July 2, 2025 • 46 mins
Did I just try to compare the Dust Bowl of the 1930"s to modern day California?? Perhaps! Even if not a slam dunk comparison, there are a least a few similar themes. This hour of Mama Bears Radio I trip out a bit on my recent Ken Burns documentary watching and also plead for some attention to be paid to a local school district.
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The California Mama Bears have been forced out of hibernation.
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Kristin Hurley.
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Welcome to Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley, Here, safe and
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I love it.
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Here we go, guys, I missed you. I wasn't here
last week, so yay, I'm back. I can't even stoopid
tell you what I was doing last week. There was
something about a meeting, and then there was something about
I don't know why. I threw on a couple of
repeats of the show interviews I'd done recently that I
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I'm hooked, all right, everybody, So welcome to Mama Bear's Radio.
As I said, here we go kristin two hours worth
of what's going on in Kristen's mind. And I'm cracking
myself up actually because I have an article I'm just
gonna get to this first, it's like our you know,
Americans attention spans are going down the tubes.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Okay, no dub, but this is funny.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Twenty years ago, this is actually uh epoch Time Health
article as this. Twenty years ago, people could only stay
focused on a computer task for two and a half minutes.
Now it's down to forty seven seconds. That's a sixty
nine percent drop and focus, and darn it if that
isn't me. I'm like, you know, I described this the
other day, my little mental experience. It's spiral. It's like, okay,
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so my husband's an engineer. He talks about spiral development
where you kind of like keep coming back around and
build up as you go on whatever it is, software
or whatever you're building. And that's kind of my brain
is like not necessarily going up or down, but just
kind of circular circular memory, circular awareness, circular like what's
going on today's circular focus. Like I'll be like, yeah,
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that that's happening. This is in my purview, Okay, fine,
minutes later it's gone. Something else is in front of me,
and I'm just like yay, okay, now this is the thing.
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Okay, good doing this.
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And then is the you know is the world turns,
as the clock turns, as my mind turns.
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I eventually come back around.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I'm like, oh yeah, oh that thing, Oh wow, okay,
that's that is still totally thinking, Okay, I should deal
with that. And then a few minutes later, Shit's gone.
Isn't that all of us? The joys of modern day living?
As I say, one of my favorite quotes from my
favorite author, Jane Smiley, She's in one of my favorite
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books ever, Horse Heaven. She talked about the you know,
the days of your people and older generations who had
shorter lives but longer days.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And we have flipped that script.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Okay, so, so I've been watching the ken Burns documentary
dust Bowl. What happened was if I can remember this correctly,
and I can, it wasn't that long ago. I want
to say, ken Burns was on like Joe Rogan. And
you know, I catch podcasts every once in a while
in the evening.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I'm not super obsessed.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I spend enough of my time here at the radio
station hearing people talk, listening to talk.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But I happen to.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Catch ken Burns and I don't think, you know, in retrospect,
I've seen maybe some of his work. If you don't
know him or haven't heard of him, he's a filmmaker.
He's a documentarian, if that's the word, and has I
want to say, four decades three plus decades worth of
making documentaries about our country and other countries as well.
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I think he has a big one out on Vietnam.
But I don't think i'd ever really seen much of
his work. It just wasn't super on my radar, and
I just was super enthralled hearing him talk. I don't
think I listened to the full interview, but he shown
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through him and what you know in his conversation with
Rogan about how much he loved the country, how obsessed
he was with our story and the history of the
country and understanding what we'd gone through and the time
and places in order to just obviously better inform how
the heck do you conduct yourself in today's modern age.
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And so I was like, darn it, I'm gonna watch
every single darn Ken Burns documentary game on. So I
started with the dust Bowl and it's so funny, how
like there's just so many similar themes popping up as
I'm watching this it's like a two part I don't
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know how it's four hours worth altogether, whatever, But so
many similar themes, so many cool things that I don't know.
I'm just absorbing, And of course you take it with
a grain of salt. Is any history book one hundred
percent accurate, anything guided without someone's opinion or someone's perspective,
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or I'm sure, I'm sure there's some subjectivity in everything,
But just getting taking myself out of twenty twenty five
and letting the images and the flavor and the audio,
and of course there's a lot of reading of letters
of people that lived there. The documentary tracks several families,
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and there's plenty of actual live people talking about their
childhoods and the Great Depression and their experiences and their
family and their dad, and the strife and the cows
they had to slaughter in the windstorms, the dust storms,
and you name it. The recounting of the stories and
the time and flavor of that age very very very
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impressionable on me. But at the same time, I'm sitting
there going, oh my gosh, it's like the themes of
humanity are so similar, and like we're doomed to repeat
ourselves over and over and over again. And I have
thought through these last five plus now tumultuous years.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You've got to pull back.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You've got to spend some time in perspective, or you
go absolutely back as crazy. No matter what side of
the aisle you on, we're all nuts. It's a national drama.
It's a national trauma happening right now. And if I
do say so myself, continuing to compound, I think we're
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still actually kind of digging ourselves in deeper on some levels.
Enough of that or for right now, my dust bowl tirade,
But the point is pulling back, giving the world some context.
It's the only way to make partial sense of what
we're experiencing today, to better inform us.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I don't know, I feel so I've.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Said this before, so super under educated, and I'm like,
I have a collegeay, but like, where the heck was
I all those years? I admit I had a bit
of a misguided youth. Maybe other people paid attention more
and arrived at adulthood better informed with you know, history
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or you know that sort of a thing, some basic
facts under one's belt. But you know, I am relearning
on a daily basis, and I know that I've expressed
before like I couldn't have told you certain things about
American civic sercific life, or American.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Government or my role as we the.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
People in this whole self governance experiment called America. But
I'm on, you know, the the hecko bent to catch
up and make up for lost time on that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I think we all must feel like we've got to
have some sort of contact or understanding to go on
to be able to deal.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
With kind of our creak cray today.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And I also think, you know, there's been other I
have a whole article that I'm going to talk about again.
Short attention span is one thing. But the experts, the
expert class, or the rise and fall of excuse me
how we've put.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So much.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Creed and dependence and worship on the experts, and how
that they're gonna tell us what to do and trust
them and trust the experts and trust the science and
all that stuff. And I'm not saying again, you know,
Ken Burns, I could be talking out of my butt.
He could have like crazy terrible reviews about his work.
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And as we've all found out, like certain you know,
certain people go hey, wire, Bill Nye. The science guy
comes to mind. Did your kids watch any of the
Bill ny videos? We went through tons of those as
a home schooling family, and he's all super a gendized now,
David Attenborough, We love him, love his work, Neil de
grass Tyson. So there's so many of them that have
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kind of gone off the deep end. But all that
to be said, The dust Bowl so many similar themes.
I'm about to hit my commercial break here, guys, and
I'm not even halfway through my my monologue, tig raid
I think let's take a commercial break. When I come back,
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I want to finish talking about some things that really
struck me actually watching The dust Bowl? Are we living
in one kind of And then I'm going to move
on to the really the meat and potatoes of today's show, which,
of course, can you guess it, are the recent Supreme
Court decisions last week. I didn't get a chance to
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talk about this Kurmeti decision. I think that had just
come down, and then since then we've got them a.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Mood of the Taylor decision.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
So much meat, so much good stuff, and that again
under the umbrella of treating our children respectfully, treating them
in the best way possible. To raise them up to
be a generation that can handle the future and the
national trauma mess.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
That we're leaving them.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Very very very important decisions. I don't care what stupid
side of the stupid asle you're on. We are we
the people, we are we the parents, and we have
to have to bequeath our nation a generation that can
handle it. I think some good things have come in
the last couple of weeks with the Supreme Court decisions.
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Not that I want to trust the experts, obviously, the judiciary.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We're all nuts. We're all broken nuts.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
People, which is basically what every day in my life
comes down to. It's like we're all in the inmates
are running the asylum around here. But given given that,
you know, there's some clear thinking people in the mix,
and we have to work together to figure things out
and keep ourselves on the train tracks. Anyways, some good
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progress on that towards that end, all right. Kristin Hurley
off and running for I'm pent up. Apparently I wasn't.
Didn't do my show last week, So here we go.
Let me take a break. When we come back. More
dust Bowl musings. This is Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley here.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'll be right back Mama Bear's Radio. We'll be right back.
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a little name by Chet. This gunman came across the
Needland assum she did the same at home.
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No seventeen year old boys.
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crack to the machine gun.
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Pleasant picture there, Thank you, Prince. Welcome back to Mama
Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley here, Yeah, sign of the times.
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Here we go.
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Dust Bowl twenty twenty five. This is what passes for
like deep thoughts Kristin Hurley's mind. But no, I'm being
genuine guys. I I okay, this is actually really funny.
So I've been you know, and I don't watch TV
per se twenty minutes before bed time from really awake.
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It's a couple of episodes of like Downton Abbey or
something pretty innocent. But I have been hooked on the
dust Bowl, so I've been slowly watching that what was
actually funny?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Not funny?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
So we all want to get the heck out of here,
out of California, right, I say we all the time.
We have our escape fantasies so my sister's always shopping.
Everybody's always like real estate shopping and.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
More affordable states.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And I'm watching the dust Bowl documentary and it's just
people at just the bare, bare, bare.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Minimal of surviving. There's no food.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It is a total Saharan desert out there, and the
dust storms are just insane that the pictures in there,
and there's you know, movie real footage from back then,
and so the documentary has a lot of imagery and
skinny kids and skinny cattle and just like it is
just the lowest of the low moment.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And here comes this text from my sister and.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It's like a Zillow ad for you know, only for
your five million dollars or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And I want to say it was like in Wisconsin
or something, but it was. It was a freaking.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Castle for sale, and just this like the lush castle
property estate just enormous, just the excess which is very
affordable at five million bucks or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And flip into the vision.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I text her back and I'm like, I'm watching a
documentary on the dust Bowl. Like I think our our
dorky little tiny houses and aptos will do just nicely.
I still have foliage in my yard. Okay, back to
my serious take on this. So so many similar themes
and we that's the silly quote about we're doomed to
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repeat history. Those who didn't listen the first time are
damned to repeat history and whatever. A glut of prosperity
and complacement. The documentary star arts talking about the immigrants
that came out there, immigrants meaning from the East Coast,
the homesteaders whatever, planted up the Great Plains, and wheat
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plowed under millions and millions of acres. And it was
like the suitcase carpetbagger types, right, They were like get
rich quick in Oklahoma and would come out from the
East Coast and buy up thousands and thousands of acres,
plow them up the prairie grass, the buffalo buffalo grass
or whatever it was. And and this is in the twenties,
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and people got rich. There was wheat prices were sky high.
There was a glut of complacency and arrogance. Dare I say, hey,
this is easy street and a flood of people and
and the area just got super plowed up what passed
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for you know, overpopulated back in the day. Everyone came
out to make it on on wheat. Okay, well you reap,
which is so I couldn't resist. Sorry, like you kind
of reap, which is so you get a little overconfident
and arrogant. We all do that, right, all get rich
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quick schemes abound, easy money, push the easy button, whatever.
And then there was all the like the compounding issues
of all the national that in the middle of the depression,
right we're talking the thirties now, and the nation was
in a world of financial hurt in general. And the
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people here in this swath of America doesn't add to
it adds to their troubles, right, it doesn't help anything.
And of course I'm I'm thinking, well, what's this a
metaphor for living in California? Where we double down on
stupid around here and everyone's fat and happy and complacent,
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and you kind of just let the good times roll
and you've lost let your guard down, and in the meantime,
they're you know, there's greater, greater things at work, but
we tend to like not protect ourselves in any way
here in California and go to run the opposite direction. Anyways,
how did we get here? And then you know, like
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the wrath of God dust storms, super drought, just total chaos.
But the story of the people holding out hope, thinking
okay year after year when it got worse and worse,
and what sustained. A lot of them were, well, next
year is going to be better. Next year is going
to be better. Uh, And they kind of just literally didn't.
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We weren't living on calories. They were living on hope.
Throwing up your hands and and just the inability to
do anything about it and feeling stuck. I mean that
there's I don't know, there's relatability in there.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
And so many people ended up leaving. They lost.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Whatever percent it was in the various counties through the
sort of the swath of the Lower Great Plains, Oklahoma, Texas,
part of New Mexico, Colorado, the worst hit areas. You
gotta know one to hold them and when to fold them.
And they pulled up and moved out. Obviously here to California.
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So many Californians have left, right, So many people already
a certain percentage of us said.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Heck, no, we're not doing this.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We're not going to sit and live in lalla land,
so to speak, and just hope and wish things get
better and not take you know, our own destiny into
our own hands. And so many people packed up and
left said we're out of here for greener pastures. Literally
a huge diaspora, and that how many people have lost
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friends or family from around.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Here that were like, we're not putting up with this.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
And then I thought, what also is just so interesting
was this was the era of the major growth of
government and the New Deal in Roosevelt. And of course
in the documentary there's all this footage of him coming
through these areas, these counties in Oklahoma and Texas and
talking to families and the new government programs. The only
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way so many of these families ate, and the families
that were interviewed on this documentary was because they went
to work in the New Deal programs, the WPA or whatever,
the government paycheck. They were so proud though that what
was so interesting was the and these were the children
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of the men and women you know, that were raising
their families, and they were farmers at this time, so
it was their children who obviously are much older today.
I don't know exact what year this documentary has made,
but they talked about how their parents were so proud
and held out for years even hoping things would get better.
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Next year, we'll have some rain, I'll plant another crop.
They did not want to take government assistance. They were
entirely resistant to it, so entirely proud that they wanted
to be the providers and have their own destiny in
their own hands and not.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Not take a handout.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
And what was so interesting was the local newspapers would
publish the names of the people that were on government
relief they called it. And so your name was in
the paper as having given up to whatever extent and
accepted the handout, whether it was a work program or
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you were just on straight you know, handout or what
whatever relief, your name was up on the you know,
on the wall. How different times are now though, for
how many people are dependent upon government dole. But the
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struggle that these people told of their families, and the
shame and that this is the absolute route, last resort.
We would have starved if we didn't go. You know,
my dad in dig ditches in the WPA program or whatever.
Goodness gracious, just interesting stuff. Just get out of your
own head and put yourself in a different time and place.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
And I think, before I go to my break, here
the last little tidbit. Of course, as I've.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Mentioned before, when you're looking back in history and thinking, well,
how did we get here? Or of course we're just
so tunnel vision and you think, well, this time and place,
of course, versus the everything else in life was easy street,
and this is wow, this is different.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
A greater lesson and takeaway I think is we sure
have found ourselves in national pickles before obviously worldwide pickles.
The entire history of the people on this planet, we're
always we're always at war over something, and this time
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and place is just kind of more of the same.
So I appreciate that. I appreciate some big picture perspective.
You don't have it so bad, an app toss, Kristen.
You could have sand drifts up against the side of
your house in the middle of Oklahoma and dead cows
in your front yard that they died of starvation.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Anyways, but will we pull through? The jury is still out?
How are we doing? Everybody? All right?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Well, let me get off of this little trip out story.
I suppose I recommend gospel documentary and to be continued.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I hope to.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Find some perspective and inspiration maybe in in other history
lessons to be continued. All right, Well, so this is
Mama Bear's Radio, Kristin Hurley here. When I come back,
we're gonna talk screw Many V Tennessee, and we're gonna
talk Ma Mood V.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Taylor.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
And we're going to try and at least untangle just
a little bit of the sign of the times here.
All right, everybody stay tuned Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I'll be right back Mama Bear's Radio. We'll be right back.
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The edge come is on my side, all the stot
to my life.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Why, just as long as the wheels depon.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Turning round, I will live all the croo till the
sun goes.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I can tell it.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Is it up crazy? All right?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Welcome back to Mama Bear's Radio. Safe and Effective Radio.
Kristin Hurley here. So a really cool thing, I know,
I promise the Supreme Court hearings or decisions, we'll get
to it. But as usual, I like piles of stuff
I wanted to bring up really quickly. So I was
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just I just learned of this really cool resource.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Me, I try to follow what's going on in Sacramento,
although no one in their right mind, again, we are
inundated with too much crap to have to deal with
every day, that whole spiral world thing. So every once
in a while, I'm like, oh, yeah, Sacramento, two thousand
plus bills are proposed every year. This year there was
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a ton. I don't know the exact number. It's crazy.
They're nuts out there in Sacramento making decisions for you
and yours. Is that representative government? We're not so sure here,
But there's a really cool resource called the California Action
Legislative Accountability otherwise known as CALA. Everyone loves their acronyms,
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So what you do this is a really cool someone's
contribution to the world today. It's impossible to follow all
the bills. It's impossible to know who wrote the bills
and oh they went to committee and did they pass
or not? And now we're on the floor. Are they
who voted for what? And when is the time to
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chime in if you feel compelled to do so, to
lend your voice, whether you like it or don't like it,
not that they listen, but for posterity's sake. So how
do you follow all of this? So CALLA will send
you an email alert when the important bill is scheduled
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to be heard in committee where your representative sits. So basically,
you sign up for this service and it sends you
alerts on key bills and what they say, is your
representative involved? Are they want of the authors? Do they
sit on committee where this bill is being heard? And
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gives you a time and place to either call or
email to voice your opinion about it, to communicate with
your representative because obviously they take they take you into
account when they go to vote in sacerm I.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Know, clearly, but no, you can't keep track of all
of these. CALA is a we the people promoter, right, It's.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It's helping us in our quest for self governance and
a civil society that's aware of what's going on. We
don't need like government doing its thing and the rest
of us just floating on through our lives.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
We've had enough of that.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
So if you care, and if you want to know,
and if you want a really cool service to help,
you know when to chime in.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
So you go to.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Oh, where's my website here?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I think at this point you just send an email
c A and the letter for LA twenty twenty five
at gmail dot com. I think this is so new
that they don't necessarily have a dedicated website set up yet,
but you can get on the tracking service c A
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the number four LA twenty twenty five at gmail dot
com and check them out.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Anyways, there's my good good deed for the day.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
While we're still talking local, before I head to Washington,
d C. To talk national stuff, I did want to
spend a couple of minutes on Parpara Valley Unified School District. Now,
this happens to be a district that I live in
a and schooled.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
My children through.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Be in our earlier years of homeschooling, we had a
charter school within the district that we went to. It's
the biggest school district in the county. It's actually a
larger one within the state. There's a lot going on
in Paro Valley. Obviously, if you guys have listened to
Mama Bears Radio over the years, I've had a number
of the board of trustees, the board members come on
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my show and talk about stuff. As recently as the
last election and since then, there's been a lot of
kerfluffle on this board, every school district. Everybody's got their
issues because by default, public education in California.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Has an uphill climb. Let's just say that we have
to do better for our kids.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
But the point is is Paharo Valley has been in
a serious world of hurt these last number of months.
I did talk about the particular board member, Gabriel Medina
on Pao Valley being called out actually by the county
Superintendent of Schools for sabah publicly, it was in the
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Lookout or whatever. There were articles written about it for
his anti Semitic remarks. I played audio of him months
ago and talked about he openly discriminated in a board
meeting against a student teacher that was affiliated with a
Christian university and his comments about her. He's caused such
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bedlam on at the board meetings. There's been explatives and
name calling and tears. He's a tough, tough cookie on
the board and very divisive and the boards and disarray.
I encourage everyone just under the umbrella of like, can
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we focus on the on the kids and stop bringing
our politics to the school board meetings, take an interest
in what's going on in Paho. It's obviously a very
specific community in Watsonville, very different demographics than the rest
of the county. There's challenges abounding, and to have this
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influence on the school board. No matter these are non
partisan seats. They're meant to be community members who are
a on how do I say that, are an objective
viewpoint coming from the community and regulating what the district
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does and how the money is spent, how they benefit
our kids, how they provide the best education, the best teachers,
the best programs for our kids, and keep the garbage out.
And that is the exact opposite of what is happening
with this particular board member. And then in general just
things are really tough right now down there. So I
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encourage you if you want to if you want to
encourage a cohesive board, if you want to encourage everyone
on that board to refocus their efforts at working together
and not being politically divisive and causing more strife and grief,
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get down there and participate.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Go to a meeting.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
So specifically, before I go to my break, I want
to encourage everyone to look at the next meeting coming up.
This is July sixteenth. I believe the meetings are always
Wednesday evenings. On the agenda is the adoption again for
the next year the school Resource Officer program, something they
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have to readopt every year or so because they have
a contract with the county, the County sheriffs to provide
the services on the high schools in Paho District. If
you know anything about that district, you know what happened
at Aptos High. This is in twenty twenty one when
the school resource officers were removed from KI campus because
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everybody was like super anti police and there was a
murder on campus and severely traumatized the campus and the community.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Since then, there have been.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Several studies the school resource officer program has been re implemented.
There are studies that show that the community very much
supports it. The kids on campus appreciate the relationships and
sort of the extra level of security on campus keeping
everything running smoothly. The parents appreciate it, the teachers appreciate it.
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I've been at the meetings where the study the data
from the studies were talked about, and we would like me,
as the tax paying public in the district, and many others,
want to encourage the district to vote to re up
the program again. It's again, it's a yearly thing. It
has to do with the contract. This It turns out
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that the even though so there's budget strife statewide for
schools and Paco District is going to be facing some
budgetary issues themselves, like me, some bell tightening. What's that
government house to do it too, shock and horror, But
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at any rate, it turned out that they negotiated an
even better agreement with the county sheriffs and there are
going to cover some of the cost of the program.
So it's actually easier on the district to say yes
to this, and again it's something that the community really
does support. You can look up the results of those
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studies yourself, so if you care to, if you're out
there in the district and that's something that catches your attention,
there's a meeting coming up.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I believe it's July sixteenth. You can email your the
whole board.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Of trustees down there and encourage them to vote yes
for this to continue the program it is. I believe
it's super important again keeping people's personal politics out of
the mix and what is best for the students in
the environment on campus and getting the best results out
of our schools that we possibly can.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
In the spirit of that, I think it's a great idea.
So anyways, let.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Your opinions be known. Show up to the meeting, because
that's an excellent way to show.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
The board your support. You can get up and speak.
And enough said about that, because I am about to
have to take break, so.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
When I come back, I can work my computer. It's
that multitasking thing. When I come back, we will get
into Supreme Court Scouts honor. All right, everybody, this is
Mama Bear's Radio, Kristin Hurley here.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
I'll be right back.
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Got out of town on a boat on the southern
on the lands, sailing.
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A reach the bar.
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A following se she was making for.
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The trades on the outside and the downhill run two
puppa heading off the wind on this petting line.
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We got eighty bit of a.
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Water line, nice to make and wait in the noise
of bar and of alone. Tried to call you, but
on the benight, what shall realized?
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Welcome back to Mama Bears Radio, Kristin Hurley here, I
should just leave the music running forget me.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
You guys don't need to hear me, and we just
need good music, all right.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Well, in my last little segment here before the top
of the hour. I'm okay, this is I've been on
two cruises in my life. This is why I'm not
sure sure I want to go on a third. But
is this not how much we love our kids? I
just happened to see in the news a four year
old child went overboard on a Disney cruise and the
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dad jumped into savor. Both were rescued. So it's a
happy story. But isn't that doesn't that kind of describe everything?
You'd go overboard to rescue your kid? Total nightmare scenario.
I the cruise ships.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
I'm not convinced, But at any rate, that's a dad's
love for you, all right. So I'm never gonna have
enough time to fully do this justice. So we're gonna
have to carry this over into my second hour, which
is perfectly fine.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I have.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Really great article out of the Atlantic. Now have those
words ever come out of my mouth ever before?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I don't know. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
But I was blown away at the dare I say,
raw honesty? The couple of little truth bombs dropped in
this Atlantic article. I think that I've sat in this
very chair in front of this very microphone over the
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last several years and read Atlantic articles under the who.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
The hell do these people think they are? Umbrella?
Speaker 2 (40:54):
But today I'm going to show a little appreciation for
h honest journalism, at least just facing facts. I mean,
for crying out stupid loud and I'm thinking, you know,
I just was thinking earlier, like, are the younger kids
not having sex anymore?
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Which is a fact, they're just not out there? Excuse me?
Is corona around?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Is it? Because the adults in the stupid room can't
stop talking about this garbage everywhere you stupid turn.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
It's gender this and sex that and pride parade.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
I'm sorry, go ahead and in your bedroom treat yourself
have at it, but doesn't involve a child.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Go go nuts. I don't want to know about it.
But the people that have co opted.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
The set of people on this planet that happened to
be into same sex. Fine, but you cannot be that
type of person and just live your innocent private life anymore.
It has been used and abused and co opted by
a set of people.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Just hell bound on grossing the rest of the world out.
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Pride parades, Fine, have a parade, but we see like
naked people in the most disgusting smutty displays parading through
the streets.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Of these big cities, like it's gone, it's gone too far.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
And we've talked over and over and over again about
pornographic material in classrooms, proven every other stinking day by
parents reading out loud in school board meetings, the material
that's on their shelves and their kids classrooms, or what's
being read aloud in classrooms, that's well established. The push
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for your fifteen different genders and your who you think
you are, your unicorn or your boy or you're a girl,
or you get to choose, because it's a it's a
daily choice.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
You get to make.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
The head tripping on our young people, our young kids,
and the social pressure now where they have to come
out and they have to be something other than sis,
and all the people can talk about is just sexxxexx.
It's just insanity. And so I'm like, well, no wonder
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nobody's doing it anymore because they're all just so grossed
out by the whole concept. It's not private and mysterious
or sacred. It's not something that reserved for a special
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a special someone, or a special moment, it's it's so
in your disgusting face. That and and as I've discussed
on on air with guests and otherwise, pornography is ubiquitous everywhere,
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and kids are inundated from a very young age online.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
I mean, no wonder they're kind of grossed out, but
at any rate that lead in so.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
There's and I'm having trouble keeping them funny enough in
my spiral little mind separate the couple of major cases
that came the decisions that came out of the Supreme Court.
Goodness me is that the time I'm gonna run into
the top of the hour.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
But the.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
I had on I believe I played some of the
clips from the arguments in this scrim Metti versus Tennessee case.
This was the case before the Supreme Court the State
of Tennessee, and there a little legislative jurisdiction decided that
these gender for mean care treatments for children under eighteen
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were outlawed in the state of Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
And of course everybody sued, and the Biden DOJ.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Got in on it, and it culminated in oral arguments.
I think I played some of them, or at least
talked about it when it happened in December before the
Supreme Court about canna state, does the state have an
autonomy to decide for themselves like what you you know,
can and can't do to children who cannot consent for themselves.
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A really big deal there. I want to say about
twenty four other states that had similar laws on the books,
and so the Supreme Court decision was a big dog.
We're going to get back into that after the top
of the hour. Here again, kudos to The Atlantic for
and the author Helen Lewis, for some really fair treatment this.
I wanna quote from this article and we'll talk a
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little bit more about it. All right, This is Mama
Bears Radio, Christen Hurley here. I'll be back after the
top of the hour.
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Here we go, guys, I missed you. I wasn't here
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tell you what I was doing last week. There was
something about a meeting, and then there was something about
I don't know why. I threw on a couple of
repeats of the show interviews I'd done recently that I
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thought were pretty awesome, so hopefully everyone caught those.
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And now I'm back in the flesh.
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Gold standard broadcasting, Thank you very much.
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And so here we go.
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We've got two hours before us of just endless great
stuff to talk about, because the soap opera doesn't die.
It just keep the wheel keeps on turning. Whatever stupid
metaphor you can dream up Here we are. So it's
another glorious day on Earth. Every morning. I'm like, yay,
I woke up. This is great. The other option maybe
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not so great. But here we are and a little
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That's m A. M A Bears Radio at Gmail.
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And the episodes, yes, they do get posted to podcast,
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I say something particularly brilliant, which happens maybe a couple
percentage points out of the time, you can go back,
if you know, if you've got absolutely nothing else to
do in your day, best to catch me live.
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That's the glory of live radio.
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The words just go into the microphone and out into
the glorious free air. And this is about as unsensorable
as it gets.
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So I love it.
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I'm hooked, all right, everybody, So welcome to Mama Bear's Radio.
As I said, here we go kristin two hours worth
of what's going on in Kristen's mind. And I'm cracking
myself up actually because I have an article I'm just
gonna get to this first, it's like our you know,
Americans attention spans are going down the tubes.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Okay, no dub, but this is funny.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Twenty years ago, this is actually uh epoch Time Health
article as this. Twenty years ago, people could only stay
focused on a computer task for two and a half minutes.
Now it's down to forty seven seconds. That's a sixty
nine percent drop and focus, and darn it if that
isn't me. I'm like, you know, I described this the
other day, my little mental experience. It's spiral. It's like, okay,
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so my husband's an engineer. He talks about spiral development
where you kind of like keep coming back around and
build up as you go on whatever it is, software
or whatever you're building. And that's kind of my brain
is like not necessarily going up or down, but just
kind of circular circular memory, circular awareness, circular like what's
going on today's circular focus. Like I'll be like, yeah,
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that that's happening. This is in my purview, Okay, fine,
minutes later it's gone. Something else is in front of me,
and I'm just like yay, okay, now this is the thing.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Okay, good doing this.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And then is the you know is the world turns,
as the clock turns, as my mind turns.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I eventually come back around.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I'm like, oh yeah, oh that thing, Oh wow, okay,
that's that is still totally thinking, Okay, I should deal
with that. And then a few minutes later, Shit's gone.
Isn't that all of us? The joys of modern day living?
As I say, one of my favorite quotes from my
favorite author, Jane Smiley, She's in one of my favorite
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books ever, Horse Heaven. She talked about the you know,
the days of your people and older generations who had
shorter lives but longer days.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And we have flipped that script.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Okay, so, so I've been watching the ken Burns documentary
dust Bowl. What happened was if I can remember this correctly,
and I can, it wasn't that long ago. I want
to say, ken Burns was on like Joe Rogan. And
you know, I catch podcasts every once in a while
in the evening.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I'm not super obsessed.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I spend enough of my time here at the radio
station hearing people talk, listening to talk.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But I happen to.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Catch ken Burns and I don't think, you know, in retrospect,
I've seen maybe some of his work. If you don't
know him or haven't heard of him, he's a filmmaker.
He's a documentarian, if that's the word, and has I
want to say, four decades three plus decades worth of
making documentaries about our country and other countries as well.
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I think he has a big one out on Vietnam.
But I don't think i'd ever really seen much of
his work. It just wasn't super on my radar, and
I just was super enthralled hearing him talk. I don't
think I listened to the full interview, but he shown
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through him and what you know in his conversation with
Rogan about how much he loved the country, how obsessed
he was with our story and the history of the
country and understanding what we'd gone through and the time
and places in order to just obviously better inform how
the heck do you conduct yourself in today's modern age.
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And so I was like, darn it, I'm gonna watch
every single darn Ken Burns documentary game on. So I
started with the dust Bowl and it's so funny, how
like there's just so many similar themes popping up as
I'm watching this it's like a two part I don't
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know how it's four hours worth altogether, whatever, But so
many similar themes, so many cool things that I don't know.
I'm just absorbing, And of course you take it with
a grain of salt. Is any history book one hundred
percent accurate, anything guided without someone's opinion or someone's perspective,
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or I'm sure, I'm sure there's some subjectivity in everything,
But just getting taking myself out of twenty twenty five
and letting the images and the flavor and the audio,
and of course there's a lot of reading of letters
of people that lived there. The documentary tracks several families,
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and there's plenty of actual live people talking about their
childhoods and the Great Depression and their experiences and their
family and their dad, and the strife and the cows
they had to slaughter in the windstorms, the dust storms,
and you name it. The recounting of the stories and
the time and flavor of that age very very very
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impressionable on me. But at the same time, I'm sitting
there going, oh my gosh, it's like the themes of
humanity are so similar, and like we're doomed to repeat
ourselves over and over and over again. And I have
thought through these last five plus now tumultuous years.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You've got to pull back.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You've got to spend some time in perspective, or you
go absolutely back as crazy. No matter what side of
the aisle you on, we're all nuts. It's a national drama.
It's a national trauma happening right now. And if I
do say so myself, continuing to compound, I think we're
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still actually kind of digging ourselves in deeper on some levels.
Enough of that or for right now, my dust bowl tirade,
But the point is pulling back, giving the world some context.
It's the only way to make partial sense of what
we're experiencing today, to better inform us.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I don't know, I feel so I've.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Said this before, so super under educated, and I'm like,
I have a collegeay, but like, where the heck was
I all those years? I admit I had a bit
of a misguided youth. Maybe other people paid attention more
and arrived at adulthood better informed with you know, history
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or you know that sort of a thing, some basic
facts under one's belt. But you know, I am relearning
on a daily basis, and I know that I've expressed
before like I couldn't have told you certain things about
American civic sercific life, or American.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Government or my role as we the.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
People in this whole self governance experiment called America. But
I'm on, you know, the the hecko bent to catch
up and make up for lost time on that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I think we all must feel like we've got to
have some sort of contact or understanding to go on
to be able to deal.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
With kind of our creak cray today.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And I also think, you know, there's been other I
have a whole article that I'm going to talk about again.
Short attention span is one thing. But the experts, the
expert class, or the rise and fall of excuse me
how we've put.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So much.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Creed and dependence and worship on the experts, and how
that they're gonna tell us what to do and trust
them and trust the experts and trust the science and
all that stuff. And I'm not saying again, you know,
Ken Burns, I could be talking out of my butt.
He could have like crazy terrible reviews about his work.
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And as we've all found out, like certain you know,
certain people go hey, wire, Bill Nye. The science guy
comes to mind. Did your kids watch any of the
Bill ny videos? We went through tons of those as
a home schooling family, and he's all super a gendized now,
David Attenborough, We love him, love his work, Neil de
grass Tyson. So there's so many of them that have
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kind of gone off the deep end. But all that
to be said, The dust Bowl so many similar themes.
I'm about to hit my commercial break here, guys, and
I'm not even halfway through my my monologue, tig raid
I think let's take a commercial break. When I come back,
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I want to finish talking about some things that really
struck me actually watching The dust Bowl? Are we living
in one kind of And then I'm going to move
on to the really the meat and potatoes of today's show, which,
of course, can you guess it, are the recent Supreme
Court decisions last week. I didn't get a chance to
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talk about this Kurmeti decision. I think that had just
come down, and then since then we've got them a.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Mood of the Taylor decision.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
So much meat, so much good stuff, and that again
under the umbrella of treating our children respectfully, treating them
in the best way possible. To raise them up to
be a generation that can handle the future and the
national trauma mess.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
That we're leaving them.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Very very very important decisions. I don't care what stupid
side of the stupid asle you're on. We are we
the people, we are we the parents, and we have
to have to bequeath our nation a generation that can
handle it. I think some good things have come in
the last couple of weeks with the Supreme Court decisions.
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Not that I want to trust the experts, obviously, the judiciary.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We're all nuts. We're all broken nuts.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
People, which is basically what every day in my life
comes down to. It's like we're all in the inmates
are running the asylum around here. But given given that,
you know, there's some clear thinking people in the mix,
and we have to work together to figure things out
and keep ourselves on the train tracks. Anyways, some good
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progress on that towards that end, all right. Kristin Hurley
off and running for I'm pent up. Apparently I wasn't.
Didn't do my show last week, So here we go.
Let me take a break. When we come back. More
dust Bowl musings. This is Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley here.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'll be right back Mama Bear's Radio. We'll be right back.
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And Ben skinny Man, dad of a big disease with
a little name by Chet. This gunman came across the
Needland assum she did the same at home.
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No seventeen year old boys.
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And defult's being in a gang called a disciple tile
crack to the machine gun.
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Pleasant picture there, Thank you, Prince. Welcome back to Mama
Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley here, Yeah, sign of the times.
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Here we go.
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Dust Bowl twenty twenty five. This is what passes for
like deep thoughts Kristin Hurley's mind. But no, I'm being
genuine guys. I I okay, this is actually really funny.
So I've been you know, and I don't watch TV
per se twenty minutes before bed time from really awake.
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It's a couple of episodes of like Downton Abbey or
something pretty innocent. But I have been hooked on the
dust Bowl, so I've been slowly watching that what was
actually funny?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Not funny?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
So we all want to get the heck out of here,
out of California, right, I say we all the time.
We have our escape fantasies so my sister's always shopping.
Everybody's always like real estate shopping and.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
More affordable states.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And I'm watching the dust Bowl documentary and it's just
people at just the bare, bare, bare.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Minimal of surviving. There's no food.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It is a total Saharan desert out there, and the
dust storms are just insane that the pictures in there,
and there's you know, movie real footage from back then,
and so the documentary has a lot of imagery and
skinny kids and skinny cattle and just like it is
just the lowest of the low moment.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And here comes this text from my sister and.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It's like a Zillow ad for you know, only for
your five million dollars or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And I want to say it was like in Wisconsin
or something, but it was. It was a freaking.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Castle for sale, and just this like the lush castle
property estate just enormous, just the excess which is very
affordable at five million bucks or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And flip into the vision.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I text her back and I'm like, I'm watching a
documentary on the dust Bowl. Like I think our our
dorky little tiny houses and aptos will do just nicely.
I still have foliage in my yard. Okay, back to
my serious take on this. So so many similar themes
and we that's the silly quote about we're doomed to
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repeat history. Those who didn't listen the first time are
damned to repeat history and whatever. A glut of prosperity
and complacement. The documentary star arts talking about the immigrants
that came out there, immigrants meaning from the East Coast,
the homesteaders whatever, planted up the Great Plains, and wheat
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plowed under millions and millions of acres. And it was
like the suitcase carpetbagger types, right, They were like get
rich quick in Oklahoma and would come out from the
East Coast and buy up thousands and thousands of acres,
plow them up the prairie grass, the buffalo buffalo grass
or whatever it was. And and this is in the twenties,
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and people got rich. There was wheat prices were sky high.
There was a glut of complacency and arrogance. Dare I say, hey,
this is easy street and a flood of people and
and the area just got super plowed up what passed
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for you know, overpopulated back in the day. Everyone came
out to make it on on wheat. Okay, well you reap,
which is so I couldn't resist. Sorry, like you kind
of reap, which is so you get a little overconfident
and arrogant. We all do that, right, all get rich
(18:17):
quick schemes abound, easy money, push the easy button, whatever.
And then there was all the like the compounding issues
of all the national that in the middle of the depression,
right we're talking the thirties now, and the nation was
in a world of financial hurt in general. And the
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people here in this swath of America doesn't add to
it adds to their troubles, right, it doesn't help anything.
And of course I'm I'm thinking, well, what's this a
metaphor for living in California? Where we double down on
stupid around here and everyone's fat and happy and complacent,
(19:02):
and you kind of just let the good times roll
and you've lost let your guard down, and in the meantime,
they're you know, there's greater, greater things at work, but
we tend to like not protect ourselves in any way
here in California and go to run the opposite direction. Anyways,
how did we get here? And then you know, like
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the wrath of God dust storms, super drought, just total chaos.
But the story of the people holding out hope, thinking
okay year after year when it got worse and worse,
and what sustained. A lot of them were, well, next
year is going to be better. Next year is going
to be better. Uh, And they kind of just literally didn't.
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We weren't living on calories. They were living on hope.
Throwing up your hands and and just the inability to
do anything about it and feeling stuck. I mean that
there's I don't know, there's relatability in there.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
And so many people ended up leaving. They lost.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Whatever percent it was in the various counties through the
sort of the swath of the Lower Great Plains, Oklahoma, Texas,
part of New Mexico, Colorado, the worst hit areas. You
gotta know one to hold them and when to fold them.
And they pulled up and moved out. Obviously here to California.
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So many Californians have left, right, So many people already
a certain percentage of us said.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Heck, no, we're not doing this.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We're not going to sit and live in lalla land,
so to speak, and just hope and wish things get
better and not take you know, our own destiny into
our own hands. And so many people packed up and
left said we're out of here for greener pastures. Literally
a huge diaspora, and that how many people have lost
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friends or family from around.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Here that were like, we're not putting up with this.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
And then I thought, what also is just so interesting
was this was the era of the major growth of
government and the New Deal in Roosevelt. And of course
in the documentary there's all this footage of him coming
through these areas, these counties in Oklahoma and Texas and
talking to families and the new government programs. The only
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way so many of these families ate, and the families
that were interviewed on this documentary was because they went
to work in the New Deal programs, the WPA or whatever,
the government paycheck. They were so proud though that what
was so interesting was the and these were the children
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of the men and women you know, that were raising
their families, and they were farmers at this time, so
it was their children who obviously are much older today.
I don't know exact what year this documentary has made,
but they talked about how their parents were so proud
and held out for years even hoping things would get better.
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Next year, we'll have some rain, I'll plant another crop.
They did not want to take government assistance. They were
entirely resistant to it, so entirely proud that they wanted
to be the providers and have their own destiny in
their own hands and not.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Not take a handout.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
And what was so interesting was the local newspapers would
publish the names of the people that were on government
relief they called it. And so your name was in
the paper as having given up to whatever extent and
accepted the handout, whether it was a work program or
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you were just on straight you know, handout or what
whatever relief, your name was up on the you know,
on the wall. How different times are now though, for
how many people are dependent upon government dole. But the
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struggle that these people told of their families, and the
shame and that this is the absolute route, last resort.
We would have starved if we didn't go. You know,
my dad in dig ditches in the WPA program or whatever.
Goodness gracious, just interesting stuff. Just get out of your
own head and put yourself in a different time and place.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
And I think, before I go to my break, here
the last little tidbit. Of course, as I've.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Mentioned before, when you're looking back in history and thinking, well,
how did we get here? Or of course we're just
so tunnel vision and you think, well, this time and place,
of course, versus the everything else in life was easy street,
and this is wow, this is different.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
A greater lesson and takeaway I think is we sure
have found ourselves in national pickles before obviously worldwide pickles.
The entire history of the people on this planet, we're
always we're always at war over something, and this time
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and place is just kind of more of the same.
So I appreciate that. I appreciate some big picture perspective.
You don't have it so bad, an app toss, Kristen.
You could have sand drifts up against the side of
your house in the middle of Oklahoma and dead cows
in your front yard that they died of starvation.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Anyways, but will we pull through? The jury is still out?
How are we doing? Everybody? All right?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Well, let me get off of this little trip out story.
I suppose I recommend gospel documentary and to be continued.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I hope to.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Find some perspective and inspiration maybe in in other history
lessons to be continued. All right, Well, so this is
Mama Bear's Radio, Kristin Hurley here. When I come back,
we're gonna talk screw Many V Tennessee, and we're gonna
talk Ma Mood V.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Taylor.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
And we're going to try and at least untangle just
a little bit of the sign of the times here.
All right, everybody stay tuned Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I'll be right back Mama Bear's Radio. We'll be right back.
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The edge come is on my side, all the stot
to my life.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Why, just as long as the wheels depon.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Turning round, I will live all the croo till the
sun goes.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I can tell it.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Is it up crazy? All right?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Welcome back to Mama Bear's Radio. Safe and Effective Radio.
Kristin Hurley here. So a really cool thing, I know,
I promise the Supreme Court hearings or decisions, we'll get
to it. But as usual, I like piles of stuff
I wanted to bring up really quickly. So I was
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just I just learned of this really cool resource.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Me, I try to follow what's going on in Sacramento,
although no one in their right mind, again, we are
inundated with too much crap to have to deal with
every day, that whole spiral world thing. So every once
in a while, I'm like, oh, yeah, Sacramento, two thousand
plus bills are proposed every year. This year there was
(27:16):
a ton. I don't know the exact number. It's crazy.
They're nuts out there in Sacramento making decisions for you
and yours. Is that representative government? We're not so sure here,
But there's a really cool resource called the California Action
Legislative Accountability otherwise known as CALA. Everyone loves their acronyms,
(27:39):
So what you do this is a really cool someone's
contribution to the world today. It's impossible to follow all
the bills. It's impossible to know who wrote the bills
and oh they went to committee and did they pass
or not? And now we're on the floor. Are they
who voted for what? And when is the time to
(28:00):
chime in if you feel compelled to do so, to
lend your voice, whether you like it or don't like it,
not that they listen, but for posterity's sake. So how
do you follow all of this? So CALLA will send
you an email alert when the important bill is scheduled
(28:23):
to be heard in committee where your representative sits. So basically,
you sign up for this service and it sends you
alerts on key bills and what they say, is your
representative involved? Are they want of the authors? Do they
sit on committee where this bill is being heard? And
(28:46):
gives you a time and place to either call or
email to voice your opinion about it, to communicate with
your representative because obviously they take they take you into
account when they go to vote in sacerm I.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Know, clearly, but no, you can't keep track of all
of these. CALA is a we the people promoter, right, It's.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It's helping us in our quest for self governance and
a civil society that's aware of what's going on. We
don't need like government doing its thing and the rest
of us just floating on through our lives.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
We've had enough of that.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
So if you care, and if you want to know,
and if you want a really cool service to help,
you know when to chime in.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
So you go to.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Oh, where's my website here?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I think at this point you just send an email
c A and the letter for LA twenty twenty five
at gmail dot com. I think this is so new
that they don't necessarily have a dedicated website set up yet,
but you can get on the tracking service c A
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the number four LA twenty twenty five at gmail dot
com and check them out.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Anyways, there's my good good deed for the day.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
While we're still talking local, before I head to Washington,
d C. To talk national stuff, I did want to
spend a couple of minutes on Parpara Valley Unified School District. Now,
this happens to be a district that I live in
a and schooled.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
My children through.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Be in our earlier years of homeschooling, we had a
charter school within the district that we went to. It's
the biggest school district in the county. It's actually a
larger one within the state. There's a lot going on
in Paro Valley. Obviously, if you guys have listened to
Mama Bears Radio over the years, I've had a number
of the board of trustees, the board members come on
(31:08):
my show and talk about stuff. As recently as the
last election and since then, there's been a lot of
kerfluffle on this board, every school district. Everybody's got their
issues because by default, public education in California.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Has an uphill climb. Let's just say that we have
to do better for our kids.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
But the point is is Paharo Valley has been in
a serious world of hurt these last number of months.
I did talk about the particular board member, Gabriel Medina
on Pao Valley being called out actually by the county
Superintendent of Schools for sabah publicly, it was in the
(31:55):
Lookout or whatever. There were articles written about it for
his anti Semitic remarks. I played audio of him months
ago and talked about he openly discriminated in a board
meeting against a student teacher that was affiliated with a
Christian university and his comments about her. He's caused such
(32:17):
bedlam on at the board meetings. There's been explatives and
name calling and tears. He's a tough, tough cookie on
the board and very divisive and the boards and disarray.
I encourage everyone just under the umbrella of like, can
(32:40):
we focus on the on the kids and stop bringing
our politics to the school board meetings, take an interest
in what's going on in Paho. It's obviously a very
specific community in Watsonville, very different demographics than the rest
of the county. There's challenges abounding, and to have this
(33:05):
influence on the school board. No matter these are non
partisan seats. They're meant to be community members who are
a on how do I say that, are an objective
viewpoint coming from the community and regulating what the district
(33:30):
does and how the money is spent, how they benefit
our kids, how they provide the best education, the best teachers,
the best programs for our kids, and keep the garbage out.
And that is the exact opposite of what is happening
with this particular board member. And then in general just
things are really tough right now down there. So I
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encourage you if you want to if you want to
encourage a cohesive board, if you want to encourage everyone
on that board to refocus their efforts at working together
and not being politically divisive and causing more strife and grief,
(34:14):
get down there and participate.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Go to a meeting.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
So specifically, before I go to my break, I want
to encourage everyone to look at the next meeting coming up.
This is July sixteenth. I believe the meetings are always
Wednesday evenings. On the agenda is the adoption again for
the next year the school Resource Officer program, something they
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have to readopt every year or so because they have
a contract with the county, the County sheriffs to provide
the services on the high schools in Paho District. If
you know anything about that district, you know what happened
at Aptos High. This is in twenty twenty one when
the school resource officers were removed from KI campus because
(35:00):
everybody was like super anti police and there was a
murder on campus and severely traumatized the campus and the community.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Since then, there have been.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Several studies the school resource officer program has been re implemented.
There are studies that show that the community very much
supports it. The kids on campus appreciate the relationships and
sort of the extra level of security on campus keeping
everything running smoothly. The parents appreciate it, the teachers appreciate it.
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I've been at the meetings where the study the data
from the studies were talked about, and we would like me,
as the tax paying public in the district, and many others,
want to encourage the district to vote to re up
the program again. It's again, it's a yearly thing. It
has to do with the contract. This It turns out
(36:01):
that the even though so there's budget strife statewide for
schools and Paco District is going to be facing some
budgetary issues themselves, like me, some bell tightening. What's that
government house to do it too, shock and horror, But
(36:22):
at any rate, it turned out that they negotiated an
even better agreement with the county sheriffs and there are
going to cover some of the cost of the program.
So it's actually easier on the district to say yes
to this, and again it's something that the community really
does support. You can look up the results of those
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studies yourself, so if you care to, if you're out
there in the district and that's something that catches your attention,
there's a meeting coming up.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I believe it's July sixteenth. You can email your the
whole board.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Of trustees down there and encourage them to vote yes
for this to continue the program it is. I believe
it's super important again keeping people's personal politics out of
the mix and what is best for the students in
the environment on campus and getting the best results out
of our schools that we possibly can.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
In the spirit of that, I think it's a great idea.
So anyways, let.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Your opinions be known. Show up to the meeting, because
that's an excellent way to show.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
The board your support. You can get up and speak.
And enough said about that, because I am about to
have to take break, so.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
When I come back, I can work my computer. It's
that multitasking thing. When I come back, we will get
into Supreme Court Scouts honor. All right, everybody, this is
Mama Bear's Radio, Kristin Hurley here.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Got out of town on a boat on the southern
on the lands, sailing.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
A reach the bar.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
A following se she was making for.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
The trades on the outside and the downhill run two
puppa heading off the wind on this petting line.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Of my kids us.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
We got eighty bit of a.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Water line, nice to make and wait in the noise
of bar and of alone. Tried to call you, but
on the benight, what shall realized?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Welcome back to Mama Bears Radio, Kristin Hurley here, I
should just leave the music running forget me.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
You guys don't need to hear me, and we just
need good music, all right.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Well, in my last little segment here before the top
of the hour. I'm okay, this is I've been on
two cruises in my life. This is why I'm not
sure sure I want to go on a third. But
is this not how much we love our kids? I
just happened to see in the news a four year
old child went overboard on a Disney cruise and the
(39:39):
dad jumped into savor. Both were rescued. So it's a
happy story. But isn't that doesn't that kind of describe everything?
You'd go overboard to rescue your kid? Total nightmare scenario.
I the cruise ships.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
I'm not convinced, But at any rate, that's a dad's
love for you, all right. So I'm never gonna have
enough time to fully do this justice. So we're gonna
have to carry this over into my second hour, which
is perfectly fine.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I have.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Really great article out of the Atlantic. Now have those
words ever come out of my mouth ever before?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I don't know. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
But I was blown away at the dare I say,
raw honesty? The couple of little truth bombs dropped in
this Atlantic article. I think that I've sat in this
very chair in front of this very microphone over the
(40:45):
last several years and read Atlantic articles under the who.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
The hell do these people think they are? Umbrella?
Speaker 2 (40:54):
But today I'm going to show a little appreciation for
h honest journalism, at least just facing facts. I mean,
for crying out stupid loud and I'm thinking, you know,
I just was thinking earlier, like, are the younger kids
not having sex anymore?
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Which is a fact, they're just not out there? Excuse me?
Is corona around?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Is it? Because the adults in the stupid room can't
stop talking about this garbage everywhere you stupid turn.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
It's gender this and sex that and pride parade.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
I'm sorry, go ahead and in your bedroom treat yourself
have at it, but doesn't involve a child.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Go go nuts. I don't want to know about it.
But the people that have co opted.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
The set of people on this planet that happened to
be into same sex. Fine, but you cannot be that
type of person and just live your innocent private life anymore.
It has been used and abused and co opted by
a set of people.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Just hell bound on grossing the rest of the world out.
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Pride parades, Fine, have a parade, but we see like
naked people in the most disgusting smutty displays parading through
the streets.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Of these big cities, like it's gone, it's gone too far.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
And we've talked over and over and over again about
pornographic material in classrooms, proven every other stinking day by
parents reading out loud in school board meetings, the material
that's on their shelves and their kids classrooms, or what's
being read aloud in classrooms, that's well established. The push
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for your fifteen different genders and your who you think
you are, your unicorn or your boy or you're a girl,
or you get to choose, because it's a it's a
daily choice.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
You get to make.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
The head tripping on our young people, our young kids,
and the social pressure now where they have to come
out and they have to be something other than sis,
and all the people can talk about is just sexxxexx.
It's just insanity. And so I'm like, well, no wonder
(43:40):
nobody's doing it anymore because they're all just so grossed
out by the whole concept. It's not private and mysterious
or sacred. It's not something that reserved for a special
(44:02):
a special someone, or a special moment, it's it's so
in your disgusting face. That and and as I've discussed
on on air with guests and otherwise, pornography is ubiquitous everywhere,
(44:24):
and kids are inundated from a very young age online.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
I mean, no wonder they're kind of grossed out, but
at any rate that lead in so.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
There's and I'm having trouble keeping them funny enough in
my spiral little mind separate the couple of major cases
that came the decisions that came out of the Supreme Court.
Goodness me is that the time I'm gonna run into
the top of the hour.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
But the.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
I had on I believe I played some of the
clips from the arguments in this scrim Metti versus Tennessee case.
This was the case before the Supreme Court the State
of Tennessee, and there a little legislative jurisdiction decided that
these gender for mean care treatments for children under eighteen
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were outlawed in the state of Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
And of course everybody sued, and the Biden DOJ.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Got in on it, and it culminated in oral arguments.
I think I played some of them, or at least
talked about it when it happened in December before the
Supreme Court about canna state, does the state have an
autonomy to decide for themselves like what you you know,
can and can't do to children who cannot consent for themselves.
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A really big deal there. I want to say about
twenty four other states that had similar laws on the books,
and so the Supreme Court decision was a big dog.
We're going to get back into that after the top
of the hour. Here again, kudos to The Atlantic for
and the author Helen Lewis, for some really fair treatment this.
I wanna quote from this article and we'll talk a
(46:02):
little bit more about it. All right, This is Mama
Bears Radio, Christen Hurley here. I'll be back after the
top of the hour.
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