The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: Bill O'Reilly & Tabari Wallace | 5/8/20

Episode Date: May 8, 2020

This month of job losses was the worst since 1945. We’re now sitting at 14.7% unemployment, but which jobs will return? Bill O’Reilly joins to discuss the latest: The DOJ drops the case against Mi...chael Flynn, and James Comey isn’t happy. North Carolina principal Tabari Wallace joins to discuss how he made sure his seniors had a moment to remember. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the podcast. Today, Bill O'Reilly is here to react to all of the news from the week, including the Flynn investigation, as well as the latest developments in the economy and in politics. We get the unemployment rate right before the show, and 14.7 percent. We'll go into the details on that. What does it mean in perspective? We'll get into all of the details on that, as well as the salon owner here in Texas who was able to, to get released from prison yesterday, released from jail yesterday, thanks to a big effort from activists like you,
Starting point is 00:00:36 if you happen to be one, and also the governor of the state. We'll get into that as well. Go to blazedtv.com slash Glenn. Use the promo code Glenn. Get $30 off. I think they're entering this deal next week, so if you want to get that,
Starting point is 00:00:48 you're going to act now. And here's the podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Okay. All right. It's naughty. It's not exactly good news
Starting point is 00:01:16 Just in the first two weeks of April now We have just the first two weeks in April Rolling into this average This is not the whole month This is the first time We're getting a look at the unemployment number Since we started the lockdown So in two weeks
Starting point is 00:01:35 How long have we been going now? Almost eight weeks, Stu? Yeah, I guess we're coming up on this is the end Because the six weeks to stop the spread ended last week. So this would be the end of the seventh week. All right. So we only have two of those seven weeks, and it's still getting worse. I think we actually...
Starting point is 00:01:55 Our unemployment rate. Yeah, we're further along than that. I think we actually, we'd have four because it was... Oh, do we really? The whole that makes me feel better. The last two weeks of March and the first two weeks of April, I believe, are here. So we still are missing the last couple weeks, which we've seen multiple millions more go on the unemployment rolls.
Starting point is 00:02:12 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yes, sorry, go on. Go ahead. So we have lost 20 million jobs. 20.8 million jobs have been lost. And our unemployment number has gone from the best it's ever been. What was it? 3.5 or 3.8?
Starting point is 00:02:29 3.5. Yep. It's not the best it's ever been. But it's ever been in a very long time. To the worst we have seen in quite some time. We're at now 14.6. I don't have it in front of it. 14.7. 14.7. Everything but the 14.7.
Starting point is 00:02:48 So, getting even better than that. Yeah, exactly. 14.7. The worst, I mean, clearly the worst, it's been in a very, very, I mean, the worst it's since the depression. Since the depression for sure. And, you know, when they talk about speed here is another issue. The worst, the worst in the great recession for one month was a loss of 800,000 jobs. The worst.
Starting point is 00:03:10 of all time, record of all time, was September 1945. And that was a loss of 2 million. We lost 20. Wait, wait, wait. Let me put this into perspective. That last one that was so bad was actually very good because we were laying people off because we could stop making tanks. Right. Yep. And when we stopped making tanks and ships and airplanes,
Starting point is 00:03:40 All right. We were, we were, we were manufacturing an entire war machine for the world. And that month, when the war was over, we only lost two million jobs. This in a month, we have lost 20 million, 10 times the amount. And we haven't started, stopped fighting a war. And there is no, you know, 19, you know, 19, you know, you know, 19, you know, you know, 1950s Chevy on the horizon that's going to come quickly. It's not like, oh, we just have to retool. Hey, everybody's coming home. Let's build houses. Uh-uh. Yeah, I mean.
Starting point is 00:04:20 So this one's really bad. You do have some of these jobs that hopefully snap back. I mean, I'll tell you, I went out to, I only went out for four meals last weekend. Because I thought you were crazy. Crazy. Four different times. The second time we went out, I mean, we were desperate here. The second time we went out, we talked to.
Starting point is 00:04:40 a guy who worked at a restaurant and the restaurant was, you know, in the middle, picture this really nice restaurant, relatively new last year or two, built in between three hotels. Not a lot of people at the hotels these days. That's a kind of an issue. So even when you open, who's going to your restaurant? So there's basically nobody at this place. We're talking to the guy for a long time and it was the first day Texas had allowed restaurants to be open.
Starting point is 00:05:07 And he said, you know, immediately when this happened, he, he, got laid off and he was waiting, you know, just like so many Americans. With the intent, though, the belief that eventually he was going back to the same job. And that is what happened. He is now back at the place. And again, that's not going to be the case for everybody. But some of those jobs as these things reopen will snap back. It's just a matter of how many.
Starting point is 00:05:33 And again, they're running at 25% capacity, which they were not hitting. The jobs that will snap back that are. they're pretty easy or anything to do. Well, for instance, Mexico is now having a beer shortage, okay, because beer was not essential. So those jobs are coming back. I mean, if you're in the alcohol industry, you might see a boom. Those jobs aren't coming back. Specifically, I'd be a little nervous about it.
Starting point is 00:05:59 Yeah. I wonder if they change their name in the end. I doubt they do. I mean, but people, people, it did affect them. They really did think that I'm not drinking Corona beer. which is stupid. It doesn't come from Corona beer. But anyway, the jobs that you have that are entertainment based,
Starting point is 00:06:23 I talked to Michael Cole. You know who Michael Cole is, Stu? Michael Cole, he's a big, big concert promoter and producer. He did the Rolling Stones. He does, you know, all the big names. and he wrote to me last night and and I said, how long before you're, you're back to work?
Starting point is 00:06:47 He said, I think it's going to be 18 months before any industry of, of entertainment's really coming back. And that's with my fingers crossed. I mean, that job is, and I think restaurants are going to be in this. I think people are anxious to go out to restaurants,
Starting point is 00:07:02 but just not crowded restaurants. So restaurants will be open and they'll be doing it, but I think people, are not going to be standing in line. You know, the cheesecake factory where it's just jam packed and you're all standing in line to get in, those kinds of restaurants, I think are going to be a little more difficult to snap back. So I don't know how restaurants are going to make enough money to make a real profit, but maybe they could keep their businesses open.
Starting point is 00:07:29 The ones who are really in trouble, if you worked for a small business, that is, I have friends, they wrote last night and said they are opening up their books. store and they said you know they've got this little book store in Indiana and it's said they're just great people and they said we open it up and the first day all of our friends came in and bought a book and all of our you know loyal customers they all bought a book uh they said but it has been ghost town since then but they're hoping for travel because they're in this this cute little you know vacation kind of spot and they said they make most of their money in the summer now I think travel is, I think travel's going to snap back, but it's going to be the old way, I think.
Starting point is 00:08:15 I don't think people are going to get into an airplane right away. I think they're going to be driving a lot. I know we're going, we're planning on going vacation, and we're planning on driving across. And not for any other reason other than I just like driving. But I and I hate airports, but there's no reason to get into an airplane if you can drive right now. Yeah. So I think that's going to be. Did you see Frontier is offering seats for as low as $35 if you want to buy the seat next to you?
Starting point is 00:08:47 Oh, really? To add on, essentially, you'd be a little space. Yeah. If you don't want to sit next to somebody, it's $35. That's smart. Holy cow. That's a smart way of handling it, though. Very smart.
Starting point is 00:08:57 You know, we've saw some pictures yesterday of planes that are still packed as the old days. You know, like, I mean, middle seats all filled. A lot of them are going very empty. But occasionally those things still. happen, which is just at this point so strange. You know, but I think that there's that, like, I don't know if I told you the story, Glenn, I was, you know, looking at the flight for the upcoming Super Bowl, which I, you know, book well in advance to try to get not nosebleed prices.
Starting point is 00:09:26 And I thought this time, like, I can really get hooked up. I mean, this is going to be like $12 to go to Tampa in February, if this game even occurs, which they did announce the schedule last night and they're supposedly keeping it on schedule for the moment. But something happened that I've literally never seen in my entire life. I doubt anybody in this audience has ever seen it. Maybe if you're a frequent business traveler, you've seen it. Never seen it before.
Starting point is 00:09:52 The first class ticket was less expensive than the coach ticket. I have no explanation as to why that occurred. You know, maybe it was a computer error or maybe just people are just not buying that type of seat at all. but I was like, eh, first class of the Super Bowl, screw that, I'm doing it. Wow, that's not going to last. No, I know. You're smart.
Starting point is 00:10:17 If you're smart, well, if you're risky, you could, I wonder if you could buy a bunch of those first class seats and then resell them when everything, when things go normally and everybody's trying to get to the Super Bowl, you've got a whole bunch of first class seats that you could charge nosebleed prices for. Stubhub for airline tickets? I don't know if that exists, but I like it.
Starting point is 00:10:37 I'm going to go for it. Yes. It's a good idea. I mean, why not? I mean, is it illegal to do that? I don't think you can do it because of all the security stuff of buying seats. Yeah, you're right. It's a great idea, though.
Starting point is 00:10:48 I like the way you're working the system. Damn al-Qaeda. I could have been a rich man. I could have been somebody. They will, by the way, give you an opportunity. You can change flights right now. Again, I don't know if anybody else is in this world. I always think of these situations and try to figure out ways to,
Starting point is 00:11:07 what's the best is there any way to take advantage of this situation in you know in some you know long term thing that like no one's thinking of and I was like oh flights it would be interesting if you go on and you book a flight right now at least I know it's American and I think a bunch of other airlines until May 31st there you can change it uh you can change any of the times for no cost so uh you have to look at obviously all the details and you know your airline your area but I thought that was interesting in that like if you're planning a vacation you're like I don't know is it going to happen in August it might be worth just booking the flights.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Wow. And you can always change them later. The prices are cheap. And you can always go on and change, you know, the actual timing of it if this stuff doesn't wind up panning out. Yeah. And I don't think that's going to last very long because I will tell you, I live in a place where I can see the flight pattern into Dallas.
Starting point is 00:11:56 The planes, you know, all stack up. And so at night it's kind of cool to watch all these planes, these lights in the sky. You're like, they're UFOs, man. They're all UFOs. they're all lining up and you can see them kind of coming in for the flight pattern. And we have noticed that the skies have been a little dark lately here in Dallas, but it is picking back up or starting to see the flight pattern start to pick up again, which is encouraging.
Starting point is 00:12:22 Yeah, you're encouraging. By the way, by the way, I just want to say tonight on Blaze TV for subscribers only, a UFO show. Yes. Oh. I'm going into this. This is going to be great. I'm going into all of the latest releases of the UFO,
Starting point is 00:12:43 two guys who actually worked for the government in that program, you know, studying the UFOs going to be with us tonight. That's a good, I like that. It's a fun distraction right there. It's got to be good. I need to have that. Yeah, yeah. It's going to be good.
Starting point is 00:12:58 Yeah. Quickly, I was just going to say that we're seeing the data on mobility, which is one of these things that's popped out. of this crisis in that you realize they they really do have access to a lot of your data and your movements. But they, a lot of these services are like putting out these mobility numbers, which is showing how much people are moving. And you see, first of all, you see before the government got involved at all, the mobility, people going to various places, dropping, you know, like a stone and water, right? Like, I mean, it's just going, it has nothing
Starting point is 00:13:30 to do with the government. People, this argument has been so much about the government policy, which is obviously important at some level, but generally speaking, all of these things were happening, whatever the government said, we could do them or not. They all said, you know,
Starting point is 00:13:42 like all this movement happened long before any government bans. People stopped going to restaurants. People stopped going on these trips. They were doing it on their own because they were scared for their lives, right? And the same thing is happening now. Before the government is releasing these things,
Starting point is 00:13:58 you know, saying, oh, guys, you guys can go outside again. People are just starting to go back outside now. They've taken their time. They understand now their risk. They've been able to internalize it. They've been able, they realize that we've been able to build up some of the stockpiles on, God forbid, something happens. And that was what this was pitched at.
Starting point is 00:14:14 And I think was an appropriate understanding of what the situation was. Now we're at the end of that. People are leaving whether they want to it or not. The government policy doesn't seem to have much of a factor at all in what people are really doing. No. Did you hear about Mark Cuban? This is creepy, I think. Mark Cuban did secret shoppers here in.
Starting point is 00:14:34 Dallas and he hired a bunch of people to go out and see what people were doing. He said places were crowded that they went into and he'd like to report that those businesses were not really living by all the standards. Mark, what are you doing, man? Shut up. What do you? Like the like a rich snitch? What is that?
Starting point is 00:14:55 Stop it. But he said that there were more people out and, and they're just kind of getting back to normal in all ways. which I think it's good. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Mr. Bill O'Reilly, a man who will not speculate on the extraterrestrial problem. Welcome to it, Bill. How are you? It's from Venus.
Starting point is 00:15:28 Do you, really? Legal or are they here legally? The problem is Iran, he's doing PayPal, but I can't take Venetian Kurds. Wow, okay. Well, that sucks. That sucks. All right. So my, let's, I mean, I can bring him in. Ah, no, I think we're all booked up.
Starting point is 00:15:48 Bill, let's talk about, let's talk about Michael Flynn and what's happening there and what the DOJ has come out with. Can you give us any understanding of this in perspective? Of course I can back. I'm a simple man, as you know, and I look at this not from a journalistic point of view, but from an American point of view. You have the most powerful investigative agency in the world, the FBI. It is now clear beyond any reasonable doubt that the ship of the FBI, the people who ran it,
Starting point is 00:16:28 and their top agents knew that an investigation into a presidential candidate and then a president, was founded on no evidence whatsoever. None. The FBI continued to try to find evidence based on no probable cause. So in order to investigate a citizen, you've got to have probable cause. You just can't, police just can't walk in your house and say, look, we don't know if you did anything, but we're going to search the house. You can't do that. That's unconstitutional. that's what the FBI did we don't
Starting point is 00:17:15 hang on wait wait wait wait wait wait hang on there because I have a question about this so far so far I understand it and that's exactly what what bar was saying they had they they knew they didn't have a case
Starting point is 00:17:28 they knew they had nothing so that's like what getting them to lie is kind of like walking into the house investigating for whatever hoping to find something and then saying you know what I hear he really hates his wife's cooking.
Starting point is 00:17:43 When his wife is there, let's ask him, do you hate your wife's cooking? No, I love my wife's cooking. And he lies about that. You, not, A, cannot go into somebody's house and just do that. But you also, even if he was lying, you can't get him on that because you didn't have a reason to be in the house in the first place. In the first place, absolutely, you're brilliant. That's what's happening. Right.
Starting point is 00:18:08 Thank you. Yeah, well, I know. You're a brilliant man. I'm not a simple man. Yeah, thank you. Whatever Flynn did, whatever he did. And the big question he has to pick up, Pence has to explain why Pence went to Trump and said he misled me. He lied.
Starting point is 00:18:26 Yeah, he got to explain it. But anyway, getting back to the really important issue for every one of your listeners, you have a tremendous abuse of any crime. because this prosecution was illegal. And you not only prosecuted General Flynn, but you tried to disrupt a presidential election in doing so. The only reason they went after Flynn, and everybody should be clear about this,
Starting point is 00:18:59 is they wanted Flynn to flip on Trump. They wanted to put all this pressure on Flynn and his son, because the son worked with the general in their consulting firm, hoping that Flynn would say, well, Trump told me to do it, told me to talk to the Russians. That's the only reason they went after the man. So, well, hang on just a second. Hang on, hang on.
Starting point is 00:19:26 Wait, wait, let me ask you this question, because I agree with you that that is one of the reasons. I'm not sure it's the only reason. You know, Barack Obama has now been found out that he knew all about. it and had uncomfortable an uncomfortable encounter, you know, inserting himself in into some of this. And Obama was passionately anti-Flynn because he had Flynn as part of his, of his counsel during his administration, fired him because he took such a hard line on Islamic extremists. and Obama warned Donald Trump, don't take him, don't take him, did everything he could to make sure that Flynn didn't come in and reverse a lot of the Obama era policies on, you know, our fight on radicalized Islam. So is, do you think that could have played a role, too, that he was not only trying to destroy Trump, but also if Trump won, he wanted to make sure that Flynn was destroyed?
Starting point is 00:20:34 speculation, Beck. I could not I think it's pretty good speculation. Well, it's circumstantial evidence. Yes. But I couldn't say that Barack Obama ordered the FBI to get Flint. I couldn't, could not say that.
Starting point is 00:20:52 All right. Maybe. All right. Maybe. But that's not going to, believe me, that is not going to be in play. What's going to be in play is you've got to indict
Starting point is 00:21:02 high-ranking members of the FBI. Bring back enough evidence so that bar indicts. Now, I think that will happen because the outrage in this country Trump Justice Department did not file charges against the top-level FBI people.
Starting point is 00:21:31 So we're talking about Comey, McCabe, right. Comey, McCabe, struck, Page, and what's his name, Presteps, who wrote that? Yes. Hand-written memo. Yes.
Starting point is 00:21:42 Those are the five, but remember, I haven't seen what Durham. I don't know anything what Durham has. But you would think that from what we know, it's made public, those five people are in the kill zone. So them get indicted. Say two of them get indicted. I think that would mollify the American people.
Starting point is 00:22:05 But if no one gets indicted, Trump will get hurt. I don't want just somebody indicted for it. I want this fixed. I mean, I think that's where the American people are. They don't want some political show. You can't get it fixed until his convictions. Oh, no, I know that.
Starting point is 00:22:23 But I'm saying, I think Clapper is another one that is involved deeply in this. There's evidence coming out now about Clapper and what's the other one. You've got to wait until Durham comes back with what Clapper did or did not do. I know that. We're talking about. You're so funny. No, I'm just brilliant. and then you've got to keep up with me.
Starting point is 00:22:47 Clarellular. In a circumstantial case, you can convict him, but you can't convict him like you can, the others, the FBI, because now we know, based on notes, handwritten notes in meetings, we know what they were trying to do. It isn't, he said, he said,
Starting point is 00:23:07 there's the evidence. You see it. We haven't seen the evidence against Clapper or Brennan. Right. Any of the Obama people. Go ahead. You will. you will so so let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me
Starting point is 00:23:20 let me let me let me say that I agree with you we have to have evidence and we have to have strong evidence because I want it clear I don't want anyone to be able to say what uh what uh what's the little fat man uh Nadler is saying now uh that uh that this is just uh this is just uh revenge and this isn't uh true and and bar is out of control. We have to have real solid evidence. Otherwise, we turn into a banana republic. Right.
Starting point is 00:23:54 A very smart man. Of all of the Obama, Obama, of all the Trump cabinet members, all right, the two smartest, savviest are, and Pompeo, those are the far and away, the two smartest guys. Barr is in his selective interviews. We're going to get these guys. And he wouldn't be doing it if he had a wishy-washy case. The other guy who's going to get it, I don't think he's going to be indicted, is Mueller.
Starting point is 00:24:36 Because Mueller did not include in his report much of this stuff that he knew. Mueller knew and left it out of his report. Now, I don't know if that's a... federal crime, I don't think it is, but it's certainly corrupt. Is it not? Mueller was supposed to report on this whole thing. And he leads out the FBI corruption.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Doesn't put it in. We haven't even, we haven't even seen anyone pay yet for what happened with the FISA court. And somebody needs to pay for all of this. Otherwise, it's nothing. I think that's where the indictments are going to come down. They're going to come down and phony warrants. all right, because that's a, that's a felony.
Starting point is 00:25:23 And then abuse of power. That's, that's a felony for the FBI. The FBI abuse their power, all right, by contriving a case against the citizen, a general of all people. But obviously, everybody knows the overarches, they tried to get Trump. That's why they do all this. Here's my concern. I had it. It's as high as it gets. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
Starting point is 00:25:58 All right. You know, one thing that I have been thinking a lot about is schools and memories of our children of this COVID crisis. What's incredible to me is these parades that have been going on. I just, I love these parades. Have you had one yet, Stu? Have you had somebody come by into a parade for you? Our daughter had her birthday parade. and just a few months late,
Starting point is 00:26:24 out in front of our house the other day, and she loved it. In fact, my son is now saying he doesn't want a birthday party, he wants the birthday parade thing, which is pretty pretty cool. Yeah, I really liked it. My daughter had a birthday and her parade happened,
Starting point is 00:26:38 and it was really, it was amazing. It was really amazing to watch. And I wondered as I watched this, what that memory will be like, because nobody, we never had that memory, you know and they'll they'll be able I remember the year that everybody was locked in and they had this parade well the one thing that I've thought of from the beginning is all of these seniors and their graduations
Starting point is 00:27:03 uh seniors in college seniors in schools all across the country you know you've gone for 12 years and and you don't get a stand up and have you know your name called you don't have that typical graduation well there is a a principal in North Carolina. He's actually the 2018 North Carolina principal of the year. And his name is Tabari Wallace. And he decided to do something. Do we have him on yet?
Starting point is 00:27:35 He's the principal of West Craven High School. Not to be confused with Wes Craven High School, which is completely different. You don't want to go to the boiler room in that one. It's a bad scene. It's a bad, bad scene. But anyway, West Craven High School. If we can't get him on, that's fine. He was supposed to be on.
Starting point is 00:27:56 I guess he's not with us yet. But what he did is he sent out teams. Apparently, he stood in full graduation regalia in the parking lot with a megaphone, coordinating all of the cars. The teachers were part of this parade, administrators, coaches, police officers, firefighters, leaders, police officers, firefighters, leaders. they were all set to go across the district. Now, they had four hours to cover 220 seniors.
Starting point is 00:28:32 They broke up into 14 groups, each with a stack of personalized yard signs and a message, you will graduate. And they did their own parade to 220 students, but 485 square miles is what they had to cover. Wow. And they did the graduation and stopped by all of these students. I just think this is really cool. Oh, he's on now. Great.
Starting point is 00:29:03 I'm glad we can talk to him. His name is Tabari Wallace, and he's with us now. Hi, Tabari. How are you? How are you? How are you doing, Glenn? It's good to be on the show. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:29:12 I am thrilled with what you did. I think this is really a cool thing. Tell me about it. Well, what we did was, you know, we do know what the plight of the class of 2020 is going through, right now. And the least we can do as a school is to try to feel that void wherever possible. And we all know graduation and prom are two life events that all of us pretty much as adults still remember. So what we did is the county, our county bought the signs and left it up to each individual principal on how to deploy the signs to the seniors. And what we decided to do
Starting point is 00:29:45 so because of the pandemic, our seniors couldn't come to us for graduation where we'll take a pseudo graduation to their house. So we assembled and we called, I don't know if you read the story, but we service 480 miles. And we have 13 different clubs or townships, communities up north, y'all would call them boroughs. But we have, we have 13 of those
Starting point is 00:30:07 and we split up. My staff of 80 joined and we have municipalities from each of the service areas, fire department, police. We had our board of education members that represented the area. They were there. We had so many pile in. It was a community event to make sure that we go and surprise and service these seniors. And we all stand out over that
Starting point is 00:30:26 four months. So they did, do they, did they have any idea this was coming? Did you do this all kind of quietly? This is what I told them. I told them that we had a senior surprise for them that they would never forget. And I've got that relationship with my kids that I said, now you know I'm Mr. Wallace do. So y'all need to be home between eight and two o'clock. And the kids know in the past, when I say that is some big celebration come in or somebody big and businesses at our campus. So I said, make sure that you're home between eight and two and then make sure that you have your parents there,
Starting point is 00:30:59 your extended family, and cameras ready. So the kids knew something was coming. They just didn't know what it was. And when we pulled up with the fire trucks and the police blaring and everything, and we played the graduation, we played pompous circumstance over the loud speaker, a lot of them ran back in and put their graduation guard on
Starting point is 00:31:17 because they saw we were in full regalia. was just a beautiful day, Glenn. That is cool. That is really cool. I mean, it was beautiful. So that will be the graduate. You won't have a graduation later in the summer, right? That is the graduation? Well, we did that just in case this ban, I mean, this pandemic, you know, the social distancing laws carry on through the summer. Our makeup date for graduation is going to be August 1. And if the social distancing laws have to be relaxed by then, we have a second alternate date for December 19th and we'll have to bring that inside. We've already consulted with the Tourist Center to make sure we can have it.
Starting point is 00:31:56 But the sign served that when we presented it, each child was told in elevator speech and we told them we said, we want you to put this outside your house. And every time you walk in and out your house, it goes somewhere or whatnot, we want you to look at that sign and let this serve as a bridge. And this is going to be a bridge that your community, your administration, your teachers, we're going to get you across a traditional stage so you're not run. robbed of that moment in time in life that we would never forget. And that's why we did.
Starting point is 00:32:23 Make sure they knew that. And then the kids get promed that afternoon. If we can have graduation, we're going to give them the prom as well. And they get to have a graduate in the morning. And then we got the prom that night at 7 o'clock. So it's going to be a busy day for the babies. But it's much deserved because we do not want this pandemic to rob them of these five. So let me ask you this, Tabari, because my kids are both in high school and they're not graduating,
Starting point is 00:32:45 but they're still going. and they are really having a tough struggle with this virtual classes, just really struggling. And talking to the principals and everything at my kids' school, they're saying this is not unusual. How does your, because you're known for Carpe Diem, how are you getting the kids to seize the day on this? I'm looking for some parental tips.
Starting point is 00:33:13 Okay, what you want to tell, you know, your child, And what I would tell all your listeners and the children across America right now is that America cannot afford a 13 gap in learning. There's no way we can afford that in developing our future human capital. This is the workforce that is going to pretty much ensure our Social Security grant. And so they need to understand that we can't know what I'm saying. Yeah, you still believe in Social Security, but I get it. I get it. They have to keep working because if your child is in math one and they stop working
Starting point is 00:33:52 and they are deprived of a nine weeks worth or 13 weeks worth of work, they're not prepared to go into math, too. And I can say that for English 1, 2, and 3. And English 4 is British lit. If you have a master the English vernacular, you will not be able to master when you get into British lit in English 4, and that's a graduation requirement. No. So any student across, you have to keep working.
Starting point is 00:34:12 I know that they're saying it's a PC-13. all you're going to get is a pass on your transcript and this and that, but it's not about that. This is one time that grades really doesn't matter. It is about the investment in our student capital, and that they do not have a gap in learning. That's why we have to keep encouraging our kids to keep working. And next year, it's going to be a little bit of that if these social distancing laws are not listed.
Starting point is 00:34:37 The NEAE president was just on TV earlier this week stating that we'll probably have a form of A-Day B-Day. in regards to next year's learning. That means half of the kids will be in your building on Monday, and the other half will be home during digital learning. And then you switch on Tuesday. You see what I'm saying? So that's those of the ideas that are being kicked around right now. So we can have school in August if this great United States that we have,
Starting point is 00:35:04 if the doctors, the engineers, and the scientists, if we don't figure this thing out and get that vaccine deployed and scaled by the time August 17th hit, then we're looking at that form of instruction. and it will not be the traditional instruction and traditional school that me and you went through. Wow. Well, I hope we don't have to face that for many parents, many students,
Starting point is 00:35:26 but also for the future of America because it's not the same or just jumping into something we've never tried before, and a lot of kids could be left behind, and the teachers really have their job cut out for them. This is the time to become heroic. in figuring out new ways to teach and to keep kids engaged. And Tabari sounds like you're the guy who is doing that in your area.
Starting point is 00:35:54 Congratulations on being the principal of the year in your entire state, North Carolina. It's good to talk to you, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Glenn. It's been a pleasure. Thank you. You bet. Tabari Wallace.
Starting point is 00:36:05 You can see why he's popular, especially the kids. He just, I mean, didn't his joy kind of just jumped out on the first, you know, hey, how are you? Yeah, he has the energy of someone you I really like. Yeah, he does. Immediately. He does. Unlike, unlike some of the principals I had at school.
Starting point is 00:36:24 Ooh.

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