what's your vibe I played magic I play
cribbage I feel like you are a magician
this jacket is full of secrets maybe
high school dropout vibe [ __ ] me hi I'm
Alan I'm Curtis I'm blind and I'm get
together with blinds again we're in a
hip-hop duo I have a bachelor's degree
GED I dropped out of college I was a
mechanical engineer as an undergraduate
that I've got a master's degree in
architecture I've done like a two-year
program school is just like not my vibe
I'm a good person I swear can go to my
man I think he's trying to throw us off
with the suit little trihard yeah I'm
sorry bad hello wonderful
turquoise Andrea Andrea fabulous first
impressions Rockstar thank you
what kind of work do you do I am
self-employed and what kind of work do
you do
customer service self-employed customer
service I work with people all right I
make them feel good about themselves
that's interesting insects train okay
I'm looking at the ends of your hairs
see okay maybe you just got a trim I
think she went to beauty school are you
an artist like I think you do you
tattoos and I don't think you need to go
to school for that maybe yeah a high
school dropout you're like [ __ ] school
I'm gonna pursue my dreams of singing in
my screamo you know there that's right
so I dropped out of high school okay
you're totally right [ __ ] education my
bad location
typical public school route yeah so I
went to cosmetology school nice I am a
hair stylist okay thank you only because
we work with people like you all we
should have work today
you're like giving me like a Freddy bro
kind of vibe like the ones that used to
pick me up and throw me out of the party
what kind of work do you do I work in a
hospital you work in a hospital
I sometimes clean up messes they
contribute to making the messes yeah
they're starting to sound more and more
like a doctor how much money do you make
thirty-five thousand cool dollars a year
oh okay damage I would hope that you
that you didn't go to college and have
that I mean [ __ ] you're paying that much
a year to go to fry no way you're gonna
get out of debt on that I want to say
high school diploma just for your sake
but I say GED I don't think you went to
school min okay GED you went to a
four-year university so you could just
like party it up a little bit and you're
like [ __ ] I like get a communications
degree or something and you were just
like butt chugging Coors Light all day
so was I right
No okay shoot not at all I'm an HD
student what are you studying why are
you I'm studying the molecular biology
of Aging how old do you think I am are
people surprised sometimes yeah I think
I'm the second african-american in the
program's history why are you studying
this oh it's actually a really selfish
reason nice to see if I could live a
long time the PhD is to solidify that
higher pay grade yeah hopefully I want
you to make more money hello what's your
name Eddie I'm so sorry I do Eddie Eddie
EDD why Eddie Eddie
where you from Eddie my mom and dad are
from Guatemala but I was born here and
in Bellevue Washington
Bellevue so your parents what are their
expectations like well they're worried
about me like getting someone pregnant
but I'm not gonna happen
I think it is in college right now it
looks like he's 16 I'm very confused
I would assume he's like still in high
school
am i right I know I have a bachelor's
your parents proud of you I think so
like my mom and dad neither one of them
went to school like my dad doesn't know
how to read or write is anybody in your
family looking up to you my little
sisters are about to graduate from high
school so they're like applying to
college so it's like nice being able to
like help them because when I was
applying to college and stuff like I
didn't have any guidance well tell me
about the work you do I do a little
graphic design I'm a sketch illustrator
I help with adult entertainment in order
to do what you do you kind of have to
have a handle on art history I'm just
guessing that you have a bachelor's
degree in fine arts we take the glasses
off for us that's risky
oh yeah the Bears real baby yeah very
thick like that mm-hmm
we're talkin education I can see you
being a doctor you give me gamer vibes
and I feel like gamers wouldn't go to
college am i right I actually have a
master's degree it's okay
in what College Student Personnel
administration I to this day I'm not
really using my degree how much debt are
you in I still gotta tens of thousands
tickets it's not as anxiety yeah it's
not good and for something that you're
like not using yeah it's sucks come on
down mr. Sulu
don't sit it's good Dante the dumbest
looking [ __ ] it's the hair man
the suit with the jheri curl
oh you mother you want to buy a
timeshare problem you're so mean what's
your vibe
I played magic I play cribbage I feel
like you are a magician
this jacket is full of secrets maybe
high school dropout vibe you're like
[ __ ] it I want to be a magician [ __ ]
looks like your hair is nice and
moisturized okay cool cool cool oh
there's a ring okay okay I'm going where
and I watch you're a car salesman
you have a high school diploma
that's you stop maybe you started
working there in high school you're like
the detailer I don't know academic
scholarship I've got a a a a BA and a
master's what's your master's in
athletic administration my bachelor's
and my a a or a nineteen is a teach
sequel I used to teach HTML CSS and all
that I make all my white students call
me master
you're like a PhD [ __ ] what is that man
you're so intimidating I feel like you
can like read into my soul and you were
like taught in school how to do that for
like years you have small hands I yes
that means you type she's a type type ER
the people who do the coding thing is do
you have to go to college for that
bachelor's in coding no I do have a PhD
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okay in what okay I took that my
freshman year at WCA okay [ __ ] hate
it at what do you do with your degree
I'm a postdoc what is a postdoc
basically it's a continuation of your
training if you want to stay in academia
and go on to the purpose aureate that
sounds boring are you a doctor I am a
doctor what's your last name Cruz dr.
Cruz yeah hi I'm Curtis television
surimi Serena nice to meet you
you're very polite and put together I
think you do some school oh you
definitely want to call it yeah so we
got that out the way uh-huh
what levels right hmm maybe a master's
oh no do you know what a cohort is
uh-huh no masters
I definitely think your doctor okay yeah
like a guy no I trust you with my vagina
don't worry about your work I am a
project engineer for an electrical
company so I worked with a lot of
project engineers I'll say you have a
bachelor's degree in this I'm sorry am i
right no I graduate high school so just
have a diploma I work with some really
good project engineers that never went
to college do you feel you're treated
differently because you don't have a
degree to a certain extent yes do you
regret not getting a degree no I did a
little I must sneer of college I decided
that I was doing it for my family not
for myself good for you
nice to meet you what kind of work do
you do I work with kids that have a
troubled past did you have come from a
troubled past I did uh-huh I'm saying
your education is maybe high school do
you have siblings I do I'm going to all
Dass young guys yes I'm oldest is 7 you
wanted to be a leader she went to school
I think like a four year something that
like I might finally kind of boring you
know any like name just called me boring
no no I think that you'd like oh my god
I'm sweating education is important if
you work with kids working with kids
doesn't mean that you went to school I
know too many people that maybe
shouldn't be working with kids they
probably should went to school I don't
think she went to school not to college
High School GED yeah so you're right but
you're also wrong okay like that my mom
kicked me out when I was 17 okay I
helped raise my siblings mmm but with
that I had to miss a lot of school
mm-hmm I wasn't able to finish that last
year of high school but I did end up
going back to school completed my
bachelor's in law and justice with a
minor in psychology and I'm now
continuing on to my master's in
criminology
okay nice the underdog I'm not expecting
that how much of your upbringing led to
what you decided to pursue and study
working with juvenile offenders it's
funny you could pull up my name and you
can say oh oh hey I got in trouble but
this is part of my past and I want to
help kids work on their past I had
certain teachers and individuals I could
go talk to I just want to help people
the way that other people help me find a
bed a lot of enemies today I know he's
probably like I did you just say dumb we
just said the least educated that's the
rudest thing anyone's ever asked me to
do
poignant poignant yeah do you guys know
what the [ __ ]
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