23 1215 Die Hard and such

I'll answer it: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
A Fetterman fan for the moment.
Schools should teach and NOTHING MORE.
Stay away from my organ!
And more, more, more (sending royalty check to Billy Idol now)

Episode Transcript

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Originating from the iHeartMedia Megaplex and Columbus, Ohio, the studios of six'
ten WTVN. This is Chuck DouglasPower Our Podcast. Greetings, my friends,
said, welcome to the Chuck DouglasPower Our Podcast. Going into the

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weekend. It is the fifteenth dayof December and twenty e twenty three,
And of course the debate always comesup each and every year. Every single
year, the debate comes up,is or is not die Hard a Christmas
movie? I finally came up withthe definitive answer as I had this conversation
in this past week. Diehard isa Christmas movie as long as Same Old

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Langzine is a Christmas song. Haha. But Same Old Langzine isn't a
Christmas song according to my buddy.So if it's not, then Diehard.
Scott, sorry about your luck.But the that's the way it goes.
Some stuff I didn't get a chanceto talk about on the air this week
that I want to talk about onthe podcast, including the effort in New
Jersey to eliminate their graduation test throughoutthe state of New Jersey. And I

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was thinking about that. You know, your initial reaction is, oh,
no, we don't want to dothat because we have to measure the academics,
the academic performance of our students beforewe give them a diploma and send
them out into the world. Onthe surface, that's correct. But the
reason I'm thinking this may not besuch a bad idea in New Jersey and

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frankly all over the place is becauseof my experience right here in central Ohio
with my kids coming up, myyoungest child, my son, my clone
who you know, watching him growup, I couldn't have been happier,
couldn't have been happier. Of course, he stumbled every year and there and
did some stupid stuff. That's whatteenagers do. But all in all,

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man, man, what a kid. And he turned into quite a young
man as well. But when hewas a senior in high school, he
was querying me about the Ohio HighSchool graduation test. In fact, he
wasn't even a senior. He wasin tenth grade. But you start taking

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it, this is how worried theyare you're not going to pass. You
start taking it as a sophomore.So in tenth grade he took the Ohio
Graduation Test for the first time,and he passed it. He passed it,
So he asked me he did.He asked me, hey, Dad,
He called me dad, Hey Dad? Why do I have to keep

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going to school? If I passedthe graduation test, because that's the stuff
you're supposed to know in order tograduate. And if I passed the graduation
test in tenth grade, why doI have to go to eleventh grade in
twelfth grade? What's the point I'vealready shown that I know as much as
they require me to know to graduatefrom high school. And the best I

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could come up with was that Scoobydo noise. Because there is no answer
to that. There is no answer. It's like, you know, the
let's call it the young Sheldon concept. Kids go into you know, college
when they're just youngsters, just bya base, and they're smart enough.
Every now and then somebody comes along. It's just a genius. They're smart

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enough to go to college when theyare in their you know, preteens.
Even so that can happen and thosekids are not stopped from pursuing further academics.
Why should then kids be forced intopursuing further academics if they have already
shown that they meet or exceed thecriteria set forth by the academic gods as

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to what they need to know inorder to graduate. The boy was in
tenth grade. He was absolutely right. Unless they're gonna throw some nil money
at him, why should he stayaround. So if you up, you
hear about the story in New Jerseyand you think immediately, oh, no,
that's a bad idea. We shouldn'tdo that. I'm asking you,

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rethink that before you commit yourself ultimatelyto a position. Rethink that, because
my son's situation, quite frankly,taught me a whole bunch. While I'm
thinking about the schools, the publicschool systems, at least here in the
city of Columbus, Ohio. Andwhile I'm thinking about that, here's I
got something I got to ask youagain. I got to ask you this.

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What business is it of the schoolsystem whether or not your teenager gets
a part time job? This issomething this is completely new to me.
It's not the way it was whenI was a kid way back in the
seventeen hundreds. But apparently for yourhigh schooler to get their first part time
job, you know, everybody wantsto get old pocket money. They turn
sixteen, they want to get ajob. Okay, in order to do

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that, you must go to theBoard of Education and request a work permit.
Permit as in permission. Since whendoes the public school system need to
give their permission for somebody to goout and get a job. I think
that's one of the most ridiculous thingsI've ever heard. I'm in a really
bad position here of having to onceagain say, you go to John Fetterman.

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Hang on a second, I'm gonnathrow up. So mister Federman,
I'll call him Senator Feederman. Youknow what, I'm going to give him
the respect because he's he's acting fardifferently than I expected his shorts and hoodie
to act. I will call himSenator Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, breaking
with progressives, according to MSNBC Newshere over the hot button issues, his

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fiery support for Israel and his callsfor Democrats to engage on tougher immigration laws
disappointing some on the left as heshows an independent streak. He's continually scoting
Democrats for not pushing Senator Bob Menendezout of office after he was indicted on
federal charges of taking bribes and actingas a foreign agent for Egypt, which

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the new Jersey Democrat denies Fetterman.Fatterman is wow. Man, you go,
John Fetterman. If you keep thisup, Democrat or not, I'm
impressed. I'm sure you'll go backto your evil Democrat waits, But for
now I am impressed. He is. Actually, I mentioned a few weeks

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ago, he seems to be morecoherent, he seems to be more vocal,
and what's coming out of his faceis actually pretty dog gone good.
So as long as he stays onthis path, I'm going to be a
Fetterman's cheerleader. Believe it or not. Crazier things have happened. I had
mentioned during the radio show this pastweek a lawsuit that had been filed by

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the family of someone. They losttheir They a woman lost her son,
a young man I believe he wastwenty one years old. He tried to
stop a robbery at a gas stationon the west side of Columbus. He
was killed in his attempt to stopthat robbery. Well, the family is
suing the gas and while I completelyunderstand the pain, I'm a dad,
I'm a granddad. I understand thepain of losing this young man, of

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the child that is his biologically neverknowing him. That's something that is It's
tragic, it really is, Butsuing a gas station for not protecting a
customer just seemed to bid out ofline. The gas station can only do
so much. People come and go. It's a gas station. It's open

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to the public. Anyone can comeon that lot, and there's unless they're
you know, loitering, hanging arounddoing something. They can't really even be
asked to be removed from the lot. And if they refuse to go,
what are you going to do.It's not like the police are going to
show up and tell you to getoff the lot. So I don't know
what the gas station could have done, and I absolutely understand the pain the

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family is experiencing, but I thoughttheir efforts to sue the gas station were
misdirected. And then there was thisstory out of Chicago. She was nineteen
years old, Kanika Jenkins. Shewent to a party at a hotel in
Illinois and apparently she was taking somemedication, some prescribed medication, drinking on

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top of it, and about threeo'clock in the morning, she is seen
on security video going into a freezerin the hotel and she died in that
freezer, and her family sued therewas an award from the court from the
Crown Plaza, Chicago O'Hare Hotel tothe family of ten million dollars ten million

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dollars. Now, the most offensivepart of that ten million dollars, aside
from the fact that this adult personchose to drink, become disoriented, walk
into a freezer, pass out,and die as an adult, not a
baby. An adult she did thisof that ten million dollars, A copy

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of the settlement order Tuesday in theCircuit Court of Cook County says the Jenkins
mother, Teresa Martin, will receiveapproximately three point seven million dollars out of
that ten million. Other parts ofthe settlement will go towards the payment of
attorney fees, funeral costs, andother expensive what kind of fees you ask?
Well, two other family members unnamedin this account will receive a combined

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two point seven million dollars, soone point three to five apiece, one
point three to five apiece for twofamily members, three point seven million for
the mother of this woman, andit costs six thousand dollars for her funeral.
Now I know what you're thinking.Well, wait a minute, hang

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on there's millions left there, where'sa other millions going the attorneys. The
attorneys are taking the rest of thatmoney. First of all, I think
the lawsuit was wrong. I don'tthink it should have been filed. An
adult walked into a freezer, gotlocked in and died. Nobody made that

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happen. She made that happen.Secondly, the attorney's taken that kind of
chunk, basically a third of thesettlement. When the funeral for the deaarly
departed cost six thousand dollars, reallysix thousand dollars toward the person whose life

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is over, that just sounds crazy, absolutely crazy. And for the court
to have awarded this ten million dollarsalso absolutely crazy. But then again it's
Cook County, Illinois. Continually getcompensated in our justice system who really probably

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shouldn't be, and then people areare penalized who probably shouldn't be. But
that is indeed the way of theworld. And I had this conversation a
few months ago actually about how peopleyou think should get paid something. It
all actually came up over the nilsituation. These college players and millions upon

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millions of dollars now being thrown atcollege players, and somehow someway we ended
up getting onto things like blood donation, because what's a pint of blood cost
at the hospital? Do you know, maybe you work in medical billing or
work in a hospital situation, Lookat what a pint of blood is going

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for these days for a patient atthe hospital. But they want me to
donate. I get what a glassof orange juice and a cookie, and
they charge people for that pint ofblood. They then charge people to hang
that bag and put that blood intotheir body, but they want me to

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donate the blood. Same way withorgan donation as a concept. I don't
have a big problem with organ donationas a practice. I do. Look
if if I, let's let I'mlosing my house, or one of my
kids is in big trouble, oryou know, somebody in the family needs

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some major medical thing, I can'tsell a kidney and pay for it.
My body, my choice. Iwant to abort a baby when it's you
know, forty seven years old.There's people out there that think I should
be able to do it. Mybody, my choice. People think your

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fourteen year old daughter ought to beable to go in and get an abortion.
My body, my choice. Theythink you're teenager one to lop things
off of themselves and identify as somethingother than what they are. My body,
my choice, but it's not mybody my choice. If I want
to sell a kidney because you know, my son needs some major surgery,

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I can't do that. It's illegal. It's illegal for me to profit off
of the sale of my organs.Now, if I wanted to go do
things into a cup, I couldget compensated for that, so somebody could
have a baby that looks just likeme if I did donate my kidney or
upon my death all kinds of organs. The doctors that take it out of

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me will get paid, The hospitalwhere they work will get paid. The
people that transport it to the personreceiving it will get paid, the hospital
that puts it in will get paid. The doctor does that surgery will get
paid. Everybody gets paid except theguy losing the organ. I don't think
it's right. And while I'm thinkingabout lopping things off and identifying as something
else, I had to go toGreat Britain for this, the Great Britain

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News Network. Maybe I should shouldI read the story like that. Actually,
I don't know. It's a storyfrom Florida, but I had to
get the news from Great Britain News. American schools slapped with huge fine after
letting transgender teenager play football I'm sorry, volleyball against girls. Yeah. Under

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the Fairness in Women's Sports Act,trans student athletes are banned from playing in
school sports teams that align with theirgender identity. This was introduced by presidential
candidate of course Ron DeSantis two yearsago. According to Pink News, Monarch
High School has been fined a hugeit's in British again, I'd say a

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huge thirteen one hundred and sixty poundsby the Florida High School Athletic Association.
It's claimed in a letter sent tothe school that they will be on administrative
probation for a full calendar year.The student athlete has been declared ineligible to
represent any member school for a periodof one year from the date of discovery,

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which was the twenty first of November. Acting to the development, Florida
Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Junior wrote,thanks to DeSantis, Florida passed legislation to
protect girls sports and we will nottolerate any school that violates this law.
State of Ohio similarly, House Billsixty eight, at the time of this
recording still sitting on Governor DeWine's deskawaiting his signature, but it has passed

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and it does much the same thingin the state of Ohio. DeSantis de
Wine. I don't know, maybethat's a good sign. And finally,
before I get out of here,I've been on Santos Santos. Santos has
been saying he had to go sincehe got into the United States Congress.
Well, you know what, maybemaybe there is there a drug problem.

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The New York candidate that they arebringing out to replace mister Santos, although
this candidate ran as a Republican.Mount Mazi Malessa Peep I think it's pronounced,
a Ethiopian born Jew Israeli Defense Forceveteran and a member of the Nassau
County Legislature, will be announced orhas been announced now as the candidate to

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replace Santos. While this person previouslyran for a seat in the county legislature
as a Republican and still says thatthey are Republican, Politico is saying she's
registered to vote as a Democrat.Register Santos was nothing that he said he
was, and now we got somebodyrunning as a Republican to fill a Republican

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seat. That's a registered Democrat.New York, New York. It's a
wonderful town. It is time forme to get out of here, all
right. I hope you enjoined thisedition of the Chuck Douglas Power Hour Podcast.
More to come. I'll be onthe air a lot more too,
as we get into the holiday season. People taking time off and so forth,
so we will get some more timeon six' ten WTV. And
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