Dixon & Vining Hour 3 (012825)
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January 28, 2025
TLDR: Trump discusses DEI agenda, DOGE considering scrapping penny, legal action for Hoover High dismissed request

In the latest episode of Dixon & Vining, the hosts dive into various current events, including political maneuverings under President Trump, the implications of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, and practical concerns surrounding everyday life in America. Host discussions are fueled by real-time updates and the commentary reflects their viewpoints vividly, making for an engaging listen.
Key Discussion Topics
1. Trump's Executive Orders and Federal Workforce Reactions
The episode kicks off discussing Donald Trump's immediate impact following his return to office, particularly targeted actions against DEI agendas within federal agencies. Key takeaways include:
- Purge of DEI Programs: Trump’s directive removes consideration of race and sexual orientation in hiring within the military and federal jobs, igniting debates about the validity and repercussions of such policies.
- Federal Employee Sentiment: Reports suggest many federal workers are anxious, fearing job insecurity under stricter guidelines. Some are contemplating resignation or utilizing more secure communication channels to discuss their fears and grievances.
2. Federal Funding Freeze
Trump has implemented a freeze on federal funding to better assess government efficiency. The hosts liken this to household budgeting efforts, emphasizing the need for accountability in governmental expenditures.
- Analysis of Federal Spending: The discussion highlights the inefficiency of federal departments and the reluctance of such entities to reduce staff despite advancements in technology that could streamline operations.
- Ultimate Goal: These actions aim to restore governmental balance and potentially reduce national debt, which currently stands at approximately $38 trillion.
3. Eliminating the Penny
A lighthearted yet insightful discussion also arises about the practicality of coins, particularly the penny, in the modern economy:
- Elimination Proposal: The hosts consider proposals set forth by public figures like Elon Musk to eliminate the penny, citing production costs outweighing its monetary value. This feeds into broader conversations about how outdated monetary systems can be revamped for efficiency.
- ** everyday implications:** The hosts share humorous anecdotes on how consumers would adapt to a coinless system, stressing that simplification in currency could be beneficial.
4. Hoover High Lawsuit Update
The episode also touches on serious issues facing the Hoover High School District amid allegations against prior football coaches:
- Lawsuit Dismissal: The school board argues for dismissal of lawsuits tied to previous coaches’ misbehavior, citing state immunity. This raises questions about accountability and the depth of employee background checks in educational institutions.
- Debate on Oversight: The need for better hiring vetting processes is underscored, prompting reflections on the balance of responsibility between school administration and educational staff conduct.
Practical Applications and Insights
Throughout the discussion, the hosts champion the importance of transparency and accountability in both government and local institutions. Listeners are encouraged to:
- Engage with their government: Understand local and federal policies and how they can impact communities.
- Evaluate spending habits: Reflect on how personal budgeting parallels governmental spending to promote awareness of financial responsibility.
- Reconsider coin reliance: Think critically about the utility of lower denomination coins in day-to-day transactions.
Conclusion
The Dixon & Vining Hour continues to be a platform where insightful discussions about political news and everyday concerns intersect, offering listeners a mix of serious and light-hearted commentary. From the implications of Trump’s governance strategies to practical concerns over currency, these conversations encourage a broader understanding of the intricacies of American governance and daily life.
Key Takeaways:
- Trump’s policies are stirring anxieties among federal employees.
- A funding freeze aims to uncover inefficiencies in government spending.
- Discussions about eliminating the penny provoke broader conversations about modern finance.
- Educational institutions must adapt hiring practices for accountability.
Listeners are left with valuable insights that promote engagement and reflection on issues that not only affect their lives but also shape the future of governance in America.
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Good morning to you. It is about four minutes past eight o'clock. The sun is up. Looks like we're going to have a beautiful day today. Get out and enjoy it. A lot of fog earlier this morning and problems out on the interstate, 65 southbound at the Shelby County airport, specifically been backed up since before we got on the air this morning. So probably sometime in the five o'clock hour that happened, but still a little bit of a problem down there. We'll keep an eye on it.
weather forecast. Here's what you got for today. Very nice sunshine, 59 the high, partly cloudy tomorrow, 66. And then some rain will return on Friday. When we get into the weekend, Richard, not bad. 64 and 68 I think is what I saw for Saturday and Sunday. So
The temperature is a lot more mild. It's not bad out there this morning, 35 degrees. But as I said, we will warm up to the upper 50s. Should be a nice day today. I will buy God. Take it. I will take it. By the way, we are winding down. The O'Reilly world of wheels is coming up this Friday, Saturday, Sunday at the Legacy Arena at the BJCC. Text the word wheels. Wheels. Wheels. Very excited.
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You're gonna enjoy yourself. Yeah, it should be a lot of fun. So if you haven't done that yet, one time is all we need, wheels one time, and your name will be in. Good to go. Yep, that'll do it. Federal workers are reportedly terrified of Donald Trump. They're now all concerned. His latest executive orders aimed at the federal workforce, sending shockwaves through the deep state, so much so that there's a dark mood in federal agencies as many are worried about their jobs or mulling over quitting.
Just a few days into Trump's second term, some federal workers are contemplating quitting, reports said. Others are preparing to file grievances with their unions or moving communications with each other to secure platforms like Signal. Some fearing they'll be caught up in the White House's purge of diversity programs are leaving their names off their memos and documents they worry could be labeled as DEI adjacent. Look, here's the thing about the DEI deal that really gets me.
And I think Donald Trump spelled it out very nicely when he signed this executive order yesterday having to do with the military and purging all DEI from it. He said, no more will we be discriminating based upon race or sex or sexual proclivity. The best person for the job is going to get the job. Now, that's as flat and straight as you can possibly make it. We're not going to be discriminating on the basis of any of those things.
the problem is under d e i we were discriminate look at the l a fire department of the odds that the top four people in the l a fire department would all be lesbians named uh... uh... a christa or something like crystal like a very strange like how is that how is that even christine i think is what it is how how is that even possible the only way that happens is if you are on the lookout to find people who check a certain box and then make sure that they all get into those roles
because it's highly unlikely that that would happen otherwise. I mean, come on. So, you know, yeah, just flat out say, we're not going to hire anybody based upon their race and we're not going to discriminate anybody based upon their race. Listen, if there is one arm of
what we do. That is to restore what we were, what our military was before. And to insert anything close to DEI was a serious mistake. You've got to have the most fit, the strongest, mental, physical, everything.
And I don't care if you're male, female, what your race is, what your background is, who you are, gay, straight, it doesn't matter. If you want to be a soldier in the military and you can accomplish the same things as the guy or gal right next to you and do it well, then you know what? You can be in the military, but stop lowering
the standards to be able to be in the military because our military isn't as strong as it should be. It will be weakened if you continue to do that. And the same thing is true for some of that happened with fire departments and police departments that they lowered some of the standards.
I understand that for police that they were having difficult time recruiting, but it was more of a DEI issue. It wasn't that. Right. And when you do that, your police force, your firefighters, the military, all of it is weakened. You're not as strong as you should be. And again, if you can accomplish those goals, I don't care if you're a man, woman, what your background is, you can be in the military. But don't lower the standards just to fill, to check off boxes. And I would extend that to every single federal government employee.
You know, because these are my tax toes. Here's the deal, and we forget this in America all the time. Most people work for us. We're their boss, okay? The people that we elect to represent us, we're their boss. The people who are the civil servants that work within Washington, D.C. We're their boss, too. And it just as seems as though, because the cat's been away, you know, I mean, let's face it, Joe Biden checked out
about six months into his first term. He hasn't been all there for a long, long time. Some would say he wasn't even there while he was running for that 2020 election. But, you know, then we, oh, it's a pandemic, so everyone stays home. And then it becomes a case of, well, we're fighting to stay home and we're also fighting to do as little work as possible. And hopefully we can continue to draw a paycheck while doing virtually nothing on behalf of the federal government. And here we get Donald Trump who comes in and goes, no.
That's not going to happen. We're not going to allow that to happen anymore. You're going to come back to work. If you don't want to do that, then I would suggest you quit. If you come back to work and we find out that you really don't do much. And that is one thing that Doge is doing is... I love the scene. I never get tired of the scene in office space with the two bobs. One of them played by John C. McGinley. They're these corporate consultants who came in to help straighten out in a tech.
and they would bring everybody in, and their question would be, what would you say you do here? And that's the real question of a lot of these federal employees. What would you say you do here? And if the answer is a long, garbled, convoluted mess, the answer to that is, okay, we don't need you. You know, here's the thing. Six other people came in telling us that exact same thing. We don't need seven people doing.
Yeah, you can accomplish the one goal with one person and then eliminate six employees. Well, that's a huge savings. I've mentioned this before. Look at what has happened in this building. When I left in 2006 to go to Orlando, we were bursting at the seams. We had people jammed in every single office. We were talking about expanding onto another floor because we did not have the desk space for all the people. I come back three and a half years later,
It's like tumbleweeds. There are three empty offices on the other side of the building. And when I say offices, I mean pits where salespeople would roam free and sales assistants and various and sundry other people here that we figured out how to do without. The other difference, by the way, there was a computer on every single desk and that made all the difference in the world. Now, the problem is in private industry, as you well know, when
You figure out a way that you can streamline and divest yourself of people. You do so because your main goal is profit. Oh, I can get the same profit without paying all these people. Well, great. That's more money in my pocket. That's more money for our shareholders. And they're the ones who actually own the company, right? And if you make a particular kind of product, you can go and now we're going to lower the price of the product so that we can sell more of it. Won't that be great?
uh... and and you don't do that when it comes to the federal government because the federal government just goes oh we got all these new computers and so we're able to do more with less well great so we could fire some people know i didn't say that and so you keep the same number of people that the federal government only ever expands they never contract they only ever expand well private businesses grow and shrink and grow and shrink the federal government only goes in one direction it always grows so i like the fact that federal employees are nervous
because they're about to lose their cushy, do nothing, get paid a king's ransom jobs. And why do they have those jobs? We shouldn't be paying people to do nothing. Well, and that's what Doge is going to go in there and find out what's going on here. And that's part of the reason that Donald Trump put a pause on everything. He just froze all federal funding so we can take a look at actually what's going on. Who's doing what? I love it. I mean, we've talked about it till we're
blue in the face, Richard, and I know that you all have heard it for years and years and years. And what's frustrating is we're supposed to, in our own personal lives, keep a budget and maintain what we do, pay our bills on time, etc, etc.
That same thing. But the government's never expected to do that. And we talk about our taxpayer dollars. It goes up and up and up and we see more money going out of our paycheck to the federal government. And there's no stop to it. And it's so frustrating after all these years to see that. And boy, what a joy it is to finally have Donald Trump in office, doge in place. Let's figure out where the waste is once and for all.
and pair it down and get it under control. And then maybe we got a shot at maybe reducing the debt in this country. Maybe there's a possibility we could do that. $38 trillion is a lot of money. And maybe Donald Trump, I don't know in four years, maybe we'll get eight years with conservatives in place. But the waste, I'm so glad to see that we're going to see that ending.
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Well, he's back to being the energized bunny and President Trump, Busy Busy, all day yesterday, was at Doral, Florida yesterday in front of the GOP leaders. Left there, flew back to DC, and while he was flying across the country, he was signing all kinds of things. One of the things was a freeze on all federal funding, including grants. Now, this doesn't affect things like Medicare, etc., etc.
He's trying to get an idea about what's going on, and this will help to give a better visual of really what's happening when everything is frozen. I would compare this to if your finances are out of control in your home and you're like, all this money is going everywhere. I don't even know what I'm spending on right now. Stop everything.
Stop everything and then we'll put back the stuff that we want to put back. And I think that's what he's doing. By the way, this doesn't affect SNAP, this doesn't affect WIC, this doesn't affect any direct payments to individuals is not involved in this. Certainly Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security not involved in this as well. So people are losing their minds. I'm seeing all kinds of, oh Donald Trump stopped all this stuff. No, he didn't. Stop freaking out. Where are you getting your information? You should be listening to Dixon and Vining.
call everyone calm also reinstated service members discharged under covid 19 vaccination mandate really glad to see that restored america's fighting for so this is eliminating a bunch of the d e i stuff also talked about uh... the build on the iron dome uh... there's a sixty day plan needed from pete hex up they'll be working on that will see where that goes and uh... the trans gender in the military no longer that was also something else that happened overnight last night so
Keeping up to date, I mean, I'm telling y'all, he's moving 90 miles an hour, so we'll bring it to you as quickly as things happen, but Donald Trump moving on, everything he said that he was going to do. He also issued an order for public health officials to stop working with the World Health Organization immediately. I remember members, the World Health Organization through COVID-19,
still don't really know or they won't admit where the COVID-19 came from. And it's pretty sure now that it was a lab leak, not a wet market deal. So they're saying, look, we're done with who, a World Health Organization, paying $500 million a year, China only paying $39 million a year. So once again, this is one of those expenses. We're paying crazy amounts of money and other countries aren't even close to that.
No, and more than the money, the WHO, suppressing speech, saying that, no, you need to stop talking about that lab leak thing. You need to stop talking about how Ivermectin is helpful. You need to stop talking about hydroxychloroquine. Everyone needs to wear a double mask all the time.
You know, just the nonsense that they were spewing throughout the course of the entire COVID situation, uh, who people, you know, people who had any sort of knowledge of how health and healthcare work were like, what? No, that none of that makes any sense
at all. They were a font of mis and disinformation while they were pointing the finger at everybody else and claiming they were mis and disinformation. So right off the bat, we don't need to be paying to be part of an organization like that. And secondly, we have our own people who can go do the stuff that the WHO was doing and they're people we can trust. When the WHO comes back,
with things. And, you know, we've already heard, oh, it's not the lab leak. And after doing our own investigation, we came to the conclusion almost certainly a lab leak, you know, like John Stewart said, well, there's an outbreak of a tasty chocolatey goodness around Hershey, Pennsylvania. I wonder how that happened. You know,
Clearly, it's from the Hershey factory, so if Wuhan flu breaks out around Wuhan, it's safe to say, you know, the COVID-19 bio lab is where it came from, ridiculous to suggest otherwise. We can send our own people out, and they can do the investigation, and they can come back with their conclusions, and my guesses will get shot straighter stuff than we would get from the WHO.
I love it. I love it. Let's get out of that. Let's figure it out on our own, you know, with so many other things as well. It's like, let's be dependent on ourselves here in the good old US of A instead of, you know, well, depending upon them for information. And when a lab leaks happen, it happens. You can't even be honest and truthful about it so that we can get information out to protect people from dying from this virus.
So all of that's just so frustrating. I'm glad that Donald Trump did that. We do the vast majority of this stuff better than anybody else. There's a reason why, you know, it's us, Western Europe and Israel, that basically hold 95% of the world's Nobel prizes in everything, science in particular and studying an investigation and so on and so forth. You know,
We're the land of innovation. We allow people to roam free and come up with ideas on their own and turn those ideas into money. So we're just better at this than most everyone else. Plus, the WHO plays on a world stage and they're like, well, we can't say that because that would offend the Arab world.
I don't care about offending the Arab world. I care about what's real, what's true, and what's actually happening. If monkeypox is spreading because of a certain type of behavior that's taking place, we can't be shy about saying what that behavior is. We have to be able to say, well, this is being spread through gay sex. That's what's really going on here.
How can you warn people, Hey, this is something that spreads this disease. If you're too shy or too afraid or too politically correct to say it, we ran across it with AIDS back in the 90s, 80s and 90s. And now we're running across it again. When it comes to monkeypox, you know, there's, there's a lot involved in this. And the WHO is too busy trying to couch their language.
to really be honest about it and you're talking about lives. That's not the time to tip to around things. You're talking about life and death here. Exactly. Stop worrying about people's feelings. It's a little bit more important. Finally, this story, this was kind of tragic yesterday. We kept taking a look at our monitors about a 70-year-old Birmingham woman that went missing.
She had been missing for 24 hours. She was found dead yesterday. Her wrecked SUV, Julia Anne Brown, was found mid-morning on East Lake Boulevard behind the airport. Her Nissan Rogue was overturned about 30 yards off the roadway in a wooded area. Apparently, this missing alert was put out. She was last seen about 10 a.m. Sunday leaving her home.
was supposed to be on her way to church in the Huffman area and didn't quite make it. And we don't really know, I guess an autopsy will tell us, did she have some kind of medical emergency on her way down the road that forced this accident? Or was there something else that happened? We don't really know. But a sad ending to a missing person that, you know, I'm sure the family thought, well, we'll find her. She's, you know, she's somewhere. And yeah, they did off the side of the road in her wrecked vehicle. Sad. Kind of a sad ending.
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Oh, look at Carolyn Levitt's going to give a press briefing, believe it or not. Well, yeah, where's she been? Donald Trump sucking all the air out of the room.
As it had to work, her boss has been coming in and stealing her thunder. She's like, fine, I'll just stay back here and drink myself a margarita. One o'clock Eastern time. She's finally, we're gonna hear her speaking. Somebody asked me that yesterday. Where's the White House, you know, press secretary? I was like, well, Donald Trump's pretty much covering it every day. You know, the problem before for KJP is that Joe Biden was sleeping every day. No one knew what was going on. So she thought, well, I'll get out in front and give this, you know, press conference each day.
She herself didn't know what was going on. No, she didn't. Jen Psaki and she had the same problem in that they had very little access to Joe Biden, and then they had to go out and speak on his behalf. And they had very little access to him, because if they had, they would have found out pretty quickly, this guy ain't all here. They couldn't have liked that. Somebody needs to write a book. Somebody that was behind the scenes, write a book. It'll be a coloring book. Yeah. It was some, yeah. Maybe a pop-up. No, that'd be a Clinton book. Anyway. Pop-up. Ain't 35 with Dixon and Vining. I'm talking anything in five. That's a pretty good one.
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I could certainly work around it. How many times now do you use cash to get coins and you're like, I wish I didn't have this change in my pocket? No, I keep it in a bank at my home, eventually. So you dump it from the pocket to the bank? Yeah, I do not actually use change. I don't carry it around with me. I don't know why, but I made this decision years ago. It just sort of happened. I didn't want to have change in my pocket anymore.
And so I, you know, I use dollar bills when I actually pay cash for something, which is getting rarer and rarer, but I will use a dollar bill or a five or a 20 or whatever it is. And you know, then I get the change and I take it home and I put it in the bank and eventually all those are going to the coin star unit or they're going to the bank or whatever. Maybe I need to get one of those little things that you've, you've feed it in and it automatically puts it in a little stack and you can roll it yourself. Did you ever have one of those little square black boxes where the hand would come out?
It was a scary little hand and it would, you could put, I guess it either brought a coin or you put a coin in, I can't remember now. I think it put a coin in, but- You remember what I'm talking about? I didn't have one either. My brother, I think, had one. There were lots of older banks that did that kind of thing, which was interesting. No, I had a classic piggy bank when I was young. It was made of rubber so you couldn't take a hammer and smash it. And then I had a safe
that had a combination lock on it which i thought oh this is the best possible thing that i think it's a figure of the combination pretty quickly and all your money i would find money missing all the time she was a she was a little thief but he'll on musk's doge setting its sights on getting rid of the penny saying look at cost three sixty nine three dollars and sixty nine cents or three point six nine cents rather every time you produce a penny three point six nine cents
Now, of course, a penny is worth more than a penny. It's worth a penny every time it changes hands when you think about it. But if we could get along without them, we wouldn't have to produce any of them anymore, right? Yeah, save the money on producing the penny. And I think people would then price accordingly. I'm so tired of $9.99.
Just be $10. We know you're $10, right? It's under $10, Richard. We know what's going on. Same thing with the prices at gas stations. It's oh, gas is $269.99.
No, we don't have nine tenths of a cent on us, I'm sorry. What you mean is it's 270, just charge us 270, stop lying. Okay, so maybe then we'll start seeing that, which means that the tax hopefully will round out to a flat five or zero, which is where it should be. And if not, then you round it up or you round it down, and eventually it all sort of works out in the wash, right? That's what's supposed to happen.
yeah it is and as again some people can't quite wrap their mind around as well why should i pay four cents more for that you're rounding it up just give me the penny i'm like no no just life would be easier if you rounded it well i would say if it's if it's a rounded down say if it's uh... six forty one you would charge six forty right if it's six forty three and you are six forty five you know and and and the
The amount of times you round up versus the amount of times you round down as a business, it would all work out in the end. Now, it might make bookkeeping hell, I don't know. Maybe. But I do believe that creating pennies is a pain. I also believe that, you know,
only old people pay with checks and cash anymore. I'm in line with the grocery store. Everybody's debiting out. Everybody. I'm at the point now. I'm just, I just click the tap thing, you know? I don't have time for this anymore. I just tap the card, boom, on we go. Life is good and I get my receipt very quickly. Same thing at the gas pump. I haven't paid for gas with cash since I don't know when. Hector was a pump. That's an old person saying right there.
Kind of difficult when there's no one there, you know, in some of the bigger box stores. They don't have access to pay for cash. Nope. You're going to be putting that on a card one way or the other. So I look at it and say, this is going to affect a very small percentage of shoppers if you get rid of the penny.
And if it actually saves us a whole bunch of money, eventually we have to rid ourselves. But aren't there enough pennies in circulation? There's enough pennies in the back of my underwear, probably, to last us for the rest of our lives in the United States of America.
Yeah. If only somebody like me had talked about that last week. You did talk about it last week. You talked about it on Steve's turn. And I remember that. But I wanted to lend it the weight of Dixon and Vining Imperture. Oh, thank you. I didn't realize that it didn't have the weight despite being on this show. Well, there's two of us. You have a lot of weight, Steve. And I don't mean for some reason. Yeah, that's true. I mean, I need to lose some hope. No, I didn't mean it physically. I'm just saying there's two of us, so we weigh way more.
of some hopefully in the next three months that'll be less between the two of us yeah well I'm glad that I'm glad they're looking at this I'm glad they're looking at getting rid of it it's about damn time you know as I said when Steve was talking about this some other things that would save a whole bunch of money get rid of the dollar bill the problem with the dollar coin and why it's never taken it is never taken an American society I've been through two of these three of these I want to say dollar coins
There was a silver dollar, right? Yeah. It's coins to me. Can I just say coins in general are a pain? They can be, yeah. Either the paper put it because you can easily put it in your wallet. It's not heavy. It doesn't clink, clink, clink if you've got it in your pocket. Come on now, you know I'm right. Clink, clink, clink. If you put bills in your wallet, right? That fits nice and neat and everything's good. They go, we should, we should. The dollar coin, you're taking us right back to coins.
Well, I don't have a problem if it's a dollar coin or a $2 coin or a $5 coin. I'm fine with that. The thing is they last longer than the bills. I got you. And that's the problem is that you then have to go back and print more bills and print more bills and print more bills. You have to take the one out of circulation. When they come back to the bank for one reason or another, you take them, you incinerate them, you replace them with a $1 coin. I don't want a coin.
Well then don't take it. Don't have any one. I don't want to have no one. I don't want to coin. That's fine. I want the point. This is hard for you to believe we're not building all of our federal monetary policy on you. Just like Chick-fil-A is not developing their menu around your Valerie. The entire world does not revolve around Valerie Vining. Are you sure you're not talking about you?
I know the world doesn't revolve around me. I'm the third most important person in my home right now. Isn't the last dollar coin they did that second Jew way a thing? No, they did the... There was something like that. There was a George Washington one that it had. It was supposed to be kind of six-sided and it didn't really work. The problem was it was a little too close to the quarter. It had a little bit of a gold tint to it.
But people were regularly confusing them. The saggage away came before that. That was the second one that we went through. And it didn't take because once again, you left the bills in circulation. You have to get rid of the bills. Take them away. Don't give them an option. Don't give me the coin. Give me the bill. I want the bill. How often do you use ones?
very seldom. I have, you know, how you used to put change in a little bucket. Now I have a little envelope for like tip for the pizza guy or, you know, something. Little man needs, you know, 10 bucks in one. Well, that's what I got.
That's right. I've got a bunch of ones, yes. Oh, good. Mom, I was going to Sammies. Because once again, once again, if you've got 10 ones in your wallet, what happens? It gets fat and it's the pain to walk around with and they all get torn up, which is why you should have 10 coins. 10 coins. This is why I'm trying to help you. Once again, this is why people are using their debit cards or credit cards. I agree. I still think we should use cash, though, from time to time. It's not a bad idea. No. And here's why.
They voted to put TikTok out of business like they just like said, we don't want TikTok anymore. Imagine if your account was in one of these banks that was on a card like that and Congress just went, yeah, that doesn't exist.
I had money in there. What do you mean it doesn't exist anymore? I can't get it? What is this? What are you trying to say? And that's the thing. In the same way, we don't want our thermostats attached to the electric company. Don't you touch mine, don't you touch my thermostats? Having them coming in, go, well, I'm sorry, but you can't be above 65. I don't want that. I don't want the government to be able to control my banking, which is why you got to be careful about it all being electric.
You gotta, you gotta have at least a little balance. You gotta be like Fawnee or Willis, right? You gotta keep, you gotta have thousands and thousands. Don't tell the whole world you have thousands and thousands of dollars hidden in your hall. I mean, how else are you gonna pay Nathan way back for all those trips you talk, huh?
Don't miss good ever loads of cash on hand. It's my cash. My father told me to get lots of cash. Oh, really? Yeah. Is that in a shoe box under your bed? Fawnee? Where is it? Coffee cans. Bear in the backyard. That's where we keep them.
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The Osman brothers were offered this song and turned it down. Uh-huh. No. No, they're so no. And yet, by the way, Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five were offered one bad apple and turned that down. So each group managed to capitalize on the others lack of foresight. So it all evened out. Exactly. Everybody's happy. Even Steven.
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The price reads 259.9. That last nine is for nine tenths of a gallon. So you're really not buying a gallon of gas for the price. No, no, Boomer, the last nine is for a ninth of a, a nine tenths of a cent. That's what that means, okay? So when it says 259.9, it means $2.59 and nine tenths of a cent, okay? Trust me on this. I know this.
And that is just a ridiculous way of saying $2.60. No reason in the world why they can't just say $2.60. But for years, they decided to go with that 9-10th of a cent at the end of it. It's not a 9-10th of a gallon. It could make a big difference for the guy that hangs the sign numbers.
It could. I mean, he's getting paid by the number, apparently. And that's what's going on there. Well, Hank, it's changing so rapidly now. All of these guys are going to these digital signs. So that's true. Isn't that nice? That's true. No more getting up on the ladder with that long stick with the numbers on it. Yeah. Well, that's so when they hear that, oh, the price of gas, the price of oil is going up $10. They can automatically change prices, go to the price of gas is up 20 cents a gallon.
just that quickly. Price of a barrel of oil goes down, they do nothing. For a couple days. Funny how that works, isn't it? It is. It's a little longer to get that to go.
Richard, if you go to the strip club and you don't have any paper ones, where are you going to put the coins? Oh, never mind. Listen, Jeff, A, I don't go to strip clubs. And B, that sounds like a personal problem. Here's the thing. There's an open market out there. Somebody will realize that there is something that is needed. They'll take care of it. They'll come up with a mini lunch buddy.
Love the show. Listen, on my way to work and home. Thank you, Christie. We love you as well. Can't get hacked if you only use cash. Yes, that is exactly right. Joe, my daughter had a chime account. You heard about chime? It's like, yeah, it's an online bank system that is just it. There are no like physical locations as far as I understand.
And somebody managed to get ahold of her number and spent her $33 that she had in chime. And she was like, Oh, thank goodness. That's all that was in there. I said, clearly, you don't need to be involved in that any longer. If it's that hackable and that accessible, you have a serious problem. So yeah, let's get you hooked up with an actual, you know, let's see. Tracy says, why does Richard have pennies in his underwear drawer?
It's none of your damn business, Tracy. It's for good luck. It came out of his penny loafers. I don't want to know. Everybody and their brother is just going on about Sammies. Like every single person here has made some reference to a strip club or Sammies or something. They're worried about your ones. We hear an audience that is just debauchery.
The bauchery. Paul's minds are in the where the ones would be here. Never mind. Mm hmm. Thanks for that, guys. We appreciate you. Oh, so much. Keep listening. Hey, the Hoover School Board is seeking dismissal at least of their part of the football abuse lawsuit.
They're saying, look, we have state immunity. Now, the people who are suing because the football coaches in Hoover High were behaving inappropriately toward the players. Not the current coaches. Not the current coaches, but the ones who got fired. They, well, they quit, I guess, of their own volition when this came to a head.
They say that, oh, the school board didn't properly vet them. They didn't go back and they didn't ask about this stuff and they didn't dig in. And the school board goes, hey, hey, hey, not our fault, not our problem. You can't sue us. The state says you can't sue us. This was our official capacity, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I'm not sure if that's true. I assume their lawyer is going to make this argument and the judge will either dismiss their part of the case or not. The lawsuit, I guess, against the coaches themselves will remain.
So is it just on Hoover High? Because if it's not on the Hoover City Board of Education to vet these guys to make sure that there's no previous issue, so it's all on Hoover High?
I don't know. I mean, the Hoover City Board of Education, the ones who say they don't have to get to take us out of this. So yeah, a question is, is, does Hoover High School then, are they in trouble? Yeah. Are they the ones directly responsible? Somebody is because whoever does the digging into teachers, whoever the, you know, football coaches are, whatever, you know, tennis coach, basketball coach, whatever, surely you're, you're vetting all of these people. Who's responsible for that?
So that's who you probably want to sue. Everybody who's been a boss at one time or another has hired somebody who about six days in, you went, well, that was a mistake. It happens. It happens, you know, because here's the thing that that potential employee is putting on their honeymoon phase, as they say. We're in the honeymoon phase. Everything smiles and I'm great and I'm wonderful. And that's why, you know, you pretty much have to do as much do diligence as you can to look into whatever background you can.
and then you move forward and sometimes, because we asked that when this happened at Hoover High, we were like, surely this is not the first time this is, I've really found it hard to believe that you're ripping off helmets and you're gyrating over players' helmets after they are their heads after, you know, performing badly on the practice field.
that this was the first time that you just lost your mind and went over there and acted this way with players. I was like, I got a hard time believing that seems unlikely. But there's a couple of things that are going on. You know, nowadays there have been people who have sued past employers for giving them bad reviews and won.
saying like, oh, they tarnished me and I wasn't able to get a new job because they were called for you. And they said this and this and this. All those things may have been true. Yeah, but they've ruined my chances. And so it's like now people are like, all we can say is, yes, he did work here. That's the only thing we're willing to say.
How about this? There is a video that shows exactly what he did. That's a little more damning. Sure. That video, if they didn't have that. No, in this particular case, I'm just talking about when you hire somebody, we're at a point now where it's very, very difficult to even get past employers to go like, well, here's why we had to let him go. Or here's why we weren't sad to see him go.
And now to be fair, that also works in reverse. I mean, I got hired by a company that put on their best face and then I got there and it was nothing like they claimed they were. I mean, that's, it does go both ways. Everybody's on the honeymoon period. It's a little bit like dating. You know, you think everything is going smoothly about the fifth or sixth date in. Here come the red flags. You're like, what have I gotten myself into? And then you can marry her and then 24 years later, you're like, okay, I've had enough.
I'm not talking about anybody in particular. I'm just throwing it out there. This is not specific to me, as far as you know. Nine o'clock with Dixon and Vining, talk 995, talk995.com. Steve gets another turn. It's coming up in the next hour. You should be here.
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