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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Patriots Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good evening everyone.

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Speaker 1: Tonight is episode forty three of season two of The

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Speaker 1: Patriots Podcast. We live stream every Tuesday night at seven

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Speaker 1: thirty pm right here from the America First Warehouse, the

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Speaker 1: most patriotic venue in all the land.

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Speaker 3: It truly is. I was.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't been here, you've got to get here.

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Speaker 1: But tonight we're really excited. We have two wonderful guests

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Speaker 1: with us. To my left or on the right from

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Speaker 1: your screen probably, we have Kerry Walker from Massa Peaka

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Speaker 1: school Board. She's joined us on zoom before and she's

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Speaker 1: with us in person. We'll be getting to some of

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Speaker 1: her stuff a little later in the show. But on

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Speaker 1: to my other side, we have this beautiful young lady,

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Speaker 1: Alden Sikora. She's seventeen years old and she's a senior

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Speaker 1: in high school this year. She's been involved in politics

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Speaker 1: since twenty twenty. At the ripe age of twelve, she

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Speaker 1: realized her conservative views right, I know, grab them young, right,

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Speaker 1: But she realized her conservative views were not looked upon

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Speaker 1: very favorably in New York and sad to say, in

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Speaker 1: her public school district. And so she was inspired. I

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Speaker 1: guess and uh and started a mission. She's got a

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Speaker 1: website and it's called American Symposium, but it's Simposium American

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Speaker 1: dot com.

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Speaker 2: And uh.

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Speaker 1: Instead of saying too much, we'll let all didn't speak

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Speaker 1: for herself.

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Speaker 2: Sure, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys so much for having me. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So, I my name is Alden Sakora. I'm a senior

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Speaker 4: in high school this year. I go to high school

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Speaker 4: Nasau County, so little, not as far out in the island.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, so I came across. It was twenty twenty.

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Speaker 4: I was a board twelve year old, and I came across.

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Speaker 4: I was scrolling on YouTube and I came across a

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Speaker 4: Michael Moles video. It was like rating woke commercials or

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Speaker 4: something like that, and twelve year old me thought that

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Speaker 3: I didn't even know that it was political.

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Speaker 4: So I started looking into that and I watched that

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Speaker 4: video and I found it funny. And you know, my

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Speaker 4: family was already kind of right wing, so yeah, very

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Speaker 4: for Trump. So I kind of laughed at the jokes.

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Speaker 4: I thought they were funny. You know, I wasn't a

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Speaker 3: And so I kind of just went down the rabbit Hole.

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Speaker 4: From there, that video ended, so I clicked on his

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Speaker 4: channel to see if there was, you know, any more

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Speaker 4: fun content, and I just from there, I kind of

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Speaker 4: in the Daily Wire. So I was watching a lot

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Speaker 4: of those shows a couple months in and and then

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Speaker 4: I would start hearing things that would contradict what I

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Speaker 4: it was very you know, very woke, very liberal. You know,

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Speaker 4: Biden was the president, and it was during COVID, so

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Speaker 4: it was it was kind of crazy. That was probably

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Speaker 4: the craziest point that I had joined politics.

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Speaker 5: I just really, you know, as grown adults, it was

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Speaker 5: the craziest point in time for us.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, I think the world across the globe.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think back at some of the things that I

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Speaker 4: had to see and hear, and it was crazy. But

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Speaker 4: I would hear a lot of people talk about things,

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Speaker 4: even teachers teach things in the classroom that were contradictory

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Speaker 4: to what I was hearing in the shows that I

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Speaker 4: to either side, so I did a lot of my research.

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Speaker 3: I would literally go.

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Speaker 4: Home and I would think about I would remember what

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Speaker 4: I would find statistics and you know, studies and things

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Speaker 4: like that. Yeah, and I have found that what Michael Knowles,

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Speaker 4: what Ben Shapiro was saying was right. So it kind

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Speaker 4: of just launched from there. That was kind of when

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Speaker 4: just niche things like confirmation hearings.

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Speaker 3: Is watching a lot of those.

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Speaker 6: It wasn't that amazing. I started watching those when they

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Speaker 6: a political person at all. Like ever, it was like,

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Speaker 7: He's also on the right.

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Speaker 5: It's all we talk about, Oh my god, we do.

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Speaker 6: I mean, like I live for like press conferences that

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Speaker 6: Trump's give that he gives and.

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Speaker 5: Just write press conver Oh my god, worship music your

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Speaker 5: life is well.

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Speaker 2: And hearings.

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Speaker 1: When you listen to Senate hearings and you'll listen to,

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Speaker 1: you know, meetings are having on the on the floor

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Speaker 1: of the House or in Congress. You get the you

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Speaker 1: get to watch our our our government in real time

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Speaker 1: in action, and you get to hear the truth for yourself.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to.

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Speaker 1: Whether whether what's being spoken is true or not is

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Speaker 1: another story. But you get to at least see it

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Speaker 1: played out. You don't have to rely on yes. And

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Speaker 1: then you still have to go then and do more digging.

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Speaker 2: But good for you.

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Speaker 5: I have a seventeen year old daughter and she's a patriot,

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Speaker 5: but you got to come hang out and rubble all

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Speaker 5: your game.

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Speaker 8: I mean that's how I, you know, became like a

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Speaker 8: right wing you know, because I was grew up in

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Speaker 8: New York City and school. But right around that time,

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Speaker 8: you watch seat spam and you watch the hearings for yourself,

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Speaker 8: and then I would go back and watch the meeting.

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Speaker 8: I'm like, wait a minute, that's not what happened. And

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Speaker 8: that's how you do it, you know.

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Speaker 9: First, you know, the first.

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Speaker 6: You see how they put the spin on things, how

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Speaker 6: they cut things and manipulate what really happened to fit

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Speaker 9: So primary sources, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You go right to the Yeah, I only just recently

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Speaker 3: I love C Span so much. Sounds so nerdy.

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Speaker 3: I don't put it on as often as I would

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm a news men isuel, but I love

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Speaker 5: that whatever you're watching is watch it. That's amazing. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: You're not watching the garbage that's out there, that's most important.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I don't put it on as much because

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Speaker 4: you know, electricity bills are thing, but yeah, I just

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Speaker 4: I love all of it and anything that I can

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Speaker 1: So as your views deepened, because when you it sounds

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Speaker 1: like when you went out and did your own due

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Speaker 1: diligence and research, you grew more acclimated and aligned with

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Speaker 3: I mean it could be true, but.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, but so what was your journey after that?

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Speaker 1: What made you go on to do and become the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So, so I was in sixth grade when COVID

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Speaker 4: had already known. You know, we had a pride club

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Speaker 4: looked upon fondly, but like, I believe that it was

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Speaker 1: Course.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I started speaking out, and I especially started

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Speaker 3: But she had to go to the.

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Speaker 4: we had still had the masks when I was in

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Speaker 5: My kids lived in suspension during the time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so she refused to wear a mask to school,

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Speaker 3: I believe she's at Florida State now.

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Speaker 5: Not many kids held the line. In fact, my kids

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Speaker 4: Shout out to my friend there. Yes, but I emailed

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Speaker 4: And then I started putting post its on my locker

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Speaker 4: It would literally be going from class to class. I

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Speaker 6: So I kind of loveday, and I had nothing stop

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Speaker 4: Yes, And I caught who was doing it, so I

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Speaker 3: And it's stayed up.

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Speaker 4: So I've always kind of had that headstrong, like I'm

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Speaker 5: If they say about redheads.

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Speaker 7: I was just gonna say that.

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Speaker 5: A couple when I was with a lot of redheads

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Speaker 4: So from there I kind of just became like the

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Speaker 4: I kind of lead the conversation and a lot of

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Speaker 4: the times it's interesting to hear what kids say. But

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Speaker 4: a lot of the times I'll be one of the

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Speaker 4: It will be me and like two other people who

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Speaker 3: So it's really interesting to see that.

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Speaker 4: But I've always also focused on being a good person

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Speaker 4: what my political view was a good friend of mine too,

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Speaker 4: and you know, I said, yeah, I'm definitely more on

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Speaker 2: We all have bad moments, we're all human.

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Speaker 5: Respect going into it with a respect for you already.

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Speaker 3: So that's definitely a leader.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Patriots Podcast. We have Alden Scora, right,

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Speaker 1: Did I get that right? I look at your last

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Speaker 2: Even though I look at your last name, I see

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Speaker 1: Anyway, we have you with us, and we were talking

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Speaker 1: in your own little corner of your world in high school,

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Speaker 1: you've been involved with some organizations and started your own website,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I started my own website.

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Speaker 4: Well, actually I was writing for another kind of third

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Speaker 4: So for a while, yeah, I started writing. January of

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Speaker 4: I would email it to them, I would submit it

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Speaker 3: And at that point I was writing pretty regularly. I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was writing a piece a week. Yeah, so

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Speaker 4: You know, I never want to say explicitly like I

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So I still write.

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Speaker 4: I've uploaded, you know, pretty much all my pieces that

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Speaker 5: You know, I have a really phenomenal you. This girl

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Speaker 2: I believe I was.

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Speaker 9: I'm like, wow, I was blown away.

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Speaker 1: She said, you guys have If you haven't done it yet,

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, I just have an opportunity for you

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Speaker 5: here in the coming So if you're willing to share

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Speaker 6: They're amazing, sure, and you're so it's just it's just

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Speaker 3: Eight year old.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's kind of what I tried to monomolize

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Speaker 4: I personally, I would pick Ben Shapiro like I wouldn't

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Speaker 4: So I kind of try to monopolize on that, you know,

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Speaker 9: Yeah, sure does.

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Speaker 6: It's just incredible, Like I was the few that I

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Speaker 4: Take after I take a Bill Buckley on that. I

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Speaker 5: I don't know who that is, but I love that concept.

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Speaker 6: And then your article on the American flag, that one

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Speaker 4: Well, I wrote that one in the midst of President

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Speaker 4: that like burning the American flag obviously for people, you know,

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Speaker 3: That has been that you know, that is right now.

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Speaker 4: But that also kind of set the narrative and it

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Speaker 4: American flag isn't something transient. It's something that, Yeah, it's

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Speaker 4: it's it symbolizes America in America. If you believe that

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Speaker 4: the sacred symbol of our sacred company.

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Speaker 6: We've we've had that contention. That's how we've spoken.

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Speaker 2: About it forever.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I get mental, Yeah, I've been I've been in

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Speaker 2: That, you articulate it so well, thank you.

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Speaker 5: You really do more respectfully than I just articulated.

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Speaker 3: Everything's public.

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Speaker 1: It was entitled Madison's Warning, and I think was this

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Speaker 1: one that you talked about the Federalist papers.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, the reason, But just.

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Speaker 1: In closing, I just want you to get a taste

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Speaker 1: for her writing and the story of human history. Lust

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Speaker 1: for power is and will remain a constant. It is

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Speaker 1: the vigilance of those that decide to whom such power

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Speaker 1: is granted, that is subject to periods of anemia and

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Speaker 1: of heartiness. And so may we never fail to continue

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Speaker 1: the path forged for us across this last two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty years, and may we never shake the spirit

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Speaker 1: our country relies on for her very goodness and existence.

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Speaker 1: As goes Madison's Warning, I mean it just it's beautiful,

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Speaker 1: incredibly well written. It's just power in your words, and

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Speaker 1: your written words they really resonate, They're so strong.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, it's just remarkable.

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Speaker 3: Where do you see.

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Speaker 7: Yourself going in the future.

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Speaker 3: Definitely into politics.

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Speaker 4: My number one school actually, as you might not be surprised,

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Speaker 4: is Hillsale College and so Central. Yeah, you said we

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Speaker 4: have to connect to yes.

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Speaker 2: Because we have good friends.

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Speaker 5: We have a young lady that was on from Hillsdale,

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Speaker 5: our friend's daughter. They sit on the board, our friends.

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Speaker 3: I think I actually am in contact with them.

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Speaker 5: Okay, good because they're great and if yeah, we'll help

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Speaker 5: you with that. That's a beautiful aspiration. Actually, I love that.

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Speaker 5: It's the only college I really would want my kids

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Speaker 5: to go into college.

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Speaker 6: I kind of want to go to to so once

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Speaker 6: through college where you know, where do you see yourself

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Speaker 6: going from that?

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Speaker 9: Law school or it just no law school and just into.

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Speaker 4: Well I've had that, I've had that hinted at me

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Speaker 4: a lot of law school. But my heart is really

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Speaker 4: in politics, and you know, I'm really obviously I love

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Speaker 4: the law. I love reading it, you know, I love

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Speaker 4: learning about how to read it and all the things

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Speaker 4: like that. You know, again, model Congress, so I research

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Speaker 4: a lot for that. So that is a lot of

485
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Speaker 4: reading the laws and things like that. But I think

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Speaker 4: my heart really is in politics, and so I don't

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Speaker 4: think I could put off put off politics for you know,

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Speaker 4: a couple of years of law school and then practicing

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Speaker 4: law if I wanted to do that before I got

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Speaker 4: into politics. So yeah, if I couldn't really wanted to

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Speaker 4: go to Hillsdale so to study politics.

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Speaker 5: I was going to say, like when we were talking

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Speaker 5: before about Congress and the hearings, I wanted to be

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Speaker 5: a lawyer for a long time, and I decided I'll

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Speaker 5: probably run for Congress one day, and then you get

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Speaker 5: to enjoy the law part of it, Yeah, in Congress hearings.

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Speaker 5: So maybe we'll maybe we'll be anything behind you for

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Speaker 5: a congressional campaign, and that would law, I mean, right,

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Speaker 5: because the hearings is a really it's a form of yeah,

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Speaker 5: like a try, you know, it's it's a hearing. It's

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Speaker 5: a form of law. So I feel like that could

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Speaker 5: maybe be a good path if that's you know what

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Speaker 5: interests you. And final I'll help you on a congressional campaign.

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Speaker 7: I'll walk for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: You give so much hope and in a seemingly bleak

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Speaker 1: time right with the American where we are today and

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Speaker 1: where our generation and the generation before us kind of

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Speaker 1: let things honestly.

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Speaker 5: Sink to I have a great opportunity for you. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: we're gonna tell I think, would you intern for someone

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Speaker 5: running for Congress? Right now?

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Speaker 3: Of course?

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 5: I got a plan for you.

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Speaker 7: Okay, I love that.

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Speaker 2: I think I know where you're going. We'll kill you.

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Speaker 5: I have a good plan here.

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Speaker 1: I think I know is the ultimate connector. She really

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Speaker 1: is a good one. She's one of the best that

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: Susan, You're right, you are too.

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Speaker 5: I'll join with you. We can. We'll connect together, work together.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, amazing connector.

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Speaker 5: That's again, I just don't have an ego that way.

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Speaker 5: I feel like the more people that if I can

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Speaker 5: match people up, the match people up, and then we

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Speaker 5: always more for the better numbers, you know.

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Speaker 9: That's right, That's right.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it would be great for you to

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Speaker 1: be able to go around to schools and start little

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Speaker 1: clubs or help people get involved in.

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Speaker 6: I was going to say, now involved in turning point

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Speaker 6: at all.

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Speaker 3: So it's actually a funny story with all of that.

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Speaker 4: I tried to start a YAPP chapter in my sophomore year,

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Speaker 4: Young Americans for Freedom, which is encompassed by the overall

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Speaker 4: organization of Young America's Foundation, and they're great, you know,

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Speaker 4: they have the campus tours and things like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of pushback from my school, a lot of pushback, a

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Speaker 4: lot of suspicious you know. Initially they told me, Okay,

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Speaker 4: it's too early to start one now, but come back

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Speaker 4: to us in June my sophomore year.

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Speaker 3: So I did.

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Speaker 5: We'll help you with that too, Okay, Yeah, but.

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Speaker 4: It got to the point where I just needed like

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Speaker 4: a volunteer advisor because their budget, you know, they ran

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Speaker 4: out of their budget.

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Speaker 3: They couldn't pay anybody else to be an advisor.

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Speaker 4: And so yeah, friend and I were working on that,

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Speaker 4: but we still don't have it because there was just

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Speaker 4: a lot of well.

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Speaker 7: They need to teachers. To have a club, you need

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Speaker 7: an advisor.

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Speaker 5: Do they get a stipe in?

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Speaker 8: You can they just get a stipe in, But there's

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Speaker 8: a certain amount of clubs that gets stipe ins, and

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Speaker 8: then right once you're out, then you we have a volunteer.

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Speaker 2: Which I know we have a couple of clubs that.

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Speaker 8: Are volunteer based because maybe the advisor feels passionately about it.

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Speaker 5: I had to ask a school board remember this, but yeah,

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Speaker 5: because I don't think that's what we do.

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Speaker 8: Yes, well, I'm sure they're Yeah, it was as long

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Speaker 8: as you get an advisor and maybe you know, if

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Speaker 8: you know a teacher that is more conservative, they may

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Speaker 8: volunteer and then there's nothing they can really do.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well the door.

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Speaker 1: Is not shut yet, but this door is closing for

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Speaker 1: our next commercial rights.

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Speaker 2: Stay with us, we'll be right back.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Patriots Podcast. We're going to shift

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Speaker 1: gears a little bit, but still dealing with schools and

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Speaker 1: the nonsense that goes on and these poor kids that

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Speaker 1: don't think this way I have to deal with every day.

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Speaker 1: But Carrie walkers with us from Massa Peak with school

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Speaker 1: board and if you remember, she's been with us before

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Speaker 1: via zoom.

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Speaker 5: With all the favorite board members out there.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's a she's a bold fighter.

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Speaker 7: We'd get the monthly or so.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, updates on Yeah, there's always something going on.

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Speaker 7: Became an honor, Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 8: Well, so I'm so happy to be here in terms

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Speaker 8: sitting with you and not and not on zoom. So

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Speaker 8: thank you so much for gliding me, you know, and

589
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Speaker 8: staying up on what's going been going on, and yes

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Speaker 8: we're in the news again, you know, shocking. You know,

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Speaker 8: we just you know, we try to just sit there

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Speaker 8: and do our business every day.

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Speaker 7: But no, it does.

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Speaker 10: No.

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Speaker 5: People just likes to be on the front page of Yeah.

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Speaker 5: They just have nothing else to do. They just want

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Speaker 5: to cause trouble in Long Island. Yeah, the best, the

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Speaker 5: best every school rebel rousers there, right, you're my favorite ones.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, thanks, Yeah, So you know what's going on. We

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Speaker 8: you know, we you know, as the new school year

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Speaker 8: you know started, and you know, we saw what was

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Speaker 8: going on with enforcement, you know, at the federal level.

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Speaker 8: We we just wanted to affirm for our staff that

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Speaker 8: we got gender a firm, not gender firm.

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Speaker 1: For audience members that don't know, this is about.

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Speaker 2: Transgenders and bathrooms.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, so and so we we passed a resolution saying

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Speaker 8: we were aligning with Title nine as in the executive

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Speaker 8: order from President Trump, and that we were not going

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Speaker 8: to allow boys in the girls' locker room or vice versa.

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Speaker 8: We said all students had to use the bathroom of

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Speaker 8: their biological sex, and if not, they could use a

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Speaker 8: gender neutral facility, which is very reasonable. I accommodations for

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Speaker 8: all because that's who we are as a board. We

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Speaker 8: have to look out for all of our students, and

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Speaker 8: so we said, hey, this is this is what has

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Speaker 8: to happen. And unfortunately we had an incident where that

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Speaker 8: was not the case.

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Speaker 7: And then the New York.

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Speaker 8: Civil Liberties Union sued the school district and they appealed

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Speaker 8: to the Commissioner of Education in New York because they

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Speaker 8: knew what they were going to get, and they asked

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Speaker 8: for a stay and they asked for our resolution to

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Speaker 8: be annulled. So of course she dutifully issued that stay,

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Speaker 8: even though we had very good arguments about why, and

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Speaker 8: we had a lot of case law on our side,

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Speaker 8: and we said we never mentioned transgender students. We said

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Speaker 8: all students have to behave this way. We never singled

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Speaker 8: out anyone. And so then we filed in a federal

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Speaker 8: court because we feel obviously Title nine is the law

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Speaker 8: of the land, and we all know about supremacy.

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Speaker 9: Federal laws supersedes.

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Speaker 8: And you know, when Joe Biden was changing Title nine,

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Speaker 8: we got these memos constantly from the lawyers in the

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Speaker 8: state breathlessly telling us all we had to update our policies.

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Speaker 9: To be in align with the Joe Biden.

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Speaker 8: But now that President Trump has gone back to the

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Speaker 8: original meaning of Title nine, they all say, no, you don't.

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Speaker 7: Have to follow that, you haven't follow state. How the

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Speaker 7: tables turn right?

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Speaker 8: Gender law, which again, well, I know my lawyers don't

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Speaker 8: like me talking about law, but nothing in these laws

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Speaker 8: say that it's discrimination to allow these kids to not

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Speaker 8: allow them to go into the gender the bathroom of

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Speaker 8: their gender identity. That that's not discrimination because it applies

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Speaker 8: to all people. So, like I said, there's case law.

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Speaker 8: Our lawyers have found it, and we believe the laws

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Speaker 8: on our side. So as you can imagine all the

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Speaker 8: activists across Long Island, because New York Civil Liberties Union

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Speaker 8: is the one who put this out, you know, we

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Speaker 8: really didn't want this to be public. You know, with

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Speaker 8: the masks, it was one thing we were fighting, you know,

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Speaker 8: the state and all that kind of stuff, but you know,

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Speaker 8: this is more personal, I feel like, and we didn't.

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Speaker 8: We really wanted to keep a low key on it.

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Speaker 8: And but whatever it came to us, and so we

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Speaker 8: not backing down. The first meeting we had, we had

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Speaker 8: a bunch of activists there give us fake addresses because

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Speaker 8: you know, we only allow.

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Speaker 5: Nick at that One's that Kilnick? Was he at that one?

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Speaker 2: The leader of the David Kilnick.

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Speaker 7: Oh, I don't know, he's the evil now, I don't.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you probably sent them if he were.

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Speaker 7: Probably no, you know, it's hard to tell when you're

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Speaker 7: out in there. You know, you can't see them all

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Speaker 7: the way back there.

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Speaker 8: But so they were giving fake addresses, you know, and

668
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Speaker 8: aurboard meaning we only allow residents and attendance because this

669
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Speaker 8: is our community and this is that's who we want

670
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 8: to hear from people.

671
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 7: In our community.

672
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Speaker 8: So they were giving us fake addresses. So the next meeting,

673
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 8: we uh said.

674
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 9: You had to give us a driver's license, you had

675
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 9: to prove that.

676
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 8: You lived here. So that kind of shut it down

677
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 8: a little bit. But can I say how I in awe.

678
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 8: I was of the girls that spoke up at my

679
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 8: last left, amazing, so many young girls, because they all

680
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 8: all the activists kept saying it's the parents, it's the parents,

681
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 8: it's not the kids, and these girls, one after another

682
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 8: after another got up and said, no, we don't want this,

683
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 8: we don't want this in our locker room. Yes, it's

684
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 8: hard enough to change amongst our peers. And then of

685
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 8: course they're trying to now change that and say, oh

686
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 8: see they don't want to change it all, so you

687
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 8: should have private stoles for everybody.

688
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 9: And I'm like, that's not what they were saying. They

689
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 9: were not saying that, They're just.

690
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 5: Saying it's uncomfortable enough, and it is. It's I don't

691
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 5: I don't like getting it, and I'm a grown adult.

692
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 5: I don't like getting undressed in front of anybody.

693
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Speaker 2: Anybody.

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Speaker 6: Do you remember stores that used to have like the

695
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 6: whole Yeah, I don't.

696
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 5: Even Ernie will tell you. I don't even like to

697
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 5: get undressed and orddressed in front of it. I don't

698
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 5: like to get undressed and dressed in front of people. Yeah,

699
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 5: I just don't. Yeah, you allowed to have one moment

700
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 5: in your life where you can be a little you know,

701
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 5: and if you have to be in a locker room

702
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 5: anyway with other girls at that age where it's you know,

703
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 5: everyone's so self conscious as it is. I don't want

704
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 5: to get started on the whole boy thing because my

705
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 5: views are very strong in this. My town knew if

706
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 5: a boy ends up in the bedroom of my daughter,

707
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Speaker 5: I'm coming after you directly.

708
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Speaker 1: Well, we have a seventeen year old high school student

709
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Speaker 1: sitting at our table. What have you had experiences with

710
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: this in your district and what's your sentiment?

711
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,479
Speaker 4: Yea, so to utalize my perspective, Yeah, I mean, at

712
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 4: this stage, it is definitely already hard. And I know

713
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 4: I am friends with a lot of people who in

714
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 4: our locker room we have like private they're shower stalls,

715
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 4: but nobody really showers anymore.

716
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 3: Like in the school. So yeah, yeah, yeah, So we

717
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 3: have like.

718
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Speaker 4: Four of those, so a lot of girls go in

719
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Speaker 4: there to change for gym. A lot of girls will

720
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Speaker 4: just you know, wear clothing the day of, whether that

721
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 4: be out of convenience or they don't want to change

722
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 4: in front of you know, their friends.

723
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

724
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Speaker 4: But I have one student who I know personally who

725
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 4: he transitioned when he was like when we were in

726
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 4: second grade, so we're in the same grade, so it

727
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 4: was like around second grade or first grade because I

728
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,959
Speaker 4: barely remember it, but I remember it enough to know

729
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 4: that it was actually like happening.

730
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Speaker 3: So continue, yeah, exactly.

731
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Speaker 4: And so I saw him once walk into like the

732
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Speaker 4: ladies bathroom in my school, and I knew that that

733
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Speaker 4: had been the case. I knew that that's how it

734
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:16,479
Speaker 4: had worked. But just seeing it personally like kind of

735
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 4: shook me. It was like, this is crazy, Like this

736
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 4: is a boy who looks enough like a girl to

737
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 4: go into the girl's bathroom and know everybody is too

738
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 4: afraid to actually say something. So yeah, it really, it

739
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 4: really does affect us. And you know, I don't know

740
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 4: if there is anybody out there, but if there is

741
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 4: anybody out there who is saying that this really isn't

742
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 4: an issue, it is. I see it all the time.

743
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 4: It makes the situation worse because you know, obviously girls

744
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 4: are already self conscious enough at this point to not

745
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 4: want to change around anybody and change around a boy nonetheless,

746
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 4: even even if they don't.

747
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Speaker 3: Know that that's the case. Yeah, it's really just disgusting.

748
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Speaker 6: You know, they're going through so much and their adolescence

749
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 6: as they're growing, and you know.

750
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Speaker 5: We all know the story from Virginia, We know what happened.

751
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 5: Who's willing to take that chance with their child?

752
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 6: Ever?

753
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, that party I have one hundred percent, But I

754
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 5: am never going to risk the chance of a boy

755
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 5: who claims to be a girl being in I mean

756
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 5: I threatened to like burn down my superintendent's house if

757
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 5: that happened, like literally, I mean with me, I'm not

758
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 5: he goes to another life. I go to other levels

759
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 5: with this stuff, because no, absolutely not like an old planet.

760
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 5: We're living on on planet Earth. There's two genders that

761
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 5: God made for people and they do not belong clemingling

762
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 5: as adolescents in school where there's privately having the safety

763
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 5: that they deserve.

764
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's their per sise, and saying you carry you

765
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: articulated beautifully before you try to keep it private. You

766
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,959
Speaker 1: understand that you're there to protect all students and that

767
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: means all students, and so that means making a way

768
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: for each person to use a restroom or facility and

769
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: that is available. Just one person's need. Can't be putting

770
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: someone else's need behind a door and locking it, you know,

771
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: and saying.

772
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Speaker 2: Sorry, yours doesn't count. Right, That's just not a thing.

773
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: It's like an equal representation, right, which is not the

774
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: way they skew it.

775
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 2: So tell us about your meeting.

776
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Speaker 1: Let your last meeting, you said a lot of these

777
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: girls got up and you were so proud of them.

778
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 9: I was so proud of them.

779
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 8: And we had a boy stand up too, and he

780
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 8: talked and we had some boys come and sit down

781
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 8: in the back. And one of the girls was speaking

782
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 8: and said, I know there's a lot of students here,

783
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 8: so if you are you know, if you don't if

784
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 8: this is you know, if you're not down with this, basically,

785
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 8: if this makes you uncomfortable, like stand up, and they

786
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 8: all stood up, and it was it was pretty profound

787
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 8: and incredible, and then even and then you know, as

788
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 8: you know, we also give deference to students if they

789
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Speaker 8: want to come and speak at a board meeting. And

790
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 8: we were letting them get up one after another, and

791
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 8: again the activists were yelling, oh you're all you're letting everybody,

792
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 8: all of them speak, and I'm like, oh, excuse me.

793
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 9: These are our students.

794
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 8: They any student who wants to get up will speak

795
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 8: before anyone else in this room. I'm like, so you

796
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 8: better pipe down or leave if you don't like it.

797
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 8: And oh, I was very angry. I was about like,

798
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 8: how dare you These children.

799
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 5: Kept your like regardless, Yeah, I'm taking time, mom. You

800
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 5: sounded very professional, and go we have a video.

801
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 2: Right from that thought that it might be it might

802
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 2: not be enough, maybe a couple of minutes.

803
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: We have enough room for cut four before commercial break. Yeah,

804
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: what if we have to just gocial?

805
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's play it. Yeah, let's play it.

806
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 10: Our girls deserve to be safe, they deserve to be protected,

807
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 10: and they deserve to have safe spaces.

808
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 6: In the Massapequa School District, thank you.

809
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 10: Last night, the Massive Peak with school board met for

810
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 10: the first time since New York State barred it's transgender policy,

811
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 10: and boy was it intense. The auditorium was packed for

812
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 10: the meeting, parents, students, community members on both sides of

813
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 10: the issue ready to have their voices heard. The controversy

814
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 10: stems around Massive Peak or high school banning transgender students

815
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 10: from using the bathroom or facility of their identity and

816
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 10: forcing them to use the bathroom or facility of their

817
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 10: birth gender, even though the school district offered a separate

818
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 10: gender neutral space for these students. New York State came

819
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 10: down and said this policy is unenforceable, and I began

820
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 10: with the pledge of allegiance. Tensions rose immediately when a

821
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 10: small group of the LGCNTQ plus community refused to stand

822
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 10: their decisions, spark outrage people in the community yelling at

823
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Speaker 10: them stand the f up. Throughout the night, speakers got

824
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 10: up to share their views. Some thank the board for

825
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 10: continuing to fight for this policy. Others called it discriminatory

826
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Speaker 10: and harmful to transgender students. Despite the state's ruling, the

827
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 10: Massive Peaka School Board is not backing down. The policy

828
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 10: will now head to court for a legal challenge. It

829
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 10: showed just how passionate Massive Peka is about this policy.

830
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 10: It seems like just one transgender student and the New

831
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Speaker 10: York Civil Liberties Union backing them in a lawsuit allowing

832
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Speaker 10: them to want this student to use the bathroom of

833
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 10: their identity. As your local real estate broker, I was

834
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 10: in attendance and I interviewed everybody, get ready for the madness.

835
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 5: Wow ah, that's impactful.

836
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, it was, uh yes, and it quite was.

837
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 8: And you know, like I said, I think these groups

838
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 8: come and think they're going to intimidate us and that

839
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 8: we're going to back down and we're going to be

840
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 8: afraid of them.

841
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 9: But they don't live in our community. And one of

842
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 9: our girls even got up.

843
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 2: And said that.

844
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 9: Just one was saying how brave these girls are.

845
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,919
Speaker 8: They're fourteen years old, and they stood up and she goes,

846
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 8: you people don't even live here.

847
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 2: She's like, how are you here?

848
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 8: And I mean, and then the crowd erupted and it

849
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 8: was just it was just fantastic.

850
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 2: And that's great, you know. Carry, I'm sorry to cut you.

851
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 3: Commercial break, so we'll be.

852
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 5: Come right back to that.

853
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 9: Sorry about that.

854
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 2: Welcome back.

855
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: Carry, I'm sorry we had to cut you off, but

856
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 1: please pick up with that story about from the school board.

857
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 2: How proud you were and some of these girls they.

858
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 8: Were, Yeah, it was it was very impactful. And like

859
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 8: I said, they all stood together. They stood up in

860
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 8: a room where there was you know a significant group

861
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 8: of outsiders, activists, you know all and you know, with

862
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 8: their flags and everything, and they can be very and

863
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 8: they were very loud, and you know, and yep, and

864
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 8: and these girls got up and yeah, they started to

865
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 8: you know, the activists roll like why are.

866
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 9: You letting them speak? And I'm like, there are students.

867
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 8: And they stood up, the students and said you don't

868
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 8: live here, why are you even here? And I think

869
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 8: speaker after speaker got up and said, you know, the

870
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 8: board is being reasonable here. You know, it was you

871
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 8: use the bathroom of be biological sex or there's another

872
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 8: facility to use and that's it. And there was even

873
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 8: there's even another locker room. And you know, and I'm

874
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 8: sure it is. Our guest here can tell you the

875
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 8: students use the gender neutral bathrooms because they want the

876
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 8: privacy you have, the single occupancy.

877
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 9: Like I asked my my son, He's like, Mom, I

878
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 9: use it. I use it every day. He's like, I

879
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 9: don't want to be in the bathroom with anybody else.

880
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 5: So if you know, everybody both.

881
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 8: So it's not stigmatizing, because that's what they say. You know,

882
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 8: it's stigmatizing.

883
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 2: It's not lots of people use.

884
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 8: We're being reasonable, we're doing the right thing. We're standing

885
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 8: up for our girls. We're going to continue to stand

886
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 8: up for our girls. We hope that we'll get some

887
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 8: help from the Feds.

888
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 9: In some way.

889
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 8: We did file in federal court and uh so we're

890
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 8: going to see how that goes. But you know it

891
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 8: is the Eastern District of New York, so you know,

892
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 8: we have to see how that goes.

893
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 7: And uh you know a lot of prayer.

894
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 8: This is on our prayer list every day that you know.

895
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 8: I know what we're doing is right, and I just

896
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 8: ask God to bless this and let the cloler heads

897
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 8: prevail here. You know, we didn't ask for this fight.

898
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 8: We really don't ever ask for fights. We really do

899
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 8: try to do things the right way, and and and

900
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 8: and and try to find peace, but unfortunate people don't.

901
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 8: And at some point you have to stand up, you know.

902
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 8: And one of our board members, you know, when we

903
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 8: were talking about this, you know, said sometimes you have

904
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 8: to stand.

905
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 9: Up your values because they're not your values.

906
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 8: If you don't stand up us rights, right, and if

907
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 8: you know that you're going to go to a specific

908
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 8: line and back down, then they will always.

909
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 9: Take you to that line.

910
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 10: Right.

911
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 8: So that's and I have to say, my fellow board members,

912
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 8: I mean, the five of us are my goodness, lockstep.

913
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 8: We are dedicated, we are strong on our values. We're

914
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 8: willing to sacrifice and stand on those principles no matter what.

915
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,720
Speaker 8: And when you have a word of five principled people,

916
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 8: we will choose the right thing. It's amazing you did that,

917
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 8: Amazing that I served with these four other people. They

918
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 8: are just fantastic. I'm so grateful I get to be

919
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 8: the spokesperson for them. But they are just as strong

920
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 8: as and just as courageous as I am. And you

921
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 8: know I can do it because they have my back

922
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 8: and our community too, our community has our back, and

923
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 8: that's why we said we did what all the things

924
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,439
Speaker 8: we can do with the mascots, the math, everything else.

925
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 8: It's because our community stands behind us. And yes, we

926
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 8: have a handful that that don't, but you know, and

927
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 8: of course, as typical liberals, they think everyone thinks like them,

928
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 8: but they don't. A overwhelming majority to overwhelming majority supportive

929
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 8: of our stance.

930
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 9: And even people who let's say, would be on the

931
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:42,399
Speaker 9: you know.

932
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 8: More center left or they're maybe they are Democrats or

933
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 8: maybe they you know, they're they're not you know, maga,

934
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 8: because they say is this is not a maggot issue?

935
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 5: Is very liberal neighbor. And if you just take it

936
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 5: out of the school contexts and just say to them,

937
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 5: would you want a possible you know, male in the

938
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 5: bathroom your young daughter?

939
00:38:58,160 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 9: Did they say no?

940
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 5: When people say America is more far apart than ever,

941
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 5: I actually disagree with him, really not, I really I

942
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 5: think that's a narrative that's given. I think if you

943
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 5: really have conversations like Charlie Kirk tried to, you know,

944
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 5: tell us all to do so, well, we're not that

945
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 5: far apart on common sense stuff, right.

946
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 8: And this is a common sense issue. I think everybody

947
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 8: right and left think this. It's only the very fringe left.

948
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: But that that brings sorry, but that brings me to

949
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: another thought. Right, because all of the things we're sitting

950
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: here discussing tonight are important, and still you have to.

951
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 2: Get to the root of it. What is that the

952
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 2: root of all this?

953
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people get stuck in

954
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: fighting an issue and not stepping back and getting the

955
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: global picture of what is actually going on in our

956
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: state and in our community and our communities, our state,

957
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: and our nation and the larger world, which is a

958
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: slow it's not even that slow anymore, but a methodical,

959
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: intentional destruction of the West. Yes, and it's very important

960
00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: to recognize that there is intention behind what we're seeing happening.

961
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 5: Especially for this topic. Yes, yes, you know, I don't

962
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 5: want to cut your throat on you're not, but for

963
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 5: this specifically, they start vaccinating our babies at a few

964
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,240
Speaker 5: days old that have aborted fetal cells in the vaccine,

965
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 5: so you are changing the composition of your child's DNA

966
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 5: from a baby. So right away that starts to that's

967
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 5: the seed that started for this transgender stuff. Right then

968
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 5: you try to make it through the elementary school years.

969
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 5: As soon as they get to adolescence, they are shoving

970
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 5: this transgenderism down their throat. It's all over the places.

971
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 3: It is.

972
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 5: It is they target special needs kids. I mean, it

973
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 5: really is a very methodical, very scary plan that starts

974
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 5: from birth.

975
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: But it's it's all the media that they say, right,

976
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure.

977
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 8: They're breaking down the heteronorm Yeah, heteronormative.

978
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 4: But yeah, like I, like I said earlier, my my

979
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 4: middle school, which you go into middle school when you're

980
00:40:55,560 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 4: like sixth grade, yeah, sixth grade, so it's like twelve thirty. Yeah, yeah,

981
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,320
Speaker 4: you go into that. And we have a pride club.

982
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 4: And my high school now we decorate well not we

983
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,720
Speaker 4: like I but the pride club in my high school.

984
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 4: We decorate the school for Pride Month. There are we

985
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 4: have banners that are like except in sweet Love who

986
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:21,760
Speaker 4: you Are? We have like little rainbow hard hung up. Yeah, everywhere.

987
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 5: Streight to twenty twenty one had two hundred and thirty

988
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,919
Speaker 5: one pride posters and advertisements around our school. I sent

989
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 5: my kids and our friends kids in and said, go

990
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 5: count them all.

991
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 6: I want to know.

992
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,919
Speaker 5: Two hundred and thirty one pride posters. What are we doing? Yeah,

993
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 5: why we're glamorizing sexuality? Who cares? I don't care much?

994
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 2: Should be the focus?

995
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: And now this is the social learning which which was

996
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: introduced a long time ago. They always it always comes

997
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: with like something that's seemingly good, but there's a and

998
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: they're so proud of them, terrible agenda behind it.

999
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 5: You know, the guidance counselors, windows outside of in our

1000
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 5: school and Beth Page had a little I'd flow this

1001
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:01,919
Speaker 5: the safe space and I lost my mind.

1002
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 3: We have that to like, but how poor are Like?

1003
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 5: Okay, so what about all the other kids that need help?

1004
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 5: Where's there who are being bullied, who are getting raped,

1005
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,399
Speaker 5: their father beats their mother, They don't get a hot meal,

1006
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 5: they be there, they have their own self image issues.

1007
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 5: Where where's the safe space for all those kids?

1008
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:15,760
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1009
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 5: What do we do?

1010
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: It should be a safe place for all people, but

1011
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: focused on two things education and character.

1012
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 7: At the end, and treat people.

1013
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: Treat all people equally, am well, don't beying anybody, and

1014
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: if you see somebody bullying somebody, you step in stop it.

1015
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 3: Like that's it.

1016
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 2: It's that simple.

1017
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:38,280
Speaker 1: We do not need to be politicizing and indoctrinating children

1018
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 1: and putting this stuff before them at such a young age.

1019
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 2: It's just outrageous.

1020
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 7: And that's why we, uh, you know, that's what we're developing.

1021
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 8: We developed in our in our school like well, I

1022
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 8: guess you call it's like a mission vision and then

1023
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 8: it's like a tagline. We're building leaders, one child at

1024
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 8: a time, and that's what we want our kids to

1025
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 8: focus on. How can they be a leader in our community?

1026
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 8: That that's your focus. It's not about these things anything else.

1027
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 8: It's about what are you doing?

1028
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 3: Are you?

1029
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 7: Are you an academic star?

1030
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 8: Are you a music star? Are you an athlete? Are you?

1031
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 9: Like what is your passion? And how are you goo?

1032
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 8: And like how are you wound up into what is

1033
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 8: your break of hour? Yes, and because each one of

1034
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 8: these things is what makes our districts, you know, great,

1035
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 8: and it takes somebody from everything. So that's what we

1036
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 8: try to be everything for everybody because everyone has something,

1037
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,280
Speaker 8: you know, that they're good at, and we're saying, find

1038
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 8: what you're good at and go cultivate that and cultivate that,

1039
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 8: and that's what we're trying.

1040
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: One of the problems is that our society also has

1041
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: glorified and glamorized very specific things like athletics to a

1042
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:37,720
Speaker 1: sick point.

1043
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 2: And I'm all for it. I have sons who played,

1044
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 2: you know.

1045
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: But it always goes back to the I used to

1046
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: do this in nursing and like in a leadership role

1047
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: of just whatever, really just It.

1048
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 2: Goes back to a biblical principle.

1049
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: Which is the body is made up of many parts,

1050
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: and not one part is greater than the other. And

1051
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: it takes the whole body factually together to work and

1052
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: fulfill its purpose and do its job. So people in

1053
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,760
Speaker 1: all circumstances, I don't care if it's in your school,

1054
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: on a team, in an organization, bring your talents, bring

1055
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: your skills, bring your gifts, bring your weaknesses, bring all

1056
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 1: of it, and just.

1057
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 2: Serve one another and serve the greater purpose.

1058
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 1: Right, and like life is good, it's really not that complicated.

1059
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 2: It's not that complicated.

1060
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 8: That's what we're hoping to do. That's what we're trying

1061
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 8: to make the focus for our kids. And and we

1062
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 8: do it in that making a leader one child at

1063
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 8: a time.

1064
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 2: So love that.

1065
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 7: It's incredible.

1066
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 9: I should have sent you our video.

1067
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 7: It's really good.

1068
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 2: Play a really good video.

1069
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 5: We'll put it again absolutely, but.

1070
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, no another time.

1071
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 8: But you know, and you know, and I just I

1072
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 8: appreciate you guys and your support and always you know,

1073
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 8: giving this uh you know, giving us time to speak

1074
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 8: about it, and you know, and you know, like you

1075
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 8: said with Margaret, and you know, now she's moved on

1076
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 8: to greater things, leading a new school, you know, and

1077
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 8: it's it's fantastic.

1078
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 9: She's been doing great things.

1079
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 8: And you know, just I wish more school districts would

1080
00:44:59,080 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 8: be courageous.

1081
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 5: I just you know, it's really hard. It's like candidates

1082
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 5: right now, I withdrew my paper when you said all

1083
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 5: five of u were in lockstep in a weird way,

1084
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:09,760
Speaker 5: I was like kind of envious because I was running

1085
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 5: for school board in twenty twenty one, was it? I

1086
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 5: ended up withdrawing my papers for like life circumstances. But

1087
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 5: at the same time, I kept thinking to myself, I

1088
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 5: can make a lot of noise and piss off the

1089
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 5: board members, but I was going to be outvoted six

1090
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 5: to one every single time. And that's when I decided

1091
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 5: to join a congressional campaign. Thought to myself, Okay, if

1092
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 5: this candidate wins, I know he's going to fight on

1093
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 5: the congressional level. He promised me that, and I thought

1094
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 5: I could have a bigger purpose. But I think a

1095
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 5: lot of the problem is for the school boards is

1096
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 5: that a lot of them don't unfortunately you know, are

1097
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 5: in lockstep, or if they are, they just follow each other.

1098
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 5: Like it's like the.

1099
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 7: Lot I'm seeing.

1100
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 8: We've had a couple of school boards that have completely

1101
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 8: turned over. You know, there was a woman you know

1102
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 8: she was it was a six to one board and

1103
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 8: now it's seven.

1104
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 7: H wow, Wow, I'm exciting.

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Speaker 2: I think people it takes people time to it does

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Speaker 2: it does.

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Speaker 8: But even those districts are still like, well, well we're

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Speaker 8: gonna you know, we don't want to make waves just yet.

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Speaker 9: We're still getting our feet.

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Speaker 7: You know, guys.

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Speaker 8: You know, but I don't have to get everybody their space.

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Speaker 8: But you know, Long Island and especially now So County,

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Speaker 8: you know, is really taking a turn to the right.

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Speaker 7: I need a very hard turn.

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Speaker 8: And to have all of these school boards who are

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Speaker 8: not and who are doing things opposed to what their

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Speaker 8: community wants. People have gotten complacent again, and I really

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Speaker 8: would love for people to kind of speak up and

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Speaker 8: now like start getting stick get involved.

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Speaker 5: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Well, both of you sitting at the ends of this

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Speaker 1: table are doing extraordinary things and we're so grateful for.

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Speaker 2: Each of you, and thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us tonight, both of you. We'd

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Speaker 1: love to close in the prayer. We close in prayer

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Speaker 1: every week, so if you wouldn't mind joining us.

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Speaker 7: Please do okay.

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Speaker 1: Oh Heavenly Father, we thank you for guiding us and

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Speaker 1: our conversation today. May the words spoken plant seeds of truth, faith,

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Speaker 1: and courage in the heart of everyone listening. Bless our

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Speaker 1: guests and our audience with wisdom to walk in your

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Speaker 1: life and strength to stand firm in your truth. Let

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Speaker 1: all we do bring glory to your name and draw

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Speaker 1: others closer to you.

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Speaker 2: In Jesus name, we pray.

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Speaker 5: Amen, Amen, and as always, keep your faith strong and

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Speaker 5: your family close, and your freedom alive.

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Speaker 1: I will see you that week right and everybody again.

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Speaker 7: Thank you for having us.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, it really has. Thank you for both for

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Speaker 5: what you're doing.