The Dom Giordano Program

End of Year Visits

2 - Scott Presler joins us for his weekly segment. Where do the voter registration numbers stand right now? Scott details his stories with prospective voters across the Commonwealth and in New Jersey. How excited should listeners be that young people are starting to embrace the Republican party? What is going on in Virginia? Where can we help Scott? 215 - Continuing with immigration and your calls. 230 - Associate editor at College Fix joins us today to give the publications biggest stories of the year, and we see how many of those we can trace back locally. He discusses lunacy on campus, including poll dancing club for transgender students, Pro-Hamas protests, and more. 250 - Lightning Round!

Duration:: 58m
Broadcast on:: 30 Dec 2024
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On Philadelphia's talk radio, 1210, WPHD, WPHD, WGLE, HD3, Philadelphia. From Cheerio, Volo Studios, where relationships matter. Always live on the free Odyssey app. It's Dom Time. Now, Dom Cheer Donno. [SCREAMING] All right, welcome in. I noticed on Twitter the last couple of days, somebody who was there in Kensington or Harrogate put up, do you remember Scott? And he did when he came here with a good friend of ours, registering people to vote on a somewhat rainy day. And that woman from the main line, can I do this in Gladwin? That was surreal. I'm thinking, oh, my goodness, this is electric. And this last year has proven that to be the case. But I still believe the best is yet to come. Making his weekly house call our own Scott Prezler here on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Scott, that's a heck of a quilt that you have up on your Twitter. Thank you. Well, listen, it's 2 o'clock, so there's no other place. I would be rather than Dom Cheer Donno, which was 1210 talk radio. Yeah, my ma, she's a quilter. And so she took some of those viral memes that have been shared on social media. And she made me a couple pillows. And it was just such a thoughtful Christmas gift that I'm going to bring with me back to my pen flipping your home to put somewhere in the house. Yeah, well, it was a very fabio combined with the Revolutionary War. It was quite a production. So Scott, what we look forward to each week, and we're still on Pennsylvania. Also, we have the Supreme Court races, but turning Pennsylvania into at least not a swing state, at least slightly red. What can you tell us today? Well, we got brand new voter registration data today that we usually get around 10, which is why I go along with you. And the lead from the Democrats a week ago was that 216,000 more registered Democrats and Republicans. And the Pennsylvania Department of State did another purge. So they've now done three consecutive perches week by week. And the Democrats have lost more voters than Republicans every single time. So that advantage is now down to 214,000. And to anybody saying, oh my gosh, Dom, Scott, 214,000. That's still so many registered Democrats. How can we possibly win in Pennsylvania? Well, hey, babes, we just won. And Donald Trump won with more than 120,000 more votes, despite that advantage. And number two, I would like to remind the listener at home that back in 2016, that advantage was over 900,000. So we have made such huge progress in just eight years time. And if you remove inactive voters, meaning that people that haven't voted or registered in a while, that number goes from 214,000 down to 120,000. Pennsylvania is quickly becoming a potentially red state. Yeah, I would say certainly by the time of the next national, maybe even by the midterms, it's going to be relatively close. And that's all good. Scott, what can you tell us last time we talked about? And I happened to talk to Paula Scanlon, I think, before you. And I see in New Jersey, you've added Asian population in certain parts of the state, Korean churches, things of that nature. And these are our voters, I think, philosophically in a lot of ways. And they may either be inactive or they voted for a Democrat, somehow or another along the way. What can you tell us about that? Well, this election in 2025, whether it's in Pennsylvania for Supreme Court or New Jersey for the gubernatorial election, yes, continued persuasion is important, showing up in communities that the Republican Party has neglected for so long, like Kensington, like Terogate and Philly. But ultimately, this is going to be a base turnout election. And in addition to the Asian-American community, I think one thing that's very interesting is since election day, there have been multiple elected officials across the country that have fled from Democrat to Republican. Now, whether they share our ideology and are not just doing it for a political reason is not really the case where I'm going with this, is if you look at three of those people in particular, one is a representative of Valdez out of Florida. Clearly, she's a member of the Hispanic community. Then you have a judge in South Texas on the border, another member of the Hispanic community that flipped to Republican. And furthermore, a mayor in California also said that Democrats are just moving away from faith, family, freedom. And so I think it shows that especially when we're looking at areas of New Jersey, when dealing with minority communities, you're going to hear a county called Passaic County mentioned a lot, because this is a county, correct me if I'm wrong, it hasn't voted Republican since 1988, something outrageous like that. And it has a lot of the majority Hispanic population. And so ultimately, my message is, as Republicans, let's continue to bring our conservative message everywhere, including cities, including areas that are quote-unquote blue. But ultimately, this is turnout. If every Trump supporter that voted in 2024 comes out in Pennsylvania, you'll defeat three Democrat Supreme Court justices. And if you come out in New Jersey, you will flip the New Jersey governor's ship from blue to red. And I think Trump knows this, and he really gets charged up with New Jersey, New York, because his home base, where he grew up, the idea that he would be the force, once we have the Republican primary, I don't know, he may endorse in it, to turn Jersey red again with the governor's office. That's the biggest political story of the year. - Well, a couple of things. So I've been going, I go to Starbucks to get my coffee here in Virginia. Don't hate me. I know my dear beloved conservative people. But two times, one time I went through the drive-through, and there's this kid who's ringing me up, and I pull up to the window, and he's like, you know, this might sound like a weird question, or you Scott Pressler, I don't know, he was like, "You look a lot like Scott Pressler." And I was like, "Well, I am." And I was like, "Did you vote in the election?" And he wanted a picture with me, yada, yada. And he was like, "I didn't vote." And like, "My heart sank." And I was like, "Wait, why didn't you vote?" And he was like, "I'm 17." And I was like, "Oh my gosh, well listen, with your permission, may I come back after January with a voter registration form, and I would love to register you to vote, because you can register as long as your 17 turn 18 before the Virginia gubernatorial election. Now, I met Starbucks again the other day, meeting a volunteer that wants to register voters. And the barista there, I go in wearing a shirt, this is America first. And the kid at the counter goes, "I like your shirt." So he was with some employees, and I didn't want to put him in a bad situation. So I pulled him aside later, and I was just like, "Hey, are you registered?" And he goes, "No." I was like, you know, "May I ask a lawyer?" He's like, "I'm 18." I said, "Oh my gosh, if you like my shirt that says America first, you need to register to vote." And so I taught him how to do it. But the moral of the story is, listen guys, I just had these interactions with two young men that are agreeing with our movement, but for whatever reason, we're registered. And so A, you all should be very excited that young people are embracing the Republican Party, and we're gonna have this new generation of young people that can run for office, and that are ultimately gonna put people like Donald Trump in the office. So whatever you do for the next year, well, four years, is you always ask somebody, are you registered to vote at your current address? Check your voter registration. Make sure that you have a plan to vote, either on April 1st in Wisconsin for the Supreme Court, or on Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 for Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. - Yeah, without a doubt, Scott, that is amazing too. It's gotta feel pretty good too. Are you Scott Prezler? It's gotta feel great. - Oh, well, here's the best part. The kid, the 18-year-old, he even was like, "Oh yeah, I think I saw something about you dealing with the Amish." And it's like my, my, - No, I'm serious, I'm serious. - My mind was like blown because, you know, I'm still staying grounded, and I'm staying focused on my mission at hand, but it shows you how important radio is. It shows you how important it is that we are on social media, whether that be X or TikTok, that those messages do reach the populace. - Yeah, without a doubt, and Scott, the Virginia race will be the other big story. For listeners, is it win some seers that will be the nominee? Is there a tough primary coming up? - Well, it will likely, unless somebody else enters the race, she is our current lieutenant governor, and Jason Meares, who is the Republican attorney general, he has already stated that he wants to run for AG and keep that office. And so I would say probably the presumptive nominee is win some seers right now about the Democrats. We are, we are given a beautiful gift because Bobby Scott, who is a congressman down in Norfolk is the Hampton Roads, Virginia Beach area, and it's definitely majority minority. I hear he is going to challenge in primary Congress member Abigail Spanberger, who is a former CIA agent, by the way, Democrat. And this is a gift because the Democrats are gonna have a very brutal battle, and it's gonna be interesting to see how much of Hampton Roads, or perhaps even Richmond, supports Bobby Scott over Spanberger. And we could see that that could help cause a skidm within Virginia Democrats. - Boy, I thought that guy was having trouble staying in Congress, you know, when he's coming in to vote in a wheelchair and how are you people not to be able to cover that. So, wow. - Well, and just it, this is a big opportunity, you know, Governor Youngkin is term limited. The way that it goes in Virginia is you cannot run consecutive terms. So, after whoever's governor for this next four years, he could run again, or he could run for Senate. But the last thing that I think is very important, I don't have the names in my head right now, but there are two special elections that are going on on January 7th in Virginia. And my very limited understanding is there's a state house of delegate race, it's the house of Repa, they call it delegate. And there's a state Senate race. And basically, if we are able to win these special elections in Northern Virginia, then it will give Republicans the ability that if they, if Win some Sears is the tie-breaking vote as the lieutenant governor for overseeing the Senate, for example, then we could see Governor Glenn Youngkin having a Republican legislature to pass legislation. And so I will get more details on social media. But, you know, this shows the importance of just because it's the new year doesn't mean that Republicans can stay home. We must continue to vote in every single election. - Absolutely, Scott, thank you so much for that now. To help out with the movement as we gear up for New Jersey, the Wisconsin races, the Pennsylvania races, how can people help and where do they go? - Well, number one, here's what I would like. We get new voter registration data for New Jersey on January 2nd. And if you guys want to scare the pants off the Democrats, then I really encourage you to type into the internet after you're done listening to DOM, New Jersey online voter registration. I want you to check your status. I want you to please consider registering to vote as a Republican. So on January 2nd, we'll start off the new year with amazing data to show how, to the right, we can get New Jersey to go. And if you would like to support my work financially, my organization is called Early Vote Action. We have already hired staff like the wonderful Paula Scanlon in New Jersey. She's already on the ground. And you can support us at earlyvoteaction.com. - Great stuff, Scott. - Thank you so much and we'll look forward to seeing what happens on January 2nd. - That's right. And every Monday at two o'clock, thank you so much for having me, Dom. - Well, Scott, thank you. - Thank you. We enjoy it. Look forward to it. You've had a great year this year. Best is yet to come. Thank you, Scott. - Thank you. - Bye. - Scott Prezler here on Talk Radio 1210, your reaction. Yeah, January 2nd, we'll see the Jersey numbers. Each week, we see this unfolding story. And he's right in the center of it. And he's making Wildwood his capital this coming summer. And I'm gonna be meeting with some people that wanna support him and Scott. So I'll let you know on that, at least what I can say about it. In January, it's gonna be big in Jersey. Just need the right candidate. That's what the vetting is. There's gonna be a fierce primary. That's okay. You have four candidates on the Republican side, Democrats trying to say they're moderate, they're not, that are running on the other side, including the guy we've talked about, Godheimer, who apparently can't tell the truth on his Spotify listening. Oh man, he has to put down five Springsteen songs. All right, eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, 12, 10. That's how you get in. Jump in, hit us on the side question today. Give us a new story. Weird, silly, impactful. Over the last 25 years here, as we count down the end of the year, in the Philadelphia area, name could go into the hat at 2.30. We're gonna talk with the guy, we haven't talked with them in a little bit, from the college fix and two big things. What were some of the wilder college stories, university stories of this year? Some of the things we've seen, nobody does it better than them. And they had, I'm looking at this, Cornell Poll Dancing Club hosts trainings for trans and plus size students. There you go. That's what you want to see in the Ivy League, right? Is that a class or is that just an extracurricular? Host trainings for trans and plus size students. I'll ask you, I think it's a class. Interesting. Yeah, it should. Why not? It's already, how does Cornell have a poll dancing club? That, you know, they get funded by them to be an official club and all. In addition to that, a new study out by these two professors that say liberals aren't funny anymore and that helped Trump win. Is that true? We'll talk with Dave Huber about that at around 2.30. But jump in now, Scott Prezler, it just doesn't get any better. I couldn't be happier for his success. It is an incredible story and it's only gonna get bigger when we get to New Jersey. The other side says, well, why don't we have a Scott Prezler? Yeah, who would that be? 855-839-1210, that's how you get in with Dom on Talk Radio 12. Where'd you get those shoots? Easy. They're from DSW because DSW has the exact right shoes for whatever you're into right now. You know, like the sneakers that make office hours feel like happy hour. The boots, the term grocery isles into runways and all the styles that show off the many sides of you from daydreamer to multitasker and everything in between because you do it all in really great shoes. 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Value surge, trucks up 3.9%. - That's a great offer. - I know, sell? - Sell. - Track your car's value with Carvana Value Tracker today. - I'll tell you. All right, mark that down though, January 2nd. We'll have those numbers from Jersey and I expect to see a big shake up and each Monday at two o'clock as we get the Pennsylvania numbers and then Jersey on top of it. We'll have Scott Prezler here to break it down. And I'm telling you there is not just a lot of energy but also I think donations funding with Scott in Jersey. And as that happens, people that really desperately want to win and see this is a great opportunity. You heard those stories. Just random people, hey, can I ask you your register? This is what he does. And then they follow up when we get in your election time, of course, it's very doable. I don't know that I could say given Jersey's ideology but I would put it even money then that we're going to have a Republican governor. I couldn't say, oh yeah, it's definite because you got the northern part of Jersey. You have the cheating element. Phil Murphy got elected again the second time. Go figure, right? But I would place it even money or better the arrow pointing jump ball but the arrow pointing to our side with Scott Prezler in there. And already people on the ground like Paula Scanlon. And I haven't talked about the drones today. Our buddy Robin in Ocean City, the whales sent me some pretty compelling footage indicating this look like some kind of sophisticated drone. We still don't know anything about over the weekend. Still ongoing and it's predicted. We're into holidays, people don't care. I don't know how many, I don't see much news coverage. They've gotten tired of it. Have we solved it? What is it? No, we have not. So I hope to get Jeff Andrew on this week because on Friday we had the showdown that President Trump came out today on True Social wholeheartedly calling for the retention of Mike Johnson as speaker, okay? We've already seen at least three Republicans beyond record, they're not gonna support him. So here we go. Now I prefer Jim Jordan and I think Johnson's in a really tough spot. But if Trump is endorsing him knowing what he knows and what can be done going forward, that may carry the day. What we don't want are 20 votes over a week or something around this whole thing. So that's gonna be a big day Friday. Let's go to the Euro of Tech Coney, Earl on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Earl, welcome in. - Hey, Tom. Yeah, this whole H1B visa thing is just, you're really, really confusing and convoluted. And it's not just one thing. Some of it is wages, some of it is experience, some of it is work ethic. There's just so many facets to it. Like you can't just pin down just one thing to what it is. - Well, we're in the work ethic part. Should Americans have to exhibit a work ethic of people coming from a third world country that are afraid they'll be deported if they don't show something that's superhuman? - That's what I said. That's why it makes it so confusing because we run a company, we try to hire people and just trying to get people to work and have, pride in their work and responsibility for their job. But then again, when you bring one thing that we find in the construction industry, at least I personally have, they're good workers that come in. But I find that a lot of them don't have the quality that the American worker does. We do an awful lot of repairs for work that are done by foreign contractors that we have to go and fix because it looks nice. But when you go and you look at it, the quality is not there. And that's another thing that you have to worry about. It may look nice and pretty and shiny, but are we getting the quality that we can get from people that live here, that have some sort of grounding in the country that have a concern that want the country to be great and they build what's great for the country. If you go and you do work for about 12, 10, you go and you do the best quality that you have. If you go and you go and do work for another station somewhere, no offense, but you're not really that committed to making sure that that station does as well. And there's always the possibility that you may not produce as much as you would that you do for your home station. No, this isn't just a generalization, but you understand what I'm saying, where they don't have any grounding here that they want to build up and do the best they can. They just want to get through, finish the job and move on and not have a legacy that a local worker would do. - Right, this is like an economic zone rather than dear to our hearts, a country and the buy-in of that. I don't know that a lot of these people are buying into that at all. Your point is well taken, Earl. What's your side today? - My side question is from March, 2014, when Steve Keeley got run over by a snowplow. - Well, did he get run over, but he got hit an enormous amount of it. - Really damaged. - And he never lost his footing. - Nope. - And didn't stop mid-sentence and kept his composure the whole time and finished the story. - Absolutely, even though his hair was wrecked, he's a big hair guy too, I think. Got Steve Keeley in that shot and made national news. Without a doubt, let's go to Drew in Upper Darby. Hey, Drew. - Hey, hey, Tom, thanks for hurting, man. Happy new year to you. - Happy new year. - Hey, thank you, sir. I appreciate that. You know, Tom, this famous story that happened and filled off, it was big. It was international for the wrong reasons. And it's still tough for a lot of people to wrap their minds around it. And that was the ad, Dr. Guys Nell with the babies in the office. And it was really tough to take because my wife is like, she's really, she's Puerto Rican this time. She's really, she's very holy, goes to Churchill. Man, she was upset for a long time. - Well, and the only reason he got caught, Drew, mainly was apparently selling drugs. Let them take a look at them. Other than that, what he was doing would have gone on. And again, our friends in the pro choice side, you would think they'd wanna ferret out a guy like this because he does damage to what they believe. - And you're right, Tom, being dignity from, from the pro choice side was like, oh, you know what? It's like, yeah, you're gonna get someone like that every now and then, but like it was no big deal, but it was so horrific that there's just no way to excuse it. So I appreciate everything, Tom. - Thank you, Drew, that is a great one. Yeah, I think that's within the last 25 years. I wanna say it might even be within 20, maybe even 15 or so. And you know, the scandal there was, when our buddy J.D. Malane bucks Kenny Courier Times broke that, particularly on Twitter. You had all these seats in the courtroom for the Gosnell case, set aside USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, yada, yada, yada, yada. There's seat on the bench there in court, and none of them would show up. Nope, I had on somebody from Fox who did show up and cover it, talking about that, how, and why didn't they, I mean, it's an unbelievable story. They didn't like the content of it. They didn't like where it goes. Joe in extant, Joe, talk Radio 1210. Hey, Joe. - Hi, yes, hello, Tom. Good afternoon and happy New Year. - Same to you, Joe, thank you. - Thank you. My Philadelphia story is a visit that Pope Francis paid to the St. Peter St. Paul Cathedral in downtown Philadelphia in 2014. - Yes, it was enormous, Joe. I covered it, was inside the fencing there and very, very enormous the turnout in Philadelphia from around the world. Good one, Joe. Yeah, that is a big visit. I think Pope John Paul's visit, I don't know if it was equal or not, you know? And Pope Francis, what a disaster. Could the next Pope be even farther to the left? Yeah, that's what they're talking about. - Have you seen the new movie "Conclave" about electing the Pope? - No, we're seeing it tomorrow. Strangely in New Year's Eve, have you seen it, Henry? - I have, yeah, I watched it the other week. - Okay, what do you think? - I thought it was a good movie. I think it kind of takes for granted that you know what they're talking about when it comes to electing the Pope and then what they're talking about at the end 'cause everyone's got dirt on them. That's basically what the Ralph Fiennes character just tries to find the dirt behind every, you know, cardinal that is trying to be the Pope. And I don't want to spoil anything, but the dirt at the end, it just kind of, is it something, I want to get your reaction to it afterwards. - Okay, I will give it a little love to see. - This later this week, yeah, we're going to see it. They would sold out where we went and we didn't think it would be so. They gave us popcorn in a soda each. - Oh, nice. - Yeah, that'll work. - Yeah, so we're going to be back there tomorrow for an early shot, then over to, we always go almost on New Year's Eve to gallows. Jim Harvey over there in Northeast Philadelphia, you can't do any better than that, consider them. So yeah, Henry, I mean, I've talked about this for years. Just, this is as bad or worse than American politics. - Oh, yeah, and they make it out to be 'cause there's like a far right Pope, like Stanley Turkey's like a far left Pope. There's all, and everyone just falls like somewhere in between. And it's very interesting to see why people go for this person, why they go for another one. It's a big mess, but it's a fun movie. - Yeah, I'll tell you whether I think it's too anti-Catholic church, but for me, it's hard to be too anti-Catholic church in this because they're fraudulent, and I don't think it's holy or anything else. It's a political game here. - Oh, and they make it to be like a political movie. Like then none of them are, no one in the race for that, the papacy is like a good person, essentially. - Yeah. - Well, except, I don't wanna say it, I don't wanna say it. I don't wanna say it. - Okay, all right, good review. I'll give you mine after we see it tomorrow coming up. Gonna talk with Dave Huber. We love the college fix. How many bizarre stories do we get from them? These people cover what goes on in American colleges. I will have to ask the Cornell pole dancing club, holding trainings for trans and plus-size students. Ah, yeah, why not? What are some of the stories that happened this year? Are we seeing any kind of conservative pushback? And they have a big piece. These profs get it. Liberals aren't funny anymore, and that helped Trump win. All straight ahead on Talk Radio 1210. Okay, it is Dom Time. Welcome in. We'll get the lightning round. Get your final answer today on the side question. Dave Huber is the associate editor of one of the greatest staples of Talk Radio, college fix. And at the college fix, I give you a kind of a smattering, just a recent column I'm looking at of some of their stories. Are we gonna see any kind of pushback on DEI or things of that nature? Even locally, we've had Dave or one of his colleagues on to talk about Temple or Villanova. Sometimes pretty outrageous and big stories. Let's go to Dave here on Talk Radio 1210. Hi Dave, thanks for another great year of the Fowies of colleges. Alright, thanks very much, Dom. Yeah, thanks for having me on. Been a long time fan. Yeah, well thank you, Dave. Are you guys local? Are you in the Philadelphia area? I personally am. I'm down near the University of Delaware. But, I mean, our editors and our student writers are all across the country. So this year, what are some of you? I haven't seen a compilation. Maybe I missed it, Dave. Give me some of the either weirder or something of a particular genre on colleges that you think fits the mission of college fix of exposing this. Yeah, I mean, obviously with the presidential election, one thing I found particularly interesting as well, 'cause I certainly remember back in '16, when it was a much bigger surprise that Donald Trump won the election was how utterly devastated the college students were at Trump's victory. It was bad enough in '16. It was, I would say equally as bad this year. Maybe even a little bit worse, especially at some of the higher end schools like the IVs, including Penn, where they had to, they had to have various ways of expressing their anguish they had like cry-ins and a little powwows together where they could, you know, they had coloring books and that pets the pet. So that was, you know, obviously that took place last month, our editor-in-chief Jan Kebonti did compile our most popular articles and stories from each month. Another one from February was professor at UCLA who had been suspended for, he was refusing to grade more leniently black students, sued for 19 million. Was supposed to go to trial earlier this year, although it has been postponed until this coming year. So we'll be keeping an eye on that one. In March, George Mason, professor said did marriage. The concept of marriage actually promotes white supremacy because the government coerces its citizens to enter into an institution that's built upon a white heteropatriarchal supremacy. - Oh my God. - Yeah. - I'll give you one of my number one, and I think you guys wrote about it. I saw it in general press though too, and that is that Brown University, I think it is, has what is it, a $35, $37 million deficit? And with what they charge and the endowment, et cetera, which I think they're tapping into, I read the breakdown though of how they could have that kind of deficit, you really got to work at it. If you have a big Ivy League college and you can't make money with what you're charging. - No, you're absolutely right. I mean, it really defies reason when you see, I mean, I remember when he was Matt Lamb or other associate editor had written that, when he put that for, it's like, you know, my first policy, you have to be kidding me. Well, Dom, one thing I do remember too, is you were a teacher, if I remember correctly. - Yes, yes, I was. - I'm a retired teacher. And one of our other stories is on a positive vein, is that like Generation Z, Gen Z students are starting to realize that going to college really might not be all, it's, you know, cranked up the day. 'Cause if you go into a trade, you can actually make some really good money nowadays. And more people are actually realizing that. I actually have a few of my former students that are in the trades and they're doing extremely well. I mean, they're making more than many colleges, educated individuals that I know. - Dave, any food, yeah, go ahead. - I'm sorry, now go ahead. Anything local, you know, the one time I remember a college fix, it was something incredibly serious, it was about Villanova. Students complaining because police were doing the run or carrying a flag, you know, all these groups were, for some special Olympics. And it had the thin blue line on it, and it blew up and you guys had it first, unbelievable coverage around it. Just something hard to believe that the police were trying to do the right thing, raise funds, and that Villanova went down this path. And Dave isn't a truism because you guys do it every day. It's the colleges that make it into talk radio that we least suspect of this stuff. Yeah, Penn, Berkeley, you know, you name it, but it could be any college USA where they go off the rails at times. - Yeah, I mean, you're absolutely right. I mean, when I was reading, you know, about that. And one of the stuff that's been going on at Penn, especially with the Israel Hamas war going on, some of the stuff that comes out of there. I mean, I mean, I just can't, I really cannot imagine being a Jewish student at some of the, especially the Ivys. The Ivys are among the worst, where a lot of the shenanigans goes on. And, I mean, matter of fact, I was just, I was part of a story working on a story this past weekend where there was Swarthmore, Swarthmore College nearby. They were, students were complaining about that they were like facing charges for using a bullhorn, like, you know, basically, like in people's ears. And they had, they complained, actually, if this was in the inquirer, I believe, and they were complaining that they might be facing charges. They're like, oh, you know, they're very skeptical that 105 decibels could actually cause hearing damage. Whereas, you know, this is the same group. And, matter of fact, in the same article, one of the sympathetic professors just walked more to these anti-Israel activists, also complained that at the same time, they'll grant it. They're skeptical about a bullhorn possibly causing physical damage. But then she complained that she had once, or had been called a terrorist a few times. And she was upset that the person that said that they didn't face harsher sanctions. - There you go, that's so typical. Now, this is a story out there today, you know, we're trying to get all the details on. Guy's pretty good at Jewish student formerly at Penn, I believe, that the, a librarian there at the school, I believe at the law school, allegedly on the Facebook page, put, "I heart, I love Hamas." - Yes, I saw that on Twitter. And yeah, I mean, that's just another part of the example. And, I mean, they'll grant it. I'm a very, you know, fire, the foundation for individual rights and expression. It's a Philadelphia-based organization. I mean, I'm, you know, nine times out of 10, I agree with them. And, you know, it, you know, I see that, you know, if this one, they're personal and not part of their, you know, part of their professional duties. I mean, I want to give as much leeway as possible. But what just gets me is that these people have no sense of the quorum and professionalism. I mean, I would, you know, when I was teaching, I would never, ever consider like putting anything remotely like that or even just like, you know, that might be a little like tasteless and humorous fame, like a meme or something. I would never put that up there while I was teaching. I, and even if I, when I had my, you know, only my friends could see what I post, I was still very cautious about that. I just don't, I don't know. It's all different. - Yeah, particularly something. - This egregious, I mean, we agree then. Maybe, maybe it wasn't 2024. What would you say the biggest story was? Was it the anti-Semitic stuff or was that more of the previous year? - It's definitely, it says that, you know, it occurred late last year. I mean, the war, you know, started late last year. Definitely a lot of that stuff continued into this year. So yeah, I would say that would have to be in the top three. So much is still going on with regards to that. I mean, it's tied down a little bit. But again, with the sophomore case, either still after a fact, you know, coming through, you know, where the care, the Council on American Islamic Relations, you know, they fought a complaint against war more previously, say they were being, you know, Islamicophobic actions and not treating, you know, protesters, you know, equally and they're upping the ante on restricting ways to express their disagreements with Israel, et cetera. - Well, Dave, I would tell listeners too, a great piece just on December 28th that you covered and posted. These profs get it, liberals aren't funny anymore, and that helped Trump win. It's two college professors. I don't know that they needed a vast study to get that, but they make the point here that the cutting edge comedy now is more to the right. We saw that during the election cycle by making political arguments through jokes. The other side can't joke about that stuff too much. Bill Maher is funny, but he's one of the people attacking the progressivism of the Democrat Party. - Oh, precisely, yeah, actually that was my piece. Yeah, it was just my weekend piece and yeah, absolutely. I mean, I saw that again. I mean, you look at, well, Greg Gutfeld on Fox News. You routinely, he beats the big three. I mean, I can't even remember last time I've tuned in to any of the big three network. I mean, the only one I can even marginally stomach is Jimmy Fallon, only because it was all Saturday live days and he still carries a little bit of that over into his stuff. But Colbert and Kimmel are just absolutely ill-watchable. There's no comedy. It's all preaching. Gutfeld and then Jimmy Fallon who's, you know, he's rising up and who, and he has our friend, Rich Yolian, quite a bit too. - Exactly. - And he always has a perfect combination of, you know, humor and politics. - Yeah, exactly. - And that's what I'm talking about. - Yep. - No, you're on it Dave. In the piece, December 28th, you can find it. Where do people go for college fix? - It's thecollegefix.com. And I say most of our, most of our highlighted articles are from college students across the country that our other editors primarily work with. Our, one of the things we do is help, you know, help them, you know, get through college. If those that are interested in journalism and then we look to help place them in conservative media outlets. And we've, so far we have pretty darn good track record and a lot of people stick with us. - It's a great site, thecollegefix.com. Dave, happy new year. Anytime you have something we'd love to hear from you guys. - Absolutely darn. Appreciate it very much. Great talking to you. - Thank you very much, Dave Huber here on Talk Radio 1210. It's a lightning round next. I see some good ones people have been saving up. We'll see if we get a winner. 855-839-1210. - The time has come for the final test. - We usually call us a lightning round. - That is right. Got some great ones lined up. You can be one too. You know, end of the year shows looking back over the year where I decided to make it 25 years. We're on the tomorrow night, we'll be hitting 2025. Something Philadelphia area story. Think of all the wild stuff. Could be serious, could be funny. It could be a lot. I don't know if this one of Gary has happened in the last 25 years. I know I talked about it unbelievably. So I think it did though. Gary in Newtown on Talk Radio 1210. Gary, welcome in. What do you have, Gary? - Well, it was three years and three weeks ago at 3.30 in the afternoon at the corner of 15th and Spring Garden when three men robbed the CDS, left the CDS, one went to the bold seats of shop, went in, tried to rob them, 14 year old, pulled the gun, shoots the man in the face, police followed us to the blood trail all the way to the septus station, Broad and Spring Garden, and he died. - Yeah, and he was protecting his mom, among other things there, and I don't know whatever happened to that kid in the end, do you? - I don't. I researched who was on hold. I had a different story I was gonna go with, but that one just strikes me in the middle of the day during Christmas season. It's crazy. - Yeah, it is. And we talked about it a lot because of Steve Kiwi. Was all over that story, and what happened there. - That and Krasner, whether he was gonna press charges against the 14 year old. - Yeah, I gotta go and look that up and see whatever happened to him. But that is quintessential because it marries exactly how ridiculous that is, and Krasner to it. - And in the heat of 20, oh, in the heat of COVID and the heat of, you know, every, all the nonsense going going on in Center City, Philly, and nobody, nobody gets held accountable for anything, just about. - Great one. Thank you, Gary. Joe important town, love this one. Joe, what's yours? - Mine is the big story of the year. - The whereabouts of your beloved barco lounger. - Yes. - Reports have come in that a restored barco lounger has been found in Scott from Mount Warhol's main cave. (laughing) - Okay. Thank you. Oh my God, all right. Yeah, the barco lounger, when we finally put it out, the photos of that, the stuff on Twitter and where did it end up. The new chair fits just as well. I held out all those years on the barco lounger. Henry, you got to imagine the other thing that lifts it up and down. - Right, yeah. - That was broken. Then the whole part that you put your feet on was essentially broken. I had to kind of hoist myself in and out. The back of it was falling apart. - Oh, man. - It was pretty dirty, but it fit perfectly and it was a barco lounger. - Yeah, it was like a, it was like a good baseball mitt. Like you just had a broken end, it's perfect. Like, why would I get rid of it? - Well, when we put it on the curve the way that it looked. That is a pretty good one. Bill in Buck's County. Bill, what's yours? - Well, mine goes back just a few years with Mayor Jim Kenny. He was at some sort of event doing a television interview and made a starting revelation that he didn't want to be mayor anymore. - Yes, it was July 4th event where there was a shooting, a couple of people wounded. I don't think they ever got the person. The big annual on the Parkway event. And when they said, well, what do you mean? He said, that's right. I don't want to be mayor anymore. Oh my God. But I want the money. I want the pension and I want the money. Bill, where did he turn up? Do you remember Jim Kenny recently? - I don't know, third and race? I don't know. - No, the Harris campaign sent him into upstate Pennsylvania to pitch for them. Can you imagine those people seeing Jim? - Was there a guy on your phone? - Yeah, yeah, that is a good one. Excellent one. Those are good. We got some great stories today here. Henry, you're going to have to give me a few at least so we make a determination. The question today was, you know, end of the year, you get these end of the year things. We're looking at 25 years though, that quintessential Philadelphia story. It was impactful. It was silly, it was weird, whatever it was. - Yeah, I like the silly and weird that kind of feels like it's like a only in Philly. So I liked Mark in Philadelphia's answer of the couple in the Range Rover that ended up plopping themselves into the river. Another one, I'd be remiss if I didn't play this audio clip. - He only had one summer with the Phillies. There goes a couple of plows demonstrating what I said. What I said, hitting us. All right, there you go. Here comes another one. - Did we see Keely getting-- - Did we see the speed? - Yep. - The flows, that was the Earl of Taconi's answer. And then, Joe on board in town right there. The history of the Barca Langer. Whatever happened to it. It hit the curve and then, who knows? - Let's go with the Barca Langer for the fun today. That was a clever call. I don't know about the Scott of Mount Laurel stuff, but okay, clever call. All right, we'll put that into the hat. I'll be here tomorrow off on New Year's Day. I know Matt Rooney's in the on deck circle, warming up. But thanks to Henry for producing today. And Scott Prezler is just a game changer. It's amazing this role he's created. It's almost like an influencer in the best sense of it. It's not, I don't know. There may have been some Johnny Appleseed activists like this guy, but he targets things so well. You heard the incrementalism of what he's targeting and how to go about it. And he's already up and running in New Jersey. So even though New Jersey is difficult. Look, I know the thing, they don't elect a governor or two Democrats in a row and all this stuff. But Jersey still is difficult to win for the Republican. But guess what? It's at least an even shot with the arrow pointing toward the Republican. Just getting through the primary, which will be starting. And on the Philly side, I think there's a real chance of defeating Krasner. But there are at least two guys that I know that would take votes away from each other. One of them is gonna have to drop out early on or coalesce around the other. And if that happens, I think we're gonna see a real horse race with Krasner this time. Not that he's easy to beat. He's got this oddball, you know the whole story. But this is going to be a huge year. And Prezler coming to Wildwood, you know what that means. Mulligans, et cetera, to make it the capital of this effort in New Jersey. And he said on Thursday, we get the numbers, the registration numbers in Jersey. We'll take a look at that. Also pointing toward the inauguration. You heard Jim Worthington say, yes, I will be broadcasting from the NAC. I know the station will too. We'll get you the exact hours. You'll wanna be there. Newtown Athletic Club in Bucks County. When President Trump takes the oath of office for the second time and all the stuff that goes into it, you'll wanna share it. That event that we had at the NAC the last time was just a Hall of Famer, particularly the bear who showed up with the garbage truck jacket on, et cetera, and gave me the football. I could beat that bear in a race. I know I can do it. All right. I know the reputed, do you think bears are as fast as any animal in the world? 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