the radio thank you iheart radio for honoring the truth i've fought for in my music because we believe in the power of music all your favorite artists all in one place the free iheart radio app the opinions expressed on the show are those of the host and Good morning. It is Wednesday, April 9th, current time, 6.06 a.m. Oh, my goodness, Daryl. Today is one of those days during the break I'm going for that Black Rifle coffee.
You know, it's funny. I have not done any coffee in the last, for this whole week, I have not started. Me either. I've been doing really good. I've been drinking my water as soon as I wake up. See it right here in my hand. Just like Dr. Kiesling tells us to. I got my giant bottle of water, too. Yep, I try to listen to the doctor's orders, and I'm like, okay, I got my water, try to get it down first thing in the morning. I'm pretty good at it throughout the day, but.
I could be better. I could be better. You know, I could definitely be better on mine, but I try to drink about 64 ounces of water a day. Oh, I'm not even close. I know I'm supposed to, but I'm not even close. It's just, it helps me feel a little bit better. And I've noticed last week, I noticed I was really dragging and stuff. And I realized it because I wasn't drinking enough water again. So this week is no.
Drink your water. Don't even go for any of the other stuff until you got at least half your water in. I will not be doing that. I will drink my big glass of water that I have in front of me here that I got when I woke up. Once I've done that, I'm good. I feel like, okay, now we'll just get on with our time. Well, you know, that's great because this is the day when you want to make sure you get everything done. It's the day when you get things done.
It's Wednesday. I got it. See, I got it already. See, Zach? Daryl sends me a meme this morning, because we always text each other. you know, early on to make sure the other didn't oversleep, number one. But number two, to make sure, you know, okay, we got our tech. Because sometimes we learned, Amy, don't wait until five minutes to six to log in because sometimes there's tech issues. Gremlins. So, yeah, exactly. So, we log in early. And so...
I come and set my stuff up, and I look at my phone, and Gerald texts me a couple, you know, a couple pictures of, like, yawning lions. And then he says, happy Thursday. And I said, it's not Thursday, it's Wednesday. And what did you say, Daryl? I said, what? Are you saying I'm lying? I didn't get it at all. I didn't get it at all.
And then so I sit down, and then we start chatting. And then I'm like, wait a second. Oh, it took me like a few minutes. And I was like, oh, I got it. That's okay. There's a lot of people out there right now who just slap their face going, oh, he did not.
Yes, he did. Yes, he did. All right. Well, we do have a few public announcements today. Today, there's a ton of meetings in the Mat-Su borough. So I'm going to whip through them. I'm not going to get into the details on every one of them. But I'll just point you to the Mat-Su website. If you want more information, it's matzugov.us.
The Board of Equalization appeal hearings that were scheduled for this morning have been canceled, so that's not happening. The Assembly has a special meeting regarding department presentations. This is for their budgets. They're going to start at 10 a.m. this morning in the assembly chambers located at 350 East Dahlia Avenue in Palmer.
The Midway Road Service Area Board of Supervisors has their meeting this morning, or this afternoon rather, at 3.30. It's going to be in the O&M Conference Room, 1420 South Industrial Way in Palmer. The Gateway Community Council has their annual meeting tonight at the Extreme Fun Center in Wasilla. It should be fun for all. That, again, is going to be at 6 p.m. this evening.
The Caswell Lakes Road Service Area Board of Supervisors has a meeting tonight at 630. That's going to be at Sheep Creek Lodge out there past Willow. The Meadow Lakes Community Council has their meeting tonight at 7 p.m. That's going to be at the Meadow Lakes Senior Housing Building, which is located at 1210 North Kim Drive in Wasilla.
The Butte Community Council has their meeting tonight at 7 p.m. That's going to be at the Butte Community Center. We're almost done, I promise. Chickaloon Community Council has their meeting tonight. It's going to be at the Chickaloon Community Center. They also have a Zoom link. So if you want to attend virtually, you can do that. Same with most of these community councils. Most of them have a Zoom link. So as I read them off,
If it's one of yours and you can't or don't want to attend in person, a lot of times there's a Zoom link, so I recommend you go to the website. And last but not least, the Greater Willow Road Service Area Board of Supervisors has a meeting tonight at 7 p.m. It'll be at the Willow Public Library. And that does it for the meetings in the Matsu. If you want more information, again, just go to matsugov.us, and you'll be able to find the info there.
Also, I want to remind you, the city of Wasilla has a vacancy on their city council. C, as in Charlie, they're taking applications April 7th through the 18th from 8 to 5 Monday through Friday in the clerk's office. If you want to apply, just go to cityofwasilla.gov, and you'll see an announcement under their announcements. And just click on it. There's an application packet you have to complete. Bring to the clerk's office. All that good stuff should be pretty straightforward.
And that's really it for the city of Wasilla. Once they get all their application packets and the period closes, then the assembly will pick who the... Assembly member is going to be until October 7th. That's when they have their next election. and then the seat will be filled permanently by the voters. So the difference being in Palmer, Palmer has a vacancy on their city council, but their mayor actually is the one who picks who's going to fill.
that seat and the interim basis until October 7th election so if you live in the city proper of Palmer You have to be in the city limits of Palmer. You can apply. They are taking applications here. I'm trying to see the date. They're taking applications until this Thursday, so until tomorrow at noon for the city of Palmer. You can get more information. Just go to palmerak.org.
and they have a little red banner right across the top. Click on it, and it'll bring you to all the information you need, including the application packet. And then once all the applications are received, the mayor's going to pick who's going to fill that vacancy until October 7th election.
That's it for the city of Palmer. There's no public meetings or anything like that in Palmer today either. I do want to remind folks out here this weekend, April 11th, 12th, and 13th, is the Mat-Su Outdoorsman Show. So it'll kick off Friday at noon. So Friday will be noon to 6. Saturday 10 to 6 and Sunday 10 to 5. It's $10 for adults. If you have a military ID, it's $5. Kids under 12 are free.
And if you want to go to the Outdoorsman Show but you want to do it for free, you can do it Sunday morning from 10 to noon. 10 to noon, it's being sponsored by Frontier Auto and RV Sales. So it's free admission on Sunday. I think that's a great deal. They have all kinds of vendors. I actually have thought for the last many years that the Matsu Outdoorsman Show is better than the Anchorage Outdoorsman Show.
And I don't know if it's because the venue changes or what, but I will tell you, I think last year, it was last year or the year before, I mean, there's been multiple years where I've gone two different days. And I think last year I hit it. I think we probably went on Friday, and then we went back on Sunday. But the second time we went, we didn't even realize it was free when we went in, and it was free on Sunday morning.
There you have it. If you want more information, you can go to mattsueoutdoorsmanshow.com. But that's a fun thing to do over the weekend, and it's a beautiful drive out to the valley. I'm just telling you. Everything's just a little nicer on the side of the bridge. It's always, grass is always greener on that side because of all. The air is fresher. I feel freer. It's because of the glacial soil and just the freedom in the valley. But, you know, it's always been.
I'm just telling you, it's more patriotic out here. I can't tell you how many times I get up or I come home from work. and there's a bald eagle in the tree in my backyard, like, I'm not even exaggerating. Like, this is a lot. I mean, almost every day, not every day, but many, many days out of the week as I'm driving to and from. to go to work.
I see like an eagle. I mean, the smell of freedom is just sweeter in the Mat-Su. It just gets your heart going right there. And you say you've got that eagle in your yard? Yeah, yeah. You know, maybe you should throw some Rogaine out in the yard for him, or maybe get him a subscription to the Feather Club for birds.
I got to tell you, our neighbors, it was really funny when we built this house. There's one tree, and it's a very, very tall tree, and it has this really cool, like, you know, creepy-looking branch out of the top of it. That big of a cottonwood. Yeah, and it's... It's like the tree that the Eagles like to sit on.
And we have done everything to preserve this one tree because our neighbors are like, oh, you're not going to cut down that tree, are you? Because the neighbors like seeing them too, you know, because they're right there. And so we've preserved it. I mean, someday it may end up coming down.
But, you know, we may not have a choice in that. You know, the winds here are pretty significant. So we'll see if Mother Nature takes it down. But I always chuckle because I always say, you know, I don't know what it is about the valley. It just feels freer out here than Anchorage.
Not to diss on my Anchorage friends. I mean, somebody's got to fight the good fight. All right, well, let's get into some of our Anchorage announcements. Speaking of Anchorage, today for April 9th, we only have a couple of meetings. The Anchorage Port Commission has a meeting at noon today at the Port Conference Room.
So it's 1871 Anchorage Port Road. It's on the third floor of the conference room, or they have a Teams link. The Urban Design Commission meeting for today has been canceled, so you don't have to worry about that. Moving on to the... The Kenai Peninsula Borough for today has a Resilience and Security Advisory Commission meeting. from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight. Again, if you want more information, you can contact the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Department. They'll give you more information on that.
Also, the Nikiski Fire Service Area Board has a meeting today from 6 to 8 at Nikiski Fire Station No. 1, if I can get it out. The Western Emergency Service Area Board also has a meeting tonight from 6 to 8. That's going to be at 72440 Milo Fritz Avenue in Anchor Point. So if you live in Anchor Point, I'm sure you know exactly where that is. If you need more information, just go to kpb.us, and you'll be able to find it on their calendar there.
And today for the city of Kenai, we do actually have something on their calendar today. At 7 p.m. they do have a planning and zoning commission meeting that has been canceled. So that's the only thing on their calendar. So they don't have anything today, but the P&Z Commission meeting that you're maybe expecting to go to today has been canceled. All right. So if you want more information for the city of Kenai, just go to Kenai.city.
As far as the city of Seldotna goes, they do have a city council work session today and a city council meeting directly following. So the work session is going to start. 430 today and then they'll start with their city council meeting at 6 p.m. and of course that'll be in the city council chambers
If you need more information on that, including their agenda, just go to Saldana.org. And that does it for our public announcements for this morning. If you would like to call in, be part of the show. The number is 522-0650. We're going to go ahead and take our first break of the morning.
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623. I almost gave everybody a heart attack. You snapped my head around. 623. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. On this beautiful Wednesday morning. Daryl, I am not... I'm not thrilled when I wake up and I see a new little layer of snow. How are the roads? So the roads got one of those situations where we had the freeze saw last night right about, well, you know, nighttime last night.
It finally got warm enough to thaw everything out. So all of that is frozen again. Roads are generally in good shape, but you've got to watch out for the overpasses, the underpasses, the on-ramps, intersections, parking lots, and sidewalks. That's your main worries for ice. All those have definite ice on them because it's 29 degrees here in Anchorage. So, oh, excuse me, it's dirty. It just jumped one.
Oh, see, you're beating me right now because it's 29.1 right now. It's been fluctuating since even the show started between... 29.1 and 29.4 here at the weather station at Domboski's, you know, White House North. I call it White House North because it's a big White House. And it's to the north of me, so that works. To the north of you, I know. White House North works perfectly. And when Trump comes up, he can stay there and hang out.
Absolutely. We have a spare room. No problem. I don't know where I'd put the Secret Service, but no problem. So it's 29 degrees here in Palmer. I'm looking around. Kenai's checking in at 32, actually the warmest. Big Lake 29, Fairbanks 22. As I was looking for the high today in Big Lake and Palmer, it's supposed to hit 43 today. So all of what we see right now should melt off. At my house anyways. We will see. I'm not happy about the snow situation. But look, it's going away.
You know what's crazy, though? Right. I'm looking at Fairbanks right now. I can see no snow on my cameras up in Fairbanks. What? It's only 22 there, too. Yeah, it's only, but when I say no snow, I'm looking at a couple of main roadways and stuff like that, and usually I can see it on the sides of the roads and the meridians. I'm actually looking at dry pavement in Fairbanks and I can see their meridians. Oh, this just ain't fair.
Well, I was listening to the weather last night for Anchorage, and it said they were expecting 2 to 4 inches last night. uh in the lower hillside in the hillside area in parts of eagle river so my friends uh live up on highland i'm sure they got snow like snow i'm telling you Up in Highland, like, winter lasts like an extra two months. I mean, I tell you, the real Alaskans live in Fairbanks.
And I think they also live, like, on the hillside, like, up high on the hillside in Highland Road. Upper Hatcher Pass also. Go up to Hatcher Pass. You're in the area. You can go to Hatcher Pass, Buffalo Mine. Those areas, it's still winter up there. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've been willing spring to come. But look, look. I've been having this debate with one of my friends. She keeps saying it is not spring until after Mother's Day.
She's like, nope, it's happening. And I'm like, no. She's like, it's going to snow again. And I'm arguing, no, as we look out the window and it's like snowing like a big dog last night or yesterday. So wait, she says Mother's Day? I mean, we always used to be Easter. It always was. It's not spring until after Easter because, I don't know, three out of five Easters, you would end up with your eggs covered in snow. Mother's Day is May 12th. Yeah.
Yeah, no, that's way too long. Look, I'm telling you, spring is here now. I'm accepting it because I changed my snow tires two weeks ago. I know I was early, but I was not. I was not having it anymore. I'm trying to will it. I'm trying to will it to be warm. So here's a nightmare thought for you. Because, you know, Alaska actually only has two seasons, winter and construction season. No, winter and construction. That really comes down to it.
And I am telling you right now, Amy, I've been looking at the plans they got going on for the Knick River Bridge and the construction going on there. You are in for a nightmare. All the way up through, and I'm going to say July. They say it's going to end June 23rd, or at least the main part of it. I'm looking at the middle of July, end of July.
They're giving themselves some wiggle room because DOT has it up on their central region project. The Glen Highway Bridge Deck Preservation Project is what it's called. They're working to, I have it up in front of me, they're working to repair potholes on the concrete decks, install polyester concrete overlay to waterproof the bridges and reduce corrosion, replace the approach slabs.
Replace the expansion joints. That's really important, right? They're both of those. Exactly. Replace damaged drainage hardware and guardrails as needed. upgrade the signs and pavement markings, et cetera, and they're working on utilities as needed. Here's the impact. So we saw it last. We saw it now. Last night I saw it. They're starting to really start to set up their equipment now.
So it says April 7th, crews will arrive on the site and start mobilizing equipment, which if you drive through now, you're starting to see that. The week of April 14th, a 45-mile-per-hour speed restriction will be in place for the Kittick River Bridges. It says, for preliminary paving activities and some rumble strip removal. And then April 23rd, the North Brown Bridge will close for 30 days. So traffic is going to be rerouted.
to the other bridge. So they're going to have two-way traffic on the other bridge. So this is going to be super fun. And then it says summer 2025, the southbound bridge will close for 30 days. And then it says construction on both bridges is anticipated to be completed before the Alaska State Fair in August. So they've given themselves
to basically the end of August. They've given themselves a little wiggle room. So you hit the most important thing there. They're going to close one bridge, have the other bridge open, going to put three lanes on that bridge. So whichever time of the day it is, morning. So then southbound will be two lanes, one lane northbound. Afternoons will be two lanes southbound, one lane northbound.
Those lanes are going to be, because remember, these are the Knicker River bridges, okay? Those lanes are going to be 11 feet wide. They are going to make lanes. Now, this is where, I read this last night. This is why I'm bringing it up. At 11 feet wide. A land whale will not fit through that with the other traffic.
What is a land whale? Are you talking like a semi? What is a land whale? Semi is one of them, but I'm talking a motorhome, these big, beautiful, giant motorhomes that all the tourists drive up from the lower 48, the Glen Highway, and then they're not going to be able to get to Anchorage. Kenai. Any of that. The only way they're going to get around. They have to go around. No, they can't. The bridges stop everything.
Even if you take the parks, you still come in. I was thinking if you take the old Glen Highway. Yeah. So now you're putting land whales. That's the only. That's narrow in spots. Well, and you make a really good point. They are going to be, because when you look at, when I was looking at the graphic, I'm like, how are they going to do that? They're going to effectively convert.
each bridge at the designated time to three lanes. And I'm like thinking, I don't know. So Daryl's right. With commuting traffic, it'll be... You know, we'll see. It'll be tough with the community. It'll be two lanes with morning traffic and coming home, it'll be two lanes going the other way. But then you're going to have that opposite lane. Yeah, it's going to. It's going to be a bit of work, but, you know, I mean, what do they do? They've got to do something.
I get that. I'm literally, though, it's like I'm picturing land whales coming from the valley trying to get to Anchorage. One's in Anchorage trying to get out to the valley, not to mention all the Alaskans that have them, but all the tourists.
They're gonna literally I mean the way I'm picturing this they're gonna actually literally have to like stop traffic Let a land whale through start traffic more goes through than another because they're just not gonna fit Well, I was going to say, this is going to make for an interesting... Interesting commuting experience for all my friends that commute. Definitely interesting. So the moral of the story is either get done work late.
Or get done work really early and try to miss a rush hour if you can. And maybe bring your food in your car with you. Lots of water. And the old Glen Highway is going to be crazy also because that would be the route I would take. But I can guarantee you it's going to freak a lot of people out with those tight curves. I love the curves, but a lot of people freak out, drop their speed. So, yeah, all of you out in the Valley or anybody who wishes to recreate in the Valley this year.
Expect a few pains you're going to have. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I'm not looking forward to it, but the date we're looking for to really start to be impacted is April 23rd. So it's coming up. and we're basically going to deal with it all summer. So, you know, buckle up. And I love their graphic. Learn how to zipper merge. Oh, that's going to be the other nightmare. That's going to be the other nightmare. Nobody zipper merges in a life. When correctly done here, I love this.
When correctly done, zipper merging can reduce congestion by up to 40%. So you know what the problem with that is? A zipper move works. There's always that one guy. That works to the end. But there's always that one guy. Everybody else is zipper merging. And there's this one guy who just has to rush up all the way to the front and try to pass 50 other cars. Well, because, see, the trick is, is if you do, quote, a proper zipper merge.
You're supposed to merge at the final point. So there's nowhere to run past. And what they expect is if you're moving, everybody's moving at 40 miles an hour. You can merge together because people will leave that gap between two cars, and so it's zippers. But that's not how people drive. They drive at 50 or 20 and scooch right up to each other's bumpers, and then nobody gets in. It's a Velcro merge.
Well, I will tell you, I'm a polite merger because I always let people in in front of me. I'm always like, go ahead, go ahead. We're all going to get there. Just go ahead. So April 23rd is the day to look for if you're a commuter from the Mattoon to Anchorage. that's when they're going to start to shut down one of the bridges and they will redirect traffic.
It is going to probably take you longer on your commute, so just plan accordingly. All right, I'm going to go ahead and take a quick break. If you'd like to call in, be part of the show, 522-0650. The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation is reporting a $2 billion loss following last week's volatile stock market activity. Assets were at $81.7 billion early last week but dropped to $79.7 billion by Friday, according to the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation preliminary reports. Thank you.
We'll be right back. That's the latest. I'm John Fink. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Wednesday morning. Light traffic currently inbound on the Glen Highway. No major stoppages or slowdowns out there. Once again, the freeze. Welcome back, current time, 639. Well, my dear friend Scott sent me a text, a picture from his ring camera, and I just sent it to you, Daryl. Oh, yeah. He's up on Highland.
And I will tell you, it looks like real Alaska there. It looks like real winter there. I'm telling you, it's insane how much snow they get up there in the mountains. But, you know, they are in Alaska. I tell you, real Alaskans clearly live up there. Nobody knows the trouble they snowed. That's it. That's it. Hey, I want to send special prayers and warm wishes out to our friend, Father Randy. He's been a little bit under the weather. So, Father Randy, I have a joke for you.
So, Daryl, okay, here is my, I have a couple jokes that I thought about last night, wrote them down so I didn't forget them. So the first one, what do you call a Hamel? What do you call a camel with no hump? Back turn. Back tracing. No. A camel with no hump? Humphrey. Oh, what do you name him? Okay, I'll give you a little bit of a... That took me a second. Humphrey. Humphrey. Camel no hump. Humphrey. Hilarious. Free hump.
Yeah, yeah. What can I say? I don't get out much. All right. Well, I will save my other joke for a little bit later. All right. I have to tell you, I love Donald Trump. Last night I watched the majority of his speech at the National Republican Congressional Committee. You know, and, like, Trump is, for me, he's not the easiest. I mean, he's entertaining to listen to, no doubt, but he's kind of like a conversationalist, like a very mellow, like, meandering kind of.
you know, a speaker. It's not like point, point, point in succinct. It takes him a little bit. You know, it takes him a little bit. And he just goes from topic to topic. And he ad-libs a lot, which is entertaining as all get-out. But then I was watching. I just double-checked on WhiteHouse.gov because I saw he signed another executive order last night or yesterday, I should say. And this is why I say I love Donald Trump. Here's the title of it.
reinvigorating America's beautiful, clean coal industry and amending Executive Order 14241. Beautiful, beautiful, clean coal. Beautiful, clean coal. I'm just like... Our coal is the cleanest coal. I am telling you, there is no cleaner coal than what our coal is. I'm telling you, my friends in Healy, our friends in Alaska, look, Alaska has so much opportunity to benefit in this presidency if we don't screw it up. Let's get all on the same page and get together, shall we?
But the president has, in his executive order, issued yesterday by the authority vested me and president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order. Section one is the purpose. It says in order to secure America's economic prosperity and national security, lower the cost of living, and provide for increase in electrical demand from emerging technologies, we must increase domestic energy production, including coal.
Coal is abundant and cost-effective and can be used in any weather condition. Moreover, the industry has historically employed hundreds of thousands of Americans. America's coal resources are vast with a current estimated value in the trillions of dollars and are more than capable of substantially contributing to American energy independence. with excess to support allies and our economic competitiveness.
Our nation's beautiful, clean coal resources will be critical to meeting the rise in electricity demand due to the resurgence of domestic manufacturing and the construction of artificial intelligence data processing centers. Bingo. Yep, we must encourage and support our nation's coal industry to increase our energy supply.
lower electricity costs, stabilize our grid, create high-paying jobs, support burgeoning industries, and assist our allies. It goes on and on and on. It gives directions and stuff. But the whole point is, like, look, this is... This is why I have said for many years, that so many of the policies that the Democrats are pushing are just nonsensical, right?
They were saying everybody, like California is having this thing. No gas vehicles in California by whatever year. We're pushing everybody to electric vehicles. Electric, electric, electric. But they don't have the grid to support it. And they're shutting down resource development to be able to support the grid for all the electric cars they have, even for what we have now.
So they were pushing, they were making it harder to develop oil and gas. They were trying to shut down every single coal plant in the country. And they were outwardly saying it. And then they're pushing people to technologies that require electricity. in order to move, and so their policies are nonsensical, unless the agenda is something, I would say, nefarious, which I'm not ruling out.
Right. And if you can control the movement of people, you can control people. Right. And so, you know, I think there's a little bit of both going on here, but that's why I'm like, this makes no sense. But when Trump in his first paragraph here. He hits like every nail on the head, whether it's economic prosperity, whether it's cheap energy, whether it's manufacturing. Look, all of these things we do, I mean, just the data processing centers, Daryl, you hit on that as soon as he said it.
Because AI is emerging technology that is going to take up a lot of processing and a lot of resources in order to actually just run it. You've got to have the energy to do it. And it's not going away. It's going to be used somewhere. And if we don't get behind, you know, frankly, common sense policies,
we are going to be left in the dust on a global level. And I'm talking military strength. I'm talking technology. I'm talking medicines. I'm talking, you know, national security. I mean, this is just common sense. Common sense. And you saw me waving my arms because I'm trying to get the attention of the Chickaloon Nation out there, out in Chickaloon, Chief Gary and you guys out there. This is the perfect thing for you guys.
Start some coal mining up there. You've got beautiful coal veins up there. Build some coal-fired electrical plants, clean ones, you know, ones that are good for the environment or at least not bad for the environment.
Sell that power to the Matanuskas who sit in the valley. Sell that power to Anchorage. And if you sell it to the valley, guess what? They can start more major industrial programs because they have the energy. That is the main thing that stops Alaska from producing anything is we don't have the energy and... Our governor has already said he would love to have the systems and the resources in place to do AI centers and data storage centers. Chickaloon, this is perfect for you.
Yeah, I agree with you, Daryl. I think you have literally tapped into something that is a great opportunity. Because again, if you want to tap into... We talked about manufacturing and we've had people call and say, you know, why don't we have more manufacturing in Alaska? There's a lot of reasons. But one of the main reasons is our energy costs are too high.
So when we start talking about industry and bringing business, you know, from an economic business perspective, there's three basic things that you look at when we talk about business. That's one of the main issues because think about it. If you're a manufacturing plant, if you're data processing, Whatever you're making, it's going to take energy to manufacture it. So energy is a huge component of being competitive to be able to do manufacturing.
The other thing you're looking at is your employment. The number of people that you can actually, do you have the employee base to support whatever industry you're in? So, you know, first leg of the stool, energy costs. Second leg is employment. It's like people, right? You have the people to do what you need to do. And the third is your carrying cost. What does it cost?
Now, Alaska, obviously, is going to be very difficult for us to compete sometimes with somebody, say, in Ohio, right? Because of just where they're located, it's easier for them to get their stuff to the lower 48 and to get to other places in the U. Where we have the advantage is the Pacific Rim. Bingo. So we really have an international advantage. So, again, we do have an advantage. And so when the governor talks about data processing centers, you need a place that has a cooler climate.
You need a place that has, but you do need a place that has cheap energy. And, you know, whether we're looking at Chickaloon, which I think is a brilliant idea, Daryl, or we're talking about beautiful Healy, I mean, there's so much opportunity here in Alaska. So much opportunity here in Alaska. And so, again, I think Trump is hitting it out of the park. I've got to be honest with you. Will there be mistakes made? I'm sure. But right now, really, he's become the common sense president.
He's become the president of the working class. He's become the president of the everyday average American who knows how expensive it is to put gas in your car and groceries in your cart. I mean, and this is what, he is flipping the script, and I'm telling you right now, Daryl, the Democrats made a key strategic choice, and it was a bad choice. to prioritize foreigners' illegals over the working class.
And Trump is working hard to bring manufacturing jobs, to bring real jobs back to Alaskans, not just Alaskans, but back to Americans. And when you start to see the car industry in Michigan and Indiana and all these different places start to really start to boom, That's all thanks to Trump and his trade policies. There's no way around it. There's no denying it. And what is it benefiting? It's benefiting the middle class.
That's what it's benefiting, everyday Americans. And it's ironic that it takes a billionaire to come in and do common sense policies that are going to benefit the rest of us. And everybody screams how bad he is. I'm just telling you, no matter what good he does, they're going to be like, oh, orange man bad. I mean, you just got to know that. All right, we're going to go ahead and take a quick break. I'm a little bit late for my break, so we'll do that. We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to Current Time 654. Let's go to Ken real quick. Good morning, sir. Hey, these executive orders, there's four of them dropped yesterday, and they all just shatter all the preconceived actions. from on our legislature, like the renewable portfolio standard. It just throws that right in the trash can. And, you know, Darrell and I were talking during the break, and it's strange.
We talk about things doing like gambling casinos. When in all actuality, what we need to do, and this is just kicking stuff around, what we have the opportunity to do. It's set up a series of small coal plants up and down the rail belt. We have a rail system. Yes, yep. To use the valley, ship the coal down there. I'm loving it. The coal plant's the size at UAF, that they have a coal plant at UAF of 17 megawatts or so.
And then you can build data centers around them and access power for the communities the whole nine yards. Exactly. Exactly. And, you know, I've heard Trump talking about small-scale energy facilities to go with manufacturing, and I think it's a beautiful idea to do it with data centers. I think that's absolutely brilliant. absolutely brilliant no i can you were right on your are you back in town by the way are you back in town by the way
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got back from Arizona. I just want to remind you, District 26 has a meeting Thursday night. Oh, okay. Where's that? Jody's Great Room, 630. So it's off of Fairview Loop, 630. Every single day. Yes, sir, I knew you did. That's why I hope to see you there because we're going to have a few resolutions to consider. And I always love hearing your perspective. So I think it would be good. Real quick, we need to do these coal plants without.
carbon sequestration. We don't need to be selling U.S. tax dollars to Canadian firms and Chinese bankers. That's what we need to be doing. I agree with you. I agree. Ken, as always... These are exciting times. I'm telling you. We need to capitalize. We need to do this fast because if they turn to Congress...
You see the move there, the Congress, some in Congress, even there's like six or seven Republicans trying to take back Trump's authority to negotiate tariffs. Can you imagine trying to negotiate anything with Congress? You would never get a deal negotiated ever. Nope.
five members of Congress, and then you have to get through the 100 senators. Like, it would be a joke. Anyway, good point. Ken, thank you for your call this morning. I hope to see you tomorrow night, District 26. I'll be there. All right. Go ahead and take a quick break. We're hitting the top of the hour here. When we come back, we will continue to take your calls. 522-0650.
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You're always better with that address than I am. That is it. You got it. Oh, my gosh. I think that's the first time in four years I've managed to get that. Yeah, so we're going to be giving away, or iHeartRadio, I should say, is giving away a pair of tickets to Tom Segura. The show is on April 24th. but you have to get your registration in. You've got to register for the tickets. before this Friday. Friday is the deadline for getting in your entries.
And then on Monday of next week, they will draw and let people know who won those pair of tickets. Tom's a girl, like I said, it's funny, he's entertaining, and it's something to do in Anchorage. Yeah, there you go. Something to do. Well, like I said, this weekend we know what we can do in the Mat-Su. We can go to the outdoorsman show. Which Amy will be doing. 100%. Absolutely. But going to see a comedian, look.
You know, with all the serious things that's going on in the world, it's great that iHeartMedia is doing something like this because I think, you know, A little bit of levity is good for the soul. And this guy here, he is not left-leaning, he's not right-leaning. He generally just, you know, he takes a shot here and a shot there, but generally his humor is just... Just humor. I mean, like I said, I've watched a fair bit of it. He's pretty funny, not to mention he's pretty funny looking also.
Oh, I love it. All right. Well, all you have to do to enter the contest, go to 650keni.iheart.com, and you'll be able to find it there. Yep. Contests and promos on the left-hand side. Perfect. All right. Well, I love it. How the world comes full circle. So I will tell you, now I have to see how I'm doing. It's always a little nerve-wracking for me when I have a former teacher call in. That's right, one of my former teachers call in. But, you know, here we have Mr. Johnson. Good morning, sir.
Good morning. How are you? I am fantastic. How's the weather in Homer? It's snowing. It's been snowing since Sunday. Oh, no kidding. So you guys are still officially then real Alaskans, too. Yeah, we live over in Peterson Bay. We tell people we get our... water out of a stream and have an outhouse. That is awesome. Okay, so how do you stream us then? I mean, how is your connectivity down there? It's great. We use Starlink. Oh!
See, we're just new to Starlink. I just got my husband's Starlink a couple months ago. so he can bring it with him to the cabin. He hasn't tried it yet, but he was just playing with it last night to try to, you know, hitch it up and figure out how it works and everything. So you're liking it, and the connectivity speed is pretty good. It's great. It depends on which connectivity speed you get. Yeah. My son works for Microsoft. Mm-hmm.
And he's a developer. And so we have the highest speed because he comes up here in the summertime to hang out. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's definitely going to want to. He's going to be used to the fast speeds, too. That's pretty cool. Well, with technology these days, it's amazing what can be done. I mean, and Starlink, I've seen great things about it. So we'll see. I'm very excited to use it in our cabin to see how it works. The only thing I've noticed is occasional. We lose a
when it tries to switch a satellite and gets confused. And that's like maybe 15, 20 seconds. Yep. And that's like maybe once every three, four, five days, something like that. It's not often. That's not terrible. I mean, considering the technology. I mean, imagine where we used to be. Remember the old dial-up modems, you know, when you log into your AOL and you're waiting. I mean, technology has improved leaps and bounds.
I ran a whole website out of the classroom at Chuyak on a 500-baud modem. Wow. Back in the day. Back in the day. Oh, that is awesome. Oh, that is fantastic. We used to come in the morning and have about 100 sheets of printouts to go through and read who would come on the site and what they wanted to know. Oh, wow. Man, you know, I think back to our first computer we had when I was growing up. It was a Commodore 64. Do you remember those?
Yeah, and, you know, it was just technology has changed so rapidly. And with the invention of AI, I started looking at it. See, this is what happens when we talk to a computer teacher, right? Right. Yeah, but. But it's amazing with technology. I can't even imagine where it's going to be in 30, 40 years. Well, I don't know where it's going to be either, but I think some of the sci-fi programs are probably accurate.
Yeah, I think you're right. That's almost scary there, Dennis. I got a quick question for you, though. So you said you started at the 500 baud. You probably went up to the, what was it, went to 12 or 14, and then we did the... The 32. So through that whole period, did you guys call yourself bodybuilders? Just curious. No. Uh-uh.
It was the Mustang something. I can't remember. That makes sense for Chugiak Mustangs. I can see that. I figured with all that increase in speed and power, you guys were really bodybuilding. Daryl's a really bad joke for the day. So sad. So sad he tries so hard. We were just trying to hang on and read. I mean, we'd come in with 120 pages of printouts. That's crazy. Oh, wow. From people that sent us messages.
And so there was a whole group of us that come in early, and the kids would just read them and kind of catalog them. Well, as always, Mr. Johnson, it's great talking to you. And I hope the weather starts to clear. But where you guys are at, beautiful. The Homer area is the most beautiful part of all of Alaska. I absolutely think it's stunning. So I'm a little jealous, I've got to be honest. I just sent you a couple of pictures.
What the snow looks like down here. Oh, good. I'll look at my e-mail. I'll take a picture. I'll look at your pictures here in just a second. Thank you so much for calling this morning. You made my morning. All right. You're welcome. All right. Talk to you soon. Bye-bye. All right. Let's go to Gary. Good morning, sir. Good morning. I love all this resource development. That's new money. That's a good thing. But, you know, if we don't get a handle on these trawlers,
And they endanger the king salmon. All that's going to be a tough road to hoe. So this is my plan. Good point. Go ahead. I say shut down the trawlers for five years. Shut them down completely. And I believe these... developers of the cold and the minerals and the mining, they need to on their own sponsor hatcheries for king salmon.
that that would be the canary in the coal mine. So if they're doing something wrong, they'll fail in their hatchery. They can readjust and make it. I don't want it to be regulated. I want it to be voluntarily. So now these coal mines and stuff are going to have They're going to work on salmon habitat, and that's going to help them get by because I think those two things are connected, and generally the environmentalists always use one against the other.
But when they combine, they're going to win. But we've got to call our congressmen, our senators, and get them to stop. the trawlers now because in reality they are destroying the economy of the villages and people are moving out of those villages because they have no more canneries You know, you make an excellent point because, I mean, you're taking it two steps further because...
The reality is if the king salmon become listed as like an endangered species, Imagine the ripple effects that could have in Alaska. and oil and gas development and all these other industries, I think you're already previewing the attack that they could make. So I think it's a really good point that you bring up. Gary, as always, very insightful conversation. Thank you for bringing it up.
it up this morning. We're going to go ahead and take a quick break if you'd like to call in 522-0650. We'll be right back. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Wednesday morning. Light traffic currently inbound on the Glen Highway. No major stoppages or slowdowns out there. Wasn't getting the free saw last night, so roads are a bit slippery. Be careful at ice at the intersections, on ramps, off ramps, and bridges.
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the afternoon. For Alaska's weather source, I'm meteorologist Aaron Wilson. You're listening to live, local, and always insightful Morning Drive Radio with Amy Demboski on NewsRadio 650. 522-0650. Welcome back. Current Time 719. Joining the show now is none other than my state senator, Senator Shelley Hughes. Good morning, ma'am. Hey, good morning. I've got a meeting with the MAT2 delegation in my office at 730. So this is a...
Quick call in, but first I have a joke for you. Oh, I love it. Why did the orange stop running halfway up the hill? Why did the orange stop running halfway up the hill? I don't know why. It ran out of juice. I like that one. That ties in because I want to talk a little bit about energy. You were talking earlier with Ken, and then Mr. Johnson called in about energy.
Starlink? Oh, I just want to mention, the cost difference that we're hearing for Starlink versus Fiber for the schools i heard one it was 55 000 a year for fiber compared to 18 000 for starlink so Just, you know, we've got a lot of rural schools out there. It makes a lot of sense. But as far as energy, there's going to be tonight legislative budget and audit is going to be holding a hearing regarding the gas line.
My concern, and Ken brought it up, we need to act fast. We've got Trump opening the door for us. And my biggest concern is that the legislature is going to throw sand in the gears and screw things up. So, you know, we need to be watching. You know, Glen Farn had some past connections. I know they may not be a flawless.
coordinator for this project i don't know we've got to keep an open mind but we've got to move this forward And any hesitation that the legislature is going to create across this nation is not good. Acting fast would be so, so much nicer, Amy, if the Republicans were controlling the House and Senate majorities. But as you know and your listeners know, the Democrats are controlling it.
And I think, you know, when I'm looking politically, strategically, and I step back, I am guessing they would love to delay this. and get their person in the governor's seat so that then they can take credit for doing it. Because they're not really opposed to the gas line. They just want to push back against Dunleavy and Trump. So that's the way I see it. And then I have one other thing I want to mention real quick.
Go for it. We were talking about manufacturing and really getting things going. You need affordable energy. You need a workforce, right? Yep, exactly. You know where we should get that workforce? Here's my idea. This is my latest brainstorm. Right now, one in five Americans is on Medicaid, but guess in Alaska it's one in three, Amy, which is, that's sinful, one in three. So I am all for getting the working-age, able-bodied adult
off of Medicaid, work requirements. We should be training that group up. That is the reason why it's one in three. We should give them every opportunity, every incentive to get trained up. They could have great paying jobs. working on the gas line, working in mining, all these opportunities. I got a letter from a group in Southeast that they don't have enough people.
to take care of the aging population. There's a shortage. There are job openings in the state, and we need to trim those Medicaid rolls down and get those working-age, able-bodied adults. to work in Alaska. So that's my pitch. I'm not sure exactly how we can do it. But I think it would be a great somehow to incentivize them to get off Medicaid. I think we need a step down. I hear employers say that they offer raises to young men that are showing promise.
and they will turn it down because they'll lose their Medicaid. There is something really wrong with that, so we've got to fix that, Amy, and get the workforce we need for all these opportunities. I agree. I couldn't have said it any better. You know, Senator Hughes, I know you have a meeting coming up, so we won't keep you. But we do want to say we appreciate the pushing that you do on a lot of these topics.
You know, people are hungry for leadership in this state. They're hungry for people to speak truth. And I think what Ken mentioned earlier, what you're mentioning now, it's the same thing I've been saying for a little bit now, is I'm really afraid the Alaska legislature is going to let this great opportunity we have with the federal government, the White House, with the Senate. with Congress slip through our fingers, and we may not see this opportunity again in our lifetime.
Yes, and that political, the same political thing, trying to take power in two years, I think they're playing with the education bill in the same way. And by the way, I don't know if your listeners realize But the shortfall, the gap that we have, if we were smart, we'd be looking at reductions. It's only about a 3.2% gap. And any other multibillion-dollar company would be looking to cut the budget, and we're not even looking at that, Amy. So that's something to think about, too.
Thanks for your show. You're welcome. Tell everybody in the MADSU delegation we said hello this morning. We'll do it. We'll do it. All right. Thank you. That's Senator Shelley Hughes. You know, look, I got to be honest with you. It's like we started having this conversation about potential. And imagine if Congress had to negotiate every single deal that is being made on tariffs. I mean, it would be a hot mess. I've got to be honest with you.
And you're going to see some of these weak-kneed Republicans that, you know, I've got to be honest with you, are a little squishy. You're going to see them start to waffle. But in the Alaska legislature, the problem we have is we've elected more Republicans than Democrats. But you have Republicans. Eagle River. What the heck is up with your senator, Kelly Merrick? She has been for years coordinating with the Democrats.
You're going to get more of the same if you elect people like this. So again, when you have Republicans that would rather caucus with the Democrats and put the Democrats in charge of the Resources Committee, the Education Committee, the Finance Committees. When you have Republicans that are willing to put Democrats in charge, you're not going to get cuts. I mean, common sense tells you, like, if you're only about 3% off in your budget, you should be able to cut 3%.
But instead what they want to do is they want to build an institutional formula-driven change to their budgets that are going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars every single year and have no way to pay for it. I mean, that's literally what they're doing in the legislature. When you think about the education bill, adding $1,000 per student to the foundation formula,
You're talking hundreds of millions of dollars every single year. And then the other part they're not really talking about is they want to build into that. A CPI, like an inflation escalator in there, too, so it rises with inflation. I mean, all you're doing is you're going to make it so it's literally the budget is going to be gobbled up by education spending, and you're not going to be able to afford anything else. You're going to end up, you're not going to have a PFD.
You're going to have an income tax. You're going to have a sales tax. They're going to come up with every tax they can think of. There'll be a head tax. There'll be a cruise ship tax. There's going to be an online sales tax. All of these things, and I'm not even exaggerating because all of these things are being talked about in the halls of Juneau. It's insane. It's insane to me. But, you know, here we go. I mean, common sense. And now on the congressional level.
We have some Republicans now in the Senate that are saying, oh, you know, I don't think Trump should be able to negotiate tariffs. All because it's Trump, right? Now, look. Barbara Haney wrote a very good article in Must Read Alaska a couple days ago about the president's authority to... negotiate tariffs. Now, look, this is a delegated authority given to him by Congress, and I recommend you read Barbara's article in Must Read Alaska.
It's an opinion piece. It's under the columns headline. But she does a really good job about talking about where this authority comes from. And I think she does a sensational job. But effectively, once you understand that, think about it from a practical standpoint. If you're going to get into a negotiation, you walk into a room, you get into the negotiation.
And okay, maybe we're doing it through, but look, when we look at what's going on now, there's envoys being sent from countries all over the globe to D.C. right now to negotiate face-to-face with the Trump administration. That's how negotiations are done. I cannot imagine having to negotiate with 435 members of Congress.
You're never going, you can't even get them to agree to secure our borders because politically they have other motives, right? You're never going to be, like, if we have to deal with, if we have to say in Congress, That's the only way you can change your tariffs is with Congress's approval. Look, how many years has it been since they've actually passed a budget? I know. We're all stumped, right? 2007 was the last balanced budget.
Because you look at it, well, it was Newt Gingrich, the Republicans, you know, Bill Clinton will get credit for balancing the budget, but the reality is you had a Republican-controlled Congress, and Newt Gingrich, remember the contract with America when they actually were able to balance a budget. But the reality is now we have seven GOP senators that have signed on to a bill to check Trump's trade authority. And who do you think is, who do you think, just to guess, everyone,
Who do you think we might know that has signed on to orange man bad? We're winning, but we don't want to be winning because we got to curb his authority. He can't get credit for this. Who do you do? Just a guess, who do you think might have signed on to this? Um, you know, I'm thinking Murky. Murky might have done it. Murky did it. Murky did it.
That's right. According to KTSM, this is the article that I'm grabbing. It's on KTSM. And it's coming from the Hill. But seven Republican senators, including Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell, Senator Jerry Moran, he's from Kansas. Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, Tom Tellis from North Carolina, Todd Young, and Susan Collins of Maine. are supporting the Trade Review Act of 2025. The legislation would limit Trump's ability to impose unilateral tariffs without the approval of Congress.
So when we start looking at this, this is what we don't want to see also in Alaska, is we don't want to see the Alaska legislature screw things up. I'm not saying there's not a role for Congress to play. I think there is. I mean, when we start talking about treaties, for example, if we come up with a treaty with Iran, it absolutely should be approved by the Senate, right? That's how the Constitution is written.
Treaties need to be ratified by the Senate. That's how it should be done. I think that's appropriate. And when we start talking, look, the reality is. Trump is already talking about the trillions of dollars of promised investment that has already come back to the U.S. and is coming our direction, the factories that are going to be built here. Look, you can avoid tariffs 100% if you're a foreign country or you're a foreign multinational company.
You can avoid tariffs 100%. All you have to do is build your product in the U.S. And, look, it shouldn't stop with cars. We're all thinking about manufacturing when it comes to, you know, people think about. You know, the things that I buy off of Teemu, right? You're thinking about cars. Those are the first things that a lot of people are thinking about.
Why? Because the United Auto Workers, frankly, is a very strong union that their members vote. And their members voted largely for Trump, by the way. But the reality is we have to think about manufacturing as other things, too. Pharmaceuticals, for example. There's zero reason they shouldn't be made here in the U.S.
And I think that's going to be Trump's next, that's going to be his next play. He's going to tackle, mark my words, he will tackle pharmaceuticals. Because right now we are beholden to China. That is not a good thing for us. When you have a hostile nation that controls your supply chain for PPE, for pharmaceuticals, for rare earth minerals, it puts you in a weak position. It puts you in a vulnerable position. And I'm telling you, Trump is everywhere.
He's doing everything. And here we have Murky and others that are jumping in the mix saying, no, no, no, we need to claw back some of this authority. Why? Because they don't like winning. They don't like it when Trump wins. That's really what it comes down to. So, you know, we'll keep watching it. I hope the Alaska legislature doesn't screw up the opportunity we have in front of us. Please, please, can't we all just get along? But Senator Hughes said it, I think, absolutely correct.
This is all about 2026. This is the debate that's happening. And that's why you're starting to see, you know, basically whether it's talking about education. Whether it's talking about resources, whatever they're talking about, they're all gearing up for the campaign year 2026. It's not just about the control of the house. It's about the governor's mansion. That's really what we're talking about at this moment. And are we going to let this opportunity slip through our fingers? Well,
So let me just say my confidence in the Alaska legislature is not high. So I hope they get it together. I hope they can put Alaska first. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Your morning cup. of Sean. This is the Sean Hannity Morning Minute. For 50 years, we're a bunch of suckers and we've taken this and Donald Trump says enough is enough and says we want free and fair trade.
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Jury deliberations are underway in the trial against a man accused of killing two teenage girls in a car crash in Unalaska six years ago. Closing arguments wrapped up on Monday afternoon in the trial against 23-year-old Dustin Ruckman. 16-year-old Carly McDonald and 18-year-old Kiara Haste were killed.
Republican Congressman Nick Begich of Alaska is among the GOP lawmakers facing a challenge from Democratic leaders in next year's midterms. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released its list of vulnerable targets for the 2026 midterms this week. DCCC Chair Susan Delbeni of Washington State says Begich has broken his...
to Alaskans by supporting the Trump administration, quote, tanking the economy, gutting Medicaid, abandoning our veterans to making everything more expensive. And a woman is recovering after a teenager allegedly body slammed her during a showing of the new Minecraft movie in the Mat-Su area. Alaska's news source says the Valley Cinema employee was...
first day on the job Friday when police say a large group of rowdy teenagers initiated an altercation with theater staff. No charges have been filed. That's the latest. I'm John Fink. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday morning. Traffic's moving pretty well around the anchors. Well, no major stoppages that I can currently see. Roads are a bit slippery. It froze up last night, so be careful.
this glorious Wednesday morning here in Palmer it just now broke 30 degrees so spring is here we're trying to will it in this direction But, you know, we're not quite warmed up yet, Daryl. Not quite. You know, literally in, what are we on, the night? So that means that.
It's guaranteed to be spring because construction season, spring, same difference. It's hitting, guys. It really is. It really is. And I will say, Mr. Johnson, if you're still listening, if you could call us back, we want to give you a different email address because... You may not have my correct email address, so if you could call us back at 522-0650, Daryl's going to give you my personal email address. Daryl uses up email addresses all the time.
We're just doing a little clean up on aisle two. You know, I have to chuckle a little bit, Daryl. Okay, this is a story that I've been trying to... figure out, like, are we going to cover this story? I meant to do it in the 6 o'clock hour because it's a little risqué, but I'm going to change the verbiage of the story because, you know, you're adults. You could handle this story. You know, I'm just pre-warning you and me, be a little risque.
We all remember Fuzzy Butt Gate here in Anchorage. Do we not remember that? We all remember that. You know, here's the thing. It's always a bad idea to send personal pictures of yourself to other people. You know, I remember, I've always said this to people, look, if you write something down, just expect it could end up on the front page of a paper. It could. It could, absolutely. It probably will. Especially if you're somebody in a political position.
Or if it's really good and juicy, I mean, it may end up on the front page of the paper. Well, I saw this story last week, and I was like, you've got to be kidding me. Who is this stupid? So you may have heard this story. There's a North Dakota mayor who had to resign after texting his lunch break video to the city attorney. I mean, come on. What are you doing? You know, okay. And it was quite graphic. Again, I'm being very careful because there could be kids in the car.
But the mayor of a North Dakota city promptly resigned. This is coming from the New York Post. After texting the city attorney a video of himself pleasuring himself on his lunch break. He claims he sent it by accident. My first question... Why are you videotaping that at all? And number one, you're on your lunch. Like, literally you cannot wait till you get home, like, after work. Like, I don't know. Like, I'm not a dude, but I'm just saying.
I question your judgment, and this... What an idiot. He was interviewing for NBC. He wanted to make sure that he could get into NBC. take Peter Toomey's spot in there. I do believe that's who it was that did that during a Zoom meeting. That's the part. What is wrong with these people? What is wrong with these people? It says the now former mayor of Minot, Tom Ross, pulled himself out of office Wednesday after a short...
investigation into the lewd video he sent to the female city attorney in January. He says, I do take responsibility for this mistake. I tried to immediately correct it when it's unable. Again. What is wrong with you? Why are you videotaping yourself? Like, what are you, in your office at lunch? Are you in your car? Like, I have more questions than answers, but my first question is,
What are you thinking? Like, what are you thinking? I mean, this is unbelievable. And I don't know what to say. I look at this and I think, and of all people, you send it to the city attorney. The city attorney. Come on now. He sent it to the Atlantic editor there, the editor-in-chief, because, you know, I was wrong. It was... Jeffrey Toobin from the New Yorker who got suspended for that. So, yeah, he was trying to send that to the Atlantic to get himself a job and stuff.
he got confused i don't even know what to say like some of these people they're all some of these people there's just no hope for some people you know like they they award they they deserve the uh What do you think, an award? Yeah, exactly. I'm like, oh, I just look at it and I just think this is crazy. You know, Daryl also sent me, it was funny yesterday, Daryl, or two days ago, Daryl sent me this.
They're saying China made it, but it's basically making fun of American workers. And they're showing American workers in big factories, you know, like sewing things. And, of course, everybody that they have there is obese. And they're slow. Yeah, the way the video looks, and I laugh because Daryl sends me this. He goes, look at this AI video China's putting out, you know, basically making fun of Americans. And then sure enough, last night I'm doing my show prep.
as the article of China creates AI video mocking American workers after Trump tariffs. China responded to President Donald Trump's tariff threats by creating AI videos showing fat Americans working in warehouses. The videos feature chubby Americans toiling away. in factories went viral on social media, a way to mock the Trump administration's aim of returning manufacturing jobs back to American soil. I don't know if they're going to be laughing so much.
when we do repatriate so many jobs. I've got to be honest with you, the best way Senator Hughes was talking about getting people off of Medicaid, the best way to get people off of social services is to give them an opportunity at prosperity. And that's exactly what Donald Trump is doing. And so, you know, I have no problem. I mean, I laughed at the video. I thought it was pretty funny. Look, I'm a little fluffy. I'm totally cool with it. I mean, I'm hilarious, man. That first guy. Oh, my God.
It was kind of funny, but see, here's the thing between us and the Chinese. Do you think you're going to, look. Here's the thing. Be careful when you poke the bear. Because at the end of the day, the bear is going to turn around. Not only is he going to stand up and growl back, he's going to bite your booty. And so all I'm saying is, you know. Careful, China, because we're coming for you. And the thing about Americans, we like to win.
We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday morning. Traffic's moving pretty well around the Anchorage Bowl. No major stoppages that I can currently see.
Roads are a bit slippery. It froze up south-central with the possibility we'll see some peaks of sunshine throughout the day. Temperature-wise, slowly warming, topping out in the upper 30s and the lower 40s through the afternoon. For Alaska's weather source, I'm meteorologist Aaron Morrison.
Welcome back, Current Time 752. You know, I have to laugh because every now and then I will go on CNN or MSNBC or, you know, one of these. I can't do The View. Like, Daryl watches The View for us and pulls clips because I can't do it because those women are too stupid.
Like, I can't, you know, sometimes it would be fun to sit on some of these panels with some of these commentators that are so deranged. Because I would literally look at them and say, I would just stop and say, are you absolutely stupid? Do you actually believe the BS you're, like, there's no credibility. Like, Adam Schiff opens his mouth and all that, like, I can't even take anything he says seriously because he's a lying scumbag.
I mean, there's no other way to say it. So I'm like, ugh. But, you know, I did my due diligence, and I was listening to Kevin O'Leary talking on CNN, and he was talking about the tariffs with China and all this different stuff. And I've heard Josh Hawley, senator from Missouri, talk about China, too. steals, manipulates. The moment they were let into the World Trade Organization, the WTO, they have never held up their end of the bargain. They cheat.
If you're an American company, if you're any kind of company over in China, they steal your technology. You can't bring them up in Chinese court. There's no opportunity. I mean, and then they take and steal technology. They duplicate it, and then they manufacture it themselves, and then they send it back to the U.S. using slave labor, basically. I mean there's no way to compete with these people on a fair playing field because they don't play fair.
So sometimes you've got to punch the bully in the nose. I'm just saying. You know, and this is the thing when you have the biggest, baddest bully on the, I don't even want to say bully, but you have the biggest, baddest, you know, dude on the block. and you have, you know, the U.S. economy, effectively, you know, we have some leverage here. And finally, somebody's standing up to these, you know, cheating Chinese. And I'm just so tired of the weak...
I almost said a bad word, Daryl. I'm so tired of the weak politicians. Because, you know, we come to a point like, come on, dude, sack up. Oh, it drives me crazy. You want to see something that made me happy, though, to see? Look. I love this. Susie M had the article yesterday in Mustard, Alaska. Navy Vice Admiral fired for insubordination after refusing to display the portrait of the President and Secretary of Defense at the NATO headquarters. Navy Vice Admiral...
Shoshana Chatfield, the U.S. military representative to the Navy Military Committee, was relieved of her duties over the weekend following reports that she refused to hang the portraits. of the President and SecDef at the NATO headquarters. She reportedly told military staff that they would wait out the Trump administration an indication of passive resistance to the commander-in-chief. The dismissal was confirmed by the Pentagon on Tuesday.
Chatfield, 59, has had a 38-year career in the Navy, born and raised in California. She graduated from Boston University with a degree in international relations, blah, blah, blah. Look, here's the thing. You've got to purge the swamp. And I've seen this here. Frankly, I've actually had somebody.
at the state of Alaska when I was doing regulations for the governor They came to me, I'm not even exaggerating, they came to me, they had a hundred regulations that they wanted to put in place, and some of them were the stupidest regulations I've ever seen, and it was all about controlling people and what people couldn't do on state property.
And so I was like, wait a second, this is completely counter to what the governor has indicated. The governor has indicated freedom and access. And literally this union represented employee said to me, that's fine. We'll just outweigh him. We'll just wait until he's gone and then we'll do it. He literally said that to me.
And I'm like, you know, here's the problem. This is the problem. When they're union protected, there's really not that much you can do about it. Well, there's actually a lot you can do about it. But with these executive appointments, these ones that are, you serve at the pleasure of the president, you serve at the pleasure of the governor. Look, next.
You've got to actually have leadership that has a backbone. And what are we seeing with the Secretary of Defense? He ain't playing that game. You know what? They're finding the little rats, and they're making them abandon ship. choose a new career path and I love it I love it and this is exactly
because this bureaucratic mentality of we'll just wait him out because the politician is only here for a short amount of time. We'll just wait him out. Not today, Shoshana. Not today. See you later, Felicia. Oh, good heavens, Daryl. I can't even with these people. All right, that does it for today's show. We appreciate everybody for listening.
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