🎙️ Episode 21: Ohio Mess, Crime, Politics and more…

Robert and Tom came in hot this week with stories ranging from billion-dollar blunders to bizarre headlines. Here’s what they covered.

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🏭 Where’s the Chips!?

The much-hyped Intel plant project is spiraling — taxpayer costs balloon, political pressure mounts, and Trump, Husted, and Moreno are all weighing in. But… what’s the governor got to say?

• The Intel Debacle: Taxpayers, private citizens pay for bad decisions
• Trump, Sen. Bernie Moreno call for Intel CEO to resign, citing China ties

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⚖️ Indictments in Cincinnati’s “Jazz Fest Attack” 
Thugs and Russians don’t mix — especially when violence erupts at a major public event.

• Suspects indicted in Cincinnati’s ‘violent attack’

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🏛️ Politics & Policy

• Separate ballot issues for the “anti-discrimination” amendments — What’s really going on here?
  • Backers of Ohio anti-discrimination amendment decide to split it in two
• Student mental health days? Come on, man!
• Ohio bill proposes 3 mental health days for students

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🏈 Sports & Big Money

• Browns and the sin tax scam 
  • Cavs, Guardians concerned about sin tax with Browns plan to build dome
• Prop bets discussion — Why is big government so concerned with what you bet on?

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😂 The LOL Files

• Massage parlor busts end in not-so-happy endings?
  • 4 Ohio massage parlors raided by human trafficking task forces

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🐾 Columbus Critters Club 

• SB 236 — the “Suicide Self-Defense Act”
• Ohio Innocence Act — takes effect Sept. 29th

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🌟 Good Things 

Peacock’s The Paper — a The Office spinoff — is set in an Ohio newspaper office with Domhnall Gleeson at the helm.

• The Paper trailer: The Office spinoff with Domhnall Gleeson

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🎧 Listen to the full episode for the unfiltered hot takes, tangents, and laughs that only Crooked River Cast delivers.