Kruser And Krew 8-11-26

All right, let's get all the broadcast equipment turned on, fired up. Ready for another edition of Cruiser and Crew here to take you through the rest of the afternoon on this Tuesday, August the 11th. Welcome to the show. It is about 306 in the afternoon. If you like to be a part of the program today, here's the phone number 859253-559. That's also the number for the Stuttgart Motors text line. And the email address is Cruiser at WVLKAM.com. Somebody on the Fayette County Kids Matter site on Facebook. I don't know if they did calculation on this. Probably it was pretty simple to just check his salary and see how many days, you know, break that down to so much money per day. You know, Demetris Liggins, the superintendent of Fayette County Public Schools, has been on paid administrative leave. And it was pointed out. on the Fayette County Kids Matter site that Liggins has made roughly $62,000 since going on that administrative leave. And that's more than the median salary of teachers in Fayette County. Not the kind of welcome back to school news that teachers are probably looking for right now. But yeah, Liggins has made roughly $62,000. They continue to pay him. obviously he's going to keep getting paid until they figure all this thing out and the school board had a meeting the other night evidently a disciplinary meeting there's only one employee they can discipline so they must have been talking about ligands uh but what was discussed or was anything um any conclusions made any any decisions made well it doesn't appear that there was and there has been no proclamation or update from the uh from the school board. You know, I was looking at this today, and another friend of mine pointed this out to me today. The Courier Journal's got a piece today in which they publish the salaries of various city administrators, including the governor and his deputies and the chief of staff and everybody else. So this is Louisville City Hall front office, and it's interesting. The mayor makes $163,000 a year, $163,146 to be exact. This is what Alan Greenberg, the mayor of Louisville earns each year. His deputies all make more than he does. You know, I would think the chief guy. I mean, yeah, I know you've got to have a good chief of staff, man. You've got to have a good chief of staff. They've got one, two, three, three deputy mayors, a deputy chief of staff, an executive director of communications. And that's the person probably is the one that deals with the media and so on. She makes $176,715. The chief of staff and deputy mayor makes $190,000. Well, they all make the same amount. The chief of staff and deputy mayor, deputy mayor, deputy mayor, deputy mayor, deputy mayor, there are four of them. They all make $190,290, again, considerably more than their mayor does, who I would think is the boss of those people. And it goes on down the line here, the director of Metro Television. You know, every city's got a TV channel that nobody watches.

And they have one in lieu of $139,713 of what this dude makes. James Tatum is the director of the Office of Violence Prevention. He makes $125,597 a year. Joshua Crawford is the director of group violence intervention. He ought to make more. Group violence intervention? He makes $124,411, so they make almost the same. The director of the Louisville Zoo makes $23,297. The highest paid dude here in city government looks to be the police chief, Paul Humphrey, $262,850 as the police chief. Now, again, I don't understand how the mayor doesn't make more than all of these people. And then I'm thinking, like most government administrations, how much duplication is there? How much overlapping of middle management types are there? I'm really interested to see when the state audit comes out just what some of the front office people in the Fayette County Public Schools are making, and how many of those folks can you do without? Do you need all that? And, I mean, they're all making pretty good salaries. They're in anybody on this list, and I don't know, there may be three dozen people or so that are listed. There's one doctor who's the executive director of Louisville's Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness that makes $5,000. That must just be, I don't know, cover his expenses or something, but everybody makes. The executive director of the free public library, $162,069. So he's pretty good. Benefits probably aren't bad either. We'll have a city official come on our show today. We're not going to ask him what he makes. We can look it up. Mark Bernie Sanders is the interim director of the division of what would you do if your online store converted 36% more shoppers. You could take 36% more vacation. Another pinocerotta. Yes, please. Open a new retail location. With 36% more square feet. Fantastic. Hire 36% more help. You're hired and you're hired. Shopify has the world's best converting checkout, up to 36% better than other e-commerce platforms. What you do with those extra sales is up to you. Switch to Shopify today at shopify.com slash Listen and get a $1 trial. Shopify.com slash listen. The U.S. Soccer podcast. I'm your host, Megan Klingeberg. And after interviewing so many dudes during this men's World Cup, I'm so happy to be back with my U.S. women's national team players. I know the U.S. men's national team has changed how I think about myself, how I think about being an American, how I think about being on a team. It's one year out from that World Cup, and we're going to talk about the brightest prospects in U.S. soccer. You ready? I'm ready. Let's do it. The U.S. Soccer podcast. Presented by Henco. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Water quality, and this came up on the show, I believe, last week. And it's a good time to bring it up because the city just got an extension in terms of having to meet the consent decree between our city and the EPA. I mean, this has been a living, breathing organism in this city for about 20 years. I was doing some background on this today, doing a little research. on all of this and Jim Newberry was the mayor at the time and it was the first time and I think the only time in Lexington City history where I don't know maybe they got the local I don't remember this maybe they got the local stations to to break in but Newberry went on television to address the citizens of Lexington about how big a deal this this lawsuit was the city was being sued by the EPA

because I guess our stormwater and wastewater were kind of intermingling and that's not supposed to happen. There's always been an issue in this town with people getting basements flooded and all that sort of things. So our wastewater and stormwater. needed to be redone and redesigned and all of that. So today we're going to get an update on this from Mark Bernie Sanders, who's the interim director of the Division of Water Quality. This has been going on, as I said for a long time. It is still going on. In fact, the city just got an extension. We were supposed to have all the work done by the end of this year. But now we've gotten an extension into 2030. I believe there are several reasons for that. And we'll get into that with Mr. Bernie Sanders. But today an update on the EPA consent decree and where are we in the city. Because that was a big, big deal back when that broke. It's been about 20 years. I think it was 2006 when that sucker broke. So Mr. Bernie Sanders will be coming up a little later on our program along with Bill Meck. Well, there's a little cloak and dagger with the president. Turns out the president had to take a decoy plane during a foreign trip in the name of safety. This was how he got out of Turkey because I guess the threat against the president by Iran was so real that the president reportedly used a secret military plane for a flight from Turkey to the UK last month, deploying an elaborate plan involving a catering food truck and a decoy flight. Nobody knew about this, the traveling press. Now, you know, you go to Mediite. Oh, and they're outraged because journalists were left on a flight, and it was the decoy flight. The president wasn't on it. The press on Air Force One thought the president was on that plane. He wasn't. He got on the plane for the appearance of the cameras. Oh, there's the president boarding his plane to head back to the United States. But then... was shuffled off that plane and put into a decoy flight. They put him on a catering food truck. I don't know. Did you grab a snack while you're on that thing? And then headed to another plane. So they made it look good in front of the cameras, but then he and several his aides slipped out another door and onto an airport catering truck, which then took them to Air Force C-32A. Pete Hegseth said the defense secretary was was on this. The story drew, this is Mediite. The story due quick and widespread fury online where liberal pundancy, well liberal pundance, pounce, whatever, everything. Trump breathes and they pounce. Liberal pundance seized on the characterization of the original plane as a decoy and questioned the decision to keep journalists and staff aboard during what officials considered a credible threat. Ned Price, former State Department spokesperson under President Joe Biden, warned that while a safeguard was necessary at times, what was unique to this White House was the decision to lie to reporters at the time and to the American people in the weeks that followed.

This catering cart remover maneuver here, NBC News, a senior justice reporter joke that this may have been borrowed from the Taylor Swift Airs Tour. Because I guess Taylor Swift has some, and I guess if you're as big a star and if you're president of the United States, if you want to move around unnoticed at public events, you need to come up with some unconventional methods. in order to do that. Obviously, this is not the first time this has happened. Susan Page has been a longtime reporter for USA Today, and she covered the Clinton White House as a White House correspondent for USA Today. And she writes today, back in 2000, President Bill Clinton flew from India to Pakistan in an unmarked plane that followed the traditional Air Force One. The ruse was revealed when he disembarked from the second plane for a six-hour visit marked by extraordinary security, she writes. Before the flight, Joe Lockhart, who at the time was the White House press secretary and other Clinton officials, honored the tradition of keeping representatives of the White House press court informed about the president's whereabouts. You know, you look at Trump and he looks at the mainstream media and goes, you guys lie about me all the time. Why should I let you in on it? Which may be wrong. I don't know. Would it have leaked out? Would these reporters have refused to take that flight if they knew the circumstances? Would they have called maybe attention to the fact that something was up? And certainly the security personnel didn't want there to be the appearance that something was up. As I said, they had the president board the plane for the benefit of the cameras just like you always see presidents do. But then the maneuver, the little switcheroo came later. So anyway, Paige says Lockhart and other Clinton officials kept representatives of the White House press corps informed about the president's whereabout. At the time, this reporter, talking about herself, was president of the White House Correspondents Association and covering the trip for USA Today. Before we left Bombay, the White House took me aside for an off-the-record conversation to discuss the extraordinary security precautions being taken. We also discussed concerns about the safety of the small group of journalists aboard the familiar Air Force One and the larger group traveling on the chartered press plane. That landed in Islamabad in advance of the White House planes. So they did this then too, although the difference was they let Susan Page know. And I guess Paige, did she let the small group of journalists know what was going on? Because she says they pulled her aside. In modern times, all U.S. presidents have agreed sometimes reluctantly to be accompanied by a small pool of journalists when they're on the road or at public events. That system ensures that independent observers are aware of the president's rareabouts and well-being. And, I mean, that's particularly important when you're in its time of crisis, isn't it? Okay, Page says, as far as I know, I was the only journalist who was aware of the president's plane Swiss. So this has been done before, even with, they let her know, but it doesn't appear they let anybody else know.

And then when Clinton landed, the world realized he had switched to the unmarked plane. But again, to draw attention to tell the media on the Air Force One, look, the president's in a decoy plane because of credible threats from Iran regarding the president's safety. Now, that probably wouldn't have messed up the entire operation, don't you think? So. They had to do this ruse, but I don't know how much. I'm not seeing Reams and Ream. In fact, this Mediite story is the only one that I've seen in terms of any kind of online fury that's been ignited. That's their words in the headline. Igniting Online Fury. You know, we ignite online fury so much. He's become so watered down and meaningless, pretty much. And then, of course, people take to social media. Well, the president's a scared little biotch. You know, he can't mean your sissy boy. Hey, man, I would take a threat from Iran very credibly. And I don't know what was different about this threat. Look, any president's going to get threats all the time. I'm sure Iran has been a threat to every president since they overthrew the Shah back in 1979. But this one must have been, I'd be curious to know what made this one more credible because this is a highly unusual maneuver. And as far as I know, this had not been pulled off since Clinton did it in the incident that Susan Page recounts today on USA Today.com. So that's kind of a little cloak and dagger story. for you today. Lexington has activated phase one of their heat plan. They did this yesterday and it actually went in effect today. I'm sorry. Today is Tuesday, isn't it? Yeah, for a moment there. I'm thinking, well, it's still Monday. Noon today until 6 p.m. tomorrow, Lex Tran provides rise to cooling stations if you're homeless. As free at charge, outreach teams, distribute supplies throughout the community. Lexington Community Centers will be open until early evening. Office of Homelessness Prevention and Intervention will open cooling stations at locations across the city. So that's how that normally works. And that is in effect again. I guess they had another review of this audit. For the Fayette County Schools, the one that the Texas firm did where they found something like 70 improprieties or infractions. And this is really not coming as much of a surprise to those of us that have been following this. An audit firm showed Fayette County Schools sometimes overestimated how much tax revenue they would collect and grossly underestimated how much it was spending for the fiscal year that ended on June the 30th of last year.

The report provided more details about the district's numerous budgeting errors for the last school year. Several budget transfers, including a $375,000 charge to help the district pay increased costs for diesel fuel, were not properly documented or approved. That meant the school board didn't know that many budget transfers had occurred. The same person that initiated some of those budget transfers was the same person that approved them. Governments typically track how much a particular tax generates in the prior year to help budget for the next year, but Fayette County Schools did not follow that policy. The district spent in 2023-24, $10.4 million on electricity payments, that's about $2 million more than its budget of $8.5 million. In 2425, the budget for electricity was $5 million. which was $3.5 million lower than it was in 2024, Weaver's auditors noted it's not clear why the district went with a lower amount. Well, they must have been trying to hide something. Who in their right mind budgets less for electricity anymore? They spend $10.4 million on electricity payments in 2324. That was over budget. And then when they went to budget for electricity the next year, they budgeted $3.5 million lower than they did in 2024, which they bested by about $2 million, over by about $2 million. And so electricity in 2425 climbs to $10.6 million. That was $10.4 million the year before. You budgeted $5 million. So the exceeded budgeted amount. I've said this before. Don't you guys have math teachers, arithmetic teachers already on the payroll? The district budgeted $375.4 million for salaries in the 24-25 school year, but it spent $395.8 million to be exact. So in salaries alone, they were $20 million over budget. And I guess if you blew the whistle on that, you were struck down. All of those misstatements meant the district ended the fiscal year with a reserve less than 1% about 6.9 million. The state recommends, I don't know that it is, but it recommends a reserve of 2% of revenue. So, man, we haven't even heard the state's dissertation on all of this yet.

Now, in some cases, the district underestimated how much a tax or fee would generate it, so not all the errors in budgeting resulted in losses, but there were a lot of other cases where the actual spending outpaced as what it had budgeted, as is the case with the electricity utility. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. So that soap opera goes on. I mean, yesterday I had this story. Remember the story about the kid they couldn't get to sit down? I don't know exactly how old the kid was, but he was old enough to have his own seat in his parent. They referenced a parent the news accounts did, a singular parent. A parent in the flight attendants couldn't get the kid to sit down and buckle up, so they had to basically, they had to scrap the whole flight. And by the time they got the kid and the parent off, there were certain runway restrictions at a certain time of night. So the whole flight was grounded for the night. Everybody was inconvenienced in a major way. because we had this little entitled kid that just didn't want to sit down and buckle up. So everybody else had to suffer because of this. The parents can't control the kid. Now, as I said yesterday, if the kids got an issue, he's on spectrum, something, but no story ever, it just pretty much was they couldn't get the kid to sit down. And as I said yesterday, I may not have sat down in that airline seat. I probably would have hovered over the seat because my rear end would have been so red and sore from refusing to sit down that it may have taken me a while to actually land into the seat. Well, here's something kind of similar today. Have you heard about the University of Michigan's dropping first semester grades to curb the mental health crisis? You know what I think this is? I think this is a bunch of first semester freshmen that are not prepared for college. Some of them probably shouldn't have graduated in the first place from high school because they haven't mastered the material. And so you got to do remedial education for the first semester or two. And so, well, we got to protect these kids. So they're just going to get pass or fail. Well, they'll get past or no credit because, well, fail. It's such a negative word. This is why you got Gen Z or young workers that if a boss confronts them, they assume the fetal position and start crying. And you think I'm kidding. Talk to some people that employ some folks just out of school. It's not the case with everybody. Research has found that nearly half of Gen Z office workers say they've been reduced to tears by workplace stress. Gen Z workers are so stressed out from their jobs, this is from Fortune, that they're sneaking out of the office in search of a fitting room, train station, or anywhere they can get a nap or a cry in during their lunch break. The program will start next fall that applies to students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, which enrolls about half of Michigan's roughly 8,000 first-year students.

Now, the professors will still assign grades internally. That's to track eligibility for scholarships and academic awards. So there's still going to be a grade. And I don't know, maybe if you went to the professor and said, what grade did you give me? I want more than just pass or no credit. What did you give me? How do I know if I need to improve? How do I know how much I need to improve? I guess, yeah, I can go talk to the professor. But a grade kind of gives me some idea of how far I may have to go. But if you don't prepare kids for scrutiny in their life later, which will come. It's not a matter of whether it will. It will. And I think this is one reason why you've, especially as more workers have to return to the office. But we've, I mean, I've seen it. I'm seeing it here. I mean, you dress down a young worker because maybe they've done something wrong and there's something needs to be corrected. And not all, but some of them will just, oh, just triggered. I can't, I can't go on today. And I think a lot of this is because these freshmen are ill prepared for college level classes. And at the University of California, math and science professors are urging the regions there at the University of California to reinstate entrance exams because so many freshmen are unprepared. I think that's where a lot of this comes from. Why they're not going to give that. Well, yeah, and then the mental health cries. Because, well, the grades are going to be good because you should have known more of the material before you got here.

Kenneth Lowand, a former Michigan political science professor who left for Rice University, says he doesn't think the new policy will make much of a difference because grade inflation had made grades largely irrelevant. Grades have lost their value as an indication of quality or excellence. So then how do you judge? How is a person judge? They're still given the grade. As I said, the professor is still given the grade. And I guess this is just what? This is just first semester. Second semester, you're going to have to man up. or woman up, whatever the case may be. Derek Peterson, history professor and former chair of the faculty government said he believes the move is generally beneficial. Students are under more stress today than their predecessors, including the distraction of social media, bleaker job prospects, and less secure economic conditions. I don't know. Are kids under more stress today than kids in the past? The stress levers may be different. But there's been stressors. Everybody's been under stress. Again, it may be different depending on the generation or what was going on at the time. Peterson says the idea that our kids are somehow more coddled is simply not true. If we can find ways to open up space for students to experiment while also protecting their future employability, which means protecting the GPAs, I think it's a good idea. I may not have gotten straight A's, but I learned a lot of this stuff. I was supposed to learn. Pursor at 97.3 FM and 590 a M. WVLK. When a nun's walking around with a ruler, man, you sit up straight and pay attention. This is Dave on 97.3 FM and 590 a M. W.K. Hello, Dave. Hey, how are you doing? Good, David. How are you? Oh, living a dream, living a dream. Yes, sir. I hear you. I'm glad to hear your voice on the radio. Let's just say that, and I'll leave it along. Okay, thanks. A friend of mine does, when you go apply for a job, he works for a company that holds equipment. You have to go on a test drive. Or they test you out on the trailer to see if you can actually load equipment. Oh, that good have to work. Mm-hmm. So the only guy came in was about 23, 24, just got a CDL. He told him he had like six years' experience, which that's not possible, 23, you know. Yeah, right. What's the minimum edge you can get a CDL? Is that 18? You can't get a CDL at 16, can you? You can get a CDO 18 years old. Okay. You can only drive estate. Oh. I see. Okay. Yeah. So there's no way he's, yeah, he's not at a CDO. He's not driven that long. No. He couldn't back the truck and trailer, right? He couldn't operate the trailer. Mm-hmm. But the next day, when they said, you need to get more experience. The dude showed up with his mother. Oh, great. And the mother said she was going to, she was threatening to sue them because they were disadvantaged, I don't know. He said, I don't know what the hell would get off. But because we wouldn't hire us, she threatened to sue us because we were being to her son. Oh, good.

I know my buddy. If he wanted to be mean, the guy would have been on the ground crack. He's like, man, you don't know how to do this. You need to leave. I'll be sorry, but you need to get more experience and come back. Yeah. How old are you doing that to my son? My son's the greatest boy in the world. That doesn't matter if he's the greatest boy in the world. If he can't drive the vehicle, then he's useless as far as that job is concerned. Go get more experience and come back. I would be humiliated if my parents ever went with me on a job interview or ever went in a situation like you're describing David where a kid didn't get a job and the parent goes and wants to rag on the employer for not hiring their... Their golden boy. I've said this before on the air. If I was interviewing somebody from a job and an interviewe showed up with one of their parents, automatic disqualification. Automatically, I'm not hiring you. And the reason why is if you brought your parent to the interview, I figure out if I hire you, I'm going to have to deal with your parent too, and I'm not doing it. Well, he says that the kid was standing there at both hands on his hip. It's like, well, you're in trouble now. Yeah. There's no, he's got no suit. And so your company stayed, I guess they, you know, you, you stayed firm and didn't hire the kid. No, that's why you have all these wrecks. You got people that don't know what they're going on the road. Yeah. And that what scares me is that companies are having to hire because they need a body that can't find anybody else. So, okay, here's somebody who shows up. So we'll put them behind the wheel and pray to God, nothing happens. But yeah, in certain jobs, you've got to know the stuff. You've got to know it. Thanks, David, for the call. I've said this before about pilots and doctors, man. They've got no room to screw up.

You've got to be good at it. You've got to know it. Now, the stuff we're talking about here that many of the University of Michigan students would be majoring in or pursuing may not be those kinds of jobs where you've got to know it. And does everybody leave high school automatically know everything they learned over four years? No, but I mean, I knew this back when my son was out of high school. This has been. Oh, gosh, I don't know. I lose track of time sometimes, but it's been 30 years or so, maybe 25. Old is he now? Yeah, maybe 20 years. I knew then somebody told me that about 60% of the incoming freshmen have to take remedial math or English because they tested poorly on it coming out of high school and they're not up to speed on the college level. in those courts and that was i mean again this has been 20 years ago and i'm sure it's worse now probably worse now i mean you got more social media you got more distraction you got you know all this kind of stuff that probably have taken kids off off their game but yes we're curbing the mental health crisis Every kid thinks, oh my gosh, I've had it tougher than any other kid ever. My generation, your generation had it easy compared to me. Doesn't every generation feel that way? You get that nobody's had it harder than me. We've all had that. As I said, there's always been every generation's had stress. How would you like to be going through a world war and trying to, you know, how's that for stress? The U.S. soccer podcast. I'm your host, Megan Klingeberg, and after interviewing so many dudes during this men's world cup, I'm so happy to be back with my U.S. women's national team players. I know the U.S. men's national team has changed how I think about myself, how I think about being an American, how I think about being on a team. It's one year out from that World Cup, and we're going to talk about the... Brightest Prospects in U.S. soccer. You ready? Let's do it. The U.S. Soccer podcast, presented by Henko. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Anyway, I, well, and then, of course, you know, they were giving out A-pluses at Harvard, like it was candy on trick-or-treat. I guess they've revised that a little bit. Remember that with Harvard? Back in May, the faculty there. voted to approve a 20% cap on the number of A's they were giving to undergraduate students in an effort to curb grade inflation. It doesn't apply to A minuses, which the committee members predicted would become the most awarded grade. God, what a scam? All right. And another shooting in Lexington last night, but again, thankfully, bad aim comes to the rescue, no homicide, non-life-threatening injuries. Good news there. That shooting last night took place here in Lexington and the 3,100 block of High Ridge Drive. But as I said, non-life-threatening injuries. So bad aim strikes again. We still haven't had a homicide in Lexington since I believe it's been early February. The rules of the Luigi Mangione high-profile murder trial are being discussed today in a Manhattan courtroom.

There was an argument back and forth as to whether or not the judge allowed the man at the district attorney's office to play a role in deciding media or public access and all of that. Mangialdi's attorneys had demanded that the highly anticipated proceedings be broadcast live and push for a separate overflow courtroom carrying a feed from the main courtroom. They argued that restrictions on who can enter risk violating his constitutional right to a public trial. Manhattan prosecutors sounded the alarm in a filing over the possibility of spectator misconduct if you allow broader access for this trial. Prosecutors also warned that an overflow room could allow spectators to clandestinely record the proceedings and share any such recordings with others. Well, these morons would be dumb enough to probably post it online to which that I would think Manhattan authorities would be working to trace back who actually posted that if somebody is clandestinely recording the proceeding. So I guess, I don't know that has the judge actually ruled on whether or not he's going to allow this thing to be live streamed or not? I would hope not. I think given the guy that's on trial and his high profile, well, his high profile infatuation with some of these sick fans he's got, that live streaming this is just not going to be. I mean, the overflow room for media to make sure there's enough legitimate media covering the thing that. That ought to be enough. But I don't know. I don't think a judge has ruled on any kind of whether or not. Look, if he's keeping the jury anonymous and he's concerned about intimidation, well, at least the prosecutors are. And I would imagine the judge is considering that, that televising or streaming the trial. I mean. Granted, there'd be some interesting things to see in that, but I just don't know that given the circumstances in this trial, if that extra publicity is a good idea. Here's our question of the day. Is it time for the TSA and Homeland Security to lose the rule limiting carry-on liquids to just 3.4 ounces or less? There's a security expert from Harvard. A good thing he got through Harvard before they instituted this new rule of A-minus. being the highest grade. I'm sure we got straight A's. Anyway, he says the liquid rule that travelers have dealt with for nearly 20 years is basically security theater. That's what I think of the whole TSA process, frankly, a lot of times. We'll get to this a little later too, but the union that represents the TSA, they're all in a lather right now because they're starting to encroach more and more private sector workers and companies and contractors into airport security at more airports. The security expert says this is basically security theater. Here's how I put it. If I walk through airport security with a gun and they find it, they ruin my day. If I walk through security with a bottle of liquid and they find it, they throw it in the trash and let me through. Here's something so dangerous you can't take it on an airplane yet so safe that officers will just throw it in the trash next to them. I never thought of that.

If you're so afraid that's going to blow up, if you think my bottled water is nitroglycerin or something, why are you just throwing it in the trash next to you? If it's that dangerous, man, you got a guy in a hazmat suit that's grabbing that half-consumed bottle of hybrid spring water and putting in that some sort of secured case and maybe there's dogs and armored trucks around. Now just throw in the trash next time. Now you can't take ass four ounces. Sorry, you're going to have to leave your cherry Coke here. The liquid rule was introduced in 2006 after a plot involving liquid explosives, but many airports are now dropping the restriction as new scanner technology rolls out. Anyway, well, hopefully someday my shampoo can travel without stress. This is, you have, I've had stuff discarded. Okay, what's in my little Dopkit here? What do I have? It's maybe too much liquid. It is. It's, I think it's ridiculous. But then again, there's a big part of me that thinks the whole TSA exercises of Dog and Pony Show, so that there are other ways to do security. And I would hope that somewhere behind the scenes is that more intensive security that we don't see and don't know much about. But that is our question of the day at WVLKAM.com. We'll have more on this. as the program unfolds. Frank writes on the Stuttgart Motor's text line, David Axelrod, had a meltdown on camera over the Trump switchout. Well, I think if you would have alerted the press on Air Force One, what was going on, you may have given away the ruse. By the way, Axelrod, not too happy about Francesca Hong, who if you're a Republican, you've got to hope she wins tonight because I can't see how she wins in the fall. Even Democrats like Axelrod are afraid that she's going to muddy the water for Abdul El-Sayed. Said. in uh in wisconsin it would be good for Abdul El-Sayed if Francesca Hong loses axelrod rights loses her bid to become the democratic nominee in wisconsin that primary course is today he's a serious person axelrod says she's a font of lane zaney liberal and faculty lounge exotica but the republicans would try to link abdul and hong as philosophical king kin aren't that Start your day with the morning jolt of Drake C. Toll. See, now it's on demand. My podcast is kind of a radio thing, I think, but also it's a bit of a TV show, and it's about whatever I want it to be. It's listening live as it happened, when it happened, with the instant reaction. You're home for talking sports. We go back, the Drake Toll Show, Westwood One Sports Network, and there will be on demand on your radio. Anywhere in the country, I'll see you there. Westwood One Sports Talk. Your home for Drake C. Toll. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.