The Dom Giordano Program

Madam President for a Day

1 - Running down what is to come throughout the rest of the show. Will these Republican cabinet members get votes from Democrats? 105 - Will moderate drinking lead to cancer? 115 - On this anniversary of January 6th, we look at what former Congressman Adam Kinzinger had to say on the event, once again promoting fake stories on the event. Dom debunks each and every media lie that he has been spouting. 135 - Should there be requirements and testing to be a teacher in New Jersey? New legislation would eliminate the requirement that teachers need to be able to read. We look at possible questions from the test. 150 - Kamala Harris certifies that Donald Trump will be President. 155 - Your calls.

Duration:: 48m
Broadcast on:: 06 Jan 2025
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Belco, banking for everyone. Dom Geordano. Untock Radio 1210, WPhD. Philadelphia's Tock Radio 1210, WPhD, WPhD, WGL, HD3, Philadelphia. Always live on the free Odyssey app. It's Dom Time. Now Dom Geordano. All right, it is Dom Time. Welcome in, everyone. 855-839-1210. You get on board. Our buddy, Jeff Van Drew, just sent out a release. Hopefully he'll be on tomorrow. He will now be the chairman of the oversight committee in the House Judiciary Committee. I think Jordan is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. It's the subcommittee, but that's the committee with oversight over, you know, other than being chairman of the Judiciary Committee. That's the position that you want if you're in Judiciary. That the main player will break that down with him. He is advancing tremendously, and that is great news. Our buddy, Scott Presler, and look, you know, give it a rest a little bit. Some people on my Twitter saying, "Oh, I don't know about that." He shows up at the farm show, which is a great place. And I've never been to the farm show. Not from me seeing the cow made out of butter and all that stuff. "Oh, my God. Sorry, rural Domville. Not someplace I'd go." But he goes there, you know the reason why voters registration, and he must have known that Fetterman was going to be there. So Scott Presler had quite a conversation with Fetterman saying, "If you ever want to become a Republican, we'd love to have you. Here's what I would do, et cetera, et cetera." And he's standing there, and I don't know who filmed it. I think it was a Presler guy because Presler looked every bit as tall as Fetterman to me. Now, he did have the boots on, Fetterman had on whatever he calls those shoes. Fetterman, though, is a legit 6/8, I'd say. Maybe even a little bit more, and Scott is about 6/5. So he'll be here at 2 o'clock. We're waiting to get the registration numbers, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. What's next? And his conversation with Senator Fetterman. Now, Fetterman is still a liberal guy, contrarian, most stuff, and all that. But on several things like the upcoming confirmation hearings, I think he's going to vote for some of these Republicans. I'm not sure which ones it'll be hard. I could see him voting for an RFK junior potentially. Pete Hegseff, by reading the room, appears to have enough Republican votes to get to the magic number, to get to the majority. That's the story over the weekend. Cash Patel seems to be a little bit of an uphill battle, and Tulsi Gabbert may be a little bit more. One of those may be they'll vote against to show they voted against something. But Patel is the key guy to get in there with the FBI. We've talked about that routinely. Now, on Friday's show, we saw this in the middle of the show. And I was talking to Don a little bit about it. I had a little bit of time over the weekend to run it down in that we had this grandstanding head of the Surgeon General come out with this report saying that he wants people. Here's a headline in the Wall Street Journal rebutting him today by Alicia Finley. As with his other work, the Surgeon General's report is laid on facts heavy on expanding government. He wants to put warning labels on beer, spirits, and wine. She writes, "No moderate drinking won't give you cancer." And we go through this, a number of academic studies that refute what he said about any alcohol used. 200 pages of findings run counter. She cites the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a congressionally mandated review of the recent evidence of health effects of moderate drinking of up to one drink a day for women and two for men. Hey, finally an advantage there. Wait a minute, women only get one drink and get two to be a moderate drinker. And Dr. Murthy's claims that alcohol use is a leading preventable cause of cancer, contributing to nearly 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths each year. This estimate is based on models of associations from cherry-picked observational studies. But even the report partially attributed only 17% of those estimated deaths to moderate drinking. And the thing that jumped out at me, and Henry was on with me, I think it was Friday. This guy actually saying 17% of breast cancer due to moderate drinking, alcohol is the cause. So in order they are tobacco, obesity, and then the third thing was alcohol usage, even if moderate. Now, you know, it's such a painful thing, cancer of any sort, but breast cancer, major focus, all kinds of fundraising, rallies for it, etc. And this guy is triggering something along the lines of, oh man, you know, I can't have a glass of wine now because he's talking about moderate drinking or even beer. And I try to liken it when the Surgeon General came out with the warning on cigarette smoking. It was appropriate, this government regulation, to put that on cigarettes at that time. I mean, now do people not know that? Is it not all over the place that this is a causal element? It's something to be aware of. You're taking a risk, maybe a significant risk if you're smoking of any sort. I'd say, yeah, it's legit. I don't see the warning labels because people would go nuts, the body positivity crowd about obesity on anything. Like we put them on ding dongs or, you know, think of something fatening. I don't think they're on there in that manner. So now suddenly, on wine, spirits, and even beer, we're going to put warning labels, even if you're a moderate drinker, something of that nature. This guy is just- Well, let me ask you this. Yes. Do you think there should be warning labels on marijuana products in New Jersey? Um, I have to see more- I don't know what they say. Are there any on them? Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's tons. And cigarettes and all. Well, yeah. Cigarettes. Yeah, definitely. We know. And it's such a- it's unrefutable. I mean, on cigarettes. So with marijuana, I'd have to see the warning labels to see how far they go, how draconian they are. And what do they say? Cancer causing? Uh, it can cause psychosis, I think some of them say. I think there are carcinogen warnings as well. I don't know for sure. I'd have to see exactly what they say. Probably not. You know, the psychosis thing to me is, well, particularly with legal marijuana. I mean, I'm under the impression it's not where street marijuana has gone to be more potent. Well, to your point, I mean, I just pulled out my- Yeah. So my Q-Pods are the little vape pods that I have. Warning, this product contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical. There's no mention about carcinogens or anything on here. Okay. Um, yeah. Well, with nicotine, I think it's so extreme that I'd be in favor of it. This is tangential, if at all, really here. Do I think, uh, you know, my bias, because I think a glass of red wine a day might even be helpful. If not a day, four or five times a week. Yeah, I still do. I think there's evidence of that. I don't know or, or of any wine. I don't know. You don't and your suspect of that, I think, right? I just, if there's actual, you know, if there's truth to this claim that 17% of breast cancer is caused by this, and I mean, those numbers are really frightening, to be quite honest. Well, this is stigma. Go ahead. If we're putting on cigarettes because of the high, you know, chance of this causing cancer, then I do think it's appropriate to put it on alcohol as well. Well, all right. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. I just read, released a congressionally mandated review of this more than 200 pages of findings. They counter, they contradict Dr. Murphy's only scan 22 page report, although they didn't get a lot of attention in the media. He did. In other words, it's the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine saying, no, there's no connection that rises to any level here. I mean, that's pretty potent to me. I wonder if it's one of those things where like, you know, the doctor asks you, like, do you drink? Do you smoke? Right. Like, you know, how good your health, all those background questions. And I wonder, like, if someone who gets cancer answers, you know, pretty much know to all those questions, except drinking. And they say, like, oh, well, you have cancer. The only thing you did is drinking. It must be attributed to the drinking. Well, maybe. Yeah. I wonder how deep this study goes, or if it's just like any sort of statistic where you can just move the numbers around and make it say what you wanted to say. Yeah. I think this guy is, again, the Wall Street Journal piece really goes into some of the overregulation he wants. There's no doubt about cigarettes, probably cigars too, to a lesser degree, where I, you don't want to do warning labels. So when they did it with cigarettes, it was necessary. Tobacco industry was really pushing back heart saying, no, come on, you live to be 90. Don't worry about it. I think we need to see some of those, like, anti-smoking PSAs, you know, make a return to the airwaves. I haven't seen those on TV in a while. And you think people, I don't see that many people smoking though, you do? Yeah. I think it's a little bit more trendy. Obviously, I see more vaping than I do smoking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I get it because there's a sense that, and you probably are lessening any kind of ill effects. Yeah. I don't know. I think that's legit about how much you want to roll today, and that's another story. But it is lessening it. Yeah. Okay. You can get in at 855-83-912. You ever see the warning labels on Canadian cigarettes and all? No, but it's the whole thing of warning labels. Well, no, it's like an actual picture of, like, lungs that have been rotted out by cigarettes, you know, pictures of tracheomas and such, and essentially heightened warning, even farther than what America does. Yeah. I think we have saturated now, letting people know. I don't want to overkill them into the ground if they're a cigarette smoker. But extending that, here's the thing. We did the same thing here in Philadelphia with big sugar, right? Big soda. We went after soda. Why didn't we go after donuts, for example? I don't know the sugar, I mean, there are certain, I'm trying to think of the other food contents or beverages that have a lot of sugar. We went after them because we could. They were a convenient target. We were going to take money from them and no one was going to stop us. But we won't go after other foods that might cause just as bad on the sugar front and maybe heart disease, etc. Why? Well, we're afraid that a lot of people in Philadelphia are going to revolt. But look what happened in Philadelphia proves that it can be done. Did Philadelphia revolt? Nope. They all got together. They conspired with the building trade unions and all these others who got paid off to do a bunch of stuff. And they essentially put this onerous tax on soda. They know better. And people are not drinking as much soda now. Should they do the same thing with alcohol? Would they do that? I don't think so. I always think of an Eagles fan. How will they react to something like this? As a prime demographic of people. All right, here are the phone lines. 855-839-1210. Hit us with an epiphany. Some moment where something changed, something struck you a little bit differently. Hit us with that. Coming up, Elon Musk goes after New Jersey testing on Twitter. Effectively, I think. I hope he tweets a lot more about it. I'll tell you what that is. All straight ahead on Talk Radio 12 Tech. All right, down to your downer show. Welcome in. Good Monday. I've been waiting to get to this. Dan just found the former representative, Kinzinger, still calling it a coup. I'm talking about today's the day, January 6th, of course, four years ago. We know the whole deal. It was a riot. There are some people there. I don't care what you say who deserve a lot of jail time. But by and large, there are an unbelievable number of arguments to be made about why Trump should carefully either commute and or pardon on the first day that he's in office any number of people. Prosecutors had a bunch of potential charges to choose from. And in many instances, a number of prosecutors went for the most extreme they could trying to get people to admit to something called Section 1512, which figures in a quarter of the January 6 cases, even though the Supreme Court said there's no attempt to conceal information here. You can't have a coup. You can't have an insurrection. You can't have any of that. So, why did these people then plead to that? Because they were told if they didn't and take a lesser sentence, they get 20 years. That's why. So again, I think it's smart and maybe some people are going to disagree. They think Trump's do you think President Trump should just commute and or pardon all these people involved? There are hundreds if not approaching a thousand. I'd say no. But if he has his people going through carefully case by case, any number of people have been overcharged. And the conditions in which they've been placed in in the manner that this has gone on has been more persecution than prosecution. The prosecutorial power here has led to unjust results that can be remedied by Trump's powered. Kinsinger doesn't see it that way. Here's what he said today. Congressman Kinsinger, you were you were in the house. You actually tweeted at 4 30 p.m. 4 years ago on this day, you you tweeted this is a coup attempt. Do you think that history will remember this the way it actually? Yeah, I do. I do. Look, we're in this emotion. You know, Donald Trump got defeated. He convinced. I mean, look, he convinced his base that he that election was stolen from them. And that for four years built this like intense anger where they truly believe this deep state, you know, garbage was happening. He's going to be president now for four years. He's going to own everything that happens in the economy, everything that happens in the world. And that like excitement that like we've been robbed will wear off. And history has this amazing ability to accurately reflect the happenings of that day. And so while maybe today it's kind of surreal that we're here four years later after that and then putting Donald Trump back in the presidency history will not be kind to him. And I'm glad you brought up my tweet because I actually had this ready to go. Speaker Johnson tweeted this on January 6 2021. I unambiguously condemn in the strongest possible terms, any in all forms of violent protests, any individual who committed violence today should be prosecuted with the fullest extent of the law. It goes on for a whole another thing. And now that's going to be a question when Donald Trump gets into office and decides if he want to prosecute the people that looked into what happened on January 6 and embarrassed him. And does he want to pardon the people that actually did what Speaker Johnson just four years ago said they should be prosecuted. All right, endlessly with this guy. And again, the thing out of this, I have a whole list here. I don't know if I call every one of them a lie. I'm going to give you the 10 of them. Some I would characterize as overstated. Some of them are outright lies trying to form a historical picture of this that is a lie. Some of them. All right, it's the other side to puffing it up. For example, nobody's charged with insurrection here. How are you hearing having an insurrection? Kinzinger there also saying this made up deep state, really. Now, if you talk about the deep state in some terms that are wild, then I'm not signing off. If you talk about people, the status quo in Washington, kind of a uni party, people like Mitch McConnell and others, and people that are in various levels of government, maybe not the cabinet officer, but below, slow walking, trying to block Trump, trying to sabotage. Absolutely. There are still there. Some of them, and absolutely they did it before. And he was more unaware coming in in 2016 about how effective they could be with this. Now we're looking at how do you root them out of there? So the federalists today have a bunch of these. They have 10. They say all lies. Some of them, I might not say a lie as much as, again, not accurate, over puffed. But January six was an insurrection flat out, flat out off the mark, not an insurrection. Doesn't have the elements that you would need for an insurrection. Democracy almost died. Not true. Trump was enthusiastic about the violence. Where's the evidence of that? Trump tried to hijack the limo to the riot at the Capitol himself. That seems to be way off the mark versus testimony going back and forth. Trump dismissed the need for the National Guard. Well, that would be Nancy Pelosi. We've been through this. We've had on Stephen's son, who was in charge, one of the people of the Capitol police inside the Congress. And he lays much of this more at the feet of Nancy Pelosi. Demonstrations were mostly violent. Well, they weren't. Now that doesn't mean the people that attack police. That doesn't mean some of the people that were engaged in this. We could quibble over the numbers. I'd have to see the exact action point by point. Any number of them, though, I'm putting in jail for a good long time. The numbers? Well, we'll see when these cases come up. We'll see what Trump does. That's why I don't think Trump should be like Joe Biden and just say I'm commuting everybody. You know, I can't figure it out. No, no, you got to do better on that. And I don't think he'll do that. I don't think he does stuff like that. But I think on day one, you are going to see a number of sentences, commute it and/or people pardoned because of how excessive this has been. Capitol police officer was killed in riot. Untrue. How many times have we been down this path? It was bad enough. They were attacked. They weren't killed in this situation. Ashley Babbitt is the one who was killed inside the Capitol. This guy, Laddermilk, the congressman who did the most recent report on all this, gave rioters a reconnaissance tour. Not true. The FBI is cleared this whole thing. And the January 6th committee was legitimate. It was not. There was nobody on there that was going to offer the other side, raise questions, push back like say, Jim Jordan. Nancy Pelosi would not do that. So who did she put on there? Well, to have Republicans on there, she put this Cheney and Kinzinger, who might be as hostile or more hostile to Trump than anybody you could imagine. So on this day, the fourth anniversary, it brings us to January 20th. And as I say, where I stand, and we can go through a case by case once we see what he does, there are people who deserve punishment. And then there are people who have already been punished enough and or excessively, they should be commuted. And in some cases, completely pardoned. Again, justice that's done on a case by case basis. However, at CNN, they still haven't gotten the message. Here's Jake Tapper today. And Tapper going after Ted Cruz. One sec on that, Don. Okay. Yeah. Right. At images from the floor of the House of Representatives, members of the House and Senate are gathering in what is there. And there is the speaker, Mike Johnson and Vice President Kamala Harris. It's obviously a bipartisan or even nonpartisan event where the leaders of this country come together to count the electoral votes. There's Ted Cruz, the Senator from Texas, who was one of the main individuals who helped cause what happened four years ago by putting forward the falsehood that the vice president could somehow do something to stop the electoral count. Well, he could. I mean, that's a decision. And then you'd have to see whether this met the standards of legality, et cetera. Ted Cruz, though. My goodness. Dan, nothing has happened there, right? They're just kind of milling around and gathering. They haven't done the certification yet. I'm looking at it. Yeah. Because I'm looking to see because this has happened in the past where some Democrats vote against certification. We've had this before. It's had a 200, 180 to six. No, what's going on here? All right. Okay. Yeah. I'll let you know in one second. Okay. Yeah. Well, we'll let you know once we have the full certification vote and where it goes. All right. Phone lines are 855-839-1210. That's how you get in. AT&T have a rise in wireless. All that you have to do is just push pound 1210. Bottom line is that there are any number of things out there. The biggest one to me, the insurrection charge, still trying to go that Trump is ineligible because of insurrection, when no one's charged with insurrection here, and various Supreme Court rulings have taken away that option anyhow, even if they thought to do that, have some people been overcharged where they boxed in in order to put more of a penalty on them because Democrats in Washington were in. Yes, that's the case. Are some of them deserve real jail time? Yes. Show me the case. We'd have to go into great detail. That's what I hope Trump is doing. And I hope you see a lot of people, sentence, commuted, and/or pardoned on inauguration day, but not the Biden approach to this whole thing. All right. Phone lines are 855-839-1210. Nancy, mate. Sorry. The one observation I've had from watching this is Kamala is not thrilled to be handing the paper to who's comes up next and has to announce to you. Yeah. Well, on that, if it were me and I had lost, I'd have a lot of trouble doing it. Yeah. It's got to be tough. Admit, you know, that just like if I were say Quan Barkley, I would be barking today. I'm not forgetting about that one. And what happened, I was still tweeting because I had heard he might slip in there for a few carries on Sunday. One bit of bad strategy, you know, surprise them. Yeah, surprise them. Wasn't even dressed. None of that stuff. We'll see. 855-839-1210. And you weren't here, but Ray Dinninger was on the side of no. Don't play him. That may lead to tomorrow's side question, which is someone who broke your heart. Freight out. Oh, you broke your heart. You disappoint me. Yeah, we might do that tomorrow. Christie was another name that when I said it, but when Ray did it, and I come, all right, come on. And he was adamant about it. His argument, biggest argument was he was saying, well, Eric Dickerson is not someone who we see. Is that great? There's nothing, no man, all that goes with this. So Saquan Barkley wouldn't be either. That was an interesting card from Ray. I was kind of surprised. He did turn me on that, on that because I only, like I said on Friday, like I only know Eric Dickerson because he has the rushing record. No one ever talks about him like they talk about a Barry Sanders or Walter Payton or Jim Brown, anyone like that? Well, that's because football records, though, I think are buried in the team concept are hard to pull out. You know, I saw that Aaron Rodgers threw, was it 501, 502, whatever? 503. Is it 503? Okay. Touchdowns. And I knew he was on the cusp of it, but putting 500 in exact certitude, like I would know the home run thing, maybe the top 10. Uh-oh, breaking news here. Yeah, let's hear the moment that Texas announced their electoral votes, which sent Trump over the 270 number, now having 289. But this is a moment that Trump got those votes officialized, take a listen. Man, a president, the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Texas seems to be regular and form and authentic. And it appears there from the Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida received 40 votes for president. And J.D. Vance of the state of Ohio received 40 votes for vice president. Madam president, the certificate of the electoral vote of the state. And they continue from there, but that was the deciding vote there, Doug. All right. So over the top, on now to the countdown, what damage can Biden do between now and inaugural day? What can he get in the face with more? Okay. Here's how you get a Nancy Mase. I was just saying a moment ago, interesting bill. Simple to port illegal aliens who are involved in sex crimes. Why did about 180 Democrats vote against it? And particularly who voted against it in our area? I'll tell you who those are. Hit us on the side question. Give us an epiphany. Give us something that changed your mind, like on the real up best, Paul on the road to Damascus. Right. It's hip with lightning. Yes. All Paul. Yes. That's was it. It is Paul. It was Saul. And then he had the epiphany and he went to Paul. What do you mean changing his name to Paul? Yeah. Oh, I saw he was a bad guy. And then he got struck down where he's blinded. I knew this much about that. No, I don't think so. I don't think that's accurate. Yes. Saul went to Paul. All right. I'm going to Google that one, Henry. If you're right. Got changed. Saul's named the Paul. Yeah. All right. All right. 855-839-12 down. That's 12 year old. Let us know right there. All right. AT&T. Well, that is an epiphany. AT&T and Verizon wireless. All you have to do is just push back. It's not the same Paul. Oh, okay. So there's two Paul's. There's a Paul in the apostle and then Saul the persecutor became Paul the persecutor. Right. I'm thinking I'm thinking of Paul the apostle. I'm not sure why. He can play them. Oh, wait. No, maybe I'm wrong. Yeah. There's only one apostle after like Jesus is death. Am I wrong? Well, there's two Paul's then. No, there's one. I think I was wrong. I'm saying that. Okay. I apologize. All right. Okay. Hey, are you looking to achieve your health goals and start your new year right now is the time to optimize and support your hard health cholesterol digestive health energy levels and a lot more with rescue natural supplements with their new year savings rescue is celebrating you save 35% on single bottles of rescue supplements. Use the code health 35. Try the popular rescue 1250 omega-3 for hard health rescue probiotic for better digestion or rescue or is seen for more energy. Whatever your health goals rescue has you covered to place an order call 826 alive 80262 5483 speak to a rescue product consultant or shop online at res-q.com res-q.com. Start your journey to better health today. Use that code health 35. Again, save 35% on all single supplements. Use the code health 35. Don't wait. Make this year your best. Do it with rescue show. Welcome in 855-839-1210. You get on board. Hit us with an epiphany here too. That's what we're looking for a Nancy Mays. This bill to deport illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes are pretty straightforward yet Mary gay Scanlan and her buddy the Dean of Decency and Summer Lee probably the most radical person in Congress all voted against that. Did ever pay attention out there in places like Montgomery County to what Dean and Scanlan in her neck of the woods are doing and over in New Jersey our buddy who always is on the right side according to the media Andy Kim he voted against it. Bobby Menendez did also a pretty simple thing. The battle raging today now is the media trying to defend what New Jersey is doing claiming that we're saying you don't have to read be able to read to be a teacher right or do math. That's not what I'm saying but what I am saying is it's fraudulent what they're doing and they're saying they're doing it to remove hurdles when the film Murphy and progressives in New Jersey when did they ever want to remove regulations or hurdles too many hurdles to quickly hiring teachers because we don't have enough teachers and get them into the schools. So the argument is well you guys are making it up now Elon Musk has involved that you don't have to be able to read well you don't have to do a basic test of reading do I think any number of people that are teachers in Jersey couldn't pass this stuff yeah I would be willing to put the figure at 10 to 15% easily can't pass the writing the reading the math maybe all three or at least one of those three I might go as high as a quarter that they can't pass one of them. Why in the world would you have to remove that you give them a test you mark it and you move forward but the eye takes too long. It's fascinating to me because you think about any other profession you want to become an accountant you got a passive exam you want to become a real estate agent you got a passive exam you want to become domed you're not as producer you have to pass a physical exam like yeah all these things though like praxis when I was becoming a teacher it was a big hurdle you had to study for it it was and that was something that I was considering before I entered into radio was teaching and you know why it's a roadblock that's deserved though like I as a person studying for that exam thought never thought to myself well this is BS that we got to do this exam it's no it's I understand that I have to meet these qualifications to prove that I am worthy of hosting children and teaching them in my classroom what they should know it's it's not to remove this kind of thing from here now and yeah I'm trying to use as the backdrop the idea that we need to get more teachers into the classroom you guys meaning me conservatives libertarians are always against all these regulations suddenly they don't want any regulation on this how much more time would this take to do this now they know the problem is these people can't read effectively can't do math effectively and certainly can't write effectively well we've dumbed down the standards and they still can't do it I may have to look up some praxis questions Dan you may have to pull up one here too just as you know a regular example of it and if they can't do that how can they be in the classroom because we want them to because of DEI requirements because of the NJEA exerting their power so we want much just jumps in and goes after them on Twitter if he does it two or three more times there is going to be a groundswell so now I'm seeing they're claiming that Fox News says that you don't have to be able to read to be a teacher in New Jersey I would argue you don't have to be able to prove that you can read effectively to be a teacher in Jersey there's no doubt about it how do we know they can you want some questions yeah give us a question Dan what is the moon's position relative to earth during a lunar eclipse a the moon is behind the sun b the moon and sun are on opposite sides of the earth c the moon is between the earth and the sun and d the moon is at the zenith point is there more information given there though what what can we set in it's uh i guess science well i don't know if there's science yeah yeah no it's from uh yes science the education science portion okay but you don't have to pass that though it's it's reading writing and math and and the writing i think might be the most problematic here do you happen to see a reading question maybe we would need a paragraph i have a math question yeah barbers catering company makes the best fruit salad despite using only four ingredients they use four apples for every mango two pairs for every apple and one pineapple for every mango if they used eight pineapples in their most recent batch how many total pieces of fruit did they use 32 64 96 112 or 144 i have no idea i don't expect you to know either because you weren't writing it down i don't think but i mean these are the standard kind of word questions that you'd expect to give your students right yeah exactly yeah particularly if they're math teachers and or elementary and they teach math that question the science questions a little bit trickier i gotta think a lot about that but the the writing sample part i mean how long reading and language arts sample yeah yeah what yeah an individual who speaks a language historically related to english may have an advantage in learning english as a second language because a the affixes of the individual's first language will be similar to english b many words and roots are likely to have similar spellings and meanings c the individual may rely on knowledge of etymology or d the cultures using the two language will be very similar doesn't seem like a reading the question that would be on that or maybe all of the above yeah maybe we should investigate whether these questions are dei based in themselves well that question right there is dei patient notice the bias they're trying oh yeah well you uh spoke english because your language was closer to it this language is not close to it so i don't know if the school districts then are testing teachers in my experience they're not they're interviewing you they're seeing where you talked before which your degree wasn't all that i don't remember them ever testing you so why was testing put in because of the stub standard level of teachers and as a result they had a basic skills test praxis the whole irony of this thing too is you have a exam here that's required right but then you are going to enforce to your kids that they've asked in what 30% of their time in the classroom studying for these types of exams well they would get rid of those too i would not you know there's some people in the right who would too we're not going to know what kids know unless you test them so you know you want to say teaching to the test and all that it's abysmal we know that but how abysmal and teachers you're not going to know what they can do unless you test them but in fairness they should know they should have practice test and things of that nature but that question what did what did they give us the correct answer i don't know i didn't click through it seems like all of them they would go for it seems to be loaded and spiced every one of those things might be the correct answer um i do have another more traditional reading question okay curious if you know the answer what is the underlying message of a piece of literature is that a thematic statement a subject a theme or a motif the underlying message of a piece of literature yeah and the answers were a theme thematic statement subject or motif i think it's the matic statement close its theme it's what it is the correct answer and they differentiate between theme and the thematic statement yeah and but i highlight this question because i think this is something important for teachers to know that yeah you know they shouldn't be calling something the wrong name if it's a motif but they're talking about a theme or if it's a theme and they call it a motif i mean yeah like a lot of those answers and those questions were probably partially right but they're not entirely right they're like SAT questions like you need the best answer and that's what they want to see from teachers like can you come to that conclusion because if you can then you can make your students can well really in truth the theme is not stated often in literature that'd be the fall back so it's understood through the context of it they don't state this is the theme so that's what they're going with yeah then it is theme okay well um are these representative questions um the math one for example i think is a good representative i think you ought to be able to know that at least pass this test if they want to say the test is too hard or off the mark and they want to reform it okay but as of now though you don't have to pass anything as i understand it they assume that you can read write and do math all right we'll get to your calls coming up at eight five five eight three nine twelve ten eight t and t and for rise in wireless all you have to do is just push pound twelve ten the state of the vote for the president of the united states as delivered to the president of the senate is as follows the whole number of the electors appointed to vote for president of the united states is five hundred and thirty eight within that whole number the majority is two hundred and seventy the votes for president of the united states are as follows donald j trump of the state of florida has received three hundred and twelve votes kamala d harris kamala d harris of the state of california has received two hundred and twenty six votes all right eight five five eight three nine twelve ten by the way i saw a little factoid here you guys can invite him on dan this this would be a shootout and he's got all the information he's the architect of this bill apparently our buddy jim beach i've always loved jim beach of the kampton county beaches you know the board over in kampton county he's the architect murphy signed the law murphy's not the architect he's the architect of this and mediaite says he's saying well we got to get more teachers so you've lowered the standards jim no we have it we've just done away with them all right you know what he's going to let's see but come on i don't know if he's come on before there were a couple of shootouts so various things i remember over the years and uh he's essentially saying well they already have enough ways to determine if you can read and do all these other things what might they be until what level what level would you be comfortable with jim why couldn't it be streamlined that you know this is something worthy uh that you guys on the democrats i don't understand that you got a move having an earthier then give the test make the test more available get the mark quickly and the ones that pass at school districts one can move on how about that is the solution now we rather just say you don't have to do this we know that you can read and write and uh do things at the level that are appropriate how do you know that we know it i'd be interested i have to delve a little bit more into this rocket scientist role in doing this as a solution to get more teachers to dance point you know if it's a cop if it's a nuclear power plant guy ah we need a few you know so what's an eye ah come on get out of here so we'll see if he uh might come on it's a national embarrassment so what are they doing they're striking back to say we're making it up about this they are shortcutting there is no doubt since i hear his name as the arc jim call in the show we'll put you right in there 855 839 1210 we need to get some epiphanies today the feast of the epiphany give it something where the person or you saw something in a different way all right something that struck you a revelation a change real or fictional there's a lot of really good one fictional ones scott and mount laurel he's in on talk radio 1210 hello scott hey don't know the theme of my call will be a case for eric dikerson but before i say that i saw something on twitter where lane johnson and george my lotto were having a 40 yard catch yes about 40 yards that's an you know the big that exact number it's very true like they were listening to the show and they were kind of rubbing it in i think yeah that uh philly republican one of my biggest supporters said of course they should have told me to come down there you know and i might have said the lane johnson come on lane you know you got to play for saquon barkway if he had said he would play it i think they would have done lane makes the throw but uh you might have a better arm than my a lot if you think you can throw it 40 yards because he doesn't quite reach it oh actually let's get the big man over at molligan's and have him bench press a few people and throw a football i did see that and it looked like 40 yeah yeah i know which was the exact number i thought that was pretty funny that i remember i thought the giant's quarterback in true lock throw a ball 40 yards oh yeah it started to have dance uh yeah that that's probably certainly not accurately yeah but um yeah you know the big with digerson is he was three i know it's not a sports show but he was three time nfc player of the year his quarterbacks were jeff kemp deter brock and i think they started to see them like steve dills i mean then he gets traded to the cult where they were three and 13 and they go nine and six next year strike short in the year and they win the division this guy was and his quarterback there was uh jack true doe so there was a jack true doe and he ended up in this guy with an idiomly yeah eric dickerson was the greatest running back of my lifetime i can't speak for jim brownin sam but i i think ray gave him short shrift uh he is he is he was unbelievable what he did in the nfl he was absolutely incredible he turned henry was the magic of ray did injure on that i felt out on the island with them what's your epiphany scott my epiphany is that i used to debate politics my friends and i'd follow when i was younger and the conclusion at that time was that you know we all want what's great for america we all want the same thing we just go about it differently the epiphany was when i realized that the people in power in the democrat party they do not want the same things that we want they do not want what's best for america they want what's best for their own power and control and that was a very sad epiphany but i'd an accurate one i believe thank you scott well uh the difference with little bill marmix's point all the time liberals one thing progressives though which how much are they significant in the democrat party still very that's a big difference all right the great scott prezler is next we'll get uh his meeting with john fetterman fetterman tell me mike want to become a republican and this is the guy to do it and uh jim beech over in south jersey essentially jim you made national news by this proposal to say uh we know you can read eight five five eight three nine twelve ten you get on board time to your done out weekdays nine till noon on talk radio twelve ten wphd