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guys welcome to better bachelor my name
is joker with a face for radio and a
voice for print um all right so today i
want to talk about a little sweet
revenge um the age of men starts its
comeback
now let's be real
real real let's be really real here
about things
the bad times are a common they're not
they're not really here yet we're
starting to see the first
instances i forgot to forgot to change
my window to look at what i'm looking at
there we go
the the bad times are are not here yet
there are they are a common um and
so so and what i mean by that we may
have recessions they're going to have to
raise the interest rates to fight
inflation raising the interest rates
usually means companies laying off
people laid off people means more people
unemployed more unemployed people mean
they're not buying as many things which
causes other companies not to make as
much money which means more layoffs and
so on and so forth and if it gets really
bad that cycle downward spiral lands
somewhere around the the great
depression like it did here in the
united states
but even during the the great depression
even during the worst times
dock workers
fishermen
uh
the farmers are really what what started
the dust bowl in the great depression
but um but usually the guys that can do
things fix things are willing to work on
things make some sacrifices
are the ones that win and i kind of know
this a little bit firsthand
because if you have good worth at work
ethics and you work hard
you may have to take a job that's less
than what you're valued at but if you're
willing to do it and you're willing to
scrimp and save and make some sacrifices
in the long run you'll win
uh when i got out of the military i
washed dishes
for back then i think minimum wage was
like 525 or 550 an hour i was washing
dishes why i had a car payment i had to
make i had insurance i had to pay for i
had gas and yes i ended up
moving back at the tender age of what
was i 22
after my four years in the service i
ended up moving back home for a little
while but i also
with my family my parents but i also
worked i i make made enough money to
make my own car payments and and make my
car loans or my car insurance and things
like that and then i kept working at
that until i got another position that
made i don't know eight bucks an hour
and that was working for a finance
company
uh as a customer service rep
and i stayed at that company until i was
an assistant manager and then i used the
assistant manager title to slide over
into another job and i it was a kind of
a rough climb uh i certainly wouldn't
advise it for everybody i changed not
only jobs but vocations and what i did
but the the the point i'm making is that
if you're open-minded and you're willing
to say you know that's new to me um it's
not what i want to do but i'm willing to
make some sacrifices you'll get ahead
and and the all the way up to a six
figure six figure network engineering
degree with no college and maybe at best
a c plus student in high school because
i got bored easily and and i never did
my homework and stuff so
but how are men making its comeback well
first let's start with this
uh netflix hemorrhaging customers stocks
crashing they're in trouble and they've
canceled the obama special the netflix
special because no one was watching it
and uh and i have a lot from netflix but
the reason why i want to mention this
these are the positions or these are
similar to the positions that that are
the quote not i don't mean anything
they're giveaway positions
writers animators marketers uh program
directors
they're over
stuffed with all these nothing
people writing nothing programs i don't
mean nothing people but i mean their
jobs
uh writing programs that people are not
watching and they don't care about and
so as the company gets in trouble they
get rid of the chat or the fluff right
they get rid of the chaff and what
they're doing is they're getting rid of
people that are overpaid programs that
are not being watched things that are
expensive and all these people are
getting laid off at netflix okay
and why because they kind of went woke
and they said well we have a message to
put out but when it comes down to making
money
and dollars the message goes aside and
they say holy crap we've got to make
some money
all those people are now out of work the
people that were writing this bad
programming out of work the marketers
etc
i did a search here for news media
newsroom layoffs furloughs and closures
during the bug now you'd think that when
everybody's kind of locked in and can't
do anything that news would be
be being consumed in red but all these
staffers and all these people writing a
lot of the silly stories that i read
are getting laid off and they have it by
state and there's a lot a lot
that are getting laid off here i mean
you just go down through here
and
all the media is getting laid off and
this is over the last year or two
but i mean these are all california ones
they're just
tons of people
we come over to here cnn all the cnn
plus people that they ended up hiring
their
layoffs now they say they're eyeing
layoffs they're going to be doing lots
of layoffs following embarrassing
failure of new streaming service as a
matter of fact cnn period has not been
profitable for the last couple years
they're being held up by i forget who
they're they're actually owned by
you know so many of these are owned by
18 t or verizon or
or who but they're they're being held up
and what happens when that hold up money
goes away they're getting laid off uh
meghan markle's netflix show scrapped
and i and and because they only i think
and that's after they they did a
multi-million dollar deal but everybody
that's involved in that is out and i
think their spotify deal is is caving in
as elon musk's twitter plans emerge are
employees readying a mass exodus uh yeah
there's going to be a lot of layoffs i
think
and and maybe not all of them but
there's going to be some layoffs of
people and there's going to be people
that say they're going to quit because
of the they don't like the new direction
leadership's going but if they can't get
a job they're going to be stuck there
and i'll get to my main point here in a
second but i just want to read through
these
uh angry netflix employees take to
twitter after getting laid off and they
just want to complain
brutal month for netflix
they say oh it ends with anger netflix
recruited me seven months ago only to
lay me off
and uh
uh i was nate laid off netflix's fan
site to numb after just four months now
i'm left flailing
well the reason why i wanted to talk
about all this is that
this is something i've been around for
long enough to know i've seen us go
through a recession in 08 and i was
working i've seen i was around it was in
the 70s
when i was a baby i didn't know much
back then but i when i talked to my
parents about it i did have references
to jimmy uh jimmy carter's era when gas
prices were through the roof and there
were lines to get filled up on uh
gasoline and the prices were crazy
and food was expensive and the uh
administration that came in behind them
like reagan they had to raise interest
rates like to 12 or 14 percent to undo
the inflation and the monetary policies
of jimmy carter jimmy carter previously
had the worst record and the worst um
uh what do you want to call it inflation
in history
until now until biden
so these things may still happen the
interest rates may skyrocket
unemployment may go up gas prices may
continue on
and and i'm so i'm not here to say you
know let's not all start cheering that
good times are here but why men win when
it comes to this and i say men i mean
men that are willing to
take some tough knocks willing the men
that are willing to say you know what i
do not want to do this
i'm not happy doing this but i will
because i have to put food on the table
whether it's for myself or a family
men that are willing to say i will go
you know dig a ditch i'll go work on a
roof
i'll go do menial jobs i'll take two
uh and i'm not saying roof workers are
menial what i mean by menial is
unappreciated and laborious i don't mean
not valuable let me just make that clear
because i said menial sometimes and
somebody's like hey those are important
jobs not that they're unimportant just
that they're unappreciated
and so
what's going to happen is that men and i
use that term very specifically men do
the hard jobs men do the dirty jobs men
do the hot jobs men do the sweaty jobs
men do the unappreciated jobs to put
food on their table
because the the social programs and
everything that's all wonderful and they
may go away
and i wanted to give you some examples
of this so that you know as we come
around the corner into the next year two
years three years as things probably
continue to get worse as maybe free
speech goes away because they're already
trying to attack that and maybe as the
the government and everybody starts
fighting with each other
that's one portion of the world we're in
but if you turn off the computer there's
still the real world that you need to
deal with
and his companies and his spending and
his interest rates go up and company
spending goes down and interest rates go
up and and companies taking all this
free money goes down and you get zombie
corporations starting to fold
unemployment's going to go way up
and so i want you guys to know that if
you're in a
number one if you're not in a college
career path good i i think that situates
you perfectly because college loans
right now have gone through the roof and
college costs are through the roof and
even if you want to go to college
someday or you finish your degree and
you have it
don't be afraid to look at a different
career track while you're still paying
your bills while you're still getting
things done
you know i often talk about uh some of
these jobs but i just i've been talking
about
the
labor positions for the last two years
and how important it is and why it's
something you shouldn't ignore
and these are jobs that are 95
plus filled by men so it's it's men that
are going to keep things running and
it's you if you're a man willing to look
at different options it's you that's
going to be able to survive through this
from this isn't most of these all i did
is type in some of the stuff i talk
about plus high demand
truckers are in high demand
uh they're short uh anywhere between
eighty thousand and a hundred and twenty
thousand drivers short walmart for
example and this is just one
one instance walmart says they will pay
truckers to go through a training a
twelve or sixteen week training program
if you sign on and drive for them and
they will pay you six figures a hundred
thousand to drive a truck
and they say some uh places are giving
bone signup bonuses for 15 grand now
maybe you say you know you know what uh
maybe uh maybe you don't feel like being
a trucker what about
construction workers america desperately
needs one million more construction
workers now you can say well this is
because of the housing boom but during a
recession and people stop you know
building houses and maybe people stop uh
doing construction on building new i
don't know whatever
that may fall off some yes it may will
it fall off a million i don't know but
it's at least something to work look
into because construction companies are
the same ones that repair the roads
if a new business takes over an old
business they come in and they will
renovate which is a construction company
an apartment building you know if they
have to make some changes or fixes in an
apartment building it's still something
to consider but this is just from july
of last year they need a million more
now again i'm not saying this is
bulletproof guys but i'm giving some
examples of netflix laying off twitter
may be laying off amazon amazon's doing
okay uh what's the other one i was
thinking of
uh anyway you've got news organizations
laying off cnn laying off and and what's
going to happen is these fluffy jobs
that are you know sitting behind a desk
on a computer talking about how much
you're you're writing a story about uh
you know bad patriarchy and all that
stuff in the meantime these men are
gonna are gonna do a lot better probably
get paid better and not have to put up
with all of the nonsense and the woke
garbage all right here's another one i
uh job outlook for welders
they say more than 50 of all man-made
products require welding
building construction automotive
shipping boiler industry
aircraft and aerospace military
applications they say here the welding
industry will face a shortage of about
four hundred 000 welders by 2024
the average age of a welder is 55 and
the coming wave of retirements will
leave the us with a great deficit and
skilled welders
i know people making six figure i know
them personally making six figures as a
welder
100 grand
and again a lot of these are
apprenticeships a lot of times they'll
they'll teach you on the job training
and you might start out at 10 12 15
bucks an hour but if you stick with it
and you're good at it and you work hard
at it you will take off and i found that
again i've changed my career many many
times
whether it was a jeweler or working in
the finance industry or working in
network engineering and technology
i made a lot of hops and a lot of them i
i lost a little money but it was to kind
of go from the top of one career field
into near middle or lower on another but
it had a much higher
ceiling in it
welding is probably one of those ones
that i will go back to i'm probably not
go about going back to network
engineering sitting in an office
with all the
the forced everything it's not my thing
i'll probably go back and be a welder
that's what i'm personally looking at
that or an electrician and here's
electricians state of electrician
shortage in 2022 no data a new data on
the bug
they say why is there a shortage of
electricians experienced electricians
are retiring faster than ever
because why because they've done well
and they say you know what uh
i'm i'm good i'm out
they say that more people are retiring
not enough new electricians entering the
industry
demand is
increasing they say here by industry
construction half a million
uh let's see
i'm sorry there let me read it this way
industry construction they need ten
percent more manufacturing six
government five educational services
seven utilities are going down actually
mining quarrying in oil and gas
ten percent all industries nine point
one percent
now those are projections again they
could fall off a little bit
but even if things drop a little bit you
go from oh my gosh we have a shortage of
electricians to okay things are about
right now
things are about right now
and here's the other thing if you're
good at it
if if you get in there and you learn and
you become good at it
right you can you you may actually keep
the your job because you're at 20 or 30
bucks an hour and the guy that's maybe
50 60 bucks an hour uh he might be the
one that's retiring or let go or has to
look for a new position
and again i'm not saying these are
guarantees guys but i just i'm trying to
get you to understand that if you're
open-minded
and you're willing to make some
sacrifices
the
men will succeed through this
if you're willing to
uh
have an open mind about it maybe that's
what i want to say
and again these are the vast majority of
these women do not apply for
they say here in here's uh i think this
is the last one i have training program
working to pump out new plumbers as fast
as as it can a mid shortage of skilled
workers
same thing same thing
they say right here estimates a 55
percent shortage of plumbing a pl of
plumbers available
and again this is you know current day
you know this is today
but even if there's a drawback even if
there's a somewhat large drawback in the
market
a lot of these jobs there are men that
are going to be retiring there are a lot
of people that think you have to have a
degree they've been told you need to
take out 100 000 in school loans or more
you need to go to a college you need to
get really educated and you know
underwater gender studies or whatever it
is and and then you'll get a job
well a lot of those people's right right
now are complaining number one pay off
my school loans because i can't pay them
back and number two
they're baristas at a starbucks because
they they don't have a degree that
anybody wants them to skip the degree
for now
if you want to do that someday great
but men are the ones that will make
sacrifices and go work in the fields and
and do these kind of more manual labor
type things but they're they're getting
paid
you know when we had the oil um there
was a
la what was it last summer
there was a hack on the oil one of the
oil producers or oil distributors here
in the united states and as i was
driving the bus across country there
were a lot of places that said no gas no
diesel
because they weren't getting any oil
or excuse me gasoline delivered and when
i saw the the interview on congress and
they were saying why
do we not just open it up manually why
why do we need the computers to even do
this
their response was i got a lot of the
wrenchers that used to do this have
retired they're gone they don't do it
anymore they don't have the knowledge
anymore
well if you go into that industry not as
the computer engineer but as the the
wrencher as that that guy yeah maybe the
guy that's uh the computer engineer is
sitting behind a desk in air
conditioning making 100 grand a year
but you'll also be making the same
salary but you didn't have to go get
your degree and
they're going to need you
i mean if if industries start getting
hacked whether it's electric electrical
or water anything else
you're they're going to need people with
that knowledge so i want you to just
kind of remember that all the people
that are writing news articles that are
men are awful or doing the commercials
that men are awful uh or
uh
a white patriarchy or anything like that
uh the the huffpo the washington post
the netflix movies that are coming out
as woke the twitter
you know fiasco where people have been
locked out
those are the people that are going to
be suffering when we go into the bad
times and if you're willing to be
open-minded keep your feet close to the
ground maybe get your hands dirty and do
some manual labor it may not be what you
need to do forever but it may get you
through the next three five seven ten
years of bad times until we kind of come
out on the back side and hopefully by
then because of this kind of reset
colleges will be uh cheaper because a
lot of people stopped going because they
couldn't afford to or take the loans
you know that maybe then you might be
the supervisor of three to five young
men
that decide not to do college because it
turns out it's just a
waste of money and then you'll be a
supervisor and then you'll you'll be the
one getting the good money
i don't know let me know what you guys
think down below you know i don't want
to think like it's all
pearls and roses all of a sudden
but i also see an out i see an exit to
this problem for men
it's going to be getting your hands
dirty it's going to maybe do it be doing
things you may not necessarily love as a
vocation or as your dream job but it's
gonna pay and it's gonna be available
and you may you may come out of this
side on the far side of these down times
you may while you may not come out rosy
you might come out okay you might come
out where you've been able to pay your
bills and you've got work going and and
maybe you learn enough to start your own
business where a lot of these people
that are getting these degrees and are
the ones going off to
to these production companies or news
companies or media companies or you know
colleges with all their very expensive
overhead
maybe i think i think you will come out
better than they do on the far side let
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