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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, here we go broadcasting from the Chewbacca chair at
iHeart Es Central. I call it that because of the sound.
Have you ever sat in this chair and here's Zach.
Have you ever had the pleasure of the ad? Yeah,
well you do Saturday morning open phones. Do you bring
over the big luxurious chair?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Do you sit in one?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I definitely, so you know the Chewbacca factor sounds like
Chewbacca is behind me.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
When I lean. I'm afraid to move when I'm on
the air.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, I mean, you're just you're kind of paralyzed because
if you move too much. Yeah, you're gonna make that
sound and people will assume you're ill. And we don't
want that. Blazer is off this week. I'm Chuck Douglas
and the world doesn't make any sense. We're coming out
of a weekend. First of all, enough rain for you.
I I cannot believe the deluge of rain that we
(00:53):
got all day Sunday. Every time I thought okay it's
finally over, there's more thunder and here we go again.
Just absolutely. Saturday was not much better, especially in the evening. Now.
I got in a bunch of yard work Saturday, and
then the little sprinkle hit my head. Do you do
your own yard work? I know you're repair the tractor
(01:13):
trailers or the lawn tractors. Do you do the actual
yard work? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I actually do.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Okay, just kidous so anyway, because you're so lazy, isn't you? Anyway,
So I'm out there doing the yardwork and a little
rain drop hits my head and I went, it's just
a drop. I'll be okay. The next thing, I know,
everything that's ever been in any cloud ever fell on
(01:38):
my yard. I got so ridiculously drenched.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Was that Saturday?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
That was Saturday evening?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, it just I mean that was that was one
of those old fashioned heavy rain, thunder lightning bolts across
the sky, Scooby Doo storms. It was awesome, and I
just I sat and watched it. I just let the
rain come down, and I just I was intrigued by it,
because I honestly, storms sunshine looks different to me today.
(02:07):
Maybe it's because I'm older, I don't know, but you know,
sunny days look different than they did when I was
a kid. Storms seemed different than they did. That Saturday
night felt like the kind of storm I remember, and
for some reason, I was very very captivated watching it.
The lightning bolts across the sky. Especially, I see flashes now,
(02:32):
you know, just like that where it lights up. But
to see the bolts of lightning. Yeah, I don't know why.
I was so intrigued.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I couldn't stop watching it. I just I sat there
and watched and watched for probably forty minutes or so.
It was coming down.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, I don't know if it came out that hard
where I was. But Charlie and I always go out
in the garage and open it and watch storms.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, let's get a laun chair.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Rain unless it's coming directs. Yeah, but we'll set out there.
And while he loves watching storms.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
People have different storm rules. My grandmother, whenever, if she
thought there was even a chance of a storm coming in,
Grandma would go in the house, close the door, close
the blinds, take off her shoes, lay on the couch
and take a nap. She did not want to be
awake during the storm. It's one of the pass by
storms were for napping. Different people are different ways. I'm
(03:24):
like you, I love to sit up, you know, if
you can sit in the garage or if you've got
to enclosed porch or something where you can just sit
and kind of be surrounded by it and enjoy it.
It's it's kind of cool. Now. By the end of
the day Sunday, I was sick of storms because the
backyard is cut. The front yard still is not. It
(03:45):
looks it looks terrible, but there's nothing I can do
about it. Because as soon as you think, okay, maybe
the grass is dry enough, maybe just maybe I can
get this cut without being too much truck, here comes
another down for So at this point I'm looking at
probably Thursday or Friday of this week before it gets cut.
(04:05):
And to any of my neighbors that have a problem
with that, So what uh? Lawrence County School System, Tennessee.
I love Tennessee. I'm not familiar with Lawrence County, but
I'm assuming there's a lot of drugs these Tennessee school System,
Lawrence County, Tennessee. They've implemented this new policy because you know,
(04:26):
school's starting up again, and so I'm thinking about this
kind of thing. Doctor's notes will no longer excuse student
absences at the Lawrence County School System in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I don't know how that works. How's that gonna work.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I don't get it, and I have said for a
couple of years now, the schools are just getting way
too intrusive in a lot of ways. You know, they
ask questions of the kids that I don't think are
any of their business, and they want to know just
all kinds of stuff that really just read right arithmetic,
that's take care of that. But we got, uh oh,
(05:05):
I don't know, two or three notices last year about
one of the grandsons and all the days he had missed.
How is he missing days? When I'd bring him there
and watch him go into the building every day, and
like they'd say, okay, well he's missed eight days. Then
the next report card he's missed four days. Well how
did he even miss four? But I know he didn't
miss eight and then gained four back.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Did they do Does he switch periods or does he
switch classes between periods?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No, the teachers switch around.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Okay, Well what I was I know from seventh grade
to twelfth grade we were on one building, but that
was a little town in West Virginia. We like if
we missed, if we were late for one period, you'd
get a phone call at the house said that your
son had missed one or more period.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
That's what that day. Game room was four when I
was in school because in seventh grade we started switching classes,
going into different classrooms, but you would go to home
like first second and then home room and then third period.
But anyway, in this Lawrence County school system in Tennessee,
after three absences, schools can begin intervention. All right, what's
(06:22):
that mean? See again? What does that mean? Are we
gonna start calling the police? Get CNN out there on
the front lawn? Is that where's little Johnny tonight? What
does intervention mean? Secondly, after eight absences, students are referred
to juvenile court for truancy. It doesn't say you know,
(06:46):
without excuse, because you can't have an excuse if the
doctor's not good enough, a parent's not good enough? Are they?
Officials say? The change is men to teach reliability and
work ethic, emphasizing having a sniffle won't excuse missing school.
Now let me disagree here, because ever since COVID, what
(07:13):
have we heard of? If you're not feeling, we'll stay home.
If you have the sniffles, stay home, don't infect your coworkers.
I could be like one of my arms could be
almost falling off from a tree accident or something, and
my legs could be falling off, my toenails could be dirty.
(07:34):
I still get there, man, That's how I am.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, I can actually back that one up.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And I've had seriously, I've had this conversation with management types,
not necessarily here because the people here who have management
don't talk to me, but management types who have said, well, no,
you shouldn't do that. But if you're in that kind
of shape, if you're feeling sick, if you're just not
in good just stay home, take the day off, take
the sick time, don't come to work, because that way
(08:00):
you're infecting other people with whatever you have. And that's uh,
you know, that's that's discourteous to them, and it has
heard in the health place and blah blah blah. So
I'm sorry. As much as I love Tennessee, I think
the Lawrence County school system is completely off base here. Plus,
these days, most parents don't let their kids stay home.
(08:26):
They have to go to work or whatever. But if
the kid wakes up and goes mom, a few good
mom's gonna say you better blow something out of there
and take something and get out the door man, the
bust will be here in six minutes. Because mom doesn't
want you home. She can't stop, she's got to go
(08:48):
to work already at work, whatever, they don't want you
to stay home. But I just I don't know. I
think there's a court case here.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I don't know what the emphasis of this is, Like,
did some guy just go I've had it with people
who are just missing school, just even on it, just
even doctor's notes. We're done. It just got mad and
they just put it in. But how just doesn't make
any sense.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
When we are constantly arguing about you know, the healthcare
industry and insurance companies overriding doctors and they don't approve
this procedure or they don't approve this medication or or
these chests or whatever. Because your doctor, the doctor should
make these decisions. That's a health decision, your body, your choice,
(09:35):
and all that. So if a doctor says, yeah, little
Billy should stay home, how is it the school system's
place to say no, the doctor's note is not good enough.
We're referring you to the juvenile court for truancy. I
just I don't like this. Now they say the policy
(09:57):
does allow exceptions for verified chronic illnesses, but notes from
doctors for short illnesses are dismissed. Officials say the change
is meant to teach reliability, work ethic, emphasizing a sniffl
should be excused from staying home from school. Some parents,
of course, being alarmed reporting even kids with strip or
flu may take mountain now may face discipline, which is
(10:19):
leading some parents to say they're changing their minds about
the possibility of homeschooling. Oh my gosh, see that's the
last thing we need. And nothing against homeschool. Look, I
love you. I mean this, I do. I'm sure whoever
you are right now with your ears on your radio,
I want you to know I love you. With that said,
(10:41):
if you're stupid, you have no business trying to homeschool
your child. This is a problem. This is a problem. Now.
If you're qualified, if you are really bright or just
a really good student yourself, and you study along with
your kid and you grow while they grow, and that
kind of thing, that's great. But if you barely made
(11:04):
it out of high school, or didn't make it out
of high school, haven't bothered or learning anything of life
on your own since, then, think putting your kid at
a desk with a coloring book and a tablet while
you watch reruns of Springer is homeschooling. You shouldn't be
homeschooling your child. Again, I love you, I mean that,
(11:28):
but I'm saying, do you know any people who home schools? Act?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Have you known any students who were homeschooled?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
When I was a kid, I think there was a
few in town that were homeschool but I didn't associate
with I think the kids were a bit what do
you call socially awkward?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Well, exactly, because they don't interact with other kids. They
need other little booger knows bad breath, bad behaving children
in their life so that they know what to act
like and what to not act like. They've got to
be socialized, and when they never interact with other kids,
they have no idea how to add Now.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I hear the proms pretty great, though, What do you do?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Just stand in a room by yourself and spin what
is a problem for your dad?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Turns on the radio and dance with your mom?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, but he's listening to us, So I mean you really,
you really can't. I know I'm melodious, but you really
can't dance to this, I'm just saying
Well, here we go broadcasting from the Chewbacca chair at
iHeart Es Central. I call it that because of the sound.
Have you ever sat in this chair and here's Zach.
Have you ever had the pleasure of the ad? Yeah,
well you do Saturday morning open phones. Do you bring
over the big luxurious chair?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Do you sit in one?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I definitely, so you know the Chewbacca factor sounds like
Chewbacca is behind me.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
When I lean. I'm afraid to move when I'm on
the air.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, I mean, you're just you're kind of paralyzed because
if you move too much. Yeah, you're gonna make that
sound and people will assume you're ill. And we don't
want that. Blazer is off this week. I'm Chuck Douglas
and the world doesn't make any sense. We're coming out
of a weekend. First of all, enough rain for you.
I I cannot believe the deluge of rain that we
(00:53):
got all day Sunday. Every time I thought okay it's
finally over, there's more thunder and here we go again.
Just absolutely. Saturday was not much better, especially in the evening. Now.
I got in a bunch of yard work Saturday, and
then the little sprinkle hit my head. Do you do
your own yard work? I know you're repair the tractor
(01:13):
trailers or the lawn tractors. Do you do the actual
yard work? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I actually do.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Okay, just kidous so anyway, because you're so lazy, isn't you? Anyway,
So I'm out there doing the yardwork and a little
rain drop hits my head and I went, it's just
a drop. I'll be okay. The next thing, I know,
everything that's ever been in any cloud ever fell on
(01:38):
my yard. I got so ridiculously drenched.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Was that Saturday?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
That was Saturday evening?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, it just I mean that was that was one
of those old fashioned heavy rain, thunder lightning bolts across
the sky, Scooby Doo storms. It was awesome, and I
just I sat and watched it. I just let the
rain come down, and I just I was intrigued by it,
because I honestly, storms sunshine looks different to me today.
(02:07):
Maybe it's because I'm older, I don't know, but you know,
sunny days look different than they did when I was
a kid. Storms seemed different than they did. That Saturday
night felt like the kind of storm I remember, and
for some reason, I was very very captivated watching it.
The lightning bolts across the sky. Especially, I see flashes now,
(02:32):
you know, just like that where it lights up. But
to see the bolts of lightning. Yeah, I don't know why.
I was so intrigued.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I couldn't stop watching it. I just I sat there
and watched and watched for probably forty minutes or so.
It was coming down.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, I don't know if it came out that hard
where I was. But Charlie and I always go out
in the garage and open it and watch storms.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, let's get a laun chair.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Rain unless it's coming directs. Yeah, but we'll set out there.
And while he loves watching storms.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
People have different storm rules. My grandmother, whenever, if she
thought there was even a chance of a storm coming in,
Grandma would go in the house, close the door, close
the blinds, take off her shoes, lay on the couch
and take a nap. She did not want to be
awake during the storm. It's one of the pass by
storms were for napping. Different people are different ways. I'm
(03:24):
like you, I love to sit up, you know, if
you can sit in the garage or if you've got
to enclosed porch or something where you can just sit
and kind of be surrounded by it and enjoy it.
It's it's kind of cool. Now. By the end of
the day Sunday, I was sick of storms because the
backyard is cut. The front yard still is not. It
(03:45):
looks it looks terrible, but there's nothing I can do
about it. Because as soon as you think, okay, maybe
the grass is dry enough, maybe just maybe I can
get this cut without being too much truck, here comes
another down for So at this point I'm looking at
probably Thursday or Friday of this week before it gets cut.
(04:05):
And to any of my neighbors that have a problem
with that, So what uh? Lawrence County School System, Tennessee.
I love Tennessee. I'm not familiar with Lawrence County, but
I'm assuming there's a lot of drugs these Tennessee school System,
Lawrence County, Tennessee. They've implemented this new policy because you know,
(04:26):
school's starting up again, and so I'm thinking about this
kind of thing. Doctor's notes will no longer excuse student
absences at the Lawrence County School System in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I don't know how that works. How's that gonna work.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I don't get it, and I have said for a
couple of years now, the schools are just getting way
too intrusive in a lot of ways. You know, they
ask questions of the kids that I don't think are
any of their business, and they want to know just
all kinds of stuff that really just read right arithmetic,
that's take care of that. But we got, uh oh,
(05:05):
I don't know, two or three notices last year about
one of the grandsons and all the days he had missed.
How is he missing days? When I'd bring him there
and watch him go into the building every day, and
like they'd say, okay, well he's missed eight days. Then
the next report card he's missed four days. Well how
did he even miss four? But I know he didn't
miss eight and then gained four back.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Did they do Does he switch periods or does he
switch classes between periods?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No, the teachers switch around.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Okay, Well what I was I know from seventh grade
to twelfth grade we were on one building, but that
was a little town in West Virginia. We like if
we missed, if we were late for one period, you'd
get a phone call at the house said that your
son had missed one or more period.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
That's what that day. Game room was four when I
was in school because in seventh grade we started switching classes,
going into different classrooms, but you would go to home
like first second and then home room and then third period.
But anyway, in this Lawrence County school system in Tennessee,
after three absences, schools can begin intervention. All right, what's
(06:22):
that mean? See again? What does that mean? Are we
gonna start calling the police? Get CNN out there on
the front lawn? Is that where's little Johnny tonight? What
does intervention mean? Secondly, after eight absences, students are referred
to juvenile court for truancy. It doesn't say you know,
(06:46):
without excuse, because you can't have an excuse if the
doctor's not good enough, a parent's not good enough? Are they?
Officials say? The change is men to teach reliability and
work ethic, emphasizing having a sniffle won't excuse missing school.
Now let me disagree here, because ever since COVID, what
(07:13):
have we heard of? If you're not feeling, we'll stay home.
If you have the sniffles, stay home, don't infect your coworkers.
I could be like one of my arms could be
almost falling off from a tree accident or something, and
my legs could be falling off, my toenails could be dirty.
(07:34):
I still get there, man, That's how I am.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, I can actually back that one up.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And I've had seriously, I've had this conversation with management types,
not necessarily here because the people here who have management
don't talk to me, but management types who have said, well, no,
you shouldn't do that. But if you're in that kind
of shape, if you're feeling sick, if you're just not
in good just stay home, take the day off, take
the sick time, don't come to work, because that way
(08:00):
you're infecting other people with whatever you have. And that's uh,
you know, that's that's discourteous to them, and it has
heard in the health place and blah blah blah. So
I'm sorry. As much as I love Tennessee, I think
the Lawrence County school system is completely off base here. Plus,
these days, most parents don't let their kids stay home.
(08:26):
They have to go to work or whatever. But if
the kid wakes up and goes mom, a few good
mom's gonna say you better blow something out of there
and take something and get out the door man, the
bust will be here in six minutes. Because mom doesn't
want you home. She can't stop, she's got to go
(08:48):
to work already at work, whatever, they don't want you
to stay home. But I just I don't know. I
think there's a court case here.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I don't know what the emphasis of this is, Like,
did some guy just go I've had it with people
who are just missing school, just even on it, just
even doctor's notes. We're done. It just got mad and
they just put it in. But how just doesn't make
any sense.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
When we are constantly arguing about you know, the healthcare
industry and insurance companies overriding doctors and they don't approve
this procedure or they don't approve this medication or or
these chests or whatever. Because your doctor, the doctor should
make these decisions. That's a health decision, your body, your choice,
(09:35):
and all that. So if a doctor says, yeah, little
Billy should stay home, how is it the school system's
place to say no, the doctor's note is not good enough.
We're referring you to the juvenile court for truancy. I
just I don't like this. Now they say the policy
(09:57):
does allow exceptions for verified chronic illnesses, but notes from
doctors for short illnesses are dismissed. Officials say the change
is meant to teach reliability, work ethic, emphasizing a sniffl
should be excused from staying home from school. Some parents,
of course, being alarmed reporting even kids with strip or
flu may take mountain now may face discipline, which is
(10:19):
leading some parents to say they're changing their minds about
the possibility of homeschooling. Oh my gosh, see that's the
last thing we need. And nothing against homeschool. Look, I
love you. I mean this, I do. I'm sure whoever
you are right now with your ears on your radio,
I want you to know I love you. With that said,
(10:41):
if you're stupid, you have no business trying to homeschool
your child. This is a problem. This is a problem. Now.
If you're qualified, if you are really bright or just
a really good student yourself, and you study along with
your kid and you grow while they grow, and that
kind of thing, that's great. But if you barely made
(11:04):
it out of high school, or didn't make it out
of high school, haven't bothered or learning anything of life
on your own since, then, think putting your kid at
a desk with a coloring book and a tablet while
you watch reruns of Springer is homeschooling. You shouldn't be
homeschooling your child. Again, I love you, I mean that,
(11:28):
but I'm saying, do you know any people who home schools? Act?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Have you known any students who were homeschooled?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
When I was a kid, I think there was a
few in town that were homeschool but I didn't associate
with I think the kids were a bit what do
you call socially awkward?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Well, exactly, because they don't interact with other kids. They
need other little booger knows bad breath, bad behaving children
in their life so that they know what to act
like and what to not act like. They've got to
be socialized, and when they never interact with other kids,
they have no idea how to add Now.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I hear the proms pretty great, though, What do you do?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Just stand in a room by yourself and spin what
is a problem for your dad?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Turns on the radio and dance with your mom?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, but he's listening to us, So I mean you really,
you really can't. I know I'm melodious, but you really
can't dance to this, I'm just saying
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