Speaker 1: Let's go next to let's go to Brendan from
Jersey. Is it Brendan or Brenda? It's cut off. Speaker 4: Oh, it's fine. It's Brendan.
Speaker 1: Brendan. Okay, welcome. Speaker 4: Thanks for taking my call.
So my two topics for a question would be a 2024 question for the Dems and a question
about economics that could be agreed upon. Speaker 3: By both sides. Okay. Which which of
those would you think would be more interesting? Speaker 1: Let's do economics.
Speaker 4: So the first one would be with the development of AI and robotics and lack of
general skilled labor. Trending over time, is it time to properly incentivize, de-stigmatize and
promote vocational schools for skills. Speaker 3: And trade development,
things like that? Speaker 1: 100%. I mean, listen, I don't
I'm not someone who just says college is for everyone. College doesn't have to be for
everyone. And in fact, I think the statistics are that most people still don't don't go to college.
There's a couple different things. One, if everyone has a college degree,
the college degree is no longer a filter for certain jobs, and then you just need
something else. Is it now graduate school? Is it whatever? So. So in one sense, college can
be the right path for some jobs and other paths make sense for other jobs. In addition to that,
particularly if we are going to see the technological change and advances that
we see in energy, in fabrication, in materials sciences, all these different things. We want as
many people as possible. We need way more people getting involved in the trades in order to be
ready for those coming changes and to get younger people. A lot of these trades skew significantly
older and it's great now that there's a young electrician movement, there's a young plumbing
movement and all these other things. They're going to fix this problem of having to flush toilets 10
to 15 times. I know that the young people are going to be able to do it. But yeah, I mean,
listen, a lot of those jobs pay really well. They are great opportunities. And when we talk
about making education more affordable, when we talk about student loans, when we talk all these
are things we should be talking about trades just as much as we're talking about, you know,
traditional four year bachelor's degrees, 100%. Speaker 4: Cool. Thanks. I was just going to say,
like with something like this, be agreed upon by people on both sides of the political aisle.
And so if a candidate were to just develop this as part of their platform, would that,
you know, potentially garner them more support? Speaker 1: I think so. The problem is just saying
let's let's pump up trade school wouldn't be enough for either side. And so if you're
on the left and you go, let's pump up trade school and do some student loan forgiveness,
then the right will say, well, well, well, we can't do the student loan forgiveness. So I
think that one part would have significant appeal. But the question is what else is part of it? And
that's where the disagreements would start. Speaker 3: Right. Right. All right.
Speaker 4: Well, I have another question, but if you're good, I'm good.
Speaker 1: David, thank you. Yeah, thank you so much. We'll get to the next question next time
since we have lots of folks wanting to wanting to get in here.