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For another big day of neocracy I can't wait to get to all the stuff that has happened in just the last 24 damn hours Never a lack of material no
No, there really isn't, sadly.
It just keeps coming.
You know, I wouldn't mind getting to a little medical information, you know, maybe a little tech stuff, going back in time, seeing how tech was back then.
It's actually not much different than today, but it's just larger.
That's all.
Anyway.
More intrusive.
I'd love to, you know, just broaden the spectrum a little bit, but, you know, we're dealing with a guy on the spectrum.
And, you know, we have a deeply troubled individual in the White House, and every day we have to talk about this son of a gun.
I am taught.
I am so tired of this stuff.
Well, let's take a day off.
Every stupid thing this guy does, every
dumb thing he
Dom is
Oh, these were in the glove box.
They look, they look fine.
Yeah.
It's my buddy Holly glass.
Okay.
I like them.
Well, thank you.
It's a good look for us.
Well, it used to be a good look.
I Moved on from here.
Okay, but let's try it, you know and by the way it goes with my my black shirt today Okay, black rim glasses.
Mm-hmm.
from Busted Pencils, got the latest on education.
And there was an incident involving Linda McMahon that we'll take a look at.
Yeah.
Listen to.
And Jim Santel will join us.
Attorney at law.
So that's what's coming up a little bit later on.
No.
Yeah.
Catherine said FX.
FX.
Oh, okay.
She talking about FX, the channel FX, or is she saying?
He said he wasn't going to do it.
Yeah, he said he wasn't going to do it.
Maybe, you know, demand will ask him to come back.
But anyway, he managed to throw a few cuts out there at the liberals.
Right.
And then, you know, the response is.
at least from one poster, he says, well, this is just how desperate the liberals and Democrats are.
Oh, really?
Oh, really?
That's desperate?
No, no, we're not that desperate.
We're just throwing sand into the gear mechanisms here.
What's wrong?
What's wrong with protesting, you know?
Free speech, right?
Are they trying to
All
you know, I can't
Gadget that I want to add on to my electrical box.
Okay, so I'm waiting and waiting and waiting for my electrician to call me up and say it's a go I'm going to these charging stations all over the place and all of them were taken yesterday Oh, no, so I went all the way downtown here on East Washington Avenue to charge my car.
It's a fast charge, right?
I'm there I'm there and every time I go there to fast charge the company that has the fast chargers Never recognizes my account.
They don't know who I am.
I'm signed up.
I have a charge
on your on your account and And then I can't get it I can't get the charge going and then I get back into the car.
I'm really mad I've got the car.
I've got my phone in my hand.
I'm texting them and and then On my dash it says my battery is low.
Oh Yeah, the 12 volt battery.
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, well battery the little one that starts the car so Then the whole car just shut down
So I'm sitting there, yeah, and it's hot, and it's very hot in the car, and I'm there trying to get a hold of the EV center, and I'm thinking, no, this isn't working.
I can't get a charge.
My car battery just died in front of me.
And then I call up my new insurance company, which is another story altogether.
And I call them up and get the towing service.
And it took four hours for the tow truck to get there.
So this is from one to five.
You're just sitting there?
Yes.
No, I was walking around all over the places around the Sylvie, you know.
Oh, you sure?
Yeah.
So I'm there.
I'm there for.
like four hours getting a lot of sun by the way no show prep I am just like you know I'm thinking what the heck I've got two programs to do tomorrow and and finally they they they find out the guy that was originally supposed to come out and told me it was kind of
hung up on a previous toe job.
But he never let anybody know, so I'm sitting in there for four hours.
I should have actually called a few hundred times before that.
But anyway, this other guy comes out, he's fantastic.
This guy knows everything.
He's a great guy.
I gave him, you know, a 10 in the ratings, even though
I
four hours.
Well, I thought maybe if he just gave me a jump, yeah, it worked.
I drove to the dealership.
Oh.
and set it off there.
The thing I found out was, and I signed up for Carfax, I believe it is.
And I signed up for that, and I found out there's a recall on my car that hasn't been taken care of yet.
And this recall is for an item that does affect the car battery.
The car battery doesn't get a recharge.
You know how the whole system works together?
It charges the battery all the time.
But it wasn't working, and that's one of the problems.
So it's at the dealership getting taken care of I see so I'm just You know if it isn't one thing it's the other Couple
Alright, second question.
Would you rather live at the top of a tall New York City apartment building or at the top of a mountain secluded away from everyone by yourself?
Little shack, and he's not a shack.
You would go apartment?
Oh, sure.
New York?
Sure.
You would do New York?
Oh, yeah.
That was the choice,
yeah.
All righty, it is 619 and coming up right around the corner, Professor Dr. Tim Slecker will be joining us for today, talking about education and Linda McMahon.
The incident involving Scott Walker.
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I'm not mistaken, I think it was actually Scott Walker that managed to close the damn thing, along with the Republican.
No kidding.
Jury-mandered Republicans.
They decided that having one nude beach in the state was one too many.
And I think that's very sad.
I went there with somebody who was in a wheelchair.
Oh, really?
Who wanted to go there.
It was very interesting.
Everything was fine.
You know, I always wondered how how they know where to go for the beach because the sandbars and everything changes over time.
Even the shoreline even shoreline does.
They didn't have the signs and everything how to get there.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, I don't know why, you know, people want to infringe on other people's rights to attend a nude beach.
I don't get it.
It doesn't make any sense to me, but they managed to do it.
That was a shocking moment in my life.
Here, you know, I haven't finished my story yet.
I was standing in the parking lot for four hours waiting for a tow truck to come.
I take my car to the dealership.
Oh, okay.
Well, let's go with part two.
You know, I was hanging out.
And I was there walking around.
You know, I went to a cargo cafe.
Oh, that's a nice place.
And the brewery right across the street.
Vintage brewery?
Yeah, vintage.
And then this guy walked up to me.
He walked up to me.
He said, well, what brings you out here?
I said, well.
Well, I'm waiting for a tow truck.
He says, I don't believe you.
I didn't expect that answer.
And I said, you know what?
I don't think I care.
I think I was infringing on his territory of panhandling.
I don't know.
He didn't panhandle.
I was there.
I said, well, why are you here?
He said, well, why do you think I'm here?
I said, I don't know.
And I don't care, I should leave me alone.
Really?
Yeah.
I mean, I almost got to fighting it out.
Fist of Cuffs?
Yeah.
Oh, hit it when the fist of cuffs come out.
I just told him to leave me alone.
And he didn't.
He just hung out there.
He was just, he was bothering me constantly.
Something like that.
Yeah.
Now it's taken care of.
It's going to be a free job, but I don't know how long it's going to be held up now.
You know, the parts and stuff like that.
So we'll see what happens.
But yeah, I do have the ever dependable hybrid car that I have.
Prius.
Prius.
The speedy little red Prius.
I was kind of surprised, but the whole thing worked out.
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Well, you know, it's
Again, it's kind of one of these stories that it's not really, but it was interesting, the headline, all on student loan forgiveness.
Quickly, my daughter this weekend who gets her news feed, I don't check her news feed and I don't censor it.
She's 22, but dad!
What is this?
Ice is getting student loan forgiveness?
What?
You know, and my student loan forgiveness was denied.
This is horrible, dad.
They're gonna, I don't know, I just, you know, I thought I was messing around there.
I was like, well, you know, I mean.
Who knows?
It's a good place to start, I guess.
You know, I'm like, you know, student loan forgiveness for you is actually student loan forgiveness for me.
Yeah, that's right.
You know
what?
You know,
if you got to do, if you got to do a couple of years in ICE, I'm okay with that.
right?
For new
like $50,000 and
loan forgiveness.
But you know, and
It really did touch a nerve, and it should have if the story actually was true in the sense that it presented it as if, you know, hey, student loan forgiveness is off the tables, except for if you're going to, you know, get in line with this administration because they're going to offer student loans.
It's not really that.
What it is is that ICE, if you work for ICE, you're a federal employee and as a federal employee or a public employee, public employees are eligible for student loan forgiveness.
Right now currently under the public student loan forgiveness program, which is available for all public servants Currently, okay?
What what what was the twist here was is that there's also a potential $50,000 signing bonus with ice That if you get into ice and so the story wraps those together and it then comes across for my
my daughter and who's reading it as, oh my God, they are going to give student loan forgiveness for ICE, but me, who is probably going to work in the national parks as a wildlife coordinator, I'm not allowed to get student loan forgiveness.
Dad, oh my God, this is the worst country in the world.
I want to go to Finland.
time.
you know but it wasn't we brought this up for our sessions on wednesdays for classes and session because um you know and this is where i think people would have been like oh this is propaganda and you guys would have just went with it i'm saying no we this is an opportunity to to teach that um you know what was the intent of this article because
Underneath there was you know, the truth is public student loan forgiveness is still an option for everybody It is fraught with all kinds of difficulties Is there the possibility that this article was really meant?
to inflame a certain population of people.
And so when we see things like this, it's, you know, this is just simple media literacy.
What does it mean to be able to read and then dig deeper and understand what was the intent of what I read, who wrote it, and what are the truth and the facts there?
And these are things that, you know, we should be teaching all students all the time.
Well, you'd find out.
more if you just
and forgetting
was a
Well, I mean, I mean, that always was the part, you know, this is like the Biden administration.
We're getting elected on.
giving student loans and I'm just like right away from me it was just like what a horrible marketing tactic you know it presents people getting college degrees as you know bad people who yes you know your sins are forgiven how dare you go
and learn about things.
But again, how you package these things.
So when it comes across as forgiveness, it was very easy for Trump and people on the right who wanted to position this as a problem.
was is that you know wait a minute these were going to give forgiveness and it sounds like some kind of a handout and that it's going to come out a you taxpayer and how horrible this is and uh again you know
Horrible horrible horrible the reality to even on the the forgiveness and the taxpayer was is that you know we've worked with some student loan experts and There there's no taxpayer hit to canceling Student loan debt student loan debt the interest alone every year that's collected pays for
the funds that went out to give student loans and so the idea that taxpayers would be on the take or uh you know to pay to pay off my daughter who dared go to college to learn about animals it's just nonsense and so we say we cancel a bad
debt that's what it should have been framed as yeah these were bad debts these were predatory loans these were set up to create profit for
the government there's no forgiving anything here it's canceling a predatory loan that goes after a significant population of people who are in a position to be preyed upon because they need the money to go to college so that you know there's a whole other rant for you guys absolutely I
you know?
Well, what they did, though, was that they denied that initial student loan forgiveness that Biden put forward, that everybody was eligible for $10,000 of just
blanket
forgiveness.
It didn't matter what your major was, everybody could qualify for that.
And then students with Pell grants were also eligible for up to 20,000.
That's what was struck down by the Supreme Court.
The public student loan forgiveness program that was implemented in 2007, I think, under the Obama administration.
that has always been in place and that's been put, you know, has continues to operate.
It's a disaster.
It's a mess.
People who go for it typically spend, you know, years.
Oh, wait.
I'm now eligible for my loans to be wiped out, but I have one more payment.
Wow.
Thank
We're going to take this.
The funding will come from the Department of Education.
Apparently
the CCP didn't like that they're cutting into our technology.
We're getting a little feedback in here.
But he had used some staff changes pretty quickly as people understood what his...
working style was and he understood you know them so but this time you know he knew he knew the story he knew how to you know how to make things work how to make things run he had the people coming in that he really wanted to work with him and and then he'd have this little cab
You know, sometimes kids in college take a gap year.
Well, he didn't voluntarily take a gap term.
But I think it turned out to be an incredible thing for him.
So, yeah.
And then Scott Walker, of course, you know, blame the liberal sport.
But, you know, as usual, Scott Walker is wrong and he's talking to Linda McMahon, two people.
You can't can imagine talking about it.
You know.
education at all.
I mean, Scott Walker brought education to its knees in Wisconsin, defunded everything.
And the man, of course, is taking the department apart.
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That's
get
you know national public radio another public media organization targeted by defunding efforts so they're fighting back on this but you know it's going to be devastating for some of the smaller public broadcasting stations that may just have to you know shut down right out in the country
you'd think that somewhere along the way tim that uh when you come out and say we're getting rid of woke
that maybe that would sway the judge or at least a decision in all of this.
It's purely political.
It has nothing to do with anything else.
This is censorship.
This is government censorship.
That's what it
is.
Yeah, it's that.
And, you know, it really creates this sense of going like, like, what is it about Mr. Rogers?
and Big Bird that is so offensive to conservatives who for 40 plus years have been fully engaged in trying to get to the point they've finally reached this, you know, this year with with the Trump administration because this isn't
a Trump issue here.
This is a long standing historical battle.
And in fact, we, you know, we covered that.
It was 1968 or 69 when Fred Rogers testified to the Senate
about
why the Corporation for Public Broadcasting needed to be continued to be funded.
And
You know, he did an incredible job.
I take everybody, you know, we played a portion of it on the show, you know, go YouTube and look at look it up.
And, you know, he makes the case of saying, this is the type of programming that is quality.
And when it came at that point, there was a Republican senator who after listening to Fred Rogers talk said, you know what?
what are we doing give him the money my god give him the money a reasonableness but um yeah what is it we frame it as woke and all of a sudden yeah get get rid of it and you know is it out of their uh viewpoints on pbs that are quote you know more uh
I don't know.
Is it left-leaning?
Or is it more liberal democracy supporting?
And that's the question we want to start always trying to dig out.
It's like, what is it about PBS?
And it has always stood as this kind of, I guess in one way, it's an anti-capitalist
corporation, right?
You know, they're not making it on their own.
It's why should the taxpayers fund these liberal woke agenda pushing people, you know, Fred Rogers and Big Bird?
here
one of the things that a lot of people forget is that there were a number of programs and public broadcasting that were conservative.
Yeah.
What one of the most popular programs ever on public broadcasting, which is I can't think of right now firing line fire line.
Yeah William F. Buckley.
Yes, exactly.
One of the biggest programs ever in the history of conservative broadcasting.
Right.
It was on public radio TV, public TV.
Yes.
So there it is.
I know this doesn't make any sense, of course.
Again, none of this ever made any sense.
They're attack on it.
But I think anytime that you actually go out and report on the news in an impartial way, it's always liberal and it's always progressive and it's always bad, right?
Yeah, John, that's what it was.
It was just like, okay, you know, the largely the most objective news out there, right?
For some reason, you know,
Objective news is liberal.
Yeah And you know and and and that's just like you know, how do you get to that and I I think again we study History we look at moments like this where you know Fred Rogers shows up speaks eloquently gently Truth and that truth comes across as saying you know if you're listening anybody who hears that says wait a minute
we're going to do away with, you know, this man and the type of programming that he's been bringing, you know, and at this point too, and was it 68, he hadn't even been doing this that long, right?
Yes.
You know, and so you think about that and you say it's quality programming.
And
You know, it just... I don't even
And I
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