Speaker 1: Toxic around. This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast.
Speaker 1: Things are so much better now in many respects, but
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things. As I mentioned before, the
Speaker 1: second hour, professional wrestling nothing, there's nothing like it today.
Speaker 1: You cannot see that. You can't see it on TV,
Speaker 1: you can't go. It's just the storyline and they don't
Speaker 1: know any better. And I appreciate that. I appreciate what
Speaker 1: Vince McMahon tried to do then. But the other day
Speaker 1: we were walking my wife and I I forget what
Speaker 1: store and I said, oh, back to school? Is that
Speaker 1: back to school already? Seems like they're going back to
Speaker 1: school earlier and earlier, which made me think, why do
Speaker 1: we have school? Which made me think what would I
Speaker 1: do if I could change things? And I am so
Speaker 1: lucky in many respects. I didn't realize this at the time,
Speaker 1: but I'm lucky that I attended parochial school, Catholic school
Speaker 1: growing up. At the time, I thought it was horrible.
Speaker 1: We had uniforms and the nuns. I did not understand
Speaker 1: who these people were. These were actual nuns with cardboard
Speaker 1: and black veils, and they were just kid were just incredible,
Speaker 1: and they represented something which were just beyond anything you
Speaker 1: could imagine, and it was so much better. And if
Speaker 1: we had them today like I had, it would be
Speaker 1: a better place. They changed me, they set me on
Speaker 1: a course. It was the best. We never had anybody
Speaker 1: acting out, nobody ever skipped a grade. Some people were
Speaker 1: held back. I remember somebody went, we heard that this
Speaker 1: one kid. I don't know if it was true or not,
Speaker 1: but they always told us this one kid was held
Speaker 1: back because of his handwriting. I couldn't understand that our
Speaker 1: ability to compete in the world today is just so
Speaker 1: pathetic because the fundamentals of what education used to be,
Speaker 1: it's completely gone. If you follow the story of this charlatan,
Speaker 1: this con, this ersots, this fictive, this pretend, this Cambridge
Speaker 1: scholar who claims to be autistic. I mean it is
Speaker 1: a story which is so he's black. He's black, and
Speaker 1: everybody is so interested in promoting him that they realize
Speaker 1: he's a con. So what he's doing is of course
Speaker 1: making the on the onslaught of this to be race related.
Speaker 1: Somewhere along the lines, we lost the schools, we lost
Speaker 1: what it was. And if I could be the president,
Speaker 1: if I could run this country, I would make sure
Speaker 1: that we had a different system where we would identify
Speaker 1: people people who are really talented, and I would treat
Speaker 1: them the same way that we treat somebody who is
Speaker 1: an athlete. We live in the country of some of
Speaker 1: the stupidest people I've ever heard. In fact, it is okay.
Speaker 1: I hear mispronunciations, I hear bad English, I hear people
Speaker 1: who are barely able to cobble together as a sentence,
Speaker 1: and it's acceptable. I see right now where profanity has
Speaker 1: somehow been elevated to some status that we look at
Speaker 1: admirably flipping people off, f bombing. I'm not a prude.
Speaker 1: I will argue that in some respects the ability to
Speaker 1: curse to something which is critical for you to get
Speaker 1: along in the world. You have to you have to
Speaker 1: be able to speak and to converse via Dare I
Speaker 1: say coprolalia as it is called, but to for it
Speaker 1: to replace regular thinking? No. Have you ever received an
Speaker 1: email from somebody or ten and you're saying, what does
Speaker 1: this even mean? People can't even write today. People can't write.
Speaker 1: If you if you possess a vocabulary that used to
Speaker 1: be considered eighth grade. This was maybe around the in
Speaker 1: the in the turn of the centuries, or maybe in
Speaker 1: the forties or fifties, and certainly certainly not in the
Speaker 1: nineteenth century, which you would have been considered almost pedestrian.
Speaker 1: You're considered showing off. Why are you saying that? Why
Speaker 1: are you showing off? Why are you daring? If you're
Speaker 1: a logo dentalist, a ciscobadalian, if you're a logo file
Speaker 1: if you're a oh my god, why are you doing this?
Speaker 1: Why are you using big words? We live in an
Speaker 1: anti intellectual world of chuffs and churls and bores and
Speaker 1: the idiots all over the place. I'm telling you, good luck,
Speaker 1: good luck trying to do anything about that at all. So,
Speaker 1: as parents get their kids ready for a new school year,
Speaker 1: ask yourself, are they learning anything?