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EP:142 Work-Life Crisis: Guns in Schools and the Failing American Dream
American work culture forces parents to choose between providing financially and being present for their children, creating dangerous situations where kids bring guns to school and families struggle to stay connected.
• Multiple incidents of young children (ages 6-14) bringing guns to school in New York City
• Parent absences due to long work hours create supervision gaps for children
• Economic pressures require dual incomes when one income used to support families
• Housing costs and basic necessities continue rising while wages remain stagnant
• Corporate greed drives price increases even when costs don't justify them
• Refusing overtime can be a necessary act of self-preservation despite financial needs
• Modern workforce "driving people to the grave" before they can reach retirement
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You are listening to the Double A Club and this is your host, ny Boom, and my co-host, big Daz. We'll be talking about trending topics in healthcare and basically, just as a disclaimer, just to let the listeners know that this is just basically on our opinions and speculations and I hope you guys enjoy the show. Let's start off and kick off with our first topic and I'm going to give you another story I'm going to give you another story that kind of.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying this is exactly the reason, but it's a cause. You know what I'm not saying? This is exactly the reason, but it's a cause. You know what I'm saying. There's a six-year-old going to a Bronx prep school and he's in kindergarten and he greets his kindergarten teacher. The child opens up his backpack to get ready for class and he sees a gun in his back. The child immediately oh man, now again a lot of people when I just said and I mentioned this story, they're gonna be thinking, oh, this must be like a bad school in the Bronx. No, it's not. It's listed in the top 25% in the state of New York level. It's not. It's a Bronx prep school, I don't know exactly where, but um, but how would you act as a parent, as a parent of of of a student that's in that class, with that kid?
Speaker 3:and you find out what they find out about the kids and what happened to that gun.
Speaker 2:Granted the kids would not know anything about a gun scare at his school. And he was, like he heard about the music, like I'm just I not going to school. He didn't tell his parents, he didn't tell me, he didn't tell his mom anything about it. We had to find out later. When we found out that he wasn't in school, and then he told us what he heard and why he didn't want to go to school, I was like, all right, I understand, good, smart, but still you need to fucking tell him. You know, you need to form your parents about it. You know what I'm saying? Your dad's literally a fucking ramble. Tell me no, no, no, no, he doesn't have a bully. But I think what he said, what he found out, was that, which doesn't make no sense, but somebody saying that they were bringing a gun, and I guess the word spread out and he got a rip of the word. He was like I'm not going to school tomorrow, it never happened. We got to rip the word and they I'm not going to school tomorrow, it never happened.
Speaker 3:There's a whole lot of noise over there. I'm standing next to nothing, I'm just walking around, but anyway, it's fine.
Speaker 2:So in another incident right, I mean in that last story they investigated the parents about it. You know what I'm saying. Since it wasn't the kid's fault, the kid didn't bring the gun in. You know what I'm saying. What happened was the father put the gun in. What happened was the father put the gun in his bag and I guess he forgot about it because he's fucking working, fucking 50-60 hours and can't fucking think. And why would he have a gun? I don't know. But yeah, okay, I don't know what went through his mind and he said oh, it's a good idea to put the gun in my son's son's son's bag.
Speaker 2:One day he actually had books in, and Then he takes the school. That alone, that alone just shows you the connection of he doesn't even know what bag it's kids brings with him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I've seen right. Yeah, that's bad. So, yeah, absolutely right.
Speaker 2:So in another incident right the brooklyn in the brooklyn collegiate preparatory high school, a 14 year old was seen on video surveillance displaying a gun. This kid here was. This kid was searched and had an unloaded 9 millimeter gun he is fucking retarded yeah.
Speaker 2:but here's the thing you know, we, we can, we can, we can put all the blame on the kid and everything. And you know something the kid does deserve the blame on the kid and everything. And you know, sometimes the kid does deserve the blame, right, because he's trying to show off right. But here's the thing why is he doing this? Because his parents are not fucking home, they're at work trying to support his ass, and you can't blame the parents because she doesn't have the fucking time to do it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're right, how are?
Speaker 2:you going to blame the parents? She's not even home to have enough time to teach her son what to do. The rights wrongs you know say to be ethical. She can't do anything. How you gonna do that with one hour a day?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, absolutely right what comes?
Speaker 2:first what comes first is putting a roof over that motherfucking head, putting food on that table so his belly stays full and making sure that he goes to school and gets an education. That is it. That's what the parent is thinking about, because she can't teach him more, because she's not at home. She's fucking working, trying to support all these things, that these fucking corporations continue to raise prices so she can continue staying at work and not take care of her fucking kid. And what makes this even worse? Back in the days you were able to do that because you could have one person in the family working and support everything and the wife would stay home. Now you cannot do that. You have to have both people at work, because just to stay, just to rent an apartment or two or two own a home, you have to have two incomes in it yeah, yeah, absolutely right.
Speaker 3:At minimum, you have to have two incomes, exactly. I mean, the price of everything has gone up. You're absolutely right, or not?
Speaker 2:So at what point is the parent supposed to teach this boy morals about not fucking doing stupid shit like that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yes, right, it's insane how much it's gone up. And we're talking about 20 years ago. Yeah, we do research on 10 years ago, like From like 2016, I got gas prices of $2.25.
Speaker 2:And now, right now it's like $4. All right, let's use something else. Right, let's use real estate. Right. Let's say because real estate, you know, doesn't really hike up like that, you know what I'm saying Like, the cost of housing is new, but once you have it, you have it, that's it right. So let's say, for example, you have an in-house and you paid, you bought them when they were cheap and like a thousand dollars a month, right. And now you paid them off, those 10, those 10, right, and you want them off those 10. Those 10 houses, right, and you want to rent out those 10 because you want to start accumulating money. Why, again, let me remind you, the houses are paid off. Even if they're not paid off, it doesn't matter. It's $1,000. Why would you rent the house for $1,800?
Speaker 3:Yeah, why would you rent the house for $1,800?
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. That's what we're dealing with. You know what I'm saying? We got people. Look at your landlord, right, your landlord in your apartment complex. That motherfucker keeps raising the rent, but for what he does no upkeep in the building, really, and the building is already bought. It doesn't go up in price, so why are you raising the price?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's the way he's raising it, because he's allowed to.
Speaker 2:Exactly that's what I'm saying. And because he's greedy, he's fucking greedy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:and then the point that the thing that makes it so sickening is that once you start accumulating a significant amount of money where you're like, okay, I'm happy, this is good, I'm, I'm getting paid, I'm rich and whatever you want to fucking saying you're successful, you, you still want more, want more, you want more, you want more.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's. That's the successful mindset. Yes, it is Supposedly. Yes, I don't think I. I don't think that's a successful mindset because you've already reached success.
Speaker 2:That is a greedy mindset. You are being greedier Already. Your mindset for success already got you to become successful. You already have this. You're already accumulating a certain amount of money.
Speaker 3:Now you want to raise prices, to get greedier, to get more, to sponge out as much of that soap and water out of that sponge as possible. Yeah, that's not a successful mindset, that's a greedy mindset. Greedy, yeah, I mean that's exactly. But yeah, that's not a successful mindset.
Speaker 2:That's a greedy mindset.
Speaker 3:Greedy, that's greed. Yeah, it is greed, you're absolutely right. But I mean, that's what the successful mindset is on. It's on the greed of wanting more of what you want, and these people are greedy with money, so their success plan is for money. Well, I'm just saying, I just understand both sides, right go ahead.
Speaker 2:There's another incident that happened in ps5, this schools in Queens right. It's a day school program and they found a few old boy with a loaded nine millimeter gun inside his bag.
Speaker 3:Nice.
Speaker 2:Seven year old seven.
Speaker 3:Seven year old seven yo Was a school program PS5, in Queens, so he already went through the whole day of school.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no. I think he was. Yes, he went through the whole day of school and he was going to, I guess, the after school program, or whatever.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, with a gun in his bag, a loaded 9mm. That means he knew it was in there. He probably did, I'm not sure. I don't know anything more about the story. So I just got hooked up to these stories. They just gave me bits and pieces of the stories and I just grabbed what I could, but it wasn't a lot of information. But all this stuff, you know, if you put it all together, I mean you can. You can safely assume that most of these incidents that I mentioned, they probably have a single family home, a single parent home, I mean. And if they don't have a single parent home and they have dual parents, nobody's in the house, you know, they're always out. So that's the reason why I'm bringing up a lot of these stories, because this is, this is I'm trying you, I'm giving examples on what's going to happen if we continue this fucking this disgusting workforce of driving people to the grave, like people are not going to reach retirement because of this.
Speaker 3:You know, yeah, I know, they fucked up the social security system and all that the social security system process is not going to be anything For example, like me at work, I refuse to do overtime.
Speaker 2:I tell them don't even fucking call me, Seriously, You're not going to get picked up. Don't call me. If you're trying to get me to come in, no, don't do it. If you let me know in advance and I can fit it in my schedule, then I don't mind doing the overtime. But there's no way you're calling me out the blue and saying, hey, keep up. No, fuck no.
Speaker 2:I'm not you know what I'm saying. Like my answer machine says If you're fucking calling me, it's a fucking no, that's what it says. So my manager calls me, that's what he's gonna get as an answer machine. If you're fucking calling me, it's a fucking no, because I'm not fucking doing overtime. Now. Do I need the overtime? Yes, I probably do need doing overtime. Now do I need the overtime? Yes, I probably do need the overtime because, like I said, a lot of stuff is raising in prices and stuff and I'm getting a little bit strapped with cash because I have to spend on certain things and stuff like that and I just you know.
Speaker 2:But to be honest with you, I'm not going to do overtime because I'm not going to affect my health. You know what? I'm not going to do overtime? Because I'm not going to affect my health. You'll think I want, I'm looking at the long run and I'm trying to live to 70, 80, 90 years old. You don't think so I'm not gonna burn myself out physically at work.
Speaker 2:So I figure out ways to do all this budgeting thing and you know, if I have to fucking move money around of what I have to try to take this bills and food and stuff like that, then guess what I'm going to do that. But I'm not fucking going in to work to do overtime because I need to, because I need it, because I can't afford it. No, fuck that. You know what I'm saying. Like, if I, if it gets to a point like that where I cannot afford anything, then I'm leaving that job and finding a job that pays more anything, then I'm leaving that job and finding a job that pays more. Now, that's not that simple for everyone else. I understand that, but that's my mind, that's how I find it. I'm going to leave that fucking job and I'm going to find something that pays more.
Speaker 1:that's going to at least pay me for what I need. Thank you for listening to the Double A Club. Listen to us next episode to continue this topic. If you want to reach us on the email, it is doubleaclubpodcast at gmailcom. Catch you on the next one.
