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Crooked River Cast Show 55
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- No Kings nonsense.
- Kash Email Hack.
- First Energy Hung Jury.
- Hilliard residence concerned about Amazon DC.
- KY Family rejects $26M offer.
- Solar Farm shenanigans.
- Subscribe and share the show. Leave a comment.
Critter Corner:
- HB 754 To require fetal death certificates.
- GOP Lawmaker accused of child abuse.
- HB 68 Tranny “healthcare” court case.
- Akron schools build while they cut.
- Medina reveres school funding cuts.
- Akron Fire Dept has a familiar problem.
Good Things:
- First look at new primate forest at Cleveland Zoo.
- Wadsworth’s Celestia Theater.
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:12
Speaker
This is the Crooked Rivercast. am Robert, and the other voice you're about to hear is Tom, and we are two guys trying to keep track of what going on in the great state of Ohio.
00:00:23
Speaker
This is show 55 for the week of April No, April 6th, 2026. All right, let's just do it. Come on. Messing around.
00:00:41
Speaker
In the morning, That was interesting. Always is. Always is.
Show Dates and Lighthearted Mistakes
00:00:47
Speaker
Today is April 4th. The show will come out on April 6th. How about that?
00:00:52
Speaker
A slight typo. that Next week I'll make the same mistake. Good morning this morning. That's fine, fine, fine morning.
00:01:04
Speaker
The weather is broke. Holy Saturday. Yes. Holy Saturday. Easter is tomorrow. And happy belated Easter because you'll be listening to this on Monday.
00:01:17
Speaker
I will not be working. Is that Dingus Day? is it tink Is that Dingus Day? I think it's always after the day after Easter. Easter Monday. Yeah. okay I think.
00:01:27
Speaker
Yeah. So, you know, Easter, the weather's broke. Start seeing some 70 degrees. air conditioning is coming on in the car, in the truck. I know I'm like, I'm driving home from work the other day and I'm like turning on the air conditioning going.
00:01:43
Speaker
Yeah. I think it was just the humidity. It wasn't all that hot. It was just like, I was kind of, it was muggy in the car. Guess what else back?
Office Geese and Decoy Wolves
00:01:52
Speaker
What's that? Frickin geese.
00:01:56
Speaker
Oh, did you step in some dew? No. Dew? No. at At our office, we have, we have a geese problem. So how we remedy that geese problem, I mean, my remedy is different. it has to do with birdshot, you know, 12 gauge and stuff like that. But we have bought decoy wolves, coyotes maybe or whatever. I think they're wolves or coyotes. They're probably coyote size, not wolves. They're coyotes.
00:02:23
Speaker
Oh, it's worked for like three or four years. Really? Yeah. We just put them out and and we move them around every day. They put them in different spot. Otherwise we found out if we keep them in the same spot, they ignore them. They start to ignore them. Yeah. That's what I was just about to ask.
00:02:36
Speaker
You need to move them. They were a bit late this year. Really? Yeah, I pulled it in one parking lot i and you know it was a goose walking around or whatever. It happens. It's springtime, you even think of it. and i'm like I'm walking out of the, actually out of the door, going back to my truck. And as here's this goose. He starts yelling at me. And I'm like, what's that? You know, I'm like, get the hell out of here. What the hell? And I was like, oh, and it dawned on me. look over there and here's there's there's this there's this chick, you know, trying to look for a nest.
00:03:06
Speaker
And of course I get in the truck and and and another guy walks out from his car from lunch. He's going back in and he's and he's looking at And I pull up and I roll my window down. I'm like, just go. He's like, no, no, no.
00:03:18
Speaker
dude, just go. He's not going to do anything. Just, you know, block the sensitive areas. you know yeah Oh, no, i'm calling I'm calling Andrea and she's going to ah gonna lock the other door.
00:03:31
Speaker
And I'm like, oh, okay. but she oh Oh, my goodness. Sorry. Excuse me. So then a couple days go by, i sent out an email. said, hey, we we might want to get the wolves out there or coyote or whatever. And then we might, you know, because we got this and that. And then, of course, you get the email. It's a protected species and you can't touch the nest or anything. else Oh, my god I ain't got to touch the nest.
00:03:55
Speaker
You can't touch the bird either.
00:03:59
Speaker
What if they touched you? well Thank you. Yes, that's what I said. I said, this America, damn it. If I get attacked, I have the right to defend myself.
00:04:12
Speaker
Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be doing the show by myself. I got arrested. and then somebody in the office like, oh, did you film it? And I was like, I'm not. No, I'm not filming my own crimes. You crazy. I'm not stupid.
00:04:26
Speaker
ah You film my own crimes and post it on Twitter and then get caught and go, how did they find me? We just podcast it. Yeah, we just podcast it. No, I didn't touch it. so i go So a couple days later, I go back, and I kind of forgot about it a little bit.
00:04:42
Speaker
So I go, i park the truck, and I look over at this corner. It's a corner right by with the one door that people go in. and And, you know, there's there's grass, hot tall grass and fields over here. There's a big hill. No, you got to pick the the corner with the mulch and next to the building.
00:05:01
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Perfect. So I'm like, oh, that's right. Look at that. That's funny. So they had taken both wolves or both coyote decoys and put them pointing pointing at the nest.
00:05:12
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Nests in the corner. Got one on either side they're like, don't know, five, six feet away. I'm like, that's pretty funny. I got my my laptop bag and I got my, pull my phone out. I'm I gotta take a picture of that. And all of a sudden look up on the roof and here comes dude.
00:05:26
Speaker
here comes Here comes Papa squawking, flying off the roof about to attack me. That son of a bitch was up there sniping me. ah So, you know, yeah I mean, i get it. it is It is scary. It's not to say, oh, look at me, manly man. I wasn't. That's a little frightening. But all you got to get bigger and louder.
00:05:44
Speaker
Yeah. And he just went, oh. And just kind of sat looked at me and gave me a couple hisses. I'm like, dude, I'm good. I i don't care about her. you You and your bitch, you got it all by yourself, man. I tried to get to my truck.
00:05:58
Speaker
geese Canadians your damn Canadians your tires are sliced next week I know by who the environmentalist or the geese which one ah so that was exciting there's going to be a dump on the hood too i mean me and him have an agreement now Okay.
00:06:18
Speaker
So the last time I went there late last week, I, I pulled in a lot and he was walked, they were walking around like outside. They weren't by the nest to him. like, Oh, he's taking her for a walk. I'm like, Ooh, perfect timing. So I walked over put the coyote decoys like right on the nest.
00:06:35
Speaker
All right. Now you get, now you really got that challenge. They really got challenged there, buddy. So let's, ah let's see. I don't know. They may, they may just go away. I'm like looking like look at all this beautiful land you have to have a nest and you want to do it in a mulch bed in next to a parking lot I don't mean it is a pretty defensible position I'd have to yeah that was pretty funny um yeah I guess you know screw the geese damn Canadians take your damn birds back is there can we put a tariff on the birds where's Trump when we need them put a tariff on the birds I'll keep them over there
00:07:09
Speaker
put a tariff on the crap. Well, that too, that stuff's greasy, man. Like you should use that. and Can't they use that as a lubricant somewhere? I can imagine you've plenty of it. I mean, they use. Don't give them any ideas. It's going to be some type of frying oil.
00:07:23
Speaker
like Well, they use. That's true. i mean, they use bat, bat poo for some kind of medical stuff. don't they i I don't know. it so Is that what bat? Bueno, guano, guano.
00:07:36
Speaker
Guano is great. Uh, uh, fertilize fertilizer. Okay. so It's awesome. Fertilizer. Anywho, enough about poo. Speaking of poo, I mean know again, i was not even going to bring this up, Tom. I really wasn't on the list. It's not on the list.
00:07:51
Speaker
Um, I wasn't going to bring anything about Iran up, but of course ah they had to shoot down a couple of our planes last
Iran's Military Actions and Satire
00:07:57
Speaker
night. And I'm just curious, is Iran becoming a shit show?
00:08:02
Speaker
couple, they shot down a cup, one plane, two pilots or, you know, whatever. no it's more than one plane. No. real Oh, now it's more than one plane? they ah I think during the rescue mission, they shot they shot down an A-10 Warthog, which is a low-flying, slow. it's it's its That's a 70s. That plane is awesome. ah Heavily armored, just tons of guns and bombs and stuff. So that was shot up. It ended up crashing.
00:08:28
Speaker
in uh kuwait i believe oh so he the pilots are good but the the plane was he he they got out of there determined the plane was a loss so he ejected uh i thought there was rumors of another one another a10 so rumors of a third one possibly but right now two are confirmed but only one pilot is still missing as far as i far as this morning is i thought i would yeah i thought they were going to try to they were hoping to find them overnight because it's a little easier yeah
00:08:56
Speaker
Uh, yeah. So I wasn't going to mention it, but I was like, well, I mean, was all over the news last night when I was going through show prep and I was like, geez, oh man. Um, but you know, uh, I guess according to the left, really only, only in Iran, only certain countries are allowed to have, we're not allowed to have a king, but are places like Iran can have a king. Venezuela can have a king.
00:09:21
Speaker
Who else can have a Oh, England can have a king, but not America. No kings. No kings. Woohoo. So yeah, we had more protests. i Did you see any of these? I didn't see any of these.
00:09:34
Speaker
Trump is a dictator, but he's also king. He's also a Nazi. Nazi controlled by Jews. Oh, and he also a Russian double agent who protects his secret agent identity by pissing on Moscow hookers.
00:09:52
Speaker
i wondering we you go with that one okay compliments of razor fist yes oh my gosh yes uh well i think we can start off with um a good old scott jennings analysis what do you think about that let's hear what scott jennings has to say about no king's protest These No Kings rallies actually look pretty representative to me of the
No Kings Protest and Media Critique
00:10:16
Speaker
Democratic coalition. I saw people flying the hammer and sickle in New York City. I saw Hezbollah flags. I saw ah Hamas flags. I saw Palestinian flags. I saw trans signs. I see weirdo ah liberal boomers out there. This is pretty representative of the Democratic coalition. And that's who funds it as well, by the way. And so I i think if if America looks at this and says, what do the two parties stand for? They got it at the No Kings. No, I think if you Americans are out there.
00:10:43
Speaker
You're out there. public You like hammer and sickle? You like hammer and sickle flag? That's not what that No Kings did for. They had a bunch of them. They come from somewhere. all or no king's room I did. I went to six. And I'll tell you, there's so much excitement. There's so much energy. I'll get t-shirt. a lot of free speech.
00:11:04
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says that's a lot of free speech for a country with a king
00:11:12
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ah
00:11:15
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But I think I'm not sure. um um Maybe Scott wasn't read in or maybe he just must not have known. it Maybe he didn't see Theo Vaughn's show. and and And I mean, our RFK broke some serious news on the Theo Vaughn show. let's let's hear Let's hear from ah JFK on the Neil King's protest.
00:11:37
Speaker
The no Kings ah protests, Theo, they were they were a total success. Of course, we planned them. Oh, my God. It was a bet that I had with President Trump. He said we could never get the fat uggos of the country to walk around and get some fresh air. But I said to him, I said, President Trump, these people might be fat, disgusting weirdos. i don't want to say that, but yeah, we shouldn't give up on them completely. ah Plus, they're NPCs. So if we do this through the correct channels, those juicy whales will show up without asking questions.
00:12:12
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Right. Checkmate, Theo. Yeah, of course, that was not real.
00:12:24
Speaker
That was AI, but it was freaking good. I don't know. Checkmate. Checkmate, Theo. at The AI did a decent job.
00:12:35
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of RFK's voice, which is probably ah very difficult voice to, uh, to mimic for the, for the E-Hug. Yeah, it wasn't bad. No, it wasn't bad. it wasn't bad. Uh, I don't know. Was he right?
00:12:48
Speaker
was ah i mean i think it I mean, it was fake. It was AI, but it does the big juicy whales out. And the fat uggos. The fat uggos.
00:12:59
Speaker
And what's ah what's a better way to prove how right that fake AI video was by... Let's hear from some investigative reporting on the No Kings rally.
00:13:12
Speaker
No Kings in the USA! No Kings Day! Woo!
00:13:18
Speaker
No King's Day. What are we going to to the king? We're going to shut him down. are we going to shut him down? Impeachment. Impeachment. there's impeachment, that means there's a Congress and Donald Trump can't be a king.
00:13:30
Speaker
Right. Right. Why is Donald Trump a king? Because he's nut. He smells funny. For real? funny Is that a question? Because he has repeatedly overused ah his... um He's trying to abuse this world and try to make this place all about him. Why are you asking me this?
00:13:51
Speaker
You know the answer. What's the answer? You know it. What is it? You know the answer. So many people showed up. Imagine if they showed up like this for Kamala. o People showed up for Kamala.
00:14:04
Speaker
Did that go the way you thought it was going to go? Nope. What is one action that Donald Trump took that is impossible to do under the Constitution, but he did it anyway?
00:14:15
Speaker
I can't name specific laws. I'm sorry. Oh. I lost a lot of thought on that. You're a reporter. So why don't you do your homework? Don't ask me. I went to war. Legally, he could do that.
00:14:27
Speaker
He can? so Putting ice in our cities. Legally, he could put ice in cities. i don't really give a about legally. Rename the Kennedy Center. which amendment under the Constitution is he prohibited to renaming the Kennedy Center?
00:14:46
Speaker
I refer you to the New York Times two days ago. They had a list of 30 items. And you read it? I read it, absolutely. So what is one thing from that list? One thing from that list is, is, ah I'm blanking. I did not fully read it. I've got it. I've read through excerpts. yeah He's trying to run again. He's trying to run again. did he leave office the first time? Because he got voted out. So why won't he leave office now when he's term limited? Because he's a fascist. That's why. Did you not hear what I said? He's a fascist. Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
00:15:22
Speaker
I've spoken about that. That's okay. You can just say yes. He ended with Mondavi in the and the Oval Office when they were pushing him on. ah but You said ah you said say no it's ah Trump goes, you can you can call me a fascist. You can say yes. It's okay. You can say I'm a fascist. It's okay.
00:15:40
Speaker
That's some fascist. Nothing newsworthy here, folks. Purely entertainment. And only reason we're bringing up, because it's funny. Because it's funny.
00:15:53
Speaker
Although, i do have to ask a question. What's that? this has been I heard this asked me years ago. ah Not asked to me, but asked like on a show or something, people.
00:16:05
Speaker
Let's say anybody out there gets every all the policies they want. You get the laws you want. You get the culture you want. Let's just say in a perfect world, in a fantasy world, you get to make policy and everything gets put in place as you will.
00:16:21
Speaker
Or as a consensus, maybe not exactly so on. So I'm king. you're Let's say you're king.
00:16:28
Speaker
What do you do with all these people?
00:16:32
Speaker
Oh, they would mow them down. because these There's coming a growing sector of the population um that can't live with each other.
00:16:45
Speaker
So even if we get everything we want, what are we going to do with these people are still here?
00:16:51
Speaker
What's the news article here? Is in an abominable snowman costume? One of the guys in the Jesse Waters things, they're in a blow-up.
00:17:04
Speaker
Oh, Barney costumes. um
00:17:08
Speaker
What do we do with these people?
00:17:11
Speaker
I don't know the answer. It's rhetorical question, really. I'm not expecting anyone with answer. I just, like, you have to think about it. Like, there's a large very large section of the country that will never agree with almost anything that we agree with.
00:17:24
Speaker
crazy thoughts. I heard an interesting comment from ah Tim pool last week and he said he always wished more people would get involved in politics and vote. And now after all these years, he's kind of like, no, that's a mistake.
00:17:39
Speaker
Yeah. You don't want everybody involved in politics or voting.
00:17:46
Speaker
And I think if you look at big cities with big colleges, as always well brought up, what I bring up is, You got kids going to college, not kids or adults going to college voting in cities they're never going to live in or policies that they're never going to be under.
00:18:02
Speaker
Just that alone. There should be something like, how do you, don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. There's got, I mean, I don't know. Democracy is king. That's what they tell me. So, well, it's the female vote.
00:18:17
Speaker
That has ruined it. Feminism. Oh, I've got a clip I should have pulled for that. Yeah, and you're right. And it even comes up later, think, in our stories somewhere. Yeah.
00:18:28
Speaker
arch Oh, well. didn't Repeal the 19th. Yeah. Well, yeah, it was a rob a Rob Schneider clip, which I pulled and I forgot. um But that's no Kings.
00:18:43
Speaker
Next, I guess, ah there's been a leak, Tom. Oh, no. There has been a leak. Man, Cash Patel's Gmail was hacked.
00:18:56
Speaker
Did you hear anything about any of this? I did not hear anything about it other than it wasn't any news.
Cash Patel's Email Hacking
00:19:03
Speaker
Well, I mean, it's big time news ah from what I can see. And only the only the best place to get this kind of news is, course,
00:19:11
Speaker
This guy's shown up on my feed a few times. I think, yeah, Asmongold. You ever Asmongold? Yeah, always a good source for information. But he does break it down kind of concisely, and and in nice nice the way he he way he presents it is pretty good. So let's listen to what they found in the hacked emails.
00:19:31
Speaker
Wait, got to make sure we go. Hacked emails of Cash Patel.
00:19:37
Speaker
So Cash Patel had his email hacked, apparently by Iranians. So let's take a look at what he was doing before he became the director of the FBI. Smoking cigars in Cuba. Taking a picture next to an old car in Cuba. Smoking cigars. cigars again, maybe in Cuba. I'm not sure. Smoking cigars in a hotel room in Cuba.
00:20:00
Speaker
On the job. Okay, good job. That's him. Oh, this is from a while ago. He's a young guy then. Look at that. Taking a picture next to the Ernest Hemingway statue. Okay, got it.
00:20:10
Speaker
And this is him in Cuba. Okay, confirmed by Reuters. He accessed his Gmail just today, two hours ago. Cash has been buying fashion and likes to drive Toyota. Two years ago, he rated the Lone Star Toyota of Louisville, Texas, five stars. And so Cash has been using the username Spider Cash for not only his email addresses, but also for several other accounts. So this is for eBay. OK, Cash likes gifts and uses Snapchat.
00:20:44
Speaker
Okay. He's got Spotify and Disney Plus. He uses eBay. Okay. I refuse to believe this is him. It must be someone else. This is him on Xvideos. Xvideos, I think, is ah that's like Twitter's video service. I'm pretty sure. So you have right here, gender, male, name, Spider Cash, gocation, United States.
00:21:07
Speaker
Damn, bro. Damn. The State Department announced a $10 million dollars bounty on the hackers behind Cash Patel's Gmail breach. If you have information on Iranian malicious cyber actors or associated groups or individuals, contact us with any information. So rewards of up to $10 million. dollars I got to be honest, guys. It's like a PR thing. His email gets hacked and you find out that he loves drinking. He loves smoking cigars. He loves Ernest Hemingway. He loves Toyota and getting personalized suits made of himself. And he also uses Snapchat and he looks at porn. And also, if he was doing anything related to his job on his personal email... then you would have found it. Yeah, they really got his ass trying to make him look like a cool and relatable guy. Are we sure we didn't just release those himself? So the Redditors are mad that it's not more condemning about him to have somebody get their shit leaked and then this is all that you get off on them? Wait.
00:22:03
Speaker
throw Fortnite and Halo. Fucking based. He plays Fortnite and Halo. Oh my gosh. They were so pissed. This can't be real. This is all you got.
00:22:15
Speaker
oh ah um Hey Hillary. Yeah. You imagine ah ah there was probably a very very strong push in the Trump administration to guys don't put anything on your personal email.
00:22:34
Speaker
Um, oh yeah. And, uh, Panbani's out. Yeah. Is Cash next?
00:22:41
Speaker
I don't think so. I don't know. People aren't happy. Yeah. that true? I don't know. I, uh, I think that, uh, it's a possibility, but who else would they were talking about Hexat too, but I don't think these are. No, he's not going, um,
00:22:59
Speaker
Well, he had... But really Epstein's stuff. He had Kristi Noem first, Pam Bondi. ah Is pi Pam Bondi's ah husband going to have bigger tits than Kristi Noem's husband? No.
00:23:11
Speaker
They wouldn't allow that, would they? There's got to be some deal-making behind the scenes, I'm sure.
00:23:18
Speaker
So yeah, now Pam Bondi's out, and I guess to that...
00:23:25
Speaker
of these days, I'll get these buttons down. Maybe Cash was being stalled by Pam Bondi.
00:23:34
Speaker
Maybe Cash was being stalled by Pam Bondi. Yeah. So, aye you know, we'll see. Possibly. Harmeet Dillon is, I think, rumored to take Pam Bondi's place.
00:23:50
Speaker
Who is that? Why does that sound familiar? ah she's ah She's a... Trump lawyer that um is working for the DOJ right now. Okay. Yeah. That's why I've heard it.
00:24:01
Speaker
Now a good time to do it. Of course, Friday, or the the week of Easter. So perfect time. What's the next holiday? When ask cash when the next holiday is,
00:24:17
Speaker
uh, well, I mean, this happens. And i everybody's, oh my gosh, people are being removed. And yeah, you know, generally if you're, if you're not doing the job of the boss and you should get removed.
00:24:33
Speaker
That's how it works. Generally doesn't know how it works in government, but in this administration, that's how it works. Uh, gave them, gave them plenty of rope to hang themselves. And she blew that whole, uh, Epstein oh yeah thing and the messaging. And when, when she was in Congress and they were asking her questions and she says, uh, the stock markets have $50,000. I mean, that she should have been booted but at that moment.
00:25:00
Speaker
Yeah, that was mishandled to say the least and still kind of scratched my head on the whole thing. Yeah. Seems like they had a whole bunch of things to release and then they didn't. And you're like, huh, but weird.
00:25:12
Speaker
So you did you oversell it and then you find out there was nothing or what? i don't know.
00:25:19
Speaker
So goodbye, get out, get somebody else in now. Now what are these people going to be expecting all these results when the new person gets in? Cause I don't, I don't think they're going to get much different.
00:25:30
Speaker
don't think all of a sudden you're going to get all these Epstein videos and stuff coming out. Are you? I don't know about the Epstein thing, but i hopefully, i mean with the JD Vance in charge of the fraud,
00:25:45
Speaker
And people looking into, what's her name from Somalia? Yeah. Omar. Omar. we'll Yeah, we'll see.
00:25:56
Speaker
Yeah, we'll keep up with it,
First Energy Executives Trial
00:25:57
Speaker
I guess. And moving on to our main Ohio story is, ah well, first energy trials over for now. And and it ends up with a hung jury.
00:26:09
Speaker
A hung jury. Okay. So after nine days of deliberation, um they couldn't come up with anything. Let's hear from News Channel 5 on a little update on what happened.
00:26:20
Speaker
And to actually hearing for a little bit from the jurors too. One of the jurors came out and spoke about it and gave some feedback. So this is actually half a decent report, I think. We this big story here, the trial of two former first energy executives. It's over without a verdict. We have the breaking news for you today at noon. And after more than a week of deliberating, the jury is hung. Our Summit County reporter, does he know Bob Jones, is live tonight outside the courthouse where all this action played out for weeks with some new reaction and also some comments, Bob, from one of the jurors.
00:26:51
Speaker
Well, that juror told me at one point the vote was 8 to 4 in favor of guilty on some of the counts. It then went up to 10 to 2. But at some point, there was an impasse. The jury could not reach his decision. So no verdict in a case that started two months ago. And now the prosecution says they're ready to retry it all over again.
00:27:11
Speaker
There were people who said that they weren't going to change their mind. One of the jurors, Mark Bachman, says the seven women and five men on the jury reached an impasse as they considered the cases against former First Energy executives Chuck Jones and Michael Dowling. Most people thought they were guilty. However, Bachman says after nine days of deliberations, the jury provided a note indicating they could not reach a unanimous verdict. All righty.
00:27:38
Speaker
Bringing this reaction from Judge Susan Baker Ross. After extended deliberations, we, the 12 jurors, cannot come to a consensus on any of the charges The state accused Jones and Dowling of bribing public utilities chair Sam Randazzo with $4.3 million dollars and providing $60 million more in exchange to pass House Bill 6, a billion-dollar bailout for the struggling company and resulting in increased utility bills for consumers. Randazzo died by suicide in 2024 after pleading not guilty to dozens of charges.
00:28:09
Speaker
During the trial, the defense argued Randazzo was corrupt, claiming the payments to him were old consulting fees for former first-person. First energy clients that they say Randazzo stole. They had 30 witnesses, 600 exhibits. they They took nine days to really go through a lot of this evidence. It's a very complicated case.
00:28:30
Speaker
And we're go through it all over again. Because Houston said he's going to retry him. Hmm.
00:28:40
Speaker
how complicated would the case be if the jury knew that the company has already admitted to the bribery?
00:28:50
Speaker
And did it have anything to do with seven women and five seven women and five men on the jury?
00:28:59
Speaker
I would but i put some money down that the two people holding out were women, but that's just me.
00:29:07
Speaker
ah Uh, and that's that, that's, it's anticlimactic to a trial that was boring us not anyway. And, uh, I don't know. I still never didn't, I didn't understand or did they ever got to the get to the bottom of where all this money went? They didn't. And it doesn't seem like anyone's even looking into where the $60 million dollars went.
00:29:27
Speaker
Just all blaming the dead guy.
00:29:33
Speaker
Yep, that's about all i got to say about that. and Next on the list, ah data centers comes back up, is coming up.
Amazon Data Center Concerns
00:29:41
Speaker
and It'll be coming up more and more, I would imagine, in the coming years and months. and Hilliard residents concerned about Amazon data center.
00:29:50
Speaker
So Hilliard, I believe, is a county around Columbus area and center of the state. I don't know, it sounds to me on this story, I got a clip from it, but this story sounds to me like um like a little little little too late.
00:30:06
Speaker
Sounds like ah people of the community are not happy with it and they're trying everything to go to stop it, but I'm not sure they're going to be able to. So let's listen to what the deal is. It has a lot to do with air pollution and trying to get some permits before they can open the data center for Amazon.
00:30:25
Speaker
Residents filled the Hilliard Recreation Center this evening, many questioning whether the draft permit does enough to protect air quality and keep the community informed. The permit would allow the facility along Sayoto-Darby Creek Road to operate up to 158 emergency generators powered by ultra-low sulfur diesel or hydrogenated vegetable oil diesel. Under federal law, major sources of air pollution must obtain a Title V operating permit outlining emission limits, monitoring, and testing requirements the company must follow. Pilliard has a 100% renewable energy aggregation program. They passed the voters pass in 2022. The fuel cell is set to put out 5.5 times as much carbon dioxide as we're saving with our entire city aggregation program. Many who live near the site say they're worried about what those emissions could mean for their neighborhoods. There's a playground right nearby where my kids play all the time, and it's right next to the data center, right next to where these generators are going to be. Others called for independent monitoring to verify the company's pollution projections. This is a lot of new technology in a very populated area. They just ah insist that, you know, oh, based on our modeling, our projections, that you guys will be fine. There's nothing to worry about. We would like to see that data so we can make that determination for ourselves. Residents also raised concerns about how often the emergency generators could be used and whether the public would be notified when they're running. Judging from other data centers in other areas and what from what the PJM, which is the electrical grid in Ohio, what the They have said it's not necessarily just going to be in an emergency. It could be because the weather gets cold. cold It could be in an emergency. What an emergency is isn't defined. An Amazon spokesperson said in a statement that the generators typically operate only about 10 hours a year in Ohio for routine testing and that the company is committed to meeting all environmental standards. Tonight's meeting was just one step in a multi-stage permitting process. The Ohio EPA will review public comments before issuing a preliminary permit, followed by another round of review before a final decision is made.
00:32:36
Speaker
Community members can still submit comments online or by mail through next Wednesday. Local for you, I'm Samantha Bender, NBC4.
00:32:47
Speaker
the heck is a, do you call a renewable energy aggregate program, aggregation program?
00:32:55
Speaker
so I'm still trying to get over the fact that there's diesel fuel with vegetable oil in it. Oh yeah. And I just had fish fry last weekend and I'm like thinking that was fried in the same stuff. Oh yeah. they've been do Yeah. You've been doing that for a lot people converting diesels to use a fire oil, old fry oil on McDonald's.
00:33:15
Speaker
birthday That was your, yeah, that's, What does 158 diesel generators the size of a semi sound like when it fires up? I can't imagine.
00:33:29
Speaker
it's yeah Yeah. that's And they're all worried about... It's all enclosed, right? What's that? The generators? The generators. um I don't know.
00:33:42
Speaker
Enclosed how, you mean? Like they're outside. They're outside? So the... dumb the exhaust is not getting going through a filter or anything like that?
00:33:54
Speaker
No, it's not. It depends on, I would imagine it depends on the data center. Yeah. But the ones I've seen, these things are literally their are size of a trailer of a semi trailer almost somewhere in that range or maybe not as long, but wider stuff like that. They're huge.
00:34:07
Speaker
Right. Right. It cannot, mean, they got mufflers and stuff on it and all that, you know, they but 158,000, ah hundred and fifty eight
00:34:15
Speaker
158 regular generators, are like the nice Honda ones that are nice and quiet, would be very loud. Yeah, it'd sound like a hive from from far away. Yeah. and yeah um I'm also like wondering, like what's an emergency? Are they going to be turning those on when it's hot and everyone's running their Yeah.
00:34:36
Speaker
And that's part of their problem is they don't, there's no stipulations on what an emergency is apparently. Right. Right. um I just feel like this is a little too late um for, I think a lot of this push, push back. You know, I think people got get cut up caught off guard.
00:34:52
Speaker
Right. Oh my God, there's a data center and they're pushing back. And this is where they, this is the only place they have to push. This thing's going to go. yeah it's It's already built. It sounds like there's weight. They need this approval to open up.
00:35:05
Speaker
So imagine it's on its way to being finished or, you know, in some sort of process. ah Unfortunately they, you know, I don't know. That's my guess. I don't, i don't really know, but it's, it, it is going to be, yeah, loud and smelly.
00:35:20
Speaker
I mean, it could smell like fish fry, you know? and I don't think it's going to run that much, but no, it doesn't say how well it's supposed Right. But it doesn't, you know, the fact that I, I wouldn't like, it doesn't say what an emergency is.
00:35:33
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know. She's something like, well, when it gets cold out, I'm like, well, no, no, she was dopey, but yeah. But I, you know, is it it, you know, is it peak hours of electric, electronic use? Because,
00:35:49
Speaker
You know, the energy company doesn't have enough, so they're going to supplement it. That's what I'm, out now that's what would worry me. Is it going to turn or turn on every day at like four o'clock to six?
00:36:00
Speaker
Yeah. And, and what what, so you get a big windstorm coming through, you get, you know, 50,000 people without power in and around the data center.
00:36:11
Speaker
Oh, that would sound so awesome. it It would sound wonderful. The quiet night air just, oh, just for miles. I bet you could hear that thing and ah on a nice chilly evening in Ohio. But also, hey, can I get an extension cord? Like, you here you are trying to make sure you can keep your food from spoiling. And there's the data center so everybody can get their AI questions in. God.
00:36:34
Speaker
oh Yeah, this is why you got to pay attention so it doesn't get to this point. Yes. Nice segue, Tom. Speaking of paying attention, we have this next one that... Oh, this is from the ex that you but you pulled, right?
00:36:49
Speaker
Mm-hmm. So this is not i've got not an Ohio story necessarily, but a good story in...
Kentucky Family's Land Offer Rejection
00:36:55
Speaker
Wow. um So here's this Kentucky family that rejects $26 million dollars offer to convert part of their farm into a data center, despite being being offered about 10 times the going rate.
00:37:09
Speaker
And... This is how, this is like the only surefire way to keep your community intact is to have the guts to say no and the discipline and, you know, I guess $26 million, dollars but leave it to two women farmers to have the balls to say no.
00:37:24
Speaker
Let's hear from, this is from ah Colin Rugg. Has he posted this? I don't know what this is from, but it's okay. Colin Rugg is enough. Let's hear family.
00:37:36
Speaker
Turns down $26
00:37:38
Speaker
If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. $26 million doesn't mean anything. Some people might find it hard to understand how Delcia Bear can turn away $26 million dollars offer to buy some of her land until you spend a little time with her walking the dirt road she grew up on and in the house her daddy built. ah My grandfather and great grandfather and a whole bunch of family has all lived here for years, paid taxes on it, fed a nation off of it, even raised wheat through the depression and and and kept bread lines up in the United States of America. When people didn't have anything else. Del Cia is one of dozens of landowners approached by an anonymous buyer, one of the major players in artificial intelligence, likely Google or Meta or Amazon, to purchase their land.
00:38:27
Speaker
The market value for land in Mason County is about $6,000 an acre. The realtor that came to her door last April offered her and her mother about 10 times that.
00:38:38
Speaker
They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we're not. We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, and we don't have any water and poison, we know we've had it.
00:38:51
Speaker
Delcia's mom, Ida Huddleston, is now 82 years old. She says she does not need the money or the hassle. She was born on this land, and she plans to die here, and she certainly does not trust the promises made by the AI companies or the people who want them to build here. So what do you say to the people who are in town that say, hey, this is going to bring jobs, this is going to bring economic prosperity?
00:39:18
Speaker
I say they're a liar and the truth ain't in them, is what ill say. It's a scam. For Delcia, scam or not, she says she's connected to her home like Scarlett O'Hara was in Gone with the Wind. As long as she was attached to that land, her spirit never would die.
00:39:35
Speaker
And that's that's the exact same same thing for me right here. As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land.
00:39:50
Speaker
Based.
00:39:54
Speaker
Is it just a prereq that you have to sound like that when you're living on a farm? Why is that? there They're in the South, though. Yeah, they're in the area Kentucky, but still, you know, it seems like. But yeah, I mean, man, that's.
00:40:08
Speaker
Turn down $26 million. Yeah. yeah I mean, that's that's I i applaud them. Your way of life or $26 million? million dollars I mean,
00:40:20
Speaker
Well, it's really, for some people, that's not even a question. It's really seeing the forest through the trees as it as I think that would fit there because they're like, yeah, this is 26 million, but they would be they' would be lost. What are they going to do with 26 million? Sell their farm and move to the city?
00:40:36
Speaker
Exactly. ah It would probably kill them.
00:40:42
Speaker
I mean, I don't know. I mean, never mind. I'm not going to go there. But what would you do? oh I don't. I... I couldn't, what I would, me, me now, me, this, this me, oh, I take 26 million, but I'm not them. You would take 26 million?
00:40:59
Speaker
If I'm, if I'm me right now. Yeah, probably. Yeah. I wouldn't do that. But if I was them living on that farm with the way that, no, i probably, I would say my, my view would be similar to theirs.
00:41:09
Speaker
Oh, well, that's what I mean. I'm, that's why I say me now. Like if this came to me, i I happen to have a plot of land somewhere worth 26 million. This is more than a plot of land. Oh, for sure. That's yeah. Yeah.
00:41:20
Speaker
This isn't 10 acres. No, 60,026. I don't know what that turns out to be, but they've got a lot. Yeah. And that they were part of it. And actually they were actually 26 million wasn't even all there. They said part of their land. Part of their land. So this is a way of land. This is, this is something that's going to go through generations until some butt munch sells it off.
00:41:43
Speaker
Yeah, usually a third generation. but This one's been going through more than that. no um It's more than that. Yeah, seems like and quite a few. It doesn't sound like it's going to change. No. Anytime soon. Nope, just dumb old farmers.
00:41:55
Speaker
Dumb old farmers. And on that same kind of thread, we've got another... another It's not a data center, but Solar Farm.
00:42:07
Speaker
it appears that Ohio officials have blocked... a solar project in Morrow County. ah The state cited overwhelming local opposition. This is Ohio.News X post with no link.
00:42:25
Speaker
They don't, I didn't, I didn't actually see them with an article. Um, uh, with, uh, so they, uh, they cited overwhelming local opposition with residents raising concerns about farmland, environmental impact and developer transparency.
00:42:40
Speaker
Uh, state board ruled the project did not serve the public interest. So, you know, generally I'm saying, okay yeah, cool.
00:42:51
Speaker
But then I you know i did a quick Google search, and it seems ah it seems like there's little bit of shenanigans going on. Did you see anything into this, Tom? oh Well, i read the story. Yeah, it's kind of...
00:43:08
Speaker
Well, go through the story, because because it's this this is it's little confusing, but they're saying there's fake comments. It's not real, the opposition, basically. That's what they're saying.
00:43:21
Speaker
i So I Googled this. I just Googled like Ohio or Morrow solar farm, blah, blah, blah. and you know, first couple links, I'm like, ah Ohio Capitol Journal. And let me go, let me go somewhere. now Okay. Here's farmer, the farm and diary. Okay. They might have a different take.
00:43:38
Speaker
So I go through the whole thing. Yeah. So Ohio, Ohio power sitting board recently denied a proposal to build a 726 acre solar farm in Morrow County, ah based on strong local opposition to the project. And it goes through the whole thing and how, you know, it was originally approved and the OPSB then eventually found that based on opposition to the project from each local elected government entities within the project area and their constituents who were impacted, the proposed project would would fail to serve the public interest
00:44:17
Speaker
and convenience and necessity is required by Ohio law. And there's a whole bunch of stipulations they have to hit to get this approved.
00:44:29
Speaker
And up until now, they were hit, they hit all of them. And then, as I'm reading the story, I go to the, like the last sentence says, the OEC also brought, this is the Ohio environmental council. So I'm already, I'm kind sus, kind of suspicious already on them, but The OEC also brought up reporting by nonprofit newsroom, uh, Carney media showing dozens of fake or duplicate online comments in opposition.
00:45:00
Speaker
Okay. So then I got, now got to look a little further into it. So I, then I pull up the Ohio capital journal article because I'm figuring, well, if there's, you know, they're probably going to lean one way on this.
00:45:14
Speaker
And what they're saying is a solar farm, um, was denied ah or was originally approved. It hit all this, it hit all the, the eight different things that they had to hit to get, to get it approved.
00:45:30
Speaker
And then all of a sudden, like two days before the final vote, one of the city, one of local officials changed their, their vote. And now, you know, apparently because of all these opposition, all these, uh, online oppositions and,
00:45:49
Speaker
ah So, basically, they're kind of calling BS on it, saying it's proven, they've proved that these comments, nearly 100 public comments submitted in opposition were fabricated.
00:46:05
Speaker
Right.
00:46:07
Speaker
How do you prove that, though? Well, let's say they were filed anonymously or signed by individuals who did not exist from the addresses that it cannot be verified um and reported Morrow County residents who aren't.
00:46:22
Speaker
So there' they're saying the Kearney media looked into this and most of these 100, they can't verify any of the opposition comments. Who's that media company?
00:46:33
Speaker
And who's paying them? Exactly. All good questions. I'm only saying, it you know, this seems to be something going on. Let's look, you know, what's really going on here. I'm all all in favor of turning down the solar farm if that's what the community wants.
00:46:49
Speaker
It just, I don't know what else is behind the scenes here. If you don't have enough people involved or enough people who don't want it, then...
00:46:59
Speaker
They're also arguing about what's ah overwhelming. Yep. That was another thing. One suggested sixty forty split. The other suggested an 60-40, I don't think is overwhelming, but it's un it's strong. It's strong. 85-15 would be, definitely.
00:47:19
Speaker
And that's the OPSB board, the board that's making the decision. That's kind of what they're saying is... Uh, the staff had no mechanism to detect fabricated comments. That's kind of the biggest story here is there's no way to prove these comments are real.
00:47:32
Speaker
And that's kind of the biggest thing. It's how, if you're going have public comment and to try to sway public officials, you're Kind of got to prove that these people are real.
00:47:43
Speaker
You got it. Well, shouldn't you do that in person? Isn't that what like, you know, yeah city council meetings are for and stuff. yeah And if it's all from online comments and then there's, there's any question in any of these, I think you can question all of them to some extent. I, maybe they're all, maybe most of them are real. I don't know.
00:47:59
Speaker
um But, you know, more part of their point was the the staff couldn't couldn't didn't have an agreement on what was overwhelming. Some said 60-40 was overwhelming. Some said 85-15 was overwhelming. What I don't like about this is they're they're not really saying why people are against it. yeah I mean, um I can guess, but they're not really saying why people support it either.
00:48:24
Speaker
One of the reasons they didn't like it was, again, transparency, kind of similar to the last one. Oh, you know what? they are Because they were making these solar farms, but they didn't they were going to contract them out to other companies, and they weren't saying who, right?
00:48:38
Speaker
That, yes Yeah, that's kind of BS. That's kind of BS, too, though. there' They're claiming one of the ways to get this passed was claiming that they're going to let sheep graze on the land so it could still be used for agriculture, you know, that kind of farming thing.
00:48:52
Speaker
But there's nothing in the contract that stipulates that they're going to be allowed to do that. Or it's vague or there's not a lot of details in it, so they're kind of concerned about that. So there is obviously things to be concerned about.
00:49:03
Speaker
Sure. just can you Can you do it legitimately? But who supports it? I mean, i would imagine the only people that support it are maybe the landowners that are making money.
00:49:15
Speaker
I probably, usually, that's who is supporting it. But I mean, that's not overwhelming support. That's just a few people that probably have a lot of land. Right. Yeah. Could add something to profit off of.
00:49:28
Speaker
But if there's overwhelming opposition, where's it at? That's kind of.
00:49:33
Speaker
Are they paying attention, Rob? What's that? Are they paying attention? Exactly. Is that what we're asking here? Yeah. Well, we're we're asking. But also, we have a process to for these approvals that kind of is is suspect because you can't verify And if they said most of the, when they, uh, the, uh, the board, the OPSB or whatever, when they were asked why they changed, it was overwhelming public opposition was the key point.
00:50:03
Speaker
If you can't prove it, then. Well, was that guy getting a lot of phone calls? Maybe.
00:50:10
Speaker
Doesn't say. Yeah. I mean, if he doesn't say that, then I could, I can only assume. No, I can only assume that. It's either sh really bad reporting or there's some shenanigans going on here.
00:50:22
Speaker
Sure. One of the two. I'm not sure. But regardless, there's no solar farm. But, at you know, that could change. According them, they're going to create 305 construction jobs and generate nearly $300,000 in annual tax revenue.
00:50:37
Speaker
Okay, when the construction jobs are gone, what happens? How many jobs are there? Probably ah zero jobs. Um, here's, here's, here's why, here's why everybody's pissed because, and, and they were going to provide a hundred thousand dollars per year in voluntary payments to local school districts.
00:50:54
Speaker
So it's not mandated. It's just a voluntary. How long would that last? Well, um, well, that's that. That's, that's what's happening Morrow County. This, I mean, this,
00:51:08
Speaker
We need power. i just don't think solar in Ohio is the way to go. We get like, what, 40% of our days with clouds or more? Yeah, i mean, I agree. But silliness, put a gas plant there. takes up less room and man, it looks much better. Nuke plant.
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Speaker
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00:51:54
Speaker
This guy with ah Ohio Capital journal Journal, he wrote this, Craig Madere. He left me with more questions. Okay. Send your questions to Craig Adair.
00:52:08
Speaker
El Capital Journal. ah Yeah. Tell them to tell us, well give us more. That's kind of why I pulled both sides of it too. I figured I kind of felt like both sides of it. maybe Even the other one was like, yeah there's some question on the comments.
00:52:20
Speaker
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00:52:44
Speaker
We are going to going to hit the... Oh, I don't have... Yeah, there it goes. um We're going to... Yeah, there it is. It's a critter corner. Yep.
00:52:57
Speaker
Let them out.
00:53:02
Speaker
Critter corner today. We've got a couple of things. few things, actually. First one on the list would be HB 754, which would do what,
Ohio's Abortion Bill Debate
00:53:16
Speaker
Tom?
00:53:16
Speaker
It would make a recently introduced Ohio bill would require the filing of a certificate of
00:53:27
Speaker
That's a weird way to put it. so After the detection of a fetal heartbeat. Oh, I see. And the registration of all fetal deaths. So basically. think 22 or 24 weeks, right?
00:53:41
Speaker
Well, after a fetal heartbeat is detected, that could be. no, no. no The, the,
00:53:47
Speaker
Oh, and okay. All right. this is around Usually around that time. you're kind of okay i mean But it can be earlier. Because it says 20 weeks down here. i Generally considered to be between 22 and 24 weeks. Okay.
00:54:01
Speaker
But they they all do is they could easily be off by two weeks when when they try when they try to figure that out. ah Because of the way they kind of figure it. just depends on how they figure it. Oh, I guess over here it says for deaths under 20 weeks, a fetal death certificate is optional.
00:54:17
Speaker
ah Okay. Okay. and But they will, so basically once you get the heartbeat, you need to file for a certificate of life. And then if anything happens to that baby afterwards, including an abortion, a death certificate is required within 10 days, and within 10 days of the examination.
00:54:35
Speaker
um If there's any, um, I guess, violent or suspicious means and it needs to be signed by a coroner. If it say was just ah an abortion at Planned Parenthood, the attending doctor could sign it, that kind of stuff. um And of naturally, everybody's freaking out because, I mean, they don't know what to do.
00:55:03
Speaker
its Oh my God, it's going to make me think about the abortion. Exactly. It's going to make it real to me. and you know Don't do that. Don't, don't make me look look at a 3d ultrasound before you, ah before you kill it. just ah they should They should frame it and put it on their wall.
00:55:17
Speaker
I like Texas deal. Texas. I think Texas requires you to see a, 3d ultrasound before you commit to the abortion. Yeah. kind of like that.
00:55:28
Speaker
Um, I thought a good way to solve the abortion is just if they, and mean with all the medical technology, Can you just put like a, like a baby window on the belly and that way everybody can see it growing. And that way you can really determine, like, I think if you had like a viewing window, it'd be a lot less abortions. Well, no, that's going to be in the future when you have fake, ah fake bellies for trans men, trans women, trans women. Women don't want to lose their body. So they're just going to have these.
00:55:55
Speaker
Oh, babysitting. Yes. Baby sack. That's there. They're going to mark it as get your baby sack. It's going to be a room of like thousands. That's what they're going to do with the data centers once they're not needed.
00:56:09
Speaker
Yes. And the key to this is the measure would require a copy of the certificate to be given to the pregnant woman or former used to be pregnant woman um after it. So, you know, course, naturally heads are exploding.
00:56:26
Speaker
And um it's it's a war on women, Tom. It's a war on women. It's a war on women. Anything else on that? I don't think so. Nah. I kind of like it.
00:56:37
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I think it it really, yeah, puts a little emphasis on it. Life. Oh, it just makes you think about it before you do it.
00:56:47
Speaker
That's what the whole thing should be. Yeah.
00:56:51
Speaker
Moving on, we have a little update, I guess. ah We had talked a couple weeks ago at HB 249, which is a, they're calling, GOP is claiming to be an Indecent indecent Exposure Modernization Act.
00:57:04
Speaker
And they basically want to take the current indecency laws and update them to include, oh I don't know, tran, tranny shows, drag shows and, you know, drag, was it called?
00:57:20
Speaker
drag queen drag queen story. armor yeah Oh, things. Well, they're just trying to, ah they're, indecent shows. They want them put into adult Cabernet, right?
00:57:32
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They want to limit where you you can't just do it anyway. It has to be where it's already approved as an adult. Um, And of course, everybody's flipping out because it's, you know, we're on trans again. these wars on and people. it's just We've got to just stop it. But this story is, well. Drag isn't trans.
00:57:50
Speaker
We got to stop doing that. Oh.
00:57:55
Speaker
Okay. No, seriously. I just don't, like, it's a whole different genre of, if you want to call it entertainment, it's It's bizarre. And why do they want to have it in front of kids?
00:58:11
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I, I, okay. Um, the guy we saw, the guy we saw last couple of weeks ago or had in the clip a couple weeks ago, uh, He wasn't a tranny. Yeah. He was just a fag. He was just a drag. Yeah. Yeah. That too.
00:58:25
Speaker
ah So ah yes, I get it. But um to me, same thing. As far as children come into play. doesn't i don't care if you're ah a tranny or a drag.
00:58:38
Speaker
The fact that the guy du did kids shows, wrote a kid's book and in all this kids, kids, kids. Same thing to me. yeah Yeah. it. It's not, it's different.
00:58:49
Speaker
Sorry. I just don't want to limit it to trans because it is, a yeah you know, fags. And I don't even know if it's always gay guys. It's just weirdos who want to dress up as women and put on a show.
00:59:05
Speaker
yeah like You know what I'm saying? I just don't want to i don't want to limit it to transgender. It's so trans. I get your point. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Kind of talking the same point, I guess. the same they're But like you pointed out, drag shows were like kind of meant to make fun of women, weren't they?
00:59:21
Speaker
Years ago. like Men were dressing up to kind of make fun of women, right? Well, it's a minstrel show. It's just like putting blackface on, if you ask me. I mean, everything's exaggerated. You we talked about it last week, but everything's exaggerated, kind of poking fun at how women act.
00:59:36
Speaker
And here, here's the feminist women all for it. And it's like, you guys are proves your retards.
00:59:45
Speaker
We'll get to that in the next one, but this actually isn't even the bill. Isn't even the story. The story is a what's his name now? Crutch.
00:59:57
Speaker
His first name is his. Oh, Oh, Rep. Rodney Kretsch is a Republican from West Alexandria. He was accused. He's accused of yeah back in 2023 by a minor female relative of climbing into bed and under the covers while erect and wearing only his underwear.
01:00:24
Speaker
And that's the story. The story basically is you can't have the, apparently this guy voting for this bill. is means you can't have this bill or something that if I like his vote should not count because he's a creep or possible creep.
01:00:41
Speaker
Um, so basically this guy was accused of this. Um, there was an independent investigation, Clark County prosecutor, Daniel Driscoll brought up a special brought in as a special prosecutor, declined to file charges, but wrote that Crutch's behavior during this, during the time of the investigation was concerning and suspicious.
01:01:04
Speaker
according to documents. Okay. He's called and Kretsch has denied allegations as um demonstrably false. Speaker Matt hoff Huffman originally stripped all of the, all four committees from him that were assigned to him in May of 25 asked him to resign.
01:01:21
Speaker
Kretsch refused and it's actually Kretsch probably, but, um, In February, Huffman reversed course, restoring all the committees.
01:01:32
Speaker
The sign letter. I'm requesting the Ohio Republican Party endorse him for re-election. So, o I don't know. There's investigation, nothing there, but he was acting suspicious and concerning. Well, you are investigating him for being a creep, so I'm not sure how you're supposed to act during that, but I think a lot of us may act suspicious concerning when you're trying to claim that I'm ah um' a perv, but.
01:02:00
Speaker
That's the story. By the way, that ah that gay guy that we talked about last week that, you know, drag saved his life. he wants to He wants to read to kids, right? He like he likes those. ah Sorry, he almost choked on my coffee. he said Sorry. Yeah.
01:02:17
Speaker
he ah Yeah, you know, like, here's his name is Danny Thomas. He's a Dayton-based drag performer, and this is what I'm getting at. He's, like, reading to kids and stuff, and his name is Cherry Poppins.
01:02:29
Speaker
It's like,
01:02:34
Speaker
ah yes, it's, they own children's they don't even try to hide I don't know if this guy has the guy from last story a couple weeks ago. He wrote a children's book. What does he know about popping cherries?
01:02:46
Speaker
oh I mean, just his name should not, be I mean, o i know, I know a kid doesn't know what that means, but eventually a parent does.
01:02:58
Speaker
Yeah. And they still take him there. Yep. And celebrate it, Tom. And celebrate it. And who's who's the sick one? Hmm. Who's the sick one in this story? Hmm, I wonder.
01:03:11
Speaker
Both of them maybe, but definitely the a drag drag queen. um Yeah, that's it. I guess, you know, I mean, got to keep an eye on everybody. I don't know. they No investigation was from it. I do like to know, I mean, family members.
01:03:28
Speaker
yeah Family. Family could get kind of spicy, so you never know. False accusations and such. Moving on. Check that one off, Tom.
01:03:39
Speaker
Goodbye. Next, we have a little update from HB 68 because it's in courts now. It is HB 68 was the House bill ah which restricted minor access to gender-affirming laws.
01:03:56
Speaker
stuff because it's not really medical care, although they do say general gender affirming medical care, but I call BS on that. Let's um hear from 10 TV news on in Columbus on the, on the case.
01:04:11
Speaker
Yeah. Question for the Supreme court of Ohio. If a parent thinks their kid needs medical care, should the state be able to tell them their child can't get It it all started after Ohio passed a law restricting certain treatments for transgender minors. This morning, that fight went before the highest court in our state. Ten Investigators reporter Rochelle Alleyne is live outside the courthouse. What is what she learned, Rochelle?
01:04:34
Speaker
You know, both sides agree this is a parents' rights issue. One side saying this law is going too far, while the other side says this law is actually violating their rights.
01:04:46
Speaker
Should minors in Ohio be allowed to access gender-affirming medical care? According to House Bill 68, that answer is no. The Honorable Chief Justice and Justices of the Supreme Court. well know Since that law went into effect in 2024, there's been legal pushback. On Tuesday, Ohio State Supreme Court Justices heard oral arguments in that fight. Several Ohio families are suing the state because of that law. The ACLU attorneys representing those families say those treatments are used to help kids who are experiencing gender dysphoria. And they added that they should be legalized for very limited medical purposes similar to opioids.
01:05:27
Speaker
Opioids are allowed for specific purposes. There are regulations on opioids, significant regulations. But the Ohio Attorney General's office disagrees. Is it the state's position that parents have no rights in this?
01:05:40
Speaker
That's not exactly right, Your Honor. Our position is that parents do not have an unlimited right to override the General Assembly's contrary determination. for It's not a constitutional right. 10 investigates took that statement directly to ACLU attorneys after Tuesday's hearing. This is a fundamental right that parents it historically have had in Ohio and across the country.
01:06:04
Speaker
I think that um trans kids, trans people are being um used as pawns um in and in ah political games.
01:06:18
Speaker
A spokesperson for the attorney general's office also released a statement after court today. It says, quote, we are defending Ohio's right to protect children from risky medical treatments. It makes sense to keep children from making life altering decisions before they're mature enough to fully understand those lifetime consequences. End quote.
01:06:38
Speaker
In the meantime, we are expecting a written opinion from those state Supreme Court justices. In Columbus, Rochelle Aline, 10TV News.
01:06:48
Speaker
It a horrible argument they had. Mm-hmm. To me, this is not the the question is, what is medical care? What is healthcare? care That's the question I have. that's That's, I think, the question needs to be asked.
01:06:59
Speaker
Because have you ever heard those stories where the um certain religious groups who don't believe in modern medicine and their kid's got cancer and the state's about to take the kid away because the parents don't want to do the chemo or whatever? Right.
01:07:19
Speaker
How does the ACLU land on that? I'd be curious. I don't actually know. I wouldn't be surprised actually if they landed on the side of the parents on that one too. But is that how at at some level when healthcare care becomes abuse, when does the state step in?
01:07:42
Speaker
Not do parents have an unlimited right No, I think in a lot of ways they do, but when it becomes abuse.
01:07:56
Speaker
I'm just wondering, when I watched that clip, I was i was wondering where they found Krusty the clown's wife. That was the ACLU lawyer. Oh yeah, she's, those lips, that lipstick was over the place. The lipstick and the hair, man. The hair was all over the place and the earrings. Jeez, oh man, little too much red there, woman.
01:08:14
Speaker
um Can someone and say, stay Okay. Yeah. i don' I don't know. It's just, it's ridiculous. They're, they're fighting it in court now.
01:08:25
Speaker
I don't, I don't know. How is a child trans? To me, it just sounds, how is a child trans? That just sounds like a sick parent. Oh yeah. Yeah.
01:08:35
Speaker
And here's the treatment that ah that I would approve. Sit down with somebody other than the parents and talk them out of being then and something they can't be. That's the treatment that should be subscribed prescribed to them is mental treatment for the mentally ill.
01:08:53
Speaker
if you but Go ahead. Go ahead. If you, which is some some some some of this happening in Canada I've heard over the years. If I go to the doctor and want to cut and and say, doctor, identify as a quadriplegian.
01:09:08
Speaker
Please cut off my arms and legs. You should not let the doctor do that.
01:09:14
Speaker
Fair? Yeah. Fair. i mean, at eight years old, I might've had bat wings sewn onto me. Exactly. i would've had a cape sewn onto my neck because I was jumped between a couch, but pretend I was Superman.
01:09:27
Speaker
Broke my parents nuts, ruined all the couches. ah Yeah. So that to me, that's the argument is what is healthcare? care Not, not how much rights those parents have. When does healthcare care became an abuse?
01:09:38
Speaker
And yeah, I have a feeling if that's the argument, I'm not sure. Not sure they're going win this one. So we'll see. Keep an eye on it. See what happens with the supposed to come out with a statement or a, a, a, whatever, a decision. That's it. Trying to figure soon, I guess the next few weeks. So keep an eye on it.
01:10:02
Speaker
And, uh, but you know, that one ends up happening next on the list is, uh, this one's gonna, this one's gonna get do it. Um,
01:10:13
Speaker
I think, yeah, Akron Public Schools break ground on a new facility in Kenmore neighborhood. Now, I'm going to look back at last week's notes. Is it last week?
01:10:27
Speaker
No, maybe a week before where we had the story. you know where i'm going? Has a story, Akron, Akron cuts.
01:10:42
Speaker
Akron has to cut $11 million dollars from their budget. Right. and That was like two weeks ago. one Two or three weeks ago, I think. And then within the next five years, they got to cut 50 some million dollars from their budget.
01:10:53
Speaker
Yeah. That was two weeks ago. Yeah. So the 14th. Okay. So here we have Akron public schools breaking ground on a new school in Kenmore.
01:11:07
Speaker
which it sounds to me, according to this IdeaStream article, that they're paying for most of it out of the city funds, out out of Akron's funds.
01:11:17
Speaker
But it gets better because it would be located on the site a of the former Kenmore High School. Well, the district closed the building way ah back in 2022 after it merged with Garfield High School.
01:11:36
Speaker
It was torn down in 2025. That's less than a year ago, unless it was done early. ah The high school was one of six buildings that had been closed in the neighborhood over the last three decades due to declining population.
01:11:50
Speaker
So they just tore the the school down because they didn't need it. Apparently, I guess. I mean, they they merged with ke with Garfield Heights and now they're building a new one.
01:12:04
Speaker
All while they have to cut like $10 million dollars a year for the next few years. Can't figure out why they're in such dire straits with money. i I mean, I'm thinking maybe don't tear the schools down and just fix them up. Probably cheaper.
01:12:21
Speaker
But the kids need new bathrooms. No, stop. Think of the children. Exactly. That's, that's to me, the scam. It's a scam.
01:12:33
Speaker
As ah i Ida says in the, from Kentucky, it's a scam because I think here's, here's where the scam lies. They, they conveniently for 10 or 10 or 12, 10 or 15 years, stop maintaining the schools buildings.
01:12:46
Speaker
So that way they can say, Oh, see with deferred maintenance and everything, by the time we go to fix it, it's it's just more a cost effective to build a new one.
01:12:58
Speaker
Because, you know, no kid at Harvard learns in one of those old-ass buildings. Nah. It's impossible. No way you can get Wi-Fi in those buildings. You can't get Ethernet in those buildings.
01:13:09
Speaker
There's no way.
01:13:12
Speaker
ah Akron, Akron, Akron. And again, this is not, we're just going to pick on Akron because I would guarantee you most school districts are this way. see it in my school district. Oh, you're not to pass levees? We're going to tearing schools down. Oh, well, why do you need new ones if you're tearing old ones down?
01:13:28
Speaker
Um, can't, can't be, uh, every kid can't be go to school in a palace.
01:13:36
Speaker
And I think my kid, the school my kid goes to is over a hundred years old. Does just fine. I bet most, probably better than most of the kids in public school. All right. i'm I'm good. I just, thank you for that rant. Feel better now.
01:13:53
Speaker
Come on, get your stuff together, Akron. Sure. Yeah. Speaking of getting your shit together, Medina, come on. Medina tried to do something good.
01:14:05
Speaker
They tried, but naturally, did they? Naturally, they messed it up conveniently. So Medina County Budget Commission tried to do, try to use the new law that the new law, I guess that's a law, new law that was passed, think the beginning of the year Yeah.
01:14:26
Speaker
which gives the county commission there, ah budget commissioner to, which may be the same thing, to add the ability, the authority to lower the levy rates if they see that it's not needed.
01:14:44
Speaker
So if they see the schools got just flush with cash, let's say like the one district we we wrote about or read about while ago that was carrying over 115% of their budget from year to year.
01:14:55
Speaker
right you've got um So basically the budget commission was trying to get a $500,000 cut of property taxes on the Cloverly school districts and to roll back millions more on other districts, millions more in other districts. And problem was though, they missed the date.
01:15:13
Speaker
and They had to have the budget turned in according to law by by the 1st of March or 1st of April.
Budget Deadline and Tax Implications
01:15:20
Speaker
March. March. 1st of March. And they missed it. So now they can't do it.
01:15:24
Speaker
So now they have to turn in the budget as is. ah You sound skeptical, Tom. It was just a convenient miss of the deadline. Uh, yeah, I get your skepticism, but again, I, I'm, it could be, I mean, people are retarded. Yeah. I was going to say, I'm going to land more towards incompetence, especially in the government.
01:15:45
Speaker
Oh, I thought it was April 1st, not March 1st. Oh darn. I'm such a moron. Yep. So Cloverleaf was 500 grand, but they were trying to get, or no, that was a 500 grand was yeah. Cloverleaf, but they were trying to get Brunswick and one other city.
01:16:05
Speaker
to cut like like a million dollars each from the tax from the levy. What? Really? You got that much? So according to Cloverleaf leaders, a district, here's, but there's something majorly wrong with the system because listen, according to Cloverleaf leaders, the district has already reduced taxes by $3.5 2025.
01:16:27
Speaker
three point five million dollars in twenty twenty five and our And after that reduction of $3.5 million dollars in 2025, they promised not to seek another tax funding levy until 2032.
01:16:43
Speaker
Well, I think they're kind of flush with cash. So I guess they have enough revenue and by but maybe by 2032, they're expecting with insulation and everything to need some more money.
01:16:55
Speaker
It's a scam. Yes, definitely. Definitely a scam. So that kind of failed, whether conveniently or not
Revenue Sharing Controversy
01:17:02
Speaker
conveniently. um But this is kind of the first time I've heard that new law kind of being put in. I'm sure it's happening elsewhere to where they can kind of force the school districts to give some of the money back.
01:17:15
Speaker
I'm not sure if it's a great thing or not. It's something different they're doing. I mean, there is something that said that it was voted by the people, but you know, that levy was voted in So how can you change it? But I would guarantee if you took a, took another vote, people would vote to reduce it if it's not needed.
01:17:30
Speaker
Especially if you're not, going you've got so much money you're not going another levy for like 10 years. It's like were eight years. It seems that maybe you should balance it out a little don't know. But here we go again.
01:17:42
Speaker
i know somebody that lives in Medina and i think they got their house moved there and I'm thinking 18 or 19. And i think they, yeah i think he told me his property taxes have doubled since then.
01:18:01
Speaker
Wow. Yeah. Yeah. not maybe Not quite doubled, but definitely close to it. And part of the argument, i've it's been it's been brought up to my attention, is what some on the left want is they want these kind of communities to take that money and give it to, like, Cleveland.
01:18:20
Speaker
Like, they want, like, ah revenue sharing, like like baseball does.
01:18:27
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I said too. I said, hell no. I said, you want to start you you want to start some some tribal warfare? Yeah, start trying to take my money and give it to the Cleveland School District. We'll see how far that, how long that lasts.
01:18:38
Speaker
Not just Cleveland, but anyway, you like go to Akron or go to outside of Columbus and stuff like that. You got areas that have lots of lots of good services and stuff for schools, and then he got places that don't because it's a crappy place.
01:18:51
Speaker
Taxation without representation. Exactly. So, you know, this doesn't help that argument because if if you're going point it out, they're going look, they've got plenty of cash. They've got way more than they could spend.
01:19:04
Speaker
Give it back to the people. Don't be giving it to other cities. You figure it out yourself. I would say millionaires and the billionaires. Just billionaires now, Tom, just billionaires, just billionaires.
01:19:16
Speaker
I don't know why that happened. Why the change, Bernie? Why the change? So another again, we'll see what happens in the future. this i think this is going to happen again they're probably going try it again next year. or i don't know when the next budget goes in. I imagine they they may try to ah do it again.
01:19:32
Speaker
And I imagine there's going be other places that have already done it and are going to do it.
01:19:38
Speaker
And we'll see how far
Akron Fire Department Issues
01:19:41
Speaker
they get. Next, moving on we have, well, another another story about funding. So Akron...
01:19:50
Speaker
Akron Fire Department has a familiar problem, is is the lead I have. They have a familiar problem. We might have talked about this a few times um with Cuyahoga County. And let's go to the clip first. Let's start with Akron Fire Department's overtime problem.
01:20:07
Speaker
Well, if you call 911 right now in Akron, would help be available? That is a frightening question. Tonight, the union representing the city's firefighters says staffing shortages are already stretching resources thin. But a budget vote at the end of this month could make things even worse. Now at three, Isabella Roberts has our story.
01:20:28
Speaker
The union president says the city's proposed budget isn't enough to keep the department fully staffed. It's not a cut, but a $200,000 increase isn't keeping up with demand. We're concerned that the reduction in the fire department budget um is going to cause a reduction in staffing. Creative staffing isn't new, but Gustavsky says budget pressures are making it worse.
01:20:48
Speaker
Two years ago, American Medical Response left Akron, leaving firefighters responsible for all non-emergency medical transports. That means when a unit is already on call, it may not be available when you need it. With the budget shaving that we've done right now to try and manage our overtime budget, we're now in a position where we've been taking a couple of med units out of service. The numbers tell the story. Last year, the department logged nearly 100,000 overtime hours, the equivalent of 48 full-time employees. The department is also 25 firefighters short and hasn't hired anyone new in two years. The city has said it plans to fill those positions this year.
01:21:26
Speaker
I think that's a pretty difficult task to accomplish in a couple of months, but we'll see. Stranger things have happened. The mayor's office and city council did not respond to my request for comment. doing this The union says the fix doesn't have to be dramatic, just enough to make sure a unit is available when you call. we need We need a little bit more. We're not asking for a lot. The important thing is the two med units that we are shutting down on a regular. We need to get those back in service somehow, some ways. Fire Chief Leon Henderson agrees the current overtime numbers aren't sustainable, but says the answer isn't simply more units on the street.
01:21:59
Speaker
In a statement, he says, quote, my responsibility is to ensure the firefighters and paramedics operating those vehicles are alert, capable, clinically sharp and safe to respond to emergencies.
01:22:11
Speaker
Yeah. How about they're not working 85 hours a week? Maybe they'd be sharper. What?
01:22:17
Speaker
Am I missing something here, Tom? Like this one, this makes me, this drives me crazy. Like it seems like the solution is kind of smacking them in the face. Yeah.
01:22:29
Speaker
Overtime hours that add up to 48 full-time employees. Come on. We have an overtime problem. ah budget is being squeezed because we have an overtime problem. So the department is also 25 firefighters short, but they're spending overtime 48 full-time employees.
01:22:52
Speaker
I haven't hired anybody in like over two years. it says something like that, two or three years. So would 25 firefighters... Get rid of all the overtime. Probably not, but you'd have firefighters there alert.
01:23:08
Speaker
They're well rested. i don't, you know, and who's managing this? I know. It's like, this is a story. And it keeps saying, well, you know, if we just, we didn't, you know, they trim the cut.
01:23:21
Speaker
It's like the the school budget they were talking about. Oh, they're cutting it. No, you just didn't get the increase you wanted. They increased the budget $200,000. Yeah, that was ridiculous. But they're still trimming the budget. We, you know, it's not, he goes, what we really need Sorry. You know, but laughing because he says what we really need to do is get those two, those two units back on those two medical units back on the streets. And then the next paragraph they say, but it's really not about putting more people on the street.
01:23:47
Speaker
but Yeah, it actually is. It actually is. That's the whole problem. I mean, mean who's this Gustavsky guy? Gustavsky. ah He's a union president.
01:24:00
Speaker
Firefighters Union president. He's terrible. He has to be. ah They're both terrible. The city's terrible. The union's terrible. I mean, come on. There's nobody good in this, man. They're all freaking idiots.
01:24:12
Speaker
Oh, gosh. I can't. We've got an overtime problem. I blame union as much as the city. No. True. The union probably wants them to hire more. there's Yeah, yeah, because they they that would have they would get more union dues, right? yeah i mean, they're getting more with overtime, right? because they all said No, I don't think you get overtime. didn't know it percentage of... No, not for me it isn't. so ah its Yeah, it's not. It's usually a flat fee. Yeah, okay. So with more people, more firefighters and paramedics, they would have more union members.
01:24:43
Speaker
Which makes the union stronger always. Right, yeah. I think... Yeah, I'm not a rah-rah guy about unions, but this is just terrible management of this from the city.
01:24:58
Speaker
Yes. I don't, I mean, i I just, I keep coming back to Are they messing with me? am What am I missing? Or they're just messing with me? Because if you've got an overtime problem, you're 25 firefighters, paramedics short.
01:25:14
Speaker
You haven't hired anybody in two years. Before then, it doesn't seem like you've been hiring many anyway.
01:25:20
Speaker
think this one problem solves the other problem to some extent. Freaking idiots.
Government Management Critique
01:25:25
Speaker
We get the government we deserve, Tom. but We get the government we deserve.
01:25:30
Speaker
Oh, where are we at here? okay Oh, man, I hear geese flying by. it's made me think of you. That was loud. I don't think that'll come through, but I was like, what the hell? All right.
01:25:47
Speaker
All right right, let's go on. I've i' said enough about Akron. Get your crap together another scam. Another scam. um I guess we'll move on. We're running fast today, Tom. Running fast. Efficiently done.
01:26:02
Speaker
Efficiently. You know what? i i was I was looking at the time going, man, we're we've gone through this pretty quick. Are some of the stories just kind of, lot of the stories were just a little bit touching back on what we talked about before, so we didn't talk about it as much.
01:26:15
Speaker
Yeah, follow-ups and that kind of stuff. Yeah, wasn't too much. Not a lot of meat to a lot of them, but yeah some of them, yeah. o it It wasn't, this week wasn't quite as busy. Yeah, heated up and now he heated up late in the week. but Yeah, well, with we can talk about a little bit. I don't know what we're going to talk about next week.
01:26:36
Speaker
We'll worry about that next week. I got plenty of things on there. We could talk about, yeah, I get to a certain point the I can't stop putting stories in. Otherwise, I'll never get to them. So that's where we're at. There's there's a couple things. um probably could have scrolled in, but it is what it is at this point.
Cleveland Zoo Renovation
01:26:52
Speaker
So now, the Good Things segment.
01:27:00
Speaker
All right. First look. First look at the new primate forest at the Cleveland Zoo. So they're taking, it took the old rainforest. Rainforest. Yep. And put in but in a new exhibit, which is well overdue because that rainforest was kind of lame for quite a long time.
01:27:19
Speaker
it was It was neat when it first opened up and then it, and yeah. And the primates need a new place to go. So here's a little little background from 19 News at the zoo. nineteen news 19 news. A 73 million dollar renovation is underway at the Cleveland Metro Park Zoo. The primate forest opening by summer and that's just the beginning. Vic Gideon took us on a tour and gives us the first look to the changes at the former rainforest.
01:27:50
Speaker
So where we're standing right now is essentially going to be the the food court in the new building. So this has a really cool opportunity on that side as the food service. We have some doors that can close down so we can turn this into an evening event space behind me over here. This will eventually be a beautiful tile mosaic mural.
01:28:10
Speaker
on this wall that shows a kind of ah a really nice forest scene. And then on this side, this will actually eventually be a window that when we build out phase two with gorillas, that will actually look directly into gorilla habitats.
01:28:23
Speaker
Chris Kuhar, executive director of the Metro Park Zoo, explains the rainforest building closed December of 2024 and will reopen almost two years later with infrastructure improvements in the more than 30-year-old building, a brand new entrance, and a new focus.
01:28:40
Speaker
So we're calling it Primate Forest just because that's kind of the the draw to the building is the primates, the big species in this long term. right So what this building does is provide us a platform to talk about how important the connections between animals and the environment and people actually are. Phase one includes more than 33,000 square feet of new construction and a newly expanded outdoor ah orangutan exhibit.
01:29:01
Speaker
Phase two, which will begin after fundraising is complete, and as another two-year project, will see gorillas move to the building after moving from another location at the zoo. The new center will focus on husbandry, conservation, and education with a special treat for the kids. And then we have an indoor playground space, which think is really valuable in Cleveland. So we think it's going to be a building where you can be active and enjoy it in all four seasons in Cleveland.
01:29:27
Speaker
Vic Gideon, 19 News. Actually be cool. Cause the gorilla exhibit at the zoo is pretty old. ah yeah I was born when I walk in there, but it should be interesting to see what happens.
01:29:42
Speaker
Hey gorillas, watch everybody eat in the food court. Um, but it seems like I'm like the, they're putting money into it, keeping the zoo up. It's it's important part of a, of a good cities that have a good zoo apparently. Um, and, uh, I'm going to wait it out a little bit.
01:30:00
Speaker
Maybe I'll go next year. Oh yeah. I'm not going. Cause you know what? If I go this year, there could be a tragedy. Like there's always some kind of weird thing that they missed. That's true. Didn't build right. And I'm going to be sitting there in the food court and some girl is going to tapping me on the shoulder for some fries.
01:30:18
Speaker
A little extra topping on your, uh, your lunch. Yeah. In my underwear. And yeah, a little bit of poo came out. Um, yeah, I think it's cool. I, I, uh,
01:30:30
Speaker
I've been there a few times and I'm glad they're repurposing it. And just imagine, imagine moving day for gorillas. Now it could be a couple of years, but that's an interesting, what kind of movers do you get for moving gorillas? Is two the truck? is it a couple of years?
01:30:43
Speaker
Yeah. Is it a couple of years? Okay. This year the monkeys are going in there. Yeah. Okay. And then they have to still get more money and then that'll be two year project once starts to get the gorillas there. Yeah, moving the gorillas. That'd be they'd be interesting. i mean but it you put it like a gorilla suit on and like like a female gorilla suit on and have them follow you?
01:31:00
Speaker
Like the lipstick on that chick from- A little bow in your on your head. I don't know if the bow is necessary, but it would look funny. What was the- what was the ah Remember they put a gorilla head on? This was a movie. it was a comedy back in the 80s, I think.
01:31:17
Speaker
Oh my gosh. They put a gorilla head on somebody and he- uh, he was, uh, basically taken advantage of by a real gorilla. Yes. What movie was that? oh gosh.
01:31:28
Speaker
Send an email. If you know what it is, please. i got it It's going to drive me crazy. Now I I'm seeing it. Yeah. i see the guy. Was it, Oh, was that, that it wasn't Ferris Bueller? Was it? No, no, it didn't get, no, this is pro pre Ferris Bueller.
01:31:44
Speaker
I think oh that. Hmm. Okay. kind of Send us an email. Cause it's going to drive us crazy. I, No, it's not. I don't know. I can't. Okay.
01:31:55
Speaker
Now I got to look it up.
01:31:57
Speaker
a Uh,
01:32:01
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you were, I think it was, I think, I think, uh,
01:32:09
Speaker
Yeah, don't know. How am I going to look that up? I'm not. the Gorilla raped comedy. gurilla Gorilla comedy. right no that's not going to turn out well. my Algorithms are going to all over that. But send us an email.
01:32:22
Speaker
ah Trading places. Yes. yeah Yes. Yes, it was pre-80s. Yes, you're right. that was Yeah, it was like the security guy was following up. It was right at the end of the movie.
01:32:36
Speaker
Well, that's how they're going to move the gorillas.
Wadsworth School Concert Venue
01:32:38
Speaker
Oh, yeah. this It's called bait and switch. And they're going to be highly frustrated when they're done. um Lastly, but definitely not least, this is a pretty cool story. This is a historic school. hits a new note. It's its right note as new concert venue.
01:32:56
Speaker
And this has to do with a Wadsworth, the Wadsworth Celestia, Celestia. I think that's right. Celestia. Celestia Theater.
01:33:07
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ah Now draws sold out crowds and revives local businesses. So really this is a historic building in Medita County um that was about ready to be torn down. to About 120 year old school ah that was slated for demolition and it was saved by an investor. It's now a a bustling concert venue of bringing music memories and big boost to the local economy.
01:33:31
Speaker
it's ah They say it's about a 900 seat theater. It's the old auditorium for this school. Let's just tell you which school it was. I know it does somewhere in here. Wadsworth.
01:33:44
Speaker
So basically they came and invest they turned it into a concert venue. And now they're also looking at the rest of the buildings on the campus and turning them into Airbnbs and some some commercial restaurants restaurants and stuff.
01:33:57
Speaker
Yeah. um Should be cool. Yeah. they i Yeah. We talked about a show that was there ah a few weeks ago. Erin Stoll, remember? Yeah. We brought her up. she was I think she was the person that opened up the place. She's a local local country artist that came back from Nashville to open the place up. And it sounded really cool. I'm looking i'm looking forward to going to see a show there.
01:34:24
Speaker
Yeah, so they took the former locker rooms and converted them into swanky green rooms for performers. um But, some you know, they kept some of the historical stuff in there. And I was trying to figure, this it I thought it said what school it used to be. Did I i pass over that?
01:34:39
Speaker
Doesn't really say. um But the funny thing, if you watch the clip or watch the news report in the article, it's News Channel 5 article, there's a lot of people that work there now that went to school there or the grand their parents or grandparents went to school there.
01:34:53
Speaker
yeah some Some of them show up say, oh my gosh, my grandfather played basketball right on that stage. I was like, pretty cool. um yeah All I see is ah the Wadsworth Square Foundation, but I don't see the name of the school. I think they may have said it in the...
01:35:07
Speaker
and Oh, in the audio? In the audio port, which I didn't, it wasn't anything there really. But what this does bring up is the Akron story. what What you can do with the old schools instead of tearing them down.
01:35:19
Speaker
And you know what? The city of Cleveland has this problem. They've got a whole bunch of school buildings that aren't being used and they don't know what to do with them. Now, I'm not saying you could turn everyone into something like this, but. Yeah, in some of those neighborhoods, you're going putting jails up.
01:35:33
Speaker
Well, I mean, and if shoe fits, it's good for the community, I guess.
Repurposing Cleveland's School Buildings
01:35:37
Speaker
Hey, they can at least be local when mama goes to see them. a Wow. I mean. yeah They might have busing for that.
01:35:46
Speaker
It could, yeah. It'd be the cheaper on the busing, though. Gas is expensive in all time, you know. Trump's war and everything. um So, yeah, that's pretty cool. I mean, looks looks like a cool venue. Can't wait to see a show there. Hopefully I can get something...
01:36:03
Speaker
And get a show there. I mean, it's mostly... And they do local groups. They're trying to get a local ah local groups to do openers, giving away tickets to kids and and and local people to... Yeah, they got a lot of local performers coming there. I see ah a ton of the stuff that, like...
01:36:19
Speaker
What's that? ah The Supper Club in Cleveland does a lot of the tribute type of stuff. bands But i yeah I think it's just going to take a little time because this just opened up. They would have to be booking the band.
01:36:31
Speaker
you know a year or two in the band. A year. It depends on the band. But I mean, if it's a 900 seat, you're talking about mid-level. Yeah. So six six months to a year, probably, you're thinking?
01:36:42
Speaker
Yeah, six months, probably. If people are putting together a ah tour, yeah i feel like they put too many things in, but they got to you know they got to bring people there to... i meant they put too many shows in already to try to catch somebody coming through. Maybe going going from Indy to Pittsburgh without stopping and near Cleveland.
01:37:04
Speaker
You could always kind of try to grab a and act, but... ah You know, they're, yeah, they i they got they gotta to book the stuff up, so. Yeah.
01:37:14
Speaker
So, they're you know, they they're claiming there's quite a few restaurants are about ready to close until this opened Yeah. Yeah. And I wonder if those restaurants are open past eight, unlike in the ah theater district downtown Cleveland. You know, that and that is the biggest gripe I have with the theater district. don't i Well, that's the biggest gripe I have with downtown. I mean.
01:37:33
Speaker
Gosh, walking back to your car from a baseball game, wouldn't you want to stop maybe for a drink or sometimes, you know, sometimes I'm hungry after a ball game and want to eat something and have a drink and there's nothing open.
01:37:46
Speaker
It's weird.
01:37:50
Speaker
I agree. I think that's, that's that. Um, good story. I think, uh, can't wait to ga but to go see it one of these times. Maybe. Yeah. We'll see. See who gets there. It was going to be, uh, yeah, there's a link out on the, in the article yeah that takes you right to the calendar. So that's cool.
01:38:07
Speaker
It does check it out. there's anything you like there. You gotta, you gotta keep these, uh, these places open. It is part of, uh, part of what keeps a, uh, you know, music industry and the music community and everything, uh,
01:38:19
Speaker
alive in Cleveland or in the area, not just Cleveland.
Podcast Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:38:22
Speaker
Um, so all that, That's it. We're done. think that's that's all we have. I would appreciate it.
01:38:30
Speaker
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01:38:47
Speaker
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01:39:01
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Peace.