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Troy Miller, Nicole C. Mullen, Janet Perez Eckles, Todd Nettleton

Join the Fro and Yeti as they dive deep into the waters of self-reflection. Were mushrooms at play? YOU be the judge. Our good buddy, Keller Williams joins in on the interview hour and reprimands Andy on his levels. Anxiety abounds, but worry not because modern day troubadour, Caleb Hawley is here to soothe you with his dulcet voice. This is Episode 4.

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And don't forget to check out the inimitable, Caleb Hawley

Produced by
Andy Frasco
Yeti
Chris Lorentz

Engineered by
Chris Lorentz

Featuring
Arno Baaker
Shawn Eckels 

This past Monday (July 21) I was shocked by the words of Mooresville constituent. I was collecting the last of my required signatures to be an official “write-in” candidate for Congressional District Nine, and this young man wanted to talk a minute about issues. Well, halfway through that he says, “I would not send my kids to heroin high school.” He was referring to Lake Norman High School. I had already learned, since coming home to enter politics after my education, that serious narcotics were replacing alcohol and weed among Iredell County high schoolers. But for a school in my home county to be called “heroin high” really troubles me. From day one of my campaigns, I have said the right to liberty is the right to education. How can North Carolina or America claim either to love liberty or to love children and be cutting off their support of public education and many other resources to nurture and guide youth. Kids and young people generally are going to be looking for lots of interesting and fun activities, and if we the people do not help provide positively constructive activities, in schools, after school, and beyond, the terrible drugs are today so available, that the most ignorant or worst kids will lead our other children because we stopped doing our part. There's no excuse for this. In Raleigh and Washington there are politicians working to do anything other than help the people with government. They have only bogus reasons to cut, cut, cut; anybody who still buys the national debt panic is not paying attention. When you cut education and other community development activities, our kids are going to do more drugs and commit more crimes and ruin more lives. Other campaign news Supporters and friends, I am glad to announce that as of yesterday (July 22) the Election Board has certified me as fulfilling the signatures requirement to receive your vote in November as a write-in candidate. You recall some months ago I had to abandon my effort to obtain over 20,000 signatures (plus address, birthdate) to have my name appear on the November ballot as “unaffiliated.” So now I have completed an easier task by gathering a smaller number of voter signatures. And that frees up more time to campaign. More importantly, I made my first campaign speech at a public event Saturday (July 19). Though there was drizzle from the sky, the Inglewood Community Reunion at the ESC-Troutman Park was well attended, and I believe they liked my talk. I emphasized how Inglewood neighborhood was a very important part of my growing up because I learned many permanent lessons about friends, family and real community life. Tony Davenport, a teacher at North Iredell, was in the crowd, and Tony was in my speech. I knew Tony coming up in my hometown; after high school he took a college degree and came back home to become a teacher. I worry about the decisions in Raleigh and Washington to cut education funding maybe causing us to lose a good teacher and a good coach. “I always respected Tony's work and progress, and feel as though people should increase and not decrease the respect we have for men and women who work hard and succeed,” I said Saturday.