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Welcome to hum Day, everybody.
I am Tony Vaneeddi Long with Dave Jennings,

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Dight Witten, Johnny from the News. How is everybody doingired? Fabulous?

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Are you tired? I'm tired today. That's okay though. Uh,

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We're gonna have a good day.
We'll all have a good day. Ready

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to rock and roll. And I'm
going to start Dwight's day off with a

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bangle we now jcps. Yeah,
Well do you want to feel I know

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you're tired. Do you want to
wake up? Because we can go right

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for Marty Polio if you like.
Boy. Yeah, an interesting press conference

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yesterday. Look, if I'm made
almost four hundred thousand dollars a year being

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an utter complete failure, I might
fear an audit as well. I don't,

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of course it is, And I
don't know what the audit, how

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the audit can be skewed in a
different way. Isn't an audit just an

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audit? Well, this here's where
we spend money. And this is a

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follow up to a twenty fourteen deep
dive audit that was required by the state

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and that was damning enough, right, and now this audit is going back

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to see if the changes that were
recommended to be implemented by the state,

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and by that twenty fourteen i OpEd
helped and have been been used. Yeah,

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but here's what we know, Okay, we know that the cost of

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JCPS goes up year after year after
year on the backs of the taxpayers draining

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our paychecks. If you look at
your property tax, look the most expensive

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line and it's gonna make your heart
stop. It's the JCPS. So the

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money goes up, but performance goes
down every year. It's broken. Everybody

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knows it's broken. And if they're
fearing an audit, it's because they don't

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want the truth to come out.
We have a lot of fat asses at

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the Van Who's Center with some big
salaries that are just useless jobs. Some

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of our duplicate or triplicate jobs.
Oh, I've got a Marty Polio comment

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on what you just said with the
fat salaries at the Van Hu Center.

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Uh uh he actually he actually was
talking about one hundred thousand dollars salaries.

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He said that today that in that
like ten its equivalent to like seventy five

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thousand dollars four years ago. Wait
a minute, let me let me rebuttle

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with Tony's comment, Yeah, huh, all right, he's anti new audit,

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he's anti splitting up the district.
I guess he's whatever the board says

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he is. That's exactly right.
No, that's exactly right. And again

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defending failed policies, I think is
just that's what I have a problem with.

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I don't have a problem with new
policy, but I do have a

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problem as when it's obviously glarely glaring
a failure, then just go, well,

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I didn't work. Let's try something
different. I don't understand of doubling

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down on a bad idea he could
claim positively were researchers at Harvard somehow determined

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we did a good job after COVID. No, no, no, no,

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that's not what he said. That's
the he said. I know where

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I was going to bring this up. Dave, good for you, because

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he said, faster than the rest
of the state. Well, okay,

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do you know why, because they
had fallen fall further than the rest of

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the state. Yes, okay,
that's like okay, that's I mean,

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yes, I know because because mister
Polio, because you all did such a

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terrible job during COVID, those thousand
dollars laptops disappeared, what percentage of kids

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disappeared. Not your fault. I'm
not saying that's your fault. I'm saying

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that that's what happened, and grades
wore abysmal so bad that yes, you

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recovered better than the rest of the
districts because the rest of the districts did

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a better job at it. That's
like bragging about a five percent dropping the

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murder rate, ignoring the two hundred
percent increase. Come on, exact,

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Come on, you haven't been held
in your feet to the fire on the

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on the number of tardis and or
truancy that's going on, and he's the

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worst district in America. He took
issue yesterday. I don't know how much

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of his address you heard. He
did take issue during a segment where he

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rebutted a lot of what he called
I can't remember what he said what he

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said it was, but one of
the things he said was he kind of

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kind of uh took took a jab
at the people that say that, oh,

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it's just quick solutions, easy easy
fixes, and said that it's not

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in these it's these easy fixes that
people claim are there are going to fix

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what's going on. Let's start with
the audience. Listen, listen, listen.

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It's it's quite an easy fix.
Concentrate on education instead of all that

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other business, the stupidity in forced
discipline, and that means bringing back suspensions

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and expulsions and let a child go
to the school right next to their blanking

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neighborhood. Almost cussed. It's it's
quite easy. The solution is quite simple.

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Let's try those things first. Yeah, and you could. You could

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tell he was just just below the
surface he was with some of the stuff

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he was responding to. There was
there was a little bit of I don't

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know if i'd say anger, but
while he was responding to it, he

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was a little testing. And he
admitted at the end of his rebuttal of

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some of the rumor mill stuff out
there as he I think that's how he

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referred to it. I'm paraphrasing.
He said, Okay, thank y'all for

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putting up with my with a snarky
portion of my address. I heard that.

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So he then got into equity and
talked about if you break up the

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district, then the equity would not
equal. Well, I would say that

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the equity doesn't equal now because everything
is going to the west End. The

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newest schools built, the last three
are in the West End, right.

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The newest school built in the East
End was Ballard High School over fifty years

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ago. Did I understand him right? Yesterday? I think I heard that

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part correctly, that he said they're
building the first schools in the West End

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in ninety years. Okay, so
the newest schools there. Okay, then

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you're putting another fifty four million dollars
into the boys which is in Newberg,

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right, and they're upgrading Atherton,
oh Atherton. Yes, on that.

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I saw a story in the National
News where somebody donated fifty million dollars to

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the Ohio State University. With that
fifty million dollars, they're building an eight

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hundred plus bed hospital fifty million dollars. Fifty four million dollars to renovate a

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school. It's no secret they spent
way too much money on the newest schools.

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They just built with geothermal floors that'll
pay off in thirty years. So

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yeah, well they're going to use
it. One hundred and twenty. Spend

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way too much money on these new
schools. In the construction court, you

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know that when it comes to the
taxpayers paycheck. It's only money, the

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hard working men and women of Jeffson
County. So they use the excuse that

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the district is too large for their
problems. But then they say they can't

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break it up. It makes no
sense. It talks out of both sides.

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That you know what, one of
my favorite things they like to say.

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He likes to say specifically, and
also the mayor sometimes that this is

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a national problem. Jcps's problems aren't. Not every school district is like this,

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And by saying that, you're saying
you can't do anything about it.

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So let's pay somebody fifty thousand dollars
to do his job. That's the case.

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Great idea, Dave, Yeah,
that's a great idea for almost four

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hundred thousand dollars a year. To
be a complete failure, it have to

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be a problem solver, not just
a board hack. I think when we

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talk about people that get elected or
they put in these positions and we think,

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oh my gosh, okay, this
might be the answer. Good people

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just get worn down. Okay.
I look back at Greg Fisher as a

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miserable failure and maybe the worst mayor
in the history of this city. He

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started out Gangbusters came in like a
business person. He's fired eight or nine

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people making over one hundred thousand dollars
a year so that we don't need them.

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And he was rocking and rolling.
Everything was rolling, he was everywhere,

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Louisville was moving. And then all
of a sudden, I think these

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little groups start to get their nails
in them, right, so then after

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a while they wear them down.
The death by a thousand cuts, they

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wear them down. I'm worried about
Craig Greenberg because he started out Gangbusters B

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plus first year, but will he
get worn down? Marty Polio came into

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the job. He was the only
administrator, the non administrator management type.

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He started as a teacher, went
to a principal, was an athletic director,

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boots on the ground guy. We
celebrated. We went, if JCPS

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has a chance, it's him that's
going to do it. And then I

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think over the years, the groups, including the board, wore him down

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to where you see what you got
yesterday. He's been there and I was

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optimistic about him too, Tony,
and I was thinking, well, maybe

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we're going to bring back vocational schools
for kids like me that you know,

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couldn't study, but then excelled in
vocational school. Thought well, this is

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our guy. But then it quickly
turned into the same principle that had SROs

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at his Jaytown High School was denying
other high schools. SROs, this is

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a former principle that lost his principles. Yes, and it's so and it's

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so hypocritical. When you want to
see one of these clown board meetings and

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they're protected by l MPD. But
when comes to your children, they the

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groups wear you down. Okay,
they wear you down. Let me ask

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you a question about your business,
your soul. No, hang on,

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hang on, hang on. So
at work, who is treated better the

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people that always say yes to extra
work and never complain and show up on

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time or the people the squeaky wheel
that always complains always doesn't get any extra

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work because they're always complaining and they
get all the advantages, which squeaky wheel.

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Squeaky wheel, of course squeaky And
so that's what these groups do to

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leaders. These small groups are just
always just kneel what about us, what

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about us? What about us?
What about us? What about us?

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What about us? The ankle biers
begin to wear you down, and it

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wears you down to where you're just
like, oh my god, do what

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you want. And I can imagine. You know, I had forgotten about

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it till yesterday. Didn't realize it
been there a lot long. But he

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became the superintendent the year that I
moved here, coming back from Germany twenty

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sixteen. He's been the superintendent for
seven years now, and I can imagine

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how that wears them. That's unbelievable
because I remember his first day. Yeah,

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I can't believe it's been seven years. But that's my opinion. I

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think good people that go into office
thinking they're going to change the system and

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or do the best they can end
up getting worn down by different groups.

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Left or riot, doesn't matter.
They get worn down. What politicians like

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to do, they like to say, are you better off four years ago

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than you were? Are we better
off seven years later than we were when

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he took office? Absolutely not.
And I just want to reiterate the facts

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again. The taxes go up every
single year, The budget of JCPS goes

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up astronomically to the stratosphere every year
on the backs of the working men and

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women of Jefferson County. But yet
the performance goes down, down down to

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we're almost rock bottom. I mean, at this point, outside of calling

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it at daycare, I don't know
why we have it around well. I

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thought the one statistic he put out
yesterday that surprised me was the level the

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percentage of kids going to school in
JCPS now that are on the free or

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reduced lunch plan. And he's attributing
that to a rise in poverty in the

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city. I think he said it
went from like thirty percent when he first

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took And I apologize, doctor Polio, if I'm getting this wrong. I'm

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just pulling it off memory from listening
to yesterday. I think he said it

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was I think he said it was
third because I try to be better.

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I think he said when he took
over, When he took office, it

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was thirty percent of the kids in
JCPS were on freeer reduced lunches, and

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I think he said yesterday that now
it's seventy percent or on free are reduced

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in JCPS. I know for a
fact, hang on one second, I

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know for a fact that they pursue
families to get on, yeah, the

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free lunch program. Because a buddy
of mine has children who lives in a

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nice neighborhood and they contacted him saying, hey, can we get you and

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your kids on this free lunch program? Well that's a fact because they didn't

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want the other children. Don't embarrassed. No, no, no, no,

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no, no no no. That
is a The more free reduced numbers

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you have, the more federal dollars
you got, So it is feeding upon

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itself. It's all the problem with
the federal Once the federal school system came

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in, what eighty eighty one,
No Department of Education was seventy eight under

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seventy eight set in nineteen seventy eight, when did schools start to say,

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when is there something that happened in
history that we can pinpoint? So now

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you are encouraging to spend more money
on kids that don't need the free and

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reduced be because you'll get more federal
dollars which we pay into. So we

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it's like we're getting and that's federal
money, rude from above both, that's

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that's federal money. That's money that
the Feds are taking out of the state

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giving back to the state that the
state could have kept at home and used

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themselves. I just passed by a
house on Harmony Landing Road in Gosh and

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on my way to work. I
don't usually go this way. Three bedrooms,

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two bath only two seventy five renovated, walking distance to gosh And Elementary

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Middle School in North oldhom High School. Yeah, just saying, yeah,

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so you have options there you go. You do have options, that's for

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sure, and that's why people move
out to Oldham County. And if you

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want to look at it. I
have a wife who's a real estate agent.

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I can here's a listener checking in
for social media. I'm gonna leave

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her. I'm gonna leave her name
off of it. They put my son

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on free launch at Eastern with no
conversation. Yeah, they just do it.

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Yep, Yeah, they just do
it. I have no no such

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thing as a free lunch to right. Okay, here's another listener. Even

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in Mead County, they contact you
before the free lunches. It's federal dollars.

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Yep. And by the way,
I had a buddy that used to

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provide breakfast fifteen ten, fifteen years
ago for six or seven schools. He

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made a mint, but he made
a mint. It was a ton of

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money. He was like, he
had the contract for three years and he

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just buckets of money for three years
because he was charging you know, three

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dollars. A burrito was costing him
a dollar. He was how many was

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he serving per school? It was
ridiculous, right, which was remember Tony

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when it comes to the JCPS,
if it's the tax dollars dollar sparanoux pants.

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Yeah, and let's audit all of
those things too. Well again right,

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they have a buyer from the Pentagon
apparently, so people that are driving

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at ten and two on your steering
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because they're complaining about feeding kids.
No, no, no, no,

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no, that's not what we're saying. We're what we're saying is parents,

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feed your damn child. You can't
you can't put a sandwich in the back.

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Okay, you can't put a sandwich. I have some pride and say

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I don't need the free lunch.
There's a large percentage of people that are

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getting the free and reduced lunch that
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wait a minute. Didn't your mom
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and then like ninety thousand dollars Yeah, yeah, and we're and you got

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a free lunch. Okay, that's
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But yes, let's create a bigger
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right right, what we want?
Hang on, Hang on, parents,

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principal, students, bus drivers,
Frankfurt's coming baby. Somebody just told me.

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Text is that? And the kids
just throw the food away? Oh

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I'm sure, yeah, which means
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you and I were eaging the cafeteria. Tony boy, oh boy, all

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right, we're all in the mood
for the joke of the day if we

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haven't been discussing it already for the
last I've got the honors today. Guys

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like this everywhere, Tony, I've
got of the day time. Oh wow,

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it's not my mullet hairdo either.
No, that's a fabulous moment.

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Anybody tell you different. Look at
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weeks. Hey fellas, Hey,
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really like it when I was a
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go out for like Christmas parties and
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Can kind of do what I want? They came home one night, I

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had to me, he's laying on
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roaring fireplace. Oh fantastic. My
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owed. Seriously, why because we
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joke of the day, believe.
February twenty first, twenty twenty four.

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Johnny will have the news in ten
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But before that, the Bloomberg Money
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Dwight, Southern Southern covered hot tub
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broadcasting live. They have specials on
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including the ones where you could get
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thousand, and let it look that
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swimming. And it's a hot tub
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of it. So the covered hot
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tubs as low as sixty five dollars
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and you sit back with your shady
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had to put them on yesterday.
It was in my sow the covered hot

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tub because it was too sunny and
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was perfect. Hey Shady Rays,
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dot com. Stick around. I'm
gonna find out what our money's doing in

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just a few minutes. And Johnny's
got news news Radio eight forty whas.

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Hey, this guy should do van
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hereon he's your Sharon my Sarona.
Alright, welcome back to news Radio eight

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forty whas, Twight witting, Tony
Vanetti, and Dave Jennings. John has

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the news. We have Scott Carr
for the Bloomberg Money Minute, so we

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have you covered all day today.
We got Wednesday's hero coming up and here

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in about twenty minutes, so please
sit tight for that. And I may

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have found the first one you ever
produced. No, yes, what don't

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dun dug exactly? It probably wasn't
any good though, because they always get

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better. We'll see. I always
say that it's hard to mess up those

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stories, don'ty Well? I know, isn't it hard to listen to air

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checks from when you first started out
in radio? Well, I always say,

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and Dwight when we got back together, and then the first time we

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were together, and Dave and I
what do I always say? In the

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first day, I'm like, this
is the worst show you will we will

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ever do. This is the worst
show. We will get better, a

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little better every single day. That's
what we promise you to do. That

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kind of haven't fulfilled that promise.
If only j CPS in the city of

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Louisville had that attitude. Alright,
So America is one of the only countries

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in the world that still allow companies
to put lead into products like lipstick.

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Right, jeez, what could go
wrong there? You know, I have

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to scrape every piece of pain off
of my house if I sell it because

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the pain is over three years old
or whatever it is. But you can

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put the lead, put lead in
your pencil. Nos, not, that's

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not that's not the d You say, we have lipstick, How would you

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get lead on your pens then stop
it. But don't get me to start

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on the makeup part. But there
is a website you can go to and

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see all of them, all of
the makeup products that are sold at Walkreens

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and Cvs and all these other stores
that are banned in all other countries in

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the world, including China, and
if China banned something, oh my gosh.

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Well, Stanley Cup has been sued
over the lead seal in their cups.

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Really, yes, Stanley is the
Are they not just the hottest product

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on the market now on Soreer Center's
a lot of hockey players that have no,

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No No. A new class action
lawsuit claims the comedy did not disclose

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the use or presence of lead in
their products. You only drink out of

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it. The suit was filed earlier
this month by a Seattle based law firm.

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Several complaints are listed in the suit, and ding, breach of contract,

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express warranties, and more. On
Stanley's website, the company writes that

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it's transparent about its use of lead
and describes how its products are still deemed

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safe. So they don't want they
don't want to lead in our paint,

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but we can put it in our
mouth. Well, that's that's the government

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for you, FDA. Oh no, no, that's perfectly fine. But

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let me just go ahead and boil
this down for you. Yeah, company

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gets great success overnight. It starts
iterating millions and millions of dollars a day.

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Third law firm sees this, It
says, hmmm, maybe we can

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get a taste of that with a
class action lawsuit. It starts digging for

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any little thing they could find to
take on somebody as successful. Okay,

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but here's what concerns me. Mister
Dwight. Witten describes its products as deemed

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safe. Okay, those are those
are the kind of words that companies use,

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going, hey, it's within the
brems, but according to us,

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according to no, but according to
federal law. Probably it is deemed safe.

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Well, you can have x amount
of lead in this product or whatever.

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I bet you. I bet you
that within the law they are.

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They are good, but maybe not. I don't know. They don't say

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we are compliant. They don't say
we are this. They say we are

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deemed who's the deemer? Yes,
that's what I'm saying. And again it's

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all these people are bought and paid
for. Oh no, this is within

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the parameters of safety of lead into
a product. They're not even saying that,

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They're just saying someone deemed it.
I do understand if you have an

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alternative to the lead. What isn't
lead expensive? I don't know. Why

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do you have lead in your cup? Why do you need it there?

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Why we have all kinds of metal? Why you because let's just run plus

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Superman can't see through it. Ah, if there are one of these people

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look forward to in the clips and
everybody knows I'm that guy. Boy,

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I just marked my cock calendar whenever
it's gonna get dark for thirty seconds.

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Man, I did the remember side
note, I remember I did the I

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took I did a TV shoot at
remember the one that came over Louisville about

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six or seven years ago, and
I said, we should do a shoot,

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a live shoot with the animals,
to see if the animals freak out

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right, because I'm like, what
if they are like Jaen Swetter's gone.

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Remember the drafts start running around?
Well, nobody reacted, you know why

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because it's dark for two minutes and
then it goes back to light and they

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do the thing where they say,
well, here's what you can need to

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do. Don't look up at the
sun, but poke a hole in a

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piece of paper. What anyway,
if you wantn't experienced a total eclipse by

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the way, you guys laugh,
But I took April eighth off, so

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we can go do that. David, You did not? I did?

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And if I can't believe you're not
playing total Clips of the art right now?

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But oh so, do we need
to buy you a clips card and

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eclips cake again? Dave? This
is ridiculous, my boy, that's my

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boy who talked you into doing that? Dave me? You did? I

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mean, yes, I mean,
what a great opportunity. I'm happy for

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you. It's total eclipse, man, ninety eight percent. It's still bright.

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Okay. You know who's not bright
the people last eclipse that put sunblock

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on their eyeballs. Yeah no,
so they could look at it. Well,

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that's how you that's how the teacher
identifies. This isn't total eclipse of

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the heart. Yeah it is?
Is it? Oh no, it's a

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funky version. It's the dance version
version. Okay. Anyway, if you

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want to experience the cl the eclipse
from thirty thousand feet, if that's on

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your bucket, is dave, I'll
put the other one on for you if

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you like the other one better.
Yeah, please do? Yes? What

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are you doing? It's a bastardization
of the song. See now, this

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is it right here, and we
now it? Did I get it?

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Fauci? Shut up? Your voice
is sounds similar. How was Fauci at

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your house? You tell me?
Do you have a fireplace? You tell

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me? Mister, yeah, here's
his address Fauci. All right, So

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anyway, if you want to experience
the total eclipse from thirty thousand feet,

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Delta Airlines wants to take care of
you and pre preparation preparation, age preparation

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eighte Delta scheduled flight twelve eighteen from
Austin. That's where the sun shine it's

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gonna be. The flight's going to
be number twelve eighteen from Austin to Detroit

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departs at twelve fifteen Central time,
landing at four to twenty Eastern time.

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I don't know why he didn't use
different times. So okay, that makes

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sense because you're party. The total
eclipse will happen just after three pm,

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so they're gonna have extra large windows
on this plane would be a prime eclipse

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view. What could go wrong with
that. Hey, let's all the plane.

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Delta has also announced five other routes
for those who might not be able

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to participate in Flight twelve eighteen,
less than an hour drive. And you

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guys can get in the path of
totality. Where are you going to see

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this? We're not sure. Yeah, park someway or just close as we

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can go. Bring a cooler.
What doesn't matter where you're at of me,

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because it's the sun. You go
see it from anywhere. Right now,

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there's a path of totality where it's
completely covered and you can look at

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it and it's dark. Path of
totality it is. There's a there's a

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map online. I love I love
the space stuff and Mars and the moon

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and whatever, the rockets and your
doing and all that, but I just

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don't for some reason, I don't
connect with the eclipse thing. I'm just

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like, Okay, my wife thinks
I'm an a hole for it. I'm

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like, I just don't deal.
Well, yeah, you're she's right on

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that, but not because of the
eclipse. But okay, so, Dave,

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will you get like the one of
the welder's helmets or so can you

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even do that? Take a welder's
helmet and look up at it. Why

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would I need a welder's helmet because
you can't look up at it? Can

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you? You can win it's completely
dark. Sure, they'll be a a

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three minute stretch where they'll be yep, whatever does this though? Gotch you

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like right in the middle of it
and blind you. I'll look out for

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that, Okay. Yeah, I'm
just saying stay on your toes. Well,

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if you remember the guy named Jack
Sweeney, he's the guy that was

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tracking Elon Musk airplane back and forth
and keeping it on. Yeah, was

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he the same guy doing Taylor Swift? Not doing it? Not doing no,

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no following her on the plane thing? You got it? His plane,

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her plane thingy? Social media flight
tracker Jack Sweeney's back at it again.

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He fired a response back at the
lawyers from Taylor Swift in his response

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to their cease and desist letter.
Sweeney received a cease and desist because of

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his ex account was falling movements of
Taylor Swift's plane. He's made it clear,

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Hey, I've done nothing wrong and
I have no reason to cease or

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desist. That's what Sweeney's lawyer also
wrote a letter saying that this of this

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data is available publicly by the FAA, and unless he's have incredible threats towards

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swift like stalking allegations, there's no
reason that this is protected under free speeches.

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Is free speech, But I mean
I can see where to put a

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person in danger. I don't know
you can look up somebody's address and then

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just keep it to yourself. If
you put it on the Internet and endanger

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somebody, and that kind of stuff
has happened, what do they call that

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again, Doc Singer? Yeah,
No, I agree, I agree.

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I don't like this, and there
has to be some sort of Look,

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the problem with the Internet is that
it changes so much and so fast,

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and technology changes so fast that you
can't pass the laws fast enough to protect

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people. And you shouldn't be able
to do that. Is to track someone's

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plane and put that out there all
the time, especially you, until he

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get this resolved. That's the exact
reason that I don't have a plane right

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now. I don't want to be
tracked. That's exactly good thinking. I'm

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not buying one. I'm not buying
one until he get this crap corrected.

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No, I wish someone would hire
a private detective to follow Dwight around because

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it would just be like, Dude, this guy's the most boring. Goes

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to the gym, and then he
goes to the booze store to get tequila,

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and then he sits in his hotub
for sixteen hours. I mean,

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then he goes to work. The
next day he does nothing. This guy

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does nothing. He doesn't go to
the movies, doesn't go to the library.

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Alas, I can argue the point, but is the truth. I'll

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tell you where I do go on
Friday Heights Pizza, whether we get it

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for dining, carry out or sometimes
you know what, I'm staying at home

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for a change, y'all get a
delivery, dine and carry out a delivery.

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Baranos Pizza is the best pizza in
the universe and the pizza that gets

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back to the community Louisville, Southern
Indiana surrounding areas. They're constantly do that.

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Plus Bardals Pizza has the Mama Baranols. NASA has been trying to recreate

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this perfection and they threw their hands
upset it can't be done. But if

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you don't like pizza, they have
wings, pasta, salad, sandwiches.

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Check out their extensive menu you're gonna
be amazed. Baranels, pizza, dine

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in, carry out or delivery.
Yeah, it's that good stick around.

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Wednesday's Hero After the News with Johnny
at the top of the hour, but

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Tony, Theneddi, Dave Jennings,
I'm Dwight Whitten. Is his news ready

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to eight forty? Whas