What to pseudo intellectual doesn’t realize is that he’ll be driving his kids to get fries… kids that he can’t stand because he’s a 24/7 slave to an executive asshole. And after 30 years he’ll have paid another $100k in therapists and lawyers fees because his wife left him for someone she can actually spend time with since he’s never home. And then there’s the lifetime of student loan repayment instead of $1.98 in late fees.

Old Chad Bradford: **FLIPS TABLE**

'You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a f----n' education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.' ~ Will Hunting

" There are two certainties in life. 1) Don't do that and 2) You dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for a $1.50 in late charges at the public library"

2 takeaways: treat others as you'd like to be treated and self and continued education is just as if not more important than any set college path ever will be. Not taking a shot at degree holders at all, I'm just saying, push comes to shove, that's a piece of paper. Just be careful about putting it in a plaque and setting it on a pedestal while riding a high horse. Long fall to the mud from there. 😉

"Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter?" is what I ask a lot of college "educated" people.

This movie is ART. Pure art. Could watch it over and over again. Everything about it is perfect.

My favorite movie till date. This scene was very inspiring.

Anyone know the music?

Right about wasting $150,000 on an overpriced and overrated education. Just because someone is College educated doesn't necessarily mean they're smarter than someone who didn't go to College. You'd be surprised (and shocked) to find out how many non College educated people are smarter than College educated.

Such a powerful scene. The music is lit.

The part where he is studying while taking his lunch in the mine is my favorite scene of all. Today we may enjoy the view as we stand on the shoulders of giants, but it was certainly a chore climbing up their pants.

This movie had a profound effect on my while in high school, particularly this scene. It made me want to specialize in statistics and use numbers to solve complex problems. Nearly 10 years later I have a degree in probability and statistics and work as a statistical analyst doing similar work in health care, and I love every minute of it. Thank you for uploading this clip, I hope it has the same effect on young people as it did on me.

Does anybody know the Name of the melody playin in the background?

insane quality, frame rate bro 🔥🔥🔥

This is literally me relearning trigonometry to prove stupid flat earth theorists wrong.

Predigenous!

jonah hill doing the best impression of fat jonah hill ive ever seen

Is that Miss Riley standing, working on that corner? Please tell me it isn’t.

Price is what you pay, value is what you get.

My only complaint from this movie is they overuse that same theme waayy too much… shouldve added a bit more variety to the score.

That guy is now asking us all to pay for his student loans

Good movie but extremely inaccurate. Chad Bradford was already playing for Oakland before the 2002 season and had established himself as a dominant relief pitcher

My boys wicked smaht. He invented smaht pahk you know.

I live right next to the oil place and the train tracks

So this is WAR right? The one thing he boils down player value to?

This is why I find it annoying when people who have went to school and got a degree think they’re are smarter than somebody who decided to work a trade. They think they are smart but they are really just good at remembering some knowledge from a lecture by a professor that hasn’t even had any success in the profession he’s being paid to teach

He can figure out how to build a rocket but can't get his scratch paper in the trash can?! Plot hole anyone?

What’s this song?

Sadly it's actually better to go to a trade school than get a college degree. Two of my closest freinds went to Notre dame & brown ( ivy league ) they studied pre med. They worked their asses off their whole lives, their parents spent a fortune on private schools even though they came from upper class wealthy towns where the high schools were excellent . Just saying they went to a public school in bronxville the wealthiest town in america. The smallest home costs a million bucks & the taxes are 30 grand & up depending on size so saying they went to bronxville hs at least if ur from the nyc & bordering areas would be just as impressed as saying they went to the high school private school we went to. Being from Yonkers which is about 80% affluent but 20% of it had some scary high crime rated parts. The stupid mayor & superintendent thought in the 70s that " bussing " would solve the problems of the 20% ( dmx & mary j blige grew up in the rough part & they have talked about it being very rough ) so what they did was bus the kids from the affluent areas to the poor area schools thinking if the kids from the rough neighborhoods would fair better in the better areas schools bc the taxes were so high those schools would have excellent resources & better teachers , meanwhile it just threw the kids from the good areas under that bus & the kids from the bad areas still went home to the same homes & same neighborhoods so it changed nothing for the better. In fact it destroyed the Yonkers public school system & killed any sense of community bc kids had to sit on a long bus ride to schools not in their neighborhoods. So guess what happened in the 80s ? All the kids from the affluent or middle class communities put their kids in private schools which their used to be many so the tuition was not that bad as their was a lot of competition. So my parents had no choice but to send us to private school & in hs I felt in a way I missed out on a true american hs experience. The private hs were all boys or all girls. So meeting a boyfriend or girlfriend was more difficult & we didnt have things like homecoming. Also bc their were only about 5 private hs in the entire county which was huge everyone came from a different town . So it was hard to have a social life with classmates without a car. Anyway I'm still grateful bc I would not have fared well in public school in my city. I met many girls who did transfer to my school bc they got their butts beat regularly. So my point is my 2 freinds parents were shelling our a fortune in tax money plus paying for private school. Yonkers taxes were a lot lower. I still felt bad for my parents paying taxes that went to public schools that my bro & I did not even attend, but that was my patents choice. So my point is after all the money spent on k through 12 they spent a fortune on their colleges. So all that work & money would up being in a sense useless bc they wanted to be doctors. They both applied each to 50 medical schools ( the application fees alone cost thousands. They got rejected from every medical school they applied to. So after trying again with re taking the MCats & taking even more courses even though they graduated I guess to show the med schools better grades they were rejected again. So one wound up a hostess at a restaurant the other a full time nanny. So their educations got them jobs that a hs drop out could get. They both had almost perfect g.p.a 's so I assume they did not perform that well on the mcats. Their great degrees got them nowhere. Meanwhile many people I know who went to far less superior colleges or did not get a degree are making great money. Another girl I know went to ivy league columbia. This girl was very very bright & she decided to become a teacher. If ur gonna go to an ivy league school I think picking teaching elementary school was a waste of her parents money. Teaching is a noble profession dont get me wrong but many teachers I know went to mediocre colleges & got the same teaching job as the ivy league girl. Also I can't tell u how many people I know went to really expensive colleges & did not even doing a career in their college major. So with so many going to college theirs not enough good jobs to go around for all the college graduates. The most successful people I know instead of going to college took up a trade as an electrician, plumber or contractor. I know one guy who went to a community college & went one year to a great school for communications that got him a very good job in the field bc he went to that school for one year bc he met a bunch of people who actually did graduate from that same expensive school &made great connections with people who produce movies , direct movies & write screenplays who paid a fortune for their 4 year degree have the same jobs as he does only going for one year. Honestly I wish I instead of going to an expensive college for 4 years I went to a community college for my associates degree than finished off at a state school. If I had done that my student loans would not be the albatross it is around my neck. I did not even know that my parents took on 60% of the loans & I was on the hook for 40 % so I wish I knew then what I know now I would def have went to a community college & state school that costed less than my high school tuition. My loans are not even as bad as the kids I knew that went to super expensive colleges owing between 120 to 200 grand in college debt. I'll probably still be paying these loans when my 10 & 7 year old set college aged. So I really wish as a 17 year old my patents told me I would be responsible for almost half my loans. When i figured that out in my sophomore year i took summer courses at the community college so it saved me my final year of tuition. I did go to work for a couple years without my degree but decided to finish my last 5 classes bc of the principle. It would have killed me to have all the debt withoutthaving a degree so I forced myself to finish so I would at least have a degree . I never understood the people who dropped out. Its insanity imo to have all that debt & no diploma to make it all at least count for my diploma that in my career the degree hanging on my parents wall has not been worth the paper it is printed on. Finally an 18 or 19 year old who has to pick a major may feel completely different about the major & career as we mature. Some people I know had no clue at such a young age what they wanted to do as a career so they picked liberal arts as a major. My cousin has the 120 credits & no degree bc he was an athlete & he just took tons of electives & his college actually had gym classes that were available bc he needed to take a minimum amt of credits to stay eligible.

2021

You dropped $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library. favorite line from this movie.

I love this background score ♥️♥️

The song is This Will Destroy You - the mighty rio grande, for anyone wondering

I stumbled on this movie years ago, and it pulled me right into it. One of my favorites

I really like the editing, pace and soundtrack of this scene. Really powerful for 2 minutes runtime.

Very inspirational scene from a very inspirational movie!!!

I bet Jonah Hill's character has been dominating his fantasy baseball leagues every year since 2002.

I cry a lot during this scene because who hasn't been undervalued because of some "defect" and because I love baseball

Sidearm pitchers weren't exactly a novelty in 2002. Chad Bradford wasn't even the first sidearm relief pitcher the A's had. There was some guy named Eckersley.

Movie made about a guy who won zero championships. How do you claim success when you have never actually won anything? The everybody gets a trophy generation strikes again

The guy told Will he’d be serving his kids fries at a drive thru, all the while claiming he’ll get a degree. Ironically, two decades from now, it will be a lie. The person serving French fries will be the guy with a degree, seeing as how College keeps failing us in the long run.

Why are no kids like these in my neighbourhood?

Think Chad Bradford watched this movie thinking “I’m worth 12x more than what they paid me?!”

This entire film is the definition of hope

Jake is so cute🤤 his acting in his early teenage

Rest In Peace Quentin Wilson 1942-2019

Thrill as booting up computers explodes across the screen!

The real all star of this scene? Casey Affleck. ‘My boy’s wicked smart.’ Lol

I get goosebumps every time I watch this scene. Incredible story.