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Episode Date: February 11, 2026

Rhyen Staley from Defending Education digs into a climate group now training the K-12 kids how to be anti-ice and lefty activists. JC Republican Party Lincoln day Dinner on a week from Saturday, all the details with Joyce Michaelangelo and Colleen Roberts

This hour of the Bill Myers Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausurrilling.com. Off and on my show, we're talking about public education and where's the radicalism come from? It seems to be embedded in much of the mother's milk, not everywhere, but I'm saying that it just seems that overall we're looking at a rising tide of radicalism and activism coming. from the unionized public school systems. And I wanted to talk about that with Ryan Staley. Ryan Staley is a researcher for defending education.

And he holds a master's degree in elementary education, has over a decade of classroom experience, both public and private schools. He's on both sides of that aisle. And over 25 years of volleyball coaching experience from Women's Division I down to junior high. Ryan, how you doing this morning? Welcome. Good day, I'm doing great, Bill. Thanks for having you.

Hey, Ryan, I want to ask you. First off about the volleyball coaching experience. In your time, have you ever had a dude pretending to be a woman muscling his way on the team in the transgender craze, which seems to be happening? Has ever happened with you? Just curious. No, not unless it was by invitation for practice purposes, which, you know, it's frustrating to watch these things go down, like the situation in Washington right now with wrestling. because for 25 plus years, every coach I've ever worked with instinctively knew there was a major difference in athletic performance between a male and a female.

And so when we would bring in male athletes to increase the level of play in practice once in a while, we always didn't tell them to tone it down because they would hurt players if they didn't. And so all of a sudden now it's all males and female athletes are the same. and it's beyond ridiculous. And, you know, I were not up at a couple years ago, Bill, calling out coaches saying, you all know this. And yet you're silent.

You're dead silent on these males coming into the female sports. Yeah, up in Washington, apparently, we have a male wrestler who is accused of essentially sticking his fingers where they don't belong in a female wrestler up there, right? That's what we were talking about the other day. Yeah, that's the allegation from the female athlete. and I, you know, honestly, I don't know why she would lie. So, yeah, but still, it's certain.

And it's horrifying. This is the kind of stuff that I swear, you know, if I went back to my father's generation, he would have been out there punching out the coach for even allowing this kind of stuff. But it is, it's like, is the entire system cowed right now still, even now, when we see out and out sexual assault going on, not just physical assaults? I don't know, but this morning the idea of Ammani, Python's life of Brian pots in my head as is, you know, are we really truly living out the absurdity that those guys presented as comedy back in the day? And we are. I mean, there is a group

of a collection of people that seem to have power, especially over the education institutions who are, who I almost feel like they watch those movies and go, actually, that's a good idea. We should be doing that. And for those that don't know, you know, there's, there's scenes in the movie where, you know, Stan wants to be Loretta and have babies and they're, they're, They're even saying, well, this is kind of absurd, but apparently it's not absurd anymore. I'm glad you brought up Monty Python, once again, bringing up absurdities for comedic a fact back. There was one movie, The Meaning of Life that I remember, with John Cleese, as the surgeon, the doctor, and the mother gives birth, right? And she asks the doctor, well, is it a boy or a girl?

And then John Cleese fires back, that's a little bit early to be imposing a role upon it. don't you think? And we were laughing like crazy back then in 1980 or 81 when that came out. That's the real world that we've been living in now. It's been developed to your point, right? Yeah, I mean, it's been stemming, coming out of flowing out of the universities for one. And what they've done is they've prioritized oppression status. And so when you do that, not that there isn't real world,

oppression here and there, but they've taught these children to view the world as if everything's oppressive. It's just a variation of what level of oppression. And so, you know, to kind of bring us around to the student protest stuff, if you will, that's how we get here now with these students walking out of school. In many cases, you know, protesting, you know, immigration, that they have no, They have no clue, actually, how it actually works out there in the real world and the dangers that it sometimes brings in our society too. Absolutely. And, you know, they're rallying behind in a lot of cases of people who are not just illegal criminals crossing the border, but beyond that, right? They have criminal rap sheets beyond just crossing the border, violence and murder.

Yeah, if they asked for permission, a smart company, a country would say, no, we don't want you here. We don't need any additional criminals to go with the homegrown. So I wanted to talk with you about this. And by the way, Ryan Staley, once again, researcher for defending education. And the reason, and this takes us into the latest here, you ended up getting a training guidebook for activism, right? And I wanted to drill into that here for a few minutes. Tell us what you ended up finding out. Well, it definitely was written by you because it's just filled with your typical young,

um, neo-Marxist cliches of power to the people. And, but, you know, one of the things, and we have to take this stuff seriously as much as we want to, you know, Monty Python, I guess, because they talk about they're here to win a quote, political revolution. What concerns me about the guide document is, again, typical for you. that would write something like this, there isn't a lot of, well, what does that political revolution look like? And so that's a real concern for me because they, you know, it's like a lot of the stuff with communism throughout history. It's like, well, we'll know it when we get there.

And that doesn't work. You know, contrast that with the founding documents, the Declaration of Independence especially, where we declared as a nation, we are leaving. you know, the, we're leaving the government of England because X, Y, and Z, here's our grievances. And this is where we really want to go. These are our guiding values and principles. Your guiding principles in this case from Sunrise Movement is power to the people. Well, James Madison warned against that. You know, that's, you know, that's, um, uh, it's a, how what do you, he called it something. It just, it just only escaped me. But, you know, there, there, They want this democracy, but when you look back at a true democracy, which our founders were very, very afraid of because of factions, and that's what you're getting here, is you're going to end up with a system under these people's guidance that is going to leave us with less liberties, less freedom, all because they want power to the people.

And it's really, it's really disturbing because this is very much catered. This guy caters very much to the youth. Now, you're talking about, now, Sunrise Movement, the Sunrise Movement there, I thought, okay, I mistook this. So this is about training students, not teachers, or are the teachers using this training booklet, this guidebook of sorts? Do you know? No, that's a great question. Let's back up a step. The Sunrise movement is geared towards the youth. It is a youth movement.

Funny enough, when they say youth, they must expand it out to, like, upper 20s because the woman, the executive director, who's then in Minneapolis, marching with these students, is in her upper 20s. One of the other young people that we discovered was on Zoom calls with these high school students is a Brown University student who started a group there on campus that led the campus encampments for Palestine. And so you have adults coming in under Sunrise Movement to train children, minors, to walk out of campuses and to do these protest movement. So this guide is geared towards teenagers and young 20-year-old. So one could then say the Sunrise Movement, which is a radical climate group overall, that's normally their main

thing, right? That's what they're into, the radical climate agenda. So is there any evidence that it's in all states or just in Minneapolis because we had a bunch of the climate kids walking out of school a couple of weeks ago, along with the anti-ice. They were also talking about making polluters pay, in other words, emissions of carbon, which state senator Jeff Golden just happens to be reviving a bill in the latest legislative session that would do just that. Polluter pay, meaning that we would all pay, you know, essentially. you know, for everything that we have.

You know, we pay more for it. I'm just wondering if it's all connected in one form or another that you know of. Well, yeah, yeah. I go back to the phrase, the issue is never the issue. The issue is, in this case, political revolution. And so last October, in fact, the sunrise movement in an article in publication, excuse me, they came out straight up and said they're setting aside their climate agenda to become anti-Trump agenda.

Oh. So when you, you know, your listening audience looks and goes, well, here's this youth climate group and they're protesting ice. It's because the number one issue right now is to go after the Trump administration. So they take up the anti-ice movement or they take up the pro-Palestine movement or they take up the BLM movement. It doesn't matter as long as they keep driving the issue of the. revolution and eventually again coming back to what i said earlier they don't know what the end looks like

but they'll know when they get there and so they just keep doing and let me let me let me jump to this inside of this guide document and in their zoom webinars that we have a staff member that that listens in on um they they talk openly about this mayday protest coming up in a couple of months And so what we derive from this information is, by the way, they say in this document, they want these protests monthly. And so we've seen it weekly now across the country where we've seen, you know, every week so far, the last couple weeks, other schools walking out for this protest movement. And they're gearing up to have a big shindig with, by the way, the teachers' unions. This is going to be a really big, massive thing come May Day, which is May 1st of 2026. And so this is all geared towards this massive protest that they want to have on a Friday.

So you're talking about another day that schools are kids are going to probably be out of class to protest for this movement of this political revolution. What would you suggest, Ryan, given the fact that the group, the Sunrise Movement, movement, and I imagine there are probably fellow travelers that are all in with them, along with the Oregon Education Association, the state teachers union. What would be a strategy, in your view, to combat this or nip it in the bud or just keep kids in the classroom? Is there anything that could be done about this? Because I noticed that our local papers were putting out articles recently, oh, the people

who are protesting, they're paying a penalty, you know, from the, well, you know, they have a couple of detention detentions or something like that and they seem to be taking a light touch on it at the moment. What do you think? Yeah, you know, I have an op-ed coming out in the near future talking about the consequences

or lack thereof. There was a young student in an article that I read going through these different protests and she mentioned that she's making a real sacrifice to be out there yet the school said they're not disciplining the kids in any way, shape, or form. Other school districts have said that the kids have to take an absent

I don't know that that's meaningful to kids anymore. You and I, when we grew up, that meant something, at least for a lot, for the majority of... Yeah, having detention and having my parents told was a big deal. It was a big deal. It meant that you were misbehaving. Right. Right. But a lot of these kids, and a lot of these kids, their parents are probably even supporting them some way or another.

And they might even be brushing it off as, well, it's civic engagement, which it kind of is. But you know what? There is a court case out of office. Iowa, I think it was Tinker, that said that if it becomes a disruption to the school day, the schools can start to put these down. And I think that's where the parents are going to start stepping in saying, you know what, we gave them their one protest over this thing. This weekly or monthly thing is ridiculous.

And, you know, Bill, the other thing is people need to start looking at the academic performances in a lot of these schools. It is really sad. I pulled one yesterday where a school that protested, I think, in Colorado, they had a 0% reading proficiency rate and a 4% math proficiency rate. So they couldn't read the signs that they were making for the protest? They probably could read that basic level of ice, you know, some swear word or something or other. Oh, yeah.

But, you know, we're doing such a disservice to these kids. And that's the other thing I think that really is really frustrating with these outside organizations. By the way, the Sunrise Movement is funded by groups like Open Society and the World. Ford Foundation. So as they go around, they scream about the billionaires and so forth, and yet they're taking in six-figure lump sums from a nonprofit organization who's sitting on $14 billion in assets. So it's really not about billionaires. It's about them trying to bring about, again, this political revolution that they really don't, you know, clarify what exactly it is. Yeah, they don't know what this political revolution that they want the kids to work through

looks like, but they'll know it's there when they get there. I mean, what? Is that when the guillotines are set up in the public squares again? Like with the French back in the day? Well, I'm telling you, there's, there is some, you know, similarities, obviously with the Jacobins and so forth, because a lot of this ideology, especially the oppressor-opposed ideology, comes out of Rousseau, which the Jacobins were big, you know, adopted heavily. So this is really, really a dangerous problem.

And, you know, the other thing is anybody spent a minute. working with youth, knows that the more youth you have in a group, the more risk they take, right, the more rambunctious. And we're already starting to see some examples of that where kids are, there was a story up, I think, in Washington of a woman being assaulted by the students. These students are unsupervised. Bill, when I first started teaching middle school, the one rule my principal, she was fantastic, by the way, so there are good ones out there.

And her number one rule was no student was ever left unsupervised. And yet these schools are letting these students leave campus sometimes completely unsupervised. So we're letting mass amounts of students who don't have a developed prefrontal cortex go off on their own. And we're just asking for trouble. Rain Staley once again from Defending Education. By the way, is it DefendingEd.org, right? That's your website where you have this up. Yeah, defending ed.orgie.

How do you think is the best way for your local school to respond to this or policy that could be put in place? Because they're openly saying, hey, we're going to do this. This is going to be a big disruption. We want everybody out, whether it's going to be weekly, monthly, May day-ish, with the teachers' union. What would you do? What would you suggest that a local school put in place? I think you've got to find out what penalties are going to stop the behavior for the majority of the students. I think you have, especially if they're repeat protest, you label it a disruption, you know, to the learning environment.

Oh, okay. All right. So at this point, they already did. They're out ice. There are other things. Their climate protest from last week to say, nope, you had that. That's it. Now we're just disrupting the school day is all we're doing.

Yeah. I mean, you have to have limiting principles here because otherwise they're kids. I mean, there's part of this where they are kids, right? And they want to get out of class. Sure. So you're going to have a portion. And I want people to know that. There's a portion of these kids where you can tell in their faces and videos.

They're goofing. They're laughing. It's a chance to get out of class. Yeah. And so they're kids. The more room you give them, the more miles they're going to take, naturally. And so you have to put some limiting principles on this, or they're just going to keep going. Ryan, I appreciate the take on it.

And thanks for letting us know about this, the Sunrise Movement promoting political revolution through K-12 students. K through 12. So even as young as kindergartners, they're targeting in some form or another? We've seen protests. Well, I don't know about this group specifically, but we've seen these walkouts include kindergartners and preschoolers. I mean, obviously with teachers in tow, so you know where that was coming from. Yeah, very good.

Hey, thanks for letting us know about it and for the work you're doing over at Defending Education, Ryan. Take care, all right? I appreciate it. Thank for the time. Ryan Staley, researcher for defending education long, long time in public. and private school classrooms. It's 830 at KMED and KVXG on the Bill Meyer show. Your outdoor adventure starts.

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I noticed a couple of them were carrying signs that said, F, ICE. It's good to know that the Phoenix Talent School District, are teaching the kiddies something that they can use in life. And that's Richard. Richard Corbyn writing about that. Emails of the day sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson, Central Point Family Dentistry. Central Point Family Dentistry.com. Ron also weighing in on student protests.

Bill, as a short-term fix for students protesting during school hours, how about just adding additional school days for each day a protest occurs? Huh. What do you think about that? Ron and Medford saying, I think that the kids will not like attending additional school days. The whole idea is that you're cutting class, right? So for every peaceful protest day, there's another day added to the school calendar. Of course, is there money for this?

Because remember, the state of Oregon controls the funding. And each day, each day costs a lot of money. We don't have a lot of days. Well, you know, we don't have a lot of days in the school calendar compared with other states anyway, as is. Hey, Matt, do you have a take on that? What do you think? Adding a day to the school year every time that, the clowns are out wanting to do a protest.

What do you think? You want me just to give you some truth here from my perspective? Yeah, go ahead. Give me, as a parent from your perspective, what would you think about something like that? An extra day of school every time there's a protest. I thought that was an interesting comeback on them. I'm going to offend some people.

I think those ideas are idiotic. Okay. I think everybody seems to be focused because the walkouts are happening at school. Everybody's talking about the school should do, what the district should do. Yeah. This all comes down to parenting.

I got in a debate with a, I'm going to call them a moron the other day, talking about these walkouts and these kids walking out. And there are videos everywhere showing parents trying to reel their kids in their kids. It's basically, you know, middle school was giving their parents the finger. Here's where I come down on all of this. As a parent, the reason you lose your children is because you have no credibility with your children. And when this guy's telling me, the guy I was having a conversation with, that, oh, you just don't understand.

They have these outside influences. You don't know what's going on at school and all this. And I looked at them and I said, so what you're telling me is you have less influence on your child's life. The child you brought into the world, you put a roof over their head, food in their stomach, clothes on their back. And after all of that, you have less credibility than some stranger. some teacher, some administrator, some outside source like rural organizing project, you've got these people have more influence on your child than you do. And then I said, what do you think the problem is?

And they said, well, if he's outside? I said, no, you have no credibility with your children. You need to ask yourself that question. Why don't your children respect you to the degree that they would never consider walking out of that classroom? The parents lack credibility with their kids. They say, oh, we'll respect. The kids should respect you. Are you a parent who, not that you have to demand it,

but if your children look to you and say, I want to be like my mom. Well, they expect you. They expect it from you. You know, I agree, and I will quibble with you on some of this, all right? Because remember, I've been saying for years, and I still believe this. I've talked with people who have been on school boards and quit in disgust and frustration here. The system is designed to be impervious to parental input, really, unless there's such a mass movement that there is very little away that the board and the superintendent types can avoid this. I still say, though, that if you're on the school board, you're really trying to fix the future.

But if you're trying to save your kids from the communist right now, from the Marxist revolution right now, the only proper form of action is to get them out some way. It's kind of the way I'm looking at it. Am I still wrong to go down that path? Well, you're proving my, Bill, you're proving my point. Ultimately, I cannot beat this home hard enough. It all comes down to credibility. Either your children look to you for leadership and for guidance or they don't.

And even guidance to pulling themselves out of a... The system is sick. It is a sick system, and it's filled with a lot of sick people. And the only thing I would quibble with you on this, where just putting it totally on parents, is that they spend a lot more time at that school than they're usually spending with their parents. Okay, but again, Bill, that's an excuse.

That's an excuse. And I want to point something out. There's the last point I'll make. I tell you and I'll go away. The last point I want to make is this. there are a tiny number of students who are walking out versus the ones who are not. Yes. The number is small.

I know they're loud. So there are a lot of parents out there who probably think like I do and like my wife does who have their children's confidence and respect. And so I don't like to focus too much on the parents who have decided to be their kid's friend instead of their parents. there are still way more. Yeah, that has been a big cultural problem. You're spot on. I give you no credit, no quibble on that, okay? All right, thanks, though.

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This is the Bill Meyer show on 1063 KMED. Call Bill now. 541-770-5633. That's 770 KMED. And we'll get right back to your call. and just a minute, and I know a lot of people want to talk about some of the protests in school and give me your take, but you want to just call, you can hang on, and we will get to you, I assure you, okay? It's 844. Lincoln Day Dinner, big celebration within the local

Republican Party coming up. It's going to be a week from Saturday. And joining me right now, we have, well, we have the head cheese and what, semi-head cheese? Is that the... Exactly. We have Joyce Michelangelo, who is the Republican Party chair of Jackson County. how you doing? Oh, I'm doing fine. Thank you so much for having us. Yeah, great to have you here. And, of course, Commissioner Colleen Roberts of Jackson County. Hello. Good morning. And I'm just the vice chair. Mini Chief. Pardon me. Vice Chair. There we go. I'll get it all right right now.

So tell us what we got coming up. And what does it cost for a Lincoln Day dinner? Where do you go? And what do you do to get the tickets? Because this is a big fundraiser to help the group out each year. Well, we'll start with, this year we have Congressman Cliffbent speaking, and then locally we have Pastor Chad McComas, who has started the Joy community for our elders that are being priced out of their homes, so they can have tiny homes. Very inspirational. I've talked to them several times. It'll be interesting to hear what his experience has been, because that's been open up down the street here, a pretty big deal. It's open up now. have 11. Maybe they have their 12th person by now. Okay. And so

and he's such a nice speaker. He's such a pleasant person for speaking. We also are going to have some of our governor candidates speaking. But this is starting to fill up pretty quickly with gubernatorial candidates, right? Oh,

there's only 14, 16, something like that. Circular firing squad. And that's just Republicans. We're And there's still four or five, the last time in check, four or five Democrats. So I imagine, is Christine Drazen going to be down at this one? Do we know? I'm going to talk to her campaign manager after we get off the out of here.

Okay. And but we know some, all the ones that are coming. You know of any commissioner? We have, um, Ed Deal. So Ed Deal's coming? He was the first one that got a hold of us. And we said, okay, we should invite them all. We invited them all.

Oh, good, good. Right. And we have a couple of people that people don't even know. We have a young lady that goes, her name is Wendy, but she goes by Wyn. Her last name is Waddell. She's put her name in the hat. And we have, well, I'm just drawing a blank. It's going to be a great time.

People can come down and also meal all sorts of candidates and shoot the breeze, right? Isn't that bottom line? Yeah, right now we have seven or eight people already lined up. So they will have a little bit of time to speak. And so people will at least to get a chance to see them and see how they present themselves and see where they want to go. All right. Very good. Okay.

Commissioner then, how about the cost? What does it cost to get tickets for this one? So the dinner, to come the dinner and the auction and the whole shebang is $120, which is what we was the, cost last year. And you do have to pay for your dessert. Well, you don't have to, but we do a dessert-dash fundraiser part. And last year was the first year. So, and it was, it was a, it was a wonderful fundraiser for the party. And it was fun. So, um, we're, we're going to be doing that again. And silent auction. Silent auction. Silent auction. Oral auction. Noisy auction. We got the noisy auction, too. Okay. Yep. Lots of things. I am not a very good auctioneer. So hopefully you

brought a pro in for that right we have well Joyce can address that we have a hopefully a much smoother uh auction checking out process in place with professionals all right then know what they're doing all right so not a great emcee which is of course you bill myer thank you so much proud to emcee with this and anything else we wanted to add about uh you know what's important there's there's sponsorships still available if there's businesses that would like um to have that you know be part of our advertising and be part of our event. And with that, you get tickets, different levels with different levels of sponsorship. And you could call the office to get more information if anybody wants that, which is what, Joyce.

The office numbers 541-770-5277. How do you like in the new clubhouse so far over in Central Point? It's nice. It's different. And because we have multiple rooms, it gives us a lot of opportunity to change things up. I haven't had a chance to check that out yet. I'll have to stop by there. It's not that far away from the station.

But I would imagine fewer rocks through the window. Right. Well, I will get plugged for Dusty's transmission. They are who rent to us. And they have been very generous with our party. Matt and the crew are great folks. Yes, they are wonderful. All right.

Well, I'm glad to hear this. So we still tickets available. This is going to be a week from Saturday when this is all going on. Siloction starts at four. Then there's the dinner and dessert. The speakers, I'll be emceeing it there from six tonight. It's going to be a great time. Oh, this is a good time.

It's a lot of fun. And remember, this is about fundraising for the local Republican Party and making sure that you can pay the bills and do these other things and help get candidates trained, I guess, in helping the PCPs. By the way, you still need PCPs, more of those? Yes, we need. more PCPs. And right now it's time to put in your paperwork for that. It's called an SEL 105. It's fast. It's quick. It's not daunting. Yeah. You can do it online to run for a PCP. And what happens is you turn in your paperwork right now. And then in May, you're on the ballot in your precinct. And so you only need three people in your precinct to vote for you.

than your PCP? And they're the boots on the ground, and they're the people who vote for our bylaws and are the meat potatoes of our party. Also, they're very important. Also, the kind of people like when you're doing callouts and trying to get out the vote

kind of work. PCPs and others are really part of that, aren't they? Exactly. All right, very good. All right. We'll get all this information up, of course, and I'm looking forward to it. A week from Saturday, get your tickets now for the Lincoln Day dinner. How many years you've been doing Lincoln Day dinner? It seems a long time. How long have we been

doing Lincoln Day dinner? I have no idea. That's a good question. Yeah, it's like forever and ever in a day. It's kind of the fundraiser. Across the state, everybody has Lincoln Day dinners. I don't know how it got established. It's across the whole

country. The country. Right. They're Lincoln Day dinners or Reagan barbecues or recently there's been Trump dinners instead of Lincoln Day dinners. He's got to put his name on everything, right? Right. All right. Do we have to

put an arch out front? Anyway, Colleen, Joyce, thanks for going to see you, being good sports, and we'll catch you a week from Saturday. Let's get those tickets sold, okay? All right. Thanks for that. Thanks for the plug. Thank you.

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Email bill at Billmyershow.com. It's like we have Patrick who writes me this morning says, Hey, Bill, you were asking about Oregon Nurses Association, ONA, only nutter supply? Oh, that's a good one. I don't want to, you know, tar all nurses with that. But, boy, I have to tell you, the union sure seems to have a different way of looking at the world than maybe a lot of the rank and file, possibly.

I'm going to Todd. Todd, you wanted a way in on the protesting students. What say you this morning, huh? Go ahead. And radical teachers. Real quick one. So I grew up in Los Angeles, L.A. Unified School District. My older sister, when she was at high school, this is in the early 70s, first day of class, I don't know, political science or who knows what the class was, teacher says, anybody here has anybody in their family who's serving in the military. Nobody raised their hand. And then she goes on a rant about how much she hated our military and they were all monsters and murders and all like that. My sister raised her hand and said, my, my, my older brothers serving in the army. You'll excuse me, but I'm going to relieve myself from your class. I'm going straight to the principal's office, and I'm going to have him reassign me to a different class. You gather up her stuff and left. No kidding. She didn't raise her hand at first then. In other

words, she set the trap, I guess, huh? And then when I was going to Cal State Northridge, my political science teacher, Professor Dare, he had served in Vietnam, but he came back and he was just, he hated, hated our country so much in our government and every he just ranted and he i remember him telling me that he wanted to go and teach in oregon again this is in the late 70s he wanted to go teach in oregon because he heard that the teachers and the students smoked dope together um you know these days it may be true i don't know right some years i i know but back then it was a it's a urban legend and now it very well may be true for all we know. Todd, I appreciate the call. 770K. I mean, D. Let me go to John. John, you've been

holding patiently. What's on your mind, huh? I want to compliment you on knowing history. I mean, I was, I was ready to call in earlier when you mentioned the French Revolution, or I can't remember, Raspier or whatever it was. Yeah, yeah, Robespierre, yeah. Because people don't have a sense of history. And the way the French Revolution went after the revolution was over, then they started revolutionizing against themselves. Yeah, essentially the revolution consumed itself. And, well, even, well, wasn't Robespier was executed, too, if I recall correctly, wasn't it? I think so.

Yeah. But I don't think this is a communist revolution. I think it's a Maoist revolution. and when the Red Guard turns on the teachers, that will be real interesting. Because eventually it always does, whoever is oppressing us. Well, we're playing the Oppression Olympics, right? Who's oppressed more than the other person? Yeah.

And you know the thing is, though, that communist China will be the first to say that that period of their country, of their country's history, was bloodthirsty and miserable. I mean, they talk about that openly. Now, even they recognize it. I think they will enjoy it because they can come to the rescue of the United States and save us. Oh, with United Nations troops in tow, right? That kind of thing.

I don't even think they need that. I think there's enough people here would welcome them. I hope you're wrong, but I'm not sure you are. Okay, thank you very much, John. I appreciate that. 8.58 in change. Well, what do we know? Another one in the broadcast museum can, as the late Rush Limbaugh used to talk about.

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