08-24-26 Part Two - Youth Turning To Trades

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All across America. We are Red Eye Radio. He is our crony and I'm Gary McNamara. Welcome and good morning. Thank you for being here. All right. So we have a latest at 2028 poll for Democrats. Okay. All right. We got what he got. Democrats continue to favor Vice President Kamala Harris.

Over 12 other candidates at the 2028 Democratic presidential primary. We're held today according to the Center Square Voter's Voice poll. This sounds like it's a fake poll. I've never heard of it.

“Uh, the Center Square is conducted for 2028 presidential primary poll since October.”

And Harris has retained about 30% of our party support each time. Though the October poll was her best in the fall of 2025. 33% of registered Democrat and left leaning independent respondents indicated they would choose Harris from a list of eight prominent Democratic politicians by March. When the Center Square added five more party leaders to the list,

her support dipped to 31% in June and August. She remained the Democratic favorite among 27 and 28% of the respondents.

The most notable change among the other potential contenders is that support for the second

most popular candidate. California Governor Gavin Newsom fell substantially with the addition of more options in March from 21% to 16%. And he has plateaued in recent months at 14%.

“Meanwhile former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg,”

who initially pulled at 7% climb to 11% in June and then 12% in the August poll while Harris pulled the best in almost every major demographic group surveyed. She was the most popular among the younger voters and black voters. 47% of registered voters ages 18 to 29 preferred Harris to other prominent Democrats and no one came close to her 49% among black voters.

Newsom came in a distant second among black voters with 10%.

Each polled racial demographics besides white, strongly favored Harris. She captured 30% of Hispanic and Latino respondents and 37% of respondents who identified as a race other than white, black, Hispanic or Latino. She was still the most popular candidate among white voters at 18%. But Buttigieg was right behind at 17% and Newsom at 16%.

There you go. I didn't see another story where I don't know if it was just a repeat from the story before, but it was like that Jasmine Crockett blames racism because she's already said that before. So this would be if she said it again, it would be a repetition, but I saw some new headlines on that and she already said that.

Yeah, which again, what she's saying is Democrats are racist because it was a primer. Right, yeah. How dare those Democrats be racist? How dare they? How dare they?

Sexist and racist. I'm shocked. And outraged. Almost forgot outraged. How dare they?

How dare they?

I never, or did I see this?

Because August 22nd, Jasmine Crockett blames racism for primary loss to Tallarico calls for a reckoning. All right, I'm trying to see is this a new appearing on front page. Okay, is August 21st. This is, okay, this is, yeah. In response, the,

I just love, my God, I just love their mindset is just nuts appearing on front page with Mimi Brown, the ousted lawmaker was presented with the clip of her former opponent. Senate nominee in Texas State Representative James Tallarico on the breakfast club where he reiterated.

presented and then bat it down a suggestion that she has an underground railroad telling black voters what to do. And state it, I frankly stopped doing as many TV interviews because I don't want to talk about the race to be perfectly honest. And the reasons that I don't is because right now people just need to focus on whatever it's going to take to win. But there is a reckoning that this party needs to have. There isn't, you know, well, the racism was very clear.

So she's talking about the Democrat party is a racist party. And that's why she lost. Specifically, Texas Democrats are racist. No, well, all right.

“You, you Democrats, you need to get it together.”

The racism was very clear. Yeah, now remember.

When she was out first in the primary committed to January, she blamed racism in sexism.

That's right. Now Jasmine Crockett, racism in sexism. These are primary elections. Yep. So yeah, Democrats are racist.

According to Democrats. Well, I mean, we, again, we've heard it before. So don't believe a thing we say if you're one of the Democrats out there. These are the Democrats calling you a racist. You should really, you know, change.

You want to be on the right side of history. Yeah, exactly.

Democrats Jim Crow ended decades ago.

That's right. My gosh.

“Isn't amazing though that with how inept and incompetent,”

where she can't even put together sentences that Kamala Harris is still. They'll still leave a lead. Yeah, that's still leaving. That's got a kill news. He just got to go, what do I have?

No, it's going, what? I, you know, I like what. But at least I can form a sentence. Yeah. Where do they know Rosa from Athens?

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The main and the most interesting thing is that it's surprising. American colleges are facing an enrollment crisis as more young people up for vocational schools and trade jobs drawn by steadier career prospects. Higher relative pay and less debt. Yeah.

The number of high school grads in rolling in traditional colleges could decline. Another 13% over the next 15 years. The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education predicts. Part of that is due to decline in birth rates. I mean, fewer Americans will be turning 18 in the coming years.

However, more students are choosing trades and vocational programs over traditional four year degrees that might end with the mountain of student debt and no high pain job.

People always ask me, "Should I go to barber school?"

And I always tell them to go for it. It's the best career decision I ever made. It's a Benjamin Davis of Los Angeles who decided to learn to cut hair. Instead of earning a traditional college degree. Can I tell you something?

I just go to the sports cuts. Yeah, that's where I go. And sports clips. Sports clips. Yeah, it's just sports clips.

Right. Because I'm hoping to see Steven A Smith on the TV when I'm getting my haircut. No, I'm not going to say that. These days actually, that's not far from the truth. Remember one time I think I posted it?

I think I posted it on an axe that we were just talked about.

There's about about six months ago.

“And I go in to get my hair cut and they were just screaming at me about sports.”

I'm like, "You were just doing politics!" It's gone on here. I took a video of it. And I think I put it on axe. Yeah, it's like it was hilarious.

But the woman who cuts my hair has a great personality. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Thank you, Benjamin. She's fantastic.

She is the only one that has a line of people waiting. No, same thing.

And I'm thinking to myself, and I asked her, I said, "You're always busy."

And she just has this very bubbly personality. Yeah. And she cuts my hair exactly the way I wanted cut. Yep. No, it is old man style.

Yeah, exactly. You know, and she covers up the bald spot on the top. No, I do not have a bald spot on the top. I had her, I had Vivian, the nice lady who cuts my hair. Create another bald spot because she's so good at what she does.

I thought, "Look, she's better than nature." My first bald spot, well, that comes from the guy of stairs. But she, not her boss. But, you know, the guy. But she created, I said, "Look, let's go for a second one."

No, she's, it's weird that you say that.

“Yeah, because one day I was, I was next on cue, right?”

You, they have an app. You, you know, you get, right? By the way, they're not paying for this. So we might get chewed out for this later. You guys do a 20-minute commercial for sports clips.

But, you know, it works. And they have an app and been going to the same one for years because she's there. And, but I've had other people there cut my hair and they did a fine job, a great job.

But, I always choose her and if she's not working that day, I'll wait until another day when she's working.

And, again, no disrespect to the others, but it's just kind of you get into the regular thing, right? And, one day I showed up and a guy came in and it was right when they started launching, you know, the app part of it. They used to be just to walk in and then you were on the waiting list or whatever. And so I'd get there back then, I'd get there right at 9am when they opened. And hope she's working that day.

But, so he comes in and this was not long after they launched the app. I mean, he's like, you know, he's kind of allowed. And he's like, "Well, I thought I was next." And actually, I was next. And she's like, "Well, no, I mean, you didn't check in.

And you've got to check in also when you get here." You know, because there's the right to check her here. Right. You can make the appointment. And then you've got to get there within, like, whatever, 15 minutes.

You know, and it'll say, "Please arrive at the store by this time, depending on how long the weight currently is for that stylist." And so he comes in because, "Well, it says I'm, you know, I was next. I got here on time."

“She says, "Well, I'll know you have to, because, well, forget it."”

And he goes, "Divion, when are you working next?" And he's like, "Don't shout me across the store." And I'm thinking, and her weight when you go on to the app. Her weight on any given afternoon is an hour and a half to two hours. Oh, wow.

Well, yeah, I always get there.

Well, I check in at 9 o'clock. Soon as they open at 5 after 9, I check in. But I hate being the first one. Yeah. Because it's like, "Okay, now I've got to race the two and a half miles there.

Because, and will she take somebody in front of me?" So normally I'll wait till somebody else check. And I check in second and it goes, "Okay, you've got a half hour." And I'm like, "Okay, good. I can take my time and get there." Right.

But it's the same thing where I've never checked in the afternoon, so I don't know how long it is. But she's the only one that always has three or four by the time you get to 10 o'clock. It's like three or four or five people in line waiting and the others don't. And the difference is one thing and one thing only. She has this incredible great personality,

Laughing, how's your family, what's going on? Yeah. And this is for five years now. I've been going to her. And it's been the same.

It doesn't matter who else comes in there. You know, they're very much more. I guess generic hair cutters where she has a personality where you don't view her as generic. Yeah.

She's like, "Oh, she's really, really great." So I just found that interesting when I was looking at the hair cutting there. Because normally it wouldn't be something. I go hair cutting now, get something more technical than that. But hey, this is a great side gig.

Well, I'll say this. Actually, my sister-in-law owned a salon for the longest time in a small town out West Texas. And West Texas is big oil.

And so the small towns actually have these interesting little spots.

And I mean, they're tiny towns. And usually there's like a McDonald's, a Walmart card dealership. And then you got to get your hair cut, right? And she owned this salon that was a big one in West Texas for the longest time. And it was a real money maker.

And if you got a good one, you know, it's then it's,

“I think a couple of former cowboys players have franchiseed into sports clips.”

I don't know if that's still the case. But you know, if you get a good one, I mean, it can be lucrative. Yeah, but depending on what you're doing. I just went through because I've going to another place and they closed down in the Plaza before I forgot the name of the other place.

And so I just went there because they were closest. Yeah. Nobody's paying attention to what's on TV because it's because the majority. It's not like you're watching games. No.

It's all the panel discussions back and forth. And I don't think any of the guys that go in their care. No.

I've never seen anybody like change drastically.

But you know, what's going on? So that whole thing that will men want to go or place with their sports. Now care. No, no.

“I don't know anybody that's gone in there going.”

That can you point me toward the TV, please. You know, because they can swivel the chair around so that you can see the TV better. But yeah, no. But as they, they look at trade schools. And the, the point is what you said he goes, it's a job I can get wherever I go.

Even if I want to do something else. Yeah. Even if I want to go back to college or do something else or get another trade, I go anywhere and cut hair. Yeah.

And that's a great point. But it says an unemployment and unemployment among recent college graduates, which has rebounded after the pandemic has steadily risen the last four years, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Meanwhile, check this out, Eric.

Enrollment in two year vocational programs has risen 20% since 2020. Yeah. That's massive. No, that's true. And that's true.

And we had talked about was it's Syracuse University. We did that story. They dropped like 48. Yeah. Different grades, you know, degrees.

Right. Four, like, four, it was amazing. If you're not, if it's not like engineering or trade or something like that,

“because I think there's, it would especially with the growth of AI.”

You know, don't learn to code. Don't, don't take the old Biden advice. Don't go learn to code because AI's doing all the coding now. So now, what do you do?

A business degree accounting, by the way, is always going to be a need.

You're always going to need accounting, human resources. All of those things won't be turned over to AI. They may integrate some AI. But there are things engineering trades. Those will always be, of course, groceries, housing.

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Let me ask you this. I mean, because when we look at colleges and we're talking about how trade schools up 20%

Yeah.

“And the one thing that we're looking at in this particular article was haircutting.”

And it's like no debt, get a job anywhere, that it's the one thing that you can fall back on.

And it's right. It's immediately focused on that. And I look at with AI because there's going to be, there's going to be, there's going to be churn in the marketplace. Right. And the technical jobs that are out there are going to pay. I don't believe colleges can adapt that quickly to it.

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Because I thought that was amazing that the trade schools increased in 20% since 2000.

That's huge, Eric. That is massive when you think about it. Yeah, but just one woman who's the actually owns a salon said her own son majored in communications. No, no. A field with a 52% unemployment rate. That's meaningful. That's almost.

“Communications, I think, is like our business.”

It's just so people know. Yeah. And a median. Well, no, I guess it could can be.

I guess it can be a spokesperson for like me, something or something.

Spokesperson public relations. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it could be. But her own son majored in communications. Yeah, you're right. With the field, a field with a 52% unemployment rate in a median early career wage of only 52,000.

Well, no, that couldn't be radio. That'd be like 22,000. But ended up managing a major grocery store instead. A rewarding decent paying job that he enjoys a healthy market and wage compression, which is higher wages for jobs requiring less or no education are big draws for the trades. So, Dr. Nathan Grop, Professor of Economics, a Curlton College. If you go down to your local Aldi and

they offer you $20 an hour plus benefits, or you can get a certificate in a high paying trade and find a job. All of a sudden the idea of spending four years in college becomes less attractive for some students who are on the fence. So, you know, I think about in the 70s. There was a program that I went to for short period. It was only, it was only like six weeks long.

And it was called the Metal Working Institute. Yes. Oh, you're not music. It didn't work with actual metal. No, I didn't say the metal head institute. The metal working institute.

Well, did you at least work with heavy metal? And it was run by it was a joint thing at that time.

“I believe it was the county that I lived in.”

I don't know if the state had anything to do with it or not. And local businesses. And it was run by a guy who had run a big corporation. And you know, and a machining corporate, a machining company. And you went in there for six weeks.

And you learned, you had, you had classroom time. And you learned how to run lades, grinders, mills. And I believe introduction into NCNC and then CNC that just was, CNC was just coming into fruition at that time. Computer numerical control.

Right. And most machines probably today are, you know, CNC and some form with probably AI, with AI assistance at the minimum. But they placed every single person got placed. After six weeks, you got placed.

And boom, you were immersed into it. And I guess the point is that I'm talking about with the new technical jobs that are coming up.

Maybe they will.

Maybe high schools will be start being responsive and have trades or, you know, have more trades.

Like we had. Yeah. Do they have, do they have many trade classes? Remember, we had electronics class. We had metal working class.

Well, it wasn't like, but we did. I mean, it wasn't really. It was, it really, the metal working in high school did not prepare you to run a machine.

“But which I, I believe it should have, it should have done at that, you know, at that point.”

But I remember like trying his class, machining when else was there. I think there was car mechanics. And a lot of that was done outside of my high school. You'd actually go and intern with a, with a car mechanic place. And I think that's even being done now.

I believe one of my nephews went into a, basically, a mechanic internship.

And now he's working for a place. And so I just wonder, I don't think. And I don't think in many of. I'll, okay, I'll say it blue states that are still focused on liberal arts. That many of their colleges will be able to, their education systems will want to adapt quick enough to that.

I could be wrong. And I hope I am wrong.

“I hope that's a stereotypical bigoted statement from me.”

Because I don't want it to be that way, no.

But I wonder whether there will be, whether companies and corporations now that need technical people will say either let's do it ourselves.

As an industry. To get people in or they will have some type of agreement with local governments, counties, even states. To have an education system for things that might be more technical. In a way, then, for example, you know, the one article is talking about Barbara College, whatever. Yeah.

And whether they'll have 10 week courses that will get you into the company to be productive from day one and then continue to learn. Whatever whatever the basic job would be in that company, and I don't know what it would be at that point. Right. But that's what they did back then. And it worked.

Well, you're seeing more on the job training now entry level positions. Now, the more technical it gets, obviously, the more time they're going to have to spend training. But you're seeing a lot of those ads out there right now, no experience necessary willing to train.

“You know, it's weird how there is this, and I think a lot of it is gig work.”

People have stacked gigs to make income. They were, in fact, I read the story that focused on three different people that were making pretty good money. I close to a couple thousand a week stacking gigs. Now, they didn't save for all three of the one guy was working six, sometimes seven days a week to get that done. And they were working long hours.

Well, maybe a break in the afternoon, and, you know, they're using their vehicles quite often for delivery work. But there are people that have kind of come out of the, I'm looking for a job phase. And there are retailers and all types of industries right now that are looking for employees, people that want to work. Because the gig worker, they have all the control. Turn your app off and you're off for the day.

You say when you go home. Now, that also affects your income. But they like that control. And they're okay with doing that even if it means it's not the greatest paying job in the world, but it gets the bills paid. So, they're, we're in this right now.

We're in a very odd situation in the labor market. It's a transition into AI. We don't know what the full integration of AI will, will be. Most of us, well, at least you and I and our age group probably won't be around to see the full integration of AI.

That will change the work environment completely.

The job market completely. Well, what? What? Something that won't change is what we talked about earlier. What requires all these jobs that require humans.

“Because you can go learn AI if you want to.”

But in in my opinion, just my tiny little brain. With no experience in that field, you may be limited one day because of that particular industry, which it's like when there was a huge Google layoff. I said, wait a minute, you guys were on the forefront of AI. You had to have seen this coming. You know, it was bound to happen that many tech jobs were going to go away.

And they did. Now, there will be different jobs. But those jobs require humans hands on Mike Roe has talked about this. We've seen this with the evidence you just pointed out of how the educational or training now experience has changed drastically and what people desire,

especially young people desire to do, to get done.

You know, the medical field right now is there's a tremendous relationship. Register nurse 93,000 dollars. Computer science software development. This is from National University. These are the job growth rates over the next 10 years.

Software developer. 15% growth from the next 10 years. Computer network architect. This is all AI stuff here. 12% growth.

That's mind-bondling. Yeah. The engineering. Computer hardware engineer. 7% growth over the next 10 years.

But trollium engineer. Only 1% growth. slower than average. Arrow space. 6% electrical electronics engineer.

7% growth. That's all AI. Yeah, chemical engineer 3% growth.

“Now, the average salary for a software developer.”

131,000 a year. Computer network architect. 130,000 a year. Computer hardware engineer. 155,000 dollars.

A year. Petroleum engineer. 141,000. Arrow space engineer. 134.

Electrical electronics engineer. 118,000. Expect that. I'm expecting that. I'm telling you.

That's going to go on. Yeah. Yeah. That will go on. Yeah.

And that's a 7% growth rate. So you have that. There's no way you're going to be able to fill all those positions. No. In the early years, as you're doing it right now, which means those salaries are going to go on.

No, because there is a skills match. There's also a, I would say a desire match. People that desire to go into that, or that are even considering that. You know what I mean?

“Because growing up in, in, in back in our day, it was what?”

It was manufacturing. Look, if you could get a job. And I graduated high school where there were four or five big manufacturers, global names. You get a job at one of those plants. You're set for life.

And that was starting to change. Right about, it was probably about two years into my radio career, which I started at 18. But I probably would have gone had I been offered a job in manufacturing at one of the big plants permanently. I did work at a manufacturing plant part time. But I was in already in radio doing that.

And so I probably would have taken one of those jobs straight out of high school in 1984 at one of those manufacturing plants. And they're all gone now in that town. They're, and so you're what you have now. But we all plan the point is, we all plan as young people.

Oh, man, you get that job. You stick with it. You, next thing, you know, you have a pension. You know, you get, you know, lots of time off that whole thing. The benefits and, and the pay are great.

All that. Where is the mindset of the young person? What, what are they looking at? It's hard to know what they're going to be a demand for exactly. But, but what do they actually want to do?

This is why trades will always be important.

It's plumbing and electrical.

“If I, if I hadn't got laid off from the steel plant in November of 82,”

I probably would be somewhere in management and some kind of, you know, mechanical engineering. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I'd probably be in law enforcement. I saw how you would have, where I'd have ended up.

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Man, our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in Reno.

Some 42,000 people that were forced to evacuate. Another 45,000 has been prepared. I've been told to prepare to leave. This is from NPR from a few hours ago. Authorities are saying this was caused by humans, but they're not.

I didn't see anywhere where they said arson versus a fire, maybe a campfire or something that got away from them or a cigarette or I haven't seen that direct cause.

“The only thing I saw the latest I saw was they did start by some kind of human action.”

We just don't know if that was intentionally said or not. Some of the videos. It just, it, it is and those hills and I've been through Reno so many times with those hills, you know, in the background, it just with those flames coming up. That just looks more horrific.

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