Dan Carlin
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fake image of what it is right like you said if you told somebody you can make 250 000 a year as an electrician there's gonna be a lot of people out there that go really you know and that's a light bulb moment and so i don't think enough people are turning on that light bulb and you've done you you hit that so hard that that stayed with me so when this conversation's over and i can't remember one thing we said other than my wife's story in the live shot i'm gonna remember the fact that you know that we have these jobs out there where people could be making really good middle class maybe even upper middle class living
And they don't know it. And I think that's helpful.
And they don't know it. And I think that's helpful.
And they don't know it. And I think that's helpful.
Yeah, totally. But let me let me stop you for a second, though, because let me imagine because because, you know, neither one of us is too big on on politicians and promises in terms of assuming that those are all for altruistic reasons. But let's imagine for a minute that those Democratic politicians that were trying to make college free for everybody were really trying to help Americans.
Yeah, totally. But let me let me stop you for a second, though, because let me imagine because because, you know, neither one of us is too big on on politicians and promises in terms of assuming that those are all for altruistic reasons. But let's imagine for a minute that those Democratic politicians that were trying to make college free for everybody were really trying to help Americans.
Yeah, totally. But let me let me stop you for a second, though, because let me imagine because because, you know, neither one of us is too big on on politicians and promises in terms of assuming that those are all for altruistic reasons. But let's imagine for a minute that those Democratic politicians that were trying to make college free for everybody were really trying to help Americans.
If Mike Rowe has been asked by these politicians to come in and help flesh out this plan so that it's not just for the people who want to work with their brains, but people who really enjoy getting. See, I think even the way you and I are talking about it is somewhat insulting and neither one of us means it that way. Right.
If Mike Rowe has been asked by these politicians to come in and help flesh out this plan so that it's not just for the people who want to work with their brains, but people who really enjoy getting. See, I think even the way you and I are talking about it is somewhat insulting and neither one of us means it that way. Right.
If Mike Rowe has been asked by these politicians to come in and help flesh out this plan so that it's not just for the people who want to work with their brains, but people who really enjoy getting. See, I think even the way you and I are talking about it is somewhat insulting and neither one of us means it that way. Right.
Because like you said, if you have to choose between the guy who's going to do your creative video for you, who's making seven hundred thousand dollars a year and the guy who's going to clean out your toilet when it clogs. If the toilet's currently clogged and has been clogged for two days, that's the person you're picking. So let's not.
Because like you said, if you have to choose between the guy who's going to do your creative video for you, who's making seven hundred thousand dollars a year and the guy who's going to clean out your toilet when it clogs. If the toilet's currently clogged and has been clogged for two days, that's the person you're picking. So let's not.
Because like you said, if you have to choose between the guy who's going to do your creative video for you, who's making seven hundred thousand dollars a year and the guy who's going to clean out your toilet when it clogs. If the toilet's currently clogged and has been clogged for two days, that's the person you're picking. So let's not.
So but my question is, is if you were the ones because there's two ways you can go. The way you can go, number one, is you could tell these Democratic politicians that the whole idea of this free education stuff is the wrong road to begin with. But the other way to go down it is to say sort of what you were saying.
So but my question is, is if you were the ones because there's two ways you can go. The way you can go, number one, is you could tell these Democratic politicians that the whole idea of this free education stuff is the wrong road to begin with. But the other way to go down it is to say sort of what you were saying.
So but my question is, is if you were the ones because there's two ways you can go. The way you can go, number one, is you could tell these Democratic politicians that the whole idea of this free education stuff is the wrong road to begin with. But the other way to go down it is to say sort of what you were saying.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but that this only applies to a segment out there that needs help.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but that this only applies to a segment out there that needs help.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but that this only applies to a segment out there that needs help.
How could they have broadened their thinking if you were providing the the advice so that whatever it was they were trying to, let's imagine, altruistically do helped more of these people that we're talking about than just that narrow group that wants to go to college and thinks that that's a good outlet for them? If my brother's going, I don't want to go to college. He did.