No way to really quantify the Taylor's Swift effect until last night when the ratings
came in. Yes, last year's Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and
the Philadelphia Eagles was the most watched television event in American history. Hundreds and
thousands of people viewed it over one hundred million. Oh okay, so there
was a ten percent bump from last year's most watched TV event ever to this
year's most watched TV event, eclipsing mash by a big margin. Second second
all time on whoa wha, whoa? What was number one? The moon
landing? The moonlanding still remains number one. It's more than one hundred and
twenty three million people. They estimate one hundred and thirty five watching, all
right, so let me just talk about this. There was less TVs then
too, so the moon landing is in fact the seventy two dolphins. So
so it is a ten percent bump. So if you want to kind of
okay, what did Taylor Swift bring to the party? Scent bump in the
NFL ratings, The Swift effect. That's a lot of people, that is,
that's a lot of eyeballs, a lot of young girl eyeballs. Yes,
yes, there was a lot of name younger, younger, let me
log it. Uh. My son said he watched it in Spain in a
bar in Spain and said every time Taylor Swift came on, everyone boot in
Spanish. In Spanish, exactly right, Okay, uh J C. P.
S. Dwight. I'm gonna try my best. Pull up Pull up
this U. What is the the poem that we read? The surrenders the
control things that control the things I can control. Try to be a looser,
unkier. Okay, take your shoulders out. So we're trying to yell
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can change, the
courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Okay, all right, all right, so let's go ahead. Okay.
Tonight the board will meet. They want to talk about possible solutions for
bussing. Number one on the docket will be should we no longer provide buses
for students who attend Magnet or traditional schools, which I don't know the difference
between the two, but whatever, So I think that is going to be
something. They obviously say something how much of a pathetic failure? Are you
if you only have a couple of schools that are good at education that all
the children want to go to. How pathetic is that? Okay, so
we are the serenity prayer here because I already can feel I can feel the
Okay, it's bubbling up. Or operate central hubs where magnet and traditional school
kids can go to get dropped off by by their parents and then go to
the school, kind of like shuttling over. Or door number three? What
is that? What's that TV show? Door number three? Let's make a
deal. Let's make a deal. Yeah, or let's make a deal okay
for door number three, which is keep the current system they have. Now,
I've got a novel list. I've got a very radical idea, isn't
that though in Door number three in that show bomp bomph, I've got a
very radical idea. Let the child attend the school in the child's neighborhood.
That way, the child is not a political football getting pushed around for two
or three hours a day. The child is a child going to school and
coming home and hanging out with other children. So on DRB last night they
talked about the bus driver shortage. I think they lied about the numbers,
but they also light about the reasons. The reasons given for people leaving wanted
to convert to a part time job from a full time job, and personal
reasons, none of which mentioned, sayolence, discipline. Some of these bus
drivers make over one hundred thousand dollars a year. How bad is it when
driving for one hundred thousand dollars is a job that you quit? Well,
I know, Polio the clown was on with Oh sorry, Mario. Polio
was on with the Juggler, Yeah, with Joe Elliott with Joela this morning.
And what was he saying. I didn't get to hear the interview,
Johnny, you did right. As far as the b no, as far
as yesterday, Frankfurt announced that there's going to be a task force looking into
the failure that is JCPS, and it is pathetic failure. At two point
two billion dollars, they can't perform the most basic task, the most fundamental
task of a school system. But what was his view on the task force.
I'm guessing I didn't hear it. I'm just guessing he was against it.
He took it, he took him much more diplomatic approach to it than
the JCPS spokesperson did yesterday in the spokes statement. In short, I mean
the meat of their statement was is they look at this as it's a it's
a stacked deck with one with one purpose of this task force, and that's
to break up jcpay Man, and I think j CPS does need to be
broken up, because if you look at the facts, not feelings about your
little initiatives, you gotta admit it's a colossal pile of dog stuff. They're
upset because nobody from j CPS was included in this, but I would say
problem. They are including two county taxpayers, citizens of the county the pay
taxes in this task force, as well as a teacher from JCPS. So
they are including j CPS. They're not including the the c suite. They're
including the rank and file and the people on the ground. So I get
that. Doctor Polio this morning said that he believes that if this task force
truly has good intentions and they want to get audit, see results of audits
and everything, then they will come to the same result that he and the
rest of JCPS has come to, and is that don't break up JCPS.
He says he thinks. He also intimated in there that sorry, big word.
He hinted in there that he thinks it's political, and that that basically
kind of backed up what the states. Two things. Two things shocking that
the guy that gets paid about four hundred thousand dollars to do a horrible job
is saying that things need to stay the same. Shocking Number two, it
may be political motivated because it's gotten so bad in this state that one party
stands for common sense and the other one stands for just pathetic, ridiculous crap.
They've been audited multiple times, nothing's come out of it. He also
pulled out on the DRB piece last night that make no mistake, this is
a national problem, Marty. You're not the superintendent of the Philadelphia Public school
right, the Portland Public schools, if not every public school district is failing
across the country. That is intellectually lazy. Can't you break it up?
And he can still be the czar over it? I don't understand that.
B. Here's where you're going to get into an issue. What they're gonna
start yelling. They're going to start throwing around the world the word equity,
right, and they're going to say, well, federally or state law.
I'm not saying state law says you have to use the tax dollars raised in
that area for those schools. You can't raise school tax dollars in another area
and take it to another area. Right, So what they're going to say
is, I'm sorry, if you break it up into five pies, which
is the smallest, the smallest it needs to be. It means pre ten.
But they're gonna they should. They're gonna break it up and do five
pies. They're saying that the West End won't get as much as Wagner High
School in the East End because their tax dollars are more and there, so
that you're gonna have to And I said, I was, this is a
conversation I was having with somebody, and I said, we'll just change the
state law. Well, can I address that. That's the same argument they
say now is that West End schools are underfunded and X y Z, when
in fact that's a bold faced lie because Frankfort has overfunded Western School. Okay,
but they're saying that would end because that you won't be able to go
across lines. So they're saying, if you do that, off. It
comes from Frankfort. That's the state. I understand that. But you're taking
my Saint Matthew's to school dollars and putting it into two new schools in the
West End. They're saying, if you break it up into five pieces,
you won't be able to take satan liars. I understand that. So they're
gonna they will have to change the state law though that says, yes,
we'll we'll divide the money up, not equally, but we'll try to.
If you need money, he goes there or here. I would like to,
in fact, see if that is a state law, because I would
argue they're just no. I think it's federal. You've got a hotline.
Yeah, yeah, Well there you go. And you un wish you knew
somebody than Frankfort. And you know, you talk about the spend, the
more spending. There was a report that came out yesterday that I saw that
has shown across the state since the implementation and I'm not sure what you're went
in. You guys probably know better than I do of the Kentucky Education Reform
Act. This spending has gone up on students across the state, and the
test scores have gone down, so they're not getting As they said in the
report, the taxpayers in the state are not getting their bang for the buck
when it comes to their education. Tax on JCPS is a pathetic failure.
Okay, so they're not good stewards of our money. We all know that.
There. They passed a new tax and all the prices of houses have
skyrocketed in the last four years, so they're getting paid more than they've ever
been doled out in the history of the school. It's well over two billion
dollars a year, which is five to six hundred million dollars more than when
Dwight started the and I started the Evening Show about seven years ago, much
about one hundred million dollars a year year to get to where we are now.
You don't think it's going to go up another one hundred million dollars.
Of course it will. Unless it stopped, it'll continue. So let's I
think people lose perspective of how much money that is. Okay, like you
just goh two billion, oh, okay, two billion dollars. It's double
the Metro Louisville budget. They built new schools in the West End to keep
West End kids there, so they don't have to travel out in the city,
right, they don't have to travel out to the whatever the sprawl right
of the city exactly. So, but what did they do with that?
They built these schools with geo thermal floors, and I mean they they spent
triple what they could have spent on these. You could have built three schools
for each school they built. The taxpayers deserve better. The way we've been
doing things isn't working. It's been a slow decline to get us where we
are trying. Something different is something that we deserve. Okay, can I
give you an example of how big one billion is because we're talking about increasing
one hundred billion xy billion related to my ego no no no I related related
in minutes? How long do you think one billion minutes would be? One
billion minutes? Wow, that's got hundreds of thousands of years. Nineteen thousand
years, okay, nineteen thousand years, nineteen nineteen thousand years and one billion
minutes. So the pyramids were not built by seven thousand years or ten thousand
years, right, Yeah, we're talking about before that, and that's one
billion minutes. That's how much. That's how wasteful. Yeah, and they
had just some. If they had thirty percent return on investment, it might
be worth But the reading proficiency is there is none. Kids can't do.
They can't do the basics. If jcps would just get back to the fundamentals
and worry about teaching children and worry about delivering the children to the home,
to the school and to the homes, and that's it. Just get the
fundamentals down. But they're too bloated another word. So I like your example
about the test scores. The scandal at Stewart Academy came to light last week
where the counselors were changing fs over three hundred f's to d D because they
don't take children need to fifteen percent reading proficiency. I think it's ten or
fifteen percent reading or English proficiency languageficial English proficiency and like language arts at the
school, five percent math. Okay. I think these aren't just words coming
out of our mouths. No, it's fact. These aren't words just coming
out in our meaningless right. These are real problems with real people. And
you know who we need. We need Joe Clark. Some of these.
I say that because Marty Polio cannot come out, he would lose his job
the moment he said this the parents. We can't do this without the parents
involvement. And frankly, you're not pulling your weight now. The parents aren't
doing their jobs as a parents and be good stewards of their kids in school
and holding their kids accountable for their academic experience and of course their disciplinary experience.
But you know, if Marty Polio said that, which is part of
the problem, they'd have. Parents aren't doing their jobs. So if Marty
Polio said that, he'd be fired them all. They would have his be
fired. They would have his things cleared from his office in a banker's box
before. He can't but he can't say it, No, he can't.
He can't say if the schools could also do more regarding discipline, a kid
acts up on the bus, you don't have a right to ride that bus.
We'll get out. It's not just the bus, it's also in school.
If he's saying, if you look at expulsions and you look at suspensions
in the past three years, they are almost non existence. That's because Marty
Polio said he doesn't want JCP has to be a pipeline of prison, meaning
he doesn't want to punish children well, guess what happens when you don't correct
a child with right or wrong? They become a criminal. You're creating a
pathway to prison by doing this, you clown. By the way, it's
a it's a bumper sticker. It's not really meaning. It's a millionless those
are wasteful word. It's a fortune cookie statement, curious pipeline. Are you
serious? Yeah, you were talking about the billions of dollars in how it
adds up. It reminds me of a famous quote from a US senator.
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real
money. I don't think people realize. I don't how much money a million
dollars is, right, compared to a billion, and the fact that the
budget is over two billion dollars, which is about seven hundred roughly seven hundred
million more than when Dwight and I started on the evenings on the station and
moved down to a billion seconds. A billion is a thousand million of this
A billion seconds is thirty one point seven years seconds now. And mind you,
the budget doesn't look there is a pension fund for the teachers. So
if you say, well, the teachers have an incredible pension that comes out
of a different pot. This is two point two billion dollars to try to
just an operation budget, operational budget. I'm not a big fan of government
takeovers of things. But the parents didn't flip the board. No, no,
no, And now that's what they're facing from Frankfort. Frankfort saw what
happened, saw that they didn't saw that they didn't flip the board, and
said, okay, if you if you aren't going to take care of it,
we're going to have to step in. And that's what you're starting to
see happen. David hit Neil, we posted four folks that would switch the
board over and they would try to do it from within, but they not
one got flipped. That would be bothered to vote, not one or bothered
to vote either way either way. I just say to all that I say
this, thank you Rankfort, General Assembly, thank you the Kentucky House for
stepping in because something needs to be done. It gets worse every year and
they tax us more and more every year. Real quick, Do we think
they'll break up? Do you think Frankfort can get it done? I just
I think that they're going to talk a lot and they won't be able to
get it done. I'll say they get it done, Okaynestly, I think
they'll have to do it with a crowbar, but I think they will.
They will get it done, Dave, do you think they'll get it done?
Eventually? Something will get done, not as drastic as you would hope.
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Gabriel and Genesis, Steve Hackett from Genesis will join the show tomorrow. Steve
Hackett turned seventy four yesterday. Peter Gabriel turned seventy four two days. Is
he related to Buddy? Yes, this is not Genesis, This is Peter
Gabriel. This is a solo Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember
the Genesis album and then there were three yeah? Wait wait should he did
he replace Phil Collins or Phil Collins replace Cars, replace Peter Gabriel? And
then who replaced Phil Collins? Nobody? Oh, they injured? Genesis ended
the just Mike Rutherford went on with Mike and the mechanics and he filled it.
I wonder if those what that feels like to be the other band members,
and you know, you're like, this is the end for you,
Like you're just like you're the guitar player of the piano player in Genesis and
you're like, well, it was a good run. But the auditioned we
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Gabril left the band, they started auditioning singers and they auditioned two hundred singers
and then eventually he said, well two hundred. Yeah, but during these
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Got kind of a follow up to our discussion about JCPS and moms and dads,
and I said that Marty Polio can't say what is the truth, which
is he can't do it without the parents because the parents have lowered the bar
to what they're willing to do for their kids at JCPS. Sorry, parents
talking to you. You're not involved enough with your school and your kid.
He's gonna do what the board wants until he can retire and get that nice
pension. Here's here's Nate Bergatzi on parents in school. I'll come and get
her. That's actually funny, but you hear me. I don't want to
call all parents out, but parents seem to be more involved, and teachers
would back me up on that. Of course, most most of the time,
well, here's how dumb I am. How dumb are you? Like
I back in the day, I really never understood how you could pick up
the phone at your house and talk to somebody in China. Like I was
always like, how does that concept still? What's the science to that?
And then today I am driving from the gym to downtown. My son is
in Madrid on a cell phone and he's in the he's at the school,
he's got three hours to his next class, and I'm and it's it sounds
so clear with no delay like he' and I'm I got him on the speakerphone
of my car, so it's like he's sitting next to me, and I'm
like, how does this science work? It's like it's magic. It is,
it is. It's like star Trek to me. That's how dumb I
am? Is Like that, that concept of talking to my son in Madrid,
Spain in my car and it's so clear he's like sitting next to me
with no delay freaks me out. And it used to cost a dollar a
minute to call overseas. Yes, well, I'll tell you what's even worse
than that is is television. Just imagine television, just the concept of coming
up with it. Yeah, and when do you suppose see this always blows
my mind because when you get past like the fifties, almost start thinking stone
A's type stuff. But when do you think the television was invented demonstrated?
It was invented and actually demonstrated forty nine fifty two fifty two, nineteen fifty
two Dave forty six, September seventh, nineteen twenty seven. How crazy is
that they came up with the technology in the twenties? Okay, what you
gotta think that? Okay, So tell someone from nineteen fifteen, okay,
because radio just came in, Like radio just came in. Remember the the
Titanics was using that fancy new device called the telegraph, like the the whatever
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were using radio waves for the first time, like they have this new fancy
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and it'll land on this box and create a picture and to create a live
picture with audio a moving picture. I mean, how do you even invent
that? What? That's not? Righty bird heavy. I don't think Jesus
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