Speaker 1: So, kadie, have you or any of your female friends
Speaker 1: been engaging in this man or bear meme that were
Speaker 1: like a month behind on.
Speaker 2: Yes or no?
Speaker 1: Big eye roll, huge eye roll. Okay, I'll set it
Speaker 1: up here and then you can you can get into it.
Speaker 1: Eye roll followed by the headshake of disgust.
Speaker 3: This is the dumbest thing that's hit the Internet in
Speaker 3: a while.
Speaker 2: But go ahead, jam.
Speaker 1: Well, we're wait behind, and I apologize if you're like,
Speaker 1: that's that's so yesterday's news, because from what I understand,
Speaker 1: this has been the hot topic for quite a few weeks.
Speaker 2: But we're old and slow. So it's a very simple question.
Speaker 1: If you're a woman hiking alone in the woods, would
Speaker 1: you rather encounter an unknown man or an unknown bear?
Speaker 1: Would you rather encounter a strange a dude you don't know,
Speaker 1: or a bear? And depending on which social media venue
Speaker 1: you're on, but it ranges from well over majority on
Speaker 1: all of them, two thirds to eighty five percent of
Speaker 1: the women say absolutely bear, Absolutely bear, I'd rather run
Speaker 1: into a bear than a do out in the woods alone.
Speaker 2: First of all, what.
Speaker 1: If you of your friends thought, And then I'll get
Speaker 1: into some of the higher level sociology commentary around it.
Speaker 3: I have not brought this up to my circle of
Speaker 3: friends because the ones that would know about it are
Speaker 3: going to be the ones that would say bear. This
Speaker 3: is the dumbest thing on the planet. I don't know
Speaker 3: why you would want to encounter a bear. I don't
Speaker 3: have you not heard of male toxicity? Oh kid, do
Speaker 3: you know a break? Really, you would rather encounter a
Speaker 3: wild bear while you're out on a hike than passing
Speaker 3: some dude you don't know.
Speaker 2: That's where we are.
Speaker 1: That is where we are, and I think we actually
Speaker 1: are there. Obviously there would be a certain amount of
Speaker 1: jerkin with people or pollsters. It's not really a pole,
Speaker 1: just a question posted on TikTok or whatever. But people
Speaker 1: kind of get a kick out of saying bear. But
Speaker 1: the fact that people get a kick out of saying bear,
Speaker 1: I find troubling that you just you like this idea
Speaker 1: that men are so awful and dangerous that I'd.
Speaker 2: Rather be eaten by a bear.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of the most common sort of comment
Speaker 1: is if a bear eats me, at least it's going
Speaker 1: to be quick and easy a man. All the horrible
Speaker 1: things a man might do to me, Oh, be much
Speaker 1: worse than being eaten by a bear. Is kind of
Speaker 1: the common theme among the eighty percent of women who
Speaker 1: feel that way.
Speaker 4: My concern is that this might erode bear awareness, but
Speaker 4: that's just me.
Speaker 3: Just let all of the women who said bear encounter
Speaker 3: a bear.
Speaker 2: That'll be great.
Speaker 1: I have had a couple reactions in the last few years, though,
Speaker 1: where women in recoiled in horror from the most casual
Speaker 1: like approach your conversation.
Speaker 2: That didn't used to happen.
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't know what's being taught to
Speaker 1: young women about how afraid you should be of men
Speaker 1: in public or what.
Speaker 4: But you look like a serial killer. That's most of them.
Speaker 1: But I've always looked like a serial killer, and I
Speaker 1: didn't always get this reaction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe, just all part one of my answer. Part
Speaker 3: two is this. This is the Internet. The Internet is
Speaker 3: doing this, the TikTok algorithms, the Instagram algorithms. Anytime you
Speaker 3: go on this bear man thing has been all over
Speaker 3: the place, and it is it's the This is the
Speaker 3: dumbest comparison. I'm my blood pressure is going up if
Speaker 3: you can't tell the fact that this is like the
Speaker 3: main it was trending on every social media outlet you
Speaker 3: can imagine, and the top videos that you clicked on
Speaker 3: were all women talking about how they would much rather
Speaker 3: encounter a bear, and then firing off all the lists
Speaker 3: of reasons why they wouldn't want to encounter a man,
Speaker 3: which is stupid. And then you get all the kids
Speaker 3: that echo that.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, h.
Speaker 4: Just the whole framework where you're you're answering one question
Speaker 4: with an answer that's meant to express who you are
Speaker 4: and what you're concerned about and how you believe in
Speaker 4: toxic masculinity and all. I just if you want to
Speaker 4: say something, say something. Yeah, I don't know. Just this
Speaker 4: annoys me. It's it's another example of if you're going
Speaker 4: to be accepted as an as a progressive, you've got
Speaker 4: to hate the United States. You've got to be self hating,
Speaker 4: especially if you're white people. That's like your uh, that's
Speaker 4: your bona fide. Can you use that in singular? I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 2: That's how you prove that you're worthy of respect.
Speaker 1: Self hatred and look, I get it as the father
Speaker 1: of a couple of daughters that you know there's there's
Speaker 1: some risk.
Speaker 4: In encountering a man in the wild. But it's just
Speaker 4: a silly question. A bear's a freaking wild piece.
Speaker 1: This seems like a good opportunity for me to express
Speaker 1: my disapproval of toxic masculinity.
Speaker 2: That's all this is.
Speaker 1: Of course, you got to flip it around for men hiking,
Speaker 1: Do you want to encounter a cougar or a cougar? Okay,
Speaker 1: your choice of cogar cougar. I'll not go with the
Speaker 1: cougar over the cougar any day. I'll tell you that
Speaker 1: as dumb as as this, as this texture, I've literally
Speaker 1: been chased and nearly attacked by a man in the woods.
Speaker 1: The later caught him and arrested him, but it's still
Speaker 1: rather run into a man than a bear.
Speaker 2: Yes, your experienced hiker.
Speaker 3: I used to hike every single day, and I have
Speaker 3: passed hundreds, if not thousands, of random men in the woods.
Speaker 3: And I can tell you if that number had been
Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands of bears, I probably wouldn't be you're
Speaker 3: talking to you right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got a lot of texts on this for decades,
Speaker 1: the leftist feminized men that strong men are toxic, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Now women complain there are no strong men
Speaker 1: available to hook up with. We've got a lot of
Speaker 1: that theme. Hey, there's no wonder nobody's having kids. I
Speaker 1: was thinking about somebody we used to work with around here,
Speaker 1: talking about why he was still single and didn't date much.
Speaker 1: Just the whole women he encountered look at men like
Speaker 1: they're all rapists. Like that, that's your starting point and
Speaker 1: you have to convince otherwise. Another aspect of this that
Speaker 1: bothers me is that whether you're a parent, or a
Speaker 1: teacher or even a in some situations, people tend to
Speaker 1: they react to they live up to your expectations of them.
Speaker 1: And if we are constantly giving the message, sending the
Speaker 1: message to young men that men are dangerous, violent and
Speaker 1: misogynist beasts, then the young man has the option of
Speaker 1: either A being that or B being some sort of
Speaker 1: weird reaction to that extra effeminate passive, you know, making
Speaker 1: sure they're not right. And you know, I just it's unhealthy.
Speaker 3: Me go ahead, Katie, Oh, I'm just thinking from a
Speaker 3: woman's standpoint too. It also says something about our growing
Speaker 3: women's security. Because I'm secure enough in myself, like if
Speaker 3: I'm out, I'm situationally aware and all of those things.
Speaker 3: So I think that if I were to encounter the
Speaker 3: bad man on the trail, I would be able to
Speaker 3: know at least how to start to protect myself and
Speaker 3: handle it. We just have a bunch of really weak,
Speaker 3: scared women right now, too, well.
Speaker 1: We it's the same thing that has been going on
Speaker 1: for decade's now around child abduction. We've got to quit
Speaker 1: acting like every child gets abducted, every woman gets raped.
Speaker 1: These are extraordinary instances. That's why they make the news
Speaker 1: the way they do.
Speaker 4: They're not common, right, what's the exceptionality bias or rarity bias?
Speaker 4: The point is, uh, And you're probably familiar with this,
Speaker 4: but it's worth keeping in mind that things make the
Speaker 4: news because they're rare, and then everybody sees them and
Speaker 4: becomes convinced they're common. Yeah, it's the very rarest of
Speaker 4: things that you hear about the most. Because man goes
Speaker 4: to work without incident, Hug's wife, who he loves afterward,
Speaker 4: is not gonna make the news. Yeah, and that happens
Speaker 4: millions and millions of times every single day.
Speaker 1: If you're lost in the woods and he encountered a man,
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the time, maybe more the guy's
Speaker 1: gonna say, yeah, yeah, you go that way, and that'll
Speaker 1: be the.
Speaker 2: End of it, right yep, encounterbear, You're gonna wet your pants.
Speaker 2: It's scary.
Speaker 3: I had a guy get a coyote away from me
Speaker 3: one time on a hike. He didn't know him for anything. There,
Speaker 3: you go help me out.
Speaker 1: It didn't. This meme didn't start with a woman in
Speaker 1: the woods. It started with would you rather have your
Speaker 1: child wandering the woods and come across a bear or
Speaker 1: a man? In that case, definitely a man. I mean,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? That's just idiotic.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But again, that is the the knee jerk need of
Speaker 4: the progressive is to hate men, hate white people, hate
Speaker 4: the United States, whatever, self hatred.
Speaker 1: I've got another great example of that coming up. I
Speaker 1: have one more text on this, and this is the
Speaker 1: good closing text. Bear a man on a hiking trail.
Speaker 1: How did you know it was a man if you
Speaker 1: haven't confirmed his self identities, his pronoms, et cetera.
Speaker 2: The idea that you just assumed it was a man.
Speaker 2: Bad on you, boy.
Speaker 3: What if it's a man that identifies as.
Speaker 2: A bear, then you're yeah, wait a mood? Yeah, guy
Speaker 2: in a bear suit. I don't even know what you do.
Speaker 4: Would you say bear or would you say what a
Speaker 4: bears do in the woods? Yeah? A person who ases
Speaker 4: in the woods like a birthing person or you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. Yeah, come up with some elaborate woke term.
Speaker 1: Joe jackasses a woods sen beast.
Speaker 4: Yes, ignore them completely and DEI programs where they exist immediately.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 5: Everyone that's using swipe to text most likely millennial, possibly
Speaker 5: gen z piping fast and accurately with two thumbs again,
Speaker 5: probably mid twenties, mid thirties. Even you will kind of
Speaker 5: stay at this thumb tapping age until probably about i'd
Speaker 5: say fifties. Then you're going to start adding in your
Speaker 5: your index finger unnecessarily.
Speaker 2: Aged sixty five plus is where.
Speaker 5: You start doing the one finger tap, holding with your
Speaker 5: left hand or your right hand.
Speaker 2: You're getting up there when you're doing that. I just
Speaker 2: don't think that's true.
Speaker 1: I think the one hand or two hands depends on
Speaker 1: the size of your phone, because I've had the smaller
Speaker 1: phone where I can reach everything with my thumb, and
Speaker 1: then I've had the bigger phone where I got to
Speaker 1: use both thumbs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see young people.
Speaker 1: I've sat next to lots of young people on planes
Speaker 1: or whatever, and they're they're using both thumbs. Go, they
Speaker 1: can go faster than me.
Speaker 4: Definitely. My youngest who enjoys teasing me. At one point,
Speaker 4: I'm voice texting and she says, oh, that is so boomer. Really,
Speaker 4: I'm like, honey, it's saving me time.
Speaker 1: Really, So young people don't voice text almost exclusively voice text.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: I've not had that substantiated by like a committee of
Speaker 4: youthful people.
Speaker 1: But she's, you know, she probably knows. But that's interesting
Speaker 1: to me that they don't voice text.
Speaker 2: They see it as faster to use your thumbs, Katie
Speaker 2: or cooler. Voice texting when not in.
Speaker 3: The car or through your Apple Watch is a little
Speaker 3: it's boomer.
Speaker 2: Huh. It's a little little boomer if you're among people,
Speaker 2: is that what you mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean if you're standing in a group of
Speaker 3: people when you pull out your phone and you start
Speaker 3: firing off a text, you know, text to voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh you I don't care if I'm a boomer.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: Actually I'm a gen z. But as gen X said,
Speaker 1: but as a friend, I'm not gen Z a gen X,
Speaker 1: but as a friend said to me, but you present Boomer,
Speaker 1: I do a fair enough Okay anyway, a different consumer issue.
Speaker 1: I found this so interesting. Taylor Swift among she is, yes, skinny,
Speaker 1: blondeheaded dating a football guy.
Speaker 2: Yes, Taylor Swift.
Speaker 4: She is a talented songstress, no doubt, whether you're like
Speaker 4: your music or not, there's no denying that people really
Speaker 4: dig her tunes. But she is also an absolutely savage
Speaker 4: and effective capitalist in ways that I think are underappreciated
Speaker 4: because everybody's busy swooning over her legs and her concerts.
Speaker 4: I've got a friend who's in the concert business. I
Speaker 4: can't get too specific, but he's pointed out to me
Speaker 4: that she is a voracious capitalist. She one tour, your
Speaker 4: place in line to buy tickets was determined by how
Speaker 4: much merchandise you bought. You spend one hundred bucks on
Speaker 4: merch you're like fourth in line, you spend three hundred
Speaker 4: bucks on merch step right up by your concert ticket.
Speaker 1: Well, then that whole selling tickets to just being the
Speaker 1: parking lot like my niece did, making lots of money
Speaker 1: off of that parking lot tickets, or opening the t
Speaker 1: shirt shops and everything like they did in San Francisco
Speaker 1: three days before the concert, and having lines around the
Speaker 1: block right now. Yeah, and a lot of the talk
Speaker 1: of hey man, they're selling owed in the sixties and
Speaker 1: seventies was idiotic, As Pete Townsend to the who once
Speaker 1: put it, and I thought this was pretty persuasive. He said, no,
Speaker 1: if I let Chevy use my song for their trucks
Speaker 1: for six months, that allows me to finance all these
Speaker 1: projects I want to do that are not going to
Speaker 1: make any money, but I really enjoy. Well, that's so
Speaker 1: perfectly that if you need to make that reason, I
Speaker 1: don't care if your reason is I want to buy
Speaker 1: a yacht. Who freaking cares is my song? The weight
Speaker 1: with Warbler can do whatever she wants with her songs.
Speaker 1: Back to the Wayfish Warbler herself. So, oh, that's right,
Speaker 1: the whole selling out thing. She has so much money
Speaker 1: and employs so many people. It's just interesting to see
Speaker 1: that she is obviously as motivated as the guy who
Speaker 1: you know came up as Steve Jobs was with Apple
Speaker 1: to build a giant conglomerate. Because she doesn't need the money.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not even close. But for instance, she
Speaker 1: her new Albumney.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is true, she does not need the money.
Speaker 4: But so why would she? For instance, her new album
Speaker 4: is called Midnights. She has put out six different funky
Speaker 4: like colored vinyl albums, discs, records. She puts out these
Speaker 4: collectiable vinyl additions in a bunch of weird, funky colors,
Speaker 4: and people are buying all of them.
Speaker 1: Do so a physical album? Do people have record players?
Speaker 1: All these people?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people don't. How would I know?
Speaker 2: I haven't ask them.
Speaker 1: But there's the collectibles. You hang them on your wall
Speaker 1: or they actually spin them. That's an interesting question.
Speaker 4: But this one dude who's and he's a dude who's
Speaker 4: a big Taylor Swift fan, has spent about one thousand
Speaker 4: dollars in the process of buying all six of the
Speaker 4: different colored vinyls. Although streaming remains the dominant musical format,
Speaker 4: physical media has been a growing niche where the industry
Speaker 4: can cater to so called super fans who express their
Speaker 4: dedication by shelling out big bucks for collectible versions of
Speaker 4: new releases, sometimes in multiple quantities.
Speaker 2: A lot of your K pop bands are like this too.
Speaker 4: They have elaborate CD packages offering often featuring goodies like
Speaker 4: postcards and photo booklets, which helped the boy band repeatedly
Speaker 4: go to number one.
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift has put.
Speaker 1: Out special edition like CD packages, even cassettes with bonus tracks.
Speaker 1: Certain deluxe editions sold through her website have trinkets like
Speaker 1: Magnet's photo cards and engraved bookmarks, and my favorite, Swift's
Speaker 1: site offered a limited run of autographed LPs for fifty dollars,
Speaker 1: and then she had one special edition thing which featured
Speaker 1: entries from her journal or her diary or something like
Speaker 1: that that the completest fan would have to collect. So
Speaker 1: you weren't here the day we talked about the leggy
Speaker 1: La La Lauer and her making the Billionaire List for
Speaker 1: the first time. She is so the billionaire entertainers. She
Speaker 1: just made the list this year. There are fourteen billionaire entertainers.
Speaker 1: She's the only one on there, including jay Z, Rihanna,
Speaker 1: a bunch of different people. She's the only one on
Speaker 1: there that's made the money primarily offer music. The other
Speaker 1: ones have makeup or jay Z's got tequila or whatever.
Speaker 1: He's got brand, He's got some sort of boost. She's
Speaker 1: the only one that has done a music but she's
Speaker 1: found a whole bunch of different avenues.
Speaker 4: For the music avenue of it, we'll write music and
Speaker 4: music adjacent like merch.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but I understand the distinction.
Speaker 1: T shirts is closer to your music than you got
Speaker 1: a booze now.
Speaker 4: Oh, one hundred percent. Yeah, especially because you can't make
Speaker 4: money on the music. Really, in the world of streaming,
Speaker 4: artists make nothing. You got to sell tickets and merch.
Speaker 4: As I've heard said many times, you want to support
Speaker 4: an artist by merch.
Speaker 2: And the blonde Bellower is only thirty four.
Speaker 1: She's got along apparently, Apparently your trove of these phrases
Speaker 1: is unending.
Speaker 2: She's got a long way to go.
Speaker 1: She could end up with many, many billions of dollars.
Speaker 2: I can't go on with this discussion. It's funny. I've
Speaker 2: wanted to bring this up for a while.
Speaker 4: The real crisis in America's government schools, and I don't
Speaker 4: want to be the cliched. Everything is going to hell
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 1: Person like, that's what I am, because that's my brand,
Speaker 1: because we already have one of them. No, but I
Speaker 1: was thinking about it, and it goes back to our
Speaker 1: discussion of the natural state of things. Is chaos and
Speaker 1: poverty and violence. And if you have a civilization, the
Speaker 1: challenge of preserving that civilization never ends. And everything isn't
Speaker 1: necessarily going to hell, but everything will go to hell
Speaker 1: if you don't stop it.
Speaker 2: Going to hell needs to be maintained.
Speaker 4: Yes, in short, So, anyway, I think one of the
Speaker 4: things in another principle before we get into specific so
Speaker 4: you've quoted George will As saying one of the essential,
Speaker 4: you know, elements of being a conservative is you have
Speaker 4: to deal with reality, recognize what is right. You can't
Speaker 4: be a utopian, unicorn riding wisher of fond wishes and
Speaker 4: call yourself a conservative.
Speaker 2: It's just it doesn't fit.
Speaker 4: So anyway, I think we have an enormous crisis with
Speaker 4: America's government schools right now. I don't think there's any
Speaker 4: doubt of that. I think it would be a four
Speaker 4: alarm panic going on in America right now if it
Speaker 4: were not for two things. Number One, a lot of
Speaker 4: parents think schools are still what they went to, what
Speaker 4: they grew up with, and the distraction of the golden
Speaker 4: Bachelor and the golden Bachelor. And there are three things
Speaker 4: now that I think about it, and the other one
Speaker 4: is that there are some schools. It's actually four things,
Speaker 4: including the Golden Bachelor. There are some schools that are
Speaker 4: still doing a good job. They're fighting hard, they're in
Speaker 4: conservative areas, the teachers and administrators are not fully so
Speaker 4: people think our schools seem to be fine, and maybe
Speaker 4: they are. But the fourth thing, obviously, is that the
Speaker 4: dominant media do not talk about this much at all
Speaker 4: because it's extremely uncomfortable for them because they are progressive,
Speaker 4: they are woke, they are pro union, and.
Speaker 1: The heavyweights had their kids in private schools, so they
Speaker 1: wouldn't know anyway.
Speaker 4: That's a good point. That is a good point in
Speaker 4: the middle eights too, anyway. So a couple of exhibits
Speaker 4: in the prosecution of America's government schools. One that you've
Speaker 4: probably heard similar fare before, but this is a bit
Speaker 4: of an update. Between two thousand, year two thousand and
Speaker 4: the year twenty twenty two, the number of students in
Speaker 4: Marcus schools rose by five percent.
Speaker 2: Five percent.
Speaker 1: The number of teachers rose by ten percent, which is interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the number of principles and assistant principles rose by forty percent.
Speaker 1: Whoa what who had their kid in school in the
Speaker 1: year two thousand thought, you know, this is going well,
Speaker 1: it'd be a lot better though if we had like
Speaker 1: eight more principles.
Speaker 2: Who the hell ought that right?
Speaker 1: And then again, keeping in mind that the increase in
Speaker 1: students is five percent, the increase in administrative staff is
Speaker 1: ninety five percent.
Speaker 2: There you go, Samans with universities. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, some we've talked about this in the past, and
Speaker 4: some folks have said, yeah, the uh the government mandates
Speaker 4: on schools is so cumbersome. Now the federal and state mandates.
Speaker 4: You have to have compliance staff, Oh my god, that
Speaker 4: spend their whole days issuing reports and filling out forms
Speaker 4: that say you've conformed to all of the demands of
Speaker 4: the centralized government.
Speaker 1: There are so many forms. So I have been through
Speaker 1: a lot of this and super nice people. I'm not
Speaker 1: complaining about any of these people. What I was one
Speaker 1: meeting that has like fifteen people in it about my son,
Speaker 1: and they kept using the word rubric. Well, this, this
Speaker 1: fits the rubric, and it doesn't fit the rubric. And
Speaker 1: we've looked at the rubric everythink, like I said, I
Speaker 1: think I said out loud, I think I cannot hear
Speaker 1: the word rubric another time, just we gotta.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that is. We got to
Speaker 2: stop saying the word rubric.
Speaker 1: Please. If we do nothing else here, it's refrain from
Speaker 1: singing rubric.
Speaker 2: So it was a paperwork thing.
Speaker 1: It was just all kinds of different layers of paperwork.
Speaker 4: So you have this from Jason Riley, who's a great
Speaker 4: writer and thinker. Biden and Harris worked to crush school competition.
Speaker 4: He is more opposed to charter schools than any president
Speaker 4: in recent history. And Kamala has spoken enthusiastically about how
Speaker 4: wonderful teachers unions are and that everything that tends to
Speaker 4: take money and influence away from the teachers unions is
Speaker 4: an attack on public schools. That would be bad enough
Speaker 4: were it not for the numbers involved. Again, this is
Speaker 4: fairly oh you know, the National Review actually touched on
Speaker 4: the fact that the left is now trying to promote
Speaker 4: or I'm sorry to indict school choice movements as an
Speaker 4: effort a secret plot to promote Christian nationalism. All right,
Speaker 4: that's one of the attacks.
Speaker 1: I assume you're about to get to some of the
Speaker 1: results we're getting out of the schools. Yeah, okay, but
Speaker 1: even without that, even if it had maintained what public
Speaker 1: schools were from the past. Why would you need to
Speaker 1: increase administration by ninety percent and think that that was
Speaker 1: a good idea even if we had maintained the same quality.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, why are we spending all this money?
Speaker 1: Was working fine before? Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm looking at the clock. I think maybe
Speaker 4: we take a break and then come back with some
Speaker 4: of the results stuff. But the other thing I wanted
Speaker 4: to get to, and we have a lot of great
Speaker 4: teachers who listen to the show and communicate to us
Speaker 4: and blow the whistle on some of the more insane
Speaker 4: progressive things that are taking the place of math and
Speaker 4: reading in our schools. The genderbread person, which I'm always
Speaker 4: hammering about because you know, California is a particular interest
Speaker 4: because that's where the show is based, and the perversity
Speaker 4: in California schools is just it's heartbreaking. But anyway, Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal with a big piece. Teachers are burning out
Speaker 4: on the job, and the subhead is student behavior and
Speaker 4: mediocre pay are taking their toll from lefty media.
Speaker 2: It's always about the pay.
Speaker 4: It's always about money, and there's such a lack of
Speaker 4: understanding and wisdom. Maybe it's that progressives so fill the
Speaker 4: newsrooms that that's the only point of view. And a
Speaker 4: lot of journalists are young these days because it doesn't
Speaker 4: pay very well.
Speaker 2: But there is such a lack of wisdom. If I
Speaker 2: have a.
Speaker 1: Fun, rewarding, joyful job and I get the summer off,
Speaker 1: I would accept that rate of pay at X. If
Speaker 1: I have a miserable, discouraging, heartbreaking job.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna work for that low level pay. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna want a hell of a lot.
Speaker 1: More to keep showing up very good point, student behavior problems,
Speaker 1: cell phones in class, anemic pay that's not really true,
Speaker 1: and artificial intelligence powered cheating are taking their toll on
Speaker 1: America's roughly three point eight million teachers on top of
Speaker 1: the bruising pandemic years.
Speaker 2: The sheriff teachers who say the stress.
Speaker 4: And disappointments of the job are worth it has fallen
Speaker 4: twenty one points in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: I don't doubt that.
Speaker 4: As recently as twenty eighteen, over seventy percent of teachers
Speaker 4: said the stress was worth it. Now it's forty two.
Speaker 4: In surveys and interviews, teachers are most es any place you.
Speaker 1: Work, is they layered in more administration to wherever you work.
Speaker 1: Did that make things more enjoyable or less enjoyable where
Speaker 1: you work well?
Speaker 4: And we're going to get to the you know, it's
Speaker 4: more than frustration, it's being physically at risk. In surveys
Speaker 4: and interviews, teachers are most often pointing to a startling
Speaker 4: rise in students' mental health challenges and misbehavior as the
Speaker 4: biggest drivers of burnout. In the Rand Corporation survey, student
Speaker 4: behavior was the top source of teachers' job stress.
Speaker 1: A lot of that, I guarantee you, is that whole
Speaker 1: restorative justice thing where they have no ability to deal
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 2: That's the next sentence.
Speaker 4: You're absolutely right to quote a high school math teacher
Speaker 4: who says he saw student behavior deteriorate seriously, let yet
Speaker 4: his school drew more lenient in administrating administering consequences.
Speaker 1: How is the country not aware of what a failure
Speaker 1: this restorative justice thing is?
Speaker 4: I know, because nobody talks about it in the media.
Speaker 4: And this poor son of a gun, So he's dealing
Speaker 4: with all this frustration and then his district, Kansas City
Speaker 4: Public Schools, shout out Kansas City. The Great cities were
Speaker 4: a privileged to be on. They rolled out a new
Speaker 4: policy last year teachers could not give students a zero
Speaker 4: for an assignment even if they didn't turn it in
Speaker 4: and didn't make any effort to.
Speaker 2: It is to laugh. I mean, that is so funny.
Speaker 2: It is funny, It is hilarious. So say that again.
Speaker 2: You can't get a zero.
Speaker 4: Even if even if you say, not only did I
Speaker 4: not do the assignment, mister Gerald, you should shove it
Speaker 4: up your armors. He cannot give you a zero for
Speaker 4: that assignment. You got to get at least like a
Speaker 4: c one of the things I got when I got
Speaker 4: into teaching. My one thing was about learning and love
Speaker 4: of learning, he says. In the end, it was less
Speaker 4: about the learning and more about babysitting. He left teaching
Speaker 4: this summer. Oh yeah, yeah. And they go into a
Speaker 4: great deal of detail, with many, many examples of classroom
Speaker 4: stress and violence, lack of consequences for bad behavior, a
Speaker 4: stort of justice.
Speaker 2: I mean, look it up, well, don't look it.
Speaker 1: Up, because their description of it won't be accurate as
Speaker 1: to what actually happens.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It is the recipe for no discipline and a bullies paradise.
Speaker 2: It is it is.
Speaker 4: It is tragic for the children and the teachers, and
Speaker 4: it's part of Oh yeah, absolutely true, and it's one
Speaker 4: hundred percent part of the neo Marxist We're going to
Speaker 4: break the system. We're going to call everything racist until
Speaker 4: we control it. And they do control the schools to
Speaker 4: a large extent now, and anybody who stands in our
Speaker 4: way will call them a racist until we have imposed
Speaker 4: our philosophy on whatever institution you're talking about, from public
Speaker 4: schools to corporations, to the United States government to the
Speaker 4: military for instance.
Speaker 1: By the way, in Kansas City, we're on FM, so
Speaker 1: people can really enjoy our pipes.
Speaker 2: I have nothing to add to that, you know, And
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm looking at the clock.
Speaker 4: I came across another account a number of school districts
Speaker 4: in oh it was Virginia and one other state in
Speaker 4: which far fewer than half of the children were at
Speaker 4: the minimum level in English, and it was less than
Speaker 4: a third in district after district were not at the
Speaker 4: minimum level for math. We sometimes talk about proficiency. This
Speaker 4: was the well the minimum and the vast majority of
Speaker 4: kids are nowhere near it. And if you say I
Speaker 4: got to get my kid out of this school.
Speaker 1: The forces of the left from Joe Biden, Kamala Harrison
Speaker 1: down will tell you you're a racist for some reason.
Speaker 1: Be you're attacking public schools, trying to take recent versus away.
Speaker 1: You're a bad person and a bad parent. It's crazier
Speaker 1: that this isn't a bigger issue. It is, It absolutely is.
Speaker 1: We got this text out of nowhere. Do you know
Speaker 1: why hippies were Petulia oil? So blind people can hate
Speaker 1: them too. Wow, that's beautiful. Here's your freedom loving quote
Speaker 1: of the day. One of our beloved listeners sent this
Speaker 1: to us next to a big picture of Captain America,
Speaker 1: and it was Captain America saying this, And I understand
Speaker 1: this is a speech he gives to buck up Spider
Speaker 1: Man at one point during the movies.
Speaker 4: And I thought, boy, this is really eloquent for one
Speaker 4: of your comic book movies. Did the script write or
Speaker 4: write this? And I did a little digging and no,
Speaker 4: it's actually a very very close paraphrase. Was something Mark
Speaker 4: Twain said. Interesting, But I liked it so much I
Speaker 4: posted it up in the studio so I could glance
Speaker 4: at it now. And again I will give you the
Speaker 4: Twain version, which is only subtly different as opposed to
Speaker 4: Captain America.
Speaker 2: Okay, do just lend them a little more gravitas.
Speaker 1: Well, unless you're fighting off a mob, then I'd rather
Speaker 1: have the Captain on my side than the scribe. Honestly
Speaker 1: love Captain America kicks ass, Twain incredibly eloquent. Captain America
Speaker 1: definitely stronger on the whoop ass front. If you're fighting
Speaker 1: the Winter Soldier, you want Captain America, not Mark Twain.
Speaker 1: I agree completely. Anyway, here's what Twain said. It's a
Speaker 1: little long, but I love it so much. Maybe we
Speaker 1: can work in a little email later on. Let men
Speaker 1: label you as they may. If you alone, of all
Speaker 1: the nation, decide one way, and that way be the
Speaker 1: right way. By your convictions of the right, You've done
Speaker 1: your duty, by yourself and by your country, holding up
Speaker 1: your head, for you have nothing to be ashamed of.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the press says. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what the politicians or the mobs say. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.
Speaker 1: Republics are founded on one prince above all else, the
Speaker 1: requirement that we stand up for what we believe in,
Speaker 1: no matter the odds or the consequences when the mob
Speaker 1: and the press and the whole world tell you to move.
Speaker 1: Your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside
Speaker 1: the river of truth and tell the whole world, no,
Speaker 1: you move.
Speaker 2: Mark fing Twain, that's people understand, that's his middle name.
Speaker 1: That's really good stuff if it's the right cause or thing.
Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, and maybe I'll explain later why this happened.
Speaker 1: I was listening to a speech last night, FBI recordings
Speaker 1: of Jim Jones down Guyana, before he had all those
Speaker 1: people kill themselves, the Jim Jones cult, that whole thing.
Speaker 1: He gave a very similar speech there, as he had
Speaker 1: convinced all those numb nuts that the world was out
Speaker 1: to get them and they were doing the right thing.
Speaker 2: I'm very similar speech. I had no idea you'd heard that.
Speaker 1: I knew in my heart of hearts you would come
Speaker 1: up with some counter argument against that thought.
Speaker 2: I'm not it.
Speaker 1: It just you just have to have you just have
Speaker 1: to just you know, it works when the cause is right.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: But that's irrelevant as an as an observation of society.
Speaker 4: It's one hundred percent correct as a principle that some
Speaker 4: people employ it wrongly is irrelevant?
Speaker 2: You're right. I think it's a moral principle. Both are true.
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Speaker 1: Joe and Ventura, California. Notice this on my local free
Speaker 1: way off ramp, winner and loser.
Speaker 4: There is a young man appears to be of immigrants,
Speaker 4: stock selling bouquets of flowers to cars whoever want some.
Speaker 4: Flowers on the way home, and there's a scumbag junkie begging.
Speaker 1: Right right, that's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: You got people there on the corner. This happens driving
Speaker 1: out to the farm. When I go home, sometimes you
Speaker 1: got people on the corner selling strawberries, usually a whole
Speaker 1: family in the hot sun, set up their table, got
Speaker 1: their you know, station wagon there selling strawberries. You got
Speaker 1: people just baking on the street.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's all. I see.
Speaker 1: How much the people that are working their ass off
Speaker 1: sitting there in the sun selling the strawberries can't have
Speaker 1: much respect for the beggar on.
Speaker 2: The street, he says.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be ironic if this was a planned social
Speaker 4: science experiments to see what kind of reactions could be
Speaker 4: elicited from the drivers? I admit I was guilty of
Speaker 4: making my opinion known. A big thumbs up to the
Speaker 4: winner and down to the loser. Care to put your
Speaker 4: own caption on this photo? Well, thanks, Joe. That's interesting.
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