Hi, everybody. How are you? It is the 27th of May. God's the 27th of May already.

2021 and my name is Luke Thomas and this is episode 77, I believe, of the Luke Thomas live chat.

Thank you so much for joining me. I greatly appreciate it. We will go for about an hour and some change today as we normally do.

We'll get into whatever you want to talk about. There's not a whole lot in combat sports this weekend. There's just the Devon Haney fight.

But I don't think anybody in this chat particularly cares about that. So whatever else is on your mind, we can get to it.

Questions always go up the date or the thread for questions always goes up the day before on the community tab right here on the YouTube channel for morning combat and then people filling up and I answer it.

All right, so without further ado, let's get this party started.

All right. So let's go pull up these questions. If we can. All right.

258. Pretty good. Pretty good. More than I can usually get to.

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This is the first comment. It's left three hours ago. I don't know if it's truth, but if it is, it's terrible. I just found out last night my cousin was one of the victims in the San Jose VTA transit yard shooting 29 years old left behind a two-year-old son.

I just wanted to shout out all the families of the victims. Yeah, well, if that is true, I'm not saying it's not. I just have no way of verifying it, but assuming that it's true that is beyond terrible and I am incredibly sorry to hear that.

All right. This person asks, what professions do you think the narrative of you can't say anything unless you've done it holds the most weight?

Boy, that's a great question. Well, I'm not sure there's any job where you can't say anything about someone else's performance, even if you've never done it. I mean, the president of the United States, it's literally one person at a time can have it.

There's been less than 50 of them, and they get roundly criticized, perhaps unfairly in many ways, depending on who's holding office or what they've done, but none of them are perfect. I think that's a pretty fair statement, so I wouldn't say that the rarity of it.

Like what would conditions would be there where you would at least temper your criticism, where you'd be like, you know what? Let's think about this a little bit. I would say one, the difficulty of the job, right, especially if like it comes at a great personal sacrifice to the person who's engaging in it, that would limit what you might say a little bit.

Like what kind of criticism should we make of fire departments? There might be plenty you could make or firefighters individually, and I'm sure that within fire departments, people are evaluated for their performance, but from the outside looking in, you might want to temper that a little bit, just a little bit, given the difficulty of the job. I think that's one.

However, if the abuses or the failures are egregious, that will not, you know, there's nothing that could prevent you from saying something in that particular regard. Did you guys see the story here? You may have not. It was a big local story here in DC. They caught two cops. I'm not joking on duty in squad cars, drag racing on the street and lo and behold, they fucking crashed. They have dash cam footage of the whole thing.

It's like, let me get this straight on taxpayer money in cars. You don't own. You took to public streets to race your work. Wow. Okay. Right. I mean, I don't know what it's like to be a cop, but I know that that's pretty fucking irresponsible. So, um, so that might change the equation a little bit. So I would say one to the extent that the job is limited in scope, which is to say like there's one of it. There's only 10 of them.

That should probably temper some enthusiasm, I think, to the very difficulty of that job. You get it wouldn't eliminate criticism, but it might temper it a little bit. I think, um, you know, perhaps the nobility of the pursuit of the job might, might limit some criticism in some ways, but honestly, I struggled to think of a job. We're like, listen.

If if you were to run a university and you were to hire a physics professor to teach introductory physics to freshman, you're not so much worried about the high end string theory craziness, but perhaps, you know, one on one, two on one level classes, not 10 year track.

I don't know that you have to know the ins and outs of teaching physics or physics itself to have other measurements that can be obtained that let you know whether or not someone is doing a good job, whether it's peer review, whether it's student review, whether it's to what extent students go on to pursue graduate studies in that line of work, whatever the metrics are.

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