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July 7, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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How American Children Are Being Transformed
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I see you.
I see you right there.
Good day, my friend.
I want to begin with something which I normally don't do, but it's really critical.
And one of the banes of my existence is the show that starts off with, hey, if you like this.
The day I looked up something, I forget what it was.
Pickling.
I didn't even know what it was.
Because I get all of my information on YouTube.
Anytime I need to do anything, how do you reset the order?
How do you reroute the...
YouTube.
So I want something that looks really good.
And right off the bat, if you like this, subscribe.
I don't know what you're going to say.
Subscribe.
But if you like it, well, say something first.
Get to the point.
And I couldn't believe I'm waiting and I'm hitting the little spacer.
Come on, come on.
So I hate doing that.
But I've got to do it now.
Yes, you've got to like the video.
And the reason why at first is because people will watch this later and they always say, you watched, oh, the average viewing time was 40 seconds, you know, that kind of thing.
So you've got to get stuff at first.
Primacy effect.
So anyway, I, you know, like the video and subscribe.
But that little notification of live, hit that.
Because yesterday I was thinking, you know, I had some business in the morning, which I had to...
To do.
And I thought, I might want to do this later.
And I thought, no, because people don't have that notification.
I thought for sure if I'd say, well, I'm live, you would be notified and you could join us, but we're stuck at nine...
Not stuck, what am I saying?
This is our time.
We're used to it.
We all know each other.
It's kind of a weird family, this thing here.
I really mean this.
One, people don't understand this.
This is really a family.
You're a degenerate.
Bunch of kooks.
You're a conspiratorian clerisy, and you're incredible.
And you've been with me for, I don't even know when we started this thing, but it's been, you're just terrific.
You're absolutely terrific.
And you know each other, and you love each other, and you talk, and you say hello.
That breaks my heart.
There's a little bit of Faye Page, Lou Wally, everybody's there.
Larry Fisher, a lot of these people watch later on.
Because it's immersion.
It's the thing which is the most important.
I wish to God somebody on TV would say, let's see what our...
I did talk radio when talk radio was great.
I did talk radio when talk radio was important.
When it really mattered.
When it really mattered.
When it was local and was fun and people.
And I loved it.
And people...
Loved to hear the interaction.
That's why I was talk radio.
Most people, you know, Rush Limbaugh never took calls.
Did not like calls at all.
I loved, loved calls.
Loved.
And so people listening, and I think, very frankly, nobody did it better because nobody liked it better.
See, you've got to understand something.
I, number one, Have to entertain you.
Let me say this very carefully.
Entertainment doesn't mean trivial.
Entertaining is something which is important.
Do you find musea entertaining?
Yeah.
You think museums are trivial?
No.
Not at all.
Information is the most entertaining thing in the world.
It's fantastic.
Infotainment.
That's the thing.
If you don't like something, you're not going to watch it.
And I have seen stuff before, which frankly, I watch very, very few things.
Some things I like, but for different reasons.
For different, different reasons.
And one of the reasons why I like some of this stuff is because of the personality, the quirks, the weird, kind of the interaction, the interplay, and even what you might think was It's kind of bad or corny.
I love.
I mean, I love.
Do you remember?
Who remembers?
Who remembers?
When NPR had Click and Clack, you know, the Tappet Brothers or whatever it was?
Do you remember that?
That was the greatest, I thought that was the greatest combination and it just worked.
I could not care less about car problems and somebody's distributor.
Didn't Matt care about that.
But it was wonderful.
I could listen to that forever because there's a weird kind of a magic.
There's a weird kind of thing that happens.
And then I see bad stuff and I recognize it.
And I can tell.
You're doing stuff that's formulaic.
Today, you know, of the pantheon of news, anything on cable, Tucker Carlson, as you know, is simply the best.
Now, before you get all...
Excited about that.
Being the best on cable news is...
I'd say being the fastest, you know, miler in Senior Olympics.
It's nice, it's good, but, you know, whatever.
But he is by far.
And yesterday's piece, that little Fox Nation stuff is great, because you can get through...
And I didn't want to spend a lot of time...
Critiquing stuff, but there are so many people, sometimes who actually precede him, who honestly think they are the funniest thing that ever lived, and there is nothing that is worse than somebody who thinks they're funny and cool.
You know who did that?
David Copperfield.
Remember the David Copperfield look?
You know you want me.
I'm David Copperfield.
I'm a magician.
Bill Maher laughed at his own jokes because he's never read them before.
He didn't write them.
He didn't read them.
He went, oh, that's pretty good.
That's right.
That's right.
Somebody else did that.
So last time I'm watching, or today rather, I watched this piece because Netflix had a great murder.
Murder is just murder and weird stuff at night.
I don't want to get into this crap.
Anyway, so they had a very, very great piece on war.
Energy and whatever.
Anyway, to make a long story short, as I'm watching this, they said, this killed me.
I mean, I'm laughing at this.
And right now, Americans are feeling the bite at the pump.
Picture of a pump.
Gas prices are up.
Graph going up.
You know, I'm paraphrasing.
Russia, Putin.
I'm thinking, why are you doing this?
I would walk in and say, excuse me, may I talk to the production team?
Yes.
Who produced this?
Yes.
Could I speak with you for a moment?
Could you all circle around you?
Why are you doing this?
Why?
How old are you?
You're young, aren't you?
Yes, I know you are.
You live in a world where you think that you have to be kind of like, blasted, blasted, blasted, blasted, blasted, blasted by all this stuff.
I watched some of the best stuff.
Watch.
I swear to God, I love The Great Brian Lamb, C-SPAN, old book.
I saw one on Lindbergh.
I loved it.
Two people in a chair.
Maybe a picture of Lindbergh.
Maybe not.
But today, today is a different story.
I want to talk about that.
I got a lot.
A lot.
To talk about it.
Seriously.
But I want to tell you something very, very serious also as well.
Today's theme is going to be very, very simple.
Gas, water, and energy.
GWE.
Gas, water, and energy.
Or food, water, and energy.
What am I saying?
Food, water, and energy.
FWE.
Food, water, and energy.
Think about that.
Food.
Water, energy.
Gas comes under the energy.
We live in a world of abundance and we think everything is going to be great and everything is going to be terrific.
And I'm telling you right now, you do not want to even imagine what would happen if there is...
I don't want to say when.
I don't want to be too much of a doomsayer, but they're telling us when there is a breakdown of food, water, and energy.
Water, That is beyond horrific.
Energy?
We're getting there.
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The water part, I'm not sure about it.
The energy, whatever.
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Okay.
Now.
As I was saying, I would love to go in and say to these people, I don't know where exactly you are, but could you please tell me?
Oh, I must.
Hang on a second.
Just a second.
This is very rude, but I have been waiting for this.
Eleven people call me all of a sudden.
Just one second.
Please talk amongst yourself.
*Ding*
Uh-oh.
Can you get that, please, honey?
This might be our usual.
I have some work done, and this might be there.
We're going to continue with this, nonetheless.
We're going to continue as is.
Very, very important.
Very, very critical.
Boy, this is great.
We're waiting, expecting today at 10 o 'clock.
Hang on a second.
okay um They're ready now.
I'm going to say attend as scheduled.
Just a minute.
I'm sorry this is so...
I said please come at 10 as scheduled.
I'm sorry you have to do this.
This is live.
This is live action.
I love when we do this.
Already it's like, no, you said 10 o 'clock.
I said 10 o 'clock.
This is the other day after I waited.
Oh, no, we can't do it.
It's a holiday.
By the way, can I tell you a story real quick and I'll get to this?
I've got to tell you this story because I'm not a violent person.
I'm not a violent person.
But if ever I was...
I know this is scattered.
Please forgive me.
Forgive me.
I've got a million things.
This is live, baby.
But we'll get to this in a moment.
Very important.
And we'll get to the Tucker Carlson.
But I've got to tell you this story first.
Just so that we can share these moments where you want to.
I'm not a violent person.
I really don't think violence.
Psychological torture, I think.
But I don't think of violence.
In any event.
There is...
We had to get a rental car the other day.
For somebody.
And there's this one rental car place.
I really like this place.
And they're very, very good.
And it's in the middle of Casa de Carajo.
If you drove there, you would think to yourself, I do not want to be anywhere near this place.
But the car is good, and the people are good.
So anyway, so I walked in.
Just work with me on this.
I've got to share this with you.
And I walked in, and there's a guy sitting there.
There's a guy sitting there, and he was in a chair.
short pants on and And I thought, well, he must be a customer.
He must be waiting.
So I walked in, and he's like this.
And he says, oh, can I help you?
I said, you work here?
Now let me tell you something.
You know how people have dressed down, this guy had like shorts on that you would wear to the mall, kind of crappy shoes, a t-shirt that was over a distended abdomen.
I'm sorry.
Hair.
I said, you work here?
Yeah.
Well, it's dressed down...
No, casual week.
I said, this is casual to you?
I know I shouldn't have said, at a car rental name brand, you know.
You wear this?
You look, you're going to the beach.
Because I remember him before, and he looked at me like, what are you talking about?
So anyway, I said, you know what?
The hell with it.
So I see the manager.
Hey, how are you?
I don't say anything.
There was another person there.
If you looked at her, you would have thought, this is going to be the...
This one is going to be trouble.
Tattoos.
Right?
You would think that.
You would think, oh, this is...
If this guy is...
She was the best.
I wish I had her.
She's so nice and courteous.
You never can tell about people.
But a guy wearing beach clothes at a car rental, that's a tip.
So anyway, so I got the thing, I said, have a nice day.
So I got it in, I got it in the car, and there's no gas.
Now when I say E, you know the E, sometimes maybe it's a quarter of a tank.
I'm looking, and it's not moving.
It's not moving.
It's empty.
So I turned it off, I went back in, I said, excuse me.
Ready for this?
This is when I almost lost it.
I said, and this is incredible, I said, there's no gas in the car.
He looks at me and says, well, and this is where I wanted to, he said, well, you know, gas prices are going up.
I said, what?
Now, first of all, he doesn't know who I am.
Good.
I've been doing this my entire life.
I've gotten into arguments and debates with some of the best people you've ever, ever, ever met.
And did fairly well.
Because I knew the topic, I knew whatever it was.
I'm not.
So I'm looking at a man in his industrial park wearing beach clothes.
He's an employee.
And he's telling me, basically like, you know what?
Go F yourself.
I don't care.
The gas prices are high.
I said, you're a car rental dealership.
And cars have gasoline.
Just like I'm telling you this.
That are required.
And you're telling me that I'm going to have to drive from the car and drive To a gas station?
To fill up the car that I'm going to have to pay for?
And under the terms, I have to return the car at the same level it was before, or else I'd pay it.
And he looks at me like this.
He wasn't going to move.
He wasn't going to make me happy.
I said, call our friend.
The manager I was talking to, he's on the phone.
I'll wait.
So I called this guy.
He came in.
I said, can I help you?
I said, yeah.
I said, can I talk to you outside?
Because I don't want to say this in front of you.
Because he had customers and I don't want to.
I said, do you know what this man told me?
Do you know what he told me?
When I asked him, I said, come here.
Come here.
Get in the car and look.
I said, notice anything?
He said, what do you mean?
I said, look at the gas.
He says, it's empty.
I said, right.
You know what he told me?
He said, well, you know, gas is going up.
It's expensive.
So you weren't going to put gas in the car that I just leased because it's expensive?
Do you have any idea how stupid this is?
And by the way, what's with the clothes?
Then I'm off and running.
I said, let me tell you something.
You're a young man, and I can tell you, you really want to go far.
But we live in a world right now of Yelp and this and that, and somebody is going to run into this.
And guess what?
They're going to say, this place sucks.
Not that he sucks.
Not that they suck.
But your unit.
And then when it comes time for your advancement up the corporate ladder, you're going to be held back by this.
Because he's the one doing this.
Do you think about this?
I know I'm making a big deal.
A car dealership.
A rental.
Gas is expensive.
We're not going to put any gas in it.
But you can't.
I mean, I just...
And he looked at me.
And all I did was...
This is the guy with the Al Jardine, you know, with the clothes.
I wanted to just...
Because it was...
It's not so much...
Today we went to a movie theater.
And, you know, movie theaters are dying.
It was very rare.
We had printed the ticket at that time.
How old was the girl at the movie theater the other day?
I would say she was 18 or 19. 18 or 19. Didn't look at us.
Just pointed.
Right?
Just pointed.
Yeah, just like, didn't even look.
There is no...
Maybe I'm just being unfair.
Maybe the stupidity has been since day one.
Maybe.
Maybe the stupidity has been since day one.
Maybe it's always been like that.
Maybe it's just one of those things where you can say, you know what, you're making a big deal out of this.
But I don't think so.
I think it's worse now.
Now, let me go back to what I'm saying.
And I would venture to say, as much as people love to say, well, that's New York for you, I don't know if that's necessarily a New York thing.
I don't think so.
I don't think, because people always love to misidentify the critical issues here.
Anyway, but going back to my story, at least initially, I would go back, if you recall, I would go back regarding this Tucker Carlson piece that he did, and I would say, excuse me, can I have everybody here?
On this very interesting piece about energy prices, you have graphics.
You have graphics where every time he says a word, gas pump, you have a picture of a gas pump, which is nice.
Russia, you've got a picture of Putin.
Why is that?
Why are you doing that?
The answer would be because we are a slave to convention.
We are young.
We don't know anything.
And we have to keep people awake.
We have to keep people awake.
They don't pay attention.
Next point.
Next.
Listen to this.
This killed me.
Our generation, it's over with.
So we're just, we're on the back nine, let's face it.
We're constantly, you know, the world is a conveyor belt.
And even if you're watching this, you're...
So the new version of this.
Okay.
I was talking to a teacher the other day, and I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
Listen to what I'm hearing.
First.
This was an elementary school teacher and then early developmental ed.
Kids go into school and they can't grasp a ball.
I know this is different, but imagine this is a ball.
Like this.
Like my earth.
They can't do this.
Now you're going to say, wait a minute.
What?
Yes.
Forget throwing it.
Forget, you know, no, no, no, no, no.
Grasping a ball.
Grasping a pen.
Forget it.
Now, sometimes people, as you know, we learned the Palmer method.
We're very good.
Sometimes people write like this.
Sometimes people, it's weird.
It's just like when people, you know, you ever see this with the fork?
I've talked a million times.
The other day, I got a friend of mine.
She does like this.
Oh, like this.
I've never seen it.
I said, what is this?
Who does this?
It's like this.
Anyway, this I don't worry about.
Can't hold a pen.
Can't hold a pen.
Can't.
Why?
Because of video games.
Video games.
Now, I don't want to be...
I heard the show the other day.
It was New Jersey.
What's that?
101.5?
101.5.
It was the lamest thing I've ever heard in my life.
If somebody says, I don't know about you, but we were kids, we would play in the trees.
Okay, fine.
It was one of those ones where it's like, I've got no idea what I'm talking about, so we're going to get some evergreen topic of, call me, did you play, did you drink water out of a hose?
Okay.
It's a good topic, but you've got to sell it a little bit better.
When we did things, and when you rolled a ball, we did something which was so important, And we didn't even realize it.
We didn't even have any idea what was going on.
This is the part that I do not understand.
Proprioception, kinesthesia, the sense of self-movement, form, body position, the sixth sense, Parietal lobe stuff.
The ability to know motion, placement, shape, visual.
You don't even recognize what's going on.
When you are a kid and you're doing something because you thought it was so stupid and lame and dumb, your kid is using its hands.
And they're understanding volume.
Mass.
You know the difference between weight and mass.
Most people don't know this.
Weight and mass.
Weight is what gravity gives it, but mass.
Remember, mg, mass times gravitational constant, 9.8 meters per second squared is a gravitational constant.
mg is how you say weight in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Okay.
When we did this, When we as kids did this, when we did this as kids, we were unaware of this critical information that was given to us.
And not only that, things that we did that were just, we didn't even, running, it wasn't running, it was movement and fluidity.
Playing.
Playing.
Robert says, Define motor skills.
The ability to connect concepts.
You don't realize something.
Years ago, there was something called the Domen Method.
And somebody said this.
There are people.
There are people who are, for lack of a better word, I don't know why, but sometimes parents will say, you know, my kid just never crawled.
Never crawled.
Just...
Raises his head and one day starts walking.
That's not good.
That is not good.
That is not something you want.
There is a reason for that.
There is a reason why there is a how do I say this?
There is a developmental portion of this where things are unraveled and also concepts are deeply Deeply process in the brain certain motor skills that you thought everybody just did because everybody had a ball and a box.
And I'm not doing this merely to say, oh, he's being, you know, he's waxing rhapsodic again about, you know, they're great.
But I swear to you, if you said, now listen, you're a kid.
I'm going to give you one of two things.
You can play with this game or I got something better for you.
It's an empty refrigerator carton.
What?
You've never seen this before.
We don't even have them anymore.
Because they'd bring a refrigerator and there would be that box.
And the box would go in and it was a tunnel and it was space and you don't understand what...
How your brain is going.
Connecting.
Space.
Darkness.
Strategy.
Conviviality.
Social.
Positioning.
You don't know.
Versus.
But here's the one that got me.
Talking to a teacher.
This is that moment where I said, Oh my God.
And at LionelMedia.com I went into greater detail about this.
This is what killed me.
I don't know why.
Maybe it will have the same effect on you.
I don't know.
Talk to a teacher.
Her kids can't read.
Now let me explain something to you.
Not can't read.
I can't read French because I don't know French.
No.
We're not talking about that.
When you read, reading is fundamental.
Reading is one of the most unnatural things that people do.
It involves the eye movements.
Do you ever notice what happens when you have a video and you go like that?
You ever see these bad panners?
You ever see these, they pan like this?
I hate that.
By the way, time out.
You know what I hate too?
Two people, three people are taking pictures.
I will say, you don't take pictures at the same time.
I don't want to go with, because this one's taking this picture.
No, you've got to tell me who's taking pictures first.
You can't all three take pictures.
This isn't a step and repeat.
And people go, Do you not have an eye?
Take a picture.
Look at it.
People can't frame the shot.
I'm looking over here at her.
Wait till I...
Anyway.
I hope you're never around me.
We have a friend of ours.
And she loves taking sneak pictures of you.
Like she'll take the camera and start taking it.
She'll say, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
What are you?
Zapruder?
What do you take?
I hate this.
All of a sudden there's this picture of you, you know, with a booger in your nose or you're eating or God knows what.
Anyway.
Forgive me.
Eye movements are different.
Do you know why when you look?
Do me a favor, okay?
Everybody look to the left.
Alright?
Just simple.
Look to the left.
Now, quick!
Pan to the right.
Fast.
See how fluid that was?
It wasn't a blur, but it was here.
And then it's there.
There's no blur.
But when you have a camera, there's a blur.
Why is that?
Because of saccadic movements, saccades, your eye actually moves in little, like a rainbird sprinkler.
But you don't realize it.
It's brilliant.
And when you are reading, you're looking at a word.
Recognition of the word.
Eyes got to be on it.
You're tracking it.
The page isn't moving.
You're moving.
It's there.
Word.
Recognition.
Got it.
I've seen that word.
I know what it is.
Next one.
You kind of want to read ahead of the word.
You don't want to read each single word.
If you've ever read a prompter, you'll learn this.
By the way, the funniest thing is when Tucker Carlson, sometimes his prompter reader doesn't catch up, and he'll stop.
It's one of the funniest things.
And the problem with energy prices...
Are that they're going up?
What, did you have a stroke?
What was that?
Some TIA?
Anyway.
Kids today, because of being raised on this, have information thrown at them.
There's no tracking.
I don't have to look for anything.
It's there.
It's like these stupid news programs.
Put a picture of a pump.
Put a picture.
They can't watch this.
You've got to keep throwing out.
You've got to keep throwing this stuff out at them.
They can't track.
They're not following this.
You've got to hit them with graphics.
Because they're not tracking it.
They're not following it.
And information processing is stuff thrown at them.
Do me a favor.
One of the best places in the world.
And nobody gets...
I'm sorry.
I shouldn't...
People laugh at me.
It's a cheesecake factory.
Have you ever been there?
They've got a lot of good plant-based stuff.
And the old menu, not so much now.
What about our favorite diner in Jersey?
There's so much information.
Whenever you go somewhere, watch.
Do what I'm telling you.
Watch the family when the menu comes.
Watch.
And look at their face when they've got to read through this.
I'm telling you, you've never noticed this before.
Look at the look on their face.
People our age, scanning, give it to a person, Tina, who doesn't read.
They don't read.
There's no reading.
They don't read.
It's thrown at them.
Maybe an LOL, but that's not even reading.
It's thrown at them.
It's fascinating.
Kids cannot read because kids cannot track.
Because social media in particular, Has provided this blast in a two-dimensional world that does not mimic real life.
And it is beyond fascinating.
It is literally, actually, and truly beyond fascinating.
And this is what's happening right now.
And this is not...
I don't want to go back to a pre-internet day.
I think internet is wonderful.
I think...
YouTube is wonderful.
I think I have no problem.
But I'm beyond that.
I can already read.
I can do that.
I'm not developed in this.
And this is something that people don't understand.
This is not just, you know, people say, oh, some old guy.
If you think that, if you think this is the ranting of some geriatric, well, make it a big mistake.
Because what I'm telling you, Is that when all of these people move on down the line, what happens to this?
What happens when this is multiplied?
Not just in New York, but everywhere.
Everywhere.
Where is this going?
I'm going to ask you again.
Follow me on this one.
Follow me.
What is going to happen when this generation moves along?
What's the one behind that going to be?
They're going to be worse.
Because this generation is going to be the teacher?
What are teachers going to look like who've never learned how to learn?
Do you know how to learn?
Do you know how to figure things out yourself?
Do you understand how to tackle a problem?
You do.
They don't.
This is bigger than anything you can imagine.
This is bigger than anything that we have.
Because all of the problems now are going to get either The end of civilization as we know it, or they'll be figured out eventually.
All of us realize that Joe Biden is not going to be president forever, but these people are here, and they're moving along.
What happens?
What happens when you have people who cannot read?
What is going to happen?
Schools drop.
Performance drops.
Ask any teachers here?
Any teachers?
Any teachers?
Let me tell you what's happening.
Teachers are being taught to teach to the test.
Every state, public school in particular, they have a test.
They have a something.
Some, the FFF, the MPT, MPT2, MPT2, everybody's got a test.
You understand that?
And in order for the teacher to either qualify or for the school to get this or that, The class has to do such and such on these tests.
Now here's the thing.
Do you know what happens when a child scores?
In one test I was talking to this one teacher, it was from 1 to 5. 5 was the best, 1 was well.
From death to barely lucid, you get a 1. And some were at 1. Do you know what happens to these students?
Do you know what happens to these students when they fail?
Do you know what happens?
They're held back, right?
If you go to class every day and either you are not there by virtue of truancy, absenteeism, you do not perform by virtue of your inability to perform or whatever it is, Or any of the aforementioned, do you know what happens to that person?
The person is held back, right?
No.
No.
The person is moved.
Let me say this again.
They give a test.
The teachers try to improve the scores.
Either do not perform, or if you are absentee, sometimes kids just don't show up.
You can't believe here and across the country, after this remote learning and everything, some kids just never showed up.
Nobody went to look for them.
Nobody went to them.
Nobody said, where is Johnny Winesboro?
Johnny Waynesboro.
Anybody seen Johnny?
Well, we got an officer through it.
Can you go look for Johnny Waynesboro?
Do we have his mother's number?
We're not going to stop or start until we find Johnny Waynesboro.
No, it doesn't work like that.
Johnny's saying, well, whatever.
I'm on.
I got a couple years before I retire.
I'm out of here.
To hell with him.
I don't care.
That's where we are today.
Now, let me go back to what I'm saying.
If you fail, And if, or if you are to it, what is the reason why you are not held back?
Answer my question.
Very simple question.
I'm going to see what your brilliance can come up with.
What is the reason?
Monica Daniels taught from 99 to 2006.
She saw the light and got out.
Yep.
What is the reason why kids are not held back?
Or why they are, even if they're 200, what's the reason?
I'm going to wait because there's a little bit of a lag as you know this.
I'm going to see who can get this answer correct.
Equity, Mark Lewis, on to something there, but I need a little bit more.
Self-esteem, thank you.
We got the answer.
But I need more.
The teachers don't want to ever see you again?
No.
Funding?
No.
Social promotion?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Nope.
Not because it makes the teacher look bad.
There is no such thing as making...
There's no incentive.
Nothing.
By the way, you know what happens?
When the teacher is bad, she goes into the rubber gun squad and she's moved to another place.
Kind of like whenever there's a bad orca at SeaWorld, they just move the thing.
Teachers don't care.
No.
Self-esteem.
The reason is that the damage that is done to a child To self-esteem, self-worth, self-image, by failing, holding back, or whatever, is worse, is worse than moving that child into the next, via social promotion, or whatever.
The damage.
Now, that kid from second grade, third grade, whatever it is, who couldn't understand that, now is in the next grade.
What do you think happens to the rest of the school?
When you have this person who is unable to handle this, it's in the next grade.
You're going to drop the teaching down to that level.
And everybody else suffers.
You are then going to get rid of classes like honors, gifted.
Get rid of that.
We don't know what that means.
Why?
Well, for one reason, most of the honored and the gifted At least in these parts, are Asian.
And we don't want that.
There is an Asian bias like you cannot believe.
What the woke society is doing to Asian people, this is like an apartheid.
They get clobbered on the street, nobody says anything.
That Harvard lawsuit, Asians, oh no, no, no.
How dare you?
Sorry, sorry.
Because you're going to come here and you're working hard, whatever.
Okay.
Same teacher.
I said, who are the best parents?
Latino.
Why?
They come to this country.
They understand education.
And their only problem is that they don't speak English.
And they show up.
They love the kids.
Not all.
But for the most part.
They will...
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I've got to tell you this story.
A teacher I was talking to, there was a student, bad, stealing stuff, just headed for nowhere.
This is one of the few teachers who care.
And there's a lot of good teachers out there.
Don't kid yourself for a moment.
Put that broad brush away.
A lot of good people.
So listen to this.
Nothing seemed to work.
Teacher calls up and says, Hi!
Yes.
Would you tell Mrs. Oza?
Yes.
Well, we sure miss whoever.
Megan.
What?
We've sure missed her.
Is she okay?
Isn't she in school?
No.
We just want to make sure she's...
Because you don't want to call her and say, where is she?
You want the parent to say, okay.
Well, apparently there was a father who was involved and the father was just the worst.
The worst form of...
One day, the grandmother answers.
She never...
The teacher I was talking to did not know about the grandmother.
He said, he's not here.
I'm her grandmother.
How can I help you?
And immediately there was a sound like, ooh, this is somebody I want to know.
He said, well, we sure miss Megan.
You what?
And they all lived together.
Didn't know this.
Yeah, Megan, how long has she not been here?
Well, a week.
A week!
She told me.
Well, yeah, we had some problem also with some theft.
Theft!
That was it.
Theft?
You call me back or whatever.
I don't know.
Next thing you know, the kid is back in school.
And like somebody took every piece of poison out of her soul.
Pulled it out.
Kid's completely different.
I mean, weird.
Like, who's this?
Paying attention on time.
Guess what happened?
Now, I have always said, capital punishment, and capital punishment, I think is excessive in schools, but corporal punishment, absolutely unnecessary.
This grandmother beat, I mean not, when I say beat, the kid didn't have welts or whatever, but did something.
And they said it was serious.
And this kid, like, Just night and day.
Because of an active parent.
That's it.
One thing.
All the study plans.
That was it.
We have no idea.
And I know you don't want to hear this because there's too much stuff you're going through.
Believe me.
And I don't want to be always the bearer of bad news.
But it's to see how the patient is doing.
And the patient is the world.
The patient is a human race.
And the patient is not doing very well right now.
Please, I don't...
What we are doing to kids right now, what we are doing at every conceivable level you can imagine is beyond...
My ability to explain, to explicate, I cannot put it into words.
This country will...
By the way, did you see Nancy Pelosi walking around?
Now, let me stop.
Let me stop for a second.
Do you know what I find very interesting?
Some people say, is he changing subjects?
Yes.
He's veering.
No.
No, you can't keep up with this.
It's not me.
It's you.
You see, human beings talk about a variety of things.
You ever had a conversation?
No.
I don't have a conversation.
I don't do that.
I'm on my phone.
Well, sometimes we say a lot of things.
So I'm going to change the topic now, just to let you know.
There was a picture yesterday of this...
Rather, I don't know what the word is.
What would you call Nancy Pelosi?
I don't want to use the wrong word.
She's at a beach.
She's walking.
Obviously, she wanted you to see her...
What do you call that?
Yeah, but this...
But what do you call that?
A décolletage?
A décolletage?
What's the French word?
She wanted you to see...
I don't want to say zaftig.
You know what I'm saying.
She deliberately wanted you to say, look at me.
You can use the word bucksum or whatever word.
It was obviously, look at this.
Look at this.
I'm at the beach.
Screw you.
I don't care.
My old man's got the DUI pending.
I'm here with...
I'm here with Andrea Bocelli.
We're walking around to hell with you.
Did you see the twerker?
Did you see the Pelosi galore?
John, that is genius.
John?
John, don't tell me.
Johnny Ryan, Pelosi galore.
Don't tell me.
Tell me you came up with that.
Obviously in reference to that was a pun.
Very, very good.
That was a look at me.
Did you see the one, what's her name, she was doing the twerking upside down?
With her steatopygian, you know, doing the twerk, and she said, the reason why you're finding offense with this is because I'm a black, non-binary, whatever the hell she said.
This was meant As an FU, as the kids would say, that's what that was about.
And that got all the attention there.
Why?
Let me go back now.
Let me go back.
Because we don't know how to discern.
We only respond to people who throw data at us.
That's what we do.
We do that.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Are you following that?
The reason why we do that, the reason why this happens, is because we are throwing data at you.
You don't have to sit and discern anything.
As we speak, how many of you, our dear and glorious friends, knew anything about the Dutch farmer Protests going on for weeks!
The biggest thing, because of nitrogen use, because of World Economic Forum, this was the biggest, and when they protest, it goes on forever, like the Canadian Truckers Strike, which is...
No.
They don't want you to hear that.
You're sitting back like this, in this blob, and they're just throwing things at you.
And when somebody says, do you want to hear about World Economic Forum?
No.
You want to hear about this?
No.
How about the Georgia Guidestones blew up?
The what?
I don't know.
I gotta read?
I don't read.
Remember that girl at the funeral?
I don't read.
Here's one for you.
Here's a woman standing on her head, twerking.
That's it.
Hey, there's Nancy Pelosi.
Just give me a picture.
Hey, Tucker, great story you're doing on gas prices, but you're going to have a picture.
Why?
Because you said gas.
Why?
Because they can't handle this.
They can't handle this.
No, they can't handle this.
My friends, I'm going to leave you.
I'm going to leave you right now.
Talk amongst yourselves.
I want to thank you for this.
Remind you.
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I'm afraid!
Afraid of what?
What's the matter with you?
Let's go!
Come on!
This is like something you've never seen before.
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