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DEI Only Changed Its Name In Florida Universities · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: All right, he ruminators. Welcome to the second hour of
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  Speaker 1: the Morning Show with Preston Scott Show fifty five forty five.
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  Speaker 1: He's Ose. I am Preston, and our guest is Adam Galad.
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  Speaker 1: He is President of Accuracy in Media. Adam, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the show. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great? Thank you so much for having.
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  Speaker 1: Me tell everybody give us a snapshot of accuracy in media? When?
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  Speaker 1: How why?
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  Speaker 2: We were founded way back in nineteen sixty nine in
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  Speaker 2: response to biased media coverage of the Vietnam War. We
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  Speaker 2: spend decades educating the public on how out of control
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  Speaker 2: and biased the media was. So much so that when
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  Speaker 2: our founder passed away, in his obituary, the New York
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  Speaker 2: Times basically blamed or they credited him with causing mainstream
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  Speaker 2: distrust of the media. Now, with that mission accomplished, we've
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  Speaker 2: essentially started taking their jobs. We do the hidden camera
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  Speaker 2: investigative journalism that they used to do before they became
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  Speaker 2: political activist tacks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, kidding. We don't have that type of reporting anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I remember the days of Mike Wallace walking in on
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  Speaker 1: politicians and businesses, busted them on different types of improprieties.
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  Speaker 1: We don't see that in the mainstream media anymore.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right. It's much easier to write clickbait headlines
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  Speaker 2: or to simply tell your audience what they want to hear,
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  Speaker 2: whether or not you know it to be true, simply
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  Speaker 2: because those stories will get the clicks. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're going for a narrow sliver of an audience, like
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  Speaker 2: most TV outlets do these days, most print outlets do,
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  Speaker 2: you don't need to go for a broadcross section. You
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  Speaker 2: have no chance of getting conservatives and libertarians and progressives
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  Speaker 2: all to watch the same news channel, so instead you
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  Speaker 2: go after a specific demographic, tell them exactly what they
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  Speaker 2: want to hear, and that keeps them tuned in. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's ridiculous, Adam.
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  Speaker 1: Let's zero in on some very specific reporting you're doing
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  Speaker 1: of late at our public universities across the country as
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  Speaker 1: it relates to DEI. Let's start with kind of what
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  Speaker 1: sent you down this dog trail?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've been investigating K through twelve education for a
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  Speaker 2: number of years. We investigate states where they've banned critical
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  Speaker 2: race theory principles from being taught, as well as states
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  Speaker 2: where they banned boys from competing in girls' sports and
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  Speaker 2: we only go after red states. I only have an
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  Speaker 2: interest in investigating states in which the problem might actually
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  Speaker 2: get solved. So I've personally been undercover in over two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty school districts in Texas, Ohio, Indiana, where
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  Speaker 2: in red district after red district in red states we
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  Speaker 2: find K through twelve administrators who bragged to us about
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  Speaker 2: deceiving parents and breaking the law. And then as of late,
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  Speaker 2: we've been visiting universities in red states where DEI has
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  Speaker 2: been banned from higher education, and spoiler alert, the overpaid
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  Speaker 2: radicals in higher education have very little interest in following
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  Speaker 2: the law.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get to something that hits a little closer
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  Speaker 1: to home for those who live in and around Florida's
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  Speaker 1: capital city, let's talk about the reaction that you're getting
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  Speaker 1: in these red school districts. You know, for example, Florida
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  Speaker 1: has all kinds of red all over it, but it
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  Speaker 1: also has hubs of blue. So are you going into
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  Speaker 1: districts that are also Republican controlled, conservative leaning, right leaning
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  Speaker 1: or are these districts sort of stuck in red states?
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  Speaker 2: You know, when we do k through twelve investigations, we
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  Speaker 2: only go to red states, but we cast a wide net.
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  Speaker 2: We hit the blue districts and the red districts consistently.
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  Speaker 2: The worst aren't the deep blue districts that you can
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  Speaker 2: believe it. It's actually usually the wealthy white suburbs. Those
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  Speaker 2: are the districts I most commonly go to, and they
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  Speaker 2: brag to us about how they're steel pushing critical race theory,
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  Speaker 2: or they coach us on how we can get our
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  Speaker 2: biological sun into girls' sports and into the girl's locker
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  Speaker 2: room and into the girls' bathrooms. It's usually the wealthy
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  Speaker 2: white suburbs that are most excited about that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of times we see this
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  Speaker 2: in red states and red districts because these administrators see
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  Speaker 2: themselves on some sort of evangelical mission. If they believed
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  Speaker 2: in God, they think it's in your child's best interest
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  Speaker 2: for them to push their radical ideology into every facet
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  Speaker 2: of education.
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  Speaker 1: We pay very close attention, and back in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: the governor signed Senate Bill two sixty six, and that
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  Speaker 1: was prohibiting public institutions that educate from using our money
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  Speaker 1: to fund DEI initiatives and social activism. Adam, I'm certain
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  Speaker 1: that ended the problem. Did it not.
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  Speaker 2: You know, all they've done in all of these states,
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  Speaker 2: and sadly it including our own. I'm flirty and is
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  Speaker 2: change the titles and continue doing the same work. If
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  Speaker 2: you want a really good get rich quick scheme in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, get into the business card business, because
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  Speaker 2: that's all these people do. They renamed the EI as Belo,
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  Speaker 2: Longing and Keith through twelve. I've seen them even call
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  Speaker 2: it mental health. But at higher education, these people didn't
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  Speaker 2: lose their jobs. They just got a different name plate
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  Speaker 2: on their desk. You know, we used to bemoan the
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  Speaker 2: left wing faculty, and don't worry, they're still there. But
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  Speaker 2: the much bigger problem in higher education now is the
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  Speaker 2: bloated class of taxpayer funded activists called administrators, who outnumber
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  Speaker 2: the faculty. These are your DEI staffers, your LGBTQ activist staffers.
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  Speaker 2: They have jobs entirely unrelated education, and as I said,
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  Speaker 2: they're just taxpayer funded activists.
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  Speaker 1: What happened at FAM, You, well.
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  Speaker 2: The individual at FAM you explained to us that they
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  Speaker 2: still do the same work, they just call it belonging.
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  Speaker 2: And I went back to confront him, as I often do.
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  Speaker 2: Gives these people an opportunity to provide nuance to their statements,
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  Speaker 2: and he wasn't available, but his colleague said, well, if
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  Speaker 2: he knew you were recording, he probably wouldn't have said
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  Speaker 2: those things. No kidding. That's why we go undercover, because
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  Speaker 2: your PR guy would tell us the truth, and we
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  Speaker 2: want to know exactly what's happening with our tax dollars.
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  Speaker 2: We saw the same thing at the University of West Florida.
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  Speaker 2: The individual we visited there is no longer employed by
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  Speaker 2: the university. They have some really good trustees and they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to fix things quite a bit. You know. The
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  Speaker 2: challenge in Florida, I'll say, is we are one of
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  Speaker 2: only twelve two party consent states for hidden camera recordings,
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  Speaker 2: So it's very hard for us to work in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get to do as much as we do
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  Speaker 2: in North Carolina, where a half a dozen people got
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  Speaker 2: fired after appearing in our investigations, or as much as
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  Speaker 2: we get to do in Tennessee or Kentucky or Texas.
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  Speaker 2: But with the little that we've been able to do
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that we've seen at sam u UWS
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  Speaker 2: and at other universities, they're literally just changing the titles
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  Speaker 2: and doing the exact same work. Will that suggests that
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  Speaker 2: it's an epidemic across our state.
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  Speaker 1: I have suggested to the last two or three Commissioners
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  Speaker 1: of Education that they consider putting cameras in classrooms and
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  Speaker 1: in schools, and I would now expand that into our
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  Speaker 1: higher education universities and in these offices. Not to do
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  Speaker 1: any live streaming because that would violate some privacy laws,
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  Speaker 1: but to record so that if questions are raised, we
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  Speaker 1: have a record of what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and even more wild are these administrative buildings. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we investigated and exposed USF Saint Pete and I went
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  Speaker 2: back to the confront the individual and you walk through
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  Speaker 2: these offices of the administrative buildings and it's just left
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  Speaker 2: wing propaganda posters everywhere. You look at these bookshelves and
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  Speaker 2: it's far left, anti capitalist literature. This would be fine
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  Speaker 2: if it was the Democratic Socialists of America's headquarters. Knock
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  Speaker 2: yourself out. Why use this at a public university? And
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  Speaker 2: these people loved claiming that they're all about inclusion. They
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  Speaker 2: want to make it a more inclusive campus. How does
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  Speaker 2: it feel if you're a conservative student, or a libertarian
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  Speaker 2: or a moderator and a political student, and the administrative
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  Speaker 2: buildings have far left propaganda everywhere. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 2: very included.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the left claims that they are the
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  Speaker 1: most tolerant, but they are in fact the most intolerant.
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  Speaker 1: Having said that, what is is this falling on the
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  Speaker 1: desk of anybody in the legislature. What's the governor saying
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  Speaker 1: about this?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the governor's staff commented after our investigations at USF
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  Speaker 2: Saint Pete and after UWF. You know, I do think
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  Speaker 2: they're working on it, but it's a challenge because it
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  Speaker 2: requires very aggressive trustees providing oversight of these universities. And
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  Speaker 2: the problem with that is the trustees these aren't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: at most universities, you know, people fired up, ready for reform.
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  Speaker 2: These are people who have other jobs and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just kind of agreed to do this too. Whereas the administrators,
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  Speaker 2: well they're full time professional activists five days a week
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  Speaker 2: if they work that much. Thankfully, I think some of
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  Speaker 2: them are quite lazy. When I go to visit them,
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  Speaker 2: they're always home that day. It's odd, but that's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: We need more trustees, like what the governor has done
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  Speaker 2: at New College where you've got people focused on reform,
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  Speaker 2: focused on restoring each university to the mission of education,
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  Speaker 2: not activism and indoctrination. And we need that at every
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  Speaker 2: university in the state. And we absolutely need a massive
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  Speaker 2: amount of reform with these administrative positions, they drive up
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  Speaker 2: the cost of tuition and they're just taxpayer funded activists.
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  Speaker 2: Entire departments of these administrators have to go.
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  Speaker 1: What if we push it away from the governor's office
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  Speaker 1: because he is the governor. There are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things that he's got to have his hand on. What
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  Speaker 1: about the board of governors that run the university system?
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  Speaker 2: Well, and that's what I mean. These need to be
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  Speaker 2: people with a fire in their belly, ready for reform,
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  Speaker 2: ready to change these universities, and I think some of
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  Speaker 2: them are. And that's why I think our universities are
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  Speaker 2: by and large doing better than the other states, or
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  Speaker 2: I would probably say less horrible than the other states.
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  Speaker 2: But at least we are headed in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: But it requires a real reform and you need a
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  Speaker 2: much stricter DEI band. Nearly all of the bands in
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  Speaker 2: the states are toothless. Only Kansas passed a law with
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  Speaker 2: a really strong reporting mechanism, and legal consequences for breaking law,
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  Speaker 2: which I know is a crazy nocean consequences for breaking
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  Speaker 2: the law generally for that in Florida. So we need
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  Speaker 2: a Kansas style law. We need large amounts of administrative
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  Speaker 2: physicians eliminated, and we need activists fired up ready for reform.
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  Speaker 2: Trustees and regents who are overseeing these universities like that
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  Speaker 2: they did in New College.
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  Speaker 1: Adam, let Christine know you're welcome anytime. I appreciate what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing out there, and I'm shocked our paths haven't
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  Speaker 1: crossed before now, but I'm grateful they have.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. God bless Florida