The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Christopher Rufo | 1/10/23
Episode Date: January 10, 2023Glenn and Stu break down the story of Brian Walshe, who was previously convicted of art fraud and now is the prime suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Ana Walshe. Glenn exposes the government fa...ilure behind the Korean War Wall of Remembrance. Board of regents member for the New College of Florida Christopher Rufo discusses the lies being reported about him and explains how Florida is taking back higher education in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sometimes you can have too much faith in people.
You can think they're just not this stupid.
But you're usually disappointed.
The husband of the Massachusetts realtor,
have you been following this?
A little bit.
Okay.
So this guy, Brian Walsh,
he was a guy who was selling.
fake war halls. He was in trouble with the law. I think he was maybe under house arrest for a while.
And his wife got another job. She had to move to Washington, D.C. She came up for the holidays.
And then she was called back to Washington and nobody's seen her since.
Now, there is one thing. Now, they have taken him in. He's not.
been arrested for murder, but they took him in because he misled the police. He said,
the only thing I did on the day of her disappearance was go out for ice cream with my kids.
Unfortunately for him, he was spotted at Home Depot where...
Noted ice cream purveyor.
Yes.
Yes. Yes. He, you know, he was going to home.
Depot and he showed up wearing a mask and a hat and gloves and he bought
$450 worth of cleaning supplies and what's weird about this too is he got lost
apparently several times and then lost on his way to his mother's house because
he didn't bring his cell phone so he was concerned about cleanliness
where we're in the middle of a foraging triple Demic right now
Exactly right. You got to wear the gloves. You've got to have the mask. You've got to have the cleaning supplies.
Exactly right. So he goes home and he's cleaning up something. And he completely forget. Oh, I forgot. I stopped for cleaning supplies. Sure.
And so they brought him in for that for misleading police. But there is something else that he did that is kind of curious that you would think, no, no one would do. No one would do this.
The day before she disappeared, he Google searched
How to Dispose of a 115 pound human body
A hundred, specifically 150 pounds.
Now, I think we should Google search this because I'd like to see.
I'm not Googling that.
Yeah, Sarah, you Google it real quick.
Sarah can Google it.
Just Google it real quick.
It tells us that because I'm not Googling it either.
I'm pretty sure Sarah's search history goes direct.
to the feds as it is.
So you might as well.
So tell us what it says here.
I mean, does it give?
Does it say like,
step one, go to Home Depot.
Buy cleaning supplies.
Don't bring your cell phone.
What does it say?
Right away, the stories just turn up of the story you're talking about.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I change it to 120.
See if maybe that would help.
The weight is not necessarily specific.
How about just, you know, dispose of a human body?
How to dispose of a human body?
See if that.
Because I don't think the weight would just be like,
dig a bigger hole.
Right, right.
I put how to dispose of 120 pound body.
Yeah.
And scrap metal recycling comes up.
Scrap metal recycling.
Yeah.
Safe handling and disposal of harmful products.
Okay.
More recycling.
What is the most valuable thing to scrap?
But there's nothing on how to get.
get rid of a body.
Nothing to get rid of, but there is.
Oh, dead animal disposal.
Oh, there you go.
Ah, there you go.
Dead animal disposal.
Now we need to actually contact the feds and say, we think something happened with our
producer and an 120 pound person.
It has disappeared.
We don't even know.
We don't know where they are.
We don't even know their name.
Can you just check their computer?
Yeah.
I just want to make sure her computers.
And check for scrap metal.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think like you're, you're, you just go for like,
I mean, there's a bunch of movies I can think of
that's the only way, I think if I was going to dispose of a,
is that the topic he wanted to get into?
How did it actually do it?
Because I think I would go, you've got Fargo.
You could go the Fargo route.
I mean, there's a lot of movies you can go.
But, you know, it might also show up on your Netflix history
if you're watching all of these movies where they dispose of bodies.
You know?
I'm just saying.
Which Netflix movies feature disposal of 115 pound female bodies named
Joan.
It was in their Netflix search.
I don't know.
I just like that genre.
That's all?
Yeah, that's it.
Wow, that's really sad, though.
God.
Well, it kind of makes me happy.
They're going to, they're going to find out who did it.
Yeah.
At least justice should be served.
It wasn't really bright.
Oh, this is a good, this would be a good plot to a movie where you commit the murder.
And then I go into your house, Glenn, and I say, hey,
what's your computer like?
And then I just go over searching terms
that would lead them to you.
At some point, that's really going to happen.
Or here's what we do.
It's the old strangers on a train.
We just go out and ask somebody
to murder somebody that we want to get rid of
and we'll murder somebody that they want to get rid of.
So I search how to dispose of a 200-pound body,
but nobody in my life that runs 200,
pounds has disappeared.
Of course, somebody that runs 110 did disappear, but I could say, I didn't
search for that.
I was searching for 200-pound bodies, guys.
That would be an interesting, yeah, an interesting conversation.
And he'll search for a hundred and ten.
And the person missing in his life, 200.
You're just trading the murders.
Yes, that's all we're doing.
Okay.
Let me give you something that I think is absolutely amazing.
It's an 11-year-old boy named Jude Kofi, and he was spotted from this local television story on local news.
His dad is from, where are they from?
Well, the story has it in.
They're from like the Sudan, I think.
They live in Colorado.
And this kid, he's autistic.
and he went down to the basement where there was an old piano.
He had never had any lessons or anything else.
And all of a sudden, dad's hearing a piano playing downstairs.
And he's like, what the heck is?
He goes down.
And his kid is playing the piano.
No lessons.
No lessons.
Plays the piano.
You're going to hear in this clip him playing the piano.
No lessons.
This is just him, this autistic kid,
playing the piano.
Somebody sees it on TV.
If you've wondered, where are all the good people?
Listen to this.
To 11-year-old Jude Kofi of Aurora, Colorado,
this surprise was music to his eyes.
Obviously, whoever said the best things come in small packages
was never gifted a grand piano.
Jude's father, Isaiah.
So one day it just shows up at the house?
Yes, all for free.
Who does that?
The answer in a moment.
But first, the reason.
About a year and a half ago, Jude's dad heard a noise coming from the basement.
There was an old keyboard down there, but no one knew how to play it.
Certainly not his autistic son, Jude.
Or so he thought.
Isaiah then got Jude a larger keyboard to see what more he could do.
And boy.
could he do?
The kid never had a lesson.
No one taught him any of this.
How do you explain that you're as good as you are?
It's a miracle.
You think it's a miracle?
That's what I prefer.
Bill Magnuson prefers that too.
Is he special?
It's beyond special.
His Mozart level is coming from somewhere beyond.
Bill is a piano tuner.
He saw a local news story about Jude, heard him play, learned how his parents immigrated from Ghana,
how they're raising four children, and sending money back to Ghana.
What resources are left over to help this special little soul?
Yours.
Using an inheritance from his father, Bill bought the piano, spent $15,000.
He has promised to tune it once a month for the rest of his life.
And he's even paying for Jude to get professional lessons.
We're family now.
Somebody to just love your son like that by making sure that his future is secured.
We are super thankful.
Press the pedal.
Caring for other children as your own.
The defining note of humanity.
Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing?
Really cool.
That is, I mean, I just think that is one of the greatest,
stories I've heard in a while.
Did you listen to the words to this?
It's one of my favorite bands out of California.
But if all they lost was all they had, just looking for a hand.
If you could help or walk away, if that choice was up to you, what would you do?
I don't quite feel like I belong.
This is a group called Poor Man's Poison.
They live in the farmlands of California.
I just love their music.
Very American sounding.
and their messages are really just great.
What if all you gave was all you had,
just holding out your hand.
What if kindness prevailed?
And you were someone's second chance,
just giving that doesn't sound so bad.
Keep asking ourselves, at least I do,
where are they?
Where are they?
They're everywhere.
They're everywhere.
We don't see them because they don't generally make the news.
But all the good people, that's you, that's me.
The people who are looking for a second chance at life that have the ability to do something.
That guy was a tuner of pianos.
His father had just died.
He inherited money.
And he saw that story and he thought, this kid has got to have lessons in a piano.
So he takes his inheritance from his father, buys the piano,
says that he's going to tune it every month for the rest of his life,
and he's helping him get piano lessons.
I just want to bring you the news today that the good people are here.
We're surrounded by them.
We're surrounded by people.
The problem is there's not enough examples that we see,
and we should start looking for them.
We should start sharing those.
stories and we should start recognizing that we've been given the opportunity, whatever it is,
whatever it is.
I wouldn't have thought this kid a piano.
I'm not a piano tuner, but he did because that's his gift.
You are the good people.
Where have you gone?
Nowhere.
Just maybe a quick reminder or two.
wake up and see the ways that you can help all around you.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
I want to show you the guardians of history.
Things are so bad with our history right now.
Things are being taken down and things are being put up that are absolutely inaccurate.
The latest is the Wall of Remembrance.
The Wall of Remembrance for the Korean War.
If you've been to Washington, D.C., it's a lot like the Vietnam Wall, but this is for the Korean War.
And this is really a cool memorial.
It has these soldiers, these statues of these soldiers going through kind of like a Korean forest, if you will.
Well, they decided that they wanted to put a wall up with all the names.
$22 million this cost us.
And I don't know, is it one or two decades to get this done?
when it was first proposed that, hey, we like the soldiers, let's put up a wall.
The parks department said, no wall, no wall, we don't want names.
We don't want it.
Why?
Because when the Vietnam War, the wall went up, there were names that were missing.
Some of them, somebody has to make the decision on who is actually a Vietnam War veteran.
For instance, one of the examples was a nurse.
She's flying over to go to Vietnam, but she's not engaged in Vietnam yet.
her plane crashes in Europe, should her name go on the wall.
Some people would say, well, yeah, she was enlisted.
She was on her way.
Others would say, no, that wasn't combat.
That was in Europe.
And it had nothing to do with the military.
This must be an impossible task.
Impossible.
That's why the Parks Department said, we don't want anything to do with a wall.
We learned our lesson.
We've seen this movie before.
Correct.
Congress didn't care.
Congress said, no, no, this is great.
We're going to put them all.
The Parks Department said, okay, if you do that, we want it in the bill that it is the Pentagon
that makes the list.
We have nothing to do with it.
Okay.
So they were so adamant about it that it was written that the Pentagon is the one and
the Pentagon could not take any outside advisor counsel.
Okay.
Let's just think about this for a second.
The Pentagon has to look through 56,000 names that they said died.
in the Korean War, but there were only 36,000.
So they have it wrong in the first place, okay?
They went with that one for about 20 years.
Then they were like, oh, whoops, I guess there's some other people there that died that
really weren't even there had nothing to do with it.
They got it down to 36,000 names.
They couldn't take any outside of ice.
So they've got a couple of problems with the wall now.
In fact, about 1,500 problems.
there are people that were there that were not listed, people that weren't there that are listed.
I like this one. Frederick Bald Eagle Bear, he's an army corporal who was killed as he rallied his infantry squad,
defend off an enemy attack. He's part of the Lakota tribe. Well, because the Pentagon's records
were all on cards, you know, computer cards, that I don't even know if you have the computer
to use it anymore and could not
use hyphenated names.
The guy who is called Frederick Bald Eagle Bear,
he's listed as Eagle B.F. Bald.
Not good. Not good. Eagle BF. Bald?
Yeah. Yeah, not good. Also, I might want to point out
that there's some other people that, you know, they have their name up there
and they well one of the guys was killed in a motorcycle accident in Hawaii another guy who drank antifreeze thinking it was alcohol and another guy who lived for 60 years after the Korean War had eight grandchildren he didn't die in a war at all his name is up on a wall
22 million dollars they now say the whole thing has to be taken down no and redone wait they can't they can't
They can't correct.
There's no way to correct them.
Put some putty in there?
Yeah.
White out?
Yeah, no, it's not good.
The whole story is in my morning briefing.
You can get it at glenbeck.com.
It's an amazing story in its entirety.
But this is, our history is under attack from so many angles.
This one, just sheer incompetence.
You want to give the government the keys to truth and history.
Really? Because they're not doing a really good job here.
Their own department.
The Department of War, the Department of Defense, the ones that keeps all the records.
They, we don't.
Nope.
I have no idea who these people are.
Now, let me tell you a good step, but it's going to need your support.
Friday, Rondasantis began a process of transforming Sarasota's
new college of Florida
into a little more
conservative. Now, this
is a progressive college. It's been
floundering for years, but it
is a, it's the new college
like the new school in New York.
It's a progressive
college that's been teaching garbage
forever and struggling.
So, because
it's a state school,
the governor said, well, it's floundering.
We could shut it down or we could reform it.
You know what? Let's
reform it. So he appointed six new board members, and they're a little more conservative.
The dean at Hillsdale College is one of them. A senior fellow at the Claremont Institute is another
one. And Christopher Rufo is also on the board of directors. Christopher is going to be joining us
in about an hour. So Christopher Rufo, who is he? He's the activist.
that has been exposing everything that all the poison that is in our schools.
They hate him.
They hate him.
You have to hang on that age that long to describe how much they hate him.
They hate him.
Okay.
So here's what the Florida Education Commissioner said.
It's our hope that new college of Florida will become Florida's classical college,
more along the lines of a Hillsdale of the South.
Oh, they hate all of these people.
Turning new college into a Florida version of Hillsdale is flipping the entire thing upside down.
And DeSantis has just said, it is time to take charge of our schools.
Our schools are completely out of control, and it is time to take them back.
Amen.
How many governors have the balls to do this?
You know, I said this to you last week.
In Florida, there are signs that come up, and I think they may be coming from the administration, I don't know, but it says the free state of Florida.
And when you listen to DeSantis talk, he talks about always the free state of Florida.
Amen.
That should be a goal for all of us.
why are we not the free state of Texas?
We are relatively much more free than places up north,
but we're not the free state of Texas.
We should all be striving and pushing our governors and our legislatures
to pass things that make us free men and women,
unencumbered by this nonsense that is being jammed down
everyone's throat. So here's what I, here's what I want you to do. I want you to read up on this. You can
find the story. Just look for Sarasota's new college. Okay. You can get the story at glenbeck.com
or just look for Sarasota's new college, Florida's new college. And support this in every way you can.
They are going to be coming with switchblades and automatic guns.
They are going to be, it won't be a 22.
They'll be coming with proverbial 45 caliber weapons to this fight.
And it will have an endless, what do they call it?
Clip of ammunition.
So we need to be prepared to stand up and fight back.
But that is fight back the right way.
You know, I was earlier I was reading to you,
the Thomas Payne American Crisis.
And in it, he says, in fact, I want to read it to you exactly.
In it, he says, I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion
has ever been and still is that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction
or to leave them unsupported to perish.
here's the important part, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war
by every decent method which wisdom could invent.
Neither have I so much the infidel in me as to suppose that he has relinquished the government of the world
and given us up to the care of devils.
And as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain
can look up to heaven and ask for help.
I cannot imagine how the progressive movement that is pushing the slaughter of innocence
can look up and say, Lord, help us.
Knowing that as Lincoln said, God is not on our side.
He doesn't pick sides.
He wants all of his children to be redeemed and rescued.
So they are in error.
I believe. But God does not want them slaughtered. God does not, he wants peace and love and
understanding. And we must do everything we can to remain peaceful, kind, loving, doing all of the
things that we can in our power. And he will pick up the slack. But if we don't, if we are conniving
or anything else, he cannot bless us. So,
do everything in your power and not one thing more.
The best of the Glenn Beck program.
Florida, Ronda Santos announced on Friday, is taking back education.
And he is changing the board of regions for the new college of Florida,
which is a progressive university that's been floundering in lies for a while.
Did I say that out loud?
And so the dean of Hillsdale,
is now part of the Board of Regions.
Christopher Rufo is also a part of that.
You might know who Christopher Rufo is.
He has been the guy who has relentlessly been exposing DEI and CRT and you name it.
He has been the linchpin and leading force against all of that.
He joins us now, Christopher Rufo, a known Nazi supporter.
I'm sorry, with some more research.
I in the Washington Post would like to retract that last statement as being utterly false.
Christopher, how are you?
I'm doing very well.
How are you?
Good.
I can't keep up with all the retractions.
You just got another one from the Washington Post, and who else do?
Jonathan Shade as well.
Chris, can you walk us through the litany?
Yeah, so this is something that just keeps happening.
And even in the last 48 hours, I've gotten a major retraction from the Washington Post.
They wrote this ridiculous hit piece against me about my appointment to the Board of Trustees at New College.
The editors admitted to me and then had to retract four false statements.
And there was only four paragraphs in the story that were about me.
So they were actually one false, one complete brazen lie per paragraph.
And then the following day, which was yesterday, I spent all day hounding Jonathan Chase from the New York.
York Magazine. And he too ended up retracting a completely false statement. He made up a quotation,
attributed it to me. And then I said, well, where did I say this? He couldn't prove it,
had to retract it. But here's the thing, Glenn. Both of these publications have done the exact same
thing twice. Last year, the Washington Post had to retract multiple false statements about my
reporting on critical race theory. Also last year, Jonathan Chate, the same author, made up a quotation
that he attributed to me that was totally false, had to retract it.
I'm starting to think that these things aren't a coincidence.
What do you think, Glenn?
Well, I don't go too far out on a limb on that.
You know, the press knows.
They can say anything and retract, and the retraction doesn't matter.
The charge is out there, and the print is out there, and it's online.
It will be forever online, and that will be the part that has passed around about you.
I mean, we are dealing with really nefarious powers.
at work that know exactly how to smear and discredit people.
So let me go, let me take you to Florida here.
How did this unfold with New College?
And what exactly are you trying to do and the governor trying to do with education in Florida?
So New College is Florida's smallest public university.
It's on the beach, actually, in Sarasota, beautiful location.
but it's had struggles for years.
It's failed to meet recruitment targets.
It's at about half capacity.
They can't get students in.
They accept almost anyone,
but very few students choose to enroll in the college.
They've had this kind of broken culture for a number of years
in which even professors and staff members are kind of at odds with the students
who are a very kind of left-wing progressive activist.
It's almost like Evergreen State out in Washington State
that famously imploded a number of years ago.
And the Florida legislature in recent years
has considered actually just abolishing the college,
totally defunding it
and transferring its assets elsewhere in the system.
But Governor DeSantis had a kind of bold
and dramatic alternative.
He said, let's bring in a new board of directors.
Let's get some really smart people
that have the kind of strength
that's required to do a reform effort.
And let's turn it around 180
and transform new college,
this fledgling, struggling public universities,
into what they're calling the Hillsdale of the South.
So a classical institution of learning of higher education.
And that is our task.
It is a big vision.
It's not going to be easy.
But I think all of us on the board of trustees are excited to make it happen and to show
conservatives.
It's time to stop seeding territory.
Thank you.
It's trying to actually start taking back territory.
Thank you.
And it starts here with new college.
I will tell you, Christopher, we, the biggest mistake we made was seeding the college.
and just saying, you know what, when they get out into the real world, no, they're out in the real world now and they've changed the real world into this fantasy gobbledygook that they got from these universities.
We have got to start taking them back.
I have two kids ready to go to college.
I don't know where to send them.
And I'm terrified of sending them any, but one of them wants to be an actress.
Good, Lord, I've done everything I can.
I prayed on my knees for days on end.
Please make that wish go away.
She's really good.
She wants to do it.
I can't send her into, you know, the lion's den.
We need to take back education.
Absolutely.
But I think that I'm maybe a bit more optimistic.
I think there are really two key strategies that people need to adopt.
First is you have to make your own kids as strong as possible.
So they can actually go into.
the lion's then. You know, when my kids turn 18, I have three kids at home, and I want to feel
confident that wherever they go, they're going to have their own principles, they're going to
have their integrity, they're going to have the strength and sophistication to navigate those
environments. But of course, the kind of even maybe more important solution in the larger sense
is for us to create alternatives in education. And look, we need to create alternatives in K-12.
We need charter schools.
We need universal school choice, so vouchers, so parents can start their own homeschools or religious schools, whatever they want to do, matches their values.
And then higher education, you know, has been really kind of ceded to the left since the mid to late 1960s.
That's when everything turned.
And look, conservatives have not figured out how to do it.
I think that the problem, what I'm observing as I'm talking to people and navigating this new enterprise is that the
Adults are scared of the kids, you know, really and truly.
They're scared of the students.
They're scared of the media.
They're scared of all the, you know, laptop people, you know, typing away at the New York Times.
You've got to get over that.
It's like you have to get over that.
And I think that what we want to demonstrate with this is that we have the strength.
We have the courage.
We have the backbone.
We're going to hang very tough.
We're going to make a better university.
It's going to be more competitive.
It's going to be more rigorous.
it's going to have higher quality academic offerings.
And I think that what we've seen with Hillsdale College,
where I've been fortunate enough to teach a course recently,
is that the American families are hungry for this kind of education.
They are.
They want that classical liberal arts education.
They want students to kind of fall in love with learning.
And they don't want to have this poisonous, lesswing ideology
and lesswing bureaucracy, drenching everything in their way.
I don't want my kids to be taught what,
to think. I want my kids to be taught how to think. You know what I mean? How to find the answers,
how to question, how to reason. That's what I want a university to do, and that's what they should
be doing, pushing you in every different direction so you see that, you know, you should question
everything and know how to question and know how to prove something using critical thinking. But
that's not what we're getting from our universities.
So how are you, because this is a very progressive school.
How are the professors and everybody else taking it at the school?
Do you know?
Are you going to just shut it down and then rehire?
You know, the students, of course, are very rambunctious.
They're in a kind of agitated mode.
They're ready to protest and ready to make their voices heard.
I like that.
I think that's healthy.
I'm excited to engage with them as I go to visit the college in the coming weeks.
But, you know, what I've heard behind the scenes is that professors are chattering that this is actually a very good opportunity.
You know, a lot of people don't like what's happening in universities, people who are in science and math departments that are more apolitical, people who are kind of in the political moderate section, they don't like what's happening just as much as we as the conservatives don't like what's happening.
but they're not strong enough to create a defense for themselves, so they just give up.
We're going to create that space for people.
And I've looked at the TVs for a lot of the faculty at New College.
I've done an analysis, actually, of all the full-time faculty.
There are some incredible scholars there, people who are substantive.
They have Ivy League University degrees.
They've written on the classics, Greek, Latin, history, political science, an incredible
mass department.
And so there is a very, very strong.
core of faculty and staff that are absolutely ready for this change. I think they're going to,
you know, once they, you know, kind of put down the New York Times and have a chance to talk to us,
the new board of trustees in person, I think they're going to be reassured that we're going to
create a better university. There are going to be hard changes. We're going to restructure it.
We're going to bring in a totally new curriculum. We're going to be abolishing the DEI
programming immediately. But after those changes, after that,
that period of tumult and conflict, I think it's going to be a great place. And hopefully when
your kids are approaching 18, you'll consider sending them to new college. So Christopher,
I'm just sitting here listening to you and seeing the opportunity and the impact that you have made.
And it's kind of, it's fun to watch you because when I first reached out to you, I reached out to you
as the contributing editor of City Journal to talk to us about what was happening in Seattle.
and you were just at the beginning of all of this.
And now look at the impact that you have made
and the impact that you're going to make.
And this is just really the beginning.
How do you ever think about like, holy cow?
I mean, I took something on that should have been deadly.
Everybody probably told you, don't, don't do that.
And look at what's happened.
Yeah, it is.
I appreciate that, and it's been fun that we've been able to check in really since the beginning
through this whole process.
And it's been really fun, and I've learned a lot of lessons.
As you know, it's sometimes challenging, it's difficult.
But I love it.
I wake up every day excited about what I'm doing.
I wake up every day optimistic about the possibilities.
And then I've been able to do something that I didn't plan on, but it's been really fruitful.
I've been able to connect my ideas, my policy work, my journey.
my activism, with people like Governor Ron DeSantis who have said, hey, this is a good vision.
Let's let this guy loose and see if we can actually use these ideas.
And so I'm really kind of blessed and fortunate and feel very lucky to have able to not just sit in a think
tank in New York City writing white papers, but actually say, hey, let's use these ideas.
We believe in them enough to actually do them.
And I think that's the key thing.
It's like, I believe in this enough where I actually want to do it.
I want to stake my own, take a risk with my own time and reputation.
Because I think at the end of the day, we're fighting for something that most people want,
but really most people feel there are a few champions for.
And I'm trying to do that.
I'm trying to serve that purpose for people.
Christopher, I know, I'm sure that we've asked you before,
but I would love to do at least an hour podcast with you,
because I think you are fascinating.
You are really somebody who is changing things.
You're not just talking about it.
You are actually changing things.
And I would like to discuss in greater detail what the challenges are ahead and also where you get the, I feel good in the morning,
where you get the bright spots in education because there's a lot to move.
So we'd love to have you on it as a podcast.
Thank you so much.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
You got it.
Christopher Rufo,
contributing editor,
City Journal,
senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute,
and now on the new board of regions
for new college of Florida,
because Ron DeSantis
is taking on education in a big way
now in Florida.
What is my governor doing?
What are other governors doing?
It's a really good plan.
I mean,
You just, you didn't steal it.
I'm sure he would give it to you.
You could just steal this planet,
do it in your own state, I understand.
When you were just saying.
When you were little,
When you were little,
you had braced some have braced
in course of recreat,
always in trying to negotiate
and do make these exchanges.
The appellee-negoti-tit-titre
with this instinct,
with without operation
gratuit,
no amount of minimum,
and nocray mensuel.
You're made for negotiate,
and the TD is there,
for you help.
