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Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastLive with Douglas MarollaThis is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2025-07-2608 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastTools at Our DisposalI did a Substack Live the other day. I’ve turned it into a podcast and will add two highlight video clips. Naturally, I’m talking about AI and directing our attention to what parents, teachers, mentors, coaches, and consultants will have to manage in schools going forward.I get asked how summer school is going. It is quiet. I was wary about working during the summer because summer of 2021 was a total mess. This is different. The students sit and stare at the phone screen, and if I let them do that for over an hour they...
2025-07-2509 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastTik Tok TeachingYou know it’s bad when the young, eager teachers who want to “make a difference” bail from the profession. There are a few reasons for this, and lately many of these young people have gone on TikTok and other social media venues to explain what is going on. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2025-05-3117 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastWhy I'm Emotional About TariffsThe Usual Suspects are getting the regular people bickering again. This time, it's about tariffs. I was accused of "being emotional" about tariffs. Well, they were right. I am emotional about tariffs - in the sense that I'm giddy and thrilled about them. Can't get enough. Here, I explain why, and show everyone how we talk about these things in MVHS Room 108. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2025-04-1810 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastGold, Tariffs, and TrumpThe Scott Bessent interview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnX1SQfgJI This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2025-04-0614 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastMind Control Works - TESLA EditionHere is the PDF used at the University level about "Green" Tesla and how cool and nice it is:Center for Ethical Organizational Cultureshttps://harbert.auburn.edu/binaries/documents/center-for-ethical-organizational-cultures/cases/tesla.pdf This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2025-03-2310 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThe Novel Coronavirus Era - 5 Years LaterSwiss Policy Research facts page:https://swprs.org/covid19-facts/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2025-03-1622 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastHow to Survive and Thrive in Today's WorldMs. Williams, MVHS guidance counselor, puts on Career Day every year. Regular people in the workforce come in and talk to our students.My 12th grade SUPA class had the pleasure of meeting a robotics engineer from Amazon. Nia came in and proceeded to explain how the high school to college to Master’s Degree can work. Choosing a field of study, changing course when necessary, and working hard can work. Our students get told all sorts of nonsense about how the system is rigged because of (fill in the blank trendy -ism buzzword).Nia no...
2025-03-0216 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastRoss Ulbricht is FreeFrom the Free Ross site:https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2025/01/the-controversial-case-of-ross-ulbricht-life-sentence-regret-and-a-presidential-pardon/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2025-01-2720 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastMediocre ThinkingICAN website:https://icandecide.org/There is a lot of talk these days about Americans losing faith in their storied and classic institutions. This is exhibit A. It’s time we re-dedicate ourselves to teaching our young people how to think, and not what to think.The TFT Store keeps growing. Here is the storefront:https://sendowl.com/hub/tft This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-12-3014 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastNYC Mayor Adams: Try to "Cancel Me."NYC Mayor Adams' comments:https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/06/new-york-eric-adams-republican-party-00192988 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-12-1213 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastDo What You Say You Are Going To DoHere is the new site - ready, but partially under construction:https://tftprofitacademy.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-11-2918 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastWhere are Your FriendsLink to Daily Mail article:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14093445/Biden-gives-Zelensky-green-light-fire-long-range-American-missiles-Russia-time-raising-chance-UK-follow-suit-eyes-Putins-response.html This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-11-2215 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastRFK Jr. is Here for the ChildrenDon’t trust the scientists, trust the HISTORY of science. Which, by the way, very few scientists actually know.“My position on vaccines… is that vaccines should be tested, like other medicines. Of the 72 vaccine doses now mandated… for American children, none of them—not one—has ever been subject to a pre-licensing, placebo-controlled trial. Other medicines are required to do that, and we should have to do that for vaccines. If I’m wrong, show me the test. Show me the study. You won’t be able to, because there are none. That means that we don’t know what...
2024-11-1722 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastTrump and the Federal Dep't of EducationThis article / podcast is also a good place to look - written in real time in 2017.https://reason.com/podcast/2017/12/26/thad-russell-education-academia-podcast/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-11-0218 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastElection 2024Good predictions are difficult to find. I throw my hat into the ring on this one.Two things I forgot:* The betting lines are good places to look for predicting election results. Remember, up to the DAY BEFORE the 2016 election, the polls were showing that Hillary Clinton had a 95% to 99% chance of winning the 2016 Presidential election. Everyone believed the polls. I didn’t. I called the election in September 2016, and with the exception of one older colleague who understands the world, people thought I was crazy. This election is harder to pin down, but I ex...
2024-10-2021 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastWe Are All Pete RosePete Rose highlights:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9VjkunHYDsDikembe Mutombo highlights - block party:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGDZ3S5Y2MI This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-10-1322 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastGive me $10 Million and I Promise I'll Repay You LaterHere is the case:https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/long-island-man-convicted-trial-participating-multimillion-dollar-cryptocurrency This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-10-0317 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThis Week in Schule: Incredible Success and Abject FailureOn Tuesday Mt. Vernon HS not only placed Rai Benjamin on its Wall of Fame, it named its outdoor track after him. Rai, who graduated in 2015, was gracious enough to take a picture with me and his 4x400m teammate Cody Housen. Cody is now a member of the local police department, and he was the 3rd leg of that spectacular relay. Cody would rip a 49 second relay split indoors, 48 outdoors, and then pass the baton to Rai, who would decimate the competition. Those were good times.Here’s the NBC video of Rai winning the Olympic Go...
2024-09-1414 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 Podcastwhy dont cats be outsideComment and share. I'll also be keeping you guys posted about what I'm learning about internet sales, marketing, and product creation. It's much tougher than I thought. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-09-0810 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThe 0.1% Schule Refugee Crisis MovementI’m almost done with a webcast called “The 0.1% Refugee Crisis”. It’s good. HNW (High Net Worth) individuals are leaving places like the USA, Britain, Australia, and Sweden because they’re not treated well. Their money and lifestyles are treated shabbily by governments, so they’re leaving. It’s an old saying in the world of Finance - capital will flock to where it’s treated the best. It’s true.The webcast I'm listening to:https://pracap.com/the-1-refugee-crisis-webinar/I teach some classes here - SAT and ACT:https://www.udemy...
2024-08-3113 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastOlympic Opening Ceremony Turn OffThe 2024 Paris Olympic Games opening ceremonies were an abomination. Our house, without my input, was so severely turned off by them that it has severely limited our viewing. Who wants to support people who hate you? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-08-0213 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThe Narrative Wins - Coup SuccessfulAudio analysis raises troubling questions:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF4RFPXcTlI This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-07-2728 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastRisk and Work are Four Letter WordsHere is the John Smoltz interview where he speaks the truth:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wEcWcawMso This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-07-1318 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastSportscast: Bronny James gets drafted.The Lakers drafted LeBron James' son, Bronny James. Nepotism, favoritism, power, dilution ... all are on display. This event is a lens as to why faith in 'our institutions' is imploding at an alarming rate. A father helping out his son is normal. Nepotism is not only common, but ignored in many such cases. However, because this affects not only someone possibly more deserving a spot on the LA Lakers roster, but also the competition on the court, it comes across poorly. I found the opinions of Kwame Brown, Rob Parker, and Chris Broussard noteworthy, and...
2024-07-1120 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastJuly 4th, 2024: Two American EventsThe presidential debate “surprised” many, particularly the condition of Pres. Biden. The Chevron Deference decision has outraged the Donor Class, and the unthinking MSNBC/CNN masses who need their opinions fed to them. Naturally, these reactions are the things to analyze.The Chevron decision, links to the 114 page PDF:https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-07-0521 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThis Week in Schule: The Unprinted CurriculumThe Six Lesson Schoolteacher: https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2024-06-1733 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastEscalante Every YearJaime Escalante: Master Teacher, Envious Systemhttps://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/04/gary-north/killing-the-spirit-of-learning/The Marva Collins Story:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WMA736Stand and Deliver RevisitedThe untold story behind the famous rise -- and shameful fall -- of Jaime Escalante, America's master math teacher.https://reason.com/2002/07/01/stand-and-deliver-revisited-2/Jaime Alfonso Escalante - Full Biography:https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Escalante/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...
2024-05-2522 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThis Week in Schule: Mixed MessagingThere is a new phenomenon out there. We are seeing many videos of people in their 20’s, mostly women, who are angry about being financially unable to participate in what was once regular American life.They’re told that if they do things right and play by the rules, they’ll be fine.Not so fast.If you check out housing prices, inflation, property tax, city tax, state tax, federal tax, college tuition, college loan interest rates, mortgage interest rates … what is a young person supposed to do? Anyone in the NYC area, or somew...
2024-05-1823 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastDon't Be Passionate. Don't Change the World.“Do what you love”.This is the worst advice you could give to a young person. “You can change the world”. No you can’t. Perhaps we should work on grammar and knowing at what temperature water freezes first.Our young people need good, solid, valuable instruction. They don’t need useless, pointless, and misguided (even dangerous) sayings to cloud their minds.Here are some of the latest ‘passionate’ sayings around the building. The Black History Month are putting the cart before the horse, as many of the figures are unknown. Additionally, th...
2024-05-0223 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastReality ALWAYS Lags Behind the PumpThe discussion today is about how the fad of the day will always come first. Then, sometime later, the things that matter come to the fore. Mentioned in this podcast:Here is Dean Russell telling the NEA that the rabble (that’s you) simply cannot learn the stuff that the top of the pyramid learn. The book is Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United StatesBy David Nasaw:Here is the an explanation from John Taylor Gatto, then the actual text from the Rockefeller Foundation’ Gene...
2024-04-1027 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastTrust YourselfThis is the kind of message I bring to teenagers. They (we) get taught, trained, if you will, to obsess about things out of our control. World events are put on our doorstep and you’re not only told what to think about them, you’re told to argue with your friend about it on FakeBook. This is nonsense.Keeping things under control means having discipline with yourself, your thoughts, and your device. As today’s Nonsense World comes at us at a faster, more ridiculous pace than ever, it’s vital that we remem...
2024-04-0123 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThis Week in Schule: Upside Down WorldIt’s “Persuasive Presentation” time of the year for the 12th graders. My SUPA class has woken up!We were discussing controversial topics, running down the list of things that are traditionally on the docket. The discussion was, as it has been over the years, wonderful, as these students haven’t been poisoned by corporate media. Their b******t-ometers aren’t broken. We discussed things that would get you canceled, maligned, called names, pilloried, or otherwise slapped around by your MSNBC watching friends on Fakebook.A bit of a heads up: this is how things go in MVHS...
2024-03-2123 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastBitcoin and CryptoWhen I recorded this a few days ago, Bitcoin (BTC) had hit an all time high of $73K per bitcoin. It’s hovering in the high $60K’s for the time being. One thing to keep in mind - Bitcoin is not Crypto. As the West’s, particularly the USA and Canada’s finances get manipulated and bastardized by the twisted oddballs who run the place, regular people will always search for a safe haven. I know I do.If interest on America’s debt comes in at a staggering $1T every 100 days, even the most limit...
2024-03-1620 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 Podcast$5.7 Billion to $0.00Not too long after Sports Illustrated got busted for using AI to write crappy, woke sports articles, then went bust, Vice Media went down - badly:Am I celebrating hundreds of people losing their jobs?Yes.Why would I do something so unfeeling, so terrible, so awful and crass? Because the people at Vice were some of the people to tell the blue collar workers and coal miners in Appalachia and other areas, that they should “learn to code”. And then they were laughing about it on Twitter. Their crime? many of those peop...
2024-03-0124 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThis Vacation Week in Shule: You Can Only Be What You Can SeeSerendipity is one of those wonderful, uncontrollable things.We were out at a local place here in the Bronx, and I met a youth football coach. He went into great detail about how young people today are more difficult to coach. Instead of the incessant complaining about ‘today’s kids’, he explained his approach to teaching and coaching.“You can only be what you can see”.His coaching style has adjusted over time. Instead of griping … “I coached and explained, and they didn’t learn” … he has adjusted his style. Student athletic / football success is his curre...
2024-02-2120 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastHomeschooler Returns to System SchoolWhen someone says to you something ‘doesn’t work’ or ‘this is the best way’, ask them why. People often repeat what they’ve heard or read in Corporate Media. In this podcast I discuss a student who showed up late to my class, in early November, and has re-entered the System. It’s a unique story.Mt. Vernon HS Room 108 - February 2024 TOUR:Here is a short video and some pictures of how the room looks. The many former students will recognize much of the decor. Some of you might even see your picture o...
2024-02-1119 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThe Thermidorian ShiftIn “Year 2, on the 9th of Thermidor”, things fell apart for the Revolutionary Elite (notice how they called themselves ‘The committee of Public Safety’, and rewrote the time and the entire calendar).They always tell you that they’re going to ‘keep you safe’. It’s possible we have a shift of these proportions in the wings:Nesta Webster’s book is one of the few that goes into the grisly details, and the Secret Societies that spearheaded the Revolution. Naturally, the end result was that they would be in power. Funny how it always works out that way...
2024-02-0321 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThe Narrative and the InversionThis podcast was spurred by a discussion / lesson with the 12th graders in my SUPA Public Speaking class. The topics we’re taught, the way we’re taught, what we’re told is important - many of these are “Narratives” that shape the way we think. People are persuaded by easily digestible stories. When someone goes against, or refutes the Narrative / Story, oftentimes people get dum tite.You see what I did there.The Inversion is when what we’re told by the Top of the Pyramid, usually via the Corporate Media, is the opposite of what is t...
2024-01-1021 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastCan't Read or Won't ReadI came across this quote while reading Dave Collum’s year end letter:Despite the opening semi-rant at the beginning of the podcasts, the quote spurred some things that I routinely share at MVHS. Many of you on the list will remember.Here is room 108 at MVHS as I left it on Dec. 22nd:This came across my Xitter feed. My original account is still permabanned, but I saw this on my new one:Merry Christmas everyone. I am grateful for everything. My wife and girls put this table to...
2023-12-2617 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastTeaching in the World We LiveIt’s easy to see that there are some explosive and divisive events going on in not only the world, but the USA. How do I talk about these things? In this podcast I speak in the way I speak to students, and take a look at current day shenanigans.There were some issues with the transcription, so I will put the print version of the transcript below:“Hello everyone, this week in Schule, brought to you as usual by MVHS Room Education Forensics. Welcome everybody just doing one podcast here this weekend and gonna conti...
2023-12-1319 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThe Golden Age of AI is HEREThe current Narrative is that AI is the most amazing thing ever. It will solve problems, fix what’s broken, and be the answer to all of our social and economic problems.That’s one Narrative anyway. The other Narrative is that it will bring about a horrific dystopia, with the Terminator movie franchise resembling Mr. Rogers Neighborhood compared to what’s actually in store.I don’t see either of those as options. It isn’t because I recognize the fallacious Hobson’s Choice. It’s for various other reasons, mainly that AI can only look back...
2023-11-2411 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastShaniya Returns This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2023-05-2322 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastTuckered OutThe Uniparty Industrial Complex got FOX News to turf Tucker Carlson. Why in the world would the network’s biggest draw get the axe?In this podcast we cover some of the issues around the firing, the narrative, as well as some of the more plausible reasons.The book I was trying to remember later in the podcast is “Tragedy and Hope”, by Carroll Quigley. Prof. Quigley was an insider, and he spilled the beans about the Uniparty over 50 years ago. They suppressed his book. He was Bill Clinton’s teacher at Georgetown. Look up...
2023-05-0326 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastThe Progressive NormieReminder: we have a trip to Spain scheduled for early July. See more here: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2023-04-2420 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastTrips to Spain and Colombia - A Brief Retrospective This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit educationforensics.substack.com/subscribe
2023-04-0815 min
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 PodcastPodcast: We are reading "The Bet".“The Bet” – Anton Chekhov - - followed by “The Shawshank Redemption”“The Bet” – Audiobook:Learning target: How do Anton Chekhov and other writers begin short stories?Do Now: Introduction to “The Bet.” * Here’s the deal – in order to get $35 million, you must spend 15 YEARS inside a semi comfortable cell, with all of your basic needs taken care of. You get the internet (a laptop with no camera), books, food, TV and music. You DO NOT get any visitors allowed whatsoever.Could you do it? Would you do it? Explain your reasons. Ans...
2023-03-0307 min