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So there.
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fur for one fifteen eighty. So what have we got here?
March twelfth? What are we celebrating today. Well, that would
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be what is this National skin Barrier Day?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
How's that?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Let's see March twelfth National skin Barrier Day on the
National Day calendar as a day to raise awareness on
the importance of skin barrier health for every skin type
and every concern. Okay, I guess that's Sun's Green.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Sounds like to.
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Me National Working Mom's Day. Give it up for the
working moms. My mother was a working mom. Yes, yes,
fifth grade. Yeah, parents got divorced fifth grade and her
and Jerry didn't get.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Married eighth grade.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So she was working well manager or assistant manager rather
at a Safeway store Union shop. A woman in the
seventies being an assistant manager. Don't tell me she didn't take
some crap for that. Give it up for the working mom.
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National Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day. I guess what about the
unregistered national Ooh, here we finally thank you National Baked
Scallops Day. And oh it's a National Plant of Flower Day,
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National Plant of Flower Day.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Out there in plant a flower, panta flower.
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Or a tree. Oh, look at this National Girl Scout Day. Yeah,
they need to find somebody in new to make their cookies,
because did you hear about all the toxic crap that's
in the Girl Scout cookies. Now, I mean it's it's
not like they organized. But I'm just saying, whoever they,
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whoever got the low bid, is doing a lame job
on the cookies. I'm just saying they cost more, smaller,
and they got toxic chemicals in them. So you know,
love the Girl Scouts, Happy National Girl Scout David. Could
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you look into those cookies for me or that?
Speaker 7 (07:37):
How do I know you guys aren't going to chop
it up later and make me look like an idiot.
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We'll be right back after this breakdown.
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We're News Radio fifteen eighty WCCF, Government.
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Futility and the post Office.
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Yeah, you can't.
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You can't really make this stuff up if you wanted to.
Over the past ten years, the number the number of
US postal workers.
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Has increased by thirty percent. Wow, you would think, whow boy.
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Business must be booming at the post office.
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They must be delivering all sorts of stuff.
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Wow, your deliveries dropped by twenty five percent. So what
you're saying is your business has dropped, Your deliveries have dropped,
but you needed to increase your workforce by thirty percent.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
This is like a Seinfeld skit.
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This is like George working for what was it there?
Kroger Industrial Smoothing. You can't get much dumber.
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Watchdog on Wall Street dot Com.
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Why not.
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News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine f m
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at nine twenty one. Uh no, mister ask and he
is not here today. I believe he's at the he's
he had a doctor's appointment. Uh, he's getting that, he's
uh having that. I believe he's having that third nipple
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looked at. I'm not sure. We'll find out. He might
drop by later on Phone lines are open nine four
one two zero six fifteen eighty, toll free eight eight
eight four four one fifteen eighty. Where to start, We're
where to start? Well, tell me you were a CIA
front organization doing much harm to the US. Without telling
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me that you're a CIA front organization doing great harm
to the US US eight employees were told to destroy documents,
shred and burn everything.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, it's like it's like cop It's like you're in
comms and the ship's being in Vaine, destroy it all,
hammer it, bust up the crypto, even even classified documents. Again,
why would a NGO providing you know, aid to people's
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aid international, why would they have highly classified documents that
needed to be shredded prior to them leaving because they
have been defunded and placed under the wing of Marco Rubio. Hmm.
Pretty much just outs themselves right there over to the
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conservative treehouse. If us AID was the charitable charitable wing
of the US State Department, again, why would the remaining
senior leadership be instructing all employees to urgently start destroying
all the records. It's a pretty easy answer in that
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the charity mission of USAID was affront for the real
operational mission of the CIA. USAID has always been, and
again it's the United States Agency for International Development, not AID,
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but the name just sounded like, oh, we're giving aid.
They've always been a CIA operation within the State Department silo.
The documents they're now being told to shred and burn
with urgency are the CIA operational details of how USAID
manipulated foreign governments and CIA assets. This is just one
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big cover up operation from DC. A senior official at
USAID instructed a number of the agency's remaining staff to
convene at the agency's now former headquarters in Washington, DC
on Tuesday for an all day group effort to destroy
documents stored there, many of which contain sensitive information. The
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materials earmarked for destruction include contents of the agency's classified
safes and personnel documents at the Ronald Reagan Building. Set
an email sent by USAID's acting Executive Director, Erica Carr
and obtained by Politico, quote, shred as many documents first,
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and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes
unavailable or needs a break. Carr instructed staff to label
the burn bags with the words secret and USAIDS slash
b slash IO agency shorthand for bureau or independent office
in dark sharpy. The email didn't provide any reason for
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the document destruction, so average Americans are just now starting
to finally get a glimpse of how the DC political
system is factually a Potempkin village maintained as a front
to give the illusion of democracy.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Once again, mister Smoot.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
The constitutional Republic not a democracy. While the intelligence community
controls the functional outcomes of government, Trump is it's like
Toto from the Wizard of Oz, exposing the groups behind
the DC curtain, and more and more people are getting
alarmed as their preconceptions of American government are being challenged
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and destroyed before their eyes. I mean, look at the left,
they're seeing this too. And I'm not talking about the
elected officials who are in on it and already knew
about it. I'm talking about base Democrats. A lot of
them who didn't get woke up before the election are
waking up now. And the others are turning a blind
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eye to it for some psychological reason, brainwashed and defending it,
protesting to make it continue. The intelligence community has been
slowly increasing control over American government for decades. The Patriot
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Act was simply booster fuel to complete the takeover. The
Patriot Act is where you and I we the people,
became the extremists. The CIA now operates domestically, which they're
not supposed to do, domestic clandestine operations inside America, and
your Congress, our Congress knows about it. The House Select
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Committee on Intelligence, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, they
know about it, and they don't do a damn thing
to try and stop it. Because they know Schumer's old
adage that's six ways from Sunday group by just too
dangerous to confront.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Pussies.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
President Trump represents a threat to this system of intelligence
control over government, and we need to back him up. Again.
We outnumber them greatly, and look how evil they are.
They've never been punched in the face. Two six fifteen
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eighty toll free eight eight eight four four one fifteen
eighty more winning anyway, Linda McMahon, give it up of that.
Are you ready? Staff cuts are the first step to
ending the Department of Education? Yes, yes, we need Congress involved, definitely.
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She was on Ingram yesterday. Ingram says, what sis road
to a total shutdown? McMahon, Yes, actually it is, because
that was the president's mandate, as directed to me clearly,
is to shut down the Department of Education, which we
know will have to work with Congress to get that accomplished.
But what we did today was to take the first
step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat. And
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that's not to say that a lot of the folks.
It's a humanitarian thing to a lot of folks that
are there and they're out of a job. But we
wanted to make sure that we kept all the right
people and all the good people, to make sure that
the outward facing programs, the grants, the operations that come
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from Congress, all of that are being met and none
of that is going to fall through the cracks. She added,
so many of the programs are really actual. We need
to make sure that that money does get to the states,
but we want more money to be able to go
to the states. And that's what the President said all along,
if we get rid of the bureaucracy, and if you
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heard it, Harriet Hagman, it was only a minute, Harriet Hagman,
just the bureaucracy, the bloat, the money laundering of the
d's budget. Well, let's look at the Department of Education.
The Federal Department of Education spends it as a budget
of about two hundred and.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Eighty billion dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Less than twenty five percent goes to educating our students.
Less than twenty five percent. So that's bureaucratic bloat that
we need to get rid of, and that money needs
to go to the states. And I'll bet you, I'll
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bet you that's why you're seeing that Nazi broad that
Randy we gotten. This total nazi freak is losing it
because she's afraid that money's not going to be going
to the Union. It's not going to be going to
her anymore. It's going to be going to the States.
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And she's afraid of vouchers and charter schools. Oh my,
we love them.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
So they're losing their crap over that.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well, it's too bad, because I'm sorry, but the Department
of Education has failed miserably, miserably Bruce Dietrich Price before
we even get to Florida's Yeah, coincidinkly the letter to
the or the op ed today.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
In the Sun.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
For years, everyone trying to undermine K twelve often had
to look the other way. They didn't dare discuss Off
Flesh's famous book explaining why Johnny can't read. Instead, these
resourceful meddlers treated Flesh as a pariah. They won the battle,
and as a result, a huge percentage of Americans can
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hardly read or write at all. Our schools don't bother
with geography, arithmetic, history, basic science. But why would our
subversives want these particular victories?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Gobile.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Let's state the obvious. Schools are supposed to transmit knowledge right,
What would be the motive for deviating from this most
excellent tradition? Two hundred and fifty years ago, President John
Adams explained the whole thing in eleven words. He said,
liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among people.
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In other words, the first step in destroying liberty is
to take knowledge away from the people, and that goal
has been largely accomplished by our education professors. How did
John Adams figure this out in seventeen seventy five? But
many of our credentialed experts are now only perceiving the
ruin that endless mendacity can bring to a society. We
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sink to the level of our leaders and then lower. Recently,
he encountered the most important insight about reading he'd ever
seen in our media. It appeared on a major education
site and reveals the angst among academics that even the
better students have become increasingly ignorant and illiterate. The author,
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Teresa McPhail wrote, quote, we all kind of feel lost
these days. Myself included, I keep coming back to there's
something broken in American culture. The response of my fellow academics, however,
reassures me that I'm not simply indulging in intergenerational grousing. Anecdotally,
I have literally never met a professor who did not
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share my experience. Sure, this writer struggled mightly to justify
and then forget the central alibi. Massive educational failure is
just one of those things. After all, she's writing in
the Chronicle of Higher Education, godfather of conventional wisdom on education,
So in her heart, I'll bet she agrees. Practical reformer,
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I bet she suspects that our decline is counterintuitive and
can be explained only if the liars and the frauds
have taken over a second teacher. Journalist Adam Kotsko, responding
in Slate, said that the literacy crisis he has seen
among his students is different from anything before. He describes
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it as a conspiracy without conspirators. No one literally set
out to design a system in which students were not
taught the skills they need to become to become effective readers. Right, really,
because that's what they've done. Reminded of Germans saying they
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didn't know about those death factories in the woods. Our
education establishment has shown genius at deliberately selecting theories and
methods that, despite these rosy claims they make about them,
turn out not to work. Then the self appointed experts,
by a blitzkrieg of sophistry and jargon, numbed common sense.
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So here's a teacher with a job in K twelve
who thinks there are no conspirators when it seems to
me there's not much else but conspirators.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Do you ever wonder why so.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Many students at all levels are dropping out of school.
They're depressed from not learning anything and rarely understanding anything,
consumed as they are by false theories, and all they
know is that they're in school for many years but
can't read, and then they feel stupid and they want
to escape from this place asap. Why Johnny Can't Read
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came out in nineteen fifty five, sold millions of copies.
Flesh explained that the professors were asking children to learn
to read English words as if they were Egyptian hieroglyphs
or Chinese ideograms, which are memorized visually one by one.
He said that surely everyone understands that that approach is insane,
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site words stupid. That's the only mistake made by Flesh.
He underestimated the desperate creativity of our idealogue professors. They
told the lies necessary to throw phonics in the gutter.
Understanding the Great American Reading hoax was a project lasting years,
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finally learned that after the Russian Revolution circa nineteen nineteen,
Lenin and Stalin loudly proclaimed the Communist International. They just
defeated Imperial Russia and believed they could defeat the small
United States agents of influence, that's the technical term. We're
sent around the world to infiltrate media, education, government agencies, foundations,
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cultural institutions. And that was the true beginning of a
one hundred year war which at times has been called
the Cold War. By nineteen twenty one, these conquisti d'Ors,
also known as the common tern were aggressively involved in
American politics down to the state and city level. If
any of this history is news to you, ask your AI.
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Here's another brilliant quote from John Adams. Power always thinks
it has a great soul and vast views beyond the
comprehension of the week, and that it is doing God's
service when it is violating all his laws.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
That's what smart sounds like.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The usual suspects like to make phonics sound very complicated.
Now it's it's easy. The kids have to memorize the letters,
their names, their sounds, and that English reads left to right.
This process takes several months. My education was prior to
the Department of Education. I learned to read by phonics.
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We all did. We all went pretty damn well by
third grade. Least I did.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
That's why phonics experts insist that they can teach virtually
all children to read in the first grade. The pretenders
we have now squander most of the K twelve years,
so the children remain struggling readers indefinitely. And that's what
teachers are finally having to acknowledge. Huge waste go and nowhere.
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When phonics experts insist that they can teach every child
to read in the first grade, why would anyone support
a method that hardly teaches children to read? Ever? Kind
of difficult to understand these treacheries, but I do understand
the pattern common among communist dictators like polepot stalin Mao Obama.
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They always want to be at the top of the
centralized government, so they have all the power and can
kill almost anyone who threatens them. Naturally, they prefer everyone
else to be dumb, uninformed, and passive.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
And I believe.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That's the true meaning of literacy for the commissars among
us here in K twelve today. The melancholy thing about
K twelve is that so few upscale people bother noticing
the rot. We have the new Department of Government Efficiency.
Now we need the DOEE the Department of Education efficiency.
A reasonable goal would be at least twice the education
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for less than half the price. We need some very
successful business people to get involved. In the last election,
Bill Paxton, financial whiz, separated himself from the looney left,
and I thought, this guy, he's the.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
One for the job.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But uh, Lenna McMahon dismantling the Department of Education, sending
that money back to the States and hopefully getting back
to a phonics reading. I mean, it's still happening here.
The scores around here for reading and mass still suck
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by any comparison or But we've got a schools sure
you do. And it's and for a sucky education, it's
one of the best around. It's not the greatest, but
it's good. It's better than a lot of places around
it for certain. And there are a lot of good
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programs that are coming out here locally, and that's why
I want to see more local control and more of
that money coming out of the bureaucratic filter and getting
down to where it's needed here locally, and who knows,
you know, it might work right. The station is now
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the ultimate power in the universe.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
They have no chemistry at all them.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks on news
radio fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
You can know too much in this world, my friends,
you can know too much. I'll be honest with you.
I don't want to know what my wife was thinking
about most things most of the time. We've been happily
married for twenty four years. You know why we don't
ask dumb questions?
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Are you happy right now?
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Is there anything I should change about myself? We don't
ask those questions. You want to be happily married, Shut
up and keep going couple's therapy? Are you high pay
a stranger to pick at your old fights? Hell no,
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I tell my wife every night. Look you're a mess.
I'm a mess. Let's watch a show. I'll be honest
with you. She doesn't like me right now, She hasn't
for like two months. I have no idea why, and
I'm not going to find out.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
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free eight eight eight four four one fifteen eighty YEP.
Been doing this show seventeen eighteen years and still lamenting
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the same thing from today's SUN. Test scores nationally and
in Florida continue to show more school kids are falling
behind and reading in math. That is part of the
post pandemic hangover with learning gaps, and it was a
pre pandemic hangover too, but it got worse during the
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RONA falling test scores after all the COVID disruptions and stressors.
In twenty nineteen, before COVID, thirty percent of Florida fourth
graders were reading below grade level. Twenty twenty four, same
figure stands at thirty eight percent. According to the National
Assessment of Educational Progress Tests, before COVID, thirty four percent
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of Florida eighth graders were not at basic grade level
reading in math from the NAP test. In the most
recent test scores released in January, forty five percent of
Florida eighth graders were behind in math. Florida is not alone.
Across the country. State school districts have seen test scores
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drop in students struggling to close learning gaps stemming from
COVID as well as some long term trends. Too many
students are left discouraged when they fall behind at school,
and that has a lot of downhill impacts on kids' confidence.
Quote they're taught that school is a place where they
can't succeed, said Anika Warner, an education advisor who help
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students with their educational paths. But there are plenty of
classroom educators and education innovators try new ways, and that's
the problem. We're sick and tired of your dumbass innovation
and new ways. They don't work. Go back to what works.
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Go back to a lesson plan K in K through six.
Go back to lesson plans from nineteen seventy. Suck it
up and do what's right for our children instead of
these innovative new ways that cost a lot of money
and never produce anything but stupid kids, innovative new ways,
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quote intensive tutoring groups, shortening breaks away from school. Yeah,
school year round, take them away completely from the family.
You know, we have to be in school all the
time so we can brainwash these little farts.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
No. Ugh.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Some school districts, including here in southwest Florida, are focusing
on evidence based curriculum practices, and that means utilizing and
sticking with teaching that works for students, thank you. There
also needs a needed push to get schools beyond the
partisan political fights. Yeah, unions, liberals control the Department of Education,
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all the money that's wasted. As we hear twenty only
twenty five percent of their huge budget actually goes to education.
And where does that money filter through a bunch of
liberal groups who are the experts in education. With all
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kinds of new and innovative ways, new ideas out there too.
Micro schools with small classrooms offer a more intimate learning
setting for students. They're becoming more popular. There are new
schools emphasizing short or more intensive academic instruction, with other
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times spent on extra curricular activities, creativity and life skills.
Not a bad idea. We used to have that when
I was growing up. It's called recess and sports.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Sports.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Classical schools emphasize more writing, critical thinking, and liberal arts
and sciences.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
The zoom schools of the.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Pandemic were colossal failures for many students, especially younger ones,
but technologically, including digital tutoring, technology can be helpful if
students are offered one on one, consistent help, and there's
plenty of ed tech firms offering that. Jessica Reid sil Slavsky,
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CEO of Ignite Learning, said her model offers daily doses
of online tutoring to help young students with their reading.
They see the same human every day. Each day they're
doing fifteen minutes of hyper engaging targeted instruction. There's also
ed tech firms advocating for greater use of artificial.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
With your AI.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Just get back to the basics. I mean, ah, God,
do what works, what we've always known works, what worked
for us until the Department of Education came along. Go back,
just go back to what works, and quit acting like
idiots with your new and innovative ways that don't work.
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Cost a lot less money and be a lot more
profitable for our children if you would just go back
to what works, what has always worked in the past
instead of your liberal, dumb ass new and innovative ways
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two oh six fifteen eighty, toll free eight eight eight
four four one fifteen eighty, and maybe finally with the
dismantling of the Department of Education, we can accomplish that.
I'm just saying, it's quite obvious that their new and
innovative ways are for crap. Look at it, It's right
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there in the scores these I wonder how young these
people are that are putting these lists together.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
At some of these magazines, you.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Grew up.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
In the seventies, eighties, nineties, I mean rock radio music.
You still have the Columbia Record and Tape Club where
you could, you know, get all kinds of records for
a penny, make sure.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
The accounts in your sister's name.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But there's a list of they're calling him god tear
songs from the seventies, eighties, and nineties, favorite tracks from
every decade. But what are the truly important, indelible songs
that when you're talking about a decade, that these ten
songs in each of these decades are like, oh yeah.
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Loudwire put together a list of ten god tier songs
from the seventies, eighties, and nineties alphabetical order. In the seventies.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
It was.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Alphabetical by group.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Ac DC, Highway to Hell, Aerosmith, Dream On, Eagles, Hotel California, Kiss,
Rock and Roll All Night, led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven,
Sweet Home Alabama, skinnerd Live and Let Die, McCartney and Wings.
Bohemian Rhapsody, Won't Get Fooled Again the only one I
disagree with for me, and that's just because it wasn't
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really a great album. It was a good movie. Another
Brick in the Wall Part two. It's a salute to
Stan and Haney. Yeah, I know, I didn't think it
was a great album. I thought it was a cool
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movie for the eighties. Ac DC Back Again with You,
Shook Me All Night Long, bon Jovi, Living On a Prayer,
def Leppard, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Sweet Child of Mine,
Guns N' Roses, Don't Stop Believing, Journey, Come On, Come On, Eh,
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Motley Crue Home, Sweet Home, Prints in the Revolution, Let's
Go Crazy, Hey, Let's go Twisted Sister, We're not gonna
take it. Van Halen's Jump and White Snake. Here I
Go Again. I don't have any problem with that one
the nineties. People at Loudwire just love ac DC. They're
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back with Thunderstruck Higher by Creed. I mean, I mean, yeah,
I guess it's kind of popular, but ever long by
the Foo Fighters, basket Case, Green Day, November Rain, Guns
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N' Roses, Closer, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana smells like Team Spirit,
Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine, Under
the Bridge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and a Black Hole
Sun Soundgarden. Yeah, okay, I mean you can agree or disagree,
but there's a ride up on each song if you
want to go to Loudwire and check it out. But yeah,
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you don't really have a problem with most of those.
They were all good ones. Do we care about Jennifer Garner?
I like the Jennifer Garner, but they why do they
keep trying to keep some semblance of a flame between
her and Ben alive? It seems like it's yeah, TMZS
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wants it more than they actually do. Ah, don't do this.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
Don't do this.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
And what I mean by don't do this, there's two
things you don't do. You don't eat your kid's ice cream,
and if you're the kid, you don't call the cops.
On your mom for eating your ice cream. Mount Pleasant,
Wisconsin mother gets a visit from the cops last week
after her four year old son turned her in for
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eating his ice cream. He called nine to one one
and said she was being bad. Then he said come
and get my mommy and put her in jail. His
mom got on the phone a few seconds later and said,
I ate his ice cream, so that's probably why he's calling.
They believed her, but had to do welfare check anyway,
and when they showed up again, he tried to get
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her in trouble again. He claimed she hit it. Then
he admitted he was just angry about the ice cream.
Mom had a sense of humor about it, I'm sure
until the cops left, and then it was uh, I
don't know, maybe to bount She even let him. She
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even let her son put her in cuffs, but he
eventually said he didn't want to press charges.
Speaker 6 (43:12):
Turned out he wasn't even his ice cream to begin with.
It was hers.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
They had two.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
He just thought she stole his.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
He also didn't dial nine to one one. She said
he got Siri to call.
Speaker 6 (43:26):
The cops.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Noted he seemed like he's pretty smart for his age.
They went back the next day and brought him some
ice cream, even added sprinkles because they said they liked him.
That's cute, one of the better kid calling the cops stories. Well,
that's all we have for this hour. We got men's hobbies.
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Next hour, Southwest Airlines. Oh and whatever else happened? Oh
the post office, Oh my god, the post office. Ah,
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I need more coffee and we'll tell you about the
post office.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
The hell is it with these guys.
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So there.
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April fifth, eight to eleven in the morning on a Saturday,
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March twelfth? What are we celebrating today. Well, that would
(05:11):
be what is this National skin Barrier Day?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
How's that?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Let's see March twelfth National skin Barrier Day on the
National Day calendar as a day to raise awareness on
the importance of skin barrier health for every skin type
and every concern. Okay, I guess that's Sun's Green.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Sounds like to.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Me National Working Mom's Day. Give it up for the
working moms. My mother was a working mom. Yes, yes,
fifth grade. Yeah, parents got divorced fifth grade and her
and Jerry didn't get.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Married eighth grade.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So she was working well manager or assistant manager rather
at a Safeway store Union shop. A woman in the
seventies being an assistant manager. Don't tell me she didn't take
some crap for that. Give it up for the working mom.
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National Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day. I guess what about the
unregistered national Ooh, here we finally thank you National Baked
Scallops Day. And oh it's a National Plant of Flower Day,
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National Plant of Flower Day.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Out there in plant a flower, panta flower.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Or a tree. Oh, look at this National Girl Scout Day. Yeah,
they need to find somebody in new to make their cookies,
because did you hear about all the toxic crap that's
in the Girl Scout cookies. Now, I mean it's it's
not like they organized. But I'm just saying, whoever they,
(07:12):
whoever got the low bid, is doing a lame job
on the cookies. I'm just saying they cost more, smaller,
and they got toxic chemicals in them. So you know,
love the Girl Scouts, Happy National Girl Scout David. Could
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you look into those cookies for me or that?
Speaker 7 (07:37):
How do I know you guys aren't going to chop
it up later and make me look like an idiot.
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We'll be right back after this breakdown.
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Futility and the post Office.
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Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
You can't really make this stuff up if you wanted to.
Over the past ten years, the number the number of
US postal workers.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Has increased by thirty percent. Wow, you would think, whow boy.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Business must be booming at the post office.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
They must be delivering all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Wow, your deliveries dropped by twenty five percent. So what
you're saying is your business has dropped, Your deliveries have dropped,
but you needed to increase your workforce by thirty percent.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
This is like a Seinfeld skit.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
This is like George working for what was it there?
Kroger Industrial Smoothing. You can't get much dumber.
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Watchdog on Wall Street dot Com.
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Why not.
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is not here today. I believe he's at the he's
he had a doctor's appointment. Uh, he's getting that, he's
uh having that. I believe he's having that third nipple
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drop by later on Phone lines are open nine four
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eight four four one fifteen eighty. Where to start, We're
where to start? Well, tell me you were a CIA
front organization doing much harm to the US. Without telling
(10:38):
me that you're a CIA front organization doing great harm
to the US US eight employees were told to destroy documents,
shred and burn everything.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, it's like it's like cop It's like you're in
comms and the ship's being in Vaine, destroy it all,
hammer it, bust up the crypto, even even classified documents. Again,
why would a NGO providing you know, aid to people's
(11:22):
aid international, why would they have highly classified documents that
needed to be shredded prior to them leaving because they
have been defunded and placed under the wing of Marco Rubio. Hmm.
Pretty much just outs themselves right there over to the
(11:48):
conservative treehouse. If us AID was the charitable charitable wing
of the US State Department, again, why would the remaining
senior leadership be instructing all employees to urgently start destroying
all the records. It's a pretty easy answer in that
(12:10):
the charity mission of USAID was affront for the real
operational mission of the CIA. USAID has always been, and
again it's the United States Agency for International Development, not AID,
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but the name just sounded like, oh, we're giving aid.
They've always been a CIA operation within the State Department silo.
The documents they're now being told to shred and burn
with urgency are the CIA operational details of how USAID
manipulated foreign governments and CIA assets. This is just one
(12:52):
big cover up operation from DC. A senior official at
USAID instructed a number of the agency's remaining staff to
convene at the agency's now former headquarters in Washington, DC
on Tuesday for an all day group effort to destroy
documents stored there, many of which contain sensitive information. The
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materials earmarked for destruction include contents of the agency's classified
safes and personnel documents at the Ronald Reagan Building. Set
an email sent by USAID's acting Executive Director, Erica Carr
and obtained by Politico, quote, shred as many documents first,
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and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes
unavailable or needs a break. Carr instructed staff to label
the burn bags with the words secret and USAIDS slash
b slash IO agency shorthand for bureau or independent office
in dark sharpy. The email didn't provide any reason for
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the document destruction, so average Americans are just now starting
to finally get a glimpse of how the DC political
system is factually a Potempkin village maintained as a front
to give the illusion of democracy.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Once again, mister Smoot.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
The constitutional Republic not a democracy. While the intelligence community
controls the functional outcomes of government, Trump is it's like
Toto from the Wizard of Oz, exposing the groups behind
the DC curtain, and more and more people are getting
alarmed as their preconceptions of American government are being challenged
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and destroyed before their eyes. I mean, look at the left,
they're seeing this too. And I'm not talking about the
elected officials who are in on it and already knew
about it. I'm talking about base Democrats. A lot of
them who didn't get woke up before the election are
waking up now. And the others are turning a blind
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eye to it for some psychological reason, brainwashed and defending it,
protesting to make it continue. The intelligence community has been
slowly increasing control over American government for decades. The Patriot
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Act was simply booster fuel to complete the takeover. The
Patriot Act is where you and I we the people,
became the extremists. The CIA now operates domestically, which they're
not supposed to do, domestic clandestine operations inside America, and
your Congress, our Congress knows about it. The House Select
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Committee on Intelligence, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, they
know about it, and they don't do a damn thing
to try and stop it. Because they know Schumer's old
adage that's six ways from Sunday group by just too
dangerous to confront.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Pussies.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
President Trump represents a threat to this system of intelligence
control over government, and we need to back him up. Again.
We outnumber them greatly, and look how evil they are.
They've never been punched in the face. Two six fifteen
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eighty toll free eight eight eight four four one fifteen
eighty more winning anyway, Linda McMahon, give it up of that.
Are you ready? Staff cuts are the first step to
ending the Department of Education? Yes, yes, we need Congress involved, definitely.
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She was on Ingram yesterday. Ingram says, what sis road
to a total shutdown? McMahon, Yes, actually it is, because
that was the president's mandate, as directed to me clearly,
is to shut down the Department of Education, which we
know will have to work with Congress to get that accomplished.
But what we did today was to take the first
step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat. And
(17:30):
that's not to say that a lot of the folks.
It's a humanitarian thing to a lot of folks that
are there and they're out of a job. But we
wanted to make sure that we kept all the right
people and all the good people, to make sure that
the outward facing programs, the grants, the operations that come
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from Congress, all of that are being met and none
of that is going to fall through the cracks. She added,
so many of the programs are really actual. We need
to make sure that that money does get to the states,
but we want more money to be able to go
to the states. And that's what the President said all along,
if we get rid of the bureaucracy, and if you
(18:12):
heard it, Harriet Hagman, it was only a minute, Harriet Hagman,
just the bureaucracy, the bloat, the money laundering of the
d's budget. Well, let's look at the Department of Education.
The Federal Department of Education spends it as a budget
of about two hundred and.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Eighty billion dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Less than twenty five percent goes to educating our students.
Less than twenty five percent. So that's bureaucratic bloat that
we need to get rid of, and that money needs
to go to the states. And I'll bet you, I'll
(18:52):
bet you that's why you're seeing that Nazi broad that
Randy we gotten. This total nazi freak is losing it
because she's afraid that money's not going to be going
to the Union. It's not going to be going to
her anymore. It's going to be going to the States.
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And she's afraid of vouchers and charter schools. Oh my,
we love them.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
So they're losing their crap over that.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well, it's too bad, because I'm sorry, but the Department
of Education has failed miserably, miserably Bruce Dietrich Price before
we even get to Florida's Yeah, coincidinkly the letter to
the or the op ed today.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
In the Sun.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
For years, everyone trying to undermine K twelve often had
to look the other way. They didn't dare discuss Off
Flesh's famous book explaining why Johnny can't read. Instead, these
resourceful meddlers treated Flesh as a pariah. They won the battle,
and as a result, a huge percentage of Americans can
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hardly read or write at all. Our schools don't bother
with geography, arithmetic, history, basic science. But why would our
subversives want these particular victories?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Gobile.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Let's state the obvious. Schools are supposed to transmit knowledge right,
What would be the motive for deviating from this most
excellent tradition? Two hundred and fifty years ago, President John
Adams explained the whole thing in eleven words. He said,
liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among people.
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In other words, the first step in destroying liberty is
to take knowledge away from the people, and that goal
has been largely accomplished by our education professors. How did
John Adams figure this out in seventeen seventy five? But
many of our credentialed experts are now only perceiving the
ruin that endless mendacity can bring to a society. We
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sink to the level of our leaders and then lower. Recently,
he encountered the most important insight about reading he'd ever
seen in our media. It appeared on a major education
site and reveals the angst among academics that even the
better students have become increasingly ignorant and illiterate. The author,
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Teresa McPhail wrote, quote, we all kind of feel lost
these days. Myself included, I keep coming back to there's
something broken in American culture. The response of my fellow academics, however,
reassures me that I'm not simply indulging in intergenerational grousing. Anecdotally,
I have literally never met a professor who did not
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share my experience. Sure, this writer struggled mightly to justify
and then forget the central alibi. Massive educational failure is
just one of those things. After all, she's writing in
the Chronicle of Higher Education, godfather of conventional wisdom on education,
So in her heart, I'll bet she agrees. Practical reformer,
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I bet she suspects that our decline is counterintuitive and
can be explained only if the liars and the frauds
have taken over a second teacher. Journalist Adam Kotsko, responding
in Slate, said that the literacy crisis he has seen
among his students is different from anything before. He describes
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it as a conspiracy without conspirators. No one literally set
out to design a system in which students were not
taught the skills they need to become to become effective readers. Right, really,
because that's what they've done. Reminded of Germans saying they
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didn't know about those death factories in the woods. Our
education establishment has shown genius at deliberately selecting theories and
methods that, despite these rosy claims they make about them,
turn out not to work. Then the self appointed experts,
by a blitzkrieg of sophistry and jargon, numbed common sense.
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So here's a teacher with a job in K twelve
who thinks there are no conspirators when it seems to
me there's not much else but conspirators.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Do you ever wonder why so.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Many students at all levels are dropping out of school.
They're depressed from not learning anything and rarely understanding anything,
consumed as they are by false theories, and all they
know is that they're in school for many years but
can't read, and then they feel stupid and they want
to escape from this place asap. Why Johnny Can't Read
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came out in nineteen fifty five, sold millions of copies.
Flesh explained that the professors were asking children to learn
to read English words as if they were Egyptian hieroglyphs
or Chinese ideograms, which are memorized visually one by one.
He said that surely everyone understands that that approach is insane,
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site words stupid. That's the only mistake made by Flesh.
He underestimated the desperate creativity of our idealogue professors. They
told the lies necessary to throw phonics in the gutter.
Understanding the Great American Reading hoax was a project lasting years,
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finally learned that after the Russian Revolution circa nineteen nineteen,
Lenin and Stalin loudly proclaimed the Communist International. They just
defeated Imperial Russia and believed they could defeat the small
United States agents of influence, that's the technical term. We're
sent around the world to infiltrate media, education, government agencies, foundations,
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cultural institutions. And that was the true beginning of a
one hundred year war which at times has been called
the Cold War. By nineteen twenty one, these conquisti d'Ors,
also known as the common tern were aggressively involved in
American politics down to the state and city level. If
any of this history is news to you, ask your AI.
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Here's another brilliant quote from John Adams. Power always thinks
it has a great soul and vast views beyond the
comprehension of the week, and that it is doing God's
service when it is violating all his laws.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
That's what smart sounds like.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The usual suspects like to make phonics sound very complicated.
Now it's it's easy. The kids have to memorize the letters,
their names, their sounds, and that English reads left to right.
This process takes several months. My education was prior to
the Department of Education. I learned to read by phonics.
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We all did. We all went pretty damn well by
third grade. Least I did.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
That's why phonics experts insist that they can teach virtually
all children to read in the first grade. The pretenders
we have now squander most of the K twelve years,
so the children remain struggling readers indefinitely. And that's what
teachers are finally having to acknowledge. Huge waste go and nowhere.
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When phonics experts insist that they can teach every child
to read in the first grade, why would anyone support
a method that hardly teaches children to read? Ever? Kind
of difficult to understand these treacheries, but I do understand
the pattern common among communist dictators like polepot stalin Mao Obama.
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They always want to be at the top of the
centralized government, so they have all the power and can
kill almost anyone who threatens them. Naturally, they prefer everyone
else to be dumb, uninformed, and passive.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
And I believe.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That's the true meaning of literacy for the commissars among
us here in K twelve today. The melancholy thing about
K twelve is that so few upscale people bother noticing
the rot. We have the new Department of Government Efficiency.
Now we need the DOEE the Department of Education efficiency.
A reasonable goal would be at least twice the education
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for less than half the price. We need some very
successful business people to get involved. In the last election,
Bill Paxton, financial whiz, separated himself from the looney left,
and I thought, this guy, he's the.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
One for the job.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But uh, Lenna McMahon dismantling the Department of Education, sending
that money back to the States and hopefully getting back
to a phonics reading. I mean, it's still happening here.
The scores around here for reading and mass still suck
(28:38):
by any comparison or But we've got a schools sure
you do. And it's and for a sucky education, it's
one of the best around. It's not the greatest, but
it's good. It's better than a lot of places around
it for certain. And there are a lot of good
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programs that are coming out here locally, and that's why
I want to see more local control and more of
that money coming out of the bureaucratic filter and getting
down to where it's needed here locally, and who knows,
you know, it might work right. The station is now
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the ultimate power in the universe.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
They have no chemistry at all them.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks on news
radio fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
You can know too much in this world, my friends,
you can know too much. I'll be honest with you.
I don't want to know what my wife was thinking
about most things most of the time. We've been happily
married for twenty four years. You know why we don't
ask dumb questions?
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Are you happy right now?
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Is there anything I should change about myself? We don't
ask those questions. You want to be happily married, Shut
up and keep going couple's therapy? Are you high pay
a stranger to pick at your old fights? Hell no,
(30:18):
I tell my wife every night. Look you're a mess.
I'm a mess. Let's watch a show. I'll be honest
with you. She doesn't like me right now, She hasn't
for like two months. I have no idea why, and
I'm not going to find out.
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Been doing this show seventeen eighteen years and still lamenting
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the same thing from today's SUN. Test scores nationally and
in Florida continue to show more school kids are falling
behind and reading in math. That is part of the
post pandemic hangover with learning gaps, and it was a
pre pandemic hangover too, but it got worse during the
(32:12):
RONA falling test scores after all the COVID disruptions and stressors.
In twenty nineteen, before COVID, thirty percent of Florida fourth
graders were reading below grade level. Twenty twenty four, same
figure stands at thirty eight percent. According to the National
Assessment of Educational Progress Tests, before COVID, thirty four percent
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of Florida eighth graders were not at basic grade level
reading in math from the NAP test. In the most
recent test scores released in January, forty five percent of
Florida eighth graders were behind in math. Florida is not alone.
Across the country. State school districts have seen test scores
(32:58):
drop in students struggling to close learning gaps stemming from
COVID as well as some long term trends. Too many
students are left discouraged when they fall behind at school,
and that has a lot of downhill impacts on kids' confidence.
Quote they're taught that school is a place where they
can't succeed, said Anika Warner, an education advisor who help
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students with their educational paths. But there are plenty of
classroom educators and education innovators try new ways, and that's
the problem. We're sick and tired of your dumbass innovation
and new ways. They don't work. Go back to what works.
(33:48):
Go back to a lesson plan K in K through six.
Go back to lesson plans from nineteen seventy. Suck it
up and do what's right for our children instead of
these innovative new ways that cost a lot of money
and never produce anything but stupid kids, innovative new ways,
(34:17):
quote intensive tutoring groups, shortening breaks away from school. Yeah,
school year round, take them away completely from the family.
You know, we have to be in school all the
time so we can brainwash these little farts.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
No. Ugh.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Some school districts, including here in southwest Florida, are focusing
on evidence based curriculum practices, and that means utilizing and
sticking with teaching that works for students, thank you. There
also needs a needed push to get schools beyond the
partisan political fights. Yeah, unions, liberals control the Department of Education,
(35:02):
all the money that's wasted. As we hear twenty only
twenty five percent of their huge budget actually goes to education.
And where does that money filter through a bunch of
liberal groups who are the experts in education. With all
(35:25):
kinds of new and innovative ways, new ideas out there too.
Micro schools with small classrooms offer a more intimate learning
setting for students. They're becoming more popular. There are new
schools emphasizing short or more intensive academic instruction, with other
(35:45):
times spent on extra curricular activities, creativity and life skills.
Not a bad idea. We used to have that when
I was growing up. It's called recess and sports.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Sports.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Classical schools emphasize more writing, critical thinking, and liberal arts
and sciences.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
The zoom schools of the.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Pandemic were colossal failures for many students, especially younger ones,
but technologically, including digital tutoring, technology can be helpful if
students are offered one on one, consistent help, and there's
plenty of ed tech firms offering that. Jessica Reid sil Slavsky,
(36:25):
CEO of Ignite Learning, said her model offers daily doses
of online tutoring to help young students with their reading.
They see the same human every day. Each day they're
doing fifteen minutes of hyper engaging targeted instruction. There's also
ed tech firms advocating for greater use of artificial.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
With your AI.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Just get back to the basics. I mean, ah, God,
do what works, what we've always known works, what worked
for us until the Department of Education came along. Go back,
just go back to what works, and quit acting like
idiots with your new and innovative ways that don't work.
(37:12):
Cost a lot less money and be a lot more
profitable for our children if you would just go back
to what works, what has always worked in the past
instead of your liberal, dumb ass new and innovative ways
(37:34):
two oh six fifteen eighty, toll free eight eight eight
four four one fifteen eighty, and maybe finally with the
dismantling of the Department of Education, we can accomplish that.
I'm just saying, it's quite obvious that their new and
innovative ways are for crap. Look at it, It's right
(37:57):
there in the scores these I wonder how young these
people are that are putting these lists together.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
At some of these magazines, you.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Grew up.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
In the seventies, eighties, nineties, I mean rock radio music.
You still have the Columbia Record and Tape Club where
you could, you know, get all kinds of records for
a penny, make sure.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
The accounts in your sister's name.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But there's a list of they're calling him god tear
songs from the seventies, eighties, and nineties, favorite tracks from
every decade. But what are the truly important, indelible songs
that when you're talking about a decade, that these ten
songs in each of these decades are like, oh yeah.
(39:04):
Loudwire put together a list of ten god tier songs
from the seventies, eighties, and nineties alphabetical order. In the seventies.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
It was.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Alphabetical by group.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Ac DC, Highway to Hell, Aerosmith, Dream On, Eagles, Hotel California, Kiss,
Rock and Roll All Night, led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven,
Sweet Home Alabama, skinnerd Live and Let Die, McCartney and Wings.
Bohemian Rhapsody, Won't Get Fooled Again the only one I
disagree with for me, and that's just because it wasn't
(39:44):
really a great album. It was a good movie. Another
Brick in the Wall Part two. It's a salute to
Stan and Haney. Yeah, I know, I didn't think it
was a great album. I thought it was a cool
(40:06):
movie for the eighties. Ac DC Back Again with You,
Shook Me All Night Long, bon Jovi, Living On a Prayer,
def Leppard, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Sweet Child of Mine,
Guns N' Roses, Don't Stop Believing, Journey, Come On, Come On, Eh,
(40:26):
Motley Crue Home, Sweet Home, Prints in the Revolution, Let's
Go Crazy, Hey, Let's go Twisted Sister, We're not gonna
take it. Van Halen's Jump and White Snake. Here I
Go Again. I don't have any problem with that one
the nineties. People at Loudwire just love ac DC. They're
(40:49):
back with Thunderstruck Higher by Creed. I mean, I mean, yeah,
I guess it's kind of popular, but ever long by
the Foo Fighters, basket Case, Green Day, November Rain, Guns
(41:09):
N' Roses, Closer, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana smells like Team Spirit,
Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine, Under
the Bridge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and a Black Hole
Sun Soundgarden. Yeah, okay, I mean you can agree or disagree,
but there's a ride up on each song if you
want to go to Loudwire and check it out. But yeah,
(41:31):
you don't really have a problem with most of those.
They were all good ones. Do we care about Jennifer Garner?
I like the Jennifer Garner, but they why do they
keep trying to keep some semblance of a flame between
her and Ben alive? It seems like it's yeah, TMZS
(41:55):
wants it more than they actually do. Ah, don't do this.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
Don't do this.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
And what I mean by don't do this, there's two
things you don't do. You don't eat your kid's ice cream,
and if you're the kid, you don't call the cops.
On your mom for eating your ice cream. Mount Pleasant,
Wisconsin mother gets a visit from the cops last week
after her four year old son turned her in for
(42:25):
eating his ice cream. He called nine to one one
and said she was being bad. Then he said come
and get my mommy and put her in jail. His
mom got on the phone a few seconds later and said,
I ate his ice cream, so that's probably why he's calling.
They believed her, but had to do welfare check anyway,
and when they showed up again, he tried to get
(42:46):
her in trouble again. He claimed she hit it. Then
he admitted he was just angry about the ice cream.
Mom had a sense of humor about it, I'm sure
until the cops left, and then it was uh, I
don't know, maybe to bount She even let him. She
(43:08):
even let her son put her in cuffs, but he
eventually said he didn't want to press charges.
Speaker 6 (43:12):
Turned out he wasn't even his ice cream to begin with.
It was hers.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
They had two.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
He just thought she stole his.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
He also didn't dial nine to one one. She said
he got Siri to call.
Speaker 6 (43:26):
The cops.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Noted he seemed like he's pretty smart for his age.
They went back the next day and brought him some
ice cream, even added sprinkles because they said they liked him.
That's cute, one of the better kid calling the cops stories. Well,
that's all we have for this hour. We got men's hobbies.
(43:55):
Next hour, Southwest Airlines. Oh and whatever else happened? Oh
the post office, Oh my god, the post office. Ah,
(44:16):
I need more coffee and we'll tell you about the
post office.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
The hell is it with these guys.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
We're news Radio fifteen eighty AM WCCF Punda Gorda and
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