How many PhDs do you think cleaned your shit in grade school?

[Preach]

Which show is that from? I've seen all his DVDs but don't remember that one.

 

[S O F I]

Preach, have you seen his most recent one taped at the Beacon Theater? It's pretty good.

 

[Preach]

Aye, that one too. And there's an HBO one and an older HBO one (I think), seen those two as well. He only got funny when he got old and lost his hair, tbh.

 

[S O F I]

I saw a clip of him performing in like 1995 on some late night show. He had a different style. He's much funnier now, yeah.

 

[Preach]

What blows me away about the guy is the belief in magic.

His jokes are hitting the right spots too much that it could be random jokes he just stumbled over. He has a social critic side, and a comic side of him. I wonder how he connects the two so well. It feels like all his jokes start as an accusation against a person he's seen, or a stereotype he hates. Yet he presents them as jokes at the expense of his own portrayed personality. It's so brilliant, it's genius.

Or maybe he's just a lucky sob.

 

[S O F I]

wait, what belief in magic?

 

[Preach]

wait, what belief in magic?

My belief in the magic of intuition. The unexplainable phenomenon where one person just sees things in a way different to the great majority, which empowers them in ways unthinkable to the great majority. In this case, however he manages to turn a personal annoyance into something universally hilarious.

 

[Jokerman]

Which show is that from? I've seen all his DVDs but don't remember that one.

That's the first I've seen of him. Didn't know he was known. Followed a link from someone on twitter.

 

[The.Menace]

These are 2 mistakes people do while picking their future.

It's also a missunderstanding that people can actually 'pick their future'. You can make plans, no doubt, but sometimes things just don't work out that way. Also, it's no as easy to say:

You can pick a worthless track as a secondary degree

First of all, what is worthless? Besides that, I remember when I was in school they used to say you shouldn't become a teacher for example because there are way too many. 10 Years later they're lookin hard for teachers. So what seems "worthless" at a time, doesn't mean it's going to be 10 or 20 years later..... well, it's not that easy to foresee the future.

 

[Pittsey]

First of all, what is worthless? Besides that, I remember when I was in school they used to say you shouldn't become a teacher for example because there are way too many. 10 Years later they're lookin hard for teachers. So what seems "worthless" at a time, doesn't mean it's going to be 10 or 20 years later..... well, it's not that easy to foresee the future.

Agree. We had the IT boom in the 90s where everyone was going to work with computers, that's "where the money is". Now we have people doing fairly menial computer based tasks such as data input, and PC building for minimum wage.

Then in the early 2000s there was a report about how plumbers were scarce, and earning 70k a year, now we have a shit load of plumbers. I think the best way is to probably go against the grain, or go crazy and pursue a career you enjoy, rather than base it on financial aspects.

 

[The.Menace]

I think the best way is to probably go against the grain, or go crazy and pursue a career you enjoy, rather than base it on financial aspects.

Exactly. I do believe you should orientated your carreer after your talents rather than after what is told to be 'good'. And even if you'd study philosophy, if you are really good at it you might become a professor on a university and I'd consider that a good job. So go after what you enjoy and what you're good at, that would be my advice. And as mentioned before, since the future is a tricky thing, you might still up in a shitty job.