Ian Prior, IPOD Comeback?, Commander Kirk Lippold, Cardi B

now on 105.9 FM and streaming worldwide on the WMAL app O'Connor and company Hey now it is 707 it's O'Connor and company on this Friday you made it through a really quite a week I mean you know just when you start your week coming off of Easter Sunday thinking that we're about to enter a nuclear Armageddon in the Middle East we never thought that we've actually paid attention while Trump has been president so we were we we were running around with our hair up fire still it was quite a news cycle and continues to be here in your nation's capital thanks for letting us be part of your morning routine coming up in 30 minutes Commander Kirk Leopold he was the commanding officer of the USS Cole that was the terror attack in October of 2000 in the Persian Gulf look at his perspective on the Iranian situation 805 brings us Mike Litteris from the National Park Service and then at 835 Anna Gerritelli from the Washington Examiner new book about the assault she had to endure as a victim here in Washington it's Larry O'Connor with Patrice on Wulka good morning Patrice good morning Larry happy Friday everybody she's got her energy back good yes all right joining us right now friend of this program and friend of parents and the Constitution everywhere Ian prior American First Legal senior advisor I said earlier you know if you're listening but if you're responsible for a local school system and you get a letter from Ian prior to America First Legal well you better you better either spend all your tax dollars on lawyering up and fighting a losing battle or you settle and you work out the problem and so I that's why I appreciate your activism and your ability to get things done and now your sites are set on Montgomery County Maryland yeah well I really hope that's the case I hope they they see our letters and they realize that they've got some lowering up to do or some changing to do yeah look Montgomery County Public Schools let's back up a little bit this was the school system that decided to get rid of opt-outs for parents that didn't want their kids you know read LGBTQ plus whatever the new acronym from Canada is story time and that went all the way to the Supreme Court last year in the Supreme Court in Mahmood versus Taylor and MCPS you know issued a decision probably the biggest parental rights decision in decades and here we are with Montgomery County Public Schools despite getting smacked down by the Supreme Court they still will not tell parents if their kids you know want to John wants to become Judy they hide it from parents they keep separate records and and we see that as a violation of the Constitution under the Supreme Court's recent mirror belly decision but also a violation of FERPA because they are there essentially keeping this information out of records that parents have a right to see under FERPA so we requested the Department of Justice investigate the constitutional violations and the Office of Privacy at the Department of Education investigate the FERPA violations so you're specifically centering on this complaint the MCPS is 2025 2026 quote gender identity in Montgomery County's public schools unquote handbook you're saying that they have instituted in writing a handbook for teachers and educators to utilize creating kind of this system of you know how do you hide from parents this trend gender transitioning is it just the handbook or is it a larger culture around concealing this kind of information from parents you know I mean the handbook is really just putting the policy and the regulations into place in a nice easy location for students to be able to read and look Montgomery County Public Schools is far from the only one that does this we've seen this in Fairfax County Public Schools we've seen this in Loudoun County Public Schools I mean we have we call these mirror belly letters after the the mirror belly versus bond case but we're getting ready to churn these out you know weekly on schools throughout America because we're seeing it's and it's the exact same language too which tells me that you know this is not some oh you know this is a really good policy that we got from our community no this is top down this is from outside organizations that is pushing this on our local school systems that is what is amazing is that these these various local school systems all have the the same handbooks the same policies the same procedures again in mcps is the case it's the gender identity in Montgomery County Public Schools handbook and it sure seems like a detailed plan for teachers administrators counselors government bureaucrats in the school system to establish this this policy facilitating students to do these gender transitions behind their parents back and conceal it from their parents so for instance in what does this book say if a parent calls up a teacher in mcps and says listen my my child suddenly is acting differently and i'm just wondering if you've noticed anything in in school that i should know about what is a teacher instructed to do at that point because you would think the teacher should be honest with the parent who is obviously caring and wanting to know what's best for their kid well according mcps policy it depends on what the kid wants right i mean if they go to the students say well you know are your parents supportive of this no and i don't think my parents are going to be supportive of this all right then they'll just lie to the parents i mean it's ridiculous what they try and do is they try and say you know oh a parent you know you might it might be abusive or you know you might might not be supportive of this okay well look if you call a parent and say guess what junior got three f this semester i don't think the parent's going to be very happy right and maybe some of these lefties could say well you know that parent took away their phone and wouldn't allow the kid to you know go out and socialize with friends that's cruel and unusual punishment so keep those grades a secret from the red or or hey i don't know if they're going to be happy you know the child didn't show unexcused absences for four days uh and you have no idea where the kid was well don't tell the parents because they'll be real strict about it i mean where does this end it's ridiculous they would never do that but they do it here with regard to something pretty sensitive and pretty important at child's gender identity or sex change so so have you heard from Montgomery county schools on this yet Ian well the only thing we saw which i thought was really interesting and some of the articles that covered it said that Montgomery county public schools said we don't comment on ongoing litigation well this isn't exactly ongoing litigation right yeah we just sent a letter well maybe they know what's going to be yeah or is there something we don't know about you know i mean are they already under investigation or or you know i don't know where this with the status of the mom mood case is i know that there was a settlement but it may not be final and we may not have all the terms of the the settlement so maybe that's part of it like who knows it's just it struck me as really odd they said we don't talk about pending litigation when this particular issue is not currently in litigation so what is the a good outcome here i mean it is a settlement good enough you know what would you like to really see in the ideal and then what would you settle for well it would this would actually be an action to the extent litigation commenced from the department of justice so so not not any individual parent of course parents could sue certainly under mirror belly that that they have the ability to do that but i think what what we want to see is these policies scrapped right where where parents have to be informed similar to what what happened in mirror belly where there's an injunction and schools do not have the right to keep these kind of secrets from the parents and they will post something on their website explaining specifically what parents rights are in these circumstances i mean that's that's what we're after i think that's what you know to the extent the justice department acted that's what they'd be after as well in the meantime uh you know if i if i were a montgomery county parent with a child in mcps and i was listening to this conversation right now um frankly i'd be happy that you're doing this at america first legal but i also wouldn't wait for this to play out i would want to pick up the phone right now and confront teachers and principals at my kid's school to find out what's going on get do you recommend they do that is there is there a role for parents to be proactive now yeah i do and we have on our website af legal dot org we have opt out letters that that are based specifically designed for this purpose post mirror belly where it says look we need to be informed and you know if you don't respond to us and tell us okay we're going to take that as a no and then of course the next step would be to reach out to us at af legal and america first legal and you know we'll take action if necessary in prior america first legal changing the world one school system at a time about my hunch though is you you win a few of these uh in a row as you have uh and i think the rest will all sort of fall into place and they're going to get the message i would hope ian thank you for doing this as always thanks i like seven fifteen next role with vernon davis i'm your host vernon davis okay y'all thank you thank you that's enough today we have each of wiles through my example on the field off the field during game day in practice that was one way that i led because they didn't let the success next role isn't about what's next it's about why they do it my man bobby bones like i've had a lot of stuff happen bad and good and so i don't have any fear of mixing it up that's powerful man next role with vernon davis follow and listen on your favorite platform it's been four years since apple killed off one of the most groundbreaking innovations that company ever brought to the world and that's saying something the ipod they basically said but we don't need to make ipods anymore because iphone's basically act as ipods and we'd much rather people buy that and so they killed it off but here's what's interesting according to reports second hand sales are surging right now because young people are interested first of all in the retro looks i love that it's a retro look it's from 2005 people that's not retro we actually remember a time before apple products could be put in your pocket or your purse we remember that you know what's weird to think about you know it's weird to think about when um when happy days came on the air it probably 1977 let's say 1978 you know and it was this nostalgic look back at the 50s right yes the 50s was only 20 years before happy days was on the air and it seemed like two different worlds the america in the 50s and america in the late 70s now if you think about it you know i just said it was only you know 2005 that's 20 years ago 2005 2006 is to us right now what the 50s were to kids in the late 70s insanity anyway uh they're loving the retro look and the retro stylings of the old you know monochrome lcd and the little wheel to choose your things it's not a touch screen it's none of that stuff there's also another thing about it you can listen to music you control what's there you downloaded it's not like an automatic spotify playlist that just keeps re-upping and pushing music at you or podcasts or whatever you control it by uploading it to the device or downloading it to the device what have you and then you unplug and you're not connected through through through a cellular connection or through a wi-fi connection it's just a standalone little dumb device that has everything you need to listen to and then you're you're sort of immersed in that and there's something so peaceful no alerts no no text messages no you know beings from your social media it's just what you want to listen to and you can escape i like that i i like it so i'm reading on courts which is a popular kind of tech uh new you know website news website talking about the reasons why it's making a comeback and they do mention as you said it's the nostalgia uh it's the i the desire for to really unplug and then interestingly they talked about the link between younger users of technology and older younger users so if i'm a millennial i i guess i'm not young anymore but the gen z's and the gen alphas like my kids they have no frame of reference for when technology was simply just one device for one specific purpose single purpose devices right where you had your phone it was separate from your ipod or whatever music tool that you use i can go really retro and talk about the walkman who remembers a yellow sony's walkman everybody wanted it absolutely right so you and then you had your your uh your um oh gosh it was a palm pilot for when you wanted to take notes uh and so this is a generation the younger people who are are very interested they're intrigued about having multiple devices for different uses yeah whereas we are now we embrace the idea of oh man i don't need three four five different things it's all in one one one handheld device so i mean there are lots of different reasons i think that's drawing drawing this um driving this forward but i don't think it i think it's going to be something that really does make a comeback i i think it'd be a great idea i i tend to not throw out my electronics and my electronic devices i don't know why i just i can't let go you don't trade them in or sell them on ebay rarely i so i need to go and look i because i had uh i i'm pretty sure i didn't keep my ipod nano but i had i had a shuffle for a long time because you know i like going on cruise ships as you know yes and and i don't and one of the reasons i do is because it's easier to embrace deconnecting you know because it's not cheap to get wi-fi on a ship and all that and i and i wanted this connect so for working out or just chilling on the deck i would bring my little ipod shuffle with my music and my podcast but i was having trouble i mean these days laptops don't even have usb ports to be able to plug the dang thing into and it's gonna you had to keep that old like 30 pin little fat little cable that you would plug it into but that shuffle boy we put a lot of miles on together that shuffle in me and i loved that thing they were so elegant the designs and they were very simple um i think i heard the question do you have a walkman do you have i did not keep a walkman i had walkman i loved having a walkman well i remember the problem is you can't even find a cassette tape though right exactly what are you gonna put in it so real quick we went to grandma's house for thanksgiving and my mom kept uh those um oh the the the learning to read for hooked on phonics oh hooked on phonics hooked on phonics and so she had a rough limbaugh used to advertise hooked on phonics and they all have cassette tapes my boys were like what in the world is this and then they started pulling out the tape they they were their minds were blown i said you listen to that to hear people and they couldn't they had they had no frame of reference for it that's a cassette tape it tickled me because that's i remember you that's all we had cassette tapes and then i i got them a pencil and i i put the pencil in the inside and to and show them how you twist it to to wind back up the tape you just gotta show them get guardians of the galaxy man that's the that that that that i think you're right i think you're right i gotta take old school for everything for these huge part of that storyline uh i i i love this idea i always thought the ipod jumped the shark when they moved on to the ipod touch which was basically an iphone without a cellular connection but the ipod touch suddenly had wi-fi connection you could download apps you could pretty much do everything and it was meant as a gateway drug to get people to iphone so when they discontinued the ipod the idea was well listen anything an ipod can do you can just do on a phone we'd rather you buy the phone but it's it's there's something very elegant about the ipod i think that it really is a game changer and i'm that's i gotta go through my boxes now and i think i i'm pretty sure i still got on amazon for about a hundred bucks apparently so if you need a new one that's well it's not a new one no is it it's an old one it's not a new one yeah you're right new to you larry new to you it is uh it is 723 it is 737 this friday morning is just flying by after a really long busy full week coming up at 805 mike litterist national park service last chance to see those cherry blossoms maybe and you should definitely check out the improvements at the link in memorial we'll get into it for all you washingtonians or everyone listening outside of dc that might want to spend some time in your nation's capital then at 835 anna geretelli washington examiner about her new book recounting the story that she's told here on this program about being a victim of assault and then a victim of the criminal justice system here in dc that's all coming up it's larry o'connor with patrice on wuka good morning patrice good morning larry you get your 80s motown funk playlist every friday and i thankfully i don't mind this music so i'll endure it joining us right now a really good man i've had the pleasure of speaking with commander curgley uphold multiple times he of course the more commanding officer of the uss coal victim of an al-qaeda terror attack in october of 2000 a precursor frankly to 9 11 and also in my opinion commander lia pulled a uh a week and pathetic response from the united states at that time which sort of opened up the door to the 9 11 attacks in my opinion commander lia pulled thanks for joining us thank you very much larry it's great to be back on again i would love to get your initial reaction to the last five weeks of this military campaign against the world's number one state sponsor of terror the iranian regime especially since the navy has been such a pivot pivotal player in these attacks how do you think it's going do you think this is a righteous cause and where do we go from here now that we're in a tenuous ceasefire well larry i'll be honest and patrice this is the absolute right thing to do the united states spent 47 years watching is around killed hundreds of americans naming thousands more killing thousands around the world and essentially did nothing and what that did is it enabled that country to begin on a path where they were building a nuclear weapon creating a ballistic missile program that clearly could reach well beyond what they claimed it could do and then did terrorist proxies throughout the middle east destabilizing the region and now you can see they're stroking off the the straight of our moves so in actuality it wasn't a matter of if but when somebody was going to have to do something and president trump said now is the time and these are the forces we're going to do it with it's not going to be pretty it's not going to be perfect it's going to be rather rough at some occasions but at the end of the day you can't wait for this claimed innocent imminent threat that a lot of people tried to put out there because when you look at it what imminent threat that you have to have perfect intel in order to tell you that well you know it's so interesting you talked about kind of the challenges that americans are going to face and we've already lost a few service members but the large part this has been pretty successful in in in terms of the the lack of really of the number of people who have been lost but i think regular americans are just looking at you know what they're paying at the gas pump and how these prices are feeding into what they're paying and you talked about the straight of Hormuz um you know do you expect to see iran actually start to allow vessel traffic through because they're over what 2 000 vessels waiting sitting idly by waiting to to pass through this straight worried that iran is either going to tax them pay them force them to pay a toll or potentially torpedo them absolutely patrice the united states has to ensure that the straight of Hormuz as an international waterway has freedom of navigation for maritime traffic we could do it alone it would be much more challenging take longer and have a higher impact on those gas prices hopefully we will get our european allies to be able to finally step up to the plate and participate with their forces because at the end of the day the straight of Hormuz is a strategic waterway and iran knows that but more importantly china is watching this what iran did for 47 years surrounding the middle east china's done with the militarized islands in the south china sea and if anyone for one minute doesn't think that they're paying attention to how they could throttle traffic that goes through the south china sea they're wrong so this has global implications in how the straight of Hormuz is handled so as you look at this uh the ceasefire right now commander lipple and the president put out a statement yesterday saying our military assets are just going to sit there and wait and watch and they will be rested and ready at a moment's notice uh what are you looking for right now to sort of signal that perhaps this job is not done and maybe this won't get settled in the negotiation table uh and and what do you think the next steps might be well larry i look at a track record of 47 years of lying and murdering and i don't trust the iranians period this is this is not a this is not a matter of trust but verify this is a matter of i do not and will not trust you actions are the only thing that i will look at okay even today we had we had uh drones attacking Kuwait and ua e so there are still elements out there but they don't have full control over and so you look at iran they want to make the straight of Hormuz they want to be the gatekeeper and that cannot be allowed period let me let me let me drill down on this then because you know everybody says oh iran controls the straight well iran controls the straight right now only because we haven't tried to stop them and we could stop them but my understanding commander lippold and certainly you have a better uh uh military knowledge than i'll have been a dream of having but my understanding is that when the u.s gets engaged and tries to protect ships going through this trade uh that is a major escalation in terms of our military commitment there and it's the most dangerous it is a very tricky endeavor it's a very tricky mission uh is that's what if that's what's needed what does that look like or can you give us some inkling of of what our military commitment will be to take back control of the straight i think when you look at we how we take back the straight is one key way is to apply pressure to iran economically we don't need to invade any parts of territory we don't need to invade carg island where 90 percent of their oil comes out of what we need to do is cut carg island off okay in order for those so a block block of carg island you're saying absolutely and not only a blockade but you take out the pilots that steer the large vessels in there if the pilots who guide these ships into major ports around the world well they do the same for carg island if you if they can't take the ships in and out you've just grabbed iran by the economic throat and they are unable to do oil out of there and you use that as the agreement saying we will economically squeeze you until you give up and agree that you're not going to have it and then we take whatever action is necessary to ensure that they don't have the forces projecting from the rock or keshom or any of those areas that are right next to the straight of four moose where the toll booth has been set up now in the safe passage area and we also ensure that the area is clean of mines iran may not have put any mines in there it may have been a great information warfare technique but until we verify it by putting minesweeps in there to ensure that there are no mines commercial traffic in the insurance industries are not going to want to put those vessels at risk yeah so this weekend we're expecting some some talks between iran and the united states and pakistan what are you looking for in these talks i think at the end of the day the the plans that were laid out by the trump administration have to be adhered to and iran needs to realize at this point in time they've lost and they need to start recalibrating i think we the united states still should work toward that initial objective that we put out there was create the conditions internal to the country where the people can rise up take on the beseech which is the internal security forces take on the irgc which is ruthless and quite frankly is running the country today because the religious leadership is either dead dying or out of position to do anything and if we create the conditions for the iranian people let's face it outside of israel they're the most educated populous in the middle east they're smart enough to step up take over and run a government they have the capability they're going to need help and i think we can provide it to them i think it would be great to see some of the people of iran i know it's difficult but it would be great to see them to start moving the needle as well and taking some of these towns themselves i get it that's a dangerous endeavor but that's what happens in a revolution commander kerke lipple gotta leave it there i think the first time we met back in 2013 or 14 i think i told you that my daughter was thinking about going to the naval academy and you were super gung oh about that in case you missed it she's graduated she's now a lieutenant junior grade and a submarine officer so thank you for your inspiration for her i appreciate it well that is absolutely outstanding and congratulations well done dad only downside is she married a marine but we can discuss my strategy on that later all right hey you know you're getting a joint family this is good i keep telling myself that thank you i just got i gotta hide all the crayons whenever they all come over though for a holiday you know i'm not going there not going there not touching it i'm i love my marines i my first ship was a tank landing ship supporting the marines above bay root and i was actually in the embassy in april of 83 when they it was attacked by hezbollah and killed 17 americans a number sensitive to me so i have a long history unfortunately with terrorism and god love our marines that are out there defending our country today yeah and and what country funded that hezbollah attack commander lipple gee i wonder i think it's iran and once again there was no response to that attack no response to the uh bay root bomb barracks bombing where i lost the naval academy classmate and then unfortunately no response to the attack on coal which of course led to 9 11 so you've got to draw a line somewhere and it is unfortunate that we are in the position today where the united states once again had to take a leadership role in the world to ensure freedom can still ring true around the globe amen sir thank you for that and they are getting their response now commander Kirk lipple Kirk lipple dot com it is 747 let's get straight to i love the marines too by the way i i'm told that since i'm a marine court father now i can make those jokes but i don't know larry oh marines have the best egos in the world they they withstand all of that and then give it right back i promise you in fact i'll be waiting for it on my exy county hey there i'm paula pan i help people make the smartest money decisions possible show you know what's been great about being a saver for money the bank and that money over the past couple of years has made a pretty good yield pre-pandemic money was making zero now it's actually making something but that's starting to go down down down i love how we can play the fact that inflation has been really high as a positive but if you're a saver you know what that means should change silver lining joe silver lining afford anything follow and listen on your favorite platform all right well um i'm gonna need your help okay deciphering all of this for me cardin b cardin b's in the news uh stop that uh cardin b has uh say you know there's a rivalry between baltimore and dc as everyone knows and she has now recently tweeted out on x um okay i definitely see the difference in baltimore and dc dc gives harlem baltimore gives brooklyn what the hell is she talking about i mean i think it's the difference between the wire versus scandal i mean let's let's be honest here there is no rivalry between baltimore and dc baltimore is the wire so dc is scandal all right you're not helping with more analogies so lifestyles everything what you're saying is dc is more sophisticated more uh yeah about people high heels well connected you know movies shaking and baltimore is changing things laws and regulations and high power and baltimore is um hamster dam it is police it's crime it's you know potholes the size of pools in the roads i'm not i'm i hey i mean okay maybe around the stadiums and the inner harbour you're okay but you go a few blocks so this is a safety thing too this is a safety thing a crime thing so is she sort of low-key acknowledging that dc is now a safer city than baltimore because that's been president trump's sort of focus here to make it safer well yeah without realizing she did it yes i don't think she realized she was giving the president um a compliment a con hit a compliment there could we have a cardi b and nikki menage joint 250th celebration of the white house here is that is that in the cards that's a lot of big dairy ears on one platform i think i think we don't think with one try it that's enough that's enough cake for everybody it's it's 754 why aren't you understanding oh hi i'm joe sol c hi host of the stacking bench of its podcast you know what a lot of us get taxes wrong filing your taxes is basically data entry there's been this trend of people going oh it's so cool to file my taxes in august it's so awesome don't worry i have an extension it'll be fine i'd like totally do it later stop do your friggin taxes now that was a really good fashion voice did you like it you do that more frequently please yes every show from now on stacking vegamins following listen on your favorite platform