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All right, parents in Clovis Unified, listen to what I have to say.

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There's a dangerous group trying to lure
in your kids at school. What's

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happening here? Is it drag Queen's
Story Hour trying to sexualize your kids?

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No, no, no, we
don't worry about that. No, don't

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worry about that. That's fine.
That's nothing. That's nothing. It's just

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a hyper sexualized environment with a bunch
of adults who have a very obvious fetish

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who just for some reason, I
want to read stories to kids. No,

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no, no, it's not anything
like that. That would be alarming.

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No, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. They're trying to get your kids

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to come to talks and events that
they hold with pizza, luring your kids

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in with a message that Jesus loves
them. Enter the law and order.

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Sound right now? Song tunk.
Just the tone of this piece in the

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local rag, the old Fresno b
and I've noticed this about the Fresno be

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They've and why do I talk about
it? Why do I talk about it?

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It is a interesting snapshot into what
liberal Fresno thinks. There is a

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pretty big, decent chunk of liberal
opinion in this city, in this region,

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and it is well reflected in the
pages of the Fresno Bee, even

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if fewer and fear of fear,
fear of fewer, fewer and fewer people

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actually read it. But this is
how people who disagree with us think.

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The problem in public schools is not
hyper sexualizing kids with our sex ed programs.

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It is not transgender ideology. It
is not even you know, failing

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academic standards. No, no,
no, here's what we're worried about.

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It's Clovis Unified letting the Fellowship of
Christian athletes in to lure in your kids.

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And what I've noticed is the President
Bee has thrown like a ton what

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of the limited resources they they have, they throw a lot into into quote

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education reporting, and so much of
their focus with regards to Clovis Unified is

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how terrible it is that close unified
teachers aren't unionized and other issues like that.

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All right, so let's dig into
this. Some Clovis parents say a

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Christian group is trying to indoctrinate their
children during lunchtime lurd to pray and talk

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about Jesus Christ by offering free pizza. Three parents with children attending Rayburn Intermediate

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and Clovis East High Schools said their
children were offered free pizza to go to

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the lecture hall in groups of three
to five during their lunch period. Upon

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arrival, parents said a representative from
the Fellowship of Christian Athletes meets with students

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after praying and hearing about Christianity.
Parents said, students then receive their free

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pizza in yellow boxes. I feel
that they're doing wrong, one parent with

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a student of Close East told the
Prisono Bee. They're basically luring in kids

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that are under eighteen, that are
still trying to find themselves and still trying

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to explore. We shouldn't be allowing
Christians to indoctrinate kids at Clovis East.

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They're supposed to be indoctrinated into atheism
by the school. Damn it. That's

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the point of California public education to
make sure that kids are thoroughly indoctrinated with

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modern liberalism, with modern with the
priorities of modern leftism. That's what public

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schools are actually for. How dare
Christianity slip in and try to have a

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fair shot. The parents who spoke
to the Bee asked to remain anonymous.

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Fearing retaliation against them or their children. Jesuse. I mean even if I

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were criticizing such a parent on this, people might ask me, see if

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Gerardi, you would be blasting these
parents if their names were in the article.

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For God's sake, you're allowed to
criticize people without it being a threat

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of violence. All right, let's
chill out about this, good Lord.

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Parents who spoke to the Bee asked
to remain anonymous, fearing retaliation against them

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or their children. They also said
they were not notified via email, text,

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permission slip or asked for their consent
for the FCA to approach their children.

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Back in my days, when I
was a high school student to join

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any kind of club, I needed
my parents to sign a permission slip for

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me to attend. When Close's parents
said, I am upset that they actually

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do have that kind of club there
without parents consent. Yeah, you need

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a parent's permission slip before a kid
can attend like a club meeting. A

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high school kid can attend a club
meeting. It's not like the kid is

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going to a meeting of a club. Do you realize how danger is it's

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you know, a far safer thing
would be a kid, you know,

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being transported off the school during school
hours to go get an abortion or to

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go get an IUD inserted into their
arms. Yeah, no, that's fine,

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you don't need a parent's permission slip
for that. But to go to

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a club, a club that talks
about Jesus, Holy cow, what the

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heck are we talking about here?
This kid might come home with a decent

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sense of Christian ethics, what entire
nation? But you know, if Planned

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Parenthood is coming on to campus to
talk about sex said and to tell kids

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where they can go to get abortions, Oh well, that's fine, we

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don't need parents permission for that first, And that's true, you literally do

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not okay with California public school sex
ed. Your kid is opted into it

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automatically. You have to affirmatively take
a step to opt out. And by

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the way, yes, in California
public schools, your kid can be taken

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off campus for quote reproductive health services
without you knowing about it, because in

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California, parents have no right to
know. The kid controls the privacy rights

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here. Kids control, like the
hippo stuff. Kids control whether or not

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a parent is going to learn about
them getting an abortion, getting contraception,

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whatever it is. Some parents also
pointed out that they do not practice Christianity

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at home, but they are religious
and believe in different doctrines. They questioned

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if their children's school allows other religions
to conduct their activities on school grounds and

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wondered why their underaged children were being
exposed to a religion they don't practice at

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home in this manner. Another parent
who has a student at Rayburn said their

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child learned about the free pizza at
the lecture hall through the morning's school wide

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announcements. The parents said the child
recalled an adult, not a student,

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leading and opening prayer and then talking
about accepting God, repenting their sins,

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and the relationship between Jesus and athletes. This parent also said their child wasn't

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allowed to use their phone during the
session. They're using pizza as a way

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to get children in, one of
the parents, said, Close Unified spokesperson

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Kelly Avance said the FCAA can meet
with students during school hours through its affiliated

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student led club on campus. She
said that there are forty plus student clubs

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at Close East, including the Fishing, Gay Straight Alliance and Sikh Clubs.

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Avant said the FAA is operating in
accordance with the district's student club's policies.

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Now, if FCA is doing things
that are against the rules, okay,

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And maybe I could understand if you
were a Jewish parent and your kid was

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being offered free pizza to go to
a lunch lecture, and your kid all

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of a sudden was like, hey, this Jesus Sky sounds pretty good.

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I guess I could understand a Jewish
parent being upset, or a Buddhist parent,

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or a Muslim parent whatever. I
just find it bizarre and hilarious.

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And by the way, I think
I'm I don't know that I'm one hundred

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percent going to accept this account of
the facts. I think I'd like to

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hear Close Unified and or Fellowship of
Christian Athletes side of this before just completely

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buying the account given by the anonymous
Close Unified parents, who whose account is

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gleefully reported by the Fresidobe. But
I think one of the things I just

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want to make clear we operate with
this fix in American public schools, and

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especially California public schools, that our
public schools don't promote some kind of comprehensive

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worldview. They one hundred ten percent
do. It's almost impossible for them not

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to. Frankly, and the kind
of alarm that we're seeing expressed here over

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they went to a club event without
a signature. And meanwhile, here we

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are in California, and I know, I you know, it's John Girardi,

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mister pro life, you know,
always bringing it back to the abortion

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issue. But this is one hundred
percent true, the idea that we have

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such a paternalistic at rightly, I'm
not saying this as a criticism. We

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have a very paternalistic attitude towards kids, towards their ability to meaningfully knowledgeably consent

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to all kinds of different things.
The school nurse can't give the kid a

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tile and all without asking mom.
Kid can't sign up for, you know,

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a meeting of a school club without
the parents. Okay, the kid

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can't sign up for a sport without
the students. Okay, you need a

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permission slip from your parent for all
kinds of things field trips, this,

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that and the other. But to
have your kid consent to these kinds of

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things that are just pillars of liberal
ideology, this idea of sexual liberation,

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this idea of reproductive healthcare liberation.
We just blithely let this go by.

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We just have blithely over the years, let this be the case that again

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your kid is gonna have Your kid
is defaulted into a sex said curriculum whose

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statewide standards are so radically pro abortion
pro you know, you know, look,

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I'm sure probably most people listening to
this are in favor of using contraception.

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I'm not, but I don't think
most of you listening to this are

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in favor of fully laying out for
your kids to be how to be sexually

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active with contraceptive use. Right here
and right now, here's all the different

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methods of contraception. Here's where you
can go to get contraception, even if

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your parents don't know about it.
This is where you can go. Here,

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we're going to bring into the school
a vendor from a healthcare from a

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clinic who's going to tell you about
how about their clinic. Like, that's

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the level we are at presenting to
kids the most sexually progressive left wing sort

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of worldview, attitudes of permissiveness towards
sexuality possible, All of it can be

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done without a permission slip, all
of which your kid is automatically opted into.

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You have to affirmatively opt them out
of, and a lot of this

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stuff, you can't opt them out
of a lot of this stuff. Your

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kid could go to school during school
hours, could get an IUD inserted into

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their arm, could get contraception,
could get even an abortion without your permission,

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without your knowing about it. That
we think for some reason that fIF

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that you know, sixteen year olds, fifteen year olds, fourteen year olds,

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thirteen year olds are capable of making
those kinds of decisions without you,

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without the parent. And yet here
we are also at the same time up

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in arms because use high schoolers might
be getting duped into going to a lecture

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where they might hear about Jesus without
a permission slip from the parents. When

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we return, I want to talk
about this fiction that public schools aren't religious.

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I believe they are. Next on
the John Girardi Show. When I

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was in Catholic schools for a couple
of years when I was growing up.

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Eventually our family sort of switched to
homeschooling, and I think that was a

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pretty darn good choice for us.
But for a couple of years in Catholic

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schools, one of the things I
would notice is that there would always be

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a couple of kids who were not
Catholic who were in the Catholic school.

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And you go to a place like
San Joaquin Memorial, the Catholic school in

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Fresno, there are a couple of
kids there who are not themselves Catholic,

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but everyone kind of understands the deal. The parents and the kids understand,

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Yes, we recognize you're not a
Catholic. We're not gonna, you know,

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treat you like a pariah or something. You're we're welcoming you into our

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school here, but understand the game. This is a Catholic school. We're

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gonna have, you know, corporate
prayer that you're expected to kind of join

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in with. We're gonna teach about
the Catholic religion, which you're expected to

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participate in and learn about. That's
just the deal, and it's all very

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open and everyone understands the deal.
And sometimes families who start sending their kids

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to Catholic school, sometimes those families
wind up becoming Catholics. And you know,

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maybe it's just a parent who hasn't
thought about religion all that much,

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and once their kids starts going to
Catholic school, they think about these things

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more deeply. Maybe the kids convert, you know. So it's all though

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very open, it's all very honest. Everyone gets it. Everyone gets the

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deal. And a lot of people
may wind up sending their kid to SJM

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because it's the private school, and
maybe they think they have better, you

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know, better academic standards or something
like that, even if they themselves or

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their kid isn't Catholic. So it's
a regardless. It's all very open,

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it's all very transparent, it's all
very honest. Everyone gets the deal.

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I think public schools operate on a
lie. By contrast, I think public

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schools operate under this lie that send
your kid here, regardless of your religion.

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Understand that your kid will not be
subjected to any one particular sectarian religious

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viewpoint. We will be neutral on
the question of religion. You can raise

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your kid in your faith, whatever
that faith is. If you are Jewish,

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if you are a Muslim, if
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are a Christian, if you are
whatever variety of Christian you are. If

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you're a Baptist, you're a Methodist, you're a Presbyterian, you're a Mormon,

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you're a Catholic. It doesn't matter
you can send your kid here and

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we will not, you know,
try to teach your kid a certain doctrine

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or I hate the word indoctrinate.
I think people there's very little difference between

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indoctrinate and educate your kid in a
certain religion or whatever. I think that's

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a lie. I think public schools
do indoctrinate their kids. It's not in

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a religion sort of in the classic
sense. A classic idea of a religion

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is, I mean, really the
word religion. It comes from the Latin

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word red legerae rey again and ledger
to read, to read back, to

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give it back, to return.
The idea is God has God, or

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the gods have given us all these
good things, and it is our duty

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to render some part of that back
as far as worship. So, religion

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is this act of returning, rendering
back onto God for all that he hath

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rendered unto us. And generally speaking, religions have a sort of comprehensive body

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of teachings and beliefs and maybe codes
of ethics and codes for appropriate worship and

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codes of personal individual conduct. Now, public schools don't have necessarily a code

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for how to worship. They don't
have a deity to worship, but they

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certainly teach your kids a code of
ethics. It's almost impossible not to nature

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abhorrors a vacuum. There are ethical
truths that are being communicated to your kids,

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codes of conduct are being communicated to
your kids in public schools. How

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can the public school educate your kids
about reproduction and biology without certain kinds of

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ethical norms being communicated. Of course, they're going to be communicated. If

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kids are taught about the concept of
marriage in a California public school that's being

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guided by California law. Of course, they're going to talk about marriages and

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marriage is and arrangement between all kinds
of people. It can be between two

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men, it could be between two
women, it could be between a man

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and a woman, could be a
transgender man woman whatever. Of course,

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it's going to follow what California state
law allows, and it's going to present

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that as normative, as normative,
it's offering an ethical worldview. In sex

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class is going to talk about all
the different methods of contraception. It's presenting

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it as these are all the legal
methods of contraception of birth control, that

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including abortion, including IUDs, which
don't really prevent conception. It's presenting all

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that as normative. That is a
worldview, It is a code of conduct

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to govern your life, to govern, in fact, some of the most

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important and intimate decisions of your life
and for your health and for your future.

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The way they talk about sex,
the way they talk about sexuality and

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relationships, that is being presented as
normative. The way they talk about ethical

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standards, where they have to boil
things down to this sort of lowest common

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de nominator morality. Your kids in
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And I recognize not everybody can send
their kids to Catholic I recognize not everybody

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can send their kids to private school
like I not everybody can homeschool. I

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get it. I'm not trying to
condemn you. What I am saying is,

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if you are you know many people
listening to this, A lot of

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people listening to this are pretty conservative. A lot of them are pretty conservative

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Christians, a lot of them are
pretty conservative Catholics. A lot of them

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are maybe more conservative Jews or Muslims. If you're hearing this, understand if

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your kids in public school and you're
hearing this, understand your kids are getting

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a religious upbringing just as much as
the Protestant kid who goes to San joaqu

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Memorial. And if you're okay with
that religious upbringing, fine, but understand

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the name of the game. Don't
you need to understand that the public schools

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lying to you about this idea that
they are religiously neutral. They are not.

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They're not telling you how to worship
a different God, but they're giving

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you a whole different conduct for living, a whole different standard in code for

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living that is going to be different
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Christianity or in whatever religious faith that
you're practicing. So understand, your kid

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is getting a religious upbringing, whether
you like it or not. And if

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you don't want them to have that
religious upbringing, you've got a lot of

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decoding to do, a lot of
deprogramming and reprogramming to do. When we

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return, I want to talk a
little bit about the modern boom in sports

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gambling and some real reasons for concern
and caution with it. That's next on

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the John Girardi Show. One of
the things that I have been following quite

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a bit, and I think anyone
who's a pretty big sports fan has been

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seeing more and more and more of
this, and I'd say I'm a decently

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big sports fan. I care a
lot about Notre Dame football, and I

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like basketball, and I like you
know, I like a lot of different

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sports. I like listening to podcasts
and radio things about sports, and you

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know, Fox Sports, Fox Sports
thirteen forty K on Sports one of my

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favorite shows. Check out My Boys
K. I want to talk about this

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thing that I see more and more
becoming over the last few years, has

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become more and more and more in
the mainstream of American sports, which is

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gambling and online gambling sites like DraftKings, fan Duel and other sites like that.

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Now a lot of that is still
legally restricted in California because basically there's

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I don't know you guys remember this, but there there were some dueling ballot

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initiatives a couple I think a year
or so ago between basically the Indian casinos

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in California and the big national online
gambling sites who are duking it out against

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each other with like these dueling ballot
initiatives because they're so greedy that both the

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Indian casinos and the national sites they
basically couldn't figure out a way to sort

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of share the California market, the
enormous California market for sports gambling. Potentially

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enormous market for California sports gambling.
The Indian casinos were basically the Native American

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casinos were basically like, well,
we want one hundred percent of the share

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of the California sports gambling market.
We want people to be gambling at our

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casinos at on sports. We want
to be able to build big sports books

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at our casinos and have all the
action take place at our casinos and have

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one hundred percent of the sports gambling
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and those online sites were like,
no, no, no, no,

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no, we would like one hundred
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not have people gamble at Indian casinos, have it only be online gambling.

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And so they introduced these dueling ballot
initiatives. The one was to legalize online

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sports gambling, the one was to
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And both of them lost, to
my delight. But nonetheless, these national

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sites are still extremely popular and there
is this mainstreaming of gambling that's happening all

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over the place, even down to
the level of you know, occasional sort

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of toots his horn about what a
great warrior he is for doing the right

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thing and causes of social justice.
Lebron James just announces that he has this

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big partnership sponsorship deal with one of
these big sports gambling sites. Ah,

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yes, Lebron James. Who Lebron
James. Who has more money than God?

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Okay, Lebron James. Who's I
think about to sign another probably like

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two year extension with the Lakers where
he might make as much as sixty million

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dollars per year. I don't know
what he's made lifetime just with his NBA

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team contracts. Incredible amount of money. He's made an incredible amount of money

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through his Nike endorsement, through endorsements
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he can, he can take his
pick of endorsement deals and just make money,

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more and more and more money.
He was he was in a movie.

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He's been in a few movies.
Actually, he was in Space Jams

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some other movie. Lebron James has
more money than God, and yet here

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he is choosing to do a sports
gambling website. Now there's this guy I

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follow on Twitter. His name is
Haralabos Vulgaris who's an interest guy sort of

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in the sports gambling world. He's
actually a very wealthy He became wealthy by

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being a professional gambler on NBA games, and he was able to identify sort

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of in the two thousands mostly,
I think most of his activity was in

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the twentys and twenty tens. He
was a very sharp mind when it came

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to basketball, and he was identifying
certain inefficiencies in how Vegas was setting different

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gambling lines with regards to basketball games, and he was able to bet in

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very strategic ways and make a lot
of money, and he was sort of

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recognized as, oh, this guy's
actually a very sharp basketball mind, and

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he wound up getting hired by I
think he actually worked in the front office

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for the Dallas Mavericks for a number
of years sort of as an advisor and

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because he was sort of recognized as
being a pretty sharp guy. And he's

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now on this little sort of anti
gambling campaign online where he's basically saying,

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basically he's recognizing the very unique position
he's in that for every one person like

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him who has been able successfully to
make money sports gambling and he also recognizes

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like those conditions are no longer in
existence. The books have smartened up.

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Those kinds of inefficiencies are almost impossible
to find. That for every one person

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like him, there are ninety nine
people who get addicted to gambling start gambling

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way too young as teenagers. This
is a huge problem in England, where

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their attitudes towards gambling are more advanced
than ours, where there are tons of

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people who are way in, way
too deep in debt already, like start

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having gambling problems as teenagers. And
basically he's trying to sound this alarm bell

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that these online sports books are just
fundamentally unfair. Basically, what he's noted

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is that the way that they're not
regulated is such that let's say you are

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actually an incredibly sharp, savvy gambler
and you start placing successful bets in a

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way that is consistent, like you've
managed to identify inefficiencies in the system that

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the sports book hasn't. If you
win too much, what happens with these

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online sites is that they can either
ban you from the site just because you're

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winning. They can either ban you
from the site, or they can lower

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your limits so that like the most
you can the most money you can place

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down on a bed is like five
bucks or something like that. Basically,

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they make it so that it's not
worth your while anymore. These websites more

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or less have carte blanche to limit
anyone who's actually win. So I mean

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it already. Sports books, casinos, the math. The reason why they

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make money is because they set the
math up in a fashion that is unfair.

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That's how casinos work. It's not
rocket science. Okay. The roulette

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wheel has a built in disadvantage to
the player. Blackjack has a built in

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disadvantage to the player. All these
different games they're designed for you to lose.

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They're designed they are set up in
such a fashion that the longer you

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play, eventually you will have zero
dollars left. Okay, it's guaranteed mathematically,

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But for certain kinds of gambling,
there are ways, if you're really

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smart, that you can make money
consistently, if you really know what you're

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doing, and the books are trying
to stop people, These big online sportsbooks

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will stop you from doing that.
Even in that case, And the point

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that this guy is so Haralibos fuggeris
who goes by Haralibob, who anyway,

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he's a very interesting guy. Look
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h A R A L A B
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he and he recognizes this sort of
a little bit, the hypocrisy of his

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position. He made all this money
doing sports gambling, but he's realizing promoting

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this as a huge national market that's
accessible to eighteen year olds, nineteen year

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old college kids without a lot of
money, without a lot of common sense,

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without a lot of judgment and discretion, who are getting into debt heavily.

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This is bad for people, It
is bad public policy, and these

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books are just not regulated very well. And it's such a shift like there's

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you know, thirty years ago,
if you had anything with gambling anywhere near

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baseball, football, whatever, the
leagues would just flee from it immediately.

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But what's happening. The leagues realize
how much money they can make, and

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local and state governments realize how much
money they can make. State governments.

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I've said this time and again on
this show. State and local governments can't

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spend in the red the way the
federal government can, so they are always

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desperate for some new source of revenue
that they can generate for state government,

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for local government that doesn't involve coercively
increasing people's taxes. If there's some activity

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that no one has to participate in
that they can get a big cut of

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it through taxes, that's always going
to be appealing to local governments. And

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local governments can swallow whatever stupid libertarian
argument you want to make, whether it's

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for legalized pot or legalized gambling,
they'll swallow whatever dumb libertarian argument. Well,

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these are people making free choices with
what they want to do with their

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money, and you know, yeah, there are some people who obviously do

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it too much. But is that
for us to decide? Does the government?

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Oh, is that our responsibility to
make sure that, you know what,

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Maybe it is your responsibility. Maybe
it is your responsibility not to have

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legalized not to promote more legalized gambling, Say in California, when we already

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have Native American casinos and Las Vegas
is right over there, maybe we don't

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need a casino in literally every single
person's pocket. Maybe we don't need a

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casino in every eighteen year old college
kids pocket, every you know, potentially

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every seventeen year old kid's pocket.
So I want to sort of join in

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in sounding the alarm bell on how
I'm really leery of this of these nationwide

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gambling sites just being promoted blithely by
everyone in the sports media universe, including

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you know, including people like Lebron
James, who doesn't need to do this

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and who you know, for all
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responsible guy, and he's done some
good things. I'm not saying everything Lebron

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does is terrible, but if you
really care about social responsibility, doing the

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right thing for kids, helping people
make good choices in life, promoting a

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huge sports gambling site is not the
way to do it. When we return

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a program to give five hundred bucks
per month to lower income residents in Fresno,

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what could go wrong? Next?
On the John Girardi Show, So

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there's an interesting story about this five
hundred dollars per month supplemental income program that

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is targeting basically people who live in
West Fresno and in Huron. So there's

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a program called the Advancing Fresno County
Guaranteed Income Program and it appears to be

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it is run by Fresno Economic Opportunities
Commission, which immediately starts kind of triggering

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my antenna. A Fresno Economic Opportunities
Commission is a big local nonprofit that does

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lots of very left wing things,
has a whole huge LGBT thing, and

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it seems to sort of advocate for
a lot of left wing causes. It's

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one of these nonprofits that sort of
hangs around the Fresno City Council with sort

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of these altruistic ideas and all it
needs is a contract from the city.

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Now I'm trying to kind of get
a sense of this where and basically this

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program is just if you live under
a certain income threshold, we will give

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you five hundred dollars per month,
no strings attached. And it's focused on

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Huron and certain neighborhoods in West Fresno, the Advancing Fresno County program. So

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it's it wasn't it didn't get state
funding. It looks like there are this

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is funded with local charitable funds.
Okay, I mean that's I guess that's

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fine. I mean that that obviously
there's less to be concerned about when this

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is funded through local charitable contributions.
But I'm I feel like this is being

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set up to be a government run, government funded initiative. Now, I

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guess I'm not one hundred percent opposed
to the idea. I mean, these

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people are very poor and they could
some help. Okay, that makes sense,

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this is all charitably done. I
guess my fear is the risk for

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abuse with this if it's genuinely no
strings attached. You know, I guess

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I have enough confidence in people to
think if you're just going to give them

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five hundred well, I have enough
of a lack of confidence in people to

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think if you just give them five
hundred dollars a month kind of no strings

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attached, there are going to be
some people who misuse that funding in pretty

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profound ways. But if for the
moment it's a charitably run thing, that's

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all right. But clearly this is
a program that is desperate for a government

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grant. They tried to get state
grant funding for it, they didn't get

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it. I have a sense though, that this is going to come eventually.

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This is going to come to the
doorstep of either the president of city

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Council or the president county Board of
Supervisors. And I guess I would just

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I feel like there's got to be
a ton of caution for programs where you're

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just straight up handing out cash just
based on you know, I don't know.

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I find I am nervous about programs
like this. I feel like it's

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always these programs that are great ideas
that all they need to work is our

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