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Crooked RIver Cast Show 20
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Transcript
Introduction to Crooked Rivercast
00:00:02
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Crooked Rivercast. I'm your host, Robert, and joining me every week is my friend Tom to help us keep track of what's going on in Northeast Ohio. This is show 20. Is it show 20 already? twenty record 20. Recorded on August 2nd, 2025.
00:00:21
Speaker
It's another week. It's another show. Let's see what's going on.
Tom's Home Improvement Adventures
00:00:26
Speaker
Hi, Tom. How you doing? I'm doing very well. How are you? I'll be honest with you. I'm a little rough right now.
00:00:33
Speaker
little rough. were rough on edges little rough. little rough? Well, I mean, you know, my normal family and work week has been, I've had to share my any any extra time I have between show prep and bathroom tile.
00:00:51
Speaker
Bathroom tile. Yeah, i'm currently remodeling my bathroom. Project time. Project time. And last project of this magnitude was five years ago, I think.
00:01:02
Speaker
Five, six years ago when we did our kitchen. And things have changed a little since then. Well, it is five years later. Five years later. So a couple things have changed. One is, I mean, I could i can order things online and just go pick it up. That's pretty cool.
00:01:19
Speaker
That's pretty cool. that saves me some time from wandering around Home Depot. Oh, youre they they delivered it to you? or No, but I could just go pick it up. i Just go pick it up. They can shop for me, kind of like, you know, Jack Eagle or one of those places. Yeah, just go up to the counter and get it. Which in most cases is good. I mean, even ah to the fact that I can order one sheet of drywall and I'll have it sitting there waiting for you.
00:01:39
Speaker
I didn't think they would do that, but they did. was like, until it was all good until I ordered the cement board for the shower back. but Did they pick the wrong one or something? or No, that one normally already in two hours. They're like, yeah, it's going to be delayed.
00:01:55
Speaker
Why? This stuff's really heavy. I think I really think that's it because I ended up canceling the order and just going there. but What do you mean? Like, it's only one sheet. I know it's heavy, but it's a lot of buff.
00:02:08
Speaker
what What size are those four by um like three by four, right? Yeah. 42 by five, I think was the ones I got. 42 by five. Okay.
00:02:19
Speaker
But I needed four of them. Oh, yeah. And when I went into the store and started loading them on the cart and i was like, oh, now I know why we're delayed a little bit. Yeah, they're man not out enough there not have been enough guys there.
00:02:32
Speaker
It was towards the end of the day at the evening. You know, it was probably six o'clock when I ordered it. And we went out with the family and like, oh, let's make a run of because we went to a store that wasn't really that close to us because they had the certain board I wanted.
00:02:46
Speaker
and let's like go gets ice cream or something do something like that so we go away get ice because we're eating ice cream and then i'm like looking at the app it's been like two hours i'm like nothing's even so i cancel it we go in yeah it's it's a pain in the butt but uh yeah so i figured the end of the night and they're like yeah if we just delay this long enough the next people can do it in the morning that's what i figured they were doing because i think i think i think that because that's probably what i'd be doing well Maybe, but but I've also gone into the one by me where I ordered online and, what the hell was it?
00:03:22
Speaker
but It was a large,
00:03:26
Speaker
oh, you know what? It was like I got one of the backpack leaf blowers, and that box was pretty heavy. And noise ah but a woman was bringing that up.
00:03:38
Speaker
I don't think it was that easy for her to get off the shelf. Yeah, I could like can understand that. so they They didn't have the right staff or you had to wait for, you know, you need to a team member or two probably to do it. that's but Probably two for that, right?
00:03:51
Speaker
Again, I get it. I get it. i went and and I dragged him on the thing. I'm like, screw this. I want somebody else to do it for me. It's hard. It's so hard. The second thing is different is, well, I'm five years older, which goes back to the, I'm a little rough around the edges this morning because, yeah, I've been spilling my time between ba bathroom remodel and show prep and everything else you got to do. and ah But, you know, I'm um umm learning.
00:04:18
Speaker
Five years older, I'm trying to use my brain a little bit more, you know, think about things, not just barrel right into them and, you know, try to plan out a little bit better. so do a little do it once, not twice or three times.
00:04:31
Speaker
Yeah. Get rid of that. Make one trip when you're getting stuff. Yes. Instead of going back and forth. Yeah. And actually good point. Cause that's what a lot of this ordering online, I can sit there after I'm done working and just go through, okay, I need this. Oh, that's right. I need this too.
00:04:47
Speaker
And this too. And that, you know, it's not that whole, I put on the list where I'm to make it. Remember it little easier that way. And Hope Depot is actually really cool. Cause for the smaller stuff, they have little lockers. Can you go there?
00:04:59
Speaker
Yeah, and you go there, you sign in, or you you I think it scans a QR code, and then it unlocks the locker for you. um no You don't have to go in and talk to it. Like, Home Depot's not bad, but you you have to wait for somebody to come.
00:05:09
Speaker
Or Lowe's is not bad. You to wait for somebody to come to the area. ah for But for smaller stuff, Home Depot's just got little lockers right by the door. It's kind of cool. Huh. I wonder if mine does.
00:05:23
Speaker
area works. my area Ben, I mean, you know, they got locker, you know, they're two foot by two foot. I think it's the biggest one. So anything bigger than that, you can't have it. But, you know, box of screws and a little bit of this and that's kind of nice. I went there. I was like, oh, this is neat.
00:05:37
Speaker
I like I'm going to Cedar Point. I got my all my stuff in a locker. room so So, yeah, a little rough around the edges. ah so that's right Wait till you do your next project five years later.
00:05:48
Speaker
Oh, yeah, I don't know. I think somebody else may be doing it. I'm not sure what else we'd be doing at this point, but something will come up. There's always something.
00:05:58
Speaker
So it's coming out nice. It's it's going to be great. It just you know takes a little time. like little time And they can't rush it because that's when tiles start falling off the wall. You don't want to do it twice. No, that's why I want to get rid of that, my my motto, which is we do I do it right because I do it twice.
00:06:17
Speaker
No, let's not do that anymore. So, so far, so good. It's a good at learning experience. Something I've actually never done before was a bathroom shower, bathtub shower. I've done couple of bathrooms in our houses, but we've never dove into the redo the tub and all that stuff.
00:06:32
Speaker
yeah Well, you can come by my place when I start tiling the shower. No. Oh. No. No, it might be worth the 10 grand to have somebody do it, Tom. It just might be worth it. I don't think so.
00:06:43
Speaker
I don't know. it's that That cement board kicked my butt ah couple of weeks ago. i don't I already did that. I don't think I would have to replace it again. no probably not if ah if it's already cement board. As long as it never got wet.
00:06:55
Speaker
No, it's in good it should be in good shape. I just want to... um Because I just have vinyl, fake vinyl tiling on the... like surround in the tub area, but I want to put real tile on there. Yeah, and and that's kind of why we we and we started there, with because we had somebody come in and rip the old out and put a new tub in and set it and do all the plumbing.
00:07:15
Speaker
And then originally we were going to have him put a surround in, but we couldn't find a surround that we liked. because Yeah. Because the ones with shelves look like the one in every hotel room I go into. Right. And the ones but that that looked nice enough, it had like a texture to them, like we're doing subway tile texture. That's we're doing in the bathroom.
00:07:34
Speaker
They had no shelves.
00:07:37
Speaker
Yeah, you'd have to like ah find something that actually... Probably ah glues on, right? Or epoxies on? Yeah, but can you glue something to one of those surrounds?
00:07:48
Speaker
i don't know. you put one of stick on? Because we have those now in the shower, stick on to the tile. Those things last, I mean, adhesive nowadays are crazy. so Yeah, yeah. but they've They've been on there for years, and nothing's ever fallen off.
00:08:01
Speaker
But yeah I don't know how many of those could you put on a vinyl surround with that's only attached by the edges. And, you know, so I'm like, how am Like who's, who designs these things?
00:08:11
Speaker
I've got, I need like 15 shelves in the bathtub. Not for my stuff. like got like I need one. you get You get the corner of the tub. That's what you get. Well, thank goodness we have two to it to showers in the in the house.
00:08:27
Speaker
Now we're sharing mine. Ours. But ah anyway, that's so that's why we ended up, I said, you know what? you know My wife was just going around and around. You could tell she did not like anything. And I was like, you know what? well just I'll just tile it.
00:08:41
Speaker
It's going to take longer, but it's going to be a much nicer. Yeah. When you see your wife going around and around, you're just like, ah, okay. I could tell she didn't want to, she didn't want to ask me.
00:08:52
Speaker
Yeah. To tile it. I just said, I'll tile it. Uh, so anywho, good experience. And its going to come out. It's going to killer. Anyway,
JD Vance's Controversial Comments on Ohio Safety
00:09:01
Speaker
enough of that. What's going on today in Ohio?
00:09:06
Speaker
Well, JD Vance came into town.
00:09:10
Speaker
Stirred everything up. Stirred everything to start with that, I think. But what I'm going to start with, I think, is, you know, so J.D. Vance came into town, was talking at Canton steel mill about the big, beautiful bill.
00:09:24
Speaker
So let's hear what um was Seward News Channel 5 has to say about it because we have Morgan Trowell, who is like like their only reporter, I think, because every report I ever see is with her in it.
00:09:37
Speaker
But she was there, asked J.D. Vance a question. J.D. answered it. But I thought it was weird because this is from her Facebook or from Channel 5, not Facebook. X account.
00:09:51
Speaker
she recorded herself on her cell phone asking the question, And then they cut to the video of, it was this weird. Like, so yeah, it was ah like, Oh, you know what? The sound on the video is kind of weak from the, from the reporters, but JD Vance sounds good. Maybe it was just a quality thing.
00:10:09
Speaker
what's It is. And I do have a clip from JD Vance cause I wanted to get context on everything. So it is, you know, they, it's like, they didn't have ah feed from, they were just taking the mic from the room. It sounded like, right.
00:10:22
Speaker
Well, let's see. Maybe this comes through here again. ABC news. But there are but legislation allows companies to get breaks faster but the main aspect of the bill is changes that trump made in his first administration but with tax cuts across watch this cut something has to give access to health care only was medicaid slashed in the budget but there are
00:10:53
Speaker
additional work requirements Medicaid recipients under 65 need to prove that they worked 80 hours per month. What do you say to those hundreds of thousands of Ohioans that say they will have no health insurance?
00:11:06
Speaker
Well, what I'd say to those Ohioans is, one, don't believe every false media report that you've heard because our explicit goal in the Trump administration is to protect people's health care so long as they're working hard, playing by the rules.
00:11:20
Speaker
The Medicaid changes will go into effect in the coming years. What was it and the in the coming years? So like, they're not just going to lop off their medical coverage. hu no No, they're going to change all these things over the coming years.
00:11:38
Speaker
So that's why he came into town was to talk about a big, beautiful bill.
00:11:45
Speaker
But he did stir it up a little bit. Yeah, that's right. That. And what happens is somebody asks him a question about our little incident in Cincinnati. If people aren't familiar, there was a festival...
00:12:00
Speaker
And a fight ensued and a mob of young black teens were beating up a couple of i white people.
00:12:12
Speaker
I mean, I don't know. I don't know how the fight started, and that's but that's the video you see regardless of the race. Let's just put it this way. If it was the opposite, it would have been all over the news for for for weeks.
00:12:24
Speaker
For different, yeah, for many, much different reasons. Or just, yeah, all over the news. First of all, this was all over the internet. It did kind of go a little bit viral. ah Mainly because, i mean, there's a guy fighting but a couple of other people. And then as he gets knocked out, a woman comes to help him. And some dude comes and slams her in the face and knocks her out.
00:12:44
Speaker
Sucker punches her. a That's, I think, really what got people. well I want to see what Vance says too, but go ahead. Oh, it was gross, man. Yeah. that That was the part.
00:12:56
Speaker
Did you see the pictures of her afterwards? Yes. Oh, brutal. Yes. You couldn't tell her was her. Yeah. It was brutal. Her face completely swollen up. So he comes into town and gets asked a question and they pull out the clip.
00:13:10
Speaker
You know, it's here's the channel three web ah channel three ah dot com. ah Headline. Akron leaders dispute. Vice President J.D. Vance's claim city has allowed lawlessness to run wild.
00:13:25
Speaker
So all these. quotes, all they come up with is is the quote he says, how many of you have all wanted to go downtown Akron or downtown Canton or downtown Columbus for a meal, but you were worried because the local authorities in these big cities have allowed lawlessness to run wild?
00:13:46
Speaker
We have got, we've got to to make great American city safe again for families and children. And he usually end there, begin and end there. That's the quotes I've seen. And I'm like, I know there's more to this than that. I heard it myself.
00:13:57
Speaker
So why aren't we giving the whole context? He didn't just come out and say, oh, by the way, these cities are lawless. He's reacting to a question about the lawlessness in Cincinnati, to be honest with you, because there was no police around.
00:14:14
Speaker
From my understanding, there was police on either street adjacent to this one, but this one had none planned that way. They just did every other street. Seemingly, like, they knew that this is where they should go because there'd be no cops there and they can, you know, have a little more fun in the street, all that kind of stuff. And then badness ensued, as usually happens.
00:14:34
Speaker
So I figured let's pull the clip. Let's see what JD Vance actually said after he was asked a question. So a reporter asks, hey, what about this video? Have you seen it? ah What are your comments on it? And this is hopefully we can get this comes through pretty good. But there's JD Vance.
00:14:50
Speaker
Okay, okay, yes, yes. So what I saw, I haven't seen the full context, what I saw is a mob of lawless thugs beating up on an innocent person, and it's disgusting, and I hope every single one of those people who engage in violence is prosecuted to the full extent of law.
00:15:05
Speaker
And they will be. They will be so long as law enforcement in the state of Ohio takes their job seriously. I know Dave Yost cares a lot about these things. but But yeah, I actually, you know, you're right. Bernie did send me a clip of this and we talked a little bit about it. I don't know the full context. I don't know how the fight started.
00:15:23
Speaker
But the one part that I saw that was really gruesome is you had a grown man who sucker punched A middle-aged woman, and where I come from at least, when you have a grown man who sucker punches a middle-aged woman, that person ought to go to jail for a very long time. And frankly, he's lucky there weren't some better people around because they would handled it themselves. But if they're gonna not going to handle it, the cops in Cincinnati, the law enforcement, you've got to prosecute people.
00:15:48
Speaker
We've had way too much lawlessness on the streets of great American cities. How many of you all have wanted to go to downtown Akron or downtown Canton or downtown Columbus for a meal, but you're worried because the local authorities in these big cities have allowed lawlessness to run wild?
00:16:05
Speaker
We have got to make great American cities safe again for families and children. If you want to take your your wife or your children out for a meal, you shouldn't be worried about street violence. And the only way to destroy that street violence is to take the thugs who engage in that violence and throw their asses in prison.
00:16:22
Speaker
Give me to hell yeah.
00:16:27
Speaker
That's the quote.
00:16:30
Speaker
That's a little different there when you hear that little bit. i mean, he's not just going after Akron. He's reacting to a question about a video he just saw not too long ago. Yeah, the Akron mayor took it personally, I think, right?
00:16:47
Speaker
Yeah, and lots of some of the city, some people in the city, you know, they have, you know, i was pulling clips from some, i I just, I deleted them because they weren't, people are just a little bit upset.
00:16:59
Speaker
You know, my city, you know, it's not that bad. You know, actually, so crime has been down except for rape. Oh, okay. They went 2021, I think they had 24 shootings a week down to, now they're down to 12. So yeah, it went down, but you forgot to take into account that there was ah lockdowns and people weren't working at that time.
00:17:25
Speaker
but also From the time it went down. I'd also like to ask... were there only 12 shootings, only 12 shootings that were reported or acted on?
00:17:36
Speaker
Because if you stop, if you cut the police force or, or stop them from,
00:17:43
Speaker
reacting to every, you know, you know what mean? there There's this been whole thing on the police to, to limit what they do, you know, for equity and all this other stuff. So yeah, that a part of the drop in crimes. Cause you're just not going after the crime. So it's not on the records anymore.
00:17:56
Speaker
Well, people stop calling if the police stop reacting to them. So it's true. That could be a point too. So that was, uh, you know, a lot of the comments were, well, we'll have him come to March city or, uh, Oh, here's one.
00:18:09
Speaker
When you, when people have a little bit of power, but and make And they're making particular comments about downtowns and not just Akron, Canton, and I and i think Cincinnati, was it?
00:18:21
Speaker
So, you know, so those people are working hard for living. That's the last thing we need to have someone like that say. So you want to just candy coat it and but tell you what ah what you want to hear?
00:18:35
Speaker
Yeah. That was, i think i believe that was a guy from one of the famous cheesesteak place or something in Akron or Canton. Oh, yeah. Eddie's famous cheesesteak grill in downtown Akron. That's who that was.
00:18:47
Speaker
um You know, so, you know, that's fine. Akron's not horrible. No one's saying that Akron and Canton is is horrible. No, they are. but per capita, they're they're terrible.
00:19:00
Speaker
Really? Yeah. I mean, Cleveland's like one of the worst. Akron's up there too. far as crime? yeah As far as crime goes, yeah. compare i mean, you just can't compare it to ah per capita. It's it's awful.
00:19:14
Speaker
you know yeah I mean, Chicago or or New York, obviously, but ah Cleveland per capita? the but The thing is, nobody reports on it because there's no... um I would say there's very little...
00:19:29
Speaker
affluent areas in the city. So you don't get those, um, you don't get those headlines, you know, like you do in Chicago and stuff. Yeah. Does that make any sense?
00:19:41
Speaker
Yeah. No, yes. as Well, compared per capita. Yeah. I guess that's a good way to look at it. Cause when you're just comparing it from city to city, that doesn't, that's not fair. I think Cleveland's fourth highest in the nation for, uh, shootings.
00:19:53
Speaker
Fourth highest in the nation per capita. Yeah. Yeah. that's compared, so that's under Chicago, New York, LA, probably one of those. Something like that, yeah. Chicago's got be above it. At least New York and Chicago. Chicago's got to be like one. Yeah, I think Chicago's... They've got 20 a weekend.
00:20:08
Speaker
20 to 30, I think. Some weekends, yeah. Yeah, if they're even reporting everything there at this point. Mm-hmm.
00:20:19
Speaker
And in this place like City of Cleveland, they...
00:20:26
Speaker
so So the ah Cleveland city schools has their own police force. don't know if you knew this. They literally had their own police force separate from Cleveland police. And that's important in this case because I think at least maybe has something to do with it.
00:20:41
Speaker
A lot of, so they have a, if the cops arrest a kid who's in the Cleveland city school districts, in most cases, I mean, violent crimes, I i don't think so. But in most cases they take them to Cleveland police department, Cleveland city school police department.
00:20:57
Speaker
And one of the reasons is it's better it looks better for the school because they can handle it internally instead of having another kid ah as another statistic.
00:21:10
Speaker
That comes in a lot of play too because you can hide you can hide stuff that way. And I've talked to a couple of people or recently In the know. and And they say, yeah, definitely a big reason.
00:21:24
Speaker
they They have a partnership with the city of Cleveland. and I mean, in a lot of ways, it's good for the kids too, right? I mean, because they're not being put in the system, they're giving him another chance to a certain extent, so on and so forth. But there's a lot of, the whole point of that was not get into any, the whole point of that was there's a lot of ways you can hide and and tweak the stats in your favor.
00:21:45
Speaker
because some of these stats I'm seeing, Akron was down 12 18% in like shootings and stuff over the last couple of years. Now, maybe that that's to your point, maybe COVID.
00:22:00
Speaker
If you're looking from 21 or 22 to 24, There was a big drop because of that. Well, lockdowns created lot of problems. People were home. Especially with The summer love was 2021, wasn't Here, got some Yeah. at Cleveland 2023, there were 38.6 homicides per 100,000 residents. The national average is 8.2 per 100,000 residents.
00:22:18
Speaker
point six homicides per one hundred thousand residents the national average is eight point two per hundred thousand I couldn't get a like a ranking.
00:22:30
Speaker
ah I'd have to do a deeper dive. Wait, wait the national average is what now? 8.2. And Cleveland is 38.6. Yeah. I'm sorry. Thank you for correcting me. No, It's freaking horrible. It's awful.
00:22:45
Speaker
ah And I couldn't get like a ranking national ranking, but um
00:22:52
Speaker
ah They're in the top 10, it says. So i would have to do a deeper dive and probably look into the FBI. ah Here's a here's the quote. Here's a quote. um I think this is communications director, Dominic Caruso.
00:23:08
Speaker
did not comment specifically on Vance's remarks, but said he does not think Akron was lawless. Not at all. You know, Akron is a city just like any other city, he said. For the most part, I think we're as safe as we are anywhere in the world.
00:23:21
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to take issue to that. is like, ah no, there's a lot of places in the world to be much less safe, but... Okay, I got Akron's homicide rate from, ah I don't have a year here, but it's 24 per 100.
00:23:40
Speaker
hundred So it's already three times higher than national average. Three times higher national average. That would be, yes, I would consider it horrible. Ohio State average is 4.6.
00:23:53
Speaker
wow That's six times? Yeah. Six times the state average. Yeah, the the this mirror and, that you know, ah Vance wasn't saying anything wrong here. I mean, no good point eight no and this is like something that's never, we yeah we hear about shootings and homicides, and but we never, um I guess, they're never it's never really talked about. The problem isn't talked about ever.
00:24:20
Speaker
Yeah, and honestly, i shy away from all those stories, um mainly because our whole show would be taken up with shootings every week. yeah. yeah Oh, yeah, yeah. So point but to your point, I guess. Well, when we first started this, I was thinking we were going to mention that. But then when I started, ah you know, going through stories and saving stories for for the show, was like, we can't talk about shootings. it That's all we would talk about.
00:24:45
Speaker
We could do a whole show on shootings.
00:24:49
Speaker
No. And I, yeah, I just don't want that too. No. I mean, even there, you know, there was a that shooting with, but in Avon. Yeah. Lorraine. Yeah. With the, with the ter the ambush. Yeah. yeah And I had it in the, in the, the,
00:25:05
Speaker
I had it in the show rundown once and i was like, ah, I don't know something about it. Just, I don't, I'm not sure I want to go down that road because it was, it was big enough that most people heard about it. Yeah. So I, I wasn't too like, um, I think we pick a little, pick things that people don't maybe don't do a deep, deeper dive into or even don't even hear about it.
00:25:25
Speaker
Yeah. It's tragic. i don't know how many, think in a two end up dying at least one oh one, one died for sure. oh sure Okay. I asked, yeah, unfortunately, yeah horrible i there was a weird thing uh about that i started pulling because i get they found they found ah improvised explosives in the guy's car don't if anyone caught that by the way that's one of the reasons i was going to bring it up oh no kidding i wasn't sure yeah like i'm not sure he ambushed them or if they they just wrong place wrong time came up upon him maybe because if you're if you're going to ambush a bunch of cops so why do you have explosives and you know i mean i guess you could well they searched the car yeah
00:26:03
Speaker
I don't know. Anyway, they, they were, yeah, they were hanging out down a dead end road, eating, taking a break, eating, eating dinner. Yeah. ah So yeah. you Thank you. Thank you for doing that. Cause you know, I'm just going to say like,
00:26:16
Speaker
I get people defending their city. i just I just don't like the people. well just Don't tell us the bad stuff. They're not defending their city. They're defending themselves. that's any of Defending their votes.
00:26:29
Speaker
Yep. Maybe. Speaking of votes, look at that segue. Damn, that was good. Speaking of votes, um another person who piped up about this is ah Representative Sykes.
00:26:44
Speaker
Emily Sykes came up and said, na ah I'm deeply and bitterly disappointed in vice president, vice president's remarks about Akron and Canton to diverse and vibrant communities in Ohio's 13th district.
00:27:00
Speaker
So there's there's a little something else going on underneath the hood here. don't know if anyone's aware. The GOP p in Ohio is currently looking to redistrict her district out.
00:27:11
Speaker
They're looking to redistrict and eliminate her seat, along with another Democrat. Actually, I don't call the name. I didn't and think get it, but there is two. Also,
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00:27:23
Speaker
there's a Corey Bowman who's running for mayor in Cincinnati, who is J.D. Vance's half-brother.
00:27:30
Speaker
So there's a little bit going on here more than just yeah more than just his comments. she's She's trying to save her seat. And she's, you know, she says the impact of the bill isn't what everybody says it's going to be. And like they said in the clip, something's got to give.
00:27:49
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Healthcare. That's so great. and Oh, by the way, yeah by the way, Canton's homicide rate is 20%. Oh, under I mean, look at, I mean, a little bit better, a little bit better. Yeah.
00:28:02
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It's only five five times the state average. Yeah. That is six.
00:28:07
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So, um, Sykes says, that Here's another quote. All of it is just to pay for tax cuts for the richest people in this country, Sykes says.
00:28:20
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We are going to shoulder the burden and shift all those additional costs to working men and women to help a billionaire get another yacht. That is literally the one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
00:28:34
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Oh, and it's over and over. I've listened to it for 30 more or more years of them say this. And we can, I'd love to talk about the wealth disparities in our country because there's a lot I could agree with.
00:28:50
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But tax cuts and taxes? No, no. um I think we can look at wealth disparity and we can look at Washington and wealth disparity in different ways. I look at it in different ways than they do, I guess. Everything's about taxes and you to tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
00:29:10
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Guess who works around all the taxes? The rich. Mm-hmm. They're the ones who can afford accountants to find all the loopholes that, hey, conveniently are all always there. They're always there conveniently.
00:29:21
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You got tax attorneys and everything trying to figure out loopholes for you. that's ah That's something that the average person can't do. Right. So taxing the rich doesn't work because they get around it for the most part.
00:29:36
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What you end up stifling is those middle, those, those small business owners that are, you know, in the four and $500,000 a year range. They're the ones that get killed ah by high taxes for the rich because they're the ones who who are just on the cusp but and can't really afford the loopholes to find the loopholes. That's my opinion anyway. So I'm sick and tired of hearing this over and over again.
00:29:55
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Oh, I think it's more of the people that are in the ah mid twos. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It, you In that range, yeah, $250,000 to $500,000. Yeah, okay. yeah You've got and you got a little bit of money, but not enough to to hire the really expensive.
00:30:12
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don't know. You're making $500,000 a year. you can You can hire some some pretty good attorneys, tax attorneys. But but you you don't have the ah resources that a corporation has either.
00:30:26
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Yeah. Yeah. And you can hide. I mean, like the, what's his name? ah Warren Buffett, you know, famously his secretary or his assistant, whatever you call him nowadays, pays more taxes than he does.
00:30:39
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Well, yeah, because all of his money is in ah income tax was always the key. He pays more income tax than he does. yeah you're right Yeah, you're right. Because he hides his money in stocks.
00:30:49
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Well, it's not you you're not hiding it. I'm not saying hiding it. He gives himself a zero um salary. So he doesn't to pay income tax. Yeah. I don't know if he gets zero does a zero. oh I mean, I don't know his thing. I don't think you you can do a zero salary, but you can $200,000 salary and you could be worth billion, you know?
00:31:08
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and you you could you could be worth oh you could be worth a billion and you know but People don't get it. People don't understand that you can't tax somebody on what they're worth because their worth is not, they might own stocks, which isn't really, um it's sort of like you you don't really have that money until you sell it.
00:31:27
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And if you sell it, then. Then you pay tax. Then you pay tax, but you can't tax them on it. it's It's unrealized gains. Really? That's all it is. Oh, they want to.
00:31:38
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Yeah, they want to, but it it won't work. No. Because
Ohio's Political Landscape: Redistricting and Campaigns
00:31:41
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you sell it, then the stock goes down, and then the people that own the stock are a little PO'd, and yeah it's it's it's it's a juvenile ah juvenile ah thinking regarding taxing the rich.
00:31:57
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Yes. um and And by all stats, the rich ah pay most of the taxes. The top 20% pay almost all the taxes. Yeah. um So, yeah pretty federally at least.
00:32:08
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and So it's usually that way. um So, you know, she's ah she's under pressure. She's going to speak out. ah They're trying to get rid of her district. And I, you know, I don't think, I hate redistricting because I think it's kind of sleazy.
00:32:25
Speaker
Not sure why they do it continuously, constantly, over and over again every every couple of years. Isn't that due to population? Yeah, but if you see some of these districts, man, they are funky, to say the least.
00:32:37
Speaker
ah Well, I mean, don't they, you know, isn it isn't like kind of moving people or opening up, ah let's say, ah building some Section 8 housing in a section kind of can redistrict a a red area, you know?
00:32:54
Speaker
Yeah. What do you mean? like well then They're adding population to areas to kind of to help with the redistricting. i I think. I don't You know what? I need to look into that more.
00:33:07
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Yeah. To influence the redistricting or influence the voting block in that area. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there there's a reason for redistricting. that's i i There's a valid reason for it.
00:33:18
Speaker
I just think it's it's done way too much and way too often. It's done every every time there's a change. Every new Congress in Ohio, they redistrict something there. And if you look at the districts, they are there's you can just tell they're cherry picking and keeping...
00:33:34
Speaker
but Regardless of who they're keeping out. I mean, i may I may agree with keeping some of these people, you know, I may agree with eliminating Sykes. I don't necessarily agree with her, but there's all ways to do it. I just, I know the sword could cut both ways. Right.
00:33:50
Speaker
Yeah, I just haven't, you know what, likes I want to say stuff, but I can't without having a little bit more information. Oh, what's stopping you, Tom? Come on. Well, I know I do it all the time, but this this one bugs me a little bit.
00:34:04
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Like I said, there's a valid reason for it. I just think it it can be it can be taken advantage of. And a lot of times I think it is. Republicans and Democrats are just trying to... Just trying to be fair. Just trying to politics.
00:34:14
Speaker
Yeah, it's politics. And that's, that's the problem. I think it's not, they're not doing it for other than politics. a lot of times. um And man, get rid of those glasses. Come on. Was it 1970 again? 60. What's coming? These horn rim glasses are coming back. Come on.
00:34:28
Speaker
I think they are kind of an style in style right now. They totally are. Wait, let me, hold on. check my box. That one. Okay. Okay. And speaking of, ah I don't know, fundraising and taxes, i don't know, it was a horrible segue. ah Got some, ah I think the quarterly filings are in for the governor's race in Ohio.
00:34:50
Speaker
And we got some numbers. And what we found is Amy Acton is killing it in the fundraising. Oh, killing it. Yeah. She, uh, she's got some records from a Democrat, you know, for Democrat this, for this early uh, in the, in the race, she's got like one, yeah, $1.4 million dollars already that she's ah raised.
00:35:17
Speaker
The only real of problem is Vivek has raised $9.7 million. Almost seven times more. which is Which is a record.
00:35:29
Speaker
Right. And they're trying to pull out, well, you know, 60%, only 60% of Viveks were from Ohio, where hers are 80%.
00:35:41
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And, you know, all this, they're trying to pull his data. I'm like, well, yeah, but Vivek's a nationwide figure, national figure. And Amy isn't. Yeah. And they're donating to him because they think he's going to win. They think he's going to win. And he has, he has rich friends from all around the country. He's, he's a, he's a businessman. And, uh, you know, so i I follow both of them on X and,
00:36:07
Speaker
I figured let's pull two. Let me go just pull two random clips from there that they've posted on their site and see what they had to say. and These are two mayoral candidates for next year. Possibly be more.
00:36:18
Speaker
Probably be what's the other Democrat now? ah I forget his name every time. I can't remember. Anyway. Let me say that again. What's that? Say that again. Whose name did you forget?
00:36:30
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theug and The other person that might be running for governor. Trestle. Well, no, he's not. Oh, Sherrod Brown. Sherrod Brown. That's it. Yeah. I forgot his last couple of shows ago. I couldn't remember. So Sherrod Brown might be coming in the race.
00:36:42
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I think that's really, ah would be Vivek's only, ah competition really, I think at this point, but right now we have Amy and Vivek.
00:36:53
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Okay. You ready? Let's hear what Amy has to say. this is a post from her ex. She was on some podcast and they, uh, she just kind of, what's her vision and all this, this,
00:37:05
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Okay, I'm ready. My opponent, Vivek Rav Maswami, is like, people are just kind of lazy and mediocre. They're not working hard enough. I'm like, that's not the Ohioans I am seeing everywhere i go People are working hard and they're doing the right things. It's just not all adding up anymore.
00:37:22
Speaker
People aren't out here talking about culture wars and the stuff that we hear in the political banter on the news channels. They're talking about having some breathing room that whether it's themselves or their their kid is having trouble buying a house. They're talking about affording childcare and they're talking about groceries and gas costing like so much more.
00:37:43
Speaker
And then there are folks aging in place on, you know, a fixed income. Like once you retire and their pensions not going as far and property taxes are rising and Property taxes are rising because the state house is not doing their job.
00:37:57
Speaker
They're forcing all this stuff on the locals. So they're having to squeeze more and raise taxes. And it always goes back to this dysfunctional, broken state house we have. So what people are really just expressing are what I believe are 80 to 90% of basic issues. Megan, stop. Megan, stop.
00:38:17
Speaker
who I mean, this is a serious question. It's not me being mean. I just, I really need to know. Does she have a speech impediment? I think she has a speech impediment. Or she's drunk. Or she's drunk. i'm not sure.
00:38:28
Speaker
I don't know what happened. ah If you listen to, i'm I'm going to put together a super cut. But if you listen to her talking while ah COVID was happening, every other word was, um.
00:38:40
Speaker
I mean, we do it. We're amateurs and we're not professionals. But She, I mean, it was like um today in the news, um we had six um people um come down with COVID. um You know, it was just ah so somebody she's been working at whatever she's doing. Yeah.
00:39:03
Speaker
Yeah, it's rough. So I really need to know. I don't know Because she's not, she sounds like she's like, ah you know like she's got a fat tongue or something like that. i i going turn out of heart a tunnel right So I don't know. I'm i'm like, i' I'm really just, I really want to know.
00:39:19
Speaker
Xanax. You never know. All right. So in contrast, here's a little clip from Vivek. He is at a podium. He's speaking at a little gathering about his vision.
00:39:34
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But my dream for my kids is to follow a little different path than I did. I want them to achieve the same American dream that I did. It's not all about money, but about purpose and meaning and living a life of dignity.
00:39:46
Speaker
To do it not by pursuing that in New York City or some other place, but to do it right here in the state of Ohio because that's where the best opportunities are actually available to them. And that's why I'm in this race to be a governor, to revive what we think of as the American dream. I'll call it the Ohio dream right here in the state of Ohio.
00:40:05
Speaker
A state where if you work hard, you play by the rules, you get to have a good life and dream for an even better life for your kids. A state where we have great paying jobs available right here because we have an economic boom that lifts up not just the people at the top, not just people like me who have been entrepreneurs have been successful, but lifts up the entirety of our state.
00:40:25
Speaker
A state where every one of our kids views it as their birthright to have a world-class education that I think every Ohioan and every American actually deserves. And that includes not just education to put people on a path to four-year college degrees, which is my path to the American dream, but also for every young man and young woman, every son and daughter of our state who wants to be a welder or a mechanic or a carpenter or an electrician or a machine operator.
00:40:51
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or a plumber, or a pipe fitter, to also live that same American dream without any man or system or government or bureaucracy standing in their way. To me, that's the Ohio dream that we're going to fight for.
00:41:06
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A little bit of a contrast there. I think regardless of what they're saying, their delivery is, I just don't understand how Anybody can listen to Amy Act in more than 10 seconds.
00:41:20
Speaker
you know what You know what's funny is the Ohio Democratic Party isn't much different than the National Democratic Party. There's no talent there. no No.
00:41:32
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At least Sherrod Brown would be... mean, he's rough to listen to, too. He's not right, but he's, ah I mean, I don't know. I just, her it's her tone. It's her cadence, everything. It's just, it screams Karen to me.
00:41:48
Speaker
Yeah. Well, it's it's a lot harder for a woman to i'll run for ah larger position than a guy. because Because of that, I think i think that's...
00:41:59
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You get that. You have, you had that grading voice. It's kind of tough to overcome. You can, um, but you can overcome it, I think, but some people, some people can't. Yeah. There's some women who probably can't.
00:42:12
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I've dealt with that professionally a little bit. Um, you know, if, if you're in a male dominated industry and you sound like a nagging wife, well, it's, it's a wife doesn't want to hear a nagging wife.
00:42:31
Speaker
Right. Well, that too oh yeah yeah you know that that's the problem. It's not just, you're losing the guys, you're losing women too. Women like, uh, you know, I think most women like somebody with a ah bit of, um, authority in their voice and a little bit of, uh, let's say, um,
00:42:48
Speaker
I don't know how to say it, but... Cajones. Yeah, just just... Nobody likes a Karen. Except other Karens. My second half of that was ah what I've seen in professionally is women who are bosses usually have most problems from women, other women, their subordinates.
00:43:08
Speaker
right backs there The guys will will, like normal guys, will just yeah tell you, you suck to your face. um but I mean, right or wrong, doesn't matter. I'm not saying that. But women's they the women, from my experience, is they when they turn their backs, boss, that's when the women start throwing the arrows.
00:43:25
Speaker
Right. It's just a different, and it's that way in high school. It's it's just, it's just, it's the, it's the two different sexes. It's just the way we handle things. But so yes, I, I, it was Hillary Clinton. Yeah.
00:43:37
Speaker
I mean, um my gosh. you can't you You can't sit there and listen to Hillary or Kamala or war out Senator Warren. who What was her name?
00:43:51
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Pocahontas. Elizabeth Warren. yep Elizabeth Warren. Yeah. you You listen to them for a few minutes and you're just like your skin starts crawling. Okay. Examples of of that and the opposite.
00:44:06
Speaker
um see back in the day would be well right now would be um secretary or the director of national intelligence um but oh that tulsi gabbard tulsi gabbard yeah she's great how about um our uh white house secretary or white house um oh I forget what her name is. Kaylee? is No, it's not.
00:44:30
Speaker
Is it Kaylee? No, it was. are From the last That was the last one, right? She was awesome. I mean, that was somebody. And this this one's good, too. But, uh, anyway, yeah, but authoritative, but not, you know, not whiny. And, you know, just, I don't know. There's a way you can you can do it, but some, some not, but yeah, you're right.
00:44:52
Speaker
That's Caroline. Love it. Caroline. Love it. Yep. Yep. Um, there's, there's plenty of examples of those. no there there just It is harder. You're right. Yeah, there are women that have don't have that kind of voice. I think Tulsi Gabbard's probably the most ah best example of that type of where she she can give a speech and you never feel like you're being ah like yeah there's no grading god grading to her voice at all. Yeah.
00:45:22
Speaker
And just be fair, i've heard men do similar, similar things. I i know in in work and professionally I've i've been in sales meetings and vendor meetings or whatever where the, I mean, boring as snot puts you right to sleep.
00:45:36
Speaker
I mean, it's not as, not the same, but, but similar. So yeah, I just want to be fair to the both, you know, i mean i mean we just I mean, I don't know. i'm just telling I'm just saying what I think most people feel when they hear ah you know some of these yeah people talk. i don't know. i heard I heard many people tell me that during the last presidential election.
00:46:01
Speaker
You know, nope, um can't vote for her. Yep, and lots of women said that. Yes, lots of women. On that note, um if you need to get a hold of us, CrookedRiverCast.com is where you can find out where to find us.
AI's Evolving Role in Society
00:46:14
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00:46:20
Speaker
Shoot us an email. Give us some ah um help with the show if you think we need it and tell us what we're missing, what we're wrong about. All right. You can always do that. We'll we'll take those too.
00:46:32
Speaker
CrookedRiverCast.com. right. On to the next story, which I pulled back over from last week because never got to it. AI, AI, AI, AI. It's everywhere, Tom.
00:46:46
Speaker
Yay. to this story from is New Channel 5, of course, who else would it be?
00:46:57
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And then the headline of story is not just tech companies using ai established using AI. um Northeast Ohio businesses are embracing it too, but who else? And let's try with a,
00:47:13
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News Channel 5 clip.
00:47:16
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but Well, I'll start with, let me set it up a little bit. Sorry, let me set it up. So, mainly story started off with Summit County last week. Started
00:47:29
Speaker
using AI for all non-emergency calls. So, if not calling 911, but if you call just the police department or whatever non-emergency number they have. Between the hours, it used to be just between the hours of 7 p.m. and 11 a.m.,
00:47:42
Speaker
who um Now it's all AI. Oh, really? Even emergency calls? Not emergency calls. All non-emergency calls. So it's 24-7 though. It's going to be 24-7. Yeah. So now, yeah. It used to be 16 hours day.
00:47:58
Speaker
right now yeah used to be sixteen hours a day And this is now going to be, ah AI is going to be 24-7 for all non-emergency calls. And here's here's a little backgrounder from um News Channel 5 on where AI and what's going to be like. And i mean, of course, they gave it a name because what do you always do with your AI but name it.
00:48:22
Speaker
And let's see what they have to It comes as a bit of a surprise for some in Stowe, calling the police's non-emergency line and hearing this. Stowe police's non-emergency line.
00:48:36
Speaker
My name is Ava. How can I help you? And AI named Ava launched last month that collects callers' information, analyzes it, sorry and and in some cases helps directly or passes along that information to dispatchers and police.
00:48:52
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Come Friday, Stowe Police, along with 18 other police departments and fire departments whose calls are handled by the Summit Emergency Communications Center, will fully roll out using AI 24 hours a day to handle their non-emergency calls.
00:49:10
Speaker
We're told that amounts to about 20,000 to 25,000 calls a month. 25,000 calls a month. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. ah So they are going to ah implement, it's already implemented, implemented last week.
00:49:25
Speaker
And there is going, so they've got it certain, there's there's a bunch of keywords that will trigger the AI to take, to send you right to 911 call center. all center And yeah, can't, can't imagine what happens when people find out what those words are.
00:49:42
Speaker
Um, so there, so once the AI hears those words, it's, it's trained, quote unquote, trained to, to send you over, transfer you over to 911 or to a human dispatcher. I'm not sure if they're 911. They're just saying you could send to a human.
00:49:57
Speaker
I mean, I can see where this is um helpful for the city as far as saves money because you don't have to staff that all the time now. I'm i'm sure those people are pretty expensive. Yeah. Do you save text save on taxes though?
00:50:09
Speaker
Yeah. They're not giving you a rebound on your taxes for sure. Right. i To me, this the natural evolution of this technology. And that is phone tree.
00:50:22
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I mean, this is a glorified phone tree, basically. And this is exactly what people hated about automation you know over the last 15 or 20 years. Everywhere you call, you can't talk to a human.
00:50:35
Speaker
Right. It takes a while. It takes a while. But sometimes if you so if you say the F word, it'll take you right to an operator. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. And this whole website's dedicated to just, here's here's the number combination you need to dial to get to a human for AT&T.
00:50:54
Speaker
You know, press zero three times, one zero, you know, something like that. I think if you start dropping F-bombs, it just automatically takes you to to a human. I can imagine. Yeah. i think I think, like I said, certain certain words, I'm sure we can all come up with some.
00:51:10
Speaker
and gets you right over to somebody pretty quick from the AI. ah But they ah they go on on this report because there's other things than just AI. Other things are just please police departments doing AI.
00:51:23
Speaker
And we'll just chat on this a little bit. This is, ah as we're going to talk about Howard Hanna. And I'm not sure this is AI, but you tell me. And it's not just the super smart call screeners where we're seeing artificial intelligence take over across all sorts of industries.
00:51:41
Speaker
This new tech is transforming how the same old things are done. Take buying and selling a home. It is amazing the last 18 months how much we're using different forms of AI and where we think it's going.
00:51:53
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Over the course of 68 years, Howard Hanna built a real estate empire. Ask CEO Hobie Hanna, and he says they're at another inflection point, similar to 1994 when they were one of the first real estate companies to highlight their homes.
00:52:10
Speaker
On the wide web. Right now, they're building out an AI division, looking at ways they can improve. whole division? Reinventing how people search for a home, from the keyboard to receiving suggestions.
00:52:23
Speaker
It's no different than, say, Netflix, when you watch shows on Netflix and it's sort of gauging what you like and then giving you... teeing up for you as as the AI sees that you're saving certain pictures or forwarding them or saying you like a certain style of ah design of house or bathrooms or kitchens.
00:52:40
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It saves that and starts teeing up in your search criteria. Beyond that, Hannah says eventually AI could scrape online data to find telltale signs that someone is about to sell a home.
00:52:52
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As for the future of real estate agents, creepy Hannah says they're safe. If I'm leery about it in any sense is that is, is we still have to remember it's, it's not human.
00:53:03
Speaker
You know, it's it's that. And when you're talking about most people's home that they're buying and selling, it's their castle. You need that human touch and that, and that real estate agent. But I think it's going to create an efficiency for real estate agents.
00:53:16
Speaker
Uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Uh, uh, you're just trying to save your job and yeah. Uh, yeah. It's totally going to work, but we're totally going to still need humans. it's It's going to, I think it's going to be an interesting next four to five years.
00:53:32
Speaker
what What he described is not AI. No, it's just, I don't know. It's just the computer looking for a pattern. Yeah. You looked at a four bedroom house with two baths. Here's a bunch of other four bedroom houses with two baths.
00:53:46
Speaker
Right. I think. They called him for an interview and he says, I have to say something about AI because if I don't, my stock will crash or what I'm, don't know if they're even a couple of people, but a lot of what I've seen is it's a lot of marketing.
00:53:59
Speaker
A lot of companies are taking what the technology you already have and just converting the marketing to AI, such as Apple. Apple has been talking about machine learning for a decade and they just switched it to AI two years ago.
00:54:14
Speaker
It's the same technology. It's the same thing. Yeah. And that's what they're talking about here. And that's, yeah that's a lot of what the police department is talking about. It's just machine. This response should have these four, uh, one of these four answers or this question or whatever from the, from the caller should have one of the, that's, I don't think it's actually doing any thinking and learning on its own. but me There's no such thing as AI artificial intelligence. That's, that's all BS.
00:54:41
Speaker
That's marketing. Yeah. Yes, i I think there is definitely a there is some AI out there. I just don't think we're seeing it at the public level. And I think a lot of that AI is when you hear these stories about how the ai did exact opposite of what they're what the programmers were asking it to do. You know, for example, they make an AI to do this one task, task a, and it learns it and it's fine with it. It's good with it.
00:55:12
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And then it, they, they tell, they now tell it to do task B and train it to do it differently, to do it this way. And that AI will say, yeah, yeah, good. I'm good.
00:55:22
Speaker
Yeah, this is good. Awesome. And then when they, they leave the AI does it the the first way. You know what mean? So it's not, it's like, ah, this is a better way than the way I'm doing it my way now.
00:55:33
Speaker
Cause I know it's still just programming though. But is it it's making a decision to go against what its programs are saying. We've heard these stories over and oreg again. How true they are, we don't know. but Yeah, I think that's a lot of BS.
00:55:47
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. yeah it's It's just programming. it's It can't think. you know it it just knows what you told it. That's good point. Yeah. Maybe it's doing stuff like that, going back to the first way or you know ah doing a different ah way of doing it. But how do you figure that out? it just It's gathering information. And you know it's just math.
00:56:11
Speaker
It's all just math, isn't it? that's good point. Then why the hell can't it do math?
00:56:17
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I've heard early I know they still that problem, but math was, it was, it was an issue for chat GPT for quite a while. Cause the woke had two plus two equals five in there. And that's what it was using as a learning model.
00:56:29
Speaker
So do you think that that's a thinking computer when they, when they, when they put it out on the internet and it, it turns, you know, it turns racist or it turns fascist or it turns, you know what I mean? you've You've heard those stories, right? Yeah, yeah. No, it's it's scrubbing the internet and it's finding what's probably, it's still scrubbing the internet, looking for information, and it's putting it all together. And then if it finds more of this kind of information, that's what it's going to do. That's what it's going towards. Yeah. It's following the pattern. Yeah. And this is what, okay, this is what I'm supposed to be because this is what I'm seeing. And it may not be what, it's just what's viral maybe at the time.
00:57:08
Speaker
Right, right. Exactly. Yeah. what's really true about the society and all that stuff. So, yeah. So there was like an interesting, there was an interesting take that I heard um today or this week about like AI and it was Elon Musk and him buying Twitter and changing it to X. And it was like, he really never cared about the free freedom of speech. He wanted the information to build an ai because you got, you got people and on using X. And one of the reasons to, you know, now you, if you want a blue check mark, you have to give them your ID and all that kind of thing.
00:57:45
Speaker
uh, And for him, he did that mainly so the AI, the training, the AI, they know ah yeah the users, which ones are human, most likely human.
00:57:59
Speaker
And that's what it's using to train.
00:58:03
Speaker
Yeah, that's good point. he wants, you know, originally was kind of like he he wanted that one one app, right, for everything. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, that too. It was multiple. I think multiple reasons he bought it.
00:58:17
Speaker
Yeah, but mean. He wanted make money. He bought it for money. Of course. Yeah. But I mean, yeah i guess I went off on tangent here, but AI is just nothing but scrubbing the internet or just and data in, data out. i don't know. No, it's a good point on on Musk. I mean, he, AI was in his, you know, in on his radar and what a better way to just do multiple things. Let me.
00:58:40
Speaker
Let me get rid of this this nonsense on Twitter with with government and everybody being involved and and banning and shadow banning. I can make some money. i can and i i can also have a free source, basically, for my AI.
00:58:54
Speaker
Yeah. I mean... Yeah. And he tried improving it by, you know, ah he hasn't gotten rid of the bots, but I think he could tell what, who the bots are or what the, but you know, what they're, what they're up to.
00:59:06
Speaker
And it's not like, what's Google doing? mean, Google's AI Gemini is doing the exact same thing. And it's just on a a a larger scale. Larger scale, but I think i think Google's failing.
00:59:17
Speaker
They're falling behind for sure. yeah but it's it's It's fun. and we I was getting on a tangent. I was reading an article. Maybe we'd cover next week on the Intel thing. I think I'm going to put in next week's rundown. It's pretty interesting on all the shenanigans, we'll call it, around that whole Intel plant thing. um Okay. so But the next on our list, so yeah, AI everywhere. So, you know, anytime you call, it and you never know who might answer.
00:59:47
Speaker
might be Ava. Or or um Howard Hanna might put your house up for sale before you even know you want to put your house up for sale. Yeah, you rent you rent a storage locker and then they're putting your house up for sale before you... Exactly. They're like, oh, all of a sudden, you're, you know, here's here's here's a check in the mail for your... You're like, wait, happened? Yeah, that's a little
Ohio's Tax Holiday and Fiscal Policies
01:00:06
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creepy, right? Yeah, it was exactly, that was a creepy one. Hey.
01:00:09
Speaker
But I mean... You know what? AI is nothing but spyware. It's just a different level of it at this point. So ah the only thing I've seen good use for it is it makes me sound smarter in my emails.
01:00:22
Speaker
And now it has its place. Yeah, it's a good tool. It can be a tool. it can be it can be a tool. All right, and on to the next story, which we have. Our tax holiday started, Tom.
01:00:34
Speaker
Yay! Tax holiday!
01:00:42
Speaker
i from from From August 1st to the 14th, right? Yes, thank you. For the next two weeks, starting yesterday, August 1st, or excuse me, this we're recording this on Saturday 2nd. It is ah starting, so for the next couple weeks, anything under, well, as my daughter said, yay, no tax, Dad.
01:01:03
Speaker
I said, what does that mean? She goes, I don't have to pay the government. I said, okay, how much, like what does that mean for you though? She goes, things will be cheaper. I said, by how much? 8% dad.
01:01:14
Speaker
And I was like, yes, it did my job. Did my job. Excellent. um And I said, as long you, I said, but don't you dare think about buying a boat or an RV because you're going to pay full tax on that. Anything over 500 bucks.
01:01:29
Speaker
Yeah, I don't even know why. Where are you going to get an RV for under $500? Why do you even list that? Yeah, you you would think the $500 cap would cover the RV and the boat. Right.
01:01:39
Speaker
But if you can find an RV for under $500, don't buy it. Yeah. Don't buy it. You might have some issues with it. It's probably got a nice smell in there somewhere. so here I got an article here real quick from the Ohio Press Network, and they're saying, yeah, I mean, holidays, it wipes out sales tax for nearly everything everything priced at $500 or less, extended for two weeks.
01:02:06
Speaker
um you Exemption covers clothing, electronics, books, dine-in food, beverages, and other items. uh, watercraft outboard motors is odd one to have it specifically outboard motors, motor vehicles, alcohol, tobacco. Oh, come on.
01:02:24
Speaker
All the fun stuff. Alcohol, tobacco, vape products are all, and I know it was a contained marijuana, not covered. Yeah. but it doesn't But it does include bullets.
01:02:35
Speaker
Oh, that's true. Ammo. It's good time to... It is a good time to stock up on ammo. That is true. That is a good point. I got remember that. um But they do go into the...
01:02:47
Speaker
So, however, Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy recently released a new report saying that the 18 states that still have sales tax holidays will lose $1.3 billion. dollars Oh, no.
01:03:00
Speaker
Oh, no. You mean we'll keep $1.3 billion dollars in our pocket? Is that what you mean? What about the children? It's always about the children.
01:03:13
Speaker
ah Sales tax holidays are ineffective and gimmicky. yeah Yeah. um Unless you you're smart enough to buy all of your school supplies for going back for back to school during these two weeks and save you two or 300 bucks easily per family, maybe that gimmicky.
01:03:29
Speaker
No, not. Well, I did a little research on this Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy. Okay. So they're funded by the Ford Foundation, the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. Other do donors listed are um American Federation of Teachers, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
01:03:58
Speaker
National Education Association. my gosh. Nice. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. w k Kellogg Foundation. I'm not breaking my bell, Tom.
01:04:09
Speaker
and Yeah, this is a very less leading progressive institute that... um ah how you, you know, it's just a progressive institute that wants you text to death. base I love how they say it though. The States will lose $1.3 billion. dollars Not that people would get to keep $1.3 billion, dollars but the state will lose it.
01:04:34
Speaker
Oh no. ah hang on a second. I saw something else here. Their mission centers on informing policymakers and public about equitable tax systems, which they frame as nonpartisan.
01:04:48
Speaker
Equitable. There's the cap right there. Equitable. What does that mean? What does that mean? Equitable. What's equity and what's equitable? What's equality? So ah equity is the, if I correct me if I'm wrong, equity is the equal outcome.
01:05:05
Speaker
Yeah. And equality is equal ah beginning or equal um opportunity. Opportunity. Yeah. Quality is equal opportunity. Equity equal outcome. So that's impossible people in a lot of cases. So how it's possible. It's just called communism.
01:05:24
Speaker
Right. So it's not. So yeah, again, not possible because they always fail. Yeah. Not one has ever. okay So yeah. and Anyway, so go out and buy and, and, and make your state lose as much money as you possibly can in the next two weeks. How's that?
01:05:39
Speaker
Yeah, no, it's a good time to, you know, stock up on things like ammo. Yeah, It's all the same. Pencils. I think we we mentioned it a few years ago, or a few shows a few years ago, few shows ago that, um you know, it's a good time if you're if there's things you want to buy, but you're, you know, you're already just saving up for it's a good time to do it now.
01:06:02
Speaker
and Yes, it is. You know, you could fill up your cart with $1,000 worth. of thing I think it's a... You can't spend more than $500 on a one on product.
01:06:15
Speaker
But, like, if you went to... If you bought, like, $1,000 worth ammo, I don't think... I think that's still... ah I think you still save on that. because yeah's such Everything priced at $500 or less.
01:06:28
Speaker
Right. So i think you could fill up your card and in Amazon with a bunch of different items that can equal whatever, as long as not one of those items is over $500. Okay. So even yeah if you had a bunch of items that are all under $500 going to $1,000, should work. yeah that section yeah I think so. I'm but about ninety percent sure on that And I really think that this time of year is specific because it's back to school season.
01:06:53
Speaker
And this is when families buy lots of taxable goods. And it's a good time if you're smart enough to take advantage of it. You could literally, families could save hundreds of dollars over the next two weeks if they buy it.
01:07:04
Speaker
yeah Got clothes, all this pencils, book bags, all kinds of stuff. So take advantage. Lose the state some money, please. You know, any sports equipment that you need, all that. Yeah, yeah you could you could save some bucks.
01:07:17
Speaker
Yes, yes. All right. Tax holiday check. And it's a good way to stiff the state too. Yes, that's what I'm saying. See how much money much money you can make the state lose this next two weeks, please.
01:07:31
Speaker
Let's have a contest. send us your Send us your most lost money for the state to crookedrivercast.gmail.com. Yes. So off of the tax holiday onto, yo, where's my weed money?
01:07:46
Speaker
The cities are saying, Yeah, I tried reading this, but I couldn't get into the story. Well, I was going to say, me pull this back up because it's not, there it is. I get in the story, but it's the shortest story ever.
01:08:00
Speaker
You think there's more to this story? There is. Is that the story? This is this is the, um it's cleveland.com and it's a subscription. Yeah, but usually it's it's like faded out and you could see it, but it it just ends. Oh.
01:08:13
Speaker
You know what i mean I think this is the story. I think Sean McDonald should probably, hope he didn't get paid much for this because this article is two paragraphs. It's not even the wrong business if he got paid for this. Jesus.
01:08:25
Speaker
So the Ohio's supposedly, um, raked up about $55 million dollars in recreational marijuana tax revenue that has not been distributed to the communities. i by For reference, they're saying Cleveland's seven dispensaries alone could account for roughly $887,000 in tax revenue, which if you've been in the city of Cleveland, they can really use.
01:08:52
Speaker
if they've got um Really, you want to give them that money? Yeah, they've got a lawless theyve got lawlessness problem in Cleveland. We talked about that earlier. Yeah, they're just they're not going to spend it wisely. Remember the downtown police patrol, safety patrol, which is the Caga County Sheriff's Department, who is spending a million dollars a year over their budget?
01:09:08
Speaker
Yeah, they could use some. Because it's so unsafe, they can use $800,000. But, I mean, they're not going to use it for that. They're going to build a statue of Superman or something. um but nearly a year after sales begun, none of the money has made it to Cleveland or any other city that agreed to host dispensaries inciting in part, incited in part by the promise of a cut of the revenue.
01:09:36
Speaker
So they are, where they were promised when this whole bill was passed that they would get 15% or some percentage of the tax revenue and nobody's seen a dime. So my question is, where's the money at?
01:09:50
Speaker
up in smoke Republicans where's the money at what you doing with it and why doesn't the cities get it if that was what was promised it needs to be done
01:10:04
Speaker
And nobody probably has any answers. So, and I mean, we'd go on and literally articles. but I read the whole article right there. Yeah. yeah It was like three sentences. Yeah. That's fine. no It really not a whole lot to be said other than, Hey, I mean, there could be some investigating reporting. Maybe asking, maybe a couple phone calls. i was going to say some investigate a little.
01:10:23
Speaker
Jeez. ah You know, and do we will look in, I mean, it's going to continue to go up and, And I believe in the last budget, I believe there was a stipulation in that they were going to try to rip all that money and away from the cities. Like they changed.
01:10:40
Speaker
want to i mean No, it hasn't gone through yet. That was one of the things that hadn't gone through yet got put on a hold. and Okay. So they were talking about revamping that and taking all of that and not giving the cities any of the tax money. Just keep it all in the state general fund.
01:10:53
Speaker
They're taking back their word. Yeah. They're going back on their word, I should say. so I mean, that's what entices cities to allow it to be in their city is to get the extra tax revenue. And it seems like there's a bait and switch, as they would call it.
01:11:09
Speaker
All right.
Property Tax Reform Initiative
01:11:10
Speaker
Next is we we wanted to do and get an update on the citizens for property tax reform, the ballot or the... ah ballot But the petition going around to get a ballot initiative to ban outlaw all constitutional amendment to outlaw all property tax in Ohio.
01:11:30
Speaker
So I did some digging. um There's not a whole lot going on. I mean, there's petitions still going on and and they're collecting signatures. Definitely not. Obviously not going to be this year. It's going to be in 2026 for the primary, I believe, or the.
01:11:42
Speaker
I think they're going to try to get it on the general. Yeah. It'll be on the mayoral race. Yeah. ah For next, next, late next year. Governor race, governor are race, my government's right.
01:11:54
Speaker
ah And they are going to, so they're pushing for that and they're still collecting petitions and they have, so I did some digging and trying to see there's really, i i didn't really see any news articles about it, any updates on it.
01:12:09
Speaker
I went to the citizens tax reform website, which they have some stuff on there. and what Actually, what it came down to is they need some help. and They can use some help on their website. and and Do they have a podcast? do they have they They have some what they call radio broadcasts on their website, which are hard to listen to because they're not downloadable or they are. It's it's weird anyway.
01:12:30
Speaker
and it's from a uh i think it's a christian station out of somewhere in ohio that they that they go on weekly or something like that and talk about it right but i mean i think they need some help on their website would help but anyway i did find a clip a report from wkbn 27 i think they're out of yes out of youngstown youngstown um
01:12:55
Speaker
ah local news about a petition in Borden, Boardman, Ohio. They had a petition signing campaign and they had some news cameras there and we'll see what they had to say.
01:13:07
Speaker
A steady stream of people in Boardman this evening could signal growing support to eliminate property taxes in Ohio. Many showed up to sign petitions to get the issue on the ballot.
01:13:18
Speaker
First News anchor Stan Boney was there. He has our top story tonight at 10. Whoa, what was that? The line at Borman's Magic Tree Restaurant stretched the length of the deck. People waiting to sign a petition to have property taxes eliminated in Ohio. Mine, just as everyone else's, have been going up exponentially.
01:13:37
Speaker
Terrible. The petition, if approved, would place on the November 2026 ballot a constitutional amendment outlawing all property taxes in Ohio. It's plain and simple. We're being taxed out of our home.
01:13:50
Speaker
Foreman's Mark Brandenstein helped organize the petition drive. He was pleased with the turnout. Everybody kept their mouth shut for 30, 40 years. Nobody said anything to help out the property owner. Well, now we're going for the juggler. There's a lot of stories out there. People have found themselves in trouble. Denise DeFabio showed up to support the signing.
01:14:07
Speaker
She is also circulating petitions. I think the way it's calculated now is not fair because it's based on what they say your property's worth and you're not maybe selling your home, but yet you're paying a high high price every single year. I think it will pass and I think it will pass comfortably.
01:14:23
Speaker
Foreman State Representative Tex Fisher showed up to support the effort one day after voting to override one of Governor Mike DeWine's property tax vetoes, which Fisher said was not enough.
01:14:34
Speaker
I think the legislature, as much as some of us are trying, ah we are paralyzed by our inability to make a decision. Property taxes pay for schools, police and fire departments, parks, roads and bridges.
01:14:45
Speaker
What happens to those services if property taxes are eliminated? I would say the trustees of the townships in Ohio and the county commissioners better start working now. Better get down to work now to figure out how they're going to do this funding. I would say a sales tax, but it's up to Columbus. It's not up to us.
01:15:01
Speaker
and And it's going to be our job in the legislature to figure out how to fund these critical services and programs. There are other petition signing events planned to eliminate the property tax in Ohio. There will be one on Saturday morning in Salem and Sunday afternoon in Austintown.
01:15:16
Speaker
In Boardman, Stan Boney, WKBN 27 First News. That guy's got to have the best name in all of Ohio's taxes.
01:15:28
Speaker
So it's still going on and they're getting support and they filled, they probably had 30, 40, 50 people there maybe look like from the video. So it's moving along.
01:15:40
Speaker
They could use some more media attention. I'm pretty sure. And they were down, they were down there, Beth Blackmar and David Massey, two people are kind of,
01:15:52
Speaker
heading up this, this, this movement, they were down at the Capitol when the Republicans were in the house were over overwriting that one veto last week or week before, whenever it was.
01:16:06
Speaker
And there was, I mean, they were talking in front of cameras, but there's barely anybody there far as protesters. Yeah. So I think they could use some more media attention. i i I think the best way to get it is get the petition signed and approved, and they're going to get plenty of media attention.
01:16:21
Speaker
and thought Maybe not what they want, but it's going plenty of media attention. it's go there's going to be yeah there's go to be scare scarra tactics happening for months. Fear porn. Yeah.
01:16:33
Speaker
Fear porn is coming. Oh, trust me, it's coming. And good to hear they're still at it. And i think I think they need more attention. So let's let's see what we can do. We'll we'll put the ah but links in the show notes again.
01:16:48
Speaker
CrookedRiverCast.com. Check out the show notes in your favorite podcast app. We'll get links in there too. And we've got to keep the movement going. Yeah, i'm I'm kind of interested what's going to happen with Vivek when Vivek is running and this is happening at the same time.
01:17:07
Speaker
I'm curious as what's going to happen there because Vivek's walked back the eliminating ah state and property tax. He's walked it back. he's He wants to reform it, but he's walked back eliminating it. So I'm kind of curious. It's going to be interesting.
01:17:27
Speaker
I would say makes sense for a primary for him to go to the center and maybe soften it a little bit. Maybe
Gambling Regulation in Ohio: DeWine's Proposal
01:17:36
Speaker
we have a little bit of that. And he's been, he's been for cutting income tax and property tax.
01:17:42
Speaker
And as he said, in the right way, you can't just lop it off and, and expect, ah expect not not to have issues. So maybe he's thinking, you know, steps or whatever, but It'd be a good point. I'd like to see how he's going to react to, he's going to support it or not.
01:17:58
Speaker
It might be pretty interesting to see. it might be a one, two punch for him too. Uh, with, if both things are on the ballot, you know, because, you know, he's going to vote for, uh, the Democrat and, you know, it's, it's, it could be a, there could be a strategy here too, or in, at least, uh, you know, on, in, in his, um,
01:18:23
Speaker
game plan, I guess. Yeah. Good turnout. Good help. Help go to turn out. If you have certain things on the ballot, get people are more motivated to go. And if they're going to go vote for yes for this, they're going to vote yes for right back to.
01:18:36
Speaker
So keep an eye on that as always, that'll keep going on and we'll give you updates every, every little while whenever we, feel the need and we keep forgetting about it because, ah again, like I said, head past shows, done renting my house.
01:18:50
Speaker
Your parents are done renting their house. my My father's done renting his house. And we got to stop this nonsense. Yep. Next on the list, good old D. Rhino is my new nickname. I pulled that from the, from, what is that? Alan, Alan from the Windsor Report. He calls it D. Rhino. like I like that. like that. like that.
01:19:12
Speaker
So the Indians have had some issues and the as of late with with some gambling problems with one their pitchers.
01:19:22
Speaker
one so of course yeah One or two? Is it two, both in the Indians? I heard there was two, but whether they were from the Indians, I don't know. there are two sport Yeah, i did yeah know I did read that there were two sports. I know definitely and one was... ah Indians pitcher.
01:19:39
Speaker
It says governor's request comes as two Cleveland guardians pitchers are being investigated. Yeah. So of course the Rhino has to get his, get involved in the mix and try to ruin everybody's day.
01:19:50
Speaker
He wants to, and this is where I'm coming from. I don't gamble. I think it's silly be honest with you, but I get, I've done it before. um've I've sat at the blackjack table at the Bellagio. I mean the $5 blackjack table, the only one there.
01:20:02
Speaker
mean, and you know how long that was if you, if you've ever been in Bellagio there, they don't have a $5 table anymore. Really? but ah Yeah, there was and they only had one in the whole casino, blackjack table, $5. Everything else was $25 and up. But anyway, I had fun doing it.
01:20:15
Speaker
um I could see the attraction to it. It just doesn't... <unk>t It's not it for me. So DeWine wants to get rid of prop bets in Ohio because of these Indians pitchers.
01:20:29
Speaker
What are prop bets? So prop bet is... In this instance, I believe it was something like, okay, in the first inning, what are the chances of him striking out all three pitchers in a row? Or or or or even less than that. ah The first inning, he'll throw less than 10 pitches.
01:20:46
Speaker
Right, right. Okay, I got you. It could be anything. I mean, and for the Super Bowl, I mean, they they have prop bets on the halftime show. Right, the coin flip, all that of Coin flip, up everything. Yeah, okay. So it's not you're not betting on the outcome the game. You're betting on things that happened during the game.
01:20:59
Speaker
Right. But there are things that an athlete can control directly, especially a pitcher. I mean, if if he if he paces up places a prop bet that he's going to throw, ah or he places a bet against himself that he's going to, let's say, pitch more throw more than 10 pitches in an inning, well, all he has to do is throw a couple balls in the dirt, right? Yeah.
01:21:21
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. But it you shouldn't have bets like that. It should be more like, ah but how many can you strike out in an inning? Because he can't control that.
01:21:32
Speaker
mean, he can control it as ah as far as like doing it, but he can't control the outcome necessarily. Okay. i Unless he got in with the
Local Community and Cultural Events
01:21:41
Speaker
hitters. True. And there's something there where we've had stories of those things going on. I mean, there's a great documentary on, and the NBA the refs that all got involved.
01:21:52
Speaker
couple of them got involved in this and they were, they were penalizing. Yeah. You know what? i't even think about the ref. Yeah. They were penalizing umpires. Yeah. And it wasn't, they weren't in cahoots with the players, but,
01:22:08
Speaker
ah there was one reference in particular that was the focus of the documentary. And he, he could, if you, if you do a late penalty in a game, you can, and in that especially in a play or um basketball, you can really ah ah determine the outcome of the game.
01:22:22
Speaker
And at least when you're talking about over unders and all that kind of stuff, i don't know. i I, I don't think there's anything for the government to do here. I don't think the, I think the wine should just shut his pie hole. And i think the Indians should, and, and the league should get their,
01:22:37
Speaker
crap in order and you know stop their players from betting i mean i i don't think it's up to the state to do anything it's up to the indians they or major league baseball oh yeah is it well i don't know what's to stop them from doing it in vegas that's true that's true or online you know or there's other ways to do it you can get around all that stuff i just think it's the rhino just trying to be in a rhino and yeah latch on to that's the overly concerned the rhino can ah yeah yeah i mean just punish the players yeah it's just like anything else in life yeah i think that's the nba problem mbl major league baseball problem not uh not ohio problem mlb mlb nbl major best baseball league i i mean it works that works
01:23:31
Speaker
All right. So the Rhino, stick your nose, keep it out of our game. We already want to double the taxes. Yeah. About that every, every time, every time. Double the taxes, double the taxes. ah Last on our news list for the regular stuff is, i just wanted to bring this up real quick.
01:23:50
Speaker
It's the Lakewood is
01:23:54
Speaker
considering ah some new rules on temporary rentals in their in their city. What are temporary rentals? Airbnbs. Airbnbs. oh Oh, they want probably they probably want more money.
01:24:07
Speaker
Well, you would think, why would you have to worry about it in Lakewood? But I have an Airbnb on my street. Do you? Yep. I would take that would challenge everyone to go um any one of these sites, Airbnb, if you go on Airbnb or what are those verbal a couple or ones, so they're usually on every site.
01:24:26
Speaker
Usually if you're one, you're on all of them. And look in your neighborhood and see if there's any, there there is one on my street at the end of the street. And I could see I've rented Airbnbs and other services, the verbos and stuff.
01:24:41
Speaker
And we are very mindful of the fact that we're visitors. But for example, Airbnb has had a petty temporary ban on all parties and they just made it permanent.
01:24:53
Speaker
If you have a party and get a complaint, you're going to be removed from the property. You're not going to be refunded and your account will get dinged or something like that. Right, right. Because people are renting houses for the weekend and just having bashed. They're just huge parties there.
01:25:09
Speaker
And people are really getting sick of it. and I could see why they're doing this. So what they're going to do is they want to, they want to put like a ah regulation on it that if you're doing this, you have to register and that way you have yearly inspections.
01:25:26
Speaker
I really think they're just trying to put some sort of friction on this, you know, some sort of,
01:25:33
Speaker
just to make it that anybody can't just put their house up and yeah make it something more, but put on barriers or around it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's what looking for. Which I get, you know, there's there's that part of me that says, you know, my house, let me do what I want.
01:25:49
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But like I said. You got neighbors. Yep. Don't break my leg. Don't pick my pocket. I don't care what you do. But if you're renting a house next to me on a Tuesday and you're having a bash, yeah you're affecting me and obviously not harming me in a way, but you're, and you're, you're, you're incurred, incurring my, or, um, you're messing with my rights. yeah well You know, what, what, if you're good, if my neighbor has a party, I'm cool with that.
01:26:23
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You know what I mean? Like if my neighbor's having a party, I'm fine with that. But if he's renting his house out for somebody else to have a party, I'm like, well, I didn't move next to a club.
01:26:35
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Yes. You're intruding on my yeah tranquility or whatever you to call it. Not not necessari necessarily breaking my leg, but that's all on the same lines in my opinion. and So that's where this comes in. and And there's nothing you really do at the time. And and we've we've had no but issues on our street, but it's not the, probably not the hottest Airbnb.
01:26:56
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not Probably not, but it's a good it's a good location if somebody's in town for downtown events. Yeah, it's not bad. So watch out for that. I know there's more and more cities and like all, any city,
01:27:09
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Home Association basically has this covered already. We've rented in some areas like in Arizona where you really weren't supposed to. And there's ways around it you can get.
01:27:19
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But yeah, it works. We love renting houses. Actually, it's the only way we really go anywhere. So because with a family, want a hotel room.
01:27:31
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Airbnbs are awesome.
01:27:33
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Not if I lived there, I guess. And that wraps up our stories for the week, but we still have one thing left to give you. What's that? We bring good things to life.
01:27:48
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Nice. Some good things for for the end of the show, as always. I think the one is ah the one you pulled up from last week that we pushed up this week, which was you got a got release party?
01:28:00
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first Yeah, August sixteenth August 16th at, what is that club called? It's in Cleveland Heights. It's that little little ah ah gro grog shop. Yep. yeah Grog shop. it's ah There's a band called Saban. They're performing on ah August 16th at the Grog Shop.
01:28:22
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It's their record ah release party. They call me. The album's called They Call Me. And, uh, it's kind of cool. This band is like a ska punk band and it's comprised of, I think everybody's under 18. They started when they were like, i think, I don't know when they started, but I think they were like around 14 years old.
01:28:43
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It's all girls too. Uh, it looks like it, but the that the, um, the drummer's a boy, but he's got long hair. He's young. He's so he's kind of, Oh, I see him. yeah yeah Yeah. Now you could tell, right? You got to take a second look.
01:28:56
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Yeah. Because he's surrounded by girls. Oh, yeah. yeah So it's it's hard. And he's you know he's young. So it's ah it's hard to tell. But it's ah it's the band is, let me see here, run by ah Sophia and Sylvia Park.
01:29:11
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And they they were horn players and in grade school. Or i think ah it might have been like, ah what's that called before high school? Middle school.
01:29:22
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Middle school. Yeah. And junior high or whatever. Junior high, there you And ah they couldn't stand it. But then they they got turned on to their father's music, was which is ah kind of like that old 90s influence. Let's see here. I'm sorry, I didn't have everything written down.
01:29:39
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No, they have the, yeah, her dad's. I thought that my dad's music and his love for warped tour bands. Yeah, yeah. Introduced me to the music, into that music. Yeah.
01:29:52
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Yeah. Yeah. And I think they, I, they say a music camp, but I think it was from the school of rock. Oh, okay. Yeah. I think they went to, so they that's where they all met and they started a band and they started ah playing a few gigs and they're releasing their first record. i got a little, i got a little live segment there i'll and that I'll play here.
01:30:14
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Once again, we are Sabon, an original ska punk band. And we're all under the age of 18, which is pretty cool. um And I can say that till October. Anyway, back to the music. Let's speed things up by slowing things down.
01:30:27
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You'll never know.
01:30:47
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So go check them out. Nice. That sounds cool. Yeah.
01:31:07
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so go check in my about nice nice sounds cool yeah 16, 17, 18 years old. Wow, that's awesome. It's just good to see young young people ah playing instruments in bands.
01:31:20
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In Cleveland, Ohio. In Ohio, you in ohio yeah. so That's Sabon. It's capital, all capitals, Sabon. S-A-B-O-N. And it stands it's an acronym. Scant a Buck O-N.
01:31:34
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And I am too old to understand what the hell that means. I'm sure there's... some website that'll tell us, but yeah, go check them out. good Yeah, definitely check them out. That's awesome.
01:31:46
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It's, I got that article from the scene magazine, so you could look them up in the scene magazine.
01:31:52
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Next, next on the good things is a I mean, it's Karate Kid, baby. Karate Kid in Westchester, Ohio, I guess. There is a a dojo in Westchester, Ohio that went went on to, what was it? Is it nationals? No, it's it's the world. It's a world um world karate.
01:32:16
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Oh, crap. Now i'm looking for it. i didn't Again, didn't write it down. World Karate Championship in Sweden. They're in Sweden, right. So they they they placed there and they were able to go there. They came back with 10 medals.
01:32:28
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10 medals in representation of the United States. No kidding. Yeah. And ah again, we have we have great listeners, Tom. And one of our listeners had sent me some a clip.
01:32:39
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They got inside the dojo and they were listening to some how they, how did they get this good? Well, here's this, they got a secret weapon here. Ready? Yeah. Here we go. I got clip.
01:32:50
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Show me wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax Wax on, wax off. Wax off. Content drinks.
01:33:08
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No disrespect. That's just funny. ah Great job. I mean, this is awesome. and just It just brought me back to... the Karate Kid movies. And then I did watch a little bit of the Karate Kid television series. they had Cobra Kai, Cobra Kai.
01:33:23
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Yeah. And I, what I wanted to know is, and it was nowhere in this article, but at any point that they have to have like a rumble on the beach with the competing dojo. Well, in Sweden, no, no.
01:33:38
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It might've been in Akron or Canton. Maybe. Maybe.
01:33:42
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But awesome. I mean, they they they went there and literally they kicked butt. Yeah, that's awesome. These are 12-year-olds, 10 and 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds, and it's ah this just awesome story.
01:33:57
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So if we had to bring it up. Three of the kids were 16-year-olds. You got a 12-year-old and another 12-year-old. So that's... That's awesome. Yeah. as Wow. and Congratulations. Yeah. Ten medals.
01:34:08
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Congratulations. To that dojo, too, if that's what you call it. I don't know. Yeah. I think it is what they call it. Yeah. Westchester Jojo. Yeah. oh It doesn't say the name of it. Let's see. That's. Oh, ah ah Buckner Martial Arts.
01:34:22
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Oh, there it is. Yep. Yep. So good deal. Always
Ryan Trahan's Charity Challenge
01:34:28
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like to see that getting kids away from the screens and kicking each other in the face. That's what I call America.
01:34:34
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but I mean, seriously, that's good. i like it. I think that's awesome. That's good. Discipline. Yeah, this discipline. that's That's a huge thing. Any of that kind of stuff is knowing when to fight and when not to fight.
01:34:45
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like It's pretty huge in karate as far as I understand it. um So lastly, but definitely not least, I thought I'd do a quick update on ah one of the good things we have from last week. was That was last week, wasn't it? Yeah.
01:34:58
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oh So Ryan Trahan and his wife, Haley, were doing 50 states in 50 days to raise money for St. Jude's. yeah And if people don't know what St. Jude is, just a quick reminder, they are they help ah mainly child cancerhood cancer treatment, but really healthcare, they're a hospital. And if you if you're treated at St. Jude, you don't pay for a dime, no travel, no you don't even pay for a meal while you're there.
01:35:22
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it's completely covered, ah including the parents and everybody else who goes there. or ah any other other family members that are there and stuff like that. a great, great hospital, great cause. And at last, they they are $11.5 million dollars they ended up raising. $11.5 million. dollars Damn, that's awesome.
01:35:43
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And they, did I pull up the website? i think I did. Yeah, because they had,
01:35:50
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i think their biggest donor was Staple Games, almost $900,000.
01:35:56
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raised and then um and staple games would you download their every for everybody download the app they gave like a penny and for every achievement you got in some certain games they gave like five cents so every day they're towards the end they were putting in 15 60 000 donations just from right just from people playing the game cool and i was playing it too i got hooked on it couple of them so a good, good story. Now he's taking a ah little hiatus since he, he just went across country for two months and posted. it Yeah.
01:36:25
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um But what we're watching now is, because was kind of a chemo family, somewhat of a family ritual to us to watch his videos. He does, he's done three or four penny series where he's tried to cross the country or do certain things with starting with a penny ah for charity, for, I believe, Paul,
01:36:43
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Hunger, family meals or something that affect. So lots of good things, just good, wholesome content. Check it out. 11 and a half million dollars. Very cool. Yeah. Very awesome. And on that very happy note, we will conclude our show for this week.
01:36:58
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And thank everybody for listening. Appreciate all of our listeners. Let us know there's anything we need to cover that you think that we're missing. CrookedRiverCast.com.
01:37:10
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