This is now pretty standard on Hoagie's show, he introduces his guest who is almost always a 'citizen scientist' without any college education, the guest then spends 15 minutes telling us how much academia sucks, with Hoagie agreeing. This guy tonight though is just a giant dick with an attitude - while putting down academia he wants everybody to know that he is some kind of genius, he explained that he went to 'the best secondary school in the country' lol rrrrrrrrrrrrrright then says you can look it up, the test scores to get in are off the charts then he moves on to his very impressive post-secondary education - TWELVE years of college, imagine that 12 years of college and no degrees to show for it. He brags to Hoagie that he's the kind of guy who took the college boards and is flipping his pencil with an hour to go because he's that damn smart. So the reason he isn't a real scientist isn't that he isn't smart enough, it's that he is above it all, it's all politics and niceties which he had no use for.
Hoagie assured him that 'the ground breaking work we're doing is going to change humanity'. Hoagie is delusional but is charmingly pathetic, this guest is just a loser.
I'd love to see a list of the contributions to science that citizen scientists have made, I'm sure there are some but it would be a tiny percent of 1% of all the knowledge and progress made by those with science education. Edison was self-educated, I wonder if it's possible today for somebody like that to have that kind of impact on science/technology.