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Procedure

Post-adjournment informal conversation among attendees

New York City Council · Oct 20, 2026 · starts 2:45:26 · 4 min 8 sec

After adjournment, attendees have an informal conversation about civic education, respect, and baseball. The discussion includes reflections on teaching compromise and listening to people with different views.

Unidentified speaker

Thank you to you again.

Unidentified speaker

Oh, you definitely will be.

Unidentified speaker

Cheers.

Unidentified speaker

All right.

Unidentified speaker

Good.

Unidentified speaker

You good?

Unidentified speaker

Yes.

Unidentified speaker

Yeah, I know, but we can't do it.

Unidentified speaker

We have been talking.

Unidentified speaker

We're not kids.

Unidentified speaker

They don't need to send you flowers.

Unidentified speaker

No, it's been some conversations.

Unidentified speaker

Like it started maybe two years ago.

Unidentified speaker

It kind of starts to stop.

Unidentified speaker

And then June, when we were going to have that hearing in April, there was another conversation.

Unidentified speaker

But then we realized, like, this is it.

Unidentified speaker

That's the happening.

Unidentified speaker

That's it.

Unidentified speaker

It's going to take some time.

Unidentified speaker

Well said.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Thank you.

Unidentified speaker

Yeah.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

So true.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

It's like, we all this old educated, whatever, whatever.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

There's no foundation.

Unidentified speaker

It shouldn't have to be so crazy, all the things that you said.

Unidentified speaker

It's pretty obvious.

Unidentified speaker

But it's not.

Unidentified speaker

It's not what it is right now.

Unidentified speaker

Common sense isn't as common as it used to be.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

There you go.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Oh, okay.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Being around for 65 years, I've seen the detail.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

I feel so bad about it.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Because no matter how smart people say it, it's always the culture.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Respect someone who you disagree with.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

And I always use the term, you have a couple of problems.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

But I haven't.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Just chill.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Make a joke.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

I try to keep things light.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

You know what?

Unidentified speaker

They're usually better at it than adults are, as long as we're supporting them.

Unidentified speaker

But they continue to come out ready to sort of like listen to people and they want to be friends and they want to be heard.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Opportunities that we're blowing it.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

I mean, especially now.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

You know, it's a challenge.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

If you hear stories, whether it's true or not.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

We're not there for.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

But it's all the same.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

We don't share all the ones.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Yes.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

We point into the future.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

We preach what they believe in that time.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

They should be fine.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

That's the course of the day.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Oh, I should turn.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

She's in.

Unidentified speaker

When I went to college, I had the opposite.

Unidentified speaker

I guess you're talking about the listening beliefs.

Unidentified speaker

The first term was on the Palestinian-Israeli thing, conflict, and then your final example was, recall the argument you made in your midterm, or the other side.

Unidentified speaker

That's like, you got a lot of grief for it.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

I'm done.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

And we had a nice conversation.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

I got such a...

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Absolutely.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

From people I told you.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Oh, did he scream and he did this?

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

I said, oh no.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Because of what the college was not going to accomplish.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Exactly.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

It only makes things worse if you're...

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

And it doesn't have a booty bar.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

I would sit there and have a drink with anyone.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

And then I hit him up with the Yankee Met jokes.

Unidentified speaker

That's where your argument falls apart.

Unidentified speaker

That's right.

Unidentified speaker

Because he's on the wrong team.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Yankee fan?

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Of course.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Okay, well, well, well.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

All joking.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

You know why you didn't ever win the World Series again?

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Is it an anthropological reason?

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

You ever hear of the 27 Club?

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Janice Joplin?

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

Janice Joplin died in 37.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

How many World Series did the Yankees win?

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

How many?

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

37.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

10.

Unidentified speaker

We're bringing it home.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

We have two.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

We're alive.

Unidentified speaker

I'm still alive.

Unidentified speaker

That's a Met fan argument right there.

Unidentified speaker

That's a Met fan argument.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

So that's what breaks things for him.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

You make these weird issues where you talk like that for sure.

Member of the Public - Alan Sherman

No, yeah.

Unidentified speaker

Absolutely.

Unidentified speaker

I think, and I think it is like, he's, one of the things that I try to