12-9-25 - 11am - Drug Runners, Joy Reid and The Cost of College

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In every profession, there's always the bad apples. I truly
believe that most police officers and police agencies really want
to do best. However, there's always a couple of people
out there who are willing to be manipulated or do
evil things. I'm glad that DC police chief is resigning

(00:21):
now that there's an investigation into the manipulation of statistics
in DC. Not a surprise, that very sad.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
What there's been a manipulation of crime stats by a cop,
particularly the chief and in the District of Columbia.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Brag you got. I've gotta I gotta take a break
and catch my breath.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
I'm just as shocked as you are. I need to
sit down. I am sitting down. I've been sitting down
for two hours now. I'm not making fun of you, Alexi,
but it is, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Again?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
This is a new audience, so you need to know
how what a strong I used to represent cops when
I was practicing law. I've represented cops in federal court
and everything, and my theory was always this good cops
want to get rid of the bad cops because the
bag cops will make it more difficult for them to
do their job. And if you don't believe me, go

(01:25):
watch go, go watch the movies. They're always going after
the bag cops. Let's go to the Caribbean for a
little bit. Let's go to the crip.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
You want to go to the crib. Where do you
want to go? St? Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Let's go to Saint Thomas. Traditionally they're known as drug runners.
Now we're calling them narco terrorists, and I think that
kind of makes sense given their role in Venezuela's truly
hostile policy toward the United States in conjunction with China's
hostile policy toward the United States. You know, you gotta

(01:58):
love China. So China knows that we're the largest consumer
economy on the face of the planet. And until China
figures out a way to start selling all of their
cheap crap to Martians, you know, on Mars, or Vesuvians
on Venus or wherever, Venetians or whatever, the US, China

(02:21):
will start selling them their cheap crap too. But right
now we're the place to sell cheap China crap. At
the same time that China's trying to sell us cheap crap,
they're also selling the Venezuelans all the precursors to make
all of the fentanyl and the math and everything else
so that they can kill the people. Of course, I

(02:44):
guess the people they're killing are not necessarily always the
ones that are buying the cheap China crap.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
So you know, China's got the best of both worlds.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Kill the ones that can't buy our crap, and then
the ones that can buy our crap, make sure they
stay alive and make sure they still have jobs so
they buy our crab. It's a win win for China,
and it's a wainmen for Maduro because he's the middleman
and who always makes the money.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
The mental man's making all the money right here.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
So the death, though it's inflicted by the illegal drugs,
they don't give a hoot about that, not whatsoever. But
what I find fascinating speaking a language and hate speech
and all of that, and his attempts to spend those
drug traffickers as saintly victims of the oppression of the Americans.

(03:37):
Senator Adam Shifty shift shift Shift. What got that one
out pretty safely, didn't I He wants to use a
different term, And the first time I heard him say this.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
I laughed out loud.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
He's now referring to thectims of our missile attacks on
the speed boat as ship wrecked survivors. He tweeted that
or posted on x this. The killing of ship wrecked
survivors at sea is a textbook violation of the laws

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of war. If Hegeseth, the Secretary of War is so
proud of the killing of these survivors, the Pentagon should
release the full video, just like they have with other
boat strikes. The American people deserve the full You know,
whatever ship wrecked survivors at sea? Is that boat a shipwreck?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Now? If I told you that there was.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
On somewhere in the Atlantic there was a shipwreck, what
would you think that? I think, you know, A great
example is the Titanic. It was a shipwreck, the ship wrecked.
To think about it, it's a compound. It's a compound
noun shipwreck, the ship wrecked. It ran into an iceberg

(05:17):
and it fell apart and it sank. Now, if the
Titanic had been attacked by missiles, if we had had
missiles then or cannon fodder. Let's just say attacked by
you know, pirates. Somalian pirates had attacked the Titanic. We

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might refer later on, like decades later, after it had
sunk and it was at the bottom of the Atlantic,
we might have referred to the town that shipwreck at
the bottom of the ocean. But was it a shipwreck? No,
I don't think that it was. But this is the
extent to which we will go to bastardize the language

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in order to fit the narrative. Tolsey Gabbert doesn't really
want to deal with that. Well, she's just not going
to have any of it. She's not going to put
up with the idea about shipwrecked Gragan, can I get
a microphone over there by chance?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (06:15):
Based on what you know, do you believe these boat
strikes are legal?

Speaker 3 (06:20):
No, I don't. They're unlawful.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
They're unconstitutional, and killing two people who are shipwrecked at
sea is also morally repugnant. I agree with Tom we
should do everything lawfully that we can to stop the
scourge of drugs coming into this country. But this is
not at all lawful or constitutional.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
And frankly, if.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
The Pentagon and our Defense secretary is so proud of
what they're doing, let the American people see that video.
Let the American people see two people standing on a
capsized boat or sitting on a capsized.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Capsized Yes, it was just rolling along as your hurricane
came along and it capsized the boat. Always pay attention
to the language, irregardless of what you might be trying
to convey.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Michael. Technically they are a shipwreck. They ran straight into
a missile.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yep, lowsy navigation. Imagine those guys getting on those boats.
I guess if you get paid enough where you've got
a gun pointed at your head, you'll get on the boat,
won't you. You know, the MSNBC is now ms now
and if you find the backcrap, crazy lunacy, and the malice,

(07:37):
it's truly malice too. Of the koops that are on
ms NOW. If you find that alarming, wait until they
are deplatformed, or they get fired or their show gets
canceled and they have nothing to lose by just letting
it all out. Think about Keith Oberman. Keith, I'm crazy,

(08:01):
And you know, I was in New York for a
couple of weeks ago, and I kept thinking, I don't
wonder if I run into Keith, wonderful if Keith will
still treat me with the respect like he used to.
Has he gone really crazy?

Speaker 3 (08:10):
I don't know. Another nutjob. Joy Reid.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
A rant that she did recently about the Founding Fathers,
she's a former MSNBC host, has resurfaced on social media
this week. She's accusing the Founding Fathers of genocide against
Indigenous people. She claimed that the Founding Fathers had a
sense of entitlement and that they appeared to side with

(08:36):
King George the Third over the American Revolution. Wait a minute,
she claims that they had a sense of entitlement and
they sided with King George. Yes, they did everything they
could to get King George to pay attention to what
was going on in the colonies, and then they finally
had enough and then they declared win him. Of course

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of human events, but siding with the enemy is reflexive
with these Marxist Here's what Reed thinks of our country
and those who built it out of wilderness. So that
you know, no, I'm not going to read it. I
want you to hear, iagon, can I get a mike?

(09:21):
I want you to hear what she.

Speaker 6 (09:23):
Says, so you know this nation was founded by killers
who slaughtered ninety percent of the Indigenous people, leeches who
glombed off of the indigenous who taught them how to
survive in the wilderness, and then murdered them as their
things and then took all their land. And you want

(09:44):
to talk about entitlement, They felt entitled to own other
people and they didn't even want to pay taxes on it,
so they decided to have a whole war with Britain.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
So I wow, the reverence for Indigenous people is pretty
rich coming from a second generation African colonists who is
sputteringly hostile to Caucasians who built this country, many of
whom have ancestors who lived here going back for centuries. Yeah,
I call her a newcomer. Yeah, but what about this

(10:16):
claim about ninety percent.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Let's do this.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Let's take a break now, and when we get back,
let's think about her claim about the founding fathers killed
ninety percent of the Indigenous population when they arrived.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
True or false.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
Believe me about the Shipwren, because I saw collusion in
plain sight.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Collusion in plain sight, Jolly reid And.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
Was founded by killers who slaughtered ninety percent of the
Indigenous people, Leeches who glombed off of the indigenous, who
taught them how to survive in the wilderness and then
murdered them as their things, and then took all their land.
And you want to talk about entitlement, They felt entitled

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to own other people and they didn't even want to
pay taxes on it, so they decided to have a
whole war with Britain.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
So I.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Want you to I know what she says is crazy
and it's false, and I'll give you some stats in
just a minute. I want you to think about her audience.
When I think about my audience, I think about a
gaggle of goobers that are well informed, logical, rational, sometimes emotional.

(11:48):
That's okay. You need a nice balance between emotional. You know,
you got to have your emotional abilities and your intellectual abilities,
and you reason and deal with logic, and you you
really try to understand both sides of the issue. And
you know that most of the time, I'm right. The

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thing about her audience, they're truly those drive by consumers
of news. They're just lapping this up. They're like my Limburger's.
When they go over there's a big bowl of water
on your drum, they just soak it all up. Or
dinner time, they just eat it up.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Well.

Speaker 7 (12:29):
For example, we had that the talk back earlier about
Trump's birthday now going to be a national holiday or whatever.
Oh yeah, So I would like to think that most
of our listeners, these goobers, may have seen that and
went that's interesting. Let me dive further into that to
find out.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
If that's true or not right right.

Speaker 7 (12:49):
But whereas her listeners, her viewers take.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
It a face value, probably not so much.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
They just take it a face value, So that claim
misapplies is actually a very well documented approximately ninety percent
population decline of indigenous people across the North American continent.
There was did you know that dragon a population an

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almost ninety percent population decline in indigenous people across the
North American North America.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
But do you know when.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Fourteen ninety two to about sixteen hundred, Yes, why because
of Eurasian diseases like smallpox. And of course there was
some violence, you can't deny. There's always violence when you
have clashes of civilizations. But this so called great dying
that predates the US founding in seventeen eighty nine when

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we signed the Constitution or seventeen seventy sixty. The way
it predates all of that, and that affected the entire
hemisphere that great dying, not just what is now the
United States, where pre fourteen ninety two estimates range from
somewhere between two and seven million. US specific estimates showed

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Native American populations in seventeen eighty nine around seventy six thousand, increasing.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
During our expansion to one.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Hundred and twenty nine thousand by mid eighteen twenty five.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
So while we were doing our territorial.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Expansion, there was at least, according to some census counts,
an increase from seventy six thousand to one hundred and
twenty nine thousand. Now, obviously those censuses are incomplete, and
they may have excluded many untaxed tribes by the early
eighteen hundreds. By say, eighteen twenty, no reliable data anywhere

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indicates a ninety percent drop during the period, say between
seventeen e.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Eighty nine and eighteen twenty or eighteen sixty.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Declines from violence were significant later post eighteen thirties because
of things like the Trail of Tears that did kill thousands,
but warfare accounted for about forty five thousand deaths between
seventeen eighty nine and eighteen twenty. Disease was the most
dominant factor in ongoing declines through the eighteen hundreds, alongside displacement.

(15:26):
Displacement but not settlers directly killing ninety percent in that
specified period. Early US census example, around eighteen twenty omitted
most naviies. So that complicates the counts, But there is
no evidence that supports the claim's time frame or the
mechanism that we killed approximately ninety percent. She's conflating one

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period of time with another period of time. But we
shouldn't be surprised by that whatsoever, now should we? Of course,
we shouldn't be. In other news, I stopped this morning.
We got a diet coke I ordered my I've kind
of changed my habit a little bit because of the
time change. For me, no longer i'd go to the

(16:08):
McDonald's and get my dollar coke, which is now a
diet coke, which is now McDonald's a dollar thirty nine
Even I can do that math. That's a thirty nine
percent increase in the cost. So what used to be
a dollar for the same with math now is thirty
nine percent higher, third higher, more than a third higher. Instead,
I go over to the Sonny, there's a sonic over

(16:29):
here off Tamarack, and I can just pull off the interstate,
grab that diet coke, come back around here on Monico,
and just pulled right in the pokaingons e.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Easy peasy. I've been doing that.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
For I don't know how long now, well as long
as i've been on radio, seventeen eighteen years, coming up
with my twenty years. But what was a dollar is
now dollar thirty nine at McDonald's. And what is or
was about a dollar ninety nine or two dollars at
the Sunny with tax and tip, is now a little

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over three dollars again a thirty percent increase. It's not inflation.
It's a tax on autopilot. It's corporate America realizing you're
gonna keep paying this because you stop thinking about it
a long, long time ago, and you got into the habit,

(17:28):
just like I'm in the habit. You might even say
I'm addicted to diet coke. I might freely admit that,
but I don't buy into the greedy corporations are responsible
for inflation narrative. But I do believe that they don't
drop prices when the inputs fall. Business is too good.
So the Biden inflation that nine ten, fifteen twenty percent

(17:52):
inflation established a new baseline, and we just kept buying,
and we keep buying. Now some places they're starting to
recognize there. There was a couple of stories on the
street yesterday about, uh, Chili's is now competing with McDonald's.
McDonald's has recognized that, oh, we're starting to lose a

(18:13):
lot of our lower income customers and we're gaining some
hiring income customers. Now they want to keep everybody, So
McDonald's is going to come back with a value meal Chili's,
of all places, I went to Chili's for the first
time and I don't know, months and months and months,
what a few days ago, I forget it. Timeline went

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on one day, maybe last week sometime, and I was
shocked at, oh, this is about the same price as
if you went to McDonald's and got, you know, a
quarter pounder with cheese, fries and a diet coke. Because
Chili's has decided they're going to try to steal some
of that market share over there.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
But back to my point.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
About I don't buy into the greedy corporations or response
for inflation. They're they're simply, hey, business is pretty good
right now, and we're going to adjust a little bit
here and there, but we're not just going to drop
back because our inputs have not dropped off, and until
the inputs drop off, they're not.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Going to lower prices. And I think they're right.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
We have responded to price signals the same way we
respond to a Carl arm in the parking lot. We're
annoyed by it, but we're numb to it. And inflation
at McDonald's or Sonic is annoying. Inflation in college is insanity.
And I was thinking about this because we're going I

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won't be here Friday, because we're going to our grandson's graduation.
He's graduating a semester early, and I'm really proud of him.
He's getting a degree in hydrology. He's going to be
an engineer of some sort, which I can't believe. They
got to talk him out of that, but he ended
up being some sort of water engineer. I just don't
want to use the word engineer in his name in
the same sentence, because engineers crazy.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
We all know that.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
So while the inflation at McDonald's or Sonic or Starbucks
or Chili's or anywhere else is annoying. Inflation at college
is insane, and yet parents will drive across town to say,
you know, ten centhony for a gallon of gas, and
then they'll send their kids to Boston University for eighty
thousand a year, because that's just what you do after

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high school. We treat colleges like a brand that we've
been loyal to since nineteen eighty three, not like a
product with a price tag that has gone absolutely off
the rails. The price signal from college tuition is screaming,
stop paying this. I think about what my kids paid
for my grandson's education, and.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
I think, well, wait in a minute.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
And then they think, but we've always paid this, and
I think, but I didn't pay that. I think about
what my law school tuition was per hour. I'm embarrassed
to tell you what was per hour. Thing You'll think
I got my You'll think I got my law degree
at Walmart. It was so damn cheap.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
It was.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
It was a prize rollback. No, not really true, not
really true. My grandson's thinking about going to graduate school,
and quite frankly, I hope that he does. But if
he gets a scholarship, which I think that he will.
He got some scholarships for his undergraduate those are heavily

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subsidized budget analysis, intelligence, maybe law school, and NBA afterward,
I don't know paid for, you know, with my tax dollars.
His rational response to stupid pricing for getting his graduate
degree and a job market for his peers. That for
his peers anyway looks tough. Doesn't look tough for him.

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But something like ten percent of twenty to twenty four
year old graduates heals they're unemployed right now, ten of
twenty to twenty four year old graduates. He fits right
in that category or unemployed. Now he could based on
his particular degree because it's very specialized. He could ran

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a job, and he wants to get that graduate degree.
I think one because he loves school, and I think
two because he wants to boost up his income when
he finally does actually goog get one of those real jobs.
Things other than the military look good too, trade school,
building a renovation business, I like building up mom and

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pop plumbing companies. When you know sixty five year olds retire,
the real wealth of the next generation is not.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Going to be in apps.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
It's going to be in construction, skilled labor, home renovation,
small small business roll ups. I don't think it's in
writing Python, so AI I can automate Python. Here's the
old rule, young people replace old people. The new rule,

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no one has enough savings to leave, so they're not
gonna leave. Of Americans can't cover a four hundred dollars emergency.
So guess what they're not doing when they reach age
sixty five. They're not retiring. They're going to stay in
jobs for half their salary, stay in the workforce forever.

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They're gonna bulk out new grats who took on I
don't know, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of
debt for careers that don't exist. Here's the point of this.
It's about price signals. The price signal for higher education
is like a siren going off. It's loud stop sending

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kids into white collared traffic jams with the loan that's
going to drag them down forever. They average first time
home buyer, You know how old they are? Tarm and
I were probably let me think eighteen. I bet we
were twenty two, twenty one or twenty years old when
we bought our first home. The average first time home

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buyer right now forty that student debt, car loans, credit cards,
maybe too much Starbucks, and maybe too much diet coach
at the McDonald's. I don't know I can afford it,
but I'm not sure they can. The workforce is evolving
at lightning speed.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
I knew someone who had.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
An interview at DOGE last year. They really wanted to
move to Washington, and I think they would have paused
going to and I would have recommended, yes, pause going
to law school. They were planning to go to law school.
Pause going to law school and go work for DOGE
because that experience would have been incredible on a resume,

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and once you graduated, that would have helped you out.
That person was twenty eight years old. He had just
sold a company for millions of dollars. He wanted to
know if I knew how to code. No, I don't,
I don't interview. Yeah, that discussion, That conversation lasted two seconds.

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He doesn't reject my knowledge, he doesn't reject my work ethic.
The market could reject his skill set. It's tired, that's
not pain. It's a again, it's a price signal. And
I think at the core, artificial intelligence isn't eliminating opportunity.

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I think it's eliminating the fantasy that opportunity is evenly
distributed the way college brochures pretend that it is. Think
about Michael Dell. Michael and Susan Dale just gave six
point some billion dollars to the not directly to the
Trump childhood accounts, but to something on the triphery of

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those that will help fund those accounts where the Trump
accounts can't be funded by tax payer dollars. Six point
one billion dollars. I know there's a tax advantage to that,
but Michael Dell built computers in his dormitory. Even Bill
Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, as much as I mean, I

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like their politics, you've got to admit you've got to
respect the fact that they dropped out of college and
built those empires. The next generation doesn't need us to
tell them to follow their passion. They need us to
teach them to follow the price signals. Because here's the

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real inflation problem. Inflation isn't the enemy denial of the
the price signals is prices are telling us, in the
case of higher education, to stop buying eighty thousand dollars
degrees and going into debt for that. The only thing
missing is the courage to change behavior. Because of the

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price signal, most people would rather just bitch and moan about,
you know, three dollars and fifty one cent coffee or
a dollar thirty nine diet coke or a three dollars
nineteen cent diet coke from the Sonic whatever, and then
go buy it anyway.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
That's that's what I do. But then I can do it.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Because the price signal to me doesn't affect. Of course, everything.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Affects to your bottom line.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
You spend three dollars and nineteen cents on a diet coke,
that's three dollars nineteen centence. You don't have to spend
on well, I don't know something else. But I've got
a wide enough berth that that price signal is meaningless
to me. But if I were that kid that talked
to me about Doge or loss school, the price signaled

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to him, he never heard it, he never heard it
at all. And my argument to him was an opportunity,
Like if I had had the opportunity, now, of course
I wouldn't have been the undersecretary if DOGE has existed.
When I was thinking about going to law school, I
would not have been the under secretary of DOGE. But

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if I had had an opportunity like that prior to
law school, even though law school at that time was cheap,
I might have taken that opportunity because post law school,
post law degree, that would have increased the value of
that degree. I look at what they're paying now for
law school tuition or undergraduate or graduate tuition, and I'm thinking,

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go get the experience, Go follow that passion, because for example,
he really was fascinated by the work that DOGE was doing.
Young conservative, pretty good at economics, kind of understood, you know,
the opportunity and the lost opportunity cost of delaying law
school and getting that. You know that juris doctorate for

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maybe a year or two, but pricing out that experience
probably invaluable. Where are you and I missing price signals.
I'm one of those that out of habit I usually
go to Sam's or sometimes King Supers because and I

(29:29):
don't really care one of whichever's closest. But I don't
stop at the convenience store to fill up the car
with gas because I just know intuitively that the price
signal from the gas station is going to be high,
and so I'll calculate, well, okay, I'm not going to
just drive the five miles to go to Sam's right
now to fill up with gas because I'm just wasting that.

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I'll wait until I'm naturally going there to or from
work or something, because the price signal says to me, okay,
that ten or fifteen cents that you're going to save
per gallon times a fifteen gallon tank or a twenty
gallon tank. What's that five cents going to save you
or that ten cents going to save you? Price signals.

(30:11):
We've got to learn to start paying attention to price signals.
And I think college tuition is one of those price
signals that too many parents are ignoring.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Why do I bring all.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Of this up again, I say, because I'm going to
my grandson's graduation this Friday, and I'll be gone Friday
and Saturday for the graduation. I'm glad he got his
degree in the subject matter that he did, because the
job opportunities are enormous for him. But if you're going

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just to get an undergraduate degree in liberal arts and
you're going to do it, and I don't know transgender
minority women's studies or something. You got to pay attention
to the price signals because Americans, we're just too economic
illiterate