The Brevity of Life and How It Can Move You | John Fetterman | TEDxUniversityofPittsburgh
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- John Fetterman discusses the obstacles that he faced in his life and how that changed his perspective. He examines how recognizing his mortality changed who he was, what he believed, and what he fought for.
John Fetterman has served as mayor of Braddock for more than 10 years. After winning by a single vote, John threw out the traditional political playbook and worked to break the cycles of poverty and violence that were decimating Braddock by embracing creative ideas solutions. From a new community center to urban gardens and new businesses, Mayor John is charting a new path for Braddock. John grew up in York County and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in finance from Albright College. He also holds an MBA from the University of Connecticut and a master’s in public policy from Harvard. While living in CT, John joined Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Confronted by the stark disparity between his own life and that of his ‘little’, John quit his position in risk management and joined AmeriCorps. In 2001, John started a GED program in the town of Braddock, one of the poorest and most troubled communities in the commonwealth. He was elected mayor of Braddock in 2005 and is now in his third term.
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This man is currently hospitalized and hasn't been able to speak properly for months..
Goodnight everyone !
Goodnight everyone
Very impressed...a really good man...an advocate of the highest level...very happy to see him as Lt. Gov...a very worthy future leader 👏
He ran the city he was mayor of into the ground. He lived with his parents till he was 40. He never had a job before running for office. He's an absolute failure. What are you even talking about?
Lol
Thank you TED for presenting this man's speech. Until now, I had the impression that Fetterman was just a country bumpkin -- my view was that no one understood how in the world he arrived in Congress. My opinion has changed dramatically after listening to him.
Okay there is a massive difference post and pre stroke.
You just hope he recovers, coming from someone who voted for Oz in Bucks county
Inspirational. I have just started learning about this man. I'd like to see him run for president.
He is genuinely a good person who actually cares I'm from the Northside of Pittsburgh I've met him a number of times I've had numerous discussions with him he cares for everyone. He doesn't care about money he lives in a refurbished Chevy dealer ship. He helped the under privilege youths in Braddock . There's nothing bad that a person can say about him he lived he learned he teaches great guy would love to see him on a senators seat or the President
@@mistaphantom2529
He's running for senator. He will win. President later!
its on his path..
He’s our Lt. Governor now. He still lives in Braddock.
I admire his sincerity and work ethic. I agree with you!
My wife and I and several others met this man in the very ornate Lt Governor's office in Harrisburg, PA just the other day. Yes, John Fetterman is the LT Governor.
*He is a r€t/
d!* So are you.
Lol
He sucks
Gene, honest question. How you feel about him after debate?
First of all, if anyone ever did a one person show about the most improbable and human politician ever it would be this Ted talk.
This man is special. He's playing the most dangerous game tho
So proud to have this man as the Lt Gov of my state.
Still?
Good night everybody!
SF has coffee companies that are now software companies. Before big tech boom had a lot of the same problems Pittsburgh has had. Understaffed docks and abandoned coffee factories. Becoming a thriving city requires opportunities for all backgrounds and support to achieve them. Congrats John hope you get the opportunity to represent us in DC. You have my support
Have you been to Braddock PA lately? He did nothing to help that community
Did you see the latest debate with Oz? You still voting for him?
@@VAL3NTIN3 Of course they did. I'm sure they voted for Biden too
@@OttoErotic69 man, Ill have them on my prayers 😢
Hahahaaa. I hope this is satire. Wow.
Wow, what a great story. I wish everyone could see the world from this point of view.
Inequality in this day and age is a product of Single Parent Families , No ones fault but the parents of the children in despair .
You're not smart, man...
I'm not considered progressive. And I don't agree with him on every issue. But I would definitely vote for this man. He gets it and he is honest.
He’s so lovely 😔😔😔
This guy is one of the rare people where the more you get to know about him the cooler he gets. I hope he wins his senate seat, and that someone good like him could maybe go beyond that.
Yeah being cool is so much more important than being competent.
@@JewandGreek Yeah because those factors are completely mutually exclusive
Luckily you will never be in a position of power...
I have to be honest, I really liked this man well before I saw this, but this presentation takes it to a whole another level. Now I feel like I need to do more, which I will.
Whenever I feel overwhelmed by the absolute bizarre and depressing goings on in the country, the hypocrisy, the lunacy of the current administration, the violence and the hatred, I turn to John Fetterman. Any of the youtube vids seem to restore my faith equally well. It is such a salve to listen to an honest, passionate and plain spoken man committed to what is good and decent. I'm proud to say I lived in Pgh. in the 70's and knew Braddock a bit back in the day.
in b4 he becomes senator
Australia here. Find yourselves some more people like this man for your representatives. You’ve got some real duds at present.
He’s running for Senate next year!
Saw him interviewed by Brian Tyler Cohen which led me to these TED Talks and wanting to see his former car dealership home that I read about on his Wikipedia page...
Though we have very different political views, I really admire this man as a person and I have the utmost respect for him.
how bout now?
@@LILDIRTNAPX Now I changed my views on him. He is a crazy, incompetent liberal who doesn’t belong anywhere near the Senate.
I really love and respect this man for sharing his experience.
All work has dignity and the compensation should reflect that fact
I am joining the growing John Fetterman cult.
Let’s hope that the cult transforms into a peoples movement. There’s enough cults in the world.
Good god... can we not use the term cult? Wow 🤦🏻♂️
How's that going for ya? Lol
Don't drink the kool-aid!
Wow, so he couldn't speak publicly before the stroke. Noted.
Was it a stroke, or were they installing a 'Manchurian' device in his brain? 🤔
If this man becomes the next senator of Pennsylvania, we will all be the better for it.
this man is nothing but ignorance and idiocracy, go woke go broke
he is nothing but a slob who adores the works of Alfred kinsey.
You want him to?
Now I hope he runs for president
Check back in two years lol, I bet his does nothing but the typical socialist/demokkkrat and line his pockets in corruption, heck he did that in western pa...I'm glad I moved from the failed politics of places Like coatesville, and philly..now with fetterman all of pa shall suffer. Go woke, go broke.
Without any further adieu, here’s some more adieu.
Fetterman 2022 Gov/Senate
Senate it is!
Fetterman 2024
@@Awakin2liberty this is the way
He just won the PA primary 👀
This is the way. As a notorious Philly hater…I shall drop my grudge against the sixers. Long live RoCo. Left is best.
Let’s make this hero a PA senator! And POTUS someday.
Yes, yes, yes!!
Lol what!!!!! “GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY!, my name is….”
Let's not and said we did.
FACTS MATTER
He talks about him self - can anyone please explain me how you can make conclusions like - run him for president and fetterman for president and stuff ? He goes to present him self on slides ? Somebody ? Anybody explain me ?
Never had a job and is the size of an apartment house.
Wow he lost a lot of weight!
And brain cells!
Sad to see him now in 2023...
This coming from someone who’s lived off his parents in 40s and onward till Pennsylvania started footing the bill
John Fetterman you are a hero! So glad you won the Senate race - Congratulations!! 🎉🎉
He's a brain dead radical
Lol … off to a great start isn’t he
I simply can't wait for this man to become President! He will be the 3rd best President we ever had behind Obama and Biden.
Theres too many healthy intellectuals in this country to let someone who suffered a stroke to be a leader amongest the rest of us
OMG I need 2 meet this man......
Come to PA. He’s our Lt Gov.
Synchronicity.
He will be awesome lives on his parents money to this day
I have the utmost respect for John's desire to help people. Unfortunately, as the mayor of a city from 2006 to 2019, the population has not grown, and income has increased but is still far below the national average at only $25,000 per household. You read that right, per household. I like nice guys with big hearts, but they don't always make good leaders. Ask yourself, as a mayor he didn't do much for his town and he's at the top of the political pyramid in his town, as a Senator you really feel he'll do better?
Yes, he had an impossible task as Mayor, and did the best any human being could do. Braddock was not going to turn around in 13 years. He did much better than anyone else could have done. He IS and will be a leader in the Senate. Good man, good human being. We need more John Fetterman and less Ted Cruz.
For one, how do you measure "better" between a mayor and a senator? They have drastically different jobs. One actually governs over a city, and one mainly just votes on policy. Second, yes, because the policies he supports are held my many americans but have very little representation in the senate.
he prolly won the vote 2-1
He didn’t that time. A different door opened for him and he became Lt. Governor of PA. This and the luck of running against Dr. Oz made him a senator for the people, especially the disabled. He had a stroke while campaigning. His life up to this point should be made into a movie. And his second act has just started.
10 Most Dangerous Cities in the US (#1 is the highest cost of crime)
St. Louis, Missouri
Jackson, Mississippi
Detroit, Michigan
New Orleans, Louisiana
Baltimore, Maryland
Memphis, Tennessee
Cleveland, Ohio
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Kansas City, Missouri
Shreveport, Louisiana. All but 1 are in Republican run states.
Yet every one of those cities are run by democrats lol. Look at all the people who have left blue states. Hows LA doing these days? Heard of George Gascon? Probably not, most liberals have no clue what is happening
Senator Fetterman ... make it happen PA.
I am an ex carpenter in Michigan and this guy has me trying to convince my wife to build a soup kitchen… he needs to have a voice if I could vote for him I would
Yep, a vote for the stinky hoodie is a vote for $10 a gallon gas, legal fentanyl and crime
@@BarryWinner2075 gas is up because opec cut production by two million barrels a day so they could price gouge. 9 of the 10 most violent cities are in Republican run states.
@@JayPlateFaceVideos All the worst violence is in democrat cities, and it was the current administration that ordered domestic oil production be cut by millions of barrels a day along with stopping the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
@@BarryWinner2075 the facts say cites in Republican run states 10 Most Dangerous Cities in the US (#1 is the highest cost of crime)
St. Louis, Missouri
Jackson, Mississippi
Detroit, Michigan
New Orleans, Louisiana
Baltimore, Maryland
Memphis, Tennessee
Cleveland, Ohio
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Kansas City, Missouri
Shreveport, Louisiana. All but 1 are in Republican run states.
@@BarryWinner2075 10 Most Dangerous Cities in the US (#1 is the highest cost of crime)
St. Louis, Missouri
Jackson, Mississippi
Detroit, Michigan
New Orleans, Louisiana
Baltimore, Maryland
Memphis, Tennessee
Cleveland, Ohio
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Kansas City, Missouri
Shreveport, Louisiana. All but 1 are in Republican run states.
Who would have thunk it!
I love him!!!! Kinda sorta “don’t judge a book by its cover” awesome smart guy!!!! Good luck Fetterman!!!! But don’t hate me, I low key don’t want him to win the senate. Bc Washington changes people. Regardless of how good and humble you are. There will be a way for them to change you. But other than that good luck Fetterman!!!!
I totally agree, he would be better off as PA Governor, then President. You have to stick around in Congress forever to have any say, and by that time you're totally changed for the worse.
I normally would agree, but he came from a good home. A wealthy home, and he gave that up to help people. He had his life set up for him. He left that to help.
@@Pedro-0839 I just said that, soooo… someone has said it?
Some people are born for such a job. Can we select on only such people?
Fetterman 2022 senate
A REAL public intellectual
Some take life serious. For themselves and others....
Lol
Fetterman for President, 2028 :D
Shrek
Pretty humble guy. Think he got his masters at Harvard.
Why do all these people worship college
He is nuts
I have been thinking we need a genuine, trustworthy, leader like Selensky today. God Bless Ukraine and its gutsy people. I just looked at the last comment, and say I have been thinking the same thing. He could unite people and bring out the good. God bless him and I hope someone unites us in a good way. He is not an authoritarian, or fascist. Don't ask why i said that
Pennsylvanians have much to offer the U.S. in John Federman. PA, voters, please help us advance him and his lived principles and humility to the US Senate so we can take him forward from there to the Oval Office. 🙏❤☮🇺🇸
He doesn’t talk like this anymore
I've been in this guy's position I got all worked up over some people I knew that were illegal aliens, I tried to help them until I realized they are just people like me no better no worse and I owe them nothing
It took you meeting them to realize they are people too?
Life might be even shorter if you don't take care of yourself. Professional conman. That's my take.
Agree, trump is a professional conman
This is a man of empathy and strength the others are just talking heads with no plans for the 99 percenters!! Just the oligarch!!
LMAO - Ever check this guys background before you send out invites??? He talks positive about ANTIFA,,,,Wow
What's wrong with antifa? They fight racists and fascists
@@JayPlateFaceVideos Said like a proud Socialist,,,lol,,, He should be at home resting and soon he will be at home spending his parents money!
@@lifeongps the highest crime cities are in Republican run states not democratic run states. Why are Republican run states to much more violent then democratic run states?
@@lifeongps 10 Most Dangerous Cities in the US (#1 is the highest cost of crime)
St. Louis, Missouri
Jackson, Mississippi
Detroit, Michigan
New Orleans, Louisiana
Baltimore, Maryland
Memphis, Tennessee
Cleveland, Ohio
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Kansas City, Missouri
Shreveport, Louisiana. All but 1 are in Republican run states.
@@JayPlateFaceVideos These are Sates not Cities, half of these Governors are Republican Clowns - Simple Enforce the Laws - Cashless bail?? WTF and LMAO
Uncle Festerman has finally agreed to debate, so long as he can mail in his answers...
Nina Turner and John Fetterman 2024.
I'd pay to see this guy and Mr. biden hold a conversation...
John Fetterman and his wife Gisele are both amazing, they both will fight for the voters of PA. He is so humble which shocked me. Mr Fetterman will fight hard to make our state a better place to live.
Yep, they will fight for high gas prices by shutting down the oil production, They will fight to make all drugs legal so every street will be just like Kensington avenue with everyone laying on the sidewalk getting high and doing crime.
sorry for your delusion
@@voljawz3951 Of course you are referring to Sandra,.
@@BarryWinner2075 OPEC cutting production by 2 million barrels a day to increase profits is why gas went up. 9 of the top 10 highest crime states are Republican run.
@@JayPlateFaceVideos All of the highest crime rate cities are democrat run and It was the current administration that ordered domestic oil production be cut by millions of gallons per day and stopped construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, all for the Green New Deal scam.
He wasn’t that good a public speaker even here?
He'd make a GREAT President!
As long as he didn't wear a suit. Because that's not him.
this is the worst ted talk I have ever seen !!
Fetterman for Senate 2022, for President 2024.
Yep
Yea and his campaign slogan can be MAKA- Make America into Kensington Avenue
liar
Dude dropping jewels like he is handing out winning lottery numbers for everyone in the audience 🔥😄🧐😃😄😁😆🍿
*Why would anyone trust a man that looks like GG Allin?*
FETTERMAN FOR PRESIDENT
he is less intelligent then trump,and never had a job.
Wow I can actually understand what he's trying to say! Sad that people voted this guy in knowing that he has a medical condition that causes him to say things that we can't understand!! All you people that voted for him should be ashamed of yourselves!! He is not fit for office at all and should be in the hospital recovering!! Oh yeah that's right He was in the hospital with depression and guess what His wife took their children on vacation!! Who in the heck does that?? Oh wait handlers do that not husbands and wives that love each other!! Freaking she should be in jail for that!! Because I think she's the one pushing him to be in an office!! Shame on you people Stop up and start voting with your brain instead of what the mainstream media freaking news tells you!!
this guy is a nut
This guy need to help an illegal and then get robbed by them lol Mayne he will realize they are not all angelic
What happened to him since this video? I see him on the news wearing hoodies and beach shorts during press conferences and he can’t complete a sentence. Is he suffering from what joe Biden is afflicted with?
He literally had a stroke back in May 2022.
@@blkgardner wow that sucks. So he’s mentally incapacitated from an acute, debilitating stroke and he’s still in office? Makes sense…..
@@Jerlemi2wait we're not talking about Mitch McConnell?
@@youraveragepasser-by7367 he needs to go too
so noow he have become superhumble. after a life in total luxury. He only talks about sad things to seem less elite also that is hoboclass on that sweater.. This guy is such a cokehead
Love crime and want more? Vote Fetterman! Love taxes and want more? Vote Fetterman! Love inflation and want more? Vote Fetterman!
The town he was mayor of went years with no murders after he took over. Not sure where you're reaching these conclusions.
@@ernstthalmann4306 lol the town BARELY has murders to begin with
@@ernstthalmann4306 the town barely has ppl
@@goose33 9 of the 10 most violent cities are in Republican run states
7 min in....talks without saying anythng. This man is very soft on crime and wants to release hard core criminals into PA.
NOT hardcore criminals. NON-VIOLENT offenders who have served most of their time with good marks. Why do people like you believe the lying, sensationalist commercials. Please research these people who are running for office-All of them. Our prisons are so overcrowded, we need to do something. A lot of the people to be released are there for marijuana charges & aren’t there for a violent crime. Marijuana is becoming legalized so much these days. FACTS!!! Don’t spread false information! We Have to research the people running for office and learn, learn, learn who & what they’re really about. Take care!
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, called on his Democratic opponent John Fetterman on Thursday to fire two of his campaign staffers who Oz said were convicted murderers.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, called on his Democratic opponent John Fetterman on Thursday to fire two of his campaign staffers who Oz said were convicted murderers.
You need to research! 2 of his campain managers are convicted murderers! HARDLY non-violent!
The guy is giving a TED talk
While living off his mommy and daddy allowance into his 50s
You cant make it up
These days, he's the current Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania with his own salary.
@@AdrianDeVore only took him to be like 50 to achieve that
And he bought his home for $1
Look it uo
@@ctwwtc8761 He commutes from Braddock to Harrisburg (Gov. Wolf does the same thing from York to Harrisburg). When he's in Harrisburg, he lives in a Townhouse that's owned by his brother.
@@AdrianDeVore he also bought a home from his sister for $1
He is a real blue collar hero lol
@@ctwwtc8761 A blue collar hero with Master degrees in Business Administration and Public Policy. He also graduated with an undergraduate degree in Finance. Lol....
Nah. Hard pass. No more Commies
You wouldn't know communism if it pissed on your face.
Lol you don't know what real communism is then. He's not proposing nationalizing any industries.
@@ernstthalmann4306 He is proposing to shut down the oil industry and make gas go up to $10 a gallon so food will go up by 200%
@@BarryWinner2075 even then still not communism
you cant really say that you made sure kids went to college sitting on your porch getting drunk telling the neighborhood kids to stay in school dosent really count
Pretty cranked up
One vote matters.
Imagine that.
Trump 2024.