Get Off My Lawn - Gavin McInnes - April 17, 2018


Get Off My Lawn Podcast #42 | Let's Just Abolish School

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college college debt anthropology mathematics public schools rip school
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Gavin McInnes
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George Washington Marvin Glass Napoleon Chagnon Steven Crowder Bernie Sanders Kendrick Lamar Charles Murray Phil Robertson Sanchu Ruduka Noble Savages Steven Pinker Margaret Cho Harry Potter Paper Roots Ben Shapiro Kublai Khan Jesus Lord Mark Levin James Bay Lou Dobbs and 21 more
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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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00:00:00.000 Let's just abolish school.
00:00:03.000 Why does it exist? 1.00
00:00:04.000 It sucks. 1.00
00:00:05.000 Fuck school. 1.00
00:00:07.000 I think I have that song queued up here. 1.00
00:00:10.000 You know what I learned in college?
00:00:24.000 Nothing.
00:00:25.000 I took English literature.
00:00:27.000 I got a B.A.
00:00:28.000 in sleeping.
00:00:30.000 We 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.
00:00:40.000 And then you'd sit in class and try to write a C essay about Heathcliff and Catherine.
00:00:47.000 What a total and utter waste of time.
00:00:49.000 I can't even imagine a situation where my education would have made sense.
00:00:54.000 Maybe if I was an aristocrat with no legs,
00:00:57.000 And I just stayed in my salon reading Victorian England's books.
00:01:04.000 Oh, the Romantic era.
00:01:06.000 Oh, Wordsworth and Coleridge and Yeats and Xanadu did Kubla Khan.
00:01:13.000 Oh, the literature of Dickens.
00:01:15.000 Oh, how I'm enriched.
00:01:17.000 Couldn't I just have got a syllabus off of Amazon from a time machine?
00:01:23.000 That's all you should do.
00:01:24.000 Like, say you want to take English literature, do it on your own time.
00:01:28.000 Read it on your own time.
00:01:30.000 And, uh... There.
00:01:34.000 Now you know a bunch of old books.
00:01:36.000 Old fiction.
00:01:37.000 I don't even like fiction.
00:01:38.000 I hate fi- I never, ever read fiction. 0.97
00:01:41.000 I think it's gay, actually. 0.98
00:01:44.000 Why are you in another man's head? 1.00
00:01:46.000 Why don't you stick your tongue in his mouth too, you homo? 1.00
00:01:49.000 You know what I mean? 1.00
00:01:51.000 Especially science fiction.
00:01:53.000 Oh, there's a planet called Zarados.
00:01:57.000 And on this planet, the Zirgons, they hate the Chernovians. 1.00
00:02:03.000 What? 1.00
00:02:04.000 You just made up a bunch of stupid names and I'm supposed to go, oh yeah? 1.00
00:02:07.000 Why do they hate the Chernovians? 1.00
00:02:09.000 Tell me more, wise old sage who knows of nothing.
00:02:15.000 Tell me more of this magical land that you created right now in your head just at a typewriter.
00:02:22.000 Wow!
00:02:24.000 Oh, your imagination's so much better than mine.
00:02:29.000 Tell me more.
00:02:30.000 Well, actually, it's allegorical, Gavin.
00:02:33.000 So that book that you're talking about, that space book, it's actually about Helen of Troy.
00:02:40.000 To which I say, uh, okay, why wouldn't I just read Helen of Troy then?
00:02:47.000 Is that someone yelling for me, Dave?
00:02:50.000 No.
00:02:50.000 Oh.
00:02:51.000 I had a hallucination, an auditory hallucination.
00:02:56.000 Um, we have two interns here who are trying to learn about the studio, and I don't want them here.
00:03:01.000 I don't like interns, I think they're a waste of time.
00:03:03.000 I will say one thing about education, though. 1.00
00:03:06.000 These stupid losers who are here today trying to learn about the soundboard are learning more than they learn in school. 1.00
00:03:13.000 And that, by the way, is the best school. 1.00
00:03:15.000 That's a technical college.
00:03:16.000 That's learning a trade.
00:03:19.000 So I've got some pretty radical views on this.
00:03:20.000 I'll start with the normal one that you agree with.
00:03:23.000 College is a total and utter waste of time.
00:03:25.000 Liberal Arts College is a total waste of time.
00:03:27.000 I 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.
00:03:37.000 I took speech pathology.
00:03:38.000 I just want to help people talk.
00:03:40.000 Wait a minute.
00:03:42.000 Say you go to NYU, one of the most expensive in the country.
00:03:44.000 That's 40.
00:03:46.000 Four years is $1.60.
00:03:48.000 How'd you get up to $2.40?
00:03:50.000 Would you go to Italy every summer?
00:03:52.000 And speech pathology, isn't that just teaching people not to stutter?
00:03:55.000 I'm sure there's a YouTube video on that.
00:03:58.000 I bet there's some trick like you sing or something.
00:04:02.000 I don't know.
00:04:03.000 Take a Xanax and try talking it, but that solves it.
00:04:05.000 It can't be that hard.
00:04:07.000 It can't be four years of, Able was I, I saw Elba, New York City, New York City, New York City.
00:04:15.000 There, you're cured.
00:04:18.000 240 grand.
00:04:20.000 That's a lot of debt for me, and I'm rich.
00:04:22.000 A 20-year-old with 240 grand? 1.00
00:04:25.000 I mean, just kill yourself. 0.99
00:04:27.000 Jump off a cliff, declare bankruptcy, move to Nepal, and change your name to Sanchu Ruduka. 1.00
00:04:37.000 So, we all agree, right, that liberal arts is a joke?
00:04:41.000 Like this, look at this sentence I was reading on my show today.
00:04:43.000 So this is this guy Jamel Bui, and he's talking about how Starbucks is racist because they kick out people for lawyering.
00:04:51.000 This is the language you learn in liberal arts college.
00:04:55.000 When one is raced, and you have to see this word to understand what I'm saying, R-A-C-E-D, in quotes.
00:05:01.000 When one is raced, one is placed in relationship to that hierarchy.
00:05:05.000 Your position is signed to your body and made visible to the world.
00:05:09.000 Places, too, can be raced.
00:05:11.000 Spaces of affluence and exclusivity
00:05:14.000 So 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. 1.00
00:05:28.000 So if you went to a job at the paper plant, like in the office, and you said, Hi, Michael.
00:05:35.000 I just wanted to mention that I find this place kind of raced.
00:05:38.000 Pardon?
00:05:39.000 Well, I feel like, you know, it's positioned, you know, with my body and how my body is visible to the world.
00:05:44.000 I feel like there's a lot of affluence and exclusivity here that's typically associated with white faces.
00:05:49.000 Can you go?
00:05:50.000 Just leave, you're fired.
00:05:52.000 Okay, I'm gonna sue you for some sort of ism I'll make up on the way to the suing place. 0.99
00:06:00.000 So, you come out stupider and more annoying than when you went in. 0.98
00:06:04.000 And for that, you're saddled with- I think the average, by the way, the average debt for a student is 40k. 0.99
00:06:10.000 Not 240, but whatever.
00:06:13.000 It's a boatload of cash when you make- Remember?
00:06:15.000 We would eat out of the garbage when we were kids.
00:06:17.000 We were punks and it was considered cool, but still.
00:06:20.000 240 grand.
00:06:20.000 That's a lot of dumpster diving.
00:06:24.000 All right. 0.99
00:06:25.000 So I hope we can establish that liberal arts is ridiculous.
00:06:28.000 When 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. 0.80
00:06:36.000 Same with you Brits. 0.99
00:06:39.000 Everywhere else, college means a trade school and university is the hard one.
00:06:43.000 Here in America, college means the same, probably because Americans are uneducated.
00:06:47.000 And they're unable to differentiate between the two.
00:06:49.000 It's just like a fancy school!
00:06:51.000 After high school, you go to fancy school!
00:06:54.000 The kind that was in Animal House!
00:06:59.000 My professor, Marvin Glass, a communist, head of the Canadian Communist Party at Carleton University, which was one of the worst schools in the country. 1.00
00:07:06.000 It's for stupid people like myself. 1.00
00:07:09.000 He told us it was okay to have an abortion up until a year after the baby is born. 1.00
00:07:13.000 That, by the way, is not an uncommon sentiment in post-secondary education. 0.91
00:07:19.000 So, 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. 1.00
00:07:31.000 Mr. Glass told us that the only way you can gauge whether you can kill something or not is if it's human. 0.90
00:07:37.000 And the criteria for human, like, can you recognize me?
00:07:40.000 Can you communicate?
00:07:43.000 All of those things that you can come up with for someone that's 11 months old, a monkey can do better.
00:07:49.000 Ergo, and this is quite a big ergo, this is a Great Lakes sized leap.
00:07:55.000 Ergo,
00:07:57.000 An 11-month-year-old baby is less human than a monkey. 1.00
00:08:01.000 Okay, so let's just shoot it in the head. 1.00
00:08:05.000 The irony is that develops kids who see puppies as more valuable than humans. 0.97
00:08:11.000 Like, young liberals today, millennial, vegans, whatever, they see the Yulin Dog Festival in China where they eat dogs and they have a heart attack.
00:08:18.000 They see babies crucified to dining room tables and gang-raped in South Africa and they go, well, those white farmers were asking for it. 1.00
00:08:26.000 I mean, they're only humans, after all. 1.00
00:08:28.000 Why not just rape them to death? 1.00
00:08:30.000 Okay. 1.00
00:08:31.000 Nice values you learned at school, by the way.
00:08:32.000 That sounds like a great place to go.
00:08:34.000 Alright, so, established.
00:08:36.000 Liberal Arts College is for nunces. 1.00
00:08:39.000 I forgot what the word nunce means, but it feels like this is a good place to say it.
00:08:44.000 Alexa, what does nunce mean?
00:08:47.000 Oh, you're not here, you're at home.
00:08:51.000 Now, what about STEM?
00:08:52.000 Totally valid, obviously.
00:08:54.000 Although, STEM is starting to get infected by this PC stuff, too.
00:08:58.000 Especially anthropology.
00:09:00.000 Anthropology, I wrote an article about this.
00:09:01.000 About that dude.
00:09:04.000 What's his name, uh, Napoleon?
00:09:07.000 Not Napoleon, Napoleon, but Napoleon, uh, the other guy.
00:09:10.000 Here, I can look it up while I talk.
00:09:12.000 Uh, tackymag.com, Gavin McInnes.
00:09:15.000 By the way, Kendrick Lamar gets the Pulitzer Prize for writing I Love Myself.
00:09:20.000 Why don't I get some kind of prize?
00:09:21.000 I was writing non-stop from the age of 23 till last year.
00:09:27.000 At least 3,000 words a week.
00:09:29.000 Nothing.
00:09:30.000 Well, Gavin, it's a free market.
00:09:31.000 Are you saying that you were denied something by the government?
00:09:35.000 No?
00:09:35.000 Okay, so you didn't get an award because you're not good.
00:09:38.000 Fuck you, me! 1.00
00:09:39.000 Uh... 1.00
00:09:41.000 Napoleon. 1.00
00:09:44.000 Fucking Napoleon. 1.00
00:09:45.000 This is a good, this is a good podcast to listen to isn't it? 0.99
00:09:48.000 Welcome to Gavin Typing Anthropology.
00:09:53.000 Okay.
00:09:54.000 The article's called Anthropology Gone Wild, and the Napoleon I was talking about was Napoleon A. Chagnon.
00:10:01.000 And he was a guy who hung out with these, you know, cannibal lunatic aboriginals in the Papua New Guinea or whatever. 1.00
00:10:07.000 He called it Noble Savages, and since then he's been seen as racist for noticing that these people eat each other.
00:10:14.000 So, a lot of stem is infected.
00:10:17.000 But math, I assume.
00:10:18.000 Chemistry, sure.
00:10:19.000 Although, just to go crazy here,
00:10:22.000 Say you want to be a biochemist, wouldn't it be better to be an intern at a biochemist's plant?
00:10:29.000 Like, wouldn't it be better to have hands-on experience with the actual beakers in your actual hand?
00:10:35.000 Charles Murray talks about this in the Curmudgeons Guide to Getting Ahead.
00:10:38.000 A lot of these CEOs, they see your insane resume with Harvard and Yale and PhDs everywhere.
00:10:44.000 I think a lot of them go, meh, you're kind of a little ponce. 0.68
00:10:47.000 You're a little spoiled kid.
00:10:50.000 I like the guy.
00:10:53.000 I hate baby boomers, but I gotta admit, a lot of their CEOs used to mow lawns at The Place. 1.00
00:10:59.000 Remember the head of Universal Music in Canada?
00:11:02.000 He 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.
00:11:09.000 Tower Records, all the top rats used to work there.
00:11:12.000 So that's appealing.
00:11:15.000 So 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.
00:11:21.000 Start out cleaning the lab and then maybe get to do some experiments. 0.98
00:11:25.000 Of 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. 0.98
00:11:35.000 Her job was just to move some headdresses around and know all about them. 1.00
00:11:39.000 So when someone goes, why'd you put up this spear?
00:11:41.000 Oh, this is from the, the Algonquin Indians, blah, blah, blah.
00:11:44.000 They used it in this battle, blah, blah, blah.
00:11:46.000 You don't need to go to school for that.
00:11:50.000 Jesus Lord.
00:11:53.000 But I'm not writing that in stone.
00:11:54.000 That's not part of this theory.
00:11:56.000 I'm still defending STEM.
00:11:57.000 I'm still saying STEM.
00:11:57.000 And if my kids want to take chemistry, I don't care if it costs a billion dollars.
00:12:01.000 No problem.
00:12:04.000 But liberal arts, no.
00:12:06.000 Alright, so we're all pretty much on the same page, right?
00:12:08.000 STEM is a yes.
00:12:09.000 Liberal arts is a no.
00:12:10.000 Oh, here's another.
00:12:11.000 Okay, this is where I start to get controversial and I'm gonna lose you.
00:12:14.000 Back in my dad's day, 5% of people went to secondary education.
00:12:19.000 This is actually discussed in this podcast's dad episode.
00:12:24.000 I forget which one it was.
00:12:26.000 But I think that's about right.
00:12:29.000 I think 5% of your society is genetically predisposed to be an academic, to be an expert, to be an intellectual.
00:12:38.000 Now we're at what?
00:12:39.000 What percentage of people go to school?
00:12:41.000 My son asked me that this morning actually.
00:12:43.000 Hey Alexa, I should maybe bring the Alexa to work.
00:12:47.000 But let me type that in.
00:12:48.000 What percentage of Americans go to college?
00:12:55.000 70%.
00:12:56.000 Now, that's including all the poor, the Midwest, the South, people in shacks. 1.00
00:13:02.000 So, as far as, like, people you and I would bump into, it's probably more like 85%.
00:13:08.000 But 70% of Americans going to college, that is absolutely insane.
00:13:15.000 Do we really, like what kind of society, what is this, Socratic Greece?
00:13:19.000 We have Plato now, we're living in a cave, sitting there pontificating with our big togas on.
00:13:27.000 70% have to be experts?
00:13:28.000 Meanwhile, by the way, we have no trades.
00:13:31.000 And here's another dirty little secret, folks, and this is especially true in New York.
00:13:37.000 Tradesmen make a ton of cash.
00:13:41.000 Union electricians, they make a hundred grand a year once they get established.
00:13:46.000 Cops make a hundred grand a year.
00:13:48.000 Firemen make a hundred grand a year.
00:13:49.000 Teachers can get up to a hundred grand.
00:13:52.000 And they'll tell you, no, no, no, cop's starting salary is 18 grand.
00:13:55.000 Yeah, you're not supposed to live alone.
00:13:56.000 You're supposed to live with your parents when you're a rookie cop.
00:13:59.000 You get up to 40, 50, 60 in no time.
00:14:02.000 And lawyers and doctors and all these people who are over-educated, they don't get a hundred grand as quick many times.
00:14:10.000 I know a lot of lawyers in New York that are poorer than a lot of electricians.
00:14:15.000 So, 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.
00:14:22.000 There's too many of them.
00:14:25.000 So, uh, STEM is still reliable, but that's probably 5% of the population, and that should be 100% of post-secondary education.
00:14:36.000 Right?
00:14:37.000 Alright.
00:14:38.000 I think you're with me.
00:14:39.000 So far.
00:14:41.000 And that, by the way, means thousands and millions of people are not going to college anymore.
00:14:46.000 But it's such a great experience!
00:14:47.000 It's the best years of our life!
00:14:49.000 Yeah, so is getting laid!
00:14:50.000 I don't want to send you to the laid institution.
00:14:54.000 I'm not sending my kids to a brothel. 1.00
00:14:57.000 But it feels so good to get a BJ!
00:15:00.000 No.
00:15:01.000 Do that on your own time.
00:15:03.000 That's a hobby.
00:15:06.000 Um...
00:15:08.000 I'm getting distracted by all this commotion.
00:15:13.000 So here's where I get controversial.
00:15:14.000 Pre-secondary education.
00:15:17.000 Like my kids.
00:15:17.000 I took my kid to spring training in Port St.
00:15:20.000 Lucie.
00:15:21.000 Yanked him out of school for a week.
00:15:23.000 There's games on the weekend.
00:15:25.000 But I liked the games better Monday to Friday.
00:15:27.000 There was the Nationals and other teams.
00:15:29.000 The Mets are going to be playing the Astros.
00:15:31.000 And I thought, yeah, we're going.
00:15:33.000 We're going during the week.
00:15:35.000 Yanked him out of school.
00:15:36.000 Didn't think about it for a second.
00:15:39.000 I tell my daughter all the time, why don't you and mom go into the city, go see a play or something in the middle of the day.
00:15:44.000 Who cares about school? 1.00
00:15:48.000 It's stupid. 1.00
00:15:50.000 And even at, you know, my kid's school, it's a nice school. 1.00
00:15:54.000 It's kind of why we moved to the Burbs.
00:15:56.000 But, um, I think that school does a lot of sort of teaching to the test.
00:16:02.000 And that is technically
00:16:05.000 A better school, you get better grades, but is it an education?
00:16:07.000 Like when you talk to a 12 year old and you say, who's George Washington?
00:16:13.000 They don't, they might go, he was the first president of the United States, like a robot.
00:16:18.000 They wouldn't say, he's an incredible man, you know?
00:16:21.000 I mean, really, he is the father, not the founding father, he's the father of America in many ways.
00:16:28.000 I mean, you know what I can't help but think?
00:16:30.000 What is it, little kid?
00:16:31.000 You 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,
00:16:44.000 Maybe that's when he decided they could beat the British. 0.98
00:16:45.000 Maybe that's when he decided not to be a victim.
00:16:48.000 And he said, you know what?
00:16:49.000 I don't want to fight for the British anymore.
00:16:50.000 I want to fight with my own people and the Indians from the trees and destroy the British and start America as an independent country. 1.00
00:16:59.000 And then another little kid goes, well, what about the newspapers there, Kevin?
00:17:03.000 You know, they had all that free press up and down the East Coast.
00:17:07.000 The Brits encouraged people to debate and have different views.
00:17:09.000 Maybe eventually, with the First Amendment, they got to the point where they realized through trial and error they were better off solo.
00:17:15.000 Maybe the Brits brought it on themselves.
00:17:17.000 Interesting point, other little kid!
00:17:21.000 And then, of course, in a warrior culture, the biggest chief, the biggest warrior is going to become the first president of the United States.
00:17:29.000 So to me, you know, you look back at him and by the way, he never had wooden teeth.
00:17:33.000 You look back at him and you see them as sort of a tyrant and a tough guy.
00:17:39.000 But that was life back then.
00:17:43.000 No kid would ever say that in a million years.
00:17:45.000 They just go, George Washington is the first president of the United States. 0.97
00:17:48.000 It's just a big fucking daycare from zero to... Well, to ever. 0.98
00:17:56.000 I guess that's what I'm saying. 0.99
00:17:57.000 I want to get back to the 1800s. 0.66
00:18:01.000 I'm worse than a curmudgeon. 1.00
00:18:03.000 I'm not just like, I hate these kids with their shower shoes and their goddamn fidget spinners. 1.00
00:18:09.000 I hate these kids that are from this century. 1.00
00:18:13.000 Go back to the 1800s and you should learn to read.
00:18:18.000 And that was what was so revolutionary about education is we said, why are we just letting the elites read all our documents?
00:18:24.000 And this goes back not that far.
00:18:26.000 Like my grandfather's generation, I know my grandfather was quite literate.
00:18:28.000 I believe he was the head of the Communist Party in his particular division, his council in Glasgow, Scotland.
00:18:36.000 Not happy about that.
00:18:37.000 I saw some old letter that I could just see a piece of the letter.
00:18:40.000 My cousin's going to send me the whole thing soon, but it said, capitalism is a detriment to society.
00:18:46.000 And the fact that he could write that and think that was a big deal in working-class Glasgow. 1.00
00:18:49.000 He would read all their, you know, the other employees' forms and stuff and letters of eviction and tell them, yeah, you're fucked. 0.99
00:18:57.000 So, we don't want that. 0.99
00:18:59.000 We obviously want a literate working class. 0.85
00:19:02.000 A-literate.
00:19:04.000 Two words there.
00:19:06.000 And it's just fun to read.
00:19:08.000 It's cool to be able to read a book.
00:19:10.000 So we definitely want that, right?
00:19:13.000 But you could teach that in no time.
00:19:15.000 You could teach that in an afternoon.
00:19:18.000 Why are we spending so many hours?
00:19:20.000 Like, my kids sometimes won't be able to play.
00:19:22.000 They'll be out, I'll say, what happened today?
00:19:24.000 Oh, we were only, recess was only 10 minutes.
00:19:27.000 Uh, work sess should be 10 minutes. 0.64
00:19:30.000 You should be outside 90% of the day.
00:19:32.000 So, this is where it gets radical and I'm gonna lose you. 1.00
00:19:36.000 Fuck school. 1.00
00:19:38.000 School's abolished. 1.00
00:19:40.000 Right?
00:19:41.000 There's a large pen.
00:19:44.000 It's a giant playground.
00:19:45.000 So take the school, and you know how the school's most of the area, and then there's the playground?
00:19:50.000 This is the playground's most of the area, and then there's a little school.
00:19:54.000 Now,
00:19:55.000 95% of the kids can just play.
00:19:57.000 You can play soccer, do whatever you want all day.
00:20:00.000 I understand that it's going to be cold in the winter up north of the Mason-Dixon line, so we can play basketball inside.
00:20:09.000 We got a big court.
00:20:10.000 We can do arts and crafts.
00:20:12.000 You know, I go to these schools for my son's game, and I see the walls, and it's so much just arts and crafts.
00:20:19.000 For the first few years.
00:20:20.000 And there's so much time wasted.
00:20:21.000 Remember?
00:20:22.000 We have to do this thing.
00:20:23.000 Did you guys do this where you do a presentation?
00:20:26.000 Yeah, this is about the Black Widow Spider.
00:20:28.000 They are very common in North America, and poisonous, but very few deaths.
00:20:32.000 And here's a picture of a Black Widow Spider.
00:20:34.000 I once made a mobile of Black Widow Spiders. 0.99
00:20:37.000 What the fuck was that for? 0.99
00:20:39.000 Some kid's crib? 1.00
00:20:42.000 What, how did I learn more about Black Widow Spider's butt? 0.91
00:20:45.000 It was just like, when you did these presentations, the more stuff you had, the better? 0.86
00:20:48.000 Okay, here's a Black Widow made out of pipe cleaners. 1.00
00:20:51.000 Now do I, am I smarter? 1.00
00:20:54.000 And then you do that stupid presentation that sucked. 1.00
00:20:56.000 And the teacher, who's doing crossword puzzles all day, by the way, I hate teachers, that's a big part of this. 1.00
00:21:01.000 Because it's a socialist system where they can't get fired. 1.00
00:21:04.000 And when you're in any workforce where you can't get fired, you suck. 0.90
00:21:10.000 That's why charter schools, where they get paid less, do way better. 0.94
00:21:15.000 Because these teachers know they can get fired.
00:21:17.000 So they like it more.
00:21:19.000 You don't want to play Monopoly when you're always gonna win.
00:21:21.000 That's not fun.
00:21:24.000 So... It's a giant playground.
00:21:31.000 And you do whatever you want.
00:21:32.000 You don't even have to learn how to read until maybe you're seven or eight.
00:21:38.000 And then yeah, we should come in and read.
00:21:40.000 Just so you can like read a book about baseball if you're into baseball and stuff.
00:21:43.000 You can have more fun.
00:21:45.000 But there's going to be nerds and there's going to be guys who don't want to play.
00:21:49.000 Well, what we do with them is we say, what are you interested in?
00:21:53.000 And you can sort of feel it out pretty quickly with kids.
00:21:55.000 People always act like there's gray areas with kids.
00:21:57.000 You don't know kids.
00:21:59.000 It's very clear what's going on.
00:22:01.000 When you watch a baseball game, there's four kids that rule that have a bright future in this game. 1.00
00:22:06.000 And then there's another 32 that suck shit and have no future. 1.00
00:22:10.000 It's not like there's some that are sort of good. 1.00
00:22:13.000 And there's two who have MLB potential.
00:22:18.000 You 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.
00:22:25.000 Especially with kids' basketball.
00:22:27.000 There's that one kid who just goes up and down the court, scoring, scoring, scoring.
00:22:30.000 He's the winner.
00:22:32.000 Similarly, there's a kid who's into sharks.
00:22:34.000 All right, come here.
00:22:35.000 And we have these experts.
00:22:38.000 These philosophers who take you to the shark books and they teach you math via sharks, and those would probably be the 5%.
00:22:44.000 We educate those 5% because it's natural. 0.98
00:22:47.000 You see, all of this is already laid out, like with potty training. 0.99
00:22:51.000 With the first two kids, we had the little book, Hey, Elmo Takes a Shit. 0.98
00:22:54.000 I think that's what it was called. 0.99
00:22:55.000 And you'd go through it page by page, try this, and they would end up, you know, shitting in a toilet at like three.
00:23:04.000 Then, with my youngest one, I went, ah, whatever, he'll figure it out.
00:23:07.000 Guess what?
00:23:08.000 Exact same age.
00:23:09.000 He 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.
00:23:15.000 I want to be- I don't like diapers, they're for kids.
00:23:18.000 And I think that happens in everything.
00:23:20.000 So when we stick them in a classroom, and my kids are doing classes like- tests for like four hours.
00:23:27.000 Straight.
00:23:28.000 What is this?
00:23:29.000 Gale?
00:23:32.000 I don't think it's natural.
00:23:33.000 And it's not like they come and they have this sort of academic tone after.
00:23:37.000 It'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.
00:23:44.000 But then I'm sort of, dad, I have to be frank with you.
00:23:47.000 I'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.
00:24:00.000 Now, this isn't a throwaway comment said at the tavern.
00:24:04.000 This is something he said in public, in the house.
00:24:08.000 And 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? 0.99
00:24:22.000 Whoa, shit, you really been studying, boy? 0.98
00:24:25.000 Uh, yeah. 1.00
00:24:27.000 Yeah, I think about that too sometimes.
00:24:29.000 No.
00:24:31.000 In fact, I wasn't even interested in that kind of stuff after I graduated college.
00:24:37.000 It's around 28 or 29 that I started going, so what's going on with this Civil War thing?
00:24:43.000 What was that about?
00:24:44.000 Then my 30s, I started reading books about history and stuff.
00:24:47.000 And now in my 40s, I'm that guy where I sit down with dad and I say, what are we doing in Syria?
00:24:56.000 Well, Gavin, the American government knows every single flight globally.
00:25:04.000 So 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.
00:25:20.000 By the way, in all
00:25:23.000 Eh, okay.
00:25:24.000 I don't care if kids are being gassed.
00:25:25.000 Sorry.
00:25:26.000 I don't care about the world.
00:25:27.000 FTW.
00:25:30.000 That's my tattoo. 1.00
00:25:31.000 Fuck the world. 1.00
00:25:34.000 So yeah, you really just get curious as you get older. 1.00
00:25:36.000 That's when you want to get academic.
00:25:38.000 And what do you want to do when you're a kid?
00:25:39.000 Play.
00:25:40.000 You know what else they should do?
00:25:41.000 Work.
00:25:42.000 Now I know I've lost you all.
00:25:44.000 And that's fine.
00:25:46.000 We're not getting married.
00:25:48.000 But they should have jobs.
00:25:51.000 They should play and also have a factory in the school making license plates.
00:25:57.000 I know this sounds very similar to prison, but prisoners only get an hour out a day.
00:26:01.000 I'm talking about five hours.
00:26:04.000 Playing, sports, arts and crafts.
00:26:07.000 It should just be a giant party!
00:26:09.000 Now they can't stay here because we're at work.
00:26:12.000 Although mom should be home.
00:26:13.000 But a mom and a kid all day, she goes nuts. 1.00
00:26:17.000 And plus, they're fucking hyper. 0.98
00:26:19.000 You ever played with a kid? 0.99
00:26:21.000 They can just go!
00:26:23.000 Like a kid... Kids, we play these baseball games two in a row.
00:26:27.000 It's freezing cold.
00:26:29.000 Winds blowing, dust storms.
00:26:32.000 The kids are there at 8am.
00:26:34.000 Both games are finally over by 4.
00:26:36.000 They don't want to go home.
00:26:37.000 They want to keep partying.
00:26:40.000 Now, you sit them in the house and you put them in front of a video game, that's crack cocaine.
00:26:44.000 Where, 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?
00:26:59.000 Well, if I do this, this, this, and this, then people get addicted.
00:27:02.000 So that's different.
00:27:02.000 That's like saying, people like being in crack houses, there's just something about the indoors.
00:27:07.000 No, there's drugs in there.
00:27:10.000 So I know kids are happy to stay in when they have video games.
00:27:13.000 And no, there'd be no video games at these schools.
00:27:16.000 But there would be jobs.
00:27:18.000 Kids love jobs.
00:27:19.000 Paper Roots, they're good at it too.
00:27:22.000 And... 0.99
00:27:23.000 I 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. 1.00
00:27:31.000 Illegal immigrants cleaned the pools, did the lawn work, collected the bills. 1.00
00:27:36.000 See the beauty, I had jobs like cleaning pools and mowing lawns and all that, shoveling driveways.
00:27:41.000 The beauty of that job, a big part of it is debt collection.
00:27:45.000 You realize that the McAllisters, everyone with a mick is cheap. 1.00
00:27:48.000 We didn't have a lot of Jews in Canada.
00:27:51.000 But when you see a mick, you go, oh great, I really gotta hound this guy. 1.00
00:27:55.000 And 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.
00:28:03.000 And eventually, they just pay you the money.
00:28:06.000 And that's what all retail is.
00:28:08.000 That's what all business is.
00:28:09.000 I don't care if you're the Washington Post or Amazon.
00:28:13.000 Still, 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.
00:28:21.000 It's a huge part of being a man.
00:28:25.000 And we took that away from our children by coddling them and letting foreigners do all the jobs. 1.00
00:28:31.000 So that's sick and wrong.
00:28:32.000 They should be working.
00:28:33.000 They shouldn't be in coal mines like the Industrial Revolution where we had eight-year-olds a hundred feet down. 0.83
00:28:40.000 But they're silly little jobs they can do.
00:28:41.000 It gives them self-worth. 0.91
00:28:43.000 What kind of ages am I talking here?
00:28:45.000 Good question.
00:28:46.000 All right.
00:28:47.000 So, no alphabet or nothing for one, two, three, four, five,
00:28:56.000 6, 7.
00:28:57.000 Just arts and crafts, and fun, and making cookies, and drawing, and playing soccer outside until you're 7.
00:29:04.000 Still same hours though, because people have to work.
00:29:09.000 At the age of 7, you have to learn how to read and write.
00:29:13.000 And you have to be reading a book at all times.
00:29:15.000 Still, playing 80% of the day is play.
00:29:20.000 That's 7, 8, 9, 10.
00:29:25.000 You still have to read, if you're curious, i.e.
00:29:29.000 part of that 5% will take you aside and teach you about sharks and cars and whatever you're interested in, math.
00:29:34.000 I'm sure 1% will be naturally drawn to math. 0.99
00:29:36.000 You 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. 0.98
00:29:48.000 That's not how people get attracted to math. 0.99
00:29:51.000 This whole lie about role models,
00:29:54.000 I saw a black surgeon on a TV show and now I want to be a black surgeon.
00:29:59.000 I didn't know.
00:30:00.000 They call it a see it to be it. 1.00
00:30:03.000 Bullshit. 1.00
00:30:07.000 You're attracted to math because you're attracted to math. 1.00
00:30:08.000 My dad was attracted to math. 1.00
00:30:10.000 I was forced to take math in college and I might as well have been forced to suck dicks. 1.00
00:30:14.000 It was just not happening. 1.00
00:30:17.000 And I've always said that about gays, like, the whole idea. 0.59
00:30:20.000 Margaret Cho has a bit about this where she says, if you think gay is something you can become, uh, you're gay. 1.00
00:30:24.000 And I've always said, the first dick I ever sucked would be like... Dry heaving. 1.00
00:30:27.000 And then, the 999th would be... Exactly the same. 1.00
00:30:29.000 And that's the way it was with math.
00:30:39.000 It was just blowing dudes. 0.83
00:30:42.000 999 dudes.
00:30:43.000 That's what mathematics is. 0.97
00:30:45.000 It is so fucking, excuse the analogy, it is so hard taking calculus and algebra in college. 0.96
00:30:52.000 I 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. 0.97
00:31:03.000 What do you mean the derivative?
00:31:05.000 3x plus y cubed?
00:31:06.000 It's spun about the z-axis?
00:31:08.000 Okay, where's the z-axis again?
00:31:10.000 Oh, that's what, okay.
00:31:11.000 Why would you spin a function around the z-axis?
00:31:14.000 Oh, to get its surface area?
00:31:16.000 Okay.
00:31:16.000 Can't you just like dip it in water and measure the water that's displaced?
00:31:19.000 Wouldn't that be easier than literally three pages of notes?
00:31:22.000 It was so hard that your exam, your finals, would be a question.
00:31:29.000 A question.
00:31:30.000 It'd take you three hours and it would be seven pages.
00:31:33.000 It would be like 3x plus y cubed spun about the z-axis.
00:31:37.000 No thanks.
00:31:39.000 Still have nightmares about it.
00:31:40.000 Decades later.
00:31:41.000 About having to tell my dad I'm dropping out of math.
00:31:43.000 Anyway, sorry, that's a tenure.
00:31:46.000 My 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.
00:31:54.000 You know, I think it's good to introduce kids to a lot of stuff.
00:31:58.000 I 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.
00:32:10.000 And finally, baseball just stuck to my son like venom in Spider-Man.
00:32:16.000 Now he just is a baseball.
00:32:18.000 My daughter, she seems to be really getting into softball.
00:32:20.000 And my son, T-ball.
00:32:22.000 I 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.
00:32:35.000 They should take math, history, geography.
00:32:38.000 I say no.
00:32:40.000 That's the controversial part of this podcast.
00:32:42.000 No, you shouldn't.
00:32:44.000 No, you don't need to know history, geography, all this stuff.
00:32:46.000 We don't all need this.
00:32:48.000 We don't all need to be educated. 1.00
00:32:49.000 That was the Barack Obama bullshit. 0.99
00:32:51.000 We live in a country where there's a bunch of people who aren't in college. 1.00
00:32:54.000 Let's get them in college! 0.99
00:32:56.000 Get them free education!
00:32:57.000 Education!
00:32:58.000 Education!
00:32:59.000 You know what that's based on?
00:33:00.000 That myth?
00:33:01.000 It's based on boomers and previous generations where they went, look, these guys are all poor because of the Industrial Revolution, whatever.
00:33:09.000 This is back when the working class weren't rich like they are today. 1.00
00:33:14.000 And these people are wealthy.
00:33:15.000 What's the difference?
00:33:16.000 Well, these people had an education.
00:33:18.000 The rich people, the Rockefellers, had an education. 0.89
00:33:20.000 They went to Harvard.
00:33:21.000 These poor people didn't. 0.99
00:33:23.000 These poor black people. 1.00
00:33:24.000 So let's get the black people into Harvard and then we'll all be Rockefellers. 1.00
00:33:28.000 No. 0.95
00:33:29.000 The Rockefellers just happened to go to college.
00:33:31.000 It's not college that made them rich.
00:33:34.000 Smart people go to college the same way that guitarists want to jam with other guitarists.
00:33:40.000 It's not the jamming that made them good.
00:33:42.000 It's the fact that they were born with a predilection for learning to play an instrument.
00:33:47.000 Well, I took guitar lessons.
00:33:49.000 Not happening.
00:33:51.000 Way too hard.
00:33:52.000 I still don't even get it.
00:33:54.000 I still don't get how you can touch the string without your finger touching the other string that's right next to it.
00:34:00.000 I would need like an inch per string.
00:34:02.000 My guitar, the fret arm thing, would be as wide as the bottom guitar.
00:34:06.000 It would just be one big plank of wood.
00:34:08.000 That I can understand.
00:34:09.000 Maybe.
00:34:11.000 Because I'm not naturally predisposed to do it.
00:34:15.000 So,
00:34:17.000 Whether you like what I'm saying or not, the schools already are a fake daycare.
00:34:21.000 They already are a joke.
00:34:23.000 So I'm saying we accept that and let the kids play more. 1.00
00:34:27.000 Why are they sitting, learning these stupid lists, this dumb crap? 1.00
00:34:32.000 Even like... This is good schools. 1.00
00:34:36.000 You should see the public schools in New York.
00:34:38.000 What my kids were subjected to at PS84.
00:34:41.000 My lord!
00:34:44.000 My kid got a post-it note that said, you're awesome.
00:34:48.000 Y-O-U-R awesome.
00:34:52.000 Another time, my other kid got a note back.
00:34:54.000 She did her homework with markers.
00:34:56.000 It said, no merkers. 0.99
00:34:59.000 M-E-R-K-E-R-S. 1.00
00:35:02.000 If you write merkers for the word markers, you're not used to looking at words.
00:35:06.000 Like same with you're awesome.
00:35:08.000 If you read a lot, that looks unusual to you.
00:35:11.000 If you never, ever read and you just watch a telenovela, then it doesn't look unusual to you.
00:35:19.000 So that's urban public schools, but even the fancy schools, when I hear what they're doing, I just go, what?
00:35:24.000 Why? 0.98
00:35:25.000 You know, there's no... And these teachers who are basically communists because they've been doing the same crap forever. 1.00
00:35:31.000 They 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. 1.00
00:35:40.000 Teachers are bitchy, male and female. 1.00
00:35:46.000 The reason they have that ego and they don't think they should ever be fired is because of these unions. 0.95
00:35:51.000 Teachers unions have more money on Capitol Hill than the NRA, all other lobbies combined.
00:35:57.000 All they do is spend tons and tons of my money.
00:36:01.000 And by the way, everyone who talks about how teachers are poor, yeah, that's because they take off four months of the year.
00:36:08.000 They make about $60 an hour when you factor in the actual hours actually worked.
00:36:13.000 No, they work on their curriculum.
00:36:15.000 No, they don't.
00:36:16.000 That's a lie.
00:36:17.000 All summer, they're getting ready for September.
00:36:20.000 I see them on the lake.
00:36:20.000 No, they're not.
00:36:21.000 They're water skiing.
00:36:24.000 And we've been spending more and more and more per student.
00:36:27.000 I think we're up to like $1,000 a month per student.
00:36:32.000 $12,000 a year.
00:36:33.000 In other states, like New York, I think it's $20,000 a year we spend.
00:36:37.000 Guess what's happened to test scores in the past 50 years? 1.00
00:36:40.000 Fuck all. 1.00
00:36:41.000 They haven't budged. 1.00
00:36:43.000 They're just a horizontal line.
00:36:45.000 Now they say, well that's because the administration is taking all the money.
00:36:48.000 No, it's because throwing money at a problem doesn't solve the problem.
00:36:52.000 And the problem is, being an academic, being an intellectual, being a pontificator, it's a rare trait.
00:37:00.000 It's like being a musician or a comedian.
00:37:03.000 Or a dancer or something.
00:37:05.000 Or a pro athlete.
00:37:07.000 And I don't think that intellectuals are better than other people. 1.00
00:37:10.000 When I think of the people I like to hang out with, most of them are dumb. 0.99
00:37:13.000 I think intelligence is overrated. 1.00
00:37:16.000 And the idea that intelligence is something that can be acquired, that is also a huge myth.
00:37:20.000 I think it's like creativity.
00:37:22.000 It's a genetic trait.
00:37:23.000 And we have this strange culture where we put all this onus on creativity and intellect and pretend they're magic.
00:37:30.000 And then,
00:37:32.000 Pretend that we can acquire that magic. 1.00
00:37:34.000 It's two huge, stupid assumptions with no background. 1.00
00:37:39.000 I went to a Red Bull seminar back when I was in advertising and we were recording them. 1.00
00:37:44.000 And by the way, that was two years of courtship that went nowhere, millennials.
00:37:48.000 You can actually work hard for something and not get it.
00:37:50.000 That happens in the real world.
00:37:54.000 And it was like a two-day seminar on hacking creativity, it was called.
00:37:58.000 And all they talked about were studies that investigated creativity.
00:38:02.000 But no examples of how to hack it, and no one would answer me this question, but why did you assume it's hackable in the first place?
00:38:11.000 Now take that premise and expand it to education.
00:38:14.000 Why are you assuming intelligence is something that can be acquired and why should it be acquired?
00:38:19.000 What's the matter with the trade?
00:38:21.000 What's the matter with welding?
00:38:23.000 I 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. 0.99
00:38:30.000 And he said, you can actually make a lot out of any job.
00:38:33.000 Say 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.
00:38:42.000 And then you can say, let's do this with all the chains.
00:38:44.000 It's really effective.
00:38:45.000 The next thing you know, you've made stacking records an intellectual pursuit.
00:38:50.000 Same with being a cop.
00:38:51.000 I want my son to be a cop.
00:38:52.000 My wife goes, no, I don't want him seeing all that gore and living that horrible life.
00:38:55.000 I go, being a cop's what you make it.
00:38:57.000 You do your homework, you're a detective in no time.
00:39:00.000 You do that homework, now you're in the top brass, lieutenants, chiefs.
00:39:05.000 You know, to be the police captain these days is just a bunch of ribbon-cutting.
00:39:09.000 That's what, whatever you want it to be, it can be.
00:39:11.000 So, it's not the job, it's how you handle the job.
00:39:14.000 I'm sure you can get intellectual about welding.
00:39:20.000 So, the moral of the story of this episode is...
00:39:25.000 Drop out of school.
00:39:26.000 I saw Ben Shapiro. 0.91
00:39:28.000 Someone 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.
00:39:42.000 First of all, how do you crush them? 0.97
00:39:44.000 You buy a bulldozer and ram it into their house?
00:39:47.000 You're not going to crush them.
00:39:48.000 They won't remember you.
00:39:49.000 You're gone.
00:39:51.000 I say, be honest, write a good essay, get an F, and get kicked out of school.
00:39:56.000 Same with your job.
00:39:57.000 I can't say what you say or I'll get fired.
00:39:59.000 Do you know how many times I've been fired?
00:40:01.000 Yeah, but you can afford it.
00:40:02.000 Yeah, but I built that fortune.
00:40:04.000 From scratch.
00:40:05.000 So get fired.
00:40:07.000 Get kicked out of school.
00:40:08.000 Don't take- Shapiro's wrong.
00:40:11.000 Don't become a communist and get A's.
00:40:13.000 Be honest and be, you know, have a modicum of rigor, as Steven Pinker from Harvard said.
00:40:21.000 And present your arguments deftly and succinctly and thoroughly.
00:40:30.000 And it doesn't matter what they say.
00:40:33.000 You'll die with your boots on.
00:40:34.000 That's the American way. 0.97
00:40:35.000 That's the Western way. 0.93
00:40:37.000 Dying with your boots on.
00:40:40.000 And then... Actually, don't even go to... Don't go to college unless it's STEM.
00:40:46.000 Be an intern.
00:40:46.000 Be an annoying intern like the ones in my office today.
00:40:49.000 And just learn hands-on.
00:40:52.000 Most of these businesses move so fast.
00:40:55.000 Like, look at the newspaper industry, or the magazine industry, or media in general.
00:40:59.000 It seems to be changing on a daily basis.
00:41:01.000 You think you can cover that in school?
00:41:02.000 I have no idea how economics is taught.
00:41:05.000 How do they teach business in school?
00:41:07.000 The textbooks, are the textbooks all magic Harry Potter textbooks that change their text every day?
00:41:13.000 Because the economy of last week seems to be completely unrelated to the economy of today.
00:41:20.000 No, but it's the same patterns, man.
00:41:22.000 It goes back to gold and stones and the cave days. 1.00
00:41:25.000 Fuck you. 1.00
00:41:26.000 No, it doesn't. 1.00
00:41:27.000 Bitcoin changes on a daily basis.
00:41:30.000 I still don't know if I regret buying it or not.
00:41:36.000 So yeah.
00:41:38.000 You agree with me that liberal arts is a total waste of time and it's child abuse to send your kid there.
00:41:42.000 That's just a fact.
00:41:44.000 STEM being the only thing you should take in college, I agree.
00:41:48.000 Although I think there might even be an argument for not taking STEM and that may even be a better thing to be an intern at.
00:41:53.000 Can't validate that because I'm too dumb to know really what STEM is.
00:41:57.000 Like, I can't really tell you what an engineer learns all day. 0.89
00:42:02.000 Math?
00:42:05.000 Then it gets controversial because previous to that, high school and below, I become a radical.
00:42:12.000 And my radical belief is they'd be better off just playing.
00:42:15.000 5% should learn.
00:42:19.000 Everyone should learn to read, but 5% should, you know, really pursue things because they're nerds and they're not athletic.
00:42:23.000 They won't enjoy playing.
00:42:24.000 They probably are autistic. 0.94
00:42:27.000 And they should also, this is where it gets really weird, work.
00:42:32.000 I mean, I'm not talking about working on the chain gang, but there should be a little thing that generates a profit.
00:42:36.000 License plates, whatever.
00:42:38.000 Some sort of factory.
00:42:39.000 Some sort of cheap manufacturing.
00:42:41.000 The parents can opt out, obviously.
00:42:43.000 I'm not talking about laws.
00:42:45.000 I'm just saying it should be introduced as an option.
00:42:47.000 I bet all the kids would love it.
00:42:48.000 I bet they'd love if they were building keychains for an hour a day or something.
00:42:53.000 And they'd learn about business.
00:42:56.000 Anyway, those are my radical beliefs and I brought them up on the show because I can't stop thinking about them.
00:43:01.000 This isn't just like, wouldn't it be funny to wear shorts in the winter?
00:43:04.000 This is like, we'd all be better off if we wore shorts in the winter.
00:43:09.000 The world would be drastically improved.
00:43:10.000 That's how I feel about this thing.
00:43:12.000 It's not a quirky concept.
00:43:13.000 It's the elephant in the room.
00:43:14.000 It's sort of like I was saying in the last podcast about makeup.
00:43:18.000 I know for a fact that Fox News or no, no news stations need makeup, and the makeup is making the men look weird. 1.00
00:43:26.000 Lou Dobbs looks like a peach vagina. 1.00
00:43:29.000 Men have, you know, scruff and age spots and stuff. 1.00
00:43:32.000 When you powder it off, you make everyone look fucking weird. 0.92
00:43:36.000 So I know this to be true, and it haunts me. 0.87
00:43:39.000 And I know education, 95% of it is a complete waste of time, and it's making our kids' lives less fun.
00:43:46.000 Kids should be riffing and partying.
00:43:49.000 Anyway, more of this is discussed in depth at CRTV.com.
00:43:54.000 Please subscribe to my show.
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00:44:01.000 There's a ton of shows on CRTV.com, way more than you could watch.
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00:44:23.000 I mean, it goes on and on and on.
00:44:26.000 And the fact that you don't want to get it when it costs two beers a month, I find profoundly confusing.
00:44:31.000 I can't afford it!
00:44:33.000 Really?
00:44:34.000 You can't afford $10 a month?
00:44:36.000 That's not true.
00:44:37.000 Bums spend $10 a day on vodka.
00:44:40.000 So you're just lying.
00:44:44.000 It's amazing how many people come up to me in the streets.
00:44:45.000 Like, I get stopped three times a day.
00:44:47.000 And they go, hey man, I love your stuff.
00:44:49.000 I love your show.
00:44:50.000 What show?
00:44:51.000 Well, YouTube. 1.00
00:44:52.000 Yeah, that's not the show, asshole. 1.00
00:44:57.000 All right. 1.00
00:44:57.000 That is my show for today. 1.00
00:45:01.000 Should I- am I advocating homeschooling?
00:45:03.000 I don't know.
00:45:04.000 Am I advocating charter schools?
00:45:06.000 Yes.
00:45:07.000 Um, am I saying rip your kids out of school?
00:45:09.000 Obviously not.
00:45:11.000 I'm just saying the way things should be.
00:45:13.000 I'm talking about an ideal world here. 0.97
00:45:15.000 It'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. 0.98