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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Calgar ninety three point one, WPOC Beth and Ees Bree
all the things you need to know to get you
day star day.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So did you see the Netflix HBO Max deal that
went through.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Eighty two million dollar deal? Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The FCC apparently has no jurisdiction because there are no
broadcast channels involved, but President Trump expressed skepticism that the
that this was an anti trust situation. I think it's
fascinating at the very least to see what happens here.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
At least, I think it's going to make your Netflix
subscription rate go up because they're doing a lot.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
More shows and movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it seems like
it's going to cost a lot more.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I think that that's going to be something to watch
for sure. Animal control officers removed an exotic cat wandering
around Reservoir Hill Friday. They think it was someone's pets.
They reminded everyone that it's illegal to have exotic pets.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So I guess I was just in a zoo. I
would be so freaked out if I saw that.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Skateland Putty Hill closed after nearly fifty years in business.
Earlier on the text, someone said that there still is
a skating rink in bel Air, Okay, so if you
want to skate inside, that's one of the only ones left.
Melissa McCarthy was hilarious on SNL. Did you see any
of it?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I missed it. Oh you should look up some of
the clips. Very very funny.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
She's just like a gem, you know, because SNL honestly
hasn't been that funny this season, but I think she's been.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
You know, she helped him kill it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Taylor Swift had Selena Gomez in attendance at the Chiefs
game the other day, but it didn't help at all.
They lost, and now we're in danger of making the playoffs.
And speaking of being in danger of making the playoffs,
the Ravens lots. Somebody on teg's said this is very
we text Hi, Michael, Jamee Bethany had just got in
(02:02):
my car and you're the first ones I want to text.
I'm sorry about the upset game yesterday. I'm a Steelers fan, However,
I don't even know how we won. I was at
the game and y'all we're definitely cheated. Don't know if
you've discussed it yet, but if you did, I'm sorry.
Other than that happy mind.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Well, we've discussed it all right, and I am disgusted
because I think that that, you know, he took three steps.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
You know. However, I just say this one thing. We
can complain.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
We can gripe that we got screwed, because we did.
But but we should not have been in that position.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It shouldn't come to that, and we handled.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
If we'd handled business and had more than nine points
in the first half, and if Lamar had managed the
clock properly at the end of the game and done
little chunk play.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
He was running around like he had no idea what
he was doing at the end.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And so I mean, I really am not happy with
Lamar because I think you should have been smarter.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
H But maybe maybe that's we've seen what we're going
to get.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And lastly, a new survey has revealed just how much
workers across the country hate their holiday party. Two thirds
of workers would rather get a root canal than go
to their holiday party out.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Ninety three point one WPOC ninety.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Three point one WPOC. Morgan Wallen, Hey, it's Michael ja here, Bethany.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
We collected over twelve huge boxes full of toys for
the Marine Corps and the Toys for Toss campaign. Saturday
was such a cool day. If you go to I
tell you what, there's a bunch of different videos I want.
I want you to take a peek at how many
toys came in as we were building it Mountain. Yeah,
(03:46):
it was cool inside the welcome center right there on
Main Street in Ellicott City. They helped us build it
and we had it in a secure area because we
had to have everything, you know, locked up so we
didn't lose. So we were collecting the toys on main
Street waving to people having fun. There's a video that
(04:07):
shows you how many toys if you go to our
WPOC Instagram. It was overwhelming. Nicki, NICKI, thanks for coming out.
So many people wanted to be anonymous and would not
give their names. And there's a couple of women who
brought so many toys. They had two car loadsy just
(04:28):
themselves and they had big SUVs and they were loaded,
both vehicles packed with toys. She does it every year.
There was another guy who came and he said he
was army and he's a veteran and I was thanking
him for his service and he's bringing He had a
(04:49):
hand truck and he brought three hand trucks full of
toys and he said, please, when you get back on
the radio on Monday, pass out this message. And he said,
just say thank you from the Army to the Marines.
And I said, well, what can you give me some backstory?
And he said we were in Afghanistan and I believe
he said between twenty twelve and twenty fifteen ish. And
(05:13):
he said he was with his fellow guys in the
army and all they had were pistols on him and
they were sent into a site. And I thought, he said,
like hellum province or he gave me the name of
the province and he said that we were stranded and
all we had to defend ourselves were with pistols. And
(05:34):
he said in the Marines came in and they got
us out of there. And he said we would not
have gotten out without the Marines. So he wanted me
to say thank you. And I guess if you're a
Marine and you were in Afghanistan, you know about what
he's talking about. But just so much love and respect
between you know, fellow veterans.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
It was an amazing, amazing day.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
So thank you to everybody who came out to Michael
J's Toy Mountain. We are so proud to do it
for the kids at at you know, with the.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Toys are toys for tots.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I'm just, I was just, I was literally blown away
by how many people were pulling up.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
This time of year brings out the absolute best, it
really does.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And country listeners, how you have a heart like our
twelve listeners. Man have a heart like nobody else I've
ever seen. So I can't say how how much it
means to us. And thank you very much. The Marines
couldn't have been more thankful to get those toys.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So ninety three point one WPOC traffic.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Right, we're running a little late. Let's jump on traffic.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
We will get to the Music City minute here because
I want to hear from Tim mcgrawn. Is Christmas Eve tradition.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But first, there's an accident on the inner loop at
bel Air Road. It's been moved to the shoulder. Things
are stop and go back to Harford Road. There's an
accident on Del mar v at North Point Boulevard, an
excedent on the inner loop at Harford Road, and we're
a little bit slow before the Harbor Tunnel.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
All right, Michael Jay's music in sixty seconds. You gon't
know like you own music grow.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I think you're gonna love this.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Here's what Tim says he always does on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
One of our traditions is since I was a kid,
this has always been a tradition. My mother's maid name
is Dugastino, so come from an Italian family on her side.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So for Christmas Eve.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
We always have homemade pasta, and that's sort of a
tradition that I had growing up and it's continued since
I've been married, and we look forward to that every
Christmas Eve, having a big pasta dinner Christmas, even getting
up Christmas Morning and making eggs with spaghetti sauce, which
is sort of a cool deal.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
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Speaker 3 (07:53):
Ninety three point one di.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
W poc one of your all time favorites, and George
Straight Hey, real quick, I just want to send a
shout out to firefighters and anyone who's doing rescue because
of a story that I was watching over the weekend.
There's video outside of a building in Tyson's Corner. All right,
if you've been down past the Capitol Beltway, you know
where Tyson's is all this, there is the big mirrored
(08:18):
glass sided buildings, right, So there was a crew they
were washing windows on that building. They were on the
fifteenth story last Thursday. And the way those it's called
a basket that they're in. It's like a elongated kind
of a platform, but it's got sides. Yeah, but its
(08:43):
it hangs, it moves up and down, and they're terrified. Well,
there's pulleys on both sides, and there's a mechanism that
hangs from the ceiling or from the roof, excuse me,
hangs from the roof of the building.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And there's an actual crane arm that drops them down.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Well, something went wrong with it and on the right
hand side of the basket that they were in, it
dropped and now they have they have secure like lines
on them, so they're still hanging. But the basket that
they were standing in is no longer underneath of them.
Oh my god, and it's fifteen stories in the air.
(09:21):
They slid below the basket hanging about ten stories in
the air and just hanging there, and they couldn't go up,
they couldn't go down. They fortunately they didn't fall, but
Fairfax County Rescue came to them. They extended the longest
arm on a cherry picker bucket, you know what I mean,
(09:44):
and they went up high enough and then they brought
them down into the cherry I called the cherry bucket.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I don't know which call that thing.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, yeah, you know on the end of the you know,
the fire truck that's got the thing that goes up in.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
The air, the bucket. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Well, they were able to rescue them, but can you
imagine you would have had to change my pants?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Oh fifteen stories? How long did they have to hair?
They were hanging there for an hour? Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
And the bucket, the bucket saved him. But the whole
basket just collapsed. It was hanging at a forty five
degree angle like this, you know, like, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I wonder how like percentage wise, how often stuff like
that happens with those like because you don't hear about
it very often.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
So I hope It's like every bud shout out to
window washers, and a big shout out to Fairfax and
a firefighters everywhere.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Y'all are amazing. All right, Now, I had.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
To get that off my chest because I watched that
video all weekend and it just took my breath away. Hey,
there is a stat that I was reading. Sixty three
percent of Marylanders now say a four year college degree
is not worth the cost. That is up from fifty
percent a decade ago. All right, sixty three percent of
(10:55):
Marylanders are saying, Nope, four years in college is not
worth it. The average cost of college has doubled since
nineteen ninety five. So I've got a question this morning,
and I would love to get the answer from from
anyone who has graduated.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I'll say in the last ten years.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
If you in the last ten years, because we went
back to ninety five for how the price is doubled.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So if you, let's just go back to the last ten years.
If you have.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Graduated from any college in the last ten years, I
simply want to ask you, was it worth it?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
This is going to be interesting.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I cannot wait to hear eight hundred and three two
one thirty six ninety three or you can tax seven seven, nine,
six y two start with hay or hi.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Now, hell it's been.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Keep bound, letting.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Mat just Tailey jam myselves, but they learned to steal.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Ninety three point one wpoc Hey. It's Michael j and
Bethany and I'm curious. You know, with sixty three percent
of Marylanders reportedly saying that a four year college degree
is not worth the cost, and that is up from
fifty percent a decade ago, So let me ask college graduates,
have you've graduated in the last ten years?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Was it worth it?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I'm good I was telling about the closet of college.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, so sixty three percent of people are telling everybody
that a four year college degree is not worth it.
But I want to hear from anybody who's graduated in
the last ten years. So have you sometime in the
last ten years graduated?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
I'm actually graduating Friday at forty one years old.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Okay, very cool, congratulations in.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
That, thank you. So I would say, yes, ultimately getting
a degree is worth it, all right, tay momical amounts
of money isn't with on that. People just need to
be smarter about it. You know, you can't go some
place and wrap up one hundred thousand dollars and student
(13:12):
loan debt over a degree you can get for twenty
or thirty grand.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Right, And so I guess, I guess what I'm wondering
is it's like, does the expense of college equal the
results of what you're going to be able to do
with that that degree? And are you going to be
earning the money that makes.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
That worth worth it? So that's why I want to
ask you out.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I mean, yeah, I mean, at the time, what's your degree?
Is the money worth it? But ultimately yes, if you
want to get anywhere, Unfortunately, we still need a degree, right,
That's what I ran into. You know, when I went
to quote unquote college out of high school. It was
a certificate program, but I hit a ceiling and had
(13:58):
to get my actual dig if I wanted to progress.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
So what did you what did you get a degree in?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Uh, in business administration? But I went to CCBC and
then I went to UMGC, so I, you know, was
able to save a lot of money and I didn't
have to pay as much as you know going to
an out of city four year private school.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Right, So if I could ask, like how much student
debt do you have now that you've graduated or are graduating?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Five thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Oh, congratulations, that's that is the real victory bank.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Most of my most of my classes I paid for
out of market.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Right, Well, that's awesome, congratulations.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Everybody's experienced.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Well, but but you know what, you got to figure
it out and everybody is different. You're right, and that's
why there's no there's no you know, perfect solution for everyone.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
But we're getting a lot of text on this, I noticed, Yeah,
and they're a bit inconclusive.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
A lot of people are saying, like, not really, the
money's not really worth it. However, I wouldn't be able
to have my job without the degree, right And like
that I think is a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I remember my parents who don't have.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Degrees always telling me, like, there's so many jobs you're
just not they're not available to you right off the rip,
just because you have to have that bachelor's degree. Yeah,
so I would. I also wonder if it would be
worth asking the people who don't have degrees, have you
felt held back because you don't have it?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, but is
it worth going into. I don't know, right, this is like,
I think this might be a tipping point.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
We're getting so many texts though.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Hey, I think people are finally realizing that skilled labor
certifications are worth more than a degree, more so now
than that AI is capable of doing most computer based jobs. Hey,
I got an MBA about eight years ago, all paid for.
Then five years later I switched to a different career
where I don't even need an undergrad degree. So no,
(16:04):
definitely not worth it. But I'm much happier with my
new job. Hey, I graduated in twenty twenty. I think
it depends on your career. I'm a teacher, which means
I require a degree from my job. But I do
understand that if you are doing a job where the
degree you have has nothing to do with your job,
how it could be worthless.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
There's also that like it's the phase of your life
where you kind of are meandering yay, So like there's
something to be said about like the other like the social.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Growth and that absolutely absolutely I am torn on this,
but I just I think it's interesting to see what
people are saying. And did you see what Bridget says
Bridget here hobby and I both use VA benefits for
most of my college and use personal funds for the
last three or four classes. I finished my bachelor's degree
last year. I'll have to say it was not worth
(16:56):
the time or money. I also paid for my two
youngest college courses, and they agree it wasn't worth the
time or money. It hasn't helped our careers at all.
Our oldest went to law school and now is in
the field. So out of the five of us, one
was worth it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And then this text too, I'm a teacher. The degree
is required, but the salary is not a living wage.
I think that I think that that's a problem. And
we kind of talked about this last week too, like
if you graduate with one hundred thousand dollars in debt,
for instance, yep, but you're I don't know, starting salaries
fifty grand.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
The math doesn't math.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
There exactly, so we got to figure it out. But
interesting conversations. And as I'm trying to sort it out
with my kids, you know where to go, how much
to spend, how much is worth it.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's it's something everybody's thinking about.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Ninety three point one WPOC Traffic.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Thirty two westbound between Telegraph and Laurel Fort Mead, one
of the slower spots out there on the road.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Right now, there's next in on the interloop at Harford Road.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
That's got things stop and go back to Delaney Valley
Road and then seventy eastbound after Marriatsville. An accident there
has things stop and go back to Baltimore National Pipe.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Here you go, Shannon says,
Calgar ninety three point one, WPOC Beth and Ees Bree
all the things you need to know to get you
day star day.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So did you see the Netflix HBO Max deal that
went through.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Eighty two million dollar deal? Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The FCC apparently has no jurisdiction because there are no
broadcast channels involved, but President Trump expressed skepticism that the
that this was an anti trust situation. I think it's
fascinating at the very least to see what happens here.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
At least, I think it's going to make your Netflix
subscription rate go up because they're doing a lot.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
More shows and movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it seems like
it's going to cost a lot more.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I think that that's going to be something to watch
for sure. Animal control officers removed an exotic cat wandering
around Reservoir Hill Friday. They think it was someone's pets.
They reminded everyone that it's illegal to have exotic pets.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So I guess I was just in a zoo. I
would be so freaked out if I saw that.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Skateland Putty Hill closed after nearly fifty years in business.
Earlier on the text, someone said that there still is
a skating rink in bel Air, Okay, so if you
want to skate inside, that's one of the only ones left.
Melissa McCarthy was hilarious on SNL. Did you see any
of it?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I missed it. Oh you should look up some of
the clips. Very very funny.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
She's just like a gem, you know, because SNL honestly
hasn't been that funny this season, but I think she's been.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
You know, she helped him kill it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Taylor Swift had Selena Gomez in attendance at the Chiefs
game the other day, but it didn't help at all.
They lost, and now we're in danger of making the playoffs.
And speaking of being in danger of making the playoffs,
the Ravens lots. Somebody on teg's said this is very
we text Hi, Michael, Jamee Bethany had just got in
(02:02):
my car and you're the first ones I want to text.
I'm sorry about the upset game yesterday. I'm a Steelers fan, However,
I don't even know how we won. I was at
the game and y'all we're definitely cheated. Don't know if
you've discussed it yet, but if you did, I'm sorry.
Other than that happy mind.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Well, we've discussed it all right, and I am disgusted
because I think that that, you know, he took three steps.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
You know. However, I just say this one thing. We
can complain.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
We can gripe that we got screwed, because we did.
But but we should not have been in that position.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It shouldn't come to that, and we handled.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
If we'd handled business and had more than nine points
in the first half, and if Lamar had managed the
clock properly at the end of the game and done
little chunk play.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
He was running around like he had no idea what
he was doing at the end.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And so I mean, I really am not happy with
Lamar because I think you should have been smarter.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
H But maybe maybe that's we've seen what we're going
to get.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And lastly, a new survey has revealed just how much
workers across the country hate their holiday party. Two thirds
of workers would rather get a root canal than go
to their holiday party out.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Ninety three point one WPOC ninety.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Three point one WPOC. Morgan Wallen, Hey, it's Michael ja here, Bethany.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
We collected over twelve huge boxes full of toys for
the Marine Corps and the Toys for Toss campaign. Saturday
was such a cool day. If you go to I
tell you what, there's a bunch of different videos I want.
I want you to take a peek at how many
toys came in as we were building it Mountain. Yeah,
(03:46):
it was cool inside the welcome center right there on
Main Street in Ellicott City. They helped us build it
and we had it in a secure area because we
had to have everything, you know, locked up so we
didn't lose. So we were collecting the toys on main
Street waving to people having fun. There's a video that
(04:07):
shows you how many toys if you go to our
WPOC Instagram. It was overwhelming. Nicki, NICKI, thanks for coming out.
So many people wanted to be anonymous and would not
give their names. And there's a couple of women who
brought so many toys. They had two car loadsy just
(04:28):
themselves and they had big SUVs and they were loaded,
both vehicles packed with toys. She does it every year.
There was another guy who came and he said he
was army and he's a veteran and I was thanking
him for his service and he's bringing He had a
(04:49):
hand truck and he brought three hand trucks full of
toys and he said, please, when you get back on
the radio on Monday, pass out this message. And he said,
just say thank you from the Army to the Marines.
And I said, well, what can you give me some backstory?
And he said we were in Afghanistan and I believe
he said between twenty twelve and twenty fifteen ish. And
(05:13):
he said he was with his fellow guys in the
army and all they had were pistols on him and
they were sent into a site. And I thought, he said,
like hellum province or he gave me the name of
the province and he said that we were stranded and
all we had to defend ourselves were with pistols. And
(05:34):
he said in the Marines came in and they got
us out of there. And he said we would not
have gotten out without the Marines. So he wanted me
to say thank you. And I guess if you're a
Marine and you were in Afghanistan, you know about what
he's talking about. But just so much love and respect
between you know, fellow veterans.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
It was an amazing, amazing day.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
So thank you to everybody who came out to Michael
J's Toy Mountain. We are so proud to do it
for the kids at at you know, with the.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Toys are toys for tots.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I'm just, I was just, I was literally blown away
by how many people were pulling up.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
This time of year brings out the absolute best, it
really does.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And country listeners, how you have a heart like our
twelve listeners. Man have a heart like nobody else I've
ever seen. So I can't say how how much it
means to us. And thank you very much. The Marines
couldn't have been more thankful to get those toys.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So ninety three point one WPOC traffic.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Right, we're running a little late. Let's jump on traffic.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
We will get to the Music City minute here because
I want to hear from Tim mcgrawn. Is Christmas Eve tradition.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But first, there's an accident on the inner loop at
bel Air Road. It's been moved to the shoulder. Things
are stop and go back to Harford Road. There's an
accident on Del mar v at North Point Boulevard, an
excedent on the inner loop at Harford Road, and we're
a little bit slow before the Harbor Tunnel.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
All right, Michael Jay's music in sixty seconds. You gon't
know like you own music grow.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I think you're gonna love this.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Here's what Tim says he always does on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
One of our traditions is since I was a kid,
this has always been a tradition. My mother's maid name
is Dugastino, so come from an Italian family on her side.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So for Christmas Eve.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
We always have homemade pasta, and that's sort of a
tradition that I had growing up and it's continued since
I've been married, and we look forward to that every
Christmas Eve, having a big pasta dinner Christmas, even getting
up Christmas Morning and making eggs with spaghetti sauce, which
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W poc one of your all time favorites, and George
Straight Hey, real quick, I just want to send a
shout out to firefighters and anyone who's doing rescue because
of a story that I was watching over the weekend.
There's video outside of a building in Tyson's Corner. All right,
if you've been down past the Capitol Beltway, you know
where Tyson's is all this, there is the big mirrored
(08:18):
glass sided buildings, right, So there was a crew they
were washing windows on that building. They were on the
fifteenth story last Thursday. And the way those it's called
a basket that they're in. It's like a elongated kind
of a platform, but it's got sides. Yeah, but its
(08:43):
it hangs, it moves up and down, and they're terrified. Well,
there's pulleys on both sides, and there's a mechanism that
hangs from the ceiling or from the roof, excuse me,
hangs from the roof of the building.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And there's an actual crane arm that drops them down.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Well, something went wrong with it and on the right
hand side of the basket that they were in, it
dropped and now they have they have secure like lines
on them, so they're still hanging. But the basket that
they were standing in is no longer underneath of them.
Oh my god, and it's fifteen stories in the air.
(09:21):
They slid below the basket hanging about ten stories in
the air and just hanging there, and they couldn't go up,
they couldn't go down. They fortunately they didn't fall, but
Fairfax County Rescue came to them. They extended the longest
arm on a cherry picker bucket, you know what I mean,
(09:44):
and they went up high enough and then they brought
them down into the cherry I called the cherry bucket.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I don't know which call that thing.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, yeah, you know on the end of the you know,
the fire truck that's got the thing that goes up in.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
The air, the bucket. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Well, they were able to rescue them, but can you
imagine you would have had to change my pants?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Oh fifteen stories? How long did they have to hair?
They were hanging there for an hour? Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
And the bucket, the bucket saved him. But the whole
basket just collapsed. It was hanging at a forty five
degree angle like this, you know, like, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I wonder how like percentage wise, how often stuff like
that happens with those like because you don't hear about
it very often.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
So I hope It's like every bud shout out to
window washers, and a big shout out to Fairfax and
a firefighters everywhere.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Y'all are amazing. All right, Now, I had.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
To get that off my chest because I watched that
video all weekend and it just took my breath away. Hey,
there is a stat that I was reading. Sixty three
percent of Marylanders now say a four year college degree
is not worth the cost. That is up from fifty
percent a decade ago. All right, sixty three percent of
(10:55):
Marylanders are saying, Nope, four years in college is not
worth it. The average cost of college has doubled since
nineteen ninety five. So I've got a question this morning,
and I would love to get the answer from from
anyone who has graduated.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I'll say in the last ten years.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
If you in the last ten years, because we went
back to ninety five for how the price is doubled.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So if you, let's just go back to the last ten years.
If you have.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Graduated from any college in the last ten years, I
simply want to ask you, was it worth it?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
This is going to be interesting.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I cannot wait to hear eight hundred and three two
one thirty six ninety three or you can tax seven seven, nine,
six y two start with hay or hi.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Now, hell it's been.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Keep bound, letting.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Mat just Tailey jam myselves, but they learned to steal.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Ninety three point one wpoc Hey. It's Michael j and
Bethany and I'm curious. You know, with sixty three percent
of Marylanders reportedly saying that a four year college degree
is not worth the cost, and that is up from
fifty percent a decade ago, So let me ask college graduates,
have you've graduated in the last ten years?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Was it worth it?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I'm good I was telling about the closet of college.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, so sixty three percent of people are telling everybody
that a four year college degree is not worth it.
But I want to hear from anybody who's graduated in
the last ten years. So have you sometime in the
last ten years graduated?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
I'm actually graduating Friday at forty one years old.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Okay, very cool, congratulations in.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
That, thank you. So I would say, yes, ultimately getting
a degree is worth it, all right, tay momical amounts
of money isn't with on that. People just need to
be smarter about it. You know, you can't go some
place and wrap up one hundred thousand dollars and student
(13:12):
loan debt over a degree you can get for twenty
or thirty grand.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Right, And so I guess, I guess what I'm wondering
is it's like, does the expense of college equal the
results of what you're going to be able to do
with that that degree? And are you going to be
earning the money that makes.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
That worth worth it? So that's why I want to
ask you out.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I mean, yeah, I mean, at the time, what's your degree?
Is the money worth it? But ultimately yes, if you
want to get anywhere, Unfortunately, we still need a degree, right,
That's what I ran into. You know, when I went
to quote unquote college out of high school. It was
a certificate program, but I hit a ceiling and had
(13:58):
to get my actual dig if I wanted to progress.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
So what did you what did you get a degree in?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Uh, in business administration? But I went to CCBC and
then I went to UMGC, so I, you know, was
able to save a lot of money and I didn't
have to pay as much as you know going to
an out of city four year private school.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Right, So if I could ask, like how much student
debt do you have now that you've graduated or are graduating?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Five thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Oh, congratulations, that's that is the real victory bank.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Most of my most of my classes I paid for
out of market.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Right, Well, that's awesome, congratulations.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Everybody's experienced.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Well, but but you know what, you got to figure
it out and everybody is different. You're right, and that's
why there's no there's no you know, perfect solution for everyone.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
But we're getting a lot of text on this, I noticed, Yeah,
and they're a bit inconclusive.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
A lot of people are saying, like, not really, the
money's not really worth it. However, I wouldn't be able
to have my job without the degree, right And like
that I think is a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I remember my parents who don't have.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Degrees always telling me, like, there's so many jobs you're
just not they're not available to you right off the rip,
just because you have to have that bachelor's degree. Yeah,
so I would. I also wonder if it would be
worth asking the people who don't have degrees, have you
felt held back because you don't have it?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, but is
it worth going into. I don't know, right, this is like,
I think this might be a tipping point.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
We're getting so many texts though.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Hey, I think people are finally realizing that skilled labor
certifications are worth more than a degree, more so now
than that AI is capable of doing most computer based jobs. Hey,
I got an MBA about eight years ago, all paid for.
Then five years later I switched to a different career
where I don't even need an undergrad degree. So no,
(16:04):
definitely not worth it. But I'm much happier with my
new job. Hey, I graduated in twenty twenty. I think
it depends on your career. I'm a teacher, which means
I require a degree from my job. But I do
understand that if you are doing a job where the
degree you have has nothing to do with your job,
how it could be worthless.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
There's also that like it's the phase of your life
where you kind of are meandering yay, So like there's
something to be said about like the other like the social.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Growth and that absolutely absolutely I am torn on this,
but I just I think it's interesting to see what
people are saying. And did you see what Bridget says
Bridget here hobby and I both use VA benefits for
most of my college and use personal funds for the
last three or four classes. I finished my bachelor's degree
last year. I'll have to say it was not worth
(16:56):
the time or money. I also paid for my two
youngest college courses, and they agree it wasn't worth the
time or money. It hasn't helped our careers at all.
Our oldest went to law school and now is in
the field. So out of the five of us, one
was worth it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And then this text too, I'm a teacher. The degree
is required, but the salary is not a living wage.
I think that I think that that's a problem. And
we kind of talked about this last week too, like
if you graduate with one hundred thousand dollars in debt,
for instance, yep, but you're I don't know, starting salaries
fifty grand.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
The math doesn't math.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
There exactly, so we got to figure it out. But
interesting conversations. And as I'm trying to sort it out
with my kids, you know where to go, how much
to spend, how much is worth it.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's it's something everybody's thinking about.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
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Speaker 2 (17:52):
Thirty two westbound between Telegraph and Laurel Fort Mead, one
of the slower spots out there on the road.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Right now, there's next in on the interloop at Harford Road.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
That's got things stop and go back to Delaney Valley
Road and then seventy eastbound after Marriatsville. An accident there
has things stop and go back to Baltimore National Pipe.
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