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<v Speaker 1>Toxic around. This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast.

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<v Speaker 1>Things are so much better now in many respects, but

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<v Speaker 1>there's a couple of things. As I mentioned before, the

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<v Speaker 1>second hour, professional wrestling nothing, there's nothing like it today.

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<v Speaker 1>You cannot see that. You can't see it on TV,

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<v Speaker 1>you can't go. It's just the storyline and they don't

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<v Speaker 1>know any better. And I appreciate that. I appreciate what

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<v Speaker 1>Vince McMahon tried to do then. But the other day

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<v Speaker 1>we were walking my wife and I I forget what

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<v Speaker 1>store and I said, oh, back to school? Is that

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<v Speaker 1>back to school already? Seems like they're going back to

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<v Speaker 1>school earlier and earlier, which made me think, why do

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<v Speaker 1>we have school? Which made me think what would I

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<v Speaker 1>do if I could change things? And I am so

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<v Speaker 1>lucky in many respects. I didn't realize this at the time,

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<v Speaker 1>but I'm lucky that I attended parochial school, Catholic school

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<v Speaker 1>growing up. At the time, I thought it was horrible.

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<v Speaker 1>We had uniforms and the nuns. I did not understand

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<v Speaker 1>who these people were. These were actual nuns with cardboard

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<v Speaker 1>and black veils, and they were just kid were just incredible,

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<v Speaker 1>and they represented something which were just beyond anything you

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<v Speaker 1>could imagine, and it was so much better. And if

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<v Speaker 1>we had them today like I had, it would be

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<v Speaker 1>a better place. They changed me, they set me on

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<v Speaker 1>a course. It was the best. We never had anybody

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<v Speaker 1>acting out, nobody ever skipped a grade. Some people were

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<v Speaker 1>held back. I remember somebody went, we heard that this

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<v Speaker 1>one kid. I don't know if it was true or not,

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<v Speaker 1>but they always told us this one kid was held

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<v Speaker 1>back because of his handwriting. I couldn't understand that our

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<v Speaker 1>ability to compete in the world today is just so

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<v Speaker 1>pathetic because the fundamentals of what education used to be,

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<v Speaker 1>it's completely gone. If you follow the story of this charlatan,

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<v Speaker 1>this con, this ersots, this fictive, this pretend, this Cambridge

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<v Speaker 1>scholar who claims to be autistic. I mean it is

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<v Speaker 1>a story which is so he's black. He's black, and

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<v Speaker 1>everybody is so interested in promoting him that they realize

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<v Speaker 1>he's a con. So what he's doing is of course

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<v Speaker 1>making the on the onslaught of this to be race related.

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<v Speaker 1>Somewhere along the lines, we lost the schools, we lost

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<v Speaker 1>what it was. And if I could be the president,

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<v Speaker 1>if I could run this country, I would make sure

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<v Speaker 1>that we had a different system where we would identify

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<v Speaker 1>people people who are really talented, and I would treat

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<v Speaker 1>them the same way that we treat somebody who is

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<v Speaker 1>an athlete. We live in the country of some of

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<v Speaker 1>the stupidest people I've ever heard. In fact, it is okay.

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<v Speaker 1>I hear mispronunciations, I hear bad English, I hear people

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<v Speaker 1>who are barely able to cobble together as a sentence,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's acceptable. I see right now where profanity has

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<v Speaker 1>somehow been elevated to some status that we look at

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<v Speaker 1>admirably flipping people off, f bombing. I'm not a prude.

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<v Speaker 1>I will argue that in some respects the ability to

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<v Speaker 1>curse to something which is critical for you to get

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<v Speaker 1>along in the world. You have to you have to

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<v Speaker 1>be able to speak and to converse via Dare I

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<v Speaker 1>say coprolalia as it is called, but to for it

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<v Speaker 1>to replace regular thinking? No. Have you ever received an

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<v Speaker 1>email from somebody or ten and you're saying, what does

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<v Speaker 1>this even mean? People can't even write today. People can't write.

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<v Speaker 1>If you if you possess a vocabulary that used to

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<v Speaker 1>be considered eighth grade. This was maybe around the in

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<v Speaker 1>the in the turn of the centuries, or maybe in

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<v Speaker 1>the forties or fifties, and certainly certainly not in the

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<v Speaker 1>nineteenth century, which you would have been considered almost pedestrian.

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<v Speaker 1>You're considered showing off. Why are you saying that? Why

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<v Speaker 1>are you showing off? Why are you daring? If you're

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<v Speaker 1>a logo dentalist, a ciscobadalian, if you're a logo file

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<v Speaker 1>if you're a oh my god, why are you doing this?

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<v Speaker 1>Why are you using big words? We live in an

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<v Speaker 1>anti intellectual world of chuffs and churls and bores and

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<v Speaker 1>the idiots all over the place. I'm telling you, good luck,

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<v Speaker 1>good luck trying to do anything about that at all. So,

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<v Speaker 1>as parents get their kids ready for a new school year,

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<v Speaker 1>ask yourself, are they learning anything?