I read a piece today....saying from across America...that 54-percent of Americans read at the sixth-grade level OR BELOW.
I paused over this.
Lets be honest....if you lined up 100 kids who graduated high school in the last year.....probably half of them are in the 6th-grade level.
This making them risky at grasping instructions? Well....yeah.
Easily BSing them, giving them fake stories? Well...yeah.
It was a ironclad rule of the Air Force....you show up for a military-contracted passenger flight....you had to be in dress-uniform (Army, Air Force, Navy)....it didn't matter.
I showed up in St Louis, for one of these passenger flights....early 1990s. Military folks doing tickets/boarding.
Air Force couple shows up in uniform, and gets their boarding pass....boards....then goes to the plane toilet.....changing out of the uniform in jogging pants/t-shirts.
Around a dozen passengers (mostly junior officers) go berserk....'you-can't-do-that'.
The couple refuse to comply (they were both E-6's from what I could figure).
Contracted stewardesses refuse to get into this....telling the whiners to shut up.
Within a year....the regulation had changed so on these military-contracted flights....you could wearing civilian clothing.
1. Joe Rogan. Out of every ten he does (at least in 2024)....I probably caught around six of them.
2. Ian Carroll. The king of conspiracy chatter. He researches these, and lays out the pieces.
3.'I Allegedly' (Dan). Find it off YouTube. If you have interest in business/commerce or financial news....he does a 15-minute piece each day. Blunt talk....often critical.
4. Robert Sepehr. Find it via YouTube. PhD-level thinker. He does one 'talk' about every two weeks....diving deep a topic.
5. Valuetainment, off Youtube. 30 minute piece at least twice a week. Lean right. Commerce and analysis chatter.
6. Danny Jones, off YouTube. Half of what he doe....you can disregard in 10 minutes. But he brings on guests and about half of these interviews are really far out on science/history.....worth an hour of your time.
7. Sabbatical, off YouTube. This guy travels constantly, to historical locations (even dangerous places)....giving you a 5-star history lesson.
8. Joe Blogs, off YouTube. Business and commerce analysis....lot of Russian finance views. Ton of graphs/charts. Might be the 5-star master economist.
9. Paul in the Philippines, off YouTube. Retired guy living in the Philippines. Interesting interviews with mostly guys who left the US, and living their life-dream there.
10. Metal Leo, off YouTube. Does video-walking tours of SF. Highly critical of SF decay.
11. Lex Fridman, off YouTube. Half of his talks are science-related. High IQ analysis.
12. Chris Williamson, off YouTube. Does 5 interviews a week....I'd say 3 of them are usually worth listening. I'd call him Joe-Rogan-lite.
13. Uneducated Economist, off YouTube. Self-taught economist....working out of a lumber yard. Takes complicated topics finance/economics...makes it simple.
14. News For Reasonable People. Off YouTube. Real estate guy.....covers news affecting public. Blunt criticism.
15. Ric Bender. Off YouTube. Daily economy news. Simple format....easy to follow.
16. Triggernometry. Off YouTube. 2 Brit comedians who actually do serious interviews.
17. Whats Going On With Shipping. Off YouTube. Literally...ONLY stuff about ships/freight. If you see some stuff about a freighter lost....tune over to this to find the whole story.
18. Dr Todd Grande. Off YouTube. Weird, weird, weird. He examines the mental side of crazy nutcases.
19. 1420. Off YouTube. Russian guy who does interviews of Russians on the street. You might be surprised how Russians relate things.
20. Liz Wheeler. Off YouTube. Daily news analysis. Interesting pieces.
21. Katie Hopkins. Off YouTube. Brit comedian.
