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Speaker 1: Welcome to Shitty Mayor Mondays, a name we're not actually

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Mio Wong, coming to you live from

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Speaker 1: a crumbling basement and contested Chicago that may or may

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Speaker 1: This is it could happen here, so true. It could

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Speaker 1: and James. Hello, welcome to Hell. Hi, I'm tornado free.

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Speaker 1: San Diego did have a tornado warning yesterday. Luckily I'm

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Speaker 1: So today we're doing a sort of special episode of

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Speaker 1: Shitty Mayor Mondays, which is that we are we are

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Speaker 1: doing the Chicago double feature because our previous Shitty Mayor,

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Speaker 1: Lloyd Lightfoot I, managed to become the first I think

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Speaker 1: I think the first Chicago mayoral candidate in forty years

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Speaker 1: she lose reelection, she went out so okay, the way

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Speaker 1: the way the Chicago mayor elections have like a trillion candidates,

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Speaker 1: if no one can get about fifty percent, it goes

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Speaker 1: which is unbelievably funny. Um, So we're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: her first as the sort of Loyd Lifewood is sort

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Speaker 1: of the shitty Chicago mayor passed, and then we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about the maybe future shitty Chicago mayor, Paul Vallis,

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Speaker 1: who sucks so much that he was the reason I

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Speaker 1: specifically wanted to do this series. But first, what do

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Speaker 1: you talk about fucking Lory Lightfoot, a person who I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't know. I feel like people outside of

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Speaker 1: know that she's like like has gerebody failed to do

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Speaker 1: she's a super well okay, Ay. The funniest thing about

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Speaker 1: her is it's just just Google pictures of her hats.

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Speaker 1: She has just like an incredible hat game. It's just

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Speaker 1: many hats. It's it's wild. It's just every single picture

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. But she's also kind of in some sense,

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Speaker 1: Lightfoot was elected mayor in like an absolute landside in

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Speaker 1: it was based on sort of three main things. It

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Speaker 1: Why there's there's the kind of that kind of separate

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Speaker 1: And everyone was like, no, it's gonna be great. She's

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Speaker 1: So her reprover rating is like fucking absolutely dog should

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Speaker 1: I think, Oh, I'm trying to find I should have

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Speaker 1: So I'm sure I've seen it. Amazing. Yeah, it was great.

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Speaker 1: Ben Shapira had a whole fucking seizure about it. We've

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Speaker 1: it was a very amazing story I did. Don't don't

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Speaker 1: your story. So true. Yeah, yeah, many popular mechanics editors

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Speaker 1: not not with my knowledge, but yeah, tell us about this,

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Speaker 1: tell us about this other statue. Me okay, So there

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Speaker 1: definitely holding fascies. So all right, this this statue, this

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, Chicago police shot thirteen year old

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Speaker 1: At a press conference after the shooting, Mayor Louis Lightfoot

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Speaker 1: out to find the people responsible for quote, putting a

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Speaker 1: quote unquote balance his budget sheet is he takes out

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Speaker 1: the government equivalent of a payday loan. So here's here's

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Speaker 1: a passing the buck. Quote. Vallas literally borrowed against Chicago

433
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Speaker 1: school children's futures when he took out a six hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty six million dollars in capital appreciation bonds. Also

435
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Speaker 1: when I said, he was like like a demon sixty

436
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Speaker 1: six million dollars with the satanic loud. Yeah, yeah, we're

437
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 1: doing this satanic panic but for this guy who fucking sucks.

438
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, you took out the loans and capital appreciation

439
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Speaker 1: bonds a form of debt in which the borrower pays

440
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Speaker 1: nothing for several years but then has to pay very

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Speaker 1: large sums to make up for skipped payments. A capital

442
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Speaker 1: appreciation bonds a b is a long term bond with

443
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Speaker 1: compounding interest on which the borrower is not permitted to

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Speaker 1: make any principal or interest payments for many years, but

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Speaker 1: the interest still. Yeah, crazy, but you're not allow Why

446
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Speaker 1: would we Why would you take that? Why would you?

447
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Speaker 1: Why would you do that? That seems like a really

448
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Speaker 1: bad decision. Oh, it's a terrible it's a terrible decision.

449
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Speaker 1: I'm not a big sunny guy. The Valis's assumption was

450
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Speaker 1: that like, Okay, we don't have any money now, but

451
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Speaker 1: property values will continue to go up and just keep

452
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Speaker 1: going up forever, so we can pay this bond back

453
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Speaker 1: when we have money from higher from property taxes. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: so okay, I really if I'm gonna finish this thing

455
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Speaker 1: on these these just dogshit bonds. In this way, it

456
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Speaker 1: is similar to a negative amortization mortgage, in which the

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Speaker 1: outstanding principle actually grows over time because the unpaid interest

458
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Speaker 1: gets tacked onto the amount owed and compounds. Yeah. Very Amusingly,

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Speaker 1: California was doing something similar to this with with restitution

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Speaker 1: payments recently, or some some place in California were at

461
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Speaker 1: least In one case that I looked into for a

462
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 1: story I wrote, it was it was ruled illegal under

463
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Speaker 1: the Eighth Amendment. Oh my god, a cruel and unusual

464
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Speaker 1: interest payments. It's good to see the Chicago he's doing it. Yeah,

465
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Speaker 1: there's actually a funny story about this that, like one

466
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Speaker 1: of the size stories of this is that the guy

467
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Speaker 1: who's running the school system in California like gets this

468
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Speaker 1: same offer from like bond salesman people, and he's like, no,

469
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Speaker 1: what the fuck. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

470
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Speaker 1: But Vallas does this. Vallas is going to do this

471
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Speaker 1: in multiple cities. So I'm gonna finish reading this thing.

472
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Speaker 1: Because of the structure, borrowers often end up paying extraordinarily

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Speaker 1: high interest rates over the lifetime of the bonds. Former

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Speaker 1: California State Treasurer Bill Lockney called CIAB is the school

475
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: district equivalent of a pain a loan. So the result

476
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Speaker 1: of this is that out of the six hundred and

477
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Speaker 1: sixty six point two million dollars right that Valas takes out,

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Speaker 1: they pay one point five billion dollars in interest. The

479
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: interest rate over the lifetime of this bond is two

480
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty three percent good. This is the guy

481
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Speaker 1: who's supposed to be like the really smart tychn crap

482
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Speaker 1: reformer guy who understands financial stuff, who you bring into

483
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Speaker 1: like solve school districts. And he took out a load

484
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Speaker 1: with two hundred and twenty three percent fucking interest is

485
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Speaker 1: this is the kind of interest rate then, in the

486
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Speaker 1: words of David Graber, were once reserved for organized crime,

487
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Speaker 1: and now is you know normally normally this kind of loan.

488
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Speaker 1: He's like a thing. It's like this is like a

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Speaker 1: very predatory sort of like yeah, it's like a predatory

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Speaker 1: banking thing. Valis think this to himself on purpose because

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Speaker 1: he's dumb, and I mean also like he's trying to

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Speaker 1: I mean and part of part of the other sort

493
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Speaker 1: of undercaracter this, it's not just that he's really stupid,

494
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Speaker 1: it's that he's trying to pay off his buddies in

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Speaker 1: the in the finance sector. Yeah, and then you know

496
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Speaker 1: there is the other part of the story, right, It's

497
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 1: like all of these all these school districts just get

498
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: fucking looted to pay off these like fucking stupid ass

499
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Speaker 1: hedge funds, and then he just bounces somewhere else and

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Speaker 1: leaves him people with it. Yeah, and you know, so

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Speaker 1: I talked a bit earlier about how, like valais Is

502
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Speaker 1: assumption on these bonds was like, well, we'll be fine

503
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Speaker 1: because well, the housing markets will keep going up forever.

504
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 1: But then two thousand it happens, and this has a

505
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Speaker 1: bunch of effects. One of the big ones is that

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Speaker 1: Vallas was taking out bonds with variable interest rates. Oh no, no, okay,

507
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Speaker 1: we have talked about this on this show before. Right,

508
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,679
Speaker 1: there are entire country they are like entire like like

509
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Speaker 1: multi national political movements that don't exist. There are entire

510
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 1: countries who fucking don't have manufacturing checkers anymore. Like there

511
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: are there are places where the life expectancy felled by

512
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: twenty years because they're they're they're fucking leaders took out

513
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: these kind of like variable interest rate loans and got

514
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 1: de strobe in the interest rate spikes and guess what

515
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: happened in Chicago interest rate spikes And okay, so Vallas's

516
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: successors look at this and are like, this is the

517
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: stupidest fucking you know. Well, but okay, Valles's success by

518
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: the way, is Artie Duncan, who's the guy that Obama

519
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: puts in charge of of the Department of Education, and

520
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: Arnie Duncan is like, Okay, do you know how we're

521
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: going to solve the problem of these the the the

522
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: risk from these adjustable rate interest rates credit default swaps?

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Speaker 1: Oh god, So all right, I'm not going to explain

524
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Speaker 1: how a credit default swap works because it's fucking annoying

525
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: as hell. But credit default swaps are one of the things,

526
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: like one of the very specific financial instruments that are

527
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Speaker 1: that are like specifically responsible for the two thousand and

528
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Speaker 1: eight collapsed. Yes, and now these technically aren't credit default swaps, right,

529
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Speaker 1: These these are technically what are called interest default swap

530
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: or like interest swaps, and they're but they're exactly the

531
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Speaker 1: same thing as a credit as a credit default swap,

532
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: but instead of credit as interest. So the underlying asset,

533
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: right is like as a bond and not like a

534
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: loan or whatever. But otherwise it's exactly the same thing.

535
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Speaker 1: And this this man, you know, and these these swaps

536
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: have this thing where like if you can't pay you

537
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 1: get these like unbelievably high like fees that start happening.

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Speaker 1: So when when these bonds blow up, they managed to

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Speaker 1: cost they managed to cost Chicago another thirty one million

540
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Speaker 1: dollars because they're credit default swap. He just blew up.

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Speaker 1: So all right, so this has a two thousand and

542
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Speaker 1: two and two thousand and two, he ran for governor

543
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: or against Rob fucking Blogoyevich. Who is Robbo? Who is

544
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: rob a Bligoiovich? You just did the first syllable and

545
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: then let your let to take the rest. And Vala

546
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: sucks so much that Rob Lugoyevich is able to outflank

547
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Speaker 1: him on the left bye bye bye, running against him saying, hey,

548
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: look at all these schools he privatized. And so he

549
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: gets claw bared in the primaries by Rob fucking b

550
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: the man who okay, so this is what we will

551
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: cover this one day fully on the show because it's

552
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: really funny. But Rob Lagoievic is the man most famous

553
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: for getting arrested for trying to sell Obama's Senate seat,

554
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: like he tried to sell a Senate Oh he's Oh,

555
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: he's amazing. He's now just on Tucker talking about political persecution.

556
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah's extremely funny. Oh yeah he was on yesterday,

557
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: wasn't he Yeah yeah yeah Trump, Yeah, how he was

558
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: persecuted first, and now Trump is being persecuted. It's amazing,

559
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: It's great, really, really the canary in the coal mine

560
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: of hey grifting politicians. Look, Garrison, look if they if

561
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: they can go after Rob Lay trying to sell Obama

562
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: Senate seat, they could go after you for trying to

563
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: sell Barack Obama Senate seat. That's true. You know who

564
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: else is trying to sell Barack Obama Senate seat products

565
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: and services that support this very podcast. No, they're really

566
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Speaker 1: not allowed to do that. None of them would ever

567
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Speaker 1: commit a crime I under any circumstances. I still think

568
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: I think a fair number of these corporations probably engage

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Speaker 1: in some some sort of political lobby. Yeah, that's true,

570
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Speaker 1: But I don't trying to buy him a Senate seat, Garrison.

571
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Speaker 1: That's totally different, different, the same, the same, totally fine.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Ronald Reagan. All right, we're back, and we're now

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Speaker 1: we're we're now, we're now sending Vallas too, are I

574
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: don't I don't actually know if Chicago and Philadelphia or

575
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: sister cities, but like I think they should be. I

576
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: don't know. I am I am very in favor of

577
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: the Chicago Philadelphia Alliance. Same vibe. Yeah, so they both

578
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: stood in for Gotham City in the Christopher Nolan trilogy.

579
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: So I'm doing a Bagman reference again. There's there's a whole.

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Speaker 1: There are like so many different specific there. David Grabber

581
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: writes about this, like there there are so many different

582
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Speaker 1: like parts of places where they filmed, like the Dark

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Speaker 1: Night where people tried to protest and got arrested for

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Speaker 1: blocking the road. Like this happened in multiple cities. Yeah.

585
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Speaker 1: No one wants the city to turn into la So

586
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: you have to stand up against that shit immediately. You

587
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: do not let it happen in your hood. Yeah, it could,

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00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: it could happen here. Okay, So after Vallas gets clabbered

589
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: in in in the mayoral race, she gets brought in

590
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: by Philadelphia to try to like fix their school system.

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00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: And he, uh, excuse me. His planning to do this

592
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: is by doing a bunch of military academies again and

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00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: then doing also doing charter schools, and so I should

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00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: I should explain like his other sort of so the

595
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: big sort of rationale thing behind charter schools, this school choice,

596
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: which is this thing that was specifically invented as a

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00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: way to let race his parents avoid integration. Yeah, this

598
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: is like goes along with Sody mentioned the homeschooling when

599
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: we've talked about this in other episodes. But he's like

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Speaker 1: a huge like Valist to this day is a giant

601
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: like school choice guy. Um. And you know, but the

602
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: other thing, the other thing about Valist, I don't think

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Speaker 1: people realize that much he even though he's a Republican

604
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: a lot of the time, like he kind of flips

605
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: back and forth being a Democrat being a Republican. But

606
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: he's he's like after he loses to rob or even

607
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: even sort of before that, like he is an actual

608
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: sort of Chicago machine guy. And because he's a Chicago

609
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: machine guy when he gets into the stuff that he

610
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: starts doing the stuff where he like he'll just like

611
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: like he takes over the school district and like fires

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00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: much people and like installs his cronies and all these

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Speaker 1: departments and all these people are getting like he's like

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Speaker 1: buying off people with budget allocations, and he starts selling

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00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: off buildings to raise money. So he sells off like

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Speaker 1: the district headquarters in order to buy like a more

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Speaker 1: expensive district headquarters. And here's a quote from the book

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Speaker 1: Not Paid For Us, which is a really really great

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Speaker 1: book about sort of the history of racism in education

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. And this is a quote from a long

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Speaker 1: time activist Lee Roy Simmons before I start reading this.

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00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: The district headquarters was called twenty first and Parkway. There

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Speaker 1: was doors in twenty first and Parkway worth one million dollars,

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Speaker 1: then big brass doors in the fronts. Those doors were

625
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: worth one million dollars with all the carving on them.

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Speaker 1: People don't know how much they got for it. To

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Speaker 1: this day, I can't get an answer about how much

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00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: did you sell that building for where the money went.

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Speaker 1: The school district sold twenty first and Parkway in a

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Speaker 1: package with Kennedy Center. There were brand new trucks parked

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Speaker 1: at Kennedy Center. They had forgot were there. There was

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Speaker 1: a printing press in the Kennedy Center that could print

633
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: all new magazines and they never used. There were books

634
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: and calculators and every time it went through there there

635
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: were boxes of unused stuff in the Kennedy Center and

636
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: nobody knew. And they sold that in the contents and

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00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 1: the package with twenty first of Parkway, and nobody knew

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Speaker 1: how much that was. There was some art that was

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00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: priceless on the walls at twenty first of Parkway. No

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00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: one can find the art. There were priceless pieces of

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00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: art hanging in schools across the city and all that

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00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: was sold in a package and nobody saw where it went. Yeah,

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00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: so like and this is this is again, this is

644
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: like this is classic Chicago corruption ship, right, Like we're

645
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: not gonna say how much we sold this building for.

646
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: We're not gonna say who who we sold it too,

647
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: Like we're gonna build a more expensive building. And you know,

648
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: if you look into it, you look into who the

649
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: contractors are as like always someone's uncle or like brother

650
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: or some shit. Um, there's just you know, like there's

651
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: printing presses that are gone, like priceless works of art

652
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: just vanished. It's like this is this is like you know,

653
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: it's sort of incredible sort of Chicago political machine stuff. Um.

654
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: And this gets into what I think about I think

655
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: the Chicago political machine that is really interesting, which is

656
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,439
Speaker 1: that these people are like, on the one hand, they're

657
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: unbelievably corrupt. On the other hand, a lot of them

658
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: are sort of real like hardline like doctrinaire neoliberals. This

659
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: is I mean, this is sort of the thing with

660
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: Arnie Duncan, right, Like like Obama actually comes out of

661
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: this machine too, when he's a lot more sort of

662
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,240
Speaker 1: like doctrinaire about this stuff than the sort of modern

663
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: people are. And you know, and Valis is like one

664
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: of the sort of like big guys here, and you know,

665
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: so he's really really in favor of charter schools and

666
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: so they get enormous amounts of money. Um, he also

667
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: does this thing he yeah, this is also from not

668
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: paid for Us. He funnels money into just like a

669
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: ship ton of NGOs in order to like do education

670
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: programming or whatever. And so there's a sort of constellation

671
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,399
Speaker 1: forms of these like you have you these corporations doing

672
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: like education stuff or like running schools, and you have

673
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: these like nonprofits running like the like the education material.

674
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: And it's it's this sort of like this this is

675
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: sort of arch neoliberal thing where instead of the state

676
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: administering a service, what you have is this like based

677
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: basically a bunch of like contracting grifters who come in

678
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: and suck up all of the money and then provide

679
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:30,760
Speaker 1: absolutely dogshit services. Now I'm going to read another quote

680
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: from this book. Because the people they are paying these

681
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: contracts who are fucking wild on the SRC is like

682
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: one of the bodies that's in charge of, like one

683
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: of the state bodies as in charge of, like the

684
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:45,240
Speaker 1: Philadelphia School District. One of the SRC's most problematic contracts

685
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: was with K twelve Inc. For three million dollars to quote,

686
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: provide academic and curriculum support, access to K twelves online

687
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: curriculum and assessments, academic enrichment via summer and extended day programs,

688
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 1: professional development, teacher planning and rending materials, and community involvement activities.

689
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: Conservative radio talk show host William Bennett was the founder

690
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: of KG twelve, Inc. He had been an adviser to

691
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: former presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush Durin

692
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 1: a show in two thousand and five, he said the following,

693
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: and this is a direct quote. If you want to

694
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: reduce crime, you could, if that was your sole purpose,

695
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: you could abort every black baby in this country, and

696
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: your crime rate would go down. That would be an

697
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: impossibly ridiculous and wray reprehensible thing to do, but your

698
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: crime weight would go down. So they peeled this guy

699
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: three million fucking dollars to both of VAL's pro choice credentialssume.

700
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: This is this is the most pro choice thing I've

701
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: ever seen from him, is the genocide guy because the

702
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: eugenics guy. Yeah yeah, well you see, they all have

703
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: a have a weakness. That is, has anyone looked to

704
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: the curriculum that that providing. I'm serious the thing it's

705
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 1: unclear to me that they ever, like actually really provided

706
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: much of anything. It does sound like a like if

707
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: you were going to make up a company to grift

708
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: at the education system, K twelve Inc. Would be a

709
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: great name. Yeah, And then that's that's the thing about

710
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,800
Speaker 1: like all these charter schools too, right. It's like like, okay,

711
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: so like there are some for profit corporations you do

712
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: charter school stuff, and they stick in the charter school

713
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: business because they decide that's how they want to make

714
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: their money. A lot of these things come in, take

715
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: a state contract, the school immediately implodes and then leave

716
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: and then they just walk out with self a million dollars.

717
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 1: And this is like this is a recurring pattern over

718
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: and over again with charter schools. He also brings in

719
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 1: Teach for America, who is this like just genuinely evil

720
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: organization that tries to break teachers unions by recruiting these

721
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: like incredibly idealistic and naive young college grads and like

722
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: throwing them into like into failing schools as this thing

723
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,280
Speaker 1: to like, Ah, you're gonna like go serve the community

724
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,479
Speaker 1: and like you know, you're you'll learn on the job

725
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: and you'll you'll become an educator and you're like helping

726
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: these disadvantaged kids. And it's a disaster. These these these people,

727
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: the people who do this have no fucking idea how

728
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: to teach because they you know, they don't have teachers ever,

729
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: gets right, They're just like college grads and at any

730
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: any of you who have been around college grads, like

731
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: you think those people are responsible enough to fucking teach kids,

732
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: Like Jesus Christ, Yeah, I meant of that was like

733
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: a big thing. Like I don't know if it still

734
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: happens or not, like I remember, right, yeah, reference letters

735
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: for students like ten fifteen years ago for that. Yeah,

736
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: Like I I mean, I know, I had to like

737
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: talk out classmates of mine like out of doing it,

738
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 1: because we were like you are doing you are doing

739
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: union busting and also this will destroy your life and

740
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: the life of the children you have to teach. Yeah,

741
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: it's a very strange system that. Yeah, take someone who

742
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: by virtue of having any degree, it's automatically an educator.

743
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 1: But to be fair, that is how universities work as well. Yeah,

744
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: you get get your master's degree in and they're like,

745
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: well fuck it, get in there. They'll just give you

746
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: grad students with no degrees, right, Like that's that's the

747
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: thing too. Yeah, but yeah, yeah, and you know to

748
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 1: to to to to get out together into those kinds

749
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,320
Speaker 1: of Like the other thing that's happening here is is

750
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: he has this really valas has this really really racist

751
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 1: kind of like we need to like enforce discipline in

752
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 1: schools thing. And so they have all these and this

753
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: happens to Chicago too, that have these like zero tolerance

754
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: policies that have done i mean, irreparable damage to like

755
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: tons of thousands of kids. I'm gonna read. I'm going

756
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: to read a thing from Tribe about Philadelphia. Quote. Test

757
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: results were posted on data walls in the school buildings

758
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: to show which classes were making the most progress. WHOA

759
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: it was humiliating, said Grill was a teacher. A lot

760
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: of our kids were left behind, were behind, and a

761
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of our kids suffered trauma, and

762
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 1: trauma affects the way you learn. So they were behind,

763
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: they weren't on grade level, and it made them feel

764
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: like failures. I hated giving those tests. Wow yeah yeah,

765
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: people like to be wrong about Georgio. Well, but that

766
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: that's some more wedding and shit, right that like and

767
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: like these are like fucking yeahs like these are like

768
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: these are literally children like you were. You were publicly

769
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 1: shaming people who were like twelve. It's just it's just horrible.

770
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: Yeah that, Like we've known for a very long time

771
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: that that doesn't work when you're educating kids, like I

772
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: have done Pettigougy training and get it. No one with

773
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: any intent to actually help kids is shaming kids in

774
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: the classroom, or young people or anyone of any age

775
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,479
Speaker 1: for that matter. I just checked out what K twelve

776
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: Inca Doing. It's great. They're now offering online high school.

777
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: Oh great, yeah, yeah, you can go to a faith

778
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: prep academy developed Christian character, oh find Yeah, yeah, this

779
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: is great. This is this is what I this is

780
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: what I youth need. Yeah it sucks so um. The

781
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: other thing again, we keep trinkling around this because this

782
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: happens a bunch of times. Like again, vals this whole

783
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: thing is supposed to be about, like about balancing budgets,

784
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: right in two thousand and seven, by the time he's

785
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: like like at the near the end of his like

786
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: time in Philly, he's fucked everything up so badly that

787
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: that for in like just one year of the budget,

788
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: Philly schools were seventy three million dollars in the whole. Now,

789
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 1: the thing about this, this is where most stories about

790
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: Valais's time in Philadelphia end. But wait, there's fucking more

791
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: so that that seventy three million dollars short fall was.

792
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: It was the one years short fall. Right. Remember back

793
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: in Chicago where Valas is like variable interest rate bonds

794
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: like blew up in the school's faces. Um, this time,

795
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: Vallis is the guy directly who did the credit the

796
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: fault swaps, and uh, these these the interest rates on

797
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: these things are locked in literally for decades and just

798
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: like like some of these aren't expiring to like twenty

799
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: thirty one, right, and just so far they've cost one

800
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty one million dollars. Great, yeah, and test

801
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: test scores fucking go down under him. It's a ship show. Yeah,

802
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: and so two thousand and seven they kick him out

803
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: because they're like, what the fuck are you doing? Like Unfortunately,

804
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: the place they kick him out too, is is and

805
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: you're you're not gonna like this post Hurricane Katrina New Orleans,

806
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: so fuck's sake? Yeah, yeah, why why do we have

807
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: to inflict like the failed suns of neoliberalism and the

808
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: people of New Orleans that's gonna get worse by the way, Okay, great, yeah, um,

809
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,399
Speaker 1: so this is really bad, right New Orleans? Now, Okay,

810
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: so I think there's there's some kind of controversy about

811
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: how exactly accoculate this. At the very least sixty three

812
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: out of the sixty six like New Orleans like big,

813
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: like sorry, let me let me rest at the very

814
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: least sixty three out of the sixty six like schools

815
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: that they run, like at the very least like that

816
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 1: that are directly run by the state, our charter schools. Um,

817
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: there's three more that are also charter schools but are

818
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: kind of administrated by the district. So there is a

819
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: huge debate as to whether there are technic any public

820
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: schools left in in fucking New Orleans. Jesus, Yeah, they

821
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 1: fired like and this this was this was before Valis

822
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: came into office. But in New Orleans they fired the

823
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 1: entire every teacher in the fucking city. They fired all

824
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: the unions, literally, all the union teachers were replaced them

825
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: with non union people. M Vallis comes in and starts

826
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: implementing some shit that is just like I like prison

827
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,959
Speaker 1: camp shit. Oh god, here's from here's from tribe again.

828
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: According to Biguard, a lot of kids were arrested for

829
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: quote disruption of a school process if they showed up

830
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: late to class and refused to be kicked out for tardiness.

831
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: And again they are being arrested for refuge for wanting

832
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: to stay in school. Yeah, black kids, black girls were

833
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: arrested for having quote rat tail combs, which have long,

834
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: sharp handles from grating hair. Yeah. In one instance, Biguard said,

835
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: a six year old student was expelled and charged with

836
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: possession and distribution of a controlled substance because he brought

837
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: toms to school and gave them to his classmates thinking

838
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: they were candy. What the fuck they charged a six

839
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: year old? Yeah? God, Yeah, they're the levels of fucking

840
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: cruelty that have to exist, like a cop has to

841
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: see a six year old and not be like, oh, lull,

842
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 1: those are toms like the kitch. Body should neat too

843
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:26,959
Speaker 1: many of those. Let me go tell them they didn't

844
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:30,959
Speaker 1: know they were kiddy because he's six Jesus Christ. Yeah,

845
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: just like just just Jetty Whitely, like abhorrently evil shit. Yeah. See,

846
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,800
Speaker 1: this is like, maybe now is a good time to

847
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: point out that, like, in the wake of yet another

848
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,959
Speaker 1: terrible school shooting, people will want to put more cops

849
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,919
Speaker 1: in schools. This is what happens when we put cops

850
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: in schools, right, they brutalize our fucking children. Yeah, and

851
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: like it's not Yeah, like the state doing violence to

852
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: children is not the way we protect children. Yeah. What

853
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: I want to say, the more your school represents the

854
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: levels of law enforcement that are into prison camp, the

855
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: more the actual experience of the children will become like

856
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: prison camps. Yes, yes, yea yeah, but also just literally,

857
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: I mean that's god. I love to go to the

858
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: Panoptic on high school, Garrison. What are you talking about.

859
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: It's just the Panoptic on high school where if you don't,

860
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: if you don't get kicked out of your fucking class

861
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: for being late, they arrest you. The coalent again. Yeah,

862
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: just so speaking speaking of disciplining and punishing. So these

863
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: charter schools, they do think that charter schools always do right,

864
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: which is sometimes if you know, if you look at

865
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: people who talk about educational reform, they'll be like, charter

866
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: schools have like really great like test numbers and a

867
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:44,919
Speaker 1: that's just like not true, right, that they're only looking

868
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: at the really good charter schools. But you know, here's

869
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: the thing. If you give a public school the amount

870
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: of money that a really good charter school has, it

871
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: will also be a really good school. But but there's

872
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 1: the second thing that charter schools can do that other

873
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 1: schools can't, which is that charter schools could just fucking

874
00:46:57,680 --> 00:46:59,919
Speaker 1: kick students out. And this is one of the ways

875
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: that they maintain their test numbers is they just kick

876
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: out kids over and over again. You don't do who

877
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: aren't initially doing well on tests, so they don't have

878
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: to teach them and like bother to improve their test scores.

879
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: And in New Orleans they get in trouble because the

880
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: kids they were kicking out where kids with disabilities who

881
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 1: they were illegally yeah, who they were illegally not like

882
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 1: giving individual education plans too, and also they were there

883
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 1: is everything right. These charter schools are all run by

884
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: different private corporations, and so there's no system of tracking

885
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 1: whether when a kid gets kicked out whether they can

886
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 1: actually get it go to another school. So they're just

887
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: leaving these disabled kids, like in the fucking win with

888
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: no school to go to. And this this was so

889
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: illegal that after a lawsuit, like I think it might

890
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: still be going to this day. It was going like

891
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. Like the school the Philadelphia school system was

892
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 1: like undersizaship by the federal government because they committed so

893
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: many crimes against disabled students. Jesus Christ, that is brutal. Yeah,

894
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: it's awful. Fuck kind of education for a lot of

895
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: my adult life in this ship makes me furious. Yeah,

896
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: I just wanted so what youed you to? Guess where

897
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: do you think they sent Paul Vallis next after he

898
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: got kicked out of I try trying to run of

899
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: New Orleans? Did they send him to set up a

900
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: finishing school for girls in Kabul? No? But similar similar vibes. Oh,

901
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: for fock's sake, it dude, it's outside the continental US. Yes,

902
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:37,399
Speaker 1: it's not Iraq. No Puerto Rito. It's Haiti after yep, yep.

903
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: So now we have talked about this before on the show.

904
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: In twenty ten, there was a just unbelievably heartwrenchingle catastrophic

905
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: earthquake killed two hundred and twenty thousand people and also

906
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: destroyed like almost every building in Haiti, and this kicks

907
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: off phase two of the UN occupation of the country.

908
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: We talked about this in our episodes on Lulu and

909
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,479
Speaker 1: Bill Scenaro. This is this is when the UN guys

910
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: from the Paul bring in Cholerado, a bunch of the operation. Right. Yeah,

911
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 1: So right after this happens, so the US just like

912
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 1: sends Marines in, right, and no one in Haiti asked

913
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: for it. We just we just fucking invade um and

914
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: they bring in Paul Vallis, like specifically Paul Vallis, and

915
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: also Arnie Duncan, who's again Obama's fucking education secretary, gets

916
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: bring in to rebuild the Haitian school system on New

917
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 1: Orleans model. Now, okay, weirdly, if they had actually implemented

918
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: New Orleans model, it would have been an improvement, because

919
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: they hate the way the Haitian school system worked was

920
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: ninety percent private and the tuition was forty percent of

921
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: someone's annual budget, like like a family's annual budget. Yeah,

922
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: so that's the friends in Haiti who couldn't afford to

923
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 1: pay for school trying. It's fucking horrible. Vallis is supposed

924
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: to like change this, right, he gets brought in. They

925
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: bring in the Clinton Foundation instead. What happens is the

926
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 1: Clinton Foundation buys a bunch of trailers to use as

927
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: schools for the from from specific the same people who

928
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 1: got in trouble for selling for maldehyde ridden trailers to

929
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: female drink Katrina. And then you know, okay, and I

930
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 1: never think that I I can't emphasize enough. They called

931
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: the grifft trailer ink or something. Yeah, they fucking suck well.

932
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: But also also even the trailers were good, Right, there's

933
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: a real issue with trying to use trailers to teach

934
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: kids in a place that is hot, yeah, which is

935
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:28,280
Speaker 1: that it is one hundred fucking degrees inside these trailers.

936
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 1: These trailers are made of metal, so if you touch

937
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 1: the side of the thing, you get burned. Kids at people,

938
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: people who like teachers who were taught there, routinely talk

939
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: about how every kid and they're every kid in their

940
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: fucking class was having heat stroke and they were just

941
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 1: like giving them painkillers for heat stroke because that's all

942
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: they could do. And yeah, it is punishingly hot if

943
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: you haven't let that works in that part of the

944
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 1: world a lot, and it is. It's hot enough without

945
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: banking a tin can. Yeah, and Valis's fucking education for them.

946
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 1: They don't fucking work. They don't do shit right. Age

947
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: education system is still fucked just by all the body

948
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:02,760
Speaker 1: of the Clinton Foundation and the like, all these experts

949
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: got paid. Like it's still really bad. I vallist like specifically,

950
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: like very specifically defended. The use of trailers is like

951
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: a thing you teach people in UM. Yeah, and you

952
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: know this stuff I'll continue used to the present day.

953
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: The US has been trying to find another excuse, just

954
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: trying to find a way to do another intervention in Haiti.

955
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: So she's still on the New Orleans job. I think,

956
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:29,879
Speaker 1: while he's doing this Haiti job and then he takes

957
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: another job in Chile. Yeah, why I don't know. The

958
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: people people get well because because the the Interamerican Development

959
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 1: Bank gives him half a million dollars to run two

960
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: thousand schools there. So again. He's now he's now splitting

961
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: his time between New Orleans, Haiti and Chile. It's it's

962
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: almost impossible to find it. I spent a lot of

963
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: time looking. It's like it's really hard to find like

964
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: anything about what actually he was doing in Chile. What

965
00:51:58,200 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 1: we do know was when when he got there, he

966
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: was met by the enormous two thousand and eleven Chilean

967
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: student protests, which then later turned into the twenty thirteen

968
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 1: Chilean student protests, which turned into the two thousand and

969
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: fifteen Chilean student protests, which turned into two thousand and

970
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 1: nineteen Chilian student protests. So you know, I mean, I

971
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: just I just want to like you. It is possible

972
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: to run Paul Vallas out of your country. A couple

973
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: of different places, or at least your school jests were

974
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: also a country. A couple of places have done it.

975
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,280
Speaker 1: And then after that they s ended up Bridgeport, Connecticut

976
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: for some reason, where he gets run out after doing

977
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:37,760
Speaker 1: like he gets he flees Connecticut, like trying to escape

978
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: a lawsuit about all the illegal anti union stuff that

979
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: he did. I really love the image of someone trying

980
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: to desperately flee from Connecticut. Yeah, like it's so small.

981
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: How how hard is it to leave Connecticut? It seems

982
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: pretty easy. Tone, I mean, the one the video I

983
00:52:57,960 --> 00:52:59,760
Speaker 1: actually want to see is him getting out of Philly.

984
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: See see getting out of Philly sounds actually hard getting

985
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: out of just Connecticut, Like come on, come on, Yeah,

986
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: the video I want to suse him getting sent back

987
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: to Haiti by himself. Oh god. Yeah. So he runs

988
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:23,240
Speaker 1: again into fourteen. Sogovis gets arrested for you know, selling

989
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 1: a Senate seat, and he tries to run for lieutenant

990
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: governor on on a slate, on like a ticket with

991
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 1: Pat Quinn who had been the governor because he'd been

992
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: the lieutenant governor Undergoish, and they like, actually they managed

993
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: to lose in Illinois to a Republican, which is like

994
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: a think that should not happen unless a Democrats would

995
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,359
Speaker 1: like really fuck up, which I mean it happens, right,

996
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, socrats can make can make electoral mistakes.

997
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: Are you sure to be fair? To be fair? This

998
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: one wasn't. This wasn't even an electoral thing. This was

999
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 1: just the guy tries to sell a fucking Senate sea.

1000
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: People were so add it into the next election, They're

1001
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: like we will vote for Bruce Rowner, who is just

1002
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: like a fucking absolute dipshit. But okay, so she So

1003
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: he has now lost two consecutive runs for governor, right

1004
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: governor and lieutenant governor. Now this year he actually he

1005
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: would he had another bid where he was maybe gonna run,

1006
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 1: and then he stopped. And now now he is one

1007
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: of the candidates for the mayor of Chicago. Now while

1008
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: he's been doing his campaigning for this, some other fun

1009
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: stuff has been happening. Um, so he has an absolutely

1010
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 1: unlistenable podcast past Please no. I considered pulling clips from this,

1011
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: and then I was like, I'm not. I can't inflict

1012
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 1: this on you. Absolutely it sucks. Yeah, I would simply

1013
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: leave this zoom call. I'm not. I was gonna like,

1014
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: I was gonna talk about one of the things that

1015
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: he said a couple of things that he well, okay,

1016
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: one that he said on this one of they said

1017
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,320
Speaker 1: on a different show. One of the things was he

1018
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: starts ranting about this thing called culturally responsive teaching, which

1019
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: is this kind of liberal like anti racist. Yeah, this

1020
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: is a big thing. Like if anyone ever starts talking

1021
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 1: about culturally responsive teaching and starts yelling about it like

1022
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,279
Speaker 1: they're a racist, like that those are the only people

1023
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: who like actually like consistently. I mean like it's not

1024
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: like there art criticisms of it, but like almost everyone

1025
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:29,479
Speaker 1: who talks about this on like a school board level

1026
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:33,720
Speaker 1: is like a really weird racist guy. So she starts

1027
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: raving about how this means that everyone's gonna get handed

1028
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: a copy of Mao's Little Red Book and then says, quote,

1029
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: what is this the cultural revolution? Now? We have covered

1030
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 1: the cultural revolution over the course of the show in

1031
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: the Atlanta episodes, and I'm just gonna simply say no

1032
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 1: and move on to read this unbelievably racist thing that

1033
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:01,919
Speaker 1: he said. I'm just gonna read this. It's it's real bad.

1034
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 1: But for that matter, if you're a black child, you

1035
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 1: go home and listen to your parent when your parent

1036
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: has failed to be successful in addressing the ways these

1037
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: historically racist obstacles that have denied them a chance to

1038
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,919
Speaker 1: equal opportunity. Here's the guy he's talking to, Paul. I wonder,

1039
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: if you're a black kid, why don't you become a

1040
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 1: criminal if you're hearing this stuff in school, everyone with

1041
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,360
Speaker 1: the white skin is an oppress. Or if you're a

1042
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: black skin. You're the oppressed. That makes it pretty easy

1043
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:27,760
Speaker 1: to justify any pretty bad conduct in in my opinion,

1044
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. So this is valence comes back. But

1045
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 1: what you're also doing, you're giving these you're giving people

1046
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: an excuse for bad behavior. You're almost justifying is Rams

1047
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 1: book in Fox. So you're right, You're absolutely right. Where

1048
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 1: is the accountability, you're the victim. What's happening is it

1049
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 1: becomes a justification for everything, and I think that's a

1050
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:51,720
Speaker 1: very dangerous thing. So Vas arguing that talking about racism

1051
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 1: is actually a thing that encourages black people to do crime,

1052
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: which is like that that sounds kind of racist, may

1053
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 1: just a little bit he maybe with supremisist gives up

1054
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: racist vibes. Yeah. Um, So, speaking of racist vibes, his

1055
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: son is a cop in Santa Fe and he was

1056
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 1: one of three cops who shot a black guy in

1057
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: the back after calling him boy. Um. The cops, including

1058
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: Vast Yeah, they start screaming boy at him and they

1059
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: shoot him in the back. And the cops, including val

1060
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:23,439
Speaker 1: As his son, claimed to have found a gun next

1061
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: to his body. Um. And in a completely unrelated story,

1062
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 1: US Special Forces units in Afghanistan ricchie Lee carried a

1063
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: K forty sevens in the combat zone so they could

1064
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:32,919
Speaker 1: drop the next to the body of people they killed

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Speaker 1: Ridge and declared them insurgents. This has no relation to

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Speaker 1: the previous story at all. I am simply relaying facts

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Speaker 1: two interesting and unrelated stories. Yeah, didn't. Valis also is

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Speaker 1: he's the guy who claimed his Twitter was hacked? Right,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, so very way back at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of this episode, I talked a bit about the racism

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00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: against Looie Lightfoot and like one of the tweets that

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Speaker 1: he liked is a tweet like calling Laura man like

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00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 1: Lord life Foot a man like it's just unbelievably racist,

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00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: like homophobic, transphobic shit. And he claims that his account

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Speaker 1: was hacked and people were liking tweets without his permission. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: that's all they did. They just liked some racist streets.

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Speaker 1: There's like a bunch of other like and the other thing.

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Speaker 1: It's like, okay, Like Paul Bells doesn't like actually live

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Speaker 1: in Chicago. You mentioned this. He lives in Like, he

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00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 1: claims to live in Polo's Heights, which is also not Chicago,

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00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 1: but it's unclear whether he even lives there. Or if

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00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: he's in like some kind of like even more insane

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00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: outlying suburb that's even less Chicago than the stuff is

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00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 1: and he like, he likes, he likes. He one of

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00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 1: the things he likeing tweets calling it like shit cago

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00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: and stuff, and it's like, well, yeah, it's because he

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00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: doesn't live in the city. He's not actually like these

1088
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 1: are like a bunch of his support, a bunch of

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00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 1: the money he's getting, or from like drained suburban like reactionaries.

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Speaker 1: And Okay, so I want to tell one last story

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00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: about him that pisses me off a lot, which is

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00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: the story of a Wake Illinois. So Awake Illinois is

1093
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: like Illinois's version of Protect Texas Kids. It's a group

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00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 1: that does Nazi protests at drag events. They managed to

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00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 1: destroy a bakery called Uprising for trying to hold a

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00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: drag bunt brunch so that they Awake did all this

1097
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: thing of like, ah, they're grooming kids, and then the

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00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: Proud Boys showed up and attacked it, and then someone

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00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: like vandalized it and they nearly had to close the

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Speaker 1: entire bakery until a go fund me raised thirty thousand

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00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 1: dollars for them to survive. They are like, these people

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00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: are unbelievably homophobic. They rant about groomers constantly. They're like

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00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: really transphobic. Anyways, Paul Vallis spoke at one of their fundraisers.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, So after this came out, Vallis distanced himself

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00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: from the group, saying you didn't know what they represented

1106
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 1: and just wanted to support school choice. AWAKE responded by going, hey,

1107
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: what the fuck, You absolutely know who we are, and

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00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 1: they released another video of Vallis and another AWAKE event

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00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 1: where he said that AWAKES president Shannon Adcox should run

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00:59:57,120 --> 01:00:03,440
Speaker 1: for governor. So if elected, would I probably be the

1111
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 1: most openly homophobic democratic like mayor in the country, which

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01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: is a pretty wild like which is pretty wild claim,

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01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: but like I can't think of anyone else who actually

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01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 1: like showed up at an event where people just screaming

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01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:23,720
Speaker 1: about groomers. Like yeah, and of the Democrats, he is

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01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:25,920
Speaker 1: just a Republican, Like he's he's like like a pre

1117
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 1: right wing like Republican who runs the Democrat because Chicago

1118
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: political machine is also just so far right. I thought

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01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: this was because low Lightfoot defounded the police. Mayor. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I thought that's what happened. And people want the police back.

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Speaker 1: That's what That's what I that's what I've sold. You know.

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Speaker 1: The thing is actually very funny about the elections is like,

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Speaker 1: so there is elections for these like police district councils

1124
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 1: are just supposed to be these like civilian oversight boards

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01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: and the like reform. There's kind of there was an

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01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 1: alliance to sort of like reform defund and abolitionist candidates,

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01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: and they did fucking amazing and the pro police candidate

1128
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: got fucking Clawbard. And it mean, while every single national

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01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 1: story about the Hill action was like Chicago crime, I

1130
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: was like, you guys don't understand how much everyone here

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01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 1: hates the police, Like I like, they murdered a thirteen

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Speaker 1: year old like fucking two years ago. I yeah, good, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna hedge my thing here by saying

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01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 1: there's so much other Paul Valle shit, I couldn't fit.

1135
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 1: Like I really wanted to talk about Keith Thornton, who

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01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 1: is Chicago's George Santos, who like his thing is that

1137
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 1: he stole nine to eleven dispatcher Valor and is like

1138
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: keep showing up in pictures with vallis just just Google

1139
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 1: Keith Thornton and you will have a good time. Like,

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01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 1: there are so many other Vallis things that he did

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01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: that are awful. There are probably things that he's done

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01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 1: that we'll never know about because he did them in

1143
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 1: like I don't know, like like what the fuck he

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01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:53,960
Speaker 1: was doing in Chile. We probably won't ever know all

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01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: the things he didn't hate e U. Yeah, don't let

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01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: this guy become the fucking mayor of Chicago. He will

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01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:08,400
Speaker 1: leave the city utterly destroyed. Let's go Brandon. I I'm

1148
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:10,920
Speaker 1: so annoyed that people are on ironically, let's go brandon

1149
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: ing in Chicago now for Brandon Johnson. It's bringing it back.

1150
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 1: We're taking it back. We were reclaiming it. I reclaim Yeah,

1151
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 1: I'm so bad like bringing Brandon back. Okay, I got

1152
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 1: in trouble with my boss in twenty fifteen for saying

1153
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 1: fuck Hillary, like you fucking little bitches. You could just

1154
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 1: you can just say that. You you could just say

1155
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 1: fuck Joe Biden, like all of you are cowards. Yes

1156
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: it was. It is deeply cowardly afraid of saying fuck.

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01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 1: But at the same time they think they're gonna staged

1158
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: an armed overthrow of the government anyway. Oh there's actually okay,

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Speaker 1: this is the thing I actually should mention. There are

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Speaker 1: a bunch of ties between um, there are a bunch

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01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 1: of ties between Vallas and guys who were at J

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01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:59,400
Speaker 1: six like and like a lot of Jay Sax people

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01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 1: support him. He's like, he's like he is the MAGA candidate.

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01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 1: That's like there's like, oh, there's a whole thing there

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01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 1: that I didn't get into because I don't know. There's

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01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: so much you could do, like seven episodes just about

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01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 1: Paul Vallas and how much he sucks. But yeah, stop

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01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: him if if he fucking gets elected. We're doing that.

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01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 1: We're doing that. We're doing the fucking Chileans student protests

1170
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: because yeah, hate him. Opie has a bad day. It

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