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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It seems like there's always thunderstorms in the forecast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I was just thinking, what do we have storms? Last year?
During Red White and Boom?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
They've all run together for me at this point, I
can't remember. It just feels like the overwhelming amount of
time that these have we've been having Red White and Boom,
which is.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
How many years are we talking?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
One hundred and seventeen?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I think it is now thirty plus? Is it maybe
more than that? I don't know. I just I can't
even remember.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
They didn't have big fireworks when it started. It was
called Red White and what's that? It really wasn't up
to the boom stage yet.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So it is clearly now as it's a thing. It's
a big thing. I haven't been down there in years, though,
to go. Once upon a time I was going every year.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And this is.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Long before I worked here, you know, for iHeart or
then what it would Clear Channel. I don't know how
many different No.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I've got shirts in the closet from Jcore, Clear Channel,
City Casts and iHeart. I don't know where I work anymore.
I just show up right.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But when it started it was one of those companies,
I guess because NCI has always been the sponsor, the
title sponsor for it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It seems to eat if mother I hard hooked us
up with like a rooftop tent party or something down there,
you know, because extravagant they do stuff like that. Give
us a hotel on the top of the Lincoln Levek Tower.
We have a suite up there on the top of
the LAC. I guess not right, he's a thought.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, sure, you would think that they would be doing
a commemorative T shirt every year for it.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
How hard would that be to do?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, be collector's item. Yeah, put it on eBay.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Nothing not a nil nix the big goose egg zero.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I hadn't been invited downtown by the Mayor's office in
quite a few years either. Yeah, unfortunately, Mike and used
to do that. I would get an invitation because of
my community work. You know, come on down and you
can hang out on the city Hall.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We're cooking out or yeah whatever we're going to provide.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, city council and community people were there.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So then you thought, oh, well, I'm going to be
working for the sponsor the company that they'll take.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Over that and I'll get an invite.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Sure, nothing doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
How about yost ag Yost is urging Mike to Wine
to veto part of the state budget that you know
would include the six hundred million dollars and then claim
property funds toward a new stadium for the Browns. Yost
is blasting wallmakers and the statutory taking of public funds
(02:44):
without clear public benefit is poor policy.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yost goes on to say.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Quote unquote, UHD Wine's got to sign this budget before
July first.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So you were saying that's going to be sometime this evening.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, it's got to be tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And he may the line item veto as they call it.
He can veto individual items he doesn't support. Unlike past
uses of unclaimed funds, the plan would allow Ohio to
assume ownership of abandoned paychecks security deposits after ten years.
Ohio is sitting on four point eight billion in unclaimed property.
(03:21):
You know, I just wonder as far as that much money,
do you think that? And look, I'm not accusing anybody,
I'm just asking a question. Do you think it's really
four point eight or once upon a time was it
five billion or four point was it four point nine?
(03:42):
And it's really just now they figured out that is
a lot of scattered money. Yes, it is everywhere, and
it's little drips and dress what was the movie was
in office space where they he got all the half cents?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And I can't but I do remember that plot.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Remember that all of a sudden they were like trying
to figure out where the money went and he goes
rolling up in a ferrari.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Diverted all the half says from paychecks or something.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And that's what this kind of reminds me of. I mean,
it's not half cents, but it's you know, a little
scattered here ten dollars twelve man, that's a how what
the like? How did they cut? How is this much
money just sitting there? And is that really the amount
or was it another amount? And at some point they're
(04:32):
going to figure out that something maybe.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Anyway, I'm I'm center change as ghost on this, and
I you know, as I said last week, surprising a
few people, if Mark Dan files a lawsuit, I'll be
raw rawing him too.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Because this is wrong. The policy that established the unclean
funds clearly states it will be held indefinitely, period period,
unless the legislature is going to change that. They can't
just come up with a budget that says we're taking
money out of there.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I'd like to know.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
With as controversial as this is, and there's so many
people with legal footing that are involved, if they really
couldn't pull this off, what are they doing? Are they
just testing the waters here?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I don't know. But as soon as they said they
were going to do something because the Browns want their
new stadium, as soon as they said they were going
to do something like this, you notice we started hearing about,
you know, we need nationwide arena rehabbed, and the Bengals
of course want to get some rehab done down there.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And yeah, don't stop there.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
There's a couple of ballparks, a couple of baseball parks.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Soon as they smell dollar signs in the water man,
they come after it. That is not the state's money.
It belongs to other people. Whether they have claimed it
or not, doesn't matter. It's not the state's money.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well, I don't know how you get around that then
if you I mean, at what point do you say,
all right, well, if you don't claim the money, what's
the statute on it? I mean, the thing is, like
I say to my all right, it's unclaimed money the state.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It's not theirs, it's the people who didn't claim it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
How many of these people have passed away, their families
are not even privy to the money that they're owed.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The reason that it is there was established by a statute.
The State of Ohio requires that if you have funds
coming to you and the person that owes them to
you cannot find you, they must put it into a
non escro barrier or non interest sparing escro account with
a State of Ohio. So if you know your landlord
can't find you to return the deposit, or you closed
(06:35):
a bank account and forgot you had fifty bucks in
the checking account, or whatever, if they can't track you down,
you moved away, whatever, those peace they have to put
it with the state to hold onto for you. So
it's your money. The state is just a bank vault,
that's all it is. They didn't claim the money, they're
just holding it. So that it was established that these
(06:57):
entities had to do that. It was not a stablished
that the state gets to take it after any period
of time. There's no default period. They just change it. Then,
just too legislation to change that and say Okay, after
ten years, it's defaulty already you know something like that.
But as I said, I checked myself last week. I
had ten ten different, ten different unclean funds.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yes, totally.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, I don't know, like not much. It just tells
you up to this much.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Oh that's what I know.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
What the final amount is gonna be. Wait wait, probably
five hundred bucks between everything.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Oh I would why wouldn't you go get that?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well I am now because I don't want them spending
it on a stadium. I want to use it. Yeah,
new Frosty's kept my attention.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, you'll be having to know two things.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
One, they don't cost five hundred dollars and and I
know you weren't saying they did.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You don't know how many I'm good about?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh boy, and uh go chunk go, He's like, and
I'm instantly back in forty six pants in one night.
The other part is you don't have to worry. I
don't think at Wendy's. I've never ever heard the Frosty
machine is down when you go there.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, Wendy actually stays there and works on stuff. Well,
she's dedicated. You know that woman is tireless. Rage don't
come cheap
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Traffic and weather together from day and night heating and
cooling products until mechanical Johnny Hill
It seems like there's always thunderstorms in the forecast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I was just thinking, what do we have storms? Last year?
During Red White and Boom?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
They've all run together for me at this point, I
can't remember. It just feels like the overwhelming amount of
time that these have we've been having Red White and Boom,
which is.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
How many years are we talking?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
One hundred and seventeen?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I think it is now thirty plus? Is it maybe
more than that? I don't know. I just I can't
even remember.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
They didn't have big fireworks when it started. It was
called Red White and what's that? It really wasn't up
to the boom stage yet.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So it is clearly now as it's a thing. It's
a big thing. I haven't been down there in years, though,
to go. Once upon a time I was going every year.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And this is.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Long before I worked here, you know, for iHeart or
then what it would Clear Channel. I don't know how
many different No.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I've got shirts in the closet from Jcore, Clear Channel,
City Casts and iHeart. I don't know where I work anymore.
I just show up right.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But when it started it was one of those companies,
I guess because NCI has always been the sponsor, the
title sponsor for it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It seems to eat if mother I hard hooked us
up with like a rooftop tent party or something down there,
you know, because extravagant they do stuff like that. Give
us a hotel on the top of the Lincoln Levek Tower.
We have a suite up there on the top of
the LAC. I guess not right, he's a thought.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, sure, you would think that they would be doing
a commemorative T shirt every year for it.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
How hard would that be to do?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, be collector's item. Yeah, put it on eBay.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Nothing not a nil nix the big goose egg zero.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I hadn't been invited downtown by the Mayor's office in
quite a few years either. Yeah, unfortunately, Mike and used
to do that. I would get an invitation because of
my community work. You know, come on down and you
can hang out on the city Hall.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We're cooking out or yeah whatever we're going to provide.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, city council and community people were there.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So then you thought, oh, well, I'm going to be
working for the sponsor the company that they'll take.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Over that and I'll get an invite.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Sure, nothing doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
How about yost ag Yost is urging Mike to Wine
to veto part of the state budget that you know
would include the six hundred million dollars and then claim
property funds toward a new stadium for the Browns. Yost
is blasting wallmakers and the statutory taking of public funds
(02:44):
without clear public benefit is poor policy.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yost goes on to say.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Quote unquote, UHD Wine's got to sign this budget before
July first.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So you were saying that's going to be sometime this evening.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, it's got to be tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And he may the line item veto as they call it.
He can veto individual items he doesn't support. Unlike past
uses of unclaimed funds, the plan would allow Ohio to
assume ownership of abandoned paychecks security deposits after ten years.
Ohio is sitting on four point eight billion in unclaimed property.
(03:21):
You know, I just wonder as far as that much money,
do you think that? And look, I'm not accusing anybody,
I'm just asking a question. Do you think it's really
four point eight or once upon a time was it
five billion or four point was it four point nine?
(03:42):
And it's really just now they figured out that is
a lot of scattered money. Yes, it is everywhere, and
it's little drips and dress what was the movie was
in office space where they he got all the half cents?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And I can't but I do remember that plot.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Remember that all of a sudden they were like trying
to figure out where the money went and he goes
rolling up in a ferrari.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Diverted all the half says from paychecks or something.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And that's what this kind of reminds me of. I mean,
it's not half cents, but it's you know, a little
scattered here ten dollars twelve man, that's a how what
the like? How did they cut? How is this much
money just sitting there? And is that really the amount
or was it another amount? And at some point they're
(04:32):
going to figure out that something maybe.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Anyway, I'm I'm center change as ghost on this, and
I you know, as I said last week, surprising a
few people, if Mark Dan files a lawsuit, I'll be
raw rawing him too.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Because this is wrong. The policy that established the unclean
funds clearly states it will be held indefinitely, period period,
unless the legislature is going to change that. They can't
just come up with a budget that says we're taking
money out of there.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I'd like to know.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
With as controversial as this is, and there's so many
people with legal footing that are involved, if they really
couldn't pull this off, what are they doing? Are they
just testing the waters here?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I don't know. But as soon as they said they
were going to do something because the Browns want their
new stadium, as soon as they said they were going
to do something like this, you notice we started hearing about,
you know, we need nationwide arena rehabbed, and the Bengals
of course want to get some rehab done down there.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And yeah, don't stop there.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
There's a couple of ballparks, a couple of baseball parks.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Soon as they smell dollar signs in the water man,
they come after it. That is not the state's money.
It belongs to other people. Whether they have claimed it
or not, doesn't matter. It's not the state's money.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well, I don't know how you get around that then
if you I mean, at what point do you say,
all right, well, if you don't claim the money, what's
the statute on it? I mean, the thing is, like
I say to my all right, it's unclaimed money the state.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It's not theirs, it's the people who didn't claim it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
How many of these people have passed away, their families
are not even privy to the money that they're owed.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The reason that it is there was established by a statute.
The State of Ohio requires that if you have funds
coming to you and the person that owes them to
you cannot find you, they must put it into a
non escro barrier or non interest sparing escro account with
a State of Ohio. So if you know your landlord
can't find you to return the deposit, or you closed
(06:35):
a bank account and forgot you had fifty bucks in
the checking account, or whatever, if they can't track you down,
you moved away, whatever, those peace they have to put
it with the state to hold onto for you. So
it's your money. The state is just a bank vault,
that's all it is. They didn't claim the money, they're
just holding it. So that it was established that these
(06:57):
entities had to do that. It was not a stablished
that the state gets to take it after any period
of time. There's no default period. They just change it. Then,
just too legislation to change that and say Okay, after
ten years, it's defaulty already you know something like that.
But as I said, I checked myself last week. I
had ten ten different, ten different unclean funds.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yes, totally.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, I don't know, like not much. It just tells
you up to this much.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Oh that's what I know.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
What the final amount is gonna be. Wait wait, probably
five hundred bucks between everything.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Oh I would why wouldn't you go get that?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well I am now because I don't want them spending
it on a stadium. I want to use it. Yeah,
new Frosty's kept my attention.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, you'll be having to know two things.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
One, they don't cost five hundred dollars and and I
know you weren't saying they did.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You don't know how many I'm good about?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh boy, and uh go chunk go, He's like, and
I'm instantly back in forty six pants in one night.
The other part is you don't have to worry. I
don't think at Wendy's. I've never ever heard the Frosty
machine is down when you go there.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, Wendy actually stays there and works on stuff. Well,
she's dedicated. You know that woman is tireless. Rage don't
come cheap
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Traffic and weather together from day and night heating and
cooling products until mechanical Johnny Hill
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