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You know, the refs that play, that volunteer many times to help out the kids when it comes to all these sports. 15,000 member group. Michael is executive director. I appreciate the time today, Mike. So, is the problem so bad now, compared to some years back, that we now need laws for this, Mike, with threatened jail time?

Well, first, thank you, Sergio, for having me on to address this very serious problem. And we have been witnessing an upward spiral in abuse, and when I say abuse, I'm talking about excessive verbal abuse, threats of physical abuse, and certainly physical abuse itself. It's been on the rise for probably 15 years. We noticed a really big spike during the pandemic.

I think that's probably understandable, but since then, it hasn't leveled off. It continues to spike upward at the pandemic rate, and that's alarming because we are losing officials all over the state in all sports as a result. So much for sportsmanship.

For example, mom and dad are provided. They probably also play sports. I understand that your organization, the Texas Association of Sports Officials, they have this new three strikes rule. Can you describe that for me?

Yes, sir. Each of our officials turn in an instant report any time something unusual happens during a game or a match. We get dozens and dozens of those every morning. We go through each one of them, and we pull out any examples of excessive verbal abuse or threat of physical abuse or certainly physical abuse. Once a school gets three of these during an entire school year, not just during a sports season, then they're reviewed by the presidents of our seven sports, and if they agree, if the majority of them agree that, yes, this school is exhibiting a culture of abuse, in other words, we're making sure that we didn't have maybe a thin-skinned member that turned into something that maybe shouldn't have. But once we're confident that we've got three solid examples, then I'm directed to notify the school district. And the school district is given ten days to submit what their plan is on curbing this problem. If they submit a plan that we feel is comfortable with, then we will work with them and monitor the progress.

If they do not respond to us or if they simply say, yeah, we'll try to do better, that's obviously not going to cut it, then the next notice they get from us is on a certain date, they will get no sports officials at any level of any game in any sport until this problem is addressed. How old is this three-strike rule that you put in place now? This is our first year. It went into effect at the first of the 22-23 school year, so basically since August 1st. Did any schools strike out?

I don't want to publicly comment on that, but I will say that we've got several that are very, very near. The sports officials, the refs, I think that if school strikes out, that would be big news. Hey, the refs didn't show up because we got way too many belligerent parents, maybe too much violence. I think that would be big news once it happens.

It would probably scare everybody straight. You can't speak on behalf of school districts, but what do they do in order to solve this issue? Just tell parents don't go?

Have some parents been blacklisted? We leave it up to the school district, and that's up to the school district. Ultimately, it's a school district responsibility for the conduct of their attendees, their spectators. We've got 1,200-plus school districts in Texas, some of them very, very large, some of them very, very small, so there's not one policy that's going to address all of them. We did have an example in soccer last year that we had a problem, and the school district basically did not allow any spectators for the next two home games. The third home game, they allowed only immediate family of the players, and then after that, they started slowly vetting more people in and continued that trend as long as the problems were abated.

And that seemed to work very well. To be a sports official, a ref, that's a special calling. People need to be passionate about stuff like this. How much training do individuals go through? Yes, we do all the training both at the state level and at the local. In all of our sports, we have over 160 local chapters across Texas, so we especially give focused training to new members to give them a basic understanding of not only the rule but the intent of the rule. And then each year, our members take an exam. They also have to have continuing education on rule changes and philosophies of enforcing the rules, so it's an ongoing process every year.

Michael Fitch is the executive director of the Texas Association of Sports Officials. They got a three-strike rule now. If there's too many verbally abusive or maybe even some violent folks in the crowd, parents, or whoever's just not behaving, they got a three-strike rule that if a school district does not properly address this like a sportsmanship, then no refs will show up.

They'll just stay home. Good luck officiating a game. Did you ever have a bad incident with people in the crowd or parents or somebody just being obnoxious? Well, yes, and I've been retired from the field. It's been a while, but back in my early years especially as a still-in-college high school football official officiating in a small West Texas town and had our car surrounded by basically an angry mob refusing to let us leave. Back then, those were extremely few and far between.

But unfortunately, in 2023, they're becoming more common, and that's the scary part. I mean, who would want to go out there and put your life in jeopardy in some cases for just doing something that you love to do that's not making your house payment or your car payment. You're giving back to the sport that you love and to the students. The problem starts at the youth sports level, the clubs, select, leagues. That's where parents and players are allowed to misbehave sometimes in extraordinary measures, and that's deemed acceptable behavior. Many of these parents are paying a lot of money for their kid to play on a select team, a club team, a travel team, so they feel, I think, an obligation or a right that they can be like this. And then when their kid gets into middle school, they think it's still the same, and it just is not. So the problem has got to be addressed first in the youth sports level, and then of course we can address it at the middle and high school level, but it's up to the individual organizations in youth sports to take care of business. For every, and this is not unique in Texas, this is nationwide, for every ten new members we get this year, by three years from now, we will have lost seven to eight of them.

So we're retaining 20 to 30 percent over a three-year period. It's a pleasure, Mike. Thank you so much for joining us today.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five, brought to you by Caltech. This is the Dana Show. We're reporting to you from South Texas, the Dana Show Southern Command.

I have Sergio Sanchez in for my friend Dana. Goldman Sachs is lowering their 2023 economic growth forecast, all the bank problems of late, having them a bit nervous. General Motors shutting down production at a big plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. They're going through some parts shortages for some of their vehicles. This bizarre story from Illinois.

I'll try to share as much of this write-up as I can real quick. A former Family Feud contestant facing murder charges in the death of his estranged wife. Tim Blyphnick from Illinois has been charged with home invasion, two counts of first-degree murder. His wife was found dead, multiple gunshot wounds at her home last month. The suspect was arrested this week. See, back in 2019, his family, he, his wife, their family, they were on Family Feud, made an appearance. He said on the show that his biggest mistake was at his wedding when he said, I do.

My goodness. Dallas Cowboys in the news, Jerry Jones confirming. Elliott, Zeke Elliott. Yeah, they're parting ways.

Zeke Elliott and the Cowboys are parting ways. Illusionist David Blaine recovering after suffering an injury during a performance in Vegas happened as Blaine was jumping onto a pile of boxes about 80 feet above. The performer is seen on a video falling through the boxes and can be heard screaming in pain. That wasn't part of the performance.

I'm sure a lot of confused people going, is this real? He's screaming in pain, went through those 80 box, fell from 80 feet through those boxes, hit the floor hard, dislocated shoulder. They had to put that shoulder back in place on site. Ouch. He's reportedly doing well.

I bet you he didn't find the card during that trick, though. From South Texas, The Dana Show, Southern Command, I'm Sergio Sanchez. This is The Dana Show. Oh, look at this. Here they are. Have we named her?

I'm in support of my daughter, Ruby. I'm having them be a they them. Oh.

I'm going to just call them them. That's the voice of Jamie Lee Curtis, actress Jamie Lee Curtis. She's holding, if you haven't seen this online on Twitter yet, she's holding an Oscar. It's a statue, an Oscar. A bald figure.

And that's what she's referring to on the call is they them like gender neutral. This is part of the craziness that, wow, I mean, you would have told me several years back, this is what we will be fighting in the culture wars right now. I laughed in your face.

I wouldn't believe you. Welcome to The Dana Show. I'm Sergio Sanchez in for my friend Dana Lash. You want to say hello online. It's a use the Twitter thing. It's open up for messages at Sergio talk at Sergio talk on Twitter. Email here at the station.

Sergio at KU RV and dot com. The Jamie Lee Curtis thing. Reminded me another headline I had here in the stack and other video. I'm sure you've seen posted on online on Twitter. Drew Barrymore. Have you seen Drew Barrymore?

It's like the other day my wife and then you say, hey, what's this? What's this picture? Drew Barrymore is kneeling in front of who's this actress? You know, actress like I think she has a talk show, right, Drew?

And she's kneeling in front of it's a dude. In fact, it's I don't know his name. I don't care. I just know he's a very popular figure. He's out there talking about women's fashion and makeup and probably makeup advice. He's just a happy go lucky fellow. He's just oh, I'm so happy he's doing he's doing this thing. He's a was one of the more popular transsexual individuals these days. I don't know if he's done the whole snip snip cut cut thing. I don't know.

I just he's he's like a superstar. I think this this might be the dude that probably made it all the way to the White House and interviewed. Had a conversation with Joe Biden. If it's the same guy that I'm thinking of. So this trans individual, this guy dressed up, you know, cosplaying. That's a woman is, as Dana properly says, who's a very popular figure on the social media site.

Tick tock and Instagram. He he posts all these things. So Drew Barrymore had him on on her show. And there's a picture that has gone viral. She's kneeling in front of this guy.

And it's obvious to everybody, right? You're thinking they've gone full circle at the fight for women's equality, women's right to have women's sports. The patriarchy has one amigo.

Some of those jokes that you see online, even men. Do a better job being beauty contestants and women beauty page. Now, they now play women's sports, but they can go in women's beauty contests and win that as well. It's like we've gone full circle where women exerting their place in society, the job front and entertainment, you name educates everywhere. They have asserted their place. OK, we are we you know, I am woman. Hear me roar.

And now it's down to a little meow, barely. Because many of these women actresses. Voices and faces that are familiar in pop culture. They're the ones that are advocating and apologizing for all this and promoting it.

Amigo, I think don't bend a knee. Like they're human beings, folks who are trans and identify as transgender. I don't hate them.

You shouldn't hate them. They're human beings. They're confused human beings. Let's call a spade a spade.

Let's call it what is they are confused. This is mental illness. Don't bend a knee. Don't advocate. Don't apologize. Don't try to normalize and celebrate mental illness.

Anyone wanting, wishing, working, advocating and pushing society to punish me. For example, I just, you know, I'm thinking back to what I just said about this guy who's dressing as a woman who Drew Barrymore on her show is kneeling before they're having a conversation. She's just trying to be sensitive and take in the moment. And she's kneeling in front of a trans woman. It's a man. It's a dude. They've gone full circle. The patriarchy has won. Women are kneeling before men again. This guy dressing like a woman. Don't bend a knee.

Don't normalize. It's mental illness. The agenda for these folks is to like I was saying, he's a dude. They're individuals. They're out there.

So radical in their way of thinking. They wish to impose their language reset by law. And if they if they had the power to do so, they could come.

They could have some goons waiting for me in the lobby right after the show. Drag me away for breaking the law. Want to impose this by edict of law and force me to say something. You can't you can't impose that on me. You can't impose that on rational, common sense minded individuals.

There's some individuals wishing that the twist. Forget morals. What is morally right? What is black and white biology? The very standard of science, the very God that they kneel to, they just throw it out the window. Just throw all these cells and all the DNA out the window.

Throw the size of the pelvis, throw it all out the window. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. Hey, would you risk your life for your precious pooch? Walter Hickox did in Florida, Daytona Beach recently. There's video of him risking his life to save his precious pooch pooches.

There's a couple of small dogs. You got to see the video that his name is Walter Hickox. He was charged by a wild bear. This guy did not give in. He did not give up his ground. He stood his ground, scared that bear away and saved his precious pooches. They're like children to us, right? Like many of us with little dogs. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.