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Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are releasing it Tuesday documents showing leads in the committee's Russia investigation Democrats accuse Republicans of ignoring the Republican shutdown the investigation Monday saying they found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in a news conference the committee's ranking Democrat Adam Schiff accusing Republicans of going through the motions from a very early point in the investigation the chairman made the decision that his mission was not to find out what Russia did not to determine the role of U.S. Persons but rather to endeavor to distract the public to put the government on trial of adding the American people need to know whether the Russians still have something they can hold over the president said the president addressing a crowd of military service members and their families in Southern California on Tuesday at a time when North Korea and Russia's nuclear programs are in the spotlight the president vowing the U.S. Will dominate we have to be so far ahead of any other country it's a capability we never even want to think about using The president also saying to win wars dominance in space is needed he says one day there could be space forces he calls it to fight wars in space Alex Stone A.B.C. 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So Americans are fat at least that's the running monologue playing out in more media outlets than we can completely ignore here in MA Brown where there are but somewhere along the journey from childhood to retirement the solution to that problem has become the new year's resolution that almost everyone makes and almost everyone hates exercise more as children playing outside was the reward not the punishment value or all the big drop so much so that a ridiculous trending to many elementary schools today is for children to be deprived of outside play time in a stationary timeout at recess as punishment work work work everyone because we all know that the one thing that helps discipline a hyperactive child to be calm is enforced stillness ghost in the corner or not. Yet trudging through the institutional. The education exercise became the thing that the quintessential sadistic gym teacher and forced those that can't do teach and those that can't teach teach. Complete with test metrics and goals for the unattainable the joy of movement dimmed as the realization that perfection was just not on the menu for most of us grew and there was the math to prove it charts indexes measurements graphs all calculated to show the weary where they fall short . Exercise stopped being many people's entertainment when it stopped being fun. I can't be the only person who finds modern day conversations about exercise about as compelling as a marketing report full of deliverables and metrics or like a performance review by a cranky boss who won't notice the 10 things you did right but only the one thing you did wrong here we are look this is this These things are. Made. Absolutely positively subordinate to what happens here. You're with me I already live in a world of deadlines and demands whether at home or at work I must comply with so many requirements that I cannot bear to take up an activity that has a To Do list I want to get SUNDAY MORNING I'm not running on a Sunday why not because it's Sunday. It's God's day I. Use a stop and we stop a whole lot of stuff. In fact the working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research reported that even when people were paid to go to the gym most were not really fated to do so. We want to go on the energy train and you are on board. That line again most were not motivated to do that money could not camouflage the reality that many have lost that loving feeling for organized pain you know I try to stay positive. So you. You feel like going for a run. Because you know you don't have to if you want you could just take a nap right here. OK. And when the sales pitch is no pain no gain How surprising is it that many people just say no we go where we were originally from a lot. As my own children reach adulthood I listen to their conversations about how they should exercise if only they had the time should stans do it in English language a verbal storeroom for closets we don't want to clean your vegetables we don't want to eat now we really should wear OK let's quit Yes right. As soon as you should do something you don't want to do it. Bust. A chill we tried to quit but it has to hurt. In today's competitive school environments the emphasis can be so much on winning that coaches don't want to spend time with kids in general but rather a specific few how much you want to make a bet I can throw the ball over the mountains. So they call every team to the top players coach we put. State Champion. Down my forgotten is the beautiful model days passed called my childhood in which every kid could come out to practice and to participate with the team. While only deserving and talent is few suited up on game day if you don't. Get yourself killed by cooler I will be helping you guys get ready for the next week's game. The team was bigger than the perfect and the fun of training together was its own reward if you need a reminder of that watch the movie Rudy with a box of tissues. Each year are ready for this my whole life. I am a proud member of the track B. Team and will probably live longer for it. A team intensified their performances and read till they were sick in the grass or lobbying for excellence admirable to be sure. But on the B. Team we jogged on the track really so intensely that we couldn't keep the conversation running and got out of school on the day of the meets to run a few races and cheer on the last staying in shape in the context of community was the draw. Recently I've rediscovered running which for me means bastard in walking out of place most likely to be the worst in any time to race I don't want to train for anything achieve anything or set a record what I like best about running is that I'm not working. I wonder if more people would overlook the fact that they're exercising if they could remember that it used to be fun outside it feels a bit un-American to tell people don't go over the gold but I suspect that more people would try getting active if it sounded less like work and a lot more like a reward one playing. Outside you get a break from work chores family computers and responsibilities. Take a page from your 5 year old self and have fun with the sun is shining and don't let the fact that someone label your activity exercise. And that's Kristi stone Hamrick story about exercise here on our American stories and great job as always on that one great. Letter. To. The. 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Really difficult to create companies create jobs create a tax base it's the American dream folks getting out there and starting something whether you're Steve Jobs or whether you've got the local auto body shop and you're employing some people and doing what you love a restaurant whatever and as always our American dream or series are brought to us by the great folks at job creators network we're out there fighting for public policies that make sense for helping small business owners grow their businesses into bigger ones and today's story like so many of them is a real stem winder because growing a business is no duck walk and they face mortal moral moments where they think everything. Last we think there is good news police procedurals these stories and our own Alex Cortez brings us today's story on a member of the job creators network Bob bloody the founder of kept a very the nation's leading manufacturer of commercial kitchen ventilation systems and this story is a real stem winder if you think about people to come into the company today they see a very prosperous company that's all they know about the company if you go back to the early days you'd have a quite a different picture in that every day was can we survive one more day that was the mission every single day in the early eighty's we were in somewhat of a recession we switched our payroll to monthly I thought if we paid at the end of the month surely we would be able to collect enough money during the month for payroll will not be an issue but turned out it was a big issue June 30th 1980 because we had 830000 our payroll with $2000.00 in the bank. I even think back and I wonder how I And yes this basically told the employees which was about 18 in number that we were not able to make our payroll today for technical reasons tele told. And. They mostly went along with and he really didn't cause a lot of grief about it so Monday went by. No money and Tuesday night had already received the mail I decided to go back to the post office at 8 pm and there was a check for 20000 hours in the Golden Corral almost precisely the dollar what I needed to make the payment. So essentially I was bailed out by a major customer who in this case paid their bill early Go figure. It speaks very highly of your employees but they didn't really ask what the technical reason was I'm pretty sure my wife would have asked what do you mean a technical reason. You were in that money and I have build the pay here why didn't you ask what the technical are. You know in a modern context I can't even imagine that I could get away with that I mean people have be crazy. But somehow we did it. Bob writes in his book I'd done everything humanly possible to save the company so now all that remains was the grace of God I mean I have a great trust in God that if we do our part and we ask for help he will provide that help and I think so I didn't have that belief in God it would be a lot harder to function in the marketplace Well I think I think something very interesting in the market is that these companies that are Christian based. Chick fil A's may be a primary example they're enormously successful in the market people admire them and people want to do business with them in our construction business a lot of things go on the chin go on and we've never participated in. One of our veteran sales guys called me one day and said But. I figured out why we're so success so tell me why because we're illegitimate company we do things honestly correctly we don't play games in the marketplace appreciates the way we do this. What hallelujah and if you think about today. The trouble individuals get into because they that I laid human decency basic 10 Commandments common law is enormous . Converse they the ones who are legitimate just continue to do better and better all the time because that's what the market wants that's who they're going to do this with Lawson's that Bob began learning and not too long after coming out of the womb of his Pennsylvania family didn't have much money and had 10 miles to feed it was competitive even in eating because we have a limited amount of food so you better be at the table and get your share or you may end up short of food. Or to get money Bob had to make his own starting in elementary school he delivered newspapers shoveled snow and babysat and at age 11 you was working on a bread truck on weekends. Vince Lee worked in the drug store during high school the farmers this was my mentor teaching me the basic skills of business retail him and Torrie delivery dealing with customers who are difficult. It's almost as if I should have been paying him. This idea 1st is much more important in terms of learning life skills than actually making any money and yet it's been turned around now that you should be paid a minimum of $15.00 and they are well I don't know what $0.85 an hour of the today maybe $10.00 actually it would be even less $7.15. If minimum wage were $15.00 I never got the job it would have made a profound and profoundly negative impact on my life. So I think that very very often in modern context whether it's the news media consultants academics they really turn life upside down and if you think about it when I grew up in the fifty's life was a little different a little bit less regulated you couldn't work on a bread truck today at age 11 they put mama jail for child abuse. But it was an important part of my life nobody got hurt everybody seemed to be a winner so allowing parents to make decisions allowing individuals to find the best that they can within the market they exist is important and it's precluded by massive regulation misconceptions that. Bob went on to college and he didn't particularly want to he didn't like school but if Dad wanted all the kids to go so that's what he did and after 2 years he really wanted to get out so this 20 year old decided that buying into a fiberglass business was what he ought to do to stay sane fast for 9 years by this time Bob had been drafted into the Vietnam War forced to sell his company to serve and now was married and working in a hole just couldn't stand the traffic and longer and so we researched the areas of the country most likely to grow economically and they had to move to one of them and he chose. North Carolina. It was a late I had no context didn't know anybody when I got here maybe this wasn't the smartest idea in the world. Bob applied to every single job that was listed in the newspaper and after a month of this someone finally called and offered him an opportunity to sell fire suppression systems to a restaurant he did well purchased their 1st home and had his 1st kid until the oh made a Sunday announcement to the sales team. He was going to get that one I was making 30000 a year now going to make 20000 a year and my initial thought was I want to be able to make 20 year. Starting his own similar business. The 2nd thought was I'm not we'll prepared I don't have capital I should have been more prepared for this day but I'm I'm not. And then I had a 3rd not essentially said look there's times in your life when you have to take major risks and this is one of those times and if you fail to take that risk other opportunities may come along but this is your time to go. I think one of the things that came out of that is the fact that knowing that the their wrists were extremely high. I knew I'd have to go to all extreme possible effort to make the sale work I said use my home phone so I didn't have to do anything there I got some business cards printed and by Saturday I made my 1st installation. So from Sunday working for a company to the following the end of the week I went from being a ploy to being self-employed. The nature of how I learned to do things critically for my mother is she called it tomorrow never comes meaning that if you're not feeling it today you're probably never going to do it even today I do it today I do it immediately has a good idea I want to hear about it now versus the bureaucratic mind this is yeah we're going to do the I'll put on my list or contemplate a. Much more of a person of action. And so that action allowed us to get underway right away and the 1st check I received from the Saratoga installation belt. And when we come back more of this American Dreamers story Bob what are these stories here on our American story. I live alone and rarely have visitors so when I slipped and fell. In the kitchen last month and couldn't get to a phone I knew I was in trouble. I could barely move. I tried calling for help but no one could hear me as I lay there I couldn't help but think of my kids and grandkids having to go on without me I was terrified it took 8 hours for my neighbor to find me it could have been the end of me that's when I knew I needed life alert with just one press of this button I'm connected to the life alert center where I can get the help I need even when I can't reach a phone with life alert I'm never alone for pre-life brochure call 809303114 that's 809303114 again 809303114 that's 809303114809303114. My name is Judy teeter and I'm the mother of 3 boys 6 my youngest Joe was a great kid he loved sports music and. One day Joe asked me to drive him to an after school event which was about a mile from our home. I was driving through a green light when a car in cross traffic ran a red light. And drove right into the side of our car killing. The driver was talking on her phone so she never even saw the red light she was so absorbed in her phone call before the crash I didn't realize just talking on a cell phone while driving was so dangerous now it's something I think about every day. The National Safety Council about one in 4 car crashes involves a cellphone handsfree is no safer when you're behind a wheel put away your phone and for the thousands of needless deaths every year remember there is no safe way to talk on a cell phone while driving. Find out more than a C. Dad Orks last call scale. They actually did. Have and at that point a lot more really. 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Thankfully there is a loving home for these children at the Palmer home 126 children are there today and they can change so many more children's lives with your support consider making a donation today at Palmer home dot org John Nichols was making major strides in his career when it aged 32 a water skiing accident left him critically injured fortunately he had disability insurance for me disability insurance was the safety net I did not have to worry about the bills I did not have the financial concerns thanks to disability insurance that John had through work and on his own he continued to receive an income until he could return to work learn more at Protect your paycheck dot org A message from the nonprofit Life Foundation Hi I'm Dr Sam Nussbaum with the anthem foundation. Premature birth is the leading cause of death of babies and disability for children that's why we support the March of Dimes to help mothers have full term pregnancy and healthy babies. Join us in supporting cutting edge research treatment outreach to help moms during their pregnancy and give every baby a healthy start in life learn how you can help at March of Dimes dot org. And we continue with our American Dreamers segment Bob Lonnie and the founder of captive a air the nation's leading manufacturer of commercial kitchen ventilation systems and by the way we heard some really remarkable stories about how we almost didn't make it when we continue now with this story he's already shaken up one industry and if you unintentional experiences would lead him to try and shake up another. I had a woman who worked part time taking care of my children after school and she needed some more work sayto to come over the office we didn't really know what to do with her so we said we'll ever do filing. So someone came to me and said well she's not able to do filing that's enough to let anybody can do filing just show how to do it you'll be fine and what we figured out is she didn't know or A.B.C. . Was my 1st inkling that I was clueless. Later on in our shop we realized that individuals could use a tape measure if it was a comment to one inch but if it was one inch and 16 plut they couldn't read it conceptually they didn't understand it and I thought how is it possible that someone could graduate from high school but they couldn't do fractions they didn't understand fractions That's my 2nd. And I thought as a society this is a disgrace. Because we only say that we love our children we want the best for me when I'm to have a good education but we support a public school system that only really educates about 25 percent of the students. And culturally destroys close to 100 percent of them so Bob decided to do something about it 1st he took on North Carolina's Education Commission on becoming their cochairman my take on was that academics will discuss any topic at nauseum that they have no intention of really changing they just like academic discussions so at some point that came to an end without any great success and so Bob decided to try something else. In 1097 I ran for school board as a reform candidate who won the 1st round in the 2nd round narrowly lost which turned out to be a great blessing. And I've started Open the public charter schools. Charter schools are public schools that are allowed more freedom to innovate in the 1st weeks when I announced that we were going to have Franklin Academy Well local school board members came to me with me and he said well I want to inform you. That nobody's going to go to your school except a few mouth contents and misfits and they'll be different to those that we open with $160.00 kids even better the students like that they love coming to school so as we ran forward our waiting list began to grow the state law requires that you have a lottery for admission a game of chance or students are chosen after random. Year to really began the lottery and it grew to over 2000 students. There are 4 kids on the waiting list for every one feat that is available which means that only 25 percent of them will win the lottery and 75 percent of them will be declared losers losers who are forced to go to some other school that they don't want to go to. And I think it's just a lesser tremendous pick up demand in business we would call it a very strong market signal that own list more than any other point describes the extreme restoration and dissatisfaction with the public schools Bob being Bob Hope to serve these kids that the lottery declared a loser by opening more charter schools so that no child would be left behind but the government wouldn't allow him to the charter school they'll only allowed for a 100 charters. By the mid 2005 ALL 100 were and couldn't get more charters So yet again Bob tried something else that once again in no way benefited his family. So a militia small group of parents and I was 6 talked about the idea of a private school so by 7 I opened sales academy with 20 kids in our corporate office It's now grown to 2600 students 6 campuses. And we have 5 campuses currently under development. And my goal was to create a large private school network that would prove there is a better way for theme is high quality affordable which essentially in the private school world doesn't exist so we picked 5000 dollars for K. 5 as a tuitions 10 years ago we have not raised 2 ition in 10 years. Our contacts to Washington D.C.'s public schools cost $30000.00 a kid many top private schools are $20000.00 a student North Carolina Public schools are $9300.00 a student and Bob's Fe Lisa Cata me is almost half that you know from a financial management standpoint it's a formidable task you have all these small classes when I went to high school that was 50 plus students in every class was a pretty darn good high school so I know from firsthand experience that having 50 kids in the classroom doesn't make a darn bit of difference the same students when they go to college might be in a class of 100 or 200 or 300 nobody's concerned about it. So the concept the small class basically is a union idea to create more jobs and make life easier on the teachers so one things we have to do is have a reasonable class sizes which we describe between 20 and maybe 30 at the time we have to eliminate every potential inefficiency So in the case of building we have an administrator and an assistant administrator and everybody else is teaching that allows for tremendous efficiencies whereas in the public schools for every single teacher that they have there's a whole other employee not teaching only half of their staff are actually teaching. And to conclude I have asked Bob why is he still running this company in watching schools at his age because I mean he's and he's had this wildly successful career shouldn't he be on a golf course I'm. In have heard from many individuals that were in the business they aspire to get rich retire and enjoy the money honestly I want to make money but the things the money produces mostly I'm not interested so I'm not a sportsman I don't care to to go on exotic vacations I actually love the work I love building the business the money is not all that important to me even though it is the way you keep score for any business. One of my associates some years ago said you have more money to spend than anybody we know and you spend the least amount of anybody we know and the reason is that. Money isn't my goal my goal is to create a great company to have the opportunity to work with amazing people that to me is my life going on an exotic vacation has no interest to me whatsoever having some exotic sports car has no interest. And I believe that it's your life because on I'm 72 your greatest contributions are coming later in life because you have this tremendous amount of experience you've got a whole company behind you that you didn't have all that here. So the opportunity to serve using dormant in that time frame to put yourself off the playing field. For me because it makes sense. And what a story and we've heard this story again and again from our American dreamers and our entrepreneurs it's not the money it's a scorecard but it's the jobs it's the company culture it's the meaning that work brings to people's lives our American dream or segment brought to us by job creators network Bob Luddy story kept a very story here on our AMERICAN STORIES. Our ancestors passed their evenings with small folks like Charles Dickens we have the car dash and now we may not have the thousands of hours needed to watch all the great T.V. Out there but many of our ancestors didn't have a single hour to read a book the thing was one hour wasn't one hour and $800.00 took 6 hours of labor to earn that's how candles of the day that would let you read for an hour by $1882.00 decades after the 1st oil well was drilled lamps using kerosene which were made from this oil lowered the labor required to 5th minutes a world of difference and yet they still rather large investment today quires of us only a fraction of a 2nd America's coal natural gas powering our reading after we can only take so much of the car dash here more up so is why I had in stock com. And a Mr De Teater and I'm the mother of 3 boys 6 my youngest Joe was a great kid he loved sports music and. One day Joe asked me to drive him to an after school event which was about a mile from our home. I was driving through a green light when a car in cross traffic ran a red light. And drove right into the side of our car killing. The driver was talking on her phone says she never even saw the red light she was so absorbed in her phone call before the crash I didn't realize just talking on a cell phone while driving was so dangerous now it's something I think about every day according to the National Safety Council about one in 4 car crashes involve cell phone hands free is no safer when you're behind a wheel put away your phone and for the thousands of needless deaths every year remember there is no safe way to talk on the cell phone while driving. 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This is our American stories and we talk about everything here on this show from our sports very little politics which I know you're relieved to hear about my goodness our kids our families and what we're doing out there in America on article caught my attention how to win a high school debate fuck like a catalog shinier and it was written by Daniel Krueger in the Wall Street Journal and Daniel joins us now Daniel thanks thank you talk about what got you into this story because often there's a family connection Yes So that was true in my case my older son is a high school debater and this year he began doing Lincoln Douglas debating and as a parent you know they need volunteer judges to go and help out and so that was me and I started judging all the debating this year and was quite surprised by what I heard and so this the setting of this piece is Lexington Massachusetts and as a journalist now you're covering this what brought you to Lexington Well there's a big high school debate in Lexington every year so that's what I was there to do I was there to judge and also you know as a reporter to to watch a few rounds and near to write about what I saw and who are who is Lincoln and Douglas for folks who they might know Lincoln but they don't know Douglas and why are these debates in this format called Lincoln Douglas fir So back in 858 Abraham Lincoln who was then just a former one term congressman from Illinois ran against a great and powerful senator from Illinois Stephen Douglas for a Senate seat that year and they held a series of 7 debates across the state and each debate you know took about a total of 3 hours or so where each speaker would get up and give you know a couple long. Which is where that and then they rip out each other and this is a debate you know became one of the more famous attempts that you know mass persuasion and American history and so these those debates lasted how long the original Lincoln Douglas debates what was the kind of time they had what was their format so the 1st speaker would get up and make a speech lasting of about an hour and then he would be followed by the 2nd speaker who would give a rebuttal which would last for an hour and a half and then the 1st speaker would speak with a final statement that would last about half an hour so they each speak for about an hour and a half at each of these debates and so let's talk about these versions your son obviously and all of the other young people by the way debating as a participation sport in high schools is up a remarkable 12 percent from 2014 I'm going to ask you why in a minute but something tells me this has something to do with the speed what is the format with the current Lincoln Douglas debate OK so. There are 2 debaters they speak for themselves there are other forms of debate where are you speak with a partner but and Lincoln Douglas you're speaking on your own for yourself and the 1st speaker will get up and make a 6 minute constructive speech and then the 2nd speaker will make a 7 minute rebuttal. And the 1st people will have 4 minutes to make a response to that rebuttal of the 2nd speaker will have 6 minutes and then the 1st speaker gets the final 3 minutes in the debate and they each get a total of about 13 minutes speaking time not including a brief period where they each get to cross-examine each other and here's where it gets interesting I'm going to quote from you and I know writers don't love the words being quoted out of but here we go anyway to impress judges they had to pack into that brief time argument of intellectual depth and complexity complete with citations of legal scholars or philosophers any point left unrebutted could be deemed conceded every word had to be read aloud the judges just scored. The result was speech at roughly the pace of the cattle auction here talk about what talents This takes to both process the arguments and go really fast Well it's it's really difficult to to do you know to speak at that pace much less to hear it. What they do is they'll start learning how to speak fast in debate camp so often spend you know 3 or 4 weeks over the summer at a debate camp where they are taught how to speak fast and in the process of speaking that fast they also learn how to listen that fast and the listening takes a little longer to arrive at than the speaking does because you can hear a lot of stuff but it's hard to really. Understand words when they're spoken at that speed I have been judging debate now for 4 months and I've heard you know dozens of speeches at that pace and I can understand maybe 90 percent of what they're saying so it's definitely a time consuming process to learn to hear that fast and the kids will you know do all sorts of exercises fill some will speak with you know pencils between their teeth they'll read forwards and backwards still you know they'll read like Dr Seuss things that as fast as they can like Fox and Fox and. It's just a real you know bootcamp not just in terms of learning how to you know think you know logically and quickly on your feet and how to you know making robot an argument but how to do it at a speed that you know is like a cattle auction or what is the word running is that the technique it sounds like a lot of these young kids are using and young people using to do just this talk like you can watching you right so the word spreading has an unknown you know origin but people seem to think that it comes from speed and reading of a bunch of those 22 words and and it's actually it's just the process of speaking at a pace that is roughly you know 300 words a minute and it. Something that some people don't like some people you know think that it is against the spirit of persuasive debate where you should be able to convince anybody who you know happens to walk by. About you know what it is that you're trying to you know argue. But. Observers you know say that when they can't understand the words you know how can they possibly be persuaded indeed and so who is coach he's not your typical coach you certainly not as old as most coaches and he's featured in this piece who is a Where does he go to school and why do people pay him well Johnston is a physics major a club University and he had been a champion debater at the Bronx High School of Science in New York and he is a debate coach he teaches kids both at the Bay camp and then on his own where he you know will get paid by by debaters who want to improve on their technique and and on their argumentation skills to get you know paid. You know a couple $100.00 per your argument that he helps on you know his job is to you know help you in terms of your technique in terms of speaking fast and then he also you know helps in terms of you know the thought process how are you can argue this case that you have to debate and he keeps track of the opponents that you may face in an upcoming debate round and he'll know something about how they argue you know their cases and cases they kind of like to run so that he can help you make the most effective strategic decisions you know when you're facing them in around well the good news is this keeps kids off the streets right yes it definitely does any time we can do that that's a plus just a fact that you had in here Mr Starr was so good at what he did and the Jet Blue got him to record a Facebook and we're going to play it right now. Getting up to speed on 100 Jet Blue cities you can get a lot of a lot of open air came along a little like a lot of like New York. City itself. 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I don't work on controlling that and that's one of the things that they practice is you know trying to speak as clearly and loudly as possible because in debate rounds sometimes the judges will you know ask you to speak more clearly which. Can be a problem when you're speaking at 300 words a minute and so you know you have to you know work on modulating your town as well as you know saying things quickly and you know getting it right and one of the things I think for Mark about this is people from every class every racial and ethnic variation people from all over the country come together you had outlined a competition between a communal called the era of the best and Harry as Belle of Orlando these 2 would have never met otherwise and they're not athletes so this is a great way to bring people who care more about the scholastic side of things to actually compete it's just it's such a great thing it absolutely is and these tournaments you know many of them draw you know competitors from across the country at the Lexington debate there were students there from California as well as you know Florida and Maryland Massachusetts they really come from all over for these big debates and the last big event of the year is going to be the Tournament of Champions and Kentucky so you're going to have a whole bunch of high school debaters from around the world descending on Kentucky where you know the best of the best are going to be competing it's exciting we love to follow this maybe one time if you can record your son's debate we'd love to bring you back and let folks here what that sounds like and maybe we talked to your son about what this is like we're talking by the way with Daniel Krueger The Wall Street Journal piece how to win a high school debate talk like catalog shinier and Daniel thanks for all you do well thank you so much for having me on You bet. 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