Welcome to hum Day, everybody. I am Tony Vaneeddi Long with Dave Jennings, Dight Witten, Johnny from the News. How is everybody doingired? Fabulous? Are you tired? I'm tired today. That's okay though. Uh, We're gonna have a good day. We'll all have a good day. Ready to rock and roll. And I'm going to start Dwight's day off with a bangle we now jcps. Yeah, Well do you want to feel I know you're tired. Do you want to wake up? Because we can go right
for Marty Polio if you like. Boy. Yeah, an interesting press conference yesterday. Look, if I'm made almost four hundred thousand dollars a year being an utter complete failure, I might fear an audit as well. I don't, of course it is, And I don't know what the audit, how the audit can be skewed in a different way. Isn't an audit just an
audit? Well, this here's where we spend money. And this is a follow up to a twenty fourteen deep dive audit that was required by the state and that was damning enough, right, and now this audit is going back to see if the changes that were recommended to be implemented by the state, and by that twenty fourteen i OpEd helped and have been been used. Yeah, but here's what we know, Okay, we know that the cost of JCPS goes up year after year after year on the backs of the taxpayers draining
our paychecks. If you look at your property tax, look the most expensive line and it's gonna make your heart stop. It's the JCPS. So the money goes up, but performance goes down every year. It's broken. Everybody knows it's broken. And if they're fearing an audit, it's because they don't want the truth to come out. We have a lot of fat asses at the Van Who's Center with some big salaries that are just useless jobs. Some
of our duplicate or triplicate jobs. Oh, I've got a Marty Polio comment on what you just said with the fat salaries at the Van Hu Center. Uh uh he actually he actually was talking about one hundred thousand dollars salaries. He said that today that in that like ten its equivalent to like seventy five thousand dollars four years ago. Wait a minute, let me let me rebuttle with Tony's comment, Yeah, huh, all right, he's anti new audit,
he's anti splitting up the district. I guess he's whatever the board says he is. That's exactly right. No, that's exactly right. And again defending failed policies, I think is just that's what I have a problem with. I don't have a problem with new policy, but I do have a problem as when it's obviously glarely glaring a failure, then just go, well,
I didn't work. Let's try something different. I don't understand of doubling down on a bad idea he could claim positively were researchers at Harvard somehow determined we did a good job after COVID. No, no, no, no, that's not what he said. That's the he said. I know where I was going to bring this up. Dave, good for you, because he said, faster than the rest of the state. Well, okay, do you know why, because they had fallen fall further than the rest of
the state. Yes, okay, that's like okay, that's I mean, yes, I know because because mister Polio, because you all did such a terrible job during COVID, those thousand dollars laptops disappeared, what percentage of kids disappeared. Not your fault. I'm not saying that's your fault. I'm saying that that's what happened, and grades wore abysmal so bad that yes, you recovered better than the rest of the districts because the rest of the districts did
a better job at it. That's like bragging about a five percent dropping the murder rate, ignoring the two hundred percent increase. Come on, exact, Come on, you haven't been held in your feet to the fire on the on the number of tardis and or truancy that's going on, and he's the worst district in America. He took issue yesterday. I don't know how much
of his address you heard. He did take issue during a segment where he rebutted a lot of what he called I can't remember what he said what he said it was, but one of the things he said was he kind of kind of uh took took a jab at the people that say that, oh, it's just quick solutions, easy easy fixes, and said that it's not in these it's these easy fixes that people claim are there are going to fix what's going on. Let's start with the audience. Listen, listen, listen.
It's it's quite an easy fix. Concentrate on education instead of all that other business, the stupidity in forced discipline, and that means bringing back suspensions and expulsions and let a child go to the school right next to their blanking neighborhood. Almost cussed. It's it's quite easy. The solution is quite simple. Let's try those things first. Yeah, and you could. You could tell he was just just below the surface he was with some of the stuff
he was responding to. There was there was a little bit of I don't know if i'd say anger, but while he was responding to it, he was a little testing. And he admitted at the end of his rebuttal of some of the rumor mill stuff out there as he I think that's how he referred to it. I'm paraphrasing. He said, Okay, thank y'all for putting up with my with a snarky portion of my address. I heard that. So he then got into equity and talked about if you break up the
district, then the equity would not equal. Well, I would say that the equity doesn't equal now because everything is going to the west End. The newest schools built, the last three are in the West End, right. The newest school built in the East End was Ballard High School over fifty years ago. Did I understand him right? Yesterday? I think I heard that part correctly, that he said they're building the first schools in the West End
in ninety years. Okay, so the newest schools there. Okay, then you're putting another fifty four million dollars into the boys which is in Newberg, right, and they're upgrading Atherton, oh Atherton. Yes, on that. I saw a story in the National News where somebody donated fifty million dollars to the Ohio State University. With that fifty million dollars, they're building an eight hundred plus bed hospital fifty million dollars. Fifty four million dollars to renovate a
school. It's no secret they spent way too much money on the newest schools. They just built with geothermal floors that'll pay off in thirty years. So yeah, well they're going to use it. One hundred and twenty. Spend way too much money on these new schools. In the construction court, you know that when it comes to the taxpayers paycheck. It's only money, the hard working men and women of Jeffson County. So they use the excuse that
the district is too large for their problems. But then they say they can't break it up. It makes no sense. It talks out of both sides. That you know what, one of my favorite things they like to say. He likes to say specifically, and also the mayor sometimes that this is a national problem. Jcps's problems aren't. Not every school district is like this, And by saying that, you're saying you can't do anything about it. So let's pay somebody fifty thousand dollars to do his job. That's the case.
Great idea, Dave, Yeah, that's a great idea for almost four hundred thousand dollars a year. To be a complete failure, it have to be a problem solver, not just a board hack. I think when we talk about people that get elected or they put in these positions and we think, oh my gosh, okay, this might be the answer. Good people just get worn down. Okay. I look back at Greg Fisher as a miserable failure and maybe the worst mayor in the history of this city. He
started out Gangbusters came in like a business person. He's fired eight or nine people making over one hundred thousand dollars a year so that we don't need them. And he was rocking and rolling. Everything was rolling, he was everywhere, Louisville was moving. And then all of a sudden, I think these little groups start to get their nails in them, right, so then after a while they wear them down. The death by a thousand cuts, they
wear them down. I'm worried about Craig Greenberg because he started out Gangbusters B plus first year, but will he get worn down? Marty Polio came into the job. He was the only administrator, the non administrator management type. He started as a teacher, went to a principal, was an athletic director, boots on the ground guy. We celebrated. We went, if JCPS has a chance, it's him that's going to do it. And then I think over the years, the groups, including the board, wore him down
to where you see what you got yesterday. He's been there and I was optimistic about him too, Tony, and I was thinking, well, maybe we're going to bring back vocational schools for kids like me that you know, couldn't study, but then excelled in vocational school. Thought well, this is our guy. But then it quickly turned into the same principle that had SROs at his Jaytown High School was denying other high schools. SROs, this is
a former principle that lost his principles. Yes, and it's so and it's so hypocritical. When you want to see one of these clown board meetings and they're protected by l MPD. But when comes to your children, they the groups wear you down. Okay, they wear you down. Let me ask you a question about your business, your soul. No, hang on,
hang on, hang on. So at work, who is treated better the people that always say yes to extra work and never complain and show up on time or the people the squeaky wheel that always complains always doesn't get any extra work because they're always complaining and they get all the advantages, which squeaky wheel. Squeaky wheel, of course squeaky And so that's what these groups do to leaders. These small groups are just always just kneel what about us, what
about us? What about us? What about us? What about us? What about us? The ankle biers begin to wear you down, and it wears you down to where you're just like, oh my god, do what you want. And I can imagine. You know, I had forgotten about it till yesterday. Didn't realize it been there a lot long. But he became the superintendent the year that I moved here, coming back from Germany twenty sixteen. He's been the superintendent for seven years now, and I can imagine
how that wears them. That's unbelievable because I remember his first day. Yeah, I can't believe it's been seven years. But that's my opinion. I think good people that go into office thinking they're going to change the system and or do the best they can end up getting worn down by different groups. Left or riot, doesn't matter. They get worn down. What politicians like to do, they like to say, are you better off four years ago than you were? Are we better off seven years later than we were when
he took office? Absolutely not. And I just want to reiterate the facts again. The taxes go up every single year, The budget of JCPS goes up astronomically to the stratosphere every year on the backs of the working men and women of Jefferson County. But yet the performance goes down, down down to we're almost rock bottom. I mean, at this point, outside of calling
it at daycare, I don't know why we have it around well. I thought the one statistic he put out yesterday that surprised me was the level the percentage of kids going to school in JCPS now that are on the free or reduced lunch plan. And he's attributing that to a rise in poverty in the city. I think he said it went from like thirty percent when he first took And I apologize, doctor Polio, if I'm getting this wrong. I'm
just pulling it off memory from listening to yesterday. I think he said it was I think he said it was third because I try to be better. I think he said when he took over, When he took office, it was thirty percent of the kids in JCPS were on freeer reduced lunches, and I think he said yesterday that now it's seventy percent or on free are reduced in JCPS. I know for a fact, hang on one second, I know for a fact that they pursue families to get on, yeah, the
free lunch program. Because a buddy of mine has children who lives in a nice neighborhood and they contacted him saying, hey, can we get you and your kids on this free lunch program? Well that's a fact because they didn't want the other children. Don't embarrassed. No, no, no, no, no, no no no. That is a The more free reduced numbers you have, the more federal dollars you got, So it is feeding upon
itself. It's all the problem with the federal Once the federal school system came in, what eighty eighty one, No Department of Education was seventy eight under seventy eight set in nineteen seventy eight, when did schools start to say, when is there something that happened in history that we can pinpoint? So now you are encouraging to spend more money on kids that don't need the free and
reduced be because you'll get more federal dollars which we pay into. So we it's like we're getting and that's federal money, rude from above both, that's that's federal money. That's money that the Feds are taking out of the state giving back to the state that the state could have kept at home and used themselves. I just passed by a house on Harmony Landing Road in Gosh and
on my way to work. I don't usually go this way. Three bedrooms, two bath only two seventy five renovated, walking distance to gosh And Elementary Middle School in North oldhom High School. Yeah, just saying, yeah, so you have options there you go. You do have options, that's for sure, and that's why people move out to Oldham County. And if you want to look at it. I have a wife who's a real estate agent. I can here's a listener checking in for social media. I'm gonna leave
her. I'm gonna leave her name off of it. They put my son on free launch at Eastern with no conversation. Yeah, they just do it. Yep, Yeah, they just do it. I have no no such thing as a free lunch to right. Okay, here's another listener. Even in Mead County, they contact you before the free lunches. It's federal dollars. Yep. And by the way, I had a buddy that used to provide breakfast fifteen ten, fifteen years ago for six or seven schools. He made a mint, but he made a mint. It was a ton of
money. He was like, he had the contract for three years and he just buckets of money for three years because he was charging you know, three dollars. A burrito was costing him a dollar. He was how many was he serving per school? It was ridiculous, right, which was remember Tony when it comes to the JCPS, if it's the tax dollars dollar sparanoux pants.
Yeah, and let's audit all of those things too. Well again right, they have a buyer from the Pentagon apparently, so people that are driving at ten and two on your steering wheel and you're thinking, what terrible people because they're complaining about feeding kids. No, no, no, no, no, that's not what we're saying. We're what we're saying is parents, feed your damn child. You can't you can't put a sandwich in the back. Okay, you can't put a sandwich. I have some pride and say
I don't need the free lunch. There's a large percentage of people that are getting the free and reduced lunch that don't need to be on there. So wait a minute. Didn't your mom just drop you off in a range Rover and then like ninety thousand dollars Yeah, yeah, and we're and you got a free lunch. Okay, that's not the way this is supposed to work. But yes, let's create a bigger system because that's what we want, right right, what we want? Hang on, Hang on, parents,
principal, students, bus drivers, Frankfurt's coming baby. Somebody just told me. Text is that? And the kids just throw the food away? Oh I'm sure, yeah, which means it hasn't improved in the lunch room since you and I were eaging the cafeteria. Tony boy, oh boy, all right, we're all in the mood for the joke of the day if we haven't been discussing it already for the last I've got the honors today. Guys like this everywhere, Tony, I've got of the day time. Oh wow,
it's not my mullet hairdo either. No, that's a fabulous moment. Anybody tell you different. Look at it now. It's leaving in about two weeks. Hey fellas, Hey, Hey, so you know I used to really like it when I was a teenager living at home and my parents would go out for like Christmas parties and stuff and had the house to myself. Can kind of do what I want? They came home one night, I had to me, he's laying on the living room floor in front of a
roaring fireplace. Oh fantastic. My dad got mad though, he got p owed. Seriously, why because we didn't have a fireplace out That is your joke of the day, believe. February twenty first, twenty twenty four. Johnny will have the news in ten minutes, so stay tuned for that. But before that, the Bloomberg Money Minute, Southern Comfort hot Tub Dwight, Dwight, Southern Southern covered hot tub will be there Friday, matter of fact,
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the news. We have Scott Carr for the Bloomberg Money Minute, so we have you covered all day today. We got Wednesday's hero coming up and here in about twenty minutes, so please sit tight for that. And I may have found the first one you ever produced. No, yes, what don't dun dug exactly? It probably wasn't any good though, because they always get better. We'll see. I always say that it's hard to mess up those stories, don'ty Well? I know, isn't it hard to listen to air
checks from when you first started out in radio? Well, I always say, and Dwight when we got back together, and then the first time we were together, and Dave and I what do I always say? In the first day, I'm like, this is the worst show you will we will ever do. This is the worst show. We will get better, a little better every single day. That's what we promise you to do. That kind of haven't fulfilled that promise. If only j CPS in the city of
Louisville had that attitude. Alright, So America is one of the only countries in the world that still allow companies to put lead into products like lipstick. Right, jeez, what could go wrong there? You know, I have to scrape every piece of pain off of my house if I sell it because the pain is over three years old or whatever it is. But you can put the lead, put lead in your pencil. Nos, not, that's not that's not the d You say, we have lipstick, How would you
get lead on your pens then stop it. But don't get me to start on the makeup part. But there is a website you can go to and see all of them, all of the makeup products that are sold at Walkreens and Cvs and all these other stores that are banned in all other countries in the world, including China, and if China banned something, oh my gosh. Well, Stanley Cup has been sued over the lead seal in their cups.
Really, yes, Stanley is the Are they not just the hottest product on the market now on Soreer Center's a lot of hockey players that have no, No No. A new class action lawsuit claims the comedy did not disclose the use or presence of lead in their products. You only drink out of it. The suit was filed earlier this month by a Seattle based law firm. Several complaints are listed in the suit, and ding, breach of contract,
express warranties, and more. On Stanley's website, the company writes that it's transparent about its use of lead and describes how its products are still deemed safe. So they don't want they don't want to lead in our paint, but we can put it in our mouth. Well, that's that's the government for you, FDA. Oh no, no, that's perfectly fine. But let me just go ahead and boil this down for you. Yeah, company gets great success overnight. It starts iterating millions and millions of dollars a day.
Third law firm sees this, It says, hmmm, maybe we can get a taste of that with a class action lawsuit. It starts digging for any little thing they could find to take on somebody as successful. Okay, but here's what concerns me. Mister Dwight. Witten describes its products as deemed safe. Okay, those are those are the kind of words that companies use, going, hey, it's within the brems, but according to us, according to no, but according to federal law. Probably it is deemed safe.
Well, you can have x amount of lead in this product or whatever. I bet you. I bet you that within the law they are. They are good, but maybe not. I don't know. They don't say we are compliant. They don't say we are this. They say we are deemed who's the deemer? Yes, that's what I'm saying. And again it's all these people are bought and paid for. Oh no, this is within
the parameters of safety of lead into a product. They're not even saying that, They're just saying someone deemed it. I do understand if you have an alternative to the lead. What isn't lead expensive? I don't know. Why do you have lead in your cup? Why do you need it there? Why we have all kinds of metal? Why you because let's just run plus Superman can't see through it. Ah, if there are one of these people
look forward to in the clips and everybody knows I'm that guy. Boy, I just marked my cock calendar whenever it's gonna get dark for thirty seconds. Man, I did the remember side note, I remember I did the I took I did a TV shoot at remember the one that came over Louisville about six or seven years ago, and I said, we should do a shoot, a live shoot with the animals, to see if the animals freak out right, because I'm like, what if they are like Jaen Swetter's gone.
Remember the drafts start running around? Well, nobody reacted, you know why because it's dark for two minutes and then it goes back to light and they do the thing where they say, well, here's what you can need to do. Don't look up at the sun, but poke a hole in a piece of paper. What anyway, if you wantn't experienced a total eclipse by the way, you guys laugh, But I took April eighth off, so we can go do that. David, You did not? I did?
And if I can't believe you're not playing total Clips of the art right now? But oh so, do we need to buy you a clips card and eclips cake again? Dave? This is ridiculous, my boy, that's my boy who talked you into doing that? Dave me? You did? I mean, yes, I mean, what a great opportunity. I'm happy for you. It's total eclipse, man, ninety eight percent. It's still bright. Okay. You know who's not bright the people last eclipse that put sunblock
on their eyeballs. Yeah no, so they could look at it. Well, that's how you that's how the teacher identifies. This isn't total eclipse of the heart. Yeah it is? Is it? Oh no, it's a funky version. It's the dance version version. Okay. Anyway, if you want to experience the cl the eclipse from thirty thousand feet, if that's on your bucket, is dave, I'll put the other one on for you if you like the other one better. Yeah, please do? Yes? What
are you doing? It's a bastardization of the song. See now, this is it right here, and we now it? Did I get it? Fauci? Shut up? Your voice is sounds similar. How was Fauci at your house? You tell me? Do you have a fireplace? You tell me? Mister, yeah, here's his address Fauci. All right, So anyway, if you want to experience the total eclipse from thirty thousand feet, Delta Airlines wants to take care of you and pre preparation preparation, age preparation
eighte Delta scheduled flight twelve eighteen from Austin. That's where the sun shine it's gonna be. The flight's going to be number twelve eighteen from Austin to Detroit departs at twelve fifteen Central time, landing at four to twenty Eastern time. I don't know why he didn't use different times. So okay, that makes sense because you're party. The total eclipse will happen just after three pm, so they're gonna have extra large windows on this plane would be a prime eclipse
view. What could go wrong with that. Hey, let's all the plane. Delta has also announced five other routes for those who might not be able to participate in Flight twelve eighteen, less than an hour drive. And you guys can get in the path of totality. Where are you going to see this? We're not sure. Yeah, park someway or just close as we can go. Bring a cooler. What doesn't matter where you're at of me,
because it's the sun. You go see it from anywhere. Right now, there's a path of totality where it's completely covered and you can look at it and it's dark. Path of totality it is. There's a there's a map online. I love I love the space stuff and Mars and the moon and whatever, the rockets and your doing and all that, but I just don't for some reason, I don't connect with the eclipse thing. I'm just like, Okay, my wife thinks I'm an a hole for it. I'm
like, I just don't deal. Well, yeah, you're she's right on that, but not because of the eclipse. But okay, so, Dave, will you get like the one of the welder's helmets or so can you even do that? Take a welder's helmet and look up at it. Why would I need a welder's helmet because you can't look up at it? Can you? You can win it's completely dark. Sure, they'll be a a three minute stretch where they'll be yep, whatever does this though? Gotch you
like right in the middle of it and blind you. I'll look out for that, Okay. Yeah, I'm just saying stay on your toes. Well, if you remember the guy named Jack Sweeney, he's the guy that was tracking Elon Musk airplane back and forth and keeping it on. Yeah, was he the same guy doing Taylor Swift? Not doing it? Not doing no, no following her on the plane thing? You got it? His plane, her plane thingy? Social media flight tracker Jack Sweeney's back at it again.
He fired a response back at the lawyers from Taylor Swift in his response to their cease and desist letter. Sweeney received a cease and desist because of his ex account was falling movements of Taylor Swift's plane. He's made it clear, Hey, I've done nothing wrong and I have no reason to cease or
desist. That's what Sweeney's lawyer also wrote a letter saying that this of this data is available publicly by the FAA, and unless he's have incredible threats towards swift like stalking allegations, there's no reason that this is protected under free speeches. Is free speech, But I mean I can see where to put a person in danger. I don't know you can look up somebody's address and then
just keep it to yourself. If you put it on the Internet and endanger somebody, and that kind of stuff has happened, what do they call that again, Doc Singer? Yeah, No, I agree, I agree. I don't like this, and there has to be some sort of Look, the problem with the Internet is that it changes so much and so fast, and technology changes so fast that you can't pass the laws fast enough to protect
people. And you shouldn't be able to do that. Is to track someone's plane and put that out there all the time, especially you, until he get this resolved. That's the exact reason that I don't have a plane right now. I don't want to be tracked. That's exactly good thinking. I'm not buying one. I'm not buying one until he get this crap corrected. No, I wish someone would hire a private detective to follow Dwight around because
it would just be like, Dude, this guy's the most boring. Goes to the gym, and then he goes to the booze store to get tequila, and then he sits in his hotub for sixteen hours. I mean, then he goes to work. The next day he does nothing. This guy does nothing. He doesn't go to the movies, doesn't go to the library.
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