Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 Podcast
by Douglas Marolla
My teaching career began in September 1996. I have a lot to say - some if it is wonderful and some of it isn't. Practically everything you've heard about the school business is wrong. At this stage, I've basically seen it all. educationforensics.substack.com
Episodes
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Hamilton: the musical. A short review of our field trip to the Rogers Theater
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This week in Schule 1
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How to Think: A Short Story
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to get the intellectual curiosity spark lit. For me, it was a youtube comment that got the ball rolling. Hard to believe now, but it’s true. In an industry predicated on teaching young people what to think, I explain one way to get someone in your life to learn how…
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Live with Douglas Marolla
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Tools at Our Disposal
I 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...
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Tik Tok Teaching
You 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...
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Why I'm Emotional About Tariffs
The 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...
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Gold, Tariffs, and Trump
The 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
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Mind Control Works - TESLA Edition
Here is the PDF used at the University level about "Green" Tesla and how cool and nice it is: Center for Ethical Organizational Cultures https://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...
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The Novel Coronavirus Era - 5 Years Later
Swiss 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
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How to Survive and Thrive in Today's World
Ms. 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...
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Ross Ulbricht is Free
From 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...
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Mediocre Thinking
ICAN 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...
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NYC 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
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Do What You Say You Are Going To Do
Here 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
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Where are Your Friends
Link 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…
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RFK Jr. is Here for the Children
Don’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…
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Trump and the Federal Dep't of Education
This 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...
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Election 2024
Good 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...
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We Are All Pete Rose
Pete Rose highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9VjkunHYDs Dikembe 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...
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Give me $10 Million and I Promise I'll Repay You Later
Here 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
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This Week in Schule: Incredible Success and Abject Failure
On 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…
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why dont cats be outside
Comment 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...
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The 0.1% Schule Refugee Crisis Movement
I’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…
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Olympic Opening Ceremony Turn Off
The 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…
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The Narrative Wins - Coup Successful
Audio 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
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Risk and Work are Four Letter Words
Here 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
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Sportscast: 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...
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July 4th, 2024: Two American Events
The 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,...
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This Week in Schule: The Unprinted Curriculum
The 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
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Escalante Every Year
Jaime Escalante: Master Teacher, Envious System https://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/04/gary-north/killing-the-spirit-of-learning/ The Marva Collins Story: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WMA736 Stand and Deliver Revisited The untold story behind the famous rise -- and shameful fall -- of Jaime...
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This Week in Schule: Mixed Messaging
There 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.…
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Don'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,...
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Reality ALWAYS Lags Behind the Pump
The 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....
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Trust Yourself
This 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...
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This Week in Schule: Upside Down World
It’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...
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Bitcoin and Crypto
When 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...
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$5.7 Billion to $0.00
Not 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...
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This Vacation Week in Shule: You Can Only Be What You Can See
Serendipity 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…
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Homeschooler Returns to System School
When 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....
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The Thermidorian Shift
In “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…
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The Narrative and the Inversion
This 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.…
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Can't Read or Won't Read
I 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...
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Teaching in the World We Live
It’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...
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The Golden Age of AI is HERE
The 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...
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Shaniya Returns
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Tuckered Out
The 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…
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The Progressive Normie
Reminder: 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
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Trips to Spain and Colombia - A Brief Retrospective
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Podcast: 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...
About this show
My teaching career began in September 1996. I have a lot to say - some if it is wonderful and some of it isn't. Practically everything you've heard about the school business is wrong. At this stage, I've basically seen it all.
educationforensics.substack.com
Hosted by
Douglas Marolla