Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 409 - Dr. Siri Terjesen, Dr. Andrew Fox

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Oh, hey there, sorry, just singing to myself. Welcome to everyone, you're on Live The Dream Media, 6.01.

If you missed me and Mr. Maxwell doing propositions yesterday, I recommend you go back and watch it.

It's a good show. We hashed out a lot of stuff. Again, I'm still a tentative yes on JTED. I am a hell no on Pima College. The couple of the state ones, there's that one about education funding. We got to talk about that before we get there. Then even Ted, I think Ted said is personally not speaking for the organization, personally not going to use, was not a fan of the Pima County expenditure limit because they said 75, they're going for the 75 percent increase because they don't want to go back to messing with the voters in the future, near future. Wrong answer, Rex and friends. So, if you missed that, I know you guys, it's also Happy Constitution Day.

How's the old girl hold it up? Right? Constantly under assault. Some of our brothers and sisters out there look at the Constitution as some sort of document that you have to work around to get what you need to get, which is sad.

We have Dr. Three guests today. We have Dr. Let's see. So first of all, we got Andrew Fox, who's one of our favorites. He's at 730 Schweikart at 7 And then we got Dr. Siri from Florida Atlantic University. And it has to do with something I've never heard of. It's called, she did a report on proxy advisory firms over shareholder voting when it comes to your stocks, but also how it affects your 401k. More than 100 million Americans retirement savings tied to the market. When major votes are cast inside corporate America, those Americans are actually calling the shots. So anyway, Florida Atlantic University, Dr. Siri Terjesen, and it's Siri just like the Apple thing. So she's making her debut at 6.30, Schweikart at 7, Andrew Fox, Dr. Andrew Fox at 7.30. And Andrew and I are going to cover a bunch of stuff. We have, we do have to talk about one of the big players in this election is going to be Republican enthusiasm on coming out and voting. And of course, you have to be careful on where you get your news on such a thing. But that's, I think that's still going to be a big concern moving into early ballots. How to make every day Constitution Day. We're going to run through that a little bit. So EU says they offered, this lady in her speech talked about offering associate membership to Canada.

And then Trump shoots his mouth off.

And I was talking to Brother Joe yesterday and it really came into my brain what is the number one goal for Donald Trump in this in 2026 And I'm going to let you know that before the show is over. Parents shocked by public school gym class syllabus asking for the high schoolers to share the info on their menstrual cycles. Thank you, public education. TUSD override is now on your Pima County tax bills.

And so, I put it up on Wastebook about the 28,000 kids that empty seats, right? And so, a couple of people put what their extra tax was. So, let's see, Joanne put, she said, I just got my tax statement yesterday and saw the increase for TOSD. This is absolutely abhorrent. So, I asked her what percentage increase, and she said it was a 21% increase over last year. So, you're paying 21% over last year for 28,000 empty seats.

And then Colleen said $700 increase over last year for her house being in TOSD. $700 increase for Jennifer Ekstrom and Ravi Shaw and Natalie Luna-Rhodes, continuing the Grahalva tradition of... See, this is the funny part. It used to be a jobs program and ideological place in relation to their Mexican-American studies and all that other jazz. But what they've done, of course, you can't have the jobs program with no kids. No matter how much you raise the taxes, 28,000 empty seats. So Ted and I were just talking about 45,000 lost jobs in two years. What happens when TOSD's got to cull the herd over there? You're going to have a bunch of lost jobs.

And these are the people that Grahalva's and the Romero's said they're going to take care of and protect. I was talking to a friend of the show coming in and we were talking about the term Mordita, where everyone's on the take somewhere or another with Pima County and the city of Tucson.