The opinions expressed on this show are those of the host and not of iHeart Media or its employees. Thank you for listening to NewsRadio 650 KENI. Amy Demboski, the show starts now. Our lines are open at 907-522-0650. This is The Morning Drive on NewsRadio 650 KENI. Good morning. It is Friday, March 7th, current time 6.06 a.m. How are you this fine morning, Daryl? You know, I am kicking and moving in here.
A little chillier this morning than I was expecting. So, you know, got out there at 26 degrees, a little frost on the windshield, a little ice in the driveway. Very little ice, though, but just a little sheen out there. In general, I'm actually really enthusiastic for today. It's Friday. It is Friday. Thank goodness. Well, I will tell you, I'm not surprised there's a little frost, a little type of, you know. I mean, it's under 30. Right now, it's 26 degrees in Palmer.
You look lost. I've got an extra sound in my studio in here and I'm trying to figure out where it's coming from. Oh, I know where it's coming from. Oh, okay. I forgot to meet myself. There we go. You're welcome. That was all me. I was just testing you. No, I was going to say, well, 26 degrees in Palmer, 28 on Kenai. Big Lake said sitting at 22 this morning, and Fairbanks is at 22. So we're actually the hot spot at 27? Oh, that surprised me there. Okay.
Yeah, I was going to say, but look, this is a new trend for this week, right, because we've been sitting just above freezing. Right. But it's going to be, I mean, I'm looking at a big lake for today, and their high today is supposed to be 39. Tomorrow 41, Sunday 42. So as I'm looking at the trends, you know, it's again.
It's going to be beautiful. It's going to be a beautiful weekend. It's going to be sensational. It's going to be the greatest weekend ever. I'm probably going to pull the lawnmower out, get it all set up and ready to go because, you know, I can actually see. I'm not sure if it's last year's green grass or this year's green grass, but I can see green grass.
Well, I have to do a plug for the Chugak Senior Center because this is pretty awesome. I'm loving this. You know, we are pulling off a senior prom tomorrow. It's free for the community. A night to treasure, senior prom, Saturday, March 8th, 4 p.m. is when the start time is. It's going to go, I think they said 4 to 7.
Dress attire is 1950s formal. It's going to be in the big dining room that we have straight inside the main doors. But it will be a lot of fun. We have a live band. Joker's Wild is coming. And I've heard they're sensational. I can't wait. But it is free for the community. So we'll have light snacks and refreshments, live bands. Again, it starts at 4 o'clock on Saturday.
Pretty much, you know, it's going to be a couple hours, you know, dancing. It'll be fun. So, again, that'll be at the Chugack Eagle River Senior Center, which is right there off of North Birchwood Loop Road. It's 22424 North Birchwood Loop Road.
It's right across from Chigak Elementary. It's going to be awesome. So if it's going to be dancing there at the Senior Center, is it going to be slow dancing? Never know. Just a little joke there? I have a feeling there might be some Trump moves. Oh, nice. Will you send me pictures?
There may be some Trump moves going on. Yeah, I was going to say, oh, there'll be pictures. You should follow us on Facebook. I mean, the Chigek Senior Center on Facebook. Chigek River Senior Center is what it's called on Facebook. Okay, so, well, that way if I look at the pictures, then I can say I seen your prom. Ahahaha!
Yes, you can. I know it's early, ladies and gentlemen. I know it's early. There's a couple of you just shook your heads with the coffee still in your mouth. I think it's just fun. Like I said, there's no charge for it. It'll be a lot of fun, and I know a lot of our community members that either come into the senior center or volunteer there or people that live there. I mean, they're bringing their grandkids. It's going to be a lot of fun. And dressing up 50s formal could be super fun.
grandma's closet or if you're my age your parents closet um i actually think i have a tuxedo that would fit into that era there, unfortunately. But also, don't forget the thrift stores, ladies and gentlemen. They are loaded and, you know, great way to supplement your costumes. That's true. Oh, that's a great idea. That's a great idea. Well, you know, I ordered a couple different dresses for the...
for the Matsu... Oh, no, let me get this right. For the Valley Republican Women's Club Lincoln Day Dinner on March 15th. And one of them is a very cool kind of retro... you know, dress, like the nice little A-line kind of, you know, look. And I thought, I was just waiting for a little shawl to come, and now I'm being told it's not going to be here until Monday. But, you know, I do think, I think I might have something that actually might fit the bill. I just might. We'll see. We'll see.
Well, I think it'll fit me. I don't know that it'll fit, Bill. It's so funny you said that because literally I was thinking exactly that and going, I don't know what Bill out in Shugiak is thinking about you dressing up. Oh, yeah. We'll see. We'll see. But it should be a lot of fun. So, again.
That's going to be the senior prom, a night to treasure at the Chugack Eagle River Senior Center on Saturday starting at 4 p.m. It's going to go from about, I think, 4 to about 6, 4 to about 7, somewhere in there. But there will be a live band.
will be light snacks and refreshments, and it will be just fun for the whole family. So if you're looking for something fun to do, I mean, how many things do you get to do that are free these days? So if you're looking for something fun to do, that will be. a very fun event so we're very excited about that
I should get into some of my announcements. I don't have a ton of them today. Being Friday, it's actually pretty light all around the state as I was looking at all the announcements everywhere. I don't see anything for the Mat-Su, whether that be the Mat-Su Borough. Wasilla Palmer, I didn't see any public notices for them.
But I do have a couple for the municipality of Anchorage. So as I'm looking at Anchorage, I don't have, hang on, let me just do this one thing. I don't have any boards or commissions that I see, but today the community in Anchorage, Oh, wait, wrong date. Today's the 7th, isn't it? Today, there is a joint school board assembly meeting for Anchorage that's going to be at 10 a.m. at the ASD Education Center in the boardroom, which is located at 5530 East.
East Northern Lights Boulevard in Anchorage. The special assembly meeting that was called for today at 1 o'clock relating to some marijuana licenses has been canceled. So that's all I really see on the calendar for Anchorage today. I'm just going to check one more spot just to make sure I didn't miss anything. Double check, double check, double check, double check. Okay, yep, that's it. That's all I see for Anchorage. So it's pretty quiet.
If you want to follow their calendar, though, just go to muni.org and then click on the Assembly tab to follow the Assembly. And if you want to follow boards and commissions, when you go to muni.org, click on the Mayor's tab and then the Events tab, and that will bring you... into boards and commissions.
Down on the Kenai, I didn't see anything for the Kenai Peninsula borough. I didn't see anything for the city of Kenai or Saldana or, frankly, Homer. But just to give you a heads up for Monday, there is a special city council meeting. at home are starting at 3 o'clock followed by a 4 o'clock work session, their committee meeting at 5, and then their regular community council meeting.
or their regular city council meeting at 6 o'clock. If you want to get the agendas for all of those meetings down in Homer, just go to cityofhomer-ak.gov. And, of course, the event that I've been telling everybody about for the last few days. The Valley Republican Women's Club of Alaska is hosting their annual Lincoln Day Dinner that will be Saturday, March 15th at 6.30 p.m. at Settlers Bay Lodge. The keynote speaker is... Congressman Nick Begich III.
You can get your tickets now. I recommend you don't try to go to the door and get your tickets. I recommend that you get your tickets online ahead of time because they're doing an account so they know how many people are going to be there. But all you have to do is go to vrwak.com. in order to get your tickets. They're going to have a great event. Not only do they have a beautiful dinner of prime rib and chicken marsala.
potatoes and vegetables and salad and all that stuff, and they have a great dessert dash that they'll have. But they'll have silent auction, live auction, and then the Wall of Guns will be there, and it'll be run by Arctic Ammo. So it will be a fun event with lots to do, lots of people to see. I'll be there, so I hope I get a chance to see a lot of people there.
And, again, if you want more information, you can go to VRWAK.com. All right, that does it for our community announcements for this morning. We're going to go ahead and take our first break of the morning. When we come back, we will get into some of the headlines, but it is Free Forum Friday. like to call in be part of the show just give us a call 522-0650 Amy Demboski, 628 Mornings on News Radio 650, KENI. Call now, 907-522-0650. Welcome back. Current time is 6.19 on this free forum Friday.
It is, this is my favorite day of the week to do this show because I never know what we're going to talk about. You know, we have, all week long, I try to have structure. But, you know, sometimes if somebody has better stories than I do, I just switch gears. There have been many... Taze.
We will laugh during our commercial breaks and after the show because the outline goes out the window. Because, frankly, if you have something better to talk about than I do, I want to talk about what that is. So it's always a lot of fun. Because Friday is free form. Yes, we have an outline that we can talk about. Yeah, we can go through the stories. We can go through the headlines.
If you want to talk about something we talked about earlier in the week or something that we skipped, I will tell you as we prepare for the show every day, it seems like we never get to the whole outline. So there's always things that we miss.
And it's always a lot of fun to kind of go back and recap those things. But one of the things that we've missed that I haven't really got a chance to talk about, that I think originally when it came out, I think I might have mentioned it, but it's worthy of going back and talking about again, is Alaska Public Media has a story out.
King Cove applauds Trump's order to build Eisenbeck Road. Boosting Alaska's energy sector was a priority among President Trump's executive orders when he first got back into office, but on the list of projects he supported, which ranged from opening drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to reinstating support for the Ambler Road. But one of them seemed out of place, according to Alaska Public Media.
It says, among energy projects, a road from King Cove to Cold Bay's all-weather airport. The proposed road has long been a source of contention, so they say. King Cove, a remote fishing community in Alaska. can only be reached by air or water, but the community's harsh weather and short gravel airstrip mean it's often impossible to fly in or out. You know, I don't think this is incongruent at all with what Trump has been doing.
Trump has been talking about securing our nation, making it safer, making available opportunities for Americans to get back to work, keep more of their own money, drill, baby, drill. I think this is completely this. is, in my view, this is a safety and security issue. You know, when you're having a heart attack in Cold Bay and, you know,
And then all of a sudden the weather's bad and you can't get to an airport. I mean, it's absolutely stupid to not. I mean, they had like a logging road, like a trail basically anyways. All it would do is widen it and make it so you could drive a truck down.
They make it a road. Well, they had a cat track. It was called a cat track, what they had up there. Yeah. And so when they say – and so in Willow, we call that a road. I'm just throwing it out there. But when they say in the – in Alaska Public Media. This proposed road has long been a point of contention. No, it hasn't. With the greeny nut jobs, it's been a point of contention. With most normal people that says, we can have this life-saving road.
It's only 11 miles long between this community and an actual airport they can get in and out of. It's not a point of contention. This is common sense. And I will tell you, as I... As I look through this article and I kind of read it, and this is why I self-edit a lot of the media that I see. Sometimes I read the stories verbatim and sometimes I just kind of summarize it. But it is so, some of this media is so like lathered up with each side's ideology.
I just try to like, okay, let's, what are the facts? Like, let's get to the facts. And the charged words, they use charged words is what they do. We all know that words have power, words have meaning, and they will use every triggering charged word they can to make it sound like the worst thing. in the world when it's not exactly i mean this is this is this is so so normal and like i said when they say the proposed road has long been a point of contention no it hasn't
Anybody with common sense says, yeah, this is an area that has extreme weather and oftentimes is very difficult. You cannot get out of. But if we drive, if we make this 11-mile cat trail into an actual road where we can. drive on it we can drive 11 miles get to an all-weather airport and then get to life-saving medical treatment to me
That's not a choice of contention. You're worried about disturbing some birds? Give me a break. You're a moron. Give me a break. Here, think about it this way, though, Amy. I guarantee you, and I would guarantee this, if this road were to be built... The exact same thing in any country.
Other than the United States. We pay for it. U.S. aid would be out there, and every lefty would be out there saying, they need this road, you're killing people by not giving them this, and we would build a 12-way road. They would build it, and they would put pride flags every five... you you every five minutes you got it man and but it would be okay it would be okay but because it's here
Oh, yeah. Oh, it's Alaska. You know, I'm sick of lower 48ers telling us what the heck to do in Alaska. Give me a break. You know, as you look at this. Come on, this is common sense, but I'll tell you exactly why this happened. I'll tell you exactly why this happened. I 100% believe it. You can 100% thank the governor for this road. There is no doubt in my mind. The governor, when he talks to Trump, when the governor talks, you know, to the BLM folks and when he talks to, you know, all those.
I guarantee the governor has kept this to the top of the list because the governor knew how important this was for this community. And this is something that, look, politics sometimes does not work quickly. But as they say, the squeaky wheel often gets the grease.
You know, I guarantee the governor has kept this at the top of the list. That is the reason why, you know, he brought it to Trump's attention. I'm sure he's kept it in Trump's attention. I know this was an important issue to him. I guarantee this is, you can thank the governor for this.
Oh, absolutely. Because at the end of the day, I'm sure he's the one who kept pushing this issue. Waving the stick in front of him saying, hey, we need this, we need this. But the other thing is, is Trump authorized this before he left his last term. Yes. Yes, he did. Yes, he did. Here we go. We're set. It's ready. And that was one of the first things that Biden did was cancel that. I'm sure Trump came back and said, what do you mean it's not built? What?
I've signed everything. So now he's probably going, all right, fine. Let me send my own crew up there, which would be nice. I've got to be honest with you. It just disgusts me when I see this kind of article. They have this whole section that says, opponents see a dangerous precedent.
And they say, Rob Rosenfeld, a consultant for dozens of tribes opposing the project, allowing landslap would weaken Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, a landmark law that protected Alaska's wildlands for more than... 40 years. This means that all refuge lands, all Enilco lands, all designated wilderness, and even national parks are vulnerable at the whims of changing administrations. What about the people that live there?
What about the people that actually live in this community that have seen friends and family die because they couldn't get out? And when the whole community who lives there... says this is in their best interest. And, you know, let's see, are we prioritizing people over birds? Let's just start with that. I'm surprised they didn't find it like an indigenous, like, type of endangered slug that they tried i'm sure they tried i'm sure they tried
Well, I got one thing to say to these guys then. The same ones you were just talking about, about how if they can't cross this land because it's going to affect all these things. Right here, right now, give up that $50 billion for the internet connections around the state of Alaska because you are going to have...
have to cross. All those types of lands you just named are going to have to be crossed, cut into. They're going to have to make bridges because you ain't going to cross those rivers. I'm sorry. Give that $50 billion back. Let's give $2 billion of it to Musk, and let's do Starlink. Thank you. So, thank you. So, I will tell you this, and as I look at this, you know, I want to dig deeper into the story because I bet you I'm right.
When it says Rob Rosenfeld, a consultant for dozens of tribes opposing the project. First question. Are all those dozens of tribes in Alaska? I'll bet you no. I'll bet you no. Dozens. Think about it. Rob Rosenfeld. He's a consultant for dozens of tribes.
how many of them are here in alaska that's my first question how many of them are not and frankly i don't care what about the people that live in cold bay what about the people that live there how about them how do you think that community feels about this shouldn't local opinion You know, be at the forefront of the discussion. I would think so. Okay, definitely. So I just pulled a quick search on him. He is the director of the Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council. So guaranteed.
Mr. Rob Rosenfeld, do not put any internet into your people. No landline, no groundline. You cannot have it. If these guys cannot have a road for their life and safety, you cannot have internet to surf your sights. This is just... This is just common sense. This is just common sense. So I would go to the people in Cold Bay and I would say, you know, obviously this is an issue that they have been pushing for for many, many years. I would say this is just common sense. And at the end of the day,
I think the people who live there, their lives are more important to me than widening a cat trail and making it a road. I just think this is common sense. I'm glad Trump did it, and it's a topic, you know, we haven't really talked about too much, and I hope it actually goes through. There will be lots, there has been lots of lawfare about this, and they will try to, but you know what? Just like he says, drill, baby, drill, build it, baby, build it.
Like, just build it. This could save lives, period. It could save lives, and I think it's just common sense. All right, we're going to go ahead and take a quick break. When we come back, we will go directly to your calls. If you'd like to call in, 522-0650. reach out to amy now 907-522-0650 that's 907-522-0650 it's amy devosky on news radio 650 kdeni
Welcome back. It is Freeform Friday, current time 634. If you'd like to call in, be part of the show. The number is 522-0650. We're going to go straight to the phones. And Ken is with us. Good morning, sir. Hey, have a wonderful way. Good morning, by the way. Happy Friday. Yeah, thanks. I had a great idea for the King Cove Road. If they promised to put a bicycle path, they'd build the road. I'm not kidding. You're right. That's the funny part is you're right.
Oh, my word. Yes, they would. I've got to tell you. They'll get a grant for it. Yeah, I've got to tell you, this whole thing with this road, for years I thought it was just common sense. It's ridiculous that they haven't built it. The ability is certainly there. It's not going to take hundreds of millions of dollars to build a stupid 11-mile road. Like, just build the road. Be done with it. And you can maybe save some people's lives.
I have another suggestion. You know, if somebody's mad about them making a four-day holiday down there for themselves coming up to see how much it costs us, no, hush up. What we need, you're talking about daylight savings time. We can have it states. debt savings time and state budget savings calendar. And January 15th, we leap forward to May 15th. And do you think of the money we'll save? The last legislators... Did you actually listen to their committee hearings?
I have not. I couldn't do it. I'm not kidding. They're all sitting there in this wishful fantasy land and scrapping and digging in ways. to get and take more money and vote the sovereign state of Alaska, the sovereign corporation of Alaska, in any way, shape, or form they can, but they will have no discussions about, let's just do this, this couple of years, let's...
Just cut it back and adjust so we're not going to talk about taxes. We're not talking about hurting people. Let's talk about taking their PFD away. Let's see how we can make this fit. There's no discussion about cutting and making the right sizing of this government. None. It's just a weird thing that happens to go to the Juneau. Get all the money you can, no matter what the cost.
Well, I will say this. I've been a firm believer for a lot of years now. The less legislative bodies meet, the more money taxpayers save. I think we should be on a two-year rotation like other parts of the country where your legislature only meets every other year. Yeah, I agree. It just hurts watching and listening to these things as you work.
And they're in this weird alternate universe where it just kind of budgets don't matter, money doesn't matter. And we see time. Oh, by the way, they even had on the Energy Committee hearing the Sam Colt guy. He's still, I'm not kidding you, I thought I tuned in to yesteryear. I had to go check and make sure I wasn't back in 2024. He's still doing presentations on the massive EV uptake and all this renewable energy stuff and everything else.
election never happened. It's so realistic, Amy. It really is. And all the committee hearing members, and at the end of what he said, they were talking about a scam where you can have all the EVs like California. backfeed the system to help regulate the grid, right?
I was thinking, what are you talking about? And then one of the committee members asked some kind of question. I couldn't recall, but what did ring out to me is the presenter, Colt, said, well, you know, it's in the purview of the government to tell people. to make people on their time of use and everything. I'm like, well, there you go. Welcome to the Socialist Republic of...
of Alaska. And not one committee member stood up and said, that's an outrage. Or questioned him and said, what did you just say? Which committee was this? Which committee was it? Do you remember? The House Energy yesterday. Okay. Yeah, I was at work, so I didn't get a chance to watch it, but I haven't honestly watched very much legislative committees because, you know, I got a job, so I don't get a chance. Sometimes I get to go back and see certain things that I'm actually looking for, but...
It makes for a long day. You know, you get up at 4 in the morning, get home from work at 6 or 7, and then start show prep right away. So it makes for a long day for me. But it's a lot. Look, there's a lot going on. And I think. There's not a bad idea that, you know, the legislation, if we just started in Alaska, that they held their legislative sessions just to the 90-day limit that they should be, you know, meeting you meet.
You do your business, you go home. I think we would be a lot better off. Yeah. Did you hear, as far as Borough, politics is going on? Oh, yes it is. They're having a resolution to support the Young's tax bill. Well, oh, my gosh, I have that story prepped right now. So for those that don't know, what Ken is bringing up is Mustard Alaska has a story up. The Matuborough Assembly considered resolution in support of Young's tax bill. Okay.
I got to be honest with you. I'm just going to say it. I saw this. I got ticked. I was P.O.ed. I've got to be honest with you because I know exactly the game that is played. Rob's picked up the phone. He's called every one of these assembly members. And just like little soldiers, they're following what he's telling them to do. And it pissed me off. I've got to be honest with you. He's not a borough member anymore. He needs to shut up.
So I will tell you, I just sent out the agenda for District 26 meeting last night, and one of District 28, which is Rob Young's own district, has passed a resolution opposing his tax on it. Hillcorp. The Valley Republican Women's Club has passed a resolution opposing Yont's tax bill on Hillcorp. And now I've put on the agenda a resolution for District 26 to oppose Young's tax bill. So I know there are Republicans that are standing up and pushing back.
I'm sorry, you know, I gave him the opportunity to convince me. He didn't. You know, he's trying to say it's leveling the playing field between, you know, this is just a loophole. I'm sorry. But when you, you know, an S-Corp and a C-Corp are not the same. You know, you have these little guys that are up there. They've come to the States.
They've invested hundreds of millions of dollars, and now we're changing the game. I think this destabilizes the tax structure and disincentivizes new companies from coming in. I think it goes back on our word when we lured them here. And I think, you know, the part that he didn't convince me.
When he says this levels the playing field, no, it doesn't. The C Corps are able to write off a whole bunch more of their investments up on the North Slope, and the S Corps cannot. So it doesn't level the playing field in my mind. And when I asked that question, the answer was, Well, that's a federal issue. Well, that doesn't level the playing field. What you're doing is you're...
You're espousing Willikowski and Giesel's talking points. So you're telling me, these Matsuburo Assembly members, you're telling me now you are aligning with Bill Willikowski and Kathy Giesel. And you are going to undermine the efforts of Governor Dunleavy and Donald Trump to invest in Alaska and drill baby drill. That's what you're doing. I don't care what kind of song and dance.
the sponsor of the of this legislation gives you it's bravo sierra i don't i don't buy it you know and it's taking me a position real quick go ahead supposition real quick and and so So what would happen if you were kind of working for somebody that wanted a carbon credit harvesting plant known as the coal plant? What better way to get more energy and power behind that than to wreck the sole producer that's heating our homes?
and keeping the life going. Ah, see, now you're thinking like Willikowski. Now you're thinking like Willakowski. I got to be honest with you. And I took this with an open mind because I had an hour-long conversation with Rob before he called into the show. And, you know, I was like, okay, I was kind of understanding where he was coming from, and I was listening to it. And I took it with an open mind. And then afterwards, I talked to somebody for, you know, maybe about an hour.
From the other side, somebody who was in the oil and gas business and who, frankly, you know, was very close to the issue. And I got their side of it. And then when he called in, I asked him, you know, it kind of brought up some of their points, and I asked him a question. And my position has pretty much solidified, you know, in the last few days.
He just didn't convince me. And I start with every tax legislation the same way. I'm going to vote no unless you convince me two things. One, all the money you're taking from Alaskans, you're already spending well. And number two, that whatever you want to tax Alaskans for, it's of such a high need. I'm willing to take the money out of my neighbor's pocket. You have to convince me of those things. If you do not convince me of those things, the answer is no.
And I am, I've got to tell you, I've got to be honest with you. It's the first time I'm making a point. When the borough assembly talks, I'm like thinking, I'm going to show up at that meeting and I'm going to testify in front of those assembly members. That's, if I can make it. If I can make it, I'm going to do it. If not, I'm going to send them all an email, make them all a personal call. Because I absolutely, Rob Yuntz, SB92, in my view.
is i understand what he was he was attempting to say but i don't i think his argument falls short it does not level the playing field I called Dee about it yesterday and sent her some stuff, and, you know, that's one of the things right now. If you're out in the Matthew Valley, contact your assembly member about this ASAP and tell them no.
And shame them. Because you know what a Republican would do? Not let's raise the taxes on somebody to equal a place. That's Bolshevik thinking. That's socialist thinking. How about what the governor was trying to do is members press her last year. Let's drop the royalties and drop the fees on the producers of Cook Inlet to help them and make sure. We're in an energy crisis, and what's he doing?
I'm going to go hurt the biggest and largest soul producer. It doesn't make sense. Yeah, I agree with you. I agree with you. And that's why I say, you know, what this is going to tell us, it's going to tell us if Rob Young controls the Matsuburo Assembly or if they're free thinkers. That's what it's going to tell me. And I hate to be so brutal about it.
The reality is, like I said, you know, he was kind of convincing when I talked to him personally. I was always skeptical. But I was like, you know what? Okay, let's see. Because I really do like Rob. And I think he's very smart. I think he is. But I think. He has gotten wayward on this one, and I just don't think his argument hasn't convinced me. Let's put it that way. It just hasn't convinced me. I don't feel like raising taxes on Hillcorp.
is going to incentivize new oil and gas production. I don't think so. I think what we're seeing, if you look at what Hillcorp has done, I don't have my notes in front of me, but if you look at what Hillcorp has done since they've taken over over that field, production has actually gone up significantly. So they are being more productive with the field
took over than the previous operator. So that in itself tells me they are working to really maximize how much they can bring to the market. I think that's a good thing. And I don't think we should punish people for that. Instead, we should look at and say, what's working? Obviously, what they're doing is working.
So, you know, I think it's a good topic. And, again, it's one of those ones I had in my show prep lineup. And I'm trying not to be a jerk to the assembly, to be honest with you. But the reality is sometimes you've got to just say the truth. And the truth on this one is. You know, I know what's happening behind the scenes. He's very convincing, you know, and I think he really believes, you know, what he's peddling. I just I don't think he's convinced me.
And I don't think he's convinced a lot of people. Like I said, a resolution came out of his own district opposing it. So here we go. We'll see. We'll see. Good topic, Ken. Thank you for bringing it up. All right, bye. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. back to the boss, Amy Demboski. Call 907-522-0650 and be a part of the show on News Radio 650. KENI. Welcome back.
going to go straight to the phones and we will start with bob good morning sir good morning folks i sure appreciate you letting me talk oh we love it what is on your mind today well I'm wondering why they don't just build another casino down there on the island, because we got that permitted and stuff by our senator, and I'm not sure who else. I'm looking for a...
some kind of a way to track who got paid off by whom in order to have a dead gum gabbling casino around here in my neighborhood. I'm not really thrilled about that. I know. You know, here's the thing. Look no further than the Anchorage Assembly for the ones that are facilitating and allowing and or encouraging. You know, it all started with this whole, you know, declaration. They were going to have government-to-government relationships with Oklutna. Oklutna is not...
a sovereign. Eklutna is not a reservation, but that's what they're trying to effectively give them the status of with their whole government-to-government relations. But you're exactly right. Look, I'm unaware Other than Matlakatla, it's the only real reservation Indian country we have here in Alaska. Other than that...
The reality is we don't allow gambling here in Alaska. We don't allow that type of behavior out here in Alaska. We have nonprofit, you know, gaming. But we don't, there's a reason we don't have. We don't have it. So now these people are given a special opportunity to effectively break the law. On what legal basis? I think you're exactly right. And so we see that flagrant violation that is occurring. And, you know, where do you see the public outrage from the lawmakers in Anchorage?
You don't, you see silence. But we want to build a life-saving road, you know, out in King Cove, and all of a sudden that's a bad thing? Right. Can we get rid of that casino anyway at all? I think it is being challenged right now by the Dunleavy administration through I think it's BLM, isn't it? I think that's who it is. So, Deb Haaland's old group, whatever she used to be in charge of at the federal level, so they're the ones who kind of novel-y.
approved this in some way and so it is being challenged by the state and basically The state is challenging it and trying to get it reversed on a federal level because it was like They that's what they did they did we went around the state and they went to the feds and said hey we want a permit to
basically do this kind of thing. And the feds are like, yeah, OK. And they were totally ignoring the state's rights and state's role here. So I think the Dunleavy administration probably will be effective to get it reversed. But I know Treg Taylor has filed He has filed to try to basically regain states' rights here over this type of property.
Well, I hope they do something because they're building that sucker right now as fast as they can overnight with prefab buildings and all kinds of stuff. I was hoping to make a buck by taking pictures of all the high rollers hit. get off their plane at the Birchwood Airport and get transferred across the street there to put a bunch of money. I was going to take pictures of them and put them on the Internet and just see who we can identify, you know, kind of like that.
The guy that ran the sex operation down for the Brits. Yeah, right. Yeah, maybe we'll make a buck here. You never know. You never know. No, you're right. I've driven down there a couple times and looked at it. I mean, they put that...
They put that up very quickly. And, you know, whenever you have to do anything sneakily like that in the cover of darkness, you have to say, hmm, why aren't they doing it? You know, why aren't they doing it the right way, the way everybody else does it with the proper permitting?
It just stinks to me. I think you're right, Bob, and I don't think this is over. I think the state has a very good case, and I think it's very likely the state wins. That's my hope. A quick question, Bob, since you're so close. How big is that sign? I noticed they have an electronic sign out front. Now, how big is that sign? Well, I can't be sure. They've cut a whole bunch of trees going back a couple, maybe a hundred yards from the Birchwood Highway. What is it? North Birchwood Loop.
And they've got a whole bunch of really strange-looking prefab metal buildings that they're already putting in. No windows. Looks like little bunkers. So I guess they're specifically designed so you can't penetrate them with electromagnetics. You can't take a picture in there. You can't do a lot of stuff. Very bizarre. Never seen anything like that in my life. I was just asking you because I thought the state of Alaska has...
Limits on the size of signs you can have you know like billboards and stuff like that and the picture I'm looking at this looks like a really big electronic sign Again, it's just another one of these rules regulations
And why wasn't an injunction put on this immediately? If it's illegal, why wasn't an injunction put to hold it and stop it? Well, years ago, they came to Birchwood Airport, folks, and said, We're going to help you out here and change the size of the parking spaces on the airport so you guys with your little air coupes and super clubs and stuff can have a lot more room around your airplanes and you have a bigger turning radius.
When you use the taxiways, wouldn't that be great? We said, why do we need that for? And they said, well, it's easier to park a bizjet that way. And so... The high rollers that come out of the lower 48 can park their biz jets there and go across and dump their money. I assume they're Chinese communists, but they did that to the airport. Now we've got much bigger turning radiuses we don't need.
Well, you know, I got to tell you, this one sinks to high heaven. I think I'm glad that the governor is stepping in in this one because I think it's appropriate. Bob, thank you so much for the call. I appreciate it this morning. All right, we're hitting our top of the hour break, so we're going to go ahead and take that. When we come back, we will continue to take your calls at 522-0650.
The opinions expressed on this show are those of the host and not of iHeartMedia or its employees. Thank you for listening to NewsRadio 650 KENI. Welcome back to live, local, and insightful Morning Drive Radio on NewsRadio 650 KENI. I want to go back to the story we were just talking about. As we enter hour two of the Amy Dobosky show. Because I had to go back and find it. But Bob just brought up the casino.
And Mustard, Alaska, had this story back on February 5th. State files a lawsuit over a Kootenai tribe's move to set up casino operations. on a native allotment. Sorry, I just clicked the wrong thing. But the state argues the decision contradicts longstanding legal interpretations and a recent federal court ruling that upheld the state of Alaska's primary jurisdiction over such...
As you look at the lawsuit, the Attorney General emphasized the state lawsuit is not about gaming, but rather about jurisdictional authority. Treg Taylor said, quote, we are asking the court to reaffirm what it has already said. The state maintains primary jurisdiction over Alaska Native allotments, end quote. In the lawsuit which names officials of the U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Indian Gaming Commission as defendants,
It contests the shifts in legal interpretation that could significantly alter regulatory and public safety frameworks in Alaska. The lawsuit cites the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, which resolved...
Aboriginal land claims by establishing a system where Alaska tribes, except for Metlakatla, which I mentioned, would not have territorial jurisdiction over the land. According to the state, ANCSA intended for Alaska Native lands, whether owned individuals or native corporations to remain under state jurisdiction what does that mean it means they're not reservations
They're not their own government. It's why they have corporations. It's why they were paid billions and billions of dollars. It means that Alaska State Troopers still can police those lands. It means if they live in a city like Anchorage,
They still have to go by Anchorage's laws. That's what that means. That was what Anilco was all about, right? At the end of the day, you didn't have 15 different... reservations in Alaska we don't have any Indian country in Alaska except for Metlakatla they are unique they are different they didn't take the money and set up the corporation right everybody else did
And what does that mean? It means that, yes, you can own your property, but like every other Alaskan, you have to follow the laws of the state. That's what that means. And so I think... I think the state has very good standing in this, and I think ultimately they'll be successful. So what does that mean for this casino? I think ultimately the casino gets shut down.
we go by precedent in a recent court ruling that held just that the state has primacy you have to follow their laws you have to follow the state's laws and say has jurisdiction over overlanded alaska
That's what that means. And that means the feds can't just say, oh, we're just going to flagrantly flaunt, ignore Alaska state law and let this... uh let this you know landowner just do whatever they want doesn't work that way all right let's go to the phones oh i'm excited to talk to amanda good morning amanda Good morning. There are some angry mama bears and papa bears over at Wilkoshula, Amy.
Oh, no. Ricochula is one of my favorite charter schools. I had a chance when I was on the assembly to go there a couple of times. Amazing school. Now, tell me what happened this week with the Anchorage School Board. Yes. You know, we had the biggest kick in our face of our life late Tuesday night. And you know how they do. They wait you out. They wait until 11 p.m., 11.15 p.m., 11.30.
to really pull out, you know, the highest shenanigans. So five members of ASD voted against us being in a repurposed building. I encourage everyone to watch the last half of the meeting. The first half, you know, they fill it with a lot of stuff, busy work. But the last half, I mean, you guys, the next morning on this show, you guys are talking about Zelensky versus Trump and company.
So, yeah, this is like this is like replay of that. Only that Rilke could not say a word while we watched it happen. So let's recap for people that don't know. Rickaschula is the German immersion school in Anchorage, which is wildly successful and very, very popular. And you guys were then trying to make a bid to move into one of the schools.
that they were going to repurpose, right? Yeah, because you know what? We've done our work. We are the only charter school who has never had an ASD building. You know, lots of other charter schools have had help, and that's amazing. You know, I'm glad they got it. But we have never had that building help.
And so we've done our best to do our own, but we just, our lease is up in the summer. We can't renew that without having to do a lot of cuts eventually in our program and really, you know, start our program and start to die. um all the number crunchers and i know this is it takes a lot to kind of understand the inner workings i'm sure you saw right within oh yeah like yeah like asd is huge our budget is bigger than the muni like
So ASD administration, those are all the people who work in the office who have, they are in charge of administrating the schools and facilities, right? So they spent months. painstaking months like deciding okay recommending like which schools need to close for us to be financially viable they made those recommendations um And then, so what did ASD do when they made that recommendation of the school to close? Well, you know, here's the thing that's bothering me about this whole thing.
You know, if ASC, look, these school board members, they knew what they were going to do ahead of time. If they already had the idea they were not going to give one of these schools or space to Rick O'Shula, why did they string you guys along so long? and not tell you in advance so you had time to plan and maybe find someplace else or find another strategy. Yeah, and that's really bad faith negotiations, right? So they, in all, like looking back, it's all becoming apparent.
So instead of taking the recommendations of which schools to close in like a manageable timeline from their own administration that they ordered to come up with this plan, they... reduced that handful of schools to only two. So now you had this dog-eat-dog setup where the charters that needed a different building have to... to be, like, not everybody's going to win anymore. Competing against each other, exactly. Yeah, so it was just so bizarre to see the final, you know, line of this play out.
And it's so different from that too, right? You guys do, you support Charter School so much, right? With your recent bond and those buildings. Yep. Well, and especially when you steal, this is what drives me crazy. You know, a few months ago we had Dr. Bishop on, and as she's talking about the value and how great Alaska charter schools are doing, I keep saying, why aren't we?
And oftentimes I will use Rikushula as an example. Why aren't we duplicating these wildly successful and very popular programs like Rikushula? Why aren't we investing more in these things that actually work and that parents work? and that are producing amazing results. It seems, you know, I know the answer to it because the NEA doesn't want it. I mean, let's be honest, right? I mean, that's the answer. Yeah, and we found another player who's in there, IBEW. Oh, really? Yeah.
So at the meeting where all the, so this meeting last Tuesday, where all the board had to do, okay, I'm sorry, I should just claim I'm not speaking. I am on the APC and I'm not speaking for the APC. I'm only speaking for myself. Sorry, I should have done my good life days off. That's okay. No, that's okay. We got you. Got it.
So at the meeting where all the board had to do was rubber stamp the recommendation that had been months of the making. We had been led to believe, right, was this process. We had done everything, like dotted our T's, dotted our T's, no, crossed our T's. The most bizarre vote unfolded. So member Pat Higgins started getting just wildly ecstatic in the work session, too, like right before the meeting he was.
They pull up the memo, and it says, like, Rilke going into Lake Hood. That's what their memo is to vote on. Rilke going into Lake Hood and another school going into another one. And Pat Higgins... gives this amendment to put another school in. Like, it's not on the agenda. It's not, like, anywhere. We have no sign that this is coming. And four members vote for the amendment. And the final, they also, during that amendment process, they call up, like, yeah, it was not fair to Rilke at all.
um i'm sorry that happened i'm sorry that happened well every i i hope uh the parents of rickishula students and and frankly everybody who wants to see a great program not only be preserved but be expanded should really contact every single anchor school board member because it gets to the point look I've been through the process when these amendments come nobody surprised the amendments in front of them they already know who's going to vote which way on the
amendments. There's no doubt in my mind it was not a surprise to the Anchorage School Board members. The play was already gamed out. Yeah, and so we, you know, we're wiser now for it. But I just want to call out the members who all voted against their own administration's recommendation. So that was Member Lessons, who is up for re-election. That was Member Bellini, who's up for re-election. Member Higgins and Member Jacobs. And several of those have, or sorry, and Wilson.
Several of those have connections to IBEW. There was concerns about which the other school's board has strong connections to, a lot of ethics. considerations, things not being disclosed. So besides just procedural stuff and not good faith negotiations, there's a lot of really big things. Talk to any real good parent. You can find out more, but I just appreciate you letting...
get the word out it's you know well thank you do not complain we are not complainers but you guys do you guys do you're doers you know i mean look you don't build a school like that and get the results you get because you're not doers you guys are doers and unfortunately
you're learning baptism by fire politics is is a nasty dirty game especially here locally and you know it's it's This is one of the things I would recommend to every parent and people who are supporters of charter schools, especially very... very effective programs like rickishula this is where you guys step back and you take you take a game plan and you look at the next legislative session too or look next assembly races you guys got to start planning people that are supportive to your cause
to take these people out. Yeah. Oh, and the good news with all, or despite all of that, I am another proud parent of State Battle of the Book Winners. So once again, nice. Congratulations. That's wonderful. Amanda, thank you for updating us on the whole charter school issue. We will start watching this one a little more closely because I think it's a big issue, and I think it's one that's going to impact.
Anybody who has kids coming up, if you're somebody who has little kids that aren't in school yet, if you're thinking about going into it, my kids were an immersion program, and they are sensational. And I think, you know, when we see these programs that really work,
and they work well, I think these are the programs that we need to support and we need to expand. And I think it's an important topic for parents and maybe soon-to-be parents because what's the system going to look like when your kids go through school?
Every parent wants their kid to get the best education, and they want them to have opportunities. And what a great opportunity to have your kid bilingual before they're even in high school. I mean, I think it's fantastic. So, Amanda, thank you for calling and sharing with us this morning. All right. Have a good day. All right. You too. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
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Let me see if I can pick him up. There we go. We got him. Good morning, Doug. Hey, good morning, Amy. It's actually Bud. Oh, it's Bud. My bad, my bad. That was Daryl's dyslexia this morning. You can call me anything, just don't call me late for dinner, right? Exactly, exactly. I look forward to seeing you on the 15th at the get-together. Oh, fantastic. I will be there.
So I wanted to call in, because like you, I heard about the whole stuff with Young, and I was telling Daryl, that's kind of a smarmy move. It's more of a Democrat move. He knows. He's not willing to stand afoot on the proposal he's putting forward. So he's going behind closed doors trying to get people to support because he knows he's wrong. He knows he's wrong.
To me, it's a total waste of time because it's an absolute constitutional slam dunk. There's no way you can implement taxes on an S-court and not have Hillcourt. not be smart enough to go back and say, hey, hold on, you're singling us out. There's a state full of S-Corps. Why are we the only one having to pay? So it's really, to me, it's all for naught because it's going to get thrown out. Hillcorp has a constitutional slam dunk when you're targeting one S-corp without...
without going after all the other S corps in the state. And I personally don't want to give the Democrats the opportunity to do that because their eyes are gleaming looking at another tax base. And I wonder... Between you and I, conspiracy theory here, if that's what the end goal is in the long run. Well, you know, it's interesting. See, I tell you, bud, we have the smartest callers. Because I had a conversation.
with a legislator not too long ago who was Vietmanly against, and it was a Republican, against SB 92. And they said to me, look, he's playing into Kathy Giesel's playbook. She wants to take... She wants to open the door to taxing all S-Corps, and she wants to raise taxes. And, in fact, there's a lot of legislators who believe that run is being used by Wilikowski because when you look at his taxing...
When you look at his talking points, they kind of mimic him, don't they? Oh, it's Willikowski 101 for sure. And, you know, what really... You know, I call Bravo Sierra like you, and in the military, another term we would use is this is a blue falcon move. I think you know what I'm talking about. See, the problem is when he came out and said, you know, talking about that's a federal issue,
I'm screaming at the radio going, so why are we taking a federal issue and turning that into an Alaska issue? If you're saying we already have a federal issue, so let's deepen that by making an Alaska issue as well. Yeah, well, it's doubling down on it. Like, at the end of the day, when your argument is we want to level the playing field, but your actions are clearly not doing that. They're actually making it worse. Now you're putting an S-corp at a disadvantage to competing.
against a C-Corp. Like, to me... You're not leveling the play field. That's why I really tried to be open-minded about this and say, okay. Like I said, I had a nice conversation with him. He gave me his argument. I talked to people that are close to oil and gas. Frankly, I talked to somebody from...
Hillcorp 2, and I wanted to hear their side of it, and I tried to ask fair questions and just play it down the middle of the road, because I really do like Rob Yance a lot, and I think a lot of things he does is very good, but I think on this one, I think he...
He's believing something or he's pushing something, and now he's dug in. And I don't think you're going to get him to change course on it. But I don't think he's convinced enough other legislators that this is a good idea. I don't see the governor staying. With this one, I see the governor...
I would hope the governor would veto it. I think he would. I hope it doesn't get that far, though, because this needs to be killed, and it needs to be killed quickly, because I think it institutes instability and chaos when we're trying. Look what the president's trying to do.
do in Alaska and then every company coming in says oh yeah but that Alaska legislature like we can't trust them because they're like dealing with Sybil every other month they're changing their idea of what the tax policy in Alaska should be So I think it hurts the president's agenda to try to make Alaska the energy-dominant force that we could be. I mean, that's just my thought.
Ultimately, it destroys us, and we have a history of doing this, and it just pisses me off because hence BP. We abused them for years before they finally left, and now Hillcorp has come in. And, you know, they step in and we say, oh, thank you. And by the way, we're going to single you out and slap. We can't help. but shoot ourselves in the foot, and it's so frustrating. So I'll be at the assembly meeting for sure because I want to see who is going to actually rally.
and support this smarmy move to try to get assemblies and other people to support him because he knows it's bad legislation. And I honestly think the end goal is a tax on all escorts. I think there's a much deeper play here. Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're exactly right, and I think it's a bad move. And I think for the Assembly to even get involved, like stop carrying his water. If he's going to have a good idea, let it stand on its own two feet.
The fact of the matter is, and this is why, like I said, we're starting to see districts. His own district came out with a resolution opposing this legislation. In District 26, my district is going to take this issue up. The Valley Republican Women's Club. here there's a lot of valley groups out here that are saying ah
I don't think so. So we'll see. Now that I've said it on the air, I guarantee, you know, he'll start making phone calls and start trying to stop my district from doing it. But, look, the reality is if you want less of something, tax him more. I mean, and I don't think that's a good idea. I don't think that's the message that most Valley elected officials would support. So I want to know why would they support this?
And I'm interested to see who does support it, and they need to be put on notice that we'll be looking to replace them as well. We don't need Anchorage politics in the Valley. I couldn't have said it any better. Bud, thank you so much for the call this morning. Have a great weekend. You too, sir. All right, let's go to Randy. Good morning, sir. Good morning, young Wendy and Daryl. I'm really enjoying this show. Especially Amanda, Ken, Bob. Talk about this. Thing is, you have to be back.
What Bob Young done in the past supporting the Grover Pits? Talking about the Grover Pits. And you're so right about the reservations when you got one of it. The Supreme Court in 2020 supported your reservations, and half of Oklahoma is on a reservation. How did that work out, Bush? Okay, hold on. Anyway, really enjoying your show. Give me a platform for these other people to support their different things. Give me a drink real quick. Oh, yeah, go for it.
Okay. Quick joke, and then I'll go back to listening. What is a baby? Pickle come from. Where does a big pickle come from? Baby pickle. Where does a baby pickle come from? Okay, I don't know. Where does a baby pickle come from? Cute come from. I'll give you a drum one on that one. That's cute. Cute comers. I like that.
Oh, Randy, thank you so much for the call. I appreciate it very much. All right, Daryl, I got one for you. All right, ready? Five ants rented an apartment when another five ants moved in. Now they're 10 aunts. Oh, wow. I thought you were going to have something about uncles come into that, but you went the other way. Okay. You're welcome, everybody. I got to tell you, you don't look what I don't get out much.
So dad jokes are my thing. All right, well, we're going to do this. I can see who's on hold for me now. So I'm very excited about this because Amanda had a great conversation about charter schools and what is happening at the Anchorage School Board.
My education guru is on hold right now, and I want to make sure to give him lots of time so I can have a conversation with him. Mr. Bob Griffin is on deck. So we're going to go ahead and take our bottom-of-the-hour break. When we come back, we will talk with Bob. Bob Griffin, stay with us. Amy Demboski, 6 to 8, mornings on News Radio 650, KENI. Call now, 907-522-0650.
Welcome back, current time 736. Well, I'm very excited. Anytime education comes up, the man that has forgot more about education... Welcome back to live, local, and insightful Morning Drive Radio on NewsRadio 650 KENI. Welcome back. Current time is 7.51. on this Free Forum Friday. It's been an interesting conversation. I love having Fridays because I never know what we're going to talk about. People bring up the most interesting things.
You know, during the break, one of our callers called in, and he brought up, you know, Clinton firing a whole bunch of attorney generals. Great point. So Brent Hume last night on Fox. It says, well, let's see, was it on Fox? No, this wasn't on Fox. This was actually, it was on Fox, but it was not last night. It was a while ago. It showed the disparity of, look.
Trump's firing, and he's replacing a whole bunch of attorney generals. This is not new. Bill Clinton, when he came into office in 1993, went straight across, and it said Bill Clinton... They failed to mention that's exactly what Bill Clinton did soon after taking office in 1993. This is a CBS article that I'm looking at. But Bill Clinton came in and a whole swath wiped them all out. President Bush took out some of them.
nearly all of them but Clinton just wiped them out and put in his own people so this is not new every president look if you're somebody who is an executive appointment that means that executive outside of the supreme court right because they have lifetime terms but if we're talking about somebody who's just an executive who's appointed and works on behalf of you know the executive the executive has the right to replace you
And like I said, I think Trump really does need to go through and replace especially the New York AG and the Georgia AG. Yeah, definitely need it. Well, that's what I say. I mean, you're going to see lawfare from every angle. It's the same thing. We've all seen the audio clips of Obama and Clinton talking about government efficiency and getting rid of fraud, waste, and abuse. And Trump doesn't.
actually says it and does it and they're all like oh the world's gonna end this is uh this is cataclysmic this is on a look if a democrat was doing it they'd be cheering well Obama is who created Doge. Doge was actually created by Obama. I just get to the point where, I mean, it's so laughable. You know the difference? They weren't effective. No, they weren't effective.
Trump is. Exactly. I was going to say, well, they created Doge, but they put no T's and let nobody do anything. And here's the reality. And the reason they're all got their panties in a twist, the reason they're all freaking out. is because all... Daryl's trying to twist his panties. Daryl, I can't watch that. This is a PG show. The reason they're all in knots is because at the end of the day, what we have seen is U.S. taxpayers have been funding liberal agenda items with your money.
This is what's happening. They can't win on their own. They can't convince Americans to just willingly give them their money for their ideology, their DEI, all their liberal nonsense. And so they've found a way to institute it and get it funded by taxpayers. And, you know, Trump has come in, Elon Musk has come in, and they've said, uh-uh, they're cut. That's why they're all losing their minds right now. It's because without, you know, federal funding,
What power and influence are they going to have? Where are they going to get all their... Here's the thing. When you strike at somebody's power base... When you strike at their power base, you take their money, you take their power, they're going to come unhinged and lose their mind. And that's why you saw the display that you saw at the President's National Address earlier this week. It's because...
You know, they have nothing else to do. They look ridiculous, by the way. You know, and again, here we have it. The world's going to go crazy here. Amy, once again, is agreeing with Fetterman. you know you have it where he's like their behavior was disgraceful
There's an article right now in Axios. It says, Dems privately confront Trump's speech disruptors. Here's a quote. Leadership is very unhappy with those who went beyond traditional protest tactics. Roughly a dozen Democratic disruptors were... called into a come-to-Jesus meeting on Thursday morning, end quote, that coming out of Axios, because, you know, there's some that still have working, you know, brains in the Democrat Party that realize this behavior. Okay.
You guys are not connecting with the American people. When 79% of the people that watched Trump's speech on both sides, 79% total, said they liked his speech, they agreed with it. 79% of Americans.
That tells you when we're getting to the 80-20 split, you never see that in politics. 80-20 is unheard of. When most Americans are agreeing with what Trump's doing, and you have Democrats over there refusing to stand for a kid who had cancer, survived childhood cancer, answer refused to stand up for a little girl who was severely you know injured by a male athlete refused to stand for families of you know people who have been I mean, it shows the Democrats lack of connection.
to the american people and frankly to humanity and so it wasn't a good look for them the way they were being so disruptive so disrespectful and their stupid little ping pong paddles You know what you look like? You look like an archaic group. Let me get you your prune juice. I've got to be honest with you. You're not connecting with the American people.
And I think that's what they saw. And people like Fetterman are standing up, and he's like, aren't there still things we can all just kind of come in agreement with, like standing up for a kid for cancer? Yeah, I think you're right. So at the end of the day, the Democrats need a leader.
And unfortunately, they are still like a ship without its oars. They cannot find their way, unfortunately, for them. Not for us. I'm loving it. Keep it up. Keep it up. All right, that does it for Daryl and I today. We will be back with you Monday morning at 6 a.m. Until then, stay safe. God bless.