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Thank you, thank you, Rich. It is 4.07 here on a Monday. I've got to flip my calendar. How did I not do that? The 10th day. Of March in the year of our Lord, 2025. And Crash was, well, Crash told us he would be here today, but he's actually not. He faked us out. He did. Yeah, he sent me a text. At least he called you. He sent me a text this morning saying, I messed up. I'm really supposed to leave today, so I won't be there.
It was hilarious because I got a phone call late and Crash never calls me late. So I thought it was something like happening right now at the station last night. And he's like, can you cover tomorrow's shift? I'm like. I can do that. Why? What's up? You get the wrong day for leaving? Yeah, it's like 24 hours ahead. Okay. And that was it. Literally. Okay, bye. Yeah, he's... A man of many words.
I hope he gets to the right place. That's the only thing I'm worried about now. I can see him getting off the plane in Singapore and going, honey, honey. Well, he's got a long trip ahead of him, and he'll do fine. He'll do fine. So the temperatures around the world, at least the world we're in, 37 here in Anchorage, 38 in Palmer. 40 in Soldatna. Homer is at 37. Talcatin at 38. Fairbanks 28. Prudhoe Bay is 0.
Seattle is 47, New York 52, Akaroa, New Zealand 71, Pensacola, Florida 65, Tampa, Florida 64, Tifton, Georgia 52, and Crash is going to be heading to Tokyo where it's 46. Right now, and rain. So, it should be fun. Coming up today at 5.05 is Senator Rob Myers from the Valley. And he will be talking to us about what's going on down in the legislature. And I specifically want to ask him some questions about the premier of British Columbia. Now, Rob's a trucker.
And I know he has to drive through British Columbia on his route. So it would be interesting to hear what his actual feelings are. Maybe we don't want to know what his feelings are. But his actual feelings are about the supposed tariffs that the premier of British Columbia wants to put on trucks going to Alaska.
I still think they should be called road taxes because tariffs are when you buy and sell. And this is just traveling through. It's a toll. Yeah, it's a troll's toll. Yeah, and so, you know, when we had Senator Sullivan on Friday... He actually had a really interesting countermeasure for the good people of British Columbia. And I've got friends there, and I had a business there for 15 years, and I have nothing but...
High praise and just good feelings for the people that I worked with down there. But that doesn't mean that the premiere of British Columbia is... necessarily got his head screwed on. I don't think he quite understands what he's doing. But Senator Sullivan said, well, you know, maybe we can get a waiver on the Jones Act and our ships can come for tourism right from Seattle all the way up here.
at the stop in Vancouver. There we go. Because the ships that come up here are foreign hold ships. Right, foreign flag. Right. And so that's why they stop in Vancouver. So if they didn't stop in Canada on the way up, that's a ton of money that the Canadians will lose. It'll be like, well, take your tolls and, you know, put them somewhere.
It's almost as crazy as Alberta's premier, though. I mean, Ford's going crazy down there also. No, he's from Ontario. Oh, Ontario. My bad, my bad. I get confused on their state. No, Alberta's the good guys. They are? Okay. Yeah, Alberta is a province that is very, very close to America. They are more aligned with our oil industry, our farming industry. Don't they have cowboys?
Yeah, they're cowboys. They've got the stampede down there. Calgary, yeah, that's it. And Calgary's a great city. We did some work down there. And, you know, they're just basically... They're more aligned with Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming than they would be for, like, Montreal. I mean, it's just, there's no... They may be in the same country, but there's no commonality. Just as we here in America, here in Alaska, when we look at the East Coast or even the West Coast,
We kind of scratch our head and wonder what the heck these people are thinking. And we realize most of the time they're not. I don't know what's going to happen with the tariffs and the tolls and all the other stuff. I'm hoping that cooler heads prevail. Canada steps up. Mexico steps up. We stop the fentanyl as much as humanly possible. And we move forward to actually work together to build our economies. And I think that would be great.
But right now, Trump has made some very good points about tariffs. And if I charge you 10% for your milk, and you charge me 270% for my milk, There's something not right there. And so what Trump's trying to do is to say, look, why don't we forget that? Let's work together. But that's a subsidy. of sorts. So, I don't know. No, no, you're right there 100%. Milk has been one of my big issues about the Canadians. So, just as an FYI...
I have family in Canada. Half my family is from Canada. That's where my mom immigrated from. I know. My mom's an immigrant from Canada. Sounds like a joke or something, but it's actually real. Like I said, I hear from them occasionally. Most of the time, my relatives are fairly...
But right now with this tariff thing, there's a huge confusion that seems to be going on with people out there. And they don't seem to, particularly on the Canadian side, they don't understand what's going on with these tariffs. As far as they're being told, America is slapping.
down terrorists to, you know, equal out trade and do all this kind of stuff. They're not being told that the terrorists are because of the fentanyl crossing the border and their premier or their prime minister not stepping up and and shutting down the border taking care of these laws it's literally as i told my cousins so you guys support fentanyl coming into america oh well no
Well, that's why the tariffs are there is to stop the fentanyl. You know, you guys want us to take away the tariffs so you guys can let all the fentanyl in? Well, that's not. Actually, that is what this is about. Border crossings and fentanyl.
And so now they're on the other side of the fence. They're all literally like going, oh, well, we, and I said, yeah, so if you're supporting, you know, more tariffs on America and fighting this trade war, you're supporting fentanyl to our kids. That's what you're doing. Well, I think what needs to happen at this point is the emotion needs to be put on hold and people need to start getting the facts and working together. And if we can do that, we'll achieve what we need to achieve.
It's going to take a bit. All right, it's 415. Let's take a quick break. 522-0650. If you're out there and you want to talk to us about something, something burning on your mind. Some issue that just has to be spoken about. Have to give words to it. Well, this is a place. We'll be right back. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash. Weekdays at 3 on NewsRadio 650 KD&I.
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Because it's a Monday. And what else can I tell you? Let's go to Jane. Hi, Jane. You're on? Actually, Jane ended up having to jump off of there. She was just letting me know, though, about and wanted to let us know that a couple of weeks ago we'd done a story or we'd talked about...
Maybe using moose to have our police ride around on instead of mountain ice. Oh, that was your idea. Well, I'll claim credit for that. I like it. I like it. I think it was Sergeant Rock of the North or something like that, but that's okay. And she was saying that she had found an article back from multiple years ago where they had moose that they were using for racing, racing moose. And I'm thinking to myself, that could be a lot of fun also. We could have a moose track.
I think they have that as an ice cream, don't they? Well, if we had... Think about it. You know, there's a lot of people that have horse racing. We could have moose racing. and we could probably do something downtown on the park strip. I think it would be fabulous. We could even get Star out there racing them. You know, I hear years ago they tried porcupine racing, but it just didn't quite work out for everybody. No, it's a pretty sticky wicket.
Yeah, I don't know. Moose racing would be interesting. Reindeer racing, too. And, you know, the reindeer actually are really fast. When they get the ones up here, when you run with the reindeer at the Rondia and stuff, you're not really... Reindeer are very fast. Yeah, you're not really running with the reindeer. You're just in their way, and they have to figure out how to go around you.
You're getting out of the way of the reindeer. See, but that doesn't sound near as good on the T-shirt, getting out of the way of the reindeer race. No, well, I mean, I would be interested to see what... You know, what they could do. The military, you know, I bet we could get a grant. I don't know with Trump, but we might be able to get a grant for our, have a mounted patrol with Moose.
See, and I like that idea. I mean, honestly, I would sit there and watch for them. I'd go and sit on the park strip or wherever, and I know, I guarantee tourists would come off the boats and line up to have pictures with them. Oh, it'd be huge. It would be huge. The question is, you'd have to domesticate the animal. And you'd have to do all sorts of things to make sure that the animal was treated humanely, fairly, properly, and cared for, and all of those things. And that would be...
An effort. Yeah, because PETA would definitely come after you. Well, yeah, but I mean, you know, there's places in the world, you said, where they're doing this. I know in Lapland, they do actually domesticate. They've got reindeer that they ride them, and they use them as pack animals, and they're just as they would use a horse. So I'm, you know, and they're built for the snow, for sure. So I don't know. If somebody's out there and knows about this kind of stuff, it would be interesting.
And then, you know, you'd have to basically have a moose staple. Well, you don't have to have stable moose. Looks like it says Sweden has used them to draw the royal sleighs. They do? Where? In this? In Sweden? It said Sweden, but I don't think they have any... Do they still have kings and queens in Sweden? Yeah, they do. Oh, well, then they might use that. You know, I don't see them out very much, but...
There's some really cool pictures of these, I mean, big moose. I mean, some of these are beyond trophy-sized moose, just hauling things around and doing the do, you know. Well, there's a junket for legislators. You know, send them over to Sweden. and see what they're doing in terms of domesticating moose for riding and for domesticated animals. And I'm sure there would be all sorts of legislators going over there on a junket.
Oh, man, you know they'd go on the Unulet trip. Yes, exactly. I don't know. That would be kind of an interesting thing. To see, I mean, you talk about tourism opportunities, my goodness. But also, you could get into areas with those animals if you couldn't on anything else. And they're able to cross rivers much, much easier than some of our other equipment that we have. Yeah, I think it'd be great. I might sell my car and get a moose.
Ooh, Elon Musk. Maybe he could make an electric moose. At least you know the moose, you know, are going to be honest with you. They'll tell you. All right, 423. There's an interesting story. It was in The Blaze, Glenn Beck's group. And I found it to be... Interesting and also disturbing in terms of Joe Biden. Now, everybody can pretty much realize that Joe Biden wasn't really all there.
And I'm not saying that to be mean and I'm not saying that to be snotty or pejorative. But Joe Biden had a cognitive problem. And I don't think there's anybody in America that's going to argue about that. Even the most ardent Democrat is going to say, well, yeah, and then they covered it up. All right. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has done something which I think is really good. He's requested the Department of Justice to investigate the legality of Biden's presidential orders.
Now, why would he do that? Well, the Heritage Foundation's oversight project revealed last week on numerous executive pardons and orders and other documents of national consequence appear to have been machine generated. Now what they do is they've got an auto pen. Okay. And it duplicates the signature of the president. So he doesn't have to sign millions and millions of things. But for the documents that...
The Attorney General is talking about you have to actually sign them. Biden would have had to sign them. But we're finding out that Biden actually did not hand sign these. Oversight Project Executive Director Mike Howell told The Blaze that the main legal question here is who was the president over the last four years.
That's what we are aiming to uncover. The prolific use of auto pen by the White House was an instrument to hide the truth from the American people as to who was running the government. That was something we always kind of said, well, who's in charge? The group noted that every document they could find with Biden's signature, with the exception of the announcement indicating that he was dropping out.
of the 2024 presidential race used the same auto pen signature. It was not hand signed by the president. The oversight project noted, for instance, that the repeated use of auto pen appeared to be on pardons for a murderer and five other criminals that were issued while Biden was vacating and golfing in the Virgin Islands.
The pardons all reportedly indicated that they were signed at the city of Washington, which... That's not what it is. It's the District of Columbia. It's the District of Columbia, correct. The discovery coupled with the former president's admission to House Speaker Mike Johnson that he didn't remember signing a January 24th order to pause... Decisions on exports of liquefied natural gas prompted the oversight project to once again cast out.
On whether Biden was ever calling the shots. And suggested that whoever controlled the auto pen. Controlled the government. Now that. is astonishing. We'll be right back. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on NewsRadio 650 KENI. This is NewsRadio 650, KENI, Anchorage.
The investigation continues in the death of a sled dog. In this year's Iditarod, officials say a four-year-old female dog on Musher Daniel Klein's team died on the trail at noon Friday. Klein has scratched the race in response to the death. Last year, three dogs died during the 2024 edition.
We are nearly two-thirds of the way through this year's Iditarod. Jesse Holmes continues to lead, leaving the 13th checkpoint more than four hours ahead of Paige Drobne, followed by Matt Hall and Mitch Seavey. There are six teams that are out of the race overall, including Klein. 27 remain.
A man from the state of Washington being accused of illegally killing a mountain lion on Wrangell Island. There's no mountain lion hunting season. Jacob Vibbert facing up to a year in jail and a $25,000 fine after the mountain lion died in June. And plans are in place for a hydroponic greenhouse in North Pole.
The city council voting to support the project, which includes residential units, after the proposed greenhouse was on display at the Hot Springs Resort in Fairbanks. That's the latest. I'm Jack Cronin. This is NewsRadio 650 KENI. Anchorage. Looking at your Alaska Total Traffic Anchorage. Welcome back, everybody. 522-0650. Just to kind of put a bow tie on that story we were doing from Glenn Beck's The Blaze. Lindy Lee.
who's a former Democratic strategist. You've probably seen her on the talk show circuit. She's now done with the Democrats. I think she's trying to start her own party. She worked with Kamala Harris. Got her a ton of money. And Miss Lee was not particularly happy with A, how it was spent, or B, I think how they were treated. She recently shed some light on the potential members of a supposed committee that was actually running the government.
Okay, people that we didn't elect. Remember, Biden was supposed to be the president. We said, gee, we don't know anything about it. He doesn't know anything about it. And they were using the auto pen to sign all sorts of things, pardons and special orders, etc. So, Libby Lee said there was a committee that was actually running the government. She told podcaster Sean Ryan last month that, are you ready for this now? Are you sitting down, Darrell?
I will be. Hunter Biden, Jill Biden, and a handful of other unelected senior advisors effectively served as a combined shadow president. Yep. They had the auto pen, and they made the decisions. Now, what's interesting is... Everything that was signed, if it was not signed by the president, there's a problem. People were making fun, the Democrats were making fun of Trump, hands signing all those orders. Well, he signed them. You saw them.
Those are legit and legal. You can argue about the contents, but there's no question about who signed them and when they were signed. Biden, on the other hand, didn't sign a whole lot of stuff. And so the attorney general from the state of Missouri, Mr. Bailey, said it is black letter law that the document is void. and he uses the term abinito, which means from the beginning, when the person signing it lacks mental capacity.
Staffers and the Vice President cannot constitutionally evade accountability for laundering far-left orders through a man who does not know what he is signing. this has been occurring, then all of those orders are void. So you see what's going to happen here. I was looking up the auto pen signing stuff.
And it was kind of an issue when Obama was in there. And, you know, they were having an issue because Obama, would you believe this? Here's the number of bills signed by Obama by November 20th, 2015. At least seven. So they're having a fit in 2015 about Obama using it to sign seven laws.
And Joe Biden probably signed a thousand with EOs and everything else included in it. Probably all those pardons also, which I'm sure his wife, son and everybody else, because you notice he didn't get a pardon. No. You know, it was weird that he was left out of that. And some of the other people that were left out, there were several people that it was like.
You would have thought they would have gotten one. But I honestly, and I firmly believe this, that Hunter and Jill, along with a couple of other executives, were running it. They were literally doing it, because especially in the last two months, they were in every meeting, even though they... don't have security clearances. Yeah, well, I mean, Hunter basically he should have been in jail.
Well, if his sign of pardon isn't acceptable, he might be again. Yeah, well, I'm sure Joe signed that one himself. Somehow. Somehow I think he might have. That is possible. That is possible. At least they didn't leave any of those documents in the Pacific Palisades house of 08. No, Hunter's house is the only house in the neighborhood that didn't burn in Pacific Palisades. Never mind. That's probably in Joe's... Corvette in my garage. You know, that's where that probably is. All right, it's 438.
522-0650. That auto pen thing really is disturbing because, you know, we kept wondering who the heck is the president? You know, they should have invoked the 25th Amendment. on the guy and essentially said he was not fit for office. But instead what we got were four years of lies. And then finally, during that debate in June of 2024, you couldn't lie anymore because you could see it. I mean, even George Clooney could see it.
You know, the most ardent Democrats could see it. And it was like, oh my gosh, we can't do this. Nobody is going to vote for this guy. So that's what happened. And meanwhile, all of these things kept getting signed and the country kept moving further and further to the left. And we have no idea who was in charge. I think we do now, but I'm not really sure we did then. Well, it's funny because right now one of the number one mantras of the left and the progressives is...
Unelected officials. Elon Musk, we didn't elect him. He's running the government. You actually had, sounds like, unelected officials actually running the executive office. So, you know. Yeah, well, it's, you know, they accuse you of the thing they do. Absolutely, and 100%. And they look you right in the eye while they're still dripping spaghetti sauce saying, you ate all the spaghetti. Yeah. Well, it's just the way it is. It's being a progressive. Well, there's a story today in Musgrave, Alaska.
that I found to be kind of interesting. Alaska Democrats try again on gun restrictions with red flag law to be heard this week. I don't know what state the Democrats think they're in, but as far as I know, even Alaska Democrats are pro-Second Amendment. And I'm going to point to one that I know. Mark Begich. And I know Mark listens to this show. And Mark is pro-Second Amendment. Democrat. Probably drove his colleagues back when he was in the Senate.
back in D.C. nuts because he's pro-Second Amendment. It's hard to be a lawmaker or resident of this state if you don't At least support the Second Amendment. You don't have to have a gun if you don't want to. Nobody's forcing you to have a firearm. That's up to you. In fact, if you don't want one, I prefer that you don't have one. But that's up to you.
But for the Democrats now to suddenly think that they're going to seize your guns or do something to curtail your ability to own a firearm in the state of Alaska... It's almost ludicrous. According to the report from Suzanne Downing, the Alaska Democrats' latest attempt to seize firearms comes with House Bill 89.
Introduced by Democrat Andy Josephson of Anchorage and Sarah Hannon of Juneau. It's going to be heard in House State Affairs Thursday at 3.13 p.m. pretty specific house bill 89 would implement a law that permits the government to seize firearms based on vague standards of evidence I don't know what those standards of evidence are, but they're vague, according to Suzanne Downing. The state could implement ex parte hearings to take away a citizen's Second Amendment rights without due process.
says the National Rifle Association. Now, there is a process. You have to follow the process. And you can't just decide to shortcut it. Then bear the burden of having the petition to court for the return of their property once the order has been vacated, adding a cost to citizens to get their property back from seizure. There's a whole lot of...
constitutional red flags that pop up on this one. The State Affairs Committee, chaired by Ashley Carrick of Fairbanks, who favors a stricter gun control and was her former boss, Representative Adam Wohl, who is the person who introduced gun control laws. The bill is opposed by the NRA, the Gun Owners of America, and the courts are less supportive of taking guns away from people who haven't been...
convicted of anything. In divorce situations, red flag laws are often used as threats against men by women in the divorce. Well, maybe by women against men, too. There are women who have guns too, right? Not just the guys. Lawyers leverage the fear factor against men, forcing them to agree to settlements demanded by their soon-to-be ex-wives. There are two committees of referral, state affairs and judiciary. To date, there are no fiscal notes, amendments, or sponsors associated with the bill.
no statements anyway, which most Republicans will oppose due to the infringement of the Alaska's right to bear arms and, of course, the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. That little tiny document. That document, man, that thing is such a pain, isn't it? It's old, but it's the law of the land. And I'm glad our founding fathers were smart enough to put that in there.
This is what they're doing. They don't stop. They're in control of judo. It's not going to go anywhere, but it's just going to show you they're going to continue to try. And hopefully, if the thing actually does get passed, our governor will kill it dead. We'll be right back. Call Mike and crash now. Be a part of the show on News Radio 650 KENI.
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And if you want to join us, you can. Crash is gone. How long has Crash gone for? Two weeks? One week? Week and a half? Two weeks, basically. Yeah, ten days. Okay, ten days. And he will be, hopefully... He won't start any wars over there. You know, the Japanese are our friends. Of course they are. Of course they are. Hopefully he won't take anybody off.
The question is, will they let us have him back? I think they might think he's a national president. No, they'll send him back. I don't know. You know, they like the little ancient gods and stuff. Oh, gosh. Crash. Crash-a-son. That's what he'll be known as. Well, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the failed 2024 vice presidential candidate. conducted a post-mortem on his campaign with former Vice President Kamala Harris, determining that the Democrats played it too safe. Too safe?
They didn't have anything to play with. We shouldn't have been playing this thing so safe, he said, told this to Politico. He added, I think we probably should have just rolled the dice and... done the town halls where the voters may say you're full of you know what I don't believe in you. I think there could have been more of that. Walls joined Harris on the Democratic ticket in August of 2024, days after Joe Biden dropped out of the race.
due to mounting concerns over his mental acuity. I really thought she was going to pick Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania. That would have been her best bet. Which would have made more sense since Pennsylvania was a state that she needed and a state that Trump needed. And Mr. Shapiro is certainly a far better candidate than...
Mr. Walls. Mr. Walls is kind of a goofball. Or this is the way he appears to be, anyway. The Trump Vance ticket swept the battleground states of election night, catapulting them to victory. with 312 electoral votes to Harris' 226. Now, I know there are Democrats out there that say Trump doesn't have a mandate. I don't know. 312 to 226, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. I'd say solid. So Walls has been on a media blitz in recent days, including speaking with The New Yorker.
joining MSNBC ahead of President Donald Trump's address to the joint session of Congress, speaking at the South by Southwest Film Festival on Saturday and teeing up an interview. on California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom's podcast. Walls argue that Democrats are more cautious in engaging with the media than Republicans. Are you kidding me? You own the media!
What are you talking about? Well, he added that he felt that the campaign was never ahead, comparing it to a prevent defense strategy in football. Yeah, prevent. I hate to tell you something, Guy, and I know he was a football coach, but if you're behind, you're not in a prevent defense. If you're behind, you start throwing the football, and you start opening up your offense, and you start trying to score points as quickly as you can. That's what happens when you're...
You're behind. Gee. I don't know. All right. It's 4.53. Liz Vasquez. Hi, Liz. I've got about a minute. Go ahead. Yeah, hi, Mike. You know that red flag gun law, HB89? Yes. Well, you know, the Democrats will continue their fight against guns. staunch Second Amendment believer. And a lot of it has to do with personal experience. When I lived in Washington, D.C., it was the murder capital of...
The United States. Yes. But somehow it had the most strongest gun control laws on the books. That's like Chicago. Same thing. Yes. Yes, it doesn't prevent crime. It just gives, frankly, the bad guys an opportunity.
The other thing is that my parents were victims of Hurricane Andrew. I don't know if people remember how bad that hurricane was. Very bad. Well, yeah, they lived in Florida City, which... happened to be the hardest hit area and after the hurricane there were just piles of debris they had two walls standing there was a lot of looting and going on because unfortunately
The National Guard didn't show up until about a couple of days after the hurricane, as hard as that is to believe. And the Red Cross didn't show up any sooner than that. So there was a lot of looting and just bad behavior. And there were two things that kept the bad people away from my parents' property and from my property. My father had the reputation of being, quote, the crazy old man with a rifle because he always made it a point wherever he moved to.
made it a point for people to know and spread the gossip that he had a rifle and he was willing to use it. And so the other items that helped them stay... Well, it's ahead of Rottweiler. Well, there you go. A rifle, a Rottweiler, and a crazy old man. That's pretty safe. Liz, we've got to scoot. I appreciate the call. Thanks for sharing your story. We've got to go. We've got to take a quick break. We'll come right back. Stay with us.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's 508. Thank you, Rich. Appreciate that. 38 degrees here in Anchorage. 39 in Palmer. Soldot is 40. Homer is 37. Talkeetan at 28. And Fairbanks is 28 as well. And Prudhoe Bay is minus two. Well, joining us now is Senator Rob Myers. And Senator, how are you? I am doing well, Mike. How about yourself? Well, I'm doing great. There's a lot of stuff going on. So why don't you kind of tell us what it looks like from your perspective? Well, things are kind of...
Proceeding apace, you know, it was a little bit of a weird start to the year. You know, everybody was all hot and heavy on education right at the very beginning. And we kind of backed off from that. We've slowed down a little bit. Those of you that are watching closely may have noticed that the House has a big education spending bill on the floor right now. They've actually pared it back a little bit, but it's still adding about a quarter million dollars.
excuse me, a quarter of a billion dollars to the state budget at the moment, if that bill passes as it is. It's also got... Some interesting new wrinkles. If you're part of a correspondence program, it would add in some new requirements and oversight coming from the state over what you can and can't do with your correspondence money.
some things like that. It's on the House floor at the moment, so it'll be coming over to the Senate here probably later this week, and then we'll see what happens to it from there. You know, that's the one big issue that we're dealing with. Another big issue, of course, is the budget and what happens there. You know, we're in an area, a time when we know we've got declining revenues, you know.
When we left here in May of last year, oil was about $85 a barrel. Currently, it's, what, $70, $71 a barrel, and the projection is that it's going to continue to go down. The governor is going to come out with the spring revenue forecast here. I believe it's on Thursday. And we're going to talk about our...
are we in even worse shape than we thought when the budget first came out in December. So we'll get a little bit more clarity on some numbers there, but there's a good chance that it's going to go down even more between now and the end of session. And, of course, you know, with the current majorities in both bodies, you know, the appetite in general is to spend and spend some more. Education, of course, is a big part of that. Defined benefits is part of that.
There's going to be a couple, three other areas that are popping up that people want to spend more money. And it's kind of disappointing. To me, you and I have talked. I drive a truck for a living, and what I care about is not how much money are we spending. What I care about is can I get a job? And my kids get a job. What's a private economy in this state look like? And unfortunately, that is really not part of the conversation down here. We talk a lot about...
you know, what we can do as far as spending and what happens to government workers, but we don't talk a whole lot about what happens to workers in the private sector. And, hey, are we going to, you know, slowly have more people go out of business? You know, and then more people leave state. You know, one of the things that I think we ignore is that the total number of jobs in this state peaked in 2012.
and it's been going down ever since. It's come back up a little bit the last couple of years with a couple of the big projects on the slope and some things like that. You know, we're not attracting people back up here. And so what's been the result of that? Well, it's been we've had more out-of-state workers coming in. You know, I like to tell a story about a guy that I ran into on the haul road this last year.
Shortly before Christmas, I was coming back from Prudhoe Bay, and I stopped to help a guy out. His alternator had died, and so I was helping him charge his battery up to get him down the road a little further. And he was in my truck and warming up while he had the jumper cables on. And I noticed his truck said Montana on the side. And I said, oh, okay, if you're from Montana, what brought you up here? And he said, well, actually, I used to live here.
I drove the haul road for 20 years, and I left in 2020, and I'm back now because the money is that good, but I'm not moving back here. My wife is still in Montana because I just don't see... that this state is really going to turn around in the long term. There's a lot of good money up on the slope right now with a couple of these big projects going on.
But he was concerned about the long term and didn't think that there was a whole lot of long term futures. He's going to come up, work temporarily and then go home. And, you know, that's not a place where we want our state to be.
What I'm concerned about as we start talking about all this state spending and things like that is those are the kinds of conversations that we need to be having, and those are the kinds of conversations that aren't happening around here. Yeah, and I think that's really important. If we're not... helping the local economies in our cities and our state economy in general.
We've got a problem, and, you know, we start losing our young people. They may go outside to school or what have you, and then they don't come back. And so we essentially watch. our best and brightest our talent our future leaves the state. And you're absolutely right, Rob, when you say, you know, can my kids get a job? And if your kids can't get a job, that's the future. So then what happens? We're in trouble.
Yeah, absolutely. My oldest is 12, and so we've got a little bit of time before she graduates and starts looking around for work, but that's what's on my mind is when she's... 17, 18, and starting to, you know, about to graduate high school and starting to think about college? Am I going to look at her and say, all right, let's find you the best education we can or, you know, figure out a good career path and get you set up?
you know, down the road from me or something like that? Or am I going to look at her and go, kid, I hate to say this, but... If you want to have a job and a family and buy a house and do a lot of the things that I've been able to provide for them, if you want to do that, you're going to have to leave state because there's not really a lot of opportunity for you here.
You know, that's the conversation that I know is going to have to happen, and I'd rather have it go the first way, not the second way. Yeah, no, I agree. I agree. Now, you are a noble truck driver. And a great and noble profession. There was a story on Friday from the premier of British Columbia. And this guy is going to put tolls, I don't know if it probably wouldn't be terrorists, it would probably be tolls on Alaska trucks.
People carrying goods to Alaska. And I'm looking at this guy, and I'm thinking, and I had a business in Vancouver for 15 years and have nothing but wonderful memories of the great people I worked with, and we didn't have this guy. This kind of mindset back then, as you probably know if you've traveled through there a lot, and I'm sure you do. But what is this guy thinking? I mean, this is an...
basically trying to hurt individual drivers, individual companies, and Alaskans. It completely is out of character. Yeah, you know, that's a pretty troubling development. I mean, I know why they're doing it. It's because they're trying to strike back at Trump. They don't like to talk about tariffs on Canada and stuff like that. You know, they're talking about not so much, you know, B.C., but, you know, there's been talk.
from Canada lately about, you know, withholding oil from the United States. You know, that's going to affect, you know, Midwest. Probably not so much up here. But, you know, we do import some oil from Canada. And so that's going to be part of the discussion as well. Yeah, I heard about that toll concept, and that's going to be interesting how that works out because the vast majority of the freight that comes up to Alaska, as I think most people are aware, it comes up on barges.
You know, most of it ends up in the port there in Anchorage or a good chunk of it, you know, some other ports in, you know, Valdez, Whittier, Seward. Actually, you'd be surprised there's actually some freight that ends up in Hanes. in the dock there, and then it's taken off the dock and trucked up into the interior or up to Prudhoe. But, you know, that's going to be troubling for us for a couple of reasons. One is fresh produce.
You know, the problem with barges is that they're slow. And, you know, most of the time we don't care. You know, when it's something like fresh produce, it's going to expire. You want that to get on the shelves as quick as possible. And a barge coming out of Seattle, that's going to be, what, 10 days to two weeks. Whereas you truck it up out of Seattle, and I used to do this, it's about three days from the distributor in Washington up to the store in Alaska. That's pretty good.
Yeah. No, they make sure it gets here fast. Most of those guys drive team, and so you don't stop and sleep. You go to bed in the sleeper, and the other driver keeps going because it matters how quickly it gets here fresh. And so that's going to be potentially a big impact for us, you know, on the straight dollar figure scale. Maybe not a huge issue, but on the...
you know, on a quality of life issue, no, that's going to be huge for us. You know, how much fresh produce are we going to be able to get in the stores because of that? Another big issue, a big place where that could affect is actually the oil industry because
You know, if you're in a hurry to get something up here, you know, same reason, you know, with the produce. If you're in a hurry to get something up here, and the oil industry often is, you put it on a truck to get it out of the States, you know. Let's say, for example, lately I've run into some loads coming up out of Louisiana or some of the other Gulf Coast states because that's another big oil industry area. If they're bringing up some specialized equipment or something like that.
They stick it on a truck. You know, Louisiana up to Alaska on a truck is going to be, let's call it about six, seven days. Whereas if you're going to put it on the train and send it to the west coast and then put it on a barge and then send it up and then you've got to take it off the barge, put it on the train up to Fairbanks and then put it on a truck up to the slope, now you're talking three to four weeks.
And when you've got a short building season in the summer or a short drilling season in the winter, that is time that you don't want to spend. And so if you're going to truck... things for the oil industry coming up out of uh you know out of lower 48 and into alaska uh then that's going to be a significant problem if you're going to put a toll on that you know that's going to just make things more expensive um
If they expand it, now I understand that the legislation has only been talked about. It hasn't been introduced yet. So that may be coming here in the next couple of weeks. But if they expand that... One thing that's been changing with Santos up on the slope is they have actually been contracting a lot of the construction of their specialized modules. Instead of getting them out of the states, they're actually asking them to be built in Alberta.
because it's another oil industry area. It's an area that understands cold weather. Northern Alberta has some... similar temperatures to the slope or to interior Alaska up at Fairbanks. And if you start putting tolls on that stuff, you know, they could expand it. So it's not just... things coming out of the lower 48 up to Alaska, but it could be any freight bound for Alaska potentially, and that could get in the way again. So it is a troubling development.
Well, we'll see what happens. Hopefully cooler heads can prevail. The fentanyl can get stopped as much as humanly possible can stop it. And we can get back to... doing business, that would be a nice change. But the Canadians also have to be mindful of the fact that there could be some things we can do too that won't be so nice. It's awful when you have to think about where we are at this point. Leveling the playing field and all this other stuff, these are all things that are out there.
the real cost is going to be almost immediate. And you're correct about getting stuff up here. And if you've got a short season for drilling or farming or what have you, Time is money, as you know.
Time is definitely money, and now they're going to really make time money if they're going to put a toll on it. I mean, you know how this works. It's not the truck drivers or the trucking companies aren't going to be the ones that pay it. It's going to be... uh you know passed on to the consumer and things are just going to be more expensive here um you know i mean shoot food prices are bad enough as it is i got five kids at home i know what food prices look like um you know so you know
If we're just going to make, you know, fresh produce that much more expensive, well, then that's just one more cost for us to deal with living here in Alaska. And, yeah, I agree with you. I hope cooler heads prevail, and I hope they figure something out.
But unfortunately, we're at the long end of a long supply chain, and that puts us in a precarious position. Five years ago during COVID, it was... well, the Port of Seattle is going to shut down because, you know, they're worried about the dock workers getting sick or something like that, or they're going on strike, and now it's, oh, okay, now we're going to stop.
Truck traffic coming up. Not as debilitating as the Port of Seattle shutting down, but, you know, a significant issue in and of its own right for different reasons. And we have to contend with that here. And I think that's part of why the governor is putting out the Department of Agriculture thing is because he's recognizing that... We are at the end of a very long supply chain, and this is one way for us to start to become a little bit more self-sufficient. Absolutely.
Rob, it's always a delight to have you on the show. We need to do this again and need to do it soon. Good luck down there in trying to talk some sense into some of your colleagues. I know it can be challenging, but we're behind you. So just keep us posted on what's going on and come back soon. You bet, Mike. Good to talk to you, and we'll talk again later. Same here. Take care. Senator Rob Myers will be right back. Back to the Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on NewsRadio 650.
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Make it 38. Fairbanks 28. Pruneau's minus 2 now. Seattle's 46. New York is 50. Akaroa, New Zealand is 72. Pensacola is 63. So is Tampa, Florida. 51 in Tifton, Georgia, and 49 degrees. And you said it was... clear in Tokyo today? Well, they've got supposedly scattered showers going on, but from what I can see on the cameras of Tokyo, other than lots of people on the streets, the roads are dry and it's 54 degrees and overcast. All right, well, that's not too bad.
I think mine might be at the airport, 49, but it's still not bad. Tokyo was a pretty good-sized city and stuff also, so I just realized something, looking at these cameras and all the people on the street. Crash is going to feel almost like a giant. Somehow, you know, I hope Crash... Well, Mrs. Crash speaks Japanese. Correct. he will be at least in good hands she will be able to you know apologize
At least for his activities. So Mrs. Crash speaks Japanese, but she also eats Japanese, which is very important. So he'll get the best of the foods. Yeah, he'll know. He'll be fine. He asked me the other day if they have good sushi. You know, from what I hear, they have a couple of guys that might do. That's kind of like, do they got good ramen over there? Because, you know, I like noodles.
You'd rather eat ramen than sushi? Oh, God, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Don't get me wrong. No, no, no, no. I was going to say, my gosh, there's some interesting... It's interesting when you go to a different country and then you actually eat the food and you find out that a lot of times the food here that is claiming to be authentic from the country is... is sometimes not quite so authentic. It's more geared to American tastes. But there are some places that actually do it the right way.
Kevin McCabe, Representative Kevin McCabe, how are you? Hey, Mike, how are you? Well, I'm good. I see that you're being shy as usual down in Juneau. Have you been watching our floor session? Is that the deal? We're still going, by the way. We've got to go back in in 25 minutes. We just had Senator Myers on, and he said it's been kind of amazing. Yeah. So Senator Cronk sent me a picture of him sitting in his recliner watching me on TV, and I said, why are you watching that? And he said,
Free comedy. Yeah, well, it's amazing because there's all of these bills. I mean, you've got the education bill that's out there, and you've written a piece for Must Read today. when you say that the education system is at a crossroads, and it is, this bill that they're trying to pass is enormous. And I guess two things, Kevin. One, where's the money going to come from and where are the metrics, the measures, the accountability for the bill?
Right. And, you know, all kidding aside, I mean, it's funny that Kronk was watching me and saying it was comedy, but we are really serious. And we have offered, I think we're on Amendment 33, and they have accepted one. They've rolled a few to the bottom, which I think they will accept towards the end. So we may get three or four amendments in there. But, you know, we represent, the minority represents 49% of Alaskans. 49%.
And they did not allow us to have our voice heard in the education committee. They moved it out with a procedural movement. The majority leader on the floor pulled it out of the... out of education, where all of these amendments should have been heard, should have been discussed, should have been vetted, and they worked. So now we all get to do this free-for-all on the floor, which...
while it's entertaining, is not the right way to do business, frankly, in the legislature. And it's frustrating to offer amendments, good amendments, like the one I just offered was the one I wrote the article on. I just got done debating it. And it's something that 83%, I think there's a survey out there, and I might be wrong on the numbers, but 83% of Alaskans want us to consolidate the 54 school districts into something smaller.
I picked Clarity because it was sort of a mid-range number, nothing special about it. It's just, you know, you can't bite, eat the whole elephant all at once. You've got to pick up a bite. And I picked Clarity.
and we could consolidate 30 districts. I mean, Prince of Wales Island has three school districts on it, three districts. I think Gillingham area has two. There is a way to consolidate school districts, and all this bill would have done... was require the Department of Education to come up with a plan that they could return to us in the form of a bill or something.
Or we could write a bill, but they could return it to the legislature in a couple years and say, this is how we want to consolidate school districts. This is what we need to do. And in those two years, you know, our technology is growing. We can do school district meetings on Teams, on Zoom. On the phone, there's a hundred different ways to do this. And what I thought my vision was it was going to elevate the school districts and require that the...
management and the involvement in the schools themselves be a little bit lower. So more local control. Parents would have to be involved. The principal would have to be involved. the schools would take more control of themselves, and the school district would just sort of be the overarching authority, if you will. So lots at play in this.
My constituents have been demanding this since before I ran. In fact, it's one of the things I ran on, one of the things I said I was going to do. So here we are, and I'm offering it in the minority, and it failed. So, you know, hopefully I can get it maybe over to the Senate and have one of them offer it over there and see if it will get past their majority.
It's a cost-neutral thing. I mean, you know, DEED can do it with the people that they have right now. They just need to investigate it, come up with a plan, give us the plan, then we'll put it into a bill and we'll figure out how to fund it and the fiscal notes and everything else. But, you know, people are...
so scared of that, just as scared of that as they are charter schools. I mean, we had much debate on charter schools. Why are we even debating that? Charter schools are the gem, the jewel of our education system in Alaska right now. I mean, they even made national news for being the best charter schools in the nation. And here we are debating a way to shut them down, increasing fund or spend on them.
You know, all these little tiny procedural, you know, the death by a thousand cuts, and it's obvious that the minority in the NEA and the four-letter alphabet soup that runs the school districts want to shut down charter schools. My question is, why would we do that? Why would we take away the best thing our students have going for them? Well, you would think that that would be a shining star for them to say, look.
Here's what we're doing. This is education at its finest. And look at how it works. glorifying mediocrity, and that's something that we've got to stop. I mean, we're here in Anchorage with schools that are not full. And so when something isn't full, you're running below capacity and you're running at an inefficient level.
And so we should be excising buildings and combining schools, just as you're suggesting combining districts. It goes from the granular level all the way up, Kevin, and it's something that has to happen. We don't have the money for this education bill. It's just not there. I agree. And, you know, one of the things I said on the floor is the entire state is hurting, just like we, you and I, and the teachers and the school districts.
We're all hurting because of inflation. But there is no recognition from those that are demanding more money from the state for their schools that the state is in just as big a trouble for inflation as they are. The cost of culverts is through the roof. The cost of gravel is through the roof. The cost of anything that the state does that the state pays for is through the roof. And now they want us to pay for this mega BSA increase that is not going to help our...
help our children. In fact, make no mistake, this HB 69 is not a policy bill. This HB 69 is a jobs bill. It's there to protect the teacher's jobs and the administrator's jobs. even though the schools are shrinking for one reason or the other. One reason is there are declining birth rates. That's coming up next, my discussion on how we shrink school districts because of the declining birth rate.
The other reason is because parents are abandoning Anchorage and going to the Mat-Su where their kids can get a fabulous education. So we have got to find a way to bring our students up. That's what they ought to be asking. Why are the schools shrinking?
Are the schools shrinking because the parents are leaving them because of poor outcomes for their children? Or are they shrinking because of the out-migration in the state? And, oh, by the way, is the out-migration caused because our schools are so poor? Everything traces back to the schools. We say fix education outcomes for our kids.
and the money will come because the kids will come, and we will have more robust brick-and-mortar schools. But they don't want to do that. They just want to pay teachers to teach 12, 15 kids in a class. Well, and if you're looking at relocating a business up here, one of the things you look at is the school system. Because you want your people that are coming up here to have a good school system. You want them to be happy in their new place of employment.
If the school district isn't good, they're not going to come. That's why we're having a problem attracting and keeping workers. It's not defined benefits. It's the schools. Keeping young workers, Gen Z workers that have children. is dependent on the schools. When I was in the military, before I put in a dream sheet on where I wanted to go, I looked at the schools. I looked at what the schools were. I had young kids and I wanted to make sure that they were in great schools.
I didn't put in any desires to go someplace that had horrible schools. So, you know, we need to investigate why our schools are shrinking. And we know part of it's a birth rate. and we know part of it's the out-migration, but what's the other part of it? Why are they shrinking? I think that's absolutely essential. Now, I'm going to ask you one more subject, and that is this House Bill 89.
about gun violence and gun control and red flag laws. And I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, what state am I living in? Yep, same thing that I'm thinking. You know, this is Representative Josephson's bill. He's put this in one form or another, I think the last three legislators. But the problem with that is you could have your gun confiscated. If you got in a fight with your wife, say, or maybe your...
maybe your brother who lived next door to you, and he called the cops and said, hey, I think Procaro is dangerous. They could go under this law. They could just go take your guns. And historically, throughout the lower 48 of these red flag laws, once the police get control of your guns, you almost never get them back.
They don't have a mechanism to store them. They don't have a mechanism to inventory them. And getting them back seems to take an act of Congress. But what's the process for them? If they're going to take my gun and I've done nothing... and there's an accusation, and you take my gun, that seems like it's unreasonable search and seizure or something. Doesn't it? I think the whole thing is unconstitutional. His bill allows a judicial officer to issue an order without notifying you.
He could issue the order and say, you know, state troopers or APD, go get Procaro's gun. I think he's dangerous. His brother thinks he's dangerous. So you just go get his gun, and they show up knocking on your door. Who knows? Maybe it's a 6 a.m. raid like the FBI raid in Homer, and they show up at your door and scare your wife and scare your kids. There are certain people that would be pretty...
They might have guns, for crying out loud. It's just going to escalate the violence and the problem and everything else. So I'm very concerned about this. The NRA has talked to me today. Many, many people have called and contacted me. I have 100-plus emails, and I'm looking for 1,000-plus emails saying, shoot this baby down. And I mean, shoot. Absolutely. Kevin, I always love having you on.
You bring some fresh air to the table and to the legislature. You know, we need more people like you and Senator Myers and Senator Cronk and Senator Schauer. Good people. And look where they all come from. Not here. Yeah, well, it's unfortunate. Anchorage at one time was the... It was the shining hill on the city, if you know what I mean. And I wish I knew a way to get back to that. Well, maybe we can do something. Anyway.
Kevin, it's good to have you with us, and thanks so much, and let's stay in touch. And if you have something that you need to let people know about quick, just give us a holler. Okay, thanks, Mike. I appreciate the opportunity to say hello. You bet. Now go back to the comedy. Yeah. Okay. Thanks. You bet. All right, Representative Kevin McCabe, Big Lake. We'll be right back. Get on with Mike and Crash weekdays at 3 on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Monday evening. Still steady traffic around the Anchorage Bowl. All right, it is 549. I want to thank Representative McCabe for coming on. We had some really good interviews today. Senator Myers, Representative McCabe. A lot of good information, Darrell, about what's going on in Juneau from the people who actually are in the battles. Oh, absolutely. I love it. Let's go to Michelle. Hi, Michelle.
Mike, I just wanted to comment on the school thing with declining school rates. Part of the reason that the school rates are declining is because parents are pulling their kids out of school, not because... of any other reason except for they don't want them being indoctrinated by the woke DEI, critical race theory, you know, advocates in there. And so they are pulling their...
students out, putting them in the charter schools or the homeschooling. And now what the legislators are trying to do is they want to control that. And the reason why they want to control that is because they want to force your children to have DEI and critical race theory and everything else. So that answers the question right there. It's so apparent. I pulled my own two children out and paying at a very high cost for them to go to private school.
Not because we just have money to spare laying around, but because we don't want them indoctrinated. And that's what's happening to them. Anybody can look up the new policy where they want to increase DEI.
by 20 percent okay that's not going to the kids that's not going to teachers that's going to administration and policy so that they can indoctrinate your kids And all these Democrat and rhino Republicans in the legislature, they're not talking about, you know, what they're talking about is trying to tax everybody to death to pay for all their woke everything.
Instead of focusing on building our economy, focusing on oil and gas, focusing on us producing money so that the citizens don't have to be taxed. I'm born and raised here 54 years, and me and my husband are already looking for ways where we might have to move out of state because we know it's just going to keep going up, up, up.
So, you know, they're just going to keep losing people, hemorrhaging people, moving out of the state until they get, you know, and the thing that bothers me is even the so-called Republicans, like yont. You know, with his bad policy bill that even Shelly Hughes agrees is totally bad policy, they're going to force.
The oil companies, they're going to force new business out of the state of Alaska until we keep getting smaller and smaller and smaller. And then the small population of people are going to have to be footing the bill. for an upcoming state income tax, sales tax, no PFD, and increased property taxes. And then what's everybody going to do?
Well, I think what we need to do is we need to make sure, and I know Anchorage has got a problem, we've got to start electing Republicans that are Republicans. Because we've got a bunch of Republicans from Anchorage that are... not exactly following the program. Yeah. I live in Cassie Giesel's district. I did not vote for her, but... I cannot believe the people over here. It's just, you know, Mike, it's a mindset.
It's happening all over the world, all over the country. People are so complacent. The few people like me, they're passionate about stuff. You know, we're the wacko lunatics. But it's because we can see what's happening. We can forecast what's happening, what's coming down the pike that's happening in all the other states in this country and in other countries.
And nobody's listening. They're like, okay, I'll vote for Lisa Murkowski. She has an R after her name. You know, and I mean, it drives me literally insane. So yeah, I've tried to not call you in a while just because I get all riled up and everything. But you know, people need to wake up. They do they do let me just ask you a quick question before we go and that is are you satisfied with the education that your kids are getting?
Yes, I am. And we're paying for it, and it's a Christian education, and we're very glad that we do it. But I tell you, Mike, it's not because we're rich. We haven't been on a vacation in eight years so that we can send our kids to, you know. private school because it's that important to us i don't want them indoctrinated with what they're trying to indoctrinate i don't want them thinking it's okay drag queen story hour okay that's not okay with me Somehow I knew that.
But no, I mean, you're doing exactly what a good mom would do, and that is to make sure that her kids get the kind of education that you want them to have. Yeah, it just sucks that I'm paying taxes. I'm paying huge property taxes, as I'm sure you are, and it's not going to my kid's education. I have to pay extra for my kid's education because I don't get to choose. And that's why they're so against school choice.
They don't want you to be able to choose. They don't want anyone to be able to choose. People need to understand this. School choice benefits all the kids that they say they're so advocating for. People of color. People of low income. School choice is the best for them, but they won't do that because they want to control it. They want to control what the kids and indoctrinate them, and that's what it's all about. Yeah, well, it's interesting because in a lot of other places, minority kids...
And when given an opportunity for their parents to get them into a private school or a Christian school, a parochial school of some sort, the parents jump at that chance. Exactly. That's because they love their kids. and they want to see their kids get a good education. Michelle, we've got to scoot. The program is pretty much over, but thanks for the call. You're welcome. Bye-bye.
All right. Okay. It is 5.55 and 56 seconds, which means in just about two seconds, the music starts. You are good, right? Look at you go. You know, it's amazing. I've done this so long, I almost know what I'm doing. Not, I don't, I don't, but I almost. I can hope and dream, I can hope and dream. Yes, all right, well, don't forget to listen to Amy tomorrow. I will do that. You'll be there helping her out and then you'll be back here with me for the foreseeable future as Crash...
Hopefully he gets to, I think he gets to Japan tomorrow. I think he does also. We'll know when the Japanese red flags start flying. Yeah, when they start sending telegrams or something. So we'll be back tomorrow. Same time, same station, all that stuff. Daryl, thanks very much. And it should be fun tomorrow. We'll see you then.
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