Jemele Bui and Jamel Bui agree that liberal arts colleges are a total waste of time and that you should just go to a technical college where you learn a trade and not have to go to college. They also agree that college is a waste of money and that it s time to abolish it. And they both agree that we should all go to technical college and not go to liberal arts college. And they agree that that s a bad idea. But they don t agree with either of those opinions. And that s why they agree with the other one, which is that college should be abolished, because it s a complete and utter waste of your time and you should be able to get a job that pays you more than $40,000 a year and you don t even have to be in college to get that much money. And that's a good thing, because that's what you should do if you don't want to be stuck in a four-year, expensive liberal arts school and you want to become a professional speech pathologist or an English major or something like that, you should go to another technical college that pays $40k a year to learn how to talk like a native English major. And you're not going to get any better at it than you did in college, you're going to have to pay for it at another four years of free tuition and you're gonna get a crappy job in a fancy fancy college? college and that's not even half as good as shit as you can afford it, you can go to get $240,000 in college and get a real job, you know what you can do it at $2,000,000 per year, you get a better deal than that's better than you can get at $1.40 a year,000 and you get, like, $5,000? And you can have a better life in Italy, $200 a month and you can be a better than that, $25,000 at $50 a year? and you won't even be stuck with $1,000 more than you pay for your first year, $500 a month in the future, you ll have to buy a car and you ll get a house in the summer, $10,000 when you go to an Italian restaurant, $20 a month, $15 a day, $40 a month to get your first car, and you'll get free of debt?
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00:00:30.000We used to read, you'd read the first chapter, the last chapter, and the first and last page of every middle chapter and hope you sort of got it with the crib notes.
00:00:40.000And then you'd sit in class and try to write a C essay about Heathcliff and Catherine.
00:03:19.000So I've got some pretty radical views on this.
00:03:20.000I'll start with the normal one that you agree with.
00:03:23.000College is a total and utter waste of time.
00:03:25.000Liberal Arts College is a total waste of time.
00:03:27.000I saw a woman who had a, uh, she was at some protest, some Bernie Sanders thing, and she was talking about, you know, I'm $240,000 in debt.
00:05:14.000So you went into college and you learned that Klingon language that not only doesn't make any sense in the real world, but is annoying in the real world.
00:05:28.000So if you went to a job at the paper plant, like in the office, and you said, Hi, Michael.
00:05:35.000I just wanted to mention that I find this place kind of raced.
00:06:25.000So I hope we can establish that liberal arts is ridiculous.
00:06:28.000When I was in college, in philosophy, and by the way, Canadians, when we, when us Americans, yes, I've crossed over, say college, it means university.
00:06:59.000My professor, Marvin Glass, a communist, head of the Canadian Communist Party at Carleton University, which was one of the worst schools in the country.
00:07:09.000He told us it was okay to have an abortion up until a year after the baby is born.
00:07:13.000That, by the way, is not an uncommon sentiment in post-secondary education.
00:07:19.000So, if you don't mind, I'll be walking over to this baby in a pram while the mother eats a sandwich, and I'm going to smash its face in with a bull-peen hammer, because that is perfectly ethically legitimate.
00:07:31.000Mr. Glass told us that the only way you can gauge whether you can kill something or not is if it's human.
00:07:37.000And the criteria for human, like, can you recognize me?
00:07:57.000An 11-month-year-old baby is less human than a monkey.
00:08:01.000Okay, so let's just shoot it in the head.
00:08:05.000The irony is that develops kids who see puppies as more valuable than humans.
00:08:11.000Like, young liberals today, millennial, vegans, whatever, they see the Yulin Dog Festival in China where they eat dogs and they have a heart attack.
00:08:18.000They see babies crucified to dining room tables and gang-raped in South Africa and they go, well, those white farmers were asking for it.
00:08:26.000I mean, they're only humans, after all.
00:10:53.000I hate baby boomers, but I gotta admit, a lot of their CEOs used to mow lawns at The Place.
00:10:59.000Remember the head of Universal Music in Canada?
00:11:02.000He used to mow the lawn at Universal, and then he ended up working in the mailroom, and the next thing you know, he's the CEO of the company.
00:11:09.000Tower Records, all the top rats used to work there.
00:11:15.000So I think, and I don't know, but I think it might be better in chemistry and a lot of the sciences just to intern there.
00:11:21.000Start out cleaning the lab and then maybe get to do some experiments.
00:11:25.000Of course there's a lot of bullshit with these things, like my wife worked at the American Indian Museum and she couldn't move forward because she didn't have a PhD in bullshit.
00:11:35.000Her job was just to move some headdresses around and know all about them.
00:11:39.000So when someone goes, why'd you put up this spear?
00:11:41.000Oh, this is from the, the Algonquin Indians, blah, blah, blah.
00:11:44.000They used it in this battle, blah, blah, blah.
00:11:46.000You don't need to go to school for that.
00:14:02.000And lawyers and doctors and all these people who are over-educated, they don't get a hundred grand as quick many times.
00:14:10.000I know a lot of lawyers in New York that are poorer than a lot of electricians.
00:14:15.000So, don't think you're going to get rich just because you took something like accountants, being an accountant or being a lawyer or something.
00:16:31.000You know, when he fought with the British and he saw Braxton assassinated, basically, in Fort Duquesne by the French and the Indians, you know, ambushing them from the trees, I sort of thought to myself when I was reading about that, I thought,
00:16:44.000Maybe that's when he decided they could beat the British.
00:16:45.000Maybe that's when he decided not to be a victim.
00:17:21.000And then, of course, in a warrior culture, the biggest chief, the biggest warrior is going to become the first president of the United States.
00:17:29.000So to me, you know, you look back at him and by the way, he never had wooden teeth.
00:17:33.000You look back at him and you see them as sort of a tyrant and a tough guy.
00:22:01.000When you watch a baseball game, there's four kids that rule that have a bright future in this game.
00:22:06.000And then there's another 32 that suck shit and have no future.
00:22:10.000It's not like there's some that are sort of good.
00:22:13.000And there's two who have MLB potential.
00:22:18.000You know, the odds are still a fraction of a percent that they'll actually make the MLB, but you go, these guys are totally different than those guys.
00:23:09.000He saw everyone else pooing in toilets, because we don't have doors in our house, and he went, alright, I'm just going to poo in the toilet.
00:23:15.000I want to be- I don't like diapers, they're for kids.
00:23:18.000And I think that happens in everything.
00:23:20.000So when we stick them in a classroom, and my kids are doing classes like- tests for like four hours.
00:23:33.000And it's not like they come and they have this sort of academic tone after.
00:23:37.000It's not like they come out and they say, you know, I was thinking recently, you know, the Civil War, it's always about, oh, slavery, slavery, slavery.
00:23:44.000But then I'm sort of, dad, I have to be frank with you.
00:23:47.000I'm haunted by this quote from Lincoln, where he said, if he could maintain the union without freeing one single slave, then he would do it.
00:24:00.000Now, this isn't a throwaway comment said at the tavern.
00:24:04.000This is something he said in public, in the house.
00:24:08.000And I can't help, Daddy, I can't help but think that one looming sentence, that concept, that sword of Damocles that hangs over the entire war, does it not negate the slavery narrative?
00:24:22.000Whoa, shit, you really been studying, boy?
00:24:44.000Then my 30s, I started reading books about history and stuff.
00:24:47.000And now in my 40s, I'm that guy where I sit down with dad and I say, what are we doing in Syria?
00:24:56.000Well, Gavin, the American government knows every single flight globally.
00:25:04.000So if there was a gas attack and they could see planes coming from A to B, and B was where the attack was, if it was clear that the chemicals came from planes, then they can track that flight and validate whether it was a chemical attack or not, and then just bomb that plant.
00:26:40.000Now, you sit them in the house and you put them in front of a video game, that's crack cocaine.
00:26:44.000Where, for decades, millions of genius nerds have been sitting there going, how can I make this video game the most crack, you know, brain-enhancing, super, uh, uh, endorphin-releasing masterpiece?
00:26:59.000Well, if I do this, this, this, and this, then people get addicted.
00:27:23.000I think one of the reasons these millennials are so completely useless and sitting on the couch is they had their economic libido killed by illegal aliens.
00:27:31.000Illegal immigrants cleaned the pools, did the lawn work, collected the bills.
00:27:36.000See the beauty, I had jobs like cleaning pools and mowing lawns and all that, shoveling driveways.
00:27:41.000The beauty of that job, a big part of it is debt collection.
00:27:45.000You realize that the McAllisters, everyone with a mick is cheap.
00:27:48.000We didn't have a lot of Jews in Canada.
00:27:51.000But when you see a mick, you go, oh great, I really gotta hound this guy.
00:27:55.000And you learn little tricks, like if you call every day at 8.30, again and again and again, they get sick of this literal wake-up call.
00:28:03.000And eventually, they just pay you the money.
00:28:09.000I don't care if you're the Washington Post or Amazon.
00:28:13.000Still, collecting from your vendors, getting your bills in, factoring in the fact that some people won't pay, that's a huge part of being an entrepreneur.
00:29:25.000You still have to read, if you're curious, i.e.
00:29:29.000part of that 5% will take you aside and teach you about sharks and cars and whatever you're interested in, math.
00:29:34.000I'm sure 1% will be naturally drawn to math.
00:29:36.000You can't, all this crap about, here's a, we have a poster, it's Bloomberg's new campaign, women, girls in math, and they have a unicorn in a pink dress with two plus two on its fucking face.
00:29:48.000That's not how people get attracted to math.
00:30:45.000It is so fucking, excuse the analogy, it is so hard taking calculus and algebra in college.
00:30:52.000I was not meant to be, I had to have a pot of coffee, a huge breakfast, sit at the very front, hold my eyes like golf balls, and then the second I didn't know what was going on, arm up.
00:31:46.000My point is that the people that are in that math class are naturally meant to be there and they will end up there no matter what.
00:31:54.000You know, I think it's good to introduce kids to a lot of stuff.
00:31:58.000I sent my son to drum lessons, my daughter guitar lessons, my daughter field hockey, all this other stuff, animation class, drawing, a million different things.
00:32:10.000And finally, baseball just stuck to my son like venom in Spider-Man.
00:32:22.000I don't know if that's a... I heard American Indians are really into softball, so maybe it's a genetic thing, but... But the point is that when you try to force something on someone, like, all children should have a wide balance of education.
00:32:35.000They should take math, history, geography.
00:33:01.000It's based on boomers and previous generations where they went, look, these guys are all poor because of the Industrial Revolution, whatever.
00:33:09.000This is back when the working class weren't rich like they are today.
00:35:25.000You know, there's no... And these teachers who are basically communists because they've been doing the same crap forever.
00:35:31.000They got these massive unions kissing their ass and telling them they're special and they're better than everybody which is why they hate Trump so much and they're so bitchy.
00:38:23.000I saw a great video recently where this guy was talking about Millennials and he said, the problem with them is they go, this isn't my dream job and they quit.
00:38:30.000And he said, you can actually make a lot out of any job.
00:38:33.000Say you're an intellectual and you're, you're working at Tower Records, you know, if you're smart, eventually you come up with, I have a better plan for organizing these records.
00:38:42.000And then you can say, let's do this with all the chains.
00:39:28.000Someone asked him, my teachers are all communists and lefties, and if I write anything reasonable or patriotic or even libertarian, I'll get an F. And he said, lie, become a communist, get A's, then get out and get rich, and then crush them.
00:44:07.000And a huge variety of shows, including funny shows like mine, serious shows like Mark Levin, soothing, groovy shows like Phil Robertson, plenty of young people, roaming millennial, millennial conservative, that rant dude is good, Stephen Crowder.
00:45:11.000I'm just saying the way things should be.
00:45:13.000I'm talking about an ideal world here.
00:45:15.000It's totally hypothetical, and I have no idea how to get there, but I think the first step is that we all acknowledge we'd be better off if we were to pursue such a thing as fuck school.