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Crooked River Cast Show 18
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- Listener feedback: HB920.
- ACORN students or activists?
- Medicaid cuts in the OBBB.
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Introduction to Curriculum Cast
00:00:02
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Curriculum Cast. I am your host, Robert, and joining me every week is my friend Tom to help us keep track of what is going on in Northeast Ohio. This is show 18, recorded on July 19th, 2025. Let's see what we have to talk about today.
00:00:19
Speaker
Tom, another week, another show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How you doing?
Tom's Musical Journey and Guitar Woes
00:00:25
Speaker
Feeling fat, Rob. Really? Yeah, I'm feeling so fat.
00:00:31
Speaker
What? Okay, I'll bite. why Why are you feeling fat, Tom? I don't know. man i You know, I started rehearsing with the band, and I got my first few gigs coming up here pretty soon. Oh, nice.
00:00:43
Speaker
And my guitar hanging so funny off me, right off my belly. It's right off a big, funny angle putting on it.
00:00:54
Speaker
Yeah, I'm a little depressed. but is it Is it affecting your play at all? Not really, but, you know, it's kind of embarrassing.
00:01:04
Speaker
Oh, sorry, I'm laughing because I actually was watching in church weeks ago. was watching the person playing the guitar and thinking, I wonder if the belly affects the way they hold the guitar.
00:01:16
Speaker
Let me tell you, it does. You know, I'm just, the church does a song and i'm just kind of, my eyes are wandering around. the and like, oh yeah, you know what, playing guitar. I could see how that would...
AIDS Diet Candy Commercial Discussion
00:01:28
Speaker
that's that's let me tell you something rob i found something that's going to help okay you know i've been i've been ah trying to find a diet diet aid and i uh think i found one i let me play the commercial for it oh good i was overweight and looked terrible but aids helped me lose 46 pounds The AIDS diet plan helped me lose 28 pounds. AIDS helps control your appetite so you lose weight. Yet AIDS lets you taste, chew, and enjoy.
00:01:59
Speaker
And the appetite suppressant in AIDS is not a stimulant. AIDS helped me to lose 18 pounds, and it doesn't contain anything to make me nervous. Question, why take diet pills when you can enjoy AIDS?
00:02:10
Speaker
AIDS helps you lose weight without making you jittery. That's horrible. Rob, I got to go get AIDS. What the heck was that from? You don't remember that, huh? No, I don't.
00:02:21
Speaker
yeah That's, um okay, so back in the day, ah yeah you're you're probably, you're a few years younger than me, but i remember this because I was probably around 10 or 11, I used to see these commercials on television.
00:02:38
Speaker
And I think the last one played at around 1982 before the, I mean, right as they were peaking their the business of AIDS, which is a diet, a diet suppressor.
00:02:52
Speaker
It was like a candy. um It was around from the late 70s to early 80s. And they played these commercials. And I kind of remember hearing those commercials. But once the AIDS pandemic.
00:03:04
Speaker
happened that took him out of business you think wow that's a what a well i mean it wasn't their fault it was a y d s people can look up there's commercials all over youtube a y d s yeah yeah a y d s and it was uh it was just like this little candy that you took as a uh um you know just a hunger suppressant and um Yeah. They tried rebranding. That's unfortunate.
00:03:34
Speaker
Yeah, right. They they were peaking as the AIDS pandemic hit. And from what I... They tried doing... They tried changing their name, rebranding.
00:03:46
Speaker
and But you know what was funny is they used AIDS Slim and they used something else with the word AIDS in it. It's like they I would have just shut down and just start like totally changed the name.
00:03:57
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. Well... hindsight being what it is, I guess. Yeah. But at the, I guess going into it, maybe they thought they could just get by with it. It's, it's probably worse than, you know, naming your website.
00:04:09
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Neo trans.
00:04:12
Speaker
Probably Northeast Ohio trans. Wait, no, that's not movie on it. That's no, Oh, I got i got a PSA too. Yes. Speaking of pandemics, COVID is on the rise.
00:04:25
Speaker
No. no Yes. COVID-19 is on the rise in Ohio. it crisis, Tom? Crisis. Well, they're just letting people know. are It's called NB1.8.1 or Nimbus.
00:04:42
Speaker
They're still naming these things. And they're affecting patients with razor blade throat. Oh yeah. here this yeah I found that on the, who gives the shit channel.
00:04:53
Speaker
Oh, you watch that too.
00:04:56
Speaker
I don't know. Is that actual channel? Oh, it is. There's a, they have many outlets. Oh yes. they I'm following you now. right.
00:05:07
Speaker
Yeah. All right. Funny guy. That was good. Uh, so I had did it had a, yeah, busy week.
Cedar Point Coaster Mishap
00:05:14
Speaker
Uh, only thing I have to give is, uh, is an experience of, uh, my first experience getting stuck on a coaster, on a roller coaster.
00:05:22
Speaker
You got stuck on a coaster? Yeah. That's hilarious. Went to Cedar Point the other day and I've been on so many coasters, I've never had a stoppage or anything.
00:05:33
Speaker
So my daughter and I went on the Maverick, one of our favorite rides at Cedar Point, and waited line, lines weren't too long, and got on and got up. as Now, the Maverick's not a chain-driven up the hill thing. It's a magnets.
00:05:48
Speaker
So right it was even a stranger because when it got right to the top and then all of a sudden was like the power just cut off and it just slowly rolled back down. And then we sat there for, don't know, 30 or 40 minutes ah strapped in, in the most uncomfortable seat out of any seat everywhere, anywhere, I should say, ah including coasters and all that.
00:06:07
Speaker
But I mean, a couple of minutes is usually okay, but 35, 40 minutes, you know, man first time for everything. And you know, you know, it's bad when they they bring the stepladder out. Oh, no. To get you off.
00:06:18
Speaker
yeah know, they tried restarting and all this stuff. Oh, you had to get off. and They didn't fix it, huh? Yeah, they tried a couple times to fix it. And then um they just they did it three or four times. They said, nope, we're done. And they shut it down. and and you know I'll tell you what. I would rather have them just get me off of it instead of fixing it.
00:06:35
Speaker
Yes. Actually, what I was thinking on, like this is more this gives me more anxiety than going on the coaster. Right. Because I am strapped shoulder harness in a seat and I can't move.
00:06:46
Speaker
And it after a while, I'm like, I just don't like i just want to get out. Yeah. But, you know, what are you going to do? It's all part of the experience. I guess so. The weather wasn't hot or anything.
00:06:58
Speaker
you know so what what day did you go? This is a Thursday. Oh, yeah. That was a good day. Yeah, it was a really nice day. a nice Nice little breeze up there at Sandusky, and crowds weren't too bad. Tried to get on Siren's Curse, the new one, a tilt coaster, and right spot to get in line, and they they closed it because it broke down.
00:07:16
Speaker
Which happens with coasters. Anywho.
Property Taxes and House Bill 920 Debate
00:07:19
Speaker
anyhow So good week, busy week, another busy one coming up and another week and another, another list of stories in front of us.
00:07:29
Speaker
But we have a first, Tom. but First, a show first. What's that? Listener feedback. Oh, hell, that's cool. I'm excited I got listener feedback. Somebody told me I was wrong.
00:07:43
Speaker
What? Yes, I know. So I, You know, I say we talk all the time. we talk about this. We read stories and we blah, blah, blah, blah. And a lot of what I had to say is, please let me know if I'm wrong. i if What am I not seeing here? What am I missing?
00:07:57
Speaker
So this has to do with property taxes and levies and so on and so forth. So a friend of the show reached out to me and said, take a look at this bill from 1976.
00:08:13
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That's
00:08:21
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is where do I pull up my trustee? It's a tax bill from 1976. So property tax bill that limits the, it keeps um your property taxes from increases when properties values go up.
00:08:41
Speaker
Does it work? Um, it is, it works. Um, oh that's the question. Does it just control it? So it's, it's, it's supposed to prevent, like I said, the big spikes in property taxes.
00:08:56
Speaker
Okay. don't think that worked. It, it, it's, that's, that's the question. Does it work? I think it's to some level it kind of does, but there's a couple loopholes I'm finding. Does it just like muted, like put put I guess a limit?
00:09:14
Speaker
Yes, it readjusts the millage of the levees. okay Okay. I guess it's supposed to prevent it, but it doesn't seem like it does.
00:09:26
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And one of the some of the evidence I have is from North Romstead schools. A year ago, they put out a YouTube video, probably during, I think it was during levy they were trying to pass, explaining House Bill 920.
00:09:40
Speaker
I'm not sure they... <unk>s Let's listen. We'll we'll stop this a couple times and go over a couple of things that they talk about, and we'll find out.
00:09:52
Speaker
Today we are going to talk about House Bill 920 and the impact it has on North Olmstead City Schools. House Bill 920 was put in place back in 1976. It prevents a voted levy from collecting additional funds when property values increase as a result of reappraisals or updates.
00:10:12
Speaker
This means when a levy is passed, it is for a fixed dollar amount. As property values increase, the tax rate is reduced so that the district does not collect more than the original amount of dollars.
00:10:26
Speaker
Let's look at a real life example. Yes, let's. Here is a current tax bill of a North Olmstead resident. This tax bill is from 2018 as that is the last time the county evaluated property values.
00:10:40
Speaker
Here you can see that the resident paid $2,737 property taxes school district. androp attach seven thirty she the school district okay Here's that same residence tax bill from 2021, taking into account the most recent property value appraisal.
00:10:57
Speaker
Here you can see that the resident paid $2,870 in property taxes to the school district. what Wait, wait, hold on. That's more than the last tax bill?
00:11:12
Speaker
I think 28, 27. Yeah, that's more. So this is a video only. Go ahead. Okay, went more, but that wasn't the largest spike. No, it's not. and But the bill is to prevent an increase in your taxes when property values go up.
00:11:31
Speaker
Right. It doesn't seem like it works too well. And there's a couple of reasons for that. We'll go over it. But that I think at least. But they have a couple of slides in this presentation. This is a tax document from 2018 North Olmstead Schools.
00:11:46
Speaker
And it shows all the breakdown of taxes. So this is in 2018 for taxes due in 2019. The value of market value the home that they have in example is $144,000. So not a humongous house.
00:12:00
Speaker
Average size home, you would say? Yeah. And their taxes were 2737, like they said. And they went couple hundred bucks Well, how could that be? We have built HB 920. That's supposed to prevent that, right?
00:12:16
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um It went up by like about $100, right? Yeah, 5%. 4% or 5%. Okay. But that's the normal increase of, ah valid well, per year for homes, I think. is like This was over a three-year period, right?
00:12:30
Speaker
Right. Yeah, every three years. All right. Other thing interesting thing is there's a breakdown in this document that they're showing of the net taxes that you pay.
00:12:42
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on on your property taxes, yeah, this is property taxes, net taxes. And for the schools, out of 100%, obviously, 66% they sixty six percent of your taxes go to school.
00:12:57
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66% go to your school. It's a huge number. Yeah. Which is why we this is why I keep pushing on it because it's it's the one of the single biggest things that we pay for.
00:13:11
Speaker
The Cuyahoga County gets 15.5%, and the city of North Olmstead gets 16.2% of your taxes. The Port Authority gets some money.
00:13:23
Speaker
North Olmstead's paying for the Port Authority. Cuyahoga County Community College, you pay all your property taxes, and a couple other things. So how can this still go up?
00:13:36
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There's a couple of things. There's also a 20 mil floor rule, which means the schools are guaranteed at least at any levy that they pass, it can never go lower than 20 mil.
00:13:48
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So there's a limit on how much you can lower hb well how once you can lower taxes to accommodate you know rising home prices. And that's a 20 mil floor.
00:14:01
Speaker
So there's this is's a another like part of this we can listen to real quick because it's really weird and confusing why they, maybe more of our listeners could help or you can figure it out.
00:14:13
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Here.
00:14:16
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If your property value increased by more than 17%, then you would see an increase in taxes on your tax bill. If your property value increased exactly 17%, then you would pay the same amount of taxes.
00:14:30
Speaker
And finally, if your property value increase was less than 17%, then you actually pay less taxes to the school district than you did in 2018. So what does this mean?
00:14:42
Speaker
Why? 17? For the school district. Oops, sorry. Why 17%? my house went less than 17%, I get reduction.
00:14:51
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so if my house went up less than seventeen percent ah get a reduction and I'll pay less taxes, but if my house goes higher than 17%, I'll pay more in taxes.
00:15:06
Speaker
But if it goes up only 17%, I'll stay the same. I mean, it's not confusing at all. Not confusing at all. um Let's see if there's anything left of this. District. Due to property values increasing during the reappraisal, the valuation growth would have gained the district an additional $1.7 million in tax However, due to House Bill 920, the effective millage rate is reduced, which does not allow taxes to adjust at the same value as property values do. That's the same Now you've actually said something makes sense.
00:15:41
Speaker
it It just allows it to, it's just not at the same rate as property values, but it still goes up. yeah
00:15:50
Speaker
But part of the vetoes that we're taught we keep talking about or that we talked about last week and we'll probably talk about next week because I think Mondays they plan on meeting at the state legislature to try to overturn some of the vetoes. One of them was eliminating emergency or continuing levies or renewal levies and or counting them towards that 10 mil, that inside millage.
00:16:17
Speaker
Mm-hmm. And that was one of the things he vetoed. And that's one of the things they want to pull back and overrule the veto is is that 10 mil inside. you want They want these emergencies to be counted against that.
00:16:32
Speaker
And they should be, right? Yes, because the unvoted tax increase that everybody's seeing is that that inside millage. Right. That goes up regardless. That is the unvoted tax increase that they keep talking about. They want to try to stop along with this 20 mil floor.
00:16:48
Speaker
So HB 920 can only go so far. So if you have a spike of 40 or like what? And then i'm sorry. pulled and So the next tax season, just so you know, so this North Olmstead house was 144,000 2018, three years later.
00:17:00
Speaker
and two thousand eighteen three years later is valued at 177,000. Yeah, that's massive. So that inside millage gets all of that. and There's no no limit on inside millage as far as how it can go up.
00:17:14
Speaker
And then if you have that much of an increase, it's like that's that, 40% something? roughly yeah i think it's more than thirty a lot of people were getting 30 to 40 percent i i don't think any i don't i never heard anybody getting 50 percent increase but you're getting close to it right it's not far off i mean you went up 30 140 yeah years
00:17:44
Speaker
um That inside millage goes up that 30 or 40%, whatever it is, 40 or 50%. And you can only bring down your current levies to a certain level.
00:17:59
Speaker
I mean, at this point, I would say, yes, you would have to bring it under 20 mils to keep it on the same. and If you go up 30 or 40%, that's large increase. that's a large increase I would say in some situations you would need to to to keep the property tax the same. You would have to go under that 20 mil floor.
00:18:19
Speaker
Right. and And you're not able to. So there's your tax increase. There's your unvoted tax increase.
00:18:27
Speaker
Well, thank you to the listener. Yes. Thanks. Like you said, we're we're not right about everything. i knew ah like I feel like I was missing something. you know I can't can't believe it. But thank you for like you for letting us know that.
00:18:41
Speaker
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00:18:57
Speaker
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00:19:08
Speaker
but When we have more on the website, you'll see it. Currently in the process.
Activism in Education: ACORN's Role
00:19:15
Speaker
Next on the list, ACORN is back in the news, Tom. do you remember ACORN?
00:19:22
Speaker
I kind of remember that. So ACORN was, think, early 2000s. They were their community activist group.
00:19:34
Speaker
They did some work with the Obama administration and got in some hot water in early, i think the 2008 election, they got in some hot water after the 2008 election. It was one of the, I think one of the first big stories for, remember Project Veritas?
00:19:52
Speaker
Was it? Yeah. Well, maybe it wasn't Project Veritas at the time, it was James O'Keefe. Yeah, well, now it's called O'Keefe Media Group, OMG. Yep. Check them out.
00:20:03
Speaker
Yeah, check them out. did I mean, the journalism they do is nothing we've seen for a generation, I don't think. So they they they caught Project, allegedly caught Project Veritas, I should say, allegedly falsifying, or there was some shadiness going on with acorn registering voters in at addresses that didn't exist ah yeah something that effect uh i think he even went to one of their alabama locations and there was nothing there but they're getting federal they were getting federal funding maybe that was it maybe that was it he tried to find some of their offices and he couldn't find them like they didn't exist but they're but yet they're they've got all these grassroots efforts and stuff like that so
00:20:48
Speaker
they're back and and They're coming back with ah with a with a vengeance, it sounds like. So what they've done is they got a handful of of students from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to gather at a church on Cleveland's west side Tuesday to discuss the impacts of the federal freeze on education funding in the new state budget.
00:21:09
Speaker
interesting Interesting church. Yes. Acorn. Yes. And, you know, if going to take pictures for the news, can you just remove the fans, please? Anyway, it's distracting. ah So they what Acorn is doing is taking your students and turning it them into activists.
00:21:28
Speaker
These students called on the Trump administration to restore the $6 billion dollars in funding that previously went towards after-school programs, teacher training, and education for immigrants and English learning english learners.
00:21:43
Speaker
yeah That amount for Ohio was $185 million. Damn. Nice. Yes. Cut, cut, cut. So here's some quotes. I thought these were good.
00:21:55
Speaker
I feel mostly when they're trying to cut off scholarships, aid, funding for people who come from different countries where they were struggling and stuff. If they come here for a better life, the scholarships basically help them.
00:22:10
Speaker
And they're just trying to get that off. That's just wrong.
00:22:15
Speaker
Sura Ali was a student from John Marshall School of Civic and Business Leadership. Oh, what a great leader we're building there. Activists.
00:22:27
Speaker
Yes, activists, leaders slash activists. So the, here's another good quote from a state board of education member, Ms. Gray Ford, ah Dolores Gray Ford, I think, they yeah, there you go. I get the hyphenating stuff here, who represents the Cleveland area.
00:22:47
Speaker
ah She was concerned about the money, of course, about the money amount of money going to voucher programs in the last budget. you can't You can't say you care about children, but then take, something's missing from this, Tom.
00:23:02
Speaker
Hold on. I think, yeah, this will be better. You can't say you care about children, but then take away funding.
00:23:12
Speaker
Take away the right for them to have ah decent lunch. Take away- right. The right. Wait a minute. Hold on.
00:23:24
Speaker
um look um I'm looking through my copy of the constitution. I'm like, what what amendment is that? Is that like amendment 93 right to a decent lunch? I'll continue. Take away the curriculum that can help them take away programs that they need to become successful. Gray said.
00:23:43
Speaker
it's a clown world. It's a clown world. It's a clown world. at Okay. I'll stop. Um, So there you go. Acorn is back in the news and they are they are petitioning or they are pushing for more of the same community organizing kind of junk.
00:24:03
Speaker
it's It's not going to go anywhere. No, so I mean, right now, but they're I think they're really trying to you know push to stop this this recall or this overturning of these wine vetoes.
00:24:17
Speaker
wine pitoes
00:24:22
Speaker
I don't know. It just, it just stunk to me. and And I just love that quote. That's what really got me that. And also, uh, I know that was, that's actually the next story. So they launched a campaign on Tuesday to get Cleveland metropolitan school district to keep school buildings open for an extra hour on days when weather is either too hot yeah or too cold for students to wait outside.
00:24:44
Speaker
and need a, do you need a program for that? Do you need funding for that?
00:24:49
Speaker
Uh, their proposal. Yeah, go ahead. No, go ahead. I was just about to say the same thing. Yeah. Their proposal, their proposal asks the districts to use volunteers to keep an eye on things in those situations.
00:25:03
Speaker
Confused. Oh, you need money for that too. All right. I don't know. Just watch your kids. be your be Be their parents. Don't let the school be their parents.
00:25:17
Speaker
Figure out what they're doing and and talk to them. doesn you know I mean, they can make up their own decision, but they should see both sides of it. And ACORN is just not a good organization. They never have been, in my opinion. I don't understand why people voted for deportations.
00:25:30
Speaker
I mean, looking at this picture...
00:25:37
Speaker
Yes, I mean, these people are just trying to you know get but free stuff when they come here. They're struggling in stuff, Tom, in other countries. They got a right to lunch. decent lunch.
00:25:48
Speaker
A decent lunch, Tom. Not just a lunch. Oh, yeah, that's right. A decent lunch. Because you can just give people like anything, and it could be a lunch. A couple these kids, I bet you their parents are um grilling up some cats.
00:26:02
Speaker
The amendment...
00:26:05
Speaker
Right here. It's the amendment says decent lunch, decent lunch. Ridiculous. he All On to more ridiculousness.
00:26:16
Speaker
So there's some complaints about the big, beautiful bill, Tom. I know it's shocking. I know it's shocking. I mean, I have some, it's a bunch of big, beautiful bills. So they've, I read this, I read this article. This is from scene magazine. It's called big, beautiful bill makes Medicaid a big, ugly mess in Ohio and across America.
00:26:36
Speaker
And then, is this the one that I, uh, Does this go into the, how much an apartment cost to rent? No.
00:26:46
Speaker
No. No. Okay. I got this mixed up with something else. Nevermind. Sorry. I think I did read that story though, too. oh No, this is what kind of caught me was a couple of the, you know, like obviously I'm reading through the getting into quotes, but It starts, he starts the, who's this? This is Scene Magazine, Rob Moore.
00:27:06
Speaker
And he starts it out with, he attended the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis in Washington, D.C. in 2019 with a keynote speaker of
00:27:17
Speaker
Oh, Cass Sunstein. ah Oh, Cass Sunstein. Who's Cass Sunstein? Nobody probably remembers Cass Sunstein. He was um administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Obama.
00:27:32
Speaker
He's the author of many books, one of them called Nudge. What's Nudge? What's Nudge? Nudge. Pull it up. Examples. Nudge is a book that he wrote about...
00:27:47
Speaker
You know, I had, here it is, about nudge theory. And nudge theory is a concept in behavioral economics and politics. and and politics So just that positive reinforcement
00:28:04
Speaker
It could suggest, ah can influence behavior decisions making, excuse me, behavioral decision making of groups and individuals. So what are some examples of nudge?
00:28:18
Speaker
um Well, let's see. Examples of nudge, let's say sending a text or email reminder for doctor's appointments to reduce missed appointments. Okay.
00:28:30
Speaker
um Organ donation. how do you How would you nudge in that? Well, you would make organ donation an opt-out rather than an opt-in system. Significantly increasing donation rates.
00:28:46
Speaker
Okay, how about another one? what What could be vaccine campaigns? Framing vaccination in a way to protect oneself and others or highlighting the number of people in a particular age group who have been vaccinated.
00:28:59
Speaker
It's manipulating. he wrote a book on how to manipulate people. And it's it's, I guess, used all over the place. none I don't think this is like a novel concept that he came up with, but he put it in a book and pushed it out there. and And it was used many times, ah they would say, on during the Obama administration to kind of nudge the public into one one way or the other.
00:29:24
Speaker
And I think the media uses this kind of tactic all the time. So, not to get off on too much of a tangent, which already did. What is he talking about here? So, He's talking about, he gives in this article in Cass Sudstein's keynote, he talks about the phenomenon called sludge.
00:29:46
Speaker
And sludge how much time it costs, ah to and ah to how much time costs are exacted by the government on individuals through paperwork.
00:30:00
Speaker
So sludge is basically how hard it is to get free money from the government. Mm-hmm. And he believes that the big, beautiful bill was meant was meant to put all these extra ah this extra paperwork involved to kick people off of Medicaid Medicare.
00:30:21
Speaker
um but Was it to kick people off or to actually make it harder to apply? Well, harder to apply, but it... um with some of these provisions, you have to continually and justify it.
00:30:35
Speaker
Right. And if you don't know how, you you will fall. a Work requirements was one of the things that they had said that ah when work requirements for Medicaid enrollment were put into place in Arkansas during the first Trump administration, most of the people who lost their health insurance were people who were working but did not know how to comply with the new requirements for reporting that had been put in place.
00:30:58
Speaker
Oh. I'm sorry. We're trying to do checks and balances. And
00:31:07
Speaker
ah guess if it, so what do we need somebody to to now go there and help them fill out the paperwork? but They're too lazy to work and they're too lazy to read and fill up some paperwork.
00:31:19
Speaker
Too lazy. Yeah, I was thinking more like too stupid to figure it out. But you might be right. it might just be laziness. I think, it i I don't know. A lot of that's laziness. Yeah. I think, and I've never seen paperwork. Well, I guess it can get, it gets confusing. I mean, I've seen some that gets pretty ah involved, but I can't imagine it being that hard.
00:31:40
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No, but some some of these, no, you just have to a pay attention to what's going on and not just automatically think that this check is going to keep coming. Right. And also they ah there's there's checks.
00:31:54
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You have to continually, ah they want to put random checks on Medicare and you have to prove that you're working. And they're saying all these things will work. We'll get people less likely to enroll.
00:32:09
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Yes. Yes. it's shit How easy should it be to get free stuff?
00:32:18
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but You got to turn off the game console once in a while.
00:32:23
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but i mean I know. is This one doesn't make sense. so this basically lets them be lazy, but yet they're too lazy to continue it. Right. In a lot of cases, not every case.
00:32:37
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So in Ohio, it says the Center for Community Solutions said in analysis that that and ah enrollment loss could be as high as 450,000 people. yeah me a hell yeah. All right.
00:32:53
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Good. that's That's, I mean, um' I don't want people to be thrown off these these safety nets. I want them to be weeded out. The people that don't belong on them shouldn't be on them. And and making it a little bit harder seems to be good idea to me.
00:33:08
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i don't know. ah Yeah, just to let people know. Sometimes we maybe we sound a little harsh. We want there to be a safety net, but we just want people to respect it, I guess.
00:33:21
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um Yeah, I mean, i yeah. I want there to be a safety net. At least I do. I just don't want it to be, guess, a way life. ah guess a way of life
00:33:34
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I would like there to be a safety net. I just don't think we're responsible enough to have one because human nature takes advantage of everything at every time. Right. And without checks and balances, it gets out of hand.
00:33:47
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That's what I, well, that's, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I i i i see you. My thing is I just don't think we we're good at it. i just I just think it's important because it's like people do need help sometimes. I mean, think I've never needed it. i have friends have gone on it, but they've always you know got back up on their feet and got jobs or you know got back you know got back to doing their thing.
00:34:12
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But it's it's the folk that you know rely on it. It's a lifestyle. Those are ones that bother me. People ask me all the time, how do these how how can people get away with not working?
00:34:28
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you know you have all you You have all these numbers that come out like under and ah you know people that are off. They saw unemployment numbers and then you don't count the people who have given up work looking for work. Yesterday I went to an event, a family event, and there's there was ah you know there's there's a couple people there that I know that are they can work.
00:34:50
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They choose not to.
00:34:53
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And they're they're good people to to to a point. I mean, they're kind, they're respectful, but boy,
00:35:07
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you ah you ask them, like, what are they doing for a living? yeah they they They just don't want to work. And they get away with it. It's it's been ah it's been a career for them.
00:35:19
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Yeah, to your point, I can see how that happens. I've seen it happen to myself. ah yeah You get laid off from a job and you're like, i I'm going to go find another job. You know what?
00:35:30
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And then i three or four weeks go by, you start getting used to getting up late, then you look for less jobs, you start you stop job hunting. And before you know it, two or three months have gone by and you haven't even opened up a paper. I was about to say a paper, but you haven't even looked for a job or anything like that. I i get it. You can get stuck in that rut.
00:35:51
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Yeah. I understand. it's just, I don't understand the, I guess what I don't get is these are adults that have never really had a job.
00:36:08
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And I don't know, Like basic basically living in their mom's basement, parents' basement. And I don't know how, like, you didn't want anything more in life.
00:36:23
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i i That's where I don't, that's what I don't get. Like, you have no drive to. ambition. No ambition to do anything.
00:36:34
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Pride. um Pardon me? Pride. Yeah, well, it's like, don't you want to meet a ah you know, ah a girl or a guy, I mean, to get.
00:36:47
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To have companionship, to raise a family, to own your own property. You know you you ah you know, they look at things and go, yeah, I'd like to have that. That's sweet. But they don't even have the ambition to go out and get a job to earn that.
00:37:09
Speaker
Yes. And the best way to combat or to combat that is necessity. Because if you're still being um handheld by mommy and daddy.
00:37:20
Speaker
but Or the government. Or the government too. Mommy and daddy. Yeah. it The best way to get rid of that that that sludge, if you want to call it that, to use their term, is to force them into it. Is to, hey, guess what?
00:37:31
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You're out of the house. Now you have to pay your own. Now are you going to It's tough love. Tough love sometimes. I understand that. like when Like, if you never... i get what you're saying.
00:37:43
Speaker
Like, you do that to your lazy 21-year-old that doesn't want to get out of the basement. You know, get them the hell out. get Get a job. Get your own place. But when they're in their 50s or 40s or whatever, like, that person has definitely chose...
00:38:01
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chosen to live that life and i just i don't know how you even look at yourself in the mirror you yeah i see it see it more and more i yeah and that's that's yeah what i'm that's what i'm so that's what i'm trying to push is it's tough tough love yeah yeah if you can work then work you'll you get rewarded for it a you'll get paid for it but you'll it gives you something to do maybe you won't turn into a humongously overweight Gila monster sitting on the couch all day.
Societal Work Ethics and Ambition Discussion
00:38:29
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Well, you know what? it it' It's like, I hate my job. I can't stand going in daily. ah i freaking hate it but it's what you do. You know, I need, I want to pay my bills. i You know, there's a guitar I like. I want to work for it and get it. or or Or, you know, if you want, there's a car you like, or if you want to get a new set of golf clubs, it's like, you just fucking go to work and do it, man.
00:38:56
Speaker
Suck it up. I agree. And I think, uh, I think more and more, don't I see, I see the opposite that. I see people, was going to say, and I could tell because I could felt myself doing this at times when I was unemployed years ago.
00:39:10
Speaker
um you You get used to where you're living and you're you're accepted. you You're making your bills. You're not getting and not getting ahead, but you accept it. And the laziness kicks in. And I see that to this day. I see people leave one job, go to another one, making a lot more money.
00:39:25
Speaker
But and then I catch up with them later or hear, hey, how's this person doing at this other job? And they say, well, you know they're kind of a problem. Like, what do you mean? Well, they work three days a week. yeah and Yeah. We get a lot of that too at our place.
00:39:36
Speaker
Because they've increased their dollar amount hourly. So now they don't have to work as many hours to to make the same money they made at the previous place. Instead of getting ahead. Right. To me, that's where the stupidness comes. That's stupid, not necessarily easy.
00:39:47
Speaker
But it is so funny. It's so weird because like I knew I do. i you know, when I owned a previous business and I worked with younger people and there were people that I would ah expect to be like that.
00:39:59
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That I was like, oh yeah, these are these this is just a lazy, lazy young person. But no, they're like totally opposite. they just They just hustle.
00:40:10
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And they just, like they have a drive. Like they won't take handouts. They'll just, they just want to keep working and advancing. and And I don't, like how does that make, yeah how does, where when does that happen?
00:40:28
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Like, how does one be one and the other be the other? You know, like, how does one be so driven and one be so? There's a lot to do with that, I think.
00:40:39
Speaker
Upbringing examples in your life that you had when you If you watch your parents be lazy, then that's the example that you know. Yeah. Yeah. You watch your parents go to work every day, then you'll more, more, not, not guaranteed, of course, but you have a much more of a chance of being, you know, reliable and dependable.
00:40:59
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I've been surprised both ways, actually, you know, people that I thought would be driven and, and the ones that I thought would be lazy are like totally driven. it' It's weird.
00:41:11
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Yeah. That's a good, it's, it's, can't judge a book by its cover, I guess. and That's for sure. I knew, uh, speaking of work and workers uh, how I'm wondering how they're doing, what they're doing is Juergens
Juergens Inc. Moves to Ohio: Economic Boost
00:41:26
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Inc.
00:41:26
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Got a story here about the Cleveland, made in Cleveland, a local factory grows as company, as companies shift back to U S manufacturing. Yeah. I got a clip here from news channel five, ABC news channel five and let's check it out. So yeah, this is Juergens manufacturing see what they had to say.
00:41:51
Speaker
In April, Jergens Incorporated was moving forward with plans to double down on Cleveland, bringing their California operations and jobs here. So three months later, News 5's Elizabeth Van Mitri went back to check in and see how tariffs are impacting manufacturing across Northeast Ohio.
00:42:07
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In the last three months, things have changed at Juergens Inc. The once-empty space Jack Schron, the president of Juergens, walked us through in April, is now filled with more advanced equipment. All this equipment was in California in April.
00:42:20
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It's all now here. Products that were once partially stores from outside the U.S. are now fully manufactured on U.S. soil. These are the most precise electric screwdriver. They're being made right here in Cleveland, Ohio.
00:42:34
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They're not being made anyplace else in the world. Today, the factory is buzzing. New employees, some relocated from the company's California operations, are now walking the floor. i think manufacturing is is alive and well, coming back strong.
00:42:48
Speaker
Back in April, President Donald Trump made his tariff announcement and he framed it as a way to bring manufacturing and jobs back into the United States. Since then, major companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Albert Laboratories, Apple and Chobani, have pledged to expand operations on U.S. soil.
00:43:05
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Tron has witnessed the evolution of the industry firsthand. This room we're sitting in, we're looking at 84 years with a manufacturing history. It had peaks and valleys, but right now we are at the process, I believe, of coming right up to that that peak.
00:43:19
Speaker
He says the renewed interest in domestic manufacturing speaks volumes. Today, I think you're seeing it re-energized. In Northeast Ohio, there's no doubt. For News 5, I'm Elizabeth Van Mitry.
00:43:33
Speaker
I love that story. Yeah, that's it's awesome. Electric screwdrivers being made in Cleveland, Ohio, and in Northeastern Ohio. those Those look like pretty young yeah it does sophisticated electric screwdrivers. Yeah, they It looks pretty cool. I wanted to look into what those were because it looked pretty cool as a gadget. I'm wondering if those were like for medical or something. something it was like ah It looked like all made out of all metal or something like that, like aluminum. is but Yeah, yeah.
00:43:56
Speaker
Pretty awesome looking. there's a couple of things there. One, but the whole tariff thing. and And News Channel 5, kudos to you for bringing up a positive story of for tariffs because I haven't seen many of those come across.
00:44:10
Speaker
But also, he moved from California to Ohio. and I wonder why. Yeah. Gee, I wonder. i think i think this, goes again, goes back to some of the stuff in this last budget, making Ohio more inviting for for businesses to get those California or Illinois, New York, where they've got high taxes, high regulatory, and bring them in here.
00:44:40
Speaker
Now we go back to the last story it's like, who the hell are they going to have work there? I'm not sure yet because that's a problem in itself. But hey, that that's that's a and it's a good problem, right? They could have transplanted some people. i hope some Hopefully they're not going to vote like a typical ah Californian.
00:44:57
Speaker
There you go. don't ah Don't California my Ohio. Yeah. But ah yeah, you know, they'll they'll find people. If you pay, the you'll find people. There you go.
00:45:08
Speaker
yeah You know i you know this is this is this story was nice to see because our our our manufacturing plant is struggling right now because of tariffs.
00:45:18
Speaker
Well, they blame it on tariffs, but I blame it more on ah lack of vision, put it that way. But so tariffs would hurt you guys?
00:45:31
Speaker
ah Yeah, we, you know, we we ah sell a lot to Mexico and Canada. Oh, so the tariffs that Mexico and Canada are putting on our products is hurting us.
00:45:42
Speaker
Gotcha. So, you know, there's that tariff war, a little bit of a tariff war going on and slowed us down a lot. um But I think that's a lack of vision and a lack of adopt or adaptation.
00:45:59
Speaker
and Yeah, you know what? Our company's been around for a very long time, longer than Juergens, you know, over 100 And I think they've been relying on certain business and focusing on... They've been trying to get different business, but not the... It's... I don't want to say too... Not diversified enough.
00:46:20
Speaker
yeah Not diversified enough. And you know what? Lack of vision and lack of ah lack of a nutsack to to ah grow. Take a chance. Yeah. Take a chance.
00:46:32
Speaker
Risky. Yeah. very... That usually defines a, you know, a business. Yeah. But good. I mean, I, I, this is nice to see, you know?
00:46:43
Speaker
Yeah. this I see. I'm seeing more of this coming and in my line of work too. Good. Good. Or these, this kind of building and re um,
00:46:53
Speaker
you know, re remodeling old factories, repurposing old factories and that kind of stuff. Yeah. I mean, that's good for, that's good for me. If if my company doesn't want to grow or it just doesn't um take advantage of what's going on, then I, this, this will allow me to go wherever whoever's paying so you know what solution to that is what's that just talking about so i'm i'm saying hey this is great you know pay your workers you know i think i think it's harder to find good employees because there's a lot of bad ones out there so on so forth what's the solution well i would say you need need help with manufacturing in america let's find some good hard-working illegal immigrants
00:47:37
Speaker
you got Yeah, that or you you can actually... but like Manufacturing industry has been, you know, since since the mid-90s has gone downhill mainly.
00:47:50
Speaker
um You've lost workers, I should say, because the the growth in... in wages has been stagnant. We've gone backwards. It used to be a job where you can leave high school, kind of train for a few years and you could be making some, but you know, you could be raising a family on that wage, not anymore.
00:48:10
Speaker
and So that needs to, um that needs to change. Yeah. And you'll get, you'll get, you'll get people wanting to do that job because it's not a bad job.
00:48:20
Speaker
You know, it it really isn't. iine you know I complain about it, but i I'll complain about anything that I'm doing that for somebody else. um it it but So what helps keep wages up?
00:48:32
Speaker
Legal immigration. What keeps wages down and suppressed? Illegal immigration. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean... Yes.
00:48:43
Speaker
that's I mean, that's that's what America has been doing for generations is like factory workers were the immigrants. They were the they were the Irish. They were the Italians. They were the Polish and so on and so forth. We just need to continue that.
00:48:54
Speaker
What I'm saying is like a lot of the manufacturing went ah umm to different, you know. Sure. Yeah. And it just locked up. It locked up the ah wage growth, you know, ah for since NAFTA, basically since ah the mid ninety s Right. And nobody wants to do it. So how, you know, i don't know how you, right. So they figured out ways to hire people that just know how to push a button and don't know how to but actually machine or figure out.
00:49:24
Speaker
Right. I'm not, I'm not raising my kids to work. I'm raising them to work at a better place than I do, but somebody else has, and that's what most Americans do. You know, that's just, that's just yeah of course what parents do. But those people coming in who are hungry to build that family and that wealth, that generational wealth, that's who usually does those jobs.
00:49:40
Speaker
And i think I think there's plenty of them coming back and um and we need it. We need the labor. yeah's There's a huge labor shortage out there. huge opportunity for anybody who wants to apply themselves and care just a little bit.
00:49:53
Speaker
Huge opportunities out there in the construction industry and manufacturing. All right. Enough of that one. Let's move on to our next story, which is Youngstown Lifeguard Academy.
00:50:06
Speaker
Now, I was probably thinking, why does he got Lifeguard Academy? What? No. So sometimes I see his stories that it's really not the story that interests me, but it's something the story represents. And that's what this is.
Youngstown Lifeguard Academy Funding Issues
00:50:22
Speaker
And this story is lifetown ah life Youngstown Lifeguard Academy, who...
00:50:32
Speaker
Was denied funding under our new state budget. How much, Rob? $500,000. Holy.
00:50:44
Speaker
But you got to ask me the next question. For what? Okay. For what? um They want to train lifeguards.
00:50:55
Speaker
Yeah. right Right now, so there are the the Academy was founded in 2019 to provide employment to local teens. Okay, that's good. And make sure the Northside Pool had staff to open every summer.
00:51:09
Speaker
So they want to make sure that their school in Youngstown, their pool in Youngstown, Northside Pool has lifeguards. They needed $500,000 for that? Well, that is the unclear part that as I'm reading through a story a couple times, I'm going, where what were they what are they working on now?
00:51:25
Speaker
Because they wanted $500,000 of new money to to expand the program. The Academy planned to recruit 60 new lifeguards for all of Mahoning county mahoning Valley, not just Youngstown.
00:51:39
Speaker
It still seems like a lot. Yes, it does. And so I think here's maybe a key point here. um The quote from ah Kevin Tarpley, founder of the Youngstown Lifeguard Academy says, this fall, the academy has, is going to scale back.
00:52:02
Speaker
We have to give up our training facility and our administrative offices.
00:52:08
Speaker
Say that again? They're going to have to give up their training facility and their administrative offices. oh And we will focus on on the current... the 10 current lifeguards that they have and that need recertification.
00:52:23
Speaker
So they... So they needed... they needed What would that be? $10,000 per extra? or per To over is like or I forgot the math. But yeah, it's per student. For a life goal for a public pool lifeguard, you needed basically to to train.
00:52:52
Speaker
that's that's but something yeah that seems like a lot But I'm not even that far yet, Tom. but Okay. What I'm stuck on is they have a training facility and administrative offices before they had the 500,000. Right, right.
00:53:09
Speaker
For 10 lifeguards. That's what I see here. Because they want to scale this back to focus on the current 10 they have to get them recertified for this year so that at least that one pool has lifeguards.
00:53:24
Speaker
They wanted the 500 grand. to expand it to 60. um You know what? my My neighbor just put a pool in I bet you I could do it for half price. Yeah. Stand by the pool.
00:53:37
Speaker
Push him in. Swim. I'm just kidding. ah ah So Tarpley says the Academy has just enough money to fund its training over the next year. He says unless an angel comes in to their rescue, the city will once again have to but to do its own lifeguard recruiting, Tom.
00:53:59
Speaker
Well, I pray that angel strikes them
00:54:04
Speaker
ah Oh my gosh. So again, I, so this is what I, what I've been preaching for quite some time is to fix the problems we have,
00:54:19
Speaker
but to fix our country, to make it prosper to make it more prosperous than it even already is, and to to get it off, it's, in my opinion, downward spiral that we've been in. Some of the solutions to fix our country, both morally and financially, are mostly choices that when it comes down to it, most of us are not willing to make.
00:54:39
Speaker
This includes cuts to services, you know you although very convenient, maybe not sustainable at these current levels. These are these, this is the things that I always bring up that what I, what, what, what I fight for, what we fight for, what you and I mostly agree on most of it is choices, hard choices that we have to make choices that people don't, they don't want to cut lifeguards.
00:55:01
Speaker
Well, maybe me need to charge a cover at the pool. Maybe need to increase the pool, whatever you charge to to get in the pool or whatever else. Because why does the state need to give you 500 grand to do 60 lifeguards? I don't,
00:55:14
Speaker
you not have enough people paying on the, you know, is there, is it the public pools? I think they cost money, don't they? lot of situations they do. I don't know. I've never been to a public pool. I don't think they do.
00:55:27
Speaker
Well, like for example, if you have a,
00:55:32
Speaker
community center like a ah I think if you're a resident of that community it it doesn't it's free I think like over here locally but close to you I think that pool think that pool if if you want to go there because you're a neighboring community you have to pay a yeah a membership fee it which it might be worth it because that' that's a nice park but um I don't think the residents have to it It depends, because I do remember I worked for a person.
00:56:04
Speaker
They just built, this was years ago, small business. They just built a new, what do they call them, community center? Mm-hmm. And they had a pool in it, and it was a discounted rate for citizen for the city's citizens. yeah I would say every um community does that differently. It's a little different. It's a little different, sure.
00:56:23
Speaker
I just don't know. thinking, like, this is not that. This is just the... community pool you know that i think there's a pass or something you have to do something and pay a little bit of money anyway regardless it's it's different everywhere yes um i guess my point though is i cut until it hurts and then cut some more yeah i mean this is this is a i don't know it's silly a no-brainer to me it seems it seems like it seems like you do you need a administrative office and a training facility so the training facility is probably a pool of some sorts
00:56:57
Speaker
but Why do you need that much that much money for a community? I mean, like, why does... ten ten i mean like why does
00:57:09
Speaker
I don't see why, the you know, anybody's getting taxed on this, except for, like, the only people that should be taxed on this, if you know, if you want to get go there, is the local community.
00:57:22
Speaker
Right. You know? listen <unk> But it's easier, it's much easier, and much much better for, to beg the state for it. Yeah. That way you don't have ask the taxpayers to pony up another half a percent to to go swimming.
00:57:34
Speaker
Yeah, this is what makes me sick. yeah um I mean, this Youngstown. Imagine what other communities are doing too. Yes. it's ah get I get it. I don't want to shut down the pools, but it doesn't seem like it's feasible to keep them open if you can't if you have to keep begging and borrowing and stealing to get it.
00:57:54
Speaker
Obviously not stealing. that ah But you know i mean if you have to keep begging, every of robert you know hey can you give that maybe it's not feasible in your area. Maybe there's not enough interest in a public pool. Suck it, Youngstown!
00:58:09
Speaker
CricketRivercast at So again, like, ah you know, it's just, I get it. it doesn't It doesn't feel good, but it's not sustainable at current levels. We have to cut. We have to stop somewhere.
00:58:25
Speaker
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00:58:35
Speaker
ah could be known It could be a little harsh on that one, but I'm i'm um good with it.
00:58:40
Speaker
Oh, I got to turn that off. Yeah.
00:58:45
Speaker
On to the next story, Thomas. This one's an interesting one. This one might get some, raise them and some eyebrows. So we had talked about a couple weeks ago when they had some shootings and there's some Congress people, was it Minnesota who got, think it was Minnesota or Minneapolis, something like that. And we had mentioned a couple of things that have happened in Ohio recently as far as um threatening of politicians.
00:59:08
Speaker
One of them was Max Miller.
00:59:11
Speaker
So a story came out, so they've, they've, they've, they've actually got some, um, some released photos and text messages. Well, I imagine text messages. I shouldn't say that, but there's some video out, but that way I got a clip from the video about what happened.
00:59:26
Speaker
And it, it's a kind of uh, Kind of something, you know maybe a lesson of what not to do when you when you see a ah congressperson. When you drive. out like I'm i'm trying trying to figure out how you even spotted him looking at this video.
00:59:42
Speaker
but You know, the thing is, Max Miller is not the most ah recognizable person either. No, he looks very much just like a regular guy. Yeah, he is. I mean, he would be hard to spot unless you're like...
00:59:54
Speaker
being weird and like following him like like filming him as you drive yeah like a little obsessed with something like like like filming your harassment for the cops right that's the things not to do like i was saying yeah here let's let's listen to the this is uh news nine abc ah news nine uh station and uh here's their report ah who is Jewish, alleged in June that Dr. Ferris Hamdan threatened to kill him and tried to run him off the road.
01:00:28
Speaker
The newly released cell phone video shot by Hamdan himself shows him yelling at the congressman and using homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay, sorry. What was his name?
01:00:42
Speaker
Oh, I'm done. Well, I'm not going to try to pronounce it. Wait, what is it? I'm trying to see it in the in the report here. Hamdam. Hamdan.
01:00:52
Speaker
Oh, it's a D.A.N. Hangan. That's what it sounded like. Can I catch it? See himself shows him yelling at the to run him off the road. The newly released cell phone video shot by Hamdan himself um shows him yelling at the congressman and using homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs.
01:01:12
Speaker
This is the congressman, that piece of congressman that's against Palestine. That's crazy. What? That's crazy. Say it again. That's crazy.
01:01:27
Speaker
This racist Jewish, he can't look at me. He knows I'm recording him. Cleveland.com. Or he's driving. By the way, he was looking at him too. And he's driving next to him.
01:01:39
Speaker
There's little bit more. Look at me. He knows I'm recording him. Cleveland.com filed a Freedom of Information request to release the trouble of documents, which also include the 911 call, police interview with Miller, the police report. search warrants and dozens of videos, including Tesla footage of Hamdan getting into the company vehicle prior to the incident. The 911 dispatcher acknowledging in the report that she could hear honking and commotion and recalls Miller stating that Hamdan was making threats towards his family and calling him a, quote, dirty Jew. oh Miller later recounted the incident to police in this video just released.
01:02:18
Speaker
So, So, yes. what What happened? What happened to? So there is there is now a he said, she said. Who do you think was the aggressor here?
01:02:29
Speaker
There's more to this too. I want to finish it, but who do you think is the aggressor? I wonder. Huh? I mean, he filmed it himself. Palestine. Palestine. Hamdan.
01:02:41
Speaker
Hamdan. Let's continue. Crazy, man. Crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. I was like, whoa. Yeah, you are crazy. just It sounds like you're really trying to control yourself here, but the ending's even the best part.
01:02:55
Speaker
Yeah. Hey, I'm trying to ignore him. And also the incident to police in this video just released. Hey, I'm trying to ignore him. And all a sudden he goes this with his vehicle a little bit and it jars me. it does. not going to lie. little scared. And he put his cell phone towards the window.
01:03:14
Speaker
it was a Palestinian flag. and I said, OK, well, now I'm figuring this out pretty quick. So windows are down and he's just screaming at me at the top of this long saying he wants to kill me. That's on video. Hamdan has been indicted on one count of ethnic intimidation, one count of tampering with evidence, one count of aggravated menacing, and one count of menacing.
01:03:37
Speaker
But Hamdan's attorney paints an entirely different picture. oh does Telling Scripps News, the video simply shows Hamdan recognizing the congressman and having a passionate exchange disagreeing with his policies.
01:03:49
Speaker
ah You know, theres there's some lawyers just need to... Oh, attorney Isa Al-Khatib...
01:04:00
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. He's, uh, okay. I get it. Wait, I see where this is going. Okay. Well, I mean, I mean, I know he, now he's starting to say that, uh, Miller swerved at him.
01:04:14
Speaker
So how when he filmed it Yes. But he filmed everything. And they said they have a video of him calling erasal and homophobic slurs. Cause I just, is Max Miller gay? I didn't think he is.
01:04:25
Speaker
Um, so they,
01:04:29
Speaker
if If somebody rolls up next to you but the camp with their phone filming you, not even a congressperson. All congresspeople are gay.
01:04:41
Speaker
Well, just a thought. Good point. But even as not as a congressperson or a state legislature or anything, if someone rolls up next to you in your car on the freeway, it looks like this was on the freeway, and they're filming you with their camera.
01:04:57
Speaker
That seems threatening to me. No? Like it's like, what what are you trying to prove here with filming me, trying to get my picture on my face so that you can find out who I am kind of thing.
01:05:09
Speaker
So I think right off the bat, that's a threatening posture. Does that make sense?
01:05:17
Speaker
Technically, is it threatening? Probably not. but No, no, I'm not saying that. I would feel uneasy. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. that That is not. Maybe one of my hands would start moving towards my ah my piece.
01:05:34
Speaker
Yes, exactly. cause you know and and then And then he puts a Palestinian flag up against the window. Yeah. Well, I'll bet. Yeah.
01:05:44
Speaker
So that's sure what that's already like, uh, that's really making you uneasy if you're a Congressman. I mean, if somebody did it to me, I'd be like, move away fool. Yeah. But, uh, but, um, a Congressman, man. Yeah.
01:06:00
Speaker
Yeah. Especially Congressman. I think they, uh, I think, I just, I like the comment. He wishes he wasn't so passionate yet or filmed it. he was wish He wishes he wasn't retarded. And and they did that was called throwing the book at him.
01:06:17
Speaker
like So what's tampering evidence? What were you trying to delete off your phone?
01:06:24
Speaker
It would have been great if he yeah live, you
01:06:29
Speaker
you know, what is that called? When you live streamed it, yeah. or Live streamed
01:06:35
Speaker
it. This is yeah, this is crazy, man. Palestine. All right. And so they're going to continue on. Yeah, they're going to continue that. they've They've now they're trying to subpoena Max Miller's records because they're saying he was the aggressor. So we'll see. But I think we know who the aggressor was here. Yeah, that's silly.
01:06:55
Speaker
Moving on to more silliness, as you say, and this, this is a story we had, I think from last week and we pushed into this week cause we didn't have time, but I do not want to skip it again because it's
Telecommunications Tower Controversy
01:07:07
Speaker
a pretty good story. it is a about, is about a a brown helm township brown helm township which is ah by my estimates lorraine county so it's east of lorraine ah but not not quite to sandusky oh i never heard of that oh it's it's that far west yeah okay it's just like west of lorraine the city of lorraine and uh not quite port clinton area or anything but
01:07:36
Speaker
So what happened is um well, I have a clip, so we'll check out the clip and move from there. 19's Noelle Williams breaks down. What's happening? Would you want this tower next to your property?
01:07:49
Speaker
Probably not. Neither do several Brownhelm Township property owners. But they say that choice was made for them, especially Reese and Krista Tassone. They tell me they woke up one day in May and the tower was being built.
01:08:03
Speaker
Now they want it gone. we saw a tower being built, you know, just feet away from our property line. um We had to really do some digging to figure out what it even was. 19 troubleshooters got answers.
01:08:17
Speaker
It turns out just seven feet and 10 inches away from the couple's property. is a telecommunications tower. It's part of the Ohio's multi-agency radio communication system.
01:08:27
Speaker
It's one of three new towers being built across Lorain County. Seven additional towers are receiving upgrades. This one is set to reach 350 feet high and on land owned by the Northern Ohio Rural Water.
01:08:42
Speaker
But why here? Nearby neighbor Jay Strauss says if residents have to follow rules, so should everyone else. and I was putting up a pole barn in my backyard and was told I couldn't get a permit. I had to be 100 feet and I was only 82 feet.
01:08:56
Speaker
Yet they can put a tower eight foot from the property line. 19 troubleshooters had a lot of calls to make. We started with the township trustees. I received this statement. In part, it reads the county cut the township out of the project and followed Ohio Revised Code 519.211.
01:09:12
Speaker
Not our fault. All township officials will have no further comments at this time. So then I reached out to Lorain County Commissioner Jim Riddell. He tells me the land was handpicked by engineers and assured to be safe.
01:09:26
Speaker
However, he also adds that the county has been in communication over the past year with the township and that it's the township responsibility to inform nearby property owners. The plans were put on the township's agenda and opened a discussion.
01:09:39
Speaker
However, the revised code states that any person who plans to construct a telecommunications tower within 100 feet of a residential dwelling shall provide a written notice to the owner.
01:09:50
Speaker
These property owners say that never happened. I also reached out to the state. We're still waiting to learn if the tower could or will come down. It ain't going anywhere.
01:10:01
Speaker
It's a third of it's already up. like i'll I'll tell you what, that would infuriate me. I am, um, you know, we've been looking, my wife and I have been looking for property for a while. And one of the things that really just kind of, um, is a detractor when we look at a property. i mean, if we, you know, we, we check it out on the Google maps and all that. and if we see any sign of, uh,
01:10:30
Speaker
Electrical lines or um any type of large towers or, you know, the cell phone towers and all that. That's a that's like an automatic no to us or, you know, so that drops property value down so much, man.
01:10:45
Speaker
Yeah, and one of the ways they're getting around this is this house is already next to is oh Ohio Rural Water or whatever they called it. And there's a ah water tower on that property.
01:10:56
Speaker
I got you. It made perfect sense for them to put ah something else on that property because they don't have to buy it. They don't they just pay whatever to the... So they already have a water tower. it' in the In the images, it's a lot farther away than this. This tower is literally right next to their... I mean, it's 10 feet away your fence.
01:11:13
Speaker
You know, if I have like 10, 20 acres and there's a water tower in the distance, that probably... You know, I don't think that would bother me as much as a electrical lines. Whenever, you know, or are any type of radio tower or cell tower. 350 foot tower.
01:11:27
Speaker
Yeah, dude, that that is like... man, you're you're walking back to your, you can't even build a pole barn. This guy's putting a 350 foot ah thing in your, what let's say you bought it, you build a smaller, you know, pole barn or shed or whatever. you're walking back there and you're just, you got this thing that's just,
01:11:46
Speaker
but no pun intended towering over you and making you feel like it's about to fall over on you. And it's, it's massive. I mean, 350 feet, the base is massive and the, the, the foundations are literally 10 feet, less than 10 feet from their property line, 10 feet their fence. Yeah. That,
01:12:02
Speaker
That yeah would, oh my God, I can't even imagine that happening. You know, you move to a place and five years down the road, somebody's doing that. Shame on them city council. Shame on them. that They're not city council. They're township pigs.
01:12:16
Speaker
They're pigs. They're like, oh, not our fault. They cut us out. no No, but you knew it was coming. You had to have known it was coming. And you you didn't make a ah stink about it, but maybe because you didn't think it was a big deal.
01:12:28
Speaker
i would also say part of this res responsibility is on he um the residents to know what the hell's going on in their in their county and state and city and all that stuff. It pays to know because this was, it seemed like it was brought up at some city council meetings.
01:12:44
Speaker
And, you know, or whatever meeting, they're not, say i mean I keep calling the city council, you know I mean? There were meetings, agendas ah written for this. it's It sucks, but... I bet you that's not even like a health, a good health.
01:12:56
Speaker
um It's not even healthy with that thing next year like that. Yeah, i could easily make that argument with ah with all radio waves and stuff. Yeah. I mean, know yeah because because there's there's studies, even like power lines that are closer than 900 feet to your property can cause ah migraines and things like that, you know.
01:13:15
Speaker
Yeah, you talk about all the Wi-Fi and everything we have. and Yeah, that's bad enough. Sleep deprivation. and and that's it's the same thing. Wi-Fi is just a radio frequency.
01:13:27
Speaker
ah Similar to this. And that's probably what they're putting on there. A lot of cities get away with this. They put them on flagpoles and stuff. so you know Some of this is for communication between the city. But this seems like ah like a radio tower to 350 feet up.
01:13:39
Speaker
And no, that's huge. Yeah, it's huge. That's awful. I mean, I went on the Millennium Force. That's only 310 feet. I mean, I'd kill for a 350-foot roller coaster in my backyard, but not a tower. I wouldn't want a roller coaster in my backyard. They'd be messed up too, man.
01:13:54
Speaker
I know the lines and everything and the trash. ah and So, you know, I guess there's a lesson is, I guess you got to keep, be vigilant, keep, keep track of what's going on in your city. and It's not easy. It's kind of one of the reasons we started doing this show was, was to get more involved with what's going on locally instead of nationally.
01:14:13
Speaker
This is more local than what we're talking about, but I don't, yeah, man. i don't know i don't know i don't know how the neighbors didn't ah mean like i don't know i didn't look at the map or anything with how this guy's property is set but but i don't know i don't know how the residents they were there drilling drilling the foundations probably weeks or months before the tower went up yeah yeah there there could be a lack there could have been a lack of caring. i don't know.
01:14:42
Speaker
don't know. um I'm only leaning on the the city or the township council, whatever they call them, because they're the ones who need to, if, hey, this is what's going on. Just so you know you know, you need to send out flyers. You need to, I mean, it's not that kind of stuff.
01:14:56
Speaker
that's what That's what you're there for. we We put you in place so we don't have to pay attention to every single little thing like this. You might want to check that guy's pole barn. He might be like welding up a bulldozer ah with a bunch of armor plates. Because I think I i think i would have be.
01:15:11
Speaker
Yes. ah get get Do it now before it gets too high because it maybe only hit one or two houses if you take it out instead of all of them. right and let's get over Then move on to the water reserve there.
01:15:24
Speaker
Oh, no. That's actually convenient if you can tap into it. That's true. Get some free water. Yeah, screw it. I got my own well. There you go Yeah. All right. We got one more coming up here. this this one's This one's a good one, I think. I was looking forward to this story. This is a Street Takeover Conviction.
01:15:46
Speaker
Is this like a faux-faux story? Fofo story. What mean? F around find out. oh yes. ah ah Sorry. Yes. Fafo.
01:15:58
Speaker
Fafo? Yeah. I think that's... Oh, Fafo. Yeah, that's a Fafo. Okay. Yes, this is definitely a Fafo
Ashlyn Rogers' Sentencing and Street Takeovers
01:16:05
Speaker
for sure. I got a clip and let's go through it. ah So this street takeovers we had, we had some, well, I think last year they had some in Cleveland and all around Cleveland. is multiple ones. So they they ah arrested a Port Clinton woman and she is now going to prison.
01:16:21
Speaker
What's a Port Clinton woman doing around here? Good question. question uh organizing street takeovers is what it sounds like if by the uh by story so we're what the news channel five again has abc news channel five A Port Clinton woman is going to prison for taking part in street takeovers that paralyzed the city of Cleveland.
01:16:41
Speaker
This was last September. You remember when cars did donuts around police vehicles, people shot airsoft guns at officers and shot off fireworks in intersections. Even Interstate 90 was shut down where a party bus was attacked.
01:16:56
Speaker
Well, today, a judge sentenced 23-year-old Ashlyn Rogers to two and a half years total. I want to bring now in News 7 investigator Tara Morgan. She has covered these takeovers extensively for us. Tara, you were in the newsroom um in the courtroom today.
01:17:11
Speaker
Rogers wouldn't look at the evidence the prosecution showed, including videos and text messages from her own cell phone. They illustrated a pattern by Rogers in the days prior when she was at other takeovers.
01:17:23
Speaker
Last September 28th, the prosecutor says Rogers used her Instagram account to post rules, locations and to direct others to illegal activity. She was also either a spectator or blocking intersections.
01:17:37
Speaker
Her defense attorney said real consequences for felony guilty pleas will far outlast the sentence given to her. Yes, they will. Rogers put her head in her hands when a judge gave her a sentence, 18 months for disrupting public service and 12 months for aggravated riot.
01:17:53
Speaker
She also must forfeit her car, a 2020 Infiniti And since the sentences will be served concurrently, she'll spend a year and a half in prison. ah You know, dad's pissed.
01:18:06
Speaker
Oh, i think i think I think she's going to do really well in prison. i think I think they're going to like her. I think you're right. i think I think she's going to find out whether she's a badass or not.
01:18:20
Speaker
Real quick. Yeah, she's kind of a she's a decent looking, and slight white girl. Yes. I think Shaniqua's going to like her.
01:18:31
Speaker
and She should be, hope she has taken up the chance right now before she goes in to watch the documentary series, Orange is the New Black.
Rogers' Sentence and Public Disruptions Discussion
01:18:39
Speaker
That'll really help her out on Netflix. Yeah. She's probably going to go to a low, like a, I would think a low security type of prison. Yes. She's not, she's not a hardened criminal, but I, I saw this as a big win because man, they threw the book at her and they made, I mean, I think they could have done worse, but I think she could have got more.
01:19:00
Speaker
Well, she, she got a break doing concurrent instead of doing two and a half years, she's doing year a half. So they could have gotten worse. They probably could have extended that up to, you know, many more years. but instead of just giving you a probation, like I think in the past it might've happened. I think they're trying to make an example of her stop this.
01:19:16
Speaker
Yeah, it was, it was a disruption. That's for sure. Yes. I wonder what made her do that. told ah guess, but like from Port Clinton to Cleveland,
01:19:30
Speaker
yeah Was it like um status on online? I would think. Yeah. I mean, I think that i mean that's even dumber than I mean, that's dumb. That's about as dumb as recording you harassing a congressperson.
01:19:43
Speaker
Yeah, just about. mean, you're you're going to get caught. Oh, for certain. I mean, there's picture. They got pictures of her at the at the these events with a mask on. Right. Right. enteredd Her car blocking traffic.
01:19:54
Speaker
and She's not really trying to, she's got a mask on, but you could still tell it's her. Yeah, exactly. She wasn't too bright. I had thought, I thought, and that kind came through my head, across my head when I was um looking through this.
01:20:08
Speaker
So this is disruptive. I get it. And this would drive me nuts. And I'm not quite sure how I would handle it. uh but how much different is this than you know back i used to hear back in the 60s or 50s there's they used to do drag racing on streets they would shut the street down to drag race similar to that no I don't remember streets being shut down. I think they... I know here in Cleveland back in the day, they would have drag racing like at Quigley, which was pretty much a ah ah street that didn't wasn't used. So they didn't do it downtown?
01:20:42
Speaker
No, no. Not that I know of. I mean, it was it was on... It was Quigley, that which is like, I and think that's like around where Steelyard Commons are now.
01:20:53
Speaker
Yeah, i think it's down underneath all the freeways down there and stuff. Yeah, and it it was a street that wasn't used at night. Not traffic very much. Yeah, so it was, yeah, they'd shut it down, but it wasn't a street that was used.
01:21:05
Speaker
During the day it was maybe, but not at night. And also I would say they threw that little bit in there about the I-90 that got shut down and a party bus that got attacked. Yeah. e that's that's where i was kind of going was like yeah i don't think they i think they're they're they're doing drag races and and yeah did fights break out i'm sure back in the day but did they start attacking the no and and they weren't they weren't doing it for the same reasons no you were ah quigley was definitely like different you you built a car you would go somewhere to show it off
01:21:36
Speaker
And you you'd place bets. it was it was um I don't think it was. I think it slowly became kind of a gang thing. But I think back in the 60s and seventy s when it was like, ah you know, you'd you'd have your 74 Nova.
01:21:50
Speaker
And this is this is kind of funny. A guy my dad worked with, had like 73 Nova, think, 74, something that.
01:21:59
Speaker
Maybe a 72. Yeah, about a 72. And they they had a six cylinder in it, right? Well, they'd be like, well, we'll we'll meet you at Quigley in an hour or you know wherever. And they'd go home and they swap it out with an eight cylinder real quick.
01:22:16
Speaker
And then they they show up to race. nice So they they won a lot of money like that. And people will be like, what the hell? you know and then yeah And then people got smart and started saying, hey, I want to take a look under the hood.
01:22:29
Speaker
Well, they were also doing it for that reason. This is particularly just disrupt traffic and be pain in the butt. That's the only reason i'm doing this. I think it's fun to disrupt traffic and and delay people from going to their locations and so on Oh, you know, and like ambulances and fire kind stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:22:46
Speaker
So, um good. You kind of had it coming, and you know i I hope to this story gets out there and stops one or two of them, because when this when you get the crowd of people like this, especially young kids, and then like i said, in 90, they started harassing and attacking a party bus.
01:23:03
Speaker
that's That's a totally different thing. That's not a street race. That's called a riot. but Yeah, these yeah from from the videos I saw, this wasn't this wasn't ah anything about really racing. This was just about causing ah chaos, basically. yeah Yeah, I think it's fun to to cause chaos on city streets. and Yeah, it can be, but when you... Fafo.
01:23:26
Speaker
Yep. All right, Tom, we're on to our favorite segment of the of the of the show.
Spotlight on Ryan Trahan's YouTube Adventures
01:23:33
Speaker
You know why? Because you know what we do, Tom? What? We bring good things to life.
01:23:40
Speaker
Yeah, we bring good things to life. So first on the good things list this week is a a ah story or a show that I got drawn into by my daughter.
01:23:54
Speaker
So this is a YouTube channel, Ryan Trahan, I believe is his name. And e he does stuff. He does... youtube stuff he does um He's a little wacky. He's very, very good hearted, very genuine kid. i mean he's kid. He's probably approaching 30 at this point, but he, he's got 21 million subscribers on YouTube and he does, you know, what, what did he do last? He did a fundraiser. He does all kinds of stuff.
01:24:22
Speaker
ah Can i can I get it? Can I start with a penny and get across the country in 30 days? Oh, okay. Right. That kind stuff. Raised money for this and that. He does all, um go I went to this weird Airbnb, you know, let's check it out and this and that. So what he's doing now is him and his wife, Haley, she has a YouTube channel, which is even better than his because she promotes reading and reviews books.
01:24:47
Speaker
And because of my daughter started watching his channel, now watches her channel and like reading books like crazy now. So pretty good good content when you're when you're look when you're on YouTube and you have kids. and you and you know I look at everything very skeptically because most of the content that you can see on YouTube is very focused on products, very focused on buying something new. all And this is not one of those things. So it's good. i was So what he's doing is 50 states in 50 days.
01:25:16
Speaker
So the rule is they have to stay, they have to sleep overnight in every, and in all 50 states. And they're going, they're trying to find the coolest Airbnb in every state. Their goal is to raise $1 million dollars for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
01:25:33
Speaker
um he blew past that like day 11. wow at last i checked last night he was at six and a half million dollars no kidding and he's only on day 39. sweet so he has all these things um he has what the biggest thing that you'll see it in this clip the wheel of doom i think they say the wheel of doom so the wheel of doom is if you if you so if you donate fifty thousand dollars they open this box up it flashes it goes off and wherever they are they have to stop opening up and spin the wheel and has all these penalties on it like but any and the The current state you're in, you have to drive through the state capital, no matter how far out of the way it is. All these things that try to stop them from sleep are you sleeping overnight and in 50 states in 50 days.
01:26:11
Speaker
All kinds of cool stuff. But ah YouTubers are promoting it. ah Companies are jumping on board. Airbnb is obviously part of it. He does electric e-bikes, which is a company that makes electric e-bikes. Every day, if he rides it in every state, they they donate $10,000. It's a really good company.
01:26:27
Speaker
Hey, you know what? Yeah. you know what i don't like about this article they don't mention the name of his youtube channel or his wife's you know they don't you're good that's a good point i know that's that's kind of that's kind of shitty ryan trahan i think is the name is t-r-a-h-a-n is the name i think that is the name of his channel i gotta i'm trying i can't even uh hang on i'm click clicking on the youtube but that it doesn't even take me there yeah that's kind of a the channel name is ryan r-a-r-y-a-n-t-r-a-h-a-n it's ryan trahan oh it's just on his name okay his name yeah and hers i i don't remember actually his wife's name is haley but yeah they don't haley trahan tragan okay so so they they get to ohio the other day that was the you know episode we were waiting for they like day 36 or 37 get to ohio
01:27:20
Speaker
So what do you do when you go to Ohio? You go to Bob Evans, right? So he goes to Bob Evans. Because the day before, Bob Evans donated $56,000 to his thing. So he's like, I got to go to Bob Evans. I don't have Bob Evans.
01:27:33
Speaker
they're They're from Texas. Yeah, OK. So what they they run into so some locals out in the in the parking lot. And he asked you know what it was always asking locals, what what we should we do in Ohio? What about Ohio this and that? Of course. What they tell him?
01:27:46
Speaker
Well, we'll see. Of course. it It'll click. Watch. it Okay, so what do we have to do in Ohio? OH!
01:27:55
Speaker
So if we're in public and we say OH, wait someone will say I-O. All right. Okay, we'll do it. There was a Walmart right by Bob Evans, so we're just going to test the whole OHIO theory and also pick up some things probably. No joyride here, so not picking up joyride, but we'll probably pick up some stuff.
01:28:18
Speaker
OHIO.
01:28:22
Speaker
Oh, H is it? roll mark Oh, wait Oh, here we go. Yeah.
01:28:32
Speaker
I figured I thought that was pretty funny. Yeah, that's what that's I'm going to start doing that just to prove it. but It's not true. I think I think in most cases, you'll somebody will come back and say, I o i don't know. Depends on where you're at.
01:28:44
Speaker
I don't think some of the people at Walmart know what I owe is. Well, and then just look at the video that people that actually answered him were a bunch of look like college age kids. So it makes sense. Oh, okay. Well, that makes sense. Yeah.
01:28:56
Speaker
But great cause um they're they may hit 10 million before they're done. Yeah. They're at what you say, six, something, six and a half million. That was last night. And they're about two thirds of the way done. there No, they're at third. Yeah, they're two thirds. They're now getting to the Midwest or the Western states, the really far drives. They're going to hit 10 million.
01:29:15
Speaker
Yeah, I think they're going to hit 10 million, especially towards the end. They're going get, they they still get to Alaska and Hawaii. We're not that's quite sure how they're going to get there. They just wanted 1 million. That's ah that's awesome. Yeah, I thought that was, they were, well, I knew as soon as they were going to get way more. He's got 21 million subscribers. Yeah, yeah.
01:29:30
Speaker
So great, great story. And just their channels are just, it sounds ah cliche, but they're they seem very wholesome.
Football Hall of Fame Events and Enhancements
01:29:38
Speaker
Yeah, well, there's there's a lack of that out there. So people are hungry for it. Very hungry for it. And just like I said, just good content ah for your kids.
01:29:47
Speaker
Cool. Next, we have a list of events. We got the ah Football Hall of Fame 2025 Enrichment. Enrichment. enriman Enrichment week.
01:29:59
Speaker
That's about as good as me saying fofo. Fofo. ah So they, starting um starting the week of Friday, July 25th to Sunday, August 3rd, they've got a ah list of events going on and are at and around the Rock, or
01:30:19
Speaker
Football Hall of Fame, moron. And all kinds of different events. We'll put it in the show notes. um They got, if you haven't been over there lately, they have kind of redone the area over the last few years.
01:30:32
Speaker
And they have actually the ferris wheel from the ix center indoor amusement park they used to have there that is at the football hall of fame oh cool they've got restaurants they've got all kinds of areas to do activities um they supposedly are supposed to have a water park but something's not right because it's been three years and it's still not built it's like half did they um did they uh Redo the stadium too?
01:31:00
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Yes. Okay. They redo the stadium, put some extra suites in. ah nice. suits Because they have that that one game there, big game there every year. Yeah, yeah. they get There's a lot of out-of-towners for that. Yes.
01:31:12
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And the school, the high school, local high school gets to use that facility. That's sweet. Yeah, that's part of their deal from a long time ago. So they got football camps um Tuesday, July 8th.
01:31:29
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All kinds of events. i'll put We'll put a show notes. There's a list of them. Fan Fest, they've got ah the Hall of Fame game. That's just talking about. ah Pro football. um There's a fashion show, I guess. All kinds of stuff. They got a balloon classic on Friday 25th.
01:31:44
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That's kind of cool. Yes. Yeah, balloonist from across the United States. That is pretty cool. Yeah. And then a tethered balloon rides on the same day. On the 26th also. 27th also. Yeah.
01:31:55
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twenty seventh thousand the yeah I don't know what a tethered balloon ride is, but I'm not doing
Great Lakes Brewing Company's Christmas Ale Event
01:32:02
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it. It's a hotter balloon that's connected. Yeah, it's hot air and it's in the air. don't know.
01:32:08
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That rope breaks and who knows what you might end up. You might end up in Columbus.
01:32:16
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And finally, finally is just so you know, coming up, Christmas in July. Woo-hoo! Yay! Yay!
01:32:29
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Great Lakes Brewing Company is tapping its Christmas ale in July. Nice. Starting on, let's see, when is it? I think it's, yeah, from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Thursday, July 24th.
01:32:42
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You'll be able to go in, um doors open at 11 a.m. with fresh tapped freshly tapped Christmas ale. um They've got live honey extraction demonstration,
01:32:54
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a pig roast menu, live music. They got a pig roast going on. That's nice. Music from DJ Sayward and um and some other, what's this, a festive hop college.
01:33:10
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with brew nuts. Okay. Ticketed event. So check it out. We'll put that in the show notes too. that's ah That's a yearly thing for Great Lakes. They save a few kegs for Christmas in July so that you can all sit at the bar and get comatose with the double potency beer that you're not normally drinking. Eat some pig and drink some strong beer. Yeah.
Cleveland Market Renovations
01:33:31
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That's why the bartenders joke when Christmas sale comes out, all the regulars turn comatose because they yeah they're they're regular four beers.
01:33:39
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when it goes to like a Labatt, then they, they get a Christmas sale. Oh yeah. They all get hammered about two, two beers in, but good stuff. That's, that's one of the reasons I kind of stopped drinking, uh, some of the stuff. Cause it's like, man, two beers and I'm just like, I'm done.
01:33:56
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Yeah. And, uh, you know, I don't know if it's getting older or what, but, but for Christmas sale, I might just do that in July. Yeah. I'd rather have it in July than Christmas actually.
01:34:09
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Yes, actually, but that that's true. and but Better in July. and um And good to go down and see the market and see if you can pick up some. um They're redoing that too down there. or They're starting to renovate.
01:34:21
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They got those big plans to renovate the market and all kinds of fun stuff. Yeah, we haven't looked into that in a while. We got to check that out. Yeah, I was just driven past there the other day and there they got barrels up and looks like they're starting to do some stuff there on maybe preliminary stuff. But yeah, that's but should we should tap into that and see what else going
Closing Remarks and Listener Feedback Invitation
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