February 9, 2025 • 8 mins
Mindy and Mikaela share hot topics this week from things like TikTok to the treatment of animals!
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome back to What Matters Mikayla in studio. Mindy is
on the road heading back from the first softball tournament
of this season, and it's hot topic time.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
So here's the number if you want to call in.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Six one four eight two one nine eight eighty six
six one four eight two one WTVN. Mindy, I have
one that you're going to be completely appalled about, because.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm completely appalled and I'm wondering when it stops.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I don't know if you've seen this story because we
haven't talked with you on the road, but did you
see about the massive rescue of animals in Ashtabula County over.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
This last week?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I have not seen that. What happen?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So hundreds of wolf, dogs, foxes, and skunks that were
being farmed for their fur and their urine were rescued
from this farm just terrible, terrible conditions. The Humane Society
of the United States said that the animal were living
in filthy, wire bottom cages with no protection against frigid conditions,
(01:05):
and many of them had missing limbs, which veterinarians said
were on the wire floor.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
So how did they find them? This is the stuff
I get so sick and tired of as well. I
hate more than anything. I can't stand any type of
animal cruelty things because animals can't speak out for themselves.
They're just trapped in a situation and an environment that
you put them in as a human have a heart,
and I can't stand that. I just can't stand it.
(01:35):
But how did they even find and locate this place?
And were they able to rescue and save the majority
of them? I hope.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So it looks like it was a tip that got
called in. But the sad part of this is we're
sitting here like processing this. In the United States, there
aren't any federal regulations related to the welfare, care or
slaughter of animals farmed for their fur.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I hate that, And so.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Ohio doesn't have laws or standards of care for fur
farms or slaughter either. And these these animals were being
raised for fur, and I thought, I thought urine. I
was thinking to myself, why why that? But it has
to do with obviously we know what first for, but
predator urine is advertised for use in hunting, trapping, dog training,
(02:30):
and ironically as a humane wild animal deterrent for gardeners.
So that's why they were capturing urine from these animals.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I'm sure they can find something else to use. And
I'll be honest with you, there's been such a push
for almost decades of people to go away from wearing
real fur. You're almost looked down on if anyone would
walk around in real fur anymore. I really thought that
was a thing of the path.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I thought so too.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So to answer your question about the number, more more
than three hundred and thirty animals were rescued from the
property were able to be placed in wildlife rehabbers and sanctuaries.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So quite a few were rescued. Some did have.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
To be euthanized to mainly on the property during the
course of the rescue operation, but more than three hundred
and thirty were rescued and placed.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Sometimes you send in a tip and that's all it takes. So,
you know, unfortunately, the ones that were not able to
be rescued, but thank goodness, so many of them were
able to be saved. Yeah, and you know what, they'll
have a whole new they'll have a whole new life.
Let's hope, well, let's hope.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Too that somebody can address this on a federal level
in a state level, because again had no clue that
this was I don't want to call it a loophole,
because I know we lack some other laws on the
federal and state level as well when it comes to animals,
but with this animal trade, I was not aware of it,
so I wanted to share it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Definite hot topic.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
If you google it, you'll find other articles out there
about it.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
If anyone listening wants to learn more.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well, the only hot topic I had this was something
that I had no idea. It has to do with TikTok.
TikTok's been in the news obviously a lot for the
last several months. But a friend of mine got a
brand new phone and he was all proud of me.
He's like, Ooh, I got a new phone. I'm like, yeah,
it looks good. He's like, with something's missing from it.
If you get a new phone right now. Apparently you
(04:24):
cannot download the TikTok app.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
What that is?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, And I looked it up that you can. You
can google how to reinstall a TikTok app once you
delete it or get a new phone. Apparently you can
do it from Canada, but anywhere in the United States
you can't. You can't download TikTok right now. But I
thought there's ways around it, but I don't know if
it's legal ways around it, but I thought.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
We had, like now, what would be sixty more days
for there to be some kind of deal.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I did too. That's that's why I was so surprised.
Does you if you get a new phone, you cannot
download the TikTok app right now? TikTok app Ye say
that he was a properb and then he's he's really
like by the book, like I would have probably downloaded
it the sideways way, but he's like, I don't know.
(05:18):
I think I was doing something illegal if I downloaded,
so I wasn't going to do it, so there are
ways around it. He just said, know how legit it was? No,
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It is and I'm looking this up right now. So
here here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
If your phone is set to the US under your settings,
so you go to settings, then you go to general,
then you go to language and region, and once you're
in region, you'll see that you were using the US
App Store and that is why you aren't able to
(05:50):
download it. So Apple's US Store won't let you download it.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I know, so you can if you're in Cana know
you can, But like I said, there are ways around it.
So I just wanted to let people know because so
many people get new phones all the time, and if
you have that TikTok app on your phone and you
get a new one, chances are you probably won't have
that app again. Good till they change it out to
(06:18):
let people know.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Good heads up, man, Good heads up.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Dick from Dayton wants to say something really quickly about
the super Bowl before we go to break, So Laura,
let's put Dick on the line. This way, we'll also
know that you can hear our phone line coming.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Back Bay at the other station. Hey, Dick, welcome to
What Matters. No, you want to talk about the Super Bowl?
Mindy and I are on with you.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I say, Kansas City. I predicted on one of my
other friends up north, I'd say thirty four to twenty seven.
They're going to win. And yeah, I'm hoping maybe the
Bengals can go back, you know, because yeah, I'm I'm
I'm uh yeah, that's my prediction. And I'm like I
told Boots, I'm gonna I'm wait and I played a little.
(07:01):
I'm waiting to get up there sometime in the spring
to play music.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Awesome sounds good with me, Dick. What are you making
for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
The food is the second most important thing.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I'm visiting one of my girlfriends over season in the
nursing home over here in Kentery. Snack, but yeah, I
eat here every day. It saves money.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
There you go, Dick, have a good one, buddy, you're
too No chiefs, I'll say, go chiefs, Mindy, there's that,
you know, distant family connection.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Don't have to line, but know the people, right So yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I mean, but there are people don't love the chiefs
right now, you know, because they don't.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, they absolutely don't. But then again, you know, people
love success but hate successful people.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That is true. All right, we just hit the bottom
of the hour, Mindy, stick around.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We're going to have this conversation with Beth Woods and
help a family who's going through a tough time right
here after the break.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
This is
Welcome back to What Matters Mikayla in studio. Mindy is
on the road heading back from the first softball tournament
of this season, and it's hot topic time.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
So here's the number if you want to call in.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Six one four eight two one nine eight eighty six
six one four eight two one WTVN. Mindy, I have
one that you're going to be completely appalled about, because.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm completely appalled and I'm wondering when it stops.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I don't know if you've seen this story because we
haven't talked with you on the road, but did you
see about the massive rescue of animals in Ashtabula County over.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
This last week?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I have not seen that. What happen?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So hundreds of wolf, dogs, foxes, and skunks that were
being farmed for their fur and their urine were rescued
from this farm just terrible, terrible conditions. The Humane Society
of the United States said that the animal were living
in filthy, wire bottom cages with no protection against frigid conditions,
(01:05):
and many of them had missing limbs, which veterinarians said
were on the wire floor.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
So how did they find them? This is the stuff
I get so sick and tired of as well. I
hate more than anything. I can't stand any type of
animal cruelty things because animals can't speak out for themselves.
They're just trapped in a situation and an environment that
you put them in as a human have a heart,
and I can't stand that. I just can't stand it.
(01:35):
But how did they even find and locate this place?
And were they able to rescue and save the majority
of them? I hope.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So it looks like it was a tip that got
called in. But the sad part of this is we're
sitting here like processing this. In the United States, there
aren't any federal regulations related to the welfare, care or
slaughter of animals farmed for their fur.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I hate that, And so.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Ohio doesn't have laws or standards of care for fur
farms or slaughter either. And these these animals were being
raised for fur, and I thought, I thought urine. I
was thinking to myself, why why that? But it has
to do with obviously we know what first for, but
predator urine is advertised for use in hunting, trapping, dog training,
(02:30):
and ironically as a humane wild animal deterrent for gardeners.
So that's why they were capturing urine from these animals.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I'm sure they can find something else to use. And
I'll be honest with you, there's been such a push
for almost decades of people to go away from wearing
real fur. You're almost looked down on if anyone would
walk around in real fur anymore. I really thought that
was a thing of the path.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I thought so too.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So to answer your question about the number, more more
than three hundred and thirty animals were rescued from the
property were able to be placed in wildlife rehabbers and sanctuaries.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So quite a few were rescued. Some did have.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
To be euthanized to mainly on the property during the
course of the rescue operation, but more than three hundred
and thirty were rescued and placed.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Sometimes you send in a tip and that's all it takes. So,
you know, unfortunately, the ones that were not able to
be rescued, but thank goodness, so many of them were
able to be saved. Yeah, and you know what, they'll
have a whole new they'll have a whole new life.
Let's hope, well, let's hope.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Too that somebody can address this on a federal level
in a state level, because again had no clue that
this was I don't want to call it a loophole,
because I know we lack some other laws on the
federal and state level as well when it comes to animals,
but with this animal trade, I was not aware of it,
so I wanted to share it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Definite hot topic.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
If you google it, you'll find other articles out there
about it.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
If anyone listening wants to learn more.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well, the only hot topic I had this was something
that I had no idea. It has to do with TikTok.
TikTok's been in the news obviously a lot for the
last several months. But a friend of mine got a
brand new phone and he was all proud of me.
He's like, Ooh, I got a new phone. I'm like, yeah,
it looks good. He's like, with something's missing from it.
If you get a new phone right now. Apparently you
(04:24):
cannot download the TikTok app.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
What that is?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, And I looked it up that you can. You
can google how to reinstall a TikTok app once you
delete it or get a new phone. Apparently you can
do it from Canada, but anywhere in the United States
you can't. You can't download TikTok right now. But I
thought there's ways around it, but I don't know if
it's legal ways around it, but I thought.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
We had, like now, what would be sixty more days
for there to be some kind of deal.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I did too. That's that's why I was so surprised.
Does you if you get a new phone, you cannot
download the TikTok app right now? TikTok app Ye say
that he was a properb and then he's he's really
like by the book, like I would have probably downloaded
it the sideways way, but he's like, I don't know.
(05:18):
I think I was doing something illegal if I downloaded,
so I wasn't going to do it, so there are
ways around it. He just said, know how legit it was? No,
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It is and I'm looking this up right now. So
here here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
If your phone is set to the US under your settings,
so you go to settings, then you go to general,
then you go to language and region, and once you're
in region, you'll see that you were using the US
App Store and that is why you aren't able to
(05:50):
download it. So Apple's US Store won't let you download it.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I know, so you can if you're in Cana know
you can, But like I said, there are ways around it.
So I just wanted to let people know because so
many people get new phones all the time, and if
you have that TikTok app on your phone and you
get a new one, chances are you probably won't have
that app again. Good till they change it out to
(06:18):
let people know.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Good heads up, man, Good heads up.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Dick from Dayton wants to say something really quickly about
the super Bowl before we go to break, So Laura,
let's put Dick on the line. This way, we'll also
know that you can hear our phone line coming.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Back Bay at the other station. Hey, Dick, welcome to
What Matters. No, you want to talk about the Super Bowl?
Mindy and I are on with you.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I say, Kansas City. I predicted on one of my
other friends up north, I'd say thirty four to twenty seven.
They're going to win. And yeah, I'm hoping maybe the
Bengals can go back, you know, because yeah, I'm I'm
I'm uh yeah, that's my prediction. And I'm like I
told Boots, I'm gonna I'm wait and I played a little.
(07:01):
I'm waiting to get up there sometime in the spring
to play music.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Awesome sounds good with me, Dick. What are you making
for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
The food is the second most important thing.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I'm visiting one of my girlfriends over season in the
nursing home over here in Kentery. Snack, but yeah, I
eat here every day. It saves money.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
There you go, Dick, have a good one, buddy, you're
too No chiefs, I'll say, go chiefs, Mindy, there's that,
you know, distant family connection.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Don't have to line, but know the people, right So yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I mean, but there are people don't love the chiefs
right now, you know, because they don't.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, they absolutely don't. But then again, you know, people
love success but hate successful people.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That is true. All right, we just hit the bottom
of the hour, Mindy, stick around.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We're going to have this conversation with Beth Woods and
help a family who's going through a tough time right
here after the break.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
This is
Popular Podcasts
Math & Magic: Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing with Bob Pittman
How do the smartest marketers and business entrepreneurs cut through the noise? And how do they manage to do it again and again? It's a combination of math—the strategy and analytics—and magic, the creative spark. Join iHeartMedia Chairman and CEO Bob Pittman as he analyzes the Math and Magic of marketing—sitting down with today's most gifted disruptors and compelling storytellers.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy And Charlamagne Tha God!