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It's time for News & Views with your host, Dale Jackson.

really glad to be here a couple days after Christmas. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Hope everyone's going to have a happy new year. It was a fun Christmas for me. My my child still not quite to the point where she understands. I think that'll come more next year. But a little bit more. I mean, she was able to have fun with last year. She was just a couple of

But this year, you know, the mother-in-law bought her a felt Christmas tree. She loves that. Love playing a typical child. Love playing with the wrapping paper in the boxes. Maybe more than the toys and everything else. But it was a lot of fun. And my wife made cookies and a great Christmas dinner on that day. So I'm blessed. I just have to say, we have a lot to get to.

In a couple of minutes, I have to ask anyone who grew up in the 90s like myself, if you're listening, I have a couple of questions for you. But first, we also have Steve West, who is producing today as well. Steve, I haven't talked to you since Christmas, so how was your Christmas? Actually, it was nice and quiet. We had one visitor and otherwise we were just kind of by ourselves. We went and had our traditional Christmas story, Chinese dinner, and that was it.

Hey, is that really what you do? You got it. My wife is such a huge fan of the movie a Christmas story. I just thought, you know, hey, let's do the best we can. So we've done that now for about the past little more than a decade. Do you get the duck? Do you get like a duck and cut its head off?

No ducks, sorry. We did watch a Christmas story. I I told video two that apparently the actors were not told about the duck. So like when the duck have full duck actually comes out, their reaction is legitimate. That like is real. And then he tops off. He tops off the duck's head. The guy works there. Like apparently they weren't expecting that either. So she like when she like screams like, Oh, it's like a real reaction. I love it.

By the way, last time we talked about Christmas movies, I got to do that again, because apparently Amazon and Amazon Prime, they've created a controversy when it comes to a wonderful life. I don't even understand it. I don't. I think I might have an explanation. It's probably just a simple explanation. But we got to get into that later, because I seriously was like, why even why?

Why would some people think it's like an nefarious thing? I'm not sure. Maybe it is. So we'll talk about that. By the way, Steve, can you remind people if they want to text or call in what the number is? Sure can. 205-545-9950.

And get your questions in right now, because I will end the show with 10 with Gaffey once again. So if you have a question for me about my life, about my Christmas, or about anything, anything about anything. I don't even care. You can even have a math equation up there. I'm not saying I can answer that. But if you want to ask that, I mean, I mean, go ahead. My main question, which we'll get into in the next segment, but my main question for all of the people out there that grew up in the 90s,

Did you grow up watching Boy Me Twirled, Saved by the Bell, and Family Matters? Now, I did. Those were definitely three shows that I grew up watching. Even later on, Steve, did you grow up? I have no idea how old you are, actually. Did you grow up in the 90s at all? More of an 80s kid.

Okay, did you watch any of those shows when you were I watched a couple of episodes to say by the bell. I thought it was pretty campy, but I mean, yes, look at though. Yeah, it can't be. Yes, that that is true. So, okay, if you're a little bit older than me, so you didn't really grow up watching those shows. There's a reason I bring that up. And I wasn't the one who originally brought this up. The vet, the Rama Swami, brought this up in a post on X that is getting all kinds of attention. So I have to react to it because there's a grain of truth to it.

But I do have some problems with what he said. So we'll get to that. But right now, we do have to get to the top things in Alabama. So let me introduce it like Dale does. I think it did pretty good last time. So see if I can remember. It's the often duplicated, never replicated the most critically acclaimed segment of the Dale Jackson Show. Read much better though today because Yaffi is here.

It's the seven things you should be talking about today. The seven things you should be talking about today. Number seven. Alright, let's see here we got Hoover. So it's first gun homicide in over two years. An Anthony Keith Russell.

was 29 has been charged with murder following the Christmas Eve shooting of 35-year-old Brandon Montez McQuay Wing during a struggle over a handgun. Police responded to the scene. The person was found critically injured. He died at UAB Hospital. Russell was arrested on-site investigators to turn the altercation occur while both men were visiting the apartment residence.

An area in Alabama that doesn't usually see something like this, unfortunately did see something like this over the Christmas holiday, just shows that there are still crime issues in the state. This kind of stuff can happen everywhere, of course. Number six.

interesting story here. But a lot of you can't participate while Alabama will not get a cut of the lottery tickets purchased. Many residents, not as many say in Birmingham, maybe some of you.

But those of you who are in the northern part of the state, Huntsville area, you'll be making the truck to all the four border states to buy tickets for tonight's mega millions jackpot. It's a 1.15 billion dollar prize, the fifth largest in the game's history with a cash option of only 516 million. What a ripoff, only 560 million. The odds of winning the grand prize are one in 302.6 million. Now,

There are some people, including Dale, who are, like, against bringing the lottery to Alabama. I'm all for it. I mean, the lottery in Florida has basically paid for my college. A lot of it's hard for me to be against that, it's a number five. All right, U.S. Representative Jerry Carl at a mobile, he voiced strong support for President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to regain control of the Panama Canal.

Now he emphasized its importance for U.S. security and economic interest. He did this in a piece that Yall Hammer News. Carl highlighted that over 70% of the canal's traffic benefits of American ports and stress in strategic value for rapid naval development is Trump and U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville noted. Now he criticized past decisions to transfer control of the canal warned about growing Chinese influence and security threats in the region, including terrorism and mass migration to the Darien Gap,

Now, this is another one of Trump's things where there's a grain of truth to what he says, but of course, he stretches it way bigger than it actually is. We'll talk about that later. Number four. All right, Alabama Secretary of State, Wes Allen announced planes to implement a yet to be designed process in 2025 for removing non-citizens from the voter rolls after the prior program was blocked by a federal judge in October.

Now the court ruled that the original program launched shortly before the 2024 general election violated the National Voter Registration Act by occurring too close to the election, which is not true. By the way, that is not a part of the National Voter Registration Act because those people don't have a right to vote to begin with. So purging them does not conflict with that. That was not true. That judge got it absolutely wrong. We can talk more about that later.

But Allen's office in the Department of Justice have agreed to positive litigation as the state redesigns its voter removal process. The Department of Justice wasting time for us getting Alabama for wanting to get the voter rolls right. They should be thanking Alabama. Number three. Now, while President-elect Donald Trump continues joking about making Canada the 51st state,

Canadian Finance Minister Dominica Bonk and Foreign Minister Melanie Jolly traveled upon Beach, Florida while going to meet with members of Trump's incoming administration. Other discussions with Tom Homan, who as you know is going to be the borders are, focused on border security, combating fentanyl trafficking, mitigating the impact of potential tariffs on Canadian goods,

of these meetings follow Trump's recent tariff threats and ex-station references and claims on the leaders, but Canada is seeking to safeguard its trade relationship with the U.S., which accounts for $2.7 billion in daily cross-border commerce. They should want to be a 51st state. We want to think about that would benefit them, I think, more than it would benefit us in the long run. Honestly, obviously not going to happen, but it's interesting. Number two.

Yes, as Birmingham prepares to welcome 2025 with a historic number of homicides, but a decrease in reported.

by the way, purported violent crime in the rearview mirror. Authorities warn against celebratory gunfire. We hear this every year, emphasizing its dangers and that it's illegal. And this was one of the reasons I told people not to just shoot at drones in the sky with that whole drone issue happening, which by the way, we still haven't got an 8-hour on that. But I was like, don't just shoot them in the sky because if you shoot up, it's going to come down. This is what happens when you have the celebratory gunfire as well.

So just please don't do it. Why is this? We are not a third world country. Why are we shooting a bunch of firearms, shooting bunch of bullets into the sky to celebrate? Do you like a normal American and get fireworks for crying out loud? What is this? And now time for the number one thing you should be talking about today. All right, yes. President-elect Donald Trump's doge team and the MAGA base

Family are disagreeing over highly skilled immigration. Because of comments by Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Donald Trump himself. Now Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other tech leaders advocate for boosting the number of skilled immigrants to address engineering shortages and maintain U.S. competitiveness, but some in Trump's base are accusing tech billionaires of self-interest. Now GOP lawmakers, including U.S. Representative Jay Overnolte,

Our signaling openness to reform, such as granting green cards to STEM PhD graduates, setting the things for potential policy shifts in the upcoming administration. So we're going to talk about this and Vivek, Rama Swami's post that reference boy meets world instinct by the bell and family matters. It's kind of related to all of this.

And this is one of those things. Well, again, I mean, there's a few of stories like this today. It's kind of the theme today where there's a grain of truth to what people are saying. But I'll give you the breakdown of everything when it comes to it's a good idea to expand each one B one visas.

There's a pretty good argument why we should not expand it and limit it to specific areas. But also there's a debate on why American citizens are not more of us are not becoming like engineers and so forth.

So we'll talk about that as well. We'll take your calls and texts. Don't forget to get your texting now because we will end the show with 10 with Yaffee. We have much more to get to. I hope you stay with us. I am Yaffee, Alabama's voice of reason. Alabama's most listened to Phil and host, the honor for Dale Jackson on News and Views. You're listening to News and Views with Dale Jackson.

All right. Back here on news and views, not with Dale Jackson is on vacation, but would be yaffy. Oh, yeah. Just a quick reminder. Once again, follow me on X at yaffy Y F F E E. Like the yaffy Facebook page as well. Like I said, Y A F F E E. So yeah, let's show our hands, everybody. Show of hands. If you grew up in the 90s, that was a great thing to do on radio. But did you watch Boy Meets World?

say by the bell or family matters. And do you think watching those shows have a negative effect on your lives? Now I think

Actually, those shows had mostly positive effects on my lives compared to what we watch now. You know, compare, say, family matters with two and a half men, which I think two and a half men is funny, but you want to talk about difference in sitcoms. What is better for children to watch? Or whatever is on the Disney Channel these days? What do you think is better? But the reason I bring this up, I didn't think,

This would be a topic for the end of the year, but here we are. Vivek Ramaswamy, who ran for president, was, now is going to be a part of Trump's Doge Committee. I guess you want to call it a committee or agency or whatever. He said the reason, this is, by the way, I want to back up a little bit. Trump has said that Trump has said that he is willing to give people green cards

If they graduate from a university, a college, some kind of post grade school, if they graduate from that in the United States, he wants to keep them here and give them a green card if they graduate. So instead of them becoming engineers in China or something after they graduate from a good school here, they stay here.

This has caused some controversy because once again, people think here that if you do that, those green card holders are going to take American jobs. Now, there is some truth to that. So when I was in Orlando as a producer on the morning show, there was a big issue in Orlando where Disney World had a bunch of tech engineers and all of a sudden through H1B1 visas that were expanded,

They brought in a bunch of new people to work there for Tipper, of course, through that visa program. And the engineers, Native born American citizens who were working every years, had to train the people, had to train the people that were going to replace them. And those people were all immigrants on those visas.

So obviously that doesn't seem right because the whole point of having a visa program, the whole point of immigration is that eventually it will benefit us. It's not a bad immigration policy to look at immigration through the lens of okay, what is best for our country?

The United States immigration policy doesn't exist just for the sake of other people around the world. It first and foremost exists for the benefit of us of the American people. I believe there is some benefit to having immigrants, of course. Immigrants have done great things in this country over many different generations. But if it becomes and used as a cultural against American workers and against

American values and principles, then yes, there is a problem there, I think. So there was a guy by the name of Michael Emons, who I was friends with in Orlando through all this. He used to listen to the show there. And he talked about big story at the time. How when Bob, well, I'm trying to remember

who was the CEO of Disney at the time. But this was a few years ago. And Disney forced them, ordered, if they wanted their severance or whatever, ordered employees at Disney World to train those who were going to replace them. And those who were going to replace them, of course, were brought in because they were a cheaper labor and they were brought in on H1B1 visas. So it wasn't enough that they were losing their job.

to immigrants using this program, but they had to train the people that were going to replace them for cheaper. So obviously, if we're going to do some kind of program where we give people green cards, if they're on college degree, if they get college degrees or whatever, it has to be a little bit more specific, a little bit more detailed,

a little bit more targeted than just giving every immigrant who gets some kind of college education a green card. Because there are a lot of different colleges and universities out there. It's not necessarily hard to get a college degree if you want one. It depends where you go. Are you going to some random online school? Or are you going to a top level university?

What are you getting your degree in? Will that degree help you get a job in the future? Will that job help American people, the American economy, and so forth? So it has to be a little bit more targeted than just saying, well, if you get a degree, you're here. And Trump didn't make it targeted, but this is usually how it works with President Trump. He says a broad, bold statement and eventually it's narrowed down to a specific policy that will actually help the American people, agreeing of truth.

in the end. So we'll talk more about that and why about appointing for family matters. Next, of course, you're listening to news and views, these yappy, Alabama's voice of reason filling in back in a moment.

Well, I mean, the third segment, Dale, is not kidding when he calls it the fastest hour in radio. Still pretty fast, even when I'm here. I'm Yachty, Alabama is the most listening to Bill and Host. You can usually hear me in Huntsville 9 to 11 a.m. on WVNN. Of course, you can also listen to me in Chattanooga as well on WGOW there from 1 to 3 p.m. Eastern time.

So just, uh, so just all over the place. What you really want to do is follow me on social media, like the Yaffee Facebook page, follow me on X at Yaffee. And yes, I'll remind you how to spell it. Y-A-F-F-E-E, because people still get that wrong. I know I will actually made it in this business when people get that name right. Um, by the way, if you want to text in your question for 10 with him, go ahead and do that. By the way, Steve, what is the number again for people?

All right, thanks, man. I appreciate it. So texting any question, any question you want, even if it's a boy meets world question. So we're going to talk about that in a moment. Feel free. Texting your boy meets world question. I'm totally for that. So with that, Rama Swami, we're just talking about how Trump wants to expand green cards for people that graduate college in the United States so they don't just build businesses overseas. They do it here.

which is an idea that has a grain of truth, but as I said, probably needs to be more targeted. So we don't just have an influx of people going to random schools here and getting degrees that really don't help our economy or anything, but they get a degree and then they're able to stay. That could be a problem. But a lot of this came up because there seems to be a shortage of American engineers and tech workers and so forth. So we want to get them from overseas.

And Vivek Ramaswami, he posted this on X and said about why we can't seem to recruit enough engineers and so forth in this country.

He said, the reason top tech companies often hire foreign born and first generation engineers over Native Americans and not like these needs of native born Americans, not like Indians. He said, isn't because of an innate American IQ deficit, which is a lazy and wrong explanation. He said, the key part of it comes down to the C word culture.

And he thought I was going to say the other keyword culture is what he needs. He continues on. He says, tough questions to man, tough answers. And if we're really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the truth. He's big on truth. I guess he has a podcast called Truth and Everything Else on Truth Social, obviously. He says, our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long. He says, at least it's the 90s and likely longer.

So that doesn't start in college. It starts young. Now, I want to stop right there real quick. There is a grain of truth to that. We do sometimes interculture venerate mediocrity. Because under culture right now, we care more about authenticity than achievement. We care more about identity than ideas. DEI is a part of this and everything else. So I think there's a grain of truth with all the greatest of America.

There is an issue in our culture in this way. But I think he misses what's causing that problem. I'll get to that in a moment. But he says, a culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineers. He says, the culture that venerates Corey from Boy Meets World, or Zack and Slater over Screech and Saved by the Bell, or Stefan over Steve Erkel in Family Matters,

will not produce the best engineers now i have to say i feel like he didn't actually watch these shows if this is what he's thinking and i'll explain what i mean by that it is true that some of these shows they're looking for the average childhood because they want that show to relate to the average child

So there is a little bit of that where, you know, you have the nerd culture and the nerds are made fun of and everything else. You remember the movie Revenge of the Nerds and all of that stuff. But from what I remember a boy meets world, yes, the main character Corey was kind of average. His best friend was kind of a screw up. But his girlfriend who ends up marrying in the show is DePenga, who was like a straight A student.

And the main mentor of the show is Dr. Feeney, or Mr. Feeney, I guess, not Dr. Feeney, Mr. Feeney, the teacher who would teach them lessons and tell them to be better and talk about the future. So I don't remember watching that show and seeing it as a show that really venerated mediocrity. That show was talking about kids who maybe saw themselves as average, but then had mentors who would try to build them up and do better. And there were even some of the main characters in the show who were. Well, so that's how I was like,

It's just a weird oversimplification. And if family matters as well, if you remember how that show went, Steve Erkel, we all know that character, but Stephon was kind of his alter ego that he could change himself to, and it was kind of the cool one, I guess. But the whole point of that show was actually you liked Steve Erkel more, because the other one was kind of fake.

So, like, I'm like, did you actually watch these shows? I mean, if you're going to complain about TV, there's lots of TV we can complain about now that kids watch. And it's a lot of stupid what this propaganda. But if we're going to have to point me to world and family matters, these are actually good family shows. Those are the kind of shows we probably should want to bring back, actually. I know it's a weird thing for me to complain about, but I'm like, if somebody were watching these shows, I don't think this is the issue.

Now he says, we need to watch more movies like whiplash, fewer reruns of friends, more math tutoring, fewer sleepovers, more weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons, more books, less TV. Now I will say more books, less TV is absolutely right. I will not deny that that's true and less screen time in general. He says more creating less chilling. He's right about that, more extracurricular, less hanging out of the mall.

So I want to say there is one thing that he really doesn't touch on here that I think is a real problem. If he's saying there isn't enough focus on STEM programs in this country, he hasn't been paying attention. In fact, one of the things that has happened in public education is a complete obsession with pushing people to code. Kids, oh, you need to learn to code. You need STEM.

And I don't have a problem necessary with STEM programs. But the real reason why kids are maybe suffering in mediocrity is not the focus, the lack of focus on STEM and science and engineering and all of that. There is an over focus on that.

And the real problem that I think happens, and maybe you guys agree with the real problem that I think happens to a lot of young people in this country, is the lack of focus on critical thinking, on creativity, on innovation,

You know, you could talk about, oh, kids need to have more math tutoring. There actually is an argument that what kids really need, at least through elementary school and maybe even middle school, is more recess. It talks about this in a book, The Ancient Generation by Jonathan Heit as well. I want people to read that book. But the fact is, what we really need if we want kids to do better and not just suffer in mediocrity, we do need more extracurriculars.

But not STEM extracurriculars. What we need is stop cutting band, stop cutting choir, stop cutting art, stop cutting recess, stop cutting PE, those kinds of things. And we need to teach more American history and American civics and economics. When it comes to the curriculum,

And it needs to be focused not on memorization, wrote memorization, or even on stem or math, which I'm not saying we need to get rid of that, but it needs to focus on critical thinking, which is why civics needs to be taught American civics, American government. In Florida, anyway, you know, I was in high school, you got one semester throughout high school of American government and one semester of economics. And that was senior year, junior year, I believe.

I think there should be more of that. So this idea that we need to have be more hyper focus on STEM, does that show that there is too much of a hyper focus on STEM, too much of a obsession on STEM, and let's focus on creativity, which can come through, yes, play it, recess, which can come through, yes, band practice, which can come through, yes, being on a team, a sports team. So that's where I believe Vivek Ramaswami is off here.

that yes, there are problems in American culture. I talk about them all the time. I don't think the problems come from shows like family matters. In fact, I think the problems today are the lack of shows like family matters, that teach family values, that teach

being good that he's going to church you know you don't see families go to church and shows anymore like they did a happy in the nineties yes bills on the phone he'd like to talk with you about this if you don't mind oh okay great yes i i was hoping we get a call actually if anyone wants to call and they can you want to text them as well for ten with him we can as well a bill you are news and views on the happy phone for deal go ahead bill i think and and and just to cut to the church i think that that that the goal should be and it's just not going to be a turn on the light switch kind of thing

We need to focus on building a more well-rounded individual. I mean, I'm coming up on 75 years old. I went to college to get an education. I didn't finish. That was because of my own choices and most of them were poor. But I took classical literature. I took math and science. I took languages and all sorts of things and exposed myself

to all of those disciplines. I think part of what the Parliament is now is there's too many show up trophies, participation trophies, that kind of thing going on and not enough focus on allowing people to accept, allowing young children to accept responsibility for whatever they're doing. I was an assistant coach for a soccer team in Springfield, Virginia and

We had a guy on the team, a young man on the team, who had several and assorted disabilities. And the coach of the team, since everybody had to play by the rules of the league, he wanted to hide him over in a corner where he couldn't do any damage and play around it. And my insistence was, look, give him a job, tell him how to do it, turn him onto the field, and let him play.

And by golly, after a while, he actually made plays during the course of the game that gave him a sense of success and contributed to the whole team. And we have to let kids fall down and get bruised and fall down and get cut and fall down and get made fun of within reason and still not.

strong, young people who are who are acclimated to the world, they're going to matriculate into it. Because you never, you'll never get anywhere in this place as good as you might be by being in baby and by being ill equipped. Bill, I think that's well met. Yeah, and that's right. That's right. I depart from

I don't think we need to focus on importing STEM people. I think we need to find people whose talent and gift is STEM and nurture them and challenge them.

Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's saying we need to import more of them. It says we need, like you said, to nurture people here. I just think it's too focused on them and not focus on some of the other stuff, which could lead to better STEM careers. I mean, there are people right now who could have met and I'm one of them. If I had learned how to weld when I was in college,

I would be a lot farther ahead right now than I am. That's another thing that needs to come back. Woodshop and warning that, you know, trade stuff, which used to be a part of school and they've taken it out because well, we have to teach them to code. And it's like there are there are practicalities. And Bill, I really appreciate your call. Thank you so much for your call. I think it's I think it's very well said. But there are practicalities.

to the kind of things. But you had mentioned one thing you said, their individual responsibility, they have to be taught that they are going to fail, but they get back up if they fail, allowed to fail, allowed to get hurt sometimes.

So I think by the way, there's a few books I would encourage everyone to read that talks about this problem. Two, where Jonathan Heit is the author. One, the coddling of the American mind, which is great, talks about this. The inks is generation, his newest book, Jonathan Heit. I would also encourage people to read The Vanishing American Adult by former Senator Ben Sasse, talks a lot about these issues. And I think it really hits the head of the nail there, the nail on the head there.

If you want to weigh in, you can. We got 10 with Yaffee coming up next. And I realize I never got to the Amazon story. So I'll just squeeze that in as well. We'll be back in a moment on News 8 News.

The final segment of music views. This is yeah, if you fill in it for Dale Jackson, fastest hour in radio. Already almost over and I realized I didn't get a chance to talk about this yet and Steve. Steve West is producing today. Stevie, you had heard. You'd heard about this story about Amazon.

I did. I was reading about it. Yeah. So let's give people the details. We've all seen it a wonderful life. I mean, I'm sure you've seen it many times. Steve was. I don't know what your thoughts are on. Well, absolutely. Watch it just about every year. Yeah. Now I hear there's it. I usually watch it in black and white. Have you ever seen it in color? I have not seen it in color. Try to watch it when you're in color. It just looks weird.

Because he got so used to the black and white, I guess. This is what it is. Yeah, it just looks more natural. You can kind of tell, you know, that it's all filled in. Yeah. And it just somehow just doesn't look right. Yeah. I think a lot of people probably agree with that. But I still want to watch it and go just to see. But apparently Amazon, they put up the full version. They put up the colorized version. And then they have a third, a bridge diversion.

And I, I can't for the life of me figure out why they thought this was a good idea. If there was some kind of nefarious intent here, or if it was just like an intern who worked there was in charge of a bridging some things and they never seen the movie before. So they're like, Oh, we'll just got to you. Like what? I mean, people you could tell me if you want, but we all know that the main part of the story

is when George, he goes for a hard time. It's during the Great Depression. He works at a bank. He didn't originally want to work at the bank and, you know, they're losing all this money because the rush on the bank and all that. And he threatens to kill himself. And he says, you know, life maybe would be better if I were never born. And then, of course, he meets who ends up being his guardian angel who's trying to get his wings.

And he shows him, okay, this is what your life would be. This is what the world would be like with this, what this is what this community would be like if you were never born.

And he realizes, even though he has struggled, there are a lot of things that he has a positive impact on people's lives and that the world is better with him in it. And if he doesn't realize it, you know, because of the struggles, the immediate struggles, the immediate setbacks, that if you look at the big picture, he has done a lot of good things for his community and his community ends up helping him out. Yeah, exactly. So if you're wanting to abridge that,

What would you take out? I would think it would not be the part.

where they show him what the world would be like without him. That's the main point of the story. Yeah, the whole point of the story is, you know, what would what would life be like? Not if you killed yourself, which is obviously bad enough. But what would life be like if you were never born? Because how many people we touch and all that kind of stuff? I just I don't understand why you would cut that. It's a massive part of the story and it makes almost makes no sense if you cut that.

I mean, look at any time this movie's been parodied or any time it's been copied in other TV shows or references.

That's the part they referenced. Like that is the part. So I have to ask you, Steve, you know, you and I are both are like, I don't understand it. Do you have an explanation? Like if you had to give an explanation why they would do this, what? What is it? What's the explanation here? Somebody getting but hurt over the idea that somebody wishing that they didn't exist. I don't know.

Well, and you know, I thought sometimes people are uncomfortable mentioning suicide in certain references, which is totally understandable. But they didn't take that part out. No, they didn't. Like, it would be one thing if they took out the part where he like threatens to kill himself and he says, I just wish I was never born. And then they still had what wife would be like, but they didn't take that part out. They kept that part in.

and took out the part where we've been talking about. So you actually think maybe whoever did this, whoever worked for Amazon, and Amazon has been reached out for comment by several news outlets and they haven't responded yet. I'm curious to see what the response is going to be. That employee got fired.

hopefully it did is that true or no i don't know i'm thinking that's probably what they're preparing yeah i i think so too i want to make sure i didn't miss any news when i looked at they didn't respond yet so you but you think it was actually done on purpose by whoever did this like they actually had a reason beyond just

yeah i will just because i mean here's the thing they're a streaming service so you're not editing for time you're definitely if you're editing you're editing for content why are you editing out any of the content you know do what Disney does which is over the tops over the top as well but if you find something to be in the least way uncomfortable put some sort of a disclaimer at the beginning of the movie and saying hey this deals with

death and, you know, stuff like that, but don't take it out. You don't need to. Again, you're a streaming service. Let the whole thing run, and if you feel like there needs to be a warning at the front, do that. Yeah, apparently they do have the full version still up as well, but this is the abridge. I don't know. I'm starting to think it's just a young woken turn who doesn't know anything and probably never actually watch a movie you understood it in.

It's crazy. I just got baffled by it. This has been Yapun filming it for Dale Johnson on the news and views. Appreciate you all me on social media and I'll catch you guys next time.

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