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"Morning in the Weingarten of Good & Evil" (Monday August 25, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: First Thing Today on the Tunk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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I'm going to throw you off here, but you know,
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tanks ones working on public policy and working to bring
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as the Virginia Institute for Public Policy. First on the
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guest list before we get into our first things, Corey
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DeAngelis one of the great activists for school choice and
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finally getting to the point, I'm going to spend a
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little time with you, Corey, and I appreciate you taking
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some time out here for us on this Monday morning
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from New Orleans. I was watching I think it's with
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a CNN panel with Scott Jennings on it. It's like
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for loonies in Scott is what it's called or whatever
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it is. And I actually watched one of the panelists
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and I was so dumbstruck by it I didn't write
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her name down. Make the case that schools should be
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for indoctrination not education. Is this another Terry mccaulluch moment
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of like, Oh my god, I can't believe they say
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the quiet part out loud.
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Speaker 5: It's like when they tried to say that critical race
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theory wasn't happening, it was only a college level chords,
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and then when we produced irrefutable evidence that it was happening,
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then they pivot to say, oh, yeah, you're right, it's happening,
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but it's actually a good thing, so don't worry about it. Right,
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So it's just them moving the goalpost every step of
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the way. But you know, the problem that I have
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is there's no such thing as they values neutral school.
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Some bias is always going to be introduced at some point,
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whether it's to the left, to the right, or otherwise.
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And I think what's more important is who gets to
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decide what kind of beliefs are instilled in that school,
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And it should obviously be the parents choosing for their
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own kids.
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Speaker 3: So school choice is the.
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Speaker 5: Only way to move forward through freedom as opposed to force,
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because in the status quo, it's not even a tyranny
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of the majority, it's a tyranny of the minority. You
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have a special interest. The teachers Union's controlling the minds
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of other people's kids. It's time to get out of
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that one size fits all system. Fund the kid directly,
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not the institution, and you'll have more flexibility and people
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being matched to their own values and having schools that
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respect them. And I think that's the only way forward,
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and I think that's why school choice is winning like
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never before.
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Speaker 4: Oh amen to that, Corey, hang out the line. We'll
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get back more about where we are in the movement,
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because I feel like it's getting closer than it's ever been.
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A lot of states. Has already happened. Virginia our flagship
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believe in or not way behind just a fuddling to me,
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the same state. But we'll get into that petition on
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our first things this morning, urging Florida officials to show
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lediency towards hargender seeing the illegal immigrant truck driver accused
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of killing three people in a crash, has garnered two
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point five million signatures, or point seven of a percent
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of the American population. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, another non citizen
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of the United States who has been fighting for not
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being deported, is going to turn himself into the Ice
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Field Office today in Baltimore, where he's expected to be
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deported to Uganda. Wildfires in California Wine Country and central
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Oregon grew overnight, hundreds of evacuations now in both the
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Picket Fire and Napa County has grown to more ten
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then the Flat fire in Oregon into Shoots and Jefferson
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Counties has grown to thirty four square miles no containment
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listed in over four thousand homes in peril. US President
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Donald Trump's envoy, Keith Kellogg, attended Ukraine's Independence Day celebrations
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Sunday in Kiev, as the push to end the war
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continues about Ukraine. On that celebration day launched a wave
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of drone strikes on Russia, triggering a fire at a
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nuclear plant as Ukrainians celebrated their independence. New South Korean
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President Lee J. Mung will meet with Donald Trump today
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in Washington. It's their first meeting, as they discussed China policy.
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In the South Pacific. Vice President JD Vance was on
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He said those include that Ukraine will receive security guarantees
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protecting against future Russian invasions, and a US envoy Thomas
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Benjamin Netan Yahoo and those are our first things this morning,
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coin James, you have a great morning, sir. Thanks showing
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you too, and you and me here in New Orleans
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four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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Corey DeAngelis visiting with us from the American Culture Foundation,
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one of the folks here at the State. We'll also
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get our friends from the Cascade Policy Institute in Oregon,
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the Empire Center in New York, all going to be
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joining us. But Corey, we were talking about school choice
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and parents' rights, and you know, Virginia, I think you know,
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if we ever have a museum him to school choice,
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we've got to have it somewhere associated with Terry mccaulluff.
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Maybe at the auto factory he never built in Mississippi,
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but somewhere Terry has to be on a statue at
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that Museum of you know, standing there saying, of course,
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I don't think parents should have any say in their
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kids education, right.
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Speaker 5: Terry actually had Randy Weingarten, the school closer, as his
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campaign closer. She stumped for him the night before the election.
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It was a bold strategy caught and it didn't work
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out for him.
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Speaker 3: But well, he went all in on.
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Speaker 5: Quadrupling down on anti parent rhetoric because he didn't want
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to cross the unions.
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Speaker 3: And Terry mccaulliff, you know, by all accounts, should have won.
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He was the basically the incumbent. He he he was
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governor of Virginia.
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Speaker 2: He was way ahead in the polls.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean than Abigail spanderger Is now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 5: And and and talk about disaster of a campaign for
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Abigail as well, with all her social media mess with
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the sign that was at the school board meeting, because
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some Sears is running on the same issues in a way,
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she supports school choice and she also you know, she
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supports getting transgender insanity out.
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Speaker 3: Of the classrooms as well.
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Speaker 5: This is what propelled Trump to win the education vote
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as well. According to National Atlas Intel polling before election
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day in November, Trump beat Kamala Harris on education, which
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is an underreported story.
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Speaker 4: Well, and you talk about that sign. So if you
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missed Friday's program, the Arlington school Board has a school
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board meeting and win some seies was there because they
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were discussing trans policy and whether they're going to let
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boys play girls sports, and whether they're going to let
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boys into girls locker rooms and all these things that
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are insane. And you want to talk about a classic
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case of the Overton window. Corey, I can't even believe
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we're discussing this. And the whole point is once you
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discuss it, it starts to become normalized. And then people
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started thinking, well, and that's that's how you drag these
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crazy ideas into the mainstream. But they had a sign
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that compared letting boys into girls' bathrooms as the as
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equivalent to letting black people into white people bathrooms. During
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Jim Crow one point, oh, which I believe Joe Biden
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helped pass. The early Jim he was an expert in
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Jim Crow two point zero because he was there for
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Jim Crow one point Zho and Abigail Spanberger would not
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come out against that statement. Corey. I mean, that's that's
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almost as bad.
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Speaker 3: It's crazy, but less.
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Speaker 4: Reported than what Terry mcculliff said. Everyone talked about what
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Terry mccullufs said. Nobody's mentioning what Spamburger did.
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Speaker 3: Well and with Spanberger's supporter.
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Speaker 5: You know, this is a white woman holding up the
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sign basically threatening on some series to go back to
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Jim Crow era and not letting blacks use white people's
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water fountains.
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Speaker 3: It's just despicable.
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Speaker 5: And then you have the vice chair of the Virginia
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Democrats coming out on social media now tonight blaming.
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Speaker 3: When some seers for all of this. So he's gonna
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blame the the.
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Speaker 5: You know, the black woman in this instance right for
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the racist sentiment of the white woman in Virginia holding
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that sign. It's just it's crazy. And you know, he
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hasn't lead the post yet. We'll see what happens, but
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I mean.
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Speaker 1: That's an important point.
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Speaker 4: He might delete the post and claim it never happened
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or he was hacked or something like that.
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Speaker 3: Well his his his deflection was to.
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Speaker 5: Now he's calling when some serious sears anti semitic.
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Speaker 3: He's saying that.
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Speaker 5: I say, Okay, what you're deflecting because you're getting ratioed
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on social media and now you're you're just throwing more
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insults at Hopefully the next governor of Virginia want some seers.
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Speaker 3: It's a crazy thing to watch.
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Speaker 4: Corey D'Angelis is on with us here at the State
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Policy Network, one of the presenters from the American Culture Foundation,
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and you know, we were talking about and I want
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to get into this with you because when some seers
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is such an ardent money follows the child's school choice
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advocate that I thought we had this sussed four years
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ago with the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor of Virginia
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at our back. We had you know, conservative groups like
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the Virginia Institute for Public Policy there with leaders in
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the black communities of these inner cities. And when it
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came to a vote, Republicans from rural communities voted against it.
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I couldn't believe what was going on. And then they
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told me, they said, well, we don't believe in school choice,
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and the rural communities because we don't have a lot
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of schools out here. That's changed over these four years,
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and I want to get your thoughts on that when
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Speaker 4: Sometimes your truth is the truth. And hopefully if you're
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It seems these days we break down the news for
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the State Policy Network and his work with the American
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Culture Foundation. Corey I laid out the scene. You know,
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these micro schools and these co op schools that we
29:31
didn't have four years ago in these rural communities, is
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now even better of a time for school choice because
29:41
now parents are seeing that you don't need traditional schools.
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You can start one yourself, or you can get five
29:48
or six parents. It's almost like the one room schoolhouse
29:52
is started again.
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Speaker 5: That's right, and homeschooling has effectively doubled since pre pandemic time,
29:59
since twenty nine nineteen if you look at the Census
30:01
Bureau of Data, so alternatives are sprouting up, and school
30:05
choice in rural areas was always.
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Speaker 3: A good idea.
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Speaker 5: If you look back at the oldest voucher programs in
30:10
the country, they actually started in Maine and Vermont and
30:13
New Hampshire in the late eighteen hundreds. Really over one
30:16
hundred and fifty years ago, they had something called town
30:18
tuitioning programs.
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Speaker 3: They're actually still in the books today where if you're
30:22
in a rural area, if you don't even have.
30:24
Speaker 5: A public school because you're in such a desolate the area.
30:28
While the state figured, well, instead of building a school,
30:31
we could give the money directly to the families and
30:33
let them choose a public school in another nearby district,
30:37
or they could use the funding for private or religious schools.
30:39
So they figured out over one hundred and fifty years ago,
30:42
not having a lot of options was an argument to
30:44
expand opportunities, not to restrict them.
30:48
Speaker 3: But today you're right.
30:49
Speaker 5: Because we have these lower cost startup options like micro schools,
30:53
which is basically the idea of a one room schoolhouse.
30:56
People are getting five to ten children together in a
30:58
householdomizing on the process of homeschooling basically.
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Speaker 3: And if you think.
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Speaker 5: About it, in the US, we spend about twenty thousand
31:06
dollars per kid per year in the government schools, which
31:09
is about fifty to sixty percent higher than average private
31:12
school tuition. And if you you know, if you had
31:15
a twelve kids in a household, twenty thousand a kid,
31:19
that's about two hundred and forty grand that could more
31:23
directly go to the teacher. So this is not just
31:25
a benefit for the kids and the parents, that's obvious.
31:27
I mean, they're the customers here, they're the ones getting
31:29
the money.
31:30
Speaker 3: But if you cut out all the middlemen.
31:32
Speaker 5: If you cut out all this administrative bloat, the teachers
31:35
can make a lot more money. They'll have a fraction
31:38
of the class size ten to twelve as opposed to
31:40
thirty or forty in some places, and guess what, they
31:44
have a lot more autonomy. So school choice is a
31:46
win win solution, not just for the parents, not just
31:49
for the kids, but the teachers benefit as well.
31:52
Speaker 4: Well, you're speaking the gospel, because I've said for time
31:55
in memoriam that the teachers are the key to this
31:58
when they realize that, you know, ten kids with twenty
32:03
grand attached to the meach if you realize a twenty
32:07
kid classroom in say Charlottesville City our flagship at thirty thousand,
32:13
or you just wrote a piece about how Chicago is
32:16
spending thirty thousand dollars a kid and none.
32:19
Speaker 3: Of them can read exactly, and the.
32:22
Speaker 4: Teachers are paid crap out of that thirty thousand dollars.
32:26
It's a win win. Are teachers getting it, Corey?
32:32
Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I mean they're starting to leave the unions.
32:35
Speaker 5: So there's actually a new organization offering free liability insurance
32:39
to the teachers who leave the union.
32:42
Speaker 1: Wow.
32:42
Speaker 5: It's called the Teacher Freedom Alliance. They offered two million
32:45
in liability insurance, which is twice as much as Randy
32:49
Weingarten and Becky Pringle are giving him. This is such
32:53
a big deal because we had the Janus decision in
32:56
twenty eighteen allowing teachers to leave their union because they
33:00
can no longer be compelled to pay union dues as
33:03
a condition of employment. It would violate their First Amendment
33:06
rights because that money ultimately goes to Democratic campaign coffers,
33:10
whether they like it or not. So we were scratching
33:12
our head wondering why are teachers not leaving even after
33:15
twenty eighteen. Well a lot of them thought that, well,
33:18
they didn't know they could opt out still, And then
33:20
too they thought, well, even if I could, even if
33:22
I don't want to donate to Democrats through my union dues,
33:26
I need the personal liability insurance just in case something happens.
33:30
Speaker 3: And so now.
33:32
Speaker 5: There's an organization covered by donors giving that insurance away
33:37
for free. So there's no reason it would be insane
33:40
for any conservative or independent teacher to stay in the
33:44
union like the NEA or the AfD because they're far
33:47
left radicals.
33:48
Speaker 3: I mean, they don't care about education.
33:50
Speaker 5: They care about indoctrinating kids with far left ideology. And
33:55
the teachers are the ones who could save the day
33:57
here because they can starve the beast and dismantle the
34:01
radical left unions from the inside.
34:03
Speaker 4: Give that name of the organization again, just for folks
34:06
who heard it and were driving and said, what, Well,
34:09
I didn't know about that, because I don't know.
34:12
Speaker 5: I was even surprised when I heard about it. Is
34:15
the Teacher Freedom Alliance. So if you're a teacher, you
34:17
don't need to pay your union dues anymore. And if
34:21
you're concerned about liability in church, you can get it
34:22
for free from Teacher Freedom Alliance.
34:25
Speaker 3: So there's no reason, there's zero reason you should.
34:27
Speaker 5: Be giving your money to Becky Pringle and Randy Weingarten,
34:30
who make over half a million dollars a year. They
34:33
fought to close the schools. All they do is campaign
34:36
for Democrats. So even if you're a Democrat teacher and
34:40
you just don't like how off the rails these people
34:43
are with pushing politics into the classroom, you should say,
34:46
you know what, you don't represent my values.
34:49
Speaker 3: I'm going to opt out.
34:50
Speaker 5: And guess what when the unions see that enough teachers
34:53
are opting out, maybe they'll I don't know, focus on
34:55
member benefits instead of politics.
34:58
Speaker 4: Or even you know, like, oh, I don't know, teaching
35:00
the kids how to read. Bob in Moscow is on
35:04
with us at four three four eight eight two four
35:06
two one seven Bobby out the thought on teacher unions.
35:12
Speaker 31: Yes, My question is are they starting to realize that
35:16
the union bosses and the representatives that they don't make
35:19
billions of dollars to their campaigns are the ones that
35:23
are living like kings and queens, and the teachers are
35:25
getting screwed, especially in the public school and the inner
35:29
city schools, with no help.
35:31
Speaker 4: Well I think so. I mean, that's what Corey was
35:33
just saying, is that now there are organizations that have
35:36
started up for you know, those things that teachers were
35:40
trying to hold on to, like liability insurance and health insurance,
35:45
and these things are starting to be provided by other groups,
35:49
and especially as the micro school movement, and I was
35:53
talking to an activist in this micro school movement, there's
35:57
there are networks of people saying here's where you get
36:00
resources if you want to start up one of these
36:02
micro schools, you know, getting you know the tests and
36:06
everything else, because all the states still have standardized tests
36:09
and things like that that even homeschool kids have to
36:13
take at some point and we haven't broken free from
36:16
that yet. But if you're starting one of these, you
36:18
need to comply with you know, these education things. And
36:23
what we're finding is that what these micro schools generally are,
36:28
they go out and hire a teacher or two or
36:31
three as they grow. I have a friend here in
36:34
Virginia where we are that started one with a couple
36:38
of other parents, and now it's such a big deal
36:40
that they've they had to go buy a surplus school
36:43
bus to get all the kids to the building that
36:46
they had to purchase to move their micro school into
36:50
because it's quickly becoming not so micro anymore. So they've
36:54
hired two or three teachers who are making a whole
36:57
lot more money and are a whole lot happy or
37:00
than they were in the public schools.
37:03
Speaker 20: And that's happening here in Russia too, these micro schools
37:07
where parents are getting together and hoping up their own
37:10
small school for their kids. But they limited thing is
37:15
to fifteen kids per grade and no more than two
37:19
classes per grade, So they're limiting the number of students
37:23
because they want they don't want it to get big
37:25
and out of hand.
37:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you let it.
37:31
Speaker 20: Go ahead.
37:31
Speaker 4: Well, I was just going to say, you let a
37:33
little bit happen. I mean, it's it's like trying to
37:36
open That's what happened with garbage having glass gnost. He
37:39
tried to reform the economy a little bit and it
37:42
just exploded. And I feel like the same thing could
37:45
be happening. But I'm coming up on my break here, Bob.
37:48
Thank you, sir, you too, thank you for checking in.
37:53
Speaker 20: Wait one quick thing. Ukraine sent drones to a nuclear
37:56
facility and hit it yesterday here in Moscow.
37:59
Speaker 4: I know we reported that.
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I'll be podcasting all of my affairs from here. As
45:35
I said earlier, I was talking to a fellow who's
45:37
actually at a different conference at a different conference center
45:41
down by the river. We were both riding in on
45:45
the same bus from the airport, and they're discussing housing,
45:49
and I said, dude, half of this conference here is
45:53
about how to liberate housing from restrictive government, and he's
45:58
from Vermont, so that's seemed like a concept that was
46:01
a little foreign to him. But nice fella and Ardent
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idea of trying to get more housing for people and
46:07
more affordable housing, and I said, it's half of what
46:10
we're talking about here, and the other half is school choice.
46:13
It seems like these are the stories that consume and
46:18
souls right now here in the freedom movement. In the
46:22
liberty movement will continue on that. Obviously, as Bob mentioned
46:27
right there at the end of the phone, called drone
46:28
strikes to celebrate Ukraine's independence, drone strikes near a nuclear plant,
46:34
which Bob didn't necessarily get into. The thing that I
46:38
find interesting is that they went postal when some missiles
46:44
landed near Pripyat, which of course is where the Chernobyl
46:48
Nuclear Power station Sarcophagus is currently, and there was this
46:55
whole big to do about oh no, no, not the nukes,
46:58
not the nukes. And now I don't know if it
47:02
was accidental or intentional, but drones strikes near and around
47:07
a nuclear power plant probably not Geneva convention stuff. But
47:16
at some point, you know, these two sides have to
47:19
sit down and realize, you know, that this is funny enough.
47:24
The whole point of the League of Nations followed by
47:27
the United Nations was we were going to start these
47:29
organizations so we would never have war again. And they say, wow,
47:33
we haven't had a world war since. Well, you know,
47:37
what are we having with these things? I mean, we
47:40
have the UN forces in North Korea. South Korea's presidents
47:44
in Washington this morning to talk with the President about
47:49
China and Korea. Wasn't that the whole point of my
47:54
father went.
47:55
Speaker 2: To war there?
47:56
Speaker 4: It was a Korean War veteran. Wasn't that the point
48:00
of the whole operation was to fend off the Chicoms here.
48:05
Now they have American weapons and technology to use as
48:09
they as they go after these areas of influence. They
48:15
want to dominate the Pacific, they say, in the same
48:18
way that America dominates the Americas, And I see it
48:24
as different. There are people who make the case that
48:27
America's economic imperialism is the same as China's military imperialism.
48:35
I don't see any tanks driving down Times Square, but
48:41
you know, maybe you know, there's a lot of the
48:43
left wing activists that feel like these National Guards troops
48:46
and we also have a story about Chicago. According to
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a leak from the Pentagon is supposedly and guaranteed within
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a week somebody will be fired from the Pentagon and
48:59
there will be trump loyalty test failed because he leaked
49:03
classified in film. It's always the case, there's always some
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you know, crazy if you have nothing else. Trump was
49:11
weirdly trying to hide his hand in THEIA.
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Speaker 20: It just.
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Speaker 4: Must control, right, Hey, Corey, I appreciate your time. I
49:23
know you want to get onto breakfast this morning. Breakfast
49:26
in New Orleans is a special event there as well
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at the the Policy Center the American Culture Center. But
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I had one last thing I wanted to ask last question.
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Where are the hotbeds of new school choice awakening.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we've had seventeen states go all in on school
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choice in the past four years. So we've had more
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advancement in the past four years on school choice than
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the preceding four decades. And it's because the unions stepped
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on a rake. They they showed parents there was a
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lot of rot in the public school system. They didn't
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care about the parents, and they were focused more on
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gender ideology and critical race theory than math, reading and writing,
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and so the red states are the ones who have
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made advancements right now, the Republican led states, because again,
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the teachers' unions are basically an arm at the Democrat Party.
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Speaker 3: So when you have people like Terry McCall, if he was.
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Speaker 5: In a catch twenty two situation, he thought he had
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to keep quadrupling down. He thought that the unions were
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just going to drag him across the finish line, and
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he knew if he switched to the parents' side, the
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parents weren't going to believe him and the unions would
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have dropped him to So I think he was making
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a what he thought was a wise political calculation at
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the time. But look, there's a new sheriff in town.
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They're called parents and were beating the unions at their
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own game.
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Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Corey, thank you and again for everything
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you do. It's the American Culture Foundation. It's American Culturefoundation
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dot org. I was told once you don't want long
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website addresses, but I think that that was all bets
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are off. Now it's American Culturefoundation dot org is where
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you find him coming up. John Charles is going to
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join us from the Cascade Policy Institute. You know, people say, Joe, Okay, great,
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you're you know, you're on in Alabama and Mississippi and
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Florida and Texas and all these places that have picked
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up the show. But what about these blue states. I mean,
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we're as popular in Oregon as we are in Virginia.
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And John Charles from the Cascade Policy Institute going to
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visit with us, also Zilvinus Salinas, CEO of the Empire Center,
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who's trying to bring New York back from the brink.
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That's these are even in the blue states, and perhaps
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especially in these blue states Illinois and Connecticut, in New
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York and California and Oregon, these conservative groups, and we'll
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talk to as many of them as we have time
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for while we're here. SPN dot org. By the way,
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our hosts State Policy Network again sponsored by the Daily Signal.
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We'll be podcasting our stuff from here at Daily Signal
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dot org and the Virginia Institute for Public Policy big
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sponsor of what's going on here and also a sponsor
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of what our efforts are.
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Speaker 2: This is the.
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Speaker 4: Second time I've done this at one of these things.
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The first time we go to Freedom Fest. Frequently the
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Scouson's Economic Liberty Forum, and I remember the first time
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I went there. We've never had any media here. Now
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it's like John Stossel and the high Wire and all
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these folks. I can't get a spot anymore. Same thing,
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first time, no media ever before.
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