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I think we
We don't want to give anybody an idea that they can go out there and start shooting people.
We don't want to give that impression.
We don't want anybody getting on top of a building someplace.
Enjoying the pool?
They have rec centers up on the roofs of a lot of these buildings.
But we don't want to stop you from doing that.
Some guy was in this country for like 20 years, here legally, by the way, and he's been held for a long period of time.
Can't remember how many 100 days solitary confinement now they're going to ship them out He's done nothing wrong.
He's been here legally again and they decided he runs a small news service and he was reporting on immigration and and the tactics being used and they decided to silence them and Hold them up and then now ship them out for no reason.
Where was he working?
I believe in Florida, but I didn't mention that because I'm not really sure.
So that's happening and that is a horrific example of what's going on in this country and I guess the attempts to silence the media.
No, I was going to try and change it because I think it's time that we ask the question, you know, do you believe that it is right for the military to take practice lessons in our cities?
Practice drills.
So yeah, I'm just, I haven't exactly formulated the question yet, but once we get that up.
I'd love to hear from you.
Okay.
Well, the current question is,
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Well, this one is, um, is it the, uh, is the, uh, is this Cambucha locally sourced has 15%.
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I'm training for my fifth Iron Man.
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I have a big complaint again.
What?
You're complaining about something?
I'm just stacking them up this morning.
And you can blame Elon for this.
This was a big innovation.
Man is a genius.
What did he do?
Well, he wanted to hide the door handles on his cars.
You know where I'm going with it.
They're well hidden.
Like this morning, I went out to my car.
It's dark out there.
I don't know why the light wasn't shining in the parking area, but it wasn't.
jabbing the door with my hand, trying to find the door handle, because you have to push one side of the handle in in order to the other side to spring out.
Oh, God.
I am not a big fan of these door handles at all.
You
They're awful.
And, you know, they came up with this idea for Tesla.
And they did it because it cuts down on the friction.
as you drive.
Oh, sure.
It causes too much friction.
I'm sure that's a big factor.
It's a huge factor when we're driving to work.
Those door handles stick out a little bit.
That really slows you down a lot.
I know.
I keep thinking about that, you know.
So it really doesn't make any sense in the practical world at all.
And in the practical world, it's tough to push the damn door handle in.
Sometimes you push it in, you don't realize the car is locked, and then you have to push it in on the other side, which detects the fob in your pocket, and then it allows the door handle to open.
Yeah, I'm just done with this.
I'm done with this.
And you know what?
I am not the only one, and this is the point of what I'm talking about here.
China has these fantastic EVs.
They have decided to abandon these ridiculous flush-mount door
handles that you have to push
My wife and my older son, one son didn't go, but so we get out of the car and we're walking to the theater and then we notice that Cole is not there.
He's the 26 year old.
He looked back.
He left him in the car?
And we're standing there waiting for him.
I wonder what the hell, because he does this.
He really does.
Stuff like this, you know, what is he doing?
You know, we're standing and standing there and it's uh, and it's the child block.
Yes, I actually thought, well, this is crazy.
I went up there and I opened the door very easily.
No problem.
But he can't open the door.
Wow.
And he's angry.
He was really, don't you don't don't you know, you know, it's a lot.
No, I have no idea.
I didn't even know where the child lock is, you know.
So anyway, that's
play off there at
So last game.
Yeah.
Yeah, so you know just a few moments We're gonna get into you know this thing about health care, you know health care for illegal immigrants JD Vance came out and kind of
got into the details a little bit more about that.
There aren't a lot of illegal immigrants getting health care.
In fact, none.
But there are reasons why some who are legal immigrants are getting some health care.
But that's a very, very small percentage.
And they're throwing the baby out with a bathwater.
That's what they're basically doing.
Just to get these, the small percentage, they want to throw it all out for
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it really is you know everything was so perfect You know if he were present it would be perfect, but he's proving to be an absolute incompetent.
He hasn't been able to end the wars And he's found out that
Putin doesn't agree with him on a lot of things.
We kind of knew that, you know, as everyday citizens out here walking around the sidewalks of our great cities.
We knew that for some reason, but he didn't know.
Well, what can you do?
All right, let's get to J.D.
Vance kind of clearing things up about their objection.
to giving health care to illegal immigrants.
Now they're not getting health care, okay?
They're legal and they get a small percentage of the health care benefits that Americans do, but it's a very, very small percentage.
I want you to listen to the very first thing he mentions as an outrage.
We shouldn't be giving these illegal immigrants, well, you won't believe what he's
about
it out.
This is a Democrat talking point.
They say we're not actually trying to give health care benefits to illegal aliens.
And here's why it's not true.
There are two Biden era programs that explicitly gave the taxpayer health care money to illegal aliens that we turned off when President Trump took over in January.
My hero number one is there's a lot of emergency health care at hospitals that are provided to illegal aliens.
That was funded by the federal government.
We turned off that funding because of course we want America.
and citizens to benefit from those hospital services, not to be taxed, and then to have those hospital services go to illegal aliens.
OK.
So if an illegal alien is in a traffic accident and a serious one, they're battling injuries.
They're bleeding.
Yes.
They can't go to the emergency room and no one can treat them.
Yeah.
You know, for some reason, it just
Strikes me as something wrong.
Yeah, you know, I mean there's something horribly insensitive about that Yeah, I mean that's what they're there for that's the whole point we have emergency yes, and it doesn't matter who's Who's in in need of the emergency room you take care of them?
That's the whole point now if we're gonna turn people away who are seriously ill
or have been in an accident, that is just unconscionable.
I can't even wrap my head around that at all.
I really can't.
So that's his big complaint.
Wrong.
Let's check that one off.
Let's continue with
the cut.
The second of which is that the Biden administration gave mass parole to millions upon millions of illegal aliens, and then they simultaneously made those parolees eligible for health care benefits funded by taxpayers.
In the one big, beautiful bill, President Trump and Congressional Republicans
turned off that money to healthcare funding for illegal aliens, the Democrats want to turn it back on.
And in their initial proposal, the first thing that they put out to reopen the government, they actually turned that money for healthcare benefits for illegal aliens back on.
So it's not something that we made up.
It's not a talking
point.
It is
in the text of the bill that they initially gave to us to reopen the government.
It's preposterous for them to run away from it now.
But look, let's set that all to the side.
Let's open up the government.
Let's negotiate.
on all these healthcare policies.
Let's just stop it.
I just want to get to the point here, undocumented immigrants, currently the law bars undocumented immigrants from receiving most healthcare benefits.
Only notable exceptions can go to the emergency room for treatment.
This is not healthcare coverage, but by the way, when they take care of these immigrants who are going to the emergency room, the hospitals are reimbursed by the
federal government, but it is not part of an insurance package.
They aren't insured.
It's not a right that they have.
They go there, the government reimburses the hospital.
It's a reimbursement, not an insurance coverage.
Right.
Right.
So immigrants are lawfully present in this country, and they face a five-year waiting period for Medicaid and CHIP, which is gone now with the big bad bill.
So there are just little nuances about all of this.
Of course, you notice that JD Vance did not talk about the supplemental
Tax credits that are given on the ACA, which is the main major point for tens of thousands of Americans who are gonna lose their healthcare because they can't afford the monthly premium.
That's the point.
He didn't cover that.
WMDX 92.7, that's the new nickname for Trump on the show.
You'll blob, yes.
He's got to start working out, you know.
Pete Hankseth is on a roll here.
He wants everybody to be fit and trim and no beards, a whole shooting match.
Macho men, that's what he wants.
And Trump is, you know...
the commander in chief.
He's got a presidential
Yes.
Good.
Good morning.
Yeah, I just completed my 25.
sets of 25 push-ups.
ready to go.
say, you look pumped this morning.
I forgot to shave my beard, though.
I've been thinking really hard about making sure that I have the right mental attitude that, you know, now that we have a department of war, that means we... That's true.
You know,
you know, none of this, um, you know,
fuzzy stuff.
Yeah, I mean, come on.
You
you
I know.
I know.
Okay.
You know, when you consider golf a physical fitness thing, you got problems, man.
Look what it does to you.
This guy is blot moving around the grassy greens of his golf course.
Yikes.
Okay.
Well, hey, let's get to some educational stuff here.
And, uh, and I think this is a, uh, a case in point.
This is the best example we have of conservative education.
And that's, and it's in Florida.
Where else would it be?
We're talking about the new college that was taken over to the liberal arts college that was taken over by, uh, uh, uh, DeSantis and, uh, it's not going well.
So fill us in.
This is a great story.
You brought the store attention here.
Yeah, well, you know, we this has been going on for a while and I was saying before that, you know, remember Christopher Rufo?
You know, this was the the the guy I he's gone silent.
I don't know.
I guess maybe he's plotting his next takeover of something.
But he really led the charge on this because he had been putting out and saying like, hey, look, these colleges again, you know,
really indoctrinating students.
You know, there's woke policies.
There's no education happening.
And
Well, and new and they, you know, so just to set this up.
New College is part of Florida's public higher education system like states have.
So like the University of Wisconsin system, schools, those are public higher education institutions.
And what does that mean?
Well, tax money goes to fund those schools.
And so they targeted New College because New College had its own kind of an identity.
It was a liberal arts
college.
And so, you know, there was a special school where students who went there really had a sense of, you know, more of studying the humanities, the arts, more of a trendier, progressive type of school.
They targeted that school as an identity, you know the school of you know incredible identity of woke indoctrination was occurring there in so many ways and so this Rufo using DeSantis They actually did a full takeover of the college Got rid of most of the administrators there and installed their own administrators Because this was going to be the shining example of what a
not a conservative bastion of intellectual freedom was going to look like and You know prior let's just set this up prior to the takeover Florida spends about because remember taxpayers help fund public higher education about $10,000 a student Well now that we're a year in new college
the state, the taxpayers of Florida are now funding $140,000 a student.
Wait, it
$134,000 per
with that money, the graduation rate is declining, which is interesting.
conservatives have always been very much on the you can't fund away problems
like you know jeez these kids are failing they're not graduating um and all you democrats want is more money to fix the problem well um 134 000 a student
And the graduation rate is declining.
And maybe on top of that, more and more students are not choosing to go to the new college.
So enrollment is down.
I don't know.
Is this what you consider a success?
Well,
mean, you know, they're not teaching wokeness anymore.
and set that straight to what that that that's not the tuition that students are being asked to pay to go there right this is the funding support from the state of Florida tax you know taxpayer money to support the students and so the idea that that amount of money is being
Put forth and really what's happening is saying like we need this money to kind of Keep the support of the the college so that it keeps going now if you read this this is the potential We're talking about an article that was in on in inside higher education I'm kind of looking at this and going oh and so the solution now is to Take the college and make it private
Was that the plan all along?
Yeah was you know again to do away with public higher education You know did did we create a disaster so that we could now say look?
We're telling you public higher education doesn't work.
It needs to become private
It says 20% of the ranking criteria according to them is
broadly suffering from negative reputation among their peers whose leaders take issue with the conservative agenda, the Santas has imposed on colleges and universities.
It says here, this guy has changed the ideology of higher education to say, we're teaching how to think, not what to think.
And we're being peer reviewed by people who think that's absolutely horrendous.
No, not us.
Wow.
It's, I mean, so this is, yeah, here's an example and going so, you know, I put this out to anybody, is this what you would like to see public higher education becoming with the government that entangled into the identities, the politics, the curriculum, because this is what you get.
And so,
Higher education is supposed to be in this form of what we say, you know independent academic freedom Because the pursuit the teaching the the the whole idea of becoming educated is supposed to be free from government intrusion Last I checked that was a very strong conservative principle Freedom from government
Um, and it saves money, you know, without government requirements and things like that.
Well, that didn't work out either.
And then of course, you know, they're accusing DeSantis of the, of making this his own project and he's term limited.
So once he's gone, this is in the lap of the legislature at that point, paying these huge, huge tuitions.
Well, not tuitions, but costs per student,
now.
Are they?
Yes.
All right.
Hang on.
Let me go back here.
It's it's they're saying students keep leaving so they have to recruit bigger and bigger cohorts of students and then they say the biggest class ever because they had to backfill all the students who have left.
So yeah, that strategy is not really working.
No, it's not
working.
Yeah, they're they're spending a lot of money recruiting.
The other thing what what they really did was, you know, again, this was a private
or not private but but a liberal arts college you
know a
more it's got a trendy type of focus and one of the other things they did is you know let's bring in you know a lot of men's athletics
college.
Well, that costs a lot of money And and and it doesn't necessarily attract a lot of students because it's kind of like you want to come play football at new college But
well remember what what this was early on too was is that they were trying to say is that this was going to be the Hillsdale of the south
right yes
know this was going to be the Hillsdale College of the south and You know I said maybe though that is the the intentions to take it private and then make it truly you know the Hillsdale of the south whatever that means
It's a mess.
To me, it really is.
This is truly, I believe, government intrusion in higher education should be, and going back to a very conservative principle, we should actually all be saying that actually was a pretty good idea to try to keep government intrusion
out of the process of what it means to be educating the public.
Well, actually, there's the other story, and if you guys are following that, we've been talking about Harvard, right?
Harvard has been the, and so it looks like for Harvard potentially to get the money that they're saying, there is a deal brewing with another $500 million payout.
I know we're coming to commercial.
For what?
Well, maybe that's something
we should be talking
this.
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Well, so, so Harvard in to get their funding given back to them.
that, you know, all the federal funding and grants like that.
Trump is getting, you know, he's the deal maker and looks like they're very close to a deal with a $500 million Harvard will create trade schools.
Yes.
And actually, so what to, you know, according to the president, and these are his quotes, he's like, I guess we reached a deal with Harvard today.
So we'll see what you have to do is paper it, right?
Linda and quote is what Trump said to Linda McMahon.
Paper.
And, you know, because they are again, quote.
close to finalizing it and It is what they would say the president is describing it as a series of trade schools that would be run by Harvard Wow,
Yeah,
carpenter.
Yeah, he he said
They'll be teaching people how to do AI and lots of other things engines lots of things
Yeah, that's
There's there's so much so you
Harvard is I yeah, you know, it's so I'm a
Harvard educated welder.
carpenter.
Yeah.
Just thinking about what this is going to do on the construction site.
So the tradespeople are going to be showing up in their Harvard sweatshirt.
kind of creating
this clicking that's
be happening.
It's like, there goes a Harvard guy.
Well, you can sell right there.
That crown molding was done by a Harvard
right.
Oh, no.
You know, and then with that, you know, so the cost of construction, you know, we have 30% of our trades people are Harvard educated.
Wow.
Yeah, I don't know what this, but here it is, you know, this is
This kind of you know Trump saying like look I want you guys to give me 500 million dollars and we'll set up trade schools and if you do what I'm telling you we'll give you your money back So again, you know, what is this this idea of leveraging a deal?
That's
But yeah, I mean, you know, we should put out some feelers to see if we can get the Secretary of Education on to see how the papering is going.
Yeah,
about that.
Is there like a wallpapering event that is going to mark the conclusion or the finality of this deal?
You know, maybe it's a wallpapering of the West Wing.
Yes.
Maybe by, you know, in fact, the Interior Design Trade School
put together by Harvard, we can bring in the Harvard educated interior design students to paper something.
gotta I gotta wonder now too that you know parents right there thinking you know boy my my kid was gonna go to the government trade
you know how do you you know think of the industry now of preparing trades people students to get accepted into the Harvard trade schools
you know
um the the entrance exams and and things that are there you know um
Boy, what an opportunity for some people to really say, you know, if you want to get into the Harvard Carpent School of Carpentry, you need to come and do pre-Harvard work with
yes.
Because we can get you ready for their high admissions standards that is going to.
know.
The one of the, you know, it's the last.
I would love to hear from the trades people, lots of different trade schools.
In fact, I know here in Pennsylvania, the union actually for carpenters has an incredible program of education for that trade.
I should ask them and go like, are you guys threatened now by the
School of Carpentry?
Talk
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