April 2, 2026 • 29 mins
Leland Conway in for Lou on the push for free child care.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
But now they want free childcare for everybody. Apparently it's
a mania sweeping the nation. Three joke care, Oh my word,
Leland Conway And for Lou Penrose News Radio six hundred
Coco Live only.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I heard radio at by the Way.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
All new line up here. As Lou Penrose has gone
on vacation three to five. We will greatly miss Michael
Slater for sure, and he's gonna take some time spend
more time with his family. He's got a lot going
on on his calendar and just said, hey, I gotta
I gotta spend this middle of the day time with
my family. Totally respect that pretty pretty cool step on
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his part. That being said, we move things around a
little bit, and so you now have Lou from three
to five, then you have me from five to seven,
and then you've got Mark Larson from seven to eight.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So it's a.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Jam packed three pm to eight pm all day, all
your all your local favorites all there and super excited
to be a part of that and.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But this week Lou has gone on vacation spring break,
so he is out of here until next Thursday, and
I'm gonna stick around with you today tomorrow, I'll be
back in with you on Monday and Thursday, and I
think Tuesday and Wednesday. I am off I have a
pre existing commitment. So my buddy Mark's going to command
and kind of fill in for all of us. So
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that's the lineup right now. Okay, So, over the past year,
according to the Voice of San Diego, free day care
mania swept the nation. This is what they're saying. And
I love this paragraph. And again, you got to understand
where Voice of San Diego is coming from. It's definitely
coming from the left hand side of the political aisle here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's not hard to see why. Childcare is one of.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
The steepest ongoing costs of having children, and it has
only been increasing over the past decade. The price has
increased by nearly a quarter in California, meeting the average
family now pays nearly seventeen hundred a month. That's if
families can even find childcare and crowded markets like San Diego. Okay,
let me pause right there. There's a lot more to
this story, but let me stop right there. I'm going
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to ask you a question, and I mean this in
all seriousness, and please feel entirely fee free to call
the line one hundred and six hundred Cogo or hit
the talk back the Live feet on Cogo on the
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that red talk back microphone and jump in here. But
I'm gonna ask you a serious question. Okay, it's just
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me and you. I'm not gonna tell anybody your answer.
It's just me and you. Why is it my responsibility
to pay for the results of your bedroom habits? I mean,
I'm just being serious. You bump uglies with your spouse,
significant other, out pops a baby, and now I gotta
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pay for it?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is that what you're telling me? Is that seriously what
you're telling me? Yeah, but it's so expensive. Well, yeah,
I didn't have to have the kiddo. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I I guess maybe maybe I'm I'm a jerk, Maybe
I'm mean, But then again, I'm that guy that gets
really mad when people don't put their carts back in
the grocery rack at the grocery store. Because I think
it says a lot about your character. I think if
you think you should get free healthcare, free free care
for your kids, free day care, free lunch for your
kids at school, I think you have.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
A character issue. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I don't care that it's expensive. It's not my problem,
and it's certainly not anything our founding fathers ever estimated
that the government should have to take care of.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You know, here's the thing, this is why this all
came about.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Let's go back in time, in the way back time
machine to the nineteen fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And to leave at the Beaver Cleaver era.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yes, it's much better now that families can have two
incomes and moms don't have to stay at home and
test out their new frigid air refrigerator or their new
frigid airshing machine or whatever. The moms can actually go
out and work. And that's great. But you have to
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understand that that was a huge improvement in lifestyle for Americans,
right like when the wife started, when it became acceptable
in society, which is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'm not poopooing this. This is great. I benefit from this.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
There's been times when my wife has made more money
than I make, and right now it's probably a little
bit equal, and we're both crucial to our family's earnings altogether.
But there was a time when that wasn't acceptable, right,
man's the bread winner, as my dad used to call it,
I gotta go make the bean money right, And in
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that time period, that meant that families had to figure
out how to get buy on one salary, on one
pay on one income stream. And now we can do
two income streams, so we have more money. Oh but
we have these little rug rats that we produced when
we bumped ugly in the bedroom. Now we have these kids. Well,
guess what you get a tax deduction that I don't
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get because I.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Don't have kids.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You get thousands of dollars a year just to have kids,
just to reproduce.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
What are you doing with that money?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Why is it the rest of the taxpayer's responsibility to
pay for your childcare?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
When you're getting all those tax refunds.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
That you that you got because you had a kid.
And the more kids you have, the more money you
get back from the government, so much so that if
you're making under a certain amount annually, you get more
back than you paid in. And now you still want
me to pay for your childcare. I'm sorry, sorry, not sorry,
because I'm not really sorry. This is nonsense, and this
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is how far we've come down this leftist line because
there's probably a bunch of Republicans that are like, yo,
we should have assistance for that too.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, we shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
If you're going to have a two income household, which
is great, you should. If you're gonna have a two
income household, you need to budget that part of one
of those incomes or half of is going to come
out of each is going to pay for your childcare.
Because your children are your freaking responsibility. Now here's the
leftist argument. Here's the other side on that. Here's the
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part they're gonna be like Leland, you're not seeing this.
You have a lot of thing going it. I get it,
cost of doing business. I'm sorry, that's life. I mean,
there was a time when that didn't even exist, right,
and a lot of women had to stay with bad
husbands because it wasn't acceptable for them to get divorced
and single moms were not a thing.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And now it's kind of okay.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But still, if you okay, that's what the court system
is for your deadbeat dad doesn't pay, go after him,
make him pay part of that childcare. It's still both
of your responsibility, even if you're not together.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Who's the good beat? Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
But how does that make that the rest of the
taxpayer's responsibility.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'm not understanding this in the story.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Nationwide, some leaders are working to change the dynamic. Mayors
Daniel Luri and Zoran mom Donnie, San Francisco and New
York City, respectively, have advanced plans to launch freak childcare
programs in their cities. Earlier this year, New Mexico became
the first day in the nation to adopt a free
universal childcare program for its residents. Dude, let me tell
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you something. Have you been New Mexico. I don't know
if you've ever been to New Mexico, but New Mexico
is poor and dirt and the crime is through the
frickin roof. I got a buddy who lives in Albuquerque,
and he jokingly says, Albuquerque, come.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
For the balloon fest, stay because you got murdered. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And I grew up in Arizona, and I have been
through New Mexico many times. I do business in New Mexico,
so I've been through spend some time there. There's actually
a really special place that my family and I like
to go.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
They filmed I.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Don't know if you ever saw the TV show Longmire,
but It was supposed to be set in Wyoming, but
it's actually filmed in New Mexico. It's filmed at a place
called Vaya Caldera, which is a national reserve. It used
to be an old Spanish land grant ranch and it's
up high in the mountains in New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It's beautiful. It's stunning.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
If you've ever watched Longmire, when you see where his
cabin is, that's where his cabin is, and you can
actually go to his cabin.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
That's in the show.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But it's actually on that national preserve anyway, So it's
a very special place to us. For reasons, I won't
go into here, but it's a special place. So we
go down there and up there and over there and
spend time there on a regular basis. Sometimes I'll go
see my dad in Arizona and then I'll pop over
to New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Whatever the crime there.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The last time I was in Santa Fe, dude, I'm
standing there pumping gas and I witnessed a store robbery
at the gas station. I'm just like, really, really, homelessness
is everywhere. Crime is through the roof. When COVID came out,
they were worse than California with their restrictions. They tried
to ban concealed carry when crime was getting out of
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hand because they think the concealed carried partmit holders are
the ones causing the privacy. It's it's an absolute that
state is an absolute utter mess. And they don't have
the money to pay for this, even though they're they're
giving it away for free, like it's just not there.
So now Unified San Diego Unified Superintendent Fabiola Bagula wants
to get in on all this action, and she says.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But it won't be it won't be cheap or easy.
She says, quote, I just keep.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Going, well why not here? What makes them different than us? Well, one,
because they're economically stupid. In New York, I'm sorry, but
but but electing a guy like mom Donnie, who's a
damn communist is a stupid move. I'm sorry they're that
that's I mean, we're not quite down that far down
the rabbit hole here. How about their stupid Uh if
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it's America's finest city, then let's make it that way.
Begoula said. Other cities are already doing this. There's a
model for us. Uh, we don't we wouldn't have to
be doing this in the dark. Tell me how you're
gonna do this without raising taxes To begoula, free childcare
could be a game changer for local families. While paying
tens of thousands of dollars a year on care is
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a weight on parents' backs, so is the stress that
comes from figuring out how to navigate the world of childcare. Oh,
because the government can do it better. Oh my bad.
Let's talk about this. We'll dig into the cost that
comes with this. Where that's going to come from when
we continue, I am Leland Conway and for Lou Penrose.
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Leland Conway in for Loup Penrose. Leland Conway sitting in
for Lou Penrose.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
News Radio six.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Hundred go go live on the iHeart radio apples. Click
that red microphone, jump the conversation. Finnerty and I were
discussing this during the commercial break, and Finnerty, I agree
with you. Why the hell can I not get a
tax credit for every one of my dogs? I got
four dogs. I don't have kids. I got four dogs.
I pay for your kids to go to school. I
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pay for your kids to get a damn free lunch.
Why don't you pay to help me care for my dogs?
Because when I go on vacation, I gotta have I
gotta hire a sitter that costs a bunch of money.
I got to take them to the vet. Why can't
I at least claim them on my taxes? I have
saying I don't think we're wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I have been saying that I think that every pet
owner in America should get a tax credit. Okay, yes,
we can't deduct them like children, that's fine, but come
on the money. Least credit, at least the credit. First
of all, we're encouraged to adopt pets.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
We are.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It's good for them, it's great for us. We're supposed
to live longer, healthier. But it's expensive. When you talk
about you just talked about taking another vet, medicine, kennel,
also of food and all of that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's expensive. So how come we're pushing for free childcare?
How about a tax credit for US pet owners? And
most Americans have some sort of pet. Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
We actually save the society money, right because we don't
have to have as much. We'd have to have a
much bigger budget for animal control if nobody adopted the pets.
So we're saving money. And even euthanasia costs money, so
if we've given them a loving, tender home, it's like,
it's it's a win.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I'm with you, man.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I mean, I need to stop naming my dogs like
dog names because we have like Searchlight bandit Trigger remy
short for Remington.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You see a thread there, I do so, so I
need to start naming my.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Dogs Steve, Sarah, John, like, so I could claim them
on my deck.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Forget bubbles, go with Bob, Go with Bob Bob the
Bob Bob the Beagle.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Forget forget Tiger, Go with Terry Yep, Sherman the German Shepherd.
Sherman the German Shepherd. I mean, like, why not, I'm
on board with this. It's so dumb, we're talking about
this story San Diego Voice, free childcare for all being
proposed and fought for by Superintendent County Schools.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
This is this is true? Where did I go on that?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh, Fabiola Bagula, Sorry, so she wants she wants to
join the other cities that are committing this economic suicide
and asking for you to pay for your neighbor's kids childcare. Uh,
this is this is from the story Voice of Voice
of San Diego. And of course the immigrant issue comes
into this. San Diego has for years relied on immigrants
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for growth because under the surface, local populations have been shrinking.
Demographers attribute that shrinkage primarily to swimming.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
In cold pools.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Oh sorry, no, sorry, primarily to the region's high cost
of living, chasing residents to other regions in search of
greater affordability, and a slumping local birth rate. Taking the
high cost of childcare off the residen's financial place could
ease the dual stressors and produce more stable local population.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
How okay, here's the price tag. Are you ready for this?
Oh my god? Two billion?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Now let's analyze that for a minute. How much did
they say, Finergy the high speed rail was going to
cost at the beginning. Oh my gosh, I don't remember.
I'll look it up.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Okay, I can't remember, but it was like it was
like ten billion or something. It was.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It was some ridiculously low number, which it's already we've
already spent more on fifteen hundred feet of track than
what they originally said we would pay for the entire project.
So the reason I bring that up is because that
money has to come from somewhere, and we know that's
a low end estimate.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Actually, actually it was estimated approximately cost anywhere from thirty
three to forty five.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Okay, but we've already spent like forty five billion. We
only have fifteen hundred feet of track. So exactly it's
going to double wa they said. Okay, that's the point.
It's gonna double what they said. So Google, but Bagoula
projects the citywide childcar system, citywide childcare systems she's like
to see, she would like to see, could carry a
price tag of about two billions.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
So they don't even know.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It's nearly seven hundred dollars more than the district's general
fund revenue for this school year. So the general fundright,
So I want you to understand this. The general fund
revenue for the schools is one point three billion. They
want two billion to pay for childcare. Why don't they
just okay, okay, finnerty help me out here. What if
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I'm not even I'm not even for this, okay, But
I'm just trying to find like a little.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Bit of logic in this.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Like if we were for this, if you and I
were like, yay, let's do it, why wouldn't we just say,
screw it, let's expand the school budget, have school b
from eight to five pm and have them just take
care of your kid all day.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Like why not?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It's it's why can't we just roll the cost into
what we're already spending on schools since the schools aren't
working anyway?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well, they would still say that, well, then you need
to be taxed more on your property taxes to pay
for the school to pay for those programs.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I'm joking.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
It's I'm being facetious, as my dad used to say,
Like I'm not really for this, I'm just like, what, so.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Two billion dollars so, which means it'll actually be four,
which means it'll actually be six because the the railroad
that has to be Railroad is approximately now going to
cost us at least bare minimum eighty nine billion.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Right, yes, okay, so I'm gonna throw this idea out there.
You know what, we should effort getting Bagoula on the program.
I'm going to see if I can do that because
I want to talk to her about this.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Here's a thought on this.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Why don't we just give parents a stipend so that
they can send their kid to the school they want
to send them, like, not a stipend, but like a credit,
a tax credit that gives them the money that they
pay in to the school system that they can then
use wherever they want, like, for instance, tuition for private school. Now,
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that doesn't solve the childcare issue, but it solves the
educational issue.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Look, I'm going to dig into this a.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Little bit more because there's another really big point that
everybody's missing about this before we spend two billion on
free childcare for everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We'll get to that next week.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
All right, So back to this topic here that the
San Diego School supertendent, who Fabiola Bagoula, She wants free
childcare for everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So I have just one small question.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I feel like anybody associated with San Diego schools, that
your first priority should be why the hell fifty percent
of our kids can't read? That's what your first priority
should be. And if you think I'm full of it,
it's the real numbers. Statewide, fifty three percent of third
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graders can't read at grade level. It's slightly better in
San Diego forty eight percent, but that's almost fifty percent,
So half the kids can't read at grade level. And
you're worried about free childcare, Like, really, what's your priorities here?
You want to spend two billion dollars we don't have.
That's more than the budget of the schools. Again, that
we don't have to pay for other people's choices. See,
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I've never been against a.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
What do we call it, I've never been against.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
A social safety net per se. Like I understand people
fall on hard times. I don't have a problem with
having a small program designed to help people get back
up on their feet, and that's the keyword designed.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But I have very.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Little patience for these people that are running around the
country demanding that other people use the proceeds of their
hard work to fund other people's inconveniences. And that's annoying.
To me, And if you think that makes me a jerk,
then so be it. I hate Leland at gmail dot com.
To really email address, you can hit me up there.
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I hate leland at gmail dot com. Again, almost half
of San Diego third graders can't read at third grade level.
That to me seems to be that that should be
the priority. And that doesn't mean we need to dunckt
more money into it. It means we need to reconfigure
what we're doing because it's clearly not working. And I
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will tell you that years and years ago, you know,
families didn't get to enjoy two incomes. Part of the
price of adjoining two incomes is that if you have kids,
if you choose to have kids and you choose to
have two incomes, which you can do. This is America,
God bless it. You can do anything you want in America.
So if you choose to have kids and also choose
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to have multiple incomes, then part of the price of
that is that you are going to have to pay
for childcare because you can't leave the little rugrats at
home when they're under six. Maybe seven, yeah, let them
burn the house down, but six you can't. So you
gotta have a little common sense when you approach this, okay.
And so I look at this and I'm like, why
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do you think that it's okay for you to demand
free healthcare, free childcare for your kids? It's expensive, I
get it, but that's not my problem. I didn't choose
to have them. You did, and there's a price to
go with that. And you're still farther ahead. If you
have two incomes. Guess what you have double the income,
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and if part of that second income has to go
to take care of the things that have to be
taken care of because you're off working, you're still ahead
of where you were without the second income. So why
is everybody complaining about this? And again we'll come back
to it. Single moms, single parents, I get it. Still
your choices. Oh there's a great book. The guy's name
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is Gary Gary John Bishop. The book is called Unblank
Yourself the actual word but I'm saying blank because I
can't say the actual.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Word on the on the radio.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
But it's called Unblank Yourself. And I don't you know.
He's the San Diegan Jocko Willink. It's one of my
favorite people. His book, which I freaking love. It's extreme
Personal Responsibility, Extreme Ownership, phenomenal book, and it's it's in
that vein. But Gary John Bishop is more kind of
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esoteric in his approach, and I love both of them.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Both of them are really good.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
But in Gary John Bishop's whole thing is like, if
you really are looking for somebody to blame other than
yourself for the situation that you're in, you're chasing the
wrong tail. Ultimately, our relationships, like we always want to
blame our bad relationships on the other person.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, guess what, there's two sides to the story. There's
always a little bit.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Of it that's your fault, and it's coming to the
conclusion that you are the sum total of the decisions
you've made in your life. And that ties to your relationships,
It ties to your marriage, It ties to your your
significant other, it ties to the father or mother of
your children, all of those things. You're the sum total
of the decisions that you've made. Did you choose the
wrong person? And now you've got a situation you have
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to deal with And that's not the rest of society's problem.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And I'm sorry if this seems mean and mad and
angry or whatever, but it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It's just I'm just telling you an honest truth that
if you don't agree with me, you probably need to
hear more often. And it's that the rest of society
is not responsible for the decisions that you made. You
got in a bad situation, you decided to leave cool.
That's good for you. I'm glad you made that decision.
That doesn't make your problems mine. And if that seems insensitive,
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suck it up, Buttercup. The world is harsh and it
is not. It is not for me to pay for
your kid's childcare. That's just something you're just gonna have
to figure out how a budget for. Now, here's the
question how much of the price of this is demand based,
and it might be, and how much of it is
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actually tied to the fact that there's rampant fraud in
the daycare industry, and how much of it is tied
to government regulations of the daycare industry. Not that we
shouldn't have any regulations in the daycare industry, clearly, but
you understand I was saying it making it hard to
run a business that is all tying in property values.
You have to lease a place or have a place
that you set aside for that all of that lends
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to the price. And whenever I see a politician, they
almost never look at the root causes. Do you remember
when Kamala Harris miss word salad was going when they
appointed her to run the border, and she said, we're
gonna find a root cause immigration idiot. So that was
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kind of funny to me because I was like, Okay,
here's a politician actually saying root cause who then went
on to do absolutely nothing on the border and keep
it wide open. That was all just words, But you
never actually see politicians diving for the root cause, like
what is causing the fact? Why is healthcare seventeen hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
What could we do to make it cheaper?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And by the way, if you want to give a
I don't like that people who have children get better
tax rates than I do.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I don't like it, but I understand it.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's to encourage for us to reproduce, and that's good
for the country.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I get it. I understand uh.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But it's also not my responsibility because you already do
get a bunch of money back. Like if you're a
single mom making eighty five thousand dollars a year, you're
getting more money back in taxes than you're paying in.
Your refund is bigger than what you paid in. So
don't come to me and say you need more. It's
not my problem. And again, I know that sounds harsh
and insensitive, but well, I guess that's me. My favorite
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sweater is on the front of the sweater, it says
nobody cares work harder. I mean, yeah, I'm totally mean.
All right, you can hit us up in the talk pack.
Go to the live feed for Coco on the IR
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Speaker 2 (25:01):
Tell me how many.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I Am not really going to be super sympathetic to it,
but I'd love to hear it. We're gonna talk about
I justid I'm gonna do a little preview of my program,
which starts at five tonight in about ten minutes. And
one of the things that I'm going to talk about,
in addition to the fact that we may be looking
at AI policing options in San Diego, which scares me
(25:24):
a little bit, also, there's some interesting news about Artemis two,
and I am fascinated with this story and fascinated at
what's happening here. But there's an angle on this that's
really interesting. To me, and it has to do with
how the left is reacting to it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It's pretty wild, blue.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Penrochelle Leland Conway sitting in for lou Is on vacation,
and we'll be with you for a couple more hours
with the new England Conway Show coming up at five,
followed by the new Mark Larson Show coming up at
seven in the all new lineup here on news Radio
six hundred Coco Live on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, Fenerty,
you know why you should never pee in the Amazon?
This a little side note. The more you know, you
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learn something every day, A little bit for you. You
know why I should never pee in the Amazon?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I do not know. I would love to know. The
cando ru.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
The candourru is a tiny microscopic fish, Okay, And when
you pee in the Amazon River, the fish the kind
ruh sence, it's the heat because this temperature is warmer
than the water around it, and it mistakes that for
water coming out of the gills of a fish, and
it swims up the urine stream directly into your euretha.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Now, this is not the worst part, Finerty.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's not just that you have a small microscopic fish
up in your urethra. It's that the fish's fins are
like barbed wire, and when they go up into the urethra,
they spread out and attach themselves to the inner wall
of your body, causing internal bleeding and intense pain, requiring
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them to splay your open in order.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
To get the fish out. That is why you should
never pee in the Amazon. That's a good reason not
to do that. Yeah, it's a good reason.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Not that you're going to be hanging out in the
Amazon anytime soon, but in case you do.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I always like to make sure my friends are safe.
That's all. That's what that's all about. Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
On the Leland Conwey Show later tonight in the six
o'clock hour, I am going to address the Artemis issue
a little more in depth than we did yesterday.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I'm fascinated by this.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I don't know if you are, but this is awesome
watching America and I was looking at one of the
updates that just came out. By the way, yesterday, I
told you, I told you guys that they had a
problem right before launch with the toilets. Apparently, the fan
in the toilet, which is like the most important part
it cleans the smell out. The fan wasn't working, and
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they tried to get it fixed before launch, but they
were like, oh, scritt, We'll let you guys fix it in.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Flight.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
So they had to send them directions on how to
fix the fan and the toilet on Artemis two.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
So that's unconvened, inconvenient, and uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But anyway, there there's an update today. They just got
just a few minutes ago, they got the ghost signal.
What are they calling this? It is called the trans
lunar injection burn, which is not the effects of the
Canduru fish. Okay, this is what they call this move
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to sling them around the Moon. So they're going to
go on a total six hundred eighty five thousand mile journey.
It's taking ten days around the Moon, and they will
do a lunar flyby. So this was a crucial step
that we took towards the first moon landing way back
in the Apollo days. And then at the end of
this ten day journey, they are going to come back
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to the Earth and they are gonna splash down right
off the coast of San Diego. So we're gonna have
a big part to play in this amazing story. And
I'm looking finnerty, I'm looking at the launch and then
the path of the return to Earth. This is really fascinating,
Like you would kind of almost call this deep space,
like not really deep space, but it's deep space compared
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to where we go because most of the time we
stay in the kind of a high Earth orbit. But
this one, this one's gonna go six hundred and eighty
five thousand miles. Fascinating stuff. All right, I will be
with you two more hours. Leland Conway Show starts in
just a minute. Thanks for letting me sit in for
Luke Benrose while he's on vacation here on news Radio
six hundred Coogo live on the iHeartRadio app.
But now they want free childcare for everybody. Apparently it's
a mania sweeping the nation. Three joke care, Oh my word,
Leland Conway And for Lou Penrose News Radio six hundred
Coco Live only.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I heard radio at by the Way.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
All new line up here. As Lou Penrose has gone
on vacation three to five. We will greatly miss Michael
Slater for sure, and he's gonna take some time spend
more time with his family. He's got a lot going
on on his calendar and just said, hey, I gotta
I gotta spend this middle of the day time with
my family. Totally respect that pretty pretty cool step on
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his part. That being said, we move things around a
little bit, and so you now have Lou from three
to five, then you have me from five to seven,
and then you've got Mark Larson from seven to eight.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So it's a.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Jam packed three pm to eight pm all day, all
your all your local favorites all there and super excited
to be a part of that and.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But this week Lou has gone on vacation spring break,
so he is out of here until next Thursday, and
I'm gonna stick around with you today tomorrow, I'll be
back in with you on Monday and Thursday, and I
think Tuesday and Wednesday. I am off I have a
pre existing commitment. So my buddy Mark's going to command
and kind of fill in for all of us. So
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that's the lineup right now. Okay, So, over the past year,
according to the Voice of San Diego, free day care
mania swept the nation. This is what they're saying. And
I love this paragraph. And again, you got to understand
where Voice of San Diego is coming from. It's definitely
coming from the left hand side of the political aisle here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's not hard to see why. Childcare is one of.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
The steepest ongoing costs of having children, and it has
only been increasing over the past decade. The price has
increased by nearly a quarter in California, meeting the average
family now pays nearly seventeen hundred a month. That's if
families can even find childcare and crowded markets like San Diego. Okay,
let me pause right there. There's a lot more to
this story, but let me stop right there. I'm going
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to ask you a question, and I mean this in
all seriousness, and please feel entirely fee free to call
the line one hundred and six hundred Cogo or hit
the talk back the Live feet on Cogo on the
app the iHeartRadio app, the Live Feet for Cogo, click
that red talk back microphone and jump in here. But
I'm gonna ask you a serious question. Okay, it's just
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me and you. I'm not gonna tell anybody your answer.
It's just me and you. Why is it my responsibility
to pay for the results of your bedroom habits? I mean,
I'm just being serious. You bump uglies with your spouse,
significant other, out pops a baby, and now I gotta
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pay for it?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is that what you're telling me? Is that seriously what
you're telling me? Yeah, but it's so expensive. Well, yeah,
I didn't have to have the kiddo. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I I guess maybe maybe I'm I'm a jerk, Maybe
I'm mean, But then again, I'm that guy that gets
really mad when people don't put their carts back in
the grocery rack at the grocery store. Because I think
it says a lot about your character. I think if
you think you should get free healthcare, free free care
for your kids, free day care, free lunch for your
kids at school, I think you have.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
A character issue. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I don't care that it's expensive. It's not my problem,
and it's certainly not anything our founding fathers ever estimated
that the government should have to take care of.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You know, here's the thing, this is why this all
came about.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Let's go back in time, in the way back time
machine to the nineteen fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And to leave at the Beaver Cleaver era.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yes, it's much better now that families can have two
incomes and moms don't have to stay at home and
test out their new frigid air refrigerator or their new
frigid airshing machine or whatever. The moms can actually go
out and work. And that's great. But you have to
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understand that that was a huge improvement in lifestyle for Americans,
right like when the wife started, when it became acceptable
in society, which is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'm not poopooing this. This is great. I benefit from this.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
There's been times when my wife has made more money
than I make, and right now it's probably a little
bit equal, and we're both crucial to our family's earnings altogether.
But there was a time when that wasn't acceptable, right,
man's the bread winner, as my dad used to call it,
I gotta go make the bean money right, And in
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that time period, that meant that families had to figure
out how to get buy on one salary, on one
pay on one income stream. And now we can do
two income streams, so we have more money. Oh but
we have these little rug rats that we produced when
we bumped ugly in the bedroom. Now we have these kids. Well,
guess what you get a tax deduction that I don't
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get because I.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Don't have kids.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You get thousands of dollars a year just to have kids,
just to reproduce.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
What are you doing with that money?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Why is it the rest of the taxpayer's responsibility to
pay for your childcare?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
When you're getting all those tax refunds.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
That you that you got because you had a kid.
And the more kids you have, the more money you
get back from the government, so much so that if
you're making under a certain amount annually, you get more
back than you paid in. And now you still want
me to pay for your childcare. I'm sorry, sorry, not sorry,
because I'm not really sorry. This is nonsense, and this
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is how far we've come down this leftist line because
there's probably a bunch of Republicans that are like, yo,
we should have assistance for that too.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, we shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
If you're going to have a two income household, which
is great, you should. If you're gonna have a two
income household, you need to budget that part of one
of those incomes or half of is going to come
out of each is going to pay for your childcare.
Because your children are your freaking responsibility. Now here's the
leftist argument. Here's the other side on that. Here's the
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part they're gonna be like Leland, you're not seeing this.
You have a lot of thing going it. I get it,
cost of doing business. I'm sorry, that's life. I mean,
there was a time when that didn't even exist, right,
and a lot of women had to stay with bad
husbands because it wasn't acceptable for them to get divorced
and single moms were not a thing.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And now it's kind of okay.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But still, if you okay, that's what the court system
is for your deadbeat dad doesn't pay, go after him,
make him pay part of that childcare. It's still both
of your responsibility, even if you're not together.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Who's the good beat? Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
But how does that make that the rest of the
taxpayer's responsibility.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'm not understanding this in the story.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Nationwide, some leaders are working to change the dynamic. Mayors
Daniel Luri and Zoran mom Donnie, San Francisco and New
York City, respectively, have advanced plans to launch freak childcare
programs in their cities. Earlier this year, New Mexico became
the first day in the nation to adopt a free
universal childcare program for its residents. Dude, let me tell
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you something. Have you been New Mexico. I don't know
if you've ever been to New Mexico, but New Mexico
is poor and dirt and the crime is through the
frickin roof. I got a buddy who lives in Albuquerque,
and he jokingly says, Albuquerque, come.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
For the balloon fest, stay because you got murdered. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And I grew up in Arizona, and I have been
through New Mexico many times. I do business in New Mexico,
so I've been through spend some time there. There's actually
a really special place that my family and I like
to go.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
They filmed I.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Don't know if you ever saw the TV show Longmire,
but It was supposed to be set in Wyoming, but
it's actually filmed in New Mexico. It's filmed at a place
called Vaya Caldera, which is a national reserve. It used
to be an old Spanish land grant ranch and it's
up high in the mountains in New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It's beautiful. It's stunning.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
If you've ever watched Longmire, when you see where his
cabin is, that's where his cabin is, and you can
actually go to his cabin.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
That's in the show.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But it's actually on that national preserve anyway, So it's
a very special place to us. For reasons, I won't
go into here, but it's a special place. So we
go down there and up there and over there and
spend time there on a regular basis. Sometimes I'll go
see my dad in Arizona and then I'll pop over
to New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Whatever the crime there.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The last time I was in Santa Fe, dude, I'm
standing there pumping gas and I witnessed a store robbery
at the gas station. I'm just like, really, really, homelessness
is everywhere. Crime is through the roof. When COVID came out,
they were worse than California with their restrictions. They tried
to ban concealed carry when crime was getting out of
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hand because they think the concealed carried partmit holders are
the ones causing the privacy. It's it's an absolute that
state is an absolute utter mess. And they don't have
the money to pay for this, even though they're they're
giving it away for free, like it's just not there.
So now Unified San Diego Unified Superintendent Fabiola Bagula wants
to get in on all this action, and she says.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But it won't be it won't be cheap or easy.
She says, quote, I just keep.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Going, well why not here? What makes them different than us? Well, one,
because they're economically stupid. In New York, I'm sorry, but
but but electing a guy like mom Donnie, who's a
damn communist is a stupid move. I'm sorry they're that
that's I mean, we're not quite down that far down
the rabbit hole here. How about their stupid Uh if
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it's America's finest city, then let's make it that way.
Begoula said. Other cities are already doing this. There's a
model for us. Uh, we don't we wouldn't have to
be doing this in the dark. Tell me how you're
gonna do this without raising taxes To begoula, free childcare
could be a game changer for local families. While paying
tens of thousands of dollars a year on care is
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a weight on parents' backs, so is the stress that
comes from figuring out how to navigate the world of childcare. Oh,
because the government can do it better. Oh my bad.
Let's talk about this. We'll dig into the cost that
comes with this. Where that's going to come from when
we continue, I am Leland Conway and for Lou Penrose.
Hit that talk back go to the live feed for
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Speaker 2 (10:47):
News Radio six.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Hundred go go live on the iHeart radio apples. Click
that red microphone, jump the conversation. Finnerty and I were
discussing this during the commercial break, and Finnerty, I agree
with you. Why the hell can I not get a
tax credit for every one of my dogs? I got
four dogs. I don't have kids. I got four dogs.
I pay for your kids to go to school. I
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pay for your kids to get a damn free lunch.
Why don't you pay to help me care for my dogs?
Because when I go on vacation, I gotta have I
gotta hire a sitter that costs a bunch of money.
I got to take them to the vet. Why can't
I at least claim them on my taxes? I have
saying I don't think we're wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I have been saying that I think that every pet
owner in America should get a tax credit. Okay, yes,
we can't deduct them like children, that's fine, but come
on the money. Least credit, at least the credit. First
of all, we're encouraged to adopt pets.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
We are.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It's good for them, it's great for us. We're supposed
to live longer, healthier. But it's expensive. When you talk
about you just talked about taking another vet, medicine, kennel,
also of food and all of that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's expensive. So how come we're pushing for free childcare?
How about a tax credit for US pet owners? And
most Americans have some sort of pet. Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
We actually save the society money, right because we don't
have to have as much. We'd have to have a
much bigger budget for animal control if nobody adopted the pets.
So we're saving money. And even euthanasia costs money, so
if we've given them a loving, tender home, it's like,
it's it's a win.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I'm with you, man.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I mean, I need to stop naming my dogs like
dog names because we have like Searchlight bandit Trigger remy
short for Remington.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You see a thread there, I do so, so I
need to start naming my.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Dogs Steve, Sarah, John, like, so I could claim them
on my deck.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Forget bubbles, go with Bob, Go with Bob Bob the
Bob Bob the Beagle.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Forget forget Tiger, Go with Terry Yep, Sherman the German Shepherd.
Sherman the German Shepherd. I mean, like, why not, I'm
on board with this. It's so dumb, we're talking about
this story San Diego Voice, free childcare for all being
proposed and fought for by Superintendent County Schools.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
This is this is true? Where did I go on that?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh, Fabiola Bagula, Sorry, so she wants she wants to
join the other cities that are committing this economic suicide
and asking for you to pay for your neighbor's kids childcare. Uh,
this is this is from the story Voice of Voice
of San Diego. And of course the immigrant issue comes
into this. San Diego has for years relied on immigrants
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for growth because under the surface, local populations have been shrinking.
Demographers attribute that shrinkage primarily to swimming.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
In cold pools.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Oh sorry, no, sorry, primarily to the region's high cost
of living, chasing residents to other regions in search of
greater affordability, and a slumping local birth rate. Taking the
high cost of childcare off the residen's financial place could
ease the dual stressors and produce more stable local population.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
How okay, here's the price tag. Are you ready for this?
Oh my god? Two billion?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Now let's analyze that for a minute. How much did
they say, Finergy the high speed rail was going to
cost at the beginning. Oh my gosh, I don't remember.
I'll look it up.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Okay, I can't remember, but it was like it was
like ten billion or something. It was.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It was some ridiculously low number, which it's already we've
already spent more on fifteen hundred feet of track than
what they originally said we would pay for the entire project.
So the reason I bring that up is because that
money has to come from somewhere, and we know that's
a low end estimate.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Actually, actually it was estimated approximately cost anywhere from thirty
three to forty five.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Okay, but we've already spent like forty five billion. We
only have fifteen hundred feet of track. So exactly it's
going to double wa they said. Okay, that's the point.
It's gonna double what they said. So Google, but Bagoula
projects the citywide childcar system, citywide childcare systems she's like
to see, she would like to see, could carry a
price tag of about two billions.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
So they don't even know.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It's nearly seven hundred dollars more than the district's general
fund revenue for this school year. So the general fundright,
So I want you to understand this. The general fund
revenue for the schools is one point three billion. They
want two billion to pay for childcare. Why don't they
just okay, okay, finnerty help me out here. What if
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I'm not even I'm not even for this, okay, But
I'm just trying to find like a little.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Bit of logic in this.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Like if we were for this, if you and I
were like, yay, let's do it, why wouldn't we just say,
screw it, let's expand the school budget, have school b
from eight to five pm and have them just take
care of your kid all day.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Like why not?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It's it's why can't we just roll the cost into
what we're already spending on schools since the schools aren't
working anyway?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well, they would still say that, well, then you need
to be taxed more on your property taxes to pay
for the school to pay for those programs.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I'm joking.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
It's I'm being facetious, as my dad used to say,
Like I'm not really for this, I'm just like, what, so.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Two billion dollars so, which means it'll actually be four,
which means it'll actually be six because the the railroad
that has to be Railroad is approximately now going to
cost us at least bare minimum eighty nine billion.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Right, yes, okay, so I'm gonna throw this idea out there.
You know what, we should effort getting Bagoula on the program.
I'm going to see if I can do that because
I want to talk to her about this.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Here's a thought on this.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Why don't we just give parents a stipend so that
they can send their kid to the school they want
to send them, like, not a stipend, but like a credit,
a tax credit that gives them the money that they
pay in to the school system that they can then
use wherever they want, like, for instance, tuition for private school. Now,
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that doesn't solve the childcare issue, but it solves the
educational issue.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Look, I'm going to dig into this a.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Little bit more because there's another really big point that
everybody's missing about this before we spend two billion on
free childcare for everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We'll get to that next week.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
All right, So back to this topic here that the
San Diego School supertendent, who Fabiola Bagoula, She wants free
childcare for everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So I have just one small question.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I feel like anybody associated with San Diego schools, that
your first priority should be why the hell fifty percent
of our kids can't read? That's what your first priority
should be. And if you think I'm full of it,
it's the real numbers. Statewide, fifty three percent of third
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graders can't read at grade level. It's slightly better in
San Diego forty eight percent, but that's almost fifty percent,
So half the kids can't read at grade level. And
you're worried about free childcare, Like, really, what's your priorities here?
You want to spend two billion dollars we don't have.
That's more than the budget of the schools. Again, that
we don't have to pay for other people's choices. See,
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I've never been against a.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
What do we call it, I've never been against.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
A social safety net per se. Like I understand people
fall on hard times. I don't have a problem with
having a small program designed to help people get back
up on their feet, and that's the keyword designed.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But I have very.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Little patience for these people that are running around the
country demanding that other people use the proceeds of their
hard work to fund other people's inconveniences. And that's annoying.
To me, And if you think that makes me a jerk,
then so be it. I hate Leland at gmail dot com.
To really email address, you can hit me up there.
(19:08):
I hate leland at gmail dot com. Again, almost half
of San Diego third graders can't read at third grade level.
That to me seems to be that that should be
the priority. And that doesn't mean we need to dunckt
more money into it. It means we need to reconfigure
what we're doing because it's clearly not working. And I
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will tell you that years and years ago, you know,
families didn't get to enjoy two incomes. Part of the
price of adjoining two incomes is that if you have kids,
if you choose to have kids and you choose to
have two incomes, which you can do. This is America,
God bless it. You can do anything you want in America.
So if you choose to have kids and also choose
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to have multiple incomes, then part of the price of
that is that you are going to have to pay
for childcare because you can't leave the little rugrats at
home when they're under six. Maybe seven, yeah, let them
burn the house down, but six you can't. So you
gotta have a little common sense when you approach this, okay.
And so I look at this and I'm like, why
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do you think that it's okay for you to demand
free healthcare, free childcare for your kids? It's expensive, I
get it, but that's not my problem. I didn't choose
to have them. You did, and there's a price to
go with that. And you're still farther ahead. If you
have two incomes. Guess what you have double the income,
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and if part of that second income has to go
to take care of the things that have to be
taken care of because you're off working, you're still ahead
of where you were without the second income. So why
is everybody complaining about this? And again we'll come back
to it. Single moms, single parents, I get it. Still
your choices. Oh there's a great book. The guy's name
(20:58):
is Gary Gary John Bishop. The book is called Unblank
Yourself the actual word but I'm saying blank because I
can't say the actual.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Word on the on the radio.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
But it's called Unblank Yourself. And I don't you know.
He's the San Diegan Jocko Willink. It's one of my
favorite people. His book, which I freaking love. It's extreme
Personal Responsibility, Extreme Ownership, phenomenal book, and it's it's in
that vein. But Gary John Bishop is more kind of
(21:32):
esoteric in his approach, and I love both of them.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Both of them are really good.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
But in Gary John Bishop's whole thing is like, if
you really are looking for somebody to blame other than
yourself for the situation that you're in, you're chasing the
wrong tail. Ultimately, our relationships, like we always want to
blame our bad relationships on the other person.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, guess what, there's two sides to the story. There's
always a little bit.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Of it that's your fault, and it's coming to the
conclusion that you are the sum total of the decisions
you've made in your life. And that ties to your relationships,
It ties to your marriage, It ties to your your
significant other, it ties to the father or mother of
your children, all of those things. You're the sum total
of the decisions that you've made. Did you choose the
wrong person? And now you've got a situation you have
(22:18):
to deal with And that's not the rest of society's problem.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And I'm sorry if this seems mean and mad and
angry or whatever, but it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It's just I'm just telling you an honest truth that
if you don't agree with me, you probably need to
hear more often. And it's that the rest of society
is not responsible for the decisions that you made. You
got in a bad situation, you decided to leave cool.
That's good for you. I'm glad you made that decision.
That doesn't make your problems mine. And if that seems insensitive,
(22:47):
suck it up, Buttercup. The world is harsh and it
is not. It is not for me to pay for
your kid's childcare. That's just something you're just gonna have
to figure out how a budget for. Now, here's the
question how much of the price of this is demand based,
and it might be, and how much of it is
(23:08):
actually tied to the fact that there's rampant fraud in
the daycare industry, and how much of it is tied
to government regulations of the daycare industry. Not that we
shouldn't have any regulations in the daycare industry, clearly, but
you understand I was saying it making it hard to
run a business that is all tying in property values.
You have to lease a place or have a place
that you set aside for that all of that lends
(23:30):
to the price. And whenever I see a politician, they
almost never look at the root causes. Do you remember
when Kamala Harris miss word salad was going when they
appointed her to run the border, and she said, we're
gonna find a root cause immigration idiot. So that was
(23:52):
kind of funny to me because I was like, Okay,
here's a politician actually saying root cause who then went
on to do absolutely nothing on the border and keep
it wide open. That was all just words, But you
never actually see politicians diving for the root cause, like
what is causing the fact? Why is healthcare seventeen hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
What could we do to make it cheaper?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And by the way, if you want to give a
I don't like that people who have children get better
tax rates than I do.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I don't like it, but I understand it.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's to encourage for us to reproduce, and that's good
for the country.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I get it. I understand uh.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But it's also not my responsibility because you already do
get a bunch of money back. Like if you're a
single mom making eighty five thousand dollars a year, you're
getting more money back in taxes than you're paying in.
Your refund is bigger than what you paid in. So
don't come to me and say you need more. It's
not my problem. And again, I know that sounds harsh
and insensitive, but well, I guess that's me. My favorite
(24:48):
sweater is on the front of the sweater, it says
nobody cares work harder. I mean, yeah, I'm totally mean.
All right, you can hit us up in the talk pack.
Go to the live feed for Coco on the IR
radio app, click the red microphone.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Tell me how many.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I Am not really going to be super sympathetic to it,
but I'd love to hear it. We're gonna talk about
I justid I'm gonna do a little preview of my program,
which starts at five tonight in about ten minutes. And
one of the things that I'm going to talk about,
in addition to the fact that we may be looking
at AI policing options in San Diego, which scares me
(25:24):
a little bit, also, there's some interesting news about Artemis two,
and I am fascinated with this story and fascinated at
what's happening here. But there's an angle on this that's
really interesting. To me, and it has to do with
how the left is reacting to it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It's pretty wild, blue.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Penrochelle Leland Conway sitting in for lou Is on vacation,
and we'll be with you for a couple more hours
with the new England Conway Show coming up at five,
followed by the new Mark Larson Show coming up at
seven in the all new lineup here on news Radio
six hundred Coco Live on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, Fenerty,
you know why you should never pee in the Amazon?
This a little side note. The more you know, you
(26:09):
learn something every day, A little bit for you. You
know why I should never pee in the Amazon?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I do not know. I would love to know. The
cando ru.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
The candourru is a tiny microscopic fish, Okay, And when
you pee in the Amazon River, the fish the kind
ruh sence, it's the heat because this temperature is warmer
than the water around it, and it mistakes that for
water coming out of the gills of a fish, and
it swims up the urine stream directly into your euretha.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Now, this is not the worst part, Finerty.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's not just that you have a small microscopic fish
up in your urethra. It's that the fish's fins are
like barbed wire, and when they go up into the urethra,
they spread out and attach themselves to the inner wall
of your body, causing internal bleeding and intense pain, requiring
(27:06):
them to splay your open in order.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
To get the fish out. That is why you should
never pee in the Amazon. That's a good reason not
to do that. Yeah, it's a good reason.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Not that you're going to be hanging out in the
Amazon anytime soon, but in case you do.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I always like to make sure my friends are safe.
That's all. That's what that's all about. Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
On the Leland Conwey Show later tonight in the six
o'clock hour, I am going to address the Artemis issue
a little more in depth than we did yesterday.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I'm fascinated by this.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I don't know if you are, but this is awesome
watching America and I was looking at one of the
updates that just came out. By the way, yesterday, I
told you, I told you guys that they had a
problem right before launch with the toilets. Apparently, the fan
in the toilet, which is like the most important part
it cleans the smell out. The fan wasn't working, and
(27:56):
they tried to get it fixed before launch, but they
were like, oh, scritt, We'll let you guys fix it in.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Flight.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
So they had to send them directions on how to
fix the fan and the toilet on Artemis two.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
So that's unconvened, inconvenient, and uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But anyway, there there's an update today. They just got
just a few minutes ago, they got the ghost signal.
What are they calling this? It is called the trans
lunar injection burn, which is not the effects of the
Canduru fish. Okay, this is what they call this move
(28:37):
to sling them around the Moon. So they're going to
go on a total six hundred eighty five thousand mile journey.
It's taking ten days around the Moon, and they will
do a lunar flyby. So this was a crucial step
that we took towards the first moon landing way back
in the Apollo days. And then at the end of
this ten day journey, they are going to come back
(29:00):
to the Earth and they are gonna splash down right
off the coast of San Diego. So we're gonna have
a big part to play in this amazing story. And
I'm looking finnerty, I'm looking at the launch and then
the path of the return to Earth. This is really fascinating,
Like you would kind of almost call this deep space,
like not really deep space, but it's deep space compared
(29:21):
to where we go because most of the time we
stay in the kind of a high Earth orbit. But
this one, this one's gonna go six hundred and eighty
five thousand miles. Fascinating stuff. All right, I will be
with you two more hours. Leland Conway Show starts in
just a minute. Thanks for letting me sit in for
Luke Benrose while he's on vacation here on news Radio
six hundred Coogo live on the iHeartRadio app.
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