The Despoiler Podcast, Oct. 29: The DHS Leak by the Numbers
Rich Vandall on the Homeland Security leak and Ohio's 195 records, the last days before the election, Issue 4, three columns, sports and the Beggars' Night forecast. 13 minutes.
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In this episode
- 0:00 · Cold open
- 0:31 · The leak: what happened
- 1:59 · By the numbers, and Ohio's 195 records
- 4:21 · The tools in the records
- 6:00 · Why we don't print names
- 6:58 · Election 2026 and Issue 4
- 9:29 · Around the Valley
- 10:09 · Nation and world
- 10:48 · Opinion: three columns
- 11:45 · Sports
- 12:13 · Weather and sign-off
The stories
Everything in the episode is reported in full, with sources, on these pages:
- Hacker Leaks Work Details of More Than 40,000 Homeland Security Employees
- Montgomery County Is Voting Early at Nearly Three Times Its 2022 Pace
- What Dayton Public Schools' Issue 4 levy would cost
- Acton, Brown and John Legend Make Final Dayton Push
- ADAMHS Board Withdraws Job Offer
- Fire Departments Wait Longer for New Trucks
- Ohio Joins 19 States Suing Dollar General
- Hasan Piker Sues Scott Jennings
- Likud Projected Largest Party in Israel
- Who Ate Burger Chef?
- Police as Retail Security
- Live Where You Govern
- Rays Walk Off in the 12th
- Motorsports results and standings
Written and read by Rich Vandall. The segment titles are read by an AI voice, and the music beds are original. An AI tool helped draft the script; every fact is sourced on the story pages above. In the Nation and World segment, the largest party mentioned is Likud.