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Crooked River Cast Show 57
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- Iran, Lebanon, Cuba Oh My!
- Acton’s scandal
- Putsch “Pro Nazi” event.
- Ravenna City Council meeting.
- Lake County data centers fight.
- Who pays for Ohio’s power line upgrade.
- ODOT installs more camera’s.
- HB176 & SB90 Ohio floats universal regulatory sandbox.
- HB 683 & SB 350 gives inspector new general powers.
- Cleveland is growing but how?
- Cleveland in the Unhappy Top 10 but why?
- Recall the Bibble Head!
- What to do with Burke Airport?
Good Things:
- Shannon Elizabeth joining OnlyFans.
- Groundhog dog rescue.
- Bernie Bernie is back!
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Transcript
Introduction: Meet the Hosts
00:00:12
Speaker
This the Crooked Rivercast. I'm Robert, and the other voice you're about to hear is Tom, and we are two guys from Mojice, Ohio, just trying to keep track what is going on in our great
00:00:24
Speaker
state. This is show 57 the week of April 20th, 2026. lots of things to talk about today. Lots. Let's do it.
Morning Routines and ZZ Top
00:00:41
Speaker
In the morning, sir. How are you doing fine day? doing very good. How are you doing? I feel little off, to be honest with you. Why? Well, I'm about to start my third cup of coffee instead of my first.
00:00:55
Speaker
Sorry about that. The whole family is awake, and which I'm not used to while we do this show. And, mean, most of all, I've got pants on. Ew. Ew.
00:01:06
Speaker
Starting a little late today, huh? Different start for for this today's show. that's Yeah, I had to put some OT in this morning. so Yeah, you gotta do what you gotta do. I've been up for a little while.
00:01:19
Speaker
And the entire day, i I heard the song in the morning, and I've been trying to figure out... like here This is what goes on in my head.
00:01:31
Speaker
It's crazy. This could be scary. Now, is it that or is it...
00:01:41
Speaker
is it that or is
00:01:56
Speaker
you Do you know what song? better No, what is that? that song You don't know that song? Sounds familiar, but I'm not placing it. Just Got Paid by ZZ Top.
00:02:07
Speaker
Oh, crap. Wow, I have not listened to ZZ Top in long time. That's a great song, but I heard it this morning. I'm like, where is he playing that? Like, I got the notes.
00:02:22
Speaker
Or is he playing it in this position?
00:02:30
Speaker
I like the second position better. Yeah, that's where I think he's playing it, but the other I think he goes back and forth, actually. Oh, okay. The first one sounds a little little more high-end, a little more high-end in that first position. Yeah, but I think he starts it like that.
00:02:50
Speaker
And then he ends it off with... Well, that was a little sloppy, but... So that's what goes on in my head. DZ Top now on my playlist today. Oh, you know what? Listen to the listen to that album, the entire your album.
00:03:07
Speaker
Yeah. ah that's that that that i I think, that like I said, ah the second one's better, but you might be right. in you know Yeah, well, listen to it and tell me because I need to stop thinking about it.
00:03:20
Speaker
It's been bugging me all day. There's got to be a ah video of him doing it live so you can kind of see if what he's doing. They'd be cheating. yeah I know. i try I do that last resort whenever I'm trying to figure out a song. I do that. like if i If I need to figure out something quick for a gig or something like that, I'll do that. But if i are
Weather, Bourbon, and a Goose
00:03:42
Speaker
if I'm really trying to figure it out thoroughly, i I try to do it with headphones on and I listen to each little nuance.
00:03:50
Speaker
And it's ah that one's been bugging me. That's been bugging me for a while. Every time I hear it. And then I forget about it. So it's not that big of a deal. It'll go away eventually. just It needs something else shiny to look at. ah Oh, you you know what? You know what else?
00:04:09
Speaker
We had a pretty nice week this week, weather-wise, right? Yeah. And I got home, I think it was Monday or Tuesday. I forget what day it was. I got home, decided to pour myself a little bourbon and have a cigar out on the patio.
00:04:21
Speaker
That's not really open yet, but it's, you know, we pulled out some lawn chairs and sat out there. Open enough. Yeah. And, man, there's there was this goose squawking. Oh. I'm like, you know, we have a neighbor that put a pond in a couple doors down. And I'm like, well, that's where it has to be coming from. My wife's like, what's going on?
00:04:43
Speaker
I'm like, I don't know. So we we took a peek out there. There's a goose out there just yapping away. i'm like, the hell is it doing that?
00:04:54
Speaker
And the only thing I could figure out is our neighbor put like a large swan in the pond, like a decoy thing. And I think she must have a nest there. So I thought of you. ah This thing's yelling at a freaking decoy.
00:05:08
Speaker
That's floating in the pond. Yeah. That's the way to keep them out is they put a yeah swan in there. I've seen it a couple, where I think we were in Columbus. Yeah. We were in Columbus with the family and it was one of those shopping centers, you know, with the mountains and big thing. eric Well, I'm like, why are to no, oh, that's why there's a couple, they put a couple of swan in there and I guess they don't like each other. so Okay. Yeah. That thing was just yelling at it, man. And I'm like, well, yeah, he evicted
Ohio Republicans and Haitian Amnesty
00:05:33
Speaker
them.
00:05:33
Speaker
that was his pad it was gonna spend all summer there him and his bitch and now he can't yeah well good yeah yeah oh oh and uh screwed the keys you got any anything that happened this week oh yeah i mean i'm feeling very generous you are why well it's tax week last was tax week i feel so generous took care of that a while ago yeah well
00:06:03
Speaker
Yeah. um You know, I mean, well, I mean, again, I was not planning on talking about Iran this week.
00:06:12
Speaker
You know, all week I'm looking at and there's not much going there's some negotiate it kind of fell through. Then yesterday happened. it know if you were, if you saw what happened yesterday or what's continuing to happen currently as we record.
00:06:23
Speaker
Actually, let's, ah before we get into that. Oh, what? Uh-oh. I have. That was a setup question for me, wasn't it? I totally blew it. Yeah, yeah. That's all right. Am I getting pulled over?
00:06:34
Speaker
Pulled over. We have a Rhino Alert in Ohio. um getting pulled over pulled of we have a rhino alert in ohio Oh, we do. Yeah. What are talking about? 10 Republicans have voted for amnesty for Haitians you know um in the U.S., 350,000 Haitians.
00:06:56
Speaker
So 10 Republicans in the House voted with all the Democrats to give amnesty to Haitians. And two of them are in Ohio.
00:07:08
Speaker
Just to let everybody know, one's in the 10th District. That's Mike Turner. And the other is Mike Carey in the 15th district. I'm not sure if they're if there's a primary, if they're running this this time around, but ah something to keep an eye out. Check into that.
00:07:28
Speaker
Yeah, this happened last this past week. And i I saved it, but I didn't put it in the show notes because it's you know the only thing that has to do with Ohio is, well, lots of people lost their pets.
00:07:40
Speaker
but But other than that, there's Michael Turner and Mike Carey in Ohio that voted with the Democrats. And I can't find my gosh. Oh, here. is it going to go anywhere?
00:07:53
Speaker
No, senate it's not going to vote for that. But you know what? Trump's not going to sign that. Well, yeah that. But you know what they're doing is, you know how he wanted. They're blocking the um how Trump wanted to ah end their temporary status. Yeah. yeah ah They're trying to block that.
00:08:10
Speaker
That's what it seems like to me. Okay. They're just trying to block that. Well, let's get their names and we'll talk about them next week. Yeah.
00:08:21
Speaker
think so. I got to look into that a little bit more. I didn't totally look into it. think the Senate's not voting for that, but you know, when there's 10 Republicans voting with the Democrats,
00:08:33
Speaker
try I don't see any other names in the u like ah in the house that I recognize there. but Okay. Two two from Ohio. I'll look them up and
Iran's Political Turmoil
00:08:43
Speaker
call them out.
00:08:44
Speaker
and i I would imagine they're probably from the Cincinnati area. I don't know why i think that, but I just feel like that. feel like well i oh I think one's near the Dayton area. oh okay. which um'm not i think that's that's Mike Turner, I think.
00:09:01
Speaker
Well, no, not Dayton, because Dayton Mayer is pretty pretty lefty as far as I can see. When he's talking about the the Haitians and stuff, he's all you know kind of parodying those kind of same talking points. Oh, what are we going to do?
00:09:14
Speaker
ah Well, that's interesting. Yeah. What the, I'm making a note of that. don't want to look into that. Cause that's, ah that's kind of why we want to do this show is to keep an eye on those kinds of things where they kind of slip under the radar and no one ever pays attention. And as we've seen, as we go through the news from week to week, there's so much other crap in the way that you, unless you're looking for it, you won't see it.
00:09:36
Speaker
I'm just wondering, like the first thing, my, the first place my head goes is that ah they got donors that, my, uh, donating to donating to their campaign that are probably, uh, employing some of these Haitians for low wages. Cheap labor. More cheap labor. Exactly. Yeah. That's yeah.
00:09:56
Speaker
Yep. That would be, uh, you know, the Democrats want it for votes and the Republicans or the GOP want it for big business. Yep. Cheap labor. And, uh, and they both get to win. Oh, isn't that nice? It's almost like they're on the same team.
00:10:11
Speaker
Uh, speaking of the same team, Yeah, I don't know. didn't work. So ah speaking of Iran, like, again, I wasn't going to talk about Iran, but now I have to because A, it's in the lineup, and B, all kinds of crap happened yesterday.
00:10:23
Speaker
Did you hear see any of it? ah but Well, I heard the announcement that didn't Iran announce that the yeah so ah whatever is open? Hormuz.
00:10:37
Speaker
What about the gay of Hormuz? They just keep talking about the straight. i know. Why do you have to discriminate against the gays? Yeah. ah So, yeah, and Iran comes out and says, hey, we've we've kind of agreed on a deal. The strait will be open. We've agreed never to close it again.
00:10:52
Speaker
and we've agreed to let the United States or the international community come in and and take the enriched uranium that is now under a pile of rubber in some mountain somewhere, couple different mountains somewhere in Iran.
00:11:05
Speaker
And. as you start watching some these military channels, they're you know they're watching ship trackers. and There's all these ships that are kind of stuck on either side of the of the strait or the gay, whatever you want to call it and And all of a sudden, now that they get announced and there's now there's a mad dash for the strait.
00:11:22
Speaker
And a couple hours later, Iran comes out and says, nope, sorry, it's closed again. Really? I didn't hear that. Yep. Yep. Why? Now Trump is out saying, well, um if we don't have a deal by Wednesday, we're probably going to start dropping bombs again. So Iran is saying...
00:11:37
Speaker
Now, depends on which channel you listen to, but ah last night I was listening to a couple. So I do, I watched two or three of these. I've been watching trying to keep up on the war. um And it's nice to see yeah one that's kind of pro-Trump. And there's one channel that kind of has a little bit of TDS.
00:11:52
Speaker
And the one channel was like, oh well, it must have been Trump just, you know, shooting from the hip and and promising and lying and all this other stuff. And they were they're not crazy, horrible TDS, but they're they've got a touch of it, you know.
00:12:04
Speaker
And what really happened is Iran saying that we broke the deal already. And basically what they're saying is we well we are continuing to blockade.
00:12:20
Speaker
So the strait is open, but we're not going to we're not going to move our ships. We're going to continue blockading the strait for Iranian ships only until we get a deal signed.
00:12:32
Speaker
Everybody else is free to go. And Iran was even saying, hey, we'll we'll help and and tell you where the mines are at. ah You know, like last week, they didn't know where they're at, but now they do. And they're saying because of that one stipulation that the street is open except for Iran breaks the deal. And now the street is closed again.
00:12:55
Speaker
But the other key thing was what's happened this week is Iran. I feel bad for all those people who who keep saying that ah ah Israel is controlling Trump because the other part of the deal was Trump has as um banned, I guess is a good word for it, or told Israel they are not allowed to bomb Lebanon.
00:13:17
Speaker
Right.
00:13:20
Speaker
and then and then there's reports of ah U.S. s spy drones hovering Cuba. Very similarly how they did Venezuela before he went in and took the leader out. leadership Right. Yeah, that's what I heard is happening next.
00:13:33
Speaker
And it's almost like, i was it almost felt like, and I'm the sure it's probably not this, but like, oh, we're done with Iran? right, right on to Cuba. We got no time to waste. Go right to Cuba. I was like, I don't think that's how it went, but it's how it felt.
00:13:47
Speaker
So after the strait was announced open, Apparently. Go ahead. What are you going to say? No, I'm looking through Trump's truth feed here, and I don't see anything about that.
00:14:00
Speaker
Crazy. Okay. Yeah, he's he's on. ah They've got a clip of him at Air Force One saying, hey, well, if we don't get a deal by Wednesday, may have to start dropping bombs again. But the blockchain is continuing to stay up. And um Iran's coming out and saying, and I watched.
00:14:13
Speaker
Well, we'll pull. I have a clip here. about it, but it really has more to do with NATO than does Iran. Iran is now um saying yes, no, yes, no. you know I think they'll work it out. I think they're they're getting close. This is a huge step for Iran to come out and say, hey, the strait is open.
00:14:29
Speaker
Oh, yeah, we agreed not to close it again, and then we closed it two hours later. Yeah, it's the first. See, I didn't see. Why did the oil not jump back up? It actually did for a minute. i One of the clips I saw was, ah one of the memes I saw was, it was a Democrat donkey, you know. he's going He's looking at the stock market with all the red and going, ah, he's tanking the stock market. And then when the stock market's all green, he's, ah, he's making his friends rich.
00:14:53
Speaker
Anyway. It is how it goes, right? Yeah, it is how it goes. And then I guess right right around the time when Iran says, hey, everything's good. We're we're opening the strait and we've created a deal. Then NATO comes, apparently, around the same time, it sounds like, ah NATO came and said, hey, you guys need any help?
00:15:12
Speaker
And um let's see, Trump says, well, this is Trump. I think he's at a Turning Point USA or Turning Point Actionist call that was behind him. but here here's Here was Trump's response to to NATO's call for if we need any help.
00:15:25
Speaker
Now that the harmless straight situation is almost over, I received a call from NATO asking if we would like some help.
00:15:38
Speaker
Thank you very much, NATO. And I told them I would have liked your help two months ago, but now I really don't want your help anymore.
00:15:50
Speaker
Because they were absolutely useless when we needed them. But actually, we never needed them. course. They needed us. They need us. They need us so badly.
00:16:02
Speaker
You know, it's a little bit like if you're a politician. It's hard to believe I'm a politician. But after I won, people came up to me. Sir, I'd like to make a major contribution to campaign.
00:16:12
Speaker
And I said, listen, just so you understand, campaign contributions after I won don't count. Okay? They don't count. They don't count.
00:16:24
Speaker
He goes on a little bit more, but it's like, um this was a fox this is from a Fox News clip I saw on YouTube. And they they go on to say,
00:16:35
Speaker
what he's doing for the straight doesn't, it helps Europe way more than it helps us. Like, this is really for Europe. And Europe saying, nah, we'd rather, instead of dealing with America, rather deal with terrorists.
00:16:48
Speaker
Yep. Just leave it the way it is. We like the way it is. We like dealing with terrorists and being held hostage.
00:16:54
Speaker
And basically Trump's saying, hey, you guys are useless. Look at ah ah after all this crap we did and all the money we gave to help protect Europe from Russia.
00:17:10
Speaker
And then we go, hey, hey, you guys mind you want to send some um something over? No, no, we're good. So Trump goes on and he says, well, all they have is two. These two little aircraft carriers are all rusty and stuff. They don't really need it. asked the general, I was like, no, we don't really need it here. We got enough. We got like 12.
00:17:29
Speaker
And I think, i think is this um is this the realignment that keeps kind of looking into? Could we call it something new? Maybe not the new world order. No, it's a Trump world order. The world order, yes.
00:17:43
Speaker
It is the Trump world order. That's what's happening. It's a huge realignment. I mean, look at who's there who's who's helping us.
00:17:51
Speaker
It's Saudi Arabia. It's the you youre ah United Arab Emirates. It's all these people all these places in the Middle East who have been under the thumb of Iran for decades as far as terrorism and and having to deal with that crap.
00:18:07
Speaker
don't I was talking to a lot of people and it's kind of a mixed bag, but.
00:18:13
Speaker
The Middle East will never have peace with Iran the way it is. So finally we have somebody with the balls to do it. I don't like it, but there's a lot of things I i i don't like in life, but you you got to do it. So I think that's where we're at with
Ohio Governor Race: Amy Acton
00:18:25
Speaker
this.
00:18:25
Speaker
I think, I think so. ah Well, you will continue to keep track. Again, I'll probably go off through all week and say, oh, not going to, and then something will happen on Friday. i I think Trump knows we record the show on Saturday.
00:18:38
Speaker
That's the thing. And he just waits until like Thursday or Friday to release anything. That's what it is. We got people in high places. No. Moving on to Ohio stuff.
00:18:51
Speaker
that was a big week for Ohio governor candidates, especially two of them. um Amy Acton. Amy Acton's got herself a mighty little scandal going on here, which be honest with me, might be, might be blown tad out of proportion, but Hey, let's go with it.
00:19:06
Speaker
So story is Amy Acton's team defends 2019 police visit as ah simple argument on mid GOP criticism. So what's, what's come out in a recent week or so is a report that the police were called to Amy Acton's house for a domestic disturbance in 2019.
00:19:23
Speaker
And, uh, and the cops, well, like you know how he's joked that I'm not sure if she's drunk or not drunk. Well, I think we know now.
00:19:35
Speaker
Well, this is, this is evidence to the, to the, to the point of the side that she's drunk, um, because she was, apparently had a they had a fight and why did the police come?
00:19:47
Speaker
Well, you know, let's, let's listen to, yeah, we got, got Morgan, of course, but Morgan and Fox, uh, channel five news on a little background what happened. Amy, they, no, they they're not going to talk to Amy, but they'll talk to, you know, her, her, her, um, Lieutenant governor candidate, which is, well, Dr. Pepper, I got to call Dr. Pepper.
00:20:07
Speaker
I have to, Newly released police report has the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor on defense this evening. Thanks for joining us. I'm Damon Maloney. And good evening. I'm Katie Youson. Thank you for being here with us at five. Now, that report shows police responded to the home of Amy Acton several years ago. There's five Columbus Bureau reporter Morgan Trowell looked over the documents.
00:20:28
Speaker
Back in 2019, while Dr. Amy Acton was Ohio's health director, police were called to her home in Bexley, a Columbus suburb. A police report states that there was a domestic dispute and that Acton and her husband had allegedly gotten into a verbal argument over her extended work hours. The report states that Acton felt her husband was antagonizing her and she broke a mirror.
00:20:50
Speaker
Police say that both Acton and her husband had admitted to drinking earlier and that Acton stated that she had taken an unknown amount of prescription medication. Police wrote that Acton told them that she wanted to leave and had gone into the garage, but her husband talked her out of it. It's problematic for a campaign to have something like this come out. Acton is running for governor against likely Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who her team blamed for this report coming to light. Acton declined an interview, but her running mate David Pepper said Acton only had one drink and the campaign says the prescription was a migraine medication. This is sort of a desperate attempt to try and tear Amy Acton down. Pepper said that this was just a simple argument it's between husband and wife. How did the police get called during a minor argument?
00:21:35
Speaker
ah You know, good question. I think someone called because they believe that Dr. Acton was under threat. The police came. bob They saw that that wasn't the case, and that was sort of the beginning, the end of it. But Republican strategist Bob Clegg warned that this incident raises concerns about whether Acton would be able to handle running the state. Depends on, is this an ongoing problem?
00:21:56
Speaker
or is this an isolated incident that occurred? Do you think that this police report shows that she's not fit to run Ohio? Well, first of all, I don't know what happened. I was not there. um You know, the only thing that I have said is that I wish she had reported that to us. Just the police coming to a house. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, despite endorsing Ramaswamy, defended Acton.
00:22:20
Speaker
Would you have kept her as health director if you had known about the police incident from 2019? going to say what I have have have always said in that Amy Acton, I thought, did a good job as director.
00:22:34
Speaker
I'm the one who appointed her. Ramaswamy's team did not respond to comment. At the Ohio State House, I'm Columbus Bureau Reporter Morgan True. There's something awfully screwy going on around here.
00:22:47
Speaker
and got a few more months. Yeah, it's kind of it's going to get fun. Yeah. um So let's, um i don't know. what do you think about this?
00:23:05
Speaker
I think she's got a lot of skeletons in her closet.
00:23:12
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good. Is she an alcoholic? I don't know. I mean, yeah look at this. Every time I've seen her speak, she looks like she's drunk.
00:23:23
Speaker
She doesn't only sound terrible, but she looks drunk. Her hair is a mess. Her face is like all. Yeah. yeah like She's got a fat tongue sometimes, you know, like her face is a little bit puffy. And well, you know, I mean, gosh, I've got to be so mean. Jeez.
00:23:43
Speaker
I was going to say she certain times a month she holds extra water. hey Really? You think so? I don't think so anymore.
00:23:53
Speaker
She's a little old for that, think. Fair point. i'm Okay, fine. Actually, how old is she? yeah You know, I owe i always ah attributed her look to just being an old hippie.
00:24:05
Speaker
Yeah. Kind of like somebody that doesn't really care about their hair or makeup or anything. But ah I'm just wondering if she does like to have a few. So a couple questions I had.
00:24:18
Speaker
how does How does Dr. Pepper know she only had one drink other than that's what Amy told her? Well. Right? That's so for my first, like, okay, you believe it, Amy, but if you've only had one drink, how come you can't remember how many pills you took?
00:24:37
Speaker
she's a doctor, isn't she? i mean, technically she's a psychologist, I think. So, uh, so it's, I think that's what she, of what her, or maybe not. It could be, it could be getting that wrong with the next story, which is not a psychologist, right? She's a about her mother. No, she's not. That was, that was, I think her, there's a next story we're gonna cover because this brought up a couple of other stories, well, not a couple, one other story, and the press, we'll go with this one first, sorry.
00:25:05
Speaker
So the Ohio Press Network is, you know, Jack Windsor's kind of, I feel, maybe... maybe Maybe blowing it a little bit out of a portion. But he is holding it accountable and kind of bringing it up to the point where, you know, he he brings up a, ah he posts an opinion reported an an alleged um on alleged tweets, ah first resurfaced by Outkick and republished by Fox News.
00:25:31
Speaker
And the first thing Acton's team does is come out and and say, they're fake. And then they're not. They're not fake. So the campaign fired, so he says the campaign, Acton's campaign fired off a cease and desist letter from Ellis, a Ellis Law Group in Washington, D.C.
00:25:51
Speaker
So apparently this is a, the same high powered Democrat firm run by Mark Ellis, the architect of the Clinton campaign, Steele dossier. oh that's That's the, that's the ah Trump teen on hookers dossier, isn't it?
00:26:10
Speaker
Yep. The fake one. Yeah. Filled by Russia collusion probe, a probe against Trump and led to a FISA court abusing abuses against Trump associates acting and insists this is not a, ah that she's not a politician, but a doctor fighting special interest insiders.
00:26:27
Speaker
yeah Her campaign cuts checks to top Democrat outfits in DC swamp ah for what should have been a routine Ohio legal matter. Hmm.
00:26:38
Speaker
How much more insider does it get? That's good point by, by Mr. Windsor. and And I'm on online looking at the story. I think it was, yeah, it was Twitter.
00:26:51
Speaker
X. And in the comments, someone posts an article from 2000 about Amy. It's articles from r operation r excuse me Operation Rescue, OR, Operation Rescue, which, you know, I guess if...
00:27:11
Speaker
if If news organizations are going to be biased, at least they can be open about it. And considering this, the logo has a a human fetus in it, I'm guessing they're pro-life. and that's their That's their angle.
00:27:23
Speaker
And that's kind of a lot what this article is about. But as ah as I'm going through it, again, this last update was on 6-11-2020. And it says Amy Acton has announced her resignation as director of the Ohio health Department of Health as of June 11, 2021.
00:27:38
Speaker
And it goes through and kind of picks her apart a little bit. And again, they're a very pro-life website, group, news organization, whatever you want to call them.
Amy Acton's Background
00:27:47
Speaker
So they go on a few, you know, kind of kind of tear her apart a little bit, you know, talking about, oh, yeah, she, you weren't allowed to have elective surgery per Amy Acton.
00:27:58
Speaker
But an abortion, yeah, they they kept all those open. Yep. Abortion clinics were open, but as you know, nothing nothing new, but it's kind of kind of their slant. But what i wanted to pull was a, they're saying she has, so she filled out on her couple things here, mental mental health and addiction issues.
00:28:22
Speaker
It is, she has filled out, yeah have your she she checked um she checked yes on the question, have you ever, been this is application, medical license application in March 25th, 1994. Have you ever been treated but not hospitalized for emotional or mental illness, drug addiction or or abuse or alcohol problems? If yes, you must have your treatment physician submit a letter, blah, blah, blah. And there's there's a screenshot of it.
00:28:47
Speaker
She checks yes. Okay. Well, at least she's honest. um They go on for a few other things about her and then they go to her mom. So they do an interview with Amy's estranged mother, which is important because they don't get along.
00:29:04
Speaker
So take that into consideration when you're hearing this, this, this article and her talk about it.
00:29:13
Speaker
And a couple of things, I think Amy goes on and says all the time how she came from ah broken home and never had food and this and that. Her mom says, no, that was never the case. Maybe it wasn't the greatest food, but there was always food on the table. That's a couple of things.
00:29:30
Speaker
She says, um where's the clip here? Yeah. Or here's the, here's the um as someone who's trained in psychology, that's, this is um Amy's mother, whose name is Donna Arthur.
00:29:46
Speaker
someone As someone who is trained in psychology and has done social work, Donna is troubled by the way acting sometimes speaks in a childlike manner.
00:29:59
Speaker
You know, and that's is that that's kind of what I hear when she speaks. that's I think that's the thing that makes me that makes it sound to me like she's drunk.
00:30:11
Speaker
sometimes she's like a little kid okay i never i never thought of it that way yeah yeah i've seen it that lady next time i i saw her a clip i'm like oh yeah could go either way she's either hammered or she's 12 like it's an affect like she's putting it on like uh i don't know if that's called an affect but like ah Like a baby voice? It doesn't sound like a baby voice to me, or a childish voice. Yeah, I guess I could see her point. i it's It goes back and forth for me.
00:30:41
Speaker
I have to... There's times when she sounds like she's a... I mean, sounds like she's a little slow sometimes. Well, she definitely sounds a little slow, but I mean... yeah So she acts like a retarded child.
00:30:57
Speaker
Okay, we can go there. i Yeah, yeah. um i mean I mean, that's what it sounds like. like
00:31:03
Speaker
i would I would encourage our listeners to take a look this article from 2020. It is from 2020, but if you if you scroll past the more current stuff they're talking about in the article and start looking at you know what her mom's saying, her mom kind of...
00:31:19
Speaker
contradicts what Amy's saying about her childhood and horrible it was. And she's like, no, it wasn't really. Yeah, there was there was a couple of guys that they weren't nice and this and that, but but was it wasn't what Amy, of course, she's probably defending her own self. But i thought it was pretty interesting. And the fact that her mom, her estranged mother thinks she talks like a kid sometimes, I thought that wait You know what's, ah but this is going to be an interesting few months here coming up because she wasn't really scrutinized during the COVID thing. She was just, I wouldn't say scrutinized. I would say yeah villainized.
00:31:54
Speaker
Yeah. So now she's run is she runs for governor. i think there's going to be a lot of things coming out about her that before people just didn't bother looking into it because she wasn't.
00:32:06
Speaker
running for anything. So we'll see. So this was, remember 2020, this was article and her mom says, as a practicing Christian, she worries that her daughter is posturing herself for higher office where she might do more damage, uh, that just relicensing and, relicensing and dangerous abortion business or a crafting overreaching pandemic orders, act as mother says.
00:32:31
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Never let a good crisis go to waste. She's definitely a Democrat. Definitely a politician, I should say. i don't want to just narrow it on the Democrats. because I think since we knew she was a like a lefty, right? I mean, that was obvious. But DeWine for her oh absolutely taking any of that, what she what she did and authorize it How does he pick her as a house health director, as a pro-life Republican, when she literally helped fundraise for Planned Parenthood and in and abortion clinics or whatnot?
00:33:13
Speaker
Like, how does he put her in? Rhino alert! Rhino alert! Sure, I think that goes past rhino. That goes past rhino. You know, that's something, i don't know.
00:33:24
Speaker
Hmm. It's pretty obvious if you if you're pro-life, why would you appoint the health director of your state that you're in charge with who's pro-abortion? doesn't make any sense to me.
00:33:36
Speaker
So yeah. Oh yeah, DeWine. Absolutely. Well, DeWine's not too bad. you don't do do's cool he's He's a Republican. Yes. i yeah I guess when you have the, you're you're voting for basically a Democrat versus a little less Democrat.
00:33:52
Speaker
Right. Yeah. The only time in state history that the state legislature had to revoke an emergency order from a governor was during COVID.
00:34:03
Speaker
Don't remember guys, people, DeWine did not remove the the shutdown order. The Ohio state legislature, the Republicans in the Ohio state legislature voted to cancel it. First time ever in the state.
00:34:15
Speaker
And that's only because we have a super majority. that's only That's the only reason we were able to do that. It would have lasted six more months, I would think, something like that. I mean, know he was he was debating removing the shutdown order, lockdown orders, but right that was as far as he ever got. So was thinking of that time.
00:34:35
Speaker
That's what i'll say. Back in 2019, back in the time before COVID, it was so much different. Oh, 2019 was rocking, man. yeah It was, it was rocking.
00:34:47
Speaker
It was good times, man. The economy was booming. I mean, everything was, it was just so good at that time. I know it's crazy. Like, uh, companies were fighting over employees.
00:34:58
Speaker
Right. ah Trying to outbid each other. Yep. Yep. And then COVID hit. Oh, what a coincidence. It all went to crap. Uh, so let's, you know, let's keep an eye on Amy. I think this is probably just going to go away. You know, it's,
00:35:14
Speaker
it's It is just a domestic dispute. Now, I think if the neighbors are calling the police, it's not just a normal argument. No, no, no. He's ripping things off the wall and stuff like that. You're throwing stuff. You're yelling. There's there's yelling that's louder than arguing. Can you imagine? You're screaming just at the top of her lungs. No wonder why the neighbors called the cops. He's probably going nuts.
00:35:39
Speaker
yeah all over what she could she could be totally irrational when she ah loses her temper or loses her cool there's a chance she's not that's there's a chance that she doesn't um but I'm leaning on the tide side that she's probably definitely yeah um I was going to say I think that was it oh yeah all over what That's what they're asking. why What was the argument over?
00:36:11
Speaker
The amount of work she had. Her workload. just To me, this is the key. i think Her husband's complaining while she was health director that she's working too hard and now she wants to be governor.
00:36:23
Speaker
Is she still is she still married i didn't I never asked that Pretty sure. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It doesn't say that I need that they're divorced or anything. So yeah I would hope they would put that somewhere in the article, but then again, yeah. yeah I mean, and again, real quick. Look, i don't know.
00:36:38
Speaker
but She is the one who quit, right? So she wants to run for governor. i mean, like what's like when the times times get tough, is she just going to be like, i quit? What are the chances of somebody protesting her and what if she's governor?
00:36:51
Speaker
Like 100% because they there's always a, you know, you spend four years in office. Someone's going to come out in and in Columbus and get 20 or 30 people to protest something. I don't think so.
00:37:02
Speaker
Are you? No, i'm what do you mean? I just don't think Republicans protest. yeah Not the same. and not the same they did they did ah They did in front of her house during COVID.
00:37:13
Speaker
That's because they couldn't go to work. Now they're down they're working. My point is, if somebody if if they decide to have a protest while she's governor, is she going to quit? if If someone comes out and says, you're doing a horrible job and we you suck, is she going to quit?
00:37:26
Speaker
and I guess it wouldn't be so horrible. be easier to get her out. Yeah, it's true. But then her than you got Dr. Pepper be in charge. Yeah. I think we're still pretty, you know, I don't like to use the word safe, but like even with like a a Democrat governor, we still got the state legislature, which would could override whatever the governor wants to do. Right.
00:37:52
Speaker
right Again, she's underdog. I get it. You always got to make sure that you pay attention anyway, because don't yeah don't count your chickens before they're hatched. You know what? We haven't heard everything that's going to come out about Vivek yet.
00:38:05
Speaker
So, well, we'll see how that goes. I mean, I get, you know, he he did run for president, so there was a little bit there, but he never seriously contended. Yeah, he got, I mean, that's a good way to vet yourself as you run for president and anything big that's going to come out is probably going come out then.
00:38:21
Speaker
Yeah, but that's true. There is the whole Ohio connection, which makes me think a little bit. Seems you think twice about Vivek, bake whatever.
Casey Pooch's Controversial Comments
00:38:30
Speaker
But on that note, the next gubernatorial candidate also had some scandals this week.
00:38:38
Speaker
Casey Pooch poo po poosh is in the news, like probably way more than he ever expected and not freud not for the things I think, well, maybe not. You cover any of this, Tom? So apparently Casey Pooch...
00:38:53
Speaker
keep him pooch, but I think it's pooch. a Pooch. Pooched. Pooched. Casey pooched. Pooched. he Yeah, I know. don't like this guy. He had a rally scheduled. and this is where all this came up. So I'm just going to go in the article in the order that I found all this stuff.
00:39:10
Speaker
I don't think it's actually chronological. But the article I found was from WOSU.
00:39:17
Speaker
kind started this whole rat hole that I got on with Casey and Casey's Columbus area restaurant cancels event for Ohio governor candidate citing Hitler and Nazi comments.
00:39:31
Speaker
Okay. So let's listen to, let's listen to what OSU, WOSU public media has to say that can NPR PBS. So, you know,
00:39:42
Speaker
Take it with grain of salt, but here you go. La Châtellaine, a Columbus French restaurant and bakery, announced it canceled an event for a Republican candidate for Ohio Governor Casey Push. The restaurant CEO cites Push's comments on Nazis and Hitler.
00:39:57
Speaker
Push was supposed to hold a meet and greet, but backlash on social media prompted CEO Charlotte Hardin to cancel it. Hardin says she wasn't aware of Push's comments that she says sympathize with Adolf Hitler.
00:40:08
Speaker
In a viral video, Push asks X's AI chatbot about the good things Hitler did and becomes angry when the chatbot says everything Hitler did was defined by the Holocaust.
00:40:18
Speaker
Hardin says the restaurant celebrates World War II veterans and hosts politicians of all beliefs, but Push's comments were not okay. This gentleman really likes to ruffle people's feathers. People spoke out and with our beliefs and what what we um what we stand for as our family and our employees, we couldn't have that. Push has rescheduled the event for Goodale Park Friday at 530.
00:40:42
Speaker
George Shilcock, WOSU News.
00:40:47
Speaker
er I don't think think Casey was touting how great Hitler was. I've seen that video that they're talking about.
00:40:59
Speaker
And he's asking, he's, he's, he's talking about AI and how they program it biased in a biased way. And here's how i'm going to prove it. sure Show me, tell me something. He asks the Grok and asked, you know, the question they said, tell me, show me some things, uh, Adolf did that were good. And they said, blah, blah, blah, that anything's going to be viewed as in the Holocaust, light light of the Holocaust.
00:41:19
Speaker
he's like, there you go. There's not one thing that Germany did during, during Hitler's reign that wasn't good. That was good. And we talked about this before, I think, on the show. Yeah. every time Every time you go on the highways, there's one thing.
00:41:33
Speaker
no Yeah. Hitler gets a credit? Sure. But the was he the one who thought that up? No, I'm sure it wasn't. He's the one who wanted it. He wanted a the Autobahn is what he came up with, or somebody did, and he took the credit, most likely.
00:41:46
Speaker
He let it happen. Yeah, he let it happen. and Oh, yeah, he pushed it, and meant that you know that's and that's what a leader does, even a a despicable, disgusting one like Hitler. And what he wanted, it wasn't for good travel. He wanted it for so his military can get across the country quicker.
00:42:01
Speaker
So he put all these rules in the grades and the the the turns and how the off-ramps, on-ramps are. That's all because of Germany. Here's another one that nobody wants to talk about. All the disgusting research that they did,
00:42:13
Speaker
on on On humans during the the Nazi regime, most of most of the world used a lot of that research to figure all this stuff out. Like, I mean, they did disgusting things that we would never do and as far as testing. Instead of using animals, they did it on humans, which was horrible.
00:42:30
Speaker
But we used that we use that technology or that information to create medical treatments.
00:42:40
Speaker
would know Oh, you know what? The United States brought over all the German scientists right after the war. And the Russia, Soviet Union, and America fought over these guys. And you know the Artemis moonshot?
00:42:55
Speaker
I don't think we have gotten there. Well, maybe by now we would have. The only reason we made it to the moon was because Germany. so it's like So says you. Well, the reason we got rockets is because of Germany.
00:43:07
Speaker
Yeah. know of Of the moon thing or not. I'm just kidding. No, know. Yeah. Please lighten it up a little bit. So I get, I get what they're saying, but he's not going on, go, Oh, love Hitler. They've got a great job. No, but there are things that happened during that time that are, were good.
00:43:22
Speaker
They didn't use them for good things, but so apparently if you just mentioned anything about Hitler, you're, you love Nazis. I think he does this on purpose. I guarantee you he does it on purpose. on That part, that one, I'm not, I'm not sure. Maybe that that's just a hyperbolic way of an example, but this next story that came up probably, but I don't know, maybe to some extent, but, but let's listen to, well let's talk about So he didn't he, this is probably before I think that he got, it's his cancel. Cause I'm looking at the dates of the story. So it might be, but it's all in the same within a week of each other. He has a, another rally.
00:43:58
Speaker
or he's got a rally scheduled. and He already had it, I think. Yeah, he had it because I have a clip from it. At a beer hall.
00:44:06
Speaker
And apparently there's some issues with German german history and the Pooch beer hall. Beer Hall pooch. Beer Hall pooch, where Hitler basically tried to do a ah coup or something to that effect, right? Yeah, I guess so.
00:44:22
Speaker
Well, I'll explain it in the next couple of clips. So here you go. here's a Here's Casey talking to a protester outside of his beer hall rally. And well, I'm going to say this guy, if you want to visual this guy, just think of the typical stereotypical
00:44:42
Speaker
person who spends a little bit too much time in his mom's basement. Here you go. All right, folks, so let me give you guys a little bit of context. Sorry, forgot. This is a clip from a liberal hive-minded YouTube channel.
00:44:55
Speaker
That's him at the beginning here. Little do background on it All right, folks, so let me give you guys a little bit of context here. We've got a Republican politician by the name of Casey Putsch. He and his team set up an event at a beer hall in Toledo, Ohio, and instantly, as you can imagine with these leftoids, the same phenomenon as usual, instantly kicks in. Remember that famous scene from Scary Movie? I see dead people. see dead people.
00:45:18
Speaker
Well, the left-wing version is, i see Nazis. We got an insufferable left-wing buffoon who started connecting all the dots. He realized that this candidate's name was Casey Putsch, and he was having a campaign event at a beer hall. And so he came to the conclusion that it must have been a Nazi dog whistle to the 1920s Putsch beer hall that Adolf Hitler led in Germany. That's the context. Now take a look at the interaction. Nice to see the Beer Hall Butch here. Harkening back to that, huh? You like it?
00:45:46
Speaker
Yeah, that's kind of interesting. Hey, this my friend Aaron. Some of us know what that's in reference to. What is it? Tell us. ah That would be the Beer Hall Butch in Munich back in the 1920s. You realize we're in America and Ohio, right? Yeah, I do realize that. I also understand the concept of a dog whistle. A dog whistle is where you say something that you don't necessarily say exactly what you mean, but it's it's a subtle message to a specific audience that when they hear that term, they know what you're talking about. oh What would you like to talk about? Because I'll just say things. I'm pretty open about everything. Okay, that's fine.
00:46:21
Speaker
Why did you decide to call it the Beer Hall Rally? Because there's a political rally in order to beer hall. Okay. It didn't have anything you couldn't have anything to do with an understanding of Nazi history in 1920s Weimar Germany. It has everything to do with the fact that I'm a Republican rang against the back end. I thought I'd come nice place. Okay, that's fine. So it doesn't have anything to do with that. That's your official position. You're wondering if this has anything to do with Europe over 100 years ago? You realize my name is Putsch and my family came here in the right? do understand You understand that because that's actually my name i do and my family came here in the 1800s, which precedes the time of Europe you're speaking out, that actually sounds insane? I do understand that. And I'm sure you understand that too. Did you go in there? Yeah, did.
00:47:08
Speaker
Do you see any Nazis? I see people that came out to something that is very lightly, ah very not. It is not. It is very closely coded. do you want to be famous? Is that why you're here? I don't want to be famous. And what are you doing?
00:47:26
Speaker
I don't want to be. I tell you what, do this. Punch me square in the face. Why would I do that? Because you're here. You're here ah verbally assaulting me publicly assaulting you. and And you're trying to tell everybody that I'm a sort of horrible monster because my name is a German name from the. No, no, no, no, no. It doesn't have it. doesn't have anything to do. I'm going tell you what.
00:47:43
Speaker
Do something. Why would I? why would i Why would I? then I think you need to go home. do things And I think you should learn more about my background, all the people I've ever helped, including this gentleman here. That's fine. And maybe you'll change your tune. It's just too good. And, you know, everything gets put into clear perspective when you see a moment like this. These people are completely insane.
00:48:03
Speaker
And I think that was his point. Now,
00:48:10
Speaker
i mean, he did have it at beer hall. And if I i posted a picture of the... the graphic or whatever he posted and about the event. It doesn't say anything about a Pooch beer hall.
00:48:20
Speaker
It just says, Governor and Lieutenant Gunner, Governor Pooch and Georgetown for Ohio, Toledo Beer Hall Rally. I've got a picture of Casey. We'll put it in the show notes. and Or not on the blog. And he's just sitting there and he has a date and everything else.
00:48:35
Speaker
Well, I think... Let's listen to a little clip from Mr. Jack Windsor on the Windsor Report because I think he kind of agrees with this protester. Let's listen. Yeah, Jack Windsor's funny too. Yeah, sometimes... ah Come on, really? are you that is your Is your head that far up Vivek's ass that this is what you're going do? The thing is, I need a reporter, not ah not a campaign guy. or a you know I just need somebody to break stuff down while without bias. I mean, come on.
00:49:02
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I got plenty of... I mean, we're not big fans of KC, but I can see... i don't think I don't think he's a Nazi. i mean, although he didn't. really when he When he did ask him a uponly question twice in case he did not say no, but that doesn't mean in so some of the circumstances, he probably answered the correct way. Be like pointing out your kind of his mental illness or this guy's, you signs of mental illness. or He did. Okay. yeah did Handling that guy. And that guy, I think was just trying to find something to go viral.
00:49:31
Speaker
Yeah. And he's not very good. don't know. He wasn't recording this by the way. He wasn't recording. No, Casey's people recorded. this Oh, okay. Yeah. He even says, I don't even want to be filmed, but he kind of gets cut off by Casey. but I see. I see. I didn't watch the clip.
00:49:44
Speaker
Yeah. And and it was it is edited a little bit from Casey's team. And it feels like they just edited it out kind of for time. You know, they kind of you could feel those like jump cuts. Yeah. we So there is that is always want to point that out. Let's hear a little bit from Jack Windsor because I thought maybe you get kind of similar. like Okay, this is a little bit crazy, Casey, but I mean, he might be trying to get headlines, but I doubt he's a Nazi. But no, this is but this is what Jack and his... ah I forget who was on the...
00:50:15
Speaker
It appears Casey Putsch titled an event... The Beer Hall Putsch. And you go, well, his last name is Putsch. Okay.
00:50:25
Speaker
But if you just want to go over to Google and search up Beer Hall Putsch, I mean, if he did that on accident, he should also play the lottery.
00:50:37
Speaker
You catch my drift? Because the Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, was a failed coup d'etat led by Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler.
00:50:49
Speaker
Yeah. November 8th and 9th, 1923, during the Weimar Republic, inspired by Benito Mussolini's march on Rome. Hitler's goal was to use Munich as a base for a march against Germany's national government in Berlin. It was called the Beer Hall Putsch.
00:51:08
Speaker
That's what Casey named his campaign event, his rally. He didn't. And said something to the absolutely didn't tune of, roll up in your German car and I'll give you a free beer. He did say that.
00:51:20
Speaker
John Handler. So this guy, so Putsch is going to take the world's most disgusting, violent, crazy human being in in our existence in Adolf Hitler and use an event to promote something synonymous with him. You can play the ignorance card on this, but there is no way I'm going to sit here and believe that he did not know what this meant.
00:51:45
Speaker
That was just a a slight misrepresenting of the story. He did not call it a beer hall pooch. He called it Lieutenant and Governor and Lieutenant Governor pooch Georgetown for Ohio. It's little beer hall rally.
00:51:59
Speaker
Now, he did he did have a tweet. which I'll pull up here. Actually, should probably put it in the show notes. see He's got a picture of a Porsche. Probably, I think he's got a, I think this looks like his from his channel. red nine I think it's a 944, if my 80s or 90s Porsche knowledge is still there.
00:52:17
Speaker
Sitting in the gas station, and he says, drive your German car to the beer and the brewery and beer hall rally. That's what he called it, brewery and beer hall rally, and I'll buy you a beer.
00:52:29
Speaker
It's okay if it rains. German cars don't rust like Italian, Japanese, or British cars. or british And who drives a Russian or Israeli car anyway? He gives it Thursday, bla bla blah, blah, blah. Patron Saints Brewing in Toledo. boat pooch So he did. he did but He knows exactly what he's doing, I think.
00:52:48
Speaker
Mr. Casey. Yeah. And he's trying to get headlines. He needs. he needs that's what he's need Ultimately, that's what he's doing. That's exactly what he's doing. Well, he didn't stop there.
00:53:00
Speaker
Did not stop there. Let me put this in before I forget.
00:53:06
Speaker
Here is another story about Casey. Definitely. Whatever he did, he definitely, it definitely worked. Okay. It definitely worked. Here's a story from news channel five. Of course. Well, how gubernatorial candidate with rifle invites Ramaswamy to play cowboys and Indians.
00:53:26
Speaker
So they start the new, you'll hear, we'll play the broadcast in this or the clip in a second from New Channel 5, but I wanted to play what he actually said and what he actually posted on X because they kind of cut it off. They tell you ah some of this might be sensitive, sensitive viewers, but they they end up cutting off the part that I think they're talking about. So I have to, I have to play it. And this is, i i've i've i've I've named this Casey Feather Not Dot.
00:53:52
Speaker
Hey, for a fact, you want to play Cowboy vs. Indians?
00:54:01
Speaker
Don't worry. It's feather. Not that.
00:54:08
Speaker
So, of course, heads are melting and exploding and all that fun stuff.
00:54:13
Speaker
Morgan Trowell, again, is, you know, I kind of, listening to this, and kind of like how he answered a lot his questions to to Morgan. And, you know, she's trying to trap him and do her normal activism, journalists. And let's hear let's hear the report.
00:54:28
Speaker
See how Casey handles it. In a video posted on social media by Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Casey Putsch. 100% it's a threat. Professor Deepak Sharma was horrified to see Putsch targeting frontrunner Vivek Ramaswamy using racist language and a weapon. This person is perpetuating, is fueling xenophobia in the United States, and he's doing it in most egregious way. But in an interview, Putsch claims that he wasn't being racist nor threatening. I am also supporting the Second Amendment and exercising my First Amendment right to make a joke that lots of people think is actually funny.
00:55:02
Speaker
He says that people are being sensitive and he posts a lot on social media that shouldn't be taken seriously. He posts about Indian people like Ramaswamy routinely saying to deport all of them, including the fellow candidate. How would that be racist? Because there are people that should be deported to all different places of the globe. And just because we might joke about deporting Vivek, how does it have anything to do with race other than the fact that he's questionably American? And it's a funny joke, too.
00:55:30
Speaker
How is he questionably American? He was born in Cincinnati. Yeah, he was born to Indian foreign nationals who came here just to have an anchor baby. and Sharma says dehumanizing commons have been common in politics and policies like mass deportations have been embraced by the Republican Party and Ramaswamy. But there is some irony to this is that he has supported these positions and he supported Trump and he supported Trump's rhetoric and it has come back to bite him.
00:55:56
Speaker
Ramaswamy declined to comment, but his running mate, Senate President Rob McCauley, addressed racism in politics. I think it doesn't matter what party you're in. We've seen lowtique political violence happen. and Oftentimes we've seen that on the left. We've seen it in some cases on the right. Political violence should be ah should be condemned at every level. Sharma says that not only does this type of rhetoric need to be condemned, but Republicans need to work with each other to combat racism. At the Ohio State House, I'm Columbus Bureau reporter Morgan Trout.
00:56:27
Speaker
Jeez. Yeah, the the Republicans need to work on their their rhetoric. Yeah, they sure do. Sure. they sure do We just talk about them calling everybody a Nazi. And then like if I got to say, case Casey's.
00:56:42
Speaker
Oh, he's this is like why he he, you know, he's not a guy who should be running for governor. I do. That's a fair point. i I do like that he is running kind of, I mean, i don't know. I i i like having.
00:56:56
Speaker
he could have started, you know, i think that we talked about it right when we first heard that he's running is like, why doesn't he start somewhere else? Yeah. Local. okay Yeah. County. Local.
00:57:07
Speaker
Yep. And work his way up. he feels what He wants to go up against Vivek. His his biggest issue. he never even talks about acting, really. just It's all about Vivek. Yeah, yeah, yeah. and he has He has fair points. Yeah, but he doesn't know how to articulate it to the ordinary people.
00:57:26
Speaker
Yeah, he... Without sounding like a dummy. In a lot of ways, he reminds me of Trump. but just like without Trump can get away with that he He has 50 or 40 years of that doing that, and people knew him.
00:57:40
Speaker
So you'll you'll never have that again. You'll have politicians that try to do it, but they can't because everybody, you know, listen, me we had Trump, the billionaire playboy that nobody really knew who he was. he maybe ah He would be on the Oprah Winfrey show. He'd go on Howard Stern then eventually, and you'd hear that he had a sense of humor.
00:58:01
Speaker
Then the WWE stuff and then his own, ah not sitcom, but his own ah reality show. and And it's,
00:58:13
Speaker
you were familiar with him. You knew he was crass. He's bigger than the media. Yeah. Trump is. And he's bigger than all the news media put together. And nobody can really come close to that. I don't even see anybody. Oh, you know what? The only person I could see be being that close? Barron.
00:58:28
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Barron. But he has to start, you know, he he has part, you know, part from his dad and he's like nine foot tall. So is that there's a legacy there. So, yeah yeah, he could probably get away with it. I don't know the guy's personality, but I hear it's pretty ah ruthless. Well, I hear, but I don't hear it. But I've ah seen comments that he's pretty, yeah I don't know if ruthless is the right word, but he's, let's let's just say he doesn't pull punches. Yeah.
00:58:56
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you know I don't think any of them do, honestly, in that family. That's true. That's true. But he seems a little bit more, and he's behind the scenes and he's just kind of soaking it all up. I can't wait to see what happens to him. I hope he turns out to be a you know better than his dad to be awesome. But yeah what I do like about Casey running is he is bringing up topics that maybe not, a different view on topics possibly. And here's here's the one that I pulled from his, you know, racist beer hall rally.
00:59:28
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I figured, well, let's see. And he posts on, I think it was Instagram.
Environmental Critique of Data Centers
00:59:31
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and screen He posted a bunch of clips on this beer hall rally. He probably had 20, 30 people there. So wasn't, you know, obviously huge or anything, but I mean, I think we can agree with some of this stuff here, but he he goes off on Vivek and data centers here. This is a clip from that rally, from that beer hall rally.
00:59:47
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mean, with I mean, just want sonderize surrounded by swastikas, of course. No, not really. When Vivek Ramaswamy is running for governor, for president, all that jazz, all smooth talking Vivek with his finger, walking around like he's an overly enthusiastic amateur proctologist. And he says the Ohio River Valley could be the next Silicon Valley. That's code for we're going to stick data centers up your tailpipe and make you Ohioans pay for it.
01:00:14
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That's what that means, because we're gonna think it's glamorous. But you know who's a bought out, gutless politician? Because they say it's a prestige project and it'll make jobs. B.S. The meta one going on between Bowling Green and Harrisburg, Ohio might create 100 jobs. Might.
01:00:31
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On the way higher. $85,000 a year, that sounds pretty good, right? It's a billion dollar project that's $8.5 million dollars a year. $8.5 million dollars a year doesn't even remotely offset the environmental impact.
01:00:43
Speaker
What's it doing to my water? It's going to wreck it. the The farmers, the aquifers. Let's talk about farmers because no one ever talks about farmers or backs them up. My best buddy I grew up with a farmer. He busts his ass. No one cares about him. I do.
01:00:56
Speaker
All the forgotten people in Ohio. The aquifers. That's why they're here. Ohio's one of the top four places the United States for it because we have relatively cheap power. are Good for us, right?
01:01:09
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Lake Erie, Ohio River, aquifers. The aquifers matter, it's an ocean of fresh water. Beautiful, untainted fresh water that works for farm. For us to have drinking water. Why do you think these data centers come in and and offer extraordinary sums of money for particular parts of land?
01:01:27
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Location, location. So I bring that up because that's another way we're being screwed. It's his own little psyop and Vivek's an actor to make us think that he's here in our best interest. You know, got some points.
01:01:37
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Yeah. That's the first time I heard him say stuff that I actually liked. Yeah. Usually it's kind of just, uh, how, count um, best way to say it is he, he just, he puts me to sleep.
01:01:50
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That was the first time I actually heard him kind of articulate things that, I agree with my issue with him being the way he is. And I mean, this, this is his personality. I've watched his videos, you a couple of videos before he became, you know, this, and he was kind of kind of his personality. So I don't think he's right acting or anything.
01:02:09
Speaker
My issue though, is I think somebody like him could, he if he runs runs his campaign differently, he, he could, it could start his, his political career. He could have possibly gotten on. If Vivek wins, he could have possibly been a part of his administration. If you do it right. A lot of times that happens.
01:02:26
Speaker
Yeah, i I just, you know, be a mayor in your town first. Yeah, it I'd like to see him on as a part of ah the VIX cabinet or whatever you want to He'd be a nice voice against the data centers, but he's never going to be that way when he's calling when he's calling for Cowboys Indians, feather not dot. Yeah.
01:02:48
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, great joke, but. Yeah, but it it that goes over your typical voter's head. Well, sure. Yeah. It's not it's not a joke that a politician should be making.
01:03:00
Speaker
Yeah. Or somebody who wants to get elected or whatever it is. So that was Casey. Casey had quite the week, I think, this week. Got the headlines. I'm not sure going to do much for his...
01:03:12
Speaker
What are we about a month away from, uh, 5th, May 5th, I think it is. may Oh, so less than a about a month. Like about three weeks. So next week we are going some digging on some, maybe hopefully some candidates we can put up there, but I'm getting texts.
01:03:27
Speaker
Are you? Yeah. a couple judge texts and stuff like that. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, you mean campaign? Campaign text. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Okay. So it's, it's hot and heavy this, this time of year. It's going to be a,
01:03:42
Speaker
The next couple weeks will be pretty important for a lot lot of the candidates. And hopefully we can get some, figure out, get some good people in there and let's see, see what we can do.
01:03:55
Speaker
Get some good people. I think the most important thing is just weeding out the bad people. mean, you're, you're, you're kind of, I mean, that's kind of the same thing, but yeah, you know, good choices. We have some good choices.
01:04:07
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Nationally, JD Vance said something, Which made sense, which kind of, you know, you start black getting black-pilled sometimes. and now What are you talking about? Yeah. Yeah. I i try not to be.
01:04:23
Speaker
He said something that just kind of took me out of the took me out of that black-pilled area. But he said, and I forget what it was about. It might have been the SAVE Act or it might have been the Amnesty Act.
01:04:37
Speaker
thing for the Haitians. I forget what it was. It was, ah it was, ah it was about the Congress. And he he said it was something about like 40 Republicans voted yes for something that, you know, they should have, but the ones that didn't, you're kind of pissed off about. And he's like, yeah, but you have, you would have only had 25, 10 years ago that voted, you know, that voted the right way instead of 35. So it's getting, he, he reminds us that it gets, it is getting better, but ah we, you know, we're just not there yet. And this is why, i guess this is kind of why we do the show too. Yeah. It's kind of just keep an eye on these MFs. Get it out there. i have some place to go to see some of this stuff because it's, it gets buried by the daily, your daily activity plus the national news.
01:05:25
Speaker
I mean, just, just the national news alone, let alone, Well, the news cycle doesn't let you remember things because it's so, yeah it's 24 hour news cycle. I mean, geez, man, we started off the show with Iran, straight of whom, Hormuz, and I had no clue they rec re-closed Opened and closed it. and In 12 hours. I mean, like, I knew they opened it and then I don't pay attention for 12 hours and it's totally different. It's like, Oh, this news cycle is something sick.
01:05:57
Speaker
Yeah. And then you take that into consideration. Plus just the big stories that the news promotes on the front pages of other websites or whatever. The first few stories of the news broadcast,
01:06:12
Speaker
That's what gets everybody's attention. So the time you get past and the national news and the big state stories or local stories, all the stuff that actually matters, like probably in a lot of cases matters even more, is that little stuff. It's the bills. It's this and that or what we're going to next.
01:06:27
Speaker
Data centers, more data center talk. I think locally, we you have to pay attention, at least at least surface level attention to to what's going on in the legislature, you know? Because it with way without knowing that, you you don't even know if your vote was... Just because you voted Republican doesn't mean it was a good vote. Or vice versa, if you're a Democrat, you know?
01:06:53
Speaker
and just You have to pay attention to what these guys are doing. And now, more than ever, with what's going on in Ohio? like We're just about to segue into...
01:07:06
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data centers. People are starting to realize how important their city council meetings can be. Well, i man, I feel like, I feel like we started this, Rob.
01:07:20
Speaker
You think? I'm going i don't know. it It was funny because when we started talking about it, it was right as... i mean, we started hearing about it and we started talking about it as soon as... year ago.
01:07:33
Speaker
there's been a Yeah, there's been like a rebellion since we started talking about it. so It has to be us then. The evidence proves Yeah, it has to be us. It can't be all these other news networks that have mentioned it. Our correlation is definitely causation. Definitely. No, I mean, I'd wish, but...
01:07:48
Speaker
But it feels it feels like it, though. We had a little bit to do with it, at least a little bit. You know, i mean it might be a very little, but it's a little. You take a look at where the downloads come from in Ohio and it's surprisingly spread out.
01:08:00
Speaker
Yeah. You know, I wasn't expecting people in Bowling Green and and but Dayton and, you know, near Chili Coffee and all that to be listening to us. So pretty cool.
01:08:15
Speaker
Yeah. It is cool. And this next one, again, more examples of why local is the most important. Actually, this story comes from Yahoo, but the originating, the next clip we're going to hear from the city council meeting comes from our webmaster.
01:08:32
Speaker
Sent me the link, sent us the link to the X post from, we'll get to it a second. But this is, ah ah and also had a story behind it, which I found Yahoo News, not in my backyard.
01:08:44
Speaker
Ohio residents force vote for year-long moratorium on local data centers. We'll start out with this. So this is Ravenna County, residents of Ravenna, Ohio, united to stand up against Big Tech in its seemingly countless proposals to build new AI denist data centers.
01:09:03
Speaker
So what happened is April 10th, in a meeting in Ravenna City Council, the town's planning committee advanced a year-long moratorium on ah new data centers after residents coalesced, almost I almost got tripped up on now, coalesced to show their new concern their concerns over resource use and all this other this stuff. So what what our webmaster sent to me was this. This is Mr. Hollings.
01:09:33
Speaker
I have it in my notes. even wrote it down to make sure. Yeah, Mr. Hollingsworth.
01:09:39
Speaker
It's bit long, but I think it's worth it because I just wanted to stand up and clap when I heard this, even after second time I heard it. This clip is from, again, the city council meeting where you heard Mr. Hollingsworth speak on why he opposes data centers and kind of his view of it.
01:09:53
Speaker
And it seems like he's got a decent background, so he does know a little bit about it. So here we go. Yes. So Mr. Hollingsworth, I know that you had your hand up to talk.
01:10:09
Speaker
Hello, my name is Will Hollingsworth. I work at Reed Memorial Library. Thank you all for hearing me today. I'm not a cynic when it comes to technology. My love for it started when my uncle first sat me down at a beige Windows 95 computer and began teaching me HTML. I will never forget the first thing I Googled. It was an image search for pigs flying. I wanted to see if the internet could make the impossible real.
01:10:30
Speaker
This love of the digital shaped my career as I went on to become a programmer and a professional content creator. For the last decade and a half, I have been in service of learning burgeoning technology. In my last job, I was the digital artist they trusted to do that kind of work.
01:10:42
Speaker
I was the one feeding mid-journey prompts to create the perfect commercial, training the very machine that would eventually replace me, as three months later, they would lay me off. I didn't just watch it happen. I was holding the tools when the tools were turned on me.
01:10:55
Speaker
I want to stress I don't stand here as an enemy of progress. The thing is, when I look at the data center proposal, I don't see progress. I see a gamble where the big tech companies get the gold while Portage County foots the bill.
01:11:07
Speaker
Now I know there are good faith arguments for this project. There are people in our community, informed, honest people who will tell you that the modern data centers use what's called a closed loop system. They say the water is filled once and recycled forever.
01:11:20
Speaker
In a laboratory that might be true, but we aren't living in a laboratory. We're living in Ohio. I can tell you that as the chips get smaller and AI demands get larger, the heat these machines generate is outstripping the closed loop theory.
01:11:32
Speaker
To keep the servers from melting, a data center has to bleed the lines to remove toxic sludge, a.k.a. forever chemicals, and bleeding water needs to be evaporated. It does not stay in the loop.
01:11:43
Speaker
It evaporates into the sky by millions of gallons. The very place that laid me off was an organic mattress company. And while working for them, I actually learned a lot about Forever Chemicals. I got to see how the sausage gets made. I saw the inside of those so-called regulations. I saw how rigorous studies are often self-funded, a pay-to-play model where if you've got the cash, they'll give you the certificate.
01:12:04
Speaker
If a trillion-dollar company is funding the study that says their Forever Chemical and Lorenauf won't hit our water table, they aren't giving us the science. They're giving us a sales pitch. We're told that we have to accept this because we need big employers. We're told that if we don't say yes, we're driving away the future.
01:12:21
Speaker
But that's a false choice. A big employer who uses the water of 50,000 people, which, by the way, is a combination of both Kent and Ravenna, only hires about 10 people is not an employer. They are an extraction.
01:12:34
Speaker
We are being asked to fund a 21st century luxury with a 19th century resource heist. We are being asked to sacrifice the lifeblood of our city so a trillion dollar company can save a fraction of a cent on its margins. We are being asked to drain our reservoirs so a chatbot can write a poem or so our sheriff can generate a picture of himself standing next to Bigfoot.
01:12:53
Speaker
Which, by the way, of course, he made himself look taller. They want us to trust a trillion dollar industry that tells us with a straight face that they can suck five million gallons of water out of our ground a day, they use it as a liquid heat sink and return it to our rivers without a single consequence. They are asking for a measured approach while they hide their actual usage behind secret contracts and NDAs.
01:13:18
Speaker
Ohioans have seen this trick played before. We know what happens when massive utility interests and black box energy deals gets fast tracked behind closed doors. We're still paying the bill literally for the first energy scandal. We were told these bailouts were essential and measured too, and it turned out to be the largest racketeering plot in the history of our state.
01:13:37
Speaker
So when a trillion dollar company asks for our water, our electricity and our silence, we shouldn't just be asking for the facts. We should be asking who's really getting the kickback and why is it our reservoir that's on
Ohio's Data Center Dilemma
01:13:48
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the line?
01:13:48
Speaker
There is a reason the Ohio House just voted 88 to zero to pause and study this industry. It wasn't an act of cynicism. It was an act of stewardship. They realize we cannot let these ghost towns move in then before we understand the damage they do to our grid and our water table.
01:14:04
Speaker
We are the county seat. We are the stewards of the Great Lakes Basin. Let Ravenna be the city that had the wisdom to say no to the bubble and yes to the basin. I am not a cynic when it comes to technology. I am a believer in community. I believe that a drop of clean water for a Ravenna child is worth more than a billion AI generated images. Let us choose the child.
01:14:24
Speaker
Let us choose the community. Let us choose to keep our water where it belongs. Thank you.
01:14:35
Speaker
Thank you. All right. Who wants to follow that? Like, ah sorry, I'll pass. Future wow here's what a politician there.
01:14:55
Speaker
As he's listening to it again, I felt like it should be playing like Star Spangled Banner or America the Beautiful or something behind there, but figured it'd give him the clear space that he needs. That was well-written, very well said.
01:15:07
Speaker
who And right now ah Ravenna is leaving it. So they've moved it may have moved the issue forward for vote and Ravenna City Council will have a special meeting on April 20th to vote on the moratorium.
01:15:23
Speaker
Sounds like it was a friendly room. Yeah. I think they're probably going to vote for at least a one-year moratorium on building anything. Sure. I hope. Yeah. I hope. Yeah. It didn't didn't sound like anyone was really booing him or anything. So I think keep an eye on that.
01:15:41
Speaker
Oh, that was good. Good points. And that's what I've been saying. Like, okay, there it's a closed-loop system, but what happens when the water gets dirty? And then we talk about
01:15:53
Speaker
the Ohio EPA trying to give data centers ah ah more loose regulations on where they can dump this water that he just talked about? Mm-hmm. No, sorry. pay Pay the bill and do it the correct way.
01:16:07
Speaker
You got trillions of dollars. You're making trillions of dollars. Make them do it. Now, the problem is, will they come to Ohio? And if they don't, then they don't. moving Moving on this, on the same topic, we're still watching, i mean we've watched Nuts for Ravenna. we've We've talked about Lorain County.
01:16:27
Speaker
We've talked about, shoot Southern Ohio, next to Cincinnati, they're looking at putting more into Norton County. We've talked about data centers. There's there's another one Lake County.
01:16:38
Speaker
Lake County community upset over proposed data center location. Let's just go right into the News Channel 5 clip about the data center in Perrysburg, I believe.
01:16:51
Speaker
No, no. No. Lake County. It is. Yeah. It's Lake County. Perrysburg is. very ah they have They have Perry Township. It's not Perrysburg. Perry. Yeah. Perry. Perry Township. in Lake County. Yeah.
01:17:04
Speaker
All right. There go.
01:17:09
Speaker
Wally Siegel has called Perry home his entire life. He's seen a lot of changes, but he told me he's never seen so many residents so upset, angry, very angry.
01:17:21
Speaker
they They felt like they were everything was kept from them. Nobody was being up front with them. He's talking about a proposed six-building data center right in the heart of the community. Just last week, we showed you a packed Perry Village Council meeting where people turned out looking for answers. Siegel told me he is not opposed to a data center in Perry, but he is opposed to the location.
01:17:44
Speaker
It should go down by the nuclear plant. they build it down there, I don't think would complain. Putting it in the middle of the town like this is just wrong. Morris Beveridge III is a Lake County Commissioner. He also lives in Perry Village. And speaking as a resident, he told me... I'm personally against this project at this time, at this location.
01:18:05
Speaker
I'm not necessarily against data centers. The mayor told us he wasn't expecting this outcry over a deal with a California developer set to buy land from the village, Perry Township, and the Joint Economic District. What drew me to it was, you know, it's just computers in a building. The mayor said last week the data center campus could fill funding gaps for the fire district, basic services, and schools. Power plant money has been slowly going away year after year after year.
01:18:34
Speaker
I went to the school superintendent today. It's a hot topic within the Perry community because it it brings about a lot of different opinions and and strong feelings. And um at the end of the day, our role is to advocate for our kids in our school district. Todd Porcello told me the school board has been doing their homework. We've brought in experts at different board meetings, tax experts, to try to learn as much as possible about data centers, right? And then how do we advocate for for school and kids? As for how much money the school district could expect from this project, it's too early to tell. oh yeah So school funding is complex. um The village in their town hall meeting, it said that we could receive up to 10 million.
01:19:12
Speaker
um And that that is just a very basic calculation. we we believe that it will be less than that, especially if the land is abated and different pilots that would come in. And we're still trying to to theyd talk with the right experts to get a the ah us the actual number of what we can expect there. And this is not a done deal. Of course, we will continue to follow developments here.
01:19:34
Speaker
In Perry, Tracy Carlos, News 5. Yeah, so put it in the industrial area. No, they want to put it right in the middle of of ah the county and the city.
01:19:46
Speaker
Now, the issue, think... Just cheap land? Cheap, cheaper land. And it's a, from previous reports, I think there's another, if you look at the article, there's two videos, reports in there, one from earlier where they show that city council meeting.
01:19:59
Speaker
I took the later one because it's more up to date, but they got some people are are not happy at this meeting. From what this other report shows is this thing, this line has been empty for couple of decades.
01:20:13
Speaker
passed up for, it used to be a nursery and that went out of business. and they even like they said something about even being passed up for a tomato farm.
01:20:22
Speaker
Why? I don't know, but it's literally, they're saying right in middle town, you have to have this humongous industrial site. No, we don't, we don't want to put it somewhere else. Yeah. That's awful.
01:20:33
Speaker
And it's a hard, hard choice because and you you look in a lot of these areas, you know, Cleveland's, you know, Cleveland's doing okay. Columbus doing okay. Akron, you go out to out West and you know, Dayton areas, Toledo, they're hurting. Barrow areas are hurting.
01:20:46
Speaker
um Another story I, I kind of, Data center is not your answer though. Yeah, I get it. It's a short term. Yes. Labor, labor groups like them because it it brings workers in, you know, there's, there's temporary jobs there, you know, a couple of years, temporary, not a couple of months, but still.
01:21:01
Speaker
But are they hiring people from the, You know, from the township, are they just bringing people in? i mean, I would say more likely, I'm sure there's some, but the technical expertise to work on a data center, I'm sure there's probably not a ton of people in Perry that have it.
01:21:20
Speaker
You know, that's a specialty kind of thing, and I'm saying things about the people in Perry, but... i I would say no. most Most of them, A, might be local, but I i also heard a lot of them are remote. So, they yeah, they're employees to that data center, but they're like you're not paying into taxes. And there' and there's the the one thing that they brought up in the in the clip.
01:21:39
Speaker
The other thing is, it's yeah you know, you you got you got some tax dollars coming from it, but you're and it's not like you're building a maybe, right? But you're not building something that's going to revitalize an area. Right.
01:21:53
Speaker
At all, because let's say you you you build a shop that manufactures something, you you have 200 employees. Well, they got to go to lunch, right?
01:22:04
Speaker
They got to shop after work to their groceries. they got They're going to stop and get something to eat after work. They have to live within a certain area. They can't, you know, you're not to live four hours away, that kind of stuff. So they're more local to the community.
01:22:17
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. And there's other bits of um excuse me other businesses are going to thrive on stuff like that. this this A data center is just putting a ghost town in a ghost town.
01:22:30
Speaker
So the only advantage I see, that's all great great points, is that when you give a company a tax abatement, especially like a property tax abatement, What you're betting on is is the city or the local municipality is going to get money from income tax, from people who work and pay taxes in the city they work in.
01:22:49
Speaker
Right. You're not going to have that. If you give them tax abatements on property tax, and a lot of don't give you 100%, you get like 70% off your taxes. It might be for the first 10 years or something like that too. Right.
01:23:04
Speaker
What are you, what is the community getting for giving up all this fertile farmland or whatever it may be? If you're going to give them tax abatements, they're not paying much taxes. I'm not sure what the, besides the short-term gain with construction jobs, I'm not sure what the, what it is, you know, what what's the advantage is.
01:23:22
Speaker
Yeah. That's why, yeah that's why people have to pay attention to this. Yeah. And a lot of people are waking up to how how important it is it to to think local. Well, the more people talk about it, the more people will be aware, obviously. So it's a good thing.
01:23:38
Speaker
You know, there was another story about the tax abatement or, you know, the taxing and stuff that I kind of took out just for time. But we talked a about before. And he brings up, the way he's a labor organizer. He's a union construction organizer for one of the locals out there. And he's like, yeah, we're hurting out here.
01:23:54
Speaker
I get it. But. for At what cost? You know, at what cost? Right. 20 years down the road? I don't know. I want to know one more thing. Oh, go ahead. Sorry. I don't even know if it's going to be 20 years, buddy.
01:24:06
Speaker
You know? Yeah. It's... it's it's This yeah technology is moving so fast, I don't even think they're going to be needed. Yeah. I think that's a very good point. i It is a bubble.
01:24:18
Speaker
It feels such like such a bubble. one It's going pop and everybody's going be caught with her. I think it's the article you're talking about or the yeah that you pulled it out.
01:24:29
Speaker
Somebody was talking about the, yeah, because he he said, you know, in the, what, in the fifties or forties, we had an industrial revolution, but now we're, we, we have a technology, technology revolution, tech revolution. And it's like, it's not really a tech revolution. You're just going to
01:24:46
Speaker
It's not that. I mean, you're you're making construction jobs, which is great, but it's not going to change much for How's it a tech revolution when you you're putting buildings full of computers? like How is that a revolution? like Industrial revolution, I get. get what he's saying. There is a tech revolution. Well, we you were building things. Now you're just building shells. You were building things to build things.
01:25:04
Speaker
Yeah. Now we're just building things to sit and and suck our resources for what? well Like he says, a drop of water for... Yeah, this is crazy.
01:25:15
Speaker
This is crazy. We'll get even crazier then. We'll get even crazier because it gets even worse. Oh, okay. On the next story. Who's paying for all these infrastructure upgrades? This is show a story from WOSU, again, another PBS NPR affiliate.
01:25:32
Speaker
And story is, Ohio Consumers Council says, power line proposal will cost electric electric consumers.
01:25:43
Speaker
And basically what they break down is there's a plan, AEP and first-genity joint venture to put in a some some new high-tension power lines throughout the state. The joint venture would cost $1.1 billion. dollars And the filings indicate much of the need is driven by our artificial intelligence intelligence data centers.
01:26:04
Speaker
Ohio consumers, this is Maureen Willis with the Ohio Consumers Council old told WOSU, Ohio consumers could end up paying a very large share, about 60%. Think about 60% of 1.1 billion is about $660 billion, or million dollars, great math.
01:26:24
Speaker
And then that doesn't even take into account local projects that would need to support it. For example, this is me talking, not the article, Intel.
01:26:37
Speaker
We're talking about Intel and how, you know, when it was going to be built. This is months ago. One of the things that New Albany did was spend a whole ton of money, pass a school levy to improve their schools and expand them because they knew that people were go be moving in.
01:26:51
Speaker
They needed to pay for roads, expand the roads. They had a two lane road that went out to New Albany that is now a four lane highway, basically. It's not really a highway, but it's four lanes with a median high speed, like 50 miles an hour.
01:27:04
Speaker
And I talked to some the guys that go in there and they're talking like, you ever, do you ever think one day that this, this over here would be a four lane highway, a high speed? Like, no, it's always been like a country road. So they had to pay for all that. The city and the county had to pay for all that.
01:27:16
Speaker
So this doesn't even count for that kind of stuff. This is all, this is gonna be put on your bill. 60% of this will be put on your bill as the transmission costs.
01:27:25
Speaker
They're allowed to that. They're allowed to take the money and spread it out throughout their consumers. And that's got a lot of work. Well, a lot of the raising of your electric bills is this stuff. If you look at it, not necessarily a per kilowatt hour, it's this extra fees when they're building this infrastructure.
01:27:40
Speaker
Now, a lot of that's stopping because the people are pushing back on it. And there's some bills that would take care of this even for a national level. And even in Ohio, And then even our Mr. Hollinsworth, he points out that they put a pause on approving any new data centers. Sounds like in Ohio. And it's 88 to nothing in in the and Ohio legislature or the house.
01:28:03
Speaker
So it is changing a little bit. People are pushing back. It's working. So keep it up, people, is what I'm saying. Keep it up because they're listening for once. Awesome. For once.
01:28:14
Speaker
All right. Let's see. We can check off a couple these here now, can't we? Are we going into, yeah. So who pays power lines? We got that. Let's start with, oh yeah. Ohio. ODOT.
01:28:27
Speaker
ODOT is camera happy. Camera fricking happy. This a Fox eight. I do have a clip. Fox 8 article and a report.
01:28:39
Speaker
New traffic backup cameras coming to Northeast Ohio. No, not the backup cameras of cav on in your car. This is a traffic backup camera. And this also brings up another kind of a little side note, which is a major infrastructure project that's going to start happening in Cleveland. It's going to mess everything up. And it'll kind of bring it up a little bit in this. But here's um here's a clip from ODOT backup cameras from Fox 8.
01:29:02
Speaker
ah is bringing new technology to Northeast Ohio aimed at helping drivers know what's ahead. New traffic warning cameras have been implemented elsewhere around the state and officials say they're making a difference. Fox eight's Rex Smith is live along I-90 in Cleveland with the very latest for us tonight. Rex.
01:29:20
Speaker
Gabe and Tracy, these warning system cameras are going to be placed along I-90 in the east and westbound lanes all around downtown Cleveland. They'll also be placed in the north and southbound lanes of the Jennings Freeway coming in and out of downtown Cleveland. And there is a strategy behind that. It all has to do with upcoming construction projects. Those projects include the central interchange construction coming to I-90 in downtown between East 9th and Carnegie Avenue. That's going to be starting very soon. Also, another project is pavement replacement work coming to I-77 in 2027.
01:29:54
Speaker
For that project, the suggested detour will include State Route 176 or the Jennings Freeway. The way these cameras work is they detect when traffic is backing up in a specific area. That sends a message to ODOT's control center and triggers a warning message a few miles back on a dynamic message sign.
01:30:12
Speaker
Brent Kovacs, the spokesman for ODOT District 12, says these cameras have been placed along highways in other parts of the state since they first came out in 2024, and the stats show they have reduced crashes and near misses.
01:30:26
Speaker
Messages like traffic slowdown ahead, traffic stopped ahead, crash ahead, different messages like that that will help you alert maybe get off the highway or expect a slowdown right in front of you. has a huge safety benefit to motorists in the area at a very low cost.
01:30:42
Speaker
Very low cost. That low cost is $1.6 million. Kovacs says that they'll begin putting up these cameras and either retrofitting electronic signs that are already in place or putting up new ones in August is when they'll start that. And it should take about a year to complete.
01:31:02
Speaker
i don't know. i What kind of brought this to my attention, it's weird how you notice things in life and then when you look into the news stories, all these stories pop up. I think we're getting a little crazy with the cameras. I do understand what they're trying to do.
01:31:16
Speaker
And this is kind of, it's kind of cool in some ways that you're going to have cameras watch the freeway. And then if you start getting a backup, you know, a couple of miles ahead of that backup, you can get a sign that says, you know, slow down, watch for stop traffic, that kind of stuff, which nowadays when.
01:31:29
Speaker
Well, I think it's more important that if, if you get it earlier that you could get off the highway and take another route, which is what I use ways for, but sometimes ways is a little behind. Yeah.
01:31:42
Speaker
Especially when i think about 40% of the people are
01:31:47
Speaker
but more to paying more attention to their phones than the road. That's what I noticed. Yeah, yeah. I've come. i've come i have a strategy when I'm on the freeway and I see somebody on their phone, I just beep my horn.
01:31:58
Speaker
If you sleep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And they go, oh my gosh, what, what, what? Just go, hi. Remember how you're supposed to be driving now? And so there's that. i I have seen these in other states.
01:32:10
Speaker
I don't know they have cameras, but I've seen, hey, there's a pileup coming up and and I have ways, I was probably already off the freeway. There's another one. The next story is from Channel 10 News, TVI Columbus. This is about a Franklin County ODOT installs more than 30 new cameras across Franklin County to curb wrong way drivers.
01:32:31
Speaker
And I thought, geez do you really have that many that go the wrong way on the freeway? I know it happens a couple times a year, but. It happens probably more than ah often than that. We just hear about a couple times a year. Sure, but they don't like tell you. I don't know if you need cameras for that, but boy.
01:32:47
Speaker
It says, last year, ODOT Press Secretary Matt Burning said the cameras help make the highways safer for drivers. ah Since announcing note the cameras across the, they announced this, they started this in 25 last year and they're starting to put cameras on the off, off the on ramps so that people, they can see if somebody goes on the wrong way, it'll trigger the camera to alert state patrol or, us you know, patrols, whatever, highway patrol. And then they'll come out quicker than having somebody call, you know, somebody's on the road and call.
01:33:24
Speaker
Which, i again, is good. I'm just like, I kind of think like, gosh, you're going to put 30 cameras up? That's 15 exits? You know, five, not that many exits. But... i Maybe just on the exits where it's easy to do that.
01:33:39
Speaker
Or it's happened before, yeah. Yeah, you know, there's there's there are entrance ramps that are like... if you If you're not familiar with the area, you really have to pay attention. If somebody's had a couple...
01:33:53
Speaker
yeah not Yeah, even without, there's a couple, don't know how many of them in Ohio. There's a couple where you have the on-ramp and the off-ramp are next to each other at the traffic light with a like yeah wall in between. Oh, ah there's one like for 176 over in Parma.
01:34:06
Speaker
And you could, if you're not paying attention, you could make a left and turn on to the off-ramp going on the go on the freeway the wrong way. So I get it. But it says somewhere in here that it's one of those things like,
01:34:17
Speaker
Okay, I'm thinking how many a year, how many people do they catch going wrong way on the freeways in Ohio in a year? but Or in Franklin County, let's say. Does it does it justify 30 cameras? And all they say is, it's been on the rise.
01:34:31
Speaker
And then I go, ding, ding, ding, ding wait ate a minute. Is this ODOT just trying to burn through their or budget so they can get the same increase next year? Yeah, it could be. i was sitting at a traffic light. That's what I was bringing up was sitting at traffic light picking up my daughter from school.
01:34:46
Speaker
And I just sitting there looking around. And I started counting the cameras at the traffic light. And there were six. No, wait, one, two, Yeah, six cameras at the traffic light.
01:34:58
Speaker
There was one camera for each way. as a four-way traffic light. One camera for each for the traffic light. For the traffic light system, I should say. there was So that's four. There was a so a camera on the one telephone pole, like a security camera looked like. And then and then just past the intersection, there was a speed camera.
01:35:17
Speaker
Yeah. was like I was like, this is getting a lot of hand people. mean, geez. You know what? Like when I, there are streets I drive through that, uh, on that, uh, have the cameras for traffic control and it's, it's much better than it used to be.
01:35:32
Speaker
They work pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Because, uh, sometimes you'd be stopping for no reason. And now, now it's, you know, the lights stay green. There's nobody. Yeah. Nobody wants them, needs to make a turn, you know, the other way,
01:35:47
Speaker
it it does make It does make traffic patterns better. Yes. It also gives... I mean, if who taps into those? That's always the question when they started putting them up in my neighborhood years ago.
01:36:00
Speaker
yeah I'm like, well, who has access to that? Well, it's never going to be used for police. It's never going to be used for policing. It's just going to be used for traffic. And I'm like, yeah, I don't think so. I've watched 24, the show 24. And... a that documentary, you know, and they use it all the time. And that was in the nineties. What was that show that, uh, uh, Caviezel was on that used camera technology.
01:36:21
Speaker
Oh yeah. It wasn't, um, I forgot the name of the show. Ah, yeah. Where they had this, uh, it was a it was a, yeah, it was a, it was a supercomputer that knew things were going to happen before they happen. Yeah. By listening into people's conversations, watching. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Watching and listening and yeah. Yeah.
01:36:40
Speaker
So, yeah. Yeah, that was a good, that was a pretty show. That was a good show. For for a network show, that was good. i don't know. get just for safety and it probably will help, you know, definitely getting cops out there sooner for somebody driving the wrong way in the freeways is helpful. I just...
01:36:56
Speaker
I mean, we're really, i mean, we're not far behind Europe and England. when there camera There's like 15 cameras in every corner. Yeah, they're using it in different ways, though. Yes, that's true. But all you have to do is get the cameras up there and eventually, you know, you can start using them any way you want.
01:37:11
Speaker
Yeah, if they have, if the technology is there, though, right? I don't know if the technology is there. If we're not watching, if we're not watching, they're going be taking advantage of it. And we'll see.
01:37:24
Speaker
We'll see. Right now it's for your safety. For your safety.
01:37:28
Speaker
All right, let's move on to a couple of bills here. It's not technically Critter Corner because there's only a couple of bills I threw in here, but I wanted to get these out of the way before they get too old. i mean Person of interest.
01:37:39
Speaker
Sorry, I had to look that up. was bugging me. Oh, yeah, person of interest. interest Yeah, yep, yep. Let's check these off. So we have... Oh, wait. Of course. Good thing I checked because...
01:37:51
Speaker
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01:38:06
Speaker
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01:38:21
Speaker
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01:38:31
Speaker
Appreciate it. Next on the list, Ohio floats universal regulatory sandbox. We have a story here for a couple of bills, one in the house and one in the Senate.
01:38:45
Speaker
This from Ohio.News. The Ohio Senate considers legislation to create a universal regulatory sandbox to allow testing of new products and services. Short little article here.
01:38:57
Speaker
ah Basically, Republicans, GOP is putting in a few, like again, there's HB 176 in the House and SB 90 in the Senate, both very similar.
01:39:09
Speaker
The Senate's already passed HB 176 last week, sending the measure to the state Senate, which is considering its own legislation and SB 90. Senate measure is currently pending before the Senate Committee on General Government.
01:39:25
Speaker
What it will do is kind of loosen the regulation for new products to be tested in Ohio.
01:39:37
Speaker
And I'm not sure. I kind of like it. I mean, it might spur some technological or some economical stuff going on Ohio, but there's also, i don't know, man. So basically they want to,
01:39:50
Speaker
create a board who can approve or, or, or take away these kinds of extra permits for, and what comes to my head things like what I saw in Columbus. They have, they have the food delivery robots.
01:40:05
Speaker
You ever heard about those? Yeah. So somebody tell me if you go like there's a part of town or a couple parts of town where a truck will pull up, they'll open the door and all these little robots on these little, wheat and theyre little they're almost like a two foot tall, little boxes with wheels.
01:40:19
Speaker
Yeah. And they got lights them. And they just, he's ah they're like, it's like, it's Terminator. there Like all these robots just flood out of this out of this truck, back of this truck and just spread out throughout the city. I'm like, well, that's gotta to be crazy.
01:40:32
Speaker
That's the kind of stuff I'm thinking this is like, you know, like, technology, new technology, new products that normally wouldn't, wouldn't pass regulation in Ohio, but you can get a kind of ah a free pass for a time just try to try to develop it, which would spur companies coming to Ohio, would think.
01:40:52
Speaker
Any, any, any feedback on this time what do you thinking about? i don't know. don't know. sounds good to me. Yeah. I like it. It's done right. Of course. They're going to, I guess we're gonna look at it in the Senate and probably going to put both bills together, pass it and send it back to the house and then we'll see if DeWine signs it.
01:41:09
Speaker
It sounds like it's going to pass. Maybe, hey, guess what? Maybe we can have some new innovative data centers in Ohio. Okay. ah So we'll keep an eye on that. That that might bring up some some new economical opportunities in Ohio. It would be kind of cool, I think.
01:41:27
Speaker
Moving it on next, next one we have here, our idea stream story. Start with a little clip here, but lead investigator of state employee in Ohio, employees in Ohio would get new power under Republican bill. And this one, I kind of like it. So let's listen to idea stream what they have to say. Inspector general, new powers.
01:41:47
Speaker
Ohio loses tens of millions of dollars a year to fraud committed by employees of state agencies, boards and commissions and universities. Two Republican lawmakers have sponsored a pair of bills in the House and Senate to give the agency that investigates those crimes more authority and tools.
01:42:04
Speaker
The bills would define the inspector general as a peace officer in Ohio, giving that office the same power to go to court and request search warrants and subpoenas for electronic records such as emails and texts that law enforcement has. IG Randy Meyer says that's especially important with so many crimes happening quickly and online.
01:42:22
Speaker
Granting the inspector general's office law enforcement authority will enable the office to seek search warrants directly from the courts and make these investigations more efficient and effective. Meyer says the IG's office has already budgeted for required peace officer training for the staff. The IG says it got 368 complaints last year, resulting in 61 criminal charges and more than $10 million dollars in losses.
01:42:46
Speaker
Karen Kessler at the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau. Sounds like a no-brainer. Mm-hmm. if you're losing $10 million dollars a year, think you got i think you can justify a little bit extra money to get the guy trained and give him some new powers. And then the question goes, he didn't why didn't he have this already?
01:43:03
Speaker
What's the point of having an inspector general if he has no power? understand. So, good. i think I think watching our government with if we you know with on a magnifying glass would always be a good thing.
01:43:19
Speaker
up with that. out It doesn't say, so we got two bills again, House Bill 683 and Senate Bill 350. Basically kind of the similar, define the Inspector General as a peace officer, give him some extra powers.
01:43:34
Speaker
And let's see where it's at. Strongsville guy sponsoring 350, Tom pat Patton.
01:43:47
Speaker
thought I thought remember them saying it was committee, but I can't see it now, but it looks like they're just debating it though. We'll keep an eye on it. See if it comes through. That'd be ah something interesting and well needed. I think
01:44:03
Speaker
on to the next one, this, that. All right. Next, next one here is Ohio. Cleveland is growing, Tom. We're losing pets though.
01:44:15
Speaker
Well, yeah, No, but it's one problem solves the other problem. I mean, no sense. Well, it kind of does because if you, great so the story is WKYC, greater Cleveland population sees modest growth feeling fueled by interesting freight, interesting international migration.
01:44:36
Speaker
What is international migration? Let's listen to the clip and see what she explains it.
01:44:44
Speaker
Yeah, Cleveland is growing. Oh, you can listen because she almost slips up, but she catches herself. Back here in Northeast Ohio, new numbers show Cleveland's population is finally ticking up, but the growth is not coming from where you might expect. Yeah, new sensor data shows international migration is driving that increase and bringing thousands of new people to greater Cleveland. Kristen Moran takes a closer look at what's behind this trend.
01:45:09
Speaker
The Cleveland metro area is growing. New census data shows more than 5,000 people migrated to Northeast Ohio from other countries. But after factors like deaths and other residents moving out, that came to a net gain of about 2,500 people. Something is happening right in this community, and people are feeling that this could be a place where they could find their homes. For Joe Simperman with Global Cleveland, this is personal. His parents immigrated to Cleveland, and now he helps others do the same.
01:45:38
Speaker
And the people that we work with are people who have work permits, people that are looking to continue their studies, people that are looking to open businesses. And it's the only way I think that Cleveland and Northeast Ohio is going to stay competitive is that we keep growing. Most of that growth is happening in Cuyahoga County, adding more than 4,200 far outpacing surrounding counties. And so over the course of the last 15 years, we've seen people coming here from Ukraine, people coming here from Afghanistan, people coming here from Congo, people coming here from Central and South America. But this isn't just about population. It's about the workforce.
01:46:12
Speaker
What we're seeing in the last um couple of years is the growth of businesses in our region have created a condition where we have more jobs than we have people.
01:46:23
Speaker
People is our number one issue. Beiju Shah with Greater Cleveland Partnerships says companies across the region are still struggling to find workers and says international migration is helping fill that gap.
01:46:35
Speaker
It's really at all levels that immigrants are participating in our region's economy. And it's at all levels that we need more people. it's not There's not a single place that we encounter in our economy where businesses are telling me they've got enough workforce. And leaders say keeping that momentum going will be key to the region's future. It's a great start to have three years in a row of growth, but the growth is still not sufficient and we need to sustain it. In Cleveland, Krista Moran, 3 News.
01:47:05
Speaker
I call BS for a couple of reasons. Okay. You're telling me, so we have all these jobs, but no people to fill them.
01:47:17
Speaker
That's bull. That is complete crap. I know for a fact that's complete crap. we we We try to hire people and they we can't get anybody stick. Nobody shows up.
01:47:28
Speaker
look Look, I talked to the union halls and they can't and get people to show up. They get people to show up and they want to do a mechanical aptitude test. Then people go, you crazy? don't to do that. I'm out of here.
01:47:39
Speaker
You know what we see is the reason know people, you hire somebody, they're good for a month or so. And then all sudden they start missing days here and there and a week here, coming in late.
01:47:53
Speaker
Not feeling well. They need to leave early. Like little children. Like once they get back on their feet from being out of work, now they get back to their old habits. And they start, oh, I can i can miss a day here and miss a day there. Not for long. I've seen guys leave where I work and go to a union contractor.
01:48:09
Speaker
Yeah. And then once they figure out how many days they have to work to hit that, like what they used to make, then they start calling off two days a week, a day a week. You know, it's like, come on, you don't want to get ahead. Here's my, here's more proof. This is a story from, again, from our webmaster here.
01:48:26
Speaker
but Hold on this for minutes. There's 10 unhappiest cities in the United States. i Guess who's on it? Cleveland. And one of the reasons they're saying, you know, that people in Cleveland are unhappy is because of economic instability.
01:48:39
Speaker
I just said we need more people because we don't have enough people to fill the jobs. And people are filling up polls saying they're unhappy because of economic instability. So which one, which one is it? I don't get it.
01:48:52
Speaker
Yeah. I think there's a whole lot of people that don't want to work. Yeah, I think I don't. I don't know. and You do need people. you just got to you have to They have to be vetted to get in here. oh yeah It needs to be a merit system. Legal yeah immigration. Not international migration. Legal immigration.
01:49:11
Speaker
i don't I don't see the people of the Congo trying to assimilate and get a job.
01:49:18
Speaker
And like we talked before, a lot of has to do with the way they bring people in. Now there's no sponsorship anymore. and and and In the past, these are the people that filled a lot of these jobs.
01:49:30
Speaker
is is the immigrants that came in. They're low level jobs. they're They're, you know, you're you're not making $100,000 a year as an immigrant coming over working on a construction line or assembly line or whatever. whatever So but that's that's who we need, but we need, like you say, we need to vet them.
01:49:49
Speaker
And the other thing that pops in my head is I am hearing Trump and the national level is they've got some strategy for temporary workers. For farmers.
01:50:00
Speaker
Yeah. Did you hear what what they want to do? No. they want They want to let the farmers bring and do you know um temporary workers over the border.
01:50:11
Speaker
Right. But guess who has to vouch for those workers? Right. ah farmer The farmer. The farmer. That's good. yeah Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly what, then he's tied to those people and he needs to make sure. And he's the one who gets, that's kind of similar to how, like your parents came. you Somebody had to sponsor you. Somebody had to be responsible for you.
01:50:27
Speaker
You know, if you did. Well, my, my, my parents sponsored a couple of people when they came to America. They they were, ah my ah father was sponsored to come here. I mean, that sponsor is responsible for you if If you don't get a job, that sponsor is the one who's feeding you and housing you. Yeah, you're not getting food stamps. You weren't getting food stamps.
01:50:47
Speaker
And you're it's a sponsor. you know we had a My father sponsored one was a relative, one was like a friend. And you know't they don't want you to be responsible for them. So they're obligated to go get a job and yeah find their own place and make their own life.
01:51:06
Speaker
right And one of them is a multimillionaire that my parents sponsored. those are The other one worked here for a short while and decided to go back. Oh, yeah. I know what you're talking about. yeah Yeah.
01:51:18
Speaker
Yeah. And that's that's great. And that's how it should be be because and they're not going to be tied to this. They're not going to be draining the system that's already broken, the welfare system.
01:51:31
Speaker
So i don't know. I just, I saw these two together. i'm like, oh, now I can bring this story in. That's, this makes sense. Oh, there's no jobs. There's no people to fill the jobs, but people in Cleveland unhappy because there's no jobs. I don't kid it.
01:51:43
Speaker
And to honest, it's just a stupid study from this called Newsbreak is the website. I think Cleveland is oftentimes one of the unhappiest. I think it's mainly the weather.
01:51:54
Speaker
I think it's a lot to do with it. They don't bring that up really. home Yeah, I don't know. It's a different kind of study, I guess. But you know yeah you don't have sunny days, enough sunny days. Even and even if you have winter, it's just freaking gray.
01:52:09
Speaker
And I think that's a big reason for that. And then then the the original reason i was going to bring this story up because all these cities have something in common. What's that? Well, let's let's go through them here. got Detroit.
01:52:21
Speaker
I don't know if this is ranked, but the first was Detroit. Second, Cleveland. think we couldn't be number one at that. Second or third down the list is St. Louis. Next is, see, Baltimore.
01:52:36
Speaker
Next is Newark, New Jersey. Then Memphis, Tennessee. That might be the only exception, but I'm not sure. in Birmingham, Alabama, maybe. Philadelphia, philadelphia philadelphia Pennsylvania.
01:52:48
Speaker
Chicago. Hmm. Milwaukee. Pretty sure most of those are blue cities, no? Sanctuary cities? I don't know of any that are means major cities that are Republican.
01:53:00
Speaker
Red. Yeah, there there really aren't. The thing I can think of is maybe Birmingham because it's it is Alabama. San Diego. Oh, yeah. San Diego's not. Memphis could be because it's Tennessee, but is it is a city, so...
01:53:12
Speaker
it's It kind of brings it back to they always have the... No, no. Memphis is definitely blue. Is it? A sanctuary city? I don't know. but Yeah, it's definitely blue. I don't know. I would only would question it, but I'm pretty sure it is.
01:53:25
Speaker
it does bring back... They always had a top 10 most impoverished city in America that would come out when i was you know over the years. I'd always look them like, why why nine out of 10 of them Democrat-run cities and have been Democrat-run cities for like 70 years?
01:53:42
Speaker
oh Chicago's probably like the worst, i just right? It's probably like 100 years. Cleveland's not even that bad. It's only been 30 years. Yeah. Because we had ah Mayor White. Going great.
01:53:54
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of that, speaking of going great, there is a petitioner. They're filing a petition in Cleveland to recall Mayor Justin Bibb.
01:54:07
Speaker
And one of the main reasons I pulled the story is because did you see the the picture in the story? Do you see what he's holding? Yeah. No, I didn't. No, I couldn't see that. What is that? Recall the Bibblehead. The Bibblehead. He's got a graphic of of Bib as a bobblehead.
01:54:23
Speaker
But let's listen to a little idea stream. ahead. I didn't get this. I listened to it. I read it. And I was like, what is going on here? Well, after we talk about, you know, economic and growing and all, you know, jobs, but no people on happiness So these guys have a petition and let's listen to what they're unhappy about.
01:54:46
Speaker
A group trying to recall Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb says he's failed residence. I'm IdeaStream Public Media's Abby Marshall reporting on Monday's heated press conference outside City Hall.
01:54:56
Speaker
Community activist Juan Diaz says Bibb, who is just reelected in November, has lost trust among some Clevelanders. Right. Presidents have raised serious questions about priorities, about travel, staffing decisions, and growing disconnect which between City Hall and the people it serves. Council questioned Bibb in February about travel expenses surpassing $120,000 for the mayor in 2025. As Diaz spoke, several Cleveland pastors shouted over him that he was wasting time. Diaz ignored the protesters, but co-organizer Daryl Houston approached the men and began yelling back, abruptly ending the press conference.
01:55:32
Speaker
Whoops. The petition needs at least 8,500 signatures to move forward. The mayor's office declined to comment. Abby Marshall, IdeaStream Public Media. So here here he has a press conference, and that's that's the his biggest problem with Mayor Bibb is how much he spent on travel.
01:55:49
Speaker
um Not to say you shouldn't critique his travel budget. No. But he's going to have a travel budget. right He has security and all this other stuff. Is that a recall thing, though? that Is that a reason to recall him? Yeah. No. What about the poverty? How about the poverty in Cleveland?
01:56:04
Speaker
How about the Browns moving? about the crime? but but Yeah. Crime, poverty. How about the roads? No. It's his travel. It's because he may have spent $20,000 more on travel than he should have or whatever it was. Again, they're saying like $140,000 seems high, but I don't know. Maybe.
01:56:20
Speaker
What was it the year before? What was the previous administration's travel? Let's see. We got the homeless. We have the yeah the crime stats are awful. How about the overtime for crying out loud? Overtime with the police department or the yeah county sheriff. I don't know how much he has to do with that. He's the one who hires the guy, right? He's the one who picks him does a point He does appoint.
01:56:42
Speaker
We don't freaking vote for the sheriff. No, that he doesn't appoint it. why The councilor? Executive President of Ronain does. but Okay. but i guarantee i know we can look at ah butt I would imagine they have an overtime problem too in Cleveland, the city of Cleveland. One of the reasons they had the overtime problem Cuyahoga County because they don't have enough cops in Cleveland, the city of Cleveland. So that was the whole start of that the downtown safety patrol BS.
01:57:05
Speaker
Which again, we we managed to get that removed, remember? that was ah That was along with the data center stuff. We also did the safety patrol. That was us. that was Him being a virtue signal vomit it is enough for me to recall him.
01:57:19
Speaker
Yeah, but but then then i'm going to go on to the next story, and um i might actually agree with Mayor Bibb. ah The next story is they're they're still debating on what to do with Burke.
01:57:31
Speaker
Right. Right. And the article, the only thing I could see as a good reason to keep Burke is because of the air show. It's not a good enough reason to keep an airport in that location only.
01:57:46
Speaker
And the article is from Fox 8. Yeah.
01:57:50
Speaker
why the air show can't just move if Berkeley front airport closes. So I get it. It can't just move. So so it basically if we close Burke, there's no more air show in Cleveland.
01:58:02
Speaker
Right. So I get that. And their argument is it it generates $17.9 million dollars for Greater Cleveland, including $2.3 million dollars in tax revenue when the air show comes.
01:58:14
Speaker
Now, I would almost guess, I'd have to guess, I'm not guaranteed. I would guess those those are like the best numbers. Like if you have a perfect weekend, you're going to get those numbers. What if it rains all weekend?
01:58:26
Speaker
You're not going to get that. Now, the kicker to that is that a recent forum on the airport, Mayor Bibb says, the the city loses $2 million dollars a year from the airport.
01:58:39
Speaker
Wait, will what? Yeah. Really? Yeah. It costs the city $2 million dollars to keep that airport going. Really? Yep. Okay. So really, on a perfect year, on a perfect weekend for the air show, the city will maybe clear $300,000 a year.
01:58:57
Speaker
Because if they're paying $2 million, that $2 million washes out the $2 million of the $2.3 million. So so really
01:59:06
Speaker
And on a ah bad year with bad weather, you're still going to cost you money because you're not going to get those those good numbers. So, like, I love the air show. I've been once. think the air show is awesome. We're one of a few cities in America that actually have an air show. i'm sure there's a lot of them but not every city has one.
01:59:21
Speaker
Right. It's great, it's like the perfect spot for an air show because they do all the tricks over the water. And unfortunately, we don't get any those great, like, crash videos, you know, air show crash videos when they crash into the crowd. But um one proposal, though,
01:59:38
Speaker
It a drag strip. Whoa. Yeah. There's this, ah again, as we stop by here every once in a while, is the worst name site in Ohio called Neotrans.
01:59:51
Speaker
They are plans. Somebody is proposing to the mayor to put what's it called? Shore to Roar to Shore LLC, a bid to repurpose the 450-acre City of Elenbrook Lakefront Airport as a drag strip for professional top-fueled dragster and funny car racing.
02:00:15
Speaker
Now, the key to this one is it would still be an airport except for when there's an event. ah So it's kind of like an in-between kind of thing. But I like the guy's quote.
02:00:27
Speaker
because So he proposes this to Mayor Bibb, and he and his this guy's quote is Dan Cowlips. and That's C-O-W-L-I-P-S. Has to be Dan Cowlips, president of Shore to Shore to Roar.
02:00:42
Speaker
a telephone interview, told him, I done get a whoop whoop from the mayor when I told him about our plans for Lake for your Burke Lakefront Airport up there in the big city, the big bad city.
02:00:54
Speaker
wish i wish I had an audio clip way way better. ah Said big daddy, Dan Cowlips. I mean, this guy wins just for his name. i He's saying, but but but when this is a good one. But when asked, the mayor asked him, but when asked, when he asked me if I would offer parking for recreational vehicles, I told him we ain't running no NASCAR here.
02:01:20
Speaker
so This guy's a character. i don't I don't think this is going to go anywhere, honest with you. It would be... hey Robert. Robert. What? What? At the bottom of the article, it says, April Fool's... Damn it.
02:01:36
Speaker
ah This is a fictitious article here. Yeah. I was waiting. I was going to get there. Oh, I didn't. Oh, I spoiled it for you. It's okay. I'm sorry. He did. It was good enough. It was good enough.
02:01:49
Speaker
I was getting there because there's like one more paragraph. And mean, his name's cow lips, dude. and They can kiss my bricks.
02:01:56
Speaker
Indy cars for the wine and cheese crowd. We raise Hemis like a bullet from a varmint rifle. Not that left turn namby-pamby stuff. And the reason I kept it in here, because it did get me at first. It did me too. Until I got to get the out of this guy's name is Cowlips.
02:02:17
Speaker
Damn, that's a great name for Carf. Indy Carf for Wine and Cheese Crowd. was ah at work and I i i do the whole, ah and I was having...
02:02:30
Speaker
I put it in a newsreader and then it reads it to me. Yeah. And I'm, I'm like listening to this going, who is this talking like this? This can't be, what the heck? And then it I'm like, wow, cool. Drag strip on the lake. Right. said Wow. and I'm like, those, that jet fuel stink would be awesome right there. And, uh,
02:02:54
Speaker
And then the article's like finishing up and and it says April Fool's and I'm like, oh, that would be perfect. All of a sudden you're like, yeah, ava and this is April Fool's. That's pretty funny. It would have been great if it didn't read it like a robot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it had me all the way to the end. I had no idea because I read it like a couple of days after April Fool's. I wasn't even in my head.
02:03:12
Speaker
i I wonder, like, I didn't see this come through. When did you see this come through? I've had this in my stack since a couple days after the first, April 1st.
02:03:24
Speaker
i Sometimes I'll pull and I'll try to plop them together with because it wasn't enough of a story by itself. And then the show came out, and I'm like, ooh and then I started reading it last I'm like, oh, I got to leave it and screw it.
02:03:37
Speaker
right well We can plop a couple of them Christmas trees right in the middle there and run races simma simma ah at the same time, east and west.
02:03:49
Speaker
The best part is if the car's chute don't open, they can land in the lake water and go for a backstroke on a nice hot summer day. that was good and it was pretty good.
02:04:01
Speaker
Roar by the shore. What happened to the racing that we had there? The Indy racing? Yeah. I don't know. I went to the a couple of those. I was i was i would imagine it was all right it it moved because of lack of people attending.
02:04:17
Speaker
I don't know. Well, yeah okay. it was But it was there 25 years. Yeah. I went there once and it was awful. Awful? Because you do it you bake. You just baked in the sun. Yeah. Yeah, that is an issue. You're just in this big open air. It's like going to almost any race.
02:04:32
Speaker
I've been to an ask for a race where you bake in the sun too, but- I was there. I was probably a young teenager and I it didn't matter. it was just cool. Yeah, it was. It was cool. But after a couple of hours, I'm like, I ain't over here.
02:04:45
Speaker
all right. So ah after that, April Fools, we're going to move on to. um Well, favorite segment of the show. We bring good things to life.
02:04:59
Speaker
On their Internet, all breaking up again. um Well, first on the good things, i don't believe this is a April Fool's story. i really hope it isn't, this first one here. And I apologize because it was it was a tough week for good news stories.
02:05:12
Speaker
But this one I had to. Shannon Elizabeth joins OnlyFans.
02:05:21
Speaker
Maybe the kids cheering is a little bit inappropriate. inappropriate But do you remember who Shannon Elizabeth is? a my No, not really. Hollywood actor who played she played Nina on American Pie.
02:05:32
Speaker
Yeah. Was she the hot chick in American? yeah. She was a hot foreign exchange student. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. She was smoking hot, but that was like 30 years ago. Yeah. So she's recently been divorced. And of course, naturally in America, when you get divorced and you're somewhat attractive, at least you you get an OnlyFans account. You get naked. yeah So she is... Now, if you don't remember her, i think most guys will remember her because she was was the hottest one on the on the movie, I think. But...
02:05:58
Speaker
She's a Forkstain student living in, i think, Jim's house is the main character. And the big scene of her is when Jim puts a, he tries to catch her, he tries to record her undressing yeah with a webcam that he accidentally sends the link to the entire school.
02:06:13
Speaker
Oh, that's right. Yeah. And then they're watching it and she starts doing more than just undressing because she's by herself. Yeah. drift And then his friends are like, dude, you got to go. and he's like what am I going to do? goes He goes, seduce her. Anyway, that's her.
02:06:26
Speaker
I got I got to watch that movie again. That movie was great. Yeah. They don't, they don't make them like that. Yeah.
02:06:33
Speaker
one day at band camp. So she is, right yeah. So she is, uh, she told entertainment tonight that as Nadia, she was playing a character and she is just not the girl who likes to be naked.
02:06:49
Speaker
Uh, joined platform in effort to take more control over her career. Hmm. Well, I mean, you don't, you can do only fans without doing raunchy stuff. I mean, yeah she's 52. Who's, who's she going to get there? I mean, uh,
02:07:04
Speaker
I mean, guys who watch who who who used to guys used to fill the spank bank with Nadia. That's who's going to want to show her. I guess so. It doesn't necessarily say she's going to get nude or anything, but she does say she wants to show off a more sexy side that no one's seen before.
02:07:18
Speaker
like Yeah. You kind of strip down naked on the on the movie. I think we've seen the sexy side. Yeah, but thats we need to see the current one, I guess. I mean, necessarily. so You know who else did this was that, ah um what's her name? um She played, she was in the Sopranos, the ah Chris's wife. Oh, that brunette, black-haired shit? Yeah, to Mark. can't remember her name. No, she was but issues worth watch.
02:07:44
Speaker
She just did an OnlyFans thing. She's got a podcast now. She does a pretty good, I've listened to it a couple times. She gets a little bit too much into the conspiratorial stuff, like, uh,
02:07:57
Speaker
uh, Trump kales or chem trails and all that. Trump credit kales. what though It's been a long day for me. already It's already been a long day. She didn't, she did sexy things. She didn't get naked though.
02:08:10
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. She still looks good, but and you know, she's 50. She's, I don't want to see that. Nobody wants to see that. I don't think she does it anymore. I can't imagine she made a lot of money from that.
02:08:21
Speaker
Hmm. i don Yeah, I don't know. I i would lean to, I don't know. geiser Would she be podcasting if she made a lot of money from that? No. Probably not.
02:08:32
Speaker
Probably not. She'd still be doing it. Well, we'll see. We'll see. it ah Before you know it in another year, Elizabeth or Shannon or whoever her name is, she's going to have a podcast soon. Well, I hope it works out for Speaking of podcasts, our next good news story has something to do with a podcasts at least. Well, maybe not a podcast, but a pawcast.
02:08:57
Speaker
Oh, gosh, that's horrible. alliance Alliance Dog Rescue After Getting Stuck Six Foot Down in a Groundhog Hole. So this is a good this is our good thing story. This is how... scraping the bottom of the barrel here, but it is a cool story because Alliance does it. So this woman, if you, did you you see this article?
02:09:15
Speaker
You see the picture not of the firefighters? Yeah. No, I did not. ah So the Alliance firefighters came. So this woman went out and she had her 10 year old Jack Russell Terry, which is a little, little dog. I think they're hunting dogs. Used to be hunting dogs.
02:09:27
Speaker
And I guess saw a groundhog and she couldn't try to hold it back, but the dog slipped its, its leash and found its, chased the groundhog into the groundhog hole and got himself stuck six feet into the ground.
02:09:39
Speaker
Wow. So the Alliance fire department had to come out and dig them out. and And I, if you look at the picture, They're all, we're glad to help. The dog's lucky that people saw that, right? Well, she, she was walking the dog, the chicken, the pitcher.
02:09:56
Speaker
And then the dog ran away from her. She dog started pulling it into the woods with it. The dog saw the groundhog. yeah and then when she tried to the dog away the dog slipped out of its leash out of its oh okay out of color okay and then and then ran and and went right down the hole and there's all these guys covered in mud smiling with you know i can imagine they were okay with helping her out she's yeah yeah she's pretty nice looking yeah but she they allre all all the guys are smiling and they're like yeah we helped her out yeah we were totally happy with nodo firefighters i'm just kidding
02:10:28
Speaker
ah they would have done it regardless. I was questioned if that's the role of firefighters. like okay Well, who else is going to do that? They're they're the ones who who who we have the tools probably.
02:10:39
Speaker
And the time, to be honest with you. But I did have a ah co-worker at one point telling me a story about how her mastiff got stuck under the bed and her husband wasn't home. So she had to call the fire department to get it out. And I was like...
02:10:52
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know about that. like well Who else is going to do it? i'm like i don't know. Not the fire department. like How about? no Well, I get it. but So you had a fire department come in and lift her bed up to get the dog out. Yeah, but they they're there to rescue.
02:11:06
Speaker
Who else do I call? don't know. Not friends, but during the day, yeah it's all right. They need something to do. that's As I say, they do have the time most of the time. Yeah. cause you the There isn't a raging fire every yeah you know twenty four seven They're just cooking and watching TV and washing the truck.
02:11:24
Speaker
It's good because those trucks are expensive. Moving on to the last story. Bernie Bernie is back, baby. Bernie Bernie is back. So Bernie Cozer marks five months since his liver transplant with a cameo at the Pro Wrestling Festival.
02:11:38
Speaker
show at the Wolstein Center. Let's listen. Oh, wait, sorry. Before I go on to that, speaking of the podcast, I found a new podcast for you, Tom. i want to listen this. What do you think about listening to this podcast and on a weekly basis? Here you go.
02:11:54
Speaker
It's a podcast. Oh my goodness. Well, it gets worse. Welcome to the fifth episode of the 19 News Podcast, where we share the stories you want to hear about our friends with fur, feathers, tails, or scales. I'm Rachel Beda, and I'm here to tell you about each week.
02:12:19
Speaker
Now, typically, I would tell you to bark your calendar, but right now, you need to run to your closet, grab something blue. need to do anything. I don't think so. That was horrible. Anyway, sorry, I had to play. I thought that was funny. I'm definitely going check that one out. I'm looking for my pistol.
02:12:34
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to. Don't shoot the microphone. Way too, way too pricey for that. All right. Myself. No, no. what Ends the show. End this. So anyway, Bernie Kosar is back. He's got, he's five months out post his liver transplant. And what he decided to do was, well, naturally what you do after five months, you go on the wrestling stage. Here you go. This is a news channel five.
02:12:58
Speaker
Wired up with tubes before his liver transplant five months ago, Bernie Kosar was hoping that he'd still be alive in five days, let alone in five months. And he can honestly say the furthest thing from his mind at that time.
02:13:08
Speaker
Bernie Kosar's getting Would have been finding himself in a wrestling ring in front of thousands of cheering fans like he was last Saturday at the Wolstein Center. nice Nice. Bernie looked in charge, but I'll tell you inside. Complete fear, bro. You know, complete fear. I mean, here we are basically fear. five months out from the liver transplant. As a young kid, I was absolutely into the wrestling and still pay attention to it.
02:13:33
Speaker
And when they asked me, I thought, oh my God, to be able to be out there and be in an event like that for for five hours and then be able to perform a little bit out there, never thought about that being at all possible a week before Thanksgiving in 2025. Did you run this past your doctor? Yes, it's good. Uh-uh. I did Monday and and monday i I love that they they smiled like you.
02:13:59
Speaker
Cozart's doctors have had reason to smile as his recovery proceeds, his visits with them now only once a month instead of once a week. And he's been able to go from a low of 155 pounds post-surgery to around 190.
02:14:11
Speaker
There he goes. That's good. Back up to 190. He's on his way to being a fat ass. So sounds like he's healthy. Well, I mean, that's a lot of weight to gain. you i mean he's six foot five. Yeah, he's a big dude. He's probably closer to 6'3 now, 6'2".
02:14:26
Speaker
Yeah. But that's even one. He looks good, too. Yeah, he sounds better than before. Oh, he sounds better than twenty when he was doing ah preseason games. Exactly. Yeah, it's good stuff. Speaking of drunk or not drunk, I always wondered, but a lot of it was that the the brain injuries and stuff or the concussions and stuff. He's slurring his words. I couldn't tell.
02:14:46
Speaker
It could have been a combination, but good for him. I didn't know anything about him. I just figured he was drunk. Yeah. That's what thought too at the time, and then started, those things started coming out.
02:14:57
Speaker
Yeah. Good for Bernie. Good to see you That was, remember the kid who died and his parents gave his liver, part of his liver to Bernie. He was a Browns fan. So that's kind of good heartwarming story end the day, to end the show.
02:15:12
Speaker
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02:15:25
Speaker
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