00:01:24.900He gets right up next to the microphone.
00:01:26.160I hear you can almost hear the eyelashes hit each other.
00:01:29.560You've never seen Italy so quiet as when the Pope gets up to wink on Halloween.
00:01:35.060Listen to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:01:42.540I'm Lacey Mosley, author, actor, stand-up comedian, creator, and host of Scam Goddess Podcast, the true crime comedy podcast all about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it.
00:01:52.580Each week I bring on an amazing guest.
00:24:31.600and then we'll shift on to something else.
00:24:33.020I met Jesus today underwater, which was wild.
00:24:35.720But we have a strange conflict right now
00:24:39.500between our own federal government and the state of Texas.
00:24:42.100The state of Texas is saying, yo, we're going to secure this border.
00:24:45.220We're going to defy federal guidelines and federal, you know, enforcement that is telling us that we have to cut razor wire, that we have to allow the Border Patrol to run this border.
00:24:55.860We're going to we're going to run this border ourselves.
00:24:57.740And we have this very interesting standoff right now between, you know, the state of Texas, Texas Rangers and and Department of Homeland Security and and Border Patrol.
00:25:08.880and it's going to be very interesting over the next couple weeks to see what happens there who
00:25:13.280is actually going to end up you know securing the border right and how that's all going to look
00:25:18.140because you know when you start to have a state defy the federal government like that it gets
00:25:22.080pretty fucking messy sometimes it's a very wild situation down at the border i want to say something
00:25:26.580well yeah as as the host of this show absolutely everything you're saying is very important0.95
00:25:31.340it's a little heavy for you it's not it's not just that just like why would anyone come to
00:26:06.660Who knows the most and has the best moral compass to guide where this country should go and why and how are we going to listen to them and why should we listen to them?
00:26:18.760I'm almost overwhelmed by all the chatter and then become sort of disinterested because I don't know what to do with my hands.
00:26:33.500It feels like we're just so divided and everyone has a thought about something and we can talk about this, but like, where does the change come in?
00:26:41.760And that's why I feel like if I'm going to get involved in something, I really want to feel like it's going to make an impact, a real impact.
00:26:51.140And I've looked at all the philanthropic verticals that there are, and I'm trying to decide where I want to contribute because I don't just want to do it in a way where I'm going to participate.
00:27:06.340I want to really make a change if I'm going to devote part of myself and my brand and my time and energy into doing good for the world.
00:27:15.560and Spencer again you're a good person
00:27:17.800to talk about with this is because the one I always
00:39:04.880He gets right up next to the microphone.
00:39:06.600I hear you can almost hear the eyelashes hit each other.
00:39:09.500You've never seen Italy so quiet as when the Pope gets up to wink on Halloween.
00:39:15.080Listen to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:39:21.820Well, that's part of the problem with the American dream is because, you know, you look on social media and people that are looked up to and that people aspire to be have all these things and successes turned into this weird form of, like,
00:39:38.920financial success but that's not what success is so you can go home every night look yourself in
00:39:44.600the mirror and be like yo i'm happy my life is good i like what i do i get to spend time with0.92
00:39:49.560people that i love i have a dog i i have a family like life is fucking good that's how
00:39:55.300happiness should be the goal rather than any form of success dictated by success success and
00:40:02.940happiness are personally defined facts yeah that's true right so you can achieve success in any career
00:40:07.200path to get to that point requires someone like your teacher who did who said the one thing that
00:40:13.220inspired you that one spark so how do you get educators to get to that point and it might not
00:40:19.220be the teacher in the school it might be a parent it might be a friend a family member whatever
00:40:24.040but to get to that point of success is a yeah you have to the the whole system itself has to go
00:40:31.700through a rewiring but the change is happening in pockets outside of the system as i think is
00:40:37.120kind of like every problem right now in our country right like focusing on the government0.78
00:40:42.240and all that shit like ah like no like let's actually just go and build like to your point0.52
00:40:47.260logan let's just go out and build the chain let's be the change we want to see in the world and0.97
00:40:52.400there are a lot of people doing that right now but there's also a lot of really powerful people
00:40:56.140blocking it from happening of course because it doesn't put money into their pocket yeah you can't
00:41:00.980naive of the beast that we are all fighting absolutely yeah absolutely what that's yeah
00:41:08.100what do you mean what what beast the interest yeah the the financial interest no don't do matrix or
00:41:14.740deep like let's just be honest like the financial interest against you know the free thing that we
00:41:20.980want to create we want to create freedom there's people that have monopolized the system it feels0.78
00:41:25.460unfortunately it feels good for the government if you keep people dumb look what we just went
00:41:29.540i have a question for greg i have a question for greg how did how did you inspire your children to
00:41:34.260be aware and uh conscious of their their lifestyle so one thing is they weren't allowed to say can't
00:41:42.560growing up if they said can't i'd make them do push-ups um so you know i'd be like don't tell
00:41:48.900me you can't let's figure out a way you can go around it get through it break through it whatever
00:41:52.460it is uh but we also i was constantly doing stuff with them um like i'd take them down to the metro
00:41:59.740parks and we'd walk along we'd play don't touch the ground and we'd walk along on the logs and
00:42:06.540go from log to log to log and they would have to problem solve because they'd walk to they'd walk
00:42:11.180to an end of a log and be like oh there's none on their log what do we have to do and i'd make
00:42:16.460logan lead and i make jake lead so so they were naturally learning how to problem solve and be a
00:42:23.340leader in a fun way you know actually what you're talking about so my film is the death of recess
00:42:28.820what you're talking about is the solution to the system it's actually making play you know in the
00:42:34.780country our school system the national average get this of recess is 20 minutes per day yeah 20
00:42:42.060minutes yeah so they've just taken the play and the joy out of learning and made it all about
00:42:46.880testing getting into college because it makes money which my film will get into but you're
00:42:51.480right it's about making learning fun because the goal should be to create lifelong learners
00:42:57.000which you are you're learning wwe now you're learning how to start a multi 100 million
00:43:02.740dollar business you are a lifelong learner that is that should be the product and that's like the
00:43:07.220thing to celebrate so it helps when you're invested in a subject though like if you can
00:43:11.640learn about something you love it doesn't feel like work purpose so here's here's one in that
00:43:17.360was a big pet peeve of mine in school kids would have a bake sale and they'd make cookies or
00:43:22.320brownies and sell them for 10 cents or some bullshit and one was like oh dad we want to
00:43:26.760we're going to sell cookies we're going to make money for whatever i'm like okay well the cookies0.90
00:43:30.260cost three dollars and fifty cents and those the chips are this much so it's costing you 11 bucks
00:43:35.080how many cookies can you make if you can only make 10 cookies we got to charge 55 cents a cookie
00:43:39.980to break even otherwise you're not making any money and if you're going to do that then just1.00
00:43:46.080give the 11 to the school fuck the bake sales he was running spreadsheets yeah my motherfuckers0.99
00:43:52.620incorporating cost of goods on our local school fundraiser you're going to make the school buy1.00
00:43:58.680your country the school was promoting a a position where they're losing money business-wise it was0.93
00:44:07.740the dumbest ideas and as a young kid they could all understand that because the math was easy0.84
00:44:11.600enough but you're you're talking about subject matter and i think the thing that we're like0.99
00:44:14.960collectively overlooking except for greg who obviously innately gets it is the biggest thing
00:44:19.700here is the role of the father the role of the parents in the life and the investment of the
00:44:24.940parents and the life of children in this country and in the world right like we're talking about
00:44:29.200these specific subjects going log to log teaching them about the bake sale telling them they can't
00:44:34.140say can't but in reality the biggest thing greg's talking about is he was there for them0.98
00:44:38.140every step of the way he was teaching them he was invested in their fucking lives yeah good0.95
00:44:41.900parenting good parenting and that's like at the end of the day like we could talk about the school0.98
00:44:46.620system we could talk about the government we talk about the laws in this country but at the end of
00:44:50.080the day failures of children is failures of parents yes yes and no yes because you're right
00:44:56.220but imagine but imagine if the parents were raised and there was a course on parenting in general
00:45:01.880those kids who are educated the right way