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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.

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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Katty and now he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 2: The meeting with Russia that'll take place tomorrow. They're going

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Speaker 2: to the meeting with President Putin. I had a very

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Speaker 2: good meeting with President Zelenski. Everybody wants to have the

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Speaker 2: war end. Well, that's some pretty big breaking news out

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Speaker 2: of Davos, breaking, ABC says. Ukrainian President Zelensky said that

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Speaker 2: trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the US are expected

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Speaker 2: to be held in the United Arab Emirates and Trump

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Speaker 2: saying tomorrow and Putin's involved Putin Zolensky in the same room,

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Speaker 2: I still don't see that ever happening.

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Speaker 1: I feel almost exactly the same as I feel about

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Speaker 1: Stein Files headlines. I will ignore the next three rounds

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Speaker 1: of them, and you tell me if anything significant happens,

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Speaker 1: and if it does, I will say wow, and I

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Speaker 2: Could you?

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Speaker 1: And that is a comment on the utter cynicism and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think case, I don't think if I'm

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Speaker 2: Vladimir's Zelensky. I could be in the same room with Putin,

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Speaker 2: and even if I worked myself up emotionally, why this

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Speaker 2: is for the betterment of my people. It's bigger than me.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah, be a grown up, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: He makes one smart ass comment about we caused the war. Whatever,

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Speaker 2: I'd go over the table with the images in my

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Speaker 2: mind of dead children and raped women. Yeah, it'd be

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Speaker 2: hard to control yourself.

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Speaker 1: And tens of thousands of kidnapped children being re educated

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Speaker 1: to hate their country. He does so, speaking which the teachers'

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Speaker 1: union's coming up, stay with us.

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Speaker 2: Putin does that whole sitting back with his legs splayed open,

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Speaker 2: You'd be impossible.

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Speaker 1: To control yourself. Yeah, yeah, here here all right on

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Speaker 2: Would you you think you're gonna bring your kids here

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Speaker 2: and we're gonna spare you? Why you support the bombing

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Speaker 2: of children and Gazi Nazi that was such a Nazi.

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Speaker 1: Little bit, all right, So you've got your radical leftists

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Speaker 1: screaming you're a Nazi at all sorts of people, whether

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Speaker 1: they are ice agents trying to force federal law and

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Speaker 1: certainly thinking people can differ over the methods and the

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Speaker 1: scope of the round up and the rest of it.

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Speaker 2: But that the people going into the church, that specific one.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the pieces of audio. That was not Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: That's a different church in a different place. But all

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Speaker 1: cops are bastards a cab. You've seen that on spray

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Speaker 1: painted on the walls of many buildings in Portland and Seattle,

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Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. Fund fund the police animated.

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Speaker 1: Much of the Democratic Party still does. Although the moderates

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Speaker 2: Like, oh my god, what are we gonna do anyway?

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Speaker 1: So the idea that police cruelty the heavy hand of

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Speaker 1: to seize control. Okay, that's frequently the narrative, that's why

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Speaker 1: we need to tear down the system. Well, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be weaving in and out of the brilliant Nelly bowls

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Speaker 1: comments here, but Nelly writes, abolish the police except in Iran.

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Speaker 1: As protests for freedom continue in Iran, the Iatola's brutal

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Speaker 1: there marches here to stand in solidarity? No is our

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Speaker 1: freedom all entwined again? No? So, how is the American

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Speaker 1: progressive establishment treating this well? They're either saying it's fake

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Speaker 2: Leftist? It makes? It makes me angry because, Uh, somebody

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Speaker 1: And because it's so blank and stupid. Leftist and Islamist

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Speaker 1: influencer Hassan Piker defended himself against critics that he really

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Speaker 1: can find poetry in the strangers places. And then Nelly writes,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes you hear terror apologia exactly where you expect.

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Speaker 1: Here's where it gets really really interesting. This is this

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Speaker 2: Scores of Scottish independence social media accounts went dark after

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Speaker 2: Iran instituted an internet blackout. So these are down with

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, they're they're like in Russia and like China

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Speaker 1: what's the term they're trying to infiltrate and and brainwash

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Speaker 1: good that the guy from the Soviet Union, the famous

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Uh, it'll pop it in my mind. Uh.

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Speaker 1: So you got the scores of Scottish independence social media

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Speaker 1: accounts went dark after Iran institute an internet blackout. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: too odd. And then the chef's kiss is this treatise

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Speaker 1: from Progressive International In short, police are meanis except in

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Speaker 1: Iran where they are very very good. Here's Progressive International.

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Speaker 1: bring down Western civilization, capitalism, et cetera. So why in

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Speaker 1: the world would the Progressive International, this big multinational it's

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Speaker 1: like the DNC on steroids around the world, Why would

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Speaker 1: perhaps because the principles they say they're demonstrating for aren't

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Speaker 1: their principles at all. Their only principle is take cover,

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Speaker 1: In the imperial countries, the police function as the domestic

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Speaker 1: within a radically different context, a state born of popular revolution,

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Speaker 1: it faces sustained attempts at regime change operations and color

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Speaker 1: It's that easy, just one paragraph. Let's see that, Nellie Bowles.

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Speaker 1: They have such newfound respect for maintaining order. They're all

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Speaker 2: We were so into the Israel thing because we support Israel,

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Speaker 1: But yeah, we've been indoctrinated to hate our country and

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Speaker 1: And we've been taught that people of color, Marxists and

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Speaker 1: And so if the Islamists, and this is the mark

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Speaker 1: of every softhead that's been sucked in every violent Marxist

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Speaker 2: They're really not We've mentioned a couple of times the

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Speaker 2: podcast The Rest is History, really really great podcast and

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Speaker 2: it wins awards and stuff like that. But anyway, they

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Speaker 1: An award, maybe we can grab Maria Machado's podcast of

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Speaker 2: back in seventy nine. And I've read lots of books

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Speaker 2: we're never going to support despots or whatever when.

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Speaker 1: they were terrible. They're indefensible on a human rights level.

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Speaker 1: But it was either that or slaves to the Soviet

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Speaker 1: And I find myself wondering were those people who I

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Speaker 1: the Sandinistas took control in Nicaragua, they became every bit

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Speaker 1: the downtrodden, some Mississippi elementary school out in the Styx

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Speaker 1: in LA some failing neighborhood school. They all have the

434
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Speaker 1: same fing story and they'll highlight it on sixty minutes

435
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Speaker 1: and act like this is so cool and novel and interesting,

436
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Speaker 1: then learn nothing from it, you have a return to

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Speaker 1: the basics of education, including phonics. And then you have

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Speaker 1: once again in this Mississippi situation, because they've got a

439
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Speaker 1: great ass kicking what's the name is essentially their secretary

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Speaker 1: of education said, yeah, we're going with traditional discipline in schools.

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Speaker 1: We are keeping order. Kids can't learn in disorder, so

442
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Speaker 1: we are keeping order in schools. You act up their

443
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Speaker 1: negative consequences period and it is working brilliantly. And the

444
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Speaker 1: fact that that was abandoned by a bunch of people

445
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Speaker 1: with utterly useless well beyond useless, I mean damaging fake

446
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Speaker 1: degrees from teachers colleges who said, no, no, no, we abandoned

447
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Speaker 1: all that because it's oppressive, because it unfairly targets children

448
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Speaker 1: of color, doomed all these children to lives of ignorance.

449
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Speaker 1: And it's horrific because, I mean, this is the Mississippi schools.

450
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Speaker 1: And they go into a fair amount of detail here

451
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Speaker 1: in this article in the Journal, but a lot of

452
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Speaker 1: these are heavily black, very very poor schools that have

453
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Speaker 1: utterly turned it around and through the very things you

454
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Speaker 1: progressives have set are racist. Through those means, these little

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Speaker 1: black kids have a future and they have hope and

456
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Speaker 1: they have knowledge. And you call people like me bigots,

457
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Speaker 1: you're monsters. Half of black fourth graders now read at

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Speaker 1: grade level in Mississippi. Half of them. Does that sound

459
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Speaker 1: not great? It's barely a quarter in California. Whoa Yeah,

460
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Speaker 1: the state elitpe frog California. And actually, this writer writes

461
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Speaker 1: in my home state of Illinois by not becoming wealthier

462
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Speaker 1: or changing its demographics, it's actually very simple and given

463
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Speaker 1: that Louisiana, Tennessee, and Alabama have pursued similar paths replicable,

464
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Speaker 1: Mississippi chose to spend less time on topics that dominate

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Speaker 1: Washington's education agenda and instead maintain a focus on what

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Speaker 1: happens inside the classroom. It focused on fundamentals. Mississippi didn't

467
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Speaker 1: sprinkle ferry dust on schools to improve them. It abandoned

468
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Speaker 1: the hocum that convinced educators that they could teach kids

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Speaker 1: to read through pictures and context clues rather than decoding words.

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Speaker 1: The state restored phonics based systems that rigorous scientific studies

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Speaker 1: have shown to work. But more than that, with the

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Speaker 1: help and support of former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, who's

473
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Speaker 1: a really interesting guy, the Magnolia State constructed a system

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Speaker 1: to teachers so they are effective at teaching students to read,

475
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Speaker 1: and then they get into the fact that they've reinstalled

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Speaker 1: order in the classrooms.

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Speaker 2: The fact that we put up with these incredibly low

478
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Speaker 2: percentages for reading and math at various grades is wow.

479
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Speaker 2: That deserves PhD level papers on why a society would

480
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Speaker 2: allow that to happen and continue for so long. Remember

481
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Speaker 2: we did this last year when the national report card

482
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Speaker 2: came out and it was so incredibly low, and it

483
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Speaker 2: had been steadily downward for what is it thirty years,

484
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Speaker 2: I think since nineteen ninety or something like that. It's

485
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Speaker 2: been steadily downward the entire time, and like, it's crazy,

486
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Speaker 2: what kind of society would do that? I mean, you

487
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 2: go back, you go back five hundred years. Nobody's learning

488
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Speaker 2: how to blacksmith anymore or whatever. We have a crisis here.

489
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Speaker 1: So a couple of the quotes of this discussion have

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Speaker 1: come from an art I didn't tell you who wrote

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Speaker 1: It's good to be right. Okay, one more, one more

517
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Speaker 1: couple of sentences. That's an odd sentence right there, and

518
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Speaker 1: then I will reveal who wrote it wrote what I'm

519
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Speaker 1: about to read. The state's success has proved uncomfortable for

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Speaker 1: the right, which is largely abandoned the promise of public

521
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Speaker 1: schooling in the belief that the whole enterprise should be

522
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Speaker 1: sacrificed in favor of vouchers.

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Speaker 2: That's your takeaway from the Mississippi miracle, that it's uncomfortable

524
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Speaker 2: for them.

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Speaker 1: Why not a takeaways that one part of Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: I would suggest to the writer, Well, that's because schools

527
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Speaker 1: seem to be incurable in a lot of places like

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Speaker 1: cal Unicornia, all the Blue states. We've tried, we have begged,

529
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: we have screamed, we have petitioned, and they won't return

530
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Speaker 1: to the basics like you're talking about.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead. That doesn't make me uncomfortable. If my local

532
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Speaker 2: school changes things and then it gets better, why would

533
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Speaker 2: that make me uncomfortable? Yay, I'm happy about that. That

534
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 2: does make me think, I don't I don't even know.

535
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Speaker 1: You'll get it. You're gonna get it in a second.

536
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: You're gonna get it. I ask you to calm yourself.

537
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Speaker 2: I've had nineteen cups of coffee. Oh my god.

538
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Speaker 1: And it has proved uncomfortable for the left, which has

539
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Speaker 1: surrendered to what George W. Bush called the soft bigotry

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Speaker 1: of low expectation. True, dad, Okay, So.

541
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Speaker 2: I will tell you what anonymous writer soon not to

542
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Speaker 2: be anonymous. The right will get over.

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Speaker 1: The idea that we have to abandon public schools if

544
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Speaker 1: you and anybody else can can inject a little common

545
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Speaker 1: effing sense in them and change them from bastions of

546
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Speaker 1: Marxistry education.

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Speaker 2: I'm fine with the idea of government supported schools, but

548
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Speaker 2: they're horrible. Now we've abandoned them because they're horrible. It's

549
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Speaker 2: the left.

550
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Speaker 1: It's really got to get over the soft bigotry of

551
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Speaker 1: low expectations.

552
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Speaker 2: That's a bigger leap to make. Why would this writer

553
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Speaker 2: try to tip his cap to both the left and

554
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Speaker 2: the right, Jack, because it's rom freaking am Manuel and

555
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 2: he wants to not offend people on either side and say, look,

556
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 2: I'm the common sense guy, I'm the what works guy.

557
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Speaker 2: He's running for president and wants to get the Democratic nomination.

558
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 2: So I understand from the running for president's sandput. But

559
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 2: I think that's a moronic way to look at it.

560
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 2: That's like, oh, you said that restaurant sucks, and then

561
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 2: I find out they got a new chef and they

562
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 2: change of food. Well, then I'll try it again and

563
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 2: maybe I'll like it. Now. I didn't like boycott that

564
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Speaker 2: building for the rest of my life because the building, right, which.

565
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Speaker 1: Is why I held back on the raw Mamennial thing

566
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Speaker 1: till the end. The important stuff is the the education stuff, obviously,

567
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Speaker 1: and then his look, the right angry lef to have

568
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Speaker 1: made mistake that actually.

569
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Speaker 2: Makes me angry. The right who's given up on public

570
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Speaker 2: education are uncomfortable when there what that right nuts, We've

571
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Speaker 2: been streaming forever. You should do this. Now you did

572
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Speaker 2: this and it works. Okay, I'm back on board. You idiot.

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Speaker 1: Look you burped without saying excuse me. You've beat an

574
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Speaker 1: old woman into a coma. We all have things to

575
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Speaker 1: apologize for. Yeah, it's got a bit of that feel

576
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Speaker 1: to it.

577
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get.

578
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Speaker 1: But again, the takeaway is not running for president or

579
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: stupid stuff it makes you say. The takeaway is what

580
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Speaker 1: works in schools and what's good for the actual kids.

581
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Speaker 2: It turns out was the obvious. But glad somebody stumbled

582
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Speaker 2: upon I'll be damned stay here, So a quick follow

583
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 2: up on the school thing, then we'll move on. But

584
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Speaker 2: when you hear that whole reading proficiency and you're horrified

585
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Speaker 2: by how low the number is that people at you know,

586
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Speaker 2: fifth grade, eighth grade, graduating high school read at the

587
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Speaker 2: cutoff for what they call proficient in math or reading.

588
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Speaker 2: Somebody texted and you got to remember this school board.

589
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 2: I'm a school board member here in California. This person said.

590
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Speaker 2: What a lot of people don't understand is that proficiency

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Speaker 2: is determined that the sixtieth percentile. In other words, anything

592
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Speaker 2: above an F is considered proficient. So when you hear

593
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Speaker 2: that forty percent are meeting the standard, that means forty

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Speaker 2: percent or above an F. It's all it means. I mean,

595
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Speaker 2: that is a pretty low standard. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Way to hang in there, friend, by the way, and

597
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Speaker 1: do your best, which I'm sure you're doing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know, the truth of revolutions is that you have

600
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Speaker 1: to have downtrodden people, and the history of Marxism is

601
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Speaker 1: that you have the actually downtrodden. You have the people

602
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Speaker 1: convinced that they're down trodden, and then you actually try

603
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Speaker 1: to make people miserable so they will overthrow their chains

604
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Speaker 1: and capitalism the rest of it. Part of me wonders

605
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Speaker 1: whether the activists are actually intentionally making the poor kids

606
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Speaker 1: uneducated so they'll rise up or something. It's either that

607
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Speaker 1: or there's so monumentally misguided it's hard to even comprehend.

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Speaker 2: A couple other things to jam in here at the

609
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Speaker 2: end of the hour. I don't know when's the last

610
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Speaker 2: time any of you bought an album. I don't even

611
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Speaker 2: know what that mean, really, but apparently hot again. Oh

612
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Speaker 2: it's way hot again. Yeah, but in a different sort

613
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Speaker 2: of way anyway. Okay, the Eagles' Greatest Hits album, which

614
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Speaker 2: has been the number one selling album in the world forever,

615
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Speaker 2: is just went quadruple diamond. It's officially sold over forty

616
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Speaker 2: million units. Greatest Hits nineteen seventy one and nineteen seventy

617
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Speaker 2: five album. I've never quite understand why that was always

618
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Speaker 2: the top selling album out there. Anyway. Michael Jackson's Thriller

619
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Speaker 2: is thirty four diamond, so that's the next one in

620
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Speaker 2: line for anybody that's buying those albums. I guess one

621
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Speaker 2: other thing I came across there's a chance there's going

622
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Speaker 2: to be a baseball lockout. They're going to strike in

623
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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball again this year. Practically guaranteed. Yeah, practically guaranteed.

624
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: According to my sources close to MLB, it seems like

626
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Speaker 1: a real.

627
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Speaker 2: Shooting yourself and the foot thing for everyone. If you remember,

628
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Speaker 2: way back in the day, the last time they did

629
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Speaker 2: this of any length, it really hurt the sport for

630
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Speaker 2: quite a few years. And that was back before there

631
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Speaker 2: were gazillion other things I could do with my time

632
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Speaker 2: like there are, like there is now. Man, you could

633
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Speaker 2: lose a lot of people past. And if I'm the

634
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Speaker 2: Dodgers ownership and I just went out and spent another

635
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Speaker 2: quarter of a billion dollars on yet another fantastic player

636
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Speaker 2: to make sure that I continue to win World Series

637
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Speaker 2: and I'm going for my third in a row, I'm

638
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 2: really really unhappy with the idea of this. That's part

639
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 2: of the problem. Signed all the other teams. That's part

640
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Speaker 2: of the lockout.

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Speaker 1: Let me interview the players. Owners got to give. Let

642
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: me interview the owners, players union, you got to give.

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Speaker 1: It's like every other lockout in the history of the world.

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Speaker 2: You're right about the popularity sport, but there's a huge

645
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 2: gulf between them on a couple of big issues salary

646
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Speaker 2: caps and I can't even remember the rest of it, doomed.

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