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October 13, 2025 44 mins
🎙️ T.W.A.C. Season 2 – Episode 24 (Rebroadcast)
Classroom Revolution: Johnny Bruchhagen on Charlie Kirk, Nevada Schools & The Battle for Minds”
🎙️ Hosted by: Garland Brinkey, Ph.D. & Patricia Brinkey, Esq.
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📍This week, the Brinkleys welcome Johnny Bruchhagen, host of The Johnny Bru Show, educator, and conservative voice for Nevada’s next generation. Together, they unpack how Nevada’s education system is being reshaped from the ground up — and why leaders like Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA have sparked a cultural and political awakening among students and parents alike.

📍Even in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s passing, the Turning Point movement continues to rise — proving that ideas rooted in freedom, faith, and personal responsibility are stronger than any single figure. The mission lives on through local chapters, youth leaders, and educators committed to truth in the classroom and courage in the culture. 

📚 Education Reform at Ground Zero: How conservative parents and teachers are taking back schools from ideology.

🎯 Turning Point’s Impact & Resilience: The movement’s continued growth after Charlie Kirk’s death and its enduring influence in Nevada.

🏫 Empowering Local Schools: Funding, accountability, and the importance of school choice for real results.

🧪 Faith, Science & Conservative Values – Grounding education in the BEST offerings for children - not the buracracy.

🧠 The Battle for Minds: Why the culture war begins in the classroom — and how to fight it with truth, not fear. Restoring American Values: Faith, family, and freedom as the foundation for Nevada’s educational revival.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Las Vegas and Nevada, let's talk. Welcome to Talk with
a Conservative. I'm Garland Brinkley, and I ran for Assimbi
District one in twenty twenty two and again in twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I didn't win.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Either time, but I came in second both times. I'm
a retired university professor.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
And I'm Patricia Brinkley. I'm a foreigner former Candada Forecina
District one in North Las Vegas, an attorney at law,
and welcome to Season two, Episode two, to Talk with
a Conservative. Our telephone number is seven zero two one,
seven two eight three. We barely met it here this
evening as we're at the official announcement of the Governor

(01:07):
Joe Lombardo's campaign for reelection. So this evening, if you
are unable to get through on the telephone at seven
oh two two two one seven two eight three, please
email your questions to TWAC Radio Show at gmail dot com.
If your question is received before the end of the

(01:28):
today's show, we will answer it. If not, we'll address
it at the beginning of next week's show. And just
to let you know, our question of today is what
will Charlie Kirk's legacy b And tonight we are glad
to have our co host Dave Flippo, candidate for CD.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
FOURY glad to be here. Christian Garland, thanks for having
me back. I tell you it's gonna be a great,
great show here. We just got done with the governor's announcement,
so that was amazing, and we got Johnny Brew here.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yes, and we have tonight we'll be discussed in education
with John. John is an educator, the founder of Infinity,
the Math Institute, and the author of Teach Like It Matters.
Welcome John, Thank you very much. Patricia, Okay, you're listening
to talk with a conservative. You're tuned into talk with

(02:35):
a conservative where reason still rules and free speech still matters.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's time to cut through the noise and get back
to what really matters. Let's talk. You can email us
at TWAK Radio Show at gmail dot com for more details.
Don't forget the considerat Town Hall of North Fast Vegas.
It's under first Thursday of every month, and this coming
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Our main speaker on October second will be doctor or
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Speaker 1 (03:24):
CD four, No City three.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I'm I'm sorry. I see I'm a professor and I
can't count to four.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Shry.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
We have a math guy here today.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I four mixed up the right up?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
We all do so again. Our question of the day
what will be Charlie Kirk's legacy, And let's start with
Dave flipp Oh.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
I tell you know, it's a great question. I hope
we get some callers to call in about this because
it's such a it's you know, been a really tough
week for everybody. But I think Charlie Kirk's legacy is
that he started a movement. He started a movement of
people where you can have open debate, open discourse, and
we can't stop doing that. We can't allow fear to

(04:11):
get in the way. And Charlie Kirk's main thing was
he believed in God, family, and country, and he kept
it really simple, and he was very, very hard Christian
and he kept everything you know in that regard, and
life can be very simple when you think God, family
and country.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes, And so that was his whole purpose first, his
faith in God, and he wanted to share that with
other people. And so, Johnny, I saw on your Facebook
post a picture of your son and Charlie Kirk. Do
you mind sharing your comments regarding that photo.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, I mean I was super duper proud.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
He said that to me unsolicited because he knew that
I would be out of them. And you know, it's
going to end up being a picture we end up
getting framed.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
And you know, I.

Speaker 6 (05:06):
Hate the hyperbole, whether you're talking about calling Republicans fascist
or a Trump Hitler, or comparing anything to the Holocaust.
So I'm really careful when I say something like this.
I truly think Charlie Kirk is the Martin Luther King
Junior of our time, and I really think it's going
to have such a profound effect that fifty years later,

(05:27):
in a time where you know some people are already
forgetting about nine to eleven, I have a feeling that
Charlie Kirk will never ever be forgotten and will be
looked at. But I want to talk about something that's hard,
and honestly, I wish I didn't have to, because I'm
not seeing a moment of unity or even human decency.
We're seeing the same things we always see, silence, distortion

(05:50):
or justification, and people rushing to say that this is
both sides and both sides are guilty and it's just
part of a political climate.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
But it's a lie.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
We need to stop pretending otherwise just because we're afraid
to get canceled or you know, Russell somebody's feathers, or
have a return of violence. For example, when Joshapiro's house
was firebombed, it wasn't some right wing lunatic. It was
a far left extremist angry about the Israel Hamas conflict
in Minnesota where those lawmakers were targeted. This was apparently

(06:19):
about somebody who was mad that they were leaving the
Democrat plantation and voting against health care for illegals. The
man who tried to assassinate Judge Kavanaugh. He was a
left wing activist from California. We remember Steve Scalise, his killer,
said are they Republicans or Democrats? Before he went on
a shooting spree, the attempted assassination to Donald Trump. All

(06:41):
of these are radical, far left people, and we're not
hearing about any kind of right wing violence whatsoever, whether
it's perpetrated against Democrats or against Republicans. They might be
getting it equally, but the source of the violence is
coming from the same place. None of them were part
of right wing militia groups, none of them had Magaha.
That's the consistent pattern is these attackers were radicalized by

(07:03):
left wing narratives, many of which are allowed to flourish
unchecked on social media and in legacy media like let
me tell you something about Charlie Kirk. He spent thousands
of hours, literally years of his life on camera and
behind him Mike talking to people, many of whom were
deliberately trying to bait him, trying to get a gotcha moment,
trying to get him to snap so they could go viral.

(07:25):
And after all that time, fifteen years of being on
the record, every single day. They still can't find a
single clip of him speaking from hate, not one. Some
out of context nonsense and a lot of straight up lies.
And they're trying to twist words at eclipse and accuse
him of racism or extremism. He simply believed in persuasion,

(07:46):
in truth, and in moral clarity. He was blunt, for sure,
but never hateful. He debated with logic, not rage. And
that's why he's so dangerous to the left, because he
couldn't be discredited. They could only try to silence him.
And this didn't have happened in a vacuum. We've spent
years letting this take loot in our country to fine
people hoax? How many people still believe that Trump called

(08:07):
white supremacists in Charlottesville very fine people, even though the
very next line he said, I'm not talking about neo
Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned to today
the Russian collusion hoax, how long did they tell us
Trump was a Russian agent only for it to fall
apart with the Muller Report. Adam Shift, he went on
every cable news network saying he had direct evidence that

(08:29):
Trump was a Russian spy. Where is it? It never
existed yet now he's a US Senator Komy Swallwell, same thing,
pushing lies for years, Lies that got people like this
guy radicalized, Lies that fueled the ideas that conservatives are
dangerous and democracy must be protected from us by any
means necessary. And that's how you get political assassinations, not

(08:52):
because people are reading the constitution or history, but because
the spoon fed hysterian hate by people in power who
faced zero consequences for being wrong repeatedly. And the tragic
irony is the more they lie, the more people are
starting to wake up, not because they want revenge, but
because they want truth. And that's the only time healing
can start. So let's stop pretending this is both sides.

(09:15):
Let's stop dancing around the facts and be trying to
be socially acceptable. Political violence in this country is coming
overwhelmingly from the radical left, and pretending otherwise is not
going to make things better.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's going to make him worse.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
Charlie was not perfect, but he was a good man
and he didn't deserve to be assassinated to speaking the truth,
and none of us do. And we don't fix it
with self censorship. Especially self censorship. People don't wear their
maga hats. People don't wear their religion or their political
affiliation on their chest. They are hiding it to become

(09:49):
more socially acceptable. So I think the best way to
honor Charlie is to start being honest with others and
honest with yourself.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Thank you callers are numbers. There is seven zero two,
two to one, seven to eight three. We want to
hear from you. What do you think Charlie Kirk's legacy
will be.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
And also if there's any candidates out there who'd like
to be a co host, contact us to learn more details.
Also shout outs, we know you celebrate birthday's, anniversary's, birth
of a child, new job, those kinds of things. A
listener requested a shout out for her husband last week
and she was really appreciative of the shout out we
did for her.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
And speaking of shout outs, we're giving a shout out
to the Mesquite Republican Women's Club. Bella and I were
invited to speak to them last Wednesday, September tenth, and
a good time was had by all and we had
a great turnout. And thank you Mistique Women's Republican Club
and please call in. We gave you the.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Call in number again. It's seven oh two two two
one seven two eight three. Put that on your speed dial.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
So, Johnny, let's just see. Are you a native Nevada?

Speaker 7 (11:06):
No.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
I moved here in two thousand and five. I spent
most of my life in New York. I was born
and raised in Queens, and then I grew up on
Long Islands. I spent a little bit of time in
Daytona Beach and Orlando.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
I even lived in Puerto Rico for a little while,
But for the.

Speaker 6 (11:22):
Most part, it was twenty five years in New York
and now twenty years here in Vegas.

Speaker 8 (11:26):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
So how did you get into teaching?

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Oh that's a long story, but you yeah. All my life,
I've always thought that I was going to either through business.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I used to play poker.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
I had my thumb and a whole bunch of stuff,
and I always thought, after I hit it big and
I no longer had to concern myself with money, I
wanted to teach and coach basketball in order to get back.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
To the community.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
And one time in twenty twelve, I was sitting on
a poker table thinking, you know, this is not as
glamorous as I thought it was. I was doing well financially,
but I wasn't doing anything with my life. And I
was thinking, am I going to spend the next thirty
years pushing pieces of plastic around a piece of felt?
And that's it? So I said, what do I want
to do? Forget about money? I want to teach and.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
I want to coach.

Speaker 6 (12:17):
So I just up and went to UNLV and four
years later I was a teacher with a degree.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Amazing, And so you are currently teaching math in public school.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
I'm actually with Infinity the Math Institute full time.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
We do tutoring.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
We have a website that has all the resources that kids, parents, teachers,
and administrators could ever hope for. I wrote the curriculums
from soup to nuts, including everything from four lesson plans
per lesson to two homeworks, two quizzes, videos, text because
math is really so easy. And I can't argue with

(12:56):
people over why a boy shouldn't be playing in girls'
volley ball as a seventeen eighteen year old, but I
can convince people that manth is easy because it is okay.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I think we have a caller, Hello, caller.

Speaker 5 (13:10):
Your name. Yes, this is Scott Divorski from up in
Elko County, OH.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
I'm Scott.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Welcome Scott. What hey, what's your question?

Speaker 5 (13:21):
My question has to do because I was on a
local radio show up here today on a very similar
topic of political violence, and I'm wondering what your guest
opinion is about Governor Spencer Cox's comments about social media,
particularly his use of the phrase cancer and the metastasization

(13:42):
of social media rhetoric that's going on quite a bit.

Speaker 6 (13:45):
I mean, I think of social media has become a cancer,
and it didn't have to be this way.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
You know, I'm a.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
Big fan of capitalism, but not of crony capitalism. I'm
a big fan of free market, but you know, sometimes
you got to put something above profits. And Facebook used
to be beautiful. I used to see my friend's kids
growing up. I used to get all kinds of stories
about them anniversaries. And then they realized that they could
get more clicks by showing political stuff that you didn't

(14:17):
agree with. So it wasn't even like they were showing politics.
They were explicitly showing everybody stuff that would get them
angry because that would keep them online longer. That would
keep them clicking longer, and that would keep them more interactive.
And simply because it was more profitable, it helped evolve
us into the society we're looking at right now.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Well, it goes into the psyche of the individual there,
especially the youth right. I mean, there's young, young, and impressionable,
and you know, they're they're believing everything they read on
social media. You know, most most adults they could look
at it and go, well that's interesting, but is it believable?
You know, but these this generation is growing up with
so much being planted in their head and they don't

(14:57):
know what's real or not real. And it's it's really
a sad thing about how social media has indoctrinated so
many and and when you are calling for violence, you know,
out there on social media, when our congressmen and our
women and our leaders that are supposed to be leading us,
uh are out there saying it's time to take up

(15:18):
arms against these far right radical beliefs. And all we're
believing in is christ you know, Christian values and and right.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
And the constitution and uh.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
But they're being taught and they're being told on social media, uh,
that that's not the truth that you know, and we
need to resist and do all these things. And and
it's really terrible with social media has done to these
the youth of our nation.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
But it's unfortunate that youth are not able to do
any critical thinking, any research on their own.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
And so they used to teach that in college and
now they don't, I know.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
High school, elementary school, no one is thinking critically. They
just sit there and lack a sponge. They absorb all
of this and regurgitate yes, and then react negatively to it.

Speaker 6 (16:09):
And I hate to, you know, bring it back to
a plug. But that's what we do at Infinity, is
we're trying to show kids the truth and how to
recognize things, how to prove an argument beyond you know, fail,
and how you can know if something doesn't quite make sense,
and how to go about questioning things that don't make
sense because you know, and it's another cliche, but you

(16:30):
don't want to teach kids what to think, but how
to think and how to digest information.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
And I think that was the magic of Charlie Kirk.
I mean, he was out there every day talking to
college students and the young you know, the younger generation
to make them think to make them and ask the
question is why do you think like that? And when
they go, well, I don't know, I just I don't
believe this, and they can't explain why, and he's challenging them,

(16:57):
and I believe those people left those conversations going I
didn't know as much as I really thought I did.
They're just regurgitating.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Thank you Scott for your question and callers. Our number
is seven zero two two two one seven to two
eight three. So Johnny, tell us more about Infinity. The
Map Institute, this is something that you create started, you
created it.

Speaker 6 (17:20):
It's actually here and my wife opened in twenty eighteen
because we realized we needed help and we were doing
unbelievable I mean, we had twenty four hundred square feet
of Friday fun nights where we were playing Jeopardy and
playing poker and playing all kinds of movie nights and
stuff like that. We were doing small classes, tutoring, and

(17:42):
we even had a recording studio that hosted the Johnny
Bruce Show back then. And we were about to expand
we were going to open up three more locations and
we had our first month of profit in February of
twenty twenty and then March of twenty twenty came around,
and the rent bills, electric bills, and security bills, all
the bills kept coming in, but Sisilac would not let

(18:04):
anybody come to my business, and I lost everything. And
then we tried to go online and writing curriculum now
to get it into the schools, because again it worked
the first time in person. And now math is just
so easy that if you just give kids the resources
and show them when you're talking about, say the common Core,

(18:25):
they don't even have the fundamental theorem of arithmetic written
in the common Core, which is how you spell numbers.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
It's how numbers are put together.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
And that's why they're struggling, because they've made math more
difficult than it needs to be. Math is simply just
a way to count.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
Do you think some of that confusion comes with all
of these different programs and that you know one kid,
You know, I was a military kid. So I'm moving
from state to state, and one state might have been
teaching at one method, and then i go to another
state and I'm learning a whole new method, and I'm like, wait,
this isn't how math math where I came from. And
it just seems like there's so many different ways, especially

(19:00):
in math, and that's such a critical skill that we
need the kids to understand.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
And that could be fine.

Speaker 6 (19:06):
You know, it's like they're teaching you with salt, you know,
instead of giving you the meal, instead of giving you
some mashed potatoes, they're just giving you the salt. And
then you go to another state and they've just given
me a pepper, and you go to another state they're
giving you a papric When all of those spices are great,
all of those different ways to look at it are great,
But first we need to talk about the meat and
potatoes of how to multiply and how to carry a one,

(19:28):
and how to count and quantify things. Everybody's trying the
newest fad, but these are supposed to be additives. These
are supposed to be supplements. It's not supposed to be
the way you teach. And that's one of the problems
with common Core. Is one genius help them write how
kids should see math the way he sees it. But
this is a weird genius. You know. You want to

(19:49):
be able to teach it a in the simplest way
possible and then add different ways to look at it
to supplement, so that way some kids who didn't get
it the first time can have a opportunity to see
it a different way.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
You probably know that I actually spent thirty years in
a classroom, but my teaching was actually at the university
level and it's very different there. But actually, Patricia and
I this last Friday, I read to kids in grammar
school at Hickey Grammar School Elementary School, and we read
to first graders and fifth graders. We did do any

(20:26):
math with them, which is actually kind of unfortunate. But
what really struck me was that in the fifth grade
students they asked a lot of questions, very inquisitive, very much.
So it's like they wanted to know more than.

Speaker 6 (20:39):
Now us basically, I know, but that's beautiful. I mean,
having inquisitive, curious kids. I mean, you know, life is
about and life is not about safety. Life is about adventure.
Life is about discovery. Life is about putting yourself in
situations that strengthen you. You know, just beyond what you have,
what you're comfortable, if you want to go a little further.

(21:01):
Same thing with teaching, you want to teach just a
little bit more than they know and that's the art
of teaching is being able to know where that is
for each and every student.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, that's a really good segue. Oh, we got to
take a break, so we'll come back. Well, let's talk
about some more.

Speaker 9 (21:16):
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eats the sky, where nothing on God's green or Luke's driving.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
I want to see.

Speaker 8 (21:37):
That stadium in the area from Brackfield. See maybe catch
a home run when a new All Star gohosting and
pretend that's Marson math pointing out the.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
Well I can still bread.

Speaker 10 (22:02):
While this all hard shill has another being.

Speaker 9 (22:09):
It's time I put something living in the.

Speaker 10 (22:13):
Streams before I'm gonna learn all about how a man
swallows product.

Speaker 8 (22:30):
Find a string to tell.

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be glad to answer any of your questions. And we
have an educator here that we want to find out about.
He's written a book. It's called Teach Like It Matters.
It does because it does, and so Johnny, just tell
us a little bit about why you wrote the book
and tell our listeners what they will be able to

(24:31):
learn from you from this book.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
Well, I mean, I am so concerned about education in
our country. I really, you know, as concerning as all
of the politics, as concerning as you know these assassinations
are as fraud in our elections. Is I think that
education is the number one thing that could change our country.
We're seeing these younger kids start to lean more conservative,

(24:57):
which is really odd, and it comes down to having
great teachers, and we're losing great teachers. We're losing conservative teachers.
We're losing capable teachers. And sure the money ain't great
in teaching, but many people know that going in and
what happens is they realize that the atmosphere, the climate,

(25:17):
the restrictions, the handholding, and the micromanagement, it's not worth it.
With the low income, they could just do something else
to be more happy because they're not making they're not
able to make the difference that they thought they were
able to make. So my book really centers around how
to find yourself in a climate where you may be micromanaged.

(25:40):
It's great for coaches, tutors, even CEOs and executives. When
you're the leader of a particular group of individuals, whether
it be students or employees. But at the same time,
you are not free to do exactly what you want
to do because there are restrictions, whether it's from your
school or from your employee or from law, you know.

(26:01):
So it's a way to find happiness in your employment
so that way you can keep doing it. Because most
teachers last on average one point five years. Half of
teachers are gone before five years, which is how long
it took them to get their degree. So how could
these teachers be spending one hundred thousand dollars to get
a five year degree and then quitting teaching in less

(26:23):
than five years and moving on with their life with
these student loan debt and everything else. We need to
find a way to give teachers the wherewithal to teach
their class the way they want to be, able to
enact what they envision before they became a teacher. They
all think, oh, this is what my classroom is going

(26:43):
to be like I could picture it, and then they
get inundated with whatever it is they learn at school.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
And they become unhappy and they leave the profession.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
So this book is really just a way to motivate
and encourage teachers to stay in it and little tips
and tricks to how to get the most out of it.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
And you started that your answer with that, you are
very concerned about the educational system in the United States,
but particularly in Nevada. But where is the parents' responsibility
in the education of their children.

Speaker 6 (27:16):
Well, we all have a responsibility, from teachers, to administrators,
to neighbors. I mean, I get annoyed when somebody walks
across the street and has the right of way, but
they won't make eye contact to make sure because they
have the right a way, we're not We're losing the
personal touch. And it starts in school, and it starts
with the parents.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
And you know, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
If you have a bad setup at home academically, if
you have a strong school with men that are able
to help guide young men and women who are able
to help guide young women through the traverses of childhood. Now,
if you have a great parent, you might not need
the great school to carry that weight. But either way,

(27:59):
we're fair the kids at every single turn, because just
not having a father in the house is not strike three.
That's strike one. You know, having your mom, your single
mom working two jobs, that's not strike three.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
That strike two.

Speaker 6 (28:12):
But then having a teacher who doesn't recognize the help
that you need and doesn't give you the the ability
to grow stronger, that is strike three. So what we
really need is the community. You know, whether it's the
crossing God. I remember when I was a kid, the
crossing guard used to give me a high five and
see how I was doing and check.

Speaker 11 (28:30):
Up on me.

Speaker 7 (28:31):
You know.

Speaker 6 (28:31):
They used to be cops walking the beat in New
York City and you knew who they were. And we're
losing the community aspect, and we're also losing every tool
that the kids need in order to grow in a
healthy environment.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
So our producer sent me a little Instagram message and
it had to do with a survey and it said
that fifty of the people adults in the United States
are reading at a sixth grade level or lower. And
that is just shocking.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
And these kids are going to school for seven eight
nine hours a day for twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years.
They need to do two things. They need to be
able to do some math, I just mean counting, and
they need to be able to read, you know, And
we're trying to throw everything, including the kitchen sink at
these kids. Whether you're talking about how to protest, how

(29:28):
to be an activist, how to learn, how to appreciate
other people's pronouns.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
And the kids can't read or do math. And until
you can read and do math.

Speaker 6 (29:38):
Let's cut everything else out, because it's ridiculous to have
twelve years to learn how to read and do math
and you can't do it.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
And let's add to that teaching them cursive writing.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Sure, that's all great.

Speaker 6 (29:51):
I mean, there's lots of classical education things kids should
be learning Latin and Greek. I mean to be honest,
and there's no kids. I don't care if you're going
to the best schools you're in Vegas Medals, Bishop Gorman
and Faith Lutheran, or you're going to the worst. Nobody's
learning Latin, nobody's learning Greek, nobody's learning.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
About true history.

Speaker 6 (30:11):
Whether you're talking about Homer and the Iliad and you
know everything from Jesus and back is gone. They tell
you can't have God in school, but I hate to
tell these people. God is in school. God is everywhere,
and we need to get back to the basics. You know,
the Bible, math and reading.

Speaker 11 (30:31):
And it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
I mean, you say something that Latin.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
I did four years of Latin in high school, right,
and every root word of every country there.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
So it helps me.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
Helped me understand languages so much easier.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
Well, when you're talking about math and definitions and postulates
and theorems, you don't you're.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
A public speaker.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
You guys are radio show and you guys used to
be in acting and people give speeches. You're not saying, oh,
I used a good preposition there. But when you're in
grammar school and you're learning about prepositions or Latin or
this or that the other thing, these are building your foundation.
So no, you're never going to give a speech in Latin,
but you're going to use that knowledge a the way

(31:09):
you learned another lange.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
And we have a caller.

Speaker 12 (31:11):
Hello, caller, Hi, this is Rachel.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Hi, Rachel, can you turn your radio down a little bit,
please see this? Thank you, Hi, Johnny.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Thanks Rachel.

Speaker 12 (31:22):
Okay, yeah, you know me even math. But I do
see the struggles in math, and we're trying to catch
them early. We do a lot of we do. You know,
what's pushing a lot of the teachers out is that
we're they're not giving, they're not respecting the teachers time,
and so when they keep taking their preps away or
they don't, they they add all this extra stuff on them,

(31:45):
like from fundraisers to other programs. They need to like
they need to just give more time for the teachers
to catch up. I like where I'm at, don't get
me wrong, but I would like to have more time
to concentrate on, you know, writing papers and have time

(32:06):
with the curriculum. And I think, you know, just so
you to know, Johnny, that I do. If I had
more time, I could spend more time. I'm not good
with math, but I'm teaching fifth grade right now, so
I'm teaching you know, math and science, which is not
my strong suit. So I'd like to spend more time
with the curriculum. But you know, as long as I

(32:27):
keep taking like our preps away or giving us more
things to do, I feel like I can't spend more time,
especially on the subjects that I'm weak in. And you know,
we we our scores went up in the in English
because we were really strong with the English teachers, but
when it came to the science and maths, we really
tanked it. So I don't know, you know that the

(32:50):
turnover rate for the teachers is really terrible. So you know,
if they had means could just be like they were
former teachers, right, most of them. Anyway, why do they
not like remember, recognize the teachers are drowning.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Like you're absolutely right?

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Thank you well, Thank you Rachel for your question.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
I just wanted to say, first of all, and Charlie
Kirk is somebody who inspired me to say this because
this is something that I don't usually say because I
don't want to upset people. But I'm here to speak
the truth. One of the biggest problems we have in
math is third, fourth and fifth grade elementary school teachers
do not know the math and they say stuff like
I hate math, I'm not a math person, and then

(33:35):
the parents say that stuff and they're not giving the
kids a solid foundation. Other teachers are not as concerned
as Rachel is about how can I do better. They're saying,
let me just get through it and then teach what
I enjoy teaching, which is like storytelling or English or literature.
And again that's why we created Infinity the Math Institute.
There is a fifteen minute podcast if you want to

(33:58):
call it that, or a video that a teacher can
listen to on their ride and to school to get
reacclimated with every specific thing that they need to be
teaching these kids. The homework is there, already graded, the
quizzes are there, already graded, the tests are there, already graded.
Four different lesson plans for every lesson, depending on the
mood you're in. Because you're right, Rachel, you shouldn't be

(34:20):
spending time losing your prep to do this, that or
the other thing. You should be spending time with the kids.
You should be spending time perfecting your craft. If you
feel like you're week in math, the first thing you
need to do is recognize that what you have. The
second thing you need to do is have a curriculum
or a setup that makes it easier on you, not
harder on you. And that's what the Math Institute dot

(34:42):
com does. We provide everything that not only a teacher,
but a student or a parent or an administrator would need,
from soup to nuts. Because while I want to teach
the kids math, it's really focused on helping the teachers
teach math because they're the ones who are going to
be delivering the information and they need to be confident

(35:03):
in delivering that information.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
Rachel I just want to say, you know, God bless
you for teaching. It is a honorable career and uh,
you know what you're doing for the kids' lives. I
still remember my fourth and fifth grade teachers. You know,
that is an age where you start your memory actually
starts to kick in. I don't know if you've read
Johnny's book Teach Like It Matters, But if you haven't,
please get it. It's probably out there on Amazon or something.

Speaker 7 (35:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Johnny talks about a couple of things in there that
really intrigued me. That it's not just your job as
a teacher, but it's the student's job to show up
and want to learn.

Speaker 13 (35:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
He talks about that and it's got to be a
partnership and and that comes from parents and everything where
you know, the kids, if they if they show up
and they want to learn, you can get more out
of your classroom. But h and he also talks about
you as the teacher, not not what you put in
your classroom and not what what type of decorations you
put up, but it's it's all about you, you showing

(35:59):
up and your students showing up. I highly encourage anybody
out there to read this book. Teach like it matters
because it's got some great insight in it.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
And I believe we have another caller. Hello, caller, your
name Hi Johnny, it's ed.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Hello, Hey, how aio?

Speaker 6 (36:18):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (36:19):
Ahead with it.

Speaker 14 (36:20):
I'm Andrea Bella is mom.

Speaker 12 (36:22):
Hey, how are you?

Speaker 2 (36:24):
I'm good?

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Story.

Speaker 12 (36:28):
Yes.

Speaker 14 (36:29):
I just wanted to give a shout out to Johnny
and his wife. They're wonderful people. And I love that
he didn't just write a book and they don't just
have math classes, but they have the heart behind everything
they do. And Johnny is so involved in the community
and what's going on in schools, and I just encourage

(36:51):
everybody to go to his website, get his book. We
just love him.

Speaker 6 (36:56):
Okay, Well, God bless you, Andrew. You're doing God's work
as well over there.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Well, thank you for your.

Speaker 14 (37:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Okay, and we have another caller.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
Hello, how are you doing?

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Hello, Frank, how are you?

Speaker 11 (37:12):
I'm doing good?

Speaker 1 (37:13):
And your question, well, it's.

Speaker 11 (37:16):
A statement followed by a question. So success is extremely duplicatable.
So we have a bunch of schools that have gone
from being the worst schools to being some of the
best schools with specific curriculums and programs, or even a
school in Chicago that all male teachers taught and only
male students that have one hundred percent college acceptance rate.
Why are we not nationally.

Speaker 15 (37:38):
Taking that type of curriculum that they're using that's proven
to work, and just putting it across the board for
every school in every single district instead of allowing teachers
and other districts to come up with their own programs
that don't ever seem to work correctly.

Speaker 6 (37:52):
Well, because it seems like if you're made to teach
a particular curriculum, it isn't always or seemingly necessarily the
ones that seem to make it work. And that's what
we've done at the Math Institute is make it. You know,
every single lesson also has links to other supplemental resources,
so you're not going on Google searching for what you're
looking for. Everything is at the tip of your finger.

(38:15):
Because again, it's made to make teachers' lives easier and
give them more confidence in teaching it the correct way.
I know, I keep going back to my sales bitch,
and I don't mean to, but you know, I just
feel like it's an emergency. We really really need the
kids to do better at math, because that's just common
sense and logic, and we have a system that works
and it's effective, and it's not a shortcut. It's a

(38:38):
way to teach it the right way and build confidence.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Callers, our number is seven zero two two two one
seven two eighty three, Please call and join the conversation.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
I want to inject real quick here because I actually
have Johnny's book and I've read it, and just so
everyone knows, it's about teaching, but it's not just for kids.
Adults can learn a lot from it in your relationships.
If you're a boss at work, if you're a supervisor manager,
there's lessons there for you also, So it's not just

(39:10):
for like fourth graders or fifth graders. Johnny, where could
people get this book?

Speaker 6 (39:15):
At the Math Institute dot com. All of our curriculums
as well as as well as this book is available
at the Math Institute dot com. There's a shop tab. Also,
you can have subscriptions to the Math Institute to have
access to all of the things that I've been talking
about for a very very low price. You have everything
at your disposal and your admin says, oh, I need

(39:37):
a lesson plan control p Oh, I need some supplemental
work for my student control. P Oh, my kid didn't
get it. Let's watch the video together. Oh, I don't
know what I'm teaching tomorrow. Watch the teacher video. Every
lesson has a teacher video and a children's video. And
you know, I just want to make it so easy
if you're a homeschool mom, if you're a teacher, if

(39:59):
you're an administrator, I want to make it easy for
you to do the best job that you possibly can.
Including the book. You know, is just to give you advice.
Like I said, it could be a CEO. You know,
it's just ways to deal with teams in a place
that is not under your own control.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Okay, So Johnny in your opinion, Oh, we're going to
take a break. You're listening to Talk with a Conservative.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Thanks for joining us on Talk with a Conservative. We'll
keep standing for liberty, faith and family because America is
worth the fight.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
And we want to thank our guest's co host, Dave Flipple,
candidate for CD four. Dave, do you have any final
thoughts or comments?

Speaker 4 (41:09):
You know, education is so important and I really liked
this topic today, you know, not just for Nevada. We
just got done with the governor. He's talking about that.
I believe we gained of almost eleven percent in our
education here in Nevada, so we're really doing well. It
just takes time. We're seeing a lot of improvements. So
I am a run for Congress. You can look me
up at Flippo four Nevada dot com. We've got a

(41:31):
lot of events coming up, yep, so be tuned for that.
And let's flip it red.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
And we want to thank our special guest, John Brucegain.
I'm sorry, Johnny.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
Bru that's a lot easier.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
It's Johnny brew Johnny, are there any final thoughts of comments?

Speaker 6 (41:52):
You know, I just wanted to thank everybody who's doing
God's work and trying to clean things up for the
right reasons. You know, you know who you are, you know,
from Dave running for Congress to you know, all the
teachers out there, to the people getting together going to
church for the first time, recognizing Charlie Kirk for being
a truth teller. And I'm just hoping that, like his

(42:14):
company says, this is a turning point in America's legacy,
because for a second, it looked like we were.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
At the point of no return.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
And unfortunately, with the death of an icon, I'm filled
with hope.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yes, thank you. We'd like to thank our callers Scott, Rachel,
Andrea and Frank and didn't get and the host of
others that didn't get in. Thank you, Dave, and we
just want to thank our listeners with us. You make
this a priority every Monday night to tune into talk
with a Conservative and we appreciate you and your support.

(42:48):
God bless you and God bless America.

Speaker 7 (43:00):
So just say kids, no no, you say the wall,
They not me.

Speaker 13 (43:20):
How access say.

Speaker 7 (43:29):
Now so.

Speaker 13 (43:37):
Also had seen as they never say, say nay, name happen.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
It's the source und the most

Speaker 13 (44:04):
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