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