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Back to episode — Episode 2962 CWSA 09/18/25

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t canceled for telling the truth but Kimmel was lying. Yeah that's not really the important part. That's not how analogies work. Analogies work when there's just one thing that they have in common that can tell a story. And the one thing is that if you're both comedians that's it. Lying is not against the law. I don't like it. I wish there would be less of it but it's not against the law. And so e…

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to be the teachers. But it does seem to me that as long as the students beyond a certain percentage of the class are troublemakers it wouldn't matter who your teacher is, there's no way you could overcome that. So now it could be that in the old days, let's say when I was a kid, capital punishment was still okay. I had a teacher who would beat you with a baseball bat if you got in line like an actual baseball bat. He kept it in the class and he would have fist fights. He was pretty strong. He had this big monkey muscular body and he would have fist fights with kids. And I'll tell you we were pretty well behaved after a couple of bouts of violence. And in a small town back in those days if a parent found out that the teacher punched a child the first thing they would ask is what did you do? That's the first question. What'd he do? And then he would tell them and they'd say all right well I don't love the fact that you punched him but he had it coming. Some version of that. And that unfortunately, and I'm not saying that's all good. I mean you can have some childhood PTSD from that. But generally speaking, forget about that one teacher. He was extreme. But generally speaking there was just more discipline and it helped everybody in the class. Now I don't think we should necessarily go back to the old ways but somehow you have to solve for the fact that not everybody in the room has the same goal which is to learn. Yeah you got to solve that before you have any chance.

And then back to my original point. If your only problem was that you were poor and you had a single mother but once you went to school everything worked smoothly I think you could do great. I think nothing would stop you under just those minimum conditions. As long as school is good you've got a way out. That's the way it's supposed to work right? It's supposed to be that you can work your way out of poverty by working hard, going to school, developing a skill.

Tyson Foods said it's going to halt the use of high fructose corn

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syrup which many people say is not healthy. The Hill is reporting on this. And they also apparently they're going to halt the use of sucralose. It's a preservative I guess. And they've already removed petroleum based synthetic dyes. How many of you knew you were eating oil? That petroleum based synthetic dyes were in your food. You're actually eating oil right? Or is it processed to the point wher…

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