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Crooked River Cast Show 67
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- Iran “deal” at risk after drone attack on shipping.
- SCOTUS Immigration rullings.
- Dewine’s vetoes mail in ballot bill.
- Ohio bill requiring drivers to identify passes.
- Ohio’s “Anti-Woke” collage legislation a year later.
- Subscribe and share the show.
- North Canton police introduce speeding database website.
- Ohio Sheriffs push for Cuyahoga to elect their sheriffs.
- What is the future of the IX center.
Good Things:
- Unclaimed funds update.
- Gordan Park renovations.
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Transcript
Intro & Episode Details
00:00:12
Speaker
This is the Crooked Rivercast, and this is Rob and Tom, two guys just trying keep track of what's going on in the great state of Ohio.
00:00:22
Speaker
This is show 67 for the week of June 29th, 2026. Let's see what's going on this week.
00:00:40
Speaker
How are you? Good morning. Morning this morning.
00:00:48
Speaker
peace i do Oh, they're good. Okay. I didn't screw up the audio yet, but it's good. We've got time. We've got plenty of time for me to misplay a clip or two.
Breaking News
00:01:00
Speaker
So I guess we'll start to show off with an announcement. Wait, hold on. I got, we got this.
00:01:13
Speaker
Breaking news from Crooked Rivercast.
00:01:17
Speaker
Much like Congress, much like the state legislature, it's that time of the year, Tom. What's that? It's time the year to take a break.
00:01:29
Speaker
Oh. Yeah. It's time year.
The Need for a Break
00:01:34
Speaker
We're going to take a little... ah Well, we'll call recess. We'll call it a recess um that for a couple weeks. That sounds legit.
00:01:41
Speaker
Yeah, that's you have much more. that Thank you. i appreciate it. That does. You're right. We're not taking a vacation. No, definitely not. Just a recess. A recess.
00:01:51
Speaker
I got some stuff going on. and I got some vacations. I got all this stuff. And I've come to realize reading the news day in and day out every week,
00:02:03
Speaker
And it really puts you in a crappy mood.
Election Anticipation
00:02:06
Speaker
but i'm just like, ah this news. i got touch through this crap again this week. You know, I told ah a friend just the other day that we we were going to be taking a break. And I did tell him something about the same. It's kind of like we were, worked I think we're both the same at this. It's like we get into the news.
00:02:27
Speaker
And it's like great for like three or four months. And then you're just kind of cooked for a while. You you can't, you don't want to, you're numb. You just don't want to pay attention to any of it.
00:02:39
Speaker
And then something happens or something hits the news, which kind of draws you back in, but... Yeah, that's generally what I do when I'm doing kind of similar stuff before the show. I would go, I would take a couple weeks and just not look at anything. You know, unless something really big happens. Yeah, I kind of turn off all my podcasts. You need a break, you know, you need ah need a clean stuff out, it feels like.
00:03:01
Speaker
Because I'm looking at every article, like, this again? Yeah, yeah. How many weeks I've, I'm like, there's there's probably 10 stories from data centers we could talk about. I'm just like. Our poor listeners don't need that. i know. Yeah.
00:03:14
Speaker
So I think we're it's good timing because we're going to take a little recharge and then right after the holiday, you know, soon after, in the July and in the August, it's going to be really wrapping up for the election, I think is going to be.
00:03:27
Speaker
And boy, do anita we need to recharge for that for sure. ah definitely need to recharge for the ah the governor, gubernatorial election. It's going to be. I feel like I need to find my footing on that.
00:03:38
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I'm finding it. Not liking where I'm finding it. and know I, i ah it might you know, I ah still think Vivek is the guy who's going to win, but I just kind of want to know a little bit more details of what's going on.
00:03:57
Speaker
Yeah. He doesn't seem to be, I don't see any commercials for him, but is that the algorithms? Yeah, like we were talking, like I see all the Amy stuff, but I tend to, and sometimes I comment occasionally or I'll i'll click on a ah video of hers or listen to it.
00:04:14
Speaker
Speaking of recharging, oh and so I think the algorithm shows me more. I'm seeing a little bit more of a Vic, but what I'm seeing from Amy is people like showing up to her rallies, which I haven't seen for Vic.
Concert Insights & Music Trends
00:04:27
Speaker
Who's paying for that?
00:04:28
Speaker
Well, yeah, nobody. their Their retirees have nothing else to do. Mostly. or Is it mostly blue hairs? Like just old ladies? Old, fat people. Yes. And what I mean, which is a voting block. Old, fat people. It is. You know, speaking of that, this is a little off topic.
00:04:45
Speaker
Again, I went to another concert at Kane Park this past Thursday. he's You're just like, wow. Yeah. and know it It was. Yeah. it's I'm enjoying that venue.
00:04:56
Speaker
And that's a good place to see a show. Anyways, I went to see Larkin Poe and they were the headline in the opening act was the recording company, which is kind of like a three piece rock and roll band.
00:05:11
Speaker
And Larkin Poe, they're two sisters, younger. i The lead singer, i would she looks like she's in her 20s still. And I think they started out on YouTube.
00:05:21
Speaker
as for i was talking to like one of their fans out waiting at the gate. And they said, oh, yeah, they used to watch them on YouTube. you know They were playing in their bedroom.
00:05:33
Speaker
Yeah. And... It was just so weird. We're in the venue and mind you, me and my wife are in our mid fifties and we felt like youngsters.
00:05:45
Speaker
Really? Yeah. It was bizarre. Like it in the week before there was, it was an older crowd also. Cause I went to see, but it was, it was ah Marty Stewart. Who's a a country i from like, you know, maybe he had a little bit more of a career back in the nineties.
00:06:03
Speaker
And ah Joshua Donato, which is like kind of a new country guitar slinger guy. And there that was an older crowd also, but it kind of made sense to me just because of the music.
00:06:18
Speaker
Right, right. Well, but this time, this this was like rock and, you know these are like rock and roll bands, both of these bands. Yeah, but I guess I would think of rock roll similar to country. It's going to have an older, it's going to skew older because what do kids listen to now?
00:06:35
Speaker
Well, hang on a second. That's where I was, and that's where I'm getting to. All right. Yeah, you're right. that's That would have been my first. like these are the These are the generation that listened rock. you know and and ninety They were older than us, so they're listening to the like or they were listening to real stuff from the late 60s and 70s, 80s, yep.
00:06:54
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I'm a little bit more into the 80s and early 90s as far as rock goes. but
00:07:02
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they the oh So what do you think is biggest right now? in On the charts. I know. and Okay. That's country.
00:07:14
Speaker
yeah Well, country is making a big comeback. And it has to do with a couple of artists that are doing some actual. That's just growing, I guess. would be Yeah. Right now. But there isn't a single top 40 rap song. And that's the first time it's happened in 35 years. I was watching pull on this. Yeah.
00:07:31
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I saw that. I don't, I don't really, ah i don't go by his, uh, take on it but rock and roll now has like a ah few on the in the top 40 so you would think there'd be some younger people there Right?
00:07:51
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I guess. I don't know if it's just starting and it hasn't caught on yet as far as rock roll returning and hasn't getting started popular. yeah i don't Yeah. I don't know. I mean, this this is all starting off topic. but when we When you mentioned the blue hairs or the white hairs, i used i used to call them blue hairs because the old ladies put some kind of weird thing in their hair that made it blue.
00:08:11
Speaker
Yeah. But now they just, they literally dye a blue. Yeah. Now it's different. Blue hairs mean something else. But, uh, you know, you get the, you get the 60 plus crowd. It's, it's, uh, it's odd.
00:08:24
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or So you don't think Poole's, uh, analysis, analysis of USAID going away and rap music falling off the top 40. You know,
Entertainment Industry Insights
00:08:33
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following that. No.
00:08:35
Speaker
Yeah. I thought it was interesting take, but I was like, yeah. i think I think certain artists, I think Lizzo was propped up. She was getting Seems pretty evident that was, to yeah. Yeah. yeah I mean, she went I feel sorry for those people propping her up.
00:08:49
Speaker
Well, she was being propped up because they were, you know who, I would think the... USAID money was going to these functions that she was playing at.
00:09:00
Speaker
Yeah, but she's fat, so holding her up would be hard. Oh, nice. Wait, hang on. Oh, damn. I had it here somewhere. I got one, too. There you go. And it works this week. Yay.
00:09:14
Speaker
So, anywho. Yeah. Bear with us. we we are We are just as important as the state legislature. Sorry. Oh, we were talking about taking a break. Yes. Right. So I was trying to wrap it up before we hit. This is probably why we need a break because I just go off on tangents.
00:09:31
Speaker
and So, yes, we're coming up. We'll be back. Definitely. this Again, we oh we we are as
Podcast Future Plans
00:09:38
Speaker
important. Oh, what's that? Definitely, huh? Yeah, definitely. oh Because i I had the feeling you were kind of considering to just close it all down.
00:09:47
Speaker
No, not yet. I think i think us and think we need to rethink it a bit. That's the other take the reason i want to do it. I want to maybe see what else we can do to improve the show and grow it more.
00:09:58
Speaker
um But, you know, well i I think we'll be back. Okay. i'm I'm confident we'll be back. Maybe just in ah ah in a new form factor. well Yeah, it maybe a slightly different form. I don't know. slightly different style of form factor. Form factor is good way think.
00:10:13
Speaker
Do you ever think of doing it every ah bi-monthly or bi-weekly every two weeks?
00:10:20
Speaker
Maybe. I mean, yeah, that's an option. these are These are the meetings we don't and we generally don't have that we're having currently. Yeah. That's, I mean, it's, I'm, we're, we're going to discuss, figure out a couple, couple, couple things maybe to make the show a little, a little better.
00:10:37
Speaker
ah But moving on from that. Actually send us your, your thoughts on that because we'd like to know what, what we can do better.
00:10:50
Speaker
Yes. Just trying to bring, again, we started the show. i i wanted to start the show personally is because I went around looking for a Ohio podcast so I can try to catch up on news and that way I'd have to trudge through channel five, channel three, channel four, and you know, all these other places and look for the news.
00:11:07
Speaker
And there wasn't, there isn't one. So that's kind of why we started this because we don't, when you can't find something that you want, do it yourself. I'm still wondering if people actually give a shit. so that's go of Yeah, let us know. kind of wondering if you actually give a shit about this stuff.
00:11:23
Speaker
Well, maybe let it maybe point us in the direction of what topics you would like us to cover because I think that's, isn't that the hardest thing? Yeah, and i i can i tend I tend to go to our pocketbooks. That's where my brain usually goes. That's kind of the one, you know, what's costing you money? Were were they wasting money? yeah Maybe that's not what you want to hear about.
00:11:43
Speaker
That's not fun. No, it's not. It sucks. But to me, it's the most, one of the most important issues because it affects everybody's pockets. And what's important to everybody is how much money is in their pocket, but I'm not sure. Maybe they just don't care.
00:11:55
Speaker
I don't know. So I guess so I'll find a, I'll segue.
International Affairs
00:12:01
Speaker
us Let's see. Speaking of not caring, it doesn't seem like Iran cares about the ceasefire.
00:12:09
Speaker
Yay. See, I did it. Wow. That's a segue. That was just a hell of a rough segue. So I'm kind of, kind of under, I'm kind of getting, I'm not even listening to, we've got a deal.
00:12:23
Speaker
Like it doesn't even like, i'm Oh, okay. Move on. i got Like we've had this conversation so many times that we've got a deal with the Iranians. It seems that that they have a deal with a certain people in Iran, but not everybody.
00:12:37
Speaker
I think there's some rogue actors there. Oh, for sure. For sure. I think there's people higher up that want to save their their neck, so they're willing to make a deal. I... yeah i saw this I saw this on Thursday, and I didn't have a chance to take a look at it, but ah I saw the oil prices, barrel prices, ticking back up.
00:13:00
Speaker
And then in the morning, when I woke up on Friday morning and night, around, don't know, 8 a.m. or so, I'm looking at the oil prices, and they're going back down. So I was like, ah, this was like a rogue actor and just...
00:13:13
Speaker
just I think so. Well, let's hear from the president. They're asking him, i don't know, some one of the White House gaggle press gaggles, like they call it, which is always weird to me. But they're asking, what do you think about this? Does violate the ceasefire? And Trump says, we'll see. Mr. President, wait, you said that Iran violated the ceasefire. Will they face any consequences? You'll find out.
00:13:36
Speaker
you consider the ceasefire to still be in place? I don't like the fact that they took a shot yesterday. Actually, four. We knocked down three at a ship. Not an allied ship, but a ship, a very expensive ship.
00:13:52
Speaker
and Beautiful. It was fine, but it took a little beating. They shouldn't be doing that, so you'll find out. Will the U.S. respond? What is your message to Iran? You're going find out.
00:14:04
Speaker
And they found out because late yesterday or early this morning, whenever it is, they bombed a few targets. But I think one of the first times they've actually targeted the land and islands around the strait.
00:14:18
Speaker
Seems that in the past they haven't really been paying attention, which is always strange to me. I think it was more targeted, like the small targets when they did that.
00:14:28
Speaker
Yeah, but people have kind of been wondering when they were going to start hitting you know, the ah that kind of area around it to kind of, i don't know why. there's There's a lot of infrastructure there, so I don't think they want to actually destroy it at this point.
00:14:39
Speaker
Right. But I guess they had four drones. We shot down three of them. It hit the... it hit the helps if you pull the story up, doesn't it? They hit a ship from a Singaporean flagship, a cargo ship from straight over Hamouza. It wasn't, it just got damaged. its I guess it's still operable, sounds like. And ah let's see what else we have. with you know Officials from Israel and Lebanon are set to begin fourth day of peace negotiations. This was from Friday, on Friday.
00:15:14
Speaker
President said that unfrozen Iranian assets would be used to buy American crops for the Iranian people. And finally, this this is one of those Iranian officials push back on Trump's crop claim with Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammed Bager Gaffalblap, written in an ex post saying,
00:15:35
Speaker
ah written and on in in an expost The only crop we're harvesting is what you've planted. Decades of mistrust. It's organic, abundant, and homegrown.
00:15:48
Speaker
It's actually a pretty good tweet. yeah ah Yeah, you're right. The American government has sown mistrust around the world.
00:15:58
Speaker
It's kind of our thing. kind of a thing We're very good at it. And that's where everybody's kind of freaking out, I think, with Trump. is he's not He's just like, hey, why don't why don't we settle this so we can all make money?
00:16:09
Speaker
He's kind of like giving him the carrot and saying, hey, if you guys clean up your act, you can be part of the world and you can you guys can make money. Just stop you know stop trying to kill everybody. no No, all Jews must die Yes, I will clip that.
00:16:27
Speaker
that so
00:16:30
Speaker
ah But that's kind of, so I think, I think there needs a few these to be a few more tiers of people that need to be eliminated to get down to some, you know, I don't know.
00:16:43
Speaker
Yeah, keep an eye on that. you know, it didn't turn into what I thought it might turn into. so Yeah. You're hoping that you were thinking that oil was going to start yeah flying up there, but still again, just, this you keep hearing about a deal and I don't, I don't, I don't know.
00:17:01
Speaker
What is it now that they're looking for? they They want to be able to go in and inspect? Yes. yeah They want to be they won inspections. The Iranian regime, whoever that may be, has said you know one of the things they've agreed upon to the on the ah initial agreement is not to go after nuclear weapons, which is I think the first time they've said that maybe ever. so there is Well, I think they've said that before, but they they always wanted to ah enrich uranium.
00:17:28
Speaker
Yeah, it's for their for power. They need nuclear power because they're sitting on one of the world's largest oil reserves. You're right. oh you need nuclear power. Okay. Because they're worried about global warming for sure. So anywho, keep an eye on that. It affects your gas prices. I guess it's important. I think.
00:17:47
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's going to be right in time for for the midterms. They're going to have a peace deal and everything's going to be
Supreme Court TPS Decision
00:17:52
Speaker
saved. The economy's going to be roaring. Let's hope. That's kind of hopeful there. it Yeah, it's a little red pill.
00:18:00
Speaker
like White pill, excuse me. white ah Anyway, moving on. So the next, our next big story, rich it's national, but up but huge implications for Ohio is the Supreme Court.
00:18:13
Speaker
has ruled the DHS can end protections for Haitians, Haitian immigrants, thousands of whom live in Ohio, like 15,000. They're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating, they're eating the pets.
00:18:32
Speaker
Beat me to it. Totally beat me to it. Let's see. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to end temporary Hello. Hope all you out there understand what the word temporary means. I've had to explain it to a few low IQ people next this week.
00:18:51
Speaker
Temporary protective status for Haitian, Syrian, Haitian and Syrian immigrants, meaning they could be subject to deportation. think may is not, or they could be, it could is not the right word. They almost certainly are going to be.
00:19:06
Speaker
The court ruled six to three in favor of Trump. And the court's three liberal justices dissented. Justices also said Haitian migrants who had argued to argue the attempt to end was radically motivated would not win a claim of unequal treatment based upon race because Trump has opposed all TPS designations. It's not, it doesn't care what color you are.
00:19:35
Speaker
All the TPS need to be gone. 15 years is way beyond temporary. What about the Syrians? Aren't they here like 30?
00:19:46
Speaker
and Some of them, yeah. um I imagine. Has it been temporary for that long? I thought... one of the One of the groups, it's over 30 years temporary. It was the Haitians that came in under Biden, right? No, no, no. Haitians came in during 2011, think, for a yeah ba so because of an earthquake.
00:20:07
Speaker
But the ground has stopped shaking and their huts have been rebuilt. You know, interesting. Yes. You know what else is interesting about Haiti? What? If you look at it on a map. Mm-hmm.
00:20:18
Speaker
Haiti is half of an island. You know what the other half of the island is? ah What is it? Puerto Rico. oh Oh. So what's the deal? Why can their literal neighbors be a flourishing society, but yet Haiti is a shithole?
00:20:40
Speaker
Interesting. i can you If you look up the Clinton Foundation... Start to see why. It's corruption. Oh, any, any aid that's ever gone there has been, has been, it's all corrupt.
00:20:52
Speaker
But why can't they just go to Puerto Rico to claim asylum? No, well, no, I can't. I think that'd be too easy. law That's the law actually. Right. Easy. Yeah, it is. You have to go to the most neighboring country, which is America. Because Puerto Rico is a territory of America.
00:21:11
Speaker
Yeah. Right. But I mean, why do we have to put them in Ohio? Well, I mean... And why do they want to come here? No, stop. Think of the children.
00:21:23
Speaker
But why not? It sucks. but Quite obvious. For the children. Oh, for the children. Oh, okay. I thought i was maybe to try to redistrict. no For the children.
00:21:36
Speaker
Definitely for the children. And of course, our beloved Governor Mike DeWine has criticized the efforts to NTPS. DeWine has been a part of humanitarian...
00:21:48
Speaker
part of humanitarian efforts for Haiti in Haiti for 30 years and said Haitian hait Haitian migrants in Ohio benefit the state economy. Keep labor. He said, yes, keep the slaves going. He says they are now more than 10,000 Haitians immigrants in Ohio who are, who were legally employed yesterday and are now subject to immediate deportation. So you're in the Springfield area and you can't find a job.
00:22:17
Speaker
There's hope on the horizon because there's going to be lots of job openings, I think, coming up in Springfield. And of course, they had some visuals, Tom.
00:22:27
Speaker
Had some visuals. We got one here from Scene Magazine. and wish we had some visuals. where ohio seized Yeah, I know. The only the only advantage i of have a video podcast is you can see the picture of of of all all these old white people.
00:22:45
Speaker
There's no Haitians there
00:22:48
Speaker
Ohio city braces for impact of Supreme court, allowing Trump to take legal status away from Haitians, Ohio cities, Ohio cities. oh I'm thinking Ohio city, like the actual city, Ohio city.
00:23:00
Speaker
Um, The Ohio cities of Columbus and Springfield are bracing for impact after the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled Thursday. the Blah, diddy, blah, diddy. About 330,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians are living United States with a temporary protective status program that allows them to flee from conflict or natural disasters.
00:23:23
Speaker
and and ah And the other thing i've I've been seeing online is people are looking up like how many times these people go back and forth to Haiti. Like there's a, there's a huge number of these people that go back and forth to Haiti.
00:23:35
Speaker
Um, it's amazing. They're not scared to go back for on vacation. Apparently not they're not They're not scared to go back to visit whoever friends and family, but I mean, it's way too dangerous to move there.
00:23:48
Speaker
Oh, the ground might start shaking again.
00:23:52
Speaker
Um, so of course he had some visuals and, and we got some clips on generally speaking, what are you going to hear at these police, these, at these rallies, right? I think you can hear some song, some chanting.
00:24:03
Speaker
Oh, I thought there'd be some barbecue sizzling. No, all the cats. They've kind of gotten rid of, I mean, they've kind of taken, it's been a few years, Tom, so they've kind of culled the herds in Springfield. There's no more cats left. No, basically. No.
00:24:17
Speaker
I mean, dogs, there's a few dogs, but all the cats, cause that's the first they go out to cause the cats are, I guess, more juicy. i don't know. Um, But let's hear let's hear from the vigils. Of course, generally going to have some singing because it it is the the the leftovers are leftovers of the hippie left.
00:24:33
Speaker
um But it gets worse. Also developing now, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration can't... Hold on. We'll go over the recap of ah ah Channel 4 and get get some... Wrong clip. See, I did it.
00:24:49
Speaker
ah We'll go for this first. A little bit of background and some... Get some comments from some Ohio senators. And move forward with ending temporary protected status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants. This means they could be subject to deportation. Temporary protected status, also known as TPS, was a three year program created during the Biden administration. It allowed people from countries deemed dangerous to seek safety and work in the United States. both Haiti and Syria were on the list of eligible countries. The Trump administration planned to end TPS in February, but legal challenges surrounding the program brought it all the way up to the Supreme Court. Justices ruled six to three this morning. Now, this decision impacts thousands of Haitians living here in Ohio. NBC4 State House reporter Jesse Bethea talked with the lawmaker who represents that area about what this is going to mean for their community. Jesse?
00:25:47
Speaker
Jared, Jen, according to Governor Mike DeWine, more than 10,000 Haitians living mostly in the Springfield area robot are now subject to immediate deportation. DeWine has long argued in favor of keeping protections for Haitians living in Ohio. saying the political situation in Haiti is extremely dangerous with an ineffective government and rampant gang violence. DeWine has also said they contribute to the state's economy and suddenly making them unemployable and removing them from the country would not be in the best interest of Ohio.
00:26:19
Speaker
Earlier today, I spoke with Senator Kyle Kaler, who represents Springfield. He told me that while the influx of people under temporary protective status put a strain on public services in his community, he hopes that many of those same people will one day return.
00:26:35
Speaker
I just want to make sure people understand TPS was temporary. We've been hospitable. We've made accommodations. we' We've helped them with food, clothing, housing, job training. I want them to go home, come back in in ah in a legal way so that we can do this in an orderly fashion rather than being overrun ah all at once and not knowing it.
Political Reactions & Rallies
00:26:59
Speaker
Overrun, he says. Taylor also said that if federal immigration officers do come to Springfield, he hopes there will be no violence and urged everyone to be respectful of those who may be subject to deportation. Local for you at the Statehouse, I'm Jesse Bethea, NBC4. All right, Jesse, thank you.
00:27:17
Speaker
Both Ohio Senators Bernie Moreno and John Husted released statements following the Supreme Court's decision. Senator Marino agreed with Kaler's sentiment, saying, quote, Today the Supreme Court affirmed what was common sense and what I've been saying for three years. Temporary protective status is temporary. Senator Husted said, quote, I support the rule of law and complying with the law. My hope is that there can be an orderly and thoughtful process to enforce this order.
00:27:46
Speaker
Yeah. The body shops down there aren't going to be as busy anymore. yeah they're going to lose work, definitely, for sure. They may have to lay a few people off because of all the accidents they've had.
00:27:58
Speaker
ah And so, of course, in Springfield, they had a they had ah a rally, a vigil, like I was saying. Of course, we had some singing, some songs, some chanting, and it got got horrible. Just wait for it.
00:28:11
Speaker
For how long, bitch?
00:28:20
Speaker
here advocating for the haitian people in springfield they deserve so much better we need people that are protected from violence in other countries and that's exactly what temporary protective status is supposed to do the haitian population came here legal how long you get protected because they were fleeing from violence from their country. Mike Turner clearly doesn't support this community. He is all talk. I'm going to vote the right way because I believe in ethics and values and right versus wrong.
00:28:49
Speaker
He's not here today. god That should tell you all you need to know. He does not deserve another term in Congress. We need to vote him out. That's all you need to know. So that is Christine, I think Christine knicoba Knickerbocker. She's running for the 10th District of Ohio. Do you ever notice how some of these liberal college educated women speak at about like a sixth grade level?
00:29:14
Speaker
Oh, like my God, like I'm totally like, I'm totally like running for Congress. Like, and I like immigrants and there are people in my community and I like totally can do it. that was pretty good.
00:29:27
Speaker
Freaking. Jeez. Keep talking. Keep talking. Because I don't think it's helping. women She wasn't talking. She was reading. she was She wrote that out. screeching. She wrote that out.
00:29:38
Speaker
Yeah. that So there is, ah here it is. Yeah. So that's her trying to, here it is. Yeah. ah Christina Nick, a Knickerbocker.
00:29:50
Speaker
want make sure i put, uh, put that clip or in the show notes because you know, you want to watch it again. and listen to it I mean it's better when she got her hands and she has the reverse you know so she's like i'm in than oh my gosh I gotta watch that because I didn't watch that at all yeah I will put it in the show notes and will be there for you to know at your viewing pleasure make fun of her too you can make fun of her she's it's easy all right so big big issues everybody's freaking out the Haitians are gone what's going to happen well I guess we're going to see because I i have a feeling we're going to hear more about this in the coming weeks as uh as ICE continues to to uh increase their presence you know in the date and spring we might have a few stories when when we come back yeah
00:30:45
Speaker
so So Knickerbocker is running for Tess District, which is Dayton and Springfield. ah The first couple comments on her post are from Marcel Stribich.
00:30:56
Speaker
And i don't think she mentions, does she mention? Mike Turner? to stop trying to out Mike Turner. If you want to win in district 10, you might want to take an opposite position of him and the Haitians.
00:31:11
Speaker
So it doesn't sound like Mike Turner is, uh, that is like a opposed or in favor of this. So it's no, no cheap labor is leaving. Yes. That's what it is.
00:31:22
Speaker
Yes. It's amazing how, um, how people don't understand. mean, these people are, I mean, they're getting paid, but they're still kind of, they're kind of slaves because they're,
00:31:34
Speaker
they were put here, dropped here with no plan. a No plan at all. So now they're in this, they've been in this gray area for 15 years. Well, what the heck? you there There was no, I guess they could have um applied for a citizenship from I understand.
00:31:51
Speaker
And most of them haven't. They don't even know what that is. And, and if they were to, i don't know, the biggest problem with a lot of these places like Somalians in Columbus or the Haitians in,
00:32:06
Speaker
In Springfield, the Somalians in Minnesota, they're not assimilating. They're making little Somalia. They're making little Haiti. yep and and And they're on, you can hear them on you hear on video. And then voting, there they they're voting reps that represent just Haitians or Somalians.
00:32:22
Speaker
Go out and watch look at the videos of Elian Omar, Alien and Omar, like to call her. And she's... She's in Minnesota at the local level at these little rallies saying, no, we want to make this like Somalia. We want to make it like our country. They want to turn it into little Somalia.
00:32:39
Speaker
Yeah. That's the biggest people have problems with it. Nobody's assimilating. That is, it's no, that's not good for our community. It's hard to assimilate when you, ah put so many, so many of the people in one area because they're just going to kind of like, like most, say most any other ethnic, uh, population, they, they,
00:32:59
Speaker
sort of build a little community. And this isn't a little community. This was a city with 40,000 people and they dropped off 20,000 Haitians. What do you think is going to happen there? Like 10 or 15% of their population or more.
00:33:12
Speaker
um Yeah, more than that, actually. So it it changes the community forever. And then the community becomes relying on somebody who's under temporary protective status.
00:33:26
Speaker
What do they think was going to happen? That is the... craziest part is that they're arguing because it's, you know, like they're arguing for temporary protective status, but it's like, what does temporary mean? I mean, if it was a year or two or even five years, I'd be like, okay, you know, maybe the country's still in like a civil war or something like that, but, or they're rebuilding. Syria would a good example. Yeah. Right.
00:33:50
Speaker
But, uh, eventually it's kind of like they, they could have just applied to be a citizen. Yes. Uh, do they want to be a citizen or do they just want to be Somalian in America? Well, do you want to be a citizen and lose out on some of the benefits you get as being a temporary protective status?
00:34:08
Speaker
Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. ah I guarantee you those families get more handouts than an American family would. i would I would have to say that's probably a pretty good that's a pretty good guess.
00:34:21
Speaker
Actually, I think that's a little bit, well, I don't have the facts in front of me, but I'm pretty sure that's a that is a fact that ah people from other countries get more handouts.
00:34:34
Speaker
in benefits than the same type of American family would. Yeah. I imagine a lot of it through NGOs too. Yeah. being sponsored by, you know, being fed by the federal government.
00:34:47
Speaker
Sure. ah Yeah. And I guess right into that, which ties right into it, in my opinion, is
00:34:56
Speaker
DeWine decided he's going to veto the bill that, that basically the voting rights bill, a voting mail-in voting bill.
Voting Bill Veto
00:35:05
Speaker
So, um, pull up the right fricking article here. There we go.
00:35:11
Speaker
Uh, DeWine blocks stricter ID mandate for mail-in voting. And let's listen to a breakdown from, course, it wouldn't be It wouldn't be a show without on the ah on the on the clip. So here you go. here's little Here's a little News Channel 5 from Morgan.
00:35:33
Speaker
Well, tonight, reaction to Governor DeWine's veto of a bill that would have required you to show your photo ID in order to vote by mail. Now, this has been our most popular story all day on social media with lots of people commenting. And your Columbus Bureau reporter, Morgan Trout, joins us live tonight. So, Morgan, why did the governor shut it down?
00:35:52
Speaker
Yeah, Damon and Katie, this legislation was all burden for so little benefit. At least that's what the governor called it. And while many advocates are relieved, this likely is not the end to the absentee ballot debate.
00:36:07
Speaker
Thank you.
00:36:13
Speaker
and finish your career with a legacy that you can be proud of and sending emails and leaving voicemails thanks on the ohio governor's ah Voting rights advocates like Jen Miller say they feel heard by their Republican governor. I trusted that DeWine would do the right thing here. It was just common sense to veto this legislation. Late Wednesday night, Governor Mike DeWine vetoed a controversial bill. one that would have required voters to show photo ID to cast a mail in ballot. This is a victory three for all those Ohioans who prefer voting absentee and that includes senior citizens, people with disabilities, college students. In his veto message, DeWine said that the bill is not needed and doesn't accomplish the GOP's goal of election integrity, saying it would not discourage fraud, would not add any real security, and would create an additional and significant burden for Ohioans who vote by mail. He noted that the bill had technical errors and also didn't provide any funding for election officials to set up the new online portal to submit photo ID. Very, very unfortunate that it was vetoed. Ashtabula Republican David Thomas is pushing to override the governor's veto. It's a policy I don't think will be going away anytime soon. Since the bill wasn't set to go into effect until November 2027, he said that the issues DeWine mentioned could have been worked out. Phase inside of of legislation, ah there's always improvements, always changes. He denies that the bill would have hurt vulnerable Ohioans, only bad actors. But to be clear, Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose's audits have proven there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Making sure that our elections work well and that everyone can access their vote and be heard is bigger than any one party.
00:37:59
Speaker
It's unclear if the GOP has enough votes to override the veto, but legislative leaders say that they are evaluating their next steps.
00:38:10
Speaker
Well, does he have a point? Is it a shit bill? That I don't know, but I think there's something else going on here. Yeah. This was rushed through. we we talked about a little bit of this kind of, Marcel Stribich was bringing it up. It's like, he feels it's kind of more to put, to motivate we're Republican even base to get out and vote, which I don't disagree with. I don't, I think that is part of it.
00:38:33
Speaker
e ah Part of DeWine's issue, he brings up, which I can kind of see is, so if you think about it, you've got a mail-in ballot and you're going to fill the information out to request a mail-in ballot. You're going to make a copy of your license.
00:38:49
Speaker
put it in the mail and send it to the voting place. What does that do?
00:38:57
Speaker
Like, how do they know? Like, Oh no, it's, it's not much. They nothing to compare it to now as opposed to doing it online where there's a camera and they take a picture of you then the, and then the person on the other end or whoever can look at the ID compared to the picture that the camera took.
00:39:11
Speaker
Um, and one of the wine's point was there was no money in there. Like like that couldn't have been solved. Like, come on. to to to set up this online portal thing where you can submit your pictures and stuff like that.
00:39:24
Speaker
I just don't understand why a, in a state where it's, you're required to show ID to vote, you don't have to show your ID to vote by mail. Yeah.
00:39:35
Speaker
And of course, unless there's evidence, we shouldn't do anything about it. ah Well, there is evidence. It's, that's, mean, there is evidence. I mean, evidence is pretty simple to get. Yeah. There's just not.
00:39:51
Speaker
yeah she You she, you notice whenever, you know, you get these 20 reporters that say something about fraud, it's it's always, it's always, ah ah widespread voter fraud. It's never just voter fraud.
00:40:08
Speaker
Yes. That's what I'm saying. And that's an easy definition to like kind of, ah or I don't know if definition is the right word. Very vague definition. Yeah. yeah Vague stipulation, whatever. why What does widespread mean? Yeah.
00:40:22
Speaker
Yeah. who's Who's determining what that means? Morgan, apparently. You don't want to twat. Unless there's, you know, widespread evidence that's
00:40:34
Speaker
You know, it just makes no sense. of you gotta know Wait till there's a problem and then do something about it. You know what's the weird thing about her is like we, we, we said she looks pretty good, but she's got like planks for teeth.
00:40:46
Speaker
Yes. Sometimes she looks good. Yeah. No, she has a nice figure and she's not ugly until she smiles. Oh, and then she's got these like planks. I mean, if you, she couldn't make a fence with those things.
00:40:59
Speaker
Yes. And don't she starts talking. Yeah. ah I mean, unfortunately, it's one of the few i can get anybody as a sound clip from Columbus. It doesn't, there's no, what other reporters are there? I mean, there's the other guy that they had talking like this, who, that they were going to um for this TPS thing, but
00:41:24
Speaker
I got like, there's like two, three people that cover Columbus. It's quite astonishing. So what are they going to do? Are the Republicans going to veto it or override the veto? Rather time will tell.
00:41:36
Speaker
No, this is a strategy. This is a strategy. Get people out to vote. Oh, this is it. Have DeWine. I mean, DeWine's not part of it. DeWine literally doesn't like this. like I don't know.
00:41:47
Speaker
Tell you truth. He's on his way out. He doesn't care. Good point. I mean, he i mean i wouldn't put it past him that he doesn't like it, but he might be like, yeah, no, we need to get people in ah to vote, out to vote.
00:42:02
Speaker
How would this get people to vote? Like, I ah get it, but i ah Just get the right, get you and you get the ah Republican base to become angry over something.
00:42:13
Speaker
Because if they're, you know, we we know this, that it's never like, midterms are never good ah because they're satisfied that they got the president they wanted. but yeah And it it goes it works both ways. I mean, Democrats or Republican. They're happy with that they won the main general election, the main big election.
00:42:34
Speaker
And then they're not really motivated to go and vote in the midterms. So that's why they always flip. So this time we can't let that really happen. I don't think it will just because ah the governor race is there, but we'll see.
00:42:48
Speaker
Yeah, it's like having DeWine and Amy agree. So vote for Vevek. and so I imagine Amy Acton would be on board with this veto.
00:43:00
Speaker
She's not going to want to strengthen their voting. Amy's going to be on board with whatever they tell her to be on board Well, yes, that's what I mean. that They're going to tell her you can't you have to you can't like this bill. you you know Mail-in ballots are perfectly secure. that's what That's what the talking points are going to be from Amy or from the DNC to Amy.
00:43:18
Speaker
but No, that's not the talking point. The talking point is that it it restricts people from voting. Oh, yeah. Yeah. This is not a good bill. This is making it more difficult to vote. You know, I want people to crawl across. I want people to crawl across broken glass to go vote.
00:43:36
Speaker
Yeah. It's such a burden to get out of your house. And I mean, some people it is. Yeah. But, but I think for the vast majority of absentees, yeah I don't think it's, most of these people are not, um, some fat house frown.
00:43:47
Speaker
Yeah. They're not, they're not, they're not, uh, invalids in, in the nursing home. They're, they're just people don't feel like going to vote or getting up to vote or whatever. it's, it is a privilege that a lot of people in the world don't have.
00:44:01
Speaker
And we take it such for granted that getting up, even when you have a whole month to do it is still a burden to get up and actually go somewhere and vote. It's still a burden. Even when you have three or four weeks to do it, fricking ridiculous people. Maybe we don't deserve the, the,
00:44:18
Speaker
That might all change here soon. Yeah. we're goingnna see We're going to see what the Supreme Court says on a couple of ah cases here. A couple cases about yeah um ah counting ballots after. Yeah.
00:44:32
Speaker
after I think they they're even doing something about mail-in. I know the counting after the election. They're definitely going to say ah no. So I think the Democrats are kind of screwed in some states. Mm-hmm.
00:44:44
Speaker
Yeah. ah ah And wasn't there another case? They might even do something about just mail-in voting that, like, I think, what was it? I think it was like they might be able to restrict the, how some states just mail up out the, send out ballots without even requesting them.
00:45:06
Speaker
Yeah, was it in the Save of the save of America Act or whatever? I forget. and I forget, but think it might be in that. It could. We'll see, I guess, in a couple of weeks. well When we get back, we'll ah we'll probably have ah a ton on that.
00:45:18
Speaker
Yeah, there's going to be some, hopefully some resolve on some of it, but we'll see. Well, that's what they're trying to do, I guess. We'll see what the Republicans can do. They're just going to bicker about it for the next couple months. And that's what you're thinking. and getting That's not a horrible strategy, especially if it's a crap bill. I'd like to see something a little with a little more teeth to it and an actual system. I mean, if you want to you want to be secure, you know, I know there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud, but we'll see. We'll see what they end up coming up with. i'm not holding my breath It's to a
00:45:51
Speaker
and normal virtue signaling crap from Republicans. Frank LaRose is on his way out. So that's kind of, he's been pretty staunch advocate for voter secure or, you know, voting security and having secure voter rolls and purging the voter rolls and all that other stuff. So see if we get in in there, because that's really what's going to determine it going forward, I guess.
00:46:15
Speaker
Okay. We're going to check all these things off. Check. Line check. Okay. Next one is if ohio bill. Ohio bill awaits a governor um this and this bill would, yep, Ohio bill would explicitly criminalize refusing to provide basic identification information during a traffic stop, clarifying what some law enforcement officials have called a gray area in state
Ohio Legislative Updates
00:46:47
Speaker
law. It awaits Governor Mike DeWine's signature. i'm sure he'll sign it.
00:46:51
Speaker
House Bill 492 sponsored by Reps Sharon Ray, Republican on Wadsworth, and Cindy Abrams, a Republican in Harrison County, passed pass the Senate on June 10th after passing House in November.
00:47:08
Speaker
Basically, what this does is there's couple of things this clarifies, apparently. It's been kind of a gray area if you got pulled over and the the the police officers ask for your ID, it was a so under the bill, declining to provide a name, address, or date of birth to law enforcement officers during a traffic stop would be classified as a fourth degree misdemeanor punishable by 30 days in jail and a maximum fine of $250.
00:47:39
Speaker
ah Both drivers and passengers could face the charge if they refuse to provide such information when requested by an officer who reasonably suspects they have committed a violation Ohio's motor vehicle laws.
00:47:53
Speaker
um the Currently, the state law requires drivers to provide driver's license for satisfactory proof that they have a driver's license at the request of a law, ah law enforcement during a traffic stop. Confusing to do so is an unclassified misdemeanor, generally non-arrestable offense that can only be punishable with a fine or community service.
00:48:18
Speaker
ah there I guess there's another law that ah requires anyone to provide their name, address, and date of birth when requested by an official who reasonably suspects they've committed or about to commit a jailable criminal offense.
00:48:30
Speaker
Then to do so is basically a fourth degree misdemeanor.
00:48:35
Speaker
And I think what they're, they they bring up, i don't know how much of this you read, but they bring up some of the issues that the cops have nowadays. Well, yeah. I've seen some funny videos on YouTube. Yep.
00:48:49
Speaker
Yep. I am not required to give you my ID. I'm not required to give you my name. Yeah. And that's, that's not what they bring up. See, uh, Michael Weinman, director of government affairs with the fraternal order of police of Ohio said a growing number of drivers are are turning to social media lawyers who tell their followers they do not have to identify themselves at law enforcement or to law enforcement.
00:49:18
Speaker
So these people among, among with, among with the sovereign citizens, which is another video that I see that And it's usually ah cop, you know, cop gives sovereign citizen rude awakening or something like that. When they're like, yeah, no, we're just going to arrest you. You can talk, you can call yourself a sovereign citizen all of what you want. We're going to yank you out of your car and and arrest you.
00:49:36
Speaker
We'll turn, they will turn on their cameras and escalate a rather mundane event or arguing with officers and challenging them until force is the only option left.
00:49:47
Speaker
Weinman said traffic stops are dangerous and at times lead to injury or death to law enforcement. ah This danger is exacerbated by these people who want to squabble with the officer and refuse to identify themselves.
00:50:03
Speaker
there There are, I've seen a few videos where the people are just retarded, man, and crazy on top of it. Crazy retard. Yes. And they, I don't like, I get where they're coming from on a lot of it.
00:50:17
Speaker
Like, I think the ID part is pretty understand that if they, if a cop asks for your ID, you pretty much have to supply it. a If they have probable cause. Yeah.
00:50:28
Speaker
Especially for traffic stop. Maybe if you're being pulled over, you're being pulled. I mean, usually you're being pulled over for a reason. Yeah. Generally they can, they can only ask for your ID if there's pro, if they have a probable cause that you're doing something wrong. Right. And if they're pulling you over, they probably have a cause, at least something they've seen or can, you know, easily, easily referred to if they were challenged like a taillight or you you're weaving or some BS like that.
00:50:51
Speaker
Where I get into it is where are you coming from? Where are you going? But you don't need to tell them that. No. But at what level? You know, because... you don't have to tell them, but the cop doesn't have to treat you with respect either. You know, it's like, so I, cause they're, what they're trying to do trying to, they're, they're interrogating you when they ask you all these questions. Yeah. You don't have to answer where where you're going or where you're coming from. I'd i'd rather not say it doesn't, it's not relevant.
00:51:16
Speaker
Yeah. traffic some and they're just trying to find other things to get you on. Yeah. Oh, it's coming from a bar. Step out the car, please. Yeah. a deposit car please yeah
00:51:26
Speaker
Uh, so there, I'm sure this is gonna, uh, DeWine has 10 days, including Sundays, of course, to sign or veto a bill after it's officially presented to him. If he does not take action, the bill automatically becomes law.
00:51:39
Speaker
Uh, while the bill was passed by the Senate in June 10th, it is unknown exactly when it may have reached his desk. So they're not sure. But in the 10 days is up. Um, like and if he signs it, the bill goes into effect 90 days after the office files it.
00:51:57
Speaker
So, you know, keep an eye out for that. if I mean, if you're getting pulled over and you want to try to pull some shenanigans, you know, you know what happens when you pull shenanigans, right? I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy that says shenanigans.
00:52:10
Speaker
Yep. That's about what's probably going to What you're probably going to get is a, is a not a pleasant police officer. I would think anybody that listens to us would not try to pull some dumb ass shit.
00:52:21
Speaker
Some shenanigans. Yes. I don't, uh, you know, all It all depends on how how badly do you want to oppose the law?
00:52:32
Speaker
Now, how much time you have for that day?
00:52:38
Speaker
Keep an eye out for that because when it passes, I mean, it's going to be a change. So, I mean, most people are just going to give it up anyway. But if you're one of those sovereign citizens who believes, you know, that the law doesn't affect you, ah pay attention because when it gets signed, it's going to be it be a little different. It's going to go to actually put you in jail for 30 days.
00:52:52
Speaker
yeah well that Yeah, I guess. But I mean, like usually every every video I've seen where somebody, I saw this one where this guy was like, I'm was like you know basically saying I'm a sovereign system. I don't need to tell you. And then they're holding up something to the window. Like they're not rolling down their window. So they're screaming.
00:53:10
Speaker
a Every single one of them turns into in arrest. Oh, yeah. and It's just like, what are you doing? What are you doing?
00:53:20
Speaker
Yeah, I've gotten caught up in a lot of those videos too. They're fun. What's the one ah show channel? It's the two black guys.
00:53:29
Speaker
The twins? Yeah, the twins. The Hodge twins. Hodge twins. Yeah. And they go over like police cam videos of... mostly black people, but it is a little bit of a mix. And they're just like, what is wrong with, he got black fatigue. That's why the cop definitely got black fatigue. They're from Texas. I've been, uh, I've been watching, know, who else does a lot of those videos is Asmund gold.
00:53:50
Speaker
Yes. He does a lot of those videos, man. And he, he's, really it's fun to watch him do it. Cause a lot of it is just watching his reaction to it. Yes. He's good. at And, uh, so I watched like three videos in a row. I i binged him. Yep.
00:54:07
Speaker
but and And it was so funny because every single video, it was a black person getting arrested. and two out of the three were ah black women, lot very large.
00:54:19
Speaker
Mm-hmm. They're being hogtied. Mm-hmm.
00:54:28
Speaker
Poor officer. each one Each one of them, each each one of those videos, they said, i can't breathe. you know Esmond Gold, I don't know, what what's his real name?
00:54:41
Speaker
I don't know. i don't know. But Esmond Gold's like, classic. yeah Because they're they're using that now as just a but thing to yell at them, you know? Yes. Except except when you're um and when you're when you've been stabbed a few times in England and and you you literally can't breathe and and you can hear them gargling the blood. and They're like, yeah, no, whatever. You're faking it. If we were in England, we could have a a lot of things to talk about there oh but then we'd be in jail yeah we yeah we'd have been jail a while ago yeah um yeah i i watched those and it's it's what i what all these kids come into my head is so generally these are poor people that you're watching oh so a couple of them are like like uh squatters was a few of them that i watched yep so they don't have money to pay for of ah rent or a house presumably because they're squatting and they're poor you can tell they're poor how do they get so freaking fat
00:55:36
Speaker
I don't know. I mean, know how, but... Yeah, but I mean, where we're... Like, we live in an era where you can be on government handouts and be obese. Yeah.
00:55:52
Speaker
You have to work to be that fat. I mean, that takes takes work. Like, I mean... Like you have to eat and not do anything. Eating yourself. Yeah. Eat and then sit on the couch. Eat. I mean, that is work. You literally have to pick every, like you had like to get that large, you really just have to eat like, you know, like crap for a very long time. It's not easy to do. mean, I guess it's easy to do. It is and actually, I mean, it isn't, but it, it's, it's easy to do, but.
00:56:24
Speaker
I don't know. like I can't do it. i but I get to a certain, I start going, oh, i feel fat. I stop eating. But some people just don't care. that They're, I don't well getting into a tangent. yeah just don't care They don't care about the way they look. but Look the way they dress out in public.
00:56:36
Speaker
Why would they care about how fat they are? It's a, but you know, but the ones I feel sorry for are the ones that are, I guess, were raised that way. The kids. Yeah, the kids. That's all I know.
00:56:47
Speaker
Yeah. And so they grow up to be like that. it's That makes it hard. Yeah. that for sure. Oh, you, I hate, I hate cleveland.com.
00:57:00
Speaker
Uh, so next story, we'll move on to, got to keep moving here, running long. I think, uh, author of, uh, next story. Yeah. Author of anti-woke higher ed law celebrates college enrollments, lays out what's next.
00:57:13
Speaker
I just thought we'd bring this up because the whole time they were talking, this SB1 that got passed at beginning or end of last year. And SB1 was in effect June 27th of 2025 banning diversity, equity, inclusion, and student admission and support staff employment.
00:57:31
Speaker
So they, you know, they, they try to get rid of these. what do they do like, uh, say, uh, safe places and, you know, places where only certain ethnic groups can go into mostly, and mostly the certain ethnic groups are banned or white people.
00:57:47
Speaker
So if you, they had, they had a community centers on campus and safe spaces for minorities and stuff like that. Plus, uh, I think hiring practices, you you know, that kind of stuff.
Education Law Impact
00:58:00
Speaker
And, The story basically was before Cleveland.com cut it all off and wants me to donate to their shithole website. The, um, basically Marino or whoever, who was it?
00:58:17
Speaker
Ah, see, I can't see. but Anyway, the author of the, of the bill, I think it was Marino or Houston or one of those guys, uh, says everybody was freaking out because we're going to lose enrollment. It's going to go down. We're going to lose professors. And, and basically I was saying,
00:58:33
Speaker
Cause I don't want those if professors here anyway, if they're, if all they're, all they're going to do is brainwash kids. And what's actually happened is enrollment has either stayed steady or ticked up a little bit. It's it's not much. Uh, and staff turnover is lower than it was a year before in 24 to 23, 24. Yeah. it's not having the Serino. Thank you. It's right there in the second paragraph or first paragraph.
00:58:58
Speaker
So anyway, so they, they were screaming that the sky was falling and sky's not falling. No, they're, they're claiming, well, you just got to wait a little longer.
00:59:09
Speaker
Okay, whatever. but Like I said, Get the hell out if that's, if you don't like it, go somewhere else. Go to another state, another school. You know, what um it where ah enrollment rates are going to plunge here over the next decade. So they're going to blame it on this.
00:59:25
Speaker
Yeah, they already, I mean, they're kind of already on a decline in most colleges. maybe not Yeah, well, that's what I'm saying. I think they're going to try to ah twist it and blame it on this kind of stuff.
00:59:38
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There's too many colleges and we're going to find that out real quick in the next 10 years. 10 to 15 years, it's going to, you're going to see a lot, a lot of them closing. Maybe a lot of buildings for sale on places like Kent and Toledo and Dayton universities, maybe not Ohio state. They may be little bit more immune to it because they're such a big college. but Yeah. I don't think Kent, but I don't, I don't know. Yeah.
00:59:59
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I don't know. Maybe not. But so that sky did not fall at least yet. Moral that story. Moving on to our next story.
01:00:11
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01:00:37
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01:00:52
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01:01:08
Speaker
right, moving along. North Canton police introduce a speeding database. It doesn't seem like much of a story. It kind of is. that there North Canton is going to, they've got a website and they're going to publish all their speeding data. Like, well, we'll listen to the clip, but i they'll tell you kind of where what they're doing, what they want to do. But I think the interesting part of this story is what they say is most important.
01:01:34
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Let's hear from New Channel 5. North Canton police are making their speed data public and residents can see it for themselves. All the data is available online through a new website. Your transportation reporter Caitlin Hunt live from Traffic Tracker this morning with details on this morning Caitlin.
01:01:52
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he's in a corner i can contest yes North Canton Police Chief Frank Kemp Jr. says speeding is the number one concern from residents. And so now residents can access all the data that officers have been gathering around speeding. It's all part of the Drive Safe North Canton initiative. And the department's data on accidents and traffic stops is now available online. Residents can also see which streets police are monitoring for speeding. The department also shares its different speed enforcement tactics on the new website, including a map of where speed speed radars are currently located in the city. And Chief Kemp says many of those tactics, like speed trailers, are meant to remind drivers to watch their speed, not necessarily to write tickets. The chief police says the department wanted to be transparent with the public, and it's already paying off. He says most drivers in North Canton are following the rules.
01:02:42
Speaker
As what we're seeing with our percentages, it's it's less than a 10% of the traveling public through an area is doing some sort of speeding. The data helps us to narrow timeframes that we can be most effective. As we patrol the whole city, we wanna make sure that we're giving a fair patrol activities to each of the neighborhoods within the community and our business districts.
Local Government Transparency
01:03:05
Speaker
so you're trying to tell me in North Canton, the most important thing on Residence Mine is speeding. but I would want to know where the cameras are. Well, that's ah that' that's the important thing on the website is you get to tell, they get they're going to tell you where they're going to be And so, you know, which which is, you know, that means either going avoid that area or slow down. So I guess either way, but it's so bad that less than 10% of people who drive through North Canton speed.
01:03:33
Speaker
Yeah. Whatever. Whatever. I guess it's not, it's really, it can't be that. I mean, with all the crime and stuff in Akron, Canton, all the major cities nowadays, you tell me that's what citizens really worry about is speeding. No, it's just another way to collect a different tax.
01:03:51
Speaker
Yeah, it is a different tax. That's true. That's all it is. Speaking of the police and a topic we've talked about quite a bit on this show, is the sheriff of Cuyahoga County, Northeast Ohio sheriff's lobby, Cuyahoga County council for an elected sheriff.
01:04:11
Speaker
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Yeah.
01:04:18
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Finally.
01:04:20
Speaker
Let's see what happens. But so law enforcement officers from Northeast Ohio showed up at Cuyahoga County Council Tuesday to lobby in favor of a chapter amendment or sorry charter amendment ah that would make the sheriff an elected position telling council it's time to move away from the appointed sheriff.
01:04:41
Speaker
They're saying you, you, you simply continue to roll people in and out of the position and they will not stay said Sheriff ah Summit County Sheriff, Katie, Fadreen, Fadree, Fadree, feather or something. ah And, and the position and the problems and challenges that you face today and have faced in the past will continue to occur.
01:05:04
Speaker
so they're saying, Um, since then there have been eight additional sheriffs, including the current one, Harold Patel, pray tell five people held a position between ah Clifford, um, Pinicki.
01:05:22
Speaker
Pinky, Pinkney, Pinkney's department, departure in 2019 and Patel's, gosh, I'm horrible with names, Pretel's appointed appointment in 2023. So between 2019 and 23, that's 45 years, they had five people in that position. I think 18 or eight since they started this, right? In 2011. Yeah.
01:05:41
Speaker
Yeah. yeah That's a lot. Eight people in what, 10 years, 15 years? Yeah. Yeah. yeah That's you're you're, you're averaging one a year, basically. Almost. Almost. Especially for the last few years. Yeah. Last few years.
01:05:54
Speaker
The current structure of governance is fundamentally flawed. Sweeney said, this is something that people want to make a decision on. And why did they stop it in the first place?
01:06:06
Speaker
When they reorganized the County after, was the guy's name? Um, Jackson? No, the, uh, the county, the county went through a, uh, scandal with, Oh, Oh, what's his fricking name?
01:06:20
Speaker
Uh, it was with the auditor, right? Yeah, he was, they were, part it was part of the county council. uh,
01:06:28
Speaker
become the baby. demorra that's it demorra yeah he was basically getting like, I think they he had his house like built like half for free by promising contracts for work. So how did it help to get rid of the sheriff thing?
01:06:42
Speaker
not When they reorganized, so through the scandal, they they did a whole reorganize and did this exec county executor and the board and kind of restructure the entire county governance. And one of the things they did was ah have the county executor appoint the sheriff.
01:06:56
Speaker
Yeah. It sounds like they just made it easier to cheat. Yes. It made it easier to put the people that they want to do what they want to do yeah in the sheriff's department instead of having the people like, like all the other 87 counties in Ohio out of the 88. hmm.
01:07:10
Speaker
oh One of the things I've ahve burned in my memory now with the show is we have 88 counties. I did not know that before this show. So hopefully this can, so basically the county county is the lone county that ah with an appointed sheriff in Ohio, Stark County Sheriff Eric Weisburn has said elected sheriffs are more accountable to residents.
01:07:34
Speaker
Now, why do i I think I understand, but what do you think? Why do you you think the other sheriffs even give a crap about this? I would think Calgary County is a problem maybe with yeah crime.
01:07:48
Speaker
Something, i you know.
01:07:51
Speaker
good Good question, actually. No, I think it's just, you need, I think it's, you need to have a stable system so you can work with the other counties. Yeah. And now they're having a problem. There's a lot of lawsuit between Pray Ronane because they're saying that county executive has power over the sheriff and when how he spends his money. But the sheriff's saying, no, it's my department.
01:08:16
Speaker
I get to tell how what is how I spend the money. And there's this big controversy now, and this would actually cleared up because if the people vote in the sheriff, then the sheriff is in charge of the sheriff department. There's no, no gray area there.
01:08:29
Speaker
And that that's fundamentally what they're kind of, one of the things they're saying is you've got this, this issue where the sheriff is saying this and the county executive is saying that, and there needs to be some clear.
01:08:41
Speaker
Lastly, they say elections provide transparency, accountability, and an opportunity for citizens to evaluate a candidate's experience, vision, and leadership.
01:08:51
Speaker
I think it'd be good thing for this for the county, especially considering they're hemorrhaging money. The sheriff's department, they're like a couple million dollars over budget like every year because of all the overtime.
01:09:03
Speaker
Yeah, I'd like to i like i like to have a say in my sheriff. Right. Hopefully that goes through. But again, not holding my breath.
01:09:12
Speaker
And lastly is a little story from last week that I pulled over and because it has, it has a followup. So let's listen to end of the
IX Center Debate & Tax Sharing
01:09:20
Speaker
rope. IX center event producers speak out, speak up after a year in limbo and stalled talks. Let's hear what they had to say. So the IX center,
01:09:29
Speaker
They were going to pull it for a tech manufacturing, I guess it wasn't a data center, and that deal fell through. So now the developer, the real estate developer, is looking for other options.
01:09:41
Speaker
And in the meantime, it's just sitting empty. So let's hear what they have to say about the IX Center. These are a couple of people that did some of the big events. They'll explain themselves. Welcome back. Many of you have been asking us what is going on at the IX Center for more than 40 years. The center has hosted shows bringing people from all across the country right here to our area. But now it appears those days are over. The center hosted its final show in March. Plans are moving forward to turning that property into an employment hub. We've done a lot of reporting on what's happening there, speaking with developers and elected officials. But until tonight, a key voice has been missing from this conversation. We're talking about the voice of the vendors. Michelle Jarboe has a side of the story you'll only hear on News 5.
01:10:23
Speaker
So typical Cleveland. It's like one of those crime scene boards that people do, you know, threads going here and there. The conversations are all over the place. Tom Baugh's company is behind some of the biggest events at the IAC Center. The Great Big Home and Garden Show, the Home and Remodeling Show, and then the Christmas Connection. And he's finally speaking up. I think we feel a moral obligation and that if we didn't say something now,
01:10:43
Speaker
we would We would regret it forever. Alongside Lou Vintononio, president of the Cleveland Auto Show. We said, hey, listen, enough is enough. we've We've got to explain our side of it. It's been a year since news broke about big changes coming to the IAC Center.
01:10:58
Speaker
A city-owned building now leased to real estate developers, hoping to bring manufacturing and hundreds of jobs to this space. We don't want to stand in the way of progress on the building in the future. That's not that is not what we want to do. But right now, the IX Center is just sitting after closing in March, despite months of behind the scenes talks about a Hail Mary pass. The interim solution, as we understand it, would be that the Haslam group would rent the building for a three-year period, approximately a three-year period. The shows would continue. We would contract with Haslam, and it's in preparation then of moving the shows over to the new stadiums. He's talking about Haslam Sports Group, owner of the Cleveland Browns, building an enclosed stadium in nearby Brook Park set to open in 2029 and already trying to line up major events to fill gaps between NFL games.
01:11:55
Speaker
But Tom and Lou just learned everyone's not necessarily on board. what we're doing seems like you guys are kind of stuck in the middle of this wrangling over the lease and the real estate deal. Or pinata.
01:12:06
Speaker
That's what it feels like. Because the developer in charge here wants a long-term lease extension to justify making big investments in the property to attract businesses. A lease extension the city's only willing to give for the right kind of deal. I don't think they have any indication, any clue of how valuable the shows are. In a statement, the city said it has no control over decisions about the shows. Adding the IX Center is getting looks from tenants across the country.
01:12:34
Speaker
Now, U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno, a former car dealer, is joining the debate with a letter urging the city to keep the auto show at the IX Center for now. But we try to sometimes to be the referee. Sometimes we're successful. Sometimes we're not successful. But the good news is we got the city and the Auto Deal Association talking. How that gets resolved is going to be up to them. we still not getting the answers.
01:12:56
Speaker
you know what i mean? And that's that's the problem. Everybody's. pointing in different directions, never pointing back at themselves. Lou and Tom are facing a tough decision to move their shows downtown to the Huntington Convention Center, a very different place. We have to cut our business 70%.
01:13:13
Speaker
We go from 10 days to three. Our pricing goes down. We have less parking. There's no commercially viable way for sustained success downtown. It's not the building's fault. It's not the venue's fault. It's just the reality. now they're running out of time and hope no in a world where everything's becoming digital, where human connection matters more. yeah We're going to kill these shows. It just seems counterintuitive in Cleveland. Michelle Jarbo.
01:13:38
Speaker
It sounds exactly like Cleveland. Yeah. I mean, they got this huge asset there and they're, Oh, we don't know what to do with it all. but Why did you, you it sounds like they gave control to a real estate development company.
01:13:51
Speaker
Like they don't have much of a say in it. Other than just brushing it off. They don't care. The lease agreement, the only thing they can do is is is extend that lease agreement. In the meantime, these these people have to make a decision really, really soon, if not already, what they're going to do for the show because right it takes a year to set this stuff up.
01:14:13
Speaker
they're gonna They're going to screw it up. They always do. It's typical. And the follow-up is another story that came in this week. So Cleveland Brook Park have a ah tax sharing agreement.
01:14:25
Speaker
That is kind of in flux now, I think with the Browns moving, I think I would think Cleveland wants more of a share. I i don't know the details, but so the Brook Park has agreed to it. Cleveland hasn't. they're They're not set to vote on the agreement till next month, apparently.
01:14:39
Speaker
But now Cleveland cle is saying a manufacturer is eyeing the Ajax Center could bring 700 jobs and $72 million dollars in payroll for part of the center, part of the Ajax Center. It wouldn't even take up all of it.
01:14:50
Speaker
They won't say who because the deal's not done. They're still competing. They have to, you know, there's other companies probably looking at multiple cities. and I was reading the the article.
01:15:01
Speaker
One of the reasons they this place, ah the the company wants this place is because the the they could put cranes on the bridges that cross the...
01:15:14
Speaker
across the venue. So and they, they need the, the hoist, I guess for, I don't know. i can't imagine what it could be. Yeah. Gears. Like, i mean, like, I don't know what kind of manufacturer could go in there.
01:15:28
Speaker
Yeah, 700 people at a manufacturing. That's a lot for it, especially nowadays. I don't know. $72 million. I mean, it's huge. Will they get it? that's that This is where all the tax abatements come into play and who's going to woo them more than and the other states. And this is why you get you get the deals that everybody looks at. Like, wow, how how can they do this? Well, I mean, this is how it goes down. You got to compete with other other cities and other states. And if they're giving tax breaks, if you don't, you lose.
01:15:55
Speaker
And I think that's probably what the negotiating is right now. but But what's going to happen? Nobody knows. But in the meantime, can they still have the shows? Like why waste that opportunity to bring revenue into the, to the facility and the city?
01:16:10
Speaker
I don't understand. Leave it to Cleveland. Leave it to Cleveland to screw up something even as
Unclaimed Funds System
01:16:17
Speaker
easy. That is like what to do with the building in the meantime. Well, just continue to have the shows until you get an agreement. What the heck?
01:16:23
Speaker
Anyway, that's, that's, that's Cleveland for you. You know, it's such an odd thing to think about. Like the IX Center and the airport are not even Cleveland owned.
01:16:36
Speaker
It's part of Brook Park, but Cleveland controls it. such a weird setup.
01:16:41
Speaker
um So that's that's that. Check it out. I don't know what they're to do. I'm sure nothing. We'll end up not having a car show next year. I guess moving along, we've got, well, of course, favorite segment of the show.
01:16:59
Speaker
Start off with couple, end off the show, I should say, with a couple of good stories to keep you keep it going for the rest of the week and for a couple of weeks now. First one, a woman, so let's give an update on the unclaims fund by a woman who was surprised in what she found. Let's listen to a little little clip from News Channel 5 on the unclaims fund and kind of where it's at now.
01:17:26
Speaker
After the Browns announced, they did all the announcement, kind of brought it to the forefront last year. The division of unclaimed funds is telling News 5 it's received more than one million claims in just the last year. Yeah, that is doubled compared to the year before. News 5's Clay Lepard looks further into the wait and what's being done about it.
01:17:47
Speaker
You're about to understand why we agreed to blur this woman's face and not share her real name. So we will call her Brooke. you I left Ohio under kind of personal pretenses for, you know, a domestic situation. So I really didn't even want to be interviewed. i don't want people knowing who I am or where I am.
01:18:10
Speaker
When she left Northeast Ohio several years ago, Brooke had no intention of looking back. Don't want to cause more problems than I'm already dealing with. Then Brooke learned she had unclaimed funds with the state. You had no idea?
01:18:24
Speaker
I had no idea. Royalties from drilling on her Northeast Ohio property. Money that could turn things around as her family navigates medical bills piling up.
01:18:34
Speaker
I mean, it would significantly help us try to climb out of the hole that we're pretty much in. So in January of this year, she filed a claim for her lifeline sitting out there. The money would definitely help at least at least help us keep our house.
01:18:52
Speaker
i mean, that's the one thing that we haven't lost so far. We've lost everything else. Six months later, and she's not even sure anyone at the Division of Unclaimed Funds has looked at her request for the nearly half a million dollars she's owed.
01:19:06
Speaker
The Division of Unclaimed Funds told us on June 12th that they are still processing claims that were submitted in the second half of last year. So how many have they gone through?
01:19:17
Speaker
For perspective, in 2024, the division paid out 26,000 claims. In the year after the Browns announcement, they've paid out 187,000 claims. We have made significant modifications to our website and the underlying technology that's behind the website. Last September, we told you how the Division of Unclaimed Funds rolled out new technology, leading to much faster payouts for about 20% of the claims that come in.
01:19:47
Speaker
The underlying technology is what's most critical because it allows the information that's been provided by the claimant to be um autonomously validated so that we can more efficiently process that claim.
01:20:01
Speaker
Autonomously validated. Yes. So in simpler terms, does that mean people, when they're filing their claim, are seeing that check in the mailbox quicker? Exactly. us. Where in the past, all claims would get processed between, let's say, 90 100 days, right? Now, some people are getting their funds in two weeks. Consider Mary Matusik and her $167, one of them. There it is in the mailbox.
01:20:30
Speaker
Three weeks from when? Three weeks from start to finish. Good. That's fast. i For the government agency, yes, extremely fast. While many like Mary saw their money quicker than ever before, News 5 is still receiving emails and calls from people waiting six, eight, ten months just to hear back on the status of their claims. A holding pattern for people like Brooke waiting to move forward.
01:20:59
Speaker
they need to do some thinking of how they can solve this and speed up the process because it's just taking way too long. Six months. I think like, wow. I mean, I guess for somebody, hundred bucks, 50 bucks, 20 bucks,
01:21:15
Speaker
It's pretty easy, but if you're if you've got $100,000 and this woman has five hundred thousand nearly $500,000 in unclaimed funds from, I guess, the land deal from from pumping oil off her property, man, she must have been really in a real bad situation to just leave and forget about the oil pumping. Yeah, she didn't forget about that.
01:21:35
Speaker
but That sounds ridiculous to me.
01:21:39
Speaker
What do you mean? How do you forget about 500? How do you not know that's owed to you? Well, I don't know if she doesn't, didn't know, but if you're leaving because you're getting your, you know, your your spouse, abused spouse, you're just, oh we're we're just assuming that's what it was. It's what they're implying. Right. Yeah. um But going off of that information,
01:21:57
Speaker
You could have easily thought that's not mine or she had no claim to it. Maybe. I don't know. Obviously she didn't forget about it because she then filed when she's heard about, it she then filed for unclaimed funds going, Oh wait, maybe I have some money. I doubt she thought it was 500 grand, but, um, but I would imagine something that size is going to take a little longer than three weeks, but six months you think, come I got to verify your identity. just going to write a check for 500 grand, but six months and she hasn't heard anything.
01:22:21
Speaker
Like how many times have you called? Oh, well you're dealing with the government. So sure. And they don't want to give up 500, 120 bucks is fine. A five and a grand. No, we're going slow roll that thing. Sure.
01:22:32
Speaker
Yeah, I would think so. Oh, sucks. I mean, sounds like she really needs it. And I guess get on the horn. and That's probably one of the reasons she's talking to new channel five. Cause she's not getting anything from anybody else.
01:22:44
Speaker
was that a What was that segment called years ago? Like, get to get the news on your side? to It was like Carl Monday did stuff like that? and Carl Monday. I guess Carl Monday. I forget what it was called. Yeah, it's kind of the same thing here.
01:23:00
Speaker
Like, it was a knock on the door and be like, why are you wasting taxpayer money by sleeping out on the job? No, there was other things like when when somebody had a problem with with ah a government or a business, he would go after the business to check.
01:23:14
Speaker
Yeah. I forget what that was called. Gosh, darn it. Yeah. That's kind of what, what they're doing here. I don't know. Six plus months seems like a long time, but if you've got unclaimed funds, time to check it, ah check it. I have, I got 48 cents available to me.
01:23:30
Speaker
I think I had about 70 cents. Yeah. I was like, well, just keep it. Yeah. Don't, don't waste my taxpayer money. by But they're hiring more people and they're, they audit they're auto, they're, do they call it? Not automation or not automate. Um,
01:23:44
Speaker
Autonomous. Autonomous. Basically AI. Yeah. They're using AI to match up, you know, the information and for the little claims, sure that it works out.
Gordon Park Renovations
01:23:54
Speaker
Moving along. Last one, last but not least, it looks like, you know, we always rag on Cleveland like we just did for, especially for the lakefront.
01:24:03
Speaker
Well, let's, let's, let's put one in there, I guess in there on their side. A major transformation is now underway at Gordon Park on Cleveland's east side. You been to Gordon Park, Tom? Yeah, actually I have. Okay.
01:24:14
Speaker
I think I have, but I'm not sure. ah No, you you never have. No? No, um there's there would have been, unless you played baseball. There was a time where ah a league, a friend of mine wanted me to join up. It was an adult baseball team, like like over 21.
01:24:32
Speaker
twenty one And I went there and watched them one time. ah The baseball fields were pretty nice at the time. They were okay. They weren't great. And, ah but on my bike rides during lunch, I used to ride through there because it's kind of like, ah but it was my destination furthest from ah where I work to get, and then get back.
01:24:54
Speaker
And they looked like hell for the last decade. Yeah. i I didn't know the Metro parks owned it. I don't, I'm wondering if if they just bought it.
01:25:05
Speaker
i think it was just Cleveland before. It was a Cleveland park called Gordon park. Yeah, maybe it's taken away Cleveland Metro Parks, has officially started a $10 million dollars renovation project aimed at turning the southern section of the park into new neighborhood gathering spaces.
01:25:19
Speaker
Yeah, that sounds scary. Yes. Out there. kind of does. Because right up the street is where they find bodies every once in a while. Yes. It's right. it It goes on. wood It's the in one of the worst areas in Cleveland. Not not Collinwood. It's the, um it's MLK Boulevard. It's off of MLK and 90 there.
01:25:38
Speaker
And just up the street is where the International Gardens are. yes. i guess I think that's what they're called. ah Right by Rockefeller ah ah greenhouses and and ah the International Gardens. And there's a river that runs through there, a creek.
01:25:56
Speaker
And there's been bodies found. It's like 500 feet from that park. I mean, it's a beautiful area. it is. you're driving through it. Yeah. And I know people that have been mugged there, actually.
01:26:07
Speaker
So this kind of connects to that then? That little park area would connect. Well, that park area yeah is, once you go underneath the underpass, overpass, under you know yeah towards ah you'd be headed towards Cleveland, or you know ah I guess you'd be headed towards, where does that take you to? Wee Lagoon and stuff? MLK. Oh, i see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah okay.
01:26:32
Speaker
I mean, mean, it could be beautiful because you could really just walk over the overpass on the high over the highway there and kind of see the lake there. And it can be nice. There's a marina right there. Yeah. okay There's a lot of work to be done.
01:26:48
Speaker
ah Metro parks are going to do a good job with it. I just hope it's, I just hope that it's, um, that people appreciate it. Yes. Historically over the last 40 years, it it was baseball diamonds. And what we realized pretty quick was, the fencing and kind of security with those baseball diamonds meant that about half the park was off limits on a day-to-day basis.
01:27:12
Speaker
yeah the the Yeah, the baseball section is pretty large. I mean, they have actually, they actually have ah lights there for like playing night games and stuff.
01:27:24
Speaker
It was a cool area to go play. Yeah, reopening planning for summer of 2027. Cool. cool yeah I'm looking forward to that because i I have been seeing the work happening there because I do, I still ride my bike past it.
01:27:36
Speaker
Yeah. Every once in a while. Good for the metro parks, bringing in some of that lakefront.
01:27:42
Speaker
Lakefront property back up to where people can actually use it for more than just, like you're saying, just playing baseball games with. and I'm like, yeah, I can imagine this. I mean, I know when my kids went through baseball, there wasn't many, seen there wasn't many much interest in baseball. Yeah. Well, it's not the same as when I was growing up and and there were a lot of, there were a lot of adult leagues playing there. Yeah. The kids, and the the adults who used to play when they're kids. Right. And you know, they're, they've all kind of aged out yeah basically. Yeah.
01:28:10
Speaker
Yeah. So check it out if you're in the area, you know, if you, if you work or live or drive past or you're looking for something, you know, something to Cleveland during the day, check it out next year. It looks like it's going to pretty cool.
01:28:22
Speaker
And I think on that, I think that ends
Closing & Listener Feedback
01:28:25
Speaker
the show. And again, we'll see you probably in a couple of weeks and send us your feedback on what you think the changes we can make to this show on the break as we recharge ahead of the gubernatorial election in Ohio.
01:28:40
Speaker
And, you know, like I said, we're as important as as Congress. We need to take a break too. So send us your, send us your suggestions, cricketrivercast.gmail.com. Please check out the blog. and follow up with us on anything you could see with that. We can change on even on the blog, what you think would be different. Uh, quicker river cast.com.
01:29:00
Speaker
And on that note, um, we'll talk to you next, some other time, couple weeks. Goodbye. Peace.