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Back to episode — Episode 2965 CWSA 09/21/25

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hat? Like, who even asks? It wouldn't even occur to me that we would have a conversation with the Taliban about that or that there's any chance at all that it might work out. But Trump goes strong. He has an argument for why it'd be good for us. I understand the argument. I definitely would like us to have a little back room if it's going to make it easier for the military to do what they're going…

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middle of that play. I jumped up and moved my head. I just made sure that a fast-moving way too heavy object never hit my head.

So did I know that having that heavy object hit my head over and over and over and over again would be bad for my brain even if technically it wasn't a concussion? Yeah, I knew that. I absolutely knew that. Why? Because I feel what it feels like when it hits me. There's no way that's good for my brain. No way. I would go further and I think that headers in soccer should absolutely be banned at every level. It doesn't make the game better, right? Does it make the game worse that you have to wait for the ball to reach the ground or reach your legs? No. No. You know what is a really bad game is if all of your touches of the ball are with your legs, you know, you're like foot foot and then you run in front of the goal and then somebody kicks it in the air and then you make the goal with your head. It's like suddenly you change games. It's not even the same game anymore. It's like, well, you weren't using your head until now. I mean much. Anyway, headers should be banned.

So Zero Hedge is reporting that there's an educational crisis in the Baltimore high schools. Apparently in four straight years, this isn't funny. Stop laughing. There's nothing funny about this. In four years, the entire Baltimore high school system has failed to produce a single proficient math student in four years. Not one. Do you think that all the administrators and teachers kept their jobs when they produced zero success in what is generally considered the simplest thing you could ever succeed at getting at least one person to be able to add? Nope. They couldn't pull that off. So do you think there was a big house cleaning and they all got fired, the teachers and administrators? Well, I don't know, but I doubt it. Didn't happen after the first year. Apparently they've gone four years with zero students who could do math.

What percentage of the Baltimore schools are black? What do you think? What percentage of Baltimore high schools are black students? What percent? The answer is 73%. And I think if you count all the other non-white ethnicities, I think it's over 90%.

Right now the obvious question is what's going on here? Now some people are going to say, "Oh, some people who are racist are going to say, what's wrong with black people?" And then other people are going to say, "It's culture, something about culture." And then other people will say, "You racist, you're saying it's about culture." And then maybe people will offer to help and that help will be turned down unless it's money because if you offer to help with money, then somebody could steal it. So if you offer money that people can steal, they'll say yes. But there's nothing else anybody's going to say yes.

And I want to say this again, black Americans, you have to work this out. This one's on you. For sure. People like me can't help you. And the thing is, I'd be willing to try. I'd be willing to try. You know, I don't know what the solution would be, but I know that it would not be welcome. And not just because it's me, but I don't think any white people would be appreciated. So black America, I do believe you are fully capable of solving this. You know, maybe not turning Baltimore into the best school system in the world, but certainly getting at least one person to be able to add and subtract. I mean, that'd be cool. So you could definitely do that. I mean, I'm exaggerating, of course. It's higher math. But if it sounds like I'm not being helpful because I just told you I can't help. Like even if I wanted to, it would go to nothing. I think it is helpful to say we're not going to help. The only way this gets better is if black America somehow, and I don't know how. I don't have the first idea how this could get fixed. No, I do. I do have the first idea. The first idea would be to send in a bunch of dads. I think that worked in some school where they bring in some dads so that there's some serious muscle there and then the kids have somebody they can trust to talk to and they've got a father figure and maybe they can be coached into less anti-school behavior, I guess.

So I feel like I've seen stories where that has worked in individual schools. Now, I guess I'd have to get confirmation of that. But if you're not trying something like that, there's nothing else that's going to work. And what else are you going to do? Make the periods one minute longer? You know, what else do you have to work with? You got not

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hing to work with. There's no tools. If the school system, a regular school that works for other people, doesn't work in any way at all in Baltimore, you're going to have to do something totally different. And I am confident that black America can solve this. And I'm also confident that it would be helpful to make it clear that it's up to you. It's up to you guys. You got to solve this and let us…

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