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We’re joined by DJ Byrnes of the independent news outlet The Rooster to take a look at the politics of OHIO, the most normal state in the union. With a trillion dollar nuclear energy scandal that led to multiple suicides, mayors entrapped by a Chinese spy honeypot operation, bribe-addicted polyamorous atheist city councilmen, charter school ponzi schemes, and FBI arrests, indictments and convictions of dozens of members of state and local government…extremely normal.

Find DJ’s chronicles of Ohio depravity at the Rooster: https://www.rooster.info/

And if you’re in New York, consider coming out to the Antics magazine fundraising party this Saturday, May 25th at Baby’s All Right: https://www.seetickets.us/event/antics-fundraising-party/601579

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bator

just as i got on a 15 hour flight!

Pato522

Felix jump scare at 12 minutes lol

Schwartz666

Shit, spoilees alert!! I'm 2m behind.. lol for real tho, I hoped it wasn't the royal "we" in the ep desc

Schwartz666

In other slop news, just saw that official (non-cam) "Civil War" torrents are now live. Been holding off on the Chap review til I could 'MST3k' it first!

Scoot

Nucular

Isaac

This description is the most interesting Ohio has ever sounded

Steven-O

Grey Wolf feed no longer works in Podcast Addict for the last three episodes.

Schwartz666

Seems Felix passed out after that comment, so Chris assumed co-host duties thereafter. 😴

Axel

I dreamt Matt had come back without a big announcement. CTH is too much man

Bobby

Cedar Point rolling back more labor laws than TopThrill2

HuffingGasInTheShed

Was anyone else isn’t a little bummed when they realized it wasn’t the NC State forward?

HeyB00B00

I wonder if Matt is ever coming back

Brent

“I’ll see Trump voters in Hell, but at least they know they’re supposed to be angry.” Too long for a t-shirt, but I’d wear it

Matt James Rich

My favorite places in Cincinnati to see are Findlay Market, the bust of Robert Taft's big ol' bald head, and Robert Taft's tomb just outside of the city, perfect place for seances and rituals.

William

That picture would “go hard” as an album picture (as the kids say)

kelz

Can confirm!

Tim O'

Dudes in Michigan will hear about a corruption scandal in Ohio and be like, "Hell yeah"

Matt

the ohio attitude is either blissed out midwest lib or deranged trucky guy

D.O.D

Feels like Chapo is embarking on a Sufjan-style 50 state survey, which they will similarly get bored with after a few states

Stupid Sexy Spencer Flanders

Also have ties to Marion. One of the most depressing things he left out- the pain pills made it so that Marion was one of the worst and first in the country with heroin. NPRs first story on the epidemic was about Marion. The ice cream shop I grew up going to had an abandoned drug house spray painted with "Heroin is our economy" next to it

J Lit

Ohio Grey Wolves represented, feels good man

Doug Cartel

The chinese plan to feed all ohio republicans into a massive tree shredder named THE RIZZ

Drew

Huge collab. I highly recommend the Rooster video where DJ goes around the statehouse and harasses our shithead state legislators. Someone's gotta do it.

MEAT CLOWN

I can't tell if Will is purposely saying "nucular" as a bit or not

Dude of H-town

Excellent episode. Great guest. And always like when Chris has a chance to get more involved. I’m not an Ohioan and have only been there a few times. Fascinating place. Basically midwestern Texas, in that it’s huge, diverse, has cool cities, and has all its political power gerrymandered away from where all the people live.

Dame

Swag like Ohio

Pvt. Jenkins

He's rother fond of saying it that way

David Bond

Being from Michigan im not surprised at the under representation. Podcasting would require the shutting of a slack-jaw

will michel

DJ is a perfect candidate for permanent mic. not because he’s great but because he mispronounces just as many words as will

cori

wow if my 3rd grade students knew i was listening to a podcast episode about OHIO……. they’d lose their shit

Quadabyte

OHIO! ONLY IN OHIO MOMENT SKIBBIDI RIZZ GYAT BACKROOMS!!

C. Ries

Your stock avatar kind of looks like Ohio

C. Ries

Of course that young pentacostal guy had rizz, he was from Ohio

C D

I would really like to see these mosaics of Marilyn Manson. Assuming he meant Marilyn Monroe?

waterbird

missed opportunity not playing City Hobgoblins by the Fall at the end of the ep

David DeCorte

I did always wonder why we have so many Skyline Chilis in Florida.

IlIIllIIl llII

No Will calling OSU “University of Ohio” sorry UO fans 😞

IlIIllIIl llII

Whenever you see Pentecostals it’s like one dude being followed around by a harem of women in the ugliest Jean skirts you’ve ever seen.

William

That one guy was schlapping cheeks in his office??

Meatwad Cosby

I can’t get over Lawrence Householder. Larry Landlord.

Petrorenminbi

Andrew Ginther looks like Mayor Quimby from the simpsons

Zachary Wood

“The more we explain the bill, the worse it polls” had me dying

pumpkin

I used to teach at a charter school in Dayton, Ohio. They're literally not schools at all.

Baduncadonk

How the hell did any of these kids make it out of college? Nuke-ular. Try-adge. Etc.

pumpkin

The fellas should come to New Albany and see the horrifying Levittown that Les Wexner built here

drizzly_november

Ohio's always been corrupt as hell, Warren "Teapot Dome-getter" Harding was the original Ohio himbo! The "unraveling Ohio scandal with multiple suicides" is straight out of Boardwalk Empire.

Breakaway

Marilyn Manson is from Ohio, so I’m really not sure.

vermouth

he also laughs really hard at his own jokes

Kvvvy

What, no "My City was Gone" drop?

Dan

It’s spelled madrasa

Thousand Island Stare

I was just about to comment on Will's George W. Bush ass pronunciation lmao

pumpkin

Sure, it's also not that

BP

I always really love state focused episodes. There's so many wacky characters and insane politicians/pure evil shit that don't get the national play

Billiam

Ohio is a goddamn nightmare. I left that hole more than a decade and a half ago and still feel elated about it. It’s ruled by a cabal of evangelicals and high school football coaches.

Kevin Kromenacker

As a native Ohioan I can say with 100% certainty a) that this guy is spot on about Ohio corruption being unique in how bewilderingly uninteresting the actors are and b) he has a perfectly Ohio way of pronouncing ordinary words (e.g. junta and triage) completely wrong

Jim Chapman

As a native of Michigan, I’m so looking forward to listening to this one.

Joe Quigley

I refuse to call it TAFS. I'll deadname Cumtown til I die.

MEAT CLOWN

I'm from Michigan too and it's a dump

MEAT CLOWN

I don't listen to the show anymore but it's so funny to me that it started as Nick joking that he was going to force Adam to do a boring talk show and then they actually did it

C. Ries

this is what they took from you, western man

Michael

That is wild that Columbus didn’t integrate schools until 1980. They’re pretty much on the same timeline as Odessa Texas.

Michael

Him and Felix two peas in a pod.

SH

There’s still people like you online grammar policing huh?

James Keegan

@ are an incredible band and victoria’s solo project Brittle Brian is also fantastic.

the lord commander

Another issue Ohio has is none of our metro areas are large enough to over awe the countryside around them. So when Illinois legalized weed it was bc cook county wanted to legalize weed. When it comes to statewide elections progressive measure actually do need some kind of support in the hinterlands bc even if Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati all vote the same way it doesn't decide the vote for the state as a whole. Doesn't help Cincinnati is largely run by reactionary Catholics and regularly doesn't vote the same as Columbus or Cleveland.

Anonymous Contributor

You should read the Rooster if you haven't already. DJ is originally from Warren Harding's hometown of Marion, and he brings up Harding every now and then.

Matt Colston

Wasn't this also seen with Bishop Sycamore? Sounds familiar.

Genghis Cohen

Star Game is one of my favorite songs right now.

B

Also, love hearing DJ’s voice. Been missing Factory of Sadcast bigly.

Dan

Critically important and interesting subject— too bad the guest was laughing at his jokes and was so jaded about the whole thing. Come on, man

C. Andrew

I demand Ohio give us our Toledo back.

Jaime Christley

FUBI is the Department of Justice’s new streaming service, offering new and classic movies and television programs about the glorious history of law enforcement in America

Antipaganda

The man needed to get this out. The corruption story that could not be stopped. What a spiel! Goddamn. Absolutely epic.

Reece Coren

a final four run and a chapo appearance. what can’t this guy do?

Jonathan Nathan

Dog, you subscribe to this podcast. Will has said nuclear that way for all eight years of the podcast.

Jonathan Nathan

How are all you people just now noticing that he has pronounced it this way as long as the podcast has existed

Cory

DJ is a man of the people.

Brian Long

Twinks are a hell of a drug, absolutely

Tim Mullen

As a western PA guy, can confirm Ohio sucks

Evan Pitkin

It was cool of Felix to stay on the mic during his CS Go session.

Shiv

try-ahj

S

DJ is great, hope you have him back

Antipaganda

If you think laughing at the absurdity of the situation means a journo isn't treating their beat seriously, you don't know many journalists. If you don't laugh, you get depressed. If you get depressed, you stop writing and the bastards win.

grant brown

Great episode. Didn’t think I’d be interested but ended up hanging on every word. A++

grant brown

Get a life, pronounced /ɡɛt ə laɪf/

Bobi Jon-son Kenobi

These stories reinforce my belief that we should have the death penalty, but for white collar crimes

Zakir KH

Yeah people’s daily is either announcing these executions or ‘look at this grandpa do pull up tricks at the park’. The future is in China

Zakir KH

What is it then? A rock fuel?

Zakir KH

This guy owns, fun episode

Ranni

Great guest!

Dildo Saggins

The key to reckoning with Ohio's unique form of madness is understanding how pervasive pre-industrial German heritage is here and all the baggage and flat out weirdness that entails. The 19th and early 20th century had fleets of wurst-addled peasants trying to turn this valley into a mini-Holy Roman Empire

TangiePower

Liked the comment about what a Chinese bureaucrat could do with Ohio. Lots of farmland, decent population base, residual industrial capacity from the good old days, access to ocean shipping via the Great Lakes…

bruce

Ohio boy here, the roving anti renewable propagandists are real lmao

Hick Rhodes

I say this as a native Ohioan who hasn’t lived there since 2010…. This was the most Ohio shit I’ve heard in so long. An absolute joy to Remember Some Guys, and DJ has the most Ohio way of telling a story with more detail than you possibly need, but appreciate getting it anyway. Goddamn Ohio rules.

J P 3

Great episode. Obama blowing up his 2008 campaign organization, and ending the DNC's 50-state strategy two years before a redistricting cycle is one of the biggest own goals in recent American political history. Hard to believe now, but Obama easily won Ohio, Florida, Iowa, narrowly won Indiana, North Carolina, and came within 4,000 votes of winning Missouri. Obama was a great campaigner, but an absolute disaster as a party leader. He can add clearing the field for Biden in 2020 and his endorsement of senile Diane Feinstein in 2018 to his "legacy" too.

Enoch

Touchdown Jesus mentioned

THEKILLERWHALE

10/10 troll job if he called it THE University of Ohio.

Aaron Enold

I will either like this episode or block the podcast and all it’s creators depending on how many times they admit Ohio is the greatest state in the world.

Dick Must Bust

Chris you don’t know what you’re doing to me with these outro tunes

abina

I feel like the guy didn't walk us through the scandal. I hear lots of bribes, make work jobs, factories , an energy company, but I don't really get how it all hangs together or what the real story hangs together. I am missing the forest for the trees.

Ben

Unrelated but I thought Chris said in his plug that the venue was called “Baby’s Alt Right” and I want to know what music is being thrown down there.

Darren R Young

As a Columbus resident i was stoked to see this.

Lola

There’s a pod call The Power Grab that goes into the detail about this scandal. It is massive and is still unresolved. His Substack also does a good job explaining details.

Andrew Owens

I have a friend that works in the first energy call center in PA and she hates when Ohioans call in bc "we are so rude to her" and I just laughed bc that is what happens when you work for the evil corporation

Hayden

Damn Neil Young’s “Ohio” really would’ve been the perfect outro for this ep especially given the times

joe

Great ep. Would love if DJ became a regular guest

MadamAjab

Always here for Sherrod Brown dunking.

Benjamin

Mike Dewine is an idiot. went to school with his nephew k-12 the rest of his family despised him and the Dayton politicians that knew him had a very low opinion back in the 90s.

birdguy123457

Frfr, one of the few states that could do ok if we were our own country

CARRIERHASARRIVED

state legislators only do this when they are very upset

CARRIERHASARRIVED

that brief bit about how all you need to do to lobby a legislator is learn their face and name, their main piece of legislation, and just talk to them with positivity is hilarious. people want other people to like them, and legislators are people. the careerists are probably in so deep they've lost their old social sensibilities and gained completely new sensitivities. easy to suck up to and therefore influence

burgerpocalypse

ohio??? no, U hio. oh, wait, wrong state

pdschmidty

How soon before they find Christopher Fuller face down in a ditch? Honeywell is going to make Havana Syndrome a reality.

Matthew Krueger

I couldn't listen to last weeks but when I d/led this weeks it was there. Mine was fine this week.

Matthew Krueger

In both their defenses... I mean, there's a lot of 'em just ain't worth it. You think North Dakota gonna hit like Ohio?

Matthew Krueger

I think Chris might even agree with this.

Matthew Krueger

For a while I thought it was just a straight faced troll of W. After that while, I realized nope. It made me a bit sad for a second while.

Rxk Lenderman

The way this dude talks is insane I hope they have him on regularly

Adam

This episode is how I learned it wasn’t normal that my school bus also picked up catholic school kids lol

No Relation to Henry

All corrupt states are alike; each unhappy state is unhappy in its own way. Also they’re all both corrupt and unhappy.

Max Beta

Politicians really make hay on the public's disaffected attitude of "So what? All politicians are corrupt." Absolute huge favor past corrupt folks did for future corruption.

bravo_delta_echo

The only more embarrassing state than Ohio in the Great Lakes portion of the Midwest is Indiana

People's Housing Project

I've never met anyone from Indiana that says anything good about Indiana. Like, other Midwesterners have some pride in their state, but people from Indiana just hate themselves and every other freak from that state

bravo_delta_echo

The northwest corner of the state is basically Chicago suburbs (i.e. tolerable), but most of the rest of it is some weird combination of Southern and Midwestern strains of redneck. Very "willfully ignorant and proud of it" (i.e. MAGA, obviously)

Tucker McCann

This dude rocks get him back on!

Kevin Spicer

Guys in erie pa (basically ohio) generally just get their girlfriends pregnant in order to prove to their boss that they are responsible.

zach

so good. and i have to respect Will’s refusal to drop the George Bush “nuclear” pronunciation despite how many times it must have been pointed out by now

LPO Crane Jefferson

My boyfriend is from New York and I tell him about my Ohio school education all the time and it always leaves him slackjawed. I went to the performing arts school in Cincinnati which got involved in two ponzi schemes within a few years of eachother 🤣🤣

LPO Crane Jefferson

My girlscout troop went on a haunted tour and tried to get EMF readings outside the Taft house, Ohio is such a fun place. Not sure what badge I earned that day.

Josie

PLEASE HAVE THOMAS KENNEDY ON - he's this guy's FloriDUH equivalent. I'm from Ohio, but live in Florida- its a pipeline for whackos, (present company excpeted, of course 😁 (much appreciate this episode. The way our shit system is designed, some states ARE more important than others. Luv y'all!!! 😘

chronye

love this mf