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Crooked River Cast Show 46
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- Ohio Dem AG candidate says vote for him and he will Kill Trump. CLIP
- SNAP changes start now. CLIP
- Who is Casey Putsch? CLIPS
- ICE official resigns to run for Ohio Senate seat. CLIP
- Maple Hts. Mayor Annette Blackwell launches Ohio Auditor campaign.
- Mount Orab Village Council signs NDA on “Mega Site”. CLIP
- What’s going to happen to all the dirty water from Data Canters.
- Lake County Sheriff on the hot seat because snow does not scare him. CLIP
- What’s the deal with school closings. CLIP
- Cleveland protests ICE on the ICE. CLIP
- Brooklyn City official fired after ICE comment.
Good Things:
- All downhill from here. When and when for winter fun.
- Ohio guy rides the Great Lakes on his bike.
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Transcript
Introduction and Hosts
00:00:12
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Crooked Rivercast. I'm Robert, joining me every week is Tom and we are two guys from North Seats, Ohio just trying to figure what the heck is going on in our state.
00:00:24
Speaker
This is show 46 recorded on January 31st, 2025. Another just flown right and we've got lots to discuss. Let's go.
00:00:40
Speaker
In the morning. In the morning. Morning, this morning. How
Local Favorites and Seasonal Brews
00:00:47
Speaker
is everything in your world? We don't, we haven't talked very much this week about current events, but we don't normally talk all that much during the anymore.
00:00:56
Speaker
The show's kind of taken that away from us, hasn't it? Yeah, got to save it. to save the reactions stuff. Exactly.
00:01:06
Speaker
The good news for this week is the best beer is currently out right now, in my opinion. Best Great Lakes beer. Which one's that?
00:01:18
Speaker
Conway's. Oh, oh, I didn't know that was seasonal. Yeah, it's their seasonal. It's their, uh, St. Patrick's Day seasonal, I think. Ah, okay. That makes sense. Yeah, good beer. It is probably my favorite beer out of ah everything they make. I mean, I'm a good, Dortmunder is always good.
00:01:34
Speaker
The, uh, one of my normal favorites is the Edmund Fitzgerald. Like that dark beer, that Porter's so good. But man, Conway's. So the wife and I had quite a few last night.
00:01:46
Speaker
Almost polished off the 12 pack for, and for us, that's a lot. That's, that's pretty good. i mean, what what are what are those at? Like seven? ah they're just over six, I think. Oh, okay. That's not too bad. Not too bad. But, uh, I was like, I should probably stop, you know, for the show.
00:02:02
Speaker
Yeah, of course. For the show. So yeah, that's, that's cow still a few more in there for tonight.
Elliott Forehand's Controversial Statements
00:02:09
Speaker
so I can't wait.
00:02:12
Speaker
So in the, in the grand, in the world of, of the news. Wow. It was quite a week, I think. I don't know. it felt like there was just so much. I didn't know where to start. And then, and then this, this guy pops an edge. Did you hear about our Ohio?
00:02:29
Speaker
He's the, he is the democratic nom. No, he's the democratic, he's a candidate for Ohio AG. Oh, he's trying to be one. He's not the democratic nomination or the candidate. He is just a candidate.
00:02:40
Speaker
Well, he's trying, he's trying to run in the primary. Cause he's going to lose his seat. And as a rep, he's a representative now. I thought he lost it already. Well, we should tell people who who this is.
00:02:52
Speaker
So this is, let me pull a story up. Read better from it. It is, didn't even put his name in there. Ah, yeah, I kind of want to. e Eric Forehand, no?
00:03:06
Speaker
Something like that. Yeah, sorry. I got audio coming in, so you can't hear that That's good thing. ah His name is Forehand. Yes, Foreskin was...
00:03:16
Speaker
Eric. Is it Eric? Yeah. Elliot. Elliot Forehand. Elliot Forehand. He's a Democratic candidate for Attorney General in Ohio. He's a Jew from ah from Euclid.
00:03:26
Speaker
South Euclid.
00:03:30
Speaker
Oh. I read an article and that's what it said. I was getting i was getting to that, but ah that was, yeah. So he yes, he is Jewish. And that is brought up in the clip that we're going to listen to, which I did have, I did point out, we'll question on, but forehand or like we effectually call him foreskin.
00:03:49
Speaker
he yeah He decided to come out and say if you, if elected as Ohio AG, he's going to kill President Donald Trump. ah And and then he had then he came out and clarified it, which just made it so much better. Here you go. Here's his ah here's just clarification.
00:04:05
Speaker
And actually, the coverage on this story is a bit suspect, which we could talk about. But this guy is clearly mentally ill. I could see it in his eyes. Maybe it's just a heavy case of TDS, which is bad enough. No, no, no. This is even more.
00:04:20
Speaker
But you can hear it in the opening. Just listen to how just listen listen to the very first word, can just hear it in there. Hi, this is Elliott Forehand, candidate for Ohio Attorney General.
00:04:32
Speaker
I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump. I mean, I'm going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence presented at a trial conducted in accordance with the requirements of due process resulting in a sentence duly executed of capital punishment process that is what i mean when i say that i'm going to kill donald trump
00:05:08
Speaker
Oh, well, thanks for clarifying. You really should still get a visit from the Secret Service, in my opinion. You would think, right? You would think, but I think he's trying to play the he's trying to be coy with it.
00:05:19
Speaker
He was trying to be clever. Trying to be clever. He's trying to, is he trying to mimic the guy from, is ah a is it somebody from Virginia or somebody that came out and said, yeah, you should, He was just elected in the last election and he came out said something like you should ah kill your opponents or something. No, no, no. He said he wished his opponent's kids were shot. Oh, that's right. Yeah, because of gun because Because that would teach him that we need gun laws. That's basically what he wanted to say. and the guy got elected.
00:05:48
Speaker
yeah Virginia is going to go downhill real quick, by the way. a lot i know i'm We don't talk about that, but no that's going to be a no it's good point because we're i'm planning vacations this
Vacation Plans and Political Climate Concerns
00:06:02
Speaker
summer. And one of the things we wanted to do was hit some of the...
00:06:05
Speaker
ah amusement parks so with the six flag merger with with um cedar fair now my season's pass is good for all parks so now we want to go let's go to king's island we were going to go to there anyway but now let's go to king's dominion which is like king's island's sister park it's in virginia and i'm second guessing it now i'm not sure i want to go to virginia because now i can't i can't bring my gun with me can i Right now you could, but you won't be able to In the summertime? Who knows?
00:06:34
Speaker
by the time you're By the time that happens, I don't think you will able I'm making, I don't know. we're I'm deciding on. Because we also think about going to Washington, D.C. where we're there, and which, again, I can't bring my gun.
00:06:46
Speaker
That would be kind of cool because of the 250th. 250th, yeah. Except we were thinking about going around 4th July. Not sure I want to be. um which i mean, it would be cool, but man, it's going be a Complete chaos. You know, yesterday they announced they're going to do a race there.
00:07:05
Speaker
Like what kind of race? ah Well, ah Penske's putting it on. Formula One or? I don't know if it's Formula. I think it's Formula. They're going to do it or around the mall. I've been doing that a lot. did Yeah, the asteroid they destroyed Vegas with that. So why not and at DC?
00:07:22
Speaker
ah Well, this guy is, but this guy has a pattern. i don't know if you read into him at all. oh Oh, I did a little bit. yeah I think this guy at this point, he he did start out with TDS, but I think at this point he's, well, he's deranged because first of all, when he got kicked off, I think it's for abusive language to his, I don't you know, his staff. stan somebody on somebodys staff so I mean, the guy had to be escorted around the courthouse basically, right? Yeah.
00:07:57
Speaker
Yes. So here's the, here's the report from almost two years ago, I think when all this came down, uh, he got censured basically. I don't know if that's what they call it in the state house, but according to this, um, he got taken off all his committees.
00:08:12
Speaker
Yeah. By the Democrats. Yeah, by the Senate. By the Senate but by the side of Democrats. By or by the minority minority. Oh my gosh, I can't say it. Minority leaders. Yeah. That's a tough one on 8 o'clock. and Yeah. saturday What day is it? I don't even know what time it is. Holy shit. Let's listen to the clip.
00:08:30
Speaker
An Ohio State lawmaker from South Euclid has been removed from his committees and banned from contacting staff. It comes after an alleged pattern of abusive behavior. Democrat Representative Elliott Forehand is being accused of aggressive and vulgar and allegedly showing up and invited to a female lawmaker's home after failing to reach her by phone. Forehand, who is Jewish, also allegedly spread misinformation about the Israel and Hamas war on social media.
00:08:58
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I was going to bring up. All right, so not sure. If he was Palestinian, quote unquote, Palestinian, would you be saying the same thing? Would you be saying he was spreading misinformation or would you just not say anything about it? Because yeah that's the way I brought up. Oh, wait, I'm not sure. Okay.
00:09:16
Speaker
If he had one of those like white with blue or black checkered things around his neck, would you be saying that about his misinformation? I don't think so. Anyways, what where I was going at was, ah I think, ah yeah, no, I mean, you're right. Because of one.
00:09:33
Speaker
But I was going to say that I think this guy started out as just somebody that's kind of got some mental issues, obviously. ah TDS is on top of that. And now I think he's just looking for a dopamine hit.
00:09:49
Speaker
You know, I think he gets excitement out of saying, because he he did say F Charlie Kirk, you know, after the shooting, ah he posted that. So I think he loves the attention in ah in a bizarre way. Well, and then he's running for office, so bonus.
00:10:05
Speaker
guess you had he He won't even make it on the ballot. and i'm I'm sure he won't. Is he... I'm trying to see. is he Is he... I think he's... Because he's suing...
SNAP Benefits Media Coverage
00:10:18
Speaker
he's suing the state legislature for taking him off all his committees. I'm trying to make, see if he's still a representative. I can't determine that, but I thought it was quite fitting along with the, he's a Jew and he's spreading misinformation.
00:10:37
Speaker
I thought I saw this kind of a pattern here with this current Fox news article, because the quotes are, So they're quoting they're quoting some people who reacted to his posts, his video on X. apps So here's the quote.
00:10:53
Speaker
Quote, absolute psychopath, a.k.a. modern Democrat, unquote. Conservative commentator Dave Rubin posted on X. Next quote. Democrat candidate, quote, Democrat candidate for Ohio AG who said he's going to kill President Donald Trump.
00:11:08
Speaker
Also posted this when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, end quote. Conservative influencer Libs of TikToks posted on X. He's an evil, deranged psychopath, unquote.
00:11:19
Speaker
Next quote. can you Can you guess how it ends? even to tell you how it starts, but yet it ends with, conservative commentator Robbie Starkbuck posted on X. How come there's never any progressive or liberal commentators? No, you can't. This is Fox News, so.
00:11:37
Speaker
hey Yeah, no. They're as bad as anybody else. Fox News is about as Democrat as you can get. Yeah. with With a little bit of a normalcy. Well, they could put some Republican makeup and lipstick on and that's about it.
00:11:52
Speaker
In the show notes, I'm putting a, you could click on it. I'm going to put it there right now. His Facebook ah profile. Okay. So people can check it out, but ah his, his, uh,
00:12:09
Speaker
He had a post on January 29th that said, ah urgent help gather them signatures to get my name on the Ohio ballot. Deadline is Tuesday.
00:12:20
Speaker
And there's a link to the petition form. And all you got is people laughing. Like commenting, just some awful comments. I mean, this guy's got no chance to. No, no, he had no chance. I mean, the Democrats weren't going to not, they were stripped him of all his committees because he's a,
00:12:37
Speaker
Oh, wait, i hold on. I could use my new. ah You know why? Because he's a You are douchebag. yeah why He's more than that, though. Why not use a douchebag to point out the douchebags?
00:12:52
Speaker
You know who that is, right? ah No. You are douchebag. No. Oh, yeah, I wouldn't know that.
00:13:04
Speaker
Yeah. by By the way, quite he's a frequent, frequent guest on Howard Stern show. So you do know who he is. He's Asian and he's a douchebag. Oh, is that him? Oh, that's okay. That's why said Star Trek. I figured maybe.
00:13:18
Speaker
So Dave Yost posts. Look that. I'm a poet. Didn't even know it. Dave Yost posts. I wish I could ignore this. He states, number one, the AG does not have authority to indict unless invited by someone who does.
00:13:34
Speaker
Number two, the president has immunity for acts taken in office. Number three, there is no legal theory to support a capital indictment, even assuming facts, whereas this man wishes.
00:13:49
Speaker
One of two, he says. Then he comes out and says, um this is an ex post facto relate rationalization for his earlier comment about killing the president.
00:14:02
Speaker
So he's basically coming out and saying like, you he's just covering his ass and, and it's, okay. So it's number five, utterly shocking and designed to be so his ignorance of law and disgrace, disgraceful vitriol make him utterly unfit for any office.
00:14:18
Speaker
And he copied Sharon Brown and Amy Acton. Should denounce him. And they did, to be fair. Sherrod Brown, I don't think, did. I didn't see anything. I thought Sharon Brown did. I i know Acton did. i thought Acton did, yes. I didn't see anything from Sherrod Brown, but it probably. I mean, how he should. I mean, he's dumb if he does it. Well, I mean, Sherrod Brown. so By the way, this guy is former state rep.
00:14:42
Speaker
Okay, good. That's what i was hoping I'd hear. I was hoping I'd hear that. um He is a lawyer. See how he he was trying to be clever with his language. This guy's just retarded.
00:14:54
Speaker
looks like he went, oh, crap. What did i just do? but Yeah, I don't think he can think past. he he He might not even be able to play checkers.
00:15:05
Speaker
it's a I mean, it's a low bar, but it is a bar. Mm hmm. All right. Well, we'll keep it out.
Elliott Forehand's Background and Challenges
00:15:12
Speaker
You know, that was kind of kind of boiled to the surface. And I i kind of was, what kind of drew me to this story was the lack of stories.
00:15:21
Speaker
When I looked this up and I typed in his name into Google and then clicked on news, there was there is no articles, at least as of Friday morning, there were no articles or videos or anything from any of the major news sources in Ohio that I could find, but definitely not from anybody in his district. There's nobody from like kind of the Northeast Ohio area, like, you know, channel three, channel eight, those kinds of places up here that, that even covered it.
00:15:54
Speaker
Now, I mean, he's, he is a defunct Congress person representative, whatever, but he, I mean,
00:16:03
Speaker
I can only imagine only imagine if somebody like Matt Gates would come out and say something similar to this, a defunct congressperson now with a show, what what would the coverage be?
00:16:15
Speaker
It'd be slightly different, of course. Of course it would. So that was kind of why I was like, I started looking it up and I'm like, where's the stories at? yes There was like two, one of them was Dayton and some of some other, maybe one in Cincinnati or something like that. And the rest of them were national stories, national Fox News or couple other ones that were, you know,
00:16:36
Speaker
Not local. They're like, shh, we don't want to cover this guy. It's too crazy. Yeah, Morgan Trout, where are you? Yeah, we're, hey, Morgan, where are you?
00:16:47
Speaker
Oh, she's coming up. She's coming up. on her um Yeah, where is she on this, though? Yeah, of course. course. No, well, that's because we've started to discover. It's kind of a twat.
00:17:01
Speaker
Yeah. Moving on. Unless you got something else you want to bring up about this douche. No, no. Coming up as of Monday when the show comes out, we've got, we've got some changes coming, Tom, some changes coming to snap.
00:17:20
Speaker
And those changes are, have you, uh, there it is. My story isn't fun. So snap is going to, as of the 1st of February, snap is going to start requiring People to work.
00:17:36
Speaker
Now, this sounds pretty bad. I mean, it sounds horrible for some people. I mean, you think, you know, they're they're on they're on welfare, they're on Snap, and how bad is it going to be? How bad is going to get?
00:17:49
Speaker
Well, let's just start with the beginning of this clip. So here's how Channel 5, News 5, opens up their report on Snap Cuts.
00:18:02
Speaker
Doom and gloom.
00:18:05
Speaker
It will make it more difficult for individuals to either receive benefits or continue to receive benefits. It's very likely that some people will lose access to SNAP. We're looking at potentially the biggest cut in SNAP in the in the food stamp program's 60-year history. reporter For months, we've been telling you about the new work requirements to receive food benefits.
00:18:26
Speaker
Now those new rules are less than two weeks away. do Less than two weeks away. Oh my gosh. Well, there's some good news. These could be potentially the biggest cuts in 60 years, Tom. i was soed I was like, yes, finally some cuts are going to happen.
00:18:48
Speaker
Well, um... can you Can you look up for me while we play the rest of this clip? what What are the expected, what do you think the expected, what does Google say the expected effect in Ohio is on these cuts?
00:19:06
Speaker
Because from what I'm hearing in this next the rest of this clip, man, it's going to get really bad, Tom. In Collinwood, the pantry manager worries about barriers like transportation for people seeking jobs. She's bracing for a spike in demand, saying that's happened after other SNAP changes. and then all of a sudden, all of the existing SNAP benefits, they rolled over from month to month once those were used up.
00:19:31
Speaker
Then we saw the increase. The county says less than 3% of SNAP recipients will see a change, but it expects more people will be affected. The administrative burden is there for that 5,000, but a lot of people are going to get caught up in the longer wait times.
00:19:46
Speaker
And the more ah the more residents are coming to our lobbies to talk to us. 3%? 3%?
00:19:54
Speaker
three three percent
00:19:58
Speaker
three three percent might lose SNAP benefits. 3%. That's what we're talking about.
00:20:10
Speaker
They're freaking out over, doomed oh my gosh, it starts Monday, doom and gloom, oh my gosh. 3%. Here's a good another stat for you. 77% of people on SNAP are already working. 191,000 people in County.
00:20:30
Speaker
They sent 5,100 letters out. Out of 191,000 people, they sent 5,100 letters out. How does that scale for the rest of the state? Is it going to be similar?
00:20:43
Speaker
They're all getting raises too. They're getting more money, but they're putting more requirements in, right? Right.
00:20:51
Speaker
So, why are we talking about this? It's a headline, Rob. What? Why talking about 3% might?
00:21:04
Speaker
We must scare the voters into voting for the Democrats. The evil Trump administration who wants to take people who can work and require them to work before they get a free check from the government. I um mean, and it's so bad it's going to be 3%. The other hidden, there's a little hidden thing in that clip. i don't know if you noticed it because I probably talked over it.
00:21:27
Speaker
But the woman says, yeah, well, we've seen this before because what happens is when the SNAP benefits run out, you know, they roll over to the next month.
00:21:39
Speaker
When those run out, then we see them at the, at the pantries, food pantries. Right. So you're getting more than you can use in a month and it rolls over.
00:21:51
Speaker
And then if it it happens enough, because we've asked, how how do you get $10,000? You see some of the receipts where it gives you their balance on your EBT card and you're like $10,000. How do you get $10,000? Well, if you're somehow scamming the system and it's rolling over every month. So she was basically saying they they have a like a surplus.
00:22:11
Speaker
And then when the surplus runs out, that's generally when the uptick happens at the,
00:22:19
Speaker
hey Let that sink in for a second, folks, because
00:22:25
Speaker
these enormously obese women that are complaining on the internet about getting in their snap cuts aren't even able to eat everything they're given. Wow, that was a visual I just had.
00:22:37
Speaker
But they're so they're they're as as fat as they are. They they have surplus. a lot of them do. that was a little, it's a disease, Rob.
00:22:49
Speaker
It is. It is a disease. it's called, ah called progressivism. which see I know it's not, we've talked, talking more about the Oprah disease where it's, it's not, it's not your fault that you're fat. Yeah.
00:23:00
Speaker
Everybody else's fault.
00:23:04
Speaker
She can't help. She's putting everything in her mouth. Whoa. Hey, geez. Family friendly show, Tom. Oh, you took it there. I didn't take it there. I know you were.
00:23:16
Speaker
That's what she said. I don't know. I think there's a whole lot to do about nothing and we're just trying to scare the crap out of people.
00:23:26
Speaker
And just watch the clip because they've got, there's just so much good stuff in there. Oh, port poor, old poor old lady. It's going to be hard. going to have to go, she's going to have work harder or get a job or like that. Like, you know, I get it, but sorry.
00:23:45
Speaker
Am I just a horrible human being? Yes. Okay, good. I feel good about it. Sometimes i was watching, oh the my new man crush.
00:23:56
Speaker
My new man crush. Andrew Wilson. He was good on Rogan. Just on Rogan. And then I saw his live stream last night, part of it, where he talked about being on Rogan.
00:24:08
Speaker
And, you know, if you if you get enough donations, he'll tell the story. So he kind of told a story behind it. He's like, I can't believe. He goes, after the after the show, I went to the comedy club that he has, the Mothership, saw all the sets, and then for three or four hours hung out with Ron White, Joe Rogan,
00:24:31
Speaker
Oh, somebody else. I can't remember his name, a YouTuber something like that. I can't remember his name now. And he's like, like the most down there. He said, goes, all i'm going to say is Joe Rogan is way more based than you guys even know.
00:24:47
Speaker
I'm not going to say anything else but that. Well, sorry. All that to be said is he, ah he said on the show, if if you remember, if you want, did you watch it? Oh, I listened to it. yeah You know, not a, not a hundred percent in.
00:24:59
Speaker
He said the difference between kind and nice. He's like, sometimes being nice is not very kind. Right, right, right. And sometimes not being nice is very kind.
00:25:12
Speaker
Mm-hmm. That's where I'm at with it. That's where I'm at it. It's kind of tough love, right? Yeah, tough love. Hey, ah maybe if we cut your SNAP benefits, you'll lose 300 pounds and you'll be healthy and you could be a you know productive member of society.
00:25:27
Speaker
Take the nose ring out, stop dyeing your hair, get a job. He had an interesting backstory. People should check out that ah ah episode of Rogan and Andrew Wilson.
00:25:40
Speaker
Yes. that his name well Andrew Wilson. Yeah. Crucible is his YouTube channel. Right. Crucible. He's very good at debate. He's gotten his kind of cut his chops on the whatever show, whatever podcast, I think it's called.
00:25:54
Speaker
And where the he, he just debates feminists and he's only fans and all this other stuff. Right. Yeah. He's, he's, I mean, he's, he's just,
00:26:06
Speaker
He's really smart. Very smart. Like he's, ah ah he articulates beautifully. I mean, he's, he's really good at, uh, driving the point in. Oh yeah.
00:26:17
Speaker
but Very logically taking any of the motion out all while he's chain smokes. Very old school. He was very happy that he was allowed to smoke in the, uh, in the interview.
00:26:31
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Anywho, and I guess good segue onto somebody else who, oh, wait, wait, see, went back to my list. Let us know if you saw the interview with Andrew Wilson or it tell us what you think.
00:26:47
Speaker
Check it out. Tell us what you think. Let us know. where Where we could be better, give us some feedback, send us your stories. You got things in your area that we're missing out on or you think should be brought up, brought to people's attention. That's the whole point of the show.
Listener Engagement and Feedback
00:27:00
Speaker
Send us, send us a, send us an email, crookedrivercast at gmail.com. Check out the website, crookedrivercast.com. Every Monday when the show drops, so does the blog post with all of our links and lot of our clips and original where we got all these clips from and You can check the articles go articles out and tell us where we're wrong. If you'd like, send us an email.
00:27:21
Speaker
If you're feeling up to it, you can always, you know, try to find me. love cookka um Send me a message. If you find me and you follow me, send me a message. Let me know. And on to the next we have, speaking of somebody who didn't expect to be here,
00:27:42
Speaker
we we we have to talk about Casey Pooch. Casey Pooch, we had this these couple stories on from last week i just and just had way too much on the on the plate. Pushed them over this week.
00:27:55
Speaker
And I figured we'd do a little bit of a deep dive on a couple of these candidates that just announced one of them for, for start to top for governor Casey pooch, pooch. that That's how you pronounce it. think they say pooch. Yeah. Pooch.
00:28:07
Speaker
He, uh, he's, he's come up on the scene. He's a YouTuber. He's got a couple hundred thousand subscribers, mainly a car channel, uh, kind of a cars channel. That's what it started out as. Yeah.
00:28:18
Speaker
Yeah. You would say, who is Casey Pooch? I'm looking at him. He's, he, as far as from from him, this is from him. He's an inventor. He's an ah entrepreneur. He's an educator. ah Father, you know, he's got a couple of kids. got one on the way.
00:28:33
Speaker
And i figure we talk, I'm not not not a huge fan of his delivery. We talked about this a few weeks few shows ago when he, when listeners sent us his ah and information and i was like, oh, that guy, I've seen that guy.
00:28:46
Speaker
Actually, last time I went to first introduce him when he was, i think, busting on Trump and MAGA for being robots, you know, cult or something like that.
00:28:57
Speaker
So I'm not necessarily a fan of his delivery, but I had a similar problem with another citizen who ran for office. I was kind of wrong about him. So I figured I'll live and learn. I'll give him, give him a shot, listen to him.
00:29:09
Speaker
And then I see this, he posts on X and then he actually posts on YouTube the full speech. He was at the, think the, yeah, Delaware County GOP had a little,
00:29:27
Speaker
little speech and in a little bit different side of case of Casey. And I think we'll go, so I'm just trying to see. So he has some good points we've talked about.
00:29:39
Speaker
Would you say so?
00:29:43
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As far as policies? What you've heard, what have you heard from him? any Anything that you've? Yeah, I have. Well, i mean sometimes he strikes me as a leftist.
00:29:55
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tell you the truth, but I mean, as far as his policies go, uh, they look pretty good. i don't, I don't know. I don't, I don't, I don't think he's a lefty as much as i think he's, I think he's more left than he lets on.
00:30:14
Speaker
think his, when I saw him ranting was about Epstein files and lack of transparency. wonder if he's happy now. Well, maybe ah A lot of people are kind of upset about what's going on. Where are the indictments? Yeah, but what about now? they just Didn't they just release everything?
00:30:31
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. I haven't heard it. Obviously, it's been a couple of days or so. Right. a Fair question. There's a lot of people that are are kind of questioning. I'm questioning it, too.
00:30:42
Speaker
Maybe not as hard as some people. I'm questioning it by going, I kind of understand why we haven't had anything yet. Because the swamp is pretty freaking deep. And it takes a while. And that's one of my, that's my black pill moment is I get it. I mean, Trump's doing, I think he I like a lot of what he's doing, but I'm not sure it's enough.
00:31:00
Speaker
and Four years, one guy, you know, so you start looking at lot of lot of them are just going to wait there by their time until he's gone and then keep doing what they're doing. So there's, there's a lot of stuff to get through.
00:31:12
Speaker
lot of red tape. So I give him a pass, but some don't. I think this guy has some good policies and stuff. I just, I think he'd be the guy who'd get in there and then realize, oh crap, I can't really do any of this stuff I wanted to.
00:31:28
Speaker
It's happening in New York here now too. with with what's his name yeah yeah Maserati Mandami whatever but let's hear a little bit from Casey let me know make sure this is uh as you can hear this because it's it's echoey and stuff I try to push it up a little bit but I probably should figure out how to oh you're gonna play some of his speech yeah oh Jesus I'm going to nap.
00:31:52
Speaker
Well, that see, the and that's why i want I want to play it because what I've heard from, this was a change for me. And I've said, Hey, maybe you shouldn't be such an arrogant, you sound like an arrogant prick.
00:32:04
Speaker
Every time I hear you. Well, he walked in, he's even says this in his video. He walked in and heard the other people speaking. who were rah-rah speaking 100 miles a minute. And he looked at the crowd and it was whole lot of older people.
00:32:18
Speaker
I could see it from the video. There weren't too many people either. there weren't too many people. And he just he just toned it down. And here's kind of some of what he brought up. And let's go over some this. So running for government. What pushed me there? Well, my soul was on fire because I was observing what was going on.
00:32:41
Speaker
Now I'm not going to refer to about my name because I don't really feel like slinging mud.
00:32:47
Speaker
But we have somebody currently running for governor who did not go to his higher school in Ohio. He went Harvard and Yale and had a college scholarship paid for by George Soros money.
00:32:59
Speaker
He has no businesses in Ohio. Despite his massive wealth of over somewhere like $2 billion, he has done no philanthropy.
00:33:14
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He got a tweet from our president after he seemingly left a very important money-saving thing for America under strange circumstances he'd be a swell guy for a honor. He doesn't like Vivek.
00:33:26
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But the year before president said that his campaign was deceitful.
00:33:32
Speaker
I find that heartbreaking. I find that heartbreaking of all the work that I've ever done to try to better the future with the support that a billionaire can buy their way use American taxpayer donate money to buy their way in.
00:33:49
Speaker
It seemingly is here to facilitate things like data centers for billionaire bugs that have massive tax evadance that get slipped in under the cover of night with NDA forms that people pay for through spiked electricity prices, subsidizing the cost.
00:34:06
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It uses massive quantities of fresh water or aquifers like Erie to higher River Valley for cooling. their net loss to Ohio.
00:34:16
Speaker
H1B pieces, a federal thing, yes, but facilitating them. After spending over for a decade helping the best and brightest young people, and some politicians and leaders say we don't have right enough people here, we have to replace them with cheap Indian labor. 70% of H1Bs are from India, largely the rest are Chinese.
00:34:38
Speaker
No.
00:34:41
Speaker
So, Is Will Vick really from Ohio?
00:34:48
Speaker
yeah He actually did live here, right? I think he grew up in Cincinnati. He didn't care what Cincinnati. Does he live here now? I mean, are these do these are some of his points, which I can say that's not a bad point to bring up.
00:34:59
Speaker
Why are you, why Ohio?
00:35:07
Speaker
Did you really get money from the Soros Foundation for college? Yeah, but who wouldn't take that? i That's what I, you know, it's it's disingenuous to say that. 15 years ago, 20 years ago, would you know anything about him?
00:35:20
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Like if i if it was now, if you ask me that now and someone's like, here's some college tuition, it's from George Soros, I'd be like, no thanks. If it was my kid, I'd be like, no, that's fine. It's not from George Soros. It was from his family, his brother or sister-in-law, something like that.
00:35:38
Speaker
that they A foundation that 20 years ago how long ago was that? I don't know. How old is, I'm not sure how old. It was 15 years ago at least. Yeah.
00:35:50
Speaker
You know. um And and to to send my, be able to send my kid to an Ivy League school? yeah Yeah, he's taking that money. i don't care who is it who it's from.
00:36:02
Speaker
Are they buying him? i don't think so. i think he got it because he was Indian. So, I mean, if you want to if you want to brag on something, they're, you know, Obama dot. might be the thing to rag on.
00:36:16
Speaker
Right. I think, uh, I, I think Ohio is important. And like he brings up the data center thing. That's kind of my biggest problem is i think with Vivek, there's going to be more of those.
00:36:31
Speaker
I think he, he's going to be a big proponent of it. No, I'm not sticking up for Vivek. I mean, i know yeah I just, I guess where I'm getting at, this guy has no chance of winning.
00:36:44
Speaker
Most likely, no. Most likely. Chance isn't zero, but it's pretty close zero. I mean, Pretty close to zero. I guess trying trying to,
00:36:57
Speaker
you know, ah derail Vivek and let Amy Acton in... is worse than Vivek becoming governor. Yeah. And there's, there's the, there's the biggest point is what this is going to end up doing at this point. It's probably not going to do anything, but if it grows to a point where he gets three or 4%, he could spoil the election for, and what, then what do you want do? He can, he would have to win the primary.
00:37:24
Speaker
Like, he's not going to run against Vivek. i mean, he's just trying to primary him. Because there is there has to be a primary. Yeah. You know? And, yeah, okay, so if he gets 3% of that, I mean, big deal. No, I mean, is he runs independent?
00:37:38
Speaker
He won't run independent. independent Maybe not, but that is a concern. Yeah. I still don't think 3% would ruin Vivek's chances. i You know, you'd have to get into the 6%, 7%, think.
00:37:54
Speaker
Hopefully, hopefully, he's hopefully he's not winning aim against Amy Acton at 2%. You know, the the thing is he could do, he could do really well in, in the primary, but when it, when it comes down to it, conservatives usually don't, I'm going to say they're not going to pick whoever they think is going to win, not who would they would rather have.
00:38:18
Speaker
I don't know if I said that right. yeah i they they're going to They're going to pick the one that they they're not going to pick the one that they know is going to lose. if they If they don't think KC has a ah a chance, they're not going to vote for him. they'd vote They'll vote for Vivek but yeah just to not give Amy a chance. Yeah, just there's always a chance of the... ah big ears guy named Ross Perot effect.
00:38:44
Speaker
If he were to run it and you know, yeah there's a, it's, it's a, again, not very ah likely. Do you want to hear what happens when he got in interviewed by Morgan? Yeah, go ahead.
00:38:55
Speaker
Cause he kind of got a little taste of the limelight
Controversial Statements in Politics
00:38:59
Speaker
here. It's like, this is one of the reasons it's so, this is one of the reasons why people don't run. um I think this guy is the type of guy we would like to see run.
00:39:09
Speaker
I'm not sure if going for governor straight away is the great strategy. I think you can start lower and work your way up. That way get you get, you know, get some background and stuff like that, but it's worked in the past.
00:39:21
Speaker
Donald Trump, but he's not Trump. That's a, yeah. But I think nominally this is what, I think this is who we asked. they Like we want people to run. People don't run because of things like this.
00:39:35
Speaker
The political newcomer didn't plan to run, but says he's frustrated with the party, one that endorsed Ramaswamy last spring. Vivek's interests are not that of Ohio. They do seem to be globalists. They seem to be only in the interest of billionaires to sell us out. Ramaswamy and his team declined to comment, but Puch's campaign has gained some attention from right-wing influencers over the past few months. especially with his growing YouTube channel, where he questioned artificial intelligence to his 350,000 followers in a provocative way.
00:40:06
Speaker
Give me a list of all the good things Adolf Hitler did or was responsible for creating in his life. After the AI answers that anything Hitler did was overwhelmingly defined by the Holocaust, Putsch criticizes the tool.
00:40:19
Speaker
I expect objective truth. He later adds that anyone who says Hitler had no good ideas is wrong. When I asked what he meant by this in our interview, Putsch said that he wasn't doing this to endorse Hitler or any beliefs, but rather to show how AI is programmed to manipulate. Did Germany commit absolute atrocities against a vast amount of people? Yeah, they did.
00:40:43
Speaker
ah And frankly, so did many others. I did those ah those thought experiments only to pick at AI so that I could show where it's frankly taking advantage and programming all of us. Is it programming all of us when you ask what Hitler's best qualities were and it brings up the atrocities of the Holocaust? She thinks she's so smart. It doesn't always do things like that. It has to do with finding and using those as techniques to find where AI is taking advantage of all of us in every way, shape and form. It's just a hyperbolic way to do it. Ramaswamy has not engaged directly with Putsch, but in an op-ed, he did say that there was no room in the conservative movement for people who thought Hitler was cool. At the Ohio State House, I'm Morgan Trout reporting.
00:41:27
Speaker
And that makes Vivek like, yeah, about as nerdy as you can get. As petty as you can get. Yeah. To his point, if anyone's driven on the freeway system in Ohio or in Ohio, in America, you could thank Adolf Hitler.
00:41:43
Speaker
Yep. Now it was, was his, was he the one who designed it? No, but he's the one who implemented it. He's the one who made it go through. And it wasn't cause he was a nice guy. It's cause he wanted it. He wanted his military to be easily moved through the country.
00:41:57
Speaker
And funnily enough, that's why America did it too. So I get it. Adolf Hitler was definitely a bad dude, but that doesn't mean, i think that was his point. Like, lets show me, lee how objective are you going to be? Show me the good things that happened in Germany in 1940. And the AI is going to say nothing.
00:42:20
Speaker
Yeah, but who wrote about that? It's just scouring the internet. me, sounds like the point. You're going get for me to me that sounds like the point it's it's you're gonna get You're only going to get from AI what is basically on the internet. or you know But it's not trying to program you. That's what I'm saying. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:40
Speaker
It's just doing what it does. And if you're too stupid to realize that, then, okay, you're going to get programmed. I mean, just look at every liberal woman out there. Well, and and you know, that and that in lies the problem, I think.
00:42:51
Speaker
It's not the technology. that's it's It's like ah driving aids. Like, I like the blind spot monitoring on my truck. But I do understand how it makes people lazy and then nobody looks in the mirror anymore. And then they get try getting in a car that doesn't have it. Yeah.
00:43:06
Speaker
Right. yeah So I get it. The technology is, is that AI is good for a lot of things or machine learning, whatever we call it. And, but if you don't check it,
00:43:18
Speaker
at least every once in a while when you're an idiot because it's wrong all the time. Yeah. All the time it's wrong because it's pulling wrong information. We're making these judgments that aren't, you know, so I think, uh, unfortunately when you put videos on the internet or podcasts, they don't go anywhere.
00:43:40
Speaker
Sometimes they come back and you got to explain what you're saying. And when you have a dishonest media, Like, ah oh, and maybe we should, maybe like, that didn't work.
00:43:52
Speaker
Oh, didn't work. Okay, never mind. On to the next. We have the next of candidate, new candidate, is, what's her name now? Where where did I put it? Oh, so horrible at this part.
00:44:08
Speaker
Madison Sheehan. Madison Sheehan. Who's Madison Sheehan? Well, she is the deputy director of ICE, who had just resigned to run for office. Where? Toledo area.
00:44:23
Speaker
The same area that we talked about last week that rejected federal funding for Border Patrol. She's young, too. She's young. is 28. She's 28.
00:44:38
Speaker
She looks like she can kick my ass. um Yeah. So, that's you know how you talk about, generally speaking, there are certain things that men are better at than women.
00:44:50
Speaker
So men, if you look on the oil platform, let's say, mostly men, these broad brushes. Yeah. There are certain women that probably could handle themselves on Oralik.
00:45:02
Speaker
I think she's one of them. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I don't know. I'm obviously being facetious. I mean, she i don't I don't think so. But but ah she's just ah she's a farm girl. Yeah, it looks like it.
00:45:13
Speaker
She could kick my butt probably. I don't think that. But yeah, she's she's tough. She's a tough chick. She's got training. She's ice. Oh, wait, but they're not trained. Sorry. Never mind. Forget it.
00:45:25
Speaker
We're told. And so she's resigning from, she's been there about a year. So she's number two behind Kristi Noem as deputy director at 28 years old.
00:45:37
Speaker
And really what annoys me about her is she's 28 years old and she's number two at ICE. But before them, she was the ah former secretary of wildlife and fishery.
00:45:50
Speaker
And she's 28. I feel like such a loser. She's definitely an overachiever. So she's going to so Lucas County. Remember last week we talked about Lucas County. They turned down 70,000. Yeah.
00:46:03
Speaker
for For the border, right? Yeah. Yeah. For the border because ice is mean. we should put all of our, everybody else at higher risk because they're mean. And she's going after Marcy Klepter's seat.
00:46:19
Speaker
Let's listen to this. Let's listen a little bit from her campaign ad. and Again, it's a campaign ad, so take it from what you will and i'll stop it whenever you want. But there's a couple. She goes right at it right from the start.
00:46:30
Speaker
In less than one year at ICE, I've stopped more illegal immigration than Marcy Kaptur has in her 43 years in Washington. forty three I'm Madison Sheehan. In Congress, hypocrisy, excuses, and failure can earn you a lifetime job. But on my family farm, that would put us out of business.
00:46:49
Speaker
Working those cold, dark mornings growing up, it taught me some simple truths. Be tough, get the job done, and make no excuses. I carry that same attitude to ICE.
00:47:00
Speaker
So when the call came to help President Trump clean up the dangerous immigration mess, as deputy director of ICE, I answered the call. We will not stop until our American families and everyday Americans are safe. In just one year, we've made history, recruiting over 12,000 new ICE officers and agents and deporting over 2.5 million illegal aliens.
00:47:24
Speaker
Ohio neighborhoods are safer thanks to President Trump and ICE. i think we got I think we get the picture here.
00:47:33
Speaker
So what, you know, she's designing his ice. Sounds like she did a good job there. Sounds like somebody fits right in who will Hopefully they replaced her with somebody else. it' It's just as good.
00:47:44
Speaker
hate to lose her at ice at this point. But she is going after Marcy in 43 years. And I think the biggest reason is Marcy barely, she squeaked by. She had a messy primary last election and she barely squeaked by And I don't think Sheehan is going to be the only one running. There's a couple of people in that running for that. They can smell blood in the water.
00:48:14
Speaker
Yeah, I think the Republicans are going to put some money behind that area.
00:48:21
Speaker
Unless McConnell's running it, then he'll he'll ignore it. up Yeah. Is he going to be out by that time or not? Is he out? I don't think so. if he If he is out, he would be out at the select. Oh, no, I don't know.
00:48:32
Speaker
That's good point. Yeah, because he's the one who doles out the money. Yeah, he's the one who. He really screwed up a lot of things and in the last, ah ah what was it?
00:48:45
Speaker
2022. The midterms in 2022. Yeah. Yeah. Conveniently just forgot to fund Arizona. Yeah. Or a couple major, ah major. Arizona and Alaska too. Yep.
00:48:59
Speaker
there There was a couple of things that he didn't fund that it it was like ridiculous. Yeah. It's that, Hey, you take it this year. We'll get it next year. a I think that's what I always feel it is. Because ah ah they just didn't, they didn't like the couple of kids. So Arizona particular me because of my, my father lives there. So he was going back and forth with it during that time and just pissed off.
00:49:18
Speaker
And like I said to him many times, you're trusting the Republican party and they suck worse than the Democrats because at least Democrats stab you in the face. Republicans stab you in the back. So Sheehan is 28, a native of tiny Sir Tice.
00:49:36
Speaker
I don't, how do you, I should have taken English class. curt Curtis. Curtis. curti Yeah, I would say Curtis. it's It's spelled like Kurtice. Kurtice. That is Curtis. Yeah, that's probably right. Is near to the shores of Lake Erie.
00:49:48
Speaker
And she's labeled herself a Trump conservative.
00:49:54
Speaker
And, uh, and she's getting, you know, she's getting pushed back cause she hasn't lived here in a while, but I mean, she's, she's kind of, she's kind of been up becoming a, not to give her too my camera gave her too much credit, but how do you become a public servant if you don't move out of your, how do you, how do you work in Washington from Toledo?
00:50:09
Speaker
You kind of can't. Uh, I think right now she's like stationed in Louisiana or something, is it? Oh, she served as Secretary of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fishery as Noam's aide when she was governor of South Dakota and fisheries and as Noam's aide when she was.
00:50:26
Speaker
So she's been working her way up. She looks like she's had ah this planned for a little while. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. and Yeah. Like you said, there's blood in the water. So, you know. Now's the time. Marcy's 79.
00:50:40
Speaker
forty i was like eight when she got in office. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was 1983. I don't see any problems there. No, no, nothing. Nothing. There's definitely, as, as Leslie would say,
00:51:03
Speaker
And we'll hit this last one. Here's against go down, going down the line with some new ones. Where are we at here? Yeah. So Anita Blackwell, Maple Heights mayor, the last 10 years has put her hat in the ring for the attorney general.
00:51:21
Speaker
No auditor. and i say Yeah. Auditor or a Ohio auditor. So she's Maple Heights mayor since 2016 and
00:51:31
Speaker
And apparently she was, she was commended for pulling the city out of a major financial mess. They were in state, they were in like some emergency status. And within five years she pulled them out and now they're praising her. So she should be our state auditor. She would be a a Democrat.
00:51:52
Speaker
Yeah, she's not going to get it. No, probably not because it's, you know, very, very red state. I think she's going up against LaRose who's yeah going up for re-election. so probably nothing for her to really get any traction.
00:52:05
Speaker
It looks like she did a good job though there. Surprisingly. i I did see that. i was like, oh, well, she pulled them out of financial mess. So i I originally went in looking for how much COVID money did they use?
00:52:20
Speaker
but good Good point. i I pleasantly was surprised by learning that all most they got pulled out of emergency status, whatever it's called. Before that, right? Before COVID. So then how did they...
00:52:33
Speaker
get out of this mess. According to the county ah state auditors website, basically, well, I can gather, they did it in the classic democratic way, Democrat way, not democratic way, the classic democratic way. They raised taxes.
00:52:49
Speaker
They sold some assets. They decided to go after people who weren't paying their taxes. They increased revenue by, with more building permits, which are taxes. um They didn't do any cuts.
00:53:01
Speaker
according to the state auditor or anything. Really? No cuts, no austerity. They just increased funds. they're They just increased taxes. They, um they opened up some development in some of the areas, like they re zoned it for redevelopment, which increased.
00:53:16
Speaker
So people started doing things to the city, which is good, but they're using it as a revenue source because it increased permits. So they got like an extra one hundred thousand dollars one year from permits from this opening ups.
00:53:27
Speaker
The permits are just my opinion tax, but.
00:53:31
Speaker
Yeah. So classic Democrat, raise your taxes. ah Don't cut anything because can't can't do that. Well, I don't know if anything was able, but you were able to cut anything. I'm sure you were, but yes I'm, I'm, I'm kind of just, ah I'm being.
00:53:46
Speaker
Put your nose ring in. Putting, no. um I'm just saying, you know, I think it was mostly mismanaged. That's what it sounded like to me.
00:53:57
Speaker
Yeah. Did they have a lot of money to spend? Like, I don't know, like, were they spending too much? Well, that's for, if you say mismanagement as a general term, there's got to be something to cut from mismanagement, from something being mismanaged, right? I think mismanaged, meaning you're, you're not getting the, are you going out for three bids on your contract for this, that, you that you know, that kind of stuff that mismanaged to me would mean, yes, there's, there should be places you can cut.
00:54:27
Speaker
that's where I would look first. Where where can we cut Where are we getting, are we getting robbed at? Yeah. Yeah. And in most of these cities, what you know, what ah we've always come to see whenever we look into this is it's usually a like, uh, it's nepotism, it's friends. It's there, you know, you're, you're giving contracts to, to people, you know, or people who did you favors or donated to your campaign and they're overcharging the city.
00:54:53
Speaker
I mean, right. But i there's had to be someplace to cut. And according to the state auditor, they didn't cut anything. At least nothing significant enough to really make a make it to the list.
00:55:06
Speaker
a I mean, great. Pull your city out. I get it. Maybe you did need to raise taxes. i just I just thought it was funny. then Yeah, well, that sounds like a Democrat. Raise taxes. That's what we do.
00:55:20
Speaker
All right. Did you, what what was your, did you see this article in this new story we got coming up next for, for Mount Orab? I didn't know how to take this. This is a village of Mount Orab in Brown County.
Community Concerns Over NDA and Local Projects
00:55:35
Speaker
So Brown County is, so everybody knows is east of Cincinnati, almost directly the middle of the state. And that's Southern portion of County actually butts up against the border or the ah Ohio river.
00:55:48
Speaker
Significant. So the story is Brown County residents seeking answers after village signs NDA related to mega site.
00:56:02
Speaker
so you didn't know how to take this, you said?
00:56:05
Speaker
Yeah, I'm kind of confused here. Like, wouldn't this, wouldn't they need, see, I don't know how it works in a village, but I would think they would have to vote for a mega's mega site.
00:56:18
Speaker
And why are the people in charge signing an NDA? but Yes. Yes. That's what I think first, but I guess it's common practice and it's kind of a competitive thing. So they make them sign an NDA so you don't know who's coming in.
00:56:37
Speaker
So others can't, well, you know, maybe makes it more competitive, I guess. Yeah, i think I think that is generally the point of NDA is to keep it under wraps so that you don't give your competitors any leads on what you're doing, what's going on next.
00:56:51
Speaker
It just gets sticky. It gets sticky when you're, you know, when you border or you're in the area and you can't get any answers from your city council. Let's listen to a report from Local 12, which is out of Cincinnati, I believe, about the Mont-Orab village.
00:57:08
Speaker
how this all went down kind of So the guy was, I think the guy was this guy in the, in the clip here, he started, he's got some, he's got a a small farm, family farm or few acres whatever he has around the area where this mega site is. He started noticing buildings disappearing and then of buildings disappearing. And then all of a sudden he saw some excavators on and he decided, well, let me some ask him questions.
00:57:29
Speaker
What he has to say. Latour says he couldn't get a straight answer from the village, and his worst fears were confirmed at Tuesday night's council meeting. Yes, the village had signed a nondisclosure agreement. He also learned the project is on hold, has been for months, due to decisions by people outside the village. They can't answer any questions. Latour says whatever the status of the project, it's the lack of transparency that counts, especially when it comes to environmental impacts.
00:57:57
Speaker
we should be able to weigh in We should be able to participate. We should be part of that process. We're teaching our daughter stewardship. We're bringing her up in nature. It's where we feel the most connected. what's happening gets scary to us. It's concerning because I have a feeling that the Milky Way that can be seen out my front door here in in the summer months is not going to be able to be seen once this thing goes in with all the light pollution. nope I spoke with Mount Orem Mayor Joe Hauser. He confirmed those details about the and NDA, but as you might expect, couldn't add anything else. Oh, When we covered a data center in Kentucky last year, we learned that and NDAs are standard these days and are part of the competitive element in bringing money into small towns. They say you have to live by that agreement or the big companies will move on.
00:58:45
Speaker
How the hell are our elected officials allowed to sign and NDAs? I don't know. How is that even legal? Well, I, okay. So if they signed an NDA and if it's for a data center, which we're assuming, right?
00:59:05
Speaker
It's yeah, probably. Okay. But shouldn't the residents have any say here? i bet they did. It's going on right now in Lorain County. Same, same thing.
00:59:18
Speaker
They're, they're having a fight at the city council and they, they approved a portion of the site to be a mega site. I would bet that if you go back that there were meetings on this, but nobody showed up because. Yeah. Before it made the news.
00:59:33
Speaker
Yeah. Before things started actually happening on the property. Right. By the time things started happening on the property, you could be years down the line before when this, this deal already went through.
00:59:43
Speaker
NDAs on construction projects are extremely common nowadays. Right. And just... This is over a thousand acres, by the way. This is pretty massive. yeah Huge. And it's it's not a coincidence. It's really close to the Ohio River.
00:59:56
Speaker
Well, the county is. i should i I tried to look at exactly where it was. I couldn't quite tell, but
01:00:02
Speaker
they have to have access to large amounts of water. It's one of the reasons Ohio is so attractive to them. I just don't understand how...
01:00:15
Speaker
how the the village said thought this was going to be okay. Like, I literally can't tell my constituents what's going on because I signed an and NDA with a private entity. Yeah, one guy pulled out of that NDA.
01:00:28
Speaker
Oh, really? That signed it, yeah. And did doesn't Didn't say anything. I kind of did a real quick search on this and it didn't it's not like he's really talking.
01:00:39
Speaker
ah He probably took his name off the and NDA before he actually knew what's going on. Maybe, yeah. He might not be in on it. Right. And speaking of water, it's the next article, which we don't need to go too much into because we've kind of talked to a lot before, but there's still... The Ohio EPA is about to make a decision on what kind of permitting they're going to allow these data centers to...
01:00:59
Speaker
to use to dump water back into, oh, it's completely safe, but they're going give them five-year permit. And there's no, you read the article, be in the show notes. It's from, i think, Channel 10 TV, which, Boomtown, can't remember where they're at, but they, oh, Columbus, they, a single data center can use up to half a billion gallons of water a day.
01:01:27
Speaker
a day. Now, the only thing I don't have is perspective. Like, what's a normal office building use? I don't think it's a half a billion gallons. A really big office building. And then they have to do something. After they use it and it gets... So they're dumping it because they can't use it anymore.
01:01:43
Speaker
So the good drinking water that they take, because these computers need drink, they can't just use plain old water. It has to be drinkable water because the components are sensitive. isn't So after they're done using it and it's no longer drinkable and it's dirty,
01:01:57
Speaker
then they are allowed to just freely dump it. As long as it's not within a certain, certain distance from a, in a city intake or something like that, or, you know, where they've taken it in downstream from an intake, something I forget. Yeah. It has to be downstream. can't be upstream and all this other stuff, but what's in the water, what you're running, you're running water through computer components with, i don't know, silver, gold, lead, all kinds of other stuff. Probably. I Is there lead in there? Maybe.
01:02:23
Speaker
Um, Can we at least have a, can we check out what's, can somebody, is no, they can't because they can't inspect this. They can't check on these because there's there's so many data centers. there's not even close to enough ah people and they allow EPA to cover all this.
01:02:37
Speaker
Right.
01:02:41
Speaker
This is why it's important to keep up with your city, local city. It's as hard as it is and how as boring as it is is most of the time. I will guarantee, i would almost guarantee that this Brown County, um,
01:02:53
Speaker
was, uh, they approved this and it was a public meeting. It's a village, which I don't know how many people are in this village, but obviously nobody was talking to each other. It's, I don't understand how that happens in a place like that.
01:03:07
Speaker
Where was I at that? Oh yeah. i was out in Lorraine. Yeah. Okay. I was out in Sheffield village, maybe out that way there in the week. And I saw a no, no mega, no mega site sign.
01:03:18
Speaker
A couple of them. Yeah, the townships have to be really careful right now. They got to stick together. it It is, um I mean, kudos to Norton, right?
01:03:33
Speaker
Yeah, hell yeah. Well, I think it's happening more and more. i don't think we're we're hearing it as much as it's actually happening, but by the time you hear about it's usually too late.
01:03:46
Speaker
it' The NDA thing just drives me f freaking crazy. How the hell do you think, as elected politician, you think it's okay to not be able to talk about a thousand acres being developed in your community? You can't tell the neighboring people what the hell's going to happen there?
01:04:02
Speaker
What about the people living right next to it? Or within a couple blocks? It's like, yeah I can't, you know, I can't, man, that would drive me. Oh, it enraged me. Yeah. It enraged me. yeah It's time for kill dozer. That's right. And it was about, it was about bland and yeah, yeah actually check that out. That is a interesting story.
01:04:23
Speaker
you know he's a little crazy, but and there's a couple of documentaries. Oh yeah. pretty good. And it was one of the first things that kind of happened with all that video. There was all tons of video from it. It was one, it was very early on before you didn't get a lot of video of these things because just you know, video cameras, but it one of the first ones was like, oh man, there's so much.
01:04:42
Speaker
And if he'd all, if he, if he had known his schematics of the, of the hardware store, he probably wouldn't have to him until he ran out of gas. Cause he, his track fell into the basement of the hardware store yeah and he was stuck. in Yeah.
01:04:54
Speaker
I mean, that's what, that's what happens. That's why, yeah, that's why these things happen because of these exact things. And he felt like he was getting wronged and there was a bunch of nepotism in this, in the city, in the County, uh, some guy who owns some concrete place. And I'm kind of picturing one going right through the data center.
01:05:10
Speaker
I'm sorry to it's knock you off your tracks there, but, uh, I'm just looking at the picture of the data center and Hmm, you know, So when I hear, where's my welder? lot of these, Tom, why are you having all that plate steel delivered?
01:05:28
Speaker
Oh, no reason. No reason. ah the There's a lot of these data centers have security. Like I've never seen at a construction site and bomb sniffing dogs.
01:05:40
Speaker
Do they get bomb threats? I'm sure not all of them, but they had just couple of the ones I've seen and heard about. And people on site have, yeah, they they were getting regular bomb threats.
01:05:51
Speaker
Wow. Welcome to the community. So yeah, he's not going to be, they they build this mega site with a couple data centers on it. going to be able to see the Milky Way. Yeah, no. And he's always going to hear all day long is the sound of exhaust fans. oh It drops the value of his land. Massively.
01:06:09
Speaker
and so That's, that's the, that's even more. That's even more disappointing than, you know, the i mean, obviously you don't want the light pollution, but you know, you're, you're building a ah ah homestead type of farm where you're raising your kids and stuff, probably home homeschooling them and stuff. Yeah. and You're, you're making this great life for yourself and then your land's going to worth nothing because of the greed of.
01:06:36
Speaker
Yeah. Like a couple of guys that I know. totally talked about. They're, a couple, less than a mile down the road from a data center. guy just bought his house six months ago.
01:06:50
Speaker
You know, new family, young guy in his early thirties or late twenties, early thirties, bought a house, five, 10 acres. You know, his it's like his dream plot. and And then six months later, he's got a data center going up and now and now he's, he's a contractor. So now he's, he's got the dilemma.
01:07:07
Speaker
Do I bid on the job? I try? Like, it's like a love hate kind of thing. It's weird. couple, I know a couple of people like that. So it's. Hmm. Yeah. If you don't bid, somebody's going to bid, you know, that's the thing. i mean, it's in his, it's, it's a major part of the construction industry in Ohio right now is data centers like huge. It's sucking up so much resources. so you almost kind of have to, these projects are so huge as a business. You'd be stupid not to.
01:07:33
Speaker
Right. But also you gotta, Oh, oh there's like a movie about those things. Like, you know, somebody took over a town, you got to work for the guy or something. know. Anyway, I'm not where was going with that, but where I'm going is, we appreciate you listening.
01:07:51
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01:08:19
Speaker
And then you can tell us how awesomely right we are on everything. A lot of snow. All right, Tom, you ready to talk about some snow?
01:08:30
Speaker
No. No, yes. had enough. I've had enough. Well, we're just we're maybe halfway through the season, so good luck. Good good for that. Good luck with that, I should say.
01:08:42
Speaker
But unfortunately, the Lake County Sheriff is basically getting some pushback because he's not afraid of the snow. So Lake County Sheriff...
01:08:56
Speaker
Oh, what was this fine gentleman's name? Oh, we'll have him in the in the clip, but he is computer work.
Winter Weather and Local Policies
01:09:04
Speaker
There you go. So he's Lake County Sheriff. He's been a Lake County Sheriff for like ever.
01:09:08
Speaker
Um, and is Lake County Sheriff Frank. Leon Brune, Leon Bruno, Leon Bruno. That's it. I'm going with that. Is facing backlash on so back, not he's facing backlash, not backlash backlash on social media after refusing to issue a snow emergency during this week's storm.
01:09:29
Speaker
Um, that's kind of disingenuous. Uh, when you find out he's never issued a snow emergency for his County and all the years he's been with The sheriff's department, let's listen to, what is this? Lake County Sheriff from 19, see what he has to say.
01:09:48
Speaker
I kind of like this guy, he's ah he's a little based. Lake County Sheriff Frank Leon Bruno is facing backlash on social media after refusing to issue a snow emergency during this weekend's storm. oh no Anywhere between November and March, that's our life here. Lake affects snow, dumps, you know, up to 24 inches. Dumps.
01:10:07
Speaker
We get ice. Sheriff Leon Bruno says he doesn't use the state's one to three level system. Instead, he puts out specific warnings for roads that aren't safe. People were upset because they said when when we close roads, we close businesses. I don't think it's the job of a sheriff's office to impede those aspects of our economy if there's not sufficient reason. Lake County isn't alone in making this decision. Geauga and Stark County have also not issued snow emergencies. In fact, it's been about 25 years since Stark issued one.
01:10:41
Speaker
According to the Stark County Sheriff's Office, they don't issue countywide snow emergency levels because conditions can vary dramatically. Sheriff Leon Bruno agrees. out in Perry, in Madison, we'll get a large snow dump and Mentor will have nothing or Euclid will have nothing. I asked the sheriff if he ever would declare a snow emergency and he said it's unlikely.
01:11:05
Speaker
If we had three feet of snow and no ability to clear it, I might declare a level three snow emergency. But in the 36 years I've been with the sheriff's office, we haven't faced that here in Lake County.
01:11:21
Speaker
If you live in a county that isn't using the snow emergency levels, make sure you're keeping an eye on social media pages and also any apps that can give you those alerts to keep you safe. For 19 News, I'm Aria Janelle.
01:11:33
Speaker
Oh my gosh, Aria. If you can't have the government to rely on, what are you going to The pussification. Yes. of um That's the quote. If you live in a city that doesn't use the emergency system the state has come up with, well, you better have an app.
01:11:48
Speaker
You better check social media. I mean, you could just look outside, check it out. But in all seriousness, yes. there a Regardless of the level system, because I don't know what the hell it means.
01:12:05
Speaker
Level three, is that good? Level one, is it is it higher number better, lower number? Can we go off of colors? Can we go off to like the terror watch list where I know that yellow is kind of bad, red is really bad.
01:12:17
Speaker
I use, have you ever heard the the Ohio go app? No. That's what I use. I checked it out. I saw the link to it. Okay. So I'll go out, you know, traveling, going to see customers and stuff. I can drive couple hundred miles in a day and I could go all over, you know,
01:12:35
Speaker
you know, 150 mile radius from where I live. So lot of times I, before I even leave, I check that and look at the different cameras of the areas I'm going into. So it has this oh how Ohio, Ohio go.com. I think it is. It's the link in the in the show notes.
01:12:47
Speaker
You have an app for your phone and it basically is just a feed to all the O. cameras in the state of Ohio. Oh, okay. Is it better than Waze? It's not the same. It's not GPS.
01:12:59
Speaker
Right. So if you're wondering, if you're going to drive 25, 30, 50 miles from where you're at, looking outside is obviously not going to really show you much. That's what I'll do. I'll go on here and go, okay, what's going on in Akron?
01:13:12
Speaker
What's going on in Madison? and What's going on in Columbus? So like on when the we had the big snowstorm last, up here, I could see lots of snow on 77 71, whatever. tracks.
01:13:26
Speaker
i but i could see tracks see black lines. you At least there's tracks on the road. When I went to Columbus on the feed, all white.
Driving in Snow and School Closures
01:13:34
Speaker
It was all white. So I'm like, yeah, stay out of Columbus, that kind of stuff.
01:13:38
Speaker
um But yes, it's it's in addition to Waze, I would say. Right. Okay. Well, yeah, check it out, people. It's actually an app. It's a phone app? Yeah, it's a phone app and there's the website you can use.
01:13:50
Speaker
Okay. And to me, I use it all throughout the winter just to check on what's going on. Cool. But because even to her point, to my point, to somebody's point, that even with the emergency system, they said, well, I'm i'm going out of Columbus. How's it down there? They said, that's still level three. I go, I don't know what that means.
01:14:15
Speaker
Does that mean not to come down to Columbus? Does that mean it's okay to come down? I'm not sure. And as it turns out, It was, I went down the day after and it was, it was pretty bad.
01:14:29
Speaker
It was still pretty bad. Two days after it was still pretty bad. um They drive along the freeway going north or so actually going down or going up from Columbus to Columbus.
01:14:43
Speaker
The ODOT decided all of a sudden to stop plowing lanes.
01:14:48
Speaker
So as I'm driving along at 60 to 70 miles an hour in the right lane or even all the way to the left lane, all of a sudden I can look ahead and there's three feet of snow in my lane. they didn't just It just didn't blow over. They just said, oh, we're not plowing this lane anymore.
01:15:03
Speaker
I was like, wow. So and I'm not sure why I got off on that one, but check out the How Would That Go app. Level one is road roadways are hazardous with blowing and drifting snow. Roads may be icy. Motorists are urged to drive cautiously.
01:15:19
Speaker
Level two is the same thing. Roads may be icy. Only those who feel it necessary to drive should be on the roads. Contact your employer to see if he should report to work. Motorists should use extreme caution. Level three, all roadways are closed to non-emergency personnel. So level three, gets they just close the roads. Yeah, as you should know you shouldn't be on them unless it's emergency. And I get his point out there. You could drive, and I've i've snowplowed before, so it's completely accurate with the lake effect.
01:15:49
Speaker
You could have a foot of snow and drive a mile and a half down the road and have nothing. Yeah. So you can't just close large stretch or road stretches. You can in Columbus because they don't get lake effect. They get a snowstorm. It covers, you know, usually covers the whole area. So yeah I guess you can do it. The people in Lake County are used to this too. i mean, that's a different breed of yes snow people.
01:16:07
Speaker
And it's almost like you should treat every area a little bit differently. Not every area is exactly the same. Not for your communism. Come on. Weather communism. Weather communism. It's right it is.
01:16:20
Speaker
as we've boiled it down all the way down. And we can continue on bitching about the snow because the poor schools backed themselves into a big corner this week with all these closings. I said last Monday or Sunday night when they were closing the schools, I said, I looked at my weather app. I said, honey, they're, they backed themselves in the corner. And she said, what do you mean?
01:16:45
Speaker
I said, tomorrow, Monday is supposed to be the warmest day of the week and they're closing. I go, are the kids ever going to go to school this week? And then we had a, the off Monday and Tuesday, Tuesday night, we had a email from the school elementary school that said, Hey, basically the two or three paragraphs boiled down to this.
01:17:05
Speaker
Hey, we live in Ohio. It gets cold and we get snow. Deal with it. Dress warm. We're having school tomorrow. And then an hour later they said, uh, sorry, we're to cancel school tomorrow.
01:17:17
Speaker
It's crazy. I think they use, they use the city buses. So if the city cancels school, they don't have a choice. Right. So this article here, or this little ah clip I have, it's not an article. it's just a channel five news story from YouTube, but let's, let's take a, let's listen.
01:17:35
Speaker
And then we can figure out, we can actually go I have two clips. We can go on the second one. They'll kind of understand what schools go through, but here's, um,
01:17:45
Speaker
Here's to your your point, Tom, of the pussification of America. I think this guy, what's this guy's name? Is Mike Holden. He can be a little snarky, but he, I think he's talking to us when he says this. Listen.
01:17:57
Speaker
Everyone always goes back to, it well, back in my day, i walked a mile and a half in the snow and sub-zero temperatures. We all have these stories. We talk about how hard it was to get a snow day back then. But the reality of the situation now is it is very cold again. the sidewalks are not shoveled. We have a couple of questions. you know Do you want your little kids out there walking, waiting at the bus stop, running the risk of potential frostbite and hypothermia?
01:18:20
Speaker
Or do you power through and work to make sure they can continue to stay on track with their overall curriculum? Tough situation, right? No. No, it's really not. Really not that tough.
01:18:32
Speaker
Did you watch this? oh Yeah. Did you notice something as he's telling you how, what, do you have a choice. Your kid could freeze to death or you could just power through it. Did you know something what what was happening in the background?
01:18:45
Speaker
don't know. Oh, yeah. People outside sled riding. As he's telling us that snow that, well, sidewalks aren't shoveled. He was showing us shoveled sidewalks. And as he was talking about, well, your choice is your kids can die and lose their feet at the at the minimum, lose their their hands and their feet.
01:19:03
Speaker
Or you could just power through and completely screw up your whole week and get and get get your boss mad at you because your kids are still home school. While in the background, he was showing kids sliding down sledding hill.
01:19:15
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's stupid. I'm talking to my, one of the, my coworker, he lives in the area and i was like, how'd you fare? He goes, we talked about the snow and this and that. And he goes, uh, know I asked him about his kids in school. He goes, yeah, yeah, they were off.
01:19:29
Speaker
I drove my kid farther to his friend's house cause he was young enough. They didn't want to leave him home. So that he can go outside and spend all day sled riding. play playing Playing outside. Playing in the snow.
01:19:40
Speaker
but Two to three days in a row. It's like, what's that? So I think it's it's up to, so what we're finding out, I think during all this, is' if they've changed the rules on school closings or not the rules, but the they used they used to give to each district five days.
01:19:59
Speaker
a year. Right. Right. And now it's up to the schools to pad. They go by hours now. have to have x amount of education hours throughout the year. And it's up to the schools to pad their school year. So they, they have less hours required than they have in the past to give them time to pad it for these school days, for these calamity days.
01:20:20
Speaker
But what's the part of the problem though, I don't think people realize maybe if you don't have kids in school now is they also get hot days. So do you have to accommodate for cold days and hot days? Uh, yeah.
01:20:33
Speaker
Yeah. And I think, uh, well, basically. Climate change! So you have to double them almost because they have two or three hot days a year.
01:20:44
Speaker
Yeah, we never got those either. but you but just remember them putting like these four foot fans in the hallways. Yeah. opening you Opening the window. i remember it because it was always the end of the school year. Two or three times it happened. when Yeah. They redid the roof. Uh-huh.
01:21:01
Speaker
And it was hot as hell outside. The windows had to be open, but it stunk so bad. i remember that. Yeah, but it was it was hotter than how heck a couple of times. i I remember those days, but we went in and i remember them turning off the lights and and trying to keep it a little cooler. Yeah, I know, because those fluorescent lights.
01:21:19
Speaker
Yeah. it's it But it helped. it is in real you Well, yeah, but in reality, how many days was it? A ah year? Like, I wouldn't even say a year. Over my...
01:21:30
Speaker
You know, going to high school and grade school, it probably happened. I could probably count on, and maybe I'd need two hands to count. yeah Maybe five, six, seven times where it was that hot. We were just sweating balls.
01:21:45
Speaker
Yeah. The papers are sticking to your hand, your forearms. and stuff Yeah, yeah. It happened. I remember because we had schools in the area that got the day off. ah Back even when I was because they had modern schools with with windows that didn't open because there's air conditioning. When the air conditioning broke, they had to go home.
01:22:01
Speaker
I was so pissed. Like they get air conditioning and the day off when it breaks. Yeah. Well, yeah, I didn't, I don't ever remember hearing that. You're a couple years old, younger than me. So maybe.
01:22:12
Speaker
Yeah. But, uh, ah Yeah, but i also I remember going, oh, it's almost the end of the school year. We're there. Yeah. It didn't bother me so much. was the end. It occasionally happened in the spring, but most of the time it was was the summer, the end school year.
01:22:27
Speaker
But I will, in defense of the schools, I'll play this next clip because it might help understand why they're kind of so quick to pull the trigger. Because we're going to hear from two mothers and that you can help if you can tell me which one they probably hears from more than the other, the school that they go to, you can probably guess we're off the bat. So here's here's the problem. Here's there's one of the reasons that parents were complaining about the schools is because they shouldn't be, um they shouldn't force their kids to do stuff.
01:22:56
Speaker
like, oh, let's hear what they say. They say they should not be forced to walk in this weather or even wait outside for an extended period of time. While other parents welcome the return to school, saying it will help reestablish structure, a routine, and allow them to get back on track after having four to five days off. yeah I get that the kids need to go to school, and I get that you know we might be out of calamity days, but my kids' health is most important to me.
01:23:23
Speaker
I just wish that they would cancel school and have our kids' health be more important than what it seems like it is right now. hear from her He has autism. um And usually with kids, typically with kids who have autism, routine is a big part of keeping them regulated.
01:23:41
Speaker
And when he's out of his regular routine, it's a huge disruption. um It produces a lot of anxiety. It's a lot of stress, not just on him, but it's also on the family.
01:23:53
Speaker
so which one do you think the schools hear from more? The first one or the second one? exactly um Frostbite. um I didn't get a frostbite.
01:24:07
Speaker
I walked to school. It wasn't uphill, ah but I did walk to school. I even sometimes hitched hitched a ride on the back of the school bus if the streets were in the right condition. Never got frostbite.
01:24:17
Speaker
And I would think, what do you think, Tom? You think they make gloves slightly better than they did 25, 30 years ago? Yeah, i think there's better stuff now. Boots too? Boots are probably better? Mm-hmm. I remember being called my, my, ah in high school, a neighbor, i grew up with a guy who would drive us in the morning home. I'd walk home. If it was really bad, my mom would pick us up sometimes.
01:24:43
Speaker
don't know. It wasn't, it wasn't a big deal. Well, my coworker was kind of we were talking, he's like, wouldn't it be better? ah what's What's easier? Okay. We get, you can't kick your kid to school. Cause I, I, from what I've seen, the i don't know if it's more than, it's probably more than half kids get picked up or dropped off in school.
01:25:00
Speaker
Wouldn't it be better for you as a parent to go into work late because you had to take your kid to school than not going to work at all? So maybe on those days when they're waiting by the bus and you're afraid they might get frostbite. Oh my God, they're going to lose their hands.
01:25:16
Speaker
Maybe just take to work and say, sorry, boss, I'm going be late. Otherwise, i got to stay home with him and and miss work completely. And a lot of, not every case, but a lot of cases.
01:25:27
Speaker
I'm also thinking if you're so damn worried about your kid's health, maybe you should quit smoking.
01:25:34
Speaker
There's no way that woman doesn't smoke. There's no way. No way. She's like a, sound like an old look and sound like an old bartender. What can I get you guys?
01:25:47
Speaker
Jack and Coke coming right up.
01:25:52
Speaker
this That's why i do have some sympathy for the schools. the parents and The parents are just horrible.
Protests Against ICE in Ohio
01:26:02
Speaker
And they're not, um well, I mean, they're but they kind of, wow, this kind of leads into the next story, which is the protests, the ICE protests in Cleveland.
01:26:10
Speaker
Cleveland protests ICE on the ICE.
01:26:15
Speaker
And we're reproducing these these kind of parents that I'm talking about, like that one we just heard there. Like, my wife's health is so important. Oh, my gosh. There's probably a lot of the people that are down this ICE protest downtown. Could be.
01:26:25
Speaker
Could be, yeah. So they've had protests all throughout the week, and they're getting bigger and bigger, Tom. No, they're not.
01:26:36
Speaker
Did any of them inquire on where the signs were printed and who paid for them? I was going to say that the one thing that stands out the most is that they all got the same professionally printed sign.
01:26:49
Speaker
There's like two different ones, basically. Yeah. Yeah, they're two different ones. And they i I saw there was a video from Minneapolis of a pickup truck with like a thousand signs. And they were the same signs. Yeah.
01:27:02
Speaker
Yeah. Stop ice terror. Now stop ice terror. Now power to the people. No one, something or other. There's three or four of them, three of them. At least I see.
01:27:13
Speaker
They're all the exact same. All all white was black lettering, which, you know, my hard earned taxpayer money went to these signs. Can you at least make them in three color?
01:27:24
Speaker
okay Why you got cheaping out on it? I mean, is that? It's not the government way to cheapen out. You go three color signs, highly graphic graphic signs. Come on, go all out. That's the way it's the government way. it's the American way.
01:27:37
Speaker
So let's think we'll start with, I got, I do have a clip from the protest, one short clip, but I think we could start with, with what I think our friend Morgan has,
01:27:51
Speaker
I mean, she has a little report here that's towards the end of a report about the, I think they had a another protest on Friday or something, Thursday, Friday, whatever. And it got a little bit bigger. And then at the end, they would start talking about, well, the Haitians in Springfield, they are going to, um, they're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. Those those Haitians.
01:28:14
Speaker
As of, I think Wednesday or the fourth, I think it's called the fourth. I think it was their temporary status. temporary status has been revoked. It's temporary. Everybody's freaking out because what are they going to do? how Oh my gosh. Yes. It's temporary.
01:28:27
Speaker
So you would have to imagine that eventually it would be taken away, but don't worry. Springfield, you can let your pets outside soon. Yes. And, and you probably can get a job and probably get a job soon.
01:28:40
Speaker
And your, car your insurance will probably go down. Your car insurance will probably go down because there's less accidents in your area. But let's listen to what ah but Morgan has to say and a little bit from our our governor, Mike DeWine.
01:28:54
Speaker
And Morgan, the governor says that we could see more ICE agents coming to our state. Yeah, Damon. So with the campaign in 2024, President Donald Trump really made this an issue. And these Haitian immigrants are set to lose their protected status on Tuesday. I was with the governor today and he's really trying to take a middle of the road approach with ICE. But he does say that they're going to need to follow it's like the good procedure and the state troopers will make sure of that.
01:29:25
Speaker
We're here to keep the peace. We're going to do that in Ohio. ICE can will be able to do what they legally can do, ah whether we like that or not, whether we agree with that policy. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is giving a warning to federal immigration agents, ICE, if they come to the state. Our police officers are well trained. We have also the expectation that ICE will also follow good police practices. He said that the state troopers will be assisting cities with ICE presence and they need to follow Ohio rules like not standing in front of cars. That could be detrimental to that officer.
01:30:04
Speaker
It could also involve some confrontation with the person in the car who's driving the car. U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno has been supportive of ICE and says there is a way to prevent agents from shooting U.S. citizens. You do not have a right to impede federal law enforcement operations. And the way we avoid that is to make certain that when we are enforcing federal law, that the city, the county and the state is totally aligned with what we're doing. Some Republicans say another way to avoid conflict would be to leave your firearms at home.
01:30:37
Speaker
Previously, DeWine urged protesters not to carry. How does that not go against the Second Amendment? I've very, very clear. Now she's worried about the Second Amendment. People have the right to bring a gun. Different question, is it that a wise thing to do, or would I recommend for them to do that? And um my answer is no.
01:30:56
Speaker
The governor says that he hopes he at least gets 24-hour notice from ICE before they get here.
01:31:08
Speaker
Yes. That's my new Morgan sound effects. What? yeah like um They're like still calling them protesters. like but Like they shouldn't stand in front of ah cars? No, like apparently you didn't do and as much investigating as I did.
01:31:25
Speaker
as a citizen, and dumb salesperson, um and you're an supposedly investigative reporter, if you learn, he was walking around the car when he got in front of the car, she decided to put it in drive and run him, run him down. So I think, yeah, I think just um shut up twat.
01:31:43
Speaker
And um now she's worried about second amendment. What, what all of a sudden, I'll, All of sudden I'm arguing with leftists about where you should or shouldn't carry a gun. Well, she's trying to get the a Republican to say something anti-Second Amendment or anti-Trump.
01:32:01
Speaker
Well, yeah. Or as she said, he's towing the ah a middle of road line. Yeah, that's DeWine, idiot. That's what he always does. It's the things we don't like about him. Oh, by the way, no and not just Trump.
01:32:13
Speaker
This is what I voted for. Yeah, you know, you get some of the lefties going, oh, you're bootlicker. And it's like, no, that's my boot. Good point. Because know what really pisses me off is, again, i got, now I got leftists making me defend the federal government. I don't like defending defending the federal government.
01:32:33
Speaker
But this, it's what we voted for. oh I get it. you get it. Yeah, no, but they're they're trying to kind of throw that at you. and It's like, yeah are you are you really that dumb? Yeah.
01:32:44
Speaker
You know, and yes. i ask I always ask them question. I go, why is this not happening anywhere else? Well, that's the key. Like they said in the and the a report, what's important is when you had the state, local, and and federal officials all in line.
01:33:00
Speaker
That's why it's happening in Minnesota. It's not happening anywhere else because they're not getting in the way. They're not impeding.
01:33:08
Speaker
that's You keep pushing back. And then and i'm so I'm sick and tired of hearing Oh, Trump back down. Trump, I listened to um Tim Poles tirade on this. know if you heard that early in the week. Oh, he's been, he's been off base. Yeah.
01:33:21
Speaker
Oh, he's given, I almost, I kept watching it going, when's he going to say, gotcha, you know, cause he was pushing so hard. I go, what? So Trump backed down, quote unquote, backed down on this.
01:33:34
Speaker
after So after he called Waltz,
01:33:38
Speaker
They talked. Short time after that, all of a sudden, the city and state police started cooperating with ICE and protecting the hotel where the ICE agents were at. Huh. All of a sudden now, so when if you're backing down, do you send your your top guy there?
01:33:55
Speaker
He didn't back down. He changed strategy because I think that's a trap. I think Minnesota is a trap. think they want him to bring Marines in.
01:34:06
Speaker
That's what they want. And they were pushing, pushing, pushing as hard as they can to trigger Trump either taking the national guard or just bringing Marines in. Yeah. He won't do that.
01:34:17
Speaker
no,
01:34:19
Speaker
No, but what he, so what he did was he said, we will back down, give us access to your prison system so we can take all the people who you've already arrested and put in prison that are illegal immigrants and get them out of your prison and save you a whole bunch of money.
01:34:35
Speaker
You could put more people, oh wait, they're not going put, they're actually going to put more people in, but it would save the money you want to pay for these losers in prison. And I think that's where they're at now.
01:34:47
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not even sure about what's going on. And I know it's not a back down. And here's here's the key for me that I know it wasn't a back down and that it was, oh, Trump lost. No.
01:34:58
Speaker
they The next day or two days later, they guess where they went? That's where they started protesting. In front of Walt's house. Because they were pissed that he backed down. see Because the state police started getting involved.
01:35:12
Speaker
i don't know how much they're actually getting involved on a day-to-day basis, but Yeah, I don't i don't think like the real conservatives think there was a loss. I think it it was a restructuring of the plan, if you want to call it that. Yeah, the grown-ups in the room decided to go, ah we don't like the direction this is going, let's try something else. Yeah, it's you know it's looking bad for Trump. It's looking bad for everybody in a way.
01:35:37
Speaker
they god They have to fix it. Yeah, that was the other thing i was looking at. If you look at it from an objective point of view, it almost you could almost say they almost...
01:35:47
Speaker
Maybe feels like they did it so that each of them looked like they lost a little bit, maybe. But not really. i don't know. I mean, you the the people that are, if you're rioting, you know, they're not protesters. The the instigators, there're they're not going to change their minds for anything. No.
01:36:05
Speaker
It doesn't matter what happens. They're just not going to change their minds. And then... You know, you got people in the middle that are just kind of like, this sucks what's going on. But we, you know, it getting rid of illegals is still a popular, more popular.
01:36:22
Speaker
It's more than ever. Yeah. So you're not really losing. It's just optics. And with the midterms coming, you got to, you have to, you have to play this carefully.
01:36:33
Speaker
So let's just take this next clip really quick and... It just points out again, we're watching the same screen and seeing two different movies. Cause I can agree with a lot of what this person says. Now I i also don't, it also doesn't, didn't get past me that this could be Morgan and in a few years.
01:36:51
Speaker
Sounds like a lot, like kind of look, could be her, could be her. When the hair gets a little gray. where Where's the link?
01:37:00
Speaker
Where's the link to it? To... Oh, to the video? Yeah, that you're about to play. It's in... ah It's from the... ah Oh, wait. i't I didn't put that in there, did I? Yeah, put it put it in. I'll put it in there, yeah. I don't need it right now. i just... Yeah.
01:37:13
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, because it's not... That's all right. Go ahead. Go ahead. here i was just kind of curious. Demonstrators traveled from across Northeast Ohio to be here, including Nancy, who drove up from Akron. I'm here because...
01:37:28
Speaker
The state of our nation is unacceptable i agree to me If I don't go out and stand on my feet and speak for the people who can't, then my great who's going to? Thank you.
01:37:45
Speaker
Signs, chants, and speeches filled downtown before the crowd spilled into the streets. I agree. i agree with her. the the The state of our country is in shambles, and it's mostly because of all these immigrants that are in here are illegally sucking our system dry. So I do agree.
01:38:05
Speaker
ah that That was from the article that we have in there. channels Oh, okay. Sorry. No, the one before is one I got to put in protest. from the Channel 5 news article.
01:38:17
Speaker
I will put that in there. But um yeah, i she kind of reminded me of, it's towards the end of the of the news article that's, or the news clip that's in the article. So it kind of reminds me, it could could be maybe Morgan in a few years.
01:38:30
Speaker
So they were out protesting um with their there are very professional made signs and ah i'm sure there'll be more of it. They're they're planning another No Kings protest.
01:38:41
Speaker
And i'm sure I'm sure we'll have more to laugh at. Bring some entertainment to the ah to the show, please. ah It's going to ramp up before midterms. Oh, yeah. Wait till the summertime. Yeah. got to find. Yeah, this is happening and it went in cold. Wait till summer.
01:38:56
Speaker
e I like that they're going down the street going, whose streets are streets? As they all walk past the cops that are holding traffic back. Like, yeah, you at your streets when the cops give you permission. Yeah.
01:39:08
Speaker
No, it's our streets. It's like 77 million people that voted. Yeah. And these people are freaking retarded. But eh, you know. what What else would we be talking about? Yeah, true. It gives us at least something to talk about. And it's just wrapping up towards the end of the week and there's even more stories in this, but we'll we'll continue. I'm sure there'll be more next week on it. or ah almost I'm just getting bored of it at this point, but it's it's all part of the plan for chaos. Next on our list.
01:39:38
Speaker
Civil War. Civil War, yes. Civil War. What do we got? Oh yeah, Brooklyn. Brooklyn City Official. He's an idiot. Yeah, this, it goes both ways, right? It does go both ways. You're not, it's not just, so Brooklyn City Clerk of Councils, Diane Schroeder, was fired after saying ICE should have taken out Renee Good's wife.
01:40:02
Speaker
Dana Schroeder. Dana Schroeder. Did I say Dana Schroeder? You said dia Diane. Diane Schroeder. Yeah. you're kind of You're kind of an idiot. yeah I looked at her up. i I just did a quick, I want to see what's going on and on social media. So on on Facebook, I found her.
01:40:19
Speaker
i didn't find her profile, but I found the city of Brooklyn. They made an announcement when they hired her. And she hasn't been there long. She's only been there since ah this was posted August 5th, 2025, ready for roll call. We are delighted to welcome Dana Schroeder as our new clerk of council.
Social Media's Impact on Careers
01:40:38
Speaker
And she comes from North Royalton, where she worked for 17 years, you know up the ladder there, director of legislative services. and And she's only 37. So she started in Royalton when she was 20.
01:40:54
Speaker
Uh, she's an idiot. I can't believe she did this. yeah Usually, like, I don't know how how broken somebody has to be to post something like that, especially when you're in a a civil service type position. i mean, even a loony left is more more clever than that.
01:41:15
Speaker
Yeah, this wasn't even clever. this was just This was just, wow, you just did not think of it. No. ah Very emotional. Oh, what you know? What do you know? That's a woman. Very emotional. Go figure.
01:41:27
Speaker
Yeah. You're not thinking. when you're That's the problem with social media. That's not even an emotional statement, really. I think it's an emotional response, though. You're just mad and you go, I have taken out the wife, too. he hits that Yeah, but why do you... yeah You know what?
01:41:39
Speaker
I would say that in my living room. Oh, yeah. I'm not going to. I'm not going to. And in fact, I don't think I said that anything like that. I'm just saying I would keep that in my living room.
01:41:50
Speaker
I'd be yelling at the TV, maybe. That's about it. Yes. I don't. Yeah. don't want see. No. Investigators, sure. Let's check it out. Let's do what you normally do. And they apparently they they were trying to, at least.
01:42:04
Speaker
It really made some people mad that, oh, my gosh. Yes. We looked at the crazy people. But yeah, this, how how did she get to, well, this this goes to your point, I think, to the, that most of our politicians are just just plain dumb.
01:42:18
Speaker
ah Yeah, something, you know, ah this one this one really just surprises me because if i if you look at her picture, she looks like a suburban conservative mom, basically, you know,
01:42:33
Speaker
ah
01:42:36
Speaker
It's just shocking. Yeah. that You could be the stupid. Yeah. Yeah. You are, you are a public official, so it's kind of fixed. You just ruined your career. Totally. Yeah. Now you, you spent all your life in public service.
01:42:49
Speaker
Good luck. Yeah. Good luck finding a job. It's, it might be kind of difficult, but I bet you can apply it somewhere. But after this, think you're going to be, ah you might be, might have a problem. but to change your name.
01:43:01
Speaker
Certified municipal court clerk in 2018 and eighteen in a master municipal court in 2021. She's, she's worked hard. Just wow.
01:43:13
Speaker
And the the speed was what I was shocked in within this, on the same day they suspended her and two days later they fired her. And crazily enough, nobody screamed about free speech.
01:43:24
Speaker
They got, yeah, no kidding, right? I mean, nobody should. Because wasn't it that guy in Brooklyn that um said some awful things? And he, it would it i don't even know if he ever, oh, he did get, end up getting fired or he resigned.
01:43:37
Speaker
Yes, I think. But that that took a couple of months for him to resign of a lot of people yelling. And this was like just, well you know, in two days. Yeah, two days she was gone. I also think it was the the way she phrased it because the other ones were,
01:43:53
Speaker
you know, ah bring on the next sacrifice. Didn't mention anything about, you know, just kind of very somewhat vague. Oh, you know what they were talking about, but this is very blatantly a call to violence.
01:44:05
Speaker
Yeah. yeah it is I think it's a step above, but that just shows the stupidity of it. Like yeah you could have said it in some other way. and they They didn't say, they didn't say where she posted it. did did because like She might've locked up her profile cause I couldn't find her on Facebook.
01:44:24
Speaker
Uh, take it now on social media. Good question. They don't say, yeah, I'm 37 year old, probably a mom works for us. Probably on Facebook. Does not say probably on Facebook. Yeah. It does not say just says social media.
01:44:39
Speaker
Yeah. Unless you, you know, unless she's one of those that puts it on like TikTok or something, which I don't know that age. and Maybe. Can you post on TikTok or is it just videos?
01:44:50
Speaker
No, you can. ah Can you just, I don't know. Yeah, i don't know. i' been on i I actually have been on it, but just not extensively. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. And it doesn't say. so Could be probably Facebook.
01:45:03
Speaker
Probably. Oh, wait. Oh, no, is that? That's all right. There's a little Facebook thing here, though That's probably for the.
01:45:11
Speaker
there's a little Facebook icon right here by the stories. I don't want anything, but it doesn't. So yeah, she's, she's an idiot and now she's unemployed. So good luck finding a job. And I mean, I wouldn't hire you because it's shocking
Winter Activities in Northeast Ohio
01:45:26
Speaker
at what you said. I would probably hire you because it's too stupid for to work at my place. because Yeah. Yeah.
01:45:34
Speaker
But on to the next and we've got our good things segment. We bring good things to
01:45:45
Speaker
First on the good things list is, well, if you like the snow, Fox 8 has a great article, article headline, Going Downhill, Where to Sled Ski, Inner Tube, and Toboggan in Northeast Ohio.
01:46:02
Speaker
On your days off from school. and Exactly. When it's too cold to go to school, time to go sled riding. Um, ah pretty, pretty self-explanatory. Uh, Fox eight has the story and they've got basically all the counties broke down for sledding, um, Lake County, Jaga, Lorraine, Stark County summit.
01:46:21
Speaker
And then they have some for skiing, some for downhill and snowboarding tubing and, uh, and check it out. If it's something, you know, according to them, it said you either stay inside for three months or go out. I'm i'm thinking of staying inside for three months. That's okay with me.
01:46:36
Speaker
But yeah, check it out. If you got little little ones and you want to take them tobogganing, that's fine. i just, just remember what, what goes down must come back up and you got to climb those stairs to get back up in the hill. That's always what turns me off to go and sled riding.
01:46:49
Speaker
And don't forget to bring that non-caloric silicon based kitchen lubricant. Put it on the bottom of your sled. Oh, for the sled. Okay. um I was thinking, don't forget to bring a liqueur of some sort to put in your coffee.
01:47:04
Speaker
Oh, that too.
01:47:07
Speaker
Make it a special mocha. You could sled just like the Griswolds. That's right. They did do that that. I think he just said he got some non-caloric silicone-based kitchen lubricant.
01:47:20
Speaker
Yes. And they went zooming down. you remember that? That was like the second or third one, or I can't remember now. It's a Christmas vacation. Oh, that's right. Yeah.
01:47:32
Speaker
So check them out if you feel like you need to go outside and go sled riding at all the news there. Next, you know, and i guess sometimes you need to define the good things segment.
01:47:43
Speaker
It's not necessarily something that you should do, but maybe just something that's not, something a little lighter, lighthearted. Because this guy. Or crazy. Or crazy, yeah. Or crazy. Just not very political or divisive, I guess, is the I kind of look at it when I try to pick these things out.
01:47:58
Speaker
sometimes I'll pick them up I'm like, well, this is Like, what's good about... meet ah Meet the Clevelander who biked across all five ice-covered Great Lakes this winter. Like... What you trying to prove the low IQ of Cleveland? is Right. That's what I thought, too. Eric McKinney is... But this is he did do for reason, supposedly.
01:48:18
Speaker
He is... Eric McKinney is the first, apparently, to bike on all five Great Lakes.
01:48:26
Speaker
Um... Yeah, I mean, great. I think. i Congratulations. Congratulations. I think this is great. All for it. Do what you got to do. i get ah get as humans and we don't have to like hunt for our food or kind of board a lot of times. so We have to put our put some risk into our lives. I don't necessarily, but some people do.
01:48:47
Speaker
It's all great. That's all fine. As long as when he gets in trouble, because if he if he continues to do this, he will get in trouble. Yeah. ah He gets billed for the services when we come and rescue him.
01:49:04
Speaker
Rescue him. and the they If they find him. Right. That's always been my, hey, go climb a mountain. Go go find yourself in the wilderness. When you get lost, we'll come pick you up. We're going bill you.
01:49:19
Speaker
So he actually, he got a he got a bike. He's got like ah some kind of Trek bike. He's got studded tires. um I see what else he had.
01:49:30
Speaker
he He went all across all. Now that's kind of tricky because i think Lake Michigan never freezes over. Almost never. He did four miles on Lake. Yeah. Cause right around the edge. Oh, that was Lake Huron. I'm sorry. Right around the edge. It's got some ice on it from my city, but it doesn't, it really, it's too deep.
01:49:47
Speaker
He's completely over. I think it maybe has, but not not in a while. Cause you know, I'm a change, but once he figured out it's never been done before, And then his wife said it was okay.
01:49:59
Speaker
Then he did it. His wife doesn't want him home. Yeah. She's like, sure. Yeah. You go ahead and do that. How, what's that life insurance? pal Oh yeah. Go ahead. It's all set. We're good. but Uh, he's from Bay city. Uh, we drove to Bay city, Michigan to bike miles, four miles across Lake Huron, like you said. and, uh,
01:50:19
Speaker
ah He had to fine tune his routes, avoiding areas afflicted by, by shipping channels or warmer currents. Like it's not as easy. You're not just going to eat. Like you got to look, there's some places that are thinner ice and others.
01:50:30
Speaker
Yeah. Don't drive off the pier. No. With your bike. Just head, head north. No, do that. Do not try this at home. Do not try this at home.
01:50:42
Speaker
Uh, let's see. Make there's nothing else. Yeah. I think that was about it, but Hey, more power to him. Uh, But, you know, I think his wife's trying to kill him. It looks like he just kind of did like a few miles on each lake.
01:50:57
Speaker
Yeah. Which, I mean, with that that's not that big. No. He does does mention in the in the story about, there' like there's a guy who went all across from Ohio to Canada on the ice.
01:51:09
Speaker
Pardon of me? there is There is somebody that's been, that has has rode their bike or no, he said trekked, which means I think walked yeah from shorelines of Ohio to Canada. Right, back in 1978 or something like that.
01:51:22
Speaker
But no, he rode their bike. That was a pretty drastic winter. Yeah, it was one of the worst winters in the last 50 years, i remember. 50, more than 50 years. I was always, when I was a kid, they always were like, well, it's not like the blizzard of 78. Yeah.
01:51:37
Speaker
Couldn't open our door. So don't don't try this at home. and I mean, was trying to find there was a YouTube video. I can least get some, I can at least watch on YouTube. i don't want to actually do it, but I'd like to see how we did it.
Conclusion and Listener Participation
01:51:51
Speaker
Well, it looks like it's four miles on each lake. It's not that, I don't know if this deserves an article, but. It's seen. Congratulations, McKinney.
01:52:05
Speaker
Kenny, Eric McKinney. So have fun doing that. And you're crazy. And on that crazy note, I guess that's, um that's, that's, that wraps us up. End of the stories.
01:52:15
Speaker
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01:52:24
Speaker
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