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Wicked Radio 12-22: Bus Driver's English Only Sign Is About Safety, Is Vance The Pick?, & Eggnog! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Christmas week. I know we were saying it before. We're
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  Speaker 1: in the red zone of the holiday season, but I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and estimated forty percent of their Christmas shopping. And boy
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  Speaker 1: especially during this busy time, busy travel week, everything else.
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  Speaker 1: But we still have stories going on. Our feature story
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  Speaker 1: is one that absolutely fascinates me. And I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you my absolute favorite stories are the ones that fool
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  Speaker 1: me at first, where I see it and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's obvious why that happened, Because I'm supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: the one. You know, my media training taught me to
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  Speaker 1: look beyond the headlines and find out what it actually means.
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  Speaker 1: What you can do about it. Right, So the stories
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  Speaker 1: that fool me at first where I have to take
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  Speaker 1: a second look at it and go, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: I love that because it challenges me too. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about the story of the Pennsylvania bus driver. She's
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  Speaker 1: sixty six years old and she got fired for an
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  Speaker 1: English only sign on her bus. And at first, like
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're thinking, you're like, well, you can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you're gonna get fired. Listen to her reasoning when
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  Speaker 1: we get to this story, and you may second guess
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  Speaker 1: yourself like I did on this. Also, just add news wise,
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  Speaker 1: jd Vance has officially jumped into the race or or
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  Speaker 1: has he been coronated. We don't really like that too much. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't like it when they did it to Kamala
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  Speaker 1: Harris kind of force that down people's throats. As a
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  Speaker 1: presidential candidate, right, why should we with him, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: And we also have another story that President Trump is
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  Speaker 1: having way too much fun with this story about his
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  Speaker 1: name being put on the building, the sign the name
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  Speaker 1: of the candidate center. The meltdown over this is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing how just different people focus on minor things
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  Speaker 1: they're actually calling this lots of people in the media
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  Speaker 1: and people on the street. It's another sign of the
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  Speaker 1: death of democracy. Anyway, we'll get to all that. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for being here, appreciate you. I'm gonna get to the
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  Speaker 1: new story first before the feature story, because that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: take a little bit of time to go through. But
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  Speaker 1: this happened over the weekend. That was a big I
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  Speaker 1: think it was what they call it Freedom Fest. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not exactly too sure, but it was the big turning
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  Speaker 1: point USA rally, big event, big event for that side
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  Speaker 1: of the aisle and get together and honor Charlie Kirk.
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  Speaker 1: A bunch of different speakers. Well jd. Vance was there,
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  Speaker 1: and boy did this sound like he was a presidential candidate. Now,
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  Speaker 1: everybody pretty much assumed that he's gonna be the guy
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  Speaker 1: that they go for it. He'll be the guy that
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  Speaker 1: unless something happens and there's a big fight in the
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  Speaker 1: Oval Office, he'll be the guy that President Trump nominates,
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  Speaker 1: he'll he'll campaign for in a couple of years. This
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  Speaker 1: sure sounded like his first presidential speech, though, didn't.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats are always already talking about twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty eight, and it looks like they're going.
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  Speaker 2: To nominate a California liberal who's presided a California liberal
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  Speaker 2: who's presided over rolling blackouts, open borders, and unchecked violent games.
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  Speaker 1: Well here's the thing, though, too on that side, and
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about both sides of this. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. I'm not shilling for anybody. I just chill
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  Speaker 1: for the American people. In common sense, it sounded like
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  Speaker 1: they decided on JD. Vance too over the weekend. It
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  Speaker 1: sure did. Now they'll have obviously, you know, they'll have
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  Speaker 1: the nomination process, and they'll have debates and they'll have
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  Speaker 1: you know, the primaries. But it sure sounds like they've
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  Speaker 1: already decided at least the GOP has at least the
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  Speaker 1: Trump runs GP has already decided Jade Vance is the guy, right,
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  Speaker 1: not saying it's good or bad. In fact, I may
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  Speaker 1: be a big supporter of that. Wasn't it too early
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  Speaker 1: for that? No, strategically, I get that. I totally understand it.
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  Speaker 1: You start speaking like a present And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: this was a shift in tone. Obviously a very friendly crowd,
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  Speaker 1: but this was a shift in tone with JD. Evans
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  Speaker 1: because beyond all that he had, it was a big,
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  Speaker 1: long speech like fifteen minutes. Usually up to this point,
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  Speaker 1: he's just talking about the administration. He's supporting the Trump agenda,
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  Speaker 1: he's supporting America first. Obviously a lot of this speech
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  Speaker 1: was supporting himself, and I get that politically, you have
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  Speaker 1: to do that was I think unofficially he threw his
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  Speaker 1: hat in the ring over the weekend at that speech.
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  Speaker 1: I think, so anyway too early strategically, no, because you've
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  Speaker 1: got to get a jump on this thing. But supposedly
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  Speaker 1: we don't like coronations in this country. I don't. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's too early, maybe it's not. We shall see. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to our feature story. And I don't usually
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  Speaker 1: do this to you. I apologize. I try to keep
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  Speaker 1: the talking empty suit news people to a minimum. But
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  Speaker 1: in this one, we kind of have to take it
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  Speaker 1: in steps to go through the news story out of Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to suffer through the local Yokal
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  Speaker 1: news story of the lady going a bus driver in
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania fire and for her. You know, they all sound
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  Speaker 1: like that, they're trained to talk like that, like they
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  Speaker 1: take the humanity out of them. Anyway, this is the
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  Speaker 1: story that has gripped the nation remember it was last
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  Speaker 1: week we had Genie from Target who got harassed in
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  Speaker 1: Target because she was wearing a freedom shirt. Huh. Funny enough,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of Charlie Kirk and she was accosted there, and
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  Speaker 1: then they had a big fundraiser for her with Gibson
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  Speaker 1: Go and then America supported her. Basically, I think Diane Crawford,
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  Speaker 1: the sixty six year old bus driver from Pennsylvania is
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  Speaker 1: the is this week's Genie from Target. She really is,
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  Speaker 1: because she's been Here's the long and short of the
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  Speaker 1: story and they'll go through the details. She's been fired
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  Speaker 1: from her job as a bus driver, like an independent
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  Speaker 1: contractor with the school district there because she put up
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  Speaker 1: an English only sign on her bus. Now, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: when I first looked at this story, I said, well
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  Speaker 1: that's just you can't. Of course they're going to fire
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  Speaker 1: for that. Shame on me, maybe, shame on you. Shame
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  Speaker 1: on everybody for not looking deeper into the headlines. This
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  Speaker 1: is what I try to get everybody to do, including myself,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently I didn't. You gotta read deeper into the
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  Speaker 1: headlines to understand the reason why and you can understand
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  Speaker 1: something to do about it. She has a very specific
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  Speaker 1: and to me now watching this story like five times,
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  Speaker 1: a very specific and a very solid reason for putting
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  Speaker 1: up that sign. Should she have worded it better? Oh god, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but she's sixty six. There were more direct than we
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  Speaker 1: were growing up. They just were should she have done
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  Speaker 1: it at all? Or taken Maybe she did take different steps?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Like I said, I'm gonna have to suffer
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  Speaker 1: through the bus driver in Pennsylvania newscaster on this. We'll
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  Speaker 1: take it in steps. But you kind of have to
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  Speaker 1: to get the gist of this story. Here we go,
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  Speaker 1: here's the beginning of it. This is Jeanie Crawford fired
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  Speaker 1: for her English only sign on very own bus. But
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  Speaker 1: you got to get to her reasoning before you understand
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  Speaker 1: the story.
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  Speaker 3: I do care, I care about a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Caring is exactly what Diane Crawford says led her to
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  Speaker 4: serve the Junieta County School District and subcontract with Rorer Boss.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, what else to do? I don't let a
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  Speaker 1: care and Medicaid now and.
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  Speaker 4: Snop I had to get on in a depressis because of.
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  Speaker 3: This, Crawford says, her contract with r US came to
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  Speaker 3: a halt very first after she put up this sign
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  Speaker 3: which read, out of respect to English only students, there
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  Speaker 3: will be no speaking Spanish on this boss.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so there's the story. This is what we got
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  Speaker 1: so far. And it's sorry was that writer was I
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  Speaker 1: read about the news? Lady fired for her sign? They
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  Speaker 1: just all sound like that. They just do anyway, all right,
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  Speaker 1: she's sixty six. You saw her uh sadness there at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. She doesn't know what to do. She's obvious,
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  Speaker 1: this is her job. She's an independent contractor, says she
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  Speaker 1: has to go on it to depressants. And that's the sign,
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  Speaker 1: which basically in English only signed but said there will
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  Speaker 1: And this is part of what got her in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: This is why the message is always so important. But
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  Speaker 1: she's sixty six, Come on, give her a break. There
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  Speaker 1: will be they'll I mean, no speaking Spanish on this bus.
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  Speaker 1: This is an English only bus, is what she's saying,
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  Speaker 1: which got her in trouble. Let's pause for a second
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  Speaker 1: and ask, okay, how does how does this wind up
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  Speaker 1: with the school district and her contractor basically losing her job.
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  Speaker 1: Basically is what it is. Some kid complained, some kid
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  Speaker 1: complained to a parent. Parent gets outraged, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: it is, English speaking parent or non English speaking parent,
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  Speaker 1: and they get it to the school district and that
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  Speaker 1: causes a ruckus and that's what it is. Right. The
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  Speaker 1: first question, now, my first I'll be completely honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: I first see the story, I'm like, well, that's just
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  Speaker 1: that's that's an unforced error. You don't do something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, Shame on me for not digging deeper into
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  Speaker 1: the story. She has a very specific reason for why
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  Speaker 1: she did this. Was it worded as you know, tactfully
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  Speaker 1: as it should have been. No, absolutely not in her eyes.
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  Speaker 1: It was completely polite. In her eyes. It makes complete sense.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe it does. You start to get into this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more and you understand why she did
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  Speaker 1: it this.
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  Speaker 4: Way, and it means to be racially in the sense
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  Speaker 4: of a or anything like that. Crawford claims she never
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  Speaker 4: got to explain that the sign was put up to
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  Speaker 4: encourage safe and respectful behaviors and was directed at a
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  Speaker 4: bilingual student who allegedly had a history of riling up
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  Speaker 4: other students. I didn't know if he was bullying somebody
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  Speaker 4: telling them to do something they should they shouldn't do.
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  Speaker 1: How do you keep control of your bus if you
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  Speaker 1: have no control. Ah, the crux of the story, and
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  Speaker 1: this is what changed my mind on it, and it took
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  Speaker 1: me a few times to see this exactly. Now. Was
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  Speaker 1: there her that her original intent? I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: a great explanation for what it is. Again, if she
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  Speaker 1: wrote this and communicated this better, would have been a
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  Speaker 1: different story first and foremost. And I have no proof
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  Speaker 1: of this whatsoever, but probably never going to find out.
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  Speaker 1: What would you like to bet though, that the uh
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  Speaker 1: Spanish speaking student that was causing all the trouble was
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  Speaker 1: the one to complain because actually could read the sign.
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  Speaker 1: It just tends to lead to that. Or maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was all the students complaining about the sign and got
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  Speaker 1: her fired. I don't know. Now when the community supposed
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  Speaker 1: to she is very much beloved, that's how they describe
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  Speaker 1: in the news story. So there's a lot of support
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  Speaker 1: in the community. And now that this is becoming a story,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, she's like the new genie from Target.
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  Speaker 1: She's getting a lot of support nationally across the country
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  Speaker 1: from people. I think. I'm not too sure it is
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  Speaker 1: already like a give sen go set up for her too,
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  Speaker 1: because apparently we support with money. These days, we can't
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  Speaker 1: reach that school district. But listen to what she said there.
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  Speaker 1: How am I supposed to keep control of my bus
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  Speaker 1: if I don't know what they're saying, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if there's bullying going on, or I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if they're getting other kids to rile up and misbehave otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: if they're not speaking the same language, she puts it
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  Speaker 1: that way, that's a different story, isn't it. Now? Imagine
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  Speaker 1: trying to be a bus driver in any age. I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it, My god. Can you imagine a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of screaming kids now all of a sudden, they're screaming
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  Speaker 1: behind you, misbehaving, but you can't communicate with them. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a different story, isn't it. Goes on to
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  Speaker 1: explain it again and sorry, this is more of the news, lady,
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  Speaker 1: but still goes on to explain where we go from here.
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  Speaker 4: Denroar Buss writing in a joint statement today, but the
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  Speaker 4: investigation had finished quickly after Crawford admitted to installing the note,
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  Speaker 4: writing quote, the relevant facts of the session were fully
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  Speaker 4: known and discussed among district and rur leadership, and that
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  Speaker 4: it was quote determines that the conduct did not align
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  Speaker 4: with the standards and expectations for student transportation providers.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's from the school district. Okay, but there's the question,
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  Speaker 1: that's your reasoning on why you terminated this lady's contract,
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  Speaker 1: your what's your transportation standards? What are they? Complete madness
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  Speaker 1: on this bus? Like what happens if you have a kid,
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  Speaker 1: Your child goes to this bus and gets the absolute
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  Speaker 1: pulp beaten out of him or her. You're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: to this school district and complain about it, and it
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  Speaker 1: just happens to be a student of a different language
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  Speaker 1: or origin or nationality or whatever it is. And because
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  Speaker 1: it's that, you can't complain somehow, what are your standards?
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  Speaker 1: Because it doesn't sound like any of it is clear.
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  Speaker 1: So absolutely she should have written that better. But is
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  Speaker 1: she wrong? When you talk about a safety standpoint, wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: you want let's say, completely not involved in this argument whatsoever,
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  Speaker 1: but you have a kid that is on that bus.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't you want the bus driver to be able to
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  Speaker 1: understand and hear everything that's going on, to be able
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  Speaker 1: to communicate what those safety standards are on that bus?
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  Speaker 1: Because I would, So what really is the story here
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  Speaker 1: and what's the pushback?
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  Speaker 4: You regret making the sign. Maybe I should have worded
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  Speaker 4: it different, Maybe I should have said bullying has new
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  Speaker 4: bullying in any language. But I didn't mean it to
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  Speaker 4: be anything but to correct him.
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  Speaker 3: I dedicated everything I had to driving bus. It was
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  Speaker 3: for the kids.
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  Speaker 1: I love the kids, the kids love me. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're here. He need to hear the newslady anymore, right
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  Speaker 1: as you can say the community loves her anyway. But
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  Speaker 1: it's true. So that's really the question, isn't it. Because
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  Speaker 1: these stories, kinds of stories happen all the time, her
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  Speaker 1: common sense doesn't prevail. Let's go to that. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to actually what happened here? Madness on a bus and
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't understand what these kids who were causing trouble
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  Speaker 1: were saying, couldn't tell if there was bullying going on
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  Speaker 1: because she couldn't understand what they were saying. So the
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  Speaker 1: overall message, even though maybe she didn't and she admitted this,
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  Speaker 1: maybe she didn't word it as tactfully as should have been,
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  Speaker 1: her intent is clear. She wants a safe bus, she
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  Speaker 1: wants safe kids, wants to hold on to her job.
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  Speaker 1: Why do we always lose focus of what the hell
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  Speaker 1: is going on here and this school district in the
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  Speaker 1: name of compliance and diversity and making everybody happy while
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  Speaker 1: you're throwing this lady out into the street. Good job,
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  Speaker 1: nice work. Well, here's the good part of it. There's
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  Speaker 1: always something good that comes of this people push back. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna hope I don't know this community in this
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  Speaker 1: township in Pennsylvania, but I'm gonna hope that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the pushback happened in this community because they should.
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  Speaker 1: This is a lady who's trying to do the right
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  Speaker 1: thing who was fired because of how she worded a
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  Speaker 1: sign in your community. That's where it starts. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the really good thing. Because of once again, kind of
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  Speaker 1: like Elon says, we're the media now because of online stories,
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  Speaker 1: because of everybody having a social media account, because things
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  Speaker 1: like this catch on. And I will tell you, if
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  Speaker 1: these kinds of things outrage you, because this lady and
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  Speaker 1: her English only sign was fired, feel better about this
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  Speaker 1: pushback is happening at a rapid pace. It wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: a massive story like last week like Jeanie from Target.
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  Speaker 1: Stories like this, stories across the board where people have
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  Speaker 1: had enough of the lack of common sense, because that's
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  Speaker 1: what happened here, which happens in so many school districts
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  Speaker 1: every single time, right when you have an administration in place,
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  Speaker 1: all they hear and all they see is like the
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  Speaker 1: first part of the story. Wait a minute, she wrote
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  Speaker 1: English only on a sign on this bus. WHOA, that's
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  Speaker 1: cut and dry. No, it's not cut and dry. You
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  Speaker 1: never get to what actually matters. She wanted her kids
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  Speaker 1: to be safer, that's obviously what she's saying. But did
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  Speaker 1: they bother looking into that. No, they didn't. Until now,
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on this story to see if that community,
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  Speaker 1: that that township, and the school administration and the company
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  Speaker 1: that hires her responds to this thing, because people have
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  Speaker 1: had enough of this. If you get a hold of
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  Speaker 1: enough of these stories, people will push back and make
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  Speaker 1: a difference. That's the feel good part of this story.
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  Speaker 1: That's the feel good. The outrageous part is that that's
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  Speaker 1: still happening because she dared to try to get control
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  Speaker 1: over bus. So I hope Diane Crawford from Pennsylvania gets
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  Speaker 1: her job back. I really do. That would be a
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  Speaker 1: nice Christmas story to follow up on, I hope. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we shall see. Here's a story out of the news
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  Speaker 1: again jumping back into headlines. This happened over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and this is this is such a great example of
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  Speaker 1: why you know, you always wonder. It's like, why does
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  Speaker 1: Trump like why does he when he speaks live? Why
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  Speaker 1: does he always make why does he always make fun
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  Speaker 1: of the left when they're having these kinds of meltdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Why doesn't he just ignore it?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Number one, he's enjoys he's enjoying it too much because
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: it's just so funny to him. But there's a there's
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: a tactical reason too why this really helps him out?
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Or even if you don't like Trump, you're still America first. Whatever.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: It is the Kennedy Center story that popped up over
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: the weekend, where basically the long and short of it is,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: they announced that they're going to put Trump's name on
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: the side of the Kennedy Center because he's done so
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: much to refurbish that place and change the poor It's
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: going to be the Kennedy Trump Center or Trump whatever
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: his name's going to be on the Kennedy Center in
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: New York. So the traditional people who have been part
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: of the Kennedy Center are having an absolute meltdown. In
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: other words, and I'll just say it, the very far
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: left leaning liberals are melting down over this. Not just politicians,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: not just people who used to be part of the
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Kennedy Center, but every day far left for the liberals too. Now,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: I've got a guy here to play that is exemplifies
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: this perfectly. But this is happening a lot. It's not
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: just this guy. First of all, watch the meltdown, but
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: there's an important reason why this really benefits Trump these
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: kinds of meltdowns. But listen to this guy again, and
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: he's spinning out of control because Trump's name is going
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: to be on the Kennedy Building or feeling like democracy
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: died to that.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: This is history happening today and we should all be shocked,
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: shocked that a felon, a convicted felon, and a thug
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: and by all means a gricter has just stuck his
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: name on top of a national monument.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Why, I tell you, you got to be living a
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: charmed life if Trump's name being on the Kennedy Center
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and spins you out of control that badly. Wow. So
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Trump being Trump and you know, he enjoys this too much,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: so he keeps like talking about that kind of thing
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and posting it and rubbing it in. That's just you know,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: that's him, that's his personality. Something is something more important
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: that though, though, that gives Trump a bigger win than
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: you know, something like that guy or his name being
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: on the building. Sure, his ego loves it, right if
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: he feeds into it. Absolutely. Here's what this really means.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: If you have Democrats and they pick up on this,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: you've already seen this maybe on CNN, ORMSNBC. If they
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: get so worked up about a nominal, a tiny little
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: story like this and make it such a big headline
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: and they're so worked up about it makes such a
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: big deal. It's a massive beneficial distraction story for the
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Trump administration that they love this kind of stuff because
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: it allows them to work on other stuff that actually
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: does make the country better. So these little minuscule little
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: issues that guys like that gets so worked up over
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: it's a national lightmare. It's that is such a big
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: win for Trump because he's got them absolutely mentally and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: emotionally broken, and it's it's huge for the America First movement.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I can tell you, I can tell you that that
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: guy is having a meltdown over a name. Anyway, let's
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: get to some Christmas stuff, because where how many days
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: away from the actual day. I was amazed by this.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I saw it was at an event over the weekend,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and actually I saw a lot of people, and it
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: was a physical activity event. And at the end of it,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the place that was holding it was handing out little
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: cups of eggnog. And I had thought about eggnog for
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: a long time, and I thought people still like eggnog.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, I maybe completely out of it as far
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: as eggnog is concerned, because I've never really been into it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: But apparently there are a lot of people that love
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: their egnog, no whether it's non alcoholic or alcoholic. I
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: just I didn't know this well. Of course, especially during
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the holidays, there's always some kind of social survey study
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: that fascinates me, especially around Christmas time, because a lot
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: of surprising things that are on there. This one is
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: from instacart. You know, obviously they're trying to figure out
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: what people are buying so they publish their stuff. They
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: looked at sales, their sales data, and Instagart's pretty big,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: So you would tend to imagine that it's pretty exact.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: People ordering eggnog through instacart to get ready for Christmas Day,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: leading up to it, Christmas Eve, parties, whatever it is,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: sales from the holiday season, and they put out a
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: map of the states that love eggnog and the ones
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: that hate it. So here's the tail of the tape.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: You're ready. The states that supposedly love eggnog the most.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: The state that loves it far and beyond, according to
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Instacart's number above any other state is are you ready?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: New Hampshire, the Granite state, kind of makes sense. First
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of all, can you order like alcoholic beverage Instacart? I
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: don't even know, but I would imagine being a big
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: drinking state anyway, New Hampshire would be number one. That
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me. Then Vermont, then Alaska. You get in
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the field here. These are all cold weather states. Maine, Oregon, Wyoming, Utah,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Washington State, Wisconsin, New Mexico. Now this is why I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: may be confused. Even though I'm in New Englander, I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: was born and raised there. I've been in Florida a
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: long time, so I've been out of the eggnog game.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: But it makes reason. It stands to reason why I
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: have been According to instacart, the number one state that
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: absolutely hates almost nobody buys eggnog through their app is Florida,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: where I am. It made me feel better now I
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: understand why I've been out of the eggnog game so
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: long and don't understand the appeal to it where I
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: am right now. Not a lot of people like it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I think this is all weather related. Like you're cold,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: you know you like to sit by the fire and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: have your eggnog for the holidays. That makes sense. It's
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: still steaming hot where I am in the southeast. You
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: don't want to be weighed down by that. So there's
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: your holiday story for today, more tomorrow. You know, the lighthearted,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: filler stories. It's funny me here. I appreciate you all right.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Audio podcast, by the way, programming note is growing by
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: leaps and bounds. People still love audio apparently, So I
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: published this post the audio version right after we get
• 21:50
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• 21:52
  Speaker 1: find them on spreaker dot com. That's one of them. Facebook,
• 21:57
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• 22:00
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• 22:05
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• 22:08
  Speaker 1: day right there, the audio version of this, so thank
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you so much for following that, and the YouTube channel
• 22:12
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• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a subscribe on there, and the replay on x and
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: on Facebook. Long and short of it is all that crap,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: all right. The takeaway is you may be outraged by
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of the stories you hear these days about
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: like the bus driver getting fired for her English only sign,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: our last week's story about Genie from Target. Right, feel
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: good about this. There's still a prevailing sense of common
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: sense in this country. And now. The difference is people
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: hear about these stories and pushback. Why because we have
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: this we are the media now. It's true. People get
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a hold of these stories wherever they can, and they
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: support common sense wherever they can. That's what should make
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: you feel good about it. All right, eanks for finding me.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much. Again. It's Christmas week, get
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: your shopping done. If you partake with all that said,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: make it a wicked awesome Monday. I'll talk to you tomorrow.