Athens County
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Oct 12, 2026
speaker_8HOST
Destroyed in 1838 by fire, where they changed the name again to St. Michael the Archangel.
speaker_8HOST
Again, in Athens County.
speaker_8HOST
Found in 1845, destroyed by fire.
speaker_8HOST
Neff's Sacred Heart.
CarmelHOST
Oh, yeah.
speaker_0HOST
Hey, Marla from Athens, Ohio.
speaker_0HOST
I was in Athens on Friday.
speaker_0HOST
Okay.
speaker_0HOST
Tina says, let's not forget about the Epstein Files distractions he has gone through as disquieting.
Brandon HodgeGUEST
And, you know, the violin's just got two strings barely strung on it, and it's just, you know.
Brandon HodgeGUEST
So I tell the real-world story of the Kuhn Spirit Room and what this is in 1853 in Athens County, Ohio.
Brandon HodgeGUEST
There's this avowed atheist named Jonathan Coons with a very large family.
Brandon HodgeGUEST
He's got 13 or 14 family members, depends on if you count, you know, these sort of adopted kids that lived with him.
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Brandon HodgeGUEST
But these were often usually just sitting on the table waiting to be used.
Brandon HodgeGUEST
Yeah.
Brandon HodgeGUEST
These are first made by Jonathan Coombs' family, the Coombs family in Athens County, Ohio.
Brandon HodgeGUEST
And so back to the spirit room, that establishment becomes so popular that tens of thousands of people travel to Athens County, Ohio, which is still kind of in the backwoods.
BethanyHOST
Okay, so start by telling us about yourself and why you're prepared to represent Ohioans in Congress.
Jerrad ChristianGUEST
The short story, I grew up pretty poor over in a little town called Gloucester, Ohio, out in Athens County.
Jerrad ChristianGUEST
Made my way out of there through a lot of different twists and turns, but eventually landed in the military where my first couple of years, I was a flight deck fueler on an aircraft carrier during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Jerrad ChristianGUEST
My last three years, I became a meteorologist and oceanographer.
Bill DeMoraGUEST
... there've been several wrecks, um, and not just in urban areas.
Bill DeMoraGUEST
I mean, Athens County, Brown County has had people seriously injured on these things.
Bill DeMoraGUEST
So it's time, instead of having a bunch of piecemeal legislation by different communities, I mean, here in Franklin County, six or seven of the suburbs all have rules, but they're all different rules.
Scott SloanHOST
Yeah.
Bill DeMoraGUEST
... there've been several wrecks, um, and not just in urban areas.
Bill DeMoraGUEST
I mean, Athens County, Brown Counties had people seriously injured on these things.
Bill DeMoraGUEST
So it's time instead of having a bunch of piecemeal legislation by different communities, I mean, here in Franklin County, six or seven of the suburbs all have rules, but they're all different rules.
Scott SloanHOST
Yeah.
Bill DeMoraGUEST
Brown County had someone seriously injured.
Bill DeMoraGUEST
Athens County.
Bill DeMoraGUEST
These are rural counties that have had injuries with these e-bikes before.
Bill DeMoraGUEST
And instead of having every municipality, there's over 2,200 municipalities.
Steve TurleyHOST
Here's a blue county.
Steve TurleyHOST
This is Athens County.
Steve TurleyHOST
They voted for Kamala by upwards of 25 points.
Steve TurleyHOST
Their first day of in-person early voting was 68% Democrat, 5% Republican.
Jay EdwardsGUEST
I don't understand why we're not trying to keep – By giving your money, yeah, it's a lot more work.
Jay EdwardsGUEST
But instead of giving Bank of America $100 million, which, by the way, is a rounding error for them, why don't we give $5 million to Hocking Valley Bank in Athens and give $5 million to the Atomic Credit Union down there in Jackson County or Pike County, Vinton County National Bank? Spread it out and give these folks more money.
Jay EdwardsGUEST
Then you can ensure, number one, that that investment that that bank's going to make stays in the state of Ohio or keeping Ohio's money in Ohio.
Jay EdwardsGUEST
It goes a long way towards investment and development.
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Jay EdwardsGUEST
And all these property owners thought, man, if I could hope there's gas under my...
Jay EdwardsGUEST
What happened during that time was the gas folks that wanted to explore those lands were coming to town.
Jay EdwardsGUEST
I remember sitting in a gym right here in Athens County and they had a community event and they came in and they were talking about the the science of fracking and they were talking about what this meant to landowners and they were educating and, and talking to people and they were doing this all up and down Eastern Ohio.
Jay EdwardsGUEST
And you know what, that worked, you know, that worked and, and, and they were able to do that and they were go out over to go out and explore.
Michael VincentHOST
He is.
Michael VincentHOST
You know, from Athens, Athens, Ohio.
Michael VincentHOST
You know the story of the mascot, the Bobcat mascot.
Michael VincentHOST
I've got it here, dude.
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