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Crooked River Cast Show 54
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Transcript
Introduction and Ohio Focus
00:00:12
Speaker
This is the Crooked Rivercast. I Robert, and the other voice you're going hear is Tom, and we are two guys trying to track of what is going on in the great state of Ohio.
00:00:23
Speaker
This is show 54 for the week of March 30th, 2026. Let's get right into it. We've got lots to talk about. Do it.
00:00:36
Speaker
In the morning. In the morning, bro.
Parenting and Driving Lessons
00:00:42
Speaker
Well, I did the unthinkable for the last couple days. Okay. How you doing, Tom? Everything good? Everything's good.
00:00:54
Speaker
I'm trying to think of what's unthinkable. But if it's unthinkable, I can't think of it. you can't think of because I couldn't think of it up to a until a few years ago. And then i realized it slapped in the face a few months ago. I took my daughter driving, Tom. Nice. Nice.
00:01:10
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. You've been waiting ah about 15 years for this, right? I didn't think it would ever come, but ah I didn't think I'd be the one doing it because I didn't. Well, pretty soon you're going to waving goodbye out the window as she goes off to college.
00:01:24
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's a whole other scary part. and It's not the going away part. It's the college part. It's the professor's part. But yeah, so I think ah my wife said, hey, you know, maybe you you can take her out a few times and you could show her a couple of things maybe, you know, differently. That is a dad's role.
00:01:44
Speaker
I mean, i don't disagree, but I think maybe the first few times was good to have a softer voice in the car and not somebody said, brakes, brakes.
00:01:56
Speaker
and I didn't really do that. i She did do it. Actually, the only time I yelled at her, because you really, I mean, obviously you shouldn't yell because who knows what pedal she'll press, ah is when I told her to stop apologizing.
00:02:09
Speaker
Sorry, sorry. Sorry, sorry. Sorry, sorry. Oh, sorry, sorry. I said, watch the creep. Sorry, sorry. I said, stop saying sorry. uh she's okay i said you're doing great just it's okay just don't i was like look we i was like it was success she's like what i go yeah we didn't hit anything she didn't laugh well how's she doing doing good she did i mean you know she's white knuckle in it um yeah okay the normal stuff like when you turn and then what do you do with your hands
00:02:43
Speaker
Like how to, how to go do ah like keep your hands on the wheel. Hand over hand kind of thing. yeah She hasn't taken any classes yet. She's doing the online stuff. So we're just getting her out, getting her a little bit familiar with all this stuff.
00:02:54
Speaker
And then she's going to start taking her class. So they'll probably teach her a lot of this, but I'm like, you know, I'm watching her as she turns and then her arms are starting to become an X and now she doesn't know what to do. Yeah. Yeah, that's where girls and guys boys are different, right? I mean, like, I don't ever feel like I ever went through any of that when I was learning how to drive. And and frankly, I learned how to drive before I really should have. but Yeah, I went right to the suicide palms.
00:03:20
Speaker
Well, there's that. i mean, you do watch your parents, right? And my dad wasn' wasn't the most... but you uh, safest driver. Yeah. It wasn't, he's not the most cautious driver. yeah He actually drives now more than he was back then. I'm sure. oh ahll way more. Yeah. I think I still got stains in my underwear from that. Oh, I bet. I bet. I can only imagine. I've heard, yeah, stories I've heard.
00:03:44
Speaker
ah Yeah, so that was interesting. I think i think she does no i think she did great. It's funny. it's fun It's just you notice all these things that you take for granted when you're driving, like turning right and either not hitting the curb or ending up in the opposite lane when you're done with the turn.
00:04:03
Speaker
you know Yeah. See, that I don't think I ever had an issue with like negotiating a turn. Maybe maybe a little bit. No, not really. i can't.
00:04:14
Speaker
you know You don't remember like just hitting the cur you know turning too sharp and going over a coupe? No. Yeah, you blocked that out.
Technology and Teen Driving
00:04:21
Speaker
No, and I mean, if I did it, it was because I was screwing off, not because I didn't know how to turn.
00:04:28
Speaker
Yeah. I have a friend of mine that said, you didn't take you're not going to take her out in the truck? I'm like, no. I'll give her a chance at least to succeed. yeah to be Speaking of turning corners, yeah, she's going to end up on she' goingnna take out stop signs with that thing.
00:04:43
Speaker
The one thing I remember, which I got knocked on my ah got a knock on my score when I took the test, was when I made a left-hand turn, I cut it a little bit too sharp.
00:04:56
Speaker
Like, there was no car there. ah You know, in the, let's say there's a turning lane going the opposite direction. yeah you cut a corner yeah the I just cut the corner a little too sharp instead of, like, kind of.
00:05:12
Speaker
I remember doing that. but As far as like right hand turns, no, I never really, I'm trying to think back. I don't remember ever doing that.
00:05:24
Speaker
Yeah. People still do that. That's, that's a very common thing to cut that corner. right that Especially when I'm sitting at the traffic light you're like, what the, did you get any closer? Oh yeah. Yeah. People don't pay attention.
00:05:35
Speaker
Yeah. Especially when you're coming up to a red light and somebody's turning left from the other, yeah ah yeah you know, and you're like, what the hell? You just went into my lane here. Yeah. Yeah. and That happens.
00:05:47
Speaker
i I raise my fist and I say, I'm going to, yeah, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going to use, sorry I got to go. um But, and therein lies the fear in in dad.
00:06:01
Speaker
It's not her. It's like, um my gosh, look at all these other people on the road. I'm driving now with a whole different set of glasses on. Yeah. And it's scary as hell to think some of these people going to driving next to my daughter.
00:06:19
Speaker
Overall, it's not so bad. You know what I worry about most? not Well, I don't worry about it, but I don't ride a motorcycle anymore. But if I did, it would freak me out because of all the people on their phones.
00:06:31
Speaker
I would definitely have a trailer. I would trailer it into the middle, into Amish country, and then I'd get on it. Yeah, no, I wouldn't do that. But I mean, it it would, like, it's something you really, if if you're on a bike, it, gosh, man, it would just, it would freak me out now because of all the phones I see up when people are driving.
00:06:53
Speaker
Yeah. And that's the next question, maybe, is all, everybody, a lot of people we know are using Life360.
00:07:02
Speaker
What? Life. you ever heard of Life 360? No. The app and service day? No. So I know a few people that have this. It currently, actually, some of my kids' friends or their friends' parents have it. And it's it's a service. It's an app. It's a service. And it's basically geolocating whoever you choose.
00:07:20
Speaker
And it's not like, you could do that with Apple pretty easily with Find My feature. Yeah. Yeah. And you could even pick who you share it with and all of this stuff. It's kind of cool. we I do use that on occasion see where Oh, she's on the way home, like my wife or something. Yeah.
00:07:35
Speaker
This is like, it'll, it'll will alert you when the person goes over a certain speed limit, a hard braking, all this other stuff along with where they're at. Like real, not an, an Apple find mine is pretty accurate, but this is like hyper accurate.
00:07:52
Speaker
um I don't know what app my sister-in-law put on my in-laws, you know, cause he's in his nineties and he's still occasionally takes the car out. So I know they put an app on his phone and I think it, what it did was if if it, if he's in an accident,
00:08:09
Speaker
It locates them too, but if he's in an accident, ah it tells you if if there was a, you know, some kind of collision or something. Very likely it's that or something, a competitor of them because they're they're the one that everybody has, seems to have Life360. I'm not sure. I don't know.
00:08:23
Speaker
I don't know. What do you think? wait like do you Would you want to see every broken speed limit and harsh breaking? no yeah Can you select those off? Like, I would not. You could, but what's the point of it? i know i I know it's easier to say since I don't have a teenager kids, but I wouldn't want to watch my child like that.
00:08:47
Speaker
But I would like to know if there's an accident, like if there's options to what, like if you can pick what you pick and choose what you're notified about. Oh. Like the the the speed limit thing, no way, man. i can't, I wouldn't be able to do that to them.
00:09:03
Speaker
i don't know. I have to look into it. I don't, I a don't want to let's get into another service have to pay for. You know, let them let them get a couple of tickets. Well, that's my, let's let's see how you do first. I do trust her. She's pretty responsible for a kid at her age, I think, at least as of now.
00:09:21
Speaker
um I mean, she they they had some ah spirit games or something Friday at school. and I picked her up and I was like, how was your day? I was like, what? That's spirit day. I'm like, yeah. She's like we spent most the day in the gym. I go, and that's and that's not good?
00:09:38
Speaker
No, I'd rather be in class. I could talk to my friends and I looked at her and said, wait a minute, what what are you doing at the thing? She's like, well, we I couldn't sit with all my friends. I'm like, like and basically what she was explaining is like, yeah, most of the classes are easy.
00:09:52
Speaker
Me my friends kind of just, we get it done and then we just kind of BS all day. I'm like, oh, okay. She'd rather just be in class. And so she's, you know, I trust her, her sister, I don't know yet, but.
00:10:04
Speaker
Well, the other thing is, let's see how far she, and that's kind of, we we've always done it. I'm going to give you this, I give you this freedom, this privilege. Don't ruin it. Cause I'll take it away.
Teen Driving Debate
00:10:12
Speaker
And so far she's been pretty good at it. course haven't looked at her web history in a while. The other thing is it's, she's a girl too. It's yeah um a boy's a little bit different. I so i still wouldn't do it to a boy. i I would rather, unless he's a totally reckless kid, I would rather have him have a, get a ticket for speeding.
00:10:31
Speaker
And a ticket ticket, not a six over.
00:10:35
Speaker
What mean? Six over? Well, not six over, not six miles an hour over like a ticket ticket, you know, not like he's doing 15 or more. Oh yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, if, if he's doing 55 and a 35 and he gets a ticket, I'm going to be like, well, there you go. That's what happens. Yeah.
00:10:48
Speaker
And now, and now you can't drive because the insurance just went up to $9,000 a month. So sorry. That's the other thing. yeah That's the next one is how's that? I know she is a girl is going to be slightly less, but it's not going to be that much less.
00:11:02
Speaker
Um, I'm anticipating it to be a few hundred dollars a month, $200 a month, 180, something like that for her. That's a lot. I don't know. I have no idea. I just heard, I've heard stories heard some of my brothers and stuff telling me all they were paying thousands of dollars a year, like seven, seven, $7,000 a year for the family.
00:11:22
Speaker
For the family? Two boys. For two for two boys. Two boys two girls. Well, it is two boys and i don't know what your... me my wife but Me and my wife paid $1,200 year. Yeah, that's about what we... Probably less than you guys. yeah i think I got three cars, two drivers, so we're paying a little bit more. Yeah, a little bit more. I think it's like, I don't know. yeah It turned out to be like $15 more a month for that extra car. you
00:11:52
Speaker
But I... Yeah, so i think I can't wait. I'll keep you posted. I remember what it was when I was 16. It was $600 for the year. Yeah. That, which was like five times more than what your dad was paying probably.
00:12:10
Speaker
I don't remember what they were paying. I remember, I remember what it was $600 for the year, which is, you know, nowadays cheap, but. Yeah. It's probably, were probably paying two years. I remember when I was getting it, that we were, when I was getting insurance and stuff.
00:12:24
Speaker
It was like two or three, three times like what but my parents were paying per month or two. It was crazy. um i actually had, we had to actually sign, i had to sign affidavits. I wouldn't drive their my parents' car.
00:12:37
Speaker
And if I did and got in accident, i they wouldn't cover it. Oh, yeah. we didn't We didn't have anything like that. to save money. I got you. I mean, because I drove my parents' car for the first few months and then I got my own car.
00:12:52
Speaker
And I don't remember them ever saying, even when I got the 280ZX Turbo, it went up a little bit, but it didn't go up a lot.
00:13:02
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, times are different. Yeah, yeah. And definitely not going to be able to afford the Supra car insurance that you want. but ah So that'll be, jakki um I'm curious, the next couple weeks, we're probably going to look into it because... ah
00:13:19
Speaker
she'll be driving this year. So do you need that? I guess you don't need that when she's a temporary. No. you Okay. Yeah. I i imagine she'd be, should probably check. I'm pretty sure she's covered under my insurance. yeah try soon Right.
00:13:34
Speaker
And if if I, and she, if she bumps into somebody, all she has to do is start crying and they're just going to say, go ahead. Don't worry about it. Yeah. Right. A teacher the right way.
00:13:44
Speaker
right. On to the news, Tom. on to news yeah You know, i do do we even talk about Iran? What? Do we even talk about Iran? Should we even mention you bring it it up? I mean, you don't seem to paying attention to it. I'm kind of curious about that, though. like you like it's i I thought I'm thinking about during a week whether I should put it in or not. In the last couple weeks, you'd be like, I really paid attention.
00:14:07
Speaker
So i thought maybe that was the story. um I'm no, I'm do you. Is that something you're not? Is it, you know, something just not interested in or or because it doesn't seem like you've been paying attention much, which I get. I'm just.
00:14:23
Speaker
Are you going to let me talk here? Eventually, I might some sometime today. I mean, possibly. I am not paying attention to each little story.
00:14:34
Speaker
That comes out because yeah there is no story. And I am paying attention to the overall dynamics of it, I guess. Like right now, they're the funny thing is Trump's saying they're negotiating. They're saying they're not negotiating. So media is making Trump look stupid.
00:14:55
Speaker
i think they are negotiating. i think there's going to be a lot more news f for next week's show. Or the week after. Because he gave them until when? ah April 10th?
00:15:07
Speaker
Yeah, I believe that was the date. I i think they're negotiating with somebody. Who that is? Who knows? And whos who's saying that they're not negotiating? Who knows? Like, how do you... Well, I find it funny that they side with the Iranians before they side with the president.
00:15:24
Speaker
Well, yeah. I mean, he's not orange. they're not orange. Orange man bad. Trump's almost everything. Pun intended. ah Yeah, I think um but what this what was the gift?
00:15:36
Speaker
Did you hear what the gift was? So he said, yeah, the gift was a very expensive very expensive. It was supposedly five or six oil tankers being allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. and Okay. Who told you that?
00:15:48
Speaker
Uh, the, i was a military channel. They're pulling up news stories. Um, and some of the reports where they were, uh, Pakistani flag ships, was it really a ah gift or was it just, is Iran friendly with Pakistan kind of things? There are some ships going through the straight, but it's really people who are aligned with Iran. They're letting them go through, giving them the coordinates and all that stuff.
00:16:12
Speaker
Um, Regardless, my point is nobody knows and there's a lot of people are reporting, but nobody really knows anything because what how do they get any information out of Iran? How do you rely on anything at this point?
00:16:26
Speaker
This is why I'm not really paying attention. I'm just kind of viewing it from the outside. I mean, we all are, guess, but yeah i I'm not...
00:16:37
Speaker
There's no details. So what's, it's just all rumors and just speculation. So I'm not. Seems every, every few days they're, they're going to strike even harder and strike even harder talking about United States. And I'm like, at what at some point you can't strike any, any harder. well There's nothing to strike. well Yeah, I know there's that, but as the other, that goes to it. They're saying, uh, Trump's saying,
00:17:00
Speaker
Well, one more chant one more time, and we're really going to hit you hard with the final blow and all this other stuff. and you're like, well, I get it. um I get this. A lot of this is propaganda and negotiation and all that stuff. But it's like how much ah much harder or how much are they going to go I think they're going to go after the power plants next. That'd be the last thing they have to hit they have hit they've hit. They're hitting all the military targets continuously. They've hit almost 8,000 targets, 9,000 targets, targets. the power out.
00:17:26
Speaker
the next is take the power out I guess. Yeah, sure. Then you have a military. I think we have to get a handle on Israel because I think they're screwing things up for us.
00:17:42
Speaker
Yeah, that's so that's possible. Or we do have a handle on on Israel and they're doing exactly what want them to do and we get to blame them for it.
00:17:53
Speaker
don't know. Could be either way. Yeah. Maybe they're doing things that we don't want to take heat for like hitting power plants or oil refineries. And then the the final thing everybody's talking about really is troops on the ground, boots on the ground. Are they going to take an island? going to take that Kark Island. That would be pretty hard considering how close they are to the the shoreline with missiles and drones and, oh,
00:18:17
Speaker
um through all this. And one of the other things I'm watching some these military channels for is what's going on elsewhere that nobody's really paying attention to. And Ukraine is taking it to the Russians.
00:18:30
Speaker
And what I'm noticing is, I don't know, again, pattern recognition,
00:18:37
Speaker
We're talking with Russia, we're talking with Ukraine, we're talking with Russia, we're talking with Ukraine, and nothing seems to be happening. And all of a sudden that kind of fades away. We attack Iran. And now Ukraine is hitting Russia really hard and in crippling their oil refineries.
00:18:55
Speaker
they Ukraine is sending drone boats, sound familiar? Drone boats over to into over into areas closer to Russia, reporter refineries and and bombing their oil refineries and ports.
00:19:09
Speaker
I don't know. It just seems, I don't know. All of a sudden we stopped talking about, you know, talks with, or not stop talking about it. It kind of just faded away. And then all of a sudden all this happens. So is this to me just ties it all in.
00:19:24
Speaker
It's all about the petrodollar. Yeah. Yeah. So is is Trump going, I'm done with you, Putin. I'm just going to side with Zelensky and start feeding them information. And, you know, we're not hearing about it, but that's kind of,
00:19:39
Speaker
I think if Trump gets what he wants with Iran, the whole idea of making the dollar stronger, making the dollar, ah again, the thing they trade with for oil, that is exactly what Trump
Trump and Global Politics
00:19:55
Speaker
wants. Yeah.
00:19:56
Speaker
And that forces Russia into it, that forces China into it. ah Everything lines up. It seems kind of convoluted, but... you First, you got Venezuela. You got Cuba. Well, I should go back. You can go all the way back to the, what was the pipeline that got blown up? They say Ukraine blew up. Yep.
00:20:15
Speaker
Yep. The Russian. Yeah. Nord Stream. but Nord Stream. So that forced Europe to. bump up their, ah what was it, their their gas from um from America from like 20%, 28% to 58%, something like that. I'm just kind of yeah throwing numbers out there, but it's it's those are close, which made us a little richer.
00:20:41
Speaker
and now you you're dealing with Iran. It's going to force them to buy more gas, and it's going to force them to... If we're controlling that oil on Krog Island, or that or not the oil, but the... The port, basically. The port, basically. it's that That reestablishes America as the ah powerhouse of the world.
00:21:03
Speaker
Yeah, don't forget, what it's doing right now is crippling China. China gets a large amount of the oil. And guess what's happening next week, or the week after? were going Is he going to China?
00:21:14
Speaker
Yep. Yep. And he's postponed it. He postponed it. I think maybe they let it sink in. Everybody's going, oh no Trump has no plan. He has no plan for the straight. ah Or does he? Maybe this is the plan. they He's meeting with Xi or Xi or whatever his name is. And in China. Yeah, Xi.
00:21:33
Speaker
He's meeting with Xi in China. And then Xi is coming here to America. So this is kind of all lining up. If it goes well in Iran.
00:21:44
Speaker
Say, hey, how about them tariffs? Hey, how about that straight? Mm-hmm. ah some would Some would call him number 11, by the way. ex And don't forget, like, there's...
00:21:57
Speaker
There was the whole thing with the the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, yep and taking Greenland too, wanting Greenland. And also what was, oh, well, Venezuela, Cuba, all that stuff lines up to to make America the powerhouse. It ought to be And raising the value of the dollar again, and meaning we're going to have we're going to have cheap stuff again and- It's, I think it's, it's, it's kind of a convoluted thing, but it might be the actual plan.
00:22:29
Speaker
And it, yeah, seems, seems all pointing back to China and BRICS nations and that kind of thing. Yeah. The dollar and. All right. Look what's happened. Look what's happened. Gold is going down. Silver's going back down.
00:22:40
Speaker
And ah Bitcoin took a crap. But the dollar went up. Yep. That's good for everybody. Literally almost everybody, except those few countries we're talking about.
00:22:52
Speaker
And after you know after you lose Saudi Arabia, you know they didn't re-sign a deal to use the petrodollar. It sounds like they're probably thinking about signing that thing again. i imagine that's in the works or something that effect. Hey, we'll protect you. do You got to sign here.
00:23:08
Speaker
ah sign here. I mean, if we're going to do it, you might well do it. ah My problem is we've done these, this foreign stuff in the past for personal benefit, say to, don't know, politicians, in Washington, the the the benefit of the American people.
00:23:25
Speaker
And you know, when, when when they're canceling tariffs,
00:23:30
Speaker
you know we're we're we're we're canceling our tariffs on China, but they're not making China cancel their tariffs on us because it behoots it helps the politicians. I think that's enough of that.
00:23:43
Speaker
Rob, yeah let's not talk about Iran. Yeah, I figured we wouldn't talk much about it. ah ah Anyway, moving on to the story, I guess the headline of the week is, oh, ICE.
00:23:58
Speaker
ICE is at The airports, Tom, what's going to happen? I don't even know what to do. Let's start with, what have we got? Channel 3 report about kind of what Trump did. So the lines at the airports were going crazy. Some places, five or six hours.
00:24:16
Speaker
Let's hear from the National. We'll have the latest from Hopkins in just a moment. But first, Karen Kafa has details from Washington. President Donald Trump says it was his idea to send immigration and customs enforcement agents into some of the nation's busiest airports. ICE was my idea.
00:24:34
Speaker
i called first person I called was Tom Holman. I said, what do you think? He said, I think it's great. ICE agents under the direction of border czar Tom Homan were deployed to more than a dozen US airports Monday as call outs and resignations by Transportation Security Administration officers climb amid a stalemate over Homeland Security funding that's left them without pay since mid-February.
00:24:55
Speaker
I've never seen lines like those before and those certainly pose security issues for for all of those folks involved and that that has to be addressed
ICE at Airports and Public Reaction
00:25:04
Speaker
right away. Holman said agents would help TSA in areas that don't need their specialized expertise, like screening through x-ray machines. ICE has a specific, very important mission on its own. And to be ah taking them off their regular jobs for which they're specifically trained ah makes very little sense to me. Shut it.
00:25:25
Speaker
Shut it. ah We didn't take them off. So lines are going crazy. The news is all about Chaos at the TSA or at TSA check, check lines.
00:25:38
Speaker
Um, so what did they do?
00:25:43
Speaker
They sent out TSA agents. Okay. Um, how many did they send out?
00:25:50
Speaker
They sent a dozen airports and it's funny how a few ICE agents sent to a dozen or so airports and the lines are gone.
00:26:04
Speaker
Do you know how many agents they sent out?
00:26:09
Speaker
I had a hard time even finding it. I did not see that. okay I don't see an overwhelming, like from the video footage, I don't see an overwhelming amount in in the airports. Well, the the news really hit hard because they're in Cleveland, Tom.
00:26:22
Speaker
They're at Hopkins. well I don't think they needed to be. i don't think Hopkins really had any line problems. ah I didn't hear any, there's no news reports anywhere about it. And i I knew a couple people that flew through the area over the last week or so. And they're not noticing really any, maybe, maybe it's 10 minutes instead of walking through.
00:26:41
Speaker
um But naturally everybody's head was exploding. No, not ice at the airport. it's What's going happen?
00:26:53
Speaker
Well, all the lines went away. But what are the asa ICE agents doing at the airport? Like I said in the report, all they were doing was, from what I understand it, they're taking some of the medial, mel watch this door, ah you know, ah keeping people moving in the line and stuff like that. They're not they're not running the machines.
00:27:15
Speaker
They're not doing the pat-downs or anything like that. So you sent, so here's Atlanta, six-hour wait. They send ICE agents there and then it went it goes to a 40 minute wait and within a day, which is almost normal. I think a half hour or something like that.
00:27:32
Speaker
Big airport.
00:27:36
Speaker
What are they doing? How can this be? You send 10 or 20 ICE agents to an airport and all of a sudden the lines go away. Could it be something else that maybe their lines went down?
00:27:47
Speaker
Maybe... Maybe people didn't want to see ice or there are certain people that maybe thought it was unsafe with ice at the airport to go.
00:27:57
Speaker
ah du Do we really have that much of an immigration problem that you send a few ice agents to airports and all of a sudden the lines go away because half the people stay home? I don't know. I don't think so.
00:28:08
Speaker
I don't think so either, but it's, it's, well, here, let's. you If you send 10 ICE agents to Atlanta airport with six hour wait line, what have they done? has Has it really made that much of an impact?
00:28:21
Speaker
10 people? I don't know. It seems like if that's all that if that's all it took, doesn't seem like, I don't know. Like it's a big problem, I guess. But it's a problem. Maybe the TSA just sucks at what they do. ah Well, that could be.
00:28:37
Speaker
There could be something to that. could Could be possibly they've gotten worse since they've been government. how What are the chances of the same agency that once was private? Now that's a government agency getting worse.
00:28:50
Speaker
Never happened. Never happens. Almost never happens. Like except every single time. um But of course, when you have ice show up, you know what comes next?
00:29:05
Speaker
Oh, I would think, I don't know, maybe some, a lot of blue haired women. Blue haired freaks, blue haired freaky people need not apply. let's listen As my friend calls them, just filthy hippies. Filthy animals.
00:29:18
Speaker
ah Let's listen to the rest of this report. This is the ah the local side of the che news channel three, where ice at the airports.
00:29:26
Speaker
and Annabelle Childers is live at Cleveland Hopkins speaking with Travers. Great audio. Annabelle, what are you seeing there?
00:29:33
Speaker
For us throughout today, these federal agents have been very visible. This is something that travelers are not used to seeing and their reactions are mixed. Moving in pairs or groups, ICE agents are now in the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. It's tough to say, I guess, if they're assisting, but I don't like seeing ICE in the airport or around Cleveland. ah ah good So I don't know. That's interesting.
00:30:01
Speaker
I have no problem with that at all. I mean, if they're there to help, that's fine. Because you obviously need more people. Cleveland is one of more than 10 US airports where the Trump administration has deployed agents to help amid a shortage of TSA workers. Though operations in Cleveland appear to be running smoothly, travelers aren't immune to the domino effect of issues at other airports. Trevon Williams flew into Cleveland this morning from Atlanta after waiting nearly six hours to get through security.
00:30:31
Speaker
crowded and packed like too much going on in there. i Everybody was irritated and frustrated. Take marbles out, man. Ain't nobody want to be in there for real. Meanwhile, travelers flying to the LaGuardia Airport like Josephine Palmiro experienced sudden cancellations after the deadly plane collision there. you know i immediately reskyted my flights.
00:30:52
Speaker
But even when I came to Cleveland, I got there way before i needed to just to make sure I could get through TSA. While ICE agents will only be assisting in security roles, Cleveland Hopkins acknowledged the new activity and issued a statement saying, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is aware of the presence of federal partners on site. These personnel are supporting TSA operations in a non-screening role. including assisting with passenger flow and divesting. They are not conducting identification checks or screening passengers.
00:31:24
Speaker
So how much help can they actually be? um forgot I had two clips on this, not the protest clip. but how So how effective can they actually be when all they're doing is some extra backup security role, something seems weird.
00:31:38
Speaker
um And who had more testosterone in there, the woman or the guy? Could you tell which one was the guy? ain't no way to see them anywhere. I'd rather have illegal aliens all over the place, you know, sucking the welfare system dry. That's why I read it's much more interesting.
00:31:58
Speaker
I'm sure he would then went outside with these guys here. Here's their news channel three on the protests. I mean, so first, if you look at the news story, the pictures are quite cropped.
00:32:11
Speaker
Cropped. Because there was like five people there. Actually, they say two dozen. is Is that home about two dozen? Sorry, what? Is this in front of the airport or where is this taking place? Because.
00:32:22
Speaker
Oh, OK. Yeah, you'll hear. People tried to protest ICE agents at Cleveland Hopkins Airport tonight, but they never really quite made it there. They planned to take the ah RTA red line in, but the airport stop was shut down and police turned them away when they tried to drive in. This comes as nearly 150 ICE agents have been deployed to 14 airports nationwide to help TSA officers amid staffing shortages.
00:32:50
Speaker
The Trump administration is undermining the safety of our public spaces and the dignity of public workers. It's a shame and it's an insult. There's still no word yet on how long ICE agents will remain at Hopkins. Meanwhile, the Senate has again failed to fund DHS today, including TSA.
00:33:12
Speaker
Yeah, so passionate about her cause. She has to read it from her phone. i ah I had a buddy who got caught up in all this. He was picking up a friend from the airport. So we got a little bit boots on the ground. He didn't know what was going on. he He went to a Chipotle's to get some food before he went to pick up his friend at the airport, I think I'm going to I'm guessing this is from around the West side Lakewood or Rocky river, maybe even cam's corner around from, from that area.
00:33:44
Speaker
And he got caught up in a line of cars of protesters. Yeah. You know, they were honking their horns. And so he was stuck in traffic with all these, uh, with all these filthy hippies as he called them.
00:33:58
Speaker
And he was, he had to really try to maneuver to get around him and he got ahead of them. So he he lost them, but it sounded like it was a significant number of cars. They're talking about a bus here on the, on this ah clip.
00:34:13
Speaker
Once he got to the airport, he was like, oh, no, what's going on? He saw there was a bunch of cops. And what they were doing is what looking ah letting people through or diverting them.
00:34:24
Speaker
So it was a checkpoint. So that's why there was no issues at the airport. or Hats off to the Cleveland police. Yeah. he he ah But it did take him probably in an extra hour to get this all done Yeah, I guess the one place they don't mess around with protests is the airport.
00:34:41
Speaker
Yeah, guess so. I mean, shoot, I can't, you can't even do it. You know what I mean? The worst place you want to protest is the airport, but how would they know that? So yeah, they shut down RTA rapid line going into the airport and then they put up a checkpoint to get in the airport to filter these freaks out.
00:35:01
Speaker
So they didn't start causing all kinds of havoc. I don't think that happened at like all the airports. Yeah. But so hats off to Cleveland police. i I was, I saw this. art I was like, holy cow, they actually did that.
00:35:13
Speaker
Well, the hats off to whoever told them to do that. Yeah. Yeah. It sounds like the mayor had nothing to do with this. My opinion. Probably not. It sounds like, it sounds like a, just a classic. I mean, that's a, that's brilliant. That's exactly what you should be doing in that case. Shut down the avenues to get in and don't,
00:35:30
Speaker
I mean, you've or let them get in and then and then see what happens. Because once they get in there and start messing around with I would see them at some point it become a federal charge. And that's not something they want to do right now with the Trump administration.
00:35:44
Speaker
e Going after these protesters. So maybe they should've let them in. I don't know. Could have really cleaned up the neighborhood a little bit. But then again, they said in there, 150 ICE agents over 14 airports.
00:35:56
Speaker
So basically have like 10 agents per airport.
00:36:02
Speaker
I don't know. I'm thinking, is this, I'm obviously the joke, the joke online is, oh, look at all ice agents show up at airports and all the lines go away. Huh?
00:36:13
Speaker
What is that a coincidence or is there something to that? Like, is there a whole bunch, we have that many illegals that, that would cut down on the airport lines in certain cities. And maybe, but I doubt it. I'm thinking more of, is this more of a fabricated crisis in certain factions or certain areas of the TSA?
00:36:32
Speaker
Actually, I was wondering if the places that had long lines that people were saying, there's you know, I think Austin was one of them. Yeah, Austin, Atlanta. it are I'm wondering if those are places that just have terrible lines anyways.
00:36:47
Speaker
You know what I mean? Yeah. And it just made it a little worse. Their lines are generally under an hour from the stupid research I did. So like Cleveland, most days you can walk, almost walk through TSA. Sometimes you'll have a 15 minute because it's a smaller airport. Now Houston or Atlanta, maybe it's an hour wait, 45 minutes wait, which is quite long compared to Cleveland.
00:37:07
Speaker
But they're talking, they were telling people to get to the airport four hours beforehand and they were still missing their flights. Well, if you think, if if you think about it, if you're missing 10% of your of your staff and then you typically have an hour wait.
00:37:22
Speaker
I don't think that's going to end up just being an extra 10 minutes or, uh, no, you know, six minutes or 10 minutes. I think that's going to be a lot more. Basically you're only having o small percentage of the scanning machines for carry on records. That's right for the people. So that's where the, that, and so, but that's where the TSA or the, uh, ice is not going.
00:37:47
Speaker
So if they're sending 10 people into Atlanta and then they've taken those 10 people, putting them on, is that making that much of a difference? Apparently, maybe, obviously up to some extent. But I'm also thinking, are they just pissed off and they're just doing it a lot slower than normally would anyway to make it worse in some areas? Not every airport, but some airports. don't know.
00:38:06
Speaker
And then the TSA comes and, you know, they're going to report back to daddy. Who's daddy Trump? And i don't know. Something just seems just seems like sending 10 ICE agents to a an airport.
00:38:18
Speaker
Yes, it would make it better, but would it cut it from six hours to 40 minutes? Seems like a lot. That's just my tinfoil hat. Conspiracy hat. um No, there's something to that. i yeah I think, I'm wondering if it's just a, manu like you said, a manufactured crisis here, basically.
00:38:35
Speaker
Because there was no reports of things in Cleveland, right? No. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I don't know. um I mean, hey, they're not getting paid, so it's not like i'm I'm judging all that much. I mean, i i I'd probably kind of be pissed too. Maybe maybe I'm going to work a lot slower because I'm ah i'm not getting paid.
00:38:50
Speaker
No, I'm not. but i'm not i'm I'm kind of down on TSA, not the not the people working it. No, the organization. the the Yeah. Oh, it's government. Government bureaucracy is BS.
00:39:02
Speaker
All right. Well, i mean, and of course, the the algorithm does what the algorithm does. and And YouTube put this in front of my face. So I had to pull it for the show.
00:39:13
Speaker
So a little we'll we'll touch on some ice stuff from our friend Rob Schneider. Or is that Schneider? Who's a comedian? It's not Schneider.
00:39:25
Speaker
Yeah, it is Schneider. mean whatever You don't know who it is here. It's hard to be a comedian these days, I'll tell you the truth, because the stuff on social media is ten times funnier than anything you can do.
00:39:36
Speaker
My favorite thing now is there's Mexican guys on TikTok or whatever, or they're like on Instagram. guy Please, Donald Trump, ICE, don't take me, suegra, please.
00:39:50
Speaker
Do not take my mother-in-law back to Mexico. Her name is Maria Gonzalez. She's four foot 11, 295 pounds.
00:40:03
Speaker
She lives 311 Nelson Avenue. She's there right now. Please don't come and take her, whatever you do. I will help you move her stuff.
00:40:18
Speaker
Oh, that guy. All right. Moving on to Ohio. i mean, we're in Ohio, but it's more of a national thing. But moving on to Ohio, we have Ohio Press Network story, which is Ohio poll shows neck and neck races for
Ohio Political Climate
00:40:39
Speaker
governor and Senate.
00:40:40
Speaker
We kind of talked about this. This was the last week before about Houston and Brown. And this is a, another, another poll. And it says, oh yeah, it's a Quintus poll.
00:40:54
Speaker
Yeah. Whatever that is. um So shown razor thin margins for the 2026 gubernatorial race and the Senate race. A survey was conducted on March 13th to the 14th of 26 among 808 likely voters.
00:41:10
Speaker
Of course, shows Democrat former Ohio Department of Health director Amy Acton leading Republican Vivek Ramaswamy 45.9 to four point nine In the gubernatorial race, in the Senate special election, Republican incumbent John Husted is edging out Democratic former Senator Sherrod Brown 45.5 to 44.4.
00:41:35
Speaker
Both results fall within the poll's margin of error of 3.5%. that's how you That's how you present a poll. Thank you.
00:41:46
Speaker
But all the information in the freaking first paragraph, second paragraph. Including the margin of error and don't bury it somewhere. um So Acton pulls stronger support from Democrats. Oh, no kidding.
00:41:57
Speaker
And independents, 45, 85% for Democrats. And she's pulling 45% approval for independents. While Ramaswamy, biotech entrepreneur 2024 presidential hopeful dominates among Republicans, 89%.
00:42:13
Speaker
So here's real clear politics. I'm looking at their polls. There's only three polls for for them, too. And I think we talked about this. Yeah. But ah Bowling Green slash YouGov, which you would think it would be a slanted left, right? oh Yeah.
00:42:30
Speaker
Ramaswamy is at 50 and Acton's at 47. Emerson, that was taken last October. Emerson was taken in December, which is 45 to 46.
00:42:42
Speaker
Ramaswamy at 45. And Qantas, which is what you're talking about here, was taken in March and it's 45 to 46. So it in aggrid aggregate, Ramaswamy is leading by 0.4%.
00:42:59
Speaker
Um, yep. And, uh, the Senate race doesn't look much different. It's neck and neck at two and neck at two. This is, I think the important part for this poll for the Qantas poll is, um, where is it at here?
00:43:15
Speaker
It was, yep. It's, it's a poll sample leaning Republican 39% to Democrat 32%, uh, which is on par with Ohio's, uh, R plus six.
00:43:29
Speaker
leaning towards Republicans. So this should be, to me, a more accurate poll than some others because they're actually polling more Republicans, is which is what they should because that the the state is more Republican than Democrat.
00:43:42
Speaker
And it's still that close. I think that says a lot about how close it is. I think it's way too close for the governor's race. I think that's... I think it's going to clear up As we go, it's too early to really, but the the primary isn't hasn't even happened yet. So we'll see.
00:44:02
Speaker
I think it's going to be closer than you want it to be, but I don't think it's going to be that close. I mean, that's the story. It's way closer than it. I mean, i get It's going to be close. It's going to within 10 points easily, but. Oh, it's always, i mean, even i think the first time DeWine won, he only won by four.
00:44:19
Speaker
And the second time he only won by six. Yeah, I get that. i just That's always like that. I get that. But the person running on one side was not the person who locked you down for for a year.
00:44:32
Speaker
DeWine locked us down. Oh, I get it. Oh, I totally get it. yeah I mean, yeah well, yeah okay. so ah So she gets approval of 79% of the Democrats. They're always going to vote Democrat.
00:44:45
Speaker
And and vivek Vivek was on DeWine's COVID response team. So he had they're they're starting to push everything on on Amy as far as the lockdown stuff. What was Vivek's deal during that whole time?
00:45:01
Speaker
Nobody even knew who he was at that time. Right. But he was on the board for for the COVID response for DeWine. So he was putting in... Oh, okay. Was he putting in the same ah recommendations as Amy? Yeah.
00:45:13
Speaker
We don't know. well why what is she look into I don't think he was. Yeah. Maybe something to look into, but he wouldn't. Acton is the one that he, she didn't have, I don't think she had the authority to shut anything down, but he was listening to her. Sure. Yeah.
00:45:28
Speaker
She was the, she's the medical person. Right. She's the doctor act. And it's again, as we talked about Senate race last week, that's pretty close. Um, even in this poll, which is, uh, it's still within the margin of error and you know, and that's the one I'm, that's the one I'm more, I'm not going to say worried cause I, I could care less, but if I'm rooting for somebody would be Houston to win, but that's the one I would think Brown or the Democrats have more of a chance to win.
00:46:00
Speaker
Yeah, probably. Yeah. Cause, cause of Brown's name recognition and such. Yeah. Um, and then brings up this, uh, our next or even, yeah, it's in there. Um, just a little op ed piece here, uh, kind of so my point, I think from, uh, from the blaze from, uh, Daniel Horowitz who posted this on X is Dr. Lockdown Ohio Democrat governor candidates, COVID or Ohio governor, Democrat governor candidates, COVID Tranny comes back to haunt her tyranny. Why is I put, that did say tranny, didn't I?
00:46:38
Speaker
Too many, too many, too many tranny stories, but she still may win. And more importantly, his ex post is more. So he says and when he puts the article in ex, he, he, and go check it out. It's, it's, you know, he's, he's pretty harsh on Amy but and she deserves it in most ways, in my opinion, but she's terrible. Yeah. She's terrible. But he says it'll, it'll, it'll come out even more. So when, once they actually start talking more, she's trying to, it sounds like now she's trying to, you know, well, DeWine's trying to cover it for her, cover up for her and and put cover for her.
00:47:11
Speaker
and which A lot of it goes to him, but she was making these recommendations. And as a leader, you know, she was the health leader. that's Oh, she was our health leader. She was our health leader. And then she quit.
00:47:23
Speaker
Even my mom was making, my mom is like totally apolitical and she was making fun of her. Well, last time I saw her a couple of weeks ago. So I, Acton's going to have a hard time to overcome what she did during COVID. And on top of that, she quit.
00:47:39
Speaker
And on top of that, listen to her talk. Yeah. That, yeah. Like I, right now she's, I would think they are really coaching her. Yeah. If you you know, if they really think she has a chance. and She's gotten better. Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:54
Speaker
I've seen some of her later recent ones. It sounds like she's more coherent or more focused on message. Okay, but is she more focused answering questions? Because that's when that's when she faltered. Oh, yeah.
00:48:06
Speaker
She might be better at speaking without like ah just giving a speech, but is she better at answering questions? Because that's where she was really flopping. ah Kamala Harris. Can you say Kamala Harris?
00:48:19
Speaker
Yes. I mean, she was horrible at the talking points, even worse when you started asking her questions. Oh my gosh, it was hilarious. Well, she had like one good speech where where she practiced and coached her and nobody challenged her. But as soon as she was challenged, she couldn't, she couldn't really be taken seriously.
00:48:36
Speaker
And acting, I think is going to be similar. Maybe not as bad as Kamala though. That was bad. So Daniel Horowitz thinks, he says in this post, a woman who was the GOP governor's, DeWine, mini Fauci during COVID is now running as the Democrat. and will And he says, and will likely win in red Ohio because of Trump machine candidate H1V, Vivek Wamaswamy, sucks that bad.
00:49:06
Speaker
This is this is this what our apollo political system with fake uniparty does to voters. It gives them a false choice that is no choice between two equally bad candidates, neither of them neither of whom represent anything the electorate broadly cares about or wants.
00:49:27
Speaker
He was throwing shade on Vivek as well. Vivek, Vivek, I don't care. A lot of lot of people are throwing shade at him, but, you know... That's going to happen. Yeah, you're always going to get that. And he does... You do need to criticize him where he deserves it i't okay I'm okay with that, but when it comes down to it, it's going to... If he loses...
00:49:50
Speaker
Or I should say if the Republicans really get their asses whipped, it's because it's going to be because of turnout and it's going to be ah because of Trump.
00:50:03
Speaker
and I mean, if the economy is not happening and if the war is still kind of if we're if we're still paying four dollars for gas, they're going to be eating shit.
00:50:14
Speaker
Mm hmm. I mean, they're already expected to eat eat a bunch of poo, but it's just a midterm, but we'll see. i mean, and I see mixing, though. i don't know if it's just people trying to...
00:50:26
Speaker
gaslight or whatever, or just false, hopeful, wishful thinking. But some people are, oh, look at this, look at this race, look at that race. um you know Democrats getting their butts handed to them in some cases, but I don't know. It's just a hard, it's already a hard hill to climb even in with the best political situation for the incumbents who just won the last presidential election.
00:50:52
Speaker
So, you know, it's just a matter of how bad it's going to be, is my opinion. But here's the one thing that I've heard some people, namely some other candidates, Casey and others, complain about Vivek, which is his stance on immigration. And they keep bringing up this one comment here. so I was going to play it since we just ripped on Amy for a minute.
00:51:15
Speaker
ah And let's see what your take is on. this we're serious about decoupling from China, it will also require expanded relationships with India.
00:51:27
Speaker
And I'm not just saying that because my name is Vivek Ramaswamy, I promise. I mean, kind of true. What do you think? what What do you think about that statement? Oh, it's true. Yeah.
00:51:39
Speaker
I mean, we we do, if we want to not be so reliant on China. it doesn't necessarily mean we will be reliant on, or we need to spread it out to other people. So not relying on just one country, but we're always going to be reliant on a foreign foreign in manufacturing, aren't we? At this point, are we ever going to bring it all back? I don't think so.
00:52:01
Speaker
there's There's too many obstacles. I think we should bring back as much as we can. Something like there's, there's key areas like, I don't know, penicillin.
00:52:13
Speaker
Yeah. Things like that. Anything medical that should be made here. Computer chips to some extent. I mean, you I can't make them all here, but I think you need to have some, some capacity to make them and in certain situations.
00:52:27
Speaker
So it does have, but there is a something be said about too many H-1B visas and relying on it too much because As Vivek has said in the past, pull it up here. I did a search.
00:52:44
Speaker
What has Vivek said, say about H1B visas? And basically he's, so he came out during the presidential campaign and kind of was against him saying that he described him as indentured servitude, which some cases can be, but I really think you're talking about illegals coming across the border from Venezuela or from South America and in Mexico.
00:53:07
Speaker
That's and indentured for servitude. More so, yes. Yeah, way more so than this. But a lot of these companies, that keep you know they're paying these guys a fraction of what they would pay an American, because they and that's why they want them so bad. because you know and needs used to talk We're not talking about small mama pop company. We're talking about Google and Facebook. They got one they got a little money. you know Yeah, they're abusing the yeah that. This was supposed to be to to go find the best of the best, right?
00:53:32
Speaker
Yep. And they're just using it to get ordinary people that they can hire here locally. and Yeah. Basically getting them for probably 75% of what they would be paying an American, right?
00:53:46
Speaker
ah Yeah, I think that's that's pretty close. Yeah, it continues on. a While he previously used a program 29 times for his own companies. like Okay. um But maybe maybe then he knows that it's indentured servitude to some extent.
00:54:03
Speaker
and then he Yeah, i don't I don't trust him on that, but yeah I mean, if you own that size of a company, wouldn't you take advantage of it also? 29 times, I would wonder how...
00:54:15
Speaker
Is that even does it even is it even a drop in the bucket for some other companies? You know, how many employees do they have? How many, you know, that 29 times is out of context for me. Yeah. If they've got 15 employees, that's a lot.
00:54:29
Speaker
If you've got 1,500 employees, that's not that much in my opinion. No, that's hardly anything, really. Yeah. So that's not, it's out of context for me. Then he goes, he kind of softened his stance a little bit on it.
00:54:42
Speaker
Um, also with kind of in aligning with Elon Musk and say, no, we we need to reform the program thing. It's still a good program, but we it can't be, people can't abuse it. It has to be for a certain talent level that you can't find here. so on and so forth. So I don't know. I don't think it's as damning as some people are saying.
00:55:03
Speaker
I think he's he's right in some ways. Uh, I think I, all the other thing is I think the ordinary voter doesn't even know anything about this stuff. So no, that's good yeah it's kind of moot.
00:55:18
Speaker
Yep. Good point. it It may come up and how many how much people actually know about it. It doesn't hit us that much here in Ohio, at least yet. It's, you know, it's, that's a California is huge in California because all the tech companies in Austin and stuff like that.
00:55:31
Speaker
From what I understand, Which is not much. ah Next, we're going to move on. This is kind of on the same same topic in a way is talking about visas and bringing people in and talent and
Ohio Demographic and Infrastructure Developments
00:55:46
Speaker
stuff. New census shows that Ohio, what we thought wear was losing people, may be gaining people.
00:55:57
Speaker
And I asked the question. Losing pets. and Losing pets, but gaining people. um Yeah, the rodent problem seems to be fixed, but along with the increase in people.
00:56:08
Speaker
So last year, a report last year showing Ohio's population was predicted declined by 5.7%, while the U.S. population would grow by 17.3%.
00:56:21
Speaker
in the next 25 years got attention. But the state agency that put out that report said it was it has new numbers that indicate those forecasts may be off.
00:56:33
Speaker
And what it turns out is, yeah, they were just taking a guess at projections. They had really no, says later, I think, in this story. They're like, yeah, we were, oh, yeah. ah These population projections are really based upon historic trends and certainly not what we want to see happen and not necessarily a prediction of what will actually happen in the future.
00:56:54
Speaker
Oh, wait.
00:56:58
Speaker
Okay, you sure do ah push it in news like that. Oh my God, Ohio's losing it. Look what happened to all the GOP are pushing people out. Oh my gosh. ah This was said by the Ohio Department of Development Director, ah Linda, ol Lydia Mihalik.
00:57:15
Speaker
I got that one right, Mihalik. I think I got it. Historically, we've we've had a decline in populations since 2001. And I don't know if you noticed this article has a little chart.
00:57:29
Speaker
And there's a huge dip right about 2021.
00:57:36
Speaker
It says the influx of 11,926 people to Ohio is a dramatic turnaround from the loss of more than 32,000 people in 2021. What's going on in 2021?
00:57:51
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Amy Acton and Mike DeWine were pushing everybody out of the state of Ohio because they still had us in lockdown.
00:57:59
Speaker
Were we still in lockdown in 21? I think so. we had I think we still had masks in school. The trend started in 2019 going down sharply. Yeah.
00:58:11
Speaker
That's where it started. And then it really picked up in 2020. it bottomed out in 2021 and then it started rising. I'm not understanding why.
00:58:24
Speaker
oh The rising I get, you know, you bring in 40,000 people from Haiti around that time, right? Yeah. That's part of That could be part of it. I don't know.
00:58:36
Speaker
But I'm just, I don't, you at the you know, did a lot of, you know, a lot of people did some bang in 2020 with ah there you go being locked down. That's a good point.
00:58:47
Speaker
Ohio is one of four states in the U.S. which reported more births, fewer deaths, and improved domestic migration. From 2024 to 2025. That's a quite ah a nice little phrase Improved domestic migration.
00:59:04
Speaker
So that's from other states like, oh yeah, Kentucky, Montana, New Hampshire. Oh, okay. I think that may have to do with like Columbus growing, the that the kind of tech yeah going on down there. But there's a dip between 24 and 25 according to this chart.
00:59:19
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Yeah. Yeah, and it does start going down in 2019, but in 2020, it starts to like just drop off the map. It's kind of dropping off, and then it gets even sharper.
00:59:30
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And then, yeah, shoots way back up. I mean, I think in 2022, had influence almost Between 60,000. What was that? nineteen and twenty twenty one that's like a sixty thousand difference there more than that yeah no right roughly around sixty thousand what was that People coming back? I don't know.
00:59:50
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Leaving Ohio during COVID or was that when, when when did? Between 21, 21 and 24, there's a, almost an $80,000 difference. What's that? $80,000, 80,000 person difference. Why, why that? I don't get this. This is a, when did the tech, the tech boom started in Columbus? It's right around that time, isn't it? It's right on. 2020.
01:00:12
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twenty twenty Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. so take a couple I mean, that's when they started talking about it, right? And then then a couple years later, when they actually start building, you're going to see an increase in people. A lot of people coming from out of state to work, maybe. i don't know. Yeah, but are they going to be on the census?
01:00:27
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ah Depending on when they took it, yeah. enter li Yeah, I guess. Depending on, i don't know. I don't know. this is there's There's a lot of a building going on, and in in Columbus is growing like crazy. And a lot of that's from out of state, I would guess.
01:00:41
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I think somebody got high while they were doing this. and Oh, And probably a tribute to Afro, man. Yeah, this doesn't make sense at at all. Because I got high. But it makes more sense in them going, ah, we're projecting.
01:00:55
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We're not going to look at data. We're just going to project off of old data. And then we're going to put a new story out like it's fact. So good news for Ohio. I think that was one of the knocks that the they had on DeWine was Ohio was shrinking.
01:01:10
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And of course, affordability and all the other stuff. But Ohio was shrinking. Why is Ohio shrinking under DeWine, under the Republicans, blah, blah, blah. well That doesn't seem to be the case now. Some of that wasn't the help of the Biden administration also.
01:01:22
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When I was a younger, in my 20s, let's go back to that time. Well, let they go back to 2000 and it was shrinking for the next. Okay. So it was, I think there was a lot of people leaving Ohio, young adults leaving Ohio because, well, it's boring. The weather sucks. And there was more job opportunities ah for what they were going to college for. Possibly. I'm guessing.
01:01:51
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Hmm. yeah There was no more manufacturing. No. That's what brought a lot of people to Ohio and initially. but If you're going to go back to the 70s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, 70s.
01:02:05
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And then why is it dropping again? Good question. Because it looks like it's dropping significantly from, you know, 50, 55, 55,000 back down to Yeah. to to still up but i think we're going to continue to see that I wonder what happens when the boom stops, slows down. You think it's um it's just going to kind of do the, what's that called? Just the equilibrium. It's going to just level off to where it was.
01:02:34
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I would hope. like there was There was a dip and then a boom, and now it's just going back down to ah towards where it was. So i it just might be like a weird. Yeah, we see a bump. Hopefully levels off higher than and and it has been.
01:02:50
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Can use more more people, more workers. You know, it's hard to find motivated people as it is. And if you're not bringing new people into the state, makes it even harder. Kind of start to get stagnant. and So good news. I'd like to see it. Let's keep it up. ohio I think it's of the greatest places in the nation. I mean, the winners are kind of crappy, but again, look at the bright side.
01:03:13
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There's no poisonous anything. and There's no poisonous spiders, really, in in Ohio to kill you. ah Your house will not get blown away every 10 years, like in Florida and um or Houston.
01:03:24
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I think Northeast Ohio sucks, but Central Ohio is kind of, the winter is not the the most awful. yeah And you got a lot more countryside if you're looking for that, or you know you if you're looking for more urban settings.
01:03:39
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The city's nicer, I think. It's amazing. you You go to Columbus, you go to Cleveland and you drive away from the downtown area and you just get, it gets fully urbanized and then slowly more suburbial, you know, stuff like that. When you go outside of Columbus, it's like you get to a point and it's farm.
01:03:56
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There's no gradual, it's it's so, it's because it's growing. So fast and yeah, it's like all a sudden you're out of the city and you're in farmland and then data center land. It was different.
01:04:09
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It was different industries, you know? Yeah. Oh yeah. The suburbia grew in Northeast Ohio because of the industries. Because they needed people and yeah data centers don't really need people too much.
01:04:21
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All right. We've beat that one to death. Census just is going up and and that's good. next Next is a quite quite interesting i do use a term play quite often. And story here is Ohio is set, is considering ah new new way to publicly shame people who don't pay their tolls.
01:04:45
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ah Let's listen to, this is OAN, O-N-N Ohio News Network. story on And they're going to talk about some of the problems and what the Ohio Turnpike is thinking about doing.
01:04:57
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It might have something to do with AI.
01:05:01
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And the Ohio Turnpike is considering a new approach to crack down on unpaid tolls. More from ONN's Tracy Townsend. The Turnpike is preparing to publicly name its highest unpaid toll offenders. This is aimed at commercial truckers, who the Turnpike says make up most of the violators. Officials also plan to use AI to ID drivers who try to dodge tolls by covering their license plates. In just the past year, unpaid tolls have totaled around $25 million. dollars Thanks to our television affiliates, WBNS in Columbus, WTOL. Oh, I didn't leave on there.
01:05:38
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Oops. um Yeah, $25 million dollars just last year in unpaid tolls. So they want to use AI to do the pattern recognition. So machine learning, not AI, uh, because a lot of these truck drivers are, are smearing like grease on their license plate.
01:05:54
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So you can't read And then going through the easy pass lane, uh, $25 million a year. That's, that's a lot. It's, $400 million dollars budget and 26 million or they around 40, $423 million dollars in tolls were charged and 26 million the that went unpaid.
01:06:13
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The start of 25 through January of 26. and they want to get this money back and they they're putting all kinds of new stuff in. Going more towards, think they're getting away from the toll booths and going more towards the, a lot of states are doing this license plate scanning.
01:06:33
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You get your toll by the mail if you don't have EZPass. Right. you go I know when I go to Kentucky and go to Indiana, there is no tolls on the bridges. They they have a couple of bridges with tolls.
01:06:44
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It's all license plate scanning. ah Same thing in Illinois, you go through the tolls through Illinois, there's no toll booths basically. It's all, you'll get a check or a bill in the mail if you don't have the E-ZPass. And Ohio Turnpike, they already put a couple of spots up out west that have, you know, putting in a big thing across the freeways to get a license plate and stuff. So that's another way. and And then, but if you cover your license plate up, they can't they can't get you. But I think i think they they the pattern recognition from the AI might help.
01:07:14
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Get some of them at least. We're going to see more cameras, I think. I think they're mainly looking for trucking companies, right? That do this.
01:07:25
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Yeah. Yeah. The trucks are,
01:07:29
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trucks are most, well, they use it the most, I think, or they're, and they have the highest tolls when they go through. I think we were at, but our, our, our company goes out to New York once a week. And I think we paid a thousand dollars a month in tolls.
01:07:42
Speaker
Wow. Because it semi. So you get, they're expensive tolls. Um, so yeah, it's big money and couple things in here. I saw they're currently on project to replace all the existing pavement on the term bike because almost 70% of it is still the original pavement when they first laid it down.
01:08:10
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I thought it was pretty interesting. I saw that in one of the articles somewhere. And moving on, we got another one about truckers. Speaking of truckers, watch out because they're coming in for your job. Maybe.
01:08:24
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They are, ah seems that Ohio is partnering up with Indiana. ODOT partners with NDOT to test automated freight trucks. do you think about this, Tom?
01:08:39
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I thought it was something else when I first saw it. What you think it was? I thought it was going to be the driverless trucks. Yeah, so did i when I. When I saw the headline, I thought that's what it was and then I read yeah two sentences and you know it's not that.
01:08:53
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Yeah, they're automated, not self-driving. They're not really, i mean, they're automated, but it's kind of like the ah drive, ah the lane assist type of things that people have in their cars. Yeah.
01:09:04
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Probably the mirrors too, right? Like the blinking mirrors. Well, the blind spot, lane keep assist, automatic braking, blind spot warning detection. Yeah. it's still going to have a driver. Just the driver will be less competent.
01:09:22
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Well, yeah to me, this is kind of good for the ones that have an accident if they fall asleep. Yes. I don't think it's taking over anything. You still got to drive the truck. It's just going to, you know, if you start, if you doze off and you start creeping over into the next lane, it's going to jerk you back.
01:09:38
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i think um I think the driver situation has gotten to the point where and think most drivers need this stuff. And also... Well, the towels on their heads kind of indicate something.
01:09:51
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Well, yeah, we'll get into that the next story. but so But what I've noticed over the last five years, let's say, i think since just after COVID, yeah, so about five years, they've really cracked down on on hours, driving hours for trucks.
01:10:06
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And everything's digital now. You can't forge. It used to be before if you went over certain air miles or certain range from your home base, you had to fill a log out. But those you could fudge that log because you whatever you fill it out to whatever it is.
01:10:18
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wherever you you say it is but now it's digital it's it's all they can only drive for 10 hours in a day and then they have to stop for four or six hours or something like that if so what i notice now when i leave in the morning to go out like so i'll go to columbus or go on ah on a trip drive somewhere but it's like six in the morning seven in the morning the rest stops are absolutely packed literally busting at the seams with trucks on, on the entrance berm and the exit berm of the, of the station. And usually a couple of the stop or a couple of exits on either side of it, of that station will have trucks at it because they have no choice. They have to stop.
01:10:59
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So I think that's taken care of the, I'm too, I'm too tired to drive thing because it forces them to pull over. Was it asleep or not is a whole other thing, but, Um, that's really, and what that does, I get it's safe. It is safe. It is safer, but it also raises the price of shipping because you can get less done in a day.
01:11:18
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And I've noticed that. So I think, and I noticed, also noticed the talent level in drivers. It's all fun and games until you need to back that thing up.
01:11:29
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And that's when that's when the the the guys who know what they're doing really, you can really tell. Because, man, the people that pull on our dock sometimes, I can't believe they have a license. So this will help. But that's that's kind of what said. I said, oh, really? So what happens when they get to the to the place and it has some crazy dock that they have to get into? How's that? And then I read it. I'll go, oh, it's just it's just what I have in my truck
01:11:55
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that I can turn off. So why can't they? um Right. I don't know. That's cool. It's good. I'm not sure why i was a story though. Sorry to bring even bring that up, people.
01:12:06
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That's something. But you will if you see a truck with some crazy, all these cameras and stuff on it, don't know what it is. it's And you can mess with it. Because it does say something in here. That's what I wanted to say. Something about if they if they if they swerve over or, oh yeah, if for instance, if one of these semis starts to drift into a another lane or miss a speeding car passing it,
01:12:30
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This technology steers a truck back into the lane. I thought that was weird. I don't know. but If it misses a speeding car passing it.
01:12:40
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Moving on. Oh boy. I think I missed a story. Yeah. you ah ah The next story was the undocumented.
01:13:46
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I just went to check on it. And okay. So yeah, this kind of ties in into the last one. I should have put the break before this or after this. That's all right. Bill would ban all undocumented immigrants from driving in Ohio.
01:13:57
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And I went, first I went.
01:14:03
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And then I went, wait, they can drive now in Ohio? Oh,
01:14:08
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but they can't. So this bill sounds like it would bar non-citizens without legal residents from driving in Ohio during the, including those with valid driver's license from other states. i think there's the key.
01:14:23
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I don't, I don't think we're giving illegal aliens in Ohio driver's licenses. No, I think this gives a little bit more authority to the law enforcement for when they get pulled over too. Right. Yeah. Cause now, yeah, sorry.
01:14:38
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No, go ahead. Now they have an Illinois driver's license and they're illegal, they're technically driving legally because they have a legal driver's license from another state. Sounds that way.
01:14:49
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Mm-hmm. Yeah. House Bill 722 was introduced by rep Adam Byrd, Republican of New Richmond. And states, non-residents who are unlawfully present in the United States shall not operate any motor vehicle under the threat of first-degree misdemeanor. The bill extends only to highways and includes people who are allowed to drive on highways in other states or who hold a valid out-of-state driver's license.
01:15:20
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He says, Bird says, illegal aliens should not be issued a driver's license, nor they drive be driving in any state. So says Ohio, yeah, Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles requires to verify someone's legal presence in the United States before it can issue any documents.
01:15:44
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However, 19 states have 19 state laws have, you can allow undocumented immigrants to get valid driver's license. And I bet Illinois is one of them. And Michigan, probably.
01:15:57
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I think so. So any undocumented under this bill, any undocumented driver on highway in Ohio would be issued a first degree misdemeanor punishable by 180 days in jail and a fine of $1,000. The law enforcement officer who issued the citation would also send a copy. Here's the case, very important.
01:16:20
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Send a copy to Immigrations and in control and Custom Enforcement, alert alerting them of the driver's undocumented status. That, I'm going to say,
01:16:34
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that's the one.
01:16:39
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Why isn't that there not there already? That's not already a thing. It should be, right? should be. So good good this is probably going to pass. Yeah. Yeah. So, yep. It says Bird disagrees with policies like Illinois. who has you know look They'll give illegal driver's licenses. It's for safety, they say.
01:16:59
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I see stories all time that I pass up for the show that are, oh, this illegal you know crashes in, kills family of four, and on and on and on. You're not even just just people here with visas who don't speak the language, but they're they got a truck driver job.
01:17:15
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Mm-hmm. So if you're if you're a truck driving company and you give, even if he has a green card is legally here, but he can't really speak English, how does he pass a test? you print it out in his language? Like,
01:17:27
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and And a lot of times they're that hard up for drivers though.
01:17:33
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So this was, yeah I wonder, I do wonder, do they have, give the test in a different language or do they have somebody that translates it for them yeah and and takes the test for them basically? Yeah. Either way, it's freaking ridiculous.
01:17:46
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I told you, we mentioned this,
01:17:50
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At one place I used to work, we used to get a lot of stuff out of Canada there, and they're always Indian, Muslim, eastern or europe are um Middle Eastern-born who didn't speak much English. and Right. And they would always ask us, can you back up, please?
01:18:03
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Can you back up? Back up truck, please? Like, dude. Jeez. Yeah. And they had, you know, a 70,000-pound weapon.
01:18:13
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Right. Right. So this is good. I like it. Hopefully passes. Probably will. It's all a matter of how much it passes by and will Mr. DeWine veto it because he likes immigrants. He likes illegals.
01:18:28
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And we'll see. Keep an eye on it.
01:18:33
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And that's moving on to the one that's not on the list. There we go. Ohio bill, the next one. Another bill in Ohio, which may not be that good. is hotly debated Ohio bill that defines antisemitism moving forward.
01:18:53
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Okay, let's just start with, its this is... um
01:18:58
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Who's doing this? um How News Network. No, it's WOSU, which is part of NPR PBS. It's basically, I think it's NPR. Right. But this is Sarah Donaldson.
01:19:11
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So we have to do first. Sarah is always, we got to have a focal fry warning. Focal fry warning. It'll get you in the mood.
01:19:23
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Now we can listen to her. Ohio lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that codifies a lengthy definition of anti-Semitism. It's reintroduced and amended legislation from the last General Assembly. The Ohio Senate bill makes the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of anti-Semitism the law, at least in civil and administrative investigations by state agencies. Here's GOP Senator Terry Johnson. Over two years ago, following the horrific, brutal, merciless October 7th attack on Israel, we witnessed a concerning wave of extremist demonstrations across several American college campuses.
01:20:04
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Anti-Semitism, rate people unfortunately, is seemingly on the rise. Four of the nine Democrats in the Senate voted against the bill. Those against it argue the IHRA's working definition risks infringing on the First Amendment by restricting anti-Israel comments. Sarah Donaldson at the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau. then he's always the best bureau
01:20:27
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I can almost not pay attention. It's so bad. And then when you listen on to on the headphones, it makes it. Uh-huh. Makes it even even better or worse. how you So, all right, Tom, what do you think? ah Sounds... This is awful.
01:20:43
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I know, it's so bad. I don't like it at all. yeah I don't like any kind of and activist activist group, regardless of whether I agree with it or not, to be making law, but it's just like... I don't think there should be any anti-Semitism, but the thing is, it's like they allow that, but they don't allow other things.
01:21:00
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So it it is kind of like... ah you know, you you you you want to you want to have your, let's say, conservative conservative conservative youth group come there and talk to the students. that They won't allow that.
01:21:14
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But you want to protest Israel, no problem. Yes.
01:21:22
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i think I think they've dragged on, I think they've used up all their October seventh
01:21:30
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that that that they can. I think we've we've gone past that. Literally, 9,000 targets in Iran. i i think ah I think October 7th has been and vietnam spoken for or revenge has been done.
01:21:45
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ah Can you stop bringing it up under every freaking circumstance? Yeah, well, antiseptic is on the rise. Has it gone anywhere? Well, I think it's never really gone anywhere. is now and the ride it's always been around.
01:21:56
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I think it's a little bit more prevalent because of social media. and And you know what? Israel is losing support, ah ah especially among the younger people.
01:22:11
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And yeah, they they want to stop that. And among Republicans too. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Well, it's the whole world anti-war thing, which is which is what i'm you know I'm kind of like anti-war pretty much.
01:22:28
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And if Israel's kind of like always there poking us, then I don't like that. Yeah. Well, speaking on social media, that would I mean, these kind of two stories are kind of, that's why I put this one in there.
01:22:43
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This next one, which is
01:22:47
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Medina County man jailed facing federal charges for threatening, for threatening a mosque. Um, and then I'm kind of, I read the story and um I've got questions. So let's kind of tie this all in. Cause it's similar.
01:23:03
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Um, let's hear, let's hear from who we have this from. Oh yeah. This is a news channel five. Medina man threatens mosque or, I mean, but let's talk about it. Listen, we,
01:23:17
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A Valley City man is jailed tonight facing federal charges after the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force says he threatened a Lorain County mosque. And all of this comes during one of the holiest periods for Northeast Ohio Muslims. News 5 investigator Scott Nolnow with more on what he's uncovered.
01:23:36
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At the Oma Center in Columbia Station, mosque leaders prepare for Eid, the celebration marking the end of Ramadan, while 20-year-old Wyatt Brasca spends it in jail. The Valley City man facing a federal weapons charge and accused of posting threats to the mosque on social media. Honestly, it's quite disturbing. Fatinata is with the Northeast Ohio chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations. Why would anyone attack worshippers? People are going...
01:24:02
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to go pray. That's just, that's just sick. It's just horrible. According to a criminal complaint, the FBI received a tip in November regarding a quote, potential mass shooting threat. Investigators say they traced that threat to Brasca's TikTok account. An agent wrote the matter was turned over to the Medina County Sheriff's Office, which then closed the case after Brasca said the threats were a joke and that he was just trying to upset people and get a reaction. But days later, the criminal complaint alleges Brasca was back on social media.
01:24:33
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This time, according to the FBI agent, referencing the 2019 mosque shootings in New Zealand that killed 51 people. According to court documents, law enforcement again interviewed Brasca, who again said the post was just a joke and he thought it was funny.
01:24:49
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Agents at Brasca admitted not liking Muslims because of the things said online. i the FBI says he also stated he planned to try to stay offline more. It's a pattern Auda calls concerning. how many How many people have to come out and say stop it?
01:25:05
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um until it it escalates to become a very serious thing. Then for last week, another tip to the FBI. Again, concerning videos indicating someone may be planning an attack on a mosque in Columbia Station. In one video from this month, agents said Brasca, dressed in what resembled military fatigues, zoomed in on a mosque. Agents say the text on the video read, you will feel it.
01:25:29
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Two days later, an agent wrote that Broska posted 12 videos on TikTok, including photos of him holding a long gun, wearing a tactical vest with loaded rifle magazines, and a recording of what an agent said sounded like a 911 call where a woman reports a man with a gun and then the sound of gunfire.
01:25:48
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Records show Broska was arrested days later. a man at Broska's Valley City home didn't want to talk with us about the case, and Broska's attorney said he's waiting for more information before commenting.
01:25:59
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Auda, thankful he's off the street ada and hopeful the arrest restores a sense of safety to the community. It's inexcusable, definitely. But we do hope that that he learns from this. We hope that um we hope that, you know, he can change. I'm News 5 investigator Scott Knoll.
01:26:20
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yeah It's crazy that someone would, you know, attack worshipers like, a you know, ah Does she come on? and To me, it's it's hard for me to take ah somebody of the Muslim faith.
01:26:32
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I should because I don't know her, but, you know, hmm, seems like I kind of call the kettle black. But this kind of ties in. and Okay, so if you can get this guy, there are no laws specifically for Muslim hate.
01:26:52
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They can get this guy, from what I can see, Did he threaten that mosque specifically? It just says nowhere in the in the in the article or in the news report that he he physically or he literally said, I'm going to shoot up this mosque.
01:27:07
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So what are they getting at? don't know. He's being pretty threatening there. Sounds like those videos are threatening. who, though? Well, he's playing at a mosque. maybe not a specific mosque. mean, this kid's a dope.
01:27:20
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i mean this this kid's a dope
01:27:24
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Yeah, he doesn't look like he's laughing in the picture. Well, no, I mean, I'm just saying he's dopey. I mean, you know, you would like them to talk like this when Christian church gets shot up, but.
01:27:37
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That's what, yeah, and that's kind of, yeah, that. that I get. So why. I get your feeling on this, but I think this kid was dopey and he was, he was doing stuff that he probably shouldn't be doing. Absolutely. I'm not defending him. all i'm I'm really pointing out that, what do you need extra laws for? You can get this guy for doing similar things that you're talking Right, right. I hear what you're saying.
01:27:56
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Yeah. Yeah. i and But what do you mean extra laws? there's where They want to put in they want to put ah a bill that defines anti-Semitism so that they can get you for a hate crime online.
01:28:10
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Right? Is this anti-Semitism? Kind of what this kid was doing. No, a bit but it's on the other side of it. What I was saying is if you can catch the guy complaining about shooting up a mosque, can't you catch the guy trying to shoot up a... ah ah well They just don't want you saying anything
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01:28:23
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bad about Jews.
01:28:29
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I get it. Yes, I know. It's true. yeah night October 7th, Tom. October 7th. I get, but this guy is kind of doing a little bit more extreme stuff. And you don't need a lot. You don't need a lot. I mean, that that whole anti-Semitism thing is bullshit, but...
01:28:43
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This is, um, this guy's creepy, but you I know, you know how you could tell he's not a fed. I just look at him. He doesn't look like a fed. They actually arrested him. Tom. Okay.
01:28:55
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but The other ones are like, they went to his house seven times and never arrested him. Well, definitely sounds like a fed to me, but, uh, this kid, no, definitely not. Cause he's actually in jail right now. i don't know. I mean, they got him on weapons charges. They probably got some technicalities to slap him on the wrist.
01:29:09
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I'm not sure what they, what they can do with his posts or anything. It's, I mean, i get the threatening part, but you got to be pretty specific. I mean, you just show a mosque. That's true. I guess I also, my point was why there's, it says nowhere that he pointed to this specific mosque, North Olmstead or wherever it was.
01:29:25
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Yeah, North Olmstead, I think that they said. So this, in they got the FBI, FBI got a tip, but nowhere did they point out why they thought he was going after that mosque. So.
01:29:39
Speaker
um But really, i started looking at these two going, yeah I mean, obviously the laws are enough that you can can get get people who are threatening Jews or Muslims. So take your hate crime definition of anti-Semitism, stick it in your pooper. Okay.
01:29:58
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ah Moving on.
01:30:01
Speaker
Click. Checkmate. All right. Medina man arrested. Oh, and this one I've been holding on to for a couple weeks. Just trying to see how it flushes out. But apparently, the efforts to repeal the marijuana restrictions has failed. They did not get enough signatures, which I kind of figured they wouldn't.
01:30:22
Speaker
Because, in my opinion, they're they're pushing on the wrong wrong issue with this bill because all they talk about really is is it the marijuana restrictions on any total ban on intoxicating hemp products being sold in you know like gas stations and stuff but what marijuana restrictions there's everybody kind of they gloss past that GOP created marijuana restrictions and a total ban on intoxicating hemp products
01:30:53
Speaker
Intoxicant hemp products is one issue. i'm not I'm kind of on the fence about it. What's your feeling on that? How can you be on the fence about it? Oh, the drinks and stuff? ah Like in a gas station. like they You go to gas station, you get Delta-8. I don't think they should be banning hemp products at all.
01:31:08
Speaker
i i think it's a better product if you're looking for a for the edibles. But, yeah, they indeed I guess need to i mean you can't be selling that kind of stuff at stores.
01:31:23
Speaker
But you're if you're selling beer, why can't you sell this? Yeah, exactly. ah A total ban to me is is a typical Republican thing. Instead of just putting some age restrictions on it, which is really what needs. It's just another, and so it's like beer.
01:31:37
Speaker
Right, right, right. Liquor, beer. And it's sold in the same place. and you go to the gas station, they have one gas station by my house has a whole cabinet locked up with all the their THC products.
01:31:49
Speaker
And I guess that would be going away.
01:31:53
Speaker
But the next, the part that everybody's kind of sliding past is the marijuana restrictions. And from my understanding of it is the GOP has to meddle, you know, the the people was, where it was put to the people, they said yes to both medical and recreational and the GOP just has to mess with stuff.
01:32:11
Speaker
So what, what, what, from my understanding, it's I don't even think it mentions it in the, in this, in this bill or in this article. It's really only talking about the businesses and all that kind of stuff, which is one, this is one story, which I totally get.
01:32:26
Speaker
But I'm just trying to make sure this is not the story that has the quote in it. But what yeah, the bill institutes a public smoking ban and prohibits smoking in cars. It also gives landlords the ability to prohibit smoking and vaping, bans outdoor venues from allowing marijuana and ah and requires all products to be kept in the same package that they were brought in.
01:32:47
Speaker
It also makes it a crime to have an open marijuana container, meaning if someone has a baggie of edibles in the backseat of a Lyft or a public bus, if it is not if it if it had ever been opened, they would be breaking the law.
01:33:03
Speaker
Yeah. That's dumbs like ah dumb. but you can't smoke it. They're just looking for another stream.
01:33:12
Speaker
revenue stream hey, you get pulled over and you got an open container. It's illegal. Here's a $200 fine. yeah i think it's Yeah, I think it's the GOP just didn't want this law to begin with. They're very against legalization of drugs in any way. that's just As a group in general, and there's I'm sure there's people in the party that aren't, but I think that's what this really comes down to. they just there's It feels like they're just pissed that they get got passed.
01:33:39
Speaker
Well, it was it was um it was a long way coming. I mean, it's going to happen. Yeah. it's kind of It's starting to happen federally. they're They're releasing, or I think the Trump administration and administration is lowering, they're going to be able to test it now, I think coming soon.
01:33:55
Speaker
Actually do test. In the past, you weren't able to because it was such a, third it was ah a heart, a narcotic, like the highest level drug. yeah And that means no testing or anything. You can't do it anyway. So now they're now they're able to test it for medicinal usage.
01:34:09
Speaker
And they're trying to do that with psilocybin now too. get get that re uh uh whatever re-labeled yeah i pulled out i pulled the story out because we already had too many but it was it was uh questioning what the effects of thcr and some studies that were saying it doesn't do what people say they was done and all this other stuff but yeah it's kind of well i agree with that but
01:34:37
Speaker
i I get the open container part maybe in some ways. um but How? Why? If I have a pill bottle i've a pill bottle in my
01:34:47
Speaker
Vicodin in my car and I've opened it before am I going to get and it's sitting on the dash am I going to get a ticket for that or arrested for that I don't think so why is this handled differently yeah I get like if you got a especially if you had like a THC drink you were drinking in the car well that maybe I could tell but I mean like let's say you you know you carry around some gummies or yeah you know mints or whatever edible you take they have mints they do And, but anyways, what, you know, if you have a tin of those and if it's open, you, who cares?
01:35:23
Speaker
think it has to be in the trunk of your car or something like that. Okay. What, next to your gun? I mean. Well, that's in, if you have a truck, where do I put it in my bed? that where i put my beer? I don't, yeah, this is, kind yeah, it's just government being government.
01:35:39
Speaker
Government overreach. And it's one thing, you know, both parties are really, really good at. Now, what
Police Misconduct Case in North Royalton
01:35:45
Speaker
okay, if ah somebody gets pulled over, let's say they're driving, they're weaving, and they have an open container, a tin of gummies, then maybe? Yeah,
01:36:02
Speaker
yeah I guess. I don't know. I mean, yeah, I guess. I mean, how else are you going Is there a test yet for stoners? ah ros and not No, that that's one of the issues people have with it is like you could test positive for THC and you could have ingested it weeks ago.
01:36:22
Speaker
So how do you test? you know yeah It's not like alcohol. Alcohol goes away in like 24, 48 hours. I get it. i mean, it's wonderful that's like when you're at at work. It is a problem. I mean, there it is it does cause
01:36:36
Speaker
confusion, guess. Oh, yeah. You probably shouldn't be impaired while you're a truck driver. Yeah, but yeah yeah if you can't test for it, then you're kind of screwed. That's a thing. That's a problem. It's a big problem.
01:36:48
Speaker
Yeah. Unlike alcohol, it's it it lingers and there's no real way to... and A lot of companies are just they're just taking it off out of the test. they'rere they're testing for They're doing a drug test, but it's a nine panel instead of a 10 panel. And then the 10th panel is THC that they take out. Right.
01:37:07
Speaker
So. So. Okay, so let's say i read my, okay, I read my local police blotter, and I would say 90% of the things that are listed are people pulled over for speeding, and then the cop says, in quotes, I'm going to put it, he smells something.
01:37:27
Speaker
So they search the car, right? And they find... Weed. Gummies. Well, they find weed, but now you're going to find gummies, right? Yeah.
01:37:39
Speaker
I spelled a sugary. Is it just to kind of cover, like before they can give you a ticket for that. They can confiscate it and give you a ticket. Now, if you have gummies, you they can't do either of those things. So is this just to make it so they can confiscate it and give you a ticket for it and get their couple hundred bucks? Yeah.
01:37:58
Speaker
Get the cup on our box. Bingo. It's like DUI. I think this is for revenues than safety. This is just for revenue stream. Yep. Oh, what a segue, Tom. That was perfect. I know you did that exactly on purpose. Speaking of revenue streams, next story is the the the the checks have have i' gone out now.
01:38:17
Speaker
Been waiting and waiting for over a year and a half now for the the the checks from the dispensaries to go to the communities, to the local communities. municipalities who have these dispensaries in there you know in their cities, they were promised to get a cut of the tax revenue and so far they have not. And then they passed a new bill kind of forcing, I mean, it was in the original bill, but for some reason Columbus didn't want to share and then they passed another bill ah to force them and may really state exactly what should be coming. So here is, i think, yeah, News Channel 5 again.
01:38:51
Speaker
for tax revenue and we're going to go over some of the numbers here because don't know, they're pretty impressive in some cases, mean especially when we talk about local municipalities.
01:39:02
Speaker
Well, Ohio communities that have dispensaries are finally getting tax revenue from recreational cannabis sales. It's something that was promised back in 2023 when Ohioans approved adult use marijuana. Well, according to state tax records in Northeast Ohio, Canton is said to receive the most in taxes generated through 2025 at $1 million. dollars Akron and Cleveland follow with both cities receiving more than $800,000. Well, i cover lorraine County. And we learned three communities received a total of nearly $820,000. Here's how that money is being spent.
01:39:36
Speaker
Between September of 2024 and November of 2025, Elyria earned $374,000 in tax revenue from recreational cannabis sales. That's the largest payout among communities in Lorain County that have dispensaries. We weren't sure we were ever going to see it. Payments were withheld until the passage of Senate Bill 56 in December. Under the legislation, 64% of cannabis tax revenue goes to Ohio's general fund and the remaining 36% goes to communities that have at least one licensed dispensary.
01:40:11
Speaker
Elyria Mayor Kevin Brubaker tells me the city expects to receive $23,000 month moving forward. $23,000 on a $50 million dollars general fund budget that we have, it's kind of like a needle in haystack. It's not a lot, but it will help. What are you going to do with the money? i mean, more than $300,000, that's a lot. Well, like most cities, we we struggle with funding ah and and revenue. And we sat down with our finance director and our safety service director and came up with a plan that we were just going to put it into our general fund to help stabilize that. And then we use that to fund all of our different departments in the city.
01:40:47
Speaker
It's not a lot, but we do struggle to fund it. Every dollar is a lot if you're struggling to fund. What you mean it's not a lot? $23,000 a month? Jeez. I know in this budget, with percentage of the budget, maybe it's not that much. but It's always a drop in a bucket whenever you ask them. Yeah. $23,000 a month? Drop in bucket. How many cops can you hire at $23,000 a month? Well, it depends how much overtime they're getting.
01:41:14
Speaker
in that case, one. Part-time one. So yeah, they're getting some cash and Canton with a million dollars. um think they're putting any of that towards the schools.
01:41:29
Speaker
I couldn't keep a straight face. um we We talk about Canton and Stowe or Stark County and all those places, Cleveland, all this other stuff being hard up for cash. I think the schools would take 23 grand a month.
01:41:41
Speaker
Yeah, I think they'd take it. Oh, they take it and raise it. it there. Well, i mean, yeah, regardless, they'll still take it. So yeah, the moneys the money is starting fade out. They would take it and tell the kids to start smoking pot so they'd get more. ah All of a sudden, you see money start going to schools and all of a sudden the posters in the hall are changed. Keep the population stoned.
01:42:04
Speaker
They won't know what to vote for. Just tell them you're gonna give them stuff. Yeah, go vote for
01:42:13
Speaker
All right. So they're they're good for them. I mean, it only took two bills to get it done. Thanks, GOP. Appreciate you. Next on our list. Got, oh, this one. This one's interesting. It's the North Royalton Police.
01:42:29
Speaker
North Royalton's moving to fire a whistleblower. a Three News investigation Investigates North Royalton moves to fire officer who filed whistleblower complaint against top police brass.
01:42:43
Speaker
And let's listen to a little breakdown from it from News Channel 3.
01:42:49
Speaker
and Tonight new fallout in a story 3 News Investigates has been following for months. The city of North Royalton is moving to fire the police officer who filed a whistleblower complaint against his top brass. The city though says it's about records handling, not retaliation.
01:43:08
Speaker
In a notice of disciplinary action obtained by Three News Investigates, North Royalton Mayor Larry Antoskevich has moved to fire patrolman Spencer Lowe. How much have you had to drink tonight, sir? um Not much. The officer who arrested an impaired armed deputy police chief from Orange Village last October then filed a whistleblower complaint claiming that his own chief and lieutenant deleted the felony gun charge from the record system.
01:43:35
Speaker
In a statement, Antoskevich called his move, quote, based upon the findings of the police department's own internal affairs investigation. He declined further comment to protect due process. done The city says it's not about the complaint itself, but how Officer Lowe handled the records, claiming he had a sergeant pull confidential, unredacted documents and pass them to his union attorney. That sergeant is now being demoted to patrol officer.
01:44:04
Speaker
The fraternal order of police fired back, saying, quote, The people who altered the record still have their jobs. The people who exposed them are being shown the door. The union calls it textbook retaliation against a whistleblower.
01:44:19
Speaker
The union is now appealing Officer Lowe's firing, but that appeal goes to the mayor who authorized the punishment. So the FOP plans to take the matter before an independent arbitrator. You know what's funny about the story?
01:44:33
Speaker
Larry, the mayor, Larry, I can hardly pronounce his name. Antoskevich. He's the mayor of North Royalton. He was my union boss when I first started.
01:44:46
Speaker
Was he really? The girl or the the the demotion of Flo Ann Ribicki. She is married to a guy I played baseball with.
01:45:01
Speaker
And i met her I met her back when I was, I think I was about, I'm guessing about 25, 24, 25. And we were out. I saw her husband.
01:45:13
Speaker
She was there. She just became a cop. ah A nice looking girl. And we got shit faced. And then the guy who got busted driving...
01:45:26
Speaker
Patrick O'Callaghan, who's a cop from Orange Village, he's my f FFL. What?
01:45:38
Speaker
I'm like waiting to find my name somehow weird in here. going to check. It's nowhere. I don't see it anymore. As I read through the story, I'm just like, oh my God. There's people in here I actually like know and partied with. So...
01:45:53
Speaker
so
01:45:56
Speaker
So the mayor, Larry, is married to Flo. No, mayor Larry was my union boss. Oh, okay. Flo is married to a guy I played baseball with. He was a good he was a good friend of mine ah back in in my yeah later teens and early 20s.
01:46:14
Speaker
And she she's a sergeant there. she you know When I first met her, I was in my twenty s Yeah, she got demoted. So she's probably back on the patrolman. patrolman And the Patrick O'Callaghan, who was a cop in Orange Village who basically got pulled over for drinking.
01:46:36
Speaker
A good guy. i just feel I feel bad for him. But ah he was my FFL. He was a cop selling guns. Which would bring up why maybe he pushed to have that yes gun charge. Yes. I mean, besides its it was a serious charge. with Right. that doesn't They don't say anything in the report there, so we should tell people what happened, right?
01:46:55
Speaker
So he got pulled over for drinking, ah you know driving recklessly driving. 55 in a 35? Swerving? swerving And he had three firearms in his possession. And I guess ah what they weren't, you know, he shouldn't be drinking with three firearms in possession. Yeah. I'm not sure if there's any, i I'm not sure you're allowed to have anything in your car when you're, well, I think, I think if they're locked up in your trunk, you're, you, oh yeah I don't think that's a issue. I I'm guessing.
01:47:23
Speaker
And that's what he got busted for. And I think they kind of hid that. They they took that one off the charges, the firearms possession. DUI is bad enough, I think that would be a federal charge or something like that. yeah, he would lose his FFL license. And I would think, I i have a feeling, ah good feeling that that guy who erased that was probably, you know, was was a guy who used him as his FFL.
01:47:50
Speaker
Possibly. yeah I guess the question I would have though is,
01:47:55
Speaker
Would that happen to any of us? Oh, no, no. This is scum. Yeah, this is bad. bad yeah Part the reason people, it's part of the reason bad cops get away with a lot is because of this kind of action right here. It's it's cops taking care of their own. Well, this is why i don't think there's an honest cop.
01:48:10
Speaker
every Every cop that you think is a good cop knows a bad cop, and he doesn't tell on them. it's ah It's a brotherhood. I get it, but at the same time, this is kind of what makes me hate cops at the, you know, but you know, yeah in a lot, in a lot of ways. you Yeah. I, I, Flo was trying to do the right thing. I've met her a year, you know, I haven't seen them in 25 years.
01:48:34
Speaker
I, uh, she was a good person. This Patrick guy, I thought he was a good person too. mean, he just did something stupid, just because you know? Yeah. Yeah. And from the video I saw, he's he's pretty happy.
01:48:49
Speaker
He couldn't pronounce Cuyahoga County, which just is not easy to pronounce, but when you when you had a few drinks, it's even worse. but When I was playing in a band back back in the day, we we did a lot of, not a lot, but a couple times a year, we would do a fraternal order of police party, like event.
01:49:04
Speaker
And then we would also have play private parties for some of these policemen. Which was weird because they would always be like, man, because we you know we had a guy who liked to get stoned all the time.
01:49:19
Speaker
He's like, oh, don't worry about it. and Most of these guys get stoned. I'm just like, okay. And then I didn't participate. i didn't I wasn't friends, but he was friends with a couple of cops were friends with guys in the band and they would go out partying.
01:49:33
Speaker
and And the guy, my buddy from the band is telling me, yeah, we went out partying. and Then when we're driving home, he's doing like over 100 on the highway. We get pulled over. he shows his badge and the guy just lets him go. And it's like, man, this is it's just abuse, man. i get having fun and all that, but it's just like if that happened to me, I'd be in jail, lose my license.
01:50:00
Speaker
it like Lose your ability to have a gun? Yeah, yeah.
01:50:05
Speaker
Could be, could be. A lot of times, yes. Just just that alone, could at least for a short time, you could be. does like ah Does a DUI and doing over 100, does that equal a felony? I don't know. i they're ah they' It might. It's reckless op.
01:50:18
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think it's a felony. but No, maybe not. But with the gun in in the in the car, it might be. All the laws, go they go crazy when you've got alcohol plus firearms in the car.
01:50:30
Speaker
um Yeah, this is bad. I mean... this is bad i mean I get, and they they're getting him on a technicality. So here's the other side of it. He kind of did probably break the rules by, you know, giving unredacted files to his union boss. It sounded like he did.
01:50:47
Speaker
And Flo was the sergeant. She gave to him the files and then he gave it to the union boss. So I get there. I think they are, it is retaliation, but they kind of got him on technicality. I'm not sure how much of a case he has. ah ah Maybe not firing, maybe not demotion from sergeant to beat cop was is appropriate for this type of, I'd like to see what what they how they've handled other situations similarly that weren't like whistleblowers, like somebody mishandled some other kind of files. What did they do to them?
01:51:21
Speaker
And and does it does it match up? But yeah, this is... They may have a case, you know, that he may not have to be able to fight it, but I think with the whistleblower,
01:51:33
Speaker
I mean, i would think he'd let it slide because he's trying to make the department better. but the mayor is the last in line. So even if they win the case, the mayor is the one who makes the decision. but Yeah, I'm sure there's going to be some arbitration maybe, or they're going to take it to court or something like that.
01:51:48
Speaker
But really... i don't the The people who did who he erased his felon his gun charge are still employed. So there's there is the biggest point there, the union saying.
01:52:00
Speaker
like The people who who did the deed, who did the the the the the cover-up, are still employed. But yet the people who told you about the cover-up are getting fired or demoted. So
UFO Sightings and Speculations
01:52:11
Speaker
everybody should get demoted or fired. How's that?
01:52:13
Speaker
Well, except the person that told. Flo doesn't deserve deserve this.
01:52:20
Speaker
She's the whistleblower. I know, but they probably, they did go out of, I mean, did they did break protocol or break break the rules in some ways, right? By giving somebody unread. I'd have to see what the rules say and all that stuff. that's I'm going off of what they say in the article and the thing. but So there might be some reprimand there.
01:52:39
Speaker
But in this case, I would say, yeah, you're right. It shouldn't be any. But technically, I could see how they have a case because if they did mishandle a files, I just think there should be some grace.
01:52:50
Speaker
given because, cause of the, what the, why the context really matters in this case and they're not getting that. And that's kind of what the union is saying. So
01:53:01
Speaker
it's, so what does the union say about the other, the other police officers? Yeah.
01:53:09
Speaker
Right, because they're in the same union, the police officers who covered up the firearm charge. Yeah, but they're just sticking up for the person that got demoted. I would hope they would come out and these other officers were in the wrong. They're never going to do that. They're in the union, too. They're try to walk the line. Yeah, they're going to try to stand. I get it. It is strange when everybody's in the union, right? It'd be like management being in union with the regular employees.
01:53:36
Speaker
It doesn't really work. Yes. Yeah. When you get up in that, uh, Sergeant role the captains and stuff, I mean, yeah, it gets kind of a gray
01:53:48
Speaker
All right. Moving on to that. We'll keep an eye and see what happens to them. They're going fight it and we'll see, see how far it goes. And maybe we bring it up again.
01:53:59
Speaker
and again,
01:54:04
Speaker
and Wrapping up with the final story in our main segment here. Tom, it's happening. Did you see it? Green fireballs. Remember the meteor?
01:54:14
Speaker
We just started the whole thing, it sounds like. Because, oh my gosh, they're everywhere. Let's listen to...
01:54:23
Speaker
I got a clip from Benny Johnson. who i i do like Benny Johnson and so to some extent, but man, he is... is so hyperbolic sometimes it's, it's, it's funny, but he loves the clicks, right?
01:54:36
Speaker
Oh, he loves the clicks. He loves the, the click baits, which drives me nuts. A lot of times it actually turns me off a lot of times, but cause you, you click on it. I'm no, this nothing. It's nothing like your title, but this, uh, this we're going to draw, we're going to bring him in right in the middle of his, his rant. Cause he barely takes a breath. So it's hard to cut in. So here's, here he is talking about a pattern that he's seeing with, um, all of a sudden ah high, um,
01:55:01
Speaker
Increase in fireballs in the sky all over the country. There you go. I consider myself a room temperature IQ. I just work hard and, well, pattern recognition. Anybody can do it.
01:55:12
Speaker
And we happen to do it because we're just obsessed with news and we're constantly monitoring the situation. I think quite well. But that's about it. That's our only superpower. And well, we encourage you to join us in the chat if you have any specific patterns that you happen to notice.
01:55:27
Speaker
Here's one that we've noticed as of late. Fireballs in the sky. Check this out. ah Fireball in sky. Here we go from one day ago. Video shows a bright fireball in Northern California.
01:55:39
Speaker
Kind of terrifying. Colorful fireball streaks across the sky in Colorado. Meteor lights up the sky in Texas, produces many loud booms, many people say. People across the Pacific Northwest report green fireball in the sky. Fireball lit up the skies before Oregon. Would look at this? Hancock County fireball.
01:55:58
Speaker
Two fireballs light up the sky in Michigan. Six. Oh, man. And if you ah start actually looking through the international headlines, you'll start to notice that seems like they're preparing us for something. ah Oh, wow.
01:56:10
Speaker
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has just purchased aliens.gov. Donald Trump has just ordered the release of all the alien files after Barack Obama said that there were aliens. This is aliens.gov, by the way.
01:56:23
Speaker
Nothing there. It is ah not online yet. But they bought it right in time for, of course, ah the top UFO scientists in the U.S. military and in the country to all go missing at the same time.
01:56:36
Speaker
This is a real story. It's really happening. Five missing scientists send chills across America. Three are dead. What is the troubling link? They all studied UFOs. They were all physicists working inside of classified bases.
01:56:53
Speaker
All of them had great pedigrees when it comes to The UFO programs or whatever they're called inside of the black box are intel agencies and military.
01:57:03
Speaker
Conspiracy theorists realizing they're about to be right again. Do you think that you're about to be right again? i mean, a member of Congress was on my show this morning saying that he's really concerned about what's going on with the missing UFO scientists.
01:57:18
Speaker
It seems like somebody is trying to get ahead of the big announcement. What's the big announcement? Well, NASA just said they're they're about to build a moon base. NASA has projected a plan for a $20 billion dollars moon base.
01:57:32
Speaker
that's Actually, that's the funniest part of the whole thing is the government thinks they can build a moon base for a mere $20 billion. Come on. That's cheaper than the transit in California.
01:57:44
Speaker
Yeah, about 200 billion? How about 200? You forgot a zero there, guys. Yeah, so all of a sudden everybody's noticing huge increase in meteors, fireballs is what he's calling them, around the sky like we saw last week over Medina County, all over the country, all over the YouTube media.
01:58:05
Speaker
Very, very exciting. Very exciting. There is an increase.
01:58:10
Speaker
Is it anything? Is it aliens, Tom? I want to say yes. i do want to say yes. I do. It would fit this timeline. We're not there yet.
01:58:24
Speaker
No, I don't. I think we go. I think was one i think the planet goes through ah asteroids belt twice a year, right? Yeah. And the other thing is everyone's got a dash cam. Everyone's got a ring camera. Everyone's got a ah cell phone taking video. and Yeah, dash cameras is the biggest one, I think.
01:58:45
Speaker
that I would say most of those videos I saw were from the dash cam. Yeah. Yeah. And, and you see them, they we saw them all the time in Russia. They, they, we used to see a lot, for some reason, we see a lot of Russian gas cams, you for accidents, but they also would show, know, rocket attacks or they were showing meteors and all this kind of stuff. You know, that's a big, big part. I'll tell you what, you when when i ah when I used to do a lot of traveling with, for the band, so it would just be me and another guy in a van or sometimes the whole band would be in a van and I'd be driving or I'd be in the passenger seat and,
01:59:19
Speaker
you know what, it happened more than a handful of times where I saw something. I'd be like, hey, did you see that? They'd be like, what? and and And nowadays you just kind of rewind your dash cam, I guess.
01:59:33
Speaker
they Yeah, I think um but think that's what we learned about last week was they're saying this happens all the time, probably daily. Yeah. And but usually no one ever sees because it's in the middle ocean or something.
01:59:46
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Well, there's that. and Yeah. and And before, like whenever I look over and go, hey, did you see that? They'd be like, no what are you talking about? They'd be like, oh, you stoned. I mean, we we really know what this is all about, don't we?
01:59:59
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mean, it's really just all about, you know, covering up for the Epstein files. I got a friend of mine who likes to rag on another friend, and he's like, oh, yeah, it's the Epstein files. I said, I know, because we can't talk about two things at once. He's like, no, nobody's talking about the Epstein files. I go, you just said the Epstein files three times, so you're talking Oh, God, you got me. you know, it's like, because he would make fun of another friend. well It it is funny that you can like derail the media pretty easily with a new story and and forget about the old story.
02:00:33
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it's told something shiny and new. yeah Clicks. Lots of clicks and it's happening. Fireballs. Green fireballs. Click on the video. Well, I fell for it, but I figured it'll be good for this show. Yeah. You know what? Benny Johnson, I yeah avoid.
02:00:50
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I follow him on Twitter. Yeah, generally. Yeah, he has some good takes every once a while. His takes? Usually surrounded by a bunch of babbles. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's just hyperbolic clickbait. Yeah, a lot of it.
02:01:03
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it's not I mean, he's got 5 million subscribers. Most of the time, he's kind of right. It's just hyperbolic, you know, the way he presents it. yeah It really is the clickbait that drives me nuts. And you know who else is doing that now? Tim Pool. Yes, I was thinking the exact same thing. I think a lot of the content creators, if you want to call them that, I i would think the political commentators are struggling right now.
02:01:30
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Yeah. Add revenue is down. That's one thing. Viewership is is probably... Might be down, but it should probably tick up towards the end of the year. Election and all. But yeah, they're struggling and they're changing tactics. And now now it's just vague. vague Timple's titles were usually pretty descriptive, what he's going to talk about. they were And maybe that's the problem. They were always a little hyperbolic, but and they weren't totally off base. And now now it's it's he's right and you're like now you have to click on it to find out and that makes me go pat yeah i could see right through it it's well you know what's not now like as of late i mean because he is a he's a guy who i watched on a daily basis but now i listen to the first 30 seconds i'm like god just shut up
02:02:18
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And turn it off. Yeah. You get, you get the news story and then he drags, I get the feeling he tries to drag it out, which I, I know some ways you get, you, you, you don't, you can't have a three minute video. It's not going to get you any, any ad revenue, but that's the problem is you're trying to get ad revenue. And,
02:02:33
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then And, you know, i again, I'm not trying to put too much, judge him too much, but when you got a big business, you got a lot of people, he's trying to divest himself from it. You can tell, he's trying to have a family and a life and all stuff.
02:02:45
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You got to have revenue to pay people. It was easier when he was just paying himself. Yeah. I'd imagine. But, but hey, I mean, I give the guy credit. He's built, he's built a nice little business. Yeah. But built it on what?
02:02:57
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That's. On him. Well, on him. And it's like. It's oversaturation of himself is one problem. The other thing and the other problem is it's YouTube. Yeah. yeah hey went iszana He's on Rumble now. so It doesn't matter. I'm just saying you're relying on yeah same same other things.
02:03:15
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Yeah, it's the same idea. So it's, yeah, I think i think this everybody's hyper-focused on the Sky now and was going back and checking their dash cams for meteors and posting online. Yeah.
02:03:28
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ah Some of them are pretty big, man. There one out west. I mean, it lit up the whole sky at night It was pretty crazy. Speaking of meteors, we're hit. Got to hit the good things segment for the day. We're wrapping it up here.
02:03:44
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And speaking in the meteors, we currently now have a whole bunch of people apparently flocking to Medina County, Ohio, to look for pieces of meteor, right? And and let's listen to a little bit from Fox 8, but they are very excited.
02:03:59
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Very, very excited. and and And it's ah got some revenue into it. I mean, can get some cash from these things, apparently. Here you go. A park in the quiet Medina County community of Sharon Center is considered prime hunting ground and the search for fragments of the meteorite that blazed across the sky on St. Patrick's Day.
02:04:22
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40-year-old Roberto Vargas of Bristol, Connecticut, is part of a small army of meteorite chasers who converged on northeast Ohio after scientific evidence from Doppler radar revealed pieces of the seven-ton fireball were scattered across an area of County. Interesting out where...
02:04:41
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Basically, they use the AMS trajectory to look along that line to see if it looks like there's any hail that only lasts a sweep or a couple sweeps, because that's what rocks in the air kind of look like. Hail that only lasts a couple seconds. Vargas says so far he has found two pieces of the meteorite in Medina County. No rock on earth looks like this. ah The fusion crust is unique to meteorites. The surface features unique to meteorites. It turns out there's a market for meteorites. Among those willing to pay for the fragments, individual collectors, universities and museums. The value is in the age of the shattered meteorite and its rare scientific qualities.
02:05:26
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Roberto Vargas says in 2017, he made $40,000 from the first fragments he collected and sold from a meteorite in Costa Rica.
02:05:37
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This was on the other side of the moon three days ago. And now it's here. I am the first human being to touch this stone. ah This stone is 4.56 billion years old. It tells us about the creation of the planet. It tells us about the origins of the species. So it's it's really fascinating stuff.
02:05:57
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as it Can you tell us what it tells you about it, please? Because if the rock's talking to you...
02:06:05
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Uh, yeah. So they're hunting rocks and actually a couple these are pretty cool looking. Almost like the, uh, the one I show in the, in the news and the article or the report is it like, it's like around, you know, little pebble, but it's got like these little pebbles ah almost like tiered, like liquid dripping off of it Like it was melting in the atmosphere and it, when it cooled, it cooled with it like a drop of, it was pretty cool. There was a one article. I thought I saved it, but.
02:06:29
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I couldn't find it. Anyways, there was an article with a picture here. It was here in Medina County of a fragment that was about the size of a, I would say, a little maybe a little bit bigger than a baseball.
02:06:42
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Yeah, it was they they found it in a field, and it it left a freaking crater, man. That'll tell you. Oh, yeah. Baseball from baseball from the heavens will kill. Yeah, baseball, and probably weighs like, I mean, that little thing like that probably weighed more than a few pounds, right? Probably.
02:06:59
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yeah Yeah, I bet it's super dense or something weird. It's either really light or, I don't know, it could be either, I guess. But yeah, I bet, um but I think it's pretty cool. He's like, a couple of days ago, this was on the other side of the moon. I'm like, that's pretty cool.
02:07:12
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I'm nerdy. was it? Or was it? to Moon. Yeah, right. when Maybe they just knew it was part of the garbage from the basin side of it. but They shot it from a cannon from the opposite side of the moon.
02:07:27
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Dark side of the moon. Hey, that's great album. Yes. um So for at least for a little while yet, to until they scour the area and pick it clean of any rock that looked anything close to a meteorite, ah hopefully they pick up some garbage along the way and clean the place up.
02:07:45
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But they're coming from all over the place. It's kind of like um all ah like storm chasers and those kind of things. as They're meteorite chasers. little less dangerous. Treasure hunters.
02:07:58
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Treasure, yeah yeah. If he's getting $40,000 for a frickin' rock, that's pretty awesome, in my opinion. Paid for a lot more trips to, I bet it paid for his trip to go to the Medina. So spend some of that money here, baby. wonder what he does for a living.
02:08:12
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always wonder when what people do with that do this kind of stuff. Like, i mean, do you have like two weeks of vacation and you're like, oh, okay, i'm just going to take my two weeks and go try to find some meaty or fragments? Yeah.
02:08:24
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yeah I know so i've over the years, for storm chase was like that. Yeah, I have four weeks a year and I take it during yeah during tornado season to go chase tornadoes. I think it was a maybe documentary because he had I think they were waiting on a tornado or a storm and he wanted to see one and he couldn't and his vacation was ending. I'm like...
02:08:41
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That's what, how, you're not married, are you? Not married, no family. but i mean, if you're going to make a few bucks from it, then what the hell, why not? I would i would say the, probably the best current job for most these guys is cleaning mom's basement, maybe.
02:08:55
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Yeah, you never know, but I think. No, they're well he hey he made 40 grand. so oh I mean, that's like in 2017, he stretched it out until now. He needs another 40. needs another 40, hurry up.
02:09:07
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right, so if you, hey, if you find any rocks, let us know. Um, moving
Cherry Blossom Season in Ohio
02:09:12
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on to another story from last week, a followup or add on from last week, we put it in the good thing segment. Cause that wasn't a good thing segment, but Afro man's got some legs.
02:09:22
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Afro man's got some legs. So this, again, the algorithm did what the algorithm does on YouTube and put, put this in front of my face this week. So here is the, a video that the Adams County Sheriff's department put up in Colorado Because they are getting calls, comments, and emails ripping on them for suing Afro man.
02:09:45
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And they're like, don't know, 5, 4,000 miles away, 3,000 miles away. Something like that. And apparently, according to the video, there's six or seven different states. I was going to say, I need to know how many Adams counties there Yeah, it says in the video, they show it real quick in what part of the video, if you watch it, shows the states. I think there's six or eight, maybe more of the states that have in Adams County. for some reason they For some reason, they keep focusing on the one in Colorado. That's weird.
02:10:11
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And they put this little video out. So it's little PSA from Adams County, Colorado.
02:10:20
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So some of you have heard, most of you haven't. Adams County Sheriff's Office in Ohio and Afro Man in litigation with each other. We know some of you have heard it though. all the comments How could you sue him? You guys, how's a lemon palm cake?
02:10:35
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So we want to provide you a quick geography lesson. We are the Adams County Sheriff's Office in Colorado.
02:10:45
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They are the Adams County Sheriff's Office in Ohio.
02:10:53
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So before you start sending us messages, calling us, emailing us, DMing us, you may want to Google it. I think it'd be great if you're getting a bunch of pound cake. I mean, yeah, as long as it's good. But would you eat it?
02:11:07
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e Good point. There you go. Is it is it boxed from a vendor? a As a police officer in today's day and age, don't think I'd leave it. No matter if it was sealed or not.
02:11:19
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No, thank you. There are 12 Adams counties in the United States. 12. Yep. That's what it was, 12. yeah Colorado being listed as the as the first one. Interesting.
02:11:31
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Because it's in Colorado, maybe because, yeah alphabetical, maybe? don't know. I'm looking at, yes, it is alphabetical what I'm looking at here. Okay. Okay. Why would it be first? Maybe that, and that's probably why they're getting all the feedback. Probably. Because it's at the top of the list when you Google it.
02:11:46
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So they did Google They just didn't notice the C-O, the O-H. um All right. Next, last story is a quick one. We'll run through it. If you're wondering where you can go find some cherry blossoms in Ohio this year, here's the article for you.
02:12:01
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They're expecting, think they're predicting, they say April. They put a date on it. I thought they had a,
02:12:12
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It dates sometime in April when they're expecting the, yeah, first week of April. The cherry blossom trees in Ohio, therefore, should begin their blossoming by the first week of April.
02:12:22
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Once bloom, steady warm days, cool nights, light winds overall, best to keep peak conditions on the trees. Then we got a list of nice places to go. Akron Toad Path, Greater Cleveland Area, Athens, Ohio State Capital Area, Cincinnati, all over the place. Go see the cherry blossom.
02:12:40
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Close by to us. I think the Wade Lagoon looks awesome once it's blooming. Oh, yes, that's right. Wade Lagoon is is completely surrounded with cherry blossom trees yeah pretty much. At least it used to be. Yeah, that was a good place to take pictures.
02:12:53
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Hmm. Ideas. Except there's too many people. That's the hard part. You have to get there really early, but you' you're still dealing with, for photographs, people. If you're just going to go there. Don't go on a Saturday afternoon. If you're just going to go there and enjoy it, have fun.
02:13:09
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Don't go on a Saturday afternoon about between 10 and 4. Oh, yeah. Yeah, all the all the brides. All the brides. Just and limos everywhere, and there's just white dresses and sweating sweating tuxedos everywhere. Yeah.
02:13:24
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um But yeah, that's actually not a bad, I haven't tortured my kids with a photo shoot in a while. So maybe put that out. It's time. you is time. It's been a minute. ah So check it out. If you want, if it's something you want to do, take the, you know, and take the, take the girlfriend, take the wife, a nice little, nice little walk through the cherry blossoms. Check it out. Check the article.
02:13:42
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Give you some ideas. And that, as they say, wraps up the show, Tom. It's it's over already. And but it's not over until I check all these off. I want to check that one. Check that And the last one.
02:13:56
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02:14:10
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02:14:22
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