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Midterm Madness — Crooked River Cast Show #81 🎙
Rob and Tom, week of November 2, 2026. Election week.
What's with all the doomsday talk? — Tim Pool's FORTRESS montage, then Hegseth's Fortress America: bases insurance, not civilian bunkers.
Alaska shenanigans. — Two Dan Sullivans on the Senate ballot, Decoy Dan, and ranked-choice confusion.
Obama in CLE and The Gay General Scott Bessent. — Obama's Cleveland Cheesecake Factory burn meets Bessent's Darth Vader's tomb clapback.
JStroke Email Yard Signs. — Door-knock questions for the yard-sign crowd, ending in "Are you a moron?"
Early voting numbers. — Nearly 1.2M early votes climbing to about 1.5M by Fri Oct. 30; in-person up, mail down, Franklin County lines.
On the ballot. — Cuyahoga Issue 10 DD levy, statewide Issue 3 voter ID into the constitution, Ohio's data-center ballot fights, and NEO school levies (Strongsville, Mentor, and friends). RTA's levy and an elected sheriff are not on the ballot.
LaRose refers another voter group to the Feds. — Field Forward Ohio's late voter forms referred to DOJ.
Good Things
Cuyahoga River safety tools. — CUYAC (said like kayak) gets a $110K Knight upgrade for LED river-risk lights at access points. Signal Cleveland [https://signalcleveland.org/cuyahoga-river-water-conditions-safety-tool-to-get-an-upgrade-cuyac/]
Youngstown Schools improves to 3 stars for the first time. — First overall three-star (meets standards) since Ohio started report cards. WFMJ [https://www.wfmj.com/news/local-news/youngstown/youngstown-city-schools-meets-ohio-education-standards-for-first-time/article_c6f968a6-618c-41ad-9821-a39c4c35f1b4.html]
26 Oct 2026
Crooked River Cast Show 80
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Crooked River Cast, Show 80 for the week of October 26.
* Halloween yard junk, inflatables, and a glowing Pennywise that follows you out the driveway.
* Vivek Ramaswamy's Acton-mother ad. Mike DeWine tells him to pull it. Trump piles on DeWine. Step-dad Cledith Arthur and the Mahoning County record. Hosts' take: two things can be true.
* Fake polls: Wedgwood Polling admits it fabricated surveys, including an August Ohio poll putting Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton ahead. SoCal Strategies, tied to the same person, wipes its site. Aggregators scramble less than two weeks before Election Day. Poly Market digression included.
* Ohio lore: the Cleveland Torso Murderer / Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, 1935–1938. Eliot Ness, Francis Edward Sweeney, and a case that never closed.
* Mansfield's Ohio State Reformatory: haunted house on the highway, Shawshank set, and a former inmate's hard-time stories. Architecture meant to uplift. Death did the opposite.
* Good Things: Cleveland Haunt Club's haunted garage sale, and Circleville's 2,455-pound record pumpkin. Pumpkin death is a bad way to go.
* Next week: election episode before Nov. 3. October surprises teaser on the way out.
19 Oct 2026
Crooked River Cast Show 79
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Crooked River Cast, Show 79 for the week of October 19. Rob and Tom are back.
* Homecoming season, volleyball shorts, and the Shane Gillis bit everybody's talking about.
* A Fayette County, Indiana council candidate goes viral on a local TV forum: "We have guns too."
* Feds raid Ilhan Omar's Washington home at 6 a.m. over decades-old immigration paperwork. Then the Al Qaeda laugh and her America comments.
* Big beautiful subs: Trump announces in Youngstown that Cleveland gets a Navy submarine component repair center. No, you idiots, it's sub PARTS.
* Max Miller vs. Poindexter in OH-7, and how an easy win turned neck and neck.
* SB 477: Sen. Bill DeMora wants e-bike limits for kids under 14, a $25 registration, and driver's ed. Damn those e-bikes.
* East Canton's speed cameras write 16,000+ tickets and pull in $800,000 in one month. Youngstown's vendor keeps 35%. Who reviewed all those tickets?
* The unmarked white F-150 "police" truck on I-77.
* 13 DeWine bills go into effect, from a $5 million space advisory commission to GPS check-ins for Medicaid caregivers.
* Good Things: David Lady of Chatfield and his 400+ handmade monster masks. Born on Halloween, just like his mother.
* Next week: our Ohio spooky lore special.
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