Mike Porcaro, behind the mic of your 50,000-watt blowtorch. News Radio 650, KENI. Good afternoon, everybody. It is 407, 24 degrees in Anchorage, 25 in Palmer, 23 in Soldot, and 25 in Homer, 26 in Fairbanks.
Minus two in Prudhoe, 42 in Seattle, 33 in New York. Akaroa, New Zealand, 65. Pensacola, Florida, 61. And Tifton, Georgia, 53. I went to sleep last night, and it was March or April. And I woke up, and it was back to January. What a week. I mean, what a weekend. We've had just warm weather. All the snow was gone.
You know, heavy rain, just beating, grinding wind, and now today you walk outside and you'll fall down. How was your weekend? Sunday was cool. Yeah, Sunday worked out well for you. Yeah, well, I'm just glad that I got two weeks for the Super Bowl, so I have two weeks to enjoy this whole thing before they lose to Kansas City. I don't know about that. I don't know, man. I was really hoping they'd end up playing Buffalo.
Buffalo left a lot of points on the board. Yeah, they did. They kept trying those two-point conversions. They don't know how to do the tush-push or brotherly shove. If you watch the first game with the Eagles and then you watch Buffalo, the Eagles are pretty close to automatic when they do that. And a lot of times they gain a lot more than a yard. Sometimes it's two and a half, three yards. The difference being is Josh Allen is six foot seven. He can't hide in the pile. Jalen Hurts is like five foot ten and a half. He can squat six.
pounds if you watch that a lot of times you don't even know where he is he's shorter than the center he slides right through yep but but it was interesting because um a lot of dumb plays by the buffalo coach i mean i he just i'm sorry he just left about five or six points on the board yesterday they could have won the game the guy dropped the ball you know on the final drive which
Could have done something. And then there were some calls for Kansas City that, you know, a little questionable. Somebody told me the reason Patrick Mahomes wears the number 15 is when he gets hit, it reminds the ref of how bad the penalty is going to be. Yeah. 15 yards. Yep.
15 yards. So do I think that the Chiefs are going to win? No, I think the Eagles are going to beat them. Well, what I think is if the Eagles, they need to don't get away from what got them there. Don't go out and throw the ball 40 times. No, run. And even if it doesn't work initially, stick with it. Because if you've watched Saquon Barkley all year, he'll go three yards, five yards, four yards, 78. You know what I mean? Their home run ball is in the running game.
more times than it is in the passing game. So they've got to stick with it. Control the clock, keep Patrick Mahomes off the field, and run the ball right down their throat. The question is, can they stop Kansas City? That is the question. The Eagles have a better defense than Buffalo does.
Yes, they do. The problem is that Mahomes can score so quickly. He's a machine. He's the most talented, physically talented quarterback that I've ever seen. Lamar Jackson's pretty high up there. Michael Vick was really physically gifted. But Patrick Mahomes, if there's one play that needs to be made for them to win the game, he almost always makes it. It's infuriating to watch.
Well, you have to keep him boxed in. You cannot let him get to the outside. That's what happens. He's too quick. He's too smart. I mean, the guy could be falling on his back and still throw a 50-yard pass at somebody. If they win the Super Bowl this year, you could be fairly safe in saying it's the best NFL team of all time. To win three in a row, that's insane.
And Brady's going to be calling the game. And I wonder if there's going to be some, like, jealousy in there. Oh, probably he's going to say, well, you know. It's something he never did. No, he never did. Different rules. Yep. Yeah, that's what he'll say. And he was, yesterday during the Eagles game, the only Super Bowl the Eagles ever won was with their backup, Nick Foles, and they beat Tom Brady. And when they flashed to him in the box and Tom Brady's like, look, Nick, I don't hate you. I'm just jealous. Because you caught it and I didn't.
That was quite a weekend. But the weather, just to me, I don't know what's going on with the weather. The weather's terrible. I would take 40 and rainy over what we got today. I don't know what everyone else's experience was. When I took my daughter to school this morning, it was treacherous as far as the roads go. There were two times driving today that if there would have been somebody in the lane next to me, I would have hit them.
So why didn't they cancel school? Because I think the snow came so late. Because they say, we've got to cancel by 5, 530. Well, the snow didn't really start coming down until a little after 6, right? And then the roads got really bad around 6, 37 o'clock. But at that point, everyone was on their way to school or whatever. They always test the roads. Normally, when we get a notification, there's no school. It's around 5 a.m. And the conditions weren't that bad at 5 a.m. Now, we did get a notice later this afternoon, all after-school activities are canceled and all that kind of stuff.
But when I was driving her to school, I thought, you know, it wouldn't have been a bad idea to cancel it. But then it dawned on me. They didn't know how bad the roads were going to be until it was well past the time they would normally call it. Right. So what do you think tomorrow?
I have no idea. The roads are a little bit better now. They're not great. Not much. Yeah, driving her home from school, you know, you get in a turn lane and there's two turn lanes, two turn lanes that are turning left. And I took the inside lane and I'm glad there was nobody on the outside turn lane because I would have hit him. I slid right out into the middle of the road. And I'm driving like five miles an hour.
Well, I mean, it is terrible. I talked to a friend that came in from the valley, said the S-curves were just almost, you couldn't even see. It was almost like a whiteout. Right. And then once you start slipping, there's nothing you can do. Just wait for the car to recover. You don't want to overcorrect, because when it does catch up, you're going to go cattywampus the other way, if I may invoke a little French. You can, yes. It's a very old French term, yes. I don't know, but as soon as, speaking of...
school tomorrow. As soon as I get home, my daughter will be standing in front of a green screen like they do on local news during the weather. She took her Christmas money and made one so she could go ahead and stand in front of a green screen in the dining room and tell me why the little pointer, why there's not going to be school tomorrow. She'll tell you about the occluded front. We have an occluded front coming in from the north coupled with that Chinook wind. I mean...
Yeah, right. And a low pressure sent her right over Spenard. She told me last night. She said school should be canceled tomorrow. I'm like, what are you talking about? She was right. When I drove her to school this morning, I wouldn't have been butthurt if they would have canceled school. I mean, if I would have been thinking about it, I just would have turned around and went home with her. Said, forget it. You can log on and see what you missed today. I think she's not a strong student anyways. I mean, you can't really get any worse. You're terrible. Yeah, well.
All right, well, it's 414-522-0650. There's some very strange things that companies are making. And one of them, I mean, I like soup, okay? I love soup, as a matter of fact. Well, there's something that Progresso is doing that I've got to tell you, I think they've lost their minds. Well, I'll tell you about it when we come back. Welcome back. It is 419-522-0650. That is the phone number. Let's go to Robert. Hi, Robert. Hi, Mike.
Hey, don't forget the wind was blowing so hard over the weekend, and some news even said we had tornadoes. Yeah, that's what I heard. That's strange. Man, oh, man. That's crazy. There were some trees knocked down, but I wonder if anyone's property got some damage from a little too high of a wind. I know my stuff kept blowing around all weekend. There was stuff blowing down the street and everything, you know.
pieces of, big pieces of trash and tarps and everything? Well, there's been a lot. I mean, you know, we saw tree limbs and all kinds of stuff flying around. A lot of, I don't know if I've got some of my neighbor's stuff in my yard. I know there were a bunch of tarps that literally I saw flying by the windows. Yeah, and I'm really worried about if Crash's team doesn't win the Super Bowl.
The screaming that I'm going to hear, I don't live too far from him, and I don't know if my house can withstand the screaming coming from his house and knocking mine over. Robert, I would actually drown out the tornado, so you've got to pick your poison there. It's one or the other.
Well, okay. Well, we survived the weekend, so hopefully Crash's team wins, and we'll be happy for Crash. I'll be right with the world. I appreciate the support. I need all the help I can get. You know what you do, Robert? You just take a good swing at the ball, and God willing, everything works out for you. Take the games one at a time. And I'd like to go ahead and take this time to thank everybody that supported me all season long and helped me along the way. Yeah, and this is going to be, I think, a very good game. I think both teams.
Have a great chance, and I hope the score is really close, but I just hope Crash wins and Taylor Swift loses. All right, thank you. Well, you know, if you win Crash, Taylor Swift is going to probably want to date you. Well, who wouldn't? That's right. Okay, you guys, take care.
Thanks, Robert. Appreciate it. 5-2-2-0-6-50. Okay, I'll tell you about soup. Now, Progresso has come up with something. It's just kind of a gimmick, but they did. Now, brands throughout the United States have decided to do crazy things with their product. Velveeta came out with something called Velveeta hair dye.
What? Yeah, I don't know. Wait, does it just look like Velveeta, or does it make your hair smell like cheese food? Maybe it smells like cheese. I don't know. Auntie Anne's pretzels. Yeah, we've got those in the mall. It's got a perfume, if you want to smell like that. Whoa. 7-Eleven has got hot dog seltzer. Why? I don't know. And people were thinking, okay, maybe this will go away, but it didn't. Now, Progresso Soup.
has come up with something called soup drops, and it is flavored with chicken noodle soup. So these things come in a tube, and they look like caramels, and you put one in your mouth, and it's supposed to taste like chicken noodle soup. So is it something you would bite down on that was filled with soup? No, no, it's just like a hard candy.
Oh, so it's like soup-flavored candy. Right. Not liquid at all, just the flavor of soup. The flavor of soup. And one critic said it smells like my dog's food. Oh, well, there's a ringing endorsement. I guess my question would be, how often does he sniff his dog's food? Well, I don't want anyone to go. I would try that. I mean, is chicken noodle the only one that comes in? Who hasn't wanted a hard candy that had a scent of clam chowder in it?
That's going to replace the Werthers that all the old people have in their pocket. That's what I was thinking. I could do that with my grandkids. Yeah, you'd have the one... And have a chicken soup soup. Right, you'd have the one Kleenex that you've used for the last two months, wadded up in your pocket, and you would hand them a clam chowder-flavored lozenge without a wrapper on it that's been in the same pocket the whole time.
And you're hoping that it's really clam chowder. Yeah, can you hear a little, Timmy? Have this. Right, exactly. Oh, my God. That's just awful. But I would just as soon eat the chicken noodle soup. Yeah, I probably would, too. As opposed to, you know, put a chicken noodle soup candy in my mouth. My sweet wife.
The lovely Mrs. P saw that and she said, what do you think of this? It's a nice option on an evening. She doesn't feel like cooking. Yeah. What are you having for dinner tonight? Soup. You put it in a bowl. Right. Just one little tablet. Don't chew it up. Let it melt in your mouth and savor the flavor. Right. Or just pour hot water on it or something. Yeah, well, you never know. I mean, you could put instant coffee in your mouth and just drink hot water. I've done that before. Have you? Yeah. Did that work?
Not particularly. Was it Folgers? Well, nothing says waking up. Freeze-dried crystals. You put them in your cupboard. They last forever. That's true. That's from Seinfeld. I've never had freeze-dried coffee. What? You've never had a can of instant Folgers coffee? No. What? If I want coffee, I basically make it. Grind the beans and make it. Wow, aren't you fancy. You're a fancy lad with your coffee grinder.
I'm a fancy boy. Yeah, no, my wife does the same thing. She won't buy the coffee that's already ground because she says all kinds of stuff in there that you're not supposed to drink. And I'm like, well, that would be true for anybody else, but you're buying this healthy coffee and you drink three pots of it a day. I think health really isn't the first concern you have when consuming your daily ration of caffeine. My wife will drink coffee from the minute she wakes up until about an hour before she goes to bed. She'll go through three pots in a day.
And nothing, it doesn't affect her sleep? No. I mean, if the pot, if the burner's turned off, my wife will microwave the coffee and drink it. Oh, no. Yeah, I'll be downstairs, and I'll hear her pour a cup from the pot from the night before and chuck that thing in the microwave, put it in there for a minute while the new pot is brewing, and I can hear her put it in the microwave and then shotgunning that thing to get her day started.
Oh, my. I bought her one of those Nespresso machines for Christmas a few years ago, and it seemed like a great present. She loves coffee. But about two hours after she opened it, it was a mistake because her eyes were facing different directions. It's time for coffee. Yeah, I've never met anyone that loves coffee as much as my wife. So what if she didn't have her coffee in the morning? What would happen? Bad things.
would you still be with us probably not i would i don't think she'd kill me outright she'd probably put me in the crawl space and make my death a long and lingering affair no you've never met anyone in your life that loves coffee the way my wife does i mean it's constantly every time we leave the house want to stop and get a coffee want to stop and get a coffee no i don't want to stop and get a coffee stop and get a coffee then we could ride bikes
And she likes, you know, she'll go and get like this half-caf decaf latte, whatever the hell that thing is. It looks more like a milkshake than anything else. Right. Not me, man. I want gray coffee. Then you put the powdered creamer in it, and it turns gray. Then you know that's a good cup of coffee right there. That's radio station coffee right there. Well, I'll tell you what. It'll kill you. All right. It is 427-522-0650 is the phone number. John Fetterman.
The senator from Pennsylvania, the guy that wears the hoodie, he was on The View today. And apparently Sonny Hostin is now in a tizzy. So we'll talk more about that when we come back. Stay with us. Welcome back, everybody. 522-0650. Glad to have you with us. It's good to be here. It's a Monday. We survived the weekend, the terrible weather that we had and all of that. So I guess we can look forward now to some very cold weather coming up this weekend. So get ready for that.
John Fetterman, Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, was on The View today, and he kind of got into it with Sonny Hostin. In fact, according to the New York Post, he sent her into a tizzy when he asserted that President Trump's New York City hush money trial had been politically motivated. Appearing on the far-left ABC chat show this morning,
In his trademark hoodie, Fetterman started out by covering a wide range of topics with the hosts, from Hunter Biden to Trump's pardon of the January 6 rioters. The first-term senator had already rankled his fellow Democrats by visiting Trump at Mar-a-Lago, a meeting he called positive.
on The View, adding that he felt the president was kind and cordial during their hour-long conversation, something that I'm sure Sonny Hostin didn't want to hear. When discussing Hunter Biden on the show, Fetterman let it slip that he believed Trump's widely publicized Manhattan trial, in which he was given a no-penalty sentence on January 10th, was more about politics than the facts of the case. He says, I'm on record criticizing.
going after Hunter Biden, and they also agree that Trump's hush money trial in the city of New York was politically motivated, he said. That would otherwise have been prosecuted, wouldn't have been prosecuted, if it had been somebody else. It's all about delivering second chances. Well, Hostin, through thinly veiled outrage, went after Federer. Just for clarification.
Did you mean that the 34-count case in which Donald Trump was found guilty of various financial crimes was politically motivated here in New York? Fetterman said, yes, it was inappropriate. Anytime the judicial system gets weaponized and targets enemies for political gain, regardless of the parties involved. And, of course, Hostin was not.
was not happy. Whether that's a Democrat going after a Republican or a Republican going after a Democrat, I think you could call balls and strikes because the judicial system has to remain impartial. That's really the cornerstone of our society. Fetterman isn't the only Democrat to argue with the lefty Manhattan District Alvin Bragg's case. This summer, Democratic former Governor Andrew Cuomo said in an episode of Real Time with Bill Meyer,
If his name was not Donald Trump, he would not have had that problem. So what does that tell you? Even the Democrats can see this. And so, Crash, I'm surprised you didn't watch that show, because that's your favorite show now. I T-voted, and you ruined the whole ending for me.
Ever since Trump won the election, all the women on The View watching their heads pop off every day is one of my favorite things. I didn't get a chance to watch anything today, so now you've mapped out my evening for me when I get home. Particularly Sonny Hoskins. I love to watch her just lose it.
out of all of the people on that show, I find her just absolutely insufferable. Like when Whoopi Goldberg talks, it's just like, yeah, whatever. I don't really, whatever. What she says doesn't really have any substance. She's just on there pontificating or whatever. Sonny Hoskins really thinks she's the smartest person in the world. And she thinks anybody that doesn't share the exact same political view or view about anything for that matter is beneath her and just altogether stupid. And I love watching her be wrong. And I love watching her head pop off. Like all the time she's had to come on and make some sort of,
legal note because she said something she shouldn't have said the fact that her husband is indicted in this whole rico thing uh as far as insurance fraud goes listening to her make excuses for why he did what he did is hilarious because if it was anybody else she'd be going after him tooth and nail it's just republican sure absolutely that whole show is just so hypocritical and they always put like the
A token conservative on the end of the table who really is just there for window dressing. I mean, throw like Ben Shapiro on that show or Charlie Kirk. Put them on that show and let them debate Whoopi Goldberg and Joe Bay, Joy Behar. And watch how that works out for them. It'd get absolutely eviscerated if anybody from the other side of the political fence was on that show and had any idea what the hell they were talking about. Because it's just a bunch of squawking.
I don't know. I hate this show and I can't get enough of it. I know. I believe she went on the PBS show Finding Your Roots or something. Right, she found out her ancestors were slave owners.
Yeah, there were white slave owners. Right. And the look on her face. I mean, she gets kicked in the teeth all the time, and she just keeps coming back for more. You watch Democrats go on there. I don't know if you're familiar. We've talked about, I think, Off Air. He's a very popular FM morning radio host. Charlemagne the God is his name. Yes. And he keeps his ear to whatever his ear is kept to as far as the political arena goes. The ground. Usually you keep your ear. Yeah, that's where you put it. It's no my business where you put your ear. You do your ear.
I don't care where you put your ear. Right. But he went on there when Biden pardoned his son and said, you guys really think that this was not his plan all along? You guys really think he just changed his mind? And they're all like, yeah. He goes, well, then you're ridiculous.
That's not what happened. They've had a couple of Stephen A. Smith. He's a very popular ESPN radio slash television host. He went on there and told them all the reason that the Democrats lost the presidential election is because they put forth one of the worst candidates in the history of federal free election out there. And they all lost it. They don't like being told they're wrong, even when it's obvious that they are. So Sonny Hoskins, more than the other squawking women on that show. I'm just I love it when.
She has to retract or she's proven wrong. I love watching her get egg on her face. And from what you just described, I can't wait to go home and watch that tonight, too. I can't stand her. I just there's something about her. I just can't stand her. OK, well, yeah, she's probably mean to the elderly and doesn't put her shopping cart away when she's done. That's what I think.
She comes off smug and pompous. She does. Yeah, I mean, she's always wrong, too. You know what I mean? She acts like the smartest person in the room, and she's always having to retract things she says. They constantly have guests on there, and she'll throw what she thinks is a softball to them because this person's going to agree with me because we're in the same political party here. And they just tell her, no, you're wrong. And she gets all mad about it. If somebody else on the panel disagrees with her, she tells them how wrong they are. They don't know what they're talking about. So anytime she has to eat a little.
little bit of crow i enjoy watching her dine now i i'm surprised that show's still on the air i am too but they do pander to a certain base that um that there's obviously an audience for because they've been ridiculous forever but since trump got elected it's been amped up because they all just
They just can't let it go. I mean, one of the best episodes of that show was the day after the election. You know, them saying things like, if we all band together, it will be okay. We'll get through this. Oh, shut up. Kumbaya!
It's interesting, and I find it interesting that you have certain folks that are now getting really involved in trying to protect the illegals in the country. Now, you know, no one should treat people badly. No one should do anything untoward, but these people are in this country illegally.
And they need to be returned to the country from where they came. I mean, it's just, it's that simple. And so over the weekend, you had the president of Colombia refusing to take back his own citizens. Now Brazil is saying that the United States... Do they have like a no return policy on people? I don't know. It's like Brazil now is claiming that we beat up their citizens on the plains. I mean, come on. You know, it's like, look.
These people are from your country. They came into my country illegally. Now, what would you like me to do with them? I'm not going to keep them in my country because they don't belong there. I'm sending them back to you. And so the guy from Colombia got all in Trump's face, and he said, well, it's a 50% tariff on Colombian coffee and everything else. Well, that's that.
You know, you don't even need a drink. I mean, it's coffee. You can get coffee anywhere. Right. Really. So the guy just, he relented. And then he sent his own plane to make sure that the people were treated properly. Fine. Send your own plane. I'll put your people on there. You know, I've fed them, basically. I've made sure they're okay for how long. And now it's your turn to take them back. And it's a simple exchange. He said, well, you're treating them like criminals.
Yes, they are criminals. Well, there's an old piece of video a long time ago of Hillary Clinton standing in front of a group of people spouting to anyone that will listen, if you're in the country illegally, you need to be sent back to your country. You're breaking the law. I wonder what changed along the way. Was it one of those things where I'm going to be a Democrat, so I have to say it's okay for them to be here? It was a really strange thing. All of a sudden, it became okay to break the law and enter the country illegally, and for a time, which I think thankfully is over,
you were called like a horrible human being. If you said, no, those people broke the law, they need to go back to their own country. What's wrong with you? Have you no compassion? It's not that anybody's saying they can't come to the United States. You just do it the correct way. No, come the correct way. Or you want to come on a visit? One of these guys in Brazil who supposedly caught a beating from somebody on the plane, I don't know who it was, said, I'll never go back to the United States.
We don't ask you to come in the first place. We're supposed to be here in the first place, brainiac. You know, it's like if you want to come to the United States for a visit, fine. You know, there's a procedure. Come, enjoy, whatever. If you want to come here to go to school, there's a procedure for that. If you want to come here to live, then, you know, there are procedures for all of this. Just follow them and do it the right way.
But this is crazy where, you know, all of a sudden somehow we have to take in everybody who decides they want to walk across the border. The border was porous. And, you know, we had all these. We got a bunch of bad people in this country now that have come in here from various parts of the world to not work in America to basically cause trouble here.
And what Trump is doing is exactly the right thing. Send them out and make sure they don't come back. That's all. That's it. You know, I don't understand it. And somehow we're the bad guys for wanting to police and control who comes into our country. There's no country in the world that just lets you walk in.
Try walking into Mexico or any one of those countries from where these people have come from. It's a pretty long walk from where we live. Well, it's a long walk to Mexico, but I'll meet you. All right, it's 446. We'll be right back. Get on with Mike and Crash weekdays at 3 on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
Now, back to the Mike McCartney Show with Crash on News Radio 650 KNO. All right, it is 449. Make it 450. What the heck? Let's just round up. It's 24 here in Anchorage. Roads are bad. A lot of accidents. There were some places that the roads were closed, in fact. Darrell Dean is our traffic guy and I'm sure he'll give you all of the information.
On that, just be really careful when you're going home tonight. And Crash, you were going, what did you say? You were just going, like, just crawling along and you were sliding around on the road. Yeah, it's just, it's so weird because certain parts of town are so much worse than others. So you got to kind of play it safe wherever you are because you just never know. I mean, Diamond Boulevard wasn't that bad. Although I was driving my wife's car today, not my 1996 Ford POS. I was driving her little...
her little volvo and there's this a tiny little incline as you're headed uh east on diamond by costco there and i almost got stuck on that tiny little hill just trying to get going so it just it depends on where you're at in town some parts aren't that bad and some parts are horrible so you just have to assume it's all horrible yeah yeah you do uh we had a delivery here today um and it was
I mean, I've got to give the guy driving that truck, you know, he needs to get a gold star. The guy just did an amazing job. The driveway is kind of long and twisty, and he was able to negotiate it pretty easily. But it's tough. I mean, and you really, you know, you have to wait until. It stops snowing, and then you get the snow guys out, and they have to put something on the ice and the snow. It's a mess because it's snow on top of ice, and that's what makes it so treacherous. I don't know.
Well, what was it? I saw something in one of the newspapers over the weekend where Chris Constant was singing the praises of Céline de France, saying she's really handled the snow well. We haven't had any snow. Does that surprise you at all? He leaves the planet Constant and comes down and visits it here on Earth.
Every once in a while. We haven't had any snow. The roads are bad. And I'm not blaming anybody for the roads. It's bad weather that we had. It's the opposite of what they would have done with Bronson. Bronson's fault because the wind was blowing.
No, it's bad weather. So now what you do is you have to figure out how to make the road safe. Okay? I think people have patience. It's just that they want to see some action. That's all. And, you know, as I say, so far she's done a super job with the snow crash.
Really. It was almost all gone. Yeah. I mean, if she's responsible for having it melt, okay, then I'll accept that. But to say that she's done a great job with the snow, we haven't had it. Well, just so you know what's going on up here at the Ponderosa, it's getting windy again. And I guess we're supposed to have winds this evening as well. I don't think we're going to get the kinds of winds we had. We had hurricane force winds pretty much all weekend.
And I don't know how windy it was down where you are, but up here it was howling. Yeah, pretty windy. So, I mean, I don't know. You have to check around to make sure that the siding on the house is there, the shingles are still on there. If you've got heat tape on your home, you have to make sure that didn't blow off or get ripped off. If you have Christmas lights still up.
You know, there was winded. I saw rip off some Christmas lights, too. No, I lost some shingles. Did you? Yeah. Yeah, well, that's not good. Nope. You want to get those replaced.
I got one of those cool ropes you use in elementary school where they tie the knots in it so it's easy to climb. I got that fastened of a chimney. I'm going to shimmy on up there when I get home and get some of that flex tape I've seen on TV. Another thing will hold a boat together. That's what that guy said. That's true. Well, I'm going to cut this boat in half. I'm going to get in a lake full of a bunch of sharks.
Then I'm going to tape it up with his stuff. And look at me. Now, I haven't seen that commercial in a long time. So I wonder if the guys even got eaten by the sharks. Have you seen that commercial? No, but I will say. I tried the flex tape and it worked really good. I'm kind of embarrassed to say what I use it for. It's actually one of the smaller windows in my truck.
I've got one of those triangle windows, and they got broken out, and I couldn't find a new one, so I just used Flex Tape. And it's been on there for two years. I picked my daughter up from school the other day, and a teacher was out there with the kids, and he stops, knocks on the window. I roll down, and he's like, that's nice work, man. I'm like, thanks, dude. Yeah, those were the little vent windows. I remember those. You still have to crank your windows down, right? In the truck? I'm sorry, what was that?
You have to crank your windows down in the truck, right? Yeah. No, they're electric. Oh, they are? Yeah, come on, man. What do you think I am? I got electric windows. I don't have a rearview mirror in the cab because that fell off, and I don't know where it went. Don't you think you need one? No, I can use the side mirrors. That's fine. I don't need that one. Plus, if someone's driving behind me, they can look in that mirror and see what I'm doing in the truck, and I don't want anyone to do that. All right. Well.
It is 4.56. Excuse me. Hour number one is done. Hour number two coming up. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Behind the mic of your 50,000-watt blowtorch, NewsRadio 650, KENI. Well, welcome back. It is 505-24 in Anchorage, 25 in Palmer, 23 in Soldot, and our home is at 25. Fairbanks is warm today, 26 minus 2 up in Trudeau. Seattle's 42, New York 33. Our friends down in Akaroa, New Zealand, 65. Isn't that pleasant?
Pensacola, Florida, 61, and Tifton, Georgia, 53, some of the places that admit to listening to this radio show. Well, joining us now is a friend of the show, Senator Bill Wilikowski. He's a Democrat. He's from Anchorage. And he's just introduced Senate Bill 64. Senator, how the heck are you? Hey, I'm doing well. How are you doing? Well, I'm doing fine. We always...
talk about our elections, we talk about weights, we talk about the way we do things, we talk about everything. And so I can see that this is a year, it looks like the legislature and the governor, I think, are going to work together to try to make our elections better. So what does your Senate bill do? So this bill, we've been working on an elections bill for the last three or four years.
And this bill goes back to several years ago where I worked with Senator Schauer and I worked with Representative Tuck in the House at the time and the governor. And we came up with a bill. It was about a year of work to come up with a bipartisan piece of legislation that addressed concerns that Senator Schauer and Governor Dunleavy had and addressed concerns that some progressives had.
And I think it was a pretty fair package. And then that bill unfortunately died. We had an agreement. We sent it into legislative legal about three days before the end of session, and they didn't get it to us until about 1130 on the last night of day 120. And so we got in. It was a 31-page bill, and we didn't have time to review it, and it just died.
Well, last year we had a bill that died on the last night of session, and so this time around we said, you know what, we're going to start right from the beginning. I had a meeting with Senator Schauer already. We had a really good discussion. We walked through the ideas that we had. He's looking through it right now, but it goes back to that bill that we had originally agreed on. And so we're going to try to come up with something, and we've got two full years to do it, but hopefully we can get it done before then.
I think there were a lot of concerns in this last election. There's been a lot of concerns the last two elections, and we want to try to make the public feel that our elections have integrity and there's transparency. And so we address a number of different things. For example, one of the things is that we have 106% more registered voters in the state than we have adult citizens in the state of Alaska.
You know, there's probably a number of reasons for that. I think the dividend probably has a little something to do with that. People like to register in the state and then they leave and they don't say anything. But, you know, right now, we, for example, if someone registers to vote in another state, there's a division of elections doesn't do anything. If someone gets a property tax exemption, a residential property tax exemption in another state or resident tuition,
in another state. The Division of Elections doesn't do anything about it. And so what we're saying here is Division of Elections, you have to do something about it. You have to send them a notice. We can't actually, believe it or not, we can't actually just remove them from the voter rolls. We have to go through a process, but we're putting a process in place so that they can be removed from the voter rolls to clean up our rolls. So that's one thing that it does. The other thing that we've heard was the time it took,
for the ballots to be counted. And, you know, this is a debate that we're going to have. The governor's got a bill that he wants to shut off early voting five days beforehand, and he wants to have ballots counted by Election Day. The challenge that we have in Alaska is Alaska is probably the most difficult place in the United States to conduct an election because we have a lot of rural communities where mail gets socked in for several days.
So we're trying to do it in a way where we get the ballots counted as quickly as possible, but at the same time recognize that, you know, some days you get weathered in and out of Antioch or Bethel for days. And, you know, if it just happens that a fog storm rolls in or, you know, a snowstorm rolls in and they can't get their ballots to Juneau in time, that, you know, the whole city of Juneau or, you know, a couple hundred people, thousand people, our ballots aren't counted.
So we're trying to factor in those things. And then, of course, you have the largest number of veterans and a huge number of active duty military, many who are serving overseas. And so their ballots, you know, their ballots can away. I mean, here's the thing. And if you did what the governor is proposing, which is to shut off ballot counting on election night, that actually benefits Democrats. But that said, I don't think that's a good policy. I think, you know, if there's military votes that come in,
they should be counted. And so, you know, we're trying to work through this and come up with something that's fair and something that helps us get the ballots counted quicker. One of the kind of the hot-button issues is this idea of witness signatures. And I understand the rationale for having witness signatures for absentee ballots. The problem is that the department doesn't verify the witness signatures, and we've asked them this repeatedly.
So I asked them on the record, hey, if somebody, I just asked them this two days ago, if somebody signs Mickey Mouse as the witness, would you disqualify the ballot? And they said no. So what happens is you have this requirement that some people forget to put a witness signature. You have a lot of military voters who don't, for whatever reason, put a military signature, and they would be disqualified. And so we can get witness signature.
hardware and software, but it's about $5 million we've been doing. And so there's been concern about spending the money for that. Anchorage has that, and we could probably borrow theirs, but in the absence of that, we're changing the witness signature provision. And so there's a whole variety of other things we've got. This was something that I know Senator Schauer's been very adamant about, and that's ballot tracking.
and making sure that we have a chain of custody. And so we have ballot tracking provisions. We have a cybersecurity provision in there so that we can shore up our elections from being attacked from foreign countries or other people. And so it's a pretty hefty piece of legislation, and I look forward to the debate on it.
Well, it should be interesting. You know, it's like even though there may be different parties involved here, I think we all want the same thing, which is transparent, fair, efficient elections. That we can say, you know, I'm sorry my guy didn't win or my gal didn't win, but, you know, hey, it was fair. Absolutely. And that's really, we lose that, Bill, we're in trouble.
That's what we're really trying to shoot for, is to make this something that is bipartisan, make it something that, you know, at the end of the day, probably it doesn't have everything that progressives or Democrats want. It doesn't have everything Republicans want, but it has enough to restore people's, you know, the integrity of the elections and the confidence in the elections. That's really important to me, and I know that's important to a lot of Alaskans that we have that.
And I think this bill does that. And, you know, it'll go through a process. And I'm sure there'll be changes to the bill. I don't expect it's going to come out exactly the way it started. But I look forward to that discussion. And I look forward to hearing from Alaskans about, you know, whether they think it's fair, how we can make changes. And, you know, we've got one of the other things is you've got, just for example, there was a lot of frustration with the ballot counts and a lot of frustration with, you know, the ranked choice voting.
So we have provisions in there so that the division receives huge amounts of early votes. They receive huge amounts of absentee ballots before the election. They actually open them up and verify them before the election, but they can't start scanning them until the elections close at 7 p.m. So this can take sometimes days for them to actually scan the ballots. And so we have a provision in there that says you can start to scan the ballots seven days before the election.
And you can't report them, obviously, but you can start to get them in the system so that we can have quicker results right on election night. Another thing is with ranked choice voting, and I know there's going to be another attempt to throw that out in two years, but as long as it's there, the department, in my opinion, should be reporting the ranked choice voting results every time they make a report. And so we require that. So again, that's more transparency. One of the concerns that people had was as the counting was going on,
they, you know, all of a sudden, like, they'd get a batch in from maybe some real conservative area, and the conservative numbers would pop, and then they'd get a batch in from, you know, downtown Juneau, and the Democratic numbers would pop, and people had no idea. There was kind of this whiplash in what was happening, and so we're requiring the division to just tell Alaskans where the results came in, where the results are left from, so people can get an idea, and again, just trying to restore that confidence.
I think that's important. I think one of the things that I hear, Bill, on this show, and I hear this from folks in the Valley and down on the Kenai, and even from Anchorage, is the Dominion machines. Now, I know we've had Carol Beecher on, and we've had Lieutenant Governor Dahlstrom on, and these machines are not connected.
I understand to the Internet they're just basically counting. Is there any provision or any thoughts about how this would be handled in legislation, or are you looking to do any of that? I'd certainly be open to it. We are setting up and requiring the division to establish a cybersecurity system to make sure that there is no attack. We do have this provision in there where we have ballot tracking.
So that we'll be able to, you know, one of the concerns you hear is, oh, somebody's stuffing ballots and this and that. And so the way we envision it is that the division will basically have a tracking code for every single ballot and where it goes. And so if you send out 200 ballots to Dillingham, you know, one of the things we heard was Dillingham, for example, they had dozens of ballots. They ran out of ballots. And so they ended up using sample ballots. And so, you know, that shouldn't happen. But we should be able to track the ballots.
every step of the way. And actually, the technology's there. They actually can do this. And it shouldn't cost a whole lot. But you should be able to track. So you send 200 ballots out to Dillingham, let's say. And then every time a ballot goes out to a person, that is tracked. And you're still sticking your confidential ballot in there. So you're not tracking your particular ballot. You're just tracking the envelope that it's in so that we can verify that. But I would certainly be open.
And working with the lieutenant governor, and I've already talked to her about the elections legislation and working with Carol Beecher to figure out how do we make sure they're secure and that nobody can tap into these. Absolutely. I think that's critical.
Yeah, I think so, too. And I know just from my conversations with her, she says, you know, the more help we can get, the better, because I think everybody's on the same page on this one, Bill. And when that happens, my gosh, let's get the win out of this. Let's do it. I know. This is going to be a win for everybody, I believe. You know, it's something everybody can be proud of and something that is truly bipartisan.
Senator Shelley Hughes and Senator Cronk had. He followed it last year. But it's dealing with deepfakes. And there's all these deceptive, synthetic media things that people are doing to influence elections. And so we included some provisions that they had as well. And, again, just trying to ensure that, hey, if somebody's doing AI images of people.
We need to try to figure out how to stop that. So we do have some provisions on that as well. But again, this is a whole new area. And if your listeners have ideas, send them our way. We'd love to hear them. We get some of our best ideas from people just calling in the office and just saying, hey, how about this? Or sending me an email and just, how about this? And that's how we get a lot of our ideas.
Well, you'll probably hear from them, because I think this is something we all really want to do, and it's something that benefits us as a state. Absolutely.
Absolutely. And it's time to get on with it and get it to happen. I'm glad that you're involved in this, Bill, and I'm glad that you've got folks from across the aisle working with you. And if you've got Mike Schauer working with you, I think he's an honorable, hardworking guy as you are. So I think we'll get somewhere, hopefully. Mike Schauer, Senator Schauer, has been working on this for many years. He's got a great team of people.
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All right. Well, let us know, Bill, if we can be of any help here, because we'd like to. And, you know, it's always good to talk to you, and, you know, let's hope we can chat throughout the session. I'd love to have you back on. Thanks, Mike. Appreciate it. You bet. Take care. All right. Bye. Senator Bill Wilkowski from Anchorage. We'll be right back.
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Well, less than 600 people crossed illegally into the United States from Mexico on Sunday, which is a stunningly low number since President Trump took office. Sources tell Fox News that not a single one of the nine sectors received more than 200 crossings on January 26th, and the number of daily encounters only reached 582 in total. The Del Rio sector, which is the same sector that would sustain over...
4,000 crossings per day during the height of the border crisis in December 2023 recorded only 60 crossings for comparison the daily number of border encounters during the final days of the Biden White House teetered between 1,200 to 1,400 per day the numbers have fallen since January 20th and a Fox News exclusive last week found that the numbers dropped sharply so
Is it working? Yeah, I think so. And how hard was it to do? It doesn't seem that it was that hard at all. It was a question of will. It was a question of priority. It was a question of wanting to protect the United States. And also protect those people who are being, to some...
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A show with Crash on News Radio 650 KENI. Well, welcome back. It's 531. And my cousin, Rich Lee, who is quite a musician in his own right and songwriter and plays various instruments. He mostly plays all the instruments on his recordings. Well, he sent me something today called Trump Card. And Rich is a supporter of President Trump. And he decided that, you know, to show his support, he wanted to write a song. And he wrote the song during the election cycle and finally got it finished up.
and essentially recorded. And so it kind of says what he thinks and I think what a lot of us think about Trump and why he's there and what people try to do to stop him from being there. But, you know, it's kind of like, yep, we're glad he got elected. So I want to play this for you. This is from Rich Lee. It's called Trump Card. Go ahead. Get out your trump card They'll be coming to your front yard Just go along, they say It's not that hard Gotta have you
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is added along with some of these other Republicans. And there's a piece today in Must Read, Alaska. And Suzanne titles it, Ground Swell? With a question mark. Republican District Passes Resolution Sanctioning Murkowski, Giesel, Merrick, and more. Wow.
The Republican Party District 29 committee passed three resolutions sanctioning Senator Murkowski and Republican elected leaders for defying the will of the members and the platform of the party. You know, I've got to take my hat off to the people up there at District 29. You're doing exactly what you should do. And that is, if somebody is a Republican, then they should be following the platform.
And if they're not following the platform, then they shouldn't run as a Republican. Now, you don't have to agree with everything, but you should at least follow the platform. If you think there's something wrong in the platform, the time to change it is when it's being formulated. So, I mean, it's pretty simple.
The resolution says that Senator Murkowski has a long history of working against Alaska Republican Party and that thus deserves a permanent sanction and censure, making her forever ineligible for support and endorsement by the party or its affiliates. The senator has already been sanctioned twice in the past.
by the Republican Party, the state party, but those sanctions had expiration dates and coincided with elections. So regardless of whether Murkowski remains a Republican, the district which covers portions of Wasilla and the eastern Matanuska-Susitna Valley asked the Alaska Republican Party to recruit a challenger
for Murkowski in 2028 and bar her from participating in any formal Republican events. The Valley Republican Women of Alaska, a subdivision of the Alaska Republican Party last week, issued a similar resolution. Now, the second resolution passed by the district calls for sanctioning and censuring Senators Gary Stevens, Bert Stedman, Kathy Giesel, Kelly Merrick,
and Jesse Bjorkman, because they have joined with the Democrats to form a majority in the Senate in violation of Alaska Republican Party rules passed in 2024, which says Republicans will not join a majority where more than one-third of the members are not Republicans. Okay, this is something that the party has said.
This is Article 7, Section 1E. I'm not going to read it because I just told you. Senators Stephen Stedman, Giesel, and Merrick consistently have a record of flipping Alaska's legislative bodies from Republican to Democrat majorities. Okay, we all know that, and we've talked about that on this show. So I guess the question is, now what are you going to do about it? You've recognized it. You've put it down in writing.
Now, what are you going to do? The district is calling upon the party to permanently sanction these legislators and find qualified candidates to challenge them. Well, that's good, but that's not enough, because you're going to have to find qualified candidates to challenge them, and you're going to have to get the money to fight so that they win.
You know, this is something I've been doing for a long time, and I can tell you, you can have a great candidate, but unless you've got the money to get that message out, it's going to be a tough, tough road, especially if they're incumbents, and especially if they're getting money from other sources. A third resolution calls for the party as a whole to sanction turncoat members of the House of Representatives. Again, good.
Representatives Chuck Kopp and Louise Stutes have joined a majority caucus where more than one-third of the members are not Republicans in violation of the Alaska Republican Party 2024 Republican Rules, Article 7, Section 1E. They're looking to do a permanent sanction.
of both Chuck Kopp and Louise Stutes, to include permanent censure, declaring both elected officials permanently and eligible for endorsement and support by ARP or its affiliates, recruiting a challenger and permanently prohibiting them from ARP events. Okay. I think that's all great, and I applaud. I applaud you for this. Now you've got to follow through.
And the follow-through is the hard part because it's going to take, it's going to be a bit bruising because politics in this state, like every place else, becomes a blood sport. And I don't mean...
that literally people are going to get beaten up. No. What I mean is it's tough. It's a tough way to make a living, and it's not a necessarily savory business, okay? All right, what is the mother's milk of politics? Money, okay? Money. If you don't have the money, don't play. You can't win. Even if you have the money sometimes, you can't win.
But I like the resolve here. I like what you're doing. I applaud you for doing it. If I can be helpful to you, let me know. I've got a big voice here in the afternoon and can be helpful. So all I can say is don't let this die. Go do exactly what you've said. Raise money.
recruit competent men and women to go run against these people and make sure that if you have a Republican running, you can count on the fact that they're a Republican. Let's go to John. Hi, John. Hey, Mike. Thanks for letting me be on. Sure. Well, I think you kind of hit on it. What's the first rule in politics? Follow the money. Yes. So let's follow the money on the last campaign between Kelly Chewbacca and
Senator Murkowski. And the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee didn't give Kelly a dime, did they? No, they gave Murkowski $9 million. Right. And so there you have it. And, you know, what you really have in the House, you know, in the Republican House, you know, we're a chaotic party by definition. You know, we're a party of ideas.
And, you know, that doesn't always, you know, the Democrats are, they may be a bunch of Marxists, but at least they know what street they're on. And, you know, it's almost what the Alaska Republican Party needs is they almost need an Elon Musk weapons-grade benefactor who can really step in and finance and primary stutes and all the rest of them.
You know, it disappoints me. I'll tell you the guy that's the biggest disappointment is Bert Stedman, who I kind of know. And Stedman, he's actually willing to, you know, to stand up occasionally and say no to certain kinds of requests. You know, he was at the Alaska Tourism Industry Conference in Juneau, and he delivered, you know, a fairly pointed message that, no, you can't have this money. You're not going to get it. And it was good public policy, and it was not the answer that the...
that the luncheon room wanted to hear, but it was the right thing to do. My question when you play follow the money in Alaska state politics is you cannot begin to overestimate the effect that public employee unions have on these campaigns. I mean, why is Kelly Merrick able to get reelected again and again and again? Because she's got an army of free laborers.
who go hang the things on the doorknob. I forget what you call that. But you've got to follow the money. And unless we get some serious funding in there so that you can go toe-to-toe with Mitch McConnell at a funding level, or you can go toe-to-toe with the Alaska Public Employees Association or any of the rest of them, this is going to be a tough fight. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right.
You know, I kind of fear for Alaska on this one because a lot of your best and brightest are, they're leaving. And you look at the net population drain that's going on with Alaska, and it's not hard to understand this sort of regression, you know, to some very corrupt old ways, you know. And, of course, having the capital in Juneau, that's not helping. You know, you don't get good candidates. There's a certain candidate that you just don't get. They don't want to uproot their family.
and have to move to Juneau, rip the kids out of school, take them down there. So you're not necessarily getting good candidates because our capital is so remote and inaccessible. Well, it's a sacrifice. It truly is. And those people that do that...
are, you know, they're putting their life on hold for a bit. I mean, you know, there's good and bad, but the capital should be in a more central location so that we can all get to it, and especially when we're talking about the permanent fund dividend, I have a feeling that there might be some different results from some of these hearings when the place is packed with angry people.
Put the Capitol in Fairbanks. There is nothing like a Fairbanks winter. Or Denali. Well, you know, no, we don't have the room in Healy or even up at Clear Sky. We don't have it. But you can definitely do it in Fairbanks. Put it in Fairbanks.
Well, Fairbanks is certainly a place. You could put it in the valley. You could put it here. I mean, there's places you could put it. People don't want to put it in Anchorage because they say it's a concentration of power. I think everybody has to come through here at some point, so how bad is it? You're factually correct, but trying to apply facts, logic, and reason to politics is sort of a...
The fact is that if you were to make it, what you've got to do is you've got to keep the Fairbanks-Juno block. That's what was the frank initiative, was Fairbanks and Juno loading together. You now have Wasilla as the wild card. The Anchorage float will split down the middle between the blue morons on the left and red state Republicans like myself.
But, you know, the Valley can carry the day, and all you've got to do is peel off a little bit of the Fairbanks. The next thing you know, Bob's your uncle. They're having the capital, you know, at the Steiners Hall at UAF. Believe me, as UAF student enrollment declines, they're going to have plenty of usable space. But, you know, Alaska is at a real crossroads in terms of where this state goes. You know, I mean, what do you think? Do you think they'll pass a defined benefits retirement plan for state workers?
I think there's a good chance that thing's going to pass, and if it does, it's going to be a clear demonstration of raw power on the part of Alaska public employees. Throughout the United States, public policy has been hijacked by these government unions. FDR was explicit about being against collective bargaining on the part of public employee unions. Yeah, he didn't want to see public unions, exactly. Hey, John, we're out of time here. We're out of time here for the segment.
I appreciate it. Thanks. Okay. It's 5.50. We've got to take a quick break. We'll be right back. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash, weekdays at 3 on NewsRadio 650 KENI. The Mike Porcaro Show on NewsRadio 650 KENI. It is 5.53. You know, Pip has been around for...
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They need to take that thing to Trump. That needs to be on the national news every day. All right. I will definitely see that Trump gets it. I'm sure Rich will appreciate your comments. Thanks so much, Jim. I mean, in between the lyrics and the guitar solos, it's just bad. That thing's a bad boy. He is. Yeah, he is. Yeah, and I agree with the sanctioning. I wish I could do more.
You know, if I had things my redneck way, I'd wrap a two-out weld made around their neck and grab them down the street. But that wouldn't go too good in today's world. No. No, we don't want to do anything violent. Jim, I've got to scoot. I appreciate your comments. Thank you. All right. Okay, it is 5.56. I'll let my cousin Rich know about the fact that his song was a hit with Jim. So we'll let him know that.
Okay, it is time to go, and we will see everybody tomorrow. And Crash, have a good evening, and take it easy on the roads when you're getting home, okay?