No Shirt, No City Name, No Thanks: The “Substitute” Bus Debacle (Ep. 326)

No Shirt, No City Name, No Thanks: The “Substitute” Bus Debacle (Ep. 326) A teenager stands at a quiet bus stop before dawn. An unmarked bus pulls up. The driver, mask on and shirtless, claims to be a substitute and opens the door. She listens to her gut, steps back, and waits for her real bus. That split-second choice is where our conversation begins—and why we won’t let it end with silence. We walk through the parent’s public PSA, the report to police, and the unsettling gap where a school...