10.23: Headlines - Hour 3

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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So this heist that took place, I hope there's justice
and they figure out who did it, but I wouldn't
necessarily count on that. But I also hope that we

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get more info regardless, just because I've been reminded by
how fascinated I am about these heist type situations and
pulling it off. There's a lot that goes into it.
And the belief is that this heist that took place
in the Louver is organized crime, and usually if you're
able to pull something like this off, it's not just

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somebody who happened to be there and saw a prolem
opportunity and just you know, made a quick decision. But again,
the layers of preparation, what goes into it. I instantly
think of Ocean's eleven, that kind of stuff, and it's
just it's fascinating. But they now say that there is
there's been some DNA that has been that has been
left behind that might be able to uh so, I

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guess trace one of the individuals that that was there.
So I mean it, it's one of the biggest museum
heists in decades where the value is really tough to
truly know, but over one hundred million in Royal jewels
for sure. And police there do say that at least
one of the individuals may have left behind some DNA

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and it was left on a helmet and a glove
by one of the thieves. So the then, what really
is sad about this entire situation. One they may never
get any of this back. They sound like they expect
not to get any of it back, regardless if they
catch the people are not and when you sell something
that there's a lot of stolen memorabilia that you see

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out there, and I'm fascinated by those kind of things
because really the value of something is determined by what
somebody will pay for it. So if somebody stole Michael
Jordan's NBA Finals rings, they've got a lot of value, right,
But as a stolen item, what's the value. I mean,
you can't post it online for sale. Then they're going

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to know you have it and they're going to arrest you. Right,
So you just got to find somebody who's content with
owning things and keeping it specifically private to themselves because
it's clearly stolen and it's a high profile thing to
where if you are wanting to show it off in
your man cave or post a picture of it, it's
going to be quite clear that you shouldn't have that.

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So anyways, what they're going to do with these jewels
is they've got a way, not necessarily to find what
they call a fence. They're going to be able to
take it and break it down and do I guess
essentially scraps and make a lot of money doing that.
But the security in place is just I can't quite
comprehend why they didn't have better security. So the director

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of the museum, she told French lawmakers that she's tried
to resign, but her resignation was rejected. How's that work.
I'm out of here. I'm gonna leave. Actually no, you can't.
But anyways, she's admitted that the museum itself has just
been defeated because they've been underinvested in when it comes

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to security. She's known essentially they have a very weak
perimeter of security and nothing was done and now this
situation happens. And again she's the director, so I'm sure
she feels in a way responsible, but also she tried
to tell them, hey, we need better security. But this
is what's just hard to believe. We're talking about over
one hundred million dollars that has been taken, and yet

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their camera's alarms and their security system was working fully functional.
So what I mean is that they just didn't have
a setup that would have prevented this from happening. Right,
They've got cameras, they've got alarms, but no camera covered
the area where in fact the thieves were able to
see there was a vulnerable spot for them to break

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in and do what they did, so they couldn't fully
break through. I guess what is fortified glass? Cases, but
they were still able to again make off with what
appears to be one hundred million dollars plus in valuables.
So they have four main suspects and hundreds of investigators
are on this case. So I guess they've got an
idea maybe, but no, there's no way. This isn't organized crime, right, Like,

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this is straight out of like stuff you see in
a movie. And I'm sure there'll be a movie made
about this one day, or hopefully a documentary. This is
the kind of stuff that like, let's say they do
find these guys who are girls whoever it is, and
there's a there's a you know, there's a trial, there's
a case and all that. Like I would love it
like a three part Netflix docuseries just about their story,
their plan and how you how you put something like

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this together. And again I've been reminded there are a
lot of there's a lot of good content out there,
whether it be streaming services, movies, documentaries, documentary series that
that profile heist type crimes and it's usually not you know,
a standard robber who's just going from bank to bank
or store to store. These are intelligent people that just
decide to use that for you know, clearly a crime,

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and I'm sure for a while they feel like it's
full proof and it won't get caught, but oftentimes they do.
All right, we've got an update of trafficking weather coming
your way right here, right now. A lot more to come,
including Tom Izzo, the the angry old Man, complaining about
Pat Kelsey adding a certain player to his roster. And
it kind of felt like yesterday with college basketball coaches

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all getting ready to start their season, doing their Q
and a's, their media obligations as their seasons are set
to start. I mean, it just seemed like open season
on U of L for taking a player from the
G League. Whenever, again, there's many examples of that happening everywhere.
But we'll get to that in more right here on
Who's Radio Weight forty whs. So yesterday Tom Izzo, Michigan

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State head coach, was asked about Louisville signing a player
this week earlier this week that is from the G League,
and his comment, I'm a little surprised that it got
as much attention as it did, but he went on
to say that it's ridiculous and it is embarrassing, and
context is always important. We're not going to play the
entire clip, but just to give you some of that context,

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here is what mister Izzo had to say.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
You know, I'm going to get myself in trouble, but
I I listened to people talk to how kids changed.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Kids aren't the problem, we're the problem. This was sprung
on us again yesterday, where a guy can be in
the G League for two or three years and then
all of a sudden he's eligible.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Most of my people knew nothing about it. I don't
think our commissioner. I mean, I am not real excited
about the NCAA or whoever's making these decisions without talking
to us, just letting it go because they're afraid they're
gonna get sued. So you're right. I said that this
really bothers your coach if you're a Michigan State fans.
But if you want a silver lining in the cloud,

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I am going to call magic tonight. I'm going to
call Jared Jackson, Miles, Gary Max. You know, this just
goes to show you how ridiculous people that are in
power make decisions.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
So if you didn't get the last reference there towards
the end, he's making a joke. That he's going to
call Magic Johnson former Michigan State players who've had pro
careers and see if they'll come back, which I think too.
Everything he said about the rules and who's deciding what
is allowed and what is not that is an absolute joke.
It's a mess. He's not wrong there, But when it

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comes to Louisville doing something that I guess other coaches,
according to Izzo didn't know as a thing, that's just
a lie, I mean, even from him, or he doesn't
have any involvement in his recruiting because there are kids.
So here's the situation. G League had a program called
the G League Ignite, which was a failure. It now
doesn't exist with they were trying to get kids to

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come to the G League for a year before going
to the NBA Draft because the NBA has the rule
where you have to be one year removed from high
school basically nineteen to be able to enter their draft
and start, you know, basically apply for work in the NBA.
They don't require you go to college. They can't require
you to do that. So instead of going to college,
some kids were going to the G League Ignite making

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money playing basketball and then entering the draft that following year. Well,
that league doesn't exist anymore, and because now players can
make money, right, you've got millionaires playing college sports because
of NIL and everything that comes with it. So these
players who never entered the NBA draft, but of course
went through the G League Ignite process, they are deemed

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eligible by the NCAA and other players from the G
League Ignite that are now looking to find a home
knowing that they've never played college basketball and they obviously
aren't going to go to the NBA. They're able to play,
and other schools are offering these guys scholarships. But the
big hypocrisy here is that now and this isn't even
that new where you've got guys that are entering the

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regardless of age. You've got guys that are entering college
basketball that have been pros for three years in Europe.
What's the difference now? What's different now with that situation
is that you've got dudes that are twenty two to
twenty three starting their professional or starting their college careers
as freshmen because they've not used any eligibility. What's the
difference in that and a guy that's in the G League.

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I mean tom Izzo has a guy on his roster
that is older than the guy who Louisville just added
from the G League and has played. I mean, he's
older and he's played in a professional league. It's not
the NBA, but it's pro basketball in Europe. I mean, again,
the point of the whole SoundBite I think from him
and just his comments or that it's just nobody knows

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what's going on, what's the rules. But also I don't
believe him. I think he's being disingenuous stating that nobody
knew that you could do that because you've got offers
out to guys that are in that situation, which makes
you look hypocritical. But the real hypocrisy is that you
know Louisville didn't do anything that other guys aren't doing.
Coaches that were all behind Izzoh yesterday, Dan Hurley, Kelvin

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Sampson really just saying yeah, you tell them, is if
Louivll did something wrong, these same coaches were offering the
kids that all and I say kids, they're grown ups,
but they're they're pursuing the same type of players in
the same situation. So is it that I mean again,
it's if you're playing by the rules. That's what's what
you're supposed to do. There's no rules being broken here.
I don't know why it turned into where a little

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bit is something wrong, when really I think the overall
point should have been, Hey, College INNCIBLA is a mess
right now as far as nobody knowing what they're allowed
to do and what they're not allowed to do. All right,
We've got an update of traving the weather coming your
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So again one of the many reasons why you should
stop in at Thornton's. We are fueled by Thorntons and
you should be too. Sometimes I see headlines and I'm thinking, Okay,
that's why is that news? That's pretty obvious. Now again
that's me just being snarky, But these are headlines that
are just not so surprising at all, And it's almost

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as if like, yeah, did we need research? Do we
need a study? Did we need years of data to
determine this? But cell phone bands boost school performance? How
about that less cell phone usage about kids while they're
in school leads to them doing better in school, specifically

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with test scores. Who would a thunk it? So a
new study suggest that taking phones away in school does
pay off, literally in higher test scores. So researchers from
the University of Rochester and Rand studied students in one
of the largest school districts in the state of Florida.
And there's a cell phone band went into effect where

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they ban it to where you can't have it on you. Now,
I think most schools, I have no knowledge of any rules,
but I believe they don't take your phones at every school.
They just you know, they don't want to see on
it during during class. But again, I'm sure kids are
using their phones all the time, even if they're told
not to. But either way, nobody should be surprised that

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whenever you don't have your phones as a student, you
can be more productive. So during the first year, school
saw more disciplinary issues tied to enforcing the band, kids
getting caught with phones, and of course a lot of
pushback from parents, who that's my property, you can't take
that phone. Give me that phone. I'm coming up there.
That's not like a parent. Was that a good impression?
So uh, Again, that's a great example of we had

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stuff taken away whenever we were in school if weren't
supposed to have it. Phones. I think phones weren't a
thing for students until I was very towards the end
of my days in high school. But like parent, teachers
aren't taking your kids stuff home to their house and
keeping it and stealing it. They taking it away because

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they weren't supposed to have it, or it was it
was interrupting class. I mean, now you have parents that
show up like, who's got my way? You better get
it's my property. Just insane parents are are, I think
a big factor and and and why we've It's funny
how they expect teachers to raise their kids, but then
when they do any sort of discipline they have a
problem with you. Yeah, I mean any any discipline, and

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I would even if it's not discipline, it's just rules
that you have to enforce as a teacher. You'll find
enough parents that that that feel as if you, you know,
you don't have a right to tell my kid this
or that or and it's just it's it's insane. And
I know I sound like the old man, get off
my lawn. But like if a teacher or an administrator
or a coach got my parents involved for whatever reason,

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there was no conversation. We weren't going to trial to
see which one, which one my parents were gonna believe.
Do they believe the the administrator, the the higher up,
or do they believe me? Like they just they weren't
going to assume. There was never any any assumption that
the teacher was picking on me, and that rarely ever
happened because I had a comfortable fear. I didn't want
it to get there, because if in fact my parents
got involved, I knew that's the last thing I want

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to deal with. I mean, they were going to beat
me up or abuse me. But obviously you know my
parents weren't going to like, hey, let's talk about this.
Let's let's let's let's do some mental gymnastics where we
can give you no accountability and blame it all on
the teacher in the school, which I mean, I say
this not trying to be funny. I don't. To me,
being a teacher the reward of doing good and helping

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kids has to be the ultimate route of why people
do it, because it, to me has become a thankless
job for a variety of reasons. But parents have got
to be got to be part of it. So anyhow
taking phones away can help. Yeah, So year two once
it was once they went a full year at this school,
the school district, I should say, as far as it

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just being a known thing that look, you can't have
your phones. There's a band and if you get caught
with them, you're gonna get punished. And parents, you can
do all you want, We're making it clear your kids
can't have phones. So year one was a lot of headache,
I'm sure, but in year two those problems drop significent significantly,
and students had better test scores fewer absences once that
distraction was removed. So Florida was the first state to

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put a statewide ban in place. Now there are more
than twenty five states that have some form of restrictions
or a ban, and enforcing it consistently can only help.
All Right, let's get to a quick time out. We've
got trafficking weather updates on the way. A lot more
I want to get into. I'm not sure exactly how
much time we're going to have. But another one of
those stories where the headline to me, it just it screams.

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It's like such an obvious thing that you know, we
didn't really need to be reminded of, and that is
that if you don't have as much stress about financial issues,
you live a happier life. Who would have thought it?
Who would have thought life is better when you're not
worried about making your mortgage payment? I mean, like, yeah,
it's pretty obvious. But anyways, there's some good data from
that I want to talk about right here on news

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radio eight forty whas so JCPS is cutting one hundred
million dollars from their budget amid a a one hundred
and eighty million dollar deficit, which is still every time
you say it out loud, it just seems unthinkable that
they're in this situation. But here is some info as
far as what they're doing to make to make these cuts.

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So the first year, this year's cuts, it sounds like
it's mostly budget corrections, not true reductions and spending. So
instead of eliminating programs, jobs, things like that, they've adjusted
numbers for items that were already over budgeted or I
guess delayed spending on projects. For example, twenty nine million
was cut from programs that were no longer as expensive,

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like weapons detection, new curriculum implementation, but still no impact
on classrooms yet, so no teacher layoffs, no noticeable reductions
in student programs, and that that's what they, of course,
are going to try to avoid as best they can.
About sixteen million dollars in cuts came from positions that

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were already vacant due to the ongoing teacher shortage and
budget gimmick in one time fixes. That's roughly five million
in recurring expenses were covered using a one time donation
from somebody who. Philanthropist Mackenzie Scott donated some money that
of course was needed. That's that's that's putting it lightly.

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But that's a one time thing. It's not it's not sustainable.
But still you'll take all the help you can get.
Another twelve million dollars was saved by delaying athletic stadium
projects and other facility upgrades. But again, the bigger problem
is their overall budget is around two millions, so a
hundred million represents only about four percent. And when it

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comes to that, he said, she said, right, Marty Polio
seems to as he's no longer here. I shouldn't say insinuate,
because it's not as if we're hearing from him every day.
He's not. He's not on the job anymore. But in
his parting interviews that took place months ago, I mean,
he seemed to act as if there was a full
plan in place to deal with all this, and there's
really no sign at all that. And in fact that

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the first real real contradiction that you that you that
you've seen from the current superintendent in the previous one
is that he said there was a plan and and
and they're well aware of the overall situation and they've
got a plan to fix it. And now doctor Yearwood
is in that position, and he's he's making it quite
clear that no, there was no, that's just not true.

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So again, the the the the added nightmare is just
the they've got buildings and just property that that is
way late as far as getting improvements done, renovations, that
kind of stuff that that isn't just for cosmetic it's
because it's needed and that's going to get put on
the back burner for years to come. And at what

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point do you end up seeing schools shut down? I
have no clue what goes into that. I'm not saying
it's going to happen any moment, But with this overall
financial nightmare, what's off the table, Like what could be
something that they have to do to get out of
this hole financially that is going to surprise you. I mean,
the amount of money they gotta save here is just

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