The Crowcast

Lindsey Swadner, the owner and operator of The Hub in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, stops by The Crowcast to discuss the Queen City's deal with Norfolk Southern, mass transit, when John Cranley lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary, and more.

The coolest man in Columbus, Gambit Aragon III, stops by The Crowcast to discuss his experience on the shambolic Civilian Police Review Board.

Emily Cole, Director of Ohio Families Unite for Political Action and Change (OFUPAC), drops by Spotify's No. 1 Dark Horror and Gothic Fantasy podcast to discuss why you and your loved ones should vote "No" on Ohio's Issue 1. It will enshrine cash bail into our Constitution, and that's a bad thing. We discuss Issue 1, lack of response from Ohio Democratic circles, police brutality within the state, and more. 

Ohio Democratic House candidate Nancy Larson stops by Rooster HQ to discuss her diagnosis for state politics, how she'll accomplish her goals as part of a super-minority party, our common disdain for Speaker Cupp and Senate President Huffman, and more.

Kelly MacKay, the mother of The Rooster and President of the Marion City School Board, stops by the headquarters to public life in the QAnon era and the dire straits of the state's public education system.

That’s right, folks, your eyes do not deceive you. The Crowcast has been delivered two days in a row. I’m a writer by trade, and I know most of you are not paying me for audio files, however, following yesterday’s release of our interview with Ohio Democratic State Auditor nominee Taylor Sappington, we have a guest with an equally important message. Damon Schnur (pronounced Schnore) is a supervisor at Starbucks on 88 E. Broad Street in Columbus, which was the first franchise in Columbus to join the nationwide unionization effort of its baristas under the union flag of Workers United. We had some technology issues with this one, which led to us broadcasting for a third time via our phones. As such, The Rooster sounds he’s using a payphone in state prison. Schur, however, sounds much better, which is good since he does most of the talking. Due to the difficulties, I did not give the man a proper intro as I was sweating bullets trying to figure out how to record a podcast over the phone, and as such we missed his opening monologue about growing up in a union household in Pennsylvania before coming to Ohio, the land of opportunity. He has been at Starbucks for nine years, and his story of service industry working conditions in Columbus will strike similarities with workers outside the corporate coffee industry. The service industry in Columbus, by the way, is a ripe environment for unionization. If the Starbucks on 88 E. Broad wins its union election, it could set off a firestorm of similar attempts throughout the city. It won’t be long into the conversation that you realize the local labor movement is lucky to have Schnur. We look forward to hearing more about him in the future.

The Rooster traveled to Athens, Ohio, for a one-on-one interview with Nelsonville auditor and Democratic State Auditor nominee Taylor Sapping. We call him "Our Man Sappington" around Rooster Worldwide Headquarters, and we believe him to be one of the most interesting politicians in the state. Let this 70-minute interview show you why.

You’re probably asking “who in the Hell is Freshwater Aquaman.” Well, he’s a longtime Twitter mutual of The Rooster. For the last six months, Aquaman has been working in the call center of an insurance company, which gives him unique insight into the crushing horrors built into our massive for-profit healthcare industry. He is granted pseudonymity here primarily because I’m a big believer in monikers over government names and also he’s trying to leave the industry on his own terms, not the bosses. I don’t even think people who have “good insurance” realize how they are only one bureaucratic decision away from getting stuck with a $58,000 medical bill. Aquaman also offers his pragmatic solutions to the industry, his idea of cancelling the troops and what the Cleveland Browns need to do to win the Super Bowl next year

The illustrious Patrick Mayhorn, as seen in the Buckeye Sports Bulletin, The Outside Zone and heard on the Flipping the Field podcast joins me for the first ever Crowcast involving a discussion about growing up in New Albany, how Ohio State media poisons the minds of Buckeye fans, the future of Ryan Day and Dabo Swinney, and the Cleveland Browns before ending with Patrick's plan to save the American experiment.