The opinions expressed on the show are those of the host and not of iHeartMedia 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 Tuesday, April 1st, and there is an election in the municipality of Anchorage, and no, that is not a joke. I was just trying to check it. I was going to ask you about that.
Really happening. Really happening. Today is election day in the muni. If you are a muni voter, you need to make sure to get your ballot in today. It has to either be in one of those drop boxes or postmarked by 8 p.m. So we'll get into that in just a minute. But, you know, I'm looking around, Daryl, and I've got to tell you, I went outside already. It's pretty nice. It's 33 degrees right now here, 33.2 specifically at my weather station. And it's not that it's dark, but it's mild.
I mean, it's not Fairbanks. It's not snowing. It's like I like my salsa. Dark and mild. That's right. There you go. There you go. Well, I'm looking around. Palmer's checking in at 33. Kenai, 33. Big Lake, 32. But Big Lake's high today is supposed to be 53. And then Fairbanks right now is sitting at 33 degrees. So it's actually kind of warm in Fairbanks with Anchorage up. Well, Anchorage is right about, it's varying, 33 to 35. My house was 35.
Over here on the south side, dropped down to 33. But I'm looking at Fairbanks. They have a beautiful coat of snow down right now. I mean, like, beautiful coat of snow down right now. Yeah, they have a winter weather advisory in effect right now. It says additional wet snow accumulations of 3 to 6 inches with locally higher amounts up to 9 inches at elevations above 1,000 feet today. That is going, that winter weather advisory is going to be in effect until tomorrow, about 1 o'clock.
Yeah, I know. I had to slow down and say it. It was a bit of a mouthful. But today, I'm looking at Fairbanks. It looks like they're supposed to get up to about 36 degrees today. You know, we'll see. Upper elevations, I'm sure it'll be a little snowy. Let's put it that way. But, you know, it is that time of year. And, you know, like I said, real Alaskans live in Fairbanks.
How about it? That is true. I was going to say, over by ProMusic, the Chena River area in Fairbanks, the snow is actually coming down right now. I can actually see that on the camera. The rest of it, it's funny. If you look at the cameras around Anchorage, you'll see tracks in the snow when it snowed pretty much any time of the day.
I'm looking at a bunch of streets in Fairbanks that have not been driven on yet, so people will be a little surprised this morning. Yeah, well, I was going to say, originally they were calling for... Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday for there to be snow up in Fairbanks. So, you know, it's got to be the last hurrah because their temperatures now...
Almost every day are getting above freezing at the lower elevations. So, you know, spring really is just around the corner for them. But it is here for us. You know what they say, Monday, Tuesday, happy days. Oh, sorry. I went there. Snow days. Snow days. Snow days. Snow days. I know. I know. See, I'm going to have that song stuck in my head all day now. Welcome. All right. All right. Well, I suppose I should do some. What did you say it was? I have 30.
for Anchorage, is that right? I was 33 to 35, so literally 34 is dead in the center. Yeah, I was going to say, it's relatively mild, and being this mild this early tells you it's going to be a good day. Like I said yesterday, Gosh, it was probably about 8 o'clock, and I looked at my weather station. It was still 46 degrees yesterday, 46-point-something. But today, with Big Lake coming in at 53, you know, that's their projected high today. It's going to be...
It's going to be a nice day. Lake Spring is here. And when it hits 50s in the Big Lake area, please stay off the lakes and the rivers. Please. There's always that one, Daryl. There's always that. One truck that wants to stick his tailgate out. There's always that one. Yep, no doubt about it.
All right, well, let's take a gander here at some of our public announcements for today. For today, Tuesday, April 1st, if you're out in the MADSU, there's a Board of Equalization organizational meeting this morning at 9 a.m.
will be there, Daryl, 9 to noon. I will be there because I'm on the Board of Equalization. So that is going to be this morning at 6 p.m. tonight. There is an assembly meeting out in the Mat-Su borough. Those are the only two publicly scheduled meetings for the Mat-Su borough. Of course, the borough assembly meeting is at the borough building located at 350 East Dahlia Avenue in Palmer. If you need more information, just go to matsugov.us.
As far as the city of Wasilla, there was nothing on their calendar today, so we're going to skip ahead to the city of Palmer. I want to remind everybody that there is a vacant city council seat application that is open right now. I'm just trying to get down. You have until Thursday, April 10th to apply by noon. If you want to apply for that vacant seat, the mayor is going to appoint somebody. So if you need information, you can call the city clerk's office at 907-761-1301.
So you can call the clerk's office if you have questions. You have to be a registered voter in the state of Alaska. You have to live in the city council or city Palmer city limits. And you have to have lived there for at least one year preceding your date of application. So if you want more information, just go to palmerak.org and look at the... header that's read right across the top just click on it and it brings you the application and it brings you to all the information so there you go
For the municipality of Anchorage, for today, the only thing we have going on is the Geotechnical Advisory Committee Communications Committee has a meeting today via Microsoft Teams at noon. If you need more information, go to muni.org. and then click on... I'm so distracted right now. I was just watching a Mint Mobile TV ad and it was completely upside down on my TV.
So that's another one of those April Fools. You've got to watch everything today. It's one of those I don't know if I trust it. Like, what is happening? And I don't have the sound on, so I can't, like, listen to it. But I was like, what is happening? Why is this TV commercial complete? The entire commercial was upside down. Topsy-turvy day.
Oh, my gosh. Okay, going back to this, if you want to track boards and commissions in the municipality of Anchorage, like the Geotechnical Advisory Commission, All you have to do is go to muni.org, click on the Mayor's tab, and then click on the Events tab. And then it brings you to all the Board and Commission announcements. It's pretty easy to get to, but if you don't know how to get there, it can be confusing.
All right. As far as he's going there all the time. Well, it is a little bit of a you have to kind of go the roundabout way to get there. But that's the easiest way that I found to get there. So that's why I get on the roundabout. That explains it. OK.
Oh, there you go. There is an election today in the municipality of Anchorage. There is an election, and I am going to run through the list of all the places you can go to a secure drop box and drop off your ballot. Remember, your ballot has to be... dropped off by 8 p.m. now
In my past experience, if there is a queue, if there is a line to drop off the ballots at 8 o'clock, they will go to the end of that line and they will let everybody who's in line drop off their ballots. But I would not wait until the last moment. is you drop it off early. So you can go to the ASD Education Center, which is off of Northern Lights. You can go to City Hall.
Downtown, which is off of 6th Avenue. The Eagle River Town Center, which is right in front of the library. The Girdwood Community Center. The Planning and Development Center, which is 4700 Elmore. Spenard Rec Center. Bartlett. That's Daryl's. That's Daryl's. Bartlett High School. Clark Middle School. The Election Center has a drop box, which is 619 East Ship Creek Avenue.
the LUSAC Libraries, Service High School, the UAA Airlines Center, Diamond High School, Baggage Middle School, Fairview Community Rec Center, O'Malley's on the Green, the South Anchorage High School, or West Anchorage High School. Those are all the Dropbox locations. If for some reason you didn't get a ballot, you lost your ballot, or you want to go to a vote center, You can do that. There's three locations you can go vote in person.
The first is City Hall, which is located, of course, at 632 West 6th Avenue. It's right on the first floor. They'll have signs, so you can't miss it. You can vote it today in person at the LUSAC Library. Or if you live in Chutyac Eagle River, you can vote at Eagle River Town Center.
Only if you live there. They will only have ballots for Chugack Eagle River. So, again, Eagle River Town Center is the library building. When you walk in, you just walk down the hallway past the library, and there's a big room just on the left. They'll have signs out.
So if you need more information on voting, you can go to muni.org and then just click on the election tab right there in the middle of the front page, and it brings you to the home landing page. From there, you'll be able to find all the information that you need. And it should be pretty straightforward. If you have questions, you can call 243-VOTE. which is 243-8683. And that, again, is all the information for the Anchorage Municipal Election today.
Moving on to the Kenai Peninsula Borough, we have a Seldovia Recreation Service Area Board meeting tonight from 515 to 715 at the Sea Otter Community Center in Seldovia. And there's also a Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting this evening. That is going to be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Borough Building, which is at 144 North Binkley Street in Saldatna. For more information on these meetings on the Kenai Peninsula...
Just go to KPB.us. Again, that's KPB, stands for Kenai Peninsula Borough, KPB.us. And that really does it for our community announcements. There was nothing for the city of Kenai, Homer, or Saldana for today. So pretty straightforward. The big thing today is the Anchorage Municipal Election. Don't forget to get your ballot in.
And it has to either be dropped off or postmarked by 8 p.m. this evening. All right, we're going to go ahead and take our first break of the morning. Then when we come back, we are going to get into the headlines of the day. Stay with us. Thursday, Friday. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday morning. Amy Demboski, 6 to 8, mornings on News Radio 650, KENI. Call now, 907-522-0650. Welcome back, her time.
621. You know, I have to tell you, even if you watch conservative media, so much of the media is just propaganda. It is clickbait. It is... It is meant to elicit an emotional response to get you hooked, right? And I have to tell you, I'm watching the coverage on the Florida House elections right now. Daryl, I don't think there's any way a Democrat wins those House seats in Florida. Not from what I've seen. No way. No way. Floridians show up on election day and they vote.
And they vote overwhelmingly Republican. And, you know, it was interesting because I listened to Matt Gaetz yesterday. I think it was Matt Gaetz. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was Matt Gaetz on Fox. And I laugh because everybody's like, oh, you know, this is going to be close. This is going to be so close because Trump won Florida by plus 30.
in these districts, you know, and now the Republican is only polling at plus nine. That's still plus nine. Okay. Well, here's the thing. In statistics, Typically, if you have a good poll, the margin of error is usually plus three, plus three and a half. Okay. Right. That's typically a reliable pull. Once you get over plus four, it's not a credible, it's not really a dependable, I don't want to say credible, it's not really a dependable pull. Too much of a swing in there.
Yeah, what it tells me is they flawed their sample size. They either or their sampling group. For anybody who's taken statistics, this is tracking for you. When you get above a plus four, basically your poll is trash. It's not reliable. I'm just saying, when you're above a plus four, it's not a poll that I pay attention to. But the reality is the Republican in the race is plus nine.
That's way outside the margin of error. So right now, the headlines you're seeing, oh, this is so close in Florida. It's not close. A plus nine is a blowout. A plus nine is a, like, I don't even have to show up. I'm just, well, I hope Floridians show up. They will. You're pretty good about it. you know special elections are always tricky but floridians the floridians voted for donald trump i mean to in huge numbers
There's going to be enough of them that show up and vote in this election. They are not going to tank the balance of power in Congress. Not going to happen. That sounds like a tankless job. So sad, so sad, so sad. You know, but that's why I say so. I'm watching the headlines today because today obviously is election day. And in Florida, in a number of places, Wisconsin's another one. So today's an election, and as we watch these headlines, I just tell people, like, take a chill pill.
Relax. Even if you're seeing it on Fox News, let not your heart be troubled. Like, it will be fine. Republicans are going to do just fine. I'm not saying the Republicans aren't a little bit, you know. to their precarious situation. Look, and I said this when he did it, I think Trump pulled too many Republicans to serve in his administration.
I think it makes me uncomfortable how many people he pulled. Did he pull fantastic people? Absolutely. But you can tell they're a little bit conscientious about the balance of power in the House because he pulled... Elise Stefanik as the UN ambassador so she can go back to Congress. And I think that was, you know, frankly, I think she would be sensational as the UN ambassador. Right. She would be absolutely sensational. She's smart. She's articulate.
She is no nonsense. She has moral clarity. She has political acumen. I think she would be absolutely fantastic. Frankly, I think she'd be great as a vice president. That is an interesting thought.
Yeah, I think she would be very, very good in that role. But, you know, last week it was announced that Trump pulled Elise Stefanik as the UN ambassador because of... the very very tight majority in the house I think it was the right thing to do because here's the reality if somebody dies in a car crash if somebody gets sick if somebody can't show up I mean, the reality is the margin is just too thin. And, you know, I put this squarely on Trump.
I think he was too aggressive in picking some of these House members to serve in his cabinet. And look, to his defense, he picked the best of the best.
i i truly believe he picked some really great person and you know after the whole signal chat group i'm a little skeptical of my mike waltz i gotta be honest gerald i have adapted your conspiracy theory you're no no that's not because i have adopted your skepticism thank you there we go your skepticism of you know adding adding you know that reporter to the to the chat group you know again I just the more I think about it I'm like yeah
I've got to be honest with you. You'd be on my shady list of I'm watching you very closely. That's exactly where I'm at. I do a lot of group chats and stuff like that. And I've done it. I've done it. Like, I've added, like, I've texted the wrong person by accident. I shared the story of a couple weeks ago. Like, I accidentally added the attorney general to a text message that I was trying to send to one of my friends. And he responded back.
properly he did he's like i think your text was meant to the wrong person i'm like yes it absolutely was i mean it was nothing It was just no big deal. I mean, it was no big deal. It was nothing I wouldn't say publicly, right? But that's what that reporter should have done also. He should have literally kicked up immediately and said, whoa, stop sending to me. I'm not supposed to be here. But they added a reporter.
with Trump derangement syndrome. And, you know, I gave an example of why you might have a reporter in your phone. Like, for me, I mean, I have... a couple people in my phone not a lot just maybe two or three people on my phone they're just I've got to be honest with you, nutjobs, that they've called me so many times. And you know one thing calling me? I can't stand getting stuck in an hour-long conversation about a topic I don't care about.
That's and so when I it went like I'm just being I'm just being blunt so when somebody if somebody is just like I'm like, okay, I'll listen initially, and there might be great validity to the conversation, and this is somebody's most important conversation. But I'm not an elected official right now. I am not an elected official. So when you call me to lament about something that I'm just like, literally I have no role in solving the issue. I'm not an elected official.
I don't want to hear about it for an hour and a half. Like, I don't want to hear about carbon credits for an hour and a half. Like, I'm not saying those people that I have do not call. But there's a couple topics. Like... I've got to be honest with you. I'm just going to say it, and this is going to tick some people off. The whole jury thing that's happening in the Kenai, I've been done with that issue for a year and a half.
I served on the Judicial Conduct Commission when this issue came up. I listened to both sides, and I've got to be honest with you, it is not the top issue. It's not the top 100 issue on my list. So I'm not going to sit there and have a two-hour, hour-and-a-half conversation about what's going on with the grand juries and Kenai because, frankly, it's not my top issue. It doesn't breach the top hundred of my issues.
right it's way down there so i had a thought that that i don't know when i in my contact list i have everybody grouped okay when when you get into my contacts list you're grouped either by what business you work in you know what field you work in or are you a co-worker and so i mean you would think being who he is he would have all those cabinet level people in one group so when you want to do a group text you click that group open it up you only click those ones to do a text
out of just your whole thing. I mean, I can't imagine how big his Rolodex has to be. I mean, mine is incredibly huge, and I'm nobody. And when you have somebody, look, here's the funny thing. When you have somebody just as initials, You're clearly trying to hide in your list who it is. Now, I have people that, you know, I have, you know, like...
Bob Smith, and I'm making up the name. I'll have Bob Smith, and then I'll have under their company, do not answer. Because I know it's going to be an hour-long conversation. And frankly, I don't have time for that. You know, and it's going to be the same issue over and over. They're beating a dead horse. It's going to be the same issue over and over and over again. And frankly, I don't care. I don't care. I'm done. I'm beyond it. Beyond it, we've talked about it to death.
You know, in the first two, three conversations, like, I'm invested. I'm listening because I'm always listening. Is there something I'm missing? Is there more information that will bring this back to the top? you know, top ten of my things I care about. So I just get to the point where I'm like, you know, I'm a busy person. I got two jobs, and I volunteer. I'm very involved. And I just...
Like, I don't have time for it. And so I have people in my list that literally will be like, okay, don't answer this call. And so I can see that. But I will tell you, I know people to this day that have me saved in their phone as a fake name. They have an alias for me. I kid you not. I have people that have been saved in their phone as an alias. You're not just, are you? Yeah, it happened, you know, in the municipality where a friend of mine was telling me they saved me as a fake name.
And the mayor, after he fired me, the mayor is standing there over the person, and he's having a conversation. And all of a sudden, I call them, and, you know, it pops up as some, you know, erroneous name. So he can't see who's calling them. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Like, oh, go ahead. So I've been on the receiving end, and I've been the one doing it. And so, you know, it does happen, but there's a reason.
There's a look For a reason, but I do have, since our first conversation, I have a lot of questions about why Mike Waltz had somebody saved in his phone a reporter that has Trump derangement syndrome. why he has them saved in his phone as initials rather than their name.
Yeah. The only reason you do that is to obscure it. And that way also you get to call them whenever you need to. They're in your phone. You know where they are. Exactly. It all raised my hackles when it first came up. You knew me. Yeah, you're right. I had my helmet on. I was just like. You're right, and I always try to play devil's advocate, so I try not to jump to the worst conclusion. I always try to play devil's advocate, but I think you've converted me on this one.
You know, we'll see what happens. But it's very interesting what's happening right now on the federal level. We need to take a quick break. I realize I'm just running really late on my break. So I'm going to go ahead and take a quick break. When we come back, we will get into more of the headlines of the day. Stay with us. you Reach out to Amy now. 907-522-0650. That's 907-522-0650. It's Amy DeBoski on NewsRadio 650 KENI. Welcome back. Current time is 6.39.
Well, Daryl, I will tell you, you know, we were talking about the headlines, and right now one thing that has creeped into... The national discussion is the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. And why is this important? It's important because... Whoever controls the Supreme Court, right now it's Democrat-controlled. And in Alaska, for example, every 10 years after the census, you go into the process of redistricting, right?
So Wisconsin is important because they have eight congressional seats. Two of them are held by Democrats. Six of them are held by Republicans. And what has happened is the Democrats realize this is going to be a close race. The Republicans have an opportunity to flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Why does this matter?
matters because Democrats clearly have a plan to redistrict the lines, gerrymander the lines. There's that word. Yeah, in this process, what they'll do is they'll pick up seats. Look, the Anchorage Assembly did it. You know, in the last redistricting, what did they do? Literally, two people, they redrew the lines.
to put Randy Solt, who's in South Anchorage, in West Anchorage, which is Democrat leaning heavily. And then they moved Stephanie Taylor basically right across the street. They moved her from East Anchorage. To downtown. Right? You had a strong candidate in Stephanie Taylor. Right. And what do they do? They move her from her district in East Anchorage to downtown. To a strong Democratic district. Look.
So they did it. It was it was shady AF. It was absolutely shady. Especially when you consider the streets. I mean, literally one street. Oh, we're going to include it. Yeah. I mean, there's no look. Again, there's no coincidences in politics. That is my general rule. I guess there could be exceptions to the rule. But when you take two very strong candidates, Randy Soule, who won.
in south anchorage and you move him to west anchorage and then you take in east anchorage stephanie taylor who lives in east anchorage and you redraw the district boundaries in east anchorage to put her in downtown this was is clearly gerrymandering by the Anchorage Assembly. So this is done on every single level. And we saw it here in Anchorage. That's a perfect real world example. But that's what's about to happen in Wisconsin, because they know the
Margin in the House is super tight. I mean, it's a razor thin. And if they could come through the back door, redistrict, and move Republicans into Democrat districts, they could pick up two or three House seats. And that could switch the balance, frankly. of the House. And then we're going to be talking about impeachments over and over again. And there we have an audio clip. Hakeem Jeffries has been making the rounds. And frankly, he said the quiet part out loud. I mean, again, we had...
We played the audio from Chuck Schumer yesterday, right, about the judicial activism and over 200. progressive, what they called enlightened judges that they put on the bench at the very waning days of the Biden administration. They did it to obscure, to slow down, to stop. Trump. That's what they did, right? So they did the same thing with Hakeem Jeffries. And we pulled the audio clip for you so you can hear from his own words. This is why the Wisconsin race now has basically become the...
the most expensive local race there is. They've spent nearly $100 million in the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, and this is the reason. Here's Hakeem Jeffries talking. on some, I don't know, no-name liberal show. Here he is. In Wisconsin, that's a 50-50 race because we know Wisconsin's a 50-50 state. Yeah. And we have a strong Democratic candidate. Whoever wins is going to determine who has the majority.
in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Why is that important? Because there are gerrymandered congressional lines right now in Wisconsin. Wisconsin's a 50-50 state, as I mentioned. But there are six Republicans and only two Democrats out of an eight-person delegation because the lines are broken. Right. And as soon as possible, we need to be able to revisit that.
and have fair lines, the only way for that to be even a significant possibility is if you have an enlightened Supreme Court. And so, you know, I think that's an incredibly important... We had a little issue there, but the whole point is there you have it. You have an enlightened Supreme Court. I mean, this tells you everything you need to know. This is a political strategy.
This is why the Democrats have poured so much money. Right now the race in Wisconsin is super tight. Trump won Wisconsin. But the Democrats and the unions tend to outperform Republicans. times in special elections so it makes it a very it makes it a very tricky and or you know look the conservatives that are disadvantaged because conservatives don't
always turn out in the same numbers. They typically don't turn out in the same numbers in a special election as they do a general election. So you're seeing... you know, $100 million be poured into this Supreme Court race because they already have a plan to redraw the district lines and to take congressional seats that are held by Republicans. I mean, that's the... bottom line and Hakeem Jeffries said the quiet part out loud I mean he literally there you have it
I mean, in their own words, if you just listen to the Democrats, they tell you what they're going to do. You know, whether it's judicial activism or whether it is manipulation of the lines. And I gave you a real-world example of when that happened. anchorage like just i mean that's what they do and and i will say like just to be fair i'm not saying it doesn't happen on the republican side too i'm sure it does But the reality is the Democrats are very good at being shady.
They're very good at playing dirty. You know, and I got to say, we're at that point. We're Republicans. Sometimes you got to roll in the mud with the pigs. in order to get stuff done. Sometimes you've got to play. Look, Republicans are always like, we're going to play fair. I'm not saying break rules. You should never do that. I am a rule follower to my own detriment.
Like, I will jump on the grenade to follow the law because it is the right thing to do, and it's what people in public office, whether it's elected office or appointed office, it is what the voters expect. It is the law. I absolutely believe you should do it. But you can't be stupid and you can't be ignorant of political strategy. And this is a political strategy of the left. Is it a legal one? Yep, it is.
So at the end of the day, if they get this chick that's running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, she is a hard, hard, hard leftist. So if she wins, this is what we can expect. We can expect them to redraw congressional lines in Wisconsin. We can expect to lose seats in the House. That's what's going to happen. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen in the next election.
And so you have to realize everything that is happening right now, I don't care if it's on a state level, a local level, everybody's eye in 2026. Because 2026, the midterms, are going to mean everything. It's going to mean whether Trump is going to be successful in this term or whether he's going to be stalled and stymied.
That's what it's all about. So when you start seeing the headlines in the national media about this Wisconsin Supreme Court, this is what it's all about. It's all about control of Congress. That's what it is. And the Democrats have a playbook. And their playbook is obvious. And they're not even hiding it. I mean, they're telling you up front.
what it's about so it'll be interesting to see that election again is today just like the florida election it's today we'll see what happens all right we're gonna go ahead and take a quick break if you'd like to call in 522-0650 now back Call 907-522-0650 and be a part of the show on NewsRadio 650. KENI.
Welcome back, current time 651. All right, when we get into the 7 o'clock hour, I will go through the Anchorage ballot. We have a number of callers that have been calling us this morning asking for recommendations on the Anchorage ballot. This has been an iterative process. We've learned. We struggled in District 3 to figure out who it was that we were recommending because we hadn't heard from a couple of the candidates, but we do have that information.
now. So when we come back at the 7 o'clock hour, we will start with the Anchorage Municipal ballot and give you just my thoughts on it. I never tell you who to vote for, but I always say, you know, who I would vote for, and if that... has any weight or if that's a helpful data point for you, I'm happy to share that. So we'll get into that in just a minute. But if you want more information on where to drop off your ballots or if you have ballot questions, you can go to Muni.
and then click on the election tab, and you'll be able to find information there, too. We'll get into that in just a minute. I'm doing a little cleanup on some of the stories that I've had prepped for a couple of days and just ran out of time. Sometimes I'll get on a rant. And I completely throw the show prep outline out the window. Daryl will laugh. Yesterday, I didn't hardly get to any stories that I had prepped. I got to older stories that I prepped on Monday. Because I just...
Some of these stories you just got to get to. You know, they're important to talk about. And when you throw a rant, I mean, I use training wheels on my rants, but you just go for it. The greatest compliment I had last week, I think it was Larry who called in one of our... callers called in and told me I had like a Mark Levin rant last week and that is like the greatest compliment I love Mark Levin he is somebody that you know I watch all the time I will never be Mark Levin, but...
He is a great constitutional lawyer, and so I tend to take his words with a great deal of weight. And I always think it's important for people to be... independent thinkers and critical theory and critical thinking I think is is is really important, and that's part of the reason I don't tell you what to do. I tee up my thoughts, and it goes from there. I laughed. I saw this story, and it's not funny at all.
The amount of fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government, the way the Democrats have been able for decades to use U.S. taxpayer dollar. dollars to put forward their own ideological crap. the federal budget is incredibly frustrating because you know we talk about people struggling every single day we talk about you know people you know worried that are on Social Security that
We've heard for years Social Security has gone bankrupt. When our own GAO, Government Accountability Office, comes out and says there's at least $500 billion in waste every single year. in the federal government, that is unacceptable. And at the end of the day, what does that mean? It means Congress isn't doing their job. That's what that means. Yes, you can say the administration is responsible. I agree with that. But Congress is the appropriating authority. They have oversight of spending.
What have they been doing for the past 30 years? I mean, you have to ask yourself this question. Ever since the days of Newt Gingrich, when we had our contract with America, and they finally balanced the budget, it is possible to balance the budget. Absolutely possible, but there is a tipping point in which there is no return. When we're spending more, Senator Sullivan let us know this.
When we're spending more on our interest on our debt than we are the DOD's budget, Houston, we have a problem. We have a major problem. And there comes a tipping point where if you don't get this under control, everybody's going to go bankrupt. Like, the country's going to go the way of Venezuela. And nobody wants to see that.
you know you start looking at it you think this is insane you know suzanne has an article up how much taxpayer dollars did biden spend spending queer farming quality of life this is this kind of crap is insane It says the research in one case for $373 per Zoom call, dollars per Zoom call, explores the researcher's hypothesis of widespread discrimination. I mean, why are we spending?
Why are we spending money to study queer farming? Well, that's easy. This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Well, no, it's so people know how to buy them. Well, yeah, right. US taxpayers shelled out tens of thousands of dollars in recent years by the Department of Ag to research LGBT issues. This is insane. We got to go. All right, we'll be right back.
I think we're back. All right. We got it. We got it. We had a little technical difficulty. So, you know, like every good Alaskan, we're just going to roll with it. So welcome back to Hour 2 of the Amy Dobosky Show, broadcasting live and local from Palmer, Alaska. I'm in Palmer. Daryl's in Anchorage. So between the two of us, we have a lot of you covered.
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All right, well, I promised I would run down the list for the municipal election here in Anchorage. And the easiest thing for me are the candidates. The bond propositions, we'll get to that in just a second. But for the Anchorage... The way the Anchorage cycle works is you have half of the assembly up one year, you have half of the assembly up the other year, and then the third year is the mayor's race. So last year we had the mayor's race, so we've now entered into the first cycle.
assembly races this year and then next year of course you'll have the other half it has been a very very low interest low energy assembly race this year there's not been a lot of money into them you haven't heard a lot about them so I can this has been a difficult one even for us I mean Daryl and I really had to work to figure out you know who to recommend who we would vote for and in some of these districts so
We had to reach out to some friends. Daryl did some recon. We got a couple of the assembly members to call into the show. So we will run down the list. These are who Amy... And I'm going to throw Daryl in there and or Daryl would vote for in these particular races. So District 1, seat L, this is North Anchorage. So the race is Daniel Voland, he's the incumbent, Nick Danger, and Daniel George. No question, this is an easy one in my book. Every single day.
of the week i would vote for daniel george i'm right there with you on that one all right district two eagle river chugiak and jay bear this is a very easy one i would vote for jared gerker now his name is spelled goker G-O-E-C-K-E-R, but it's pronounced Gerker. But I would vote for Jared, and I say this of firsthand knowledge. I've worked with Jared at the state.
And when I was in the governor's office, he worked in the governor's office. And then he went on to be the deputy director of labor relations. So he was negotiating on the other side of the table from the unions. So the unions hate him. You know, plus in my book. Yeah. Yeah. So, but Jared Gerker, I mean, he's from, you know, Chiak Eagle River. He was a military brat moving up here. So his family was military. And, you know, he's from Eagle River.
Jared every single day is who I would vote for in District 2. In District 3, you have Cameron Perez-Verdia, who's the incumbent, running against Jonathan Duckworth and Amy Steen. Now, this is Daryl's district, and we had Amy Steen actually called into the show the other day. I really liked her. I think...
I think she's definitely conservative. She said, you know, she's a registered Republican. Darrell, you've made up your mind in this race. Oh, absolutely. Well, so first off, I was getting really upset and disappointed that I couldn't find out anything about these other two candidates.
because just having Sleepy Perez in there, Perdilla, is not enough for me. I couldn't go that route. And so we had two candidates, but literally almost nothing on them. And then, like I said, Amy called in. We got a hold of Amy. She called in, filled us in on her. I wouldn't say vision, but who she is, what she plans on doing.
and i could not argue with any of it and so there's where my stamp of approval is going in fact uh where's my where's my oh here it is right here i got my ballot in my hand uh i was saving it just so i could do that for amy right here and i am going to color in amy steen
Oh, he's doing it. I'm watching him on Teams right now. He is calling in, Amy Steen. And she did call in and give us her information, amysteen.com. If you want to call her or text her, she can take calls and text. Her number is 907. 313-8308 so that's if you're in district 3 if you're in district 4
Midtown Anchorage, Aaron Baldwin Day, and Don Smith. I would vote Don Smith. He's the father of the tax cap. I know he's fiscally prudent. To me, that makes a big difference. I would vote Don Smith in that race. In District 5, this is the hardest race for me. Actually, no, it's not anymore. District 5, C to H, East Anchorage, you have Yarrow Silvers, who is hard, hard left. She is the hardest left of the heart. Hardest left.
I have been told there have been people on the Anchorage Assembly that encouraged Angela Frank to run because they're not sure that even the left can control Yarrow Silvers. So by process of elimination, I would go John Stegall. in that race. District 6, we got a great recommendation from Bob Griffin, who I respect absolutely, and he's recommending Keith McCormick in District 6 race.
For the Anchorage School Board, my strategy this year is vote against the incumbents, right? Just vote against the incumbents. So in district seat A, Margot Bellamy is the incumbent. So by default, I would vote Rosales. And seat B, Kelly Lesson. Hey, Daryl. That's playing on my ear. Thanks. Sorry about that. That's okay. District, or seat B for the school board. I actually really like Mark Anthony Cox, so this isn't a default vote. I would vote Mark Anthony Cox in that race.
So that's where we are with the assembly races and the school board races. The world, according to Amy, that's how my ballot would look if I had to vote in every single one of these races. And Daryl kicking in right there, and I only get to vote in one of those. Well, actually, in the two school board ones. You nailed who I'm voting for on those. And like I said, I'm going for Amy Steen at number three because she talked to us and she's a conservative. So I'm willing.
Exactly. Well, for your general obligation bonds for the municipality of Anchorage, you have a ton of them. You have 15 bond propositions. And I will tell you, what's that? You said great googly moogly. Yeah, I know. Here's the reality. So the current bond obligation indebtedness of the municipality of Anchorage as of the end of 2024, as of December 31, 2024, they have $1 billion.
$29,827,000 in outstanding general obligation bonds. So what that tells me, that's a lot of money that they have floating out there already in bond indebtedness. So I would be very... selective in what I voted for. And I'm not going to tell you how to vote on each one of these bonds, but what my general strategy is for bonds is I watch for two things. Number one,
Is this a critical need for the municipality of Anchorage? You know, some things that in my mind are critical needs are either public safety or infrastructure. So depending on what it is, building a new school is not a critical need for me because they have too much capacity right now, and it's only, you know, half utilized, so to speak. So I would be very skeptical of a lot of the school bonds. One of the tricks that they often play.
is they will combine together an unpopular project or something that won't pass with something related to public safety or something that's super popular. They do that on purpose because you have a choice. You can either vote yes or no. Most people, if there's a project on there they really like, they'll hold their nose and they'll just vote yes. So that's one of the tricks that they play oftentimes. The other thing to look for...
is look at the O&M costs. So what does that mean? Operations and maintenance costs. That's one of the things to watch for because they have done this over the years where they will hide in there. hiring of personnel and higher O&M costs, which should actually be in the operating budget. So you always want to look at your O&M costs. That's what it's going to cost you. In addition, outside of the tax cap, year after year, if you vote.
on the bond. So those are the two things that I really watch for is what are the O&M costs every single year because you have to remember every bond that you say yes to is outside of the tax cap. Right. So they will tax you your property assessment. Right? You're going to get pot. But every time you say yes to a bond, that is outside of the tax cap. That's in addition to.
right it's not it's an addition to what is covered under the tax cap so i would be very very critical i typically on most funds vote no on parks and rec bonds most times i vote no on transit bonds uh i vote typically for public safety bonds and with discernment, with discrimination. and bury an eagle eye, I will consider road bonds. That's typically how I approach bond propositions. So I will say...
You know, that's my best advice I can give for you on those types of bonds because, you know, like I said, I haven't, there's 15 bond propositions. I'm not saying some of them don't have merit. But with a current bond indebtiveness of over a billion dollars in the municipality of Anchorage, you guys have a population of about 300,000, right? Out of that 300...
you know, 300, 330,000 people that you have in the municipality of Anchorage, a lot of them are children. So then you start to shrink the pool of people who can even pay for this. Do you see where I'm going with this? Oh, yeah. There comes a point where if all went bad in the municipality of Anchorage on the federal level, on the international level, look at where we are with our federal debt.
If all of a sudden the dollar tanked, if all of a sudden our economy started to go into collapse, the reality is every single Anchorage voter who owns a piece of property in town, you're responsible for this. Don't think for one second the government is not going to come knocking at your door. So my recommendation to you is really read each one of these questions and say, is this a critical need?
If the answer is no, I would vote no. If the answer is yes, then I would vote yes, knowing that I'm assuming that risk. And that's a lot of risk. I was just running the numbers through my little calculator over here trying to figure out a billion dollars separated out between 300,000 residents of Anchorage. And it basically comes out to $3,333 each resident is responsible for.
And did you do that on a number of 300,000? Yes. Well, remember, probably 40, 30, let's say, let's just be conservative. Say 35% of those are children. Those children don't pay taxes. You see what I'm saying? It comes down to the people who own property because that's all you have in the municipality of Anchorage is really property taxes. And so that's what it comes down to. That actually drops the number even further because a large majority of the people in Anchorage are now renters.
and things like that, I'm going to have to just make a wild guess when I put my next number in. Well, that's why I say, I mean, when you're voting on bond issues, these are serious issues. And we live in a serious time where the U.S., I mean, right now the efforts of Doge are undergoing because if we don't, the U.S. will be insolvent. The reality is you can't spend $7 trillion a year, $2 trillion in deficit spending. We're spending to the point at the federal level
where our debt service is more than our DOD budget. That is insanity. You cannot keep that up. And people think this can't happen to us. All I have to say to you is Venezuela is a country that is rich in resources, and look what happened to them. People are eating out of dumpsters. They're eating rats. I'm not exaggerating. This could happen, and if we don't get our fiscal house in order,
It is a risk. And when we're talking money, you have to understand the risk, but you also have to understand, you know, the reward. And you have to say, am I willing to take this risk? And so I would be very, very critical. personally. All right, let's go ahead and take a quick break. If you'd like to call in, 522-0650. 722, that was the fastest break in history.
I'm trying to figure out what happened with my Gleeks. Remember, we had that little bit of an error section there, and literally, it ate a break. That's all right. Look, I don't mind. I'm cool with it. What can I say, Daryl? I was ready. I had my toast in my mouth, but you know what? We got past it. You were ready. I wasn't. You know, look.
I am nothing if not flexible. You've got to roll with it, especially in live radio. All right, let's go to the phones. And Randy is with us. Good morning, sir. Good morning, young lady and devil. This is voting day. I've got a voting joke for you guys. You what? Go for it. Okay. When do you vote for a peanut? When do you vote for a peanut? I don't know when. Google, call your election time. I was thinking when it comes out of its shell. That's what I was thinking. Okay.
Oh, see, yeah, not as good. Okay, Randy, I have one. I literally wrote it down last night so I wouldn't forget because I promised one of our callers yesterday for a joke, and I got one. Okay, why was the baby jalapeno shivering? No clue. So, did you hear that, Daryl? Why was the baby jalapeno shivering? I'm not sure. It was a little chilly.
I'll give you a rim shot on that one. Yeah, you're welcome, everybody. I know, I know. I don't get out often in his shows. All right, thanks for the call, Randy. I appreciate it. All right, well, I did the job that I should be doing. When I get really busy, you can always tell when I get busy because, you know, it takes a few hours to really set up a good show here.
went through last night and I pulled some audio clips because I thought it was important to do. You know, Brett Baer had a great sit down with the leadership of Doge. And all we've heard about Doge, Doge, Doge, Doge, Doge, Doge, Doge, Doge, Doge. Is there a bunch of 20-year-olds? There are a bunch of 20-year-olds. Hogwash.
Are there 20-year-olds that are engineers that are helping and do this? Absolutely. But it was interesting. I don't know if you've seen the Brett Baer interview with the leadership at DOGE, but I will tell you, I was very impressed with the panel. As we're talking, I think there might have been one guy under the age of 40, maybe.
As I was looking at them, most of them looked like me. Most of them looked like Gen Xers. And there were some very, very well accomplished people in this group. You know, you had a guy named... Steve Davis, Joe Geba, he's the co-founder of Airbnb. He's a billionaire, by the way. You had Brad Smith, who is helping at HHS. You have Anthony Armstrong. He used to be a big wig over at Morgan Stanley, so a financial, a big financial guru.
You have Tom Krause. He was a former CFO of a tech company. You have Tyler Hassan. He is a former oil company CEO in Houston. He ran, before he worked at Doge, before he came over to... Doge he was running like five different companies in Houston Wow you know you have you know another guy who
You had another guy who was like, he was an engineer, and his name was Aram Makadassi. And, you know, I'm looking at this guy, and as he's talking about the IT aspects of it, I was looking at him, and I'm just thinking, This guy's got to be in the industry for at least 20, 25. Like, he did not look like a 20-year-old to me. So remember all the headlines, oh, yeah, well, there's 19 or 20-year-olds. Look, you have people that are helping that are literally the best of the best.
And very successful. And so I watched this Red Bear Fox News. You know, I watched the whole thing. It was only like 38 minutes. And you've seen some of the headlines. You've seen some of the discussions. They've pulled some of the audio clips that we've all played over and over again.
When you actually start to listen to their conversation and you start to hear what they're saying, I recommend anybody go and just Google Brett Baier Doge interview, and it was only about a half an hour long. It was... I thought it was very enlightening. It was very interesting. And when you listen to these CEOs and these tech titans talk, what you realize is they didn't get to be uber successful by chance.
They know what they're doing, and they're bringing in best practices and industry standards. And, you know, throughout this conversation, you know, a couple of them made the point that, look. The federal government cannot pass a financial audit.
Haven't for years. DOD, I can't even tell you the last time they actually passed a financial audit. I don't think they ever have. They cannot pass a financial audit. In the world that I live in, in public accounting, public government, auditing, nonprofits. If you don't pass your audits, these are huge things that you can lose grant funding for. So I thought it was a very interesting conversation, and I pulled two different audio clips because I thought they were interesting. Let's start with...
The Joe Greba one. So this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb, and he's talking about Iron Mountain. And what is that? That is that. What we've heard about, it's almost mythical. It's this. huge mine that holds all the federal paperwork. And just listen to what he's talking about because you're going to say this makes perfect sense. Go ahead, Daryl. We'll get there.
We're trying. I'm not sure what's going on. Hold on. Oh, I found it. Okay. All right. Daryl's going to push the button. He's very good at that. Pushing button. Here we go. Joe Gabby, besides Elon, you're one of several billionaires here, co-founder of Airbnb, and you wanted to help out.
I bumped into Anthony and Elon probably back in February. And they told me something about a mine that dealt with retirement. And they said that he needs somebody to help out to fix retirement in the government. I love the challenge, so I jumped on board. And it turns out there is actually a mine in Pennsylvania that houses every paper document for the retirement process in the government. Now picture this.
This giant cave has 22,000 filing cabinets stacked 10 high to house 400 million pieces of paper. It's a process that started in the 1950s and largely hasn't changed in the last 70 years. And so as he dug into it, we found retirement cases that had so much paper, they had to fit it on a shipping pallet.
So the process takes many months, and we're going to make it just many days. Will it be digitized? Absolutely. So this will be an online digital process that will take just a few days at most. And I really think it's an injustice. to civil servants who are subjected to these processes that are older than the age of half the people watching your show tonight. So we really believe that the government can have an Apple Store-like experience, beautifully designed.
Great user experience, modern systems. Because right now it's by hand. Yes. The retirement process is all by paper, literally with people carrying paper and manila envelopes into this gigantic mine. So they can't retire more than a certain number every month? Yes. About 8,000 a month. The reason we discovered it was we were saying, let's encourage voluntary retirement. I said, well, the most they could do is $8,000 a month.
And even under normal circumstances, it can take six to nine months just to have your retirement paperwork processed. And they often get the calculations wrong. So you're like, well, why would it take so long to retire? And they're like, well, because of the mine. They're like, what do you mean a mine? What's a mine got to do with retiring? And that's where we discovered that all the retirement stuff is still done by paper in a process that looks identical to what occurred in the 1950s.
snapshot of the mine when it first started in the 50s to today it looks the same. It's amazing. So how long do you think it will take to turn over? We'll work as fast as we can. Probably the next couple of months we'll have this overhauled. And I really think, again, why are we subjecting our federal workers to processes that they actually have to go through a training just to retire from the government? There's a whole training program that people have to go through in order to retire.
This is crazy. When you hear about what they're talking about, and the thing that was so shocking to me is you're talking, they have 400 million pieces of paper, basically. They're estimated 22,000. file cabinets, and it's all done by hand. And you heard Elon Musk talking, but then you heard Joe Grebo come in and say, look, and when they say, how long do you think it'll take? He goes, oh, a couple of months.
what happens when the private sector comes in and looks at the government look there's no comparison for us that have worked in the private sector and us that have worked in the government and I've had the I've had the luxury of both I look at it, and I'm like, this is exactly what the federal government needs, because it'll streamline things. It'll be a better service experience for the employees who are seeking the service, not just employees, when they get to Social Security and health.
programs and that, you'll have a better experience. Every recipient will have a better experience. But it will be more efficient, which means you'll need what? Less staff. Which also means what? You'll get a faster response rate. So this is mind-blowing. I mean, when you think about the effort it will take to transition the federal government to a digital platform and digitize this information,
There's only a few people, I think, in the world that could actually do this efficiently. And Elon Musk has clearly brought together the team that can do that, these tech giants, these people that have been wildly successful. I mean, we're talking multiple people.
billionaires in this group, but all we hear about is the 20-year-old engineers. This is why I say the mainstream media is nothing but propaganda. You have to go to the source, and I wanted to play that because that demonstrates the inefficiency. ahead and take a quick break I pulled one other clip that you probably haven't heard yet from this interview because it may not have been the most sensational but it definitely was in my view one of the most illuminating stay with us we'll be right back
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is an audio clip of Brad Smith talking, and he's talking about the IT systems at the NIH. And this is unbelievable to me. When you start to listen to this, you're going to say, okay, just remember... SAP in the Municipality of Anchorage as you're listening to this. Go ahead and play it, Daryl. Brad Smith, working at HHS, and obviously another element is Medicare and Medicaid, NIH. What do you find? Well, I'd say there's a couple things we're really committed to.
to in our work at HHS. Number one, making sure we continue to have the best biomedical research in the world. And number two, making sure which President Trump has said over and over again, that we 100% protect Medicare and Medicaid. But there's a lot of opportunity.
NIH as an example. Today if you're an NIH researcher and you get a hundred dollar grant at your university, today you get to spend 60 of that and your university spends 40 of that. The policy that we're proposing to make is that you get to spend 85 of that and your university
spends 15. So that's more money going directly to the scientists who are discovering new cures. Another example at NIH is today they have 27 different centers. They got created over time by Congress and they're typically by disease state or body system. There's 700 different systems today at NIH. 700 different IT software systems. They can't speak to each other. They have 27 different CIOs. And so when you think about making great medical discoveries, you have to connect the data.
You said 27 different chief information officers? Correct. And most of them are non-technical. So there's a lot there. There's a lot of opportunity. It will make science better, not worse. And when I say that our job is tech support, really mean it. We have to fix the computers. If the computers can't talk to each other, you can't get research done. If the computers can't stay online, people won't receive that social security.
So what we have here are a bunch of failing computer systems that are preventing people from receiving their benefits, that are preventing people from preventing research from happening, that are extremely vulnerable to fraud. Okay, so I just wanted to play that little clip. You heard it right. In one department, the National Institute of Health, they have 700 different IT systems.
They have 27 chief information officers. And he said that some of them aren't even technical. That's crazy. Well, and so when you think about these IT platforms, this is going to sound crazy to you, but a very... expensive, especially in government, very expensive expenditure is always your IT platforms. It's keeping them up to date. It's keeping them with the highest security clearances. It's making sure you have your cybersecurity.
all of these things. IT platforms are very expensive. 700 different IT platforms. And the reason Elon Musk said that this is so important for FOD. Number one, the systems can't talk to each other. So many of these systems are going to be antiquated. They're not going to be the most recent. And they can't talk to each other, which means they can't share data. So extrapolate that. to Social Security, right? And when somebody, for example, applies for a loan with a Small Business Administration,
and they give a Social Security number. The SBA doesn't talk to the Social Security Administration to verify if that Social Security number is valid, if the person is alive, if the person is dead. That is why DOGE has uncovered they have given out over 30 years. $300 million in loans to children under the age of 11. They've also given out $300 million worth of loans to people over the age of 115. The oldest person in the US, to my knowledge, is 114.
So that tells you this is all fraud, right? How does a nine-month-old baby get a business loan from the SBA? Because the SBA's computer systems don't talk to the Social Security Administration. So what does that mean? That means somebody with a... A fraudulent Social Security number can get, well, look, we know people are getting Social Security. They're getting Medicaid. They're getting unemployment benefits. They're getting loans from the SBA. They're able to multiple.
they're able to multiply their defrauding of the federal government multiple multiple multiple times over Because the federal government's computers don't talk to each other. It should be very easy. When somebody applies for an SBA loan, there should be a validation check to make sure, number one, this is legit. This person is who they say they are. Number two, they're not a nightmare. month old baby. Number three, they're not 140 years old and dead. These should be common sense things.
By upgrading their IT softwares, by upgrading the systems, by making sure that the systems can communicate and departments communicate with each other, you will, by nature of doing that, you will cut down on the... fraud, waste, and abuse. And the other thing that I wanted to point out, when they're talking about these grants given out from the National Institutes of Health, when they're talking about giving out medical research grants,
And they're saying that 60% goes to the researcher, basically doing the work, and 40% cut goes to the university. And they're talking about making a proposal of an 85-15% split. That is industry standard. I will tell you, as somebody who has handed out many, many grants from the government and somebody who is now on the receiving end of a grant from the government, administrative costs are typically capped at 15%.
What does that mean? That means the person who is accepting the grant, that's basically where your top end is covered. The rest of the money goes towards the grant. Because, yes, it takes staff... You have to hire staff to be able to, you know, pay the insurance. I mean, part of your administrative costs a lot of times will be insurance. It will be some of the staff's salary. It will be that. But typically, it is industry.
standard to cap administrative costs at 15%. So nothing they are proposing is unique. This is all standard, best practices. This is what happens in the private sector all the time. And so to take that and then apply the same standards to the government.
it just makes sense this is how real people in the real world do it and so what is all the hub love about what is all what is all the feigned you know offense about that we're going to digitize and make it so when a federal employee retires, they don't have to wait seven months, eight months to be able to get their stuff processed. Instead, they're going to be able to out-process in a week. I mean, who's against that?
Who's against fraud, waste, and abuse? Who's against not paying somebody who's dead Social Security benefits? The liberals. Yeah, exactly. At the end of the day, what this comes down to is common sense. This is common sense if you get rid of the fraud waste and abuse What does it do it secures the rest of the system to hopefully protect it and make sure it's solvent? That's what it does. It stretches those US taxpayer dollars further
and puts us less at risk. This is just common sense. And that's why I wanted to play that audio clip, because I think it highlights for you, when you start seeing people feign, Oh, they're cutting all these workers. Do you know less than, less than 0.15% of federal workers have been fired by the Trump administration? I didn't say 1.5%. Less than.
0.15% have actually been fired. The vast majority of people that are leaving are voluntarily leaving. They're taking their early retirements. They're choosing to leave. So all the headlines you see, 0.15% have been fired. And all we see in liberal media is, oh, they're firing everyone. Not really. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Welcome back, current time, 752. Well, Daryl, yesterday as I was scrolling, because I wanted to pull some audio, this woman that I found is my spirit animal. I loved it. So as you go through, there's so many independent journalists now, and you always have to be careful where you're pulling audio from. And I listened to it three times to make sure there was no bad words in it.
But this woman was incredibly articulate. So it was out in front of a Tesla protest that was going on. And this woman, they put a microphone in her face. incredibly articulate, and I laugh because I'm like, oh, she's my spirit animal. I wanted to play this audio for you. We're going to go ahead. This is a passerby's reaction to the Tesler protest that was going on in the lower 48. Go ahead.
This is the most stupid group of people I've ever seen. What Elon Musk is doing for this country is saving it. Saving it so people can have Social Security 10 years from now. I believe you said they're going to have more. What? More.
Social Security. You just announced it. Absolutely. Ma'am, where are you from? I'm originally from Israel, and my husband is from England. I'm from England, yeah. We immigrated to this wonderful country 40 years ago, and we are proud American, and Elon is a proud American. is saving this country and these people are stupid you know each one of them about a year ago was driving their tesla their environmentally correct tesla you know it's not environmentally correct it suddenly
It's not invariably correct to drive a Tesla. How stupid can you be? Also, I'd like to add to this. People who call Musk a Nazi have no idea what a Nazi is. A Nazi is somebody who tries to kill Jews. We know who Nazis are. I'm Jewish. I know, but I... I wasn't talking to you. Can I speak? I don't know what Nazis are. You can't see people as Jewish.
My family died in the Holocaust. So don't tell me I don't know what Nazis are. See, this is exactly what they try to do. They try to shut you down while you're making viewpoints. You know, these people are funny, and part of the audio clip that I clipped, but that woman speaking in the beginning, the one who said she was from Israel 40 years ago, she said, these people are idiots. She's like, are they protesting? She goes, half of them probably stayed in an Airbnb.
last night. Are they protesting Airbnb? Because the guy on, you know, one of the billionaires working on Doge was a co-founder of Airbnb, but they're not protesting him. She's like, they're idiots. I gotta tell you, that woman is absolutely my spirit animal.
I will. But Pam Bondi, like, we're seeing what's happening with Tesla right now. And Pam Bondi, the attorney general, has come out and said, look, we're not going to be entertaining plea deals with these people. They're a bunch of terrorists. They're domestic terrorists. That's what they're doing. That is what they are. You know, and to her point about Tesla's, about driving Tesla's, like, I thought...
I thought everybody was supposed to be environmentally friendly. I thought we were supposed to go to all electric cars. Tesla is a very conscientious company, like environmental company. And you look at it, and last year, two years ago, Tesla is everything. Oh, we have to force everybody to electric cars. The Biden administration gave a huge contract to Tesla to build armored vehicles. And you look at it and you're like, okay, so it was... It was good when everybody thought Elon was a Democrat.
But now that Elon is stepping in to try to help, you know, bring solvency to the U.S. government's budget, now he's bad because he's aligned with Orange Man. So now we have to firebomb Teslas. And the thing that is so ironic about this I don't know. I've never seen a study on it. But I would bet the vast majority of Tesla drivers are Democrats. Oh, absolutely. You have Democrats that are keying and destroying other Democrats' vehicles. I mean, it's kind of...
It's kind of ironic, don't you think? But that's when I started looking at it was going on. Look, I think this woman embodies the vast majority of Americans that realize these people are a bunch of nut jobs. And they don't even make sense. Like she clearly like she knew a lot about what was happening politically. And she understood who was working on the Doge team. Like to me, this just gives me hope.
This woman, no doubt, is my spirit animal. Like, I want to be her. She was very, very entertaining and informative, no doubt. All right, well, that does it for Daryl and I today. We will be back with you tomorrow morning. On deck is Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. followed by Sean Hannity at 11. And, of course, the great Mike Piccaro is live in the local every weekday from 4 to 6. We will be back with you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. Until then, stay safe. God bless.