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This is a topic that's near and
dear to my heart and something my wife

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and I really care about and are
monitoring sort of in the background closely as

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a long term trend and specifically sort
of wondering how California will start to address

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this. It's a topic of homeschooling. And we've always sort of said to

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each other, you know, I
grew up here. I'm I grew up

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in the San Joaquin Valley. My
family moved here when I was three,

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and I love it here and I
like how I've been able to establish my

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career here. And we've basically sort
of agreed with each other like, where

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would if we ever were to move
or to move on to different career options

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or something, you know, where
would we go? And probably our limitations

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would be, well, we would
probably only want to go to you know,

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either you know, someday if you
ever moved, or I ever got

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a new job or something. We'd
ever only ever want to go to Minnesota,

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where Holly's from, maybe go back
to Notre Dame or either something at

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the university or around the university,
whatever. But the other reason we thought

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that could prompt us to leave California
not an affirmative reason for going to somewhere

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else, but an affirmative reason to
leave to abandon here would be if California

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screwed around with homeschooling, if California
started to stick its nose into the business

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of homeschoolers regulate homeschooling in such a
fashion as to make it unfeasible for us.

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So we homeschool our kids, and
our kids are doing really, really

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well homeschooling. I was homeschooled growing
up, My wife was homeschool growing up,

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and we're homeschooling our kids, and
we're really happy with the situation we

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have with their homeschooling. It's not
perfect. I don't think any educational situation

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is perfect, but I think the
level of education they're getting is really good.

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They're very smart kids there. You
know, I've got nine, seven,

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and five year old in school,
and then a four year old is

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about to be kind of maybe preschooling. But yeah, we got a nine

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to seven five year old and they're
really really smart. All three of them

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can read, all three of them
can do math at pretty high levels.

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They're learning cursive, they're writing,
they're reading history. My seven year old

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was reading Little Women and has read
it, has read it a bunch of

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times they've read they're reading like voraciously. So I'm really happy with homeschooling,

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But every so often I see these
individual posts or I see like before the

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pandemic, there was a big conference
at Harvard Law School. This Harvard Law

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School professor was looking at homeschooling and
the relative levels of non regulation and basically

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arguing that we need more government regulation
and oversight for homeschoolers, which I find

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to be ominous. And I see
this tweet from come out from this woman,

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Jen Jennings's a professor at Princeton,
sociology professor at Princeton who does a

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lot of work in education research,
is noting that one out of every seventeen

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kids in America is now homeschooled,
but lacks state regulations mean we know little

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about whether they're receiving the education they
deserve. And this just leads me that

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it's astonishing to me how liberals can
say this with a straight face given the

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dire state of public education in America. We know we have test scores in

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California, for example, whose job
is to measure are you at grade level?

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Are you on track for college.
Okay, And we know, for

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example, within Fresno Unified that about
seventy percent of the kids are not reading

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at grade level and seventy percent of
the kids cannot do math at grade level.

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That they are not going to be
able to do college level English language

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literature stuff, so reading comprehension,
actual reading, writing skill, et cetera,

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and also math. But the idea
that well, because we don't have

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total control over the homeschooling regime,
therefore we don't know the educational attainment level

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of these kids, and these kids
might be subject to educational neglect. How

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many millions of kids in California public
schools are subject to educational neglect it amazes

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me. I guess it's this sense
that because the public school system is a

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system, it has this official stamp
or this official insignia to it. It's

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a known quantity with a known structure
and known outcomes that is just deemed to

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be And it's only I guess,
in when you're comparing it with homeschooling,

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the idea of and yes, I
have seen instances of families homeschooling their kids

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and not doing a very great job
of it, or doing a lax job

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of it. I very vigorously though, would dispute the notion. And again

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I'm doing this on anecdotal evidence here, I would highly dispute the idea that

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the outcomes from homeschooling are any different
from the outcomes of normal high school schooling,

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of normal public schooling. Are there
some families who homeschool their kids and

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the kids are kind of not really
learning much of anything? Yeah, but

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are there not millions of kids going
through California? You have public high schools

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who can barely read, Yes,
that is one hundred percent happening. Who

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can barely do any functional math,
yes, who are who are completely unprepared

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for the workforce, yes, that's
happening, Or who are just dropping out

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altogether. I mean, the dropout
rates within California public schools are also,

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in various cases incredibly distressing. So
the idea that I mean, those have

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to count, Okay, those have
to count for the public schools in our

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If we're comparing the effectiveness of education
we got we have to look at height

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normal public school high school dropouts too
and compare them to homeschoolers who maybe their

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parents opted for homeschooling for reasons that
didn't have really a very positive of pro

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educational reason for homeschooling. I think
with Holly and me, we have a

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very positive vision of what homeschooling is
as a positive educational choice designed for us

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to achieve certain positive, superior goals
for our kids and for their education.

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We're not resorting to it because our
kids because of some negative reason or because

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maybe you know, it's not something
where we're choosing homeschooling to be uninvolved.

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We're not choosing homeschooling to be uninvolved. We're not choosing homeschooling to have less

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involvement. We're choosing homeschooling because we
want more involvement, we want more oversight

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of our children's education. And I
think it gets to this fundamental disagreement between

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the left and the right, the
public school loving left and the less enthusiastic

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for public school right, which is
whose kids are they? Whose kids are

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they? There's a certain kind of
mythology with public schools that it has this

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critical role in the formation of American
citizenry, the formation that public school uniquely

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has, this the inculcation of certain
kinds of particularly American values, that it

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has a role in America as the
melting pot, that it has this certain

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role of producing a certain kind of
producing a certain kind of positive civic outcome,

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and that the nation as a whole
should take a particular interest in her

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public schools in that sense that it
inculcates the values of the nation, that

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it inculcates the values of the country. The problem is that today, I

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think those values are chiefly not really
the values of America historically. Whatever those

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values are, whatever those historical,
in many cases very quite good values are,

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we're inculcating the values of the modern
day American left, which has completely

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captured all of the public school unions
and has in large measure captured the public

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school curricula from sea to shining sea, even in most red states. I

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think there are a couple of red
states that are belatedly taking aggressive steps to

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roll all that back. But the
values being inculcated are fundamentally, I think,

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those of the left. But from
this sort of attitude of that public

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schools have this role in the formation
of the country. If you take those

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kinds of ideas and that kind of
high falutin attitude, at a certain point

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you can cross into thinking that these
kids belong to the state, that these

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kids belong to the government, that
these kids belong to the country, and

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that a parent who would deprive their
child of that of that inculcation of national

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civic values is doing something wrong.
And my retort for all of this is,

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well, to whom does this child
belong? Fundamentally, the first,

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foremost educator of a child is the
parents. Fundamentally, this kid belongs to

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parents. It is only when the
parent engages in I mean, I would

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say the only time the govern woman
should step in to interfere with the parent

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child relationship is if that parent child
relationship gets to the point of flat out

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abuse, physical abuse, abuse.
I guess. However, then the problem

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is that we have differing definitions of
what abuse is. And I guess that's

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the problem here. I think this
is my fear. You're a homeschooler.

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You're doing so in part because you
reject and I'll be frank, I'm a

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homeschooler in part because I reject the
kinds of values that would be inculcated in

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my kids if they were in a
normal public school. I don't want my

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kids to be assaulted with every you
know, every ideological position of the LGBTQ,

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I A whatever. I don't want
those values inculcated. I want my

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beliefs on marriage and sexuality and the
dignity of the human body. I want

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my values to be inculcated in my
children, not the public schools. At

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a certain point, I am afraid
that that will be deemed child abuse.

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And if there's ever going to be
a state where that's going to happen,

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it will be here in California.
Unless, unless, unless, maybe homeschoolers

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have enough of a numerical significance that
they can stand up to it and liberals

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will not mess with it. I
guess I'm amazed that the liberals haven't done

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more to mess with homeschooling up to
this point. I wonder if COVID sort

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of interrupted plans to do so because
people saw what an absolute you know what

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show. The people saw what an
absolute you know what show things were because

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of COVID and all these people having
to basically homeschool their kids because the public

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schools just kind of abandoned their job, abandoned their responsibilities. But I don't

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know, I think it's the one
It's one of the things that would really

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prompt you know as and look,
there's a lot of stuff about living in

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California that's hard and not great.
Your dollar goes a lot, it goes

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a lot less far, it goes
a lot shorter in California than it does

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in other states. Housing is really
expensive here. All this stuff is difficult

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about living in California. But if
they screw around with homeschooling, that might

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be my an Holly's breaking point.
When we return, we'll talk about the

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wonder full successes of California public schools
and how maybe I would fix them or

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maybe they're just completely insoluble problems.
That's next on the John Girardi Show.

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So there are a lot of fundamental
problems with American public education. One of

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them is that children are sexually abused
within American public schools, both more children

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total and more children per capita than
in Catholic schools than in Catholic churches.

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Ever, that is not cap that
is actually facts. Okay, so that's

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a little problem, but let's just
talk about the educational side of things.

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On the educational side of things,
American public schools are basically guided by a

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certain American mythology about college education,
and this mythology I think was largely true

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up until maybe fairly recently. College
education is the gateway to success in America.

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You know, my great grandfather,
my great grandfather came to America on

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a boat from Italy as a boy
into Ellis Island. He was like a

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shoemaker and a grocer. His son
became a CPA, his son became a

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doctor, his son me became a
lawyer, slash nonprofit director, slash yapper

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on the radio. So now things
are starting to now things are starting to

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decline. But college education, higher
education was this pathway to really very quick

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success for going from you know,
a you know, someone coming from South

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Italy coming from Calabria with not a
lot of money to his grandson being a

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very successful doctor. Like that's a
pretty quick turnaround, all right, College

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education was the pathway to success.
And so we idolize college education. We

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idolize you know, being the first
in my family to graduate from college and

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first generation college graduate, like all
of that stuff is super important still and

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it's still part of this American mythology. And I think this the problem is

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that this American mythology about college education
and college attainment and all that we're about

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fifteen years past a point where this
is shifting. Maybe we're twenty years past.

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Maybe the shift happened even before I
started in college, where college has

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now become so expensive and weighs people
down, and especially if you're trying to

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get graduate degrees on top, because
there's been a sort of degree inflation.

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There are jobs that today requires a
master's degree that in you know, a

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generation ago, would have required a
bachelor's degree. And then even there's some

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jobs that required a bachelor's degree that
maybe only needed a high school diploma before.

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I've used this example before. My
father in law is an engineer with

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Cummins engines and generators and stuff like
that, and he's very successful, the

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very impressive engineer. He's got several
patents to his name, different kinds of

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things he's done. I think actually
a lot of his work has been you

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know, he lives in Minnesota,
has been producing patents to help engines and

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generators and stuff remain in compliant with
California emissions regulated sort of unique California missions

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regulations. So he's a very successful
engineer. Does not have a college degree,

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high school degree, and I forget
exactly how old he think he's about

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late fifties, early sixties like that
does not exist anymore. So you have

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this sort of degree inflation, where
the kinds of jobs that And how did

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he learn to be an engineer?
Well, he learned to be an engineer

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by you know, taking taking apart
tractors and putting them together again, and

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taking apart engines and putting them together
again. And he learned, you know,

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he learned by doing. And I
guess that's the sort of way of

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becoming an engineer that I don't think
is possible today. So you've had this

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degree inflation, You've had each of
these degrees is more and more expensive.

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You're weighted down by this massive freight
of debt. Is this really the best

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thing for our American public high schools
to be college education or bust for all

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these kids? That that's the goal, that's the educational goal towards which the

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high school curriculum in California public schools
is ordered. Every one college for all,

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college for everybody? Is that really
wise today? Is that really wise?

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I don't know. I don't think
it is. I think you wind

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up having a lot of kids who
could be doing something who are never going

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to go to college. That's the
thing. If you say college education for

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all is the goal of high school, then you know you're going to fail

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with a huge significant percentage of these
kids who are just not going to graduate

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college. It's still a very significant
percentage of the American population is not going

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to graduate college. So what are
we saying then to those kids? Sorry,

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guys, you're screwed. And very
often it's guys, by the way.

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That's the other dynamic here is that
there's this massive shift of declining success

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rate for high school and college aged
males, which if it were happening the

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other way, would be a national
crisis. But because it's boys and no

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one gives a crap, it's not
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I guess the thing is, how
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I mean, there are huge cultural
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that are being inculcated through the curriculum. All of the modern day basically all

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of the all of the beliefs of
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are the guiding beliefs that are being
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surprised that generation after generation of Democrat
voters are just being churned out of American

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public schools. But beyond that,
I think even the strict educational goals are

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totally whack and totally off track,
and I'd rather opt out. I'd rather

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have my kids be educated through homeschooling. And I'm so grateful to my wife

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for the energy and effort in time
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we're already seeing with our You know, nothing makes me happier than seeing my

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nine year old, my seven year
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reading and loving books and doing math
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and all the credit in the world
to my wife for all of that.

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When we return, I reveal the
top secret reason why Gavin Newsom is

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actually trying to repeal the Second Amendment. The answer is money. Next,

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on the John Girardi Show, there's
this hilarious clip that I just saw on

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Twitter, which I don't think I
can play because I think he uses a

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word that I am not allowed to
say on the radio. It's Governor Chris

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san Nunu, the Republican from New
Hampshire, who is talking about yeah,

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you get along with most governors,
but they're a couple who are just take

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terrible, terrible to get along with. And the interviewer asked, well,

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well, who do you mean.
He's like, you really want me to

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say? All right, So he
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two governors, because I think American
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where they interact with each other.
So Sununu said, the two governors that

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nobody liked were Andrew Cuomo it's terrible, and then Gavin Newsom. He said,

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you know, I get along with
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Some are good guys, you know, so we disagree on politics,

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but Gavin Newsom is just a bleep, And he said, and other Democrat

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governors think the same thing. They
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closed doors they'd be like, oh
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I just thought it was so fun. I'm gonna I retweeted it at my

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Twitter account if you want to hear
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word that I can't play on the
radio. But anyway, Twitter dot com

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slash President Johnny at President Johnny if
you want to hear it. I just

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thought it was so funny. All
right, Gavin Newsom, let's talk about

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him. About a year ago,
Gavin Newsom did something that I thought was

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at least interesting. Not that I
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was interesting. Throughout all the gun
controlled debates, the problem that Democrats run

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into, and the reason why the
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a stalemate, is the Second Amendment. Democrats basically just faced an insurmountable problem

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that the Second Amendment is there,
and the policy preferences that they would like

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to have the Second Amendment effectively makes
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if they got everything they wanted as
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that, even if the Supreme Court
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of the Second Amendment, I think
it would be hard just to get rid

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of the Second Amendment altogether now at
the very least, and maybe from their

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perspective, they say, well,
there's nothing wrong with the Second Amendments,

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just that the Supreme Court has interpreted
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don't think the Supreme Court is interpreted
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Democrat interpretation of the Second Amendment kind
of beggars belief. The Democrat interpretation of

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the Second Amendment is that the only
the only people with a right to keep

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in bear arms are militia's because in
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well ordered militia being necessary, the
right to keep in bear arms shall not

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be abridged. Now, I think, even grammatically speaking, that argument doesn't

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hold weight. The fact that the
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militia does not thereby limit the scope
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to militias. Okay. And it's
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The idea of a militia is that
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body responsible for defense, a raised
citizen body where you're assuming this citizen has

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a gun. Okay, So private
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arms does and are at the very
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apply the Bill of Rights against the
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that it protect individual gun ownership.
So, nonetheless, gavenusom is up against

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whether you want to argue it's the
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or the Second Amendment itself. Democrats
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sort of in the position that pro
lifers were in after Roe v. Wade,

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where pro lifers want to pass laws
limit abortion. Whole bunch of states

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willing to pass laws to ban abortion, restrict abortion only to the first trimester

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or whatever, but they couldn't pass
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decision saying no abortion has to be
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So Democrats are in a similar place
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I've always been a little annoyed at
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issue and just sort of saying,
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it's not there, or pretending like
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just sort of said, well,
we're just gonna ban us. We're gonna

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be we need to ban AR fifteen. So it's like, Okay, well,

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it's the most common gun in America. Do you really think you can

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ban the most common gun in America
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Is you know, still be in
compliance with the Second Amendment, and

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so many of the Democrats solutions I
think will would not. Maybe this is

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the better way of phrasing all this. Most of the Democrat gun control solutions

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I don't think will meaningfully make a
single dent in gun violence. Getting rid

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of quote assault weapon do it,
reinstating there quote assault weapons bands isn't going

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to do much. Most gun violence
in America, The overwhelming majority of gun

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violence in America is not perpetrated with
quote assault weapons. Even though I mean

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gun people will tell you, by
the way, I do not characterize myself

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as a gun person. I don't
actually I don't actually own a gun,

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not out of any hostility. I've
sort of always It's a thing I've always

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sort of thought I should do,
but I just haven't gotten around with it.

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So I'm not super knowledgeable about firearms. I'm sure many of you listening

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are far more knowledgeable than me.
But what most intelligent gun people that I

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listen to would say is that the
term assault weapon is not really a real

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category of gun. It is a
thing that lawmakers It is a term that

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lawmakers attached to certain kinds of features
on certain kinds of firearms. Firearms that

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have certain kinds of features that in
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lethality. Regardless regardless of how you
define or what is an assault weapon,

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I think it usually seems to refer
to long guns. Most gun violence in

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America is perpetrated with handguns with non
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and regulated and banned for private individual
ownership in America. Anyway, Most gun

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violence is perpetrated by revolvers or semi
automatic pistols. We have some of these

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explosive stories about like the Las Vegas
shooter or something, certain individual mass shootings

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that catch the public attention where someone
used maybe in AR fifteen, but that's

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not most gun violence in America.
Most gun violence is one person dead in

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shooting gang bangers using a handgun.
So the idea of well, let's let's

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ban you know, we're gonna we're
gonna ban assault weapons, We're gonna have

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more criminal background checks, we're gonna
do this, we're gonna do that.

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Most of the gun control regulation,
we're gonna we're gonna do stuff to limit

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concealed carry. Concealed Carrie permit holders
are not the people going out and committing

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gun crimes. Tightening up the rules
on people who've already committed themselves to jumping

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through a whole bunch of hoops and
following a whole bunch of rules makes no

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sense. The concealed carry permit holders
that have already sort of made this public

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declaration of I want to follow the
rules. I want to go through the

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process of getting this permit to clandestinely
carry this gun round on me like they're

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not gonna commit crimes. So I've
always been baffled at all the Democrat gun

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control legislation. Well, Gavin Newsom, finally I thought was somewhat sensible within

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the context of gun control advocates.
He gave this proposal, I propose that

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we try to amend the Second Amendment. Okay, I don't agree with it,

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but at the very least I thought, this is a gun control advocate

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who is actually somewhat sensible. The
only thing I have always thought that could

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actually make a dent in limiting gun
violence would be massive wholesale banning of guns,

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nationwide buyback of guns, banning guns
altogether, something that massive reduces the

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supply of guns in the country.
Now, is that a good idea?

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No. Are there probably a lot
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Yes? Am I advocating it?
No? But I am saying that

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that's the one thing I could think
of that maybe would have a discernible effect

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in limiting the amount of gun violence
in America is if you had a massive

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expansive policy that obviously violates the Second
Amendment. That's the one way I could

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see an actual dent in gun violence
happening, not this stuff that Democrats keep

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proposing, which is just playing around
at the edges, and that's really all

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that's mostly doing is limiting law abiding
people. So I thought, Okay,

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here's Gavin Newsom. He's going to
try and he, you know, finally

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an intellectually honest liberal. He recognizes
the limit that the Second Amendment, you

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know, puts on gun control efforts, and he's actually proposing a reasonably he's

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actually proposing reasonable within his own content. Again, don't agree with him,

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but within from his starting premises,
seems reasonable. Okay, Gavin Newsom is

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proposing the actual thing that would maybe
make a dent in gun violence, amend

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the Second Amendment. But then in
his proposal, all he's proposing is all

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the same sort of little things that
Democrats have been proposing forever. With gun

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control, he's not actually proposing massive
gun buybacks. He's not actually proposing massive,

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you know, the UK style banning
of private gun ownership. It's all

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the same stuff, background checks,
banning assault weapons, et cetera. What

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are we doing that for? And
then I realized what it was. I

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realized what it actually was. Obviously, amending the Constitution in almost any case,

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especially for any controversial issue like gun
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Amending the Constitution requires massive nationwide consensus. You need two thirds of the House,

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two thirds of the Senate, and
three quarters of the state legislatures.

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All degree, All right, We're
never going to get that with gun control.

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And then I came across a post
on Twitter that explained the whole thing.

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It's a post from Gavin Newsom's private
account, not his governor's account,

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his private account, and it says
this, if you support mandating background checks,

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banning civilian purchases of assault weapons,
raising the federal minimum age to buy

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firearm from eighteen to twenty one,
then please sign our petition today and join

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the movement to pass a new amendment
to the US Constitution today. It's a

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small act that can make a big
difference, and it says it's paid for

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by his super pack. Gavin Newsom
is not proposing amending the Constitution and banning

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the Second Amendment, or revising the
Second Amendment, amending the Second Amendment,

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whatever. He's not proposing that because
he actually wants to do any of that.

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Well maybe he wants to, but
the chief motive is fundraising. His

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pack is doing this. What is
a pack for super pac is basically an

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entity that exists to raise funds and
spend them without restrictions on political candidates.

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There is a pack that's affiliated with
him. Sign our petition, Now,

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what do you think that is?
By the way, any of you who

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sign a petition online, you're being
had. All it is is someone trying

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to get your email address and your
phone number so they can spam you with

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ads. That's all Newsom's doing.
He's collecting email addresses and phone numbers so

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he can spam people, or his
super pac can spam people with ads for

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campaign contributions. Newsom isn't doing this
because he wants to you know, and

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gun control. He wants to impose
gun control. He's doing this to build

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up his donor base for when he
runs for president in twenty twenty eight.

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When we return my ode to a
heroic Catholic priest from Orlando who bit a

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woman trying to steal the Eucharist from
him. That's next on the John Girardi

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Show. All right, this is
a hilarious story. In Florida around now,

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a lot of young Catholics in about
second grade or so are receiving their

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first communions. So the first time
you receive communion as Catholic, it's a

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very special, lovely little ceremony.
It's just a normal mass, and you

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receive communion for the first time.
And usually girls receiving community for the first

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time wear frilly white dresses and boys
wear suits, and family members come and

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it's a lovely little sort of milestone
ride, a passage your development in the

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Christian life. Now, the problem
with these masses is that often family members

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come who have little or no connection
to Catholicism and behave in somewhat indecorous ways.

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So a mass like this was happening
in Orlando and a woman, I

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guess it was a family member of
someone else who was there for mass in

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a lesbian relationship with her lesbian partner, presents herself for a receiving communion.

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Now the priest is I'm guessing I
don't know this, but I'm guessing the

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priest is of Cuban descent. English
is his second language. Clearly he's an

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older priest does not give her communion, and I think it's probably because she's

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obviously in a lesbian relationship. He's
not sure what to do. He doesn't

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give her communion. She tries to
grab the host from the ornate sort of

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golden bowl that the priest is holding
it in, and the priest is sort

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of struggling with her and winds up
biting her arm. I am pro the

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priest biting the woman's arm, first
to defend the blessed sacrament. Secondly because

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it sort of reminds me of John
Voight biting Kramer's arm on that one episode

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of Seinfeld. Good for you,
Father. That'll do it for John Glady

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show. See you next time on
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