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Biden's Cancer, Teacher Standards, and UFO Encounters: Monday Morning Musings
What aren't they telling us? That's the question at the heart of this week's episode as we dive into President Biden's troubling cancer diagnosis. The news of his aggressive Stage 4 cancer leaves us wondering: how long has the administration known? While extending compassion to anyone facing such a diagnosis, we can't help but question the timing and transparency surrounding this revelation.
The conversation shifts to education policy in New York City, where a controversial mandate for smaller class sizes is potentially forcing schools to lower their hiring standards. Is this creating a dangerous situation for students? We examine the reasoning behind this decision and its potential consequences, challenging the notion that lower standards automatically lead to hiring "pervy teachers" as some headlines suggest.
Science meets fast food as we explore the viral McDonald's migraine hack that's taking social media by storm. A medical professional breaks down why a large Coke and fries might actually work to relieve headache pain – caffeine acts as a vasoconstrictor, sodium creates an osmotic shift, and sugar provides analgesic effects. But does it have to be McDonald's specifically? And why do so many people swear by different remedies for hangovers?
Perhaps most concerning are reports of UFOs striking military aircraft in Arizona. When an unidentified object damaged the canopy of a $63 million F-16 fighter jet in January 2023, it raised serious questions about national security. With the FAA documenting 757 such reports in a single year, and evidence suggesting drug cartels may be using drone technology to transport narcotics, we're left wondering what's really happening in our skies.
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Hello, good morning, happy Monday. Okay. Well, we have some big wigs coming into work today, so I gotta be on my best behavior and wear my work attire. Normally I wear tennis shoes, but they sent out an email on Friday. No tennis shoes so, but I brought them with me for when they leave.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's see. What do we have going on today on the X-File and in the news. Well, obviously, joe Biden cancer and apparently it's already in like stage four is well advanced. It's an aggressive, I don't know. But my question and God bless, you know we don't wish anybody, we don't wish our worst enemies, to have this, really, or you know, this is not good. But my question is how long did they know? How long did he have it? How long did they know had he been having treatments for it? And it's just, the treatments perhaps have not been working. I have questions about this and I'm not blaming him for if he's had it for a while and people are covering it up. That's what I think. I think people have covered it up Jill Biden and her, and just the. It's just not good. All right, we need to move on, because I don't want to say anything else about it. Again, I don't wish that on anybody. All right, we need to move on, because I don't want to say anything else about it. Again, I don't wish that on anybody. All right, expect more perv teacher stories.
Speaker 1:As NYC class size mandate lowers hiring standard. Okay, why do you have to lower the standard to hire more teachers? That's the question right there. You don't have to lower the standards to hire. Maybe there's just not enough qualified teachers out there to hire, or you don't want to, I don't know, with the pays, not, I don't know. I mean, and who really wants to work in new york right now anyway? Um, so what seems a recent avalanche of perv teachers news reminds us of another reason to repeal the state's New York City only smaller class sizes mandate it all, but guarantees more sickos in the classroom. I guess they want to make the classroom smaller, therefore needing to hire more teachers, therefore lowering the standards, because they can't find the good teachers. So they have to lower the standards, which means they're going to hire pervy teachers. This is nonsense. You don't have to hire pervy teachers if you lower the standards. No, that's not what that means. Okay, you can go. Finish reading that.
Speaker 1:I want to get to the story. Oh, didn't mean to do that. All right, delete. Okay, I want to get to the story that Mr Sean sent me. Now people say, okay, here's the story he sent me.
Speaker 1:People swear by this mcdonald's migraine hack order to relieve their pain. It's immediately cured and what it is, I think, is a coke or a diet coke or something like that, and some fries. Um, and they people say they swear by it to help with the migraines. Let's see, a lot of people in the comments are talking about hangovers, though people on tiktok are, of course, well t all right, so it must be true are claiming that a specific McDonald's order is helping cure their migraines. The migraine meal is a large Coke drink and an order of large fries. You know, you can get large Coke and large fries at Arby's and Burger King. It doesn't have to be specific to McDonald's. You know that, right, okay?
Speaker 1:Well, mr Sean's sent this to me and here is his analogy. I want to read this to you and comment as I read it. So this is for Mr Sean's Interesting article for the Americanist podcast. Without boring you with my scientific and medical jargon, I can say in my professional opinion that this makes sense, and here's why he explains it as best he can. I guess he tried to dumb it down for me, but it needs to be dumbed down further.
Speaker 1:Mr Johns, a headache results from vasodilation, whatever that means in a closed compartment. Caffeine is a vasoconstrictor. I don't know what that means. Sodium will cause an osmotic shift. Don't know what that means Decreasing blood volume and pressure in the cerebrovascular. Don't know what that is. Sugar has been theorized to have an analgesic I guess it's a numbing effect maybe and we used it for painful procedures in the NICU. Well, there you go, there you have it. That's why it works. So, mike, but a lot of people in the in the comments of that story were talking about not migraines but hangovers, and I think that's a little bit different. Right, and whenever I was drinking the next day my hangover, I didn't crave Coke and fries, I crave chocolate milk. Can you explain that, mr sean's? Okay, we need to move on to the next story that I have here. That's a great story, though, and thank you for your uh, your contribution to explaining why the coke and sodium and sugar help ease off pain in the head. That's a good one, okay.
Speaker 1:Ufo striking fighter jet is among swarm of mystery objects spotted near US military sites in Arizona, all right, so let's see. Let's see A UFO Now. These are probably drones they're talking about, so don't get all excited. Are probably drones they're talking about, so don't get all excited a ufo that struck and damaged a us fighter jet? It's just one of a swarm of mystery objects buzzing around air force training ranges in arizona. I wonder if this is the chinese spy drones? Probably. And remember all the drones over new jersey? Remember that, all right, one of the unidentified flying objects hit the clear bubble. Remember all the drones over New Jersey. Remember that Mm-hmm?
Speaker 1:All right, one of the unidentified flying objects hit the clear bubble canopy over the head of a pilot in a $63 million F-16 Viper jet in January of 2023, two years ago damaging it and temporarily grounding the plane, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Grounding the plane. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the military jet was struck midair by an orange-white UAS or uncrewed aerial system. The FAA documented a document said the term refers to drones. Three more UAS encounters were flagged A day later, the outlet reported.
Speaker 1:What I can tell you is that there has been a lot of activity, a lot of people reporting a lot of things out of Arizona, particularly on the border with Mexico. Former Pentagon investigator Louis Elizondo told News Nation. The FAA told the Post in a statement that the agency documents an unidentified aerial phenomenal UAP sightings whenever a pilot reports one to an air traffic control facility. Okay, I'm going to get to the part where there are the government files. Oh, the government filed $770. I'm sorry, 757 such reports between May, june 2023 and June 2024. I know I said that wrong, but all right. So the small objects spotted. Okay, here we go. This is the part I wanted to get to. The small, unidentified objects spotted in Arizona are known to fly in groups of up to eight and are sometimes characterized as drones. Sometimes characterized as drones according to the war zone which noted the incidents took place at high altitudes in and near military air combat training.
Speaker 1:Why do you think they're doing this, who do you think it is and why? The cartel has used this technology, which is difficult to track, to move up to 10 kilograms of drugs at a time. Oh, so now they're using drones to move drugs? Holy crap, Wow, okay. Well, we need to move on to the question of the day, and my question of the day is going to be related to what Mr Shons was talking about. Now I'm sure some of you used to drink in your younger days and I'm sure we've all experienced hangovers. So my question of the day was what was your remedy for your hangover? Was it more drinking the hair of the dog? Was it a Coke and french fries? Was it just rest and water? Was it an ice cold compress on your head? Was it Mine? Was chocolate milk. I mean, I could chug. I know it sounds weird, but I could chug some chocolate milk and be just fine the day after. Okay, that's it. It's short and sweet. Gotta go. Thanks for listening. Love y'all Bye.
