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No, mister here?
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Things? Brother? Hows things?
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Oh? Man, A lot better this week, that's for sure.
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Yeah, tonight I'm the one feeling all discombobulated. I'm like,
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Oh my god. Look, man, let me tell you something.
When I climbed under that car last week, it looked
like a nuclear infused squirrel had chewed on the casing
of the starter, had chewed the starter cable in half,
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and it was just that. There wasn't a mark on
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later and some makeshift crap and you know, we got
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it going.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, you gave the answer in the monologue. It was
a nuclear and fuse squirrel.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I mean, you know, they they found those. I don't
know if anybody saw the story, but they found the
nuclear wasp nests in South Carolina. You see that.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
No, I have not what happened.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Oh, they found some wasp nests at a former nuclear
well at the perimeter of a former nuclear facility in
South Carolina, and they tested positive for radioactive material in
the wasp nests. And I'm scratching my head and I'm
going they didn't find the wasps.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, there's that's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm just like, okay, yeah, well yeah, exactly right. What
if you get bitten or stone by when I don't bite,
they sting? What if you get stung by a radioactive wasp?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, I mean I'm gonna say we all know what
what happened to Spider Man when he got bitten by
radioactive spiders. Getting stuck by wasp could be kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Maybe maybe you just have a radioactive auchi fit, you know,
I don't know, do you grow a stinger?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You know what? You know, what happens you start craving
radioactive shrimp from Walmart?
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Oh lord? Yeah, yeah, and they they they clamp down
on another brand for that now too.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Oh there's another one, now I missed that.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Well it's it's it's it's sold by the same the
same people under a different brand through different distributors though.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh go figure.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, still from Indonesia and all that good stuff. So yeah,
just just you know, make sure your shrimp is USA caught,
wild caught Gulf shrimp preferably, I mean, because that's the
best stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
But so what if what if all the radioactive shrimp
is why we have so many bottom feeding lawyers now.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I mean, well, you know, but you would think we'd
have seen that over the last forty fifty years, you know,
to coincide, because the lawyers have been there for that
long for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And maybe maybe there's been radioactive shrimp this whole time,
and we're just now starting to figure it out. Kind
of like for me that kind of like all the
special ed teachers are like, no, no, no, it's not
really that there's a lot more autism than there ever was.
It's that we understand more about it now. I hear
that all the time from uh yeah, yeah, nice trick,
nice t Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And my and my teacher friends are like, why do
twenty of every twenty eight kids in my class have
goddamn accommodations that have to be met through special ed department?
You know, it's you know, how do how am I?
How are they supposed to teach like that?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I don't. I don't know how they do it, because
I would. I would definitely. Yeah, let's just say it
wouldn't be pleasant in the uh in the special ed
department when I finally made my way down there.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Y'all ever seen kindergarten cop? Oh, yeah, that would that
would be me trying to teach them kids shot up.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, I get it, I do, I get it. I
I always you know, I have a lot of a
lot of people that I know are in education, and
I do a lot of work with education, and I
always maintained that it should be mandatory for every parent
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and every teacher and every student of middle school age
and above to watch the movie Teachers every year. Do
you remember that one?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Vaguely?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Just Speller Stellar cast, Okay, Nick Nolty, Morgan Freeman, jud Hirsch,
Ralph Macchio, and I'm sure about six other people that
I'm missing, because every damn buddy who was somebody back
then was in this movie. But uh, it's it's just
(13:46):
basically about the exploits of a failing high school and
what you see from each level of either trying. Yeah,
I already remembers great movie. It was a great movie movie,
and it should be mandatory viewing. But you know, there
(14:06):
was there was a scene in the movie where they
were the school the local school board in the movie
was taking Nick Nolty to a hearing because he drove
a female student to an abortion clinic, and they asked
him if he thought that was appropriate behavior for a teacher,
and he replied that it was a hell of a
(14:28):
lot more appropriate than the teacher that got her pregnant.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Oh. I just that that line helped me because I
was struggling to remember the movie.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That line put yeah, oh god, this this movie was fantastic,
and uh, I can't, Like I said, I can't remember
the entire cast. I know I named off what four
or five of them, but there are other big names.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It was it looks like Joe Beeth, Williams, Josh.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Williams who went topless in the movie.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
By the way, Richard Mulligan was in it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, he played a history teacher. Yeah that always slept,
gave the kids worksheets and put paper over his head
and went to sleep.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I mean, you know, well that's always kind of a
running joke when teachers are involved in either movies or sitcoms.
That's like, what was that in the show How I
Met Your Mother? The kindergarten teacher Lily, She's like, they
took naptime away from me, I mean, I mean the kids.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, And you know, I'm almost kind of glad we
got onto this and it was you actually brought up
the education side of it. So this was not me segueing,
but I was going to create a segue, but you've
You've introed me perfectly to this.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
That's that serendipity thing that happened on here all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
No, I don't know who Sarah is, but the dipity
is working tonight. So but anyway, the nation's two largest
teachers unions have poured over forty million dollars into left
wing groups over the last few years, a pattern consistent
(16:28):
with the progressive ideology both unions a spouse. Now we'll
go a little further here before we break down what's
going on. The American Federation of Teachers and the National
Education Association, two very powerful unions with outspoken progressive bosses,
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have doled out forty three and a half million to
liberal and far left organization since twenty twenty two. And
that's according to a report from Defending Education, which is
a watchdog organization, And you can find the story in
(17:13):
its entirety if you if you dare, go to National Review.
It was written by James Lynch. Good good write up
by Jim on this. You know, I'm going to take
the base of his story and go elsewhere with it.
But that's okay, that's kind of what I do a lot.
But so we got forty three and a half million
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dollars being doled out to these left wing commedy organizations
that want to either pervert or indoctrinate your children in
some way, shape, form or fashion. And in a lot
of cases, the teachers in these states don't even have
(18:01):
a choice. They are forced to join the unions, so
they have no choice but to pay the dues and
in turn are forced via that to support these organizations financially,
whether they agree with it or not. This is why
(18:29):
education unions are bad. Not that an education union can't
be good, but these have chosen to be bad. They
are bad actors, and they are using monies coerced from
(18:49):
their quote unquote membership, you know, they're mandatory membership to
facilitate this. So they The American Federation for Teachers donated
one point six million dollars to the House Majority Pack
(19:12):
back before the Republicans won control of Congress, so they're
playing politics with your money. One point two five million
dollars to the Senate Majority Pack, again left wing, you know,
(19:32):
in that same respective time period future forward. The primary
pack for former Vice President Kamala Harris's twenty twenty four
failed presidential campaign received two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
from the American Federation of Teachers the Defending Education found
(19:56):
The unions together gave nine point three million in to
the for Our Future Action Fund, a left wing pack
that primarily operates in swing states. Likewise, the NEA poured
nine and a half million into the State Engagement Fund,
(20:16):
a progressive pass through entity that dishes out cash to
other left wing organizations. Both teachers' unions gave large sums
of money to activist groups devoted to causes ranging from
gun restrictions to quote unquote racial equality and abortion access.
(20:43):
They also donated about a million dollars to the Center
for American Progress, a prominent liberal think tank, and its
sister organization, which is devoted to political activism. Now, first
of all, why would an educators' union be involved with
(21:05):
any of these type organizations. Their primary job is to
ensure that the teachers are a well prepared and well
equipped to teach. And well, I say well paid fairly paid.
(21:27):
They're not well paid, but they you know, to be
treated fairly and they're still not. And that's a state
by state thing. Well, you hear the left all the
time talks about they want, you know, the minimum teacher
salary in this country should be sixty thousand dollars. Well,
that's great. Guess what the federal government doesn't pay teachers
(21:50):
so they have no say so in what one state's
minimum pay is going to be for teachers. It's a start.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well, you can't have that argument with these brand green
dead people that I.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Mean, no, you can't.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
They they're just like gobsmacked by it. They're, oh, that
would be so wonderful. Oh yeah, wouldn't it be because
we'd all be paying taxes to support that. Hmm.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
What I love is all the people that get mad
because you know, we drop all the the blue state
stats on how poorly their kids read and this, that
and the other, and they're like, now do red states.
I'm like, that's not the argument you think it is,
since we have centralized federal education at this point.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I mean, you know, look, we did a stary look this,
this show did a story. I guess it's probably been
I think it was during Biden's first year in office,
give or take, but the City School of Baltimore did
(23:05):
not have three percent of their students read on grade level.
Less than three percent could read on grade level less
than five percent. We're on grade level with math. Can
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you imagine if they tested history?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well, so this is one of my gribes though, coming
from somebody that you know, spent the last what was it,
two thousand and thirteen to twenty twenty three working for
a university. Yeah, so, but I was on contract for
Center for Public Management, So I was actually working on
a contract for Department of Human Services. Don't even get
me started on how and says to us, the relationship
(24:01):
is between the state agencies and state and state universities.
That will creep you out. But one of the things
that I loved is every year they would ask us,
you know, and this is even before I started promoting
through the ranks. Every year they would sit us down
and have these meetings, and eventually it became this thing
where you just filled it all out and they would
always ask us, what can we do to make your
(24:23):
job easier and better? I'm like, how about taking the
fact that we know, statistically speaking, that seventy percent of
the state of Oklahoma can't read past to fourth grade level,
and we stop sending them letters that were written by attorneys,
or at least, if you have to send them a
litter that was written by an attorney, put one in
plain English there with it too, and say this is
(24:45):
the same letter you just saw, but written in a
way that you can understand it. Yeah, because I and
granted you know, I'm semi fluid in Latin, and I
speak my own version of attorney. I got good enough
with it that I was writing my own contracts when
I was run my business because it saved me money.
So it's not that I can't translate it. But when
I'm only supposed to be on the phone a certain
(25:06):
amount of time and we get hundreds of calls every
time a new letter goes out, what does this word mean?
What are they trying to say here? Can we just
if we're going to insist on killing all these trees,
can we make it where people can read this shit
instead of having to kill all the trees just so
they have to call us to have what's on the
dead trees explain to them. Please?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh yeah, I thought I thought.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
We were supposed to be saving the planet. Yo.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I mean, look, I get.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
It, man.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
This is a state where I have watched At one
time the teachers union had risen to a level of
power that the head of the teachers' union just showed
up at the capitol building and told them what they
(25:59):
needed to pass for education, and then he just turned
around and walked away. And it was done. And then
I watched a governor basically bust the union into basically
it is basically now a membership club that has legal
(26:25):
benefits and a set of quote unquote basic rights for
the workplace. And that's it. I mean, really, that is it.
They have been all but completely neutered. Here the mighty
can fall. And in this state they have the Retirement
(26:51):
System of Alabama, which is they are an organization that
manages literally the pension funds for public university and law
enforcement in the state. Now, a lot of people have
not heard of the Retirement systems of Alabama. The RSA
(27:11):
rates as one of the best run, managed, and dispersed
pensions in the country. That was the one thing that
stayed in place, separate of the union and separate of
the legislature. And again you're talking about if you've ever
(27:40):
heard of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail for golfing vacations.
I bring that up because I'm a golfer. I love
playing the trail courses. They're fantastic. They're beautiful courses. Some
of the best you'll find in the South, I'll put up,
and probably some of the best anywhere. But you know,
(28:02):
they have ventures that they go into, but they are
they're always protecting themselves when they do investments, and it's
so well done that their fund returns on average about
twelve percent a year steady. You know, some years they've
(28:25):
had as much as fifteen sixteen percent return when the
economy was booming, like I don't know, twenty years ago,
twenty ish years ago, there was even a year where
they turned a twenty one percent return. Now, they're not
going to do that all the time. That was that
was an abarition. But even in the leanest of years,
(28:51):
I think nine percent was as low as I've ever
seen them return on the year. And that's pretty damn good.
I mean, you you show me somebody that's managing billions
of dollars, investing it and funding pensions with it, and
in the you think back to when our economy really
(29:16):
contracted and took a shot in the ass, and you're
still turning nine percent. That's a good organization right there.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, anymore that would be considered high yield, I.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Mean really, and you know it, it kills me because
the legislature here wants to control that fund so badly,
But all they would do is piss it away. The
politicians aren't smart enough to run it. The union was
(29:53):
smart enough to found it and then give it to
somebody else that wasn't connected to either the union or
the legislature.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I mean, for all the bad that they've done, they
did some really good there. But anyway, I digress. So
the teachers' unions, they claim that they're about improving education,
but they're spending you know, shows what they really care about.
(30:27):
The fact that the unions have funneled tens of millions
of dollars into left wing political groups and nonprofits and
even some mngos show that they're interested in advancing their
own power and their unpopular far left ideologies and policies.
And it's insulting for American families and teachers who want
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student outcomes to be improved and not to be used
as a tool to fund left wing politics. And the
biggest offender, and we've all seen her whiny rants online
or in the news or anything, but Randy Weingarten, president
of the American Federation for Teachers, is a well known
(31:10):
left wing activist who uses her organization for partisan purposes
on the daily, and she has steered ATF in a
very progressive activist direction and led the push to extend
school closures during the COVID pandemic, a policy that resulted
in disastrous learning losses for American children. Not to be outdone, though,
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the NEA is hell bent on resisting anything that resembles
right of center and has trained teachers to function as
political activists. The union fully supports critical race theory, the
(31:57):
left wing ideology that FOSS focus is excuse me obsessively
on race in daily life, and argues that American America's
institutions are irredeemably racist. As the teachers' unions have leaned
into political activism, they have experienced membership decline where possible.
(32:21):
And again they're, oh, I didn't realize that. That was Wow,
that's been a long time now. Apparently there was a
Supreme Court decision in twenty eighteen, the Janus decision, that
allowed public sector employees to decline union membership and not
have to pay dues. I wonder how many people actually
(32:46):
know that. I. I knew there was a case about it,
I did not know that they came down on the
side of that. So and again, I have a lot
of people in education, so that just that kind of
floors me. It was never mandatory here, but I know
(33:09):
a lot of states where it was. And yeah they
if you look at an election map, they're blue. So anyway,
we got that going for us. It's the bottom of
the hour. I guess we've got to take a commercial
break here, and before Rick says no, we don't, Yeah
(33:32):
we do, Yeah, we do. You know your drinks, stretch
your legs, let's get this crap in gear and we'll
be back in what four.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, I'm at four.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Four.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
We'll be back in four. Ready, sat count.
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No, no, Rick here, Okay, yeah, just kidding, all right,
So behind the Navy Lions coming up next over with
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It'll be live with us tomorrow night as well, same
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tonight and tomorrow night.
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And there you have it. That's that's why you should
be with us every Wednesday night because we got the
good shit. Yeah. So anyway, and you know everybody's heard
now the federal judge doesn't like alligator Alcatraz in the
Everglades because it's killing the pythons that are invasive and
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killing everything else. So they're gonna make them lock that up.
So here's guess what. Guess what they have turned around
and done. Now, Oh yeah, you probably haven't heard this yet,
but Immigrations and Customs Enforcement will use a section of
the Louisiana State Penitentiary as the latest detention center. For
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those of you who don't know what the Louisiana State
Penitentiary is, you have probably heard the word Angola before. Yeah,
they're going to Angola. They're dubbing it the Louisiana lock Up,
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and they are working very quickly to open part of
the Angola system up for ICE to start using. Homeland
Security Secretary Christy Nome joined Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and
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United States Attorney General Pam Bondi at a news conference
Wednesday announcing the opening of the detention space. The camp
will hold two hundred and eight criminal illegal aliens by
mid September fifty one of whom are there already. The
facility will expand to hold four hundred people in the
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coming months. The detention center in Angola, which is surrounded
by the Mississippi River, is known as the Alcatraz of
the South. It is the largest maximum security prison in
the United States, houses forty two hundred inmates, more than
half of whom are serving life sentences. Landry said, this
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facility is giving ICE a space to consolidate the most
violent offenders into a single deportation and holding facility. Boom,
so okay, Federal judge, suck it. Now they're going to Angola.
They thought Alligator Alcatraz was bad. Angola is a shithole.
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You've never seen the documentary. Get on Netflix, get on Max,
or whatever wherever you can find it. You have got
to see Angola because everything you think you know about prisons,
Angola will change.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
And I know it's not, but from everything I've heard
about Angola, every time anybody even says the name Angola,
I can only think of one line from a movie.
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Yeah, you know, and to an extent, I get that,
But Angola, think about what's the best way to put this.
What was Oh yeah, the Burt Reynolds movie The Longest Yard,
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember how they did the chain
gang thing in the swamp where they were shoveling the mud,
and but just think that, you know, right now over
there at Angola, it's ninety ninety four degrees, it's ninety
percent humidity, and they're out shoveling that mud.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah, you know. All I have to say about all
that is.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Yeah, yeah, oh no, Angla is again it's the worst
place you could go as far as I know. You know,
I think we got another first in the chat room
or he's gonna have to correct him there. Uh sorry,
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that cracks me up anyway. Yeah, Angla, I think I
don't know, maybe like for Californians, maybe Lompoc in a swamp,
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you know, maybe maybe there are other facilities that are
gonna be used. They're gonna split these the people from
Alligator Alcatraz, the I don't know exactly what the number
was that they had there at the facility, but they're
gonna split them all up again. Angola will get the
worst of the worst. And there are other facilities. I
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believe there's one on the Alabama Georgia border, somewhere in
southeast Alabama southwest Georgia. It's you know, probably forty to
fifty miles north of the Florida line. You're you're in
the no man's land triangle there. You could run for
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three days in any direction and not get anywhere, five
days and get you to I ten, but you know,
by then usually they've got the dogs on you and
you're you're back. So anyway, this is what ICE is doing,
is they're they're going to start taking over some of
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these prisons, these max max joints, and they're gonna they're
gonna get wings of max joints and move you know,
three four hundred here, two hundred there, five hundred over here.
And that's that's how they're gonna do it now. And
you figure, if if it's uh, if it's good enough
for the prisoners that are already there, how can anybody
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make any kind of legal argument against it? So not
a bad plan.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Yeah, well, I understand their argument against Alcatuta alligator acuatraz
other than the name, because it really should have been
Gai or Gitmo.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
I mean, yeah, I mean I agree. Look as far
as I'm concerned. You know, they talk about what the
cost of holding these people is, and yes, and I
get what they're saying, one hundred and sixty five dollars
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a day on average. But the idea is not to
hold them for very long. The idea is we're holding
you for a few days, you're adjudicated, you're deported out,
you go boom and anybody. I don't care what side
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of the argument you're on, because I'll have the argument
with anybody. We should be able to get rid of
illegals as swiftly, as quickly and effectively as they shit
on our laws to come into the country. End of story.
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There's no due process for people that shit on our
due process.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
And there never should be.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
No no. And the problem is is that the time,
at the time that our Constitution was written, these kinds
of problems were not on the radar. We do not
have a remedy for this, and there needs to be one. Now.
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The left has a remedy for it. Let's give them
all citizenships so they can vote.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
Well, they're trying that because they're trying that because it
worked with Rigan the first time. So they're hoping to
get lucky.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, and yeah, blow up all the boats.
I'm with you, al you know you see the left there,
The left is whining. Come, you know, defending the drug dealers.
That's not due process. You know what. It sends a valuable,
valuable message.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Though.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
It sends a valuable message. If you haven't seen it yet,
I highly recommend that you watch the video of the
coast Guard taking out the drug runner boat in the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Oh, we played it today on my Yeah, here you.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Go, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Yeah, we got that going for us.
The other thing we got going is it's football season,
and with football season inevitably comes all the whining and
complaining and and this and that and the other thing
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about Taylor Swift being on TV too much. Now, listen,
before anybody starts, I'm not a swiftie. I am not.
I I couldn't tell you her music with one exception,
and that's because I saw the rock do one of
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her songs on a lip sync contest show, which was
friggin hilarious. But with that exce I couldn't tell you
any of her songs. I am not a fan of
her type of music. But let me go on record
and say that she is indeed a good person, and
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people just need to get the hell over themselves and
realize that she's going to marry an NFL guy who
is probably in his last season, so even at that,
it's going to dry up and blow away. At worst,
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he's got another year. I don't think it's going to happen.
I think this is his last season.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
Yeah, you are lesson, sir, because my five year old
granddaughter is in fact a Swift ee and almost every
time I'm in the car, it's either Papa, can we
play this?
Speaker 3 (48:06):
Look?
Speaker 2 (48:08):
I get it. I Look. I had a young daughter
at one time who would be in her car seat,
strapped into the back seat, and all I would hear
is play modor in Modor in Sister Christian by Night Ranger.
She loved the song, and I mean literally I wore
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out two cassettes playing that song for her. So yes,
I do get it. It's just on a different level.
But anyway, my point is that Miss Swift took time
out of her and we all know she's busy as
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all f but she took time to go visit the
patients at Joe Dimagio Children's Hospital. The thirty five year
old pop star visited the Hollywood, Florida hospital on June
thirteenth to spend time with the patients, taking pictures with
them in signing copies of a book. Yeah, the hospital
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staff gave her a card that said, you made this
a day will never shake off. Thank you Taylor for
bringing your support and kindness to Joe DiMaggio's Children's Hospital.
You know, it's just it was a real nice thing.
I saw the pictures of it. The kids, you know,
a lot of them are old enough to know who
she is. Like Rick said, he's got a five year
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old that knows. So you know, we're literally now into
multiple generations of Swifties. And you know what, let them
have it, Let them have it.
Speaker 5 (49:57):
Is it my thing?
Speaker 2 (49:58):
No, it's not my thing. It absolutely is not. But
she's a lovely person and she's doing good, and she
does good. She's actually, you know a lot of people
don't know that she has a reputation in the business
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of at least compared to other performers, over paying her
roadies and her staffers and her stage hands and this
and that and the other thing. They and they're loyal
to her. They don't go work for somebody else when
they're done with the tour, because she wants them available
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to her constantly. She pays them enough that they don't
have to So, I mean this, this is a decent person.
So maybe let's just lay off the hate a little bit. Okay, Yeah,
I know it can be annoying, but you know what,
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it's no more different than watching anybody else in the
stands that's on the camera. Just deal with it. Deal
with it. They're they're not forcing you to listen to
her music. They're not forcing you to stare at her ass.
They're not forcing you to do anything. I mean.
Speaker 7 (51:27):
It.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
Pick your battles wisely, wisely, it's just not worth it.
You know, she's she's she's thirty five. Now, she's a
year younger than my daughter. Yes, I'm old, and uh
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you know it's it's just it's a it's a good thing.
She's a good person. Don't hate. Don't hate. Rick is
forcing us to listen to it? Can we can we
what him? I can't see that. My screen's too small.
Finally getting married another Trump victory. Yes, I agree already.
I saw I saw somebody. I think it was one
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of the moron boys, either Harry or Chris was like,
right wing all mad that Taylor Swift is engaged. I'm like,
why would the right wing be mad? She's married a
straight guy. They want to have kids. That's everything the
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left hates.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
I mean, you're already gonna dislike me. Anyway, I'm just
gonna put it on the background for a while.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
Hey, you know, we just go ahead and put it
on in the background. They'll shake it off.
Speaker 8 (52:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:52):
So anyway, Uh that is my that is my take
a stand for Tay you know, whatever her take it
for what it is. Uh, all right, well we're we're
we got there about two minutes too soon. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Maybe what she said.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
It is, Yeah, I know, right, how embarrassing. Don't let
that happen again. My god, she's so selfish.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
Tell them about her in that moment, Sir.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
I suppose I'll just take mine and go home. I
want I'll take both my balls and go home.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Well escalated quickly.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Yeah, giggy giggity, Yeah. Okay, Hey, I've got a couple
of soundbites I'm going to get you to pull. We're
gonna add them into the rotation. Yeah, I gotta I
gotta actually make some time to start working on that ship,
(54:10):
because you know I told you I would, so I need,
I need to do it.
Speaker 1 (54:15):
Actually again, last week was a bit of a in me, so.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
Oh well, you know, and just you guys, just wait,
just wait till I retire and I don't have to
use a fake name and a and a fake logo.
You're gonna see my ugly face. You're gonna get my
real name. You're gonna get two middle fingers, and I'm
not gonna care because there's not gonna be anybody you
can call to fire me or anything like that anymore.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
I can complain to me and I'll be like, I
don't care. I know the.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
Dude exactly, but you're I mean, they're gonna get full
unfiltered fuck.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
Off like the bad thing, sir.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
I I know. Yeah, I'm not saying it like it's
a bad day. I'm saying it like it's a factual thing.
They're gonna get you.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
The only reason I didn't start using my given name
once I retired is because I was told by a
brand consultant that i'd basically have to start over.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
I can understand that, but you know, we can we
can uh, we can do the change gradually.
Speaker 1 (55:21):
Frog in the pots.
Speaker 2 (55:22):
So that'll be okay, and you can still call me
a grouch.
Speaker 1 (55:27):
It's not like it's a dishonest thing to.
Speaker 2 (55:29):
Say so, right, right, Well, it's not like we're stretching
the truth or anything. So but yeah, anyway, we're here,
We're we're we're here at the happy ending of the night.
Speaker 1 (55:44):
The slightly premature heavy ending for the night.
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Yeah, these slightly premature happy ending. It's happy for me.
I don't care about anybody.
Speaker 1 (55:54):
Oh, spoken like somebody getting an actual heavy ending.
Speaker 2 (55:57):
Hey, look, just real quick before we get into it,
a quick joke. How long does it take the average
woman to orgasm?
Speaker 1 (56:06):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (56:07):
We're still who cares?
Speaker 11 (56:13):
Is?
Speaker 1 (56:13):
There's really no such thing as an average woman, so
we're never going to know the answer.
Speaker 2 (56:17):
Yeah, well the answer is who cares.
Speaker 1 (56:22):
Yeah, he'll be here all week.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
Folks had two big shows on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
Don't forget that, the one leader and night gets a
little blue.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
Yeah, tip your waiters, tip your staff anyway, Uh, tonight's
happy ending. Chris Colestad, Chris, Chris is a good guy.
I'm going to tell you about Chris. Chris Colstad had
seen people fishing out food from the dumpster behind his
pizza shop before, but recently he realized it was becoming
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more and more frequent, so he took the Facebook to
make a public plea, and he hung signs up at
the pizzeria. Please do not eat out of our dumpster,
wrote Kolstad, the owner of Pizza Man in Columbia Heights, Minnesota.
Nobody deserves that. If you are that desperate for food,
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please come ask. If you are too embarrassed to ask,
find a way to call us and ask if there
is a way to leave a small cheese pizza outside
the back door or something you don't even have to
see us, He continued. If you are the ones doing so,
leave me a note and we will find a way
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to leave any extra or mistakes out back for you
so you have something to eat without going through the trash.
Stirred by Coolstad's act of compassion, people and businesses in
the area, like food truck Nosey's Grill, offered to help.
The post went viral. Colstad posted a donation link, and
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by August third had raised over three thousand dollars for
the efforts. Minnesota news channel WCCO was first to report
the story. And now a month later, Colstad has raised
yet over another thousand dollars. Pretty much from day one
of taking ownership of the shop nearly six years ago,
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he tells he's seen signs of people eating from the dumpster.
He said he knew it wasn't the work of animals
because he'd find pizza boxes with empty water bottles and
used napkins nearby. That's a pretty fair judge there. Yeah,
I'd say he's got it figured out. He had left
signs out before, but then it started happening more frequently.
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The day he posted his offer, his cook told him
there was a woman eating garlic cheese bread out of
the tree ash can in front of the store. You're
sitting outside, you got nothing to eat, and somebody's willing
to hand you something hot and fresh, as opposed to
straight out of the trash, he says. I imagine that
makes a pretty big difference in your day. One of
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the recipients of donations from Kolstad and Pizza Man was
Southern Anoka Community Assistance, a nonprofit foodshelf located in Columbia Heights,
which has assisted that community in northeast Minneapolis and surrounding
areas for nearly fifty years. They say it's seen a
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fifty two percent increase in the number of people it's
helped in the area since twenty twenty. In twenty twenty
four alone, SACA broke a record by serving sixty eight
tho one hundred people in twenty six thousand, one hundred
seven families, with thirty five percent of those people being children,
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and it expects to break its own record again this year.
The demand for services has increased every year since twenty
twenty and shows no sign of slowing down. With food
costs on the rise, it's more important than ever to
support local food shelves. Since Colstad's viral post, he says
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he's helped close to one hundred individuals facing food insecurity
with his offer it's called hunger food Insecurity. On August third,
a member of a large family wrote a note thanking
the shop anonymously for helping her out when her family
was in need. And this is why we do what
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we do, Colstead said. He said he's been very fortunate
to never have experienced this, and he's been around and
worked with people who have, and that's why he says,
I can't sit in a building full of food and
watch somebody starve in my parking lot. And folks, this
is how it's supposed to happen. It's supposed to happen
out of charity, not out of the government coercing you
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to do it. So, Chris Coolestad, we salute you tonight.
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Good evening, everybody, and welcome in. You should be holdover
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to see al. I'm sure there will be others popping
up in here. There had better be. I know Rix's
in the studio with me at the mother ship. How's
it going, Rick?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, mister here?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Who is no here? Screw you.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Things? Brother? Hows things?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh? Man, A lot better this week, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, tonight I'm the one feeling all discombobulated. I'm like,
why no, I feel like I haven't done this in forever.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh my god. Look, man, let me tell you something.
When I climbed under that car last week, it looked
like a nuclear infused squirrel had chewed on the casing
of the starter, had chewed the starter cable in half,
(08:51):
and it was just that. There wasn't a mark on
anything else. It was pristine. And I'm just like, how
the hell does this happen? But you know, four hours
later and some makeshift crap and you know, we got
(09:14):
it going.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, you gave the answer in the monologue. It was
a nuclear and fuse squirrel.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I mean, you know, they they found those. I don't
know if anybody saw the story, but they found the
nuclear wasp nests in South Carolina. You see that.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
No, I have not what happened.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Oh, they found some wasp nests at a former nuclear
well at the perimeter of a former nuclear facility in
South Carolina, and they tested positive for radioactive material in
the wasp nests. And I'm scratching my head and I'm
going they didn't find the wasps.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, there's that's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm just like, okay, yeah, well yeah, exactly right. What
if you get bitten or stone by when I don't bite,
they sting? What if you get stung by a radioactive wasp?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, I mean I'm gonna say we all know what
what happened to Spider Man when he got bitten by
radioactive spiders. Getting stuck by wasp could be kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Maybe maybe you just have a radioactive auchi fit, you know,
I don't know, do you grow a stinger?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You know what? You know, what happens you start craving
radioactive shrimp from Walmart?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Oh lord? Yeah, yeah, and they they they clamp down
on another brand for that now too.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Oh there's another one, now I missed that.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Well it's it's it's it's sold by the same the
same people under a different brand through different distributors though.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh go figure.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, still from Indonesia and all that good stuff. So yeah,
just just you know, make sure your shrimp is USA caught,
wild caught Gulf shrimp preferably, I mean, because that's the
best stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
But so what if what if all the radioactive shrimp
is why we have so many bottom feeding lawyers now.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I mean, well, you know, but you would think we'd
have seen that over the last forty fifty years, you know,
to coincide, because the lawyers have been there for that
long for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And maybe maybe there's been radioactive shrimp this whole time,
and we're just now starting to figure it out. Kind
of like for me that kind of like all the
special ed teachers are like, no, no, no, it's not
really that there's a lot more autism than there ever was.
It's that we understand more about it now. I hear
that all the time from uh yeah, yeah, nice trick,
nice t Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And my and my teacher friends are like, why do
twenty of every twenty eight kids in my class have
goddamn accommodations that have to be met through special ed department?
You know, it's you know, how do how am I?
How are they supposed to teach like that?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I don't. I don't know how they do it, because
I would. I would definitely. Yeah, let's just say it
wouldn't be pleasant in the uh in the special ed
department when I finally made my way down there.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Y'all ever seen kindergarten cop? Oh, yeah, that would that
would be me trying to teach them kids shot up.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, I get it, I do, I get it. I
I always you know, I have a lot of a
lot of people that I know are in education, and
I do a lot of work with education, and I
always maintained that it should be mandatory for every parent
(13:08):
and every teacher and every student of middle school age
and above to watch the movie Teachers every year. Do
you remember that one?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Vaguely?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Just Speller Stellar cast, Okay, Nick Nolty, Morgan Freeman, jud Hirsch,
Ralph Macchio, and I'm sure about six other people that
I'm missing, because every damn buddy who was somebody back
then was in this movie. But uh, it's it's just
(13:46):
basically about the exploits of a failing high school and
what you see from each level of either trying. Yeah,
I already remembers great movie. It was a great movie movie,
and it should be mandatory viewing. But you know, there
(14:06):
was there was a scene in the movie where they
were the school the local school board in the movie
was taking Nick Nolty to a hearing because he drove
a female student to an abortion clinic, and they asked
him if he thought that was appropriate behavior for a teacher,
and he replied that it was a hell of a
(14:28):
lot more appropriate than the teacher that got her pregnant.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Oh. I just that that line helped me because I
was struggling to remember the movie.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That line put yeah, oh god, this this movie was fantastic,
and uh, I can't, Like I said, I can't remember
the entire cast. I know I named off what four
or five of them, but there are other big names.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It was it looks like Joe Beeth, Williams, Josh.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Williams who went topless in the movie.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
By the way, Richard Mulligan was in it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, he played a history teacher. Yeah that always slept,
gave the kids worksheets and put paper over his head
and went to sleep.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I mean, you know, well that's always kind of a
running joke when teachers are involved in either movies or sitcoms.
That's like, what was that in the show How I
Met Your Mother? The kindergarten teacher Lily, She's like, they
took naptime away from me, I mean, I mean the kids.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, And you know, I'm almost kind of glad we
got onto this and it was you actually brought up
the education side of it. So this was not me segueing,
but I was going to create a segue, but you've
You've introed me perfectly to this.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
That's that serendipity thing that happened on here all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
No, I don't know who Sarah is, but the dipity
is working tonight. So but anyway, the nation's two largest
teachers unions have poured over forty million dollars into left
wing groups over the last few years, a pattern consistent
(16:28):
with the progressive ideology both unions a spouse. Now we'll
go a little further here before we break down what's
going on. The American Federation of Teachers and the National
Education Association, two very powerful unions with outspoken progressive bosses,
(16:53):
have doled out forty three and a half million to
liberal and far left organization since twenty twenty two. And
that's according to a report from Defending Education, which is
a watchdog organization, And you can find the story in
(17:13):
its entirety if you if you dare, go to National Review.
It was written by James Lynch. Good good write up
by Jim on this. You know, I'm going to take
the base of his story and go elsewhere with it.
But that's okay, that's kind of what I do a lot.
But so we got forty three and a half million
(17:39):
dollars being doled out to these left wing commedy organizations
that want to either pervert or indoctrinate your children in
some way, shape, form or fashion. And in a lot
of cases, the teachers in these states don't even have
(18:01):
a choice. They are forced to join the unions, so
they have no choice but to pay the dues and
in turn are forced via that to support these organizations financially,
whether they agree with it or not. This is why
(18:29):
education unions are bad. Not that an education union can't
be good, but these have chosen to be bad. They
are bad actors, and they are using monies coerced from
(18:49):
their quote unquote membership, you know, they're mandatory membership to
facilitate this. So they The American Federation for Teachers donated
one point six million dollars to the House Majority Pack
(19:12):
back before the Republicans won control of Congress, so they're
playing politics with your money. One point two five million
dollars to the Senate Majority Pack, again left wing, you know,
(19:32):
in that same respective time period future forward. The primary
pack for former Vice President Kamala Harris's twenty twenty four
failed presidential campaign received two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
from the American Federation of Teachers the Defending Education found
(19:56):
The unions together gave nine point three million in to
the for Our Future Action Fund, a left wing pack
that primarily operates in swing states. Likewise, the NEA poured
nine and a half million into the State Engagement Fund,
(20:16):
a progressive pass through entity that dishes out cash to
other left wing organizations. Both teachers' unions gave large sums
of money to activist groups devoted to causes ranging from
gun restrictions to quote unquote racial equality and abortion access.
(20:43):
They also donated about a million dollars to the Center
for American Progress, a prominent liberal think tank, and its
sister organization, which is devoted to political activism. Now, first
of all, why would an educators' union be involved with
(21:05):
any of these type organizations. Their primary job is to
ensure that the teachers are a well prepared and well
equipped to teach. And well, I say well paid fairly paid.
(21:27):
They're not well paid, but they you know, to be
treated fairly and they're still not. And that's a state
by state thing. Well, you hear the left all the
time talks about they want, you know, the minimum teacher
salary in this country should be sixty thousand dollars. Well,
that's great. Guess what the federal government doesn't pay teachers
(21:50):
so they have no say so in what one state's
minimum pay is going to be for teachers. It's a start.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well, you can't have that argument with these brand green
dead people that I.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Mean, no, you can't.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
They they're just like gobsmacked by it. They're, oh, that
would be so wonderful. Oh yeah, wouldn't it be because
we'd all be paying taxes to support that. Hmm.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
What I love is all the people that get mad
because you know, we drop all the the blue state
stats on how poorly their kids read and this, that
and the other, and they're like, now do red states.
I'm like, that's not the argument you think it is,
since we have centralized federal education at this point.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I mean, you know, look, we did a stary look this,
this show did a story. I guess it's probably been
I think it was during Biden's first year in office,
give or take, but the City School of Baltimore did
(23:05):
not have three percent of their students read on grade level.
Less than three percent could read on grade level less
than five percent. We're on grade level with math. Can
(23:33):
you imagine if they tested history?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well, so this is one of my gribes though, coming
from somebody that you know, spent the last what was it,
two thousand and thirteen to twenty twenty three working for
a university. Yeah, so, but I was on contract for
Center for Public Management, So I was actually working on
a contract for Department of Human Services. Don't even get
me started on how and says to us, the relationship
(24:01):
is between the state agencies and state and state universities.
That will creep you out. But one of the things
that I loved is every year they would ask us,
you know, and this is even before I started promoting
through the ranks. Every year they would sit us down
and have these meetings, and eventually it became this thing
where you just filled it all out and they would
always ask us, what can we do to make your
(24:23):
job easier and better? I'm like, how about taking the
fact that we know, statistically speaking, that seventy percent of
the state of Oklahoma can't read past to fourth grade level,
and we stop sending them letters that were written by attorneys,
or at least, if you have to send them a
litter that was written by an attorney, put one in
plain English there with it too, and say this is
(24:45):
the same letter you just saw, but written in a
way that you can understand it. Yeah, because I and
granted you know, I'm semi fluid in Latin, and I
speak my own version of attorney. I got good enough
with it that I was writing my own contracts when
I was run my business because it saved me money.
So it's not that I can't translate it. But when
I'm only supposed to be on the phone a certain
(25:06):
amount of time and we get hundreds of calls every
time a new letter goes out, what does this word mean?
What are they trying to say here? Can we just
if we're going to insist on killing all these trees,
can we make it where people can read this shit
instead of having to kill all the trees just so
they have to call us to have what's on the
dead trees explain to them. Please?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh yeah, I thought I thought.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
We were supposed to be saving the planet. Yo.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I mean, look, I get.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
It, man.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
This is a state where I have watched At one
time the teachers union had risen to a level of
power that the head of the teachers' union just showed
up at the capitol building and told them what they
(25:59):
needed to pass for education, and then he just turned
around and walked away. And it was done. And then
I watched a governor basically bust the union into basically
it is basically now a membership club that has legal
(26:25):
benefits and a set of quote unquote basic rights for
the workplace. And that's it. I mean, really, that is it.
They have been all but completely neutered. Here the mighty
can fall. And in this state they have the Retirement
(26:51):
System of Alabama, which is they are an organization that
manages literally the pension funds for public university and law
enforcement in the state. Now, a lot of people have
not heard of the Retirement systems of Alabama. The RSA
(27:11):
rates as one of the best run, managed, and dispersed
pensions in the country. That was the one thing that
stayed in place, separate of the union and separate of
the legislature. And again you're talking about if you've ever
(27:40):
heard of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail for golfing vacations.
I bring that up because I'm a golfer. I love
playing the trail courses. They're fantastic. They're beautiful courses. Some
of the best you'll find in the South, I'll put up,
and probably some of the best anywhere. But you know,
(28:02):
they have ventures that they go into, but they are
they're always protecting themselves when they do investments, and it's
so well done that their fund returns on average about
twelve percent a year steady. You know, some years they've
(28:25):
had as much as fifteen sixteen percent return when the
economy was booming, like I don't know, twenty years ago,
twenty ish years ago, there was even a year where
they turned a twenty one percent return. Now, they're not
going to do that all the time. That was that
was an abarition. But even in the leanest of years,
(28:51):
I think nine percent was as low as I've ever
seen them return on the year. And that's pretty damn good.
I mean, you you show me somebody that's managing billions
of dollars, investing it and funding pensions with it, and
in the you think back to when our economy really
(29:16):
contracted and took a shot in the ass, and you're
still turning nine percent. That's a good organization right there.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, anymore that would be considered high yield, I.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Mean really, and you know it, it kills me because
the legislature here wants to control that fund so badly,
But all they would do is piss it away. The
politicians aren't smart enough to run it. The union was
(29:53):
smart enough to found it and then give it to
somebody else that wasn't connected to either the union or
the legislature.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I mean, for all the bad that they've done, they
did some really good there. But anyway, I digress. So
the teachers' unions, they claim that they're about improving education,
but they're spending you know, shows what they really care about.
(30:27):
The fact that the unions have funneled tens of millions
of dollars into left wing political groups and nonprofits and
even some mngos show that they're interested in advancing their
own power and their unpopular far left ideologies and policies.
And it's insulting for American families and teachers who want
(30:49):
student outcomes to be improved and not to be used
as a tool to fund left wing politics. And the
biggest offender, and we've all seen her whiny rants online
or in the news or anything, but Randy Weingarten, president
of the American Federation for Teachers, is a well known
(31:10):
left wing activist who uses her organization for partisan purposes
on the daily, and she has steered ATF in a
very progressive activist direction and led the push to extend
school closures during the COVID pandemic, a policy that resulted
in disastrous learning losses for American children. Not to be outdone, though,
(31:35):
the NEA is hell bent on resisting anything that resembles
right of center and has trained teachers to function as
political activists. The union fully supports critical race theory, the
(31:57):
left wing ideology that FOSS focus is excuse me obsessively
on race in daily life, and argues that American America's
institutions are irredeemably racist. As the teachers' unions have leaned
into political activism, they have experienced membership decline where possible.
(32:21):
And again they're, oh, I didn't realize that. That was Wow,
that's been a long time now. Apparently there was a
Supreme Court decision in twenty eighteen, the Janus decision, that
allowed public sector employees to decline union membership and not
have to pay dues. I wonder how many people actually
(32:46):
know that. I. I knew there was a case about it,
I did not know that they came down on the
side of that. So and again, I have a lot
of people in education, so that just that kind of
floors me. It was never mandatory here, but I know
(33:09):
a lot of states where it was. And yeah they
if you look at an election map, they're blue. So anyway,
we got that going for us. It's the bottom of
the hour. I guess we've got to take a commercial
break here, and before Rick says no, we don't, Yeah
(33:32):
we do, Yeah, we do. You know your drinks, stretch
your legs, let's get this crap in gear and we'll
be back in what four.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, I'm at four.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Four.
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We'll be back in four. Ready, sat count.
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Hey, welcome back, Welcome back. We did it. Commercial breaks over.
We're gonna continue with the show, but before we do,
Rick's gonna tell us what's coming up at the top
of the hour and for the rest of the night.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
No, no, Rick here, Okay, yeah, just kidding, all right,
So behind the Navy Lions coming up next over with
Gene and Ross. Then back here Ford and it's Packer
and I doing the Rick and Nordy Show, followed by
over at the s AhR Media area, we're gonna have
first Edge of Liberty hosted by Sean Lewis. Then our
I caap's gonna be Besy's Berserk Bobcat Saloon. It'll be
a replace. So for those of you that missed it
(37:08):
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It'll be live with us tomorrow night as well, same
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tonight and tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
And there you have it. That's that's why you should
be with us every Wednesday night because we got the
good shit. Yeah. So anyway, and you know everybody's heard
now the federal judge doesn't like alligator Alcatraz in the
Everglades because it's killing the pythons that are invasive and
(37:39):
killing everything else. So they're gonna make them lock that up.
So here's guess what. Guess what they have turned around
and done. Now, Oh yeah, you probably haven't heard this yet,
but Immigrations and Customs Enforcement will use a section of
the Louisiana State Penitentiary as the latest detention center. For
(38:04):
those of you who don't know what the Louisiana State
Penitentiary is, you have probably heard the word Angola before. Yeah,
they're going to Angola. They're dubbing it the Louisiana lock Up,
(38:27):
and they are working very quickly to open part of
the Angola system up for ICE to start using. Homeland
Security Secretary Christy Nome joined Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and
(38:49):
United States Attorney General Pam Bondi at a news conference
Wednesday announcing the opening of the detention space. The camp
will hold two hundred and eight criminal illegal aliens by
mid September fifty one of whom are there already. The
facility will expand to hold four hundred people in the
(39:10):
coming months. The detention center in Angola, which is surrounded
by the Mississippi River, is known as the Alcatraz of
the South. It is the largest maximum security prison in
the United States, houses forty two hundred inmates, more than
half of whom are serving life sentences. Landry said, this
(39:34):
facility is giving ICE a space to consolidate the most
violent offenders into a single deportation and holding facility. Boom,
so okay, Federal judge, suck it. Now they're going to Angola.
They thought Alligator Alcatraz was bad. Angola is a shithole.
(40:00):
You've never seen the documentary. Get on Netflix, get on Max,
or whatever wherever you can find it. You have got
to see Angola because everything you think you know about prisons,
Angola will change.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
And I know it's not, but from everything I've heard
about Angola, every time anybody even says the name Angola,
I can only think of one line from a movie.
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Yeah, you know, and to an extent, I get that,
But Angola, think about what's the best way to put this.
What was Oh yeah, the Burt Reynolds movie The Longest Yard,
(40:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember how they did the chain
gang thing in the swamp where they were shoveling the mud,
and but just think that, you know, right now over
there at Angola, it's ninety ninety four degrees, it's ninety
percent humidity, and they're out shoveling that mud.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah, you know. All I have to say about all
that is.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Yeah, yeah, oh no, Angla is again it's the worst
place you could go as far as I know. You know,
I think we got another first in the chat room
or he's gonna have to correct him there. Uh sorry,
(41:37):
that cracks me up anyway. Yeah, Angla, I think I
don't know, maybe like for Californians, maybe Lompoc in a swamp,
(41:57):
you know, maybe maybe there are other facilities that are
gonna be used. They're gonna split these the people from
Alligator Alcatraz, the I don't know exactly what the number
was that they had there at the facility, but they're
gonna split them all up again. Angola will get the
worst of the worst. And there are other facilities. I
(42:21):
believe there's one on the Alabama Georgia border, somewhere in
southeast Alabama southwest Georgia. It's you know, probably forty to
fifty miles north of the Florida line. You're you're in
the no man's land triangle there. You could run for
(42:43):
three days in any direction and not get anywhere, five
days and get you to I ten, but you know,
by then usually they've got the dogs on you and
you're you're back. So anyway, this is what ICE is doing,
is they're they're going to start taking over some of
(43:06):
these prisons, these max max joints, and they're gonna they're
gonna get wings of max joints and move you know,
three four hundred here, two hundred there, five hundred over here.
And that's that's how they're gonna do it now. And
you figure, if if it's uh, if it's good enough
for the prisoners that are already there, how can anybody
(43:29):
make any kind of legal argument against it? So not
a bad plan.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Yeah, well, I understand their argument against Alcatuta alligator acuatraz
other than the name, because it really should have been
Gai or Gitmo.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
I mean, yeah, I mean I agree. Look as far
as I'm concerned. You know, they talk about what the
cost of holding these people is, and yes, and I
get what they're saying, one hundred and sixty five dollars
(44:05):
a day on average. But the idea is not to
hold them for very long. The idea is we're holding
you for a few days, you're adjudicated, you're deported out,
you go boom and anybody. I don't care what side
(44:26):
of the argument you're on, because I'll have the argument
with anybody. We should be able to get rid of
illegals as swiftly, as quickly and effectively as they shit
on our laws to come into the country. End of story.
(44:48):
There's no due process for people that shit on our
due process.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
And there never should be.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
No no. And the problem is is that the time,
at the time that our Constitution was written, these kinds
of problems were not on the radar. We do not
have a remedy for this, and there needs to be one. Now.
(45:17):
The left has a remedy for it. Let's give them
all citizenships so they can vote.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
Well, they're trying that because they're trying that because it
worked with Rigan the first time. So they're hoping to
get lucky.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, and yeah, blow up all the boats.
I'm with you, al you know you see the left there,
The left is whining. Come, you know, defending the drug dealers.
That's not due process. You know what. It sends a valuable,
valuable message.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Though.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
It sends a valuable message. If you haven't seen it yet,
I highly recommend that you watch the video of the
coast Guard taking out the drug runner boat in the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Oh, we played it today on my Yeah, here you.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Go, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Yeah, we got that going for us.
The other thing we got going is it's football season,
and with football season inevitably comes all the whining and
complaining and and this and that and the other thing
(46:29):
about Taylor Swift being on TV too much. Now, listen,
before anybody starts, I'm not a swiftie. I am not.
I I couldn't tell you her music with one exception,
and that's because I saw the rock do one of
(46:50):
her songs on a lip sync contest show, which was
friggin hilarious. But with that exce I couldn't tell you
any of her songs. I am not a fan of
her type of music. But let me go on record
and say that she is indeed a good person, and
(47:19):
people just need to get the hell over themselves and
realize that she's going to marry an NFL guy who
is probably in his last season, so even at that,
it's going to dry up and blow away. At worst,
(47:42):
he's got another year. I don't think it's going to happen.
I think this is his last season.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
Yeah, you are lesson, sir, because my five year old
granddaughter is in fact a Swift ee and almost every
time I'm in the car, it's either Papa, can we
play this?
Speaker 3 (48:06):
Look?
Speaker 2 (48:08):
I get it. I Look. I had a young daughter
at one time who would be in her car seat,
strapped into the back seat, and all I would hear
is play modor in Modor in Sister Christian by Night Ranger.
She loved the song, and I mean literally I wore
(48:31):
out two cassettes playing that song for her. So yes,
I do get it. It's just on a different level.
But anyway, my point is that Miss Swift took time
out of her and we all know she's busy as
(48:52):
all f but she took time to go visit the
patients at Joe Dimagio Children's Hospital. The thirty five year
old pop star visited the Hollywood, Florida hospital on June
thirteenth to spend time with the patients, taking pictures with
them in signing copies of a book. Yeah, the hospital
(49:19):
staff gave her a card that said, you made this
a day will never shake off. Thank you Taylor for
bringing your support and kindness to Joe DiMaggio's Children's Hospital.
You know, it's just it was a real nice thing.
I saw the pictures of it. The kids, you know,
a lot of them are old enough to know who
she is. Like Rick said, he's got a five year
(49:40):
old that knows. So you know, we're literally now into
multiple generations of Swifties. And you know what, let them
have it, Let them have it.
Speaker 5 (49:57):
Is it my thing?
Speaker 2 (49:58):
No, it's not my thing. It absolutely is not. But
she's a lovely person and she's doing good, and she
does good. She's actually, you know a lot of people
don't know that she has a reputation in the business
(50:18):
of at least compared to other performers, over paying her
roadies and her staffers and her stage hands and this
and that and the other thing. They and they're loyal
to her. They don't go work for somebody else when
they're done with the tour, because she wants them available
(50:42):
to her constantly. She pays them enough that they don't
have to So, I mean this, this is a decent person.
So maybe let's just lay off the hate a little bit. Okay, Yeah,
I know it can be annoying, but you know what,
(51:05):
it's no more different than watching anybody else in the
stands that's on the camera. Just deal with it. Deal
with it. They're they're not forcing you to listen to
her music. They're not forcing you to stare at her ass.
They're not forcing you to do anything. I mean.
Speaker 7 (51:27):
It.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
Pick your battles wisely, wisely, it's just not worth it.
You know, she's she's she's thirty five. Now, she's a
year younger than my daughter. Yes, I'm old, and uh
(51:54):
you know it's it's just it's a it's a good thing.
She's a good person. Don't hate. Don't hate. Rick is
forcing us to listen to it? Can we can we
what him? I can't see that. My screen's too small.
Finally getting married another Trump victory. Yes, I agree already.
I saw I saw somebody. I think it was one
(52:16):
of the moron boys, either Harry or Chris was like,
right wing all mad that Taylor Swift is engaged. I'm like,
why would the right wing be mad? She's married a
straight guy. They want to have kids. That's everything the
(52:37):
left hates.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
I mean, you're already gonna dislike me. Anyway, I'm just
gonna put it on the background for a while.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
Hey, you know, we just go ahead and put it
on in the background. They'll shake it off.
Speaker 8 (52:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:52):
So anyway, Uh that is my that is my take
a stand for Tay you know, whatever her take it
for what it is. Uh, all right, well we're we're
we got there about two minutes too soon. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Maybe what she said.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
It is, Yeah, I know, right, how embarrassing. Don't let
that happen again. My god, she's so selfish.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
Tell them about her in that moment, Sir.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
I suppose I'll just take mine and go home. I
want I'll take both my balls and go home.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Well escalated quickly.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Yeah, giggy giggity, Yeah. Okay, Hey, I've got a couple
of soundbites I'm going to get you to pull. We're
gonna add them into the rotation. Yeah, I gotta I
gotta actually make some time to start working on that ship,
(54:10):
because you know I told you I would, so I need,
I need to do it.
Speaker 1 (54:15):
Actually again, last week was a bit of a in me, so.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
Oh well, you know, and just you guys, just wait,
just wait till I retire and I don't have to
use a fake name and a and a fake logo.
You're gonna see my ugly face. You're gonna get my
real name. You're gonna get two middle fingers, and I'm
not gonna care because there's not gonna be anybody you
can call to fire me or anything like that anymore.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
I can complain to me and I'll be like, I
don't care. I know the.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
Dude exactly, but you're I mean, they're gonna get full
unfiltered fuck.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
Off like the bad thing, sir.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
I I know. Yeah, I'm not saying it like it's
a bad day. I'm saying it like it's a factual thing.
They're gonna get you.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
The only reason I didn't start using my given name
once I retired is because I was told by a
brand consultant that i'd basically have to start over.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
I can understand that, but you know, we can we
can uh, we can do the change gradually.
Speaker 1 (55:21):
Frog in the pots.
Speaker 2 (55:22):
So that'll be okay, and you can still call me
a grouch.
Speaker 1 (55:27):
It's not like it's a dishonest thing to.
Speaker 2 (55:29):
Say so, right, right, Well, it's not like we're stretching
the truth or anything. So but yeah, anyway, we're here,
We're we're we're here at the happy ending of the night.
Speaker 1 (55:44):
The slightly premature heavy ending for the night.
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Yeah, these slightly premature happy ending. It's happy for me.
I don't care about anybody.
Speaker 1 (55:54):
Oh, spoken like somebody getting an actual heavy ending.
Speaker 2 (55:57):
Hey, look, just real quick before we get into it,
a quick joke. How long does it take the average
woman to orgasm?
Speaker 1 (56:06):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (56:07):
We're still who cares?
Speaker 11 (56:13):
Is?
Speaker 1 (56:13):
There's really no such thing as an average woman, so
we're never going to know the answer.
Speaker 2 (56:17):
Yeah, well the answer is who cares.
Speaker 1 (56:22):
Yeah, he'll be here all week.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
Folks had two big shows on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
Don't forget that, the one leader and night gets a
little blue.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
Yeah, tip your waiters, tip your staff anyway, Uh, tonight's
happy ending. Chris Colestad, Chris, Chris is a good guy.
I'm going to tell you about Chris. Chris Colstad had
seen people fishing out food from the dumpster behind his
pizza shop before, but recently he realized it was becoming
(56:58):
more and more frequent, so he took the Facebook to
make a public plea, and he hung signs up at
the pizzeria. Please do not eat out of our dumpster,
wrote Kolstad, the owner of Pizza Man in Columbia Heights, Minnesota.
Nobody deserves that. If you are that desperate for food,
(57:22):
please come ask. If you are too embarrassed to ask,
find a way to call us and ask if there
is a way to leave a small cheese pizza outside
the back door or something you don't even have to
see us, He continued. If you are the ones doing so,
leave me a note and we will find a way
(57:44):
to leave any extra or mistakes out back for you
so you have something to eat without going through the trash.
Stirred by Coolstad's act of compassion, people and businesses in
the area, like food truck Nosey's Grill, offered to help.
The post went viral. Colstad posted a donation link, and
(58:08):
by August third had raised over three thousand dollars for
the efforts. Minnesota news channel WCCO was first to report
the story. And now a month later, Colstad has raised
yet over another thousand dollars. Pretty much from day one
of taking ownership of the shop nearly six years ago,
(58:31):
he tells he's seen signs of people eating from the dumpster.
He said he knew it wasn't the work of animals
because he'd find pizza boxes with empty water bottles and
used napkins nearby. That's a pretty fair judge there. Yeah,
I'd say he's got it figured out. He had left
signs out before, but then it started happening more frequently.
(58:53):
The day he posted his offer, his cook told him
there was a woman eating garlic cheese bread out of
the tree ash can in front of the store. You're
sitting outside, you got nothing to eat, and somebody's willing
to hand you something hot and fresh, as opposed to
straight out of the trash, he says. I imagine that
makes a pretty big difference in your day. One of
(59:16):
the recipients of donations from Kolstad and Pizza Man was
Southern Anoka Community Assistance, a nonprofit foodshelf located in Columbia Heights,
which has assisted that community in northeast Minneapolis and surrounding
areas for nearly fifty years. They say it's seen a
(59:38):
fifty two percent increase in the number of people it's
helped in the area since twenty twenty. In twenty twenty
four alone, SACA broke a record by serving sixty eight
tho one hundred people in twenty six thousand, one hundred
seven families, with thirty five percent of those people being children,
(59:58):
and it expects to break its own record again this year.
The demand for services has increased every year since twenty
twenty and shows no sign of slowing down. With food
costs on the rise, it's more important than ever to
support local food shelves. Since Colstad's viral post, he says
(01:00:19):
he's helped close to one hundred individuals facing food insecurity
with his offer it's called hunger food Insecurity. On August third,
a member of a large family wrote a note thanking
the shop anonymously for helping her out when her family
was in need. And this is why we do what
(01:00:40):
we do, Colstead said. He said he's been very fortunate
to never have experienced this, and he's been around and
worked with people who have, and that's why he says,
I can't sit in a building full of food and
watch somebody starve in my parking lot. And folks, this
is how it's supposed to happen. It's supposed to happen
out of charity, not out of the government coercing you
(01:01:02):
to do it. So, Chris Coolestad, we salute you tonight.
You are Tonight's uh guaranteed happy ending, my friends, that's
the show. If you like it, tell your friends. If
your friends like it, you need new ones, but they
and you are welcome right here on kl r N
Radio with Me the Grouch, host of the conservative curmudgeon
(01:01:25):
radio show Peaks.
Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
I hate this play, not the work, here the medications
on work. I've been here for seven years.
Speaker 15 (01:01:49):
There's to what, here's to w Here's too ut
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