On the Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk to Jeremy S. Adams about working with the Gen Zer student, the warning about this new generation, and anxiety in kids. Jeremy S. Adams has been a teacher for both the high school and the college levels. He thinks that teachers have a front row seat to America’s decline with Generation Z. Kyle and Ethan find out why everyone should read his book Hollowed Out and why this warning needs to be heard by everyone. Check out BetterHelp.com/BabylonBee for 10% off
Kyle and Ethan take some time to get to know him by playing some ice breakers before finding out why this Generation Z is going to have a tough time in the future. Jeremy gives Kyle and Ethan the questions that the publisher gave to every interviewer and asks a surprisingly great question. Jeremy goes into the anxiety he has been seeing with the kids he’s been teaching. Jeremy tells all about why this generation is different from all generations before it.
In the Subscriber Portion, Kyle and Ethan get some cool stories out of Jeremy like when a drug deal happened in the back of his classroom or when he hurt himself as a young teacher. Ethan finds out what Jeremy’s favorite tv show to show his classes. They also find out about Jeremy’s favorite depiction of a teacher in the media. As always they ask the ever great 10 questions.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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a crucial California and he's writing a book here. This book about America's next generation and other hollowed out there, just husks very husky now like me, has called huskies a child that there is a different kind asking
And this generation he this guy Adams, man,
He's appeared in LOS Angeles Times, Washington, post something imposed washed in Times new discourses C span the daily wire or collar, we're not sure and numerous national education podcast. So he's work,
weigh up he's here. The Babylon Bee, we're gonna. Do you have
mean all the crazy tik Tok videos of teacher screaming about social justice and pronouns. You have seen the teachers pledging allegiance to the pride flag with their kids.
is that how about a really is what state of american education find out right now as Jeremy s atoms?
is here in the studio with us right now. I just arrived from Bakersfield. Alright. Well thanks for joining us, Mr Adams teacher, so you haven't worked in the last year and a half is my understanding. How's vacation to has vacation
it is for the ongoing pajama teaching is the best in my life
I mean you're, the kids don't want, or on the camera I figure. What do I need to do so?
You know, it's just been this lovely sonorous voice for the ghettos,
stating month has been beautiful. So how
you ve been teaching zoom, yes, most have lost.
Yeah until April, and then this whole year and weak five and it's been in person behind him. Ask so you know my voice pretty much dead, usually beautiful used to be like you know, some kind of dj voice, but now it's permanently damaged GSM screaming all day I was gonna say it's pretty bad
so you have unequal stories about teaching on zoom idea.
I do if you, if you can tolerate my voice, I would love to tell it to you yet machine,
I'll suffer so want to offer support to distortion without turning your last for one,
the first one was sometimes you know that very few from ever turn on your cameras right, so it's just empty
can do a wall. I've just you know the other name, and it's a black screen right, but sometime
You know, don't forget to mute themselves, so you can hear what's goin on the background.
you don't like twenty minutes into my election. I do not like to think that I get pretty enthusiastic and all of a sudden,
I have no hello.
Hello, somebody's to mute themselves and, of course, and commit themselves because our sleep and so on, try. So we go about.
five minutes or somebody sleeping literally sitting there glass can figure who it is not good enough for the technology figured out. So I think that would make the highlight or- or the other highlight, as I had my eldest daughter in michael-
ass and damn we handle a fight in the middle of a middle class and every got to watch it?
What was that was a delight to show you there's some kind of the twin peaks of my twenty twenty twenty twenty one school year was wonderful awesome, so
they should give you like, like a shocker or something you can hit a button, the connect, steed student zapper,
Well, you don't have control if you have any yellow, monitor yeah. Why, especially since you know growing after listening to you and also many, even that, even though I thought a bull horn might work, we need directive through the speaker
I know- and I too in all right there at a kind of wake him up but you're right I mean if they're not listening, that's not work either. So maybe electrocution
now I bit, but something tells me I would probably have to go to training. If we don't give having set your coffee on it, forget about ye exact, I laid electrocute myself Supra, I'm gonna give plague. You got a hard now Cardona! Sorry about that! Will we
Oh, no, you and we would like to get to know you so we prepared. If you icebreaker questions here, we go
I got to get where you get to know. Somebody someone yesterday an icebreaker just like your on a date and you're gonna pull out some, not
contact with this spirit. This feels like I'm, rushing for fraternity right now. I gotta say feels like you geyser.
The test me, let me know if I'm giving you the secret handshake global aid or automobile it'll happen. Maybe not
here's. The hairs are icebreakers number one
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thing I've ever smelled is probably
When my dog ate another dogs feces and threw back up, that's pretty discussion
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from my childhood, so you know the echoes in my consciousness. It's been awhile things. They are top
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Environment, so be him going back and at any that again, it might also be illustrated in my brain.
automatically words have been bombed up, so maybe its project.
That, aren't you not maybe you're under some, maybe so far.
Do you like better Mere Kyle.
We'll Kyle's? He only one has been beat me up, so you, by far I mean there's not on here, is not going to western. Not now will see when we get to the end here, but absolute lemme again, I'm just you know. When I was in college, I went through the fraternity process. You know I would never rush out of fraternity that had they had pledged masters and then the hard core fairies had held masters,
you don't look like Hell masters now, he's I'm a little nervous right now, Monotony Minnesota, currently five minutes later that you would like master saga. Hechtman me
the headmaster, christian scientists. Usually I'm sorry everybody had masters, guess how many
hugs do need every day, preferably why
oh you know. I've been married for over twenty one years, so I'm I don't need the hugs as much anymore and I'm a public school teachers are don't get them. There will be very clear,
and anyway,
I do have. I do have my eldest daughter, just left for college. So you know I'm kind of little sad about that. So my my son is eleven years old knees, he's kind of a hug. You fellows, oh I'll, take one when I picked up every day that that kind of nurtures the sole enough for me to be happy retouching on sensitive, where we really
it on something unprecedented eleven year old Hucks, while he's gonna be a hug soon. We I mean, I know it's because when I used to pick him up, I would like you. I would go up to that playground and I
kneel down and open up my arms and who come running to me like it was you no harm or hallmark movie or something? And now he waits until after we kind of get outside the gate and in Africa does not like a half hour but I'll. Take it I'll. Take it its food for the soul,
you take what you can get the you're right, it's gonna be gone, varies so giving ices Rogan System unbroken works.
No eighty to break ice. I want, if I'm gonna fraternity. That's all I want to know the new chances are not looking good,
what about forty minutes a hazing, less I'll. Take it you absolutely. He did write a book
We had a mind you'd like him, then I guess he's got this put call hollowed out,
a warning about America's next generation and it's got a stand.
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spirally hauled out with some kind of strange. It's gone through, aspire laser, and then it's got its wearing headphones with a nice little drop shadow there looking unit analyzed that Photoshop Ethan. Could you have done a better job, even as our photos
Okay, get good, I mean know. The only weird weird thing is the headphones: don't show up on either side of a hollow parts. Why? Where the headphones over here
maybe you no longer gives nowadays they just where one says that actually is wanting consistent, interesting. The unions
I didn't know you could just snap off half of a doctor, Dray headphone, it's a fork.
well versions, you just destroyed his book
He destroyed the afghan sites that you have the wrong guy. I was people amazing, sexist my life. I don't know what you're talking about. You got the wrong guy here, so your teacher I tried to I tried to teach you look
Maybe he s depression, so well, yes, gas! So I tried to take an eye for an eye tat, our voices morphing into Europe. We are one person tell us when we need to buy your book and you have sixty seconds
well. I think you need by the book for one reason, and that is that I think most people have you not the classroom everyday. You have no idea the kind of changes that are taking place, especially in the
five to ten years. I've been teaching for twenty four years. So what I want a little tired of is a little tired of people saying whether the books just to get off my long book institute- grumpy, curmudgeon, personal anway, too young- to be a curmudgeon only forty five years old- and I M here to tell you that there are profound colossal titanic changes that
taking place in the eyes of our young people, and it's gonna have profound implications for them in their lives and also for the country itself done earlier time. Left he's gonna thirty seconds to talk about.
How do you get your hair to stay up like that?
This is what I want to know. The main thing that looks like a finger in the light socket alone, but I dont think I see that you saying upside down here. I address you, I'm losing that in France. I just look at your hair. This is your women. Why do have I contacted the Hare that America, by this is the put hair gel in yesterday, woke up?
this morning in rushed into the office. Will
It looks better than when ideas all prosody of sound and takes a forty eight hours to get there. It's true. What's your favorite gender, my favorite Jim?
Let me just say we have to flip a coin to figure it out, but that only gives too can soon hear tee.
I'm a teacher any. We should make sure that he's a good teacher, just gonna run a few basic question.
Fast, you absolutely structure. We know that you're, a good one of the good teachers now bad, ok
First, you some basic education stuff. What is an odd number and odd numbers? What follows an even number when you're talkin about whole numbers, what makes it so odd the fact that comes before an even number
Next X, western delay. Passengers are like we have you ever told me. No no
that said it with a lot of authority. Now I feel I feel I think it's her, and you know what I was numbers are identified to fight with some of the map teacher on campus, because you know you know one of my best friends about teacher, and I always talk about how you know it's. The kids put in seventy percent of their time into the math class for their lowest great size like well worshipfully belittle assignment won through two hundred, even
a little time for me to do my my works.
yellow territorial Batman teachers- that's that's Polly. What you're, picking up on a global scale
These high school and college lava College a little bit so most behind?
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is when you throw something- and you say you eat
we have to say it when you do have to say museum gesture. Actually, it's oftentimes use when you give change eat some away to a homeless,
or the order order, the password worker when you're paying reveal to walk in the animals guy. I dont think you are quite right and I think you know you can need like an animal eat does mean throw, but
I think that that is to say, eat
nobody is gesturing, like you he's on throwing something there going on your work. I believe that every sound is implied by the action,
It's like saying all men are that cat off that do, but you didn't have to say
eat, for why to be? What about the Graham? I have no idea whether
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boomer. No, and I hate it. When I open rumours like I'm not into any roaming either I getting well when the book in the book, the like. Ok, you know that nobody written people who will criticise
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Generics. Are we just struggle the time John asking one but which in what's your feet
A band pearl jam or Nirvana
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was the zenith of rap,
when I was a junior, we had a document with a source album this
As you know, the chronic came out when I was in high school to back in California
of your Californian so yeah I mean that that's gonna, my music in the ninety do give offer to park. I do and snoop value. I think it's. The polo ethics are what I also excuse. Oh, I wish I was another tolerate, isn't too young for all this? You might know what you're telling me you don't know. You don't know squealer. You must now you're not like your soul will come back. If you listen to it, there are states keyboard. Yes, he bought at different catch these hands,
You know that other you're others to another expression, catch these hands. Please hands this genji
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or another rowing decapitated hands. I don't I don't know it means having amidst fight me tower
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this is sending me.
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and this sending me maybe it's like you're getting as a strong emotional reactions. Something's descending in any kind of whom you have broken must give credit instrument is making.
Ok, so I guess it's gotta be laughter though it can just be an insect, sending you into a fit of laughed like institute. I got ok. Last one nuff Netflix ensure that me,
come on over and we're gonna yeah. That's actually my boy, that's my book. I order is too much Netflix, not only burial of book and you're gonna be all right. Ok, I learnt, by the way, have the nucleus opened it up that the publishers is sitting in the middle of it? Why not feeling great about a million dollar question about the book? They that's! Ok, this questions come with it.
These good. There definitely not question, but do you know what Netflix insurance
you know. What's in what is now talking about the hollowing out of teenager, we are closely connected all these stupid things. They say: that's what you really about hey a lot
people lament the devices and social media usage of young Americans, but aren't self?
Just this generations, tv or walk men or nintendo.
Maybe you know how you see your reading from like an incendiary. That's that
That is a question for the author Hum Haskins. You know it's funny is. Is I don't think anybody in two months asked me that question
not a single person doing so and networking it's a pretty girl. Actually I think it's a good question that you know what I know it is different. It is different. I get. It is a little Norman people or have this well, you know when we weren't,
kids in the Eightys and Ninetys, we just watch tv. We listened the radio now because
young people. They literally live on social media. Think about this way so like when you were a teenager. You'd have.
to have had a room in your parents house where they couldn't come in.
Right, you could do you see anything you wanted to do anything you wanted to do and it was a room that you had a lock bit, but mom doesn't have the key. Only you know about it and that's essentially what young people have done today. One of the arguments in the book is that young people have done something that young people have never been able to do in history. They aspire to it, but this generation is done it and that is that they do have a space and you can have a digital ecosystem.
where they can express things and see things and look at things that, quite frankly, with shock. Even you guys in all seriousness, it would shock you there's a great court in the book via a dean, I think illicit Arkansas, and he says you know I confiscate phones all day and if you guys knew the vulgarity, the pornography, the violence.
Shock. You- and so I mean it's. It is an important question because I'm so I know it's not the same, and only that by the way, a lot.
kids, you know, you know, interact with radio and tv. The way you do with social media. A lot of young people have profoundly serious mental issues,
because of the fact that a lot of their sense of worth and
and their sense of self by
people say to them how much they like retweet or any of those things
and so you can ever leave by the way you know when I was growing up yet a private school. You left school. Yet
eighteen hours that have to worry about it, snuff casing. What follows you so now it is different. Now when I was growing up like I mean you ended new
spend like a good eight hour day, working hard climate up through the woods behind your friends, carbuncles house, to see pornography. You know two areas,
you're from first and books, you didn't want identity, Algeria here. Actually this is just something free rally behind a buried magazine live there, isn't there now and then have to work for it and then also
The radio just tell you what's good and what you should listen to the nowadays it
There's an algorithm tellin. You like trying to forget that it thinks you already know it's good. So it's like thinking based on your history as a thirteen year old that you have great taste since in a field that keep for my taste, imagine a horrible taste that are this generation will have become.
Well he's algorithms! Well, maybe they ran like the other thing, that kind of always written a book Ethan cause. I would. I would ridden we're gonna corrode correct a book after this one, a team up still hold out will be filled in LA hollowed. Do the opposite?
just then a sequel doubles. You're, gonna wanna me a little bit here. Yes,
how did we get more you hollowed out and then you can fill it up of, but everyone, but but but the thing that you know annoys me is
in this. We have also noticed a real change when I first started teaching political science in fifteen years ago.
the students, have these discussions about issues which don't do that and work as you know, and offend anybody. But you know-
get in now days. You, if you haven't unpopular opinion, that he'll up there, you your harming them and somewhere or another, but eastern kids would have an opinion and there would be a court there mom their dad, their pastor, their friends. Nobody talks about.
nobody- talks about aiming in their immediate circlets, it's what they're looking at on online, it's Youtube sensation or a instagram influence or twitter of trendsetter they're, not talking about the people in their lives, and so am I deal with this away on family, where you know my children, the watch these these videos and knew the outlines. What's the same thing over and over over and over again and
did they say the Xenia things, and I see that my classroom all the time. So no it it's a different generation in ITALY. It is uniquely bad. I would put it that way. One question: what is a walkman
a walkman came out, one thousand nine hundred and eighty two from Sony and it's when you take a tape set, and you put it in you, push it down and you play it so putting on his headphones in the front
headphones by the way you do not now sets out for a walk or be a man now little misleading.
I was, I was
I am old and you guys remember when I was a teenager. I wonder your song with you can go to the registrar by it, but I used to like it
tape in
you know. You need wait for the radio. I ordered call the radio station and you'd press record and that's got to be got to listen to us. I mean it's, it's a profoundly different era. When it talks about you know what you want. I mean the ability to
Get anything you want immediately
I do think that it has a psychological effect and there is no short cut and to be serious for a second. There is no shortcut to greatness. There's no shortcuts to achievement, there's no shortcut for being a good person, the shortcut for being a good teacher, a good citizen or good Father, a good Christian there's, no short cuts is not easy.
sacrifice and diligence, and then words like you know that we,
fortitude we'd have used the word for it anymore. We never talk about.
strengthen want to talk about those kinds of things, and I think that we would grow up in an era where you can have anything. You want he's way too literally available on your device. I do think it changes your worldview and not for the better. As a Christian, you know
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meaning isn't the philosophy of our time right now
used to really be that, like
Greatest version yourself is out there for you to find and we all help either get to it, but now the philosophy is the greatest.
yourself as emu. That is, and so that's why it makes sense to have all these algorithms, its feed whenever you're feeling at the moment and so
kind of that is. That is exactly right and I will show you the dying me better than Kyle at this point right now, yeah, because that is an extraordinary insight, because I will do that. That really has infected just wanting to areas where it has. In fact it is infected education because, like you said,
you. You go to college. You go to school because you have a sense that there's something possible within you. There
that is if you read certain books, if you learn from certain teachers of your house and experiences,
Then there is a refinement of your sensibilities and your mind that you you you can self actualize and, like you said, really what's out there like the best version of yourself.
it is not right. Now it's a great teachers are not simply giving you curriculum their artists of human transformation and they don't tell you what.
Think they allow you to think for themselves. Do not tell you where to go. They show you what's possible, but you're right nowadays, it's all fairer punic. It's all. You know what I like these colleges. It used to be you gotta college and colleges. Until you take my story,
the first paper ever wrote in college. The professor wrote me back give me enough and said: you're, intellectually constipated I mean
was absolutely zero affirmation of me my feelings, my thoughts. No, you are raw you're, a piece of clay that hasn't been molded yet get to work. There is very low
that a we ve gone from being academic figures to therapists and and
your world is infinitely more, I mean. That's me. The book is called hollowed out, because all the things that give you your licence of meaning and purpose are not there in the lives of young people, including this epoch, sense of of possibility. Some, your absolute, the right. May I read a quote from of Nicky Menage.
The task of the modern energy overtaking massages. Yes, the task of the model
Educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence
against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments
by starving the sensibility of our pupils. We only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes for famished, nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head. Is this
the cooperation she d with Dodge a cat is that, where you're getting this from ok very good thought was its actions is it's all. I can really Edmund Burke about ok, the abolition of man correctly, I agree or disagree. Absolutely
that's. I find myself
I don't have the guts.
dismiss yes, votes on yeah? Sorry, I did you break your life going engages in Oxford so, but he gonna makes
point that Ethan is making that he tracks the or
she's Llewelyn, ceaseless Louis agrees with Ethan and expands upon Ethan Point by saying that
There is this objective standard that used to be out there and the whole point of an educator was to say you have something bad in you and you need to,
just to align with the real world, and now it's the opposite, where we just a firm whatever it is. You have to discover yourself
we're existentialist, does exactly right, man and in fact, in only one but the abolition of man- and he goes after that and I think the very first page of abolition, man he's he's talking about how the textbooks reflect that and I would actually takes
the back unexploited global differently, which is only than seriously differently than know. What you're saying I desire to see a Europe which kind of angle, maybe from a greek standpoint you there's a big bust of head, must be clear of Socrates, my class,
and always say that I think it is worth mixture rhetorically, not a big mustn't, sovereignty or either. You guys tell me to pervert behind a screen theirs. I you know, I don't back only very clear here with an eye glass labyrinth like guys that by being immature, tell us about Socrates, big buttons, you know, maybe he was invented chuckling mechanism, but Socrates is broadly thereby lotta people to be the the grace teacher, western civilization and inhuman care about your feelings. The reason why,
Popular is because he go run Athens and he'd, intellectually joust, with
people claim to know more the elites of their day. You know the military media mainstreaming array of his day and he would just absolutely destroy them by asking a simple questions, because the one thing he knew
is that you know everything I've been given been given to me by forces of chance.
My parents are when I was born where was born, I need to ask these important, difficult questions and what worries me I told my students is: is it you can't really teach socratically anymore?
if somebody says something outrageous or silly, and you shall the idea,
They don't see that you're challenging the idea. They see that you're you're you're taking me you're trying to
me you're, making me feel supported and
you know John Adams famously said you know that
Facts are stubborn things. Well, you know
I was I stole that you have a right to your opinion, but you do have a right to be right, one, the era, feelings being sovereign. You do have a right to be right and I think it's
difficult to teach in that kind of a situation which again talk about a sense of hollowness me when you believe that, if so facto, because it's you you're right,
you can teach somebody who thinks that way and its and it's a worldview they ve inherited, and I think it's toxic to see us lose quote.
Shout out to my haters, sorry that you couldn't face me.
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illustrated? What is right that we have no you're right? It was a local, secure, demon, rat battle right. It demonstrates that and get to that part
So do you hate all your students? It sounds like a halo,
now, I know not, allow in fact I really dislike Russians. They dislike, I'm fostered with the adults in our society, kitchen
I can't control the world are being born into United.
it's kind of certainty, because the one thing the kind of gives gives me a station about the boat was, I thought you know whom I do not think that in any way
have a great deal of of affection hope for them, because I do it's the fact that we,
the this world to them, where there
Put me another two adults for most of their lives. I mean I don't values at all expectations about Roma tools. They spend ninety two
our today on their cell phones and limited. What are you looking at the looking at other kids with adults with kid values in kid behaviors
you know they're not around their their parents like they used to. They don't eat family dinners like they used to they dont go to church like they used to one or two five millennial say they have a good friend in the entire world. Half of all
in the three areas don't have a romantic partner. I'm sure that's not you guys, but it
seriously, a life that is until thirty two
models of how to live a good and substantive life and its
and in so no I'm not I'm bye, bye.
If you are a teacher- and you don't like to be run, young people get out of the classroom because I hope you will like that's like why you ve been breached. If you dont, like coffee, get
get out of Starbucks right now and in their people like that by the way. So now I have a video regard for my students. I am here's the other thing
as a sum you teaches american civics, it's hard for me
not to be a romantic about this country, because I dont teach a bunch of privileged kids. I teach a lot of
didn't you dont come from private,
background, who are one generation here who haven't under the best schools. You have your deal with poverty and abuse and yet
they believe in themselves they work hard in school and Wala magical things happened, you don't gotta get you out of it a Disneyland to see them
You come to the american classroom with kids, you believe in education and they work hard the magic happen.
and have seen too many times to be authentic. So now I don't know I don't like my kids little. We should
add music. When he sang I'm part american
have some like some from must have a like Uncle SAM S from the good part of saving private Ryan. When not, whenever he's dying but like that, when people are living,
So I have another trying to think of what part of that movie you're talking. That's probably have you ever people die, I'm going with carrying a guy like a music is saying the triumphant triumphs of this war and not like icy dark parts of this year. The EU delegation be come tonight, I'm gonna get angry.
I have a lot of anxiety right now. I think I'm enough and the pod prematurely, you think,
anxiety is multiple choice: question a total fraud or be completely vowed all time one day and a half
the seller can you. I will tell you that that is the word that we hear all the time and.
I'll be also used to may a little sceptical about a bit me I've teenage girls,
We joke around a lot, but in all seriousness with my daughter's me
I think the pandemic has when you isolate kids, you take them away.
from the relationships and the people that can support them and give them a sense of self like the best way that I can explain this? Is you know when you look at boxing?
every round. You go into the corner and you have tourism.
People there and there you arresting
they're telling you you now here's what you can do. You can do this. They give you water, they cut you open what are needed
but the point is you're getting support. You have you gonna beat up for three minutes
with the corner and their people there and their resources there that can help you to go back into the ring and
I really want people to understand that there are a lot of young people when they go into the ring it there's nobody there for them.
writers are when they go to the corner night: there's nobody there did they go to school and we think about when you guys we're in high school. I know that was not much longer than those on very long for you guys ago, but for me was a long time ago, but for him, ok, but I'm telling you re now me much younger name. What else has ever been a long time about high school high schools? Heart I mean you get beat up emotionally have a lot of work. You you have to Europe, it we'd like. If you work, you don't want to do and then you go home. You just kind of what kind of essentially
You have a sense of ok, I can take a breath. I can feel supported that go back in tomorrow and allow those cases simply don't have it and if it is a problem- and you know, as somebody who believes in a basic level of equality of opportunity in this country, I do think we-
to recognise that that anxiety is, is real because you
the water there not getting the support for not giving the now. I believe that you can go back and then
do well so now it it's real. So I you, what's your name
here too the whole public. Should I send my kids to public school? Should I home school them shut? I soon private school should all
Christians, conservatives, polar kids out of school because it's a horrible marxist, do launch its.
A horrible horse through log.
But you know what I'd I really there is. I would never proposed to tell somebody's some parent what to do with their kids. It's a ten percent. There does
I do think that sometimes what people who
talk about the Marxist out, all of the all the critical race theory. You know, I think you got
surprised as it's not really talk down like on my boss is around telling me you need to go be reading. You know Hegel and marks, and you know
all of the elderly. The illegal theories from Harvard in the nineteen Seventys is actually bottom up. It's coming from the kid is not coming from the adult. It's coming from the kid to watch these things
and they have you no eighty. I think a ridiculously cynical and negative view of the kind
because of it, so it its root, not talked and its bottom up. So if you have a kid, who's, gonna be influenced the lava. What the other kids together, someone somewhere else
we feel the kind of kid who needs to your other perspectives, but knows what they believe who believes in verbal jousting, who believes that we all have elements of truth with us and we can have a meaningful dialogue and then send them into the arena like Teddy Roosevelt said, but but you know that
thing that really
what I'm noticing the last four years is that this is like the noise
standing for the pledge of allegiance
that it's it's very hip to not seeing the national anthem?
and one of the things that I really twenty home to the kids now about. Is this idea of just how profoundly unique.
A liberal democracy is like you, your blessings. You didn't do anything to have the freedom
opportunity the security that all the
stronger in wife that you have this exception to the rule of history. It's not fair!
with its oppression. Is the rules not wealth? Its poverty is the rule and those things happen because of institutions that were created by people who sacrificed extraordinarily me. Last week we were talking about the second caught Noah Congress, and that's that's me,
In June seventeen, seventy six where they decided to declare independence against George, the third. I said you know guys for as you think these countries want into the core. They were committing treason, and this was the
these were young men. By the way, Thomas Jefferson was only thirty three years old, John Adams, loneliness birdie, early forties, Washington was even fifty years old and they knew what they were doing and they did it anyhow and you benefit from that
not sit there and tell me that this country was founded under the most evil and pernicious ideals, because the record of history is very clear in their speeches in their writing.
I don't think there's an event that has a greater source of kind of epistolary resource Nan, our founding so yeah. You know independently kind of get. You have.
Now they have me me Louisbourg murmured. In some kind
similar pony abandonment of the republic, which should be the national anthem by the way,
Our spring went away to difficult Sammy.
the battle them of the republic, the what them
proud of them. He laughed like a boom, etc.
Total Boomer Joe gone. What the boomerang, not a boomer ever happening, not a boomer, I'm notable, I'm be forgotten generation.
A question
the clock is. I mean I'm not doing lemming you sure you want to get out of here. What's gonna like dragon minutes, no innocent gaps, shocked it really. I thought the manifold gets for five minutes.
So far. We ve got you given like too long inspiring speeches, sorry
sir. I know I'm in a good we're gonna be watching very part or something the more long speeches at the less work. We have to develop a lot of filling the lack of a sea right now, amateur, I'm starting that glow turn it back on before. There is a lot of my friends that have gone into teaching, we're very conservative and then when they became it.
Each year they went very late, start going very left. What do you think? What causes that is it? Is it the teaching culture or is the effect of being
these kids, all the time and needing to relate to them or like what you think causes that
I think you things why them, whether I am a supporter and I'm dumb now. No, that's definitely will that can possibly be it, but I do think the first one is right. He's not like you know you, you can absorb the values of the people. Your round and with the unions and and teachers tend to be more of a liberal group of people,
I do think that the other one is the fact that you do see that a lot of young people come
Backgrounds were
fault of their own. They dont have a lot of support, mean only they dont. What's all this comes just
Do you like a sledgehammer? I there's a this males.
the mind a few years ago, great student, and he was gone for a few days and finally, he came back
I kept my philosophy or what's goin on he said I had had to stay at home.
A simple wise, and we know because my my mom's boyfriend, if I wasn't there, I thought
was gonna, beat her up or beat at my my younger sister I to stay there make sure he didn't do that.
And I think that when you hear story after story like that- and I think a lot of certain isolated from that reality
the things that you know we're people when people on non about income inequality. Frankly, income inequality doesn't bother me as
the lack of social mobility in this country. The phenomena
predictor of being pours you're born poor
Denmark should not have more social mobility than we do now.
why I'm? A teacher is, as we all know, that the best door to the american dream is a high quality education, but at the end of the day
so have to assume a posture of humility, as a teacher realise that most of their success or failure in the classroom happens because of what happened before they get to you. I mean
Where did read to his children. Do they come from a background, my mom and dad make sure that they have good meals and make sure that they're doing their homework and saying you can do it and saying if you want a fake piano, will pay for the lessons, and I do think that you are exposed to
very, very difficult reality when you, when you teach a lot of young people in, and it is shocking, it is galling- and I think that you are the more sympathetic to having the element more govern
assistance and they'll be honest right now I mean my
school feeds, three meals at eight, our kids. Three
and I remember when the pandemic it in March of point. Twenty no administrator was talking about man, we're gonna, miss on the latest, countless them, but they were worried about the bulk of the work to be fed, and I think that Dutch,
Fine with me, that's what we call wraparound services. An unhappy
we do it, but I think it's sad that we have to put it that way. So, where do you live in Bakersfield?
I ask myself the question once a hundred. Everyone knows that other cities in coffee- I do I do you know what I'll be perfectly honest with you. I was born in Bakersfield
and then when I went to College and Virginia had a great for years, a Washington late, which is right in the middle of the state,
but honestly, my older sister, who passed away and
My niece? I was very close to her and I felt like- and I wanted to be, a good aunt. I wanted to be there for her and you don't fix. It is a remarkably for all the Johnny, Carson, jokes and the fact that it
you know the dirtiest around the country and there is no culture and we have low education. It is ugly and it's you know, a hundred thirty. Every day
There is a sense of we, we will support them.
people come from our community. I mean be honest,
my writing career I never ever ever could have gotten a big book published like this had not been because I had the support of my community time and
in time again, so you know like theirs
the drawings with Bakersfield one of those places that you grow to love. It is not for us now.
It's not Fresno, we absolutely not yet Fresno is theirs that that's our are. Mortal enemy is Fresno for sure.
So when just the test? What year was the country actually founded.
You wanna short answer is I got for while it gives he s coming for minorities with sixteen or seventeen eighty, seven
The court has not seventeen seventy six, that's when we became we stopped being subjects of England, but seventeen. Eighty seven is when we work the constitution you're about a hundred and sixty years
dog after hearing a span of history, a close and world history. Sixteen ancient! Sixteen, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I
there are governments that they have other teachers taught nodded good in it. Have you is that happening here? Scholarly turning the sixteen nineteen then going
yet not yet I mean- and again I am I'm pretty insulated in the sense that they may I teach most Microsoft AP, so the creek was written by somebody else. So I don't know I don't get a lot to say over it, but now that that is actually incorrect is incorrect.
Watch it children blame all their problems on you.
Like all children on all children for a time, an eternity on ethnical all uneven I'll, take it I'll. Take it on me. Bear the burden, share the load, I'll, carry it now, you
look up and down the hall yourselves, I thought the answer was the rumours you said when the bureau for any rumours, it's the rumours,
do you have any boomers Obama who work here is a single boomer worker do have a boomer knowing November.
I'm thinking about all that, like all the
Do you have any body Miami damage and extra? Like me, I'm a generator
you're, not a really old millennial. He's really young genetics
I am a sign of on them.
there's some that say, I'm like a cusp of the millennium, I'm nineteen eighty is born.
We ask our colleagues have made real millennial glum, seventy six and I'm gonna that at the end of the giant expert.
if you think about it, bothers me because we don't have me like who are the great great, but who are the famous eugenics, politicians, Paul Ryan,
and keep on going. I mean there's not a lot. I mean there really is a kind of gap there, because you, I think we're not work on any. I care what ya gotta shrug and the other thing is. Is it I remember my generation when
when a Bmw, Mercedes, a nice car drove by it, never occurred to me that you owe that to me my values
hope. I were hardened from successful enough in my life to have something like that and that
that mentality of? Would you owe this to me because
I'm not really in control of my life. That's
That's another thing to drive me crazy. It's what I call american fatalism. This idea that, in all of these different variables, impact me in such a way that that in
I dont have agency, I can't make choices and me what's the point of education, if you, if you really believe that so I dont genetics or maybe the last generation, really believed, and then I d
of a fluid hierarchy. The idea that I
I personally would control of my life and I mean you go do Poles in Europe and like sixty or seventy percent and will say out. My life is pretty much the consequence of things beyond me. We arrogant,
don't believe that in our were jeffersonian out that way, and- and I hope that we maintain that- but I see that that's a really pernicious, attractive idea, because you escape responsibility for your life, for your
our own failings, we don't screw up why I didn't have any control, how and when blame this person or that personally, larger historic structures of our end, and I think the indigent exercise really that that wasn't something that appeal to us at all. So
I guess, I'm a product of my generation alone, but I'm a millennium. I have nothing to say to you. I don't know
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