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It's time now for the conservative Curmudgeon radio show.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Now here's grouchy.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Good evening man, welcome in. I must apologize right now
for my pinched nasally voice. It is apparently the fall
allergy season here, even if the temperatures are not yet
agreen with that.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But can you do me one favor real quick?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Just say this for me? Did I do that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Did I do that?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You got the nas leapard? Don't well enough to do it?
Oh man?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's it's brutal. The golden rod is everywhere down here.
You can you can see the yellow from the roads.
It just you know, whatever, it's that time. It doesn't
care what the temperature is. It just knows it's supposed
to be here right now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, everybody wonders why I'm cranky. It's because the trees
are having an orgy and I'm celibate.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So yes, my face does not like tree discharge, shall
we say? And it is a family show, right, I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Know is it is?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I don't care who knows it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So you're saying so you're saying you don't like being
cream pied by trees. Ah you know?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, yeah, you know how this works.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You toe the line. I jump over it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Ah gee, talking about Golden Rod was on my bingo card.
Well you're getting there then, son. We're gonna cover all
the dots tonight, I think. Uh. I hope you're holdover
from inquiry with Stephen L. Miller and Rody Rick and
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Bumps Dark Barbie their guest.
Speaker 10 (05:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
If not, you should be. We're gonna need a note
from your mom if you missed it. Andrew is here
despite me telling him he might need a note from
his mom if he missed So that's a plus. I
see raptors here, raptors that he would be here. We're
gonna have a good time. We we really are. I'm
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gonna I'm gonna try to do this. Uh, in a
way that makes a little bit of sense. Of course,
not everything gets included because of timing and you know,
putting show notes together, and you can't do it all
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at the last minute, otherwise you're you're just I don't know,
you're me I guess if you do that. But anyway, so,
you know, the big hubbub over the last week has
been the Jimmy Kimmel thing, and kim Will returned to
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air last night with approximately one third of ABC affiliates
refusing to show him. Still so ABC has roughly they
I couldn't get an exact number, but they said between
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two hundred and two hundred and fifty different markets with affiliates,
So between Sinclair Media, Next Star and the few that
are smaller that held out, roughly a third did not
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show Kimmel last night. Some you know, some preemptive programming
whatever they chose to put on. The left is losing
their mind over this. Well, first of all, let's back up,
you know, because you know, they blamed Brendan Carr at
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the FCC for threatening ABC if they didn't pull Kimmel.
They blamed Trump for going after Kimmel, and even after
ABC said that is not what happened, they still do it.
So while all this is going on, the guy who
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imagines himself the next president of the United States. And
notice I said imagines himself because God help us if
it comes to fruition. But Gavin Newsom in his state
of California has a bill now sitting on his desk
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waiting for him to sign that I guess as of
yesterday was still known as S seven one, authored by
State Senator Henry Stern. And what SB seven seventy one
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does is it opens the door to digital profiling and
targeted censorship on social media platforms. The bill would allow
to find social media companies up to one million dollars
per violation if a post is flagged and amplified by
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the algorithm, the quote unquote algorithm, even if the content
is lawful and fact based. Now listen to that. Even
if the content is lawful and fact based, as it
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is written in SB seven seventy one one, it could
pressure social media companies to suppress and remove constitutionally protected speech,
stifling legitimate political advocacy and public discourse. Despite its alleged
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aim of combating hate and discrimination online. SB seven seventy
one's vague definition of quote willful and quote reckless content,
and reliance on flawed data creates strong incentives for over
censorship on social media and set a precedent for companies
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to remove lawful content for the sake of avoiding financial penalties. Now,
in my mind, what it's actually setting up for is
for companies like X to turn their platforms off in
those states and just say, f you, California. I would
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hate that. I would hate that for the people that
you know want to have political discourse, political advocacy, and
constitutionally protected speech. But that is what the state government
of California is choosing for its people. The bills broad
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framing leaves room for gaps with political agendas to pressure
social media companies to remove certain types of speech from
their platforms under the guise of quote unquote hate speech,
which the Supreme Court has already ruled is not a thing.
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Give you an example. If passed, which it has passed
the House and the Senate in California and now sits
on Newsom's desk as of yesterday waiting to be signed,
this bill could be weaponized to silence voices speaking the
truth about the Hamas tax on Israel back on October seven.
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Many organizations support efforts to combat hate fueled violence and
discrimination online. SB seven seventy one, in its current form
lacks safeguards to prevent abuse by social media companies and
efforts from outside groups to silence the voices of any opposition.
It's just a vague free for all that is basically
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up to California's interpretation. Despite numerous calls from organizations on
both sides of the political aisle, including including now imagine this,
they are together on this position both CARE. Everybody remembers CARE, right,
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c A I R. What is it? A Council on
America our Arab I don't know something.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Relation is no council on as.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
That's what it is. Okay. So CARE and APAC are
together on this opposing it. So how many times do
you see that?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Something just occurred to me? I wonder if if CARE
has any you know, harry gay guys, because that would
make them care bears.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Holy shit. Yeah, I was totally not ready for that one.
They don't. They don't call them gay, rick, I don't
care what they just they just say that Allah provides
for them. And you know, if it happens to be
another man, then so be it.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But they don't. They don't call them gay there, they
just say splat.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I mean, you know, oh it just yeah, Yeah, they're
they're unique, that's for sure. We've we've had some stories
about them over the years, and they are definitely a
unique group. But uh, if you can imagine two more
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opposite sides of a coin coming together to oppose a
political bill, this is the bill. It opens the door
for bad actors to disproportionately pressure online corporations into silencing
free speech to reduce their financial liability, with no protections
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for users against those mechanisms. It does nothing to address
the actual drivers of hate, racism, and violence like hamas
at BLM and the sort. You know, hey, we can
throw neo Nazis in there too instead. It just, you know,
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it's it's opening a door to shut any dissenting voice
that California doesn't like. And when I say California, I
mean their state government, which is super majority Democrat. So yeah,
while they're screaming about Kimmel's free speech and being you know, stifling,
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Oh Trump's trying to shut down first memory rights. Well
guess what California is trying to do the hypocrisy, the
hypocrisy of that piece of shit grease slick Gavin Newsom.
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He commented earlier on Twitter that he was so excited
about Kimmel's return and we won't go down without a fight.
Oh but Harvey Weinstein says his wife will son of
a bitch. Anyway, it's all good, It's all good. That's
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what's going on in California. Hypocrites as usual. Sometimes I
wish we had access to Orty for commentary on this,
but that's okay. I know he's busy or not whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Uh, I just got a text. He's currently in line
waiting for a mom behind circle K.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
So there you go. There you go. Well, don't talk
about it online. Good lord knows, might get fined. All right,
We're gonna change gears. Interesting story and the way it's
being framed is is definitely clickbait out there. So if
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you go to look for it, go to believe it
or not. Of all places, go to like the People
magazine account on x Twitter, whatever you're calling it. They
actually did a decent write up of this story and
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it's it's kind of crazy. But at the same time,
we know over my history on the air here that
I have a lot of time to education, So I'm
gonna share some of my insight that I know because
I called somebody that's an administrator at a school and
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asked them a few questions about this. So anyway, the
mother of a Michigan elementary school student is speaking out
after her son was expelled for taking a gun away
from a classmate. Yes, he took the gun away, now
hang on. Lancing Michigan mom Savitra McClerkin told local outlet
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w WILX in an interview that her eleven year old
son was expelled from Dwight Rich School of the Arts
back in May after his classmate brought a gun to campus.
According to McClerkin, her child is being punished for something
she considers heroic, as he believed he was helping the
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other students around him. I'm frustrated. I'm at my wits end.
I don't know what to do. So back in May,
as the story goes, the young McClerkin took the gun
from a classmate, disassembled it, unloaded it, and threw the
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ammunition away. He did not want to get the classmate
in trouble, but knew he had to do something, So
let's stop right there. So, first of all, the other
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the classmate in question was arrested. His name has not
been released. Obviously, he's a juvenile who's been arrested for
felonious activities, and they're not going to release that name
to the public. That is probably a Michigan state law thing.
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I know they do very similar type stuff here with
some exceptions, but for the most part, juveniles don't get
their names put out there. So mom told the local
TV station that her son spotted the classmate carrying the gun,
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and he used his knowledge of hunting and weaponry to
disarm and disassemble the weapon before throwing away the ammunition.
He didn't want to implicate himself in it, nor did
he want to tell on the person that actually brought
the firearm, she said, because he knows firearms aren't supposed
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to be in school. Okay, So we have somebody doing
the He did something good, but he did something bad too, okay.
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And this is the problem I have with all these
zero tolerance laws. You know, schools have these zero tolerance
for weapons. And I understand the idea behind zero tolerance
for weapons, and technically this young boy was in possession
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of a firearm, and he did not identify that he
saw a firearm to teachers or administrators or anybody else
that was on campus. So I'm torn here, I really am.
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They are most likely following the I don't. I don't
know if it's a law there or not. We'll just
say it's a law for the sake of argument. They
are probably following the law. If not, they are following
the school board policy that stipulates zero tolerance. He should
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have notified an adult immediately. Now, the part that irks
me the most is that mom has launched a go
fund me to help pay for his homeschooling. I'm sorry,
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what pay for homeschooling? I don't understand. Is it the
gas for the bus? You know? I don't know. I
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don't know. But the fundraiser message reads on what could
have been a tragic and devastating day. He acted out
of courage and compassion and oh here we go. Yeah.
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When school administrators eventually learned that the eleven year old
had handled the weapon, they expelled him for possession of
a gun, removing him from school for one year. Now,
instead of being recognized for doing something brave, he mom
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says he's being treated like a criminal. He's not being
treated like a criminal. The kid that brought the gun
to school got treated like a criminal and was arrested.
Your son simply broke the rules and he's gonna pay
a one year price for that. Now, you can appeal
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an expulsion, just like you can appeal a suspension. Maybe,
you know, taking the case all the way to the
Board of Education directly and arguing it with them might
gain you some leniency. But yeah, for now, he is.
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He is expelled. He's barred from all school platforms, despite
being an ab student by all accounts, a respectful young man,
an athlete who's been playing sports since he was six
years old. And you know this is you know, frustrated, Mom,
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I get it. I do. She's been trying to get
in contact with the Lancing School District to discuss the matter,
and even made an appearance at a recent board meeting.
You know, seventh grade, eleven years old, never been in trouble.
In a statement provided Lancing School District Director of Public
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Safety Tale person An, executive director of School Culture, Cordelia Black,
said the expulsion was not a decision administrators took lightly
after a thorough investigation and in accordance with Michigan law.
There we go. Okay, so it is a state law
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regarding dangerous weapons on school property. The Lancing School District
determined that expulsion was necessary. Again, expulsion is never a
decision the district takes Lately, it is always considered a
last resort. However, Michigan law provides very clear direction in
cases involving dangerous weapons. The investigation, which included statements and
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video evidence, left no ambiguity and required this outcome. The
Lancing School District has both a legal and moral responsibility
to ensure the safety of all students and staff. The
statement concluded, while this decision is difficult, a priority remains
creating and maintaining a secure environment where learning can take
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place without fear. Upholding these standards is essential to protecting
our school community. So Mom, I hope, I truly, truly
hope that you use this opportunity to stress to your
son the importance not taking matters into your own hands.
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That's not the way. Yes, he did a good thing,
but he also did a bad thing. And I hate
being a fence straddler, but that's where this is into
your own I'm Sorry, what's that?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
No, sorry, I was trying to get back into the
chat and it was excellently playing.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Oh oh well, sure, I.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Don't have much to add at this point, because.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So, how about an opinion.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I disagree with? Don't I disagree with everything that you
just said. And if that was my kid, I'd have
been punching a fucking teacher ob or trying to expel them.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Okay, I mean, I get where you're coming from. I
do believe me. I do. I think that some of
these zero tolerance things are ridiculous. When I'm in a
school working, and we do our company does a lot
of work with education here, so I do go to
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schools often and sometimes there's a need for a certain
tool to be withdrawn from my bag and opened up,
and uh, it's a knife, and they always when I
pull it out, and I'm like, just it's a box cutter,
That's all it is. It's a box cutter, and they
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just they look at at me, and I mean they know,
they know it's a lock blade knife, and they know
that the blade is about a half inch to the
illegal side, but they also know that I'm not going
to be running down the hall with it. And I'm
not going to expose it to kids. And you know,
it is what it is. There has to be some
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ambiguity in these quote unquote zero tolerance. You can't even
do work in a building a lot of times without
some kind of blade exposed, cutting wires, you know, whatever
it is you got to do. So again, I understand
where you're coming from, and I probably would have fought
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the thought using their own words against them, you know that.
That's that's what my son was trying to do, was
was create and maintain a secure environment where learning can
take place without fear. But again, I also it's a
it's that's the law. Do you How do you just
say we're not going to follow the law?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Dude? They say that all the time though, I mean, of.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Course they do. But we're talking about higher up than
the local school board.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well no, and I understand that, but I mean my
issue with it was if the kid had followed procedure,
that the other kid could have started shooting before he
was able to tell anybody.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And that's very possible. The whole not knowing the other
kids side of it. Why did he have the gun?
You know? Was it was it just to prove to
somebody that he had one, or was he going after somebody.
We don't know, because that's not part of what's in
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you know, the story. We just know that a twelve
year old was arrested.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Well, the reason that I'm pretty sure it wasn't just
to show it off is unless I misheard you. A
moment ago, the kid took away the gun and unloaded
the gun. He did, so that isn't. I'm gonna that isn't.
And I'm going to show you that I have a gun.
That's and I'm taking a loaded gun to school.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I mean that to me, I tend to agree with that.
Why else would you load it?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
And and yes, as somebody that you know, I've never
been a prosecutor, but it's Stephen just pointed out there
is such a thing as prosecutorial discretion, and there, I
will say. The only gray area for me is I'm
not exactly sure why as soon as the kid took
the gun away, he wasn't saying, hey, teacher, teacher, teacher,
look what I just found from this guy.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, yeah, again, I you know, I understand I didn't
want to get anybody in trouble, but you know what
you can't You can't do that at that point.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Well so, and that's kind of the only reason why
I'm like, because that's the thing if you're doing, if
you're taking the gun away and unloading it because you know,
dudes not supposed to have it, and you're afraid something
happen if you don't, at that point, you should be
willing to take whatever the next step is to say like, hey,
this is what's going on. This is what's happening, and
I just need you to know because you know reasons.
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And I think geez, hamster just fell off the wheel,
son of a bitch.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yes you're meck okay, so yeah, I mean, I again,
I agree with you. It's a it's a tough tough
spot to be in. It is, and I would hate
to be the one making those decisions because you you
literally you can't. You can't win because if you let
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that kid stay in school, then anybody that's got any
kind of semi valid reason has a has a door
to argue. But there and and and the part about
the prosecutorial discretion, Uh, well, this kid's not being charged.
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There's no criminal charges against the one being expelled. He's
just expelled. It was the one that brought it that
got arrested. So I mean, that's that's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Sorry, I'm trying to figure out why order he keeps
dropping in and out.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
So oh, let's go ahead and take the commerd the
hour and when we come back, we'll we'll continue on.
I think we've got some uh now that the heavy
stuff is done, I think we'll just do some fun
the rest of the night. Maybe. I don't know, we'll see.
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It's up to you, man, it's your show. I'm just
I'm just here to push the buttons and your buttons
at the same time, because it's.
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When you just go right ahead and push buttons.
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I want to tell you, hello, friends, you have a
moment so that we may discuss our Lord and Savior minarchy. No, seriously,
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All right, welcome back, Hey Rick, what's coming up?
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Top of the l lines with Jean Beredelli and Ross Galloway.
Then we have the Rick and Already Show. After that
we have the Edge of Liberty with Sean Lewis with
special guest from the Saloon, Besy, and then we'll finish
off the night with the crossover those two did to
get together last night. So yeah, I'll be pushing buttons
to almost two in the morning Eastern time again because
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I'm insane.
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But you know that, yes you are. I will be
long asleep because that's.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
What old I'm sorry, that's that's what old what do
because I lost.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
You old working people?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Yeah, you know, I just I seem to remember when
started doing this podcast, like way back in twenty thirteen,
twenty fourteen, that they were swearing to me they were
going to be retired by now.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Well you know, yeah, damn, just when you think you
get away, they pull you back in.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That's what I'm saying. I don't think you're ever going
to retire. I think you're I think you look look
reasonable to day is another.
Speaker 14 (39:52):
Look just based on my age, just based on my
age at maximum, at the absolute highest end of my
working years, I will be done for certain in seven
or less.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
I'm looking for what That's what you told me in
twenty thirteen. By the way, I know, I know, just
throwing that out there.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Well, speaking of throwing you know that the money they
keep throwing.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
That just yeah, you know capitalist, hey man.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
It's and the best part is is it's all being
deferred into my retirement, so it's growing as I keep working.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Which giggity go.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, I just I don't. I don't know how to
tell it no, because I mean, I'm still viable. You know.
The these my two latest hot shot hires, are are
making me maybe start to reevaluate that viable comment as
(41:08):
they show me why young guys can do what young
guys can do. And they are they are young. And
when I tell you they're young, they're younger than my daughter.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
So you don't what freaked me out? You remember how
I you know, in like in eighth grade, I was
going around the high schools and hooking up portable satellite
dishes so kids could watch the shutt launchers and stuff.
I remember looking at the astronauts and thinking how old
they looked. I saw the newest crop of astronauts today,
and I'm like, Jesus, I'm so old. They looked twelve.
(41:43):
What the hell is happened?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Like? Kids? Yeah, they looked they looked twelve.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
And I remember when I was in like eighth grade
running around hooking up satellite. This is like, dude, these
people look old as old as now. I'm like, they
look twelve.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I am old. You know, these these I call them kids.
I tell my boss all the time. I said, well,
let me let me talk to the kids and we'll
see what we can do about the project. I just
call them the kids, and uh, my boss looks at
me like, you know, you could be my kid, just like, yeah,
(42:18):
I know, I know. But these, you know, these these
young bucks that are that I'm just hired in there.
My god, they call me, you know, two, three, four
times a week. Hey, you got anything else I can
go do? I'm done with everything. I'm like, man, it's
not a race. I would I would rather you go
(42:40):
back over what you did and make sure you didn't
miss anything, then me find it later, right, all right?
I guess okay. I was like, look, I promise you,
there's gonna be time time you're going to be hanging
with me, going always leave me alone and let me
(43:01):
do my work. I said, I promise you there will
be those times, but we're not there right now. So
double up on what you're doing, go extra slow, make
sure it's one hundred percent right, and that means so
much to me. I said, if I need you somewhere,
(43:23):
I'll pull you. But yeah, I just but they just man,
they just go. They're like frigging energizer bunnies. And I'm like, yeah,
I remember being twenty four.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
It's like it Yeah, for me, it feels like it
was yesterday. I mean, I've been thinking about that lately
because like, even like I said, after I had to
after I was off, you know, other than bare minimum
stuff for almost a month while I was getting the
electricity fixed, I am still trying to get up to
even just doing what I was doing just a couple
months ago all the time. And I'm like, I don't
(44:02):
even know how I used to do all this stuff
all the time, because I get up and I do
like the show prep, and I do the morning show,
and then I used to go grab something, eat, come
back in here, write two or three articles, and then
chill out for a couple hours, come back and start
doing the evening stuff. And by the time I get
the show prep done and I get the show done
and I get the show posted, I was like, I
(44:24):
want to take I'm gonna go. I eat lunch now,
and then I'll turn on the TV and the next
thing I know is like three o'clock in the afternoon,
I started, I haven't done anything else. I'm like, what the.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Hell you feel like you're doing the dead list? From
picking your ass up off the ground.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
I'm like, dude, and the fifty two feels that even
a hell of a lot different than fifty one did.
And now I'm getting closer to fifty three, and I'm like,
I don't even want to know what this is going
to feel like in a few more months. And now
I've even started trying to add some like tai te
stuff into the mix in the morning, just trying to
see if I can get myself motivated. So far that
ain't working real well either. But I feel like I
(44:58):
couldn't move a little bit better today after doing it
for like four days in a row. So I'm gonna
keep going.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I guess that's funny. That's funny. Yeah, okay, Well, so anyway,
why that you've heard about two tired middle aged men. No,
but the good thing to having those young guys is
(45:25):
they do help keep me young. They keep me on
my toes.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
I was gonna say, we're getting called out by somebody
named festus Hagen. So I think we might be getting
beat in the age department.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Oh my word, I know that name, but yeah, it's
been a long time since I've heard that.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
He's like, try seventy, bro, I want to at this.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Point, I mean, well, by then, I hope to have
these knees fixed. Exactly when I don't know, but it's
it's gonna have to happen sooner or later. The right
one is now perpetually a good twelve to fourteen centimeters
(46:07):
more round than the left one. That's even after a
night of sleep and with you know, my leg elevated
and I just wake up and it's already swollen.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Although I did read an article today that I was
kind of astounded by, and I think it has something
to do with us cracking the crisper technology and AI
is starting to become more prominent everywhere because apparently, according
to a study that I just read today, they have
determined how these signals to age are transmitted through our bodies,
and they are figuring out how to stop them and
(46:40):
reverse them.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Oh well, somebody send me the memo.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
I'm like, I wonder how long it'll take until that
can be done And then when they're not charging you
an arm and a leg to do it.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
I mean, you know they only have one.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
I only have one good armand leg. I can't give Nope,
the other ones barely know what they're doing, can't do that.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
I would, uh, I'll tell you what I would. I
would feel like a much younger man if I had
two healthy knees. I'm not gonna lie, right, you know
I don't have. I mean, I have the one little
issue with my elbow. I can't completely lock it out
from when it was broken backwards, and that's the bone
spur that grew in the joint. But I get really close.
(47:24):
I get really close, so I can live with that.
And I mean, how many how many times do you
have to completely lock your arm all the way out?
Not Mary? So yeah, I'm good with that. The other
surgery healed well, and then the ankle healed well, and
I think that any pain I have in the ankle
(47:45):
now is actually from the knees giving out and forcing
the ankle to compensate more. But again, we'll get the
knees fixed one day. You'll know because I'll have to
take a slight high hiatus. But yeah, oh whatever, I see,
(48:09):
you'll get plenty of advance notice.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
So you and these hiatuses come on.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
Man, hey, hey look I come back.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I need I need, I need my summers off.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
I'm just using I come back though.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
No, I know, I get it. I'm giving you crack.
So we're just kind of riffing right now. I do
have one thing, and I'll probably try to bring this
up more with al much later. But did you see
what Donald Trump did in the portrait hallway in the
White House?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
I did the the auto pen.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Yeah, it's the booking pictures of him with the autopen.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Oh my god. And they're losing their mind over they
don't even realize they're being.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
Trolled, right well, I mean, well that's just it. They
don't get it. I mean JD Vance is actively trolling
people on X right now. And then they're like, I
don't wonder, Like, yeah, y'all are Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
You don't understand that's the problem. Yeah you don't. It
just proves that they don't.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
They don't have a humor at all.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Yeah, oh yeah, exactly except for what they find funny.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Which is pretty much absolutely.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Usually not funny. Yeah, usually not so Yeah, I mean
I was gonna do a shoulder workout tonight, but I
think we're we're probably a little tight on time, so
I won't do that.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
My shoulders are pretty tight too, so I was gonna
go hang out at the bar if you decided to
do that. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I guess I could do
a quick one. I don't know. I do have a
happy ending tonight, so there is that.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
So let's do the happy ending first and then if
you have time, you can do the workout.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
I mean yeah, I mean, I mean, we definitely got
time for the happy ending. So okay, So tonight's guaranteed
happy ending. Rogers and Hammerstein once wrote famously that quote,
(50:05):
at the end of the storm, there's a golden sky.
At their home on the Range, an Oklahoma couple are
beginning to see that golden sky beyond a stormy nightmare
that forced their nine year old son to save their
lives after a tornado overtook their car and left them
with terrible injuries. It was back in April when tornadoes
(50:29):
were reported to be en route to the hometown of
Wayne and Lyndy Baker. It was on their evacuation path
to a shelter in Dixon Oklahoma. That disaster struck anywhere
close to you.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
I'm sorry, what was that one more time?
Speaker 2 (50:48):
You broke up on Dixon, Oklahoma?
Speaker 1 (50:52):
Uh, it doesn't sound like it's close enough. I don't
recognize it my name, so it's probably not. It's probably
not close enough for me.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
Okay, just curious. So anyway, seeing the tornado a mile
off or so, it suddenly changed direction and overtook the
Bakers as they drove down the road in their Ford truck.
It sent the truck smashing to the ground before a
tree fell on top. I guess it picked it up
(51:19):
and smashed it to the ground, and then a tree
fell on top of it, pinning the front seats under
its weight. Inside, both Wayne and Lindy suffered broken necks, backs, ribs,
and arms, but in the rear seat, nine year old
Branson was unharmed. He got out of the truck and
(51:44):
ran a mile down the road in pitch darkness due
to the power outage from the winds, until he found
a house with people who could help. The story made
the news via Wayne's brother Johnny, who was on the
with Wayne at the moment the tornado hit them. I
heard a ding, ding, ding, like hail or rocks hitting
(52:06):
the windshield, then a large crash and the phone went dead.
Johnny and his partner rushed to the scene, but with
so much debris and live power lines down along the roads,
it made for slow going. The truck was so mangled
by the incident that it wasn't clear to Johnny that
if it belonged to Wayne at all until he heard
(52:28):
screaming from inside. Shortly after, Branson, who had run about
a ten minute mile, returned with a neighbor, and they
together did what they could to help Wayne and Lindy
before nine to one one arrived to transport the parents
to OU Medical Center. So they're close enough for OU
(52:49):
Medical Center.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
Well, I just looked. That's actually a bit of a
trek for them because they're about eighty miles south southeast
of me, and I'm almost forty miles from OU.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
Dude, that's getting down close to the line, there, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
Yeah, it's pretty close. That's in Carter County. That's actually
really close to the line.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
Okay. The last thing Branson told them was Mom, Dad,
please don't die. I will be back. Johnny recalled, Wow,
he had to become his parents Superman. And that's exactly
what he did. He said, I had to try to
(53:36):
save my parents. Wayne and Lindy are contractors, and the
injuries left them unsure as to their future ability to
earn a living. A friend of the family set up
a GoFundMe to help pay for their medical bills and
replace the truck, which as of publishing has raised and
inspiring one hundred thousand dollars. Nice to hear, I'm sure
(54:01):
that will help. And my damn computer just locked up
on me. Ah here we go. Yeah, I know, man,
I know, it's ridiculous. So in May, Branson and Wayne
(54:22):
spoke to Good Morning America about their ordeal. The boy
admitted he was very scared, and both were clearly still
enduring the trauma of the event. Wayne said he couldn't
be more proud to be his father while conducting the
interview in a net brace and wheelchair. A son that
can accept a challenge in that way shows that he
(54:45):
would go above and beyond for anyone. So yeah. The
the July update on the GoFundMe, the organizer revealed that
Wayne has made a substantial recovery uh and was able
to return to work, while Lindy has removed her back brace,
(55:06):
but still requires a second surgery on her right hand.
This this young man, you know, you can. You can
say what you want to about country kids and being
little rednecks and whatever. But this kid did what he
had to do, and he saved his mom and dad.
And uh, I'll tell you right now. If that's not
(55:28):
a happy ending, I'll be damned if I know what
one is.
Speaker 1 (55:32):
It seemed like a pretty happy ending to me.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
I mean really, I mean, how could you How could
you have a son like that and not be proud?
I mean really.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
Well, I mean, you know, depending depending on how how
you know sarcastic this kid is, there may come a
day later when he's going to look at his parents
and be like I should have just let you die.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Or tell him you're a real pain in my neck.
Nice ah yeah, yeah yeah anyway, Oh wow, top of
the hour, Rick, We we kind of did it.
Speaker 1 (56:17):
Yep, that's why I would. Yeah, you you always missed.
You always miss playing on how long it's going to
take for you to get through your happy ending stories.
That's why I was like, let's do that.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
I don't like to finish too quickly.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
Well, that's you know, she doesn't like that either.
Speaker 2 (56:37):
Uh yeah, I got you on that one.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
I really, oh I was. I was actually just trying
to get jeans feed pulled up, so I was distracted.
That's my story, I know it.
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Hey, look that's that's it, folks. 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
to the unprofessional shit show festival that happens here on
Wednesday night in the Conservative Curmudgeons Show. I'm your host,
the Grouch Peace.
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I don't want to hear this unprofessional stuff. I will
have you know I run a very professional ship show
around here, sir, just so you know, just not the
right button. So see, that's why I said it's a
professional show. All right, hang out for one of these
(57:36):
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Speaker 1 (03:26):
Now here's grouchy.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Good evening man, welcome in. I must apologize right now
for my pinched nasally voice. It is apparently the fall
allergy season here, even if the temperatures are not yet
agreen with that.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But can you do me one favor real quick?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Just say this for me? Did I do that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Did I do that?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You got the nas leapard? Don't well enough to do it?
Oh man?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's it's brutal. The golden rod is everywhere down here.
You can you can see the yellow from the roads.
It just you know, whatever, it's that time. It doesn't
care what the temperature is. It just knows it's supposed
to be here right now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, everybody wonders why I'm cranky. It's because the trees
are having an orgy and I'm celibate.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So yes, my face does not like tree discharge, shall
we say? And it is a family show, right, I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Know is it is?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I don't care who knows it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So you're saying so you're saying you don't like being
cream pied by trees. Ah you know?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, yeah, you know how this works.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You toe the line. I jump over it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Ah gee, talking about Golden Rod was on my bingo card.
Well you're getting there then, son. We're gonna cover all
the dots tonight, I think. Uh. I hope you're holdover
from inquiry with Stephen L. Miller and Rody Rick and
(05:51):
Bumps Dark Barbie their guest.
Speaker 10 (05:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
If not, you should be. We're gonna need a note
from your mom if you missed it. Andrew is here
despite me telling him he might need a note from
his mom if he missed So that's a plus. I
see raptors here, raptors that he would be here. We're
gonna have a good time. We we really are. I'm
(06:15):
gonna I'm gonna try to do this. Uh, in a
way that makes a little bit of sense. Of course,
not everything gets included because of timing and you know,
putting show notes together, and you can't do it all
(06:36):
at the last minute, otherwise you're you're just I don't know,
you're me I guess if you do that. But anyway, so,
you know, the big hubbub over the last week has
been the Jimmy Kimmel thing, and kim Will returned to
(06:58):
air last night with approximately one third of ABC affiliates
refusing to show him. Still so ABC has roughly they
I couldn't get an exact number, but they said between
(07:19):
two hundred and two hundred and fifty different markets with affiliates,
So between Sinclair Media, Next Star and the few that
are smaller that held out, roughly a third did not
(07:40):
show Kimmel last night. Some you know, some preemptive programming
whatever they chose to put on. The left is losing
their mind over this. Well, first of all, let's back up,
you know, because you know, they blamed Brendan Carr at
(08:05):
the FCC for threatening ABC if they didn't pull Kimmel.
They blamed Trump for going after Kimmel, and even after
ABC said that is not what happened, they still do it.
So while all this is going on, the guy who
(08:29):
imagines himself the next president of the United States. And
notice I said imagines himself because God help us if
it comes to fruition. But Gavin Newsom in his state
of California has a bill now sitting on his desk
(08:49):
waiting for him to sign that I guess as of
yesterday was still known as S seven one, authored by
State Senator Henry Stern. And what SB seven seventy one
(09:10):
does is it opens the door to digital profiling and
targeted censorship on social media platforms. The bill would allow
to find social media companies up to one million dollars
per violation if a post is flagged and amplified by
(09:33):
the algorithm, the quote unquote algorithm, even if the content
is lawful and fact based. Now listen to that. Even
if the content is lawful and fact based, as it
(09:57):
is written in SB seven seventy one one, it could
pressure social media companies to suppress and remove constitutionally protected speech,
stifling legitimate political advocacy and public discourse. Despite its alleged
(10:19):
aim of combating hate and discrimination online. SB seven seventy
one's vague definition of quote willful and quote reckless content,
and reliance on flawed data creates strong incentives for over
censorship on social media and set a precedent for companies
(10:42):
to remove lawful content for the sake of avoiding financial penalties. Now,
in my mind, what it's actually setting up for is
for companies like X to turn their platforms off in
those states and just say, f you, California. I would
(11:14):
hate that. I would hate that for the people that
you know want to have political discourse, political advocacy, and
constitutionally protected speech. But that is what the state government
of California is choosing for its people. The bills broad
(11:36):
framing leaves room for gaps with political agendas to pressure
social media companies to remove certain types of speech from
their platforms under the guise of quote unquote hate speech,
which the Supreme Court has already ruled is not a thing.
(12:00):
Give you an example. If passed, which it has passed
the House and the Senate in California and now sits
on Newsom's desk as of yesterday waiting to be signed,
this bill could be weaponized to silence voices speaking the
truth about the Hamas tax on Israel back on October seven.
(12:29):
Many organizations support efforts to combat hate fueled violence and
discrimination online. SB seven seventy one, in its current form
lacks safeguards to prevent abuse by social media companies and
efforts from outside groups to silence the voices of any opposition.
It's just a vague free for all that is basically
(12:54):
up to California's interpretation. Despite numerous calls from organizations on
both sides of the political aisle, including including now imagine this,
they are together on this position both CARE. Everybody remembers CARE, right,
(13:18):
c A I R. What is it? A Council on
America our Arab I don't know something.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Relation is no council on as.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
That's what it is. Okay. So CARE and APAC are
together on this opposing it. So how many times do
you see that?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Something just occurred to me? I wonder if if CARE
has any you know, harry gay guys, because that would
make them care bears.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Holy shit. Yeah, I was totally not ready for that one.
They don't. They don't call them gay, rick, I don't
care what they just they just say that Allah provides
for them. And you know, if it happens to be
another man, then so be it.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But they don't. They don't call them gay there, they
just say splat.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I mean, you know, oh it just yeah, Yeah, they're
they're unique, that's for sure. We've we've had some stories
about them over the years, and they are definitely a
unique group. But uh, if you can imagine two more
(14:44):
opposite sides of a coin coming together to oppose a
political bill, this is the bill. It opens the door
for bad actors to disproportionately pressure online corporations into silencing
free speech to reduce their financial liability, with no protections
(15:07):
for users against those mechanisms. It does nothing to address
the actual drivers of hate, racism, and violence like hamas
at BLM and the sort. You know, hey, we can
throw neo Nazis in there too instead. It just, you know,
(15:29):
it's it's opening a door to shut any dissenting voice
that California doesn't like. And when I say California, I
mean their state government, which is super majority Democrat. So yeah,
while they're screaming about Kimmel's free speech and being you know, stifling,
(15:53):
Oh Trump's trying to shut down first memory rights. Well
guess what California is trying to do the hypocrisy, the
hypocrisy of that piece of shit grease slick Gavin Newsom.
(16:17):
He commented earlier on Twitter that he was so excited
about Kimmel's return and we won't go down without a fight.
Oh but Harvey Weinstein says his wife will son of
a bitch. Anyway, it's all good, It's all good. That's
(16:40):
what's going on in California. Hypocrites as usual. Sometimes I
wish we had access to Orty for commentary on this,
but that's okay. I know he's busy or not whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Uh, I just got a text. He's currently in line
waiting for a mom behind circle K.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
So there you go. There you go. Well, don't talk
about it online. Good lord knows, might get fined. All right,
We're gonna change gears. Interesting story and the way it's
being framed is is definitely clickbait out there. So if
(17:28):
you go to look for it, go to believe it
or not. Of all places, go to like the People
magazine account on x Twitter, whatever you're calling it. They
actually did a decent write up of this story and
(17:48):
it's it's kind of crazy. But at the same time,
we know over my history on the air here that
I have a lot of time to education, So I'm
gonna share some of my insight that I know because
I called somebody that's an administrator at a school and
(18:12):
asked them a few questions about this. So anyway, the
mother of a Michigan elementary school student is speaking out
after her son was expelled for taking a gun away
from a classmate. Yes, he took the gun away, now
hang on. Lancing Michigan mom Savitra McClerkin told local outlet
(18:39):
w WILX in an interview that her eleven year old
son was expelled from Dwight Rich School of the Arts
back in May after his classmate brought a gun to campus.
According to McClerkin, her child is being punished for something
she considers heroic, as he believed he was helping the
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other students around him. I'm frustrated. I'm at my wits end.
I don't know what to do. So back in May,
as the story goes, the young McClerkin took the gun
from a classmate, disassembled it, unloaded it, and threw the
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ammunition away. He did not want to get the classmate
in trouble, but knew he had to do something, So
let's stop right there. So, first of all, the other
(19:49):
the classmate in question was arrested. His name has not
been released. Obviously, he's a juvenile who's been arrested for
felonious activities, and they're not going to release that name
to the public. That is probably a Michigan state law thing.
(20:11):
I know they do very similar type stuff here with
some exceptions, but for the most part, juveniles don't get
their names put out there. So mom told the local
TV station that her son spotted the classmate carrying the gun,
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and he used his knowledge of hunting and weaponry to
disarm and disassemble the weapon before throwing away the ammunition.
He didn't want to implicate himself in it, nor did
he want to tell on the person that actually brought
the firearm, she said, because he knows firearms aren't supposed
(20:53):
to be in school. Okay, So we have somebody doing
the He did something good, but he did something bad too, okay.
(21:15):
And this is the problem I have with all these
zero tolerance laws. You know, schools have these zero tolerance
for weapons. And I understand the idea behind zero tolerance
for weapons, and technically this young boy was in possession
(21:44):
of a firearm, and he did not identify that he
saw a firearm to teachers or administrators or anybody else
that was on campus. So I'm torn here, I really am.
(22:07):
They are most likely following the I don't. I don't
know if it's a law there or not. We'll just
say it's a law for the sake of argument. They
are probably following the law. If not, they are following
the school board policy that stipulates zero tolerance. He should
(22:37):
have notified an adult immediately. Now, the part that irks
me the most is that mom has launched a go
fund me to help pay for his homeschooling. I'm sorry,
(23:03):
what pay for homeschooling? I don't understand. Is it the
gas for the bus? You know? I don't know. I
(23:24):
don't know. But the fundraiser message reads on what could
have been a tragic and devastating day. He acted out
of courage and compassion and oh here we go. Yeah.
(23:44):
When school administrators eventually learned that the eleven year old
had handled the weapon, they expelled him for possession of
a gun, removing him from school for one year. Now,
instead of being recognized for doing something brave, he mom
(24:11):
says he's being treated like a criminal. He's not being
treated like a criminal. The kid that brought the gun
to school got treated like a criminal and was arrested.
Your son simply broke the rules and he's gonna pay
a one year price for that. Now, you can appeal
(24:37):
an expulsion, just like you can appeal a suspension. Maybe,
you know, taking the case all the way to the
Board of Education directly and arguing it with them might
gain you some leniency. But yeah, for now, he is.
(25:02):
He is expelled. He's barred from all school platforms, despite
being an ab student by all accounts, a respectful young man,
an athlete who's been playing sports since he was six
years old. And you know this is you know, frustrated, Mom,
(25:23):
I get it. I do. She's been trying to get
in contact with the Lancing School District to discuss the matter,
and even made an appearance at a recent board meeting.
You know, seventh grade, eleven years old, never been in trouble.
In a statement provided Lancing School District Director of Public
(25:46):
Safety Tale person An, executive director of School Culture, Cordelia Black,
said the expulsion was not a decision administrators took lightly
after a thorough investigation and in accordance with Michigan law.
There we go. Okay, so it is a state law
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regarding dangerous weapons on school property. The Lancing School District
determined that expulsion was necessary. Again, expulsion is never a
decision the district takes Lately, it is always considered a
last resort. However, Michigan law provides very clear direction in
cases involving dangerous weapons. The investigation, which included statements and
(26:32):
video evidence, left no ambiguity and required this outcome. The
Lancing School District has both a legal and moral responsibility
to ensure the safety of all students and staff. The
statement concluded, while this decision is difficult, a priority remains
creating and maintaining a secure environment where learning can take
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place without fear. Upholding these standards is essential to protecting
our school community. So Mom, I hope, I truly, truly
hope that you use this opportunity to stress to your
son the importance not taking matters into your own hands.
(27:25):
That's not the way. Yes, he did a good thing,
but he also did a bad thing. And I hate
being a fence straddler, but that's where this is into
your own I'm Sorry, what's that?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
No, sorry, I was trying to get back into the
chat and it was excellently playing.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Oh oh well, sure, I.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Don't have much to add at this point, because.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So, how about an opinion.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I disagree with? Don't I disagree with everything that you
just said. And if that was my kid, I'd have
been punching a fucking teacher ob or trying to expel them.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Okay, I mean, I get where you're coming from. I
do believe me. I do. I think that some of
these zero tolerance things are ridiculous. When I'm in a
school working, and we do our company does a lot
of work with education here, so I do go to
(28:34):
schools often and sometimes there's a need for a certain
tool to be withdrawn from my bag and opened up,
and uh, it's a knife, and they always when I
pull it out, and I'm like, just it's a box cutter,
That's all it is. It's a box cutter, and they
(28:59):
just they look at at me, and I mean they know,
they know it's a lock blade knife, and they know
that the blade is about a half inch to the
illegal side, but they also know that I'm not going
to be running down the hall with it. And I'm
not going to expose it to kids. And you know,
it is what it is. There has to be some
(29:19):
ambiguity in these quote unquote zero tolerance. You can't even
do work in a building a lot of times without
some kind of blade exposed, cutting wires, you know, whatever
it is you got to do. So again, I understand
where you're coming from, and I probably would have fought
(29:43):
the thought using their own words against them, you know that.
That's that's what my son was trying to do, was
was create and maintain a secure environment where learning can
take place without fear. But again, I also it's a
it's that's the law. Do you How do you just
say we're not going to follow the law?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Dude? They say that all the time though, I mean, of.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Course they do. But we're talking about higher up than
the local school board.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well no, and I understand that, but I mean my
issue with it was if the kid had followed procedure,
that the other kid could have started shooting before he
was able to tell anybody.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And that's very possible. The whole not knowing the other
kids side of it. Why did he have the gun?
You know? Was it was it just to prove to
somebody that he had one, or was he going after somebody.
We don't know, because that's not part of what's in
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you know, the story. We just know that a twelve
year old was arrested.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Well, the reason that I'm pretty sure it wasn't just
to show it off is unless I misheard you. A
moment ago, the kid took away the gun and unloaded
the gun. He did, so that isn't. I'm gonna that isn't.
And I'm going to show you that I have a gun.
That's and I'm taking a loaded gun to school.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I mean that to me, I tend to agree with that.
Why else would you load it?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
And and yes, as somebody that you know, I've never
been a prosecutor, but it's Stephen just pointed out there
is such a thing as prosecutorial discretion, and there, I
will say. The only gray area for me is I'm
not exactly sure why as soon as the kid took
the gun away, he wasn't saying, hey, teacher, teacher, teacher,
look what I just found from this guy.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, yeah, again, I you know, I understand I didn't
want to get anybody in trouble, but you know what
you can't You can't do that at that point.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Well so, and that's kind of the only reason why
I'm like, because that's the thing if you're doing, if
you're taking the gun away and unloading it because you know,
dudes not supposed to have it, and you're afraid something
happen if you don't, at that point, you should be
willing to take whatever the next step is to say like, hey,
this is what's going on. This is what's happening, and
I just need you to know because you know reasons.
(32:14):
And I think geez, hamster just fell off the wheel,
son of a bitch.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yes you're meck okay, so yeah, I mean, I again,
I agree with you. It's a it's a tough tough
spot to be in. It is, and I would hate
to be the one making those decisions because you you
literally you can't. You can't win because if you let
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that kid stay in school, then anybody that's got any
kind of semi valid reason has a has a door
to argue. But there and and and the part about
the prosecutorial discretion, Uh, well, this kid's not being charged.
(33:07):
There's no criminal charges against the one being expelled. He's
just expelled. It was the one that brought it that
got arrested. So I mean, that's that's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Sorry, I'm trying to figure out why order he keeps
dropping in and out.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
So oh, let's go ahead and take the commerd the
hour and when we come back, we'll we'll continue on.
I think we've got some uh now that the heavy
stuff is done, I think we'll just do some fun
the rest of the night. Maybe. I don't know, we'll see.
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It's up to you, man, it's your show. I'm just
I'm just here to push the buttons and your buttons
at the same time, because it's.
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When you just go right ahead and push buttons.
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All right, welcome back, Hey Rick, what's coming up?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Top of the l lines with Jean Beredelli and Ross Galloway.
Then we have the Rick and Already Show. After that
we have the Edge of Liberty with Sean Lewis with
special guest from the Saloon, Besy, and then we'll finish
off the night with the crossover those two did to
get together last night. So yeah, I'll be pushing buttons
to almost two in the morning Eastern time again because
(39:02):
I'm insane.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
But you know that, yes you are. I will be
long asleep because that's.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
What old I'm sorry, that's that's what old what do
because I lost.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
You old working people?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Yeah, you know, I just I seem to remember when
started doing this podcast, like way back in twenty thirteen,
twenty fourteen, that they were swearing to me they were
going to be retired by now.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Well you know, yeah, damn, just when you think you
get away, they pull you back in.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That's what I'm saying. I don't think you're ever going
to retire. I think you're I think you look look
reasonable to day is another.
Speaker 14 (39:52):
Look just based on my age, just based on my
age at maximum, at the absolute highest end of my
working years, I will be done for certain in seven
or less.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
I'm looking for what That's what you told me in
twenty thirteen. By the way, I know, I know, just
throwing that out there.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Well, speaking of throwing you know that the money they
keep throwing.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
That just yeah, you know capitalist, hey man.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
It's and the best part is is it's all being
deferred into my retirement, so it's growing as I keep working.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Which giggity go.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, I just I don't. I don't know how to
tell it no, because I mean, I'm still viable. You know.
The these my two latest hot shot hires, are are
making me maybe start to reevaluate that viable comment as
(41:08):
they show me why young guys can do what young
guys can do. And they are they are young. And
when I tell you they're young, they're younger than my daughter.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
So you don't what freaked me out? You remember how
I you know, in like in eighth grade, I was
going around the high schools and hooking up portable satellite
dishes so kids could watch the shutt launchers and stuff.
I remember looking at the astronauts and thinking how old
they looked. I saw the newest crop of astronauts today,
and I'm like, Jesus, I'm so old. They looked twelve.
(41:43):
What the hell is happened?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Like? Kids? Yeah, they looked they looked twelve.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
And I remember when I was in like eighth grade
running around hooking up satellite. This is like, dude, these
people look old as old as now. I'm like, they
look twelve.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I am old. You know, these these I call them kids.
I tell my boss all the time. I said, well,
let me let me talk to the kids and we'll
see what we can do about the project. I just
call them the kids, and uh, my boss looks at
me like, you know, you could be my kid, just like, yeah,
(42:18):
I know, I know. But these, you know, these these
young bucks that are that I'm just hired in there.
My god, they call me, you know, two, three, four
times a week. Hey, you got anything else I can
go do? I'm done with everything. I'm like, man, it's
not a race. I would I would rather you go
(42:40):
back over what you did and make sure you didn't
miss anything, then me find it later, right, all right?
I guess okay. I was like, look, I promise you,
there's gonna be time time you're going to be hanging
with me, going always leave me alone and let me
(43:01):
do my work. I said, I promise you there will
be those times, but we're not there right now. So
double up on what you're doing, go extra slow, make
sure it's one hundred percent right, and that means so
much to me. I said, if I need you somewhere,
(43:23):
I'll pull you. But yeah, I just but they just man,
they just go. They're like frigging energizer bunnies. And I'm like, yeah,
I remember being twenty four.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
It's like it Yeah, for me, it feels like it
was yesterday. I mean, I've been thinking about that lately
because like, even like I said, after I had to
after I was off, you know, other than bare minimum
stuff for almost a month while I was getting the
electricity fixed, I am still trying to get up to
even just doing what I was doing just a couple
months ago all the time. And I'm like, I don't
(44:02):
even know how I used to do all this stuff
all the time, because I get up and I do
like the show prep, and I do the morning show,
and then I used to go grab something, eat, come
back in here, write two or three articles, and then
chill out for a couple hours, come back and start
doing the evening stuff. And by the time I get
the show prep done and I get the show done
and I get the show posted, I was like, I
(44:24):
want to take I'm gonna go. I eat lunch now,
and then I'll turn on the TV and the next
thing I know is like three o'clock in the afternoon,
I started, I haven't done anything else. I'm like, what the.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Hell you feel like you're doing the dead list? From
picking your ass up off the ground.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
I'm like, dude, and the fifty two feels that even
a hell of a lot different than fifty one did.
And now I'm getting closer to fifty three, and I'm like,
I don't even want to know what this is going
to feel like in a few more months. And now
I've even started trying to add some like tai te
stuff into the mix in the morning, just trying to
see if I can get myself motivated. So far that
ain't working real well either. But I feel like I
(44:58):
couldn't move a little bit better today after doing it
for like four days in a row. So I'm gonna
keep going.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I guess that's funny. That's funny. Yeah, okay, Well, so anyway,
why that you've heard about two tired middle aged men. No,
but the good thing to having those young guys is
(45:25):
they do help keep me young. They keep me on
my toes.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
I was gonna say, we're getting called out by somebody
named festus Hagen. So I think we might be getting
beat in the age department.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Oh my word, I know that name, but yeah, it's
been a long time since I've heard that.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
He's like, try seventy, bro, I want to at this.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Point, I mean, well, by then, I hope to have
these knees fixed. Exactly when I don't know, but it's
it's gonna have to happen sooner or later. The right
one is now perpetually a good twelve to fourteen centimeters
(46:07):
more round than the left one. That's even after a
night of sleep and with you know, my leg elevated
and I just wake up and it's already swollen.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Although I did read an article today that I was
kind of astounded by, and I think it has something
to do with us cracking the crisper technology and AI
is starting to become more prominent everywhere because apparently, according
to a study that I just read today, they have
determined how these signals to age are transmitted through our bodies,
and they are figuring out how to stop them and
(46:40):
reverse them.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Oh well, somebody send me the memo.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
I'm like, I wonder how long it'll take until that
can be done And then when they're not charging you
an arm and a leg to do it.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
I mean, you know they only have one.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
I only have one good armand leg. I can't give Nope,
the other ones barely know what they're doing, can't do that.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
I would, uh, I'll tell you what I would. I
would feel like a much younger man if I had
two healthy knees. I'm not gonna lie, right, you know
I don't have. I mean, I have the one little
issue with my elbow. I can't completely lock it out
from when it was broken backwards, and that's the bone
spur that grew in the joint. But I get really close.
(47:24):
I get really close, so I can live with that.
And I mean, how many how many times do you
have to completely lock your arm all the way out?
Not Mary? So yeah, I'm good with that. The other
surgery healed well, and then the ankle healed well, and
I think that any pain I have in the ankle
(47:45):
now is actually from the knees giving out and forcing
the ankle to compensate more. But again, we'll get the
knees fixed one day. You'll know because I'll have to
take a slight high hiatus. But yeah, oh whatever, I see,
(48:09):
you'll get plenty of advance notice.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
So you and these hiatuses come on.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
Man, hey, hey look I come back.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I need I need, I need my summers off.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
I'm just using I come back though.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
No, I know, I get it. I'm giving you crack.
So we're just kind of riffing right now. I do
have one thing, and I'll probably try to bring this
up more with al much later. But did you see
what Donald Trump did in the portrait hallway in the
White House?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
I did the the auto pen.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Yeah, it's the booking pictures of him with the autopen.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Oh my god. And they're losing their mind over they
don't even realize they're being.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
Trolled, right well, I mean, well that's just it. They
don't get it. I mean JD Vance is actively trolling
people on X right now. And then they're like, I
don't wonder, Like, yeah, y'all are Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
You don't understand that's the problem. Yeah you don't. It
just proves that they don't.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
They don't have a humor at all.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Yeah, oh yeah, exactly except for what they find funny.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Which is pretty much absolutely.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Usually not funny. Yeah, usually not so Yeah, I mean
I was gonna do a shoulder workout tonight, but I
think we're we're probably a little tight on time, so
I won't do that.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
My shoulders are pretty tight too, so I was gonna
go hang out at the bar if you decided to
do that. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I guess I could do
a quick one. I don't know. I do have a
happy ending tonight, so there is that.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
So let's do the happy ending first and then if
you have time, you can do the workout.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
I mean yeah, I mean, I mean, we definitely got
time for the happy ending. So okay, So tonight's guaranteed
happy ending. Rogers and Hammerstein once wrote famously that quote,
(50:05):
at the end of the storm, there's a golden sky.
At their home on the Range, an Oklahoma couple are
beginning to see that golden sky beyond a stormy nightmare
that forced their nine year old son to save their
lives after a tornado overtook their car and left them
with terrible injuries. It was back in April when tornadoes
(50:29):
were reported to be en route to the hometown of
Wayne and Lyndy Baker. It was on their evacuation path
to a shelter in Dixon Oklahoma. That disaster struck anywhere
close to you.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
I'm sorry, what was that one more time?
Speaker 2 (50:48):
You broke up on Dixon, Oklahoma?
Speaker 1 (50:52):
Uh, it doesn't sound like it's close enough. I don't
recognize it my name, so it's probably not. It's probably
not close enough for me.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
Okay, just curious. So anyway, seeing the tornado a mile
off or so, it suddenly changed direction and overtook the
Bakers as they drove down the road in their Ford truck.
It sent the truck smashing to the ground before a
tree fell on top. I guess it picked it up
(51:19):
and smashed it to the ground, and then a tree
fell on top of it, pinning the front seats under
its weight. Inside, both Wayne and Lindy suffered broken necks, backs, ribs,
and arms, but in the rear seat, nine year old
Branson was unharmed. He got out of the truck and
(51:44):
ran a mile down the road in pitch darkness due
to the power outage from the winds, until he found
a house with people who could help. The story made
the news via Wayne's brother Johnny, who was on the
with Wayne at the moment the tornado hit them. I
heard a ding, ding, ding, like hail or rocks hitting
(52:06):
the windshield, then a large crash and the phone went dead.
Johnny and his partner rushed to the scene, but with
so much debris and live power lines down along the roads,
it made for slow going. The truck was so mangled
by the incident that it wasn't clear to Johnny that
if it belonged to Wayne at all until he heard
(52:28):
screaming from inside. Shortly after, Branson, who had run about
a ten minute mile, returned with a neighbor, and they
together did what they could to help Wayne and Lindy
before nine to one one arrived to transport the parents
to OU Medical Center. So they're close enough for OU
(52:49):
Medical Center.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
Well, I just looked. That's actually a bit of a
trek for them because they're about eighty miles south southeast
of me, and I'm almost forty miles from OU.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
Dude, that's getting down close to the line, there, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
Yeah, it's pretty close. That's in Carter County. That's actually
really close to the line.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
Okay. The last thing Branson told them was Mom, Dad,
please don't die. I will be back. Johnny recalled, Wow,
he had to become his parents Superman. And that's exactly
what he did. He said, I had to try to
(53:36):
save my parents. Wayne and Lindy are contractors, and the
injuries left them unsure as to their future ability to
earn a living. A friend of the family set up
a GoFundMe to help pay for their medical bills and
replace the truck, which as of publishing has raised and
inspiring one hundred thousand dollars. Nice to hear, I'm sure
(54:01):
that will help. And my damn computer just locked up
on me. Ah here we go. Yeah, I know, man,
I know, it's ridiculous. So in May, Branson and Wayne
(54:22):
spoke to Good Morning America about their ordeal. The boy
admitted he was very scared, and both were clearly still
enduring the trauma of the event. Wayne said he couldn't
be more proud to be his father while conducting the
interview in a net brace and wheelchair. A son that
can accept a challenge in that way shows that he
(54:45):
would go above and beyond for anyone. So yeah. The
the July update on the GoFundMe, the organizer revealed that
Wayne has made a substantial recovery uh and was able
to return to work, while Lindy has removed her back brace,
(55:06):
but still requires a second surgery on her right hand.
This this young man, you know, you can. You can
say what you want to about country kids and being
little rednecks and whatever. But this kid did what he
had to do, and he saved his mom and dad.
And uh, I'll tell you right now. If that's not
(55:28):
a happy ending, I'll be damned if I know what
one is.
Speaker 1 (55:32):
It seemed like a pretty happy ending to me.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
I mean really, I mean, how could you How could
you have a son like that and not be proud?
I mean really.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
Well, I mean, you know, depending depending on how how
you know sarcastic this kid is, there may come a
day later when he's going to look at his parents
and be like I should have just let you die.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Or tell him you're a real pain in my neck.
Nice ah yeah, yeah yeah anyway, Oh wow, top of
the hour, Rick, We we kind of did it.
Speaker 1 (56:17):
Yep, that's why I would. Yeah, you you always missed.
You always miss playing on how long it's going to
take for you to get through your happy ending stories.
That's why I was like, let's do that.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
I don't like to finish too quickly.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
Well, that's you know, she doesn't like that either.
Speaker 2 (56:37):
Uh yeah, I got you on that one.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
I really, oh I was. I was actually just trying
to get jeans feed pulled up, so I was distracted.
That's my story, I know it.
Speaker 2 (56:52):
Hey, look that's that's it, folks. 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
to the unprofessional shit show festival that happens here on
Wednesday night in the Conservative Curmudgeons Show. I'm your host,
the Grouch Peace.
Speaker 1 (57:11):
I don't want to hear this unprofessional stuff. I will
have you know I run a very professional ship show
around here, sir, just so you know, just not the
right button. So see, that's why I said it's a
professional show. All right, hang out for one of these
(57:36):
days off remember how to draw? Let's crap again? A
hard time? Hang out for Behind the any Lines coming
up next on KLIN Radio. After that, a night cap
for with Rick and Ordy before we head over to
his DHR again. Thanks for everybody hanging out with us.
Last I checked, it looked like we were getting close
to breaking nine hundred, So that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (57:56):
Wowsers by.
Speaker 10 (58:05):
Its true Nothing work here, the medications don't work. I've
been here for seven years.
Speaker 15 (58:17):
Stops the Funk themselves.
Speaker 10 (58:31):
Excuse to what
Speaker 2 (58:34):
Excuse w
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