Jonathan Roberts Not Safe for Society
Jonathan Roberts Not Safe for Society
Not Safe For Society: Rethinking Education – Exploring Alternatives to College, Real-World Skills, and the Modern Job Market
Is college really worth it, or are we just wasting time and money? In this eye-opening episode of the Not Safe for Society podcast, we kick things off with a bold critique of the US education system. Drawing from personal experiences, I challenge the necessity of college and highlight the inefficacy of teachers who lack real-world experience. We also touch on a spectrum of significant political issues, including inflation, healthcare affordability, border security, and the ever-contentious topic of gun violence. This candid and unscripted commentary is designed to spark thought-provoking insights and meaningful conversations.
We then transition to the growing importance of trade skills in today’s job market. Reflecting on my own journey, I discuss the pressures of higher education and the lack of encouragement for alternative career paths like entrepreneurship and sales. Through my experiences in community college, university, and the military, I emphasize how traditional trades can offer substantial opportunities for financial and professional growth. This segment aims to redefine success beyond the conventional college route and highlight the lucrative potential of traditional trades like electricians, plumbers, and HVAC technicians.
Finally, I share my personal journey from college to the military and into a successful sales career, arguing that college often fails to teach essential real-world skills like critical thinking and problem-solving. We explore the chaotic state of the political system, immigration policies, and gun rights, while also announcing the exciting addition of live guests to the podcast. With a commitment to real, unfiltered discussions, this episode promises to deliver authentic and thought-provoking ideas. Tune in and join the conversation!
All right, what is going on? Everybody back for another awesome episode of not safe for society. So if you see me looking down a little bit, this is one of the first actually it's like the second or third one I have done live on video, so I'm still figuring everything out. I think the first one I shot like I had the microphone right in my face the entire time, but you know I'm running like four freaking mics right now, so it's crazy. I also got the ipad down here. So if you see me looking down, that's where the notes are coming from. But hey, let's get going, let's get going. And if you're listening to the audio and you want to see what the heck I'm talking about or if I have an example of something or whatnot, just go find me on YouTube, search me by name. You'll see it there. It's the Not Safe for Society podcast and I appreciate everyone listening today.
Speaker 1:So today's episode is going to be something I've been promising for way too long and I have failed to come by on it. We're going to rip into the US education system a little bit, because I didn't always do so well in school, but I'm doing okay as a damn adult. So I want to talk about the US education system a little bit. You know, I've got kids, a lot of us have kids. A lot of us didn't do well in school and it limits us to you know who we think we are and what we're capable of, and I'm going to give you my opinions on whether or not I even think you need to go to college and if it's worth it. And, by the way, not everyone's going to like the answer, mainly because I know that, because I posted on social media and it pisses some people off. So we're going to hit the U S education system a little bit. Uh, we're going to hit some key political I guess I don't want to say debates, cause I'm not debating anyone but some key political issues. So we're going to talk about inflation a little bit. Healthcare affordability uh, partisan cooperation so that's, you know, cooperation between the Democrats and the Republicans. Hell, we might even talk about, you know, joe Biden a tad bit, but definitely going to talk about, you know, border security and really we might even go, you know, some gun violence, healthcare I don't know where today's going to go. I just have some top you know topics up on my iPad down here and I'm just going to fricking spit for a while. So if you're all cool with that, let's get started. And I'm just going to freaking spit for a while. So if you're all cool with that, let's get started.
Speaker 1:So the first thing that I'm going to talk about is the US education system, and I'm not even going to actually look down at my notes right now. I just want to talk about what I believe and why I think it's a joke, and what we could potentially do to fix it or at least improve it, because a fix is a huge thing. The US education system has been around for a long time. It's part of I believe it's part of the constitution. I know it's, you know, some long government where we have to provide education to a certain age. But it's lost its purpose, especially secondary education. You know college, grad school, it's. It's such a fricking mess. And it's not the education system or it's not the teacher's fault. So if you're listening to this and you're an educator, it's not your fault at all. It is 100% not the educator's fault.
Speaker 1:But you have to think like how does the education or how does the experience of a teacher work? Well, they went to grads, or they went to grammar school. After grammar school, what happened? They went to middle school. They went to high school. After high school, they went to college. They got their degree and depending on what state you're in, what requirements you have, hell, you might even have to have a master's degree to freaking teach. I mean, I know in the state of Oregon, I think, it's like you graduate with your bachelor's and you're eligible to teach and then you have to have I think it's a master's degree. In five years they may have changed the law by now, but you have to have a master's degree to teach kindergarten, first grade, second grade, like it, requires a master's degree. So that's a little asinine in itself.
Speaker 1:So the second problem is is after teachers, you know, spend 18 years or however long it is, you know 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 or 18 years Gosh dang, it is 17 or 18 years in the education system. What do they do? They go right back to the public education system and even private education, charter schools not that great either. Many of them, some of them, are amazing opportunities. But you spend 17 years in the education system and you go right back into it. Now how many of you when you were in school.
Speaker 1:You know, maybe quoted this once this school's a fucking prison. Well, it's a government ran establishment with a typically dictator style authority that locks you down and I know, in like the state of Arizona, we even got walls around every fricking school here. That locks you down most of the day and if you end up being an educator you never really get away from it. You go right back to it and you go and teach the next generation of inmate I mean students. So the teachers don't actually have any real world life experience. Now I do understand. There are some, you know, high school, probably even elementary school and college professors out there that you know went and traveled abroad, that went on some archaeological dig and, you know, found the bones of dinosaurs. So they can go ahead and teach about biology and stuff. I don't know if biology is the right one, but prehistoricology Well, what's the study of dinosaurs? Someone drop a comment or light me up on the DMs and hey, you know we probably make a reel about how silly I am and don't even understand what I'm talking about when I'm kind of dogging on our education system but, like most of them haven't actually applied in real life what they're teaching.
Speaker 1:Most of our educators are teaching theory. They're teaching out of a book. That would be like going to learn how to start a business from someone that read a book once, and probably the same book you just read. Oh, you mean like half the professors that make up you getting your MBA. Yeah, it's just like that. It's teaching in theory, and here's the thing about theory. There's theory and there's the actual action of taking, you know, a step toward it. It's different.
Speaker 1:Quite often it really freaking is, and you know, people are constantly like you know the US education system. They should teach you about taxes in high school. They should teach you how to balance a budget. They should teach you how to invest. They should teach you this, they should teach you that? No, the fuck, they shouldn't. No, they shouldn't, because we're not paying educators enough to do any of that.
Speaker 1:Now, do I believe the teachers need to make more money? I don't know. Probably. I really don't even know if I think that's true, because I think the coolest thing about America is you know, no matter what position you're in, no matter what you're doing, you're paid exactly what you're worth. You know very, very few people maybe that's not true from, like, the U S military. Um, maybe you know if you're under contract. Still you know.
Speaker 1:After you reenlist, though, guess what? You're getting paid exactly what you're worth, because you knew what the first four years were like and you knew what was going to be continued to be like. So you're pretty much paid exactly what you're worth in America, or you are not. Pretty much you are, because here's how to find out if you think you're worth more. If you think you're worth more, go ask for a raise. If you get told, no quit, and you'll very quickly find out if you were right or wrong.
Speaker 1:So our educators are paid. You know not well, they're definitely. You know not out there. You know moving mountains on the income level. So how would I expect an educator who's making, let's say, $50,000 to $70,000 a year teach me what to do with $100,000 income or this huge disposable income of all this cash I've got from this badass business that I've made? Like well, what are they going to teach me about? Everything's going to be in theory. They're going to be able to teach, you know, maybe about some compound interest, simple interest Heck. They might even be able to go over a Roth IRA, but they're not going to be able to break down IULs. Or you know life insurance style, prop uh policies. You know, get really deep into real estate, investing, wholesaling. You know, buying multiple properties, how to leverage other people, because they've never done it and they've probably never been taught it and the same thing in today's world. Oh, I need to balance a budget. It's not very hard. Like, quit telling people. We need to balance our checkbook, like realistically, there's apps for it. It's a discipline thing, is what we need to teach people.
Speaker 1:So our education system, for first of all, we can't expect our educators to teach people or teach the students things that they don't know themselves as a matter of fact. That would be more asinine. I'd be more pissed off if they were. If they were, you know, teaching a student about taxes and they've fucking you know five years delinquent Like that would be more asinine and piss me off. That being said, do students need to freaking learn this? Absolutely. So I have this. You know I like solving problems. I don't like just complaining, because complaining without an actual solution is just bitching, and we're not going to be a little bitch today. So I have a simple solution. This is solved very easy.
Speaker 1:Parents, wake the fuck up and be part of your kid's education. Holy shit, I solved that entire situation for everybody. You, as a parent. If you have a child and you want them to be educated in certain areas that you know the school system's not doing, then you need to wake the hell up and go back and educate your child, your children, the students of life. It's your job to the students of life. It's your job to prepare them for this. It's your job to prepare them for taxes. It's your job to prepare them financially for whatever the heck they do. So don't expect the school to teach them that the next portion is college. Right, let's just assume that our educators are not equipped to teach us to strive in business, entrepreneurship, investors, whatever it is those jobs that everyone wants, those jobs that everyone's like. Well, they didn't teach me that. Okay, got it.
Speaker 1:So, before we go to college, let's back up two bits. One high schools and parents. Quit pushing college, like, really quit pushing it there. Before we go to college, let's back up to bet two bits. One high schools and parents. Quit pushing college, like, really quit pushing it. There's. There's trade schools.
Speaker 1:If you don't want to go to college, but you want to be successful, you want to learn a skill. You can go to trade skill. There is a million things that people will pay for and they will pay good money. And the less and less people want to get into the trades and the more and more people who think that they're qualified to do a bunch of bullshit they're just going to find out later on. No one's going to hire them because they think they're qualified. Like, the trades are becoming a lost art, which is making the cost of you know the cost of trades go up because people are, you know, demanding a higher level of you know pay to do the exact same jobs. Does anyone want to go dig ditches, lay pipe freaking grade streets in the middle of Arizona in the summer when it's 115 degrees and the payment's $1.30? Absolutely not. But there's men and women out there who are getting the job done and they're getting paid pretty decent. And what's really cool about the trades? Electrician, plumbers, hvac techs like these are all things that you can learn and then go open your own business. So I know this. I know a lot more electricians who are out earning teachers than I know teachers out earning electricians Like let's just be freaking real. So I don't know if the infrastructure has changed or math's not the right word, but I don't know if the ideology of college has changed since I graduated. I graduated in 2007. You know, it's 2024. It recorded this. I'm 35 years old, but I know this, I know.
Speaker 1:Many times in high school I was told I'm not going to make it. I was told if you don't go get your education, if you don't do this, if you don't do that, if you don't go to college like I grew up in Salem, oregon, okay, so the capital of Oregon. Here was my dream. Here's what high school was supposed to teach us to do. So some of us were going to grab. Some of us were going to drop out. We were going to get our GEDs if we were lucky. I think that was supposed to be me. I was part of that group, but because of statistics, they let me graduate. We'll explain that later. Um, so some of us were going to get our GEDs. Most of us and I want to say it was like 60 something percent at my high school we were going to go and graduate high school, get our diploma. When you got your diploma, this is what you were supposed to do.
Speaker 1:If you were an idiot like me, you were supposed to beg, beg, beg, hope and pray that you could get into community college. Now, there's a lot of community college that it's basically. If you could spell your name right and guess your social security number, you're probably going to get in. If you were a little bit above, you went to a public university and, like three people maybe, went to a private university. Now, most of those people who went to university, you were going to get into a lower level management position.
Speaker 1:When you got out of university, typically from Salem Oregon, you were going to look for that government work. You were going to look for that future 401k that retire in 25 years, that eventually buy the white picket fence house, have the healthcare, have the system, have this and that and like die with your dreams inside your mind. Like that is what you were supposed to do. If you didn't go to college. You were probably going to start out on their landscaping crew or maybe in a motor pool turn and wrenches, but like that was kind of the idea. Those were the jobs that we were prepped for. Those are the jobs that they were telling us were the better paying jobs that are make our future great. That'll, you know. Money's not important. They never told us about being a fricking salesperson. They never talked about entrepreneur this ship. They never talked about building anything.
Speaker 1:Now, for me, I was the high school drop and I wasn't a dropout. I actually got, you know, my diploma and then I went on to college for a year but, like I was supposed to be, I think I graduated with like a 2.1 or something like that, maybe a 2.3, like literally my sophomore year. Second semester, I got a 0.14. So I didn't try very hard often, but you know I wasn't supposed to go to college. I was supposed to go, you know, swing a hammer or something cool like that, but that wasn't in me. So I decided to apply for university. I got well, I got accepted conditionally, actually, I got denied into Western Oregon University. I'm like man, I got denied into Western Oregon. Nobody wants to go here. So I ended up writing the admissions office you know this is my sob story letter blah, blah, blah, cry, cry, cry. Ended up getting, you know, approved, went to Western Oregon for about a year year and a half, you know, was playing lacrosse and that's really about the only thing I cared about dropped out. So, like I was already, you know, way above the expectations life.
Speaker 1:Then I joined the military. No one really told us about the military in high school either, like they had the recruiters come to high school but honestly, the vibe kind of I don't know in 07, you know the war was still pretty cool Not cool, but like going on big. You know we all still remember 9-11. So like we were starting on like that transition where the military just wasn't the thing you did anymore. So you know they didn't really teach about it. I remember I had one math teacher and I wish I knew his name to this day, but I cannot remember his name because he's one of my favorite educators. But you know he was a. I believe he was a active guardsman or he was in the national guard. He wasn't active guard reserve or anything, but he was in the guard. And you know he he knew that I had an idea to join the military and he was about the only one that really supported a good influence.
Speaker 1:Now I ended up doing the college thing for a little bit, then joined the military later, but it wasn't really talked about. So after that, you know I do the college thing and I get out of the military and all I knew is I didn't want to be a government employee, cause that's what military is supposed to do You're supposed to be like a cop or something like that and I knew I didn't want to be a government employee. So I ended up actually, you know, getting into sales and did really well. No one really taught me about it, you know, no one really ever talked to me about it, but I quickly, I quickly, quickly learned if I could get some of these bad boys and educate myself, that I mean my income just kept going up and up and up. I'm like learn something new, learn a new way to talk. Hell yeah, more pay. Wasn't ever told about sales in school. Like, and the freaking funny thing is my dad was in sales and it just it was never really brought up that much. So, educators, you can talk to your students. If any of the educators are listening to this, talk to your students about you know opportunities like that.
Speaker 1:Not everyone needs college and realistically, I think college hurts people more than it helps people. Let me explain that. So, if you're listening to this and you want to be a doctor or an attorney or really just a doctor, because there's a couple of states you don't need a degree from. I still recommend going to law school, but there's a couple of states out there that you don't have to have a degree to go to the bar. I believe California is one and I think Maine or something is the other. Know, go to the bar. I believe California is one and I think Maine or something is the other. And I heard don't quote me on this but I heard that you don't even actually have to pass the bar anymore in Washington. Maybe they stopped it, but I heard this to represent your buddy, which is, oh, there's a whole legal battles and craziness that's going to happen on that, mistrials and all sorts of shit. But, like there's a couple of states that you don't actually have to have you know your law degree to go take the bar, pass the bar and you know, get your license or whatnot. So, that being said, if you don't want to be an attorney or doctor and there's a couple other careers out there, but those are the big ones that you know require a degree and there's no ifs, ands or buts about it I believe college is actually a waste of time and money, and we'll actually if you are wanting to get into a career field such as entrepreneurship, sales, like something to that extent will actually hurt you.
Speaker 1:Now, because of relevance and because we have to clarify and people can't, you know, critically think for themselves I have to tell you there is a statistic about, you know, college grads make a little bit more money, and it's a true statistic. The problem is is they don't and I don't think they can, it would be too hard to figure out what this you know how to judge this is they don't eliminate lazy motherfuckers. They don't eliminate lazy motherfuckers from that statistic. So what is a lazy motherfucker? A lazy motherfucker is you could literally give them a piece of paper that says they have an MBA from fucking Harvard and they were legally able to use it, a PhD, I don't care what you award them, and they'd still be a lazy motherfucker. They'd still sit in their parents' basement. They'd still, you know, work six hours at ABC. Buy here, pay now, like basic bitch retail store, where all they have to do is show up and bing, bing, bing. That's the uh, the noisy little scanner. I think it's more of a beep, but you know, scan your groceries. Do you want to pay card or cash? I don't think you ask that anymore. You just assume card. Okay, you know the person you go see at a convenience store that ruins your day by accident because you just happen to be there because you need a gas or an energy drink, like that person. So lazy motherfuckers.
Speaker 1:If we could eliminate them, I actually believe that we would actually non-educated, non-degree citizens would actually outdo college grads. Why? Because college grads are not taught to think for themselves. College itself, actually the way they teach you to learn, fucks you up for the real world because they don't teach you one critical step you need in every single business. It's called figure it the fuck out. And college actually teaches you the complete opposite of figure it out. Why? Because they basically give you parameters, your left and your right limit to operate within, and then they give you all the information you need to actually achieve that. Now I know you're probably like but Jonathan, I took writing 135 and we had to do an expository S. I get it One damn class, maybe two or three if you went through all the writing thing taught you that. But the other 40 you took didn't really have that much creativity or they didn't really have that much critical thinking where you had to actually explain your point.
Speaker 1:And there's a reason for that is they're going to give you the textbook. They're going to tell you what textbook they're going to buy. They're going to give you the syllabus on day one. They're going to give you an outline of everything that they're required to do and you're going to follow those steps. You're going to memorize the information when you need it on the test. You're going to regurgitate it and then you're going to brain dump it because you don't really need 90% of it.
Speaker 1:The issue is it's not that they're teaching you the wrong information or things that you don't need to learn. Like you know, learning is good. It teaches you to use your brain. It teaches you to memorizing. The problem becomes is they actually don't teach you to retain shit and they don't teach you the skill of critical thinking, of questioning an authority. And I'm not saying you need to question every authority, but you need to question every fucking authority Because a lot of times, people just speak and they regurgitate information that they heard from someone else and it gets misconstrued a million freaking times and then, by the time it comes out of CNN, fox news, cnbc, it's fucked up, wrong and twisted to a million different ways.
Speaker 1:Hell, the facts are crazy. Hell, the facts aren't even a facts. The facts are a lot of times now just an opinion that people claim to be a fact because they don't know the damn difference. Now just an opinion that people claim to be a fact because they don't know the damn difference. Seriously, go back a month ago on one of my Facebook posts and I made a freaking post about that. What's the difference between an opinion and a fact, or an opinion and a truth, something to that extent? And people in the fucking comments were fucking it up, like I actually, on that post, wasn't setting anyone up, I really wasn't. I just wanted to make a post that was kind of catchy and I'm like, oh my gosh, like I don't believe it.
Speaker 1:So the college system actually hurts you as an entrepreneur. A successful business owner is really as an entrepreneur, because when you know the 18 year old who chooses not to go to college, decides to go out into the real world and get his or her ass kicked for four years, five years, six years, well, you're trying to finish your degree. You're getting five to six years of real education, real tactical education that works in real life. The only thing college does to show me as an employer is how much you're willing to put up with four to five, six years of bullshit for a potential promise. The problem is you haven't done a damn thing.
Speaker 1:When you graduate, you're typically entitled. You got your fucking piece of paper, you slap it on the table like you're 12 and a half inches dangling down to the knee, and people look at you and go what have you done? And you're like well, I'm ready for this executive position. Yes, there are some of you that are going to go get some badass executive position. But you know, you know you're going to come from that high level university and probably your parents have some status and you did some internships, you did some extra stuff Congratulations. You're a freaking savage. Go do it.
Speaker 1:But the average college grad is going to graduate and actually make less than their counterpart. Now that is a true statistic. There is a line where it does eventually catch up. I can't remember exactly what year it is. I want to say it's like four or five, but you're going to make less than your counterpart. Now, that statistic also doesn't account to eliminate lazy motherfuckers. So it would be way worse if we eliminated all of them, because they don't contribute shit. Eliminated all of them because they don't contribute shit.
Speaker 1:So you graduate college and then, within a year or two, you wonder why you're not in an executive role. You wonder why that some dumb jackass who's the same age as you is, you know, outperforming you and in a leadership role that you're not in. And then you become entitled and you struggle at figuring out the system of figure it the fuck out, and you're always asking your boss for you know, what book do I read? What guidance do I need? You know how do I do this? Like, how about? You try to figure it the fuck out. And what happens, and especially in the entrepreneur world, is there is no book that's going to tell you how to operate your business.
Speaker 1:And I don't give a shit if you have Jeff Bezos' playbook of everything he did to operate and open up Amazon and you followed it to a T, like you had robot Jeff Bezos doing everything, taking every step out of the same house same time as Jeff Bezos did back in the day to open up Amazon. It would not go the same way. It wouldn't work. Why? Because now Jeff Bezos did back in the day to open up Amazon. It would not go the same way. It wouldn't work. Why? Because now there's a new competitor in the market.
Speaker 1:Yes, you could learn a shit ton from Bezos, don't get me wrong. But copying him verbatim, copying him step-by-step, won't work. Why? New competitor? New time and age, internet's way more advanced books are already out there online, so on and so forth. You can learn from them, but you cannot completely imitate him. So, like a textbook, all you're doing is imitating, all you're doing is memorizing the information in there and you're regurgitating it. So the problem becomes when you get into the business, sales, entrepreneur, intrapreneur world, is? It's not that simple. You've got to be able to think on your feet. You've got to get creative. You have got to think of stuff like.
Speaker 1:There is a position out there for many, many companies. Hyundai Motors of America has one, and he's a brilliant guy. I can't remember his damn name off the top of my head, but it's called the. They call him the CFO, chief Futurist, futurist Officer. He might've just gave himself that title as a joke. As I say it, I'm like CFO, that's not what that means, but the CFO, chief Futurist Officer. Hyundai pays this guy a lot of money to think about future shit, to look at vehicles and go.
Speaker 1:You know what? They're probably gonna get more conservative or less conservative or more lines here, or they're gonna box them up again. Like look at Hyundai's model line, how much it's changed over the last 10, 15 years. If you wanna see this in action like right now they got the santa fe out there that thing's looking like a range rover and right before that it was looking like an x5. They're getting with the times. People are starting. You know they got the broncos. The jeeps are starting to really get back. So what are they doing? They're making them a little more boxy again. Like there's no logic in it.
Speaker 1:It gets worse fuel economy. The vehicle might because of other technologies, but itself is probably getting worse fuel economy. Like I got a Bronco right now. That thing sucks with fuel economy. Why it's a damn, uh, it's a, I don't know. It just hits the wind. I can't think of what I'm going to use, but, like the person who can think into the future, the person who has the ability to critical think and has been using their brain in that manner for so much, you know, for longer it's just going to have, you know, uh, an upper edge on that and college is actually going to hurt. You know, slow that down. It's going to get rid of some of that creativity. It's going to teach you to stay within the lines, pass the damn test and move on. And especially in entrepreneurship or sales, there is no damn test, there is no lines.
Speaker 1:Like entrepreneurs, you know, operate best in the gray area. I'm not talking about the black, I'm not talking about, you know, doing things wrong and ethically steal like any of that crap. But I'm talking about that little gray area where it's like the uncertainties, the pain in the gut, where it's like man, I don't know if this is going to work. You know it's either going to work or I'm going to be bankrupt next week, like that's where entrepreneurs that succeed at a high level really operate, and it's. It's a scary area. If you're coming straight from college and you've never had to go play in that area. It's a scary area to be because no one's going to tell you what pages to read and no one's going to tell you when it's due.
Speaker 1:You're going to have to make those decisions on your own and you're going to have to deal with their outcome. And it's not just a simple citation or you know you get suspended or have to pay a fine Like you could. You know really, you know, fuck other people's lives up. So there's a million things there. So I'm saying this if you took two fricking people, two of the exact same individual, and somehow measured their drive, and they had the exact same drive, and you made one of them go to college and you said one of them, go get you know, go get a job, go make this shit happen. And they had the exact same goal they wanted to be the first one to hit a $100 million exit of a, let's say, a commercial construction company. So you're a general contractor, commercial construction general contractor, you open your own firm and you want to be the first. It's a race. You have the same drive, you have the same IQ, all that's the same. You have the same looks, everything.
Speaker 1:One goes four years to college. One goes four years. One goes straight to swinging a hammer when they're 18, the 18 year old that you know that skipped college. I believe, and I almost can positively say I know we'll get there before the college educated person. Why? Because they're going to learn it on the way. They're going to learn street smarts. They're going to learn figure it the fuck out. They're going to learn. You know how to do it because guess what, in today's world you can Google and YouTube whatever you want, like you could, literally. It might take some black webbing, but you could learn how to perform a frontal lobotomy and if you studied it long enough, you could probably do it without killing a patient, if you could obviously acquire the right tools and medication, all the crap that it takes. But that information is all online so you can learn how to do all this without ever stepping foot into a secondary school.
Speaker 1:So let's get off college a little bit, but that's just kind of my rant on it. I don't think it makes you better. As a matter of fact, nine times out of 10, it makes you a little entitled and you're kind of a jackass when you come out and you just you think that you're going to get shit. So that's my two cents on college. And if you're listening to this, I talked to a lot of high schoolers and I'll never advise you what way to go. Don't feel like you're going to fuck. Like, and if your parents disown you because you don't go to university, fuck them. It's like being in the entrepreneur world or sales world, like I don't give a shit who it is in your life.
Speaker 1:You got to cut people out and if they're not on your goals, like your life is your life, your goals are your goals, your dreams are your dreams. And if you have someone that quote unquote fucking loves you, telling you like don't go pursue your shit, Like who the fuck are they? Now, if your mom or dad is, you know, if you want to be worth a hundred million dollars and they run some huge um, I don't know medical spa and they're a plastic surgeon and they have this big empire and you want to, you know, follow in their footsteps. You know there's the thing about stepbrothers, like that movie and not Will Ferrell, but the other guy. He's like hey, I'm going to, you know, take over my dad's business or whatever. He's like your dad's a doctor and you don't, you know you're not a doctor or whatever. And he's like so or whatever. It is like I'm fucking slaughtering that. But like common sense, if you're going to be a doctor and you're going to get sued and be doing an underground, you got to go get that MD. So things like that you need college for. If you have a dream of getting into sales, if you have a dream of being an entrepreneur. Maybe take some night classes to get some education on financing, things like that, but realistically, you don't need it.
Speaker 1:And I know a lot of people tell me well, what about an MBA? I need my MBA. You're a master in business administration. Here's what I'll tell you. There is no and please, please, please. I'd love a professor to call me out. Actually, I'd love to interview you or maybe debate you, not interview so much, but like there is no professor out there and call me out if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1:That's really ran a hundred $200 million companies, you know billion dollar companies that exited with all the money in the world. And I know a lot of you say, well, yeah, there is because you know they want to help educate the next generation. I go, you know what? You know what fucking helps people? Um, the next generation, a hell of a lot more than the university system giving motherfucker jobs in an opportunity. Like paying them versus them, paying you for a half-ass education. But like, let's be real, like Bezos or, yeah, hell, bezos, mark Cuban, you know, elon Musk they're helping hundreds of thousands of individuals every day by helping them grow in their life, by providing a job, by creating more businesses to help the world fricking run, because the more business the more taxes.
Speaker 1:Oh, bad, bad, bad topic there. We can maybe get into that here in a minute. So let's jump off the college education system and I'm not dogging it, it might be for you, it might not, but you know. Let's jump into a few of these little, you know, these little key, key things going on in the world today. So for those of you that don't know, I've always been interested in politics and I've always told everyone I'm going to run for president someday. So I'm starting to pursue making that happen. It's probably going to be at the earliest 2032. I'm not really sure I've got to see what happens over the next four to eight years, but I'm going to do it strategical and I'm going to do it in the right way. I don't want to be the person who is just out there making fucking noise, to make noise Like our current political system or our current election system, or you know who's running the.
Speaker 1:It's a fucking mess. It's a mess left, it's a mess right and you know I'm not saying I'm in the middle. I lean conservatively quite a bit more. But today's conservative nine nine out of 10 of them are a fucking joke. There's some really good ones out there, but 90% of them are a fucking joke, like I.
Speaker 1:Just I wonder when I, when I compare politics to business owners, think about this for a second. Let me get a quick little drink of my zero alcohol. What is this? Grapefruit Paloma? I don't even know the fuck. That is Paul Paul Oma. Paul Oma. Um, they're pretty good, you know. Low calories. They got a little a little ting to them, so decent. So let me wet that a little bit.
Speaker 1:So our current political system's a mess, because imagine you go into a board meeting and you don't really have anyone in charge of the board. Everyone just goes there to fucking argue. That's kind of what Washington seems like to me right now. And the other thing I want to look at is people like Nancy Pelosi and I'm just going to call her out because it's you know, I'm going to call her out. It's fucking bullshit.
Speaker 1:So Nancy Pelosi is what we call a career politician. I don't really know her resume. It doesn't seem very deep, you know, prior to getting into Washington. But Nancy Pelosi is highest salary she's ever had, as I believe, currently, you know, being a politician and she's making something like a buck 54, bucks 64. It's less than 200 somewhere in the mid 100s like okay, but nothing great. She lives in Washington DC. If you don't know, washington DC is incredibly expensive. Nancy Pelosi is worth somewhere north of $300 million, I believe when I checked last $300 million. So I want you to think how many people in your life whether they're an entrepreneur, you know, management, executive make $154,000 a year, have you know all the normal expenditures of a human being and are worth north of $300 million? I can count on one hand and that hand has no fingers. So even if I got my fingers chopped off outside of politics, I don't really know many people worth $300 million plus that make $1.54. And if you take the cost of living in Washington DC, that number seriously dives deeper.
Speaker 1:There are people there's an app out there that monitors Nancy Pelosi's stock request. I don't know what the actual form is, but when you're in the Senate or in the government at a certain level, you got to fill this stupid form out. It's not a stupid form because it actually makes sense. Before you make make stock purchases, sales, buys, whatever the hell you're doing in the stock market, there is an app that actually monitors her requests that she puts in, because they are a public record and it has a very strong positive return on telling the people that follow it what to invest in and when to invest in it. So I'm just saying there's something goofy there in and when to invest in it. So I'm just saying there's something goofy there. You know, I'm not saying there's insider trading, but I am saying maybe they're getting the information 12 seconds early. You know what I'm saying. Maybe they're making decisions that have big influence. So I think for that, let's solve a problem real quick. Let's solve a problem Politicians can't trade, can't screw around in the stock market.
Speaker 1:Well, you're out of office. You could buy stocks, this and that. The minute you get into office, I say I don't think you could sell and trade. I think you have to sign something to sell. But that's not fair. You're getting into politics to help the people, the common people, because I think it's just over 50% of people screw around in the stock market. It might even be less, but, like the common people aren't trading millions and millions in stocks. So if you want to help the people, you need to be like the people, to understand the people. But they're not educated enough, neither the fuck are you so politicians? You can't trade stocks anymore.
Speaker 1:That's one thing that I would seriously consider. You know, that is a little bit of an emotional thing on me right now, so I would need to dig a little bit deeper into that to see like what the actual negative implementations of that are like. I can't think of too many off the top of my head. So, basically, any stock account, you have freezes and if you have planned exits, before you hit office and make a single decision, you have to have those planned exits of you know certain stocks written out, what day it's going to happen, blah, blah, blah, so on and so forth. And even that gets risky because you know I could play the long game. So we'll have to discuss that. We'll have to look into that. More Healthcare affordability that's an oxymoron. Where the hell was I? I don't know Something to do with stocks and inflation, so don't really know where I jumped over there, how I got there, so I did get a little bit lost. We're going to get better on not doing that. But let's talk about health care real quick. So health care Gosh.
Speaker 1:There's a new episode of South Park. It's the. It's the South Park obesity episode, if you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it. It basically has Cartman trying to not be obese. So he wants to be on Ozempic. But Ozempic's only for diabetics. But since they're prescribing it for severe obesity, cartman's trying to get a prescription. But like all the freaking you know and I'll just say what it is all the white ladies of South Park are jumping on Ozempic and I think there might be a black gal in there too. I don't remember it, it's. It's very just like over the top, but really it's not.
Speaker 1:And what happens is South Park, kyle and Stan they're going around town I think Kenny's there with them too and the insurance company saying that you got to have the primary care provider. The primary care provider says okay, you need to exempt it. And the insurance company says that you, you know, have to have the freaking um, the specialty care. And then the specialty care says you need to go to your primary care to get that original referral to go to the specialty care, to the specialty care then can submit to insurance. But the insurance needs the primary care to submit that the referral was given to the.
Speaker 1:It's just this fucking mess of how the insurance and healthcare system works. So I am actually trying to avoid the topic of the Affordable Care Act and I'm trying to just break it down, for basically our insurance system is a fucking scam. For example, I got to be careful with how I say this because I don't want to call out the company, but there's a certain specialty provider that I use and I had actually, you know, gotten rid of my insurance. Like, I'm self pay on this provider now and I had told them that. But something gets jacked up. They bill me under insurance. The insurance denies it. Well, because I don't have that insurance coverage anymore. And they went to bill. And I'm not dogging the doctor because they're playing the system and the laws and regulations were written by the politicians who were in the freaking system.
Speaker 1:By the way, if anyone's confused or have some sort of financial backing because when shit doesn't make sense, it's almost always a financial reason of why it doesn't make sense Someone's always making money, so, anyways. So we submit the insurance pay or they do, and I'm like, what the heck? Uh, $860. That's BS for what it was. And they're like, oh crap, we forgot to do that. Hey, you know, give us this, send us your bill, we'll get it fixed. So we get it fixed. I go in there and I pay the bill and my bill was $83 and some pennies. My bill was one 10th roughly actually less than one 10th of what was attempted to bill insurance. Once again, I am not dogging the doctor, I am dogging the entire fucking system, the way the laws are written.
Speaker 1:Let me figure out how to solve this real quick. Oh, your self-pay cost and your insurance costs have to be the exact same, solved and depending on your deductible, this and that. No, no, no, can't change. Shut up, self-pay and insurance bill are the exact same, but self-pay is going to go up. I don't know. Maybe, probably not to be real with you, because if they weren't making money at your self-pay like they wouldn't even have you in there. You would just be a waste of their time. And then you know, when the insurance bills, or it's like the doctor doesn't get every damn penny, there's a million things that that money goes through before it ever gets out. And you know, sometimes insurance says, hey, we'll only pay this much, but it's usually more than you know the cash pay price or the self pay price. So first thing we're doing is self pay and insurance pay have to be the same and I'm, I would almost say, for common treatments, and then there would be some sort of you know literature in there or some sort of way to define common treatment. But I say, for common treatment, like it has to be a post-it style menu, and I know with healthcare a million things could go crazy and like I get it, I get it, but self-pay and insurance pay have to be the same. So that's going to fix a lot of that.
Speaker 1:The second portion is and we've pretty much eliminated is there is no mandate for health insurance. Okay, there's no mandate for health insurance. Now I believe we should do maybe some public education in regards to health insurance. But here's how insurance works and every single insurance company is the same way in every single industry. Insurance has to collect more than it pays out, otherwise it goes bankrupt and it doesn't exist and it doesn't work. So insurance companies want young people on there. Why? Because they're probably not going to get hurt, they're less likely to get sick, and in order to do that, you're basically subsidizing the older, because you know there's a bunch of crap now in there about, you know, preexisting conditions, this and that. So that we've got to get it. There's no federal mandate for insurance. I think there is still a federal mandate, quote unquote but I believe the tax penalties are gone and that's kind of what's going on right now. I need to look more into that, but I won't have a federal mandate.
Speaker 1:The next portion is is we do have to have a way of having some sort of affordable care for everybody for chronic illness. Now, what do I mean by chronic illness? If you are obese, for example, and you're unable to provide you know, you know funds for your Ozempic, that's on you Like. How about you just reduce your food budget Like, whoa, there's some money back in your pocket If you end up getting, um, you know, heart disease or your lungs are like, why are we subsidizing all that? How about we just let the pending fear of not taking care of your body help a lot of people? And I know you're like, but we have to take care of everyone. And what about the like? It's a choice. It is actually a choice to be overweight. It is actually. But I can't afford a gym. Good, go for a walk. Like. There's people in wheelchairs that keep themselves in shape because they take care of themselves. So your limitations to be lazy and to be just like a worm that's on you. Quit making people pay for it.
Speaker 1:The next portion is border security. We're going to move on from health care there's a million rants I could go, so I've got to go to border security. Border security is big right now because, with the Biden administration, supposedly they're letting in a bunch of illegal immigrants, so on and so forth. Terrorists could come through. Whatever. Whatever you want to say about the conspiracy theories or the truth doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1:Here's one thing I know we always look at like every time a president gets elected. Here's what I always hear when Trump gets elected I'm going to move to Canada or Europe One. They don't fucking want you Like, go look at what it takes to get your citizenship in Canada. They will kick your ass out of there. They don't want you mooching off their government. They don't want you just sitting around. They won't even give you a work visa to come over there and flip burgers. You actually have to provide a service that Canada needs. They don't need any more people to flip burgers at. You know, tim Hortons, like they want you to actually contribute to their society in a shortfall that they have Europe's. The same damn way, they're not going to approve permanent out-of-resident visas just because you smiled and you jumped over there.
Speaker 1:Here's the other thing that most people don't know about Europe, and I lived in Germany for four years In Europe. The Poltai in Germany, I should say, because not everything is the same, but the Poltai, for example, in Germany, is part of the EU. The Poltai, I've seen them. Just go walk through a train and start carting people. You know asking for the papers. Just go walk through a train and start carting people. You know asking for the papers and if they find that you're past your visa or you don't belong there or whatever, they'll just nicely escort you off, send your ass back home, roll you with some charges and move on.
Speaker 1:So this whole, like the US, this and that, and immigrant dude, every country at one point in time, was pretty much, you know, established by immigrants of some theme. Someone came from some other place, walked over there and, you know, did that, I don't know, like if you believe in the Bible or you don't believe in the Bible, but let's just, let's go to the Bible, for example. Or you know the Big Bang. It all starts from one right Some animal evolved to be the first human, some. You know Adam and Eve in the Bible. So you're telling me one or two people were eventually here and they started to mate and they started to breed and they started to expand. Well, that tells me that those two people like, there is one little plot of land somewhere on earth, and hopefully someone could tell me where this is where the first humans walked earth, and that is the only plot of land where humanity and I'm not saying Germans, I'm not saying Africans, I'm not saying Americans, I'm saying humans that is the only plot of land that humans claim to be, the first plot of land and that's their original home. So all 9 billion of us can go, stand there if we want to go home.
Speaker 1:If not every single country has had immigration happen, then what happens is we create governments and we create economies and we create societies. We link everyone together with common beliefs, commonalities, common laws, and we create states or city states or countries, whatever you want to call it, whatever geography or government that you want to go with is. We create these areas of shared ideologies and these become borders, bordered off between other people that don't share common, you know, thoughts, don't share common ideologies, and now some people may want to cross over. But here's the problem. We can't just let people jump around wherever the hell they want, because nowhere in the world actually works like that. Europe doesn't work like that and they don't want your ass and all the other nations don't work like that.
Speaker 1:You go to Africa. There's certain areas. You go into the wrong tribal villages. They just kill you. They don't worry about seeing if you're an illegal immigrant. You know you got your papers. You don't look like, sound like and feel like or do what they do. You know, look like you belong there. They just kill you. Makes it a lot more simple. You know you go over to Europe. Yes, it's open borders, but they'll card your ass anytime they want. And guess what? You don't have the ability to pull out your phone and tell the Poltai that I'm a free traveler, I'm a sovereign citizen. Blah, blah, blah. Shut the fuck up and get in the back of the paddy wagon. Let's go. Actually, realistically and I've seen him do it Poltai will just whoop your ass a little bit and leave you on the side of the street Like, oh cool, he is a dumbass German. Huh, got his ass whooped and he won't do that shit. It works. So we got to lock down the borders. There has to be a standard. Why? Because otherwise there's no standard in our country and we got to open the borders.
Speaker 1:As far as letting people immigrate. Like, I think everyone deserves the opportunity to come live in America. If you back home, don't have a bunch of felonies and you're going to come here and provide us, by all means come here, stick around with us. Let's do some great things. I truly believe you deserve to be here, but do it the right way, because every other country, if we want to immigrate to we have to do it the right way. So quit thinking that America is this racist lockdown. Like we have some of the most open borders. We have some of the most, you know, relaxed freedoms as far as, like they police in most areas can't just go around and card you. As a matter of fact, arizona tried it years ago and it hit this. I don't know if it was Arizona Supreme Court or the excuse me federal Supreme Court, but the whole stop and first thing, a big old no go.
Speaker 1:So, moving on from borders, let's hit gun. I don't know if I want to do gun violence, because that's that's an hour in itself. Everyone carry a gun Like, realistically, let's just talk about guns, carrying guns and gun ownership. This is damn America. Our Second Amendment states that we have the right to bear arms and everyone you know a lot of people make the argument. Well, back then, yeah, they had machine guns, they had explosives, they had all the cool shit. Well, back then, you know, they were using them for hunting. No, they weren't. They in the Constitution said part of the Second Amendment is to prevent tyranny. What that means is government oppression. What that means is, oh my gosh, hold on, hold on, hold on Everything that led the pilgrimage, the pilgrims, to make the pilgrimage across the Atlantic Ocean, leave the king and queen and start the United States of America with her own declaration of independence. That is what the purpose of the gun was for. The second amendment was for. It was not to just hunt, it wasn't to just, you know, look cool and go sport shooting. It was to prevent tyranny.
Speaker 1:Because imagine this, imagine if the federal agents, you know, the local and state police, could just walk into your home and there was nothing. Fear, you know, making them fear Like you, give people power, people take ego and yes, there's a lot of great police, there's a lot of great feds out there and I believe a majority of them are on the right side of the law. But there's always that minute amount that are on the wrong side of the law and those people that are on the wrong side of law multiply a lot, lot quicker than the right side. Why? Because when you're on the wrong side you just make it hell for the people on the right side and you do these small little things that aren't illegal, so say but the right goes. Yeah, you know, we're in the right, we're not going to do that. I'm not. You know, I'm tired of having to tell you know, I'm tired of this. I'm tired of doing shit behind your back Like I'm just done and then all of a sudden, that ego, that control, will take over.
Speaker 1:So imagine if the wrong side of the law feds, local state, just came over to your house and could demand whatever they want, could come in, check it out, look what you own, see how your family's doing, chat with your children maybe, you know, take your spouse out, see what they know like, and could just question whatever they want without any sort of check and balance. So it's a huge reason why you know the guns in America are such a great thing is it keeps. It keeps the people honest and it keeps our government honest to a certain degree. Now, I'm not advocating for a civil war. I truly think, even though the craziness and politics that's going around, or you know what the media portrays like, I don't even think we're close to a civil war right now. But what I am saying is it keeps the government true. Secondly, it keeps citizens true. I know this.
Speaker 1:I know if I'm a criminal, I'm going to kill, I'm going to rob, I'm going to do all sorts of criminal shit and like, trust me, if I'm thinking about killing someone, the last thing on my mind is maybe getting rolled with a gun charge with, you know, an illegal possession of a firearm. So I hate to break it to you. Criminals, don't fucking follow laws. It's literally in the description of the word criminal. So just because you pass a law does not mean that the criminal is not going to get, you know, a gun. Well, what if we take? If there's no guns available, then no one will be able to get one. Okay, yeah, because criminals have so much time with the dark web and like the better and better technology gets, guess what? It's just easier to cheat the system. So you know, it's not that we're going to reduce, it's that we're going to make it harder.
Speaker 1:But here's the thing I do know. I do know law abiding citizens with guns will prevent crime. It's just pretty damn simple. Most areas in the country your average police response time is somewhere around 10 minutes, give or take two minutes. If you're out in the middle of the country, it might be 30 minutes, it might. There's areas in Alaska that it might be a few hours and they're going to have to come by chopper. So you can't rely on the police to. You know, protect you and your family. Like how, how awful would you feel if something was going to happen to your wife and kids and they got murdered in front of you as you were waiting for the police on the phone, with them hiding in the closet? Could you get here instead of just shot somebody?
Speaker 1:So I'm not saying I honestly don't even think everybody should own a gun, but I do think this I think an armed society without restrictions people question, you know doing stupid shit. You know that it's that little saying fuck around and find out if you don't know who's armed, but you do know more than 50% of people are armed and you decide you want to go do a mass shooting, you're gonna think a little bit more about it, you're going to be a little bit more on you know, edge and hopefully one of those armed people shoots you in the face before you could do too much. So if we don't know who has a gun, if a majority of people have a gun and they're law-abiding citizens, you know crime's not going to happen. It's going to be. You know it will happen still, but it's going to be significantly reduced and you know law-abiding citizens will end things a lot quicker. I think, as a man, I think as a leader in society, it's your job to protect your family, and you know I look at it this way. I carry, so don't fuck with me. But yeah, I think when it comes to gun violence, you know, I think the media boy we'll hit that one again. That's going to be a. That's going to be a podcast in itself.
Speaker 1:So let's end this here. This is not safe for society. This is a little bit more of me. I don't want to say rambling, because I went down a couple of key topics that I wanted to discuss, but this isn't me just yelling at anything. This isn't me just you know, giving you my you know hard opinion for some clicks on YouTube. This is just real talk. You know we talked about the education system. Hopefully there's a lot of young people out there that that really helps. And at the same time, you know a lot of people, whether you be educators, parents like think about it Educate your freaking kids. It's your job as a parent to do that. And then, as an educator, you may not understand entrepreneurship, you may not understand sales or opening a business, but give people the you know the guidance like you can get on Google as an educator, I promise you you're capable of getting on Google and just Google. You know best books for an entrepreneur, a young entrepreneur, to read and it'll recommend all sorts and then off of that you can go recommend more and more and go down your own rabbit hole. Next thing you know you're running a business, so this is not safe for society. Y'all have an amazing day. Make sure you subscribe If you want more, if you like what I said, if you wanted to even debate, hit me fricking up.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be bringing more live people on this podcast and this means the most to me because we don't do this enough. I can't like. You know, real as fuck, with Andy Fursella, all those podcasts out there, I'm going to get throttle banned. I curse I. You know I don't say the right things politically. There's, you know, big daddy or big fricking mommy, or you know big brother, whatever the hell it's called. They're always looking over and they don't really like. You know a lot of my awesome ideas. So if you could, if you have one friend, one friend, and do this for me, if you have one friend that you think could hear could benefit from something I said, share it with them, and I appreciate that. Y'all have an amazing day. We'll talk soon.
