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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With the rain coming down out there and the you
know it's it's under seventy degrees now it's sixty eight
at George Severe Weather Station, and I was standing out
front of the curves. To me, you know, the weather's
on the way, the you know, the fall into winter
weather is on the way, and you got to get
the cars ready and stuff like that. Do you do that,
mister tune up? Boy? Do you like do going in
(00:21):
and get the flush and fill and all that stuff
going into wintertime?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
What for the lawnmowers? No?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
For your your your your vehicle, your car. No, you
don't do that kind of thing. No, I need to.
I've either got to get my Explorer up and running
again or I'm gonna end up buying either a new
Beater or tires for the Trailblazer one or the other.
I gotta do something because right now it's like you know,
the on the wet pavement, it's like being on skis.
So I got to get the thing of it is,
(00:47):
I really want my Explorer back. I really want my
I really want my Explorer back so bad.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I know where you can get a good oil change,
But other than.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That, it needs more than only I don't know what's
wrong with it. See, this is the problem. This is
the problem. I love the vehicle. It's an old one.
It's a two thousand and six Explore, but it's like what,
it's one of the old big ones, third row. And
I love that vehicle, I really do. But it developed
this problem where I could be tooling along, you know,
fifty miles an hour, and then it would just turn off.
(01:16):
It would just stop like there was no fuel, nothing
getting to it, just stopped. Well, the fuel pump pressure
showed being good. It happened to me three occasions before
I decided I can't drive this anymore until we figure
out what's going on. I spent nearly one thousand dollars
having diagnostics done. Nobody could tell me what was wrong.
(01:37):
We can't duplicate the problem, Chuck. We don't know what's
going on, and so I can't drive it because I
guarantee if I start driving it, it's going to do
the same thing and leave me stranded somewhere. And I
don't want that. I want to know what's wrong with it,
but nobody was able to tell me, and so it
just sits there, missing it, and I miss I miss it.
(01:57):
It misses me, and uh, I want my explorer back.
That's what I got from looking at the rainy wather
and the leaves blowing out there. Just one of those things,
or I gotta buy tires. I hate buying tires. So
I told you I want to tell you about this
eleven year old kid. And I was trying to find
(02:17):
this story too, from last week. I cannot find it.
About a teenager I believe that. I believe he was sixteen.
I think it was in Arizona, maybe Arkansas, but I'm
not positive. But here's the gist of the story. Some
some nutcase weirdo comes to the house and uh may
(02:40):
have been a stalled car. The car may have stalled
on the road, I'm still not sure about that. But
comes to the house and starts a shooting. No connection
to this guy, no tie ins, nothing, He just he's
nuts and so he starts shooting. And there was a
(03:00):
big family that lived in the house. Some of them
were hit, some of them fled. I believe it was
mom who picked up a shotgun and returned fire, and
then mom got hit and then the son I believe
it was, and I'm pretty sure he was sixteen, picked
(03:21):
up the shotgun and and eliminated the threat. And I've
been trying to find that story because I didn't get
a chance to talk about it last week. I've been
looking for it too.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
To be honest with you, there's a lot of things
that the headline sounds similar. Yes, it's not exact what
you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It just it was a positive story because you know,
we've got a story in our news right now about
a child where somebody left their gun accessible and a
child shot themselves. Guns are not toys, obviously, they are tools,
and if used improperly like a like a buzzsaw, they
can do image. But in some cases they also do good.
(04:06):
Even in the hands of young people, they can do good.
Not all young people are gangstas or thugs. Some of
them actually know their way around firearms. They've been hunting,
they've been in scouting. They grew up on the farm. Yep,
not like me. I know.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It was like from being from the streets.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You know, the hard streets, the tough streets, the sixth streets,
the main streets. You've been through all those right.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Difficult You ever see the movie The Warriors?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Ah? Yeah, I did kind of like that kind of
like that, except probably more like West Side story.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
There are some dancing involved.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
You look kind of like a ballet guy. So anyway,
I cannot find If I can find that story, I will,
I'll hold on to it. I'll post it to my
Facebook page. But that being said, because I want to
lead you into this story about this kid in Michigan.
They accuse this kid of possessing a we weapon. Okay,
(05:02):
they're not arguing the story, by the way, but I
need you to listen to this. The mother of a
Michigan elementary school student is speaking out. Yes, I said
elementary speaking out after her son was expelled for taking
a gun away from another kid. Lancing mom Savira or
(05:29):
Savitra McClerkin Total local outlet WILX, September nineteenth. Her son
is eleven years old. He was expelled from Dwight Rich
School in the Arts back in May because his classmate
had brought a gun to school. According to the mom,
her child's being punished for something she considers heroic, as
(05:52):
he believed he was helping the other students around him.
I'm frustrated wits end. I don't know what to do,
McClerkin said back in May WLNS and the Lansing State
Journal both reported the disassembled, unloaded weapon was found inside
the school. Police later arrested a twelve year old boy
whose name has not been made public. McClerkin told the
(06:13):
radius or the television station that her son allegedly spotted
his classmate carrying this gun. He used his hunting knowledge
to disarm and disassemble the weapon before throwing away the ammunition.
He didn't want to get his self in trouble. He
(06:34):
didn't want to tell on anybody. Didn't want to get
the kid who brought the gun to school in trouble.
He knows firearms aren't supposed to be in the school.
She said, Well, could have been a tragic and devastating day.
He acted out of courage and compassion, of fundraiser message
reads on GoFundMe, because that's how we handle everything these days.
(06:56):
School administrators eventually learned the eleven year old had handled
the weapon, expelled him for possessing a gun, removing him
from school for an entire year. Instead of being recognized
as a hero, he's being treated like a criminal. The
GoFundMe post says he's been expelled, banned from all school platforms,
despite being an ab student and respectful young man and
(07:18):
an athlete who's been playing sports since he was six
years old. By the way, by the way, the young
man is a young black man boy eleven, so he's
not a man yet. He and his mother both black, Lansing, Michigan. Now,
(07:40):
should he have turned it in, Yeah, yeah, that would
have been the wise thing to do. But he's eleven,
so maybe he wasn't thinking that direction. And this isn't
a symptom of twenty twenty five. I remember Andy asking
(08:01):
OPI why didn't tell some about his friend, and Nope, said, well, Paul,
it's kind of hard to tell on one of your
own whose kids had to stick together. But he saw
somebody with a gun, took the gun, disassembled the gun,
threw away the ammunition, kept everybody safe, didn't rat out
(08:22):
his friend. Maybe a three day suspension, I could live
with that, But to expel this kid for a year,
I'm sorry. I think this is an absolute miscarriage. And
with all of the stories in the news everywhere all
over this country each and every day about young brown
(08:43):
skinned males picking up guns and doing violence and wreaking havoc,
this kid, this kid tried to do the right thing,
and he has been expelled. I'm sorry, but I think
that's dead wrong. I wonder, since there's no father, grandfather,
(09:06):
you know, uncle Jim or anybody talked about in this story,
I wonder if his mom is a hunter, if she's
taken him out and done some Uh, you don't know,
you can't be gender exclusive. Do women hunt? I don't
know any of them. Where I grew up, they did. Yeah,
a whole bunch.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He's up in Michigan too. I'm not joking, like, yeah,
it depends on where was he in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Lancing is that more r get more rural? Lancing is
Lancing is a I mean it's a metropolitan area.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, But anyway, there's I know there's woods around there somewhere.
But yeah, there's a lot of women that hunt, especially
where I grew up in West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Are women deer hunters as a general rule where you're from.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Basically, But I mean again, that's just a general yeah
type of Thing's funny women that hunt, sure.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I just I'm just wondering if mom took him out
hating She says because of his hunting knowledge, he knew
how to tear down the gun, how to unload, how
to get rid of the ammunition. I'm sorry this. In
the scheme of things, this is not a huge story.
But in the scheme of things, it really is a
huge statement on the state of mind this country is in.
(10:15):
Oh no, black kid gun expel I'm not good with this,
or maybe that's just me.
With the rain coming down out there and the you
know it's it's under seventy degrees now it's sixty eight
at George Severe Weather Station, and I was standing out
front of the curves. To me, you know, the weather's
on the way, the you know, the fall into winter
weather is on the way, and you got to get
the cars ready and stuff like that. Do you do that,
mister tune up? Boy? Do you like do going in
(00:21):
and get the flush and fill and all that stuff
going into wintertime?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
What for the lawnmowers? No?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
For your your your your vehicle, your car. No, you
don't do that kind of thing. No, I need to.
I've either got to get my Explorer up and running
again or I'm gonna end up buying either a new
Beater or tires for the Trailblazer one or the other.
I gotta do something because right now it's like you know,
the on the wet pavement, it's like being on skis.
So I got to get the thing of it is,
(00:47):
I really want my Explorer back. I really want my
I really want my Explorer back so bad.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I know where you can get a good oil change,
But other than.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That, it needs more than only I don't know what's
wrong with it. See, this is the problem. This is
the problem. I love the vehicle. It's an old one.
It's a two thousand and six Explore, but it's like what,
it's one of the old big ones, third row. And
I love that vehicle, I really do. But it developed
this problem where I could be tooling along, you know,
fifty miles an hour, and then it would just turn off.
(01:16):
It would just stop like there was no fuel, nothing
getting to it, just stopped. Well, the fuel pump pressure
showed being good. It happened to me three occasions before
I decided I can't drive this anymore until we figure
out what's going on. I spent nearly one thousand dollars
having diagnostics done. Nobody could tell me what was wrong.
(01:37):
We can't duplicate the problem, Chuck. We don't know what's
going on, and so I can't drive it because I
guarantee if I start driving it, it's going to do
the same thing and leave me stranded somewhere. And I
don't want that. I want to know what's wrong with it,
but nobody was able to tell me, and so it
just sits there, missing it, and I miss I miss it.
(01:57):
It misses me, and uh, I want my explorer back.
That's what I got from looking at the rainy wather
and the leaves blowing out there. Just one of those things,
or I gotta buy tires. I hate buying tires. So
I told you I want to tell you about this
eleven year old kid. And I was trying to find
(02:17):
this story too, from last week. I cannot find it.
About a teenager I believe that. I believe he was sixteen.
I think it was in Arizona, maybe Arkansas, but I'm
not positive. But here's the gist of the story. Some
some nutcase weirdo comes to the house and uh may
(02:40):
have been a stalled car. The car may have stalled
on the road, I'm still not sure about that. But
comes to the house and starts a shooting. No connection
to this guy, no tie ins, nothing, He just he's
nuts and so he starts shooting. And there was a
(03:00):
big family that lived in the house. Some of them
were hit, some of them fled. I believe it was
mom who picked up a shotgun and returned fire, and
then mom got hit and then the son I believe
it was, and I'm pretty sure he was sixteen, picked
(03:21):
up the shotgun and and eliminated the threat. And I've
been trying to find that story because I didn't get
a chance to talk about it last week. I've been
looking for it too.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
To be honest with you, there's a lot of things
that the headline sounds similar. Yes, it's not exact what
you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It just it was a positive story because you know,
we've got a story in our news right now about
a child where somebody left their gun accessible and a
child shot themselves. Guns are not toys, obviously, they are tools,
and if used improperly like a like a buzzsaw, they
can do image. But in some cases they also do good.
(04:06):
Even in the hands of young people, they can do good.
Not all young people are gangstas or thugs. Some of
them actually know their way around firearms. They've been hunting,
they've been in scouting. They grew up on the farm. Yep,
not like me. I know.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It was like from being from the streets.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You know, the hard streets, the tough streets, the sixth streets,
the main streets. You've been through all those right.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Difficult You ever see the movie The Warriors?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Ah? Yeah, I did kind of like that kind of
like that, except probably more like West Side story.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
There are some dancing involved.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
You look kind of like a ballet guy. So anyway,
I cannot find If I can find that story, I will,
I'll hold on to it. I'll post it to my
Facebook page. But that being said, because I want to
lead you into this story about this kid in Michigan.
They accuse this kid of possessing a we weapon. Okay,
(05:02):
they're not arguing the story, by the way, but I
need you to listen to this. The mother of a
Michigan elementary school student is speaking out. Yes, I said
elementary speaking out after her son was expelled for taking
a gun away from another kid. Lancing mom Savira or
(05:29):
Savitra McClerkin Total local outlet WILX, September nineteenth. Her son
is eleven years old. He was expelled from Dwight Rich
School in the Arts back in May because his classmate
had brought a gun to school. According to the mom,
her child's being punished for something she considers heroic, as
(05:52):
he believed he was helping the other students around him.
I'm frustrated wits end. I don't know what to do,
McClerkin said back in May WLNS and the Lansing State
Journal both reported the disassembled, unloaded weapon was found inside
the school. Police later arrested a twelve year old boy
whose name has not been made public. McClerkin told the
(06:13):
radius or the television station that her son allegedly spotted
his classmate carrying this gun. He used his hunting knowledge
to disarm and disassemble the weapon before throwing away the ammunition.
He didn't want to get his self in trouble. He
(06:34):
didn't want to tell on anybody. Didn't want to get
the kid who brought the gun to school in trouble.
He knows firearms aren't supposed to be in the school.
She said, Well, could have been a tragic and devastating day.
He acted out of courage and compassion, of fundraiser message
reads on GoFundMe, because that's how we handle everything these days.
(06:56):
School administrators eventually learned the eleven year old had handled
the weapon, expelled him for possessing a gun, removing him
from school for an entire year. Instead of being recognized
as a hero, he's being treated like a criminal. The
GoFundMe post says he's been expelled, banned from all school platforms,
despite being an ab student and respectful young man and
(07:18):
an athlete who's been playing sports since he was six
years old. By the way, by the way, the young
man is a young black man boy eleven, so he's
not a man yet. He and his mother both black, Lansing, Michigan. Now,
(07:40):
should he have turned it in, Yeah, yeah, that would
have been the wise thing to do. But he's eleven,
so maybe he wasn't thinking that direction. And this isn't
a symptom of twenty twenty five. I remember Andy asking
(08:01):
OPI why didn't tell some about his friend, and Nope, said, well, Paul,
it's kind of hard to tell on one of your
own whose kids had to stick together. But he saw
somebody with a gun, took the gun, disassembled the gun,
threw away the ammunition, kept everybody safe, didn't rat out
(08:22):
his friend. Maybe a three day suspension, I could live
with that, But to expel this kid for a year,
I'm sorry. I think this is an absolute miscarriage. And
with all of the stories in the news everywhere all
over this country each and every day about young brown
(08:43):
skinned males picking up guns and doing violence and wreaking havoc,
this kid, this kid tried to do the right thing,
and he has been expelled. I'm sorry, but I think
that's dead wrong. I wonder, since there's no father, grandfather,
(09:06):
you know, uncle Jim or anybody talked about in this story,
I wonder if his mom is a hunter, if she's
taken him out and done some Uh, you don't know,
you can't be gender exclusive. Do women hunt? I don't
know any of them. Where I grew up, they did. Yeah,
a whole bunch.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He's up in Michigan too. I'm not joking, like, yeah,
it depends on where was he in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Lancing is that more r get more rural? Lancing is
Lancing is a I mean it's a metropolitan area.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, But anyway, there's I know there's woods around there somewhere.
But yeah, there's a lot of women that hunt, especially
where I grew up in West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Are women deer hunters as a general rule where you're from.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Basically, But I mean again, that's just a general yeah
type of Thing's funny women that hunt, sure.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I just I'm just wondering if mom took him out
hating She says because of his hunting knowledge, he knew
how to tear down the gun, how to unload, how
to get rid of the ammunition. I'm sorry this. In
the scheme of things, this is not a huge story.
But in the scheme of things, it really is a
huge statement on the state of mind this country is in.
(10:15):
Oh no, black kid gun expel I'm not good with this,
or maybe that's just me.
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