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Just Listen to Yourself with Kira Davis

I'm Just Sayin - Apologies to Mr. Arnold

Just Listen to Yourself with Kira Davis

FCB Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

5789 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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I'm Just Sayin - Apologies to Mr. Arnold

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0:00.0

This is the FCB Podcast Network.

0:09.1

Just listen to yourself presents.

0:12.4

I'm just saying with Cura Davis.

0:15.1

Remember that show The Wonder Years?

0:17.4

The classic 90s drama was about a young Kevin Arnold coming to maturity in tumultuous 1960s America.

0:25.3

He lived in the suburbs with his housewife mother, bully brother, and hippie sister, and his cranky father, a war veteran, and an average middle-aged American with a love for beer and his favorite recliner

0:37.7

and a distinct disdain for the cultural revolution enveloping his country at that moment.

0:44.6

Kevin, like almost everyone, was terrified of his father's stern demeanor and harsh judgment.

0:51.0

Mr. Arnold hated the hippies, hated the protesters,

0:53.8

and made no secret about how

0:55.5

weak he felt his children's generation was. As a kid watching the show, I could never understand why

1:01.5

Mr. Arnold was so mean, especially to his hippie daughter. All she wanted to do was spread peace and

1:08.3

love. Good things. And all Mr. Arnold did was judge her for it,

1:13.0

make snide remarks, and roll his eyes at her and her friends. He was just mean and I didn't get it.

1:19.4

I was just watching footage of Columbia University students making demands as they occupied

1:24.6

a campus administration building in protests of the war in Israel.

1:28.6

The pro-Hamas students have vowed not to leave the building until the university officially denounces Israel

1:34.4

and goes on record as supporting a ceasefire.

1:37.6

But because we don't train our kids to think critically anymore, they didn't plan ahead for anything.

1:42.4

Now they're hungry, And leaving the building could result

1:45.2

in arrest. So they're asking, no, demanding their oppressors in the university administration,

1:52.3

bring some food for their angry bellies. And now I get Mr. Arnold. He was looking at his peace and

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