Hi folks, Jack Spirko here.

Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

Commercial free versions of past episodes.

Podcasts blasts from the pasts.

I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations.

These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes stitcher and other feeds, but will be titled TSP rewind episodes and numbered accordingly.

And today folks we are rewinding back to May 17th 2021.

This was originally episode 2872.

It was called The Big Lie. Just Follow the Rules. We're taught that,

those kids, follow the rules and everything will be okay. The people that follow the rules do

the best. Everybody that does what they're told to do

works, you know, their life works out better than those that break the rules. Cheaters never win.

And, well, that's not true but what that little piece of little jab there at the end

added to that does is infer that if you do something differently than society says you're supposed to that

you're somehow wrong you're somehow cheating for instance if you create a

career in broadcasting without going to college and getting a

broadcasting degree and going into radio and begging for an

opportunity if you just like start a podcast all by your subject cheating

if you end up in some form of the field of

engineering but you don't have an engineering degree but you have

practical life experience, you have

somehow cheated and on and on it goes

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