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Speaker 3 Good, Glenn. How are you? Good.

Speaker 3 There's a story in The Blaze today. Trump's economic blueprint is hiding in plain sight.
Let me give you just a little bit of it.

Speaker 3 The Trump tariff plan has rocked the stock market and economists around the world with president notoriously labeling the implementation of his tariffs as Liberation Day, while others called his reciprocal moves a huge mistake.

Speaker 3 Many have argued that Trump did not actually implement reciprocal tariffs at all, though.

Speaker 3 Look no further than on X, where even though, even through his platform's owner, Elon Musk is one of Trump's top advisors, White House post about the tariffs was slapped with community notes labeled that said the numbers from the administration were not based on actual foreign tariffs at all, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 3 So the story goes on to say, so what is he doing?

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 I would like to, you know, they interviewed an expert that is with the president, Stephen Moran,

Speaker 3 big-time economic advisor. He's worked at the Treasury Department and one of the top advisors now for the president.

Speaker 3 And he talks about a couple of things. He talks about the Mar-Lago Accord, which is speculation.
Don't know if

Speaker 3 this is what the president is doing, et cetera, et cetera. But there's also something that Stephen wrote about, and I'll talk about it here in a second.

Speaker 3 that seems to be laying out the same course that the president may be on.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 let me explain this to you because what they're claiming is that the president may be tweaking the value of the U.S. dollar to help America out.

Speaker 3 And let me go over this because there's some serious risks attached to this one. So imagine the U.S.

Speaker 3 dollar as the coolest toy on the playground, and everybody wants to play with it because it's the best. Nobody thought we could have a better toy than this one.

Speaker 3 That toy is called the world's reserve currency, meaning that countries use it as gold. It is their savings account.
And they use it for trading, for savings, for buying stuff globally.

Speaker 3 Now, the Mar-a-Lago Accord, which the Blaze says might be a Trump administration plan, wants to make that toy a little less shiny on purpose by devaluing the dollar, basically making it worth less compared to

Speaker 3 other countries' money, in particular, the Chinese won.

Speaker 3 Why?

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 imagine you have a lemonade stand, and our lemonade is really pricey because it's traded in dollars and you got to use dollars and, you know, dollars are just really expensive.

Speaker 3 Our lemonade now is much more expensive. But across the street, China is selling theirs way cheaper.
So everybody is buying their stuff from China.

Speaker 3 Well, if we would devalue our dollar, our lemonade would get cheaper and more people would buy from us than from China.

Speaker 3 That's a very dangerous game we play. The idea is to make American goods like cars, steel cheaper to sell overseas, which would boost our industries and create jobs over here.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Now, the Blaze story also mentions another goal, helping our massive national debt, which is now $33, $34 trillion.

Speaker 3 If the dollar is worth less,

Speaker 3 then the debt is easier to pay off. It's like owing $100, but now $100 isn't as much as it used to be, so it's less of a burden to repay.
But here's the catch, and it's a big one.

Speaker 3 I think Germany did this.

Speaker 3 I think that's what Germany did. Devaluing the dollar can cause inflation, which means prices go up for everything.

Speaker 3 So your favorite candy bar, you walk into the store, used to be a dollar, it's now $5.

Speaker 3 And if it's made overseas, it's guaranteed to be $5

Speaker 3 because now

Speaker 3 the tariffs on it and everything else, and we've devalued our dollar. So all the foreign stuff is far more expensive since our dollar buys less.

Speaker 3 Okay,

Speaker 3 it's different if you're buying it with gold because gold, dollar in gold, it doesn't change with the dollar's value. It seems like it's going up, but it's actually not.
The dollar is going down.

Speaker 3 So it takes more dollars. You know, when you see the price of gold is up, no, no, no.
Usually that means the dollar is down. Okay.

Speaker 3 So because we're not buying everything in gold or saving gold, nor are other countries, the price hike hits hard. Now imagine that happening to everything, groceries, gas, clothes.

Speaker 3 Well, the Blaise and Stephen Mirren warned that this kind of inflation could be a disaster for Americans. Gee, you think?

Speaker 3 It's not good. It's not good.
Now, there's another huge risk here.

Speaker 3 Devaluing our dollar to pay down the debt could be seen as an act of war. If I have a trillion dollars of our debt and I want you to pay a trillion dollars back.

Speaker 3 If you start devaluing your dollar, and now

Speaker 3 you're only really giving me

Speaker 3 $500 billion for my trillion dollars that I have in my savings account, I'm kind of pissed at you.

Speaker 3 You're intentionally

Speaker 3 stealing from my account, right?

Speaker 3 China has well over a trillion dollars of our bonds, U.S. Treasury bonds, in their piggy bank.
We We devalue our dollar. We're taking money out of their piggy bank and just setting it on fire.

Speaker 3 Could make them furious. You know, they might see it as an economic attack.

Speaker 3 The Blaze pointed out that this could spark a trade war,

Speaker 3 but

Speaker 3 maybe even a war war.

Speaker 3 We're talking about trillions of dollars.

Speaker 3 Don't like to poke a beehive, you know, just because some of the honey inside might be really good. No, let's not poke the beehive unless you're prepared for all of the possible consequences.

Speaker 3 Now, the Blaze mentioned something called the Plaza Accord, which happened back in 1985. And it was a deal that was made in 1985.

Speaker 3 We got together at the Plaza Hotel in New York with countries like Japan and Germany. And

Speaker 3 the agreement was to weaken the U.S. dollar to to help American industries because back then our dollar was super strong and it was hurting our exports like now.

Speaker 3 And it worked for a while, except Japan got hit hard. Their money got too strong.
Their exports tanked and they ended up in decades-long economic slump. Ever wonder what happened?

Speaker 3 Remember when Japan was huge? They owned everything and it was like,

Speaker 3 I think

Speaker 3 they forced me now to name my next child Sony?

Speaker 3 And then all of a sudden it stopped and you didn't, you're like, what happened? Well, they just crashed. Yeah, why did they crash? Because of the Plaza Accord.

Speaker 3 We weakened our dollar, which made everything from Japan more expensive.

Speaker 3 And that put them, that put them out. Now, the Mar-a-Lago Accord...
is like a modern-day version of that, except this time it's aimed at China, and the stakes are much, much bigger.

Speaker 3 So what's the upside of this? Well, it could make American goods cheaper abroad, so our factories will start, you know, buzzing again, will create more jobs. It also might shrink our trade deficit.

Speaker 3 That's when we buy more from other countries than we sell to them. We need to sell more things to them.
If our stuff is cheaper, then we sell more and the gap closes.

Speaker 3 Third, like I say, could make our debt feel lighter to pay off, at least in theory. But the risks of this are massive.
Besides inflation and the act of worthing,

Speaker 3 if we make our dollar less shiny, other countries also might say, you know, I'm not going to play with that toy anymore. I'm not going to hold that toy.
Wait a minute, it's the greatest.

Speaker 3 Well, no, not anymore, because now it has cost my treasury all kinds of money. I've lost half my money.
because it's not gold.

Speaker 3 And that was kind of the plan here was that you would never devalue your dollar, United States,

Speaker 3 and that way we would hold your dollar as our reserve currency. That's a very, very big deal.

Speaker 3 If

Speaker 3 we lose our

Speaker 3 reserve currency status in the world, we lose all of our VIP privileges. We can't borrow money cheap.
Everything gets pricey, much, much more pricey. Blaze also warned that

Speaker 3 China might dump our treasury bonds. That could crash our financial markets.
You know, this is, look, he's playing Jenga. And I hope he's the greatest Jenga player of all time.
But he's playing Jenga.

Speaker 3 I don't know if they're going for this. Blaise thinks that it's likely.
You know, Stephen Miram, he wrote

Speaker 3 or co-wrote.

Speaker 3 something called A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trade System. It spells out this whole plan.
And people have been saying, no, that's not what Trump is doing.

Speaker 3 But he wrote this before Trump got into office, and he's on the Trump team. And it seems to be,

Speaker 3 you know, mirroring exactly

Speaker 3 what is happening.

Speaker 3 He talked about using tariffs, taxes on imports, pressure China into a deal, suggest national security rules to force everything through.

Speaker 3 This is exactly what the president is doing. And with an advisor like Mirin in his corner, I mean,

Speaker 3 there's a chance this is what he's cooking up, especially since Trump loves the idea of boosting American industries and taking China on, but it's a very, very

Speaker 3 risky game. It's, you know, like we're going, we're at a carnival gang, and I really want that stuffed bear.
Okay, all right. Well, I'm going to get you that stuffed bear.

Speaker 3 Instead of using the BB gun, though, you're using a shotgun loaded with slugs.

Speaker 3 You might win the bear, but you also might kill everybody behind the counter with it and take down the whole stand. So

Speaker 3 I'm just glad that I'm the one explaining it and not having to make the decision on it

Speaker 3 because this is a very, we are in a high-stakes game. Never seen anything played.
Have you seen anything played this high stakes? No, and it is a high-stakes game.

Speaker 3 What does this mean for, let's say, the rest of his presidency, like as far as the other things that that we are cheering on that he's doing?

Speaker 3 If this doesn't work,

Speaker 3 nothing.

Speaker 3 I mean, he'll not be able to do anything. He won't be able to do anything.
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 3 If this

Speaker 3 wins,

Speaker 3 we're golden for a long time. If this loses,

Speaker 3 I don't think we even hold the House or the Senate. And we don't win in 28.

Speaker 3 That's a big, so risk, big, win, big, I assume. It really is.

Speaker 3 And I don't know the odds. I mean, I know what everybody says.
Never tell me the odds. Never tell me the odds.
Never tell you the odds. I like to know the odds.

Speaker 3 Before I put my money down on the table, I like to know the odds. That's not what Han Solo said.
So for, you know, you're going to have to adjust your theory there. Yeah, no, I think it's really

Speaker 3 a big game. And, you know,

Speaker 3 it is a different.

Speaker 3 It's interesting because I always remember Trump talking so confidently and

Speaker 3 I mean, you know, at length about wanting a strong dollar. Like, I always thought that was a big part of his theory.

Speaker 3 I think what he's trying to do is maybe he's here's how I would interpret what I read in the Blaze. This is how I would interpret what he's doing.

Speaker 3 He's not actually trying to do that over the long term. He's not trying to bring the price of the debt down.

Speaker 3 What he's trying to do is bring our dollar down far enough, force China to keep their dollar, their won, up

Speaker 3 and kill them short term and then get out of this and reverse it.

Speaker 3 You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 I think he plays a great game of chicken. Oh, yeah.
And I think, I think that's what he's doing. I don't think this is his plan on, yeah, this is my long-term plan.
We're always going to do this.

Speaker 3 I'm going to bring the dollar down to zero. It wouldn't make sense.
Right. And it doesn't go with what he says about a strong dollar.
You need to have a strong dollar.

Speaker 3 If you're going to be the world's reserve currency, this is not a good idea. However, if he's playing it short term and he's playing chicken,

Speaker 3 it might just work because China is in a very precarious situation.

Speaker 3 They lose

Speaker 3 the ability to trade their stuff cheaply. They're in trouble.
Overnight, they're in trouble. Yeah, that's very true.
There's so much based on exports.

Speaker 3 And it's funny, they've been manipulating their currency forever. They always do this.
And they kept, you know, I, though, don't, I've never looked at that as a

Speaker 3 good thing for them. No.
Right. Like, basically, what they're doing is give, they're subsidizing a giant electronics sale for the United States.
And that does not seem like a good policy to me.

Speaker 3 And one, I've never heard an American politician advocate, including Donald Trump. Well, we can't.
We promised the world we wouldn't do this. That's why we were in so much trouble in 2008.

Speaker 3 We changed our policy. We said, you know what, take care of America first.
We would not have bailed all of those banks out had we stuck to the deal we made for the rest of the world. We won't do this.

Speaker 3 So you can trust that the dollar will remain sound. Trust us.
Yes. Trust us.
Always just trust us. Don't worry about it.
And we'll be fine. Everything will be fine.

Speaker 3 Well, it worked for a very long time. We did it for a very long time.
But in 08, we violated that. And now, you know, I don't know where we are on that.

Speaker 3 The good thing about us is it's a comparative trust because luckily everyone else sucks.

Speaker 3 So that's our biggest advantage.

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Speaker 3 Well, we were lucky this time.

Speaker 3 It is strange. This happened on April 13th.
I'll tell you why in a minute. April 13th, 2025.

Speaker 3 Most of us were asleep when a man named Cody Ballmer scaled the fence at the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania. He smashed a window.
He threw a Molotov cocktail inside. And

Speaker 3 had he found the governor there, Josh Shapiro, he planned to bludgeon him with a hammer. His reason?

Speaker 3 Hatred. Political hatred.

Speaker 3 Now, the governor and his family escaped physically unharmed. The fire left something smoldering in...
and what should be smoldering in all of us.

Speaker 3 It's a question of what happens to a society when people no longer believe in the rule of law, in debate, into votes, but instead believe in violence, when they justify that violence as morally righteous.

Speaker 3 And that's what's happening. There is a broader assassination culture that appears to be emerging within segments of our society.

Speaker 3 And I think the trend line is deeply troubling. Listen to this.
There was a survey. They questioned 1,264 residents of the U.S.
31%

Speaker 3 and 38% stated it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and President Trump. 31% said yes to Elon Musk.
38%, almost 40% of our population said it's okay to murder the president.

Speaker 3 These percentages, however, go way up when you isolate left-of-center respondents. So, anybody who described themselves as either far-left, liberal, or slightly liberal, the numbers went 48%

Speaker 3 to kill Elon Musk and 55% to kill the president.

Speaker 3 That's half of people who say they're at least slightly liberal.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 3 40% said it's at least somewhat justifiable to burn down or destroy a Tesla dealership in protest. Now, this is not new.

Speaker 3 This deadly logic we've seen before. And strangely, it was 160 years ago, almost to the day.

Speaker 3 April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln attends a play at Ford's Theater. He comes in, he's late.

Speaker 3 Some accounts suggest that Lincoln had left a box open for a last-minute guest, possibly General Grant who declined, or maybe somebody else. Perhaps even John Wilkes Booth himself.

Speaker 3 He was a popular actor. He was known in Washington society.

Speaker 3 One of the people at the theater saw Booth send a letter up to Lincoln's box or send a note up to Lincoln's box.

Speaker 3 He might have been asking if he could sit with the president. We don't know.
And the president might have said, Yeah, because John Wilkes Booth, he wasn't just a popular actor.

Speaker 3 So his family was very popular as well. And they were known to be southerners.

Speaker 3 And maybe, because Booth was having a play the next week that was at Ford's Theater, maybe the president was trying to bring people together.

Speaker 3 I don't know. But

Speaker 3 there he is

Speaker 3 in the theater.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 just a few days before he was giving his second inaugural address, and he said something that enraged Booth. He suggested that formerly enslaved people,

Speaker 3 at least the educated and those who had served, should be given the right to vote. And Booth at that point turned to his companion and said, that means N-ward citizenship.

Speaker 3 Well, that'll be the last speech he makes.

Speaker 3 And so he picked up a pistol, and you know know the rest.

Speaker 3 But Booth wasn't acting alone that night. Not just in the literal conspiracy, though there was one, but in spirit.
He believed that he was saving democracy from a tyrant.

Speaker 3 Booth wasn't having, he wasn't some raging lunatic in his own mind. He thought he was a patriot.
He thought he was the liberator. He saw Lincoln as the usurper and Booth as the deliverer.

Speaker 3 We don't recoil at this.

Speaker 3 Now, we used to. We used to call that treason.

Speaker 3 But how different is that from the logic

Speaker 3 than the kind we're hearing today? We're hearing the same kind of logic, and now we don't recoil. Now we don't call it treason.

Speaker 3 There is a new report out from the Network Contagion Research Institute. They found that half, 55% of self-identified leftists say Donald Trump is justifiable, to kill him.

Speaker 3 This is not the fringe anymore. It is mainstreamed through algorithms, college campuses, op-eds, by any means necessary.
That's not just a slogan that was said in the 60s.

Speaker 3 That is now a permission slip to do whatever it is you think is right.

Speaker 3 In 1865, the stage was literal. And Booth used that stage to deliver his final act.
He entered

Speaker 3 Lincoln's box, point-blank range, one bullet to the back of the head. Then he jumped to the stage below, and he shouted, Six semper Tyrannis.

Speaker 3 Thus always to tyrants.

Speaker 3 As if he was slaying Caesar.

Speaker 3 He limped off stage. He had a broken leg.
Twelve days later, soldiers found him cornered in a barn in Virginia, and they shot him.

Speaker 3 And as he lay dying, Booth stared at his hands, the hands that had taken the President's life just a few days before, and he whispered a single word. Looking at his hands, he said

Speaker 3 useless.

Speaker 3 Useless.

Speaker 3 I think think that was the judgment of his own actions.

Speaker 3 His final clarity. Instead of saving democracy, he assaulted its very soul.
And it did nothing.

Speaker 3 Lincoln died, not just as a martyr for the Union, but a victim of the same delusion infecting our political climate today, the idea that democracy can be preserved through violence, that saving the Republic by killing those that we disagree with somehow works.

Speaker 3 So here we are again.

Speaker 3 This time it's firebombs and hammers. And by the way, just so you know,

Speaker 3 that was somebody who wanted to free Palestine by killing the Jewish governor who's a Democrat in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 3 Okay, so that makes it even all the more heartwarming, doesn't it?

Speaker 3 If anybody thinks that that you are not going to be victimized by these people,

Speaker 3 you will never be radical enough for these people.

Speaker 3 And the fever is rising. It's no longer limited to lone actors.
It's visible on how we excuse riots. We justify doxing.
We rationalize political intimidation.

Speaker 3 All of it, of course, is dressed up in the language of justice. I want to talk about justice this hour.

Speaker 3 Justice Justice without law is not justice. It's vengeance.

Speaker 3 Vengeance is blind.

Speaker 3 So now,

Speaker 3 what do we do?

Speaker 3 Well, the first thing we have to do is remember the past and not as a moral bedtime story, but as a warning.

Speaker 3 Why is it that they want us to not know our own history?

Speaker 3 If you don't know your own history, you can't defend the things that you think are important. You no longer know what worked, what didn't.
You no longer know what shaped us.

Speaker 3 You no longer have any warnings to go, wait a minute, wait a minute. Didn't this happen before? I don't know.

Speaker 3 Booth did not end tyranny. He deepened the division.
His bullet didn't preserve liberty.

Speaker 3 It set the reconstruction of the country that Lincoln fought to heal. It set it back.

Speaker 3 Second thing, we have to reject every attempt, left or right, to justify violence in the name of saving democracy. Because democracy doesn't need saviors.
It needs citizens.

Speaker 3 When you think of yourself as a savior, you'll justify anything. In my book, there's only one savior.
There's lots of citizens. I'm a citizen.
You're a citizen. Citizens vote.
Citizens speak.

Speaker 3 Citizens challenge. Citizens disagree.

Speaker 3 But we're not saviors, so we can't take life. We don't get to choose who lives, who dies.

Speaker 3 And the last thing, again, we have to learn from history. Maybe we should reflect on the words, This April,

Speaker 3 right after the assassination. Have you even, did you know about this assassination attempt? Why isn't that everywhere? Somebody who was

Speaker 3 saying they were trying to free the Palestinians tried to murder our governor of a very large state in our country who is Jewish,

Speaker 3 clearly an anti-Semite. Somebody from the left.

Speaker 3 tried to kill one of our governors. And why isn't that everywhere? Is it just me?

Speaker 3 Have I just just missed this? This seems like a footnote story. This is a very large story.

Speaker 3 And because it's not a lead story everywhere for days,

Speaker 3 it tells you something about the media, doesn't it? It tells you something about the culture of the left. They're excusing it by burying it.

Speaker 3 So perhaps we should just

Speaker 3 reflect reflect on the words of a dying assassin.

Speaker 3 Useless.

Speaker 3 Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he meant as he's looking at his hands, his hands,

Speaker 3 the hands that killed a president, and he sees

Speaker 3 nothing changed.

Speaker 3 Let's not forget the lessons of 1865 because we almost repeated them over the summer and we almost repeated them again just a couple of days ago again in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 3 This time one was a Republican, the next one was a Democrat, more importantly, a Jew.

Speaker 3 And both times these seem to be just swept under the rug.

Speaker 3 Why?

Speaker 3 Because there are people that are trying to convince you that violence is the answer.

Speaker 3 It's not.

Speaker 3 It's not.

Speaker 3 If we convince ourselves again that violence is ever the answer, then all of what we have done will be useless, just like Booth's final act.

Speaker 3 And just like the country,

Speaker 3 we will lose if we don't change course.

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Speaker 3 So even though Stu

Speaker 3 doesn't want you to hear this news, I don't. Want you to hear this news.

Speaker 3 Because he hates children. I do.
I have two of them.

Speaker 3 Well, yeah. Well, Mangalite liked them in pairs too.
So

Speaker 3 that was

Speaker 3 really dark, really fast.

Speaker 3 I do have a tendency of

Speaker 3 launching nuclear weapons.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we should probably build up to that one. Anyway,

Speaker 3 there's a new article out now

Speaker 3 that

Speaker 3 talks about ADHD, and it's coming from the left and the experts that they're now starting to say, I don't know, maybe, maybe, maybe

Speaker 3 not everything we thought was true about ADHD.

Speaker 3 And I think this story is written by Matt Walsh, who's great. Whoever wrote this for the Daily Wire was great.

Speaker 3 More than 21% of 14-year-old boys in this country now supposedly suffer from ADHD. The number goes up to 23% for 17-year-old boys.

Speaker 3 As a result, prescriptions for drugs like Ritalin and Adderall have skyrocketed. Just want you to know that's speed.

Speaker 3 From 2012 to 2022, the total number of prescriptions for stimulants to treat ADHD increased dramatically by nearly 60%.

Speaker 3 From 2012, in a 10-year period, we've gone up with 60%

Speaker 3 prescription.

Speaker 3 Between the ages of 10 to 14, the demographic saw the highest increase in these prescriptions. So

Speaker 3 he writes, and I think this is such a great observation.

Speaker 3 For decades, you've been instructed to believe there's no significance to this correlation whatsoever. And here it is.

Speaker 3 As women increasingly enter the workforce and replace men in teaching jobs, we're not supposed to draw any conclusions about how the behavior of male children is now being addressed.

Speaker 3 The truth is, we've been told, Not that a feminized education system has increasingly punished normal male behavior, it doesn't understand.

Speaker 3 It's not that schools have lost their capacity to educate male students.

Speaker 3 It's not that smartphone use and electronics in general have become distractions teachers have been unable to control.

Speaker 3 Instead, we're led to believe that boys have suddenly become afflicted with a severe psychological disorder.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 I, you know, this is the first time I had ever heard this about, you know, how we feminized things. And we have.

Speaker 3 We've diminished boys. But I grew up in a school, I don't think I had a male teacher until I was in high school.
And I had all female teachers.

Speaker 3 There weren't a lot of nuns that were, oh my gosh, I remember that really,

Speaker 3 I remember that really male-like, maybe she was a man, but identified as a nun. I'm not sure.
And you, of course,

Speaker 3 to put it gently, are not exactly a recent student.

Speaker 3 I know.

Speaker 3 It's better than where I thought he was going, Sarah. I thought he was going, you're not really a man.

Speaker 3 But I'll tell you what. No, but I got it.
No. You're right, though.
There are

Speaker 3 surely more female teachers, I would think, just because of the workforce changes. Sure, but that was a pretty good.
I mean, all my teachers that I can always remember were female too.

Speaker 3 The one thing that has changed, though, is we just dismiss boys entirely. I mean, it's all focused on girls right now.
All of it. It's science.

Speaker 3 Everything is just push the girls, push the girls, push the girls. You can be anything.
Shut up, sit down, have some riddling to the boys. Uh, and that's a problem.

Speaker 3 And I have to tell you, as a parent, you probably have recognized this.

Speaker 3 Does Lisa

Speaker 3 understand your daughter better than you do? And you understand your son? I get the point you're going at. I don't know that it necessarily applies.
Some ways she very well understands my daughter.

Speaker 3 Because I walk in,

Speaker 3 I'm just clueless. I have no idea.
I, you know, I walk in as my, as a dad and I'm like, hey, put some pants on, would you? And my daughter's like,

Speaker 3 and I'm like, what the hell did I just say? And my wife just looks at me like, you don't say that to her. And I'm like, okay.

Speaker 3 But she'll say that to my son and my son doesn't go,

Speaker 3 right? They're different. But I know they are.
They are.

Speaker 3 And I can relate, for instance, my wife, she'll say something and I know how she means it because I'm an adult, but I can hear what Wraith hears right because I heard it from my mom and I realize now that's not what my mom meant but you hear

Speaker 3 pick up your room you're always a mess you're always this and that's not what she said you know what I mean sure even though it's true it is it's not what as they get into the teenagers in particular it's really difficult that's what I really mean yes that's what I mean is the teenage years I have no idea like I had no idea how mean girls are oh my gosh gosh they are vicious i would much rather be put into a room of rabid boys than normal girls they are dangerous guys can be jerks but they're they're a surf they're on the surface stupid jerks yeah it's just kind of nonsensical so i girls dig they dig for the wounds gosh they just yeah they'll cut you open and then they'll eat your heart while you're still watching them i mean it's horrible anyway so uh the article goes on to say about how

Speaker 3 some of these studies, and they point one out, the University of Central Florida conducted a grand experiment where they put a child in front of a computer and it shows the video in this.

Speaker 3 The research, and by the way, you can get this article at Glenbeck.com. You just sign up for my free email newsletter.
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Speaker 3 Researchers showed a child two separate videos. One video was about mathematics, and it involves a teacher talking about basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication.

Speaker 3 The other video was the pod racing scene from Star Wars. Now, you'll never guess what they discovered.
Oh, what did they discover?

Speaker 3 They discovered that when the math lecture was going on, the kid started spinning in his chair and he was fidgeting and not paying attention. But when the child was watching ADD,

Speaker 3 yes,

Speaker 3 something deeply psychologically wrong with that kid.

Speaker 3 You're telling me when they showed the one good scene from the first prequel, they were interested in? Yeah. Wow, that's shocking.
I was fidgeting. The rest of the movie was like math.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I would say, I would like, give me the one that is the pod racing scene versus the trade dispute scene from the Star. Why go to anything else? Just do the Star Wars thing.
Right. So

Speaker 3 it doesn't prove anything. It proves that there wasn't a lot of good scenes in the first Star Wars.
Wait a minute. I just did a study with my kids.
They like sugary cereal over bran flakes.

Speaker 3 Oh my gosh, ADA. I know I got to get them.
I've got to be on the bran flakes. No, I got to get them on LSD or something.

Speaker 3 We are looking for

Speaker 3 these diagnosis,

Speaker 3 to diagnose kids in this way, I think, often. That doesn't mean that there aren't some that have these types of issues.

Speaker 3 You know, when you refer to that article,

Speaker 3 you said Matt Walsh wrote this, Matt.

Speaker 3 I don't know. It's from Daily Wire.

Speaker 3 I thought it was Matt Walsh. Daily Wire is great.
We love the Daily Wire guys. Obviously, that's, you know,

Speaker 3 the one I had read was some scientific, I thought we were referring to a different story where they did not say it was a scam. Obviously, it's an opinion to say it's a scam.

Speaker 3 Although,

Speaker 3 yeah, it's a pretty strong opinion. It might be the right one.
I don't know. But I mean, I was referring to a different article, which is why I was confused at the framing of it.
But, like, these are,

Speaker 3 I think there are kids that are affected with really difficult. They have real trouble in school

Speaker 3 focusing on things that are maybe a little bit more than they can handle.

Speaker 3 A psychological disorder. Right.
It's not. Yeah, it might not be.
All kids are wired differently. Yeah.
Boys and girls are wired differently in the first place.

Speaker 3 Then it's just, you know, that's one of the things that AI can produce that will be good

Speaker 3 with you as a parent overseeing it every step of the way is

Speaker 3 it will it will adapt to the way you learn because everybody learns differently.

Speaker 3 You know, there are kids that just, they're into math and I don't get it and they can talk about math all day long and they've lost me.

Speaker 3 But a kid that likes to learn through stories, I'm there all day for him. I'm there all day.

Speaker 3 And I was the same way. I'm a visual learner.

Speaker 3 I'm a story. You know, I learn from stories.

Speaker 3 And if I have a really boring teacher, Some of the kids are really going to love that teacher because he's just all about facts and just gets it all out and can explain it.

Speaker 3 That doesn't help me. It doesn't help me.
That doesn't mean I have a psychological. Well, let me make it clear.
That

Speaker 3 by itself does not indicate that I have a deep psychological problem. Okay.
Other things might, but not that.

Speaker 3 That's just everybody is different, especially the difference between boys and girls. And here's what they said.
The conclusion was that ADHD

Speaker 3 is triggered by cognitively demanding tasks.

Speaker 3 No, no, it's not. No, it's not.

Speaker 3 I was painting yesterday, and I can't tell you how many times I just kind of like was holding the brush and I walked around the house and I'm like, oh, wait a minute, I was painting.

Speaker 3 I mean, I just get, I just, you know, lose train of thought and I start thinking about something else and I'm like, wait, I, oh, wait, I got to go back into the art room and paint, you know, I don't know if anybody else is like that, but, you know, it's honestly.

Speaker 3 It's kind of like going to the fridge all the time, you know? There's no reason to go to the fridge and just stare at the fridge that you just, you just opened up and stared at.

Speaker 3 You know, that's not a deep psychological problem. That's just the way you're wired.

Speaker 3 Okay, fat. Yes.
Yes, okay. Yes.
The fat is directly wired right to my brain.

Speaker 3 Right to the brain. So, you know, I personally think a lot of things

Speaker 3 are solved, and not for everybody, not universally, but are solved by

Speaker 3 understanding that we're all different and then you know just

Speaker 3 not being such a

Speaker 3 Mamby-Pamby wishy-washy society that's trying to understand everything. Do you ever see the South Park episode on ADHD?

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Speaker 3 So part of it is, part of it is, and I this is obviously way over

Speaker 3 here.

Speaker 3 No, what I'm saying is, and this is, you know, this is a very broad brush.

Speaker 3 One of the things that we have a problem with now is just saying, knock it off, study, knock it off, focus. And I know not everybody can, but if you couple that

Speaker 3 with actually knowing that kids are different and trying to find the best way for your kids to learn, because it's not, that's the problem, honestly, with big class sizes and a lot of public schools.

Speaker 3 Public schools are made for everybody to be the same.

Speaker 3 Okay?

Speaker 3 Everybody has to be the same. Well, they're not the same.

Speaker 3 Some kids learn really well in that atmosphere. Some kids don't.

Speaker 3 It's not one size fits all.

Speaker 3 And they're not teaching you. You know, it's a lot more exciting when you are learning things.
I mean, honestly, how many times have you heard your kids say, well, your kids aren't teenagers yet?

Speaker 3 So you'll start to hear this. One is, yeah.
Yeah. Really? How old? Zach's 13.
13. About to turn 14.
Wow. Yeah.
Crazy.

Speaker 3 He's about to be married and have kids. Or at least just have kids.
Anyway.

Speaker 3 No, please know. So,

Speaker 3 you know, you'll hear from your kids,

Speaker 3 why do I have to know this? Why am I memorizing this? I'll never use it.

Speaker 3 I'll never use it. And, you know, as a parent, you want to say, you're right.

Speaker 3 There's no reason why you need to know, memorize that name and that year. I tell my kids all the time, AI is coming.
You're not going to have to know anything.

Speaker 3 All you have to do is just type it in and it'll do all the work for you. It might not be a good thing.
Don't worry about it. It might not be a good thing.
Never learn another thing, son.

Speaker 3 See, I don't tell them it's coming. I tell them it's already here.
Why are you working on that? Why are you questioning?

Speaker 3 Just take a picture of it, give it to Grok, and it will finish it.

Speaker 3 But there's, we have to start,

Speaker 3 we have to start going back to a lot of the common sense, you know, that we used to have. And there's a lot of things that were really bad.
I mean, you know,

Speaker 3 I was afraid of our principal.

Speaker 3 She was, it was sister Una.

Speaker 3 Okay, that just says enough right there. Sister Una.
And she had a paddle that she hung up in her office that she made herself.

Speaker 3 And it was a wood paddle, and she had drilled holes in it to pick up speed so there wasn't real resistance. Oh, yeah.
Oh, my. And she, you know, she was proud of it.
She was proud of it.

Speaker 3 But you know what I was more afraid of?

Speaker 3 I mean, I would have taken the paddling. Give it to me twice as hard, sister.
Just let's keep this between us.

Speaker 3 Just don't call my parents. Okay.

Speaker 3 We don't have that anymore. We don't have that anymore.
And there are some things that come from discipline. Some things that come from kids being different and some,

Speaker 3 you know, because they do have an an issue you know you can't you can't talk a kid out of you know uh

Speaker 3 uh dyslexia you can't understand your way out of dyslexia you can't you know you can't do anything except understand that that makes your child different and there are ways for them to learn but the worst thing you can do is to medicate your child so they don't adapt

Speaker 3 They have to you either are wildly successful or you're going to live under under a bridge if you have AD ADD.

Speaker 3 You decide, you either adapt to it and use it as a strength or you just

Speaker 3 don't adapt to it and you just are crushed by the rest of your life.

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