Greg Anderson
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522 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Mar
Greg Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yep. How do you not get completely, how do you not just hover at an empty battery? Well, bro, and that's the thing, the science behind being in any type of shift work, a nurse, a firefighter, a police officer, exactly what you're saying. It's, it's, it disrupts your sleep patterns. It loads your body with cortisol and statistically you die within five years of retirement.
And that's what every cop, like almost every cop that I know, the young ones that are new are go-getters. And anytime I talk about this, I always am careful because like, I'm not shooting on the profession. And if you're a hard charger and you're a cop and you like your job, by all means, continue to do that job.
But there's a ton of cops out there that feel trapped because they have 10 years left. They don't know what else to do. And they're like, well, I get my retirement when I'm 57. And so I have to be here for another 12 years. And they're miserable. And it's a scary place to arrive because people feel stuck.
But statistically, if you just keep grinding that out and then you finally reach that retirement, your heart gives out a couple of years later.
Bro, I don't think human beings, I don't think we're meant to be exposed to that kind of stuff for 20 or 30 years. I think being a soldier, I think being a patrol officer, I think being a firefighter, I think that those things are a young man's job. Or a young woman. You get people calling in being angry at you. That was Greg Anderson. Made the sexist and misogynistic comment.
What I've noticed is like, you know, from 20 to 30, like experiencing a lot of those like high stress situations and putting yourself out there and doing those type of hard jobs. But to carry that into your 40s and 50s, I think at that point, people are just doing it because of retirement, right?
What I think, and I don't even know if this is feasible because you'd have to look at like budgets and available positions and stuff. But if a police officer is a state employee or a county employee, I think we need to start looking at being able to offer positions where it's like, hey, 10 years on patrol. And then you have the option. I'm not saying force people, right?
But give them an option to retire with some type of government service that's not carrying a gun. And it's not that super high stress stuff all the time. Even if that's like, I don't know, fucking park maintenance or whatever it is. But I don't think we're designed to be living high stress for decades on end.
And have more oversight on us and our businesses. And they should require more permits to open a jujitsu academy. No, I'm just saying, like, I think we need.
Oh, I know, bro. And you want to know another thing about, I don't know if we need to take this conversation a completely different direction, but once the government sees that your business starts to do well, they're like, Oh, they start salivating. Cause my jujitsu Academy was open for fucking, we opened in 2015, but I was a cop for a lot of the time. So it was more like a little hobbyist club.
We never had more than like 30 members at a time. And as soon as the Academy blew up, Oh, well, suddenly you need a higher flow rating for your water and you need more shrubbery around your parking lot and you're going to need this and you're going to need that. And you'll be shocked to hear that every time they do some type of assessment to tell us what I need, we have to pay them for it.
So bro, yeah, perfect example. I've been open 10 years. Last year we needed a parking lot assessment. I said, well, cars have been parking here since 2015 without an issue. Why would I need my parking lot to be assessed by the county?
Yes. That was one of the concerns. Another one of the concerns was we need to make sure that a fire engine can pull in here.
Yeah, it's on a- You found the lot, I remember you building it. Yep, and it has like two big fields in it. It has a parking lot that's like- I don't even know, 100 meters long. It's a huge parking lot, right? But because it didn't have the county stamp of approval of being a parking lot. And again, they didn't care for 10 years. And then a couple of years ago, like, hey, you're getting too big.
We need to assess your parking lot. And here's the thing, bro. I go back and forth between wanting to put my body armor on and go fucking nuts. And then understanding that I'm playing a game, too. Because if you're opening a business, you will be playing a game with the county. That's just the reality of opening a business. I just call it more writing checks. Well, that's what I'm telling you.
Our parking lot assessment cost us $29,000. Yeah, your parking lot's good now. We had a design review of the coffee shop. Yeah, you know, I'm not telling you anything you don't know.
We all know what's going on there. Wouldn't turn the camera on. Yeah, it's almost sitting in your favorite chair.
It's my lot.
It's my garage door. Yeah. No, dude, I mean... I've been calming down over the last year, I would say. Now you're going to get me all ramped up again. No, same thing. When I built my academy, initially I wanted the academy to face East, right? Was this a crystal thing? No, no, no. It was just the way that it, the way that like you pull in off the road, I thought it would look better.
And it's actually, it worked out the way that it worked out. And I'm happy that it did now hindsight, but regardless, they said, Hey, We know you want your academy to face east, but we're worried about a 10-foot section on the back of the building of containing ancient Indian artifacts. And I said, well, if there's ancient Indian artifacts... How are you allowed to build it all?
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