The College Wrap-Up: Insights That Changed Our Thinking

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After speaking with entrepreneurs, educators, and experts, Dave and

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Jeremy found themselves confronting

uncomfortable realities about

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higher education's economics.

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Their journey through alternatives,

student debt, and changing classroom

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experiences has transformed their

perspectives—and now culminates

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in a powerful roadmap for young

people navigating a system

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in desperate need of reform.

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Jerremy Newsome: I think, again, I

think one of my solutions that I can,

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that we can end up bringing to the

table at some point in the future

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really is that awareness piece, right?

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Where again, the education's if you have

all this stuff for free online, they're

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not coming there for the education, right?

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They're coming there for the experience

of learning how to meet people, talk

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to people, interact with people.

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The education is there.

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I went through tons of classes where the

lecturer was just speaking about really

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cool ideas and all the stuff was online.

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And the professor was like, All

right, cool, hey, just go check

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everything online and, take your test.

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But the idea of the classroom was this

I could just easily see this model where

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the idea starts to change, where it's

no longer everyone sitting in these

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giant, Rose and these stadiums, these

auditoriums, just listening to an orator

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speak all the time, where it's much more,

all right, let's get everyone up on stage.

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Let's have these conversations.

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Let's all sit around these circles.

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Let's sit around these internet campfire

style discussion tables where we really

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start addressing some of the topics of

not only what are we doing, but how are

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we doing, how are we doing it better?

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And what is everyone trying

to learn from this class?

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What are we trying to do with it?

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And.

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Okay, great.

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What is the ultimate

objective of this class?

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Are you trying to get a credit?

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Are you trying to get a grade?

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Are you trying to learn?

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Are you trying to make more money?

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Are you trying to better your life?

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Are you going to use portions of

this to become a better person?

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Having these implementations

of really knowing what the

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students are trying to achieve.

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And bring that to the forefront

and just really laboring that point

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home where this you pump out the

best of the best in every class.

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And every teacher has this kind of vision.

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You now have people that can

pay more for these experiences.

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Where again, you're going on a three

day hike and camp with your whole class

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and you're now paying for that hike

and you're going on this hike and now

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you're outdoors and you're learning.

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And if this is a science or biology.

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You're there hands on.

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And those are what create memories.

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Anyway, people are going to remember that

three day hike for their whole entire life

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versus being in a room for four hours.

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Those are the things

that people can pay for.

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Those are some experiences that as

you just start understanding on the

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bigger scope, all these teachers that

have always told me, just like Karen,

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that there needs to be some level of

change because we've done the exact

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same thing you did since the dark ages.

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Like we have to start making these shifts.

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We really need to

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Dave Conley: Here's what I didn't,

here's what I didn't get from episode

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two with With Anya was why I like I'm I

maybe I'm just the one I don't think I'm

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the only one just struggling with this.

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I struggled with it in our first round

of school safety and school shootings

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and I'm struggling with it again on this.

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Is, why did it get so expensive?

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Why do we have so many administrators?

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Why, what is this, is

this massive inflation?

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I think it's easy to say the

availability of easy money means

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the price of it's going to go up.

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And maybe that is the answer, but the

UK has the same problem, and I don't

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know, is it because of loans, and I don't

know I'm still at the what happened?

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We've heard about our parents generation

where they could work full time, or

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they could work a part time minimum wage

job, and, More than pay for college,

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Jerremy Newsome: yeah,

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Dave Conley: like what happened?

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Did you hear that in anybody we talked to?

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Nobody had that one, right?

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Jerremy Newsome: no, I don't

think, I don't think overarchingly

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because obviously the answer is

some level of inflation, right?

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Price is just extremely higher.

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And that is the answer of what happened

is profits went up for companies

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and corporations and companies are

making more money now than the Bible.

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Like the, you take the richest

man in the Bible and companies are

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making more money than those guys.

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Now.

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And you just have inflation through

the absolute roof because companies

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are becoming more profitable and

they can make more money faster.

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And they therefore aren't going

to really expedite the prices

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of charging less because of,

capitalism and we're allowing that.

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And again, it's an interesting awareness

because that's, that is what's occurring.

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Like the amount of people that are

making goo buckles of money based

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off of just the interest rates.

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Yes, they gargantuanly peered into.

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Dave Conley: Yeah.

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It's every time we know that every

time there's somebody in between,

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like the student and the university,

everybody has to get paid money.

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And This isn't all demand driven.

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It's not like every student stood up

and say, I want a rock wall and full

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time housekeeping, Like it wasn't that.

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So there are people getting filthy

rich on this being broken like this.

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And they clearly have influence.

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Jerremy Newsome: Yes.

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They do.

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And I think that's the thing

that at some stage needs to be

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really gargantuanly peered into.

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Through whatever organization or company

or product or person that wants to start

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understanding this more because the system

is being too profitable and it's not

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cared about enough where they're making

too much money and I'm down for money.

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I love it.

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I am.

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I am that guy.

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I am just aware that I think there are

probably certain industries slash sectors.

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Where there should be some level

of cappage because if you're going

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to go into certain levels and

certain sectors We're like, okay.

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I just want to be in this for the good

of the humanities I want to be in this

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a good for the world All right, cool.

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And if you're at the top of that

heap, you're the top of that pile aka

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Let's say you're the CEO of Goodwill.

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All right.

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Awesome if you want to be in that role

You probably know that you're gonna

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start topping out at a certain level And

that certain level is a baseline level

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because we got to feed the profits back

to the people that are going through it.

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We can't live off the backs

of all the people that we're

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putting through this machine.

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And that's what we're, that's what's

happening right now with college.

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The college players, for example, that

just, this is just starting to happen.

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This has been my idea for five,

six, seven years where we absolutely

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should be paying our college athletes.

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For sure.

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Like you pay them because a lot

of college sports bring in obscene

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sounds, sums of money, millions

and millions of dollars a year.

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And you're paying these coaches to

coach the kids that they get the

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education for free and that's it.

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They're not going to get any money.

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Dave Conley: Everybody, every

other student who works for

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the university gets paid.

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Like it's a no brainer.

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Jerremy Newsome: Unbelievable, dude.

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So there is a money machine.

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There's a money monster

somewhere out there that's never

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really, truly been hunted down.

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And I would love to hunt down

that money monster and find out

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where it is, where it's all going.

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Because I think if the college

requirements where you got to take your

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endowment or your certain level of doubt,

you have to put it into this instrument.

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And this instrument is now,

once it hits a certain level.

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We now know that it can pay for

this amount of students perpetually

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for free and the staff and all

the things just off of interest.

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Now education does become free.

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And you start, you can apply

that model to enough people.

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It'll work.

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Dave Conley: It strikes me that there's

no transparency in the model really.

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Like we, we don't really know

what the overhead costs are.

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We don't know what tuition even is, right?

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There's a there's probably a, there is a

published tuition, but it's okay, how many

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of this is, how much of this is loans?

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How much of this is reduction in, like

who actually pays the full rate and.

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When you put in almost unlimited

amounts of money that loans can

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be taken out on, then the system's

gonna grow to fill that up.

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And I, this was yet another one where

it's like, where does the money go?

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Because it's it is so much

money, and it's like, what?

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Where does it go?

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I,

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Dave Conley: I don't know.

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I it strikes me, it I, like my

magic wand on this is like, why?

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Maybe the student loan thing is the

piece that's not really working.

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So maybe it's, I don't know if

money is the access problem.

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If we took more money out of the

system, more people might have access.

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Does that make sense?

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Jerremy Newsome: Yep.

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It does.

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It does indeed.

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And I agree.

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I don't think that I don't think

it's an access thing right now.

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Realistically.

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I just think that at some level of system

arbitrage and information arbitrage,

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it's not being properly released and

it's being a little bit too confined.

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And it's not being shared

openly enough, right?

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To your point, there's just not a lot of

information out there openly for most of

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these organizations that are making so

much obscene profits off of these students

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that again, to that point could, if the

organizations were as good as they want

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to be or claim to be, Could you say on

the back end, Hey, we're going to get you

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great jobs, great education, pay us later

off of what amount of money that you make.

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Dave Conley: So here in episode two we.

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I think this was the only this might

be the only episode that we really

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touched on the college loan forgiveness.

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And I recall that's that I

think most of you and maybe our

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guests were like not for that.

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I don't know how we all landed on it.

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I'm still, I'm stuck on this in

this place of, These are effectively

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children and we've given them

hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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I, there's no chance that they

would understand the consequences

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of carrying a loan for 30 years

and what that actually means and

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getting up to your eyeballs in debt.

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Look, it's just you don't know

the consequences of anything.

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I, it's,

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Jerremy Newsome: I think that's a going

forward thing though, versus going

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backwards, meaning imagine right now,

every single person you go, Oh, you,

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every person that got a tattoo in the

last four years, they didn't really mean

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to, we'll pay to get it removed versus,

Hey, don't get tattoos on your face.

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Until you're much, much older life.

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And you're realizing that's

really where you want to put it.

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Okay.

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Go for

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Dave Conley: How did you know

what I was doing for my birthday?

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A face tattoo.

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Jerremy Newsome: Don't get a

horse tattoo on your forehead.

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But when you're 18,

you're like, Oh my gosh,

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Place to put a horse tattoo than my face.

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No, I think it's a thing of this going

forward, meaning that if someone is

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already in student debt, I do not

believe at any point in time the

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taxpayer should say, Hey, sorry, bye.

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All that money is gone.

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We got your back.

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I don't believe that

is the solution at all.

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Do I think that student loans

could be included in bankruptcy?

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Yeah, I do.

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I think that's a possibility because

believe it or not, I don't currently not

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reading any statistic, believe that most

Bankruptcy comes from student loans.

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I'm sure that there is a factor of that,

but most bankruptcies happen because

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of too much consumer debt and too much

medical debt and not enough income.

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And so it's a blend

generally of those three.

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Now, do those people that file

bankruptcy also have student loans?

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Maybe not.

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I'm sure we can do that

research in a different point.

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But what I'm getting at is, If in that

small subsection of people, we also

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include student loans, whatever, right?

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We already have bankruptcy now

and bankruptcy can remove all

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kinds of debt that you don't like.

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And so if student loans is added to that,

is that going to dramatically increase

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the amount of bankruptcies in the country?

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I don't think so, believe it or not.

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I really don't think that's

going to even cause a noticeable

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or marginal impact whatsoever.

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But to the point that, Going forward,

you make student loans extremely

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hard to get and not profitable

not obscenely profitable for these

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companies that are issuing them.

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These 30 year like you don't make, you

don't need to make that type of money.

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And not only do you not need to

make that type of money off of kids.

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Or very young adults But you should

also make it much harder to access

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Meaning there needs to be full on

full fledged If you're going to get

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a business loan Like I said earlier

allow business loans to be as easy as

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student loans are now or make them both

equally as hard One of the two, right?

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Either make it allow where I

can go get a business loan.

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And if I absolutely fail and good on me.

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I tried my best or make them

as so one of the two, right?

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Make them super easy or super hard,

but either one don't take one away

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from the other and not the other.

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I think that kids should have

the ability to get student loans.

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Or business loans, and if they can get

either one, they need to do the exact

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same diligence to get either one, and

that would dramatically reduce the amount

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of student loans have to be filled out

and get approved for if someone has

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to go through even remotely rigorous

process just to get approved for one.

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Dave Conley: I like that.

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Hey, help me re, let's

see if you remember this.

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I know.

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It came up and I'm sure our listeners

will probably remind me what it

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is, but my understanding, maybe

it was talking to Anya, was that.

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Most of the student loan debt

is owned by the United States

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government and that the U.

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S.

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government pays service providers

to manage those debts with the

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students, or with the former

students, with the, with the students.

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They are the ones that actually

go in and collect and manage it.

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And I'm like, why?

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Like this is like an accounting thing.

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This is a spreadsheet and an online

payment portal, which the government

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has plenty of if you've paid your taxes.

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So why are there third parties involved?

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Because they have to get paid.

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They're not doing it for free.

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So there was a piece in there,

but my question for you, because

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money better than anybody I know,

why is their interest charged?

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If it's government money that's

already been spent, it's already

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gone to the universities the service

has already been provided, why

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would we charge any money for it?

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Why isn't it a zero interest?

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Besides being dischargeable,

which I'm, I agree.

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It should be at least dischargeable

when everything goes wrong.

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Why are we charging any interest on this?

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah, exactly.

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I think,

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Dave Conley: it's an accounting,

like it's already been spent.

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It's who cares?

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah, or we make

it to the point where it also is.

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That's right.

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Where's like, all right, we make it that

way where it's it's already accounted for.

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It's already some type of financial

budget that the government

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plans to spend regardless.

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I think.

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In that situation, man, the

charging of the interest.

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I know why we're doing it.

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Why are we doing it?

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It's a better what are you doing?

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I think having it where the

structured systematized.

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approach that we do not make as a country

profits off of kids going to school

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would change dramatically how this

school is structured in this country.

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And right now, I think one of, when

we were talking about the federal

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budget and deficit and loans and

all that stuff, one of the words

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that came up a bunch was value.

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What does this country Value

and right now this country.

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It's number one value is

Profits, that's our value.

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Like how much can we?

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Profit in any given situation and that

whole interest portion is obvious of

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that because these institutions and

these governments and these loans

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They're all packaged together so that

everyone's winning except for the kids.

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Everyone's winning except

for the end customer.

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And it's not if you went out and

asked, I'm sure out of a hundred,

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90 percent of these kids would be

like, no, I'm not happy with this.

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No I feel like I'm

overpaying for what I got.

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I feel like I'm undervalued for what I am

attempting to pay for every single month.

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I don't think that they're

going to feel like this is an

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equitable decision whatsoever.

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I didn't write book and

my company paid for it.

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Like when I got my degree, I had 0

in debt and I was like, I just spent

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three years working 60 hours a week.

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Plus my college time, I was put in

100 hour weeks easy just between

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work and school, but to that point,

it's like at the end of that degree,

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remember Nationwide paid for my

degree and shout outs to Nationwide.

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I've always said good

things about this company.

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They not only paid for the degree, when I

got finished, I expected a raise because

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they're the ones that paid for it.

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And so you think that they would go,

okay, now go work even harder, right?

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So give me more things to do and

pay me more for doing those things.

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Neither one of those things happened.

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I didn't get more roles

and responsibilities.

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Okay, cool.

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Now you're the customer service manager

versus the whatever you were before.

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I didn't get any more roles or

responsibilities proving to them

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that I'm a good customer of their,

loan tuition program, whatever.

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Mind blowing to me.

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Mind blowing.

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Dave Conley: that, that does feel a

little bit like a disconnect, but cool.

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You think at the end of this

would be like happy graduation.

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You've learned quite a bit.

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That's fantastic.

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Now you're on a, now you're on

a, some sort of track, right?

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Jerremy Newsome: Something,

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Dave Conley: Yeah.

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Some something or bonus or I don't know.

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It seems

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Jerremy Newsome: even if the

exactly, even if they don't pay

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me more, but they work me harder,

I would have expected something.

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I don't know what I would expect.

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And so some shift in the

universe for getting a degree.

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And so that's what I mean when I tell

people, listen, the ability for you

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to go out and actually get a degree

that single handedly changes how much

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money you make that the percentage.

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Is less than 3%.

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It's less than 3%.

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It's for, it's a single handedly make

that shift of, Oh, I have a degree.

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Now I immediately make more.

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Got it.

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Because a lot of things you can do,

the things you can do apprenticeship in

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and make as much, if not more is 97%.

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It's a huge statistically

insanely high number.

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Yeah, man.

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Is college worth it?

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I think is the question of

questions for so many kids.

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And I continually find overwhelmingly the

vast majority of time the answer is no.

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The answer is no, it's not worth it.

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And you can get the same degree, you

can get the same return, you can get

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the same experience, you can get the

same knowledge for far less money.

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For far less time.

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Dave Conley: That, that's exactly

like our third episode, right?

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We came in with this with Kyle and Karen.

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Kyle's very much AI and YouTube

University and boot camps and

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it's I don't, wave you off.

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And then Karen was

like, yeah, I like that.

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And where, the rubber actually meets

the route is working with industry

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and shifting what we're doing.

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And then she said something that really

clicked with me that finally brought

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everything home for me is that school

still is absolutely critical for critical

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thinking, learning, adaptability.

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Innovation, like those are going

to happen inside your schools if

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the school is doing that work.

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Otherwise, you're going to get the same

that you've gotten for a thousand years.

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But if the school has got their

stuff together, they're doing the

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micro credentials, they're doing

the certifications, they're doing

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the public private partnerships,

they're working, they have the

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success coaches and they are bringing

critical thinking, innovative skills.

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Rock stars that graduate and not just

pumping out another college degree.

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Jerremy Newsome: Yep.

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Yep.

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And it's the fear that we have

too many kids and not enough jobs,

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but man, just wait until AI hits.

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That's the whole buddy, because

if you think there's an education

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problem now, Dave, Oh my gosh.

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So that's the thing is we need to

start fixing this ASAP because if there

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is one problem that we need to fix.

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To Karen's point, it is critical thinking.

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We got to teach these kids immediately

how to begin to truly think critically,

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how to think differently and to

distinguish how many ways you can use pin

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You got one pin, you give a

kid a pin hey, tell me the five

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things you can do with this.

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They're going to have a hard

time coming up more than two.

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And just these really basic mental

exercises of knowing how to critically

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think and knowing what critical thinking

is and why it needs to be used because

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dude, AI is coming for all these jobs.

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All of them

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Dave Conley: About

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Jerremy Newsome: centers, fully

AI, accounting, AI, like graphic

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design, AI video editing, AI,

podcasts, AI, auto engineering,

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AI, it's coming for everything.

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And robotics is just as bad.

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So really think that the critical

thinking component of a hundred

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percent of the workforce right now.

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80 percent's gonna be

displaced within five years.

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The 20% that are not displaced,

they're gonna make 80, 80 times

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more revenue, 80 times more revenue.

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The 20% that do not get replaced

will make 80, 80 times more revenue.

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And the 80%, 80% of the current

United States workforce are gonna

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be fully gone in five years, and

they're gonna have to find entirely

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new service roles, job roles, and.

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If that doesn't scare at least a whole

ginormous swath of our listeners, just

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please know that it is coming our way

and we got to start helping these,

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not only our kids, but the future of

our futures, how to navigate this tide

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shift, because it doesn't mean that

humans will become inane and vapid.

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What it does mean is that we now

have the ability to create brand new

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school systems, to create brand new

emotional intelligence because now

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you're going to have intelligence

will be the cheapest commodity, right?

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That's what AI is artificial intelligence.

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So intelligence is going to be

meaningless, but having intuition,

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having the ability to meditate, having

the ability to emotionally Regulate

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and have incredible depth and emotional

conversations that are beautiful and

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verbose and just full of juxtapositions

and deliberately, delightfully delectable

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conversations that are really exposing

how people are feeling about things and

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shifting and tweaking and adjusting.

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That's what AI is not

going to be able to do.

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So we need to start.

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Realizing that we're going to be

bringing back the arts in a huge way.

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We're going to start bringing back

physical exercise and PE in a huge

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way because we're going to become

even more sedentary as a society.

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Now you're going to have robots and

machines doing everything for you.

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So this is going to have

to start happening soon.

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I think people aren't prepared

for how fast it's going to occur.

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Dave Conley: Oh, yeah.

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Future episode right there.

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Another future episode.

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah our

listeners want a bunch, man.

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So we're going to give them a bunch.

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Dave Conley: Let's let's wrap this up.

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Let's if you're advising your 18

year old self today, what would you.

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What would you be telling a young

Jeremy Alexander Newsome in: 2025

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Jerremy Newsome: I was really presently I

was pleasantly surprised with my overall

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educational output, because for everyone

who's listening, if you are 18, 19, find

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a job that you work in now that could.

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Either a directly pay for your college or

be indirectly pays for it directly meaning

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Partion a portion of your paycheck.

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They literally just you have to upload

their grades and there's a portal and they

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pay for it Like amazing if you work for

a company that pays for your schooling.

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Yes, please And twice do that work

as hard as you possibly can for that

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company If it's indirectly, which is

just a good old fashion You take a

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paycheck and portion of that paycheck

goes towards your college expenses.

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Yes, and yes get a job first A job is

more important than education because

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in the job, you will learn what

you need to be educated for, right?

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What portions of your education is

lacking, what you need to fill in

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the holes for, get that job first.

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Once you have that job, then

go and get that education.

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And before you get the education,

before you even go down the route of

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education, spend an hour or two with

yourself daily for a couple of weeks.

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Asking yourself, why

am I going to college?

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What is the outcome?

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If the only main outcome is,

I want to make more money.

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Or I want to help more people do not go

to college It is a waste of your time.

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It is a waste of your energy It is a

waste of your resources because the

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truth is if you get into a position

and we're talking about the Extremely

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rare position that you need to get a

job that actually Is based on merit of

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a degree can go get one at that time

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So if in seven eight years Your boss is

saying oh you want to get promoted to

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Shift supervisor and you're going to go

from 25 an hour to 33 an hour And the

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only way you can get that promotion is

you now have to get a degree guess what

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now, you know exactly what type of degree

to get The company will probably pay for

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it and now you have an exact reason to

go because you now have a job and you're

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going to be able to get that degree even

faster because it's extremely clear and

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you have intention with what you're doing.

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That's going to give you

a massive distinction.

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And for the jobs that need a degree

right out of college that you probably

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can't get into, They're going to

require work experience first,

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and they're going to require work

experience over a college degree.

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The companies that need both

college degree and work experience.

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Go find another one.

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There's another one that will not because

ultimately you go find another job.

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It goes, listen, I don't really

care what degree you have.

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Do you get the results done?

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Because I know enough

CEOs and so do you, Dave.

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I know enough of the people

that are actually hiring.

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I have met with, consulted with, coached

with enough individuals now at this point.

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That I am fully convinced that I

know thousands of people that are the

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job decision makers of their company

that will assign the paychecks of the

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person working that would rather have

them have job experience and life

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experience versus school experience.

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And that is across the board.

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You can easily get a job that

pays extremely well, that

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provides for your family.

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That allows you to put food on the

table and buy assets over time and

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allows you to really put in a foothold

into this country so that you can

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have that dream that we were all sold.

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That dream is bought by hard work, by

dedication, and by spending less than

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you make and taking your difference

between what you spend and what you make.

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And investing it into assets,

wealth and financial freedom

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as a second grade math formula.

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: 00:29:17

So everything above second

grade math, you do not need in

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order to have financial freedom.

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Dave Conley: you just spiked the football.

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I think everybody should print out the

transcript over the last few minutes

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and hand it to every 18 year old.

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Jerremy Newsome: Yes.

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That's it, baby.

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Bring it out and give it to them

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Dave Conley: Excellent.

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Jerremy Newsome: Well, family.

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Here are some truths for every single

person listening that if you want

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education and you want intelligence

and you want wisdom, those three

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components of a brighter future

probably are and should be free.

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If you have access to the internet,

you have access to income.

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Ladies and gentlemen,

listen to what I'm saying.

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It is available for you.

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It is available at your fingertips.

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: 00:30:02

It is available at the end of your

nose at the beginning of your eyes.

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: 00:30:06

This is simple and it is available

to every single person that

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has access to the electricity.

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When you have the ability to tap into

all the intelligence and information and

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wisdom that is available in this country,

it is the implementation of that knowledge

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that will lead you to the path of growth.

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and actual true impact.

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: 00:30:30

Every single person listening to this

wants to provide more, make more, earn

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: 00:30:35

more, be worth more, and give more.

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You all want that more in your life.

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: 00:30:40

So each one of those is the requirement

of you stepping up and saying, I want

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to be a better version of myself.

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: 00:30:48

What does the best version

of myself need to do?

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Need to think need to believe need

to act on and need to contribute so

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that you can be a portion Of each one

of those five subsets of the greatest

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version of yourself It is simple,

but it is simpler not to wealth and

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impact are easy They are easier not

to we have the ability to shift this

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country And to make massive, incredible,

amazing transformational change.

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But it's all going to start with

every single one of these listeners

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getting together, going down the path

of educational change, educational

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transformation, educational reform.

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And as we do that, we will inspire

the generations in the future of this

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country to become world leaders, to

become thought leaders, to become

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emotional savants, and to be fully aware.

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That we all have the ability and

capacity and capability to be

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more and to love more through our

actions and through our thoughts.

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But that will not happen until we

start making humongous changes in the

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educational system of this great country.

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Thank you so much for listening.

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: 00:31:57

We will continue to go down this path.

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We will continue to

solve America's problems.

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This has been another episode.

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Thank you so much for listening.