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Dr Carson, I actually wanted to ask you,

what it, should I be calling you Mr. Secretary or Dr Carson? I mean what's the appropriate way to address you?

Just don't call me a can.

Just say, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Fair enough. That's a good answer. Well, it's great to have you back on the show. Thank you

for joining us. Follow him on X at Real Ben Carson. Dr. Secretary, maybe we'll call you that going forward.

But you served in Trump's cabinet and I think this is very very important because

the X conversation last night they had a big part of it was about

regulations rolling back regulations and getting rid of the United States

Department of Education I know that's something that that you have always been a

proponent of as well along with school choice and getting the

federal government out of our schools. Yes it's so vitally important and it's one of

the things that really distinguished us particularly early on.

When the Lexus of Turkville came to this country

to study us, one of the things that impressed him

was that he could find a mountain man in the middle of the forest and the guy knew how to read and could tell him about the Declaration of Independence.

And if you look at a sixth grade exit exam from 200 years ago.

What you had to know to get a sixth grade certificate,

you'll be blown away.

We have really lowered our standards

and dumb things down and we see the manifestation of that. a lot of it has to do with federal policies and federal money.

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