 Hi, welcome to Scramble. I'm Dylan McGelegate. I'm Nora Flay. And we have quite a show lined up for us today We have a welder a future UC Davis student a San Diego State frat boy and Anything else old sport? Fabulous movie review. I have to say and we picked this topic because it is relevant to the aging high school population That is starting to think about what they're going to do after high school. So It could be a pilot you could be a sailor And or it could be a charismatic television host Stay tuned and find out what people in Davis are doing. We're here with Brian Simmons And he chose to go into like a different route after high school He is going to go into trade school for welding. So Brian, can you tell me what? What drew you to trade school instead of like a four-year college? well over the summer I took some introductory welding classes, and I really fell in love with them and I continued to think about pursuing welding as a career and I Looked at the different options, and I decided it was what I wanted to do. That's so cool I feel like that it would be like a really tough decision to make but Yeah, it wasn't too hard for me actually my parents were very supportive of it And I was really passionate about it, and I was pretty set on wanting to do it So what type of welding do you think you'll be doing what what does a welder a modern welder do these days? Well, there are a lot of different paths you can go down with welding which is part of why it appeals to me There are a lot of things you can do There's pipeline welding you can do shipbuilding you could go into the aerospace industry and build airplanes One of my goals is to get into motorsports and racing like making custom cars and race cars That sounds so cool. That's like every boy's dream, you know, I hear like I Just don't hear about enough people going into you know actual trade Like schools and stuff Do you think it's common? I think that People are doing it a lot less these days there are a lot of Welders that are at the age of retirement that are going out of the workforce and there aren't a lot of new people coming in So there is a bit of a shortage of people in the trades So Brian you mentioned that you're interested in welding cars. Oh, what part of cars would you be welding? Mostly like the frame and chassis and stuff, but I'm also interested in working on cars the mechanical aspect of it too So would this be like body shop work or like fixing a bumper that got smacked or maybe a little bit, but I'm more into kind of Building cars from the ground up, you know starting and welding together like a frame or something like that and then Adding on to the rest of it So if you were to like give any recommendations to someone else who was interested in just going straight into like a trade school What would you tell them? I would say think really hard about it It's a really good option and if it's something you really like to do. I think you're gonna Be successful in it. So what classes are you taking at the high school right now to help prep you for American River? One of the classes I'm taking is ROP automotive technology. That's kind of like the advanced automotive class at the school I took it because it gives you a little more freedom to kind of work on different Projects and do more stuff in the shop I'm also doing an internship through that class and I'm going to one of the repair shops in town Four days a week and working with the mechanics there. That's so cool So how long does it take you to go through all your classes at American River? it depends on how Intense you want to get with your scheduling you can Take it easy and only do a few units per semester or you can try to cram as much in as possible and Some people can get Through their two-year degree in as little as a year and a half or even less That's so nice. You just get to you know get what you need and then you get to go out in the workforce and really learn by doing Yeah, you can really adjust your classes to fit your schedule and take what you want and not take what you don't want to There's a lot of options. It's just awesome. Oh, and what is your favorite car manufacturer? Favorite manufacturer. I don't know if I don't know if I could choose one. I Do you prefer a European sports car as American muscle? I'm an American muscle car fan. I'm good can't argue with the classics excellent All right. Well, it was really cool learning about just going into trade school and a different route to follow after Finishing up high school. So thanks for joining us Brian. Thank you No matter how much the government outside organizations or really anyone has tried to crack down on drugs and alcohol among youth in the United States No one seems to be successful. I mean ever since the love explosion in 60s No one has been able to truly deny the youth their rights and I feel like it's at this point kind of a fruitless battle like Even the war on drugs. It's another war that has never really been successful drug lords are more powerful than ever just like the war in Iraq just some wars aren't really just not meant to be and That brings me to North Korea It's it's a bad sign of America that we as a superpower Cannot stop another country from pushing us around like that like they are threatening one of our allies and We send new deals sit down and do nothing. We're you know the DMZ but What do we do about that? Like we should act we should act, you know Iran is also threatening us But when it comes to nuclear programs, there's just nothing we can do, you know I don't know. That's my opinion on situations in the US. So, you know That's all I have to say really So now we're back with Aaron Burbank who's pursuing the normal route for most Davis students Who's going to a four-year college UC Davis actually the local choice Now Aaron most people rebel against going to the town college because they're far too close to their parents. How do you feel about this? well, um, I'm gonna be living at home, so It's like the extreme of living being too close to my parents, but um, I don't know I feel like I've heard from a lot of people that are going to UC Davis that even even living at home you still spend so much time on campus and like it's just a completely different life and a Completely different town if you're in college Even if you are living at home, so like I mean you have you have all the options to be in town with your friends You know, it's a lot different And if your parents are you know like good about curfew and stuff like that They probably won't give you a curfew because you're in college. Hopefully they're not giving me one, so I'm pretty happy but it's You have a lot more freedom still it's still significantly Okay, I'm gonna cut you off there So do you plan to stay at home all four years or just the beginning um if if an option becomes realistically possible for me to get a apartment With a couple of friends that would be I guess more ideal than staying at home But then that's gonna cost money So and if I understand it correctly you now live in woodland next to a friend of mine actually shout out to wheeler bills So how are you planning getting to UC Davis? So I don't actually live there yet But will you by the time you are in? Yes, so are you gonna be driving? Yeah And in fact breaking the whole bicycle cycle of Davis. Yeah, this is good though I do not like use a data cyclist for any of you out there. I don't like you at all So like everybody yes, okay Yeah, it's it's a I don't know exactly like what the mileage is between here in woodland, but it would be Tiring exhausting to go for I think it's about 15 but maybe a little less you'd be 17 to Sacramento, but Just it would be exhausting to do that right before class and then have to sit through like a three-hour lecture So sweaty also. Yeah gorgeous. Yeah, everyone be like, oh, he's he's the one. I want to sit next to you So what classes what are you majoring in? I'm gonna be majoring in history minoring in film so I don't know how that's gonna go because there's like no jobs in either of them, so We'll see we'll see what happens great. You can be happy Yeah, and I'm a cardboard box, but Well, and how are the film classes that you see Davis? It's a really small film department. It's like It's within the art department Like there's like a very small film department, but it's still there And you still get to you know go through film theory and you can do all the other aspects of actually producing and making Films and creating films and filming them and editing them and doing all the aspects that you would normally do at a bigger college like maybe UCLA or NYU it's just not gonna be on such a big scale with such, you know high quality equipment Probably is probably gonna be a little bit scaled back. And are you currently working on any films? With you Yes. Yeah All right Well, Aaron, I'm so proud of you for going to UCD and that means you will be with us for even longer So yeah, I'll be great Just excellent So I've seen two of the movies currently in theaters Iron Man 3 and the Great Gatsby I enjoyed both of the movies, which is very rare for me. I typically don't Like movies, but Great Gatsby being the classic American novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald Who is distantly related to Francis Scott Key who wrote our national anthem while sitting on a British boat out in Boston Harbor Now is that related? Yes. There is a harbor in Great Gatsby in which Gatsby looks across and sees a green light which is a symbol for hope and also a symbol for Daisy who he had lost seemingly forever But he gained riches built his whole existence over the mirage of being rich and Powerful and someone that she'd want to marry but she had been married away and gone for five years to another rich polo player So as this story unfolds, I don't want to spoil it any more than I already have it is interspersed with fantastic visual effects by the overly stylish Baz Lerman who also directed Romeo and Juliet And Roman Juliet had Leonardo DiCaprio in it same as Great Gatsby and he did a fabulous job as well as well as Toby McGuire who was known for his role as Spider-Man so seeing him in a different role was confusing to me because he was not Peter Parker and That got me for good half of the movie and on the Iron Man 3. Let's see. I mean Robert Downey Jr. is Fantastic as ever and they had some interesting twists with who the villain was but I Don't know didn't capture me quite as much as the first Iron Man did I I There's a few conflicts with pepper pots Did did you see out of these movies? I haven't seen any of these though. This is I don't give too much away from you But she almost dies you think she dies then she doesn't die and he doesn't die And I thought making her martyr would have been much more interesting because we only need Robert Downey Jr. And I think having a person like Gwyneth Paltrow in that movie just drags him down She's always controlling him like you're Tony Stark. You have all these amazing suits. Why can't you just be your own man? You are nothing without your woman though. I mean just look at Gatsby Is that said Gatsby died when he realized he could never get the love of his life I think he died because he shot in the heart Of a broken heart his heart was not broken He had Daisy in the car and it was actually Daisy that caused his death Daisy ran over the mechanics wife I would do we have a welder in the house Anyways, and so Daisy ran over this woman and then the husband of the I think your wife Due to miscommunication came and hunted down Gatsby and shot him in the heart That is why I died not because I read the book and Daisy ruined everything She caused both their lives to collapse Gatsby could have been a happy rich bootlegger if it wasn't for Daisy argue that Honestly the only conflict in the movie Toby McGuire was just there they Gatsby and Toby McGuire could have been the best bros they could have just had these wild parties They could have been great friends, but no it was all about Daisy He was looking to secure a happy relationship later on in life What what happens when he there could have been a happy relationship Toby McGuire and Gatsby and he would not retire. He was being funded by the crime boss So I don't see why Daisy even had to exist in the story like come on Everyone needs their lady F. Scott Fitzgerald. I am disappointed. Everyone does not need their lady And same with Iron Man 3 Gwyneth Paltrow could have been eliminated and Tony Stark could have been back to being a billionaire Philantropist which and a playboy which he was already so the movies are actually very similar in the aspect that they're rich men who have excellent lives great friends such as Jim Rhodes in Iron Man But it's ruined by a woman and that is the summary of both those movies ruined by Women Okay, I don't think that's true, but that is still in the opinion of these movies. So I Think I'll check them out I'm not sexist So we're joined here by a Patrick I don't And it's Patrick Kreidler. Yes, Patrick Kreidler and he is a college student So Patrick, where are you going to school? It's your first year, right? Yeah, I just finished up my freshman year at San Diego State University I wouldn't trade it for anything either. It's been so it's I mean, you know how people kind of build up college Like it's gonna be this big huge thing, especially in Davis. Yeah, they're exactly right. It's been fantastic It's amazing So where did you go to high school? I went to Davis High. Oh, okay It prepared me for college a lot better than I thought it would And what talk what sort of organizations are you involved in my first semester? I rushed a fraternity, which you know, my mom was not too psyched about but my dad was in the same one when he was in college So it's all worth it So I did that first semester first semester is really busy because that is hard to balance out school and all that you know social Stuff But yeah, I know it's um, it's been great. I would advise, you know Kids are gonna be going to four years, especially where Greek life is kind of a big thing to definitely consider rushing It's been one of the better decisions I've made in college Well, there are these stereotypes going around about fraternities about this sort of grimy decadence that seems to surround such houses of alcohol drugs women How would you respond to this? I mean, there's gonna be stereotypes associated with just about anything They're never a hundred percent right, but they're always derived from a little bit of truth There's you know, when you when you're in a fraternity you see some stuff that you can't unsee Just leave it at that. Are they similar to sororities? They're not similar to sororities at all I know there's sorority girls that don't even know they're like big sis's name Like they have no I'd they have like no connection with each other Whereas with a fraternity I actually feel like I can talk to anybody that's in it There are chapter has 180 people in it, which is the biggest On campus and one of the bigger ones in California And I could name just about anybody in our entire house and know where they're from and be able to sit down Have a real conversation with them So I think they're just different that aspect It sounds like it's a really good thing to become involved in when you're just starting off in college Cuz you get to meet people right exactly and like college is a great place to network with people for your future career and stuff like that So it's been it's what influenced me to change my major actually. I came in as a communications major and I saw the you know variety of business emphasis, which is what I think I actually wanted to do all along and Some of the older guys kind of you know nudging me in the right direction and got me interested in the business side of school So changed my major and I haven't really looked back since so as being part of a frat. You actually do Schoolwork. Yeah, we actually we actually do schoolwork. It's kind of tough to wrap your mind around it I'm sure so what made you pick San Diego as your school? Well, like I said my mom went there, so I'd always kind of we take vacations down there all the time It's where my parents met and stuff like that. So I might always kind of been around campus and I don't know I just really liked the vibe I got when I when I visited there as cliche as it sounds I actually was like the way I felt when I was on campus. You had one of those moments where you're like this is Yeah, one of those really girly moments, so so let's go back to school How many classes did you take last? I took 15 units both semesters, so It's five classes that it's a good amount. Yeah, it's a healthy workload. You're gonna be really busy So what advice do you have to the seniors that are coming into college and next year? What would you have done differently? I would have taken more AP tests because their kids they're coming in as Like halfway done with their freshman year just in unit count already, so I would have taken more AP tests and I would have I don't know. I wouldn't like messed around so much in high school like just getting into a good school and Being able to study what you really want to study makes it all worth it So if you were you know if you have to trade off instead of not going to a party in high school and like studying so you can Get the grades to go where you want to go. I say do that because it's all worth it in the end That's inspirational for me as a junior a true scholar Anything else you'd like to share about college or? I mean Rush It's I can't emphasize enough. It was probably the best decision. I made this entire year So you recommend rushing for boys Would you recommend rushing for girls for joining a sorority if they can get along with girls? if they don't already hang out with like mostly dudes in high school because you're gonna be around up around 150 to 170 girls all the time if you're in college and you decide to rush so it's some of you definitely need to consider but Depends person to person I guess It's true that sororities exist for fraternities to take advantage of well. I hope you enjoyed that episode on scrambled That basically wraps up our show shout out to Luke and Cassio Mericotta for being twins Shout out to Ryan Cridler for being on the baseball team. Follow me on Twitter at paper shredder. 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