Brainwashing Our Kids

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. I think Mike and Sandy just pretty
much solved the mystery. So just you know, very quick,
you know, you know, I was answering, uh, you know, uh,
responding to a call, and you know, just making some points,

(00:20):
and then all of a sudden, my iPad, out of
the blue, starts talking to me. And I said to
Mike and Sandy during the break, I mean, has this
ever happened to you where your phone or your iPad
just on its own. I mean I didn't touch it,
and they're drawn my desk, but I haven't touched them.
And they just start talking to you, and they go, yeah,
it happens all the time. They go, you probably just said,

(00:43):
you know, like you activated Siri, and they're saying. Mike
in fact, said, look, I bet when you said the
word serious, it's probably understood as high SERI or whatever,
you know, and so that's why your iPad started, you know,
they thought it was a command and it's ready now
to you know. I never use Siri, by the way,

(01:03):
I just I just type whatever I want in and
I don't use voice activation. But Mike thinks that's exactly
what happened, So it wasn't the CIA. So I told
him to go blank off really for nothing. But you know,
I still like to think it's the CIA, Mike. I
don't know why. I'm just I'm just convinced they're out

(01:25):
to get me.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Six one, seven two, six, six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, let me ask all of you.
Do you like Trump's idea? And it looks like it
may very much become a reality to abolish dismantle the
Department of Education. It is now an executive order that
he passed yesterday. Congress officially needs to do it, but

(01:50):
they've already slashed over fifty percent of the of the
personnel at the Department of Education, so they are gutting
it already on the way to dismantling it completely. And
they want to send all of that power, authority and
money back to the States, primarily in block grants to

(02:15):
school districts, local school boards, schools, and of course the
local government and of course the state government. Red states
love the idea, Blue states, Some are complaining, some are
just being silent. What say you like the idea? Don't

(02:38):
like the idea? Six one, seven, two, six, six, sixty
eight sixty eight Maria in Ludlow. Thanks for holding Maria
and welcome.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Hi Jeff, Hi Jeff, good morning. How are you.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I'm good. How are you, Maria.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I'm doing okay. Thank you for asking. I totally love
the idea of Trump abolishing this super fabulous. I think
that everything needs to be revamped. I speak as you
probably know. I have a special needs son, Maximus is five,

(03:16):
and he's been getting screwed left and right. And I
was not I was not knowledgeable of IEPs and all
that good jazz. So Maximus started preschool at three and
it only gave him two hours a day for three

(03:37):
and four years old. And I thought, you know, these
people are great. They're helping my son, wonderful. Mind you,
my husband works with these people for the town of Ludlow,
and until a friend said, looking, can I see the
IEP And he was like, I just want to let
you guys know that they've been screwed your sons. So

(04:02):
Maximus is a special needs autistic child. He's non verbal.
He was only going to school for two hours a day.
We just had a meeting that my son is testing
at the level of an eighteen month old and Maximus
is going to be six in June. So ever since
we found this out last year, it's been hell on wheels.

(04:26):
We had to hire a educational advocate. We had to
get the state involved, because now I wanted these people
to make sure that they messed with the wrong kid,
that they've really poked this Portugue MoMA to a level
of no return. And I made sure they know that
I have been the biggest thorn on their side, because

(04:48):
you have to advocate for your child. If you're not aware,
learn get an educational advocate, to the point that we
had to have mediation. I don't let anything lie nothing.
I go and I sign the IP anything. I don't
agree stuff they say they're going to do, and they
don't put it on the IP because that end one

(05:10):
is the legal part. Everything has to be put there.
And I tell them no, I decline, and I say,
I want to make sure you make a copy and
you put today's dates so they don't say, oh, we
never received that. I don't think so I don't think
so they know now who they're messing with. They poked
at the wrong bear. And this last meeting, I specifically

(05:31):
told the special needs supervisor. You can do what you
want to me, but when you come after my child
or you do my children wrong, you have a whole
different set of problems. Like I have the principle involved,
the director of special needs, the school committee, I involve them,

(05:51):
the what do you call that? One? After the super
the the top person.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Sorry me to cut you off, but Maria, I've got
to ask you. And so you think by getting rid
of the Department of Education with all the strings that
are attached to the money and the red tape and
the bureaucracy, and that if you streamline this, kick the
money to the states and maybe you know school vouchers

(06:20):
or in other words, if the money is now and
the power is return more to say parents like you,
you can then find the right fit for your autistic child.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Correct, yes, yes, because his school is fighting me tooth
and nail because Maximus does not belong in his school.
Maximus belongs on a special needs school, a specific school
that may institute. But the town is not willing to
do that because the town has to pay the bill

(06:52):
and to go to the may institute. We're talking over
one hundred thousand a year, and the school is fighting
tooth and nail. But that's why I've had multiple mediation meetings.
I've had people of the state coming and testing my
son because what they're doing is not sufficient to make
sure my son is progressing.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
No, Maria, you're completely right. You're absolutely right, and thank
you very much for that call. Parents with special needs
children in particular, are really going to benefit instead of
a one size fits all approach. Six one seven two, six,
six sixty eight sixty eight is the number, okay, As
I was saying to Maria just before we got cut off,

(07:37):
this is one of another reason why I love this
flexibility of returning education back to the States, to local
school boards, to schools, the teachers, and ultimately to parents
like Maria, because she'll be able to send, say, her
autistic child to the right school with the right program,

(07:58):
the right services that will fit her child's specific needs.
Now very quick, as I want to go to the calls,
the left is trying now to clearly demagogue this issue,
and one of the lies that they're spreading is that, oh,

(08:19):
by getting rid of the federal Department of Education, oh
my god, oh autistic children, special needs children, children who
come from very poor families, or broken homes or underachieving children.
They're going to be thrown to the wolves. There's going
to be nothing for them. Listen now to President Trump saying,

(08:43):
that's an absolute lie. Pelgrants programs for those with disabilities
and special needs, all the resources, all the funding is
just going to be shifted over to different agencies. No
one's going to want to cut a penny. No child
is going to be lacking any funding or resources. It's

(09:07):
just we don't need the Department of Education. It's really
that simple, roll cut three mic.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
The Department's useful functions and such as they're in charge
of them. Pelgrants Title I funding resources for children with
disabilities and special needs will be preserved, fully preserved. They're
all going to be So if you look at the pelgrants,
supposed to be a very good program Title IE funding

(09:37):
and resources for children with special disabilities and special needs,
they are going to be preserved in full and redistributed
to various other agencies and departments that will take very
good care of them.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
So again it's another lie. So this idea, oh, partial
needs kids or you know, disabilities or you know the
you know, these poor children, underserved, under serviced, you know
they're gonna have no money. Randy Winegarten, the head of
the Teachers' union, is she's really peddling that lie. Big

(10:14):
not true, completely not true. You're gonna have more, you know,
I'll take you. Here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna have
even more money to spend on education, to give for
vouchers to parents, to develop these programs for special needs
or those who need more help, or uh children that

(10:38):
maybe come from more poorer backgrounds, or maybe they don't
have the same advantages as UH children from say, more
affluent or middle class families. So why because you don't
have all these bureaucrats sucking up and eating up all
the money and lining their pockets with these outrageous salaries.

(10:59):
So well, in fact, it's the exact opposite. It'll give
you even more bang for your buck. Anthony in Michigan.
Thanks for holding Anthony, and welcome Anthony the education Go ahead. Yeah,
I agree, now go ahead.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
In regards to education. When I moved here to Michigan
in the nineties, it sort of became a something I
noticed as legislation and corporate mandates in terms of the
cat systems you use in ISO nine thousand. It made
it harder and harder for startups to enter the automotive industry.

(11:41):
So with that said, our dear friend Ludlow will have
greater competition to spend those dollars because there won't be
the Leviathan in DC to stop her. Now, what I'd
like to speak about is another department that I would
like to see downsize, if not eliminated, and that's the
Nuclear Victoria Commission. Jeff, are you aware of the fact

(12:02):
that China is building nuclear power plants at a rapid pace.
We fix us forever. The building here right now, they've
got six AP one thousands, which is a Westinghouse design
in concurrent construction, and they're building him in forty eight months. Jeff,
I don't think we could do the paperwork in that time.

(12:23):
And this is an issue because if you want AI
and an EV infrastructure, and we're truly going to go
that way with those vehicles, we need to charge them.
Windows ain't gonna do it. Solar will help, but we
need nuclear power and that's those are cutting edge technologies
that will keep our kids potentially employed and springboardists into

(12:43):
a I don't know if you know who Cathy woods Is.
She's saying that the technologies that are coming that in
three or four years, Jeff, we could have a GDP
of seven point three percent. So there's a lot going
on here in tangential to this. Did you see that
President Trump is proposed that the United States buy and
maintain Ukraine's nuclear power plants and that would create a

(13:06):
buffer so that the waste products would not fall into
the various hands. And at the same time, I truly
believe Trump is gonna go for this Trilateral Nuclear arms
Reduction treaty and the next generation of nuclear power plants
could potentially utilize the waste product and reprocess it.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
And you know China's is gonna.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
Will probably say yes because they'll also use the waste
for their infrastructure to create wattage for their citizenry.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Well, look, Anthony, I mean you've touched on many things,
and I agree with you, by the way, I think
on everything that you said. What I would just add
is this, You're right, China is building nuclear power plants.
They're building coal plants. They're not stopping. They're not stopping.
They don't buy this whole man made climate change hoax.
So and they're the biggest polluter on the planet and

(14:01):
India's number two. And until those two change, nothing is
going to change. So why should we on energy unilaterally disarmed.
It's stupid, it's suicide. Now, as for nuclear power, I
love nuclear power. I think you're not to all these environmentalists,
you're all a bunch of frauds and phonies if you

(14:23):
don't embrace or adopt nuclear power. It is cheap, it
is limitless, and it's environmentally the safest thing out there.
And so you know, France has a very vigorous nuclear
power system, by the way, that's why their energy is

(14:45):
much cheaper than say Germany's or Italy's or most of
the rest of Europe who have either tried to go
green with solar and wind or are relying on fossil fuels,
i e. Buying it from a madarasha. So you're right,
there is so much red tape, so much bureaucracy, so

(15:07):
many rules and regulations. You know, forget China, France, socialist France.
It is easier to build nuclear power plants than here
in the United States. And you're right. Trump is going
to streamline that as well, because he's going to make
us now an energy superpower, and energy is the future,

(15:29):
there's no question. And we're going to need the people,
the skill, the educated workforce to be able to compete
against other countries. And that's what Trump is saying. You know, look,
part of his argument is we're constantly having to import engineers,
tech specialists, people, foreign students from other countries because our

(15:55):
own education system here is so bad. And Trump is
saying what our students can't learn. Of course our students
can learn. Our students aren't naturally bright and smart and
ambitious and hard working. Of course they are. But when
you have an education curriculum that is there to cripple
them and not educate them, but in doctrinatum, that's the problem.

(16:20):
So get rid of the problem. And that's the Department
of Education baddling a little bit of a could anyway.
So if I've been coughing a little bit throughout the show,
my apologies. Six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight is the number. I want to ask all
of you a question that I kind of raised maybe

(16:41):
about an hour ago, and I'd like to return to
it that text that I read of that poor despondent
mother who said you know, I raised my child, I
did everything for my child, and suddenly, because I wouldn't
vote for Obama, I became this racist monster. And now
it's been compounded by the fact that I'm a Trump

(17:03):
supporter and my own child, who is now in their
mid thirties, won't speak to me. It has basically disowned me,
wants nothing to do with me, and I fear, as
I am in my sixties, that I'm going to end
up being all alone. And she goes, you know, and this,

(17:23):
and this person said, I feel very betrayed. What did
I do to deserve this? Okay, we disagree on politics,
it's not the end of the world. How does this
justify having nothing to do with me. Don't call me,
don't visit me, act like I don't exist. Several relations
over what an election, over a president, over certain issues,

(17:48):
and I've been getting flooded texts and emails saying, Jeff,
I really relate to that, you know, to that person
who texted you. So I want to ask all of
you have you experienced anything similar, whether it be from
your children or your grandchildren, or siblings or in other words,

(18:09):
people who to me have clearly been brainwashed by the
education system, high school, college, university. As the Texter said,
the brainwashing just never stops, and they all come out
and they come out like AOC or like you know,

(18:31):
like Bernie Sanders, and they don't and the brainwashing just
never ends. And to me, one of the great things
that Trump is doing is by putting a stake into
the heart of the Department of Education, he is going
to cut off for the radical left one of their
most important sources, vehicles of their cultural power and of

(18:57):
their ability to indoctrinate. God knows how many people, how
many students, how many of our children and kids? And
the damage not just I'm talking about for the country,
but on a personal level, has been immense. It's destroyed families,
it's destroyed relationships. It's pitted parents against children, children against

(19:23):
their parents, siblings against each other. I can't tell you
now at least a dozen emails Jeff I voted for Trump,
my children said I'm not worthy of having access to
the grandkids. They're literally using the grandkids to punish us
because which I decided to vote for Donald Trump. That

(19:45):
were such Nazis and monsters and racists that they don't
want us to quote unquote pollute their children. That's the
term that's being used. Pollute their children. That's Marxist indoctrination
straight from the schools. The media. Of course they play

(20:05):
their role. But since we're talking education and so, have
you been a victim of this or do you know
someone who's been a victim of this? Six one seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight Verna in Arlington.
Thanks for holding Verna and welcome.

Speaker 6 (20:25):
Hey, Hi, their Jeff. How are you.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
I'm good? How are you Verna good?

Speaker 6 (20:31):
It's been a little while, and I think even from
before your father had passed, and condolences from me as well.
And I know I sent an email, but thank.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
You, Verne. I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (20:40):
Patient comfort and consolation to you. I'll be welcome. A
couple of comments, and then my main point. First of all,
I've been timing the announcements. When you go to the
commercial break, it to over five and a half minutes.
I've got your number. I put a timer on so
I don't even listen to most of it because a
lot of it's just so uninteresting. But I wanted to
say my best my background regarding this whole education thing.

(21:04):
I was born in nineteen fifty two. I'm seventy three
years of age, proudly. And when I was in high
school and then I went to as you know I've
shared before, I went and I studied in the Soviet Union,
in Soviet Armenia to be specific, back from sixty nine
to seventy three. And I was actually called out by
some of the people from Eastern Europe that came to

(21:25):
study there and other people that had really good quality
education from those various countries, and they said that the
American education back then did not measure up and was
not good. That we didn't even study the classics, which
was true. I mean, I was in high school in
the sixties and we didn't study the classics of the
classic novels or the authors. And I think that was

(21:47):
even before the Department of Education that you're referring to,
and by the way, affectionately by some people in the
Christian world, they call it the Department of indoctrination. By
the way, in doctrination, I'm so glad that they're getting
rid of it, but they've got to get even better,
even on statewide for the you know, the principles and

(22:08):
the quality that needs to be put out there for
us to even come close to equalings some of the
European countries and other countries with good quality education. And
I just want to put that out there and then
remind people of the movie The Giver that came out
a long time ago with Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep
in it. That shows what happens when we come under
control of this kind of globalist illuminati, you know, satanic

(22:32):
sort of governance that's going on. So I try to
say thank you for everything that you share every day.
God bless you and your family and everybody. And if
any you know thoughts in response to that, go ahead.
I'm listening.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
So thank you, Verna. I really appreciate it, and godspeed,
and thank you for that call. Now look to me
as you're talking. I'm saying, look here, this is going
to be one of the unintended consequences. Trump is not
going to deliberately trying to do this. He doesn't want
to cause more people to leave blue states. But what's
gonna happen, and these things take time. It's gonna take

(23:07):
a couple of years, you know, when all the money
and the power and the authorities return to the States
and to the school boards, to the teachers, and ultimately
to the parents. You're gonna see red states are going
to be educating their kids. The test scores are gonna
go up. But it's not just that the indoctrination is
going to end. This poison that they've unleashed in our

(23:31):
children's minds is going to end. And what you're going
to start to see is a rush of people leaving
blue states. You know, people usually leave for two reasons.
They are three. I guess one is retirement. Obviously, many
people say I want to retire, They like to go
someplace warm, and they leave. The other two reasons are

(23:53):
economic jobs. I can't refine work or I got a
better job, offer whatever, and I go to a state.
But the other one is for your children. And look,
I'm very happy, Don't get me wrong. I love working
at iHeart. I love being Boston's bulldozer. I plan to
be here, God willing knock on wood for many, many years.

(24:16):
But if there would be one thing that would entice
me to leave, really leave, is if I could go
to another state and no transgenderism being rammed down my
children's throats, no wokeism, no constant you know, climate change

(24:39):
and this radical green socialism. They keep trying to indoctrinate
my kids with, you know, all of that critical race theory,
all of this this crazy identity politics. And you mean,
my child could actually have a normal educy, not just
a good education, but a normal education, and I don't

(25:00):
have to worry that I send my kids to school
or college they're going to come back talking like Barack
Obama or Kamala Harris and hate my guts and want
nothing to do with me because they've been convinced that
I'm the second coming of Adolf Hitler By they're crazy
Marxist teachers. I mean, that's literally what's happening. So yeah,

(25:25):
that would be a massive incentive for me to leave,
of course, and look, I want to protect my children's privacy. Okay,
but let me just say this. I've noticed over the
last couple of years. And by the way, they have
some excellent teachers. Both of them, as you know, have

(25:45):
issues regarding learning, and that's why we sent them to
the public school. And the teachers are great. But the
overall culture, the influence I've seen it on my own kids.
I've seen it. They're always asking questions about bisexuality, homosexuality, transgenderism.

(26:09):
They know stuff that no children their age should know,
and they're constantly confused. Over and over again. My son,
who's a very good kid, Ashton, I'll just give you
an example, is obsessed with getting an electric vehicle. And
you know, look, I'm a defender of Tesla. You know that.

(26:29):
But I'm like, but Ashton, why he goes? I just
hate gas? I go, but why do you hate gas?
I don't know. I just I hate it. I hate
oil and I hate gas. I just you mentioned that.
I just I get very angry dad, because he's being
taught at school over and over and over again that
fossil fuels are evil. And you know he's convinced. And

(26:52):
this is true. It's not through me, it's not through Grace.
It's not through our church. I'll tell you this. It's
not through our friends. It's not through our family, our
family fairly conservative. It's only coming from school that the
world is gonna come to an end and that the
planet is gonna burn up and that we're all gonna die. Now,

(27:13):
think how traumatic that is. He's fifteen now, but he's
been hearing this now since you know, he's eleven. He's twelve,
he's thirteen, he's fourteen. So you know, you're a young
preteen and now a teenager, and all you keep getting
drummed into your head is we're all gonna die and
the planet is gonna, you know, go up in flames

(27:35):
because of those evil Republicans and those evil capitalists and
fossil hills, oil natural Guess now, imagine that day after
day after day the trauma on these kids, like, in
other words, well, the planet's gonna be over. We're all
gonna the world is gonna end in twenty years, whether

(27:56):
we like it or not. You know how that mess?
This is a child up now he hears the other
side from Grace and I And you know, but what
I'm saying is I said this to Grace a couple
of nights ago. How did it suddenly become that I've
got to deprogram my child? In other words, they're programming him,

(28:19):
indoctrinating him, and then he's got to come home. And
then I got a deprogramm in de indoctrinate. Like why
am I at war with my society and my culture
all the time? Instead of being reinforced, I'm constantly being
attacked in undermined and so that's this is gonna be

(28:42):
a seismic change when Trump finally achieves this victory. God willing,
because you're gonna see so many parents are like me,
so many parents are like you. We just want our
children to have a normal education. It's really that simple.

(29:03):
We don't want them propagandized, we don't want them politicized,
we don't want them being brainwashed. And so it's going
to be you know, if New Hampshire really takes off
with this, you know, state's rights on education, and you like, Jeff, Oh,

(29:24):
you got to schools up there, No wokism whatsoever? Jeff,
really nah, none of that stuff, No transgenderism, no critical
race theory. They're not pushing politics in the classroom. It's
just reading, writing, math, civics. Ah, Jeff, It's a normal school,

(29:46):
normal education, normal students, normal teachers. It's all freaking normal. Jeff,
I may sell and go, I mean I think it's
going to be too late. I mean too late in
the sense that my kids will be off the college
by then. So that's a different set of problems. It's
going to take a few years for this transition to happen.

(30:08):
But if I'm a younger parent or with younger children.
That's a big reason why I'm going to move. It's
a huge reason. So I think unintended. I don't think
it's intended. I think Blue states are going to lose
even more people now because of this. It's not just
the taxes, it's not just the regulations, it's not just

(30:29):
the illegals, it's not just the crime. New York people
are leaving, California, people are leaving, Massachusetts, people are leaving.
This is going to make even more people leave. Six
one seven two six six, sixty eight, sixty eight, just
my opinion. How in New Hampshire, Thanks for holding how and.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Welcome Hey, Jeff, How are you doing. Hey. There's a
book I have. It's called The Formation of the Union
under the Constitution. It was published by the United States
and Printing Office during the Roosevelt administration nineteen forty one.
And they have a Q and A in the book.
And there's a question that says, what role does the
federal government have in education? Oh? No, I said, is

(31:14):
education mentioned in the Constitution? The answer was no, none.
It is reserved to the states. So nothing's changed since
nineteen forty one. There's been no amendments added that gives
power to the federal government. So Trump is just simply
doing what Franklin Roosevelt said in a book that they
published back in nineteen forty one.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Oh hell, you're completely right. I mean, look, there is
no federal right to education in the Constitution. And you
know better than anybody. There is a tenth Amendment, which
is great. God blaad, I love the tenth that's correct,
and many states and state constitutions do say, well, yeah,
we want to educate our kids. Fine, no problem. Let
the states and the local school boards and schools and

(31:58):
teachers and parents educate their children. Great. So you're dead
on on constitutional grounds, on moral grounds, on intellectual grounds,
on pro child grounds. Really, if you want what's best,
not just for your kids and my kids, I don't
see one child benefiting from the department really seriously, you know, honestly,

(32:22):
how you know me, I'm a conservative and a constitutionalist,
but you know, you can always find something in some
socialist federal program where you go, Okay, a few people
are helped here, a few people are helped there. Overall
it's not worth it. Yeah, okay, I don't see one
child being helped because of this. The only people that

(32:44):
I see benefiting from this, we well question are the unions.
Randy Winingarten, who, by the way, is she going to
go to Ukraine now she's protesting this like crazy? Is
she going to go to Ukraine now? How for the
third time and show solidarity with that crook Lensky? Because
you know, maybe she should work on education in Ukraine

(33:04):
because she's destroyed it here in this country. But let
that go. How bureaucrats, administrators, dei consultants, these so called
deans and all of these people with their three four five,
six hundred thousand dollars a year salaries, they're the ones
that are going to lose from this. It's benefiting them

(33:27):
their pocketbook. But to me, I don't think there is
a single child, black, white, brown, Jewish, Asian Catholic. I
don't care rich, poor, It doesn't matter. No child is
helped by the Department of Education. Am I wrong? How?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
The Department of Education is nothing more than the political
arm of the National Education Association, which has been as
a very radical labor union and has been for men
many years. And that's really what it benefits. It benefits
to Anya. So I'm delighted. I know that it hasn't
been completely abolished. I think he's I just want you to

(34:09):
their website that it said has been cut in half.
And I think it still takes an Act of Congress.
But this is a really good step defunding and zeroing
out the Department of Education. But it's a cumbent upon us.
Weare homeschoolers. We never got a dime from the Department
any federal money, and we love it that way. And

(34:31):
I want to also mention my late friend Sam Blumenfeld.
He was a pioneer in the homeschool movement. He was
talking about this in the early nineteen sixties, deliberately dumbing
down of America. So he learned about it many many
years ago, and he's passed away, but I think he
might if people in heaven can see what's going on
on earth, he's got to be rejoicing well.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
As always. Thank you very much for that call. I
really appreciated by the way. I agree with you. When
I think back at my high school education, it wasn't much.
I'm not gonna claim all it was some, but even see,
what I'm trying to say is we've gotten to the
point where think of it this way. It's gotten so bad.

(35:16):
It's like, oh, but at least we used to eat
with a fork and knife. I mean, sure the food
wasn't good, it was bad, but at least we ate
with a fork and knife. Now we can't even eat
with a fork and knife because you know, we become
so illiterate. So, you know, I did have to read Shakespeare,
like and this is in high school. You know nothing

(35:38):
whatever Macbeth or how one Shakespeare play. You know, we
did have to read nineteen eighty four or Animal Farm. Again,
it's not much, but it's something. So there were certain
things that were part of the curriculum where you go, well, no,
that's not you know, we read Ernest Hemingway, we read
Mark Twain. I have to say we did have to

(36:00):
learn Canadian history. Now I'm not saying it was taught
very well. We had a crazy mood of socialist who
you know, another one in the classroom. But at least
we got the ABC's of Canadian history and by the way,
American history. So what I'm saying it wasn't much. I'm
not saying this was a world class education, but you know,

(36:22):
at least you knew and we knew how to read.
I mean, I say what you want, Okay, I'm not saying.
You know, the sixties and seventies and the eighties was
a golden age. But people graduated from high school. They
knew how to read. People graduated from high school. They
could do math. They knew there were fifty states in America.

(36:44):
They knew the capital was Washington, d C. They knew
our first president was George Washington. Again, it's not much,
but at least it's a fork and a knife. Now, really, seriously,
about out half of all students who graduate high school.
I told you there was a Tennessee there was a

(37:06):
big story a couple of days ago, honor student honors.
You can't make this up. Honors can't read, graduated high school,
went on to college and can't literally can't read. So
when fifty percent of students who graduate high school are

(37:27):
not proficient in reading or math, I mean, we're screwed.
I mean we're really screwed. So it's almost like a
national emergency. We have to do this, we have no choice.
We've got to dismantle and abolish the Department of Education. Because,
as one of the Texters put it, you know, it's

(37:49):
not going to be nuclear war that kills us. It's
not going to be a comet that's going to end
a planet Earth. We're going to stupid ourselves to extinction.