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Tea With George
Hosted by George Caylor, Diane Gruber, Steve Putney · EN
Keeping up with the political news can feel like a full-time job. It’s easy to miss details and facts in our fast-paced lives. Tea With George creates space for complex and nuanced political conversations.I want to empower Americans to fight for our freedom that’s slowly being taken away from us. We must defend the Judeo-Christian culture our Founders gave us. Get the greatest ideas and tools to combat and defend our beautiful Nation in my Podcast “Tea with George.”
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June 17 Do white lives matter too
Jun 1400:01:00Tap to summarizeJune 17 Do white lives matter tooI just saw a photograph of the knife that Carmelo Anthony used to murder a completing track racer for which he was convicted of murder. Anthony fatally stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf in 2025 during a track meet in nearby Frisco. Supporters of Carmelo were outraged outside as the verdict was read, and Anthony was sentenced to 35 years, even though it could have been life without parole. But now, this is all about race, so you get all kinds of wild accusations, especially from Black Lives Matter. Anthony's mother, said that it was "racist, biased." Power to the people, free Carmelo. Meanwhile, a black man was there with a sign, "White Lives Matter too." The local Black Lives Matter people threatened to kill him. Sponsored by the Caylor Financial Planning Group in Lynchburg, Virginia. Call 434-455-7197.Support the show#Political/Conservative/Judeo/Christian/Constitutional
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Happy Birthday America!
Jun 1400:01:00Tap to summarizeHappy Birthday America!One of my fondest memories lives in an old photo my mother took when I was in third grade and my sister was in first. At the end of the year, our school had a field day. They made it into a celebration of the Bicentennial that year. We all dressed up in period costumes and the school had a field full of activities and food. Mom’s photo shows my sister and me posing like two “Angelic” cherubs….I remember thinking, “the next one will not happen for another 100 years, so I’d best remember this one!”Here we are 50 years later and gearing up for the country’s 250th birthday. I am no longer an “Angelic” kid, but I have grandkids who ARE! We never know how events will play out, but thankfully, we have cell phone cameras. Maybe with some luck, we will have new memorable “Angelic” pictures this year as the United States celebrates its next landmark.Sponsored by the Caylor Financial Planning Group in Lynchburg, Virginia. Call 434-455-7197.Support the show#Political/Conservative/Judeo/Christian/Constitutional
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June 14 Liberal war on Education
Jun 1400:15:01Tap to summarizeJune 14 Liberal war on EducationHello, I'm George Caylor and today's session of Get Real is going to be about education, homeschools especially, the philosophy behind education. This is brought to you by the Caylor Group, Wealth Management. If you'd like to know what we do and whether you'd like to do that with us, go to the CaylorGroup.com. I'm with my dear old friend, military advisor, life advisor, John Vassar. I went to a one-room school, eight grades, one teacher, and you would think that we would be handicapped. We didn't have what the big cities did, and yet our school usually ranked number one in the whole Pennsylvania state. We had the highest test scores, and I think it might be because of the way we were taught. We taught each other. We had a decent library, mainly donated to us because we didn't have all that much money. The first graders heard the eighth grade lessons. The second graders heard the eighth grade lessons. Everybody heard the eighth grade lessons until they were in the eighth grade, and then they were the eighth grade lessons, and we helped each other learn. We asked each other questions. It was magical.I wish it were still there. John, did you go to a one-room school or talk to me about education? What's your philosophy of it? I'm glad you mentioned the one-room schoolhouse. It brings back a memory for me. I was in St. Augustine, Florida, and the sun was starting to set. It was one of those long summer sunsets, and I walked into a building that was labeled the oldest one-room schoolhouse in America. I walked into this schoolhouse, and it was dead quiet. The light was dimming. I was walking around through the desks, and it was perfectly preserved. I looked up at the wall, and in the fading sunlight, I started to read some of the assignments, the papers that the students had written in this very primitive environment. I was stunned at the sophistication of the writing that I saw by these grade school students. I was a university professor for 17 years. I think only one of my graduate students could have written as eloquently as these young people did. And then later on, I stumbled upon a story about a man who was 21 years old living on the eastern shore of Maryland, and a Quaker woman had opened up a one-room schoolhouse, but the 21-year-old man did not know how to read or write. She invited him during the winter when there was nothing to do on his farm, or there was very little to do on his farm, to come to the one-room schoolhouse. And under the tutelage of this Quaker woman, he finished the first and second grade, and he had an idea. He wanted to find out where the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay was. He couldn't seem to understand where the Chesapeake Bay came from. So her husband was a wealthy man. I think he spent something like $500 to equip him with a boat and equipment and enough equipment and supplies to go find the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. I read an excerpt from a book that he supposedly wrote called Towards the Ice Age. I read the last chapter where he finds the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. He practically had to carry me out of the room when I read this by one of the most beautiful science books ever written. That chapter, that last chapter where he discovers it and the beauty that he wrote, this man with a second grade education in a one-room schoolhouse. It wasn't a science book.It was literature. This is one of the problems that I see as a college professor. I'm no longer teaching, much to the delight of many of my students, was that I could look at a classroom and I could tell who went to public school, who went to a parochial school or a Christian school or the Jewish school, synagogue, who was homeschooled.. I could tell the difference just by the way they wrote, by the way they acted. And I was always amazed at the difference. And I did a little bit of research and I found out, you know, the typical homeschool student is testing out on standardized tests as high as two grade levels above their age group.You believe that, George? That is, as a university professor, that's astonishing. And then I wanted to know the history of our education system. There was a fellow by the name of the Reverend Dr. McGuffey who came up with a concept called the McGuffey Reader, where you wouldn't have to go to school if you're on the frontier, there are no schools, so you would get the McGuffey Reader and it would start you off teaching you how to read.In the 1930s, there was a monument put up to Dr. McGuffey and I watched, I listened to the radio broadcast, I watched the newsreel and then listened to the radio broadcast where all of these famous men, inventors, Henry Ford and other people that came up and talked about how Westinghouse and Edison and all of these great men had been raised on the McGuffey Reader. So I got a set of McGuffey Readers in the library and I started going through them and I'll tell you, the 12th grade McGuffey Reader would challenge any of our graduate students today. So Dr. McGuffey put this Reader together so you could take a man on the frontier who knew nothing and he would eventually come out with the equivalent of what I call a modern master's degree.But let's say the McGuffey Reader wasn't enough for you. Our universities such as Harvard and other schools, they had their own version of it. Harvard's was the most famous because they called it six feet of knowledge.They had the Harvard program, the program of great books which is still practiced today at St. John's University in Annapolis, Maryland, which is right across the street from the Naval Academy. If you ever get up there, you need to take the tour. It's an amazing college.It's a classical education. And the Naval Academy is not bad either, go across the street. So these great books and you would read these great books and you would write, you would answer questions corresponding with the Harvard faculty.And then have you gone through this, you would have a classical education probably equivalent today to I would say a professional doctorate since you're not doing research or anything, I'd call it a professional doctorate similar to what I have. And you would have this amazing education living on the frontier, having never sat in a schoolhouse, just learning how many people in this country of some of our greatest people came up through this kind of system. You know, people don't realize this, you know, that Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were basically self-educated, you know, and this is the, I'm going on and on, George.I know it's a, it's, it's a big glitch. He reminded me of my dad. He graduated the eighth grade.He died a multimillionaire, raised seven kids, had a farm, eighth grade. Before you denigrate someone who graduated with the eighth grade, I suggest you go to Google and look up the eighth grade examination of the 1930s. It was about the same from about 1890 to 1930s.And I dare you to take it. The questions are there, take it. And John, do you think that most college kids could pass it today? Oh, definitely not.I have a little piece of information for you, George. Did you know that most of the people working on the Manhattan Project had an eighth grade education and some of the higher level tradesmen graduated from the 10th grade? We had some of our most outstanding military aviators were high school dropouts during World War II. And this was back when you actually had to fly the airplane yourself.So I never denigrate someone. I'll tell you about, I've got a story for you. It's going to blow your mind here.We had a family friend, Judge Willis B. Fentress. He went to school and they kicked him out of school. He went home, taught himself how to read.One day he picked up a law book. He thought this was the most fascinating thing he'd ever seen. So he just sat down and just read law books in the law library because it was the easiest place to go to.Someone suggested that he take the bar exam. Well, he went on to become a very distinguished lawyer. He became our family lawyer and went on to become a judge.There's an old, I've got a Judge Fentress story. I've got to do this for you folks in Virginia. The story was Judge Fentress was about to make this Italian fellow a citizen.It was during World War II. He was a refugee from fascist Italy. And the man went up to Judge Fentress and the whole court was there.He was going to swear at me and say, he says, a Judge Fentress, I cannot be an American citizen. You see, my English is no good. I can't seem to learn your language and I struggle so much with words.And Judge Fentress stood up and he looked at the man. He said, I don't hear anything wrong with you. You sound perfect to me.That's the kind of man he was. One day, another Judge Fentress story, a man gets during the Great Depression, a man gets pulled into court for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his family. Judge Fentress finds the man $1 and he also find everyone in the courtroom $1 for allowing this man's family to go hungry.I told you about my book, Surviving Georgie and the One Room School. I read it for people over 70 so they could enjoy the early 1950s and the joy that we had back then, maybe to laugh at my stories. But the main fan mail came from like 10 year old boys where things really like that.One of them said, who took it? And I wrote back, honey, nobody took it. We just let it go. And I think that's the way it is with the public education system we had back then.It began with prayer and I'm talking public schools. Prayer and Bible study began the school each day. And we felt accountable not just to each other, not just to the teacher, but to a holy God who would hold us accountable.And it set the tone. John, I want you to tell...
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June 16 And the cheat goes on
Jun 1400:01:00Tap to summarizeJune 16 And the cheat goes onThe California balloting system is now displaying for the whole world to see how to ensure that only Democrat candidates advance to the general election in this November. Democrats created the jungle primary and the fraudulent counting system to ensure Democrats rule for all eternity. Reminds me of Texas in 1948 when Lyndon Baines Johnson beat a far more popular candidate in the Democrat primary by the exact same method California used. On election night, Democrats looked at the vote tally, determined how many fake votes were needed. They had 10 days before they had to report to the state. The Democrats turned in just enough fake votes to give a win to Johnson. Technology was different then, but Democrat corruption was the same. Sponsored by the Caylor Financial Planning Group in Lynchburg, Virginia. Call 434-455-7197.Support the show#Political/Conservative/Judeo/Christian/Constitutional
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June 15 Democrats perfect cheating system
Jun 1400:01:00Tap to summarizeJune 15 Democrats perfect cheating systemFormer President Jimmy Carter headed up a commission that studied mail-in voting, and then they issued a report. They said, "voting by mail is by far the worst thing that could happen to fairness and integrity in the election system." Oregon adopted mail-in voting in 1996, and it was obvious from the very first election thereafter that it was a perfect system for systemic fraud and voters cheating by the Democrat machine in Oregon. Then taking the lead from Carter as a blueprint rather than warning, Washington Democrats quickly followed. And then California adopted mail-in voting just before the 2020 election so that they could ensure a Biden-Harris win. Every civilized country we can name don't allow mail-in voting. It's a perfect system for cheating. Sponsored by the Caylor Financial Planning Group in Lynchburg, Virginia. Call 434-455-7197.Support the show#Political/Conservative/Judeo/Christian/Constitutional
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SPLC Support for Hate
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Happy birthday by film star Michael Enright
Jun 900:00:26Tap to summarizeMy old friend Michael Enright is a Hollywood actor who went to Syria to fight ISIS terrorists. This morning he called to sing Happy Birthday. Great actor, fearless soldier, but not exactly opera-quality singer!Support the show#Political/Conservative/Judeo/Christian/Constitutional
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"Shop Security" by Steve Adams
Jun 700:01:00Tap to summarize"Shop Security" by Steve AdamsI attended university in the mid to late 1980s. One of our assignments was writing Fortran code using punch cards which would run on the school’s Digital DEC10 mainframe. One day, I noticed a worker entering the computer lab by inserting their badge into a slot on the wall.I was fascinated by how that room was protected. When Christmas break rolled around, I didn't just head home to rest—I went to the barn to see if I could build my own badge reader. This served TWO purposes. First was the challenge to see if I could actually build one. Second, it served as a safety device to keep my nosey younger sister OUT of my shop!While the old shop is long since abandoned and filled with relics of a bygone age, I am fairly sure that if power was applied to the scanner, it would still work today with the old badges.So much of modern society is centered around instant gratification, but, to me, there's no substitute for a solution you've built yourself. Sponsored by the Caylor Financial Planning Group in Lynchburg, Virginia.Support the show#Political/Conservative/Judeo/Christian/Constitutional
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Freeing the Persians
Jun 700:15:02Tap to summarizeJune 7 Freeing the PersiansHello, I'm George Caylor, and today's session of "Get Real" is with John Vassar. John is an expert in logistics, military strategy, history, and he's current with almost everything you can think of and a lot of things you haven't thought of. Well, John, the Iran war has been suspended, let's say, and they're in peace talks. I absolutely don't trust the Iranians. I don't trust the ayatollahs, that is. I don't trust them with anything. They lie. And they, according to the religion, they lie legally, and they lie theologically. And so, the advice, what advice would you give Mr. Trump in this war right now? Well, George, thank you for having me, and as I always, if you're out there in the audience that disagree with my opinion, you may be right. My view of this topic is that a situation where we have to get some kind of legal authority to take kinetic action, further kinetic action, against Iran. Now, we know that we've been at war with them since 1979, 1980, when they declared war on us. What President Trump's trying to get them to do is to sign a letter of understanding or some kind of agreement that he knows they will break because under their religious doctrine, treaties with the infidels aren't worth the paper they're written on. But once he has that document in his hand and they violate it, then he has the authority to go in and strike. Now, he's also in another – between Iraq and a hard place was the fact that the Persian population in Iran – and Iran's real name is Persia – they are on our side. They are very warm towards Israel, towards Jews in general, and they are under the control of horrendously evil despots. So far, there have been 189 uprisings that are being viciously put down. Yesterday, they hung one of their most popular athletes for criticizing the government, did a public hanging of it. So we're dealing with a tremendously despotic regime They are trying to dig up their ICBMs, which they put in storage. The atomic material – satellite pictures show them trying to recover that material. Only us and the Chinese actually have the technology to get that material out, so we will need probably their cooperation. Unfortunately, if we go kinetic, we will have to take out the civilian infrastructure. We're talking about mass casualties among people that we are – we feel quite warm to the Persians, a wonderful group of people, and they will suffer, innocent people suffer. And that sits very heavily on President Trump. But sometimes, we're in the same situation we were in dealing with Nazi Germany. We had American pilots and French pilots dropping bombs on French communities that were occupied by the Nazis to get to the Nazis. The French, if you ever saw the movie The Longest Day, there's a scene where a French admiral is telling his ships, the crew of his battleship, this huge monstrous battleship that they're going to have to fire on their own people to liberate France because the Germans had mixed themselves up with the population. So he said, we will be tacking our own communities and we're going to have to make a very difficult decision. You see, if Iran gets the atomic bomb, which they could – very close to getting, they claim they have enough to build six atomic weapons. This was the whole reason this war got started. And they have the delivery systems to deliver them. This could be a terrible, terrible situation for the whole world because they have an apocalyptic mindset that they believe that it is up to them to create an apocalypse that will cause the 12th Emon to emerge from hiding. And that's the goal, the entire goal. Also another bad sign is that the leadership has been moving their families and their money out of the country. Recently the prime minister of Iran resigned and he said – he just basically has given up and he says he has a family. So he himself will be leaving the country shortly. So the future does not look very good. And I don't blame President Trump at all. I think what he did is he did the right thing. He's trying to save the world from problems in the future. I have a good friend who was in Iran during the revolution and he was able to get out. He and his family were there and they were able to get out. It was extraordinarily hairy trying to get out during the revolution. The revolutionary people captured our embassy, which was almost never heard of that you would capture another country's embassy. They held our people hostage. And it was such a violation of everything civilized. And when Mr. Reagan was elected, the day he took office, they released the hostages because they knew they were up against somebody else. It wasn't going to be Jimmy Carter, it was going to be Ronald Reagan and they were afraid and they released them. But I remember at our – I went to a church in Atlanta at the time and when the Shah was in power, these young Persians walked into our church and asked if they could talk to the people. They were pretty insistent. And the preacher, I didn't think he should have, but he said, go ahead. And they said we need America's support in deposing the Shah. He's bad. Less than a year later, they were back in our church. We need help in deposing the Ayatollah. He's bad. And I thought, why can't these people make up their mind? What is the main danger for us if we don't end this regime successfully? The regime needs to be taken out completely. They need to be gone because as long as they're in power and they have access – the most important thing is they have access to atomic – military atomic energy. Not civil because we've offered them atomic fuel. When they – we told them, you don't have to mine your own uranium.You don't have to enrich it. We will supply you free of charge of all the atomic fuel you need. One of the things I could never understand is that Iran has at least four centuries' worth of natural energy – oil, gas, hydroelectric – to go for centuries. Why are they interested in atomic power? Well, they have a perfect right to build atomic reactors if they wish. I don't know whether they are signatories to the Non-Proliferation Treaty or not, but we have offered them – our president has offered them a signed contract to provide them with the fuel for their atomic reactors, much cheaper than going to war with them. It would be better for them, better for us, better for everyone. 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June 10 Senile Biden and Obamas 3rd Term
Jun 700:01:00Tap to summarizeJune 10 Senile Biden and Obamas 3rd TermIt seems when Democrat women write a book about why they failed, publishers will take on the book, even though they know it's going to be a big financial loss. For instance, Hillary Clinton's hard choices outlined why she lost the presidency to Donald Trump. A couple of weeks after the book was published, I saw it in a bookstore on sale for a dollar. And now Joe Biden has come out with a book on why Joe his bid to run for president in 2024. Nobody's buying that book either. Not just because it's badly written. It doesn't mention that Jill Biden's husband Joe was diagnosed with dementia three years before he ran for president in 2020. It does blame Dr. Robert Herr for calling Biden T now. But the Democrats didn't care because they knew it would be Obama's third term,. Sponsored by the Caylor Financial Planning Group in Lynchburg, Virginia. Call 434-455-7197.Support the show#Political/Conservative/Judeo/Christian/Constitutional
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