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So there. That's the temperatures and we're stuck with them. I can't say anymore. All right. Crash, I know you. love going to disneyland i do it's the happiest place on earth now have you been to disney world Yes? No? Yeah, it's the happiest place on earth until you get the bill. Yeah, okay, so there's a deal. A family was visiting Orlando's Walt Disney World. It's basically a dad and mom and three kids. The cost was nearly 1,400 bucks for a day
Well, okay, well then, what did they buy? Because park tickets aren't that expensive. Okay, the cost were $30 for parking. They're day troopers. Okay, so that's different. That's not my experience, because we never pay for parking. We jumped the fence. $30 for parking, $974 for five tickets using a Florida resident discount, and more than $245 for dinner. By the end of the day, the total had reached $1,400. Wow. Well, you know, that's an expense.
Disney is one of those places. Now, that's Disney World, you said, in Florida, correct? Yeah, right. Okay, I've never been there. Disneyland's where I go. I'd imagine the pricing is about the same at both. But when we go, we don't have to pay for parking because we're normally staying in a hotel, and we stay in a hotel. It either has a shuttle or is within walking distance, or we actually stay in a hotel in the park. It's one of those three. So we don't ever have to do that.
The tickets, that seems... My wife normally takes care of the park tickets, but that's... That seems a little pricey to me. And then dinner, yeah. There's a couple of places in Disney where you can go actually sit down and eat dinner, and that's expensive. What we normally do is snack at the park and then... We don't normally have a big sit-down dinner while we're at Disney.
Yeah, now in Disney World, there's, you know, the nations, you can visit the different nations. Right. They've got restaurants in each place. So, I mean, when we took our kids many years ago, it was not $1,400. But apparently the single day single park tickets have gone up. One day ticket to the Magic Kingdom now ranges from 139 to 199 dollars depending upon the day and season and you can also skip Lines when you purchase the lightning lane multi pass for an initial 40 bucks a person
Yeah, well, we don't do that. It might be different at Disney World than it is at Disneyland. We use the app, the Genie app. We don't do the FastPass thing anymore. Although when we went to... Knott's Berry Farm. I think it was an extra $40 to get the wristband thing. It might be different at Disney World than it is at Disneyland. I don't know. Well, it's kind of expensive, and if you stay on the grounds, and I've done that in Disney World, the hotels are not cheap.
And you know basically if you stay there for five days It's about $10,000. Yeah, and it depends on, at least in California, it depends on the hotel you're in. The big one, the nicest one on the ground is a place called the Grand Californian. And it's about $750, $800 a night. Yeah, it's expensive. Yeah, it is. Needless to say, we don't stay there.
So, I mean, really, if you're doing this, you know, $10,000, you know, it's probably at the upper end, but it's, you can drop five, six grand without betting an eye. Oh, easy. So it's expensive to see the mouse. So you're going back? Yes, in July. Why y'all have fun? You'll have fun. I can't imagine, you know, California in July. Let's see. It won't be hot. It's going to be brutal. Actually, at night it's nice. The nights in L.A. are actually kind of nice. Right. But the daytimes, not so much.
Yeah, no, it'll be, you know, we'll be on the blacktop. People will be fainting. You'll be saying, you've got to enjoy every minute of this. Get in there. Yeah, you're not going back to the hotel, you insufferable Nancy. Stop your yammering. Get out there. Pretty much. Get out there and have fun. How much it hurts. Thank you.
So when you go, you basically leave early in the morning and then you stay out all day and all night? Yes, we go to the rope drop. That's what we do. There's a rope drop, and then after the rope drop, You find the first ride you want to hit. Normally you would haul ass over to Star Wars Land and get on the Rise of the Resistance. That's one of the ones where the Cars ride is another one in California Adventure. The line is always very, very long.
Every day we figure one for a rope drop. You get there with the crowd and then they, boom, they open the gate and it's like herding cattle. It's just your elbow and the elderly and you're trampling the young to get to the ride and the attraction you want to get to. And then after that, you spend the rest of the day mapping out your day on the Disney app. You can stack the rides. Okay, so we have to be at this ride sometime between 2 and 4 o'clock this afternoon.
And then we have another appointment. And then if you do that through the genie, the pass that you are basically signed up for shows up on your phone. So when we would go with my brother and sister-in-law and their kids, myself and my sister-in-law, Auntie Leia,
We're the two that have the apps on our phones. So we link our Disney accounts together, and she'll go, okay, so Space Mountain, we want to get on that one in between 3 and 5. Boom, boom, boom. She'll push a button, and it'll give all seven of us a ticket. So we get in the fast lane and it normally cuts the weight down by about 45 minutes. Oh, that's pretty cool. And there's also a trick too that if you've been there, you know, and it's the single rider line.
Most, if not all, of the rides have single rider lines where they're super fast. But if you're like a group of four people, you don't sit together. You know what I mean? Because they have like rides where there's, four people in a car, but there might be only a party of three, so they have one seat they have to fill. So they go to the single rider line. If you don't care who you sit by on these rides, then you don't really have to wait very long in line.
I mean, because we all know it's not about spending time with your family. It's about instant gratification for me on the roller coaster. I don't really care what the kids are doing. I'm there to have fun for myself. It's all about you. Damn right. Alright. Alright, it's 4.15. 522-0650, the Senate today approved an austere budget. We'll get into that when we come back, so stay with us. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on NewsRadio.
K-E-N-I. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Wednesday and... Well today the Senate the Alaska Senate approved a budget that's being touted as an austere budget for the next fiscal year ahead of final negotiations with the House. Obviously, the House's budget and the Senate's budget are not the same, so they have to put together what is known as a conference committee.
And they will hammer out the details, come back with a budget that agrees with each other, and then it'll be voted on by each body. Once that happens and it's passed, it goes on to the governor for either his signature or veto or line item vetoes. And that's how the process works.
The legislature is working with or trying to work with diminished oil revenue They're facing a deficit about six hundred eighty million So what they proposed is a thousand dollar permanent fund dividend and a 172 million dollar one-time school funding boost So, guess what? The schools basically are, looks like the schools are taking part of your permanent fund.
I don't know if somebody can explain it to me, but that's kind of how it looks to me. And it crashed that $1,000 permanent fund dividend when you look at it in 19... $82 that thousand dollars in 1982 dollars would have been about thirty nine hundred dollars, but today it would only be worth about $280 or something like that. So, to be clear, it's $1,000.
and then they're going to take $100 out of it to give to the schools, or it would have been $1,100 and they're giving a... What is this? What are you talking about? What the hell's going on, Willis? It was $1,400 by the house. Right, got that. And the Senate said now he will give you a thousand. And 172 million dollars. I didn't hear the word million. I just heard 172 dollars. 172 million the Senate is approving for schools. So here's my question to the Senate.
If you're talking about the fact that diminished revenue, we're over budget, we've got a problem, why in the world are you increasing school budgets? Now, I'm not saying that they shouldn't have some money here, but you're cutting everybody else, but you're not cutting the schools. You're actually giving them an appropriation. So, you know, I mean, that's fine if that's what you want to do, but explain why you're doing that and explain why you're not cutting anything from education.
That doesn't seem to make any sense. If you're going to cut budgets, then everybody enjoys the pain. You know, everybody shares the dream. Now, the Senate approved the spending plan today by a 16 to 4 vote. Republican Senate minority members applauded the reductions in the budget, but they called for a larger dividend. The governor in his proposed budget way back in December wanted $3,900 which was $1,000 in 1982. So, there you go. But that would have made the budget deficit $2 billion.
So, you know, I guess it's a question the devil's into details. If you're telling me on the one hand that things are going to hell in a handbasket and there's no money, oil revenues are down, everything else is down. We're gonna have to cut the PFD, but we're gonna give education a boost Okay, then you need to tell me why that is. Why are they getting a boost and everybody else is losing on cuts?
And I'm not for or against the thing. I'm not thrilled with the education boost simply because giving more money to a failing system doesn't give you a better system. It just continues to give you a failing system with more money. But, you know, the legislature has decided that's what they want to do. Okay. But I think they need to be a little bit more transparent in this. You're telling me how bad things are, but they're not that bad, apparently.
But they're so bad, I can't get my permanent fund dividend that I'm supposed to get. So you're going to cut me back to a thousand bucks. hardly sounds equitable, you know? But we'll see what happens. I don't know what the governor's going to do. He has a chance to veto the whole thing. He also has a chance to sign the whole thing. And he also has a chance to take out his veto pen and start doing line-item vetoes. Now he might do that, I don't know.
I don't think anybody has the stomach to stay down there for a special session. But in times like this where things are tough and we're being bombarded with bad news, then why don't we rip the band-aid off and take the medicine now, if that's what we have to do. Or maybe these legislators are afraid of the teachers union. Don't know. I bet if you ask them, they'd say no, but they're not acting that way. Just my observation I could be wrong.
But that's what I see. And again, if that's what they want to do, okay. But this whole idea of the permanent fund Being this political football getting kicked around and every time somebody wants more money to do something they want to do They take it from me and you and everybody else
That's bad. And then you have Zach Fields who I think You know needs to take a time out somewhere Comes up with this idea that if you make more money than 50 grand a year you don't need it Well, I'm sorry, but that's not for him to say. That's money that's supposed to be Alaskans. That's our money. That's a benefit. We don't have any subsurface rights here. And you know, you're gonna suddenly now turn this into a welfare program
And it's just going to go away, Crash. The whole thing is just going to go away. They're going to suck it dry. They're going to make it irrelevant. and the next thing they're going to do is try to crack into the corpus of the permanent fund. They're going to need to get a constitutional change on that, but don't put anything past this group. So I don't know. I don't know how you feel about it, but that's how I feel. I'm not happy with the legislature.
I understand what they're trying to do. I understand that they feel this is the best they can do. Fine. But here's what I want everybody to do. Don't tell me you're fighting for my permanent fund. Don't stand there and tell me you're going to fix it when you're not. Just stop it. Either get rid of the damn thing and cash us out or pay us. But stop this nickel and diming nonsense that's been going on now for seven or eight years. It's becoming very tiresome and you're insulting our intelligence.
So, fix the problem. You'll be better off, will be better off. This is just not going anywhere. All you're doing is you're taking people off and eventually I'm just going to tell you this Eventually it's going to come to a boiling point and a tipping point and people are just going to say I've had enough of this Now while you may think that Alaskans are essentially apathetic and perhaps even lazy when it comes time to vote, keep doing it. You'll find out. We'll be back.
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would cap permanent fund dividend payments at $1,000 a person and place income limits on who qualify. for the checks. A second hearing is scheduled for next Monday. HB 209, if passed, would create a ceiling of $1,000 maximum for future permanent fund dividend payments and would restrict those payments
for those who make less than $50,000 a year per person or $100,000 a year for a married couple. But it continues over the bill. A teenager has died attempting to hydroplane a snow machine across a pond. Christopher covered the body of 17-year-old James McMillan.
Alaska's new source says he was snow machine skipping with two others when he sank into the water. Alaska's state troopers are reminding ATV drivers their vehicles must be street legal to drive on public roads with a speed limit of 45 miles per hour. must be registered with the DMV and have insurance. That's the latest. I'm Jack Cronin. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Wednesday afternoon. Traffic's looking pretty good around the Anchorage Bowl. Steady traffic.
I said that this morning they had a car that Amy show that said that if legislators make more than $50,000 a year in real life Are they really alive? Are they human? Sometimes I doubt. I'm assuming he's referring to the money they make outside of what they do. Yeah, outside of the money they make, because they make more than that as legislators. Right. So if they make $50,000 or more in real life, Then no per diem for you. That's a great idea. The problem is who would have to vote on that?
They were. They were, right. So, I mean, they don't have a problem giving themselves raises every time it comes up, but I have a hard time believing they'd cut their own pay. But it would be fair, because I guarantee they're making a lot more than a statutory PFD payout would be over the course of the year in per diem. Absolutely. And who's gonna pay for the ping pong tables and the kegs and the...
leg wrestling girls and all that stuff they have down there. And leg waxing too. And how would they pay to ship their weight benches and the pianos and the coffee machines and stuff. And a pipe organ. This is gross. I mean, you're just reminded every single day that, number one, they think they're a lot smarter and better than the rest of us, and you vote for them because you have to, and you've got to pick the lesser of the evils, but they don't give a rip about you. They don't care at all.
I mean, the school thing, great. I got kids in the public school system, and it'd be one thing if every time they threw a bunch of more money at it, the results got better. My property taxes go up every year, and most of that money from education, well, until now, I mean, they're pilfering the PFD. Right.
Most of it goes to that. My property taxes go up every year and the testing scores go down every year. If this was the private sector and you were paying more for a worse product, you'd stop buying it. You would. And people would get fired. People would get fired. So don't tell me that, you know, you're going to take everyone's money out of their PFD check and this is going to be the thing.
That fixes the problems we have with education in the state of Alaska. We're always near the bottom of the list for results and always near the top of the list for spending. It's not a money problem, it's execution. Exactly. Now, there's an interesting article. My kids both went to the public school system in Anchorage, and they're both dumb. I'm just kidding.
One of them is and one of them is not. If both of them are listening right now, you can go ahead and make your own designation as to who I'm talking about. Your kids are smart. Alright, there was a really interesting article today in Mushroom, Alaska. Early stats do not support school cell phone bans. Okay, this sounds counterintuitive, doesn't it? You'd think if I take the cell phone away from the kid, they're going to focus on school, right?
Well, maybe not. The article was written by someone named Christopher J. Ferguson. He's a professor of psychology at Stetson University in Florida. And what he says is cell phone bans are all a rage. Recently New York became the fourth state to embark on one as part of a budget deal. for the upcoming school year. For many adults the bands make intuitive sense. Who wants kids distracted on their phones while the teacher is teaching? Now we didn't have cell phones back when I was a kid.
And the only thing that made our class essentially pay attention was a ruler and the chalk fired from the teacher. Usually at us. So, there was some sort of corporal punishment factor here that made you shut your mouth and pay attention. Otherwise, Who knows? The cell phone ban. That doesn't preclude the kids from bringing their phones to school. It just means you can't have them handy during class.
Right. See, my daughter's school, she goes to a charter school, and they have these, I forget what my daughter calls them. Well, she calls them evil, but they have these bags or whatever. During the school hours, the kids throw their cell phones in their bags and they're put away. They've been doing that at my daughter's school forever.
So here, I mean, here's the interesting thing. What they're saying is, you would think that test scores would go up, bullying would decrease, depression would decrease, but that's not true according to this guy's study.
Well, they do. I mean, at my daughter's school, she goes to a charter school. They take the phones away, and the charter schools do fairly well. I don't know if it's uniform already. The charter schools can kind of do what they want, you know what I mean? And they've been doing that for the last couple of years. It's not a new thing at my daughter's school.
And it's funny, she was looking forward to, she starts high school next year, she was looking forward to her cell phone not being taken away every day and now it looks like they're going to. Yeah, they are. Well, according to this study, grade point averages remained largely static. High school GPAs improved slightly going from 2.82 to 2.95. That's pretty pathetic, I'm sorry. Whereas middle school GPAs barely budge from 2.84 to 2.88. So there's nothing dramatic about it.
And what they're saying is that bullying increased in some schools. As a result of taking the phones away? Yeah, the GPA decreased. And this is these are studies all over the country. So why are we doing that? Well, that's a good question. A recent study in Britain found that cell phone bands in schools, including the most restrictive variety, do not improve student grades, behavior, or mental health.
So, I mean, I guess we all thought it was going to be, you know, kind of a silver bullet, and I think the legislature kept saying, well, this is a proven thing. Well, I don't know. Is it proven? Well, think about your day today. If I was at work every day and they took my phone away from me, I don't know. It wouldn't do anything. I don't think it would impact my productivity. Well, my productivity is probably not a great measuring stick because there's not much.
What productivity? Exactly, with my phone or without my phone. But if you're an actual productive member of society and you are essential to your workplace, It's kind of the same thing. I don't necessarily know that even when I was a kid, well, again, I'm probably not a great measuring stick because I spent most of my high school career either in the woods behind the school smoking weed or at cars eating up a cheese roll at the deli.
So I'm probably not one of them. But I just, I don't know. When they introduce this whole thing, it's like, okay, they say it's going to help. It's going to do all this stuff. But you think about it critically. I don't. It's not like these kids are sitting in their class all day long on their cell phones. If they are, then the teacher would go on a case-by-case basis and take the phone away and give it back after class was over, right?
I mean, my daughter and her friends, my daughter, they never talked about how I miss my phone, they take it away because I'd have it on me and I'd be using it. Are they on TikTok during history class? And, you know, if you think about it, too, you can use your cell phone as a learning tool if you use it correctly. I mean, seriously, man. You don't have to buy textbooks. It's right there on your phone. That type of deal. That's true. So, I don't know.
I just, I kind of think you're, what's the phrase we've used on the show before, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic at some point? I just, I think you're trying to solve a problem that obviously, and the statistics bear it, that doesn't exist in the first place. Well, according to this article, I mean, that's one guy. I mean, there's certainly...
of that or I'm wrong. Well, I mean, I think that further study needs to be had here, and certainly there needs to be, rather than tracking the students for 20 years, they thing I've ever heard of, by the way. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Maybe we should find out if a cell phone thing actually works. The idea of tracking a student for 20... Not only does that seem stupid and needlessly expensive, it's creepy. and that's That's what it is. It's creepy. What is this?
What country did we wake up in? Yeah, exactly. That's just a creepy thing. You know, you get all the guys and... And the gals with the conspiracy theories about their tracking us, they're being pretty transparent about the fact not only do they want to track you, they want to track your children. That's right. That's weird.
Yeah, and they also want to make sure that your kid forfeits a lot of his PFD, too. Taking your PFD and your cell phone. And by the way, we know what you're doing at all times. That's right. We're not Santa Claus. Man, if the state or city government was tracking me right out after I got out of high school, they would have been horrified by the places I visited and the things I saw and the things I did.
All right, so, I mean, I don't know. I mean, again, another, you know, what do they say? The road to hell is paved with good intentions. When they talk about tracking these kids, did they say when it would start? John, as soon as the bill passed, I guess it's going to start next year. No, how old the kids would be when they started tracking them. Is it their whole school? I think they're fourth grade or something. See, that's creepy.
I mean, in high school, it would have been, oh, he's at the a.m. p.m. again, illegally buying cigarettes and eating nachos. It would have been kind of uneventful, but once I turned 21, holy mackerel, they would have been horrified. Well, it's really, why do they want to track you? It's weird, Matt, especially when they start in fourth grade.
What? Yeah, I don't know. Maybe in high school. I don't know. Maybe when you're graduating. I don't know. Still, it's a minor. And do the parents have any say in this or not? Or is it just something that's... Well, apparently not. That's just weird, man. I would sue them. I would say, no, you're not going to track my kid. You're going to take your kid's cell phone away and monitor them 24-7. And you can't say anything about it. I mean, parents need to wake up here.
Before you know before they take everything from you Right, and anybody who's on the side of the fence, as I am, that schools and government needs to stay out of me raising my kids, You can't say that you think them getting involved with hiding things from the parents. You can't say, that's deplorable, I can't believe that, and then be in favor of these types of things. It's the same thing. you can't have it both ways it's the same thing Absolutely. Absolutely creepy.
It is well and it is creepy. All right, it's 445. Let's take a break. If you want to join us and tell us something, we're here. 522-0650. Stay with us. The Mike Procaro Show with Crash on News Radio. KENI looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on You there? Yes, I'm here. Hey, talking about the impact fields, Bill, he's got there a couple of different things. Number one, Ron and Penny Zobel will come out of the woodwork or someone like them and sue them and stay out of Alaska.
too. So, any individual Alaskan under the age of 16 or 17 or possibly even 18, 19 would probably qualify for a PFD because they don't make $50,000 a year. Right. Kids are probably one, sure. Yeah. So, and not Trying to yank the scab off, but most of rural Alaska would all qualify. and probably quite a few seniors. So they already have a constitutional issue because the permanent fund was set up for mineral rights. Obviously we gave up our mineral rights for the PFD.
And as far as our legislators go, I think everybody's forgetting that House representatives get a $16,000 office account expense. And I believe either senators receive 18 or 20. Now that office expense account can be used for anything except purchasing art. They can have a picture frame, but they can't buy a seal skin. Or, you know, a tussie print house. And if whatever is not used, out of that obstacle expense at the end of the year, they get that paid to them directly with taxing with health.
So if they only use, say, $1,000 of that house members, $1,000 of that $16,000 office account for stationery, Because everything else is pretty much provided by the state, pens, paper, postage, all that stuff. An office, you know, a council member would receive a check for $15,000 minus income tax. So that's on top of the salary and on top of... And the per diem. Yeah. No, I mean, it's not a bad gig. Not at all. No. It's insurance. Oh, yeah. Well, I think they're paying the insurance.
But it's pretty cheap insurance. I don't remember what it was when I was there, but it was less than $300 a year for health insurance for the family. That's pretty, or not, excuse me. Right, yeah, but it's a pretty good package. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean... You know, but it's kind of like, okay, but our salary back then was only $24,000 plus. Right. You know, then per diem and then $65 a day for when you're not set. if you went into the office.
Well, so, you know, it's just, it's got, you know, it's become, it's no longer a citizenship legislature. It is a career. Move for some people. They can't tie their shoes, chew gum, and talk at the same time. Maybe I'm putting too much on them. Maybe they can't talk. No, you got it right the first time. You got it right the first time, Kelly. I actually sent an email to Zach And it was kind of comical because, you know, he
They shot it down. No, no, you're all wrong. You know, there's a building behind the state capitol building that's full of attorneys. Has any of them talked to you about this being constitutional? No, of course not. It's kind of like, have you even asked? Well, we don't have to. Well, guess what? The state of Alaska will get sued. Oh, by the way, just a history piece.
After Ron Zolboff and Penny sued, Penny stayed in the private sector. Ron went to work for the state of Alaska in the Attorney General's office. That's just a piece of history. I mean, you know, just to let you know, I mean, I remember having lunch one day in the legislative lounge. Jay Hammond was there, and I asked him, and he said, They've wanted that since day one, and they will get it. Eventually they will get it. I just hope I'm not alive. Yeah.
No, he had a, he wanted to make sure, he wanted the people to get the money and the legislature to come on, as he said to me, bended me. to uh to get to you know claw back some money he said it was up to the people to decide whether or not they got any yeah well the first royalty check that came to the state of Alaska and what created a permanent fund was, you know, I don't remember exactly the amount. I looked it up and it was Several hundred million dollars and it was gone so fast.
within a year of just blowing money everywhere, that they realize, like, holy cow, what happened? Yeah, it was $900 million was the first check that came. That went away. Yeah, they blew us through that. I mean, there was a seafood plant built in Anchorage. that I don't think that even processed 1,000 pounds of fish. It is now a jerk.
Yeah, well, we also did the Delta farm, the barley farm, and we did all that stuff. And I remember laughing because they said, well, the bison, they put bison, the bison herd up there. and I said well you guys are complaining that the bison are eating the barley What do you think is going to happen? You've got now barley-fed bison. Think about it. You've actually done something value-added. Well, it was, I think, 2000, something like that.
This was a long time ago. Please forgive my mind. I'm getting old. You know, the feds gave the state of Alaska $5 million. It goes up. wolves down here on the Kenai Peninsula War. I'm dying off so they just lulls out of the 40 mile camera. And bomb down here. We've got to scoot my music started. Appreciate it. Thanks. All right, we'll be right back. Stay with us. Just now, another kid dropped out of school. There's one every 20 seconds. Over 200 kids an hour.
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in the legislative service. It's always interesting to hear from a former legislator. I'm not saying he ever was, but it's always interesting to talk to somebody who that's not
really what they do anymore so they give you a more candid overview of what's happening. They don't have any vested interest in not being transparent. I always find it interesting to talk to somebody who used to do it and doesn't anymore and they have no problem letting us know what's really going on there and I thought it was really telling when he said he got a hold of Zach Fields
And there's all the lawyers behind him in that building. And he said, he asked Zach Fields, don't you guys think you should find out if this is constitutional? And Zach Fields' response was, we don't have to. What does that show? That shows just the arrogance of that group. That is a really good little Microcosm are a really good example of how they feel about themselves and in turn how they value you as a constituent. We don't have to. Why don't you have to? You're above all that you're saying?
Yes. Because they are going to get... See, this is the thing, though. We talked about this. during the break. I think Zach Fields, uh, Well, he knows it. It's not going to go anywhere. It's not going to happen. And that's why it's a little bit more perplexing to me as why he would introduce it in the first place. Because it has to be voted on amongst the other members of the House.
And any elected official that puts their name at the end of this thing, why in the world would you do that? Here's a deal. It's a trial balloon. He's taken one for the team. He's showing that he's a good team guy. And for that, he'll get something sometime down the road. Yeah, but I mean, it doesn't make any difference. They get problems with whatever they want.
If you're running against him and next time he's up for re-election, this is a pretty easy campaign type weapon you have in your back pocket. Look what he tried to do to you people. See, the Democrats don't think that's going to happen because they don't think that anybody's going to rise up.
and kick him out of office. You know, because somebody's done it so far. That's true. But I think now they've given his opponent, whoever that might be, I don't know who it would be, but whoever that might be, they've given you a gift. Right. You know? I mean, uh... You've got to be careful when you're screwing around with stuff like this. What was the name of the guy? I can't remember. We had him on the show. He was the one that signed the... I believe he was a Republican.
He was one of Kathy Giesel's lackeys. What was his name? Oh, Rebac. Yeah, Josh Rebac. We had him on the show, and he signed this little thing before he ran and said, if you elect me based on paraphrasing, I will protect the statutory payout and do this and do that. And he didn't do it. And he's not in Juneau anymore. The next time he ran, he lost the election in a big way. Happened to Kathy Giesel before she figured out a way to rearrange the districts and get herself back in Juneau again.
She ran against Roger Holland after she tried to take everybody's money. And she got thrashed. And she was president of the Senate at the time. And the guy that ran against her never held a government position, offices. ever. He was a state worker that lived in her district and said, I don't like the way she's doing things. I'm going to run against her. And he won. And then all that dirty pool happened and zones got shifted around and she figured out a way to weasel her way back into her job.
But you've got to be careful with this stuff. So I would hope that somebody worth their salt, a Republican, would run against him and use this. as a weapon against him because it would be a no-brainer. If you're going to run against that guy, they handed you this on a platter because it's ridiculous and they're going to get sued. Well, you know all I can say is the good Republicans out there
You got a chance to do something. I know that there are some very good people out there, very well-meaning people, hard-working people, honest and decent people. I appeal to your honesty, your decency, your work ethic, and your sense of community. Do something about it. That simple. Alright, 513. You know, if you want to protect your home from the elements of Alaska, there's one thing you can do.
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I'm Daryl Dean. This report is sponsored by Compassion International. Every day a child in poverty waits for a sponsor is another day of hopeless. Yes, just before the break you had somebody giving a little history. Being a former history teacher myself, I tend to look at things from that aspect very quickly. From the time that the oil started moving through the pipeline till the establishment of the permanent fund, the state of Alaska pulled in around $8 billion.
The state legislature had absolutely no restrictions on that, and anything they could find to spend money on, they decided they would spend it on. That's why Jay Hammond set up the permanent fund and the dividend to prevent the legislature from just blowing through all that money. talking to Rick Halford, who is a senator, my senator, many years ago. This was in the mid-90s. He calculated one time that if they had taken that $8 billion and invested that,
The earnings off of the permanent fund at that point would have been $2.8 or $2.75 billion. The budget for that year for the state of Alaska was $2.8 billion. We could have had Enough money to pay for everything. Now the legislature is trying to take all that money again. As the old saying goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Yes, and being a history teacher, you understand what George Santayana said. If you forget your history, you're going to repeat it. Exactly. Exactly. The other thing, we were talking about cell phones earlier. Yes. After I retired, I started sub-subbing here in Anchorage School. I was at one of the middle schools where they had a policy that if you had your phone out,
The teacher could take it, and then, oh, actually, what they would do is you would make the student take the phone to the office, and then the parents would have to come to the office to pick up the phone. Oh. Yeah, so I was working in a class there. A young lady had her earbuds in. I said, you know, you're not supposed to have those.
Take them out, turn it off. About five minutes later, I look over there. The teacher had them working on a project there, so all I had to do was just basically supervise for the day. She had her earbuds in again. So I said, I asked you one. Now, do you want me to have you take that to the office? No. Okay, take them out. Well, I turned her out about enough five minutes and she's got them in again. So this time I just said, okay, turn it off, put your phone on my desk.
You can pick it up after class. I'm not going to make you take it down there. I could, but I won't do that. So... Perry then, she walks up, and I pick up the phone, hand it to her, and she said, I want you to hold on to that. I will have you last period today.
I want you to hold on to my phone until the end of the last period, and I'll get it from you then. Okay, fine. So, you know, I put it in my pocket, and when we got to the end of the day, she came up. I gave her a phone. She said, I didn't notice that I didn't have my phone with me today.
And she turned around and walked away. Well, I was there, I don't know, about two or three months later, and I happened to walk down the hallway, and here she is. And she came right over to me and said, You know... After the day you were here, I have purposely not turned my phone on at school. And I really like not having it on. Wow, that's great. She was very, you know, she realized that the phone was just being a distraction.
Well, that's really good. It's kind of a thing that each individual kid has got to come to that conclusion. Yeah, yeah. And then kind of go from there. Yeah, yeah, she told me that she was planning on just, you know, she kept her phone with her, but she had it turned on.
You know, she didn't want to leave it in the locker, you know, just in case somebody would jimmy the locker. You know, but she kept it with her, but she never used it. And personally, I think, you know, the idea about these kids having these, you know... $1,500 cell phones or whatever is absolutely ridiculous.
I would talk to my students and I'd say, you know, I've got a cell phone here. I've got it turned off. Because you think about it, anybody that needs to get a hold of you, like your parents, Do you think they know where you're at during the day? My family knows. If my family needs to get a hold of me, they will call the school office if it's an emergency. school office will send somebody down here to take over this class and send me home. Yeah, that's the way it used to be. Yeah, exactly.
You know, I remember I used to carry a dime with me. In case I needed to find a phone to make a phone call at some point. That was the way it was. We didn't have all that stuff. We're dating ourselves. if you had a pay phone, and B, that it would only cost a dime to make a local call. That's right. You know, I go to someplace and...
I buy something for $2.49 and they give me back my changes. Do you want your penny? Yes, please. And then I tell them, you know, I remember when you could go to the grocery store and you could buy a... Stick a bazooka bubblegum for a penny. Yep. You can buy Wrigley's gum packed for a nickel. And Coke, a 12-ounce Coke bottle, was a dime. The kids would just look at me and a dime. How old are you? You know, that kind of thing. Yeah, well, I always told...
Well, let's put it this way. When I was your age, I had a pet dinosaur. And I appreciate the history. Thank you. Yeah, well, you take care. All right, you too. All right, 525-522-0650. Let's go to Chuck. Hi, Chuck. Well, Mike, they were doing it. They were yanking everything out of Davis Park today. There was tow trucks and cop cars up there. Anything that didn't move, they were yanking.
Wow, so are they cleaned? Is Davis Park all cleaned out? Oh, I was going to take them back on God to clean out that park. Ha, ha, ha. You know, the motorhomes and the cars and everything. They were over there. Actually, I had to come off of base today. I had to go to the gas station to the right and they had tow trucks all over there.
or five tow trucks and they were just hooking up everything there was cops all over the place and then there was just people walking out of the camps and everything so looks like they're trying to clear the area Well, let's hope so I mean and now we see that the mayor has proposed an ordinance about fire. which I think is well long overdue. But it's a misdemeanor, it should be a felony. But you know I give her credit for at least trying
But, you know, we're going to be in big trouble. I mean, if we have any of these camps around, because that's where the majority of these fires start. And our firefighters are, you know, they're doing a good job. They're human. They can't be everywhere. If they start a campfire, they've got these little hounds all over the place. In the backwoods, people don't really know. And if they start a fire, like one of those little doors, that just, it'll burn the city.
You know, we got to be careful of that, that's for sure. Yeah, that's why we need to break these places up and, you know, this stuff about, well, we have to find them other accommodations. No, guess what? They've found these accommodations. You know, they're just going to go find a new park. There's one already started over by, you know, where Odom used to be down there on Ship Creek.
Yeah, right behind it on that hill. There's a huge camp up there, too. I mean, huge camp. There's probably about 50, 60 tents up there. Well, they need to do something. And as you know, a lot of these folks don't want to go into a place where there's rules. Why do you want to go in those roles when they bring you medical food and they clean up after you? That's like your mom, man. I mean, you know.
That's what you wanted when you were a kid laying in bed sick. You wanted your mom to bring you a thermometer, some cough medicine, some soup, and to clean up your Kleenex. You know what I mean? That's exactly what they're doing. Alright, Chuck. I appreciate that. Keep us posted. I will, I will. You have a good day, sir. You too. All right. 5-2-2-0-6-50. Make it 5-20. We'll be right back.
It's not passed, but it is being debated. HB 209 in the state legislature, lawmakers considering a bill that would cap the permanent fund dividends, $1,000 per person, and would place income limits at $50,000 per person who qualifies. for the state checks and create the ceiling for future PFD payments. An income limit for married couples will also be $100,000. There is another hearing coming up Monday at noon.
on HB 209. Police say they've been arrested for the murder of an 18-year-old woman from four years ago in Anchorage. Moscow's news source says police have arrested 24-year-old Damien Hill for the murder of Caitlin Shellhammer was found out of a baseball field in June of 2021. A woman from Homer has been sentenced to 68 years behind bars and been convicted of murdering her court-appointed supervisor five years ago. 39-year-old Sarah Dan had just been released from prison.
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And there are people that just have to get on the plane first, right? Well, you've got people that Might need a little extra help somebody that might not be as mobile as you Maybe they're a veteran Maybe they're older whatever, but I mean it's like if everybody will get on the plane if we do everything right and Let those folks that need a little extra help get on the plane first, right? That's just common courtesy Well, Representative Jasmine Crockett, she's a Democrat from Texas,
She was slammed on social media after House Republican conference chair Lisa McClain shared a photo of her apparently skipping ahead of two passengers in wheelchairs while boarding a flight at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta. says spotted Jasmine Crockett with a taxpayer-funded police escort, cutting everyone in line, even making disabled people wait. Nothing to see here, just the new leader of the Democrats abusing her power.
McLean's post included photos of Crockett apparently skipping the line, outraging the Republican base with accusations that Crockett is evil. Now what is interesting about this is that President Donald Trump after hearing Jasmine Crockett speak, said she is a low IQ individual. And he said, if this is the leader of the Democratic Party, they got more trouble than I thought they had. So I mean if this is the kind of person that's out there that essentially thinks that they're so important
that they have to get on the plane first and muscle their way through running roughshod, so to speak, over disabled people. I mean, come on. Now Crash, I know what you would say. What looked like pushing was really leading. clearing a path for the people behind me. I wasn't necessarily trying to trample anybody to get on before everyone. I was clearing a path to make sure it was safe.
And everybody had a clear path to board said plane. I was doing a public service. It was not a selfish act. It was a selfless act. And the question is, how can you live with yourself? And the answer is, it's... I mean, you just have to wonder what goes through the mind of these people. Do they think they're that important that they can do anything? Yeah, the answer to your question is yes.
Oh, gosh. But we run into, you know, when you board a plane, it's not just these, the elected people and all this, but it happens every time. And I'm one of those guys that when they're, you know, they board by, you know, the letters. where they're like, all right, group B, and I see people line up, and I just want to be on Airport Karen and check everyone's ticket.
Because you don't believe them. I don't believe them. I think they're all lying. Especially, you know, now that I've, since I've flown so much in the last year or so, I mean, I go see my mom in Arizona all the time, my sister in Nevada. I'm a huge fan of not checking a bag. But if you're on a smaller plane, you want to get on there early so you can take up one of the overhead compartments. You know what I mean? And so, yes, I will throw an occasional elbow.
You know, it's an even bigger pet peeve of mine, though, the people just mad rushing onto the plane. As soon as the plane hits the runway when you've arrived, everybody stands up. Yeah, why? I don't understand that. You're not getting off the plane any quicker. You're not just wait your turn. That's what I think. Well, I always used to wonder what was going on with your taxiing. And you have to have that seat belt on. You go like 20 miles an hour. Right. But you're up in a plane.
You're at 30,000 feet. You're going 500 miles an hour. Get up. Walk around. Yeah, if you slam into a mountain, I don't think that seatbelt's really going to help you. And in the unlikely event of a water landing, I don't want to be strapped to the plane. Well, the seats are flotation. That's what they say. They mention it in one of my all-time favorite movies, Tommy Boy, but I do find it funny that every time you get on a plane, they have to teach everyone how to use a seat belt. Right. What?
David Spade said, if you don't know how to work a seatbelt, just hang tight and we'll come back there and hit you in the back of the head with a ball-peen hammer. There's that! Why do they still put instructions on shampoo bottles? Oh my gosh, I forgot to rinse and repeat. Well, but the seatbelt on a plane is different than your car seatbelt.
Because it's a little lever that you pull off. Yeah, but I think if you are... You should know. If you're trustworthy enough to board a plane, I think you can figure out the seatbelt. I think you should be able to, yes. And we always have turbulence when I'm in the bathroom. Happens every time. Like someone dropped a fire hose in there. That's what's going on.
They wait until they're in and they're going to have crashes in the bathroom. Yeah, but I wonder if the pilot, you know, they see every lavatory is full and they kind of like whip a Huey or, you know, jerk the wheel from side to side or whatever. Because I know I would. That's why you're not a pilot. Oh, the bathroom's full, all right. Let's go for a ride. Let's do a loop-de-loop. That's why you're not a pilot.
The fear of flying thing for me, I've had it ever since I was younger, but I've traveled so much in the last year or so. that I think of being on a plane now, much like when the roller coaster takes off. Once you're there, there's nothing you can do about it. You know what I mean? No, sit back, relax. Sit back, relax, and I've found that every flight has turbulence. Well, yeah, I mean, you're gonna run into something. Happens every time.
I don't like sitting with an eye shot of the wing, though, because those things, they give a little bit, and that makes me nervous, and I don't like sitting over the landing gear, because when it gets sucked up into the bottom of the plane, it makes a horrible noise and always scares me to death. I also don't like sitting when we're sitting there waiting to take off. I don't like watching them load the luggage.
I know what they're doing. I just don't need to see it. Like, one time I was leaving for Hawaii with a family, and the pilot came on. He said, I'm sorry that it's taking us so long to take off, but the machine that rips the handles off your luggage is broken, so our guy's got to do it by hand. At least he had a sense of humor. Right, yeah. Now, the flying thing for me, I still don't enjoy it, and I do still spend the whole flight eyeball on the flight crew.
Because every time we get turbulence, I just spend the whole time staring at them to see what their facial expressions are. If we're bouncing around like a pinball and they're laughing and having fun with each other, I'm fine. But as soon as the turbulence starts and they all go strap themselves in, you just want to stand on your seat and say, that's it. Do you order alcohol on the plane? Every time. Well, you know, it depends. The past couple times I've flown into Arizona,
to see my mom. You have to fly into Vegas, obviously, because there's no flight into Havasu. So I fly into Vegas. A lot of times my sister will meet me there, and sometimes she'll ask me to drive. So if I know I have to drive when I hit Nevada, no, I don't. If I know she's driving, because I'll ask, I'll say, hey, who's driving to mom's house? And if she says, oh, you drive this time, then I got to watch what I do. If she says, I'm driving this time, whoa, Katie, bar the door.
It's basically snot-buttled drunk when I hit the tarmac. All right, well, but see, you know, the more you fly, you know... Don't get me wrong, I still don't find it an enjoyable experience. I don't like it, but it's just one of those things where once you're up there and you're... hurtling through space in a tube in a chair, strapped down watching a movie at 500 miles an hour. There's not really a lot you can do about it if something does go haywire.
Well, that's why you've got good men and women who are in control of their flight, who are going to make sure you get where you're going. And I've flown so much in the last year or so, I've always had a medium of respect for them. The flight crew, I have all the respect in the world for those people that have to spend their whole day in a tube putting up with people like me.
That's true. That's a thankless job right there. And apparently you're not allowed to tip. No, you're not allowed to tip. I got a weird look when I tried to, you know, slip Ethyl an extra 10 for that double bloody Mary she gave me. All right, 545-522-0650. We'll be right back. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on News Radio. 650. K-E-N-I. Looking around your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Wednesday. You always have a place. At mad. Call our 24-hour victim helpline at 877-MAD-HELP.
Or visit mad.org. We'll hold on to a chance for some rain showers through the overnight hours. Otherwise, we're going to continue to hold on to drier conditions as the week comes to a close. Temperatures expected to warm into the mid-50s through Mother's Day weekend. For Alaska's weather source, I'm meteorologist Aaron Morse.
Yeah, my wife is one of those people that, hey, what do you want for Mother's Day? What do you want for Christmas? What do you want for birthday? And the answer is always nothing. And if you give that answer, you think you're being selfless. and you're taking one for the team, and you're being selfish and mean. Don't say that, because we all know it's not true. So you're putting it at a disadvantage. It's almost like...
You're trying to... I've said this before on the show, and I'm only halfway joking. My wife and I have been married a really long time. And if you ask her, it probably seems to her a lot longer than it actually is. So the way we live our lives is like on our anniversary. Our anniversary is November 30th, I think. You better be right on this one. She don't listen. The best way to remember your anniversary is forget it once. You'll never forget it again.
But we'll get up on our anniversary morning and neither one will say happy anniversary to the other one because we're both hoping the other one forgets so we can put that in our back pocket and use it as ammo for the rest of the next calendar year.
You know, I can't believe you forgot to take out the trash. At least I didn't forget our anniversary. That's what we're both kind of hoping for. That's just a little peek behind the curtain. There's the marriage I have there at that Casa Day crash. But when you say nothing, you're not helping the situation. You're making it worse. And the guy knows there's no way in the world he's not going to get you anything for Mother's Day. So ask my wife today. What do you want for Mother's Day?
And she said, first she said nothing. And I'm like, come on, we've had this conversation before. And I shouldn't have pressed the issue because what she said was, I want you to do projects around the house this weekend. Not only is that going to cost me an exorbitant amount of money, because I never get it finished on the first try. Ever. It never happens.
I'm gonna spend all weekend at either Lowe's Home Depot or Ace Hardware spending money I don't have trying to hang shelves in the laundry room. That's what I'm gonna end up doing. all weekend. And that's what she wants for Mother's Day. And even then, I feel like it's something I should be doing anyways. Not necessarily a Mother's Day thing.
So I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to do. I mean, there's always that option, the tried and true method of swinging by the gas station on the way home and just buying whatever they have next to the cash register. We've all done that. No, we haven't. Well, you know, you ought to try it. And if you're actually looking for a last-minute Mother's Day gift idea, here's one. Read a last-minute Mother's Day gift for mom. There's no wrong with you all.
Jammer from Jamco. It's a problem as all to watch Die Hard so many times, you know, Those days are over. 1880s technology have recalled VCRs due to radiation Troll Jammer not only blocks Dad, by making his remote hand slightly numb. How? Well, radiation. And by automatically locking on one station that's make him avoid the remote completely. The Bravo Channel. So while mom enjoys the reunion of the real frustrating ability to change the Thanks to the all-new...
Because next month they're programmed to do exactly the opposite for Father's Day. See, there you go. You're welcome. I got to say, I got a little bit nervous when he said, Yippee-ki-yay, mother-father. a little bit nervous. I gotta learn to listen to these things before I play them. I was a little more nervous than you were. Yeah, that tightened me up a little bit, as it were. Yes. You hadn't listened to that? No.
You just hit play across your fingers. Yeah, right. Well, you hope it works. I mean, we basically perform without a net here. Oh, yeah. I mean, live radio is tough. Yeah, no matter what she says, if she says nothing, it's a trap. Of course it's a trap. a Sunday this year. Mother's Day is always on a Sunday. Is it? I didn't know that. That's funny because I asked my wife today what day Mother's Day was and she said the 10th, which is a Saturday.
And then I pressed, again, I pressed the issue. And then my whole plan, I torpedoed it immediately because I should have just let her think it was Saturday. She would have thought I forgot. Then she would have tried to use it against me. And I could have shoved it in her face on Sunday morning. Ain't love grand. No, Mother's Day is on the 11th. All day. So do you have to like celebrate Mother's Day with your wife if you don't have kids? Because she's not a mother.
You know, you don't have to. What about your grandma? Is it your responsibility as the grandchild to do the mother's anything with your grandma? Or is it your mom or dad's responsibility? How does that work? It should be your mom or dad's responsibility, but since you're the grandson, you pay your respect to your grandma.
That's the type of lifestyle where it's alternative and you have two dads, you get out of it scot-free. Then you don't have to worry about mothers. You don't have to worry about it, right. Not that there's anything wrong with that. That's right. Yeah, Bob Day or something. I don't know. Yeah, so... No, there's nothing wrong with any of it. So I'm going to be stuck, you know, charging drills and power tools and...
swearing and spending money at the hardware store. And it's going to be one of those things where for any man out there that has any measure of handiness, In his arsenal, it would be a 15-minute project for him. For me, it's going to be all weekend. And we all know, if you listen to the station with any regularity at all, we all know it's not a project that costs a day crash until I end up hurting myself. And that will happen. So you're going to hang shelves. Hang shelves, I have to do that.
I have to, we have our shower upstairs has. It's a single knob. So you pull the knob out right or left. And then those showers have a cartridge in them. And when the cartridge gets old and worn, the faucet drips. And she wants me to fix that. And then the ceiling fan in the upstairs bathroom needs to be replaced. With a new fan? Yeah. For the last couple weeks, I just put a piece of tape over the light switch. Carpentry, water, and electrical all in the same way.
Oh my gosh. If I'm not here on Monday... I know. I'm going to... Petition 1 I'll try to remember not to do the electrical while I'm standing in the water Jump, jump, jump. Don't do that. We'll see. All right. to no one. That's right. But if I I don't have to worry about Mother's Day. That's true. Alright, we'll see you tomorrow. And have a good evening, everybody.
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