of white supremacist, i believe we are all individuals, brothers and sisters under the skin. what is our character and ability to appreciate beauty and race is irrelevant. critical race theory teaches opposite, race is primary and we want focus on the individual and individual merit and get focus away from race, which is not relevant. todd: what is the response from parents? the response from parents obviously is positive, we get prank calls, as from the woman you had on your program here. but we ignore the prank calls, we will not shut down this empowered parent hotline just because we get crank calls. i was used to hate mail and we know how to ignore that stuff and focus on what we need to do. todd: what are consequences if schools are found to be teaching non-core subjects?
lee harvey oswald and what they reveal. here s terry moran. reporter: 58 years from that fateful day in dallas, and today, new clues, new questions. among the documents released today, cia memos discussing lee harvey oswald s trips to the soviet and cuban embassies in mexico city months before president kennedy was killed. one of those cia memos, written the day after the assassination, says oswald communicated with an identified kgb officer while at the soviet embassy that september. oswald, who was married to a russian, was trying to get visas to move to russia. another new document, a tip from a u.s. official in australia two days after the assassination, anonymous call to the embassy from a man claiming to be a chauffeur for soviet diplomats who said the soviets had probably financial the assassination. the memo noting a similar call had been made a year prior. the documents show that american officials in australia dismissed both calls as crank calls. the national archives say
Self-Deprecating Dec 23, 2020 By Jake Uitti Web Exclusive
If you throw on any one of the early tapes from The Jerky Boys, odds are you’re going to have several immediate reactions. The original pioneers of crank phone calls, first, are brash, shocking and, yet, funny. At other times, though, you may bristle or find yourself putting your hand over your mouth in astonishment. The tapes, which were created by the loud-talking comedian, Johnny Brennan, do create surprise and alarm. But not always in the ways you might assume. If you listen closely, Brennan is often being self-deprecating. The joke is on him or his character (which, admittedly, gets a bit murkier). But while the tapes aren’t necessarily for everyone, they sure have been popular over the decades ever since The Jerky Boys’ first official release in 1993. Ever since, The Jerky Boys have sold millions of records. We caught up with Brennan to talk about creating the idea, the many characters that appear in his
it s frightening. a male moo-moo? i would wear one on the air. all right. that would be great. what movie do you hope they never remake? you know mine. love actually. worst movie ever made. carrie. they did remake it. i was not allowed to watch horror movies. i went to a slumber party and they were playing it and i was scarred from it. that was last year. you still have slumber parties with shannon bream. [laughing]. and watch horror movies and do each other s air and crank calls. [laughing]. tombstone. you are right. it should be a great film you don t remake.