WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:04.440 Attention. You're listening to the Todd Huf radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:08.679 not bitter Talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:12.400 documented to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.439 --> 00:00:33.159 to the right. Here's your conservative but not bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:39.039 All right, my friends, here you are tuned in to America's home for 6 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:41.399 conservative not bitter talk. I'm your host, the one, the only, 7 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:45.159 Todd Huff. Email Todd at tod Huff show dot com. You want to 8 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:48.600 be part of today's conversation. In fact, I want to spend some time 9 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:55.240 talking about a couple of a couple of things I've heard from a couple of 10 00:00:55.320 --> 00:01:00.439 listeners here in the past. Well, I think it was yesterday maybe maybe 11 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:07.719 Wednesday evening or yesterday, So to huffshow dot com. Is that email address 12 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.200 or you can text as well. Three one two zero twenty eight thirty. 13 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:19.480 It's a pleasure to be here, and I want to start by going going 14 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:25.200 back to what we talked about. I think it was Wednesday, maybe Tuesday, 15 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.599 where we talked about again for those of you, and I know folks, 16 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:38.599 we have listeners across the country, and we're on in stations in of 17 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.040 course Indianapolis, which is homebase, Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City, 18 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:52.159 Knoxville. Of course we have listeners on the podcast which Steak, iHeartRadio, 19 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:57.480 Spotify, Apple Podcast wherever, and then of course Red State Talk Radio as 20 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:00.040 well. Those are all places that you can listen to this program. So 21 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:05.599 I know folks are all over the country, but home base for us is 22 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:10.599 technically Indianapolis. Now I say technically because we've been traveling on the Truth Tour. 23 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:17.280 We're currently in I guess south West Florida. I've been here for a 24 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:23.800 little bit, and but Indie's home. And there was a story earlier this 25 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:32.479 week where a group of journalists called Accuracy in Media. They did a bit 26 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:38.680 of an expose. Reminds me every time of Joe Gatto from The Impractical Jokers. 27 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:49.400 And there's some school officials school administrators in Indiana who were caught on video 28 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:59.919 saying some app absolutely reprehensible things. Predominantly what they're saying is basically they are 29 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:07.800 trying to keep information away from parents, away from taxpayers. They almost seem 30 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:15.439 proud that they are able to sneak in things like critical race theory, although 31 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:17.199 they'll be quick to tell you, we don't do that in the curriculum. 32 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:23.439 We don't have a book that says on the cover critical race theory. They 33 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:27.879 don't do that because they know that would be well, that would be a 34 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:35.159 catalyst for a very angry, very vocal group of people coming to school board 35 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:37.879 meetings and so forth. So but what they do is, and they've admitted 36 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:42.199 this on video multiple school districts, and folks, I should tell you, 37 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:46.639 and it happened in Indiana, but it's happening everywhere. We went through this 38 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:51.240 earlier this week. I don't want to rehash that, but your school district 39 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.960 has this. I don't care where you are. Your school district has this. 40 00:03:55.080 --> 00:04:00.719 Knoxville, Salt Lake City. I know that some of you out in 41 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:02.960 Salt Lake City think, yeah, you know, we're pretty conservative. Bet 42 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:06.240 me there is someone in your district. Now, it could be just in 43 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:11.319 the classroom level, could be one teacher, could be two, five, 44 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:16.279 ten, fifty, it could be any number of teachers. Then we've got 45 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:19.839 the principle, so it could be building wide. And then, of course, 46 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:25.600 I guess the worst case scenario is when you have these woke superintendents or 47 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:31.600 assistant superintendents like we have in the state of Indiana, who are pushing this 48 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:35.680 stuff district wide, school wide, all the buildings, all the students, 49 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:40.399 and so forth. Now, there are many good teachers. This is not 50 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:46.600 meant to be a blanket assault on teachers in general. But to act as 51 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:50.800 though that there are not woke teachers all across the fruited plain is beyond naive 52 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:57.959 in my estimation. So this is happening in your school district. One of 53 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:02.160 the school districts that this happened in, well, one of these districts was 54 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:10.199 is Plainfield Community School Corporation, which is metro Indianapolis. I had a buddy 55 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:14.199 who lives very close to there, not in the district, but close. 56 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:18.800 He told me that he looked it up after seeing some of these stories and 57 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.319 so forth, And I don't think you'd seen the video yet, but he'd 58 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:27.319 kind of gotten a little bit of the information about how they were effectively bragging 59 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:31.720 about pushing critical race theory in the classrooms. Not again, not as not 60 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:39.199 through a textbook or through curriculum, instead actually teaching things like white guilt, 61 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:45.360 actually dealing with the whiteness of their students. But if you look at how 62 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:48.360 this district voted, or the city or the county. I guess where this 63 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:54.360 city's located or the town's located. It's Hendricks County, Indiana, and Hendricks 64 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:58.199 County is two to one Republican back in two thousand. I don't know if 65 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:01.519 you looked at two twenties election or twenty two, but it's two to one 66 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:09.120 Republican. That's how the election came out. So sixty seven to thirty three 67 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:14.920 percent. So again, if you're Bernie Sanders mathematician, that means for every 68 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:18.040 three people that vote in that county, two of them voted for Republicans and 69 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:24.560 one voted for some leftist who's pretending to be a moderate Democrat. That's the 70 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:28.839 only way you get elected and those parts of the country anyway, So it's 71 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:33.199 conservative, is the point. And again it's happening. It's happening everywhere. 72 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:38.959 So I had a listener in response to this, Brian. This was actually 73 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:43.439 on Facebook. Folks were on Facebook. I don't we don't do too much 74 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.079 there because again we've run into some problems. I don't want to get into 75 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:53.720 that today with Facebook, particularly YouTube YouTube. And my estimation is the from 76 00:06:53.720 --> 00:07:00.199 my experience is the most aggressively looking to censor people who have opinions like like 77 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:05.120 I have, and if Facebook has done some things too that are questionable. 78 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:09.279 But we are on here. You can check out our Facebook page, be 79 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:12.879 sure to like it whatever that'll help us get more traction there. But we 80 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:19.199 predominantly use this channel, talk radio stations and the podcast as we're growing, 81 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:23.160 and we'll do more on social as we grow. But anyway, I got 82 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:29.920 this message from Brian on Facebook and I wanted to address it on today's program. 83 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:33.040 It's a good I guess, a good topic since it's a Friday, 84 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:40.000 and then also it kind of summarizes again what I just touched on and explained, 85 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:42.920 and it's an earlier episode of the week. So Brian writes in US 86 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:48.160 as Todd has the undercover video of school administration. School admins even raised an 87 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:54.040 eyebrow with our lawmakers. That's a good question. So you think about this, 88 00:07:54.240 --> 00:08:01.439 you think this is something you have school administrators, assistant superintendence. In 89 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:07.160 fact, I don't say the name of the of the individuals. They're public 90 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:11.279 officials, right, So we need to identify who is causing the problems, 91 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:20.360 who are who are the people that need to be disciplined. Honestly, they 92 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:26.279 need to be fired. We're well past that. If you're on camera explaining 93 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:31.439 to the person that has the hidden camera, basically how proud you are of 94 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:37.759 sneaking these things inside the school district, and you're teaching your students to do 95 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:43.000 things that you know the taxpayer, that you know the parent does not want 96 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:48.639 taught to their child, and you're bragging about that, kind of patting yourself 97 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:52.720 on the back, talking about how you're doing it covertly. I don't care 98 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:56.960 what the thing is you're doing covertly. You deserve to be fired. One 99 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:01.519 percent deserve to be fired now. Of course, just simply by knowing the 100 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.840 names. We don't want to hassle folks like the left does when they find 101 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:09.200 out where Cavanaugh lives and that sort of thing. That's not the point. 102 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:13.159 That is not what we want. But there needs to be some public accountability. 103 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:18.480 And so this ended. I'm forgetting her first name, A del Vecchio. 104 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:24.759 She's an assistant superintendent in Plainfield Community School Corporation. She one hundred percent 105 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:28.840 needs to be fired. Now. The school district releases this press release or 106 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:33.960 statement basically saying that the video was edited and all this stuff. It's painful 107 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.879 to read. I think I've got it in the stack of stuff from earlier 108 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:39.480 this week if you want to see that. But the point is, the 109 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.799 point is, if you are a superintendent, or you're an administrator, if 110 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:48.200 you're a teacher, if you're a principal, and you were doing things deliberately 111 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:56.080 and knowingly against the will of the taxpayer and the parent, you deserve to 112 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:00.879 be terminated. I don't care how long you've been there. I don't care 113 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:05.879 what level of degree you have. I don't care any of that, none 114 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.600 of that. You have violated the public trust. It's not a mistake, 115 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:13.879 right, It's not a mistake these A mistake is if you lose your temper 116 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:20.559 and you say something you shouldn't say. A mistake is handing out a worksheet 117 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:26.840 that maybe has one question pertaining to some of these issues that maybe you didn't 118 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:31.279 catch or something like that. That's a mistake. But to intentionally and deliberately 119 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:37.159 try to find ways, subtle ways to sneak past your true intentions and the 120 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:43.519 actual lessons and curriculum that you're teaching students, to sneak those past the taxpayer, 121 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:48.559 past the parent, and then to use some sort of clever terminology or 122 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:54.240 word game to protect that little bubble that you've created, to make sure that 123 00:10:54.279 --> 00:11:01.960 you're not ever found out that my friend is one hundred worthy of being fired. 124 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:05.000 And so Brian saying, okay, so we've seen this video. You 125 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:09.159 know what, we're the lawmakers. My first question, and maybe Brian would 126 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:13.799 would would say this too, where where's the school board? Because I'm telling 127 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:18.399 you, if I was a school board member and I saw this, the 128 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:20.120 very first call that I would have made the next morning would have been to 129 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:26.000 the superintendent of the school. Now she's not in this case in Plainfield, 130 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:31.000 she's not the she's the assistant, I think superintendent. My first call would 131 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:35.320 have been there to the superintendent's office and saying, what's going on? This 132 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:41.320 is completely unacceptable and this needs to be remedied immediately. What is your plan 133 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:45.639 and course of action? The school board technically has one employee that's the superintendent. 134 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:50.600 The superintendent then hires hires everyone else. Then, of course, as 135 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:56.600 it as you moved down that that kind of school hierarchy, you know, 136 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.799 the individuals in ar of hiring teachers and so forth, Well, they'll hire 137 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:07.559 their individual teachers, but the Superintendent's the one person the school board is really 138 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:11.799 trying to hold accountable. Now, the school board has to, at least 139 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.320 we did when I was on the school board. You had to approve usually 140 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:22.919 kind of a month in arrears any new personnel changes. But essentially there's one 141 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:28.720 employee that the school board members elect, and that's the superintendent. And if 142 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:33.799 this individual, this guy does not do his job and hold this individual accountable. 143 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.919 I don't care about leaves of absence and investigations. I can conceive of 144 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:50.759 no explanation, no context where telling someone with a camera, an undercover camera, 145 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:58.720 whatever. I can conceive of no context that would be justified in saying 146 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:05.159 someone should be trying to keep things from the parents and the and the taxpayers 147 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:11.360 from the community. There's that's not a good scenario. Public school is designed 148 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:18.639 to be accountable to the local, the community, to the taxpayer. That's 149 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:22.159 not happening in these places. And it's not just playing field, it's others 150 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:28.240 as well. Martinsville School, I think there's a nut was at Elkhart or 151 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.240 something Goshen. I think it was Goshen, which is in northern Indiana. 152 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:35.639 It doesn't matter because it is your school too. That's what I want you 153 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:39.360 to really to know. And Brian saying, in this question here, what 154 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:46.360 are what are the lawmakers doing about this? Because at least in this state, 155 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:52.080 at least in this state, the state legislature is in control of a 156 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:56.120 lot of what happens in education. Are they talking about this? Are they 157 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:03.240 concerned about this? You know, it's disheartening a lot of times. Indiana 158 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:07.639 has lots of Republicans in the House and Senate. But I'm telling you, 159 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:11.600 for those of you that are outside of the state, and again your state 160 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:16.200 may be the same way. We have a lot of rhinos. I mean, 161 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:20.159 folks, this is the state that gave us the governor of Eric Holcombe. 162 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:26.080 One of our senators is Todd Young And this is not Those are not 163 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:35.360 anywhere near conservative, principled, constitutional conservative individuals. These are folks that are 164 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:43.919 at best moderates and at worst something much much more ideologically dangerous. And so 165 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:48.480 but what are the what is the state doing about it? What are the 166 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:54.240 legislative individual legislators doing about it? Maybe they're talking about it. I certainly 167 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:58.399 don't haven't heard it. I certainly haven't seen it. Brian says, here 168 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:03.360 are they try trying to. I mean, he alludes to the fact of 169 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:07.159 this being brushed under the carpet, and I mean this. These are good 170 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:09.799 questions because this is precisely what happens. And by the way, it's what 171 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:16.279 happens when we allow individuals of any I don't care if it's school board member, 172 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:24.279 county council, city council, mayor, you know, governor, lieutenant 173 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:31.480 lieutenant governor, attorney general, whatever the office that's being voted on, whatever 174 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:37.200 person we're electing, we have to make sure that they don't just say the 175 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:41.799 right things during the election they say, wow, we've got a lot of 176 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:43.039 woke schools. Vote for me, and I'll take care of it. Well, 177 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:48.480 now as the time. Now's the time that we see who has the 178 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:52.320 medal to see this through. We see the true leaders that stand up. 179 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:58.200 I don't care what the official leadership is, what the position is. I 180 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:03.279 don't care about jeopardising committee seats and all this sort of stuff. I don't 181 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:07.240 care about trying to go alone to get along within the Republican Party, and 182 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:11.120 neither the vast majority of you that are listening to my voice. You want 183 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:17.080 to see results, and you don't want some weak need man be panby representative 184 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:22.240 or senator or whatever, afraid to bring this up with leadership demanding that these 185 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:30.159 sorts of things be addressed, because this is completely unacceptable when public officials try 186 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:37.879 to deliberately circumvent the will of the American taxpayer, the will of the parent. 187 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:42.679 That is what is happening in schools in Indiana. It's happening in your 188 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:47.080 school as well. I'm going to take a quick time out, my friends. 189 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:48.759 You're listening here to conservative not better Talking. I'm your host, Todd 190 00:16:48.799 --> 00:17:03.440 huff Back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Just going 191 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.680 through a question I got from a listener Brian on Facebook. He has kind 192 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.400 of a part two of this question. First of all, his question was 193 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:18.000 how what are lawmakers doing about this? Again, don't get these problems are 194 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.400 all over the country. So even though the example is Indiana, this same 195 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:26.559 thing is happening in your part of the country and in your district. In 196 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:29.720 fact, a couple of weeks ago, we talked a lot about what had 197 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:32.920 happened in Tennessee and the Tennessee State House, which is relevant. Again, 198 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:37.839 the same sorts of things happening there are happening on a less dramatic scale, 199 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:44.440 with the expulsion of members and so forth. But they're happening everywhere everywhere in 200 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:49.319 this country, or at least the backdrop is the same. So it matters 201 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:53.799 to people in Indiana that it's Indiana, but to those who are not in 202 00:17:53.799 --> 00:18:00.480 Indiana, this same scenario is happening, and we need to nip this kind 203 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:07.000 of crap in the butt. So Brian also asks, He says, until 204 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:14.839 we well, let me back up here, he says, the problem, 205 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:22.240 you know, will the problem ever get addressed until lawmakers actually step up and 206 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:26.920 do something about it, Because, after all, I'm paraphrasing here, we 207 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:33.079 have a bunch of educators who are being taught these things in schools. They 208 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:37.000 are coming in as teachers at all levels. And again it's not every teacher, 209 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:38.440 I want to be clear on that, but it doesn't need to be 210 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:47.720 many when it's a cancerous and absolutely morally depraved ideology, which is what the 211 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:52.839 radical left is. So are we ever gonna be able to address this if 212 00:18:53.240 --> 00:19:00.599 school board members, if legislators are not willing to deal with this, are 213 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.079 we simply not going to have more and more woke people in the schools while 214 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:14.599 the rest of us watch the moral implosion of these ones highly respectable Historically, 215 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:18.680 you go back to some of the things that um, you know, the 216 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:22.200 education system had been. There were times when it was good in America's history. 217 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.160 It's been a long time, but now we've gone way past not even 218 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:33.279 good to absolutely dangerous. I told a good friend of mine, I said, 219 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:37.359 look, I we homeschool. We've homeschooled us. When did we start 220 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:45.480 twenty fourteen? Is that right? Since two thy fourteen? So we've we've 221 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:52.519 homeschooled our Our oldest son is um thirteen years old, thirteen year old son, 222 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.000 eleven year old daughter, nine year old daughter. They've all been homeschooled 223 00:19:56.039 --> 00:20:03.119 their entire lives. Um, I've never been one that has come out and 224 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:06.559 said, you know, take kids out of public school. I think that 225 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:10.640 parents need to be very aware of what's going on. And my position had 226 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:15.079 always been because I believe so much in the choices of individuals that we make 227 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.599 us, you know, within our own families, right, there are factors 228 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:25.319 and considerations that there's not a one size fits all thing and we should be 229 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:30.599 able to be individuals who can you prioritize and all that right, and we 230 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:34.400 still should, but it's getting harder and harder for me to say that public 231 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:41.680 school is a viable option for parents because of this crap that is happening. 232 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:45.519 I used to think that if you stayed engaged in the education, that it 233 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.920 was enough. I don't know if I think that anymore. To be quite 234 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.640 honest with you, in factifies to be completely honest with you. I don't 235 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:57.039 think that I do. I don't think that I do. I begin to 236 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:00.880 ask myself the questions. I mean, I've been asking these questions for twenty 237 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:07.759 years, but I really get close to answering a question, this question right 238 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:14.720 here. Differently, is the public school system? Is it irreparable? Has 239 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:19.640 it reached a point where the inmates are running the asylum? You know, 240 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:29.960 staying engaged as a parent, it's not helpful, It doesn't do any good 241 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:33.839 at some point if you're being intentionally deceived by the teachers or the principal, 242 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:38.000 or the superintendent or the fill in the blank school board members, whatever, 243 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:44.640 And it's hard to stay on top of it when you're being fed a line 244 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:48.880 of what's really going on with winks and nods going on behind the scene, 245 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:52.680 and you're not privy to what really is going on. It's hard to stay 246 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:56.400 involved, and so I get really close to saying the public schools. I 247 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:00.480 hate to say this, one hundred percent mean this. I was even though 248 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:06.160 we homeschool, I was a school board member. I'm not necessarily a proponent 249 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:07.880 of the public school system, but I am a proponent of, Hey, 250 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:11.920 if it's what we've got, let's make it as good as we can make 251 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:14.920 it. Right. There's still good people, they are good teachers, good 252 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:22.759 administrators, but those the percentages are shifting, They're shifting. The evidence is 253 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.720 abundant, it is all around, It is ubiquitous, It is there for 254 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:33.319 anybody who wants to see, and it's It's makes for tough discussions because again 255 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:40.960 there's always room for specific differences between schools, and maybe your school's got a 256 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:44.720 great principle, a great teacher. But at some point I think we could 257 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:48.240 all agree. At some point, it reaches a point of no return, 258 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:56.599 It reaches a certain level of corruption. That is that is not that needs 259 00:22:56.599 --> 00:23:00.519 to it needs to be scrapped, and candidly, part of what needs to 260 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:07.079 happen is that the Department of Education needs to be completely eliminated, in my 261 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:12.119 opinion, which sounds I look, it sounds maybe extreme to some people, 262 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:17.400 but the Department of Education. We had a lot of educating going on in 263 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:22.039 this country long before the Department of Education, and there will be plenty of 264 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:25.880 it that happens outside of that. I mean, if you homeschool, or 265 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:29.079 if you send to a private school, I mean a lot of these. 266 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:36.279 A lot of the education going on already doesn't need even a proficient local public 267 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:41.920 school doesn't need the oversider direction or authority of the Department of Education. This 268 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:47.319 just breeds corruption, and it breeds a one size fits all approach, and 269 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:55.039 it's usually an approach that's said that that walks lockstep with radical leftist ideology. 270 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:59.640 And it's not healthy for your kids. It's not healthy for our grandkids, 271 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:04.400 kids, his nieces and nephews, whoever. So the Department of Education definitely 272 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:07.279 needs to go. You know what else needs to happen is we need to 273 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:11.200 have If your state doesn't have this, it needs to have it. It 274 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:18.519 needs to have the school the dollars that are assigned per student to follow that 275 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:22.519 student. School choice needs to be a thing. School choice needs to be 276 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:26.519 a thing. If you are not happy with where your child is going to 277 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.240 school, you should be able to move that child to another public school or 278 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:33.599 candidly to a private school, and you should be able to get access to 279 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:36.720 that money. I'll even go as far, and maybe I'm biased here because 280 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:38.119 we've done it, but keep in mind, we've done it since twenty fourteen, 281 00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:41.680 so we're not doing it for the money. But I would even go 282 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:45.079 as far to say, why can't that go to a homeschool education. There's 283 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:51.119 things that you can that you need to pay for for homeschool education as well. 284 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:55.119 Why does why should the money not follow the student? Why should these 285 00:24:55.119 --> 00:25:00.039 school districts not be held accountable instead? What they want to do is what 286 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:03.960 we've seen caught on camera here. They want to deceive us. They want 287 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:11.240 to be an instrument for societal change, for social change, for equity or 288 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:17.200 whatever the catchphrase of the day is. They say that they can be instruments 289 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:18.960 to be used by the left. They don't say this publicly, but in 290 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:22.960 the closed door meetings they absolutely do. Teachers unions, that's another thing that 291 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:30.039 I think it's an absolutely ridiculous debacle. I'm not a guy that's anti union. 292 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:37.400 I'm not. I don't know that I would be. It would just 293 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:41.119 depend on the circumstances. But I am against the idea of public unions because 294 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:44.799 who are they, Who are they unionizing against? Who does the teachers union 295 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:48.400 unionize against. It's effectively, at the end of the day, the taxpayer, 296 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:51.920 and I think that that's utterly ridiculous, to be quite honest with you. 297 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:57.480 These are things that have the Department of Education, the idea that there's 298 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:02.319 no accountability in school choice where the people can vote with their feet and move 299 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:07.599 the dollars, and the teachers union and the crap that comes in through that 300 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:14.200 particular avenue is disgusting. I've seen that firsthand as a school board member, 301 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:18.559 even in a relatively conservative and reasonable school. I mean, we had some 302 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:22.480 really good teachers union reps that we dealt with in the past. But if 303 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:27.000 you look at what the teachers union as a whole wants to do, if 304 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:30.119 you look at the sides of the issues they're on and where the money they 305 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:38.279 raise goes, it's certainly not to the constitutional conservatives. It's absolutely going to 306 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:45.319 the radical extreme off the chart leftists. So, Brian, thank you for 307 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.000 the questions, well several questions here in the Facebook post. I've got to 308 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:52.920 take a break shifting gears a little bit in the second half of the program. 309 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:56.839 Here, I've got another question that I got an email about yesterday that 310 00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:59.640 I want to touch on. So I'm going to take a break though my 311 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:03.319 friend Shift gears, and we'll see you on the other side of the break 312 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:11.319 back in a minute, my friends. A very very rare incident happened here 313 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.359 behind the scenes during the break Oz had to say, I disagree with you 314 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:19.240 on one point. And I said, do tell Oz what is the one 315 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:22.559 point? And she said, look, I don't think that we should take 316 00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:29.359 that this you know that the dollars should follow the kids if you homeschool because 317 00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:33.000 and she's got a good point here, which is obviously not what I was 318 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:34.920 saying. I just want to be on the to be very clear about that, 319 00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:41.000 because she said, look, if if we were to take dollars and 320 00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:48.839 those dollars would be applied for homeschool, then there would be it would come 321 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.519 with strings attached, which I get. I understand that. I understand that. 322 00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:56.880 My only point is to say, first of all, I would well, 323 00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:00.000 I would fight that vigorously too. And if it comes with strings attached, 324 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.920 and I don't, I wouldn't want it either. But I do think 325 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:10.200 that. I mean, homeschooling comes with costs. There are many things. 326 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:17.039 There's still the same curriculum and so forth, there's still filled trips and other 327 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:22.720 programs that you might want to put your child through that the money supposedly is 328 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.119 yours. Anyway, I just think I just think it's inconsistent to say, 329 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:30.720 well, you can have the money if your kid goes to public school, 330 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.480 which is going to teach your child a bunch of bonk apparently in today's world, 331 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:42.319 critical race theory, transgender stuff. Who knows what other crazy stuff is 332 00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:48.960 on the on the horizon or that's happening that we don't even know about anyway, 333 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:53.440 Very very rare for that to happen. But oz Oz disagreed, and 334 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:57.240 I point is taken. That's not to be clear. I wasn't saying that 335 00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:03.200 that is how that I would take that deal either, And she's right to 336 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:06.480 be aware of that. She's apparently listened to me over the course of these 337 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:11.799 years, knowing that these leftists never ever sleep. They never sleep. It 338 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:18.079 is a full time it is their religion. It is it is their religion, 339 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:26.559 and they will stop at nothing to see it implemented and accepted. Well 340 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:33.079 accepted, not the word forcefully fed to the masses around the country. So 341 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:36.079 that being said, I want to switch gears here a little bit. Got 342 00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:41.839 an email from a listener too, And by the way, I need to 343 00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:47.200 do this more often. I often just reply back to listeners. Occasionally I 344 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:52.359 talk about it on the program because sometimes I get the emails, you know, 345 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:56.720 not when I'm doing the program, so they I'm preparing on show prep 346 00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:03.119 and I'm I'm not going through and and putting some of these good questions sometimes 347 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.319 into the into the show prep. So I need to get better at that. 348 00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:11.680 But that being said, that being said, I got a question from 349 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:15.559 a listener named Bonnie, who I hear from Bonnie on a regular basis, 350 00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:22.519 And Bonnie, I appreciate your messages and encouragement and the fact that that you 351 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.799 listen on a very regular basis. But Bonnie sent me an article yesterday, 352 00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:32.440 headline here Fox News. Alvin Bragg. Now, this is the district attorney 353 00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:40.920 in Manhattan that has well, he had the grand jury who recommended that Trump 354 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:45.039 be indicted. Right, this is the individual. He's funded by George Soros. 355 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:49.559 He's a radical leftist. I don't even know if that's a fair assessment 356 00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:56.200 off the charts radical leftist. But here we go headline, Alvin Bragg promises 357 00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:06.279 not to prosecute theft to establish quote racial equity, balance the crime of poverty 358 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:08.920 so effectively. And I gotta take a break here, but I want to 359 00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:14.680 get this set up just a little bit. But Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg 360 00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:18.000 said during his campaign that racial equity I'm reading from the article here needed to 361 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:23.799 be a priority and that he did not believe thievery should be prosecuted since it 362 00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:32.000 was quote a crime of poverty. During the twenty twenty one May twenty one 363 00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:37.160 meeting, Bragg articulated his intention to focus on racial equity instead of prosecuting theft. 364 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:42.160 So, in other words, there's laws on the books that say effectively, 365 00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:48.359 thoushan that still I'm not that's the gist of these things, and Alvin 366 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:55.880 Bragg says, I'm not going to pursue that. However, I'm going to 367 00:31:56.039 --> 00:32:01.279 look past the statute of limitations. I'm going to get extra creative, an 368 00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:08.279 extra optimistic when it comes to Trump, my successes of actually getting some sort 369 00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:13.319 of a conviction on President Trump. I mean, if that's his perspective, 370 00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:19.960 not mine. But he of course is dealing with allegations or crimes, alleged 371 00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:23.799 crimes that the statute of limitations, according to attorneys, has already passed. 372 00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:32.200 He's also trying to well, he is prosecuting, charging someone who has not 373 00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:36.519 been charged federally. The FEDS did not want to go after this, yet 374 00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:42.319 Alvin Bragg does so. He's interested in stretching the law, manipulating the law, 375 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:46.759 doing whatever it takes to go after his political opponents. But if it 376 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:55.480 comes to someone who is well robbing people involved in theft, Alvin Bragg is 377 00:32:55.519 --> 00:33:00.680 not really interested about that. Even though it's a law, it's it's remarkable. 378 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.839 You've got one that's clearly a law on the books. You've gotten another 379 00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:08.680 one in the case of Trump, that requires all sorts of mental gymnastics to 380 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:15.680 even get to the point where one can even begin to articulate the why or 381 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:20.960 the crime allegedly involved. Here, he doesn't want he doesn't want anything to 382 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.559 do with the clear cut case of theft. He's not going to charge them. 383 00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:29.279 He's wanting to have racial equity, which good luck with. I mean, 384 00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:35.960 we've moved from equality by the way treating people all people have an equal 385 00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:38.960 rights to equity, equity of outcomes, which the government, the government, 386 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:44.799 which cannot do anything by the way they can they can. I mean, 387 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:50.480 they are wrong on all their projections. They've created massive inflation, they can't 388 00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:54.319 get us out of Afghanistan the right way, all these things they But yet 389 00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:57.960 they want to tell us what the sea levels are going to be and one 390 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:01.359 hundred years they're gonna tell us that they can make equal pay for equal work 391 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:08.760 somehow a reality, as though that's easy to even quantify and you know, 392 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:12.960 put in a nice, neat little boxes. There's obviously a lot more that 393 00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:16.440 goes into that discussion. It's not what they want you to believe that it 394 00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:23.280 is. And of course now they can create racial equity, equal outcomes for 395 00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:29.639 all people based upon some delusional way of thinking that say that, well, 396 00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:35.239 that believes that they know what's best and if we just simply oblige and follow 397 00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:38.320 their tremendous leadership, everything will be okay. But I'm want to talk about 398 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:42.920 this quick time out though she asked Bonnie asked a question about this, and 399 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:45.360 I want to get to it. So timeoutse in order my friends sit tight 400 00:34:45.440 --> 00:35:00.440 back in just a minute. So Bonny basically in her email asks well, 401 00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:05.079 she says, I wonder if there aren't any checks and balances in our system 402 00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:07.920 to deal with this kind of thing. I mean, after all, there's 403 00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:14.199 as attorney in Manhattan. Of course, you know that depends on what the 404 00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:17.760 laws of the state of New York are and so forth. But how can 405 00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:29.400 he basically totally ignore certain laws on the books and then make incredible stretches of 406 00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:34.039 the imagination to even come close to charging someone else? And that's clearly, 407 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:37.320 I think, unequivocally, what is what's happening in the case of Trump. 408 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:43.519 And of course, in comparison to how District Attorney Alvin Bragg is well telling 409 00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:50.320 us he's wanting to deal with the issue of theft in New York City because 410 00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:53.559 it is quote a crime of poverty, and he wants to ensure racial equity, 411 00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:59.280 and so a couple of things. Number One, state that certain states 412 00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:07.519 have some restrictions or some guidance for district attorney as far as what they can 413 00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:12.199 do and so forth, they can also step in. They can also step 414 00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:15.280 in, I don't know specifically in New York. I read I read a 415 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:20.880 little bit on this specifically in New York, but in general. In general, 416 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:27.079 legislatures have authority and power. But it goes back really to what we 417 00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:32.519 were talking about earlier in the program, and that is, if these legislators 418 00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:40.239 don't have the I'm trying to think of the polite way to say this, 419 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:51.920 but the intestinal fortitude to take the steps necessary to deal with people abusing our 420 00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:58.239 public education system, and if they don't have the intestinal fortitude to deal with 421 00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:01.039 district attorneys, that are clearly, look, a district attorney's job is not 422 00:37:01.079 --> 00:37:06.400 to write the law. The legislature passes that and then it's signed into law. 423 00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:09.159 If it's a state law by the governor, if it's a federal law 424 00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:15.400 by the president, and so the executive and the legislative branch have approved that 425 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:20.239 law. That's not the job of one district attorney. Now, there is 426 00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:25.320 such a thing as prosecutor prosecutorial discretion, but that's not that's not saying I'm 427 00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:30.519 not going to charge this type of crime. That's really more supposed to be 428 00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:39.039 reserved for circumstances where an individual's uh, you know, particular detailed circumstances can 429 00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:44.320 play a role into a case. It's not just I'm going to ignore certain 430 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:45.880 aspects Now some people would argue and say, well, yeah, that is, 431 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:53.159 but that's not That's not how this country. The legislature has passes the 432 00:37:53.239 --> 00:38:00.639 laws, and it's the job of these folks like district attorneys to make sure 433 00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:04.400 that the law is enforced and so. But what it all comes down to 434 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:08.639 is if you don't have legislators or people who are in elected office with the 435 00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:15.920 strength and the courage and the character required to have the tough conversations and to 436 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:20.400 see these things through, we're going to sit here and be on the losing 437 00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:22.800 end of all this stuff. So timeouts in order, my friends back in 438 00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:38.280 just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. 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