The Great America Show - Democrats have Started their Latest INDOCTRINATION of our Kids -- it's bad!

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.

00:00:05.160 It's great to have you with us on another beautiful day in America.

00:00:07.900 Thanks so much for joining us tonight.

00:00:09.300 We are live from the beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona, bringing The Great America Show to

00:00:14.140 you live from here, from the once great state.

00:00:17.360 It's now commandeered by the Marxist Dems, but hopefully not for long.

00:00:22.120 A lot to talk about today, folks, as ice rates continue to happen across America.

00:00:26.240 America, the Marxist Dem-run schools, and I'm not talking colleges this time.

00:00:31.780 Surprisingly, the colleges have kind of been on their best behavior.

00:00:36.200 It's the grade schools.

00:00:37.780 It's the younger kid, our adolescents, who one day will be running this country.

00:00:43.280 One day will be running the Fortune 500 companies that we rely on each and every day, and one

00:00:47.440 day will be in the White House.

00:00:48.760 So you wonder, what the heck am I talking about?

00:00:50.920 Well, as we sit here and speak on The Great America Show, there is institutions, grade schools

00:00:56.940 across America, that have kids out of school, not because of the snow, not because of the

00:01:03.100 weather.

00:01:03.880 No, they have the kids out of school, so they can protest, you guessed it, ice.

00:01:09.500 Yes, ice, not ice cream, ice, immigrations, that ice. 1.00

00:01:14.560 To talk about all of this and much, much more, I want to bring in my friend, friend of The

00:01:18.680 Great America Show, good friend of mine, Nicholas Giordano, host, Professor Nicholas Giordano,

00:01:24.120 I guess, host of the PAS Report podcast, and an esteemed professor, great American.

00:01:30.980 I didn't want to bring you back on the show.

00:01:32.700 I really didn't, but last time you were on, there was such good feedback, and people saying

00:01:37.720 that they really liked you.

00:01:38.800 I don't know if it was the accent, the hair.

00:01:40.320 I don't know what it was, but people really liked you.

00:01:42.360 I go with the hair.

00:01:43.140 Definitely the hair.

00:01:43.920 People really liked you.

00:01:45.760 Nick, it's great to have you back, man.

00:01:47.580 It's been too long, but you've been too busy for us.

00:01:51.220 Let me get your sense first.

00:01:52.720 What the hell is going on here in America?

00:01:54.400 I mean, this is insanity, Nicholas. 0.51

00:01:57.060 We've got kids who don't know how to read.

00:02:00.560 We have some of the lowest standardized test scoring, I think, probably in the history of

00:02:06.220 this country since standardized testing began.

00:02:08.500 We have kids who don't know how to do math.

00:02:10.560 We have kids who don't know how to read.

00:02:11.600 Not even I'm not even getting into sciences or the social studies, which are two of the

00:02:16.440 more important aspects, in my opinion.

00:02:20.320 But we have kids out of school right now so they can go and protest the big bad ice.

00:02:26.260 Yeah, it really is a remarkable situation where you have schools, public schools across the

00:02:30.640 country.

00:02:30.940 So we're talking about middle schools.

00:02:33.580 We're talking about high schools that are closing their schools and they are forcing

00:02:38.900 the students to protest.

00:02:40.360 Whether the students want to participate in those protests or not is irrelevant.

00:02:43.640 And it really is a remarkable thing.

00:02:45.760 I mean, you have to be so brazen.

00:02:48.000 To sit there and tell parents, we're going to shut the schools down, force your kids

00:02:53.520 to protest, even though your kid can't read, write or do math at grade level.

00:02:58.760 And when we look at the numbers in education, it's astonishing.

00:03:01.780 13% are proficient in American history, meaning 87% are not efficient.

00:03:06.740 We have 22% proficient in American civics, 22% proficient in mathematics.

00:03:12.640 Same thing.

00:03:13.320 Reading is about 24%.

00:03:14.880 Writing is 35%, which I dispute those numbers because writing.

00:03:17.980 You can't be higher than reading.

00:03:19.780 And then science at 24%.

00:03:22.020 When we look at those numbers, those are the proficiency levels, meaning the overwhelming

00:03:27.160 majority of students cannot function academically.

00:03:31.180 They are illiterate academically.

00:03:33.280 But we're going to shut public schools down that you and I are funding and force kids into

00:03:38.580 protesting whether they like it or not.

00:03:40.840 You would think there would be outrage at that.

00:03:42.480 You know, I'm seeing a lot of outrage towards ICE.

00:03:44.480 Where are all the parents that are outraged that their kids aren't educated?

00:03:47.500 I mean, we have 12th grade textbooks written at the 7th grade reading level because 12th

00:03:52.940 graders cannot read at 12th grade.

00:03:55.060 And yet we see no outrage to that.

00:03:57.280 So I think it's time that we just defund the public school system.

00:04:00.920 Right?

00:04:01.480 They had to defund the police movement.

00:04:03.280 Let's do the defund the public school system.

00:04:05.100 If you're going to try and turn children into activists where the children don't even know

00:04:10.600 what they're talking about, they don't even know the basic premise of federalism and the

00:04:15.800 roles and responsibilities of the institutions or the Constitution.

00:04:19.880 The fact of the matter is, if they can't do that, then why are we even paying for it?

00:04:22.900 This is almost like the kids who haven't even reached puberty yet, who are being told that

00:04:27.980 they can transition.

00:04:29.240 We're telling these kids who don't know how to read yet that they can go out and just go

00:04:33.780 protest, protest, I said, you know, I've been a big proponent of not sending your kids to

00:04:39.220 college anymore.

00:04:39.780 I don't think it's the greatest money that you can possibly spend.

00:04:43.420 I have a lot of friends who didn't go to college with blue collar workers who are doing very,

00:04:47.340 very, very well right now.

00:04:48.780 You know, so I've advocated for maybe not sending your kids to college and go to a trade 1.00

00:04:52.560 school instead.

00:04:53.740 Never did I think I'd be sitting here contemplating, advocating to take your kids out of grade

00:04:58.300 school because you're probably better off having your kids at home, teaching them how

00:05:03.340 to read and teaching them how to do math.

00:05:05.480 This is not even to mention that you've got kids sitting in these classrooms who don't

00:05:09.620 understand English.

00:05:10.660 So teachers have to stop and slow down lessons because these kids predominantly speak Spanish,

00:05:15.760 the migrants that are coming here. 0.92

00:05:17.820 So they're not sitting there learning.

00:05:20.200 Now you're tainting the kids. 1.00

00:05:21.540 Well, not only, John, I just want to interrupt you for a second, because we saw here in New

00:05:26.120 York City of over 40,000, 40,000 people enrolled in the public school system in one year.

00:05:32.360 It costs about $40,000 per student per year in the New York City public education system.

00:05:38.420 So just do the math.

00:05:39.560 I mean, think about how much it costs the American taxpayers to fund this apparatus when

00:05:44.840 when you have tons of illegal immigrants being sent to the schools and how much it changes

00:05:49.820 the classroom dynamic where you're right, you do have to slow down, where attention is going

00:05:54.380 to be focused on them, where students that teachers think are capable are largely going

00:05:59.100 to get ignored because they have to worry about the students that are underperforming.

00:06:02.900 So it really is a dynamic that's truly amazing.

00:06:06.320 We're seeing.

00:06:06.580 And it's not just in New York City.

00:06:08.240 I mean, we saw two years ago in Denver, they were having the same problem.

00:06:12.140 Thousands of new enrollees per week.

00:06:14.240 We saw it in Miami.

00:06:15.540 This is across the country.

00:06:16.740 My favorite part about it is now they're still blaming COVID.

00:06:20.680 You can blame COVID for a lot of things.

00:06:22.280 I mean, you can blame COVID for incidental vaccine deaths, which is probably going to

00:06:28.100 get flagged on YouTube now for saying that, but that's fine.

00:06:30.980 You can blame COVID for ruining kids' lives socially, kids not developing socially, kids

00:06:37.720 not developing mentally.

00:06:38.740 But now six years later, they're trying to blame it on COVID as if test scores weren't

00:06:43.260 declining long, long, long before that.

00:06:46.860 But you look at some of these kids, and it's not just at grade levels.

00:06:49.380 It's at high school levels now that the reading and math scores are at a record low for high

00:06:57.920 schoolers now.

00:06:58.720 These kids who are getting ready to go on and either get jobs in some sector or some industry

00:07:04.080 or go off into college, they don't know how to read.

00:07:07.200 I mean, this is the scariest thing I think this country has probably ever seen.

00:07:12.740 I'll make it even scarier.

00:07:14.320 So first of all, you're right.

00:07:15.720 The decline was started long before COVID did.

00:07:18.900 COVID was just a catalyst that sped things up.

00:07:21.660 And it was Randy Weingarten, the teachers union president that destroyed during COVID

00:07:26.740 by keeping schools closed for so long.

00:07:29.040 As a matter of fact, we lost over a million students nationwide, just disappeared from the

00:07:33.500 education system.

00:07:34.720 They never locked into their computers, never did remote learning or anything like that.

00:07:38.840 And we just simply cycle students through.

00:07:40.680 That's what our education system has become.

00:07:42.740 I was arguing with someone from Massachusetts.

00:07:45.200 They were saying how wonderful Massachusetts schools are and how they perform very well.

00:07:49.720 And I explained to them, well, Massachusetts does better than most of the country.

00:07:54.040 I mean, it is in the top when it comes to education.

00:07:57.180 But your proficiency levels are still at 50 percent.

00:08:01.140 Like that's nothing to I'm not going to brag that, oh, student body is only 50 percent proficient.

00:08:07.480 If you're at 80 percent, that's something to brag about, not 50 percent.

00:08:10.940 But when we look at it, it's terrifying.

00:08:14.420 UNC, UC San Diego, I mean, over in California, they had to introduce another remedial math course.

00:08:21.000 So most colleges have remedial math for mathematics that you should have learned in high school, algebra, geometry, those sorts of subjects.

00:08:29.360 They just introduced a remedial math program for middle school math.

00:08:34.660 I mean, think about this logically.

00:08:35.920 People entering college that have had 13 years of education behind them are now going to have to take a remedial college course that teaches them middle school math.

00:08:47.340 So when we look at the failure of academia, it starts at the bottom.

00:08:51.300 It's K through 12 and the higher education system.

00:08:53.600 The whole thing has completely collapsed.

00:08:55.740 Now, I wouldn't advise people not send their kids to college.

00:08:58.440 It really all depends what your kids want to do, what people want to do.

00:09:01.940 If you want to be a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer, you have to go to college.

00:09:04.820 But the trades are looking very promising when people are going into trades.

00:09:10.260 Entrepreneurs, starting your own business.

00:09:12.300 College is not what it used to be.

00:09:14.080 The American people were sold the myth that the only way to succeed in life is to spend thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a college education.

00:09:22.640 That is no longer true.

00:09:23.880 There is a lot of people who don't see the worth anymore in a four year degree program.

00:09:29.360 And it's why 50 percent of corporations and businesses last year did away with four year degree requirements for a number of positions.

00:09:38.440 This is a reckoning in higher education that I warned about.

00:09:41.960 But at the same time, we can't let K through 12 off the hook because we have to deal with the students that we are getting.

00:09:48.660 And we listen, college, it's a business, right?

00:09:52.080 You got to get people in those seats in order for the college to survive.

00:09:57.480 And so this cycle just continues and it's a downward spiral.

00:10:01.080 Even worse is knowing what you said at the beginning, that these are the future teachers.

00:10:06.840 These are the future lawyers.

00:10:08.520 These are the future policymakers and business leaders.

00:10:12.060 But if they don't have the capability to think critically, if they can't read or write, if they can't do mathematics, we're kind of screwed.

00:10:19.360 Who's who's to blame for all of this?

00:10:27.540 I mean, Randy Weingarten, yeah, she takes a huge blame.

00:10:31.260 But who's to blame at the root of it?

00:10:32.940 Is it complacency?

00:10:34.640 Is it the hiring process?

00:10:37.000 Because, you know, you know what the tenure process is.

00:10:39.560 You get tenured and you're pretty everyone's to blame, though.

00:10:41.660 You know, so I blame there's the curriculums and the policymakers that make education policy.

00:10:50.040 Understand a lot of teachers, particularly in the K through 12 system, they have to abide by the curriculums.

00:10:55.200 They don't have the leeway I have as a college faculty member.

00:10:57.980 They have to do whatever the curriculums are telling them to do.

00:11:01.660 So that's part of the problem.

00:11:03.220 You have so many administrators.

00:11:05.120 Schools have become top heavy.

00:11:06.480 You you see over the course of the last 20 years, over 50 percent of new hires aren't teachers.

00:11:13.840 They're administrators.

00:11:15.260 Yeah.

00:11:15.440 So you're very top heavy.

00:11:17.280 Then you have the other factors, right?

00:11:19.760 The ideological capture, the leftists ideologically captured the educational institutions.

00:11:25.480 And then you have conservatives to blame that just completely ignored it.

00:11:29.620 They didn't pay attention.

00:11:30.800 You know, they went into business.

00:11:31.740 They went into finance.

00:11:32.700 They went into law and they decided, let the left have the public education system.

00:11:37.160 Then you blame the parents prior to the coronavirus.

00:11:41.140 You were lucky if you got like five, six, seven parents at a school board meeting.

00:11:44.920 Yeah.

00:11:45.280 It was only when parents realized what their kids were learning that they started to get more involved.

00:11:50.380 And I think that it was because parents, you know, in this day and age, both parents working and they felt that the schools were operating in good faith,

00:11:59.200 that they basically made the schools a daycare center, a babysitter club rather than a place of education.

00:12:05.580 And even when you have good teachers that, let's say, are strict, that actually do have standards, that actually make sure that the students are being responsible and doing the work they're supposed to.

00:12:18.140 And then one of those students fails.

00:12:19.680 Well, the parents call, they complain, and then the administration will change the grade.

00:12:24.300 And it just continues the perpetual cycle of low standards.

00:12:28.600 That's what we have.

00:12:29.340 We don't have standards anymore.

00:12:30.560 We see these grading systems that exist in a lot of institutions where even if you don't submit your work, you can't get lower than a 50.

00:12:40.780 I mean, think about that logically.

00:12:42.600 I was talking about when I was a kid.

00:12:44.580 I know, right?

00:12:45.660 You can hand in work whenever you want.

00:12:47.960 You can't get penalized for handing it in late.

00:12:50.880 And it's things of that nature.

00:12:52.320 In New York State, New York State, a couple of years ago performed twice below the national proficiency level.

00:12:57.640 What did the geniuses at the Board of Regents do? 0.95

00:13:00.300 Did they raise the red flag and say, this is a crisis, we've got to tackle this, we've got to get these kids caught up?

00:13:05.780 No, they simply redefined what it meant to meet proficiency.

00:13:10.260 So the numbers that we're talking about are actually far worse because they redefined proficiency.

00:13:15.440 They lowered what it meant to be proficient.

00:13:18.240 And that's why the United States ranks 26th or 28th in the world according to the OECD rankings.

00:13:24.780 This is the equivalent, Nick.

00:13:27.420 No pun intended, but we've got the Super Bowl on Sunday.

00:13:30.320 This is the equivalent of kicking from the 50-yard line a field goal, but moving the goalpost, I don't know, maybe like the 20-yard line, the 30-yard line, to make it a little bit easier.

00:13:39.800 But we'll still count it as a 65-yard field goal.

00:13:44.720 I mean, it's so sad to think, but you shed a light on it, that it really truly is everyone.

00:13:50.500 I'm not a parent.

00:13:51.140 You're a parent, and you're probably a very good parent.

00:13:53.460 Aside from beating your kids, I told you you've got to stop doing that.

00:13:57.000 But it really does.

00:13:58.800 They do, you know.

00:13:59.780 And they deserved it.

00:14:01.140 It really does fall a lot on the parents.

00:14:03.120 And I think we do have – this has been an ongoing thing in America, but we've got a really bad system in America with parenting and parents not caring about their kids in school.

00:14:12.620 And it's not everyone, but it's a good portion.

00:14:14.900 And you look at some of the numbers on how kids are performing who come from fatherless households and things of that sort.

00:14:21.340 And the parenting model is – Lou and I used to talk about this a lot – is a big problem in America for kids because you are, you know, what you're brought up.

00:14:30.520 If you're brought up in a broken household, you know, you're starting out at a very big disadvantage.

00:14:35.900 It's why I laugh when you hear these people who race bait and try to say, well, blacks are disproportionate when they grow up because they're not brought up.

00:14:44.780 Well, yes, but so are, like, an overwhelming majority of American kids who grow up in dangerously poor households in bad situations with no father figure in their life.

00:14:57.140 And, you know, and they try to paint it as a thing.

00:15:00.020 It is a big, big problem in America.

00:15:02.940 Well, it's the family dynamic and socioeconomic status, right?

00:15:05.700 We know that if you're born into a single-parent household, the chances of success drop dramatically.

00:15:11.620 And that's just by its nature.

00:15:13.820 And we have, you know, a black population, it's about 75 percent of fatherless households, maybe a little bit more.

00:15:18.960 You have the white population, that's about 48 percent, but it's been trending up over the course of the last several years.

00:15:24.880 The Hispanic population is over 50 percent.

00:15:27.260 The only solid family unit are Asian families. 1.00

00:15:30.140 And we have to be honest about that.

00:15:32.100 And then you look at how Asians perform academically, and they by far exceed everyone else. 0.99

00:15:37.580 It is a big problem.

00:15:38.860 I mean, something that should terrify everyone out there, last week, my semester kicked off.

00:15:44.520 I gave my students the citizenship exam, and only, out of 200 students, only a handful passed.

00:15:50.320 That's it.

00:15:51.440 And we're talking, my student body is not like a four-year university where it's just a bunch of far leftists, right?

00:15:57.900 My student body is actually evenly mixed.

00:16:00.060 I probably got, you know, 30 to 40 percent Republican or conservative, 30 to 40 percent progressive, liberal,

00:16:05.920 and then the rest just don't even care what the hell is going on.

00:16:09.420 They're the happiest ones out of everyone.

00:16:12.600 But think about it, you know, so my student body, you know, some of them, they have opinions on all these issues.

00:16:19.760 And we see this in the public today.

00:16:21.340 Everyone has this opinion on ICE.

00:16:23.580 Yet if you can't pass a basic citizenship test, if you don't know who's responsible for what in the government,

00:16:29.000 how can you even comment on the situation with ICE?

00:16:32.140 Because there's a lot of different levels to it.

00:16:34.920 But yet we have all these opinions, and we've never read the Declaration of Independence.

00:16:39.060 We've never read the Constitution.

00:16:40.880 And the parents need to realize that if the schools aren't doing this, it is their responsibility to sit with their kids,

00:16:47.860 go through the Declaration of Independence.

00:16:49.900 It's only four pages printed out.

00:16:51.380 That's it.

00:16:52.160 Go through the United States Constitution.

00:16:53.960 It's seven pages printed out.

00:16:55.420 Explain what it means.

00:16:56.520 Explain why it's important.

00:16:57.660 Listen to the PAS report and the Great America show.

00:17:01.100 Listen to the America's Founding Series on the PAS report.

00:17:03.720 Because if we understand our past, well, then what we're witnessing now shouldn't be a surprise

00:17:10.400 because our founding fathers actually warned about all this.

00:17:13.620 100%.

00:17:14.020 And, you know, I'm embarrassed to even say, I think the first time I picked up a Constitution to read,

00:17:18.740 I was probably, I don't know, maybe 21 years old, 20 years old, something like that.

00:17:23.800 And you know why? 0.97

00:17:24.600 And it was so dumb that I thought to myself, like, how dumb is this that now I'm 21 years old? 0.97

00:17:30.580 And this is the first time I'm picking this up. 0.98

00:17:32.580 And then I realized, you know, it was like nobody really enforced.

00:17:35.740 Nobody assigned it.

00:17:36.980 Nobody.

00:17:37.200 No teacher assigned it.

00:17:38.780 I asked my students.

00:17:39.920 I asked them, have you read the Constitution?

00:17:42.080 Hardly anyone raises their hand.

00:17:43.740 And I remember when I went to school, I was never assigned to read the entirety of the United States Constitution.

00:17:49.680 We went over bits and pieces.

00:17:51.360 You know, your 12th grade, you got your half year of American government, half year of economics.

00:17:55.300 We went over bits and pieces of it.

00:17:57.200 But I was never assigned to read it.

00:17:59.040 And most students aren't assigned to read it.

00:18:00.880 And again, it's a seven page.

00:18:02.360 It's not long.

00:18:03.380 And it's pretty straightforward.

00:18:05.180 Maybe if we actually put that as an assignment, hey, read the Constitution, write about it, understand it.

00:18:11.540 Maybe we went and see some of the problems that we're witnessing today.

00:18:15.260 Yeah.

00:18:15.620 You know, it's a it's a it's an easy thought.

00:18:17.520 I probably to my disadvantage, I probably didn't spend too much time paying attention in class.

00:18:22.120 I was always chasing girls around. 1.00

00:18:24.180 That was my thing in grades.

00:18:25.820 So you say maybe it was men, but no, it's sad.

00:18:32.280 It really is crazy that this is the dynamic we're in.

00:18:35.840 And, you know, I don't have kids.

00:18:37.020 And hopefully one day I will have kids so that I can be a good father.

00:18:40.800 But it's it's it's sad, man.

00:18:43.140 I don't know where I would be.

00:18:44.340 I don't without my father.

00:18:45.780 You know, he's done everything for me my entire life.

00:18:48.540 He's a man that I still to this day, I can rely on to call him for anything.

00:18:53.080 And it's a man who's never, you know, said no to me, no matter how hard it took him to struggle.

00:18:59.120 You know, whatever we had to do, I was, you know, grateful he pushed me to go to college.

00:19:03.360 But in my household, it was Nicholas. 0.98

00:19:05.320 If you didn't go to college, you were an embarrassment. 0.99

00:19:07.240 You know, you were an embarrassment to the family. 0.98

00:19:09.080 And it's funny to see my father. 0.95

00:19:10.460 I should have been a Giordano.

00:19:13.160 You have the second one to go through college.

00:19:15.540 I tell everyone, boy, I tell everyone I'd be better off if I didn't go to college.

00:19:19.560 I think it was a waste of time for me.

00:19:20.940 But, you know, whatever it is, it is what it is.

00:19:22.440 I got the paper.

00:19:23.280 I learned how to fly planes.

00:19:24.420 So it was cool.

00:19:24.960 But, you know, it's funny to see my father's like an institutional guy.

00:19:29.880 I talk about him a lot on the show.

00:19:31.740 You know, he has always worked for somebody, worked in financial institutions. 1.00

00:19:35.620 And he was always of the mindset, you know, you've got to go to college, you've got to go to college, you've got to go to college or you're an idiot. 1.00

00:19:41.020 And it's so funny to see him because he doesn't change his mind. 1.00

00:19:44.820 He's stuck in his old man ways, Nick.

00:19:46.780 He is the perfect example of you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

00:19:50.900 He doesn't care to learn about Bitcoin.

00:19:52.380 He doesn't.

00:19:53.180 He's an old man who wants to be stuck in his old man ways. 1.00

00:19:56.040 And this is one thing, Nick, where he's really tailored his mind around coming around to college isn't the best idea.

00:20:03.500 Now, maybe it's because he paid for my little sister to go to Boston College, which was like 100 grand a year, 90 grand a year, which is just a total waste of money.

00:20:11.320 Well, it's a return on investment, right?

00:20:13.940 Where is your return?

00:20:14.960 I have a cousin, Nick, who's $600,000 in student loans and she's some sort of PhD and I don't even know what she does.

00:20:23.040 And she maybe makes 80 grand a year. 1.00

00:20:24.580 And I'm like, it's the agenda studies.

00:20:26.380 Where do you how do you justify being $600,000 a year living in not that $80,000 isn't a lot of money, but how do you justify spending five or $600,000 in debt and student loans?

00:20:37.400 That's not including full undergrad and making $80,000 a year.

00:20:41.620 How do you pay that off ever?

00:20:44.460 Well, again, I think that's part of the problem, right?

00:20:47.040 I mean, the entire American education curriculum is backwards.

00:20:50.900 It doesn't make any sense.

00:20:51.860 Why aren't we teaching ninth and 10th grade students about savings, investing and compound interest when they're first starting to get their part time job?

00:21:00.420 Learn to live off 70 percent of your paycheck, invest 30 percent, things of that nature.

00:21:04.740 Why in 10th and 11th grade aren't they taking courses about how to select the college and how to select the major?

00:21:12.120 If you want to be a police officer, well, you only need 60 college credits in a lot of jurisdictions in Suffolk County, Nassau County, New York City.

00:21:19.720 So you don't need to go and spend $80,000 a year to get a degree in criminal justice to be a cop.

00:21:26.320 Go to a community college, get your 60 credits.

00:21:28.800 If you want to advance after that, that's different.

00:21:30.820 If you want to be a teacher, the salary doesn't justify taking out one hundred twenty five thousand dollars in student loans, people.

00:21:38.480 And so there's a responsibility on the education system.

00:21:42.080 There's a responsibility on the faculty advisors and the counselings.

00:21:45.760 There is a responsibility on the student themselves.

00:21:48.460 I mean, I'm sorry if you're 18, 19 years old and you're making the decision.

00:21:52.040 Well, I am going to, you know, go to this college that costs $80,000 a year and I'm going to major in gender studies or theater.

00:21:59.320 That's on you. That shouldn't be on the taxpayers.

00:22:01.900 And, you know, obviously, the Biden administration wanted to do the student loan forgiveness.

00:22:06.220 Why do I have to pay off someone else's college degree?

00:22:08.440 Because they decided to major in something.

00:22:10.240 They couldn't find a job.

00:22:11.480 I paid off my student loans.

00:22:12.900 I had to work and it was difficult and it was annoying.

00:22:15.080 But I also got scholarships because I ended up getting good grades in the long run and it worked out well.

00:22:21.860 But again, you have to evaluate where you are in life.

00:22:24.880 And when we look at the United States, we don't have any real priorities.

00:22:28.680 And I think that's part of the problem.

00:22:30.180 Like we look at the concept of liberty.

00:22:32.660 Well, if you don't know the Constitution, if you don't know our founding, our history and what liberty is, how can you defend what you don't know?

00:22:39.700 Why do you think there are so many people in the United States that have a negative opinion of the United States? 0.93

00:22:45.140 It's because they're ignorant of them.

00:22:47.060 And it's not to say that we're perfect. 0.83

00:22:48.440 I believe in teaching the totality of American history, both the good and the bad.

00:22:52.020 When we look at parenting today, a lot of parents would rather be their kids friends as opposed to being their parent and advising them and guiding them and being hard on them when they need when you need to be hard on them.

00:23:02.940 You know, everything.

00:23:03.900 And everyone has an excuse for everything.

00:23:06.200 Everyone wants to play victim and we have to get out of that mindset.

00:23:09.100 We've got to get back to meritocracy.

00:23:11.060 We've got to get back to standards.

00:23:12.960 The Pygmalion effect is real.

00:23:14.680 We used to talk about it in academia a lot.

00:23:16.540 The Pygmalion effect.

00:23:17.840 You put high standards, people will work to achieve those standards.

00:23:21.760 You lower the standards, people are going to work to achieve those standards.

00:23:25.460 Speaking about math brought back some good memories on how I learned math and it wasn't from sitting in school.

00:23:36.520 It was from sitting in gym class with three dice playing CeeLo and taking other people's money illegally gambling in school as like.

00:23:44.860 I struggled with math, right?

00:23:46.600 I mean, I couldn't buy no meals and trying to mills.

00:23:48.760 I couldn't stand them.

00:23:49.820 And, you know, ever since ninth grade math, how many vinyl meals and trying to mills have I encountered in my life?

00:23:55.720 Never.

00:23:56.500 Not a single one.

00:23:57.780 And I did a right for myself.

00:23:59.000 Oh, it's so funny, man, to think the things that we teach.

00:24:02.880 It really is survival of the fittest and what you want to learn.

00:24:05.560 And I can't tell you how much I've taught myself just from my own research and my own doings where I didn't learn in school.

00:24:11.580 And you're right.

00:24:12.460 You don't we set our kids up for failure.

00:24:14.520 You don't teach them how to open bank accounts.

00:24:16.560 Instead, we're teaching them about right angles. 1.00

00:24:19.900 And and and I look back and I think of it now and I'm like, this was, you know, so stupid. 0.98

00:24:24.920 But, you know, it is the conception that you know, show me show me a profession. 0.98

00:24:29.000 Where you encounter a woman, you're going to turn to page 132 in your college textbook to figure out how to solve it. 1.00

00:24:36.560 Like it doesn't exist.

00:24:37.860 Now, it's not to say that college doesn't have worth.

00:24:39.540 Obviously, it gets critical thinking and there's other factors, right?

00:24:43.440 Networking is actually pretty big.

00:24:44.900 You know, who do you meet on college campuses that can later down the road help you out and benefit you?

00:24:49.220 So there are advantages, but the whole thing needs to be restructured.

00:24:53.100 Yeah.

00:24:53.400 You know, it's so funny.

00:24:54.700 I've three sisters and the two of them are book nerd.

00:24:58.620 They're totally book smart.

00:25:00.540 They read something in a book.

00:25:01.460 They can recite it.

00:25:02.680 Me and my other sister, we were always street smarts.

00:25:05.100 And we laugh about it all the time because me and my sister are street smart.

00:25:09.580 You could put us anywhere in the world, any place.

00:25:12.040 We figure out what to do.

00:25:13.140 We'd figure out how to make money.

00:25:14.280 We figure out how to live.

00:25:15.660 You put my two sisters, my two very, very smart sisters.

00:25:18.220 One was a very accomplished lawyer.

00:25:19.720 The other one's in banking very high up.

00:25:21.360 You put them somewhere, Nick, in a street in Topeka, Kansas.

00:25:25.340 They wouldn't know how to find the nearest place to get a glass of water.

00:25:29.440 And it's so funny.

00:25:30.860 We often joke about it.

00:25:31.920 You're like, would you rather have street smarts or book smarts?

00:25:34.700 And I'm like, man, don't worry about all that book smart stuff.

00:25:37.700 Give me street smarts all day long because we'll always figure it out.

00:25:41.120 And I know you're the same exact way I am, but it's so funny just the two dynamics on how smart you can be in the books, but how dumb you can be common sense wise and how street smart you can be to teach yourself what you need to learn and being, you know, survival of the fittest.

00:25:59.180 It's so funny.

00:26:00.640 Going back to what you said about standards, it's so true.

00:26:03.660 So I feel like now in America, people just, you know, do the bare minimum of what they got to do.

00:26:11.360 They do their 40 hours of work week.

00:26:13.220 They say, ah, you know what?

00:26:14.560 I've got Saturday and Sunday off.

00:26:16.060 I'm going to go out drinking.

00:26:16.980 I'm going to go do this.

00:26:17.880 I'm going to go do that and back to work on Monday and and just live their life like that.

00:26:22.700 And it's sort of like a funk where I don't even think it's like the 40 hour work week.

00:26:27.960 Like, you know, just let's look at contractors today.

00:26:31.860 Now, I know a bunch of good contractors, really good contractors.

00:26:35.600 But if you look at contractors today, a lot of them are in and out.

00:26:39.260 They got to get to the next job.

00:26:40.740 And they used to be perfection.

00:26:43.540 You know, they wanted perfection within the craft.

00:26:45.780 The detail that they used to put.

00:26:48.180 I mean, you look at some of the work today and just walk into any store, just look at the moldings and you could see the imperfections there. 0.99

00:26:55.400 Garbage.

00:26:55.900 Where 30, 40 years ago, you wouldn't have seen those because they took pride in their work. 0.97

00:27:00.700 And it's not say that every contract is like that.

00:27:03.960 But I think it just reflects the society, how standards continue to just decline and we just continue to accept it.

00:27:11.580 You almost got me started on the unions living in New York.

00:27:15.540 We're victims of the construction unions here in New York.

00:27:18.840 You drive on the Belt Parkway.

00:27:20.140 You drive on the BQE.

00:27:21.660 Those two roads have been under construction for as long as I'm alive.

00:27:25.880 And every time.

00:27:26.300 So is the Long Island Expressway.

00:27:28.640 Anytime I get to my parents, my mom will tell me who grew up in Brooklyn.

00:27:32.140 That was under construction when I was a kid, too.

00:27:34.380 And I'm like, how do we let these people get away with this?

00:27:38.120 These unions overbid on contracts.

00:27:40.060 They get paid whatever they want and they do just garbage work so that by the time they're done with it, it's already got to be redone.

00:27:47.080 And they bid on the same contract over and over again. 0.98

00:27:49.620 Our politicians have gotten more corrupt.

00:27:51.460 The people doing the work.

00:27:53.520 But even they aren't competent anymore.

00:27:55.400 Like when you go back, look at Reagan.

00:27:57.420 He had Tip O'Neill, Democrat.

00:27:59.080 They were competent people.

00:28:00.960 Even Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt.

00:28:03.080 It was people you could work with, you could negotiate with.

00:28:05.800 Like, I would guarantee you that if I gave the same citizenship exam to my students, to members of Congress, I will guarantee you at least 60 to 70 percent of members of Congress would fail.

00:28:15.240 I know AOC would fail.

00:28:16.740 That's one I can think of off the top of my mind.

00:28:18.940 And there's maybe Jasmine Crockett.

00:28:21.180 The only one who may succeed is maybe Maxine Watt.

00:28:23.840 No, I'm looking at you.

00:28:26.740 At least you didn't say Thomas Massey.

00:28:28.580 Thank God.

00:28:29.820 And it's scary.

00:28:31.140 No, you're right.

00:28:31.660 Our politicians, they've they've gotten more corrupt as the years have gone on. 1.00

00:28:35.140 They've gotten dumber as the years have gone on. 0.99

00:28:37.260 And I feel like the entire thing with these politicians is just one massive con job. 0.99

00:28:43.940 And we are all being conned because we all pay taxes.

00:28:47.240 These people are somehow making out like the two bandits from home alone.

00:28:51.800 Hopefully it ends for them like it does for them.

00:28:54.280 Nick, we can talk for about two more hours.

00:28:56.200 I really enjoyed our conversation here.

00:28:58.320 You get the last word.

00:28:59.400 I just think that everyone should pay attention to what's going on.

00:29:03.380 And if you're a parent out there, if you're an uncle, an aunt, whatever it may be, you got to start teaching next generation about America and our founding.

00:29:11.480 You got to teach them what liberty really means.

00:29:13.480 Teach them the Constitution, because if they're not getting it in school, we are seeing the biggest threat.

00:29:18.340 This anti-American sentiment that is being pushed on our children is absolutely shameful.

00:29:24.940 And it's to our own destruction.

00:29:26.820 It doesn't make any sense to me.

00:29:28.440 So we have to wake up.

00:29:30.160 We have to take control.

00:29:31.600 We shouldn't see outrage when immigration laws are being enforced.

00:29:34.720 We should see outrage when we're spending one point five trillion dollars a year on education, federal, state and local.

00:29:41.220 And seeing that students cannot even read right at grade level and they know nothing about the United States.

00:29:46.620 Amen to that, brother.

00:29:48.520 Nicholas Giordano, host of the PAS Report podcast.

00:29:51.960 You can get it wherever you guys get your podcast.

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00:29:55.560 Nick, try to come back soon, man.

00:29:57.120 This was fun.

00:29:58.020 Always a pleasure.

00:29:59.040 Thanks, Nicholas Giordano, folks.

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The Great America Show - February 06, 2026

Democrats have Started their Latest INDOCTRINATION of our Kids -- it's bad!

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