September 29, 2025 • 48 mins
On today’s episode, we’re unpacking some of the biggest headlines shaping the week:
Main Story II: Across the U.S., public school districts are grappling with steep enrollment declines, with thousands of schools at risk of closure. Philadelphia, Boston, Houston, and others are weighing tough decisions, raising urgent questions about the future of public education. From Big Tech’s footprint to shrinking classrooms, we’re breaking down what these shifts mean for communities, equity, and the American future.
- In Iowa, the Des Moines superintendent has been placed on administrative leave following his detention by federal immigration agents.
- The Trump administration is bringing back hundreds of federal employees previously laid off by DOGE.
- Former NFL cornerback Charles “Peanut” Tillman shares why he left the FBI, pointing to immigration policies as the breaking point.
Main Story II: Across the U.S., public school districts are grappling with steep enrollment declines, with thousands of schools at risk of closure. Philadelphia, Boston, Houston, and others are weighing tough decisions, raising urgent questions about the future of public education. From Big Tech’s footprint to shrinking classrooms, we’re breaking down what these shifts mean for communities, equity, and the American future.
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It is the top of the week. Still depressed?
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I feel like I really am gonna put them applications
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Yeah, it's rough.
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Happy Monday or is it happy Monday? The m the.
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Teams out here looking bad. We're going into this week
kind of bad. We limping in, but we be all right.
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Yahoo dot Com and officials.
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This past weekend put the leader of I's largest.
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School district on administrative leave after a federal investigation led
ICE agents to detain him because he was in the
country illegally. The Des Moines School board voted unanimously to
play Superintendent Ian Roberts on paid leave during a three
minute long special meeting.
Speaker 8 (04:25):
Lease yeah, I'm at all because it's gonna start hitting
closer and closer to home. I think the people are
going to start looking more and more like us in
this ridiculous because he was a superintendent and as far
as I.
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Know, and he went he went through, he went through
to two background checks to get into the position that
he's in right now. So when when ICE got a
hold of him, they were saying that he had a
previous gun charge, which was a hunting I believe, a
hunting rifle.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
But it's it's wild there at this point, we're wasting
resources and everything for these small time wins.
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And it just lets you know, still and where our
second story comes from the Grilloh and the job. Administration
rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by Dove. General
Services Administration has given former staffers until the end of
the week to decide after costly downsizing left the agency
broken and understaffed.
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Quote Shitz.
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You never ever, ever ever get credit for trying to
put out the fire that you started.
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You are just trying to bring back everybody.
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You're going to try to talk about the numbers of
people going of the job, numbers increasing.
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This is all employee, not shocked that.
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Again, I'm not shocked at all. We knew this was
going to come.
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And as the government potentially gets shut down, we will
see more federal workers lose their job that they probably
will have to call back at some point.
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Yeah. Yeah, this is just sloppy and irresponsible.
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Our our final story comes from Yahoo's Sports and pro
Cornerback explained his decision to resign from the FBI. In
an episode of The Pivot. The former pro bowler Charles
Peanut Tillman says that he has quit the FBI because
of the immigration sticking point by this administration.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Lease And again, I'm not shocked that he did this,
but I'm happy that he did it. I'm happy that
somebody is actually standing up. And when we see people
who are in these positions actually go against Trump and
makes us leave me feel a little bit more secure
and be able to sleep better at night.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
It does because you know that there's a conscience there.
People see that this is wrong, and you know, he
had the mean to. He does have an NFL career
to fall back on, and you know a lot of
people are getting drawed in just by the money.
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So I'm happy that he took the stance. He definitely
was needed.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I don't know if this is going to cause a
floodgate of these things to open up and these resignations,
but it at least raises some kind of red flag.
And folks, we are raising the red flag today on
what is going on in Louisiana and this META project
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that is looking to displace hundreds. Stay with us because
this could be the beginning of something that could be
coming in your backyard. And that's not hyperbole. This is
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the morning experience. Thank you for joining us on this Monday, folks.
And this story is pretty serious and I don't want
to waste any time because I want the team to
get in on this. So Louisiana's three billion dollars power
upgrade for a metaproject raises questions about who should.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Put the bill.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers,
a ten billion dollar behemoth that is as big as
seventy football fields in Louisiana. Now, shiz, this is something
like I said, that could be coming in people's backyard.
And you may not believe me, but there's already one
in Memphis.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
And a lot of these things. Just like in Louisiana.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
The they're passing protocols without their g you know, they're
just bypassing.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
All these type of things.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
So we keep seeing this and I believe it was
also talking about how this data center one day would
use up as much as the entire city of New
Orleans would use during the peak of summer. Just imagine
that that is, those are natural resource, those just all
resources going there. The infrastructure around the city would still
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be horrible, but they're going to make sure it is
all pumped into that just keep happening, and regardless of
the outcry because they did have people object to it.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
But we're still here and.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
This is corporate welfare really.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
I mean, when you look at who's paying for this,
it's really the taxpayer that is footing the bill for this.
They're allowing them to utilize all this land, They're allowing
them to potentially for Louisiana, because when you look at
all of the corporations that have come there into poison
the land or the water in which people in Louisiana
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live in, it's absolutely crazy, like with cancer Alley, like
absolutely insane. But this just tells you what's more important
to the American government. It is absolutely money. And the
sad part is it is the people that they're hurting
and harming. It's their money that's actually giving Amazon the
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way to be able to do this, which is insane.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, and private deals are what is is powering all
of this, folks. According to the article, under the contract,
Meta Power Company Energy agreed to build three gas powered
plants that would produce two thousand, two hundred and sixty
two megawatts, and that's equivalent to a fifth of Energy's
current power supply in Louisiana. On the Public Service Commission
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approved Meta's infrastructure playing in August, after Energy agreed to
bolster protections to prevent a spike in residential rates. Nonetheless,
shiz nondisclosure agreements conceal how much Meta will actually pay.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
And that's the thing those NDAs and excuse me, I'm sorry,
they're supposed to be standard. But it's still we you
know where this is coming, whether it's right exactly now
where that where you're going to see the difference in that,
or when it's down the line, when when all these
natural resources are all used up and you have to
take you have to take other options or other ways
to try to get by doing things.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
So it's.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Bad, and it just continues to happen. We're seeing this
happen more and more. Seventy football fields seventy football fields
worth of space that they are using. Just imagine the
energy that is going bare.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
And it's crazy because I said Amazon, but it's Meta
because Amazon, Oh, we're doing this in Wisconsin. Like it
is just over and over and over again that we
are seeing this happen. And like I said, literally it's
going to impact their utility costs, it's going to impact
their health, it's going to impact so many things. And
they are paying for it with subsidies. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And this this is only the tip of the iceberg, folks,
because Meta is exempt from paying sales tax under a
twenty twenty four Louisiana law that the state acknowledges could
lead to ten of millions of dollars or more each
year in lost revenue. And Meta has agreed to fund
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about half the cost of building the power plans over
fifteen years, including cost over but not maintenance and operations.
So this just seems like Meta is coming out on
top and Louisiana and their population are going to suffer least,
especially the immediate population to this data center.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
For sure.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
And we're only gonna see this get worse, like as
we incorporate more and more AI and everything that we do,
and this was we had this conversation before.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
As we become more used to AI.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
We're gonna see more and more land be given to
these companies and more of us will be directly impacted
by it. And I am really again afraid of what's
gonna be under the Trump regime, especially with all of
these tech corporations.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So yeah, but not every place is be bending over
backwards like Louisiana. We're going to get into that after
this music. You're listening to the Morning Experience. Thank you
for joining us for the Morning Experience. Welcome back, folks.
So we said that other states are doing stuff to
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fight back, like Pennsylvania. Their Utilities Commission is drafting a
model rate structure to insulate customers from rising costs related
to data centers. New Jerseys utilities regulators are studying whether
data centers cause unreasonable cost increases for other users.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
They should ask Maryland because it does.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And Oregon passed legislation this year ordered utility regulators to
develop new and likely higher power rates for data center
So we're seeing some states trying to do something here
shits well.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
I mean, and most time you will see some type
of fight back, but it just gets it just gets overpowered.
You have these things. But like like in Louisiana, it
was a loophole in the law that was that's there was.
It was a loophole that they went through and they
and these businesses are showing you that they're a business.
They're about making profit. They don't care about what they're
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using or the people that their army they are for.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
They are for profit.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
So if they're going to find a loophole around this,
and it's just like when you start adding those type
of things in, it's like, okay, we're going to get
them here, but you won't be affected by it.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
Yes we will.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
It's going to happen because we see it happen everywhere,
whether it's financially or whether it's people getting sick, and
you're going.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
To see like you will see this.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
I was looking up something where it says that in
twenty thirty four, the US data center infrastructure market is
expected to reach four point eight four billion. It is
growing at a sixteen sixteen point four percent CGR from
twenty twenty four. So basically what that means is that
you're going to continue to see these.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Expand and rise.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
And although there's some states that are coming out now,
what happens when you need more space? What happens when
the United States government is using AI on a regular
basis and now you need.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
To expand it.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
I think that this is something that we need to
talk about, is rest as constituents, because this is only
gonna get worse as we see more of those tech
oligarchs around Trump.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Although it seems like their guard reels. It always does.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
But what is the constitution or what does the law
mean when people don't follow them?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
It doesn't really mean much.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
So I'm not really expecting a whole lot unless we
as a community as to come out and say you
know what.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
No, and U SHIZ watchdogs warn Meta could pull out
of or not renew its contract, leaving the public to
pay for the power plants over the rest of the
thirty lifespan, and all grid users are expected to help
pay for the five hundred and fifty million dollar transfer
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line serving meta's facilities, So they could end up not
even paying for this, or paying for all of it,
and then it be left on the taxpayer shits.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
This is risky.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
It's more than risky.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
It's the fact that these people are being left on
the hook for this. This is META is going to
come in and use up all the resources that they
can and pretty much when they don't have any more
need for that area, when they outgrow that are, when
they outgrow those seventy football.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Fields work for the work area.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
And there's fight back, they can get up out of there,
and everybody will be on the hook no matter what
this NBA says, no matter how much they're paying right now,
even if they're covering the whole thing, whenever they decide
to get out of it, it's going to bite. It's
going to come back and bite this community, and it's
going to put them in a very bad place.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
And it will continue.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
And when you look at where they are right, it's
in the What Southeast and in the Pacific West. That
just tells me that you are focusing on targeting lower
income communities, communities that are densely populated with low income
people or people of color.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Which is hot. When are we going to see it? Like,
when are we going to see it?
Speaker 8 (16:54):
The fact that again, like I said, you're putting this
in a state like Louisiana, which has seen countless numbers
of cancer roots go up, especially like I said, in
places like Cancer Alley.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
They had a paper mill.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
There that has caused so much damage and no one
is doing anything. And now that Trump has come in,
we've seen them roll back environmental protections. Who is protecting
these people? I am concerned, But yes, we love AI
and the Ais and everything we do, but we may
have to sacrifice some convenience for.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Help.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And then for those people that are thinking, oh, it's
going to create jobs, it's going to create.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Jobs, it's going to.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Create jobs, there is no guarantee that this place will
even generate five hundred jobs, you know, And I'm thinking
about I used to work at Blue Cross in Philadelphia
that was over two thousand employees, and that was nowhere
near seventy football fields.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So we're talking about seventy football fields with maybe five
hundred employees. This is nasty work, and it gets nastier, folks.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
We will talk about it more after this music blake
break and we're gonna pay some bills. This is the
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Speaker 3 (18:16):
This is the morning experience, folks. Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
We are talking about this metadata center, this behemoth seventy
football fields long that may be coming to Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And backdoor deals.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
We were talking about that, and this just makes me think,
like how something so egregious and bad for the environment
could happen. And I thought about when I was working
at the Capitol and there were rooms inside rooms that
didn't have cameras or microphones, you know, and those were
always like those backdoor deal rooms, and least I can't
help but think a lot of this is happening here
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where these politicians that are saying yes and knowing that
this is bad are receiving some kind of generational wealth
kickback on the back end.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Kickbacs have always happened, and unfortunately it appears, especially under
this new administration, that it is completely acceptable.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Look at talk Homemen for example.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
You know, I think that a lot of people also
don't come to the meetings, right, So you have people
in the community that when they're having their city council,
accounting council meeting, they don't show up. So when they
are talking about this and they are talking about giving
them subsidies, and they are talking about giving them a land,
there's nobody there to say, hey, wait, maybe this isn't
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a good idea. Our community does not want this. So
we need more people to be engaged and involved. And
I'm not trying to blame the people who are in
the community. A lot of times, like I said, they're
lower income, they were not to buy jobs. You can't
always be at a council meeting, but at some point
you do need to get engaged. If you don't get engaged,
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you will see stuff like this happen. And I don't
know if it's all happening behind closed doors, because, like
I said, some of this stuff that is happening and
then we're just not paying attention to it.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Exactly like like Louisiana, we were saying the people of Louisi, well,
Louisiana and its people need to fight back. No, the
people are fighting Louisiana with the loopholes Louisiana with this.
Just let them kind of go around and kind of
do what they want the way they passed this without
without passing all regulations that they normally have for everyone else.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
It is it is just a game, and people's lives are.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Being played with, played with. These are livelihood and going
on with this. It said that the city workers or
whoever is in charge of the city is responsible for
the maintenance and the management of that facility.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
So Metta is not even on the hook for that.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
So so now you're taking away from the natural resources,
and you're taking the city's.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Manpower away and putting them to there. It's just bad.
This is going to get even worse, not the.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
Max, remember right, So there is they're trying to jerrymander
the heck out of Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
And there's a reason for that.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
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Speaker 2 (21:03):
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Speaker 3 (21:22):
This is the morning.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Experience, folks, thank you for joining us. And this this
just isn't happening.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
In Louisiana least brought up before.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
How in Mississippi lawmakers allowed Amazon to bypass regulatory approval
for energy infrastructure to serve two that data centers it
is spending ten billion dollars to spend. In Indiana, a
utility is proposing a data center focused obsidiary that operates
outside normal state regulations. And while Louisiana says it's added
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consumer safeguards, it lags behind other states and efforts to
insulate regular power consumers from data center related costs. So
it looks like shiz, these costs are going to be
passed on to us and there's just going to be
more lipwork from these politicians.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
As it always is.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
This is just showing you there is no protection for
the people. That people have absolutely no protections against what
Meta decides to do, whether they decide to stay there,
whether they decide to leave. We all know that you
see your bill go up in the summer because there's
more usage. So this place is going to be using
the same amount of energy as New Orleans and the
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peak of the summer.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Like, let that just figure how hot it gets.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
And what kind of energy is being used, and this
place is going to be used in the same amount of.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
Energy in a day.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
It's just like there's no protections out there. We have
to have some type of power in this. But again
it's these loopholes that they get through where they don't
have to follow the normal rules as everybody else.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
True, and I think that this also brings us back
around on loops around to cryptocurrency. Is that also you
this is a lot of energy and it also has
a lot of pollution, and it has not stopped.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
People from wanting to get into.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Cryptoparency because I think we also have to look at
it from that side.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
This is a product.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
Yes, the corporations are doing stuff, but this is a product.
So if we keep consuming that said product, they will
continue to make football fields worth of pollution and energy
if we continue to use it.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
So we can't.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
We do have some say so. Yes, they have loopholes
to do this, but we have some say so because
of what happens with we don't use the products.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I'm looking at this.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
New Orleans peak in the summertime, I was in New
Orleans in August, and I mean like the stores, the
stores they had that AC pumping to the point that
like you will walk past the store and like feel
a little breeze because that's how much the AC what's
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pumping in these stores.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
So like they're using that amount of energy in a day.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I cannot imagine what, folks, I'll let you bills are
going to be because as you know, they're going to
pass this along.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
To the consumers. This did, This is how it's going
to go.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
All the lip service that they're going to have, it's
going to pass this along to the consumers.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Folks.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
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this is not happening. Just don't do this for Jimmy Kimmel.
Do this for yourself as well. This is the Morning Experience, folks.
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Speaker 4 (25:45):
We got we got some fire.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Coming, yes, yes, yes, yes, hot fire, high fire d
A B A N D we got that high.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Fire for you.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So so we discussed are our last hour just some
of the these top news stories and one of the
stories that that really really really stuck out to me
is like a doge double backing on this and having
folks come on back.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I always felt like this was going to happen, even
with the shutdown looming later on this week. I always
felt like this was going to happen least, but I
feel like it's not being covered as much as the firings,
and this part is kind of being done and quiet.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
The mistakes are never covering as much as the oh
look what we did. You're you're not gonna see them
backtrack on it. So that's why you're not hearing about it.
And I think that we should on our side. I'll
leave you a little louder about it, like, oh, look
what happened. Which I've seen a lot of people talk
about this, but I need more people to be talking
(26:52):
about it.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Point this out to people.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Absolutely, yeah, you you you put these jobs, you took
these jobs away.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
You you were wrong.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
And it's like to say, but you got to the
end of the week, let us know if you're coming back.
You made people uproot their lives like these this was
people's livelihood that you just got rid of just because
that's what you felt was necessary. And now you realize
it was wrong. We saw it when it happened. We
knew this wasn't going to.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
Turn out well.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
And then we're here and now you're like, please come back,
we need you back. But you got to the end
of the week to decide. It's it's man, you can't
have you can't always be in control. You gotta admit
you messed up and move on from there. You can't
always be in control, big dog.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
And I don't even understand how they can expect people
to go back, Like you said, shiz, you uproot my life?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Now? Do I have that trust to go back?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And you know, have that same expectation if I haven't
already moved on already, Lise.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
Yeah, I think that's a lot to ask of people
to uproot what you You already uprooted me right, You've
messed up potentially my mortgage, my savings, you made it unstable.
I don't even know how many of these people will
go back because it's such an unstable situation.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
For them, Like, why would you want to go back
into that?
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Yeah, you just you don't you don't know if you
have any job security. So let's just say you'd be
like this was this was a major opportunity I had before.
And you you stop what you're doing now because you
found something after you were let go and it's and
it's definitely it's permanent. And then you go back and
and there's no security there and they decide they want
to let you go again. Then then what happens, this
(28:31):
is this is all the numbers game. This is to
show that during this month, the h the the job
numbers went up. So it'll just be something that's just
it'll be a bullet point just to kind of point out,
but we won't have no type of context to it.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, yeah, all of this is it is becoming a theater.
And you know, you get to a point where you
don't know what's real and what's not real. But luckily
you have a show like The Morning Experience to point
out what is and what is not.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So folks, enjoy this music.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
We got our second main story coming up this morning,
and our second main story we are talking about what
is happening to our public schools in America.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Stay with us.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
This is the Morning Experience on LIT one.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
This is the Morning Experience. Folks, Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Look, just to let you know, the midday show with
Autumn Joy Live comes on after us, so make sure
you stay with us, stick with us, and enjoy the
vibes that Autumn Joy is going to bring this Monday.
So our first story also comes from the Grillo and
districts around the US are mulling school closures as student
(29:43):
enrollments falls. Cities like Philadelphia, Boston, Houston, and Norfolk, Virginia
are all considering shuttering schools, while a public outcry over
potential closers has stopped them for now in Seattle and
San Francisco. So how many schools are we talking about?
Marquise well beloved? Glad you asked. From twenty nineteen to
(30:04):
twenty twenty three, enrollment declined by twenty percent or more
at nearly one in twelve public schools, and that's roughly
one hundred students. According to a report published last year
by the time as b Fordham Institute, many were chronically
low performing schools and high poverty neighborhoods. A public school
enrollment is projected to stumble five point five percent between
(30:27):
twenty twenty two and twenty thirty one, largely due to
changing demographics. And that's according to the National Center for
Education Statistics. So, schiz your kids, they go to public school, right,
do you feel as though that there's kind of a
disservice or misservice happening.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
It's a charge. My kids go to a charter school.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
So charter schools are one of those things where if
you look at it, there in a lot of the
major cities from around the US. That's what charter schools
are starting to take over. So those numbers decline because
a lot of the old public schools that we're in
a part of the city are now under the They
are now under.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
The umbrella of that charter school.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
So like you figure like a Strawberry mansion, like where
you get some people, where you get a grats, where
you get Rashie Wallace and everything up from. These schools
are considered charter schools now. So it is declining, but
it's also the difference in education. These schools are are
pushing a lot again, like I say all the time,
for kids just pass a test, they're not They're.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
Not equipping in what they need for life anymore.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
And with a different curriculum from these charter schools, you
were starting to see a lot of people switch over
to them.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
And you're you're also looking at the privatization of the
school system a lot of.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
People for a long time.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
So this really I think started under Raygan, which really
wanted to take a lot of things that we're in
the government and privatize it, like the Department you know,
of education, and really make it where corporations are controlling it.
A lot of people, initially in my area, thought private
schools were good. I've always thought that it would impact
public schools, which therefore will impact the people who cannot
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get from place to place. In Baltimore City, they don't
even have a bus system, right, so the kids have
to use public transit. So that makes it they have
to get up six in the morning, five in the morning,
depending on the school that they go to.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
It makes it so much more difficult. And if you
don't have.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
Schools in your local area, it makes it a lot
harder for people to get there, and then truancy is
an issue. Not to mention, classroom sizes become an issue
in these charter schools.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
And then they can cherry pick. The reason why they
do better is because they cherry pick who gets in
the schools.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
So when you have these voucher programs, it will impact
public school It impacts our children's with IEPs. It is
so much more dangerous than I think a lot of
people realize.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Least you said a word there, the privatization of public education.
And when I think of privat privatization, I think of
you know, those big, big wig CEOs. When I think
of those big wig CEOs. I think of, you know,
our current president's friends. And when I think about that,
(33:17):
I think about there could possibly be a bigger push
to private to privatize public education so that they then.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Can push certain things like pregger you what have you?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
And and and that's why they're getting rid of the
pbs is and so forth.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Am I off making that connection?
Speaker 9 (33:40):
There?
Speaker 8 (33:41):
No, When you can privatize the school sort of like
which is brought up, it does lower the education threshold
because the teachers don't necessarily have to have the.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Same level of credentialing. And then you control the curriculum.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
If you are in a private school, I control what
that curriculum looks like, not the state, you know, like
or the local government. I control what that curriculum looks like.
So therefore I can push whatever type of propaganda I want,
and I can put Bibles in the schools or whatever
I want to do. So you're absolutely right, that's what's happening,
and that's where we're headed.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Well, we will discuss what's happening in Saint Louis and
where they are headed coming up after this music break, Folks,
this is a good one. We are giving you a hearty,
hardy conversation seeing which here this Monday morning, this is
the Morning Experience. Man on Lift one of six, thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
For joining us this morning for the Morning Experience.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
We are talking about the plummeting population in public schools
and just reading this, Saint Louis public schools student population
plummeted from one hundred thousand in nineteen sixty seven to
eighteen thousand students last year, reflecting an exodus of families
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to the suburbs. And that number also dropped further as
residents left their tornado damaged homes because shiz, these homes
aren't being rebuilt after their damage. I feel like in
some other major cities it's kind of the same thing
that were happening, Like these homes aren't being you know, managed,
(35:26):
not being rebuilt, and folks are just moving out.
Speaker 9 (35:30):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
And you're getting these you get these reports where it
tells you that the population is going down and schools
are suffering. And then that's again where it goes to
where these people come in and buy the schools up
and they private and that's how it's everything has a
trickle effect. I know, we say it all the time,
and it's just like it's it's cliche, but it has
a trickle effect. Something happens, and it's always something in
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the back end where you always got to.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
Look out for something coming.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
These are going to report how bad these schools are,
and then we're going to have the people come in.
Speaker 9 (36:01):
And save the school district and redo the schools.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
And then you know, then the people in the neighborhoods
can't start getting into those schools. So now they have
to travel, and like you said, at least there's places
where you have to take public transportation. There's no actual
transportation for you to get to school. You have to
go to a neighborhood school or you were sol and
then you get truan and then you didn't.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
Just it creates a world of problems.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
And it all extends from exactly this thing where they
report that these schools are doing this bad where you
can get somebody to just come in and buy them up.
Speaker 8 (36:31):
In history, it rhymes right like we saw Ronald Reagan,
like I was just mentioning Bragin again, but he released
a Nation at Risk report in nineteen eighty three which
showed how schools were going down a bad pathway and
it was mediocre education, and he was promoting vouchers for school,
(36:52):
which is very similar to what we're doing now. But
like I was saying, the reason why a lot of
the times you can tout these private schools as better
is one they cherry, Like I said, they cherse the
who gets into the school. So if you're only getting
the students that perform the best, then what happens to
the children that do need more help? What happens to
those children when you don't have the Department of Education
(37:12):
to provide those resources for them?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Where do they go?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Like?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Do you not put them in schools?
Speaker 8 (37:18):
And then you also get to dictate how you're telling
that information. So there's a lot of issues there. And
the problem is with when I see these private schools
is that the school should be good in all areas.
That is the issue that we're not having. I know
as parents are like, I want my child to go
to that school and not this school, And I was like,
but the problem is all the schools should be the same.
(37:40):
There should not be one school that is better at
this that teaching than that school. That should not be
It should be the best across the board, no matter
what neighborhood you live in, your child will get in
grade A education, no matter the income.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
And it's two words. I'm sorry, it's two words. It's
it's urban's broad and it's gentrification. And you get people
moving outside of the city because they're looking for that
better education, and people are coming in back inside the city,
buying it up and keeping forcing the people that moved
out there staying out now and now the city is
going and it's going to go a certain way, you'll
have all that population back out there, and it's like
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an education that you moved out to the suburbs for.
They don't put that back into the city because they
moved away from there.
Speaker 9 (38:20):
It all goes hand in hand.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
And then in smaller cities you get over population.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
On one side because this part of the city, this
part of the town is the better part of town,
it's where the better education is, it's where the better
schools are. And then then you get a over population
on one side of town, where then that puts a
strain on resources, that puts a strain on the on
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the market, that puts a strain on jobs. You know
that that that puts a strain on something as simple
as parking because those amount of people that that infrastructure
was not put there to support that amount of people.
So we're even seeing this in places like Baltimore as well,
where these these neighborhoods are now becoming overpopulated.
Speaker 8 (39:11):
Here at least always Baltimore has more people moving in,
but the population like this says, it looks looks a
little different.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
To people that So the city is changing and they're bringing.
Speaker 8 (39:25):
In different levels and diversity and all that jazz. Amazing
things for Baltimore, however, not your daddy's diversity, right, However.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
More population issues.
Speaker 8 (39:37):
But my issue is you get to dictate who you
also kick out of these schools, and then what happens
to those children that don't have anywhere to go?
Speaker 4 (39:45):
That's my issue.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, folks. Still still just just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
More to discuss before we get to things to make
you say hm hm at the bottom of this hour.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
So stay with us.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
We are going to put a button on this after
our next break. This is thank you for joining us
on let one O six folks. So, so uh shizuh
Saint Louis schools, they are struggling, just like many other
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city schools are struggling because of shrinking budgets, the falling
birth rate, and a growing.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
School choice movement. So this this is also falling on
the parents, I guess.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
But then it just comes back around to our previous
conversation about the neighborhoods and everything.
Speaker 9 (40:39):
Right, Yeah, absolutely, it's it.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
It becomes a responsibility, a burden, not even reply, it
comes a burden on everybody involved. Again, you have to
you have to get your children to these schools in
the outside areas because the school that they live across
the street from or up the street from, they're not
allowed to attend.
Speaker 9 (40:56):
So now they have to find a way to get
to school.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
And then and then you have to get accepted to
those schools that are outside the area because you don't
live in that area. So now you have to get
on the waiting list or you have to do it.
You have to take another avenue to get into those schools.
So it just kind of pushes you out. And then
it's like, well, I'll do homeschooling, and even though I
don't do a damn thing at the house all day,
I'm gonna teach my kids how to do the new
math and everything like that. So we get We get
(41:20):
these situations that we get put in just because we're
being pushed out, and we're taking the bait by leaving
where we are, where our families grew up and had
these cities on lock, where we had these properties, and
we're moving out for education, and little do we know
that they're just bringing that right back into the city
once we get that hell out of there.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
And the more we move, the further they will push it.
Speaker 8 (41:42):
It's not the area, it's the people they don't find,
it's the people they don't like. So if you're in
this area and more of us move out in the
next area, then they're going to start to target that
next area. So the goal is that it should be
equal across the board, Like that's what I'm saying, Like
the school should be great no matter what areas it's in,
no matter what income it's in. And we do have
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to make sure that our children understand that because an uneducated.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Population is easily controlled.
Speaker 8 (42:10):
And that's why they want to have a population that
is uninformed and uneducated, because that is how you make
fascism grow. When you have people that don't question, when
you have people that are not educated or you know, ignorant.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
You can get away with a lot. And that's what
the goal is.
Speaker 8 (42:27):
I'm going to train you to go to these privatized
schools that teach you absolutely nothing, or you're not gonna
have an education because you're not gonna have anywhere to
go and you will be forced to do whatever I say.
Speaker 6 (42:38):
That's where we have And when we send you to
the when we go on the field trip to these
to these national museums that are supposed to talk about history,
we we did some editor there too.
Speaker 9 (42:46):
So so you're.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
Still not going to get the history of this of
this country that you that you that you live in.
And it always goes back history. You beat yourself because
when nobody knows about it. So it's that's what's happening
right now.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
So and that's and that's if those schools take you
to to those centers and to those museums. Because my wife, Whitney,
she has only been to the Constitution, to the Constitution
Center in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
She's only been there one time and that was in
third grade.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
And I was like we went every single year, like
I went from first to twelfth grade, and like middle.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
School, I even went twice. So like you know are
these schools taking advantage of that?
Speaker 2 (43:31):
You know that that that's a conversation that needs to
be had as well. And we'll continue to have that conversation.
But on another day up next, after this music break,
we're gonna have things that make you saying hmmm, where
we have some fun with these hypotheticals.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
Folks, stay with us. This is Lit one O six,
This is Let one O six. Folks.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Thank you for joining us, and thank you for joining us.
I can say that and stress that enough and making
us a part of your day. So for today, for
our things that make you say hmm, I'm asking the
gang of the question, which song is a staple at
the family cookout?
Speaker 3 (44:10):
So we have never too.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Much by Luther Vandros before I let you go by
May's Candy by Cameo or Outstanding by Gap Band.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Shiitz start with you.
Speaker 9 (44:22):
M that's a good one. That's a good one. What
was it? Repeat them again for me one more time.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Please, never too Much by Luther Vandros before I let
go by Mais Candy by Cameo and Outstanding by the
Gap Band.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Mmm.
Speaker 9 (44:37):
It's going to happen between the Gap Band and.
Speaker 6 (44:40):
Uh, that's a good one. Come back to me on
this one, because these are some staples. Yeah, man, you
have you have to have these songs play. It's like,
it's like, don't just have one of them play, you
gotta have all the right place.
Speaker 9 (44:53):
I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 6 (44:54):
Which one would be the best one to play, but outstanding,
that's that's one of the ones.
Speaker 9 (44:58):
Right there.
Speaker 6 (45:00):
I was standing and you can you can electric slide
to it, you can step through it, or whatever else
you need to do.
Speaker 8 (45:06):
I'm gonna have to say before I let go, because
that is like, if you hear that, you're gonna start
doing the electric slide.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
It's gonna get people up. Yeah. The other one is
might but when you hear that, you get up. Plus
you can also play the Beyonce.
Speaker 9 (45:25):
I already knew this was happening.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
But but I mean, that is iconic.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
But but but but yo, that that's never too much
like like like, Yo, that's that's your cookout Montage right there,
that's your cookout. You know, insert Black Exploitation Tyler Perry Montage.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
That that that song play.
Speaker 9 (45:52):
It's definitely gonna be some good potato salad if those
songs will be on point.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Right, Yo, I have to give a letter to this
because I feel like they missed something with got to
give it up with Marvin K.
Speaker 9 (46:15):
I'm trying to get a deal.
Speaker 6 (46:16):
You hear.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
You, hear me? That's how far South of America.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
But but I feel like they missed a moment list
miss letter e with that. But otherwise, man, these are
some staples. Did they miss anything here?
Speaker 3 (46:34):
No?
Speaker 4 (46:34):
I actually think this is right on point. I don't
think they miss anything.
Speaker 8 (46:37):
This is for a traditional I think black family, like
this is your old school because for news school, though,
I mean we we missing some some people for the
new school, like as millennials. Yes, we heard this in
our house. But aren't there a couple of extra songs
you know from the two to nine to nine in
the two thousands that should on this list?
Speaker 3 (47:00):
Absolutely?
Speaker 9 (47:01):
Some swag surfing all that on there.
Speaker 6 (47:03):
Now you got you gotta gotta update because everybody's gonna
be out there swagging is surfing?
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Oh well, well, you know what. Let's talk about that
on sometime in the future. Updating this this Black Cookout
Family music list. What does the playlist look like in
twenty twenty five? Let us know on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
We'll post there. I line to you not this is.
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Although my heart is still broken about the weekend.
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CBC was really good, so shout out to everybody.
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It is the top of the week. Still depressed?
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Lease yeah, I'm at all because it's gonna start hitting
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Know, and he went he went through, he went through
to two background checks to get into the position that
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I believe.
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But it's it's wild there at this point, we're wasting
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You are just trying to bring back everybody.
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You're going to try to talk about the numbers of
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This is all employee, not shocked that.
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Again, I'm not shocked at all. We knew this was
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And as the government potentially gets shut down, we will
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Yeah. Yeah, this is just sloppy and irresponsible.
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Speaker 8 (06:20):
Lease And again, I'm not shocked that he did this,
but I'm happy that he did it. I'm happy that
somebody is actually standing up. And when we see people
who are in these positions actually go against Trump and
makes us leave me feel a little bit more secure
and be able to sleep better at night.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
It does because you know that there's a conscience there.
People see that this is wrong, and you know, he
had the mean to. He does have an NFL career
to fall back on, and you know a lot of
people are getting drawed in just by the money.
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So I'm happy that he took the stance. He definitely
was needed.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I don't know if this is going to cause a
floodgate of these things to open up and these resignations,
but it at least raises some kind of red flag.
And folks, we are raising the red flag today on
what is going on in Louisiana and this META project
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that is looking to displace hundreds. Stay with us because
this could be the beginning of something that could be
coming in your backyard. And that's not hyperbole. This is
the morning experience on LIT one oh six. This is
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the morning experience. Thank you for joining us on this Monday, folks.
And this story is pretty serious and I don't want
to waste any time because I want the team to
get in on this. So Louisiana's three billion dollars power
upgrade for a metaproject raises questions about who should.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Put the bill.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers,
a ten billion dollar behemoth that is as big as
seventy football fields in Louisiana. Now, shiz, this is something
like I said, that could be coming in people's backyard.
And you may not believe me, but there's already one
in Memphis.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
And a lot of these things. Just like in Louisiana.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
The they're passing protocols without their g you know, they're
just bypassing.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
All these type of things.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
So we keep seeing this and I believe it was
also talking about how this data center one day would
use up as much as the entire city of New
Orleans would use during the peak of summer. Just imagine
that that is, those are natural resource, those just all
resources going there. The infrastructure around the city would still
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be horrible, but they're going to make sure it is
all pumped into that just keep happening, and regardless of
the outcry because they did have people object to it.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
But we're still here and.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
This is corporate welfare really.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
I mean, when you look at who's paying for this,
it's really the taxpayer that is footing the bill for this.
They're allowing them to utilize all this land, They're allowing
them to potentially for Louisiana, because when you look at
all of the corporations that have come there into poison
the land or the water in which people in Louisiana
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live in, it's absolutely crazy, like with cancer Alley, like
absolutely insane. But this just tells you what's more important
to the American government. It is absolutely money. And the
sad part is it is the people that they're hurting
and harming. It's their money that's actually giving Amazon the
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way to be able to do this, which is insane.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, and private deals are what is is powering all
of this, folks. According to the article, under the contract,
Meta Power Company Energy agreed to build three gas powered
plants that would produce two thousand, two hundred and sixty
two megawatts, and that's equivalent to a fifth of Energy's
current power supply in Louisiana. On the Public Service Commission
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approved Meta's infrastructure playing in August, after Energy agreed to
bolster protections to prevent a spike in residential rates. Nonetheless,
shiz nondisclosure agreements conceal how much Meta will actually pay.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
And that's the thing those NDAs and excuse me, I'm sorry,
they're supposed to be standard. But it's still we you
know where this is coming, whether it's right exactly now
where that where you're going to see the difference in that,
or when it's down the line, when when all these
natural resources are all used up and you have to
take you have to take other options or other ways
to try to get by doing things.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
So it's.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Bad, and it just continues to happen. We're seeing this
happen more and more. Seventy football fields seventy football fields
worth of space that they are using. Just imagine the
energy that is going bare.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
And it's crazy because I said Amazon, but it's Meta
because Amazon, Oh, we're doing this in Wisconsin. Like it
is just over and over and over again that we
are seeing this happen. And like I said, literally it's
going to impact their utility costs, it's going to impact
their health, it's going to impact so many things. And
they are paying for it with subsidies. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And this this is only the tip of the iceberg, folks,
because Meta is exempt from paying sales tax under a
twenty twenty four Louisiana law that the state acknowledges could
lead to ten of millions of dollars or more each
year in lost revenue. And Meta has agreed to fund
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about half the cost of building the power plans over
fifteen years, including cost over but not maintenance and operations.
So this just seems like Meta is coming out on
top and Louisiana and their population are going to suffer least,
especially the immediate population to this data center.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
For sure.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
And we're only gonna see this get worse, like as
we incorporate more and more AI and everything that we do,
and this was we had this conversation before.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
As we become more used to AI.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
We're gonna see more and more land be given to
these companies and more of us will be directly impacted
by it. And I am really again afraid of what's
gonna be under the Trump regime, especially with all of
these tech corporations.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So yeah, but not every place is be bending over
backwards like Louisiana. We're going to get into that after
this music. You're listening to the Morning Experience. Thank you
for joining us for the Morning Experience. Welcome back, folks.
So we said that other states are doing stuff to
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fight back, like Pennsylvania. Their Utilities Commission is drafting a
model rate structure to insulate customers from rising costs related
to data centers. New Jerseys utilities regulators are studying whether
data centers cause unreasonable cost increases for other users.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
They should ask Maryland because it does.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And Oregon passed legislation this year ordered utility regulators to
develop new and likely higher power rates for data center
So we're seeing some states trying to do something here
shits well.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
I mean, and most time you will see some type
of fight back, but it just gets it just gets overpowered.
You have these things. But like like in Louisiana, it
was a loophole in the law that was that's there was.
It was a loophole that they went through and they
and these businesses are showing you that they're a business.
They're about making profit. They don't care about what they're
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using or the people that their army they are for.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
They are for profit.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
So if they're going to find a loophole around this,
and it's just like when you start adding those type
of things in, it's like, okay, we're going to get
them here, but you won't be affected by it.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
Yes we will.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
It's going to happen because we see it happen everywhere,
whether it's financially or whether it's people getting sick, and
you're going.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
To see like you will see this.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
I was looking up something where it says that in
twenty thirty four, the US data center infrastructure market is
expected to reach four point eight four billion. It is
growing at a sixteen sixteen point four percent CGR from
twenty twenty four. So basically what that means is that
you're going to continue to see these.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Expand and rise.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
And although there's some states that are coming out now,
what happens when you need more space? What happens when
the United States government is using AI on a regular
basis and now you need.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
To expand it.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
I think that this is something that we need to
talk about, is rest as constituents, because this is only
gonna get worse as we see more of those tech
oligarchs around Trump.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Although it seems like their guard reels. It always does.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
But what is the constitution or what does the law
mean when people don't follow them?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
It doesn't really mean much.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
So I'm not really expecting a whole lot unless we
as a community as to come out and say you
know what.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
No, and U SHIZ watchdogs warn Meta could pull out
of or not renew its contract, leaving the public to
pay for the power plants over the rest of the
thirty lifespan, and all grid users are expected to help
pay for the five hundred and fifty million dollar transfer
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line serving meta's facilities, So they could end up not
even paying for this, or paying for all of it,
and then it be left on the taxpayer shits.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
This is risky.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
It's more than risky.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
It's the fact that these people are being left on
the hook for this. This is META is going to
come in and use up all the resources that they
can and pretty much when they don't have any more
need for that area, when they outgrow that are, when
they outgrow those seventy football.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Fields work for the work area.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
And there's fight back, they can get up out of there,
and everybody will be on the hook no matter what
this NBA says, no matter how much they're paying right now,
even if they're covering the whole thing, whenever they decide
to get out of it, it's going to bite. It's
going to come back and bite this community, and it's
going to put them in a very bad place.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
And it will continue.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
And when you look at where they are right, it's
in the What Southeast and in the Pacific West. That
just tells me that you are focusing on targeting lower
income communities, communities that are densely populated with low income
people or people of color.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Which is hot. When are we going to see it? Like,
when are we going to see it?
Speaker 8 (16:54):
The fact that again, like I said, you're putting this
in a state like Louisiana, which has seen countless numbers
of cancer roots go up, especially like I said, in
places like Cancer Alley.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
They had a paper mill.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
There that has caused so much damage and no one
is doing anything. And now that Trump has come in,
we've seen them roll back environmental protections. Who is protecting
these people? I am concerned, But yes, we love AI
and the Ais and everything we do, but we may
have to sacrifice some convenience for.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Help.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And then for those people that are thinking, oh, it's
going to create jobs, it's going to create.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Jobs, it's going to.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Create jobs, there is no guarantee that this place will
even generate five hundred jobs, you know, And I'm thinking
about I used to work at Blue Cross in Philadelphia
that was over two thousand employees, and that was nowhere
near seventy football fields.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So we're talking about seventy football fields with maybe five
hundred employees. This is nasty work, and it gets nastier, folks.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
We will talk about it more after this music blake
break and we're gonna pay some bills. This is the
morning experience on Lake Mono Cities.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
This is the morning experience, folks. Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
We are talking about this metadata center, this behemoth seventy
football fields long that may be coming to Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And backdoor deals.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
We were talking about that, and this just makes me think,
like how something so egregious and bad for the environment
could happen. And I thought about when I was working
at the Capitol and there were rooms inside rooms that
didn't have cameras or microphones, you know, and those were
always like those backdoor deal rooms, and least I can't
help but think a lot of this is happening here
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where these politicians that are saying yes and knowing that
this is bad are receiving some kind of generational wealth
kickback on the back end.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Kickbacs have always happened, and unfortunately it appears, especially under
this new administration, that it is completely acceptable.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Look at talk Homemen for example.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
You know, I think that a lot of people also
don't come to the meetings, right, So you have people
in the community that when they're having their city council,
accounting council meeting, they don't show up. So when they
are talking about this and they are talking about giving
them subsidies, and they are talking about giving them a land,
there's nobody there to say, hey, wait, maybe this isn't
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a good idea. Our community does not want this. So
we need more people to be engaged and involved. And
I'm not trying to blame the people who are in
the community. A lot of times, like I said, they're
lower income, they were not to buy jobs. You can't
always be at a council meeting, but at some point
you do need to get engaged. If you don't get engaged,
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you will see stuff like this happen. And I don't
know if it's all happening behind closed doors, because, like
I said, some of this stuff that is happening and
then we're just not paying attention to it.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Exactly like like Louisiana, we were saying the people of Louisi, well,
Louisiana and its people need to fight back. No, the
people are fighting Louisiana with the loopholes Louisiana with this.
Just let them kind of go around and kind of
do what they want the way they passed this without
without passing all regulations that they normally have for everyone else.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
It is it is just a game, and people's lives are.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Being played with, played with. These are livelihood and going
on with this. It said that the city workers or
whoever is in charge of the city is responsible for
the maintenance and the management of that facility.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
So Metta is not even on the hook for that.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
So so now you're taking away from the natural resources,
and you're taking the city's.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Manpower away and putting them to there. It's just bad.
This is going to get even worse, not the.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
Max, remember right, So there is they're trying to jerrymander
the heck out of Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
And there's a reason for that.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
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Speaker 2 (21:03):
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Speaker 3 (21:22):
This is the morning.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Experience, folks, thank you for joining us. And this this
just isn't happening.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
In Louisiana least brought up before.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
How in Mississippi lawmakers allowed Amazon to bypass regulatory approval
for energy infrastructure to serve two that data centers it
is spending ten billion dollars to spend. In Indiana, a
utility is proposing a data center focused obsidiary that operates
outside normal state regulations. And while Louisiana says it's added
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consumer safeguards, it lags behind other states and efforts to
insulate regular power consumers from data center related costs. So
it looks like shiz, these costs are going to be
passed on to us and there's just going to be
more lipwork from these politicians.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
As it always is.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
This is just showing you there is no protection for
the people. That people have absolutely no protections against what
Meta decides to do, whether they decide to stay there,
whether they decide to leave. We all know that you
see your bill go up in the summer because there's
more usage. So this place is going to be using
the same amount of energy as New Orleans and the
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peak of the summer.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Like, let that just figure how hot it gets.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
And what kind of energy is being used, and this
place is going to be used in the same amount of.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
Energy in a day.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
It's just like there's no protections out there. We have
to have some type of power in this. But again
it's these loopholes that they get through where they don't
have to follow the normal rules as everybody else.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
True, and I think that this also brings us back
around on loops around to cryptocurrency. Is that also you
this is a lot of energy and it also has
a lot of pollution, and it has not stopped.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
People from wanting to get into.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Cryptoparency because I think we also have to look at
it from that side.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
This is a product.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
Yes, the corporations are doing stuff, but this is a product.
So if we keep consuming that said product, they will
continue to make football fields worth of pollution and energy
if we continue to use it.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
So we can't.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
We do have some say so. Yes, they have loopholes
to do this, but we have some say so because
of what happens with we don't use the products.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I'm looking at this.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
New Orleans peak in the summertime, I was in New
Orleans in August, and I mean like the stores, the
stores they had that AC pumping to the point that
like you will walk past the store and like feel
a little breeze because that's how much the AC what's
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pumping in these stores.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
So like they're using that amount of energy in a day.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I cannot imagine what, folks, I'll let you bills are
going to be because as you know, they're going to
pass this along.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
To the consumers. This did, This is how it's going
to go.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
All the lip service that they're going to have, it's
going to pass this along to the consumers.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Folks.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
This is where you stand up and fight and say no,
this is not happening. Just don't do this for Jimmy Kimmel.
Do this for yourself as well. This is the Morning Experience, folks.
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So so we discussed are our last hour just some
of the these top news stories and one of the
stories that that really really really stuck out to me
is like a doge double backing on this and having
folks come on back.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I always felt like this was going to happen, even
with the shutdown looming later on this week. I always
felt like this was going to happen least, but I
feel like it's not being covered as much as the firings,
and this part is kind of being done and quiet.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
The mistakes are never covering as much as the oh
look what we did. You're you're not gonna see them
backtrack on it. So that's why you're not hearing about it.
And I think that we should on our side. I'll
leave you a little louder about it, like, oh, look
what happened. Which I've seen a lot of people talk
about this, but I need more people to be talking
(26:52):
about it.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Point this out to people.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Absolutely, yeah, you you you put these jobs, you took
these jobs away.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
You you were wrong.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
And it's like to say, but you got to the
end of the week, let us know if you're coming back.
You made people uproot their lives like these this was
people's livelihood that you just got rid of just because
that's what you felt was necessary. And now you realize
it was wrong. We saw it when it happened. We
knew this wasn't going to.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
Turn out well.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
And then we're here and now you're like, please come back,
we need you back. But you got to the end
of the week to decide. It's it's man, you can't
have you can't always be in control. You gotta admit
you messed up and move on from there. You can't
always be in control, big dog.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
And I don't even understand how they can expect people
to go back, Like you said, shiz, you uproot my life?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Now? Do I have that trust to go back?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And you know, have that same expectation if I haven't
already moved on already, Lise.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
Yeah, I think that's a lot to ask of people
to uproot what you You already uprooted me right, You've
messed up potentially my mortgage, my savings, you made it unstable.
I don't even know how many of these people will
go back because it's such an unstable situation.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
For them, Like, why would you want to go back
into that?
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Yeah, you just you don't you don't know if you
have any job security. So let's just say you'd be
like this was this was a major opportunity I had before.
And you you stop what you're doing now because you
found something after you were let go and it's and
it's definitely it's permanent. And then you go back and
and there's no security there and they decide they want
to let you go again. Then then what happens, this
(28:31):
is this is all the numbers game. This is to
show that during this month, the h the the job
numbers went up. So it'll just be something that's just
it'll be a bullet point just to kind of point out,
but we won't have no type of context to it.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, yeah, all of this is it is becoming a theater.
And you know, you get to a point where you
don't know what's real and what's not real. But luckily
you have a show like The Morning Experience to point
out what is and what is not.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So folks, enjoy this music.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
We got our second main story coming up this morning,
and our second main story we are talking about what
is happening to our public schools in America.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Stay with us.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
This is the Morning Experience on LIT one.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
This is the Morning Experience. Folks, Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Look, just to let you know, the midday show with
Autumn Joy Live comes on after us, so make sure
you stay with us, stick with us, and enjoy the
vibes that Autumn Joy is going to bring this Monday.
So our first story also comes from the Grillo and
districts around the US are mulling school closures as student
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enrollments falls. Cities like Philadelphia, Boston, Houston, and Norfolk, Virginia
are all considering shuttering schools, while a public outcry over
potential closers has stopped them for now in Seattle and
San Francisco. So how many schools are we talking about?
Marquise well beloved? Glad you asked. From twenty nineteen to
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twenty twenty three, enrollment declined by twenty percent or more
at nearly one in twelve public schools, and that's roughly
one hundred students. According to a report published last year
by the time as b Fordham Institute, many were chronically
low performing schools and high poverty neighborhoods. A public school
enrollment is projected to stumble five point five percent between
(30:27):
twenty twenty two and twenty thirty one, largely due to
changing demographics. And that's according to the National Center for
Education Statistics. So, schiz your kids, they go to public school, right,
do you feel as though that there's kind of a
disservice or misservice happening.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
It's a charge. My kids go to a charter school.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
So charter schools are one of those things where if
you look at it, there in a lot of the
major cities from around the US. That's what charter schools
are starting to take over. So those numbers decline because
a lot of the old public schools that we're in
a part of the city are now under the They
are now under.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
The umbrella of that charter school.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
So like you figure like a Strawberry mansion, like where
you get some people, where you get a grats, where
you get Rashie Wallace and everything up from. These schools
are considered charter schools now. So it is declining, but
it's also the difference in education. These schools are are
pushing a lot again, like I say all the time,
for kids just pass a test, they're not They're.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
Not equipping in what they need for life anymore.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
And with a different curriculum from these charter schools, you
were starting to see a lot of people switch over
to them.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
And you're you're also looking at the privatization of the
school system a lot of.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
People for a long time.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
So this really I think started under Raygan, which really
wanted to take a lot of things that we're in
the government and privatize it, like the Department you know,
of education, and really make it where corporations are controlling it.
A lot of people, initially in my area, thought private
schools were good. I've always thought that it would impact
public schools, which therefore will impact the people who cannot
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get from place to place. In Baltimore City, they don't
even have a bus system, right, so the kids have
to use public transit. So that makes it they have
to get up six in the morning, five in the morning,
depending on the school that they go to.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
It makes it so much more difficult. And if you
don't have.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
Schools in your local area, it makes it a lot
harder for people to get there, and then truancy is
an issue. Not to mention, classroom sizes become an issue
in these charter schools.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
And then they can cherry pick. The reason why they
do better is because they cherry pick who gets in
the schools.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
So when you have these voucher programs, it will impact
public school It impacts our children's with IEPs. It is
so much more dangerous than I think a lot of
people realize.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Least you said a word there, the privatization of public education.
And when I think of privat privatization, I think of
you know, those big, big wig CEOs. When I think
of those big wig CEOs. I think of, you know,
our current president's friends. And when I think about that,
(33:17):
I think about there could possibly be a bigger push
to private to privatize public education so that they then.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Can push certain things like pregger you what have you?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
And and and that's why they're getting rid of the
pbs is and so forth.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Am I off making that connection?
Speaker 9 (33:40):
There?
Speaker 8 (33:41):
No, When you can privatize the school sort of like
which is brought up, it does lower the education threshold
because the teachers don't necessarily have to have the.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Same level of credentialing. And then you control the curriculum.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
If you are in a private school, I control what
that curriculum looks like, not the state, you know, like
or the local government. I control what that curriculum looks like.
So therefore I can push whatever type of propaganda I want,
and I can put Bibles in the schools or whatever
I want to do. So you're absolutely right, that's what's happening,
and that's where we're headed.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Well, we will discuss what's happening in Saint Louis and
where they are headed coming up after this music break, Folks,
this is a good one. We are giving you a hearty,
hardy conversation seeing which here this Monday morning, this is
the Morning Experience. Man on Lift one of six, thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
For joining us this morning for the Morning Experience.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
We are talking about the plummeting population in public schools
and just reading this, Saint Louis public schools student population
plummeted from one hundred thousand in nineteen sixty seven to
eighteen thousand students last year, reflecting an exodus of families
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to the suburbs. And that number also dropped further as
residents left their tornado damaged homes because shiz, these homes
aren't being rebuilt after their damage. I feel like in
some other major cities it's kind of the same thing
that were happening, Like these homes aren't being you know, managed,
(35:26):
not being rebuilt, and folks are just moving out.
Speaker 9 (35:30):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
And you're getting these you get these reports where it
tells you that the population is going down and schools
are suffering. And then that's again where it goes to
where these people come in and buy the schools up
and they private and that's how it's everything has a
trickle effect. I know, we say it all the time,
and it's just like it's it's cliche, but it has
a trickle effect. Something happens, and it's always something in
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the back end where you always got to.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
Look out for something coming.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
These are going to report how bad these schools are,
and then we're going to have the people come in.
Speaker 9 (36:01):
And save the school district and redo the schools.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
And then you know, then the people in the neighborhoods
can't start getting into those schools. So now they have
to travel, and like you said, at least there's places
where you have to take public transportation. There's no actual
transportation for you to get to school. You have to
go to a neighborhood school or you were sol and
then you get truan and then you didn't.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
Just it creates a world of problems.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
And it all extends from exactly this thing where they
report that these schools are doing this bad where you
can get somebody to just come in and buy them up.
Speaker 8 (36:31):
In history, it rhymes right like we saw Ronald Reagan,
like I was just mentioning Bragin again, but he released
a Nation at Risk report in nineteen eighty three which
showed how schools were going down a bad pathway and
it was mediocre education, and he was promoting vouchers for school,
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which is very similar to what we're doing now. But
like I was saying, the reason why a lot of
the times you can tout these private schools as better
is one they cherry, Like I said, they cherse the
who gets into the school. So if you're only getting
the students that perform the best, then what happens to
the children that do need more help? What happens to
those children when you don't have the Department of Education
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to provide those resources for them?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Where do they go?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Like?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Do you not put them in schools?
Speaker 8 (37:18):
And then you also get to dictate how you're telling
that information. So there's a lot of issues there. And
the problem is with when I see these private schools
is that the school should be good in all areas.
That is the issue that we're not having. I know
as parents are like, I want my child to go
to that school and not this school, And I was like,
but the problem is all the schools should be the same.
(37:40):
There should not be one school that is better at
this that teaching than that school. That should not be
It should be the best across the board, no matter
what neighborhood you live in, your child will get in
grade A education, no matter the income.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
And it's two words. I'm sorry, it's two words. It's
it's urban's broad and it's gentrification. And you get people
moving outside of the city because they're looking for that
better education, and people are coming in back inside the city,
buying it up and keeping forcing the people that moved
out there staying out now and now the city is
going and it's going to go a certain way, you'll
have all that population back out there, and it's like
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an education that you moved out to the suburbs for.
They don't put that back into the city because they
moved away from there.
Speaker 9 (38:20):
It all goes hand in hand.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
And then in smaller cities you get over population.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
On one side because this part of the city, this
part of the town is the better part of town,
it's where the better education is, it's where the better
schools are. And then then you get a over population
on one side of town, where then that puts a
strain on resources, that puts a strain on the on
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the market, that puts a strain on jobs. You know
that that that puts a strain on something as simple
as parking because those amount of people that that infrastructure
was not put there to support that amount of people.
So we're even seeing this in places like Baltimore as well,
where these these neighborhoods are now becoming overpopulated.
Speaker 8 (39:11):
Here at least always Baltimore has more people moving in,
but the population like this says, it looks looks a
little different.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
To people that So the city is changing and they're bringing.
Speaker 8 (39:25):
In different levels and diversity and all that jazz. Amazing
things for Baltimore, however, not your daddy's diversity, right, However.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
More population issues.
Speaker 8 (39:37):
But my issue is you get to dictate who you
also kick out of these schools, and then what happens
to those children that don't have anywhere to go?
Speaker 4 (39:45):
That's my issue.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, folks. Still still just just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
More to discuss before we get to things to make
you say hm hm at the bottom of this hour.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
So stay with us.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
We are going to put a button on this after
our next break. This is thank you for joining us
on let one O six folks. So, so uh shizuh
Saint Louis schools, they are struggling, just like many other
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city schools are struggling because of shrinking budgets, the falling
birth rate, and a growing.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
School choice movement. So this this is also falling on
the parents, I guess.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
But then it just comes back around to our previous
conversation about the neighborhoods and everything.
Speaker 9 (40:39):
Right, Yeah, absolutely, it's it.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
It becomes a responsibility, a burden, not even reply, it
comes a burden on everybody involved. Again, you have to
you have to get your children to these schools in
the outside areas because the school that they live across
the street from or up the street from, they're not
allowed to attend.
Speaker 9 (40:56):
So now they have to find a way to get
to school.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
And then and then you have to get accepted to
those schools that are outside the area because you don't
live in that area. So now you have to get
on the waiting list or you have to do it.
You have to take another avenue to get into those schools.
So it just kind of pushes you out. And then
it's like, well, I'll do homeschooling, and even though I
don't do a damn thing at the house all day,
I'm gonna teach my kids how to do the new
math and everything like that. So we get We get
(41:20):
these situations that we get put in just because we're
being pushed out, and we're taking the bait by leaving
where we are, where our families grew up and had
these cities on lock, where we had these properties, and
we're moving out for education, and little do we know
that they're just bringing that right back into the city
once we get that hell out of there.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
And the more we move, the further they will push it.
Speaker 8 (41:42):
It's not the area, it's the people they don't find,
it's the people they don't like. So if you're in
this area and more of us move out in the
next area, then they're going to start to target that
next area. So the goal is that it should be
equal across the board, Like that's what I'm saying, Like
the school should be great no matter what areas it's in,
no matter what income it's in. And we do have
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to make sure that our children understand that because an uneducated.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Population is easily controlled.
Speaker 8 (42:10):
And that's why they want to have a population that
is uninformed and uneducated, because that is how you make
fascism grow. When you have people that don't question, when
you have people that are not educated or you know, ignorant.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
You can get away with a lot. And that's what
the goal is.
Speaker 8 (42:27):
I'm going to train you to go to these privatized
schools that teach you absolutely nothing, or you're not gonna
have an education because you're not gonna have anywhere to
go and you will be forced to do whatever I say.
Speaker 6 (42:38):
That's where we have And when we send you to
the when we go on the field trip to these
to these national museums that are supposed to talk about history,
we we did some editor there too.
Speaker 9 (42:46):
So so you're.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
Still not going to get the history of this of
this country that you that you that you live in.
And it always goes back history. You beat yourself because
when nobody knows about it. So it's that's what's happening
right now.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
So and that's and that's if those schools take you
to to those centers and to those museums. Because my wife, Whitney,
she has only been to the Constitution, to the Constitution
Center in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
She's only been there one time and that was in
third grade.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
And I was like we went every single year, like
I went from first to twelfth grade, and like middle.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
School, I even went twice. So like you know are
these schools taking advantage of that?
Speaker 2 (43:31):
You know that that that's a conversation that needs to
be had as well. And we'll continue to have that conversation.
But on another day up next, after this music break,
we're gonna have things that make you saying hmmm, where
we have some fun with these hypotheticals.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
Folks, stay with us. This is Lit one O six,
This is Let one O six. Folks.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Thank you for joining us, and thank you for joining us.
I can say that and stress that enough and making
us a part of your day. So for today, for
our things that make you say hmm, I'm asking the
gang of the question, which song is a staple at
the family cookout?
Speaker 3 (44:10):
So we have never too.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Much by Luther Vandros before I let you go by
May's Candy by Cameo or Outstanding by Gap Band.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Shiitz start with you.
Speaker 9 (44:22):
M that's a good one. That's a good one. What
was it? Repeat them again for me one more time.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Please, never too Much by Luther Vandros before I let
go by Mais Candy by Cameo and Outstanding by the
Gap Band.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Mmm.
Speaker 9 (44:37):
It's going to happen between the Gap Band and.
Speaker 6 (44:40):
Uh, that's a good one. Come back to me on
this one, because these are some staples. Yeah, man, you
have you have to have these songs play. It's like,
it's like, don't just have one of them play, you
gotta have all the right place.
Speaker 9 (44:53):
I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 6 (44:54):
Which one would be the best one to play, but outstanding,
that's that's one of the ones.
Speaker 9 (44:58):
Right there.
Speaker 6 (45:00):
I was standing and you can you can electric slide
to it, you can step through it, or whatever else
you need to do.
Speaker 8 (45:06):
I'm gonna have to say before I let go, because
that is like, if you hear that, you're gonna start
doing the electric slide.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
It's gonna get people up. Yeah. The other one is
might but when you hear that, you get up. Plus
you can also play the Beyonce.
Speaker 9 (45:25):
I already knew this was happening.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
But but I mean, that is iconic.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
But but but but yo, that that's never too much
like like like, Yo, that's that's your cookout Montage right there,
that's your cookout. You know, insert Black Exploitation Tyler Perry Montage.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
That that that song play.
Speaker 9 (45:52):
It's definitely gonna be some good potato salad if those
songs will be on point.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Right, Yo, I have to give a letter to this
because I feel like they missed something with got to
give it up with Marvin K.
Speaker 9 (46:15):
I'm trying to get a deal.
Speaker 6 (46:16):
You hear.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
You, hear me? That's how far South of America.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
But but I feel like they missed a moment list
miss letter e with that. But otherwise, man, these are
some staples. Did they miss anything here?
Speaker 3 (46:34):
No?
Speaker 4 (46:34):
I actually think this is right on point. I don't
think they miss anything.
Speaker 8 (46:37):
This is for a traditional I think black family, like
this is your old school because for news school, though,
I mean we we missing some some people for the
new school, like as millennials. Yes, we heard this in
our house. But aren't there a couple of extra songs
you know from the two to nine to nine in
the two thousands that should on this list?
Speaker 3 (47:00):
Absolutely?
Speaker 9 (47:01):
Some swag surfing all that on there.
Speaker 6 (47:03):
Now you got you gotta gotta update because everybody's gonna
be out there swagging is surfing?
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Oh well, well, you know what. Let's talk about that
on sometime in the future. Updating this this Black Cookout
Family music list. What does the playlist look like in
twenty twenty five? Let us know on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
We'll post there. I line to you not this is.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
The morning experience. I wanna thank you for joining us
on this Monday. We are off to a good start
lease for sure.
Speaker 8 (47:37):
Although my heart is still broken about the weekend.
Speaker 4 (47:41):
I want to switch everybody a good weekend. Shout out.
CBC was really good, so shout out to everybody.
Speaker 9 (47:45):
They came.
Speaker 6 (47:47):
Hey, moment the silence where our d MV squads commanders,
ravens Moomen the silence for us.
Speaker 9 (47:52):
It's gonna be a long week, but we're gonna bounce back. Yep,
we'll be back. Fly see
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