HOUR 1
Tom and Rick overview their weekend (heavy with rain and events
Olympics overview by the numbers / https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/08/08/tokyo-olympics-numbers?email=tomandersonalaska@gmail.com
Violence in Chicago saw over 45 deaths last weekend and even a police officer was killed / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2RrCL7MIrQ
Woodcarver Mike from Mat-Su on the violence in Chicago to curb violence and citing Mayor Giuliani’s policies in NYC
Tom reads an excerpt from DelanceyPlace.com from An Illustrated Business History of the United States by Richard Vague / https://www.delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?4442
An exodus is occurring in Kindergartens across the nation (over 1 million 5-year-olds weren’t enrolled) / https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/07/us/covid-kindergarten-enrollment.html?campaign_id=29&emc=edit_up_20210809&instance_id=37498&nl=the-upshot®i_id=78313692&segment_id=65781&te=1&user_id=0d6450a88091f9336b9867d8fc8d27b0
U.S. Senator Cassidy (R-LA) along with 17 other Republican Senators support the Infrastructure bill that should pass this week with $550 Billion in new spending / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fl7snYn5Tg
HOUR 2
COVID restrictions tightening with new Delta variant and liberties being limited (Congresswoman Stefanie Stefanik NY-R) / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsaSqiNrh50
Dr. Gorka on the current ideological battle and Reagan’s forecast of such / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsx2lpqMKqM
Rick talks about the power outage Friday and why Tom didn’t have a show
Best of Day 16 of Summer Olympics
Tom McGrath reminds the Paralympic
Doug in Palmer talks about the U.S. vs Japanese in baseball and his surprise that the U.S. lost
