Y'all Street

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Y'all Street
• Teen takeovers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
All right, it is our Thursday show. Welcome on board.
Glad you could join us. This start off a little
business news. Let's let's be a little different today. We're
gonna be a little different today. I'm gonna start off
with some business news. I wish I could play for
you a really cool commercial that Richard Rosso. He's a

(00:51):
certify financial planner here in town. If you're looking for
somebody to do that kind of work for you, he's
He's very, very good at what he does. I enjoy
working with him a lot. Cp A. And here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
We are.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Creating something that we like to effectually refer to as
y'all street, now Wall Street, y'all street. It's gonna be
in North Texas, in Dallas. So I guess they get
they get the good and the bad from this. And
I think there's there's probably gonna be some bad from
it too. I mean, we talk about traffic congestion and
in our major cities here in Texas all the time,
you know, Houston, Dallas, and you're gonna see even more

(01:26):
so with all these big companies that are moving to
Texas to be a part of the Texas Stock Exchange.
But Richard Rosso sent me a copy of a commercial
that's airing. I'm not sure where it's airing, but it's
really quite cool where it shows a showdown between the
Wall Street Bowl and the Texas Longhorn and they're charging
at each other and the longhorn shatters that bronze bowl

(01:48):
into pieces, and uh, you know, basically it's touting Texas
as the new financial future for the nation, you know,
kind of taking over for New York City and Wall Street.
There's nothing to indicate that that won't happen. Yeah. First
of all, our tax structure in here is so much
better than it is in New York, especially New York

(02:11):
City regulations are so much better here. There's all the
reasons in the world to think that more and more
companies will continue to move to places like Texas. In Florida,
which makes New York less and less the financial center
of the country. So anyway, here's my conversation from this
morning with Richard Rosso, certified financial planter, about this this

(02:32):
move this underway to make Texas the new financial center
of America. The governor seems to think that we eventually
are going to become America's financial capital. Do you think
that's true?

Speaker 5 (02:44):
I think we're well on the way. Jimmy, Hey, did
you see the new Bull Versus Bull TV? Spot books
that it's the charging Bull statue from Wall Street traveling
to Dallas and it locks horns with the real Texas
longhorn and shatters the bronze statue. Love it. Yeah, it's
a great ad. It's a great ad. Hey, listen, there

(03:06):
was a reason why this was created. This exchange is
not you know, this is not some piecemeal kind of thing.
This is backed by black Rocks, Citadel Fortress, JP Morgan,
and that's because Texas is becoming an economic powerhouse. It's
got one of the largest concentrations of fortune five hundred
companies in America, you so, and the population of business.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Growth so down the road.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
You know, it's looking to challenge the NYS.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Then NASTAC do you think this is happening mainly for
political reasons or do you think there's something else behind
this as well.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
No, well, listen, I think the broader ESG, the ESG
trends really did help to push this. But the Texas
Stock Exchange is really looking at to just be more
business oriented and focus on businesses that make that make
America move every day, energy businessinesses and so forth, where

(04:02):
you know, Northeastern companies and the exchange are not They're
just not, as you know, open to that kind of business.
So you are opening a legitimate business oriented, less regulatory exchange.
And with what we got going on as far as
migration to Texas, this is all really a good thing.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, and really more and more companies are migrating to
Texas as well. And from the political standpoint with you know,
the Texas in New York City and a communist mayor
in New York City, I'm sure I'm sure a lot
of them are seeing the handwriting on the wall. We
got to get while it getting is good.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
Yeah, So the toughest part, you know, the New York
Stock Exchange is the oldest and largest traditional exchange right
seventeen ninety two, so Texas Stock Exchange founded in twenty
twenty four. Listen, we've got some progress to make. But
the backers of this stock exchange are telling Texas is
pro business, lower friction for listings, less regulatory, less cost

(05:07):
wire companies like Charles Schwab and JP Morgan and Fidelity
and so forth. I'm not not small companies, but huge companies.
Why are they coming here? And you just mentioned it,
and this trend to me is just only going to continue.
But you got to uproot, you know, a New York

(05:28):
Stock exchange, so you know that has been mired in
its reputation for so many years. But I don't count
Texas out of anything. Maybe it'll be two or three decades,
but man, we are moving fast to be a powerhouse
for financial firms and.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
The stock exchange.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
And again this is going to be back great backers,
full electronic, more CEO friendly.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
So why not? I guess who would change? Is like
anything else, there are good bad things that would result
from it. I mean, obviously it's another population boom in
an area of North Texas that already is booming. You know,
there's hardly more people than they probably would like to have.
It does put a strain on the infrastructure of the state.
Does the good outweight does the good outweigh the bad?

Speaker 5 (06:18):
I mean, if we plan the infrastructure correctly, right, look
at all the data centers going up.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Not that everybody's happy about this.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
I would rather have this right.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
I mean, these companies will bring in lots of money,
and they employ lots of people, So I think we
can make room for this, these these companies that.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Are coming here.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
I mean, listen, when we running out of land in Texas,
We'll be dead before that happens.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, we're not ever going to run out of land.
But he mentioned the data centers. You know, I'm hearing
more and more communities complaining about data centers. I saw
story today, And I don't mean this to sound like
it's global warming. It's not global warming at all. But
I saw a story. One of the negative things about
data centers. In addition to using a lot of power,
they generate a lot of heat, and when they expel

(07:04):
that heat, they actually warm the area that they're in
by three or four degrees. So can you imagine, you know,
being living near a data center in here in Southeast
Texas when it's already like ninety three degrees with you know,
eighty percent humidity and now it's gonna be you know,
it's gonna take it up another three or four degrees.

(07:25):
Good lord. Anyway, quick a little break back with Morning
Moment Jimmy Barrett Show. You're on AM nine fifty KPRC.

(07:48):
All right, we had a big topic this morning, and
I want to kind of continue that topic here this afternoon,
and that is teenagers. I know, I'm gonna sound like
the Grepy Band today. Teenagers and these these teen takeovers
they've been occurring. We've we've had a few locally sugar
Landing Kdie come to mind as some of the older

(08:10):
males where you have a group of teenagers that show
up kind of like a mass mob. It's it's not
teenagers showing up and meeting one another that's a problem.
It's teenagers showing up and then committing sometimes acts of
violence or some sort of a crime like breaking into
a business, stealing things from a business. What was the

(08:34):
thing in Washington, d C. Where they were destroying the tables,
you know they were they were just you know, wrecking
the place, you know, hooligan type of behavior. That's a
good Grandpa word isn't it hooligan? So anyway, we're talking
about it this morning, and and the couple of things
about it that just kind of came to mind is,
first of all, who are the type of kids that

(08:58):
would get involved in something like that? And I would
have to think that if you were to do a survey.
And I realize I'm kind of sticking my foot in
it when I say this, but if you were to
do a survey, if you were to examine all the
kids that get involved in this type of behavior, the
majority of them would probably be minorities, black or Hispanic.

(09:22):
The majority of them would come from a broken household
or a household whether it never was a father or
a father figure. Sorry, but I think the vast majority
would fit into that mold. And then the other thing
that you could kind of fill in is a lack
of parental involvement. One or two things. Either the parent
doesn't care what the kid is doing as far as

(09:43):
the behavior, or they don't care about the kid period,
they don't supervise, they're not interested in supervising, so they don't,
or they have lost control at some point, they've lost
control of that child and they no longer feel like
participating in trying to figure out what to do with
that kid. I think if you were to take all

(10:05):
these teams involved in these takeovers, I think many of them,
if not most of them, would would fit the bill
on that. So I thought we talked. We talked a
little bit about it with a guy by the name
of Zack Smith with the Heritage Foundation. I'll share that
with you, and then some of our talkbacks from this
morning of ideas that some of our listeners had about
things that we could or should do to try to

(10:26):
help the problem. At first, here's my conversation with Zack Smith.
I am going to blame at least a great deal
of the portion on fatherless homes, kids that don't have
responsible parents. What do you think, Well, look.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
I think certainly parents not exercising adocurate oversight and control
of their children. That is a very real issue. That's
what you've seen in Washington, d C. Janine Puro, Judge
Jane the US attorney there threatening to prosecute parents of
teenagers who are repeatedly engaged in these destructive teen takeovers.
But fundamentally, what we have is a lack of accountability

(10:59):
for teenage whenever they engage in this harmful conduct, and
that starts at home, as you mentioned, Jimmy, but also
local elected leader in too many instances are refusing to
hold these teenagers accountable even when they commit violent crimes
as part of these takeovers.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
All right, so we have this is another instance where
we have judges that are just not doling out the
punishment necessary to teach a lesson.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, it is. It's in part judges, it's in part
part prosecutors. I'll go back to Washington, DC. You know,
President Trump has made great progress combating violent crime in DC.
He's deployed the National Guard, he's empowered. Judge, you need
to prosecute offenders aggressively, but there's one area that's primarily
under local authority. The DC Attorney General, he's a locally

(11:44):
elected official, has primary authority for prosecuting juvenile offenders. And
in his view, he said, kids are kids who never
prosecute a juvenile as an adult, no matter how violent
their crime, no matter how hetmenos, no matter how premeditated,
and that as a result of that, you often see
teenagers who commit rape, robbery, assault, other very harmful primes

(12:06):
receiving relatively like sentences are what really amounts to no
more than a slap on the rest.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
All right, So we have parents that won't punish you'd teach,
We have judges that won't prosecutors that won't prosecute, We
have judges that won't punish. That's that end of it.
But what from the psychological standpoint do you believe it
or not? Zach, you and I were teens at one time.
Can you ever imagine that that you thought it would
be a good idea or a fun thing to show

(12:32):
up with a couple hundred other teams that have all start,
you know, tearing the place up. What's going on? What's
going on in their minds? What's going what else is
going wrong with society that they think this is a
good time.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
Well, look, I'm not a psychologist, Jimmy, but look for
all their flaws. Criminals, whether they are adults, whether they're juveniles,
they understand incentives. Humans understand incentives. And so what has happened, unfortunately,
is whenever you see this lawlessness being allowed to flourish,
whenever teenagers see other teenagers committing rackus acts, illegal acts

(13:09):
in some instances getting away with it, that encourages that
syncavises more of that type of behavior. That's why it's
so important for proper accountability both at home and then
through the legal system where necessary. That's why it's so
important for that accountability to be implemented.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Okay, all right, I guess part of the problem here,
and part of the problem I was trying to get to,
is we no longer have a moral compass in this country.
At least it doesn't feel like we've provided a moral
compass for our youth. Whether you want to blame that
on a lack of religion or or lack of parental responsibility,
or a combination of all those things. How do we
go about trying to get that moral compass back for

(13:45):
our young people.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
Well, look, that's a very large question. I'm sure we
can take up an entire segment talking about that. But again,
I think you know, obviously, instilling the difference between right
and wrong starts at home. There's things we can do
as a society as well to help support that through school,
through education, but fundamentally, Jimmy, one of the ways we
teach right from wrong is punishing people who commit wrongful acts.

(14:12):
And let's be clear, many of these acts that are
being committed assaulting someone, robbing someone. Those are inherently wrong flacks.
Everybody knows inherently there's wrong to commit those actions. And
so again, holding individuals accountable for the decisions that they
make when they commit these wrong flacks, that it would
be a good first step in helping to instill that

(14:34):
moral code once you get all.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Right, So punishment, I think far and away punishment seem
to be the most popular choice because you can't make
parents be parents unless you somehow punish them for not
being parents. You can't make kids respect the law or
follow the law unless they believe there's ramifications if you
don't follow the law, and you can't expect anything to

(15:00):
change as long as we have a court system that
is lenient on any sort of criminal activity, which seems
to be where we're at right now. But other than that,
any ideas from our listeners, yep, we had a few
ideas this morning from our call, you know, from our
talk back feature. Here are some of our listeners weighing
in on the topic.

Speaker 6 (15:19):
Scott and Northwest Houston. I think what they need to
do is get court ordered curfews on these kids that
are misbehaving. Make it so that all I can do
is go to school and then they're not allowed to
leave the house and put an ankle monitor on them.
This is DNA from Summerwood.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Parents need to be parents.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Stop trying to be your kids' friends and stop letting
them run the streets, take away their cell phones and
beat their posteriors.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
Make them fear you. That's how you make them mind.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
No more gentle parenting. Yeah, well, yeah, the fear factor
worked for me, that's for sure. I was scared to
death of my old man. I knew he wasn't gonna
let me get away with nothing. But let's take a
look here the curfew curfew idea. Yeah, that's that's something
to consider. Ankle monitors. Well, we've had some mixed results

(16:10):
with ankle monitors, people cutting them off, so you have
to again, you have to make sure that there's somebody
who's being held responsible for that. And if you're going
to put a teen on a curfew and put them
on an ankle monitor, then again you have to get
the parent involved in this from the standpoint of making
sure that their child actually follows the rules of of

(16:33):
being on that ankle monitor, of having to live through
through a curve for you. You can't. You can't make any
of this work without court and or family involvement, especially
the family involvement. All right, scary A couple more skip
skip from Webster.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
I really don't have a great answer, but maybe parents
concern occasional good butt whooping of your children might keep
their heads screwed on a little better.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
But I could be wrong.

Speaker 7 (17:00):
Parents role in a childlock is to get him ready,
him or her ready for the next stage of life.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
You cannot do that by being their friend.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Well that's a fact. You can't do it by being
their friend. And in fact, I think my dad again.
I hate to keep bringing my dad up. He's probably
rolling over right now thinking that kid still blames me
for a lot of stuff. No, I don't did. I
don't blame you for a dog. One thing you did
you did right by me. There was a few times
where I thought I got punished a little too hard

(17:30):
for the crime, but that's okay. It kept me on
the straight and narrow, and there was nothing wrong than that.
I always knew you loved me, so that that that's
that's all that really counts at the end of At
the end of the day, kids never are going to
appreciate punishment as kids, but they will as an adult,
and they will remember the times that they were punished
as kids and how they were punished, and apply some

(17:55):
of that wisdom to their own punishment of their own children, unless,
of course, they feel that they were unfairly punished. Okay,
quick little break back with more stick around. Jimmy bartchew
here a name of nine fifty KPRC. All right, let's

(18:22):
start with this. Do you remember one of the most
famous Reagan quotes. The reason why I bring this up
is the Reagan Foundation has did a little polling to
try to feel how Americans feel about some of the
things that Ronald Reagan believed in, and turns out that we,

(18:44):
by the vast majority, still agree with many of the
things that Ronald Reagan stood for, including the Reagan world
famous Reagan statement about the government. So we begin with
that and then some other polling results from the Reagan Foundation.
But let's start with that quote from Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 7 (18:59):
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are
I'm from the government and I'm.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Here to help you.

Speaker 7 (19:07):
Just released your National Economic Survey. You found that eight
in ten Americans actually agree with President Reagan on that point.

Speaker 8 (19:15):
Please tell me more that's correct. And it's not just Republicans,
it's independence and Democrats as well. There's outstanding agreement across
the board that government is not the solution to our problem.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Government is the problem.

Speaker 8 (19:29):
So Americans are still fundamentally Reaganite in their outlook on
this question.

Speaker 7 (19:33):
So let's go through some of the other key findings
in your survey. Number One, Americans are deeply concerned about
artificial intelligence.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, what's the biggest worry.

Speaker 8 (19:41):
Their worry is the economic security of what it means
for them at home. Americans believe that we are in
a war for supremacy with China, but American AI policy
is ultimately not just about chips and China and trade.
It's about economic security and economic opportunity here at home
and the role that AI plays in that.

Speaker 7 (20:00):
Say that younger Americans are quote built different, what do
you mean by that?

Speaker 8 (20:05):
One of the consistent findings was that members of Generation
Z so eighteen to twenty nine year olds consistently look
at things differently than their older peers. To give one example,
they are the most optimistic generation among the people. We
pold about the American about American science and technology driving
progress for them economically. So we typically think of gen

(20:26):
Z as a pessimistic generation that's rejecting capitalism, rejecting technological advancement.
That's not at all what we see in our survey.

Speaker 7 (20:33):
Well more seventy nine percent of voters believe inflation is
the most important challenge.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
I can understand that.

Speaker 8 (20:39):
Yes, absolutely, and this is something that we see across
who people voted for, across partisan affiliation. The one exception
to this is those who identify as very liberal. They're
an outstanding group in our survey in a lot of ways,
and they are a lot different than those who identify
merely as liberal, so liberals, conservatives, Those who are very conservative,
they think inflation is the most important issue. Those who

(21:01):
identify as very liberal, so those on the far left.
They are the one group that still thinks that unemployment
is a more important issue for the FED to deal with.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
I wonder what else the ultraliberals think is the most
important issue. Would I would guess that a lot of
their concerns just based on the behavioral Other concerns are
not based not based on so much on business aspects,
but on social issues. I think they're much more in

(21:29):
tune with social issues than they are in tune with
economic issues. But that's interesting. It's always interesting to see
what different generations think about different stories. I bet if
the Rank and Foundation had done a study or a
survey on government fraud in government waste, that the vast
majority would believe that fraud should be stopped, waste should

(21:53):
be eliminated, and that if you are going to be
receiving federal money as a state, that you should all
be held accountable for how that money is being spent,
Which brings us around to this particular topic. Medicaid work requirements.
They haven't really been enforced, especially in Blue states. They

(22:15):
have not been enforced whatsoever. Previous administrations have not required
their enforcement. So why would you take the time and
the effort and the employee, state employee hours to try
to make sure that they're being enforced if there's no
desire on the half of the federal government to hold
you accountable. Except now, Except now we are now we

(22:35):
are beginning to do that thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill.
I had a conversation with Chris Badero. He's a research
analyst at Paragon Health Institute about this about Medicaid work
requirements and requiring states to actually enforce those work requireds.
So you've now required if you're able bodied and you
don't have kids, you know, school age kids, and you

(22:59):
require do either work or volunteer. Yeah, but do you
have to do something other than sit on your butt?
Here's my conversation with Chris Berdora. Have we done anything
as a result of the big beautiful bill, Chris, in
order to enforce the fact that you have to if
you're able body, do you have to work or at
least volunteer.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Good morning, Jimmy, thanks so much for having me well.
Right now, states are in the midst of gearing up
their systems to start to enforce this this requirement that
work requirements are supposed to go into effect next year
in twenty twenty seven. Right now, those some states are considering, unfortunately,

(23:35):
simply operating by an honor system and exempting, letting some
folks claim an exemption and not have to do these
very common sense work requirements. And again they don't apply
to folks with disabilities, they don't apply to the most vulnerable.
They apply to able body working adults, as you mentioned,
and we think that that's kind of disrespectful to the taxpayer, right,

(23:56):
you'd expect folks to be showing receipt to receive a benefit,
and yeah, we absolutely want them to receive notice. But
but some states are considering, unfortunately, just operating on an
honor system.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Do you think that bay we could guess which states
these are, would one of them be? I don't know. California,
you know, I wouldn't be surprised. New York.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
You know, those are two states that benefit tremendously from
We've seen a lot of waste and abuse in those states,
and that's a big reason why a lot of states
love the profit gates spending. We actually spend more seven
times more the federal government does on individuals who are
able body working age than on individuals who are in

(24:46):
the traditional vulnerable populations. So the math makes states like
California and New York want to keep those individuals enrolled
in Medicaid and and not have to get on their
two feet unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Well, and I think the the other issue is is
that we found with just about every type of change
we've tried to make at the federal level that is
controlled by the states, there's been very little federal enforcement.
In other words, the federal government has not really followed through,
has audited the states or required an audit, and they
hold the golden ticket to this. They are the ones
that are funding these programs. And if you have a

(25:21):
state that doesn't want to comply or won't provide you
with audited information, it's really simple. You don't send them
the money.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Absolutely, and that's what we're seeing. Thankfully, Seams administer to
oz doing so far, he's holding states accountable, he saw
with recent one point three billion deferral. But Jimmy, ultimately
the issues we've seen the failure of operating by an
honor system before. Under the Biden administration, they actually got

(25:49):
rid of previous documentation requirements for Obamacare subsidies that were
in place under Trump in place under President Obama, and
as a result, we saw improper enrollment skyrocket. So my
colleagues at Paragon they looked at this and they saw
that for example, in Florida in twenty twenty four, the

(26:11):
same year that they got rid of this eligibility check
with documentation, there were two point seven million people in
world and free plans, and since the data showed there
were only six hundred and twenty thousand people who were
actually eligible for the plans. Wow, that's massive improper enrollment.
And there were multiple states and actually this we're coming

(26:32):
out with a paper again that's showing this is actually
still a major problem. So thankfully the Trump administration is
taking action. But our message in the op ed is
we don't want to repeat the same mistake in Medicaid
and simply let people just operate by an honor system.
Let's take people's where No, we think some common sense

(26:53):
medical documentation is required, and yes we want notice. We
don't want folks to were eligible to fall through the cracks.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Can you imagine if we could CLAWMB back all this
wasted fraud for the last twenty years, how much money
that would be. There would never ever ever be a
need to raise federal taxes. If they just eliminated the
wasting fraud, there would never be in need. We're talking billions.
I've heard people say trillions, at least one trillion dollars,

(27:23):
if not more. Can you imagine we could retire the
national debt? Well maybe not, maybe not the national debt,
but we could put a dent in the national debt
if we just got around to doing something like that.
Good lord. Hey, We'll share a little piece of audio
with you, and I'm going to do it in their
last segment coming up here. I'm going to do it
not because I'm trying to get down on teenagers today.

(27:45):
It may sound like I am with this teen takeover
segment and this piece of audio I'm going to play
for you, but it illustrates a couple of things. More
I think against our education system than against the kids
themselves or the kids parents. But it is truly amazing
how illiterate teenagers are. Many of them are school age

(28:07):
kids are on basic history, and not just basic history,
but basic history of this country, basic US history. So
I'm gonna share some audio with you on that coming
up next stick around, please, Jimmy Barrett Show here on
AM nine fifty KPRC. All Right, Like I said, it

(28:42):
feels like it's pick on Teenager Day here, I'm Jimmy
Baird Show. I don't mean it to be. I happen
to enjoy teens. I was a teen once. I certainly
enjoyed my life as a teen. I think my boys
enjoyed their licensed teens. My kids are smart, but I
you know, I really I've never had a real history
quiz with them to see what they did or didn't

(29:03):
learn about US history. Maybe I should. After hearing this,
I feel like I should, because it is amazing to me.
Now this is from Jesse Waters Primetime, where they've got
a reporter they like to send out and talk to
people to see how knowledgeable or unknoledgeable they are in
certain topics. So they sent their reporter to Los Angeles,

(29:26):
to the beaches just outside of Los Angeles Memorial Day
weekend to ask them questions about Memorial Day in US history.
And as you can imagine, the answers are a little
bit scary. What is Memorial Day? Memorial Day? Is it's
America's birthday.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's a good question for our fallen brothers and sisters.

Speaker 8 (29:52):
You know, I thought it was utter index. Gosh, who
did America fight in the Revolutionary War? Dial that in?

Speaker 2 (30:05):
You got that.

Speaker 8 (30:10):
We fought ourselves?

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Is that your final answer?

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah? Revolutionary War?

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Is this?

Speaker 1 (30:17):
It's not Britain Britain.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
I mean, if you probably give me a couple of hints,
I probably know what it is. Hanging queen, oh man,
you got me bro Come on, man, the Civil War?

Speaker 3 (30:33):
We took an animal before this, I think I need to.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Leave this.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
Right.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Who were they fighting over in the Civil War.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Was something that was very popular at that around that
time for sure?

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Still is it still routing in this time? No dinosaurs keeping.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Slavery or not?

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Think of the context of the time.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
I'm gonna go with this was.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Like Abraham Lincoln period.

Speaker 8 (30:58):
I'm gonna go with taxes.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Can I get a name that on that one?

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Who did in America fight in World War Two? I
don't remember albe in yet. They like sushi?

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Korea?

Speaker 2 (31:20):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Whe's where you go from?

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Where does pizza come from?

Speaker 1 (31:26):
I don't I don't know where pizza comes from? Italy, Oh, Japan,
Italy and Germany?

Speaker 2 (31:34):
World War two?

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Okay, your dad would be so mad if you didn't
know this. Vietnam, good lord. They had one kid in
there who actually knew the answers, although there are may
be a couple of answers that were questionable. Did pizza
was pizza? Does it really come from Italy? They have
pizza in Italy, but they say that pizza was invented

(31:57):
in the United States, so I'm not sure. But anyway,
they weren't even close. You don't know who we fought
in the Revolutionary War, you don't know who won the
Civil War. The only other answer that be correct, other
than the North would be I don't know, it's not
over yet. That would also be accepted to me is

(32:17):
a correct answer. But come on, what was the Civil
War fought over? Well, it depends that if you're in
the North and the South with the answer to that
question is in the North, it's slavery. In the South
it's states' rights. See how you go. So, you know,
it depends some of them, some of them are a

(32:39):
little bit question but no. But seriously, that that shows
just a lack of I'm not gonna call these kids stupid.
I don't believe they're stupid. They're just, you know, they're
they're uninformed. They they don't they either don't know or
they don't care, or a combination of the two. Now,

(33:00):
I don't know what they teach in US history anymore,
I really don't, or how much time they do they
spend teaching it.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
My suspicion is is that the biggest, the biggest blame
in all this goes to education, at least in a
plays like California, because I'm pretty sure, as liberal as
California is in this liberalless the school system is in California,
that they don't really want these kids to learn US history,
what this country is really all about, because they don't

(33:27):
admire our country. They don't they don't want others to
emilate our country. They don't want they don't want kids
to appreciate our country. So why would they teach them
anything positive about our country? They wouldn't, They wouldn't, they
don't care if they're you know, ignorant on the topic
at all. The best, the best way to bring about

(33:48):
social change in social justice for these social justice warriors
is to have an uninformed public, and that starts with
the education system. If the kids don't learn by to
us history, especially the positive aspects of it, then hey,
why would they want to protect it? You wouldn't write,
You wouldn't want to You wouldn't want to protect it.

(34:10):
Why would you? So there's a part of me that
thinks that at least a portion of this is a
conspiracy going on between the education system and these poor
kids who are not being taught what they need to
learn in schools. But then again, that's that's where parental
involvement comes in. You know, I hate, I hate to
keep bringing it back to parents, But if you want
your children to know the truth behind American history, then

(34:33):
you have to care enough to know what they're being
taught in the schools. And if they're not being taught
the right things in the schools, then you should be
willing to help supplement that education. Now, I'd also be
the first to say that there are plenty of kids
out there who have no interest in history period, not
just US history, any kind of history. My wife has
no interest in history. I love history, you know, I

(34:57):
can't learn enough. I love history, I always have. Some
people love it, some people hate it, some people don't
care about it, and some people do. So maybe it's
up to the rest of us who actually know a
little bit of US history to kind of guide a
young person, put them under our wing and teach them
a thing or two, hopefully in an entertaining way so
they actually pay attention. Listen, y'all, have a great day.

(35:20):
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