The Dom Giordano Program

Presidential Funeral Etiquette

1 - Girls’ High is facing a lawsuit from a former student over racial discrimination. Dom beaks down the case and whether or not it has any standing. 105 - Will LA and California change their tune politically after this disaster? A LA news anchor gets humbled. 110 - Your calls. 120 - Why didn’t George W. Bush or Karen Pence shake Trump’s hand at Jimmy Carter's funeral? Breaking down funeral body language by former Presidents. 135 - Lip readers weigh in on what Trump and Obama are discussing at Jimmy Carter’s funeral. 140 - Does the NFL have a CTE problem? Former Pro Bowler Tight End Steve Wycheck’s brain autopsy found that he had Stage 3 CTE. 150 - Your time. Your calls on the side question and the day’s top stories.

Duration:: 42m
Broadcast on:: 09 Jan 2025
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You're all time favorite, one you think is really distinctive. Now, we had this story of a woman named, they made international news. It was graduation season 2023. Lisa Principal Lisa Messy was not only the principal of Girls High, which used to be in the Philadelphia public schools, the girls' version of Central, and has fallen, by the wayside, based upon any number of metrics. And there she was trying to have decorum at the graduation. It is Girls High, after all. And she told the student, now this person was the person that other principals trained with, she was an icon. She told them that they were just to receive their diploma and warn them if there were outburst during this, then they wouldn't be given their diplomas at that point. Well, one girl danced across the stage, another did this kind of pantomime thing, and the other, the parents went way over the top coming toward the stage, and those three, she said, "Nope, you are not going to get your diploma right now. You'll get it." And I think it was in almost short order that they did get it. Now, she's white. And even though this seems perfectly within reason, she was under fire big time. She's fired back now. She was removed from her job in a form of discipline and giving a demeaning special assignment because she is white in retaliation for exercising her First Amendment right to refuse to appear at a public press conference and issue a public apology from the defendants in this, who are the ones that caused this. Girls High opened in 1848 as one of the nation's first public high schools for women, had an established rule in tradition of requiring its graduates to proceed formally across the stage without audience applause or shouting according to the lawsuit. So they dumped her, wanted her to give the apology. The then school board president castigated her saying it used antiquated norms and robbed the students of inclusive joy. There's that word again inclusive, right? The assistant superintendent who supervised her said your actions demonstrated a lack of respect for the students and their families. It's my belief. The practice is as best outdated at worst, a practice that lacks an awareness of culturally responsive norms. Translation, race was involved here. I believe this woman will win. She was told allegedly, this lawsuit says by district spokesperson Monique Braxton, told the woman in a June 17th conversation, if you were a black woman, this would not be happening, okay? So on and on, it goes. Many of the comments directed at her were vulgar and obscene, even though the Girls High Alumni Association defended her issued a statement supporting her. So what will happen here, I believe is she'll win. She'll get a certain dollar amount and the Philadelphia public schools will just go merrily on their way because ultimately all these lawsuits, all this money they pay out, the taxpayers pay it. They continue these sorts of tactics. So if you remember this, is it starting to come back to you? Made international news and we've all been the graduations, I get it, but I've seen stuff that's just, it's either a formal ceremony or it's not. If you just want to make it, hey, do whatever the hell you want, okay, do that. But Girls High had a tradition of this and again, how did these students suffer again? They got their diploma. They're the ones that called attention to themselves and aided and abetted this and she had told them what the rules were. So to be taken out of that position and put into a clerical position, she's now a principle of another high school, less desirable, she says, it's just another example of what goes on here and thought and that's why it made international news. People were not attacking her. They didn't say, oh my God, this woman's nuts. They went after the fact that she was under death threats because she held to this line. So then why have a graduation? Why not just say, hey, show up, dress in any way that you want. We'll hand you your diploma. What's the big deal? Anyhow. Now, can you get, can you go too far, but there are too many graduations, first of all, the pre-K graduation, kindergarten graduation, going to middle school or going to junior high and then that graduation, then high school? Is it something that is a lost thing, just let them show up and give them their piece of paper saying, you know, well, it's filled up with public schools and it's fraudulent, but it's a piece of paper that says, yes, you know something, even though if you don't, it doesn't matter. All right. That's eight five, five, eight, three, nine, twelve, ten, you get on board. It's going to be really interesting to see if the LA fires have any lasting impact on how people view this. I think some people are thinking it will. Here's just one perfect example though. This is cut 16. This is an LA news anchor humiliated. You would think during this segment where he's saying, none of this is true. None of this is true about the firefighters don't have water. It's all made up. Essentially, when I'm watching this guy, he's saying, well, you can serve it up. I can imagine talk radio out there, all that stuff. They're just making it up. This is what they always do. And at the very end of this news report, it's about a minute 26, you'll hear the reporter not once but twice on the scene saying firefighters are telling me they don't have any water to put out the fires. Here's how it sounded. >> Excuse me, former LA mayoral candidate and real estate developer Rick Caruso criticizing the city's response to the windstorm and fires. He says officials should have been more prepared. >> Really issued to me a twofold. We've had decades to go remove the brush in these hills that spread so quickly. And the second is, we've got to have water and my understanding is the reservoir was not refilled in time and in a timely manner to keep the hydrants going. So that's a failure, whether on DWP's part or another city agency. But this is basic stuff, this isn't a high science here and it's all about leadership and management that we're seeing a failure of. And all of these residents are paying the ultimate price for that. >> Despite what you have heard from Caruso, no firefighters have told us that they are running out of water. >> And let's go out to Gigi Graziet. >> She has gone to the Pacific Palisades. I know your signal's not the best, but Gigi, what can you tell us? >> Well, firefighters have told me they have no water on this block. And you may make out the embers storm that we're in the middle of right now. This house going to be a total loss. They have no water to put on this fire. They are standing by because they're trying to save the home that is next to it. >> All right, so no water firefighters there, no water a couple times after this guy. It's a rear guard action. They're trying to try to tell us A, this is climate or B, you big mouse, nobody could do anything about this. And look, once they start, it's difficult. Everybody realize there's certain difficulties, but this is a failure of proportions. It is the most destructive in their history. It's possibly because they're nowhere near putting this out. That's the problem here. That's the bottom line. And this is something that Gavin Newsom now has been swept up in, and this is going to hurt him. We'll see tape of this already. And the comparison is apt, Scott Jennings on CNN saying, let's see a split screen of what the Sanis has done in Florida versus what Newsom has done in California. And Newsom used that word when he was on with Anderson Cooper last night about whose problem is this, et cetera, talking about the folks. As soon as you hear folks, here's cut seven. This is Newsom. He's asked by Anderson Cooper on CNN, why the fire hydrants have no water? I do think there's a split screen here with Florida, to be honest. A lot of what we talk about it in terms of emergency management in this country almost always comes from hurricanes and weather and who is the recognized best of emergency manager in the country, Rhonda Santis in Florida. So Newsom is also, he's under assault from Trump a little bit, but he's also dealing with I think a comparative here, what do other governors do, is he as good? So when you're talking about the future politics of it, is he as good at this as another governor might be, to be a real problem for him because right now I think people have serious questions and there are no answers yet, he'll have a chance to answer them, but it doesn't look great right now. All right, here is Dan, what I wanted, yeah, that's what Jennings said. This is Newsom being asked, I believe, by Anderson Cooper about why they don't have any water, cut seven. What is the situation with water, obviously in the palisage, we ran out last night in the hydrants, I was trying to fire fire in this block, they left because there was no water in the hydrogen here, the local folks are going to figure that out. I mean, just when you have a system, it's not dissimilar what we've seen in other extraordinarily large scale fires, whether it be pipe, electricity, or whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system. I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire, we have something at this scale. And that's going to be determined by the local. Are we buying that? I don't think so. I don't think so. When you're here and you know what the number one or the principal problem that you have, fires, wildfires, that's what you have to worry about. They didn't come anywhere near doing it. It's not just that it's overwhelming. It's that they were overwhelmed because they were completely unprepared with all the billions they spent because they're disgraceful because their DEI up and down the line, their clowns, and they can't handle it. It's not the local folks and what do you expect? This is extraordinary. It's extraordinary because they've allowed it to become this extraordinary. Obviously, they would have some problem with this. They really have to work hard and bring resources in. But the devastation that we're seeing here, that's now they're projecting it's 40% contained Fox News is saying now, but this is a living memorial to progressivism, to what they are, to what the National Democrat Party is, and this is what you'll get with them. All right, let's go to, let's see here, let's go to Scott in Mount Laurel, talk radio 12 10. Hey, Scott, good afternoon. It's just so typical, they left, they're spending so much time on things that aren't important that even if they want to do the right thing, they don't have enough time to do it. They're spending time doing ridiculous stuff, nonstop, worrying about all the, you know, the color of everybody in the gender and all that, that if they would just spend the time in government doing what they were supposed to do, government would run a lot better. Yeah, but that's not how you advance in the Democrat Party. You don't advance through merit executive leadership on the basic type of stuff. You advance like this woman did it to the head of the fire department on DEI of being a lesbian who's out. Those are the things of advancement. So it's, people will realize, yeah, well, Karen Bass was the runner up to Kamalisa Rice for the DEI to be vice president. She didn't get that. So they elected her against a competent guy, the billionaire, barely in LA and look at the result. I mean, we've gone through this for years, saying, look, you know, we just need people to make the connection between the negative things that happen and the people that they're voting for that are doing them. They're starting to make that connection. But like you said, without Trump to highlight it, you know, we'll really have to work hard to try to keep that connection visible. Yeah. And Scott, I'm being fair. I'll ask you, we'll start off with you. Let's bring it up close to the home here. All right. So first black woman who's mayor in Philadelphia. We have that now. I maintain that Cheryl Parker would not allow her city to be in a situation like this. I don't see evidence of it. I think she's much more competent than that would sweat the basic kind of stuff. So I'm not saying it's every person in that role. But I'm saying there's enough of them when DEI is the path that this is what you're going to get. I think Cheryl Parker would allow something like this. No, I don't think so. I thought she sounded great and all the interviews she did with you before the election certainly sounded like she had a grasp of the issues and was competent. And I think she won because of that. And you know, how she's going to govern if it was a ruse or not, I guess we'll find out in time, you know, if the city gets cleaned up because we know how to clean up crime. It's a question of whether they have the, you know, the political will to do it. Yeah. Well, if it had been Helen Kim, on the other hand, it would be more devastating than this. Right. And that's why Cheryl won because people wanted someone who, you know, would potentially clean things up. Right. Exactly. Who's your person, Scott? Well, it's great to be here on the Domgier Geno program and I am here with Phillies manager Charlie Manuel. Charlie, how would you sum up baseball? Well, well, you know, you'll like Harry. You'll like, I, I could sum up baseball. You'll like, like in one word, you'll like, and that one word is you like, you never know. You know, yeah, but any of Scott, very good. Oh, I love doing a present time here in the Phillies booth. You better whip out it. Yeah. You're going to be in the Phillies booth this year. What do you think? Well, we'll see. We'll see what the price is. That, that Roger guy put that price through the roof. Oh, that progressive, I was like, I did, I got a better better deal. I'm like Trump. I like the good deal. All right. Thank you, Scott. We hope you're in there. We're working that up already. The secret word to say, all right, eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, twelve, ten. You would think after something like this, like if the election were held in a couple of weeks and it were a Caruso against Bass, do I know for certain Caruso would win the Republican billionaire who came fairly close? No, I don't. Breaking these patterns is not easy. Despite the evidence that's in front of us, the media is already saying, have you no shame? You shouldn't be talking about something like this while it's happening. People are dead, destruction all over the place. What are we going to talk about it when you hope we forget about it? Do I think Chorrell Parker, for example, would run a city like this or is running a city like this? No, I don't think Chorrell Parker is somebody like that. But there are any number, Daniel Outlaw was the face of DEI, the former police commissioner. Karen Bass was the runner up to Condolee Harris to be vice president. And on it goes, filling up women's handbags. We're seeing that today with some of the LA fire department in order to put out the fire. That's what they're reduced to because of the shortage of water. And do I see the people in charge Newsom included desperately trying to move heaven and earth on this? No, I think they're in a bubble that thinks this is not going to ultimately stick and it may not. I don't know what it takes to break through on this on just the competency issue. Yes, there are incompetent dopes that are Republicans, no doubt. But it's more the ideology that just drives itself toward the notion of that's the stuff that's secondary. It's a distraction. What we're going to do is we're going to put in DEI and we're going to fixate on that and we don't care about anything else. All right. More of your calls are next. You're with Dom and talk radio 12 tap. All right. Time to hear Dan O's show. This is a question we all wrestle with, I guess, at funerals. But when you're former vice president, current president, former this, that or the other. So today, as I said, the Biden's didn't pay much attention, didn't even look at Kamala Harris. Good indicator there. But several people, and I'm watching the footage as people come in, president Bush does not greet Donald and Melania Trump at all. He walks past that where Obama was sitting and gives him a loving belly tap. They're friendly. A belly tap. Belly tap. Yeah. Yeah. Touchdown. Jump in the air. Yeah. It was something like that. And Karen Pence, a totally snob Trump and Melania Trump at the funeral where Mike Pence shook hands with president Trump. Now we had a situation where invited to the Clinton White House, DJ, hated Bill Clinton at that point. I think it was 14. And we knew it was going to be a handshake thing involved. I'll just despise it. Yeah. Yeah. And you got to shake a hand here. This is you're shaking a hand to the office in a situation. Now in the case of Karen Pence, though, given that Mike Pence was under fire where the secret service may have had to open fire on people that were coming after him potentially there. I could understand that. What's the line that you get to even at a funeral? I'll give you one other. It's just just a miserob. I've told this story before while Bill Gwenier's family has me speak in hisology. It was such a big deal. I believe it was at the Academy of Music. That's how big of a deal it was. You know, what a hero Philadelphia, the whole thing. And Kenny's there and he mustn't observe me. And he sits within a seat or two of me backstage and I had all kinds of fancy chairs set up for the next in line of the Georges. And either somebody whispered or it dawned on him. He gets up, looks around the room, makes everybody sees and walks completely like 50, 60 feet to the other side of the room to sit down. You know, I'm not going to say, you know, at a funeral, you shouldn't be doing that. And I'm not going to say anything to him there. You can't. It's just ridiculous to engage in that at a ceremony like that. You have to have better manners. YouTube.com/add12tonwphd. I just have to put it up there. Yeah, put it up there. That'd be the role footage of entering, shaking hands. So Dan, is there anybody you would, there are people out there in the world. I could see that I wouldn't even had a funeral. I wouldn't make a thing of it. But I just wouldn't. I'm not going to go near them. I'm going through a list. Yeah, there's not really many people. The one that comes to mind is Krasner. Okay. Right. You know, it's tough because I feel he is intentionally doing harm to a local community. Right. Yeah, he's his ideology and he is beyond arrogant about it. That would be impossible. But with Harris, for example, we differ with her completely ideologically. I don't like how she got to where she did. But, you know, we don't want to be like the other side saying Trump is Hitler so you can't shake hands with him, then after the elections are like, I could shake hands with Josh Shapiro. I despise everything about the modus operandi and what he's doing. Yeah. Krasner is one. Henry, how about you? Anybody? Most politicians probably. Okay. John Calipari. Yeah. I don't mind. I don't have a disdain. I'm as much as Scott and Mount Laurel does or anyone like that, but you wouldn't just because they're a politician, yeah, my favorite line of work, I should say, but if you're there, isn't it the officer shaking hands with if it's a president, for example, if they disgrace the office badly enough, I don't think that's all right. Yeah. That's what I'm asking. What's the line here before your I mean, the polite thing to do is to try to avoid. Don't make the first rules. Don't make a spectacle. Try to avoid being in that situation. Both people should try to do that. If possible, at a funeral, you got to try to do it. Now let me ask you this on the other side of things, youtube.com slash 12 and W.P.H.D. We're currently showing after Obama sat down, him and Trump very chummy having a conversation smiles back and forth. Is that too much? It was too much. I think they were, they were talking too much at the funeral. Yeah, I do. They were joking talking and all I don't like that at a funeral. No, not really. Now, I know there was a lull there before stuff happened. I don't think you ought to be doing that at a funeral. You do that after, you know, the wake or before you sit down, but when you're sitting there in the church around this, probably not. Yeah, real awkward moment as Bush enters and just walks right past Trump and Melania to give Obama a bump on the chest and everyone behind them being vice presidents, Gore, Pence, they all stand up and he goes right to them to shake hands after giving the belly bump to Obama. Yeah, what's that? Bush thing with a sitting president, president elect now, that he can't with Trump. What's so despicable about Trump to Bush? Well, Jeb Bush, is that what it is said? I mean, it brought it on himself though. I think you asked the never Trump or style Bush is out there. Yeah. They say that Trump bastardized conservatism. All right. Is that the sin, though? Is this like a tyrant or something like prisoner where we're talking life and death here? I wouldn't. You know what? Here's what to do, Dan. You shake his hand, but then you're more pleasant with Obama. You know, it's the bell. The two of you sit there and talk for a minute and with Trump, you just give him a perfunctory handshake a move on that I could see. Well, is that not making a scene again? Like you just come like a, you know, dead fish handshake and then it's like, yo, Obama, what's up? Oh, you, is that not, is that not making a scene like you're clearly playing for you? Give him a chessbook. Yeah. But at least you're shaking Trump's hand to walk right past him and then Henry, you got the bird and the wife is there. What a Melania do to Bush. Yeah, that's fair. I mean, you don't have to shake the wife's hand. If you want to make a statement there, you can't just bypass the white. That's a good point. Right. So I'm in a problem with Dan that week. I don't hug Macy at a thing. Come on. It's like, oh no, she's got, she can't accept that. Because Dan. Not allowed to hug Dom when we go to this event, Macy. All right. Remember that. No, Row would. You know that. I couldn't coach her out of it. I would never not hug Row if we were. I know. That's right. I just, you can't get her out of that the matter of what you got to avoid them. But when you're national leaders like that and then you got Hillary sitting there, well, all of them, they all hate Hillary. I mean, every level, every one, I don't say any of them shook her hand. No. I didn't see anything with it. There was like a weird moment to where she sat down next to George and there's like a, you know, when you usually sit to someone that you have floated in circles in the past. Yes. If you're not friendly with them, you kind of like acknowledge them. Yes, exactly. Just completely ignoring, ignoring one another and well, I noticed George later, like, leans over and makes a joke to both Bill and her and things up. But you can tell there's some weight in the air when she sits down. When they were escorted in, Kamala Harris is the second gentleman, went in first, went in second. She went in first, then she stopped and made him go to the end. I think they were trying not to have her sit next to Jill Biden, but the protocol was she's got to sit next to her. So those have to be at that level, the intensity where you have to be somebody you despise or you really don't like. I mean, I've been in events and situations like that. You just got to suck it up and get through it and not show the public. There's anything particularly wrong with it. During the break, I'm going to also bring up a clip of Kamala Harris when she sits down. Yes. When Obama chatting, you see like her, well, yeah, she thinks it was inappropriate on that. I kind of agree about what she did before, but yeah, what's going on here? Yeah. All right. All right. She tweets, it's before the funeral, you should be able to talk. Have your back and forth now. They're in church. It was a little bit too much laughter and stuff going on, I think, you know what I mean? I don't know. I think you do that in other places. You got 12 and W.P.H.T. tuning for "Damet Dark" with "Damet Dark," what the heck is going on? Lights are on out there. I hope we're not experimenting. No. What? Are we experimenting with something in here? No. No, it's through anything. That's a lazy thing. That's like dead. Okay. Yeah. Something, yeah. Okay. At least we're on air. Somebody's experimenting. No, it's experimenting. We're looking around. All right. Someone forgot to pay the bill. All right. So it's eight, five, eight. That's where it's by. I was writing it. There you go. That's right. They were experimenting with something. Eight, five, eight, three drones in the air. That's, yeah. Eight, five, eight, three, nine, twelve, ten. If you have a comment on that, these public things are difficult for everybody involved, but what's the protocol? That and the side question, we have more coming up. Talk Radio 12-Tap. All right. It is a dumb time. Welcome in. New York Post brings in a professional lip reader, Jeremy Freeman. And he says, Trump is saying to Obama, I pulled out of that. It's a condition. Can you imagine that? And after I will. Call me after this. We need to get a quiet place to talk. Obama, can you just, it should be good. Trump, I can't talk. We have to find a quiet place sometime. This is a matter of importance. We need to do this outside so that we can deal with it certainly today. Oh, man, can you imagine? But Obama did look very engaged with him. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court in New York has turned down the Trump appeal to block the New York sentencing tomorrow. Now it goes on to the Supreme Court where the Trump people are asking them to block it. Hard to know what they may do in this. You know what it's about, it's spite, just trying to have that felon tag on Trump when he takes the oath of office. All right, big game coming up this weekend with the Eagles and the big year where they can go to the Super Bowl. And we have the, I just saw this DJ Senate to me, the death of a former, well, Archbishop Brian Great, then University of Maryland, and he was a guy who was pretty unique. I think they called him an H back at the time, he played for Tennessee mainly, Frank Weicheck. And he died after he died. They took a look at his brain and they report today, he had stage three of the degenerative brain disease, CTE, yet at least 25 concussions. The family said during his career, he struggled to find stability in his life after he retired, often telling his daughter if felt like his brain had a thick brick wall inside that stopped his will to follow through with anything. Now again, I mentioned it all the time and making peace with it. When you see a guy like this, a local, he was that known around this. We know with the players today, he didn't quite know the year he played. I think it was 52. So this was some years back. These guys today certainly have to know about this risk factor. And maybe that's how we're able to, at least for me, I'll speak for me, watch and not think about that much. Henry, do you ever think about that or how do you get by that? What, the CTE? Yeah. Yeah. I just choose not to think about it. I think everyone's brain is going to react differently to getting hit repeatedly over and over again. It's going to be different for everybody. So I don't think you can take too much stock and just the whole sport as an entirety because everyone's different. Well, I encourage your kids to play. Yeah. Okay. Well, first of all, just one metric that's factual, I would put in and then why I come down inside and Dan asked a great question. That's where I was going to go to. They know it's 33 to 38% are going to end up with CTE of some form or another, probably in their 40s or early 50s. So it's pretty established and it is football more than any sport that I'm not saying it's not like a thing, but I'm saying like you did say like a third of the players will probably end up with something. A little bit more. But you're just kind of hoping you're that other two thirds. Yeah. But watching this gives me, because I know what's going to happen. But you don't. You don't necessarily know. I know one third of them are. Yeah. Sure. Well, that's a lot. It is. It's not like, look, if they walk, they can't run when they're done playing or bend over too easily. You got a lot of money. Suck it up. Yeah. And it's like issues like that where I think players go like, oh, it's the CTE. It's my brain, you know, not firing and all cylinders. I think a lot of, I don't want to say CTE is like overhyped, but I think a lot of players just, you know, they have debilitating stuff after they retire, you know, down the line. And they want to blame, you know, CTE brain injuries, when I don't think that's necessarily always the case. They have their brain. They have their brain. They're lying. Well, I mean, why check's case? Obviously it's cut and dry. Yeah. I mean, a lot of them. They have about a thousand brains now. Of course. So quite in that JAMA study was 99% of brains from deceased NFL players and 91% of deceased college football players. They were found CTE. See, I don't know about the college thing, but I actually was like 21% to Henry's point. So you would let them play high school football? Absolutely. Yeah. Dan. If my child came to me with the desire, then sure, I'd let him do it, but I wouldn't push him towards it. Okay. I would really try to dissuade DJ and Luke or basketball. They never, I didn't have to deal. We didn't know about it then either though. Well, let me ask you this. Yeah. If there's 21% of high school football players get CTE, what if I told you 17% of the time you drink red wine, you might get cancer. Yeah. Well, if you could prove that, then I have to look at that. Well, work in that into a moment, let it up. No, it's so bad. I was even thinking of trying white wine this week, and then I thought, what the hell? White wine. Give me a break. I would never be caught. It's cold back there. Dan, you were a white wine drinker. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Last night I actually had some grapefruit riscado from a local winery that you in a row of. It was really good. Oh, over in Hamilton. Yeah. It starts with the T. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thomas Sow other great folks. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I had a grapefruit riscado. Oh, grapefruit. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. By the way, I had your T, I said it was excellent. Yeah, I did. Oh, yeah. Good. High school football. Yeah, absolutely. Because it's different. Like, have you ever played against someone who's going to play, you know, division one football or this guy's the man? You know they're on it. They move faster. They move on a different plane than everyone else. So obviously their hits are going to be a lot worse than you would see on the average football field. High school. Well, I mean, I contend from what I see, the problem is you're never going to be safe in the NFL. No. It's not so much just their size. They move too fast and colliding at that speed. You're always going to have it. Everyone's the best athlete in the country. Right. And you're going to have CTE. Yeah. And numbers that are appalling. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I just, but that's what the risk is. It's harder and harder for me to watch it. Really? I don't think it's you with something Henry just said. Yeah. I don't know if football players are the best athletes in the country. They're not. Pro basketball players are. Yeah. That's my fault. Yeah. I disagree with that. Yeah. Who are? Football players. Oh. If we really pro wrestlers, we'd be so much better at every other sport if we cut out football. I mean soccer included. Like that would make soccer relevant in the United States as if we had these great athletes going to play on the pitch. Yeah. Lane Josh. You go to play soccer. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I still think pro basketball players just look at them versus football players. It's a big difference. Really? All right. You can get in. Is that trouble you? I mean, it's going to be enormous this weekend, the numbers. And particularly with the team, we have a radio station just built on this. It's a sports station. But in Philadelphia, it couldn't be any place where football is more revered. It just fits beautifully. But you see a guy like Y check now, you see this constantly CTE, which it's not so much just at the end of life. It's what happens to them as they degenerate. It could be suicidal. They just can't do anything else, et cetera. What a risk. And if you know that now, well, at least you're informed. Eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, twelve, eight, so one makes it to the NFL. I mean, you know, like when you get to the level of making tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars, it's hard for me to feel bad for a lot of people to be quite honest. Well, I feel at that rate, you're paying someone to put their bodies on the line. Yeah, I agree with putting your body on the line. But when you're talking about your brain on the line, that's that I just get really worried about. Yeah. The rest of your body, you're right. That's what you're paid for. Yeah. Well, the college level, the stat you had, Dan, that's the thing. I don't know if I buy that, that number had CTE at the college level. I can buy that just the amount of good athletes that are coming through with the five-year player window now, you know, all the JUCO transfers not affecting their eligibility. The talent pool has gotten so much greater in the last, I don't know how many years that it's a lot. Yeah. But they're moving at, they're catching up to the NFL. I want to say they're on that level and not even close, but they're slowly moving that way in terms of speed, athleticism, all that. So that's, I just want to say that I'm sorry, the report I was referring to was the JAMA medical journal report that came out of University of Boston a couple of years ago. Oh, yeah. That's the center for this. Yeah. Our Boston University CTE center. So 91% college. I guess because this is such a nasty disease, again, when you see somebody who's a former player, they can't think they might be suicidal, they're depressed, they're movements. It's the worst of dementia, Lou Gehrig's disease for years, it seems like. All right, eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, twelve, ten. You get in. We're coming to you next on Talk Radio 12 10. All right. I'm here down on show eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, twelve, ten, Roger Stone coming up at two o'clock, advisor to Nixon. This is Nixon's birthday. He would have been a hundred and twelve. That's the side question today and why he's coming about President Trump and what he sees going forward. Tom's money melody. Really interesting one today. We'll get to that also. Let's try Joe in boarding town though. Hey, Joe, good afternoon. What do you have today? Good afternoon. My answer to the side question is Norm McDomel and one time he was guest hosting for Dennis on Dylan's Miller Radio Show and I called in and he said I sounded like Buffalo Bill for me. I was a lawyer. Yeah. I would agree with that. Definitely. There's a definite accent issue there. I would agree with that. All right. Joe in Columbus back to back, Joe. Joe, who do you have? You got to keep following me up with Joe from boarding town. That's a hard follow up, Tom. Can I talk about these fellow state fires for sure? Go right ahead. It's nothing short of pure negligence and outside the obvious warnings. Trump gave Newsome and, you know, there's obvious things. I worked in California for three months after the '89 earthquake and it's a fact. Everything from San Jose, South California is a desert. Number one. Number two, all they had to do was monitor the reservoir out there in Nevada. That feeds Los Angeles and Lake Tah. I forget that it slips my mind, but they saw that reservoir dropping. Down 60, 70, 80 feet now. Well, they had Joe to your point. They had an inordinate amount of rain last year and they just allowed it to dissipate. Yeah. The problem is, if your campaign is on, you don't have any Republican there. Criminal negligence is the way to go here to charge somebody or a bunch of them. With that, that's the only way you can do anything. And wasn't it Trump that was warning them? They said decades ago. You better do something about this now. In addition to getting rid of all the scrub brush and everything, there's a myriad of proof and evidence here that it was negligence and nothing but negligence. Oh, yeah, that's exactly what it is. I don't know of anybody in power, though, who would charge them with that, Joe. And the taxpayers will end up paying for the rebuild and then plus whatever people win in a civil suit, it'll be billions upon billions. Right. Right. Yeah. We pay for others. Absolutely. My guy, although I can't quite understand as cadence most of the time, is Chris for walking. That is a very interesting one when it comes to cadence, not like Nixon, but a cadence, definitely. So, all right, Joe, thank you for that. Let's take Chris in South Jersey. Chris, who's yours? Okay, downwind is the incomparable Paul Harvey with his faith in closing line of, and that is the rest of the story. Absolutely. Harvey is so popular, they used to put him on at noon for the first 15 minutes of talk rate. I was at WWDB when they did it. All right. We'll take more on that. Roger Stone is next. We'll have a couple of other things too coming up this hour. Here's how you get in 855-839-1210. You get on board. The outcome in LA, well, people actually now think about this the next time they vote. You had a viable Republican there. This guy, Caruso, who's a business guy was successful, is kind of a slightly moderate conservative Republican billionaire. And he did well, but they still put a complete DEI person in there and Karen Bass, who did not get the vice presidential role. So they said, okay, let's put her in to be the mayor of LA, where she's from. You see, but the results are it's not only her, it's the whole infrastructure there, including Newsom on down, the fire commissioner, just at any level. They're not about protecting you. You couldn't possibly have confidence. So why do people vote for that? Well, they believe it'll never come down to that. They want to vote for somebody who ideologically they agree with, they agree with DEI. They think that's a way to go. You see what the results are. How can anyone deny what the results are? You still want to vote for it. Okay. Don't deny the results. Well, it's climate, really. Climate didn't fill up the reservoirs. 855-839-1210. Dom Girdano, weekdays 9 till noon, on talk radio 1210, WPhD. (dramatic music)