, which is keeping in Cleveland.
00:53:12
Speaker
um The Cleveland City courts got hacked. We talked about that last week. Oh, yeah. look what what What's the follow-up here? Oh, yeah. I think some information was stolen, right?
00:53:23
Speaker
Yeah. So this week, oh, yeah, it it got ah got spicy over the week, actually. this So this week coming up will be ah ah but about, I think, the 22nd or 23rd is when they got hacked. So this week will be a month.
00:53:35
Speaker
And they are still not back to normal. ah Most things are being done by pen and paper. no and And a lot of the building doesn't have internet access still. They are still in in installing new security protocols and software.
00:53:49
Speaker
So this is a lot bigger than they're letting on. Yep. Oh, and there's just ransom going on too, right? Yeah, so yeah that's why um I'm reading my notes, and um I wrote something that was really weird. um So what happened was the attackers called the media.
00:54:08
Speaker
Specifically, what i was reading off was Channel 5 via email. They didn't call them. They they sent them an email. um And the message reading, residents are being led by their noses.
00:54:21
Speaker
We are ready to tell you the details about the cyber hack. So the group, supposedly the group is telling them, you know this we were they were online for a very long time. They needed to to download very large amounts of personal data that were not protected in any way, they said.
00:54:37
Speaker
Personal files, examples of personal files of the accused, convicts, employees, and residents were stolen. These are hundreds of thousands of documents.
00:54:48
Speaker
They are... um demanding $4 million dollars in ransom, or they were released at start releasing the stolen documents to the public. So News 5, News Channel 5 asked for proof.
00:55:02
Speaker
Right. so So the people ah who supposedly did the attack sent a list of file names that they have stole, including hundreds thousands of spreadsheets from IRS forms, as well as vendors such as banks and law firms.
00:55:18
Speaker
They asked for more proof. They sent screenshots containing what appeared to be court employee personal information, including social security numbers. which which they destroy their thing.
00:55:30
Speaker
um And so when News Channel 5, I have a clip, when News Channel 5 went to see what happened, well, let's see what happened when they went down to ask questions. Let me do this. there Okay, here we go.
00:55:46
Speaker
Or not. A court employee told us they do not have access to the internet, staff is forced to complete tasks by hand, and the court is still updating their computers with new security features and passwords.
00:56:00
Speaker
and Is there anyone I can speak with about the cyber attack? We tried to get answers from the court spokesperson. We went to the third floor, were sent to the 11th floor. Hi, I'm sorry to bother you again. And then the 14th floor. We just did that. But no one would talk to us.
00:56:16
Speaker
Jeff couldn't get information he asked for either. I had to make phone calls and find out about it all by myself. It turns out all he had to do was go to the Cuyahoga Sheriff's Department for his background check.
00:56:26
Speaker
literally cost me $10 money order and it was done in less than five minutes. But we didn't know that until we started doing some digging and here I am. So first of all, we could talk about this poor sucker who waited a week to get his background check for a new job.
00:56:44
Speaker
And in previous and the previous, earlier in the in the clip that I didn't take was him complaining that he missed a week's worth of pay because And I thought, and then, then after, after a week, he started digging in and saying, I can go anywhere and get a background check. I don't have to go all the way downtown. Like, we're sorry about that.
00:57:03
Speaker
But, um, but he got it. He got his, i never heard of anyone getting their own background check. Yeah, you you can actually go to same places that do drug tests, do background checks, and you can just pay for your own.
00:57:15
Speaker
I just always thought that was the company, you know, whoever. but There's another one. I was always wondering, that yeah, but that's good point. But maybe certain places were required. I don't know. But um nobody's answering any questions.
00:57:30
Speaker
at the, at the, at the city. Nothing. Well, I, we need some accountability for this. Absolutely. Because that's some serious, serious. And then we went to ask, hello, anybody home?
00:57:43
Speaker
Hello? Nope. Nobody knows anything.
00:57:49
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Hello.
00:57:51
Speaker
We're not your home as witnesses. You can answer the door. They're not even, oh man, they're, they don't know what to do. No, they have they have they they were completely um blindsided by it and had almost zero security protocols.
00:58:06
Speaker
When you've got what they're... Well, we'll find out, I guess, if this is true or not. um But they're saying all these were unprotected, not encrypted in any way. Well, I'm what i um'm wondering how many of those were actually public records, like court cases and things like that. You would think there's...
00:58:25
Speaker
public records for that, but there shouldn't be any type of personal employees. no error that That's definitely not, I think security hole big time. Yeah. I think, well, I think if they're government employees, I think you have access to know who works for them, but you shouldn't, you shouldn't have their personal, uh, like social security, uh, information and things like that. addresses to the court, right? So you got people who are pissed off. I mean, if they could find the court reporter, maybe they, you know what i mean? So yeah, who they are but having all their address and phone numbers and stuff, if that's what they got, that's which what it sounds like.
00:59:00
Speaker
Yeah. yeah That's, that's horrible. Yeah. did Was judges included in this? Did do they have judges information? don't know. They're, they're a court employee. Yeah.
00:59:13
Speaker
Are they? Yeah, I don't know. That's the thing. Again, like last week, nobody knows anything and the city isn't saying anything. But the mayor's... If that shit happened, they wouldn't mention it because that's awful. Oh, Jesus. This is bad. The mayor sure is out in front of the cameras for the Brown Stadium.
00:59:31
Speaker
He's got a lot to say about that.
00:59:35
Speaker
Hmm.
00:59:37
Speaker
So there's that. we got to keep We're going to keep on that. i'm gonna um'm going I got that on my list. That's going to interesting. curious like I'm kind curious. You know how there's HIPAA laws, right? yeah i like My dentist was complaining on how much he has to – his security and his backup and all that needs – what level it needs to be at. you know It's hard. You need to do it. you know And for for the court system, for – Yeah, expensive.
01:00:04
Speaker
he's kind of a He was kind of a nerd, so he did everything himself. But I'm sure there's like doctors and offices that pay for that service. but there um But for them not to have that type of security and that type of backup and stuff is...
01:00:23
Speaker
that doesn't even make sense to me. Like it doesn't, it seems unreal. It doesn't make sense, but then again, it does. Cause it just, it just incompetence at, at even at the city level is, is imagine what it is and at the federal state level. I mean, it's, it's astounding that just now it's, now it's worse.
01:00:47
Speaker
if you If you come out the day after and said, this is what happened, this is what we think they got, and we're working diligently, we found the errors, blah, blah, blah, it's it's basically over now, right, for the city.
01:01:00
Speaker
But now that they keep hiding it, it's just made it it now everybody's just mad. Own up to it. But, I mean, like, who's in charge of that? that Exactly. Remember that DeWine sent in the National Guard a cyber unit to help.
01:01:18
Speaker
Last week, that was in the part article. Right. that and Otherwise, who knows what it would have. If that wasn't the case, would they still be, i mean, where would they be at now if they didn't have the state to bring in? they'd have no but they it would have been even longer because they would have had to hire ah a separate company and all that stuff and cost the city millions of dollars.
01:01:39
Speaker
This going to be interesting how this unfolds. Yeah. and And, Somebody needs to take the fall for it and, or, or a bunch of people should be taking the fall for this. And here's the lesson that needs to be learned.
01:01:52
Speaker
It's not just the city of Cleveland. I guarantee you there are way more cities Cleveland. in our in our state in Northern Ohio that are just the same way.
01:02:03
Speaker
like just Across the US. Across the US, but yeah, just in general, I bet i bet there's a ah bunch more just in our in our reach.
Cleveland's Challenges and Developments
01:02:11
Speaker
Well, I would even think if did this to Cleveland, they could do this to any one the larger cities and you know suburbs, you know, Parma.
01:02:20
Speaker
They got a court system. that Maybe a point of um of order on the next city council anybody wants to go to is how secure is our personal information? Yeah.
01:02:30
Speaker
Maybe should learn from Cleveland's incompetence. Interesting. right. What do you want to, you want to continue on that? and we about this cop story thing here? Police, Cleveland police story maybe, or what do you got? What do you think?
01:02:45
Speaker
Well, we got bridges better yeah yeah that are, because the Baltimore, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last year, that got hit by the the tanker um and collapsed.
01:02:59
Speaker
So there are bridges across the country that are. Sorry. What was that? I said, Oh, I'm reading the list of bridges. So here in in Cleveland, I didn't, I forget how many bridges across the country.
01:03:14
Speaker
i don't know How many bridges we have across the country? Well, how many are under are under investigation right now? There's four in Northeast Ohio. I'll just go over them. if I could play a clip if you want. Yeah, please.
01:03:25
Speaker
All right.
01:03:30
Speaker
The NTSB releasing its report into last year's deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The container ship, Daly, endured a pair of electrical failures minutes before it struck a pillar of the bridge.
01:03:46
Speaker
The report found the bridge was almost 30 times over the acceptable risk level for a collision like the one that brought it crashing down. The NTSB chair said the collapse could have been prevented.
01:04:00
Speaker
What's frustrating is not only did MDTA fail to conduct the vulnerability assessment on the key bridge, they did not provide nor were they able to provide the NTSB with the data needed to conduct the assessment.
01:04:17
Speaker
six construction workers died in that key bridge collapse. All right. So, uh, that's just the background there. So we have four bridges. i four 90 bridge in Cleveland, the main Avenue bridge in Cleveland, Detroit Avenue bridge in Lakewood, Rocky river border and the Carnegie Avenue bridge in Cleveland.
01:04:38
Speaker
Um, They're going to be looking at them closely. They're saying they're not um it's not that they're not safe to drive on now, so nobody should be freaking that they're yeah vulnerable to ah to something similar at the Francis Key Scott Bridge? like Because the 490 bridge is going over there the Caga River and by the steel mill, so there's a lot of barges and tanker trees. The main concern is back when those bridges were built, where um a lot of the vessels just had 800 containers on them.
01:05:06
Speaker
And now they're taking 24,000 containers on them. And similar to, yeah. So that's probably what they're Cause there's a lot of, um, or, or, and stone and stuff that goes up around those bridges downtown.
01:05:17
Speaker
mean, they have new bridge, that kind of stuff. So they, yeah, yeah. who Okay. So they're not they're not safe, but they may be vulnerable to ah an an incident such as a barge running into it or something like that.
01:05:29
Speaker
Yeah. All those bridges. There won't be container ships for us, but it would be like coal or stone barges. authentic like gets Salt and stuff too. Yeah. Asphalt. Anything that gets shipped around the Great Lakes, which is a lot.
01:05:42
Speaker
Um, actually I was, I was on a, a stone freighter. I did some, some work on it, uh, with our salts and materials to a customer on it. And, uh, it does, those things are old and they don't build them very often. They're, you know, usually they're all almost all from the seventies.
01:05:57
Speaker
Right. So yeah, they they, that's kind of one of the things they found out with that bridge is they needed, an Island around it. So that runs into the Island and before it runs into the, Oh, okay.
01:06:10
Speaker
Yeah. And a lot of bridges. So um I don't think anybody should be worried about it right now, but it's something to keep an eye on. And I think there was over like 400 bridges across the U.S. that are like under scrutiny right now or in three in the 300s. And I don't know why I don't see it. It must have been a different article.
01:06:33
Speaker
i saw I did watch a recent video somewhere on YouTube from one of the engineering channels that I follow. and they did mention They were talking about the infrastructure.
01:06:45
Speaker
um and They did have ah staggering figure. of i mean, 55,000 bridges or something crazy like that across the country. um and like 2,500 were and at risk, something to that effect.
01:07:01
Speaker
And then there's even like what you're saying, like three to 500 that were like critical around the country, something to that effect. But it's good to start. I mean, unfortunately, this is usually how it works. What do they say? A lot of but OSHA regulations are ah written in blood.
01:07:23
Speaker
Yeah, something has to happen before something's done, really. Yeah, before because you know honestly, are people going to go, hey, your taxes are going up because we're putting this new bridge in? Because they know it. But when it collapses, everybody's okay.
01:07:35
Speaker
Sucks, but... Yeah.
01:07:39
Speaker
Either that or they can just budget for it and be a little smarter about it. would It would be nice, yeah. It would be nice if they can think ahead. Yeah. Yeah. And the only other thing, well, I got a couple of little things here. ah Cleveland police are holding a hiring event, May 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.
01:07:57
Speaker
ah So that's coming up. it's ah it's a ah They're looking for police officers, which is a good sign because we're we we don't have enough cops. I just... I don't like tops.
01:08:11
Speaker
A little personal thing there. But um we do need more of them. I just hope they hire good ones. And, you know. The current environment, it's going to be hard to find the the good ones because if you're a good person.
01:08:28
Speaker
I'm not sure why he would want to be a cop. but Not at this point. Not how they not how they've been treated. My biggest problem is when when when there's a bad cop, the other cops don't say anything. Yes. so that to me, that makes ah makes them all bad in a way. I now i know you know i know why.
01:08:45
Speaker
i mean i get it but it also kind of, it's annoying. so I get it because a lot of the times they're trying to protect their own from being wrongly accused in lot of cases. So it's just a knee-jerk reaction for the police union and all the other police officers to go, well, that could be me.
01:09:03
Speaker
But it also, like you said, it it protects the bad guy the bad police. um And the more ah more you trash the police, the more you, you know,
01:09:18
Speaker
the more the public has a astonish yeah you're right that the less good people are going to join the force you're going to get it's a vicious cycles i guess in nutshells and that's what i keep seeing um they need more training actually you don't want to defund them they actually need more training yeah i i say defund the police but i i under i don't really mean it it just it's my um You fund them as as they are currently.
01:09:45
Speaker
Yeah. So more training. And and and yeah the culture has to change a little More like reform. More like reform the police. Yeah. Yeah. Because because ah my biggest thing is that it's just –
01:10:01
Speaker
I think they, like they, some, some of the cops have a little bit, they feel like they have a little bit too much authority and other cops kind of stick up with, for them when they shouldn't be. And I wish that part of it would change. And that's a whole, whole different conversation, but.
01:10:18
Speaker
Yeah, I talked to, you know, during the whole BLM thing, it was a lot of, hey guys, I get it, but ah more training is what they need to get out of these, to to handle these situations better. and And I'm not a a big proponent of therapy in general.
01:10:34
Speaker
But in this situation, there are more money needs to be put into their mental health because lot of the, lot of these situations occur because of years and years and years of abuse to the, you know, from the public to the cops, they get a chip on their shoulder and that's it.
01:10:49
Speaker
They're done. They're angry and they're bitter. And they've got, you know, being a police officer, seeing that crap every day, it's similar to being a nurse or a doctor or EMT. It gets to you. A soldier.
01:11:00
Speaker
And they need more to pay attention to that. I wouldn't want to be a cop. i I shouldn't correct that. I wouldn't want to be a cop in um ah in a major city. But, you know, it's on Facebook. It's Cleveland Police District 2.
01:11:16
Speaker
And they got a you know I can't believe they do this. They got a... like a I don't know, a JPEG of like the salary and benefits and minimum requirements, which um aren't that much actually. But the salary is pretty good. I think it's at to signing bonus. Starting salary is in the low 60s.
01:11:36
Speaker
five thousand dollars signing botus ah starting salaries at in the low sixty s And, um, the rest of it's so small, I can't read it. So, you know, you could zoom ah in on it with your phone, I suppose. So, but that's taking place. You could sign up for You could, um, or call them that, you know, call them.
01:11:56
Speaker
We'll leave a link on the show notes. o Yeah. When we get them. Um, all right. And then, um, think the last, maybe the last thing on my list is just a quick update on the Cleveland Browns stadium situation because it's, it looks like, or sounds like, or seems like the county commissioner's office is teaming up with the city of Cleveland to go against the proposed new stadium from the Hazlund group.
01:12:26
Speaker
Bibb, I don't have anything clipped or anything, but Bibb's being a crybaby for his lack of um taking this up earlier.
01:12:39
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. And, um, but he's got it. He's got a, um, he's got a fan base or he's got a, uh, uh, ally in the, um, there it is. This is it.
01:12:51
Speaker
Yeah. He's got an ally in the whole thing with the Cuyahoga County commissioner, at least the executor. I'm also trying to there it is. I'm trying to find this. uh, PDF that I pulled up now disappeared. But so bottom line is, um the County is saying, ah County and the city are saying, um, that the projections from the housing group HHSG, which is a housing sports group, um, relies, uh, our lofty goals are saying it relies on projections that are maybe unsustainable. Every game will sell out every, every event as a complete sellout.
01:13:26
Speaker
Um, and, um, which I'm looking at it may be a bit lofty and also some of the projections they are, um offering or some of this, um, the ways they're offering to pay for the $600 million dollars in bonds is new taxes, um, which aren't, which haven't been passed yet.
01:13:45
Speaker
So, I mean, valid point to that. So, um, maybe they may be a bit lofty. Um, And also seeing those, though, as my point was last week, I think with the added events that the city would make up for what they lose in the eight games from the Browns not being there.
01:14:04
Speaker
But one of the points from the county is also brought up is how many of those events that would normally would go to ah the the arena or um the convention center downtown would go to, would be taken away from Cleveland also and go to the new stadium.
01:14:21
Speaker
It's valid point. Um, so they're just bringing up the fact that they're, um, that the Haslam's aren't exactly, um, being true to their projections and it's, it's too big of a risk.
01:14:34
Speaker
Um, okay. I see some of their points. Um, what else do you have? I mean, what do you have to offer? Cause the Browns aren't happy. They're not offering anything.
01:14:46
Speaker
They don't have anything to offer. There's nothing offer. All they're doing is crying. you know, you know This is home for me, but ah you know not Cleveland itself, but Cuyahoga and my entire life.
01:15:03
Speaker
And even before that it's been it hasn't been run well. um i don't I think it should go to Brook Park or you know move to a new location
01:15:17
Speaker
until Cleveland figures out what Cleveland is or wants to be. i don't I don't know why there should be a stadium down there anymore. i I agree because, and I think something i did not bring up last week was if people don't know the history, Modell didn't just up and move the Browns. He didn't say, hey, I want a new stadium.
01:15:40
Speaker
And then the city of Cleveland said no, and he moved. He was talking to them for years. The final straw was giving the Indians and the Cavs two of the crappiest ah franchises at the time in Cleveland.
01:15:52
Speaker
The only place that sold out every game were the Browns. And they got a new stadium, the other teams, and the Cleveland and the Browns didn't. So again, the Browns have been talking about this for years, and the city of Cleveland has nothing.
01:16:07
Speaker
They have, again, taken the largest selling point they have in Cleveland is the Browns. I mean, it's sad to actually say that, but I mean, that's really what draws a lot of people downtown. I mean, obviously, the other ones do too when they're hitting it. But year in, year out, as crappy as they are, they still get 50,000, 60,000 down there.
01:16:26
Speaker
And the Browns, Cleveland's just taken it for granted again. Yeah, as as always. So I get it, but the city... like yeah we can We can actually do a ah four ah full show on alum things that Cleveland has done wrong.
01:16:46
Speaker
And I don't know how to fix it. You can't get a legitimate mayor to run that. um mayor to run or with I should say, when there is one that's a good candidate, they're not going to get elected.
01:17:00
Speaker
um You just don't have um enough residents to in Cleveland to do that. Yeah, enough residents that, yeah. There's not a diverse, a diverse, some there's not ah enough diversity in Cleveland to get a business minded resident and into Cleveland.
01:17:22
Speaker
It's, it's not a coincidence that the city of Cleveland has had one, one mayor that is not a Democrat in the last 60 years or longer. it It might be even longer. and And there's mayor white longer at this point. Yep.
01:17:36
Speaker
Yeah, mayor it was Mayor White. And what happened during Mayor White? um I'm not giving the mayor all this credit just because he's a Republican because, for the record, they suck as bad as Democrats do. But the whole point is you you keep voting for the same people and you're getting you're getting the similar results.
01:17:54
Speaker
So maybe you should try something different. um And when they when you had something different, that's that sparked that spurred a ah rejuvenation to the city.
01:18:04
Speaker
Mm-hmm. I'm not giving all the credit to Mayor White at all, but at least there was some sort of different thought going through the city for a short time. I mean, Cleveland Indians had a lot a lot to do with that at the time. And, you know, yeah Jacobs Field.
01:18:20
Speaker
And, you know, you had a pretty good resurgence. That was an exciting time for Cleveland. And Mayor mayor Michael Waite, I don't know. I i didn't ah complained about him back then. But he looking back at it, I'm like, oh, he wasn't so bad.
01:18:34
Speaker
ah or Or I should say, you know, it's it's not a high bar to – No. so To go to, but um he he was better than these past few.
01:18:46
Speaker
yeah And i again, I don't know what he did to make it better. I just, it's it's just a blip in the radar, you know, that's like. something that hasn't happened and it hasn't happened yet since as as somebody with a different ideology, I guess you want to call it whatever, but I don't know if, go ahead. it go I kind of, uh, started, is Cleveland still trying to do the, um, I haven't heard about it. Like the 15 minute city thing.
01:19:19
Speaker
There's been talks about it, but don't know. I mean, they're talking about it like everybody else is talking about it but they're not doing anything because that costs money. My biggest like wonder about Cleveland is like you know they're building all these high rent type of apartments. you know um Who's going to live there and for how long and why?
01:19:38
Speaker
What makes you want to play by Playhouse Square? Playhouse Square like house squares cool But after the show, there's nothing there. I mean, like, so what, why would you want to live there?
01:19:50
Speaker
Like, there's nothing to do except for Playhouse Square. And once the show's done, you just go home. Yeah, everything's closed. Yeah. I, like, I mean, besides, you know, besides a couple of bars, I mean, if I want to grab a bite to eat after a show and have a, have a drink and,
01:20:08
Speaker
talk with my friends about the show or, you know, whatever. There's nothing there. And it's like, what the hell? i I don't get it. Like what, what's the attraction to live down there? Besides maybe if you work downtown, it's easy, but still doesn't, it's, it's it doesn't work.
01:20:25
Speaker
Like if that was like jumping, if that was a really jumping area and the fourth street was really jumping besides just game days and even game days or concert days, like the House of Blues, it's like after a show, there's nothing there.
01:20:41
Speaker
I'm walking back to the car going, man, it would be great to have a drink and have a little bit more fun. But... No, no. Everything's closed. You want to spend money, but nobody's letting you spend money. Yeah, so I don't get it. i mean, I understand why businesses stay closed, I guess.
01:20:55
Speaker
i don't know I mean, it's just kind of vicious circle. Nobody down there because there's nothing down there, but there's nothing down there because there's nobody down there. Yeah, so it's crazy, and I don't know how they're going to attract...
01:21:07
Speaker
you know people to they attract It seems like they attract people to move or to get a place, but they're not there for longer. They're a couple years ago. This sucks. so Parking sucks. Traffic sucks. i mean it's not The traffic's not even that bad because it's not that big of a city, but...
01:21:24
Speaker
comparatively and and there's no there's no benefit there's like nothing exciting about it i don't get i mean this is a whole other conversation i think that you know talking about the stadium losing the stadium and the browns from cleveland i mean it has a lot to do with this it's just the mindset of cleveland that never really never there's there's been no vision of for cleveland ever No. and Perfect. Perfect way to to wrap it up. There is no vision. And just like there wasn't when, you know, when the bronze moved last time.
01:21:58
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Like, I will get to you. They they won't move. they They called his bluff and and he moved. Yeah. Well, people, Cleveland sucks. It does. i I do travel a bit. And when I go to, um you know, Decatur, Indiana, and I go, yeah, Cleveland's actually not that bad because at least there's buildings above 15 floors.
01:22:23
Speaker
And, you know, obviously when you compare it to living in most other places in the country, when you don't have any access to that kind of stuff. Yeah.
01:22:33
Speaker
I mean, it's not great. I get that. I guess the the most annoying part is it doesn't, not that it needs to grow, but it needs to develop. And there needs to be a reason for me to go down there more than once every couple of years.
01:22:48
Speaker
Yeah. You know, I mean, ah besides a concert or ball game, don't. there's nothing like, there's no reason for me or, you know, for, for a family to go down there. Really? i mean, I mean, museum, you got the museums, but how many times can you go to that?
01:23:03
Speaker
You know? Yeah. I mean, university circles, nice with the museums and stuff there. like you said, you go there once or twice, you're not going back for many years. Right.
01:23:15
Speaker
i don't know. I, you know, there's the buffs that love, love the art museum stuff that go down probably more than couple times a year, but That's rare.
01:23:26
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And that's, cle and that's you know you know, you're talking that's going this university Heights. That's not even, I'm not thinking about the art museum. not even thinking about the, ah we got the rock hall. How many times can you go see that?
01:23:40
Speaker
and For me, once in 30 years, because haven't been there since. I've been there like two times, three times, and twice, two times, it was just to show visitors.
01:23:51
Speaker
like i yeah i should i do I should put that on my list for... it is cool, but I mean, they're I'm just looking at somebody's shirt. I don't really care. Mm-hmm.
01:24:03
Speaker
You know, I could, you know, you could, I don't know. It just, it never really, museums like like rock, like rock and roll hall of fame museum is, it's neat, but I mean, I don't know. I know, I know some people, I love it. They go there. very deluded at this point, I think, speaking of that. I mean, they put so many people in there. It's like.
01:24:26
Speaker
All right. um so yeah, but right now they're dirt' still going back and forth. I just thought it was it was interesting that the the city and the county are teaming up. um But the state and the Haslam, sounds like the state wants it.
01:24:41
Speaker
I haven't heard much pushback from DeWine or anything on it. He seems like he's all for it. i think i think um I think they're going to move it. It just seems that way and because ah the mayor and who's helping him?
01:24:54
Speaker
Mayor and the city, Cuyahoga County executive, or shoot. Let me get the, it's the county, Borna County commissioners. but Yeah, but that's not going to do anything. So they lost it.
01:25:07
Speaker
It's done. Yeah, I think, and it it seems weird to me because it'll still stay in Cuyahoga County, so I'm not sure why the county is, and Yeah, exactly. That's a good point, too. i I did that to cross my mind when you brought it up. i was like, well, that's still Cuyahoga County. It's not like it's going to Summit or or Lorraine or anything like that.
01:25:28
Speaker
And he is complaining about the $600 million dollars because it's not ah it's a bond, you know, so they have to be paid back and blah, blah, blah. Of course. Um, but only a portion of that is for the County. Right. Most of it is going to be put on the state. So again,
Road Safety and Protest Strategies
01:25:41
Speaker
yeah, kind of takes a little bit argument away.
01:25:44
Speaker
Yep. He's just, he's worried about his next, uh, his reelection. Yeah. That's all he's worried about. Yep. Yep. Which is, which is ah typical for every politician.
01:25:56
Speaker
I agree. um did have a story from a couple weeks ago about protests. What do you think we talked enough about? Oh, here's the one. um It's orange barrel season.
01:26:07
Speaker
Just wanted to put out there, slow down. That's orange barrel season. I watched a video of ODOT doing potholes, cold patching, and Somebody's, you know, you got to give him credit. there These trucks are flying by at 60 miles an hour with no cones, in and their they patching but they're patching the cracks along the line to the next um you know to the next lane that's flying past them.
01:26:33
Speaker
Right, right. And I just brought up, I just thought I'd bring up, when you see them, slow down because... ah They're patching the pat roads for you. move Move over and slow down. slow down Because that was one of the things they did bring up was they had 55 crashes with plow trucks this year.
01:26:52
Speaker
um When they brought up in the in the article, just went over, you know, there' everything's up this year um as far as what they're going to patch, how much they're going to patch because of all the extra snow. So the plows are on the road more than the past years. So there's going tonna be more of those people patching it. so just Keep an eye out.
01:27:10
Speaker
Let them do their job so we can have smooth roads or smooth air roads. Yep. Other than that, anything else? Do you have the Hopkins Airport um protesters?
01:27:21
Speaker
Did you want to talk to I did. I did have that from last week. um I had it last week, too. and I kind of got rid of it but yeah because it's old news. but it's It is old news. It's new old in news i did i just I pulled it aside because i thought it was maybe worth a short discussion on what do you do in these situations as a motorist.
01:27:44
Speaker
That's why i mentioned the um I mentioned it, but we never got there, was so what to do about protests that might be in route to wherever you're going. Okay.
01:27:55
Speaker
Okay. Like how to handle them. This is a good one for you. you had You actually had, we've talked about it personally before, and I think you have a good point of view on how to handle these.
01:28:08
Speaker
Run them over? Yeah. this This protest that took place, um this is from, is it from 2020? Yeah. twenty 2022. It was a, it was a Palestine.
01:28:21
Speaker
It was like people protesting on behalf of Palestine. And, uh, they were. though I thought, no, oh let me click on the link. i' I'm looking through I don't, the story is recent. yeah The story is recent.
01:28:35
Speaker
Um, I didn't pull a clip. It was, it was, uh, I don't have a clip. I don't think there is a, Oh, no, you're right. here i follow We filed records and it took a year nearly a year for Cleveland to release a footage.
01:28:49
Speaker
That's what this is The story is about the footage being released. So it wasn't, it was people in cars protesting. So basically they stopped traffic. Yes. And we I never, i I don't ever remember hearing about this when it happened.
01:29:02
Speaker
so and and But it doesn't give you a I'm trying to look for a date on when it actually happened. Of course, why would you put that in the article? it's not that important. This was by the airport by 237 and 480, I think.
01:29:16
Speaker
they had They have, ah so going through the article real quick. ah We're not going to, this is from the police office, from police on the radio. We're not going to approach these people right now.
01:29:27
Speaker
We are well undermanned and they have 200 plus cars. Right.
01:29:34
Speaker
refresh my memory. What was my great idea when you get into these situations? Well, when you're driving and you your're you're in traffic, sometimes you don't know what's going on ahead of you. You should leave enough room in front of you to change lanes, to get maybe do a yeah U-turn, whatever you can.
01:29:52
Speaker
If you find out it's a protest, if you see it's a protest, um leaving a space in front of your vehicle to maneuver. don't Don't be up on the guy's ah bumper because you' you at that point you're stuck.
01:30:06
Speaker
So leave a leave a ah good car length in front of you. um I don't know if anybody could have because this was ah this was on the highway. It's right the airport. It looks like right by the airport you split off of 237. Yeah. Yeah.
01:30:21
Speaker
ah two thirty seven yeah which is cause that splits off from 71 and, or 480 rather than 71. Yeah. Right. And I don't know if anybody could have done anything there as far as um turn around or or take another route.
01:30:37
Speaker
But just keep in mind that when it's protest season, I think it's going to get funny this year. Leave enough room in front of your car when you're stopped so you can make a you know make a U-turn if possible or or change lanes, maybe make a you know veer off to another street.
01:30:54
Speaker
a left or a right, whatever, have enough room. And if there's people protesting and blocking the road, um, and they're right in front of you,
01:31:07
Speaker
And if they're kind of violent, I mean, there's enough footage. I mean, if they're violent, I'm running you over. um i am It's kidnapping in my opinion. I've seen people stop and get pulled out of their vehicles and beat up. This hasn't happened in Cleveland as far as I know.
01:31:25
Speaker
But i've I've seen enough of it where I'm not stopping for. if you're going to protest like that, um yeah yeah, you're you're um you're going to be ground me Well, that brings me to they've updated their tactics because they're they're not they're in cars. So they're organizing it in cars. So they're in the cars and not on the road to be run over.
01:31:49
Speaker
Yeah, either that or it's cold and they were they were... That's good point. But that would be the smart play was the don't be don't go human against car, car against car.
01:32:00
Speaker
Make it much easier much harder for somebody like or I to push them out of the way. Although... I still try. But um i yeah I mean, i this does worry me because I'm not sure.
01:32:12
Speaker
worries me personally because i'm not sure how i I would react in this situation. I'm not not sure I'd be able to um stay calm for all that long. um lot because it's It's hard to tell. If there's just cars, you don't know what's going on unless there's cops and they're they're kind of telling people, you know, walking around.
01:32:30
Speaker
you know, walking down the road saying, Hey, there's a protest, just wait it out. We're going to, we're going to clear this up. I think, I actually think it's more dangerous with, uh, with people because, you get, get a gang of people surrounding a car that become violent. A cars, cars, are cars, whatever, it you know, yeah it's just causing a traffic jam. you're going to miss your flight, uh, or your appointment or something, or you're to be late to work.
01:32:55
Speaker
But, uh, you know, people blocking the road is, Far more dangerous yeah ah for both for, for the. Yeah, true. That's true. Cause then, yeah, that's when they're busting out windows and pulling you out of your car. Yeah.
01:33:07
Speaker
Yeah. And we're getting extreme here that we don't see, we don't really see that in Ohio, but you know, it can happen. Yeah, it has happened in other places. And with everybody getting whipped up, I wouldn't surprise seeing it happen again.
01:33:25
Speaker
So basically, this story is just, it's old news that they just released the video from. and i watched it I don't know why they didn't release it. It just, yeah you know, they were understaffed.
01:33:37
Speaker
And really, I don't know what a cop can do. So i don't want to give any protesters ideas because there's not much you ah cops can do. No, they until they got more cars, no more manpower, two or three units aren't going to do anything but with 100 cars. Yeah.
01:33:53
Speaker
Get some tow trucks, get a truck out there to block them and just get tow trucks. I don't know. Yeah, there's, yeah so it's a, it's, that's a tricky one. I'm glad I'm not a cop.
01:34:04
Speaker
I don't know how how I would handle that, so. there's not whole lot can do until you get more help. And maybe that's why they didn't run release it because maybe it showed them, it showed the weakness. Protesters are trying to do it.
01:34:17
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. yeah And by the airport, I'm surprised we didn't hear more about it because that would be a that's a smart place to do it. yeah You're really going to make a point to these people being late for if you're going to make them late for a flight.
01:34:29
Speaker
Yeah. So, yep. All right.
Conclusion and Wrap-up
01:34:33
Speaker
It was pro-Hamas people. Yes. yeah Yeah. We have those here. They're mad because they were, well, that was a year ago. So I was going to say they're mad because they're not getting their condoms, but that's, that was, I didn't know about that until recently.
01:34:47
Speaker
um I think that's basically, we've had all the big ones. um Yeah, I think we're good. Yeah, no, we're good. I got a couple of small stories, but I don't, they're there. I'm done.
01:34:59
Speaker
It's been long. Yeah. We got an hour and a half under the belt. So I think we're good. um Cool. I guess we'll wrap it up there and um we'll see everybody next week, I guess. Sounds good. All right.
01:35:11
Speaker
Talk to you later. bye