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Of no crash, is that right? One day in one week is what we're looking at, yes. Yeah, because he's in Tokyo where it's 51 degrees. It's 33 here, 34 in Palmer, 34 in Soldotna. 35 and Homer. Talkeetan is 31. Fairbanks 24. Prudhoe's 1. Seattle's 46. New York 44. 62 down in Akaroa, New Zealand. 69 in Pensacola, Florida, Tampa, Florida. 69, 65 in Tifton, Georgia. And as we said, 51 in Tokyo. Some of the places that listen to this radio show, obviously they can listen to it on the app.
And we appreciate that. I got an email from a friend, and I've known this guy for a long time, and he is a very, very talented writer. His name is Frank Baker, and you've probably, if you've been around and read the newspapers and looked at different magazines and things, Frank writes, and he's very good at it, and he's very good at poetry. And every once in a while, I'm favored by one of Frank's poems. And they usually have, you know, deep meaning or sometimes they're just fun.
But there's always something about them that's interesting, and I really enjoy it. So this is Frank Baker's poem. He sent it to me today. It's called Tech Incommunicado. And he says, From face to face to telephone, from email to the text, Zoom meetings, and then FaceTime. I don't know what's next. I once loved writing letters when I was a young lad. The ones I savored most were missims from my dad. They held such vivid detail about his goings-on. I feasted on his stories, whether short or long.
Then came word processors, computers, and email. Online edits, spell check, a tech world would prevail. I learned to love email. Delivery was so fast, stored on computer letters. That would last. But soon, there came texting. An even faster way. Folks could reach each other with things they had to say. But texts were so much briefer. A note or two, one jots. What happened to the email with all the well-developed thoughts?
what happened to responses to questions that one asked reactions to one's comments exchanges seemed so fast folks flocked to facebook and other social media Email and letters went the way of the encyclopedia. Likes and emojis, one click, and thoughts were made. Reactions and thumbs up were ideas fast purveyed. Zoom meetings on computer, participants in squares, people bound at home in their domestic layers. We hoped technology would bring us close together. But now we say...
Don't say so much. It's less we say, the better. I miss those days of letters, content with twists and turns, from bombast and verbosity my heart so dearly yearns. It's hard to put those days on my memory shelf. I might just start writing letters to myself. So I'll go back to Facebook and navigate the posts, trying to communicate with its friends and hosts. Sometimes there are articles with depth and meaning. For that I say on Facebook,
There's info for the gleaning. And it's nice to have a contact with people that I know. Or perhaps this online medium helps our friendships grow. Thank you, Frank. Be back. Well written. Well written and thought provoking. Yeah, it really is. Frank and I are roughly the same age. We've lived through all that. Back when there was one phone in the house, you wrote letters, you waited for the postman.
I mean, that was it, you know. You had a telephone call, maybe. And phone calls, as you know, were very expensive from here to anywhere else outside in the world. So it was a different world back then. And are we better off? In some ways, I guess. But there is always that special... Something about getting a letter that somebody actually wrote with a pen and paper. It's a piece of them.
I don't know. I still think that's pretty special. My mom is 100% with you. 100% with you. All right, it's 413. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Mike and Crash now. Be a part of the show on News Radio 650 KENI.
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It is 417-522-0650. Well, we're all worried about the government shutting down, but I think that's now come to a conclusion. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer... has made a dramatic U-turn today and announced that he would vote to allow Republicans to forge ahead with consideration of their plan to avert a partial government shutdown tomorrow night. Schumer agreed.
And he also argued that if Democrats saw a Republican plan to avert a partial government shutdown, it will give the president too much power, and he will have far more devastating ramifications than if the GOP had actual spending that was approved. Congress while the CR the continuing resolution bill is very bad
The potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse, he said, Mr. Schumer said, in a speech on the Senate floor. Allowing President Trump to take even more power is a far worse option. Under a shutdown, Trump and Musk could have carte blanche to destroy vital government services at a significantly faster rate than they do now, he said.
I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country, to minimize the harms to the American people, and therefore I will keep the government open. Republicans have a 53 vote majority in the upper chamber in order to overcome a 60 vote threshold. They will likely need eight Democrats on board because Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, he's a Republican, has opposed the House GOP measure to avert a government shutdown.
Schumer joined Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, as one of the few Democrats who revealed plans to support the Republicans in overcoming a filibuster. So, I mean, in the Senate, you've got to get 60 votes. You know, people think, oh, well, there's a Republican majority. No, that's not good enough. You've got to get 60 votes because they can filibuster. And it's the same way when the other side, when the minority has that as a club.
The whole idea is the Senate, as George Washington so eloquently put it, is the saucer that cools the tea of government. And, you know, that's... That's what it's there for. So during the lively Senate Democratic meeting before Schumer's announcement, Senator Kristen Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, she's the junior senator from New York, was heard screaming.
by reporters apparently arguing that a shutdown would be far more devastating than the Republicans' continuing resolution or short-term spending. A day earlier, Schumer had publicly slammed Republicans over their plan, calling it partisan, and urged them to consider an alternate 28-day extension of government funding instead while warning the GOP lacked the votes from Democrats. So we'll see what happens. First of all, both sides...
I think, agree. It depends on who's in power. But when the Republicans are not in power, they don't like continuing resolutions. When the Democrats are not in power, they don't like continuing resolutions. And the truth of the matter is they're both right. Because continuing resolutions really do nothing. They continue to run the government. But there is no process. There needs to be a budget. There needs to be a document. There needs to be a vote in Congress.
for the things that the Congress wants to place in the budget that then they send on to the president for him to accept or reject.
Doing continuing resolutions, basically all it does, whether it's the Republicans doing it or the Democrats doing it, just kicks the can down the road. It doesn't solve any of the problems. They need to have a meaningful... budgetary process where there is discussion, debate, amendments, arguments if you want, that's okay, and they come up with something that the American people are expecting them.
to come up with. That's why they were all elected. So, yeah, the government hopefully will stay open, but this isn't the way to do it. And both sides are right. When they're wrong, aren't they? Oh, yeah. All right, 421. I had a crazy thought while you were talking about that, Mike. You know, I realize the Democrats really have no sense of ha-ha. They've just got a really bad sense of Schumer.
Bad sense of humor. Sorry, my bad. I couldn't help it. You know, you could be arrested in some kind. But what can I say? All right. Greenland. You know where that is, right? Yeah, it's a big chunk on the map there. I've never been to Greenland, never landed. I've flown over Greenland a number of times, but I've never actually landed in Greenland. And it looks a lot like here, I guess. Greenland's center-right party pulled off a surprise victory in the country's parliamentary elections.
taking the Greenlandic Prime Minister out of power. Independence from Denmark became a focal point of the election amid President Trump's repeated talk of U.S. taking control. Of the world's largest island. And it's big. Now we have a base there. Used to be Thule Air Force Base. And now it is a space base. And it's got a different name. That I cannot say.
because I would just butcher the pronunciation. So if somebody knows how to say it, tell me what it is. And so we've always been on Greenlandic soil.
when Denmark controlled it and now Greenland is saying they'd like to just be independent. Four of the five main parties on the ballot, including the ones that won first and second place, favor independence from Denmark but disagree on the pace Greenland whose population is approximately 57,000 people now think about that 57,000 people in the entire
Mass of Greenland. That's basically a decent crowd at a baseball game. I mean, there are football games that have larger crowds than that. What is that? Is that about the size? It's a little bigger than Fairbanks. It might be Fairbanks area, 57,000. But, I mean, you could tell how small the population is.
So there's only 57,000 people. Currently it operates as a semi-autonomous territory from the Kingdom of Denmark. However, Trump's renewed interest in the island has sparked conversations about breaking away from the Danish crown. The Prime Minister whose party failed to maintain control said in a Facebook post that he respects the outcome of the election and that parties are ready for negotiations.
Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Polsen congratulated the party and said that the Greenlandic future would face massive pressure from Trump, according to the Associated Press, which cited Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Paulson reportedly added that the future of Greenland is based on what Greenlandic people and government want. So what is that going to mean for the United States? I'm sure that President Trump is going to do whatever he can to try to get Greenland to do something.
I don't know if it's a question of a lie with the United States in terms of a formal... system of being a territory. I don't think that's going to happen. But maybe a strong alliance or something. I don't know what he's going to do. But I think that he is going to try to bring Greenland closer to the U.S. And strategically, it makes sense. There's no question.
Might make great sense for the people of Greenland economically as well. It could be great jobs and it could be a whole lot of other things. But like anything else, if Greenland becomes an independent nation, which it sounds like it wants to do. then let's just kind of see how it works and help them. Work with them.
That's where it is. But it was a surprise. I think most people, most of the political watchers in Greenland were saying that, oh, no, no, it's not going to happen. They're going to stay close to Denmark. And it's not the case. Sounds like those folks want to chart their own course. It is 427-522-0650. Let us take a break. We'll come back. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on NewsRadio 650 KENI. This is NewsRadio 650 KENI.
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News Radio 650 KENI. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Thursday afternoon. That's our phone number. And, you know, we're dealing with a giant education bill down in Juneau. It went out of the House and now is in the Senate. And we talked about that yesterday. It's irresponsible to pass a bill without a funding mechanism. It's like, where's the money coming from? Tell me.
You're going to take the permanent fund away? Well, then you better put that down and tell everybody that's what you're going to do. But right now, you've got a big matzo ball hanging out there that says, here's this bill. It's big. Funding it, I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine. Well, I know where it's going to come from. It's going to have to come from the permanent fund, the dividend. So, you know, what I would really like...
from the legislature, and I'm saying this as a legislature at large, not certain members of the legislature, is just a little honesty. Tell us how you're going to fund the bill. Tell us what you're going to do. And if you catch you-know-what for it, that's on you. But don't try to slip one by the goalie, because you can't. This is too big.
So hearing all of that, there's another state that's dealing with a similar situation. And I'm not going to tell you what it is until maybe at the end of the story.
billion dollar budget for next year that's not us now but you know it's only because we don't we probably actually have forty one point two billion dollars but they can't touch it uh is a whopping third of the entire city's budget but it still isn't enough claim school officials The chancellor of the city schools said the Department of Education needs hundreds of millions more to enact a controversial new class-size law plus additional bucks.
for the governor's pending phone ban. Now, I don't know what you need money for to ban cell phones in school. It seems pretty simple. You could put them in a locker, in a box, or whatever, and they're locked up in the office or they're locked up in a classroom, whatever. But how hard is that? We also have major expenses looming on the horizon, most significantly compliance with the class size mandate. This funding is not currently in the budget.
The city will need to hire 4,000 more educators to deal with the new United Federation of Teachers-backed requirement. that classroom sizes max out at 20 students for early childhood grades and up to 25 for high school. The gobsmacking, arguably vague cash plea comes from a certain school district in a certain eastern state, the largest district in the nation, I think you probably know what I'm talking about, faces years, now listen to this, years of declining enrollment, middling test scores,
and chronic absenteeism, despite raking in ever increasing amounts of dough. Enrollment has dropped 12% since 2018. Truancy is nearly 35%. Spending per pupil is now $32,284. Students are flunking with just 33% of fourth graders deemed proficient. math and 28% in reading. Just 23% of 8th graders were proficient in math and 29% in reading. Sound familiar to anybody?
People need to stop pretending that the Department of Education is serving kids. It's about job creation, except that everything else makes sense. The place I'm talking about is New York City. And we talked about this, I think... briefly with Bob Griffin the other day, and I asked him, I said, Bob, have you ever heard of a number that will be satisfactory to the school districts? The number that will ensure, guarantee.
Great outcomes. Of course, there isn't a number that does that. But he said, no, it's more. That's the number. We're just a small player in this thing. But when you look at how much money we spend as compared to New York, we're right up there. We're right up there in the big leagues in terms of spending. And we're right down there in the big leagues. in terms of poor outcomes. So I just thought I would bring that to you to show you that this isn't just an Alaska problem.
This is a problem that is going throughout the country. This is a problem that you have to stop. You have to demand that there's accountability. You know, there's nothing wrong with funding education. I'm all for it. Always have been. But I want to fund education that's going to work. What we're doing now isn't working. I'm sorry. It's just not. I mean, when we're down at the bottom of the list, we're below New York, by the way, in our outcomes.
How can you possibly, with a straight face, not ask for, but demand more and more and more and more money, and then not even tell us where the money's going to come from to pay for it all? And then the question I asked Bob Griffin the other day was, have we ever cut a single dollar from the education budget? The answer is no, we haven't. Can't touch a dime. Why? What's so sacred about the education budget? Why can't we cut a dime?
What's so sacred about it? It's not like they're breaking records. You know, it's time that somebody just took off the gloves and said, look, this is the story. You know, don't hide behind the kids. Don't use the kids as a pawn. Don't use them as props. Are you serving the kids of the state? Are you doing the very best you can? Are you giving them the finest education?
Can you answer yes to any of those questions? If you can, let me know. I don't want to hear about all the other problems. The truth of the matter is, it's not getting done. And more money isn't getting it done. But yet, that seems to be the only thing that people want to do. Look for more money. Maybe we need to think about how we look at our curricula. Maybe we need to look at how we're teaching the courses.
What is the old expression? You do the same thing over and over again, and you expect different results. That's insanity. Well, we're in the loop. Big time. So I'm not trying to criticize people. I'm criticizing the system because I think we all want the same thing. And the same thing is we want our children to have the finest education in the country. Not the worst education money can buy. And unfortunately, the latter seems to be true. All right, 522-0650, that is our telephone number.
Always happy to talk to you. Always happy to hear your thoughts. Let's go to Lady. Hi, Lady. Well, afternoon, Mr. Mike. Yes. I want to wish all the people out there a happy Feast of Purim. I'd like to ask the people to pray that these clouds move out of the way so we might be able to see some of that eclipse tonight. That would be good, but it was really pretty here for a while during the afternoon.
Yeah, Daryl just told me that we're going to get some more snow and clouds coming around 6. Oh, that's great. No, it's not. I want to see the sky. Mr. Mike. On this thing about the kids and their phones in school, you know, if they just had it to where the teachers, you know, like, just let it be known that if you mess up in class, your phone will be taken.
And it will be held for 48 hours. And if it happens on a Friday, you'll get it back Monday and have it to where the teacher can just push a button on their phone or something and have... to where security is just notified to come in and then they can, you know, point it out who's the problem, you know, to where there ain't no dissension in the class. And I was also thinking...
Is there any way that, like, this is stupid, but is there any way, like, Elon Musk could, you know, find out what's going on up here on our education where all the money's stashed? I don't know. I think right now he's kind of busy trying to figure out what's going on in the rest of the country. Maybe one of the musketeers could look into it. Yeah, the star kids.
Well, anyway, I'd like to know. They're finding out all this money, where it's been going, and I'm thinking they're doing the same thing up here. Oh, I think we probably could find waste. I hope not fraud. I would rather deal with just dumbness. than people who willfully are trying to cheat us I think you can try to help somebody who's not you know doing the right thing by helping them and show them what the right thing to do but if you've got somebody who's crooked
That's a different story, and I hope that's not the case in Alaska. I may be a little naive, but I hope that's not true. You're not naive. Mr. Mike, one more thing. You know, it's like where you've got where Zelensky and everybody's got all this property and all this money and everything's just all stashed away and everybody's sitting there hanging on a thread.
if they're going to keep the government open, is there any way that they can freeze those people's assets and find out that they don't make that much money where we've been ripped off? Well, it depends. I mean, if money is in a U.S. bank, and there is a good reason to do that, they certainly can. If the money is in a different country's bank, and you've got relations with the country, you can...
Say, look, we'd like a deal here. Can you help us? And in many cases, a friendly nation will say, okay, you know, they're going to ask for something, but they're going to go for it. All right, lady, we've got to take a quick break. I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. You bet. Looking at your... Temperatures slowly warm into the mid-30s with some possible light snow this weekend. For Alaska's weather source, I'm meteorologist.
Aaron Morrison. Report traffic problems to NewsRadio 650 KENI by dialing pound 250 on your wireless phone and saying total traffic. By 449-520-650, let's go to Randy. Hi, Randy. Well, good afternoon, Mike and Daryl. A question for you and see if you agree or not. I believe this, I have a question. Do you think the NA takes your shooting? Is directing all this nationwide to bankrupt all the school systems? Do I think what is going to bankrupt the school systems?
pushing on with additional funding to bankrupt all the school systems. Well, I mean, if we don't control it, yeah, we're going to... all be in big trouble in alaska we don't have the money to cover this unless they tell us where it's coming from well like you're talking about new york and i see that in uh california Other places I've been, other places I've seen, have been there lately. It's Florida, and I think we ought to take a look at Florida and see what they're doing.
Well, I think what we need to do is look at school districts that are successful and see what they spend, and not only what they spend, but see how they teach. And that's what we should be looking at. Charter schools here are doing great. and they don't get the same kind of money and funding that the brick-and-mortar schools do. So there's something different. And I understand that kids don't learn differently, you know, and that one size does not fit all.
But I think if you've got a successful model, that at least should be the basis of something that you do going forward, because what we're doing now isn't working. I concur. And I also think the travel money that's given to the student should be followed by the student, not necessarily where they go, the school system that's close to them. Anyway, thank you for your input. You bet, Randy. Thank you for the call. All right, 522-0650. It's so disheartening to know that...
We're just not performing properly. We're not making the grade as a state and certainly as a city. Pointing to what the blame is and getting into these arguments about the fact that we don't have enough money, so therefore the kids aren't going to have great outcomes, that's nonsense. And I'll tell you that right now. It's just nonsense.
We should be looking at how we do things. I don't think there's anybody out there that doesn't want to see smart kids. Of course we do. This is something that should be a completely nonpartisan issue. education it should be what's good for our kids whatever is good for our kids we should be we should be talking about and figuring out how we can get behind but but this isn't about our kids
This is about something else. It's about jobs. It's about power. It's about influence. Let's go to John. Hi, John. Hey, Mike, how's it going? Going well, thanks. Looks like we're going to have winter after all. I think so. Yeah. So my niece attended Aquarian Charter School here in Anchorage, and I'm pretty sure it's built out of bricks and mortar.
As I was saying to Daryl, it's not a good idea to correct the host, but charter schools are absolutely brick and mortar. What they're not is they don't have a teacher's union. That's the difference. That's kind of what I meant. That's it. Let me ask a listening audience a question. What poses, by the way, my niece is now in college. Loves Aquarium.
I have a house downtown. My across-the-street neighbor sent his kids to Aquarian. And when he went to the parent-teacher conference this year, they're like, what pronouns does your son want to be addressed by? Oh, my God. Swear to God, true story. But moving on, on a day-in, day-out basis, what constitutes a greater threat to our kids? Mexican drug cartels or the woke mind virus and the Anchorage teachers' unions that I just described?
What constitutes a greater threat to the kids? Islamic jihadist terrorism or the teachers' unions? And Mike Kronk on Must Read? He nailed it pretty well. He nailed it. Mike is good. My good friend, longtime associate, he was the chair of the Department of Economics at UAF. He was also an NCAA Division I wrestler at the University of Iowa, Dan Gable.
And, you know, was an all-around athlete, musician, scholar. And his comment to me about homeschooled kids, he's like, I can always tell who the homeschooled kids are because they're my best students. And he described... He described homeschool as kids as consistently having a level of comportment. Yes. That was significantly... Head and shoulders above the kids coming out of public schools. God bless them. And, you know, what we have here is...
People that do not want to allow choice when it comes to education. And, you know, I think it's highly ironic that the liberal left is pro-choice on issues of... Reproductive freedom. But when it comes to being pro-choice on education, it's hard not to describe them as the socialist fascists that they... Now just say what you mean, John. Well, the fact is, it is fascism. Because it is the merging of a corporate and statist interest when it comes to education.
And it's just never, you know, a few times I've talked about Henry Louis Mencken, the scathing editorialist from the Baltimore Evening Sun. Right. And H.L. Mencken has some stunning quotes on the education system, and it's not to make people smarter. It's to turn them into little worker drones. Exactly. John, we're out of time, unfortunately. I appreciate the call. You take care. All right, it is...
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PORCH For sure 508. Welcome back, everybody. 5-2-2-0-6-50 is the telephone number. And I had some interesting comments about schools. And I think it's vitally important. We've got a school board election coming up. And, you know, you've got two incumbents that are running. I guess the thing I wonder about is what are they running on or maybe what are they running from? The record that they've tallied.
is not impressive, at least to me. I mean, that's my opinion. There's nothing to say about them as individual people. I'm not saying they're bad people or anything like that. I'm just saying that I don't believe they've done a good job. on the school board. But that's just my opinion. If you agree with that, then it's time to make some changes. And there is a school board election. There's two seats up. And if you can change those two seats, things will change.
On the school board. It's also an assembly election. But you don't hear very much, do you? I mean, it's like this thing fell off the face of the earth here. And, again, it's... You know, having elections in April is a little crazy. Let's go to Bob. Hi, Bob. Mike, how's it going? Well, going well, thank you. Well, we're going to solve a couple of problems here right quick.
Okay. School district is not a money problem. My mom went to school in a one-room schoolhouse in Meade County, Kansas. And she finished the eighth grade in that school. I'll bet she got a great education, too. Many years later, we lived in Colorado, and she decided she wanted to be a pharmacist. So she went to Southern Colorado State, the same one Dana Perino went to. Right.
And she challenged class after class after class after class after class. They were all a joke to her. She started probably about three-fourths of the way through her junior year before she finally had to take her class. Now, that school she went to, my dad said that... Now, I've got to be polite here, and you've got to keep your thumb close to the mute button. He said that those guys were so tight, they saved the grease from their farthest to polish their shoes with.
It was not money. It was teaching. Yes. And now we've got that problem, so let's move on to another one. The recalcitrant Democrats in the Senate. Why doesn't Musk and Trump hire some genius advertising person like yourself to make some ads, campaign ads for the... primaries, when these guys are going to be running in the primaries, and show them what they're going to get. They're going to release these all to their opponents when the primaries roll around.
And with the ammunition the Democrats have given them, they could make up some beautiful commercials. I think so. You know, if Trump wants my help, I'm happy to do it. I think they could change a few of their minds. I think so. It's just that you've got to get people off the couch. That's the problem, Bob. What I'm seeing here, I don't like.
too many people that expect things to happen for them. They expect people to hand them things. Life isn't like that. It's hard to change things, but you've got to go out there and do it. And you've got to have that commitment, and I'm not seeing it. You know, my dad always said that the harder you work, the luckier you get. Well, he's absolutely right. And you look at these people that settled this country. They were hardworking, tough, solid people.
I mean, you know, I'm not saying we don't have that today, but look at the mess we got ourselves into because we weren't paying attention. And we just essentially said, well, it's the other guy's problem. First of all, you're being polite because we don't have those people anymore. The greatest generation was the greatest generation. Well, yeah, that was my parents and probably yours.
Yeah, they basically saved the world. You know, my dad, the only thing better than 16 hours a day is with 18 hours a day. And he said that he was not going to eat dinner over a... Cow chip fire. And however many hours he had to work to get the cow chips out of the stove, that's what he's going to do. Yep. All right. Because that's what my mom cooked on. Yes. But they worked hard and they handed me a silver spoon.
Well, I bet you had to work hard for your stuff as well. It was easier for you than for them. That was the whole thing. You wanted to make it easier for your kids, but you didn't expect them to not work. No. He put that same work ethic in me. I thought we would never work Thanksgiving afternoon. But by gosh, we'd work till noon. Well, you know, half a day.
It's better than nothing. But we've had all of Christmas off. We did have all of Christmas. All right. Well, there you go. Anyway, move on to some more problems. We've got this one down, Mike. All right. Thank you, Bob. Appreciate your call. See you. All right. 5-2-2-0-6-50. It is 5-14. Jed Whitaker. Hi, Jed Whitaker. Go ahead. Oh, hello. How are you today? I'm good, thank you. I agree with the other caller. I work 13 to 18 hours a day, almost every day.
The reason why I'm calling is there's a good man that's running for the Anchorage Assembly. His name is Daniel George. And Daniel George... was involved with the Mountain View Community Council. He worked very hard to keep Mountain View clean when we had the Mountain View cleanup. He worked for Don Young.
He also was a legislative aide in Juneau. Dan George is a highly qualified, smart, young man, and everybody should be voting for Dan George for the Anchorage Assembly because he'll get the job done. All right. And what district is this, Jed? It's, well, you know, downtown used to be just one assembly seat. Right. Now it's two. Two seats, right. And so it encompasses downtown, Government Hill, a little bit of Fairview, and Mountain View. Okay.
For years and years and years, the South Asian people have dominated that seat. And it's time for a change. We need somebody that's... pragmatic, realistic, and understands how to get the job done, and will get the job done. Well, okay, so Daniel George, that's the guy. Yes, sir. All right. Well, Jed, I appreciate the phone call. Thank you. Thank you. Have a great day. You too. All right. It's 516. We'll be back. The Mike Percaro Show with Crash on NewsRadio 650.
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And, Darrell, we had Jed on a bit ago before the break, and he mentioned Daniel George is running for a seat on the assembly, and he's running against incumbent Daniel Voland. Yes. And Daniel Voland, I believe he's an optometrist. He is an optometrist, yes. He should have clear vision, but well. Yeah, but he only sees out of his left eye. And now you get nothing against him. That was good. That was good. You know, hey, every once in a while you get one. But, I mean, he is liberal.
I don't think he would disagree with that characterization. It doesn't make him a bad guy. It just makes him a guy that maybe shouldn't be doing that and focusing on his profession. which I wish him well in all of that. But, you know, and Daniel Voland, he's relatively new to Alaska. And some people told me he was recruited to come up here. I don't know if he was or not, but he's up here. And we wish him success in his business and all of that.
But the other gentleman, Mr. George, sounds like he's been in the trenches doing the hard work and working hard for the people of Mountain View. So if you want to change things, you're going to have to... Do it, and you're going to have to get your friends and neighbors to work on it. Let's go to Dave on the peninsula. You wanted to talk about education. Hey there. How are you doing, Mike? I'm good, thank you.
Just a couple comments about education. We've got a lot of problems in our education system. Here in Alaska, but all over. One of the worst things that ever happened is... When Bush passed, no child left behind. If I'm a parent and my son or daughter is in the second grade and I can see that they're not performing at grade level. Even if I want them held behind, I can't do it. The school cannot do it. So what happens is we just keep passing these kids along and they're just not...
You know, they're not getting it. They get to be 16 years old, they drop out. But in the meantime, you know, their test scores are terrible because they're not getting the basics. The other thing is, is we need more parental involvement. You don't just, you know, send your kid off to school and never look at him again and expect him to come out a Rhodes Scholar. No, it takes work. And it takes work, and it takes work by the parents.
Parents can go online anytime and look for missing assignments, look at their kids' grades. It's all out there online. And I would bet you that probably only 10% of parents bother doing it. Well, or you get the typical thing you say to your kid, you know, so what did you learn at school today? Nothing.
I mean, you know, that's not good enough. You know, you've got to be involved. The kid's got to be involved. The parent's got to be involved. The teacher and the school have got to be involved. And when you get all of that working together, you're going to have some really good outcomes. I agree. I agree. Some of it may be class size. We have way too many administrators. We're seriously top heavy.
And, you know, when they start making cuts, it's always teachers. It's never administrators. I was going to say teachers and popular programs, that's what they cut first. And we need more trade school education in high schools. I agree. That's absolutely essential. You'd make good money as a plumber or a carpenter or whatever. And you'd make as much as anybody getting out of college with a degree in underwater basket weaving. And, you know.
College isn't for everybody. It's too darn expensive. So let's get trade schools going. And I think a lot of the trades would come in and teach that. And we wouldn't have to pay for a teacher. Yeah, no, there's a lot of that. And growing up on the East Coast, we actually had trade high schools, schools that trained you for aviation, that trained you for... auto repairs plumbing you name it there was a trade school for it and a lot of kids just kind of went into that
particular school and came out, had made a great living. They were great contributors to society as opposed to sitting in a classroom and basically wasting their time doing something that they didn't either understand or care about. But, you know, you've got to give the kids something that they want to do, something that excites them, something that is...
positive. And that's what these schools do. And I agree with you. Trade schools are really an underutilized resource. And this really, let's put it this way. When your toilet doesn't work, you're not going to call a doctor. You're going to call a plumber. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I live down here on the peninsula. I'll tell you what. Trying to find a service person to do anything.
Once you find a good one, you better hang on to them and take good care of them. Because what happens is I'll be there Wednesday. They don't tell you which Wednesday. Some Wednesday. Some Wednesday, maybe by the end of the year. And if they don't show up, I'm sorry. They don't call, all that kind of stuff. So you find a good one, you better hang on to them.
And I don't know why any kid, heating and cooling, plumbing, whatever, can't make a really good living. Oh, yeah. I mean, a really good living. No, absolutely. Auto mechanic. Mm-hmm. You know, look at Keith Mott and I. He's paying $100,000 a year to mechanics. Yeah, and it's good work, honest, fair, good work. I mean, and that's kind of the bottom line.
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Are we supposed to get some more snow, Darrell? Oh, yes. Starting about 6 o'clock, the weather forecasters and prognosticators are saying... 6 o'clock to about 10 o'clock, some light snow possibly is going to come down around. Then we're going to still have clouds. So our chances of actually seeing that eclipse are not going to be good. We're going to have to take up the corporate jet. Oh, that would be fun. Yeah. Mr. I heart. Did you hear?
Oh, yeah. He'll be here in a second to come take us up there. We'll go have champagne and we'll look at the eclipse. There we go. I heard there's going to be another eclipse on the 29th is the next chance at one. Yes. Yeah. Well, maybe that'll be better. Hopefully, I don't know, I guess Fairbanks can see it, right? Oh, yeah, there's beautiful weather up in Fairbanks. I'll tell you what, they've got blue skies and crisp up there. They should get a great view of it.
Yeah, we don't. I don't know what it's like on the peninsula. I didn't look at their weather, unfortunately. I think I can find it. Here it is. Soldotna. Cloudy. Yeah, I see. So they're going to get left out of it also. Yeah, they're going to get some snow tomorrow. What is going on? Remember when we had Jeff Lonefels on the other day? and we were talking about you know no snow and Jeff was saying you know well don't go out don't do anything don't do anything outside it could still snow
Yep. He nailed it. Not only that, but I think I saw a bunch of people changing their tires over on the last couple of days and washing their cars. Literally, I was seeing people doing crazy stuff like that. My neighbor was sweeping his driveway, which is way early for that. Yeah, no, no, no. Just leave it alone. You've got to wait until at least April to do anything. Let's go to David on Elon Musk. Oh, yeah, thanks, Mike.
Yeah, and I'm going to kind of tie it to what the last couple of callers talking about Department of Education. When I was young, I ran for Congress. Well, actually, I ran for a school board as well. And the guy that won was a real estate broker. And he was trying to convince the Board of Education that they were really broke.
and that they had to sell the land of the different schools. Well, he was a con artist, and he ended up in prison because he did cause the school districts to sell their land and sell it to him or his buddies. And so the idea of Donald Trump as a real estate broker telling America that we have to sell our schools. We have to close down the Department of Education. And we basically have to all go to Trump University. Whoops, turns out Trump University is a fraud.
So I would warn listeners, don't pay attention to a real estate broker when he tells you that your school district's broke. It's a big lie. They're just trying to get the land of America. Now, as it comes to Elon Musk, he's in on the deal, but he's even in a bigger way. You use the telephone, you, Mike, use the telephone basically to run your show, right?
You get people calling from the mountains. You probably get people calling from the fishing boats, you know, telling Alaska what's going on in the world. And the telephone is basically 150 years old. I think it was at... Oh, good grief. Watson, come here quickly. I need you. That was 1876. And the telephone has been a successful, efficient... a forum for America to communicate for almost 150 years. And just the other day, Elon told America...
That telephones used by the Social Security Division have to be turned off. That the Social Security of America Department, Social Security Department... has to turn its telephones off. Now, what is more efficient than a telephone, and especially anybody, you know, in a snowstorm, in a frigging mountain, in a... 75 miles or 150 miles from the headquarters where they'd have to sit in line for six hours to get something done, as opposed to getting it done on the telephone. Elon Musk.
told America to shut down its phones. Well, did he say why? Well, he said it's inefficient. That's what doge is, right? Inefficient. Well, they're supposedly looking for efficiency, waste, fraud, and saving America money. That's what they're supposed to do. Right. six telephone calls in a given state, and so you shut down the whole country. You know, that's not efficient. That's a frigging fraud. These guys are, they are scamming America, pretending to be cost cutters.
But the fact is that they're denying people their ability to use their own property. whether it's the back 40 of a school district or whether it's the Social Security money that they put in for the last 50 years. Elon Musk and Donald Trump are frauds. They are organized crime, and we do not need to listen to them. All right. Well, David, thank you.
for your call, and keep San Francisco green. All right? Thanks very much. Let's go to Kingsley. Hi, Kingsley. Mike. Yes. I was just listening to that gentleman. Yes. And my gosh, you know, I mean, you know, sometimes I feel a little detached from reality. But, you know, it's good to hear that there are people like that out there because it kind of... Makes me realize that I'm living in the right lane here. Okay, well, he's our liberal caller from San Francisco. We always appreciate his calls.
Well, Mike, he's not a liberal. That's the problem. I'm a liberal. I'm a classical liberal, and I would hope that you would be one. You and I would, you know, and I think you are. Let's say progressive. Hold their opinions. What's that? Let's say progressive. Well, he's not a progressive. He's a leftist kook who's been indoctrinated with a bunch of commie gobbledygooks. It's the most insane stuff I've ever heard in my life. And at any rate, but it's nice to know that that's all they can do.
I see where Pete Buttigieg is planning to run for president, and so, you know, that's great. We've never had a chess feeder as the president of the United States, so it'll be another first for the Democrats. If people keep waking up, I think things are going to look great. All right. Thanks for the call. Okay. Let's go to Diane. Hi, Diane. Hi. Can you hear me? I can hear you fine.
All right. Now, when you graduated high school in New York, did you get a Regents diploma? Yes, I did. You had to pass the Regents exams, otherwise you couldn't get a diploma. You got it. Now, you know how it went. Everyone in the state of New York, we all took the test at the same second. The envelope and break the seal and all that. That's right. That's exactly right. And, you know, there were paper books for physics and all that other stuff. But we had hard books that we worked out with.
Remember the hard books from the beginning of school? You get that hard book and someone would say, hey, my dad's Tom, Tom Heyer. If you got that book, I want it. Yeah, no, I remember that, and then the regents exam would also make up a major part of your actual final grade, too. So you could be actually doing badly in school, and the regent's exam could pull your grade up, or the regent's exam could push you down. One of the two.
Let's see, I know in the late mid-70s, it was, you wouldn't bring it down, but the better of the two is what you got. Yeah, no, I was there in the 60s. And it was basically that's what they did to you. But everybody had to take it. I mean, you know, everybody had to take that exam. Otherwise, you couldn't graduate and get that diploma. And then in the 70s, you had a choice of either you have a regent test or, you know, the basics. But what I'm...
bringing him out is everyone had the same book in the whole state for regions. That's right. It was one thing. And we had hard books that lasted 30 years. We spend so much, and I'm speaking as a private citizen and not as anything else. And we would save a lot of money if we got the hard books because I've noticed one plus one.
still equals two. And it was that way for my age, my generation, your generation, my mother. And she's, you know, she's real old. She was alive, she'd be a hundred something. You know? So... They stayed the same. We weren't buying curriculum. Dick and Jane did help us. You know, we all had the book. They lasted a long time. See, spot, run. Yes.
So we spent so much money on curriculum in this generation, and I'm thinking, why can't we have hard books for the basic stuff? And then you could have fillers for when, you know, oh. Like my mother's age, those hard books didn't have someone landing on the moon. You just have add-ons to it. We would save a lot of money. Well, we would, and it would be nice if we actually had a curriculum that we could stick with. I mean, you know, you're exactly right about math.
My grandfather learning math in Italy is the same math that I learned here in America, and it was pretty much taught almost the same way, but not anymore. And with the regents, we were able to see what the teacher was doing. If everyone in one school with one teacher failed the regents' test, that teacher was in trouble.
Yes, of course they were, and we actually had good data from that, and we could find out student outcomes and what we're doing, and back in those days, the New York City schools, there was an Excellent education. That was a really fine, well-run school system. Yeah, and I think the regents really helped. Yes, it did.
Get the education. And I don't see why we could do it. They still have the regions in New York. It's a little bit wider now. It's not like what we had. I kind of like the idea of having... a test for the entire state which shows everybody just what's going on. And this is a way to find out where problems are and how we can fix them.
But we're not doing that. The idea of promoting people who don't make the grade is ludicrous. Why would you promote a kid to the next grade level if they can't get the grade level they're in? Correct. That's why I moved out of Anchorage. I was fighting them about that because I adopted a child who had fetal alcohol, and they didn't want to hurt his little feelies, and I just wanted him to get an education. Absolutely.
Yeah, you're hurting the kid by not giving him a good education. Yeah, you know, boosting his feelings about it is not a positive thing. If he gets 4 out of 10, don't give him an 80. No. He gets a 40. Exactly. And I was fighting over that. And, you know, I just moved out. I was like, nope, he gets an education.
All right. Well, Diane, thank you so much for your thoughts. We've got a break here. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right. It's time to take a quick break. Daryl, we'll be right back. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash. Weekdays at 3 on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
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End of another broadcast. It's been fun. A lot of calls today. Good questions, good comments. Whether you agree with them, disagree with them, it's still nice to hear from people. And hear what's on their minds as well. I always tell you what's on my mind sometimes. You know, I have trouble telling you what's on my mind because I don't know myself. There you go. You know what I liked about today's show is...
It gives you a chance to get all the different perspectives out there, Mike, and it gives you a chance to yell at the radio at least once. Yeah, I mean, that's, you know, it's good. I mean, the whole idea is to... You know, express your opinion. Everybody's got one. Little discourse. Or two, or three, you know. And, you know, we want to hear from you. It's just that simple.
We don't have to agree with you. You don't have to agree with me. That's okay. That doesn't mean we can't talk to each other. Problems arise when you don't talk to each other. That's when it gets bad.
I think that's one of the biggest differences between conservatives and progressives. Conservatives are willing to listen to another viewpoint. Even if we disagree with it, we'll listen to you. We'll nod at you. And then we'll tell you we disagree with you. The progressives, you start to open your mouth.
they think you disagree with them, they start shouting, yelling, turning their back, and walking away from you. Well, they want to cancel you. Correct. And that's part of the problem that we're in today as a country. We used to have people on opposite sides of an opinion that were able to talk about it and not want... to do some sort of harm to the other person. You know, I mean, look at Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan.
Both of these guys, they came from different avenues here. They were on different sides of the issues, yet they got along. And they respected each other, and I think that's part of it, respecting the other person and realizing that the other person is coming at his opinion, hopefully honestly. And I say that today, hopefully, but I think back then people did. And so your job was to do the best you could to make sure that your group...
had enough votes to win the day. But not necessarily, you know, want to destroy the other guy. Sometimes you needed the other guy. And if you didn't have trust... with the other guy, you're going to have a problem because he's not going to work with you and you're not going to work with him. So disagreements are fine as long as you don't breach trust.
Because once you do that, there's no way you can possibly work together, unless it's to save each other's lives. But that's the difference, I think, that I'm seeing in the time I've been on the earth. We've had lots of disagreements in government, but we're always able to come together at certain points to solve problems that needed to be solved.
You know, it's like, okay, let's go ahead and find the commonalities. And we might have a lot of those. And the ones that we disagree on, okay, let's put those aside for the moment and try to figure out how we come together and how we move forward. And we'll fight later. Doesn't mean you don't have to tell the other guy what you think. Sometimes people have to yell at each other. It's okay, as long as you're not violent. Another great relationship like that was Ted Stevens and, what is it,
Daniel Inouye? Yeah, Daniel Inouye. The Hawaiian guy. Yeah, those two, they definitely, on the floor, disagreed massively. But from what I understand, they'd go to lunch every week together, kick back, eat some bean soup, and hash it out. In fact, Senator Nelway said he's my brother. Yeah. So, I mean, that's the way it used to be in politics. Now it's calling each other misgender. I mean, just it's crazy what's going on in there. It's just it's crazy what's going on in the House and the Senate.
Well, we've got to figure out how to stop that. But I'm unsure at this point. VARC callers? I'm sorry. What did you say? Bark collars. That was the thought. I'm just kidding. Oh, bark collars? You know when your dog won't stop barking and it's irritating and just keeps it up. You put the bark collar on him and so it just kind of gives that little eek. Maybe we need that on our representatives.
Right, just turn it to 11 and watch what happens. Now, I usually just talk to my dog. Just looks at me and says, okay, I'll do what he says. He feeds me, you know. I mean, that's the other thing. What did Harry Truman say years ago? He said, if you want loyalty in public life, buy a dog.
Yeah, yeah, and that's actually, you definitely don't want to buy a cat because they're not loyal. They just are kind of like hanging with you a little bit, maybe. No, a dog will come when you call it. A cat will get back to you. Oh, that's really good there. Not only will a dog come when you call it, a dog will defend you when it needs to. As a cat, no, no, it's going to get behind you and be like, hey. The cat will eat you if it could. Oh, that is so scary true.
Think about that. No, that's scary, too. And a dog will try to perform CPR. I actually watched a dog. that was commanded to do CPR, and the dog got up and started compressions on a guy. I was like, wow. Wow. Now that's a dog. They're great. Talk about a best friend. Yeah. Well, see, they're not dumb. They figured, okay, how do I get inside the cave, and how do I get food? Exactly. And I'm just going to be nice to this smelly guy, and we'll go in.
Wait, Crash had a dog? Oh, he does have dogs. He has Bruce, that's right. Yeah, he's got two dogs. Alfred, Bruce and Alfred. I actually remember the name of Crash's dogs. Yes, and he's also got a lizard. I don't remember the name of the lizard, but I do know what kind it is and that it's still having egg problems. Yes, exactly. Rascal is the name of the lizard. Ah, okay.
All right, well, maybe Crash will call in either tomorrow or next week to kind of give us an update on what's going on in Japan. We haven't heard that the Japanese ambassador hasn't made a protest. To America, yes. So I believe all is still good. I can check by his house over there in Turnigan. All right. Time to say goodbye. Watch out for the snow. It's coming. We'll see everybody tomorrow. Behind every thriving place is a great long-term plan.
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