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I got to be honest with you. That was the meme I sent you. I had to start this morning with some Black Rifle coffee. I got to tell you, Waking the Neighbors, that's the version I'm having today. You know, look, I don't know if it's because I'm getting older. I don't know if it's because I'm out of it. Like, getting up this early, I usually like to get up by, like, 4.30 at the latest. A lot of times I'm awake by 4, but...
I got to be honest with you. This morning I was dragging. I went to the Matthewboro Assembly meeting last night. Oh. And, I mean, they get done much earlier than Anchorage, but it was like 1030. And I'm thinking. Good Lord. When your iWatch, you know, basically dies. It does. I'm like, all of a sudden, I'm like, oh. It's no longer watching. It's like, iWatch no more.
Oh, so, yeah, got to start with some coffee this morning. Got to start. So today was a little late day for me, but I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. How was your night? You know, my night went really well. The wind picked up and started blowing, so I slept pretty good. Actually, I ended up getting up early because of it and saying, you know what, I'm not going to risk going back to sleep again.
I just kind of puttered around. But I was dragging this morning, too. I just didn't want to lay back down and risk, you know, oversleeping. That's the worst. You know? That's the worst. We're just going to get up. And I made my breakfast drink this morning and kind of sipped on it a little bit and walked outside and went, wow, it's like 34 degrees out here and the wind's blowing at 10 miles an hour. And, yep, nope, I'm definitely not touching the snow.
Well, I will tell you, you know, I looked around to see what everybody's temperature is at right now. Right now I'm sitting at 32.9 right here at the weather station. What are you at? What are you at? 34. Oh, that's good. Well, I'm looking around and I laugh because in Palmer, it shows about eight or nine. They're supposed to have a little bit of snow showers, but you're sitting at 32.9. I mean, it's not even a stick when it hits the ground. It does show.
A little bit of snow in Big Lake, but Big Lake right now is sitting at 28. And their high today is going to be 42. Oh, yeah. So it's not going to stick. I am looking. Kenai has warmed up there at 19. Fairbanks has also warmed up there at 19. So. We are definitely seeing that warming trend that they were calling for earlier in the week, and it looks like it's just going to get nicer and nicer through the weekend. Well, like I said, that is a warm wind blowing out there.
And here in Anchorage, it says we're supposed to get some snow also. But I can tell you right now, let me double check. I can still see the moon. He's looking out the window. The big, big window. For Palmer, it says snow's supposed to start in two and a half hours. But again, I mean, no chance it's going to stick. No chance. So it's just decorative. Yeah, it's like, okay. I mean, it's futile. Resistance is futile. Spring is here. Literally, the first day of spring is tomorrow.
Which is the craziest thing because normally I ignore, quote, the first day of spring because it means nothing generally in Alaska. I mean, it literally means nothing. It's like breakup season again. Exactly. It's like, yeah, no, that means nothing. Now it's like, um. Well, it might actually quote bee spring.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, I suppose I should do a few community announcements. We will get to it, and I'll tell you about the Matthewboro Assembly meeting last night that I went to, so we'll throw a little bit of entertainment in there for sure. Let's start. with them at Subaru. Today, for public meetings, we have a water and wastewater advisory board meeting, 2.30 in the assembly chambers over there.
in Palmer, so the big white building. There is an Agriculture Advisory Board meeting in the lower level conference room of the borough building. Of course, that's located at 350 East Dahlia Avenue in Palmer. That's going to be from... Starting at 4.30 today. The Kinnick Fairview Community Council has a board meeting. It starts at 6.30 today. And that's going to be at Settlers Bay Lodge, 5801 South Kinnick Goose Bay Road in Wasilla.
The Gold Trail Road Service Area Board of Supervisors has a meeting. And that will be at 6.30. They meet at Thielen Middle School. And that's it for the book meetings in the Matsu borough. If you want to follow up on any of these, all you have to do is go to matsugov.us, and you'll be able to find information on that. I did double-check Wassel and Palmer. I didn't see any publicly scheduled meetings for them today. There's a couple in Anchorage.
As we look at today for Wednesday, March 19th, there's a Library Advisory Board meeting. It starts at 5.30 today. That's the only board in commission that I see. That's, of course, at the LUSAC Library. And the Anchorage Assembly does have a couple of committee meetings today. The first one is they have a Housing and Homelessness Committee meeting at noon. That will be at City Hall and Conference Room 155, the same location. They have a Rules Committee meeting at 140 today.
And that's it for the Anchorage Assembly. If you want to track what they're doing, just go to muni.org, that's M-U-N-I, muni.org, and then click on the Assembly tab, and you'll be able to find what they're doing. You'll be able to see their calendar. Today for the Kenai Peninsula Borough, as I'm looking, I don't see anything on their calendar for today, but the city of Kenai does have a meeting. The city of Kenai has a...
City Council meeting today at 6 p.m. Of course, that'll be in the Kenai City Council chambers located at 210 Fidalgo Avenue in Kenai If you want more information on their meeting, including their agenda, just go to Kenai.city. And then down on the calendar, just click on the council meeting, council regular meeting, and it will bring you to a landing page that has their agenda.
And last but not least, our friends down in Homer. They have a planning commission regular meeting tonight at 6.30. It will be in person at the CALS Council Chamber. located at 491 East Pioneer Avenue in Homer, or you can attend via Zoom or by phone. So if you need more information on that meeting, just go to cityofhomer-ak.gov.
And then look to the right, and you'll see all the meetings. Just click on the meeting that's interesting to you, and it'll bring you to another landing page that has all the information. That really does it for the public announcements that we have today. Last night, Daryl, I went to the Matthewboro meeting out, their city council meeting. It was interesting. You know, it was good. I know.
I'm actually friends with the majority of people on the city council, so I know a lot of them. So you went to the Palmer City Council meeting. No, no, that would be the Matsuboro City Council meeting. Oh, the borough meeting, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did sit right next to a Palmer City Council member. Victoria Hudson was sitting right next to me during the meeting. So it was very interesting. Her public testimony was probably the most eye-opening of them all.
And I can't even, I'm going to have to call her and have her call in and talk on the show what she found. But it was shocking, a conversation that was overheard on an airplane. Let's put it that way. Oh, those are always fun. it was it was really really her her i mean her testimony in front of the city council was pretty pretty pretty eye-opening let's put it that way so that'll definitely be an item for follow-up but
They did take up the resolution to support SB 92 last night. And, you know, I had previously already emailed every single member of the city council and the mayor. And after District 26 passed a resolution opposing it. I shared that with everyone. And so then like two days later, Rob Bernier, the sponsor, came out and said he's not supporting SB 92 anymore. And he had a substitute resolution, actually, to oppose SB 92. And it was very interesting because he said...
He wanted to be on the record to make sure that he opposed anything that Kathy Weasel, I mean, Giesel. Okay, that's the best one I've heard yet. I've got to tell that's correct. It was super funny. I mean, because he is on the phone. I don't know, he's out of state or something. He was on the phone, and he said he was a few hours ahead. But when he said it, everybody just started laughing. It was like one of these little...
not-so-not-planned slips. It was really funny, though, the way he came out. He was, I mean, Giesel. He's like, I want to make sure that I'm on the record opposing anything that she's supporting. But they actually, I think, did what was most important. appropriate for them to do, which was postponed indefinitely. They just didn't take the position one way or another. Look, I have been one of these proponents on the assembly very rarely.
I think it should be a very rare instance when the Assembly weighs in on specific legislation, especially in the beginning. Because if Assembly passes a resolution saying, I support Bill 101. Okay, they support Bill 101 as it was introduced, maybe, but it could be totally different by the time it passes. As we've seen so many times. Oh, my gosh.
Right, and so I think the majority of the sentiment on the board itself, it was clear to me I think it had switched, and I don't think the Assembly supports raising the tax on Hillcorp. My sentiment was... listening to kind of a little bit of the conversation was
I didn't get the sentiment that they supported taxing Hillcorp. And so there has been a dramatic shift, right, from the introduction of it to last night. But they think, you know, I think they took the appropriate step and just said, you know what, we're not going to do this. the way into oil and gas tax without being educated on the topic. And I think that was the right thing for them to do. I agree.
So, you know, they kind of – that was the whole reason I was there last night was to watch that. But, you know, I didn't feel the need to testify myself because I had already communicated with every single one of them. So it was – I felt like they took the right move when they did it. A couple of them were recused because of obvious personal conflicts.
But otherwise, it was a good meeting. I listened to it. I was sitting there the whole time, and one of the testifiers made the comment, it is a much different vibe in the Mat-Su Borough Assembly than it is in other assemblies across the state. And the one I can compare them to is Anchorage. I mean, people are, even when they don't agree with somebody, they're very supportive and encouraging of other people to talk, which is always fun. Right. But...
You know, you have people testify, and the audience claps when they're done, and everybody's like, oh, good job, good job. You don't get that in Anchorage. If you clap in Anchorage, you better be careful. They'll throw you out. They'll throw you out or worse, I mean.
I mean, they're little totalitarians. And so it's just, Mayor Edna runs a great meeting. I've got to be honest with you. Out of all the people that I've always worked with, there's a lot of people that I respect that are in politics that I you know i look up to and how well let me put it this way that i have a lot of regard for mayor edna is the one that i look up to she is she just runs a meeting and she says what she says what's up and people don't argue with her they just they just comply
She runs a great meeting. Great meeting. So it's always fun watching those meetings. All right, we're going to go ahead and take our first break of the morning. If you'd like to call in and be part of the show, 522-0650. 6 to 8 mornings on News Radio 650, KENI. Call now, 907-522-0650. All right. Well, here we are, Wednesday. morning hump day we have made it
That coffee is kicking in. I'm jamming in here. Good Lord. You know, I'm looking at Fox News right now, and the FBI is investigating Teslas that were set on fire in Vegas. And, you know, look, I mean, Pam Bondi has come out and she has, you know, basically said the FBI, they're going to be investigating these as acts of terrorism, which I think is absolutely appropriate.
You look at the surge, the number of Teslas that have been targeted it's clearly domestic terrorism and what do i mean by that you know when we start talking about terrorism you know just to be accurate i went and pulled the definition of terrorism from britannica so right the old encyclopedia so I wouldn't pull the definition the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby bring about a particular political objective
Right, it goes on, but that's basically it. Look, Elon Musk is working at Doge. Elon Musk is helping Donald Trump. By targeting his company nationwide, and that's what's happening, they are targeting his company. It's clearly politically motivated. I mean, Tesla drivers, I mean, I've seen reports of Tesla drivers like Cybertrucks, like people who just own a Cybertruck has been targeted and vandalized, right? I mean, this is intentionally intended.
to stoke fear in people, and clearly it's politically motivated because of Elon Musk. So I will just say... I will just say I think it's appropriate as the FBI investigates this as domestic terrorism because that's what it is. It's politically motivated, designed to incite fear in people and dissuade them from purchasing Teslas, from driving their cars. Teslas, they're being targeted.
And I think it should be dealt with accordingly. Well, it's definitely more of a domestic terrorist than the FBI investigating parents and going to school board meetings that were investigated as domestic terrorists. been put on lists and stuff so i mean yeah this is way closer to what it actually is yeah no i think you're i think you're exactly right and you know reuters had an article up u.s attorney general calls attacks against tesla property domestic terrorism i think She's right.
This coming from Reuters yesterday. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday condemned recent violent attacks on Tesla property, adding the Department of Justice has already charged several perpetrators, quote, the swarm of violent attacks on Tesla. property is nothing short of domestic terrorism, end quote. Bondi said in a statement, she goes on and says,
Severe consequences on those involved in these attacks, including those operating behind the scenes, to coordinate and fund these crimes. Finally. Finally. Somebody, look, you think all these protesters that look at BLM, you know, take your pick. Look at a lot of these different left-wing activists when they show up and, you know, they already have bricks staged in certain areas or they all have the same kind of tents. I mean, there's no question it's being coordinated.
and you've got to get to the root of the cause. Follow the money. How many times do we have to say, this really isn't all that complicated. And so when they find the perpetrators that are actually doing it, that's great. That's great. Gets criminals that are actually destroying the property. That's great. Do that. But then let's see if there's a coordinated attack. And if there's a coordinated effort to incite violence, to burn people's property, to riot, those people should also be charged.
This really isn't that complicated. So I think finally, this is what Americans want. Americans want law and order. They want people to... Look, no one has a right, just because you're driving a Tesla, no one has a right to come and destroy your vehicle, to key it, to paint it, to burn it, whatever they're doing to it. That's not appropriate. And so it would be the same, you know.
It would be the same if there was any other type of manufacturer and they targeted one specific company. So I think it's about time somebody with a backbone actually follows through and goes after these people. You're not going to stop this type of violence unless you actually get to the root of it and figure out who's funding it. Because so many of these different things are coordinated.
Is it possible that there's a one-off? Absolutely, and likely there is, right? Likely there's a one-off, but when we're seeing such coordination and over and over, like, come on. Follow the money. It's not that complicated. All right, let's go to our friend Jerry. Good morning, sir. Good morning, ma'am. I was listening to Loretta earlier this morning.
They're talking about the magic money machines. There's 14 of them. You go up there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, Jerry, we have to explain to the listeners in case they haven't heard Elon Musk talk about this.
When he talks about magic money machines, he was giving an interview. I can't remember who it was with, but he was giving an interview, and he was talking about these 14 different basically machines in the government that just generate payments I mean we're talking trillions of dollars of payments that just generate payments and yeah we're with really no with really it seems like no real funding source so
We'll see when he gets to the bottom of it. It was a fascinating conversation. So don't you wish you had one of those magic money machines? Well, we have a magic money machine, and it's called Murkowski and Salt Lake. Thanks. They should be doing something a long time ago. How long have they been back there and haven't done a dadgum thing? I know. The dog's hind legs, a whole bunch of them. I'm telling you, did you watch her address to the legislature this week? No, I don't listen to her.
See, if I wasn't stuck last night at that assembly meeting, I was going to pull an audio clip. I might do one for tomorrow, but just so you could hear it, because I thought, you know, I don't play very many Murkowski clips, but, you know, she was in the legislature yesterday, and she was... giving them the the rundown on her position and in the position she took was i i don't even know how she was arguing it but
Oh, my gosh. I'll get into that on the next side of the break. All about Sullivan. He's surely known about this stuff. Has he said anything? Well, I will tell you, he seems like he's supportive of Doge. We'll find out today. I think it's either today or tomorrow that's relevant. Before Doge, excuse me. Oh, yeah. He should have been some years ago. It's been going on for years. Yeah.
Yeah, that's true. Look, Elon Musk pointed out, if you go to Doge's website, they pointed out an internal, what is it called, IG report from 2006. 2006. a ton of waste, fraud, and abuse. And they're just executing it now. I mean, that's been over 20 years. Sure. And we're paying for it.
Well, I guess my math is off. I guess it's been 19 years. But, you know, but that's right. I mean, look, this is nothing new. The waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government is not new. You are 100% correct, sir. I hold them responsible. And thank you so much for taking my call. I'm sorry I get upset with you. No, I love it. Team, the coffee didn't get me all worked up. You did. So thank you for calling this morning. You're welcome. All right.
Jerry, thanks for the call. All right, we're going to go ahead and take a quick break. When I come back, I'm going to share with you the message that Lisa Murkowski shared with the Alaska legislature this week. You're going to love it. Reach out to Amy now. 907-522-0650. That's 907-522-0650. It's Amy DeBosky on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
Welcome back. I'm 637. Okay, before I get into this Murkowski thing, I got to go back to the magic money computers because Jerry brought up something great. And I had to look it up because I was like, I saw it. Where did I see it? So Elon Musk showed up on The Verdict. That's Ted Cruz's podcast. And they were having a convo about some of the things that he's finding. And the Western Journal has an article. Elon's team finds magic money computers used to create money out of thin air.
It says right here, Elon Musk made the bombshell claim that the federal government had at least 14 magic money computers that he said create cash out of thin air to make payments. The world's richest man and the head of Doge made the Searching on a Monday episode of the Verdict podcast with host Senator Ted Cruz. It says right here, Musk told Cruz, well, let's back up.
Here's a quote. Quote, one of the things you told me about is what you call magic money computers. That was a question posed by Cruz, and he asks, you know, tell us about it. So Musk explained how it works. He says it just issues payment. According to Musk and Cruz, those payments are in the trillions of dollars, and the magic money machines exist in multiple agencies. They're mostly at Treasury. Some are at HHS.
one or two at state, and there's some at DOD. I think we found 14 magic money computers must continue. They just send money out of nothing. So this is a fascinating thing, because... This actually exposes the use by the government of what's called modern monetary theory, which means you don't actually have to have money tied to anything. It's basically tied to inflation.
See, and that's just not right. So that has always been like a boogeyman. Like, oh, no, they don't really use that. They don't really use that. If this is true, though, if this is effectively true, what it's exposing is a... of modern monetary theory. The framework, according to the article, claims government with control over fiat currency like the United States are not restrained by revenue or borrowing, but instead can merely spend money into existence.
I know I'm blowing your mind. Am I blowing your mind? I'm blowing your mind right now. Because nobody thought this was actually true. You always thought that basically the dollar was tied to something. Right. But if you have 14 computers in the government that basically just create money and just make pay. and create money out of thin air, Houston, we have a problem. You know what they remind me of? What? Bitcoin miners. That's what a Bitcoin miner does, is it creates money out of...
Free air. Out of thin air. Well, it's very interesting because it says the primary limit on spending, according to monetary, the MMT theory, is inflation rather than insolvency. I already told you that part. So it's very – It's a fascinating revelation. If this is true, we have a much bigger issue than I think any of us even realized. So there you go. All right, let's switch gears now. Way bigger than I thought. I know, I know.
Daryl's, like, mind's blown now. I just threw you off completely. I know. So I haven't quite raised your blood pressure enough, Daryl. So now we've got to talk about Lisa Murkowski. So Must Read Alaska has an article up on their website about Murkowski's speech to the legislature this week. So it says Murkowski gets tepid response in legislature as she defends Venezuelan criminals.
Of course she did. U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski harped on President Donald Trump for deporting violent criminal Venezuelan gang members, arguing that he was violating the rule of law by continuing deportations despite a judicial order to help them. So let's be clear about something. The flights took off before the judge's written order came out. So there's no judge. Explain to me, show me in the Constitution or in law where a district court judge has the authority to direct military operations.
As far as I know, there is not a single one. Yeah, it doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. Just because some wackadoo radical judge... believes he has the authority to stop the president from using his constitutional presidential authority doesn't make it so. I've got to be honest with you. I don't think Trump is as aggressive as I would be in his position. I got to be honest with you. I said this to you off air yesterday, Daryl, but I would come to the point where I'm like, you know what?
You've already impeached me twice. You tried to put me in prison for the rest of my life. At this point, this is my constitutional authority. I know it's my constitutional authority. Go pound stand. That's what I would say. I've got to be honest with you. I'd get to the point.
As long as Trump, that's what they want him to say, though. See, that's the trap that they're laying for him. They want him to say he's ignoring a judicial order, right? Even if it's an unlawful judicial order, nobody's talking about the merits of that order. Except for conservatives, right?
But the liberals are just trying to they're trying to get him in this trap because that's all they'll talk about for the next two years is Trump is ignoring court orders. Trump is ignoring court orders. What do you think Biden did with all the student loan with the student loan dictate?
When he was trying to pay off all the student loans, the Supreme Court comes down and says you can't do it. He still kept trying to do it. But did you see the narrative anywhere in liberal media saying Biden was defying court orders? No.
No, but that's the trap they're trying to lay for Trump. So he's clearly being more... pragmatic than I would be but you know all it only matters if we lose the house and in the midterm right no matter what Trump does if we lose the house in midterms they're going to impeach him That's going to happen no matter what he does. He could just wake up and eat oatmeal for breakfast, do nothing, and they would still find a way to impeach him. It's going to happen if we lose the House.
So at the end of the day, the only thing that matters really is the midterm, right? Because the House is what impeaches the president. And then so if you have the House, if you maintain the House, you know, Trump can keep going. And he's doing what the American people elected him to do. He is expelling foreign terrorists from our country. And like it or not. Trendayuragua has been deemed a foreign terrorist group, right? So...
At the end of the day, he's doing what's in his legal authority. But our U.S. Senator, Lisa Murkowski, she goes on the floor of the House to argue the position that foreign terrorists should stay in our country because he's not doing it the right way. I don't think that's a winning position. Well, you know what some of their argument also is right now? Their newest argument that I've been watching out there is? So...
Trump has invoked this Alien Sedition Act. The Alien Act there. So what they're saying is they're not like that plane load of 200 that they sent out. They're saying, well, we want to, and that's what this judge wants. He wants a list of every single person on there and then what they've been charged with in the United States. And these people are saying, well, wait a second.
They haven't been charged with anything in the United States. They may have a criminal record from other places, but they haven't done anything wrong in the U.S., so they shouldn't be allowed to be deported because they haven't done anything wrong here. Just being here, they're illegal. But also what they're saying sounds like the liberals are saying is, well, after they've committed a crime, been arrested and gone through our system.
then we can consider deporting them. What? Ludicrous. Think about this. Think about this. We're under a foreign invasion. When you have 20 million people pour into your country, think about this. The population of Alaska is about 730,000. Just think about that for a minute. More than 20 times the population of our state.
More than 20 times the population of our state has invaded our country. This is a foreign invasion. If you have to take every terrorist, every foreign invader that comes into our country and run them through the criminal... justice system in the US and go before a judge for every single one of them. You don't have a country anymore.
Period. Your entire system collapses. It is the most ludicrous. That's the reason. So the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is what we were trying to remember the title of. So, you know, and it's not, and they will try to argue. It's a wartime authority. It's not just used for that. It has been used at other times outside of wartime. It is not limited to wartime.
Period. It's not. It gives the president broad authority to defend the nation. Period. Without a hearing. That's what the law allows for. And that's the important part. Yep, and it says right here, The Aliens, Enemies Act of 1798, it says it's a wartime authority, but it's not limited to just wartime, that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation without a hearing based only on their country. country of birth or citizenship.
And when they say an enemy nation, Venezuela has merely declared basically war on us. They sent these prisoners. These guys were all prisoners in their prisons that they released. In mental hospitals. On the condition they go to America. So they were sent. as agents of Venezuela, as agents of chaos, as far as I'm concerned. That makes them combatants. Yep. So I'm just saying, you know, see you later, Felicia. Time to go. Time to go. I have no problem with it, but Lisa Murkowski.
So she's on the floor of the legislature in Juneau, and she's addressing a joint session of the legislature. She stated that Congress needs to push back against what she called Trump's illegal deportations, emphasizing that all individuals, including... those here are illegally and are killing Americans are entitled to due process. No, they're not. No. I mean, I wish we could frankly deport some people that aren't.
You know, Trinity, Yucaragua. I'll stop at that, but you can just read between the lines. Speaking to a joint session of the Alaska legislature, Murkowski also criticized Trump's Department of Government efficiency for its role in reducing the size of government. She expressed... concern over what is in fact a minuscule number of job losses among more than 15,000 federal employees in Alaska during Trump's initial weeks in office. Oh.
I've got to be honest with you. I can't even, you know, I've got to tell you, I love my district. The last time I listened to Lisa Murkowski speak, was many, many, many years ago. I was at a Republican convention in Fairbanks, actually. And old District 12 used to be like half Chugiak, half Wasilla. I've got to be honest with you. My districts that I'm a member of, they're like hardcore Republican districts. And now the district is 26. Imagine that.
Yeah, and so Lisa Murkowski, like I said, this is many years ago, but Lisa Murkowski came and spoke at the convention, every single member of District 12 at the time. literally turned their chairs around backwards while she was speaking.
They weren't disrespectful. They didn't boo. They didn't hiss. They didn't anything. They just wouldn't look at her. And it was the most glorious thing I've seen. Because you know what? It felt like it was the beginning. It was before anybody else was publicly here. She was an invited speaker.
at the Republican convention in Alaska. And this was one of those districts that, like, they had her number before everybody else, I think, had her number. And they're just like, mm-mm, not doing it, not interested. But I haven't seen her at a Republican convention since. She doesn't. Notice she went to the AFN. Yeah, of course. Of course she did. Of course she did. All right, let's go ahead and take a quick break. We'll take your calls, 522-0650, when we come back.
Now back to the boss, Amy Demfoski. Call 907-522-0650 and be a part of the show on News Radio 650. KENI. So overall, when Murkowski spoke in the legislature this year, she briefly mentioned Dan Sullivan, but did not acknowledge at all Representative Nick Begich, the newest member of Alaska's congressional delegation. In contrast, in her speech to the legislature in 2024, she praised then Representative Mary Paul Tala, of course, a Democrat.
Overall, Murkowski's speech, according to Must Read Alaska, followed a similar structure, closely mirroring her address in 2024. This time, however, though, she placed less emphasis on topics such as climate change and missing and murdered indigenous women, and this time she spent much of her time
time criticizing the trump administration well we all know she has trump derangement syndrome so are any of us surprised i don't think so all right let's go to the phones and scott is with us good morning sir This is one politician that should just slowly fade away into the sunset. I second that. I agree. I mean... I find it hard to believe that we could not get ranked choice voting removed. I know. I know. I seriously think there was some tomfoolery going on with that vote.
You know, I got to tell you, this is what happened when it got put in place, too. Like, when they counted the votes initially, we were winning, and it wasn't going to be put in place. And then all of a sudden, miraculously, we lose by like just a few votes. And then all of a sudden with a repeal, we're doing great in the repeal. And then once we finally get all the votes counted like five years later, then all of a sudden we're losing. So you're not the only one that has that.
perspective i will tell you look when lisa murkowski opens my mouth opens her mouth i pretty much expect democrat talking points to come out of it that's just what i expect well then She should just declare herself as Democrat. And then let somebody else run as the second Republican senator. It's only fair. Lisa doesn't believe in fair.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she doesn't agree. Look, the whole reason ranked choice voting was put into place was to protect Lisa Murkowski. So she didn't have to face a closed Republican primary. That's the reason it was there. And I will go to my grave believing that to be true.
true and look they will do everything they can to try to defeat it because it's there to protect Lisa Murkowski so there's a reason why the majority of their campaign 15 million dollars came in from out of state to protect Lisa Murkowski Murkowski. There's a reason that campaign to save ranked choice voting. was so important to out-of-staters because it's all about national control on the uh in the senate right it's all about keeping her in that position
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I'm just throwing it out there. All right. Joining the show now is my favorite. I've got to tell you. We've got two good candidates in this cycle that I really, really like. You know, Daniel George is in the downtown district, District 1. But District 2. at Eagle River, my old stomping ground, I should say, is Jared Gerker, and he joins the show now. Good morning, Jared.
Hey, good morning, Amy. How are you doing? I'm fantastic. I have to ask, you know, there's an Anchorage municipal election that is ongoing. It hasn't gotten a lot of play. A lot of people aren't, they're kind of like, oh, there's an election going on, but they've got their ballots in the mail now. So I think the message is out. How's the campaign going? Yeah, it's going really well. And the message we're hearing when we're talking to people at the doors or talking to people on the phones.
is that they're like, yeah, we know there's an election. We'll get it done. Don't worry. It's not too flashy this time around, but people are going to take care of business. Yeah, they just got to remember to turn in their ballots, right? So they have to be postmarked by April 1st, right? Correct. April 1st, I believe 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. is when the polls close.
Yeah, 8 p.m. usually, I think. So as you're campaigning and you're going, let me just do this, because I don't do this every time I talk to you. But for those people that are maybe just starting to open their ballot and they're like, who is this Jared Gerker guy? Can you give us a rundown of kind of who you are ideologically, what you believe, and why people should consider you when they're voting in Shugack Eagle River?
Yeah, of course. Well, I am a conservative. I'm a Republican. I'm backed by both the Chugiak and Eagle River Republican parties, which is no small feat to get all those cats on the same page. That's true. That's pretty true. You know, and so when I'm looking at the assembly, I'm looking at responsive, responsible government that puts the needs and priorities of Chugiaki River first.
We look at what's been going on at the assembly for, I mean, the last quite a few years, and it's insane. You know, they've blown up their own budget by over 200%. They're introducing new taxes. Property taxes continue to go through the roof. And what are we getting for it in return? We're not really getting a good return on our investment whatsoever. Homelessness continues to be a huge crisis. You know, there's just...
The parks are unsafe, the trails are unsafe, all this stuff. And so when I'm looking at, when I'm talking to people, it's like, hey, let's get back to the basics. Let's get back to the basics of good, common sense government. And that's what I'm running on. You know, Jared,
I've been always interested when people step up to run because I think all politics are local. And when you start talking about serving in your local community council or serving on the road board or serving at the assembly, I mean, this is the thing that really impacts people. lives right because we're talking about property tax dollars we're talking about local control of a lot of issues
And local control is one of those issues in Eagle River. Can you talk to me a little bit about your views on Eagle River-type issues, whether it's property-type issues or road issues? those local voices and those local road boards play a role in, frankly, what the Assembly should be doing. Yeah, look, I think it's absolutely critical. We're looking at the community councils and the different advisory boards because...
Whatever your political opinions are past the local level, right? I've gone to community councils, and I can tell you there's people there that I disagree with on a national level and probably on a state level. But when we're sitting there at the table and we're talking about, hey,
They want to put something here, and here's what it's going to do to traffic and congestion, all this stuff. We're on the same page, right? And I think that's the beauty of it. Chugiak Eagle River has it very, very active and involved. community councils where it's required by code that we're going to be involved and we're going to be consulted.
I think that's really important, and we've got to be careful to not see an erosion of that. And when I look at this assembly, I do worry that they look at Chugiaki River as kind of the next thing to conquer, it feels like. And we've got to be able to, you know. stand our own and say, hey, we've got our own feel and culture and community out here, and we will protect how this is supposed to look and what we want this to look like. We don't want to turn Shugiak Eagle River into Anchorage.
We want to maintain Chugek Eagle River because it's frankly better, in my opinion. Yeah, well, when you start thinking about that, what role do you think land use codes play in that? And how do you see maybe Title 10, which is Chugek Eagle River's land use section, how do you see that playing a role?
in keeping the character of Chugack Eagle River, Chugack Eagle River. Yeah. You know, one of the big things going on right now that this administration is pushing is 10,000 houses in 10 years, right? And so... Chugiaki, we have a lot of land out here. We have a lot of space. And so if you wanted to just cram 10,000, you could probably do it just at Chugiaki Eagle River.
But we have our own chapter out of Title 21. And it does say that we will respect the fuel and the nature of the existing neighborhoods and communities. And we have to respect that. We have to fight for that. Because that's what's in code and that's what people expect when people are moving out here, buying out here.
or retiring, and this is what they expect the community to continue to look like. Obviously, we all understand there will be more development and there's going to be progress and stuff like that. I'm old enough to remember when... All those woods behind Meadow Creek were woods and other subdivisions. So there will be progress, but it needs to be done respectfully. And I think that's what we're going to see. That's what I'm going to fight for, for sure.
Well, you know, the other topic, you know, two issues that I remember people talking about a lot, you know, whether when I was on the community council or whether when I was on the assembly, people talked a lot about, you know, property rights. So chapter 10 makes... big difference because again that's Eagle River's chapter in title 21 so you know people really are very very very well aware of their property rights in Shugak Eagle River but the other thing was taxes and spending so when we start
talking about that on from the Anchorage Assembly you know you started the conversation with how much they're spending you know if you start to see proposals come forward for tax increases for maybe a new sales tax or maybe a stormwater utility tax, which I suspect is going to be coming. What's your position on those types of issues when it comes to taxes in general?
Yeah. I'll say taxes in general. I'm a small government conservative, and so when people say, hey, we need to increase taxes because we need this, my initial response is always going to be, well, can we... move existing revenues around and, you know, from maybe something that's not a priority to fund something if that's what we want to do. You know, or if they're saying, oh, we just don't have enough money, well, then maybe it's...
time we cut some spending, right? I mean, that's the other side of the coin is you can increase revenue, you can cut spending. And when I look at this assembly, when I look at the assembly for years past, that's just simply something they haven't been willing to do.
And everybody's saying, oh, we need new revenue measures. Like, well, no, I think we need to get our spending under control. And so to me, that's going to be the very first approach. I think that has to be the first approach. You know, when they're sitting here and they're talking about a...
a sales tax and and everything that's going to go along with that i go well you know property owners are suffering out here uh why don't we look at actually reducing the cost of government so we can give an actual an actual tax relief instead of just moving that tax around to a different, you know, a different sector of the economy.
Oh, I've got to say, it's spoken like an actual fiscal conservative. I love to hear it. Jared, if people want to learn more about you, I know the ballots are out in the mail right now, so I'll go over all the places people can drop them off. But if they want to actually connect with you or learn more about you,
Learn more about you. How do they do that? Yeah, they can do it a couple different ways. You can go to jaredforalaska.com. It's got my website and all my issues and all that stuff on there. I'm also on Facebook at Jared Gerker for Alaska. And I know that they published my phone number in the ballot thing they sent out as well. So you can also just give me a call.
Perfect. I love that. So you're accessible lots of different ways. Well, as always, Jared, I'm rooting for you. I mean, I will tell you, as somebody who's known you for a long time now, I know you would make an incredible assembly member. So I'm very hopeful. that Chugack Eagle River will agree with my assessment, and I can't wait to call you assembly members. So keep working hard. Election Day is April 1st. Don't take your foot off the gas pedal until last time. after the election.
Sounds good. Thanks, Amy. All right. Thank you, Jared. All right, that's Jared Gerker. Again, he is running for Anchorage Assembly for Chuyack Eagle River and J-Bear. So if you have your ballot, you can go ahead and take a look at him for that. If you have questions, call him. Reach out to him on his website. Send him an email. Send him a text. He's very accessible. So hopefully you get a chance to pick your horse. And for me, again, Jared's just.
To me, it's a no-brainer in that race. But that's just me. All right, we're going to go ahead and take a quick break. If you'd like to call in, 522-0650. You're listening to live, local, and always insightful Morning Drive Radio with Amy Demboski on NewsRadio 650 KENI. Get on the show now by calling 907-5220. 650. Welcome back. Current time is 721.
You know, I think we should go back and readdress this because we had a good conversation with Jared Gerker. He is a candidate running for election for the Anchorage Assembly. And just so everybody knows, 12 days, 16 hours. 38 minutes. That is how much time you have. That's a countdown to the April 1st election. Of course, it is now by mail election. What does that mean? That means you probably mailed your ballot. You should have been.
got it and you want to drop it off in one of the secure drop boxes, you can do that. They're located all over the town. You can find more information at muni.org. Just click on the Elections button when you get there and it brings you to their home landing page. But if you live in the Cheeac Eagle River area, there is a secure drop box at Eagle River Town Center. So that's right in front of the library. If you're in Anchorage, the ASDA Education Center, City Hall, Bartlett High School, Clark.
LUSAC Library Service, UAA Alaska Airlines Center, the Spenard Community Rec Center. Begich Middle School, Diamond High, and there's a number of other locations that you can go to and drop off your ballot. Or you could just return it by mail, but remember it has to be postmarked by April 1st. So if it's not postmarked by April 1st, it won't be. count.
So there you have it. I was totally confused by this. I thought this was a misogynistic election this time. I thought only it was going to be males voting. I didn't realize votes by male. Oh, there we go. There we go. Poor Daryl. Poor Daryl. That's okay. I just realized it actually includes the ladies because – It's inclusive. It's an inclusive election. Well, it is because anything you return back through the postal system, you have to pay for, which means it's female.
Oh, here we go. Oh, bless his heart. All right, well, let's do a recap on some of the Anchorage Assembly candidates. District 1, we have Daniel Voland, Nick Danger, and Daniel George in that race. In that race, Daniel George is my favorite. He was on yesterday. Yeah, he's fantastic. He's a gem. District 2, you have Jared Gerker, David Littleton, and Kyle Walker. Of course, Jared's my favorite in that race. District 3, Cameron Vrez.
Perez Verdea, Jonathan Duckworth, and Amy Steen. I'm waiting for you. You have to weigh in on that one. I'm still trying to track down Jonathan Duckworth and Amy Steen to try and get them on to talk to us because... There's no info about these two out there, and we know everything we want to know about Cameron. Literally, Sleepy is just – he means to do well, but I'm just not real thrilled. Not thrilled. Okay. District 4, Midtown Anchorage. You have Aaron.
Baldwin-Dave versus Don Smith. Don Smith would be my pick in that race. District 5, East Anchorage, Angela Frank, John Stiegel, and Yarrow Silvers. I laughed because I saw on a thread yesterday people talking about this race. And a lot of people were saying John Stiegel. I don't know anything about him. Really?
Yeah, I don't know anything about him, but I was seeing people weigh in saying, oh, God, not Yarrow. She's a handpick of the left progressives on the assembly. Absolutely. So we'll see. I don't know. I thought from the beginning she was probably going to win that race.
handily, but we'll see. We'll see. That's District 5, East Anchorage. District 6, downtown, so South Anchorage. You know, you have Darren Colbrey and Keith McCormick. I think I'd go Keith McCormick in this race. My friend Bob Griffin said that's That's who he likes. Daryl, you guys talked to him on Pacaro's show, right? Yep, yep. Wait, which one again? Keith McCormick. Is that the one we talked to? McCormick in South Anchorage, District C. Just C.J.
Yep, yep, yep. That is who we talked to. I pulled out my women's voters guide here. I don't know, Daryl. You're not helping. Apparently he wasn't memorable. Well, he was because actually I do believe I – made a couple of notes on it. And, and so he was Monday. That's why it wasn't yesterday. It was Monday that he was on. Cause I was thinking yesterday. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Okay, so my fault. I confused you. I'll talk some more. That's not hard to do, Amy. You know that. She constantly doesn't see my face go, huh? I don't know. He always gives me the look, and I'm like, okay, I'm clearly not connecting here. Then we have two school board seats up. We have school board seat A, Margot Bellamy versus Alexander Rosales, and seat B, Mark Anthony Cox.
versus kelly lessons please mark so that talks please i'd pretty much say if it's an incumbent on the school board i vote against them and in this race in these races but there you have it so they if you need more information you can of course go to muni dot org click on the elections tab and they have all the races up there they have all the bond propositions they have the legal women voters pamphlet
And another thing we should just kind of discuss, there was a question about Proposition 10, and we went back and looked at it, and it's not a bond. So there were some people saying, why am I not on it if it's a bond? It's not a bond. bond i had to read it again because i read it too quick yesterday well we were live on the air but proposition 10 3.5 million dollar anchorage roads and drainage service area snow response and fleet special tax levy people
I didn't read it through all the way. Special tax levy. So basically they're establishing a new taxing district, and this is specifically going to be used for acquiring and replacing snow vehicles and snow hauling. inside the ARTSA service area. So ARTSA is the Anchorage Road and Drainage Service Area. But that's specifically what it's for. So it's not a bond.
It's a special tax levy they're getting around it. So what this will mean is they'll be able to do this in perpetuity every year 3.5 million coming out of somebody's pocket yep so that's what proposition 10 is but proposition 11 is the same thing it's not a bond it's a special tax levy specifically and annually $3 million for basically police vehicles. So what they're doing is this is a change from bonding for these things to creating a perpetual tax. and dedicated money for it.
Yes, yes. So this is a new strategy, and it's something we haven't talked about a lot, but this is the strategy they're going for is a special tax levy versus bonding for these things. A bond, you basically say yes or no.
You know, when they put the bond in front of you, yes, let's pay $3 million for this. But what they're doing is they're effectively creating a new tax. And if you live, like, for example, if you live in Prop 10's area, an arts area, and then you're also living within the Metropolitan Police Service area, that's where APD service is, you're basically saying in two questions, are we going to tax ourselves an annual $6.5 million? And when I say an annual, that's every year.
I just thought, does it say how much – a lot of times they give an average of how much it's going to cost each homeowner. What's the average on it? So for Prop 10, it's $11.21 per $100,000. So that if you have a $300,000 house, right, which – Anchorage is very difficult to come by, right? I mean, most houses are averaging 4 or 450. So, I mean, you times that...
Whatever your value of your house is, say it's $400,000, you take $1,121 just for Prop 10 and times it by four. And for Prop 11, it's $7.55. So between the two, we're about $19 per $100,000. So say $20,000 to make it easy, right? So you're talking $80 a year if you have a $400,000 house. Now think about this.
They're proposing a sales tax, and they're going to use that to offset 2% of your taxes, but they're adding other taxes all around you constantly. So you're not going to be saving it. If that sales tax goes through, you're not getting anything. Please. Oh, no. Oh, no. You are not going to be saving anything for not. Absolutely not.
Absolutely not. You're not going to be saving anything. Look, it's like they can take it from your right pocket or your left pocket. Either way, they're taken from your pocket. And they're going to find a way to get into your back pocket.
Yeah, they're going to get them all kind of like renting buildings to themselves. You know, they have their own city buildings and they rent them to themselves. That's, you know, they're somehow making money from themselves. It's a very circular thing as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, he's talking about the solid waste building.
This has been getting Daryl cranked up all week over solid waste services or admin building. He's trying to figure out how they're renting it to themselves. I mean, I can see the paperwork. I know somebody will come up. Well, they do it this way because it sees. It still doesn't change the fact that they're renting this that they own to themselves. I mean, come on.
I'm telling you, you know, talking about renting things, this is a story. I actually agree with Mayor LaFrance about this one. The worst, the absolute worst, least I've ever seen in my life. is the City Hall lease. It's a triple net lease. It's completely, the city gets screwed in this deal. It has driven me nuts ever since I've seen the lease. It's been the worst lease ever. I mean, the city not only, it's terrible.
is a terrible, terrible lease. We don't own the building at City Hall. We basically rent it. We're responsible for all the upgrades, all the repairs, everything. I mean, this is a terrible, terrible lease that seen and they've been locked into it forever you know I it's it's an awful idea but the leases come and do and I will tell you
Under the Bronson administration, they were also looking at moving City Hall. And during the Bronson administration, when I was there, they were talking about potentially buying the BP building. I mean, we're talking... Nearly $90 million. Can I make a suggestion? Yeah, go ahead. Why not the Nordstrom's building or the Fifth Avenue Mall?
The Nordstrom building is wide open. It's empty. It's still downtown. There's plenty of room inside of that building. It's connected by walkways to the parking areas. Potentially. Potentially. Because you need a building that has about 150,000. square feet. If you're going to put all city halls of offices in there, look,
They also have, there's places where you could co-mingle and you could, almost the whole fourth floor of the library is empty. So you could move some city offices into that building, which they already own. That would make sense. They're putting out an RFP for potential. either lease, buy, or something for City Hall. So Suzanne has a story up. A request for proposal was issued by the municipality Monday on February 11th.
seeking proposals to provide office space for an alternative location for City Hall as the current lease for the existing City Hall is set to expire December 31, 2026. Proposals are due by March 12th. The purpose of the RFP is threefold, to identify potential locations and facility concepts for a new or renewed city hall, assess the concept feasibility advantages and disadvantages, estimate development.
costs and purpose terms for the conceptual agreement and evaluate proposals, credentials, and experience. The current City Hall, built in 1962 and leased from the Anchorage Public-Private partnership has 145,416 square feet of gross building area and goes on and on and on. But I will tell you, after looking at this lease many times over the years, this lease that they have right now is the worst lease.
And frankly, my proposal when I was there is you go out for bid because hopefully it will force the current leaseholder to actually come back to the table and renegotiate good terms for the city because the city is taking it in the short term.
on this lease it is not a good lease so we will see what happens with this one but they've got to do something with city hall they shouldn't just renew this lease because it's a terrible lease to be honest with you and uh you know i think i think by going out to bid
it kind of puts the pressure on the current leaseholder, the owner of the current city hall, because he actually has to come to the table with hopefully a good deal for the city and for the taxpayers. All right, we're going to go ahead and take a quick break. If you'd like to call in 522-066. We'll be right back.
Welcome back, Current Time 742. We're going to go straight to the phones, and Larry is with us. Good morning, sir. Good morning, Amy. Nice to hear your show every day on the way to work. Ah, thank you. Well, it's great hearing your voice. What's on your mind this morning? About the election, I was an election worker several years ago. The drop boxes, part of my job was to go out and empty them.
get all the ballots taken back to the election center. There were thousands of them with stamps on them. They're not post office boxes. They're not mailbox drop boxes. They're just ballot drop boxes, so they don't need postage. Oh, good point. That is a good reminder for folks. You know, election workers do go out and personally collect them, and they go straight to election centers. So they're not postal service, so you don't need a stamp. That's a very good reminder.
I also have a question about City Hall. Sure. I thought that was an interesting conversation going on there. Why does it have to be downtown? I don't think it does. I think it would be better suited to be in Midtown because I think you'd have more parking. Wherever you could find, you'd have a little. Yeah, because any of us that have gone to City Hall during the day, I mean, parking is at a minimum, right?
The parking thing was what got me the question. Yeah, yeah. Look, and I think it's smart to go out to bed because even if you end up staying at City Hall, I think what it does is it puts the owner of that building in. basically on notice that we're willing to move and go somewhere else and hopefully you can renegotiate a better lease because the current lease is
Awful. Literally the worst lease I've ever read in my entire life. I mean, taxpayers are taking in the shorts on that one. It is not a good one. It's owned by Pfeffer. That's who owns City Hall. It's the group that's owned by Mark Pfeffer. of the owners he's a big developer here in town so uh yeah just for for people to know for people to know look uh again i think it's one of those things i i want to say the term of the lease was something like 30 years i mean it was a long
and it was a triple net. It's just not good for the taxpayers, frankly. So I'm glad to see that they're pushing. They're going to do something. They have to do something because the term is coming up here soon. we'll see what they do but look there's lots of ideas and one is consolidation like we could doge the situation here do we need really need a building that big do we have other current municipal municipal facilities like the library that has empty space
You could put some city hall offices in. I think the answer is yes to both of those things. So I think they should just really rethink the whole thing. But I personally don't think it needs to stay downtown. I'm with you on this one. Definitely need to get out of downtown. Yeah, yeah, I agree. Well, Larry, it's great talking to you this morning. Thanks for weighing in. Thank you very much.
All right. Take care, sir. All right. What about the solid waste disposal building, Amy? They could re-rent that from them. I'm telling you. You can re-rent that from themselves. Yeah, I'm telling you. The entire fourth floor of the library was vacant when I was there.
Tons of office space, so you don't even realize how big it is. But think about the LUSAC. If you look at that, you start looking at it. You know the other thing they've got to deal with, frankly, is the Anchorage Health Department building. That building is terrible. Oh, that definitely needs. Oh, that is such a bad building.
It's old. The maintenance costs on it are significant. That's why when you start to look at a bigger building, and this is part of the reason why under Bronson they were starting to look at bigger buildings in Midtown, it's because the health department apartment is really it's at the end of its useful life that building is terrible oh yeah last time i went down there i was i was actually creeped out last time i was in there it was so reminded me of 70s is what it reminded me of
Oh, it reminds me of a little earlier than 70. It's bad. Well, the pipes on it, the pipes, the plumbing, I mean, it's just a hot mess. The elevator. I literally, the elevator scares me. Never take the elevator in that building. The stairs will give you a heart attack, man. I would never I always took the stairs when I had to go over to the health department building so you know when you start thinking about like
all of the actual things. I mean, that's why I say you should look at consolidation and you should look at the big picture, not just the city hall offices. It's do you need that many offices and what can we consolidate? That's why. I think there should be a real discussion, not just about City Hall. It should also be about, frankly, the health department building and can we do things more effectively, you know, by combining. I think there's an argument to that for sure. How about the big tent?
Ahhhh I mean, that's going to be down at the port. I got to be honest with you, Daryl. I think you may have had something about putting City Hall at the landfill. I like the way you phrased it better than I did. We're just joking, of course. All right, let's go ahead and take a quick break. We have one final break left, and then I have a sensational story that I have to cover because I didn't get a chance to cover this yesterday. Got to cover it. Stay with us. We'll be right back.
the mid to upper 30s. For Alaska's weather source, I'm meteorologist Aaron Morrison. Welcome back to live, local, and insightful Morning Drive Radio on News Radio 650 KENI. Welcome back. Current time is 7.51. One of my friends texted me and said last night at the Anchorage Assembly meeting, they postponed the sales tax. By a vote permanently. They postponed it indefinitely. They killed it, basically. By a vote of 8 to 4. But Kitty promised he'd bring it back. I mean, Felix.
Did I just call him Kitty out loud? No, no, no. I didn't hear that at all. I didn't hear that at all. Felix promised he'd bring it back. Of course he would. He will bring it back. He will bring it back. Oh, my gosh. All right. Well, okay, the story that I wanted to get to, I've got to be honest with you. The world has gone crazy, but with the re-election of Donald Trump,
Hopefully some normalcy comes back. And I'm not saying everybody has to be plain and boring. But what I'm saying, there comes a point where we say, okay, enough with the crazy nonsense. Let's just, like. Put this stuff to bed. I had to laugh when I saw this article the day before yesterday. This coming out of U.S. News. Texas bill aims to ban barking, meowing, and other non-human behavior in schools.
to tackle the furries trend. See, I don't bother anybody. I'm a hamster. Do we actually have to pass a law to say you can't act like a dang cat in school? You know, this is ridiculous. Texas wants to say farewell to furries. A bill introduced in the Texas House of Representatives backed by Governor Greg Abbott would ban, quote, non-human behavior, end quote, in schools, including barking.
and other practices common among furries. The forbidden unlawful representation of role playing in education. you notice how they just did that right furry you see that the acronym would be furry also known as the furries act would prohibit students from barking hissing meowing wearing leashes
fur or tails at public schools in the state. The proposal also specifies that students cannot use litter boxes or licking as means of self-care on school grounds. Yeah, that's just blech, blech. Oh, my word. I mean, first of all, there should be, I mean, it should be, you shouldn't have to do this by law, first of all. You should not have to do this by.
As I'm talking about this, my dog is dreaming. Can you hear him? No, I can't. Good Lord. You're talking about furries, so he's like, what? I know. He's over there like barking in his sleep. I don't know what he's doing. But as we're talking about this furry... Texas having to pass a law to say you can't be distracting and act like a dog or a cat in school is ridiculous, first of all.
Totally ridiculous. They shouldn't have to get to this point. My point is this. You know, whether it is, you know, You know non distraction type behavior or a school dress code you can address all these things by simply, you know
adequate behavior in school right there's dress codes you can't you can't show up wearing pasties i'm just saying there's certain things that you you know when i was in school you weren't allowed to wear certain shirts that showed your midriff or whatever it was So, all I'm saying is...
I think the schools could deal with this, but the problem is they probably aren't, and that's why the legislature is bringing this forward. And the multiple school districts. I'm sure, like, the Houston school district is, like, free-for-all, do-it-all. I just had a thought. You know, if they don't outlaw it, maybe some of these...
Teachers need to, A, start bringing in electric fences, if you know what I mean by that for the dogs, and bark collars. You want to bark in class? Everybody gets a bark collar now. Go ahead. bark it just the fact that we actually have to pass a law to say you can't show up to school wearing a collar and a leash and dressing like a dog and barking and hissing at other students
I mean, what has the world come to? What has the world come to? Trump had to make an executive order that men and women are the only two genders. Point well taken, my friend. Point well taken. I will say, speaking of Trump, you know, we'll see what happens. The JFK files were released yesterday, 80,000 pages of documents.
You know, I was listening to Clay and Buck, and I laughed, and he's probably right. Don't expect a smoking gun. No. You know, the CIA is not going to be in a memo saying CIA involved. He's like, they weren't. They weren't. Okay, yeah. Okay, CIA, former CIA operative.
Like, I'm going to believe you. Where did Sirhan Sirhan come from? Yeah, yeah. I usually don't reference the CIA directly on the air because the two times I've done it, like, weird tech stuff happens to me, like, right away. So we call them the alphabet soup. There you go. That's the best way. Yeah, do any of us believe for any...
Yeah, come on. They knew. Whether they were involved or not, I don't know. But they knew. Come on. Come on. Well, yeah, too many things have come up already that they knew that are highly redacted when it comes associated with them.
Yeah, that's it. Right Bar has an article up. Director of National Intelligence, Chelsea Gabbard, praised President Trump after files relating to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy were released, noting that he is, quote, ushering in a new era of maximum transparency. End quote. Gabbard wrote that on X yesterday. Today, per his direction, previously redacted JFK assassination files are being released to the public with no redactions. Promises made.
Promises cap, baby. Loving it. Loving it. Well, we'll see. Like I said, what I want to see really is the Epstein stuff. I want to see all the Epstein stuff. I absolutely believe he was an asset of somebody. I won't name who, but I believe he was absolutely an asset. I think it was very much like we've seen with a Hoover type stuff where they had probably some sort of blackmailing operation going on. That's my expectation.
when it comes to Epstein. But, you know, what do I know? That's just a conspiracy theory. Who knows? Who knows? We won't say it's true. We'll just say, hmm, we have a lot of questions. All right, that does it for Daryl and I today. Stay tuned. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton are up next, followed by Sean Hannity, of course. This afternoon, Mike Piccaro from 4 to 6. Daryl and I will be... Back with you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. Until then, stay safe. God bless.