An AI School? No, Thank You.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've got an odd little evergreen show for you all today.

(00:03):
I have a couple of different weird little topics. Can
I talk about AI, homeschooling, Pope Leo, the works? And
so I think I'm going to start today. I'm going
to start with the first month of Pope Leo and
talk about what it's meaning for the Catholic Church and

(00:23):
maybe what it will mean more broadly for the Christian
community as a whole. Now, Leo has been on the
job for a month, and some very interesting things have
developed that I think are showing he is going to
be a more peace bringing pope, at least peace bringing

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to the church. Certainly, he's been very admirable in his
desire to try to assist with reconciliation efforts between Russia
and Ukraine, and even President Trump and mentioned that, you know,
pay Pope Leo's willing to host peace talks in the
Vatican and blah blah blah blah blah. Leo directly spoke

(01:05):
with Putin's envoys. Are there anyway? There is a big
chunk of Catholics in Ukraine. Particularly there's the Ukrainian Greek
Catholic Church, which is part of the broader Catholic Church.
So I've been very impressed with that. But I think
Leo is helping to ease the tensions that Frankly Pope

(01:30):
Francis brought into the church. Leo has had no moments
of doctrinal ambiguity, weirdness, no explosive newspaper interviews like Francis did.
For much of his pontificate. Francis had this thing where

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he would sit down for interviews with this insane Italian
journalist named Eugenio Scalfari, and this freaking guy he was
ninety something years old when he did a bunch of
these interviews with Francis. He didn't record and transcribe their conversations.

(02:15):
He didn't even take notes. He would just after the
fact write about what Francis said and ascribe big quotes
to him that then no one knew what to do.
And some of the quotes he ascribed to Francis were
like wild and not some of them were, like Frankly,
not even like heretical statements of Christian doctrine. But after

(02:35):
the fact the Vatican would say, oh, well, you know,
it's not exactly what Pope Francis said. He's not being
directly quoted actually here, and Francis kept sitting down for
interviews with the guy. I mean, he clearly just enjoyed
being interviewed by this person and liked the chaos that
it caused. I think he had this perverse sort of
sense of like, well, if I'm causing a mess and

(02:58):
causing chaos, and maybe that's a good thing, and people
talk and gets people talking, and that's a good thing. Leo,
on the other hand, has not everything's been buttoned up,
which is good buttoned up as far as the pr side.
But he has seemed very warm and very genuine and
actual interpersonal interactions with people, but not not performative weird

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stuff in the media. And that's a lot of what
I'm realizing is that he seems like a very normal,
nice man. I think with Francis he always seems so distant,
and maybe just for me it was because he's Argentinian
rather than American. I find it hard to kind of
grasp what makes him tick. With Pope Leo, I completely

(03:49):
kind of understand him. I met I've met priests like
him many many times, you know, especially going to Notre Dame.
How many you know priests did I meet from the
South side of Chicago, I mean a gazillion, and he
seems like them. He's very kind, he's very nice, he
seems relatable, he likes baseball, he you know, he just

(04:12):
seems like a very normal, nice man. But he said
a couple of things very pointedly that I think are
quite good and are indicating sort of different paths for
the church to go on. That I that I again,

(04:35):
I'm I'm quite happy about. One of the best things
he talked about was he gave a discourse on marriage.
There was some gathering in Rome for married couples for
which he celebrated mass in I think he was in
Saint Peter's Square and gave a homley, and he gave

(04:57):
a couple of discourses, and in it he talked about
this sort of central concept that is much disputed, to
which it seems like Pope Francis gave some credence in
some of the most disputed aspects of his teaching on

(05:19):
sexual ethics. So one of the big controversies in Pope
Francis's time was the topic of can the church give
holy communion to people who are divorced civilly remarried in
the Catholic conception, marriage is permanent and life long. The

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only way that you could get quote remarried is if
your first marriage was deemed to have been invalid through
some defect on the part of one of the two
parties who are making the vows, Like if you were
already having an affair with someone else while you're getting married,
it's clear that you weren't actually legitimately making those vows,
so that might be a grounds for annulment, But the

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Church views it as a process of annulment, declaring that
the marriage was never valid to begin with. There's no
such thing as Catholic divorce. You can't just say, well, yes,
we had a legitimate, valid by the book marriage, then
ten years later I got tired of you, I'm going
to leave, We get divorced, and we can get remarried.
In the church, no, you can't do that. The Church
does not permit that. So people who get civilly remarried

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are making this sort of public declaration of rejecting the
Church's judgment on this, and so the Church has sort
of traditionally upheld the practice. Reiterated by John Paul the
second that no, you can't come forward to receive holy communion.
Holy Communion, which we believe to be the actual body

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and blood of Christ, is something that you can't if
you've committed serious sins that you know there needs to
be a process of purification, go to confession before you
receive fully communion. And if you have no actual intent
to stop sinning, then the priest can't actually give you

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absolution in the sacrament of confession. A priest will say, well, okay,
so you're living with your boyfriend. Yes, okay, you need
to stop living with your boyfriend. I'm not going to
do that, all right, Well, then I can't give you
absolution here in the sacrament of confession. You need to
come back when you've resolved to stop living with your boyfriend.
You can come back here and I'll absolve you. But
I'm not gonna This is a thing that people I

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think misconstrue, especially non Catholics, don't get this. I think
they view Catholics as cynically taking advantage of the sacrament
of confession to sort of wipe the slate clean when
they're not actually really sorry, when they don't actually have
any purpose of amendment. And that's not how confession works.
It's not a magic spell. It's basically it's the outward

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manifestation of what should be a genuine internal contrition, and
that means actually being sorry and making some resolution not
to do it again. Okay again. If you're living with
your girlfriend or living with your boyfriend and you confess
to the priest, hey, I've been having sex outside the
confines of marriage, and the priest says, okay, well you

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need to stop, you need to move out, and you
say no, I can't move out, and I'm gonna keep
living with this woman, you know, keep having a good time. No,
you can't get absolved that the priest won't do it. Now.
The proposal from a bunch of Catholic ethical liberals was, well,

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marriage is really more like an ideal and you know,
maybe we okay certain kinds of intermediate steps before you
get there. So maybe you know, there are all these
people who are divorced and remarried, and you know they
want to participate at church. So what why should we
tell them no? So let's just give them communion. Now,

(09:09):
if you think of holy communion as you know what
a lot of different kinds of non Catholic Christians think
of holy communion, that it's a symbol of Christ feeding
his people, giving something that's kind of symbolically like his
body and blood, and maybe you can do that, but

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that's not us. We're the opposite of that. We actually
think it is the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus.
We take John chapter six at Jesus's word, unless you
eat my flesh and drink my blood, you shall not
have life within you, etc. We actually think it's the

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body and blood of Christ, and so we don't think
it's just a thing that kind of waltz up and
take when you're not living a Christian life. And the
idea being priests aren't supposed to pry into people's personal
lives and ask every person in the line for communion, hey,
have you been, you know, doing any bad sins? But

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when someone does something public, makes a public posture of saying,
I am entering into a marriage with this person outside
of the bonds of the church, while I'm still actually
married to somebody else in the church's eyes, then the
church will step in and say, well, no, you cannot

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receive communion, if only because it's causing scandal to the
rest of the Christian community. The rest of the Christian
community seeing us giving you communion might think, well, that's
totally fine. This person's a Catholic and good standing here
they are receiving communion. That's the scandal with say, you know,
politicians who are aggressively pro abortion Monday through Saturday and

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then waltz up to receive communion on Sunday. That's always
the problem with the Joe Biden's, the Nancy pelosis, et cetera.
When you are receiving Holy communion, it's an act to
signify that this person is in good standing with the church.
And no, we don't expect priests to figure out everyone's
private stuff. Ultimately, if you're privately committing serious sins, it's

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on you, it's not on the priest. But if someone
is a manifestly engaged in public bad stuff, the church
isn't going to give that person community. If Hugh Hefner
walks up to receive Holy communion, a priest might say, hey, Hugh,
we got to sit down for a long talk first
before you start coming up to receive communion. Okay, let's

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cool it, buddy, we got to straighten some things out.
So Pope Francis.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Kinda sort of in a footnote to one document sort
of indicator that maybe there might be circumstances and divorced
and civilly remarried people could maybe receive communion.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Without going to confession and resolving to change the situation. Maybe,
And it was one of the most destructive things as
far as creating dissension in the Church. Of his pontificate.
You had obvious open liberals who were like, yes, it's
a good that we want to give communion to people

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in this setting. We want to reshape Catholic moral theology.
You had conservatives saying, no, this is terrible. We marriage
is not some unattainable ideal. It's the actual standard we
have to live by. Pope Leo very clearly and decisively

(12:54):
opted for the latter approach, the conservative approach. He said,
marriage is not an ideal, it is the measure of
actual love, the measure of love. And he went on

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on this topic, and it very clearly demonstrates a desire
on his part to be consistent with John Paul the
second in Benedict the sixteenth when it comes to moral theology,
which I think is so critical. There are other good signs.

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There are things you know, indications just with little things
that he isn't trying to make everything about him. Pope
Francis famously he didn't want to live in the papal
apartments in the palace that's near the Vatican where it's
a palace, because most of the room of the palace

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are for receiving foreign dignitaries and stuff like that, which
Pope Francis would continue to use. He just didn't want
to live there. The actual living quarters are nothing like
too crazy or anything. It's not like a palatial digs.
So Pope Francis lived in a hotel, the Casa Santa Marta,

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and that actually put and everyone's like, oh, Pope Francis
is so humble, that's so wonderful. Well, it actually put
a ton more expense on the church to accommodate him
there because it wasn't really designed for him. It's a hotel,
so like they had to basically give him a whole
floor for like security reasons and beefing stuff up, so
they lose out on the revenue from that whole floor

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of the hotel. The Vatican already has a bunch of
financial problems, so Pope Leo's like no, I we're not
doing that. I'm just gonna live in the actual apartment
that was built for the pope, and I'll just stay there.
And he does little things that that evidence a desire
to just be in continuity with his predecessors, even down

(15:08):
to the way he dresses. He's not he's not trying
to show off. He's not. He dresses just like John
Paul the Second used to dress, which Francis did not. Pointedly.
There was certain things that Francis articles of traditional papal
vesture that Francis absolutely refused to wear the whole time
he was pope, and it was weird. So there's a

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lot of little things that are happening, and and you know,
one or two big things that I think are going
to be really positive when we return the concept of sinnidality,
the great agitator of the Francis papacy, one of the
things that caused the most agitation during Francis's papacy, and

(15:51):
how I think Leo's going to improve that. Next on
the John Girardi Show, We're one month in with Pope Leo,
and I'm already quite happy. First and foremost, his indication
that his views on sexual morality are quite orthodox, and
that whatever perceived deviations from it that Francis might have

(16:13):
tried to sort of open the door to that, he
will be hopefully slamming shut, particularly with his defense of
marriage as not an ideal that only a few people
can attain, and maybe we just accept that a lot
of people are short of that ideal when it comes
to the exercise of their sex lives, but as the

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actual measure of love. And so that's incredibly encouraging and whatever,
you know, the ambiguities in sort of teaching that at
official and quasi official levels that Pope Francis may have
introduced to sexuality, whether it's the ridiculous document that got
released and then immediately retracted sort of twenty twenty three

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about blessing gay couples, that was a whole disaster. I
think Leo is shutting the door on this, and I think,
and that's my dearest hope, is that the moral theology,
particularly of John Paul the Second, This was one of
the more important areas of John Paul the Second's interaction
with Catholic teaching was his development and fostering the church's

(17:23):
moral theology. I mean, I could do a whole show
about that. Nonetheless that that stuff really makes me happy.
The other area that makes me happy is a recent
problem or thing the church has been wrestling with, which
is this idea called sinnodality. So the big venues that

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Francis used for having a bunch of these controversies just constantly, constantly,
constantly debated during the Francis papacy. And this is one
of the things I think the cardinals who elected Leo
we're looking at was the Francis papacy was exhausting. There
was just controversy after controversy after controversy about things that
had already been fairly well decided, questions of Catholic moral

(18:12):
teaching and of Catholic practice, whether it was should we
make we should we allow women to be ordained deacons
and Pope Frances like, oh, I'll approve another study on it.
We've had like three or four historical studies of it.
There's no history of ordained deacons in the Catholic Church.

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There were a few instances of women who were called
deaconesses in like the first few centuries. It seems that
their main job was helping with immersion baptism of other
women just due to modesty stuff. Okay, if you're plunging
women completely in water and you know, kind of a
modesty thing, have some women to help her out. But

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that's it. That women as deacons in the way that
Catholic deacons operate today is just not a thing. So Francis,
I'll have another study on it. I'll have another discussion
about it. Why are we having a discussion about the sexuality,
about sexual ethics, stuff that are already well decided. Why

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are we having another discussion about communion for remarried and
divorce people, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. All of
these contentious things that made conservative bishops and cardinals really
ticked at Pope Francis and horrible liberals crowing beyond the
limits of what France has even actually wanted in many cases,

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empowering and emboldening liberals, horrible liberals in places like Germany
who went, I think, way further than Pope Francis wanted
them to go. The forum for all of this was synods.
A synod is basically synd A synod is a gathering
of bishops. This is a thing that was commonly done,

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usually on a sort of regional level, especially within Eastern Christianity,
and Pope Francis loved these sinoates because he could gather
sort of a select grouping of bishops. He could sort
of pick and choose what bishops he wanted to invite,
and they would gathered to discuss some topic. And it

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used to be that we would have one every like
five years, and they were very low key affairs, and
no one really, you know, spent too much thought or
gave them too much mind. But Francis used them as
these vehicles for introducing and debating these contentious, contentious, contentious issues,

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and he kept trying to act like, no sinidelity is
this defining feature of the church. He wanted to sort
of institutionalize this forum for having really contentious debates, sprawling, big, long,
contentious debates. And it seems as though Pope Leo's concept

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of what he thinks syn HUDs should be is much
more modest. Francis never really defined how synods were supposed
to necessarily work within the life of the church, and
so it's up to Leo to define that. He basically

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says the idea that the sinidelity means that we just
need to kind of work in closer union and communion
and fellowship with each other and recognize different strengths that
different kinds of people have. And it's a much more
modest and defined version of it because and this is
a personality thing. I think Leo is a Canon lawyer.

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He's a lawyer who has studied the law that governs
the internal function of the Catholic Church. Canon law is
a historic, ancient field of law. There are still Canon
lawyers within the church. And I think people hear that
and non Catholic special thing, Well, who needs to study law?
Are the lawyers all? So you just have an institutional

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thing for pharisees. Well, no, I think we all have
this sense of law as bad and a lot of
Christians have this coming from well we were getting rid
of the mosaic law. But the idea of having orderly
systems for the internal governance of any organization, Okay, try

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running you know all you every evangelical church is a nonprofit.
You have by laws. Okay, you got to follow them,
I know you do. You're if you're a nonprofit corporation.
You have by laws, you have authority structure, you have
an organizational structure. Well, the Catholic Church is a lot
bigger than you know, the the little you know, three

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hundred thousand dollars nonprofit corporation of First Baptist Church on
you know, Main Street. So it's a bigger sort of
body of stuff that has to be governed. And Leo,
being a lawyer, I think, is able to be precise
when precision is needed. He is able to be modest
when modesty is needed. And those were not character traits.

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I think often that Pope francis exhibited, or that Pope
France is even valued. So I'm very excited about Pope Leo.
I think he is temperamentally well suited for the job,
and I think he is, as far as substance, doing
very good things, even in this short month that he's

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been on the job. All Right, when we return the
stupidest homeschooling, well not homeschooling slash ai idea I've ever
seen next on the John Girardi Show. Now, for those
of you who don't know, my wife and I are homeschoolers.
We have five kids, we got a six on the way.
The three older ones are all school aged. The fourth

(24:18):
one is kind of entering kindergarten now and we homeschool
and we're pretty happy with it. Our kids are doing really,
really well. They're working through kind of a homeschool charter school,
a local homeschool charter school thing, which has been really good.
It gives you it's sort of a public charter school,

(24:41):
so they give you funds for buying books, and funds
you can actually use for other academic things like piano
lessons and things like that, and it's really good. I
think the results speak for themselves. Our kids are really
good readers. They're you know, are Sophia our eight year

(25:03):
old is I think well, actually both of our older
kids have more or less skipped a grade just because
they're doing so well. And you kind of see with
homeschool and sort of a lot of the inefficiencies with
normal classroom environment schooling that you kind of the pace
of learning is dragged down to whoever's the lowest common denominator,

(25:24):
and you know, as a result, it's like, oh, you
can get your school done actually much more quickly if
you're just going at your own pace, and then you
can spend more time with kids who maybe have more
trouble and more difficulty with stuff. Especially for younger elementary
school kids like I have. We got you know, fifth grade,
the what if I got fifth grade, fourth grade, first grade,

(25:47):
and coming into kindergarten. So next year we'll have sixth grade,
fifth grade, second grade, and kindergarten. You know, it's it
works really well for and we're sort of lucky that
at our church has a lot of homeschooling families, so
we have the opportunity for our kids to hang out

(26:08):
with other kids a lot and do different classes and
sports things, and so they get you know, socialization with
other kids, and so it's really good. I mean, we've
been very pleased with it. And it's also it gives
us the ability to really be low tech. You know, basically,

(26:32):
our kids don't need to use screens almost at all.
Maybe for a few things where it's useful. But it
frustrates me to see I've seen schools that have advertised, oh,
we have an iPad for every student. It's like, well, no,
I don't want every student to have an iPad. Fresno Unified,

(26:52):
which is you know again in the news, gv wire
has a very unflattering gv wire which is just absolutely
at war with Presney Unified I think due to Darius
Asimi just being totally fed up with presdenty Unified, gv
wire has a whole unflattering piece. I think it's comparing

(27:13):
Fresne Unified with Basically they found another California school district
very comparable in size to Fresne Unified and are just
comparing it. How like they have half as many executive
staff members and their test scores are way better. That's
what it is here. It is Fresney Unified has twice
as many administrators and lower test scores than it's peer districts.

(27:39):
For okay, for a link that's broken on gvare. Gvire's
website has been acting all funny lately. Well, I have
now found what I think to be maybe the biggest
ripoff in human history in Austin, Texas. And it combines
a couple of things. First, my hatred of AI. I
hate AI. I've ranted about it on the show a

(28:02):
gazillion times. I don't like AI. I think AI is
bad in a number of respects. Can be used good
well for certain kinds of things. I think if you
use it as a glorified Google search engine, sure that's fine.

(28:22):
But the way that people have started to like outsource
their thinking to AI, Like like, oh, I asked chat
gpt what they think about this political problem problem. Here's
what chat gpt i'd say. I don't give a rats
rear end what chat gpt has to say about a
political problem. I don't give a rat's rear end what
chat gpt has to say about anything, almost anything other

(28:45):
than I have cheat. I have, you know, provolone cheese
and you know London broil and arugula in my fridge.
Find me recipes that work well with those ingredients. Okay,
if chat gpt wants to help me with that, that's fine.
But that's where I'm drawing the line. And I think

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the introduction of chat GPT, AI, et cetera into education
is just a wild It's an area that is absolutely
ripe for abuse. Kids are cheating like crazy in schools

(29:29):
from c to Shining Sea, you know, junior high, on
and college and probably grad school by utilizing chat GPT.
The use of AI systems to cut corners at work
and screw up your job, we saw it at the
federal level. RFK submitted some kind of big proposal thing

(29:51):
the Congress. He was working on that was rife with errors,
different kinds of references that seemed made up up. Why well,
probably because whoever whatever staffer wrote it for him used AI.
It was this big embarrassing scandal about a week or
two ago. We saw this even locally here in city

(30:13):
of Presno. Misty Herr, trying to establish trying to set
parameters for the relationships with the teachers' union in Fresno Unified,
presented them with this document purporting the show all these
different times that they spoke about her in unprofessional ways,
and the quotes were made up clearly because she had

(30:35):
some staffer used AI and to hey, generate every find
me every news story where someone said bloh, okay, So
I'm incredibly suspicious of AI. There are lawyers who are
getting sanctioned for using AI rather than trying to actually
write things themselves. I'm very suspicious of AI, and especially

(30:56):
the way that a lot of people talk about it,
that it is going to replace I mean I saw
a thing that it could wind up replacing the labor
of eight percent of the global workforce. That's bad. Okay, Well,
you know, human beings are good. Actually, I don't want

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every trucker in America to go out of business. I
don't want every computer programmer in America to go out
of business. It has all kinds of applications that could
make a very wide variety of different kinds of jobs.
Everyone who was told for the last fifty years learn
how to code, you know, not in a great shape.

(31:38):
Now that chat GPT is coming around, and you know
it's a real subject for concern. Now, with all that said,
this is the stupidest AI education thing I've seen. Alpha
School a private school in Austin. Welcome to the future
of education. Now this school, This is a private school

(32:07):
in Austin powered by AI. Tuition at Alpha School is
I want to take a guess, what do you think? Tuition?
Private K through eight school in Austin, Texas is powered
by AI AI learning to help kids maximize their potential

(32:28):
K through eight A pre K through eight tuition is
a cool forty thousand dollars per year. Okay, it's okay, though,
you get a five percent discount for a second kid,
so two kids will be a mere seventy eight thousand dollars.
Imagine a school where students love to learn. At Alpha Austin,

(32:50):
our revolutionary two hour learning model combines cutting edge technology
with personalized one on one academic instruction, empowering students to
rank in the top one to two two percent nationally.
Afternoons focus on life skills through hands on workshops, preparing
students to thrive beyond academics. With our guide, students receive
tailored support to meet their unique potential. At Alpha Austin,

(33:11):
we're not just preparing students for tests. We're preparing them
for limitless futures. Okay, So right now you're like, Okay,
this is whatever. This is just a really bougie, expensive
private school. What are we doing here? So basically they tried.

(33:32):
The whole idea of it is that this is an
AI powered school. Here's a tweet thread about it from
some dufus named Austin Alred who works for an AI
company of some sort. Tomorrow wraps up the first five
months of my kids attending the school where all of

(33:52):
the learning is powered by AI and no teachers. It's
truly wild. Here's what it's like.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
The most interesting part is in the academics. It's been
the shift in the demeanor of my kids. They don't
have the internalized sense that drudgery is coming. It's simply
not there anymore. They glied from excitement to excitement so easily.
It makes me question my life. What about the academics?
This has been fascinating. The learning is so personalized and adaptive.
It's been a totally different experience for each of my kids.

(34:22):
Learning is done in two hours per day using various
apps that monitor your kids and how they learn and
adapt to them. Kids are tested regularly to compare to
other students across the country, and everything maps back to
common Core.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Oh great, so it's AI plus common core. First grader
came in as a median student, right on level and everything,
and started flying. He's pacing to learn just faster than
two times at the speed of traditional school. Apparently this
guy didn't learn how to write in his traditional school.
We started in late January. He finished what he had
left of first grade quickly, mostly in February. He learned

(34:58):
second grade language and second grade reading in May. Diddy.
He finished second grade math in early June. He's about
twenty percent through third grade language. Extrapolating the pace he's on,
he'll likely finish next year more than two grades ahead.
You can't extrapolate like that. You do fiss. Take it
from a homeschooler. Okay, yeah, my first grade's in third

(35:20):
grade math, but it doesn't mean he's going to be
in you know, ninth grade math by the time he's
in third grade or something. Right, fourth grader came in
and software actually identified some pretty material gaps she had
in her knowledge. Probably our fault. She's been our education
guinea pig. Going to Alpha next year will be the

(35:41):
first time she's gone back to the same school a
second year. She caught up in reading, but it's only
ninety one percent of the way through third grade math. Luckily,
she's moving at a much faster pace. So it's like
you're doing all your school hooked up to a screen.
You realize you can go at your own pace, be
variable like that. With homeschool, that's like this parent is

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acting like they've that and that's probably all they're doing.
They're just kind of letting the kids learn at their
own pace, just at of school using doing work that's
on a computer with some sort of AI module, and
they're spending forty thousand dollars for the privilege. That's what
homeschooling is. You can get most of your work done

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if you're not hindered by the structure, by the normal
structure of normal day to day school. They're just providing
a day care for watching your kids do homeschooling. So
it's going to be like homeschooling, only with teachers who
don't actually love your kids. Because that's the secret sauce
of homeschooling really is that no one actually cares for

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your kid more than you do. So there's never going
to be any way that any teacher is ever going
to love for love, care for your kid and be
as invested in your kid's success as you are. And
that's the rub. It's is the structural things that are good,
but love is really the heart of why homeschooling actually works.
When we return the Trump administration trying to cut off

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tons of funding to California. Good Next on the John
Girardi Show, all these shocked and outrage stories in different
media outlets that President Trump wants to cut off funding
for California in all these different ways. Yeah, of course
he does. Look at us, we're a disaster. Also, by

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the way, with the riots going on in Los Angeles,
there are several things that if you're a liberal, you
simultaneously have to believe all three of them. First, you
have to believe that there are no riots. Then you
have to believe that there are riots, but they are good.
Then you have to believe that the riots are bad.
And because Trump inflamed them and it's Trump's fault. You have

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to think all three of those things at the same time.
There are no riots, the riots are good, righteous reponses
to unjust tyranny, and the riots are bad because of Trump.
Have to believe all those three things at the same time.
Of course, the Feds want to pull money from our
ridiculous state. We've been a train wreck for twenty years.
That'll do it. John Diroady Show, See next time on

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