{"id":1502302,"date":"2022-06-03T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502302"},"modified":"2022-06-03T10:20:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T14:20:29","slug":"watch-fleccas-new-man-on-the-street-video-captures-scary-big-apple-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-fleccas-new-man-on-the-street-video-captures-scary-big-apple-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Fleccas\u2019 New Man-On-The-Street Video Captures Scary Big Apple Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-fleccas-new-man-on-the-street-video-captures-scary-big-apple-ignorance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502302&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCIpwPuJsrboNnf200oV8cWQ\">Team Fleccas<\/a> has uncovered more disturbing evidence that the country\u2019s collective IQ is in free fall.<\/p>\n<p>Austen Fletcher, the man behind the popular channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCIpwPuJsrboNnf200oV8cWQ\">Fleccas Talks<\/a>, once again dispatched TikTok star and man-on-the-street correspondent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/m.tiktok.com\/h5\/share\/usr\/6884436555651875845.html?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESMgowj0zQYsSPAJVnyrfJPuGu9EvNGurABSN49o3ZiGPY6GBDOm8GjIZhiwuFiToUmhWEGgA%3D&#038;checksum=bba77361dee3b9463716850cf77e9e7057c7e3b4bf37d7b2ea8db0e1a92cd01c&#038;enable_clips=1&#038;language=en&#038;sec_uid=MS4wLjABAAAAq_4zdB42UqqnuDd1tS8c9royXFDyjw0SkoCpilpFbdxxkCrasI-uiwKJx9DCXHoi&#038;sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAq_4zdB42UqqnuDd1tS8c9royXFDyjw0SkoCpilpFbdxxkCrasI-uiwKJx9DCXHoi&#038;share_app_id=1233&#038;share_author_id=6884436555651875845&#038;share_link_id=0D190CAC-BD11-46A1-AA5E-D38247A6D980&#038;tt_from=sms&#038;u_code=df3977hdb0082e&#038;user_id=6884436555651875845&#038;utm_campaign=client_share&#038;utm_medium=ios&#038;utm_source=sms\">Justin Awad<\/a>\u00a0to New York City this week to test the knowledge of random folks with what should have been basic questions. The results were shocking, tragic, and \u2026 hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho fought in the Civil War?\u201d Awad asked a woman in the Big Apple\u2019s Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsn\u2019t it like, Great Britain and Australia?\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n<p>If you also got that wrong, please just stop reading now and definitely don\u2019t watch this:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Other simple questions and horribly wrong answers included these:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know what the square root of four is?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c16.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho fought in the Revolutionary War?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t even know what that war is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are the two countries that border the U.S.?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Kingdom and Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Awad helpfully explained that he meant countries that \u201cphysically border\u201d the U.S., you know, \u201clike, on a map,\u201d the man on the street tried again with renewed confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVenezuela and Alaska.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Folks on the streets of New York demonstrated that they don\u2019t know what a compass is, who is the leader of Russia, who fought in the Revolutionary War, or what the First or Second amendments are.<\/p>\n<p>But they aren\u2019t afraid to guess.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to name three countries in North America, one woman gamely replies, \u201cColorado, Nevada and, let\u2019s say Massachusetts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Fletcher and Awad teamed up for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-fleccas-latest-man-on-the-street-video-should-terrify-you\">similar expose on ignorance<\/a>, discovering that actual people were unable to say how many eggs are in a dozen, how many years in a decade, or to name the vice president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of people have no clue where they even are on the planet,\u201d Fletcher lamented.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher, who has 578,000 YouTube subscribers, built up his following by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R_UCMHPYvdk\">going to protests<\/a>\u00a0and asking leftists relatively straightforward questions and getting answers ranging from hilarious to terrifying. He now has a weekly podcast, which drops on Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Fletcher made more serious news when he caught up with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) to ask him about the riots that were going on at the time in Portland, Oregon. Nadler declared that the black-clad anarchists were \u201ca myth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Fleccas has uncovered more disturbing evidence that the country\u2019s collective IQ is in free fall. Austen Fletcher, the man behind the popular channel Fleccas Talks, once again dispatched TikTok star and man-on-the-street correspondent\u00a0Justin Awad\u00a0to New York City this week to test the knowledge of random folks with what should have been basic questions. 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