The Dom Giordano Program

Which Way, MAGA Man?

12 - Who is in the right, Elon and Trump or Vivek Ramaswamy? What is the correct stance on immigration? 1205 - Is this bill enough to put Johnson over the top for him to be pushed out as Speaker of The House? 1210 - Side question - Notable story out of Philadelphia in the last 25 years. Is the more American way the Elon/Trump way? 1215 - Who is on board with illegal immigrants, no matter the country? 1220 - What was the most underreported story of the year? The answer shouldn’t come as a surprise. 1235 - Josue Sierra, Director of Communication for Pa Families joins us to give us their end of year recap. What kind of issues did the institute stand on this year and how did they execute on helping to solve those issues? Does the “Save Women’s Sports act” stand a chance in the PA House? 1250 - Is Dom “provincial” in his H-1B visa take? Your calls.

Duration:: 57m
Broadcast on:: 30 Dec 2024
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When Philadelphia's talk radio 1210, WPhD, WPhD, WGLE, HD3, Philadelphia. From the Cheerio Volo Studios, where relationships matter. Always live on the free Odyssey app. It's Dom Time. Now Dom Cheer Donno. It is Dom Time. Welcome in, start of another great week here on Talk Radio 1210. Got some interesting people showing up. Scott Prezler, of course, makes his weekly house call at 2 o'clock. He's got more great numbers in the registration in Pennsylvania, among other things. And Jersey, I could tell you behind the scenes people are meeting with him, raising money. I'm talking about high-level stuff going on. And I think we're going to win in New Jersey. And Prezler is not the secret weapon every more, because we all know it. I will get into what we spent, I think, Thursday and Friday on. And it was pretty intense. Not too many people differed with me. So if you do, this whole thing with Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswami, here's a question for you. Before I tell you what President Trump just put on True Social a little while ago. I love this piece. America should not become a nation of tiger mops. Do we want to be a nation of tiger mops? That's Vivek Ramaswami. And I told you, it's not just the HB-1 visa thing. It's an insult to Americans, to our culture. Yes? Do we have significant numbers of people? You can give me how many you think that are lazy, not doing the right thing with their kids, et cetera. It's a public school system that we fight against and try to push every single day, suspect, yes. But does that mean we want to turn into a nation of tiger mops? Over their kids. Now we interviewed the tiger mop. The first time with her book, she was solidly behind it. The second time, she moved away from it and thought it was over the top of Vivek wrote to our American culture as venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long, at least since the '90s. It doesn't start in college, it starts young, a culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineer. Stop it already. Come on. Let's get some new lines here. This is all, by the way, of saying we can't compete with these people around the world. All is scam. They want to bring in and already have, and I have a lot more information today with his HP-1 visa. Sadly, President Trump sided over the weekend with Elon Musk, at least on this. That's way out of line with MAGA America first. It just is. It just is. Now, that doesn't mean that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami are out of the tent. Remember the Reagan principle? You agree with 80%. We'll probably agree with more than that. But here's the grand bargain. Is this what we're going to be offered? We're going to let you run a mock with so-called legal immigration, vis-a-vis, HP-1, and these other. There's a whole bunch of them, because Americans just can't compete intellectually with these giants of the universe, and we'll crack down on the other end at the border. You know what? I think we got enough immigration right now. How about that as a statement? Do we have enough immigration we've had enough for right now until we sort things out here? And, yeah, could you have someone extraordinary that we want? Or if it's sports, pro-sports, we've got to put up with some genius coming from France or somewhere else for the NBA, okay? There are extraordinary circumstances. I read a piece over the weekend about some of the compromises we made with the German scientist in order to beef up our scientific community vis-a-vis weaponry and things of that nature. And out of all those years, and all these people were talking a lot, it was under 1,000, including everybody that they brought, family, and the whole thing, under 1,000. Here we're being dwarfed with almost a million a year of legal immigrants for all these HP-1 in these other programs. If already. America first either has to mean Americans first, or it doesn't. So are you okay with the grand bargain? God, that's okay. If they shut down the border, I'll let them run a muck against certain Americans in certain professions. But it's more than just the IT. I have the information here. We have one college using the HP-1 visa system to bring in an assistant football coach. Was that a genius? Wow, they didn't want to pay. Wake Forest brought in an assistant track coach, oh, it's just going to give us the edge in the Olympics. Shah, come on. They didn't want to pay. That's what it's about. They want all this grunt work, and then they want to say that people that are willing to do this because, oh, I don't know, you know what's hanging over your head, potential deportation. If you don't meet the standard of these tech companies, deportation. What Americans have to work against that? And I have the stats today, too, on how many Americans get dismissed versus these foreign workers and all these companies, and it's clear there's a discriminatory pattern. So some people suggest, and, well, that's your grand bargain. These guys, what they want, they get that, you get what you want. You know what? I stand with all American workers. I don't care what the industry is. I don't care what the situation is. My instinct is we're America. We can certainly produce whatever the hell we want to produce in any field. Now, could there be, Kevin, it's the whole world, somebody extraordinary in a particular field? Yes, but it's very limited. Are you okay with the grand bargain? Don't put your head under the covers. You can be critical of this. Are you okay with the idea that we'll shut down the border with Mexico, essentially? We'll stop that. But on the other side, we're going to go wild against the American worker again. I don't care. Who says it? I don't care. Who literally says it? I'm against that. I'm not for that bargain. That's not what this election was about. It was about protecting American workers, either white collar or blue collar, whatever collar or no collar. That's what it's about. 855-839-1210, we'll get to your calls. Now, President Trump did put up on Truth Social, and this is a major break. And I think this is going to be a real battle. Some of the people that are against Mike Johnson, remaining speaker, just are almost impossible to please, Thomas Massey, all right, he's the libertarian, smart guy from Kentucky, the sparks woman, the Ukrainian lobby woman who doesn't even want to be on committees. She's against. So right there, we're in trouble with Johnson surviving. I don't care if Johnson survives or not. I got a lot of problems with them. You know, I'd rather have Jim Jordan without a doubt. But what I don't want is this endless cycle of churning and votes. Now remember, this starts on Friday. Well, I have some of the players on before then talking about this. It starts on Friday, January 3rd, the scrum over this. President Trump tweeted out, "We are the party of common sense, the primary reason that we won in a landslide, all seven swing states, millions of new voters. Republicans are being praised for having run a legendary campaign." And then he pivots in this post on Truth Social, and he says that the American people need immediate relief from all the destructive policies of the last administration. Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hardworking, religious man. He will do the right thing. We will continue to win. Mike has my complete and total endorsement, MAGA, with three exclamation points. All right, now this is the first time Trump is weighed in this publicly with Mike Johnson. I know there are a lot of people listening that are skeptical of Johnson. And Trump, I think, is signaling, "Look, I want to get this off and running. For someone who's not in office yet, I've made incredible things happen here in different ways already. Let's keep it going. I can't do it if two or three people in the house, or at six or seven, it might be something like that, start being all over the place. We have all these votes, all this fighting, as we saw the last time." So he's with Johnson. I can make an argument that Johnson is on the cusp of passable, but I think we have better people there. And I think Jim Jordan is the person. What does Trump see, though, here? I told you when I think he sees, does that give you pause and say, "Yeah, maybe we should put up with Mike Johnson." It's a very difficult situation. Maybe Trump feels he did the best he could with this, even though Elon Musk is the one that went after him on Twitter repeatedly, you may remember, when they had that huge bill that thank God was stopped. So is this enough to put Johnson over the top? I think it's going to be close. And again, because all you need is two or three people, I've identified two. I think there could be three or four more that don't want to vote for Johnson, at least early on. Would they by the end of the day, Friday, do it, maybe? But if we get into this scrum again, you remember what happened the way it's time. Some people loved it. It was exciting on the floor gates, the whole thing, right? Almost went to Fisticuffs. But is that what we want when we're eager to get up and running here? 855-839-1210. So I think this is pretty big news of the day that President Trump has come out in favor of Johnson. I'm a bit surprised, but I told you what may be going on behind the scenes that maybe should not make me surprised. All right. Let me give you the side question. Now, this is a time of year, these days, December 30th, December 31st. We take a look back at the whole year. So I thought rather than do that and ask the story of the year, either we're one of funny one and entertaining one, a serious one, I made it since we're on the cusp of 2025 and just a day or so. Go back 25 years. You have 25 years in the Philadelphia area, 25 big years to look at back to 2000. Hit me with a story that you think is big, entertaining. Maybe you would say only in Philadelphia, you know, that this is, just look at the Eagles games. I mean, you don't see this passion in these other towns, not at all. So here are a few that I thought of that are either big, affect our lives and/or funny or weird. And no, please don't do the Dwyer killing himself thing. I don't know if that was in 2000. That was the 90s. So we could put this out of the statue. Yeah, but I'm saying, don't call Henry, please, we get so tired of it. You can't win with Budgewire. It's in a cat forever. Okay. Yes. It wasn't the 90s as I remember, right? All right. So I'm going to take off Larry Krasner's election. Just think of what that said off. The suburbs going pretty blue. Think about it in our lifetime. This is only the last 10 years, the suburbs have gone this way. One that occurred to me, I've had him in studio, I've had him on several times, Philly Jesus is always fun, always an interesting story. Oh, man. I forgot about him. Yes. And one that strikes as certainly the dark side of Philadelphia. There was this thing called hitchbot, kind of a bot that had to be hitchhiked his way across the country. And I forgot he got thousands of miles, suddenly they found him in an alley, beheaded here in Philadelphia. Not a good look, but that's quintessential Philadelphia. He made it all the way until he got to Philadelphia, hitchbot. Henry, do you have one? Yeah. You know what? You took it right out of my mouth there with hitchpot. I was going to say April 2015, he made it across Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany, but as soon as he started his trek in the US, to captain Philadelphia. To capitate it. Yeah. So why don't I take a rain check here? And I got one. Okay, sure. When you got another one. Okay. It could be silly. It could be a favorite. It could be a big story. It could be something impactful. I have another one. I have another one wrapped up in my head. The chicken man. Oh, yes. The guy who ate a rotisserie chicken every day, I believe, was for 40 days, and then he had a big gathering last year out on an abandoned pier and ate his final rotisserie chicken to a crowd of hundreds. I thought he still was doing that. All right. Maybe there's a knockoff guy in New York who eats like cheese balls and cookies, and it's very lame, very lame knockoff. All right. So that is an excellent. That is quintessential Philadelphia story, legendary, you know, it adds to the legend. Joey Coyo. You can't use anymore. Sadly, I think that that's got to be 90s running through the airport, $100 bills coming out of his boots after the truck hit a bump. The money went all over the place down in, well, what is that? Like third street, second street, two street. Okay. Same with that, and are you willing to make that trade? Yeah. Let them bring in who cares, bring in armies of these people to displace American workers. As long as we shut down the border and they help Trump, you got to give them something. Let them run all that. Let them, you know, displace these American workers. All right. Isn't that the thing we all signed up for, to stand up with American workers against anybody in the world? It's all these elements, all these people that gave us NAFTA and these other trade deals. Right? Yeah, I'll play you a little bit. President Trump said, now, look, when he ran in 2016 and he said, well, what am I supposed to do? It's a competitive thing. If everybody's using the HP one and I don't use it, that's a problem. Okay. That's one thing. This is now endorsing it. Why? Because these guys with ache and these other billionaires and Elon Musk, they want it. So you're being told, shut up. We want it. And you're being insulted as Americans. And then you see some people go on and on, oh, isn't there troll that Americans really or no, let's stop saying all Americans, yes, there are deficiencies here without a doubt. But still we have enough that's the best in the world that is still pushing that forward. At least that's what I see. What's the evidence that you see something different? Well, you know, you can't expect Americans to work like these people will that we put here. Oh, yeah. Should they have to the compete threat of being deported? I think that'll make you work pretty hard. All right, phone lines 855-839-1210, you get on board AT&T and Verizon wireless. All I need you to do is just push pound 12. 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On the other side of the Trump coalition, MAGA and all these tank towns, when they were abandoned by the so-called "elites," usually democratic, who made all these trade deals and think slave labor in China, you got to compete with that. You can't. Are you thinking that's a good bargain? Are you on board with that? 8.5, 8.3, 9.12, 10. And the side question, you got 25 years to hit us with something funny, entertaining, impactful, in the news, a story that happened since 2000 as we countdown to the new year. By the way, this is cut 10. Here is Joe Biden taking the occasion of the passing of Jimmy Carter, and look, you know, I think it's a good rule not to speak ill of the dead, to savage them, or something like that, unless they are just worthy at an extreme level, but I will tell you a couple of negatives, one of which I really resent it with Jimmy Carter. His post-presidency life was tremendous and the good that he did. There is no doubt. He was an ineffectual president though, to put it mildly, and that's why Reagan got elected. But here's Biden. What does he take from the passing of his friend, Biden says, "Yeah, Jimmy Carter, I could have been my father." Oh my God. Here's Biden. [INDISTINCT] [INDISTINCT] Decency. Decency. Decency. Decency. Everybody deserve a shot, everybody. Can you imagine Jimmy Carter walking by someone, you need something to just keep walking? Can you imagine Jimmy Carter referring to someone, by the way, they look or where they talk? I can't. I can't. You know, I think the end of the deal here is that one of the reasons why we're looked to by the rest of the world, for the bulk of our nation, we've laid out what our values are. And so we believe it's not just in the decorating, we hold the truth to be self-evident opinion, there's a feeling the rest of the world looks to us, looks to us, that he was worth looking to. Well, thank you very much. Can you imagine this man and this rotten family up and down the line on CBS Face The Nation, the CBS reporter said the most underreported story of the year was, well, the most underreported story of the year was the fact that we saw the decline of Biden that was obvious and that the media, even after the debate to a large jury, so they got the signal the Democrats were ready to tag in somebody else who had a better chance, they just said, "Biden, why?" Well, you know, we could produce all day long clips of all this stuff, "Well, the Biden, I always entered talking geopolitics, listen to Trump, he knows no geopolitics." So it's fine to admit to that as an underreported story, but then the question becomes, why? Was it that hard to penetrate these geniuses around Biden and we still don't know? Now Bob Woodward or somebody will give it more definitively. Who was it that was actually and is actually now running the government? Anytime you hear Susan Rice's name there, but I'm starting to believe it was more Dr. Jill Biden under the guise of protecting Joe, et cetera, in the final big picture. Now the day-to-day stuff, neither one of them maybe knew what was happening and Susan Rice ran clean and maybe one or two others and they wanted to continue with Biden because they were running, they're unelected, and they're running wild with power. But I think Dr. Jill Biden was, I mean, Edith Wilson, when Wilson had a stroke, she was only president essentially running the country for 18 months. This was four years of it, plus, back then, slower pace, not as much, you know, stuff going on and when she was essentially making the decisions and saying that's what Woodrow Wilson was telling her, really, big difference between that and Joe Biden. Who really was making this decision? Who's fingerprints? Did Biden really know anything of consequence with those people he pardoned? You know, you might have been on board with the idea just to stick it to Trump or because of Hunter Biden or something else. But there's no doubt. And he doesn't have a clue of anything that is specific, detailed, just look at what they went through to try to prop them up. And did the same forces want to get them out of there quickly by agreeing to that very early debate, giving time to tag in Harris? Well, no, at some point, they'll admit it way too late, but they did it. They covered and not only did they cover and not cover it. They savaged talk radio, Fox News and others who brought this up. So they were affirmatively aggressive in pushing on this. The Praetorian guard, they would have done anything to cover it up. Even after the debate, it wasn't instantly, wow, that one exchange. When Trump said, I don't know what he just said, neither does he. They went after Jake Tapper and Dana Bash because they didn't jump into the ring. If David Muir had been there, man, he would have jumped right into that ring. He would have allowed that to continue. We're going to take a break here. What do you mean a break? We're five minutes in. We're taking a break. Just remarkable. All right. So 8, 5, 5, 8, 3, 9, 12, 10, you get on board AT&T and Verizon wireless. All you have to do is just push town, 12, 10, and we'll get you in. Are you okay with the grand bargain? Let the tech pros, billionaires or not, in that whole group here, have their way, let them import all the people they want, HB one up and down the line, or as long as you get the border, as long as we stop that coming across the border, here's President Trump yesterday, and I would say clearly, he sees this on the Elon Musk side of it, cut six. Oh, I'm sorry, wait a minute, he's both the same, Henry, he's both our... So one is from 2016, and then one of his comments over the summer. Oh, over the summer. I thought we had, well... It was... So the way that was reported from, I believe it was Colin Rug, he reported it as if it was tweeted, or he did say that yesterday, he made those comments in June, he got a fact checked by other... Okay, all right. Thank you. So it comes to the same conclusion, but it was earlier that he said them. Correct, it was in June. Yeah. So here's what he said, really in June, we weren't paying attention so much to this, but endorsing the Elon Musk view on it, cut six. It's so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT, from the greatest schools, and lesser schools, that are phenomenal schools also. And what I wanted to do, and I would have done this, but then we had to solve the COVID problem, because that came in and, you know, sort of dominated for a little while as you perhaps know, but what I want to do and what I will do is you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma, a green card. Let's stop her right there. Let's stop her right there. No, you shouldn't. Here again, we're going with big college and these alleged geniuses and all this stuff. They all get a green card if they graduate from Humpty Dumpty College. No, he's wrong. Continue. To be able to stay in this country, and that includes junior colleges too. And you go to a college, you go in there for two years or four years. If you graduate or you get a doctorate degree from a college, you should be able to stay in this country. And you know more stories than I do, but I know of stories where people graduated from a top college or from a college, and they desperately wanted to stay here than a plan for a company, a concept, and they can't, they go back to India, they go back to China. They do the same basic company in those places and they become multi-billionaires employed thousands and thousands of people and it could have been done here. And a bigger example is you need a pool of people to work for your companies. You have great companies and they have to be smart people. Not everybody can be less than smart. You need brilliant people and we force the brilliant people, the people that graduate from college, the people that are number one in their class from the best colleges. You have to be able to recruit these people and keep the people. It was such a big deal. Somebody graduates at the top of the class, they can't even make a deal with the company because they don't think they're going to be able to stay in the country. That is going to end on day one. I want to see that now. I'll take that bet right here. You want to step up anybody and make a pizza bet. I don't know. Henry, do you think this is going to end on day one as you're really going to sign in executive order saying you get a green card if you graduate college? No. I oppose it now. I oppose it then. I'll oppose it on that day and I'll oppose it for the rest of my life. No. And it's just for the reason you just laid out there. You're opposing it right now. So there's clearly some in-house strife over this issue. Yeah. So yeah, day one, absolutely not. I want to see if we find anybody. I'll shut up. Henry will put the muzzle on me electronically. I'm in the domedome. I can't talk. I'll call and tell us why all these geniuses graduating our schools, they ought to be here forever on green cards, taking jobs for Americans. We need them. They're brilliant again with this nonsense. And I thought he said it over the weekend. That's an error. It was in June, but we didn't pay attention to it when the throws of everything else. So is that the deal on day one or is this Trump just extemporaneously again? Do I think we're going to see this? I will be shocked if we see it, signing that order. And I oppose it now and I'll oppose it then. And I can't be anymore direct about it then to say that, 855-839-1210. You get on board. Coming up, we're going to talk with our friends at the Pennsylvania Family Institute. 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With rescue, you can reinforce your immune system, boost energy, and reach your health goals again. There's no code needed to save up to 78% sight-wide. So get a head start on your health, visit res-q.com. Do it today. All right, it is time, Tom, welcome in, counting down to the new year. And one of the things, that's our side question today, but we're going all the way back. To the year 2000, Philadelphia area, it is with something funny, weird, there's 50 other maybe that we didn't take off the board yet, or impactful that you think deserves a mention as your story, your new story, funny story, current event story of that time. We'll put you in the running for the grand prize at the end of the week. But also joining us is Director of Communications at the Pennsylvania Family Institute at Josue, Sierra, as we start to countdown and find out what they saw as the big stories this year. Hey, Josue, welcome back to the show. Thanks for joining us. Thanks, Tom. Glad to be here. Well, what this year was most enveloping for what Pennsylvania Family Institute works on? Well, Tom, honestly, this year was a year of more preventing certain things from going on than from really celebrating wins. And of course, that's a win for us, protecting religious freedom, protecting life, protecting children in their private spaces and schools. And so I think the year for us was a year of the little things every week, week in and week out. And that's what we do in Harrisburg. All right, give us a few of that. What were some of the highlights? What were some of the things protecting against, I guess? I think HP 300, really being able to say no to that was an important one. It really has a lot of problems in it in terms of the protection to religious freedom. It's a propaganda piece. It's a lot of misnomer, a lot of what's the word, you know, it's supposedly for protection, but it's not. And until it'll put a lot of restrictions on businesses in terms of being able to hire according to their values. And so that's one of the ones that I think we celebrate. Obviously, we also celebrate the March for Life in September. We had a huge showing, lots of organizations that were there and present. And I think it just goes to show that the issue of abortion and protecting life continues to be a high priority for a lot of Commonwealth citizens. The Shapiro administration, now nationally, he has star has risen since he didn't get the VP thing. And I think he should have masquerades as the so-called moderate. I don't see him moderate at anything. He's just a chameleon. What are you seeing coming up now with the Shapiro administration? I don't, I'm still catching up on the Shapiro and politics in Pennsylvania. I really don't have much to say to that, but I will agree that there seems to be very little about moderation in the Democrat party right now. So anything that's moderation is really in the only and ultimately the hard left are the ones in control. Hopefully there's some good common sense Democrats that can realize this and stop, start stepping up. You know, one of the things that I would love to see is legislation protecting girls sports. And we saw two Democrats at the federal level stand up for protecting girls sports. Twenty something states have passed legislation protecting kids from transgender surgeries and interventions. I would love to see something like that in Pennsylvania if a few Democrats are willing to cross and be bipartisan, do what you know what parents want. This is a really bipartisan issue, very popular over 60 something percent of adults believe that children should not be submitted to these things. We know though, the last time they did do that. So 2022, we have the bill coming up again. It's already been announced, the fairness in women's sports and several Democrats, I'd have to go back and see that it reached double figures at the house level, which is critical. They were in favor of it. Now they only have a one vote, one seat majority there. So all we need are two, three and this will pass and then we'll go to Josh Shapiro for signature, Wolf Vito, they just didn't have enough votes to get to two thirds to override the veto. I don't think they would this time, but would he dare veto that. So what are you hearing in Harrisburg though? You seem to be pretty optimistic that this stands a reasonable chance to pass. Well, I'm not on the policy team and so I don't have my use to the ground. That would be a question for Tom or Michael, some of the other teams that are speaking with legislators, but certainly I would hope so. I would hope if Josh was to embrace this sort of moderate label, then it would certainly help them to do so. The Gallup poll in '23 found in 69% of adults believe that the athletes should compete in the sport that matches their sex and so and the numbers are even higher this year. So there's no reason I want not to. This is a bipartisan issue. Can you sketch out for me if you can, you know, just in general terms, what would the what's the mission statement Pennsylvania Family Institute, the family? We're hearing that be brought up national conversation now politically, but let's talk about it in terms of what you guys with the mission statement is and the argument is that the American family is not pushing their kids enough academically, et cetera. What does the Pennsylvania Family Institute say about the family? What do they see as the idea or the direction to go in? That nonsense, Tom, you know, that the Pennsylvania Family Institute, our mission is to strengthen families by championing foundational values like life, marriage, religious liberty. Those are the building boss of a culture. Parents know what's best. Parents love their children. Parents will always advocate for their children and we see that. I think the problem is not parents not knowing what's best for their children. The problem is the increase encroachment of government, the increase encroachment of ideologies and philosophies and indoctrination that is harmful to the family, that is counter to creative order to the to nature and to the objective science. And so I think we need to empower more parents. We certainly encourage parents to step up to speak up because they know what's best for their children. Yeah, I think that's on the cutting edge. It's been for a while now and I think 2025 is going to be a big year. Very hard to push back on parental rights even when it comes to things in school. We have that debate in Virginia where young can want a few years back because as opponents said, they're the experts. They're going to tell you what the curriculum is. You have no say in that and you shouldn't even have knowledge of it, apparently. Yeah. Yeah, continuing this continued course to to defeat parents to keep things from parents. This is ultimately harmful and so many dimensions. And so I think parents need to continue paying attention. Certainly the couple of years of COVID was a wake up call for many parents. They started noticing what was going on in the classrooms as kids were zooming in. And so the danger and the need for parents being alert continues to be essential. This year 2025, certainly there are going to be a lot of issues. You know, you talk to Michael a couple weeks ago about Planned Parenthood and their investments in school board elections. And I think that's going to be an important issue that parents need to pay attention to. They need to continually be looking. What are the curriculums your kids are using? What are they reading? What are they? What's going on in the schools? And the other one is going to be the retention election with the Supreme Court justices. Again, I think parents can do their jobs. Parents know how to bring up their kids. They know their kids. They know what's best for them. We need to get the government out of the way in as much as possible. And certainly the Supreme Court retention election is one area where parents can have their voice heard and make sure that we're opening up those seats for judges that will protect parents and protect children. Absolutely. Where do we find the Pennsylvania Family Institute? Yeah, on our website is pafamily.org. We actually got a challenge grant going on right now. So if anybody wants to support our organization, we're taking donations to the end of tomorrow. And so pafamily.org, I would also encourage listeners to sign up for our email alerts. They can then get updates. We do weekly emails on things that are going on and make sure they stay in the loop of what's happening in Harrisburg. Thank you, Josue. Happy New Year. And we'll continue the conversation with you in 2025. Happy New Year to you and your listeners too. All right. Director of Communications at the Pennsylvania Family Institute. At one o'clock, we're going to talk with Jim Worthington, who's gearing up for the inauguration and a little bit of insight into 2024 into 2025. The man, though, will be here, his usual house call at two o'clock. Scott Prezler here, he's got big news on the Pennsylvania registrations again. And in Jersey, some of the swarm of people now wanting to donate and be supportive of his efforts. And as far as I could tell, stay out of his way. That's exactly why he's a force. You're going to see it even bigger in 2025. All right. Phone line. So we're 855-839-1210, AT&T and Verizon, wireless. All you have to do is just push pound 1210. Hit us with that news story, funny or impactful, that you remember over the last 25 years, we're almost 25 years to 2000. Went back that far just to have the nice 25 on it. Could be sports related. It could be something like hitchpot. Henry, did you think of one yet? Yeah, the chicken man. The chicken man. That's right. We did get you a chicken man. That's right. Yeah. And the chicken man's out there at the chicken man, Philly Jesus, these cast of characters. I remember the, the hoagie accent guy who the news media went to with a classic Northeast Philadelphia accent when we had the collapse of 95. And just his explanation, if you were in other parts of the country, oh, the accent was brutal. All right. So 855-839-1210, jump on board Dom and Henry today on Talk Radio 1210. On Twitter, Henry, I've been called provincial. Michael Moore, come on now, he's responding to some people saying it's not only okay, it's smart. It's a smart thing. Bring it on all these people. At Dom Show 1210 is being provincial in his reasoning here. Well, if I'm being provincial, then I just, I must be, you know, a doofus too. And I must have misunderstood the whole America first thing. I must have misunderstood all these Americans in tank towns. We're going to protect their rights as Americans. Yeah, but you see, this is different. These people we don't care about. We're just going to pitch to these people over here. Eventually, provincial, is that provincial reasoning? No, no, no, I, I, I, I've had enough for the super geniuses. I've had enough of this, well, don't you like smart people, Dom? Yeah, of course. And there's plenty of Americans, millions of them, if not tens of millions or a hundred million. Provincial on this. Yeah. That's a word of the day. It's a word of the day, provincial, provincial in the reasoning. Well, you know, when the MAGA movement under Trump gets called that, or racist because of this, then let's not take offense. I mean, on paper is an app what they stood for. That's provincial thinking. See, we've got a deal here with Elon Musk and Vivek and these other clack of tech bros. They're going to get what they want and you're going to shut down the border. Yeah. What about all my kids, stem and all this stuff, shut up your provincial. I am so sick of this insult to America. I am so sick of this smart. I've interviewed Vivek Rama Swami, he's a smart guy, but I'm not, oh my God, why, I'm provincial. Thank you for enlightening me Vivek. 855-839-1210, please go to Twitter on that comment and put your comments at Dom Show 1210. Let's go to Leslie and print more. Leslie asked a question of Elon Musk. Maybe she's not provincial. Hey, Leslie. Welcome in. Hello. Hello. That was one of the highlights of the year. It was for me. Yes. Yes, it was. Sure. Anybody. Sure. It would be. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was pretty amazing. It's something I will never forget, but on Johnson, I think you're wrong. You know I like Mike Johnson, but you know, we should maybe be looking at, there's two other major leaders and that's Golis and Ammer. Whoa, wait a minute there now, Leslie, check out Ammer more closely. There is a classic rhino, that's exactly where I'm going. Yeah. You know, Marjorie Taylor Greene is always on Mike Johnson's case about getting him tossed. Make her the whip and let's see how easy she thinks it is to whip votes for Republicans to get on the same page. Well, the only thing I'll say though is Leslie, I defer to you on somewhat with Johnson. I get it. What he capitulated on, I'm not on board with that thinking, that monstrosity of a bill, that's not winning in any sense and saying he's clearing the decks, can't do that and look at what happened. They were able to pass something much more moderate. Yeah, but I think the reason he wanted that bill to see the light of day and without it being brought to the floor, it doesn't see the light of day and now Americans are very aware of how much garbage was put into that bill. Well, he negotiated it with Mitch McConnell $74,000 raises, you know, and come on. I know, I think Leslie, he thought that was the best he could get. I see it differently and that's something, it's not just me. I just agree. I don't think he felt that that was the best he could get. Well, I think there was purpose in bringing that to the light of day. All right. We differ on that. I don't think it's as easy to do that as you think. They negotiated that with McConnell and with the two Democrats in secret. I mean, I'm not opposed if it turns out being Johnson at all, but I think this is going to be very difficult for him to survive. You doubt it? I think if he has Trump's support, he'll be fine. And as I say, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene is always running around, you know, and, um, uh, is it Chip Roy? Yeah. Well, uh, it's messy too. Massey, another guy and also the woman, the Ukrainian woman, Spark. Yeah. They think this is so easy, right. Put them in, in the leadership, take Scalise out and take Emma out because they're the two that are ultimately responsible for getting the party in line to vote, not Johnson. Well, that's not true. The speaker, ultimately, they just, they just execute and they're supposed to be skilled in that. It's the speaker though, ultimately, and look, in the scheme of things, if he continues to be the speaker, I'm not going to, I understand how difficult this is. Yeah. I mean, we're not talking about a large margin here when you're talking one or two votes. Exactly. And you have six or seven that are just living in an alternate reality. Yup. And I believe they are. I think that, you know, how do they think things are going to go forward if they don't come together? I mean, Democrats, the Democrats have proved over and over again that by sticking it together, they can stick it to the Republicans. Exactly right. What's the news event, Leslie? The news event, first it was scary, then it was, you know, was curious, and then it ultimately became funny, and it was the horse running down I-95. Yes. All in Philadelphia, does the horse take off down I-95? Making better time than driving without a doubt. Yes. In full gallop. In full gallop. All right, Leslie. Great one. Thank you. That's exactly the type we're looking for a little bit outside the box, but hit us with anything on that. All right. Coming up, Jim Worthington. Again, from the Mount Rushmore, he helped lead the charge here in Pennsylvania, the master fundraiser, the NAC. He's involved in the inauguration, big time, we'll give you a preview of that. Scott Prezler here at 2. Tell me, you can tell me, I'm not going to jump down your throat. Is that provincial thinking to say, we have enough brilliant smart people in America? I mean, we have it in dividing America. America has oodles of people that are spectacular and are going to continue to do that. And then we have a lot of wretched stuff in the public schools. Yeah? Everybody in India is a genius. Everybody in whatever the country du jour is is a genius, not true. They want to have people that are going to work for less. That's what it comes down to. If they can make the case, this person is almost indispensable. You have to have them. Okay. You're going to put them in. That's what it comes down to deportation as a threat. How would you like to have? We're supposed to work against that. That's provincial. I think that's the essence of America first, of MAGA, 855-839-1210, you get in. I get very, very cautious here when I have here people talking about all these geniuses and looking down on Americans in broad strokes. I get very, oh yeah? How is this the most dominant country in the history of the world then? Because of all these people, we import it. 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