Today's news is on NewsRadio. The opinions expressed on this show I can't believe it, Daryl. These two, or these three-day weeks, no wait, four-day weeks that they get me every time. I'm telling you what. I know, I know, it's very nice. I mean, I'm not complaining whatsoever, but I can't believe...
May is already practically over. I mean we're in a session. It's over. You're right there. We're in June now. I know. I know. Full out summer. Bring it on. Bring out the barbecues. Time to start some grilling. Bring out. You put your barbecue away? No, not really. I was worried for a second there. No, no, no. It's out on the porch all winter long. No issues. Oh, you know, I gotta tell you, what can I say?
I'm not complaining. I mean, I'm looking at the weather. It looks a little dreary though. I'm just looking at my daily weather report. It doesn't say it's going to rain today, but it looks like it's going to rain today. It's very gray in Palmer right now. Right now, see, I look at the cameras for that area, and there's a beautiful sunrise behind you, but you wouldn't probably be able to see it because it's more of the Hatcher Pass sunrise.
As opposed to the lazy mountain area. But yeah, great. And yesterday, what was with the downpour in the middle of the day, man? I don't know if you got that or not. I didn't notice. Oh my gosh, middle of the day. There was just literally like the clouds cracked open for two minutes. Down par. Gone. It was just like, really? I didn't even notice. I missed it. I had to go out and run some errands for work yesterday, so I was driving around, but it was early. It was around noon.
And it was beautiful. I mean, sun, gorgeous. I had to turn my air conditioning on on the car. I mean, I was like, oh, man. I know, last time I ran an errand, she got really mad and told me to stop it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm looking at the weather, and right now I'm sitting at 43.4 in Palmer. Oh, you're beating me hard. I'm barely 41 degrees in here. Well, it's a converse of yesterday. Yesterday you were much warmer than I was that morning.
As I look around the state, it's pretty nice. I mean, Keena is 40, Big Legs 43, Fairbanks is 48. Fairbanks is supposed to stay at 65 today, but they're supposed to have rain. They look like they're going to be the hot spot for the state, but... But all in all, it's still, you know, it's one of those, it was quite windy out here last night. I don't know if you guys had got the wind in Anchorage, but it was a little breezy out here in Palmer last night. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, as I'm looking around the yard, we have twigs and branches. I think I have to go out and move those before I go to work because George hasn't had to navigate branches and twigs from windstorms in Palmer yet. Yeah, that might confuse him a little bit. He might end up in his hut going, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. But all in all, it looks pretty nice. It doesn't look like it's going to be.
That bad of a day. It looks like it's going to be pretty mild around South Central. As I'm looking around South Central, it looks like the majority of our area is going to be just overcast today. It looks like partly cloudy. The highs are going to be in the low to mid-60s, so not a bad day at all. Looks like it's going to be a decent day. But as I'm looking towards the weekend, it looks like Friday we're going to have rain out here in Palmer.
You know, what do I say? I mean, it could be worse. It could be worse. Get the rain away on Friday. Let us have a good day Saturday. Yeah, I don't mind it when it rains because then I feel like I have an excuse not to have to go out and water all the flowers. Oh man, and yours with them bed baskets. I'll bet you got the big giant hooked hose and everything that you use. I do. I knew it.
And I'm short, so I have to still use a stepstool. I can do it without, I can use the wand without the stepstool, but it's like the tippity top, you know? And I can't quite see if I'm getting it in the basket. I can tell because I'm not squirting water everywhere. But it's easier with a step stool. So I've got a step stool because, you know, I need one. Did you go to Ollivander's to get yours? I did not. I did not have a good Harry Potter reference. Solid. You called him one, so I mean.
Solid Harry Potter reference. I love it. I love it. Well, I suppose I should do some community announcements. There's a few. There's not a ton, but there are a few announcements for this week. As I looked, it is a short week for most, for everybody, actually. It looks like for local governments anyway. So we'll start with the Matsu borough for today, May 28th. They have a Sutton Community Council meeting that's scheduled.
It looks like 7 p.m. tonight it's going to be at the Sutton Public Library. That's the only public meeting other than they have an abbreviated plat this morning. Most people don't care about that except for the people that actually, you know.
are there from the Planning Commission. Yeah, the ones who have to deal with that. Yeah, exactly. But other than that, there's nothing on the calendar for the bad suit. Remember, you only have a couple days left if you want to apply for or get your landfill coupon. I almost said trippin'.
See, I just fall into that raw and light. And if you had, I would have pulled it out. I would have dug it out. I know, I know, I know. But I said coupon. If you haven't applied for it, you have until the end of the month. And what it is is basically a $25 digital. coupons, you can get a free dump. So, It's up to $25. So again, if you overload your load and it's more than $25, you have to pay the difference.
For most people, for an average load, that will cover one free dump. So the coupon is good for a year. All you have to do is go to Matsugov.us. And then just click on the link that says landfill coupon. And they'll ask you for your name, your address, and your email. One per household, $25 value, and it's good for a year. You can use it anytime in the Matsu for a year. So they have all the...
details on it. If you click on it, it'll give you a whole bunch more information on it, but it's pretty straightforward. Again, that's matzoogov.us. You have until the end of May to apply, and then you lose out. So I would say you pay property taxes. You might as well get your free coupon. I say free, but you do pay for it. I mean, I'm just saying.
you know, and your taxes. All right, moving on to the city of Wasilla. City of Wasilla has a special city council meeting tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. That'll be in the Wasilla City Hall Council Chambers, of course, located at... 290 East Turning Avenue in Wasilla. They're going to be deliberating and possible adoption of the FY26 budget. So that will be going on tonight. If you need more information including their agenda, just go to cityofwassala.gov.
We'll skip over the City of Palmer because I didn't see anything on their calendar today, but for the Municipality of Anchorage, The Anchorage Regional Landfill Investment Fund Board has their meeting today. It looks like it's via Teams or phone. So if you want more information, it's going to be at 11 a.m. this morning. You can go to muni.org.
Click on the Mayor's tab, then click on the Events tab, and it brings you to Boards and Commissions. Also tonight, 6 p.m., the Sister Cities Commission has a meeting. That will be at City Hall in the Mayor's Conference Room, which is on the 8th floor, so Suite 830. And that's it for boards and commissions. For the Anchorage Assembly, the only meeting that was scheduled for today has been canceled. So the Quality Municipal Services Ethics and Elections Committee meeting.
was scheduled for today. It has been canceled. So there's nothing on the calendar for that. So there you have it. They do have a special assembly meeting that's popped up for Friday. I haven't dived into that dove. I haven't dove into that. Delved. You would have delved into it. where you're going to dive into it. I've been trying to find it. There's a lot of stuff around it and after it, so I think I've got a hint of what it's going to be about, but there's actually no...
agenda posted. So, it's one of those games. My guess is it's an appropriations item. I wouldn't be surprised if it's something around homelessness. Usually when they pop up special assembly meetings, because they have some sort of appropriation that they didn't
They forgot or they didn't get on the count. Or they didn't want people to know about. It's very short. It's only scheduled for a 40-minute meeting. Because they have a special assembly meeting at 10 o'clock on Friday, followed by... a 1040 work session, And Fridays are typical days for work sessions, so they have multiple work sessions scheduled on Friday. So my guess is it's an appropriation item. It could even be just an item for introductions. So for example, if they want to do something...
Rewrite a code and allow for I don't know allow for tiny homes for example. That's that's what I'm thinking this is about because it's got all those things in it. Well, maybe. I was going to say maybe. Because as you start to look at it, it could be an introduction item, which means that at their next regular assembly meeting, they could take action on it. So it's...
It's something. We'll find out what it is. I'll do some recon today, and then I have somebody I can ask. They'll tell me what it is. Yeah, I'll find out what it is. But they don't have it. They have the public notice for the meeting up. They don't have the agenda up, so we're just speculating.
We have no idea what the meeting is about. Yeah, so we'll see. We'll see. But it is a special assembly meeting, so it's one of two things. It's either an appropriation item or it's an instruction item. I mean, more than likely. All right, so that's it for the Anchorage Assembly. Again, there's nothing today, but they do have a new special meeting that's been popped up for Friday. We don't know what it's about yet, but we will keep tabs on it.
All right, and for the city, oh, let's go, actually, before we go to the city of Kenai, let's go to Kenai Peninsula Borough. The only thing I see on their calendar for today is that the North Peninsula wreck service area meeting that's going to be from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Nakiski Pool. So if you want more information on that, just go to kpb.us and you'll be able to find that.
As far as the city of Kenai goes, they do have a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting tonight. That's going to be at 7 p.m. Of course, that's going to be in the council chambers located at 210 Fidelgo Avenue in Kenai. That's the only thing on their calendar. As far as the city of Saldana goes, we do have a city council meeting tonight. That is going to be 6 p.m., of course, in the council chambers in Saldana. And then for the city of Homer,
Actually, I should say for Saldana, if you want the agenda for their council meeting, all you have to do is go to saldana.org. Now let's go to the city of Homer. For the city of Homer, there's a Port and Harbor Advisory Commission regular meeting scheduled tonight. It starts at 530. That will be at the Cowles Council Chamber, of course, located at 491 East Pioneer Avenue in Homer.
There is a Zoom and a phone link, so if you want to attend virtually, you can do that. If you need more information, including their agenda, just go to cityofhomer-ak.gov. Look to the right. You'll see all the meetings listed. Just click on the meeting that's interesting to you. And then it'll bring you to the home landing page with all the contact information on how to attend and their agenda. That really does it for our local government.
meetings that are happening today. If you know of a meeting that people should know about, we're always happy to plug it. All you have to do is give us a call. Number's 522-0650. We're going to go ahead and take our first break in the morning. When we come back, we will jump into the headlines of the day. Looking at the Alaska total traffic cameras on a Wednesday morning. Currently steady traffic inbound on the Glen Highway. No major stoppages or slowdowns out there. Once you're in town...
Little bit of a slowdown at Bonapace. Some breezy conditions possible later this afternoon with showers and thunderstorms looking likely. For Alaska's weather source, I'm meteorologist. Welcome back. Current time, 623. I don't know, y'all. This was awesome. I mean, it was bad. When I say awesome, I don't mean good. I mean, unbelievable. Like, wow. Like, really? So, like, totally awesome. That's what you have to tell, like, totally awesome, dude. Dude. Dude. Like, I get
I don't need 20 million to speak to dudes, but I'm just saying. I can figure it out. You know, the Daily Caller has the article up. I watched the video, and I was just sitting there shaking my head last night. Video appears to show Secret Service agents brawling in front of Barack Obama's house. Did you see this video? I actually did not. Unbelievable. Two female Secret Service Uniform Vision Officers.
brawled in front of former President Barack Obama's Washington DC residents according to a video published by RealClearPolitics on Tuesday. Originally, the outlet published an audio clip from a recorded Secret Service line. And I'm going to adjust one word. I know I'm allowed to say it on the air, but I'm not going to. Instead of the A word, I'm going to say but. Okay, so just know I'm editing the quote.
It says the audio clip from the recorded Secret Service line of one of the female agents requesting a supervisor's presence, quote, She, quote, whoops this girl's butt. A female officer who made the call was upset that her shift replacement was late.
and engaged in both verbal and physical aggression toward her when she arrived at the shift according to the Real Clear Politics report. I mean, you can't even, you can't even break, you can't even. I didn't even think it was late. I thought it was going to be something like
A Hillary supporter versus a Michelle supporter. You know, one of them supported Hillary. One was talking to Michelle. And then we're going to duke it out. But because she's late? I know. Secret Service, you need to look over your guys again. I know. I'm just looking at this. Susan Crabtree, she must be a reporter because she has, it looks like a title of an article. But it links in this article, it links to this ex-post, and it said, Scoop, is DEI still plaguing the Secret Service? Yes.
Fracas outside Obama residence raises new questions. Get a supervisor immediately before I whip this girl's butt. And then it goes on to talk about the lack of professionalism was on display during the fight. And in a call, one of the women made on the recorded Secret Service line to request Supervisor to come to the scene immediately before she whips this girl's butt. The woman officer who made the call was upset that her shift replacement was late and assailed her verbally.
And physically, when she finally did arrive to relieve her, audio, you can find the audio on X, but I saw the video too. And, you know, it's not... It's not just like, it's not, it's a, it was actually an assault. I mean, that's what it was. It was an assault. Yeah, this don't sound like a fight. I mean, yeah. It was an assault. There were incidents raising new concerns among fellow Secret Service agents and officers about the agency's lowering of hiring standards during years of major DEI push.
and added more minorities and women to the ranks under the previous Secret Service Director, Kimberly Cheadle. Cheadle resigned, of course, after the January 13th assassination attempt, Donald Trump. I will tell you, you think you're lowering standards, but I'm just saying. If you're going to act a fool, you shouldn't be a Secret Service agent. Read that statement again from the lady, though, about...
You said it just a minute ago. Is it due to DEI hires? Is it due to DEI hires? I don't think it is. The way she phrased it, it makes it sound like... This is what she says. The incident is now raising concerns among fellow Secret Service agents and officers about the agency's lowering of hiring standards during the years of major DEI push to add more minorities and women to the ranks. So adding women or minorities does not lower standards, okay? Lowering standards
lowered standards. So, when they say, well, it's because we brought in women and immigrants or whatever you want to call it, that's not what it is, because they can have high standards also. Women have extremely high standards. Yeah, look, there's, I'm sure, great women that serve in the Secret Service.
But when you have a cab fight in front of a former president's residence and you're mad because, I mean, to me that's a judgment call. It's a bad, it's a bad, it demonstrates your bad judgment to your point. Or when you can't get your gun in your holster. It's, yeah, exactly. It's not the fact that you're a woman, it's the fact that you're acting a fool. Bingo. And I get that, but it's just like whenever, you know...
Whenever a Republican does something and you're like, oh man, you're just making us all look bad. Now, as a female, it makes you look like, come on, a catfight really? Give me a break. But again, I wouldn't even call this a catfight. I mean, one of the agents was late.
Yes, I don't know what the reason was. You have no idea. She could have been, you know, she could have been doing something very important. You have no idea. But the other agent who assaulted her, assaulted her. So, I mean, whoever. That chick, I've got to be honest with you, clearly doesn't have the temperament to be a Secret Service agent. Bingo. You nailed it right there. So, I'm just saying, you know, do you think this is going to fly in the world? of
of the Trump administration? I don't think so. My guess is she's going to be finding a new career in the near future, but when you see the video, you see, I mean, Come on. You get on the radio and you say, I'm going to whoop this girl's butt. Really? Really? Somebody was clearly having a bad day. And I think it was showing. So I saw it, though, and I just shook my head. I was like, you've got to be kidding me. But in other news, there is good news, though, and I didn't get to this yesterday.
But a Doge update. I have a Doge update for you, Daryl. Doge has officially been able to help and assist, identify lots of people on Social Security that shouldn't be there. For example, We know in the United States we don't have anybody who's over 120 years old that lives in this country. What? Yep. So, Doge update. Social Security officially has removed 12.3 million individuals listed age 120 and over.
Bingo. 12.3 million. I mean, I'm not saying they all got Social Security benefits, but even if 10% of them got Social Security benefits, Like, this is great. It says right here, Social Security has removed from its roles 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years or older, according to DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency.
The discrepancies in Social Security figures and the alarming age of some of the individuals listed have garnered national attention over the last several months. Yeah, they should. So we'll see here. It says right here on Doge's own page, it says for the past two weeks, Social Security has begun a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 3.2 million number holders, all listed age 128 plus.
have now been marked as deceased. More work still to be done. So they're showing on X. I'm trying to see the picture here. They're trying to show the breakdown of all the counts. It's a lot. It's crazy. 120 to 129, 3.4 million. 130 to 139, 3.9 million. 140 to 149, 3.5 million. And 150 to 159 years of age, 1.3 million people. I mean, come on. So, but you know what the left is going to do? The left, the progressives, the mainstream media, this is going to be, we told
Donald Trump is cutting people from Social Security. He is wiping people off. taking people's We told you he was going to do this. Only dead people. Only dead people. Only dead people. Those are voters for them. That is a voting bloc that you cannot just get rid of dead people. Yeah, exactly. It's the same with when they're coming down on Medicaid. They're screaming. Oh my gosh.
Medicaid and they're wiping out all these people's coverage. Only the fraudsters. Well, the fraudsters can. They're telling the people that are I'm perfectly able to work adult, mostly males, okay, that know you have to have some kind of work. There's going to be a work requirement. Either you're working. And it's not that hard of a requirement. From what I saw, it's 80 hours a month.
Okay. Get off your tail. Get a job. Get a job. I have a job. I have two jobs. Get a job. So even if it's only 20 hours a month, then you can be on Medicaid, Medicare. But if you're not willing to even give that, they're cutting you off. This is standard practice from 10 years ago. That was normal. I mean, look, I mean, this is it. Democrats just need a talking point. They're still trying to find their way.
Well, you know, like I've got to tell you, they have done incredible work in a very short amount of time. As we're looking at it right now, like I said, I mean, I'm looking now at their most recent updated tweet. And you start looking at this age bucket. I mean... Okay, the smallest group. has 124,170 people in it, that group, people between the ages of 160 and 169. I mean, they've now been marked as deceased. I think that's appropriate.
And why is it important that they're marked as deceased? Because then people can't use their social security number to try to defraud, like sign up, defraud the system, because obviously now there will be an alert if somebody signs up to get a tax return, for example. under some deceased person's Social Security number. Social Security now has them marked as deceased and it won't
And it will raise a flag, let's put it that way. I mean, this is common sense stuff. What about all the government retirement? Have they looked at any of the government retirement programs and said, not necessarily the actual government retirement ones. Here's the problem. When they did their DOJ interview, they did a great interview. When they had all these different heads of people that were collaborating and helping with DOJ, the government systems didn't talk to each other.
So this is the problem you have. So if somebody signs up for a small business loan, And then in Social Security, maybe, Has that marked as deceased or not?
I mean, you may not see in the Small Business Administration, you may not see that. And so that's one of the things they're trying to fix is they're trying to make it so these government systems can talk to each other. So once somebody is marked as deceased, in their system as Social Security, then other government agencies will also recognize them as not a legitimate application.
So that's one, that's like, I think the next step, but that's exactly where they're going. So that will link in, you know, their retirement systems and all of those things. It should, and that's the whole point they're going for is to clean up the systems. and then link them together. The Doge interview, if you haven't watched it, it was a really good interview. Was it Sean Hannity who did it? I do believe it was. I do believe it was Hannity. And like I said, with the guys they had on there,
It was incredible learning what companies they were from and what they gave up to come help. Yeah, exactly. It was fantastic. But this is what you have. You have a bunch of tech giants and very successful business people. And all they're really doing, they're not, this isn't revolutionary. They're introducing normal business practices to government operations. I mean, these are standards of practice in my world.
Like, I watch some of the things that they're talking about. I'm like, yeah, that's like bread and butter. It's pretty standard. But that's what they're doing now is they're implementing You know... general, wide industry standards in the private sector to the government, and it's called accountability. It's really not complicated. It's really not complicated. All right, we're going to take a quick break. If you'd like to call and be part of the show, 522-0650.
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to have closure. Troopers recovered Wrench's body after a private pilot reported seeing his body near the mouth of the Susitna River on Thursday. A Pentagon mega project gets underway in Anchorage this summer. The mega project is set for the Joint Integrated Test and Training Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The purpose of the project is to enhance
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This is News Radio 650, KENI, Anchorage. Looking at the Alaska total traffic cameras on a Wednesday morning. Currently steady traffic inbound on the Glen Highway. Welcome back. Current time is 641. Well, Bob texted me. I had to go check on George. Oh. So, for those that don't know, my in-laws live... It lives downstairs. When we built this house, we built it with a mother-in-law apartment. So, Mary and Bob live downstairs. Oh, I thought it was Bob and we, but okay. Yeah, but Bob is, he is...
He's always up early, early, early. And he's like, is George working? So I had to look at my app on my phone, because now I have the app on my phone. I'm like, yeah. And I screenshotted the GPS map where I can see him on the lawn. And I can track his movements. And I screamed. So I said, yep, he's out there. And he's like, oh, OK. And so then during the break, I had to go look just to make sure visually I could see him. I'm like, yep, George is out there working.
not really trumping the the technology. I know, I was like, let me just make sure. But yes, I had to go out on the porch and make sure I could see George. Yeah, George is doing a lot of work already. We did also have a caller call in and let us know. It was Doug, thank you for this, Jesse Waters. is the show that it was on. It was on. Ah, thank you. Thank you. And I did the same thing. It was like, you're right. Yes, yes.
Yes, yes. I was trying to remember. It's been, I don't know, three or four weeks. It's been a little while. Well, it's been longer than that. But it was a fantastic interview. If you haven't watched, I highly recommend you find it on YouTube or Google it or whatever, but I thought it was a very good... I was going to pull audio clips. I did pull a couple audio clips from it, actually, and we played a couple. Yeah, but it was a very good interview because it gives you context.
All they want to talk about is the nickname Big Balls. That's all they want to talk about and try to make it sound like there's five kids from college that are helping. And it's really not. There's a bunch of tech giants. There's a bunch of very successful businessmen.
People that, frankly, have been very successful in the private sector and have a clue. And they're taking these basic... everyday business processes in the real world and applying them to the government, which is erasing you know a lot of inefficiency I mean, hence the name, Department of Government Efficiency. So, no, it was a fantastic, it was a fantastic, Jesse Waters, yep, that was a fantastic interview. All right, let's go to the phones, and Randy is with us.
Oh, hang on one second. My phones are doing their thing that they do. Okay, let me get there and there. Okay, now there. Okay, now we got Randy. Good morning, sir. Happy hump day. Hump day! I love hump day. Because you know what? It's like pre-Friday. It's like pre-pre-Friday. We're almost there. We're almost there. Yesterday I lost you all together when I... Everything was gone. Yeah, I was going to say we had some
We had some tech issues for the first half hour yesterday. But then starting at 6.30, we got it all sorted. So it was a little, you know, sometimes on live radio, you just got to roll with it. You know, you just got to roll with it. You know, it's long weekends. Yeah, that's it. What's on your mind this morning, sir? Well, a first joke and then a question. The joke is, how does an alligator feel after you ate the bird? How did the alligator feel after he ate the bird? I don't know. How?
Oh, congrats. All of me, crap. Yeah, I got it. That was cute. My daughter called me yesterday, and, you know, she's in Utah, and all she called to tell me was one dad joke, and then she's like, okay, I gotta go, and she hung up on me. Okay, what do you call a fish with no eye? Did it offend a fish with no eye? That's a hard way to pronounce, too.
I know it is, and I had to really enunciate it on the radio. A fish with no I, it's like if you're, sorry, I have to explain this so everybody gets it in case you didn't understand. Fish with no I, spell out the word fish, take out the word I, and just leave the consonants. That's it. Fish with the line. Gracias por ver el video.
I know it's a tough one, but she thought it was hilarious, and I told her, I said, I'll do that one on the radio tomorrow. She was very excited, and then she's like, okay, I gotta go, and she hung up on me. I'm like, okay. Kids. Kids! What are you going to do? All right. What is on your mind today, Randy? I appreciate your telling me that the Social Security is cleaning up the system. My question being is, once that's cleaned up, would that extend the Social Security of... Uh...
Well, here's the reality. What DOJ is doing right now, in my view, shores up the Social Security system because it's eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse. So what it means is there would be more money there for the actual beneficiaries that are eligible for Social Security. ¿That makes sense? Yeah, I mean...
This is what they're doing. Even if you have a million people that are siphoning off money that they're not entitled to, it leaves less money for those who are eligible for actual Social Security. So by getting rid of the fraud, waste, and abuse, All it's doing is it's creating more security for those people who actually are eligible legitimately. to get Social Security. So I think the efforts at Doge, I mean, frankly, everybody should be praising it. And this is why it's so perplexing to me.
It's not perplexing at all. It's politics. But the reality is both sides, Democrats and Republicans, should be cheering eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse, making systems more efficient. They should be cheering, but they're not going to cheer it because everything orange man does is bad. That's what they're going to tell you. They all have Trump derangement syndrome. It's all politics.
No matter what Trump does, they have to try to pick it apart and make it seem like it's something bad. Because that's their only shtick. That's all they got. But I remember when Social Security had its own little saving account similar to the PFD thing. And during the Clinton administration, they changed that to the to a general, um,
account. In other words, what I'm trying to say is allow Congress to dip into the Social Security Fund to pay the bills, similar to what the PFT is being done in Alaska. or changes, and I can develop you up quicker. Yeah, I will tell you, look, and this is the problem you have with politicians always. Whenever there's a big kitty of money, whenever there's a big pot of money out there, What happened is, you know, they start
saying, well, you know, we could just borrow from it. We could just use this little bit, just this little tiny percentage for this. Oh, well, now, you know, we really have this really important need, so now let's use a little bit more of it. I mean, this is the the problem with Social Security. I mean, effectively, when you look at it, I mean, Social Security is not a solvent system by itself because politicians have raised it.
I mean, the reality is, will they continue to pay benefits as long as they can and they're going to borrow to do it? They will, but you have got to make it more efficient and you've got to find a way to get politicians out of it because there will come a point where there's more people
pulling from it that then are paying into it, and that becomes a solvency issue. And that's why you see discussions around every, I don't know, 20 years, 15 years or so, you'll see people have discussions about raising the age of social security. you'll start talking about
potentially adjusting benefits in Social Security, well, because they have a math problem. They have more people drawing from it that are paying into it, and politicians have raided it, and so the money is not there like it should be. It's a basic math issue. And so what are they going to do? Well, politicians will put off dealing with it as long as possible because it's not a political winner. And then it'll just expose their generations.
I'm robbing it, so... I mean you're making a really good point. But, you know, that's why I say these efforts at DOGE on every level, I don't care if it's Social Security, the Small Business Administration, the Department of Defense, you know, the EPA, wherever DOGE is going, it's all necessary in every government. agency, we see the levels of fraud, waste, and abuse, I think beyond what any American ever imagined they would be. It is absolutely unbelievable. And why? Because
Frankly, the status quo has always been the status quo in government work, and nobody's held their feet to the fire. I mean, when's the last time the DOD actually passed an audit? Never. It's been a long time. I can't even remember. That's how long it's been. And the reality is we see what USAID was. USAID was clearly a black, off-the-record budget for the CIA. clearly is what we're seeing. And it was unaccountable to no one. And the reality is they should be accountable to Congress.
Congress has the job of financial oversight. And the reality is for generations now, you can't even blame it on one president, one person. For generations, this sloppy accounting and unaccountability has been allowed to exist by Congress.
I mean, because they effectively are the ones responsible. All right, we're going to go ahead and take a quick break. Randy, thank you so much for the call this morning. I appreciate it. We'll be right back. Looking at the Alaska total traffic cameras on a Wednesday morning. Currently steady traffic inbound on Tuesday. on NewsRadio. E aí Welcome back, current time, 6.55. You know, as we were just talking about Social Security, I have an article up from USA Today.
And this is, I keep saying there's a math problem. And when you look at the number of people on Social Security or going to be on Social Security, the problem is, it's like... You know, Nick Baggage got blasted for calling it like a big Ponzi scheme. It is. But when you look at it, you have people on the top that have paid in, that are pulling out. But then the people that are feeding into it, frankly, don't have to.
Right here, the trustees have warned of a long-term funding obligation shortfall. In other words, the trustees forecast cumulative income received in the 75 years following the release of the report. Here we have it. which our fall was estimated at $23.2 trillion in 2018. So, I mean, this is the problem you have is you're going to have more people pulling from the system.
that are adding to the system. It's a basic math issue. You can't spend more than you're taking in, and that's the problem they have long-term. It's an issue for a different day. Let's go ahead and take another quick break. When we come back after the top of the hour, we'll get into some more of that.
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I love it. I love all things free. You know what else I love is Dr. Farr. Dr. Farr, she's tuned in because I almost texted her last night, but I realized it was too late because I was going to ask her if she could call in. And here she is. She's reading my mind. Good morning, Dr. Barr. Hey, good morning. So, yeah, a lot of things are going on with Trump. It's very difficult to keep up with him and all these wonderful people he has in his cabinet.
Anyway, the Maha report came out, and so it lists different things that they're going to be addressed. with regard to health with our youth and stuff like that. And so I thought I would take a minute to kind of go over that right now. Yeah, that'd be great. So anyway, diet is a big thing. Addressing so poor diet, ultra-processed foods dominate children's diets.
lacking essential nutrients. So that's one of the things they're going to be addressing. Two is environmental chemical exposure to plastics and chemicals that are parts of daily life. but the cumulative exposure may have long-term consequences. Three is the lack of physical activity, which seems to have eliminated a lot of the physical activity, especially in our elementary schools. So I was glad to see that, and also chronic stress.
So the technology-driven lifestyles contribute to declining mental and physical health. So they're going to be trying to limit screen time in kids and stuff like that. And then over-medication, rising prescription rates treat symptoms without addressing underlying issues.
So those are four of the major things that they're going to be addressing the first. They're also investigating when the COVID vaccine should actually be given to people, and they're going to try and eliminate it from the children's schedule and just to seniors.
Those are all positive things that are happening because there was a study that came out recently that they think there were over 470,000 vaccine injuries from the Pfizer vaccine alone. I personally saw more injuries from the Moderna vaccine. But I haven't seen the stats on that one. So anyway, I think these are all really good things. They said the COVID vaccine will still be available to over 100 million Americans. that are older.
but they're going to limit it in children because we don't know about the long-term consequences and also in pregnant women. And then I know they're going to be reviewing the vaccine schedule, maybe splitting some of the vaccines apart. So we get better efficacy in maybe eliminating some of them that aren't so efficacious or some of them that were never really studied. before they were given to people. And so with all this rise in autism, it's going to be a really big
change to the vaccine schedule, and I'm hoping that they will come out with that. They're thinking September, October when that will be out. And the other thing that crossed my radar is apparently the Department of Justice is investigating some of the largest medical journals in the United States to find out why they hid alternative treatments as being safe and effective for COVID.
and also why they refused to publish articles about vaccine injuries. So anyway, there's a lot of things going on behind the scenes, and it's going to be very interesting to see how this all falls out. Oh, absolutely. Well, I think this is part of the reason why there's so many people that we're so excited about.
Trump, because he really tapped into something. I think especially young parents, young people, there's a lot of people out there that are very interested in healthier choices and, you know, what is going on with our food supply and what is going on with these high
these high rates of autism, I think he tapped into a demographic of people that maybe aren't necessarily politically super... you know super aligned with one side or the other but they really do care about you know a healthy lifestyle and healthy choices for their kids and
And they're seeing a trend. For example, you look at the U.S. food supply versus European food supply, and there's a lot of things we allow in our food that they don't allow in their food in Europe. And I think people, especially in the years where people travel a lot, they can see the difference. And they start asking the question why? And I think it's legitimate. Well, I agree 100%. I mean, it was really interesting. You know, when I go to Europe,
Only a few cereals that you actually see in the grocery stores and stuff over there. And so they have quite a different lifestyle. And those do not have nearly the amount of preservatives and everything else. Even brands like Post and different things that are Kellogg's that are over there, there's a huge difference in the quality of product. And I always feel better.
when I eat stuff over there than I do here in the U.S. And so, anyway, especially, you know, when you walk down, I mean, there they have like three brands of cereal and that's it. The rest of the aisle is, you know, different things. Here we have hundreds of cereals that are, you know, mostly food dye and sugar with very little nutrition. And so especially for our kids.
it is really concerning what we're doing. So I'm really happy that this is, and I'm hoping the cereal manufacturers will get on board and actually start producing healthier cereals without all these additives and ingredients in them. Yeah, no, I agree with you. I mean, I will be honest. Every now and then, it's very rare. It's like maybe once a year. I do get a hank rinse for some Fruity Pebbles. But I know. I'd be willing to trade those.
for something that's long-term, sustainably more healthy than, you know, just nothing but sugar and dye, because that's effectively, I think, what they are, but there you have it. I think RFK Jr. has really tapped into something that a lot of Americans care about, which is a safe food supply and not being in a choice where everything you're ingesting has all these chemicals in it. Yes, and there's two other things we're having are
Next conference. It used to be a COVID Alliance conference. Now it's the last one for personal freedom. But anyway, it's going to be October 11th, and it's going to be a one-day conference in the Wendy Williamson Auditorium on UAA. So people need to save that date. That's really important. And then, you know, we'll have to watch the legislature for, you know, next year to see what kind of medical bills they're trying to pass.
So anyway, those are things that are coming up. And then there's supposedly a new strain of COVID coming out of China. people can stay in touch with the FLCCC website and also Alaskans for Personal Freedom website. And if there's changes in direction in terms of how much ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine,
whether Tamiflu works. I mean, we'll just be updating the websites, and they will be updating theirs in terms of the latest treatment for this new strain. But they call it razor blade throat, and apparently... It just hit New York City. That sounds terrible. Our hospitalization is not nearly as bad as the original COVID, but these guys are still monkeying around with these viruses, and I'm glad to see Trump is.
trying to end that by stopping the gain of function. But the U.S. exported this technology to the world, basically, and so anybody can do it now. So anyway, we're going to be... dealing with modified viruses and things for a long time. So I think they're going to be one of the new weapons of this warfare that's going on, you know, including drones, bio-warfare, and things like that. So people just need to get prepared. Wow. It's our emergency kit.
Where are we at with treatment for long COVID? Because I know I've still talked to people that are still saying that they have dealt with symptoms even years after they've had COVID. Is that something that... but still there's techniques now that we have learned to try to treat some of these symptoms? Oh, definitely. I mean, I'm using ivermectin long-term in a lot of people. I mean, I'm on it. I was exposed to it.
thousands of people during COVID that, you know, we kept them all alive and stuff. But so ivermectin long-term uses can be used for cancer, can be used for long COVID, can be used for COVID vaccine injuries. And then we do the nato kinase. bromelain and curcumin, and Dr. McCullough has actually come out with something called the Ultimate Spike Support now. that is higher doses of these, too.
It doesn't have the green tea that caused my tremor to get worse. But anyway, it seems to be a really good thing to take with this. Or there's other things like clean nutraceuticals that has a natokinase, lumbar kinase. and seropeptidase, and those are all things that help break down the spike protein because in some people, either from COVID itself or the COVID vaccine, this spike protein keeps replicating in them and causing symptoms much like mono did with chronic fatigue syndrome.
And so we have to use ivermectin long-term and the proteases. the curcumin and bromelain also to help break down the spike protein in people. But I actually kind of did an informal study of 13 patients that came in with long COVID. and went back and did a retrospective study, looked at their charts and stuff. And I had most of them better, between 70% and 80% better after about six to eight weeks.
with most of them achieving at least 90%. And the other thing that I'm adding on now is HBOT therapy, so hyperbaric oxygen treatment. And that also seems to help. And there's other things that other people are doing too. And so, again, the wellness company, FLCCC website. And then just personal physicians that have experience treating this are kind of coming up with different remedies to this.
Wow, you know, there's so many different places where people can go. So the wellness company, you've mentioned them. You've also mentioned the FLCC website. If people, remind us what the FLCC stands for. It's frontline critical care. for COVID, I think was what the original website was. But, you know, they're addressing cancer. They're addressing a lot of different things now. besides just COVID, but they are keeping people updated.
Yeah, on new treatment protocols. If people want to call your office, if they want to sit down and talk with you, what's the best way for them to do that? It's just 907-562-4045. Perfect. Dr. Farr, as always, full of lots of good information. We appreciate your time this morning. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you so much. That's Dr. Ilona Farr again. If you'd like to reach out to her and make an appointment with her, you can. You can call 907-568.
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