Mike Pesca

Is it through outside influence?

Is it through small d democratic reforms?

So it's a mix of guest speakers who have had real world experience because everybody that's in this class is somebody that is animated about public service that's a little bit different than the average person.

I would say in my two years of teaching this class, half of them want to run for office someday.

And so I want to give them speakers that have done it themselves, the ups.

I mean, John Kasich came in here and said, don't run for office in your 20s, which is exactly what John Kasich did.

He basically admitted that for the first 30, first 10 years of his political career, he did not have enough life experience to be a good public servant.

And he said, I didn't know that then.

You know, 35, 40 years later, you know that now.

It is the tyranny of wisdom of the middle aged.

We all realize once we hit our 50s and 60s, all the mistakes we made in our 20s and 30s.

And we're desperate to convince others in their 20s and 30s not to make these mistakes.

And most of you never listen.

We are at peak wisdom in our 50s and 60s, which is why probably all of our president's

should be in their 50s and 60s and we shouldn't let anybody 70 plus be president.

That is that that's my age cut off on there because I do think peak wisdom is somewhere in your in your 50s and 60s.

And perhaps I say that out of necessity since I'm in my mid 50s.

But that is and discussing the current events, I always spend about it's a three hour class.

I always spend about the first 20 or 30 minutes just discussing what happened that week.

And sort of I also explain the news cycle a little bit, but they take a separate media class.