Metro Schools LIE about Success for your KIDS, Homeschool advocates, & the Lightning Round

I first caught wind of this story on the Tennessee Star, and then I saw it also going super viral on X via Libs of TikTok. Ken Weaver was just talking about it in the newscast. An award-winning teacher making her case to the Metro Nashville Public School Board of Education on Tuesday after resigning in May. claiming she was asked to fabricate grades for a student in order to appease a parent. And her remarks surfaced days after a New York educator received national media attention after raising similar concerns in a viral video reports the Tennessee star. This is wild. Okay, so the teacher is Mrs. Hardcastle. And she was a 2025 teacher of the year. And it really is wild. Let's play her comments from the school board meeting. It's about two minutes long, but I think it's worth it for everyone to hear. I was teacher of the year at John F. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Middle School in Antioch this past year and Blue Ribbon Teacher of the Year for the district. What you have in front of you right now is my resignation letter. I resigned in May. You can read those three pages at your leisure, but I've heard a lot of positive data in this meeting, and I just wanted to give you some facts from my firsthand experience. So first, district leaders asked me to fabricate grades for a parent who sat in the office for hours until her daughter's failing grades were changed. It creates false entitlement. What happens when these kids lie, cheat, and cry their way through school and end up as future doctors, police, or politicians? Well, I think that they would continue to lie, cheat, and cry their way through that as well. When will you protect the future of our society? Second, that same parent has harassed over 30 teachers. Teachers have filed police reports and entire school districts have had, or entire schools have had restraining orders against her. Yet she's still allowed on school property showing up to field trips her child didn't earn and filming other students. When will you stop prioritizing parents' feelings over the safety of our teachers and our students? I heard you also mentioned that we're closing gaps in teacher vacancies. I want the public to know that many of those are filled with uncertified teachers. My third point, HR withheld money from my employee to paycheck as well as many others. They took 500 from me specifically and it put me behind on my mortgage. And then they sent out an email saying that they had to do it to pay other employees. When will you pay teachers what they are owed? My fourth point, the news reports that behavioral issues are down. They are not. We are simply banned from reporting them, forcing us to keep disruptive students in the classroom. Statistics are being skewed to protect the district, not our children. Our children cannot read and write. They cannot do basic math. And we spend 40 hours a week with these students, so we know them better than the district and those fake numbers.

Please stop undermining our professional decisions because honestly, it's breaking the efficiency and it's giving HOA quality. So Dr. Battle, my question to you. Thank you. Dr. Battle, my question to you, thank you. Moving on. Again, Hardcastle was named the Metro Nashville Public Schools teacher of the year earlier this year. In 2025, she was chosen for the Blue Ribbon Teacher Award by the District. She had a question, she got cut off. If they're not going to listen to the teacher of the year, if they're not going to listen to a blue ribbon teacher, who were they going to listen to? Who? According to Metro Nashville Public Schools, the award. is reserved for 25 outstanding teachers who are changing lives through their excellence in teaching within the district. This from the Tennessee Star, Hardcastle previously created a petition to urge the district to establish new paths to support teachers, accountability measures for administrators, compensation based on educational expertise, enforceable behavioral codes for parents, and more clearly defined job descriptions. The video of Hardcastle's remarks service days after another video has gone viral, mega viral, Darius Williams. I have that here as well. Darius Williams is a, he's a teacher and he's crying on camera because nobody can read. This is a high school, high school teacher. He says none of these kids can read. Now, I'll be honest with you. I think that it's a little bit performative because he's a grown man and he's crying on social media. Maybe, maybe I'm just being a little hard on them. Those kids could read. It'd be very upset. But he's crying. He's crying. And I do. I think it's a little performative. I think he could have got the message across without crying. Maybe it wouldn't have gone as viral. Maybe there's a thought process behind it. This was his message. These kids are leaving. high school and going to college and they couldn't fill in four words. Four words. I literally broke down in the middle of class. This is only day two. And I have seniors who simply cannot read and seniors who cannot write. They can reason. They have the ability to defend their reasoning if it's talking to their homeboy, but applying that to a written text, two paragraphs that they couldn't do it. Our young black men, our young brown men, our young black girls, and our young brown girls. And that's where the video cuts off.

So why aren't we helping the kids? I mean, honestly. Why are these schools so disastrous? Why are there no behavioral standards? Why aren't the kids that are disrupting the classroom, removed from the classroom? I mean, seriously. Why is this being treated like a daycare and not a school? How are these kids getting this far where you're getting to high school and you're realizing they can't read? Why wasn't this caught in, I don't know, second grade, first grade? Why is this culture of failure allowed to thrive? And why does it seem to really be happening in big blue liberal cities where they claim to care so much about the inner city youth? But they don't give them the tools to succeed in life. It's almost like they have them on the treadmill of mediocrity, the pipeline to prison, and they just don't give a damn. Now, some teachers do. That guy obviously cares. But this story is repeated over and over and over again. And people say public schools are failing. I'm going to homeschool. Oh, gosh. Aren't you worried? that your kids are going to be weird because you're homeschooling them? It's like, well, they'll be able to read. They'll be able to write. And have you seen public school lately? Maybe, maybe just maybe. That's the best path forward. This is another teacher. She's talking about ninth graders in this clip. Explain the response I'm supposed to have when a ninth grade student asks me, what is the first month of the year? And I say, what do you mean the first month? Because you're not asking what I think you're asking. And they say, well, on this worksheet, it says, what was the world's population at the beginning of the year? I don't remember what's the first month? How am I supposed to type that in? What's the first month of the year?

What's the first month of the year? Because all I could do was turn my head and go back to my computer and keep typing. I literally just ignored it. Because I can't say what a ridiculous, probably the stupidest question I've ever had in my life. And I can't say, oh, that's okay. You remember January, February, because you are 15 years old. And that was not the only student that asked me that question. What do you mean the beginning of the year? And some of them are like, oh, you mean like January 1st. Why do I have to say January 1st? The beginning of the year. That is universally understood as January 1st. Another question on their assignment was, what was the world population the day you were born? And what was the world population on your first birthday? And then they had to find the difference. The fact that I had, I'd probably say half of my classes were asking me, what do you mean by our first birthday? And I'm like, your first birthday and I had a girl say I've never had a birthday she's like I never had a first birthday and I'm like yes you have you had a second birthday and a third birthday and a fourth birthday you're 15 even when I said because it's not a confusion problem because even when I said okay when you turned one I have students that were like well if I was born in 2010 when would would that be and it was almost like they were guessing with me they'd be like 2011 2012 why are you unsure I just think with the cognitive level that our students are at, I think the most bare minimum rule that you can have today is no phones in your classroom because they are not prepared to be able to multitask in that way. Obviously, but this is what we're up against. And, you know, I wish that maybe we could just focus on the basics. I wish that we could focus on the... reading, writing, arithmetic, days of the week, months of the year. Like there should be a minimum standard. It doesn't seem like there's any standards at all. And that's heartbreaking. But what we do have time for are pronouns, gender theory, victim mentality. And the like. And I got another, this one, I mean, this is, if you want a homeschooling ad. My name is Chase. This is a, this is a homeschooling ad. I'm going to turn that down because Chase's voices. different. Chase is a female who looks like she's transitioning into a male, but she says that she's neither, and this is teaching kids in high school. My name is Chase, and I am a butch non-binary high school teacher, and this is my plan for back to school this year. Now, as this person goes through the plan for back to school this year, Take note. None of it is making sure the kids can read, write, know the first month of the year, any of that. It has something completely to do with things that are outside of the curriculum. The first thing I'm doing this year is I'm just going by Chase. No Mrs. Mr. Mix, like just Chase. I did it last year and it went great. And none of my students cared at all. None of the administration cared at all. So I'm putting on just doing that again this year. Something I'm doing.

this upcoming year that I didn't do last year is I think I'm just going to send an introduction email to all of my students and all of their parents, just saying my name, my pronouns, a little bit about my background and why it's important to me. I know that not every single parent is going to understand and not every single parent is going to care or be respectful, but I think my job as a teacher is to educate people and if that means I get to educate the parents too, awesome. How about your job as a teacher is to focus on the kids, not yourself? Nobody cares about you. You will be forgotten, like many of the teachers that we all had. There are going to be some great teachers that you remember for the rest of your life. But for the majority of the teachers, you're going to forget about them. They're going to move on because you are not the star of this movie. You are a supporting character. And to make it all about you before the first day of school, we're already off on the wrong path. But... I'm going to educate the parents too. Awesome. The third thing I'm doing this year is a pronoun lesson. I'm doing it day one. I just tell my students that I'm non-binary. I use they-them pronouns and that what non-binary means to me is that I'm not really a boy or a girl. I think the fact that we're hiring people like this in this school system in the country is part of the issue. Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy SEAL, Mike Ridland. What is your take? Was it what you expected? Oh, it was the best thing ever. It was something I always wanted to do. If you show me a clear goal, I'm like, okay, I can do that. Master Chief. He's like, you realize there's about 1% chance that you're making it through. 1%. That's all I need Master Chief. My platoon went home early, and I just went up to my chief, and I was like, I'm not going home. Turns out I'm staying. That's when we go to war. Yeah, I was like, okay, I could get used to this. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform. That might be controversial. I think that's part of the issue. These people with this main character syndrome that's like you're not helping the kids. What are you teaching? You're posting this video online. I don't even know what subject you teach. I know that you're going to teach them about your pronouns. I know that you're going to tell them that you're a butch non-binary. That's great. Stunning. Brave. Slow clap. How does that help the kids become great adults? Because there's kids in this country that can't read and write. And you can say all the things you want. Well, some of these schools don't have money. Some of these schools don't have the budget. I don't think you really need much of a budget to teach kids how to read and write. Is that also controversial? Maybe that's also controversial. I don't think you do. I think you can get by with very little money and still have a pretty good education system if you apply it the correct way. This ain't it. I'm just doing my own thing. And a lot of them really get it. My students last year would correct each other when they messed up my pronouns. So I'm kind of just hoping for the same thing this year. I am excited for back to school. Gross. Nathan and Gallatin. What's up, man? How are you? Fine, brother. How about yourself? I'm good. What do you got? Well, so I quit teaching after 17 years this past year, and Metro broke my back and broke my heart, man. Tell me why. I've taught special education, and then I switched the last two years to general education. And I'm not going to name the school, but I was a fourth grade math teacher. And just...

behavior was rampant. I signed up to, you know, teach hard. My background is in, like, childhood trauma, child psychology, and dealing with students with behavioral issues. And again, I signed up for hard. I knew these kids were going to be hard. I didn't sign up for adults fighting me against change and holding students accountable and setting boundaries. And it was... So, so hard. But a couple in, like, really bad instances. The first one, I had a student that put his hands on me multiple times. And then the last time, I mean... And this is fourth grade? Fourth grade, yes. That's crazy. Not a special ed student. Student put his hands on it. Last time he closed his punch me in the hallway. It was on cameras. They wouldn't do a thing. So I went and filed an assault charge at the police station. and was kind of chided a little bit for doing that. And I was like, well, you guys aren't doing anything and I need it documented. And in case, you know, something happens down the road and blah, blah, of course, got no phone call from Metro PD about it or anything like that. And... batted out with the parent. It was quite ridiculous. And this was an alarm I was raising like in November. And it finally comes to a head and they removed the child at the end of March finally from my class. That's crazy. How many kids are you coming across in your time in fourth grade that just couldn't read or write?

Most of it was going to be students that haven't been in the States very long, but read or write at a proficient level was very difficult. I would say maybe 15% at most. I mean, that still seems way too high. Yeah. And like I said, at most, it was like 15%. And when you say most of the kids that couldn't read or write are kids that haven't been in the States very long, you're talking about immigrants, you know, whether you say illegal or legal, whatever. How much does that hold a classroom back? Oh, a lot. I mean, well, and partly to the school that I was in, they were having issues with the school psychologist. I mean, to be honest, again, background was childhood psychology and special education, and then I moved to regular education. I could easily see where, if tested, half of the entire fourth grade that I was at could possibly qualify for a reading or some kind of specific learning disability. But they wouldn't do that because they said, oh, we're just comparing them to their peers, and then we're only going to take the lowest percentage and then give them services. So these kids aren't getting the help they need. No, and they're getting passed along. But part of my, and this whole grading thing, too, I was never told, I had to change grades. Of course, they said, oh, you need to, you need to possibly consider doing this. And I told them, I was like, look, when you hire me, this is, I'm not giving grades. Like, kids get what they earn. And then that was something that I taught year round. I was like, hey, guys, I love you. And, like, some of my most well-behaved students, I would have conversations with them. It's like, look, the grade isn't a reflection of who you are as a person. It's just where we're performing at now. And constantly having to reinforce that. But the biggest thing, the biggest, like, red flag for me and what really killed it for me last year and quitting teaching, I had a student bring a weapon. And this was in October. The kid ditched the knife, brought it, flashed it at some other kids, said he brought it for protection. So there's intention there. And whenever I went to go find the knife, it was kind of swept underneath the rug. State law dictates that says any persons that brings a weapon onto premises is subject to prosecution, right? Yep. And they didn't even have the sign at the front of the school. And I had an assistant director of the school. So one person, one step below battle. Like, whenever I confronted her about, like, why didn't this student get more than just two days of in-school suspension? That's it. That's all this student got. Nobody was notified. No other teachers were notified. No other parents were notified of the threat. Any cops weren't called. They didn't even call the school security. That's crazy. They handled everything in house, and it all come down directly from the Board of Education, specifically this one person named Dr. Baird and stepped below Dr. Battle.

And then whenever I had her in a one-on-one conversation, I told her, well, what was the reasoning behind that? She said, well, he had no intent. If I said, no, he said he brought it for protection. That is intent. Yep. And she was like, well, protection from who? And then she goes on to proceed to tell me that this isn't the only case like this. Like that makes it better. Well, and she said we frequently give these things. We've had students bring guns and they had no intent to hurt anybody, but they had guns. And they got the same punishment. So we've got a very rich problem. And I said, well, this is when we're going to have another school shooting in the bloods on your hands. And her direct quote to me was, well, I'm sorry you feel that way. Wow. Okay. So I have two questions for you. And I am up against it. And I want to put you on hold because I want to get your information. Is that cool? Yeah, absolutely. So do you think that you're, that the majority of these kids are on a pipeline to poverty or a pipeline to prison? At my particular school, yes. It was one of the hardest schools in Metro as far as elementary school goes. And the year before, two years ago, or two April's ago, one of the janitors was stabbed in the parking lot and killed before school started. Jesus. And it had nothing to do with the students, but it was still an employee of the school stabbed in the parking lot and killed. That's crazy. Do you think Adrian Battle should still have her job? Absolutely not. And they are sweeping stuff underneath the rugs. And then the other example I would tell you is last year was the first year where they took away teacher's ability to enter in discipline, like specific instances that happened in the classroom, into their system where parents and then administrators and any kind of auditing can take place to see what's going on. Instead, they were running it through school principals and assistant principals and deans of students. and they were the ones putting it in. So they can say, you know, oh, our things are going down, but why are we taking away all these different means of reporting if we trust our teachers. We trust our teachers are putting in the data from behavior that's truly happening and not gatekeeping it. That's crazy. We've got a couple more calls on the school stuff that we'll run through and then we'll jump into the lightning round. So Pat, Brenda, Eddie, we'll get to you guys real quick and then we'll move forward. Let's go to Pat first in Gallatin. What's up, Pat? How are you? I'm good. How are you? It's good to talk with you. Likewise. What do you got? Well, I just wanted to make a few comments. I subbed for 10 years in actually Sumner County. I can't even go there about most things. The discipline is horrible. They don't really know how to tie their shoes because of Velcro. They can't tell analog time. Of course, they don't do cursive. But I was in a class subbing for like a history type thing. And for a week, they were studying China. And one of the teachers came in while I was in there, and she was like, how are y'all doing with this? And they were like, oh, good. And she was like, so, okay, we've been studying China and everything. So what do you think? Like, would you like to, yeah, would you like to maybe move to China? Have you ever seen living there? What do you think? And one of them said, well, I mean, how could I live there? I don't speak Spanish.

Oh, no. Oh, my God. Oh, no. Oh, Lord. Me and that teacher, well, first of all, our brains were melting out of our ears. We had brain damage from this question. We could barely make it to the lounds before we just freaked out. I mean, and she was like, well, probably with medicines, they speak Chinese in China. They did not have a, most of the students did not have a clue that Spanish is not to spoken language in China. China? And I kid, yeah, I kid you not. It just goes on and on. Most of it, like if you have to do rope reading, okay, you take this paragraph or you take this sentence, you could scream, it's like the, uh, And I'm talking about fifth grade, middle school. They cannot read. But, but, you know, at the end of the day, Pat, at least there are some stunning and brave teachers that are very focused on teaching these kids their pronouns in some of these school districts around the country. Of course, I quit like at COVID. So that, I was not inundated with all that pronoun stuff, but I couldn't have taken it. And plus, I realized I needed to quit because I really wanted to grab some of them by the throat. So, I mean, it was horrible. That was like, let me, let me retire before I go full octagon on these kids. Yeah. That's about right. Appreciate the call, Pat. Thank you. You're welcome. Let's go to Brenda in Knox. What's up, Brenda? Oh, Chris, you really hit a nerve. First, I want to say, my daughters are 41 and 38. When my oldest went to school, just to make a long story short, by the second grade, she couldn't read. And she would bring home papers that had random letters, you know, like words, and it would have a star on the paper. And I took it to the school, I talked to the teacher, said, You know, this is not word. She's not reading. And she said, no, that was first grade. She said, oh, she'll get it. By second grade, they wanted to test her and put her in special education. I pulled her out. It took me a couple of years to get her up to speed with reading. And it's all worked out good. My two daughters homeschooled them all the way through. They went to college. They're married. They have three kids each. And I just want to tell people who's thinking about homeschooling. It's not always easy. You'll have days when you feel like crying. And then some days and other days are great. And some days your kid will not want to do anything. I put it aside and took them to the park. Yep. You know, you just work with them where they're at. I think that it really does mirror just life with kids, though.

It does. It really does. And sometimes they're interests, you know, they'll have certain interests that, you know, let them go with that. You know, I mean, the most important thing, if they can read and do math, and then you introduce all the other subjects, but that's the most two important things. And I want to say that there are things going on that parents don't know. This was clear back then. It was called affective education. Now they call it social, emotional education. It's a total focus on how they feel about everything. And we found where they were, I'm kind of nervous today, that we found that they were assessing, this was in Ohio, they were assessing the child's opinions and values. And the departments of education provided testing on this, and then they provided curriculum to correct. If a child didn't have the correct opinion about Mother Earth or anything political, then you could get curriculum that would be used to correct that. And the curriculum came from the federal Department of Education. Yep. That needs to be disbanded. It does. They said they were going to shut it down, but they're going to put these different departments in other departments of government. And it is just, there's so much that parents don't know. This goes back to the 80s, and I know they're still doing it. And I'm not blaming the teachers. The teachers had nothing to do with the test. They said that those tests were brought down from the State Department of Education, given, and then gathered back up and taken back. They never saw the test. They didn't give the test anything. So it's criminal, in my opinion. I'm with you. Yes, and there was a woman in Pennsylvania that found this. Her name was Anita Hogue. And she had a photographic memory. And she took it all the way up to the State Department of Education in Pennsylvania. And they let her see the test there, but she couldn't have a paper, you know, you couldn't write anything down or anything like that. But she memorized the questions and she memorized the numbers that went with the questions. And then she found through different materials they were sending her because they thought she was just some, you know, little mother that couldn't figure anything out. And she found where she could go on this big computer system. And when she did and she typed in these numbers, that's where this curriculum come pouring out that was to fix these kids' opinions. Now, this is the truth. This was in the 80s that they were doing this, and they were probably doing it in every state. I hear you, Brenda. That's crazy. I appreciate the call, as always. Let's go to Eddie real quick in Mount Juliet. What's up, Eddie?

Start your day with the morning jolt of Drake Toll. Anywhere in the country. Your home for talking sports. The United States hockey team has four teeth left. What is LeBron James Legacy? Leonel Mess. 906 career goals is stupid. All of it. The Knicks. The Los Angeles Lakers. Aaron Rogers. Georgia football players. The Dolphins. The Mets. As it happened, when it happened. We'll talk all of it. Westwood One Sports Talk. Your home for Drake Toll. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Form. I've got a 25-year-old and 27-year-old that went through the public school system. They learned to read. They learned to write. They were not encouraged to transition. They were not taught pronouns. They were not taught to hate the country. They went to good colleges. They got money off at both colleges. And now they have pretty damn good jobs. That's cool. As you like to say, as you like to say, isn't that weird? And I live in a blue state. How does that happen? You were probably in an affluent neighborhood, probably doing pretty good for yourself. By the way, we knew you were the seminar caller. Like, you could just tell us it to you. But I thought all the public schools, aren't all the public schools woke? Oh, so we shouldn't bring up the fact that public schools are failing. We shouldn't bring up the fact that Metro Nashville schools. are shutting down reports on kids with knives in school and just giving them in school suspension. We shouldn't talk about that at all. You have an issue with that? You have an issue with me talking about a teacher, sending an email to parents about their pronouns when there are kids in high school that can't read? This is the thing that you liberals do. So your kids had a good experience. I'm not liberal. I know kids that have gone. I'm not liberal. Yes, okay. I know kids that have gone through the public school system that can read and can write. It's not every teacher. It's not every classroom. But you think that I'm making this broad generalization. But the reality is staring in front of us that there are kids that can't read and wait in high school, that you want to get on the line and you want to be like, ignore all of that because my kids are doing great and I'm in New Jersey. No, my issue is that you paint this. With a broad brush. So, okay, so all you guys do, all you, all you, all you, all you, all you, all you, all you, you're a leftist, you're a leftist. So I'll get screamed that I'm a racist. Not really. And then I'll be told that I'm being, I'm doing the wrong thing when I'm saying that inner city schools should be teaching kids how to read and write.

So I can't win. Where do your nine kids go to school? We homeschool because the public education system has turned into an indoctrination system over the past couple of decades. Right. Well, maybe you shouldn't live in a crap state like Tennessee. Hey, you know, you're right. This state is so crap. You are far better off in New Jersey. You're welcome to stay there. Thank you for the call. 1150. I do have time for one story in the lightning round if we can jump into it. It's the lightning round. What happened in my meeting? I was dancing. You said real quick, so I didn't know if you wanted to cut it short. Well, I was, I wanted to dance. You know, that's fair. Hold on. It's the lightning round with Chris Hans. With Chris Hans. You're right. I need to, I need not to be so pessimistic today. I was busting some moves there, Brother Hand. Oh, but. We both are. I said, Ken wasn't on the camera, but he was, he's moving. He had a little jive. Yeah, man, I was, I was pop lock it. Yep. He didn't drop it, but he did pop and lock it. We got a story here for you in the lightning round. This is, uh, where, hold on, let me, let me find exactly where this is from. This is in South Carolina, the home of the esteemed Darlene Graham. Ooh. So, uh, Float cameras, they're getting, they're getting attacked. Oh. So people are spraying expanding foam sealant on them. Oh, nice. And the police are like, you've got to help us. They're begging the public for help. So they have received 40,000 tips to help solve this crime. Whoa. I know. Like, you know, when you ask people to step up, they will. Some of the public have submitted tips like, it was me. I drove by with my windows down and sneezed. It must have hit them. There's another one here that says, I heard he had a cape. Another tip came in and it said, I was told his name is Robin Hood. And I'll be damned if Sherwood Forest starts snitching. Appears to be covered in a foam sillant. And this is the latest example of vandalism to these cameras nationwide. Cameras that have already sparked concerns about privacy and surveillance. A pair of flock cameras sprayed, covered, and compromised. These are just two of 11 cameras set up throughout the town of Irmo. People taking to social media to applaud the defacement, while other residents like Gloria Hallman think otherwise. And I think it's really, really, really sad. Flock cameras. Poor Gloria. Gloria. Really, really sad. I feel bad for Gloria. I do too. She just doesn't know.

Gloria obviously wants to be safe. And I think that's the battle that we're dealing with with the fog cameras. Safety versus Liberty. Yep. Our automated license plate readers used by law enforcement to help track cars and investigative leads. I mean, that's like the simplistic definition of them. Very so. And that may be what they're currently used for in that community. But if you walk by them, they're logging the Bluetooth on your phone. It doesn't just get your license plate. It gets your bumper stickers. It gets your car damage. It also creates a map of how you move around that town. It knows everywhere you go. It knows if you're breathing inside the town. That's not my words. That's a police officer that attacked a woman who said she stole a package inside a neighborhood because of the flock cameras and the bad evidence from the flock cameras. Falsely accused her. Guilty until proven innocent. Yep, not the other way around. The vandalism comes just less than a month after town council approved a contract worth more than $400,000 to bring 22 more cameras to the community. A decision town councilman Gabriel Penfield was the only one to oppose. He says he doesn't support the vandalism but does have concerns about the technology. There are a lot of unanswered questions. as relates to the use of flock cameras and it's certainly become a national topic. Some Ermo residents joining the nationwide pushback with people raising concerns about possible misuse and mismanagement of the system. According to reports, some officers have been fired or arrested for allegedly abusing the system for their own use. But Hallman says the widespread attacks on the cameras aren't the answer. And the only thing it does is frighten people in a community that's safe. If they know this, okay. Normal police. Back to poor, poor elderly, Gloria, which she just doesn't understand. It's not exactly what they're being used for today. It's that we're building out the infrastructure for a future government to abuse. If we have a Democratic socialist president in 2028 or 2032, and they, God forbid, have the House and or the Senate, imagine what they're going to do with all of these cameras. And it's just for you and I. It's not for the elite. If you look at the flock cameras, there's a website. Is it deflock.org the website? I think it's deflock.org or deflock.com. I think so. I think it's dot org. If you look at the maps, you go to the most affluent neighborhoods in some of these cities, and there's no flock cameras. Like if you go to New York City and you go to the Upper West Side in Manhattan, there's not one flock camera. So it's surveillance for thee, but not for me. I'm anti-flock camera all day. I think we ran out of time. Do we run out of time? About a minute. All right, I got another one. This guy, I don't know. Would you call this man a hero? Or would you call him a villain? An Arizona man says he has absolutely no regerts because he was arrested after using his truck to bend a flock camera pole backwards until the camera faced the sky.

Kept backing up and I saw it bend back. I saw it looking at the sky and I said, that's good enough. And now County resident, Ed Kale, says he was arrested and faces a felony criminal damage charge after he used his work truck to bend a surveillance camera toward the sky. Kale says he did it to protest what he calls an invasion of privacy. Move out here because we want quiet. We don't want to cause any trouble. I don't. Now I'm under surveillance. Kail's frustration comes as scrutiny of license plate reader technology continues to grow across Arizona. I think it takes away from... our free will. You know, we shouldn't be recorded everywhere we go. On Wednesday, Pineau County Sheriff Ross Teepel announced he won't renew the county's contract with flock safety's automatic license plate reader cameras, citing concerns over government overreach and constitutional privacy. Based. Friday, Chandler 2 announced it will discontinue using 40 of its flock cameras. Also based. That's all happy to hear that the sheriff of Penal County is pulling them out. Says its cameras capture still images of vehicles and license plates in public, but cannot track people or identify drivers. Sure thing, pal. Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy SEAL, Mike Ridland. What is your take? Was it what you expected? Oh, it was the best thing ever. It was something I always wanted to do. If you show me a clear goal, I'm like, okay, I can do that. Master Chief. He's like, you realize there's about 1% chance that you're making it through. 1%. That's all I need Master Chief. My platoon went home early, and I just went up to my chief, and I was like, I'm not going home. Turns out I'm staying. That's when we go to war. Yeah, I was like, okay, I could get used to this. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform.